THEOLOGO-HISTORICUS, Or the True LIFE OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE, and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Subdean of Westminster.  
Written by his Son in Law JOHN BARNARD D. D. Rec. of Waddington near Lincoln.  
To correct the Errors, supply the Defects, and confute the Calumnies of a late Writer.  
Also an Answer to Mr. baxter's false Accusations of Dr. HEYLYN.  
Quisquis patitur peccare peccantem is vires subministrat Audaciae. Arnob. L. 4.  
LONDON, Printed for J. S. and are to be sold by Ed. Eckelston, at the Sign of the Peacock in Little-Britain. 1683.   

TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD NATHANIEL Lord Bishop of DURHAM.  
My Honoured Lord,  
I Here present to your Lordship the true Effigies of Dr. Heylyn (drawn to the Life, so far as my Pen is able, to preserve the memory of his person among the number of worthy men, for his extraordinary merits, I hope, may be truly said to this Church and Nation, wherein he laboured while he lived to promote the public Good of both; that his Name will never be forgotten, whilst his Books are extant, if we may believe the words of St. Jerome in this particular. Vir sapiens (saith 
S. Jer. Com. in cap. 2. Esdr.  he) diebus & noctibus laborat & componit Libros ut memoriam suam posteris derelinquat; so the Works which this painful Presbyter has published to the World, the Catalogue of them being not ordinary with the Writers of our Age, and the matter in them upon several Subjects not vulgarly handled, I doubt not, will perpetuate his Memory to future Posterity; especially among all good men, who are sincere Lovers of Monarchy and Episcopacy. I am sure for his Religion and Loyalty, for the Cause of the King and Church of England, no man could declare himself a more faithful and zealous example, by constant writing and sufferings. And for his conversation, not only as a good Christian, but as becomes a Clergy man, it was so unblameable, that his most inveterate enemies could never throw dirt in his Face for the least Immoralities.  
Therefore for his sake, whom your Lordship hath seen in his house at Abingdon, where he made you heartily welcome in those days, when I had the honour (though so unworthy a person) to dictate the first Principles of Academical Learning to you, which God has since well blessed, that you are one (and I wish may long continue so) of the Chief Prelates in this Realm: I doubt not, I say for this Reverend and Learned Man's sake more than mine, your Lordship will be pleased to take into your Patronage the Narrative of his Life, which I have faithfully composed and retrieved from the Ignorances' and unpardonable deficiencies of a late Writer. I am the more nearly concerned for my Relation sake, because Dr. Heylyn was not an ordinary common Clergyman, though he acted in a lower Sphere than the highest Dignitaries in our Church; it's sufficiently known he was singularly well acquainted above many others, with the principal motions and grand Importances in his time both of Church and State, as any man may perceive, who will take the pains to peruse his Writings. And that he had not only a speculative Science in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity of this Nation, but was oftentimes employed an Agent by the late King and Archbishop, (the two blessed Martyrs of this Land) in several matters committed to his particular Charge; for which he incurred the odium of the Mobile and especially of those Factious People, then called Puritans, but now fanatics; a Name though seems new and strange to them, was 
Instit. lib. 1. cap. 9  of old, first given by Calvin himself to those who deserting his, and the Lutheran way of Reformation, out of an aversion to Popery fell upon a contrary extreme. Their hare-brained zeal without understanding, and accompanied with invincible obstinacy in their Enthusiastical Dotages, if Power was answerable to their Wills, would bring a second desolation upon our Church, and confusion in the Kingdom. Both which God and his good Angels evermore protect, that we may enjoy the inestimable comforts of Peace and Government, our true Religion established by Law and Scripture, our sacred Ministry second to none for Learning and good Life generally, and the ancient Order of Episcopacy derived from the pure Fountain of Apostolical Times, heartily prayeth  
Your Lordship's most faithful Servant  
JOHN BARNARD.   

Errata  
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There are more Errors than in the Errata, which the good Reader is desired to pass by.   

A Necessary Vindication OF Dr. HEYLYN AND THE AUTHOR of the following LIFE.  
I Had never put myself to the trouble of writing▪ and the Reader to his pains in reading the third Publication of Dr. Heylyn's Life, but that I have been most grossly abused in the first and second, upon the same Subject. At the sight of both which, I was not a little amazed, but ashamed: First to see an anonymous piece printed before the Doctor's works, which I had ordered otherwise: And lately a little Book crept forth with the Name of its Author. Therefore I must crave leave of the Reader's Patience to show how I come concerned, and have been uncivilly dealt with by George Vernon (as he writes himself) Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire; a Man utterly unknown to me before this affair. Nec bene●…icio, nec injuria mihi notus.  
About four years ago hearing that Mr Hen. Heylyn my Brother in law, did intend to print his Father's life before some miscellaneous pieces of his Writings, I made a tender of my service to that work; for which I could propose no other advantage to myself than my labour for my pains? and only to testify my real reverence and hearty affection to his Father and mine, whom I ever honoured for his learning and good life: And because I thought such a duty might be more reasonably expected from me, his Son-in-Law, than any other who was a stranger to him; especially, when he was pleased to put several papers into my hands to transcribe, and had often discoursed various passages of his Life to me, which I know none in the world can give an account of but myself. Yet since his Sons fancy led him to make choice of another before me, I was satisfied, and did patiently expect the coming forth of the work, not only Term after Term, but year after year, a very considerable time for so small a Tract. But at last instead of the Life came a Letter to me from a Bookseller in London, viz. Mr. Chr. Wilkinson at the sign of the black Boy in Fleetstreet, to desire my assistance, for the thing (as he writ) was at a stand: The printing of which Mr. Harper his Friend would not have undertaken had not Mr. Heylin assured him, that I was engaged in it, because it must needs be (as he said) lame and imperfect if it was done without my knowledge, who was ●…quainted with all the transactions of the Doctor's Life.  
But to those Letters I returned several flat denials, thinking it below me to meddle in that, which another had before undertaken, much less to be his journey man to patch up what I should have made new. Besides I had no confidence in the Man, so bold and forward in the work, because he was a mere stranger to my Father Heylyn (as he now publicly confesses) and I believe never saw the Doctor's face in his Life. Yet still I was importuned, and his writings were sent down to me, withal to let me know the Writer was willing I should make what alterations in them and additions to them, I pleased, for which I have Mr. wilkinson's letter by me in his verbis. a person so honest as will not deny his own words.  
Reverend Sir.  
I Received your Letter, and am again troublesome to you. Mr. Harper assures me that he thought you had been first concerned in writing your Father's Life by Mr. Heylyn's recommendation; But afterwards he found that one Mr. Vernon of Gloucester has collected the papers which compose the Life, whom Mr. Heylyn desired to perfect; the said Vernon has desired Mr. Harper to communicate the papers to whom he pleases, and cross out or add what is thought convenient, to which purpose he designs to send the said Life down to you, and do with it, as you think good, and if you think ●…itting put your own Name to it, for Mr Vernon will not have his name made use of: I thought good to acquaint you hereof, and desire you will be pleased to give me a line or too. Sir I am  
Your obliged and humble Servant Christopher Wilkinson. London February 18. 1680  
At the receipt of this Letter I was unwillingly persuaded by some Friends to send to Lincoln for the Gentleman's Manuscript which had laid at the Carrier's house above three weeks: And when it came into my hands I found it indeed according to the Booksellers description; (in another Letter) lame and imperfect. And I must say ill begun, and worse carried on, and abruptly concluded. Nay some things false and scandalous tending to the disreputation, and not the honour of my Father: Besides half the Life, for want of other matter, when those few old Notes failed him, which Mr. Heylin had lent him, was stuffed out with a long story of Westminster, and a farrago of needless transcription out of Dr. Heylins' Books, for no other purpose, then to prove the Doctor was no Papist. Quorsum haec perditio: For did ever any lay this to his charge, but the Puritan Sectaries, who were his professed Enemies? I will call Doctor Burnet, his very good Friend; who I am sure will stand his second in this challenge, for he saith, I doubt not but 
Pref. to Hist. of Ref.  he was a sincere Protestant. But this only was his mishap, first to write the History of Reformaaion, and his second hath so far outgone him, that ever since the poor Doctor has suffered in his Reputation, and the Church of England nicknamed with Popery, which odious name first took its epoch, (and God be thanked is of no elder date) from the beginning of the late History of Reformation, and the thankful Parliament to the Historian. Since then, our Religion and Hierarchy has been hunched at by every Clown and Fanatic. Others more unnaturally, like Nero to Agrippina, have searched into the secret Entrails of their Mother, ripped up her Bowels to see if they could find a Pope in her Belly: Therefore the good old Doctor lies no more under the malicious slander and suspicion of Popery, than our dear Mother, the Church of England, for her excellent Wisdom in keeping up a medium be●…wixt the two extremes of Popery and Fanaticism.  
B●…t to return to my Gentleman again, out of respect to my Brother, because he was his Acquaintance, I dealt most ingenuously with the Life, made several Additions to it, corrected many mistakes▪ abated only the Harangue of Transcriptions and such passages, as I thought were disgraceful reflections on my Reverend Father; I put it into a method, which was before very confused— Cui lecta potenter ●…rit res.  
Neo facundia deseret hunc, nec lucidus ordo. 
Hor. de Ar. po.  as the Poet said. I also disposed both his and my own Discourses into distinct Paragraphs, that the one might be known from the other: And finally I writ this civil Letter of Thanks to him, which I sent up to the Bookseller, and ordered to be printed before the Life, and it is as followeth.  
Sir,  
THough I have not the good Fortune to be aequainted with you, nor in all probability eve●… shall, at so far a distance as we live asu●…; yet I cannot but express a most hearty thanks for your reverence and high esteem of Dr. Heylyn, and for the pains you have bestowed about his Life. In the carrying on of which, notwithstanding I have taken the greater Task upon myself, and should have undertaken it wholly, if I had been first engaged in it, because I am related to the Family, and know more material circumstances for this purpose than any man now living, which I have heard from his own mouth; yet still I acknowledge myself a Debtor to you for his sake; whose Memory whatsoever it meriteth among others, I have most reason to honour, and say as S. Bernard did in his Epistle ad Petrum 
Ber●…. Epis▪ 135.  Papiniens. Quis mihi det unquam memoriam tui deserere, Nunquam ab ipsa deseri? And for the whole History I have so ordered it▪ as in Reason and Justice it ought to be, being written by us both, that our Parts are divided by a Line, and first Letter of our Names, t●…at the Reader may be satisfi●…d which is mine and yours: And I hope betwixt us both by such as are not prejudiced, the Work will be judged perfect▪ So with my due Respects I shall conclude with the same good Father, Utinam quod minime spero, nostra vobis in aliquo possit esse officiosa rusticita●…  
Waddington, April the 9th. 1681. Sir, your Servant John Barnard.  
To this Letter I expected no less than civil thanks, for the trouble and pains I had undergone in my new employ, not sought by me, but importuned by others, that I can say, Non lecta est operi, sed data causa meo. But instead of thanks from him, and the return of common civility; he disfigured my Papers, that no sooner came into his hands, but he fell upon them as a Lion rampant, or like the Lioness: The Cat, upon the poor Cock in the Fable, saying, Tu hodie mihi discerperis. So my Papers came home miserably clawed, blotted and blurred, whole Sentences dismembered, and Pages scratched out, several Leaves omitted which ought to have been printed, especially if he met with any passages in the Life that seemed an Ornament to it, he would give no fair Quarter to them. Such an Interpolator he was, as I hope not to meet with his Fellow. Whereas the Reader may think I did the like with his Manuscript: No, I sent it up whole and entire, took the pains to transcribe out of it what I thought fit to be inserted into the Life, and set his Name thereto. I did him no wrong; but on the contrary he most shamefully used my Copy, that before it was carried to the Press, he swooped away the second part of the Life wholly from it; in the room of which, he shuffled in a preposterous Conclusion at the last Page, which he caused to be printed in a different Character from the other, and therein could not keep himself honest, but as the Poet saith,  Dicitque tua pagina fur es. 
Mart.  
For he took out of my Copy Doctor Heylyn's Dream, his Sickness, his last Words before his Death, and left out the burning of his Surplice, which the Doctor thought ominous, but he judged superstitious. Finally he so mangled and metamorphised the whole Life I composed, that I may say as Sosia did, Egomet 
Piaut.  mihi non credo, ille alter Sosia, me malis mulcavit modis.  
Notwithstanding all which malicious practices, misbecoming any generous man, much more a Scholar and a Divine. I did intend to trouble myself no further about him, but patiently endured the wrongs, because the writing of a Life is an exercitation of no such mighty consequence; but since he hath provoked me again, by presuming to publish a Second Life after he had so macerated the first, and endeavours to asperse my Name in these words, viz. Many passages were excerpted out of his Papers, the very words 
His Preface  as well as matter, when he had them in his Custody. Quis tulerit Gracchum? I must retort the poisoned weapon upon his own breast, that himself is the Plagiary both of my words and matter; even by his own confession, what he hath taken out of the printed Folio, and other materials, I can make evidently appear, out of my private Manuscript, that I have given him Horns to gore me withal: And let the World judge betwixt us, which is most likely, that I am beholding to him, or he to me, for he was a mere Ignotus to my Father in Law. as he acknowledges. For my own part 
Preface.  (saith he) I never had the honour either to know Dr. Heylyn, or to be known by him. Therefore of all others, I think, the most unfit man in the World to write his Life, but that he is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, who loves to busy himself where he has nothing to do, and undertake things above his knowledge and ability.  
But for those words with which he charges me, he should have been more positive; whether they are Doctor Heylyn's or his own? If the former, certainly I can claim as good a right to them as any man living, and with much more ●…eason than he: I confess from the Doctor's Papers, of which I had a prior possession and perusal of them before him; I have faithfully drawn the Lines (to which I have added the last Period) of his Life, and something out of Prudence I have purposely omitted, because this censorious and critical Age will not bear them: But for other things, both in words and matter, which is purely the Doctors own, and without them none would presume to write on such a Subject: I have made no further use of them than the Calumniator himself hath done, and they cannot be said to be either his or mine, but must be attributed to the right Owner; viz. the Doctor himself, who left them for a Rule to guide the Writer of his Life. However I have not been surreptitious of whole pages together out of 
Pag. 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. Pag. 101. 102. 103. 104.  the Doctors printed volumes, and appropriated them to myself without any Mark or Asterism as he hath done. I am no such Excerptor: But he is in the pretty humour of the man who took all the Ships in the Attic Haven for his own, and yet was not Master of any one Vessel.  
But all this while I misunderstand him, for possibly he meaneth his own dear words I have excerpted: If it be true, why doth he not speak in plain down right English, that the World may see my faults? For every one does not know what is excerpting. If I have been so bold to pick or snap a word from him, I hope I may have the benefit of the Clergy. But he would have done well to have particularised them, and set down my Crime in capital Letters; and then I should have demonstrated with better evidence, how he hath been injurious to me: But I stand in justification of myself; what words have I robbed him of, and am become the richer for them? Truly I was never so taken with him as to be once tempted to break the Commandments, because I love plain speaking, writing, and dealing, which he does not: I hate the word excerpted, and the action imported in it: Howsoever he is a fanciful man, and thinks there is no Elegancy nor Wit, but in his own way of talking at this rate. I must say as Tully did, Malim equidem indisertam 
Cic. de orat▪  prudentiam, quam stultam loquacitatem.  
But how have I excerpted his matter? Then I am sure to rob the Spittle-house; for he is so poor and put to hard shifts, that he has had much ado to compose a tolerable Story, which he hath been hammering and conceiving in his mind for four years together, before he could bring forth the pretty Faetus of intolerable Transcriptions to molest the Readers patience and memory. How doth he 
ftom p. 67, to 89.  run himself out of breath; sometimes for twenty Pages together and more, at 
from p. 212 to p. 227.  other times fifteen, ordinarily nine and 
from p. 228 to 236.  ten, collected out of the Doctor's old Books verbatim, before he can take his 
p. 61, to 174.  wind again, to return to his Story. I never met with such a Transcriber in all my days: For want of matter to fill up a Vacuum, of which his book was in much danger, he hath set down the Story of Westminster, as long as the Ploughman's Tale in Chaucer, which to the Reader would have been more pertinent and pleasant. I wonder that he did not transcribe bills of Chancery, especially about a tedious Suit that my Father had for several years about a Lease at Norton, that would have furnished him with matter enough. I dare boldly affirm, abating this of Westminster, and his unmerciful Collections out of Certamen Epistolare and Theolog. Vetr. his Book would not have exceeded the bulk of the nine Worthies. After his writing out folio upon folio, he endeavours to excuse 
pag. 241.  himself after this manner, I hope (saith he) the perusal of those things, will be no less acceptable to the sober Reader, than the transcribing of them has been to myself. What if he has a mind to transcribe over all Dr. Heylyn's Writings? Must he to please his own fancy of scribbling, obtrude them upon the Reader? He was to write the Doctor's Life and not his Books. Must he spend his time and paper in needless excursions, from page to page, for nine, ten, and twenty pages together? No sober Reader can endure an historical Narrative that has so many outleaps. 
Plat. in Parmen.  Such a Writer he is as Plato describes, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, who flurts up and down, now returning, and anon gone; sometimes in the way, but for the most part out of it, and at last sticks fast in the deep Mire. Transcriptions are so many digressions from the Theme or Subject, to which we must make a speedy return. For my part I must confess, that I have made use of several choice Collections out of my Father's Treatises pro re nata, but they are brief and necessary, not superfluous nor nauseous; I appeal to the Reader, whether they clog his Stomach, or beget a fresh appetite to what follows? much less do they confound his Memory to what is precedent. In other things I have offered some discourses of my own where I saw occasion, to vindicate my Learned Father: In all I doubt not, but it will manifestly appear there is a multitude of more occurrences than can be found in the late Life-Writer, which will blow away his most malicious slander of my excerpting his matter.  
But what is all this to the obliquys against the most reverend Doctor himself; whose Name and Reputation he hath injured more than mine, by conjuring up old Ghosts, and malignant Spirits of detraction, that has been allayed and charmed down above thirty years ago, and now are raised up again to disturb his Ashes, and traduce his Name, opprobious reports (though insignificant among wise Men) looks scandalously with the vulgar, that they had better been buried in oblivion, and perished in everlasting silence, than remembered. For nothing aught to be recorded against the party whom we love and honour, that may give his adversaries the least occasion to reproach his Name. Therefore no Man of prudence who pretends so high a reverence of Doctor Heylyn, (as the Author doth) would have published to the world those particulars following. 1. the Earl of Derbies' 
p. 38. p. 35. p. 123. p. 31. p. 120.  speech to him. 2. The rude usages he found in Court. 3. His writing Mercurius Aulicus. 4. His clandestine Marriage. 5. His Marrying a Wife without a Portion. 6. His Parishioners of Alsford persuaded, they should never fix eye on him, unless they took a journey to a Goal or a Gallows. All which matters true or false are unworthy to be mentioned in the Life of so venerable a person as Doctor Heylyn: but they are scandals, and, for the most part, untruths, as shall appear hereafter.  
Concerning his Marriage though he was my Father-in-law, I cannot excuse it from being clandestine, much less justify the contrary (as the Author does boldly) against a general known Truth, believed by every one in the University, affirmed by all, and not denied by the Doctor himself. I have reason to know it above others, because this was wrongfully charged upon me by Doctor Hood of Lincoln College, as if I had intended to have done the like, when I desired to hold my fellowship a longer time than the year of Grace which had been granted to others, particularly to Mr. Cross, Rector of Great Chue in▪ Somersetshire, but denied to me for this reason, which the Rector alleged against me, saying, You are to marry Doctor heylyn's Daughter, (we hear) and you will do as he did. The good Man then forgetting himself that one of his own Daughters was married to a Fellow of Lincoln-Colledge the Marriage was kept private, and the profit of the Fellowship received by his Son-in-Law, who shall be nameless. It is more ingenious to confess an Error, then make a weak defence or Apology for it, that does rather aggravate than extenuate the crime: While the Author sweats to prove the Doctor's Marriage was not clanculour, because he ordered it to be performed upon St. Simon 
pag. 13.  and St. Judes' day between ten and eleven of the Clock in the morning in his own College Chappel, in the presence of a sufficient number of witnesses of both sexes, the wedding dinner was kept in his own chamber, etc. Yet all this while it was a Marriage clancularly, a Marriage in Masquerade, a Marriage incognito to the College, because the Precedent and Fellows neither knew, nor believed there was a true solemnisation of Marriage in their Chapel; and though some of them were invited to the wedding Dinner, they took the invitation to a merriment, and not to a Marriage. Indeed it was not clandestine against the Laws of our Church and Realm, because the usual ceremonies and formalities of both were performed in the solemnisation betwixt the parties, but such Marriage was expressly against the Laws and Statutes of the ColledgFounder; and much more for a married Fellow to keep his Fellowship after. He is an absurd Writer that will start into circumstances, and not prove the main matter which is controverted. But what mattereth it or availeth, whether the Doctor's Marriage was clandestine or no? was he only the first example of this kind in the University? was not this done in his youthful days? In amore haec insunt vitia. Aristotle will excuse a young Man's faults, that cannot be 
Arist. Eth. lib. cap. 10.  so happy either in his judgement or practice as his Elders, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. How many Breakers are there of College Statutes besides Doctor Heylyn? I believe very few Fellows, but they are faulty in some kind or other. Yet I will not go about to accuse or condemn them, nor Apologise for him further than the rule of Rhetoric will allow, and that is, Quod negari non queat, responsione voculari eludas, & rem facias risu magis dignam quam crimine. that which cannot really be denied must be put off 
A. Gell. lib. 12. cap. 11.  with a Jest, and so it will seem a laughing matter rather than a Crime, for which we have the Example of Cicero, when he was accused about Money: And so it was the Doctor's case about Matrimony; the whole affair and management of it was a most pleasant humour, which he he was resolved to carry on dramatically under a disguise, and yet the same was real. Mrs. Bride placed at the the head of the Table, the Town Music playing, himself waiting most part of the Dinner, and no formality wanting, all which circumstances were contrived Fallacies and yet most undeniable truths. Notwithstanding the Writer of his Life is most greivously offended, with any one that is not of his opinion about the Doctor's Marriage, and the College dividend, which he received betwixt that time and the Resignation of his Fellowship. Saith he most Davidically, But what shall be given to thee, or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue, I think still it was a Clandestine Marriage, and the Doctor was after bound to restore all emoluments from that time, but the College did easily forgive him, and in testimony of their Love and extraordinary respect, many years after his Marriage, did accommodate him for some time of the War with convenient Lodgings for himself, Wife, and Family, when they were driven out of all House and harbour from his two Livings, Alsford and Southwarn-borough. Why then the Writer should be so rugged as to fall into uncivil terms with that noble Foundation? I see no cause for it; much less to charge them with odious things to which they themselves can best answer, if he will hearken to any reason: But he seems to me, for a time deprived, and (as it were) in a fit of Quakerism while he Canteth so dolefully, saying. They take Bread out of the mouths of Young Students, and send them to 
pag. 32.  wander in solitary ways, being hungry, and thirsty, and their Souls ready to faint in them  
Notwithstanding I cannot but▪ commend his h●…arty zeal and affection toward my Father-in-law, if he knew how to guide these two good passions with reason, and common discretion: But for the most part he is a high flyer into hyperbolical comparisons, and never observeth a mediocrity betwixt too extreems, for one while he likens the Doctor to Joseph the Patriarch, another while to Moses the Prophet, and afterward sets him down in the office of Mercurius Aulicus, or the King's Diurnal-maker; in which last though he endeavours to bring him off again, as well as he can, I'll warrant the cutting of Alcibiades Dogs tail could not cause more talk in Athens, than this will, among our fanatics. And what was the ground work of those comparisons? The Doctor is like unto Joseph because he lost a trial at Law by a Jury 
pag. 14.  of Taly-men. It was not the first time (saith▪ he) that a poor man was oppressed, and a righteous cause miscarri●…d, but Joseph had never met those signal honours and dignities in Pharoahs' Court, had he not been first sold by his Brethren for a bondslave into Egypt. The good Doctor was like unto Moses for getting, a Prebendary in Westminster, because (saith he) when Moses was deserted by his Parents (which 
Pag, 43.  was never the Doctor's case, no more than the other of a bondslave) for fear of Pharaohs fury, God was pleased to provide him a Saviour and a Nurse, when he was taken out of the bulrushes. Again the issue of the Doctor's brain (because Books and 
Pag.  Children are issues) was far more numerous than that of his Body: Methinks that also is no sweet nor savoury comparison. Nay himself is like the Doctor, for who should give an account of the 
Epist. deep  actions of Doctor Heylyn, besides Doctor▪ Heylyn, or at least such an one who inherits his natural, if not his acquired accomplishments. The man hath a strange opinion of himself, that he is Doctor, Heylyn, because he writes his Life, that he hath his natural parts, if not acquired. The Soul of St. Augustine (say the Schools) was Pythagorically transfused into the corpse of Aquin. So the Soul of Doctor Heylyn into a narrow Soul: Who can believe it the more for his saying, that an equal, if not a double portion of his Spirit is imparted to him? I know there is a question in Philosophy An Animae sint aequales? Whether Souls be alike? But their's as much difference betwixt those two, as between the Spirits of Elijah and Elisha. I stand amazed at his similitudes and dissimilitudes, his presumption and high conceit of himself; that so small a Prophet should go hand in hand with Doctor Heylyn, who is not worthy to hold water to the hands of so great an Elijah. He hath other examples of most wide comparison I could instance in which there ought to be Comparatio aequalitatis vel similitudinis ' but I can find no anological matter in them, but what is strangely hooked in, or fetched as far as the Antipodes,  
But he is both an ginger and a Divine that he undertakes to calculate the Doctor's Nativity, and give his Judgement thereupon? although he knows Judicial Astrology is not well approved of among Divines, and that such Astrologers are no more to be believed than Gypsies, and Fortune-tellers, whose art is impudence and lying: As the Chaldeans affirmeth that the world hath continued above forty thousand years, Lactantius therefore 
Jact. lib. 7. c. 14.  saith of them. Se quia posse argui non putabant liberum sibi crediderunt mentiri: because they think none can contradict them, they took the liberty to lie, and now let us see his art and wonderful skill in Figure flinging. The Birth of 
pag. 1.  Doctor Peter Heylyn (saith he) according to the rules of our Astrologers, (which I supwhich I suppose he means the Almanac-makers) presaged firm constitution of body, and prosperous success in the civil affairs of humane Life. For it was November 29. 1599 at Burford in the County of Oxon, between eight and nine in the morning. A most excellent Astrologist! Quem mea non totum Bibliotheca capit. Who hit the hour so exactly, on which depended all the Doctors good Fortune, between eight and nine a clock in the morning, only he forgets, the rapid motions of the Heavens in that time, which might cause great alterations: I expect he will be more satisfactory in the next horary question he publishes, for in this the rule and the example does not agree; because the Doctor had not firm Constitution of body, but many ill fits of Sickness, a very bad head, (for he must needs tell all he knows of him) that the flesh in the forepart 
pag. 7.  of his Head rotten to the Scull, where never any hair came afterward, he was sent to London, and kept to a strict Diet and ●…requent sweatings. God be thanked this was in the Doctor's childhood, or else the World would think strange things of him. It seems some unlucky Star had a malevolent aspect upon his head, which the the Writer of his Life (though an ginger) did take no notice of in his Nativity, and much worse Fortune had the Doctor in the affairs of humane Life, which if they had been prosperous according to Prognostication, no doubt he had been a Bishop, and not only a subdean of Westminster, and probably he would have preferred this Author, whom his Son designed to write his Life. But still he persists in his Astrology, At which time (says he) the Sun was in the Horoscope of his Nativity, and the Houses very well 
pag. 2.  disposed. But I affirm the contrary, who think myself as great an ginger as he, Non tu plus cernis, sed plus tenerarius audes. That the Houses were very ill disposed that time, not only for the reasons I have already given, but to speak more judiciously upon the point, I find the Planets than were combust of the Sun, under a fiery triplicity, and the Lord of the ascendant in his Nativity was out of his essential dignities, the moon also Cadent and unfortunated by those Planets that had dominion in the sixth or eighth House, besides not a good Planet was then in Cazimi or the heart of the Sun; both the promittors and significators weak in the Radix of his Nativity; all which did signify but indifferent good Fortune to the Doctor, sometimes prosperous and improsperous, good health and bad, no firm Constitution of body (as he saith) but infirm; often crazy, never ill but once of his Head when he was a Boy, which the Writer would for no good omit.  
But I have found him out all this while where he has been tampering, and that is in Mr. Lillys Book of introduction to Astrology, who hath learned him his celestial Art, That the ☉ presents a Man of good corporature, of healthful constitution, very humane, etc. his head quickly bald, and so the Life-Writer says, never any hair 
Chr. Astrol. lib. 1. cap. 11▪  came afterward, when the flesh was rotten to the Scull. But Mr. Lilly is not at all so absolute and positive in his judgement upon Nativities between the hours of eight and nine in the Morning. Indeed he is the more subtle ginger, for he hath outdone Mr. Lily in Christian Astrology, because he can prognosticate and foretell from the Stars, whether a Child, when it is born, shall be baptised or no? and whether then it shall be Christened by the Minister with the sign of the cross? for (saith he) this reverend man was in this particular fortunate, 
pag. 2.  that he had the honour to carry the mark of the Cross, which was imprinted on him at the Font. Oh strange! under what a happy constellation was the Doctor born above other Christians. I thought it had been ordinary, but this was extraordinary, because he fell not into the hands of a Nonconformist: I believed he was signed with the Cross, because I am sure the Heavenly Houses, which first set out the Cross to Constantine, are always well disposed to this good sign, but whether he was Christened at home, or in Church, I am not fully satisfied, and if I should hold the contrary, he cannot confute me, for according to my Albumazar, and other learned Authors, the Heavens were then in that positure, that the Sun was separated from a square of Jupiter, and applied to the square of Saturn, which often gives strange disappointments to things expected, so that still it remains a Question whether the Child was Christened in the Font. For my part I durst not pry so far into the Doctor's Nativity, much less into the Baptism or Holy Font, but that the Author incites me to it; For I meddled no further, but that he was born in a happy year with Augustus Thuanus the famous Historian, which I wonder escaped his dash in the printed Folio. Therefore for that kindness I will give him this counsel, and I wish he may follow it hereafter, That he would study the Doctor's Books, and not his Birth; and leave poring on his Astronomical Tables, and gazing up 
Diog. Laer▪ in vit. ▪ to the Stars, lest he should happen some ill mischance, not minding his foothold, like Thales Milesius fall into a pit, 
Tacit. Annal lib. 6.  or meet with some worse disaster, some trap-door, which Tiberius Caesar provided for his Astrologers, si vanitatis aut sraudis suspicio in cesserat. If any jealousy came into his mind they were false and treacherous.  
I cannot also but take notice of the Author's high opinion and conceit of himself, because he is a little Writer, All Men (saith he) have not the abilities to write Books, so neither to pass sentence on them when written. And is it not a Truth as undeniable, Scribimus indoctique? Are there not more Scribblers than learned Writers? The World is pestered too much with them, that swarm like Gnats and Flies to buzz the Head, and ●…urt the Eyes, and yet have no Honey or sweetness in them. I am of opinion, if there were fewer Books, there would be more Learning, and much better Scholars in every Age; for Authors than would be well read, digested and turned into good nourishment: Whence Petrus Comestor, who writ the Historia Scholastica, took his Name, Comestor 
Trith. de Scrip. Eccl. pag. 86.▪  sive manducator librorum, saith Trithem, quia scripturas quasi in ventrem memoriae manducarit. An Eater of Books and good Digester of them: Now they are hastily swallowed down without chewing, and, by reason of the gross stuff, and mean feeding in most Books and Writers are converted into excrementitious matter that passes away per latrinam; and as Martial saith of a bungling Versifier in his time, Scribit Carmina, & quae legunt cacantes. Socrates was looked upon as the chief Oracle among the Philosophers, yet he left not one Book of his own writing to Posterity, saith Suida●…▪ 
Suid. Hist.  No doubt there hath been, and is still in the World, most worthy, wise and learned Men, as those who have written many vast Volumes: For modesty in some, weakness of Body (and not of Mind) in others, fear of the World's censure; nay, continual study and reading of Books, with which the mind of a Scholar is never satisfied, has hindered many a good Writer, so that it is no want of Faculty but Will: No Imperfection ought to be charged on men's Abilities, who are known Scholars; but if every one of them should undertake such a work, in a short compass of time, there would be more Writers of Books 
Luth. colliq.  than Readers. It was a Saying of Luther, All of us have a▪ Pope ●…red in us. That is, an opinion of our own works, though there be no merit in them, which we may apply in this Case, that most Writers are in love with their Paper-works; but the World should first judge whether there is any excellency or real worth in them, otherwise it is a fond fancy, Narcissus like, for any one to be enamoured with his own Shadow. But that which is worse than all this,  
I perceive the Writer is not consistent with himself, but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Poet's words, difficilis, facilis ju●…undus acerbus es idem. Because one while he plays the Satirist against the fanatics, and afterward turns Factor for the Papists, whose cause he could not plead better to please the holy Fathers of the Ignatian Society founded since Luther's time, than to render the Name of Protestant odious: ` A Name ` (saith he) that imports little in it of the positive part of Christianity. God forbid, and let us then put this into our Litany; Lord have mercy upon our Souls who profess ourselves to be Protestants and not Papists, if the positive part of Christianity be wanting among us: For by Name, what doth he or can he▪ mean, but our Religion and Christian Profession? For the Name of Protestant itself, is but Thema simplex; I may say, vox & praeterea nihil, no more is Catholic, Christian, Orthodox, or any other Name: Nomina imponuntur rebus, Names are given to things to diversify and distinguish them one from another, or else how are they significative of themselves? While he goes about to unchristian the Name Protestant, or at least makes it Terminus diminu●…ns, a very slighty Name indeed, he endeavours to overthrow the true Protestant Religion.  
For ever since the first Reformation and change of Religion wrought among us, by our just and necessary separation from communion with the Church of Rome, we and our Forefathers have constantly gone under the Name of Protestants, though originally I acknowledge this Name was taken up by those Princes of Germany, who adhering to Luther's Doctrine made their Protestation at Spires (the imperial Chamber) and afterward set forth the Augustane Confession; since which time, the Church of England having cast off the Papacy, this Name hath been the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or remark of distinction betwixt us and Papists. Our Kings and Princes not only acknowledging the same, but have defended the Protestant Religion, his most sacred Majesty (whose Life God long preserve among us) in most or all his Speeches unto his High Court of Parliament, hath graciously declared to secure and defen●… the Protestant Interest and Religion. His Royal Father, the most glorious Martyr of our Church, but two days before his Death, told the Princess Elizabeth That he should die for the maintaining the true Protestant Religion; and charged her to read Archbishop Laud's Book against Fisher to ground her against Popery. And why were the Jesui●…s so active about his Death, that some of them became Agitators in the Independent Army, but because it was agreed before by the Pope and his Council (saith Dr. du Moulin) that there was no way 
Vindicat. of the sincerity of the Prot. Rel.  for advancing the Catholic Cause in England, but by making away the King, of whom there was no hope to turn from hi●… Heresy, because he was a Protestant. I cannot omit Archbishop Laud's words 
p. 11, 12.  at the time of his Trial before the Lords, Anno Dom. 1643. Saith he, Not to trouble your Lordships too long, I am so innocent in the business of Religion, so far from all 
Arch Bish. Life p. 5, 6.  practice, or so much as thought of practice, for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing of the true Protestant Religion established in England, as I was when my Mother first ●…are me into the World▪ In his Speech upon the Scaffold before his Death, he saith thus of the King, I shall be bold to speak of the King, our gracious Sovereign; He hath ●…een m●…d traduced for bringing in of Popery▪ ●…ut on my Conscience (of which I shall give God a very present account) I know him to be as free from this Charge as any Man living, and I hold him to b●… as sound a Protestant (according to the Religion by Law established) as any Man in this Kingdom.  
And now hath not this Name Protestant, which imports our Religion, been owned by all our Judges and Lawyers, the Lord chief Justice speaking of Papists; 
At the Trial of Pickering, Gro●… and Ireland, 1678.  If they cannot (saith he) at this time live in a Protestant Kingdom with security to their Neighbours, but cause such fears and dangers, and that for Conscience sake; then let them keep their Conscience and leave the Kingdom. Mr. Justice Wild, in like manner, Had such a thing as this been acted by us Protestants in any Popish Country in the World, I doubt there would not have been scarce one of us left a live. I might bring in here Sir William Jones, Mr. Finch, Mr. Recorder of London. And truly if we are ashamed of our Name, we may be of our Religion, and cannot blame Popish Plots to subvert it, if we hold not fun●…lamentals, which are the positive parts of Christiani●…y. The Jesuit hawketh not for ●…parrows; his zeal to destroy our Religion carries him through Fire and Water, Sea and Land, over Rocks and Mountains to gain a Proselyte, according to those Verses I find in Pareus, alluding to the Pharisee, and Hor▪ the Poet.  

Impiger extremos Jesuita excurrit ad Indos  
Per mare discipulum quaerens, per saxa, per ignes, 
David Par. Comment. in Evang. S. Mat. Cap. 23.   
Juventumque facit, se duplo deteriorem.   

Sea, Land, Fire, craggy Rocks and Indian Shore  
A Jesuits frantic zeal transports him o'er,  
One Romish Proselyte to make, once made  
Child of the Devil twice then before▪ he's said.   
Nay, he hath the patience to stay at home, and there no dull Stoic can excel him in this Virtue; if he be once commanded by his Superior, he will 
Maph. in vita Ign.  obey though his work be no other, saith Mapheus, than to water a dry log of Wood for a year together▪ he will not presume to ask the reason why, but does it: Then how much more ready is he to propagate the Gatholick Cause, and in order thereto adventure upon any action, if it be to the hazard of his Life, while he is commanded by his Father General at Rome, and the Congregatio de Propaganda fide: What will not he undertake to extirpate the Name of Protestant, and think he does God Service; for if positive Christianity be not imported in it, than we are Negatives; we are Jews, Infidels, Pagans, and cannot be denominated Christians, for Positive and Negative are contradicentia: there can be no reconciling or tacking them together, and acco●…ding to my Logic a Contradiction is omnium oppositorum fortissima, the strongest and most forcible of all oppositions: But I would know what are the Principles of Protestantis●…, that are so contradictory to Christianity; they must be either credenda or facienda, matters relating to Faith, or Christian practice: Do we hold any points of Faith contrary to the Primitive Catholic Church? Or deny Obedience to the Commands of God either in his Law or Gospel? In a word, are Protestants Christians or no? Or only nominal and not real? I think they are the best and purest sort of Christians ever since the Apostolic times, that they come nearest the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the example of them at Antioch, who were first called Christians. We do not know how to distinguish men of the Church of England from the Church of Rome, but by this characteristial Name or Appellation, because in the times of Popery, as appears not only by Linwood, but by the constitutions of Otho and Othobon: The Ecclesiastical Body of this Nation was anciently called the Church of England, Ecclesia Anglicana, and so it continueth to this day, but with this discrimination only, that we are Protestants in the Church of England and not Papists.  
I know it will be objected this Name is abused by fanatics, who impudently dare arrogate it to themselves, and are ordinarily now called Protestants What then? Abusus non tollit usum; they are Protestant's Catachrestice, as Papists call themselves Catholics: And if they will boldly usurp the Name, which no way belongs to them; their Tongues are their own, and they will speak: Who is Lord over us? (say they) And who can hinder them? The Heretics of old time, who were ex parte Donati, of Donatus side, did the like, and yet the Orthodox deemed themselves never the worse for their Pride and Usurpation. The Name of Christian was common both to them and the Orthodox, as Optatus the good Father tells them. Pro utrisque illud est, quod & nobis commane 
Oplat. l. 5. c. 29.  est & vobis. Such Scandals are unavoidable, therefore with patience must be born. And it was the like complaint of Lactantius, but what Remedy? The Novatians, Valentinians, Marcionites, and Arrians saith he, Quilibet 
Lact. Instit. lib. 4. cap. 30.  alij nominantur Christiani, & Christi●…i esse des●…runt, any other Heretics were called Christians, though they were none. So that 'tis no wonder the Sectaries of our Age will confidently take upon themselves the Name of Protestants,; they do but as other Schismatics, who were their ancient Predecessors,— Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur— Yet some of the base sort of them, as Quakers and Independents despise the Name of Protestant, and hold it in as great derision as the Papists do, and no doubt have learned from the soul Mouth of Father Doleman alias Parsons, and from Watson in his Quodlibets, to call us of the Church of England, Queen Bess' Protestant's: However it does not become any Son of the Church, much less the Rector of Bourton, to bite and snarl at the Name of Protestant which distinguishes him from a Mass-priest, especially in such times as ours, when Papist and Fanatic join hand in hand, mouth and tongue together against us, because our Church is of Queen Elizabeth's Religion and Reformation. A Queen notwithstanding the malicious slanders of her Enemies, the Pope's Bull of Damnation against her, and the Non-Conformists now Condemnation of her: She was the most admired Princess of Europe in her time, the glory and wonder of her Sex, etiam supera Sexum, saith Thuanus, 
Thu. Hist. l. 22.  though himself a Papist; and Beza the Successor of Calvin at Geneva gives her this Character of high praise, which methinks our Dissenters should assent unto, that she was a Queen God sent from Heaven to be a Nursing Mother at home unto the Church of England, and to Protestant Churches abroad. Let us hear his words more fully, In Anglia opus Domini qui serenissimam illam▪ & ecclesiarum non tantum Anglicanarum 
Theod. Bez. de Minist. Evang. Grad. Pag. 91.  fortissimam instauraticem verum etiam peregrinarum religiosissimam nutricem Flizabetham instaurandae suae Domui quasi sua ipsius manu coelitus demisit. God be thanked also the Reformation of Religion, and the Church of England became Protestant before her time: Our Religion being established by Law in the Reign of her young Brother the most excellent Prince, Edward the 6th. whose Laws were written in Milk, and not in Blood, like those of Queen Mary his Sister who succeeded him. Our Religion and Ecclesiastical Government by Arch-Bishops and Bishops, etc. is still the same as was in the Reigns of Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory, in whose time this Kingdom was accounted Regnum Evangelii, 
Thu. Hist. ●… 13.  the Kingdom of the Gospel. Now why our Dissenters should descent, why they should be so averse to the Protestant Religion then established by Law, and is now the very same in all Articles of Faith, Form of Worship, and Ecclesiastical Discipline; and yet they are not satisfied: I must profess that I see no reason for their dissatisfaction but Will and Humour; that they are as they have been, and still resolve to be of a perverse and democratical Spirit, in all matters relating to Church and State, much less cause have they to reproach the Name of the most Renowned Queen Elizabeth, which has been held in exceeding great veneration among all Protestants in foreign Kingdoms▪ whose incomparable Virtues of▪ Learning, Piety, Prudence, Modesty, Meekness, Stoutness, and other rare Perfections are described by a Poet living in her days, and are as followeth.  

O 〈◊〉 solum sapias 〈◊〉 Anglia parte 
Chr. Ocland.  hac 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. sive Elizab.   
Ut grate agnoscas Jovis benefacta 〈◊〉  
En dedit affectam divina ment 〈◊〉  
Imperij, quae ●…um docta, ingeniosa severa  
Et 〈◊〉, veneranda, pudica, animosa venenda  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tenera 〈◊〉, commoda 〈◊〉,  
Tota tibi contulerit, quot 〈◊〉 nemo priorum  
Et quae vera Dei sit religione fruare  
Papa fugit solio Patris Regina locatur.   
May be Englished thus,  

O England, native Soil of mine, pay thanks to Jove  
The great and powerful God of Heaven above:  
No one with larger gifts he could inspire,  
Than such a noble Princess for Empire;  
Learned, ingenious, modest, meek, and bold  
England's great Sceptre in her hand to hold.  
Queen of all Blessings to this Nation, more  
Hath brought than all her Ancestors before:  
Gods true Religion flourished, Pope he's gone,  
When she ascended to her Father●… Throne.   
Let us then▪ not be ashamed of our Religion, nor judge the worse of it, much less deny our Christian Name, since our departure from the Church of Romés, because Papists and fanatics nickname us Queen Besses Protestant's. Such dirt flung upon Majesty, rebounds back with shame on their own Faces, and will hereafter to their eternal confusion, who dare reproach the Lords anointed. The Pope himself first played 〈◊〉 part to throw Dirt and Stones at her, by calling her misera Faemina a wretched Woman; afterward followed many Rabs●…eka's, especially Sanders and Rishton, who termed her Lupam Anglicanam, the Wolf-Bitch of England, though she had more of the Lamb than the Wolf, for she thirsted not after Blood as her Sister Queen Mary did: Finally Parsons alias Cow- 〈◊〉, a Priest's Bastard, writ a Cartload of Libels against her. These were the Pope's Birds, and many other of the same Feather employed by his Holiness, as the Alexandrians kept their Ibises to devour the Garbage of the 
Diodor. Sicul. l. 3.  City, and to cleanse their Streets, but they left more noisome filth of their own behind them.  
God's holy Law strictly chargeth, Principem populi tui non maledices, Thou shal●… not speak evil of the Ruler of thy People. So it was Tiberius' care (saith Tacitus) ne memoria Augusti, ne nomen 
Tacit. l. 6.  Caesarum in ludibria & contumelias verterat, that the Memory of Augustus, and the Name of Caesar's, might not be turned into contempt and reproach: For if Princes once are set down in the Chair of the Scornful, they will not sit long upon their Thrones; their Authority and Government is quickly despised when their sacred persons are vilified, and by every foul mouth that speaks evil of Dignities, the holy and reverend Name of King, who is a Vice-God upon Earth, shall be commonly profaned and reviled with such Antimonarchical Men. King James, Queen Elizabeth's Successor, the first Monarch of great Britain, and second Solomon for Wisdom, lived a most vexatious Life▪ that never poor King was so harassed with a company of unreasonable persons, both of the Popish and Puritan Faction, the one working under Ground by secret Plots and Conspiracies against him, for which reason he commanded the Dialogue between Theodidactus and Philalethes to be composed and printed; the other was not ashamed to play above Board, in audacious and open practices, that he never could have an Inter-regnum of peace and quietness for them, but they were continually Thorns in his Eyes, and Pricks in his Side; for no other reason, as he sadly complains, but because he was their King. Crebrae 
Bas●…l. Dor. pag. 147.  adversus me (saith he) in tribunitiis concionibus calumniae spargebantur, non quod crimen aliquod designassem, sed quia Rex eram, quod omni crimine pejus habebatur. There were frequent calumnies scattered against me in their popular Sermons, not that I had committed any crime or fault, but that I was their King, which was esteemed worse than all crimes: Their Principles we have seen by woeful experience, tend to Anarchy and Confusion; which as that wise King foresaw, so he put a Hook into the Nose of the Leviathans or chief Leaders of that Faction, and counselled his Son King Charles the First, to hold the Reins strictly: and not remissy over them; for by toleration their insolences will grow intolerable: Therefore I cannot omit the solemn Protestation which at last he made, and certainly will ever be remembered by the R●…yal Family Testor illum magnum Deum, nec testamentum (saith he) 〈◊〉 fas est mentiri, nunquam inter montanos aut limitaneos nostros latrones majorem ingratitudinem 
Basil. Dor. pag. 148.  aut perfidiam reperiri posse, quam inter hos phanaticos ne●…lones, nec patere; si pacate vivere decreveris, & high eadem tecum patria fruantur, nisi forte p●…tientiae experiendae ergo, ut Socrates vixit cum Xanthippe. I take the great God to witness, as if I were making my last Will and Testament (and it is not lawful for him that maketh a Testament to lie) that there can never be more unthankfulness or perfidiousness found among our High-land bordering Robbers, than among those Fanatic Knaves; (so the King speaks in plain terms) neither do thou suffer them to enjoy the same Country with thee, if thou purpose to live peaceably, unless perhaps for the exercise of thy patience, as Socrates lived with Xanthippe.  
And had not the good King reason for all this, who knew well the Geneva Bibles, and seditious Notes upon them; some of them not only teaching disobedience to Kings and Princes, but the execrable Murder, of them, if they were Idolaters; and others did not only teach the lawfulness of breaking faith and promises, when it might conduce to the hurting of the Gospel, but ranked the Archbishops and Bishops, and all men in holy Orders of Academical Degrees, amongst those locusts in the Revelation which came out of the Pit.  
And now I heartily thank the Author my Adversary, for his Narrative of Mr. Baxter, the Head of all the Tribes among our Non-conformists; but I wonder, he being so famous an ginger could not by Talismanical Figures of Gaffarel, without the help of other Witnesses, read Mr. Baxter's name in the Stars, and see ●…ow he pulled off the Picture from the Major's Neck, telling him then as he was swimming in his gore, that he was a Popish Rogue, and that was his Crucifix. I admire this discovery was not made before by Art; for the proof of which the Narrator hath taken a great deal of pains in getting the Major's Hand and Seal, and Witnesses, for all which I commend him, that he has made sure work, according to the saying, Plus annulis creditur, quam animis, the Seals of men are more to be trusted than their Souls. Indeed the Narrative at the first sight of it, seemed to me most strange and incredible, especially those words following the Story of the Picture, viz. restored to the Poor-man now alive a●… Wick near Parshore in Worcestershire, although at the Fight supposed to be dead, being after the wounds given him, dragged up and down the Field by the merciless Soldiers. Mr. Baxter approving of the inhumanity, by feeding his Eyes with so bloody and barbarous a Spectacle. I was very much inclined to suspect the truth of the whole Narrative; insomuch that I then said to a Friend, that I gave the same credit to it as to the story of Father Garnet; That his forehead received 
Joh. Heigh. Chr. Cathol  a blow, as he was dragged upon the Stones, and where the wound was, the sign of the Cross appeared; and the Blood dropping down the Straw in the Hurdle, his Face and full Feature was printed upon the Straw, for which the Papists could produce Hands and Seals▪ also for Judge Seth's Finger bleeding through his Glove, while he pronounced Sentence against Campian the Jesuit.  
But now I crave pardon of the Narrator for my unbelief, and confess my self abundantly satisfied in the truth of all the premises concerning Mr. Baxter, because they have been publicly attested, and more fully confirmed than before, Therefore let Mr. Baxter look to himself and his own Conscience, and not accuse or condemn others, much less Doctor Heyl●…, as one who speaks of blood with pleasure When the 
Baxt. Pref. to the Ab●…idgm of Chu●…. Hist.  Sin of bloodguiltiness of a high and barbarous nature lies crying at his own door; and I am ●…ure a more than ordinary Repentance must expiate the guilt of so ●…oul a crime; for it is peccatum 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 crying sin, of which there be four ●…or in Scripture, as Aquinus telleth us in a distich.  

〈◊〉 in caelum, vox sanguinis & Sodo●…. 
Aquin. in Epist. S. Jacob cap. 5. v. 4.   
V●…x oppressorum, merces retenta laborum.   

Oppression, blood, Hirelings unpaid, So●….  
From earth to Heaven sends a doleful cry.   
Although the good Major through God's mercy is yet alive, the Savage and inhuman dealing he found at the Hands of Hurdman and Mr. Baxter, his innocent blood most unjustly spilt upon the ground after so many years' silence of it; now to the shame of Mr. Baxter makes a hideous cry: As Murder itself cannot be concealed, no more can those Actions that border upon it, but Divine Vengeance will pursue whosoever is guilty of either; which the very Heathen took notice of, when he saith 
Hor. car. lib. 3. Ob. 2.  Raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede paena claudo. The innocent Doctor is falsely accused of words, but now his Accuser is truly arraigned, and upon his indictment found guilty of bloody deeds: For he that is a Partisan with cruel men, or an Abettor and Encourager of them, is certainly a Partaker with them, and not only an Accessary to the Fact but a Principal; as in all Sanguinary Causes according to our Statute Laws, there are no Accessaries but Principals; and I am sure in Foro poli, or the Court of Heaven, such Offenders are alike. But the Man is still alive! What then, the intention of killing him, and their leaving him for dead, is a breach of the sixth Commandment, as if it were actual homicide: Murder was intended, Mr. Baxter standing by, not once reproving Hurdman, but setting him thereon by his own example, calling the Major Rogue; I say it had been Murder with all cruelty to the height, (if the poor man had died) because it is against the Law of Arms, after a Battle fought, to kill our Enemy in cold blood. And as the Case now stands aggravated with all the Circumstances alleged, Mr. Baxter can no ways acquit himself, because he cannot be ignorant of this Rule, Nullum Praeceptum consistit in indivisibili, that no Precept of God's Law is tied up to one single or individual act, but has a greater latitude in it; as all kinds of Murder is forbidden, whether of the bear't, tongue or hand, unmercifulness, cruelty, revenge, hatred, malice 
Quid interest an gladio teneas, an lingua percutias, indubiranter ●…icida est? Optat. Milen. lib. 2. p. 69.  is Murder; Whosoever hateth his Brother (saith the Apostle) he is a Murderer, and you know that no Murderer hath eternal Life in him. Also every Precept of God's Law is both affirmative and negative; under the affirmative, all duties that possibly can be reduced to it are employed, and under the negative, which is of greater force, because it binds ad semper (as the Schools say) all things which come within the verge of it, as cruelty, inhumanity, etc. are absolutely forbidden.  
Mr. Baxters personal presence gave countenance to the bloody action, much more in being a delightful Spectator of it, which ought to have been abhorred by him. Nero himself could not behold bloody Tragedies though he commanded 
Tacit. in vita Agric.  them, saith the Historian, Et jussit scelera Nero non spectavit: Much more barbarous actions are hateful to the Eyes of all Christians; that Constantine after his Conversion, by public Edict, did forbid all monstrous and bloody 
Eusib. in vit. Const.  Spectacles in the Amphitheatre. For a Minister of Jesus Christ, (as he calls himself) who preaches against hardness of heart, to be so cruel hearted himself, as not to pity a poor Christian weltering in his blood and wounds, for the cause only of his King and Country; to show no mercy, nor Christian compassion towards him, not so much as we would do to a Turk or an Infidel, but call him Rogue, Popish Rogue, violently pulling from his Neck the King's Picture, and seeing him dragged up and down in the Fields by merciless Soldiers. Honesco referens. It was a more lamentable sight than the Spectacula nefranda, when Christians were torn in pieces by wild Beasts in the Roman Theatre.  
I must therefore say to Mr. Baxter, 
Acts 7. 1.  as the Highpriest, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Are these things so? I sincerely wish from my heart that he may, and I hope he will repent, and ask God and the Major forgiveness, which is the lest part of penance and satisfaction he can perform for so heinous an Offence; and till then, with what confidence can Mr. Baxter preach to his Auditors? being a silenced Minister both by the Laws of the Land and his own Conscience, that must needs fly in his face, and sorely exagitate him, as it was once the Case of Origen, who sinned not maliciously, but out of fear and cowardice to save his life: This Scripture struck him to the heart; Why dost thou preach my Laws, and takest my Covenant in thy mouth, whereas thou hatest to be reform, and hast cast my words behind thee. If Mr. Baxter will look out of his broken Church History, into true Ecclesiastical History, he shall find Origen's 
Suida Hist.  Repentance set forth by Suidas for a most excellent Example to imitate. He was called Syntacticus for compiling many Books, in which Mr. Baxter does strive to follow him, in writing many Books, full of Errors, but not so learnedly erreth as Origen did; and and probably if he will not leave the odious quality of abusing reverend and worthy men, his Books may hereafter run the same fortune with origen's, to be publicly condemned. For  
He cannot forbear railing upon Dr. Heylyn, after he hath laid in his Grave near twenty years: Speaking of the 
Baxt. Pref. to his Abridgement of Church Hist.  late Wars, saith he, Not only Lads that knew it not, but Heylyn, the great Reproacher of Reformers, would make men believe that it was Presbyterians in England that began the strife and War. What Heylyn? There be many heylyn's in England; which of them? So professed an Enemy he is to Degrees, because he was himself (I hear) never a Graduate or an University-man, that he is a Despiser of those Dignities in others: For his insolency in this kind, and errors in other matters, he was once sound swinged by the Doctor and the Correction put an end to all the Epistolary Controversies between them, that he was fain then to lower his Topsail, and durst never appear in the Doctor's time, top and top gallant: In revenge of which, and therein he thinks he hath done a great Act, not to call him so much as Peter Heylyn, Mr. Heylyn, or Goodman Heylyn; nay, he will not allow him a Christian Name, because he will be out of Charity with him both alive and dead. This is the man that prefesseth so much mortification, humility and self-denial: Yet no man swelleth with more spiritual pride, Mare Adriatico superbior. But why is Heylyn a Reproacher of the Reformers? I cannot tell, unless this be accounted a reproach (which rather tendeth to his credit) that he is an impartial Writer of Histories, relating the naked Truth of things without respect of Persons, and chiefly, because he utterly dislikes such a Reformation of Religion, that is carried on in a popular and tumultuary way, which I think cannot be justifiable neither by Law, Reason, nor Scripture, nor by all the Learning Mr. Baxter hath, or ever shall have to prove the contrary. I appeal to the ancient Fathers, and the primitive Christians in the first Centuries, whether this was judged by them, an approvable way of Reformation, that is effected by the vulgar sort, (who are not competent Judges of Religion) but by the Authority of the Christian Magistrate, with the advice and good counsel of the Clergy, which is the only regular and most Scriptural way; the other bends to Sedition, Bloodshed, and Confusion, if it be left to the Multitude: Which caused the good Father to complain of the Donatists. Basilicas 
Oplat. Milen.. l. 2. p. 54.  invasistis, multi ex numero vestro, per loca plurima, cruentas operati sunt caedes. And what outrageous acts were done by the Donatists, against Churches, Altars, consecrated Vessels, and necessary utensils for the Sacrament? Haec omnia furor 
lib. 6. p. 154  vester aut rasit, aut fregit, aut removit, saith Oplatus. All these things your fury hath razed down or defaced, or taken them away. And hath not this been the practice of some Reformers? God be thanked not in the Church of England, and let other Churches of the reformed Religion look to themselves; I am sure it is a detestible Principle, which the Primitive Christians from their hearts did abhor, that if the Magistrate will not reform the Church and State, than the people must. Their Piety and Patience is most exemplary to us; that we should rather suffer for true Religion, than make resistance or Reformation by rebellion. It was a seditious saying of Donatus. Quid est 
ibid. lib. 3. pag. 81.  Imperatori cum Ecclesia? What hath the Emperor to do with the Church? But be he either Heathen or Christian, and if Christian, either Orthodox or Heterodox in the Faith, the good Catholics did not then seek to establish their Religion, vi & armis, much less without his Authority, or at least connivance of their Emperors, publicly exercise their Religion.  
Secondly that which so imbitters Mr. Baxter against Dr. Heylyn, is, (saith he) That Heylyn would make men believe, that it was Presbyteriaas in England, that began the late Strife and War. And who believes otherwise, but they who have a bloody mind to War again? Have we not seen it with our Eyes, and others who were unborn then, have heard with their Ears the same, by many Witnesses and Writers besides Dr▪ Heylyn. What, must men deny their senses? It is not in the power of the Doctor, nor any other, to possess people with a belief and persuasion of things, whether they will or no; but as they appear evident to sense, reason or understanding, they give credit to them accordingly. Mr. Baxter imitates the Papists; He thinks of the War, as they do of the Gunpowder Plot, that it is so long ago, it must be either forgotten, or cannot be proved: He and those of his Tribe, would be blowing their Trumpets again for a second War, and cry out, to your Tents O Israel; but God in his mercy I hope will preserve the Land, that is grown more wise by sad experience of the late troubles, than to be twice deceived. The pretence of Reformation and Reformers, (whose Credit Mr. Baxter would still hold up, he cannot endure they should be touched) was the Pulchra Laverna of Rebelion, both in England and Scotland. Who were the first Reformers but the Presbyterians? Who was it? An Episcopal man or a Presbyterian, that said Strike 
〈◊〉 Plea p. 196.  the Basilick vein, for nothing else will cure the pleurisy of our State? and after followed the fatal stroke given upon the Lords anointed, to the terror and consternation of the whole Kingdom, but much more to the shame and confusion of it. And how many years after was this Nation ridden with the Reformers? That it might have been called instead of France, Regnum Asinorum, for the unmerciful loads of Oppression it groaned under; till at last wearied and tired out with them, it kicked off her Riders, and I am confident will never take to them again. For what were the fruits of the godly Reformation? Sacrilege and a continued Rebellion, Church and Crown Robberies; the King deprived of all his Right and Revenues, and the Church of her ancient Demeans and Dignities; from both which (as no good consequence any one might conceive) did follow a horrible Anarchy and confusion; not only Dr. Heylyn, but the World itself is judge of these things, whether the Presbyterians were not the Principal, and I may say the only causes of the late Wars, and those evils attending them. I think the Doctor set the Saddle upon the right Horse.  
But I am sure Mr. Baxter doth not, when he puts Lads and Dr. Heylyn together, who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and very irreverently conjoined together; yet perhaps those Boys think themselves as good Men as Mr. Baxter, and possibly to have as much Learning, however more discretion in them than appears in him, who shamefully complains of his feebleness to his Wife: For modesty sake I dare not set down the 
Mr. Baxt. Breviat. of her Life p. 73.  words, written at the end of his Letter to her, which he hath printed in his Narrative of her Life. But who are these Lads that knew not the War, and yet will be talking of it? I very well apprehend his meaning, and confess I was then but a Youth, but now am old and gray-headed, that what I have written I hope to make good, and fear not to meet Mr. Baxter upon a fair Challenge any where in the halfway, except between Lynsel and Longford. In the mean while, he who Styles himself so proudly in the Title page of his Church History, Richard Baxter a Hater of false Histories: Let him not falsify Dr. Heylyn, nor others, who approve themselves truer Historians than himself, whom I now attach for falsehood in saying this scandalous story of the Doctor. That he himself had laid much of the 
Baxt. Pref. to Ch. Hist.  War on the Arch-Bishops and Bishops, and on the Parliaments complaints of Popery, Arminianism and arbitrary illegalities. In his Hist. of Presb. pag. 465. pag. 470. In all which pages ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quidem, there is not a word or syllable can be found of these things, nor to such purpose; that I wonder he hath the face to charge Dr. Heylyn with them, when he professeth himself to be a Hater of false Histories, no sooner the word is out of his mouth, but within a page or two he makes this abominable falsity. I do suspect him now more than ever about Major jenning's business, and conclude him to be guilty. Could any one rationally think, that the Doctor (who in all his Time and Books, appeared a most zealous Champion for the Bishops; and in that cause I may say was Dr. Irrefr agabilis) would lay to their charge much or little, that they were procatarcical causes of the War; especially when he vindicates them in all his Writings from this malicious aspersion, which the Puritan Faction would have thrown upon them. He was not a man of contradictions like Richard Baxter in most of his Writings, for which every Lad is apt to lug his Beard, as the Poet said of the Stoic, vellent tibi barbam lascivi pueri— No, no, he had a wiser Head-piece, and better Memory than any Baxter: That he never exposed himself to shame or censure for any contradiction that could be fowd in all his Writings. Qualis ab in●…epto processerit, & sibi constet.  
Instead of Mr, baxter's Allegation, the Doctor tells us in the same page 464, 465. that the Assembly of Divines (so called) in their Confession, larger and lesser Catechism, held forth such a Doctrine touching Gods Decrees, that they gave occasion of receiving the old Blastian Heresy, in making God to be the Author of Sin; that the Bill against Bishops he observes took date from the fifth of November, the day defigned on the blowing up of the Parliament by the Gunpowder Traitors, that notwithstanding the House of Commons had taken the Scotch Covenant, they never intended to set up Scotch Presbytery, only held. fair quarter with them for a time, because in April, 1646. They published this following Declaration. That they were not able to consent to the granting of an arbitrary and unlimited Power and jurisdiction to near ten thousand judicatories to be erected in the Kingdom, which could not be confistent with the fundamental Laws and Government of it, and which by necessary conse.quence did exclude the Parliament from having any thing to do in that jurisdiction. Page 470. the Doctor tells us again, That the English Puritans laid their heads and hands together to embroil the Realm, out of a confidence, that having alienated the greatest part of the Tribes from the House of David, they might advance the golden Calves of Presbyterians in Dan and Bethel, and all other places whatsoever in the Land; and for the maintenance thereof, had devoured in conceit all Chapter Lands, and parceled them amongst themselves into Augmentations: But no sooner had they driven this bargain, but a Vote passed for selling those Lands, towards the payment of those debts of the Commonwealth. Nor have they lived to see their dear Presbytery settled, or their lay Elders entertained in any one Parish of the Kingdom.  
Now I have recited all those passages out of the pages Mr. Baxter refers us to; what hath he gained to his cause, but a confutation of it? As it was said of Caesar's Conspirators, iisde●…●…bus, quibus Caesarem foderunt 〈◊〉 occiderunt. With the same Daggers they stabbed julius Caesar, they killed themselves, So Mr. Baxter hath destroyed himself and the good old Cause with his own Weapons, by reciting Dr. Heylyn against Dr. Heylyn: The Dr. though dead, he yet speaketh, and hath vanquished his living Adversary: For what man out of these premises could draw a conclusion, except Mr. Baxter by his Kederminster Logic, that Heylyn had laid much of the War upon the Arch-Bishops and Bishops, etc. when there is no mention of War or Bishops in the Case: No quantum to be found of much or little in it; no minimum quod sic: Nay, nothing at all to prove Mr. Baxter's position and scandalous defamation of the Doctor: Therefore I must say to him the words of the old Comedian. Dehine & quie●…, porro moneo, & desinat maledicere, ne ma●…cta noscat sua. If the Dr. himself had been still living, (as some of his Elders are) neither Mr. Baxier, Mr. Hickman, nor M. Burnet, no one of them durst have adventured a single Duel with him in any point of Learning; but he would have said to every such Gladiator, as Cicero did to Mark Antony. Catilinae gladios contempsi, non pertimescam tuos. But now he hath neither hand nor sword, but is disarmed by Death.— miserandum & flebile corpus, it is no sign of true Virtue, or noble Valour in them; much less of a good Cause on their side, to insult ignobly over a dead Lion. As for Mr. Baxter, who will not let him rest quietly in his Grave, if my fraternal correption cannot amend him, I wish he may remember his good Wife's rebuke and deserved correction, she gave 
Baxt. Brev. of her Life pag. 89.  him, by his own confession. That he should make fewer Books, and write them better.  
And I think this good counsel had not been unseasonable to the late Writer of Dr. Heylyn's Life, to have transmitted that Task to any other person, who had been an ancient Friend and Acquaintance of the Doctors, rather than ambitiously assumed it upon himself, who was a professed Stranger to him; by reason of which, no better account could be expected from him than what he has given, and that is unsatisfactory, a Life to the half, an imperfect Creature, that is not only lame, (as the honest Bookseller said) but wantteth Legs, and all other integral parts of a Man, nay the very Soul, that should animate a Body like Dr. Heylyn. I am sure no man except himself, who was totally ignorant of the Dr. and all the circumstances of his Life, would have engaged in such a work, which was never primarily laid out or designed for him; but by reason of some unhappy differences, as usually fall out in Families, and he who loves to put his Ore in troubled matters, instead of closing them up hath made them wider: Otherwise it is not material who had writ the Doctor's Life, so it had been done by an able hand of a more knowing person; therefore I must say of him as Plutarch doth of Tib. Grac●…us, 
Plut. in vit. Gra●…  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, he is a bold Undertaker, and rash Talker of those matters he does not understand: And so I have done with him, unless he creates to himself and me a future trouble.  
Now I hope any ingenious Reader will plainly see, I am forced to a just and necessary Vindication of myself.  
Si quis me atro dente petiverit inultus, ut 
Hor. Epod.  flebo puer? and chiefly of my Father in Law; to whom as I am bound in gratitude for the favours I received from him in his Life time, so I could do no less than perform this little Task of writing his Life, and that without passion and partiality, being free from motives of both, 
Cor. Tacit. lib. 1.  as the Historian said, Quorum Causas procul habeo. However for holding the Reader in so long suspense, I have endeavoured to make a mends in the following Life, which in a manner I have composed new, retaining only what I had before written, and still remains in the printed Folio, entitled Keimelia Ecclesiastica; but now with that (which was so shamefully abused) I am sure the Work is complete and perfect, and I hope will afford this general benefit; First to encourage all young Scholars in the Love of Learning by the Example of so Reverend a Divine, and excellent Historian as Dr. Heylyn. And secondly, to remind others of some principal transactions both in Church and State during his time. And so I conclude in the words of 
Salus. Jug.  Sallust. Age nunc, illa videamus Judices, quae consecuta sunt.   

THE LIFE OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE, Dr. PETER HEYLYN.  
TO write the Lives of worthy Personages, was ever accounted a most laudable Custom among the Heathens: For to perpetuate the Memory of the Dead, who were eminent in Virtue, did manifestly conduce to the public benefit of the Living; much more the Ancient Christians in their time, both solemnly retained this Practice, and adjudged it an Act of Piety and Justice to the Deceased; If they were Men of Fame for Learning or other Virtues, to celebrate their Praises to Posterity; and by this means stirred up Emulation in others to follow so noble Precedents before them.  
For which Cause,. St. Jerome writ his Catalogus illustrium Virorum, before whom also Eusebius with others in short recorded to future Ages, the holy Lives of those Primitive Fathers, who were signally active or passive for the Christian Faith. Suum cuique decus posteritas 
Tacit. lib. 4.  rependit, (saith the Historian) Posterity doth render to every man the Commendation he deserves.  
Therefore for the Reverend Doctor's Sake, and in due veneration of his Name, which I doubt not is honoured by all true Sons of the Church of England, both for his learned Writings and constant Sufferings, in defence of her Doctrine and Discipline established by Law: Here is faithfully presented to them, a true and complete Narrative of his Life; to answer the common Expectations of men in this Case, who would read his Person (together with the ordinary and extraordinary occurrences of Providence that befell him) as well as his Books, that were long before published to the World.  
To give satisfaction in the former, here is nothing inserted but the Relations of Truth, which hath been often heard from his own Mouth spoken to his dearest Friends, or written by his Pen in some loose fragments of Paper, that were found left in his Study after his Death; upon which, as on a sure Foundation, the whole Series and Structure of the following Discourse is laid together; but would have been more happily done, if he had left larger Memoirs for it. Nothing was more usual in ancient times, than for good men (saith Tacitus) to describe their own Lives. Suam ipsi vitam narrare, 
In vita Jul. Agricol.  fiduciam potius morum, quam arrogantiam arbitrati sunt, upon a confidence of their right behaviour, rather than to be supposed any arrogancy or presumption in them.  
First of all I shall begin with his Birth. In that Country above all other ennobled with the famous seat of the Muses, to which he was a constant Votary; By Cambden Oxford is called the Sun, Eye, 
Cambd. Brit.  and Soul of Great Britain; by Matthew Paris the second School of the Church, 
Cosmog. fol. 306.  by the Reverend Doctor, coeval to Paris, if not before it, the glory of this Island and of the Western parts: Yet it cannot be denied, as high praises have been attributed by Learned Men to the most famous University of Cambridge, that I dare make no comparisions betwixt those two Sisters of Minerva for the Love I owe to either of them, who were both my dear Nurses: However the University of Oxon was long since honoured with the Title 
Ex Angel. Rocha pag. 214.  of Generale Studium in nobilissimis quatuor Europae Academiis, and this glorious Title conferred upon none else in former times, but the Universities of Paris in France, Bononia in Italy, and Salamanca in Spain. Near which Oxon or noble Athens, he was born at Burford, an ancient Market Town of good Note in the County of Oxford, upon the 29th. day of November, Anno Dom. 1600. In the same year with the celebrated 
Quenst. Dialog. de Pat. illust. vir.  Historian Jacob. August. Thuanus, on both whom the Stars poured out the like benign influences: But the former, viz. Peter Heylyn, had not only the faculty of an Historian, but the gift of a general Scholar in other Learning, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as will appear to any one that reads his laborious Writings.  
He was second Son of Henry Heylyn Gentleman, descended from the ancient Family of the heylyn's of Peutre-Heylyn 
Cosmog.  in Montgomeryshire, than part of Powis-Land, from the Princes whereof they were derived, and unto whom they were Hereditary Cupbearers; for so the word Heylyn doth signify in the Welsh or British Language; an honourable Office in most Nations, which we find in Divine as well as Profane History; whereby Nehemiah became so great a Favourite with Artaxerxes, that he obtained a Grant for the rebuilding of the holy City. Magni honoris erat Pincernae munus apud persas, saith Alex. ab Alex.  
If Camden Clarencieux be of good Authority, (as with most he is unquestionable) the Doctor deriveth his Pedigree from Grono-ap Heylyn, who descended from Brockwel Skythrac, one of the Princes of Powis-Land, in whose Family was ever observed, that one of them had a Gag-tooth, and the same was a notable omen of good Fortune; which Mark of the Tooth is still continued in the Doctor's Family. These and such like signatures of more wonderful form, are indeed very rare yet not without Example: So Seleucus and his Children after him, were born with the Figure of an Anchor upon their Thigh, as an infallible mark of their true geniture, (saith Justin) Origenis hujus argumentum etiam posteris mansit, si quidem filij, nepotesque ejus anchoram in femore 
Justin. lib. 15.  veluti notam generis naturalem habuere.  
The aforesaid Grono-ap Heylyn, from whom the Doctor is one of the Descendants, was a man of so great Authority with the Princes of North-Wales, that Llewelleu the last Prince of the Country, made choice of him before any other, to treat with the Commissioners of Edward the First, King of England, for the concluding of a final Peace between them, which was accordingly done; but afterwards Llewellen, by the persuasion of David his Brother, raised an Army against the King, that were quickly routed, himself slain in Battle: and in him ended the Line of the Princes of North-Wales, who had before withstood many puissant Monarches, whose attempts they always srustrated by retiring into the heart of their Country, and (as the Doctor saith) leaving nothing for their Enemies 
Cosm. fol. 326.  to encounter with but Woods and Mountains after they had reigned Princes of North-Wales for the space of four hundred and five years. A goodly time, that scarcely the greatest Monarchies in the World have withstood their fatal period and dissolution, as Chronologers usually 
Alsted. Chr. Synch.  observe. Anni quingenti sunt fatalis Periodus Regnorum & rerum publicarum, saith Alsted.  
But this little Monarchy of Wales, may be compared to a Finger, or Toe, `or the least joint indiscernible in the vast Body of the four great Empires, and yet withal shows the mutability of them, and all worldly Powers: That Time will triumph in the Ruin of the strongest States and Kingdoms, as is most excellently represented to us by Nebuchadnezzar's Image of Gold, Silver, Iron and Brass, that mouldered away, though durable Metal, because it stood upon feet of Clay: So unstable are all mortal things. And of no longer duration (are the most high and mighty Powers under Heaven) than the British Monarchy; which caused the Historian to complain, that the more he meditated with himself of things done both in old and latter times, tanto magis ludibria rerum mortalium cunctis in negotijs obversantur. So much the more (saith he) the uncertainties and 
Tacit. lib. 3.  mock Vanities of Fortune in all worldly Affairs came to his remembrance.  
Notwithstanding those great alterations in Wales, no longer a Kingdom of itself, but annexed to the Crown of England, the Family of Peutre Heylyn, from whom the said Grono-ap Heylyn descended in a direct Line, removed not their station for all the Ages past, but continued their Seat until the year An. Dom. 1637. At which time Mr. Rowland Heylyn, Alderman and Sheriff of London, and Cousin German to Dr. Heylyn's Father, dying without Issue-male, the Seat was transferred into another Family, Into which the Heiresses married. This Mr. Rowland Heylyn was a man of singular Goodness and Piety, that before his Death, caused the Welsh 
Arch-Bish. Life. p. 152.  or British Bible to be printed at his own charge in a portable Volume, for the benefit of his Country men, which was before in a large Church Folio; also the Practice of Piety in Welsh; a Book though common, not to be despised; besides a Welsh Dictionary for the better understanding of that Language: All which, certainly was a most pious 
Bellar. de verb. d. l. 2. c. 15. Populus non capit fructum sed detrimentum.  work, notwithstanding their opinion to the contrary, who think that the Bible in a vulgar Tongue, is not for Edification but Destruction. Yet God hath been pleased in all Ages, to stir up some devout men of public Spirits, as Sixtus Senensis the Monk, confesseth 
Six. Sen. Bib. l. 6.  that Christians may read the holy Bible 〈◊〉 their own Edification and Comfort, and not be kept hoodwinked in blindness and heathenish ignorance. Not to mention what other Nations hath done, King Alfred caused both the Old and New Testament to be published in the vulgar Tongue for the benefit of this Land; and in the Reign of Richard the Second, the whole Scripture was set forth in English, as Polyder Virgil 
Polyd. Virg. Hist. Ang●…. 120.  testifies, that when the Parliament endeavoured to suppress the same, John Duke of Lancaster stood up in defence thereof, saying, We will not be the refuse of all men, for other Nations have Gods Laws in their own Language, so ought we. Therefore seeing such noble Precedents of godly Zeal, for the general instruction of the People; it was a most excellent work of the good Alderman Mr. Rowland Heylyn, to print those Welsh Bibles, which were before rare and costly, but now grown common in every man's hand, and in his own Mother's Tongue.  
As the Doctor was of honourable extraction by his Father's side, so his Mother's Pedigree was not mean and contemptible, but answered the Quality of her Husband, being a Gentlewoman of an ancient Family, whose Name was Eliz. Clampard, Daughter of Francis Clampard of Wrotham in Kent, and of Mary Dodge his Wife descended in a direct Line from Peter Dodge of Stopworth in Cheshire, unto whom King Edward the First gave the Seignory or Lordship of Paden hugh in the Barony of Coldingham, in the Realm of Scotland; as well for his special Services that he did in the Siege of Barwick and Dunbar, as for his valour showed in several Battles, Encontre son grand Enemy, & Rebelle Le Baillol Roy d' Escose & Vassal 
D. H. Cosm. fol. 339.  d' Angle terre. as the words are in the 
Ibid. the Dr. saith he hath this Charter in his custody:  original Charter of Arms given to the said Peter Dodge by Guienne King of Arms, at the King's command, dated April the 8th. in the 34 〈◊〉. year of the said King Edward the First. One of the Descendants from the said Peter Dodge was Uncle to Dr. Heylyn's Mother, and gave the Manor of Lechlade in the County of Gloucester, worth 1400 l. per An. to Robert Bathurst Esq Uncle to the Doctor, and Father to the Loyal Knight and Baronet Sir Edward Bathurst lately deceased.  
The Doctor in his green and tender years was put to School at Burford (the Place of his Nativity and Education) under the care of Mr. William North, than Schoolmaster; by whose good Instructions and his own wonderful Ingenuity, he grew up to that proficiency in Learning, that he was admired both by his Master and Scholars; because his entrance into the Free-School, was at the time of Childhood, when he was but six years old; betwixt which time and the space of four years after, he plied his Book so well, that he appeared more than an ordinary Latinist, being Composer of several Exercises both in Prose and Verse, particularly a Tragicomedy upon the Wars and Destruction of Troy, with other exercises Historical, which foreshowed what an excellency he would after attain unto in all kind of generous Learning.  
Such early Blossoms are for the most part blasted, or seldom bring forth fruit to ripeness and perfection; that few Examples can be named of precocious Wits, as have been long Lived, or come near to the years of Old Age, as the Doctor did; excepting one famously known above others, Hermogenes the Rhetorician; of whom it was said, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. He was 
Suid. Hist.  an old Man when he was a Child, and a Child when he was an old Man: In his Childhood he was often brought before Marcus Ant. the Roman Emperor, 
Suid.  who delighted to hear his Talk, for the natural Eloquence that flowed from him: But though he lived long, his Wit and admired Parts soon decayed; and for his long Life, saith Rhodiginus 
C. Rhodig. ●…ct. Antiq. l. 21. 16.  of him, ut unus ex multis he was one (as it were) of a thousand. Yet a Reverend Father of the Christian Church the glory of his time, St. Augustine, did far excel Hermogenes the Orator; for he tells us in his Confessions, that in secunda pueritia, that is about the Age of twelve, Legisse & intellexisse Logicos & Rhetoricos Aristotelis Libros, he read and understood the Books of Aristotle's Logic and Rhetoric; by which 
S. August. Confes. l. 4.  Learning and Study of Divinity, well managed together, St. Augustin appeared the only Champion in the Field for the Orthodox Faith, confounded the Manichees, Donatists, and other Heretics; and finally he lived to a great old Age, a Blessing which ordinarily accompanied the Primitive Bishops and holy Fathers, and still is continued, as may be observed, to the worthy Prelates of our Church: But to find many of prodigious Wits and Memories from Childhood, and for such Persons to live unto extraordinary years, and keep up their wont Parts, most Vigorously after they are turned Sixty, which is the deep Autumn of Man's Life; I believe Dr. Heylyn had the happy Fortune in Youth and Age above many others, that his Virtues and excellent Abilities kept equal balance together for all his Life, primus ad extremum similis sibi— that as he began happily, so he went on; like Isocrates his Master, who being always the same, could say, Nihil habeo quod senectutem meam accusem. He had nothing 
Valer. Max. l. 8. c. 13.  to accuse his old Age with.  
After he was first diciplined under his Master North, whom Death took from the School to another World, he was committed to his Successor Mr. Davis, a right worthy Man and painful Schoolmaster, who trained him up in all points of Learning befitting a young Scholar for the University; where he was admitted at the fourteenth year of his Age Commoner in Hart-hall, and put under the Tuition of Mr. Joseph Hill an ancient Bachelor of Divinity, and formerly one of the Fellows of Corpus Christi College, but then a Tutor in Hart-hall: After whom Mr. Walter Newberry, a zealous Puritan in those days, undertook the Charge of him, who little thought his Pupil would afterward prove so sharp an Enemy to the Puritan-faction: But by the help of his two Tutors, who faithfully discharged their Office in reading Logical Lectures to him, and other kind of Learning; his own Industry also, and earnest desire to attain unto Academical Sciences, setting him forward beyond his years and standing, he was encouraged by his Tutor and good Friends (who saw his Parts were prodigious) to stand for a Demy's Place in Magdalen College at the time of their Election: But he being very young, and the Fellows already preingaged for another, he miss the first time, as is usual in this Case; with which disappointment he was not at all discouraged, but cheerfully followed the course of his Studies; and among other Exercises for recreation sake, and to show his Wit and Fancy, he framed a Copy of Verses in Latin, on occasion of a pleasant Journey he took with his two Tutors to Woodstock, which Verses he presented to the Precedent and Fellows of Magdalen College, who at the next Election in the year 1615. unanimously chose him Demy of the House, where soon after he was made Impositor of the Hall, which Office (no small honour to him being then but fifteen years of Age) he executed with that trust and diligence, that the Dean of the College continued him longer in it than any of his Predecessors; for which he was so envied by his Fellow Demies (as that malignant passion is always the Concomitant of honour) that they called him by the Name of perpetual Dictator. About the same time, being very eager upon his juvenile Studies, he composed an English Tragedy, called by him Spurius, that was so generally well liked by the Society, that Dr. Langton the Precedent, commanded it to be acted in his Lodgings.  
After those and many other Specimina Ingenii, fair Testimonies of his Wit and Scholarship, he easily obtained his grace for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in the year 1617. Then according to the College Statutes and Custom, that requires some Exercise to be performed by a junior Bachelor in the long Vacation; he read several Lectures of Geography to which his Genius naturally led him, and carried them on so pleasantly in a new Method not observed by others, by joining History with Cosmography that made the Work very delightful; For scarce any memorable Action done in any Nation, Country, or famous City in the World, but he hath recorded it, which was a wonderful Task for a Youth of his years; that all his Auditors, grave Fellows as well as others, was struck into deep admiration of his profound Learning and Wisdom; that forthwith the whole Society, nemine contradicente, admitted him Probationer Fellow in the Place of Mr. Love, and that before such time he had fully finished the reading of his Lectures: And for a further encouragement of him in his Studies, being also a good Philosopher as well as Geographer, the College chose him Moderator of the Signior Form in the Hall, that brought both credit to his Name and profit to his Purse; for which in Gratitude to them, as he ever showed a grateful mind to his Patrons and Benefactors, he presently writ a Latin Comedy, called by him Theomachia, which he finished and transcribed in a Fortnight's time, and dedicated the same to the Fellows, who were so highly pleased with his Ingenuity and Pains, that on July the 19th. 1619. he wa●… admitted Fellow in that honourable Society according to the usual Form. In verum & perpetuum Socium. After which followed a new honour upon him, as all Degrees in the University are honourable, and but the just reward of Learned Men; that in the year 1620. the University conferred on him the Degree of Master of Arts; and surely a young Master he was, that not one of twenty is capable of this Degree at his years, but more remarkable it was at that time, because he was one of those Masters that first sat with their Caps on, in the Convocation-house, by Order of the Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the University, who signified his Lordship's Pleasure by his especial Letters: That from that time forward, the Masters of Arts, who before sat bare, should wear their Caps in all Congregations and Convocations; which has been ever since observed.  
He now a Master of Arts in the University, and Fellow of a Noble College, than which no greater encouragements can be imagined for young Men, to follow their Studies, and put audacity into them, to show their Parts, especially when they have gained by their Learning and Merits both Preferment and Honour: He was persuaded by several Friends, to publish those Geographical Lectures which he read in the long Vacation, that others might taste the sweetness and pleasure of those Studies, besides his own Fellow Collegians: Accordingly having got his Father's consent for the printing of them, and the perusal and approbation of his Book by some Learned Men, at the Age of twenty and one years, the young Writer comes forth November the 7th. Anno Dom. 1621. Whose ingenious Writings found such general Acceptance, manibus omnium teruntur, that scarce any Scholars Study was without them; and to this day, since their enlargement by several Editions, are as commonly cited upon occasion, as any Authentic Author that's extant. The First Copy was presented to his Royal Highness King Charles the First, than Prince of Wales, unto whom the young Author dedicated his Work, and by the young Prince, was as graciously received, being brought into his Highness' presence by Sir Robert Carr, afterward Earl of Ancram, but then one of the Gentlemen of the Prince's Bedchamber.  
Having so fortunate a Beginning to gain the Prince his Patron; he desisted in Geography, and proceeded to higher Studies, that might capacitate him for greater Services hereafter, both in Church and State: In order thereto, first piously he took along with him the Episcopal Blessing of Confirmation, by the Hands of Bishop Lake, in the Parish Church of Wells, September the 15th. Anno Dom. 1623. the fruits of whose Fatherly Benediction, devout Prayers, with imposition of Hands, did manifestly appear in this true Son of the Church; Whom the Almighty did bless, and daily increase in him the manifold gift of Grace, bestowed on him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, etc. And certainly such singular benefits does accompany this Apostolical Institution, mentioned in Scripture constantly used in the Primitive Church, that the neglect or contempt thereof from the hands of God's Bishops, no doubt deprives us of many good Blessings which we should otherwise receive from the hands of God. Being thus confirmed by the Bishop, according to the Order of the Church of England; he afterward applied himself to the Study of Divinity, 
St. Basil. Hex●…m.  which St. Basil calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the Theory or Contemplation of the Great God, or his Being, so far as he hath revealed himself to us in the Book of Nature and Scripture. This Knowledge excelleth all other, and without it who knoweth not the saying, Omnem Scientiam magis obesse quam prodesse, si desit scientia optimi, that all other Knowledge does us more hurt than good, if this be wanting: Notwithstanding he met with some discouragements to take upon himself the Profession of a Divine, for what reasons it is hard for me to conjecture; but its certain at first he found some reluctancy within himself, whether for the difficulties that usually attend this deep mysterious Science, to natural reason incomprehensible, because containing many. matters of Faith, which we ought to bel●…eve and not to question, though now Divinity is the common mystery of Mechanics, to whom it seems more easy than their manual Trades and Occupations; or whether because it drew him off from his former delightful Studies, more probably (I believe) his fears and distrusts of himself were very great to engage in so high a Calling and Profession, and run the hazards of it, because the like Examples are very frequent, both in Antiquity and modern History; however so timorous he was upon this account, lest he should rush too suddenly into the Ministry, although his abilities at that time transcended many of elder years, that he exhibited a Certificate of his Age to the Precedent of the College, and thereby procured a Dispensation, notwithstanding any local Statutes to the contrary, that he might not be compelled to enter into holy Orders till he was twenty four years old; at which time still his fears did continue, or at least his modesty and self-denial wrought some unwillingness in him, till at last he was overcome by the Arguments and powerful Persuasions of his Learned Friend Mr. Buckner; after whose excellent Discourses with him, he followed his Studies in Divinity more closely than ever, having once tasted the sweetness of them; nothing can ravish the Soul more with pleasure unto an Ecstasy, than Divine Contemplation of God, and the Mysteries in his holy Word, which the Angels themselves pry into, and for which reason they love to be present in Christian Assemblies when the Gospel is preached, as the Apostle intimates to us: That by continual study and meditation, and giving himself wholly to read Theological Books, he found in himself an earnest desire to enter into the holy Orders of Deacon and Priest, which he had conferred upon him at distinct times in St. Aldates' Church at Oxon, by the Reverend Father in God Bishop Howson: At the time when he was ordained Priest, he preached the Ordination Sermon upon the words of our Saviour to St. Peter, Luke 22. 32. And when thou art converted, strengthen thy Brethren. An apposite Text upon so solemn Occasion. Being thus ordained to his great satisfaction and contentment; the method which he resolved to follow in the Course of his Studies was quite contrary to the common Road of young Students; for he did not spend his time in poring upon Compendiums and little Systems of Divinity, whereby many young Priests ●…hink they are made absolute Divines, when perhaps a Gentleman of the ●…ish doth oftentimes gravel them in an ordinary Argument; But he fell upon the main Body of Divinity, by studying Fathers, Councils, Ecclesiastical Histories, and Schoolmen, the way which King James commended to all younger Students for confirming them in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England, that is most agreeable to the Doctrine of the Primitive Church.  
By this time, his Book of Geography in the first Edition, bought up by Scholars, Gentlemen, and almost every Housholder, for the pleasantness of its reading, was reprinted and enlarged in a second Edition, and presented again to his Highness the Prince of Wales, who not only graciously accepted the Book, but was pleased to pass a singular Commendation upon the Author; But afterward the Book being perused by his Royal Father King James, the second Solomon for Wisdom, and most Learned Monarch in Christendom, the Book put into his Majesty's hand by Dr. Young; then Dean of Winton, and Mr. Heylyn's dear Friend; the King's piercing Judgement quickly spied out a fault, which was taken no notice of by others; as God always endows Kings his Vice-gerents with that extraordinary gift, (the Spirit of discerning) above other Mortals, Sicut Angelus Dei est Dominus meus Rex, (saith the holy Scripture) as an Angel of God, so is my Lord the King, who lighting upon a Line, that proved an unlucky Passage in the Author, who gave Precedency to the French King, and called France the more famous Kingdom; with which King James was so highly displeased, that he presently ordered the Lord Keeper to call the Book in, but this being said in his Anger and Passion, no further notice was taken of it: in the mean time Dr. Young took all care to send Mr. Heylyn word of his Majesty's displeasure; the News of which was no small sorrow to him, that he was now in danger to lose the 
Ovid. I. 2.  King's Favour, Nil nisi peccatum manitestaque 
Eleg. 1.  culpa falenda est. Paenitet ingenij, judiciique mei— that Mr. Heylyn could have wished them words had been left out: Dr. Young advised him to repair to Court, that by the young Prince's Patronage, he might pacify the King's Anger, but not knowing wheth●… the Prince himself might not be also offended, he resided still in Oxford, and laid open his whole grief to the Lord Danvers, desiring his Lordship's Counsel and best advice, what Remedy he should seek for Cure; according to the good Lord's Counsel, he sent up an Apology to Dr. Young, which was an Explanation of his meaning upon the words in question, and then under Condemnation: The Error was not to be imputed to the Author, but to the Errata of the Printer, which is most ordinary in them to mistake one word for another; and the grand mistake was, by printing is for was which put the whole Sentence out of joint, and the Author into pain, if it had been of a higher Crime than of a Monosylable, it had not been pardonable, for the intention of the Author was very innocent.— Quis me deceperit error?  Et culpam in facto, non scelus essemeo. 
The words of his Apology which he sent up to Dr. Young for his Majesty's satisfaction, are these that followeth.  That some Crimes are of a nature so injustifiable, that they are improved by an Apology, yet considering the purpose he had in those places, which gave offence to his sacred Majesty, he he was unwilling that his Innocence should be condemned for want of an Advocate. The Burdens under which he suffered, was a mistake rather than a Crime; and that mistake not his own, but the Printers: For if (in the first Line of Page▪ 441.) was be read instead of is, the Sense runs as he desired it: And this appears from the words immediately following, for by them may be gathered the sense of this corrected reading: When Edward the third quartered the Arms of France and England, he gave precedency to the French. First, because France was the great and more famous Kingdom. 2. That the French, etc. These reasons are to be referred to the time of that King by whom the Arms were first quartered with the Arms of England, and who desired by honour done unto their Arms, to gain upon the good Opinion of that Nation, for the Crown and Love thereof he was then a Suitor: For at this time (besides it may seem incongruous to use a Verb of the Present-Tense in a matter done so long ago) that reason is not of the least force or consequence; the French King having so long since forgot the Rights of England, and our late Princes claiming nothing but the Title only. The Place and Passage so corrected, I hope I may without detraction from the Glory of this Nation affirm, That France was at that time the more famous Kingdom, our English Swords, for more than half the time since the Norman Conquest, had been turned against our own Bosoms; and the Wars we then made, except some fortunate Excursions of King Edward the First in France, and King Richard in the Holy Land, in my Opinion were fuller of Piety than of Honour; For what was our Kingdom under the Reigns of Edward the Second, Henry the Third, John, Stephen, and Rufus, but a public Theatre, on which the Tragedies of Blood and civil Dissensions had been continually acted: On the other side, the French had exercised their Arms with Credit and Renown, both in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, and had much added to the Glory of their Name and Nation, by conquering the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicilia, and driving the English themselves out of France, Guienne only excepted. If we look higher, we shall find France to be the first Seat of the Western Empire, and the forces of it to be known and felt by the Saracens in Spain, the Saxons in Germany, and the Lombard's in Italy: At which time the Valour of the English was imprisoned in the same Seas with their Island. And therefore France was at that time, when first the Arms were quartered, the more famous Kingdom. 'Tis true indeed, that since the time of those victorious Princes, those duo fulmina belli, Edward the Third and the Black Prince his Son, the Arms of England have been exercised in most parts of Europe: Nor am I ignorant how high we stand above France and all other Nations in true fame of our Achievements: France itself divers times over run, and once conquered: The House of B●…rgundie upheld from Ruin: The Hollanders supported: Spain awed: The Ocean commanded, are sufficient Testimonies, that in pursuit of Fame and Honour, we had no Equals, That I always was of this opinion, my Book speaks for me, (and indeed so unworthy a Person needs no better Advocate) in which I have been no where wanting to commit to Memory the honourable performances of my Country. The great Annalist Baronius pretending only a true and sincere History of the Church, yet tells the Pope in his Epistle Dedicatory, that he principally did intend that Work, Pro Sacrarum Traditionum Antiquitate & Authoritate Romanae Ecclesiae. The like may I say of myself, though not with like imputation of imposture. I promised a Description of all the World, and have according to the measure of my poor Ability, fully performed it; yet have I apprehended withal, every modest occasion of enobling and extolling the Soldiers and Kings of England. Concerning the other place at which his most sacred Majesty is offended, viz. The precedency of France before England; besides that I do not speak of England as it now stands augmented by the happy Addition of Scotland, I had it from an Author, whom in my poverty of reading I conceived above all Exception, Cambde●… Clarenceux, that general and accomplished Scholar, in the fifth page of his Remains had so informed me; If there be Error in it, 'tis not mine but my Authors. The Precedency which he there speaks of, is in general Councils. And I do heartily wish it would please the Lord to give such a sudden blessing to his Church, that I might live to see Mr. Cambden confuted by so good an Argument as the sitting of a general Council. 
Thus Mr. Heylyn apologized for himself, in his Letter written to the Dean of Winton, who showed the whole Apology to the King, with which his Majesty was fully satisfied as to the sincere intention and innocent meaning of Author; yet to avoid all further scruples and misconstructions that might arise hereafter, Mr. Heylyn, by the advice of his good Friend, the wise and most worthy Dean, took order that whole Clause which gave so much offence, should be left out of all his Books, It a plerique ingenio sumus omnes, nostri nosmet paenitet, as once the Comedian said.  
Having undergone such troubles about France, he was resolved upon a further Adventure, to take a Voyage thither, with his faithful Friend Mr. Levet of Lincoln's Inn, who afterward, poor Gentleman, through misfortune of the Times, lived and died Prisoner in the Fleet. They both set out An. Dom. 1625. and after their safe arrival in France, took a singular interview of the chief Cities and most eminent Places in the Realm, of which Mr. Heylyn gives a more accurate account, and description (though his stay was not there above five Weeks) than Lassel the Priest doth of his five years' Voyage into Italy. And now Mr. Heylyn was sufficiently convinced with his own Eyes which was the more famous Kingdom, that after his return home, he composed a History of his Travels into France, and being put into the Hands of several Friends, was at first printed by a false Copy, full of gross Errors and insufferable mistakes, that he caused his own true Copy to be printed, one of the most delightful Histories of that nature that hath been ever heretofore published; wherein is set out to the Life, the Monsieurs and the Madams, the Nobility and the Pezantry, the Court and Country; their ridiculous Customs, fantastical Gate, Apparel and Fashions, foolish common Talk, so given to levity, that without singing and dancing they cannot walk the open Streets; in the Church serious and superstitious, the better sort horridly Atheistical.  
Besides all he hath written in that ingenious Book, I think he hath in short most excellently deciphered them in his Cosmography, where he maketh a second review of their pretty Qualities and Conditions; as thus, if the Reader has a mind to read them. They are very 
Cosmog. fol. 176, 177. printed A. D. 1655.  quick witted, of a sudden and nimble apprehension, but withal rash and hare-brained, precipitate in all their actions, as well military as civil, falling on like a clap of Thunder, and presently going off in Smoke, full of Lawsuits and Contentions, that their Lawyers never want work; so litigious, that there are more Lawsuits tried among them in seven years, than have been in England from the Conquest: Their Women witty, but Apish, sluttish, wanton, and incontinent; generally at the first fight as familiar with you, as if they had known you from the Cradle, and are so full of Chat and Tattle, even with those they know not, as if they were resolved sooner to want Breath than Words, and never to be silent till in the Grave: Dancing such a sport to which both Men and Women are so generally affected, that neither Age nor Sickness, no nor Poverty itself, can make them keep their Heels still when they hear the Music, such as can hardly walk abroad without Crutches, or go as if they were troubled all day with a Sciatica, and perchance have their Rags hang so loose about them, that one would think a swift Galliard might shake them into their Nakedness, will to the dancing Green howsoever, and be there as eager at the sport, as if they had left their several infirmities and wants behind them: Their Language is very much expressed by their Action, for the Head and Shoulders must move as significantly when they speak, as their Lips and Tongue, and he that hopeth to speak with a grace, must have in him somewhat of the Mimic: They are naturally disposed for Courtship, as makes all the People complimental, that the poorest Cobbler in the Parish hath his Court cringes, and his Eau beniste de Cour, his Court-holy water (as they call it) as perfectly as the best Gentleman-Huisher of Paris. They wear their Hair long, goes thin and open to the very Shirt, as if there were continual Summer; in their Gate, walk fast, as if pursued on an Arrest. Their humour is much of scoffing, yea even in matters of Religion as appeareth in the story of a Gentleman that lay sick on his Bed, who seeing the Host brought unto him by a Lubberly Priest, said that Christ came to him, as he entered into Jerusalem, Riding upon an Ass. I cannot forget another of the like kind, a Gentleman lying sick upon his Death Bed, who when the Priest had persuaded him, that the Sacrament of the Altar, was the very Body and Blood of Christ, refused to eat thereof, because it was Friday. And so far the good Geographer, who hath pleasantly and truly described them.  
But now we must come to him as a Divine, wherein he acted his part as well as of a Cosmographer, when he was called unto the Divinity School to dispute in his turn, according to the Statutes of the University, on April 18th. A. D. 1627. He comes up as opponent, and on Tuesday the 24th. following he answered pro forma, upon these two Questions.  

An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis?  
An Ecclesia possit errare?   
Both which he determined in the Negative. Upon occasional discourse with him at Abington, he was pleased once to show me his supposition which I read over in his House at Lacies Court; but I had not then either the leisure or good luck to Transcribe a Copy of it, which would have been worth my pains, and more worthy of the Press, to the great satisfaction of others; for my part, I can truly say, that I never read any thing with more pleasure, and heart delight, for good Latin, Reason, and History, which that exercise was full of; but since both it, and many other choice Papers in his Study, through the carelessness of those, to whose Custody they were committed, I suppose, are utterly lost and gone, ad blattarum & tinearum epulas.  
In stating of the first Question that caused the heats of that day, he tells us 
Appendix to the Advice on Mr. Sa. Hist.  himself; I fell upon a different way from that of Doctor Prideaux, the Professor, in his Lecture De Visibilitate and other ●…ractates of and about that time, in which the Visibility of the Protestant Church (and consequently of the Renowned Church of England) was no otherwise proved, than by looking for it in the scattered Conventicles of the Bere●…garians in Italy, the Waldenses in France, the Wickliffs', in England, and the Hussites in Bohemia, which manner of proceeding not being liked by the Respondent, as that which utterly discontinued that Succession of the Hiearchy which the Church of England claims from the very Apostles and their immediate Successors: He rather chose to find out a continual visible Church in Asia, Ethiopia, Greece, Italy, yea Rome itself, as also in all the Western Provinces than subject to the power of the Roman Bishop, when he was the Chief Patriarch. Which Mr. Heylyn from his great knowledge, and more than ordinary abilities in History, strenuously asserted and proved, to which the Professor could make but weak replies (as I have heard from some knowing persons who were present at that Disputation) because he was drawn out of his ordinay bias from Scholastical disputation to Foreign Histories, in which encounter, Mr. Heylyn was the invincible Ajax— Nec quisquam Ajacem superare possit nisi Ajax. But chiefly the quarrel did arise for two words in Mr. heylyn's Hipothesis, after he had proved the Church of England received no Succession of Doctrine or Government from the Berengarians, Wickliffs', &c. Who held many Hetordoxes in Religion, as different from the established Doctrine of our Church, as any points that was maintained at that time in the Church of Rome; that the writers of that Church, Bellarmine himself, hath stood up, as cordially in maintenance of some fundamental points of the Christian Faith against Antitrinitarians, Anabaptists, and other Heretics of these last ages, as any one Divine, and other learned Men of the Protestant Churches, which point Mr. Heylyn closed up with these words. utinam quod ipse de Calvino sic semper errasset nobilissimus Cardinalis. At which words the Reverend Doctor was so impatient in his Chair, that he fell upon the Respondent in most vile terms, calling him Papicola Bellarminianus, Pontificius, etc. To draw the hatred of the University upon him, according to the saying, Fortiter calumniare & aliquid adhaerebit, grievously complaining to the younger sort of his Auditors, unto whom he made his chiefest addresses, of the unprofitable pains he took among them, if Bellarmine, whom he had laboured to confute for so many years should be honoured with the Title of Nobilissimus.  
Notwithstanding the Respondent acquitted himself most bravely before all the Company, ascribing no more honour to Bellarmine, then for his deserts in learning, and integrity in that particular point before spoken of, which any generous Man would give to his Learned Antogonist. For many Lutherans and Calvinists, I may say (pa●…e tanti viri) so angry at a word, have not grudged, much less judged it any Crime to praise the Cardinal's Learning. Doctrinam & nos in ipso Commendamus 
Joh. Aud. Quensted. in dial. de pat. Illust. vir.  saith a rigid Lutheran, and St. Paul himself would not stick to call him who was an inveterate Enemy of the Christians, most noble Festus. And though Cardinals we know were originally but Parish Priests, by Pride and Usurpation have made them●…lves Compeers to Kings; that which is unjustly once obtained, by time groweth common and familiar, that none will refuse to give such their ordinary▪ Titles of Honour, although they com●… by indirect means, and not by merit to them. Bellarmine also was of no poor and base extraction, but better than his Fellows; for which reason he was created Cardinal by Clement the Eight. Hunc eligimus (saith he) quia est nepos optimi & sanctissimi 
Quensted. pag. 327.  Po●…tificis, because he was the Nephew of Marcellus the Second, who said, that he could not see how any could be saved who sat in the Pontifical Chair: Non video quomodo qui locum hunc altissimum 
Onuph in vit. Marc.  tenent salvari possunt.  
After those heats of disputation were over, Mr. Heylyn took a Journey to London, where he waited on Bishop L●…d, than Bishop of Bath and Wells, who had heard of all the passages that had happened at Oxford, of which Mr. Heylyn gave a more perfect account to his Lordship, who was pleased to read over the Supposition, at which Dr. Prideaux was so highly offended; but the good Bishop on the other side commended it, and encouraged Mr. Heylyn in his Studies; saying that he himself had in his younger days, maintained the same Positions in a disputation, in St. John's College, that Mr. heylyn's Hypothesis could not be overthrown in a fair way, exhorting him to continue in that moderate course: And that as God 
A. B. laud's. Life page 166.  had given him more than ordinary gifts so he would pray to God, that he and others might employ them in such a way and manner as might make up the breaches in the Walls of Christendom. Mr. Heylyn to clear himself from the suspicion of Popery, which Dr. Prideaux had most unjustly branded him with, in November next following, Preached before the King, on those words, Joh. 4. ver. 20. Our Fathers Worshipped on this Mountain, etc. In which Sermon he declared himself with such smart zeal, and with as quick Judgement against several errors and corruptions in the Church of Rome, that his Sermon was otherwise resented by the King and Court, than his supposition by the King's Professor at Oxon.  
And when that clamour was revived again by his Enemies, that he had some inclinations to the Romish Religion, he gave such satisfaction in his third and fourth Sermon Preached at White-Hall, in the year 1638. Upon the Parable of the Tares, on these words, Matth. 13. vers. 26. Tunc apparuerunt Zizania. Then appeared the Tares also, that some of the Court did not stick to say that he had done more towards the Subversion of Popery in those two Sermons, than Dr. Prideaux had done in all the Sermons which he had ever Preached in his Life. For that Doctor was a better disputant than a Preacher, and to give him his due, a right Learned▪ Man in his place of Regius Professor, yet withal so Dogmatical in his own points, that he would not abide to be touched, much less contradicted by Mr. Heylyn— Non aliam ob causam, nisi quod Virtus in utroque, summa fuit— More especially being a Great Man, at that time very popular in the University, profoundly admired by the Junior Masters, and some of the Seniors inclined to Puritanism, his own College then observed to be (Communis pestis Adolescentum) the Common Nursery of West Country Men in Puritan principles, so that Mr. Heylyn could expect no favour nor fair dealing in the way of his disputation, when it ran contrary to the Professors humour.  
After these Academical contests, growing weary of Obs and Sols in Scholastical disputations, which was ever opposite to his Genius, and for this purpose being unwilling to be always Cloistered up within the Walls of a College, where he must be tied to such Exercises; besides a Man of an Airy and active Spirit, (though studious and contemplative,) would not be perpetually devoted to a Melancholy recluse Life; also emulation and envy, the two inseparable evils that accompany Learned Men in the same Society, hath frequently stirred up animosities and factions among them. That I have known some ingenious persons, for this reason, have been wearied out of a Collegiate Life; resolved therefore he was to Marry, and alter the condition of his Life, which he thought would prove more agreeable to the content and satisfactiof 
Tacit. His●… lib. 4.  his mind. Neque aliud probis quam ex Matrimonio solatium esse, saith the good Author, because Marriage is the only comfort of minds honestly given; accordingly a fair Fortune was offered to him, a Wife with a thousand pounds' Portion, and a Gentlewoman of a very Ancient Family, and of as excellent Education, Mrs. Letitia Highgate, third Daughter of Thomas Highgate of Heyes Esq one of his Majesty's Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex, (who in his younger days, whilst his Elder Brother was alive, had been Provost Marshal General of the Army under the Earl of Essex at the action of Cales) and of Margery Skipwith his Wife, one of the Daughters of that Ancient Family of the Skipwiths in the County of Leicester, of which Family still there is a Worthy person living, Sir Thomas Skipwith Knight, a Learned Sergeant in the Law: Which said Thomas Highgate the Father beforementioned, was second Son of that Thomas Highgate, who was field Marshal General of the English Forces, before St. Quintine under the Command of the Earl of Pembroke, Anno Dom. 1557. And of Elizabeth Stoner his Wife a Daughter of the ancient Family of the Stoners in the County of Oxon.  
To this young Gentlewoman, Mrs. Letitia Highgate aforesaid, Mr. Heylyn was no stranger, for his Elder Brother Mr. Edward Heylyn had married some years before her eldest Sister. His Seat was at Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire, where his Son (to whom Dr. Heylyn was Uncle) now liveth, viz. Hen. Heylyn Esq an ancient Colonel, and an excellent Commander in the Army of King Charles the First, and a most accomplished Gentleman in all respects to the honour of his Family. Another of the Sisters of▪ Mrs. Letitia Highgate, married Robert Tirwhit Esq one of the ancient Family of the Tirwhits in the County of Lincoln, Master of the Buck-hounds in the Reign of King Charles the First, a Place of honour and of great Revenue: Finally to the honour of that Family Sir Henry Bard of Stanes Knight, who afterward was created Viscount Lord Bellamount, did marry the Daughter of Sir William Gardiner, whose Lady and Mrs. Letitia Highgate were Sister's Children, that unfortunate Lord, (who is mentioned in the marquis of Worcester's Apothegms) for a brave Commander and Governor of Camden House in the time of War, did attend his sacred Majesty all the time of his Exile until the Treaty at Breda, when he was sent (as I have heard) on some Ambassage into the Eastern Countries, where travelling in Arabia deserta, for want of a skilful Guide, was swallowed up in the Gulf of Sands. These were the Relations, and many others of Quality (which I forbear to mention) of Mrs. Letitia Highgate. And whereas the late Writer disparages the young Gentlewoman, that her Portion was never paid; I am sure he has done her that Wrong which he can never recompense, for her Elder Brother did both pay her and the other Sister's Portions, who were all married to Persons of Quality; himself had an Estate left him by his Father to the value of 800l. per Annum. he married an Heiress, whose fortune added to his Estate, on which they lived nobly for many years, before he fell into losses and misfortunes, caused by his own extravigant Pleasures, and chiefly of Gaming at Dice and Cards. Quem dam●…osa Venus, quem Praeceps alea nudat. To the said Letitia Highgate, Mr. Heylyn was an earnest Suitor, For indeed he could not make a better Choice, for the excellency of her Person, Wit and Friends, all concentring together for his more happy Contentment, she being also a discreet, Religious young Lady, which is a Blessing to a Clergyman: his Courtship of her was not after a Romantic manner, nor as a Gallant of the times, but like a Scholar and a Divine, as appears by a Copy of Verses, written upon a rich guilded Bible, which he presented to her; and the Verses are as followeth.  

Could this outside beholden be  
To cost and cunning equally;  
Or were it such as might suffice  
The Luxury of curious Eyes;  
Yet would I have my Dearest look,  
Not on the Cover, but the Book.   

If thou art merry, here are Airs;  
If melancholy, here are Prayers;  
If studious, here are those things writ,  
Which may deserve thy ablest Wit;  
If hungry, here is Food Divine;  
If thirsty, Nectar, heavenly Wine.   

Read then, but first thyself prepare  
To read with zeal, and mark with care,  
And when thou readest What here is writ;  
Let thy best Practice second it:  
So twice each Precept read shall be.  
First in the Book, and next in thee.   

Much reading may thy Spirits wrong;  
Refresh them therefore with a So●…g;  
And that thy Music Praise may merit,  
Sing David's Psalms with David's Spirit:  
That as thy Voice do pierce men's Ears,  
So shall thy Prayer and Vows the Sphaears.   

Thus read, thus sing, and then to thee  
The very Earth a Heaven shall be:  
If thus thou readest, thou shalt find,  
A private Heaven within thy mind;  
And singing thus before thou die,  
Thou singest thy Part to those on High.   
The Verses with the Bible were most affectionately received by her, as the best Tokens of Love that could be given, to lay the Foundation of a future Happiness betwixt them, that was now begun so Religiously with the Book of God, which they both intended to make the Rule of their Life and Love. Soon after the Solemnisation of Marriage followed, by the consent of Friends on both Parties; in the presence of whom and other Witnesses, they were married by Dr. Allibone his faithful Friend, upon the Festival day of St. Simon and St. Judas, in Magdalen College Chappel, where he was Fellow, but now the Husband of a good Wife; of whom we may say as the Poet,  

— Felice's  
Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec malis  
Divulsis querimoniis  
Suprema citius solvet die.   

Most happy is the Marriage-tye,  
Where Love abideth ●…onstantly;  
No sad Complaints or Cries, whilst Breath  
Remains, but true Love unto Death.   
At his Marriage with this virtuous Gentlewoman, he had a good Estate of his own besides her Portion to begin the World with; for he had a Rend Charge of Inheritance paid him out of the Manor of Lech-led in the County of Gloucester, and the Adv ousan of Bradwel living near Lech-led, both which were left him by his Father, as a Competent Portion for a younger Brother; but he wisely parted with the Advousan, resolving not to bury his Parts in a Country Parish; where if he had been once settled, possibly his Fortune might have proved like other men's, never to have been Master of more Lands or Goods than the Tithe or Glebe of his own Parsonage: Therefore he took the first opportunity offered to him, as a more probable means of his future preferment; and that was to attend the right Honourable the Earl of Danby, to the Isles of Guernsie and Jersie: (of which afterward he writ a Description) And for this goo●… Service he so much endeared himself to his Lordship, who took great notice of his extraordinary merits, that at their return back, the Noble Lord commended him, not only to some Lords in Court, but presented him to Archbishop Laud, than Bishop of London, who had cast a singular Eye of favour upon him before, but now reminded by the Earl, he presently got him admitted Chaplain to the King, knowing that step. to Preferment would carry him on further, because the rise of the Clergy is either from the Press or the Pulpit, in both which Mr. Heylyn was exercised. The good Bishop instructed him with Counsel and wise Cautions, how to behave himself in all Circumstances suitable to the Calling and Dignity of his Place; telling him amongst other things, That the King did not love Silk nor Satin Chaplains; which Mr. Heylyn ever observed both young and old, never ruffling in Silks like some of his Brotherhood: but went always in a plain, grave, and decent habit.  
In humble gratitude to the Earl his original Patron, who first recommended him to the Bishop, and afterward brought him to the honour of acquaintance with Noblemen, among whom he found such a general love and respect, that their Lordships would often call him to a familiar Conversation with them; by which means Mr. Heylyn acquired more than an ordinary Interest in Court: He could not study out a more ingenious way to please and oblige all their Lordships, than the Vindication of the most noble Order of the Garter, and that by writing his History of the famous Saint and Soldier of Christ Jesus St. George of Cappadocia; which Work he performed so admirably well, for History, Learning and Language; all these not vulgar, but incomparable in their kind, that I would fain see the Fellow that can second it; especially considering that never any one before Mr. Heylyn durst attempt the work, by reason of the many difficulties occurring in Story: But what could re▪ sister the Author's Ingenuity and Industry, who had importunum Ingenium, a restless working Head, and a Mind indefatagable for Study. Perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labour— Hor. So various and perplexed are the infinite stories that go of this Saint, that one would think it were an impossible thing to find out the Truth. Great care was taken by Anterus Bishop of Rome An. Dom.▪ 238. (who was a Martyr himself) to preserve the Memory of the Christian Martyrs, by causing all their Acts and Passions to be written by public Notaries, and afterwards laid up in the Register of the 
Anterus Statuit primus ut omnes res gestae Martyrum a notariis scriberentur, conscriptas recondi, in aerario Ecclesiae mandavit Platin. tae vit. An. Greg. l. 7. 29.  Church, as Platina tells us; and we find in Gregory's Epistles, that in the Ancient Martyrologies the time of their death, and place where they suffered is described, but not the circumstance and manner of their deaths, whereby hath risen so many Fables, and incredible stories, especially of St. George which the Monks of old hath filled their Legends with: And on the other side, some because they would be contradictory to them, do run into another Extreme of things, not regarding whether they a●…e true or false, they stigmatize St. George with all the reproaches imaginable, making him not a Saint but a Devil, at the best the bloody George of Alexandria, who was a Butcher rather than a Bishop, that caused the slaughter of so many poor Christians for being Orthodox and not Arrians, more kind and favourable are they, that condemn him for a fiction a mere Chimaera, and 
Dr. He●…lyns Epist. before his History▪  Non Entity, and will allow him no place (as the Historian saith) on Earth, in heaven, nor hell itself.  
From all which slanderous Accusations of the one side, and from the Foppish Superstitions and Forgeries of the other; Mr. Heylyn hath redeemed, St. George's Honour and Reputation proving by undeniable Authorities, that St. George was a blessed and glorious Martyr for Christ, so believed and owned in all Christian Nations, a Canonised Saint through Christendom, the Patron both of our English Nation anciently deemed, and of the most Honourable Order of Knighthood in the World. The History was at first presented to his Majesty by the Author, and afterwards to the Knights of the Noble Order, by his Majesty it was most graciously accepted, and by the Nobility highly praised. Notwithstanding Dr. Hackwel, the intimate friend of Dr. Prideaux for whose sake to revenge the old quarrel, appeared against the Author, and 
Append. to the Histo.▪ of K. Ch.  treated him neither with that ingenuity which became a Scholar, nor that Charity, as becomes a Christian. The King hearing of Dr. Hackwels sharp reply to this History of St. George, sent for Mr Heylyn, Commanding him to consider the Arguments of his Adversary, and for this purpose to go to Windsor, and there search into the Records of the Order. But there was little need for that, because all Dr. Hackwels Arguments and Accusations were Idem per Idem, the very same repeated over, which Mr. Pryn had before laid down in his Book called Histriomastix, which occasioned a second Edition of Mr. heylyn's History, wherein he answered the Arguments of both his Antagonists, who never troubled him more upon that point, and Dr. Hackwell for his part, in the next Edition of his book about the decay of Nature made an ingenious retraction of the passages relating to St. George. Which blessed Saint and Martyr, Mr. Heylyn the more zealously defended with his pen, not only for the reasons before mentioned, but from a particular obligation, wherewith he thought himself bound above others to prosecute the History. Because several Churches being Dedicated to the Honour of God by St. George's Name, particularly St. George's Church at Burford, 
Hist. of St. George cap. 8. par. 2.  where it pleased God ` (saith he) `to give me first my natural being and `and afterward my Education, in which `regard I hold myself bound in a manner to vindicate St. George his Honour where his memory was anciently precious, and the only Church in it Dedicated by his Name. Finally the memory of this Saint shines in our Calendar, prefixed before the public Liturgy of the Church of England, where he is specially honoured with the name of Saint, as is not any of the rest excepting those which saw our Saviour in the Flesh.  
Let me finally add what the Author of the Present State of England, in Honour of St. George hath written, The greatest 
Angl. No. tit. cap. 19  Monarches (saith he) of Christendom, have been enroled, and have taken it fo●… an honour to be of this Order: a Saint so univers●…y Received in all parts of Christendom, so generally attested by the Ecclesiastical Writers of all Ages from the time of his Martyrdom to this day, that no one Saint in all the Calendar (except those attested by Scripture) is better vindicated.  
The publishing of this History met with that general good entertainment for the rarity of its subject; that a Gentleman of quality one Mr. Bridges, out of a real respect and Love to the Author's Learning, presented him to the Parsonage of Me●…sie Hampton in Gloucestershire, to which if things had happened successfully, Mr. Heylyn had then been Successor to the Reverend Sebastine, D. D. Rector of that Living, and Margaret Professor in the University of Oxon. But contrary to his Patrons and his own expectation it proved a Living of most litigious Title, from whence followed a chargeable suit in Law, occasioned by Bishop Goodman, the worst of all his Predecessors, that sat in the Sea of Gloucester, who outwardly pretended great kindness to Mr. Heylyn, for his Learning sake, but like the Fox in the Fable, (when he praised the Crows singing,) to get the meat out of his mouth, for after he had persuaded Mr. Heylyn to leave his presentation in his hands, and enter a Caveat in his Court, and promising, that he would grant no Institution to any person till the Title was cleared, his Lordship immediately after gave Institution to another, (who was his friend) one Mr. Jackson, who was presented by Corpus Christi College in Oxon, that pretended the right of Patronage and presentation to that Parsonage. And no wonder Mr. Heylyn found such base dealing, when this Spiritual Father so prevaricated with his Mother the Church of England, from which he Apostatised most shamefully. No doubt he was a Jesuit in voto, or had a Pope in his Belly before he crept into the Bishopric, His Lordship's Hypocrisy was detected in a Sermon afterwards Preached, for which he was not only questioned, but sentenced to a Recantation before the King. But much more scandal he gave at the time of his Death, á scandal so unseasonably and untimely (saith Dr. Heylyn) as if the Devil himself had watched an 
Observator reseved p. 222.  opportunity to despite this Church. Because some have gladly cherished this occasion to draw the rest of our Prelates into a General suspicion, yet Christian Charity should instruct them not to think evil of all for the fault of one, or prejudge any one Man much less the whole Body of the Clergy for the fault of another. It rather should be wondered at by all moderate and discreet Men, that notwithstanding so many provocations of want and, scorn, which have of late been put upon them, there should be found but one of that sacred order to fall off to Popery, though to say truth, it was not in this Bishop a late falling off, but a pursuance rather of some further inclinations, which he had that way, that being thought to be the reasons why he refused Subscription to the Canons in Convocation.  
Seldom misfortunes go alone, but one of them is a Prologue to another; though in conclusion of all, the Scene may end with a pleasant Epilogue: And foe it fared with Mr. Heylyn, who met with a second disappointment by the hand of Fortune, he being yet neither Parson, Vicar, nor Curate, but one of his Majesty's Chaplains in ordinary; he was now presented to another Living, of which he miss his aim, but thereby was fortunate in his very misfortune. For having attended the King, and preaching in his course at Whitehall, his Majesty was so well pleased with his Sermon, that within a few days after Mr. Heylyn was presented by the King to the Rectory of Hemingford in the County of Huntingdon: Soon after he applied himself to the Bishop of Lincoln for Institution, which was not only denied him, but the Bishop, more boldly than did befit his Lordship, disputed his own Title against his Sovereign, and fell upon Mr. Heylyn with most foul opprobrious Language, because he presumed to defend the King's right against his Lordship, which he proved by the Instruments of Conveyance made from the other Party; at which the Bishop was the more highly offended with him, that such a young Divine should have so great knowledge of the Law, and especially to argue the Case with his Lordship: But this was not the main business, Latet Anguis in herba, there was a Snake in the Garden; for his Lordship had a subtle design under disguise, or otherwise he would have easily waved his right of presentation, pro hac vice, to pleasure the King in the preferment of his Chaplain, or at least preserving his own right, bestowed the Living upon Mr. Heylyn; But then here lieth the matter, his Lordship had been crossed in his wont method, that is, to give with one hand and take away with the other, which he could not for shame do with a King's Chaplain; For when he bestowed a Living upon any Person, as he had many in his Gift, being both Lord Bishop and Lord Keeper, he would tie the Incumbent to pay an annual pension out of it, to be disposed to such charitable and pious uses as he thought fit; so that the stream of his Charity flowed out of other men's Purses, and not his own; at the best he rob Peter to pay Paul, which the Incumbents felt by dear Experience, whom he kept at a low pittance, that for the most part they lived but poorly, for the heavy Taxations laid upon them. By this means he had more Pen●…ers▪ than all the Noble men and Bishops in the Land together: And though he made no particular benefit to himself out of those Livings, than his Name cried up for a noble Benefactor, in all other things to fill his own Coffer, he was so covetous and extremely tenacious, that he would never let go what once he had laid hold on; for at the same time, he was both Bishop, Dean, Lord Keeper, Parson of Walgrove, and held the poor Prebendary of Asgarby, in which last I have the honour to succeed his Lordship.  
The King hearing the News of Mr. Heylyn's rough Entertainment at Bugden, how his Royal Presentation was slighted, and his Chaplain with ill words abused; was not a little offended with the Bishop, on whom he had heaped so many Dignities one upon another both in Church and State, I will not say undeservedly, if his Lordship's Loyalty and Integrity had been answerable to his other great Abilities. But his Majesty was pleased for the comfort of his poor Chaplain so disappointed and badly treated by the Bishop, to send him this gracious Message by the Attorney general Mr. Noy: (not usual with Kings to private Persons) That he was sorry he had put him to so much charge and trouble at Bugden; but it should not be long before he would be out of his Debt: Nor long it was, for within a Week after a Prebendship in the collegiate Church of Westminster (where the Bishop of Lincoln was Dean) fell void, by the Death of Mr. Darrel, which the King bestowed upon Mr. Heylyn, and with it sent a most gracious message by Mr. Noy again: That he bestowed that Prebendary on him to bear the charges of his last Journey, but he was still in his Debt for the Living.  
So that he is now entered into one of the fairest Preferments that hath all the accommodations and pleasures, which a Scholars heart can wish; a learned Society; a well furnished Library; a magnificent Church, that hath an excellent Choir in it for a Chorus of heavenly Voices; the one enough to stir up the coldest heart to Devotion, and the other to the veneration of Antiquity, where so many ancient Monuments of Kings and Queens in Henry 7. Chappel have their Sepulture: The most accurate pile of building in Europe, by some called the wonder of the World; near which the Courts of Judicature, the High Court of Parliament, and not far from thence, his Majesty's palace-royal at Whitehall; that if one would converse with all sorts of famous Men, Divines, Lawyers, Statesmen, and other Persons of Quality, he could not find out a Place more suitable to the hearts desire; besides situated healthfully upon a firm gravelly Foundation, and pleasantly on the River Thames, about whose Banks may be seen along that River for many Miles, most princely Buildings, stately Palaces, fair Towers and Fields, as an old Germane Poet describeth, whose Verses are thus translated by the Doctor himself in his Cosmography.  

Tot campos, silvas, tot regia tecta, tot hortos 
Cosmog. fol. 295.   
Artifici excultos dextra, tot vidimus arces  
Ut nunc Ausonio Thamesis cum Tibride certet.   

He saw so many Woods, and princely Bowers  
Sweet Fields, brave Palaces, and stately Towers:  
So many Gardens dressed with curious Art,  
That Thames with Tiber, strives to bear a Part.   
Therefore Mr. Heylyn was happily disappointed of his former Expectations, (as Providence ordained) to embrace a more noble Preferment; that he might say now rejoicingly as Chaerea did, Ecquis me vivit hodie fortunatior? cui tam subito tot congruerint commoda? Or rather in the Scripture words, The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly Heritage. for certainly he could not be seated in a better manner, all those delightful conveniences considered; and yet to add more pleasure to them, he spared no cost to beautify and enlarge his prebend's house, in the mean time his Wife lived in the Country with his Brother Mr. Edward Heylyn at Minster Lovel in Oxfordshire, and sometimes with his Uncle Raynton at Shilton in Berkshire, a man of a good Estate, who was afterward High Sheriff of the same County.  
So soon as he was settled in his prebend's house, several of his Friends about Town came to visit him, and give him joy. Amongst others of most noble Acquaintance, that he had gained by his frequent attendances in Whitehall, the right Honourable Lord Falkland was pleased first to honour him with a Visit, and brought along with him a Miles gloriosus, one Mr. Nelson, an old Sea-Captain, with whom his Lordship seemed to be mightily delighted, for his new way of Discovery to find out the Longitude of the Sea, with which the Captain had troubled all the Mathematicians about Town, who generally dissented from his Opinion, that at last by his Majesty's Order the decision of this Sea-question was referred to Mr. Heylyn, as a Person thought fit to determine it; but he could neither satisfy the Captain, nor the Lord with any further answer at present, than That his Majesty was mistaken in him, for his skill and knowledge did lie more in the historical than philosophical part of Geography: At which the Lord Falkland seemed to be much displeased, thinking that he had spoken thus, either out of slight to his old Captain, or through some averseness in himself to be engaged in the business; but Mr. Heylyn quickly satisfied his Lordship to the contrary, that he intended to use all possible means by his own study, and consult with others more learned than himself in this point, non conamur tenues grandia and afterward give the King and his Lordship a full account of the whole matter.  
Several Letters passed betwixt his Lordship and Mr. Heylyn, but in one partienlarly, his Lordship commended the honest old Captain to his judicious care and consideration, telling him that in the credibility of that phaenomenon his Majesty's resolution would be much guided by his judgement; which he found would be of special Authority with him; that he pressed the point oftener to him, because he conceived it a Duty which he owed to the Truth itself, to have it made manifest one way or other, that is either to be freed from the Captain's imposition and pretence, if upon Trial it appeared to be fallacious, or else to be approved and declared for right and perfect, (if such it be) to the silencing perpetually of all milicious Impugners thereof, that the World may be deprived no longer of the participation and use of so public and common a benefit.  
After the receipt of his Lordship's Letter, Mr, Heylyn, who was ever forward to promote any probable Notion. in Learning, and as ready to obey his Lordship's Commands, he both studied the point himself, and conferred with the learned Mr. Oughtred, who was a person most likely for his admired abilities in this kind of Learning to give satisfaction; but his Judgement ran quite contrary to the Sea-Captain, with whom he discoursed about his Hypothesis, and ●…wed him his Error, of which he gave a full account to Mr. Heylyn in a Letter as followeth.  
I asked him the Ground whereon he went, and told him the difficulties which others found. His Ground (he said) was by the Nodes of the Moon's Circle, because the Moon accompanied the Earth, having it the Centre of her Orb. The difficulties which others imagined, was the finding out the place of the Node or ☊ upon the Superficies of the Earth. His Principle I determine to omit till more leisure, for I had but one whole day to stay in London. The difficulty of the place of ☊ I saw factible at Sea, and accordingly let him understand it. Now being at London, I desired conference with him, and thus I proceeded. You require for the Discovery of the Longitude, the distance of ☊ upon the Earth; Well, imagine you were now at Sea in an unknown place, and that I gave you in degrees of Longitude the distance of ☊ from that Place where you are; what, will you conclude? He was entering into I know not what, by demands of, if this, and if that: But I held him to the Question in the Hypothesis, telling him, he had what he required. At last he answered; Why? methinks you have already done it yourself? You have the distance of ☊ in the degrees of Longitude of the ☊ from an unknown place, and therefore the difference of the ☊ is also unknown, except in that place only: But we require the distance from the other known place which you promised to argue? At last he began to be sensible of his mistake, and I advised him to desist from such undertake; and being of so great an Age, to labour the discovery of another Voyage, or rather only labour to attain to the blessed end thereof, being already opened to us by our Saviour. And this was the end of our Communication, and will be I suppose of that business also. I wonder how for these twelve years, wherein he hath mused upon this Subject, and hath had conference with so mamy learned men, would receive no Answer: But it seems they gave him too much liberty of digression; and he having a very ill expression of his confused conceits, entangled himself more and more in perplexities.  
Thus at last the old Captain was weaned from his dear Opinion, which he had doted upon for so many years; but to his further grief, and worthily to be lamented by others, followed the Death of his Friend and learned Lord, who was the honour of his time and degree. And had his Lordship but lived unto these times of ours, since the Institution of the Royal Society, unto whom he had commended the Hypothesis, their profound Learning and exquisite Knowledge, rare Invention and Judgement, by which they have made so many wonderful Discoveries of things, would have quickly satisfied his Lordship's scrupulosity, which was more to be regarded than the Captain's Fancy: For this noble Society has made particular Inquiries of Tides, Currents, 
Notit. Angl. Cap. 23.  and Depths of the Sea, since their first foundation, having a vast number of Experiments, a new Instrument (saith Dr. Sprat) to sound the Depth of the Sea without a line. The Seas longitude 
Dr. Sprats Royal Soci.  is easy, once taken under their consideration.  
Mr. Heylyn being released of this troublesome Captain, and the Seas longitude, which was out of Mr. Heylyn's reach, and proper Element; he thought it more useful and necessary, to study the Statutes of the Land, the Laws and Customs of this Nation, Acts of Parliament, old Statutes and Records, to compare them with the times and circumstances occurring in story, whereby he might enable himself by this means to do better service both to Church and State. And this was a most profitable, as well as delightful diversion from his other studies. His Improvements appeared to be so great therein, that afterward he utterly confounded the utter Barister and Scribbler against the State, Mr. William Pryn of Lincolns-Inn, who being called to question for his Histriomastix, Mr. Heylyn was sent for to the Council-Table, where his Majesty commanded him to read over that seditious Book, and collect thence all such passages, as were scandalous and dangerous to the King and State, and write them down in such Logical Inferences as might naturally arise and follow upon the Premises: All which Mr. Heylyn exactly performed, and delivered his Copy to the Attorney General Mr. Noy, who presented the same to the King and Lords of the Council, of whom it was observed that they urged not any thing against Mr. Pryn upon his Trial, but what was contained in Mr. heylyn's Papers of Collection, who took occasion at the same time, to publish a Book touching the punishments due by Law, and in point of Practice against such notorious Offenders, as Pryn, Bastwick, and Burton, the Triumvirs of Sedition.  
For this and other good services which with wonderful Prudence as well as Diligence Mr. Heylyn faithfully performed; his Majesty was graciously pleased to requite him, as Caesar did those Servants who best merited, he bestowed upon them Riches and Honours, saith Sueton, Quanto quis servitio promptior opibus & honoribus extollebantur. Therefore the Parsonage of Houghton in the Bishopric of Durham, worth near 400 l. per Annum, being made void by the Preferment of Dr. Lindsel to the Sea of Peterborough, the King bestowed upon Mr. Heylyn, which afterward he exchanged with Dr. Marshal, Chanter of the Church of Lincoln, for the Parsonage of Alresford in Hampshire, that was about the same value; to which exchange Mr. Heylyn was commanded by his Majesty, that he might live nearer the Court for readiness to do his Majesty service. Neither was he envied for this or his other Preferments, because every one knew his merits was the only cause of his promotion. For men of eminent Worth and Virtue, when they are advanced, saith my Lord Bacon, Their Fortune seemeth but due to them, for no 
Bacon's Essa▪ cap. 9  man envieth the Payment of a Debt. That as his Majesty was pleased most graciously to express upon his loss of the Living by the Bishop of Lincoln; so according to his Royal Promise, he doubly repaid that Debt by a Living of twice the value; into which he was no sooner instituted and inducted, but he took care for the Service of God to be constantly performed, by reading the Common-prayers in the Church every morning, which gave great satisfaction to the Parish, being a populous Market Town; and for the Communion Table, where the blessed Sacrament is consecrated, he ordered that it should be placed according to ancient Custom, at the East end of the Chancel, and Railed about decently to prevent base and profane usages; and when the Chancel wanted any thing of Repairs, or the Church itself, both to be amended.  
Having thus showed his care first for the house of God, to set it in good order, the next work followed, was to make his own dwellinghouse a fit and convenient Habitation, that to the old Building he added a new one, which was far more graceful; and made thereto a Chapel next to the Dining-room, that was beautified and adorned with Silk hangings about the Altar; in which Chapel, himself or his Curate read Morning and Evening-praye●… to the Family, calling in his Labourers and Workfolks, for he was seldom without them while he lived, saying, that he loved the noise of a Workman's Hammer: For he thought it a deed of Charity, as well as to please his own fancy by often building and repairing to set poor people a work, and encourage painful Artificers and Tradesmen in their honest Callings. He built a Hall in the middle of the House, from the very Foundation, upon the top whereof was a high Tower of Glass; on one side of the Hall a fair Garden with pleasant Walks, Cypress Trees, and Arbours; on the other side upon the Front a spacious Court, at the Gate, of which next the Street, a high wooden Bridge that went cross over the Street into the Churchyard, on which himself and Family went to Church, to avoid the dirty common way, which was almost unpassable. Besides he made many new Conveniences to the Outhouses, and Yards belonging to them; all which was no small charge to his Purse; for I have heard him say, it cost him several hundreds of Pounds in Alresfords-house, where he in a manner buried his Wife's Portion; yet after his Death, his Eldest Son was unreasonably sued for dilapidations in the Court of Arches, by Dr. Beaumont his Father's Successor; but the Gentleman pleaded his Cause so notably before Sir Giles Swet, then Judge of the Court, that he was discharged, there being no reason or justice he should be troubled for dilapidations occasioned by the long War, when his Father was unjustly turned out of his House and Living.  
After so much cost bestowed upon Alresford, and his Prebend-house in Westminster he constanly resided in one of those places, where he kept good Hospitality, and took care to relieve the Poor, following also his wont studies, not only in History, but Fathers, Councils, and Polemical Divinity, the better to prepare himself for a new encounter with the old Professor Dr. Prideaux, for he resolved to go on in his Universit●… Degrees, notwithstandiug his removal from Oxon, and to perform those Exercises required in that Case, in which he always came off with credit and applause. Being now to take his Degree of Bachelor in Divinity, in July, An. Dom. 1630. Upon these words Mat. 4. 19 Faciam vos fieri Piscatores hominum. Upon the Sunday after he preached the Act Sermon, upon this Text, Mat. 13. 14. But while men slept, his Enemy came and sowed Tares among the Wheat, and went his way. Where he made a seasonable Application of this Subject, (as the Times then stood) of the danger of Lay-Feofees in buying up Impropriations. A godly project it appeared at the first sight, but afterwards a Tear fit to be rooted up.  — Pulchra Laverna Da mihi fallere da justum sanctumque videri. 
The Pretention of those Feofees seemed to be very just and pious, but their Intention and Practice was quite contrary, by planting many pentionary Lectures in many places, where the Preachers were Non-conformists, from whom could be expected no better fruits than the overthrow of Episcopal Government. The words of Mr. Heylyn's Sermon as to this particular, are as followeth.  
For what is that which is most aimed at in it, but to cry down the standing Clergy of this Kingdom; to undermine the public Liturgy by Law established; to foment factions in the State, Schisms in the Church, and to have ready Sticklers in every place for the advancement of some dangerous and deep design? And now we are fallen upon this point, we will proceed a little further in the proposal of some things to be considered. The Corporation of Feofees for buying in Impropriations to to the Church, doth it not seem in appearance to be an excellent piece of Wheat, a noble and gracious part of Piety? Is not this Templum Domini, Templum Domini! But blessed God that men should thus draw near to thee with their mouths, and be so far from thee in their hearts? For what are those entrusted, in the management of this great business? Are they not most of them the most active and best affected men in the whole Cause, & magna partium momenta, and chief Patrons of this growing Faction? And what are those that they prefer? Are they not most of them such men, as are and must be serviceable to their dangerous Innovations? And will they not in time have more Preferments to bestow, than all the Bishops of the Kingdom? And so by consequence a greater number of Dependants to promote their Interest? Yet all this while we sleep ànd slumper, and fold our hands in sloth, and see perhaps, but dare not note it. High time it is assuredly you should be awaked, and rouse yourselves upon the apprehension of so near a danger.  
If we look further upon this new devise and holy project, it being observed 
Full. Ch. Hist. Fol. 195.  (as Fuller saith) that those who hold the Helm of the Pulpit, always steer the people's hearts as they please. The Feofees therefore placed their Lecturers in Market Towns and Corporations, that were most populous where they might carry the greater sway of electing Burgesses to serve in Patliament; or for the most part these zealous Preachers were such as had been silenced and suspended in the Ecclesiastical Courts, or those that were well Wishers to Non-conformists. The Parties themselves trusted in this design of buying Impropriations; were of such affections as promised no good unto the peace and happiness of the Church of England, being twelve in number, four Ministers, four 
Full. Ch. Hist. Fol. 136.  common Lawyers, and four Citizens; all of them known to be averse unto the Discipline of the Church, that as Dr. Heylyn saith, If such public mischiefs be presaged by Astrologers from the Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn; though the first of these be a Planet 
Exam. Hist. p. ●…09.  of a most sweet and gentle influence, what dangers, what calamities might might not be feared from the Conjunction of twelve such persons, of which there was not one that wished well to the present Government. And therefore I may say of them as Domiti●…s Aenobarbus said unto his friends when they came to congratulate with him for the Birth of Nero. Nihil ex se & Agrippina nisi detestabile & malo publico nasci potest.  
But now we must come to the Divinity Schools again, where Mr. Heylyn must undergo the public exercise of disputation for his degree of Doctor, and appear before his severe Judge and Moderator Dr. Prideaux, whose animosities and angers since the former Disputation, in all the tract of time from the year 1627. to 1633. were not abated, or in the least cooled, but more inflamed; that the Professor took upon himself the Office of an Opponent rather than of a Moderator, so that those to whom the Opponents part belonged, could hardly put in an Argument for his passion. In the former Disputation Mr. Heylyn asserted the visibility and infallibility of the Church; but now he insisteth upon its Authority; and his Questions were these following.  

1. An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis?  
2. Interpretandi S. scripturas?  
3. Discernendi ritus & ceremonias?   
All which he held in the affirmative. (as himself gives an account of the 
Append. to the Adver. in Mr. Sa. Hist. p. 214, 215.  whole disputation) according to the plain and positive Doctrine of the Church of England, in the twentieth Article, which runs thus in terminis, viz, Habet Ecclesia ritus sive ceremonias statuendi jus & in fidei controversiis authoritatem, etc. But the Doctor was as little pleased with these Questions, and the Respondents stating of them as he was with the former; and therefore to create to the Respondent the greater odium, he openly declared that the Respondent had falsified the public Doctrine of the Church, and charged the Article with that Sentence, viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus sive ceremonias, etc. Which was not to be found in the whole Body of it: And for the proof thereof, he read the Article out of a Book which lay before him, beginning thus, Non licet Ecclesia quicquam instituere quod verbo Dei scripto adversetur, etc. To which the Respondent readily answered, that he perceived by the lines of the Book which lay on the Doctor's Cushion, that he had read that Article out of the Harmony of Concessions published at Geneva, Anno 1612. which therein followed the Edition of the Articles in the time of King Edward the Sixth, Anno 1652. in which that sentence was not found, but that it was otherwise in the Articles agreed on in the Convocation, Anno 1561. to which most of us had subscribed in our several places; but the Doctor still persisting upon that point, and the Respondent seeing some unsatisfiedness in the greatest part of the Auditory, he called on one Mr. Westly (who formerly had been his Chamber-fellow in Magdalen College) to step to the next Booksellers-shop, for a Book of Articles; which being observed by the Doctor, he declared himself very willing to decline any further profecution of that particular, and to go on directly to the Disputation: But the Respondent was resolved to proceed no further, usque dum liberaverit animam suam ab ista calumnia, as his own words were, till he had freed himself from that odious calumny; but it was not long before the coming of the Book had put an end to the Controversy, out of which the Respondent read the Article in the English tongue in his verbis, viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and Authority in controversies of Faith, etc. which done, he delivered the Book to one of the standers by who desired it of him, the Book passing from one hand to another till all men were satisfied. And at this point of time it was, that the Queen's Almoner left the Schools, professing afterwards that he could see no hope of a fair Disputation from so foul a beginning. The Doctor went about to prove that it was not the Convocation, but the High Court of Parliament which had the power of ordering matters in the Church, in making Canons, ordaining Ceremonies, and and determining Controversies in Religion; and could find out no other medium to make it good, but the Authority of Sir Edward Cook (a learned 
Appendix to the Adu. p. 218.  but mere common Lawyer) in one of the Books of his Reports. An Argument (if by that name it may be called) which the Respondent thought not fit to gratify with a better answer than Non credendum esse cuique extra suam artem. And certainly a better answer could not be given by Mr. Heylyn (I may say) Non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum.  
This last exercise completed him in all degrees that the University could confer upon him; being now a Doctor in Divinity, he returned home with honour; where shortly after news was sent him that the King had bestowed upon him a Prebendary at Windsor, by the intercession of Dr. Neale, than Archbishop of York; but it proved otherwise, for that Prebendary was promised to Dr. Potter, when he presented to the King, his Book called Charity mistaken; and he also went without it, by reason of the Bishop of Gl●…cester, not being translated to the Church of Hereford (as was then commonly reported) who kept the same Prebend in his hands, by which means both the Candidates were disappointed. This Goodman Bishop of Gloucester at that time affected a remove to the See of Hereford, and had so far prevailed with some great Officers of State, that for money (which he offered like Simon magus, and it was taken) his 
Arch-Bish. Life p. 248.  ●…onge d' eslir issued out, and his Election passed: But Archbishop La●…d coming opportunely to the knowledge of it, and being ashamed of so much baseness in the man, who could pretend no other merit than his money; the wretched Bishop was glad to make his Peace, not only with the resignation of his Election, but the loss of his Bribe. While these things were agitated, the the young Doctor new come from the University, where he had run through so hard a Task with the Regius Professor, though he miss Windsor, took this occasion to make himself merry as the Poet did; musa jocosa mea est— Ou. And so fell into this vein of Poetry.  

When Windsor Prebend late disposed was,  
One asked me sadly, how it came to pass  
Potter was chose, and Heylyn was forsaken?  
I answered 'twas by Charity mistaken.   
But this Fancy was soon turned into a mournful Elegy, by the death of his noble Friend the Attorney General Mr. Noy, whose memory he could never forget for the honour of delivering to him the gracious message from his Majesty, and for the intimacy he was pleased to bear to him as a bosom friend; that he imparted to the Doctor all the affairs of State, and transactions of things done in his time; which made him so perfect an Historian in this particular; and showed him his papers, manuscripts and laborious Collections, that he had gathered out of Statutes and ancient Records for the proof of the King's Prerogative, particularly before his death at his house in Brainford where the Doctor kept Whitsuntide with him in the year 1634. he showed to him a great wooden Box that was full of old Precedents, for 
Observ. on the Hist. of K. Ch. p. 121.  levying a Naval aid upon the Subjects, by the sole Authority of the King whensoever the preservation and safety of the Kingdom required it of them. Mr. Hammond L' Strange acknowledges that Mr. Noy was a most indefatigable plodder and searcher of old Records. The learned 
L' Str. fol. 131.  Antiquary Mr. Selden (though no friend to the King nor Church) confesses in his excellent book, entitled, Mare Clausum, That the Kings of England ●…sed to levy money upon the Subjects without the help of Parliament, for the providing of Ships and other necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which anciently belonged to the Crown. Yet the honest Attorney General for the same good service to the King and Country, is called by Hammond Le Strange, The most pestilent 
ibid. fol. 131.  vexation to the Subjects, that this latter Age produced. So true is the old Proverb, some may better steal a Horse than others look on. For it is usual with many, not to judge according to the merits of the cause, but by the respect or disrespect they bear to the Person, as the Comedian once said.  

Duo cum idem faciunt, saepe & possis dicere  
Hoc licet impune facere huic, illi non licet  
Non quod dissimilis res sit, sed quod qui facit.   

When two does both alike, the self same Act,  
One suffers pain, the other for the Fact  
Not the least shame or punishment; and why?  
Respect of persons makes Crimes differently.   
The death of Mr. Noy, the more sadly afflicted the Doctor, to lose so dear a Friend and an entire Lover of learned men; during whose time, no unhappy differences broke out betwixt the Dean of Westminster and the prebend's of that Church, but all things were carried on smoothly by his Lordship, because he knew well that Dr. Heylyn had a sure Advocate in Court, both in behalf of himself and his Brethren, if they stood in need of help; that no sooner this worthy person departed the World, but the Bishop so extremely tyrannised over the Prebendaries, infringing their Privileges, violating their Customs, and destroying their ancient Rights; that for the common preservation of themselves and their Successors, they were forced to draw up a Charge against his Lordship, consisting of no less than thirty six Articles, which were presented by way of complaint and petition of redress to his sacred Majesty, who forthwith gave order for a Commission to be issued out unto the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York, the Earl of Manchester, Lord Privy Seal Earl of Portland, the Lord Cottington, the two Secretaries of State, Sir John Cook and Sir Francis Windebank: Authorising them to hold a Visitation of the Church of Westminster, to examine the particular charges made against John Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and to redress such grievances and pressures, as the prebend's of the said Church suffered by his misgovernment.  
The Articles were ordered by the Council Table to be translated into Latin by Dr. Heylyn, (which accordingly he performed) to avoid the common talk and scandal that might arise, if exposed to the public view of the vulgar; on April, 20. A. D. 1634. the Commission bore date, which was not executed but lay dormant till December 1635, the Bishop expecting the business would never come to a hearing, he raged more vehemently, dispossessed the prebend's of their Seats, refused to call a Chapter, and to pass their Accounts, conferred holy Orders in the said Church without their consent, contrary to an ancient Privilege, which had been inviolably retained from the first foundation of the Church; he permitted also Benefices in their gift to be lapsed unto himself, that so he might have absolute power to dispose them to whom he pleased, Quo teneam nodo? With many other grievances, which caused the prebend's to present a second Petition to his Majesty, humbly beseeching him to take the ruinous and desperate estate of the said Church into his Princely consideration.  
Upon which the former Commission was revived, a day of hearing appointed, and a Citation fixed upon the Church door of Westminster, for the Bishops and prebend's to appear on Jan. 27. Upon the 25th. instant. The prebend's were warned by the Subdean to meet the Bishop in Jerusalem Chamber, where his Lordship foreseeing the Storm that was like to fall upon his head, carried himself very calmly towards them, desiring to know what those things were that were amiss, and he would presently redress them, (though his Lordship knew them very well without an Informer) to which Dr. Heylyn replied, that seeing they had put this business into his Majesty's hands, it would ill become them to take the matters out o●… his into their own. Therefore on Jan. 27th. both Parties met together before the Lords in the Inner-star Chamber; where by their Lordship's Order; the whole business was put into a methodical course; each M●…day following being appointed for a day of hearing till a Conclusion was made of the whole affair. On February the 1st. The Lords Commissioners, with the Bishop and prebend's met in the Council-Chamber at Whitehall, where it was first ordered that the Plaintiffs should be called by the name of prebend's supplicant: Secondly, they should be admitted upon Oath as Witnesses: Thirdly they should, have a sight of all Registers, Records, Books of account, etc. which the Bishop had kept from them: Fourthly, that the first business they should begin with, should be about their Seat, because it made the difference or breach more visible and offensive to the World, than those matters which were private and domestic: And lastly it was ordered, that the prebend's should have an Advocate to plead their Cause, defend their Rights, and represent their Grievances. Accordingly the prebend's unanimously made choice of Dr. Peter Heylyn for their Advocate.  
The business now brought on so fairly, the Lords Commissioners met again on February the 8th. following, before whom the Bishop put in his Plea about the Seat or Great Pew under Rich. 2. from which he had disgracefully turned out the prebend's, and possessed it wholly to himself, or the use of those Strangers to whom he had a special favour; thinking scorn, that honoured Society should sit with him, a Bishop. But the prebend's Advocate proved their Right of sitting there by these particulars. First their original Right. Secondly their derivative Right. Thirdly their possessory Right. How excellently he managed their Cause, and what a mean defence the Bishop made for himself, would be too tedious and impertinent to insert here, concerning none but the Church of Westminster. Finally upon hearing the matters on both sides, it was ordered by general consent of the Lords Commissioners, That the prebend's should be restored to their old Seat, and that none should sit there with them, but Lords of the Parliament, and Earls eldest Sons, according to the ancient custom.  
But what were those differences about a Seat, to the Disputes risen at that time about the Sabbath? In the History of which Dr. Heylyn was then engaged, and in a short time he perfected it, to satisfy the scrupulous minds of some misguided Zelots, who turned the observation of the Lordsday into a Jewish Sabbath; not allowing themselves or others the ordinary Liberties, nor works of absolute necessity, which the Jews themselves never scrupled at. Against which sort of Sabbatarians, the Doctor published his History of the Sabbath. The Argumentative part of that Subject was referred to Dr. White Bishop of Ely; the Historical part of it to Dr. Heylyn. Huic nostro tradita est provincia: Both of their Books never answered to this day; but pickird at by Mr. Palmer and Mr. Cawdrey, two Divines of the Smectymnian Assembly, and by some other sorry Writers of less account: But the foundation and superstructure, both in the logical and historical Discourses of those two Pillars of our Church, stand still unmovable; the latter though an Historian upon the Subject does fully answer all the material Arguments of the Adversaries side brought out of Scripture, as well as History: Neither doth the Bishop nor the Doctor in the least encourage or countenance in all their Writings any Profaneness of the Day, when Christian Liberty is abused to Licentiousness: Nor on the other side would they have the Religious Observation of the Day brought into superstition: For Sunday amongst some I have known, hath been kept as a Fast Day, contrary to the ancient Opinion and Practice of the primitive Church; who judged it a Heresy and not an Act of Piety. Nefas est die D●…minica jejunare, that the day should be spent from Morning to Evening so strictly in preaching and praying, in repetition upon repetitions, in doing works of supererogation which God never required at their hands, nor any Christian Church commanded, to make the Sabbath a burden, that aught to be a Christians delight, is new Divinity among the reformed Churches; in Geneva itself, before and after Divine Service, the People are at liberty for manly Recreations and Exercises.  
Upon complaint made before Lord chief Justice Richardson of some disorders by Feasts, Wakes, Revels, and ordinary pastimes on Sundays; particularly in the County of Somerset. His Majesty ordered that the Bishop of Bath and Wells should send a speedy account of the same.  
The Bishop called before him seventy two of the Orthodox and ablest Clergy 
A. L. Life pag. 242  men among them, who certified under their several hands, that on the Feasts days (which commonly fell upon Sundays) the service of God was more solemnly performed, and the Church was better frequented both in the forenoon and afternoon, then upon any Sunday in the year.  
To decry the clamours of the Sabbatarians, a Lecture read by Doctor Prideaux at the Act in Oxon, Anno 1622. was translated into english, in which he solidly discoursed both of the Sabbath and Sunday, according to the judgement of the ancient Fathers and the most approved Writers of the Protestant and Reformed Churches. This Lecture was also ushered with a preface: In which there was proof offered of these three propositions. First that the keepiug holy one day of seven is not the moral part of the fourth Commandment. Secondly that the alteration of the day is only an humane and ecclesiastical constitution. Thirdly that still the Church hath power to change the day, and transfer it to some other. The name of Prideaux was then so sacred, 
A. B. life pag. 16  that the Book was greedily bought up by those of the Puritan faction, but when they found themselves deceived of their expectation. The Book did cool their colours and abate their clamour.  
Since our Saviour's reproof of the Jews, for their superstitious fear of transgressing the traditions and Commanddements of their Fathers by which they kept the Sabbath with more rigour than God had commanded, they are now bend upon the other extreme as Buxtorf 
Buxt. Synag. Jud. Cap. 11.  tells us, so hard a thing it is to keep a medium between two extremes. Quanto voluptatis isti percipiunt (saith he) tanto se devotius Sabbatum colere statuunt. The more pleasures they take on the Sabbath day, the more devoutly they thought that they keep the Sabbath. So that the rigid Sabbatarian hath no example of Jew or Christian, and I am sure no Command of God in Scripture, nor Precedent in Antiquity or Ecclesiastical History, but will find there the Lordsday is from Ecclesiastical Institution. I speak not this (I abhor it) to animate, or the least encourage people in looseness and debauchery, to neglect the Duties of Religion, or the Worship and Service of God upon this holy day, which they ought as they tender their Souls, with singular Care and Conscience to observe; but hereby I think my Father in Law is justified, (though his own Book is best able to vindicate himself) that his Opinion is orthodox, both according to the Doctrine of the Church of England, and the judgement and practice of Protestant Churches, that the Lordsday should be Religiously observed; and yet withal, the lawful liberties, and urgent necessities of the People preserved, and not to be so tied up, and superstitiously fearful, that they dare not kindle a Fire, dress Meat, visit their Neighbours, sit at their own Door, or walk abroad, no nor so much as talk with one another, except it be in the Poet's words.  

— Of God, Grace, and Ordinances,  
As if they were in heavenly Trances.   
To which I may add a more smart and witty Epigram, upon the scruple and needless disatisfaction in them, not onl●… 
Observ. on the Hist of K. Ch. pag. 90.  about the Sabath but our Church and Religion; in those Verses of Dr. Heylyn to Mr. Hammond L' Estrange, as followeth.  

A learned Prelate of this Land,  
Thinking to make Religion stand  
With equal poise on either side,  
A mixture of them thus he tried;  
An Ounce of Protestant he singleth,  
And then a Dram of Papist mingleth,  
With a Scruple of a Puritan,  
And boiled them in his Brain pan;  
But when he thought it would digest,  
The Scruple troubled all the rest.   
Notwithstanding this scrupulosity in them, the World knows their hypocritical Practices under all those zealous Pretences, how light they are in the Balance, and how extraordinary a thing it is, to find from their hands downright honesty and plain dealing; they are too much like the Scribes and Pharisees, who by godly shows of long Prayers, sad Countenances, Justification of themselves, that they were the only Righteous, and all others Sinners; played the Hypocrites most abominably; to deceive the vulgar sort, they made Religion a mere mock and empty show 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, saith our Saviour, to be seen like Stage-players in 
Erasm. Annot. in loc.  a Theatre, Nam tota actio est histrionica, as Erasmus well observeth, their whole carriage was dramatic, to make a feigned Pageantry and Ostentation of Piety. Yet John Lord Bishop of Lincoln, in compliance with this Sect, out of discontent and revenge, because deprived of the great Seal, and commanded by the King to retire from Westminster; transformed himself into one of these Angels of new Light, and made himself the Archangel and Head of their Party. First of all by writing his pretended Letter to one Titly Vicar of Grantham, against the holy Communion Table standing Altarwise; to which Dr. Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply, in his Book entitled, A Coal from the Altar; to which the Bishop within a Twelvemonth after (he took time enough for the Work) did return an Answer under 
Arch Bishop, Life p. 311.  the Title of The Holy Table, Name and Thing, pretending withal that this was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire, against Dr. Cole, a Divine in Queeu mary Reign. No sooner the King heard of this new Book, but he sent a Command to Dr. Heylyn, to write a speedy Answer to it, and not in the least to spare the Bishop; Neither did the Doctor balk the grand Sophos, but detected all his false Allegations, and answered them that were true, which the Bishop had wrested to a contrary sense, if we will look into the Doctor's Book, called by him Antidotum Lincolniense. All this while the Bishop (as it must be confessed being a man of Learning) writ against his own Science and Conscience; so dear is the passion of revenge, to gratify which, some men wilfully sin against the Light of their own Souls; therefore the Bishop, according to the Apostles word was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, condemned of himself: For look upon him in the point of practice, and we shall find the Communion Table was placed Altarwise in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, whereof he was Bishop, and in the Collegiate Church of Westminster, of which he was Dean; and lastly in the private 
Exam. Hist: pag. 278.  Chapel of his own house, (as Dr. Heylyn saith) in whieh it was not only placed Altarwise, but garnished with rich Plate and other costly Utensils, in more than ordinary manner. By all which, the Bishop needed no further refutation of his Book, than his own Example, that in those places where he had Authority, the Holy Table did not stand in Gremio and Nave of the Choir as he would have it fixed, but above the Steps upon the Altar, close to the East end of the Choir, ex vi catholicae consuetudinis, according to the ancient manner and custom in the Primitive Catholic Church. But hinc illae lachrymae ever since, this mischief followed his Book, that in most Country Churches to this day, the Table is set at the hither end of the Chancel, without any Traverse or Rails to fence it; Boys fling their Hats upon it, and that which is worse, Dogs piss against it; Country Juries write their Parish accounts, Amerciaments, By-Laws, etc. all which is a most horrible profanation, and not to be suffered.  
But now John Lord Bishop of Lincoln, who would have removed the holy Communion Table from its proper place, and had displaced his prebend's of their ancient Seat, was himself at this time, Anno Dom. 1637. thrown out of his Episcopal Chair, by sentence of the Star-Chamber, for endeavouring to corrupt the King's Evidence in a Cause of Bastardy brought before his Majesty's Justices of Peace, at spital Sessions, in the County of Lincoln; which business afterward came to a hearing before the Lords in Star-Chamber, by whose definitive sentence, the Bishop was suspended ab Officio & Beneficio, deprived of all his Ecclesiastical Preferments, deeply fined, and his Complices with him; and afterward committed to the Tower of London, where he continued Prisoner for three years; and in all that space of time, his Lordship did never hear Sermon 
Arch-Bish. Life p. 324.  or public Prayers, to both which he was allowed liberty; but instead thereof he studied Schism and Faction, by his own Example, and his Pen disguisedly.  
During the time of his Lordship's Imprisonment, Dr. Heylyn was chosen Treasurer for the Church of Westminster; in which Office he discharged himself with such diligence and fidelity, that he was continued in it from year to year, till the Bishops release out of t●…e Tower, and his removal back again to Westminster. While he was Treasurer, he took care for the repairs of the Church, that had been neglected for many years: First of the great West-Isle that was ready to fall down, was made firm and strong; and of the Southside of the lower West-Isle much decayed, he caused to be new timbered, boarded and leaded; but chiefly the curious Arch over the preaching place (that looketh now most magnificently) he ordered to be new vaulted, and the Roof thereof to be raised up to the same height with the rest of the Church; the charge of which came to 434 l. 18 s. 10 d. He regulated also some disorders of the Choir, particularly the exacting of Sconces or perdition money, which he divided among them that best deserved it, who diligently kept Prayers, and attended upon other Church Duties.  
Whilst he was Treasurer, his Brethren the Prebendaries, to testify their good affections to him, presented him to the Parsonage of Islip near Oxford; a very good Living, worth about 200l. per Annum, then by the death of Dr. King made void; but by reason of the distance from Alresford (though standing most conveniently to taste the sweet pleasures of the University) he thought fit to exchange it for another nearer hand, the Rectory of South-warnborough in the County of Hampshire, that was in the gift of St. John's College in Oxon, to which exchange he was furthered by the Archbishop, who carried a great stroke in that College, of which he had been Precedent. It pleased God soon after, to visit him and his Family at Alresford with a terrible fit of Sickness, of which none escaped (the Disease was so contagious) but the Cook's boy in the Kitchen, who was then Master Cook for the whole Family; and he performed his part so well, in making their broths and other necessaries, that he was the best Physician among the Doctors, for by his Kitchen Physic the Sick was cured. No sooner Dr. Heylyn recovered of the distemper, but he betook himself from his Bed to his Book, and fell upon a more than ordinary piece of study. The History of the Church of England since the Reformation. An easy matter for others to tread the Path when he had found out the Way. Though he is dead, he yet speaketh, and the truth of things without respect of persons; not to ingratiate himself with the Parliament, and Presbyterian party, to make our Religion itself Parliamentary, which Papists and Presbyterians affirm; he spared no pains nor cost to search into old Records, Registers of Convocation, Acts of Parliament, Orders of Council Table, and had the use of Sir Robert Cottons Library to take out what Books he pleased, leaving a pawn of Money behind for them. In all his other Writings what a faithful Historian he hath appeared to the World, is sufficiently known, and will be showed in this particular. In the mean while let not men be too credulous of another's Transcriptions, that are under question, an verbum de verbo expressum extulit? Whether they are copied out exactly from the originals, (wherein lies the main controversy in matter of fact) which I am not bound, nor other men, to believe till we are convinced by our own Eyes; besides it is an inglorious encounter to fight with a man's Ghost, after he has been dead near twenty years, with whom the late Historian, nor any other whilst he was living, durst venture with him in the point. The Heathens scorned to rake in the Ashes of the dead, 
Tacit. in vit Agric.  but as Tacitus says of Agricola, ut in loco Piorum manibus destinato placide quiescat, that he might rest without disturbance in the place appointed for Souls. However the Doctor's Learning and Fidelity in History is so publicly known, that it is not in the power of any Scot or English Aristarchus: to blast his good Name. And let this suffice at present.  Magnus Aristarcho, major Homerus erat. 
Whilst he was so intent upon the History of Reformation, he found little encouragement to go on in these studies; for the discontents that boiled in this Nation, and the Commotions then begun in Scotland, upon pretence of the Common-prayer imposed upon them: And a mere pretence indeed it was; for herein was nothing done, but with the consent and approbation of their own Scottish Bishops, who made what Alterations in the Liturgy they pleased, to which they had his Majesty's Royal Assent; but the blame was wholly laid upon the Archbishop of Canterbury, who only commended the Book to them, spe quidem 
Elench. mot. nup.  laudabili sed eventu pessimo, as the learned Dr. Bates said, the success being improsperous, though the enterprise commendable, the Archbishop unjustly censured for it; he caused Dr. Heylyn to translate the Scotch Liturgy into Latin, and his Lordship intended to set out his own Apology with the Book, to vindicate himself from those aspersions thrown upon him, that the World might be satisfied with his Majesty's Piety and Goodness, and his Lordships own care and readiness to serve that Nation; but their hasty Rebellion (to which they were ever precipitant) put an end to the Bishop's Apology, and the Doctor's Translation.  
Hamilton whom Dr. Burnet doth so highly applaud, had a party that not only opposed this Liturgy, but betrayed the King on all occasions; nay some of the Bedchamber who were Scots, were grown so saucy and impudent, that they used to ransack the good King's Pockets when he was in Bed; to transcribe such Letters as they found, and send the 
Arch-Bish. Life p. 355.  Copies to their Countrymen in the way of Intelligence. To speak the matter in a word, he was grown of Scots in Fact a King, though not in Title, His Majesty being looked on by them as a cipher in the Arithmetic of State.  
The Scotch Covenanters, after the unhappy War was begun, called it Bellum Episcopale, the Bishop's War, raised only to uphold their Hierarchy; but the truth is as the Doctor proveth, Though Liturgy and Episcopacy, were made 
Observ. on the Hist. of the Reign. of K. 〈◊〉. p. 151.  the occasions, yet they were not the causes of the war, Religion being but the Vizard to disguise the business; which Covetousness, Sacrilege, and Rapine had the greatest hand in; for the King resolving to revoke all grants of Abbey Lands, the Lands of Bishoprics and Chapters, and other Religious Corporations, which have been vested in the Crown by Act of Parliament, were conferred on many of the Nobility and Gentry in his Father's Minority, when he was under Protectors; whence the Nobility. of Scotland made use of discontented and seditious Spirits, (under colour of the Canons and Common prayer) to embroil that Kingdom, that so they might keep their Lands, and hold up their Power and Tyranny over the people.  
To appease the Tumults in Scotland, and quench the sparks of Sedition, that began to kindle in England, the King called a Parliament, and issued out his Writ for Clerks in Convocation; at which time the Doctor was chosen by the College of Westminster, their Clerk to sit in Convocation, where he proposed a most excellent expediency, (which would be of happy use if still continued) for the satisfaction of some scrupolous Members in the House of Commons, about the Ceremonies of our Church; That there might be a mutual conference by select Committees between the House of Commons and the lower House of the Convocation, that the Clergy might give the Commons satisfaction in the point of Ceremonies, and all other things relating to the Church; which motion from him was well accepted and generally assented thereto; And no doubt a most happy success, would have followed upon it, not only to take away all scruples, but to beget a Reverence and Love from the Commons to the Clergy, by such a mutual Conference and Conversation. But this Parliament being then suddenly dissolved put a period to that and all other business, at the news of which, brought unexpectedly to the Doctor, while he was busy then at the election for the School of Westminster his pen fell from his hand, himself struck dumb with admiration.  Obstupuit, steteruntque comae, vox fancibus haesit. 
A sad and unfortunate day it was, saith the Doctor and the news so unpleasing, 
Obser. on the His. of K. Ch. pag. 176.  brought hi●… by a friend, whilst he was writing some dispatches, it so astonished him (though he ●…ad heard some inkling of it the night before) that suddenly the Pen fell out of his hand, and long it was before he could recollect his Spirits to give an answer.  
The Convocation usually endeth in course the next day after the dissolution of Parliament: But the Doctor well knowing that one great end of calling Parliaments is to raise the King money for the public concerns, he therefore went to Lambeth and showed the Archbishop a precedent in the reign of Queen Elizabeth for granting subsidies, or a benevolence by Convocation to be levied upon the Clergy, without the help of a Parliament; whereby the King's necessities for money might be supplied, and so it successfully fell out, the Archbishop acquainting the King with this present expediency the Convocation still continued sitting, notwithstanding the dissolution of Parliament. And when this was scrupled at by some of the house, the Doctor resolved their doubts, and rid them of their fears by showing them the distinction betwixt the Kings Writ for calling a Parliament and that for assembling a Convocation. Their different forms and independence of one upon another. Finally it was determined by the King himself, and his learned counsel in the Law, That the Convocation called by his Majesty's Writ, was to be continued till it was dissolved by his Writ notwithstanding the dissolution of Parliament. This benefit the King got by their fitting, six subsidies under the name of Benevolences, which the Clergy paid to him.  
On Friday May 29 the Canons, of that Convocation were unanimously subscribed unto by all the Bishops and Clergy. No one of them dissenting but the Bishop of Gloucester for which he was deservedly suspended, who afterward turned Papist, and was the only renegado Prelate of this Land Of this Convocation. Sir Edward Deering to show his wit (which he dearly paid for after) in one of his speeches to the house of Commons, was pleased to say, that every one, that had a hand in making their Ganons should come unto the Bar of the 
Collect of Speeches by Sir Edw. D●…ering printed, 1642.  House of Commons with a Candle in one hand, and a book in the other, and there give fire to his own Canons, which good fortune afterward fell upon his own book of speeches. NecLex est justior ulla, which by order of the House of Commons was burnt in the Fire by the hand of the common Hangman. A public disgrace that he worthily deserved for his proud Eloquence, in often prattling against the King and Church. In another of his speeches he tells them, That if they c●…uld bring the Lords to sit in the House of Commons, and the King to be but as one of the Lords than the work was done. And finally in a nother 
* Collection of Speeches, pag. 151.  he so abuseth all the Cathedrals in the Kingdom with so foul a mou●…, as if he had licked up the filth of all the former Libels, to vomit it at once upon them. And yet this Gentleman afterward (as Doctor Heylyn 
Obser. p. 178.  saith) made it his earnest suit to be Dean of Canterbury, which being denied him by the King, in a great discontent he returned to the Parliament etc. But lastly to consider the sad condition of that Convocation before they were dissolved, the Doctor as one of their fellow members speaks most feelingly, during all the time of their sitting, they were under those horrid fears, by reason of the discontents falling upon the Parliaments dissolution, that the King was fain to set a Guard about Westminster-Abby for the whole 
Ibid. p. 181.  time of their fitting. Poor men to what a distress were they brought, in danger of the King's displeasure if they rose, of the people's fury if they sat; in danger of being beaten down by the following Parliament, when the work was done; and after all, obnoxious to the Lash of censorious tongues for their good intendments for notwithstanding their great care, that all things might be done with decency and to edification, every one must have his blow at them.  
For Pryn published the unbishoping of Timothy and Titus, and his other Libel of news from Ipswich, wherein he called the Archbishop of Cant. Arch-Agent of the Devil, that Belzebub himself had been Archbishop, and all the Bishops were Luciferian Lords. The like reproaches were thundered out 
Arch-Bish. life. ●…. 4. pag. 309.  of the Pulpit by Burton in his Sermon on Pro. 24. v. 22. where he abused the Text, and Bishops sufficiently calling them instead of Fathers, Step-fathers'; for Pillars, Cater-Pillars, limbs of the Beast Factors for Antihcrist, and antichristian Mushrooms. Bastwick laid about him before in his Flagellum Episcoporum Latialium, when he had worn out that Rod, took another in his Litany. Finally the Rabble had a cursed Song among them, to affront the poor Clergy with, as they met them; saying  

Your Bishops are bite-Sheep.  
Your Deans are Dunces.  
Your Priests are the Priests of Baal.  
The Devil fetch them all by bunches.   
And now the Fire smothering in the Embers at last broke forth into an open flame at the Session of the next Parliament, which was fatal both to Chureh and State: and finally to themselves that with scorn they were turned out of doors by their own Servants who became their Masters. The first fitting of them, was on a dismal day 
Mason's Book of Martyrs pag. 202.  notable and infamous, Novemb. 3d. when Henry 8 began the dissolution of Abbeys and Papists with Protestants were laid both on one hurdle and burnt together at the same Stake, the King then promised his people should for ever be acquitted of Taxes, ut facilius illi monasteia 
Sand. de Sch. Augl. p. 202.  concederentur, saith Sanders, that Monasteries and Religious houses might be more easily granted to him. The Parliament opening on that critical day Archbishop Laud was advertised in a letter to move the King, that for good luck sake their Session might be put off to another day, but this being looked upon by his Lordship as a superstitious conceit he waved the motion of it to the King, which proved afterward the fall of himself and the Hierarchy. At the opening of this long Parliament, a general Rumour was spread abroad that Doctor Heylyn was run away for fear of an approaching storm, that was like to fall on his own head, as well as on his Lordship's Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, but he, who was ever of an undaunted Spirit, would not pusillanimously desert the Cause of the King and Church then in question, but speedily hastened up to London from Alrèsford to coufute the common Calumny and false report raised on him by the Puritan faction, that he appeared the next day in his Gown and Tippet in Westminster Hall, and in the Church, with his accustomed formalities of Cap, Hood, and Surplice, employed also his Pen boldly in defence of the Bishop's right, when the temporal Lords began to shake the Hierarchy in passing a vote, that no Bishop should be of the Committee for examination of the Earl of Strafford, being causa sanguinis, upon which the Doctor drew up a brief and excellent discourse full of Law and History, entitled de jure paritatis Episcoporum. The Bishop's right of Peerage, (so consequently that they ought to sit in that Committee) their privilege and right are maintained by him, which by Law or ancient custom doth belong unto the●….  
It is worth our while, to see what he hath written upon this point in the cause of Blood many years after the first discourse of the Bishop's Peerage when there was little hopes of ever their returning again into the House of Peers. That the Bishops were disabled 
Obser p. 224.  by some ancient Canons (saith he) from sentencing any man to death, and (it may be) from being present when any such sentences was pronounced, I shall easily grant; but that they were disabled from being assistants in such case, from taking the examinations or hearing the depositions of Witnesses, or giving counsel in such matters, as they saw occasion, I believe not: Certain I am, that it is, and hath been otherwise in point of practice. And that the Bishops sitting as Peers in an English Parliament, were never excluded before this time from any such assistance, as by their Gravity and Learning, and other abilities they were enabled to give in any dark or difficult 
Observator rescued, p. 283  business (though of blood and death) which were brought before them: As for the Council of Toledo it saith nothing to their disadvantage, the Canon is, si quis sacerdotum discursor in alienis periculis extiterit apud Ecclesiam proprium perdat gradum, that if any Priest shall intermeddle in Cases endangering the Life of others, let him be degraded. Hereupon I conclude, (as to the present business in hand) that the Bishops were to be admitted to all preparatory Examination, because their counsel and assistance would have tended rather to the preservation, than conduced to the endangering of the Parties Life. I saw about that time 
Observ. on the Hist. of K. Ch. pref.  (saith he) a little Manuscript Tract, entitled, De jure paritatis Episcoporum, that is to say, of the right of the Peerage of the Bishops, in which their Privileges were asserted, as to that particular: But they not willing to contend in a business which seemed so little to concern them; or else not able to strive against the present stream which seemed to carry all before it, suffered themselves to be excluded at that time, without protesting to the contrary, or interposing in defence of their ancient Rights. And this I look on as the first degree of their Humiliation; For when it was perceived that a business of sogreat consequence might be done in Parliament without their counsel and consent; it opened a wide gap unto their Adversaries: First to deprive them of their Votes, and after to destroy even the Calling itself. But this was not the main point which the Commons aimed at; they were resolved to have a close Committee, to take Examination in the business of the Earl of Strafford, and were not willing any Bishops should be of it; for fear, lest favouring the Earls cause or person, they might discover any part of those secret practices which were had against him, and thereby fortify and prepare him for his just defence, when the Cause should come unto a Trial. Thus far the Doctor writ of this Subject, when he lived in Lacies Court at Abingdon. What he presented to the Bishops themselves at the time of Strafford's Trial, concerning the right of Peerage, deserved a rare commendation, especially at that conjuncture of time, that he could command his Parts and Pen of a sudden to write on this Subject, or any other if there was need that did conduce to the public good either of Church or State; and above all, make a quick dispatch in accomplishing what he had once undertaken and begun; a Virtue for which Q. Curtius praiseth Alexander among other excellent qualities, Nullam virtutem regis istius, magis quam celeritatem laudaverim, I can commend no Virtue more in this King than speed. So Lucan of Caes●…r.  

— Nam Caesar in omnia praeceps  
Nilactum credens, si quid superesset agendum.   
But for those quick dispatches, the Doctor endured many tedious waitings at the backs of Committee men in that Parliament, especially in the business of Mr. Pryn, about his Histriomastix, for which he was kept four days under Examination, because he had furnished the Lords of the Privy Council, with matters out of that Book, which Mr. Pryn alleged was the cause of all his sufferings, 
Observator resc. p. 56.  having joined him in a Petition with the Lord Archbishop, as the chief Agents and Contrivers of the troubles he had undergone. Great hopes had the Committee by his often dancing attendance after them, to sift the Doctor, if they could gather any thing by his speeches, whether the Archbishop had moved him to draw up those Exceptions against Pryn's Book; which he denied, or at least was not bound to confess; for as he was faithful to his Sovereign, so he would never prove himself unfaithful to his chief Minister both in Church and State: For they would have been glad of any matter to put into their charge, against that worthy Prelate, against whom Mr. Pryn and others of his Enemies never ceased prosecuting, till the Parliament took of his head; and the Axe having once tasted of Blood, had a keen Appetite for more; went on to the Supreme Head of all.  
Whilst the Doctor was thus harassed before the Committees, his old Friend the Bishop of Lincoln, in great favour with them and the whole Parliament, was set at liberty from his Imprisonment, and returned from the Tower to the Church (after so long a time of his suspension and indevotion) to say his Prayers, and hear his Brother Peter Heylyn preach in his course at the Abbey in Westminster Where notwithstanding the holiness of that place, (to which his Lordship had no regard or reverence, but only to the Name and Thing of it) he was resolved publicly to revenge himself for old done deeds, that aught to have been forgotten; by disturbing the Doctor in his Sermon before all the Congregation, contrary to the Laws of this Realm, and with Reverence to his Lordship, against all good Manners, and the common Rules of Civility.  

— Mala meus furorque Vecors  
In tantam impulerit culpam.   
Cat. Strange! That a Bishop could not rule his passions for one hour, when no provocation was given by the Doctor, whose Sermon from the beginning to the end of it, throughout the whole Discourse, was pacificatory, exhorting Christians to Moderation, Love and Charity among themselves, for the preservation of the public Peace, although they differed in some Opinions: For satisfaction of the Reader, I will set down the Doctors own words, viz.  
Is it not that we are so affected with our own Opinions, that we condemn whosoever shall opine the contrary; and so far wedded to our own Wills, that when we have espoused a quarrel, neither the Love of God, nor the God of Love shall divorce us from it: Instead of harkening to the voice of the Church, every man hearkens to himself, and cares not if the whole miscarry so that himself may bravely carry out his own devices. Upon which stubborn height of Pride, what Quarrels have been raised? What Schisms in every corner of this our Church? (To inquire no further) some rather putting all into open tumult, than that they would conform to a lawful Government, derived from Christ and his Apostles to these very Times. At the speaking of which words, the Bishop of Lincoln sitting in the great Pew, (which was before the Seat of Contention) knocked aloud with his staff upon the Pulpit, saying, No more of that point, No more of that point, Peter. To whom the Doctor readily answered without hesitation, or the least sign of being dashed out of Countenance. I have a little more to say, my Lord, and then I have done. Which was as followeth, viz. Others coming into close and dangerous Factions, because some points of speculative Divinity are otherwise maintained by some than they would have them: Also regardless of the common Peace, that rather than be quiet, we will quarrel with our blessed Peacemaker for seeking to compose the differences, though to the prejudice of neither party. Thus do we foolishly divide our Saviour, and rend his sacred Body on the least occasion; rarely conceiving that a difference in a point of Judgement, must needs draw after it a disjoining of the affections also, and that conclude at last in an open Schism. Whereas diversity of Opini on's, if wisely managed, would rather tend to the discovery of the Truth, than the disturbance of the Church, and rather whet our industry than excite our passions. It was S. Cyprians resolution, Neminem, licet alicui senserit, a Communione amovere, not to suspend any man from the Communion of the Church, although the matter then 〈◊〉, was (as I take it) of more weight than any of the points now controverted; which moderation, if the present Age had attained unto, we had not then so often torn the Church in pieces, nor by our frequent broils offered that injury and inhumanity to our Saviour's Body, which was not offered to his Garments.  
At this, and all the other parts of his Sermon, the Auditory was highly pleased, but the Bishop in so great wrath that his voice, and the noise of his Pastoral Staff, if I may so call it had liked to have frighted the whole Flock or Congregation out of the Fold. Considering the ill posture of Affairs, in which the Nation then stood overflowing with seditions and schisms. Navem Reipub. Fluitantem in alto tempestatibus seditionum et discordiarum, as Tully once said: I think a more seasonable Sermon could not have been preached, to move men of different persuasions unto Peace and Unity one with another, which is a most Christian Doctrine. After the Sermon was ended, he took St. Robert Filmore, his learned Friend with some other Gentlemen of quality, that were his Auditors, out of the Church along with him to his House, where he immediately sealed up the Book that contained this Sermon and other Notes, to which they also set their Seals, that so there might not be the least alteration made in the Sermon, nor any ground to suspect it, which was presently after sent to the Bishop, who kept it in his hands for some days, in which time his passions allayed, being more calm at home than in the Church; sent the Book untouched back again to Dr. Heylyn; in whose Study it had lain dormant for the space of fifteen years; (when the danger of an old Sermon being called in question, must needs be over) by my persuasion and his con●…ent, he was pleased to give me leave to open that Apocalyptical Book, that I might read and see the mystery that lay hid under the Seals for so many years, which indeed only proved a pious and practical Sermon fo●… Edification, to moderate the heats of those fiery Spirits, that were like to make a Combustion in the whole Kingdom. The Bishop deserved a sharper rebuke for his own Sermon, which about that time he preached before the King, when he made a strange Apostrophe from his Text to the Sabbath, falling down upon his knees in the Pulpit at the middle of his Sermon, beseeching his Majesty in most earnest and humble manner, That greater care might be taken, for the better Observation of the Sabbath day: Which was looked upon by many as a piece of most grand Hypocrisy, who knew his opinion well by his practice, for he did ordinarily play at Bowls on Sundays, after Evening Service; shot with Bows and Arrows, and used other exercises and recreations according to his Lordship's pleasure. Nay, more than all this, as the Doctor informs us in his Animadversions on the Church-History of Britain, he caused a Comedy to be acted before 
Animad. pag. 243.  him at his house at Bugden; not only on a Sunday in the Afternoon, but upon such a Sunday also on which he had publicly given sacred Orders both to Priests and Deacons: And to this Comedy, he invited the Earl of Manchester, and divers others of the Neighbouring Gentry; though on this turning of the Tide, he did not only cause these Doctors to be condemned for some Opinions which formerly himself allowed of, but moved at the Assembly in Jerusalem Chamber, that all Books should be publicly burnt, which had disputed the Morality of the Lords Day-Sabbath. But the Bishop now restored to his dignity, by means of that unhappy Parliament with whom he was in high favour, expected that Dr. Heylyn should have submitted himself to his Lordship, and particularly acknowledge his Error in putting out the Antidotum Lincolniense, which he commanddend him to call in; to which the Doctor replied, that he received his Majesty's Royal Command for the writing and printing of that Book, in which he had asserted nothing, but what he was still ready to justify and defend against the Opposers of it. And how could it be imagined otherwise, but he would vindicate his own Writings? For men of known Learning and Integrity, satisfied with the truth and right of their Cause, its impossible to bring them over to a Retractation against their own Conscience. The Case ran thus betwixt St. Jerom the Presbyter, and St. Augustin the Bishop. Hortaris me ut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super quodam Apostoli Capitulo Canam, absit.— unusquisque 
J●…r. Epist. 18.  abundet suo sensu.  
No sooner was the Doctor out of the Pulpit, but he must come again before the Chair of the old Committee, to answer unto new Articles that Mr. Pryn had drawn up against him; more especially for a Sermon that he had preached many years ago; which Mr. Pryn (who had then Ears) heard himself, and brought along with him some other Auditors, a Company of the Rabble sort to vex him. Urgeris turba circum te Stante— thrusting and justling the Doctor in the Crowd, and railing against him with most vile speeches; to which be made no reply in this sorry Condition, but patiently endured all their affronts and injuries; for it was to no purpose to take further notice of an ungoverned Multitude. Non opus est argumentis sed fustibus, with whom nothing can prevail but Club-Law: But contrary to all their expectation he got the victory of the day, and was dismissed with a Quietus est, by reason of a Letter which he had wisely sent before hand (Ingenium res adversae nudare solent) to a leading Gentleman of that Committee, who was before his most bitter Enemy, but now mollified with the Letter, he allayed the fury of his Brethren. And glad was he to be so delivered out of the Lion's mouth, telling his Friends, that he would now go to Alresford with a purpose never to come back to Westminster whilst these two good Friends of his abode in it, viz. the House of Commons and the Lord of Lincoln. Accordingly he hastened down to his Family and Parishioners, to solace his Soul with peace after his so long patience under Westminster troubles.  

O Quid solutis est beatius curis  
Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino  
Labour fe●…i, venimus ad Larem nostrum 
Val. Cat.   
Desideratoque acquiescimus Lecto—   
That is to say  

O what's more happy than a patient Mind,  
Loaded with cares and fears, relief to find:  
Sore Labours first to suffer; than retire  
To our own Home and Bed; the hearts desire.   
Welcome was he to his Parishioners in the Country, who always loved him in the time of his Prosperity and Adversity, because of his affable and courteous behaviour; his Hospitality among them, and Relief to their Poor; his readiness to do his Neighbours any kindness, by Counsel or other assistance; his constant preaching during all time of his abode with them, and in his absence when he was called to Court, supplied them with an able Curate; he was resolved now to spend his days among them, and his Parishioners at South-warnborough, where he had the same respect and love. But the good Shepherd was soon driven away from his Flock by the unhappy Wars following; for the Seeds of Schism and Separation amongst the Saints, taking Root, quickly sprang up into open Rebellion, put all into disorder, dispersed Families asunder, parted nearest Relations, forced people from their Houses, and Ministers out of their Churches; necessitated him to fly for his own safety and preservation, (as Elijah persecuted by Ahab) being sent for by a party of Horse, under the command of Sir William Waller, to bring him Prisoner to Portsmouth; he fairly escaped their hands, but continually disturbed with new Alarms of Drums and Trumpets sounding about him; he could find no other way of safety like going to Oxford, there to take Sanctuary with his Brethren the persecuted Clergy, who in the words of the Historian, Adversum fortuita aspectu principis 
Tacit. Hi●…. lib. 15.  refoveri, were only comforted with the sight of their Prince in the sad time of their Crosses and Adversities.  
The news of his flying to Oxford quickly took Wings to the old Committee in London, who forthwith voted him a Delinquent, and sent down an Order for Sequestration of all his Goods and Chattels. And first they fetched away his Library, (for they thought he was too great a Scholar) the plunder of which he took deeply to heart, and ever accounted it the greatest of his Losses: For nothing is dearer to a good Scholar than Books, that to part with them, goes as much against his Nature and Genius, as to lose his Life; for he spendeth his days wholly in them, and thinketh that a horrible night of Ignorance, worse than Egyptian darkness would overshaddow the World without their Learning. Omnia jacerent in tenebris, saith Cicero, nisi literarum lumen accenderet. Yet neither had he suffered the loss of his Library nor household Goods so suddenly as he did, but for Colonel Norton his Neighbour, a Gentleman of the Parliament party; by whose Command, his Soldiers seized on all that he had in Alresford for the use of the Parliament, (as they pretended) but sold as they passed along to any Chapman at inconsiderable rates, Robin Hoods pennyworths, what they had a mind to; some of which Goods, his honest Neighbours bought on purpose to restore them again to him, except the best of his Hangings, Beds and other costly Furniture, which with his Plate, Coll. N●…rton took to his own use, as the Doctor was informed. His Books carried away to Portsmouth; many of them were sold by the way, as Folio's for a Flagon of Ale a piece, which some of his good Parishioners bought of the Soldiers, that the right Owner might come to them again. The Carters, and such Fellows, as were employed in the carriage of his Library and household Goods, were paid off in Books instead of Money; for the Parliament Soldiers loved that, as they hated Learning: Yet notwithstanding the Books were so embezzled and wasted by them, they were appraised at near a thousand Pound, and put into a public Library, from whence they could never be redeemed.  
After the loss of them, those Sabeans drove away his Goods and Chattels; they seized upon his Corn and Hay, for immediately by order of the Committee, the Tyths of both his Livings were sequestered and the profits of his Prebendary in Westminster, and what temporal Estate he had within their reach, taken from him that being asked by one of his acquaintance, how he lived? He answered him readily. By Horseflesh and old Leather; which seeming a Riddle, he explained afterward his meaning. That he saved only his Coach and Horses which brought him to Oxford, which he was forced to sell, and live upon the Mony. But that being spent— Non aetherea vescitur aura, as the Poet said he could not live like a Chameleon upon the Air, he must find out some way of subsistence for himself and Family. A●…d that was first of all to live upon Credit which seldom holdeth long, without an Estate to support it; and afterward upon the Charity of Friends, which is shorter lived for the heat of that Love, soon groweth cold, being put to hard straits, that he never knew before. Indocilis pauperiem pati, he must now learn a new Lesson how to shift in the world for a mere Livelihood. And more miserable he was that having been Master of a plentiful and noble Estate 800 l. per Annum in ecclesiastical Preferments, as he 
Extran. 〈◊〉 p. 16.  tells us himself, besides his own temporal Estate the Wheel of fortune should bring such a sudden alteration to turn him down from the Top of her to the bottom, as to be in so low and poor a condition, that he might justly complain of her, with the man in the Tragedy. 
Senec. in Oct. Trag.   

Quid me potens fortuna, fallaci mihi  
Blandita vultu, sort contentum mea  
Alte extulisti! gravius ut ruerem.   
May be englished thus,  

▪ Why powerful Fortune? Dost thou (frown and smile,  
With thy deceitful looks, me to beguile  
Of my content, thou sets me up on high  
To throw me down in deeper misery.   
Yet now he is but in the beginning of his misfortunes, and he hath a long race to run through them with Patience, not being able to maintain himself, and Family in Oxford, he sent his Wife to London; to get what money she could amongst her nearest Friends and Relations, himself went out of Oxford An. Dom. 1645. walking as a poor Traveller in the Country not knowing well, whether he should go, Ego herele 
Eunuch. Act. 2. Sc. 3.  nescio, quorsum eam: Ita prorsum oblitus sum mei. Quo me miser conferam. Disguised both in his Name, and Habit, he sometimes went under the name of Barker, at other times took the name of Harding by which he was well known among his Friends, and not discovered by his Enemies; his Habit changed from a Priest to a Layman, and in the likeness usually of an honest Countryman, or else of a poor decayed Gentleman, as indeed he was. The peril of the times made him such a Proteus in his Garb, because the Parliament was resolved, if they could take him, that he should follow his good Lord of Canterbury to another World, than that described in his Cosmography; but he happily outlived most of them, and died in Honour, which they did not. He wandered like a Jew, ●…vith a Groat in his Purse, and sometimes without it, till he got to some good Friends House.  
At his first setting out he was betrayed by a zealous she- Puritan, one Mrs. Monday at her House in Oxfordshire; her Husband was a true hearted Cavaleir, unto whose protection he committed himself: He being one day gone from home, she Saintlike, unfaithful to her Husband and his Friend, sent Intelligence to some Parliament Soldiers, that there was a Cavaleir Doctor in her House; of which he had notice given him by two of her Husband's Sisters, who hated her pure qualities; that as soon as the Family was all in Bed, he went out at a back door, down a pair of Garden-stairs, from whence he took his March that Night, Factum est peric'lum ●…am Pedum visa est via, (as Phormio said) made what haste he could; and by the help of God Almighty and the good S●…ars; he got sa●…ely to another Friend's house by morning; at which time the Soldiers beset Mrs. Mundays house, as the Country men did the Mountain; but the Cathedral Rat (as they then called him, and the dignified Clergy) was run away, that Mrs. Mundays Plot with the Soldiers proved a silly Fable. Ever after, the Doctor observed it for a Rule, never to come within the doors of a Holy Sister, whose house may be compared to that which Solomon describeth, Is the way to Hell, going down to the Chambers of Death; that had not Divine Providence protected him from the treachery of that base Woman, he had fallen into the hands of those Nimrods', that hunted after his Life. From pla●… to place he shifted, like the old Travels of the Patriarcks; and in pity to his necessity, found a hearty entertainment amongst his Friends of the Royal Party, at whose Tables he was fed, for he had none of his own. His Children disposed of into several Friends hands; his Wife among her Relations; himself depending upon the courtesy both of Friends and Strangers till he grew weary, and tired out with this kind of Life, for Vilis est Amicorum annona.  
It pleased God afterward to send him some supplies of Money, that he settled himself, Wife and eldest Daughter at Winchester, in the house of a right honest man, one Mr. Lizard, with whom they Tabled a good while, where he had a comfortable time of breathing and rest after his former troubles, and to his heart's delight, the sweet enjoyment and conversation with Loyal Persons; for Winchester was then a strong Garrison for the King; and being near Alresford, he would go sometimes in disguise to visit his old Neighbours, whom he knew were true and faithful to him. But those Haltion days quickly vanished; as seldom Prosperity continues so long a time as Adversity; for that Town and Castle especially, which was thought invincible, to be taken by force of Arms were most treacherously delivered up to their Enemies in three days time: And now every house full of Soldiers quartered amongst them. Poor Dr. Heylyn was in more danger than ever, (had not Mr. Lizard took care of him as his dearest Guest, and ●…id him in a private Room (as Providence ordained) to save his Life; which Room was supposed to have been made formerly for the hiding of Seminary Priests and Jesuits, because the house heretofore belonged to a Papist Family; and indeed it was so cunningly contrived, that there was no Door to beseen, nor entering into it, but behind an old Beds-head; and if the Bed had not been there, the Door was so neatly made like the other Wainscot of the Chamber, that it was impossible for a Stranger to find it out: In which Room, instead of a Papist, a right Protestant Doctor, who was a professed Enemy both to Popery and Puritanism, was now secured from the rage and violence of the Soldiers, who sought after him with no less eagerness, than if he had been a Heretic followed by the Spanish Inquisition, when he good man, was in the very next Room to them, adjoining to the Dining▪ Chamber, where he could hear all their raillery and mirth; their Gaming at Cards and Dice; for those idle Lurdains spent their time only in riot and pleasure at home; and when they went abroad they would tread the Maze near the Town. He took his opportunity on the Market day to put on his travelling Robes, with a long Staff in his hand, and so walked out of the Town confidently with the Country Crowd, bidding adieu to the Conclave or little Room, that he left for the next distressed Gentleman; in the mean while his Wife and Daughter he entrusted to Mr. Lizard's care, his faithful Friend.  
And now he must again seek hi●… Fortune, which proved more kind to him than she did before; yet he met with a hard Adventure not many Miles from Winchester, where some straggling Soldiers lighting on him, and catching hold of his hand, felt a Ring under his Glove, which through hasté of his escape, he forgot to pull off; which no sooner discovered, but they roughly swore he was some Runaway Cavaleir: The Ring being hard to get off, the poor Doctor willingly help●…d them; in which time came galloping by some of the Parliaments Scouts, who said to their Fellow-soldiers, look to yourselves, the Cavaleirs are coming; at which words being a●…righted, they took that little Money that was in his Pocket, and so rid away without further search; and he good man joged on to the next Friend's house, with some pieces of Gold that he had hid in his high Shoes, which if the Rogues had not been so hastily fri●…ed away, would have been undoubtedly found, and might have cost him his Life by further suspicions of him, as it did the poor Jews (though not in the same manner) at the Siege of Jerusalem, who flying from their City fell into a worse Calamity, by one of them swallowing Gold, hid it in his Belly, which he was afterward seen to take out of his Dung when he exonerated himself; that caused the ripping up several of their Bellies, according to Josephus. Had 
Joseph. l. 6. cap. 15.  the Doctor been then apprehended by the Soldiers, and sent up Prisoner to London; or could they have taken him at at any time (he had Intelligence from a Friend in the House of Commons) that the Parliament designed to deprive him of his Life, in revenge of the punishment inflicted upon Pryn, who for his seditious Libels written against the King and Church, was sentenced not only to lose his Ears, but was stigmatised also upon his left Cheek with the Letter S. to signify he was a Schismatic. Whence Cant. the zealous Preacher at Glasgow, prayed to God after his Sermon to take away the King's Idolatry, and said, that the dear Saints in England had their Nose 
Lysim. Nican. p. 43.  and their Ears slit, for the profession of the Gospel. The Parliament then might pretend the revenge of Mr. pryn's sufferings, by a retaliation of a worse punishment upon Dr. Heylyn; but the real cause that exasperated them, was the good Doctor's Loyalty to his King, and fidelity to his Archbishop, the two great Pillars of the Church, to whom all true Sons of the Church of England ought to be faithful. And finally the many Books the Doctor had written, and still likely to write more against the Puritan Faction, was the grand cause of all his flights and sufferings in the time of War.  

Est fuga dicta mihi, non est fuga dicta Libellis. 
Ovid.   
Qui Domini paenam non meruere sui.   

Though I am forced to fly, my Books they are not fled,  
No reason for my sake, they should be punished.   
At what Friends house he was now secured from danger, though I have heard it named, indeed I have forgot; but from thence he traveled to Doctor Kingsmil, a Loyal Person of great worth, and ancient Family, where he continued, and sent for his Wife and Daughter from Winchester to him; and from thence removed to Minster-Lovel, (in Oxfordshire) the pleasant Seat of his elder Brother, in the year An. Dom. 1648. which he farmed of his Nephew Colonel Heylyn for six years. Being deprived of his E●…astial Preferments, he must think of some honest way for a Livelihood.  

— Fruges lustramus & agros 
Alb. Titul.   
Ritus ut a prisco traditus extat aevo.   
Yet notwithstanding he followed his studies, which was his chief delight; for though the 〈◊〉 Powers had silenced his Tongue from preaching, they could not withhold his Pen from writing, and that in an acute, and as sharp a stile as formerly, after he had done with his frequent visits of Friends, and long perambulations. For the public good of the Church, to uphold her ancient maintenance by Tithes, being robbed then of all her other deuce and dignities, though himself was sequestered of both his Livings, and made in●…apable of receiving any benefit by Tithes; yet for the common cause of Christianity, and in mere compassion of the Presbyterian Clergy, (though his professed Enemies) he published at that time (when Tithes were in danger to be taken away from them) an excellent little Tract, to undeceive the People in the point of Tithes; and proveth therein, That no man in the Realm of England, payéth any thing of his own toward the maintenance of his Parish Minister but his Easter Offerings.  
At the same time, he enlarged his Book of Geography into a large Folio, which was before but a little Quarto, and intit●…led it with the name of Cosmography; of which it may be truly said, it does contain a world of Learning in it, as well as the Description of the World; and particularly showeth the Authors most excellent Abilities, not only in History, and smoothness of its style, that maketh the whole Book delightful to the Reader; but in Chronology, Genealogy, and Heraldry; in which last any one may see, that he could blazon the Arms, and describe the Descent and Pedigree of the greatest Families in Europe. In which pleasing study while he spent his time, his good Wife, a discreet and active Lady; looked both after her Housewifery within doors, and the Husbandry without; thereby freeing him from that care and trouble, which otherwise would have hindered his laborious Pen from going through so great a work in so short a time. And yet he had several divertisements by company, which continually resorted to his House; for having (God be thanked) his Temporal Estate cleared from Sequestration, by his Composition with the Commissioners at Goldsmith's Hall, and this Estate which he farmed besides, he was able to keep a good house, and relieve his poor Brethren, as himself had found relief from others Charity; that his House was the Sanctuary of sequestered men turned out of their Livings, and of several ejected Fellows out of Oxford; more particularly of some worthy persons I can name, as Dr. Allibone, Mr. Levit, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Ashwel, who wrote upon the Creed, who would stay for two or three Months at his House, or any other Acquaintance that were suffering men, he cheerfully received them, and with a hearty welcome they might tarry as long as they pleased. The Doctor himself modestly speaks of his own Hospitality; how many (that were not Domestics, had eaten of his 
Observ. rescued. p. 51.  Bread and drunk of his Cup.  
A Virtue highly to be praised, and most worthy of commendation in itself; for which Tacitus giveth this Character 
Tacit. lib. de mor. Ger.  of the old Germans, Convictibus & Hospitiis, non alia gens Effusius indulget. Greater Hospitality saith he, and Entertainment, no Nation showed more bountifully, accounting it as a cursed thing, not to be civil in that kind according to every man's ability; and when all was spent, the good Master of the House would lead his Guest to the next Neighbour's House, where he, though not invited, was made welcome with the like courtesy. Among others kindly entertained, Mr. Marchamont Needham, than a zealous Loyalist, and Scourge to the Rump Parliament, was sheltered in the Doctor's House, (being violently pursued) till the Storm was over; the good Doctor then, as his Tutelar Angel, preserved him in a high Room, where he continued writing his weekly Pragmaticus; yet he afterward, like Balaam the Son of Beor, hired with the wages of Unrighteousness, corrupted with mercenary Gifts and Bribes, became the only Apostate of the Nation, and writ a Book for the pretended Commonwealth, or rather I may say, a base Democracy, for which the Doctor could never after endure the mention of his name, who had so disobliged his Country and the Royal Party, by his shameful Tergiversation.  
The good Doctor's Charity did not only extend itself to ancient Friends and Acquaintance, but to mere Strangers, by whom he had like to run himself into a Praemunire: For word being carried to him in his Study, there was a Gentleman at the door, who said he was a Commander in the King's Army, and car●…estly desired some relief and harbour; the Doctor presently went to him, and finding by his Discourse and other Circumstances, what he said was true, received him into his House, and made him very welcome: the Gentleman was a Scotch Captain, who having a Scotch Diurnal in his Pocket, they read it, fearing no harm thereby, but it proved otherwise; for one of the Doctor's Servants listening at the door, went strait way to Oxford, and informed the Governor Colonel Kelsey, that his Master had received Letters from the King; whereupon the Governor sent a Party of Horse to fetch him away. Strange News it was, knowing his own Innocency, to hear that Soldiers had beset his House so early in the Morning, before he was out of Bed; But go he must to appear before the Governor; and when he came, that treacherous Rogue his Man did confidently affirm, that he heard the Letters read, and was sure he could remember the very words, if his Master would produce the Letters: Upon which the Doctor relates the whole story to the Governor, and withal shows the Diurnal, which the Governor read to the Fellow, often ask him, is this right? Is this the same you heard? To whom he answered, Yes Sir, yes; that is the very thing, and those words I remember: Upon which, the Governor caused him to be sound whipped, instead of giving him a reward for his Intelligence; and dismissed the Doctor, with some Compliments, ordering the same Party of Horse that fetched him, to wait upon him home.  
Being thus delivered from the treachery of his Servant, his great care was to provide one more faithful; which the good Lady Wainman, his Neighbour hearing of, commended to him one of her own Servants, whom Sr. Francis her Husband had bred up from a Child, whose fidelity he need not fear in the Worst of times, when a Man's enemies 
Tacit. Hit ib. 4.  may be of his own Household, as Q. Vibius Serenus was betrayed by his own Son, Reus pater, accusator filius, idem Judex et Testis saith the Historian, the Son was both Acuser, Judge, and witness against his Father.  
After he had lived many years in Minster-Lovel, he removed from thence to Abingdon, where he bought a House called Lacies-Court, of which he bestowed much cost in repairing and building some Additions to it, particularly of a little Oratory, or Chapel, which about the Altar was adorned with Silk Hangings, the other part of the Room plain, but kept very decent, wherein himself and his Family went to prayers, most Rooms of his house were well furnished, and the best Furniture in them, as in the Dining-Chamber, and next Room to it, were saved by his good Neighbours at Alresford, who were so far from thinking, (except some malicious persons among them) that they should never fix eye on him more unless they took a journey (which I hate to mention) to a Gaol or a Gallows that they questioned not his return again to Alsford, and the enjoyment of his plundered goods. This house in Abingdon he purchased for the pleasantness of its situation, standing next the Fields, and not distant five Miles from Oxford, where he might be furnished with Booksat his pleasure, either from the Booksellers Shops, or the Bodlean-Library, particularly he was beholden to his Reverend and Learned Friend Doctor Barlow, now Lord-Bishop of Lincoln who sometimes accommodated him with choice Books, of whom I have heard the Doctor say, if the Times ever altered, he was confident, that man of learning would be made a Bishop, which indeed is now come to pass. Such a fresh appetite to Study and Writing, he still retained in his old Age, that he would give his mind no time of vacancy and intermission from those Labours, in which he was before continually exercised, 
Ju. Scalig. Epist. de Vetus. et Splend. Gent. Scal. p. 47.  'tis said of Julius Caesar Scaliger an indefatigable Student as his Son Writes of him. Nullum tempus a Studiis Literarum et lucubrationibus relinquebat, but he was then forty years of Age before he began the course of his Studies, having spent his former days in the Camp of Mars and not of the Muses: The Doctor from a Child devoted his whole Life to painful Study, not allowing himself ease in the worst of times, and in the midst of his troubles.  
For at the time of his sad Pilgrimage when he was forced to wander and take Sanctuary at any Friends House, his thoughts were not extravagant, but studiously intent upon these matters, which he digested afterward into Form, and Use, when he came to a settled condition. And in the beginning of his troubles, being under the displeasure of the House of Commons, on the complaint of Mr. Pryn, when his Enemies took the advantage some to Libel and others to write against him, particularly Doctor Hackwel (before mentioned) at such an unseasonable 
Appendix in Advert. p. 10.  time, with whom Doctor Heylyn saith he would not refuse an encounter upon any Argument, either at the sharp or at the Smooth, afterward when Monarchy and Episcopacy was trodden under foot, than did he stand up a Champion in defence of both, and feared not to publish, the stumbling Block of Disobedience, and his Certamen Epistolare; in which Mr. Baxter fled the Field, because there was impar congressus betwixt him, and (as I may say) an old Soldier of the Kings, who had been used to fiercer Combats with more famous Goliahs. Also Mr. Thomas Fuller was sufficiently chastised by the Doctor for his Church History, as he deserved a most sharp correction, because he had been a Son of the Church of England in the time of her prosperity, and now deserted her in her adverse Fortune, and took to the Adversaries side: And it was then my hap, having some business with Mr. Taylor my fellow Collegian in Lincoln-Colledge, than Chaplain to the Lord-Keeper, Mr. Nathanial Fines, to see Mr. Fuller make a fawning address to my Lord with his great Book of Church History, hugged under his Arm, which he presented to the Keeper after an 
Hor. Ep. 13.  uncouth manner, as Horace describeth— Sub ala fasciculum portas librorum ut rusticus agnum. The many falsities, defects and mistakes of that Book the Doctor discovered and refuted; of which Mr. Fuller afterward being ingeniously ashamed, came to the Doctor's House in Abingdon, were he made his Peace, both became very good Friends, and between them for the future was kept an inviolable bond of Friendship.  
In the Year 1656. the Doctor printed some observations upon the History of the Reign of King Charles, published by H. L. Esq: with whom the Doctor dealt very candidly, and modestly corrected some of his mistakes in most mild and amicable terms, telling him, viz. Between us both the History will be 
Epistle dedicatory.  made more perfect, and consequently the Reader will be better satisfied, which makes me somewhat confident, that these few Notes will be so far from making your History less vendible than it was before, that they will very much advantage and promote the Sale: And if I can do good to all, without wrong to any, I hope no man can be offended with my pains and Industry, In answer to which Mr. Hammond L' Estrange led by his passion, and not by reason, fell upon the Doctor in such uncivil words, unbecoming a Gentleman that as the Doctor saith, he never was accustomed to such Billingsgate Language. There was indeed a time (saith 
Extran. Vapulans. Epistle to the Reader▪  he) when my name was almost in every Libel, which exercised the Patience of the State for seven years together, and yet I dare confidently say, that all of them together, did not vomit so much filth upon me, as hath proceeded from the Mouth of the Pamphleter, whom I have in hand. Therefore the Doctor returned a quick and sharp reply to him in his Book, Entitled Extraneus Vapulans, wherein with admired Wit and Eloquence he gave Mr. L' Estrange a most severe, yet civil correction. His Brother Mr. Roger L' Estrange a most Loyal Gentleman, hath since made amends for his Brother's Faults, by his good service done both to Church and State.  
The next Book which the Doctor published, An. Dom. 1657. Ecclesia Vindicata, or the Church of England justified, he de●…ted it, (as a gratefu●… Testimony of his mind) to his Master then living, Mr. Edward Davis, formerly Schoolmaster of Burford, and now Vicar of Shelton in the County of Berks, to whom he ever showed a Love and Reverence: and had the Doctor's Power been answerable to his will and intention, he had designed more considerable Preferments for him, but the sudden and unexpected alteration in his own affairs prevented, (so soon almost as he was preferred) that he could show no other Specimen of his gratitude. What saith the Heathen? Diis parentibus & Precaeptoribus non redditur aequivalens. An amends can never be made to God, our Parents and Tutors; and certainly he hath but little of a Christian in him that can forget this Lesson.  
About the same time he was harassed before oliver's Major General for the Decimation of his Estate, hoc novum est aucupium: For he thought there had been an end of all further payments, and punishment for his Loyalty, by compounding for his Estate in Goldsmiths-Hall, that he argued the Case notably with them, but all in vain, for Arguments though never so acutely handled, are obtuse Weapons against the Edge of the Sword. He tells us that his temporal Estate was first brought under Sequestration, and under 
Observ. resc. p. 50.▪  a Decimation since, only for his adhaesion to those sacred Verities to which he hath been principled by Education, and confirmed by Study. While he was arguing his cause before the Major General and his Captains, one Captain Allen formerly a Tinker, and his Wife a poor Tripewife, took upon him to reprove the Doctor for maintaining his Wife so highly, like a Lady; to whom the Doctor roundly replied; That he had married a Gentlewoman, and did maintain her according to her quality; and so might he his Tripewife: Adding withal, that this Rule he always observed, For his Wife to go above his Estate; his Children according to his Estate, and himself below his Estate; so that at the years end he could make all even. Soon after these things, came out the Order of Decimation against him; a Heathenish Cruelty in this Case; if men's Estates are as dear to them as their Lives, (because the one without the other renders them miserable) may be compared to that of Maximian, the Tyrant and cruel Persecutor of the Church, that put the Christians to such a bloody Decimation, that every tenth man of them was to be killed: And this other was barbarous enough in its kind, that all the Gentry of the Nation, (not only the tenth part of them) who had engaged in his Majesty's Service; should first be compelled to compound for their own Estates, and afterward without mercy Decimated; that brought an utter ruin upon many of their Families.  
Notwithstanding all this, the Doctor like the Palmtree, crescit sub pondere virtus, the more he was pressed with their heavy loads, did flourish and grow up in his Estate; that through the blessing of God, being neither the Subject of any man's Envy, nor the Object of their Pity; he lived in good Credit, ●…nd kept a noble House; for I myself being often there, can say, I have seldom seen him sit down at his Table without company; for being nigh the University, some out of a desire to be acquainted with him, and others to visit their old Friend, whom they knew rarely could be seen but at Meals, made choice of that time to converse with him: And likewise his good Neighbours at Abingdon, whom he always made welcome, if they were honest men, that had been of the Royal party, and was ready to assist them upon all occasions; particularly in upholding the Church of St. Nicholas, which otherwise had been pulled down, on pretence of uniting it to St. Ellens; but in truth, to disable the sober party of the Town, who were loyal people, from enjoying their wont Service and Worship of God in their own Parish Church, of which they ●…ad a Reverend and Orthodox man, one Mr. Huish, their Minister; and in his absence, the Doctor took care to get them supplied with able men from Oxford. Great endeavours were on both sides; the one party to preserve the Church, and the other to pull it down, because it was thronged with Malignants, who seduced others from their godly way: Religion always hath been the pretence of factious minds, to draw on others to their party, as one saith well, Sua quisque arma 
Ubbo.▪ 4. His. F●…s.  sancta praedicat, suam causam Religiosam, Deus, Pietas, cultus divinus praetexuntur. Every one proclaimeth their own Quarrels to be a holy War; the cause Religion, God, Godliness, and Divine Worship must be pretended.  
Several Journeys the good Doctor took to London, sparing neither his pains nor purse, in so pious a cause; for the managing of which, he employed divers Solicitors; sometimes before Committees, at other times before Oliver's Council, where it was carried dubiously, and rather inclining to the other side; at which the Presbyterian party caused the Bells to be rung, and made Bonfires in the Town, to express their Joy, triumphing in the Ruin of a poor Church; but the day was not so clearly, their own as they imagined, Dum res quamvis afflictae, nondum tamen perditae forent, as the Orator said; for the Church yet stood against all its Enemies, God protecting his own House, and his zealous Servants for it, in a time when they could look for little favours from the Powers that then ruled, who had not so much respect for God's House, as the Heathens had for their Idol Temples, and for those that vindicated them, as Justin saith on this occasion. Diis proximus 
Justin. l. 8.  habetur per quem De●…rum majestas vindicata sit. For which he praiseth Philip of Macedon, calling him, Vindicem Sacrilegii, ultorem Religionum, etc. During those troubles about the Church, Mr. Huish the Minister thereof, durst not go on in his ministerial Duties, which no sooner the Doctor heard of, but to animate and encourage him, he writ a pious Letter; a Copy of which I then transcribed, which is as followeth, and worth the inserting here.  
Sir,  
WE are much beholden to you for your cheerful condiscending unto our desires, so far as the Lords-days Service, which though it be Opus diei in die suo, yet we cannot think ourselves to be fully Masters of our Requests, till you have yielded to bestow your pains on the other days also. We hope in reasonable time to alter the condition of Mr. Blackwels pious gift, that without hazarding the loss of his donation, which would be an irrecoverable blow to this poor Parish, you may sue out your Qietus est from that daily Attendance, unless you find some further motives▪ and inducements to persuade you to it; yet so to alter it, that there shall be no greater wrong done to his Intentions, than to most part of the Founders in each University, by changing Prayers for the Souls, first by them intended, into a commemoration of their bounties, as was practised. All dispositions of this kind must vary with their changes which befall the Church, or else be alienated and estranged to other purposes. I know it must needs be some discouragement to you to read to Walls, or to pray in public with so thin a company, as hardly will amount to a Congregation; but withal I desire you to consider, that magis & minus, as Logicians say, do not change the species of things; that quantities of themselves are of little effica●…y, (if at all of any) and that he who promised to be in the midst of two or three when they meet together in his Name, hath clearly showed, that even the smallest Congregations shall not want his presence; and why then should we think much to bes●…ow our pains where he vouchsafeth his pr●…sence, or think our labour ill bestowed, if some few only do partake of the present benefi●…? And yet no doubt the benefit extends to more than the Parties present; for ●…ou know well that the Priest or Minister, is not only to pray with, but for the People; that he is not only to offer up the People's Pra●…ers to Almighty God, but to offer up his own Prayers for them; the benefit whereof may charitably be presumed to extend to, as well as it was intended for, the absent also. And if a whole Nation may be represented in a Parliament of ●…our hundred persons, and they derive the blessings of peace and comfort upon all the Land, why may we not conceive, that God will look on three or four of this little Parish, as the representation of the whole, and for their sakes, extend his Grace and Blessing unto all the rest; that he who would have saved that sinful City of Sodom, had he ●…ound but ten righteous persons in it, may not vouchsafe to bless a less sinful people upon the Prayers of a like or less number of pious and religious persons. When the High Priest went into the Sanctum Sanctorum to make atonement for the Sins of the People, went he not thither by himself? None of the people being suffered to enter into that place. Do not we read, that when Zacharias offered up Incense, which figured the Prayers of the Saints, within the Temple, the people waited all that while in the outward Courts; or find we any where, that the Priest who offered up the daily Sacrifice, and this comes nearest to our Case, did ever intermit that Office by reason of the slackness and indevotion of the people in repairing to it: But you will say, there is a Lion in the way, there is danger in it. Assuredly I hope none at all, or if any, none that you would care for. The Sword of the Committee had as sharp an edge, and was managed with as strong a malice, as any Ordinance of a late date can empower men with. Having so fortunately escaped the danger of that, why should you think of any thing, but despising this, as Tully did unto Mark, Antony. Catilinae gladios contempsi, non timebo tuos. Why may you not conclude with. David in the like sense and apprehensions of God's preservation, that he who saved him from the Bear and from the Lion, would also save him from the Sword of that railing Philistine: And you may see that the Divine Providence is still awake over that poor remnant of the regular and othodox Clergy, which have not yet bowed their knees to the Golden Calves of late erected, by putting so unexpectedly a Hook into the Nostrils of those Leviathans which threatened with an open mouth to devour them all: I will not say as Clemens of Alexandria did in Case much like that, it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, to indulge too much to apprehension of this nature, in matters which relate to God's public Service: All I shall add, is briefly thus, that having presented you with these considerations, I shall with greediness expect the sounding of the Bell to morrow morning, and in the mean time make my prayers to Almighty God, to direct you in this business, as may be most for his glory, your own particular comfort, and the good of this people, with which expressions of my Soul, I subscribe myself,  
Your most affectionate Friend and Brother in Christ Jesus Peter Heylyn.  
After this good Letter, Mr. Huish went on in his Prayers as formerly, and this little Church withstood all the batteries and fierce assaults of its Enemies, who were never able to demolish it, or unite it to St. Ellens, so well had the Doctor managed the business for the public good and the benefit of the Parish; for as to his own particular, he might have spared that pains and charge, having (as we said before) a Chapel in his own house, where he constantly used the Common-prayer for his Family devotions, being no lover of other Forms, much less of extemporary Effusions, for the impertinencies, tautologies, and irreverent expressions that usualy attends them, though such Prayers are most admired by the Vulgar, because some of them think themselves excellently gifted that way; as the Doctor tells us a story of a Puritan Trades-man, Meeting ●…ne time (saith he) by chance, my old Cha●…r-fellow Mr. L. D. at Dinner, my Chamber-fellow being the only 
Dr. heylyn's Discourse touching the Form of Prayer. p. 161.  Scholar in the company, was requested to say Grace, which he did accordingly; and having done, the Tradesman lifting up both his Hands and Whites to Heaven, calls upon the company saying, dearly beloved Brethren, let us praise God better; and thereupon began a long extempore Grace of his own conceiving.  
But to return again, As he had a respect to the Cause of the Church, so he was careful of his own concern, to answer Dr. Bernard, an Irish Dean, but now Chaplain to Oliver, one of his Almoners, and a Preacher in Grays-Inn, who had put forth a Book entitled The Judgement of the late Primate of Ireland, etc. in reply to which, the Doctor published, Respondet Petrus, and an Apendix in answer to certain passages of H. L' Est. History of the Reign of King Charles: In the one, he treateth learnedly about the Sabbath: the other relating to the Lord Primate, the Articles of the Church of Ireland, and the Earl of Strafford; to neither of which his Adversaries could make a Reply; but instead thereof, Dr. Bernard endeavoured to procure an Order fro●… oliver's Privy-Council, to burn the Book, which caused a common report, that Dr. Heylyn's Book of the Sabbath, was publicly burnt; but according to the old saying, Fama est mendax, for the Book never saw. the Fire, nor any Answer to it; and if it had been martyred in the Fire, it would have proved more for the Author's credit than disgrace, as Tacitus tells us in the like Case of Cremutius Cordus, whose Book was decreed by 
Tac. An 〈◊〉  the Senate to be burnt, punitis Ingeniis (saith he) gliscit authoritas, when good Wits are punished, their credit groweth greater.  
An ordinary Scandal hath been thrown upon learned men, who have been zealous Defenders of the Church of England, to brand them with the ignominious name of Papists, or being Popishly affected, because they have abhorred the other extreme of Puritanism, in which kind of Slanders the Doctor hath sufficiently received his share; that Hammond L' Estrange 
Apend. to the Adu.  called him, An Agent for the Sea of Rome. A heavy charge this is, if it carried the least semblance of Truth; but what honest man may not be so belied: Si accusare suffecerit, quis innocens erit? When the Doctor in all his Writings, (and no man I may say more) hath declared his judgement against the Church of Rome; and upon every occasion, as▪ he meets with her, whets his Pen most sharply, to launce her old sores, and and let the World see what filthy corruptions and errors abound in her; more particularly in his Book of Books, Theologia Veterum upon the Apostles Creed, the Sum of Christian Theology, positive, polemical, and philological; and in all his Court Sermons upon the Tares, especially the fourth Sermon; also in his great Cosmography, where he sets out the Popes of Rome in their pontifical Colours: Therefore for the Vindication of him from this foul aspersion, with which some have maliciously bespattered many of our excellent Divines; I particularly thank the Reverend and Learned Dr. Stillingsleet for his Answer to T. G. who would have made use of the Puritans accusation for the Papists purpose, but the worthy Doctor quickly refuted him, and ever after put him to silence, in citing Dr. heylyn's fourth Sermon upon the Tares, where he lays at the Door of Papists, the most gross Idolatry, greater than which, was never known among the Gentiles. This being brought into discourse at such time as the Arch-Bishops Book against Fisher the Jesuit was newly published, it was affirmed by some, that the Doctor in his Sermon had pulled up Popery by the Roots, yet one of the Company most maliciously replied thereunto: That the Archbishop 
Arch-Bish. Life p. 339.  might print, and the Doctor might preach what they pleased against Popery, but that he should never think them, or either of them to be the less Papists for all that. A Censure of so strange a nature, (saith the Doctor himself) that he believed it is not easy to be paralleled in the worst of times. But what need is there of producing Sermons or other Testimonies in his behalf, when his general Conversation, more severe than ordinary, fully attested, that as he was a strict Observer of all the Rites and Orders of the Church of England, so a perfect Abhorrer of Popery and Roman Superstitions, that he would not so much as hold correspondency with a Papist, or with one so reputed; as I can instance an Example of one Mr. Hood whose Family and the Doctors were very kind, when he lived at Minster, being near Neighbours; but the Gentleman afterward changing his Religion, and turning Papist, came to Abington, to give him a Visit in his new House; the Doctor sent his Man Mr. Gervis, who was his Amanue●… to bid the Gentleman be gone, and ●…t the Doors of him; saying, that he heard he was turned Papist, for which he hated the sight of him, and so my Gentleman went away, never daring to give him another Visit. In which he followed the Example of his Lord's Grace of Canterbury, that when Con was sent hither by the Pope to be assistant to the Queen in her Religion; the wise Bishop kept himself at such a distance with 
Arch-Bish. Life p. 386.  him, that neither Con nor Panzani before him, (who acted for a time in the same capacity) could fasten any acquaintance on him; nay, he neglected all intercessions in that Case, and did shun (as it were the Plague) the company and familiarity of Con.   

THEOLOGO-HISTORICUS, Or the True Life & Death OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE, and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Subdean of Westminster.  
Written by his Son in Law John Barnard D. D.  
Part. II.  
BEATI MORTUI, qui in Domino Moriuntur Apoc. Cap. 14. v. 13.  
LONDON, Printed 1683.   

THE TRUE LIFE and DEATH OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE Dr. PETER HEYLYN.  
Part. II.  
LIKE a true Christian and obedient Son of the Church, the good Doctor did patiently undergo all the persecutions, reproaches, and clamorous speeches, both of Papists and Puritans; not regarding what the height of their malice could speak, or their virulent Pens could write against him; because he was able to defend himself. But that which drew all the odium and inveterate malice upon him, from the several Factions then prevalent, was his Loyalty, Learning, and Conscience, that he constantly asserted the King's Prerogative, the Church's Rights, (not infringing the People's privileges,) in the defence of which he was continually employed until his Majesty's most happy Restauration, which was the longed hope and earnest desire of this poor distracted Nation. Quia non aliud patriae discordantis remedium 
Tacit. An. lib. 1.  fuisse, quam ut ab uno regeretur, As the Historian said, which cannot be Englished better than in the words of his Majesties late gracious declaration. That Religion, Liberty and property were all lost and gone, when the Monarchy was shaken of, and could never be revived till that was restored. Therefore the People's Representative in Parliament, induced by necessity as well as duty, did unanimously vote, like the Elders of Judah, to bring home their Lord the King to his native Kingdom, of whose wished return we did then all sing, as the Poet of Augustus.  

Custos Gentis, abes iam nimium Diu  
Maturum reditum pollicitus Patrum 
Hor. car. l. 4. odd. 5.   
Sancto Concilio  
Lu●…m red lux Dux bone, Patriae  
Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus  
Affulsit populo, gratior it dies  
Et Soles melius nitent.   
That is to say  

Most Sovereign Guardian of this Nation  
Thy absence all lament  
Return to joy the expectation  
Of thy whole Parliament  
Good Prince, the Glory of our Land  
Shine with thy Beams of Majesty.  
Thy countenance like the Spring at hand  
Cheers up thy People merrily.  
Our days now more delightfully are spent  
The Sun looks brighter in the Firmament.   
And now the Sun shone more gloriously in our Hemisphere then ever; the Tyrannical powers being dissolved, as the historian said Non Cynnae, non Syllae dominatio & Pompey Crassique potentia in Caesarem— The Kingdom ruled 
Tacit. lib. 1.  by its own natural Prince, and only lawful Sovereign; the Church restored to her ancient Rights, and true Religion established among us; every man sitting under his own Vine with joy, who had been a good Subject and a Sufferer; the Doctor was restored to all his former preferments, of which he had been deprived for Seventeen years. After his re-entrance into his Pre●…dary of Westminster, he had the Ho●…r to attend his Sacred Majesty at the ●…e of his Coronation, in the So●…y of which, according to his office and place, (as Subdean of the Church) he presented upon his knees the Royal Sceptre unto his Majesty, in whose exile ●…o the utmost of his power he had exercised his Pen in the def●…nce both of the Crown, Sceptre, and Mitre, his Soul then transported with joy, that he should survive the usurped powers, and see with his old bad eyes, the King settled upon his Father's Throne, and peace upon Israel. In the Evening after the Ceremonies of the Coronation were over, while the Ordinance was playing from the Tower, it happened to thunder violently, at which some persons who were at supper with him, seemed much affrighted. I very well remember an expression of his upon the same, according to the Poet's word Intonuit laetus, that the Ordinance of Heaven answered those of the Tower, rejoicing at the solemnity, with which the Company being exceedingly pleased, there followed much Joy and Mirth.  
Thus being settled in Westminster, he fell upon the old work of building again and repairing, which is the costly pleasure of Clergy men, for the next Generation; because building is like planting, the chief benefit of which accrues to their Successors, that live in another Age; as Cicero said of them who took delight in planting Oake-Trees, Serunt Arbores, quae prosi●…t alteri saeculo. He enlarged his prebend's House, by making some convenient Additions to it; particularly, he erected a new Dining Room, and beautified the other Rooms, all which he enjoyed but for a little time, of which he made the best use while he lived, to serve his God, and seek after the Churches good; in which work he was as industrious after his Majesty's happy Restauration as he was before, to testify his Religious zeal and care, that all things might run on in the old right Channel; for which reason, he writ a fervent Letter to a great Statesman of that time, earnestly pressing him to advise the King, that a Convocation might be called with the present Parliament, which was a thing then under question; his Letter is as followeth.  
Right Honourable, and my very good Lord;  
I Cannot tell how welcome or unwelcome this Address may prove, in regard of the greatness of the Cause, and the low Condition of the Party, who negotiates in it: But I am apt enough to persuade myself, that the honest zeal which moves me to it; not only will excuse, but endear the boldness. There is (my Lord) a general speech, but a more general fear withal amongst some of the Clergy, that there will be no Convocation called with the following Parliament; which if it should be so resolved on, cannot but raise sad thoughts in the hearts of those, who wish the peace and happiness of this our English Zion. But being Bishops are excluded from their Votes in Parliament, there is no other way to keep up their honour and esteem in the Eyes of the People, than the retaining of their places in Convocation: Nor have the lower Clergy any other means to show their duty to the King, and keep that little freedom which is left unto them, than by assembling in in such meetings, where they may exercise the Power of a Convocation, in granting Subsidies to his Majesty, though in nothing else. And should that Power be taken from them, according to the constant (but unprecedented) practice of the late long Parliament; and that they must be taxed and rated with the rest of the Subjects without their liking and consent? I cannot see what will become of the first Article of Magna Charta, so solemnly, so frequently confirmed in Parliament; or what can possibly be left unto them of either the Rights or Liberties belonging to an English Subject. I know it is conceived by some, that the distrust which his Majesty hath in some of the Clergy, and the diffidence which the Clergy have one of another, is looked on as the principle cause of the Innovation. For I must needs behold it as an Innovation, that any Parliament should be called without a meeting of the Clergy at the same time with it. The first year of King Edward the Sixth, Qeen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, were times of greater diffidence and distraction than this present conjuncture: And yet no Parliament was called in the beginning of their several Reigns without the company and attendance of a Convocation, though the intendments of the State aimed then at greater Alterations in the face of the Church, than are now pretended or desired: And to say truth, there was no danger to be feared from a Convocation th●…ugh the times were ticklish and unsettled, and the Clergy was divided into sides and Factions, as the Case then stood, and so stands with us at the present time. For since the Clergy in their Convocations are in no Authority to propound, treat, or conclude any thing, (more than the passing of a Bill of Subsidies for his Majesty's use) until they are impowered by the King's Commission. The King may tie them up for what time he pleaseth, and give them nothing but the opportunity of entertaining one another with the News of the Day. But if it be objected, That the Commission now on foot for altering and explaining certain passages in the public Liturgy, shall either pass instead of a Convocation, or else is thought to be neither competable nor consistent with it; I hope for better in the one, and must profess that I can see no reason in the other. For first, I hope, that the selecting of some few Bishops, and other learned men of the lower Clergy, to debate on certain points contained in the Common Prayer-Book, is not intended for a Representation of the Church of England, which is a Body more diffused, and cannot legally stand by their Acts and Councils; and if the Conference be for no other purpose, but only to prepare matter for a Convocation, (as some say it is not) why may not such a Conference and Convocation be held both at once? For neither the selecting of some learned men out of both the Orders for the composing and reveiwing of the two Liturgies, digested in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, proved any hindrence in the calling of their Convocation, which were held both in the second and third, and in the fifth and sixth years of the said Kings Reign: Nor was it found that the holding of a Convocation together with the first Parliament under Queen Elizabeth proved any hindrance to that Conference in disputation, which was designed between the Bishops and some learned men of the opposite Parties. All which considered, I do most humbly beg your Lordship to put his Majesty in mind of sending out his Mandates to the two Arch▪ Bishops, for summoning a Convocation according to the usual Form, in their several Provinces, that this poor Church may be held with some degree of veneration both at home and abroad. And in the next place, I do no less humbly-beseech your Lordship to excuse this freedom, which nothing but my zeal to God's Glory, and my affection to this Church could have forced from me. I know how ill this present Office doth become me, and how much better it had been, for such as shine in a more eminent Sphere in the holy Hierarchy to have tendered these particulars to consideration; which since they either have not done, or that no visible effect hath appeared thereof, I could not choose but cast my poor Mite into the Treasury; which if it may conduce to the Churches good, I shall have my wish; and howsoever shall be satisfied in point of Conscience, that I have not failed in doing my duty to this Church, according to the light of my understanding, and then what happens to me shall not be material. And thus again most humbly craving pardon for this great presumption, I subscribe myself,  
My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Servant to be commanded, PETER HEYLYN.  
Soon after, a Convocation was called by his Majesty's Writ; and during the time of their sitting (while he lived) he seldom was without Visitors from them, who constantly upon occasion, came to him for his Advice and Direction in matters relating to the Church; because he had been himself an ancient Clerk in the old Convocations. Many Persons of Quality, besides the Clergy, for the reverence they had to his Learning, and the delight they took in his Company, paid him several Visits, which he never repaid, being still so devoted to his studies, that except going to Church, it was a rare thing to find him from home. I happened to be there when the good Bishop of Durham, Dr. Cousins, came to see him; who after a great deal of familiar discourse between them, said, I wonder Brother Heylyn thou art not a Bishop, for we all know thou hast deserved it. To which he answered, much good may it do the new Bishops, I do not envy them, but wish they may do more than I have done. Although he was but a Presbyter, I believe their Lordships thought him worthy of their holy Order; I am sure he was reverenced by some of them as St. Jerome was by St. Augustine. (Quamvis Episcopus major est Presbitero Augustinus tamen minor est Jeronimo.) The one of which was an old Presbyter, the other a young Bishop, but both of incomparable Learning and Virtues. The old Presbyter writeth thus to St. Austin the great Bishop of 
S. Jer. Ep. 18. ad Aug.  his time. In scripturarum campo juvenis, non provoces senem. Nos nostra habuimus tempora: nunc te currente, & longa spatia transmeante nobis debitur otium. For the good Doctors indefatigable pains and continued industry, he was second to none. For his Writings and Sufferings in the Cause of Monar●…by and Episcopacy, he did spend himself, and was spent: For the sad Persecutions he suffered in the time of War, his Enemies hunting ●…fter his Life, as Ahaziahs' Captains did for the man of God; the woeful shifts and straits he was put to, to secure himself from violence; how many times he narrowly escaped death from the hands of his Enemies, as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowler? What fears and distractions were often upon him, that he might say, O si nescissem Literas, I would to God I had not known a Letter of the Book; for his Learning and Loyalty were the cause of all his Calamities, yet notwithstanding he lived in an ungrateful Age, that no respect was showed to him or his: But he returned only to his own in Peace, which he enjoyed a little while before the War, and less time after the Church's setlement. It hath been the Lot many times of great Scholars, to be neglected, which made his Enemies rejoice, and not a little insult over him, to see him only passed by, and of all others remain in Statu quo, in the same Condition he was in before, which after the happy revolution of public affairs neither Law nor Justice could hinder him of. I will not say of him as the Cardinal did of Melancton, that most Learned Divine of the Reformation. O ingratam Germaniam quae tanti 
Melch. Ad. in vit. Mel.  viri tantosque labores non pluris aestimet. It fa redalso ill with Luther's Memory after his Death, whose Widow hoping some favours would be showed to her for his merits, was shamefully disappointed. Praeter viduitatis incommoda quae mutiplicia, experta est magnam ingratitudinem 
ibid. in vit. Luth.  multorum pro quibus sperans benesicia ob ingentia mariti in Ecclesiam merita turpiter frustrata est. So ordinary it is fo●… men of admired worth, who have done public service either in Church or State, to be soon forgotten.  
Now having run through the principal circumstances of this Reverend man's Life, it behoves us to say something of his Person, Conversation, Qualities, and the memorable Accidents happening before the time of his Death, and so leave his Memory among worthy men.  
For his Person; he was of a middle Stature; a slender spare man; his Face oval, of fresh complexion, looking rather young than old; his Hair short and curled, had few or no grey hairs; his Eyes quick and sparkling, before he had the ill fortune to lose his Sight: His natural Constitution being hot and dry: It was conceived by skilful Oculists, his Brain, heated with immoderate study, burnt up the Crystalline humour of his Eyes: And this was most probable, he being continually engaged in writing either for Church or State; his Brain was like a Laboratory kept hot with study, decayed his Eyes, if there be any truth in the Naturalists Observation, magna 
Plin. Nat. His. lib. 11. cap. 36.  cogitatio obcaecat, abducto intus visu. And this he looked upon as the saddest affliction that ever befell him in his whole Life: Yet no doubt he was comforted, with the words (which he had often read in Socrates) of Anthony the good Monk unto Dydimus that learned man of Alexandria. Let it not grieve thee at all (saith he) O noble Dydimus, that thou art bereft of thy corporal Eyes, and 
Socrat. ●…. 4. cap. 20.  carnal sight; for though you want such Eyes as commonly are given to Flies and Gnats, yet hast thou greatly to rejoice that the Eyes wherewith the Angels do behold their Maker, wherewith God is seen of Men are not taken from thee.  
Our blessed Saviour said, the light of the Body is the Eye; for without these two Luminaries which God hath placed in the Microcosm of man: None can be said in this World to live a true happy Day, who are under such a continual Night of Darkness; but that the intellectual Light of the Soul, the Candle of the Lord within us, supplies that miserable defect with a far greater felicity by extraordinary endowments of the 
Sen. lib. 10. not Quest.  mind, which Seneca calls, melior pars nostri; and it is the best part of man indeed: though all the Members and Parts of our Bodies are so excellently compacted together by the Wisdom of the Creator, and have such a necessary depences upon one another for the exercise of their several Offices, that the Compositum of Man cannot be complete without them; and chiefly the Eye being the guide of the whole Body, hath pre-eminence over the rest of the Members, saith the Philosopher, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 
Arist. lib. 1. Met.  because by it we receive the greatest share of Knowledge and Understanding, it being the principal Organ of sens●… for that use.  
But the loss of his Eyes, considering the Cause, was no blemish to his Person, but rather a Mark of Honour, as the Caeci among the Romans, a noble Family were so called, because of the notable service they did for the public 
Alex. ab Alex. lib. 1. cap. 9  good, Claros & illustres viros, militiae domique ex oculorum vitio cognomenta invenere, saith Alex. ab Alexand. Thus Constantine the great, in honour of Paphnutius sufferings for Christian Religion, kissed the hole in his face, out of 
Holy State. l. 3. c. 15.  which the Tyrant Maximinus had bored his eye: the good Emperor making much of the Socket (saith Mr. Fuller) when the Candle was p●…t out. These outward Windows being shut, the Doctor enjoyed more perfectly the sweet and seraphical contemplations of his own Mind, without ●… disturbance from other Objects; which ●…eing removed, he did take a complacency and delight only in himself, as Tully saith, Habet animus quo se delectet, 
Tull. lib. 5. Tusc.  etiam occlusis sensibus. I may say truly of him thus, (though he was my Father in Law) that he was the venerable Bede of our Age, for many excellent Tractates he published which he never saw with his own Eyes, and they were done in as exact a manner, as when he had his faculty of sight at the best. The like Socrates saith of Dydimus when he was 
Socr. Eccl. H. l. 4. c. 20.  blind; he not only interpreted origen's Writings, and made Commentaries upon them, but set forth excellent Treatises to defend the Orthodox Faith against the Arians. The Doctor's Cosmography was the last Book he writ with his own hand, after which voluminous work, his Eyes failed him, that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis, whom he kept to his dying day; yet he was not so totally deprived of his sight, (as some imagine) but he could discern a Body or Substance near hand, (though not the Physiognomy of a Face) so as to follow his Leader, when he walked abroad.  
He macerated his Body with the immoderate exercises of his mind, ofte●… fasting, and taking little or nothing for the space of two or three days when he was upon painful studies, which made him look at such times like a Sceleton; yet than he was also of a cheerful Spirit. He followed no excercise for his health, but walking in his Garden, and then he used a kind of low whistling with himself, either to recreate his Spirits, or else (as it were) to sound an Alarm against his Enemies; like the old Germans, who affected a such like Tone, asperitas soni, & fractum murmur, when 
Cor. Tac●…. de mor. Ger.  they went to War. All this while he was in deep Meditation, preparing for an encounter with his Adversary in some polemical discourse: The Pen being his only Weapon, in which he was as fortunate, as Alexander with his Sword; of whom it's said, Come nullo 
Just. Hist. lib. 12.  hostium unquam congressus est, quem non vicerit, He fought with none of his Enemies, but he overcame them; so the Doctor had the same good fortune in all his Pen-Combates to be Conqueror: For which cause he was ordinarily called the Primipilus, and chief Defender of Prelacy; by Smectymnus, the Bishop's Darling, by others, the Puritan Episcopal man. For his Zeal and Courage, I may truly say of him, he was a right Peter, of whom Casaubon observes out of the Greek Fathers, Petrum suisse 
Casaub. Exer. Cont. Baron. l. 4. c. 6.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, ●…ervido ingenio virum. St. Peter was a man of a hot temper and disposition, that set him forward on all occasions, more than the other Disciples; So the Doctor was of the like disposition naturally, and inclined the more by study, much watching, and sitting up late at Nights, that threw him often into Fevers, to which he was very subject; not withstanding his hot▪ temper and constitution, he did so wisely correct and govern it, that he never fell into those Paroxisms, as to suffer his reason to be extinguished with passion, but his most fervent zeal was ever attended with deep knowledge, for he had an acute Wit, a solid judgement, and exuberant fancy, to which was adjoined, (that which is rare to be found in all these excellences together) a most prodigious, and yet faithful Memory; that he did not usually take Notes, or make Collections of Readins out of Authors, (as most Scholars do) but committed what he read to his own Memory, which I believe never failed him, in whatsoever he treasured up to make use of hereafter: Therefore it was a pitiful charge of Mr. H. L' Estrange against him, that he misreported the words of Pareus, in putting down quomodo for 
Extra. vap. p. 131.  quando; to which the Doctor answers thus for himself, whereby we may see what a true▪ Repository of things his Memory was. I must tell you, (saith he) for him that is plundered of his Books, and keeping no Remembrances and Collections of his Studies by him, he cannot readily resolve what E●…ition he followed in his consulting with that Author. He always thought that Tenure in Capite, was a nobler, and and more honourable Tenure than to hold by Copy; and therefore carelessly neglected to commit any part of his Readins unto Notes and Papers, of which he never found such want, as in this particular which you so boldly charge upon him.  
When the Esquire taxed him again 
C.  for having many Helpers, as if he were beholden to other men's studies and pains about the composing of his Books, that was such a notorious Scandal, that every one who knew him, could confute; he in modest and most pious manner, replied thus, Though I cannot say, that I 
Exam. His. p. 206.  have many Helpers, yet I cannot but confess in all humble gratitude, that I have one great Helper, which is instar omnium, even the Lord my God; Auxilium meum a Domino, my help cometh even from the Lord which hath made Heaven and Earth as the Psalmist hath it. And I can say with the like humble acknowledgements of God's mercies to me, as Jacob did, when he was asked about the quick dispatch which he had made in preparing savoury meat for his Aged Father; Voluntas Dei fuit, & tam cito occurreret mihi quod volebam. Gen. 27. 20. It is God's goodness, and his only, that I am able to do what I do: And as for any humane Helpers, as the French Courtiers use to say of King Lewis the Second, That all his Council rid upon one Horse, because he relied upon his own Judgement and Abilities only: So I may very truly say, that one poor Hackny-horse will carry all my Helpers used, be they never so numerous. The greatest help which I have had (since it pleased God to make my own sight unuseful to me) as to writing and reading, hath come from one, whom I had entertained for my Clerk or Amanuensis, who though he reasonably well understood both Greek and Latin, yet had he no further Education in the way of Learning, than what he brought with him from the School, and a poor Country School.  
His adversaries accused him sometimes for se●…erity in his writings, but they never could for virulency, no, not the strict Sabbatarians who were chiefly offended with him, for his History of the Sabbath. The Ministers of Surrey and Buckinghamshire returned him thanks in the name of themselves, and their party for dealing so Candidly with them by all meek and loving persuasions, when he writ upon that Subject, and especially for his preface before the History. He once met with some rude usages in Court, though that is the place ordinarily of best breeding, and most civility, no other reason could be imagined but because he was envied by his Fellow Chaplains, who saw him then a rising man, and most likely to be an Ascendant over them, if the old King and Archbishop had lived. As to the Earl of E. Speech, calling him a begging Scholar, such great Persons do take the Liberty to say what they please of their Inferiors, and none must control them; how ever the young Scholar came not to his Lordship as a Mendic●…nt, for he asked nothing at his hands but to accept the Vindic●…tion of his order, which the Earl was bound to defend for his Honour sake, but could not with that Learning as the Historian had done. In the height of his prosperity, he abated nothing of his wont Studies, but rathet increased them, as it was said of him, Ego quo major fuero tanto plus laborabo. His 
Capitolin: cap. 2.  whole Life (I may say) was a continued Study unto death for all his delight, time, thoughts and business was taken up in his Books, that he lived no longer than he could be an Author, and that at the last a most profitable one to his King and Country, as in his History of the Presbiterians which was his Farewell Book to the World, which no sooner he had prepared for the Press but he died like the ancient Romans, of whom Tacitus saith cecidere omnes versi in hostem, thy fell with their faces turned towards the Fnemy. Finally 
An. lib. 15.  he worthily deserved that Character of praise and thanks, which the good Emperor A. Severus bestowed on them, who discharged their office well, saying, Gratias tibi agit Respublica, 
Lamprid. cap. 4.  but it was his ill Fortune to live in such ungrateful times, that according to the French proverb, Qui sert commun nul ne le pay, & Silius defaut chacun labbaye. He that serves the good of the Community, is controlled by every one and rewarded by none. Yet however to his perpetual Honour, it may be said of him truly as was of the famous Scaliger, and whosoever reads his Life will confess the same. Viz.  
Clarissimi & illustrissimi sumus, Principibus 
Jul. Caesar Scalig. vet. pag. 63.  & proceribus noti sumus. Literarum amantissimi sumus, Ab omni ambitione & invidia remotisumus, inimici nostri virtutem, non vitium in nobis hactenus insectati sunt. We are descended of an illustrious family; to Princes and Nobles we are well known, most lovers also of Learning, far from Ambition in ourselves, and the envy of others. Our Eenemies may rail at our Virtues, but they cannot reprove us for Vice.  
Therefore in the next place we shall speak of his Conversation, that was free from all Scandal, or common imoralities which none of his most inveterate Enemies could tax him with, but only for his Religion and Loyalty, in which they thought he was too forward and more Zealous than many others, but that was no Crime, but Conscience. He was strict in the Education of his Children to train them up in Religious exercises, especially to get the Scripture by heart; that one of them having a singular memory like her Father, could give an account of all the Historical passages methodically from Chapter to Chapter, through most of the Bible, which an old Presbyterian Minister in Lincolnshire desiring to hear from her, she performed accordingly, at which the good man stood amazed, saying. I did not think Episcopal men brought up their Children in this manner, for Doctor heylyn's sake I shall have a better opinion of them then ever I had. So strangely is that party prepossessed with prejudice, and unchristian thoughts, as if the Episcopal Clergy did not Educate their Children in the Fear of God, whose care and conscience is, and hath always been, to instruct them in this Lesson, To fear God, and honour the King, which whole sentence, and sometimes only the latter clause of it, for fear of Popery and arbitrary Power, some zealous Presbyters have caused to be razed out of their Churches painting. At last this man had the good luck to meet with Dr. Heylyn at his own Parish of Laceby in Lincolnshire, where after some discourses, the Doctor so well settled him in all points, that he lived and died a true Conformist to the Church of England. His chief pleasure was to converse with Scholars and Divines, from whose company his house seldom cooled, and they were as much delighted with his learned Society for their own improvements; that any one might say of him in this Case, who familiarly communed with him, Nunquam accedo ad te, quin abs te abeam doctior. If he had no such company, his ordinary conversation was very pleasant at Meals with his own Family; but if he was disturbed o●…t of the●… times, by them or Strangers (excepting Scholars) whereby he was taken off from his usual studies, indeed he was morose, and somewhat peevish for a while, till he diverted his thoughts from his Book, and then no man could be more complaisant, and very jocular; yet withal keeping up the gravity that became his degree. For an hour after Dinner he would stay with ordinary Guests, and then no more to be seen of him till Night; but like Diogenes in Dolio, he was musing in his Study. He made seldom visits to his Friends, but loved to be visited himself, at which they took no exception, knowing his i●…rmity of fight, rendered him unable to stir abroad or otherwise he could have repaid the like ceremonies. I have known several Reverend Persons, who were old Bishops before the War, have honoured him with visits in Abingdon, and some new ●…shops now living, as the right Reverend Fathers the Bishop of Durham, the Bishop of Lincoln, and the Bishop of Exeter. And he wanted not good campany amongst his own Neighbours in Abingdon, per●…ularly Doctor Tucker a Civilian, Mr. Jennings an ingenious Person, and ejected fellow of St. John's C. in Oxon, and Mr. Blower a witty Lawyer, who were his constant Visitors, and in whose company he was extremely delighted at all times.  
For his generosity on all occasions (as well as free Hospitality) to help the public concerns at the time of any royal aid or Benevolence, to serve his Prince and his Country, no man could show himself more active and forward to contribute according to his Power, and sometimes above it, when he was s●…arce warm in his Ecclesiastical Preferments; soon after which, the sad Wars broke, forth, that despoiled him and the regular Clergy. In the year 1639. when his Majesty began his Journey against the Scots, upon the liberal contribution of the Clergy, he gave fifty Pounds out of his Parsonage in Alresford, and for Southwarn-borough, thirteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence; at the same time when he had not paid of his first Fruits for this Living. He was the first of all the Clergy that subscribed in Hampshire; being a leading man; his good Example so moved others, that the Clergy of that County exceeded their other Brethren; they raised for the Kings use the sum of 1348l. 2s. 4d. After his Majesty, King Charles the Second most happy Restauration; towards the Royal Benevolence he gave fifty Pounds, for his Parsonage of Alresford, besides his share of a thousand Pound, as he was Prebendary of Westminster. I should have added also, (which I had almost forgotten) in the beginning of the War he gave to the Old King, Money and Plate to the value of an hundred Pounds; by all which freely parted out of his Purse, and more than his Estate could well bear, having many Children to provide for; he sufficiently confuted the Calumny of L' Strange, who said, according to his gentile and new mode of writing hard words, the Doctor was 
L' Strange Hist. fol. 45.  Philargurous, when poor man what he parted with, and what he was plundered of, he had scarce enough left to insconse his Person from frigidity, according to the good squire's Language.  
For his Charity to the Poor, he had always a liberal Heart, to cast his Bread upon the Waters when he had Bread to cast, that is, when he was in a condition to relieve others; at which time he gave Alms to his Enemies, as well as to the honest Poor of the King's Party; for being asked the question when he lived in Abingdon, whether he would serve St. Ellens poor, being of the adverse Party against the Royalists? He answered, no exception ought to be made in the Case of Charity. Wherein he followed the Example of our blessed Lord, who had compassion on the poor Samaritans as well as upon the Jews, to whom he showed many acts of piety and goodness, besides the Cure of their bodily infirmities; its probable he gave them an Alms-peny, for which reason Judas carried the Bag, that had a common stock in it for the Poor, to be used, as occasion served. The good Doctor hath sent Meat from his own Table to the Prisoners in Goal, and at Abington such as were condemned to die, he took pains to instruct and prepare them for Death, and to administer the holy Sacrament unto them before their Execution, particularly to one Captain Francis, and his Company condemned with him, at Abingdon Assizes, the Captain being a known Royalist, for which reason it was thought, the Judge was so severe against him upon his Trial, and plainly partial in the Examination of Witnesses of both sides. The Doctor after the Sentence of Condemnation, went to Prison to pray with him, and administered the Sacrament to him and the other Prisoners, who were penitent; provivided Bread and Wine for them at his own Charge; all which certainly was the most Christian Act of Piety and Charity that could be showed to those miserable Souls. I could instance many other particulars, which manifested his goodness, wherein he ought to be followed as a worthy Example, but that its time now to draw near to his End.  
For do the Prophets live for ever? as the good Prophet himself said. No, 'tis the deplored Condition of Mankind to live a while, for to die; after the holy men of God, had served God in their Generation, they must fulfil the end of their Prophecy with their Lives; as God said to Daniel. Tu autem abi ad termiwm. Go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest and stand in the Lot at the end of the days; on which, Geierus and Junius▪ Comment thus.  
Compara te ad mortem, disposita domo ●…ua, & contentus hac revelatione, non ultra labores & requiesces a laboribus, corpore 
Geicr: & Jun: in loc:  in Sepulchro, Anima vero in sinu Abrahae, stabis in haereditate tua caelesti & aeterna, vel illa ejus parte quae tibi ex dècreto Dei continget.  
Prepare thyself for Death, set thy house in order, be content with this Revelation; thou shalt labour no more, but rest from all thy labours and troubles, with thy Body in the Grave▪ but thy Soul in Abra●…ams Bosom; thou shalt abide for ever in thy celestial Inheritance, and in that degree of Glory which God hath decreed for thee. So all these things happened to this good man; and I may call him prophetical, because he strangely foresaw his own Death, set his house in order, and prepared himself accordingly, and an end was soon put after to his Days, and of making many Books because much study, as Solomon ●…aith, is a weariness of the flesh, though the Mind or Spirit of a Man is never tired out or can be satisfied, because Knowledge is no burden. By the Almighty's good pleasure and providence, he was now removed from his House in Abingdon to his house in Westminster, (where he lived not long) and from thence to the House of Darkness, where all must take up their last Lodging. The Grave is mine house (saith Job) I have made my Bed in the Darkness. What Man is he that liveth and shall not see Death? Shall ●…e deliver his Soul from the hand of the Grave? Is not this the House appointed for all Living? According to the French Proverb, three things carry away all with them.  

L'Eglise, la Court & la Mort  
L'Eglise prend de vif & mort  
La Court prend le droiet & le tort  
La Mort prend le foible & le fort.   

The Church, the Court, and Death take all;  
The Church both Living and the Dead install:  
To Court all Causes come, either right or wrong,  
But Death destroys all Mortals weak or strong.   
Therefore we shall speak of the Circumstances foregoing his Death, and the memorable Accidents happening to him about the same time. He had before been greivously afflicted with a Quartan Ague, that deadly Enemy unto old Age, and seldom cured by the Physician. Febris quartana opprobrium medici. The poor Doctor had wrestled with the Disease a long time, and seemingly got the victory of it, for the paroxysms or usual fits of this sore distemper had departed from him, but withal so violently shaken him, and left such a weakness behind them, so exhausted his strength and vital Spirits, that any one might perceive what strange alterations his sickness had wrought in him; for he was before of a fresh lively complexion; a man vigorous in action, but now grown feeble and weak, of a pale discoloured countenance, the forerunner of Death, his Cheeks fallen, his Eyes a little sunk within his Temples, and leanness of Face and whole Body, that showed he was hastening on fast to the end of his Pilgrimage: Yet I dare not say there is such a predetermined Term of every man's Life, which is immutable, but the great God of Heaven from whom we derive our Being, can lengthen or shorten our days, as his Wisdom pleaseth; and on the other side, this is a Decree most absolute and irrevocable, Statutum est▪ omnibus ut semel moriantur. It is appointed for all men once to die. In reverence of which Decree, such a heavenly man as the Doctor was, could not but be prepared (as every religious Soul is) for to die, or put off his mortal Body.  
Before which time two Accidents happened to him, one suddenly after the other, which he looked upon as presaging Providences of his Death; for he was a man very critical in his observation of unusual things, and I may say in this particular, prophetical: For on the Saturday Night before he sickened, he dreamt that he was in an extraordinary pleasant and delightful Place; where standing and admiring the beauty and glory of it, he saw the late King his Master, who said to him Peter, I will have you buried under your Seat at Church, for you are rarely seen, but there or at your Study: Which Dream he told his Wife the next Morning; saying, it was a significant one, giving her charge, when he died, there to bury him. A few hours after, his Maid holding his Surplice against the Fire to air it, one of the Billets upon the fire, tumbled down, the Flame of which catched hold of the Surplice and burned it; at which Accident, so soon following his Dream, he said, That was ominous, and he should never wear Surplice more, as indeed he did not; like Aa●…on the high Priest when he was stripped of his priestly Garments by Gods own appointment, he must certainly die. These two Accidents falling out together, made such a strong impression upon his mind, that on the same day (though he was seemingly well as he used to be) he did not go to Church, but on the Monday following went forth in the Morning, stayed out all the Day, in which time he bought a House of one Mrs. Floyd in the Almonry, paid his Money for it, renewed the Lease of it, and brought home the Writings; and then told his Wife, the reason of his being from home all that time (which was an unusual thing with him) was, because he had bought her a House to live in, near the Abbey, that she might serve God in that Church, as he had done, All which she not knowing before, seemed strange and terrifying to her, not thinking the precedent Accidents of the Dream and Surplice could have wrought such an indelible impression on his fancy, she urged all the arguments and persuasions she possibly could, to drive away this Melancholy humour, but all in vain, for he still persisted in his opinion, which proved too sad a truth: Because he was a man, who rarely dreamt in his Life, and when he did, he could remember no circumstances of it, which puts me in mind what Pliny hath written to this purpose, that there be some persons of so curious and excellent temper, who are seldom or never disturbed with Dreams, but if it so happen to them at any time, it is a deadly sign. 
Pli●…. Hist. ●…at. l. 10. c. 75.  Quibus mortiferum fuisse signum (saith he) contra consuetudinem somniorum in venimus exempla.  
That there is a truth in some Dreams I do not question; though I would not have men too credulous of them: Because this is not now God's oeconomy or his ordinary way of dispensation under the Gospel, to manifest his mind to us, as he did to the Patriarches before the Law, and afterward to the holy Prophets, to whom he made known himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, at sundry 
Heb. cap. 1. 17.  times, and in divers manners, and particularly in this way and manner of Dreams; yet as God cannot be limited in his Will and Power at any time, when he hath a mind to do an extraordinary thing: I would therefore not too rigidly condemn all Dreams for delusions, that are ascertained to us by the Testimony of wise and credible Persons, whom we know are no way inclined to be either fanciful or fanatic. Omitting what Artemidorus hath written in his Oneirocriticks, I 
Rhodogin. l. 27. c. 9  take Caelius Rhodoginus for a most learned and faithful Author, who reports of himself, that when he could not explain a hard passage, he met with in Pliny, that puzzled his Brain, it was made known and revealed to him in a Dream, if he did look in such a Book he should find it. Librum arripui (saith he) sicut somniaveram sic comperui. ` I took up the Book, and `found the same accordingly as I `dreamed. Neither was that less wonderful, which Joseph Scaliger tells us of his Father's Dream, who in his Sleep read an Epitaph which he never saw with his Eyes, or ever heard of before, yet proved most true; whence he inferreth by this Example, the 
Jul. Caes. Scal. vita pag. 48.  prodigy, and yet certainty of some Dreams. Prodigiosa etiam usque ad miraculum ex somniis vaticinatio. We may believe his Relation; for he was a man of that Integrity, and great Spirit, as he would scorn to tell a Lye. I cannot omit what Dr. Heylyn himself hath written of Archbishop Laud, That he was much given to take notice of Dreams, and commit them to writing. Amongst which I find this for one; that on Friday Night, the 24th. of January 1639. his Fath●…r (who died six and forty 
Arch-Bish. Life p. 422.  years before) came to him, and that to his thinking, he was as well, and as cheerful, as evil he saw him; that his Father asked him what he did there; and that after some speec●…, he demanded of his Father, how long he would stay there? And his Father made this Answer, that he should stay till he had him along with him. A Dream which made such impression on him, as to add this Note to it in his Breviate, that though he was not moved with Dreams, yet he thought to remember this.  
I know many impute those Dreams in our Sleep to a melancholy temper, which the Doctor was never subject to, either in time of Sickness or Health, but was a Man always of most cheerful Spirit. I confess that black humour presenteth strange things to the Imagination and Fantasy of some Persons, that Aristotle in his Problems ascribes the Prophecy of the Sibyl Women thereto, and Cardanus, the Revelations of Hermit's, because living in solitude, and on bad diet. Quantum 
Card. de Subtle. l. 18. p. 1187.  poterat (saith he) in illis humor melancholicus. The old Philosophers also were of opinion, that all Prophecy did proceed from the strength of Imagination, by the conjunction of the Understanding; which they call Intellectus possibilis, with the other faculty of the Intellectus agens; whereby they concluded, (contrary to the holy Scripture) that old men were not capable of prophesying, by reason of the weakness of their imagination, and other natural faculties decayed in them, through Age; but the quite contrary appeareth in Scripture Examples, that that they were generally aged men, or well stricken in years, who had the gift of prophecy, though their eye sight failen them, as did with Jacob, yet they were called Seers, because they foresaw future things, they were so old, that for their Age and gravity they were sometimes upbraided, so Elisha by the Children was mocked, who undoubtedly were so taught by their ungodly Fathers, to say of him go up thou baldhead. Neither doth a melancholy constitution (as some have imagined) make men prophetical either in sleeping or waking, but on the contrary renders them uncapable, as is evident by the examples of Jacob, and Elisha; the first of whom being in deep sadness, (which is the inseparable Companion of melancholy) for the loss of his Son Joseph, was at the same disabled from prophecy or otherwise he could have told what Fortune had befallen his Son, who, was not dead, but sold by his Brethren. Hence Mercer tells us it was an ordinary saying among the Rabbins 
Men. in Gen. c. 31.  Maeror prophetiam impedit, In like manner the Prophet Elisha for the sorrow of Elijah his Master, taken away from him, and the anger he had conceived against Jehoram that wicked Prince, whilst these two passions were predominant over him, he could not prophesy, till the Minstrel played with her Musical Instrument, to drive away his melancholy sadness, and then the hand of the Lord (its said) came upon him, and he prophesied saying, Thus saith the Lord, etc.  
By all which I hope it is evident, that hypocondriacal persons, who are grievously afflicted with melancholy are not thereby disposed to prophesy, and then by necessary consequence it followeth, that Dreams arising from the same natural cause cannot be said prophetical, no more than that of Albertus magnus who dreamed that hot Scalding 
Rhodig. lib. 27. lcap. 7.  Pitch was poured upon his Breast, a●…d so soon as he awakened from his sleep, he vomited up abundance of adust Chollar. Such Dreams certainly arise from the ill habitude of the Body, through fullness of bad humours.  
But there is another sort of Dreams which may be called divine or supernatural, which are imprinted on the mind of man, either by God himself or his holy Angels, from which necessarily follows prophecy; because such extraordinary impressions are usual for those ends. And this I take to be the Reverend Doctor's Dream, who was a man of so great Piety as well as Study, that I cannot think otherwise, but that he was able to discern the different motions of his Soul, whether they were natural or supernatural, of which last he was so firmly assured by his own reason and great Learning, that no arguments could dissuade him to the contrary, St. Austiine saith. Animam habere quandam vim divinationis in seipsa. That the Soul of man hath a certain power of Divination in itself, when it is abstracted from bodily actions, I confess than it must needs be drawn up to higher Communion with God than ordinary; but more immediately I rather think with Tertullian, a little before death, about the time of its separation from the Body, because many dying persons have wonderfully foretold things which afterward came to pass, the reason of which, that good Father giveth (and therein I judge he 
Tertull. lib. de An. cap 53.  was no Montanist) when he saith. Quia Anima in ipso divertio penitus agitari enunciet quae vidit, quae audit & quae incipit nosse●… Because the Soul than acts most vigorously at the last Broth, declares what things it seeth, it heareth, and what it begins to know, now entering into Eternity.  
So the heavenly and pious Doctor according to the prenotions of his Death overseeing his time was short, gave his Wife strict charge again (that very night as he was going to Bed and in appearance well) that she should bury him according to his Dream, she affrighted with this dreadful charge, sat by him, while he fell into a Sleep, out of which he soon awaked in a Feverish distemper, and violent Hiccup, which she taking notice of said, I fear Mr. Heylyn you have got cold with going abroad to day, but he answered very readily, no, it was Death●… Hiccup, and so it proved, for he grew worse and worse till he died. Now some I hear impute the cause of his sickness to the eating of a Tansy, but this is false, for I heard the contrary relation from her own mouth, his Dream was on the Saturday night, his Surplice happened to be burnt on Sunday morning all which day he passed in private mediatation in his Study, and on the Monday, what time he had to spare he spent in providing a Settlement for his Wife as aforesaid.  
But to return again to his good man's sickness, of which the true cause as his Physician said, was the relics of his long quartane Ague not purged out by Physic, to which he was always averse, threw him into a malignant Fever●…, in which ●…he remained insensible till some few hours before he died, but when it pleased God to restore unto him his Senses again, he most zealously glorified his Name with praises and thanksgivings for his mercies towards himself and Family, earnestly praying for them, and often commending them to God's Heaveuly care and protection, at the same time he left ●… little Book of Prayers with his dear Wife for her devotion, which she showed afterward to me, being a Collection of many, Collects out of the Common Prayer, to every one of which he had added a most fervent Prayer of his own composure, that little Book she said should be the Prayer-Book of her Devotion while she lived. Finally as his time grew shorter and shorter, he prayed with more vehemency of Spirit sometimes to God, sometimes to his Saviour, and to the blessed Comforter of his Soul, rejoicing exceedingly, that he should live to Ascension day, uttering forth most heavenly expressions to the sweet Comfo●…t of others and principally of his own Soul with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or full assurance of his Salvation, through Christ Jesus, which last unspeakable joy and consolation above all other, God is pleased to be bestow upon the faithful, and seal it to them with the earnest of his Spirit at the hour of Death. At which time, his Soul now ready to depart, and be with Christ his Saviour, one Mr. Merrol a Verger of the Church coming into his Chamber to see him, he presently called him to his Bed side, saying to him. I know it is Church time with you, and I know this is Ascenfion day, I am ascending to the Church Triumphant, I go to my God and Saviour, unto joys Caeleftial, and to Halleluja's eternal, with which and other like expressions he died upon Holy Thursday An. Dom. 1663. in the Climacterial year of his Life, threescore and three, in 〈◊〉 number the Sevenths and ninths do often fatally concur. He was afterward buried under his Sub-Deans Seat according to his Dream and desire. His Death lamented by all good men, because there was a Pillar, though not a Bishop fallen in the Church, of whom I may say in the Poet's words.  

Quando ullum invenient parem? 
Hor. l. 1. Od. 24.   
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit  
Nulli flebilior quam mihi.   

When will they find another such? his Fall  
Was most by me lamented, much by All   
God Almighty had blessed him with eleven Children, four of which are still living. His Monument is erected on the North side of the Abbey in Westminster, over against the Sub-Deans Sea●…, with this following Epitaph which the Reverend Dean of the Church then, Dr. Earl did himself compose in honour of his Memory.   

DEPOSITUM MORTALE.  

PETRI Heylyn. S. ●…. P. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii & Subdecani●…s.  
Viri plane memorabilis.  
Egregiis dotibus instructissimi.  
Ingenio acri & faecundo  
Judicio subacto.  
Memoria ad prodigium tenaci;  
Cui adjunxit incredibilem in studiis patientiam,  
Quae, cessantihus oculis, non cessarunt.  
Scripsit varia & Plurima  
Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur  
Et argumentis non vulgaribus,  
Stylo non vulgari suffecit.  
Constans ubique Ecclesiae  
Et. Majestatis▪ Regiae assertor  
Nec florentis magis utriusque  
Quam afflict●…:  
Idemque perduellium & Schism●…ticae factionis  
Impugnator acerrimus  
Contemptor invidiae  
Et animo infracto.  
Plura ejusmodi meditanti  
Mors indixit silentium  
Ut sileatur,  
Efficere non potest.   Obiit Anno Etat. 63.  

In English.  
A Monument of Mortality. Of Peter Heylyn Doctor of Divinity. Prebendary and Subdean of this Church. A man truly worthy of remembrance. Endowed with excellent parts. Of sharp and pregnant Wit. A solid and clear Judgement. A memory tenacious to a Miracle. Whereunto he added an incredible Patience in Study. And therein still persisted, when his Eye sight ceased. He Writ many Books, upon various Subjects, (that are now in men's hands) containing in them nothing that's Vulgar either for Style or Argument. On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches Right, and the King's Prerogative, as well in their afflicted as prosperous estate. Also he was a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismatics. A despiser of Envy, and a man of undaunted Spirit. While he was seriously intent on these, and many more like Studies Death commanded him to be silent, but could not silence his Fame.  
He died in the Sixty third year of his Age.   

A Catalogue of such Books as were written by the Learned Doctor.  
SPurius, a Tragedy, M. S. 1616. Theomachia, a Comedy, M. S. 1619. Geography printed at Oxon twice, A. D. 1621. and 1624. in Quarto, and afterwards in A. D. 1652. enlarged into Folio, under the Title of Cosmography.  

An Essay, called Augustus. 1631. since inserted into his Cosmography.  
The History of St. George, Lond. 1631. reprinted, 1633.  
The History of the Sabbath, 1631. reprinted, 1636.  
An Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Letter to the Vicar of Grantham, 1636. twice reprinted.  
An Answer to Mr. Burton's two Seditious Sermons, A. D. 1637.  
A short Treatise concerning A Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoined in the Fifty fifth. Canon, written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester, 1637.  
Antidotum Lincolniense, or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Book, entitled Holy Table, Name, and Thing. 1637. reprinted, 1638.  
An uniform Book of Articles, fitted for Bishops and Arch-Deacons in their Visitations, 1640.  
De Jure paritatis Episcoporum, or concerning the Peerage of Bishops, 1640. M. S.  
A Reply to Dr. Hackwel, concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist, M. S. 1641.  
The History of Episcopacy first under the Name of Theoph. Churchman, afterwards in his own Name, reprinted, 1657.  
The History of Liturgies written, 1642.  
A Relation of the Lord Hoptons' Victory at Bodmin.  
A View of the Proceedings in th●… ●…est for a Pacification.  
A Letter to a Gentleman in Lincolnshire about the Treaty.  
A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir John Gell.  
A Relation of the Queens Return from Holland, and the Siege of Newark.  
The Black Cross, showing that the Londoners were the Cause of the Rebellion.  
The Rebel's Chatechism: All these printed at Oxon. 1644.  
An Answer to the Papists groundless Clamour, who nickname the Religion of the Church of England by the Name of a Parliamentary Religion, 1644.  
A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of Will. La●…d. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1644.  
The stumbling Block of Disobedience removed, written, 1644. printed 1658.  
The Promised Seed in English Verse.  
Theologia Veterum, or an Exposition of the Creed, Fol. 1654.  
Survey of France, with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey, 1656. Quarto.  
Ex●…men Historicum, or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes, Falsities, and Defects in some Modern Histories. Lond. 1659.  
Certamen Epistolare, or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter, Dr. Bernard, Mr. Hickman, Oct. Lond. 1659.  
Historia Quinque-Articularis, Quarto, Lond. 1660.  
Respondet Petrus, or the Answer of Peter Heylyn, D. D. to Dr. Bernard's Book, entitled the Judgement of the late Primate, etc. Quarto, Lond. 1658.  
Observations on Mr. Hamond L' Estrange's History of the Life of King Charles the First, 1648.  
Extraneus Vapulans, or a Defence of those Observations. Lond. 1658.  
A short History of King Cbarles the First, from his Cradle to his Grave, 1658.  
Thirteen Sermons, some of which are are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares, printed at London 1659. and again, 1661.  
A Help to English History, containing a Succession of all the Kings, Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Bishops, etc. of England and Wales, first written in the year 1641. under the 〈◊〉 of Robert Hall; but now enlarged, and in Dr. Heylyn's Name.  
Ecclesia Vindicata, or the Church of England justified, etc. Quarto, 1657.  
Bibliotheca Regia, or the Royal Library, Octavo.  
Ecclesia Restaurata, or the History of the Reformation Folio. Lond. 1661.  
Cyprianus Anglicus, or the History of the Life and Death of William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, Folio.  
Aerius Redivivus, or the History of the Presbyterians, Folio.   
FINIS.