Athenae Oxonienses.  
An Exact HISTORY OF ALL THE Writers and Bishops Who have had their EDUCATION in The most ancient and famous University OF OXFORD, FROM The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690.  
REPRESENTING The Birth, Fortune, Preferment, and Death of all those AUTHORS and PRELATES, the great Accidents of their LIVES, and the Fate and Character of their WRITINGS.  
To which are added, The FASTI or Annals, of the said University, For the same time.  
The SECOND VOLUME, Completing the Whole WORK.  
— Antiquam exquirite Matrem.  Virgil. 
LONDON: Printed for THO. BENNET at the Half-Moon in S. Paul's Churchyard. MDCXCII.   

THE INTRODUCTION.  
A General and perfect History of the Learning of the English Nation, is a Work of that Use and Fame, that every advance towards that design hath so much the greater share and proportion of Glory, as it tends nearer in to the accomplishment of so vast an Undertaking.  
And therefore it will naturally be the subject of wonder, why our Author should not rather choose to carry the date of those Memoires as high as the first Original of Learning in Britain, and to extend inquiries as far as to the Schools and Societies of this Island, than to confine himself within the bounds of two Centuries only, and of one single University.  
It is to be owned indeed, that even this so great a Work with a little alteration of the Model, might have been almost wholly composed of the Materials which our Author had here prepared; if it had been his design to affect rather the Show and Grandeur of the Frontispiece, than the Beauty and Strength of the Fabric. But when the Reader shall consider what is here offered, he will have no reason to blame the modesty of our Author. That his Performance has exceeded his Promise, and that his Title only is below his Work. For first, As in Civil History, four great and remarkable Periods have usually been taken from the rise and fall of Monarchies; so upon a general view of the best Authors, and their Writings, it is easy for us to observe four signal Epocha's in the Increase and Decay of Learning.  
The three first of those from the Nations which were successively the Seats of Empire and of Learning, may be named the Chaldean, the Grecian, and the Roman; and the last in honour of those that were the chief Favourers and Promoters of the restoration of Letters, the Alfonsine or Medicean.  
When the Empire was first settled in the East, whether among the Assyrians first, or afterwards among the Medes, or lastly among the Persians: Learning still continued within the Confines of Asia, their Philosophy as well as their Monarchy was confined to that great Continent, as being alike rather desirous of establishing its Power, than of enlarging its Dominions. The Native Riches of the Country made them despise Commerce with the West, and the inborn Wit of the Eastern Inhabitants seemed to promise itself no improvement from the Society of those, who were at a greater distance from the Sun.  
Hence very improbable it is, that during this Epocha of Learning, so distant an Island, as this of Britain, should be sought out and cultivated, by those who had but a late, and that no great Intercourse even with the nearest Europeans: Especially since the People itself was so wealthy and so sensible of its own sufficiency, that even the greatest Advantages, which we either conceive or find in this Island, could hardly tempt them to so long and so unnecessary a Voyage.  
However, since I have no mind to contradict Etymologists, because I have no inclination to dispute with them. It may be owned that some part of our Tongue, especially of the Cornish and Welsh Dialects, seems to retain some appearance of conformity with the Eastern Originals.  
Whether this Agreement of Words, and at least of some Letters in them, can be wholly ascribed to Chance; or whether in all derivative Tongues there still remains some footsteps and traces of the common Language; or whether, as in some words, the sense naturally directs different Nations to the same sound; or whether, lastly, there was an ancient correspondence between Asia, and Britain; and the Phoenicians, a Nation born for Trade, being tempted by the value of our Tin and other Metals, brought from the Coast of Syria, not only the Native Commodities of that Soil, but the Language, Customs, and Religion of those Countries: Certain it is, that our Correspondence, if any, was not with Scholars, but Seamen; and consequently that whatever alterations our Tongue, our Usages, and Religion might receive from them, our Learning could have no Advance or Improvement.  
In the second Period of Learning, when the Grecians had first made themselves Masters of the Arts, and Sciences, and afterwards of the Treasure of Asia: 'Tis not wholly improbable that a vainglorious People, fruitful of Colonies, and successful in Navigation, should carry their Trade beyond the Mediterranean, and place, even in this remote Island, the monuments of their Learning, and of their Power.  
For though it would not be easy for our Antiquaries to find out the Altar which Ulysses erected in this Island; and the search after the College of Athenian Philosophers, which the Learned King Bladud happily founded in this his Kingdom, might as successfully be made in Utopia, as Britain; yet it is not hard, even in that age, to descry not only some remains of their Language, but some footsteps too of their Philosophy. For, as it appears from Cesar that the Druids, the ancient Philosophers of this Island, used the Language of the Grecians, or at least their Characters; so are the Notions of the Druids and Bards, such, as seem to confess the same Original. Whether the Neighbouring Colony of the Grecians at Marseils contributed to the cultivating this Nation, or whether the Scythians, that with a more than ordinary show of probability have been proved to have Peopled this Island, having had formerly the advantages of a nearer Correspondence with the Greeks, brought hither the small stock of their borrowed Knowledge; and not only subdued, but informed us.  
However the matter is, our Author hath with prudence begun this History of Learning below the date of those remote and doubtful inquiries, as being Topics already exhausted by the most fanciful Antiquaries, and which, as dark and barren Islands, can at best yield no praise to any other than their first Dise●verers.  
Afterwards Learning, like the Sun, having first enlightened the Eastern Countries, and then gradually proceeded to the Neighbouring Nations, at last took its progress to the West, and so far dispersed its Beams, that even the most remote Islands were made Sharers in its influence. For when the Romans had subdued Greece, and brought from thence not only the Riches of the Country, but their Arts and Learning too, as the noblest spoils and marks of their Conquest; Then began in Italy the third Period of Learning, which was so much greater than the former, as the Empire, under which it flourished, was more large and extensive.  
Wherever their Valour prevailed, their Language and their Learning usually triumphed; and Arts, as well as Laws, were imparted to their Provinces, from a Place which was equally the source of Learning, and the Seat of Empire.  
But during the Progress of the Roman Wars in England, their Arms left us no leisure to rival their Eloquence: They feared and commended our Courage, but had no occasion to envy our Learning. If we consider in Cesar, Tacitus, and Dio, the length of those Wars, the warmth of the opposition, and the variety of the success▪ we shall easily find that from Julius Cesar to Severus, there is a continued Succession of Battles and Truces, and that Peace was nothing but a time of preparation for War.  
In this troublesome and active Age the ambition of the Britain's was carried to other objects than Learning: Nor was it possible, that Arts should flourish in this Island, when the growth of the Wars not only interrupted the pursuit of Studies but prevented it.  
Afterwards when the Northern Nations invaded Europe, and the Saxons at last seated themselves in Britain: all Arts and Sciences fell in the ruin of the Roman Empire, and from thence commenced the dark Age of Barbarity, Superstition, and Ignorance.  
At that time all things concurred not only to the gradual loss, and decay, but to the sudden and final extirpation of Learning: At once Inundations and Fires destroyed her choicest Libraries; and Rapine, Force, and Envy, as it were combining with those Natural Causes of destruction, carried away the last remains of her Treasure. Some Schools are said indeed to have been erected for its support or restoration, and several Writers have rather from the mistaken sound of words, than any solid foundation in Antiquity, maintained that Greeklade and Lechlade were anciently founded here, as the common Seminaries of the Greek and Roman Learning in Britain. However probable it is that no care was taken for the Education of the Youth of the English Nation, till Schools were founded for them by Offa at Rome, by Iltutus and Dubritius in Wales, and by the Excellent Prince King Alfred at Oxon. Monasteries indeed in this Age there were without number, but such as were designed to be the Seats of Devotion, not of Learning, and whose ancient Orders rather respected the severity of Discipline and regulation of Manners, than the improvement of Arts and Sciences. And though afterwards in those Religious Societies, especially in that at Banchor, and among those of the Benedictine Order, there were some that applied themselves to study; and though in the heat of those Wars, that then reigned in Britain, the Privilege of Religion exempted the Monasteries from Rapine, and gave them leisure and security: Yet, whether it proceeded from the laziness of the Monks, the ignorance of the Age, or the want of Foreign Correspondence, certain it is that little of value was ever produced by the Cloister, but what receives its price from its antiquity.  
And even in Bede himself the most general Scholar of that time, a man would rather admire the extent of his Learning, than approve its exactness and accuracy, and more commend his diligence in History, than either his judgement or discretion. In the succeeding Age the Danes and the Normans successively oppressed us. The like Tyranny continued the same waist and spoil in the Cities, and the like face of Superstition and Ignorance in the Monasteries.  
At last indeed after the settlement of a short Peace amongst us, there was a small appearance of Learning in this Nation: The false Fires succeeded in the place of Night: Mystic Divinity, as a proper employment for Men of Leisure and Fancy, was entertained and flourished in all our Confraternities and Schools. Logic, that was designed to direct the use and improvement of Reason was wholly turned into a subtlety of Disputation; and as the Devotionists of that Age entirely applied themselves to their Legends, so men that pretended to a greater depth of Capacity, aspired to nothing higher than the niceties of Scholastic Distinctions. In the mean time all the Studies of Humane Learning, all the best Arts and Sciences lay waste and neglected. Their Painture was such as did not surpass the die of the Ancient Britain's: Their knowledge of the Tongues seldom equalled, and never exceeded the Languages of the Cross: Their Mathematics extended only to the use of their Calendars. And in short, there was nothing tolerably attempted in any other Study than either History or Law. Law indeed, by the happy Genius of its Professors, or by the Emulation raised against the Canonists, upon the introduction of Ecclesiastical Constitutions; or lastly, by the near insight into Feudal Tenors then first established among the Northern Nations, received even at that time not only Improvement but almost Perfection.  
Their Histories, though they wanted Eloquence, Art, and Decency, were yet often supported by their truth and faithfulness; and now at last upon account of the Matter, rather than the Writer, are recommended to us by their Antiquity.  
It must in the mean while be owned, that many of those Historians, that are the most valuable Writers of that Age, even those that in their several Monasteries were designed by the Crown to that Province, and rewarded for their care in it, are so little exact, and yet so unhappily long, that they speak much, but say little; and give us matter enough to tyre the Reader, and yet not enough to satisfy him: And in particular it will seem a wonder to any man, that in so notorious a thing, as the date of the Coronation, or the Death of our Kings, no Historian is silent, none is doubtful, and yet almost every one disagrees from each other.  
As to the Poetry of the Age, the beauty of Speech, and the Graces of measure and numbers, which are the inseparable ornaments of a good Poem, are not to be expected in a rude and unsettled Language; And though Chaucer, the Father of our Poets, had not taken equal care of the force of expression, as of the greatness of thought; yet the refining of a Tongue is such a Work, as never was begun, and finished by the same hand. We had before only words of common use, coined by our need, or invented by our passions: Nature had generally furnished this Island with the supports of Necessity, not the instruments of Luxury; the elegance of our speech, as well as the finess of our garb, is owing to foreign Correspondence. And as in Clothes, so in Words, at first usually they broke in unalter'd upon us from abroad; and consequently, as in Chaucer's time, come not over like Captives, but Invaders: But then only they are made our own, when, after a short Naturalisation, they fit themselves to our Dress, become incorporated with our Language, and take the air, turn, and fashion of the Country that adopted them.  
And this happy State of our Language we never saw, till the last Period of the Restoration of Learning first began in Italy, and diffused its influences into Britain.  
For though 'tis natural for us to dream always of hidden Treasures in the Tombs of our Ancestors; and Fancy that oftentimes creates the Wealth, always improves the value of it; and though the search into Authors of an elder date, especially Antiquaries and Historians, is a necessary task for those that shall hereafter with inquisitive diligence and severe judgement undertake the general History of this Nation; yet still it must be owned, that Ore, however rich, must lose its Dross before it be refined into Metal, and that unpolished Materials, whatever they may be wrought into, are not yet a Fabric  
It is confessed, in the mean time, that the rudeness or ignorance of our Ancestors, the meaness of their Studies, or the carelessness of their performances was not the fault of our Nation, but the Age: Gildas and Bede challenge the precedence of the most Ancient Historians of our neighbouring Nations: Our Alcuine gave Learning to one of the most flourishing Universities of Europe; none elsewhere were more subtle than our Schoolmen, nor more learned than Our Canonists: So that in that universal Cloud of ignorance Britain enjoyed, if not always the dawn of the Day, yet at least comparatively the least share of Night.  
Now then, it is time for us to observe, that our Author's Work begins with the first progress, if not the earliest rise of Learning in this Island; that if he had ascended higher, his Subject had been worse, and his Guides more uncertain. Records had been wanting, as well as Writers, and neither would the Haven have been so good, nor the Buoys so visible, nor the Voyage so pleasant. For when in the middle of the 14th. Century the Art of Printing was discovered, and a few years afterwards Constantinople was taken; then the Exiled Grecians, who had before given Learning to Italy, now by the encouragement of Alphonso in Naples, and the Family of the Medicee's in Florence, restored it to the World.  
And it was the particular happiness of England that as soon as the Italian Learning could reach this Northern Island; about the first date of this Work in the beginning of the 15th. Century, then concurred a third Cause of the Restoration and Increase of Learning among us, the discovery of America, the encouragement of our Navigation, and the extent of our Foreign Correspondence.  
I shall not anticipate this Work so far as hereafter to observe the progress of Learning, and the steps that it made in this Island, nor to show the gradual improvements of our Fathers in the best Studies among us; yet thus much upon a view of this Period of Learning in Europe, and particularly in England, may without vanity be said, that Learning that came very slow to the Western, and the Northern Climates, hath yet like a rich and weary Traveller seemed not only to fix her last Seat here, but to disperse among us the spoils of other Nations, and the gains of her former Travels.  
However unskilful therefore our Author hath been in the management of the Fabric; it is not to be denied, but that he hath entitled himself to the glory of a good Architect; in the choice of a rich and fruitful, and that a new and unbroken Soil. Before this Age, and somewhat within it, Leland, who by the command of King Henry VIII. had undertaken to survey and perpetuate Books of the ancient Monasteries, after the dissolution thereof, hath completed that Work with so great exactness, that Bale and Pits who have since attempted the same, have only made use herein of the Gorgon's common Eye, and have reflected that single light only upon Posterity. But in this Work, unless we would set a value upon the Writings of mean and fanciful Authors, I mean Lloyd, and Fuller: Our Antiquary hath let himself into a new and full Harvest, and not condescended to gather the Glean of another hand.  
Thus far of the Extent of our Authors Work in respect to Time— It is now requisite that we consider the Latitude of it in respect of Place. It is indeed by its Title confined to one University only; But either by the peculiar happiness of that famous Body in producing eminent Authors, or by the care of this Writer in inserting such of the other University as were likewise entered at Oxon, or studied in it, or assisted, opposed, or answered any Author of that University; The Work, in its several commendable Digressions, seems almost to contain an exact and full History of Learning, and of the Learned Men in England. And, even as to the University itself, though I have no mind to revive the Disputes of Caius and Twine on that Subject, which are now as happily ended, as they were unhappily begun, it may be observed that of those Authors that are recited by Pits, there are CCCLXXX of the University of Oxon, and only CX of the other University. And I dare upon inquiry affirm, that that eminent Body hath been as fruitful in the produce of eminent Authors in this last Century, as any of the former; and it remains to be wished that some good Antiquary of the other University would convince us of our error in this particular.  
Thus far as to the Subject of our Author; as to his Management of it, there is much said in the Preface to the 1st. Vol. and neither have I leisure to add more, nor seems the matter itself to require it: The little particulars of several men's Lives, especially the repetition of Passages already known, seem distasteful to some Palates; when indeed the common loss of all ancient Arts is to be imputed only to the want of timely observation: For while no Man writes what every Man knows, at last none know, what none have ever written. We have an esteem of Photius, Philostratus, and Eunapius, for the value of the Subject, rather than the excellency of the performance; and the price of their Works is only inhansed by the minute circumstances of their Lives, and Characters of Learned Men, which other Historians have omitted.  
Others there are that are offended at the disadvantageous Representations of eminent Authors in this Work, and the disobliging expressions of our Author concerning them. It is to be considered that all Ancient Critics, not only the most severe and morose, as Scioppius and Scaliger, but even the most polite, and easy men, as Sir Tho. More, have transgressed the rules of Civility and Compliment, which are not to be learned from an Antiquary. And since our Writer for the public benefit of Learning is equally regardless of Envy, and of Fame; it will be an entire satisfaction to him, that those who upon these or other like accounts disrespect or censure the Author, must yet have a just esteem and value for so useful a Work.   

ERRATA. By the Absence of the Author from the Press, many Faults have been committed in the Printing this Book.  
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The two last lines in pag. 850, running thus— He hath written Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata, etc. must be taken out; for that book was written by Theophilus and not Thomas, Gale.   

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ATHENAE OXONIENSES: THE HISTORY OF THE Writers of the University OF OXFORD, FROM THE Beginning of the Year of Our Lord 1641, to the End of 1690. VOLUME II.  
GERVASE WARMSTREY, the eldest Son of Will. Warmstrey, principal Registrary of the Diocese of Worcester, by Cecelie his Wife Daug. of Tho. Smith of Cu●rdsley in Lanc. (an Inhabitant of S. Aldates' Parish in Oxford) was born, and educated in Grammar Learning, within the City of Worcester, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1621., aged 17 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards retiring to his native place, succeeded his Father in the before mentioned Office. While he continued in the University, he was numbered among the eminent Poets, especially upon his writing and publication of  
Virescit vulnere virtus. England's wound and cure.— printed 1628. qu. Which being by many persons of known worth esteemed an excellent piece, was by the Author dedicated to that great Patron of all ingenious men, especially of Poets, Endymion Porter Esquire, whose native place (Aston under Hill, commonly called Hanging Aston, near to Campden in Glocestershire) though obscure, yet he was a great man and beloved by two Kings, James 1. for his admirable wit, and Ch. 1. (to whom, as to his Father, he was a servant) for his general learning, brave stile, sweet temper, great experience, travels and modern Languages. Our Author Warmstrey hath also written  
Various Poems— And other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. He concluded his last day on the 28 of May, 
1641.  in sixteen hundred forty and one, and was buried among the Graves of the Warmstreys, not far from the north door of, and within, the Cathedral Church of Worcester, leaving then behind him a widow named Isabella. I shall make mention of his Brother Dr. Tho. Warmstrey, under the year 1665.  
JOHN THORNBOROUGH Son of Giles Thornborough, was born within the City of Salisbury, became a Semicom or Demie of S. Mary Magd. Coll. in the year 1570 aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and was made Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke, with whom continuing for some time, that Count bestowed upon him the Rectory of Chilmark in Wilts, and thereby became the first that planted him in the Church of Christ. Soon after he became Chaplain in Ordinary to Qu. Elizabeth, by the endeavours of the said Count, and beneficed in Yorkshire: so that being put into the road of Preferment, he had the Deanery of York conferred on him, (upon the promotion of Dr. Matthew Hutton to the See of Durham to which being elected 28 Oct. 1589, was soon after installed. In 1593. he was made Bishop of Limerick in Ireland, where performing many signal services for the Crown of England, he was translated to the See of Bristol, in 1603, with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery of York in commendam. But as for his Benefices in Yorkshire, which were the Rectories of Brandesburton and Misperton alias Kirkby over Carr, they were bestowed on Peter Rollocke Bishop of Dunkell, in the month of Aug. the same year. On the 17 Feb. 1616, was translated to Worcester: whereupon his Deanery was given to Dr. George Meriton Dean of Peterborough, (elected thereunto 25 Mar. 1617.) and his Bishopric of Bristol to Dr. Nich. Felton Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge, to which being consecrated 14 Dec. 1617., sat there till the 14 March 1618., on which day he was translated to Ely. As for Thornborough he was a person well furnished with Learning, Wisdom, Courage, and other as well episcopal as temporal, Accomplishments, beseeming a Gentleman, a Dean and a Bishop. But above all he was much commended for his great skill in Chemistry, a study but seldom followed in his time: And 'tis thought that by some helps from it, it was that he attained to so great an age. A most learned 
(a) Arth. Dee in his Preface to the Students in Chemistry, to his Fasciculus Chimicus, etc.  Chemist of this man's time tells us, that he knew a Bishop whose fame in Chemistry being celebrated of many, he visited, and after he had seen a little chemical tract, written with his own hand, he took him labouring in our gold, whence he studied to extract Vitriol, which he held his only secret; whereupon he left him, for that he knew that he had neither before him the proper matter, nor the manner of working, according to the doctrine of Philosophers, etc. But who this Bishop was, unless our Author Thornborough, or a Bishop in Germany, whom he met in his Travels, I know not, nor doth it signify much. His writings are these;  
The joyful and blessed reuniting the two mighty and famous Kingdoms of England and Scotland into their ancient name of Great Britain. Oxon. 1605. qu. published under the name of John Bristol. But several things therein being conceived to be derogatory to the honour of both Houses of Parliament, the Author was complained of only in the upper house, which was soon after passed over. In 1604 was printed at London, A Treatise of Union of the two Realms of England and Scotland: said in the title page to be written by J. H.  
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The last will and testament of Jesus Christ touching the blessed Sacrament of the body and blood, etc. Oxon. 1630. qu.  
A discourse showing the great happiness that hath, and may still accrue to his Maj. Kingdoms of Engl. and Scotland by reuniting them into one Great Britain, in two parts. Lond. 1641. in tw. published under the name of Joh. Bristol, but 'tis not the same with the former. 'Twas afterwards printed at Edinburgh in the Latin Tongue.  
Pax vobis, concerning the Unity and Peace of the Church.— This I think is not printed, nor other things that he had lying by him at the time of his death. He departed this mortal life in the Castle called Hartilborough in Worcestershire (after he had been twice married) on the ninth day of July, in sixteen hundred forty and one, and was buried on the north side of the Chapel behind the east end of the choir belonging to the Cath. Chur. of Worcester, 
1641.  near to a fair alabaster monument which he had fourteen years before erected for himself, with his Statue in his episcopal Robes curiously carved in stone, lying thereon. On the Canopy over his head, I find this written on the side of it, Denarius Philosophorum dum spiro spero. And on the north side is this. In uno, 2o, 3 ², 4 ¹, 10. non spirans spero. Over his head is this, Qui dormis attolle caput, quia in infirmitate virtus, in morte vita, in tenebris lux. And over his feet, mors nubecula transiens laborum finis, vitae janua, scala coeli, mihi lucrum. Besides these Sentences, is a large Inscription painted on a table hanging above his feet, which for brevity sake I now omit. See more in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 200 b. He had issue by his first wife, Sir Benj. Thornborough Kt. and Edw. Thornborough Archdeacon of Worcester, who died in 1645; and by his second named Elizab. bail of Suffolk, Sir Tho. Thornborough of Elmeley Lovet in Worcestershire Kt. etc. He had also a Brother named Giles, who was Subdean and one of the Canons of Sarum in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth, as also Rector of Orcheston S. George in Wilts, who died in 1637, leaving a Relict behind him named Jane. He had also a nephew of the same name, Preb. of Worcester in 1629, who dying in 1663., one Will. Owen M. A. was installed in his place 13 Feb. the same year. A little before this Bishop's death, he told his Maj. K. Ch. 1. that he had outlived several that had expected to succeed him in the See of Worcester, and now, said he, I am afraid I shall outlive my Bishopric, which almost had come to pass.  
JOHN DAWSON, a most eminent Preacher of his time, was born in Oxfordshire, particularly, as it seems, within the City of Oxon, became first of all conversant with the Muses in Ch. Ch. in Mich. term 1620, aged about 15 years, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards entering into holy orders was made Vicar of Maidenhead in Berks, where and in the neighbourhood, he was much resorted to for his edifying preaching. After his death were published of his composition, by one H. M.  
Eighteen Sermons preached upon the incarnation of the nativity of Jesus Christ, etc. Lond. 1642. qu. The five first are on John 1. ver. 1. the four following on Joh. 1. ver. 2. and the nine following those four, are on Joh. 1. ver. 6. to ver. 14. Which learned Lucubrations promise no less than what they appear a compendious volumn of Divinity. He died in the prime of his years in the beginning of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and one, 
1641.  and was buried in the Parish Church of Cookham near to Maidenhead before mentioned, on the seventh day of the same month. Contemporary with the said Jo. Dawson, I find another of Ch. Ch. who after he had continued in the state of M. of A. about ten years, was admitted Bach. of Diu. 1634, but this person, who was of gentile parents in London, hath published nothing, as I can yet learn. I find also one Joh. Dawson Author of Paraphrasis metrica in Proverbia Salomonis. Lond. 1639. oct. but whether written by either of the former, or by a third, I cannot tell unless I can see the book.  
HENRY MARTEN Son of Anth. Marten of London, Son of Will. Marten of Okyngham in Berks, by Margaret his second Wife, daugh. of John Yate of Lyford in the said County, was born in the Parish of S. Michael of Basinghaugh within the said City of London, educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1582, took the degrees in the Civil Law, that of Doctor being completed in 1592., at which time he was an eminent Advocate at Doctor's Commons, as afterwards in the High Commission Court. In 1595 he left his College, and became successively Judge of the Admiralty, twice Dean of the Arches, a Knight, and in 1624. Judge of the Prerogative in the place of Sir Will. Byrd deceased. In all which Offices and Employments he showed himself a most excellent Civilian, the best, for aught that I know, that ever appeared in our Horizon, and therefore highly venerated by all good and learned men. Towards his latter end he purchased a fair Estate, mostly lying in Berks, which his ungodly Son Harry squandered away. His Writings were many, and by some were thought very worthy of the press, but in whose hands they are now, or whether embeziled with his Estate, I know not. All that I have seen are these:  
Several speeches in Parliament. As (1) Speech at a general Committee of both houses, 22 May 1628. (2) Sp. as to the rational part of the matter of a Conference had by a Committee of both houses concerning Sovereign Power, an. 1628. etc. In which Parliament Sir Henry was a Burgess for the University of Oxon.  
Debates touching his Majesty's Propositions, and the Duke of Buckingham etc. an. 1628.— See in Jo. rushworth's Collections, vol. 1. p. 521.617.  
Several arguments and discourses in Parl.— See in a book entit. The Sovereign's prerogative and the Subject's privileges discussed, etc. 3 and 4 of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 140 etc. p. 188. Besides other things among which is his Speech in Parl. concerning the petition of right. He paid his last debt to nature on the 26 of Sept. in sixteen hundred forty and one, aged 81, 
1641.  and was buried in a Chapel joining on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of his manor of Longworth near to Abendon in Berks. Over his grave, and that of his Wife, their son Harry Marten before mentioned, erected a comely monument, with an inscription thereon, the Contents of which, I shall now pass by for brevity sake.  
ROBERT BURHILL or Burghill received his first breath at Dymock in Glocestershire, but descended from those of his name, as I conceive, that lived at Thinghill in Herefordshire, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13 Jan. 1587. aged 15 years, Probationer Fellow thereof 20 Mar. 1584., being then M. of A. and about that time in holy orders. At length having a parsonage conferred on him in Norfolk, and a Residentiaryship in the Church of Hereford, he proceeded D. of Divinity. He was a person of great reading and profound judgement, was well versed in the Fathers and Schoolmen, right learned and well grounded in the Hebrew Tongue, an exact Disputant, and in his younger years a noted Latin Poet. He was much respected and valued by Sir Walt. Raleigh for his scholastical accomplishments, who finding him a person of great learning, had his assistance in Criticisms, in the reading and opening of Greek and Hebrew Authors, when he was composing the History of the World, during his confinement in the Tower of London. But let those things which he hath published, that have been taken into the hands of very learned men, speak his worth and excellency. The titles of which follow.  
Invitatorius panegyricus, ad regem optimum de Elizabethae nuper reginae posteriore ad Oxoniam adventu, etc. Oxon. 1603. in two sh. in qu.  
In controversiam inter Jo. Howsonum & Thomam Pyum S. T. Doctores de novis post divortium ob adulterium nuptiis etc. in sex commentationes, & Elenchum monitorium distinctus. Ubi & ad excusam D. Pyi ad D. Howsonum Epistolam, quâ libri Howsoniani refutationem molitur, & ad ejusdem alteram manu scriptam Epistolam ejusd. argumenti, quâ contra Alb. Gentilem disputat, diligenter respondetur. Oxon. 1606. qu. In the general Title before the second Edit. of Dr. Howson's Thesis printed herewith, the aforesaid large Title is thus abbreviated, Theseos defensio contra reprehensionem Thomae Pyi S. T. Doctoris. The Elenchus Monitorius at the end, contains 4 sheets.  
Responsio pro Tortura Torti contra Mart. Becanum Jesuitam. Lond. 1611. oct.  
De potestate regiâ & usurpatione papali pro Tortura Torti contra Parellum Andr. Eudaemon-Johannis Jesuitae. Oxon. 1613. oct.  
Assertio pro jure regio contra Martini Becani Jesuitae controversiam Anglicanam. Lond. 1613. oct.  
Defensio responsionis Jo. Buckridgii ad apologiam Roberti Card. Bellarmini. printed with the Assertio etc.  
Comment. in difficiliora Job. MS. in two folios in Corpus Ch. Coll. Library. Which book Elias Wrench of the said Coll. transcribed in a fair character, and put the Hebrew into Hebrew letters, which before were in Latin. At the end of the said Commentary, in the second Vol. was added Paraphrasis poetica on the said book of Job by E. Wrench before mentioned, born in Glocestershire, Son of Elias Wrench, if I mistake not, Prebendary of Gloucester, admitted scholar of C. C. Coll. 5 Jan. 1621., afterwards Fellow, Bach. of Diu. and in Apr. 1644 Rector of Trent in Somersetshire, (by the presentation of the Precedent and Fellows of his house) where he died and was buried in the month of June 1680. Our Author Burhill also wrote a book entit.  
Tractatus contra Monarchomachos & Hierarchomachos pro Regibus & Episcopis. MS. in the Archives of Bodlies' Library; also,  
Britannia Scholastica: vel de Britanniae rebus scholasticis lib. 10. 'Tis a Lat. Poem in qu. dedicated to Sir Tho. Bodley, and is reserved as a rarity (for 'tis a MS.) in the Archives of his Library. The said ten books are thus entit. 1. Heroicus. 2. Provincia. 3. Heptarchia. 4. Alfredus. 5. Neotus. 6. Elfleda. 7. Parallismus. 8. Itinerarium. 9 Benemeriti. 10. Foxus, meaning Fox Founder of C. C. Coll. He also published a Sermon of Dr. Miles Smith B. of Gloc. preached at an Assize in Cirencester, on Jer. 9 ver. 23, 24. At length upon the approach of the Civil War in England, our Author Burhill retired for quietness sake to his Rectory of Northwold near to Thetford in Norfolk, where dying in the month of Octob. or thereabouts, in sixteen hundred forty and one, was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, 
1641.  on the south side, near to the entrance thereof from the Church, as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Joh. Burrell Minister of Thetford, dated 3 May 1673, who also tells me therein, that Dr. Burhill was had in general esteem of a very great Scholar, and a right worthy Churchman— That the memory of him is pleasant to those that knew him, etc.  
JOHN ETON a Kentish man born, became the first receiver of the exhibition which Rich. Blount gave to Trinity College, an. 1590. aged 15 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1603. Afterwards he became a Curate for several years in divers places, and at length in 1625 or thereabouts, he was made Minister and Preacher at Wickham Market in Suffolk, where he continued to the time of his death, being accounted by all the neighbouring Ministers, a grand Antinomian, if not one of the Founders of the Sect so called. His Works are,  
The discovery of a most dangerous dead faith. Lond. 1641. in tw.  
Abraham's steps of faith— printed with the former.  
The Honeycomb of free Justification by Christ alone, collected out of the mere authorities of Scripture, etc. Lond. 1642. in a thick quarto, published by Rob. Lancaster, who, in his Epistle before it, tells us that the Author's Faith, Zeal, and Diligence in doing his calling; and his faith, patience, and cheerfulness in suffering for the same, were so exemplary, that they are worthy to be set forth as a pattern not only to all good People and Ministers now, but even all succeeding Generations, etc. Thus he, who was one of his admirers and sect: by which we are given to understand, that he suffered much from his Diocesan and others for his heterodox opinions. At length dying at Wickham Market before mentioned in sixteen hundred forty and one was there buried. In his pastoral charge succeeded one Zeph. Smith, 
1641.  who afterwards published Directions for Seekers and Expectants: or a guide for weak Christians in these discontented times, etc. on Psal. 119. ver. 102. Lond. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things.  
BARNABAS POTTER received his first being in this world within the Barony of Kendal in the County of Westmoreland, became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1594 aged 15 years. Where after he had undergone, with some hardship, the place of a poor serving Child and Tabarder, he was, when M. of Arts, made Fellow of the said College. Afterwards entering into holy orders, he became not only a puritanical Preacher in these parts, but at Totness in Devonshire, where he was much followed by the precise party. In 1615 he proceeded in Divinity, and in the year following was elected Provost of his College: which place he holding about 10 years, resigned it, (being then one of the King's Chaplains) and by his interest got his Nephew Christopher Potter to succeed him. In 1628. he, though a thorough paced Calvinist, was made Bishop of Carlisle, to which being consecrated in the Chapel of Ely house in Holbourn near London, on the 15 of March, had the temporalities thereof 
(a) Pat. 4. Car. 1. p. 37.  given to him by the King on the 23 of the same month, in the year before mentioned. He hath written and published,  
Lectures on the sixteenth Chapt. of Genesis— When or where printed I know not.  
Lect. on the 12.13.14.15.17.18. Chapters of Genesis.— Whether printed I cannot tell. He had also written Lectures on the Plagues of Egypt from Exodus, and on the Beatitudes from part of S. Luke, but are not, as I conceive, extant.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Baronet's burial: Or a funeral sermon at the solemnities of that honourable Baronet Sir Edw. Seymours burial, on Deut. 34. ver. 5. Oxon. 1613. qu. (2) Sermon on Easter Tuesday at the spital, etc. This learned and godly Bishop gave way to fate in his Lodgings within the Parish of S. Paul in Covent Garden near London in the beginning of January in sixteen hundred forty and one: 
1641/2.  whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish on the sixth day of the same month: At which time he left behind him a widow named Elizabeth, but whether any Children I cannot tell.  
BARTHELMEW PARSONS a most laborious and frequent Preacher, was a Somersetshire man born, and of the same Family with Fath. Parsons the Jesuit, applied his mind to Academical studies in Oriel Coll. in the year 1590. aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders, and preached constantly for a time in these parts. In 1611 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being about that time Vicar of Collingbourne-Kingston, and Rector of Ludgarshall in Wiltshire; at which places he was much followed and admired for his hospitality and preaching. He hath written and published  
Sermons, as (1) The barren trees doom, on Math. 3.10. Lond. 1616. qu. (2) Sermon on Psal. 82.6. printed 1616. qu. (3) First fruit of the Gentiles, three Sermons on Math. 2. ver. 1.2. etc. Lond. 1618. qu. (4) Dorcas or a perfect pattern of true discipline, on Acts 9.36. Oxon. 1631. qu. (5) Boaz and Ruth blessed: or a sacred contract etc. on Ruth 4.11. Oxon 1633. qu. (6) Four Sermons, on Acts 10.1.2. Lond. 1635. qu. (7) Sermon on Ephes 6.12.13. Oxon. 1637. qu. (8) History of Tithes: or, Tithes vindicated to the Presbyters of the Gospel, on Deut. 33.11. Oxon 1637. qu. This Sermon hath also this lat. title, Honos est onus Levitarum. (9) Sermon at the funeral of Sir Franc. Pile Bt. at Collingbourne Kingston in the County of Wilts, 8 Dec. 1635, on Isay 57.1.2. Oxon. 1636. qu. and others which I have not yet seen. This venerable and frequent Preacher Mr. Barth. Parsons died in the latter end of February in sixteen hundred forty and one, and was buried under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church of Ludgarshall before mentioned on the 27 day of the same month, 
1641/2.  as the Register of that Church informed my sometimes acquaintance Tho. Gore of Alderton in Wilts Esq.  
GEORGE WEB or Webbe, a Minister's Son, was born at Bromham in Wilts, began to be conversant with the Muses in Uniu. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1598. aged 17 years, admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 8 May in the year following, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders, and about that time was made Minister of Steple-Ashton in his native Country, by the favour, if I mistake not, of the Earl of Pembroke, where also he taught Grammar, as he did afterwards, for a time, in bath. In 1621. Jul. 28. he was inducted Rector of the Church of S. Pet. and Paul within the City of bath, being then Bach. of Diu. and three years after proceeded in that faculty. When K. Ch. 1. came to the Crown, he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary, and in his Attendance at Court he baptised his first child by the name of Charles James, 13 May 1629, which child died about an hour after. In 1634 he was made Bishop of Limerick in Ireland, to which being consecrated in S. Patrick's Church near Dublin on the 18 of Decemb. the same year, his Rectory at bath was bestowed on his Son Theoph. Webbe, M. of A. of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Webbe, who sat at Limerick to the time of his death, was a person of a strict life and conversation; and had so great a command of his Pen and Tongue, that he was accounted the best Preacher of his time in the royal Court, and the smoothest writer of sermons that were then published. His works are these,  
A brief Exposition of the Principles of Christian Religion, gathered out of the holy Scriptures, for the benefit of all that are desirous to hear sermons, and to receive the Sacrament with comfort. Lond. 1612. oct. ded. to his beloved hearers and congregation of Steple-Ashton and Semington.  
The practice of quietness, directing a Christian how to live quietly in this troublesome World. Lond. 1631. in tw. third edit.  
Arraignment of an unruly tongue, wherein the faults of an evil tongue are opened, the danger discovered, and remedies preserved etc. Lond. 1619. in tw.  
Agurs prayer: or, the christian choice, for the outward estate and condition of this present life, etc. Lond. 1621. in tw. It is grounded on Prov. 30.7.8.9. To which are added the rich, and poor, man's prayer.  
Catalogus Protestantium. Or the Protestants Calendar, containing a survey of the Protestant Religion long before Luther's days. Lond. 1624. qu.  
Lessons and Exercises out of Cicero ad Atticum.— pr. 1627. qu.  
Pueriles confabulatiunculae: or children's talk, in Engl. and Lat.— pr. 1627. qu.  
Several sermons— They are in number at least twelve, and were all published between the years 1609 and 1619. Among them I find these following (1) God's controversy with England, preached at Paul's cross on Hosea 4.1.2.3. Lond. 1609. oct. (2) The Bride royal, or the spiritual marriage between Chr. and his Church. etc. on Psal. 45.13.14.15. Lond. 1613. oct. 'Twas delivered by way of congratulation upon the marriage between the Palsgrave and the Lady Elizabeth in a serm. preached 14 Feb. on which day the marriage was solemnised, an. 1612. Seven more of his sermons were published in 1610, one in 1611, one in 1612, and another in 1616. He also translated into English the First comedy of Pub. Terentius called Andria. Lond. 1629. qu. The book is divided into two columes, the first hath the English, the other the Latin. Also the Second comedy called Eunuchus, which is divided in columes and printed with the former: both very useful for schoolboys, and are yet used, as his two former school-books are, in many schools. What other things he hath published, I cannot yet find, nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he dying in Limerick Castle in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred forty and one (being then detained prisoner there by the Irish Rebels) was permitted by them to be buried in S. Munchins Churchyard in Limerick. 
1641/2.  But before he had lain 24 hours in his grave, some of the meaner sort of Rebels took up the body and searched it in hopes of finding rings or other choice things, but being frustrated, they reposed the body in the same place, as I have been informed by his Son.  
HENRY ROGERS an eminent Theologist of his time, a Minister's Son, and a Herefordshire man by birth, was admitted scholar of Jesus Coll. in 1602 aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders, and soon after was cried up for a noted preacher. At length being made Vicar of Dorston in his own Country, and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford, he proceeded in Divinity. This person having several years before fallen into the acquaintance of a Yorkshire man named John Perseus alias Fisher a Jesuit, with whom he several times had disputes, the said Fisher did at length without Rogers his consent publish certain matters that had passed between them: whereupon our Author Rogers put out a book entit.  
An answer to Mr. Fisher the Jesuit his five propositions concerning Luther, with some passages by way of dialogue between Mr. Rogers and Mr. Fisher— printed 1623. qu. to which is annexed Mr. W. C. his dialogue concerning this question, Where was the Church before Luther? discovering Fisher's folly. Afterwards came out a Reply by Fisher or some other Rom. Cath. which made our Author Rogers to publish,  
The protestant Church existent, and their faith professed in all ages and by whom. Lond. 1638. qu. To which is added A catalogue of Counsels in all ages who professed the same. 
Clar. 1641.  What other things he hath written or published I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only that, as his Son in Law hath told me by Letters, he was buried under the Parson's seat in the Church of Wellington about four miles distant from the City of Hereford, but when, he added not, or that he was beneficed there. Yet that he died in the time of the civil War, or Usurpation, those of his acquaintance have informed me.  
ANTHONY STAFFORD an Esquires son, was born of an ancient and noble Family in Northamptonshire, being descended from those of his name living at Blatherwicke in that County, entered a Gentleman Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1608, and in that of his age 17, where by the help of a careful Tutor, but more by his natural parts, he obtained the name of a good scholar, became well read in ancient history, Poets and other authors. What stay he made in that house, I cannot yet tell, or whether he took the degree of Bach. of Arts according to the usual course. Sure I am that in 1609 he was permitted to study in the public library, purposely to advance his learning, having then a design to publish certain matters, and in 1623., just after the Act, he was actually created M. of Arts as a person adorned with all kind of literature. His works are these.  
His Niobe, dissolved into a Nilus: or, his age drowned in her own tears, etc. Lond. 1611 and 12. in tw.  
Meditations and resolutions, moral, divine, and political. cent. 1. Lond. 1612. in tw.  
Life and death of that great Cynic Diogenes, whom Lucretius styles Canis coelestis, the heavenly dog, etc. Lond. 1615. in tw.  
The guide of honour: or, the balance wherein she may weigh her actions etc. Lond. 1634 in tw. written by the author in foreign parts.  
The female glory: or, the life of the Virgin Mary.— pr. at Lond. with cuts 1635 in oct. This little book, penned in a flourishing stile, was in another impression intit. The Precedent of female perfection: or, the life etc. But the said book being esteemed egregiously scandalous among the Puritans, who looked upon it as purposely published to encourage the papists, Hen. Burton Minister of Friday street in London, did pretend to discover in his Sermon entit. For God and the King 
(a) Pag. 123.124.125.  several extravagant and popish passages therein, and advised the people to beware of it. For which, and nothing else (as W. Prynne tells 
(b) In his book intit. Canterbury's Doom etc. p. 217.  us) he was brought into the Starr-chamber, and there censured. But on the contrary this popish book of Staffords (as he calls it) with many scandalous passages in it were by the Archbishop's special direction, professedly justified, both by Dr. Heylyn in his Moderate answer to Mr. Burton 
(c) pag. 123.124. , and by Christoph. Dow in his 
(d) p. 51.54.  Innovations justly charged, and this book neither called in nor corrected, so audaciously popish was he grown, in this particular, among many others, etc. See more in Canterbury's Doom, p. 215.216.217. Our Author Stafford hath also written,  
A just apology or vindication of a book intit. The female glory, from the false and malevolent aspersions cast upon it by Hen. Burton of late deservedly censured in the Starr-chamber etc.— Whether this book was ever published I know not: I once saw it in a quarto MS. in the library of Dr. Tho. Barlow, given to him by Sir Joh. Birkenhead.  
Honour and virtue, triumphing over the grave, exemplified in a fair devout life and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Henry Lord Stafford, lately deceased: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sun sets in a serene sky, etc. Lond. 1640. qu. At the end of which are divers Elegies upon the death of the said Lord, mostly written by Oxford men, especially those of S. John's Coll. Our author A. Stafford, who was Kinsman to the said Lord, 
Clar. 1641.  hath also translated from Latin into English The oration of Justus Lipsius against Calumny. Lond. 1612. oct. What other things he hath written or translated I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died, as I have been informed, in the time of the Civil Wars.  
SHAKERLEY MARMION son and heir of Shak. Marm. Esq. sometimes Lord of the Manor of Ainoe near Brackley in Northamptonshire, was born in the Manor house at Ainoe in January 1602 and baptised there 21 of the said month, educated in Grammar learning in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire, under Rich. Boucher commonly called Butcher LL. Bac. the then Master thereof, became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1617., took the degrees in Arts, and soon after was cried up for a noted Poet and a copious writer of English comedy, which appeared by these his writings following, which afterwards were made public.  
Holland's Leaguer: or, a discourse of the life and actions of Donna Britannica Hollandia the Archmistris of the wicked women of Utopia. A comedy. Lond. 1632. quart.  
A fine Companion; come. Lond. 1633. qu.  
Cupid and Psyche; or, an Epic poem of Cupid and his mistress, as it was lately presented to the Prince Elector. Lond. 1637. qu. 'Tis a moral poem contained in two books, the first having in it four sections, and the other three.  
The Antiquary; come. Lond. 1641. qu. besides copies of verses dispersed in several books; 
Clar 1641.  and other things in Ms. which he left ready for the press, but are either lost, or in obscure hands. This Poet Marmion who was descended from an ancient and noble family, was a goodly proper Gentleman, and had once in his possession seven hundred pounds per ann. at least, but died, (as the curse is incident to all Poets) poor and in debt, about the beginning, or in the height, of the civil war.  
JOHN BARCHAM second son of Laur. Barcham of S. leonard's in Devonshire (by Joan his wife dau. of Edw. Bridgman of the City of Exeter) Son of Will. Barcham of Meerfield in Dorsetshire (where his ancestors had lived more than three generations before him) was born in the parish of S. Marry the Moor within the said City, entered a sojourner of Exeter Coll. in Michaelm. Term, 1587., aged 15 years, admitted scholar of Co. Ch. Coll. 24 Aug. in the year following, Probationer-Fellow 21 June 1596. being then M. of A. and in orders. Afterwards, being Bach. of Diu. he was made Chaplain to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. (as afterwards he was to his successor) Rector and Dean of Bocking in Essex, and Doctor of his faculty. He was a person very skilful in divers Tongues, a curious Critic, a noted Antiquary, especially in the knowledge of Coins, an exact Historian, Herald, and, as 'tis said, an able Theologist. He was also a strict man in his life and conversation, charitable, modest, and reserved in his behaviour and discourse, but above all he was remarkable for those good qualities which became a man of his profession. He hath written,  
The history or life of John King of England— which is the same that is in the History of Great Britain, published by John Speed, and the same which showeth more reading and judgement, than any life besides in that History. 'Tis reported also 
(e) By Anon. in a book intit. The surfeit to A. B. C. Lond. 1656. in tw. p, 22.  that he wrote, or at least had a chief hand in composing  
The hist. or life of Hen. 2. K. of Engl.— Remitted by Speed also in his said History. Which Hist. or Life, Dr. Barcham wrote (as my Author 
(*) Id. Anon.  says) in opposition, or rather to suppress the same, written by one Boulton a Rom. Catholic, who did too much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas Becket, etc. This Boulton was the same with Edmund Boulton, who wrote The elements of Armoury. Lond. 1610. qu. and the Carmen gratulatorium 
(f) Ms. in bib. Cottoniana, sub Tito. A. 13.  de traductione corporis Mariae Reginae Scotorum à Petroburgo ad Westmonasterium. Dr. Barcham hath also written,  
The display of Heraldry. Lond. 1610. etc. fol. much used by Novices, and the best in that kind for method that ever before was published. This book being mostly composed in his younger years, he deemed it too light a subject for him to own, being then (when published) a grave Divine, Chapl. to an Archb. and not unlikely a Dean. Wherefore being well acquainted with John Guillim an Officer of Arms, he gave him the copy, who adding some trivial things to it, published it, with leave from the Author, under his own name, and it goeth to this day under the name of Guillims' Heraldry. Our Author also published Crackanthorps' book against Marc. Ant. de Dominis and wrote a preface to it. He also wrote a book concerning coins, in Ms. but where it is now I know not. Sure I am that he had the best collection of coins of any Clergyman in England, which being given by him to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. (who much desired them) they came soon after, by his gift, to Bodlies' library, and are at this day reposed in the Gallery adjoining. At length our Author surrendering up his pious soul to him that first gave it, in the Parsonage house in Bocking before mentioned, 
1642.  on the 25 of Mar. (the Annunciation) in sixteen hundred forty and two, was buried in the chancel of the Church there: over whose grave, though there be no memory put, yet it is contained in a book entit. Affaniae: sive Epigrammatum libri tres. Oxon. 1601. He had issue by Anne Rogers of Sandwich in Kent his wife, George, Henry, etc. In his Deanery of Bocking succeeded Dr. Joh. Gauden, but whether in the year 1642, or in the year after, I cannot be positive.  
NATHANIEL SIMPSON was born at Skypton in the County and Diocese of York, admitted scholar of Trin. Coll. 28 May 1616 aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, became Fellow of the said house 1630, and the year after Bach. of Diu. He hath written  
Arithmeticae compendium. printed 1622. oct. The beginning of which is Arithmetica est scientia bene numerandi, etc. It was composed purposely for the use of the Juniors of the said Coll. but so scarce it is now, that I could never see but one copy. This Mr. Simpson died in Octob. (on the same day that Edghill fight happened) in sixteen hundred forty and two, 
1642.  and was buried in Trinity Coll. Chappel. I have been informed by some of his Contemporaries, that he had not only enlarged that Compendium, but had other things of that nature, lying by him fit for the press.  
GABRIEL RICHARDSON a Minister's son and a Lincolnshire man born, was initiated a student in Brasnose Coll. 1602, made fellow of it, 1607, being then Bach. of Arts. The next year he proceeded in that faculty, took the sacred function upon him, and at length became Bach. of Divinity. This person, who was admirably well read in Histories and Geography, hath put out a book much valued by learned men intit.  
The state of Europe, in 14 books, containing the history and relation of the many Provinces thereof, etc. Oxon. 1627. fol. He had laying by him several volumes of Mss. of his own writing, containing the state of other parts of the world; but coming into the hands of a careless person called Dr. Hen. Bridgman, he neglected, if not mutilated, them, to the great injury of the Author, who dying on the last day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred forty and two, 
1642.  was the next day (being New-year's day) buried in the Church of S. Marry the Virgin within the University of Oxford.  
FRANCIS KINASTON son of Sir Edw. Kinaston Kt. was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Otely in Shropshire, became a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. under the tuition of Joh. Rouse alias Russee in 1601, and in that of his age 14, took one degree in Arts, and then left the University for a time without completing that degree by Determination, being then more addicted to the superficial parts of Learning, Poetry and Oratory, (wherein he excelled) than Logic and Philosophy. Afterwards he went to Cambridge, studied there for some time, was made M. of Arts, and in 1611 returned to Oxon, where he was incorporated in that degree. Thence he went to the Court, where being esteemed a man of parts, had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him in 1618., and afterwards was made Esquire of the body of K. Ch. 1. This is the person who being every way accomplished, was made the first Regent of the College or Academy called The Musaeum Minervae an. 1635. and therefore worthily styled by a polite and acquaint 
(a) Sir Joh. Borough in his book in't. Impetus juveniles, & epistolae p. 136.  Gentleman, Palladii Patrimaeque virgins Protomystes. The first members of the said Coll. were Edward May, Tho. Hunt, Nich. Phiske, Joh. Spiedel, Walt. Salter and Nich. Mason, styled also by the said person Flamines Deâ pleni, & mystici, Artium liberalium roris promicondi. Our Author Kinaston did draw up and publish▪  
The Constitutions of the Musaeum Minervae. Lond. 1636. qu. and translated from English into Lat. Jeff. Chaucer his Troilus and Cresseid which he entit. Amorum Troili & Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico-Latini. Oxon. 1635. qu. Which being beheld as an excellent translation, was ushered into the world by 15 copies of Verses made by Oxford men, among whom are W. Strode the Orator, Dudley Digges and Sam. Kinaston of Alls. Coll. Tho. Gawen of New Coll. Maur. Berkley, Will. Cartwright, both of Ch. Ch. etc. Our Author and Translator having performed other things, which I have not yet seen, gave way to fate in sixteen hundred forty and two, or thereabouts, 
1642.  and was, as I suppose, buried at Oteley. This is the person also who by experience falsified the Alchemists report, that a hen being fed for certain days with gold, beginning when Sol was in Leo, should be converted into gold, and should lay golden eggs, but indeed became very fat.  
PETER SMART a Minister's Son of Warwickshire, was born in that County, educated in the College School at Westminster, became a Batler of Broadgates' Hall 1588. aged 19 years, and in the same year was elected Student of Christ Church, where he was esteemed about that time a tolerable Latin Poet. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, he entered into orders, became Chaplain to Dr. W. James Bishop of Durham, who not only conferred upon him a Prebendship in that Church, but also the Parsonage of Bouden, and was the chief instrument of promoting him to be one of his Majesty's High Commissioners in the Province of York. But this person being pruitanically given, took occasion in 1628. to preach against certain matters, which he took to be popish Innovations, brought into the Church of Durham by Mr John Cousin and his Confederates, as Copes, Tapers, Crucifixes, bowing to the Altar, praying towards the East, turning the Communion Table of Wood, standing in the middle of the Choir, into an Altarstone railed in at the East end thereof, etc. But this his Sermon, or Sermons, preached several times to the people, being esteemed seditious, and purposely made to raise commotion among them, he was first questioned in the High Commission Court at Durham, then brought into the Commission Court at Lambeth, and at length transmitted thence to the High Commission at York: where for his said seditious Sermon or Sermons, and his refusal to be conformable to the Ceremonies of the Church, he was deprived of his Prebendship and Parsonage, degraded from his Ministry, fined 500 l. and imprisoned many years. At length when the Long Parliament began, he, upon petition and complaint, was freed from his Prison in the Kingsbench, (where he had continued above eleven years) was restored to all he had lost, (though he enjoyed them but a little while) had reparations made for his losses, and became a witness against Archbishop Laud when the Presbyterians were sedulously raking up all things against, in order to bring, him to his Trial. Our Author Smart hath written and published  
The vanity and downfall of Superstition and popish Ceremonies, in two Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Durham, preached in July 1628., on Psal. 13. part of the 7. verse— They were twice printed in that year, one impression whereof was at Edinburgh.  
A brief, but true historical, narrative of some notorious acts and speeches of Mr. John Cousins, and some other of his Companions contracted into Articles.  
Various Poems in Lat. and Engl.— These, which are called in one or more Auction Catalogues Old Smarts Verses, I have not yet seen, nor other matters of his composition. 
1642.  He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred forty and two, or thereabouts, having several years before been the signior Prebendary of the Church of Durham, leaving then behind him this Character given by the Presbyterian, that he was a godly and judicious Minister, and a zealous enemy against superstition and the maintainers thereof. Also that he was the Protomartyr of these latter days of Persecution, etc.  
ALEXANDER GILL Son of A. Gill mentioned among the writers under the year 1635. was born in London, particularly, if I mistake not in S. Ann's Parish, became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1612. and in that of his age 15, exhibited to in his studies by the Society of Mercers in London, took the degrees in Arts, became an Usher under his Father in S. Paul's School, and under Tho. Farnabie the famous Schoolmaster in Goldsmiths-Rents; under both which, he spent more than ten years. I find one Dr. Gill to have been Master of Okeham School in Rutlandshire, but whether the same with our Author, who was of an unsettled and inconstant temper, I know not. At length, after many changes, rambles, and some imprisonments, he succeeded his Father in the Office of chief Master of S. Paul's School, an. 1635. and in the latter end of the next year took the degree of Doct. of Divinity, being then accounted one of the best Latin Poets in the Nation. In 1640. he was removed from the said School, with an allowance of 25 l. per an. allotted to him in requital of it; whereupon he taught certain youths privately in Aldersgatestreet in London, to the time of his death. His works are  
Arithmeticorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Printed at the end of N. Simpsons' book called Arithmeticae Compendium, 1623. oct.  
Panthea. In honorem illustriss. spectatiss. omnibus animi corporisque dotibus instructiss. Heroinae, qua mihi in terris, etc. Printed in one sheet in qu.  
A Song of victory, upon the proceedings and success of the wars undertaken by the most puissant King of Sweeden— This was written in Latin also, but I have not yet seen it: And was englished and explained with marginal notes by W. H.— Lond. 1632. qu.  
ΠΑΡΕΓΑ, Sive Poetici conatus, ab aliquammultis antehaec expetiti, etc. Lond. 1632. in 5. sheets in tw.  
Elegy on Thom. Earl of Strafford beheaded on Tower-hill May 12. an. 1641.— Besides these I have also seen a Ms. Book of Verses of his composition, made on these Subjects following (1) Sylva Ducis, made 1629; afterwards remitted among his poems in Poetici conatus. (2) Suedus Ren, an. 1631. (3) In ejus obit. 1632. (4) Annivers. 1633. (5) Annivers, 2. an. 1634. (6) Ann. 3. 1635. (7) In caedem Wallest. 1634. (8) Arx Skinkiana, 1635. (9) In Navarr. Reg. (10) Coopnelli Cingulum, 1629. (11) Ad eundem, 1629. (12) Epitaphium Rich. Pates, 1633. This Rich. Pates was a Master Commoner of Trin. Coll. who dying in that year, had a long Epitaph in prose set over his grave in the parish Church of S. Marie Magd. within the North Suburb of Oxon. (13) In obitum Gulielmi Paddy Eq. Aur. et M. D. (14) Ad D. Christoph. Yeluerton. (15) In Obitum Edw. Vaughan, 1637. etc. At length after our Author Gill had made many rambles in this World, he did quietly, yet not without some regret, lay down his head and die, towards the latter end of the year sixteen hundred forty and two, 
1642/3.  and was buried in the Church of S. Botolph without Aldergate in London. His Successor in S. Paul's School was Joh. Langley, sometimes Master of the College School in the City of Gloucester, as I have elsewhere told you.  
TOBIAS CRISP third Son of Ellis Crisp of London Esq. was born in Breadstreet in the same City, an. 1600, partly educated in Grammaticals in Eton School near Windsor, and in Academicals in the University of Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards, for the accomplishment of certain parts of Learning, he retired to Oxon, and in the beginning of Febr. 1626. was incorporated in that degree as a Member of Balliol Coll. and towards the latter end of the said month he was admitted to proceed in that Faculty. Which degree being by him completed, as a Member of the said house, in the Act following, celebrated in Jul. 1627. he became about that time Rector of Brinkworth in Witltshire; where, being settled, he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching, and for his great hospitality to all persons that resorted to his house. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion (at which time he was Doctor of Divinity of some years standing) he left his Rectory in Aug. 1642, and being puritanically affected, he did, to avoid the insolences of the Soldiers, especially of the Cavaliers, (for whom he had but little affection) retire to London, where his opinions being soon discovered, was baited by 52 opponents in a grand Dispute concerning the freeness of the grace of God in Jesus Christ to poor sinners, etc. By which encounter, which was eagerly managed on his part, he contracted a disease that brought him to his grave, as I shall anon tell you. After his death were published of his composition these things following.  
Christ alone exalted, in 14. Sermons. Lond. 1643. in oct. Vol. 1. Some of which Sermons savouring much of Antinomianism, were answered by Steph. Gear, as I shall elsewhere tell you, and, if I mistake not, by one or two more.  
Ch. alone exalted, in 17. Sermons, on Phil. 3.8, 9 Lond. 1644. oct. Vol. 2.  
Ch. alone exalted in the perfection and encouragement of his Saints, notwithstanding sins and trials, in eleven Sermons. Lond. 1646. ctc. oct. Vol. 3. Before which is the author's picture in a cloak. At length, many years after (viz. in 1683.) were, as an addition to the three former volumes, published in oct. Christ alone exalted, in two Sermons, found written with his own among several of his writings in the custody of his Son Mr. Sam. Crisp one of the Governors of Ch. Ch. Hospital in London; who lately, with great Civility, informed me by his Letters that his Father Dr. Tobias Crisp dying of the Small Pox on the 27. of Feb. in sixteen hundred forty and two, 
1642/3.  was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family, situated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet, wherein his Father E. Crisp Alderman (who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nou. 1625.) was buried. Dr. Crisp left behind him many children, begotten on the body of his wife, the daughter of Rowl. Wilson Alderman and Sheriff of London, one of the Members of the Long Parliament, and of the Council of State, 1648-9. See more in Obad. Sedgwick.  
THOMAS GODWIN second Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somersetshire, and he the second Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells, was born in that County, became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll, where following the studies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied industry, became at length, after he was Master of Arts, chief Master of Abendon School in Berks: Where, by his sedulous endeavours, were many educated, that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State. In the year 1616, being then, and some years before, Chaplain to Dr. Montague Bishop of Bath and Wells, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and in 1636, was licenced to proceed in Divinity. Before which time, he being, as 'twere, broken, or wearied out, with the drudgery of a School, had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. conferred upon him, which he kept to his dying day. He was a person of a grave and reverend aspect, was a grace to his Profession, was most learned also in Latin, Greek and Hebrew antiquity, and admirably well versed in all those matters trequisite for the accomplishment of a Rector of an Academy. He hath transmitted to Posterity.  
Romanae Historiae Anthologia. An English exposition of the Roman antiquities, wherein many Roman and English offices are paralleled, and divers obscure phrases explained. In 3 books. Oxon 1613, etc. qu.  
Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriusque Testamenti valde necessaria, etc. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. etc. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells, and Dean of his Majesty's Chapel.  
Moses and Aaron, Civil and Ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrews, observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts throughout the whole Scripture, in six books.— Printed 1625. in qu.  
Florilegium Phrasicon, Or a Survey of the Latin Tongue— When this book was first printed I know not, for I do not remember that I ever yet have seen the first edition.  
Three arguments to prove Election upon foresight of Faith— which coming in Ms. into the hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered. Soon after that answer being sent to our Author Godwin, he made a Reply, which was confuted by the rejoinder of Twisse. The Presbyterian 
(a) George Kendal in Tuissii Vita & Victoria, etc. and Sam. Clarke in his Lives of Eminent persons, etc. printed 1683. fol. p. 16.  writers say that though Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews, Greeks, and Latins, yet he was fitter to instruct Grammarians, than deal with Logicians, and had more power as Master of a School at Abendon, than as a Doctor of Divinity. They further add also that Twisse did by his writings and disputes whip this old Schoolmaster, and wrested that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough used with pride, and exposed him to be derided by boys. Dr. Godwin, after he had for some years enjoyed himself in great repose, in requital of his many labours, surrendered up his soul to God, 
1642/3▪  20. March in sixteen hundred forty and two, and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell beforementioned▪ He then left behind him a wife named Philippe Tesdale of Abendon, who at her own charge caused a Marble stone to be laid over his grave: the inscription on which, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 201. a.  
JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Winchester, began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. in Lent term, an. 1586/7 aged 16 years, made Demie of that house in 87, perpetual Fellow in 95, Mast. of Arts in 98, one of the Proctors of the University in 1606, and three years after supplicated the ven. congreg. of Regent's, that whereas he had studied the Civil Law for six years together, he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty; but whether he was really admitted, it appears not. At length he was taken into the service of Sir Joh. Digby Knight, (afterwards Earl of Bristol) and was by him made his Secretary when he went Ambassador into Spain: where remaining with him several years, improved himself in various sorts of Learning, and in the Customs and Manners of that and other Countries: After his return into England, he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells, being then in orders, was esteemed a learned man, good Orator, and a facetious conceited Wit. He hath translated from Spanish into English, under the name of Don Diego Puedeser that is James may be (1) The Spanish bawd, represented in Celestina: or, the tragic comedy of Calisto and Melibea, etc. Lond. 1631. fol. (2) The Rogue: or, the life of Guzman de Alfarache. Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit. Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman (3) Devout contemplations expressed in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadragesimal Gospels. Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca (4) The Exemplary Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in six books. Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the said Cervantes entit. Delight in several Shapes, etc. in six pleasant Histories. Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated that into English I cannot tell, nor the name of him who translated his Second part of the History of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Translator Mabbe, 
Clar. 1642.  he was living in sixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies, and dying about that time, was buried in the Church belonging to that place, as I have been informed by one of that name and family, lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon.  
DAVID PRIMROSE second Son of Gilb. Primrose a Scot and D. D. mentioned in the Fasti, an. 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France, educated in Philosophical learning in the University of Bourdeaux, made an Excursion to this University of Oxon in his younger years for the sake of the Bodleian Library, and conversation of protestant Theologists, returned to Bourdeaux where he proceeded Master of Arts, and visited other places of learning. Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and studies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the King's Professor of Divinity, entered himself a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623., was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year, and soon after performed the exercise for the degree of Bach. of Divinity: Which being done to the great liking of all the auditory, Prideaux openly said before them in the Divinity School, thus, Accepimus responsionem tuam mi fili, tanquam ad ventantis Veris gratissimam primam rosam. Our Author Primrose hath written,  
Theses Theologicae de peccato in genere & specie. Genev. 1620. qu.  
Thes. Theol de necessitate Satisfactionis pro peccatis per christum Sal ●ur. 1 20. qu.  
Disputatio Theologica de divina praedestinatione, et annexis articulis, amplitudine mortis Christi, vi et efficacia gratiae dei, et usu liberi arbitrii in conversionis negotio, etc. Bas. 1621.  
Treatise of the Sabbath, and the Lords day, the nature and the original of both.— printed 1636. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen. After he had left Oxon he retired into France, and became Minister of the Protestant Church at Rouen in Normandy, 
Clar. 1642.  where I find him in sixteen hundred forty and two. How long afterwards he lived, or when, or where, he died, I know not, nor can I yet learn of any person, though many that have been in those parts have told me that he was esteemed one of the learnedst reformed Divines in France.  
THOMAS SALESBURY son and heir of Sir Hen. Salesbury Bt, was born of an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Leweni near Denbigh in Denbighshire, became a Gent. Com. of Jesus Coll. about the beginning of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. but taking no degree, he retired (after he had seen the vanities of the great city) to his patrimony; and having a natural genie to Poetry and Romance, exercised himself much in those juvenile studies, and at length became a most noted poet of his time, as it partly appears in this book following, which he wrote and published.  
The history of Joseph. Lond. 163 ... printed in English verse in 13 chapters, and all contained in about 16 sheets in quarto Daniel Cudmore Gent. did also exercise his mu●e on the same subject some years after: And in prose, that history is written by several persons in divers languages especially in that of the French, which being translated into English by Sir Will. Lower a Cornish Knight, was printed at London 1655, oct. This Sir William, who was a noted poet, was son of John Lower of Tremere, a younger son of Sir Will. Lower of St. Winnow, in Cornwall, and died at London about the beginning of the year 1662., but where buried, unless in the parish Church of S. Clements Danes within the Liberty of Westminster, where his Uncle Tho. Lower Esq (to whom he was heir) was buried 21 of Mar. 1660, after he had laid dead since the 5 of Feb. going before, I know not. What other things our Author Salesbury hath written and published, I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only that he, as formerly a member of Jesus Coll. was among several persons of quality, actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University in the year 1642, he being then a Baronet, and that departing this mortal life in the summer time (before the month of Aug.) in sixteen hundred forty and three, 
1643.  (at which time he left behind him a widow named Hester) was, as I suppose, buried in the Vault in Whitchurch joining to Leweni before mentioned, near to the body of his Father Sir Henry, who died 2 Aug. 1632. The reader is to know, that there hath been one Thom. Salusbury, who translated into English The learned man defended and reform, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. written originally in the Italian tongue by Dan. Bartolus a learned Jesuit; as also Mathematical Collections, from Gal. Galilaei, etc. but his surname differing in one letter from Salesbury, he must not be taken to be the same with Sir Thomas before mentioned, who was in time before him, and an active man in the King's Cause in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642, for which, though he died soon after, his Family notwithstanding suffered for it.  
DUDLEY DIGGES the son of Sir Dud. Digges mentioned before under the year 1638. was born in Kent, particularly, as I conceive, in Chilham, became a Commoner of Uniu. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1629, where by his wonderful pregnant parts overcoming the crabbed studies of Logic, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Lent term 1631, being then scarce 19 years of age. In the year following he was elected probationer-Fellow of Alls. Coll. as a Founder's kinsman, and in Octob. 1635 he was licenced to proceed in Arts; at which time prosecuting his studies with unwearied industry, advantaged by a great memory, and excellent natural parts, he became a great Scholar, general Artist and Linguist. In the beginning of the civil war, he wrote,  
An answer to a printed book, entit. Observations upon some of his Majesty's late answers and expresses. Oxon. 1642. qu. 1647. third edit. He also wrote so subtle and solid a treatise of the differences between the King and Parliament, that such Royalists that have since handled that controversy have come far beneath him. The title of it is this.  
The unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Arms against their Sovereign in what case soever, with answers to all objections. Oxon. 1643. qu. It was reprinted at Lond. 1647. whereupon a complaint being made to the Committee of Complaints, the Printers and Publishers of it were to be tried at the Kings-bench. It was also published again at Lond. 1662., in oct. part of which impression lying dead, there was a new title dated 16●9 put to it. At length being untimely snatched away to the great sorrow of learned men, by a malignant fever called the Camp disease, raging in the Garrison of Oxon, 
1643.  on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred forty and three, was buried in the outer Chapel of Alls. College. Of the said Disease Doctor Edward Greaves, Fellow of that house, wrote a little treatise entit. Morbus Epidemicus, etc. as I shall tell you when I come to him.  
JOHN SEDGWICK son of Joseph Sedg. a northern man born, sometimes Vicar of S. Peter's Church in Marlborough, afterwards of Ogbourne S. Andrew, in Wilts. was born in the Parish of S. Peter, in the said town of Marlborough, educated in Grammar learning at that place▪ and in Logic in Queens Coll, into which he made his first entry in Easter term, an. 1619, and in that of his age 18. But making no long stay there, he translated himself to Magd. Hall, where he applied his mind to Divinity before he was Bach. of Arts. In the time of Christmas 1621. he was admitted to the order of a Deacon by the Bishop of London, and in Nou. and Dec. following, being a Candidate for the degree of Bach. of Arts, had his Grace denied four times by the Regent's because 
(a) Reg. congreg. Uniu. Ox. notat. in dors. cum litera O, fol. 3. a.  that when he was to be admitted to the order of Deacon, he did belie the University in using the title of Bach. of Arts before he was admitted to that degree, etc. At length begging pardon for what he had done, and making a public submission before the ven. house of Congregation of Regent's, he was admitted to that degree, on the sixth of the said month of Dec. Afterwards he had some small Cure about Bishopsgate in London conferred on him, took the degree of Master, and at length that of Bach. of Diu. About which time he was a Preacher at Chiswick in Middlesex, afterwards Minister of Coggeshall in Essex, and a● length upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, was ma●● a member of a Sub committee for the advancement of money to carry on the War against the King, and by a factious party became Rector of S. Alphage near London Wall and Cripplegate, in the place of a loyal person, first shamefully abused, then ejected, and soon after dead with grief. In that place being settled, though it was but for a short time, he exercised his gifts in preaching against Prelacy, and encouraging his Parishioners to Rebellion. He would dispute and reason much against Antinomians, as those that were his Contemporaries have told me; and though he seemed to be a Saint, yet he was 
(b) Sober sadness, or, historical observations etc. of a prevailing party in both Houses of Parl. Lond. 1643. in qu. p. 33.  a Simoniake and perjured, standing both upon record. Also, as another 
(c) The Author of Merc. Aulicus, in the fortieth week, an. 1643. p. 576.  saith, Tho he had but one thumb, yet would he have had not an ear, had not his Majesty bestowed two on him, when twelve years since (about 1633) they were sentenced to the pillory. Since which time he hath been such a grateful penitent, that in one day he was proved guilty but of simony, sacrilege, and adultery, etc. His works are,  
Sermons, as (1) Fury fired, or cruelty scourged, on Amos 1.12. Lond. 1625. oct. preached at S. Buttolph's without Bishopsgate. (2) The bearing and burden of the spirit, in two sermons on Prov. 18.14. Lond. 1639. oct. (3) Eye of faith open to God, on .... Lond. 1640. in tw. (4) Wonder working God. or, the Lord doing wonders, on .... Lond. 1641. in tw. with England's troubles, in qu. which I have not yet seen.  
Antinomianisme anatomised. Or, a glass for the lawless; who deny the moral law unto Christians under the Gospel. Lond. 1643. qu. The substance of it is an extract from one of the books of Dr. Tho. Taylor. At length after all his actings to carry on the blessed cause, he did very unwillingly give up the ghost in Octob. in the year sixteen hundred forty and three; whereupon his body was buried in the chancel of his Church of St. Alphage before mentioned, 
1643.  on the 15 day of the same month. What relates farther to his death and burial, let another 
(d) Idem ibid. p. 640.  speak for me, as he had received it by letters from London. Joh. Sedgwick (one of the three brothers 
(e) The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joseph.  with four fingers on a hand) hath spent his lungs, and caused Mr. Tho. Case to exercise his, which he did very mournfully in his Funeral sermon lately preached, telling the auditory, that his departed brother was now free from plunder, and that when he was ready to expire, he would often ask, how does the Army? how does his 
(f) Robert Earl of Essex.  Excellency? with many such sweet expressions, as moved some Citizen to send Mr. Case a fair new Gown, lest he chance to recur to his old way of borrowing, etc.  
JOHN BAINBRIDGE son of Rob. Bainbr. by Anne his wife daugh. of Rich. Everard of Shenton in Leycestershire, was born at Ashby de la Zouch in the same County, educated in Emanuel Coll. under the tutelage of his Kinsman Dr. Joseph Hall, took the degrees in Arts, studied Physic, retired into his own Country, practised there and taught a Grammar school. At length publishing  
An astronomical description of the late Comet from 18 of Nou. 1618., to the 16 of Dec. following, Lond. 1619. qu. he became acquainted with Sir Hen. Savile, who founding an Astronomy-lecture in this University in the year wherein the said book was printed, preferred our Author Bainbridge thereunto. Whereupon going to Oxon, he was entered a Master-Commoner of Merton Coll. was incorporated Doctor of Physic as he had stood at Cambridge, lived in the said Coll. for some years, (the society of which house conferred on him the superior Readers place of Lynacres lecture 1635) and afterwards in an house opposite to their Church. He also published,  
Procli sphaera. Ptolomaei de hypothesibus planetarum liber singularis, etc. Lond. 1620. qu.  
Ptolemaei canon regnorum. printed with the former. Both which were collated with Mss, put into latin, and illustrated with figures by the said Dr. Bainbridge, who also wrote,  
Canicularia: being a treatise of the Dog-star, and of the canicular days. Oxon. 1648. oct. published by Joh. Greaves, together with a demonstration of the Heliacal rising of Sirius, or the Dog-star for the parallel of Lower Egypt. At length after he had been Savilian Professor of Astronomy about 24 years in this University, and superior Reader of Lynacres lecture in Mert. Coll. about 8 years, surrendered up his last breath in his house near the said Coll. on the third day of Nou. in sixteen hundred forty and three: whereupon his body being conveyed thence to the public schools, 
1643.  rested there for some time. Afterwards an Oration being delivered before the several degrees that were then left in the University, in praise of the defunct and his learning, it was accompanied by them to Mert. Coll. Church, and there solemnly deposited on the left side of Briggs his grave near to the high Altar. The Epitaph on his grave-stone, which was made by Mr. Greaves before mentioned, his successor in the Astronomy lecture, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 89. b. 90. a. Many of his writings came after his death into the hands of the said Greaves, besides what is before mentioned, but whether worthy of the press, I cannot tell. Among them was his Discourse of the Periodus Sothiaca, which the said Greaves was about to perfect and publish, an. 1644.  
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT the most noted Poet, Orator and Philosopher of his time, was born at Northway near T●wksbury in Glocestershire in Sept. 1611. (9 Jac. 1.) and baptised there on the 26 day of the same month. His father Will. Cartwright was once a Gent. of a fair Estate, but running out of it, I know not how, was forced to keep a common Inn in Cirencester in the same County, where living in a middle condition, caused this his son, of great hopes, to be educated under Mr. Will. Topp Master of the Free-school there. But so great a progress did he make in a short time, that by the advice of friends, his father got him to be sped a Kings-scholar at Westminster; where completing his former learning to a miracle under Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1628., put under the tuition of Jerumael Terrent, went thro' the Classes of Logic and Philosophy with an unwearied industry, took the degrees in Arts (that of Master being completed in 1635) holy orders, and became the most florid and seraphical Preacher in the University. He was another Tully and Virgil, as being most excellent for Oratory and Poetry, in which faculties, as also in the Greek tongue, he was so full and absolute, that those that best knew him, knew not in which he most excelled. So admirably well versed also was he in Metaphysics, that when he was Reader of them in the University, the exposition of them was never better performed than by him and his Predecessor Th. Barlow of Qu. Coll. His preaching also was so graceful, and profound withal, that none of his time or age went beyond him. So that if the Wits read his Poems, Divines his Sermons, and Philosophers his Lectures on Aristotle's Metaphysics, they would scarce believe that he died at a little above thirty years of age. But that which is most remarkable, is that these his high parts and abilities, were accompanied with so much candour and sweetness, that they made him equally beloved and admired of all persons, especially those of the Gown and Court, who esteemed also his life a fair copy of practic piety, a rare example of heroic worth, and in whom Arts, Learning and Language made up the true compliment of perfection. He hath written,  
The Lady-errant. Trag. Com.  
Royal Slave. Trag. Com. Oxon. 1640. second edit. Acted before the K. and Q. by the Students of Ch. Ch. 30 Aug. 1636. See in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 344. b. 345. a.  
The Ordinary. Com.  
Siedge: or Love's convert. Trag. Com.  
Poems— All which were gathered into one Vol. and printed at Lond. 1651. oct. ushered then into the world by many copies of Verses, mostly written by Oxf. men; among whom were Jasper maine D. D. Joh. Castilion B. D. (afterwards Dean of Rochester) Robert Waring, Mart. Lluellin, Joh. Fell, Franc. Palmer, Rich. Goodridge, Tho. Severne, etc. all of Ch. Church. Hen. Earl of Monmouth, Sir Rob. Stapylton, Edw. Sherbourn (afterwards a Knight) Jam. Howell, Franc. Finch, Joh. Finch of Ball. Coll. Brethren to Sir Heneage Finch sometimes Lord Chanc. of England, Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. Joh. Birkenhead of Alls. Coll. Hen. Vaughan the Silurist and Eugenius Philalethes his brother, both of Jesus Coll. Josias How and Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. Matthew Smallwood of Brasnose, Hen. Bold of New, and Will. Bell of S. John's, Coll. etc. Our Author Cartwright also wrote,  
Poemata Graeca & Latina.  
An Offspring of mercy, issuing out of the womb of cruelty. Or, a passion serm. preached at Ch. Ch. in Oxon, on Acts 2.23. Lond. 1652. oct.  
Of the signal days in the month of Nou. in relation to the Crown and Royal Family. A poem. Lond. 1671. in one sh. in qu. besides Poems and Verses, which have Airs 
(*) See in a book intit. Airs and Dialogues for one, two, and three Voices. Lond. 1653. fol. composed by the said Hen. Laws; and in another intit. Select Airs and Dialogues to sing to the Theorbo-Lute and Bass Viol. Lond. 1669. fol. composed also by the said Hen. Laws.  for several Voices set to them by the incomparable Henry Laws servant to K. Ch. 1. in his public and private music; who outliving the tribulations which he endured for the royal cause, was restored to his places after the return of K. Ch. 2. and for a short time lived happy, and venerated by all lovers of music. He was buried by the title of Gentleman of his Majesty's Chapel, in the Cloister belonging to S. Peter's Church within the City of Westminster, 25 Octob. 1662. As for Cartwright, who had the Succentors' place in the Church of Salisbury conferred on him by Bishop Duppa, in the month of Octob. 1642, was untimely snatched away by a malignant fever called the Camp-disease, that raged in Oxon. (he being then one of the Proctors of the University) to the great grief of all learned and virtuous men, and to the resentment of the K. and Qu. then there (who very anxiously enquired of his health in the time of his sickness) on the 29 of Nou. in sixteen hundred forty and three, and was buried on the first day of Dec. towards the upper end of the south isle joining to the Choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Church. 
1643.  In his Proctorship succeeded Joh. Maplet M. A. of the same house, who served out the remaining part of the year, and in his Succentorship Rob. joiner of Oxford.  
THOMAS MASTER son of Will. Master Rector of Coat near to a market town called Cirencester in Glocestershire, was born at Coat, but descended from the gentile family of the Masters living in the said town of Cirencester, initiated in Grammar learning by Mr. Henry Topp a noted Master of that place, afterward ripened for the University in Wykeham's school near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation, an. 1624., took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1629, holy orders, and at length in 1640 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. At which time he was arrived to great Learning, was esteemed a vast scholar, a general Artist and Linguist, a noted Poet, and a most florid preacher. He hath written,  
Mensa lubrica Montgom. illustriss. Domino, D. Edwardo Baroni de Cherbury. Oxon. 1658. qu. second edit. the first having been printed on one side of a large sheet of paper. 'Tis a poem written in Lat. and Engl. describing the game called Shovel-board play, published with Sir Henry Saviles' Oration to Qu. Elizab. by Mr. Tho. Ba●low of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. an. 1658. printed there again in Dec. 1690. in half a sh. in qu.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. This Greek Poem which is printed with Mensa lubrica, was made by him on the Passion of Christ, 19 Apr. 1633. rendered into excellent Lat. verse by Hen. Jacob of Merton Coll. and into English by Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets of his time: which Lat. and Engl. copies are printed with the Greek. Oxon. 1●58. qu.  
Monarchia Britannica sub auspiciis Elizabethae & Jacobi in oratione quam pro more habuit in capella Coll. Novi 6 Kal. Apr. 1642. Oxon. 1661. qu. 1681. oct. published by his friend and acquaintance Joh. Lamphire Doct. of Phys. sometimes Fellow of New Coll, afterwards Comdens' Prof. of History.  
Iter boreale: Oxon. 1675, in two sheets and an half in qu. written in prose and verse, and dedicated to his Father Will. Master beforemention'd, 25 Sept. 1637. published by George Ent of the Middle Temple, son and heir of Sir George Ent Kt. then a sojourner and student in Oxon, being about that time entered a Member of Wadh. Coll. Which George Ent. the son wrote and published The grounds of Unity in religion: or, an expedient for a general conformity and pacification. printed in 1679 in one sheet in qu. In which year (in Aug. or thereabouts) he departing this mortal life, was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London. Our Author Master also hath written other Poems, as (1) Carolas redux, 1623. (2) Ad regem Carolum, 1625. (3) On Bish. Lake, 1626. (4) On Ben. Johnson, 1637. and (5) On Vaulx, but these, I think, are not printed. He was a drudge to, and assisted much Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, when he was obtaining materials for the writing the Life of K. Hen. 8. Four thick Volumes in fol. of such materials I have lying by me, in every one of which I find his hand writing, either in interlining, adding, or correcting; and one of those four, which is entitled Collectaneorum lib. secundus, is mostly written by him, collected from Parliament Rolls, the Paper Office at Whitehall, Vicar General's Office, books belonging to the Clerks of the Council, Mss. in Cottons Library, Books of Convocations of the Clergy, etc. printed Authors, etc. And there is no doubt, that as he had an especial hand in composing the said Life of K. Hen. 8. (which as some say he turned mostly into Latin, but never printed) so had he a hand in latinizing that Lord's book De veritate, or others. At length being overtaken by a malignant fever, the same which I have mentioned in Dud. Digges and Will. Cartwright, died thereof, to the great reluctancy of those that well knew him, in the Winter time, either in Dec. or Jan. in sixteen hundred forty and three, 
1643.  and was buried in the north part of the outer Chapel belonging to New Coll. His Epitaph is written in Latin by the said L. Herbert in his Occasional Verses, p. 94. who hath also written a lat. Poem in praise of his Mensa lubrica, which may be there also seen. But the said Epitaph must not be understood to have ever been put over his grave.  
WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH son of Will. Chill. Citizen (afterwards Mayor) of Oxford, was born in S. Martin's Parish there, in a little house on the north side of the conduit at Quatervois, in Octob. 1602, and on the last of that month received baptism there. After he had been educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester a noted Latinist and Grecian, (who taught privately in Allsaints Parish) or in the Free school joining to Magd. Coll. or in both, he became scholar of Trin. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Skinner, on the second of June 1618., being then about two years standing in the University, and going thro' with ease the Classes of Logic and Philosophy, was adm. M. of A. in the latter end of 1623., and Fellow of the said Coll. 10 June 1628. He was then observed to be no drudge at his study, but being a man of great parts would do much in a little time when he settled to it. He would often walk in the College grove and contemplate, but when he met with any scholar there, he would enter into discourse, and dispute, with him, purposely to facilitate and make the way of wrangling common with him; which was a fashion used in those days, especially among the disputing Theologists, or among those that set themselves apart purposely for Divinity. But upon the change of the times, occasioned by the Puritan, that way forsooth was accounted boyish and pedagogical, to the detriment, in some respects, of learning. About the same time being much unsettled in his thoughts, he became acquainted with one who went by the name of Joh. Fisher a learned Jesuit and sophistical Disputant, who was often conversant in these parts. At length by his persuasions, and the satisfaction of some doubts which he could not find among our great men at home, he went to the Jesuits Coll. at S. Omer, forsook his Religion, and by these motives 
(a) Edw. Knott in his Direction to be observed by N. N. etc. Lond. in oct. p. 37. etc.  following, which he left among them under his own hand, became a Rom. Catholic, First because perpetual visible profession which could never be wanting to the Religion of Christ, nor any part of it, is apparently wanting to Protestant Religion; so far as concern the points in contestation. (2) Because Luther and his followers, separating from the Church of Rome, separated also from all Churches, pure or impure, true or untrue, then being in the World: upon which ground I conclude that either God's promises did fail of performance, if there were then no Church in the world, which held all things necessary and nothing repugnant to salvation; or else that Luther and his Sectaries, separating from all Churches then in the world, and so from the true, if there were any true, were damnable Schismatics. (3) Because if any credit might be given to as creditable Records as any are extant, the doctrine of Catholics hath been frequently confirmed, and the opposite doctrine of Protestants confounded, with supernatural and divine miracles. (4) Because many points of protestant Doctrine, are the damned opinions of Heretics, condemned by the primitive Church. (5) Because the prophecies of the Old Test. touching the conversion of Kings and Nations to the true Religion of Christ, have been accomplished in, and by, the Catholic Rom. Religion, and the Professors of it. (6) Because the doctrine of the Church of Rome is conformable, and the doctrine of the Protestants contrary to the doctrine of the Fathers of the primitive Church, even by the confession of Protestants themselves; I mean those Fathers, who lived within the compass of the first 600 years; to whom Protestants themselves do very frequently and confidently appeal. (7) Because the first pretended Reformers had neither extraordinary commission from God, nor ordinary mission from the Church, to preach protestant doctrine. (8) Because Luther, to preach against the mass (which contains the most material points now in controversy) was persuaded by reasons suggested to him by the Devil himself, disputing with him. So himself professeth in his book De missa privata, that all men might take heed of following him, who professeth himself to follow the Devil. (9) Because the protestant 'Cause is now, and hath been from the beginning, maintained with gross falsifications and calumnies; whereof their prime controversy writers, are notoriously, and in high degree guilty. (10) Because by denying all humane Authority, either of Pope, or Councils, or Church, to determine controversies of Faith, they have abolished all possible means of suppressing heresy, or restoring unity to the Church. These were his motives, as my Author 
(b) Ibid. p. 40.  tells me, who adds, that they were so strong, that he (Chillingw.) could never since frame his mind to Protestancy: And the profession of Catholic Religion not suiting with his desires and designs, he fell upon Socinianism, that is no Religion, etc. To these motives which are owned and reprinted 
(c) In the preface to the author of Charity maintained, etc. sect. 43.  by Mr. Chillingworth, he made an Answer three years or better before the first edition of his book called The Religion of Protestants, etc. came out. Which answer was not published for two reasons, one, because the motives were never public, until the author of The direction to N. N. made them so. The other, because he was loath to proclaim to all the world so much weakness as he showed, in suffering himself to be abused by such silly sophisms. All which proceeded upon mistakes and false suppositions, which unadvisedly he took 
(d) sect. 42.  for granted, as 'twill quickly appear when the motives with his respective answers made to them and 
(e) sect. 44.  printed, shall be impartially weighed in the balance against each other. Tho Mr. Chillingworth embraced Protestantism very sincerely, as it seems, when he wrote his book of The Religion of Protestants, etc. yet notwithstanding not long before, and I think then also, he refused to subscribe the 39 Articles, and so consequently did not desert the Religion of Rome out of desire of preferment, or for temporal ends (which the Author of The direction to N. N. objected to him) by reason that this his refusal did incapacitate him for all places of benefit in England, a previous subscription of the said 39 Articles being the only common door that here leads to any such. This refusal was grounded on his scrupling the truth, only of one or two Propositions contained in 
(f) sect. 29. & 40.  them: and these his small doubts too were afterwards fully satisfied and removed before his advancement in the Church, otherwise he could not have conscientiously subscribed the 39 Articles, which is indispensibly required of all persons upon any ecclesiastical promotion. But to return: so it was, that he finding not that satisfaction from the Jesuits concerning various points of Religion, or, (as some say) not that respect, which he expected, (for the common report among his Contemporaries in Trin. Coll. was, that the Jesuits to try his temper, and exercise his obedience, did put him upon servile duties far below him) he left them in the year 1631, returned to the Church of England (though the Presbyterians said not, but that he was always a Papist in his heart, or, as we now say, in masquerade) and was kindly received by his Godfather Dr. Laud then B. of London. So that fixing himself for a time in his beloved Oxford, he did, in testimony of his reconcilement, make a Recantation, and afterwards wrote a book against the Papists, as I shall anon tell you. For which his service he was rewarded with the Chancellourship of the Church of Salisbury, upon the promotion of Dr. Br. Duppa, to the See of Chichester, in the month of July 1638, and about the same time with the Mastership of Wygstans' Hospital in the ancient Borough of Leycester: Both which, and perhaps other preferments, he kept to his dying day. He was a most noted Philosopher and Orator, and without doubt a Poet also, otherwise Sir Joh. Suckling would not have brought him into his Poem called The session of Poets; and had such an admirable faculty in reclaiming Schismatics and confuting Papists, that none in his time went beyond him. He had also very great skill in Mathematics, and his aid and counsel was often used in making Fortifications for the King's Garrisons, especially those of the City of Gloucester, and Arundel Castle in Sussex. He was a subtle and quick Disputant, and would several times put the King's Professor to a push. Hobbes of Malmsbury would often say that he was like a lusty fight fellow, that did drive his Enemies before him, but would often give his own party smart backblows. And 'twas the current Opinion in this University, that he and Lucius Lord Falkland had such extraordinary clear reason, that if the great Turk, or Devil, were to be converted, they were able to do it. He was a man of little stature, but of great soul; which if time's had been serene, and life spared, might have done incomparable service to the Church of England. He wrote and published,  
The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation; or, an answer to a book entit. Mercy and truth, or charity maintained by Catholics, which pretends to prove the contrary. Oxon. 1636. 38. Lond. 1664. 74. etc. All which impressions were in fol. In which book the Author made very much use of Joh. Daillé a learned French Divine, as about the same time the L. Falkland did in his Writings; who was wont to say, it was worth a Voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him. He calls him our Protestant Perron, etc. The book that The Religion of Protestants, etc. answered, was written by Edw. Knott a Jesuit, against Dr. Potter's book entit. Want of Charity, etc. as I shall tell you, when I come to speak of him, under the year 1645. Before the said Relig. of Protestants, etc. went to the press, it was, at the desire of Dr. Laud, corrected and amended by Dr. Joh. Prideaux, who afterwards, among his friends would liken 
(g) Franc. Cheynell in his book intit. A discussion of Mr. Joh. Fry's tenants lately condemned in Parliam. etc. p. 33.  it to an unwholesome Lamprey, by having a poisonous sting of Socinianism throughout it, and tending in some places to plain infidelity and atheism. After it was published the general 
(h) Hug. Cressy in his Exomologesis, chap. 22.  character given of its Author was, that he had better luck in pulling down buildings, than raising new ones, and that he has managed his sword much more dexterous than his buckler, etc. yet the very same Author who reports this, doth in a manner vindicate him 
(i) In his Epistle Apologetical to a person of honour, sect. 7. p. 82.  elsewhere from being a Socinian, which may in some sort confute the Jesuit (Edw. Knott) before mentioned. It must be now known, that our Author being of intimate acquaintance with Joh. Hales of Eton, he did use his assistance when he was in compiling his book of The Religion, etc. especially in that part, wherein he vindicates the English Church from schism, charged on her by Knott. And that he might more clearly understand Hales, he desired him that he would communicate his thoughts in writing, concerning the nature of Schism. Whereupon he wrote a Tract thereof, (as I shall tell you when I come to him) out of which our Author Chillingworth urged some Arguments, which as one 
(k) Tho. Long in his pref. before Mr. Hales his treatise of schism examined. Lond. 1678.  thinks are the worst in all his book; and so it is thought by many more. However, if not, as some affirm, yet they have caused ill reflections not only on the private reputation of Hales and Chillingworth, but on the Church of England, as if it did favour the Socinian Principles. But as for an exact summary of the doctrines of his belief, after what manner to be qualified, and how little he favoured Socinianism, which that he did in an high degree, his adversaries of Rome, and some of the sectarian party at home, did constantly and maliciously 
(l) See sect. 28. of the aforesaid Preface.  suggest. When the said book was in the press, Dr. Potter of Qu. Coll. wrote 
(m) Gesta Cancellariatus Laud, MS. pag. 149.  to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. 15 Sept. 1637, that Knott the Jesuit was in Oxon, and had the sheets thereof sent to him as they came from the press, giving five shillings for every sheet, but this doth otherwise appear from Knott's words elsewhere. There was also another Jesuit called Will. Lacey then dwelling in Oxon, who perusing the said book gave his opinion of it in a Treatise entit. The judgement of an University-man on Mr. Chillingworth's book, which I shall elsewhere mention. Besides him were two or three more at least that answered it, as J. H. in Christianity maintained, or a discovery of sundry doctrines tending to the overthrow of Christian Religion contained in the answer to a book entit. Mercy and truth, etc. printed 1638. qu, the Author of The Church conquerant over humane wit, etc. printed the same year, and E. Knott in his Infidelity unmasked, etc. Our Author Chillingworth hath also written,  
The apostolical institution of Episcopacy demonstrated. Lond. 1660. qu. there again in 64, and 74. in fol. with The Religion of Protestants.  
Nine sermons— printed at Lond. 1664. and 74. in fol. with his Apost. Institution etc. and The Religion of Protestants, etc. These, I think, are all the things he hath written, except his Motives published by E. Knott, which being answered by him, as I have before told you, were replied upon by the Author of a book entit. Motives maintained; or, a reply to Mr. Chillingworths' answer to his own motives of his Conversion to Cath. Religion. printed 1638, in three sh. in qu. It must be now known, that in the beginning of the civil distempers, our Author Chillingworth suffered much for the King's Cause, and being forced to go from place to place for succour, as opportunity served, went at length to Arundel Castle in Sussex, where he was in quality of an Engineer in that Garrison. At length the Castle coming into the hands of the parliamentarian Forces, on the sixth day of January 1643, he was by the endeavours of Mr. Franc. Cheynell (about that time Rector of Petworth) made to Sir Will. Waller the prime Governor of those forces, conveyed to Chichester, and there lodged in the Bishop's house, because that he being very sick, could not go to London with the prisoners taken in the said Castle. In the said house he remained to his dying day, and tho civilly used, yet he was much troubled with the impertinent discourses and disputes of the said Cheynell, which the royal party of that City looked upon as a shortening of our Author's days. He gave way to fate on the 24 of January (or thereabouts) in sixteen hundred forty and three, 
1643/4.  and the next day his body being brought into the Cath. Church accompanied by the said royal party, was certain service said, but not common Prayer according to the Defuncts desire. Afterwards his body being carried into the Cloister adjoining, Cheynell stood at the grave ready to receive it, with the Author's book of The Religion of Protestants, etc. in his hand: and when the company were all settled, he spoke before them a ridiculous speech concerning the Author Chillingworth and that book; and in the conclusion, throwing the book insultingly on the corpse in the grave, said thus,— Get thee gone then, thou cursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souls; get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten book, earth to earth, and dust to dust; get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou may'st rot with thy Author, and see Corruption.— After the conclusion, Cheynell went to the pulpit in the Cath. Church, and preached a sermon on Luke 9.60. Let the dead bury the dead, etc. while the Malignants (as he called them) made a shift to perform some parts of the English Liturgy at his grave. About the time of the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Oliver Whitby his great admirer, sometimes M. A. of this University, did put an inscription on the wall over his grave, which being for the most part in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 297. b. should also have been here inserted, but forasmuch as several faults are therein, as that he was D. of Divinity, Chauntor of Salisbury, and that he died in 1642, I think it fit therefore to be omitted in this place. In his Chancellourship of Salisbury succeeded the learned and godly Dr. Joh. Earl on the 10 of Feb. 1643, but who in the Mastership of Wygstans' Hospital I cannot yet well tell. By his Will 
(*) In the Will-Office near S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in Lond. in reg. Twysse, qu. 140.  dated 22 of Nou. 1643, he gave to the Mayor and Corporation of Oxon 400 l. to be paid by 50 l. per an. in eight years. And as it is paid, he would have it lent to poor young Tradesmen by 50 l. a piece for ten years, they giving good security to repay it at ten years' end, and to pay for it 40 s. per an. consideration. And the use and consideration so paid to be laid out in binding young poor Children, boys or girls, apprentices, allowing 8 l. a piece to every one, to bind him or her, out. etc.  
HENRY FITZ-SIMON the most noted Jesuit of his time, was 
(a) Reg. Matric. P. pag. 555.  matriculated as a member of Hart Hall 26 Apr. 1583, and in that of his age 14, said then and there in the matricula to be an Irishman born, and the son of a Merchant in Dublin. In Decemb. following I 
(b) Reg. prim. Act. & electionum Aed. Chr. sub an. 1583.  find one Henry Fitz-Simons to be elected Student of Ch. Ch. but whether he be the same with the former, I dare not say it. How long he continued in the University, or whether he took a degree, it no where appears. Sure it is, that he being in his mind then, if not before, a Rom. Catholic, he went beyond the seas, entered himself into the Society of Jesus, and made so great a proficiency under the instruction of Leonard Lessius, that he, in short time, became so eminent, that he taught publicly among them Philosophy for several years. At length retiring to his native Country, he endeavoured to reconcile as many persons as he could to his Religion, either by private conference, or public disputes with protestant Ministers. In which work he persisted for two years without disturbance, being esteemed the chief Disputant among those of his party, and so ready and quick that few or none would undertake to deal with him. In fine, he being apprehended for a dangerous person, was committed to safe custody in Dublin Castle in the year 1599, where he continued about 5 years. As soon as he was settled there, which, as 'tis said, he desired before, that it might be so, was several times heard to say, That he being a Prisoner, was like a bear tied to a stake, and wanted some to bait him; which expressions being looked upon as a challenge, Mr. Jam. Usher, than 19 years of age, did undertake, and did dispute with, him once, or twice, or more concerning Antichrist, and was ready to have proceeded farther, but our Author was, as 'tis 
(c) Nich. Bernard in The life and death of Dr. Jam. Usher— Lond. 1656. oct. p. 32.  said, weary of it and him. Afterwards, at the term of the said five years, being freed from prison, upon condition that he would carry himself quietly and without disturbance to the K. and the Realm, he went forthwith into voluntary exile into the Low Countries, where he spent his time in performing Offices requisite to his Function, and in writing books; some of which have these titles.  
A catholic confutation of Mr. Joh. Riders claim of antiquity; and a caulming comfort against his caveat. Rouen 1608. qu.  
Reply to Mr. Rider's postscript, and a discovery of puritan partiality in his behalf— printed with the former book.  
Answer to certain complaintive letters of afflicted Catholics for Religion etc.— printed with the former also.  
Justification and exposition of the sacrifice of the Mass, in 2 books or more— printed 1611. qu.  
Britannomachia Ministrorum in plerisque & fidei fundamentis, & fidei articulis dissidentium. Duac. 1614 qu. See before in Franc. Mason, p. 393, 394.  
Catalogue of the Irish Saints— This I have not yet seen, and therefore cannot tell whether it be in Latin or in another Language. In the year 1608 he went according to summons to Rome, where being appointed for the mission of Ireland, he published his profession of the four vows; and then being sent back to the Low Countries, he went again into Ireland, where he spent many years in confirming the Rom. Catholics in their ancient Religion and in gaining proselytes to his opinion. At length the Rebellion breaking out there in 1641, of which he was a great Abettor and Encourager, was, after the Rebels began to be subdued, forced to fly for shelter into Woods and on Mountains, and to creep and sculk into every place for fear of being taken and hanged by the English Soldiers. In the beginning of the year 1643 he was forced to change his place, and retire for safety to a moorish and boggy ground, where sheltering himself under a Shepherd's cote (no better than a hovel) which could not keep out the wind and rain, lived there in a very sorry condition, and had for his bedding a pad of straw, which would be often wet by the rising, and coming in of the water. Notwithstanding all this misery, he seemed to be very cheerful, and was ready to instruct the young ones about him, and comfort others. But being in a manner spent, and his age not able to bear such misery long, was with much ado taken away: And being conveyed to some of the brethren into a better place, expired among them on the Calends of Febr. the same year; but where, or in what place buried, 
1643/4.  my informer tells me not. By his death the R. Catholics lost a pillar of their Church, being esteemed in the better part of his life a great ornament among them, and the greatest defender for their Religion in his time.  
GEORGE SANDYS a younger son of Edwin Archb. of York, was born at Bishops Thorpe in that County, and as a member of S. Mary's Hall was matriculated in the University in the beginning of Dec. 1589, and in that of his age eleven, at which time Henry his elder brother was remitted into the said Matricula, but both, as I conceive, received their tuition in Corp. Ch. Coll. How long George tarried there, or whether he took a degree, it appears not. In the month of Aug. 1610 he began a long journey, and after he had traveled thro' several parts of Europe, visited divers Cities (particularly Constantinople) and Countries under the Turkish Empire, as Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Afterwards he made a view of the remote parts of Italy, and the Islands adjoining. That being done he went to Rome, the Antiquities and Glories of which place were in four days time showed unto him by Nich. Fitzherbert sometimes an Oxford student, who, as I have before told you, ended his days in 1612. Thence our Author went to Venice (from whence he first set out) and so to England. Where digesting his notes, and enterlarding them with various parts of Poetry, according to the fashion of that time, published them in English under this title.  
Sandys Travails &c. in four books. Lond. 1615. 1621. 27. 32. 52. 58. 70. 73. etc. all in folio, and illustrated with several Maps and Figures, except the first edit. The said Travails are contracted in the second part of Sam. Parchas his books of Pilgrims, lib. 8. The Author upon his return in 1612 or after, being improved in several respects by this his large journey, he became an accomplished Gent. as being Master of several Languages, of a fluent and ready discourse and excellent Comportment. He had also naturally a poetical fancy, and a zealous inclination to all humane learning, which made his company desired, and acceptable to most virtuous men and Scholars of his time. He also wrote and published,  
A paraphrase on the Psalms of David, and upon the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testam. Lond. 1636. oct. reprinted there in fol. 1638, with other matters following under this title.  
Paraphrase upon the divine Poems, which contain a paraphrase on Job, Psalms of David, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations of Jeremiah, and songs collected out of the Old and New Test.— The said Paraphrase on David's Psalms was one of the books that K Ch. 1. delighted to read in, as he did in G. Herbert's Divine poems, Dr. Hammonds Works, hooker's Ecclesiast. policy, etc. while he was a Prisoner in Carisbroke Castle in the Isle of Wight.  
Paraphrase on the divine Poems, viz. on the Psalms of David, on Ecclesiastes, and on the Song of Solomon. Lond. 1676. oct. Some, if not all, of the said Ps. of David, had vocal Compositions set to them by the incomparable Hen. and Will. Laws, with a thorough bass for an Organ, in 4 large books or volumes, in qu. He the said G. Sandys translated also into English (1) The first five books of Ovid's Metamorphosis. Lond. 1627. 32. 40. fol. methodised and expressed in figures. (2) Virgil's first book of Aeneis. printed with the former. (3) Tragedy of Christ's passion. Lond. 1640. written in lat. by Hug. Grotius; to which Trag. Sandys put also notes. What other things he hath written and translated, I know not, nor any thing else of him only that he being then, or lately one of the Gent. of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. gave way to fate in the house of his niece the Lady Margaret Wyatt (dau. of Sir Sam. Sandys and widow of Sir Francis Wyatt Kt. Grandson to Sir Tho. Wyatt beheaded in Qu. Mary's Reign) called Boxley abbey in Kent, in the beginning of March in sixteen hundred forty and three, and was buried in the Chancel of the parish Church there, 
1643/4.  near to the door, on the south side, but hath no remembrance at all over his grave, nor any thing at that place, only this which stands in the common Register belonging to the said Church. Georgius Sandys Poetarum Anglorum sui saeculi facile princeps, sepultus fuit Martii 7. stilo Anglic. an. dom. 1643. One Tho. Philpot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr. hath in his Poems printed at Lond. 1646. in oct. a copy of verses, not to be contemned, on his death. I find another George Sandys, contemporary with the former and a Knight, who having committed felony, was executed (at Tybourne as it seems) on the fourth of March 1617.  
HANNIBAL GAMMON a Londoner born and a Gentleman's Son, became a Commoner of Broadgates' hall in 1599 and in that of his age 17, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards was made Minister of S. Maugan in Cornwall, where he was much frequented by the puritannical party for his edifying and practical way of preaching. He hath published  
Several Sermons, as (1) God's smiting to amendment, etc. preached at the Assizes in Launceston 6. Aug. 1628. on Esay 1.5. Lond. 1629. qu. (2) Praise of a godly woman, a wedding Sermon, etc. Lond. 1627. q. (3) Sermon at the Lady Robert's funeral, 10. Aug. 1626. etc. These two last I have not yet seen, nor another Sermon preached at the Assizes in Launceston, 1621., 
Clari. 1643.  which was printed that year. In 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians, and in 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines, which is all I yet know of him.  
CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldest Son of Calyb. Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire, near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, Gent. (Lord of the manors of Sugarswell and Tysoe in Warwickshire) became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623. and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts, completed it by determination, and then went, as it seems, to Cambridge, or beyond the Seas, where taking another degree, he entered into orders, was made Rector of Hickford, (in Bucks.) Doctor of the Laws, and had, (as I have been informed by one that well knew him) the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks, bestowed on him. About that time, he being a competitor for the Wardenship of Alls. Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected, but lost it, did at length exchange W. Ildesley for the Rectory of Hackney near London, and was a great suitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland, thinking that employment the readiest way to be a Bishop. And whilst he had hopes of that preferment, he writ stoutly in justification of that calling, and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Discourses. But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way soever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him, did, upon some discontent, watch an opportunity to gain preferment, let it come what way soever. At length being esteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any base employment, and one that (what ever he counterfeited) ever looked awry on the Church, in which (being settled and in peace) he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney, was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great City of London. While therefore discontents did rise high in the North, the Scots having in an hostile manner entered the Kingdom, the people every where, especially in London, stirred up by some Agents to petition the King for that Parliament, which began 3. Nou. 1640, our Author Downing did then (viz. on the first of Sept. 1640) preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden, and positively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church, it was lawful to take up arms against the King. He having thus kindled the fire in the City, did, for fear of being questioned, (for then it was not lawful to preach Treason) retire privately to Little-Lees in Essex, the house of Robert Earl of Warwick, and common rendezvous of all schismatical preachers in those parts, while in the mean time his Sermon, which did administer in every place matter of discourse, was censured as people stood affected, and in fine gave occasion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon serious examination and study of this case of Conscience: And, it seems, that they consulting 
(*) See a Letter from Merc. Civicus to Merc. Rusticus. printed 1643. qu. p. 8.  with the Jesuits on the one side, and the rigid Puritan on the other; or indeed, because without admitting this doctrine, all their former endeavours would vanish into smoke, they stood doubtful no longer, but closed with these two contrary parties, yet shaking hands in this point of Rebellion, and subscribing to the Doctrine of Downing, as an evangelical truth. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after, he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex, where he preached and prayed continually against the King and his Cause. In 1643 he showed himself a grand Covenanter, and thereupon was made one of the Assembly of Divines, but leaving them soon after, he sided with the Independents, and preached so seditiously that he was commonly 
(†) Tho. Edward's, in his Third part of Gangraena 1 p. 81, 82.  called Young Peter's, or Hugh Peter's the second, and often and bitterly preached against such Citizens of London that showed themselves zealous for an union or right understanding between the King and his Parliament. But behold, while he was in the height of these diabolical and rebellious actions, he was suddenly, and as I may say most justly, cut off from the face of the earth and was no more seen. His Works are these.  
A discourse of the state Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil, considered under three conclusions, etc. Oxon. 1633. etc.  
A digression discussing some ordinary exceptions against Ecclesiastical Officers— To these two discourses, though his name is put, yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing, that he the said C. Downing was not the Author of them.  
Discourse of the false grounds, the Bavarian party have laid, to settle their own Faction, and shake the peace of the Empire, etc. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Discourse upon the interest of England considered, in the case of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions— printed with the former book next going before.  
A discursive conjecture upon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present Troubles of Great Britain, different from those of Lower Germany, etc. Lond. 1641. qu. etc.  
Divers Sermons, as (1) Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1●40. on Deut. 25.17. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) Fast Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642, on 2. Thes. 3. ver. 2.— (whether printed I know not,) and others which I have not yet seen. This person who had a hot and rambling Head, laid it down very unwillingly, and gave up the Ghost at Hackney, about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and four, 
1644.  to the great grief of his aged Father, who died in Nou. following. This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George, a cider with all times and changes, well skilled in the common Cant, and a Preacher sometimes to boot, a man of note in oliver's days, as having been by him sent Resident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces, a Soldier in Scotland, and at length Scout Master General there, and a Burgess for several Corporations in that Kingdom, in Parliaments that began there in 1654. and 56. Upon a foresight of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. his Restauration he wheeled about, took all opportunities to show his Loyalty, was elected Burgess for Morpeth in Northumb. to serve in that Parl. begun at Westm. 8. May 1661., was about that time sent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland, where to show his zeal and love for his Majesty, he seized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkstead, Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet, whom he forthwith sent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows. Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treasury and one of his Majesty's Commissioners of the Customs, was by the name of Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Cambridgeshire Knight, created a Baronet on the first of July 1603.  
BRIAN TWINE Son of Tho. Twine (mentioned before, under the year 1613 p. 329) was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey place on the 13. Dec. 1594 and in that of his age 15 or thereabouts. After he had taken the degrees in Arts, he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of the said House 3. Jan. 1605; about which time entering into Holy Orders, took the degree of Bach. of Diu. five years after. In 1614 he was made Greek Reader of his College, performed his duty well, and about 1623., left that and the House to avoid his being engaged in a faction then between the Precedent and Fellows; knowing very well that if he favoured either side, expulsion would follow, because he had entered into a wrong County-place. Afterwards he became Vicar of Rye in Sussex (in which County, at Lewes, as 'tis supposed by some, he was born) by the favour, as it seems, of the Earl of Dorset, but being seldom resident on the place, he spent the most part of his time in Oxon, in certain hired Lodgings in Penverthingstreet in the Parish of S. Aldate, where he continued to his dying day. The genius of this person being naturally bend to the study of History and Antiquities, he published a Book in vindication of the antiquity and dignity of the University of Oxon, against such matters that Londinensis, otherwise called John Cay had said in his book De antiquitate Acad Cantab. in derogation to Oxon, the title of it is this.  
Antiquitatis Academiae Oxoniensis Apologia, in tres libros divisa. Oxon. 1608. qu. To which books are these things added.  
Miscellanea quaedam de antiquis aulis & Studentium collegiis, quondam, & hodie, in universitate existentibus.  
Summorum Oxoniensis Academiae Magistratuum, hoc est Cancellariorum, Commissariorum, et Vicecancellariorum necnon Procuratorum, etc. catalogus.  
In the aforesaid Apology, though sufficient judgement, yet greater reading, is showed; which hath occasioned many understanding men, to suppose, nay rather confidently believe, that he had the helps of Tho. Allen and Miles Windsor in the composition of the work, especially for this reason, that when he had fitted it for the Press, he was scarce 28 years of age. Howsoever it is, I shall not pretend to judge: sure I am that notwithstanding several persons have endeavoured to pick flaws and errors thence, and have characterised it to be rather a rude heap, than an exact pile, yet the body and general part of it remains as yet unanswered. The Author intended to reprint the said Work with additions, collected from many obscure places, but the grand Rebellion breaking out in 1642, (in the time of which he died) his design was frustrated, and the Book itself interleaved and filled with additions, together with many rarities, were, when the great fire happened in Oxon (which was soon after his death) either burnt with the house wherein he died, (having been there left by his Executor) or else then conveyed away by such who commonly seek advantage by such disasters. I have heard some Masters of Arts, who then bore Arms for his Majesty in Oxon, say, that six or seven Volumes of his collections in quarto (either of Greek, Mathematics, Philosophy, Heraldry. Antiquities, etc. in all which he was well read,) were offered to them by a beggarly Soldier for very inconsiderable prizes; and Dr. Herb. Pelham sometimes of Madg. Coll. hath averred it for an unquestionable truth that two or three Vol. were offered to him by such indigent persons for six pence a piece, such is the sordidness of ignorance and poverty. Our Author Twine was of a melancholic temper and sedentary life, and wholly spent his time in reading, writing and contemplation. He made it his whole endeavour to maintain the University Privileges and Liberties against its oppugners, and spent much money and travel for that purpose, especially for the obtaining copies of the ancient Charters and Bulls which formerly had been granted thereunto. He left no Library, Office, or place, wherein he thought were reposed monuments of Literature and Antiquity unperused, expecting in them something that might redound to the honour of his Mother, making thereby an incredible pile of collections. But so it was, that most of them, except some which he bequeathed to the University relating to controversial matters between the two Corporations, were, with great resentment let it be spoken, lost in the said fire. Had they, or his interleaved Book, been saved, the work of the Hist. and Antiq. of Oxon, which was some years since published, might probably have been spared, or at least have come sooner to light, with much gratitude to the lucubrations of this industrious Antiquary; but being lost, as I have told you, though Dr. Langbaine of Qu. Coll. and one or more did make diligent search after it, I was forced to peruse the records in all those places, which he had done before, nay each College treasury of muniments, which were, except one, omitted by him, to the end that all local antiquities in Oxford, and other matters of Antiquity, not well understood by him, might be by me known, and in future time described, if ever the English Copy of the said Hist. and Antiq. of Oxon, may hereafter be published; to which I intent to add the Antiquities of the Town or City of Oxon. Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. had an especial respect for our Author Twine and employed him in drawing up the University Statutes now in use: which were afterwards corrected, methodised and furbisht over with excellent Latin by Dr. Pet. Turner one of the Savilian Professors, as I shall tell you hereafter. In the said noble work of gathering the Statutes together, our Author being the chief, if not the only, Drudge, (for he transcribed them all under his own hand) he was rewarded with the place of Custos Archivorum, founded and established by the Chancellor and Scholars of the University after the Statutes were completed, an. 1634. Which place he enjoying about ten years, took his last farewell of this world in his Lodgings in S. Aldates' Parish before mentioned, on the fourth day of July in sixteen hundred forty and four. 
1644.  Afterwards his body was buried in the inner Chapel, or Choir of Corp. Ch. College, to which House he had bequeathed in his last Will many choice Books, whereof some were Mss. of his own writing. What I have further to observe of our Author is, that though he was accounted by divers persons an honest plain Man, one rather industrious than judicious, (notwithstanding well skilled in the Mathematics) cynical than facetious, morose than pleasant, clownish than courteous, close than communicative, and that he was evilly spoken of by the Oxonian vulgar, as a Conjurer, or one busied in the Black Art, a betrayer of their Liberties and I know not what, yet he was a loving and a constant friend to his Mother the University and to his College, a severe Student and an adorer of venerable Antiquity. And therefore, forasmuch as his love was so, which none that knew him could ever say to the contrary, his memory ought to be respected by all virtuous and good men.  
REES PRICHARD was born, as it seems, at Llanymodyfri in Caermarthenshire, and being educated in those parts, he was sent to Jesus Coll. in 1597, aged 18 years or thereabouts, ordained Priest at Wittham or Wytham in Essex by John Suffragan Bishop of Colchester, on Sunday 25. Apr. 1602, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in June following, and on the sixth of Aug. the same year, had the Vicarage of Llanymodyfri before mentioned, commonly called Landovery collated on him by Anthony Bishop of S. David. On the 19 of Nou. 1613 he was instituted Rector of Llamedy in the dioc. of S. David, (presented thereunto by the King,) which he held with the other Living by dispensation from the Archb. 28. Oct. 1613, confirmed by the great Seal on the 29 of the same month, and qualified by being Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex. In 1614 May 17. he was made Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Brecknock by the aforesaid Anthony Bishop of S. David; and by the Title of Master of Arts (which degree he was persuaded to take by Dr. Laud his diocesan) he was made Chancellor of S. David (to which the Prebend of Llowhadden is annexed) on the 14. of Sept. 1626. upon the resignation of Rich. Bailiff Bach. of Diu. of S. John's Coll. In Wales is a book of his composition that is common among the people there, and bears this Title.  
Gwaith Mr Rees Prichard, Gynt Ficcer etc. The works of Mr. Rees Prichard sometimes Vicar of Landovery in Caermarthenshire, printed before in 3 Books, but now printed together in one book, etc. with an addition in many things out of Mss. not seen before by the publisher; besides a fourth part now the first time imprinted. Lond. 1672 in a thick 8●. It contains four parts, and the whole consist of several Poems and pious Carols in Welsh, which some of the Author's Countrymen commit to memory, and are wont to sing. He also translated divers Books into Welsh, and wrote something upon the 39 Artiticles; which, whether printed I know not: some of it I have seen in Ms. He died at Llanymodifri about the month of Nou. in sixteen hundred forty and four, 
1644.  and was, as I presume, buried in the Church there. In his life time he gave Lands worth 20 l. per ann. for the settling a Free School at Llanymodifri, together with an House to keep it in. Afterwards the House was possessed by four Schoolmasters successively, and the money paid to them. At length Tho. Manwaring (Son of Roger sometimes Bishop of St. David) who married Elizab. the only daugh. of Samuel, Son of the said Rees Prichard, did retain, (as I have been informed by letters thence) and seize upon, the said Lands under pretence of paying the Schoolmaster in money, which accordingly was done for an year or two. But not long after (as my informer tells me) the River Towry breaking into the House, carried it away, and the Lands belonging thereunto, are occupied at this time (1682) by Rog. Manwaring Son and Heir of Thomas before mentined; so that the School is in a manner quite forgotten.  
WILLIAM LAUD Son of Will. Laud by Lucia his Wife, widow of Joh. Robinson of Reading in Berks, and daugh. of Joh. Webbe of the same place, was born in S. Laurence Parish in the said borough of Reading, on the 7. of Octob. 1573, educated in the Free-School there, elected Scholar of S. John's Coll. in 1590., where going thro' with great diligence the usual forms of Logic and Philosophy under the tuition of Dr. John Buckeridge, was made Fellow in 1594, and four years after Mast. of Arts, at which time he was esteemed by all those that knew him a very forward and zealous person. About that time entering into the Sacred Function, he read the Divinity Lecture newly set up in the Coll, and maintained by one Mrs. ... May. In 1●03 he was elected one of the Proctors of the University, and became Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire, which proved his happiness, and gave him hopes of greater preferment. In 1604 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and in 1607 he became Vicar of Stanford in Northamptonshire. In the year following he proceeded D. of Diu. and was made Chaplain to Dr. Neile Bishop of Rochester. In 1609 he became Rector of West-Tilbury in Essex, for which he exchanged his Advowson of Northkilworth in Leicestershire. The next year his Patron the Bishop of Rochester gave him the Rectory of Kuckstone in Kent, but that place proving unhealthful to him, he left it, and was inducted into Norton by proxy. The same year viz. 1610 he resigned his Fellowship, and the year following he was elected Precedent of his College. In 1614 his Patron, than Bishop of Lincoln, gave him a Prebendship in that Church, and after that the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, an. 1615, on the death of Matthew Gifford Master of Arts. In the year 1616 the King gave him the Deanery of Gloucester after the death of Dr. Rich. Field, and in the year following he became Rector of Ibstock in Leicestershire. In 1620 Jan. 22. he was installed Canon or Prebendary of the eighth stall in the Church of Westminster, (in the place of Edw. Buckley D. D. who had succeeded Will. Latymer in that dignity 1582.) and the next year after, his Majesty (who upon his own confession had given to him nothing but the Deanery of Gloucester, which he well knew was a shell without a kernel) gave him the grant of the Bishopric of S. David, and withal, leave to hold his Presidentship of S. Jo. Coll. in commendam with it, as also the Rectory of Ibstock before mentioned, and Creek in Northamptonshire. In Sept. 1626. he was translated to B. and Wells, and about that time made Dean of the Royal Chapel. In 1627. Apr. 29. he was sworn privy Counsellor with Dr. Neile then B. of Durham, and on the 15 of Jul. 1628., he was translated to London. Much about which time, his ancient acquaintance Sir Jam. Whitlock a Judge used to say of our Author Dr. Laud that 
(*) Bulstr. Whitlock in his Memorials of the English Affairs, etc. p. 32  he was too full of fire, though a just and a good man, and that his want of experience in state matters, and his too much zeal for the Church, and heat, if he proceeded in the way he was then in, would set this Nation on fire. In 1630 he was elected Chancellor of the Uniu. of Oxon, and in 1633 Sept. 19 he was translated to Canterbury, which high preferment drew upon him such envy, that by the puritan party, he was afterwards in the beginning of the Long Parliament, impeached of high Treason. He was a person of an heroic spirit, pious life, and exemplary conversation. He was an encourager of Learning, a stiff maintainer of the rights of the Church and Clergy, and one that lived to do honour to his Mother the University and his Country. Such a liberal benefactor also he was towards the advancement of learning, that he left himself little or nothing for his own use; and by what his intentions were, we may guests that if the severe stroke of Rebels had not untimely sequestered, and cut him off, S. Paul's Cathedral had silenced the fame of ancient wonders, our English Clergy had been the glory of the world, the Bodleian libr. in Oxon. had daily outstripped the Vatican, and his public structures had o'ertopt the Escurial. Whosoever also will read over the Breviat of his life and actions, penned by himself for private use, but purposely published by his inveterate enemy W. Prynne with his rascally Notes and diabolical Reflections thereon, purposely to render him more odious to the common people (followed therein by another 
(a) Lewis du Moulin in his Patron. bonae fidei, etc. Lond. 1672. in cap. vel lib. de specim contra Durellum, p. 62, 63, etc.  Villain) will find that he was a man of such eminent virtues, such an exemplary piety towards God, such an unwearied fidelity to his gracious Sovereign, of such a public soul towards the Church and State, of so fixed a constancy in what he undertook, and one so little biased in his private Interests, that 
(b) Relation of the death and sufferings of the Archb. of Canterb. Oxon. 1644. p. 2.  Plutarch, if he were alive, would be much troubled to find a sufficient parallel wherewith to match him in all the lineaments of perfect virtue. Next as for his great reading and learning, may be, by curious persons, seen in his works, (and thereby easily perceive that he was versed in books as well as in business) the titles of which follow.  
Several sermons, as (1) Sermon preached before his Maj. at Wansted, 19 June 1621., on Psal. 122.6, 7. Lond. 1621. qu. (2) Serm. at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1621., being the day of the beginning of his Maj. most gracious reign, on Psal. 21.6, 7. Lond. 1622. qu. (3) Serm. before his Maj. at Whitehall, on Psal. 75.2, 3. Lond. 1625. qu. (4) Serm. at Westm. 6 Feb. at the opening of the Parl. on Psal. 122.3.4.5. Lond. 1625. qu. (5) Serm. at Westm. 17 Mar. (1627.) at the opening of the Parl. on Ephes. 4.3. Lond. 1628. qu. (6) Serm. at Whitehall at a solemn Fast before the K. 5 Jul. 1626. on Psal. 74.22. Lond. 1626. (7) Serm. at Paul's Cross on the King's inauguration, on Psal. 22.1.— printed at Lond. Which seven Sermons were reprinted at the same place in oct. an. 1651.  
Speech delivered in the Star-chamber, 14 June 1637, at the censure of Joh. Bastwick, Hen. Burton and Will. Prynne. Lond. 1637. qu. etc.  
Conference between him and Jo. Fisher. Lond. 1623. fol. published under his Chaplains name R. B. i e. Rich. Bailiff of S. John's Coll. Reprinted 1639 and 1673. fol.  
Answer to the Exceptions of A. C.— printed with the former.  
Which Conference was looked upon as a piece so solidly compacted, that one of our 
(c) Ham. L'Estrange in his Reign of K. Charles. printed 1656. p. 187. an. 1639.  Historians (who shows himself to be none of laud's greatest friends) gives it the commendation of being the exactest Masterpiece of polemique Divinity of any extant at that time, and farther affirms▪ that he declared himself therein, so little theirs (meaning the Papists) as he had for ever disabled them from being so much their own, as before they were. Sir Edw. Deering also his professed adversary, in the Preface to the book 
(d) Collection of Parliam, Speeches, p. 5.  of speeches, could not but confess, that in the said book of Laud, especially in the last half of it, he had muzzled the Jesuit, and should strike the Papists under the fifth rib, when he was dead and gone▪ and being dead, that wheresoever his grave should be, Paul's should be his perpetual monument, and his own book his Epitaph. It was answered by a Jesuit named Tho. Carwell alias Thorold a Lincolnshire man born, in a book intit. Labirinthus Cantuariensis. Par. 1658. fol. Replied upon by Dr. Meric Casaubon (as I shall tell you elsewhere) and by Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet.  
Various Letters, as (1) Letters of state, dispersed in the Cabala's and divers books. (2) Letter with divers Mss. to the University of Oxon. Lond. 1640, with the answer of the University in one sh. in qu. which I have mentioned elsewhere. They were both written in Lat. but foolishly translated into Engl. by a precise person, purposely to bring an Odium on Dr. Laud. See Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 348. b. (3) Letter to the Uniu. of Oxon. when he resigned his office of Chancellor. Oxon. 1641. in one sh. published by occasion of a base libel or forgery that ran under the said title. The University's Answer in Lat. is joined to it, etc.  
Notes in Ms. on a book entit. Rome's Masterpiece, etc. Lond. 1643. qu. Which book was published by Will. Prynne, and by his endeavours was conveyed to him when he was Prisoner in the Tower of London, where he wrote the said notes. This book, with notes, coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Rich. Bailiff, who married Dr. Laud's niece, came after his, into mine.  
Breviate or Diary of his life. Lond. 1644. in 10 sh. in fol. This was a pocket book, which he had wrote in the Lat. tongue for his own private use; but restless Prynne having had a hint of such a thing, obtained an Order from the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed for the safety of the Kingdom, dat. 30 May 1643, to seize upon his papers, letters, etc. By virtue of which order, he, with others, repaired to the Tower of London the next day early in the morning, and rushing suddenly into his Chamber before he was stirring from his bed, went directly to his breeches lying by the bedside, and thrusting his hand into his pockets with very great impudence, took the said Breviate thence. Whereupon, thinking to plague the Archbishop as much as he could in his life time, and make him more odious to the Mobile, published it to the World, and caused, under hand, that a printed copy might be sent to him. But so it fell out, that the Publisher Prynne was extremely mistaken; for all judicious and impartial men did take it for the greatest piece of Justice from prynn's hands, that ever he before had done. For what the generality could not think before of the Archbishop, were then confirmed of his character, which I have before told you, that he was a man of eminent virtues, exemplary piety, etc.  
Speech and Prayer spoken at his death on the Scaffold on Tower-hill, 10 Jan. 1644. Lond. 1644— 45. qu. This is called his Funeral Sermon, preached on Heb. 12.1, 2. and is kept in Ms. under his own hand in S. John's Coll. Library. It was answered by his implacable enemy Hen. Burton Minister of S. Mathews Ch. in Fridaystreet, Lond. in a Pamphlet bearing this title, The grand imposture unmasked: or, a detection of the notorious hypocrisy, and desperate impiety of the late Archb. (so styled) of Canterbury, which he read on the scaffold at his Execution, 10 Jan. 1645. printed in two sh. and half in qu. Other Answers were published by Anonymi, which for brevity I shall now omit.  
Officium quotidianum: or, a manual of private Devotions. Lond. 1650 and 63. in oct.  
A summary of Devotions. Lond. 1667. in tw. published according to the copy written with his own hand in the archives of S. John's Coll. Library.  
Variae epistolae ad clariss. Ger. Jo. Vossium. The number of them is 18, and are printed in a book intit. Gerard. Jo. Vossii & clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae. Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul. Colomesius. I have seen and perused a Ms. transcribed under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead, containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University. It commences 12 Apr. 1630, and ends 14 Dec. 1640, bound up in a velum cover in fol. and endorsed thus,  
Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms. was communicated to me, when I was composing the Hist. and Antiq. of the Uniu. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews Precedent of S. John's Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose (which another may do for his, and therefore it escaped Prynn's hands) I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here, as I could do of many other things under his hand, which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments: but time calls me away, and I must hasten. Yet I cannot but let the Reader know, that there is a fol. Ms. going from hand to hand, entit. Wholesome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud, manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants, etc.— sed caveat lector. At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers, this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation, arbitrary Government, and I know not what (aggravated in an high degree) committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod, and afterwards to the Tower, where remaining about four years, was at length by the Votes of a slender house, beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and ●our. 
1644/5.  Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of all-hallows Barkin which he before had consecrated, remained there entire till July 1663., at which time being removed to Oxon, was on the 24 day of the same month, deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick, near to the high Altar of S. John's Coll. Chappel. Thus died and buried was this most reverend, renowned, and religious Arch-prelate, when he had lived 71 years, 13 weeks and four days; if at least he may be properly said to die; the great example of whose virtue shall continue always, not only in the minds of men, but in the Annals of succeeding ages, with renown and fame.  
RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. (by Cath. his wife daug. of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt.) a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellor of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent, particularly, (as I have been informed by his 
(*) The Wife of .... Bury a Seedsman, living at the Frying-pan in Newgate Market in Lond.  daughter) at Sissingherst before mentioned, entered a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584., and was matriculated, in Mich. term that year, as a Kentish man born, and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age: at which time several of the family of the Scots before mentioned studied then in the said Hall. After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house, then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties, he went to one of the Inns of Court, afterwards beyond the seas, and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplished person. In 1594, after the celebration of a most solemn Act, he was, with other persons of quality, actually created Master of Arts, and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds'; at which time this our Author (who lived at Highgate near London) was esteemed a most complete and learned person: the benefit of which he reaped in his old, age, when his considerable estate, was, thro' suretyship, very much impaired. In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, being then Lord of Middle Aston, and of other lands therein, and, if I mistake not, a Justice of the Peace. He was a person tall and comely, of a good disposition and admirable discourse, religious, and well read in various Faculties, especially in Diu. and Hist. as it may appear by these books following, which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions.  
Cato variegatus. Or, Cato's moral distiches varied. Lond. 1636. 'Tis a Poem.  
Meditations and disquisitions on the Lord's Prayer. Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit. qu. A copy of this book in Ms. being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press, he returned this testimony of it; I much admire the very character of your stile, which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Augustine's age, full of sweet raptures, and of researching conceits; nothing borrowed, nothing vulgar, and yet all flowing from you (I know not how) with a certain equal facility.  
Med. and disq. on the three last Psalms of David. Lond. 1639.  
Med. and disq. on the 50 Psal. Lond. 1639.  
Med. and disq. on the seven penitent. Psalms. Lond. 1639. qu.  
Med. and disq. on the first Psal. Lond. 1640. qu.  
Med. and disq. on the seven consolatory Psalms of David, namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103. and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu.  
Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week. Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same, I suppose, with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week.  
Apology for Laymens' writing in Divinity. Lond. 1641. in tw.  
Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer.— printed with the Apology.  
A solliloquy of the soul, or, a pillar of Thoughts, etc. Lond. 1641. in tw.  
Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government, unto the death of K. James, etc. Lond. 1641. etc. fol. Which Chronicle, as the Author saith, was collected with so great care and diligence, that if all other of our Chronicles were lost, this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known, etc. However the Reader must know, that it being reduced to method, and not according to time, purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices, many chief things to be observed therein, as name, time, etc. are egregiously false, and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser, especially if he be curious or critical. There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58, in which last was added The history of the reign of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps, sometimes a student of Magd. Hall. Afterwards in 1671, if I mistake not, came out another edit. in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is, from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle, extracted from his Excellency's papers, etc. which, as I have been informed, were for the most part done by Sir Tho. Clarges, (whose sister the said Duke had married) and put into the hands of the said Philipps, but therein Mr. Philipps, attributing more to the Duke's glory than was true, he got the ill will of him. Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noblemen that they created, and other matters. But so it was, that the Author Baker, and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors, Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq. published Animadversions on that edit. of 1671, and were printed in oct. at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors, may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth. But notwithstanding these Animadversions, the Chronicle, when afterwards it was several times reprinted, had none of the said errors therein corrected, but came out full of faults as before, and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons. By the way it must be known, that the said Tho. Blount son of Miles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire, the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County, was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire, being of a younger house of an ancient 
(a) See more of his family in the third impression of Hen. Peachams Complete Gentleman, etc. Lond. 1661. p. 230.231. Which discourse there of Blounts' family, was drawn up by this Tho. Blount, and put into the hands of the Publisher of the said third impression of Peacham.  and noble family of his name, but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University, only his own genie and industry, together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple, before and after he was Barrister. His Writings are many, and some perhaps not fit here to be put down; among which are (1) The Academy of Eloquence containing a complete English Rhetoric. Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after. (2) Glossographia: or, a Dictionary interpreting such hard words, whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. etc. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue, etc. Lond. 1656. oct. Published several times after with additions and amendments. (3) The lamps of the law, and lights of the gospel; or, the Titles of some late spiritual, polemical, and metaphysical new books. Lond. 1658. in oct. Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Paul's Churchyard, and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers. (4) Boscobel: or, the history of his Majesty's Escape after the battle of Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660, in oct. there again 1680. in oct. third edit. Translated into French and Portugese; the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire, a R. Catholic. (5) The Catholic Almanac, for 1661. 62. 63. etc. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanac did, he therefore wrote (6) Booker rebuked: or, Animadversions on Booker's Alm. which made much sport among people, having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen. (7) A law Dictionary, interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms, as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern, laws, etc. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691, with some corrections, and the addition of above 600 words. (8) Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation, etc. Oxon. 1672. oct. (9) A world of errors discovered in The new world of words, etc. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit. A new world of Engl. words, etc. (10) Fragmenta Antiquitatis, Ancient tenors of land, and jocular customs of some Manors. Lond. 1679. oct. (11) Boscobel, etc. the second part. Lond. 1681. oct. To which is added, Claustrum regale reseratum, Or the King's Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire, published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent. Our Author Blount also wrote Animadversions upon Britannia, written by R. Blome, but whether printed I cannot tell; and translated from French into English, The Art of making Devises. Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Esti●nne Lord of Fossez: To which Blount added, A catalogue of Coronet-Devises, both on the Kings and Parliaments side, in the late Wars. At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot, being much affrighted by the violent current of that time (he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath.) he contracted the Palsy, as by his last letter sent to me, dated 28 Apr. 1679, I was informed, adding therein, that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion. On the 26 of Dec. following, being S. Stephen's day, he died at Orleton in Herefordshire, (where he had a fair and plentiful estate) in the year of his age 61, and was buried in the Church there, and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict, daugh. of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq. He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England, which he and J. B. (that's all I know of him, for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name) had for several years been compiling, but what became of it afterwards, I cannot tell. As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker, he hath written besides what I have already mentioned,  
Theatrum redivivum: or, the Theatre vindicated, in answer to Mr. prynn's Histrio mastix etc. Lond. 1662. octavo.  
Theatrum triumphans: or, a discourse of Plays. Lond. 1670, oct. He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus. Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53, and were written by Marquis Virgilio Malvezzi; and from French into English, Letters of Monsieur Balsac, in 4 parts. Lond. 1638. oct. and 54 etc. with additions, in qu. He also wrote his own life, which he left in Ms. behind him, burnt or made waist paper by one Smith of Pater noster row, who married one of his daughters. At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world, departed this mortal life in the Prison called the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four, and was, the day following, 
1644/5.  buried about the middle of the south isle joining to S. Bridgets, commonly called S. Brides, Church near Fleetstreet in London. By his wife Margaret, dau. of Sir Geor Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. (for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts) he had issue Thomas, Arthur, Cecilia, Anne, Margaret, etc. But whereas he saith in his 
(b) In his discourse of the natural issue of K. Hen. 1.  Chronicle, that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain, from whom, as he adds, is his family lineally descended through females, viz. thro' Cummin, Chenduit, Brimpton, Stokes, Foxcote and Dyneley, is a great mistake; for all, or most Chronicles, nay the Pedigree itself of Corbet which I have several times seen, say that the Concubine (named in the said Pedigree Sibyl) and not the daughter, was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert.  
WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton, and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire, was born in that County, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm. about the latter end of 1617., and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took the degr. in Arts, holy orders, and became a most florid Preacher in the University. In 1629 he was chosen the public Orator of the University, being then one of the Proctors of it, and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. In 1638. Jul. 1. he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and in the same month proceeded D. of Div; before which time K. Ch. 1. had settled a Canonry of the said Church upon him that should be lawfully elected public Orator, but that pious Act hath been since annulled by pretended Authority, and now such a thing seems totally to be forgotten among us. As for Strode, he was a person of great parts, but not equal to those of Cartwright, a pithy and sententious Preacher, exquisite Orator and an eminent Poet. He hath written,  
Passions calmed. Or, the settling of the floating Island. Lond. 1655. qu. 'Tis a comedy, and was publicly acted before the K. and Q. in Ch. Ch. Hall 29 Aug. 1636.  
Speech made to Qu. Mary at Oxon. at her return out of Holland. Oxon. 1643. qu.  
Various Sermons, as (1) Serm. concerning swearing, on Math. 3.37. Oxon. 1644. qu. (2) Serm. concerning death and the resurrection; preached at S. Mary's in Oxon. on Low Sunday 28 Apr. 1644, on Colos. 3. ver. 3. Oxon. 1644. qu. (3) Serm. at a Visitation held at Linn in Norfolk, 24 Jun. 1633, on Psal. 76.11. Lond. 1660. qu. It was preached at the desire of Dr. Rich. Corbet Bish. of Norwich, to whom our Author, I think, was then Chaplain.  
Orations, Speeches, Epistles, Sermons, etc.— They were left behind him fairly written in several Volumes; which coming into the hands of Dr. Rich. Gardiner Canon of Ch. Ch. came after, or before, his death, into those of Rich. Davies of Oxon Bookseller. Our Author Dr. Strode yielded to the stroke of death, to the great reluctancy of learned men, 
1644/5.  on the tenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and four, and was buried in the Divinity Chappel, that is the isle most northward from the Choir, belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. I have seen several of his Poems that have had musical Compositions of two and three parts set to be sung, by the incomparable Mr. Hen. Laws; as also certain Anthems, particularly one to be sung on Good Friday, which had a composition also set thereunto by Rich. Gibbs Organist of Ch. Ch. in Norwych. I shall make mention of another Will. Strode elsewhere.  
WILLIAM BURTON the eldest son of Ralph Burton Esq. was born 
(b) Reg. Matric. Uniu. Oxon. P. pag. 321.  in Leycestershire, at Lyndley, I suppose, near to Bosworth in that County, 24 Aug. 1575., educated in the Grammar School at Sutton-colfield in Warwickshire, became either a Commoner or Gent. Com. of Brasn. Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1591., where by the benefit of a careful Tutor, he became tolerably well read in Logic and Philosophy. On the 20 of May 1593., he was admitted into the society of the Inner Temple, and in the month of June in the year following, he, as a member of Brasnose Coll. was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards settling in the Temple, without completing that degree by Determination, was made a Barrister: but his natural genie leading him to the studies of Heraldry, Genealogies, and Antiquities, he became excellent in those obscure and intricate matters, and, look upon him as a Gentleman, was accounted by all that knew him to be the best of his time for those studies, as it may appear by a book that he published, intit.  
The description of Leycestershire, etc. Lond. 1622. fol. Soon after the Author did very much enlarge, and enriched, it with Roman, Saxon, and other Antiquities, as by his letter 
(c) In bib. Cotton sub effig. Julii, c. 3.  dated 9 June 1627., written to Sir Rob. Cotton that singular lover of venerable Antiquity, it appears. 'Tis now, as I have been informed, in the hands of Walt. Ch●twind of Ingestrey near to Stafford Esq who intends to publish it. I have seen 
(d) In bib. Rad. Sheldon de Beoly Arm. nunc in Heteria Fecialium Londini.  a common place book of English Antiquities made by our Will. Burton, which is a Manuscript in folio, composed mostly from Lelands several Volumes of his Itinerary, being the first of that nature that I have yet seen; but it being a copy, and not written with his own hand, but by an illiterate scribe, are innumerable faults therein. This ingenious person who is styled by a learned 
(e) Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, etc. Lond. 1658. fol. p. 214.  Author of both his names The great ornament of his Country, died in his house at Fald in Staffordshire (after he had suffered much in the war time) on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred forty and five, 
1645.  and was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto called Hanbury Church, leaving then behind him several collections of Arms and Monuments, of Genealogies and other matters of Antiquity, which he had gathered from divers Churches and gentlemen's houses, and a son named Cassibilian Burton the heir of his Virtues as well as of other fortunes, who was born on the 9 of Nou. 1609, but whether educated in this University I know not. His parts being different from those of his Father, he exercised them mostly in Poetry, and translated Martial into English, but whether extant I cannot tell you. In 1658 it than remained in Ms. which made a boon Companion 
(f) Sir Aston Cockaine Bt. in his Choice Poems of several sorts, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. lib. 2. nu. 102.  of his complain thus; 
When will you do yourself so great a right,  
To let your English Martial view the light.   
This Cass. Burton who had consumed the most, or better, part of the Estate which his Father had left him, died 28 Feb. 1681, having some years before, given most of, if not all, the aforesaid Collections of his Father before mentioned to the said W. Chetwind Esq to be used by him in writing The Antiquities of Staffordshire.  
DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH, commonly called Featley, Son of John Featley (sometimes Cook to Dr. Laur. Humphrey Precedent of Madg. Coll. afterwards Cook of that of Corp. Chr.) by Marian Thrift his Wife, was born at Charlton upon Otmore near to, and in the County of, Oxford, on the 5. of March or thereabouts in 1582, educated in the Grammar School joining to Madg. College, being then (1590. etc.) Chorister of that house, admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13. Dec. an. 1594, Probationer-Fellow 20 Sept. 1602 being then Bach. of Arts, and afterwards proceeding in that faculty, (at which time he was Junior of the Act) he became a severe student in that of Divinity. Soon after, having laid a solid foundation in the positive part, he betook himself to the Fathers, Councils, Schoolmen, etc. and in short time became eminent in them. His admirable disputations, his excellent Sermons, his grave, yet affable demeanour and his other rare accomplishments, made him so renowned, that Sir Tho. edmond's being dispatched by King James, to lie Leaguer▪ Ambassador in France, he made choice of our Author to travel with him as his Chaplain. The choice he accepted and willingly obeyed, and spent 3 years in France in the house of the said Ambassador. During that time he became the honour of the Protestant Religion and the English Nation; insomuch as his many conflicts with, and conquests of, the learned Sorbonists in defence of the Protestants, and opposition to the Papists, caused even those his adversaries to give him this encomium that he was Featlaeus acutiss. & acerrimus. Upon his return into England, he repaired to his College, took the degree of Bac. of Diu. 1613 and soon after became Rector of Northill in Cornwall by the favour of Ezeck. Arscot, Esq one of his Pupils and a Cornish man born. But before he was scarce warm there, he was sent for from thence to be domestic Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury, and by him was preferred soon after to the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey. In 1617. he proceeded in Divinity, and puzzled Prideaux the King's professor so much with his learned arguments, that a quarrel thereupon being raised, the Archbishop was in a manner forced to compose it for his Chaplains sake. The Archb. of Spalleto being also present at the disputation, was so much taken with our Author's arguments that he forthwith gave him a Brothers-place in the Savoy Hospital near London, he being then Master thereof. About that time he had the Rectory of All-hallows Church in Broadstreet within the City of London conferred upon him by Canterbury; which, soon after, he changed for the Rectory of Acton in Middlesex, and at length became the third and last Provost of Chelsey Coll. In 1625 he left Canterbury's service (being then married) and retiring to Kennington near Lambeth, where his wife had a house, laid aside his polemical Divinity, wholly devoted himself to the study and practice of Piety and Charity, and composed his Ancilla Pietatis, which the next year was published. From that time to the beginning of the Civil War, may be many things here spoken of him, worthy of memory, as of his often disputes with persons of contrary Religion, his writing of books against the Church of Rome, etc. which shall now for brevity sake he omitted. In Nou. 1642, after the King had encountered the Parliament-Soldiers at Brentford, some of the Rebels took up their quarters at Acton: who, after they had miss our Author Featley, whom they took to be a Papist, or at least that he had a Pope in his belly, they drank and eat up his Provision, burnt down a Barn of his full of Corn and two Stables, the loss amounting to 211 l. and at the same time did not only greatly profane the Church there by their beastly actions, but also burned the rails, pulled down the Font, broke the windows and I know not what. In Feb. following the said Rebels sought after him in the Church at Lambeth on a Lord's day to murder him, but he having timely notice of their coming, withdrew and saved himself. In 1643 when the Bishops were altogether disenabled from performing their Office, and thereupon the Assembly of Divines was constituted, by the Blessed Parliament, then by some so called, our Author was appointed a member thereof, showing himself among them to have more of Calvin in him than before, being (as 'tis 
(*) By Dr. Pet. Heylyn.  said) a Calvinist always in his heart, though he showed it not so openly till that time. But so it was, that our Author being a main stickler against the Covenant there, which he was to take, did in a letter to the learned Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland, then at Oxon, in the middle of Sept. the same year, show to him the reasons why he excepted against it. A copy of which letter, or else another, which he about the same time wrote, being treacherously gotten 
(†) See in a book called Sacra Nemesis. §. 3.4.5. etc.  from him, was first carried to the Close Committee, and at length to the House of Commons. Whereupon our Author being judged to be a Spy and a betrayer of the Parliaments cause, was seized on, committed Prisoner to the Lord Petre's house in Aldergatestreet on the 30 of the said month, and his Rectories taken away, that of Acton being bestowed on the infamous Independent Philip Nye, and that of Lambeth on Joh. White of Dorchester, the old instrument of sedition, who afterwards got an order to obtain, and keep his Library of books, till such time that he could get his own back, which had a little before been seized on at Dorchester by the command of Prince Rupert. In the said Prisonhouse he continued till the beginning of March 1644 and then after much supplication made to the Parliament in his behalf (he being then drawn very low and weak by the Dropsy) he was removed for health sake to Chelsey Coll. of which he was then Provost, where spinning out a short time in Piety and holy Exercise, surrendered up his last breath to him that first gave it. He was esteemed by the generality to be one of the most resolute and victorious Champions of the reformed Protestant Religion in his time, a most smart scourge of the Church of Rome, a Compendium of the learned Tongues, and of all the liberal Arts and Sciences: Also, that though he was of small Stature, yet he had a great soul and had all learning compacted in him. He was most seriously and sound pious and devout, and tam studio quam exercitio Theologus insignis, etc. as 'tis expressed in his Epitaph. What the Reader may further judge of him, may be by his works, the Catalogue of which follows.  
The life and death of Jo. Jewel sometime B. of Salisbury— 'Tis an abridgement of the said Bishop's life written by Laur. Humphrey D. D. drawn up by our Author whilst he was a Student in C. C. Coll. an 1609 at the command of Dr. Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury. Which being by him concluded and sent to Lambeth, was suddenly printed and prefixed to the said Jewels works, before he had time to revise it, and to note the errata therein. Most, if not all, of the said life is printed in English in a book intit. Abel redivivus, collected and written by Tho. Fuller— Lond. 1651. qu.  
History of the life and manner of death of Dr. Joh. Rainolds Precedent of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxon.— It was delivered in a Lat. Oration from a pew set in that Coll. quadrangle, when the said Rainolds was to be interred in the Chapel there. Most, or all of the said life is remitted into the before mentioned Abel redivivus.  
Life and death of Rob. Abbot D. D. sometimes Bishop of Salisbury— Written in Latin also, as it seems, and remitted into Ab. rediu. in English.  
The Romish Fisher caught and held in his own net. Or, a true relation of his conference with Joh. Fisher and Joh. Sweet. Lond. 1624. qu.  
Appendix to the Fisher's net, with a description of the Romish wheel and circle— Printed with the former book.  
A defence of his proceedings in the conference, together with a refutation of Mr. Fisher's answer (under the name of A. C.) to a treatise intit. The Fisher caught in his own net. Lond. 1624. qu.  
The sum and substance of that which passed in a disputation between Dr. Featly and Mr. G. Musket, touching transubstantiation, 21. Apr. 1621. Lond. 1624. qu.  
True relation of that which passed in a conference at the end of Pater noster row, called Amen, touching transubstantiation, 18. Apr. 1623.  
Conference by writing between Dr. Featley and Mr. Jo. Sweet a Jesuit touching the ground, and last resolution of faith.  
Which five last things were printed with the Rom. Fisher caught.  
Ancilla Pietatis. or, the handmaid to private devotion, etc. Lond. 1626. oct. After which, were eight editions of it printed before the year 1676.  
The practice of extraordinary devotion— Printed with Ancilla Pietatis. In one of these two he makes the story of S. George the tutelar Saint of England a mere figment, for which he was forced to cry peccavi, and fall upon his knees before Dr. Will. Laud. A. B. Cant. as Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. hath noted it in the margin of a copy of the said book, which did belong to him.  
Sum of Saving knowledge delivered in a Catechism consisting of 52 sections, answerable to the Sabbaths throughout the year. Lond. 1626. oct.  
Pelagius redivivus. Or, Pelagius raked out of the ashes by Arminius and his Scholars. Lond. 1626. qu. This book consists of two parallels, one between the Pelagians and Arminians, the other between the Church of Rome, the Appealer, (viz. Rich. Montague afterwards B. of Chichester) and the Church of England in three Columes; together with a writ of Error sued against the Appealer, etc. Seven men in distinct books soon after Mountagues Appeal came forth, appeared against it, viz. G. Carleton B. of Chich. etc. See more in the said Carleton under the year 1628.  
The grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome in taking away the Sacred Cup from the Laity at the Lords Table, etc. Lond. 1630. qu.  
Two conferences: The former at Paris now stifled by the Romanists Bishop of Chalcedon, another at London with Mr. Everard a Romish Priest, disguised in the habit of a Lay Gentleman, unexpectedly met at a dinner in Noble street 25. Jan. 1626.— Printed with the Grand Sacrilege, etc.  
Clavis Mystica: A Key opening divers difficult and mysterious Texts of Holy Scripture, in 70 Sermons. Lond. 1636. fol. Which Sermons having several matters in them against the Papists and the Church of Rome, were as Prynne 
(a) See in Canterbury's Doom, p. 108.254.258.269. alias 279.284.293 527. etc.  saith obliterated before they went into the Press by the Licenser, Chaplain to Laud Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Defence of Sir Humph. Lynd 's Via tuta. Lond. 1638. qu. See in Sir H. Lynd under the year 1636.  
Answer to a piece intit. A case for a pair of Spectacles. Lond. 1638. qu. This, with a Supplement thereunto added, though published by Dr. Featly, yet 'twas originally written by the said Sir Humphrey. See more in Sir Humph. in vol. 1. p. 513.  
Transubstantiation exploded against the Bishop of Chalcedon. Lond. 1638. oct.  
Several Funeral Sermons. Lond. 1640. fol. published again with other Fun. Sermons, under the Title of The House of Mourning, etc. Lond. 1671.  
Vertumnus Romanus. Or, a discourse penned by a Romish Priest, wherein he endeavours to prove that it is lawful for a Papist in England to go to a Protestant Church to receive the Communion, and to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. To which are adjoined animadversions in the margin, by way of Antidote, against those places where the rankest Poison is couched. Lond. 1642. qu.  
Animadversions upon a book intit. A Safeguard from Shipwreck to a prudent Catholic, wherein is proved that a Catholic may go to a Protestant Church and take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Lond. 1642. qu.  
Answer to the seven articles exhibited against him to the Committee of plundered Ministers by three mechanic Brownists, in July 1643.— Which articles, with the answer, are extant in a book intit. The gentle Lash, etc. written, I think, by our Author Featley.  
The Dippers dipped. Or, the Anabaptists ducked and plunged over head and ears, at a disputation in Southwark, 17. Oct. 1642. Lond. 1643. 44. 45. etc. Answered by Sam. Richardson an. 1645.  
Tractate against the Anabaptists contained in six Articles.  
Remarkable histories of the Anabaptists, with observations thereupon— These two last are printed with The Dippers dipped.  
Answer to a Popish challenge touching the antiquity and visibility of the true Church and other questions depending thereon. Lond. 1644. qu. Some Titles of this Book call it Roma ruens.  
His Manifesto and Challenge— Written upon report that he was turned Papist, an. 1644.  
Sacra Nemesis: The Levites Scourge, or Merc. Britannicus and Civicus disciplined. Oxon. 1644. qu.  
Divers remarkable disputes and resolves in the Assemb. of Divines related, Episcopacy asserted, truth righted,— In this, which is printed with Sacra Nemesis, is Dr. Featley's learned Speech against the Covenant, spoken in the said Assembly.  
Pedum Pastorale conc. hab. ad Cler. Oxon. ad Joh. 21.15. Ultratraject. 1657. in 12ᵒ.  
Dr. Dan. Featley revived, proving that the Protestant Church (and not the Romish) is the only Catholic and true Church. Lond. 1660. tw. Preserved from the hands of the Plunderers in the beginning of the Civil War, carefully kept for many years and at length published by his Nephew Joh. Featley.  
The League illegal: or, an examination of the Solemn League and Covenant. Lond. 1669. qu. See in Jo. Gauden under the year 1662. and in Joh. Featley 1666.  
Doctrine of the Church of England maintained, in a justification of the 39 Articles of the Church of England, against Papists and Schismatics, etc. Lond. 1660. quarto.  
Antiquity and Universality of the Protestant Faith— Printed with the former. He also published K. James his Cygnea Cantio. Lond. 1629. qu. wherein you may read a Scholastic Duel between that King and our Author; who dying in Chelsey Coll. near Lond. on the 17. of April in sixteen hundred forty and five, was, 
1645.  according to his Will, buried in the Chancel of Lambeth Church. At which time a very great multitude of persons of Honour and Quality attended the Funeral Rites, and Dr. Lo, by some called Leo, preached a learned and pious Sermon: Which being afterwards printed, I shall now refer the Reader to it, if it may be had: wherein, as also in his life, written by his Nephew Jo. Featley before mentioned, (from whence I have taken some materials) you may receive farther satisfaction concerning those rare accomplishments of the party deceased. Over his grave was soon after a comely Monument erected, with an Epitaph engraven thereon; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 242. b.  
WILLIAM TWISSE written and called by some Outlanders and others, Twissius and Tuissius, was born at Speenhamlands in the Parish of Speen near Newbury in Berkshire. His Grandfather was by nativity a Teutonic, but in the prime of his years, he settled himself with his Family (upon what account I know not) in England: which probably may be the reason why Franc. Annatus a Jesuit, Antagonist to our Author Twissius, should say that he was natione Teutonicus, fortunâ Batavus, religione Calvinista, etc. His Father, who was a sufficient Clothier of Newbury, perceiving this his Son to have pregnant parts, sent him to the College at Winchester, where being elected a Child, and soon made ripe for the University in the School there founded by Will. of Wykeham, was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. in the year 1596, and two years after (having by that time shaken off his wild extravagancies) was admitted Verus Socius; after which he diligently applied himself to the Theological Faculty for 16 years together. In 1604 he proceeded in Arts, and about that time taking Holy Orders, became a frequent and diligent Preacher in these parts, noted to the Academians for his subtle wit, exact judgement, exemplary life and conversation, and for the endowment of such qualities that were befitting men of his Function. In 1614 he proceeded Doct. of Divinity and about that time went into Germany as Chaplain to Princess Elizabeth Daughter of King James I. and Consort of the Prince Palatine, where continuing for some time, did improve himself much by the conversation he had with Germane Divines. After his return he exchanged the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks, which the Society of New Coll. gave him before his departure beyond the Sea, for Newbury near to the place of his Nativity, with Dr. Nathan. Giles Canon of Windsor: where, being settled, he laid a foundation of his doctrine, and the seeds of his zealous opinion, though not improved by his Auditors according to his wish. His plain preaching was good, his solid disputations were accounted by some better, and his pious way of living by others (especially the Puritan) best of all: yet some of New Coll. who knew the Man well, have often said in my hearing, that he was always hotheaded and restless. The most learned men, even those of his adverse party, did confess that there was nothing extant, more accurate, exact, and full touching the Arminian controversies, than what was written by this our Author Twisse. He also, if any one (as those of his persuasion say) hath so cleared and vindicated the cause from the objected absurdities and calumnies of his Adversaries, as that out of his labours, not only the learned, but also those that are best versed in Controversies, may find enough, whereby to disentangle themselves from the snares of Opposites. The truth is, there's none almost that have written against Arminianism since the publishing any thing of our Author, but have made very honourable mention of him, and have acknowledged him to be the mightiest man in those Controversies, that his age hath produced. Besides Newbury, he was offered several preferments, as the Rectory of Benefield in Northamptonshire, a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester, the Wardenship of Wykehams Coll. there, and a Professors place at Franeker in Friesland. But the three last were absolutely refused, and the first he would not accept, unless he could obtain liberty of his Majesty (in whose gift Newbury was and is) to have had an able man to succeed him there. Besides also, upon conference with Dr. Davenant Bishop of Salisbury, Ordinary of that place, the King was well satisfied concerning Twisse, that he was unwilling to let him go from Newbury. In the beginning of the Civil War, began by the Presbyterians, an. 1641. 2. he sided with them, was chose one of the Assembly of Divines, and at length Prolocutor of them. Among whom speaking but little, some interpreted it to his modesty, as those of his persuasion say, as always preferring penning before speaking, and others to the decay of his intellectuals. But polemical Divinity was his Faculty, and in that he was accounted excellent. While he was Prolocutor he was one of the three Lecturers in S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London, which was given to him for his losses he sustained at Newbury, being forced thence, as his brethren said, by the Royal Party. He hath written,  
Vindiciae gratiae, potestatis ac providentiae dei. Hoc est ad examen libelli Perkinsiani (Gul. Perkins) de praedestinationis modo & ordine, institutum à Jacobo Arminio, responsio Sholastica, tribus libris absoluta. Una cum digressionibus ad singulas partes accommodatis, etc. Amstel. 1632. 1648. fol.  
A discovery of Dr. jackson's vanities, etc.— Printed (beyond the Sea) 1631. qu. This was written against Dr. Tho. Jackson's Treatise of divine Essence and attributes, but the Doctor made no reply.  
Dissertatio de Scientiâ mediâ tribus libris absolutâ, etc. Arnhem. 1639. fol. Wherein Gabr. Penots book intit. Libertatis humanae propugnaculum, and that of Franc. Suarez De Scientia dei, are answered.  
Digressiones. Printed with the Dissertatio.  
Of the morality of the fourth commandment, as still in force to bind Christians: delivered by way of answer to the Translator 
(*) See in Dr. Pet. Heylyn, an. 1662.  of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath. Divided into two parts (1) An answer to the preface (2) A consideration of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Treatise of Reprobation, in answer to Mr. Jo. Cotton. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Animadversiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum Franc. Junio & Joh. Arnold Corvin. Amstel. 1649. fol. published. by Andr. Rivet.  
The doubting conscience resolved, in answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, etc. Wherein is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures (not the Pope) is the foundation whereon the Church is built, etc. Lond. 1652. oct. published by Sam. Hartlib.  
The riches of God's love unto the Vessels of Mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the Vessels of Wrath: Or, an answer to a book intit. God's love to mankind manifested by disproving his absolute decree for their damnation: in two books. One against Mr. Sam. Hoard and the other against Mr. Hen. Mason Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft London. Oxon. 1653. fol.  
Two tracts in answer Dr. to H. (Hammond) the one concerning Gods decree definite or indefinite, the other about the object of predestination— Printed with the former book.  
The Synod of Dort and Alice reduced to practice, with an answer thereunto.  
The Scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of Faith, made good against the Papists. Lond. in tw.  
Christian Sabbath defended against the crying evil in these times of the Antisabitarians of our age; showing that the morality of the Fourth Commandment is still in force to bind Christians unto the sanctification of the Sabbath day. Lond. 165. qu.  
Fiveteen Letters to Mr. Joseph Mede— See in the 4 book of the said Mr. Medes works. Besides these, and something upon the Commandments, that are printed, he left behind him many Manuscripts (mostly complete) of his own composition, which were carefully kept in the hands of his Son 
(†) The said Rob. Twisse was Author of England's breath stopped, being the counter part of Judah's miseries, lamented publicly in the new Church at Westm. 30. Jan. being the Anniversary of King Charles I. on Lament. 4.20.— Lond. 1665. qu.  Rob. Twisse a Minister in Westminster, but what became of them after his death, which happened in the latter end of the year 1674, I know not. Among them are (1) Examen Historiae Pelag, written by Ger. Jo. Vossius: put after the Author's death into the hands of Dr. G. Kendal to perfect, and afterwards to publish it, but never done. (2) Answer to a book intit. A Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion. Written by Sir Ken. Digby (3) Answer to the respective books concerning the Sabbath, written by Dr. Fr. White, Dr. Gilb. Ironside and Mr. E. Breerword. He hath also either answered, or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Fuller, Jos. Mede, the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker, Dr. Christ. Potter, Dr. Tho. Godwin, Dr. Tho. Jachson, and Mr. Joh. Goodwin, the Titles of which I shall now pass by for brevity sake. At length after he had lived 71 years▪ departed this mortal life in Holborn, in sixteen hundred forty and five, 
1645.  and was buried on the 24 of July the same year near to the upper end of the poor folk's Table, next the Vestry in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster. On the 14 of Sept. 1661. his body ●ith those of Thom. May the Poet, Will. Strong, Steph. Martial, Ministers, etc. which were buried in the said Church of S. Peter, were taken up and buried in one large pit in the Ch. yard of S. Margaret, just before the back door of the Lodgings belonging to one of the Prebendaries of Westminster, having been unwarrantably buried there during the times of Rebellion and Usurpation.  
THOMAS HAYNE, Son of Rob. Hayne, was born in a Town commonly, but corruptly, called Thurciston, near to, and in the County of Leicester: At the last of which places having received his juvenile learning, was sent to the University, and matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Coll. in Mich. Term 1599 and in that of his age 17; where being put under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor, obtained great knowledge in Philosophy, and the more for this reason, that he was taken off from various Recreations and Rambles by a lameness in his Legs from his Cradle. After he had taken a degree in Arts 1604 he became one of the Ushers of the School in the Parish of S. Laurence Pountney in London, erected by the Merchant Tailors; and afterward being M. of Arts, Usher of the School belonging to the City of London in Ch. Church Hospital. He was a noted Critic, an excellent Linguist and a solid Divine, beloved of learned Men, and particularly respected by Selden. He hath written,  
Grammatices Latinae Compendium, an. 1637, etc. Lond. 1640. in oct. To which are added two appendices.  
Linguarum cognatio: seu de linguis in genere, & de variarum linguarum harmoniâ dissertatio. Lond. 1639. oct. It was also printed, if I mistake not, in 1634.  
Pax in terrâ: seu tractatus de pace ecclesiasticâ, etc. Lond. 1639. oct.  
The equal ways of God in rectifying the unequal ways of man. Lond. 1639 etc. in oct.  
General view of the holy Scriptures: or, the times, places, and persons of holy Scripture, etc. Lond. 1640 fol. sec. Edit.  
Life and death of Dr. Mart. Luther. Lond. 1641. qu. He gave way to fate on the 27. of July in sixteen hundred forty and five, and was buried in the Parish Church of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the City of London. 
1645.  Soon after was put a monument over his grave, about the middle of the Church, on the North side, and a large inscription thereon, which about 20 years after was consumed and defaced, with the Church itself, when the great fire happened in London. In the said inscription he is styled Antiquitatis acerrimus investigator, antiquitatem praematuravit suam. Publicis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono coelebem devovit. Pacis Ecclesiae Irenicus pacificus jure censendus, etc. In the Library at Leicester is another inscription put up to his memory, which being perfect, you may take instead of the other. See Hist. et Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b. By his will, which I have seen, he gave to the said Library all his Study of books, except some few which he gave to the Library at Westminster. He gave also 400 l. to be bestowed in buying Lands, or Houses in, or near, Leycester of the yearly Rent of 24 l. for ever, for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some Town near thereunto, to teach ten poor Children, etc. and for the maintenance of two poor Scholars in Linc. Coll. to come from the Free-School at Leycester, or in defect of that, from the School at Milton, etc. The Schoolmaster to have 12 l. yearly, and the two Scholars six pounds yearly, etc. In the said Will are other acts of Charity mentioned, which, for brevity sake, I now pass by.  
EDWARD LITTLETON Son and Heir of Sir. Edw. Littleton of Henly in Shropshire Knight, was born in that County an. 1589. became a Gentleman Commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of the year 1606, where by the care of an eminent Tutor, he became a proficient in Academical learning, took a degree in Arts an. 1609, and from Ch. Ch. removed to the Inner Temple, where he made such admirable progress in the Municipal Laws, and was of such eminence in his Profession in a short time, that the City of London took early notice of, and chose him their Recorder, being also about that time Counsellor to University of Oxon. In the 8. of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of his Society, and in the 10. of the said King (Oct. 17.) he was made Sollicitor-General. After which, upon the 6. of June next ensuing, he received the honour of Knighthood at Whitehall, at which time, and some years before, he was a Member of the Commons House of no small reputation. On the 27. of Jan. 15. Car. 1. he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and on the 23. of Jan. the next year, his Majesty conferred upon him the utmost honour belonging to his Profession, by giving the Great Seal into his custody. In less than a month after, upon the 18. of Feb. he made 
(a) Baronage of England. Tom. 3. p. 465. b.  him a Peer of England, by the name of the Lord Littleton Baron of Mounslow in his Native Country, being then in great esteem for integrity and eminence in his Profession. Shortly after, the troubles in this Realm taking their rise, partly from the insurrection of the Scots and their entrance into this Realm, which happened in Aug. next ensuing (an. 1640) and partly from the predominancy of certain Members in the Long Parliament, then called by reason of that invasion, he retired to the King at York in June 1642, having first conveyed the Seal thither. From which time to his death, which happened in Oxon (where in 1642 he was actually created Doctor of the Civ. Law) he constantly attended his Majesty with great fidelity. He was Author of,  
Several Speeches, as (1) Speech at a conference with the Lords in Parliament concerning the Liberty of the Subject, and propriety in their Goods, 3. Apr. 1628. See in Jo. rushworth's Collections Vol. 1. p. 528. an. 1628. This with other Conferences were published by themselves in 1642. quarto. (2) Speech in the House of Commons at the passing of two Bills. Lond. 1641. qu. etc.  
Several Arguments and Discourses— See in Joh. rushworth's Append. p. 28. and in a book intit. The Sovereign's Prerogative and Subjects Privileges discussed, etc. Lond. 1657. fol.  
Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer in the 2.3.4.5.6. and 7. of King Charles I. Lond. 1683. fol. These things I think are all that he hath extant, except his Humble submission and supplication to the House of Lords 28. Sept. 1642. which is more than once printed under his name, yet whether genuine I cannot tell. He was untimely taken from this world, to the sorrow of his Majesty, 
1645.  on the 27. of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and five, being then a Colonel of a Foot Regiment in Oxon, and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty, and was buried between the two lower Pillars, which divides the first North isle from the second, on the North side of the Choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon. At which time Dr. Hen. Hammond the University Orator, did lay open to the large Auditory then present, the great Loyalty, prudence, knowledge, virtue, etc. that had been in the person that then lay dead before them. Over his grave was a costly monument of black and white marble erected in the month of May, an. 1683, at the charge of his only daughter and Heir, Anne Littleton, the Widow of Sir Thom. Littleton Bt, with a noble inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said, that this Edward Lord Littleton was descended from Tho. Littleton Knight of the Bath, qui sub Edwardo IU. Justiciarius, Leges Angliae municipales (prius indigestas) in Enchiridion feliciter reduxit: Opus in omne aevum Jc tis venerandum, etc.  
GILES WIDOWS was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire, elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1610, being then Bac. of Arts of that House of two years standing, or more. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty, entered into Orders, and became a noted Preacher. At length being made Rector of S. Martin's Church in Oxon, he resigned his Fellowship in 1621., and lived in the condition of a Commoner for several years in Gloc. Hall, of which he was for the most part of his time Viceprincipal. He was a harmless and honest man, a noted Disputant, well read in the Schoolmen, and as conformable to, and zealous in, the established discipline of the Church of England, as any Person of his time, yet of so odd and strange parts, that few or none could be compared with him. He was also a great enemy to the schismatical Puritan in his Sermons and Writings, which being much offensive to his quondam Pupil Will. Prynne, a controversy therefore fell out between them, an. 1630, and continued for some time very hot, till Prynne was diverted by other matters. He hath written,  
The schismatical Puritan: Serm. at Witney concerning the lawfulness of Church authority, for ordaining, etc. on 1. Cor. 14. ver. ult. Oxon. 1630. qu. Which being unadvisedly written, and much displeasing to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. was as scurrilously answered by Prynne in his appendix to his Ant Arminisme.  
The lawless, kneeless schismatical Puritan. Or, a confutation of the Author of an appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus, Oxon. 1631. qu. and other things, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen. He was buried in the Chancel of S. Martin's Church beforementioned on the fourth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and five, 
164●.  having been before much valued and beloved, and his high and loyal Sermons frequented, by the Royal Party and Soldiers of the garrison of Oxford, to the poorer sort of whom he was always beneficial, as also ready at all turns to administer to them in their distressed condition.  
CHRISTOPHER POTTER Nephew to Dr. Barn. Potter mentioned under the year 1641, received his first breath within the Barony of Kendal in Westmoreland, became Clerk of Queens Coll. in the beginning of 1606, and in that of his age 15, afterwards Tabarder, M. of Arts and Chaplain in 1613, and at length Fellow of the said College. He was then a great admirer of Hen. Ayray Provost of that House (some of whose works he published) and a zealous puritanical Lecturer at Abendon in Berks. where he was much resorted to for his edifying way of preaching. In 1626., he succeeded the said Dr. Barn. Potter in the Provostship of his Coll. and the next year proceeded in Divinity. Soon after, when Dr. Laud became a rising favourite in the Royal Court, he, after a great deal of seeking, was made his creature, and therefore by the precise Party he was esteemed an Arminian. In the latter end of 1635, he being then Chapl. in Ord. to His Maj. he was made Dean of Worcester (upon Dr. Rog. Manwarings promotion to the See of S. David) having before had a promise of a Canonry of Windsor, but never enjoyed it, and in the year 1640, he executed the office or Vicechancellor of this University not without some trouble from the members of the Long Parliament, occasioned by the puritanical and factious party of the Uniu. and City of Oxon. Afterwards the grand rebellion breaking out, he suffered much for the King's cause, and therefore upon the death of Dr. Walt. balcanqual, he was designed and nominated by his Maj. to succeed him in the Deanery of Durham, in the month of January 1645, but died before he was installed. He was a Person esteemed by all that knew him, to be learned and religious, exemplary in his behaviour and discourse, courteous in his carriage, and of a sweet and obliging nature, and comely presence. He hath written and published,  
A Sermon at the consecration of Barnab. Potter D. D. Bish. of Carlisle at Ely House in Holborn, 15. March 1628., on John 21.17. Lond. 1629. oct. It must be now noted that a certain Jesuit known sometimes by the name of Edw. Knott and sometimes by that of Nich. Smith, and at other times by Matthew Wilson (which was his true name) born at Pegsworth near Morpeth in Northumberland did publish a book intit. Charity Mistaken, etc. whereupon our Author Potter answered it in another intit.  
Want of charity justly charged, on all such Romanists as dare affirm that protestancy destroyeth salvation, etc. Oxon. 1633. oct. Which book being perused by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. he 
(b) See Canterbury's Doom, p. 251.252.  caused some matters therein to be omitted in the next impression, which was at Lond. 1634. oct. But before it was quite printed, Knott beforementioned put out a book intit. Mercy and truth. or, charity maintained by Catholics. By way of reply upon an answer, framed by Dr. Potter, to a treatise which had formerly proved, that charity was mistaken by Protestants, etc. printed beyond the Sea 1634. in qu. Whereupon Will. Chillingworth undertook him in his book called The religion of Protestants, etc. which contains an answer only to the first part of Mercy and truth, etc. For though Chillingworth had made ready, when this came out, a full examination and confutation of the second part, yet he thought not fit to publish it together with this, for reasons given in the close of the work. Afterwards Knott did publish Infidelity unmasked. or, a confutation of a book published by Mr. Will. Chillingworth, under this title. The religion of Protestants, etc. Gaunt 1652 in a large qu. Which is the last time that I find Knott mentioned; for he dying at London on the fourth of January 1655, according to the Eng. account (buried the next day in the S. Pancras Church near that City) no body, that I yet know, vindicated Chillingworth against him. Our Author Dr. Potter did also translate from Ital. into English The History of the quarrels of P. Paul 5. with the state of Venice. Lond. 1626. qu. Penned by Father Paul Sarp: And had lying by him at his death several MSS. fit to be printed; among which was one intit. A survey of the new platform of predestination; which coming into the hands of Twisse of Newbury, was by him answered, as also Three Letters of Dr. Potter concerning that matter. At length departing this mortal life in Queens Coll. on the third day of March in sixteen hundred forty and five, 
1645/6.  was buried about the middle of the inner Chapel belonging thereunto. Over his grave was a marble monument fastened to the north Wall, at the charge of his Widow Elizabeth, Daughter of Dr. Charles Sonibanke sometimes Canon of Windsor, (afterwards the Wife of Dr. Ger. Langbaine who succeeded Potter in the Provostship of the said College) a Copy of which you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. In his Deanery of Worcester succeeded Dr. Rich. Holdsworth Archd. of Huntingdon and Master of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, and in his Deanery of Durham Dr. Will. Fuller Dean of Ely, but neither of them, I presume, were installed.  
WILLIIAM LO took the degrees in Arts as a Member of S. Alban Hall, that of Master being completed in 1600, at which time he was much in esteem for Lat. Gr. and humane learning. Soon after he was made Master of the College School in Gloucester, (in which office he was succeeded by John Langley) Prebendary of the Church there, Chaplain in ord. to K. Jam. 1. and Pastor of the English Church at Hambrough in Saxony, belonging to the English Merchant Adventurers there, in 1618.; in which year he accumulated the degree of Doctor of Diu. as a member of Merton Coll. His works are these.  
Several Sermons as (1) Come and see. The Bible the brightest beauty, etc. being the sum of four sermons preached in the Cathedral of Gloucester. Lond. 1614 qu. (2) The Mystery of mankind made into a Manual, being the sum of seven sermons preached at S. Michael's in Cornhill, on Tim. 1.3.16. Lond. 1619. oct. (3) The King's shoe; or Edom's doom, Sermon on Psal. 60.8. Lond. 1623. qu. and another Serm. or Treatise called The Merchant real; which I have not yet seen.  
Vox clamantis. A still Voice to the three Estates in Parliament. Lond. 1621. qu. I find 
(*) In The life and death of Dr. Dan. Featley, printed 1660. p. 75.80.81.  one Dr. Lo to administer comfort to Dr. Dan. Featley when he laid on his death bed, and afterwards to preach his funeral Sermon at Lambeth, printed at London 1645. qu. which Doctor I take to be the same with our Author, who, 
Clar. 1645.  while he was Preb. of Gloc. did sometimes subscribe himself to certain Chapter-Acts by the name of Will. Leo. He died in the time of Usurpation, when the Church was destroyed for the sake of Religion; but where or when, I cannot tell. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. one Hugh Nash M. of A. succeeded him in his Prebendship, which for some years had lain void.  
GABRIEL du GRES a Frenchman, studied sometimes among the Oxonians, afterwards went to Cambridge for a time, as it seems, and returning thence soon after, taught privately for several years the French Tongue in this University. His works are these.  
Grammaticae Gallicae compendium. Cantab. 1636. oct.  
Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini. Oxon. 1639. 1652. and 1660. oct.  
Regulae pronunciandi; & ut verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata. printed with the Dialogues.  
Life of Jean Arman du plessis Duke of Richelieu and Peer of France. Lond. 1643. oct. and other things, 
Clar. 1645.  as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen, nor know any thing else of the Author.  
THOMAS LYDYAT the son of Christop. Lydyat Lord of the Manor of Aulkryngton commonly called Okerton near Banbury in Oxfordshire, and Citizen of London, was born at Okerton in the beginning of the year 1572, and having pregnant parts while a youth, was by the endeavours of his Father elected one of the number of the Children of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester at about 13 years of age, where being soon ripened in Grammaticals, was elected Probationer Fellow of New Coll. 1591. At which time being under the tuition of Dr. (afterwards Sir) Hen. Marten, made great proficiency in Logicals, and two years after was admitted verus Socius. After he had taken the degrees in Arts he studied Astronomy, Mathematics, the Tongues and Divinity: in the last of which he had an eager desire to continue and improve himself, but finding a great defect in his Memory and Utterance, of which he often complained, (particularly to Dr. Bancroft Bishop of Oxon his Diocesan, in his Epistle dedicatory to him of a Sermon preached at a Visitation while he was a rural Dean) made choice rather to quit his place in the Coll. (for the statutes thereof obliged him to Divinity) and live upon that small patrimony he had, than to follow and prosecute the said study of Divinity. What farther I have to observe of him is (1) That the seven years' next ensuing, after he had left his Fellowship of New Coll. (which was 1603.) he spent in the finishing and setting forth such books that he had begun in the College, especially that De emendatione temporum, dedicated to Pr. Henry, to whom he was Chronographer and Cosmographer. Which Prince being solely given up to all virtue, did graciously accept of it, and had so great a respect for the Author, that had he lived he would have done great matters for him; but dying in the flower of his youth, the hopes of our Author were interred with that Prince in his grave. (2) That at the end of those seven years Dr. Usher (afterwards Archbishop of Armagh) being in London found him out and had him with him into Ireland, where he continued in the Coll. near Dublin about two years. At the end of which he purposing to return for England, the Lord Deputy and Chanc. of Ireland, did, upon his motion, make him a joint promise of a competent Maintenance upon his return back again thither. When he came into England the Rectory of Okerton before mentioned falling void, (which he before had refused when Fellow of New Coll. upon the offer of it by his Father the Patron) he did, after several demurs, and not without much reluctancy of mind, accept of it in the year 1612. Where being settled, he did not only go over the harmony of the Gospels in less than 12 years, making thereon above 600 Sermons, but wrote also several books, and laid the foundation of others. All which in due time he would have published, had he not been unadvisedly engaged for the debts of one very near related to him. Which debts he being unable for the present to pay, (having before spent his small patrimony for the printing of his books) remained in the Prison called Bocardo in Oxon, and in the King's bench and elsewhere, till such time Sir Will. Boswell (a great encourager of deserving men) Dr. Rob. Pinks Warden of New Coll. and, if I am not mistaken, Dr. Usher before mentioned, had laid down the debt and released him. Dr. Laud also Archb. of Canterbury did give his assistance (upon the desire of Sir Hen. Marten) for the delivery of him from prison, but Selden who was desired and importuned to contribute towards refused, it, for no other reason, as 'tis thought, than that his Marmora Arundeliana, could not stand uncontradicted by him, and that instead of a most judicious, he gave him only the name of an industrious, Author for his labour. (3) That about that time he put up a Petition to K. Ch. 1. wherein among several things, that he desired was, that his Majesty would give him leave to travel into foreign parts, viz. into Turkey, Ethiopia, or the Abasen Emperor's Country, to search and find Copies, especially of civil and ecclesiastical Histories to be published in print, or whatsoever Copies may tend to the propagation or increase of good learning: And farther also, whereas he had Leiger-Embassadors and Agents with his Confederates Emperors, Kings and Princes of other Countries, they might in his Majesty's name, in behalf of Mr. Lydyat and his Assigns, move their Highnesses to grant the like privilege to him and his Assigns, etc. What the effect of this Petition was, I find not: however from thence his noble intentions and public spirit may be discovered. (4) That though he was a person of small stature, yet of great parts and of a public soul, and though a poor and contemptible Priest to look upon, (for so he was held by the vulgar) yet he not only puzzled Christop. Clavius and the whole College of Mathematicians, but also that great Goliath of literature Joseph Scaliger; who, when he was worsted by our Authors Writings, (though he would never acknowledge it, howbeit great men, particularly the famous Usher, held it for granted) he betook himself unmanly to his tongue, by calling him in a scornful manner a beggarly, beardless, and gelt Priest. (5) That as he was much esteemed by learned men at home, among whom were Usher before mentioned, Sir Adam Newton Secretary, and Sir Tho. Chaloner Chamberlain, to Pr. Henry, Dr. Jo. Bainbridge, Mr. Hen. Briggs, Dr. Pet. Turner, etc. who were his great acquaintance: so was he by the Virtuosos beyond the seas, who were pleased, and that worthily, to rank him with the Lord Bacon of Verulam and Mr. Joseph Mede. But when they heard that our Author and the said Mede, were very poorly preferred, they answered that the Englishmen deserved not to have such brave scholars among, since they made no more of, them. (6.) That in the civil War which began an. 1642, he suffered much at his Rectory of Okerton before mentioned, by the Parliament Party; for in a letter written by him to Sir William Compton Kt. Governor of Banbury Castle, dat. 10 Dec. 1644, I find that he had been four times pillaged by the Parliament Forces of Compton house (commonly called Compton in the hole) in Warwickshire, to the value of at least 70 l. and forced for a quarter of a year together to borrow a shirt to shift himself; that also he had been twice carried away from his house, once to Warwick, and another time to Banbury. To the first of which places being hurried away on a poor jade, was infamously used by the Soldiers there, and so sorely hurt, that he was at the writing of the said letter not throughly whole, and he doubted scarce ever should be, etc. The cause of all which ill usage, was for that he had denied them money, and had defended his books and papers, and afterwards while a Prisoner in Warwick Castle, had spoken much for the King and Bishops. His Works are these;  
Tractatus de variis annorum formis. Lond. 1605. oct.  
Praelectio Astronomica de naturâ caeli & conditionibus elementorum.  
Disquisitio physiologica de origine fontium. The two last were printed, and go always, with the first.  
Defensio tractatûs de variis annorum formis contra Josephi Scaligeri obtrectationem. Lond. 1607. oct.  
Examen Canonum Chronologiae Isagogicorum. Printed with the Defensio.  
Emendatio temporum ab initio mundi huc usque, compendio facta, contra Scaligerum & alios. Lond. 1609. oct.  
Explicatio & additamentum argumentorum in libello emendationis temporum compendio factae, de nativitate Christi & ministerio in terris. Printed 1613. oct.  
Solis & Lunae periodus, seu annus magnus. Lond. 1620. oct. etc.  
De anni solaris mensurâ Epistola Astronomica, ad Hen. Savilium. Lond. 1620. 21. oct.  
Numerus aureus melioribus lapillis insignitus, factusque Gemmeus; è thesauro anni magni, sive solis & lunae periodi octodesexcentenariae, etc. Lond. 1621. in one large sheet on one side.  
Canon's Chronologici, ne● non series summorum magistratuum & triumphorum Romanorum. Oxon. 1675. oct. Published from a Ms. in the library of Dr. Jo. Lamphire.  
Letters to Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland.— Printed at the end of the said Usher's life, 1686, published by Dr. Rich. Parr. These, I think, are all the things that he hath extant. As for those many Mss. which he left behind him at the time of his death, are mostly these.  
Annotations upon that part of Mr. Edw. Breerwood's Treatise of the Sabbath, wherein he denies the Christian Sabbath on the Lord's day or the first day of the week to be established jure divino, by God's Commandment.— The beginning of this Mss. is, There was brought to me being Prisoner in the King's Bench, on Friday Evening, 3 Dec. 1630. etc.  
Annotations upon some controverted points of the chronical Canons.— The beg. is, Notwithstanding there be divers, etc.  
A few Annotations upon some places or passages of the second and third Chapters of the book intit. Altar christianum.— The beg. is, There have been Christians ever since, etc.  
Treatise touching the setting up of Altars in Christian Churches and bowing in reverence to them or common Tables, and bowing the knee, or uncovering the head at the name, or naming of Jesus, occasionally made 1633.— Written upon the desire of some London Ministers, to declare his judgement therein: dedicated to Archb. Laud in gratitude for his releasing him from prison. In a postscript at the end of his discourse concerning bowing at the name of Jesus, he endeavours to answer the four Arguments of Bishop Andrews, which are in his Sermon on 2 Phil. 7.11.  
Answer to Mr. Joseph Mede's treatise of the name of Altar or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, anciently given to the holy table— Written in Feb. 1637.  
Answer to the defence of the coal from the Altar.  
Evangelium contractum ex quatuor Evangeliis, etc. Written in Hebrew.  
annal Ecclesiae Christi inchoati secundum methodum Baronii. This is written in Lat. but imperfect.  
Chronicon Regum Judaeorum methodo magis perspicu●. Written in Hebr.  
Mesolabum Geometricum.  
Chronicon mundi emendatum.  
Divina sphaera humanorum eventuum. The beginning is, Etiam absque eo foret etc. dedic. to the King, 1632.  
Problema Astronomicum de solis eccentricitate. The beginning is, Ternis Diatribis, etc.  
Diatribae; & animadversiones Astronomicae, ternae.  
Circuli dimensio Lydyatéa, Archimidéa.  
Marmoreum chronicon Arundelianum, cum annotationibus, etc. This was afterwards printed in a book intit. Marmora Oxoniensia, published by Humph. Prideaux. All which Mss. with others treating of Divinity, Mathematics and Astronomy, amounting to the number of 38 at least, were bound up in 22 Volumes, and reserved as rarities in the hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire, lately Principal of Hart Hall. At length after our Author had lived at Okerton several years very poor and obscurely, surrendered up his soul to him that gave it, on the third day of April in sixteen hundred forty and six, 
1646.  and was buried the next day (being the same day on which he had above 70 years before been baptised) by the bodies of his Father and Mother in the Chancel of the Church at Okerton, which he before had rebuilt. Over his grave near to the south Window, and not far from the east end of the said Chancel, the Warden and Society of New Coll. did cause a stone to be laid at their charge, an. 1669. The inscription on which you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 149. a, as also the Inscription on his honorary monument in New Coll. Cloister, pag. 155.  
WALTER RALEIGH second son of Sir Carew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts Knight, (by Dorothy his wife daugh. of Will. Wroughton of Broadhinton in the same County, relict of Sir Joh. Thynne Knight) elder Brother to the famous Sir Walter Raleigh, and both the Sons of Walter Raleigh of Furdell or fardel in Devon. Esq. was born at Downton before mentioned, educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester, became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in Mich. Term 1602 (ult. Eliz.) being then 16 years of age. Afterwards proceeding in Arts, he was thought worthy, being a noted Disputant, to undergo the Office of Junior of the Act celebrated in 1608. About that time taking holy Orders, he became Chaplain to that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke, in whose family spending some time, had the Rectory of Chedsey near Bridgwater in Somersetshire conferred upon him on the death of George Mountgomery, in the latter end of 1620, and afterwards a minor Prebendship in the Church of Wells, and the Rectory of Streat with the Chapel of Walton in the same County. Much about the time of the lamented death of the said Count, he became one of the Chaplains in ord. to K. Ch. 1. and by that title he was actually created D. of D. in 1636. On the 13 of January 1641, he was admitted Dean of Wells on the death of Dr. George Warburton, and on the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after, (which hindered his farther advance in the Church) he was persecuted, plundered, and forced to abscond for his Loyalty to his Prince. At length being taken Prisoner at Bridgwater by the Rebels 21 Jul. 1645, he was sent to Banwell house as a Captive, and after several removes to his own at Wells, where being committed to the custody of a Shoemaker (David Barret a Constable of that City) by the Committee of the County of Somerset, was treated by him far beneath his quality and function. Soon after having occasion to write a letter to his Wife, the rude Keeper endeavoured to take it from him and read it, supposing it might be a letter of intelligence to be sent to some noted Cavalier. But the Doctor preventing his sauciness, the Keeper thrust his sword into his groin, shedding his blood as the blood of a dog; of which wound he died about six weeks after to the great grief of the loyal party. His papers after his death, such as could be kept, were for more than 30 years reserved in obscurity. At length they coming into the hands of the worthy and learned Dr▪ Simon Patrick, than Rector of S. Paul in Covent Garden, Preb. of Westm. and Dean of Peterborough, (now Bish. of Ely) he viewed, amended, and methodised them: which being done they were made public under this title,  
Reliquiae Raleighanae. Being discourses and Sermons on several subjects. Lond. 1679. qu. The number of Sermons are 13. What other things he left worthy of publication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes' hands, (whose sister Mary our Author had married) but whether any of them are yet made public, I know not. 'Tis said that he wrote a Tract of Millinanism, he having for some time been much addicted to that opinion; but that, as I have been informed, was long since lost. Those that remember him, have often said that he was a person not only of gentile behaviour, but of great wit and elocution, a good Orator and a Master of a strong reason, which won him the familiarity and friendship of those great men, who were the envy of the last age, and wonder of this; viz. Lucius Lord Falkland, Dr. Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth. The last of which was wont to 
(a) Pref. to Reliq. Raliegh. by Sim. Patrick D. D.  say, that Dr. Raleigh was the best Disputant that ever he met withal. He departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob. (being Saturday) in sixteen hundred forty and six, 
1646.  and was buried on the thirteenth of the same month before the Deans stall in the Choir of the Cath. Ch. of S. Andrew in Wells. Over his grave is not yet an inscription, only a rough marble stone, which had probably been laid there many years before the Doctor's death. One Standish a Clergy-Vicar of that Cathedral, was afterwards questioned by the aforesaid Committee for burying him in the Church; and his death being soon after called into question at an Assize or Sessions, there was a Jury of Rebels that brought in his murder either Ignoramus, or at least but Man slaughter; for they said that the Doctor to shun the Keeper's reading of a letter which he wrote to his Wife, ran upon the Keeper's sword, etc. Much about that time the Committee turned the Doctor's Wife and Children out of doors, and his Son (as 'tis 
(b) Merc. Rusti●rs, or England's ruin, etc. printed 1647, at the end.  said) was forced to fly the Country, for that he would have farther prosecuted the Law against the murderer of his Father.  
MATHIAS PRIDEAUX son of Dr. Joh. Prideaux Rector of Exeter Coll. was born in S. Michael's Parish in Oxon in the month of Aug. 1622, became a sojourner of the said Coll. in the beginning of the year 1640, was elected Fellow soon after, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1644, and in the year following, he, by the name of Captain Mathias Prideaux, was, by virtue of the Chancellors letters, actually created Master of Arts. Under the name of this person was published after his death,  
An easy and compendious introduction for reading of all sorts of Histories. Oxon 1648. qu. There again 1655. qu. To which is added A synopsis of the Councils, written by the Father of the Author Mathias, who, as 'tis said, had a considerable hand in the Easy and comp. Introd. This Mathias Prideaux who was esteemed by his contemporaries an ingenious man, died at London of the Small pox in sixteen hundred forty and six, 
1646.  or thereabouts, to which place he receded after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Forces under the command of the Parliament. He had written one or more trite things, but were never published.  
JOHN GREGORY the miracle of his age for critical and curious learning, was born at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks, on the 10 Nou. 1607, applied himself to academical learning in the condition of a Servitor in Ch. Ch. an. 1624., being then put under the tuition (with his Master Sir Will. Drake) of the most ingenious and learned Mr. George Morley, (afterwards Bishop of Winchester) where, for several years, spending sixteen, of every 24, hours, he arrived to great learning, and took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1631. About which time being received into the favour of Dr. Duppa, the vigilant Dean of his house, he was by him made Chaplain or petty Canon of the Cathedral, and after that his own Domestic, and Prebendary of Chichester and Salisbury when he successively sat at those places as Bishop. He attained to a learned elegance in English, Latin, and Greek, and to an exact skill in Hebrew, Syriack, Chaldee, Arabic, Ethiopick, etc. He was also well versed in Philosophy, had a curious faculty in Astronomy, Geometry and Arithmetic, and a familiar acquaintance with the Jewish Rabbins, ancient Fathers, modern Critics, Commentators, and what not. His works are,  
Notes on the View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law, written by Sir Tho. Ridley Kt. Oxon. 1634. qu. second Edit. Ox. 1662. oct. there again 1675. 76. qu. In which notes (he being scarce 26 years old when he wrote them) he made an early discovery of his civil, historical, ecclesiastical, ritual and oriental Learning, through which he miraculously travelled without any guide, except Joh. Dod the Decalogist, whose society and directions for the Hebrew tongue he enjoyed one Vacation at his benefice in Northamptonshire.  
Notes and Observations upon some passages of Scripture. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1660. 65. 71. 83. qu. translated also into Lat. and remitted into the Critica sacra. From ●hich notes may easily be discovered his exact skill in the oriental Tongues.  
Certain learned Tracts, as (1) A discourse of the 70 Interpreters; the place and manner of their interpretation. (2) Discourse declaring what time the Niceen Creed began to be sung in the Church. (3) Serm. upon the Resurrection, on 1 Cor. 15. ver. 20. (4) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; or a disproof of him in the 3 of Luke ver. 36. (5) Discovery of an ancient custom in the Ch. of Sarum, making an anniversary Bishop among the Choristers on Innocents' day. (6) The several accounts of time among all nations from the Creation to the present age. (7) The Assyrian Monarchy; being a description of its rise and fall. (8) Descript. and use of the terrestrial globe. Which eight Tracts were printed under the title of Gregorii posthuma at Lond. 1650. 64. 71. 83. qu. with a short account of the Author's life set before them, written by his dearest friend John Gurgany (son of Hugh Gurgany of London Priest) sometimes a Servitor of Ch. Ch. afterwards Chaplain of Merton Coll. who dedicated them to Edw. bish Clar. King of Arms, a Patron not only to the Author, but Gurgany, in the time of their Afflictions.  
Optica promota: seu, abdita radiorum reflexorum & refractorum mysteria, Geometricè enucl●ata. Lond. 1663. published then under the name of Jo. Gregorius.  
Observationes in loca quaedam excerpta ex Joh. Malatae chronographia. Ms. which after his death came into the public Library at Oxon, where it now remains. Edm. Chilmead having afterwards prepared the whole work of Mal●ta for the Press, intended, as it seems, to prefix the said Observations, as a Preface, he having therein spoken something of the said Author; but that Author being published at Oxon in 1691, Gregory's Observations were laid aside, as containing things little material, and instead of them there is added a Preface or Prolegomena to Malata by Humph. Hody Bac. of Diu. Fellow of Wadh. Coll. See the said Preface §. xliii. He the said Gregory did also translate from Gr. into Lat. (1) Palladius de gentibus Indiae, & Bragmanibus. (2) S. Ambrose de moribus Brachmannorum. (3) Anonymus de Bragmanibus. Which Translations coming after his death into the hands of Edm. Chilmead Chapl. of Ch. Ch. came, after his, into those of E. bish Esq. before mentioned, who published them under his own name, in 1665. as I shall tell you elsewhere. At length after an industrious and short life, he gave way to fate on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and six, 
1646.  and was buried on the left side of the grave of W. Cartwright in the isle joining on the south side of the choir of the Cath. of Changed Church in Oxon. Some years before his death he being reduced to poverty, because he was deprived of the benefit of his two Prebendships, he retired to an obscure Ale house standing on the Green at Kidlington near Oxon, kept by one Sutton, Father to that Son whom our learned Author had bred up from a boy to attend him. There I say spending some time in great retiredness, died obscurely, and by the contribution of one or more friends, his body was conveyed to Oxon.  
CHARLES' BUTLER was born at one of the Wycombs (Great Wycombe I suppose) in Bucks, entered a Student into Magd. Hall in the year 1579, took a degree in Arts, and being made one of the Bible Clerks of Magd. Coll. was translated thereunto. Soon after, proceeding in that faculty, he became Master of the Free-school at Basingstoke in Hampshire, where continuing 7 years, with the enjoyment of a Cure of a little Church called Skewres, was promoted to the Vicarage of Lawrence-Wotton three miles distant thence, (a poor preferment God wot for such a worthy scholar,) where, being settled, he wrote and published these books following, which show him to have been an ingenious man, and well skilled in various sorts of learning.  
The feminine Monarchy: or, a Treatise of Bees, Ox. 1609. oct. Lond. 1623. Ox. 1634. qu. translated into Latin by Rich. Richardson, sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, now, or lately, an Inhabitant in the most pleasant Village of Brixworth in Northamptonshire— Lond. 1673. oct. In this version he hath left out some of the ornamental and emblematical part of the English copy, and hath, with the Authors, scattered and intermixed his own Observations on Bees, and what of note he had either heard from men skilful this way, or had read in other books. But this last translation being slow in the sale, there hath been a new title put to it, and said therein to be printed at Oxon. 1682. oct.  
Rhetoricae libri duo. Oxon. 1618. and 29. qu. Lond. 1635. oct.  
De propinquitate matrimonium impediente regula generalis. Oxon. 1625. qu.  
Oratoriae libri duo. Ox. 1633. qu. Lond. 1635. oct.  
English Grammar. Ox. 1634. qu.  
The principles of Music. Lond. 1636. qu. He took his last farewell of this world on the 29 of March in sixteen hundred forty and seven, and in that of his age 88, or thereabouts (after he had been Vicar of Wotton St. Laurence before mentioned 48 years) and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. 
1647.   
EPHRAIM PAGIT or Paget, son of Euseb. Pag. mentioned before under the year 1617. p. 357. was born 
(a) Reg. Matric. P. pag. 29.  of a gentile family in Northamptonshire, matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 25 of May 1593. aged 18, but whether he took a degree, it appears not. Afterwards, thro' some petit employments, he became Parson of the Church of S. Edmund in Lombardstreet within the City of London, where he continued many years. He hath written,  
Christianographia: or, a description of the multitudes and sundry sorts of Christians in the world, not subject to the Pope, etc. Lond. 1635. 36. 40. etc. qu.  
Treatise of the Religion of the ancient Christians in Brittany.— pr. with some editions of the former book.  
Heresiographia: or, a description of the heresies of later times. Lond. 1645. and 48. 4th. edit. in qu. He hath also a serm. extant called The mystical Wolf, on Math. 7. ver. 15. Lond. 1645. qu. and other things, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. Upon the breaking out of the civil War, he was so molested and troubled, that merely for quietness sake he was forced to leave his Benefice in his old age, being then commonly called Old Father Ephraim. So that retiring to Deptford in Kent, spent there the short remainder of his days in great devotion and retiredness, At length surrendering up his pious soul to God in the beginning of the year (in Apr. as it seems) sixteen hundred forty and seven, was buried according to his will in Deptford Churchyard. 
1647.  One of both his names (his Uncle I think) translated into English, Sermons upon Ruth, Lond. 1586. in oct. written originally by Lod. Lavater, but whether the said Ephraim Paget was educated in Oxon, I cannot justly say, though two or more of his surname and time, occur in our Registers.  
THOMAS COLEMAN was born in Oxfordshire, particularly, as it seems, within the City of Oxon, where several of his name and time have lived, made his first entry into Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615, and in that of his age 17, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became so accomplished in the Hebrew Language, that he was commonly called Rabbi Coleman. Afterwards he was made Rector of Blyton in Lincolnshire, but being schismatically inclined, he left that place in the beginning of the civil War, 1642, under pretence of persecution by the Cavaliers, and retiring to the great City, became a grand Covenanteer, an inveigher against the King and his Party, against the Bishops and Orthodox Clergy, one of the Assembly of Divines, Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill in the place of a loyal Doctor ejected, and a Preacher before the Parliament. While he sat in the Assembly, to which he was chiefly called for his language in the Hebrew tongue, he behaved himself modestly and learnedly, maintaining among them the tenets of Erastus. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Christians cause and complaint, etc. Fast-sermon before the House of Commons, on Jerem. 8.20. Lond. 1643. qu. (2) The heart's engagement, Serm. at S. Margaret's in Westm. at the public entering into the Covenant, 29 Sept. 1643, on Jer. 30.21. last clause. Lond. 1643. qu. There were then present some Noblemen and Gentlemen, many Soldiers and People of all sorts; and looking on the Soldiers he told them that the Covenant was the Parliaments sword and buckler. For when the Cavaliers shall see you come armed with the Covenant, they will run, run, run away from the Lord of Hosts, etc. (3) Gods unusual answer to a solemn Fast, Fast-serm. before both houses on Psal. 65.5. Lond. 1644. qu. preached upon the sad success that the Parliament Forces had in Cornwall. (4) Hopes deferred and dashed, Fast-serm. before the H. of Com. on Job 11.20. Lond. 1645. qu. He was not thanked for this sermon according to custom, but only ordered to print it, because the Presbyterian Party disliked him, for that he too slightly spoke of ministerial Authority, and seemed not to dislike the Independent etc. In his Epist. ded. to the H. of Com. he saith thus, There was never Sermon preached on these public Fasts, that was received with such contrary Affections, and Censures as this; some approving above commendation, others disliking below detestation, etc. Soon after George Gillespie a Presbyterian Minister of Edinburgh, educated in S. Andrews University, did not only preach against the said sermon in another delivered before the H. of Lords, and in a second elsewhere, but also printed them in vindication of the Presbyterians, whereupon our Author Coleman published,  
A brotherly Examination examined: or, a clear justification of those passages in a Sermon, against which the rev. and learned Commissioner Mr. Gillespie first in two several Sermons, and then in print, did preach and write. Lond. 1646. qu. To which is added,  
A short discovery of some tenets and principles which entrench upon both the honour and power of the Parliament— What else our Author hath written, I find not, only a thing called A model as the Author of A Friendly debate 
(b) In the third part printed 1672 p. 386. in marg.  tells us, which was briefly viewed and answered in 1645, but neither the Model or Answer have I yet seen. He died suddenly about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and seven, 
1647.  but where buried I cannot tell, because the register of St. Peter's in Cornhill mentions him not. I find one Tho. Coleman Minister of Allhallows Barkin near the Tower of London, who published a Sermon intit. Justification justified, an. 1653, but of what University he was, I know not yet. As for G. Gillespie beforementioned, he was a high Covenanteer, had some good learning, but was very antiprelatical and bold beyond all measure. He wrote against the ceremonies, several pieces against the Erastians', and died about 1649. In the month of January 1660, the tombstone of this Gillespie (who had also written a seditious book, entitled his Last Will and Testament) was, according to an order of the Committee of Estates in Scotland, fetched from the burial place, and on a Market-day broke by the Common-hangman at the cross of Kirkadie, where he had formerly been Minister.  
THOMAS FARNABIE the most noted Schoolmaster of his time, Son of Tho. Farn. of London Carpenter, Son of ... Farnabie sometimes Mayor of Truro in Cornwall, was born in London about 1575., became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of 1590.; at which time, being a youth of great hope, he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a learned Fellow of that House, who made him his Postmaster, and so consequently his Servitor, being the fashion then for Postmasters to serve those Fellows from whom they received their places. But this youth being very wild, though of pregnant parts, made no long stay there, for being enticed to forsake his Religion and Country, he left the Coll. very abruptly, went into Spain, and was for some time educated there, in a certain Coll. belonging to the Jesuits. At length being weary of their severe discipline, he found a way to leave them, and then, being minded to take a ramble, went with Sir Fr. Drake and Sir Joh. Hawkyns in their last voyage 1595, being in some esteem with the former. Afterwards, as 'tis said, he was a Soldier in the Low Countries, being more addicted to that employment than to be a Scholar, and that being reduced to poverty, he made shift to be set on shore in the Western part of England; where, after some wand'ring to an fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe (the anagram of his surname) he settled at Martock in Sommersetshire, and taught the Grammar School there for some time with good success. For in the year 1646, when Mr. Charles Derby was called to teach that School, he found in that Town, and in the neighbourhood, many that had been his Scholars, ingenious Men and good Grammarians, even in their grey hairs. Among whom it was then reported, that when he landed in Cornwall, his distresses made him stoop so low, as to be an Abcdarian, and several were taught their hornbooks by him. After he had gotten some feathers at Martock, he took his flight to London, and taught a long time in Goldsmiths-rents in Cripplegate Parish behind Redcross-street, where were large gardens and handsome houses, and great accommodations for the young Noblemen and other generous Youths, who at one time made up the number of 300 or more. The School-house was a large brick building, divided into several partitions or apartments, according to the distinctions of the Forms and Classes, under the care and circumspection of the respective Ushers allotted to attend them. In which time, while he taught there, he was made M. of A. of Cambridge, and soon after incorporated at Oxon. At length, upon occasion of some underhand dealing of his Landlords and frequent sicknesses in the City, he removed about 1636 to Sevenock in Kent, (in the neighbourhood of which place, (at Otford) he had purchased an estate) taught there the Sons of several Noblemen and Gentlemen (who boarded with him) with great esteem, grew rich, purchased an estate there also and near Horsham in Sussex. Upon a foresight of the Civil War, he was esteemed ill affected to the cause, for that when the protestation was urged in 1641, he then said it was better to have one King than five hundred. Afterwards, being suspected to have favoured the rising of the Country for the King about Tunbridge, in 1643, he was thereupon imprisoned first in Newgate, and thence removed on Shipboard, it being then urged in the House of Commons, whether he should be sent to America, (furthered by some of his good neighbours in Kent, nay and by some that had been his Scholars, as I have heard, who sat in the two Houses) but at length it being rejected, he was removed to Ely-house in Holbourn, where he remained for about an year before his death. He was the chief Grammarian, Rhetorician, Poet, Latinist and Grecian of his time, and his School was so much frequented, that more Churchmen and Statesmen issued thence, than from any School taught by one Man in England. The things that he hath written and published are these.  
Notae ad Juvenalis & Persii Satyras. Lond. 1612. oct. etc.  
Notae ad Senecae tragoedias. Lond. 1613. oct. etc. For which work he is commended by a certain 
(c) Joh. Owen in append. epigram. nu. 10.  Poet who was his friendly acquaintance.  
Notae ad Martialis Epigrammata. Lond. 1615. oct. Genev. 1623. 33. etc. in tw.  
Notae ad Lucani Pharsal. Lond. 1618. oct.  
Index Rhetoricus Scholis & institutioni tenerioris aetatis ac commodatus. Lond. 1625. oct.  
Phrases Oratoriae elegantiores & poeticae. Lond. 1628. oct 5th. edit.  
Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum, eorumque latina versu à variis redditorum. Lond. 1629. in oct. etc.  
Notae ad Virgilium. Lond. 1634. in oct.  
Notae in Terentium. Lond. in tw.  
Notae in Ovidii Metamorph. libros 12. Lond. in tw. etc. Ib. 1677. etc.  
Systema Grammaticum. Lond. 1641. in oct.  
Index Rhetoricus & Oratorius, cum formulis Oratoriis & indice poetico. Lond. 1646. oct.  
Phrasiologia Anglo-Lat. Lond. in oct.  
Tabulae Grecae Linguae. Lond. in qu.  
Syntaxis. Ib. in oct.—  
Epistolae Variae ad doctiss. viros. Other things he hath written, as I conceive, but such I have not yet seen. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred forty and seven, 
1647.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Sevenock commonly called Sennock be forementioned; over whose grave was this Epitaph put. P. M. viri ornatissimi Thomae Farnabii Armigeri, causae olim Regiae reique publicae sed literariae vindicis acerrimi. Obiit 12 Junii 1647.  
Vatibus hic sacris qui lux Farnabius olim,  
Vate carens saxo nunc sine luce jacet.  
By his first Wife named Susan, Dau. of Joh. Pierce of Launcells in Cornwall, he had a Son named John, who followed his Father's martial humour, being a Captain in the King's Army; to whom he left his estate in Sussex, where he lived in good esteem, and died about the beginning of 1673. By his second Wife Anne, Daugh. of Dr. John Howson Bishop of Durham, he had several children, one of which was named Francis, to whom he left his estate at Kippington in the Parish of Sennock, where he was lately living a Justice of Peace in good esteem, from whose mouth I formerly received several passages of his Father's life, which are remitted into the former discourse: At which time he averred to me, that the great Grandfather of his Father, viz. the Father of him who was Mayor of Truro, was an Italian Musician. The memory of this eminent Schoolmaster is celebrated by several Authors, among whom is John Dunbar 
(d) In Epigram. cent. b. edit. Lond. 1616. in cent. sixth. nu. 74.  a Scot who styles himself Megalo-Britannus, Rich. 
(e) In lib. suo cui tit. est Epigrammatum Hecatontades duae. Lond. 1627. in Hec. altera, nu. 17.  Bruch and others.  
DEGORIE WHERE was born at Jacobstow in Cornwall, retired to the habitation of the Muses called Broadgates' Hall, in the beginning of the year 1592. aged 19, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1600, elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602, and six years after leaving that House, traveled into several Countries beyond the Seas, whereby he obtained as well learning as experience. At his return he was entertained by the Lord Chandois, and by him respected and exhibited to. After his death our Author, with his Wife, retired to Gloc. Hall, where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings, and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen, that by his endeavours, the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University. Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall, the which, with his Lecture he kept to his dying day, and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man, and by others a Calvinist. He hath written,  
De ratione & methodo legendi Historias dissertatio. Oxon. 1625. oct. printed there again in 1637. in oct. with this title, Relectiones hiemals, de ratione & methodo legendi utriusque historias, civiles & ecclesiasticas, etc. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition, and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium, etc. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct. and had at the end, this Speech of our Author printed with it, viz.  
Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author. The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct. with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica, added thereunto, and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia, set before it. They were rendered into English, (I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only) by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way, I desire the Reader to know these things following, viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County, being the only Son of Baxter Bohun, (who, with his ancestors, have been Lords of the manor of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8.) that in the year 1663., he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, and continued there till the latter end of 1666, when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there, to his great hindrance in Learning. In 1675, he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharged. In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Marry, he was restored to that office, upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting, without his seeking, and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment. This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation, in three parts; being the History of three Sessions of Parliament: The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. (2) A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet styled, A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments— printed with, and added to, the Address (3) A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer, against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill, on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there. Lond. 1684. in 4. sh. and an half in fol. (4) The Justice of Peace his calling; a moral Essay. Lond. 1684. oct. (5) A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. filmer's book. entit.— Paetriarcha; or the natural Law of Kings, etc. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book— Lond. 1685. oct. (6) A Geographical Dictionary, representing the present and ancient names of all the Countries, Provinces, remarkable Cities, etc. of the whole world, with a short historical account of the same and their present state. Lond. 1688. oct. (7) The history of the desertion: or, an account of all the public affairs in England, from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following. Lond. 1689. oct. (8) An answer to a piece called, The Desertion discussed; in a letter to a country Gentleman. printed at the end of The Hist. of desertion. The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed, was written by Jer● Collier of Cambridge (10) The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Nonresistance no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites. Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of bath and Wells; which, Mr. Bohun is satisfied, is not true; and therefore he desires that, and the whole paragraph, in which it is, may be cancelled. (11) Life of Joh. Jewel Bishop of Salisbury, as I shall tell you by and by. He hath also translated into English several things, among which is (1) The origin of Atheism in the Popish and Protestant Churches, shown by Dorotheus Sicurus— Lond. 1684. qu. (2) An Apology of the Church of England, and an Epistle to one Signior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent. Lond. 1685. in oct. written by Joh. Jewel sometimes B. of Salisbury. To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewel, collected by Mr. Bohun, from the large life of the said Person, written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey (3) The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories, as I have told you before (4) The universal Historical Bibliotheque: or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages: wherein, a short account is given of the design of almost every book, and the quality of the author, if known. For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687— Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller, lately living in S. Paul's Ch. yard in London. (5) The 25. and 26 th' book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome, began in Germany by Mart. Luther. Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. (6) The present state of Germany: or, an account of the extent, rise, form, wealth etc. of that Empire, etc. Lond. 1690. oct. written in lat. by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name. What other things he hath written and translated I know not; sure I am that our Author Where, hath, besides the beforementioned things, published these following.  
Parentatio Historica. Sive commemoratio vitae & mortis V. C. Guliel. Camdeni Clarentii, facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ, 12. Nou. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.  
Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ, 12. Nou. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.  
Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus.  
Charisteria. These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis, etc. He hath also written Lectures on the three books of the Punic War, in Luc. Florus, which are now about to be published. At length departing this mortal life on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and seven, 
1647.  was buried on the third day of the same month in Exeter Coll. Chappel. His study of books and collections in MS. came, after his death, into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouse Provost of Eton Coll. near to Windsor, and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys' Library. He left also behind him a Widow and Children, who soon after became poor, and whether the Females lived honestly, 'tis not for me to dispute it.  
HENRY MASON was born in a Market Town in Lancashire called Wygan or Wiggin, became a Servitor of Brasn. Coll. in the beginning of 1592., elected one of Humph. Ogles Exhibitioners thereof 2. Nou. 1593., took one degree in Arts two years after, entered into Holy Orders, and became Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. in 1602. The next year he proceeded in Arts, and seven years after, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. At length being made Chapl. to Dr. Jo. King B. of Lond. was by his endeavours, as I suppose, made Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft in that City; where by his exemplary life, edifying and judicious preaching and writing he did great benefit, and was by all that knew him accounted a true Son of the Church of England. His writings are these.  
The new art of lying, covered by Jesuits under the veil of Equivocation. Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1634. in tw.  
Christian humiliation: or, a treatise of Fasting, with a brief discourse of Lent. Lond. 1625. qu.  
Epicures Fast: or, a short discourse discovering the licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her religious Fasts. Lond. 1626. in qu.  
Tribunal of the conscience: or, a treatise of examination. Lond. 1626. 27. qu.  
Short discourse declaring the condition of Worldly cares, with some remedies appointed for them. Lond. 1628.  
Certain passages in Mr. Sam. Hoards book entit. God's love to mankind, etc.— Answered by Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions, in his Riches of God's love to the vessels of mercy, etc. as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse.  
Hearing and doing the ready way to blessedness. Lond. 1635. in tw.  
Rules for right hearing of God's word— printed with the former book.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Christians fast, etc. on Matth. 4.2. Lond. 1627. qu. (2) Contentment in God's gifts; or some Sermon notes leading to equanimity and contentation, on Joh. 20.3.4.5.6. Lond. 1630. in tw. (3) Sermon on Luke 11.28. This I have not seen, nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of Divinity, which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr. Gilb. Sheldon, afterwards Archb. of Cant. From whom it came to Dr. Dolben Bish. of Roch. afterwards of York, in whose possession it was when he died. At length when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant in 1641, our Author Mason through vexation, occasioned by that Party, was forced soon after to leave his Rectory of S. Andrew beforemention'd, purposely to make room for a godly brother. Afterwards he retired with his goods and books to Wygan his native place, where living in obscurity for some years, (not without vexation by the Rebels) surrendered up his most pious and devout Soul to him that first gave it, in his house situate, and being in a street there called Scoles, in the beginning of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven, 
1647.  and in that of his age 74 or thereabouts, and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in the yard or cemeterie, close to the groundwork of the pillar or buttress at the east end of the Church at Wygan: He had before given to the poor of that Town 13 l. per an. to bind poor children apprentices, his library of books to the School; and a considerable number of Bibles to the poorer sort of people for their children there.  
JOHN VERNEVIL (Vernulius) was born in the City of Bourdeaux in France, educated in the University of Mountalban till he was M. of Arts, flew from his country for religion sake, being a Protestant, and went into England, where he had his wants supplied for a time by Sir Thom. Leigh. Afterwards he retired to the University of Oxon. in 1608, and on the fourth day of Nou. in the same year, being then 25 years of age, he was matriculated in the University as a member of Magdalen Coll. from which House, as from others he received relief. In 1625, he was incorporated Master of Arts, being then second-keeper of Bodleys' Library, where he performed good service for that place, and wrote for the use of the Students there, these things following.  
Catalogus Interpretum S. Scripturae, juxta numerorum ordinem, quo extant in bibl. Bodl. Oxon. 1635. qu. sec. Edition. The first was began by Dr. Tho. James.  
Elenchus authorum, tum recentium quam antiquorum, qui in 4 libros sententiarum & Thomae Aquinatis summas, item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni, & de casibus conscientiae; nec non in orationem Dominicam, Symbolum Apostolorum, & Decalogum scripserunt. This is printed with the Cat. Interpretum, etc. an. 1635.  
Nomenclator of such tracts and sermons as have been printed, and translated into English upon any place, or book of the Holy Scripture, now to be had in Bodleys' Library. Oxon. 1637. 42. in tw. He also translated from French into English A Tract of the Sovereign Judge of controversies in matters of religion. Oxon. 1628. qu. written by Joh. Cameron D. D. of Saumaur, Divinity Professor in the Academy of Mountalban, afterwards Principal of Glascow in Scotland. And from English into Latin a book entit. Of the deceitfulness of man's heart. Genev. 1634. oct. written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge. The said Joh. Vernevil died in his house within, and near, the East-gate of the City of Oxon, in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven, and was buried on the last day of the same month in the Church of St. Peter in the East, 
1647.  within the said City; at which time our public Library lost an honest and useful servant, and his children a good Father.  
ROBERT PINKS Son of Hen. Pink of Kempshot in the Parish of Winslade in Hampshire, was born there, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1596, took the degrees in Arts, entered on the Physic line, was admitted Bach. in that faculty 1612, afterward studied Divinity, was elected Warden of his Coll. 1617., proceeded in Divinity, and was much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. for his dexterity in disputing, as by K. Ch. 1. for his eminent loyalty. He was a zealous defender of the University privileges and liberties, especially when he performed the office of Vicechancellor, and esteemed by all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity. He hath written,  
Quaestiones selectiores in Logicâ, Ethicâ, Physicâ, Metaphysica inter authores celebriores repertae. Oxon. 1680. qu. published by Joh. Lamphire Principal of Hart Hall.  
Poemata Latina.  
Gesta Vicecancellariatus sui. 'Tis a MS. containing the Acts and Gests of his Vicechancellourship of the University, from 26. July 1634. to 22. Jul. 1636. It is written in a little thin fol. containing 80 pages, and hath therein several of his speeches spoken in convocation. Which book I had the liberty to peruse, when I was composing the Hist. & Antiq. of Uniu. of Oxon, and may be useful to curious men in other respects, if given to a public place, many things being therein, that are not entered into the public registers of the University. He died much lamented by the members of his Coll. because he had been a vigilant, faithful and public spirited Governor, by the poor of the City of Oxon, because he had been a constant benefactor to them, by the Orphans, to whom he had been a Father, and generally by all who knew the great virtues, piety▪ and learning of the Person, on the second day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven. 
1647.  Whereupon his body was buried in the outer Chapel belonging to New Coll. between the pulpit and the screen, leaving then behind him certain matters fit for the press. In 1677 Dr. Ralph Bridoake Bishop of Chichester, who had in his younger years been patronised by the said Dr. Pink erected, out of gratitude, a comely monument for him on the W. wall of the outer Chapel, at some distance from his grave.  
WILLIAM SLATYER a Sommersetshire man born, was matriculated as a Gentleman's Son of that County, and a member of St. Mary's Hall in Lent time, an. 1600. aged 13 years. Whence translating himself to Brasn. Coll. was entered there as a plebeians Son of the same County in July, 1607. The next year he took a degree in Arts, was made Fellow of the said Coll, proceeded in that faculty, 1611. entered into holy Orders, was soon after beneficed, and in 1623. took the degrees in Divinity, being then in good esteem for his knowledge in English History, and his excellent vein in Lat. and English Poetry. His works are these.  
Palae-Albion: or, the History of Great Britain from the first peopling of this Island to the Reign of K. James. Lond. 1621. fol. in Lat. and Engl. verse, the Lat. on one side and the English on the other; with various marginal notes on the English side, relating to English History and Antiquity.  
Psalms or Songs of Zion, turned into the language, and set to the tunes, of a strange land— Printed at London, but when, I know not, because not set down in the title.  
Psalms in four languages and in four parts, set to the tunes of our Church— Printed at Lond. in tw. engraven on copper.  
Genealogia Regis Jacobi— Lond. 1630. 'Tis in a thin fol. in lat. and Engl. and the Genealogy is derived from Adam. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he giving way to fate at Otterden in Kent, where he was then, or before, (as I presume) beneficed, in the month of Oct. or Nou. in sixteen hundred forty and seven, was there buried, 
1647.  leaving behind him a Widow named Sarah. The Reader may be pleased now to know that one Will. Sclater a Bedfordsh. man born, was elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1593., was afterwards Vicar of Pitminster in Sommersetshire and a publisher of several Sermons, and Theological Tracts, as you may see in Oxford or Bodleys' Catalogue of books; but this Person whose Surname differs from him that was the Poet beforementioned, must not to be taken to be the same with him, as some to my knowledge have done. He died in 1626. and left behind him a Son of both his names, who was born at Pitminster, was Fellow of Kings Coll. also, and afterwards Minister of Columpton in Devon. Prebendary of Exeter and Doct. of Diu. He hath several Sermons in print, of which one is entit.— Papistomastix: or, Deborahs' prayer against God's enemies, on Judges 5.31. Lond. 1642. qu. and hath published An exposition with notes on the fourth chap. of the Rom. Lond. 1650. qu. written by his Father, etc.  
HENRY WILKINSON was born within the Vicarage of Halyfax in Yorkshire 9 Octob. 1566, made his first entry into the University in Lent term 1581., elected Probationer-fellow of Merton Coll. by the favour of his Kinsman Mr. H. Savile the Warden, in the year 1586, proceeded in Arts, applied his mind to the sacred faculty, of which he was Bachelaur, and at length (1601) became Pastor of Waddesdon in Bucks. He hath written and published,  
A Catechism for the use of the congregation of Waddesdon in Bucks— This hath been several times printed in oct. and the fourth impression came out at Lond. 1637.  
The Debt-book; or, a treatise upon 13 Rom. ver. 8. wherein is handled the civil debt of money, or goods. Lond. 1625. oct. and other things which I have not yet seen. This Person being an old Puritan, was elected one of the Assembly of Divines in 1643, and dying on the 19 of March in sixteen hundred forty and seven, 
1647/8.  was buried in the Church at Waddesdon beforementioned, having had issue by his Wife Sarah, the only daughter of Arthur Wake (of whom I have made mention in Isaac Wake an. 1632. p. 491.) three daughters, and six sons, of which number Henry Wilkinson Senior, commonly called Long Harry, was one; of whom shall be large mention made hereafter.  
MICHAEL HUDSON a Westmoreland man 
(a) Reg. Matric. Uniu. Oxon. P. P. fol. 87. b.  born, became a poor serving child of Queens Coll. in the year 1621. and in that of his age 16, afterwards Tabarder, and in the year 1630 Fellow of that House, he being then Master of Arts. About that time he took holy Orders, married Capt ..... pollard's daughter of Newnham Courtney in Oxfordshire, and was beneficed in Lincolnshire: But when his Maj. K. Ch. 1. set up his standard, he left his Benefice, adhered to him, and after Edghill battle, retiring to Oxon, was in Feb. 1642. actually created Doctor of Divinity, and made Chaplain to his Majesty. About that time he being esteemed an understanding and sober Person and of great fidelity, was made Scoutmaster General to the Army in the north parts of England, under the command of William Marquis of Newcastle, whereby he did wonderfully advantage himself in the ways and passes of those parts. In that employment he continued some years, with very good success. At length his Maj. (who usually called him his plain dealing Chaplain, because he told him his mind when others would, or durst not) having an especial respect for his signal loyalty and courage, entrusted him and John Ashbournham one of the Grooms of his Bedchamber, with his Person, at what time he left Oxon in a disguise 27. Apr. 1646, in order to surrender himself into the hands of the Scots, then besieging Newark on Trent. Afterwards his Maj. being settled for a time in Newcastle, a Sergeant at Arms, or his Deputy, was ordered by the Parliament 23 of May following, to fetch our Author Hudson to London, for conveying the King to the Scotch Army, and to bring Ashbournham with him, but they having timely notice, drew aside and escaped the messenger. Afterwards Hudson crossing the Country in order to get to London, was discovered at Rochester, and apprehended on the 8 of June following, brought to London, and committed Prisoner to London-house. On the 18 of the same Month▪ he was examined by a Committee of Parliament, and confessed that the King, when he left Oxon, crossed the Country, was at Henly in Oxfordshire, Harrow on the hill, at Brentford, and almost persuaded to go to London. Afterwards he went to St. Alban, and so to harborough in Leycestershire, where the French Agent (Monsieur de Montereal or Montrevil) was to have met him, but came not. From thence he went to Stanford in Lincolnshire, and thence to Downham in Norfolk, where he lay at a petty Alehouse, and that sometimes he passed by the name of Hudsons' Tutor, at other times by the name of Doctor, and sometimes went as Ashbournhams Servant. On the 18. of Nou. the same year, he broke out of Prison, and, as 'tis 
(b) In the Memorials of English affairs, p. 237.  said, conveyed Letters from the King to Maj. Gen. Rowland Langhorne in Wales, which, I suppose, is false. In Janu. following, he was retaken by Maj. Gen. Sedenham Pointz, sent from Hull to London, and committed close prisoner to the Tower, with strict order given, that none should speak with him, but in the presence of his keeper. During his confinement there, he wrote,  
The divine right of government, natural and political, in two books— Printed 1647. qu. wherein he shows himself to be a Scholar, as he before had, by his martial feats, a courageous Soldier. But he making an escape thence in the beginning of 1648, he went into Lincolnshire, where he raised a party of horse for his Majesty, and had engaged some of the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design. On the 6 of June 1648, intelligence was brought to the Parliament that the Malignants, that is the Royalists, were up in Arms in Lincolnshire under the command of Dr. Hudson, and two days following were letters read from Col. Tho. Wait that he had suppressed the insurrection of Malignants at Stanford in Lincolnshire and had killed their commander Dr. Hudson. It seems the chief body of these Malignants so called, fled to Woodcroft house in the Parish of Helpson near to Peterborow in Northamptonshire about 7 miles distant from Stanford, where Hudson was barbarously killed on the 6 of June in sixteen hundred forty and eight. 
1648.  The manner of which was briefly thus. After the Rebels had entered into the house, and had taken most of the Royalists, Hudson with some of his courageous Soldiers went up to the battlements thereof, where they defended themselves for some time. At length upon promise of quarter they yielded, but when the Rebels had got in among them they denied quarter: Whereupon Hudson, being thrown over the battlements, he caught hold of a spout or out-stone and there hung; but his hands being beat or cut off, he fell into the moat underneath, much wounded, and desired to come on land to die there. Whereupon one Egborough (servant to Mr. Spinks the intruder into the Parsonage of Castor belonging to the Bishop of Peterborough) knocked him on the head with the butt-end of his musket. Which being done, one Walker a Chandler or Grocer in Stanford, cut out his tongue and carried it about the Country as a trophy. His body for the present was denied burial, yet after the enemy had left that place, he was by some Christians committed to the earth. In Aug. 1684, I was informed by the letters of Mr. Joh. Whitehall Preb. of Peterborough and Dean of Oundle that the body of the said Dr. Hudson was removed soon after his death to Uffington near Stanford in Lincolnshire where it was solemnly buried. Quaere. As for Egborough, he was not long after torn in pieces with his own gun, which burst while it was under his arm in Long Orton; and Walker since, through poverty, quitted his trade, and was become a scorn and byword to the boys when he passed through the streets of Stanford.  
JOHN WHITE usually called Patriarch of Dorchester or Patriarch White, son of John White, was born in the time of Christmas at Stanton S. John near to, and in the County of, Oxon, and was baptised there, 6. Jan. 1575., educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation, in the year 1595, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a frequent preacher in these parts. In 1606 he left his Coll. and about that time became, as I suppose, Rector of Trinity parish in Dorchester, in the County of Dorset, where in the course of his Ministry he expounded the Scripture all over, and half over again, having had an excellent faculty in the clear and solid interpreting of it. So that his name being up in those parts, gave occasion to a neighbour 
(a) Fred. Lossius Hidelbergensis Palatin. in Observationibus Medicinal. Lond. 1672. oct. lib. 1. observat. 15. p. 35.  of his, (a puritanical Physician) to style him Pastor & Minister fidelissimus, in quo praeter doctrinam insignem, ingeniique vim acrem, mirum judicium, deinde & sedulitas, pietas, atque fides incredibilis invicem certabant etc. But it must be known that these things were spoken of him after our Author White had bequeathed 
(b) Reg. Fairfax in Offic. Prerog. qu. 105.  to the said Physician of Dorchester one of his pieces of plate. He was for the most part of his time a moderate, not morose or peevish, puritan, and conformed to the ceremonies of the Church of England before, and when, Archb. Laud sat at the stern. But in the beginning of the Long Parliament, when the Saints raised a rebellion, he sided with them, and with his Sub-levites. ... Thompson and Will. Been both Oxf. Students did in a miserable manner cozen the people thereabouts with strange 
(c) Merc. Ant. in the 34 week, p. 468.  reports, viz. That Mass was said openly in Oxon, that none but Papists were about his Majesty, that 20000 Scots were already entered England, that they should not look on any book printed at Oxon, or published by his Majesty's command. By which means they seduced almost all the Town to take the Covenant, assuring them most martyr-like that they would seal it with their blood, etc. But when Prince Rupert was in those parts, and the knowledge of these Proceedings were spread abroad, a party of his Horse retired to Dorchester, plundered the house of our Author White, and took away his library. So that he finding that place uneasy, he and his Sub-Levites fled, and White retiring to London, was made Minister of the Savoy Parish, and carried on the Cause there. So that whereas before the Rebellion broke out, he, by his wisdom, did keep the Inhabitants of Dorchester in good order and obedient to the Church, and also proved eminently useful in reforming the dissolute manners of the people thereof, it fell out that after the turn of the times, it was by his means stocked with such a factious and fanatical Crew, that all endeavours could not reform it, nor ever, as 'tis thought, will, it continuing so to this day. In 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines, took the Covenant, and sitting often with them at Westminster, showed himself one of the most learned and moderate among them, and soon after did by order not only succeed Dr. Featley in the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey, (ejected thence) but had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy it till such time Dr. Featley could get back our Authors from the Soldiers under Prince Rupert. When the broils of the Nation were over, he repaired to Dorchester, and in Nou. 1647, was designed Warden of New Coll. upon the death of Dr. Pink, by Will. Lord Say, and Nath. Fiennes his son; but, if I am not mistaken, he refused that office. He was a person of great gravity and presence, and had always influence on the puritannical Party near to, and remote from, him, who bore him more respect, than they did to their Diocesan. His works are these.  
Commentary on the three first Chapters of Genesis, with large Observations on the same. Lond. 1656. 57 fol.  
Directions for the profitable reading of the Scriptures.— Printed in oct.  
Of the Sabbath.— Printed in qu.  
Way to the tree of life, in sundry directions— Pr. 1647. oct. 'Tis the same, I think, which is called The Directory to perfection.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The troubles of Jerusalem's Restauration: or the Church's Reformation, Fast-sermon before the H. of Lords, 26 Nou. 1645. on Dan. 9.15. Lond. 1646. qu. with others which I have not yet seen.  
Ten vows to the Parishioners of Dorchester— Ms. written about the year 1628., answered by Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristol in 1660. At length having lived beyond the age of man, died suddenly on the 21 of July, 
1648.  in sixteen hundred forty and eight, and was interred in the Church porch of S. Peter in Dorchester, which is a Chapel belonging to Trinity Church before mentioned. Besides this John White, was another of both his names, a Minister's son, Doctor of Divinity, brother to Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely and a publisher of several books, born at S. Neots in Huntingdonshire, bred in Cays Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became Vicar of Eccles in Lancashire. Whence, after he had continued some years, he was brought into Suffolk by Sir John Crofts, who bestowed on him the best Living that he had to give. He sent for him unknown from Eccles, where he lived in those distresses, which he was never able to look through. He furnished him with books fit for his studies, he honoured and countenanced him so much, that all the Country was satisfied he had a love and respect for him. He wrote a book called The way to the true Church, and A defence of it, against the two books that Joh. Fisher the Jesuit published, and other things as the Oxford Cat. will tell you. One T. W. P. (Priest) who had sometimes, as it seems, been of Cambridge, wrote a book against Jo. White called White died black. But John dying before he could make a reply, his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the bucklers, and forthwith published a book against the said T. W. intit. Orthodox faith and way to the Church explained, etc. Lond. 1617. qu. In the last 
(d) In reg. Parker in Offic. Prerog. Qu. 17.  will and test. of the said John White without date, I find these things said of himself— Whereas for 20 years passed by preaching and writing, published in two books, I engaged myself against Papistry; I profess I have done therein nothing against my Conscience, but desire all men to assure themselves, that if any error hath escaped me, it hath passed me through oversight, when I always bended myself to that work of writing, with much humility to God, and such diligence as I was able to use: And having the books always by me, I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity, and in the writings publicly received in the Church of Rome itself; and I constantly avouch, that what I have writ, is the truth, and have been the more confirmed therein by the unconscionable behaviour of my Adversaries against me, etc. This Will was proved 21 Feb. 1619, being two or more years after his death, at which time he was Chaplain in ordinary to the King; and his Father living, after he had spent 50 years in preaching the word of God.  
EDWARD HERBERT son of Rich. Herbert by Magd. his wife, dau. of Sir Rich. Newport of High●Arcall in Shropshire Knight, was born in the sometimes most pleasant and Romancy place in Wales called Mountgomery Castle, became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in 1595, aged 14 years, where being put under the tuition of an eminent Tutor, laid the foundation of that admirable learning, whereof he was afterwards a complete Master. Thence he betook himself to travel, as also to certain military exercises, in foreign parts, whereby he became much accomplished. After his return, he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. afterwards one of the Counsellors to that King for his military affairs, and sent Ambassador to Lewes 13. King of France, to mediate for the relief of the Protestants in that Realm then besieged in several places. In which service continuing about five years, he was recalled 
(e) Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. an. 1621.  in July 1621., because he had irreverently treated de Luyens the great Constable of France, and Edw. Sackvile was sent in his place. In the 22 of K. Jam. 1. he was 
(f) Baronag. of England, Tom. 2. p. 261. a.  advanced to the dignity of a Baron of the Realm of Ireland by the name of Lord Herbert of Castle Island, and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Shropshire. He was a person well studied in the Arts and Languages, a good Philosopher and Historian, and understood men, as well as books, as it evidently appears in his Writings, the titles of which follow.  
De veritate, prout distinguitur à revelatione, à verisimuli, à possibile & à falso, etc. Par. 1624. and 1633. Lond. 1645. qu. etc. Translated into French and printed 1639. qu, much valued by learned men, and reposed, as 'tis said, in the Pope's Vatican. Answered by P. Gassendus in his third Tome (the title of which is Opuscula philosophica) from p. 411. to p. 419. in an Epistle directed to our Author Herbert— Lugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his More reasons for the Christian Religion, etc. Printed at Lond. in tw.  
De causis errorum: una cum tractatu de religione Laici, & appendice ad sacerdotes; nec non quibusdam poematibus. Printed with the book De veritate, etc. 1645. qu.  
Life and Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649 and 72. fol. Both which editions being collated with the original Ms. in the Archives of Bodleys' Library (given thereunto by the Author in 1643) by certain Scholars of this University, was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol.  
Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream insulam. Written by the Author in 1630, published by Timothy Baldwin Doct. of Law and Fellow of All's. Coll.— Lond. 1656. octav.  
Occasional Verses (or Poems.) Lond. 1665. oct. published by Hen. Herbert his son, and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert Grandson to the Author. Others of his Poems I have also seen in the books of other Authors, occasionally written, particularly in that of Joshua Silvester, in't. Lacrymae lacrymarum; or, the spirit of tears distilled for the untimely death of Pr. Henry. Lond. 1613▪ qu. There be others also of Sir Hen. Goodyere, Sir Will. Cornwallis, Jos. Hall, etc.  
De religione Gentilium, errorumque apud eos causis. Amst. 1663. qu. At length after our Author Herbert had sided with the Long Parliament, and had received satisfaction from the members thereof for their causing Mountgomery Castle to be demolished, upon the declining of the King's Cause, he surrendered up his last breath in his house in Queen street near London in sixteen hundred forty and eight, 
1648.  and was buried in the Chancel of S. Giles Church in the Fields. Over his grave, which is under the south wall, was laid a flat marble stone with this Inscription engraven thereon. Heic inhumatur corpus Edwardi Herbert Equitis Balnei, Baronis de Cherbury & Castle-Island, auctoris libri cui titulus est De veritate. Reddor ut herbae; vicessimo die Augusti anno domini, 1648. He was Father to Rich. Lord Herbert, and he to Edward, which last dying 21 Apr. 1691. was buried on the 28 of the same month near to the grave of his Grandfather. The Reader is to know, that one Edward Herbert an Esquires son of the County of Mountgomery, was matriculated in the University as a member of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of July 1608 aged 17 years, but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former who was Lord Herbert, though Isaac Walton in the 
(h) Printed at Lond. 1670. p. 14.  life of Mr. George Herbert doth, and from him the society of the said Coll. I take him to be the same, who was afterwards a Knight and Attorney General, temp. Car. 1.  
SAMUEL FELL was born within the Parish of S. Clements Danes without Temple-Barr near London, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1601, aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1608, elected Proctor of the University in 1614, admitted Bacurius of Diu. in the year after, and about that time became Minister of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight. In the month of May 1619 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and the same year proceeded in Divinity, being about that time domestic Chaplain to King Jam. 1. In 1626. he was made Margaret Professor, and so consequently Prebendary of Worcester, (which was about that time annected to the Professorship) he being then a Calvinist. At length leaving his opinion, became, after great seekings and cringings, a Creature of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, by whose means he was made Dean of Lichfield, upon the promotion of Dr. John Warner to the See of Rochester, an. 1637, Dean of Ch. Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa promoted to the See of Chichester, and would, without doubt, had not the Rebellion broke out, been a Bishop. In 1647 he was ejected from his Deanery and Vicechancellourship, after he had suffered much for his Loyalty, and for the preserving of the statutes and liberties of the University. Afterwards retiring to his Rectory of Sunningwell near Abendon in Berks, spent the short remainder of his life in obscurity. He hath written and published,  
Primitiae; sive oratio habita Oxoniae in scholâ Theologiae 9 Nou. an. 1626. Oxon 1627. qu.  
Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos die cinerum, in Colos. 2.8. Oxon. 1627. qu. and other things, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. He died in the Parsonage-house at Sunningwell before mentioned, on the first day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight, 
1648/9.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. In his Deanery Edward Reynolds M. A. (afterwards D. of Diu.) had violently been thrust in by the Authority of Parliament, in April 1648, as I have at large told 
(*) In Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. sub an. 1647. & 48.  you elsewhere.  
WILLIAM TIPPING second son of Sir George Tipp. of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordshire Knight, by Dorothy his wife dau. of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks. Esq. was born in Oxfordshire, (at Dreycot I think) became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years, where making a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals, took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London, and spent some time in one of the Inns of Court, but his genie being theologically given, he retired to Oxon, lived a single life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the sake of scholastical company and of books, and was a Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire. In the beginning of the civil War he sided with the Presbyterians, (being always puritanically affected) took the Covenant, and at length was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by the power of Parliament, an. 1647, and the next year was actually created Master of Arts. He hath written,  
A discourse of Eternity. Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which, he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping, to distinguish him from others of his surname.  
A return of Thankfulness for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous sickness. Oxon 1640. oct.  
A Father's Counsel: or, directions to young persons. Lond. 1644. oct.  
The preachers plea: or, a short declaration touching the sad condition of our Clergy, in relation to the smallness of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom. Lond. 1646. in tw.  
The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widow, deceased in the 21 year of her age. Lond. 1647. in tw. He gave way to fate at Waterstock near to, and in the County of, Oxon, on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight, and was buried on the eighth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there. 
164●.  This person though born to a fair estate, and so consequently might have taken those pleasures which the generality of Gentlemen do, yet he gave himself solely up to Learning, Piety, and Charity. He gave 20 shillings yearly to Allsaints Parish in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday, and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell house without the north gate of the City, some years before the Rebellion broke out.  
JOHN GEREE a Yorkshire man born, became either a Batler or Servitor of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615, and in that of his age 15, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1621., entered into holy orders, and became Minister of a market Town in Glocestershire called Tewksbury. But being schismatically inclined, he refused to conform to certain Ceremonies in the Church of England, whereupon being silenced by Goodman his Diocesan, he lived by the helps of the Brethren. At length upon the change of the times in 1641, he was restored by the Committee of Religion to his said Cure, where continuing till about 1645, became Preacher of the Word at S. Alban in Hertfordshire, and in two years after, or less, at S. Faiths under Paul's in London: At all which places he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian Persuasion. He hath written and published these things following.  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) The downfall of Antichrist, etc. Sermon on 2 Thes. 2.8. Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to John White Esq. and the rest of the Committee for Religion. (2) Judah's joy at the oath, (Covenant) Serm. on 2 Cor. 15.15. Lond. 1641. qu. (3) The red horse, or the bloodiness of war, Serm. at Paul's, 16 Jul. 1648. on Rev. 6.4. Lond. 1648. qu. etc.  
Vindiciae voti: or, a Vindication of the true sense of the national Covenant in answer to the Protestation protested. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Vindiciae Eccles. Anglicanae: or, ten cases resolved, which discover, that though there be need of Reformation in, yet not of Separation from, the Churches of Christ; in England. Lond. 1644. qu. ded. to Mr. Rich. Capell sometimes of Magd. Coll.  
Proofs that the King may without impeachment of his Oath, touching the Clergy at his Coronation, consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy, and the Objections against it in two several Treatises printed at Oxon, fully answered. Lond. 1646. qu. in one sheet. Or thus as 'tis in another Title, Case of Conscience resolved. Wherein it is cleared that the King may without impeachment of his oath, touching the Clergy at his Coronation, consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy, Lond. 1646. qu. in one sh. and half.  
Astrologo-mastix. The vanity of judicial Astrology. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Vindiciae Paedobaptismi: or, a Vindication of Infant Baptism in a full answer to Mr. Tombs 12 Arguments alleged against it in his Exercitation, etc. Lond. 1646. quart.  
Character of an old English Puritan, or Nonconformist. Lond. 1646. in 1 sh. in qu.  
Vindiciae vindiciarum: or, a Vindication of his vindication of Infant Biptism from the Exceptions of Mr. Harrison in his Paedobaptism oppugned, and from the exceptions of Mr. Tombs etc. Lond. 1647. qu.  
A Catechism in brief questions and answers etc. Lond. 1647. oct.  
Touching Supremacy in Causes ecclesiastical, showing how that the Power civil and ecclesiastical, may act without encroachment of each other.— Written 1647. printed in qu.  
An Exercise, wherein the evil of Health-drinking is by clear and solid Arguments convinced. Lond. 1648. in two sh. in qu.  
The Sifters sieve broken: or, a Reply to Dr. Boughen's sisting his Case of Conscience, etc. touching the King's Coronation Oath. Lond. 1648. qu.  
Answer to Mr. John goodwin's Might and Right well met; wherein is cleared, that the action of the Army in secluding many Parliament men from the place of their discharge of trust, and the imprisoning of some of them, is neither defensible by the rules of solid reason, nor religion. Lond. 1649. qu. in 5 sheets. Whereupon Jo. Goodwin came out with a Reply the same year intit. Might overcoming Right, etc. What other things our Author Joh. Geree hath written, I know not. See more of him in Will. Pemble among these Writers in 1623. p. 405. All that I have more to say of him is, that he died in his house in Ivey lane near to Pater-noster-row in London in the latter end of the year (in Febr. as it seems) sixteen hundred forty and eight, 
1648/9.  but where buried, unless in S. Faith's Church before mentioned, I cannot tell. The Minister who preached his funeral Sermon told the Auditory that he died poor; whereupon there was a Collection of money made among the Brethren for his Children. This is the same Mr. Geree a Minister, whom a noted 
(†) See Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Plea for the Nonconformists Ministry, Lond. 1681. p. 145.  Author reports to have died with grief and trouble for the Murder of K. Ch. 1.  
ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during his stay in the University, took the degrees in Arts as a Student of Ch. Ch. that of Master being completed in 1615. Afterwards he became Rector of Stony-Stratford in Leicestershire, wrote and published,  
The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the original of Dominion. Wherein Gods perpetual propriety in the sovereignty of the whole earth; and the King's great charter for the administration thereof by authoritative Records in both the Testaments, etc. is jure divino.— Lond. 1648. qu. 
Clar. 1648.  In which book the Author shows himself to be well read in various sorts of Learning, and by some passages therein a Loyalist, and a sufferer for the King's cause.  
GEORGE HAKEWILL son of John Hakewill of the City of Exeter Merchant, was born in the parish of S. Marry Arches within the said City and educated in Grammar learning there, became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in the beginning of the year 1595 and in that of his age 16, where he became so noted a Disputant and Orator, that he was unanimously elected Fellow of Exeter Coll. at two years standing. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts, applied himself to the deep researches in Philosophy and Divinity, entered into the sacred function, traveled beyond the seas, and at his return, became as noted for his Preaching and Disputes, as before he was for Philosophy. In 1610 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and the next year proceeded in Divinity. Afterwards he became the first sworn Chaplain that attended Prince Charles, by whose endeavours, I presume, he became Archdeacon of Surrey, an. 1616, which was the highest dignity that he enjoyed, being hindered, I presume, from rising higher for his zealous opposing the match of the Infanta of Spain with his Master the Prince. The story of which was this: After he had with some pains written a small Tract against that match, not without some Reflections on the Spaniard, which could not be pleasing to the King, he caused it to be fairly transcribed by another hand. Which done, he unknown to the King presented it to the Prince. The Prince after he had perused it, showed it to the King, who being offended at it, commanded Tho. Murrey the Prince's Tutor and Secretary, the Author Hakewill, William his brother, and all others who knew of, or were consenting to it, to be committed 
(d) Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1621.  to custody in Aug. 1621., whence being soon after released, our Author Hakewill was dismissed from his attendance on the Prince. So that though his Learning was accounted by the generality polite, his Philosophy subtle, and Divinity profound, yet in this particular he was esteemed very rash and imprudent. A certain Author 
(e) Sir Ant. Weldon in his Observations on K. Charles p. 217.218. at the end of his Court and Char. of K. James, printed 1651. oct.  tells us, that when he presented the said MS. to the Prince, he should say, Sir, I beseech you make use of this, by reading it yourself, but if you show it to your Father, I shall be undone for my good will. The Prince returned him many thanks, and assured him, it should never go farther than the cabinet of his own breast; but withal he asked him to whom he had showed it, Hakewill replied, the Archbishop (Abbot) hath read it, who returning, said to him, Well done thou good and faithful servant. Besides him, he told the Prince, he had showed it to Mr. Murrey his Tutor, who belike being better acquainted with his Master's perfidious disposition (so are the words of the libellous Author) than the other, did then dissuade him from delivering it to the Prince, for saith he, he will betray you▪ And it so fell out, for within less than two hours after his said engagement to the Doctor, he presented it to his Father, upon which he, or any thro' whose hands or cognizance it had passed before, were all under a disgrace, and banished the Court, etc. The works of this our Author Hakewill are these.  
The vanity of the eye. Oxon. 1608. in oct. Written for the comfort of a young Gentlewoman who became blind by the Small pox.  
Scutum Regium adversus omnes Regicidas & Regicidarum patronos ab initio mundi usque ad interitum Phocae Imperatoris etc. lib. 3. Lond. 1612. oct.  
The ancient and ecclesiastical practice of Confirmation, confirmed by Arguments drawn from Scripture, Reason, Councils, Fathers, and later Writers, etc. Lond. 1613. qu.  
Answer to a Treatise written by Dr. B. Carier by way of letter to his Majesty, wherein he layeth down sundry politic considerations, by which he pretendeth himself was moved, and endeavoureth to move others to be reconciled to the Ch. of Rome, etc. Lond. 1616. qu.  
Treatise against the match with the Infanta— This little thing, which is in MS. I have not yet seen. But another of the like nature I have lying by me, written by one Thomas Allured sometimes Secretary to Ralph Lord Ever Precedent of Wales, the beginning of which is this. Though to advise may seem presumptuous, yet what is well intended, I am more than confident will be neither offensive to your Lordship, etc. 'Twas written to the Marquis of Buckingham, who communicating it to the King, he was so much displeased, that the Author Alured was committed to custody 10 June 1620, being a full year before Hakewill had written his Tract.  
Twelve Sermons concerning David's vow to reform himself, his Family, and his Kingdom, on Psal. 101. Lond. 1621., 22. oct. Besides which he hath other Sermons extant, as (1) Serm. preached at Barnstaple, on Judg. 5.51. Lond. 1632. qu. (2) Serm. at the funeral of John Down Bac. of Diu. Rector of Instow in Devon. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. on Dan. 12.3. Oxon 1633. quart.  
Comparison between the days of Purim and that of Powder Treason— Printed 1626. qu.  
An Apology or Declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World, proving that it doth not decay, etc. in four books. Lond. 1627. To which were added two more— Lond. 1635. fol. 3d Edit. In the first of which are Hakewills' Replies to Bishop Goodman's Arguments and Digressions, which he had made on the first four books of the before mentioned Apol. or Declar. having been incited thereunto by Hakewills' former confutation of some passages in Bish. Goodman's Fall of man, etc. relating to the eternity of the world, or for the universal and perpetual decay thereof, whereby Goodman would prove the fall of man. But this confutation made by our Author (whether in MS. or printed I know not) I have not yet seen.  
Discourse of the Lords day, on Rev. 1.10. Lond. 1641. quart.  
Dissertation with Dr. Heylyn concerning the pretended Sacrifice in the Eucharist. Lond. 1641. qu.  
A Treatise rescuing Dr. Joh. Rainolds and other grave Divines, from the vain assaults of P. Heylyn, touching the History of S. George, pretendedly by him asserted.— This I have seen in a MS. fol. but whether ever printed I cannot tell. Quaere. He also translated into Latin The life of Sir Tho. Bodley, his Kinsman, which is in MS. in the public Library. At length upon the promotion of Dr. Prideaux to the Bishopric of Worcester, he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. (to which he had before been an especial benefactor) but did little or not at all reside upon it: for the Civil War breaking then forth, he receded to his Rectory of Heanton near to Barnstaple in Devon. where he lived a retired life to the time of his death, which happening in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred forty and nine, 
1649.  was buried on the fifth day of the same month in the chancel of the Church there. Over his grave was a stone afterwards laid, with this Inscription engraven thereon, Reliquiae Georgii Hakewell S. Th. D. Archidiaconi Surriae, collegii Exoniensis & hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris, in spem resurrectionis hic repositae sunt, an. 1649. aetatis suae 72. I have seen a copy of his last will and testament, proved 2 May 1649, wherein he desires that his body might be buried in Exeter Coll. Chappel, if it could conveniently be; if not, at least his heart under the Communion table, or under the desk where the Bible lays, with this Inscription on a brass plate to be put on it, Cor meum ad te Domine. But this I presume was not done, because no such Inscription appears. However the Society of Ex. Coll. did afterwards, in honour to his memory, hang up his Picture painted to the life in his doctoral formalities on the Organ-loft at the east end of the isle, joining to the south side of the Chapel. In the Rectory of the said Coll. succeeded Mr. (afterwards Dr.) John Conant, and in his Archdeaconry, Joh. Pearson D. D. of Cambridge, installed therein 26 Sept. 1660, a learned man and famous for his Exposition of the Creed, and other books. He was afterwards the worthy Bishop of Chester, and died about the middle of July 1686.  
ARTHUR DUCK was born of a wealthy family living at Heavytre in Devonshire, (the place where afterwards his Father built an Hospital) became a Student in Exeter Coll. in the year 1595 and that of his age 15, took one degree in Arts in June 1599, and then was made Commoner of the said Coll. Afterwards he translated himself to Hart Hall, and as a member thereof proceeded in the said faculty, an. 1602, and two years after was elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. But his genie leading him to the study of the Civil Law, he took the degrees in that faculty, and much about the same time travelling into France, Italy and Germany, was after his return made Chancellor of the dioc. of bath and Wells. In which office behaving himself with great integrity, prudence and discretion, was honoured by, and beloved of, Lake Bishop of that place, and the more for this reason, because he was beholden to him for the right ordering of his jurisdiction. Afterwards he was made Chancellor of London, and at length Master of the Requests, and was in all likelihood in a certain possibility of rising higher, if the times had not interrupted him. In the beginning of 1640 he was elected Burgess for Q. Mynhead in Somersetshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. the same year, and soon after siding with his Maj. in the rebellious times suffered much in his estate, having 300 l. at one time given thence to one Serle a widow. In the month of Sept. in 1648, he and Dr. Ryves were sent for to Newport in the Isle of Wight by his Majesty, to be assisting to him in his Treaty with the Commissioners sent from Parliament. But that Treaty taking no effect, he retired to his habitation at Chiswick near London, where, living to see his Master murdered before his own door, he soon after ended his life. He was a person of smooth Language, was an excellent Civilian, and a tolerable Poet, especially in his younger days, and well versed in Histories whether ecclesiastical or civil. He hath extant,  
Vita Henrici Chichele Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, sub Regibus Henric. V. & VI Oxon. 1617. qu. remitted into the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Bates, an. 1681.  
De usu & authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum in Dominiis Principum Christianorum. lib. 2. Lond. 1●53. and 79. oct. Leyd●● 1654. Lips. 1668. in tw. etc. In which book Dr. Gerard Langbaines labours were so much, that he deserved the name of Co-author. Dr. Duck paid his last debt to nature in the month of May in sixteen hundred forty and nine, 
1649.  and was buried in the Church at Chiswick in Middlesex; to the poor of which place he gave 10 l. He left considerable legacies to Exeter and Alls. Colleges, and 10 l. to the poor of North Cadbury in Somersetshire, besides other gifts of charity elsewhere, which for brevity sake I now pass by.  
RICHARD ALLEN was born in, or near to, Abendon in Berks, was originally of Ball. Coll. and as a member of that house he took one degree in Arts. Afterwards he was made one of the first Scholars of Pembr. Coll, proceeded in his faculty, was made Fellow, and at length beneficed near Ewelme in Oxfordshire. He hath written,  
An antidote against heresy: or, a preservative for Protestants against the poison of Papists, Anabaptists, etc. Lond. 1648. dedicated to his Uncle's Sir Tho. Gainsford Kt, 
Clar. 1649.  and Humph. Huddleston Esq. One of both his names, but after in time, was Pastor of Henfield in Sussex, and Author of England's Distemper, their cause and cure according to the judgement of famous Princes, Peers, Parliaments, etc. occasioned by a learned Friar, accusing the whole Nation of Perjury for abjuring Transubstantiation; and sent to the Author for a reply. Lond. 1677. qu. in 3 sh and an half. Whether this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know not. I shall make mention of Rich. Allein among these Writers under the year 1681.  
NICHOLAS DARTON a Cornish man born, was entered into Exet. Coll. either in the condition of a Batler or Servitor, in Mich. term 1618. aged 15 years, took one degree in Arts, afterwards holy orders, and at length became Minister of Killesbye in Northamptonshire. He hath extant,  
Several sermons, as (1) The true and absolute Bishop, with the Converts return unto him, on 1 Pet 2.25. Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to Will. Lord Say; at which time, the Author, who was always before esteemed a Puritan, closed with the Presbyterian Party. He hath one or more extant, which I have not yet seen.  
Ecclesia Anglicana: or, 
Clar. 1649.  his clear and protestant Manifesto, as an evangelical key sent to the Governor of Oxford, for the opening of the Church doors there, that are shut up without prayers or preaching,— Printed 1649. qu.  
JOHN PRIDEAUX was born in an obscure town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devon, on the 17 of Sept. 1578, became a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme Bach. of Diu. in Act term 1596, and in 1602 was elected probat. Fellow of that house, being then Bach. of Arts. In the year after, he proceeded in that Faculty, and thereupon entered into holy Orders: so that being soon after noted for his great Learning and profound Divinity, he was elected Rector of his Coll. upon the death of Holland, in 1612, he being then Bach. of Diu. and the same year proceeded in the same faculty. In 1615 he was upon the promotion of Dr. Abbot to the See of Sarum, made the King's Professor of Divinity, by virtue of which, he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire: And afterwards did undergo the Office of Vicechancellor of this University for several years, as I have elsewhere told you. In the Rectorship of his College he carried himself so winning and pleasing by his gentle government and fatherly instruction, that it flourished more than any house in the University with Scholars, as well of great, as of mean birth; as also with many Foreigners that came purposely to set at his feet to gain instruction. So zealous he was also in appointing industrious and careful Tutors, that in short time many were fitted to do service in the Church and State. In his Professorship he behaved himself very plausible to the generality, especially for this reason, that in his Lectures, Disputes, and Moderating, (which were always frequented with many Auditors) he showed himself a stout Champion against Socinus and Arminius. Which being disrellished by some, who were then rising and in authority at Court, a faction thereupon grew up in the University between those called Puritans or Calvinists on the one side, and the Remonstrants, commonly called Arminians on the other: which, with other matters of the like nature, being not only fomented in the University but throughout the Nation, all things thereupon were brought into confusion, to the sorrow of the Puritan, who had with all his might opposed Canterbury in his generous designs of making the English Church glorious. At length after he had sat 26 years' Professor, he was one of those persons of unblemished reputation, that his Majesty, though late, made a Bishop, by the endeavours, as some say, of James Marq. of Hamilton his sometimes Pupil. The See which he was designed to govern was Worcester, to which being elected 22. of Nou. was consecrated at Westminster on the 19 of Dec. following, an. 1641, but received little or no profit from it, to his great impoverishment. So that upon that account and for his adhering to his Maj. in the time of the Civil War, (wherein he pronounced all those of his diocese that took up arms against him excommunicated) he became at length Verus 
(*) Dr. Jo. Gauden in his book intit. A pillar of gratitude, p. 13.  Librorum helluo, for having first by indefatigable studies, digested his excellent Library into his mind, was after forced again to devour all his books with his teeth; turning them by a miraculous faith and patience into bread for himself and his children, to whom he left no legacy, but pious poverty, God's blessing, and a Father's prayers, as it appears in his last will and testament. He was an humble man, of plain and downright behaviour, careless of money, and imprudent in worldly matters. All that knew him esteemed him a noted Artist, a plentiful fountain of all sorts of learning, an excellent Linguist, a Person of a prodigious memory, and so profound a Divine, that they have been pleased to entitle him Columna fidei orthodoxae, and Malleus Heresecus, Patrum Pater, and ingens Scholae & Academiae oraculum. In him also (as an ingenious 
(f) Nath. Carpenter in his Geography delineated, etc. lib. 2. cap. 15.  Author saith) the heroical wits of Jewel, Rainolds and Hooker, as united into one, seemed to triumph anew, and to have threatened a fatal blow to the Babylonish Hierarchy: Insomuch that he might have justly challenged to himself that glory, which sometimes Ovid, speaking of his own Country, 
Mantua Virgilium laudet, Verona Catullum  
Romanae gent is gloria dicar ego.   
As his learning was admired by foreigners, Sext. Amama, Rivet and others, so were his books, especially those written in Latin; a cat. of which, and of the English follow.  
Tabulae ad Grammaticam Graecam introductoriae, etc. Oxon. 1608. 1629. 39 etc. qu.  
Tyrocinium ad Syllogismum legitimum contexendum.  
Heptades Logicae: sive monita ad ampliores tractatus introductoria. These two last are printed and go with the Tabulae, etc.  
Castigatio cujusdem circulatoris, qui R. P. Andream Eudaemon— Johannem Cydonium E Soc. Jesus seipsum nuncupat. Opposita ipsius calumniis in Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum. Oxon. 1614 oct.  
Alloquium sereniss. Reg. Jacobo Woodstochiae habitum 24. Aug. 1624. pr. in one sh. in qu.  
Orationes novem inaugurales, de totidem Theologiae apicibus, prout in promotione Doctorum, Oxoniae publicè proponebantur in Comitiis. Oxon. 1626. qu.  
Lectiones decem de totidem religionis capitibus, praecipuè hoc tempore controversis prout publicè habebantur Oxoniae in vesperiis. Oxon. 1625. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. at the consecration of Exeter Coll. Chap. on Luke 19.46. Oxon. 1625. qu. (2) Purez Uzzah, Serm. before the K. at Woodstock, on 2. Sam. 6. ver. 6.7. Oxon. 1625. qu. (3) Concio ad Art. Baccalaureos pro more habita in ecclesia B. Mariae Oxon. in die cinerum, in Act. 2.22. an. 1616. Oxon. 1626.  
Twenty Sermons. Oxon. 1636. qu. The two first of which are entit. Christ's counsel for ending law cases. Among them are the Consecration Serm. and Perez-Uzzah beforementioned.  
Nine Sermons on several occasions. Oxon. 1641. qu.  
Lectiones XXII, Orationes XIII, Conciones VI, & Oratio ad Jacobum Regem. Oxon. 1648 fol. Among which are contained the former Lections, Orations, and Speech to the K. Jam. at Wouldst.  
Fasciculus controversiarum ad Juniorum aut occupatorum captum collegatus, etc. Oxon. 1649. 51. 52. qu.  
Theologiae Scholasticae Syntagma Mnemonicum. Oxon 1651.  
Conciliorum Synopsis. Printed with the Syntagma before-mentioned. Published in English at the end of An easy and compendious introduction, etc. mentioned before in Mathias Prideaux.  
History of successions in states, countries or families, etc. Oxon. 1653. etc.  
Epistola de Episcopatu. fol. a fragment of which I have seen in one folio sh.  
Euchologia: or, the doctrine of practical praying, being a legacy left to his daughters in private, directing them to such manifold uses of our Common-prayer-book, as may satisfy upon all occasions, without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes. Lond. 1655. 56. oct. etc. Dedicated to his daughters Sarah Hodges 
(*) Wife of Will. Hodges D. D. Archd. of Worcester.  and Elizabeth Sutton.  
The doctrine of conscience framed according to the form in the Common-prayer, left as a legacy to his Wife.— Printed in tw.  
Manuductio ad Theologiam polemicam. Oxon. 1657. oct. Published by Mr. Tho. Barlow, with an Epistle before it, in the name of the printer.  
Hypomnemata Logica, Rhetorica, Phys. Metaphys. etc. Oxon. in oct.  
Sacred eloquence: or, the art of Rhetoric, as it is laid down in Scripture. Lond. 1659. oct. What other things are published under his name I know not, unless a Comment on the Church Catechism. pr. 1656. in oct. and therefore I am to add that he departing this mortal life, of a Fever, at Bredon in Worcestershire, in the house of Dr. Hen. Sutton, (Son of Will. Sutton D. D. Chanc. of Gloucester and Rector of Bredon) who married his daughter Elizabeth, 
1650.  on the twentieth day of July in sixteen hundred and fifty, was accompanied to his grave, in the Chancel of the Church there, by many Persons of quality in the neighbourhood of that place, on the 16. of August following. Over his grave was a plain stone soon after laid with an Epitaph composed by himself, (the day and year of his death excepted) engraven on a brass plate, fixed thereunto; the copy of which is already 
(g) In Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 99  printed, wherein you'll find that he was sometimes Chaplain to Pr. Henry, and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. Before I go any farther, I shall take leave, upon the hint before-mentioned of Dr. Prideauxes making his College flourish, to set down the names of such Outlanders that have retired to Exeter Coll. for his sake, have had Chambers there and diet, purposely to improve themselves by his company, his instruction, and direction for course of studies. Some of them have been Divines of note, and others mere Laymen, that have been eminent in their respective Countries, wherein afterwards they have lived; most of them are these. Joh. Combachius the Philosopher, Phil. Cluver the Geographer, Sixt. Amama Linguist, Nichol. Vignier and Dau. Primrose two learned Frenchmen: All whom are already mentioned among these Writers. Christian. Rumphius an eminent Physician; see in the Fasti an. 1613. Jacobus Dorvilius commonly called D'Orville a Gentleman's Son of Heidelberg in Germany, matriculated as a member of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term 1615, and in that of his age 19 Joh. Schermarius a learned Germane, who occurs a member of Ex. Coll. 1613, in which year he had certain lat. verses published at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frederick Dorvilius two other Germans, who are mentioned in the Fasti, an. 1613. and 15. Joh. Rodolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia, was a Sojournour of the said Coll. in Mich. term 1615, and afterwards published some of Pet. Martyr's works, as I have before told you. Joh. Waserus a Native of the same place, entered Soj. in the same term and year, and afterwards the writer of Elementale Chaldaicum, and other things. Caesar Calendrinus entered into the said Coll. in the beginning of 1616. see in the Fasti 1620. Imanius Young or de Junge a Zelander, in Mich. term 1619. Paul Amaraut or Amarant a Germ. matriculated among the Exonians, 1619 aged 18. Christian Son of Herman Julius Viceroy to the K. of Denmark in the Isle of Gotland, Gregory and Errick Sons of Pet. Julius' Lord of Alsted, Linberg, etc. in Denmark. Which three young men were instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Dr. Prideaux. Ovenius Julius elder brother to the said Christian, was also a Student in the said Coll. under Prideaux, who dying 26. Sept. 1607. aged 23, was buried at the upper end of the S. isle joining to the body of the Church of S. Marry the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards Christian put up a monument over his grave, which is yet remaining, but defaced. Mark Zeiglier a German, was entered into the Coll. about 1624. Wibbo Jansonius Artopaeus, Finsoendensis Civis, Gen. was admitted into the Coll. in June 1635 aged 20. Hieronimus Ernesti Erffurto●Thuringus, was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of Aug. 1638, and continued in the College till July 1641. Besides these and many more, which shall now be omitted, have been several of the Scotch nation that have been received into the said House, upon the same account, among which have been (1) Joh. balcanqual: see in the Fasti 1612. among the Incorporations (2) .... Gilman who studied there 1613, and some time after (3) Sam. balcanqual, 1616. One of both his names occurs Fellow of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge 20 years after: See in the Fasti 1618. among the Incorporations (4) Rob. Spotswood M. of Arts of Glascow was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of the year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour of K. James and K. Ch. 1. unto great honours, as his singular virtues did merit. K. Jam. made him a Knight and a Privy Counsellor: K. Charles advanced him to be Lord Precedent of the Sessions, and at length Principal Secretary of Scotland, in the place of William Earl of Lanerick, (afterwards Duke of Hamilton) when he revolted to the Covenateers of that Kingdom. After James Marquis of Montross had gained great victories against the said Cou. the said Sir Rob. Spotswood conveyed from the King at Oxon to him the said Montross letters patents whereby he was made Viceroy of Scotland, and General of the Army there. But being soon after taken prisoner, upon the defeat of Montross near Silkerke, he was conveyed to S. Andrews, where, at length, they found him guilty of High Treason, lamented by many, because he never bore arms against them; for his eminency laid in the way of peace, and knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword. His treason being for conveying the said let. pat. he was beheaded at S. Andrews, in 1645, leaving then behind him the general character of a most excellent and good man. He was a Gentleman of great abilities, both in the Art of Government and study of the law, hath written things in nature of our Reports of the law, which have been highly valued among Lawyers in Scotland. His Father was Dr. Joh. Spotswood the famous and orthodox Theologist of Scotland, consecrated Archbishop of Glascow in the Archbishps' Chapel at Lambeth near London, according to the ceremonies of the Church of England, on the 20. of Oct. 1610. At which time Gawen Hamilton was consecrated Bishop of Galloway, and Andr. Lamb B. of Brechin. The said Dr. Spotswood was afterwards translated to St. Andrews, and dying on the fourth of the Cal. of Dec. an. 1639. aged 74 years, was buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster. (5) James Hamilton Earl of Arran, Baron of Evenu in Scotland, and of Ennerdale in Cumberland, eldest Son of James Marquis of Hamilton, was admitted a Noble man under the said Dr. Prideaux his tuition, 6. Jul. 1621. He was afterwards Marquis and Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Cambridge. (6) James Bailiff Governor to the said Count, was admitted at the same time to the Fellows table with him. See in the Fasti 1621. among the Creations. It is farther also to be noted, that as the said College did send out many eminent men into the Church and State, that had been under the Government of Prideaux, so also many that did great mischief, and were enemies to them, as you may see at large in this work, in the lives and characters of several that had been educated in the said College. Some also of the English Nobility having been sent thereunto, have by the Principles that they have sucked in, proved no great friends either to the Church or State. Among such have been John Lord Roberts E. of Radnor a severe predestinarian, and a Promoter of the grand Rebellion. Philip Lord Wharton another Promoter; Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury, of whom shall be large mention made elsewhere, Philip the second, Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery, who lived and died little better than a Quaker, etc.  
HENRY TOZER was born at North Tawton in Devonshire, entered into Exeter Coll. in 1619, and in the year of his age 17, took one degree in Arts, and then was made Prob. Fellow of his House 1623. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty, took holy orders and became a useful and necessary Person in the society by moderating, reading to Novices and lecturing in the Chapel. At riper years he was admitted Bach. of Div, became an able and painful Preacher, had much of the Primitive Religion in his Sermons, and seemed to be a most precise Puritan in his looks and life, which was the true reason why his preachings and expoundings in the Churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were much frequented by Men and Women of the Puritanical party. In 1643, he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines, but refused to sit among them, choosing rather to exercise his function in Oxon before the K. or Parliament, or in his cures there, than venture himself among rigid Calvinists. In 1646, a little before the garrison of Oxford was surrendered for the use of the Parliament, he was one of those noted Theologists, who had either preached at Ch. Ch. before his Majesty, or at S. Mary's before the Parliament, that were nominated by the Chancellor of the University to have the degree of D. of D. bestowed upon them, but that also, he, as others, refused. In 1647. and 48, he behaved himself a stout Champion against the unreasonable proceedings of the Visitors appointed by Parliament. For which being by them posted up for an expelled Scholar, revoked their sentence so far, that by an order dated 2. Nou. 16●8, they impower'd him to have liberty to use his Chamber in Exeter Coll. as also that he enjoy a Traveller's allowance for three years. Afterwards he went into Holland, and became Minister to the worshipful company of English Merchants at Rotterdam. His works are these.  
Directions for a godly life, especially for communicating at the Lords table. Oxon. 1628. oct. There again the tenth time, 1680. oct.  
Several Sermons, as (1) A Christian amendment, Serm. on New-years-day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. on 2. Cor. 5.17. Oxon. 1633. oct. (2) Christian Wisdom, or the excellency, etc. of true wisdom, Serm. on 1. Kings 10.24. Oxon. 1639. oct. (3) Sermon on Joh. 18.3. Ox. 1640. etc.  
Dicta & facta Christi ex quatuor Evangelistis collecta, & in ordme disposita. Oxon. 1634. oct. He gave way to fate on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred and fifty (old stile) and was buried in the English Church at Rotterdam, appropriated to the aforesaid Merchants, 
1650.  as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marshal lately Rector of Linc. College, who succeeded him in that office of Preacher there.  
HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an ancient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommersetshire called Dulverton, became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606, took a degree in Arts as a member of that House, made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundress thereof, an. 1613, and the year after proceeded in Arts, being the first of all that Coll. that took that degree. Afterwards he entered into the sacred function, was made Priest by Lewis Bishop of Bangor, in 1621., had the Rectory of Ashbrittle in Sommersetshire bestowed on him, by the presentation of his Majesty an. 1627., and three years after, that of Pokington in the said County by the same hand. About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Escrick; so that thereby being capacitated to hold several Benefices, had the Rectory of Odcomb● in the same County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644, Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong, being then in his minority and a Ward. Which three Benefices, or at least two, he lost soon after by the Parliamentarian commissioners of Sommersetshire. He was a Person of a acquaint and curious stile, better at practical, than School, Divinity, and was so eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham. He hath published these Sermons following.  
Five Sermons preached upon several occasions. Lond. 1627. qu. (1) The Athenian Babbler, on Acts 17.18. (2) Jacob and Esau etc. on Rom. 9.18. (3) Arraignment of an Arrian, on Joh. 8.58. (4) Moses and Aaron etc. on Exod. 4.12. (5) Natures overthrow and death's triumph, on Eccles. 12.5. preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625.  
Other Sermons. Lond. 1630. qu. The first of which is called The passing bell, on Psal. 32.6. (2) The rich man's warning piece, on Psal. 62.10. (3) The waters of Marah and Meribah, on Rom. 12.1.  
Sermons upon solemn occasions preached in several auditories. Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number, and the first is entit. The well-tuned Cymbal, on Psal. 15.16. preached at the dedication of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in Sommersetshire. All which Sermons were at their preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by most People of understanding; but books have their credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers, as they please to like or dislike. He paid his last debt to nature in Sommersetshire in sixteen hundred and fifty, or thereabouts, 
1650.  but where buried, unless at Dulverton, I cannot tell, nor whether he had any other Sermons published after his death.  
JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Mary's Hall, where he was observed by his contemporaries to be studious and a good Disputant. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, he became Minister of Broadclist in Devonshire, and wrote  

Clar. 1650.  A discovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures, etc. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him.  
SAMUEL YERWORTH, or Jeruvorthus as he writes himself in the title of the book following, was born in Dorsetshire, became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards, being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue, taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students, and for their benefit wrote,  
Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam brevissima, praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta, eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta, complectens, etc. Oxon. 1650. oct. At the time when it was published he gave notice to the Reader, 
Clar. 1650.  that if the said introduction should be kindly received, he would put forth a more full and complete Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter, as need should require, but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars, and so consequently the Author stood to his promise, I know not.  
WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of plays with Will. Shakespeare, was born in London, elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1628., and, at hours of recess from happier employments, than the delight of poetry, composed,  
The fatal contract, comedy. Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy, by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived, 
(*) See An account of the English Dramatic Poets, etc. Oxon. 1691. oct. p. 247. written by Gerard Langbaine.  not many years since, under the title of Love and revenge, with some alterations; and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch, a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle, was said in the first edition of it, 1653. to be a French Comedy.  
The Jews Tragedy: or, their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian, and Titus his Son. Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentic History of Josephus. Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability, but whether they are yet published, I cannot tell. However the Fatal contract having justly gained an esteem with men of excellent judgements, 
Clar. 1650.  by several copies of it that flew abroad in Ms, was therefore published for the satisfaction of all Persons, especially such who had lighted upon imperfect copies.  
CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names, was born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire, became a Servitor of New Inn in Midsummer or Act term, 1635, aged 17 years, took a degree in Arts, holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Bailiff joining to the said Inn, and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical, as well as Lay, auditors. In 1642, he proceeded Master of Arts, and was Junior of the Act then celebrated, at which time he performed the exercise of that office with more confidence than was seemly. He himself 
(a) In his Trial in Westm. hall, printed in Aug. 1651.  tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon, and Master of Arts, he was the first Scholar that he knew of, or ever heard of in Oxon, that did publicly refuse in the Congregation house to subscribe unto those impositions, or Canons, imposed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer. For which, though they would not deny him his degree, yet he was expelled the congregation, never to sit as a member among them, etc. About that time he left the University, went to, or near, London, and became a sedulous preacher up of treason and rebellion— About the beginning of the Wars (saith 
(b) Ibid.  he) I was the first Minister that I knew of in England, who was accused of preaching treason and rebellion, merely for maintaining in a Sermon, in Kent at Tenterden, the lawfulness of a defensive War, at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles, &c So that being then esteemed a leading man in the blessed cause, he became Preacher to the Garrison of Windsor castle, then under the command of Colonel John Venn. In which office he showed him so violent against the King and his cause, that he was usually styled by the Royalists Venns principal fireman at Windsor. This Venn, by the way it must be known, did, while Governor of that Castle, exercise very great cruelty against the Royalists that were Prisoners there; but being dismissed of his employ and Col. Christopher Whitchcot put into his place, he retired to London, carried on the cause there with great zeal, was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himself in his chamber, as some say, others, that he died suddenly in his bed, on the 7 of July at night, or early next morning, an. 1650. In the year 1644, when the Commissioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace, this our Author Love did very officiously put himself upon preaching before some of them, on the first day of their meeting, (Jan. 30) being the Market-day. In which his Sermon, full of dire, he vented many passages very scandalous to his Majesty's Person, and derogatory to his honour, stirring up the People against the Treaty, and incensing them against the King's Commissioners, telling the said People that they came with hearts full of blood, and that there was as great distance between the Treaty and Peace as between Heaven and Hell, or words to that effect, with divers other seditious passages against his Maj. and the Treaty. Whereupon the Commissioners belonging to the King, putting up their complaints to those of the Parliament, they represented the matter to the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster, who thereupon, 
(c) Merc. Aulicus Feb. 10. an. 1644. p. 1378.  though they could not with good conscience imprison Mr. Love, yet they did confine him; and where should it be, but to that very house where his Mistress then lived, whom for two years going before, he had wooed with prayers, sermons and ugly faces. After this he was made Minister of S. Ann's Church near to Aldersgate, a Recruiter of the Assemb. of Divines, and at length Minister of the Church of S. Laurence in the Jewry in London, which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt, and brought him to the Scaffold when he least looked for it, which was upon this account. After the Presbyterians had been gulled of their King by the Independents, the prime heads of them were resolved to set up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland, and there had taken the Covenant and was crowned, the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them, and to that end corresponded with him, and supplied him and his, with money contrary to an Act of Parliament, then lately made, in that case provided. These matters being discovered, our Author Love, Mr. Tho. Case, Mr. Will. Jenkyns, and other London Ministers, as also one Dr. Roger Drake, (a Physician as it seems) were by authority of the Council of State taken into custody about the 7. of May 1651, as being the chief Actors in the said treason, as they then called it. Soon after, it was resolved by the great Masters at Westminster, that Mr. Love the Minister, than Prisoner in the Tower, should be brought to his trial before the High Court of Justice on the 20. of June 1651, not for any matter of doctrine, as it was then given out, but for high treason as they said, and conspiracy against the commonwealth of England. He and the rest (as the Independent then said) had outstripped the Jesuit both in practice and project, as having not only tampered with men's consciences in private, (beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture) but preached open rebellion and treason with a full mouth in the Pulpit. On the said day he made his first appearance in order to his trial, and one Jackson a Minister (Arth. Jackson, as it seems) refusing then to give in evidence against him, was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again, and, as 'twas then said by his enemies, in his carriage and behaviour he discovered as much ridiculous impudence, equivocation and hypocrisy, as ever any Person did upon the like occasion, adding that in him you might have seen the true character of his faction, full of passion and spleen and void of all ingenuity. On the 25. and 27. days of the said month of June, he appeared again, and on the last of those two days he brought his counsel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale, Mr. John Archer, and Mr. Tho. Walter, but the two last, having not taken the Engagement, were not suffered to plead for him. At which time Mr. Love, as the Independent said, was full of malapert carriage, matchless impudence, obstinacy and impatiency. On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the same month, but then several petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf, viz. one from divers Ministers, another from himself, and a third from his Wife, he was reprieved till the 15. of Aug. following, and thence to the 22. of the same month. What farther may be said concerning his principles and profession, you shall have it from his own mouth 
In his Trial beforementioned, and in his Speech on the Scaffold.  which he spoke. When he was tried for his life, thus— God is my witness, I never drove a malignant design, I never carried on a malignant interest, I detest both. I still retain my covenanting principles, from which, through the grace of God, I will never depart, for any terror or persuasion whatsoever— I do retain as great a keeness, and shall whilst I live, and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest, whether in Scotland or in England, or in any part of the world, against the Nation where I live, and have to this day, as ever I did in former times— I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments quarrel against the forces raised by the King. I gave my all, and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulness of a defensive war, but (unless my books and wearing apparel) I contributed all I had in the world— and though my life is endeavoured to be taken away, yet for all that I repent not of what I have done— I have in my measure ventured my all, in the same quarrel that you were engaged in, and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant, that took sweet counsel together, and walked in fellowship one with another.— I die cleaving to all those Oaths, Vows, Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament, as owning them, and dying with my judgement for them, to the protestation, the vow, and the covenant, the solemn league and covenant. And this I tell you all, that I had rather die a Covenant keeper, than live a Covenant breaker, etc. As for his writings and works they are these.  
The debauched Cavalier: or, the English Midianite: wherein are compared by way of parallel the carriage or rather miscarriage of the Cavaliers, etc. Lond. 1642. Which Pamphlet, though 'tis but one sheet in quarto, yet forsooth he had a co-operator in writing it, and who should that be but one George Laurence of New Inn, as rank a Presbyterian as Love.  
England's distemper, having division and error, as its cause; wanting peace and truth for its cure, etc. Serm. preached at Uxbridge 30. Jan. 1644. on Jerem. 33.6. Lond. 1645. qu.  
His vindication from those scandalous aspersions cast upon him by the Malignant party, who charge him to be a hinderer of the treaty at Uxbridge, etc.— Printed with England's Distemper, and by itself in one sh. in qu. at Lond. 1651.  
Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Will. Dells Sermon preached before the H. of Commons, 25. Nou. 1646. on Heb. 9.10. Lond. 1646. and 47. qu. Which animadversions were replied upon the same year by Dell. The reader is to note, that our Author Love preached the same day, being a solemn Fast, before the said H. of Commons; but his Sermon being much displeasing to the Independents, and malapert against the then proceedings of Parliament, he had neither thanks given him, or order to print it, but Dell, a Minister attending on his excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, being encouraged to print his, nettled Love so much, that he forthwith wrote the said animadversions.  
Answer to an unlicensed Pamphlet annexed to the Sermon, entit. A reply to Mr. Loves contradictions. Lond. 1647. oct. Which Reply to the contradictions of Mr. Loves Sermon, was written, as it seems, by Dell.  
His case— Pr. 1651. qu. and thereupon followed soon after Queries upon it, but who wrote them I know not.  
His vindication— Printed 1651. qu. penned by himself.  
His Advocate— Pr. 1651. qu. penned, as I have been informed, by himself.  
Several petitions to the Parl. in Jul. and Aug. Lond. 1651. qu.  
A full narrative of the late dangerous design against the state, etc. Lond. 1651. qu. This is said to be written by him, and by him sent to the Parl. Wherein he setteth down his several meetings and several actings with Major Alford, etc. Mr. Tho. Case, Mr. Tho. Cawton, Dr. Drake, Mr. Rich. Drake, Maj. Rob. Huntingdon, Mr. Will. Jenkyns, etc.  
His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Tower-hill, 22. Aug. 1651. Lond. 1651. qu. On which Sp. and Pr. were animadversions made and published by Anonymus, and on his decollation a Poem by Dr. Rob. Wild Rector of Ainoe in Northamptonshire intit. The tragedy of Christop. Love at Tower-hill. Lond. 1660 in one sh. in qu.  
Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of the last 15 Sermons preached by him. Lond. 1652. in oct. there again 1654., and a third time in 1657. qu. The first Sermon is on 1. Kings 14. part of the 13. vers. published with an Epistle before them, subscribed by Edm. Calamy, Simeon Ash, Jerem. Whitaker and Will. Taylor, dated 13. Feb. 1634.  
Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. B. being the last Sermon he ever preached, on Job 30.23.— Printed with the book of Grace beforemention'd.  
Against the said Sermons were great complaints 
(d) See The Beacons quenched, etc. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 14.  made by divers Officers of the Army and other notorious Independents to the Parliament in 1652, thus— several pamphlets have been lately published in vindication of Mr. Love, wherein they (the Presbyterians) account him a Martyr (as in the pref. to his Sermons) and charge the Parliament with injustice in putting him to death, etc. more particularly Mr. Edm. Calamy in his late Epistle before Mr. Loves Sermons; and his funeral Sermon hangs out a flag of defiance to the State, proclaiming Mr. Love to die in, and for the, Lord: And the Saints (meaning the Independents and Anabaptists) he calls Murderers, Traitors, Rebels, Blasphemers, etc. and chargeth the highest sins to have ascended into Pulpits and Thrones, etc. But upon examination, Mr. Calamy (as 'tis 
(e) See The Beacon flaming with a non obstante. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 2.  said) was not the Author of that Preface, but another, more violent than he.  
Heaven's glory, Hell's terror: or, two treatises, the one concerning the glory of the Saints with Jesus Christ, as a spur to duty, in 10 Sermons. The other of the torments of the damned, as a preservative against security, in 8 Sermons. Lond. 1653. 58. qu.  
Souls cordial, in two treatises. Lond. 1653. oct.  
Treatise of effectual calling and election, in 16 Sermons on 2. Pet. 1.10. Lond. 1653. qu. ibid. 1658. oct. This treatise hath an Epist. commend. before it, subscribed by E. Calamy, Jerem. Whitaker, Simeon Ash, Will. Taylor and Allen Gear.  
Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling. Lond. 1653. on one side of a sh. of paper.  
The true doctrine of mortification and sincerity, in opposition to hypocrisy. Lond. 1654. in oct.  
Combat between the flesh and the spirit; as also the woeful withdrawing of the spirit of God, with the causes thereof, etc. being the sum and substance of 27 Sermons. Lond. 1654. 58. qu. Ded. by Will. Taylor to Edw. Bradshaw Mayor of Chester, and the Epist. to the reader is subscribed by E. Calamy, S. Ash, and Jer. Whitaker, beforementioned.  
Sum or substance of practical Divinity: or, the grounds of religion in a catechistical way. Lond. 1654. in tw.  
Christian's directory, tending to direct him in the various conditions that God hath cast him into, in 15 Sermons. Lond. 1654. and 58 qu. The Epist. to the Reader is subscribed by Calamy, Ash, Taylor and Gear before mentioned, all Presbyterians.  
The dejected Souls cure, tending to support poor drooping sinners, &c in divers sermons. Lond. 1657. qu.  
The ministry of the Angels to the heirs of Salvation. Or, a treatise of Angels. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Of the Omnipresence of God, in several sermons, began 13 May 1649, and ended 3 June following. Lond. 1657. qu.  
The sinner's Legacy to their posterity, on Lam. 5.8. Lond. 1657. qu.  
These four last books have an Epist. commend▪ before them, subscribed by Calamy, Ash, and Taylor before mentioned, as also by Will. Whitaker, Math. Poole and Jos. Church, Presbyterians.  
The penitent pardoned. A Treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin, and the privilege of the pardon of sin. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Discourse of Christ's ascension into heaven, and of his coming again from heaven, wherein the opinion of the Chiolists is considered and solidly confuted. Lond. 1657. qu. This, with The penitent pardoned, etc. is the substance of several Sermons: Both published by Calamy, Ash, Taylor, and Will. Whitaker before mentioned.  
The natural man's case stated: or, an exact map of the little world, Man, in 17 sermons. Lond. 1658. oct. These are all the things that he hath extant, as I conceive, and therefore I have nothing more to say, only that he was beheaded on Tower-hill on the 22 of August in sixteen hundred fifty and one. 
1651.  Whereupon his body being afterwards carried to his house, and there reposited for a time, was buried, with great lamentation by the Brethren, on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Laurence in the Jewry before mentioned: At which time Mr. Tho. Manton one of the chief Presbyterians in London preached his Funeral Sermon, which was afterwards made public. It was observed by many, and looked upon as miraculous by the Brethren, that when the members of the Rump Parliament had passed their votes for his death, did happen one of the most terrible thunder claps that was ever heard. Also that that day on which he suffered, was seen a most clear sky; but soon after his death, which was about two of the clock in the afternoon, the sky began to thicken, and at last was enveloped in a black and dismal Cloud, and all that night and till the next morning, such thunder, lightning and tempest happened, as if the machine of the world had been dissolving. This was the observation of the Presbyterian, who stuck not to say thereupon that God was angry at these things that had passed, etc. Yet the Independent, Anabaptist, and others, made another construction of the matter, which was published soon after in the common Mercury called Politicus, viz. That on the 22 of Aug. the old Tyrant (Ch. 1.) did first erect his Standard at Nottingham, and then Mr. Love and his Brethren did well to cry it down. But it being down, and themselves not set up (as they expected) than they deserted their first principles, and cried up his son; whose interest (however disguised) is the same with his fathers; and he, by their instigation making way into England, entered and erected his Standard at Worcester also, upon the 22 of Aug. 1651: upon which very day likewise it was, that Mr. Love, who having helped to beat down the old malignant Standard, and then turning Apostate to set up the new one, lost his head upon Tower-hill, as a just judgement of God for his implacable Apostasy and Enmity, and for a terror to all the men of his Confederacy, etc. At the same time, and upon the same Scaffold, was beheaded Mr. Jo. Gibbons engaged in the same plot; but as for others engaged therein and to be brought to their trial, viz. Col. Joseph Vaughan sometimes a Leather-seller in London, Lieut. Col. ..... Jackson, Capt. Hugh Massey (brother to Maj. Gen. Edw. Massey) Dr. Drake, Mr. Th. Case, Mr. Arthur Jackson, Mr. W. Jenkyns Minister of Ch. Church in London, Mr. Th. Watson, Mr. Ralph Robinson, Mr. Rich. Heyrick, etc. were upon the motion of a certain noble person pardoned for Life and Estate, and freed both from Sequestration and Imprisonment.  
CLEMENT WALKER was born at Cliff in Dorsetshire, educated in Acad. learning in Ch. Church, as I have been informed by his son Joh. Walker, sometimes a Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll. but in what year, or years, of the Lord, I know not, for his name occurs not in the Matricula, either under Ch. Church, or Broadgates' Hall adjoining, a receptacle mostly in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for Dorsetshire men. Afterwards leaving the University without a degree, he retired to an Estate he had at Charterhouse near Wells in Somersetshire, where living in good repute, was esteemed among the Gentry in those parts for his knowledge in secular affairs, and always taken to be, as really he was, an enemy to the Puritans, as making it his frequent theme to declaim against them. Before the Civil War commenced, he was made Usher of the Exchequer, but when the Puritans or Presbyterians were like to carry all before, he closed with, them, was elected one of the Burgesses for the City of Wells upon the retreat to his Maj. of Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir Edw. Rodney, who were elected to serve for that City in the Parliament began at Westminster 3 Nou. 1640. Afterwards he became a zealous Covenantier, and was Advocate to that Congregation of Murderers, that adjudged Rob. yeoman's and George Bowcher Citizens of Bristol to death, having had (as 'tis 
(a) In The two state Martyrs; or the murder of Mr. R. yeoman's and Mr. G. Bowcher, etc. printed 1643 in qu. p. 11. See also in M●r. Rusticus, nu. 19  said) his hands stained with his own Wife's blood, before he dipped them so deep in those Martyrs at Bristol. About that time he and W Prynne, (inseparable Brethren) became great Enemies to Col. Nath. Fiennes for his cowardly surrendering up the City of Bristol, and were the chief men that brought him to a trial for his life for the same. During the time that our Author Walker sat in the Parliament, he was a curious Observer, and diligent Enquirer after, not only the Actions, but the Counsels of those times. He was well read also, and notably versed in the Liberties and Privileges of Parliaments, and in the Statute Law of this Kingdom, as those that knew him well, have often affirmed it: And when he saw how the Independent Faction began to sway, and govern all things, than did he become a bitter enemy to Fairfax the General for his folly to be led by the nose by O. Cromwell, and to Cromwell for his devilish hypocrisy, falseness, tyranny, etc. and an indefatigable enemy in his Writings and Prayers against the said Independents that were then the Saints militant. But so it was, that though he showed himself a zealous Presbyterian, yet he was very serviceable in many things to the Parliament, and did not at all get as others did, as his own 
(b) In the first part of The History of Independency, §. 49.  words, which I believe are true, aver it thus— I have served you (the Parliament) faithfully from the beginning, and have taken as much pains, and run as many hazards as most men in your service, wherein I have lost my health, and above seven thousand pounds of my estate, without any penny of compensation, as other men have had. Nor have I laid my hands upon any man's money or goods, or had any gainful Employments from you. I was contented to serve my Country gratis, and some little honour I had gotten thereby, whereof you have now robbed me, etc. by a roving 
(c) He was accused for setting on the Apprentices to force the H. of Commons.  Accusation shot at random at me, etc. Thus our Author: which service of his was performed till 1647, when he saw the Independent Faction to grow mighty, he being then an elderly man and of a low stature. His works that are published are these.  
An Answer to Col. Nathan Fiennes relation concerning his surrender of the City and Castle of Bristol.— printed 1643 in 2 sheets in qu. But for some misconstruction made of a clause in the said answer, the Author was suddenly seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower of Lond. by the Parliament, where he continued for some time.  
Articles of impeachment and accusation, exhibited in Parliament against Col. Nath. Fiennes touching his dishonourable surrender of the City and Castle of Bristol. Lond. 1643. in 2 sh. in qu. W. Prynne had a hand also in drawing up of the said articles: at the end of which is his letter to the said Fiennes.  
True and full relation of the prosecution, arraignment, trial and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governor of the City and Castle of Brist. before a Counsel of War, held at S. Alban, during 9 days space, in Decemb. 1643. Lond. 1644. qu. The said Prynne was his co-operator in this work also.  
Declaration and protestation against the actings and proceedings of the Army and their Faction, now remaining in the H. of Commons.— This was written on the 19 of Jan. 1648, the Author being then a member of that house secured, after he, with many of his fellows, had been by force taken thence.  
Six serious Queries concerning the King's trial by the High Court of Justice— The Author's name is not set to them, but by all believed to have been written by Walker.  
The mystery of the two Juntoes, Presbyterian and Independent. Lond. 1647. in 3 sh. in qu.  
History of Independency, with the rise, growth and practices of that powerful and restless faction. Lond. 1648. qu.  
A list of the names of the members of the H. of Commons, observing which are Officers of the Army, contrary to the self denying ordinance: together with such sums of money, Offices and Lands, as they have given to themselves for service done, or to be done, against the King and Kingdom. Lond. 1648. This being printed in one sh. in qu. was soon after remitted into the first part of the Hist. of Independency. See more in George Wharton.  
Appendix to the Hist. of Independency, being a brief description of some few of Argyles proceedings, before and since he joined in confederacy with the Independent Junto in England. Lond. 1648. qu.  
Parallel between Argyle and Cromwell.— This is printed with the Appendix.  
Anarchia Anglicana: Or, the history of Independency; the second part. Lond. 1649. qu. Put out as the former part was, under the name of Theodorus verax.  
The High Court of Justice: or, Cromwell's slaughter house, being the third part of the Hist. of Indep. Lond. 1651. qu. Out of which, as also the two former parts, were many things translated into Latin, and printed beyond the seas in a manual, 1653. After the King's Restauration, one T. M. added a fourth part; which, with all the things before mentioned from The mystery of the two Juntoes, etc. were printed in one thick volume in qu.— Lond. 1661. Upon the coming out of the sec. part of the Hist. of Independency, the Author being discovered by Cromwell, was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, 13 Nou. 1649, where having got allowance of pen, ink, and paper, he wrote the third part of that history. He gave way to fate there, to the great grief of the Presbyterian Party, in the month of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and one: 
1651.  whereupon his body was conveyed to the Church of all-hallows Barkin near to the said Tower, and there buried, as I have been informed by his said son John Walker. The next Writer that must follow according to time, was the greatest Royalist in the age he lived, and a person much reverenced by those who knew his Virtues and Piety.  
RICHARD STEVART was born of a gentile family in Northamptonshire, (at Patishul I think) became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1608 aged 14 or thereabouts, elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1613, being then Bach. of Arts, proceeded in his Faculty, studied the Civil Law for a time, and took one degree therein. In 1624. he proceeded in the said Faculty, and in 1628. he was made Preb. of Worcester on the death of Rich. Potter Bach. of Diu. About the beginning of March 1629 he had the Prebendship of North Aulton in the Church of Sarum conferred upon him, and about that time was made Chapl. in ord. to his Majesty. In 1634 he became Dean of Chichester in the place of Dr. Franc. Dee promoted to the See of Peterborough, and soon after Clerk of the Closet, in the room of Dr. Math. Wren, and Prebendary of Westminster in his place, an. 1638. In which year he resigned his Prebendship of Worcester, and was succeeded therein by Will. Smith D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll. About the same time he was made Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral, and in Dec. or Jan. 1639 Provost of Eton Coll. in the room of Sir Hen. Wotton deceased. He was also at the same time Dean of the Chapel Royal, and when Dr William's Bishop of Linc. (who kept the Deanery of Westminster in commendam with that See) was translated to York, he was made Dean of that Collegiate Church, not in 164●, but in 1645. While he remained in the University, he was accounted a good Poet and Orator, and after he had left it a noted Divine, eloquent Preacher, and a person of a smart fluent stile. In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffered much for the King's cause, lost all, and at length retiring to France, became a great Champion for the Protestant cause at Paris, where, at le Hostle de Blinville, he preached an excellent sermon of the English case, or Hezekiahs' reformation, in vindication of ours. So that whereas Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his public Writings doth most uncharitably 
(*) See in Tho. Pierce his Appendix to the New discoverer discovered, etc. §. 44.  suggest as if he, (Dr. Stevart) when at Paris, had a design to introduce the French Popery by preaching, it appears to the contrary not only in that, but in another sermon preached in defence of the Protestants against the Papists in an Auditory of Prelatists there. Besides also, he, with that public spirited man Sir George Ratcliff, did go very far in making an accommodation between the Jansenists and the reformed Party, our Author being then Chaplain to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. His works are these.  
An answer to a letter written at Oxford and superscribed to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and Revenues thereof— Printed 1647 in 5 sheets and an half in qu. This afterwards came out under this title, A discourse of Episcopacy and Sacrilege by way of letter, written 1646. Lond. 1683. qu. The said letter was written not at Oxon, but rather at Ailesbury by Joh. Fountain lately a Royalist, but then a Turncoat.  
Three Sermons (1) On 1 Cor. 10.30. (2) On Mat. 28.6. (3) On 1 Cor. 15.29. Lond. 1656 and 58. in twelv.  
Trias sacra: A second Ternary of sermons. Lond. 1659. in tw.  
Catholic Divinity: or, the most solid and sententious expressions of the primitive Doctors of the Church, with other ecclesiastical and civil Authors, etc. Lond. 1657. oct.  
Other sermons, as (1) The English case exactly set down by Hezekiahs' reformation, in a Court sermon at Paris on 2 Kings 18.22. Lond. 1659. oct. and before: published for the full vindication of the Church of England from the Romanists charge of Schism, and commended to the consideration of the late Author of The Grotian Religion discovered. The picture of K. Ch. 2. is set before the title. (2) Golden remains, or three sermons, the first on Phil. 4.17. the second on Mark 6.20. and the third on Heb. 10.1, 2. Lond. 1661. in tw. etc.  
The old Puritan detected and defeated: or, a brief treatise showing how by the artifice of pulpit Prayers, our Dissenters at all times have endeavoured to undermine the Liturgy of the reformed Church of England. Together with the fault and danger of such Prayers, whether vented ex tempore, or forethought by a speaker. Lond. 1682, in one sh. in qu. said by the Bookseller, who printed it, that Dr. Rich. Stevart was the Author. See more in Rich. Sherlock, an. 1689. The design of this small treatise is, (as also another of the same subject, viz. about the meaning of the 55 Canon published by Dr. Heylyn) to make out and evidence that the 55 of K. Jam. 1. enjoins only an exhortation to, or bidding of Prayer, and that that Canon contains an express and precise form of Prayer, not in the least to be deviated from by Ministers, and that the primary design and scope of this Canon, was not barely to lay down and prescribe matter, heads, and contents of Prayer, which were to be left to be worded and expressed according to the discretion of the Minister; which last is owned to be the more general practice of our Divines, though he saith it is directly against the intendment of the Canon. These are all the things that Dr. Stevart hath written, as I conceive, and therefore I shall only say, that when he lay upon his Deathbed at Paris in Nou. in sixteen hundred fifty and one, K. Ch. 2. gave him two visits, 
1651.  being then newly arrived there from his escape from Worcester Fight, and his concealment in England, and that he was interred in an open burying place in the suburbs of S. German, walled in, and some time before granted to those of the reformed Religion to bury the bodies of their deceased. His Epitaph over his grave, made some years after his decease, tells us that he died on the 14 of Nou. 1652, but false, for it should be 1651, for every one of the English Nation that was then at Paris, saith that he died shortly after K. Ch. 2. came into France after his Escape from Worcester Fight, which was in the month of Octob. 1651. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 182.  
HENRY IRETON eldest son and heir of Germane Ireton of Attenton in Nottinghamshire Esq. and brother to Sir Jo. Ireton Lord Mayor of London 1658, was born there, or at least in that County, became a Gent. Com. of Trinity Coll. in the year 1626. and in that of his age 16, took one degree in Arts in 1629, but left the University without completing that degree by Determination: At which time he had the character in that house of a stubborn and saucy fellow towards the Seniors, and therefore his company was not at all wanting. Afterwards he went to the Middle Temple, learned some grounds of the common Law, became a man of a working and laborious brain, which in the end led him into some errors. When the grand Rebellion broke out, he, as a person natured to mischief, took up Arms against the King, and about that time married Bridget one of the daughters of Oliv. Cromwell then a Colonel of a Regiment, afterwards Lord Protector of England. By whose endeavours, he became first a Captain, afterwards a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse, and at length Commissary General upon the new modelling of the Army, in the beginning of the year 1645. About that time I find him an active man, and one very busy in breaking the Presbyterian Faction in the House of Commons, to the end that the Independents might get the King into their own clutches. His parts and abilities were such, his dissimulation so profound, and his mischievous designs had so clean a conveyance, that his Father-in-law Cromwell made frequent use of him when he was put to a push to complete his wicked designs: And having always found him to be very capacious of overthrowing Monarchy, and a thoroughpaced dissembler under the mask of Religion, (being absolutely the best Prayer-maker and Preacher in the Army) he, with Col. Joh. Lambert (who had likewise studied in the Inns of Court and was of a subtle working brain) did put him upon writing a Remonstrance on the Army's behalf for justice to be done on the King. Whereupon retiring in private for some days to Windsor Castle, as I have been informed, he drew up the Remonstrance, and after he had communicated it to Fairfax the Generalissimo (whom he and Cromwell made a stalking horse, and to believe any thing) and the prime Officers of the Army, they caused it to be delivered to the H. of Commons, by the hands of Col. Isaac Ewer and seven other Officers: Which done, it was printed under this title.  
A Remonstrance of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, Lord General of the Parliament Forces, and of the general council of Officers held at S. Alban the 16 of Nou. 1648. presented to the Commons assembled in Parliament, the 20 instant, and tendered to the consideration of the whole Kingdom. Lond. 1648, in 9 sheets in qu. Which Remonstrance being read to his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight, he propounded four Queries thereupon against the power of the Army, which may be seen in his Works printed 1662. p. 671. The said Ireton also who was about that time one of the Commissioners of the Navy, did write, or at least had a chief hand in a certain Pamphlet called  
The Agreement of the people— meaning of the Army, published in the month of Jan. 1648; judiciously answered by Will. Ashurst Esq. a Parliament man for Newton in Lancashire and a Presbyterian. The said Agreement (with a Petition) was presented 
(*) Bulstrode Whitlock in his Memorials of Engl. affairs, in Jan. 1648. p. 364. b.  to the Parliament in the name of all the Army, by Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond, and divers chief Officers thereof, on the 20 day of the same month of Jan. He the said Ireton was chiefly employed also, and took upon him the business of the pen in all the Declarations, Desires, Modules, and Transactions of the Army, nay and in all or most Letters written by Fairfax the General to the Parliament, before the K. was beheaded, being esteemed a person full of invention and industry, and skilled in the common Law. About that time he became a busy man to bring his Maj. to his Trial, had a hand in drawing up the Ordinance for it, and the Precept for proclaiming the High Court of Justice, sat as a Judge among the rest when he was tried, and was one of the Committee that appointed the time and place of his Execution. Afterwards, in June 1649, he was appointed by Parliament the next Commander in chief under Cromwell in his Expedition for Ireland, that is to be Maj. General, and after his arrival, a Commission and Patent was sent to him to be Precedent of Monster. After Cromwell the Lord Lieutenant had given an account to the Parliament of affairs done there, he returned into England in June 1650, at which time he left Ireton his Deputy to prosecute the Parliaments Interest there, and acting highly against such that they called Rebels, was, in his way to Limerick, taken with a sudden disease, (some said the plague) on the 16 day of November: whereupon being conveyed in all haste to Limerick, died there on the 26 of the said month, in sixteen hundred fifty and one. 
1651.  Afterwards Col. Edm. Ludlow, who was Lieut. Gen. of the Army there, did execute the Office of Deputy for a time by the appointment of the superior Power. On the 9 of Dec. the Parliament ordered a Bill to be brought in for the settling of 2000 l. per an. on the Wife and Children of Ireton, out of the Lands belonging to George Duke of Bucks, and on the 17 of the said month, his carcase being landed at Bristol, was pompously conveyed towards London, and laying in state for a time in Somerset house in the Strand, all hung with black, was hung over the common gate an Atchieument commonly called a Hatchment, with this Motto under his Arms depicted thereon, Dulce est pro patria mori, which was englished by an honest Cavalier thus, It is good for his Country that he is dead. On the sixth day of Febr. following, his body was interred with great state in the Chapel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster; at which time John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. preached (not without some blasphemy) on Dan. 12.13. and had about that time Elegies made on his death, and a stately tomb erected over his grave with the Effigies of him and his wife thereon. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. his body, with that of Oliv. Cromwell, were taken up on Saturday 26 Jan. 1660, and on Monday night following, were drawn in two several Carts from Westminster to the Red Lion in Holborn, where they continued that Evening. The next morning the carcase of Joh. Bradshaw Precedent of the High Court of Justice (which had been with great solemnity buried in S. Peter's Church at Westminster 22 Nou. 1659.) was carried in a cart to Holbourn also: and the next day following that, (which was the 30 of January, on which day K. Ch. 1. was beheaded in 1648.) they were drawn to Tybourne on three several Sledges, followed by the universal outcry of the people. Afterwards they being pulled out from their Coffins, were hanged at the several angles of that triple tree, where they hung till the sun was set. After which, they were taken down, their heads cut off, (to be set on Westminster Hall) and their loathsome trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallows, where they now remain. At the same time Iretons tomb was broken down, and what remained over the Graves of Cromwell and Bradshaw, were clean swept away, and no footstep left of their remembrances in that royal and stately burial place of our English Kings. While this Ireton lived came out a Pamphlet intit. Independency stripped and whipped: or, Ireton's Petition, etc. 1648. qu. and after his death another called The Kingdom of Christ to the Parliament, from 1649 to 1652, with the name of Hen. Ireton Deputy of Ireland in the Title page. But these I have not yet seen.  
FRANCIS WOODCOCK son of Rob. Woodcock was born in the City of Chester, applied his mind to Academical studies in Brasn. Coll. in Easter term 1629, aged 15 years, took a degree in Arts, holy Orders from a Bishop, and then left the House, and had a Cure of Souls bestowed on him. But being always pruitanically affected, he sided with the Presbyterians upon a defection of a predominant party in the Long Parliament, an. 1641, became a Lecturer of S. Laurence Ch. in the Jewry in London, a Covenantier, one of the Assembly of Divines, and at length by ordinance of Parliament dat. 10. Jul. 1646, was made Parson of S. Olaves in Southwark, having for some time before exercised his function in that place. He hath written and published,  
The two Witnesses, in several Lectures at S. Laurence Jewry, on Rev. 11. with the great question discussed, Whether the two Witnesses were slain or no. Lond. 1643. qu. made extant by virtue of an order of the Committee of the H. of Commons bearing date 27 of Apr. the same year. This book was afterwards reprinted.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Christ's warning-piece, giving notice to every one to watch and keep their garments, Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 30 Oct. 1644. on Rev. 16.15. Lond. 1644. qu. (2) Lex Talionis: or, God paying every man in his own coin, Fast-serm. before the H. of C. 30 Jul. 1645 on 1 Sam 2.30. latter part. Lond. 1645. qu. (3) Joseph paralleled by the present Parliament in his sufferings and advancement, Thanksgiving sermon before the H. of C. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. Forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton, on Gen. 49.23, 24. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things he hath extant I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and one, 
1651.  or thereabouts, was buried in the Church of S. Olaves befotementioned. One of his surname was by Act of Parl. that. in Mar. 1659.— 60, appointed among several other Ministers to approve of Ministers of the Gospel according to the Presbyterian way, which Act came soon after to nothing. He is the same person who was afterwards a frequent Conventicler, and has one or more Sermons extant in The morning exercise methodised. Lond. 1676. qu.  
THOMAS RYVES, who writes himself in some of his books Rivius, was the fourth son of John Ryves of Damery Court in Dorsetshire, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. as a native of Langton in the said County of Dorset, after he had served two years of probation, an. 1598., where applying his studies to the faculty of the Civil Law, took the degrees therein, that of Doctor being completed 1610, about which time he was an eminent Advocate in Doctor's Commons and the Court of Admiralty. Afterwards he was one of the Masters of Chancery, and Judge of the Faculties and Prerogative Court in Ireland, where he was held in great esteem for his knowledge in the Laws. At length upon the coming to the Crown of K. Ch. 1. he was made his Advocate, and by him knighted, was engaged in his Cause when the grand Rebellion broke out, wherein he gave good evidence of his Valour; and notwithstanding he was then well stricken in years, yet he received several wounds in Fights and Skirmishes for his Cause. He was accounted a thorough-paced Scholar in all polite learning, was a pure Latinist, and Master of a smooth stile. He understood also the Common Law so well, that he was as fit to plead in Westminster Hall, as in his proper Courts, and therefore his, and the assistance of Dr. Duck, were required by his Maj. at the Treaty for Peace in the Isle of Wight. He hath written and published,  
The Vicar's plea: or, that a competency of means is due to Vicars out of the several Parishes. Lond. 1620. quart.  
Regiminis Anglicani in Hiberniâ defensio adversus Analecten: lib. 3. Lond. 1624. qu.  
Imperatoris Justiniani defensio contra Alemannum. Lond. 1626. oct.  
Historia navalis antiqua: lib. 4. Lond. 1633. oct.  
Hist. navalis media: lib. 3. Lond. 1640. oct. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he paid his last debt to nature on the second of January, or thereabouts, in sixteen hundred fifty and one, and was buried in the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-barr near London, 
1651/2.  on the fifth day of the same month, having suffered much in his estate for the King's Cause, which he had stoutly defended.  
PETER TURNER a younger son of Dr. Peter Turner a Physician, mentioned among the Incorporations in the Fasti, an. 1599, was born, as it seems, in the parish of S. Helen within Bishopsgate in the City of London, in which parish his father lived and practised his Faculty, admitted Probation. Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1607, proceeded in Arts, and being not bound to any particular Faculty, as the Fellows in other Colleges are, became most admirably well versed in all kind of Learning. He was a most exact Latinist and Grecian, was well skilled in the Hebrew and Arabic, was a thorough-paced Mathematician, was excellently well read in the Fathers and Councils, a most curious Critic, a Politician, Statesman, and what not. The first preferment that he had, whereby his parts were made manifest to the world, was the Professorship of Geometry in Gresham College, which he kept with his Fellowship, as afterwards he did the Savilian Professorship of Geometry in this University, obtained on the death of Hen. Briggs, in the year 1630. He was much beloved of Archb. Laud, and so highly valued by him, that he would have procured him to be one of the Secretaries of State, or Clerks of the Privy Council, etc. but being wedded to his College and a studious life (entertaining hopes withal of being Warden thereof) he denied those, and other honourable and beneficial, places. In 1636 he was actually created Doctor of Physic, and in the beginning of the grand Rebellion, was one of the first Scholars that went out and served his Majesty in the quality of a Volunteer 
(a) Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 355.  under the command of Colonel Sir John Byron; for which, he did not only for the present suffer, as being a Prisoner of War, but was afterwards ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors from all right he had to his Fellowship of Mert. Coll, and from his Professorship of the University. He wrote many admirable things, but he being too curious and critical, he could never finish them according to his mind, and therefore cancelled them. He also made divers Translations from Greek into Lat. particularly some of the Epistles, from an old authentic MS, of Isidorus Pelusiota: Which Trans. were found among Hen. jacob's Papers after his death. But that, with other Curiosities of our learned Turner, went afterwards into obscure hands. He hath extant in several books,  
Epistolae variae ad doctissimos viros. He had also a principal hand in framing 
(b) Vide ibid. p. 338.339.  the University Statutes now in use, and was the sole person that made them run in good Latin, and put the Preface to them. He made the Caroline Cycle for the Election of Proctors, beginning in 1629 and ending in 1720, and did many other matters for the benefit of Learning and this University. At length being in a manner undone by the Severities of the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, he retired to the House of his Sister, the afflicted widow of one Wats a Brewer living against the Compter Prison in Southwark near London, where spending the short remainder of his life in obscurity, surrendered up his soul to God in the month of January, in sixteen hundred fifty and one, 
1651/2.  and in that of his age 66 or thereabouts; whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Saviour there. This person having been of a proud and haughty mind, because of his great parts, and intimate acquaintance with Archb. Laud and the great Heroes of that time, the sniuling Presbyterians therefore, especially those of his College which he left behind him, as Alex. Fisher, Ralph Button, etc. did not stick to report that he died no better than a Brewer's Clerk, because he often inspected the Accounts of his Sister before mentioned, and had a great care of her concerns.  
JOHN ARNWAY a Shropshire man born, became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in the year 1618., and in that of his age 18, took the degrees in Arts, entered into the sacred function, and had a cure of Souls bestowed on him. At length the Civil Wars breaking forth, he adhered to the King's cause, suffered much for it in his own Country, went after him to Oxon, and was actually created D. of D. in 1642, being about that time (as I conceive) made Archdeacon of Lichf. and Coventry, in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig promoted to the See of Exeter. He had then quitted a large fortune to serve his Prince, and thereupon was plundered by the Rebels, and lost his books and papers, which he could never recover. Afterwards upon the declining of the King's cause, he went to the Hague in Holland, and afterwards to Virginia where he died. He hath written,  
The Tablet, or moderation of Charles the first, martyr.  
An Alarm to the Subjects of England.  
A few copies of these two little treatises were both printed together in a small character at the Hague, an. 1650, afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1661. in oct. by the care of Will. Rider sometimes of Mert. Coll. who married the authors near kinswoman. 
Clar. 1651.  Afterwards Dr. Arnway being reduced to necessity, left the Hague, and upon an invitation he went into Virginia to exercise his function among the English, where he died about Lyn haven, Elizabeth river or Nausunum, but when I cannot tell, unless about the year 1653.  
JOHN VICARS a Londoner born, descended from those of his name living in the County of Cumberland, educated from his infancy, or time of understanding, in School learning in Ch. Ch. Hospital in London, and in Academical, partly in Oxon. particularly, as it seems, in Queens Coll. but whether he took a degree it appears not. Afterwards he retired to his native place, became Usher of the said Hospital (which he kept to, or near, his dying day) and was esteemed among some, especially the puritannical party (of which number he was a zealous brother) a tolerable Poet, but by the Royalists not, because he was inspired with ale or viler liquors. In the beginning of the Civil Wars, he showed himself a forward man for the Presbyterian cause, hated all people that loved Obedience, and did affright many of the weaker sort and others from having any agreement with the King's Party, by continually inculcating into their heads strange stories of God's wrath against the Cavaliers. Afterwards when the Independents began to take place, he bore a great hatred towards them, especially after they had taken away the King's life. His works are these.  
A prospective glass to look into heaven: or, the celestial Canaan described. Lond. 1618. oct. 'Tis a Poem.  
The Souls sacred soliloquy, etc. sung in a most heavenly hymn— 'Tis a Poem also, and printed with the former.  
England's Hallelu-jah: or, Great Britain's grateful retribution for God's gracious benediction in our many and famous deliverances since the Halcyon days of ever blessed Qu. Elizab. to these present times. Lond. 1631. oct. This is a Poem also, and his kinsman Tho. Vicars of Qu. Coll. hath a Copy of verses before it.  
Quintessence of cruelty: or, the Popish powder-plot related— 'Tis a Poem and printed in a large oct.  
England's remembrancer. Or, a thankful acknowledgement of Parliamentary mercies to the English nation. Lond. 1641. a Poem in one sh. in qu.  
The sinfulness and unlawfulness of having or making the picture of Christ's humanity, etc. Lond. 1641. in tw.  
God in the mount: or, England's remembrancer, being a panegyrics pyramids erected to the honour of England's God. etc. Lond. 1642. qu. a Poem.  
Looking glass for Malignants: or, God's hand against God-haters. Lond. 1643. qu. in 6. sheets. In this book is much bitterness against the King's followers, whom, he often styles cormorants, against the Prelates also, especially Laud.  
God in the mount: or, England's remembrancer, being the first and second part of a Parliamentary Chronicle, or a Chron. of the Parliament of England from 1641. to the month of Octob. 1643. Lond. 1644.  
God's Ark overtopping the world's waves: or, a third part of a parliamentary Chronicle, etc. Lond. 1646. qu.  
The burning bush not consumed: or, the fourth and last part of a Parliam. Chronicle, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. one J. Hart did put out in the year 1627. The burning bush not yet consumed, printed in oct. which title our author Vicars borrowed. These three last books, viz. God in the mount, etc. God's Ark, etc. and The burnish bush, etc. were all printed together, with this general title,— Magnalia Dei Anglicana: or, England's parliamentary Chronicle, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. Of which Chronicle one Joh. Hornius a Dutchman is very liberal in his character 
(c) In his Epist. ded. to the reader, before his book entit. Rerum Britannicarum libri 7. etc.  thus— Chron. Vicarii qui priora belli complexus est, sermons potius sacros, quales ad populum habentur, quam historias continet, cum maxima operis pars Theologica sit, etc.  
Coleman-street-conclave visited; and that grand impostor, the schismatics cheater in chief (who hath long, slily lurked therein) truly and duly discovered; containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John goodwin's self conviction, etc. and of the notorious heresies, errors, malice, pride and hypocrisy of this most huge Garagantua, etc. Lond. 1648. qu. in 7. sheets. Before the title is John goodwin's picture, with a windmill over his head, and weather cock upon it, with other Hierogliphics or Emblems about him, to show the instability of the man.  
The Schismatic sifted, etc.  
Soulsaving knowledge, etc. in oct.  
Picture of a Puritan, etc.— These three last I have not yet seen.  
Dagon demolished: or, twenty admirable examples of Gods severe justice and displeasure against the subscribers of the late engagement against K. Ch. 2. and the whole house of Peers, etc. Lond. 1660. in two sh●in qu. He the said J. Vicars translated also from Lat. into English (1) Mischiefs mystery: or, treasons Masterpiece, the powder-plot: invented by hellish malice, prevented by heavenly means, etc. Lond. 1617. qu. This is a Poem written in Latin by the rev. and learned Dr. Fr. Herringe, but much delated by Vicars; whose labours therein are commended to the world by several copies of verses made by divers persons; among whom are Thom. Salisbury M. A. of Cambridge, Joshua Sylvester, Nathan. Chamber of Greys-inn, etc. Afterwards Vicars making some additions to the said translation, repaired to Dr. Sam. Baker Chaplain to Laud B. of London, to have it licenced, but denied for several reasons. See in Canterbury's Doom, p. 184. (2) Epigrams of that most witty and worthy Epigrammatist Mr. John Owen Gent. Lond. 1619. oct. (3) Babel's Balm: or, the Honeycomb of Rome's religion: with a neat draining and straining out of the rammish honey thereof; sung in ten most elegant Elegies in Lat. by the most Christian Satirist Mr. George Goodwin. Lond. 1624. qu. (4) The XII Aeneids of Virgil into English deca-Syllables. Lond. 1632. oct. What other things this Presbyterian Poet hath written and translated I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying after he had spent 72 years in this vain world, about the 12. of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and two, 
1652.  was buried in the north isle of the Church of Ch. Ch. Hospital beforemention'd. Over his grave was a large stone soon after laid, with an inscription thereon, but defaced, and consumed with the Church itself, in the grand conflagration that happened in London, in the beginning of Sept. 1666. One Joh. Vicars of Magd. Coll. was admitted Bac. of Arts, Nou. 7. an. 1587. and another Joh. Vicars of Broadgates' Hall was admitted Master of that faculty in the beginning of July the same year, but both these are too soon for John Vicars the author beforemention'd, who had a Son of both his names, matriculated in this University as a member of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1631. aged 17. I have made mention of John Viccars among these writers under the year 1639.  
ARTHUR WILSON Son of Rich. Wilson of Yarmouth in Norfolk Gent. was born in that County, became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the year 1631 being then about 33 years of age, where spending more than two years, was all the Academical education that he ever received, but whether he took a degree, or was actually created M. of A. as some of his relations hath told me, it doth no where appear in the registers. During his stay in the said Coll. he was very punctual in frequenting the Chapel and Hall, and in observing all orders of the College and University. He had little skill in the Lat. tongue, less in the Greek, a good readiness in the French, and some smattering in the Dutch. He had traveled in Germany, France and Spain in the quality of a Servant to Robert Earl of Essex, and was well seen in the Mathematics and Poetry, and something in the Common Law of the Nation. He had composed some Comedies, which were acted at the Blackfriars in Lond. by the King's players, and in the Act time at Oxon, with good applause, himself being present; but whether they are printed I cannot yet tell: sure I am that I have seen several specimen of his poetry printed in divers books. His carriage was very courteous and obliging, and such as did become a well-bred Gentleman. He also had a great command of the English tongue, as well in writing as speaking, and had he bestowed his endeavours on another subject than that of History, they would have without doubt seemed better. For in those things which he hath done, are wanting the principal matters conducing to the completion of that faculty, viz. matter from record, exact time, name and place; which, by his endeavouring too much to set out his bare collections in an effected and bombastic style, are much neglected. The capacious title of these collections, is,  
The History of Great Britain, being the life and reign of K. James the first, relating to what passed from his first access to the crown, till his death. Lond. 1653. fol. In which History (which some call an infamous Pasquil) you'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies, and to underprize such as were more in the King's favour than he. The reason is, because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber, and had received an annual pension from him several years. After his death, he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick, and by him made his Steward; of whose Father, named Robert also, he maketh honourable mention in the said History; in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian vein that constantly goes throughout the whole work. And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes, do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them. Further also, our Author having endeavoured in many things to make the world believe that K. James, and his Son after him, were inclined to popery, and to bring that Religion into England, hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations. He gave way to fate at Felsted, near to Little Lighes (the seat of the Earl of Warwick) in the County of Essex, about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two, 
1652.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor, had some alterations made therein (as 'tis 
(d) See in Will. sanderson's Proem to The reign and death of K. James. printed 1656. fol.  said) by him, who shaped it according to his desire. In the year before the said Hist. was published, came out a most desperate and libellous book, full of lies, mistakes, nonsense, etc. entit. The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts: or, a short History of the rise, reign and ruin thereof. Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings (Jam. 1. and Ch. 1.) are discovered, etc. Lond. 1652. oct. written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times, named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet, the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament. Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe, etc. being highly resented by the Royalists, the Author of it therefore was condemned of great baseness and ingratitude. His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time, and therefore he being out of my road, I have no more to say of him but this, that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury, that after he had left the University, he settled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire, (in which County, I suppose, he was born) that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after, and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire, of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham. At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion, had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted, wrote a sharp Pamphlet against the King's violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament (as he calls them) by endeavouring to seize upon, and imprison five of the members thereof, 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers. At length having lived to see the Line of the Stevarts extirpated for a time, died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657.  
JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire, was born there, educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father, the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country, became a Student in this Uniu. in the fifteenth year of his age, an. 1617., took a degree in Arts, and being Masters standing, was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624., at which time showing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy, Latin and Greek Learning, was the first of five that was elected. Afterwards being made complete Fellow and Master of Arts, he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies, much advanced by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a signior Fellow of that House, who finding him a complete Master and gentile withal, was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury. At length in the year 1633, his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person, he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him. The voyage he performed not without great danger, and having satisfied himself with many curiosities, returned in 1640 to the great content of his Patron, and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge, he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University, but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which, especially that of Astronomy, his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left, that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation. But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on, the impetuous Visitors (mostly Presbyterians) who did not, or at least would not, discern between Dunces and Scholars, threw him out of his Lecture, and right to his Fellowship, (which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr. Lecture) and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour, (pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon) that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted. Among them I find these (1) That he betrayed the College in discovering to the King's Agents 400 l. in the treasury, which thereupon was taken away for the King's use. (2) That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods, without the consent of the company, and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses. (3) That he feasted the Queen's confessors, and sent divers presents to them, among which was an holy thorn, and that he was more familiar with them, than any true Protestants use to be. (4) That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament, and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place. (5) That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button (puritannical fellows) were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College, because they abode in the Parliaments quarters, etc. (6) That he gave leave to Father 
(e) A Scot by birth, and by order an Oratorian  filips the Queen's confessor, and Wyatt 
(f) Rather Veatt a French man.  one of her Chaplains, to come in the College library to study there, and that he put Mr. John French Fellow, out of his Chamber in Mert. Coll. and put them into it, etc. So that, I say, being ejected by the said Visitors, he retired to London, married and died soon after. He was a Person in great value, and much respected by learned men, particularly by Selden, who, had our Author lived, would have left to him part of his wealth, and have taken great care that Hen. Jacob and Pet. Turner should not want, but they all died before him. He hath written,  
Pyramidographia: or, a description of the pyramids in Egypt. Lond. 1646. in a large oct. Translated into French and printed in a book of travels written in that Language. Our Author Greaves found and visited these Pyramids in his travels, an. 1638. and 39, or the thousand and forty eighth year of Hegira. He went twice to Grand Cairo from Alexandria, and from thence into the Deserts; and for the greater solemnity to view them, he carried with him a Radius of ten feet most accurately divided, besides some other instruments for the farther discovery of the truth. While he was there he made the measure of the foot, observed by all nations, in one of the rooms under the said Pyramids, with his name John Gravius under it; which hath been noted by several Travellers.  
A discourse of the Roman foot, and Denarius: From whence, as from two principles, the measures and weights used by the Ancients, may be deduced. Lond. 1647. oct.  
Demonstratio ortus Syrii heliaci, pro parallelo inferioris Aegypti. Oxon. 1648. qu. published with Dr. Bainbridge his Canicularia. To which is subjoined out of Ulugh Beigh the Longitudes and Latitudes of the chiefest of the fixed Stars.  
Elementa linguae Persicae. Lond. 1649. qu. With which he published Anonymus Persa de Siglis Arabum & Persarum Astronomicis.  
The manner of hatching Chickens at Cairo— See in the Philosophical Transactions, numb. 137. p. 923. He published likewise in Arabic and Latin, Epochae celebriores, Astronomis, Historicis, Chronologiis Chaitaiorum. Syro-Graecorum, Arabum, Persarum, Chorasmiorum usitatae, ex traditione Ulugh Beigh; together with the Geographical tables of Abul Feda. Both which pieces he illustrated with his learned notes. In like manner he set forth Astronomica Shah Cholgii Persae, together with the Hypotheses of the planets: to which likewise he subjoined the Geographical Tables of Nassir Eddinus the Persian, and of Ulugh Beigh, as you may further see in the Bodleyan or Oxford Catalogue, where you'll find his publication of the Description of the Grand Signiour's Seraglio, or the Turkish Emperors Court. Lond. 1650. 53. oct. written by one Robert Withers. He also left behind him at his death, Lemmata Archimedis, apud Graecos & Latino's, è vetusta codice MS. Arabico traducta, cum Arabum Scholiis. Which coming into the hands of Sam. Foster the Mathematician, were by him reviewed and amended, and remitted into the body of the Miscellanies, or Mathematical Lucubrations of him the said Foster: Many of which were translated into English and published by the care and industry of John Twisden C. L. M. D. whereunto he hath annexed some things of his own— Lond. 1659. fol. Other things our learned Author Greaves did intend to publish, (among which was a Map or Maps of Egypt, first of all made by him) and the learned World might justly have expected them, had not death by a too hasty end of his life, put a stop to the course of his ingenious studies; which happening to the great grief of learned and virtuous men, in the month of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two, his body was, 
1652.  with the tears of many, accompanied to his grave in the Church of S. Benet Sherehog in London, as I was some years since informed by his learned Brother Dr. Tho. Greaves, whom I accidently met in London, when I was anxiously seeking after the place where his relics had been lodged. See more of our Author Joh. Greaves in Dr. John Bainbridge, whom I have mentioned among these writers, under the year 1643.  
HENRY JACOB Son of Hen. Jacob (whom I have before mentioned, under the year 1621.) by his Wife Sarah, Sister to John Dumaresque of the Isle of Jersey Gent. was born in the Dioc. of London, and in his youthful years was sent by his Relations beyond the Seas to be educated in the Principles of his Father. At length being his good fortune to be put under the tuition of the famous Thomas Erpenius, did in a short time by the help of a natural Genie, become the prodigy of his age for Philological and Oriental learning. This is that Erpenius, who went beyond all the Curiosi of his time for severe and crabbed literature; nay beyond Drusius the Belgic Critic, who would scarce give place to either of the Scaligers. For one 
(a) Nich. Fuller in Append. ad 5. & 6. lib. Miscellan. p. 183.  who knew them well saith, that Erpenius was integerrimus doctissimusque vir, Linguae Arabicae non peritior tantum quam Drusio, sed etiam multo peritissimus, etc. At two and twenty years of age or more, he came into England, and by the endeavours of Will. Bedwell (with whom the profession of Arabic then only remained) he was presented as a great rarity to that most noble and generous Count William Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of this University, who forthwith for his encouragement, sent his 
(b) In reg. Convoc. R. fol. 4. a.  Letters to the University in his behalf, that he might be created Bach. of Arts, dated 24. Nou. 1628. in which he saith, that Hen. Jacob a young Scholar had bestowed divers years in the Low Countries in the study of good literature, and had his education principally under one Erpenius a famous Scholar, especially in the Oriental language; in which learning he profited under him beyond the vulgar sort of Students, and beyond the ordinary measures of his age, etc. In compliance to which Letters, he was in January following, adorned with that degree. At the same time being commended to the patronage of Joh. Selden, Hen. Briggs, and Pet. Turner, (men much famous in their generation) our Author was by their endeavours elected Probationer-Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year following. But then, he having not so much Logic and Philosophy to carry him through the severe exercises of that Society, the Warden and Fellows tacitly assigned him Philological Lecturer. This being done, he was called away to follow Law-suites concerning his Patrimony, which being concluded, he fell into a dangerous sickness, and by the sudden loss of his Patron (Pembroke) his life was in jeopardy. Soon after that great encourager of learning Bishop Laud succeeding him in the Chancellourship of this University, a way was found out from Mert. Coll. statutes to make him Socius Grammaticalis, that is Reader of Philology to the Juniors, a place that had been disused for about an 100 years. So that being settled and made complete Fellow, he spent some time with the famous Selden, an. 1636. in composing a book which he was then publishing— ubi ad interiorem Templum (saith 
(*) In Vindic. Maris clausi. Lond. 1653. p. 53.  he) Amanuensis mihi in codice Regi tunc porrigendo operam praestitit mihi vir doctissimus Henricus Jacobus, etc. At which time, as 'tis said, he taught, or at least improved, Selden in the Hebrew Language, and added several things, which Selden finding to be very excellent, let them stand. In the same year he was created Master of Arts, but upon the turn of the times, Brent then Warden of Mert. Coll. no friend to Laud, silenced him. In the year 1641, he was upon the death of John Thimble elected superior Beadle of Divinity about the 14 of June, and in the beginning of Novemb. in the year following, he was created Bach. of Physic. But his head being always overbusy about critical notions, (which made him sometimes a little better than crazed) he neglected his duty so much, that he was suspended once, if not twice, from his place, and had his Beadles staff taken from him. At length when the Parliamentarian Visitors sat, he lost it for altogether, and the right he pretended to his Fellowship in Mert. Coll. So that being destitute of maintenance, he retired to London, where the learned Selden exhibited to him, gave him his cloaths, and an old scarlet cloak, of which last his friends would mock him, and call him Young Selden, when they saw it on his back. But he being a shiftless Person, as most mere Scholars are, and the benefactions of friends not sufficing him, he sold that little Land he had at Godmersham in Kent to supply his necessities, and died before that was spent. He wrote many things, (but he himself published nothing in his life time) a Cat. of which is this.  
Oratio inauguralis, sub aditu praelectionis Philologicae publicè habita apud Collegium Oxonio-Merton, 4. Aug. 1636.  
Graeca & Latina Poemata.  
Description of Oakey hole near Wells, an. 1632— Written in English verse.  
Annotationes in eam partem Orationis inaug. in qua (viz. p. 6.) dicitur, Oratione soluta scripsit Aristeus Proconnesius. Contained in about 5. sheets in qu. These four things beforemention'd were published at Oxon, while the Author lived, an. 1652. in qu. by his intimate friend Hen. Birkhead Fellow of Alls. Coll. To which he putting a Preface, he tells you therein, that this our Author had written and laying by him these things following.  
Etymotechnia Catholica, containing four Diatribes concerning the original of Letters. The first De ordine Alphabeti, the second De transitu Alphabeti, the third De numero, figura, potestate & divisione Literarum, and the fourth called Geographistor Etymotechnicus.  
Grammatica Ebraea. No English man before his time did ever endeavour to make one, after that way and manner which he did this.  
ΣΒΩ′, vel Osiris inventus; de coptiacis originibus commentatio.  
Geographumena. In which are many Assiriac and Egyptic antiquities discovered.  
Pancarpia, opus ex artibus & linguis miscellan. Imperfect.  
Excogitata Philosophica; nempe de nouâ ratione circa Monoptosyllogismum dialecticum, pridem semicirculariter figuratam, natalia ventorum conceptacula, etc.  
Magnetologia, in lib. 3. agentibus de triplici motu Magnetico Lapidali, Caelesti & Animali, etc. Before I go any farther the reader is to understand that this our Author Jacob being ejected in 1648 from Merton Coll. and so consequently from his Chamber, wherein he had left a trunk full of Books, as well written as printed, left Oxon, as I have before told you: And taking no care, or appointing any friend, for its security, his Chamber door before an year was expired was broke open for a new comer, who finding the trunk there, did let it remain in its place for a time. At length when no man inquired after it, as the then possessor thereof pretended, he secured it for his own use, broke it open and therein discovered a choice treasure of Books. One of them being a Ms. and fit for the press, he disguised and altered it with another stile; and at length after he had learned Hebrew and the Oriental Languages to blind the World, and had conversed openly with those most excellent in them as Pocock and Bogan of C. C. Coll. or any Grecian or Jew that came accidentally to the University, he published it under this title.  
Delphi Phoenicizantes; sive tractatus, in quo Graecos, quicquid Delphos celebre erat, etc. è Joshuae Historiae, scriptisque sacris effluxisse, rationibus haud inconcinnis ostenditur, etc. Oxon. 1655. oct. To which is added, Diatriba de No in Italiam adventu; ejusque nominibus Ethnicis, and a little tract De origine Druidum. Which three things are much commended by foreign Authors, particularly by Spizelius in his book De doctrina Senensium. The Reader is also to know farther, that Dr. Pet. Turner of Mert. Coll. being a great friend to Hen. Jacob, did borrow and peruse several of his elucubrations; in which taking great delight, because his learning did partly lie that way, did either keep the originals by him, or at least took copies of them. At length the Doctor being involved in the same fate with his friend, retired with his Books for succour to his Sister, the Widow of one▪ Wat's sometimes a Brewer in Southwark; where dying obscurely about an year before Jacob, his Papers came into the hands of his Nephew Will. Wats afterwards a Residentiary of Hereford, who having a Son of Bras. Coll. into whose possession they came, he communicated several of them to Moses Pengry Fellow of that House, (a curious Person in Philological learning) of which one was entit.  
De Mari rubro, and another De historia Beli & Draconis. Copies of which Pengry communicated to Mr. Rich. Reeves then Master of the School joining to Magd. Coll. which he hath in his possession to this day. Our Author Jacob also, did put notes to most of the printed books in his study, (which tho little, yet curious) and particularly on Solinus his Hist. of the World, with Salmasius' notes to it: Which book coming, I know not how, into the hands of H. B. he transcribed the said notes or observations, and entering them, as it seems, into another Copy of his own, deleeted those of Jacob with Aquafortis, and sold the copy itself to an Oxford Bookseller, such was his sordid avarice. There is also another Ms. of his going about, entit.  
Libri Ebraeo Rabbinici in Bib. Bodleiana recensiti, an. 1629. A copy of which I have, written by the hand of the learned Dr. Langbaine. It was the first work that Jacob performed after he was settled in Oxon, at the desire and command of his Patron Will. Earl of Pembroke, being the same books, which, the said Count a little before had obtained out of Italy from the Baroccian Library. A copy of which Cat. or else another, I have seen written under the hand of Pet. Turner for selden's use. To conclude, it must be now known that this miracle of learning (a harmless, innocent, careless and shiftless Person) who, by his studies, had brought his body into great indisposition, did some weeks before his end, retire with the advice of friends, to the City of Canterbury in the month of Sept. an. 1652, where being kindly entertained by Dr. Will. Jacob a noted Physician of that place, but of no kin to, did from, him receive a cure of a gangreen in his foot. But soon after a tumour breaking out from one of his Legs, his radical moisture did, as from a floodgate, violently run forth, 
1652.  and so ended his life on the 5 of Nou. following, about the year of his age 44. The next day the said Doctor buried him answerable to his quality, in the midst of the Parish Church of Allsaints in that City. Soon after, in a bright Moon-shining night, the resemblance of Hon. Jacob came into the bedchamber of the Doctor, who being asleep, the resemblance laid his cold hand upon his face. Whereupon the Doctor awaking, looked up and saw H. Jacob staring upon him, with his beard turned up, as he used to wear it living; whereat being strangely surprised, stirred himself, thinking that it might be a dream, but still the resemblance stood still; so that the Doctor having not courage to speak to it, turned on the other side and laid in a cold sweat. After some time, he looked again, and saw him sitting on a little table near to his bed, but before morning he vanished. Another night the Maid going out of the house, saw the said resemblance standing on a Wood-pile, and was thereupon much affrighted. These stories the Doctor did confidently aver to be true, not only to Dr. Pet. Moulin Preb. of Canterbury but to others of note; among whom, if I am not mistaken Dr. Meric Casaubon was one. They were sent to me by a second hand from Dr. Jacob, and whether true or not, you may judge, I shall not.  
NATHANIEL BRENT Son of Anchor Brent of Little Wolford in Warwickshire, a younger Son of Rich. Brent Gentleman, eldest Son of John Brent of the House of Brent of Cosington in Sommersetshire, was born at Little Wolford beforemention'd, became Portionist, commonly called Postmaster, of Merton Coll, in 1589, admitted Probationer-Fellow of the said Coll. in 94. being then Bach. of Arts, proceeded in that faculty four years after, entered himself on the Law Line, became Proctor of the University in 1607, traveled into several parts of the learned World in 1613. 14. etc. and underwent dangerous adventures in Italy to procure the History of the Council of Trent, which he translated into English, as I shall anon tell you; and therefore to be remembered by posterity with an honourable mention. After his return he married Martha Dau. and Heir of Dr. Rob. Abbot Bish. of Salisbury, and niece to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury; by the favour of which last, he had the Wardenship of Merton Coll. conferred on him, was made Commissary to him, Vicar general of England, being then Doctor of the Civ. Law, and at length judge of the Prerogative on the death of Sir Henry Marten by another hand. In 1629, Aug. 23, he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Woodstock, he being then and after accounted a zealous man for the Church and Prelacy. But when he saw the Presbyterians begin to be dominant, he sided with them, and because of a Pique that had been between the Abbots and Bishop Laud, he therefore became a frequent witness against the last at his trial, deserted Oxon and his College, when K. Ch. 1. garrisoned that place for his use, took the Covenant, and ran altogether with the rebellious rout. About the same time he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. by his Majesty's command, but restored again when Oxford Garrison was surrendered for the Parliaments use, an. 1646. In the years 1647. and 48. he was appointed Arch-visitor of this University, and what he did there to promote the Presbyterian cause, the Hist. and Antiq. of the Uniu. of Oxon. will tell you under those years. When an order was made against pluralities, he was forced to leave Mert. Coll. in 1650, at which time, if I mistake not, he refused also the oath called the Engagement. He translated into English, as I have intimated before, The History of the Council of Trent, containing eight books. In which (besides the ordinary Acts of Council) are declared many notable occurrences, which happened in Christendom, during the space of 40 years and more, etc. Lond. 1616. there again 1619. 1677. fol. Sir Nath. Brent did also review Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae, examine the quotations, and compare them with the originals, as I have told you before, in Fr. Mason, under the year 1621.: And what else he hath translated and written, is yet (if any) in Ms. At length after he had lived 79 years, he gave way to fate in his house in Little Britain in the City of London, on the sixth day of November in sixteen hundred fifty and two. 
1652.  Whereupon his body was buried with great solemnity on the 17. of the same month in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew within the said City. I have seen a printed Epitaph made on him by John Sictor a Bohemian Exile, who, if I mistake not, had for some time before been exhibited to by Brent: The contents of which being large, I shall now for brevity sake pass by. I find one William Brent a writer, whose Great Grandfather William Brent of Stoke-lark in Glocestershire, was younger Brother to Richard Brent, Grandfather to Sir Nathaniel. Of which William Brent the Writer, I shall make some mention in Hen. Carey Earl of Monmouth, under the year 1661.  
CHRISTOPHER ELDERFIELD son of Will. Elderf. by Margaret his Wife, was born at Harwell near to Wantage in Berks, baptised there on the eleventh of Apr. 1607, educated in School learning under Hugh Lloyd M. A. of Oxon, Vicar of Harwell and sometimes Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor, which Hugh built a considerable part of the Vicaridge-house standing near the Churchyard, and was buried in the Chancel of Harwell on the 17 of May 1654. As for our Author Elderfield he was entered a Batler in S. Mary's Hall in Mich. term 1621., and being naturally inclined to good letters, made great proficiency in them, took the degrees in Arts, entered into Orders, and through several petit Employments became Chaplain to Sir Will. Goring Baronet, and Rector of a depopulated Town near to Petworth in Sussex, called Burton, having then only the House of the said Goring standing there. In the said House he spent his time in great retiredness, and wrote these books following, which show him to have been well read in the Civil, Canon and Common Law, in School Divinity and other profound matters.  
The civil right of Tithes, etc. Lond. 1650. qu.  
Of Regeneration and Baptism. Lond. 1654. qu. The Author of these was a man of a single life, only wedded to his book, and so had only a spiritual issue to keep up his name. He was left both Father and Mother to the two said elaborate Treatises, and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger (though more spiritual) manchild, did cost him his life. They are, and have been, both taken into the hands of learned men, and by them often quoted. The Author is styled by the head 
(*) Rich. Baxter in his First part of the Nonconformists Plea for Peace, etc. Lond. 1679. in oct. p. 205.  of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist, and by others of moderate persuasion a most profound Clerk. He died at Burton, (commonly called Burton place) before mentioned, on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two, and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church, 
1652.  (which Sir Will Goring denied, because he left him not those Legacies he expected) but in the body under the Readers seat. Over his grave, though there be no monument, (with inscription on it) which the Testator desired, yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mentioned, is fastened a Tablet of Freestone, with this written on it, which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better. Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish, gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds, with two hundred fourscore and four pounds, whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton, as is worth twenty pounds per an. And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue (according to a Decree in his Majesty's Court of Chancery) remain in the hands of the Churchwardens and other Officers of Hagborne: the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity, bounty or piety, for the good of this Parish. But he expressly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes, or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence, particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widows burdened with many children, toward their sustentation. He died Decemb. 2. an. dom. 1652.— Thus far the inscription. He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people, bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalms, the History of Tobit in Hebrew, with Rodolphus his postils bound up with Lyra, Clemens Romanus, with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it. He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times, meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings.  
JOHN DIGBY was born of an ancient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire, in the month of Febr. 1580, became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595, and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight. Afterwards he traveled into France and Italy, and returned a well-qualified Gentleman. So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James, he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and one of his Majesty's Carvers, in the year 1605, being then newly created Master of Arts of this University. On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honour of Knighthood, and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain, as he was afterwards again in 1614 In the beginning of January (about the third day) 1615, Sir Franc. Cottington was 
(a) Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1616.  sent into Spain to call him home, and about the middle of March following he returned into England. On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was 
(b) Ibid.  admitted one of the King's Privy Council, and Vicechamberlain of his Majesty's Household in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope, who was persuaded by the King's Letters to give up that Office. In July 1617. he was sent again into Spain, and the next year upon his return, he was 
(c) Baronage of England, tom. 3. p. 437. a.  advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nou. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire. In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert, and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor; as also to the Duke of Bavaria. Whence returning in Octob. 1621., he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles (who followed him in few months after) and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm; and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristol. After his return he showed himself right able to appear before the English Parliament, where he worsted the greatest Minion (Buckingham) the Folly, Love, or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation. As thro' a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James, so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time, though they drove on, if not contrary, divers designs. From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament, we find no great matter of him, when then he being found guilty of concealing, some say of promoting, a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent, which was to be delivered to the Parliament, he with Thomas Mallet, were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took, he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause, for which at length he suffered Exile, and the loss of his Estate. He hath extant these things following.  
Several Speeches, as (1) Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spoke another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges. (2) Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament. Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh. Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords, he thereupon spoke (3) Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former, and of accommodation. Lond. 1642. in 1 sh. in qu. Repr. at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. (4) Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War. Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight, and was reprinted at Lond. the same year. Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by.  
A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion, Oaths, Laws, Loyalty and Gratitude, which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England.  
Tract wherein he vindicateth his honour and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure, of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes.— These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apology.  
Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract (meaning his Motives and ties of Religion) with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited— The said two Tracts with the Appendix were printed together, with the two Speeches before mentioned of an accommodation, at Caen in the year 1647. in a thin fol. reprinted 1656. qu.  
Answer to the Declaration of the H. of Commons of the eleventh of Febr. 1647, in which they express the Reasons for their Resolution of making no more Addresses or receiving any from his Majesty— Printed (at Caen) 1648. qu. Dedicated to his good Countrymen of England and Fellow-subjects of Scotland and Ireland. After this Answer was printed, it came into the mind of our Author the Earl of Bristol, to make some additions thereunto, as well to the Preface as Work itself. Which being so done, they were not printed, only reserved in MS, being larger than the Answer itself, as a copy 
(d) In the hands of Hastang Ingram of Little Wolford in Warwicksh. Gent. sometimes Servant to the said Earl of Bristol.  of them, which I have perused, show. Besides these things he hath (1) Several Letters in the book called Cabala, Mysteries of State, etc. Lond. 1654. quart. (2) Several Letters in the Cabala, or Scrinia sacra. Lond. 1663. fol. and also hath translated from French into English Pet. du Moulins book Concerning the Protestants Faith, which he published in the name of Joh. Sanford his Chaplain. He hath also several scattered Copies of English Verses flying abroad; to one of which, is an Air of 3 Voices set by the incomparable Hen. Laws, in his Airs and Dialogues, etc. Lond. 1653. fol. This great Count yielded to Nature at Paris on Friday the 21 of January in sixteen hundred fifty and two, 
1652/3.  and was buried there, in a piece of ground (then, or before, a Cabbage Garden, as 'tis said) which Sir Rich. Brown Clerk of the Council had a little before bought to bury the bodies of Protestants that die in or near that City. A scurrilous 
(e) March. Nedham in his Merc. politic. numb. 137. p. 2180.  Writer saith, that He was buried in a mean Churchyard, with little solemnity, not one Lord appearing at his funeral, nor any other person of quality, except his second Son Mr. Joh. Digby, and a certain Knight. His eldest the Lord George Digby absented himself, though he was in town, and not only so, but 'tis said he forbore inviting any to save funeral expenses: which being talked abroad, hath much craked his Reputation, because he is observed lavish enough upon other occasions, etc. But let the truth of these things remain with the Author, while I proceed to speak of other matters. This Earl left behind him his eldest son named George, whom I shall at large mention elsewhere, and another son named John born in London, entered a Nobleman into Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 16, sided with the King in the beginning of the Civil War, an. 1642, and being esteemed a valiant and good man, was made General of the Horse in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton. When the King's Cause declined, he went into France, and sometimes followed the Court of K. Ch. 2. but getting nothing thence, he lived very obscurely, and came into England in 1654., where continuing for a time among the afflicted Royalists, retired afterwards to Pontoise in France, entered himself among the Religious there, became a secular Priest, and said Mass daily there to the English Nuns, in which condition he was living there after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. as I have been informed by a Servant who then belonged to Walter Montague Abbot of Pontoise.  
ROBERT MEAD, Son of Rob. Mead a Stationer, was born at the Black Lion in Fleetstreet, London, elected Student of Ch. Church from Westminster School, in the year 1634, and that of his age 18, took the degrees in Arts, bore Arms for his Maj. in the Garrison of Oxon, and at length was made a Captain. In May 1646 he was appointed by the Governor thereof one of the Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces then besieging Oxon, for the surrender thereof; and in June following he was actually created Doctor of Physic. In 1648 he was deprived of all right he had to his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament; so that going into France, he was employed by our exiled King, as an Agent into Sweedland. Afterwards he returned into England, took up his Quarters in the house of his Father, where being overtaken by a malignant fever, died soon after. He was, though little, a stout and learned man, and excellent in the faculty of Poetry and making Plays. His eminent and general Abilities were also such, that they have left him a character precious and honourable to our Nation. He hath written,  
The Combat of Love and Friendship, a Comedy. Lond. 1654. qu. formerly presented by the Gentlemen of Ch. Ch. in this University. He is also said by one or more Writers to have been the Author of,  
The costly Whore, a Com.— But whether true I cannot justly say, because a late 
(*) Gerard Langbaine, in his Account of the Engl. Dramatic Poets, p. 366.  Author (very knowing in such matters) doubts it. This worthy person Captain Mead, who hath also written several Poems, some of which are occasionally printed in the books of other Authors, died in his Father's house before mentioned on the 21 of Feb. or thereabouts, 
1652/3.  in sixteen hundred fifty and two, and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstan's in the West in Fleetstreet, on the 23 of the same month, being then Ash-wednesday.  
RICHARD JONES son of John Pew of Hentllan in Denbighshire, was born in that County, entered a Student in Jesus Coll. in the year 1621., and in that of his age 18 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, and was afterwards a Preacher. This is the person that wrote a book in his own Country Language, containing with admirable brevity all the Books and Chapters of the Bible. This book is called  
Gemma Cambricum, etc. Oxon. 1652.— Before which Jam. Howell hath a short Epistle in commendation of it. The Author died in Ireland (but when 'tis not known) as I have been informed by Dr. Mich. Roberts sometimes Principal of Jesus College. 
Clar. 1652.   
RICHARD PARR a Lancashire man born, was entered a Student in Brasn. Coll. on the 2 of Sept. 1609, aged 17, elected Fellow thereof in 1614, being then Bac. of Arts: Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty, he entered into the sacred Function and became a frequent Preacher in these parts. In 1624. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and two years after became Rector of Ladbrook in Warwickshire. But giving that place up two years after, upon the obtaining of the rich Parsonage of Eccleston (where, as they say, he was born) did proceed Doctor of his Faculty in 1634, and about an year after became Bishop of the Isle of Man, in the place of Will. Forster deceased. He was a person very painful in reading the Arts to young Scholars, while he was of Brasn. Coll, and afterwards having a Cure of Souls, he was no less industrious in the Ministry, especially after he was made a Bishop. He hath written and published,  
Concio ad clerum habita Oxoniae in Comitiis, 12 July 1625, in Apocal. 3.4. Oxon 1628. oct.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The end of the perfect man, a Sermon at the burial of Sir Robert Spencer Knight, Baron of Wormleighton 6 Nou. 1627., in Braynton Church in Northamptonshire, on Psal. 37. ver. 37. Oxon 1628. qu. and one or two more, which I have not yet seen. This person, who was a Sufferer for the Royal Cause during the time of the Rebellion, was living in Lancastire, as I have been informed thence, in the time of Usurpation; but when he died I cannot yet tell. One Rich. Parr was of Exeter Coll, and afterwards a Writer, 
Clar. 1652.  and is now (an. 1690.) living. One Elnathan Parr also was an eminent Divine in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. as his Works show, but he was not of Oxon, but of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, was Bach. of Divinity and Rector of Palgrave in Suffolk.  
WILLIAM LYFORD son of Will. Lyf. Rector of Peysmere near to Newbury in Berks. was born there, (to the poor of which place he was an especial benefactor at the time of his death) became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1614, aged 16 or thereabouts, Demie of Magd. Coll. 1617., and perpetual Fellow five years after, he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he took holy Orders and exercised his Function for some time in, and near, Oxford. In 1631 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and about that time became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire by the favour of John Earl of Bristol, where he was much resorted to for his edifying and practical way of preaching. At length the Civil War breaking forth and the Presbyterians carrying all before, he sided with, them, was made one of the Assembly of Divines, but sat not among them. He hath written and published several theological Tracts, which savour much of great Piety, Zeal, and sincerity to Religion, but withal they show him to have been a zealous Calvinist. The Titles are these.  
Principles of Faith and good Conscience; digested into a catechistical form. Lond. 1642. Oxon. 1652. in oct. etc.  
An Apology for our public Ministry and Infant-baptism. Lond. 1652. 53. etc. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The translation of a Sinner from death to life, by the free grace of God, Serm. at S. Mary's in Oxon, on Tit. 3.5. Oxon. 1648. qu. (2) Serm. on Dan. 3. from ver. 14. to 18. Lond. 1654. qu. (3) Serm. on 2 Cor. 2.15.16. Lond. 1654. qu. (4) Serm. on Heb. 5.13.14. Lond. 1655. qu. One of these last two, if I am not mistaken, is intit. The matching of the Magistrates Authority and the Christians true liberty in matters of Religion.  
Plain man's Senses exercised to discern both good or evil: or, a discovery of the Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies of these times, etc. Lond. 1655. qu.  
His Legacy: or, an help for young people to prepare them for the Sacrament. Lond. 1656. 58 oct.  
Cases of Conscience propounded in the time of Rebellion, resolved. Lond. 1661. oct.  
Conscience informed touching our late Thanksgivings, in a plain and modest discourse. Lond. 1661. This I have not yet seen, and therefore cannot tell you in what Vol. 'twas printed. At length this person, who was of great Modesty and Virtues, being tormented with a painful and sharp disease, by the Witchcraft, as 'tis said, of certain Quakers, surrendered up his pious soul to God, on the third day of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and three, 
1653.  and was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church at Shirebourne before mentioned. By his last Will and Test. he bequeathed to Magd. Coll. 120 l. towards the maintenance of a godly poor Scholar thereof, in way of restitution for a sum of money, which, according to a corrupt custom of his time, he did receive for the resignation of his Fellowship of that College. You may see more of him, his holy life and conversation, in some Memorials of him delivered, after his funeral sermon, by W. H. D. of D. prefixed to The plain man's senses exercised, etc. before mentioned.  
FRANCIS HOLYOKE who writes himself the sacrâ Quercu, was born at Nether Whitacre in Warwickshire, applied his mind to Academical Learning in this University, in the year 1582, or thereabouts, particularly in Queens Coll. as his son Thomas hath informed me; but whether he took a degree, it appears not. Sure I am, that after he had taught School partly here, but mostly in his own Country, was made Rector of Southam there, in Feb. 1604. And being esteemed a grave and learned person, was elected a Member of the Convocation of the Clergy 1 Car. 1. He hath written and published,  
Sermon of Obedience, especially unto Authority Ecclesiastical, etc. on Heb. 13.17. preached at a Visitation of Dr. Will. Hinton Archd. of Coventry. Oxon. 1610. quart.  
Dictionarium Etymologicum, part 2. Rider's Dictionary corrected and augmented. Wherein Riders Index is translated into a Dictionary Etymological, deriving every word from his native fountain, etc. Lond. 1606. etc. in a thick quarto. See more in John Rider, under the year 1632. p. 495. This Dictionary was afterwards published several times with the addition of many hundred words out of the Law, and out of the Latin, French, and other Languages, etc. This our Author concluded his last day on the 13 of Nou. in sixteen hundred fifty and three, 
1653.  and in that of his age 87, and was buried in S. Mary's Church in Warwick, having suffered much for the King's Cause during the time of the grand Rebellion, which began in 1642. He left behind him a son named Thomas, whom I shall mention in his proper place.  
GEORGE SING son of Rich. Sing alias Millington, was born of gentile Parents at Bridgnorth in Shropshire, became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1609, aged 15 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1616, and afterwards became Chaplain, as it seems, to Dr. Christop. Hampton Archb. of Armagh, who not only made him his Vicar general, but Dean of Dromore. In 1638, Nou. 11. he was 
(*) Jac. Waraeus in Com. de Praesul. Hibern. p. 219.  consecrated at Tredagh Bishop of Cloyne, and soon after was made one of the King's Privy Council in Ireland; but upon the breaking out of the Rebellion there in 1641, he was forced to fly to Dublin for a time for his own security. At length upon the death of Dr. Joh. Maxwell in Feb. 1646, he was, as 'tis said, nominated to succeed him in the Archbishopric of Tuam. The next year he went into England, and settling at his native place, died in few years after, as I shall anon tell you. He was a learned man, especially in Polemical Divinity, the Civil and Canon Law, and hath written,  
A rejoinder to the Reply of Will. Malone Jesuit against Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland. Dubl. 1632. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen. He concluded his last day at Bridgnorth before mentioned, in Winter time, (before the month of Jan.) in sixteen hundred fifty and three, 
1653.  and was buried in the Church of S. Mary Magdalen there. He had a younger Brother named Edward, born at Bridgnorth also, and afterwards was Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in the said Kingdom of Ireland; who, if I mistake not, had received some of his Education in this University.  
WILLIAM STAMP son of Tim. St. of Br●wern-Abbey near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire Gent. was born in that County, entered a Student in Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of the year 1626., and in that of his age 16. Afterwards being made Fellow of that House, he proceeded in Arts, entered into holy Orders, and exercised his Function in S Aldates Church joining to his Coll. in 1637. Some time before the Rebellion broke out he was made Vicar of Stepney near London, where he was much resorted to by persons of orthodox principles for his edifying way of preaching. But when the restless Presbyterians had brought all things into confusion, he was violently thrust out, imprisoned, plundered, and at length forced to get away and fly for the safety of his life. At that time Oxford being the chief place of refuge for men of his condition, he made shift to get there about the beginning of 1643, and his case being made known to the King then there, this Order 
(a) In Reg. Convoc. S. p. 35.  following was written by Lord Falkland his Secretary to the Vicechancellor of the University, that he have the degree of Doctor of Diu. conferred on him. The King's Majesty taking into his princely consideration the great Sufferings of Mr. Will. Stamp, who hath not only undergone a long and hard Imprisonment of 34 weeks, but also is now outed of a very good Living, and all this for preaching Loyalty and Obedience to a disaffected Congregation to the extreme hazard of his life. His Majesty being willing to repair these his Sufferings, and to encourage his known Abilities (for which by special favour and grace, he is sworn Chaplain to his dearest son the Prince) hath commanded me to signify to you, that you forthwith confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, etc. In obedience to which order he was actually created Doctor of that Faculty in July the same year. Afterwards upon the declining of the King and his Party, he followed the Prince beyond the seas, was afterwards made Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia, and became a frequent Preacher among the Protestants at Charenton near to Paris, and a zealous Assertor of the English Liturgy. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) Serm. preached before his Maj. at Ch. Ch. in Oxford 28 Apr. 1643, on Isa. 59.1.2. Oxon. 1643. qu. (2) Spiritual Infatuation, delivered in several Sermons on Isa. 6.9. etc. printed at the Hague 1650. in oct.  
Vindication of the Liturgy of the Church of Engl.— Whether printed I know not. He died of a fever at the Hague in Holland, about sixteen hundred fifty and three, and was buried in the Church of Loesdune near that Town or City, 
1653.  as I have been informed by the most rev. and learned Dr. Morley late Bishop of Winchester. In the said Church at Loesdune is a Basin, wherein according to the vulgar tradition, were baptised as many Children as there be days in the year, born at one birth of the body of Margaret Countess of Hennenberg.  
LANCELOT DAWES was born at Barton-Kirk in Westmoreland, became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1597, aged 17, and two years after being made a poor serving child, was, when Bach. of Arts standing, made Tabarder, and in the year 1605 M. of Arts and Fellow. While he continued there, he became, by a studious retiredness, and a severe discipline, a singular Ornament of that House. But being thence called to the pastoral charge of that place, which first welcomed him into the world, he was quickly taken notice of, as worthy of a more eminent station in the Church, that is a Prebendship in the Cath. Church of Carlisle; to which he was accordingly preferred to the general liking of all the knowing and pious Divines in his Diocese, with whom, for a comprehensive and orthodox judgement, adorned with all variety of learning, he was ever held in great estimation. About that time he was made Doctor of Diu. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland and Rector of Ashby in his own County. His works are these.  
Sermons preached upon several occasions. Lond. 1653. qu. divided into two parts. The first containeth six Sermons under this general title, God's mercies and Jerusalem's miseries The first is on Jer. 5.1. etc. In this first part are contained Two Sermons preached at the Assize holden at Carlisle, touching sundry corruptions of these times. Oxon. 1614 oct. The first is on Math. 26.15. the other on Psal. 82.6.7. The second part containeth six more Sermons under this tit. The healing of the plague of the heart. The first is on Luke 12.32. etc. Before this last part Tho. Tully M. A. of Queens Coll. hath an Epist. to the Reader in commendation of them. This Dr. Dawes who had submitted to the men in Authority during the time of Rebellion, died in the month of Febr. as it seems, in sixteen hundred fifty and three, and was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel belonging to the Church at Barton Kirk before mentioned. 
1653/4.  Over his grave was afterwards a plain stone laid, with an Inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said that he was Pastor of the said Church 48 years, and that he died in March 1654. Which last is false, for in the Will Office near S. Paul's Cathedral I find that Letters of Administration were issued out to William his Brother, dated the eleventh of March 1653, whereby he was impower'd to administer the Goods, Debts, Chattels of him the said Lanc. Dawes lately deceased. Besides his Epitaph were made three copies of Verses, viz. one in Greek by the said Tho. Tully, another in Lat. and the third in English by Joseph Williamson and Clem. Ellis Bachelaurs of Arts of Qu. Coll. All which being fairly transcribed, were put in a frame and fastened to the Wall over the grave of the Defunct; near whom, was his son of both his names buried 18 May 1655.  
EDMUND CHILMEAD was born at Stow on the Would in Glocestershire, became one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625, and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1632, and not long after was made one of the petty Canons or Chaplains of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Whence being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, he was forced, such were the then times, to obtain a living by that, which before was only a diversion to him, I mean by a weekly music meeting, which he set up at the Black Horse in Aldersgat●street in London. He was a choice Mathematician, a noted Critic, and one that understood several Tongues, especially the Greek, very well. He hath written,  
De musicâ antiquâ Graecâ. Published at Oxon, at the end of Oxford Edition of Aratus, an. 1672. oct.  
Annotationes in Odas Dionysii. Printed also there, in the same Edition. He had likewise translated the aforesaid Odes into Lat. but that urrsion is omitted.  
Versio Latina & annotationes in Joh. Malalae Chronographiam. Oxon. 1091. oct. See in the Prolegomena to that Author, written by Humph. Hody Bac. of Diu. and Fellow of Wadh. Coll. §. 42. He hath written also a little thing  
De sonis, which, I presume, is yet in MS, as also,  
Catalogus Manuscriptorum Graecorum in Bib. Bod. pro ratione Auctorum alphabeticus, an. 1636. MS. in Bodleys' Library, of great use to curious and critical Students. He hath translated from French into English (1) A Treatise of the Essence, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and cure of Love, or Erotique Melancholy. Oxon. 1640. oct. Written by Jam. Ferrand Doctor of Phys. (2) Unheard of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians. Lond. 1650. in a large oct. Written by Jam. Gafferel. Also from Lat. into English (1) Discourse touching the Spanish Monarchy. Lond. 1654. qu. Written by Tho. Campanella. Which Translation laying dead on the Booksellers hands, Will. Prynne of Linc. Inn wrote an Epist. and caused this Title to be printed and put before the remaining copies, Thomas Campanella a Spanish Friar his advice to the King of Spain for the obtaining of the universal Monarchy of the World. Lond. 1659. qu. (2) Treatise of the Globes. Lond. 1639 and 59 oct. Written by Rob. Hues; and lastly from Ital. into English, The History of the rites, customs, and manner of life of the present Jews throughout the world. Lond. 1650. oct. Written by Leo Modena a Rabbin of Venice. At length this curious person resigning up his last breath in the prime of his years on the 19 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and three, 
165●/4.  was buried in S. botolph's Church without Aldersgate in London, having before, (with Joh. Gregory another Critic) received relief in his necessities from Edw. bish Esq. then K. of Arms by the Parliaments Authority, and also assisted Sir Hen. Holbroke Kt. (by whom he had been exhibited to) in his Translation of Procopius of Caesarea his History of the Wars of the Emperor Justinian, in 8 books, etc. Lond. 1653. fol. by exactly comparing the English with the Greek, as it was written by David Hoeschelius, who had it out of the Duke of Bavaria's library.  
GEORGE JOLLIFF or Joyliff, son of Joh. Jol. Gent. was born at East-Stower in Dorsetshire, entered a Commoner in Wadham Coll. in Lent Term, an 1636/7, but before he had spent two years there, he retired to Pembr. Coll. and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1643, being about that time a Lieutenant for the King under Ralph Lord Hopton. Afterwards he entered on the Physic line, and exercising himself much in Anatomy with the help of Dr. Clayton Master of his Coll. and the Kings Prof. of Physic, he made some discovery of that fourth sort of Vessels, plainly differing from veins, arteries, and nerves, now called the Lymphducts. Afterwards he went to Clare Hall in Cambridge, took the degree of Doctor of Physic there, and afterwards made a full and open discovery of the said Vasa Lymphatica in Anatomy Lectures in the Coll of Physicians, about the year 1653, 
Clar. 1653.  got to himself a great name, and was for a time much retired to for his knowledge in Physic. He lived mostly at Garlic hithe in London, and dying before the immortal Harvey, not without some perturbation of spirit, as having been bound for the debts of his Brother, was buried in the Church of S. James Garlick hithe, about 1655.  
CUTHBERT SYDENHAM son of Cuthb. Syd. Gent. was born at Truro in Cornwall, became a Commoner of S. Alban Hall in Lent term 1639, aged 17, continued there till the City of Oxford was garrisoned for the King; at which time being entertained by some of the godly party, became a forward Zealot among them. About the year 1644 he became Lecturer of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, without any orders, unless those of the Presbytery, conferred upon him; where, by his constant and confident preaching, he obtained more respect from the Brethren than any grave or venerable Minister in that, or another Corporation, could do. In the latter end of 1650 he was actually created Master of Arts, by virtue of 
(*) In reg. Convoc. T. p. 131.  Letters sent to the Members of Convocation from the Committee of Parliament for regulating the University of Oxon, which partly say, that he (Mr. Cuth. Sydenham) hath long since full time for taking the degree of Master of Arts, and is likewise of sufficient abilities in learning, whereof he hath given large and public evidence, both by his Writings in asserting the cause of the Parliament, and otherwise.— That though he cannot for his pressing occasions perform his Exercises for that degree, yet he hath performed some part of them before the Enemies possessing Oxon, etc. Among several of his Writings, only these following, as yet, have come to my hands, viz.  
The false Brother: or, the Map of Scotland, drawn by an English Pencil.— Printed in quar.  
Anatomy of Joh. Lilbourn's Spirit and Pamphlets: or, a Vindication of the two honourable Patriots, Oliver Cromwell Lord Governor of Ireland and Sir Arth. Haselrigg Knight and Baronet: wherein the said Lilbourn is demonstratively proved to be a common liar, and unworthy of civil converse.— Printed in qu. This Joh. Lilbourn being several times occasionally mentioned in this work, I shall be more large of him by and by.  
A Christian, Sober and plain exercitation of the two grand practical controversies of these times, Infant-baptisme and singing of Psalms. Lond. 1653. in tw. Answered by Will. Kaye Minister of Stokesley in his book called Baptism without basin, etc. Lond. 1653. qu. and by others.  
The greatness of the Mystery of godliness, opened in several Sermons. Lond. 1654. 56. and 1672. in oct. and tw. Which book is the sum of ten Sermons on 1. Tim. 3.16. and hath before the second Edition of it the Author's picture, with this written under it, Aet. 31. 1654.  
Hypocrisy discovered in its nature and workings, being the sum of seven Sermons on Luke 12. latter end of the first verse. Lond. 1654. oct. with his picture before it in a cloak. Printed there again in 1657. and 71. oct. This book was published by T. W. one of his persuasion, who in his pref. to it saith that, Cuthb. Sydenham was trained up under religious education from his Childhood, which made him often profess his jealousy of professors, especially such who had the advantage of a godly education through the many experiences and deceits of their own hearts— That he was extreme painful even to the visible wasting of his own bodily strength in the work of the Ministry, and his great care over his flock, etc. The said Sermons were taken from his mouth in short hand by the said T. W. who published them without any alteration. At length our Author retiring to London to gain health, and to print some of his books, took up his Lodging in Axe-yard joining to Kingstreet within the City of Westminster, where he died in the very beginning of the year (about 25 of March) sixteen hundred fifty and four, but where he was buried, 
1654.  I cannot tell; for the register of S. Margaret's Church, wherein Axe-yard is situated, mentions him not to have been buried in that Parish. Now as for John Lilbourne beforementioned, he having been very famous for his infamy, I shall say these things of him. He was born of a good Family at Thickley-Punchardon in the County Pal. of Durham, and when very young was sent to London, and bound an Apprentice to a packer of Cloth in S. Swithins-lane. At which time and before, he was esteemed a youth of an high and undaunted spirit, of a quick and pregnant apprehension, and of an excellent memory, yet, always after, much addicted to contention, novelties, opposition of Government and to violent and bitter expressions. About the year 1632, he, upon the dislike of his trade, had a mind to study the common Law, and therefore upon his, and the desire of his friends, he was taken into the service of Mr. Will▪ Prynne of Linc. Inn; who shortly after suffering for his Histriomastix, (as I shall tell you at large when I come to him) his Servant Lilbourne took his Master's part, imprinted and vended a book or books against the Bishops; for which being committed Prisoner to the Fleet, was afterwards whipped at a Cart's tail from the said Fleet to Westminster; the indignity of which he being not able to endure, railed all the way against his Persecutors. When he came to the Palace yard, he stood in the Pillory two hours, and talking there to the People against the State, was gagged. In 1640, he was released from his Prison by the Members of the Long Parliament, and soon after took upon him the place of a Captain in their Service; and after the battle of Edghill being taken Prisoner at Brainford in the year 1642, was carried to Oxon, and there arraigned for a Traitor for levying War against the Person of the King. Afterwards he being released, he was made a Lieutenant Colonel, and became for a time the Idol of the factious party. But he being naturally a great trouble-world in all the variety of Governments, became a hodg-podg of Religion, the chief ringleader of the Levellers, a great proposal maker, and modeller of state, and publisher of several seditious Pamphlets; among which were (1) A Salva Libertate (2) Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell, and his Son in Law Hen. Ireton Esq (3) The outcry of the young men and the Apprentices of Lond. or, an inquisition after the loss of the fundamental Laws and Liberties of England, etc. (4) The legal fundamental Liberties of the People of England revived. (5) Preparation to an hue and cry after Sir Arth. Haselrig, etc. For which, and for his endeavours to disturb the peace and subvert the Government of this Nation, he was committed Prisoner to Newgate in Aug. 1645, where continuing a considerable while, several Petitions subscribed by hundreds of Citizens and others, as also by his Wife and many Women, were put up to the Parliament for his releasement. Afterwards he was transmitted to the Tower, where having too much liberty allowed him, he and his party spoke very disgracefully of the two Houses of Parliament, to whom it appeared that there was a design of many thousands intended, under a colour of Petition, to dishonour the Parliament and their proceedings; whereupon his liberty was restrained, and he was ordered to appear at the bar of the H. of Commons. This was in Jan. 1647, and accordingly appearing he made a large answer to the information against him; at which time the reading of proofs and examination of the business held till six of the Clock at night, and then the House ordered that he be remanded to the Tower, and tried by the Law of the Land, for seditious and scandalous practices against the State. Which order being not obeyed, for his party withheld him, under a pretence of a great meeting to be at Deptford in Kent about their Petition, that is, The Petition of many thousands of the freeborn People of England, etc. it was ordered that the Officers of the Guards do assist the Sergeant in carrying him and Maj. Jo. Wildman to Prison, (which was done) and that the Committee of Kent take care to suppress all meetings upon that Petition, and to prevent all tumults, and that the Militia of London, etc. take care to suppress such meetings, and to prevent inconveniencies which may arise thereby and upon the said Petition. Afterwards he seems to have been not only set at liberty, but to have had reparations made for his sentence in the Star Chamber and sufferings before the Civil War began. But he being of a restless spirit, as I have told you, published a Pamphlet entit. England's 
(*) 'Twas divided in two parts, the first was published in 1648, and the other which contains but one sheet, in 1648.  new Chains discovered, etc. which was the bottom and foundation of the Levellers design, of whom he was the Corypheus': Whereupon being committed again about the beginning of 1649, was brought to his trial in the Guild-hall, where after great plead to and fro, he was quitted by his Jury, to the great rejoicing of his party. Afterwards he went into the Netherlands, and there, as 'tis said, became acquainted with the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Hopton, Captain Titus, etc. At length being desirous to see his native Country, he returned into England, where after he had continued some time in his projects to disturb the Government, he was apprehended and committed to Newgate, and at length brought to his trial at the Sessions-house in the Old Bailiff, 20. Aug. 1653. but quitted again by his Jury. Soon after he was conducted to Portsmouth in order to his conveyance beyond the Seas, but by putting in for his peaceable deportment for the future, he returned, fell into the acquaintance of the Quakers, became one of them, settled at Eltham in Kent, where sometimes he preached, and at other times at Wollidge, and was in great esteem among that party. At length departing this mortal life at Eltham on Saturday 29. of Aug. 1657, his body was two days after conveyed to the house called The Mouth near Aldersgate in London, which was then the usual meeting place of Quakers: Whence, after a great controversy among a strange medley of People there, (mostly Quakers) whether the Ceremony of a Hearse-cloth should be cast over his Coffin, (which was carried in the negative) it was conveyed to the then new burial place in morefield's near to the place called now Old Bedlam, where it was interred. This is the Person of whom the magnanimous Judge Jenkins used to say, that if the World was emptied of all but John Lilbourne, Lilbourne would quarrel with John, and John with Lilbourne. This Jo. Lilbourne who was second Son of Rich. Lilbourne Esq by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of Thom. Hixon of Greenwich in the County of Kent, Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Qu. Elizabeth, had an elder Brother called Robert, who being puritanically educated, sided with the rout against his Majesty in the beginning of the rebellion, and being thoroughpaced to oliver's interest, was by him advanced to be a Colonel of Horse, sometime before the Murder of K. Ch. 1. and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility than to requite him with having a hand in it. Afterwards he was made Major General of the North of England, and Commander in chief of all the Parliament Forces in Scotland. After his Majesty's restauration, he surrendered himself upon Proclamation, was attainted and committed Prisoner during life. But his Father being then living, the Estate at Thickley devolved upon the said Robert's Children, begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret, only Daughter of Hen. Beke of Hadenham in Bucks Gent. viz. (1) Robert, born an. 1650 (2) Richard born 1652 (3) Ephraim born about 1662.; etc. all which were living in 1688. This Col. Lilbourne spent the remainder of his days in close confinement, in St. Nicholas Island, called by some Plymouth Isle, near Plymouth in Devonshire; where dying in August, an. 1665. aged 52 years or thereabouts, was buried, as his Son Richard thinks, at Plymouth.  
ALEXANDER GROSSE was a Devonian born, educated in Academicals in gonvil and Caius Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards became a Preacher at Plympton in his own Country. But being desirous to receive instruction in matters pertaining to Divinity from Dr. Prideaux the King's Professor of this University, he entered himself a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. was incorporated M. of A. and in Feb. 1632, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. Soon after he obtained a Licence from the University to preach God's word, became Rector of Bridford near Exeter, and at length of Ashberton, in his own Country; where he, being a Presbyterian, and a cider with the times, was much frequented by People of that persuasion. He hath extant,  
Sweet and Soul-perswading inducements leading unto Christ, etc. Lond. 1632. qu.  
The happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ, etc. Lond. 1640. oct.  
Several Sermons as (1) The Lord Jesus, the Souls last refuge; Serm. at the funeral of Mr. S. H, on Rev. 22.20. (2) Deaths deliverance, and Eliahes fiery Chariot: or, the holy man's trial after death, in two Sermons at Plymouth, one on the 16. and the other on the 19 of Aug. 1631. The former at the funeral of Tho. Sherwill a pious Magistrate of that place, on Isa. 57.1.2. and the other (Eliahes fiery chariot) at the funeral of Mathias nicols Bac. of Diu. Preacher to the Town of Plymouth, on 2 Kings 2.11.12. All which Sermons were printed at Lond. 1640. oct.  
The mystery of self denial: or, the cessation of man's living to himself, and the inchoations of Christ's living in man. Lond. 1642. qu.  
Man's misery without Christ, opening the sinful, perplexed, dishonourable and Soul— destroying condition of man without Christ, etc. Lond. 1642. qu.  
The way to a blessed life, composed by way of Catechism, etc. Lond. 1643. oct. or tw. This is sometimes called The fiery pillar, etc.  
Happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ, setting forth 1. The fullness of Christ. 2. Danger of neglecting Christ, etc. Lond. in qu.  
The Anatomy of the heart— printed in oct. This I have not seen, nor his book On sacred things, printed in tw.  
Buddings and blossomings of old truths: or, several practical points of Divinity, gathered out of the sacred Evangelist S. John, chap. 3. from the 22 verse to the end. Lond. 1656. oct. Published by a Presbyterian Minister called John Welden, then living at Stratcley in Armington in the County of Devon: Whose Preface to it shows that A Gross was a zealous and mighty man in the Presbyterian way, as by the character of him there appears. At length after he had in a manner spent himself in carrying on the beloved Cause, laid his head down and willingly died, in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four; 
1654.  and was buried at Ashberton beforemention'd. He had a Son of both his names, who became a Student in Exeter Coll. 1638, but whether he lived to publish any thing I know not.  
WILLIAM ERBURY was born at, or near, Roath-Dagfield in Glamorganshire, became a Student in Brasn. Coll. in Lent term 1619. aged 15 years, took one degree in Arts, retired into Wales, took Holy Orders, and was there beneficed. But being always schismatically affected, he preached in Conventicles, and denying to read the King's Declaration for pastimes after Divine Service on the Lord's day, was summoned divers times to the High Commission Court at Lambeth, where he suffered for his obstinacy. In the beginning of the Long Parliament 1640 he showed himself openly, preached against Bishops and Ceremonies, and made early motions towards Independency. Whereupon, by the endeavours of those inclined that way, he was made a Chaplain in the Earl of Essex his Army; and therein he sometimes exercised himself in Military concerns, but mostly in those relating to his function, whereby he corrupted the Soldiers with strange opinions, Antinomian Doctrines, and other dangerous errors; and by degrees fell to grosser opinions, holding (as a Presbyterian 
(a) Tho. Edward's in his Gangraena.  Writer saith) Universal redemption, etc. and afterwards became a Seeker and I know not what. At length he left that Army, and lived about London, and vented his Opinions there in 1645. Since which he betook himself to the Isle of Ely for his ordinary residence, and thence took his progress into one County or another, and there in private houses vented his opinions among the Godly under the habit of holiness. At S. Edmundsbury he used to exercise in private, and to declare himself for universal redemption, that no man was punished for Adam's sin, that Christ died for all, that the guilt of Adam's sin should be imputed to no man, etc. Not long after he went 
(b) Ibid. in Gangr. edit. 1646. p. 78.  into Northamptonshire, where in a private Meeting, the main scope of his exercise was to speak against the certainty and sufficiency of the Scriptures, alleging there was no certainty to build upon them, because there were so many several copies. After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon in 1646, we find him there to be Chaplain to a Regiment of Parliamenteers, to keep his Conventicles for them in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church, (wherein afterwards in the time of Oliver, the Royal Party had their religious Meetings) and to study all means to oppose the Doctrine of the Presbyterian Ministers sent by the Members of Parliament to preach the Scholars into obedience, as I have 
(c) Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. sub an. 1646.  elsewhere told you. But being desired to depart thence, (where he had maintained several Socinian opinions) he went soon after to London, where venting his blasphemies in several places against the glorious divinity and blood of Jesus Christ, especially in his Conventicle at Christ Church within Newgate, where those of his opinion met once, or more in a week, was brought at length before the Committee for plundered Ministers at Westminster, where he began to make a solemn profession of his faith in Orthodox Language, to the admiration of some there that had heard (and were ready to witness against him) the said blasphemies: But the than Chairman took him up, and commanded him silence, saying, we know your tricks well enough, etc. To say the truth he had Language at command, and could dissemble for matter of profit, or to avoid danger; and it was very well known he was only a mere Cant●r. However he is characterized by those of his persuasion to have been a holy harmless man, for which not only the World hated him, but also those of the Church, and add, that 'tis hoped they did it ignorantly. On the 12 of Octob. 1653, he, with John Webster sometimes a Cambridge Scholar, endeavoured to knock down Learning and the Ministry both together, in a disputation that they then had against two Ministers in a Church in Lombardstreet in London, Erbury then declared that the wisest Ministers and purest Churches were at that time befooled, confounded, and defiled by reason of Learning. Another while he said that the Ministers were Monsters, Beasts, Asses, greedy Dogs, false Prophets; and that they are the Beast with seven heads and ten horns. The same Person also spoke out, and said that Babylon is the Church in her Ministers, and that the great Whore is the Church in her Worship, etc. So that with him there was an end of Ministers, and Churches, and Ordinances altogether. While these things were babbled to and fro, the multitude being of various opinions, began to mutter, and many to cry out, and immediately it came to a mutiny, or tumult, (call it which you please) wherein the Women bore away the bell, but lost (some of them) their kerchiefs: And the dispute being hot, there was more danger of pulling down the Church than the Ministry. This our Author Erbury hath written,  
The great Mystery of Godliness: Jesus Christ our Lord God and Man, and Man with God, one in Jesus Christ our Lord. Lond. 1640. oct.  
Relation of a public discourse between him and Mr. Franc. Cheywell in S. Mary's Church in Oxon, 11. Jan. 1646. Lond. 1646. in 4 sh. in qu. published by Cheynell or some of Erburys Party.  
Ministers for tithes, proving they are no Ministers of the Gospel. Lond. 1653. qu.  
Sermons on several occasions, one of which is entit. The Lord of Hosts, etc. printed 1653. qu.  
An Olive leaf: or, some peaceable considerations to the Christian meeting at Ch. Church in London, Monday 9 Jan. 1653.  
The reign of Christ, and the Saints with him on Earth a thousand years, one day, and the day at hand— These two last were printed at London 1654. in one sh. and half, and dedicated to Mr. John Rogers, Mr. Vavasor powel and other Fanatical People at Ch. Ch. in London.  
His Testimony left upon record for the Saints of succeeding ages— printed with his Trial at Westminster. This was published after his death at Lond. 1658. qu. What other things he hath written, or go under his name I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him only that he died in the beginning of the year (in April I think) sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654.  and was, as I conceive, buried either at Ch. Church beforementioned, or else in the Cemiterie joining to Old Bedlam near London, Quaere. Within few days after was a silly and impudent Pamphlet written and published by J. L. entit. A small mite in memory of the late deceased and never to be forgotten Mr. Will. Erbury. printed at Lond. in Apr. 1654. in one sheet in oct. Whereunto are added Two new Songs; one of which are brief touches on the 12. Chapt. of the Revelat. etc. to the tune of When the King enjoys his own again. The other touching the doing away of sin, through our Lord Christ in our Souls, etc. to the tune of Sound a charge. In my readings I meet with one Dorcas (alias Mary) Erbury, who was a great admirer and follower of James Nayler the Quaker, after the death of Will. Erbury. Which Dorcas (who was his Widow) did really confess, upon her examination for her villainies by a Magistrate, that the said Nayler was the holy one of Israel, and the only begotten Son of God, that he raised her, after she had been dead two days, and that he should sit at the right hand of the Father, and should judge the World with equity, etc.  
JOHN grail Son of Jo. Gr. of Stone in Glocestershire Priest, was born in that County, entered a Batler in Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632, aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became a Puritannical Preacher. In 1645 or thereabouts, he succeeded one Mr. George Holmes in the Mastership of the Free-School at Guildford in Surrey, and afterwards was made Rector of Tidworth in Wilts. where he was much followed by the precise and godly party. He hath written against Will. Eyre of Sarum,  
A modest vindication of the Doctrine of conditions in the Covenant of Grace, and the Defenders thereof, from the aspersions of Arminianism and Popery. Which W. E. cast on them Lond. 1655. qu. published after the Author's death by Constantine Jessop, who hath put a preface to it. What else our Author hath written (unless Sermons) I know not, nor any thing of him beside, only that he dying in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654.  was buried in Tidworth Church: At which time Dr. Hump. Chambers his neighbour preached his funeral Sermon before the Brethren, then in great numbers present. In the latter end of which Sermon, which is printed, as also in the Epistle before it, you may read much in commendation of our Author grail, who though a Presbyterian, yet tinged he was with Arminianism.  
HENRY ELSING eldest Son of Hen. Else. Esq and he the Son of another Henry a Citizen of London, Son of John Elsing of Daxworth in Cambridgshire, was 
(a) Reg. Matric. Uniu. Ox. PP. fol. 22. b.  born in Surrey; particularly, as I conceive, at Battersey, where his Father (who was Clerk of the Lords House of Parliament, and a Person of great abilities) mostly lived, educated in Grammar learning in Westminster School under Mr. Lamb. Osbaldeston, a Person very fortunate in breeding up many Wits, became Commoner of Ch. Church in the beginning of the year 1622, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards, at several times, spent more than 7 years in travelling through various Countries beyond the Seas; whereby he became so accomplished, that, at his last return, his company and conversation was not only desired by many of the Nobility, but Clergy also; and was so highly valued by Dr. Laud Archb of Canterbury, that he procured him the place of Clerk of the House of Commons. This crowned his former labours, and by it he had opportunity given to manifest his rare abilities, which in short time became so conspicuous, especially in taking and expressing the sense of the House, that none (as 'twas believed) that ever sat there, exceeded him. He was also so great a help to the Speaker 
(b) Memorials of Engl. Affaires, under the 1648. p. 359. a.  and the House in helping to state the questions, and to draw up the orders free from exceptions, that it much conduced to the dispatch of business and the service of the Parliament. His discretion also and prudence was such, that though faction kept that fatal, commonly called the Long, Parliament in continual storm and disorder, yet his fair and temperate carriage made him commended and esteemed by all parties how furious and opposite soever they were among themselves. And therefore it was, that for these his abilities and prudence, more reverence was paid to his stool than to the Speakers (Lenthall) Chair, who being obnoxious, timorous and interested, was often much confused in collecting the sense of the House, and drawing the debates into a fair question; in which Mr. Elsing was always observed to be so ready and just, that generally the House acquiesced in what he did of that nature. At length when he saw that the greater part of the House were imprisoned and secluded, and that the remainder would bring the King to a trial for his life, he desired to quit his place 26. of Dec. 1648, by reason (as he alleged) of his indisposition of health, but most men understood the reason to be, because he would have no hand in the business against the King. He was a Man of very great parts, and ingenious education, and was very learned, especially in the Latin, French and Italian Languages. He was beloved of all sober Men, and the learned Selden had a fondness for him. He hath written,  
The ancient method and manner of holding Parliaments in England. Lond. 1663. oct. 1675. in tw. mostly taken, as I presume, from a Manuscript book intit.— Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos: Of the form, and all things incident thereunto, digested and divided into several chapters and titles, an. 1626., written by Hen. Elsing Father to the aforesaid Henry, who died while his Son was in his Travels.  
Tract concerning proceedings in Parliament— This is a Ms. and was sometimes in the hands of Sir Matthew Hale, who in his Will bequeathed it to Lincoln's inn Library.  
Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom— This is a Pamphlet in quarto, but when printed I cannot tell. After he had quitted his beneficial Office, he retired to his house at Hounslow in Middlesex, where contracting many infirmities of body occasioned by sedentariness, some distresses of his family, and by a deep melancholy for the sufferings and loss of his Sovereign, concluded his last day about the middle of the month of August, in sixteen hundred fifty and four, and in that of his age 56: 
1654.▪  Whereupon his body was buried in his private Chapel (which is the burying place of his Family) at Hounslow, he having no other Epitaph or Monument than the Eulogy given as due to him by all that knew him. He left behind certain Tracts and Memorials of his own writing, but so imperfect, that his Executor would by no means have them published, lest they should prove injurious to his worth and memory.  
THOMAS HORN Son of Will. Horn of cassal in Nottinghamshire, was born at West Halam in Derbyshire, became a Student in Magd. hall in the year 1624., and in that of his age 15, or thereabouts, and in 1633 he was advanced to the degree of Master of Arts. About that time he was made Master of a private School in London, afterwards of the Free-school at Leycester, where remaining two years, was translated to that of Tunbridge in Kent. At length after he had taught there about 10 years, he was, for his merits and excellent faculty that he had in pedagogy, preferred to be Master of the School at Eton near Windsor, where he remained to his dying day. He hath written,  
Janua Linguarum: or, a collection of Latin sentences, with the English of them. Lond. 1634. etc. oct. This is all or most taken from Janua Linguarum reserata, written by J. A. Comenius. Afterwards Horne's Janua Linguarum was much corrected and amended by John Robotham, and lastly carefully reviewed by W. D.— Lond. 1659. oct. Which W. D. may be the same with Will. Dugard, sometimes Master of Merchant Tailor's School. Quaere.  
Manuductio in aedem Palladis, qua utilissima methodus authores bonos legendi, indigitatur, sive de usu authoris. Lond. 1641. in tw. etc.  
Rhetoricae compendium Latino-Anglicè. Lond▪ 1651. oct. Besides which he hath made learned observations on the Epitome of the Greek tongue, written by Ant. Laubegeois, but when or where, printed, I cannot tell, for I have not as yet seen it. He gave way to fate at Eton on the 22 of Aug. in sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654.  and was buried in the Church or Chappel there, as I have been informed by Will. Horn his Son, Master of the Free-school at Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex. One Tho. Horn M. of A. became Rector of Methley in Yorkshire, on the death of Tim. Bright Doctor of Physic, in the latter end of Octob. 1615, but him I take to be Th. Horn who was Fellow of Mert. Coll. and afterwards Canon of Windsor. Another Tho. Horn is now, if I mistake not, Fellow of Eton Coll, and hath extant one or more Sermons. He was Son to Tho. Horn the Writer, was born at Tunbridge in Kent, and afterwards made Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, Chaplain to the Earl of S. Alban, and Signior Proctor of that University, about 1682.  
JOHN SELDEN the glory of the English Nation as Hugh Grotius worthily styles him, Son of John Selden, by Margaret his Wife, the only Daughter of Thomas Baker of Rushington, (descended from the knightly family of the Bakers in Kent) was born in an obscure Village called Salvinton near to Terring a Market town in Sussex. His Father (who died in 1617.) was a sufficient Plebeian, and delighted much in Music, by the exercising of which, he obtained (as 'tis said) his Wife, of whom our famous Author Jo. Selden was born on the 16 of Decemb. 1584. After he had been instructed in Grammar Learning in the Free-school at Chichester under Mr. Hugh Barker of New College, he was by his care and advice sent to Hart Hall, in the beginning of Mich. term, an. 1600, and committed to the tuition of Mr. Anth. Barker Fellow of the aforesaid Coll. under whom being instructed in Logic and Philosophy for about three years, (which with great facility he conquered) he was transplanted to the Inner Temple to make proficiency in the municipal Laws of the Nation. After he had continued there a sedulous Student for some time, he did by the help of a strong body and vast memory, not only run through the whole body of the Law, but became a prodigy in most parts of learning, especially in those which were not common, or little frequented or regarded by the generality of Students of his time. So that in few years his name was wonderfully advanced, not only at home, but in foreign Countries, and was usually styled the great Dictator of Learning of the English Nation. The truth is his great parts did not live within a small ambit, but traced out the Latitudes of Arts and Languages, as it appears by those many books he hath published. He had great skill in the divine and humane Laws; he was a great Philologist, Antiquary, Herald, Linguist, Statesman and what not. His natural and artificial memory was exact, yet his fancy slow, notwithstanding he made several sallies into the faculties of Poetry and Oratory to ease his severer thoughts and smooth his rough stile, which he mostly used in the Books by him published in Latin. The verses that he wrote, scattered in various books, were in Latin and English, and sometimes in Greek, and was thereupon numbered among our Poets: which perhaps may be the reason why he is brought 
(a) Sir Joh. Suckling in his Fragmenta aurea, or Poems Lond. 1648. in oct. p. 7.  into the Session of them, thus.  
There was Selden and he sat close by the Chair,  
Wainman not far off, which was very fair.  
He seldom or never appeared publicly at the Bar, (though a Bencher) but gave sometimes Chamber-Counsel, and was good at conveyance. He was chosen a Burgess for several Parliaments, wherein he showed himself profound by speeches and debates, yet mostly an enemy to the Prerogative. The first Parliament he appeared in, was that which began at Westm. 19 Feb. 1623. wherein he served for the Burrow of Lancaster: And in another which began 6. Feb. 1625. he served for Bedwin in Wilts, and was a constant member in all or most Parliaments following, during the Reign of K. Ch. 1. But that, in which he became most noted, was held in the beginning of 1628.; wherein for contemptuous and seditious words then uttered, he was imprisoned for several months to the great regret of his fellow Members. He was a Burgess also of that unhappy Parliament that began at Westm. 3. Novemb. 1640, which breaking forth into a rebellion, Selden adhered to it, and accepted from the members thereof a Commission to do them service. In 1643, he was one of those Laymen that were appointed to sit in the Assembly of Divines, at which time he took the Covenant, and silenced and puzzled the great Theologists thereof in their respective Meetings. In Nou. the same year he was appointed by Parliament Chief Keeper of the Rolls and Records in the Tower of London, and on the 15. of Apr. 1645, he was one of the 12 Commoners appointed to be a Commissioner of the Admiralty. In Jan. 1646 it was voted that 5000 l. should be given to him for his sufferings that he endured, for what he had said or done in Parliament, an. 1628., which money was paid in May following, though some there are that say that he refused, and could not out of conscience take it; and add, that his mind was as great as his learning, full of generosity, and harbouring nothing that seemed base. He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law, wherein arriving to eminence, as in other Learning, he is oftentimes mentioned not only by learned Authors of our own Nation, but by Foreigners. He had a very choice Library of Books, as well Mss. as printed, in the beginning of all or most of which he wrote either in the title, or leaf before it, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: Above all liberty, to show, that he would examine things, and not take them upon trust. His works are these,  
Original of a Duel or single combat. Lond. 1610. qu.  
Jani Anglorum facies altera. Lond. 1610. oct. rendered into English, with large notes on it, by Redman Westcot (alias Adam Littleton) Gent.— Lond. 1683. fol.  
Notes and Illustrations on the first eighteen Songs in Mich. Draytons' Polyolbion. Lond. 1612. fol. The second part of this Polyolbion was printed at Lond. in 1622, but without any notes or illustrations.  
Titles of honour. Lond. 1614 in qu. There again in 1631 and 1671. fol. This book is in great esteem with Lay-Gentlemen.  
Analect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anglo-Britannic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etc. lib. 2. Francof. 1615. qu. etc.  
Notes on Joh. Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae. Lond. 1616. oct etc. Which book having been before translated into English by Rob. Mulcaster a Lawyer, had notes then put to it by our Author Selden.  
Notes on the sums of Sir Ralph Hengham L. Ch. Justice to K. Ed. 1.— These are printed with the former notes. This Sir Ralph died 1308 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul within the City of London.  
De Diis Syris Syntagmata duo. Lond. 1617. corrected and amended, with additions of copious indices thereunto, by M. Andr. Beyer.— Lugd. Bat. 1629. in oct. Lips. 1672. Amst. 1680. in oct.  
History of Tithes. Lond. 1618. qu. In the preface, the Author reproaches the Clergy with ignorance and laziness, and upbraids them with having nothing to keep up their credit but beard, title and habit; and that their studies reached no farther, than the Breviary, the postils and Polyanthea. But the best of the Clergy being provoked by those expressions, he was so effectually answered by Tillesley of Oxon, Rich. Montague and Steph. Nettles of Cambridge, that he never came off in any of his undertake with more loss of credit. There were Arguments about tithes, written against it by Will. Sclater (of Cambridge) and printed 1623. qu. but such I have not yet seen. Soon after Mr. Selden had published his History, he was called before the High Commission about the 22 of Dec. 1618. and forced to make a public acknowledgement of his error and offence given unto the Church in the said book. Which usage sunk so deep into his stomach, that he did never after effect the Bishops and Clergy, or cordially approve their calling, though many ways were tried to gain him to the Church's interest. The said Book or History was reprinted in 1680 in qu. with the old date put to it; at which time the press and fanatical Party were too much at liberty, occasioned by the Popish Plot. Whereupon Dr. Thom. Comber answered it in a book intit. An historical vindication of the Divine right of Tithes, etc. Lond. 1681. qu.  
Spicilegium in Edmeari 6 libros Historiarum. Lond. 1623. fol. Which book is much commended by Antiquaries and Critics.  
Marmora Arundelliana cum aliquot inscriptionibus veteris Latii. Lond. 1628. in qu. Involved into Marmora Oxoniensia, published by Humph. Prideaux M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. now Prebendary of Norwych.  
Mare clausum: seu de dominio maris, lib. 2. Lond. 1635. fol. etc. First written as 'tis 
(b) See in Pet. heylyn's book intit. The History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, lib. 4. sub an. 1636.  said in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. in answer to a book published by Hugo Grotius called Mare liberum. But the Author Selden stomaching the submission and acknowledgement which he was forced to make in the High Commission for his book of Tithes, as I have before told you, did not only suppress his Mare clausum, which he had written in the King's defence, but carried an evil eye to the Court and Church for a long time after. But being a man of parts, and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning, he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining. Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do, and at last effected, it; and to show what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published, Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court, an. 1636, to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records, which concerned the Crown. In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England, but clearly proved, by constant and continual practice, that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects (without help of Parliament) for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty, which did of right belong unto them. This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased, and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money, but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before, (wherein he had been a great Stickler) voting down under a kind of Anathema the King's pretensions of right to all help from the Subject, either in Tonage or Poundage, or any other ways whatsoever, the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it. But howsoever it was, the Service was as grateful, as the Author acceptable from thenceforth, both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house, where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop, that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court (as it was then generally believed) had he not undervalved all other Employments in respect of his Studies. But possibly there might be some other reason (as my 
(c) Ibid.  Author saith) for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer. He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist. of Tithes (for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always) and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time, till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen, the King being took into the reckoning. For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit, under the first pressures of the Long Parliament, but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius, with some notes upon it; in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs, than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof, and so by consequence that they differed only in degree, not order. And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament, and that the heats grew strong between them, he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesty's Declaration about the Commission of Array, which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people. So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions, but the God that made them. But now let's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written.  
De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum. Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct. Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu.  
De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum. lib. duo. This is printed, and goes with the former book.  
De jure naturali & gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum. lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor. 1665. qu.  
Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers, and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature. Lond. 1640. in two sh. in qu. Written either by Selden, or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet.  
Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects, in a conference desired by the Lords, and had by a Committee of both Houses, an. 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu.  
Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament. Lond. 1642. in oct.  
Versio & comment. ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines. Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals, with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon.  
De anno civili & calendario judaico. Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct.  
Uxor Hebraica, sive de nuptiis ac divortiis. lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. add odd 1673. qu.  
Fleta, seu comment. juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus. Lond. 1647. qu.  
Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis.  
Dissertatio historica ad Fletam. These two last are printed, and go with, Fleta.  
Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem. Lond. 1652. fol.  
De Synedriis & Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum. lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst. 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former, by reason of the many languages (20 in number) therein.  
Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi. Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself.  
God made man. A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December. Lond. 1661. oct. with the Author's picture before it. This posthumous book was answered in the first Postscript after a book intit. A brief (but true) account of the certain year, month, day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ. Lond. 1671. oct. written by John Butler Bach. of Diu. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond, and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc. of Peterborough. The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject. This Butler, whom I take to be a Cambridge man, is a great Pretender to Astrology, and hath lately some sharp debates in print, in reference thereunto, with Dr. Hen. More of the same University.  
Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellor of England. Lond. 167●. fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest. 

De nummis etc. Lond. 1675. qu.  
Bibl. nummaria. Lond. 1675. qu.   Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coins Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed, and therefore much respected by our Author Selden, I shall say these things following of him, viz. (1) That he was born at Coxden (the inheritance of his Mother) near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire, on the 18 of Decemb. 1602, according to the Julian Account. (2) That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq. one of the six Clerks in Chancery, by Cecilia his Wife, daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned. Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of Upminster in Essex, and he the son of Adrian D'ewes, a lineal descendant of the ancient Family of Des Ewes, Dynasts or Lords of the dition of Kessell in the Duchy of Gelderlandht, who came first thence into England in the time of K. Hen. 8. when that Duchy had been much ruined, wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued between Charles Duke thereof, and Philip the Archduke, and Charles the fifth his son. (3) That he was educated in the University of Cambridge, the antiquity of which he zealously asserted against that of Oxon. in a Speech spoken in a grand Committee of Parliament, in Jan. 1640, as I have 
(d) In Aist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 30.31.  elsewhere told you, and afterwards retired to his estate called Stow hall in Suffolk. (4) That he was a Burgess for Sudbury in the same County, to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nou. 1640, and soon after he was made a Baronet, and in 1643 he took the Covenant. I find going under his name these things following, viz. (1) The Greek Postscripts of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, cleared in Parliament: And an occasional Speech concerning the Bill of Acapitation or Poll money. printed 1641 in one sheet and half in qu. (2) Speech in a grand Committee touching the antiquity of Cambridge. (3) Sp. touching the privilege of Parliament in Causes criminal and civil. Which two Speeches were printed in 1641. 42. qu. (4) Sp. in Parl. on the xi. of January concerning the proceedings against the eleven Bishops accused of High Treason, an. 1641— 2. (5) The primitive practice for preserving truth: or, an historical narration, etc. Lond. 1645. qu. (6) Sp. in the H. of Commons, 2● Jul. 1644. qu. at the end of which is a Postscript by way of advice to all those who have gotten into their possessions either the Church Revenues or other men's Estates. Lond. 1646. qu. in 2 sh. (7) Journal of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth, both of the House of Lords and H. of Commons. Lond. 1682. fol. Revised and published by Paul Bows of the Middle Temple Esq. This person (D'ewes) who was a great searcher into Records, and the best of his time for the knowledge of Coins and Coinage, yet of a humourous and minical disposition, died in the beginning of the year 1650, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Stowlang●oft in Suffolk. I have seen a copy of his Will, written by himself in Latin, wherein are most particulars of his life recited. But let's go forward with the Works of Great Selden, who hath also written,  
Of the Judicature of Parliaments: wherein the Controversies and Precedents belonging to the Title are methodically handled. Lond. 1681. oct.  
England's Epinomis.  
Of the original of ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Testaments.  
Of the disposition or administration of Intestates goods. These three last were published by Redman Westcot before mentioned, with the English Translation of Jani Anglorum, etc. Lond. 1683. fol. Under his name is also published,  
Tabletalk▪ being the discourses or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to Religion and State. Lond. 1689. qu. published by Rich. Milward who had observed his discourses for 20 years together.  
Letters to learned men— Among which are several to the learned and godly Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland, as at the end of his life printed in fol. you may see.  
Speeches, Arguments, Debates, etc. in Parliament.— He also had a great hand in, and gave directions and advice towards, that Edition of Plutarch's Lives, printed 1657, with an addition of the year of the World, and the year of our Lord, together with many chronological notes and explanations out of divers Authors. He left behind him also divers MSS. of his own writing, (some of which are since published, as before you may see) among these are, (1) The life of Rog. Bacon. (2) Collections of many Records and Antiquities. (3) Collection of Notes and Records of various Subjects, marked with M. (4) Extracts out of the leiger books of Battle, Evesham, Winton, etc. (5) Vindication of his history of Tithes. This last I once saw in the library of MSS. belonging to his Godson named Joh. Vincent, son of August. Vincent sometimes Windsor Herald, but where it is now I cannot tell. At length after this great light of our Nation had lived to about the age of man, was extinguished at Lond. on the last of Nou. being S. Andr. day, in sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654.  in the large house called the Carmelite or White Friars, then belonging to Elizabeth the Countess Dowager of Henry Earl of Kent, (whose estate he, for several years, had managed and commanded, which was the reason he died very wealthy) whereupon on Thursday the 14 of Decemb. following, he was magnificently buried in the Temple Church, on the south side of the round walk, in the presence of all the Judges, some of the Parl. men, Benchers and great Officers. His grave was nine foot deep at least, the bottom paved with bricks and walled about two foot high, with grey marble coarsely polished, each piece being yoated (that is fastened with lead molted in) with iron champs. Into this repository was the Corpse in a wooden Coffin, covered with a black cloth, let down with a pulley or engine. Which being done, a stone of black polished marble six inches thick was let down also and made fast to the top of the repository with champs of iron yoated in, to the end that in future ages, when graves are dug there, it might not be removed. Upon the said marble stone was this engraven Hic inhumatur corpus Johannis Seldeni, or to that effect. Over the said sepulchre and stone was turned over, or made, an arch of brick, the diameter being about three foot, and above was left room to bury other bodies in future time. On the surface of the earth, even with the pavement of the Church, was soon after laid a plain marble with the Baker's Arms engraven thereon, and this Inscription, Johannes Seldenus J. C. heic situs est. Over which, in the wall, was fastened a white marble table, and thereon an Epitaph made by himself: a copy of which, with encomiastical Verses (under his printed picture) made by Dr. Ger. Langbaine, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 350. The learned Usher Primate of Ireland, preached his funeral Sermon but did not, or could not, say much of his sound Principles in Religion. Mr. Ric. Johnson Master of the Temple buried him according to the Directory, and said in his Speech, with reference to the saying of a learned man, that When a learned man dies, a great deal of Learning dies with him, and added, that if Learning could have kept a man alive, our brother had not died. But notwithstanding the said Usher's silence concerning our Author's Religion, Sir Matth. Hale, one of his Executors, hath often 
(a) See Mr. R. Baxter's book intit. Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Math. Hale.— Lond. 1682. in oct. p. 40.  professed that Selden was a resolved serious Christian, and that he was a great Adversary to Hobbes of Malmesbury his Errors; and that he had seen him openly oppose him so earnestly, as either to depart from him, or drive him out of the room, etc.  
JOHN MURCOT son of Job Murcot by Joan Townsend his Wife, received his first being in the ancient Borough of Warwick, and his first learning in the King's School there under Mr. Tho. Dugard, who became Schoolmaster in 1633, and after 15 years spent in that employment, was made Rector of Barford in that County. At 17 years of age our Author Murcot was entered a Student in Merton Coll. in Easter Term 1642, being then committed to the tuition of Mr. Ralph Button Fellow of that house, a good Scholar but rigid Presbyterian. Soon after Oxford being garrisoned for the King, he, to avoid bearing Arms for him, went thence in a disguise to Mr. Joh. Ley Vicar of Budworth in Cheshire, where by continual lucubration for some years, he did much improve himself in practical Divinity. At length the Wars ceasing, he returned to his College, and continuing for some time there in godly exercise with his Tutor, was admitted Bach. of Arts: which being completed by Determination he returned to Mr. Ley again, and became several ways useful to him in his Studies and Profession. At length being called to the Ministry at Astbury in Cheshire, (where the said Mr. Ley had sometimes exercised his function) he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way at Manchester; but continuing not long there, he was called to Eastham in Wyrrall in Cheshire, where before he was quite settled, he took to wife, at 25 years of age, one Hester the daughter of Ralph Marsden Minister of West Kirby in the said County: but before the consummation of Marriage, the people of the said place (Marsden being dead) gave him a call, where he preached the Gospel to the beloved people of God. From thence, after some time he removed to the City of Chester, where by his severe carriage he became ridiculous to the wicked. So that being in a manner weary of that place, he did, upon the receipt of another call go into Ireland, and at length settled himself and his family at Dublin, became one of the Preachers in ordinary to the Lord Deputy and Council, and by his often preaching and praying obtained a great flock of People to be his Admirers, especially Women and Children. The things that he hath written are,  
Several Sermons and Treatises, as (1) Circumspect walking, a Christians wisdom, on Ephes. 5.15.16. (2) The parable of the ten Virgins, on Math. 25. from the first to the 14 vers. (3) Christ the Sun of righteousness hath healing in his wings for sinners, on Malach. 4.2. (4) Christ his willingness to accept humbled sinners, on Joh. 6.37. all which were published after his death at London 1657. qu. together with his life cantingly written, by Sam. Winter, Rob. Chambers, Sam. Eton, Joseph caryl and Tho. Manton, all, or most, Presbyterians. From which, a common Reader may easily perceive; that our Author Murcot was a forward, prating, and pragmatical Precisian. Another Sermon of his is published, called Saving faith, on John 5.44. Lond. 1656. qu. but that I have not yet seen. He gave up the ghost very unwillingly at Dublin on the third day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654.  and was buried with great lamentation of the brethren (who always held him to be a precious young man) in S. Mary's Chapel joining to the Choir of Christ Church in the said City of Dublin, where, as I have been informed, is a Monument set up to his memory.  
JOSHUA HOYLE was born at Sorby, otherwise Sowerbie, within the Vicarage of Halyfax in Yorkshire, received his first academical Education in Magd. Hall, and afterwards being invited to Ireland, became a Member of Trinity Coll. near Dublin; where, in his Studies and Writings, he directed his course for the Schoolmen. In short time he became profound in the fac. of Divinity, took his Doctor's degree therein, and at length was made Divinity Professor of the University of Dublin. In which Office he expounded the whole Bible through, in daily Lectures, and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse a day; which work held him almost 15 years. Some time before he had ended that Work, he began the second Exposition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trin. Coll. and within ten years he ended all the New Testament, (excepting one book and a piece) all the Prophets, all Solomon and Job: So that his Answer to Malone the Jesuit, did in part concur with both these Labours. He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the far greater part of the year, once every Holiday, and sometimes twice. To these may be added his weekly Lectures (as Professor) in the Controversies, and his Answers to all Bellarmine in word and writing, concerning the real presence, and his finishing in above 8 years' time, his tome of the 7 Sacraments, (for there he began) and his last tome in 6 years; and after that sundry years in the tome, or tomes, remaining. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1641 he went into England, (having always been a noted Puritan) and retiring to London became Vicar of Stepney near that City; but being too scholastical, he did not please the Parishioners. While he remained there, Jerem. Burroughs preached every morning at 7 of the clock, and Will. Greenhill at 3 in the afternoon: Which two persons, being notorious Schismatics and Independents, were called in Stepney Pulpit by Hugh Peter's (the Theological Buffoon) the morning star of Stepney, and the evening star, but never took notice of Dr. Josh. Hoyle. About the same time he was constituted one of the Assembly of Divines, and became a helper on of the evidence against Archb. Laud when he was to come to his trial, as to matter relating to the University of Dublin while he was Chancellor thereof. At length by the favour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the Uniu. of Oxon, he became Master or Head of Uniu. Coll. and the King's Professor of Divinity. He was a person of great reading and memory, but of less judgement, and so much devoted to his book that he was in a manner a stranger to the world and things thereof, a careless person, and no better than a mere scholar. However that which was in, made, him respected by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland, in whose Vindication he wrote,  
A rejoinder to Will. Malone Jesuit his Reply concerning the real presence. Dublin 1641. in a thick quar. Which Reply was printed at Douai 1627. After which time the Author of it, Malone, was made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Rome, which he presided 6 years: then he went into Ireland, where he was Superior of the whole mission of the Jesuits for 3 years. Afterwards he was taken and committed by the Protestants, from whom getting loose, he went into Spain, and being made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Sevil, died there an aged man in Aug. 1659. As for Hoyle he gave way to fate on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654.  and was buried in that little old Chapel of University College, which was pulled down in 1668, standing sometimes in that place, which is now the middle part of the present Quadrangle in that College. In his Mastership of that house succeeded Francis Johnson an Independent, and in his Professorship Dr. Jo. Conant then a Presbyterian.  
RICHARD SMITH was born in Lincolnshire 1566, became a Student of Trin. Coll. about 1583, went a course there; but before he took a degree he left the Coll, went to Rome, ran another course in studies there, not in Philosophy, as he did at Trin. Coll. but in Divinity; wherein making great proficiency, was sent by his Superior to Valladolid in Spain, where he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Thence, as I suppose, he went into the Mission of England, in which Employment he remained some years. From thence he was sent for to Rome to be consulted with about the affairs of the English Popish Clergy. Which being finished according to his mind, he was remitted into England again, and at length was by the Pope made Bishop (titular only) of Chalcedon in Greece, and by him commissionated to exercise episcopal Jurisdiction in England over the Catholics there. The chief stage of his action was in Lancashire, where he appeared in his Pontificalia, with his horned Mitre and Crosier, conferring of Orders, bestowing his Benediction, and such like, to the wonder of ignorant and poor people. At length the King having received notice of these matters, he renewed his Proclamation in 1628. (one of a former date taking no effect) for his apprehension, promising an hundred pounds to be presently paid to him that did it, besides all the profits which accrued to the Crown, as legally due from the person that entertained him. But the Bishop having timely notice of these matters, conveyed himself over into France, where he became a Confident of Armandus du Plessis Cardinal and Duke of Richlieu, who conferred upon him the Abbatship of Charroux in the diocese of Poitou, which he kept, and received the profits of it till 1647, and then Julius Cardinal Mazarine, took it into his own hands. The conveniency and validity of the episcopal power of the said Dr. Smith was made the subject of several books, which were written thereon, viz. in favour of him were (1) N. le Maistre a Sorbon Priest, in a book intit. De persecutione Episcoporum & de illustrissimo Antistite Chalcedonense. (2) The faculty of Paris, which censured all such that opposed him. In opposition to him or them, were (1) Daniel a Jesuit, or Dan. à Jesus, i. e. Joh. Floyd a Jesuit. (2) one Horucan. (3) Lumley an English man, and (4) Nich. Smith 
(*) Edw. Knott Jesuit, went sometimes by the name of Nich-Smith. Quaere.  a Regular, who, with his Brethren, did make so great a stir about this Bishop's Authority, and were heightened to that animosity against the secular Priests, (the Bishop being of that number) that the Pope was forced to rouse and declare himself concerned in so great a scandal to the Unity of the Rom. Church. And because he would not proceed to cure this Schism, until he rightly understood the original ground thereof, over he dispatched into England Gregory Panzani a Civilian and Rom. Priest, an. 1634. with a Commission of Oyer and Terminer of hearing and determining the Quarrel; if not, to certify to him the state of the cause, and where the fault lay. This was the upper Mantle of the Plot, which had readily in it enough to overspread more secret designs, so that they were not transparent to vulgar eyes. But though his Instructions would not own any other lading, yet some, especially the puritannical party, held it for certain that they had taken in other contrivances of pernicious import to the Church and State of England. He tarried here till 1636, having by that time procured an indifferent fair agreement between the Seculars and the Regulars. What else was to be done in the matter, was to be performed by Signior George Con the Pope's Agent, sent into England the same year of Panzani his departure. As for the Bishop of Chalcedon, he was a general read Scholar in the Controversies between the Papists and Protestants, in Histories whether civil or profane, and did great service for the Cause he professed. He hath written,  
An Answer to the Challenge of Thom. Bell an Apostate— Printed 1609.  
The prudential balance of Religion; wherein the Catholic and Protestant Religion are weighed together with the weight of Prudence and right Reason— printed in a thick oct. an. 1609. This is the first part, and is contained in two books: Afterwards were two other parts composed by the said Author, which I have not yet seen.  
Collatio doctrinae Catholicorum & Protestantium cum ipsis verbis S. Scripturae. Par. 1622. qu.  
Flores ecclesiasticae Historiae Gentis Anglorum. lib. 7. Par. 1654. fol.  
A survey of a late book intit. The just Vindication of the Church of England from the unjust aspersion of criminal schism, by John Bramhall Bishop of Derry.— printed 1654. Whereupon Bramhall came out with a Reply in 1656; but our Author being then dead the controversy ceased. He also wrote The life and death of the illustrious Lady de Monte acuto, which I have not yet seen. At length after he had lived 88 years in this vain and transitory world, gave way to fate at Paris on the eighth day of March in sixteen hundred fifty and four, which according to the French account is the 18 of March 1655, and was buried near to the Altar in the Church of the English Nunnery of the Order of S. Austin, situate and being in the Suburbs of S. Victor there. Over his grave was a monument soon after put, with an inscription thereon, the contents of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 298. a. Before, or after, his death a MS. containing Several Letters, and Epistles to the Pope, to some Cardinals, Bishops, and Superiors, written by the said Smith B. of Chalcedon, came into the hands of Edw. Knott the Jesuit, and afterwards into those of Dr. Seth Ward late Bishop of Salisbury. See more of the said Bishop of Chalcedon in Will. Bishop, an. 1624. vol. 1. p. 415.  
EDWARD BOUGHEN a Buckinghamshire man born, was elected from Westm. School a Student of Ch. Ch. in the year 1605 aged 18 years, and after he had been some time standing in the degree of Master, was made Chaplain to Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxford. Afterwards he had some Cure at Bray in Berks, and in 1636 became Rector of Woodchurch in Kent; whence being ejected by the Presbyterians in the time of Rebellion, he retired for a time to Oxon, where he was actually created Doctor of Divinity a little before the surrender of the Garrison there to the Parliaments Forces, an. 1646. Afterwards he resided at Chatham in Kent, but in what condition I know not as yet. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Sermon of Confirmation, preached at the first Visitation of John Lord Bish. of Oxon, 27 Sept. 1619, on Acts 8.17. Lond. 1620. qu. (2) Serm. concerning decency and order, on 1 Cor. 14.40. Lond. 1638. qu. and two or more other Sermons which I have not yet seen, viz. one on 1 Cor. 1.10. and another on 1 Joh. 4.1.2.3. Both printed at Lond. in qu. 1635.  
Treatise showing the nullity and invalidity of the Presbyterians Ordination of Ministers, according to the Parliaments Ordinance, an. 1644.— This book I have not yet seen, and therefore can say no more of it, only that it stood unanswered by the Presbyterians, either Scots or English.  
Principles of Religion: or, a short exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England. Oxon. 1646. and several times after at London, oct. One of which Editions bears this Title, A short Exposition of the Catechism of the Church of Eng. with the Church Catechism itself, and order of Confirmation, in English and Lat. for the use of Scholars.  
Mr. Geree's Case of Conscience sifted; wherein is enquired whether the King can with a safe Conscience consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy. Lond. 1648. qu. See in Joh. Geree p. 65. who made a Reply to this.  
Two Letters to Mr. T. B. giving an account of the Church Catholic, where it was before the Reformation, 
Clar. 1654.  and whether Rome were, or be, the Ch. Catholic. Lond. 1653. Answered by R. T. Esq. printed, as 'tis said, at Paris, 1654. in a little oct. By which R. T. is meant, as I have been informed by some Rom. Catholics, Thomas Read LL. D. sometimes Fellow of New Coll. in Oxon. This Dr. Boughen, as I have been informed, lived to see his Majesty restored, and what before he had lost, he did obtain.  
ISAAC COLF a Kentish man born of gentile Extraction, was educated in Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed an. 1611. Afterwards entering into the sacred function he became at length Rector of S. leonard's Church in Eastcheap within the City of London, where he was much reverenced by the Orthodox Party for his Religion and Learning. In the beginning of the Civil Wars, commenced by the Presb. he was forced by them to give up his rectory to one H. Roborough scribe to the Ass. of Divines. Whereupon retiring to Chaldwell in Essex, the liberal man devised liberal things, viz. an Almeshouse for poor People at Lewsham in Kent, with a considerable maintenance. He hath written,  
Commentary on the eleven first verses of the fourth Chapt. of S. Matthew. Lond. 1654. oct. and other things which I have not seen. When, 
Clar. 1654.  or where he died I cannot tell, or where his relics were lodged.  
ALEXANDER GRIFFITH a Welsh man born, was educated in Hart Hall, took one degree in Arts, an. 1618. retired to his Country, and there had a School or a small cure, or both, conferred upon him. In 1631, he proceeded in his faculty, being then, or after beneficed in South Wales; but after the Rebellion broke out, he suffered for his Loyalty, and at length was sequestered from his Spiritualities. He hath written,  
Strena Vavasoriensis: or, a New-year's gift for the Welsh Itinerants. Or an hue and cry after Mr. Vavasor powel Metrapolitan of the Itinerants, and one of the Executioners of the Gospel by colour of the late Act for the propagation thereof in Wales, etc. Lond. 1654. in 4 sh. in qu. Therein is a true relation of the birth, course of life and doctrine of the said Vav. powel.  
A true and perfect relation of the whole transaction concerning the petition of the six Counties of South Wales, and the County of Monmouth, formerly presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for a supply of Godly Ministers; and an account of Ecclesiastical revenues therein, etc. Lond. 1654. in 7. sh. and half in qu. He is supposed also to be Author of, or at least to have had a hand in, a Pamphlet entit.— Mercurius Cambro-Britannicus: or, News from Wales, touching the miraculous propagation of the Gospel in those parts, etc. Lond. 1652. in 3 sh. in qu. 
Clar. 1654.  Of what other things he is the Author, or promoter, I know not, nor whether he lived to be restored to his Spiritualities.  
ROBERT GENTILIS Son of Aubrey Gentilis mentioned among these Writers under the year 1611. p. 314: was born in London, matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 19 of Apr. 1599, in the ninth year of his age, took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of Jesus Coll. in the beginning of July 1603, was translated to S. John's Coll. soon after, and became Collector in the Lent following for Proctor W. Laud of that House. Thence he was elected Probationer Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1607, by the endeavours of his Father, who got him sped into that house by an argument in Law, as being under the statutable years. In the said Coll. he continued for some time, took a degree in the Civil Law, but turned a Rakehell, became King of the beggars for a time, and so much given up to sordid liberty, if not downright wickedness, that he not only spent all that he could get from his Father, (whom he would often abuse) but also afterwards what he could get from his Mother, to whom also he was very disobedient, as she in her last will confesseth. Afterwards he traveled beyond the Seas, took up and became a sober man; and at his return, was a retainer to the Royal Court, and received a Pension from the King. He hath translated from Ital. into English. (1) The history of the inquisition. Lond. 1639. qu. written by Paul Servita. (2) Of the success and chief events of the Monarchy of Spain, and of the revolt of the Catalonians. Lond: 1639. in tw. written by Marquis Virgilio Malvezzi. (3) Considerations on the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lond. 1650. in tw. written by the same Author. Also from French into English Le Chemia abrege: or, a compendious method for the attaining of sciences in a short time, together with the Statutes of the Academy founded by the Cardinal of Richelieu. Lond. 1654. oct. And lastly from Spanish, as it seems, into English, 
Clar. 1654.  The antipathy between the French and the Spaniard. Lond. 1641. in tw. Ded. by the translator to Sir Paul Pindar Kt, to whom in his Epist. he promiseth something that shall be his own invention, that is to publish something of his own writing, but whether he was as good as his word, I know not. One Robert Gentilis a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of Pontfract in Yorkshire wrote a book of Homilies, and therefore is numbered 
(*) Vide in Append. illustrium Angliae scriptorum per Jo. Pitseum, cent. 4. nu. 9  among our English Writers, but Quaere whether he was not an Outlander.  
HUGH ROBINSON born in S. Mary's Parish in the County of Anglesie, educated in Grammatical learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll, after he had served two years of Probation, an. 1605, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1611, and about 3 years after leaving his College, he became chief Master of Winchester School, afterwards Archdeacon of Winton, Canon of Wells, D of Diu. and Archdeacon of Gloucester in the place, as it seems, of Sam. Burton deceased. In the beginning of the Civil War when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant, he sided with them, took the Covenant, and having lost in the War time the profits of his Canonry and Archdeaconry, obtained the rectory of Hinton near Winchester in Hampshire, whence a Loyal Person a little before had been ejected. He was an excellent Linguist, able Divine, and very well seen in ancient Histories. His works are these.  
Preces. written for the use of the children of Winchester School in Lat. and Engl.  
Grammaticalia quaedam, in Lat. and Engl.  
Antiquae Historiae Synopsis. All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct.  
Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae. The latin phrases of Winchester School, etc. Lond. 1654. 64. oct. published by Nich. Robinson (his Son)  
Annalium mundi universalium, etc. Tomus Unicus, lib. 14. absolutus, etc. Lond. 1677. fol. Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury, he did, by the King's command, revise, amend, and fill it up with many things that were wanting. He hath also written something in vindication of the Scotch Covenant, which I have not yet seen; nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he dying on the same day, on which James Duke of Richmond died, (so have I been informed by 
(*) The Wife of Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Greencloth to K. Ch. 2.  his Daughter) which was the 30 of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five, 
1655.  was buried near to, and within, the North door of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near to London. In his Archdeaconry of Gloc. succeeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him succeeded Edw. Pope, who dying in Jan. 1671, John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded.  
CHRISTOPHER BENNET Son of Joh. Bennet of Raynton in Somersetsh. was born there, or in that County, became a Com. of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term in the year 1632, and that of his age 15, took the degrees in Arts, entered on the Physic line, but doctorated in that faculty elsewhere. Afterwards he was made a member of the Coll. of Physicians at London, and much frequented for his practice in that City. His works are,  
Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum, etc. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Exercitationes Dianocticae cum historias demonstrativis, quibus alimentorum & sanguinis vitia deleguntur in plerisque morbis, etc. Lond. 1655. He hath also corrected and enlarged, Health's improvement: or, rules comprising and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this Nation. Lond. 1655. qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet. This Dr. Bennet was buried on the second day of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five, in S. Gregory's Church near to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London, 
1655.  leaving then behind him, as 'tis said, one or more things fit for the press.  
EDWARD WOOD Son of Tho. Wood alias à Wood or Awood Bachelaur of Arts and of the Civ. Law of this University, by Maria la Petite commonly called Petty, his Wife, (descended from a gentile and ancient Family in the County of Oxon) was born in the Parish of S. John Bapt. in an house opposite to the forefront of Mert. Coll. within the University of Oxon, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame under his kinsman Will. Burt M. A, (afterwards Warden of the Coll. near Winton and D. of D.) elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1648, and in 1655 was installed one of the Proctors of the University, being then noted for a good Disputant, Orator, and Preacher. His works are,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Of the knowledge of God by the book of nature, in two Sermons on Rom. 1.19.20. Oxon. 1656. and 74. oct. (2) Of the knowledge of Jesus Christ by the book of Scripture, in two Serm. on 2. Tim. 3.16.17.— printed with the former two Sermons. (3) His last Sermon Preached at S. Mary's in Oxon 20. March 1654. on Philip. 3.8. first part— printed also with the former Sermons. All which were then acceptable to the generality for the good practical divinity contained in them, but since not. He died in his Proctorship on the 22 of the Month of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five, 
1655.  aged 28 years (he being then the eldest of my Brethren) and was buried two days after in Mert. Coll. Church, not far from the grave of his Father; at which time were present the whole body of Convocation and Juniors of the University.  
JOHN ANGEL was born, as I conceive, in Glocestersh. where receiving part of his juvenile Education, made his first entry into Magd. Hall about the beginning of the year 1610. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and holy Orders, became a frequent and painful Preacher. At length about 1630 being made a Lecturer at Leycester, continued there several years, a Man mighty in Word and Doctrine among the Puritannical Brethren of that place, till about the year 1650, at which time being forced by the Independent faction to leave his place, because he refused to take the Engagement, the Company of Mercers in London gave him a call, and chose him Lecturer of Grantham in Lincolnshire; (it being one of the Lectures that had been given to the said Company by Vicountess Camden) whereupon settling at that place he shone (as 'tis 
(a) T. B. in the pref. to The right Government of the thoughts, etc.  said) as a burning light, until God translated him to shine above as a Star for ever. To which may be added, that as his name was Angel, so (saith another 
(b) Tho. Case in his pref. to The morning exercise; or, some short notes, etc.  of his persuasion) he was a man indeed of angelical understanding and holiness, a burning and shining light, etc. He hath written,  
The right government of the thoughts: or, a discovery of all vain, unprofitable, idle, and wicked thoughts, etc. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Four Sermons (1) The right ordering of the conversation, two Sermons on Psal. 50, last verse (2) Fun. Sermon at the burial of John Lord Darcey, 27. Aug. 1636. on Psal. 39.5. (3) Preparation to the Communion, on 1. Cor. 11.28.— All printed at Lond. 1659. oct. He was buried in the Church at Grantham beforemention'd, on the sixth day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five; 
1655.  at which time being attended to his grave by many Divines of the neighbourhood, Mr. Laur. Sarson Bach. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. did then deliver before them a large oration of mortality, and in praise of the Defunct. This Mr. Angel, who had the year before his death been appointed by Parliament an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lincolnshire for the ejection of such, who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters, was several times heard to say before he fell sick, that it was his great desire to live to see the conclusion of the year 1660, hinting that he was very confident that then would be great revolutions in the Kingdom of England.  
THOMAS WIDOW'S Son of Thom. Wid. Brother, I think, to Giles, mentioned under the year 1645. p. 44, was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire, entered a Student in Gloc. Hall in 1626. aged 14 years, where continuing about 8 Terms was made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen Precedent thereof. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, he was by the endeavours of the same Person made Master of the College School at Gloucester in the place of Joh. Langley an. 1640. at which time Dr. Frewen was Dean of the Cath. Church there. But Widows being soon after outed for his Loyalty, he became Minister of Woodstock, and Master of the School there, founded by Rich. Cornwell Citizen and Skinner of Lond. 27. Eliz. dom. 1585. where continuing for some time was removed to the Free school at Northleech in Glocestershire, a place of more value. He hath written,  
The just Devil o● Woodstock: or, a true narrative of the several apparitions, the frights and punishments, inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither to survey the Manors and Houses belonging to his Majesty. Lond. 1649. qu. It is a diary, which was exactly kept by the Author for his own satisfaction, intending not to print it. But after his death the copy coming into the hands of another Person, 'twas printed in Dec. 1660, and had the year 1649 put in the bottom of the title, as if it had been then printed. The names of the Commissioners were Cockaine, Hart, Unton Croke, Careless, and Roe Captains; Rich. Croak the Lawyer, afterwards Recorder of Oxon. and Browne the surveyor. The Book is very impartially written, and therefore worth the reading by all, especially the many Atheists of this age. Our Author also hath written,  
A short survey of Woodstock— Taken from ancient Authors, and printed with the former. He hath also written, as I have been told certain matters pertaining to the faculty of Grammar, for the use of his Scholars, which I have not yet seen. He was buried in the Church of Northleech beforemention'd on the 26. of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five. 
1655.  In the year 1649 was printed in one sheet in qu. a Poem intit. The Woodstock scuffle: or, most dreadful apparitions that were lately seen in the Manor-house of Woodstock near Oxford, etc. the beginning of which is, It were a wonder if one writes, etc. but who the Author of it was, I cannot tell.  
JOHN LATCH a Sommersetshire man born, descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County, was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly, as I have been informed, in S. john's Coll, where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature. Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple, studied the municipal Laws, but being very sickly, lived a solitary and studious life, and improved his natural talon as much as his abilities of body would permit. He hath written,  
Reports of divers causes, adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the King's bench. Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes (as it seems) in Middlesex, in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five, 
1655.  and was buried in the Church there. Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion, partly, if not altogether, by the persuasion of one called Francis Harvey (whose right Surname was Hanmer) a pretended Solicitor, and a Broker for letting out money, esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit, for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus. Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch, who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew, and others entrusted by the R. Catholics. What the event of the matter was, I know not, only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison, for conveying away his Will, and the matter itself was examined by the Protector in Sept. following.  
FRANCIS GOLDSMITH or Goldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. gold's. of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq. Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight, was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Tailor's School, became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629, was soon after translated to S. John's Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts, to Greys' Inn, where he studied the common Law several years, but other learning more, and wrote.  
Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus, or Joseph, a Tragedy. Lond. 1652. oct. Which Trag. was, with annotations, printed then in English. He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father, in verse and prose, with Epitaphs, and also his Catechism into English verse, intit. Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia, etc. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention'd. See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers, under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five, 
1655.  was, I presume, buried there, leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine, afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight. His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention'd.  
TOBY MATHEW the eldest Son of Dr. Tob. Math. Archb. of York, by Frances his Wife Daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes Bishop of Chichester, was born, as it seems, in Oxon. while his Father was Dean of Ch. Church, matriculated as a member of that house in the beginning of March 1589, being then eleven years of age, and the year following had a Students place conferred on him. By the benefit of a good Tutor and pregnant parts, he became a noted Orator and Disputant, and taking the degrees in Arts, he afterwards traveled into various Countries beyond the Seas. At his return he was esteemed a well qualified Gentleman, and to be one well versed in the affairs of other Nations. At length leaving the Church of England by the persuasions of Fath. Parsons the Jesuit, to the great grief of his Father, he entered himself into the Society of Jesus, but whether he took holy Orders is yet to me uncertain. Afterwards growing famous for his eminency in the Politics, he came into England upon invitation, in January 1621., to the end that the King might 
(a) Camd. in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1622.  make use of his assistance in certain matters of State. On the 10. of Octob. 1623. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. then at Royston, for his great zeal in carrying on the Spanish match to be had with Prince Charles; at which time, not only the King, but the chief of the Nobility, and others at Court, had a high value for him, and so continued for several years after. He was highly valued by the most noble Tho. Earl of Strafford, with whom he went into Ireland and continued there for some time, to the end, that his advice and counsel might be used; which, though advantageous in several respects to that generous Count, yet it was disliked by many, especially those of the precise party, after they had understood Tob. Mathew's character from one Andr. ab Habernfield in a pretended discovery 
(b) See in Rome's Masterpiece, etc. published by W. Prynne, 1643. p. 19.20.  of a plot of treason against the King, sent in a Letter from Sir Will. Boswell his Majesty's Agent at the Hague to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, in the month of Octob. 1640, which runs thus, Sir Tob. Matthew a Jesuited Priest, of the order of Politicians, a most vigilant man of the chief Heads, to whom a bed was never so dear that he would rest his head thereon, refreshing his body with sleep in a chair for an hour or two; neither day nor night, spared he his machinations, a man principally noxious, and himself the plague of the King and Kingdom of England; a most impudent man, who flies to all banquets and feasts, called or not called; never quiet, always in action and perpetual motion, thrusting himself into all conversations of superiors. He urgeth conferences familiarly, that he might fish out the minds of men. Whatever he observeth thence, which may bring any commodity or discommodity to the part of the conspirators, he communicates to the Pope's Legate, and the more secret things he himself writes to the Pope, or to Cardinal Barbarino. In sum he adjoins himself to any man's company, no word can be spoken, that he will not lay hold on, and communicate to his Party. In the mean time whatever he hath fished out, he reduceth into a Catalogue, and every Summer carrieth it to the general consistory of the Politician Jesuits, which secretly meet together in Wales, where he is an acceptable guest. etc. He was a Person extremely hated by the Presbyterians, and more especially by Prynne, who spared not to say, because he was acquainted with Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. that he was sent into England by the Pope (Urban the 8. with whom he was in great esteem) to reconcile England to the Church of Rome; in which work also, he (as they further say) received a Pension from the said Card. Barbarino the Protector of the English Nation at Rome. But letting these bare reports pass, I shall only tell you that he had all his Father's name, and many of his natural parts; was also one of considerable learning, good memory and sharp wit, mixed with a pleasant affability in behaviour, and a seeming sweetness of mind, though sometimes, according to the company he was in, pragmatical and a little too forward. He hath written and translated several things, but all that I have yet either seen or heard of, are only these.  
A rich Cabinet of precious Jewels.— When printed (unless in 1623.) or where, I know not.  
A collection of Letters. Lond. 1660. oct.  
Character of the most excellent Lady, Lucy Countess of Carlisle— Printed with the collection: She being the Goddess that he adored, was the reason why Sir John Suckling brought him into the Poem called The Session (or Court) of Poets, thus.  
Toby Mathews (Pox 
(c) 'Twas the word that he often used in company.  on him) what made him there?  
Was whispering 
(d) 'Twas his custom always to be whispering in company.  something in somebody's ear  
When he had the honour to be named in court,  
But Sir you may thank my Lady Carlisle fort.  
The said Lucy was Daughter of Hen. Percy Earl of Northumberland, who dying issueless in Nou. 1660, was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex by her Ancestors.  
Letters to several Persons▪ Lond. 1660. oct. printed with the collection and character, with his picture before them. Among which letters, are perhaps those of his writing in the Cabala, Mysteries of state, published in 1654., and in the Cabala or Scrinia Sacra, printed at Lond. 1663. He also wrote a book to show the benefit that proceeds from washing the head every morning in cold water; which I have not yet seen, and had gone far in the History of the late times, but leaving it imperfect, it never yet saw light. He translated into English (1) S. Augustine's confessions, printed in oct. sold in 1624. (about which time it was printed) for sixteen shillings a Copy, though as one 
(e) Joh. Gee, in a Cat. of Popish Books, at the end of his Book called The foot out of the snare.  saith it might have been afforded for 2 s. 6 d. (2) The Life of S. Teresa pr. about 1623. in oct. (3) The penitent Bandito: or, the history of the conversion and death of the most illustrious Lord Signior Troilo Savelli a Baron of Rome. printed about the same time. The second edit. of it came forth in 1663. in oct. He also translated into the Italian tongue, The Essays of Francis Lord Bacon, printed at Lond. in oct. He concluded his last day at Gaunt in Flanders on the 13. of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and five, (according to the account they there follow) in the house of the third probation of the English FF of the society of Jesus, 
1655.  and was buried in a Vault under the Church belonging to them, without any kind of pomp or splendour in funeral, according to his will. On his Coffin of wood, was a leaden plate fastened, with this written thereon, Hic jacet D. Tobias Matthaei.  
JEROM TURNER Son of George Turner was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire, educated in Grammar learning there, made his first entry into the University in Easter term 1633 aged 18 years, and soon after being made Batler of S. Edmund's Hall, took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member thereof, in the year 1636 and completed it by Determination. Not long after he became Schoolmaster of Beer (belonging to Seaton in Devon) where also he preached as an Assistant to his very good Friend Hugh Gundrey his Father's kinsman, for the space of two years. Thence he removed to Axmonth in the said County, where he served as an Assistant also to Will. Hook then Minister of that place, (afterwards in New England, and at length Master of the Savoy in the Strand near London) with whom he continued about two years more. From thence he removed to Compton two miles from the place of his nativity, where he continued a while, and thence removed to Sir Thom. Trenchard to be his Chaplain, continuing there till 1641, about which time, the Civ. War breaking out, he was forced to fly to Southampton for refuge, where he continued during the heat of the Wars, and preached with the great approbation of the Presbyterian Ministers and People there. So much, it seems, they were taken with his Sermons, that they earnestly persuaded him to print an exposition he had made on the first Chapter of the Epistle of S. Paul to the Ephesians, but he could not be prevailed upon to do it. The Wars being over, and Neitherbury a great country Parish in Dorsetshire being void of a Minister, he, by the solicitations of friends went thither, and became their Pastor in the beginning of Oct. 1646, where he continued a constant Preacher, doing good in his zealous way to his dying day. His love to learning was very great, and his delight to exercise himself was greater than his weak body could bear. He had a strong memory, which he maintained good to the last by temperance. He was well skilled in Greek and Hebrew, was a fluent 
(f) Pastor vigilantiss. doctrina & pietate insignis, etc. So Fred. Lossius a Physician of Dorchester in his Observationes Medicinales. Lond. 1672. oct. lib. 2. observat. 7. p. 121.  Preacher, but too much addicted to Calvinisme. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
A Breastplate for the keeping of the heart; being the substance of certain Sermons on Prov. 4.23. former part. Lond. 1660. in oct.  
A rich treasury for the promises, being the substance of other Sermons on Micah 7.19. Lond. 1660. oct. Some, or all, of these Sermons, were published in 1650. in oct. Which two treatises (The Breastplate and Rich treasury) were published by Hugh Gundrey beforemention'd and one Joseph Crabb, who dedicated them to William Lord Sydenham, a member of oliver's Council, one of his Lords, and sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University.  
Exposition on the first Chapt. of the Epist. of S. Paul to the Ephesians— whether this was published after his death I cannot tell. He paid his last debt to nature on the 27 of Novemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and five, 
1655.  and was buried (I suppose) in the Church of Neitherbury, having before married Joan, the Daugh. of George Scullard of Rumsey in Hampshire, and been appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Dorsetshire and Pool, for the ejection of such whom the godly party called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters.  
GILES WORKMAN Son of Will. Workm. was born at Newton-Bagpath in Glocestershire, entered a Batler in Magd. Hall in the year of his age 18, dom. 1623., took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became Vicar of Wallford in Herefordshire, Master of the College School in Gloucester, and at length by the favour of Matth. Hale Esq. (afterwards L. Ch. Just. of the Kings-bench) he became Rector of Alderley in Glocestershire. He hath written,  
A modest examination of laymen's preaching, discovered to be neither warranted by the Word of God, nor allowed by the judgement or practice of the Churches of Christ in New England, etc. Lond. 1646. in about 6. sh. in qu. What else he hath published, unless one or more Sermons, which I have not yet seen, I know not, nor any thing besides, only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and five (as his eldest Son hath informed me) was buried in the Church of Alderley beforemention'd. 
1655.  This Person who was a quiet and peaceable Puritan had a Brother called John Workman a schismatical Lecturer in Gloucester, who by meddling with things indifferent, created not only a trouble to his Diocesan, but to the Archb. of Canterbury, as you may fully see in Canterbury's Doom.  
THOMAS WILLIS whom some pedagogical Writers call Volentius, was born of a gentile Family of his name living at Fenny compton in Warwickshire, began to be conversant with the Muses in S. john's Coll, in Easter term 1602, aged 19 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, and soon after became Schoolmaster at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex, where he spent near 50 years of his time in the instruction of youth, for whose use he wrote these things following.  
Vestibulum Linguae Latinae. A Dictionary for Children, consisting of two parts, etc. containing near ten thousand words, besides thrice the number derived from, and known by, them etc. Lond. 1651. oct.  
Phraseologia Anglo-Latina. Anglicisms latinized etc. Lond. 1655. oct. This is the same which hath another title sometimes set to it, running thus. Proteus vinctus. 
Clar▪ 1655.  Sive aequivoca sermonis Anglicani, ordine alphabetico digesta, & latin reddita. To this Book was afterwards added— Paraemilogia Anglo-latina. Or, a collection of Engl. and Lat. Proverbs and proverbial sayings matched together. Both which were printed in one Vol. at Lond. 1672. oct. This last was wrote with a design to supply what was defective and wanting in our Author Willis his Phraseologia, etc. by Will. Walker, bred up in School learning under Joh. Clerk Bach. of Diu. sometimes public Schoolmaster of Lincoln, afterwards teacher of a private School in Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire and a Writer of school-books: under whom he the said Walker being ripened for the University, was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, where he took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity; afterwards he became Master of the public School at Lowth in Lincolnshire, (founded by K. Ed. 6.) then Rector of Colsterworth in the same County by the donation of Dr. Tho. Pierce, as Prebendary, I think, of Lincoln, (who had been for several years a great encourager of Mr. Walker's useful studies) and at length Master of the Free-school at Grantham, where he continued to the time of his death which happened in the beginning of January, or thereabouts, an. 1684. This person, who was very useful in his generation, hath written and published, (1) Treatise of English Particles, several times printed. (2) Troposchematologiae Rhetoricae libri duo. Lond. 1668. dedic. to his Patron Dr. Pierce▪ before mentioned. (3) Explanations of the Royal, commonly called Lillyes, Grammar, in two parts. Lond. 1670. 74. oct. (4) Modest plea for Infant Baptism. Cantab. 1677. in tw. (5) English Examples of the Lat. Syntaxis, etc. Lond. 1683. oct. with his picture before it; aged 59 years; and other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen, particularly his Dictionary of English and Latin Idioms, and his book intit. De argumentorum inventione libri duo, etc. in oct.  
ROBERT MATON son of Will. Maton of Tudworth in Wilts, was born in that County, became a Commoner of Wadh. Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1623., aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards holy Orders, but where beneficed, unless in his own Country, I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, but that, as to opinion, he was always in his heart a Millinery, which he never discovered in public till the Rebellion broke out, and then the Press being open for all Opinions, he published these things following.  
Israel's Redemption: or, a prophetical history of our Saviour's Kingdom on earth, that is of the Church Catholic, and Triumphant, on Acts 1.6. Lond. 1642. oct.  
Discourse of Gog and Magog, or the battle of the great day of God Almighty, on Ezek. 38.2.— Printed with the former book.  
Comment on the 20 chap. of the Rev. Lond. 1652. quart.  
Israel's Redemption redeemed: or, the Jews general and miraculous Conversion to the faith of the Gospel, and return into their own Land, and our Saviour's personal reign on Earth, proved from the Old and New Test. etc. of purpose to satisfy all Gainsayers, and particularly Mr. Alex. Petrie Minister of the Scottish Church at Rotterdam. Divided in two parts. Lond. 1646. qu. Which book being answered by the said Petrie, it came out again under this title with additions and amendments, 
Clar. 1655.  A Treatise of the fifth Monarchy: or Christ's personal reign on Earth one thousand years with his Saints, etc. Lond. 1655. qu.  
JOHN HALES a younger son of Joh. Hales, (Steward to the family of the Horners in Somersetshire) eldest son of Edw. Hales of Highchurch in the said County, son of Jo. Hales of the same place, son of Rich. Hales, by his wife the daughter of Beauchamp; was born in the Parish of S. James within the City of bath and educated in Grammar Learning there. At 13 years of age he was sent to the University in the beginning of the year 1597, and was for some time a Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. At length the prodigious pregnancy of his parts being discovered by the Hedge-beaters of Sir Hen. Savile, he was encouraged by them to stand for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. Whereupon an Election being appointed and made in 1605 (3 Jac. 1.) and all the Candidates sifted and examined to the utmost, he was the first that was chosen. In which Election, as he showed himself a person of Learning above his age and standing, so thro' the whole course of his Bachellourship there was never any one in the then memory of man (so I have been informed by certain Seniors of that Coll. at my first coming thereunto) that ever went beyond him for subtle Disputations in Philosophy, for his eloquent Declamations and Orations; as also for his exact knowledge in the Greek Tongue, evidently demonstrated afterwards, not only when he read the Greek Lecture in that Coll. but also the public Lecture of that Tongue in the Schools. His profound learning and natural endowments, (not that I shall take notice of his affability, sweetness of nature and complaisance, which seldom accompany hard Students and Critics) made him beloved of all good men, particularly of Savile before mentioned, who found him, though young, serviceable in his Edition of S. Chrysostom's Works, and therefore often-mentioned with honour by that noted Grecian Andrew Downes Greek Professor of Cambridge. Afterwards he was made Fellow of Eton Coll, partly, if I mistake not, by the help of Savile, and partly by Sir Dudley Carleton, with whom he went, in the quality of Chaplain, when he was sent Ambassador to the United Provinces, at what time the Synod of Dort was celebrated, an. 1618., where our Author Hales did good service in several respects, so far as his capacity did permit him. From that time till about the year 1638, no great matters occur memorable of him, only his acquaintance with Will. Chillingworth, whom he assisted in his great work, as I shall anon tell you, which made him to be noted among the learned, especially for certain opinions that were not thought fit to be by him entertained. In that year, I say, Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, who had received cognisance of his great worth, did send for him to Lambeth, sifted, and ferreted him about from one hole to another, in certain matters of Religion that he partly then, but more in his younger days, maintained: And finding him an absolute Master of Learning, made him, upon his compliance, one of his Chaplains, and procured a Canonry of Windsor for him, installed therein 27 of June 1639. which, with his Fellowship, was all that this most incomparable person, whom I may justly style a walking Library, enjoyed. He was a man highly esteemed by learned men beyond, and within, the Seas, from whom he seldom failed to receive Letters every week, wherein his judgement was desired as to several points of Learning. He was a very hard Student to the last, and a great Faster, it being his constant custom to fast from Thursday dinner to Saturday: And though a person of wonderful knowledge, yet he was so modest, as to be patiently contented to hear the disputes of persons at table, and those of small abilities, without interposing or speaking a word, till desired. As for his justness and uprightness in his dealings, all that knew, have avouched him to be incomparable: For when he was Bursar of his Coll. and had received bad money, he would lay it aside, and put good of his own in the room of it to pay to others. Insomuch that sometimes he has thrown into the River 20 and 30 l. at a time. All which he hath stood to, to the loss of himself, rather than others of the Society should be endamaged. After the Civil War began, occasioned by the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians, he was turned out of all, and into his Fellowship was thrust in by the Authority of Parliament, one Penwarden, who being afterwards touched in conscience for the wrong he had done so worthy a person by eating his bread, went and voluntarily would have resigned up the place again to him, but Mr. Hales refused, telling him, that the Parliament having put him out, he was resolved never to be put in again by them. As for his Canonry of Windsor, it laid void till his Majesty's Restauration, an. 1660, and than 'twas bestowed on Anth. Hawles D. D. sometimes of Queens Coll. in Oxon. At length he being reduced to necessity, was forced to sell the best part of his most admirable Library (which cost him 2500 l.) to Cornelius Be of London Bookseller, for 700 l. only, as I have been informed by persons of unquestionable veracity. 'Tis true that one of the Sedleian Family of Kent did invite him to live in his Family, with an Allowance of 100 l. per an, the keeping of two Horses and a Servants diet, but he being wedded to a retired and studious life, refused to accept of that generous offer; yet about that time he accepted of a quarter of that Salary, with his diet, in the family of one Madam Salter (Sister, if I mistake not, to Dr. Duppa B. of Sarum) who lived near Eton, purposely that he should instruct her son Will. Salter; but he being blockish, Hales could do nothing upon him. Afterwards a Declaration issuing out, prohibiting all persons from harbouring Malignants, that is Royalists, he left that Family, notwithstanding the Lady desired him to the contrary, telling him, that she would undergo all danger that might ensue by harbouring him, and retiring to Eton, he took up his quarters and sojourned in an house next to the Christopher Inn, belonging then to Hannah the widow of John Dickenson, (a Servant from his youth to our Author Hales) and afterwards the wife and widow of one Sim. Powney; which Hannah was very careful of, and respectful to, him, as having formerly at her Marriage received of his bounty. Other persons of the loyal party, would have exhibited to, had they not been equal sharers in affliction with, him, and therefore it was that he died in an obscure condition, much pitied by many then in being, but by more in the next generation, particularly by such (which you'll say is a wonder) that were no friends to the Church of England, who did 
(a) See in the Rehearsal transprosed, written by Andr. marvel, pr. 1672. p. 175.  reckon it not one of the least ignominies of that age, that so eminent a person of the Church of England (as Hales was) should have been by the iniquity of the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived, etc. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never die a Martyr, yet he was known to live a Confessor, and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England. The Publisher 
(b) Dr. Jo. Pearson B. of Chester in his Preface to Jo. Hales his Remaines.  of his Remains doth tell us, that He was a man of as great sharpness, quickness, and stability of wit, as ever this, or perhaps any, Nation bred. His Industry did strive, if it were possible, to equal the largeness of his capacity. Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation, which furnished him with a judgement beyond the vulgar reach of man. So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit, of a vast and illimited knowledge, of a severe and profound judgement, etc. He tells us also, that he was true and just in his secular Transactions, and charitable beyond example, and as a Christian, none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel, because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he. That he was solicited to write, and thereby to teach the World, but would resolve against it; yet did not hide his Talon, being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit, and 
(c) Pet. Heylyn in his Life and death of Dr. W. Laud Archb. of Cant. under the year 1638.  was as communicative of his Knowledge, as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences. When the King and Court resided at Windsor, he was much frequented by Noblemen and Courtiers, who delighted much in his company, not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning, but for his polite Discourses, Stories and Poetry, in which last, 'tis supposed, he was excellent; for a noted 
(d) Sir Joh. Suckling in his Fragm. aurea, or Poems. Lond. 1648. p. 10.  Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets, thus: 
Hales set by himself most gravely did smile,  
To see them about nothing keep such a coil,  
Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind,  
Past by and called Falkland 
(e) Lucius' Lord Falkland.  that sat just behind.  Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales, have said, that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw, that it was sanguine, cheerful, and full of air: Also that his stature was little and well proportioned, and his motion quick and nimble. And they have verily supposed, that had not Extremities contributed to the shortening of his days, Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more. The things that he hath written are these.  
Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii, 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives, published by Dr. Will. Bates.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. at S. Mary's on Tuesday in Easter week, on Pet. 3.16. Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others▪ which you may see in his Remains. One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duels extant, on Numb. 35.33. which I take to be the same with our Author, yet it is not printed in his said Remains. Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture, etc. Quaere.  
Dissertatio de pace & concordia Ecclesiae. Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw. This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors, is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place, as his Brevis disquisitio, and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author.  
Brevis disquisitio, an & quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios, ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium, solidè atque evidenter refutare queant. Eleuth. 1633. in 16. This book containeth, as the Puritan then said, Sundry, both Socinian and Pelagian Points, as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero: And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection, besides other points, etc. 'Tis true that certain of the principal Tenants were cunningly inserted therein, pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome.  
A Tract concerning Schism and Schismatics, wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism.— All or most of this Pamphlet was taken, as 'tis said, from Socinus, and written about the year 1636, partly, as some think, out of discontent, that he had no preferment conferred on him, partly, as others say, for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church, and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth, who desired some such matter of, to be used by, him, in the composition of his book intit. The Religion of Protestants, etc. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand, and one coming into those of Dr. Laud, he therefore sent for him, as I have already told you, entered into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein, and being drawn over to his mind, our Author Hales, as 'tis 
(f) Sam. Parker in his Reproof to the Rehearsal transprosed, p. 135.  said, recanted, and was then resolved (though before inconstant) to be orthodox, and to declare 
(g) Pet. Heylyn, as before, an. 1638.  himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline. This Tract was afterwards published without a name, in one large sh. in qu. an. 1642, when the Press was open for every Opinion. And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved, nor are Lovers of, the Ch. of Engl. as (1) E. S. in his Irenicum. (2) Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists. (3) The Author of Separation no Schism, wrote against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor, on Rom. 14.19. (4) Andr. Marvel in his Rehearsal transprosed, part 1. etc. So that advantage being taken by it, and the Tract several times printed, some of the orthodox Clergy have answered it; among which have been (1) Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion 
(h) Printed at Lond. 1677. oct.  of Schism in two letters. The last of which is against Hales. (2) Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist, but more largely in his book intit. Mr. Hales' Treatise of Schism examined and censured, etc. One Philip Scot also, a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England, Amsterd. 1650. in tw. but he goes another way to work. See more in Will. Page among these Writers, under the year 1663.  
Golden Remains. Lond. 1659. 73. 88 oct. These Remains consist of Sermons, Miscellanies, Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort, etc.  
Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost. Lond. 1677. oct.  
Tract conc. the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.— A just censure of which you may see in a book intit. An account of the Greek Church, etc. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169.  
Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel.  
Tract concerning the Power of the Keys, and Auricular Confession.  
Miscellanies.— With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mentioned, according to the orig. copy. These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost. At length having lived to the age of seventy and two years, concluded his last day at Eton, in the house of Hannah Powney before mentioned, on Monday the nineteenth day of May, at about eight of the clock at night, in sixteen hundred fifty and six, and was, according to his desire, 
1656▪  buried (but little better than in private) in Eton College Churchyard. Over his grave was afterwards an Altar Monument erected, at the charge of one Pet. Curwen sometimes a Scholar of Eton and his great Admirer, with an Inscription thereon, which partly runs thus: Musarum & charitum amor Johannes Halesius (nomen non tam hominis quam scientiae) hic non jacet, at lutum quod assumpsit optimum infra ponitur, nam certe supra mortales emicuit moribus suavissimis, ingenio subtilissimo, pectore pleno sapuit mundo sublimior adeoque aptior Angelorum choro, etc.  
WILLIAM HOWE. son of Will. How, was born in London, educated in Merchant Tailor's School, became a Commoner of S. John's Coll. in 1637, and in that of his age 18, or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, entered upon the Physic line, bore Arms for his Maj. King Ch. 1. in Oxon, at what time the generality of Scholars then remaining in the University did the like; and being very forward in expressing his Loyalty, was afterwards made Captain of a Troop of Horse. But upon the declining of his Majesty's Cause, he desisted, prosecuted his study in Physic, retired to London, practised that Faculty, first in S. Laurence Lane, and then in Milkstreet, and was commonly called by the name of Doctor whither. This person being a noted Herbalist or Simpler of his time, wrote and published,  
Phytologia Britannica, natales exhibens indiginarum stirpium sponte emergentium. Lond. 1650. oct. and obtained, corrected and published a book of Matthew de L'obell the King's Botanist, intit. Stirpium illustrationes; plurimas elaborantes inauditas plantas, subreptitiis Jo. Parkinsoni rapsodiis (ex codice Ms. insalutato) sparsim gravatae, etc. Lond. 1655. qu. before which our Author How put an Epistle to the Reader. He died in his house in Milkstreet in the month of Aug. or beginning of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six, 
1656.  and was buried, according to his will, I suppose, in the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster, in a grave at least six foot deep, on the left side of the body of his Mother. He left behind him a choice Library of books of his Faculty, but how they were bestowed I cannot tell.  
JOHN PENDARVES son of Jo. Pend. of Crowan in the County of Cornwall, was born there, or at least in that County, admitted a poor Scholar or Servitor of Exeter Coll. on the eleventh of Decemb. in the year 1637 and in that of his age 15, where by the benefit of a good Tutor, he became a tolerable Disputant. In the latter end of 1641 he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, and completed it by Determination. At which time all things in the Nation tending to a confusion, he left the Coll. in July 1642, sided with the rout, and by a voluble tongue having obtained the way of canting, went up and down (unsent for) preaching in houses, barns, under trees, hedges, etc. At length after several changes, he settled his mind on Anabaptism, and having got a numerous multitude of Disciples, made himself head of them▪ defied all Authority, contradicted and opposed all orthodox Ministers in their respective Offices and Employments, challenged them to prove their calling, and spared not many times to interrupt them in their Pulpits, and to urge them to disputes. At length after several Challenges, Jasp. Main D. D. of Ch. Church (who had been much troubled with him at Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire) undertook to be his Respondent. So that the eleventh of Sept. 1652, being appointed for the Encounter in the Church at Watlington, were present innumerable people on each side; but Pendarves being backed with a great party of Anabaptists and the scum of the People, who behaved themselves very rude and insolent, the Disputation was so interrupted, that it came to nothing. This Fellow (who was Lecturer at Wantage, and Pastor to the Anabaptists at Abendon in Berkshire) though he accounted himself a true born English man, yet he was so ill deserving to be reckoned so, as that like to another Herostratus, he (with his brethren) did endeavour by raising a desperate combustion to utterly undo the distressed and tottering Church of England, which in few years before was accounted glorious and renowned. And as we may really suppose that he did these things to no other end but to gain wealth and make himself famous to posterity; so would it, (I know) be accounted worthy by some, if my omission of his name could bury him in oblivion. But so it is, that his Works are fled abroad, and have been, and are yet, entertained by, and taken into the hands of, many; and therefore if I should do it 'twould be to little purpose. The titles of such that I have seen are these.  
Arrows against Babylon: or, Queries serving to a clear discovery of the Mystery of iniquity, Lond. 1656. qu. Answered by Will. Ley Minister of Wanting alias Wantage, Christop. Fowler of Reading and Joh. Tickell of Abendon, in Berks.  
Endeavours for reformation in Saints apparel.  
Queries for the People called Quakers.— These last two are printed with the Arrows against Babylon.  
Prefatory Epistle to a book intit. The Prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophesying to the Saints and Professors of this generation, etc. Lond. 1656. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Of the fear of the Lord, on Rev. 15. former part of the fourth verse. Lond. 1657. qu. etc. with others, and other theolog. Tracts, which I have not yet seen, particularly the Disputation between him and Doctor maine, which Pendarves and his party printed, as I have heard, to their own advantage. At length after a short life spent in continual agitation, he surrendered up his last breath at London about the beginning of September in sixteen hundred fifty and six. 
1656.  Whose body thereupon being emboweled and wrapped up in Cerecloth by the care of the Brethren, and afterwards Preparations made for his Funeral, the body was some weeks after conveyed by water to Abendon in Berks. before mentioned: where being lodged in a Grocer's house on a Saturday, was Praying and Preaching by the Anabaptists in the said house on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, not without Reflections on the then Government by Oliver, and endeavours made to raise Mutinies. About three of the clock in the Afternoon of the said Tuesday, being the 30 of Sept. and the next day after that of S. Michael, his body was conducted from the said house by the Brethren, to a little garden ground then lately purchased for a Burial-place for the Anabaptists, situate and being in Oxstreet at the west end of the said Town, where it was with great lamentation by them deposited. At the same time was such a great party of that Faction present, that Oliver being suspicious of some mischief that might arise, sent Maj. General Joh. Bridges with eight Troops of Horse to those parts, who taking up his quarters at Wallingford, many of his men attended in, and near, Abendon during the time of Praying, Preaching, and Burying. After the burial, were tumults raised by Preaching, which would have ended in blows, had not the Soldiers intercepted, and sent them home.  
SIMON BIRCKBEK son of Tho. Birck. Esq. was born at Hornbie in Westmoreland, became a Student in Queens Coll. in the year 1600, and that of his age 16, where he was successively a poor serving child, Tabarder or poor child, and at length Fellow, being then Master of Arts. About which time (viz. 1607.) entering into holy Orders, he became a noted Preacher in these parts, was esteemed a good Disputant and well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen. In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and the year after became Vicar of the Church of Gilling and of the Chapel of Forcet near Richmond in Yorksh. by the favour of his Kinsman Humph. Wharton Esq. Receiver general of his Majesty's Revenues within the Archd. of Richmond, the Bishopric of Durham and County of Northumberland. In which place being settled, he was much esteemed by the Clergy and Laity of the Neighbourhood, for his exemplary life and conversation. He hath written,  
The Protestants evidence, showing that for 1500 years' next after Christ, divers guides of God's Church have in sundry points of Religion taught as the Church of England now doth. Lond. 1634. 35. qu. There again with many additions in fol. an. 1657. This book was valued by Selden and other learned men; because therein the Author had taken great and worthy pains in producing out of every Century Witnesses to attest the Doctrine of the Ch. of Engl. in the points by him produced against the contrary doctrine of the Trent Council and Church of Rome.  
Answer to a Romish Antidotist. Lond. 1657. at the end of the former book, printed in fol.  
Treatise of Death, Judgement, Hell and Heaven.— He was buried in the Chapel of Forcet before mentioned, on the 14 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six, 
1656.  near to the Font there. Over his grave was soon after a grey marble stone laid, with an Inscription thereon engraven, which for brevity sake I shall now pass by, and only tell you, that this our Author Birckbek submitted to the men in power in the times of Usurpation, and therefore kept his Benefice without fear of Sequestration.  
RICHARD CAPEL was born of good Parentage within the City of Gloucester, educated in Grammar Learning there, became a Commoner of S. Alban Hall in the beginning of the year 1601, and in that of his age 17, elected Demy of Magd. Coll. soon after, and in the year 1609 he was made perpetual Fellow of that House, being then Mast. of Arts, which was the highest degree he took in this University. While he continued there, his eminency was great, was resorted to by noted men, especially of the Calvinian Party, had many Pupils put to his charge, of whom divers became afterwards noted for their Learning, as Accepted Frewen Archb. of York, Will. Pemble, etc. Afterwards leaving the Coll. upon the obtaining of the Rectory of Eastington in his own Country, became eminent there among the puritannical Party for his painful and practical way of preaching, his exemplary life and conversation, and in doing many good offices for those of his function. When the book concerning Sports on the Lord's day was ordered to be read in all Churches, an. 1633, he refused to do it, and thereupon willingly resigning his Rectory, obtained licence to practise Physic from the Bishop of Gloucester: so that settling at Pitchcomb near to Strewed in the said County, (where he had a temporal Estate) was resorted to, especially by those of his opinion, for his success in that faculty. In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians, was made one of the Ass. of Divines, but refused to sit among them, and was, as I conceive, restored to his Benefice, or else had a better conferred on him. He was esteemed by those of his opinion an excellent Preacher, and one that kept close to the footings of Jo. Dod, Rob. Cleaver, Arth. Hildersham and Jo. Rainolds; of the last of whom he would often say, that He was as learned a man as any in the world, as godly also as learned, and as humble as godly. He hath written,  
God's valuation of man's soul, in two sermons on Mark 8.36. Lond. 1632. qu.  
Tentations; their nature, danger, and cure; in four parts. Lond. 1650. oct. etc. Each part came out by itself before that time.  
Brief dispute touching restitution in the case of usury.— Printed with the Tentations. This Brief dispute, with the Short discourse of Usury, by Rob. Bolton, and the Usurer cast, by Chr. Jellinger, M. A. are replied upon by T. P.— Lond. 1679.  
Apology in defence of some Exceptions against some particulars in the book of Tentations. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Remains: being an useful Appendix to his excellent Treatise of Tentations, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. He paid his last debt to nature at Pitchcomb before mentioned on the 21 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six, 
1656.  and was buried within the Precincts of the Church there. His Father's name was Christopher Capel a stout Alderman of the City of Gloucester, and a good friend to such Ministers that had suffered for Nonconformity. He was born at Hoo-capel in Herefordshire, and by Grace his Wife daughter of Rich. Hands, had issue Rich. Capel before mentioned.  
EDMUND WINGATE son of Roger Windg. of Bornend and Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire Esq. was born in 1593., became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in 1610, and took one degree in Arts; which being completed by Determination, he retired to Greys' Inn, where he had entered himself before that time a Student for the obtaining knowledge in the municipal Laws. But his genie being more bend to the noble study of Mathematics, which had before been promoted and encouraged in Queens Coll. did at length arrive to great eminence in that faculty, and was admired by those few in London that then professed it. In 1624. he transported into France the Rule 
(*) This Rule of Proportion in Arithm. and Geometry was rectified by Mr ..... Browne and Mr. Jam. Atkinson Teachers of the Mathematics.— pr. at Lond. 1683. in tw.  of Proportion, having a little before been invented by Edm. Gunter of Gresham Coll, and communicated it to most of the chiefest Mathematicians then residing in Paris: who apprehending the great benefit that might accrue thereby, importuned him to express the use thereof in the French Tongue. Which being performed accordingly, he was advised by monsieur Alleawne the King's chief Engineer to dedicate his book to monsieur the Kings only Brother, since Duke of Orleans. Nevertheless the said work coming forth as an Abortive (the publishing thereof being somewhat hastened, by reason an Advocate of Diion in Burgundy began to print some uses thereof, which Wingate had in a friendly way communicated to him) especially in regard Gunter himself had learnedly explained its use in a far larger Volume. For albeit it were great presumption in Wingate to assume to himself the reputation of having better abilities to describe any of the uses thereof, yet he could aver upon his own knowledge, that he did forbear to explain its use, because he took it for granted, none would meddle with it, but such only who were already well able to understand how to number upon it, having before hand acquainted themselves with the manner of numbering upon Scales, and with the nature of Logarithms. After our Author Wingates return from France, where he taught the King's daughter Henrietta Maria (afterwards Queen of England) and her Ladies the English Tongue, he importuned Gunter to make a fuller Explanation how to number upon it, (viz. the Rule of Proportion) to the end that the use thereof might by that means be made more public; but his Answer was, That it could not be expected that the rule should speak; intimating thereby, that the Practitioner should (in that point) rely much upon discretion, and not altogether depend upon precepts and examples. Some time before the grand Rebellion broke out, he the said Wingate became a Bencher of Greys' Inn, (having a seat then at Ampthill in Bedfordshire) afterwards took the Covenant, was made Justice of the Peace, Recorder of Bedford, and had other places of profit conferred on him. In 1650, or thereabouts, he took the Oath called the Engagement, became known to Oliver, and was one of the six persons that were elected for the Town and County of Bedford to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver, that met at Westminster 3 Sept. 1654., about which time he was appointed one of the Commissioners for his County of Bedford to eject such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters. He hath written,  
The use of the rule of Proportion in Arithmetic and Geometry, wherein is inserted the construction and use of the same rule in Questions that concern Astronomy, Dialling, Geometry, Navigation, Gageing, etc.— printed at Paris in the French Language 1624. in oct. and at Lond. in 1645 and 58. in oct.  
Of natural and artificial Arithmetic (or Arithmetic made easy) in two books. Lond. 1630. oct. with an Appendix concerning equation of time. The first of which books, which treats of natural Arithmetic, is only a key to open the secrets of the other, performed by Logarithms; and both borrowed from John Neper Baron of Markiston in Scotland and Hen. Brigges. But that way and method which our Author takes, is not by Multiplication and Division, but by Addition and Substraction, by which a man may resolve more questions in one hour than by the other in a whole day. In 1650 the first of the said books was reprinted at London in oct. and enlarged with divers Chapters and necessary Rules, and an Appendix of John Kersey Teacher of the Mathematics in London, and Surveyour, born at Bodicot near Banbury in Oxfordshire, an. 1616, and died in Chandois street near S. Martin's lane in Westminster of a Consumption about 1677, after he had published two volumes of Algebra in fol. etc. The second book was enlarged and reprinted by our Author Wingate at London 1652. oct. etc.  
Tables of Logarithmes of the right Sins and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant: To which is annexed their use for the resolution of all the most necessary Problems in Geometry, Astronomy, Geography, and Navigation, etc. Lond. 1633. oct. It is printed with the Table of Logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 100000. contracted by Nathan. Roe Minister of Benacre in Suffolk.  
The construction and use of the Logarithmetical Tables, and resolution of Triangles, etc.— This book was first written and published in French, afterwards in English— Lond. 1635. oct. The said Treatise is nothing else but an orderly Compendium, as well of the Construction, as also of the joint and several uses of Briggs his Logarithmes of the Sins and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant: And although this our Author's Tables be not the very same as theirs, yet are they all taken and collected out of them, and do all participate of the self same nature and operation.  
An exact abridgement of all Statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Charta until 1641. Lond. 1642 and 1655. oct. continued under all their proper titles, of all Acts in force and use, until the year 1670, etc. by T. M.— Lond. 1670, in a thick oct. Thence continued to 1681. oct. This abridgement hath been made use of upon divers occasions both in studies and employments, especially at the Assizes and Sessions of Peace.  
The body of the Common Law of England, as it stood in force before it was altered by Statutes or Acts of Parliament or State; together with a collection of such statutes as have altered, or do otherwise concern, the same. Lond. 1655. oct. 2d. edit.  
Ludus Mathematicus: or, an explanation of the description, construction, and use of the numerical table of proportion. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Construction and use of the line of proportion, whereby the hardest questions of Arithmetic and Geometry in broken and whole numbers are resolved by addition and substraction. Lond. in oct.  
Tactometria, seu Tetagne-nometria. or, the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed after an exact and new manner, with rules for gageing Vessels. Lond. in oct.  
The exact Surveighour of Land, to plot all grounds, to reduce and divide the same, by the plain Table, Theolodite, and circumferentur, etc. Lond. in oct.  
Maxims of reason: or, the reason of the common law of England. Lond. 1658. fol.  
Justice revived: Being the whole office of a Country Justice of Peace; briefly and yet more methodically than ever yet extant. Lond. oct. said to be written in the title by E. W. of Greys' Inn Esq. which I take to be our Author Edm. Wingate.  
Statuta Pacis: or, the table of all the Statutes which any way concerned the Office of a Justice of Peace, the several duties of Sherriffs, Head Officers of Corporations, Stewards in Leets, Constables, etc. Lond. in tw.  
The exact Constable, with his original, and power in the Offices of Church Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Highways, Treasurers of the County stock, and other inferior Officers, etc. Lond. in tw. said to be written by E. W. of Greys-Inn Esq. which I take to be our Author. He also published Britton (sometimes Bishop of Hereford, as 'tis said) an ancient treatise of the Law. Lond. 1640. oct. 2d. edit. What other Books he hath written or published I know not, nor any thing material of him besides, only that he dying in Greys-inn-lane in Holborn near London, was buried in S. Andrews Church there, on the 13. day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and six, 
1656.  and that, (as I have been informed) he was Master of Arts of this University, and born at Sharpenho beforemention'd: Both which I take to be false because that his admission to that degree occurs not in the public register, and that in the book of Matriculation subtit. Coll. Reginae he is matriculated as a Yorkshire man born (his Father or Uncle having then Lands at Flamburg and Great Kelk in that County) as his elder Brother Roger was, an. 1608.  
RICHARD STANWIX Son of James Stanw. was born of an ancient and gentile Family within the City of Carlisle in Cumberland, educated in the Free-school there under Mr. Tho. Robson sometimes of Queen's College, admitted a poor serving Child of the said House, being then put under the tuition of Mr. Charles Robson, (Son of Thom. beforementioned) about 1625 aged 17 years: where profiting much in good Letters, was made one of the Tabarders about the time that he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts, and Fellow, when Master. About that time entering into holy Orders, he was soon after, through the recommendations of his Provost Dr. Potter, made Chaplain to Tho. Lord Coventry L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and after his death to John Lord Finch, (who succeeded him in that honourable Office of L. K.) our Author then being Bach. of Divinity. Soon after the said L. Finch withdrawing himself to the Netherlands, upon the approaching troubles in the Long Parliament, which threatened his ruin, our Author returned to his College, where continuing for some time without expectation of any advancement in the Church, was at length preferred by Sir Rich. Saltonstall (sometimes of Qu. Coll.) to the rectory of Chipping-Warden in Northamptonshire, which he kept, during the time of the Civil War, to his death. He hath written,  
A holy life here, the only way to Eternal life hereafter: or, a discourse grounded on 2. Cor. 10.4. Wherein this truth is especially asserted, that, a holy life, or the habitual observing of the Laws of Christ, is indispensably necessary to Salvation. Lond. 1652. oct. etc.  
Appendix laying open the common neglect of the said Laws among Christians, and vindicating such necessity of observing them from those general exceptions that are wont to be made against it— printed with the former. He had also prepared another book for the press concerning the Socinian controversies, which is not yet made public. At length after he had submitted to the men in Power, during the times of Usurpation, yielded to the stroke of death in sixteen hundred fifty and six, 
1656.  or thereabouts. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Chipping-Warden beforemention'd. To which place I did formerly send for his Epitaph, thinking therein to receive more knowledge of the Person, but no return hath been yet made.  
STEPHEN GEREE elder Brother to Jo. Geree mentioned under the year 1648. was a Yorkshire man born, and at 17 years of age, an. 1611 became a Student in Magd. Hall, where going through the courses of Logic and Philosophy, took one degree in Arts, afterwards Holy Orders, and was either a Minister or Schoolmaster, or both. In the time of rebellion I find him Minister of Wonnersh near to Guildford in Surrey, at which time being a zealous Brother for the cause that was then driven on by the Saints, he was removed to a better place called Abinger in the said County. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The ornament of Women▪ or, a description of the true excellency of Women, Serm. at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Machel, 15. Apr. 1639, on Prov. 31.29.30. Lond. 1639. in tw. and others which I have not yet seen.  
The Doctrine of the Antinomians by Evidence of God's truth plainly confuted: In an answer to divers dangerous Doctrines in the seven first Sermons of Dr. Tob. Crisps fourteen, which were first published, etc.— Lond. 1644. qu.  
The golden means, being some considerations, together with some cases of conscience resolved, 
Clar. 1656.  for a more frequent administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1656. qu. What other Books or Sermons he hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him.  
ALAN BLANE or Blaney a Cumberland man born, Son of Tho. Blaney Rector of Acton or Ayketon in the same County, became a poor serving Child of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years, (afterwards Tabarder but never Fellow) took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1632, Holy Orders, and had a Benefice conferred on him, but lost it in the time of Rebellion. Afterwards he retired to Standish in Glocestershire, lived there with the Tenant of the great farm belonging to Joh. Dutton of Shirburne in the said County Esq preached there and at Whitminster a small Curacy near it, but never had any living, or was a settled Incumbent in that Diocese, only much countenanced in his labours by the said Dutton: To whom he dedicated this book following.  
Festorum Metropolis. The Metropolitan feast: or, the birth day of our Saviour Jes. Christ, proved by Scriptures to be annually kept holy, etc. Lond. 1652. qu. published under the Name or Letter, B. who calls himself Pastor fido, in Exile. It was printed there again in 1654. oct. under the name of Alan Blaney, and answered by John Collins Bachelaur (afterwards Doctor) of Divinity and Minister of S. Stephen's Church in the City of Norwich, in a book entit. A Caveat for old and new profaneness, etc. Lond. 1653. quart. In which book he also answers that of Edw. Fisher Esq. entit. A Christian Caveat to the old and new Sabbatarians: or a Vindication of our old Gospel Festivals, etc. Our Author Blaney translated also from Latin into English, Synagoga Judaica, etc. Written by Joh. Buxtorsius— Lond. 1656. qu. and perhaps other things. 
Clar. 1656.  Much about that time he left Standish, and lived near Birkley, in Glocestershire. At length retiring to London died there, as I have been informed by the Chanc. of the Dioc. of Gloc. who made enquiry after him at, or near, Berkley.  
WILLIAM HIGFORD an Esquires Son, was born at, or near to, Alderton in Glocestershire, became a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. in 1595. and being soon after translated to that of Corp. Ch. was put under the tuition of Seb. Benefeild, where by the benefit of good discipline and natural parts he became a well qualified Gentleman. Afterwards taking a degree in Arts, he retired to his Father's Seat, became a Justice of Peace and much respected by the Lord Chandois, and other Persons of quality in his Country. He left behind him a large book in MS. of his own writing intit.  
Institutions or advice to his Grandson, in 3. parts— Which being epitomised or contracted by Clem. Barksdale a Minister in Glocestershire, was by him published at Lond. 1658. in oct. Other matters fit for the press he left behind him; which being not understood by his Children, were lost. He died in his House at Dixton near to Alderton beforemention'd, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Alderton on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  and in that of his age 77. His Father also had been educated in C. C. Coll. under the tuition of Will. Cole, and his Grandfather Sir John Higford, under Joh. Jewel, both whom, were afterwards zealous puritans, as the Son was.  
JAMES CRANFORD Son of Jam. Cranford Master of the Free-school at Coventry, was born in that City, became either Commoner or Batler of Ball. Coll. in Lent term 1617., aged 15 years or thereabouts, took the Degrees in Arts, entered into the sacred function, became Rector of Brookhall or Brockold in Northamptonshire, and at length of S. Christopher Le Stocks near to the Old Exchange in London, which, if I mistake not, he obtained upon the ejection of a Loyalist in the beginning of the grand Rebellion. He was a painful Preacher as to the Doctrine he professed, (being a zealous Presbyterian) an exact Linguist, well acquainted with the Fathers, not unknown to the Schoolmen, and familiar with the modern Divines. He hath written,  
Confutation of the Anabaptists. Lond. in qu.  
Exposition on the Prophecies of Daniel. Lond. 1644. qu.  
Haereseomachia: or, the mischief which heresies do, and the means to prevent them, Serm. in Paul's before the Lord Mayor, 1 Febr. 1645, on 2. Tim. 2.17. Lond. 1646. qu. What other books he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he concluding his last day on the 27. of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  was buried in the Church of S. Christopher beforemention'd. In the beginning of the Rebellion he was appointed by the Presbyterians a Licenser of the Press in London, which gave him occasion to write several Epistles before Books that were to be published: one of which was set before a Book entitled, The tears of Ireland, wherein is represented a list of the unheard off cruelties of blood thirsty Jesuits and the Popish faction. Lond. 1642. oct. Which Book, as I have been informed by one of his persuasion, was also collected by him. Quaere.  
THOMAS BLAKE, a Staffordshire man born, was entered into Ch. Church in the year 1616, and in that of his age 19, (but whether in the condition of a Student or Servitor, I know not,) took the degrees in Arts, Holy Orders, and had some petite employment in the Church bestowed on him. At length when the Presbyterian began to be dominant, he adhered to that Party, took the Covenant, and soon after showing himself a zealous Brother while he was Pastor of S. Alkmonds in Shrewsbury, (where I find him in 1647) he received a Call, and was made Minister of Tamworth in Staffordshire and Warwickshire, where also being a constant Preacher up of the cause, was thought fit by Oliver and his Council to be nominated one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Staffordshire, for the ejecting of such, whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters. His works are these.  
Births privilege: or, right of Infant's Baptism. Lond. 1644. qu. In which year one Charles Blackwood having published a Book intit. The storming of Antichrist in his two strong garrisons, of compulsion of conscience, and Infant's baptism, etc. Our Author came out with another book intit.  
Infant's Baptism freed from Antichristianisme against Mr. Blackwood, etc. Lond. 1645. qu. Afterwards our Author published.  
An answer to Mr. Tombs his Letter in vindication of the birth, privilege or covenant holiness of believers and their issue, in the time of the Gospel, together with the right of Infants to Baptism, &c Lond 1646. See more in Jo. Tombs.  
Vindiciae Foederis. A treatise of the Covenant of God with mankind, in the several kinds and degrees of it: wherein the condition of the Covenant of grace on man's part is asserted, etc. several corollaries containing many controverted heads of Divinity, etc. Infant Baptism maintained in its Latitude, etc. Lond 1653. qu.  
The Covenant sealed: or, a treatise of the Sacrament of both Covenants polemical and practical; especially of the Sacrament of the Covenant of grace, etc. Lond. 1655. qu. Commended to the Reader by the Epistles of Rich. Vines of S. Laurence Jewry in Lond. and Christop. Cartwright of York.  
Postscript to the rev. and learned Mr. Rich. Baxter, in which these following questions are friendly debated, etc. With an enquiry into the judgement of antiquity about several things in reference to justification— This Postscript is added to The Covenant sealed, etc.  
Mr. Joh. Humphreys second Vindication of a disciplinary, anti-erastian, orthodox, free admission to the Lords Supper taken into consideration Lond. 1656. qu. This is written by way of Letter.  
Several Sermons as (1) Serm. on Gal. 2.15.— Printed 1644. qu. (2) Serm. on Acts 20.36. etc. printed 1658. qu. and others, which I have not ye● seen, nor his answer to B. Cox about Free admission to the Sacrament, and his meditations called Living truths in dying times. Printed 1665. in tw. He was bu●ied in the Church at Tamworth beforementioned on the eleventh day of June, in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  at which time being many of the Ministers and others of the neighbourhood present, Mr. Anth. Burgess of Sutton Colfield stepped up into the Pulpit and preached his Funeral Sermon, wherein, in the conclusion, he said many things of the Defunct relating to his learning and godliness. The Sermon is scarce, and I could never see a copy of it, otherwise I might have been more large of our learned Author.  
GILBERT WATS of kin to Rotherham the second Founder of Linc. Coll. became either a Batler or Servitor of that house in the year 1607, took the degrees in Arts, and in 1616. Nou. 9 was elected Fellow thereof for the County of York. Afterwards he became a very florid Preacher, though seldom appeared in public, and in 1642, when the K. and his Court were in Oxon he was actually created Doct. of Divinity. He was a Person that understood several Languages well, was esteemed an excellent wit, and a Master of so smooth a Pen, whether in Lat. or English, that no man of his time exceeded him. He hath translated from Lat. into English the Lord Bacon's Book entitled, De augmentis scientiarum. Lond. 1633. Oxon. 1640. qu. etc. In which work he hath come so near that English part which was originally written by the said Lord, that it is a hard matter to discover any difference in their styles, as was the general vogue of Scholars living when the translation first came out. Since that time, but many years after, have been some who have wished, that a translation had been set forth, in which the genie and spirit of the Lord Bacon, had more appeared: And in a letter written and subscribed by certain Gentlemen to Dr. Will. Rawley his sometimes Chaplain, it appears that they were importunate for another version,— It is our humble suit to you (say 
(*) See Baconica: or the Lord Bacon's Remaines. Lond. 1679. in oct. p. 26.27.  they) and we do earnestly solicit you to give yourself the trouble to correct the too much defective translations of the book De aug. Scientiarum, which Dr. Wats hath set forth. It is a thousand pities that so worthy a piece should lose its grace and credit by an ill expositor, since those Persons who read that translation, taking it for genuine, and upon that presumption not regarding the Latin Edition, are thereby robbed of that benefit, which (if you would please to undertake the business) they might receive. This tendeth to the dishonour of that noble Lord, and the hindrance of the advancement of learning, etc. The said Dr. Wats also did translate from Ital. into Engl. Davila's book containing The History of the Civil Wars of France, but Sir Ch. Cotterell and William Aylesbury Esq. having had the start of him in that work, prevented him from printing it. He died at Erinsham near to Oxon, in his return from the City of Bath, (where he had overcome his ancient body by too much sweeting) on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  and was buried in that Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon commonly called the College Chancel, as belonging to Linc. Coll. and not to the Parish of Allsaints. At which time he left behind him these three MSS. of his composition, which would have been published by the Author had he lived a little longer, viz. (1) Digressions on the advancement to learning. (2) An Apology for the instauration of sciences. (3) Imperial Politics.  
JOHN LANGLEY was born near Banbury in Oxfordshire, became a Com. or Batler of Magd. Hall about the year 1612, took the degrees in Arts, and some years after was made Master of the College School in, and Prebendary of the Cath. Church of, Gloucester. In which School teaching about 20 years, was elected Chief Master of that of S. Paul in Lond. in the room of Dr. Alex. Gill, in Jan. 1640, where, as at Gloc. he educated many who were afterwards serviceable in Church and State. He was learned in the whole body of learning, and not only an excellent Linguist, Grammarian, Historian, Cosmographer and Artist, but a most judicious Divine, and so great an Antiquary, that his delight and knowledge in antiquities, especially those of our own Nation, doth deserve greater commendation, than I can now in a few lines express. He was beloved of learned men, particularly of Selden, and those that adhered to the Long Parliament, but had not much esteem from the Orthodox Clergy, because he was a Puritan, and afterwards a witness against Archb. Laud at his trial, as may be elsewhere 
(†) In Canterbury's Doom, p. 75. etc.  seen. He hath written,  
Totius Rhetoricae adumbratio in usum Scholae Paulinae. Lond. 1644. Camb. 1650. etc. oct.  
Introduction of Grammar.— Several times printed. He also translated from Lat. into English the Book of Polid. Virgil intit. De rerum inventoribus; which book had been translated by Joh. Bale in the time of K. Ed. 6. but in old and rude English. Our Author Langley also had made several collections of Histories and Antiquities, that he had gathered in his travels through several parts of England; which, after his death, coming into the possession (as 'tis said) of his Brother living near Banbury, he sold them with his collection of Coins, merely for money sake. He died in his house joining to S. Paul's School on the 13. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  and was buried in Mercer's Chapel in Cheapside: At which time a Funeral Sermon on Acts 7.22, touching the use of humane learning, was preached by Dr. Edw. Reynolds sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. wherein he said much to the honour of the Defunct. The reader is to note that one John Langley was Minister of West Tuderley in Hampshire, was elected one of the Ass. of Divines in 1643, and afterwards became a publisher of several matters of Divinity; but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former Joh. Langley.  
JOHN GUMBLEDEN a Hampshire man born, was entered a Batler of Broadgates' Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 18 years, made Student of Ch. Ch. soon after, took the Degrees in Arts, preached at Longworth in Berkshire several years, and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1632. Upon the turn of the times he sided with the Presbyterians, became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester, and afterwards for a short time Rector of Coytie in Glamorganshire. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. on Gen. 6.5.6.7.— printed 1626. qu. (2) Serm. on Gen. 22.1.2.— print. 1627. qu. (3) Gods great mercy to mankind in Jesus Christ, at Paul's cross 1628., on Isa. 53.6. Oxon. 1628. qu. (4) Two Sermons preached before the Uniu. of Oxon, on Matth. 11.28. and on Acts 10.3.4. Lond. 1657. qu, as also another on Acts 1. from 1. to 5, which I have not yet seen.  
Christ tempted, the Devil conquered: or, a short exposition on a part of the fourth chapt. of S. Mathews Gospel. Lond. 1657. qu. He concluded his last day in Sept. or Oct. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Coytie beforemention'd. He had other things of the like nature fit for the press, laying by him; which, had he lived, he would have published.  
JOHN FRENCH Son of Joh. Fr. of Broughton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was born at Broughton, entered into New Inn 1633 aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, entered on the Physic line, practised his faculty in the Parliament Army by the encouragement of the Fiennes men of Authority in the said Army, and at length became one of the two Physicians to the whole Army, under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight. In 1648, at which time the Earl of Pembroke visited this University, he was actually created Doctor of Physic, being about that time Physician to the Hospital called the Savoy, and one of the Coll. of Physicians. His works are these.  
The Art of Distillation: or, a treatise of the choicest spagirical preparations performed by way of Distillation, etc. in 6. books. Lond. 1651. 53. etc. qu.  
The London Distiller, exactly and truly showing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong-waters— printed with The Art of Distillation, etc.  
The Yorkshire Spa: or, a treatise of four medicinal Wells, viz. the Spa or Vitrilone Well, etc. their causes virtues and use. Lond. 1652. in tw. One J. F. Med. Doct. hath translated from Lat. into Engl. (1) A new light to Alchemy, and a treatise of Sulphur. Lond. 1650. qu. written by Mich. Sandivogius. (2) Nine books of the nature of things. Lond. 1650. qu. written by Paracelsus. (3) A Chemical Dictionary, explaining hard places and words, met withal in the writings of Paracelsus, etc. Lond. 1650. qu. Which J. F. this translator, I take to be the same with our Author Joh. French, who died in Oct. or Nou. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, at, or near, 
1657.  Bullogne in France he being then Physician to the English Army there. He had a Brother named William French of Cays Coll. in Cambridge, said also to be Doctor of Physic, and Physician to the Army in Scotland, where he died in the beginning of the year 1650.  
THOMAS LAURENCE a Minister's Son, was born in Dorsetshire, became Scholar of Ball. Coll. in 1614, aged 16 years, elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1618., being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he became a noted Preacher in the University, was made Prebendary of Lichfield, Doct. of Div, Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. by the endeavours of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Cant, (with whom he was in much esteem) Master of Ball. Coll. and Marg. professor of the University 1637: At which time he was accounted famous for Scholastical Divinity, a profound Theologist and Exquisite in the excellencies of the Greek and Lat. Tongues. After the declining of the cause of K. Ch. 1. and upon a foresight thereupon of the ruin of all things that would follow, he grew melancholy, careless, and did much degenerate in his life and conversation. At length, when the Commissioners appointed by Parliament came to visit the University, he resigned his Headship to prevent expulsion. Afterwards he submitted to their Authority, had a certificate 
(*) Reg. Visit. p. 182.194.  under the Commissioners or Visitors hands, dated 3. Aug. 1648, whereby they attested that he had engaged to observe the Directory in all Ecclesiastical administrations, to preach practical Divinity to the People, and to forbear preaching of any of those Opinions that the reformed Church hath condemned. Being thus dismissed with the loss of all he had in the University, he retired to his Friend Coll. Valentine Walton one of the King's Judges, to whom he had showed many singular courtesies while he was a Prisoner of War in Oxford Garrison, and at length, by exchange, had procured his release. I say that he retiring to the said Colonel, and laying open his condition before him, he did commiserate it so much, that he did not only exhibit to his wants for the present, but soon after settled upon him a little Chappelrey called Colne in the Parish of Somersham in Huntingdonshire, which he enjoyed to the time of his death. The Reader may be pleased here to note that Somersham with its appurtenances, being part of the Qu. jounture, the said Col. Walton got it to be settled on him and his posterity for ever, for the services he had done for the Parliament: And though the Church thereof did belong to the Margaret professor of Cambridge, yet, by his power, he got the tithes of Colne to be separated from it, and be settled on the Chapel of Colne, (whereby he made it a little rectory) purposely, as 'tis thought, for the sake of his learned Friend Laurence, who hath these things following going under his name, viz.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The duty of the Laity and Privilege of the Clergy, preached at S. Mary's in Oxon 13. July 1634, being then Act-Sunday, on Exod. 20.21. Oxon. 1635. qu. (2) Of Schism in the Church of God, preached in the Cath. Ch. at Sarum, at the Visitation of Will. Archb. of Canterbury 23. May 1634 on 1. Cor. 1.12. Oxon. 1635. qu. (3) Serm. before the Kings Maj. at Whitehall 7 Feb. 1636, on Exod. 3.5. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Sermon he moderately stated the real presence, and thereupon suffered trouble for it: Also, for other passages therein, he was charged by the Puritans to be a grand Arminian. He hath also written,  
Index Materiarum & Authorum MS. fol. in the Bodleian Library, and other things fit for the press, as I have been credibly informed by those that well knew the Author, who dying in great obscurity at Colne in Huntingdonshire beforemention'd, was buried in the Chapel there on the tenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven. 
1657.  Had he lived 3 years longer he would have been consecrated Bishop of a certain See in Ireland, to which he had been nominated some years before his death, but the name of the See I cannot now tell you.  
WILLIAM BURTON Son of Will. Burt. sometimes of Atcham in Shropshire, second Son of Tho. Burt. of Longnore near to Shrewsbury, Son and Heir of Edw. Burton of the same place, (who died in 1558) was born within the precincts of the Austin Friars in London, as his Daughter 
(*) Appollonia the Wife of one Calverley of Pewter-street in Westminster.  hath informed me, educated in Paul's School under Alex. Gill Senior, became a Student in Qu. Coll. in Easter term 1625, aged 16 years, being then accounted a good Grecian. But having not wherewithal to maintain him, the learned Mr. Allen, who found him to be an ingenious youth, took him to him to Gloc. Hall and conferred on him the Greek Lecture there, which he kept during his continuance in the University. In 1630, he took the degree of Bach. of Civ. Law, but indigence, which commonly attends good wits, forcing him to leave the University, he became the Assistant or Usher of Mr. Tho. Farnabie the famous Schoolmaster of Kent: with whom remaining some years, was at length made Master of the Free-School at Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, where he continued till two years before his death; at which time being taken with the dead palsy, he retired to London, where he lived to see the most part of his last book, called A Com. on Antoninus his Itinerary, printed. He was an excellent Latinist, noted Philologist, was well skilled in the tongues, was an excellent Critic and Antiquary, and therefore beloved of all learned men of his time, especially of the famous Usher Archb. of Armagh. He hath written and published these things following.  
Laudatio funebris in obitum viri excellentiss. D. Thomae Alleni. Lond. 1632. Ox. 1633. qu. The said speech was spoken by the Author in the Refectory of Gloc. Hall before the body was carried thence. Afterwards another was spoken at the Grave in Trin. Coll. Chap. by George Bathurst, as I have elsewhere told you, which, with Burtons' were both printed together.  
Annotations on the first Epistle of Clement the Apostle to the Corinthians Lond. 1647. and 52 in qu. Wherein, as much reading is showed by the Author, so some things therein do rankly smell of Presbytery. The said first Epistle being set forth in Latin by Patrick Young in 1633, was translated into English by our Author, who thereunto did add the said Annotations, as a very proper and suitable remedy, if rightly attended to, to cure the many distracting schisms of those loose and dissolute times, when published.  
Graecae Linguae Historia. Lond. 1657. oct. 'Tis the sum of one or more speeches delivered in the refectory of Gloc. Hall 1631.  
Veteris Linguae Persicae Historia. Lond. 1657. oct. This printed with the former book, and before them is an Epistle written by way of commendations, by the learned Langbaine, friend to our Author Burton.  
A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or journeys of the Rom. Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain, etc. Lond. 1658. fol. with the Author's Picture before it. He also translated from Lat. into English a Book intit. The beloved City: or, the Saints Reign on Earth a thousand years, asserted and illustrated from 65 places of holy Scripture. Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne. Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  and was buried the same day in a Vault, belonging to the Students of S. Clement's Inn, under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London, leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity, Manuscripts, and Coins, which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq. sometimes his Scholar at Kingston, afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church, then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York, a Bt. after the death of his Father, (Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire) possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts, (murdered by certain Foreigners 12. Feb. 1681) and at length Viscount Weymouth. There have been several Writers of both our Author's names, as Will. Burton of Leicestershire, Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy, a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655, which was printed at Oxon.  
WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster B●, was born in that City, became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628. aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governor to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers, with whom he traveled beyond the Seas. While he continued in Italy, it happened that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged, he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh, by men who watched him on the other side of the wall, (a usual adventure in that Country) and assoon as he fell, the men who had done it, leapt over the wall, and looking upon him, begged his pardon, and said they were mistaken, for he was not the man that they intended to kill, which was all the satisfaction he had. After his return into England, and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King, who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education, as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Groom of his Bedchamber, which should become void, the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History, (he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language) which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel, and published it under this title. The History of the Civil Wars of France, written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila. Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books, to which was a continuation of 15 books more. In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelled at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650, at which time being reduced to great straits, stole over into England, where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance, and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there. At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica, he engaged himself in that expedition, in the quality of a Secretary to the Governor, as I have heard, where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657.  otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased, by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon, who married his Sister.  
OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John, mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts. and there, or near it, was educated in Grammar learning. In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age, but making no long stay there, he retired to Magd. Hall, took the degrees in Arts, entered into the sacred function, and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury, with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain. After his return he retired to Oxon. and performing certain exercise, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids' Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London, which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion, he became the scandalous and seditious Minister (as one 
(*) Br. Ryves in his Merc. Rusticus, printed 1647. p. 212.  calls him) of Cogshall in Essex. But soon after, upon appearance of the said rebellion, he retired to the said City again, and being a voluble Preacher, he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids' beforemention'd, but also before both Houses of Parliament; the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines, as being a Covenanteer to the purpose. While he preached at S. Mildrids', which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy, 'twas usual with him, especially in hot weather, to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit, that his breath might be the longer, and his voice more audible to rail against the King's Party, and those that were near to him, whom he called Popish Counsellors. This he did in an especial manner, in Sept. 1644, when he, with great concernment, told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents, etc. Afterwards, about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden, where, as also sometimes in the Country, he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry, which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many, and conviction of more. In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers, appointed by Parliament, and the year after, he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work, he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death, and retired to Marlborough. Soon after the Earl of Bedford, upon some consideration, conferred the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton, as zealous a Presbyterian as the former, where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him, as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Military discipline for a Christian Soldier, on 1. Cor. 16.13.14. Lond. 1639. oct. (2) Christ's counsel to his languishing Church of Sardis: or, the dying and decaying Christian, etc. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3. Lond. 1640. in a large oct. (3) Christ the life, and death the gain, at the funeral of Rowl. Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21. Lond. 1650. qu. Before which, is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience of the superlative worth of that eminent servant of Christ Rowl. Wilson (beforementioned) a member of the Parl. of England and of the honourable Counsel of state, and one of the Aldermen and Sherriffs of the City of London, by George Cokayne teacher of the Gospel at S. Pancras in Soper-lane in London. This Rowl. Wilson was Son of Rowl. Wilson a Merchant of London, was a Colonel in the Parliament Army, was nominated one of the King's Judges, but refused to sit among them, and died much lamented by the Citizens of London, and those that were Lovers of the Parliaments cause, in the beginning of March 1649, as having been a Gent. of excellent parts and great piety, of a solid, sober temper and judgement and very honest and just in all his actions. (4) The fountain opened and the water of life flowing forth for the refreshing of thirsty sinners, etc. in several Sermons on Isay 55.1.2.3. Lond. 1657. qu. (5) The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of Salvation to poor Sinners, etc. in several Sermons on Rev. 3.20. Lond. 1658. in tw. second edit. (6) Elisha's Lamentation, upon the sudden translation of Elijah, preached at the funeral of Mr. Will. Strong Preacher of the Gospel at Westminster Abbey, on 2. Kings 2.12. Lond. 1654. qu. This Will. Strong had been Fellow of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, was afterwards Rector of More Chrichel in Dorsetshire; which place he leaving in the time of the Rebellion, upon pretence of being disturbed by the Cavaliers, he retired to London, became Minister of S. Dunstan's in the West, one of the Assemb. of Divines, a holder forth before the Parliament and at length preacher of the Gospel at Westminst. Abbey, as before 'tis said; in which Church he was buried on the fourth day of July 1654. but removed to St. Margaret's Church yard adjoining, after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. as I have elsewhere told you. He hath several Theological Treatises and many Sermons extant, as also The Parabole of the Prodigal, which I have not yet seen.  
Parliamentary Sermons, as (1) England's Preservation, etc. preached before the H. of Commons on Jer. 4 3. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) Hamane Vanity, on Esther 9.3. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) Thanksgiving Sermon, 9 Apr. 1644. on Psal. 3.8. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) An Ark against a deluge, etc. Fast Sermon on Heb. 11.7. Lond. 1645. qu. 'Twas preached 22. of Oct. 1644. for the uniting of the Army together. (5) Nature and danger of Heresies, fast Serm. on Rev. 12.15.16. Lond. 1647. qu. He also preached three more, which I conceive were printed.  
Speech in Guildhall in Lond. 6. oct. 1643. to obtain money to carry on the war, and for the Scots assistance. Lond. in qu.  
The best and worst malignant— Printed 1648. qu. This I have not yet seen.  
The doubting Christian resolved: A treatise of the nature, kinds, springs, and remedies of doubtings. Lond. 1653. oct.  
The humbled sinner resolved what he should do to be saved: or, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the only way for sensible sinners, discovering the quality, objects, acts, etc. of justifying faith, etc. Lond. 1656. qu.  
The Shepherd of Israel: or, an exposition of the 23 Psalm, together with the Doctrine of providence, practically handled. Lond. 1658. Published by Humph. Chambers, Simeon Ash, Edm. Calamy and R. Byfield Presbyterian Ministers.  
Synopsis of Christianity, in a clear exposition of the Creed, ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer. Lond. in oct.  
Anatomy of secret sins, etc. wherein divers weighty cases are resolved, etc. together with the remissibleness of all sin, and the irremissibleness of the sin against the Holy Ghost. Lond. 1660. qu.  
The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting Covenant, etc. Lond. 1661. fol.  
A short Catechism— What other things he hath written I know not, nor any matter else of him, only that he died very wealthy at Marlborough beforemention'd, (being Lord of the manor of Ashmansworth in Hampshire) about the beginning of January in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657/8.  and was buried near to the body of his Father in the Chancel of Ogbourne S. Andrew near to the said Town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, not with his feet towards the East, but towards the South, because there wanted room to lay his body otherways.  
GERARD LANGBAINE a great ornament of his time to this University, was born at Barton kirk in Westmoreland, educated in the Free-school at Blencow in Cumberland, became a Student in Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Wetherall, in the beginning of 1626., aged 18 years, where he was successively a poor serving Child, Tabarder, and at length Fellow, being then Master of Arts. In 1644 he was unanimously elected Keeper of the Archives or Records of the University, and in the latter end of the year following Provost of his College. In June 1646, he was admitted D. of D. being then in general esteem for his great learning and honesty, skill in satisfying doubts and discretion in the composure of controversies, especially those between the two Bodies, the University and City. He was also an excellent Linguist, able Philosopher and Divine, a good common Lawyer, a public spirited man, a lover of learning and learned men, beloved of us Usher, Selden and the great Goliahs of Literature. He was also an excellent Antiquary; and, as judicious in his writings, so indefatigable in his studies, and of immense undertake, as by those rhapsodies of collections that he left behind him, appear. As for those things that he hath written and published, they are these.  
Notae in librum Dionisii Longini de grandi eloquentiâ sive sublimi dicendi genere, etc. Oxon. 1636. and 38. oct. The said Longinus is translated into Latin, and hath the Greek on one side, and the Lat. on the other, and the notes which are in Lat. are at the end of the book. These things I note, because the same work being done by other hands, this may be distinguished from it.  
Brief discourse relating to the times of K. Ed. 6. Or, the state of the times, as they stood in the reign of K. E. 6. by way of preface to a book entit. The true Subject to the Rebel: or, the hurt of sedition, etc. written by Sir Joh. Cheek Knight— Oxon. 1641. qu.  
Life of Sir Joh. Cheek Kt.— Set also before the said book, which Langbaine reviewed, corrected and published, upon a foresight that a Rebellion would break out, as shortly after it did, against K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory.  
Episcopal inheritance: or, a Reply to the humble examination of a printed Abstract, or the Answers to nine Reasons of the House of Commons against the Votes of Bishops in Parliament. Oxon. 1641. qu. To which is added A Determination of the late learned Bishop of Salisbury (Davenant) englished. These two were reprinted at Lond. 1680.  
Review of the Covenant, wherein the original, grounds, means, matter, and ends of it are examined, etc. printed 1644 and at Lond. 1661. qu.  
Answer of the Chanc. Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to the Petition, Articles of grievance, and Reasons of the City of Oxon: presented to the Committee for regulating the Uniu. of Ox. 24 July 1649. Oxon 1649, in six sh. in qu. There again 1678, and in a book intit. A defence of the Rights and Privileges of the Uniu. of Oxon, etc. Oxon. 1690. qu. published by James Harrington Bach. (soon after Master) of Arts, and Student of Ch. Ch.  
Quaestiones Oxoniae pro more solenni in Vesperiis propositae an. 1651. Oxon. 1658. qu. published, with Verses following made by the said Author, by Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. among several little works of learned men.  
Platonicorum aliquot, qui etiamnum supersunt, authorum, Graecorum imprimis, mox & Latinorum, syllabus Alphabeticus. Oxon. 1667. oct. It was drawn up by our Author Langbaine at the desire of Archbishop Usher, but left imperfect: Which being found among his Papers, was, with some few alterations (where there was found good reason of so doing) placed at the end of Alcinoi in Platonicam Philosophiam introductio, published by Dr. Jo. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. He the said Langbaine did also publish, (1) The Foundation of the Uniu. of Oxon, with a catalogue of the principal Founders and special Benefactors of all the Colleges, and total number of Students, etc. Lond. 1651. in 3 sh in qu. mostly taken from the Tables of Joh. Scot of Cambr. which had been printed in 1622. (2) The foundation of the Uniu. of Cambr. with a Cat. etc.— printed with the former Cat. in 3 sh. and taken from the said Tables. He also drudged much in finishing Archb. Usher's book intit. Chronologia sacra, but dying when he had almost brought it to an end, Barlow before mentioned completed it. The said Langbaine translated into Lat. Reasons of the present judgement of the University concerning the solemn league and covenant, etc. and assisted Sanderson and Zouch in the composure of them. Also into English, A review of the Council of Trent, written in French by a learned Rom. Cath. Oxon. 1638. fol. wherein may be seen the dissent of the Gallican Churches from several conclusions in that Council. He gave way to fate on the tenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, 
1657/8.  and was buried about the middle of the inner Chapel of Queens Coll. having a little before settled 24 l. per an. on a Free-school at the place of his Nativity; towards the purchasing of which, he had received 20 l. from a certain Doctor of Oxon, who desired to have his name concealed. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 125. a. He left behind him 13 quartoes and 8 octavoes, in MS. with innumerable Collections in loose papers, all written with his own hand, collected mostly from ancient Mss. in Bodlies' Library and elsewhere, in order to some great work which he intended, if life had been spared, to have published. He also had made several Catalogues of Mss. in various Libraries, nay and of printed books too, in order, as we suppose, for an universal Catalogue in all kind of Learning. But whereas 'tis 
(a) Th. Fuller in his Worthies of England in Cumberland, followed without acknowledgement by his Plagiary David Lloyd in his Memoires, etc. p. 518.  reported that he took a great deal of pains in the continuation of Br. Twyne's Apol. Antiq. Acad. Oxon, and that he was intent upon it when he died, I find no such thing: and those persons that had the perusal of his Library after his death, namely Dr. Barlow and Dr. Lamplugh, have assured me that they have seen nothing at all towards, or in order to, it. See more of Dr. Langbaine in Arth. Duck, an. 1649.  
SAMUEL HOARD a Londoner born, became either Clerk or Chorister of Allsoules Coll. in 1614, aged 15 years, where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts, he retired to S. Mary's Hall, and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards being made Chaplain to Robert Earl of Warwick, was by him presented to the Rectory of Moreton near Ongar in Essex, and about the same time was admitted Bach. of Divinity. He was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, was a good Disputant and Preacher, a zealous Calvinist in the beginning, but a greater Arminian afterwards. He hath written,  
God's Love to Mankind, manifested by disproving his absolute decree for their damnation. Lond. 1633. qu. 1673. oct. Answered by Twysse of Newbury and Davenant B. of Salisbury. Which book being quoted by Edw. Reynolds in some controversial Writings between him and Th. Pierce of Magd. College, the latter therefore upon that occasion sent for the book, and found 
(b) See his Divine purity defended, chap. 6. p. 53.  therein that the Author of it was a Convert from the Calvinistical Sect, which he there opposeth, and that he professeth in the entrance to give the reasons by which he was moved to change his opinion in some Controversies debated between the Remonstrants and their Opposites.— Behold the liberal and ingenious confession of that conscientious and learned Calvinist; (saith Pierce 
(c) ibid. p. 54.  of Hoard) first I say conscientious, because he was not ashamed to retract his Errors, nor to publish his retraction; nor did he fear what might follow by his contracting the displeasures of a revengeful party. Next I say learned, because he confuteth his former judgement, in an unanswerable manner, which is the likelier to be so, because an Answer hath been attempted by the learned men of that Party, who could arrive no higher than to attempt it (neither of them avowing the very same Doctrines which he opposed) and betray a dissatisfaction in other performances, why else was it attempted by more than one? Last of all I say Calvinist, and then discover the reasons why the motives to his Repentance must needs presede his change of life. He disliked that Sect, before he left it, however his leaving of it might tread upon the heels of his dislike, etc. He hath also published,  
Several sermons, as (1) The Church's Authority asserted, on 1 Cor. 14 4. Lond. 1634. qu. preached at Chelmsford at the metrapolitical Visitation of William L. Archb. of Cant. (2) The soul's misery and recovery: or, the grieving of the spirit, how it is caused and how redressed, on Ephes. 4.30. Lond. 1636. oct. and 1657 in qu. with many additions, etc. He departed this mortal life on the 15 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Moreton before mentioned. At which time, 
1657/8.  as I have been credibly informed, he left other things fit for the Press; but m whose hands they are detained, I could never yet learn.  
JOHN WARNER son of Will. Warner of Harsfield in Glocestershire, was born in that County, entered into Magd. Hall in 1628., aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, and at length became Vicar of Christ Church in Hampshire, where he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian persuasion. His works are these.  
Temporal losses spiritually improved, etc. Lond. 1643, etc.  
Diatriba fidei justificantis, qua justificantis: or, a discourse of the objects and office of faith as justifying, 
Clar. 1657.  etc. Oxon 1657. oct. and other things as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen.  
HENRY PARKER the fourth son of Sir Nich. Parker of Ratton in the Parish of Willington in Sussex Kt. by Catharine his wife dau. of Joh. Temple of Stow in Bucks Esq. was born in Sussex, (at Ratton I think) became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in the latter end of 1621., aged 17 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1628., he being then a Member of Lincoln's Inn, and about that time a Barrister. When the grand Rebellion began he sided with the Presbyterians, and became Secretary to the Army under Robert Earl of Essex, in which office he continued some years to his enrichment. Afterwards he turned, and became an Independent, went beyond the seas and lived for some time at Hamborough. At length when Oliver Cromwell came to be General, he was called thence to be a Brewer's Clerk, that is, to be Secretary to the said Cromwell, with whom he was in great esteem. He hath written,  
A discourse concerning Puritan. Tending to a Vindication of those who unjustly suffer by the mistake, abuse, and misapplication of that name. Lond. 1641. in 9 sh. in qu. which is the second edit. much enlarged.  
Observations upon some of his Majesty's late Answers and Expresses. Lond. 1642. qu. Answered by Dudley Digges of Alls. Coll.  
Of a free trade: a discourse seriously recommending to our Nation the wonderful benefits of trade, etc. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh. in qu.  
Answer to a poisonous seditious paper of David Jenkyns. Lond. 1647. qu.  
The Scots holy War: or, the mischief of the Covenant to Great Britain. Lond. 1657. qu. He is also supposed to be Author of A political Catechism: or, certain questions concerning the government of this land. 
Clar. 1657.  Lond. 1643. qu. answered in his Majesties own words: as also of other Pamphlets which have the Letters H. P. put to them. This person who was a man of dangerous and anti-monarchical Principles, died distracted in the time of Oliver L. Protector, as I have been informed by Fab. Philipps of the Inner Temple Esq. There was another of both his names, who was a Barrister of Greys' Inn, and a Burgess for Orford in Suffolk for that Parliam. which began at Westm. 17 Octob. 1679, but he was a younger brother of Sir Philip Parker of that County, and though able to write, yet he hath published nothing as I can yet learn. He died about the month of Sept. 1681, and his Library was exposed to sale in Dec. following.  
ROBERT WARING son of Edm. War. of Lea in Staffordshire, and of Owlbury in Shropshire, was born 
(*) Reg. Matric. P. P. fol. 24. b.  in Staffordsh. elected from Westm. school a Student of Ch. Ch. in the year 1630, and that of his age 17, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards bore arms for his Maj. Ch. 1. with in the Garrison of Oxon, was elected Proctor of the University in 1647, and the same year History Professor, but deprived of it, and his Students place by the impetuous Visitors, authorized by Parliament, when they came to the University under pretence of reforming it. Afterwards he retired to Apley in Shropshire upon the invitation of Sir Will. Whitmore a great Patron of distressed Cavaliers, lived there obscurely for a time and buried his excellent parts in the solitudes of a Country life. Afterwards he traveled with the said person into France, where he continuing about an year, returned into England, sickened soon after, and died in Lincoln's Inn Fields near London. He was a most excellent Lat. and Engl. Poet, but a better Orator, and was reckoned among the great Wits of his time in the University. He hath transmitted to Posterity these things following.  
A public conference betwixt the six Presbyterian Ministers and some Independent Commanders held at Oxford on the 12 of Nou. 1646.— Printed 1646. in two sh. in qu.  
An account of Mr. prynn's refutation of the University of Oxford's Plea, sent to a friend in a second Letter from Oxon— printed 1648. in 2 sh. in qu. The first Letter was written by Rich. Allestrie, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
Effigies Amoris: sive quid sit amor efflagitanti responsum. Printed at Lond. about 1649, in tw. published from the original copy by Mr. John Birkenhead on the desire of the Author, who would have his name concealed because of his Loyalty. The third Edit. came out, after the Restauration of his Maj. by Will. Griffith of Oxon, with an Epistle before it written by him to the said Joh. Birkenhead then a Knight, wherein he gives not only a just character of our Author, but also of Sir John. To the said Edition is joined our Authors Carmen Lapidorium, written to the memory of Ben. Johnson, which Griffith finding miserably mangled in Jonsonus virbius, or Verses on the death of Ben. Johnson, he, with his own hand, restored it to its former perfection and lustre, by freeing it from the errors of the Press. Mr. Griffith in his Praeloquium concerning our Author Waring, saith that Cartwright, Gregory, Digges, etc. together with Jo. Birkenhead, were numina Oxonii tutelaria, every one of them had ingenium caelitus delapsum. quae quasi numina dum intra maenia retinuit sua, perstitet Oxonium, nec hostili cedens fraudi, nec infested is inimicorum succumbens armis, etc. The fourth Edition of it was printed at Lond. 1668, and an English Edition of it came out in 1682 under the title of The picture of Love unveiled, done by John Norris of Alls. Coll. who in his Preface to it, saith, that the Author of it is admired by him for sweetness of fancy, neatness of stile, and lusciousness of hidden sense, and that in these respects he may compare with any other extant, etc. At length our Author Waring contracting a malignant disease, too prevalent for nature, he gave way to fate to the great reluctancy of all those who knew the admirable Virtues and Learning of the person. The next day, being the tenth of May in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, 
1658.  his body was conveyed to the Church of S. Michael's Royal, commonly called College hill, (because Whittingdon Coll. stood there) where, after his sorrowful friend and acquaintance Dr. Bruno Ryves (afterwards Dean of Windsor) had delivered an excellent Sermon to the numerous Auditory of Royalists, his body was deposited close under the south wall, at the upper end of the Isle on the south side of the Chancel. Ten days before, was buried in the said Church the most noted Poet of his time Jo. Cleaveland, and within few days after was buried in Waryngs grave the body of his eldest brother called Walt. Waring, esteemed by some an ingenious man. Fourteen years after the death of Rob. Waring was published A sermon preached at S. Margaret's Westminster, at the funeral of Mrs. Susanna Grace, dau. of Hen. Grace Esq. of Enfield in Staffordshire, on 2 Sam. 12.15 to 24. Lond. 1672. qu. This sermon (which I have not yet seen) hath the name of Rob. Waring M. A. set in the title, as Author, which I take to be the same with our Author before mentioned.  
JOHN HARRIS son of Rich. Harris of Padbury in Bucks, sometimes Fellow of New Coll, and afterwards Rector of Hardwick in the same County, was born in the Parsonage house at Hardwick, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' school near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1606, took the degrees in Arts, and became so admirable a Grecian, and so noted a Preacher, that Sir Hen. Savile used frequently to say that he was second to S. chrysostom. In 1617. he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University, and two years after was made Greek Professor thereof; both which Offices he executed to his great honour and credit. Afterwards he became Prebendary of Winchester, Rector of Meonstoke in Hampshire, Doct. of Divinity, and at length in Sept. 1630 Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester, he being then Preb. of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells. In the beginning of the grand Rebellion raised by the Presbyterians, he sided with them, was elected one of the Assembly of Divines, took the Covenant and other Oaths, and so kept his Wardenship to his dying day. He hath written,  
A short view of the life and virtues of Dr. Arth. Lake sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells. Lond. 1629. in 6 sh. and an half in fol. As also several letters to the noted Anti-Arminian Dr. W. Twysse, of which one was Of God's finite and indefinite decrees, another Of the object of Predestination, which, with Twysse's Answers, were published by Hen. Jeanes in a folio book which he published at Oxon 1653. Our Author Harris died at Winchester on the eleventh day of August in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, aged 70 years, 
1658.  and was buried in the Chapel belonging to the Coll. of W. of Wykeham near Winchester. Over his grave was soon after a Tombstone laid, with an Inscription on a brass plate fastened thereunto; the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake pass by. In his Wardenship succeeded Will. Burt D. D. whom I shall mention elsewhere.  
ANTHONY FARINGDON was born at Sunning in Berks, admitted scholar of Trin. Coll. 9 June 1612, aged 16 years, Fellow in 1617., and three years after M. of A. About which time entering into holy Orders, he became a noted Preacher in these parts, an eminent Tutor in the College, and a worthy example to be imitated by all. In 1634 he was made Vicar of Bray near Maidenhead in Berks. (being then Bach, of Diu.) and soon after Divinity Reader in the King's Chapel at Windsor. At the first of which places continuing, not without some trouble, till after the civil distempers broke forth, was turned out thence, and at length out of all by the impetuous and restless Presbyterians. So that, lest he, his Wife and Children should be reduced to extremities and starve, Sir Jo. Robinson Kinsman to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and some of the good Parishioners of Milkstreet in London invited him to be Pastor of S. Mary Magd. there; where preaching to the great liking of the loyal party, published some of the Sermons he had delivered to them, viz.  
Forty sermons. Lond. 1647. fol. the first vol. Afterwards were published by his Executor,  
Forty sermons. Lond. 1663. fol. The 2 vol.  
Fifty sermons. Lond. 1673. fol. The 3 vol. He gave way to fate in his house in Milkstreet, in the month of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, 
1658.  and was buried in the Church of S. Mar. Magd. there. He left behind him in MS. several memorial of the life of the famous John Hales of Eton; which, if life had been spared, he would have finished and made them public. But what became of them afterwards I cannot tell, unless they were transmitted to the hands of Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. who, to my knowledge, had taken great pains to recover the memory of that worthy person from oblivion.  
ROBERT HARRIS a famed puritanical Preacher of his time, was born at Broad-Camden in Glocestershire, an. 1578, educated partly in the Free-school at Cheping-Camden, and partly in the Free-school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright. Thence he removed to Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1595, took one degree in Arts, holy Orders, and preached for some time near Oxon, (at Stadham as it seems) and at length being made Rector of Hanwell near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1614 There he continued till the Civil War broke out in 1642, in all which time be was a constant Lecturer in those parts, which, with other Lectures in mercat Towns, were the chief promoters of the Rebellion. Upon pretence of great trouble and danger that might ensue from the Soldiers of each party when the War began, he retired to London, was made one of the Assembly of Divines, and Minister of S. botolph's Church near Bishopsgate in that City. In 1646 he was appointed one of the six Ministers or Apostles to go to Oxon to preach the Scholars into obedience ●o the Parliament, and about that time had the rich Rectory of Petersfield in Hampshire conferred upon him, which he kept with Hanwell for a time. In 1647 he was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by Authority of Parliament, and in the year following he was actually created Doct. of Diu. and made Precedent of Trin. Coll. by the said Authority, and so consequently Rector of Garsingdon near to Oxon. In 1654. he, with Dr. Jo. Owen, Dr. Tho. Goodwin, Dr. Hen. Wilkinson of Ch. Ch. Dr. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll. etc. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire to eject scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters, as they were then called; in which office he, and they, were not a little busy. What else the Reader is desirous to know of him, may be seen in his life, (such as 'tis) written by his Friend and Kinsman Will. Durham, whom I shall hereafter mention. In the mean time the Reader is to know that Dr. Harris wrote and published these things following.  
Nine and thirty sermons.  
Treatise of the Covenant of Grace.  
Remedy against Covetousness.— Most, or all, of which, having been printed severally, were printed in one Volume at Lond. 1635, fol. and went by the name of Mr. Harris his works.  
Several sermons, being a supplement to his works formerly printed in fol. Lond. 1654. Soon after these sermons and the aforesaid works were all printed together with this title, Dr. Rob. Harris his works revised and corrected, and collected into one Volume, with an addition of sundry sermons, etc. Lond. 1654. 55. fol. Among which are two parliamentary sermons and his Concio ad clerum, 1. Oxoniae jamdudum habita, 2. Dein posthabita & repudiata, 3. Nunc demum in lucem edita, on Joh. 21. part of the 17 and all the 18 vers. This with another Lat. serm. of Dr. Dan. Featly were printed at Utrecht in 1657 in tw. and both intit. Pedum pastoral, etc.  
Advice and council to his family— Written in 1636 and printed at the end of his life.  
Two letters in vindication of himself from the slanders of an unknown Writer.— Printed 1648 in one sh. in qu. The said unknown Writer was the Author of A Letter from Oxon, dat. 17. Apr. 1648. which letter is the second part of Pegasus, or the flying horse from Oxon, bringing the proceedings of the Visitours and other Bedlamites there, by the command of the Earl of Montgomery. The slanders, as Dr. Harris calls them, were Nonresidency▪ exchange of Churches and Pluralities, as also the guilt of Covetousness, which he used to preach against. The Pluralities were, as the Author of the letter tells us, Hanwell worth 160 l. per an. Hanborough in Oxfordsh. towards 300 l. Beriton and Petersfield in Hampshire not above 500 l. or 600 l. more, besides 4 shill. a day for the Assembly Membership, and 10 shillings for Apostleship in Oxon. But the Reader must know, that he lost Hanwell in 1643 when he retired to London and was made one of the Ass. of Divines, and did not keep all the rest together, yet whether he was restored to Hanwell when the War ceased in 1646, I cannot justly tell. He departed this mortal life in Trin. Coll. on the eleventh of Decemb. late in the night, in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, 
1658.  aged 80 years, and was buried at the upper end of the Chapel of that College. Over his grave was a fair monument set up in the Wall, with an inscription thereon, wherein he is said to have been per decennium hujus collegii Praeses aeternùm celebrandus. Perspicatissimus indolum scrutator, potestatis Arbiter mitissimus, merentium fautor integerrimus, etc. The rest you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 301. b.  
RICHARD LOVELACE the eldest son of Sir Will. Lovelace of Woollidg in Kent Knight, was born in that County, educated in Grammar learning in Charter house school near London, became a Gent. Commoner of Gloucester Hall in the beginning of the year 1634, and in that of his age 16, being then accounted the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld, a person also of innate modesty, virtue and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great City, much admired and adored by the female sex. In 1636 when the King and Queen were for some days entertained at Oxon, he was, at the request of a great Lady belonging to the Queen, made to the Archb. of Cant. then Chancellor of the University, actually created, among other persons of quality, Master of Arts, though but of about two years standing; at which time his Conversation being made public, and consequently his ingenuity and generous soul discovered, he became as much admired by the male, as before by the female, sex. After he had left the University he retired in great splendour to the Court, and being taken into the favour of George Lord Goring, afterwards Earl of Norwich, was by him adopted a Soldier, and sent in the quality of Ensign in the Scotch Expedition an. 1639. Afterwards, in the second Expedition, he was commissionated a Captain in the same Regiment, and in that time wrote a Tragedy called The Soldier, but never acted, because the stage was soon after suppressed. After the Pacification at Berwick, he retired to his native Country, and took possession of his Estate at Lovelace place in the Parish of Bethersden, at Canterbury, Chartley, Halden, etc. worth at least 500 l. per an. About which time he was made choice of by the whole body of the County of Kent at an Assize, to deliver the Kentish Petition to the H. of Commons, for the restoring the King to his Rights and for settling the Government, etc. For which piece of service he was committed to the Gatehouse at Westminster, where he made that celebrated song called Stone walls do not a prison make, etc. After 3 or 4 months' prisonment, he had his liberty upon bail of 40000 l. not to stir out of the Lines of Communication, without a Pass from the Speaker. During this time of confinement to London, he lived beyond the income of his Estate, either to keep up the credit and reputation of the King's Cause by furnishing men with Horse and Arms, or by relieving ingenious men in want, whether Scholars, Musicians, Soldiers, etc. Also by furnishing his two Brothers Colonel Franc. Lovelace and Capt. Will. Lovelace (afterwards slain at Caermarthen) with men and money for the King's Cause, and his other brother called Dudley Posthumus Lovelace with moneys for his maintenance in Holland to study Tactics and Fortification in that school of War. After the rendition of Oxford Garrison, in 1646, he form a Regiment for the Service of the French King, was Colonel of it, and wounded at Dunkirk, and in 1648 returning into England, he, with Dud. Posthumus before mentioned, than a Captain under him, were both committed Prisoners to Peterhouse in London, where he framed his Poems for the Press, intit.  
Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, etc. Lond. 1649. oct. The reason why he gave that title was, because, some time before, he had made his amours to a Gentlewoman of great beauty and fortune named Lucy Sacheverel, whom he usually called Lux casta; but she upon a strong report that Lovelace was dead of his wound received at Dunkirk, soon after married. He also wrote,  
Aramantha: A pastoral— printed with Lucasta. Afterwards a musical Composition of two parts was set to part of it by Hen. Laws sometimes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his public and private Music. After the Murder of K. Ch. 1. Lovelace was set at liberty, and having by time consumed all his Estate, grew very melancholy, (which brought him at length into a Consumption) became very poor in body and purse, was the object of charity, went in ragged clothes (whereas when he was in his glory he wore Cloth of gold and silver) and mostly lodged in obscure and dirty places, more befitting the worst of Beggars, than poorest of Servants, etc. After his death, his Brother Dudley before mentioned made a collection of his poetical papers, fitted them for the Press, and entitled them,  
Lucasta: Posthume Poems. Lond. 1659. oct. the second part, with his Picture before them. These are all the things that he hath extant: those that were never published, were his Trag. called The Soldier or Soldiers, before mentioned, and his Com. called The Scholar, which he composed at 16 years of age, when he came first to Gloc. Hall, acted with applause afterwards in Salisbury Court. He died in a very mean Lodging in Gunpowder Alley near Shoe lane, and was buried at the west end of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London, near to the body of his Kinsman Will. Lovelace of Greys' Inn Esq. in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, having before been accounted by all those that well knew him, 
1658.  to have been a person well versed in the Greek and Lat. Poets, in Music, whether practical or theoretical, instrumental or vocal, and in other things befitting a Gentleman. Some of the said persons have also added in my hearing, that his common discourse was not only significant and witty, but incomparably graceful, which drew respect from all Men and Women. Many other things I could now say of him, relating either to his most generous mind in his Prosperity, or dejected estate in his worst part of Poverty, but for brevity sake I shall now pass them by. At the end of his Posthume Poems are several Elegies written on him by eminent Poets of that time, wherein you may see his just character.  
FRANCIS ROUS a younger son of Sir Anth. Rous Knight, by Elizab. his first wife daugh. of Tho. Southcote Gent. was born at Halton in Cornwall, and at 12 years of age became a Communer of Broadgates' Hall, an. 1591., where continuing under a constant and severe discipline, took the degree of Bach. of Arts; which degree being completed by Determination, he went afterwards, as it seems, to the Inns of Court, though some there be that would needs persuade me that he took holy orders, and became Minister of Saltash in his own Country. Howsoever it is, sure I am, that he being esteemed a man of parts and to be solely devoted to the puritanical Party, he was elected by the men of Truro in his own Country to serve in Parliaments held in the latter end of K. James and in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. In 1640 also he was elected again for that Corporation, to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov, wherein, seeing how violently the Members thereof proceeded, he put in for one, and showed himself with great zeal an Enemy to the Bishops, Prerogative, and what not, to gain the Populacy, a Name, and some hopes of Wealth which was dear unto him. In 1643 he forwarded and took the Covenant, was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines, and for the zeal he had for the holy cause, he was by authority of Parliament made Provost of Eton Coll. near Windsor the same year, in the place of Dr. Rich. Stevart who then followed, and adhered to, his sacred Majesty. In the said Parliament he afterwards showed himself so active, that he eagerly helped to change the Government into a Commonwealth, and to destroy the negative Voice in the King and Lords. In 1653 he was by the Authority of Ol. Cromwell nominated a Member of the Little Parliament that began to sit at Westm▪ 4 July, and was thereupon elected the Speaker, but with a collateral Vote that he should continue in the Chair no longer than for a month, and in Decemb. the same year he was nominated one of Olivers Council. But when the good things came to be done, which were solemnly declared for, (for the not doing of which the Long Parliament was dissolved) He 
(*) Second Narrative of the late Parliament so called, etc. printed 1658. p. 17.  as an old bottle, being not fit to leave that new wine, without putting it to the question, he left the Chair, and went with his Fellow old bottles to Whitehall, to surrender their Power to General Cromwell, which he, as Speaker, and they by signing a Parchment or Paper, pretended to do. The colourable foundation for this Apostasy, upon the monarchical foundation, being thus laid, and the General himself (as Protector) seated thereon, he became one of his Council, and trusted with many matters, as being appointed in the latter end of the same year the first and prime Tryer or Approver of public Preachers, and the year after a Commissioner for the County of Cornwall, for the Ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. Afterwards he sat in the following Parliaments under Oliver, and being an aged and venerable man, was accounted worthy to be taken out of the H. of Commons, to have a negative Voice in the other house, that is House of Lords, over all that should question him for what he had done, and over all the people of the Land besides, though he would not suffer it in the King and Lords. This person who was usually styled by the Loyal Party the old illiterate Jew of Eton, and another Proteus, hath divers things (especially of Divinity) extant, wherein much enthusiastical Canting is used, the Titles of which follow.  
The art of Happiness, consisting of three parts, whereof the first searcheth out the happiness of Man. The second, etc. Lond. 1619. oct. at which time the Author lived at Lanrake in Cornwall.  
The diseases of the time attended by their remedies. Lond. 1622. oct.  
Oil of Scorpions. The miseries of these times turned into medicines and curing themselves. Lond. 1623. oct.  
Testis veritatis. The Doctrine of K. James of the Ch. of England, plainly showed to be one in the points of Predestination, freewill, and certainty of Salvation. Lond. 1626. qu.  
Discovery of the grounds, both natural and politic, of Arminianism— Printed with Test. ver.  
The only remedy that can cure a People when all other Remedies fail. Lond. 1627. in tw.  
The heavenly Academy. Lond. 1638. in tw. dedicated to John L. Roberts of Truro.  
Catholic Charity: complaining and maintaining that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent parts of the Cath. Church, and especially to Protestants, and is therefore uncatholike: And so a Romish book called Charity mistaken, though undertaken by a second, is itself a mistaking. Lond. 1641. oct.  
Meditations endeavouring the edification and reparation of the house of God.  
The great Oracle. Even the main frame and body of the Scriptures, resolving the Question, Whether in man's free will and common grace stands the safety of man, and the glory of God in man's safety.  
The mystical marriage: or, experimental discoveries of the heavenly marriage between a Soul and her Saviour. Lond. 1653. in tw. All which treatises, in number eleven, were reprinted in one folio at Lond. 1657. under the title of Works of Francis Rous Esq. Or Treatises and meditations dedicated to the Saints and to the excellent throughout the three Nations. Before which works is the picture of the Author aged 77 years an. 1656, engraven by the curious hand of Will. Faithorne.  
Parliamentary Speeches, as (1) Sp. concerning the goods, liberties, and lives of his Maj. Subjects, etc. Lond. 1641. in one sh. in qu. (2) Sp. before the Lords in the upper house 16. of March 1640 against Dr. Jo. Cousin, Dr. Roger Manwairing and Dr. Will. Beale, upon the complaint of Mr. Pet. Smart. Lond. 1641. in one sh. in qu. (3) Sp. in the H. of Commons against making Dr. Jo. Prideaux, Dr. Th. Winniff, Dr. R. Holdsworth, and Dr. Hen. King Bishops, till a settled Government in Religion was established. Lond. 1642. in one sh. in qu.  
Mella Patrum: nempe omnium quorum per prima nascentis & patientis ecclesiae tria secula, usque ad pacem sub Constantino divinitûs datam, scripta prodierunt, atque adhuc minus dubiae fidei supersunt. Lond. 1650. in a thick large oct.  
Interiora regni dei. Lond. 1665. in tw. He also translated The Psalms of David into English meeter. Lond. 1646. oct. This translation, though ordered by the H. of Commons to be printed 4. Nou. 1645, yet, if I am not mistaken, all or most of it was printed in 1641. The said Psalms were also turned into Meter by Will. Barton.— pr. by order of Parl. 1645. oct. Our Author Rous gave way to fate at Acton near London, on the seventh day of January, 
1658/9.  in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, and was buried in Eton Coll. Church, near to the entrance of that Chapel joining thereunto, formerly built by Rog. Lupton Provost of the said College. Soon after were hanged up, over his grave, a Standard, Pennon, etc. and other Ensigns relating to Barons, containing in them the arms of the several matches of his Family. All which continuing there till 1661. were then pulled down with scorn by the loyal Provost and Fellows, and thrown aside as tokens and badges of damned baseness and rebellion. Those of his Party did declare openly to the World at his death that he needed no monument besides his own printed works and the memorial of his last will, to convey his name to posterity. And that the other works of his life, were works of charity, wherein he was most exemplary, as the poor in many parts would after the loss of him tell you, etc. The Poet of Broadgates called Ch. Fitz Geoffrey, did celebrate 
(a) In lib. 2. Asfaniarum.  his memory while he was of that house, and after his death Pembroke College (built in the place of Broadg.) did the like for his 
(b) Vide Hist. & antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 334.  benefaction to the members thereof.  
WILLIAM SANDBROOKE of Gloucester Hall took one degree in the Civil Law in 1630, and about that time entering into Holy Orders, became Rector of the Church of S. Pet. in the Bailiff in Oxon, 1635, where he was much frequented by Puritanical People and precise Scholars, as Roger's Principal of New Inn was, who had his turn in preaching there. In the beginning of the Civil Wars he left the University, and betook himself to a Sea employment, in the quality of a Chaplain, under the Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament, but being weary of it by the year 1644, he officiated as Vicar of S. Margaret's Church in the City of Rochester by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true Incumbent, who having a good temporal estate, allowed Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living. Afterwards he was appointed by the Presbyterian Party one of three Lecturers in the Cathedral there, purposely to preach down the Blasphemies and Heresies of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and begotted followers. This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published,  
The Church, the proper subject of the new Covenant, in three Sermons. Lond. 1646. oct.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Fun. Sermon on Col. 2.6.— printed 1657. in oct. etc. which, and others, I have not yet seen. He died at Rochester in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, 
1658/9.  and was interred in the South Isle joining to the Parish Church of S. Margaret beforemention'd, (remarkable for being the place of burial of one of the Saxon Kings as the People there say) on the fifteenth day of March, leaving then behind him the character of a godly and painful preacher.  
WILLIAM RUSSELL Son of a Father of both his names, was born at Wickware in Glocestershire, educated in the Grammar School at Wotton Underedge in the said County, became a Batler of Linc. Coll. in Lent term 1635, took one degree in Arts, and then taught School for a time at Sadbury in his own Country. At length John Langley being called away to be chief Master of S. Paul's School, he became Master in his room of the public College School in the City of Gloucester, where by his singular industry, happy way of teaching, and by his great skill in the Tongues and holy Scripture, many learned youths were sent thence to the Universities. His works are these.  
The old Protestants conscientious inquiries concerning the new engagement— printed in qu. 'Twas written against the Oath called the Engagement.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. The Holy Ghost vindicated— in oct. written against Joh. Biddle. He gave way to fate on the 5. of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 42 years, 
1659.  and was buried in S. Michael's Church within the City of Gloc. See his Epitaph in Hist & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. p. 167. a. b. He left behind him three most ingenious Sons and excellent Scholars, who were afterwards successively Masters of Arts and Fellows of Magd. Coll. The eldest was Samuel, who died 22. July 1670. aged 22, the next was William who died 8. Dec. 1672 aged 22, and the third was Richard who dying 21. of Oct. 1681. aged 28 years was buried by his said two Brethren on the south side of Magd. Coll. outer Chapel. One Rich. Russell a Rutlandsh. man born, as it seems, bred in the English Coll. of Secular Priests at Lisbon in Portugal, was by the K. of that Country designed to go into England as an interpreter to Don Francisco de melo Earl of Ponte, Ambassador extraordinary from the said K. to K. Ch. 2, to settle the Marriage between him and Donna Catherina the Infanta of that Country. After russel's return into Portugal, he was rewarded for his pains with the Bishopric of Portalegre, where he now lives, but whether of the same Family with Will. Russell beforemention'd I cannot tell.  
HENRY EDMONDSON or, as he writes himself Henricus Edmundus ab Edmundo, was born in Cumberland, and in the beginning of the year 1622, and in that of his age 15, he was entered a Student in Queens Coll. where, after he had undergone the servile places of a poor Child and Tabarder, was, when Master of Arts, admitted Fellow. Afterwards he was made Usher of Tunbridge School in Kent under Dr. Nich. Grey, and in 1655, when Thomas Widows died, he was constituted by the Provost and Fellows of Qu. Coll. Master of the well endowed Free-school at Northleech in Glocestershire, where he continued to the time of his death. He hath written,  
Lingua Linguarum. The natural Language of Languages; wherein it is desired and endeavoured, that tongues may be brought to teach themselves, and words may be best fancied, understood and remembered, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. etc.  
Homonymas & Synonyma Linguae Latinae conjuncta & distincta. Oxon. 1661. oct. and other things, as 'tis probable. He was buried in the Church of Northleech on the 15 day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, 
1659.  leaving then the character behind him of a most able Person in his profession, and of one, who had done great benefit for the public by his sedulous and industrious education of youth.  
MICHAEL JERMIN Son of Alex. Jerm. Merchant and Sherriff of Exeter, Son of Mich. Jermin sometimes twice Mayor of the said City, was born at Knowston in Devonshire, entered a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. in the beginning of 1606 aged 15 years, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 23. Sept. 1608, Master of Arts in the latter end of 1614, and Probat. Fellow of the said House 25 of Apr. in the year following. Afterwards he was made Chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth, Consort to the Pr. Elector Palatine of Rhine, made D. of Diu. of the University of Leyden, in his passage thither or return thence, incorporated in the same degree at Oxon, in 1624., constituted Chaplain to K. Ch. 1, and at length in 1638, or thereabouts, he was made Rector of S. Martin's Church near Ludgate within the City of London, which was all the preferment, I think, that he enjoyed. He was always reputed a pious and laborious man in his calling, learned and well read in most parts of Divinity, as in these his labours following is evident.  
Paraphrastical meditations by way of commentary on the Proverbs, etc. Lond. 1638. fol.  
Commentary on Ecclesiastes, etc. Lond. 1639. fol.  
Exemplary life and death of Mr. ... Jurdaine— printed in qu. One Ferdin. nicols Minister of S. Marry Arches in Exeter, hath written The life and death of Ignat. Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of the City of Exeter. Whether he be the same Jurdaine, whose life Dr. Jermin wrote, I know not, for I have not yet seen it, nor The Father's instruction to his Child, printed at Lond. 1658. oct. said to be written by Jermin. At length after he had suffered much for the royal cause in the time of the rebellion by sequestration of his rectory, plundering and other miseries, lived as opportunity served, and on the benevolence of some generous loyalists. Afterward retiring to Kemsing near to Sevenoke in Kent, lived obscurely with his Son in law for about 7 years before his death. In fine, preaching at Sevenoke on the 14 day of August, being then the Lords day, 
1659.  in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, dropped dead from his horse in his return thence to Kemsing. Whereupon he was buried on the north side of the Altar, in the Chancel belonging to the Church of Kemsing. Over his grave was a marble monument set up near to the East Window, with an inscription engraven thereon; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 243. a.  
ZACHARIE BOGAN Son of Will. Bogan Gent. was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire, became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term under the tuition of Ralph Button a Puritannical Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year 1640 and that of his age 15, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. of Nou. the year following, left the University when the City of Oxon was garrisoned for the King, returned after the surrender thereof to the Parliament, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Mich. term 1646, elected Prob. Fellow of the said Coll. in the year following, and afterwards proceeding in his faculty, became a retired and religious Student, and much noted in the University for his admirable skill in the Tongues. He hath written,  
Additions to Franc. Rous his Archeologiae Atticae— Printed several times before 1674. in qu.  
Of the threats and punishments recorded in Scripture, alphabetically composed with some brief observations on sundry texts. Oxon. 1653. oct. dedicated to his Father.  
Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life. Oxon. 1653. oct. grounded on Psal. 32.11. and on Phil. 4.4. dedicated to his Mother Joan.  
Comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi. Oxon. 1658. oct.  
Help to prayer, both extempore, and by a set form: as also to meditation, etc. Oxon. 1660. oct. published after the Author's death by Dan. Agas Fellow of C. C. Coll. He also wrote a large and learned Epistle to Edm. Dickinson M. A. of Mert. College, set before a book going under his name, entit. Delphi Phaenicizantes, etc. Oxon. 1655. oct. At length this our Author Bogan, who had contracted an ill habit of body by studying, surrendered up his pious Soul to God on the first day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine; 
1659.  whereupon his body was committed to the Earth about the middle of the north cloister belonging to the Coll. of Corp. Christi, joining to the S side of the Chapel there. At that time, and before, the Nation being very unsettled, and the Universities expecting nothing but ruin and dissolution, it pleased Mr. Bogan to give by his will to the City of Oxon 500 l. whereas had the nation been otherwise, he would have given that money to his College. His picture drawn to the life hangs in the Council Chamber joining to the Guild-hall of the City of Oxon.  
CHARLES' HERLE third Son of Ed. Herle Esq. by Anne his Wife Daugh. of John Trefrie, was born at Prideaux Herle near Lystwithyel in Cornwall, where though his ancestors have lived several generations in gentile fashion, yet they were originally of West Herle in Northumberland. At 14 years of age in 1612, he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1618., and afterwards Holy Orders, but what were his employments or preferments that immediately followed I know not: Sure I am that he was Rector of one of the richest Churches in England, which is at Winwick in Lancashire, before the eruption of the Civil War in 1642, that at the eruption he, having always been esteemed a Puritan, sided with the Presbyterian Party, took the Covenant, was elected one of the Assemb. of Divines in 1643, being then a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament; and in the year 1646, July 22, he was voted by the members of the said Parliament Prolocutor of that Assembly, after the death of Twysse. In 1647 he, with Steph. Martial went with certain Commissioners appointed by the Parliament into Scotland, to give them a right understanding of the affairs in England, but what he did there, was chiefly to give constant notice of the Scots resolutions and the forwardness of their Levies. After the King was beheaded, he retired to his rectory of Winwick, having first received satisfaction from the Parliament for his Service, and losses he sustained at Winwick after he had fled to London for protection during the heat of the War; where he was esteemed by the factious party the prime man of note and power among the Clergy. In 1654. he was by the Authority of Parl. appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Lanc. for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters, in which office he, with Is. Ambrose of Preston, Edw. Gee of Eccleston, etc. showed great severity against them. This Mr. Herle hath extant under his name these things following.  
Several Sermons, as (1) A pair of Compasses for the Church and State, Sermon before the House of Com. at their monthly fast, ult. Nou. 1642, on Zach. 8.19. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) David's Song of three parts, Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Lords for God's great deliverance of the Parl. City and Kingdom from the late conspiracy against all three, (that is for the discovery of the design of Nath. Tomkyns, Rich. Chaloner &c.) to reduce London to the obedience of the K. on Psal. 95.1. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) david's reserve and rescue, Serm. before the H. of C. 5. Nou. 1644, on 2. Sam. 21.16.17. Lond. 1645. 46. qu. (4) Sermon before the H. of Com. on 1. Kings 22.22. Lond. 1644. qu. This I have not yet seen, and therefore I know not yet to the contrary but that it may be a Thanksg. Serm. 18. July 1644 for the victory over Pr. Rupert at Marston Moor near York. (5) abraham's Offering, Serm. before the L. Mayor and Aldermen of London, on Gen. 22.2. Lond. 1644. This also I have not yet seen, nor another on 2. Sam. 22.22. printed there the same year, in qu. nor a Thanksgiving Sermon before the House of C. preached 12. May 1646 for the taking of several Towns in the West by the Parl. Forces, as also a Fast Sermon before the H. of Lords 24. June the same year.  
Microcosmography, in Essays and Characters— printed 1628. in oct. or tw.  
Contemplations and Devotions on all the passages of our Saviour's passion. Lond. 1631. in oct. or tw.  
An answer to Dr. Fern. Lond. 1642. The same I suppose which is intit. An answer to misled Dr. Hen. Fearne according to his own method of his book, etc.— printed the same year in 6. sheets in qu.  
The independency on Scriptures of the independency of Churches: wherein the question of Independency of Ch. Government is temperately first stated, secondly argued, etc. Lond. 1643. in 6. sh. and half in qu. This book was answered by Sam. Rutherford D. D. of the New Coll. in S Andrews in Scotland, (who died 1661.), replied upon by Rich. Mather Minister of Dorchester in New England.  
Worldly policy and moral prudence; the vanity and folly of the one, the solidity and usefulness of the other, in a moral discourse. Lond. 1654. oct. This came out again in the year following in oct. with this title Wisdoms Tripos, concerning worldly policy, moral prudence and Christian wisdom. What other things are published under his name I know not, nor any thing else of him only that he died at Winwick in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, and was buried on the 29 day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there, 
1659.  as I have been informed by the Letters of Dr. Richard Sherlock his next successor in the Rectory of Winwick saving one.  
GRIFFIN HIGGS second Son of Griff. Higgs (by Sarah Pain his Wife Dau. of Rob. Pain of Caversham in Oxfordshire) Son of Nich. Higgs, descended of a wealthy and honest Family living in Glocestershire, was born at Stoke Abbat, commonly called South Stoke, near Henly in Oxfordshire, and was baptised there on the day of S. Sim. and Judas in the year 1589. After he had been trained up in Grammar learning at Reading, he was sent to S. John's Coll. in the beginning of the year 1606, where making great proficiency in Logic and Philosophy under Mr. Rich. Tillesley his Tutor, he was worthily esteemed the flower of the undergraduats of that house, whether for Oratory or Disputations. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, he wrote in Lat. verse.  
Nativitas, vita & mors D. Thomae White Militis, & Alderm. Civitatis Lond. & Fundatoris Coll. S. Johannis Bapt. Oxon. This is a MS. in the custody of the Precedent of that house, and hath this beginning, Inclyto Whitaeae, primordia condere gentis. Also in prose.  
A true and faithful relation of the rising and fall of Thom. Tooker Prince of Alba Fortunata, Lord of S. John's, with the occurrents which happened throughout his whole dominion.— This is also a Ms. bound with the former, and hath this beginning, It happened in the year of our Lord 1607, the 31. of Oct. being All saints Eve, etc. This Book which is in fol. contains verses, speeches, plays, etc. as also the description of the Christmas Prince of S. Joh. Coll. whom the Juniors have annually for the most part elected from the first foundation of the College: And in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, John Case afterwards Doctor of Phys. and a noted Philosopher did with great credit undergo that Office. When the said Tooker was elected Prince, he assumed these titles, viz. The most magnificent and renowned Thomas, by the favour of fortune, Prince of Alba Fortunata, Lord of S. John's, High Regent of the Hall, Duke of S. Giles, Marquis of magdalen's, Landgrave of the Grove, Count Palatine of the Cloisters, Chief Baylive of Beaumond, High Ruler of 
(*) Rome is a piece of Land so called near to the end of the walk called Non ultra on the north side of Oxon.  Rome, Master of the Manor of Walton, Governor of Gloucester Green, sole Commander of all titles, tournaments and triumphs, Superintendent in all solemnities whatsoever. The said Tooker who was Fellow of S. John's Coll. was afterwards Bach. of Divinity, Prebendary of Bristol, etc. and the custom was not only observed in that Coll. but in several other Houses, particularly in Mert. Coll, where, from the first foundation, the Fellows annually elected, about S. Edmund's day in November, a Christmas Lord, or Lord of misrule, styled in their registers Rex Fabarum and Rex regni fabarum: Which custom continued till the reformation of Religion, and then that producing Puritanisme, and Puritanisme Presbytery, the professors of it looked upon such laudable and ingenious customs as Popish, Diabolical and Antichristian. Our Author Higgs was, about the same time that he wrote and collected the said Folio Book, elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. an. 1611, and taking the degree of Master, had Holy Orders conferred on him and two small cures successively in that College gift. In 1622 he did undergo with great courage, though of little stature, the procuratorial office of the University, and being afterwards Bach. of Diu. was in the year 1627. sent to the Hague by his Majesty to be Chaplain to his Sister Elizabeth Qu. of Bohemia; in which employment he continued at least 12 years. In the year 1629/30, he performed his exercise at Leyden for the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and was forthwith created Doctor of that fac. by the famous Andrew Rivet. At length being called home from his service by his Majesty, he was by the endeavours of Dr. Laud made Rector of the rich Church of Clive or Cliff near to Dover in Kent, Chauntor of S. David's, and upon the removal of Dr. Sam. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, was made Dean of Lichfield, in 1638 (the Cathedral of which he adorned to his great charge) and Chapl. in ord. to his Majesty. At length the Civil Wars breaking forth he suffered for his Majesty's cause, was plundered, sequestered, lost his spiritualities, etc. So that retiring to the place of his nativity spent there the remainder of his days in great retiredness, study and devotion. He hath written besides those things beforementioned,  
Problemata Thologica. Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu.  
Miscellaneae Theses Theologicae. Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu. These were defended by him, when he was made Doctor at Leyden 12. Feb. 1630. according to the account there followed. He wrote other things worthy of the Press, but are not yet made public. At length after he had spent most of his time in prosperity, and part in adversity, yet all in celibacy, he surrendered up his pious Soul to God at South Stoke beforemention'd on the 16 day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, 
1659.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. About that time was a comely mon. set up in the wall over his grave, with a large inscription thereon, written mostly by himself, the contents of which shall now for brevity sake be omitted. By his last Will and Test. he gave 5 l. to the Church of S. Stoke, and 100 l. to buy Land for the poor of that town. Six hundred pounds also he gave to purchase free land of soccage to the value of 30 l. per an. for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster there, to be purchased by the Warden and Fellows of Mert. Coll. whom he appointed Patrons of the School to be erected there. He also gave several Books to the public Library at Oxon, was a benefactor to S. John's Coll. and a greater to Merton; to the last of which he gave all his Library, that had been for the most part plundered in the time of rebellion, and put into the Library at Stafford. But upon several attempts that the members of that house made to gain it, they were as often repulsed by the Staffordians to their great charge. He gave to the said Coll. also as much money that would clearly purchase 10 l. per an. to be bestowed on one of the society thereof to be keeper of the Library there.  
THEOPHILUS higgon's Son of Rob. higgon's, was born at Chilton near Brill in Bucks, educated partly in the Free●school at Thame in Oxfordshire, made Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. aged 14 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1600, he being then noted to be a young man of pregnant parts and a tolerable lat. Poet. During his residence in the said house, he was esteemed a Person to be much stained with Puritanisme, and to be violent against all such that were suspected to favour the Romish See. When he was Censor also, he was so zealous as to saw down a harmless maypole standing within the precincts of the said house, because forsooth he thought it came out of a Romish Forest. Upon the promotion of Dr. Ravis Dean of Ch. Ch. to the See of Gloucester, he was honoured so far by him as to be taken into his service, and to be made his domestic Chaplain; with whom continuing till about the time he was translated to London, made suit to be Lecturer at S. Dunstan's Ch. in Fleetstreet: Which desire of his being obtained he was much followed there by all sorts of People for his sweet and eloquent way of preaching. But so it was that many of his contributory auditors thought that his long prayers and spitting pauses were too short, because the reverend Bishops (yea his own Lord and Master) were ever left out for wranglers and Antichristian Hierarchies. After he had been settled for some time in that place, he married a Wife, but in such a clandestine manner, that his Father, Relations and many of his Admirers did much blame him for it. So that being sensible of the disrespect that followed, and neglect of many that loved him before, he left his Wife, and went into the north parts of England. From whence returning soon after to London, he published a small book in print flatly against the absurdities, which he afterwards strongly seemed to maintain. But all this availed nothing, for being a Person very ambitious, and finding not preferment suitable, as he thought, to his merits, did thereupon, and by a contraction of debts occasioned by his marriage, fall into a deep discontent. Which being quickly perceived by some, especially by one called Fludde a Priest (the same I suppose with Joh. Floyd a Jesuit) a Person excellently learned, as well in Philosophy as Theology, was by his endeavours drawn over to the Church of Rome, and forthwith did write a little Pamphlet Of venial and mortal sin, flat, as 'tis said by some, against the principles of the Romish profession, but of this Pamphlet I can give no account because I have not yet seen it. Afterwards he shipped himself for France, and being settled at S. Omers (to which place his Father went afterwards to fetch him home, but could not) he wrote,  
His first motive to adhere to the Roman Church, etc. with an appendix against Dr. Laur. Humphrey, Dr. Ric. Field, and Dr. Tho. Morton, etc.— printed 1609. in oct. Which motive, as he saith, was drawn up chiefly upon the detection of some egregious falsehoods in the said Humphreys perverting S. Austin, and Fields traducing S. Ambrose, and learned Protestants in their writings, touching the question of purgatory, and prayer for the dead. But this was otherwise made apparent by Sir Edward Hoby's letter to him in answer to his motive; to which, if it may be seen, I refer the Reader. Afterwards he went to Rouen, where he lived for some time; but finding not that which he expected, namely Respect, Preferment, and I know not what, was at length regained to the English Church by Dr. Tho. Morton Dean of Winchester (afterwards Bishop of Durham) who had answered one of his books, as I shall tell you anon.  
A scholastical examination of Man's iniquity and God's justice. Lond. 1608, written before he turned Papist.  
apology refuting Sir Edw. Hoby's Letter against his first motive. Rouen 1609 in oct.  
Sermon at S. Paul's Cross 3 March 1610, on Ephes. 2.4, 5, 6, 7. in testimony of his hearty reunion with the Church of England and humble submission thereunto. Lond. 1611. qu. This recantation Sermon he made upon his being regained by Dr. Morton.  
Reason's proving the lawfulness of the oath of allegiance. Lond. 1611. qu.  
Mystical Babel: or Papal Rome. A treatise on Apocalips 18.2. (in two Serm.) Lond. 1624. qu. After his regainment to the Ch. of England he was promoted to the rectory of Hunton near to Maidston in Kent, lived there till the Rebellion broke out, and afterwards being sequestered, as I have heard, lived in the house of one Dan. Collins of Maidston, 
1659.  where dying in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, a little before the King's restauration, as the said Collins who was afterwards Jurat of Maidston told my friend, (for his name stands not in the register there) was buried in the Cemitery belonging to the Church of that place, near to the S. E. door of the Chancel, but hath no stone or money over his grave.  
WILLIAM ROWLAND Son of Griffin Rowland of the City of Worcester, was born there, became either a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1627., aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders and was made either a Reader or Curate of S. Margaret's Church in the City of Westminster. In the time of the rebellion when he saw the Church of England declining, he changed his Religion for that of Rome, and went to Paris, where by the name of Rolandus Palingenius he made a shift to get a livelihood by his mendicant scribbles, his lepid vein, and art of Poetry among the English Gentlemen, and other Grandees of France. He hath written,  
Varia Poemata. Mostly in Lat. some in English and some in French, to which he would sometimes make additions of copies to them, on new Patrons, as they came to his knowledge, just as pain Fisher afterwards did, to shark money from those who delighted to see their names in print. This Will. Rowland who wrote himself in the title of his Poems Gul. Rolandus Poeta Regius, was a boon Droll, a jolly companion and was generally called Doctor, having had that degree confer●d on him, (as I have heard) at Paris. At length retiring for health sake to a village called Vambre near to that great City, he having brought his body into a consumption by too much lifting, ended his days there in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, 
1659.  or thereabouts. I have seen a Book intit. Legenda lignea, etc. containing a character of some hopeful Saints revolted to the Church of Rome. Lond. 1653. oct. In which book p. 172, etc. you may see a full, if not too smart, character of this Will. Rowland, but whether all is true that is said of him there, (for the Book is full of scurrilities) may be justly questioned. Since I wrote this, I find one Will. Rowland Master of Arts (and Dr. of Physic as he writes himself) to have translated into English (besides several books of Physic that he hath written) A Treatise of spirits and wind offending man's body. Lond. 1668. qu. Written by Dr. Jo. Fienus; but the translation being by him dedicated to the vertuosis of the Royal Society, first founded 1660, I cannot take him to be the same with the former.  
ROBERT DINGLEY Son of Sir Joh. Dingley of London Knight, and Nephew by the Mother to Dr. Hen. Hammond, was born in Surrey, entered a Student in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 15 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a great observer of Church ceremonies, and a remarkable Bower to the Altar when he came into the Chapel. But soon after the Presbyterians carrying all before, he, as a vain man, sided with, them, became an enemy to those things, which he before had a zeal for, and, for the love he bore to the cause, became, by the favour of his Kinsman Coll. Robert Hammond Governor of the isle of Wight, Rector of Brightestone alias Brixton or Brison in the said Isle, where he was much frequented by the godly party for his practical way of preaching, and hated by the Royalists for his activity in ejecting such that were by some called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters during the time that he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Hampshire, an. 1654. 55. etc. He hath written,  
The Spiritual taste described: or, a Glimpse of Christ discovered in two parts, grounded on Psal. 34.8. and on Malac. 4▪ 2. Lond. 1649. oct. Before which book, is the picture of the Author fat and jolly, in a Presb. Cloak. This book came out in 1651. with this title Divine relishes of matchless goodness, etc.  
The disputation of Angels: or, the Angel-guardian. (1) Proved by the divine light of nature, etc. (2) From many rubs and mistakes, etc. (3) Applied and improved for our information, etc. chiefly grounded on Acts 12.15. Lond. 1654. oct. As the former book was perused, and commended to the World by Tho. Goodwin Pres. of Magd. Coll. and Will. Strong, so this by Nich. Lockyer of New Inn, afterwards Provost of Eton Coll.  
Messiah's splendour: or, the glimpsed glory of a beauteous Christian.— printed in oct.  
Divine Optics: or, a treatise of the eye, discovering the vices and virtues thereof; as also how that Organ may be tuned: chiefly grounded on Psal. 119.37. Lond. 1655. in oct.  
Philosophical, Historical and Theological observations of Thunder, with a more general view of God's wonderful works. Lond. 1658. (oct.) in which year he had a Sermon published on Job. 26.14. in oct. which I have not yet seen. But our Author Dingley having said and preached some things not pleasing to the Quakers, he was animadverted upon by George Fox in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 361. etc. He died at Brightestone beforemention'd, 
1659/60.  in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, with this inscription on his grave. Here lieth the body of Mr. Robert Dingley Minister of this place, second Son of Sir John Dingley Knight, who died in the fortieth year of his age, on the twelfth day of January 1659.  
JOHN SALKELD fourth Son of Edw. Salkeld Gent. second brother to George Salkeld sometimes of Corby Castle in Cumberland Esquire, lineally descended from Sir Rich. Salkeld Kt, Lord Warden of Carlisle in the time of K. Ric. 3, was born at Corby Castle, and when very young journied through Oxon beyond the Seas, but in what house he was entered, unless in Qu. Coll. I cannot tell. His continuance there, as I have been informed, was so short (occasioned by his Religion) that we can scarce reckon him among the Oxonians. For so it was that his Father soon after conveyed him into Spain, entered him among the Jesuits in the University of Conimbria, where, as also at Corduba and Complutum he continued among them in the condition of a Jesuit many years, and was Assistant in the studies to the famous Jesuits Franc. Suarius (who was his fellow student several years) and Mich. Vasquez. Afterwards he was sent into Portugal, where he read Philosophy about six years, then into the English mission, but being taken and brought before K. Jam. 1, who had several times heard of him and his eminency for learning, he entered into divers disputes with him at several times. At length being overcome by his solid arguments, Salkeld turned Protestant, was recommended to Dr. King Bishop of London for maintenance, and in Nou. 1613, became, by the presentation of his Majesty, Vicar of Wellington in Somersetshire, (being then Bach. of Diu.) where he used to boast of his conversion and to style himself the Royal Convert. In 1635 he was made Minister of Church Taunton in Devonshire worth to him about 200 l. per an. whereupon one Walt. Travers was instituted Vicar of Wellington in his place, on the 16. of July the same year. But after the Civil Wars broke forth he suffered for the Royal cause, being esteemed by the obstinate and incredulous Presbyterians a Papist in his heart, or at least popishly affected. He was a Person profoundly read in Theological and other Authors, and K. Jam. 1. doth style him in his works the learned Salkeld, of which character he would often glory. His works are,  
A Treatise of Angels, etc. Lond. 1613. oct. dedic. to K. Jam. 1.  
Treatise of Paradise and the principal contents thereof, etc. Lond. 1617. oct. ded. to Sir Franc. Bacon L. Keeper of the Great Seal. He gave way to fate at Uffculme in Devonshire (having for 14 years before been sequestered of Church Taunton) in the month of February in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, aged 84 years or more, 
1659/60.  and was buried in the Church there, as I have been informed by his son John Salkeld of Uffculme before mentioned, Gent. He then left behind him several things of his composition fit for the Press, among which were two concerning Controversies between Rome and the Church of Engl. and another of the end of the world; which last, and one of the former, were conveyed to London by his son, to his Kinsman Sir Edw. Walker Garter K. of Arms, who communicating one of the said former things to Dr. Sam. Parker Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury, to know of him whether it was fit to be printed, he found it a solid piece, and the Author of it learned, but the design Cassandrian, etc. as by his letters I was informed.  
WILLIAM HICKS son of Nich. Hicks Gent. was born at Kerris in the Parish of S. Paulin near to the Mount in Cornwall, an. 1620, and baptised there on the second day of January the same year. After he had been instructed in Grammaticals in the high School at Exeter under Mr. Will. Hayter and partly at Liskerd under one Granger, he became a Commoner of Wadham Coll. in Lent Term 1637, and there ran thro' the Classes of Logic and Philosophy. But being taken thence in the beginning of the Civil War, before he could be honoured with a degree, he was by his Relations put in Arms against the King, and in short time became so fanatical in his opinion, that he was esteemed by some to be little better than an Anabaptist. So that being looked upon as a zealous brother for the Cause, he was made a Captain in the Trained Bands, and became very forward against those of the loyal party. He hath published,  
Revelation revealed: being a practical Exposition on the Revelation of S. John. Lond. 1659. fol. Which book laying dead on the cellar's hands, was a new title afterwards put, bearing date 1661. with the Author's picture before it in a clock.  
Quinto-Monarchia, cum quarto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: or, a friendly compliance between Christ's Monarchy and the Magistrates, being a glass for the Quinto-Monarchians, and all others that desire to know under what dispensations of Providence we now live, etc.— printed and bound with Revelation revealed, etc. which was written (as the common report went in Exet. Coll. and Cornwall) by a Kinsman of Will. Hicks called Alexander Harrie a Minister's son in Cornwall, Bachelaur of Divinity, and sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of Exeter; which book (Revelation rev.) coming after his death into Hicks' hands, he published it under his own name, without any mention of A. Harrie, who was a learned man, and had in great veneration by those that knew him. This Mr. Hicks died at Kerris in the very beginning of March in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, 
1659/60.  and was buried on the third day of the same month in the Parish Church of S. Paulin before mentioned. Besides this Will. Hicks was another of both his names, Author of Oxford Jests, and afterwards of Oxford's Drollery. Which books (several times printed in oct.) answering not the expectation of Cambridge men, because they have supposed that they were written by a scholastical Wit, I desire▪ therefore that they should know that the said Will. Hicks who styles himself in the titles of his books a Native of Oxon, as having been born in S. Thomas Parish of poor and dissolute Parents, was bred a Tapster under Tho. Williams of the Star Inn Inholder, where continuing till after the Rebellion broke out, became a Retainer to the family of Lucas in Colohester, afterwards Clerk to a Woodmonger in Deptford, where training the young men, and putting them in a posture of defence, upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2, obtained the name of Captain Hicks, and was there living in 1669, when his book of Jests was▪ published, which gave occasion of other books of the like nature to be afterwards made extant, as Cambridge Jests, London Jests, England's Jests, Poor▪ Robin's Jests, Westminster Quibbles in verse, etc. This Hicks, who was a sharking and indigent Fellow while he lived in Oxon, and a great pretender to the art of Dancing, (which he forsooth would sometimes teach) was also Author of Coffee-house Jests, the third Edition of which came out in 1684, and of other little trivial matters merely to get bread, and make the pot walk.  
PHILIP TAVERNER son of Joh. Taverner of Wycombe (Great Wycombe) in Bucks, was born in that County, admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. 12 May 1634, aged 17 years, took one degree in Arts, holy Orders, and was made Vicar of West Drayton and afterwards Minister of Hillingdon, both in Middlesex. He hath written,  
The Quakers rounds.  
Reply to Edm. Burrough Quaker.— Both which are animadverted upon by George Fox Quaker, in his book intit. The great mystery of the great whore unfolded, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 283 and 308.  
The Grandfather's advice, directed in special to his Children. Lond. 1680, 
Clar. 1659.  81. oct. published after the Author's death for the common good. What other books he hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died and was buried at Hillingdon, as I have been informed by those of the neighbourhood.  
TOBY VENNER was born of gentile Parents at Petherton near to Bridgwater in Somersetshire, became a Commoner of S. Alban Hall in 1594, aged 17 years, took one degree in Arts, entered upon the Physic line, practised that fac. for some time in these parts, afterwards at Bridgwater, and lastly in the City of Bath and near thereunto. In 1613 he took both the degrees in Medicine, had then, and always after, the name of a plain and charitable Physician, was resorted to by rich and poor, and venerated by all persons for his happy and successful practice in his faculty. He did not only show the right way for living long, but acted it himself, confirming the theory of the one with the practice of the other for near 60 years. He hath written and published these things following.  
Via recta ad vitam longam: or, a Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthful life is clearly demonstrated. Lond. 1620. 1650 etc. in qu. This plain book which was written in condescension to mean capacities, got him most of his practice.  
Compendious treatise concerning the nature, use and efficacy of the Baths at Bath.  
Advertisement concerning the taking of Physic in the Spring.  
Censure concerning the water of S. Vincents Rocks near Bristol.  
Brief and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of Tobacco.— These four last were printed with Via recta.  
Philosophical discourse of dieterical Observations for the preserving of health— Printed 1620. qu. He died at Bath on the 27 day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty, 
1660.  and was buried in the south Isle joining to the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter. Over his grave was soon after put a very fair Monument, with the bust of the defunct, in the east wall, with a large inscription thereon, made by Dr. Rob. Peirce a Physician of Bath, sometimes a Com. of Linc. College; a copy of which, with most envious notes on it, you may see in a book intit. A discourse of Bath, etc. printed 1676. in oct. p. 170. 171. written by a Physician of note in that City.  
HENRY HAMMOND son of Dr. John Hammond Physician to Prince Henry, was born at Chersey in Surrey on the 26 of Aug. 1605, educated in Grammar Learning in Eton School near to Windsor, where he was much advantaged in the Greek Tongue by Mr. Tho. Allen Fellow of that College. In the year 1622, Jul. 30, he was made Demie of Magd. Coll. and the same year was admitted Bach. of Arts. In 1625 he proceeded in that faculty, and on the 26 of July the same year he was elected Fellow of that house, being then Philosophy Reader, and a singular ornament thereunto. In 1633 he had the Rectory of Penhurst in Kent conferred on him by the Earl of Leicester, who a little before had been deeply affected with a Sermon that he had delivered at Court, and in the latter end of the same year he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. In 1638 he was licenced to proceed in the faculty of Divinity, and in 1640 he was made a member of the Convocation of the Clergy, called with the short Parliament that began the 13 of April the same year. In 1643 he had the Archdeaconry of Chichester conferred upon him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof, and the same year he was nominated one of the Ass. of Divines, but sat not. About which time being forced to leave his Rectory by the Presbyterians, he retired to Oxon for shelter, and the year following was entertained by the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Southampton, to go, as their Chaplain, with them to London to treat with the Parliament for a composure of the unhappy differences in Church and State: so that behaving himself with great zeal and prudence, was also the same year appointed to attend the King's Commissioners at Uxbridge for peace, where it being his lot to dispute with Rich. Vines a Presbyterian Minister that attended the Commissioners appointed by Parliament, he did with ease and perfect clearness disperse all the Sophisms that had been brought by him, or others, against him. In the beginning of 1645, he was, upon the death of Dr. William. Strode, made one of the Canons of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, and Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty then there; by virtue of which place, (I mean the Canonry) he became Orator of the University, but had seldom an opportunity to show his parts that way. In 1647 he attended the King in his restraint at Woobourne, Caversham, Hampton Court, and the Isle of Wight, but he being sequestered from the office of Chaplain to him about Christmas the same year, he retired to his Canonry in Oxon, and being elected Sub dean of his house continued there till the Visitors appointed by Parliament first thrust him out without any regard had to his great Learning and Religion, and then imprisoned him for several weeks in a private house in Oxon. Afterwards he was confined to the house of Sir Philip Warwick at Clapham in Bedfordshire, where continuing several months, was at length released. Whereupon retiring to Westwood in Worcestershire, the seat of the loyal Sir John Packington, (to which place he had received a civil invitation) remained there, doing much good, to the day of his death; in which time he had the disposal of great Charities reposed in his hands, as being the most zealous promoter of Alms giving that lived in England, since the change of Religion. Much more may be said of this most worthy person, but his life and death being extant, written by Dr. Jo. Fell his great Admirer, I shall only now say that great were his natural abilities, greater his acquired, and that in the whole circle of Arts he was most accurate. He was also eloquent in the Tongues, exact in ancient and modern Writers, was well versed in Philosophy, and better in Philology, most learned in school Divinity, and a great Master in Church Antiquity, made up of Fathers, Councils, ecclesiastical Historians and Lyturgicks, as may be at large seen in his most elaborate Works, the Titles of which follow.  
A practical Catechism. Oxon 1644. and Lond. 1646. qu. There again in 1652, in two vol. in qu. This Catechism was first of all published upon the importune Request of Dr. Christop. Potter Provost of Queens Coll. to whom he had communicated, yet could never get him to set his name to, it.  

Of Scandal Oxon. 1644. qu.  
Of Conscience Lond. 1650. qu.   
Of resisting the lawful Magistrate under colour of Religion. Oxon. 1644. Lond. 1647. qu.  
Of Will-worship. Oxon. 1644. qu.  
Considerations of present use concerning the danger resulting from the change of our Church Government.— Printed 1644 and 46. Lond. 1682. qu.  
Of Superstition. Ox. 1645. Lond. 1650. qu.  
Of sins of weakness and wilfulness. Oxon. 1645— 50. quart.  
Explication of two difficult texts Heb. 6. and Heb. 10. Printed with Sins of weakness, etc.  
Of a late or deathbed repentance. Ox. 1645. qu.  
View of the Directory and vindication of the Liturgy. Ox. 1645. 46. etc. qu.  
Of Idolatry. Ox. 1646. Lond. 1650. qu. The Reader ●s now to understand that after the Lord falkland's book called A discourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome, was published, came out a book written by a Rom. Cath. intit. A Treatise apologetical touching the infallibility of the Church Catholic, etc. printed 1645. Whereupon our Author Dr. Hammond wrote and published,  
A view of the Exceptions which have been made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount falkland's Discourse of the infallibility of the Ch. of Rome. Oxon. 1646. quart.  
The power of the keys: or of binding and losing. Lond. 1647. 51. qu.  
Of the word KRIMA.  

Of the Zelots among the Jews and the liberty taken by them, of taking up the Cross. Lond. 1647. qu. joined with the second Edit. Of resisting the lawful Magistrate.  
Vindication of Christ's representing S. Peter, from the Exceptions of Mr. Steph. Martial. Lond. 1647. qu. joined with the second Edit. Of resisting the lawful Magistrate.   
Of fraternal admonition and correption. Lond. 1647. 50. qu.  
Copy of some papers passed at Oxon between Dr. Hammond the Author of the Practical Catechism and Mr. Franc. Cheynell. Lond. 1647 and 50 in qu.  
View of some Exceptions to the Practical Catechism from the Censures affixed on them by the Ministers of London in a book intit. A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, etc. Lond. 1648. qu.  
Vindication of three Passages in the Pract. Catechism. Lond. 1648. qu.  
Humble Address to the Lord Fairfax and Council of War 15 Jan. 1648 to prevent the King's murder. Lond. 1649. qu. Answered soon after by one who called himself Eutactus Philodemius.  
Vindication of the Address, etc. Lond. 1650. qu.  
An Appendix or Answer to what was returned by the Apologist. Lond. 1650. qu. This Apologist was the R. Cath. before mentioned, Author of A treatise apologetical, etc.  
Of the reasonableness of Christian Religion. Lond. 1650. in tw.  
Dissertationes quatuor, quibus Episcopatus jura ex S. Scriptures & primaeva antiquitate adstruuntur, contra sententiam D. Blondelli, etc. Lond. 1651. qu. Before which book is printed and set this following.  
Dissertatio de Antichristo, de mysterio iniquitatis, de diotrophe & de Gnosticis sub Apostolorum aevo se prodentibus.  
The Christians obligation to peace and Charity; delivered in an Advent sermon at Carisbrook Castle, an. 1647. and now published with nine sermons more. Lond. 1652. qu. 2 edit.  
Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the books of the New Testament. Lond. 1653. and 59 fol.  
Letter of resolution to six Queries of present use to the Church of England. Lond. 1653. oct. The first Query is Of resolving controversy.  
Review of the Paraphrase and Annotations on the N. Test. with some additions and alterations, etc.— printed in oct.  
Of Schism: or, a defence of the Church of England against the exceptions of the Romanists. Lond. 1653. 54. in tw. Answered in a book intit. Schism disarmed, etc. to which is an Appendix in answer to Dr. John bramhall's Just vindication of the Church of England. printed 1653 in a little oct. Both which were written by Jo. Sergeant alias Smith, born at Barrow in Lincolnshire, admitted a Student in S. John's Coll. at Cambridge 1637, aged 16 years, but before he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he was chosen by the Master Dr. W. Beale and some of the Seniors of that Society to be Secretary to Dr. Th. Morton Bishop of Durham, who had sent to them to make choice of a fit person for him out of that College, to which he was a great Patron and Benefactor. After he had continued there in good esteem about a year, he fell into some difficulties about Religion, and thereupon quitting that employment, being then Bach. of Arts, he went to the English Coll. of Seculars at Lisbon in Portugal an. 1642, where he resumed and perfected his Studies, and was afterwards Perfect of Studies in the said College. In the year 1652 he returned into England, where he was elected Secretary of the secular Clergy, and put upon writing Controversy; the titles of which I shall elsewhere mention as they lie in my way.  
Reply to a Catholic Gentlemen answer to the most material parts of the Book of Schism. Lond. 1654. 55. qu.  
Account of H.T. his appendix to his manual of controversies concerning the Abbot of Bangors answer to Augustine— printed with the Reply.  
Vindication of the dissertations concerning Episcopacy, from the exceptions of the London Ministers in their Jus Divinum Ministerii Evangelici. Lond. 1654. qu.  
Of Fundamentals in a notion referring to practice. Lond. 1654. and 58. in tw.  
Account of Mr. Dan. Cawdrey's Triplex Diatribe, concerning Superstition, Will-worship, and Christmas Festival. Lond. 1654. 55. qu. This Account was answered by the said Cawdrey Minister of Billing magna in Northamptonshire, in a book intit. The Account audited and discounted, etc. Lond. 1658.  
The baptising of Infants reviewed and defended from the Exceptions of Mr. Tombs, in his three last Chapters of his book intit. Antipaedobaptism. Lond. 1655. qu.  
Defence of the learned Hugo Grotius, etc. Lond. 1655. qu.  
Second defence of Hug. Grotius: or, a Vindication of the degression concerning him. Lond. 1655. qu.  
Answer to the Animadversions of the dissertations concerning Ignatius Epistles, and the Episcopacy in them asserted.— Printed in qu.  
The disarmers' dexterity examined; in a second defence of the Treatise of Schism. Lond. 1656. qu. Soon after Jo. Sergeant came out with Schism dispatched, etc. with an Appendix. Lond. 1656. in a large oct. being a Reply or rejoinder not only to Dr. Hammond but to Dr. Bramhall.  
The degrees of ardency in Christ's Prayer, reconciled with his fullness of habitual grace, in reply to the Author of a book intit. A mixture of scholastical Divinity, etc. by Hen. Jeanes. Lond. 1656. qu.  
Parenaesis, &c A discourse of Heresy in defence of our Church against the Romanist. Lond. 1656. oct.  
Continuation of the defence of H. Grotius, in an answer to the review of his Annotations. Lond. 1657. qu. To which is added a Postscript.  
Reply to some passages of the Reviewer in his late book of Schism concerning his charge of Corruptions in the primitive Church and some other particulars— Printed with the Continuation of the defence, etc.  
The grounds of Uniformity, from 1 Cor. 14.40. vindicated from Mr. Hen. Jeanes' Exceptions in one passage in the View of the Directory. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Paraphrase and Annotations on the book of Psalms. Lond. 1659. fol. These Annotations were remitted by Matthew Pool into the second vol, of Synopsis Criticorum.— Lond. 1671. fol. with this character— doctissimus Hammondus, in quibus multa reperiet lector acumine plusquam vulgari, parique eruditione conscripta, nonnulla etiam singularia. The said Pool also selected much out of his Annotations on the whole New Test.  
The Dispatcher dispatched: or, an Examination of the Romanists rejoinder to Dr. Hammonds Replies, wherein is inserted a view of their profession, and oral tradition, in the way of Mr. White. Lond. 1659. qu. By this Mr. White is meant Thom. de Albiis.  
Brief account of a suggestion against The Dispatcher dispatched. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Two Prayers. Lond. 1660. oct.  
The daily practice of Piety: Also Devotions and Prayers in time of Captivity. Lond. 1660. oct.  
Spiritual sacrifice: or, Devotions and Prayers, fitted to the main uses, etc.— This I have not yet seen, and therefore I do not know how it differs from the former.  
His last words— Printed in a loose sheet.  
Solemn Petition and Advice to the Convocation, with his directions to the Laity how to prolong their happiness. Cambr. 1661. oct. Published by Thom. Smyth of Ch. Coll. in Cambr. Author of The rise and growth of Quakerism.  
De confirmatione sive benedictione, post baptismum, solenni, per impositionem manuum Episcopi celebrata, commentarius ex sententia ecclesiae Anglicanae. Lond. 1661. oct.  
Several sermons. Lond. 1664. fol. They are in number 31, and some of them were before published.  
Of Hell-torments. Ox. 1664 in tw. Or An assertion of the existence and duration of Hell torments, etc. Oxon. 1665. oct.  
An accordance of S. Paul with S. James in the great point of Faith and Works. Oxon. 1665. oct.  
Answer to Mr. Rich. Smith's Letter concerning the sense of that Article in the Creed, He descended into Hell: dated 29 Apr. 1659. Lond. 1684. oct. The said R. Smith's letter was dated from Little morefield's near Lond. in the said month 1659. This R. Smith being a curious person in matters of that nature, did make A Collection of several Expositions and Opinions of Christ's descent into Hell, and had several Conferences with the learned Selden upon that Argument, which he left in writing behind him, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
Paraphrase and Annotations upon the ten first Chapters of the Proverbs. Lond. 1683. fol.— All, or most of which books here set down, were by the care of Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. published in four volumes in fol. at Lond. 1684. and at the latter end of the fourth Vol. was put an Appendix to the second vol. At length after this most famous and celebrated Author had spent his life in great retiredness, lucubration and devotion, he surrendered up his most pious soul to God, in the house of Sir John Packington before mentioned, on the 25 day of April in sixteen hundred and sixty, aged 55 years: 
1660.  whereupon his body was on the morrow in the evening, buried in the Chancel of Hampton Church near to Westwood before mentioned, with the whole office and usual rites of the Church of England, not at that time restored or practised by public command. Over his grave was soon after a comely Monument erected, with an inscription thereon, composed by Dr. Humph. Henchman, afterwards B. of London, a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 203. a. But a larger than that was made by the affectionate pen of Mr. Tho. Pierce, afterwards Precedent of Magd. Coll. in Oxon, a copy of which you may see in the beginning of the first vol. of Dr. Hammonds works published by W. Fulman before mentioned. The Reader is to know that one Hen. Hammond wrote a book intit. Ouragraphy, or Speculations on the excrements of Urine, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. etc. But this Hen. Hammond who seems to have been a Physician, is not to be understood to be the same with our most celebrated Author before mentioned, who was brother to Tho. Hammond sometimes a Colonel, and afterwards a Lieutenant General in the Army, that the Long Parliament raised against K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Judges of that blessed Prince, but died before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and so escaped the halter, or at least perpetual imprisonment and confiscation of estate. The said Dr. Hen. Hammond was also Uncle to Robert Hammond a Colonel of Foot in the said Army, made Governor of the Isle of Wight in the beginning of Sept. 1647, and about the 14 of Nou. following his Majesty put his person in trust under the protection of him in the said Isle, after he was frighted away from Hampton Court. In the middle of July 1648 his Majesty declared to divers of his party about him, that the said Colonel was a man of honour, and had carried himself civilly and respectively to him. Afterwards it was believed that he forfeited the King's good opinion of him, by that uncomely act of looking into his Majesty's scrutore of letters, with a design to discover something, but did not. At that time his Majesty's servants Mr. Ja. Harrington and Mr. Th. Herbert were in the Bowling●green at Carisbrook, waiting upon the King, who finding the weather somewhat cold, bid Herbert go for his Cloak: Herbert therefore entering the Bedchamber, found Hammond the Governor ready to come forth with an Officer in his company, and Mr. Humph. Rogers who waited as Page at the Back-stairs, and, by insinuation, had let the said Governor come in. Herbert being informed of their designs, was afraid to reprove the Governor, but as he returned to the Green with his Maj. Cloak, he gave the Page a sharp rebuke: with which the Governor being acquainted, threatened Herbert with a dismiss for censuring that act of his, and had doubtless expelled him the Castle, if his Maj. out of his goodness had not passed it by without reproaching the Governor, or taking notice thereof; as I have been informed by letters from the said Tho. Herbert, created a Baronet after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2.  
JAMES CHALONER a younger son of Sir Tho. Chaloner mentioned before, under the year 1615, was born in London, and at 13 years of age 1616, became a Communer of Brasnose Coll, where continuing 3 or 4 years, went afterwards either to travel or to the Inns of Court. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642, he sided with the Parliament, and being a person of a mean fortune and ready to run with all Parties, he was chosen a Recruiter for Auldborough or Oldburg in Yorksh. to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nou. 1640, upon the receding of two loyal persons (who had been elected by the Members of that Borough) to his Majesty at Oxon. About the same time he took the Covenant, and afterwards siding with the Independents, was, by the power of Fairfax the Generalissimo, appointed Secretary to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon in 1647, and in the year following, upon Cromwell's Invitation, one of the Judges of King Ch. 1. Afterwards he was appointed one of the three Commissioners by the said Fairfax to survey and take an account of the Isle of Man, an. 1652. which Isle had been given to him the said Fairfax by the Parliament for the great service he did them against the King, and at length was made Governor of one of the Castles there, known, if I mistake not, by the name of Peel Castle. He hath written,  
A short Treatise of the Isle of Man. Lond. 1656. fol. divided in six Chapters. Illustrated with Cuts, and published by Daniel King of Cheshire, at the end of the survey of Cheshire, intit. The Vale Royal of England, written by Will. Smith and Will. Webb Gentlemen. This Dan. King who was a pitiful pretender to Antiquities, was a most ignorant silly Fellow, (as Sir Will. Dugdale hath informed me by letters,) an errand Knave, and not able to write one line of true English. Afterwards he married a light Huswife, who stealing that money from him which for many years before he had been scraping together by his progging and necessitous tricks and shifts, died heartbroken for his loss near York house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster, about 1664. As for Chaloner, who was esteemed by some an ingenious man, and a singular lover of Antiquities, he had made divers Collections of Arms, Genealogies, Seals, Monuments, etc. from ancient Evidences: which being so done, were fairly written by him in paper books, and afterwards perused by the learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson an eminent Antiquary, as some of his Collections from the said books inform me. The said Chaloner also had made Collections of Arms, Monuments, etc. in Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Chester; which coming into the hands of John son of Augustine Vincent Windsor Herald, were by him intit. Chaloners' Collections for Staffordshire, Salop and Chester, marked with J. C. What became of them after his death, which happened in Drewry-lane in January 1671, I know not. 
1660.  In Mar. or Apr. in sixteen hundred and sixty, were Messengers sent from the superior Power then in being to take into their custody the said James Chaloner, and to secure his Castle for the use of his Majesty; but he having received timely notice of their coming, he dispatched away himself by poison, taken, as 'tis said, in a Posset, made by his Concubine, whom he there for several years had kept, leaving then behind him a son named Edmund of about 19 years of age, begotten on the body of his lawful wife named Ursula, daughter of Sir Will. Fairfax of Steeton in Yorkshire.  
EDWARD GEE, Son, as I conceive, of Edward Gee, mentioned among the Writers in the first Vol. under the year 1618. p. 377, was born at a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Banbury, an. 1613, bred in Newton School in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire, became a Communer of Brasn. Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1626., took one degree in Arts, and left the University for a time. At length entering into the sacred Function, he proceeded Master in the said faculty 1636, being about that time Chaplain to Dr. R. Parr Bishop of the Isle of Man, and a Minister in Lancashire. Afterwards, when the Rebellion broke out, he sided with the Presbyterians, took the Covenant, and for his great activity in prosecuting the holy cause, he became Rector of the rich Church of Eccleston in the said County, in the place of Dr. Parr before mentioned, and an active man while he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejection of such whom they then (1654., an. 2 Oliv. Protect.) called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. He hath written,  
A Treatise of Prayer and of divine Providence. Lond. 1653. 61. oct.  
The divine right and original of the civil Magistrate from God, grounded on Rom. 13.1. Lond. 1658. in a large oct. Soon after was another part of this put out, concerning the Oath of Allegiance, which I have not yet seen. 
1660.  He died 26 of May, in sixteen hundred and sixty, and was buried in the Parish Church of Eccleston before mentioned.  
NICHOLAS GREY was born in London, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the College School at Westminster in the year 1606, aged 16 years, where making great proficiency in learning under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Fell, took the degrees in Arts, and being noted for a pure Latinist and Grecian, was made the first Master of Charter house or Suttons' Hospital School. After he had taught there some years, he married against the Statute of that School and Hospital, so that thereby being made uncapable of the place, the Governors thereof gave him a Benefice, (Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think) where for some time he lived as 'twere out of his Element. On the 29 of January 1624., he was admitted chief Master of Merchant Tailor's School, where continuing till 1631, he was then, or soon after, made chief Master of the School at Eton Coll, and at length Fellow of that house; but whether he proceeded D. of D. in the Uniu. of Oxon (which degree was conferred on him about that time) I know not, for it appears not so in the public Register. In the time of the Rebellion he was turned out from his Fellowship and Parsonage by the Presbyterians, was put to difficult shifts, and with much ado rubbed out for some years. At length obtaining the Mastership of Tunbridge School in Kent, in, or before, the Reign of Oliver, (in the place of Tho. Horn made Master of Eton School) continued there till the King's return, and then being restored to his Parsonage and Fellowship, was in hopes to spend his old age in peace, retiredness and plenty, but he died soon after, as I shall anon tell you. His works are these.  
Dictionary in English and Latin, Lat. and English.— Several times printed at London, but when first of all published, I know not. This Dict. mostly taken from that of Rider, had many additions put to it by Grey, but a second or third edit. of Holyok's Dict. coming out, prevented (as 'tis said) the publication of them. He also published Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia, ad Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum puerorum institutionem. Lond. 1647. 50. 55. etc. oct. Which Catechism was written by Hug. Grotius in Latin Verse, turned into Gr. Verse by Christ. Wase B. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, (since superior Beadle of Law in Oxon) and into Engl. Verse by Franc. Goldsmith of Greys' Inn Esq. This book is dedicated to John Hales Fellow of Eton Coll. by Dr. Grey, who hath also published, Parabolae Evangelicae lat. redditae Carmine paraphrastico varii generis in usum scholae Tunbrigiensis. Lond. in oct. when printed I know not, for 'tis not put down in the tit. or at the end. He gave way to fate, in a poor condition, at Eton, 
1660.  in sixteen hundred and sixty, and was buried in the Choir of the Church or Chappel there, near to the stairs that go up to the Organ loft, on the fifth day of October, as I have been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll. in Oxon, afterwards Schoolmaster of Eton, Canon of Windsor and Fellow of Eton College.  
EDWARD TERRY was born at Leigh near Penshurst in Kent, educated in Grammar in the Free School at Rochester, entered into Ch. Church in 1607, and in the year after was elected Student thereof; where▪ with incredible industry, going thro' the courses of Logic and Philosophy, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1614 In the year following he took a Voyage with certain Merchants into East India, where, after his arrival, he was sent for by Sir Tho. Roe Ambassador from the King of England to the Great Mogul, with whom he lived as Chaplain in the Court of that mighty Emperor for more than two years. At his return he retired to his College, and having some small Cure bestowed on him, became at length Rector of Great Greenford in Middlesex, which he enjoyed about 30 years, and submitted to the men that bore sway in the time of Rebellion. He was an ingenious and polite man, of a pious and exemplary conversation, a good Preacher, and much respected by the Neighbourhood where he lived. He hath written and published,  
Several sermons, as (1) Lawless liberty, preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond. in the Cath. of S. Paul, on Psal. 2.3. Lond. 1646. qu. (2) The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving, preached 6 Sept. 1649, to the East India Company, upon a late return of their Ships, on Psal. 107.30.31. Lond. 1649. qu. and other Sermons published in 1641. in qu. which I have not yet seen.  
Catechism for the use of the Parishioners of Gr. Greenford. Lond. 1646. oct.  
Sum of Religion— Printed 1647. qu.  
Characters of a wicked heart, hypocritical and sincere heart.— Printed in one sh●  
Voyage to East India. Wherein some things are taken notice of in his passage thither, but many more in his abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire▪ of the Great Mogul. Lond. 1655. oct. with the Author's picture before it. The narrative of this voyage was written and digested into order by the Author after his return thence, and by him dedicated and presented in MS. to Prince Charles, an. 1622. Afterwards it was added to the Travels of Pet. de la Valle, and abridged in Sam. Purchas his second part of Pilgrims, book 9  
Corolarie of serious and heedful, but sad conclusions— Printed at the end of the Voyage before mentioned.  
Character of K. Ch. 2. with a short Apology before it, an introduction to it, and conclusion after it. Lond. 1660. qu.  
From which King he expected the Deanery of Windsor to be conferred upon him, but upon what ground, seeing that he suffered neither for his, or his fathers, cause, I know not. He departed this mortal life on the 8. day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and sixty, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Greenford beforemention'd, 
1660.  as I have been informed by his Son Edw. Terry a Nonconformist Divine, sometimes Master of Arts and Fellow of University College.  
THOMAS POWELL Son of Joh. Pow. Rector of Cantreffe near to, and in the County of, Brecknock, was born there in 1608, made his first entry into this University in 1625, elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. in 162●, took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Fellow of that House. About which time applying his mind to the faculty of Theology, he entered into the sacred function, and at length became Rector of the place of his nativity. In the time of the Civil War he suffered much for the King's cause, and being sequestered of his spiritualities, shipped himself beyond the Seas for a time. After the return of Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms, he was restored to them, was actually created D. of D. and made Canon of S David, and would without doubt have risen higher in the Church, had he not been untimely snatched away from it. He was a Person well versed in several sorts of learning, was an able Philosopher, a curious Critic, was well skilled in various languages, and not to be contemned for his knowledge in Divinity. He hath written,  
Elementa Opticae: nova, facili & compendiosâ methodo explicata, etc. Lond. 1651. oct. Commended to the World by the copies of verses of Olor Iscanus and Eugenius Philalethes his Brother.  
Quadriga Salutis: or, the four general heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained. Lond. 1657. oct. At the latter end of which are some annotations of the same Author in the Welsh tongue.  
A Catechistical Tract of the Lords Prayer, the Creed, and ten Commandments.— This I have not yet seen, and therefore I know not to the contrary, but that it may be the same with his Catechism in Welsh and English.  
Humane industry: or a history of most manual Arts, deducing the original, progress and improvement of them, etc. Lond. 1661. in oct. This I have in my study, but his name is not set to it. He translated from Ital. into English— Stoa Triumphans. Two letters of the noble and learned Marquis Virgilio Malvezzi, one in praise of banishment, the other in contempt of honour; and from French into English, (1) Recueil de novellis Lettres: or the last letters of Monsieur de Balsac. (2) The unfortunate Politic: or the life of Herod. He left behind him a Ms. of his composition unpublished, intit.  
Fragmenta de rebus Britannicis. A short account of the lives, manners, and religion of the British Druids and the Bards, etc.— As also two translations, one from the Latin, and another from the Italian, tongue. That from the Latin hath this title. The Insubrian History, containing an exact account of the various fates, civil commotions, battles and sieges acted upon the theatre of Lombardie, and the adjacent parts of Italy, etc. written originally by the learned Puteanus. And that from the Ital. hath this, The Christian politic Favourite: or, a vindication of the politic transactions of the Count-Duke de S. Lucar, the great Minister of State and favourite counsellor to Philip the 4. of Spain. Written originally by Virg. Malvezzi before mentioned. it was before traduced, but in this translation all things were righted therein, by our Author T. powel, who giving way to fate at London on the last day of December in sixteen hundred and sixty, 
1660.  was the next day buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet, Lond. leaving then behind him the character of a most ingenious and polite Person.  
WALTER RUMSEY an Esquires Son, was born in Monmouthshire, at Llannover as I have been informed, became a Gent. Com. of Gloucester Hall in 1600, aged 16 years, but leaving that house without a Scholastical degree, retired to Greys-inn, studied the municipal Law, was made Barrister, Bencher, Lent-Reader 9 Car. 1, and at length a Judge in South Wales, being then so noted for his profession that he was usually called The picklock of the Law. In 1640 he was elected one of the Knights for Monmouthshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13. Apr. and might have been chosen again to serve in the Long Parliament, but refused it. He was an ingenious man, had a Philosophical head, was a good Musician, and most curious for graftng, inoculating and planting, and also for ordering of Ponds. But that which he is to be most noted for, is, that he having been always much troubled with phlegm, was the first that invented the Provangg, or Whalebone instrument to cleanse the throat and stomach; which hath not only been since used by noted Physicians and Vertuosis at home, but by those beyond the Seas. At length he wrote a book of it, and its use, entit.  
Organon Salutis. An instrument to cleanse the stomach. Lond. 1657. 59 oct. To which he added,  
Divers new experiments of the virtue of Tobacco and Coffey— Before both which are two Epistles written to the Author, one by Sir Hen. Blount in praise of Tobacco and Coffey, and the other by Jam. Howell in praise of those two and the Provangg. What other books our Author Rumsey hath written, I know not as yet, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying in his house at Llannover, about sixteen hundred and sixty was buried in the Parish Church there near to the bodies of his Relations. 
1660▪  He had a Son named Edward, who was entered a Gentleman Communer of Broadgates' Hall an. 1623., 21. Jacobi 1.  
RICHARD ZOUCHE, or Zouchaeus as he sometimes writes himself, the Cadet of an ancient and noble Family, was born of worthy parents in the Parish of Ansley in Wiltshire, educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll, after he had served two years of probation, an. 1609, aged 19 years, and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law, became an Advocate of note in Doctor's Commons. In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law, became the King's Professor of that fac. in the year following, was chosen, by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports, a Burgess, twice at least, for hieth in Kent, to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1, became Chancellor of the Dioc. of Oxon, Principal of S. Alban Hall in 1625, and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty. In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sat in the University, he submitted to their power, and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation. After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty, though he kept that honourable office but for a small time, was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University, and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived. He was an exact Artist, a subtle Logician, expert Historian, and for the knowledge in, and practice of, the Civil Law, the chief Person of his time, as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas (where several of them are reprinted) partly testify. He was so well versed also in the statutes of the University, and controversies between the members thereof and the City, that none after Twines death went beyond him. As his birth was noble, so was his behaviour and discourse; and as personable and handsome, so naturally sweet, pleasing and affable. The truth is, there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement, but the interruption of the times, which silenced his profession, would have given a stop to his rise, had he been of another disposition. His works are these.  
The Dove, or passages of Cosmography. Lond. 1613. oct. This is a Poem, which he wrote in his younger days, and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman.  
Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus, regulis, & sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct. 1636. qu. in 7. parts. Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16ᵒ. Amstel. 1681. in tw.  
Descriptio Juris & Judicii feudalis, secundum consuetudines Mediolani & Norman. pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam. Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct.  
Descript. Jur. & Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales & Normanicos. Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts.  
Descript. Juris & Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canon's & constitutiones Anglicanas. Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts. This book with Desc. Juris & Judicii tempor. etc. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae. Lond. 1683. oct.  
Descr. Juris & Judicii sacri; ad quam leges, quae ad religionem & piam causam respiciant, referuntur. Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. & Amstel. 1652. in 16ᵒ.  
Desc. Jur. & Jud. Militaris; ad quam leges, quae rem militarem, & ordinem personarum respiciunt, referuntur.— Printed with the former.  
Des. Jur. & Jud. Maritimi; ad quam quae ad navigationem & negotiationem maritimam respiciunt, referuntur.— Printed also with the former.  
Juris & Judicii fecialis, sive Juris inter gentes, & quaestionum de eodem explicato, etc. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts.  
Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law. Oxon. 1652. oct. In the year following was published a book entitled, Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis, cum designatione authorum. Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it, and therefore I cannot yet say 'twas written by Dr. Zouche. It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa, Brother to the Portuguese Ambassador, having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm. on the 22. of Nou. 1653, and thereupon imprisoned, there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council, whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice, and how. Whereupon our Author Zouche, who was then the living Pandict of the Law, being sent for from Oxon, he cleared their doubts; whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ. Law, and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654., our Author thereupon wrote this book following.  
Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente. Oxon. 1657. oct. Afterwards he published these books following.  
Eruditionis ingenuae specimina, scil. Artium, Logicae, Dialecticae, & Rhetoricae, nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus, praeceptis & sententiis, illustrate. Oxon. 1657. in tw.  
Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria, in 10 classes destributa. Ox. 1660. oct. Lond. 1682. in tw. the third Edit.  
The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted, against Sir Edw. Coke Articuli Admiralitatis, in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts. Lond. 1663. in a large oct. published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of Alls. Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted. Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctor's Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty, 
1661.  and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex, near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine, sometimes the Wife of William powel alias Hinson Esquire. He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant, as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num. 150.  
HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name, was born in Buckinghamshire, became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161●/1● aged 15 years or thereabouts, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613, (about which time he with Bevill Greenvill, of Ex. Coll. also, were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing) made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales, in 1616, and about that time was sent to travel into foreign Counties. In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington, his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth, and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth, being then noted for a Person well skilled in the modern languages, and a general Scholar; the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion, when by a forced retiredness, he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies, while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake. He hath extant these things following.  
Speech in the H. of Peers▪ 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions, and of his Majesty's removal from Whitehall. Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English (1) Romulus and Tarquin: or, de principe & tyranno. Lond. 1637. in tw. written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi: In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses, in his Fragm. aurea, etc. Lond. 1648. p. 24. (2) Historical relations of the united Provinces of Flanders. Lond. 1652. fol. written by Guido Cardinal Bentivoglio. (3) Hist. of the Wars of Flanders. Lond. 1654. fol. written by the said Cardinal. This translation hath the E. of Monmouths' picture before it. (4) Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries, with the politic touchstone. Lond. 1656. fol. written by Trajano Boccalini. (5) Politic discourses, in three books. Lond. 1657. fol. written by Paul Paruta a noble Venetian; to which is added a Short Soloquie, in which Paruta briefly examines the whole course of his life. (6) History of Venice, in two parts. Lond. 1658. fol. written by the said Paruta, with the Wars of Cyprus, wherein the famous sieges of Nicossia and Famagosta, and the battle of Lepanta are contained. He also began to translate from the said Italian Language The History of France, written by the Count Gualdo Priorato, but died after he had made some progress therein. Afterwards it was finished by Will. Brent Esq, and printed at Lond. 1677. fol. being the same Person that had before wrote a book intit. A discourse upon the nature of eternity, and the condition of a separated Soul according to the grounds of reason and principles of Christian Religion. Lond. 1655 in a small oct. written while he was a Prisoner in the Gatehouse at Westminster. It was afterwards printed there again in 1674 in 6. sh. and an half in qu. By the way it must be known that though we have had several of the brent's who have been Students in this University, yet this Will. Brent was not, but educated while a youth in the Coll. of English Jesuits at S. Omer. Afterwards being entered into the society of Greys-inn, he became a Barrister, and a Solicitor or such like Officer, under Tho. Earl of Strafford when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was born at Stoke Lark in Glocestershire, in the Parish of Ilmington in Warwickshire, and having suffered much for his Religion by Imprisonments, payments of money, and I know not what, lived privately several years at Foxcote in Warwickshire, and in his last days at London: He died in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London, in the beginning of the year 1691 aged 80 years, or more. He the said Hen. Carey E. of Monmouth did also translate from French into English. (1) The use of the passions. Lond. 1649. oct. (2) Man become guilty, or the corruption of his nature by sin. printed at Lond. Both written by Joh. Franc. Senault; before the first of which, is the picture of the said Earl (a shoulder piece) standing on a Pedestal. What other translations this noble Count hath made besides, unless The Hist. of the late Wars of Christendom, printed in fol. 1648. which I have not yet seen, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he giving way to fate on the 13 of June in sixteen hundred sixty and one, was buried in the Church of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. 
1661.  He had an ingenious Brother named Thomas, whom I have mentioned in the Fasti 1613. One H. Cary a Lawyer hath written The Law of England: or, a true guide for all Persons concerned in Ecclesiastical Courts. printed 1666 in tw. but what relation he hath to the Earl I know not.  
WILLIAM TAYLOR was born at Kighley in Yorks. 30. Sept. 1616. entered a Batler in Magd. Hall in 1631, took one degree in Arts, was made Schoolmaster of Keniton or Keynton in Herefordshire, proceeded in his faculty, went to Cirencester in Glocestershire about the latter end of 1639, became Schoolmaster there in the place of Henry Top, then ejected by the puritanical Townsmen. But that Town being taken by storm by the Royal party, 2. Feb. 1642, Top was restored. So that Taylor retiring to London, became Preacher at Bow near that City, and afterwards Minister of S. Stephen's Church in Colemanstreet, in the place of Joh. Goodwin turned out by the Parliament. But he meeting with opposition there, he exercised his function for some time in a Church in Woodstreet, and kept a Lecture at S. Giles near Cripplegate every Sunday, and another Lecture on a week day at S. Peter Cornhill. Afterwards being recalled by the Rump Parliament to S. Stephens, he kept it to his dying day. He was a frequent Preacher, not only in his own, but in other Churches and a laborious and learned man in his profession. He hath written and published,  
Sermons as (1) Serm. on Phil. 2.10. and others, as 'tis said, which I have not yet seen; and also collected and reviewed several of Mr. Christop. Love's Sermons before they went to the press, and set epistles before some of them. He died on the fifth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and one, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Stephen beforemention'd, 
1661.  at which time Dr. William Spurstow of Hackney preached his funeral Sermon, wherein he spoke many things to his honour, which for brevity sake I now omit. This Will. Taylor though he was a zealous Presbyterian, yet he was a lover of the King in all revolutions, as a Doctor of his persuasion hath often told me.  
BARTEN HOLIDAY Son of Thomas Holiday a Tailor, was born in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxford, in an house opposite to Linc. College, entered into Ch. Ch. and exhibited unto by his kinsman Dr. Ravis sometimes Dean of that House, an. 1605, aged 12. or more years, and was, I think, at that time a Chorister. Afterwards, when he was about to take the degree of Bach. of Arts, he was elected one of the number of Students, being then noted to have a most admirable vein in Poetry and Oratory. In 1615 he proceeded in Arts, took Holy Orders soon after, became a most eloquent and acquaint Preacher, and had two Benefices in the Dioc. of Oxon. conferred on him, whereof one was the rectory of Crowell. In 1618. he went as Chaplain to Sir Franc. Steaart, when he conducted to Spain Dedicus Sarmiento de Acunna the Earl of Gundamore, after he had continued several years in the English Court as an Ambassador from the K. of that Country; in which journey behaving himself in a facete and pleasant way, did much obtain the favour of that Count Afterwards he became Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and succeeded Mr. Will. Bridges, Son of Dr. John Bridges B. of Ox, in the Archdeaconry of Oxon. before the year 1626. In 1642 he was, by virtue of the Letters of the said King, actually created, with others, Doct. of Divinity, and sheltered himself in and near Oxon during the time of rebellion; but when the royal Party declined, and the Independent had taken place, upon the installation of Oliver to the Protectorship, he, who before had lost his Livings, and the profits of his Archdeaconry, did side with that faction so far, as to undergo the examination of the Triers, or rather Spanish Inquisitors, in order to be inducted into the rectory of Chilton in Berks, in the place of one Tho. Laurence ejected for being not Compos mentis. For which act he was much blamed by his ancient friends and acquaintance of the Orthodox Clergy, yet commended by some for making provision for a second Wife that he a little before, in his elderly years, had taken, and the Children to be had by her. After the King's restauration he left that Living to make room for the true owner, returned to Eifley near Oxon. to live on his Archdeaconry, and might, had he not acted the vain man, been made a Bishop or at least a Dean of a rich Church. His poetry and sublime fancy were such, that famed him second to none in his time in the University, witness in some manner his smooth translation of rough Persius, which he made before he was 20 years of age, though in these times much undervalved by Juniors. As Scaliger said of Claudian and his works, solo argumento ignobiliore oppressus addit de ingenio, quantum deest materiae, so may it be of Holiday and his Poem, viz. whatsoever is mean in Persius is so choicely adorned by his Genie, that if it stand out of the presence of ignorant and desperate emulation, it may be graceful. His Philosophy also, expressed in his book De Anima, and well languaged Sermons, speak him eminent in his generation, and do enough show him to have traced the rough, as well as the pleasant, paths of Poetry. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) Three Sermons upon the passion, resurrection and ascension of our Saviour. Lond. 1626. qu. The first at Ch. Ch. on Goodfriday 1621. on 1. Cor. 2.8. The second at S. Mary's on Easter Tuesday 1623. on 1. Cor. 15.20. and the third at Ch. Ch. on Ascension day 1625, on 1. Pet. 3.22. (2) Two Sermons at Paul's Cross, the first preached 24. of Mar. 1624. on Ezech. 37.22. Lond. 1626. qu. The other preached the 5 of Aug. 1623. on Psal. 18.48.49.— Printed there the same year. (3) Nature of Faith, on Heb. 11.4. Lond. 1654. qu. (4) Motives to a godly life, in 10. Sermons. Oxon. 1657. qu. (5) Four Sermons against disloyalty, preached in the times of the late troubles. Oxon. 1661. oct. The first of which is Of Obedience on Exod. 20.12. etc.  
Technogamia: or, the marriage of Arts, a Comedy. Lond. 1630. qu. acted publicly in Ch. Ch. Hall with no great applause 13. Febr. 1617. But the wits of those times being minded to show themselves before the King, were resolved, with leave, to act the said Comedy at Woodstock; whereupon the Author making some foolish alterations in it, it was accordingly acted on a Sunday night, 26. Aug. 1621. But it being too grave for the King, and too Scholastic for the auditory, (or as some have said, that the Actors had taken too much wine before they began) his Majesty (Jam. 1.) after two Acts, offered several times to withdraw. At length being persuaded by some of those that were near to him, to have patience till it was ended, lest the young men should be discouraged, sat down, though much against his will. Whereupon these verses were made by a certain Scholar.  
At Christ Church Marriage done before the King,  
Lest that those Mates should want an offering,  
The King himself did offer, what I pray?  
He offered twice or thrice to go away.  
Several witty copies of verses were made on the said Comedy, among which was that of Pet. Heylyn of Magd. Coll. called Whoop Holiday. Which giving occasion for the making other Copies pro and con, Corbert Dean of Ch. Ch. who had that day preached (as it seems) before the King with his band starched clean, did put in for one; for which he was reproved by the graver sort, but those that knew him well, took no notice of it, for they have several times said, that he loved to the last boys-play very well.  
Philosophiae polito-barbarae specimen, in quo de animâ, & ejus habitibus intellectualibus quaestiones aliquot, libris 2. illustrantur. Oxon. 1633. qu.  
Survey of the World in 10 books, a Poem Oxon. 1661. oct. Which passing the censure of Scholars, it was judged by them to be an inconsiderable piece, and by some, not to be his. But so it was, that it being published just before his death, it was taken for a posthumus work, which had been by him composed in his younger days. 'Tis said by some that he was Author of a Com. called The Gentile Craft, but whether true, I doubt it. Sure I am he translated from Lat. into English (1) Satyrs of Persius. Oxon. 1616. sec. edit. There again 1635. Reviewed and amended, and also augmented with illustrations by the translator— Oxon. 1673. fol. In this translation he consulted above a dozen Expositors, yet in his preface to the translation, he hath these words, I may without ambition say, it is a new thing Persius understood. To have committed no faults in my translation (saith he according to his elegant way of writing) had been to translate myself and put off man. (2) Satyrs of Juvenal illustrated with notes and sculptures. Oxon. 1673. fol. At the end of which is the fourth Edit. of Persius before mentioned, both which were published by Will. Dewey of Tortdeane in Glocestershire Gent. whose Mother Dr. Holiday had taken to his second Wife. (3) Odes of Horace. Lond. 1652. oct. Whether printed before that time I know not. This translation is so near that of Sir Tho. Hawkins, printed 1638. in oct. or that of Hawkins so near this, that whether of the two is the Author, remains to me, as yet, undiscovered. This Dr. Holiday who was highly conceited of his own worth, especially in his younger days, died in the house belonging to the Archdeacon of Oxon. situated and being in a village called Eisley near to that City, on the second day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and one, 
1661.  and was three days after buried at the foot of Bishop King's monument, under the South wall of the Isle joining, on the South side, to the choir of Christ Church Cathedral. At which time his bones being laid close on the right side to those of W. Cartwright and Jo. Gregory, what had it been for an admirer of those learned and pious men, to have put a memorial over their graves? As for Sir Thom. Hawkins Kt. before mentioned he was an ingenious man, was as excellent in the fac. of Music as in Poetry, and translated from the original, Unhappy prosperity; expressed in the history of Ael▪ Sejanus and Philippe the Catanian, with observations on the fall of Sejanus. Lond. 1639 in oct. or tw. sec. edit. What other translations he hath made, or what books he hath written, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was of Nash Court in the Parish of Boughton under the Bleane in Kent, where dying in the latter end of 1640, as it seems, was buried in the Parish Church of Boughton near to the graves of his Father Sir Tho. Hawkins Kt, and of Anne his Mother. He had an ingenious Brother named John Hawkins Doctor of Physic of London, and a Nephew called John Kirton Doctor of the same faculty, who is to be mentioned elsewhere.  
JOHN GOUGHE commonly called Goffe., Son of the Rector of Stanmer in Sussex, was born in that County, began to be conversant with the Muses in Merton Coll. an. 1624., made Demie of that S. Mar. Magd. in 1627., aged 17 years or more, perpetual Fellow 29. July 1630, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he entered into Orders, and became a Preacher in these parts. In 1642. Sept. 26. he was inducted into the Vicarage of Hackington alias S. Stephen near to the City of Canterbury, in the place of James Hirst deceased. From whence being ejected soon after, for refusing the Covenant, was, with other loyal Clergy men, cast into the County Prison in S. Dunstan's Parish in the Suburbs of the said City. In 1652 he, by the endeavours of his Brother William, whom I shall anon mention, was inducted into the rectory of Norton near Sittingbourne in Kent on the thirteenth day of March, and in the year 1660, he being restored to his Vicarage of S. Stephen, was actually created Doctor of Divinity in the beginning of December the same year, and inducted again according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England into the rectory of Norton, on the 4. of March following, which were all the spiritualities he enjoyed. He hath written a book intit.  
Ecclesiae Anglicanae ΘΡΗΝΩΔΙ'Α, in qua perturbatissimus regni & ecclesiae status, sub Anabaptistica tyrannide lugetur. Lond. 1661. oct. Also a large latin Epistle written to Dr. Edw. Simson, set before a book written by him intit. Chronicon Catholicum, etc. Lond. 1652. fol. He concluded his last day in the Parish of Norton beforementioned, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Alphage in Canterbury on the 26. day of Nou. in sixteen hundred sixty and one. 
1661.  This Person who was a zealous Son of the Church of England, had an elder Brother named Steph. Goffe., originally of Mert. Coll, afterwards of S. Alb. Hall and a Bigot of the Church of Rome; and another Brother named William, whether elder or younger I know not, who was originally a Trader in London, afterwards a Presbyterian, Independent, one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and one of Olivers Lords; who to save his neck from the Gallows, did, upon a foresight of the King's return in 1660, leave the Nation, and died obscurely in a strange Land. The Father of the said Goffes was Steph. Goffe. sometimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll, a good Logician and Disputant, but a very severe Puritan, eminent for his training up, while a Tutor, several that proved afterwards very noted Scholars; among whom must not be forgotten Rob. Harris D. of D. sometimes Precedent of Trin. Coll. in Oxon.  
THOMAS LUSHINGTON a famous Scholar of his time, was born at Sandwich in Kent, matriculated in the University, as a member of Broadgates' Hall, in Lent term, 1606/7 aged 17 years, but how long he stayed there, it appears not. Sure it is, that he having had some public employment in the Country or elsewhere, did not take the degree of Bachelaur, nor that of Master of Arts till 1618., in which year he was a Communer of Linc. Coll. Not long after he returned to Broadgates again, and was there at the time when it was converted into the College of Pembroke, where he spent some years in Theological studies, took the degree of Bach. of Diu. and soon after, for the great respect that Corbet B. of Oxon had for, made, him one of his Chaplains. In June 1631, he became Prebendary of Bemister Secunda in the Church of Salisbury, on the promotion of the said Corbet to the See of Oxon, and in the year following proceeding in his faculty, the said Bishop took him with him when he was translated to Norwych, bestowed on him the rectory of Burnham-Westgate in Norfolk, and got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. When the grand rebellion broke out, he lost his spiritualities, and lived obscurely in several places, publishing then divers books to gain money for his maintenance. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2, in 1660, he was restored to his spiritualities, and had offers made to him of great dignities in the Church, but being then aged and infirm, he chose rather to keep what he had with quietness, than be a Dean with riches. He was esteemed a right reverend and learned Theologist, yet in many matters imprudent, and too much inclined to the opinions of Socinus. His preaching also while he remained in the University, was generally well esteemed, and never gave distaste but in one Sermon, which, though esteemed by some to be admirable, yet by more, blasphemous. An account of which you shall have, as it followeth. In the year 1624. (22. Jac. 1.) nothing but War with Spain sounding in the ears of the vulgar upon the breaking off of the Spanish match with Prince Charles, it pleased this our Author Lushington to utter in his Sermon on Matth. 28.13. at S. Mary's on Easter Monday these words— Now the Peasant thinks it comes to his turn under pretence of his privilege in Parliament, that he should dispose of Kings and Commonwealths, etc. Afterwards also thus. Nothing now contents the Commonalty but war and contention, etc. For which, as also for several other passages, reflecting on the Spanish match, he was called into question by Dr. Piers the Vicechancellor, and by him, was a time appointed for him to recant what he had said. Which being done, not without the consent of certain Doctors, the Repetitioner was commanded to leave out divers passages of the said Sermon, which he, according to custom, was to repeat the Sunday after, commonly called Low Sunday. His recantation Sermon, on Acts 2.1. latter part, which he preached the very next day after the Repetitioner had delivered his four Sermons, I have seen, and therein I find, that his meaning for the first passage, was only to reprehend the seditious doctrines of Knox, Buchanan and others, and the tumultuary practices of the common People, formerly used both in town and country to affront their Prince, because of their privilege to elect Parliamentary Persons. The word now hath the latitude of this age, that in Parliament I intended not locally in relation to the vulgar, who have a voice to elect Knights and Burgesses, but at the present, themselves hold no place personally in the Parliament, etc. As for other passages he said, he had no intent to cross the present resolution for War, but only to check the inordinate desire of it, somewhat too frequent in most men's mouths, and it thought to him somewhat harsh to hear in the Chapel, give peace in our time O Lord, and presently in the Chambers, God send us war again, etc. Besides this recantation, (which his friends caused to be put upon him lest he should be called into question by the Parliament) he was severely checked by the Vicechancellor and Doctors for using certain passages not at all befitting the place, especially on such a text which treated concerning the resurrection of our Saviour. The truth is, this our Preacher was a Person more ingenious, than prudent, and more apt upon most occasions to display his fancy, than to proceed upon solid reason; if not, he would not in his said Sermon have discanted on the whole life of our Saviour purposely to render him and his Attendants, Men and Women, objects of scorn and aversion, as if they had been a pack of dissolute vagabonds and cheats. But the best of it was, that though he then assumed the Person of a Jewish Pharisee and Persecutor of Christ, yet presently after changing his stile, as became a Disciple of Christ, he with such admirable dexterity (as 'tis 
(*) Serenus Cressy in his Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Ch. by Dr. Stillingfleet, printed 1672 p. 13.  said) answered all the Cavillations and Invectives before made, that the loudly repeated applauses of his Hearers hindered him a good space from proceeding in his Sermon. He hath written and published these things following.  
Commentary on the Hebrews. Lond. 1646. 47. fol. Published under the Capital Letters of G. M. Animadverted upon by Rich. Porter Bach. of Diu. Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Norwych in his book intit. God incarnate; showing that Jesus Christ is the only and most high God, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. In the Epistle dedicatory before it he saith, he was drawn to write that book by the importunity of some religious friends, and by the iniquity of a most blasphemous book, lately printed and called A commentary on the Hebrews, written by a nameless D. of D. who now resides in this County (Norfolk) but formerly in Broadgates' Hall (so it was then called) wherein he hath vented such blasphemies against Jesus Christ, as (without special revocation and repentance) will in the end bring both himself, and all his seduced Sectaries, to that woeful Broad gate, of which mention is made Matth. 7.13. Lata est porta, quae ducit ad perditionem, etc. The said Commentary hath laid the axe to the root and foundation of our Christian Religion by ungoding Jesus Christ, and blasphemously denying his grand and most gracious work of Redemption. And it is to be feared that the pernicious Doctrines therein contained, have many Abetters and Favourers in these dangerous times; albeit his Commentary is the first of all the Serpent's nest that dared to peep out, and appear in our English Print, who both by his book, and by his personal insinuations, hath already (as we know) perverted many from the saving truth of the Gospel, to the evident danger both of theirs and his own soul: And his impious ambition to be the Ringleader of this blasphemy, hath in this County (Norfolk) procured to him such a title and character, as was fastened on Martion the Heretic by Polycarpus, when he called him Primogenitum Satanae, etc. Thus the Author before quoted. But the Reader must know that the said Commentary on the Hebrews, was long since written in the Lat. Tongue by a Foreigner, either Joh. Crellius, Slightingius, or by some other Socinian, and was translated into English by this our Author, not without some alterations and additions. He also published,  
Commentary on the Galathians. Lond. 1650. fol. Translated from Crellius, and wrote  
Logica Analytica, de principiis, regulis & usu rationis rectae, lib. 3. Lond. 1650. oct. dedicated by the Author to Thom. Some Esq. his then Patron. But the copy coming from the Author into the hands of Nich. Bacon great Nephew to Francis Viscount S. Alban, was by him published, propter operis perfectionem, (as he saith) in quo nihil dictum, quod non statim probatum est, vel à principiis, primo & per se notis, vel à propositionibus inde demonstratis; deinde etiam propter ejus usum vel fructum eximium. There was another part written by the same Author De argumentatione, when this was published; but whether ever it came to light I know not.  
The resurrection rescued from the Soldiers calumnies, in two sermons at S. Mary's in Oxon, on Math. 28.13, and on Acts 2. latter part of the first verse. Lond. 1659., in tw. then published under the name of Rob. Jones, D. D.  
Treatise of the passions according to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.  
Treat. upon the Theology of Proclus.— These two last are written in Latin, and go about in MS. from hand to hand, and are not, as I conceive, yet printed. At length our Author retiring in his last days to some of his relations living at Sittingbourne near Milton in Kent, where he lived for some time in great retiredness, surrendered up his soul to God on 22 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and one, aged 72 years, and was buried in the south Chancel of the Church there. 
1661.  Over his grave was soon after set up against the south wall of the said Chancel a comely monument, containing an arch of Alabaster supported by two pillars of black marble; between which is the statue or bust to the middle of our Author Lushington in his Doctor's gown, holding his right hand on his breast, and having in his left a book, leaning on a cushion. Over his head is an Urn, and under him a square table of black marble, with a large Inscription thereon, beginning thus, Siste viator, raro calcabis doctos simul & mansuetos cineres, etc. Under all are piles of books. On the stone that covers his grave is another Inscription, beginning thus, Hic jacet Thomas Lushingtonus olim Collegii Lincolniensis & Pembr. etc. The copies of both which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 335. b. in the first of which is an high character given of him.  
HENRY VAUGHAN Son of John Vaughan Gentleman, was born at Cathle or Cathlin in Merionethshire, became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in Midsum. term 1632 aged 16 years: whence being elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. continued there for some time under a severe discipline, took the degrees in Arts, was made Fellow of that house, and afterwards became Preacher while King Ch. 1. kept his Court in Oxon in the time of the grand Rebellion. In July 1643 he was presented by the Uniu. of Oxon to the Vicarage of Penteg in Monmouthshire, by virtue of an Act made in Parl. began at Westm. 5 of Nov 3 Jac. 1. to disinable Recusants to present Persons to Livings in their gifts. What other Preferments he had, or what he suffered for his Loyalty, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he wrote,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. preached before the H. of Com. at Oxon. on Math. 5.20. Ox. 1644. qu. etc.  
Conference had between him and Jo. Tombs B. D. in S. Mary's Church in Abergavenny, 5 Sept. 1653, touching Infant-baptism. Lond. 1656. qu. and that he died and was buried at Abergavenny about sixteen hundred sixty and one, 
1661.  as I was some years since informed by his Pupil Sir Leolin Jenkyns sometimes Principal of Jesus Coll. afterwards Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.  
THOMAS CHALONER a younger son (yet elder than James Chaloner before mentioned) of Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight, was born 
(*) Reg. Matric. P. pag. 436.  in Buckinghamshire (at Steeple-Claydon near Buckingham as it seems) became a Sojournor of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of 1611, aged 16 years, but before he took a degree he left the College, and what was fit to accomplish his natural parts, which were good, were not omitted by his Father. He afterwards traveled into France, Italy and Germany, and returned a well bred Gentleman, but tinged, as it seems, with antimonarchical Principles, if not worse. About that time he settled at, or near, Gisburgh in Yorkshire, where there is an Estate belonging to the Name and Family, was elected a Burgess for a Corporation in Yorksh. to serve in the Long Parliament, about 1643, wherein he became a frequent Speaker, an enemy to the King, his Family, and Government, and a great stickler for their new Utopian Commonwealth. All which he did partly out of his natural inclination, and partly out of revenge for the loss which his Father endured (and so consequently he) for being deprived of the propriety of the Alum Mines in Yorkshire, which he had discovered about the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth. In 1647, he with Col. Jo. Temple were appointed Commissioners of Parliament in Monster, was one of the King's Judges in 1648, and soon after made a member of the Council of State. In 1658 he was elected a Burgess for Scarborough in Yorkshire, to serve in that Parliament called by Richard, to meet at Westm. 27 of Jan.; but afterwards showing himself a zealous Rumper, upon the turning out of the Fag▪ end of that Parliament called the Rump by Col. Jo. Lambert and his Party, on the 13 of Oct. 1659., he was committed to Prison by Ch. Fleetwood then made Commander in chief of all the Forces in England, where continuing till 27 of Decemb. following, was then released by the Members of the Rump Parliament, who had retaken their places the day before, and on the 2 of Jan. following he was appointed by the House one of the Council of State. This Tho. Chaloner was as far from a Puritan or Presbyterian, as the East is from the West, for he was a boon Companion, was of Harry Marten's gang, was of the natural Religion, and loved to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life, without any regard of laying up for a wet day, which at his last he wanted. The things that he hath published are these.  
An Answer to the Scotch Papers delivered in the H. of Commons concerning the disposal of the King's person. Lond. 1646. qu. In answer to which divers did exercise their pens, some scoffingly and some in earnest; whereupon came out this Pamphlet intit.  
The justification of a safe and well-grounded Answer to the Scottish papers printed under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech (or Answer) which doth maintain the honour of the Parliament and interest of the Kingdom of England. Lond. 1646. qu. Written as 'twas usually said by Tho. Chaloner. Afterwards came out against Chaloner,— Lex talionis: or, a Declaration against Mr. Chaloner, the Crimes of the times, and the Manners of you know whom. Lond. 1647. in one sh. in qu. and also An answer to a Speech without doers: or, animadversions upon an unsafe and dangerous Answer to the Scotch Papers under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech, etc. in one sh. in qu.  
A true and exact relation of the strange finding out of Moses his tomb, in a Valley near unto Mount Nebo in Palestina, etc. Lond. 1657. in about 3 sheets in oct. This book, at its first appearance, made a great noise, and pushed the Presbyterian Rabbis for a time: at length the Author thereof being known, and his story found to be a mere shame, the book became ridiculous and was put to posteriour uses. At length in the beginning of the year 1660, upon a foresight that King Ch. 2. would be restored, he therefore (knowing very well that his former actions would not endu●e the touchstone) withdrew himself beyond the seas, and settling in a fearful condition at Middleburgh in Zeeland, died and was buried there about sixteen hundred sixty and one. 
1661.  Since my writing of this I find that this Mr. Chaloner published A speech containing a plea for Monarchy, an. 1●59. But therein being several Restrictions, came out an Answer to it by way of Address to General George Monk.  
THOMAS CULPEPER or Colepeper, was born of a gentile Family at Harietsham in Kent, became a Communer of Hart Hall in 1591., aged 13 years, departed thence without a degree, went to the Inns of Court, and afterwards to his Patrimony; which is all I know of him, only that first he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. on the 23 of Sept. 1619, secondly that he wrote,  
A Tract against the high rate of Usury, presented to the Parliament in 1623.— printed several times, (the fourth Edit. of which came out at Lond. 1668, prefaced with a discourse by his son Sir Tho. Culpeper) and thirdly that dying at Hollingbourne in Kent in sixteen hundred sixty and one, 
1661/2.  was buried in an Isle joining to the Church there, on the 25 of January the same year, leaving then behind him the character of a good man. There is a stone over his grave, but hath no Inscription on it.  
CHRISTOPHER HARVEY▪ a Ministers son of Cheshire, was born in that County, became a Batler of Brasenose Coll. in 1613, aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1620, holy Orders, and at length was made Vicar of Clifton in Warwickshire. His works are these.  
The right Rebel. A treatise discovering the true use of the name by the nature of Rebellion, with the properties and practices of Rebels. Appliable to all both old and new fanatics. Lond. 1661. oct.  
Faction supplanted: or, a caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebels in two parts. 1. A discourse concerning the nature, properties and practices of Rebels. 2. Against the inconstancy and inconsistent contrariety of the same men's pretensions and practices, principles and doctrines. Lond. 1663. oct. penned mostly in 1642, 
Clar. 1661.  and finished 3 Apr. 1645. This book, I suppose (for I have not seen it, or the other) is the same with the former, only a new title put to it, to make it vend the better. Another book goes under his name called Conditions of Christianity▪ printed at Lond. in tw. but that, or any other besides, I have not yet seen.  
CONSTANTINE JESSOP son of Joh. Jess. of Pembroke in Pembrokeshire Minister of God's Word, was entered a Student in Jesus Coll. in 1624., aged 22 years, whence, after he had gone a course, he went into Ireland, and was made Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin. At his return he was incorporated in this University an. 1●31, and in the year following proceeded in Arts, being about that time in holy Orders; but what his Employment was between that time and 1640 I know not. Sure I am, that when the Presbyterians began to be dominant in 1641, he closed with them, took the Covenant, succeeded Joh. Owen in the Ministry of that factious Town in Essex called Coggeshall, whence, after he had exercised his parts there for a time, he was translated to Winbourne-Minster in Dorsetshire, of which County he was an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejection of such whom they then (1654.) called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. Afterwards he became Rector of Fyfield in Essex, where I find him in 1660, which is all I yet know of him, only that he is reported by a Brother 
(*) Ben. Woodbridge in his Pref. to his Justification by Faith.  to be a learned, faithful, and suffering Servant and Minister of Jesus Christ, and that he wrote these things following; the last of which shows him to have been inclined to Arminianism.  
The Angel of the Church of Ephesus, no Bishop of Ephesus, on Rev. 2.1. Lond. 1644. and 1660. qu.  
Concerning the nature of the Covenant of Grace; wherein is a discovery of the judgement of Dr. Twysse in the point of Justification, clearing him from Antinomianism therein. Lond. 1655. qu. Written by way of Preface to Joh. Grails book intit. A modest Vindication, etc. and contains 49 pages in a small character, being more in matter than Grails book that follows it. He left behind him at his death a son of both his names, and a true son of the Church of England, 
Clar. 1661.  who being importuned when he proceeded D. of D. in this University 1685 to give the Author information concerning his Father and his Writings, he seemed not to care to have the memory of him perpetuated, otherwise the Author would have spoken more fully of him and his end.  
JOSEPH BROOKBANK son of Georg. Br. of Halyfax in Yorkshire, was entered a Batler in Bras. Coll. in Mich. term 1632, aged 20 years, took one degree in Arts, entered into the sacred Function and had some petite Cure bestowed on him. At length retiring to London, he taught School in Fleetstreet, and exercised the Ministry there. He hath written and published,  
Breviate of our Kings whole Latin Grammar, vulgarly called Lilies: or, a brief grammatical table thereof, etc. Lond. 1660. oct.  
Well-tuned Organ: or, whether Music be lawful in holy and public Assemblies. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Rebels tried and cast, in three Sermons, 
Clar. 1661.  on Rom. 13.2. etc. Lond. 1661. in tw. How long afterwards he continued among the living I know not, nor any thing else of him.  
BRIAN DUPPA or de Uphaugh was born at Greenwich in Kent on the tenth day of March an. 1588., educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a King's Scholar in the College School at Westminster while Dr. Lanc. Andrews was Dean of that Church, of whom he learned Hebrew. From thence he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in the month of May 1605, and thence to be Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1612, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty, he took holy Orders, traveled beyond the seas, and in the year 1619 he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University. In 1625 he took the degrees in Divinity, being then Chaplain to the Prince Palatine, and in the year after he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. In 1632 and 33 he did execute the Office of Vicechanc. of the University with great moderation and prudence, and in June 1634 he was made Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Franc. Dee promoted to the See of Peterborough. Soon after he was made Tutor to Prince Charles (afterwards K. Ch. 2.) which proved his future happiness, being then accounted by all a most excellent man. On the 19 of May 1638 he was presented to the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex, and being elected to the See of Chichester upon the translation of Dr. Rich. Montague to Norwych, had restitution made 
(†) Pat. 14. Car. 1. p. 19  to him of the Temporalities of that See on the 12 of June the same year: which Church of Petworth, he kept, I presume, for some time in commendam with his See. In 1641 he was translated to Salisbury in the place of Dr. Jo. Davenant, who died on the 20 of Apr. the same year: but soon after Episcopacy being silenced by the Long Parliament, (which the Presbyterians called The blessed Parliam.) when a prevalent party therein turned the Nation topsie turvey, he retired to Oxon for a time to wait on his Majesty and the Prince, and left not the former till his last days. After his Maj. was beheaded, this our worthy Author and Bishop retired to Richmond in Surrey, where spending most of his time in great devotion and solitude till the happy Restauration of King Ch. 2. an. 1660 was translated to Winchester, on the 24 of Sept. the same year, to the great joy and comfort of many Lords and Gentlemen, as well as the reverend Clergy, who all had a deep sense and memory of his Prudence and Piety, owing then a lasting tribute, not only for his great example of virtue and godliness, but for those excellent seeds and principles so happily laid in the youth of the then Sovereign Lord the King. About that time he was made Lord Almoner, and began that conspicuous monument of his charity, an Almshouse, at the said place of Richmond. He was a man of excellent parts, and every way qualified for his Function, especially as to the comeliness of his person, and gracefulness of his deportment, which rendered him worthy the service of a Court, and every way fit to stand before Princes. He was beloved of K. Ch. 1. of happy memory, who made use of his pious Conversation during his imprisonment in the Isle of Wight, and so much respected by his son K. Ch. 2. that when this worthy Prelate laid on his deathbed at Richmond, he craved his blessing on his bended knees by his bedside. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Soul's soliloquy, etc. preached before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight 25 Oct. 1648, being the monthly Fast during the Treaty there, on Psal. 42.5. Lond. 1648. qu. (2) Angels rejoicing for Sinners repenting, on Luke 15.10. Lond. 1648. qu. etc.  
A Guide for the penitent: or, a model drawn up for the help of a devout Soul wounded with sin. Lond. 1660.  
Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice, in 2 parts. Lond. 1674 in tw. with the Author's picture before them: which book was published by Ben. Parry of C. C. Coll. 'Tis said by some, particularly the Bookseller that printed The Church Hist. of Scotland, penned by Dr. Joh. Spotswood Archb. of S. Andrews, and printed at Lond. 1654. fol. etc. that he (Dr. Duppa) did write The life of the said Archbishop, which stands, and is put, before the said History. But the Reader is to know, that the person who wrote the Preface to the said History saith that the said life was penned by a reverend person of that Nation, meaning Scotland. So that if it be true which he delivers, Duppa an Englishman cannot be the Author; yet Quaere. He surrendered up his pious soul to the great God that first gave it, on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
1662.  having the day before been visited by his Maj. out of his wont piety and goodness. He died as he lived, honoured and beloved of all that knew him, a person of so clear and eminent candour, that he left not the least spot upon his life or function, maugre the busy sedition of those Brethren, who then, as before, blacked the very Surplice, and made the Liturgy profane. He had a more than ordinary affection to live at Richmond, where he privately resided several years in the late broken times, as I have before told you, but especially because it was the place where first he conveyed the Principles into the Prince. Afterwards his body being conveyed to York-house in the Strand, where it laid in state for some time, was decently conveyed thence on the 24 of April following to the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster, where it was buried in the Area on the North side of the Chapel of S. Edward the Confessor. At which time Dr. Hen. King B. of Chichester, a most admirable and florid Preacher in his younger days, preached a Sermon to the great content of the Auditory, containing many Eulogiums of the Defunct, which, as also his monuments of piety and charity, I shall for brevity sake now pass by. Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white marble, fastened to the Wall over his grave, with an inscription thereon. In the Church Register of Lewsham in Kent, I find one Brian Son of Jeffry Duppa to be baptised there 18 March 1580, having been born in the Vicaridge-house of that place. Which Jeffry Duppa who was Vicar, I take to be Father of Dr. Duppa, and Brian to be his elder brother deceased.  
HAMLETT PULESTON was born at Old Ailresford in Hampshire, admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 20 Aug. 1647, aged 16 years, took a degree in Arts, and then was made Fellow of Jesus Coll. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a Preacher in these parts. He hath written a book intit.  
Monarchiae Britannicae singularis protectio: or, a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial Providence over the British Monarchy, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. He died at London in a poor condition, and in an obscure house, in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two, but where buried I cannot tell. 
1662.  His Father Rich. Puleston was a learned Doct. of Diu. was Parson of Abbotsworthy in Hampshire, and tho born at Bircot in the Parish of Dorchester in Oxfordshire, yet he was descended from the ancient and gentile Family of the Pulestons commonly called Pilstons in Flintshire.  
WILLIAM FIENNES was the nearest Kinsman to William of Wykeham Founder of New Coll, as being lineally descended from William Lord Say killed in the battle at Barnet 2 Ed. 4. Dom. 1471 by his Wife Margaret dau. and heir of Will. de Wykeham Lord of the Manor of Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire, Son of Sir Tho. de Wykeham Knight, Son of Will. Perot by Alice his Wife, Daughter of Will. Champneis by Agnes his Wife, Sister to Will. of Wykeham B. of Winton and Founder of New Coll. before mentioned. This person Will. Fiennes whom we are farther to mention, was born at Broughton aforesaid, being the eldest Son of Sir Rich. Fiennes (to whom King Jam. 1. in the first year of his Reign had recognized and confirmed the dignity and honour of the Baron Say and Sele) was trained up in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School near Winton, became a Fellow Commoner of New Coll. at about 14 years of age, in 1596; where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals, was called home for a time. Afterwards he traveled beyond the seas, and at his return being invested in a fair Estate, did some years after give and obtain a vast sum of money towards the Wa● in the Palatinate, which was very pleasing to his ●. ●. K. Jam. 1. yet showing kindness to his neighbours by leaving it to their pleasure to pay towards that War what they thought fit, he was, on notice given to his Majesty, committed to custody in the month of June 1●22; whence being soon after released, he was on the 7 of July 22 Jac. 1. Dom. 1624. advanced from a Baron ●o be Viscount Say and Sele, at which time he stood up 〈◊〉 the Privileges of Magna Charta, but after the grand Rebellion broke out he looked upon it as a ridiculous 〈◊〉, such was the mutability of the man. The truth is, he being ill natured, choleric, severe and rigid, and withal highly conceited of his own worth, did expect great matters at Court; but they failing, he sided therefore with the discontented party the Puritan, and took all occasions cunningly to promote a Rebellion. For so it was, that several years before the Civil War began, he being looked upon at that time the Godfather of that Party, had meetings of them in his house at Broughton, where was 
(†) Persecutio undecima. Printed 1648. p. 103.  a room and passage thereunto, which his Servants were prohibited to come near: and when they were of a complete number, there would be great noises and talk heard among them, to the admiration of those that lived in the house, yet could they never discern their Lords Companions. At other times he would be present at their meetings in the house of Knightley at Fawsley in Northamptonshire; where, as at other places in the Kingdom, they had their Council Chambers and chief Speakers: And what Embryo's were conceived in the Country, were shaped in Greys-Inn-Lane near London, where the Undertakers for the Isle of Providence did meet, brought them to pass and put them out to Nurse in London. In 1639 he was a great Favourer of the Scotch Covenant, and had much correspondence with the Scotch Commissioners: and when the Long Parliament began in 1640 (for the continuance of which, he persuaded (as 'tis said) his Majesty to consent) showed himself soon after so active therein, as in others before, that he with Pym, Hamden, and Strode, (three of the five Members) were esteemed Parliament-drivers, or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat. Whereupon his Majesty being fully satisfied that he was discontented (as indeed he was, for want of Offices he had ran himself much into debt) he conferred upon him the Mastership of the Court of Wards 17 May 1641, in the place of Francis Lord Cottington (who some months before had given it up to please a new Favourite) and admitted him to be one of his Privy Council. But all this satisfying not, he grew more active in the House when it was to be continued; and when the King was forced from his Parliament to take up Arms in his own defence, than did he cause his House at Broughton to be fortified for the use of the Parliament, showed himself an enemy to Prelacy, to Archb. Laud, an incliner to a Republic, and I know not what, to advance himself. In the month of Aug. the same year, he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament, and was persuaded almost to fortify the City of Oxon for their use, and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. John's Coll. (then a Member of Parliament) Governor thereof, but for what reasons he could not be overcome, it appears not. At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion, not only at Oxon, but afterwards at Woodstock, where he did protest upon his honour, after Edghill Fight, that the King had neither men, nor money, nor arms, but the Parliament had all these, etc. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642, his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon, but this Lord Say refusing to come, was outlawed and attainted of Treason. So that he being put out of his place, and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court, it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington. In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster, the Members of which did recompense the Lord Say for his loss as being Master, with the sum of 10000 l, and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court, with the sum of 6000 l, and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate. In 1648 he showed himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty, and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight, when they treated in order for Peace with the King. At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major, yet he was universis minor, which was answered with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen. At that time the King's Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him, that at his return to London, he sided with that party in the House that voted that the King's Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace. After the King's death, he altogether sided with the Independents, as before he had done with the Presbyterians, became great with Oliver, who made him one of the other House, that is House of Lords. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebel for his own ends almost 20 years, he was rewarded forsooth with the honourable Office of Lord Privy Seal, while others that had suffered in estate and body, and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause, had then little or nothing given to relieve them, for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer, who, to fill his own Coffers, was the occasion of the utter ruin of many. A person 
(*) Bulstr. Whitlock in his Memorials of English Affairs, an. 1642. p. 60. b.  of the Lord Says persuasion, who had run with the times, as he did, purposely to raise a family, saith that he was a person of great parts, wisdom, and integrity, and 
(a) Arth. Wilson in his Hist. of Great Britain, etc. an. 1621. p. 162.  another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time, tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtle piece, and always averse to the Court ways, something out of pertinaciousness; his temper and constitution balancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind; so that he seldom tacked about, or went upright, though he kept his course steady in his way a long time, etc. As for the things that he hath published, the titles of them are these.  
Several Speeches, as (1) Two Speeches in Parliament. One upon the Bill against the Bishops, and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh. in quart. (2) Sp. in the Guildhall, London, 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War. At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose, Philip Lord Wharton, Philip Earl of Pembroke, Henry Earl of Holland, and Will. Str●de one of the 5 Members. (3) Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops, and their power in civil Affairs. Lond. 1642. qu. This, with the former against the Bishops, were much applauded among the patriotical Party, whose sense they spoke out to the full, and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church. These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed, and why they were banished from their Livings, for fear, forsooth, they should preach the People (then in a great manner deceived) into obedience to the King. After the War was ceased, and no Malignants there were (as he called the Cavaliers) to oppose him, he showed himself an Enemy to the Quakers, with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton; and thereupon wrote certain books against them, as I shall tell you by and by.  
The Scots design discovered: relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation, with the sad consequence of the same. Wherein divers matters of public concernment are disclosed: and the book called Truth's manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest.— Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis, or, an Answer to a Discourse intit. Truth it's manifest, etc.  
Folly and madness made manifest. Or, Some things written to show how contrary to the word of God, and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament, the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are, etc. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before.  
The Quakers reply manifested to be railing: or, a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures, who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth, etc. Oxon. 1659.— 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen. At length this noble Author, after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition, had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642, did die quietly in his bed, but whether in conscience, I cannot tell, on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two: 
1662.  whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors, and had over it, soon after, a rich and costly monument erected, more befitting a Hero, than a Rebel. He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death, among whom James his eldest son was one, who succeeding him in his Honours, was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, having always been reputed an honest Cavalier, and a quiet man. Nathaniel the second son, whom I shall mention elsewhere, etc.  
ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems, but leaving the University before he took a degree, entered into holy Orders, and taking to wife the daughter of Sir John Lamb of Rothwell in Northamptonshire Chancellor of Peterborough and afterwards Dean of the Arches, was put into the Commission of Peace, being then Rector of Water-Stratford in Bucks. by the gift of Sir Arth. Throcmorton of Paulerspury. About that time showing himself a fierce Persecutor of the Puritans living near him, was, thro' the means of his Father-in-law made Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire, and by the endeavours of Dr. Piers Vicechanc. of this University, Doctor of Divinity, an. 1624., (being then a Member of Linc. Coll.) though he before had not been honoured with any degree in this, or, as I presume, in any other University. He, with Rog. Manwaring were stiff assertors of the King's Cause and Prerogative, and great promoters for the raising a Loan of money without the knowledge and assistance of his Parliament, an. 1626. For which service both had preferment, Manwaring being afterwards made Rector of Stanford Rivers in Essex, etc. and Sibthorpe Chaplain in ord. to his Maj. Prebendary of Peterborough and Rector of Burton latimer's in Northamptonshire; from which two last he was violently ejected in the beginning of the Civil Wars. He was a person of little learning, and of few parts, only made it his endeavours by his forwardness and flatteries, to gain preferment. If you'll believe one 
(b) Andr. Marvel in his Rehearsal transprosed, etc. Lond. 1672. pag. 299.  that was no great friend to the Church of England, he'll tell you that Sibthorpe and Manwaring were exceeding pragmatical, so intolerably ambitious and so desperately proud, that scarce any Gentleman might come near the tail of their Mules, etc. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) A counterplea to an Apostates pardon, on Jerem. 5.7. Lond. 1618. qu. (2) Apostolical obedience, an Assize Serm. at Northampton on Rom. 13.7. Lond. 1627. qu. The whole scope of which is to justify the lawfulness of the general loan (then set on foot by the King's ill Counsellors, as one 
(c) Will. Prynne in Canterbury's Doom, p. 245.  saith, to keep off Parliaments) and of the Kings imposing public taxes by his own regal Power without consent in Parliament, and to prove that the People in point of conscience and religion, ought cheerfully to submit to such loans and taxes without any opposition. For which matters he was called into question, and censured by the Parliament. He hath other things extant, as I have been informed, but such I have not yet seen; and therefore can only say that in the time of the Rebellion, he suffered very great calamities for his Majesty's cause, but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. in 1660, he was restored to his Prebendship, Rectory of Burton latimer's, and other Ecclesiastical Benefices, if he had any besides them, and that dying in a good old age, was buried on the 25 of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
1662.  in the Chancel of the Church of Burton latimer's. One Robert Sibthorpe Son of a Father of both his names, Rector of Northcadbury in Somersetshire, became a Student of Ball. Coll. in 1613 aged 18 years, which is all I know of him, being not to be understood to be the same with the former. And another Rob. Sibthorpe I find to have been M. of A. of Cambridge, and afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland. See more in the Fasti, among the incorporations, an. 1619.  
PETER HEYLYN Son of Henry Heylyn, descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Pentrie-Heylyn in Mountgomeryshire, was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire, on the 29 of Nou. 1599, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there under Mr. Thom. North first, and after under Mr. Edw. Davys, where profiting in Trivials to a miracle, especially in Poetry, (in which he gave several ingenious Specimens as occasion offered) was in the year 1613 placed by his Father in Hart Hall under the tuition successively of two Tutors, viz. Mr. Joseph Hill, and Mr. Walt. Newbury a zealous Puritan. The next year he stood to be Demie of Magd. Coll, but being then put by, was the year following elected; by which time he had made a considerable progress in Academical Literature. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, which was in Oct. 1617., he read every Long vacation, till he was Master, Cosmography Lectures in the common refectory of the said College, of which the first being performed in the latter end of July 1618., it was so well approved, that for that and his other learning, he was chose Probationer, and the year following, perpetual, Fellow of the said house. On the 22 of Feb. 1619, he began the composing of his Geography according to the hint which he had taken the year before in his Cosmography Lectures, and finished it on the 29 of Apr. following. In Nou. the same year it was printed, and being dedicated to Prince Charles, he presented him (being then at Theobalds') with a copy of it, which was very graciously received. In 1623., he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxon in S. Aldates' Church, and the year after having augmented and corrected his Geography, 'twas printed again and presented to the Prince, the Author being then introduced by Henry Lord Danvers, who then spoke very affectionately in his commendations. About that time Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester presenting a Copy of it to the King, he approved of it well, but unfortunately falling on a passage therein, whereby the Author gave precedency to France before England, he became so much offended, that he gave order to the Lord Keeper to call in the Book: whereupon the Author, then at Oxon, being advised to repair to the Court and make use of the Prince to salve that sore, he gave such satisfaction concerning it in writing sent to the said Dean, that the King perusing it, rested very well contented with the matter. In 1625 he went into France, where spending about six weeks in several plac●●, wrote the particulars of the said journey in a Book, the original of which he presented to the said Lord Danvers, but a copy of it he kept by him, which at length (30 years after or thereabouts) he published to correct a false copy that had crept abroad. On the 24 April 1627. he answered pro forma on these questions. (1) An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis? (2) An Ecclesia possit errare? Both which he determined negatively contrary to the mind and judgement of Prideaux the King's Professor of Divinity in his lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae, who thereupon fell foul upon him, call him Bellarminian, Pontifician, and I know not what, and did his best to beat him from his grounds, but he held his own. This raised great clamour for the present, which Prideaux increased the monday after when Heylyn opposed Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. Hall, at which time he was once again proclaimed a Papist by him in the public School of Divinity, which might have done him more mischief among his friends, but that (as he saith) God stood with him. On the 5 of Aug. following, being Sunday, Mr. Edw. Reynolds preaching to the University in the Chapel of Mert. Coll, (of which he was Fellow) touched upon the passages which had happened between Prideaux and Heylyn, impertinently to his text, but pertinently enough unto his purpose, which was to expose Heylyn to disgrace and censure. But so it was that though he was then present, yet it did little trouble him, as he himself acknowledgeth. In Feb. 1627. he was by the letters of the Lord Danvers, than Earl of Danby, commended to Dr. Laud B. of Bath and Wells for his advancement in the Church: By virtue of which, he was received by him; (as our Author Heylyn tells you at large in the life of the said Bishop 
(d) In lib. 3. sub an. 1627.  published 1668) at which time having several private discourses together, Laud fell upon the business at Oxon. between Prideaux and him, adding withal, that he had read his supposition when he answered pro forma; (a copy of which Heylyn had given to him) and found therein that it was so strongly grounded, that all the Prideauxes were not able to overthrow it in a fair way; that also he would not have him discouraged by noise and clamours, telling him farther, that he himself had in his younger days maintained the same positions in a disputation in S. John's Coll. for which he was much clamoured at by Dr. Abbot then Vicechancellor, (afterwards Archb. of Cant.) and made a byword and reproach in the University; but he thanked God he had overcome that difficulty and got the better of his Adversaries, and so might he. Finally he admonished him, to hold in that moderate course he found him in, and to apply his study to the making up of breaches in the walls of Christendom, etc. In the latter end of 1628. he went as Chaplain to the E. of Danby beforemention'd into the Isle of Guernsey, of which the said Earl was Governor, where continuing about 3 weeks, returned into England, drew up a discourse of that voyage, and in the Month of June in the year following, did present it to Laud then Bishop of London, to whose patronage, as it seems, he had committed it. The same year also (1629) he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and nominated one of his Maj. Chaplains in Jan. the same year. So that being Shipped and in hopes of a good wind, he thought it did concern him to do somewhat to be known at Court, especially by the great ones there. Whereupon he fell into a resolution to effect the History of S. George, Patron of the most noble Order of the Garter; the studying and writing whereof took up all the spring time of 1630. He found it full of difficulties, the whole world being against him, and no path to follow, but at length he overcame it. Upon Act Sunday the same year he preached the University Sermon at S. Mary's on this text, But while men slept the Enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away. Matth. 13.25. In which Sermon he discovered 
(e) See more in Canterbury's Doom. written by Will. Prynne p. 386. Also in Dr. heylyn's Life of Archb. Laud. lib. 3. p. 210.  the great mystery of iniquity, which lay hid under the specious project of the feoffs for buying in of impropriations, and was the first who ever gave public notice of the danger of it, to the undeceiving of the People. It made much noise, and brought to him more envy, as he is pleased to say (if I mistake not) in his History of the life of Dr. Laud. The same year also on S. Mar. Magd. day he resigned his Fellowship, having been married almost two years before. In Oct. 1631 he was made Rector of Henningford in Huntingdonshire by the procurement of Dr. Laud, and on the first of Nou. following the K. gave him a Prebendship of Westminster, void by the death of Dr. George Darrell sometimes Fellow of Alls. Coll. Which matter, so soon as it came to the knowledge of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and then Dean of Westminster, it put him to extreme vexation, because this our Author (Heylyn) was beloved of Dr. Laud, (between which Bishops there was never a right understanding) and that also there was likely to follow great discord between them, because of several affronts that Williams had before given him for his forwardness, high conceit of himself, and confidence. The next year the K. bestowed on him the rich Parsonage of Houghton in the Spring within the Bishopric of Durham, void by the preferment of Dr. Aug. Lindsell to the Bishopric of Peterborough; which, for his own convenience, the King gave way that he should change it with Dr. Martial for the rectory of Ailresford in Hampshire. In 1633 he proceeded D. of D. and in the Vespers than held had these 3 questions following to answer to. (1) An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis? Aff. (2) An Eccles. habeat authoritatem decernendi ritus & ceremonias? Aff. (3) An Eccles. habeat authoritatem interpretandi Scripturas sacras. Aff. All which, though taken Verbatim out of the 20 Article of the Church of England, were so displeasing to Prideaux the Professor, that he fell into very great heats and passion, in which he let fall certain matters very unworthy of the place where uttered, as also distasteful to many of the auditory, (among whom were James du Perron the Queen's Almoner, afterwards Bishop of Angoulisme in France) which after drew some censure on him. The particulars were these. (1) Ecclesia est m●ra chimaera. (2) Ecclesia nihil docet nec determinat. (3) Controversiae omnes melius ad Academiam referri possunt quam ad Ecclesiam. (4) Docti homines in Academiis possunt determinare omnes controversias, etiam sepositis Episcopis, etc. Upon occasion also of mentioning the absolute decree, he broke into a great and long discourse, that his mouth was shut up by Authority, else he would maintain that truth contra omnes qui sunt in vivis, which fetched a great hum from the Country Ministers then present. What therefore followed upon this, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 440. a. But so nettled was Prideaux, that the K. by heylyn's means should take cognizance of that matter, that when he put in his protestation against the utterance of those things, alleged against him, into the hands of the Chancellor of the University in Aug. following, did at the same time (the King being then at Woodstock) cause a paper to be spread about the Court touching the business of the Vespers in the last Act, very much tending to heylyn's disgrace. Heylyn therefore being not able to brook it, (for he was of an high and audacious spirit) it so fell out, that when in Oct. following, came out his Maj. declaration concerning lawful sports, which raised much clamour against the King, and more against Dr. Laud; Heylyn, for the appeasing it, fell upon a course of translating Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath, and putting a preface to the same; which being published in print in Hilary term, an. 1633, conduced much to his Majesty's proceedings in what he had done, and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans. In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. John's Coll. for Islip near Oxon, and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire. On Ap. 10. an. 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster, and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincoln, W. Prynne, and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford. By the first, because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud, and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College. By the second, because he had furnished the Lords of the Council, with matter out of his Histriomastix to proceed against him in order to the losing of his ears, etc. and by the last, because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle, to the upper end, of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford, and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service. In the year 1642, leaving his Preb. of Westminster, and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come, he followed the King to Oxon, where having little to live upon, did, by the King's command, write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus, which had been begun by John Birkenhead, who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries, far more than Heylyn. In the beginning of the year following (1643) he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm. because of his retirement to the King, and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate, and seize upon his Goods. Which Order being put in execution, his incomparable Library was taken away and carried to Portsmouth. In 1644 h●s singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded, his hopes of rising higher in the Church, were totally blasted: So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate, he stuck to his temporal (for which he compounded in Goldsmith's Hall) and to the earning of money by writing books. In 1645 he left Oxon, and shifted from place to place, like the old travels of the Patriarches, and in pity to his necessity, some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him. The same year he settled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester, but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies, he left them in a disguise, and being entertained by several Loyalists, removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647; where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following, lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books; the publishing of which (especially his Geography which he enlarged to a folio) was a great relief to him. Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks, where he bought an house and land called Lacy's Court, which being but five miles from Oxon, he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure, either from Shops, the Libraries of acquaintance there, (particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll.) or by his repair to Bodlies' Library, and wrote several things in defence of the Church of England, and the true genuine sense thereof. Afterwards he suffered in his Estate by Decimation; which trick being brought up by Oliver, while Protector, many Families thereby (especially such that had before compounded) were thereby undone. In 1660 upon his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms, he was restored to his spiritualities, but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster, which was a wonder to many, and a great discontent to him and his; but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person, I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther. He was a Person endowed with singular gifts, of a sharp and pregnant wit, solid and clear judgement. In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet, but very conceited and pragmatical, in his elder a better Historian, a noted Preacher, and a ready or extemporanean Speaker. He had a tenacious memory to a miracle, whereunto he added an incredible patience in study, in which he persisted when his Eyesight failed him. He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes, (though of very mean port and presence) and therefore by some of them, he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed. On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the King's Prerogative, either in their afflicted or prosperous estate, a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismatics, a despiser of envy, and in mind not at all discouraged. He writ many books upon various Subjects, containing in them many things that are not vulgar, either for stile or argument, and wrote also History pleasant enough, but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian, and equally 
(*) See a book intit. Several conferences between a Rom. Priest, a Fanatic Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England, etc. in answer to Th. Goddens Dialogues— Lond. 1679. oct. written by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet.  an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme. His works which are very many are these.  
Spurius; a Tragedy— Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Precedents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed.  
Theomachia; a Com.— Made in the year 1618., but not printed.  
Microcosmus; A description of the great World. Oxon. 1622. 24, etc. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio, entit. Cosmography in four books. Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrote with his own hand, (1651) for after it was finished, 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.  
The History of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia; asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church, and opposition of the present. Lond. 1631. and 33. qu.  
The institution of the most noble Order of S. George, named the Garter.— Printed with the former.  
Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present; as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging— Printed also with the Hist. of St. George, 1631. and 33. In which last edition, is, at the end, A review of the whole work; consisting of additions and emendations. On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day, the Author of the said History and its adjuncts, was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London (a great incourager of learning and industry) to his Majesty, being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall, to whom he did present them. Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book, he did graciously accept of it, and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument. Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter, and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster, and was used by all of them with great respect, save only by Archb. Abbot, and William Earl of Exeter; the first of which disliked the argument, and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar, which he was after much ashamed of, when it came to be known. Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill, which was, as Heylyn saith, full of most base and malicious calumniations, both against the Person and Religion of the Author. Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud, (who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellor of that place, and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press) commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter, and withal sent him to Windsor to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there. Which command he accordingly obeying, occasioned a second edition of the said History, an. 1633, as I have before told you, wherein he answered all Hakewills' allegations, letting pass his slanders. Upon the coming out of which, Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature, entit. An Apol. or Declaration of the Power, etc. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George. About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply, yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist. of S. George, in several letters sent abroad; one of which speaketh 
(†) See in Will. sanderson's book, entit. Posthaste. A reply to Peter (Dr. heylyn's) appendix to his treatise entit. Respondet Petrus, etc. Lond. 1658▪ qu p. 13.  thus In the second impression of his book (The Hist. of S. George) where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers, especially the Legendaries, he magnifies them more, and when he mentions our men, he vilifies them more than he did in his first edition: But the matter is not much, what he saith of the one, or of the other, the condition of the man being such, as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander, etc. From the said Hist. of S. George, written by Heylyn, is a little Pamphlet taken and stolen, entit. The Hist. of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia, etc. Lond. 1661. in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part, intit. The Hist. of the life and Martyrdom of S. George the titular Patron of England, etc. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh. in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also, with due acknowledgement, by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions, Laws, and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter. Lond. 1672. fol.  
An Essay called Augustus— Printed 1632; since inserted into heylyn's Cosmography.  
History of the Sabbath in two books. Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year. Written to satisfy the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots, who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath, not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties, nor works of absolute necessity, which the Jews themselves never scrupled at. About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham, by Dr. Jo. William's Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways; whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply, entit.  
A coal from the Altar: or, an answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's letter to the Vicar of Grantham. Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after returned an answer under this title, The holy table, name, and thing, etc. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire, against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Mary's reign: whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you.  
Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons. Can. 55.— Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636, and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata.  
Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nou. 1636, and in the Apology set before them. Lond. 1637. qu.  
Antidotum Lincolniense: or, an answer to a book entit. The holy table, name, and thing, etc. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table, etc. entit. Two looks over Lincoln: or, a view of his holy table, name, and thing, etc. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh. and an half; written by Rich. Day, who styles himself Minister of the Gospel, yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church. In which book also heylyn's Coal from the Altar, is sometimes animadverted upon.  
An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacon's in their Visitations. Lond. 1640 qu.  
De jure paritatis Episcoporum— MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lord's house, whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford. Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts.  
Reply to Dr. Hakewills' dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist. Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill, under the year 1649.  
An help to English history: containing a succession of all the Kings of England, and the English Saxons, the Kings and Princes of Wales, etc. As also of all the Archbishops, Bishops, Dukes, Marquesses, and Earls within the said dominions. In three tables. Lond. 1641, etc. in oct. Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book, were made by Christop. Wilkinson, a Bookseller living against S. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, London; the first edition of which additions, with the book itself came out in 1670. in oct. with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn, who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentary of the Bishops of England, in his succession of Archb. and Bishops, and of Ralph Brook and August. Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings, Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, etc. 'Tis said also that in the same year, 1641. our Author Heylyn wrote and published a book intit. Persecutio Undecima, etc. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto, 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary, which I have several times perused, I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author.  
History of Episcopacy; in two parts. Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman. This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata, etc. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Historical narration of Liturgies, etc.— written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles. Vindicata. etc.  
Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons' victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall, on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642/3. in one sh. in qu.  
Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts, viz. The landing of the Queen's Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland, and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark. Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh. in qu.  
View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification.  
Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treaty at Uxbridge. showing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majesty only— Printed 1643 in 4. sh. in qu.  
The Roundheads remembrancer: or, a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall, under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton, in Tuesday 16. May 1643.— Printed 1643 in one sh. in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn.  
Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell.— This is the same, if I mistake not, with a Pamph. intit. Thief's Thiefs: or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament. printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell, who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610, left it without a degree, exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas, retired to his patrimony, was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641, and being then a Presbyterian, took up arms soon after for the Parliament, became a Colonel and one of their Champions. Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murdered the King, he entered into a plot against the Parliament, (in which Coll. Euseb. Andrews being engaged, suffered death, an. 1650.) for which being imprisoned, was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice, but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it, he was condemned to lose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment; from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nou. 1671, aged 79 years or thereabouts, and was, as I suppose, buried at Hopton, (Quaere) having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians, while they were dominant, that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies, valiant in his actions, and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace. Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire, and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury; which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year (25. of March or thereabouts) 1665.  
The black ✚ Cross: showing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion, etc.  
The Rebel's Catechism, composed in an easy and familiar way; to let them see the heinousness of their offence, etc.— Printed 1643. in 4. sh. in qu.  
Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion— Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed, it had this title following put to it. Parliaments power in Laws for religion: or, an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists, nick-naming, etc. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh. in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh. in qu. it hath this title. The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified, against the clamours of our Adversaries, reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion, etc. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles. Vindicata.  
Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury, with a copy of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted. Oxon. 1644 in 4▪ sh. in qu.  
Bibliotheca Regia: or, the Royal Library, etc. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59 oct. heylyn's name is not set to it, but 'tis generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Changed 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquis of Worcester, at Ragland; which by many is taken to be authentic, because published by Heylyn. See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly, p. 486.  
Stumbling block of disobedience, etc. in answer to, and examination of, the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Sovereign Monarchy— MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title, The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion, cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way, discovered, censured and removed.  
The promised seed— Written in verse.  
The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes, etc. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie, which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn. Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles. Vindicata.  
Theologia Veterum. The sum of Christian Theology contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latins, etc. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol.  
Full relation of two journeys. The one into the main Land of France: The other into some of the adjacent Islands, in 5 Books. Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie, etc.  
Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie, with the isles depending, etc. in one book. Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former, and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn, because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life, as I shall farther tell you anon.  
Observations on The History of the reign of K. Charles, published by Hamon L'estrange Esq. for illustration of the story, etc. Lond. 1656. oct. Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit. of the said Hist.— Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit. The Observator observed: or, animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles, etc. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit.  
Extraneus Vapulans: or, the Observator rescued from the violent but vain assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq. and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean. Lond. 1656. oct. In our Authors Epist. to the reader before this book, dat. 7. June 1656, he tells us that in one week of the last term, he was plundered twice, first of his name, and secondly of his good name. Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller, who publishing a discourse of his (Dr. heylyn's) under the title of France painted to the life, by a false and imperfect copy, hath fathered it in Stationer's Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown. Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq. by loading him with abusive 
(a) See Dr. Pet. heylyn's Life written by Joh. Barnard D. D.— Lond. 1683. p. 224.225.  language.  
Ecclesia Vindicata: or, the Church of England justified (1) In the way and manner of her reformation, etc. part. 1. (2) In the defence thereof, in an history of Episcopacy, part. 2. etc. Lond. 1657. qu. Dedicated to Mr. Edw. Davys Vicar of Shilton in Berks (near Burford in Oxfordshire) sometimes his Master in the free-Grammar School at Burford. It contains all those five pieces beforementioned, which I have told you were reprinted in Eccles. Vindicata.  
Respondet Petrus: or, the answer of Pet. Heylyn D.D. to so much of Dr. Bernard's book entit. The judgement of the late Primate of Ireland, etc. as he is made a party by the said Lord Primate in the point of the Sabbath, etc. Lond. 1658. qu. 'Twas not burnt as the report 
(b) See in the pref. to the reader before a book entit. A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen, etc. written by Hen. Hickman, also in the said life written by Dr. Barnard, p. 237.  was, or answered.  
An Appendix in answer to certain passages in Mr. sanderson's history of the life and reign of K. Ch. etc.— Printed with Respondet Petrus: whereupon Will. Sanderson Esq. came out with a Pamphlet entit. Post-haste: A reply to Peter's (Dr. heylyn's) appendix to his treatise entit. Respondet Petrus. Lond. 1658. in 3. sheets in qu. Full of abusive language, and little or nothing to the purpose.  
Short view of the life and reign of K. Charles (the second Monarch of Great Britain) from his birth to his burial. Lond. 1658. in 6. sheets or more in oct. This life I take to be the same with that (for they have the same beginning) that was printed, with, and set before, Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae. Printed at the Hague 1648/9 in a large oct.  
Examen Historicum: or, a discovery and examination of the mistakes and defects in some modern histories, viz. (1) In the Church Hist. of Britain by Tho. Fuller. To which is added, An Apology of Dr. Jo. Cousin Dean of Peterborough, in answer to some passages in the Church Hist. of Britain, in which he finds himself concerned. (2) In the Hist. of Marie Qu. of Scots and of her Son K. Jam. 6. The Hist. of K. Jam. 1. of Great Britain and the Hist. of K. Ch. 1. from his Cradle to his grave; by Will. Sanderson Esq.— Lond. 1658. 9 in a large oct.  
Appendix in answer to some passages in a scurrilous Pamphlet called A post-haste reply, etc. (or Posthast: a reply, etc.) by Will. Sanderson Esq.— This Appendix is printed with Exam. Historicum. Soon after Th. Fuller came out with a thin fol. full of submission and acknowledgement, intit. The appeal for injured innocence, which was commonly bound with the remaining copies of his Ch. Hist. in quires; and a foolish and scurrilous Pamphlet entitled Peter pursued: or, Dr. Heylyn overtaken, arrested and arraigned upon his three appendices. (1) Respondet 
(c) The Author here means the Appendix to Resp. Petrus.  Petrus. (2) Answer to the 
(d) This hath no Appendix, and therefore the Author (Sanderson) is mistaken, being itself an Append. to Examen Historicum, or advertisements on three Histories.  Posthaste reply. (3) Advertisements on three Histories, viz. of Mary Qu. of Scots, K. James and K. Charles, Lond. 1658 9 in 8 sh. in qu. written by Will. Sanderson before mentioned, of whom I desire the Reader to know these things following. (1) That he was born in Lincolnshire. (2) That in his younger days he was Secretary to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham while he was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and therefore, I presume, graduated there, though scarce understood Latin. (3) That he suffered for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. and after the restauration of his son in 1660, he was made Gent. in ordinary of his Majesty's privy Chamber, and from him received the honour of Knighthood. (4) That dying in Whitehall on the 15 day of July 1676, aged 90 or more, was buried in the north isle or transcept joining to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in the City of Westminster. Over his grave was soon after a monument of Alabaster erected on the north wall with the bust of the defunct (in the place of Colonel (Sim.) Mathews which had been set up in the wall by the Parliament, but plucked down after the return of K. Ch. 2.) at the charge of Bridget his widow, daughter of Sir Edw. Terrell Knight. His Histories before mentioned, are not much valued, because they are mostly taken from printed Authors and lying Pamphlets.  
The parable of the Tares expounded and applied in ten sermons, with three other sermons by the same Author. Lond. 1659. and 61. qu.  
Certamen Epistolare; or, the letter combat managed by Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Rich. Baxter of Kederminster, etc. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Intercourse of Letters betw. Dr. Heylyn and Dr. Nich. Bernard of Greys' Inn, touching the intended burning of the book called Respondet Petrus.— Printed with Cert. Epist.  
Letter combat part 2. containing the intercourse of Letters between Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Hen. Hickman of Magd. Coll. relating to the historical part of a book intit. A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen, etc.  
Letter Combat part 3. containing a decertation about forms of Government, the power of Spartan Ephori, and the Jewish Sanhedrim, managed letterwise betw. P. Heylyn and J. H. (Jam. Harrington) of Westminst. Esq.  
Appendix to the former Papers, containing an Exchange of Letters between Mr. Tho. Fuller of Waltham and Dr. Pet. Heylyn of Abendon.  
Examination of some passages in Mr. Fuller's late Appeal for injured innocence.— These Letter Combats, Append. and Examination are printed with Certamen Epistolare, which is the general title to them.  
Historia Quinqu. Articularis: or, a declaration of the judgement of the Western Churches, and more particularly of the Church of England, in the five controverted points, reproached in these last times by the name of Arminianism, etc. part 3. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Postscript to the Reader concerning some particulars in a scurrilous Pamphlet intit. A review of Certamen Epistolare. In the same year (1660) was published a book intit.— Fratres in malo: or, the matchless couple represented in the writings of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw and Mr. Hen. Hickman, in vindication of Dr. Heylyn and Mr. Tho. Pierce. Lond. 1660. qu. said in the title to be written by M. O. Bach. of Arts, but all than supposed that Dr. Heylyn or Mr. Peirce, or both, had a hand in it.  
Sermon preached in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westm. on Wednesday 29 May 1661., on Psal. 31.21. Lond. 1661. qu.  
History of the Reformation of the Church of England, from the first preparations to it made by K. Hen. 8. until the legal settling and establishing of it under Qu. Elizab. etc. Lond. 1661. 1670 and 74. fol. A character of this book and its design, is given by Dr. Gilb. Burnet in his Pref. to the first vol. of The Hist. of the Reformation of the Church of England. Lond. 1679 and 81. fol. answered at large by Mr. George Vernon in his Life of Pet. Heylyn D. D. Lond. 1682. oct. p. 189. etc. As for our Authors Hist. of the Reformation, etc. it was answered in a book intit.— Plus ultra: or, England's reformation needing to be reform. Being an examination of Dr. heylyn's History of the reformation of the Church of England, etc. Lond. 1661. in 7 sh. in qu. said in the title page to be written by H. N. O. J. Oxon. which, whether meant by Henry HickmaN, I know not as yet.  
Cyprianus Anglicus: or, the History of the life and death of Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, etc. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol.  
Aërius redivivus: or, the Hist. of the Presbyterians, etc. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol.  
Historical and miscellaneous Tracts. Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mentioned before, as (1) Eccl. Vindicata. (2) Hist. of the Sabbath, in 2 parts. (3) Hist. Quinqu articularis. (4) Stumbling block, etc. (5) Tract. de jure paritatis, etc. with Dr. Heylyn's life before them, written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire, sometimes one of the Chaplains of Alls. Coll. Which life being altered and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. (T. Barlow) and the Bookseller that printed it; Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn, made a protestation against it: and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn's daughter, wrote his life to rectify that of Vernon which was altered, and Vernon wrote another, published in oct. Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schism, and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud's desire draw up The judgement of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedom and the Authority of the Rom. Church. Both which things, the said Dr. Laud intended, as materials, towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit, which came out the year following. He also (I mean Heylyn) did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath, as I have before told you, and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latin an. 1639, partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland, that then before broke out, had been raised. At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity, paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day (May 8.) in sixteen hundred sixty and two. Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choir of S. Peter's Church within the City of Westminster, 
1660.  had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joining on the north side of the said choir; a copy of the inscription on which, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205.  
JOHN LEY was born in the ancient Borough of Warwick, on the 4 of Feb. an. 1583, but descended from the Leys of Cheshire, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school in the said Borough, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1601, where continuing for some time after he was Master of Arts, was presented by the Dean and Canons to the Vicarage of Great Budworth in Cheshire, and there continued several years a constant Preacher. Afterwards he was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Chester, Subdean thereof (1605,) a weekly Lecturer on Friday in S. Peter's Church in the said City, and Clerk of the Convocation of the Clergy once or twice. But he having always been puritanically inclined, he sided with the Presbyterians upon the defection of the Members of the Long Parliament, an. 1641, took the Covenant, was made one of the Assembly of Divines, Examiner in Latin to the said Assembly, Rector of Ashfield in Cheshire, and for a time Rector of Astbury or Estbury in the said County, Chairman of the Committee for the examination of Ministers, and of the Committee for Printing, one of the Ordainers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way, etc. Precedent of Zion Coll. about 1645, and afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from his rich Parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks, he was appointed to succeed him by the Committee; which, if I mistake not, he kept with other Benefices for a time. In 1653 he was appointed one of the Tryers for the approbation of public Ministers, and in the year following an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks. for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. Soon after, upon pretence that he could enjoy but little peace or hope of settlement for after times at Brightwell, (for the truth is he was much hated while he lived there) he obtained the rich Rectory of Solyhull in Warwickshire from the Patron thereof Sir Sim. Archer of Umberslade near Tamworth Knight, before the year 1656, where he continued for some time. At length breaking a vein within him, by overstraining himself in speaking, became very weak thereupon. So that being not able to go on in the Ministry, he resigned Solyhull upon some consideration given, and went to Sutton Colfield in the said County, where, after he had lived privately for a short time, gave up the ghost in a fair age. He was esteemed in his time a man of note, especially by those of the Presbyterian persuasion, well versed in various Authors, and a ready Preacher. His works are these.  
An Apology in defence of the Geneva Notes on the Bible, which were in S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon publicly and severely reflected on by Dr. Joh. Howson.— When printed I know not. 'Twas written about 1612, and submitted to the judgement of Bish. Usher, who did well approve of it.  
Pattern of piety: or, the religious life and death of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff widow, and Citizen of Chester. Lond. 1640. oct.  
Several sermons, as (1) Serm. on Ruth 3.11. Lond. 1640. oct. (2) A monitor of mortality, in two funeral sermons occasioned by the death of Joh. Archer, son and heir of Sir Sim. Archer of Warwicksh. Knight, and of Mrs. Harper of Chester, and her daughter Phebe of 12 years old. The first on Jam. 4.14. and the other on Gen. 44.3. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) Fury of war, and folly of sin, Fast serm. before the H. of Com. on Jer. 4.21.22. Lond. 1643. qu. etc.  
Sunday a sabbath: or, a preparative discourse for discussion of sabbatarie doubts. Lond. 1641. qu. Assisted in this work by the MSS. and advice of Archb. Ʋsher.  
The Christian Sabbath maintained: in answer to a book of Dr. Pocklington styled Sunday no Sabbath.  
Defensive doubts, hopes, and reasons for refusal of the Oath, imposed by the sixth Canon of the Synod. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Letter against the erection of an Altar, written 29 June 1635 to John, Bishop of Chester.  
Case of conscience concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.— These two last things, were printed, and go, with Defensive doubts.  
Comparison of the parliamentary protestation with the late canonical Oath, and the difference between them; as also the opposition between the doctrine of the Ch. of England and that of Rome, etc. Lond. 1641. quar.  
Further discussion of the case of conscience touching receiving of the Sacrament.— Printed with the Comparison.  
Examination of John Saltmarsh's new Query, and determination upon it, published to retard the establishment of the Presbyterial Government, etc. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced to the same purpose, in his other, and latter books, which he calleth The opening of Mr. prynn's Vindication.  
Apologetical narrative of the late petition of the Common Council and Ministers of London to the honourable houses of Parliament, with a justification of them from the contumacy of the weekly Pamphleteers.— These two last things are printed with the Examinat. of J. Saltm. new Query, etc.  
Light for smoke: or a clear and distinct reply to a dark and confused answer in a book made and intit. The smoke of the Temple, by Joh. Saltmarsh late Preacher at Breasteed in Kent, now revolted from his pastoral calling and charge. Lond. 1646. qu. To this book is joined— Novello mastix: or, a scourge for a scurrilous News-monger. In answer to the ignorant and malevolent aspersions cast upon that rev. and learned Divine Mr. Joh. Ley, by the Writer of a Pamphlet called (by the figure Antiphrasis) The perfect Passages— Said there to be written by C. D. Master of Arts.  
An after reckoning with Mr. Saltmarsh: or, an appeal to the impartial and conscientious Reader, etc. against his last paper called An end of our controversy; or an answer or letter, to Mr. Ley's last large book. Lond. 1646. quar. This book, as Mr. Ley's special 
(a) Rich. Moor a Nonconformist Minister living at Wetherock hill in Worcestershire.  friend hath told me, was written by the said Ley, yet the Reader is to know that in the title it is said that L. M. Student in Divinity wrote it. The said book called An end of our controversy, etc. was written in answer to Light for Smoke. This Saltmarsh, by the way it must be known, was descended from an ancient family of his name living sometimes at Saltmarsh in Yorkshire, but whether born in that County, or at Strubby in Lincolnshire, where was a branch of his name living for three generations before his time, I know not, educated in Magd. Coll. in Cambridge, graduated there, and afterwards beneficed, being esteemed then a person of a 
(b) Tho. Fuller in his Worthies of England, in Yorksh.  fine and active fancy, no contemptible Poet and a good Preacher. But upon the turn of the times in 1641, he, as a mutable man, became, of a zealous observer, a violent opposer, of Bishops and Ceremonies. At that time he was a Preacher at Northampton, and at other places, where he was much followed by, and found esteem from, such who entitled themselves The godly. Afterwards he was Chaplain in the Parliament Army under Sir Tho. Fairfax, where he always preached the bonds of love and peace, praying that that might be the cord to unite Christians in unity. He meddled not in the pulpit with Presbytery and Independency, but solely laboured to draw the soul from sin to Christ. Thus he lived among Soldiers in time of health; and how his departure was from the Army a little before his death, you shall hear more anon, and in the mean time I shall tell you of several things that he hath written, besides what are before mentioned (which show him to be an Antinomian) as (1) The Assemblies petition defended against his Exception. (2) Holy discoveries and flames— Printed in tw. 1640. (3) Free Grace; or, the flow of Christ's blood freely to sinners; being an experiment of Jes. Ch. upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled spirit, at times for twelve years till now, etc. Lond. 1645. in tw. (4) New Quere, etc. Lond. 1645. qu. 'Tis about Church-Government, and 'tis mentioned before. (5) Shadows flying away. Lond. 1646. qu. Animadverted upon by Tho. Gataker in his Shadows with substance, etc. Ibid. 1646. qu. (6) Dawnings of light, wherein the true interest of Reformation is opened in general, and in particular for the establishing of weaker judgements. Lond. 1646. in tw. (7) Maxims of Reformation. Printed with the former. (8) Reasons for unity, peace and love: in answer to Mr. Tho. Edward's his Gangraena— Lond. 1646. qu. (9) Groans for liberty, etc. presented from the Presbyterian Brethren, reputed the most learned among them, in some Treatises called Smectymnus, to the honourable Court of Parliament an. 1641 by reason of the Prelate's Tyranny. Lond. 1646. qu. (10) Beam of light discovering the way to peace. (11) Some Queries for the better understanding of Mr. Edward's last book called Gangraena. Lond. 1646. qu. (12) Parallel between Prelacy and Presbytery. Ibid. 1646. qu. (13) The divine right of Presbytery, asserted by the present Assembly, and petitioned for accordingly to the H. of Com. in Parliament, with reasons discussing this pretended divine right. Lond. 1646. in 3 sh. in qu. (14) Sparkles of Glory: or, Some beams of the morning star, wherein are many discoveries as to peace and truth. Lond. 1647. in tw. (15) Wonderful Predictions, declared in a message, as from the Lord, to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, and the Council of his Army. Lond. 1648. in one sh. in qu. with other things which I have not yet seen, as (1) Several sermons. (2) Practise of Policy, printed in tw. (3) Flagellum Flagelli, etc. against Dr. Jo. Bastwick, and lastly Animadversions on Mr. Tho. Fuller's sermon, wherein he taxeth him of Popery. At length on the 4 of Decemb. 1647, he being then at his house near to Ilford in Essex, told his wife that he had been in a trance, had seen a vision, and received a command from God, to go presently to the Army, to make known to them what the Lord had revealed to him, which would be the last work that he had to do for them, and taking leave of his wife, he hasted to London that night, and declared to Sir Hen. Mildmay a Parliament-man, that he was sent by the Lord with a message to the Army, to make known some things unto them which God had revealed unto him. The next day being Sunday, he with much ado got a horse, and about 3 of the clock in the afternoon road towards Windsor the Head-quarter of the Army, and about 11 of the clock at night came to a certain Town about 7 miles distant from Windsor, where he laid that night, and spoke of many wonderful things that the Lord had revealed to him. But the man and woman of the house gave no credit at first to what he said, though, before he left them, they did, and began to be taken with his preaching discourses. Before break of day the next morning, being Monday Dec. 6. he went towards Windsor, and being there about 9 of the clock, he repaired to the General Council, where some of the Officers were met in expectation of the General and the rest, to sit in Council; before whom he spoke these words, with his eyes almost fixed in his head, or rather as if he had come out of a trance with fear and trembling to express what he had received, I am come hither to reveal to you what I have received from God. That though the Lord hath done much for you, and by you, yet he hath of late left you, and is not in your Councils, because you have forsaken him. God will not prosper your Consultations, but destroy you by divisions among yourselves. I have formerly come to you like a lamb, but God hath now raised in me the spirit of a lion, because you have sought to destroy the people of God. The controversy that is now before you, calls for the tenderest judgement, because it concerns the faithful ones, those imprisoned of your own members, having always stood by you through the greatest difficulties.— I advise all the faithful to depart from you, lest they be destroyed with you, etc. Afterwards he went to Sir Tho. Fairfax the General, but did not move his hat to him, saying, I have had a command from God not to honour you at all.— I have honoured you so much, that I have offended God in doting upon your person.— God hath revealed unto me, that he is highly displeased with your committing of Saints to prison, that he will not prosper you, nor can I honour you, etc. After he had parted with the General he went to Cromwell the Lieut. General, whom he met in the Hall in Windsor Castle, and being by him asked how he did, Saltmarsh stirred not his hat, but told him, The Lord was angry with him, for causing those godly men to be imprisoned, slighted, and abused, for those engagements which he had formerly owned, and the persons such as he knew faithful in the cause of God: That the Armies falling off from their former principles, it would be their ruin and destruction, and would raise such factions among themselves, as would undo them, etc. Cromwell told him thereupon that some things were not so well as he could wish, and wondered such passages should fall from him. Saltmarsh then proceeded and declared to him as he had done to the general Council of the Army. At length Cromwell took a paper out of his pocket, which, he told Saltmarsh he had received from him, and there read it, some of which was not much different from what he had said. An Officer then present spoke of something that had lately fallen from another Member of the Army relating to that purpose. Whereupon Saltmarsh replied, Look you here now, out of the mouths of two or three witnesses the truth of God is confirmed. Whereupon Cromwell said I am glad that there is some tenderness of heart in you; and then, after some other discourse, they parted. Afterwards Mr. Saltmarsh discoursed with other Officers, and with Hugh Peter, about the same matter; and the next day being Tuesday Dec. 7. he went to Cromwell again and told him he had one thing yet to deliver to him, which God required of him, and that was, that he would immediately take effectual course for the enlargement of the Members of the Army that were committed for not complying with the General Council, and that he do not prosecute against those that have been faithful, etc. Afterwards he took his leave of the Officers, telling them that he had then done his errand, and must leave them, never to see the Army more. That night he went to London, and the next day he told divers of his friends there what he had done at Windsor, and then taking his leave, said his work was done, his message delivered, and desired them to be careful of his wife. On Thursday Dec. 9 he went from London very cheerful and well, and arrived that night at his house near Ilford, not sick at all, and told his wife what he had done. On Friday Dec. 10. he told his wife that he had now finished his course, and must go to his father; and in the afternoon he complained that his head did ache, desiring to lay down upon his bed, where his wife took all possible care of him: But whatsoever he received for sustenance, he could not retain it, yet he rested well all that night. On Saturday Decemb. 11. an. 1647, he was taken speechless in the morning, and in the afternoon about 4 or 5 of the clock, he died in great peace and quiet, leaving then the character behind him by some, of a bigoted enthusiastical person. Afterwards came out a book intit. Saltmarsh returned from the dead in amico Philalethe: or, the resurrection of James the Apostle, etc. being an exposition on the fifth chap. of S. James. Lond. 1655. qu. published by S. G. Thus far, with as much brevity as I could, concerning this Jo. Saltmarsh who was full of poetical raptures and highly conceited of himself and parts. See more in Will. Prynne. Now let's go on with Joh. Ley and tell you what other books he hath published.  
Elaborate annotations on the Pentateuch, etc. The first and second edit. enlarged, the text explained, etc. Lond. 1651. fol.  
Learned defence for the legality of Tithes, for, and towards, the maintenance of, Gospel Ministers. Oxon. 1653, qu.  
General reasons grounded on Equity, Piety, Charity, and Justice against the payment of a fifth part to sequestered Ministers, Wives and Children. Lond. 1654. 55. quart.  
An acquittance or discharge from Dr. E. H. (Edw. Hyde) his demand of a fifth part of the Rectory of Br. (Brightwell) in Berks. pleaded as in a Court of Equity and Conscience. Lond. 1654. qu.  
Letter to Dr. Edw. Hyde, in answer to one of his, occasioned by the late insurrection at Salisbury.— Printed in 2 sh. in qu. 'Twas dated at Brightwell 6 Apr. 1655.  
Debate concerning the English Liturgy, etc. between Edw. Hyde D. D. and Joh. Ley. Lond. 1656. qu. The Debate is carried on in Epistles between them.  
Discourse of disputations, chiefly concerning matters of Religion. Lond. 1658. qu.  
Animadversions on two printed books of Joh. Only a Lay-Preacher.— Printed with the Discourse.  
Equitable and necessary considerations for the association of Arms throughout England and Wales.  
Petition to the Lord Protector by divers, for the establishment of themselves, and other their brethren, for their own lives, in the places to which they are admitted, to officiate as Ministers of the Gospel, without institution and induction by the Bishops.  
Comparison of the oath of the sixth Canon of the last Synod of Bishops, and the protestation set forth by the Parliament, in answer to a letter of Pedael Harlow Gent.— Printed in qu. This Harlow hath one or more things that are extant, and was a professed Creature of Henry Earl of Manchester.  
Attestation of the Ministers of Cheshire, to the testimony of the Ministers of the Province of London, against errors, heresies and blasphemies.— Pr. in qu.  
Exceptions many and just; being an answer to two injurious Petitions against Tithes.— These are all the things that I hitherto know, that have been written by our Author Ley, and therefore I have no more to say of him but this, that after he had lived to see many mutations in Church and State, and had enjoyed many places of profit, and benefices belonging to other men of the Royal Party, purposely to gain wealth, did willingly give up the ghost at Sutton Colfield before mentioned, on the sixteenth day of May in sixteen hundred sixty and two, and was buried in the Church there, 
1662.  leaving then the character behind him by some, that he was one of the pillars of Presbytery; and by others, a person learned and well read in the Fathers and Councils. One Mr. Ley a learned Divine, wrote a book about 1624. intit. The Christian Nomenclator, etc. against the Papists, mentioned in Joh. Gee's book intit. The foot out of the snare, etc. Lond. 1624. qu. p. 17. in marg. whether the same with our Author Joh. Ley I know not.  
HENRY JACKSON Son of H●n. Jacks. Mercer, was born in S. Mary's parish within the City of Oxon, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602, aged 17 years or thereabouts, having for two years before been Clerk of the said house, admitted probat. Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612, to the reading of the Sentences five years after, and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield, sometimes his Tutor, he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire, which was all the preferment he ever looked after; for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more. He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds, whose memories being most dear to him, he did, for the sake of the first, industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises, and of the latter, several of his Epistles and Orations. He also did diligently recognize, and added marginal notes, with a copious Index to, the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives, (sometimes Rhetoric Reader of C. C. Coll.) seven of the former of which, are De corruptis Artibus, the other five, De tradendis disciplinis. He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from ancient MSS. of that Author, had revised, compared and collected them: All which he did intend at his own charge to publish, but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642, the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house, scattered the said Collection, and made it so imperfect, that it could never be recovered. He hath written, Vita Ciceronis, ex variis autoribus collecta.  
Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest. lib. quintum. Both which, dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield, are remaining under the Author's hand in my custody; but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell. He also translated from English into Latin, Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct. written by the said Dr. Benefield, as I have elsewhere told you. Also Joh. Fryth's book of Baptism, which he entitled De Baptismo & cognition sui; next Joh. Hoopers' Lectures on the Creed, and lastly Hugh latymer's Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reform by the Gospel: Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus. But whether these three last (which are in MS. in my hands) are published, I cannot tell: nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides, only, that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
1662.  was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis. Hamp. near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mentioned. I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man, printed 1660 in oct. but of what University he was, if of any, I know not.  
THOMAS MERRIOT was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts. educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an. 1610, aged 21 years or more, took one degree in the Civil Law, and for a time taught in the Grammar-school joining to the Cloister there. Afterwards being presented to the Vicarage of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death. He hath written,  
Vulgaria: sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta; ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis, emittendos, quam maximè conducentia; modo solerter edoceantur etc. in novem classes distributa. Oxon. 1652. oct.  
Adagia selectissima, etc. Ib. eod. an. oct. He died at Swaclyve, on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
1662.  after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years, and was two days after buried in the Church there.  
EDWARD STANLEY was born of gentile Parents in the Parish of S. Peter within the City of Chichester, educated in Wykeham's School, made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. 1608, aged 20 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, left the said Coll. in 1623., and was about that time made Master of the said School, and afterwards Prebendary of Winchester, and Doct. of Diu. He hath published,  
Several Sermons; three of which were preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester. The first, on Sunday Aug. 19 an. 1660, at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that Church, on Psal. 14.7. The second, on Jan. 30. an. 1661., being the Anniversary of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory, on Jer. 4.20. And the third at the general Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661. on Isay 1.26. Lond. 1662. in oct. In which year the Author died and was buried at Winchester, 
1662.  leaving then behind him the character of a learned, godly and orthodox Minister of God's word.  
HENRY JEANES Son of Christop. Jeanes of Kingston in Somersetshire, was born at Allensay in that County, as I have been informed by one of his rural disciples, became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsummer term, in the year 1626. aged 15 years, where pecking and hewing continually at Logic and Physics, became a most noted and ready Disputant. After he had taken the degrees in Arts, he removed to Hart Hall, took holy Orders, and soon after was cried up for a learned Preacher in the University. In the beginning of Aug. 1635, he was presented by Sir Joh. Windham to the Rectory of Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire; and soon after became Vicar of Kingston in the same County. At length, upon the change of the times in 1641, he closed with the Presbyterians, notwithstanding he had before (while he continued in the University) been a scoffer of them, and when Dr. Walt. Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey near Bridgwater, he became Rector of the Church there: where, during the times of Usurpation, he took into his family divers Youths designed for the University, and read to them (contrary to his Oath) Logic and Philosophy, and had often times set Disputations among them, while he himself moderated. He was a most excellent Philosopher, a noted Metaphysitian, and well grounded in polemical Divinity. He was also a scholastical man, a contemner of the World, generous, freehearted, jolly, witty, and facetious, and in many things represented the humour of Dr. Rob. Wild the Poet. All which qualities do very rarely or seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian persuasion, who generally are morose, clownish and of sullen and reserved natures. The books that he hath written and published are many, the titles of most, if not all, follow.  
Treatise concerning a Christians careful abstinence from all appearance of evil, etc. Oxon 1640. 1660. oct. and qu.  
Want of Church-government no warrant for a total omission of the Lords Supper, etc. Lond. 1650. qu. Ox. 1653. oct.  
Vindication of Dr. Will. Twysse from the Exceptions of Mr. Joh. Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed. Oxon. 1653. fol.  
The Examiner examined: or, a Reply to Mr. Fulwoods' Examination of want of Church-Government no warrant for omission of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1653. This Mr. Fulwood is the same with Franc. Fulwood sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Minister of West Alvington in Devonshire, Archdeacon of Totness, D. of D. and Canon of Exeter, an eminent Writer of his time.  
A mixture of scholastical Divinity with practical, in several Tractates. Oxon. 1656. qu. The titles of those Tracts are (1) Concerning the sinful fear of man. (2) Of Christ's incarnation. (3) Of the resurrection of Christ. (4) Concerning the fullness of Christ, and (5) Of the excellency of Praise and Thanksgiving; being all the effect of certain Sermons.  
Dr. Hammond's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; or, a greater ardency of Christ's love of God at one time than another, proved to be utterly irreconcilable with his fullness of habitual grace, and perpetual happiness and impeccability of the Soul. Oxon. 1657. qu. Replied upon by a third person in a book intit. The Refuter refuted. See in Will. Creed under the year 1663.  
Treatise concerning the indifferency of humane actions. Oxon. 1659. qu.  
Brief and scholastical discourse touching the nature of Thanksgiving, on Ephes. 5.20. Oxon 1660. qu. Mostly the same mentioned in the fifth head of A mixture of scholastical Divinity, etc.  
Of original righteousness, and its contrary concupiscence. Oxon. 1660. qu. Written against Dr. Jer. Taylor.  
Sermon (enlarged into a Treatise) concerning the last and general judgement, etc. on Rom. 2.16. Oxon. 1660. qu.  
Certain Letters between him and Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning a passage of his (Hen. Jeanes) in his farther explication of original sin. Oxon 1660. qu.  
Uniformity in humane doctrinal Ceremonies, grounded on 1 Cor. 14.40. Or, a reply to Dr. Hammonds Vindication of his grounds of Uniformity. Oxon. 1660. qu.  
Dr. Creed's voluminous defence of Dr. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 briefly examined, and the weakness thereof fully discovered. Lond. 1661. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The work of heaven upon earth, etc. Serm. at Taunton in Somersetsh. 11 May 1648 being a day set apart for the annual commemoration of the deliverance of that Town, by the relief which they received on the 11 of May 1645, on Psal. 92. ver. 1. Lond. 1649. qu. and others (besides what are before mentioned,) as also an Answer to John Milton's book intit. Iconoclasies, etc. printed 1651. qu. and said to be written by one jean's, which I have not yet seen. He gave way to fate in the City of Wells some few days before the fatal day of S. Barthelmew, in the month of August, in sixteen hundred sixty and two, and was buried in the Cathedral Church there. 
1662.  At which time one of his persuasion intended to preach a Sermon of Mortality, but Dr. Piers the then Bishop of that place, who had no affection for Jeanes, because he knew him to have been an Heretic and often had called him so, examined the Sermon lest any thing therein might be spoken in commendation of him and his opinions.  
JOHN BIDDLE or Biddellus, as he is by some Authors written, Son of Edw. Bid. a Tailor, was born at Wotton Under Edge in Glocestershire, baptised on the 14. of January 1615, and afterwards being a youth of great hopes, was, by the benevolence and exhibition of George Lord Berkley, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there, by John Rugg and John Turner successive Masters thereof. Under the last, he made so great proficiency in his studies that he englished Virgil's Bucolics and the Two first Satyrs of Juvenal. Both which were printed at Lond. in 1634 in oct. and dedicated to John Smith of Nibley in the said County Esq. Maecenas of the Wottonian Muses. In the beginning of that year, (having a little before composed, and recited before a full auditory, an elaborate oration in Latin, for the gracing the funeral of an honourable School fellow) he was entered a Student of Magd. Hall, and for a time, if I mistake not, was put under the tuition of John Oxenbridge, a Person then noted to be of no good principles. Before he had taken the degree of Master of Arts, (being about that time a Tutor in the said Hall) he was invited to take upon him the care of teaching the School wherein he had been educated, by the Overseers thereof, but refused it; and after he had completed the said degree, which was in 1641, he became Master of Crypt School within the City of Gloucester, where for a time he was much esteemed for his diligence in his profession, severity of manners, and sanctity of life. At length the Nation being brought into confusion by the restless Presbyterians, the said City garrisoned for the use of the Parliament, and every one vented his, or their, opinions, as they pleased, he began to be free of his discourses of what he had studied there at leisure hours concerning the Trinity, from the holy Scriptures, having not then, as he pretended, conversed with Socinian Books. But the Presbyterian Party, then prevalent there, having notice of these matters, and knowing full well what mischief he might do among his disciples, the Magistrate summoned him to appear before him; and after several interrogatories, a form of confession under three heads, was proposed to him to make, which he accordingly did 2. May 1644, but not altogether in the words proposed. Which matter giving then no satisfaction, he made another confession in the same month more evident than the former, to avoid the danger of imprisonment which was to follow, if he should deny it. Afterwards being more satisfied in his mind by reading various Authors, he drew up several arguments against the generally received deity of the Holy Ghost, which he intended shortly after to print; but being betrayed by one, whom he took to be his sure friend, who had, as it seems, a copy of them, he acquainted the Magistrate and Parliament Committee then in the said City, of the matter. Whereupon, after they had perused them, they committed the Author, then labouring under a fever, to the common Goal there, on the 2. of Decemb. 1645 to remain in that place till the Parliament should take cognizance of the matter. But a certain Person of note dwelling in Gloucester, who had a respect for Biddle (for the truth is except his opinions, there was little or nothing blame worthy in him) he procured his liberty, by giving sureties for his appearance when it should please the Parliament to send for him. About the month of June in 1646 the learned Usher Primate of Ireland traveled through that City in his way to London, and having before heard of, spoke to, and used, him with all fairness and pity, as well as with strength of arguments to convince him of his dangerous error, telling him that either he was in a damnable error, or else that the whole Church of Christ, who had in all ages worshipped the Holy Ghost had been guilty of Idolatry: But Biddle who had little to say, was no whit moved either by the learning, gravity, piety, or zeal of that good Archbishop, but continued, as 'tis said, obstinate. After he had remained about six months at liberty in Gloucester, he was cited to Westminster to make his defence; but being put off by the Parliament to a Committee to be examined, his crime was by them laid closely to his charge. The crime he denied not, and desired withal that some Theologist, whom they should appoint, might dispute with him concerning that criminal matter in hand. But it being delayed from day to day, Biddle desired a certain Knight (Sir Hen. Vane) of that Committee that his cause might be heard, or he set at liberty. The Knight proposed it and showed himself a friend to Biddle, who thereupon was confined more close than before. Whereupon came out his book for the satisfaction of all People with this title.  
Twelve questions or arguments drawn out of Scripture, wherein the commonly received opinion touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted— Printed 1647. in qu. Before which is printed a letter tending to the said purpose, written to the said Sir Henry Vane, a member of the H. of Commons: And at the end is An exposition of five principal passages of the Scripture alleged by the Adversaries to prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost. These, I say, being published, and making a great noise in the World, the Author was summoned to appear at the Bar of the H. of Com. & being asked whether he owned that book or Tw. questions, etc. and the opinions therein, he answered yea, and that they were his: Whereupon being remitted to his Prison, they ordered on the 6. of Sept. 1647 that the said Book, blasphemous against the Deity of Christ, be called in and burnt by the hand of the common Hangman, and that the Author be examined by the Committee of plundered Ministers: Both which were done, viz. the book burnt on the 8 of the same month, and he examined. While these things were in doing, the book vended so fast, that the same year it was printed again in oct. and afterwards answered by Matthew Poole M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge in his Plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost, etc. Soon after, or at the same time, was published of Biddles writing,  
A confession of faith touching the Holy Trinity according to Scripture. Lond. 1648. oct. It consists of 7 articles, each of which is confirmed all along by subjoined proofs and reasonings on them; which for the most part tend to disprove the Deity of our Saviour. Before the said confession is put a Preface against the Holy Trinity; and about the same time came out of our Author's composition,  
The testimonies of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Novatianus, Theophilus, Origen, (who lived in the two first centuries after Christ was born, or thereabouts) as also of Arnobius, Lanctantius, etc. concerning that one God and the Persons of the Trinity, together with observations on the same.— Printed in oct. Upon the coming out of which things the Assembly of Divines, sitting at Westminster, made their endeavours to the Parliament, that he might suffer death, in the month of May 1●48, but what hindered it, I cannot tell, unless it was the great dissension that was then in the said Parliament: However his confinement was made close. Some time after the publication of Biddles first book, it happened that Joh. Cloppenburch D. D. and Professor in the University of Frisia was at Bristol in England, where meeting with Will. Hamilton a Scot, lately Fellow of Alls. Coll. in Oxon, the said William did not only then furnish him with a copy of that book, but debated the controversy with him. Afterwards upon the return of Cloppenburch to his own Country, he did excellently well answer it in Latin, which he had translated (so much as he answered) in a small treatise entitled, Vindiciae pro Deitate spiritus sancti, adversus Pneumatomachum Johan. Bidellum Anglum. printed at Franeker 1652. qu. It must be also noted that upon the publishing of the said book of Biddle (I mean his Twelve questions) Samuel Maresius D. D. and chief Professor of that faculty at Gronningen, did take occasion in his Epist. ded. before his first Vol. 
(*) Printed at Gronning. an. 1651. qu.  entit. Hydra Socianismi (written against Joh. Volkelius and Jo. Crellius) to give this account of the growth of Socinianism.— Vigesimus jam praeteriit annus ex quo pestilentissima haec nutrix, viz. Socinianismus in Sarmaticis paludibus primum nata, caput erexit, & per Germaniam, ac Belgiam nostram sibilis & halitu faedissimo grassata, etiam tetrum suum virus superato oceano intulit in Angliam, in quâ tristi hoc tempore dicitur incredibiles progressus fecisse, etc. As for the Confession of Faith, etc. beforemention'd, it was examined and confuted by Nich. Estwick Rector of Warkton in Northamptonshire, in a book published by him in qu. an. 1656: Which being dedicated to Edward Lord Montague of Boughton, he takes occasion to say that Biddles writings have not been enclosed within the confines of our nation, but have taken their wings, and have fled beyond the Seas to the disreputation of our dear Country, in the reformed Churches, insomuch that Maresius Professor of Divinity at Groningen is bold to avouch (I cannot say either truly or charitably) that Socinianism hath fixed its seat here in England, and displayed openly the banners of its impiety.— The said Estwick also had some years before held forth an antidote against the Poison of Biddles Twelve arguments against the Deity of the Holy Ghost. Since which, as 'tis usual in deceivers (so Estwick words it) Biddle grew worse and worse, and levied his forces against the Holy Trinity, and published notwithstanding other matters replenished with Socinian Tenants. Our Author Biddle continued yet in restraint and none of the Assembly durst venture to give him a visit, either out of charity, or to convince him of his errors; nor indeed any Divine of note of the other party, only Mr. Pet. Gunning who had several friendy conferences with him. At length some of the Laity of London, and others of the Country would come to him, either to see or converse with him; who being taken with his religious discourse, and Saintlike conversation, a certain Justice of Peace of Staffordshire prevailed so far with his keeper, that, upon security given for his appearance upon the least summons, he should be surrendered up to him. Whereupon he was conveyed into Staffordshire, and not only made by him his Chaplain, but also Preacher of a Church there. These matters soon after being known at London, John Bradshaw Precedent of the Council of State his Capital enemy, sent a messenger for, and committed, him more close than before. Soon after the said Justice of Peace died, left Biddle a considerable Legacy, but in a short time devoured by the frequent paying of the fees of a Prisoner. So that being in a manner reduced to great indigence, he was employed by Roger Daniel a Printer of London to correct the Greek Version of the Septuagint of the Old Testament, which he was about most accurately to publish: And this he did, knowing full well that Biddle was an exact Grecian, and had time enough to follow it. Which employment, and another in private, did gain him for a time a comfortable subsistence. In Feb. 1651 was published by the Parliament a general Act of oblivion, that restored, among others, our Author Biddle to his full liberty, which he improved among those friends he had gained in London, in meeting together every Sunday for the expounding of the Scripture, and discoursing thereupon, for the clearing of matters therein contained; by which means the Doctrine of one God and Christ his only Son, and his holy spirit was so propagated, that the Presbyterian Ministers in London were exceedingly offended at it, but could not hinder it by secular power, which then favoured liberty of religion and conscience. About that time part of the second impression of his Twelve Arguments, the Confession of Faith, Testimonies, etc. which as I have told you were published in oct. laying dead on his, or the Booksellers, hands, there was this title put to them, The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity revived and asserted, etc. Lond. 1653. oct, but no alterations or augmentation made in them, as 'tis expressed in the said title set before them, which were put and sold together in one volume, the Long Parliament being then dissolved. Afterwards was written and published by the said Biddle,  
A Twofold Catechism, the one simply called a Scripture Catechism, the other a brief Scripture Catechism for Children. Lond. 1654. The last of which two was printed again by itself in 3 sheets in a little octavo the same year. Soon after, the Twofold Catechism coming into the hands of certain Persons elected to sit in the Little Parliament (called by Oliver) which began at Westminster 3. Sept. 1654., was a public complaint by some made of it in the House, being instigated thereunto by frequent and open preachments against it. Whereupon Biddle being sent for, he gave answer to their interrogatories, and did not deny before them, but that he was the Author: So that the matter being referred to a Committee, he was examined by them, and in conclusion adhered to the answer that he had before given to the House. Reports therefore being made by the said Committee of such things that had passed, the House voted on the 12 of Dec. 1654. that the whole drift and scope of the said Twofold Catechism is to teach and hold forth many blasphemous and heretical opinions, and that in the preface of the said Catechism the Author thereof doth maintain and assert many blasphemous and heretical opinions, and doth therein cast a reproach upon all the Catechisms now extant. They then voted also that all the printed books entit. the Twofold Catechism be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman. That the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to see the same done accordingly in the New Palace-yard at Westm. and at the Old Exchange. That the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the company of Stationers in London, be required immediately to make search for all the printed books as aforesaid, and seize all the said Books, and deliver them to the Sherriffs. The next day Biddle was brought to the bar of the House, and there, after it was read unto him, what had been done, he owned his Books, and was thereupon the same day committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster, and his Books burnt by the Hangman in the beforementioned places on the 14 of the same month. But this was not all, for the members of Parl. perceiving full well what mischief the said Twofold Cat. did do, and was likely more to do, and that many People were more greedy to buy, or obtain, it than before, the matter was agitated again in January following by the Committee, who resolved on the 16. of the same month, that the whole drift and scope, etc. and that it be burnt, etc. The particulars in the said Catechism which moved them thereunto were partly these. (1) The infinite God is confined to a certain place. (2) God hath a bodily shape, hath a right and a left hand in a proper sense. (3) God hath passions in him. (4) God is not omnipotent and immutable. (5) The three Persons are not to be believed with our whole heart. (6) Jesus Christ hath not the nature of God dwelling in him, and that he hath only a divine Lordship, without a divine nature. (7) There is no Godhead of the Holy Ghost. (8) Christ was not a Priest whilst he was upon Earth, nor did he reconcile God unto us, etc. At the same time were other particulars gathered from his several books going under the general title of The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity, etc. The first of which runs thus, That God the Father only, separated from the Son and Holy Ghost, is the first cause of all things that pertain to salvation, etc. The rest I shall omit for brevity sake. These things being reported to the Parliament, they ordered the Committee to bring in a Bill for punishing the said Biddle; which being accordingly done, they ordered as before that the Twofold Cat. be burnt, and the Master, Wardens, etc. to seize upon all copies, and to deliver them to the Sherriffs, in order to their burning, etc. In the mean time they consulted what to do with Biddle, but came to no result, though pressed eagerly on by the Presbyterian Ministers to take away his life. On the 10. of Febr. following he, the Printer, and Bookseller of the said Catechism, with another in the custody of a Messenger, as also Theauraw John 
(*) Tho. Tany Goldsmith, who, by the Lord's voice that he heard, changed his name from Thomas, to Theauraw John, Tany on the 23. of Nou. 1649 living then at the Three Golden Keys without Temple-bar, London. He was then and before a blasphemous Jew.  Tany (who burned the Bible and struck at several Persons with his naked sword at the Parliament door while the members were sitting) were, upon their petitions to the Upper bench, all permitted to have liberty upon sufficient bail (which they then put in) to appear in that Court on the first day of the next term following, where then they were to be tried. On the 2. of May 1655, they accordingly appeared, but were put off till the next term, 28. May following: Which day appearing, he and they were with much ado set at liberty. Afterwards Biddle falling into the company of one John Griffin, said to be an Anabaptist teacher, discourses pro and con were so high between them, that there was a public dispute appointed to be held to decide the matter. The place wherein they were to dispute was the Stone Chapel in S. Paul's Cathedral, and the question, Whether Jesus Christ be the most High or Almighty God? The time being come, they appeared, but Griffin being put to it for want of the true way of argumentizing, the disputation was deferred to another day. Whereupon Griffin being conscious to himself that he was not able to grapple with Biddle, he and his party brought it so to pass, that upon report of more blasphemies uttered by Biddle, he was, by command from Oliver the Protector, seized, on the 3. of July (being the day before they were to make an end of the Disputation) an. 1655 and forthwith committed Prisoner to the Poultry Compter. Soon after, being translated to Newgate Prison, he suffered more misery, was brought to a public trial for his life at the Session's house in the Old Bailiff, upon the obsolete and abrogated Ordinance, called the Draconick Ordinance, against blasphemy and heresy, of May 2. an. 1648. To the indictment hereupon, he prays counsel might be allowed to him to plead the illegality of it; which being denied him by the Judges, and the sentence of a Mute threatened, he, at length gave into Court his exceptions engrossed in parchment, and with much struggling, had counsel allowed him. But Oliver the Protector well knowing it was not for the interest of his government, either to have him condemned, or absolved, took him out of the hands of the law, caused him to be detained in Prison, with intentions to bestow him elsewhere. At length several prime Persons of the Anabaptistical party remaining in London (some of whom, as 'tis said, had entertained his opinions) drawing up a petition in his behalf in the month of Sept. an. 1655, presented it to Oliver, to obtain his mercy towards him under pretence of liberty of conscience. On the 28. of the same month they were to receive an answer to it, but before the said Oliver gave one, the Petition was read in the hearing of divers of them, under whose hands it had been presented: which being done many of them did disown it, as being altered both in the matter and title of, since they signed, it, and so looked upon it as a forged thing. They then desired, that the original which they had signed might be produced, but Jerem. Ives and some other of the contrivers and presenters of it, were not able to do, nor had any thing to say in excuse of so foul a miscarriage. However his Highness Oliver did then open before them the great evil of such a practice, and also, how inconsistent it was for them, who professed to be members of the Church of Christ, and to worship him with the worship due to God, to give any countenance to one who reproached themselves, and all the Christian Churches in the World, as being guilty of Idolatry; showing also that if it be true which Biddle holds, viz. that Jesus Christ is but a creature, than all those that worship him, with the worship due to God, are Idolaters, and that the maintainers of that opinion of Biddle, are guilty of great blasphemy against Christ, who is God equal with the Father, etc. Afterwards the Petitioners being dismissed, and Biddle understanding his doom, he wrote a Letter to Oliver, that he would be pleased to admit him into his presence for the hearing of his case. But being denied, and Oliver continually baited by Presb. and Indep. Ministers to have him banished, he the said Biddle as a reviver of the blasphemous opinion owned by Arrius, was removed from Newgate to Plymouth 10. Oct. 1655, in order to his transportation to this isle of Scilly beyond the lands end in Cornwall, there to remain in S. Mary's Castle in close custody during life; where for the present we'll leave him, and in the mean time tell you, that his Twofold Catechism was answered by Dr. John Owen then Dean of Ch. Church, and animadverted upon by Maresius before mentioned in his Preface to the Reader before his second 
(a) Edit. Groaning, an. 1654. in qu.  tome of Hydra Socinianismi, and by Nich. Arnoldus Professor of Divinity in Franeker in West-Frisen, in the latter end of his Preface to the Reader before his book 
(b) Edit. Amstel. 1654. in qu.  entit. Religio Sociniana, seu Catethesis Rucoviana major, etc. As for Maresius, he is very large against him, and deplores the sad condition of England, that after all the contests that it hath had against the Hierarchy, Arminianism, Popery and I know not what, should at length be overwhelmed with Socinianism, all sort of Sectaries, Atheism, etc. Which character, as falling from the Pen of a Person, well known to be no friend to Episcopacy, seems to be a considerable argument to prove (even in his persuasion) that the pretended strictness and severity of the then established Church Government, was not so an effectual remedy against all Libertisme in opinions and practice, as was the Episcoparian Government then lately thrown out of doors. After Biddle had continued Prisoner, not without improvement as to, and in, his opinion, to the beginning of the year 1658, he, by the intercession of many friends, was conveyed from S. Mary's Castle by Habeas Corpus to the Upper Bench at Westm, where appearing without any thing laid to his charge, was set at liberty by the L. Ch. Justice Jo. Glynn. While he was in Prison (where the Protector allowed him a hundred Crowns per an. for his subsistence) he solely gave himself up to the studying of several intricate matters, and of the various opinions concerning the Beast in the Apocalypse, Antichrist, and the personal reign of Christ on Earth; which being digested according to his mind, he explained them, after his return, in Conventicles, held every Sunday in the afternoon, before his Disciples. Which being done, he published them with this, or the like, title.  
Learned notes on some of the Chapters of the Apocolyps. Or thus, An Essay to the explaining of the Revelation. When, or where, printed, or in what Vol. I know not, for I have not yet seen them or it. After oliver's death, and Richard set in the Throne, a Parliament was called, mostly consisting of Presbyterians, whom, of all men, he most dreaded. Whereupon by the advice of a noble friend then in Authority, he caused Biddle (for whom he had a respect) to be conveyed away privately into the Country; where remaining till that Parliament was dissolved (which was soon after) he returned to the City and carried on his Conventicles and Disputes for some time without contradiction. At length his Majest. Ch. 2. being restored to his Dominions, and with him the Church of England, he took other measures, held his meetings more private, and but seldom. However his waters being narrowly watched, he was taken in the house of a certain Citizen while he was conventicling, in the beginning of July 1662.: whereupon being carried before Sir Rich. Browne, then lately Lord Mayor, was by him imprisoned, and used, as his party saith, with great cruelty, especially in this respect, that he hindered all Sureties or Bail to be given for him. So that by the filth of a Prison in hot weather, contracting a disease, he died thereof in the month of Septemb. (one tells me the second, and another the 22d day) about 5 of the Clock in the morning, to the great grief of his disciples, in sixteen hundred sixty and two: 
1662.  Whereupon his body being conveyed to the burial place joining to Old Bedlam in morefield's near London, was there deposited by the Brethren, who soon after took care that an altar monument of stone should be erected over his grave with an inscription thereon, showing that he was Master of Arts of the University of Oxon, and that he had given to the world great specimen of his learning and piety, etc. He had in him a sharp and quick judgement, and a prodigious memory; and being very industrious withal, was in a capacity of devouring all he read. He was wonderfully well versed in the Scriptures, and could not only repeat all St. Paul's Epistles in English, but also in the Greek tongue, which made him a ready Disputant. He was accounted by those of his persuasion a sober man in his discourse, and to have nothing of impiety, folly, or scurrility to proceed from him: Also, so devout, that he seldom or never prayed without being prostrate or flat on the ground, as his life 
(c) Joannis Biddelli (Angli) Acad. Oxoniensis quondam Artium Magistri celeberrimi vita. Lond. 1682. in 3. sh. and an half in oct. The Author of which, was, as I have been informed, (for there is no name set to it) one Joh. Farrington I C T. of the Inner Temple.  which I have, attests. Soon after his death his Twofold Catechism was turned into Latin, and printed in oct. 1665. The first called A Scripture Cat. was done by Anon. The other called A brief Scripture Cat. for Children, was done by a youth called Nathaniel Stuckey, and at the end of it was printed. (1) Oratiuncula de passione & morte Christi, made by the said Stuckey. (2) Exemplum literarum Jeremiae Felbingeri ad Joh. Biddellum, dated at Dantsick 24. Aug. Still. vet. 1654. This Nath. Stuckey who had been partly bred up in Grammar and Logic by Biddle, or at least by his care, died 27. Sept. 1665 aged 16 years, and was buried close to the grave of Biddle, as it appears by an inscription engraven for him on one side (at the bottom) of Biddles monument. A certain 
(d) Jam. Heath in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine war, etc. in the latter end of the year 1654.  Author tells us that the said Biddle translated into English the Koran, and the book called The three grand Impostors, damned for shame. But upon what ground he reports these things he tells us not. Sure I am that there is no such thing mentioned in his life; and whether there be such a book in rerum natura as the Three grand Impostors, meaning Moses, Mahomet and Christ, is by many knowing men doubted. After the coming to the Crown of England of William Prince of Orange, when then more liberty was allowed to the press than before, were several of John Biddles things before mentioned reprinted in the beginning of the year 1691, viz. (1) His 12 questions, with An exposition of five principal passages, etc. (2) A confession of faith, etc. (3) The Testimonies of Irenaeus, etc. And before them, was set a short account of his life, taken from that written in Latin by J. F. as I have here in the margin told you.  
WILLIAM LENTHALL second Son of Will. Length. of Lachford in Oxfordshire, by Frances his Wife, Daughter of Sir Tho. Southwell of St. Faiths in the County of Norfolk, was born in a Market Town called Henly upon Thames in the said County of Oxon, in an house near to the Church there, in the latter end of June 1591., descended from Will. 
(e) The said Will. Lenthall died on the 28. June 1497. (12. Hen. 7.) and was buried in the South Isle joining to the body of the Church of Great Haseley in Com. Oxon.  Lenthall or Leynthall a Gentleman of Herefordshire, who in the beginning of K. Edw. 4. married 
(f) So John Leland in his Second Vol. of Itineraries p. 8. but in a Visitation book of Oxfordshire made by one of the Heralds, I find that Will. Lenthall of Lachford married Catherine Dau. of John Badby by Jane his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Rich. Pyperd.  with the Dau. and Heir of .... Pyperd of Lachford before mentioned. Which Pyperd also was descended from a younger Son of those of his name living at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire; who, I mean the said younger Son, (much in renown in the beginning of K. Edw. 3.) performed military acts so valiantly against the Scots, that he did not only receive the honour of Knighthood from the King, but the manor 
(g) Ibid. in 2. Vol. Lel. p. 8.  of Lachford from his Father, to hold by King's service of the manor of Pyperd of Great Haseley before mentioned, in which Parish Lachford is situated. It is here to be noted by the way, that both the Haselies did for many descents 
(h) Ibid. p. 7.  belong to the Pyperds, whose mannour-place was the same, which is now the Farm-place, situated near to the Church. But the Male line being there worn out in the reign of Ed. 3. the said manor place, with the patronage of the rectory of Haseley, was given to the College at Windsor; of the Dean and Canons of which, the said Farm-place is, and hath been for several generations, held by the said Lenthalls. As for Little Haseley, now called Haseley Court, (where in the time of K. Hen. 8. was 
(i) Ib. p. 8.  a right fair mansion place, with marvellous fair walks toperarii operis and orchard and pools, belonging to Sir Will. Barentine, whose Daughter Marie, Anth. Huddleston Esq. took to Wife) was also numbered among the ancient possessions of the Pyperds, and was held of their manor by Knight's service. As for this Will. Lenthall, of whom we are now to speak, he became a Commoner of S. Alban Hall in the year 1606, where continuing about 3 years, departed without the honour of a degree, and went to Lincoln's Inn, where applying his mind to the study of the municipal Law, became a Counsellor of note, and in the 13. of Ch. 1. Lent-reader of the said Inn, being then, as before, noted for his practice in his profession. In the latter end of 1639 he was elected Burgess for the Corporation of Woodstock in Oxfordsh. to serve in that short Parliament which began at Westm. 13. of Apr. 1640, and in Oct. following, he was chose again for the same place to serve in that unhappy Convention called the Long Parliament, begun 3. of Nou. the same year: At which time being elected Speaker, (worth to him 2000 l. per an.) he kept that honourable office, by siding with the leading Party, till its dissolution, without any adherance to the King, when, by force, he left that Parliament. Whether he acted justly in his place, 'tis to be questioned, forasmuch as he was not only false to the members thereof in many things, but also kept correspondence with that noted Minister of State in France Cardinal Julius Mazarini, as 'tis very well known. Being thus put into the road to get beneficial places, and so consequently riches, which he hungered after, by the continual importunities of his covetous Wife named Elizabeth, Dau. of Ambrose Evans of Lodington in Northamptonshire Gent, he became Master of the Rolls 8 Nou. 1643 worth, as 'tis said, 3000 l. per an, one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, 1646, worth 1500 l. per an, Chamberlain of Chester, 1647, in the room of James E. of Derby, a place of profit, as well as honour; which last he occupying till 1654., was succeeded by John Glynn Lord Ch. Justice, but obtained it again 14. March 1659. About the same time (1647) he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster worth 1000 l. per an. and any thing else that he desired. Besides these honourable places, he had 6000 l. at one time given to him by the Parliament, and at another, the Rectory and Demesness of Burford in Oxfordshire, with a stately house there, lately belonging to Lucius Viscount Falkland, as the Author of the 
(*) Printed at Lond. in oct. an. 1660. p 17  Mystery of the good old cause reports, but falsely as I suppose, for about the year 1634 the said Will. Lenthall did, for the sum of 7000 l. or thereabouts, purchase of the said Lucius the Priory house (the stately house before mentioned) and Land belonging thereunto, descended to him from Elizabeth Dau. and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfeild Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, sometimes the Wife of Henry Lord Falkland Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Father of Lucius. In Aug. 1648 when there was a debate in the Parliament house whether the Treaty should be with the King in the Isle of Wight, upon the propositions of Hampton Court, there were for it 57 yea, and against it 57 no's: Whereupon he, as Speaker, turned the Scales to yea, which was the best thing he ever did. Oliver once made a sponge of, and squeezed from, him, 15000 l. and turning him (and his tribe the Long Parliament) out of doors, in 1653, after he had sat it out in all changes and resisted many storms, and high complaints against him, he veered about to save himself, his great offices, and chiefly to avoid a new encounter or frown from the present power. So that he, that had been so long the Bell-wether in the H. of Commons, was thought fit for his compliance and money to be one of the Other House. In 1654. he was elected one of the Knights of Oxfordshire, and Burgess for the City of Gloucester to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver, to meet at Westm. 3. of Sept. the same year; of which Parliament he was chosen Speaker. When that Convention called the Rump Parliament was invited by the Army to sit again 6 May 1659. (for they had been turned out by Oliver in 1653) he became Speaker also, as he had been before, and on the 23 of the said month, he was constituted and appointed Keeper of the Great Seal for the Commonwealth of England for eight days only next ensuing. But that Parliament (which was filled up by the members, secluded thence in 1648) being dissolved on the 16 of March following, he endeavoured by his Agents to be chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon, to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 25 Apr. 1660, as at one or two places besides, where he had canvased for votes; but missing his design, he retired in private, and endeavoured to hide, or convey away, the vast deluge of wealth, which he had obtained, as also to secure to his posterity that estate he had purchased in the name of other People. But being at length to be called to an account for what he had done, the Healing Parliament that then met, resolved on the eleventh of June, that he the said Will. Lenthall be one of the twenty to be excepted out of the general Act of indemnity and oblivion, to suffer such pains, penalties, and forfeitures (not extending to life) as shall be thought fit to be inflicted by an Act hereafter to be made for that purpose. But that Act being soon after made, I find therein that if he the said Will. Lenthall should after the first of Sept. 1660 accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical, Civil, or Military, should, to all intents and purposes in Law, stand as if he had been totally excepted by name in the said Act. And well it was that he escaped so, for had it not been for his money and the mercy of his 
(*) It is to be observed that when, with some difficulty, he obtained leave to kiss the King's hand, after his return from exile, he, out of guilt fell backward, as he was kneeling.  Prince, whereby he got a general pardon, he might have been totally sequestered of his Estate and made perpetual Prisoner. So that then being free, he became a witness on the King's side against Tho. Scot the Regicide, when he and others of that gang were to be tried for their lives: And afterwards retiring to his house at Burford before mentioned, where he built a pretty Chapel joining thereunto, showing great love to Scholars and the neighbouring Clergy, we heard no more of him till the time of his death. He was a Person very inconstant and wavering in his Principles, of a slavish temper, a taker of all Oaths, whether Covenant, or engagement, or those to be faithful to Oliver and Richard, besides what he had before done to K. James and K. Ch. 1. He minded mostly the heaping up of riches, and was so besotted in raising and settling a family, that he minded not the least good, that might accrue to his Prince. As for those things that are published under his name, as either uttered or written by him, are these following.  
Several Speeches as (1) Sp. to his Maj. in the High Court of Parl. 5. Nou. 1640, when he was presented Speaker. (2) Sp. at his presenting these 3 Bills 1. for the shortening of Mich. term, 2. For the pressing of Mariners for the King's Ships. 3. For the remainder of 6 entire subsidies. (3) Sp. in Parl. 13. May 1641. (4) Sp. in the Lord's House of Parl. 22 Jun. 1641. concerning the bill for Tonnage and Poundage. (5) Sp. before the K. in the Lords H. of Parl. 3 Jul. 1641. concerning the passing of three bills, viz. of Poll-money, Star-Chamber and High Commission. (6) Sp. to both Houses of Parl. at the passing of the bill for Tonnage and Poundage, 2 Dec. 1641. (7) Sp. to Sir Tho. Fairfax Gen. of the Parl. Army, to congratulate his success and victories over the King's Army, 14 Nou. 1646. (8) Sp. to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax General, after the Army had granted the members of Parl. to sit in safety, 6 Aug. 1647.  
Several Letters, as (1) Letter to Sir Jac. Ashley, 4 May 1641. (2) Let. to the Vicech. and Heads of Houses of the Uniu. of Oxon, together with the protestation and declaration with it, 8 Feb. 1641. (3) Let. to the Sheriffs of several Counties by the command of the H. of C. an. 1641. (4) Let. to all Corporations in England and to the Justices of Peace of all Counties, written about the same time. (5) Let. to the K. concerning the great affairs and state of the Kingdom. (6) Let. (with that of the Speaker of the H. of Lords) to the Lords, Justices and Council of the Kingdom of Ireland, dat. 4 Jul. 1643.  
Declaration, wherein is contained the grounds and reasons that moved him to absent himself from the service of the House, on Friday 30 Jul. 1647. Oxon. 1647. in one sh. in qu. This Declaration was written upon occasion of his going away with the Mace, and a party of the H. of Com. with him, to the Army at Windsor.  
Arguments, whereby Monarchy is asserted to be the best, most ancient and legal form of Government; in a Conference held at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and a Committee of Parl. in Apr. 1657— Printed at Lond. with the Arguments and Speeches of other persons to the same purpose an. 1660. in oct. The design was to persuade Oliver to take upon him the Kingship of Gr. Britain and Ireland. All which Pamphlets, one excepted, were printed at Lond. in cue, and not one of them exceeds the quantity of a sheet of paper. I am persuaded that many more are extant under his name, or at least written by him without any name set to them, but such I have not yet seen. At length after a great deal of moiling, turmoiling, perfidiousness, and I know not what, he laid down his head and died in his house at Burford before mentioned, on that memorable day the third of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two, and two days after was buried without pomp in a little isle on the north side of the Church there, 
1662.  next below that isle where the costly tomb of Sir Laur. Tanfeild stands. At that time the body of his only Wife Elizabeth, who died the 19 of April foregoing (buried in the Communion Chancel of Burford Church) was taken up and laid close to that of her Husband. He forbade, as I have been informed, any excessive costs at his funeral, or for a monument to be put over his body, and was heard several times in his last hours to say, that he desired no other Epitaph than Vermis sum. So that as yet he hath no Monument, nor so much as any Stone over his grave, the floor being (now, or at least lately) covered only with sand, and unpaved. What remains more to be remembered of him (if not too much already) is his own confession on his deathbed made to Dr. Ralph Brideoak then Rector of Witney near Burford: who administering to him ghostly counsel, and desiring to know how he had kept and observed the fifth Commandment, remembering him that Disobedience, Rebellion, and Schism were the great sins against it, made this confession— Yes, there is my trouble, my disobedience not against my natural parents only, but against the Pater patriae, our deceased Sovereign. I confess with Saul, I held their clothes whilst they murdered him, but herein I was not so criminal as Saul was, for God thou knowest, I never consented to his death, I ever prayed and endeavoured what I could against it, but I did too much, almighty-God forgive me, etc. Then the said Doctor urged to him, to confess, if he knew any of those Villains that plotted and contrived that horrid murder, which were not then detected; to which he answered, I am a stranger to that business, my soul never entered into that secret; but what concerns myself I will confess freely. These things are especially laid to my charge, wherein indeed I am too guilty, as first that I went from the Parliament to the Army. 2. That I proposed the bloody question for trying the King. And 3. That I sat in Parl. after the King's death. To the first, I may give this answer, that Cromwell and his Agents deceived a wiser man than myself, I mean that excellent King, and then might well deceive me also, and so they did. I knew the Presbyterians would never restore the King to his just Rights, these men (the Independents) swore they would. For the second no excuse can be made, but I have the King's pardon, and I hope Almighty God will show me his mercy also: yet even then, when I put the question, I hoped the very putting the question would have cleared him, because I believed four for one were against it, but they deceived me also. To the third I make this candid confession, that 'twas my own baseness and cowardice and unworthy fear to submit myself to the mercy of those men that murdered the King, that hurried me on against my own conscience to act with them. Yet then, I thought also, I might do some good and hinder some ill. Something I did for the Church and Universities, something for the King when I broke the oath 
(*) 'Tis said that one Mrs. Catherine Johnson, a pretender to Prophecy, did some time before, tell Will. Lenthall that the Oath of Abjuration against the Royal Family should be endeavoured to pass in Parliament: which if he would deny, he should afterwards be forgiven for what he had done against the King. So that upon her warning, he, (upon the proposal of that Oath) absented himself from the House for about ten days, under pretence of the Gout. See more in a book intit. The mystery and method of his Majesty's happy Restauration, etc. by Joh. Price D. D.— Lond. 1680. oct. p. 40.  of abjuration. Something also for his return; but the ill I did, over-weighed the little good I would have done: God forgive me for this also, etc. He also confessed that he had no hand in, or gave any consent to, the murdering and ruining the Fathers of the Church, and also that he died a dutiful son of the Church of England, as it was established before the Rebellion broke out, etc. After which confession, which was done like a very hearty Penitent, he received the absolution of the Church with much content and satisfaction. He left behind him one only son named John, the grand Braggadocio and Liar of the age he lived in, bred in C. C. Coll. in this University, made early motions, and ran with the times as his Father did, was a Recruiter of the Long Parliament, consented to the trial of the King, was a Colonel while Oliver was Protector, from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 9 of March 1657, was one of the six Clerks in Chancery, and for a time Governor of Windsor Castle. In 1672 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, and in the latter end of 1677 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. K. Ch. 2. This person who hath two, or more, Speeches in print, spoken in the times of Usurpation, died at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks (the Manor which his Father purchased of the Fettiplaces) on the ninth day of Nou. 1681, and was buried in the Church there, near to the body of his second wife named Mary Blewet, the widow of .... Stonehouse Baronet, by whom he had one only son named William, who took to wife Catherine Hamilton, of the noble Family of the hamilton's in Scotland, particularly of those of Pasley, and by her had issue John and James Lental. He died at Burford on the 5 of Sept. 1686, aged 27 years or thereabouts, and was buried near to the grave of his Grandfather.  
HUMPHREY CHAMBERS a Gentleman's son, was born in Somersetshire, became a Communer of University College in 1614, aged 15 years, stood for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. in 1619, but put aside as insufficient, notwithstanding he, like a vain man, had a little before taken occasion to display his Oratory in a flourishing Speech on the death of a Student of Uniu. Coll. not in the Rectory or Chapel as the custom is, but in a pew set in the middle of the Quadrangle on purpose. After he had taken the degree of Master of Arts, he entered into holy orders, and in June 1623. was made Rector of Claverton in his own Country, on the death of Joh. Bewshen. Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Diu. and was esteemed by the neighbouring Ministers an orthodox man: But when the times began to change in 1641, he sided with the Presbyterians, took the Covenant, was made one of the Ass. of Divines, and maintained a horse and man at his own charge in actual service against the King. Soon after he had the rich Rectory of Pewsie near to Marlborough in Wilts. bestowed on him for his good service, by Philip Earl of Pembroke, as I have been informed; for from thence a loyal person had been ejected. In 1648 he was actually created Doctor of Diu. in the Pembrochian Creation and had several bones bestowed on him by that Convention called by the Presbyterian the Blessed Parliament. After the King's Restoration he was suffered to keep his Parsonage because no body laid claim to it, he being then accounted the prime leader of the Faction in those parts; but when the Act of Conformity was published, he quitted it and his life together. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons▪ as (1) Divine balance to weigh religious Fasts in, Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 27 Sept. 1643, on Zach. 7.5.6.7. Lond. 1643. qu. He was also one of three that preached before the House of Lords on the 22 of Oct. 1644, being a Fast sermon upon the uniting of the Army together; but whether 'twas printed I find not. (2) Paul's sad farewell to the Ephesians, preached at the funeral of Mr. Joh. grail Minister of Tidworth in Wilts. on Acts 20.37.38. Lond. 1655. quart. and others which I have not yet seen.  
Motive to peace and love— Printed 1649. qu.  
Animadversions on Mr. W. Dells book intit. The crucified and quickened Christian. Lond. 1653. qu.  
Apology for the Ministers of the County of Wilts. in their meetings at the election of Members for the approaching Parliament. In answer to a letter sent out of the said County, pretending to lay open the dangerous designs of the Clergy in reference to the approaching Parliament, by some of the defamed Ministers of the Gospel of the same County. Lond. 1654., in 4 sh. in qu. In the writing of which Apol. Dr. Chambers was assisted by Joh. Strickland, Adoniram Byfield and Pet. Ince, Presb. Ministers.  
Answer to the charge of Walt. Bushnel Vicar of Box in Wilts. published in a book of his intit. A narrative of the proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers, etc. Lond. 1660. quar.  
Vindication of the said Commissioners.— Printed the former. He was one of the number of Assistants belonging to the said Commissioners, and carried himself very severe against the Ministers. What other books he hath published, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was buried in the Church of Pewsey before mentioned, on the eighth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two, with no other ceremony than that we would use to a dog; 
1662.  and about the same time was his wife buried there also. In the said Rectory succeeded Rich. Watson D. D. sometimes Fellow of Gonvill and Caies Coll. in Cambridge, Chaplain to James Duke of York, and afterwards Prebendary of Wells and Salisbury, as I shall elsewhere at large tell you.  
JOHN GAUDEN Son of the Minister of Mayland in Essex, was born there, or at least in that County, educated in Grammar learning at S. Edmund's Bury in Suffolk, and afterwards, at about 16 years of age, was admitted a Student of S. John's College in Cambridge under one Mr. Wright; where making great proficiency in academical learning, took the degrees in Arts. In 1630 or thereabouts, he removed to Wadham Coll. in this University, where he became Tutor to Francis and Will Russell sons of Sir Will▪ Russell Baronet, (into whose family he about that time had matched) and after their departure, to other Gentlemen of quality. While he continued there, the greatness of his parts were much improved by the greatness of industry, bestowing the most part of the day and night too in the study of divine matters. In 1635 he took the degree of Bach. of Div, was afterwards Chaplain to Robert Earl of Warwick, Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks, beneficed in Cambridgeshire, D. of D. and when the Assembly of Divines was to be settled in 1643 he was nominated one of them to the Parliament by Sir Dudley North and Sir Thom. Chichley (Knights for Cambridgeshire to serve in the Long Parliament) to sit among them, but by what trick Mr. Tho. Goodwin was substituted in his place, as a person more fit for the great designs then carrying on, you may see in our Author Dr. Gaudens book, intit. Anti-Baal-Berith, etc. printed at Lond. 1661. p. 89 90. At that time (1643.) he being a Covenantier, as the Presbyterians and fanatical people generally affirm, though positively 
(a) In his Anti-Baal-Berith, p. 275.276.  denied by himself, he had the Rectory and Deanery of Bocking in his own Country conferred upon him, which he kept during the time of Usurpation; and was, as before at Brightwell, and elsewhere, much resorted to for his most admirable and edifying way of preaching. After the death of Dr. Brownrig Bishop of Exeter, which was in Decemb. 1659., he became Preacher of the Temple at London, and after the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. Chaplain in ordinary to him; who taking notice that he, upon all occasions had taken worthy pains in the pulpit and at the press, to rescue his Majesty and the Church of England, from all the mistakes and heterodox opinions of several and different Factions, as also from the sacrilegious hands of those false brethren, whose scandalous conversation was consummate in devouring Church-lands, and then with impudence to make sacrilege lawful; I say for these his services, his Majesty conferred upon him the Bishopric of Exeter, to which being consecrated in S. Peter's Church at Westminster on the second day of Decemb. (being the first Sunday in Advent) in the year 1660, sat there but little more than an year and a quarter. Afterwards he was translated thence to Worcester (on Dr. Morleys' Translation to Winchester) in the beginning of the year (in the month of May I think) 1662., where he soon after ended his course, having been esteemed by all that knew him a very comely person, a man of vast parts, and one that had been strangely improved by unwearied labour. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The love of truth and peace, on Zach. 8.19. Lond. 1641. qu. (2) Three Sermons preached upon several public occasions. Lond. 1642. qu. The first of which preached before his Maj. is on Heb. 12.14. The second before the Judges at Chelmsford in Essex, is on Zach. 8.16. and the third at S. Mary's in Oxon on Act Sunday 11 July 1641 is on Ephes. 4.23. (3) Funerals made cordials: Sermon prepared, and (in part) preached at the solemn interment of the corpse of Rob. Rich, heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick (who died at Whitehall 16 of Feb. an. 1657, aged 23 years, and was honourably buried on the 5 of March following) at Felsted in Essex. Lond. 1658. qu. (4) Sermon preached at the Funeral of Dr. Ralph Brownrig Bishop of Exeter (17 Dec. 1659.) on 2 Kings 2.12. Lond. 1660. oct. (5) 'Slight healing of public hearts, etc. Serm. in S. Paul's Cathedral before the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermans, etc. 26 Feb. 1659., being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the secluded Members of Parliament to the H. of Commons, etc. on Jerem. 8.11. Lond. 1660. qu. Therein is somewhat added above what was preached. (6) God's great demonstration and demands of justice, mercy, etc. Serm. on Micah 6.8. before the H. of Com. at their solemn Fast before their first sitting, 30 Apr. 1660. Lond. 1660. qu. And other Sermons which I have not yet seen.  
Certain scruples and doubts of conscience about taking the solemn League and Covenant, tendered to the consideration of Sir Laur. Bromfield and Zach. Crofton. Lond. 1643 and 1660. qu.  
Hierapistes: or, a defence by way of Apology of the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England. Lond. 1653. qu.  
Christ at the Wedding: or, the pristine sanctity and solemnity of Christian Marriages. Lond. 1654. qu.  
The case of the Ministers maintenance by tithes, plainly discussed in conscience and prudence, etc. Lond. 1653. qu. It must be now known that Oliver Cromwell by his Declaration did require all persons not to entertain in any capacity whatsoever, any person engaged in the late Wars for the King, or who were any way assistant to his cause, prohibiting then also all such persons the exercise of any part of their Ministry. Whereupon this severity moved our Author to write this Pamphlet.  
A petitionary remonstrance presented to Oliver Protector 4 Feb. 1655 in behalf of his distressed brethren of the Church of England, deprived of all public Employment by his Declaration 1 Jan. 1655. Lond. 1659. qu. At the same time Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland went from Riegate to Whitehall on purpose to the said Protector, to interceded for his indulgence towards them. He took also the safest opportunities for mediating for them for the space of more than a month, but was forced at last to retreat to his Country retirement (and so to his grave) with little success and less hope to his great grief and sorrow, using 
(b) Farther continuation of the Friendly Debate. Lond. 1670. in oct. p. 147.148.  this expression to our Author Dr. Gauden that he saw some men had only guts and no bowels, etc. But if another Author 
(c) The Author of The fourth Plea of the Conformists for the Non-Conformists. Lond. 1683. qu. in a Postscript at the end.  may be believed, his intercessions did take effect.  
Ecclesiae Anglicanae suspiria: setting forth her former Constitution, compared with her present condition, in 4 books. Lond. 1659. fol.  
Antisacrilegus: or, a Defensative against the plausibleness, or guilded poison of that nameless Paper, (supposed to be the plot of Dr. Cornelius Burges and his Partners) which attempts the Kings Maj. by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds, to make good by an Act of Parliament to the Purchasers of Bishops, etc. Lands, their illegal bargain for 99 years. Lond. 1660. in 2 sh. and an half in qu.  
Account of the life and death of Dr. Ralph Brownrig lately B. of Exeter.— This is at the end of his funeral Sermon before mentioned.  
The losing of S. Peter's bonds, setting forth the true sense and solution of the Covenant in point of conscience. Lond. 1660. qu. Answered by one Joh. rowland's in a pamphlet printed in qu. the same year.  
Analysis of the Covenant. Lond. 1660. qu. Soon after came out two answers. The first of which was intit. after this rude manner, An anatomy or confutation of that idolised piece of nonsense and blasphemy of Dr. Gauden, etc. No name is set to it. The second was St. Peter's bonds abide: by Zach. Crofton. Both which were printed at Lond. 1660. qu. These two were soon after replied upon by John Russell of Chinkford in Essex, in a little piece in qu. intit. The solemn League and Covenant discharged: or, S. Peter's bonds not only loosed but annihilated, etc. attested by our Author Gauden. Lond. 1660. in 3 sh. and half in qu. Whether the said Joh. Russell be the same with him who became Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. 1630, in which year Will. and Franc. Russell before mentioned were entered Students of the same house, I cannot yet tell. About the same time came out another book intit. An Anonymus Questionist in defence of Dr. Gauden, etc. And soon after this— Analepsis Analeptica. The fastening of S. Peter's bonds in seven links or proportions: or, the efficacy and extent of the solemn league and covenant asserted and vindicated against the doubts and scruples of Dr. Joh. Gaudens Anonym. Questionist, Mr. Joh. russel's St. Peter's bonds not only loosed, etc. Dr. Featley his League illegal, falsely fathered on him, and The University of Oxon their reasons for not taking the Covenant, etc.— Written by Zach. Crofton Minister of S. botolph's Aldgate in London. After this our Author Gauden came out with,  
Anti Baal-Berith: or, the binding of the Covenant and all Covenantiers to their good behaviour. By a just vindication of Dr. Gaudens Analysis (that is, his resolving the Covenant to law and justice, to duty and conscience, to reason and religion; or, to his dissolving it) against the cacotomy of a nameless and shameless Libeler the worthy Hyperaspites of Dr. Burges. Also against the pitiful cavils and objections of Mr. Zach. Crofton, a rigid Presbyter, with an answer to that monstrous paradox, of No sacrilege no sin, to alienate Church lands, without and against all laws of God and man, etc. Lond. 1661. qu. The said Crofton came out soon after with a reply intit. Anti-Bereth-Baal, etc. Lond. 1661. qu.  
Considerations touching the Liturgy of the Church of England in reference to his Maj. late Declaration, etc. Lond. 1661. qu. Answered by a vain and idle book intit. Rhetoric restrained: or, Dr. Joh. Gauden Lord B. elect of Exeter, his considerations of the liturgy of the Church of England considered and clouded. Published under the name of Tho. Bold of Exon; attested by Zach. Crofton, and printed at London the same year.  
Counsel delivered to 44 Presbyters and Deacons, after they had been ordained by him in the Cath. Ch. of Exeter, etc. 13 Jan. 1660. Lond. 1661. in Lat. and Engl. in 2 or 3 sh. in fol. printed also at Lond. in Lat. by itself.  
Life of Mr. Richard Hooker— This is written in a large Preface before Mr. Hooker's works, which Dr. Gauden pablished at Lond. 1661. fol. In the said life and preface, he doth with great confidence use divers Arguments to satisfy the world that the three books joined to the five genuine books of the said Mr. Hooker, are genuine and penned by him, notwithstanding those poisonous assertions against the regal power, which are to be found therein. He hath also committed many errors as to several matters relating to his life and actions, which being made evident 
(d) In Mr. Hooker's life written by Isaac Walton.  elsewhere, I shall now pass them by and proceed.  
A pillar of gratitude, humbly dedicated to the glory of God, the honour of his Majesty, etc. for restoring of Episcopacy. Lond. 1661/2 in a thin fol. On which book hangs an old 
(e) In a book intit.— Mirabilis annus secundus: or, the second year of prodigies. Being a true and partial Collection of many strange signs, etc. printed 1662. num. 21. p. 86.87.  story, written by a Presbyterian, but whether all true, I must leave it to the judgement of the Reader. He tells us that About the month of January 1661. a reverend gaudy Prelate did put forth A pillar of gratitude, etc. wherein having in many rhetorical strains bitterly scolded against his quondam Fellow- Covenantiers, he hath this angry and uncharitable passage, That the projects of Presbyterians have froth in their heads, and blood in their bottom; as the water of those men that labour with the Stone and Strangury, and have their wounds from within. It pleased God within a few days after the publishing of this book to smite the Bishop with that tormenting distemper, which he there makes use of, to set off his false and scandalous impeachment of so considerable a part of the most conscientious and peaceable people in the Land. He lay in a very great extremity of torture, and by reason of the stopping of his water, his life was in great hazard, and so was forced to send for a Chirurgeon, who, by making use of his Probe, did help him to make water, which was froth at the top, and blood at the bottom: And that the Lord might make him more sensible of it, he repeated the stroke a second time after the same manner, as we have been credibly informed from very eminent and considerable persons. We could heartily wish, that there were now alive another Mr. 
(f) Tim. Rogers.  Rogers of Wethersfield 
(g) Wethersfield in Essex.  who would deal effectually with the conscience of this proud Prelate, that he might be blessed with a more sanctified use of the hand of the Lord, in the visitation of the Strangury, then of his broken leg, in the former times, etc. Thus the nameless Author in his Mirabilis annus secundus. The first of which years was published in Aug. 1661., the second in Aug. 1662., and the third in Dec. the same year; but whether any more followed I find not. They were published purposely to breed in the vulgar an ill opinion of the change of Government and Religion after the King's Restoration.  
A just invective against those of the Army and their Abetters, who murdered K. Ch. 1. on the 30 of Jan. 1648, with some other poetic pieces in Latin, referring to those tragical times, written 10 Feb. 1648. Lond. 1662.  
Discourse of artificial beauty in point of conscience, between two Ladies. Lond. 1662. oct.  
Discourse concerning public Oaths, and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings, in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers. Lond. 1649. Lat. ibid. 1662. English.  
Prophecies concerning the return of Popery. Lond. 1663. qu. Published then with other Prophecies of that subject, written by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Cant. Rob. Sanderson, Rich. Hooker, etc.  
The whole duty of a Communicant: being rules and directions for a worthy receiving the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1681. etc. in tw. He hath written other things which I have not yet seen, particularly a Tract about Tender Consciences, which is answered by Sam. Fisher. He gave way to fate in the Bishop's Palace at Worcester on the 20 of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and two, aged 57, 
1662.  and was buried in the Chapel at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. there. Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument, containing his Effigies to the middle, in his episcopal habit, with an inscription under it; a copy of which is printed in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 328. a. What the disease was which took him out of this mortal life, I know not, Neither dare I say (says 
(a) The Author of The Nonconformists vindicated from the abuses put upon them by durel and Scriuner, etc. Lond. 1679. p. 70.  one) for all the world, that the disease that befell him (and of which he died) befell him for his fierceness against the Presbyterians: and it was the very disease, unto which he had compared the Presbyterians sermons, and it befell him not long after he had made that odious comparison, etc.  
EDWARD BAGSHAW a younger Son of a Gentleman, descended from those of his name living in Derbysh. was born in London, became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Bolton in Mich. term, an. 1604, took one degree in Arts four years after, settled in the Middle Temple, studied the municipal Law, and at length became a Bencher and a knowing man in his Profession. In 15 Car. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader for that Society, and beginning to read 24 Feb. did select for the argument of his discourse the Statute of 35 Ed. 3. cap. 7. wherein he laboured to suppress Episcopacy, by lopping off the branches first, and afterwards by laying the axe to the root of the tree. But after he had read once, Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterb. had notice of it, who forthwith acquainting the King, he commanded the Lord Keeper (Finch) to prohibit 
(b) See the Life of Archb. Laud, written by P. Heylyn, part 2. an. 1639  him from proceeding any farther; which accordingly was done. So that Bagshaw being looked upon as a discontented and seditious person, was the year following chose (with Joh. White another Lawyer, known afterwards by the name of Century White) a Burgess for the Borough of Southwark, to serve in that most wicked Convention that began at Westm. 3 Nou. 1640. But soon after, perceiving full well what mad courses the Members thereof took, he left them, (after he had expressed his envy among them against the Bishops) went to Oxon and sat in the Parliament there called by his Majesty: where continuing for some time, was taken by the Rebels in Oxfordshire, and sent to London to the House of Commons, who forthwith committed him Prisoner to the Kings-bench in Southwark 29 June 1644, where he had been, with great Shouting and Acclamations, elected Burgess of that place by the fiery Zealots for the Cause. Afterwards he suffered in his Estate in Northamptonshire, but what his requital was, after the return of his Maj. 1660, (about which time he was Treasurer of the Mid. Temple) I know not. Sure I am that he hath these things following going under his name.  
The life and death of Mr. Rob. Bolton. Lond. 1633. qu. Wherein the Author shows himself a Calvinist, commends Calvin and Luther much, and speaks against the Innovations in the Church then used, with reference, I presume, to Laud, whom he had no affection for.  
Several Speeches, as (1) Sp. in Parliament, 7 Nou. 1640. Lond. 1640. qu. (2) Sp. in Parl. concerning Episcopacy and London Petition. Lond. 1640/1. qu. etc.  
Two Arguments in Parliament: The first concerning the Canons, the second concerning the Praemunire upon those Canons. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Treatise defending the Revenues of the Church in Tithes and Glebe. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Treatise maintaining the Doctrine, Liturgy, and Discipline of the Church of England.— These two last were written by their Author during his long imprisonment.  
Short censure of the book of Will. Prynne, intit. The University of Oxford's plea refuted.— Printed 1648. in 2 sh. in qu.  
Just Vindication of the questioned part of his reading had in the Middle Temple Hall, 24 Feb. 1639. Lond. 1660. qu.  
True narrative of the cause of silencing him by the Archb. of Cant.— Printed with the Just vindication. See Joh. rushworth's third volume of Collections, pag. 990.  
The Rights of the Crown of England, as it is established by Law. Lond. 1660. oct. Written by him also during his imprisonment. He departed this mortal life on the 12 day of Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
1662.  and was buried in the Church at Morton-Pinkney in Northamptonshire, as I have been informed by his son Hen. Bagshaw D. D. sometimes a Student of Christ Church in Oxon, who having published several things, ought hereafter to be remembered in the Append. to these Athenae. I shall make mention of another Edw. Bagshaw, son of the aforesaid Edward, under the year 1671.  
WILLIAM COLE Son of Joh. Cole of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bach. of Diu. and sometimes Fellow of New College, was born, and educated in Grammar learning, there, entered a Student in the University in 1642, and soon after was made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Merton Coll. by his Mother's brother Joh. French one of the signior Fellows of that house, and public Registrary of the University. When he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts, he was made a public Notary, to the end that he might supply the said place of Registrary when Mr. French was either absent or indisposed. In the latter end of 1650 he took one degree in Arts, his Uncle being then dead, left the University, retired to London, and lived several years at Putney near that City, where he became the most famous Simpler or Herbarist of his time. At length upon the King's Restoration, in 1660, he was made Secretary to Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winchester, in whose service he died. His works are these.  
The Art of Simpling: or, an introduction to the knowledge of gathering of Plants, wherein the definitions, divisions, places, descriptions, etc. are compendiously discoursed of, etc. Lond. 1656. oct.  
Perspicillum microcosmologicum: or, a prospective for the discovery of the lesser world, wherein Man is a Compendium, etc.— Printed with the former.  
Adam in Eden: or, Nature's Paradise. The History of Plants, Herbs, Flowers, with their several original names, etc. Lond. 1657. fol. Into this book, if I am not mistaken, is remitted The Art of Simpl. As for the book intit. The Garden of Eden: or, an accurate description of all flowers, etc. which was printed in 1653, 'twas written by that learned and great Observer Sir Hugh Plate Knight. Our Author Will. Cole died either at Winchester, or at Farnham in Surrey in sixteen hundred sixty and two, aged 36 or thereabouts, 
1662.  but where buried I know not. I find another Will. Cole who published a book in't. A Rod for the Lawyers, who are hereby declared to be the grand Robbers and Deceivers of the Nation, etc. Lond. 1659. qu. But of what University he was, if of any at all, I know not.  
THOMAS WEAVER Son of Tho. Weav. was born in the City of Worcester, applied his poetical genie to Academical Learning in Ch. Ch. an. 1633, aged 17, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1640, about which time he was made one of the Chaplains or petty-Canons of the Cathedral: from which place being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, he shifted from place to place and lived upon his wits, a Specimen of which he published to the world intit.  
Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery.— Printed 1654. in oct. In which book is a Ballad intit. Zeal overheated: or, a relation of a lamentable fire which happened in Oxon in a religious brother's Shop, etc. to the tune of Chivey Chase. The said religious brother was Tho. Williams a Milliner, living sometimes against Allsaints Church where holy Cornish teached, that is Hen. Cornish a Presbyterian Minister, Canon of Ch. Ch. by Authority of Parliament, an. 1648. But the said Songs and Poems being looked upon by the godly men of those times as seditious and libellous against the Government, he was imprisoned and afterwards tried for his life. Whereupon his book being produced in open Court (after it had been proved that he was the Author of it) the Judge read some pages, and then spoke to this effect,— Gentlemen, the person that we have here before us is a Scholar and a man of wit. Our Forefathers had Learning so much in honour, that they enacted, that those that could but as much as read, should never be hanged, unless for some great crime, and shall we respect it so little as to put to death a man of parts? I must tell you, I should be very unwilling to be the person that should condemn him, and yet I must be forced to it if the Jury bring him in guilty, etc. So that upon this harangue, too large to be all here set down, the Jury brought him in not guilty: Whereupon being set at liberty, he was ever after highly valued by the boon and generous Royalist. He hath also certain Epigrams extant, which I have not yet seen, and wrote the copy of verses called The Archbishop of 
(*) Dr. Joh. Williams.  York's revolt, printed in the Poems of Joh. Cleaveland, besides divers pieces of Poetry printed in several books published in his time. After his Majesty's return in 1660 he was made Excise-man for Leiverpole in Lancashire, and was commonly called Captain Weaver, but prosecuting too much the crimes of Poets, brought him to his grave in the Church there, in the prime and strength of his years, on the third day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two. 
166●/3.  About the beginning of the year 1656 was a book published entit. Choice Drollery, with Songs and Sonnets. Which giving great offence to the Saints of that time, who esteemed it a lewd and scandalous thing, it was ordered by the Protectors Council to be burnt, on the 8. of May the same year. But who the Author of that book was, I cannot yet tell.  
ROBERT SANDERSON a younger Son of Rob. Sanderson, was born at Rotheram in Yorkshire on the 19 of Sept. 1587. (29 Elizab.) educated in the Grammar School there, sent by his Relations to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1601, afterwards matriculated 
(a) Reg Matric. P. pag. 395,  a member of the University as a Minister's Son, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Lent term 1604, elected Fellow of the said Coll. 3. May 1606, having then a Metaphysical brain and matchless memory. In Mich. term 1607 he was admitted Master of Arts, and in July following he completed that degree by standing in the Act. In 1611 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. King B. of London, in 1614 he stood to be Proctor of the University, but miss it, and the year after he published his Logic Lectures that he had before read in the public Refectory of Linc. Coll. So that his name being then famous, he was elected Proctor with great ease and willingness, an. 1616. The next year he was admitted Bach. of Diu. and the year after that, became Rector of Wibberton near to Boston in Lincolnshire, but surrendered it up (as he did his Fellowship) in 1619, because it was a bad air. The same year he became Rector of Bothby-paynel in the said County, was made Chaplain to Dr. George mountain Bishop of Lincoln, and not long after Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell in the Dioc. of York and Preb. of Lincoln. Dr. Laud Bish. of Lond. got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. by commending him to be excellent in all casuistical learning, and accordingly in Nou. 1631 he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary. So that having occasion to be sometimes near to him, the said King took great content in conversing with him, whereby our Author gained great credit from the Nobility, and greater from the Clergy, as being esteemed the most known casuist that this Nation ever produced. In 1636 he was actually created D. of D, on the very day that the K. and Court left Oxon, after they had been some days entertained there. In 1641 he, with two more of the Convocation of the Clergy (for he had been usually elected for all Convocations for about 20 years before that time) did draw up some safe alterations in the Service Book, and abated some of the Ceremonies that were least material, for the satisfaction of the Covenanteers, and Presbyterian Party in the Long Parliament. In July 1642, he was nominated by his Majesty the Regius Professor of Divinity of this University, and the same year he was proposed by both Houses of Parliament to the King then at Oxon. to be one of the trusties for the settling of Church affairs (as Prideaux Bishop of Worcester was) and was allowed of by the King to be so; but that treaty came to nothing. In 1643 he was nominated one of the Assemb. of Divines, but sat not among them. In 1647 he had the most considerable hand in drawing up the University Reasons against the Covenant and negative Oath, and the same year he was sent for by the King, then at a more large imprisonment, with Dr. Hammond, Dr. Sheldon, and Dr. Morley to attend him, in order to advise with them how far he might with a good conscience comply with the proposals of the Parliament, for a Peace in Church and State; which was allowed by the Independents, but denied by the Presbyterians. Afterwards he attended on his Maj. in the Isle of Wight, preached before him, and had many both public and private conferences with him to his Majesty's great satisfaction. About that time his Maj. translated into English our Author's Book De Juramento; which being done, Dr. Juxon, Dr. Hammond and Mr. Tho. Herbert did compare what he had done with the original, as I shall anon tell you. The same year (1648) he was turned out of his Professorship of Divinity by the Parl. Visitors, and so consequently from his Canonry of Ch. Ch. and soon after he retired to his cure at Bothby, where living obscurely, took upon him to put the King's Meditations in his solitude into Latin, which being half done, Dr. Earl prevented him from finishing it, by doing that work himself. While he remained there, he was plundered, imprisoned, wounded, and though brought into a low and obscure condition, yet many receded to him for the resolution of cases of conscience. Which being also resolved by Letters, many of them have been preserved, and printed for the benefit of posterity. In Aug. 1660 he was restored to his Professorship and Canonry by his Majesty's Commissioners, and by the commendations of Dr. Sheldon to his Majesty K. Ch. 2, he was soon after made Bishop of Lincoln, receiving consecration thereunto in the Abbey Church at Westminster, 28. Oct. the same year. After which, retiring to his Manor of Bugden in Huntingdonshire belonging to his See, he bestowed much money in repairing his House or Palace there. All Authors especially those that are famous, do speak honourably of him. The learned Usher of Armagh styles him judicious Sanderson, upon the return of a case he proposed to him; and Hammond, that stayed and well weighed man Dr. Sanderson, etc. who receiveth things deliberately and dwells upon them discreetly. Besides also his great knowledge in the Fathers and Schoolmen, and profoundness in controversial Divinity, he was exactly versed in the Histories of our Nation, whether ancient or modern, was a most curious Antiquary and an indefatigable searcher into ancient records, as his labours in Mss. which he left behind him do evidently show. One of them which is a large thick folio, I have seen and perused, containing, all under his own hand, collections from registers, leiger books, rolls, evidences in the hands of private Gentlemen, etc. evidences belonging to Cathedral and other Churches, etc.— This Book is endorsed with Cartae X, showing that there were other Volumes, as indeed there are, in number about twenty, (as I have been told by Hen. Symmons his sometimes Secretary) which are, as I conceive, dispersed in several hands. He was also a complete Herald and Genealogist, made several collections of English Genealogies, and also of monumental inscriptions and Arms in Churches and Windows wheresoever he went. His care also was so great for the preservation of them from ruin, that when he published Articles of Enquiry, in order to the visiting of his Diocese in 1661., he, in the conclusion of them, desired the Ministers to make a return of all such monumental Inscriptions, and Arms in Windows, that were in their respective Churches. But many of them being ignorant of such matters, made very imperfect and halt returns. However he carefully preserved them so long as he lived, and what became of them after his death, I cannot tell. His published works are these.  
Logicae Artis Compendium. Oxon 1615. 18. 40. etc. oct. there again 1680, the ninth Edit. in oct.  
Several Sermons as (1) Two Sermons on Rom. 14.3. and on Rom. 3.8. Lond. 1622. qu. (2) Twenty Sermons. Lond. 1626. fol, among which are the two former. (3) Two Serm. on 1. Tim. 4.4. and Gen. 20.6. Lond. 1628. qu. (4) Twelve Serm. viz three ad Clorum, three ad Magistratum and six ad Populum. Lond. 1626. and 32. fol. (5) Two Serm. on 2. Pet. 2.16. and Rom. 14 23. Lond. 1635. qu. (6) Twenty Serm. formerly preached, viz. sixteen ad Aulam, three ad Magistratum, and one ad Populum. Lond. 1656. fol. The next year were fourteen of his Sermons reprinted, to join with the aforesaid twenty, together with a large Preface, by the same Author. Which fourteen were thus divided, viz. Four ad Clerum, three ad Magistratum, and seven ad Populum. It was the fourth time that they were then printed. In 1660 they were all (in number 34) reprinted in folio, and again in 1681 with another ad Aulam and another ad Clerum added, which make up the number of 36. (7th. edit.) with the Author's life before them, written by Is. Walton, etc. As most books of later composure, so more, especially Sermons within the compass of a few years, undergo very different characters, and meet with a quite contrary entertainment in the World: And this I conceive comes to pass, because the way and manner of preaching is in a short time much altered from what it was but a little before. Insomuch that in compliance with the whimsical and ridiculous fickleness of an humoursome age, what of this kind was but just now received from the Press with all possible marks of acceptance and approbation, is soon after, as not suited to the fashionable mode of the nice and delicate palet of the present times, decried and condemned by the same Persons as flat, dull and insipid. Notwithstanding this observation generally almost holds good, yet Dr. sanderson's Sermons, and indeed all his other genuine works, have not by their age lost the least of their former repute. For such is that solidity and clearness of reason which runs through all his discourses and writings, penned in such a manly and lasting a language, that so long as men make these the only tests and measures of their judge and censures, as they do still, so must they needs likewise in after ages continue in the greatest esteem and veneration, and he be always placed in the highest and first rank of English writers.  
Two cases of conscience resolved. Lond. 1628. oct. Three more added— Lond. 1667. 8. oct. Another— Lond. 1674 and another in 1678. In all nine, and repr. 1678 and 1685. in oct.  
De juramenti promissorii obligatione praelectiones septem in Schola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. and 83. in oct. Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655. oct. This is the book which I have before hinted, that was translated into English by K. Ch. 1. writ with his own hand, and by him showed to his Servants Jam. Harrington and Tho. Herbert, commanding them then to examine it with the original, which they did and found it accurately translated. Not long after his Maj. communicated it to Dr. Juxon B. of Lond, Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his Majesty's Chaplains in ordinary, but the particular time when, I cannot tell.  
Oratio habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. cum publicam professionem auspicaretur, 26. oct. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct.  
Censure of M●. A. A. his book of the confusions and revolutions of Government. Lond. 1649. The next year came out a reply to that censure by Anon.  
De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem, Oxonii in Schola Theol. habitae, an. 1647. Lond. 1660. 70. 76. 82. oct. The same in English came out with this title. Several cases of conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct. Published at the instant desire of Rob. boil Esq. an encourager of Dr. sanderson's studies in the time of his affliction.  
Episcopacy (as established by law in England) not prejudicial to regal power, etc. Lond. 1661. 73. 83. oct.  
His judgement for settling the Church, in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases. Oxon. 1663. qu. This is at the end of a book intit. Reason and judgement: or, special remarks of the life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Linc. Reprinted (I mean His judgement) at Lond. 1678. oct.  
Physicae scientiae compendium. Oxon. 1671. oct. Whether ever before printed I know not.  
His judgement concerning submission to Usurpers. Lond. 1678. oct.  
Pax Ecclesiae. Lond. 1678. oct. in English. These two with His judgement for settling, etc. before mentioned, and the Oxford reasons, are to be seen in his life printed in oct.  
Discourse concerning the Church, in these particulars. (1) concerning the visibility of the true Church. (2) concerning the Church of Rome, etc. Lond. 1688 in about 5 ●h. in qu. Published by Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasn. Coll. from a Ms. copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of Magd. Hall in Oxon, Domestic Chaplain to the said Bishop at the time of his death. He also had the chief hand in a book intit. Reason's of the University of Oxon against the Covenant, etc. wherein the matters that refer to reason and conscience are his; yet notwithstanding, though Dr. Zouch drew up the Law part, the whole goes under his name. He also wrote (1) The large Preface before a book which he faithfully published out of the original copy, entit. The power communicated by God to the Prince, and the obedience required of the Subjects. Lond. 1660. 1. in qu. there again in 1683 oct. Written by Dr. Jam. Usher Archb. of Armagh (2) The Preface to a collection of Treatises made by the said Archb. bearing the title of— Clavi Trabales: or, nails fastened by some great Masters of Assemblies, &c published by Nich. Bernard D. D.— Lond. 1661. It consists of several Treatises written by Dr. Ʋsher, Mr. Ric. Hooker, Lanc. Andrews, Adr. Saravia, etc. (3) Prophecies concerning the return of Popery. Printed in a book intit. Fair warning: the second part. Lond. 1663. and left a fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Baylies Challenge: Which challenge a certain 
(*) Will. Assheton in his Epistle before Bish. sanderson's Discourse of the Church, etc. before mentioned.  Author calls a piece of transparent Sophistry, as was ever called Demonstration: And though the weakness and inconsequence of it hath been sufficiently displayed, yet such is the pleasure of some men, that it hath been printed and reprinted with as much assurance, as if not the least notice had been ever taken of it. He also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common Prayer at the Savoy, an. 1661. being one of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, and was the Author and Writer of several Letters to Dr. Hammond, in Dr. Hammonds works, about those knotty points, which are by the learned called the Quinquarticular controversy. Several Treatises also he had laying by him, which were esteemed by those that had seen them most worthy of publication; but a little before his death, he caused them to be burnt, lest after, they might come out imperfectly for lucre sake. He surrendered up his pious Soul to God on Thursday 29 of January, in sixteen hundred sixty and two, and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Bugden before mentioned, in the 76 year of his age. 
1662/3.  Over his grave was soon after a marble stone laid, with an Inscription engraven thereon, made by himself, a Copy of which being printed in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. shall be now omitted, and in its room shall this be said, that whether you consider him in his writings or conversation, from his first book of Logic to his Divinity Lectures, Sermons and other excellent discourses, the vastness of his judgement, the variety of his learning, all laid out for public benefit, his unparallelled meekness, humility and constancy, you cannot but confess that the Church of England could not lose a greater pillar, a better man, and more accomplished Divine. Pray be pleased to see more of him in a book entit. The life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Lincoln. Lond. 1678. oct. Written by Isaac Walton, and in the book before mentioned, entit. Reason and judgement: or, special remarks, etc.  
ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted Physician of his time, in the West parts of England, Son of Peter Vilvaine sometimes Steward of the City of Exeter by Anne his Wife, was born in the Parish of Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the said City, and educated there in Grammar learning. In Lent term 1593. he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. aged 18 years, where going through all courses of Scholastical exercise with incredible industry was elected Fellow of that House in 1599 and the year after proceeded in Arts: At which time his genie leading him to the study of medicine, he entered on the Physic line, practised that faculty, and at length (1611) took both the degrees therein, and resigned his Fellowship. Afterwards he retired to the City of Exeter, practised there, and was much resorted to for his great knowledge and experience in Physic. In his younger years he was esteemed a very good Poet, Orator, and Disputant, and in his elder, as eminent for Divinity as his proper faculty, and might have honoured the World at that time with the issue of his brain, but neglecting so to do for the sake of lucre and practice, gave us nothing but scraps, whimsies and dotages of old age, which are these.  
Theoremata Theologica: Theological treatises in eight Theses of Divinity, viz. (1) Production of Man's Soul. (2) Divine Predestination. (3) The true Church regiment. (4) Predictions of Messiah. (5) Christ's two Genealogies. (6) The revelation revealed. (7) Christ's Millenar reign. (8) The World's dissolution. Lond. 1654. qu. To which are added,  
Supplements subjoined, as (1) A supply concerning holidays and Christ's birth-days feast. (2) An addition of Man's Soul. (3) An Ecclesiastical Polity. (4) Of Saints eternal reign. (5) Of Christ's eternal reign. (6) Several sorts of Essays; one of which is an Essay to Mr. Tho. Hobbes concerning his Leviathan.— To these the Author added,  
A Postscript of all forms— He also wrote  
A compend of Chronography: containing four thousand thirty years complete from Adam's creation to Christ's birth etc. Lond. 1654. in 5. sh. in qu.  
Enchiridium Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum. Or an Epitome of Essays, Englished out of Latin, without elucidat explications; containing six classes or centuries of (1) Theologicals. (2) Historicals, etc. Lond. 1654. in a thick oct.  
A Fardel of 76 Fragments. Or additional Essays, which is the seventh class— Printed with the Enchiridium. He was buried in the choir, on the north side of the high Altar of the Cath. Church in Exeter, in sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
166●/3.  and soon after had this Epitaph put thereon, the copy of which was sent to me by Rich. Izacke Esq. Chamberlain and Antiquary of that City. Dormitorium Roberti Vilvaine Medicinae Doctoris, qui obiit Vicesimo primo die Februarii an salut. 1662. aetatis suae 87. He was a liberal benefactor to two Hospitals for poor Children in that City, and in the year 1633 gave 32 l. per an. for four poor Scholars (each to have 8 l. per an.) to come from that free School in the said City, founded by Hugh Crossing Esq. (sometimes twice Mayor thereof) to Exeter Coll, or any place else in Oxon, either Coll. or Hall.  
THOMAS BAILIFF a Wiltshire Man born, was entered either a Servitor or Batler of S. Alban Hall in Mich. term, 1600 (43. Elizab.) aged 18 years, elected Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1602, and perpetual Fellow of that House 1611, he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became Rector of Maningford Crucis near to Marlborough in his own Country, and in 1621. was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, at which time, and after, he was zealously inclined to the puritanical party. At length upon the change of the times in 1641 siding openly with them, he took the Covenant, was made one of the Assemb. of Divines, and soon after had, for the love he bore to the righteous cause, the rich Rectory of Mildenhall in his own Country (then belonging to Dr. Geor Morley a Royalist) conferred upon him. Where being settled, he preached up the tenets held by the Fifth-monarchy-men, he being by that time one himself, and afterwards became a busy Man in ejecting such that were then (1654. and after) called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters. He hath written,  
De merito mortis Christi, & modo conversionis, diatribae duo. Oxon. 1626. qu.  
Concio ad clerum habita in Templo B. Mariae Oxon, 5. Jul. 1622. in Jud. ver. xi. printed with the former. He hath also, as I have been informed, one or more English Sermons extant, but such I have not yet seen. After the restoration of his Majesty, he was turned out from Mildenhall; and dying at Marlborough, in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  was buried in the Church of S. Peter there, on the 27 day of March the same year: Whereupon his Conventicle at that place, was carried on by another Brother as zealous as himself.  
WILLIAM JAMES, or Jamesius as he writes himself, Son of Hen. James, (by Barbara his Wife Daugh. of Will. Sutton, mentioned in the first Vol. p. 494.) and he the Son of one James Citizen and Alderman of Bristol, was born at Mahone in Monmouthshire, educated in his first years of knowledge at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire under his Uncle Will. Sutton, Son of the before mentioned Will. Sutton; and being extraordinary rath ripe, and of a prodigious memory, was entered into his Accedence at five years of age. In 1646 he was elected a King's Scholar of the Coll. at Westminster, where making marvellous proficiency under Mr. Busbye his most loving Master in the School there, was elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1650. Before he had taken one degree in Arts, his Master made him his Assistant in the said School, and upon the removal of Adam Littleton into Edw. Bagshaw's place, he was made Usher and at length second Master. This Person while he was very young (about 16 years of age) wrote and published.  
‛ ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ' in Linguam Chaldaeam. In usum Scholae Westmonast. Lond. 1651 in 6 sheets or more in oct. Dedic. to Mr. Rich. Busbie his Tutor, Parent, and Patron; and also had a chief hand in the English introduction to the Lat. Tongue, for the use of the lower forms in Westm. School— Lond. 1659. oct. He died in the prime of his years, to the great reluctancy of all that knew his admirable parts, on the third day of July, 
1663.  in sixteen hundred sixty and three, and was buried at the West end of S. Peter's, called the Abbey Church in Westminster, near the lowest door, going into the Cloister.  
WILLIAM HAYWOOD a most excellent preacher of his time, was born (being a Cooper's Son of Ballance street) in the City of Bristol, elected Scholar of S. John's Coll. by the endeavours of John Whitsun Alderman of that City (an encourager of his studies) an. 1616 aged 16 years, and was soon after made Fellow of that House. Dr. Laud had a respect for him and his learning, made him one of his Domestic Chaplains, Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1, and in 1636 he was by his endeavours actually created D. of D. About that time he became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in Fields near London, and in 1638 he was made Canon of the eleventh stall in the Collegiate Church at Westminster, in the room of Gabr. Grant deceased. But this Person being esteemed by the Puritan 
(*) See in a book intit. Canterbury's Doom, etc. published by Will. Prynne.  a Licenser of Popish books, a purger of orthodox passages against Popery, Papists, Arminianism, a great creature of Dr. Laud, and a practiser of Popish ceremonies, he was, in the beginning of the rebellion, thrown out of his Vicarage upon the Petition and Articles 
(†) The said Articles were answered by R. M.  exhibited against him in the Long Parliament by his Parishioners, ●as imprisoned in the Compter, Ely house, and in the Ships, forced to fly, and his Wife and Children turned out of doors. At length being reduced to great want, he was forced to keep a private School in Wiltshire, under, and in the name of, his Son John, afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to his Vicarage, Canonry, and other preferments which he before had lost, enjoying them in quietness to his dying day. He hath extant,  
Several Sermons as (1) Two Sermons preached in the Parish Ch. of S. Giles in the Fields by way of preparative upon the articles of the Creed. The first is on 1. Cor. 13.13. and the other on Heb. 11.6. Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some of the Articles framed against, charging, him, as guilty of Arminianism. (2) Sermon tending to Peace: preached before his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight, during the time of the Treaty, on Rom. 12.18. Lond. 1648. qu. (3) Funeral Sermon prepared to be preached at the funeral of Walt. Norbane Esq. at Calne in Wilts, 13. Apr. 1659., on Rom. 6.5. Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also printed a Serm. on Rom. 5.5.— Lond. 1660. qu. and another on Acts 23.5.— Lond. 1663. qu. But these two I have not yet seen. Others also go from hand to hand in Ms, and, as I remember, I have seen one or two in Dr. Barlowes Library. He the said Dr. Haywood was buried in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter at Westminster, near to the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Pulpit, on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Tutor while he was Fellow of S. john's Coll, a general Scholar, and a meek man in temper and conversation. Near to his grave was his beloved Son John Haywood Master of Arts before mentioned, (who died 22. of Feb. following) buried.  
WILLIAM CREED Son of Joh. Creed, won born in the Parish of S. Laurence within the borough of Reading in Berks, elected Scholar of S. John's Coll. in 1631 age 16 years or thereabouts, made the Signior Quadragesimal Collector when Bach. of Arts, being then Fellow of that College. Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty, entered into the sacred function, and became an eloquent Preacher. In the beginning of the rebellion he adheered to the cause of his Majesty, and in 1644 he was elected to, and executed the procuratorial office of this University. Two years after he was actually created Bach. of Diu. for the Sermons he had preached at Oxon before the King and Parliament, and in the time of Usurpation he became Rector of East-Codeford or Codeford S. Marry in Wiltshire. In the month of June 1660, (his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then restored) he was made the King's Professor of Diu. in this University, in the beginning of July following Archdeacon of Wilts, in the place of Tho. Leach some years before deceased, and on the 13 of Sept. the same year Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisbury. He was a defender of the Church of England in the worst of times, was a good Schoolman, Divine and a noted Disputant. He hath written,  
The Refuter refuted: or Dr. Hen. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defended against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen. Jeanes. Lond. 1659-60. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Judah's purging of the melting pot; an Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Isay 1.25.26. Lond. 1660. qu. (2) Judah's return to their Allegiance, etc. on 2. Sam. 19.14.15. Lond. 1660. qu. etc. He gave way to fate in his lodgings at Ch. Ch. in Oxon (of which Ch. he was Canon as being Reg. Prof. of Diu.) on the 19 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  and was buried with solemnity in the next North Isle joining to the choir of the said Cathedral, near to the relics of Democritus Junior, being then accompanied to his grave by all the Degrees of the University. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Archdeaconry of Wilts. succeeded Thom. Henchman very nearly related (if not Son) to Dr. Henchman Bishop of Sarum, in the beginning of Aug. the same year, and in his Professorship of Divinity Dr. Rich. Allestrie Canon of Ch. Ch.  
GEORGE KENDAL received his first being in this world at Cofton in the Parish of Dawlish or Dulish near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire, educated in Grammar learning in the said City, where his Father George Kendal Gent, mostly lived, was entered a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1626., and was made Prob. Fellow in the fourth year following, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards by indefatigable industry he became a most noted Philosopher and Theologist, a Disciple and Admirer of Prideaux and his Doctrine, and as great an enemy to Arminius and Socinus as any. At the change of the times in 1642, being then Bach. of Div, he closed with the Presbyterians then dominant, (notwithstanding the King that year, to mitigate his discontent had zealously recommended him to the Society, to be elected Rector of Exeter Coll. on the promotion of Prideaux to the See of Worcester) and about 1647 he became Rector of Blissland near to Bodmin in Cornwall. But being eagerly bend against that notorious Independent John Goodwin, left that Rectory some years after, and obtained the Ministry of a Church in Gracious-street in London, purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose him and his Doctrine. In 1654. he proceeded D. of D. and upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. he left London, and became Rector of Kenton near Exeter, which he kept till the Act of conformity was published in 1662., at which time giving it up, he retired to his House at Cofton, where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition. His works are these.  
Collirium: or, an ointment to open the eyes of the poor Caviliers— This Pamphlet which I have not yet seen was published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West by the Forces belonging to the Parliament.  
Vindication of the doctrine commonly received in Churches concerning Gods intentions of special grace and favour to his elect in the death of Christ. Lond. 1653. fol.  
Of Christ's prerogative power, prescience, providence etc. from the attempts lately made against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his book entit. Redemption redeemed.  
Digressions concerning the impossibility of Faiths being an instrument of justification, etc.— These two last things are printed with the Vindication of the doctrine, etc.  
Sancti Sanciti: or, the common doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints: as who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation; vindicated from the attempts lately made against it by John Goodwin in his book entit. Redemp. redeemed. Lond. 1654. fol. This book is animadverted upon by the said John Goodwin in his Triumvirs: or the Genius, Spirit and deportment of three men, Mr. Rich. Resbury, Mr. John Pawson and Mr. George Kendal in their late writings against the free grace of God in the redemption of the world, etc.  
A fescu for a Hornbook: or, an Apology for University learning as necessary to Country preachers: Being an answer to Mr. Horn's 
(*) Joh. Horn.  books wherein he gores all University learning— Printed in fol. with Sancti Sanciti before mentioned.  
Fur pro Tribunali. Examen Dialogismi cui inscribitur Fur praedestinatus. Oxon. 1657. oct.  
De doctrina Neopelagiana. Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxon. 9 Jul. 1654.  
Twissii vita & victoria. De scientia media brevicola dissertatio in qua Twissii nomen à calumnis Francisci Annati Jesuitae vindicatur.  
Dissertatiuncula de novis actibus sint ne Deo ascribendi? These three last things are printed and go with Fur pro Tribunali. At length after a great deal of restless agitation carried on for the cause, our Author died at Cofton before mentioned, 
1663.  on the 19 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and three, and was buried in the Chapel joining to his house there, leaving then behind him the character of a Person well read in Polemical Divinity, the character also of a ready Disputant, a noted Preacher, a zealous and forward Presbyterian, but hotheaded and many times freakish. I shall make mention of another George Kendal by and by.  
NICHOLAS CLAGETT was born within the City of Canterbury, entered a Student of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the year 1628., took one degree in Arts, went afterwards to Magd. Hall, and as a member of that House took the degree of Master of that faculty, being then esteemed by the generality thereof a very able Moderator in Philosophy. Afterwards, at two years standing in that degree, he became Vicar of Melbourne in Derbyshire, and some years after Rector of S. Mary's Church at S. Edmondsbury in Suffolk, where he was held in great veneration by the precise party for his edifying way of preaching, and for his singular piety. He hath written,  
The abuses of God's grace, discovered in the kinds, causes, etc. proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton libertisme of the present age. Oxon. 1659. qu. He paid his last debt to nature on the twelfth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and three, aged 56 years, 
1663.  or thereabouts, and was buried in the Chancel of S. Mary's Church before mentioned. He left behind him a Son named William Clagett educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge (of which Uniu. he was Doct. of Divinity) afterwards Preacher to the honourable Society of Greys' inn, Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty, and Lecturer of S. Mich. Basinghaugh. This Person who died at London in the beginning of the year (latter end of March) 1688, hath published several things, as (1) A discourse concerning the operations of the holy spirit: with a confutation of some part of Dr. Owen's book upon that subject. In three parts. In the second part of which, is An answer to Mr. Jo. Humphreys animadversions on the first part. (2) Notion of Idolatry considered and confuted. Lond. 1688. etc. Another Son also he left behind him named Nich. Claget M. of Arts who is now, or at least was lately Preacher at S Maries in S. Edm. Bury before mentioned, Author of a Serm. intit. A persuasive to peaceableness and obedience, etc. Lond. 1683. qu. and of another preached at S. Edm. Bury before William Bishop of Norwich, etc. 4. May 1686. etc.  
JOB ROYS Son of a Father of both his names a Scrivener of London, and he the Son of another Job of Lubenham in Leycestershire, was born in the County of Middlesex, in the Parish, as it seems, of S. Giles Cripplegate, an. 1631, educated partly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks, (founded by John Royse 1563) became a Student in Pembroke Coll. 1650, and soon after was elected one of the Postmasters of Mert. Coll. where continuing under the tuition of a severe Presbyterian, became well qualified with the spirit, took one degree in Arts, an. 1655, left the Coll. soon after, and retiring to the great City, became a puling Levite among the Brethren, for whose sake, and at their instance, he wrote and published,  
The spirits Touchstone: or, the teaching of Christ's spirit on the hearts of Believers; being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know, whether he be really taught by the spirit of God, etc. Lond. 1657 in a pretty thick octavo. What other books he published besides this, (which was esteemed an inconsiderable canting piece) I know not, nor any thing else of the Author, only that first, if you had set aside his practical Divinity, you would have found him a simple, shiftless and ridiculous Person, 
1663.  and secondly that dying in sixteen hundred sixty and three, was buried in some Church in, or near, London; being then weary of the change of the times, and the wickedness, forsooth, that followed.  
DAVID JENKYNS received his first being in this world at Hensol in the Parish of Pendeylwyn called by some Pendoylon in Glamorganshire, became a Commoner of S. Emunds' Hall in the year 1597, at which time several Welshmen were Students there. After he had taken one degree in Arts he retired to Greys-Inn, studied the Common Law, and, when Barrister, was resorted to by many for his Counsel. In the first of Car. 1. he being then a Bencher, was elected Summer Reader, but refused to read. Afterwards he was made one of the Judges for South Wales, continued in that office till the Rebellion broke out, at which time he either imprisoned divers persons in his Circuit, or condemned them to die, as being guilty of High Treason for bearing Arms against the King. At length being taken Prisoner at Hereford, when that City was surprised by the Parliament Forces in Decemb. 1645, he was hurried up to London, and committed Prisoner to the Tower. Afterwards being brought to the bar in Chancery, he denied the Authority of that Court because their Seal was counterfeited, and so consequently the Commissioners thereof were constituted against Law: whereupon being committed to Newgate prison, he was impeached of Treason and brought to the bar of the Commons house; but denying their Authority, and refusing to kneel, was for his contempt fined 1000 l. and remitted to his prison, and thence translated to Wallingford Castle. About that time he used his utmost endeavours to set the Parliament and Army at odds, thereby to promote the King's Cause, but it did not take effect according to his desire. Afterwards passed an Act for his Trial in the High Court of Justice, an. 1650, so that our Author Jenkyns thinking of nothing but hanging, was resolved if it should come to pass, to suffer with the Bible under one Arm and Magna Charta (of which he was a zealous defender) under the other. But Harry Marten (as 'tis said) urging to his Fellows that sanguis martyrum est semen ecclesiae, and that that way of proceeding would do them mischief, they thought good not to take away his life. Afterwards he was sent to Windsor Castle, where remaining till the month of January an. 1656, was set at liberty, and then lived for a time in Oxon, where he became a constant Auditor of the Sermons of Dr. Edw. Hyde at Halywell, (than lately ejected from his Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford) to whom all the loyal party of that City flocked to hear his Doctrine. After the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. 'twas expected by all that he should be made one of the Judges in Westminster Hall, and so he might have been, would he have given money to the then Lord Chancellor; but our Author scorning such an act after all his Sufferings, he retired to his Estate in Glamorganshire, then restored to him after the loss of it, and all he had, for many years. He was a person of great abilities in his profession, and his counsel was often used by Sir Jo. Banks and Will. Noy in their Attorneyships. He was also a vigorous maintainer of the Rights of the Crown, a heart of oak, and a pillar of the Law; sole Author of his Sovereign's Rights, England's Laws, and the People's Liberties when they were invaded and trampled under feet by restless and base men. His Writings are these,  
His Recantation (or rather protestation) delivered at Westm. 10 Apr. 1647. to Mil. Corbet the Chairman of the Committee for Examination.— Printed in a half a sheet.  
Vindication while he was Prisoner in the Tower, 29 Apr. 1647. Pr. in 1 sh. in qu. This, when published, was referred to a Committee of Complaints, who ordered that the Printer and Publisher thereof should be tried at the King's Bench.  
The Army's indemnity; with a declaration showing how every Subject of England ought to be tried for Treason, etc.— Written 10 June 1647.  
Sundry Acts of Parliament mentioned and cited in the Army's indemnity, set forth in words at large.— Pr. 1647. qu.  
Apology for the Army, touching the eight Queries upon the late Declarations and Letters from the Army, touching Sedition falsely charged upon them.— Pr. 1647. quart.  
Discourse touching the inconveniences of a long continued Parliament, and the judgement of the law of the Land in that behalf. Lond. 1647. in one sh. and half in quart.  
Cordial for the good people of London: in a reply to a thing called An answer to the poisonous seditious paper of Dau. Jenkyns. By H. P. Barrister of Linc. Inn.— Pr. 1647 in 3 sh. in qu. See more in Hen. Parker among these Writers under the year 1657.  
His Plea delivered to the Earl of Manchester, and the Speaker of the H. of Commons sitting in the Chancery at Westminster, 14 Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh. in quar.  
Answer to the imputation put upon his Plea in Chancery, in Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh. in qu.  
Remonstrance to the Lords and Com. of the two Houses of Parliament, 21 Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh. in qu.  
Lex terrae, the Law of the Land.— To which are added some seeming Objections of Mr. Will. Prynne scattered in divers books, answered, and the truth thereof more fully cleared.  
All which little things before mentioned (in number eleven) were printed together at Lond. 1648 in twelve, and went by the name of Judge Jenkyns his works. They were also published there again in the same vol. in 1681, at what time the said works were esteemed very seasonable to be perused by all such as would not be deluded by the unparallelled arbitrary Proceedings and seditious Pamphlets of that licentious and ungrateful time. They were also printed again two years after that time in tw. Before the said Editions is his picture to the life, and underneath these Verses made by Joh. Birkenhead.  
Here Jenkyns stands, who thundering from the Tower,  
shook the Senate's legislative Power:  
Six of whose words, twelve reams of Votes exceed,  
As Mountains moved by grains of Mustard seed.  
Thus gasping Laws were rescued from the snare,  
He that will save a Crown must know and dare.  
Preparative to the Treaty (with the King) tendered to the Parliament, Ass. of Divines, and Treaters, etc.— Pr. 1648.  
His Declaration while Prisoner in the Tower, 17 March 1647.  
Pacis consultum. The antiquity, extent and practice of several Country Corporation Courts, especially the Court Leet: with an abstract of the penal Statutes. Lond. 1657. oct. Published under Dau. Jenkyns his name, but disowned and disclaimed by him.  
Exact method for keeping a Court of Survey for the setting forth and bounding of Manors, etc. Lond. 1657. This also was disowned by him.  
Difficult questions in Law proposed and resolved.— Printed with the Exact method, and disowned also.  
Rerum judicatarum centuriae octo. Lond. 1661. fol. in English.  
A proposition for the safety of the King and Kingdom both in Church and State, and prevention of the common Enemy. Lond. 1667. in tw. 2 edit.  
A Reply to the pretended Answer to it.— Printed with the former. I have seen a little thing intit. Conscientious Queries from Mr. Jenkyns: or, the grounds of his late Petition and Submission to the present power, a. 1651. Printed 1679. But this Jenkyns must be understood to be the same with Will. Jenkyns a Presbyterian Minister of London, one of Christop. Love's Plot for bringing in K. Ch. 2. from Scotland. Judge Jenkyns died at Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three, aged 81 or more, and was buried at the west end of the Church there. 
1663.  He died as he lived, preaching with his last breath to his Relations, and those that were about him, Loyalty to his Majesty, and Obedience to the Laws of the Land.  
CHARLES' POTTER Son of Dr. Christop. Potter Provost of Queen's College, was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon, became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1647, aged 14 years, took one degree in Arts in 1649, and was that year made the signior quadragesimal Collector. Soon after was published under his name, his  
Theses Quadragesimales in scholis Oxoniae publicis pro forma discussae, an. 1649/50. Oxon. 1651. in tw. Afterwards he took the degree of Master of Arts, traveled beyond the seas, became for a time a Retainer to Mr. Crofts, known soon after by the name of James Duke of Monmouth., and at length, after he had changed his Religion for that of Rome, was made one of the Ushers to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England. He died in his Lodgings in Dukestreet near the Strand, in the middle of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  and was buried in the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden, within the Liberty of Westminster, near to the grave of his great Uncle Dr. Barnab. Potter sometimes Bishop of Carlisle. While the said Ch. Potter was an Undergraduat of Ch. Ch, Tho. Severne M. A. and Student thereof (Son of Joh. Severne of Broadway, afterwards of Powick in Woocestershire) was his Tutor, and wrote and composed the said Theses Quadragesimales, and therefore he (who is now living at Worcester) is to be taken for the Author of that book, much commended when it was first published.  
JOHN HULETT Son of Silvester Hul. Gent. was born in London, entered a Commoner in New Inn in the beginning of 1627., aged 20, took the degrees in Arts, afterwards traveled into several parts of the World, particularly into Russia and Muscovia, and improved himself in several sorts of Learning, especially in Geography and Mathematics. After his return he settled in Oxon, taught Scholars those Arts, and became a useful person in his generation. He hath written and published,  
Several Ephemerideses.  
Description and use of the 

Quadrant  
Quadrat  
Nocturnal.   Printed several times in octav. He died in his Lodgings in Catstreet on the 21 day of December in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxford; leaving then behind several written Specimens of his profession, which without doubt might be useful if made extant.  
JOHN TOY Son of Joh. Toy was born and bred in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester, became either a Servitor or Batler of Pembroke Coll. in 1627., aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts, entered into Orders, and became Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford; under which title he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1634. Afterwards he was made Master of the Free, then of the Kings, School within the place of his nativity: which last he kept for 20 years' space, and furnished the Universities with several hopeful youths. He hath written and published,  
Worcester's Elegy and Eulogy. Lond. 1638. quar. a Poem. Before which, Will. Rowland the Poet (mentioned among these Writers under the year 1659.) hath two Lat. Copies of Verses.  
Quisquiliae poeticae tyrunculis in re metrica non inutilis. Lond. 1662. oct.  
Fun. Serm. on Mrs. .... Tomkyns, on Job. 14.14.— Printed 1642. qu. And whether he was Author of Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion in usum scholae Collegialis Wigooniae. Lond. 1650. oct. I know not yet to the contrary. He gave up the ghost on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester. Over his grave was a Mon. soon after put, with an Inscription thereon, wherein he is styled Vir ingenii perpoliti, industriae indefessae, eruditionis singularis, eximiae morum sanctitatis, vitae integer, pubis constituendae scientissimus, pietate, fide, modestia, gravitate, nullâque non virtute spectabilis, etc.  
WILLIAM PAGE received his first breath in the Parish of Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex, applied his mind to Academical Studies in Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1606, aged 16, took the degrees in Arts, and in the year 1619 was elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. Afterwards, by the favour of Dr. Laud Bishop of London, he succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Rectory of the Free-school at Reading, and about the same time was presented by the Society of the said Coll. to the Rectory of East Locking near to Wantage in Berks, which he kept to the time of his death, but his School not, for he was sequestered of it by the Committee of Parliament in 1644. In the year 1●34 he proceeded Doctor of Divinity, at which time and after, he was esteemed well versed in the Greek Fathers, a good Preacher and Disputant. He hath written,  
A Treatise of justification of bowing at the name of Jesus, by way of answer to an Appendix against it. Oxon. 1631. qu.  
An examination of such considerable reasons as are made by Mr. Prynne in a reply to Mr. Widows concerning the same Argument— Printed with the former.  
Of which Treatise, or Treatises, I find in a letter 
(a) In Gestis Cancellariatus Vniv. Oxon. Gul. Laud, MS. p. 28.  written by Will. Baker (Secretary to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury) directed to the Author Page, these passages following— Good Mr. Page, my Lord of Canterbury is informed that you are publishing a Treatise touching the question of Bowing at the name of Jesus; an Argument wherein Mr. Giles Widows foolishly and Mr. W. Prynne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their pens. His Grace hath formerly showed his dislike of them both, and hearing that you take up the bucklers in a theme of so small necessity, and of so great heat and distemper, which will draw a new Reply (for Prynne will not sit down as an idle spectator) and beget bitterness and intestine Contestations at home among ourselves, he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions, which may be better sopited and silenced than maintained and drawn into sidings and partake. And therefore I am wished to advise you to withdraw yourself from these or the like domestic broils; and if your Treatise be at the press, to gve it a stop, and by no means suffer it to be divulged, etc. This Letter being written at Lambeth 31 May 1632, the Contents thereof flew to Fulham, where finding Dr. Laud B. of London, he wrote this following 
(b) Ibid. p. 27.  Letter to the Vicechanc. of the Uniu. of Oxon dated 22 June following, Sir, these are to pray and require you in his Majesty's name that a book lately printed at Oxon, and made by Mr. Page of Allsoules' College be presently set to sale and published. It is, as I am informed, in defence of the Canon of the Church, about bowing at the name of Jesus, and modestly and well written. And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prynne against the Church, should take place as the Church's opinion against herself, or as unable to be answered by the Church, etc. What else our Author Page hath written are,  
Certain Animadversions upon some passages in a Tract concerning Schism and Schismatics, etc. Oxon 1642. qu. Which Tract was written by J. Hales of Eton.  
The Peacemaker: or, a brief motive to Unity and Charity in Religion. Lond. 1652. in 16ᵒ. He hath also published a Serm. on 1 Tim. 5.3.4.5.— Printed in qu. which I have not yet seen; and also translated from Lat. into Engl. Tho. à Kempis his Treatise De imitatione Christi, in 4 books.— Oxon. 1639. in tw. Before which Translation (by him amended and corrected) he hath set a large Epistle to the Reader. This Dr. Page departed this mortal life in the Parsonoge-house of Locking before mentioned on the 24 of Febr. (being then Ash-wednesday) in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663/4.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, as I have been informed by Mr. George Ashwell, who had the care of his Library and Interment committed to him. See more in Dr. Sam. Page under the year 1630. pag. 467.  
SAMUEL SMITH a Minister's Son, was born in Worcestershire, entered a Batler of S. Mary's Hall in the beginning of 1603 (1 Jac. 1.) aged 15, left the University without a degree, became beneficed at Prettlewell in Essex, and afterwards, about the beginning of K. Ch. 1. in his own Country; where continuing till the Rebellion began in 1642, did then, or the year following retire to London for shelter, sided with the Presbyterians and became a frequent Preacher among them. Afterwards he returned to his Cure, had another conferred on him in Shropshire, was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters, lived after his Majesty's Restoration, and soon after was, as I have been informed, silenced. His works, which are mostly Sermons, are these.  
David's blessed man: or, a short Exposition upon the first Psalm, etc. Lond. in oct. Printed the tenth time in 1638. and the fifteenth time in 1686. in tw.  
David's repentance: or, a plain and familiar Exposition of the 51 Psalm, etc. Lond. 1618. 19 in tw. etc.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Joseph and his Mistress, etc. in 5 Sermons on Gen. 39.7.8.9. etc. Lond. 1619. octavo. (2) Noah's dove: or, tidings of peace to the godly, fun. sermon on Psal. 37. ver. 37. Lond. 1619. oct. (3) Christ's preparation to his own death, in three sermons on Luke 22.39.40.41. Lond. 1620. oct. (4) Christ's last Supper: or, the doctrine of the Sacrament, etc. in 5 sermons on 1 Cor. 11.28.29. Lond. 1620. oct. (5) A christian task, sermon at the Funeral of Mr. John Lawson Gent. at Prettlewell in Essex, 28 Dec. 1619, on Psal. 90.12. Lond. 1620. oct. (6) The great Assize: or the day of Jubilee; in which we must make a general account of all our actions before Almighty; in four sermons on the 20 Chapter of the Revel. etc.— Printed at Lond. one and thirty times, the last impression of which was an. 1684. octavo. At the end are Prayers to be said privately by single persons. (7) A fold for Christ's sheep, in two sermons upon the first Chapt. of the Canticles, ver. 7.8.— Printed two and thirty times; the last impression of which was at Lond. 1684. oct. (8) The Ethiopian Eunuches Conversion, the sum of 30 sermons upon part of the 8 Chapter of the Acts. Lond. 1632. oct.  
The Christians guide, with rules and directions for leading an holy life. As meditations and prayers suitable to all occasions— Printed several times in tw.  
The chief Sheppard: or, an exposition on the 23 Psal. Lond. 1625. oct.  
The admirable Convert: or, the miraculous conversion of the Thief on the Cross, etc. Lond. 1632. oct.  
Moses his prayer: or, an exposition of the 19 Psal. etc. Lond. 1656. oct.  
Looking-glass for Saints and Sinners: or, an exposition on the 2 Epist. of S. John. Lond. 1663. oct. He hath written other things which I have not yet seen, and was living an aged man near Dudley in Worcestershire, 
Clar. 1663.  in sixteen hundred sixty and three. I have made mention of another Sam. Smith under the year 1620, who was first of Magd. Hall and afterwards of Magd. Coll. and shall of a third, sometimes of S. John's Coll. (now living) when his turn comes.  
EDWARD REYNELL a Cadet of the ancient and gentile family of his name living at West Ogwell near to Newton bushel in Devonshire, was admitted to the Fellows Table of Exeter Coll. 30 May 1629, aged 17 years or thereabouts; where continuing under the tuition of a noted Tutor till July 1632, went (as it seems) to one of the Temples at London, and was at length made Barrister. But his genie being inclined more towards Divinity, he published these matters following in prose.  
Eugenia's tears for Gr. Britain's glory: or, Observations reflecting on these sad times. Lond. 1642.  
Advice concerning Libertinism; showing the great danger thereof, and exhorting all to zeal of the truth. Lond. 1659. in tw.  
Celestial amities: or, Soul sighing for the love of her Saviour. Lond. 1660. oct.  
The benefit of Afflictions.— Printed with Celestina. amities, etc. Whether he hath written other things I know not, nor any thing else, only that he was a reserved and precise person, and dying at West-Ogwell after his Majesty's Return (about 1663.) was buried there. 
Clar. 1663.  I have sent once or more to his Nephew at West-Ogwell, and I have spoken several times to his Kinsman Dr. George Reynell lately Fellow of C. C. Coll. to have farther information of the said Edw. Reynell, but they like nice and capricious people desire that his name may be forgotten, and what he hath done may sink in the pit of oblivion. Such like Answers▪ I have received from poor-spirited persons upon my enquiry after other Writers.  
ISAAC AMBROSE a Minister's Son, descended from those of his name living at Lowick, and they from the Ambroses anciently living at Ambrose Hall in Lancashire, was born in that County, became a Batler of Bras. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621., aged 17 years, took one degree in Arts, holy Orders, had some little Cure in his own Country conferred on him, and afterwards relief from William Earl of Bedford, (whereby he and his family were refreshed) who caused him also, if I mistake not, to be put into the list of his Majesty's Preachers appointed for the County of Lancaster. Afterwards, upon the change of the times in 1641, he sided with the Presbyterians then dominant, took the Covenant, became a Preacher of the Gospel at Garstang, and afterwards at Preston in Amounderness, in his own Country, a zealous man for carrying on the beloved cause, and active against the orthodox Clergy when he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom they then (1654. 2 Oliv. Protect.) called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. He hath written,  
Prima, media, & ultima: or, the first, middle and last things; wherein is set forth, 1. The Doctrine of Regeneration, or the new birth. 2. The practice of Sanctification, in the means, duties, ordinances, both private and public, for continuance and increase of a godly life. 3. Certain Meditations of man's misery, in his life, death, judgement and execution: as also of God's mercy in our redemption and salvation.— The Prima and Ultima were printed at Lond. in 1640. qu. sometimes bound in two vol. sometimes in one. The Media is chiefly taken out of the most eminently pious and learned Writings of our native practical Divines, with additions added to them of Ambrose's Composition. It was first printed at Lond. (with his Prima and Ultima) 1650. qu. The Authors whom he doth abridge in the said Media, are mostly Separatists, and 'tis licenced by Mr. Charles Herle, and recommended to the world by John Angier, Thom. Johnson, and Joh. Waite B. D. in their respective Epistles before it. At length all three were printed at London in a large fol. 1674. with the Author's picture before them, aged 59 years, an. 1663., reprinted 1682. and 89. fol.  
Redeeming the time; serm. on Ephes. 5.16. Lond. 1658. qu.  
Looking unto Jesus. A view of the everlasting Gospel, or the Souls eyeing of Jesus as carrying on the great work of man's salvation. Lond. 1658. qu. Printed with the former. In the penning of which, he took most delight, as being a subject, as he complains, almost wholly neglected by all others.  
War with Devils, Ministration of, and Communion with, Angels.— Printed also with the former. At the end of this Treatise, are subjoined two Letters, 
Clar. 1663.  the first written by Rich. Baxter, dat. at Lond. 29 Nou. 1661. and the other by Will. Cole, dat. at Preston 8 Oct. 1661. He hath also a Sermon extant, preached at the funeral of the Lady Houghton, which I have not yet seen, nor others. He died suddenly, of an Apoplexy, as I have heard, but when, I know not.  
JAMES HEATH Son of Rob. Heath the King's Cutler, living in the Strand leading from London to Westminster, was born, I presume, there, educated in Westminster School, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term 1646, aged 17, ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, lived afterwards upon his Patrimony, and adhered to K. Ch. 2. in his Exile till it was almost spent, and then married, which hindered his restoration to his Students place in 1660. About that time having several Children, he was forced to write books and correct the Press for bread to maintain them. He was a good School-scholar, had a command of his Engl. and Lat. pen, but wanted a head for a Chronologer, and was esteemed by some a tolerable Poet. He hath communicated to the World,  
A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc. Lond. 1661. oct. enlarged by the Author and completed from 1637 to 1663., in four parts.— Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo. Some Copies have in them the pictures of the most eminent Soldiers in the said War, which makes the book valued the more by some Novices. But this Chronicle being mostly compiled from lying Pamphlets, and all sorts of News-books, are innumerable Errors therein, especially as to name and time, things chiefly required in History. To this Chronicle is added a Continuation from the end of 1662. to 1675. by Joh. Philipps (Nephew by the Mother to Joh. Milton.)— Lond. 1676. fol. Which Continuation is mostly made up from Gazettes. Another Edit. is continued to 1691.  
Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller, that most incomparable Writer, who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661. Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet. This Dr. Th. Fuller was Author of The Ch. Hist. from the time of Christ till the year 1648, and and of divers other things.  
The glories and magnificent triumphs of the blessed restitution of K. Ch. 2. from his arrival in Holland 1659. till this present, etc. Lond. 1662. in a large oct. It reaches to the month of May 1661., and hath added to it the names of the then Companions of the Order of the Ga●ter, the Nobility, Archb. and Bishops, Judges, Baronet's, and the Marriage of Catherina of Portugal to K. Ch. 2. and their noble reception by the City of Lond. by water from Hampton Court to their Landing at Whitehall 23 Aug. 1662.  
Flagellum: or, the Life and Death, Birth and Burial of Ol. Cromwell the late Usurper. Lond. 1663. The third Edit. came out with additions at Lond. 1665. all in oct.  
Elegy (with Epitaph) on the much lamented death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincoln, who deceased in the latter end of Jan. 1662. Lond. 1663. on one side of a sh. of paper.  
A new book of Loyal English Martyrs and Confessors, who have endured the pains and terrors of death, arraignment, etc. for the maintenance of the just and legal Government of these Kingdoms both in Church and State. Lond. 1663. in tw.  
Brief but exact survey of the Affairs of the United Netherlands, comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant, all the particulars of that Subject, etc. Printed in tw. but when I know not, for I have not yet seen it. He died of a Consumption and Dropsy in Well-Close near to the Lame Hospital in the Parish of S. Barthelmew the Less in London on the 16 of August in sixteen hundred sixty and four, 
1664.  and was the third day after buried in the Church of that Parish, near to the Skreen-door, leaving then behind him several Children to be maintained by the Parish, as also the foundation of other matters, which he intended to have published if life had been spared.  
JOHN L'ISLE son of Sir Will. L'isle of Wootton in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, Knight, was born there, became a Communer of the upper Order of Magd. Hall in the year 1622, aged 16 or thereabouts, took a degree in Arts, went to one of the Temples, and at length became a Barrister and Counsellor of note. In the year 1640 he was chose a Burgess for Winchester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 13 of Apr. and again for the same place in that unhappy Convention that met on the 3 of Nou. following. In which last Parl. he improved his interest to the purpose, bought State lands good cheap, was made Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester (which belongs to a Divine) upon the Ejectment of Dr. Will. Lewis; which Office he voluntarily surrendering up into the hands of the Parliament in the latter end of June 1649, it was conferred upon John Cook the then Solicitor General. In Dec. 1647 he was appointed one of the Commons to carry to his Maj. in the Isle of Wight the four Bills (dethroning Bills) and in Jan. 1648 was one of the Judges to condemn to death his said Majesty. Soon after he was constituted a Member of the Council of State, and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary, and from that to Kingly again, and did swear Oliver Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate, contrary to the four 
(a) See the Acts in the book called The Looking-glass, pag. 43.44.  Acts of Parliament which he helped to make, with others that made it Treason so to do. In 1654., he by the name of John L'isle, one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, and Recorder of Southampton, was chose Burgess for that place to serve in the Parliament which began 3 of Sept. the same year, was afterwards taken out of the House, to have a negative Voice in the other House, that is House of Lords, and made Precedent of the High Court of Justice for a time; by whose violence acted there, fell many gallant and heroic Spirits; some of which I am now about to mention. He hath extant under his name,  
Several Speeches, as (1) Speech spoken in a common Hall, London, 3 Jul. 1645. concerning observations on the King's Cabinet of Letters. See more in Tho. Browne, under the year 1673. (2) Speech while he was Pres. of the High Court of Justice at the pronouncing of sentence of death on Sir Hen. Slingsby of Red-house in Yorksh. and Dr. Joh. Hewit, Jun. 2. an. 1658. (3) Speech when he gave sentence of death on Colonel Edw. Ashton, Edm. Stacy, Oliv. Allen, Will. Carrent, Joh. Betteley, Hen. Friar and Joh. Sumner, July 2. 1658, etc. Which Speeches I have seen printed.  
Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient, and legal form of Government, in a conference had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall, in Apr. 1657. Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct. with other Conferences and Speeches to the same purpose made by others; among whom are Rog. boil Baron of Broghill in Ireland, Sir Charles Wolseley, Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey, etc. all Oliver's Lords. A little before the Return of K. Ch. 2. he, with other Regicides, fled beyond the seas, and L'isle settling at Losanna, he was treated by the Magistracy of that Town as Chancellor of England, being always vested with the robe of that dignity. At length certain Irishmen taking it as a grand Affront that the people of that place should harbour him (as they did Edm. Ludlow, Will. Goffe., Edward Whaley, etc. for a time) and show him so much respect and honour as they did, one of them ventured upon him (as he was going to Church, accompanied with the chief Magistracy) and shot him with a Musquetoon dead in the place, 
1664.  on the 21 of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four. Which done, two more Irish men road into the press, and trampling on the body of L'isle with their horses feet, fled into the Guards and escaped with little hurt. Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in the said Church there, as I have been credibly informed, leaving then behind him a Widow named Alice, who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks a Nonconformist Minister and a Follower of James Duke of Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion, was for High Treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on the 2 of Sept. 1685. In like manner did before fall one Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutchman born, originally a Schoolmaster, and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden. Whence coming into England upon no good account, was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook, and by him appointed to read a History Lecture in Cambridge, which he was about to found some years before his death: But in his very first Lectures decrying Monarchy, was, upon the complaint of Dr. Jo. Cousin Master of Peter-house to the Vicechanc. (which afterwards came to his Majesty's knowledge) silenced, and about that time marrying an English woman near to Maldon in Essex, lived there for some time. Afterwards he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army in one of his Expeditions against the Scots, Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Essex, afterwards under Sir Tho. Fairfax, and at length one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty, and an Assistant in drawing up and managing the Charge against K. Ch. 1. in order to his Execution. I say that this Dorislaus did fall as L'isle afterwards did, for he being thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the Parliament, as an Envoy to his Countrymen, to prosecute their designs, he arrived at the Hague in good Equipage, in the beginning of May 1649, his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then there in his Exile. Which bold and impudent act being much regretted by certain generous Royalists attending his said Majesty, about 12 of them in disguise repaired to his Lodging, and finding him at supper, stabbed him in several places and cut his throat; whereupon one of them said Thus dies one of the King's Judges. This generous Action was performed on the 6 of May or thereabouts, but reported by the generality to be performed by one Col. Walt. Whitford Son of Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword. Afterwards they quietly departed, and 'twas not known (but privately) for some time after, who did the fact. Within few days following, this desperate Attempt coming to the knowledge of the Parliament, they became so much enraged that they resolved to sacrifice the life of a certain Royalist of note, then in their custody: and certainly they had done it, had he not made a timely escape. Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to be conveyed into England, and to be buried with solemnity in the Abbey Church at Westminster on the 14 of June following, where continuing till Sept. 1661., was then taken up, with the bodies of other Cromwellians, and buried in a hole in S. Margaret's Churchyard adjoining. He hath published, as 'tis said, several things, but all that I have seen of his, is De praelio Nuportano. Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets and half in qu.  
JAMES LAMB Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon, 2 Febr. 1598., bred in the Free-school joining to Magd. Coll, was a Communer for a time of Brasn. Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615, and then or soon after translated himself to S. Mary's Hall. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton, and after the King's restoration in 1660, he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall, but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London. He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing, was a sententious and acute Preacher, and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages. He hath written,  
Grammatica Arabica. In 3. vol. in qu.  
Danielis Prophetiae Liber, Syriace. In one vol. qu.  
Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia, formâ oblonga. In 4. vol. oct.  
Flexio Verborum Arabicorum. In one octavo. All which are written with his own hand, and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library. He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four, and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster, 
1664.  near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit, and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton, on the twentieth day of Octob.  
RICHARD BYFIELD half Brother to Nich. Byfield mentioned under the year 1622, was born in Worcestershire and at 16 years of age in 1615 became either a Servitor or Batler of Queens Coll. in Mich. term. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, he left the University, and through some petite employments (of which the Curacy or Lectureship of Istleworth was one) became Rector of Long Ditton in Surrey, a leading man for carrying on the blessed cause, a reformer of his Church of Superstition (as he called it) by plucking up the steps leading to the Altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the Chancel, by denying his Parishioners (particularly his Patron that gave him L. Ditton) the Sacrament, unless they would take it any way, except kneeling, etc. He was one of the Assemb. of Divines a great Covenantier, an eager Preacher against Bishops, Ceremonies, etc. and being a frequent and constant holder forth was followed by those of the vicinity, especially such who were of his persuasion. In 1654. he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for the ejecting of all such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters, and was not wanting in any thing, whereby he might express his zeal for the aforesaid cause. His works are these.  
The light of faith and way of holiness, showing how and what to believe in all estates and conditions. Lond. 1630. oct.  
Doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated: or, a confutation of a Treatise of the Sabbath, written by Mr. Edw. Brerewood against Mr. Nich. Byfield. Lond. 1632. qu.  
The Power of the Christ of God: or, a Treatise of the power, as it is originally in God the Father, and by him given to Christ his Son, etc. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Several Sermons as (1) Zions' answer to the Nations Ambassadors, etc. Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons 25 June 1645 on Isay 14.32. Lond. 1645. qu. (2) Sermon on 1. Cor. 3.17. Lond. 1653. qu. etc.  
The Gospel's Glory without prejudice to the Law, shining forth in the Glory of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for the Salvation of sinners, who through grace do believe according to the draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3.34. Lond. 1659.  
Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ. Lond. 1660 in tw. Whether any other matters were by him published, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that after he had been ejected from Long Ditton for Nonconformity, he retired to Mortclack in Surrey where dying in December, in sixteen hundred sixty and four, was buried in the Church there, leaving this character behind him among the Godly, 
1664.  and such that frequented his Conventicles, that he was a pious, good, and harmless man. He had another Brother called Adoniram Byfield, who became first to be known for the love he bore to the righteous cause, by being Chaplain to Colonel Cholmondiley's Regiment, in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex the Generalissimo for the Parliament, in 1642, and soon after for his being one of the scribes to the Assemb. of Divines, and a most zealous Covenantier. He was afterwards Minister of one of the Collingborns in Wilts, was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they then (1654.) called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. He died about the time of his Majesty's restauration, as it seems, for on the 12 of Feb. 1660 Catherine his Relict had letters of administration granted to her, to administer the goods, debts, etc. of him the said Ad. Byfield of the Parish of S. Martin's in the Fields in Middlesex lately deceased.  
JEREMY STEPHEN'S Son of Walt. Stephen's sometimes Rector of Bishop's Castle in Shropshire, was born there 1592., entered a Student in Brasn. Coll. 29 March 1609, where by continual lucubration he diligently ran through all the forms of Logic and Philosophy, and took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1615. In Decemb. the same year, he was made Deacon, and about that time Chaplain of Alls. Coll. In 1616 May 26, he received the Orders of Priesthood, and in 1621. was made Rector of Quinton in Northamptonshire. Five years after that, he had conferred upon him the Rectory of Wotton within a Mile of Quinton, which, with Quinton, were bestowed on him by K. Ch. 1. In 1628. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and in 1641 was made Prebendary of Biggleswade in the Church of Lincoln, by the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, as a reward of his Labours, with Sir Hen. Spelman, in the Edition of the first tome or volume of the Councils. In 1644 he was sequestered from all his Ecclesiastical preferments by a Committee sitting at Northampton, plundered, imprisoned, barbarously used and silenced. After the King's return in 1660, he was restored to them, and for a requital of his sufferings had the Prebendship of Il●racomb in the Church of Salisbury conferred upon him, upon the resignation of Edw. Davenant. He hath written and published these things following.  
Notae in D. Cyprian. de unitate Ecclesiae. Lond. 1632. oct.  
Notae in D. Cypr. de bono patientiae. Lond. 1633. oct. Both which were collated with ancient Mss. by the care of certain Oxonian Theologists.  
Apology for the ancient right and power of the Bishops to sit and vote in Parliaments. Lond. 1660, the question then of restitution being under debate. In the year 1663. he began to print the History of Sacrilege, designed and began by Sir Hen. Spelman, and left to Stephens to perfect and publish; but that work sticking long in the Press, both the copy and sheets printed off, perished in the grand conflagration of London 1666. Besides these he finished and fitted for the Press divers other pieces, whereof the argument of some were superseded by the King's happy restauration, such as,  
A comparison between the Belgic, Gallick, Bohemian and Scotch, with the English, Covenant.  
Account of the principles and practices of the Presbyterians.  
The Sequestration of the Clergy by Joh. Pym and Joh. White.  
Other things which he finished but prevented their publication by death, are these.  
Treatise of the Laws of England.  
The design of the Cormorants upon the Church Lands, defeated in the time of K. Hen. (5) effected in the days of K. Hen. 8.— and other things. He also published B. Gregorii magni, Episcopi Romani, de curâ pastorali liber verè aureus, accuratè emendatus & restitutus è Vet. Mss. cum Romanâ Editione collatis. Lond. 1629. oct. This was the Book that the most renowned K. Alfred translated into the Saxon Language, and recommended to all the Dioceses of his Kingdom in that great dearth of learning, when scarce a Priest on the North of Humber was found able to translate the Lords Prayer, or to understand the Latin Service. This I say he published, being collated with ancient Mss. by the care of several Oxford Doctors and Bach. of Divinity. In the year also 1633 he was joined with Sir Hen. Spelman to assist in compiling and publishing the first Tome of the English Councils, a work that cost them seven years' labour. And though the Book bore the name of Spelman, yet is the assistance of our Author Stephens acknowledged by Spelman in the Preface to the Reader in these words.— Quo autem auspicio in lucem prodibunt (me jam sane propemodum exhausto) secundus & tertius (viz. Tomus) haud ausim polliceri. Nisi illos vir dilectus & bono natus publico Jeremias Stephens typis curaverit mandandos, cujus operâ primu● hic Tomus (me adhuc tantum non invito) in lucem prodiit. After this, viz. in 1641 Spelman died and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster, near to the door of S. Nicholas Chappel, 24. oct. and then some years after, our Author Stephens published Spelman's larger work of Tithes, to which he put a large Preface to the Reader; also his Apology of the Treatise, De non temerandis Ecclesiis.— with four little Treatises annexed thereunto, on the same subject by different hands. At length Mr. Stephens surrendering up his pious Soul to God at Wotton before mentioned, on the ninth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and four, 
1664/5.  was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Over his grave was a comely Monument intended to be put, in the year 1672, but whether yet performed I know not. The inscription which was designed to be engraven thereon, you may see a copy of it in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 224. a.  
SAMUEL ETON Son of Rich. Eat. Vic. of Great Budworth in Cheshire, was born in a little Village called Crowley in that Parish, and educated in this University, as his Relations have informed me; but in what house, they cannot tell. In the public register called the Matricula it appears that one Sam. Eton a Cheshire man born and the Son of a Minister was matriculated or made a member of this University in Apr. 1602 (44. Elizab.) he being then a Student of Broadgates' Hall, and in the 17 year of his age. But whether this Person, who took the degrees in Arts, be the same Sam. Eton, whom we are further to mention, I cannot tell, unless I could be certified that he was 80 years of age or more when he died, which was in 1664 as I shall tell you anon. After he had left the University, (I mean him, whom I am now to speak of) he entered into the sacred function, took Orders according to the Church of England, and was beneficed in his own Country; but having been puritanically educated, he did descent in some particulars relating to the ceremonies thereof: Whereupon, finding his place too warm for him, he revolted and went into New England; where, he studied in the University, and preached among the brethren there. Afterwards, when a gap was made in the Church of England for the reception of all opinions, upon the violent proceedings of the Puritans, he returned to his native Country, sided with them and took the Covenant, kept pace afterwards with the Independents, took the Engagement, was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cheshire for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and became a most pestilent leading Person in the trade of Faction in the said County and in Lancashire. In the time of the Rebellion he was Teacher of the Church at Duckenfield in the Parish of Stockport in Cheshire, and afterwards of Stockport where he feathered his nest and was held in wonderful esteem by the Faction. At length, after his Majesty's restauration, being silenced and forced thence, yet he carried on the trade of Conventicling in private, and was thereupon brought several times into trouble and imprisoned. Among several things that he hath written, take these following.  
The mystery of God incarnate: or, the word made flesh, cleared up, etc. Lond. 1650: oct. written against John Knowles a Socinian, who had answered our Author Eaton's paper concerning the Godhead of Christ.  
Vindication or farther confirmation of some other Scriptures produced to prove the divinity of Jesus Christ, distorted and miserably wrested and abused by Mr. John Knowles, etc. Lond. 1651. oct.  
The Doctrine of Christ's satisfaction, and of reconciliation of God's part to the creature— Printed with the Vindication.  
Discourse concerning the springing and spreading of Error, and of the means of cure, and of preservative against it— Pr. also with the Vindic.  
Treatise of the Oath of Allegiance and Covenant, showing that they oblige not. Lond. in qu. Answered by Anon. in his Vindication of the Oath of Allegiance. Printed 1650. qu.  
The Quakers confuted, etc.— Animadverted upon by that sometimes noted and leading Quaker called George Fox in his book entit. The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded: And Antichrists Kingdom revealed unto destruction, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. pag. 1.2. etc. See more of the works of this Sam. Eton in John Murcot, under the year 1654., and in Tim. Taylor under the year 1681. At length, after a life spent in continual action for carrying on the cause, he surrendered up his last breath at Denton in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire (where he had sheltered himself among the Brethren after his ejection) on the ninth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and four, and was buried in the Chapel there on the thirteenth day of the same month. Besides this Samuel, 
1664/5.  I find one Nathaniel Eton, who published Inquisitio in variantes Theologorum quorundam sententias de Sabbato & die Dominico, etc. sub praesidio D. Gul. Amesii SS. J. P. Franak. 1633. oct, but this Nathaniel seems to have been bred in Cambridge, and the same who was the first Master of the Coll. at Cambridge in New England; whence being ejected for his immoralities, he went to Virginia for a time, and thence to England. After the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. he conformed, was beneficed at Biddiford in Devonshire, and died in the Prison called the Kings-bench on the account of debt.  
NATHANIEL CANON a Gentleman's Son, was born at Reading in Berks, entered a Commoner of S. Mary's Hall in 1597 aged 16 years, (his Father then living in London) took one degree in Arts, entered into the sacred function, became Minister of Wokingham or Okingham, and afterwards Vicar of Hurley, in his own Country, being then, or about that time, Bach. of Divinity. He hath published,  
Several Sermons as (1) The Crier; Sermon at Paul's cross 5. of Feb. 1609, on Esay 58.1. Lond. 1613. qu. (2) Three Sermons, the first Discovering a double and false heart, on 1. Kings 21.9. The second called The blessedsedness of the righteous, on Psal. 37. ver. 37. and the third, The Court of Guard, or Watch of Angels, on 1. Sam. 17.17.37. Lond. 1616. oct. Besides these he hath at least four more Sermons extant, the first of which is on Psal. 119.136.— Printed 1616. oct. another on 1. Pet. 4.4.— Pr. 1619. oct. etc. He concluded his last day at Hurley before mentioned, after he had ran with, and submitted to, all mutations, in the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and four; 
1664/5.  whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel belonging to the Church there on the 12 day of the same month. He was 46 years' Vicar of Hurley, was a constant Preacher and much followed by the neighbourhood.  
SAMUEL AUSTIN a Cornish man born, was entered a Communer of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Gilb. Stokes Chapl. of that house in 1652. aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts, completed it by Determination and then went to Cambridge for a time. But such was the vanity of this Person, that he being extremely conceited of his own worth, and over-valuing his poetical fancy, more than that of Cleveland, who was then accounted by the Bravadoes the Hectoring Prince of Poets, fell into the hands of the Satirical wits of this University, who having easily got some of his prose and poetry, served him as the wits did Tom. Coryat in his time, and published them under these titles.  
Naps upon Parnassus. A sleepy muse nipped and pinched, though not awakened, etc. Lond. 1658. oct.  
Characters— Printed with the former. Both which were ushered into the world by more than twenty Copies of verses (advantaging the sale of the book) by such that had the name of, or at least pretended to be, Poets. Among them were Tho. Flatman, Tho. Sprat, and Sam. Woodford, since noted and famed for their Poetical works. Silvanus Taylour and George Castle of Alls. Coll the former better at Music, the other at lying and buffooning, than Poetry. And among others, not now to be named, must not be forgotten Alexander Amidei a Jew and Florentine born, than a Teacher of Hebrew and other tongues in the University, afterwards a converted Christian and Reader of a Hebrew Lecture in Zion Coll. Lond. Our Author Austin hath also written and published  
A Panegyric on K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1661. oct. wherein, just after the Preface, he promised to publish more Poems, conditionally the said Paneg. took; the Subjects of which are there set down. But what prevented him, 
Clar. 1664.  unless death, which happened about the plague year in 1665, I cannot tell.  
JOHN OSBORNE a forward zealot for carrying on the righteous cause, was the Son of John Osborne of Crediton in Devonshire; whence, after he had been trained up in trivial learning, he was sent to New inn, in the year 1634 aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, and became a frequent Preacher up of the Presbyterian design. At length having sufficiently proved himself to be one of them, was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire, in the place of a Loyalist ejected: where continuing till the Act of conformity put him out, preached in Conventicles in the Neighbourhood, and thereupon was imprisoned for several weeks in Oxford Castle. Afterwards being let loose, he retired to the great City, taught School and lived in S. Barthelmews' Parish near little Britain, to the time, as I take it, of his death. He hath published,  
The Mystery of the resurrection, on Acts 24.15. Lond. 1651. qu.  
Conference between him and Rich. Coppin of Westwell near Burford, at Burford in Oxfordshire, concerning the resurrection of the Body— Printed with The mystery, etc. He also took a great deal of pains in making A catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament, and had printed about 8 sheets of it, but Will. Crowe of Suffolk, Schoolmaster of Croyden in Surrey (the same, 
Clar. 1664.  I mean, who hung himself about the latter end of 1674) coming out before him on the same subject in 1659., prevented him from going any farther. This Cat, which hath been several times since printed, is called by some Osbornes, but by the generality Crows, Catalogue. One John Osborne hath translated into English for the use of Schools, Comenius his Vestibuli linguarum auctuarium, etc. Printed several times, and in 1670 it was printed at London, in oct. Whether this Jo. Osborne be the same with the former, I cannot yet tell.  
GEORGE KENDAL son of Rich. Kendal of Rowel in Northamptonshire, was born in that County, became Batler of New inn, in the year 1630, and that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards was actually created Master of that faculty when K. Ch. 1. was entertained at Oxon, an. 1636. He hath written a book entit.  
An Appendix to the unlearned Alchemist, wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent Diopharetick and Diuretic pill, purging by sweat and urine, commonly known by Matthews Pill, etc. Lond. 1664. At which time he practised Physic, 
Clar. 1664.  but whether graduated here in that faculty, or licenced to practise it, it appears not. What other things he hath written I cannot tell, nor any thing else of the Author.  
THOMAS HALL. son of Rich. Hall clothier, by Elizabeth Bonner his Wife, was born in S. Andrews Parish within the City of Worcester, about the 22 of July 1610, bred up to Grammar learning in the King's School there under the famous Hen. Bright, who perceiving him to be a youth of pregnant parts, was by his persuasion sent to Ball. Coll. in 1624.: But being his chance to be put under the tuition of a careless Tutor, he was removed to Pembroke Coll. then newly founded, and became Pupil to Mr. Tho. Lushington, reputed by the generality of Scholars eminent for his Philosophical learning. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, and had completed it by public Determination, he returned to his Country, and for a while taught a private School, and preached in the Chapels belonging to Kings Norton in Worcestershire. Afterwards being a frequenter of the Lectures at Bermingham in Warwickshire, maintained and held up by old Puritans, they so much operated on his spirit, that he relinquished his former principles, adhered to that party, and in many respects became an enemy to the Church of England, and in fine so rigid in his persuasion that he was disliked by the Brethren. Much about the same time he served the cure of Kings Norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall, who at length resigned it all unto him, and for his farther encouragement got the Free-school adjoining to be added to it. Both which employments took up most of his time, and were all the preferments he ever had in the Church. For being a single person, a lover of books and learning, and of a retired and obscure life, never looked farther than his beloved Kings Norton. At the turn of the times in 1641 he showed himself openly a Presbyterian, and complied altogether with that party, not for preferment sake, but because they were against Bishops and Ceremonies. At length in 1652 having the testimony of godly and able men, had the degree of Bach. of Divinity conferred upon him by the then members of the University, but with this condition that he should preach a Latin Sermon as part of his exercise, and an English Sermon instead of his other exercise: Both which, were, as I conceive, accordingly done, though his admission appears not. He was accounted a Person by those of his own 
(a) See in a book entit. A Pearl in an Oyster-shel: or precious treasure put in perishing vessels, etc. Lond. 1675. oct. penned by Richard Moor sometimes Rector of Aldchurch in Worcestersh. ejected thence for Nonconformity, and now (1682) lives at Wetherock-hill near Kings Norton in the said County.  persuasion of great integrity and single-heartedness in his Ministry, of a free and liberal heart, just, and one that lived much by faith, of an holy and unblamable life, of humble deportment and carriage, a great lover of peace, a plain and profitable Preacher, that he was much in communion with God in public, abundant in thanksgiving to God, careful how to spend his time, etc. His works are these.  
The Pulpit guarded with XVII arguments, proving the unlawfulness, sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them public preaching and expounding the Scriptures without a Call, etc. Lond. 1651. qu. Answered by one Tho. Collier, of whom more anon.  
Six arguments to prove our Ministers free from Antichristianisme, etc.— Printed there the same year in qu.  
The Font guarded with XX arguments, containing a compendium of that great controversy of Infant-Baptisme etc. Lond. 1651. 52. qu.  
The Collier in his colours, etc. wherein you have the filthy, false, heretical and blasphemous tenants of one Collier an Arrian, Arminian, Socinian, etc. Lond. 1652. qu. The said Tho. Collier was a husbandman, sometimes Teacher to the Church at York, and in 1652 a teacher at Westbury in Somersetshire.  
Praecursor praecursoris: or, a word to Mr. Tombs, currente calamo. Lond. 1652. qu.  
The loathsomeness of long hair: or, a treatise containing many arguments against it, etc. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Reasons and arguments against painting, spots, naked breasts, arms, etc. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Vindiciae literarum. The Schools guarded: or, the excellency and usefulness of humane learning in subordination to Divinity and preparation to the Ministry, etc. Lond. 1654. 55. oct.  
Centuria sacra. About an hundred rules for the explaining and clearer understanding of the holy Scriptures etc. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Rhetorica sacra: or, a synopsis of the most material hopes and figures contained in the sacred Scriptures. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Histriomastix. A whip for Webster (as 'tis conceived) the quondam Player. Or, an examination of one John Webster's delusive Examen of Academies. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Confutation of the Millinarian opinions, plainly demonstrating that Christ will not reign visibly and personally on earth with the Saints for a 1000 years, etc. with a word to our Fifth-monarchy men. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Practical and polemical commentary or exposition upon the third and fourth chapters of S. Paul to Timothy. Lond. 1658. fol. Much commended by a man of his persuasion named Joh. Ley (of whom I have spoken under the year 1662.) in one of his books which he shortly after published. In which 'tis said that for congruity of the truth with the holy text, pertinency and fullness of profitable matter, is the best that hitherto hath been extant in the Church of Christ.  
Apologia pro Ministerio Evangelico, in quâ planè & plenè ostenditur ejus necessitas, dignitas, efficacia & utilitas, etc. Francof. 1658 in oct. Printed in English also at Lond. 1660. qu.  
Beauty of holiness: or, a description of the excellency, amiableness, comfort and content, which is to be found in ways of purity and holiness. Lond. 1658. oct.  
Funebria Florae. The downfall of May-games; wherein is set forth the rudeness, profaneness, etc. in the said heathenish customs, etc. Lond. 1660, there again the second and third time in 1661. in 7. sh. in qu.  
Samaria's downfall: or, a commentary by way of supplement on the five last verses of Hosea 13, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. This is a supplement to Jer. Burroughs his Commentary, which was defective as to these five verses.  
Beauty of Magistracy, in an exposition of the 82 Psal. wherein is set forth the necessity, utility, dignity, duty and morality of Magistrates. Lond. 1660 qu. Assisted in this work by George Swinnocke M. A. and Minister of Great Kimbel in Bucks.  
Exposition on the fourth 5.6.7.8 and 9th Chapters of Amos— Lond. 1661. qu.  
Worcestershire petition for the Ministry of England, with a defence of it.— printed in qu. Besides these books our said Author Tho. Hall did translate paraphrastically and grammatically the second book of Ovid's Metamorph. which he entit. Phaeton's folly: or, the downfall of pride: Also the first elegy of Ovid's book De Tristibus. Both printed at Lond. 1655. oct. Furthermore he made an explanation and Grammatical translation of the thirteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis, which he entit. Wisdoms Conquest, etc. Lond. 1651. oct. and finally left other matters at the time of his death fit for the press; among which is his work upon the 71. Psalm. He died a Nonconformist on the thirteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  and was buried in the Ch. yard of Kings Norton before mentioned, to the School of which place (which he procured the Parishioners to build) he gave his study of books in his life time. Also to the Library of Birmingham School, which was erected before that of Kings Norton, he was a good benefactor, and gave several volumes that he had bought, and prevailed with many of his Brethren to do the like.  
CORNELIUS BURGES was descended from the Burgesses of Batcomb in Somersetshire, but whether born there, I cannot justly say it. In the year 1611 he made his first entry into this University, but in what Coll. or Hall he took up his quarters is uncertain: Sure I am, that about the first foundation of Wadham Coll. he translated himself thereunto, and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards retiring to Linc. Coll, he proceeded in the same faculty, took holy orders, and had some cure bestowed upon him, which I take to be the rectory of S. Magnus' Church in London or the Vicarage of Watford in Hartfordshire, or both: which two he afterwards held with his Lecture at S. Paul's. In the beginning of the reign of K. Ch. 1. he became one of his Chaplains in ordinary, and in 1627. took both the degrees in Divinity as a compounder; at which time undertaking to answer the Doctors in the Divinity 
(*) Pet. Heylyn in his letter Combat— Lond. 1659. p. 82.  Act, showed himself so sorry a Disputant and so sufficiently ignorant in the terms of Logic, that instead of saying negatur major and negatur minor, he could say nothing else but negatur id. Whereupon Prideaux the Regius Professor said to him openly with a merry jeer, tu potes bene praedicare, sed non potes bene disputare, that he might probably be a good Preacher, though he had showed himself a silly Disputant. At that time and several years after, he showed himself a zealous man for the Church of England, and it could never be thought in the least by those that knew him that he would have swerved from it. But having not that preferment conferred upon him which he expected, though he was a pluralist, and looked 
(a) Sober sadness: or, historical observations upon the proceedings, etc. Oxon. 1643. p. 32.  upon by the High Commission as one guilty of adultery, and a vexer of two Parishes with continual suits of Law, wherein he could find little or no remedy, he became 
(b) See Canterb. Doom p. 173.  a scandalous and schismatical Lecturer, using many expressions in his Sermons that moved People to sedition. For which also being questioned, he became incensed against the Bishops, and afterwards very busy to pick holes in the coats of his Brethren, and rake up the very ashes of the dead to discover their corruptions. In 1635 he preached a Lat. Sermon to the London Ministers in S. Alphage Church near Zion Coll. wherein he pressed all to diligence in preaching, and spoke of the connivance of Bishops at the growth of Arminianism and Popery; for which being summoned into the High Commission Court and put to charge, made him afterwards implacable against them. Upon the approach of the troublesome times in 1640, he, with Steph. Martial, Edm. Calamy, Calybute Downing, etc. did first whisper in their Conventicles, then openly preach that for the cause of religion it was lawful for the Subjects to take up Arms against their lawful Sovereign. Which doctrine being also followed by the rest of the Elders, the People of London did violently rush into rebellion, and were found pliable by the faction in Parliament to raise tumults, make out-cries for justice, call for innocent blood, subscribe and prefer petitions against the holy Liturgy and the Hierarchy, and to strike at root and branch, especially if our Author Burges did but hold up his finger 
(c) Letter from Mer. Civic. to Mer, Rustic. printed 1643. p. 9  to his Myrmidons, or Capt. (afterwards Colonel) John Venn sent his summons by his Wife, to assemble the zealots of the City. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he was appointed by the Lords one of the Sub-committee to settle Religion: who meeting in Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster, our Author Burges became speaker for his party the Presbyterians. In which office he made a vehement invective against Deans and Chapters and the unprofitableness of such Corporations, and did aggravate to debauchedness the lives of singing men, and they not only useless but hurtful by their vicious conversation. At the same time also being looked upon as a doughty Champion for the holy cause and a zealous Covenantier, 'twas usual with him and the said Venn to lead up the tumults of the City to the Parliament doors to see that the godly party (for so their faction was called) in the House might not be out-voted, and then turning back and beholding the rabble, would say These are my band-dogs, I can set them on, and I can take them off again, etc. by which means above four parts in five of the Lords, and two parts in three of the Commons were frighted out of the house, to leave the Faction absolute Masters thereof. These things also he did when the most noble Earl of Strafford was tried for his life. So that being the Ringleader of the rout, and the only scandal to his profession in all London, was thought fit by the blessed Parliament, (as by the faction it was called) to be one of those Godly Divines that were to hold forth before them, to be one of the Sub-committee for the advancement of moneys to carry on the War against the King, and to be with John White the Centurist, Assessors to the Ass. of Divines. But before that time Essex the General finding him a zealous instrument to carry on the cause, made him his Chaplain to that Regiment of Horse, which was next under him. In Dec. 1643 the Londoners sent Will. Gibbes and John Fowke Aldermen, and others of the common Council to the House of Commons to desire that the Cath. Church of S. Paul might be set open again, and that there might be a Lecture every Sunday night (as was formerly used) after the afternoons Sermon, and another on the week day, and that Dr. Corn. Burges might be the man, (who having been several times put to his compurgators in that consistory, was the ablest and fittest for that Sunday-nights Lecture) desiring their honours to allow the Doctor a pension of 400 l. per an. out of the revenues of the Cathedral, for his encouragement in that service. Which being a poor pittance, (God wot) they not only confirmed that pension, but gave him the Deans house thereof for his habitation; both settled soon after by Act of Parliament. The first motion of this did proceed from the Militia of London, among whom the Doctor used to ride with his case of pistols, was called Colonel, and showed himself very officious to assist plundering at the Globe Tavern in Holborn. Afterwards growing very rich, he purchased several Lands, as the manor of Wells belonging to the Bishop thereof, and the habitation of the Dean there, which he mostly plucked down and rebuilt. And being so done he wrote a book to show that there was no sacrilege or sin to alien or purchase the Lands of Bishops and Chapters: which being taken into the hands of many curious readers, had the licentiousness of a second impression, an. 1659. But upon the King's restauration he lost all, having about an year before been offered twelve thousand and odd pounds for his House and Lands at, and near, Wells; whereupon retiring to Watford in Hartfordshire before mentioned, lived obscurely there, and died in a mean condition, as I shall anon tell you. He hath written and published these matters following.  
A chain of Graces drawn out at length for reformation of Manners. Lond. 1622. in tw.  
New discovery of personal Tithes: or, the tenth part of men's clear gains proved due both in conscience, and by the laws of this Kingdom. Lond. 1625. oct.  
The fire of the Sanctuary newly discovered: or, a complete Tract of Zeal. Lond. 1625. in oct. Which book, upon its Authors grand defect, was answered by Anon. in a Pamphlet intit. A whip, etc. printed 1643. Whereupon an old puritannical Poet named Francis Quarles (the sometimes Darling of our plebeian judgements) who seemed to have a great respect for our Author, came out with a Reply intit. The Whipper whipped, etc. printed 1644, wherein, in the first page he styles Dr. Burges a man of singular parts, etc.  
Baptismal Regeneration of elect Infants, professed by the Church of England, according to Scriptures, the primitive Church, the present reformed Churches, and many particular Divines apart. Oxon 1629. qu.  
Vindication of the Reasons against Bishop's Votes in Parliament. Lond. 1641. qu. Whether he was Author of the Reasons I know not.  
Several sermons, as (1) Sermon at a public Fast before the House of Commons, 17 Nou. 1640, on Jer. 50.5. Lond. 1641. qu. (2) Sermon before the H. of Com. 5 Nou. 1641. on Psal. 76.10. Lond. 1641. qu. Wherein are many things of, and against, the Papists and Jesuits. (3) Serm. before the H. of Com. 30 March 1642, on Jer. 4.14. Lond. 1642. qu. (4) Vanity and mischief of the thoughts of an heart unwashed, Serm. before the H. of Com. on their day of humiliation 30 of Apr. 1645. on Jer. 4.14. (as before) Lond. 1645. qu. (5) Necessity of agreement with God, Fast-serm. before the H. of Lords 29 Oct. 1645, on Amos 3.3. Lond. 1645. qu. besides others which I have not yet seen, as Serm. on 2 Chron. 15.2, another on Ezra 10.2.3, a third called Prudent silence, preached 12 Jan. 1648: whether the same with that against the destroying of Kings, preached about the same time, I cannot tell: and lastly another on Amos 5.13. printed 1660. in octavo.  
Zion Coll. what it is and doth. A vindication of that Society against two Pamphlets, etc. Lond. 1648. qu.  
His case as Lecturer in Paul's.— This is a little Pamphlet. By the way the Reader is now to know, that it hath been confidently affirmed that our Author before he was engaged in buying Bishops Lands, did concur with Dr. Joh. Hacket (in his Answer to Dr. Hacket's Speech in 1641.) that the alienating of any thing settled by divine right upon the Church, is sacrilege. This he confessed he did, but he was put upon it suddenly by the H. of Commons in May 1641, and had no time given him but one hour. However afterwards he was so zealous in that point, that he, before he had purchased such, was a forward Preacher for it; and after he had made purchases, he wrote and published a book intit.  
No sacrileege nor sin to alien or purchase the Lands of Bishops or others, whose offices are abolished. Lond. 1659. 2 edit. Also  
A Case concerning the lawfulness of buying Bishops Lands.— This last I have not yet seen, nor another paper reported to be his, wherein the King's Majesty is attempted by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds, to make good by an Act of Parliament the purchases of Bishops, Deans, and Chapters Lands for 99 years. Printed 1660. See more in Joh. Gauden among these Writers, an. 1662. num. 206.  
Apology for purchases of Lands late of Bishops, Deans and Chapters.— This is a sheet in fol. and therein is showed a great deal of reading; but whether it was all penned by Burges, though no doubt but he had a hand in it, I know not.  
Reason's showing the necessity of Reformation of the public (1) Doctrine (2) Worship, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. Which, though in the title it is said, that divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England wrote, yet Mr. Baxter 
(*) In Dr. Jo. Hinkley's Fascic. literarum. Lond. 1680. oct. pag. 34.  saith that our Author Burges penned, them. They were answered by Dr. Joh. Pearson and Dr. Hen. Savage; the former of which was replied upon by our Author Burges in a Postscript to a piece of his which I have not yet seen: Answered or rejoined by the said Pearson in a little thing intit. Answer to Dr. Burges his word by way of Postscript, in vindication of No necessity, etc.  
Antidote against Antisobrius.— Printed about 1660.  
Some of the differences and alterations in the present Common-prayer book, from the book established by the Act in the fifth and sixth of Ed. 6. and first of Q. Eliz.— Printed in one sh. in qu. 1660.  
The book of Common-Prayer, etc. compared with the old Editions, and all the Alterations noted down. Lond. 1663. oct. I shall make mention of this work more anon, and in the mean time tell you that after the King's Restauration, our Author Burges being deprived of all the Church-lands that he had purchased at very easy rates, and of his pension from S. Paul's Cathedral, notwithstanding he tugged hard to keep some, he retired to his house at Watford before mentioned, where exercising himself much in penitence, and in observing the duties of the Church, was at length reduced to such poverty, that he was forced to sell all or most part of his Library to buy bread. But that was not all; for about that time he was so much troubled with a cancer in his neck and cheek, that all he could get, could not in the least cure it, or satisfy that hunger which it caused. Insomuch that being brought very low in body and purse, he sent to Sir Rich. Browne (who was elected Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660.) for relief, and in his letter told him that he was brought to great want and poverty, and that he was eaten up with a cancer in his neck and cheek— I am (saith 
(†) See in Is. Basire in his Sacrilege arraigned. Lond. 1668. sec. Edit. in the Preface.  he) reduced to want a piece of bread, as this bearer my son may better inform you; but Sir mistake me not, I do not beg, I only acquaint you with my condition, and do you what is fit, etc. To which Sir Richard made return, and told the Doctor, that Tho he was the prime cause and motive of his Rebellion against the late King by his preaching and violent persuasions, yet if he would preach a Recantation sermon in S. Paul's Cathedral, he would take care that he should never want so long as he lived. But the reply made to it being this, that he was not then in a capacity to do it, Sir Richard rewarded him with 3 l. only. Afterwards dying obscurely and in want, was obscurely buried in the middle of the body of the Church at Watford before mentioned, 
1665.  on the ninth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five. About three weeks before his death, he sent certain Common-prayer books to the public Library at Oxon, and in a spare leaf before the title of one of them, he wrote this note following with his own hand, dated at Watford 16 May 1665. I Cornelius Burges being an. 1627. by my dear and much honoured mother the renowned University of Oxford, made Doctor in Divinity, an much grieved that I am able to do nothing worthy of her, yet I humbly offer that I have, viz. the first book of the 
(a) It should be 2 Ed. 6. Dom. 1649.  first of Edw. 6, as also the second book of Common-prayer 5 and 6 of Ed. 6. wherein this hath several Alterations, upon the censure of Bucer, extant in his book Scripta Anglicana. I also add a third book of Common-prayer renewed and established in 1 Elizab. which book is very hard to be had that was then printed: I could never see any other of that edition. I also add a fourth book of Common-prayer in 
(b) 'Tis in oct. H. 138. Th. in bib. Bod. pr. at Lond. 1663.  12o, wherein I have noted 
(c) The book is interleaved, and therein, as in the Margin, he hath noted many things with his own hand.  all the differences between that book established by this great Parliament an. 1663., and the former book established before. All these I most humbly and thankfully give to my said honourable mother of Oxford, (I being ready to die) beseeching her to account of these four small mites, as our Lord and blessed Saviour did of the poor Widows two mites, that by casting in that, cast in all she had.— Cornelius Burges. The Common-prayer book wherein this note was written, was printed in fol. at Lond. 1549, in the month of May. At the bottom of the title of which, is this written by Dr. Burges. This is one of the very first books of Common Prayer in the beginning of Edw. 6. which book at the Request of Archb. Cranmer, was reviewed and censured by Martin Bucer, and then reform accordingly in the 5 of Ed. 6. which latter is the book still in force by the statute of 1 Eliz. and this (meaning the Common-Prayer-book printed 1549) is repealed.  
KENELME DIGBY, the magazine of all Arts, or as one 
(d) Edw. Leigh in his Treatise of Religion and Learning, etc. lib. 3. cap. 15.  styles him The ornament of this Nation, son and heir of Sir Everard Digby of Dry-stoke in Rutlandshire Kt. by Mary his wife, daughter and sole heir to Will. Mulsho of Gothurst commonly called Gadhurst in Buckinghamshire, was born at Gothurst on the eleventh 
(e) As in the book of Nativities collected by Dr. Rich. Napier of Buckingham's. MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq. and in an Almanac for 1673 published by Joh. Gadbury.  day of July 1603, (1 Jac. 1.) yet Ben. Johnson for rhyme-sake will have 
(f) In his Vnderwoods', pag. 243.  it June, thus; 
Witness thy action done at Scanderoon  
Upon thy birth day the eleventh of June.  About the year 1618. he was sent to Gloucester Hall, after he had been trained up in the Protestant Religion, (which afterwards he left for that of Rome) and committed to the care of Tho. Allen, (who used to say that he was the Mirandula of his age) but to the tuition of another; where continuing in the quality of a Gent. Com. for more than two years, he went beyond the seas for a time, and at his return received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty then at Hinchingbrook (who before had restored to this our Author Digby his estate forfeited by his father) on the 28 of Octob. 1623. In the year 1628. being then Admiral of a Fleet going to the Levant (about which time I find him written, è secretiori conclavi ad Carol. 1. & in rebus maritimis Administrator praecipuus) he acquired great honour by his gallant comportment at Algiers, in reescating many English Slaves, and by bearing up so bravely in the resolute Onset on the Venetian Fleet in the Bay of Scanderoon, and making the Pantolini to know themselves and him better. This Onset was made (as 'tis reported) on the eleventh of June (his birthday, as Ben. Joh. will have it) yet a Pamphlet that was published the same year, giving an account of all the Transactions of that Fight, tells us it was on the 16 of the same month; which if true, than the fortune of that day is again marred. For this his Valour, and by his Travels into several Countries, and converse with the Virtuosos of most civilised Nations, he 
(g) So in Sir Ken. Digbies Epitaph made by R. Ferrar.  became 
The ages wonder for his noble parts,  
Skilled in six Tongues, and learned in all the Arts.   
He was not only Master of a good, graceful, and judicious stile, but also wrote an admirable hand, both fast and Roman. His person was handsome and gigantic, and nothing was wanting to make him a complete Chevalier. He had so graceful elocution and noble address, that had he been dropped out of the Clouds in any part of the World he would have made himself respected; but the Jesuits, who cared not for him, spoke spitefully, and said 'twas true, but then he must have stayed there above six weeks. He had a great faculty, (which proceeded from abundance of wit and invention) of proposing and reporting matters to the Virtuosos, especially to the philosophical Assembly at Montpelier, and Royal Society at home. Which is the reason why many say, that as he was most exactly accomplished with all sorts of Learning, so was he guilty withal of extravagant Vanities. Nay one, 
(h) Hen. Stubbe in his Animadversions upon the Plus Ultra of Mr. Glanvill, p. 161.  a most noted Author, doth not stick to say that this our eminent Virtuoso was the Pliny of our age for lying, having been provoked to say so, not only from the said Reports, but from another, which put men to a very great wonder, viz. of a City in Barbary under the King of Tripoli that was turned into stone in a very few hours by a petrifying Vapour that fell upon the place, that is, Men, Beasts, Trees, Houses, Utensels, etc. every thing remaining in the same posture, as Children at their Mother's breasts, etc. But this report the Reader is to understand that Sir Kenelm had from an Englishman, Mr. Fitton, residing in Florence, Library-keeper to the great Duke there, by Letter dated 2 Jul. 1656, and he from the great Duke, who a little before had written to the Bassa of Tripoli to know the truth. Which strange accident being looked upon as the great wonder of the world, was put into the common Newsbook of that time called Mercurius Politicus, as having been received from Sir Kenelm then residing at Tholouse in France, who sent a full account of it to a friend of his in England in Sept. following. But as no man knew better than Sir Ken. how to abound, and how to live like a Philosopher, for both were indifferent to him, so none of his time knew better how to take, and pocket up, Abuses; which indeed belongs to a true Philosopher. In the beginning of the Civil Wars he showed himself active for the King's Cause, and thereupon was forced to compound for his estate in 1649. Which being done, the Parliament then sitting, voted that he should depart the Commonwealth, and not return without leave from the House under pain of death, and confiscation of his estate. Notwithstanding which, he did afterwards return for a time, and, as 'tis said, cringed to Oliver, but in what sense, whether in order for the good of the Rom. Catholics, or for the carrying on of some public design, I cannot now tell. About the same time he being Chancellor to Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England, she sent him as her Envoy from France to the Pope, was at his first coming to Rome highly venerated by all people, as being a person not only of a majestic port and carriage, but of extraordinary Parts and Learning. At length growing high, and huffing his Holiness, he was in a manner neglected, and especially for this reason, that having made a collection of money for the afflicted Catholics in England, was found to be no faithful Steward in that matter. As for his Works they are these.  
Letter giving an account of the fight with the Venetians at the bay of Scandaroon.  
Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion. Par. 1638. etc. Lond. 1654. oct. Answered by Will. Twisse, but never published.  
Observations upon Religio Medici. Lond. 1643. 44. oct. etc. They were the conceptions of one night, and of an hasty birth. The said Rel. Medici was penned by Dr. Tho. Browne, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
Treatise of the nature of Bodies. Par. 1644. fol. Lond. 1658. 1665. and 69. all three in qu. Answered by Alex. Rosse in a book intit. The philosophical Touchstone: or, observations on Sir Ken. Digbies Discourses of nature of Bodies and of the reasonable Soul, etc. in which his erroneous Paradoxes are refuted, etc. Lond. 1645. qu.  
Treatise of the nature of Man's Soul. Parnell 1644. fol. Lond. 1645. 58. 69. qu. This, (which was answered by Rosse also) with the Treatise of the nature of Bodies, were translated into Latin by J. L. and had a Preface put to them by Tho. White who writes himself Thomas Anglus ex Albiis East-saxonum.— Par. 1651. folio.  
Observations on the 22d Stanza in the ninth Canto of the second book of Spencer's Fairy Queen. Lond. 1644. octavo.  
Institutionum peripateticarum libri quinque, cum appendice Theologica de origine mundi. Par. 1651. fol. set at the end of the two Translations made by J. L. before mentioned. Translated into English by the said Tho. White.— Lond. 1656. oct.  
Letters to the Lord George Digby concerning Religion. Lond. 1651. oct.  
Of the cure of Wounds by the powder of Sympathy. Lond. 1658. oct. Spoken in French in a solemn Assembly at Montpelier in France 1657. and translated into English by Rich. White.— Lond. 1660. Reprinted at Lond. with the Treatise of bodies, an. 1669. and translated into Lat. by Laur. Stransius of Darmstad in Hassia. It is also printed in the book intit. Theatrum sympatheticum, published by Joh. Andrea's Endter, at Norimberg 1662. in qu. and is also printed in the Germane Language. This is the so much approved sympathetical powder, said to be prepared by Promethean fire, curing all green wounds that come within the compass of a remedy in a short time, and likewise the Toothache infallibly.  
Discourse concerning the Vegitation of Plants, Lond. 1661. oct. and 69. qu. Spoken on the 23 of Jan. 1660, in a large meeting of the Royal Society in Gresham Coll.— Printed in Lat. at Amsterd. 1663. and 69. in tw. under this title Dissert. de plantarum vegitatione.  
Choice and experimental Receipts in Physic and Chirurgery.  
Cordial and distilled Waters and Spirits, Perfumes and other Curiosities.— These two last things were translated out of several Languages (for so they were collected and written) by George Hartman sometimes Steward to Sir Kenelm the Collector, and by him published at Lond. 1668. oct. The first was printed afterwards under this title Medicina experimentalis.— Franc. 1677. oct.  
His Closet opened; whereby is discovered several ways of making Metheglin, Cider, Cherry-wine, etc. Lond. 1669. 77. oct.  
Excellent directions for Cookery, etc. Lond. 1669. 77. octavo.  
Choice collection of rare chemical Secrets and Experiments in Philosophy. As also rare and unheard of medicines, Menstruums and Alkahests, with the true secret of volatizing the fixed salt of Tartar, etc. Lond. 1682. oct. etc. Published by Hartman before mentioned, who had operated for Sir Kenelm for many years. These are all the things which he hath written, that I yet know of, except, as some are pleased to say, (which I scarce believe) the Letter to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and the Revenues thereof. Lond. 1646. 47, which he published at the request of the Earl of Dorset. See more in Rich. Stevart, under the year 1651. He also translated into English A Treatise of adheering to God. Lond. 1654. oct. Written by Albert the great, Bishop of Ratisbon. To conclude: he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Covent Garden, on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  and was buried in a Vault, built at his own charge, under the east end of the south Isle or Alley joining the Choir of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London, by the body of Venetia his sometimes wife, daughter and co-heir of Sir Edw. Stanley of Tongue-Castle in Shropshire; to whose memory he had, some years before his death, erected over the said Vault a stately altar monument of black marble, and thereon had caused her bust, made of Copper gilt, to be fastened, with four inscriptions of Copper gilded to be affixed to the said monument. Which being done, he caused the draught or picture of the said monument, with the several inscriptions, to be entered in a large folio book of Vellum, containing the history of the family of Digby, which our Author caused to be made of all matters relating thereunto that could be found from record either remaining in the custody of his family, or in the Tower, or any office, in London; together with the pictures of their monuments that could be found in any Church whatsoever, in which they had been buried. Which book, as his son John hath said, did cost his father about 1000 l. The next year after our Author Sir Kenelm was buried, the said monument with bust was spoiled and defaced when the Church itself was burnt in the dismal conflagration that then happened in London. His study of books (being a most admirable collection) which he had conveyed into France in the time of the Rebellion, fell, after his death, for want of his being naturalised, into the French Kings hands, of whom being begged by a certain Gentleman, it was sold, as the report than went, for ten thousand Crowns. Sir Everard Digby, father to Sir Kenelm, was a most goodly Gentleman, and the handsomest man of his time, but much pitied for that it was his ill fate to suffer for the Powder-plot in 1605 aged 24; at which time when the Executioner plucked out his heart, (when his body was to be quartered) and according to the manner held it up, saying Here is the heart of a Traitor, Sir Everard made answer, Thou liest. This a most famous (
(†) Franc. Lord Bacon.  Author mentions, but tells us not his name, in his Historia vitae & mortis. The said Sir Everard, was son of Everard Digby of Dry stoke before mentioned, sometimes Master of Arts and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1579, a Publisher then, and after, of several books, (as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you) among which is A Dissuasive from taking away the Goods and Livings of the Churchy, etc. Printed at Lond. in qu. This Everard the Writer died at Dry-stoke in 1592. or thereabouts. Sir Ken. Digby had a younger brother called Sir Joh. Digby, who very readily served his Majesty K. Ch. 1. when his Parliament took up Arms against him, was a Colonel, and afterwards a Major Gen. in the western parts of England, while Mr. Joh. Digby, a younger son of John Earl of Bristol, was a Gen. there for his Maj. as I have elsewhere told you.  
JOHN LEWGAR was born of gentile parents in London, admitted Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616, and in that of his age 14, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and in 1632 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being about that time beneficed in Essex. After Will. Chillingwrrth returned from beyond the seas, he had several Conferences with him about matters of Religion; wherein Chillingworth showing himself a person of great dexterity, Lewgar was at length merely by the force of his Arguments induced to believe that the Roman Church was a true Church, and that the Protestants were all in the wrong, as he used often to tell his friends, and withal to add, that Chillingworth was of no meek and winning spirit, but high and conceited, and so consequently unfit for a Religion that required Humility and Obedience, etc. Afterwards our Author Lewgar left his Benefice and Religion, and upon the invitation of Cecil Lord Calvert, called Lord Baltimore, (who had been his intimate acquaintance while he was a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll.) traveled into Maryland, belonging to the said Lord; where, after he had spent several years, and had buried his wife, he returned into England, some years before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. with Father Andrew White a Jesuit, who had been sent thither to gain the Barbarians to his Religion. After which time he lived in Wild-street near Lond. in the house of the said Lord Baltimore, where he wrote,  
Erastus' junior: a solid Demonstration by Principles, forms of Ordination, Common Laws, Acts of Parliament, that no Bishop, Minister, nor Presbyter, hath any Authority to preach, etc. from Christ, but from the Parliament. Lond. 1659. 60.  
Erastus' signior: scholastically demonstrating this conclusion, that admitting Lambeth Records to be true, those called Bishops here in England, are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction, or so much as legal, etc. Lond. 1662. oct. He died of the Plague in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London, 
1665.  in sixteen hundred sixty and five, by too much exposing himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholics, as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest, who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things, besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen. but the just titles of them he could not tell. One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to, if not descended from, the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes, an. 1675, in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert.  
JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet, was an Essexian born, became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642, and in that of his age 18, bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty, and was afterwards, as 'tis said, a Captain in one of his Armies: but upon the declining of his Majesty's Cause, he retired to London in a mean condition; where he wrote several things merely for maintenance sake; among which were these,  
Regale lectum miseriae: or, the English bed of misery: in which is contained a Dream. Lond. 1649. oct.  
Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late (but too soon martyred) King of England.  
Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell, beheaded 9 Mar. 1648.  
A curse against the enemies of peace.  
His farewell to England.— These four last things were printed with Reg. lect. miseriae, before mentioned. Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas, but whether in the condition of a Tutor, or bare Traveller or Pilgrim, I know not. After his return, he lived as occasion served, and published,  
Fons lacrymarum: or, a fountain of tears: from whence doth flow England's complaint.  
Jeremiahs' Lamentations paraphrased, with divine Meditations.  
Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas.— These three last things were several times printed in oct. one Edition whereof came out in 1677.  
The tyranny of the Dutch against the English. Lond. 1653. oct, written in prose.  
Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia. Lond. 1659. in tw. He also published in verse, The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. etc. Lond. 1655. in oct. Written by Will. Shakespeare Gent, and added to it Tarquin banished: or, the reward of lust. Lond. 1655. oct. in verse. He hath also written,  
Divine Meditations upon several Subjects: whereunto is annexed God's love, and Man's unworthiness, with several divine Ejaculations, Lond. 1659., &c oct.  
Triumphant chastity; or, joseph's self conflict, when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery: showing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit. Lond. 1683. oct. a divine Poem. This person J. Quarles, (who perhaps hath written other things) was esteemed by some a good Poet, and a great Royalist, for which he suffered, and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition. At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London, he was swept away there, among thousands that died of that disease, 
1665.  in sixteen hundred sixty and five; but where his carcase was lodged, I cannot tell. One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton, an. 1640, and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet.  
ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an ancient and gentile family in Glocestershire, elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619, aged 17 years, being then some months standing in that house, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1626., and afterwards (upon his return from his Travels) lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years, and there took to him a wife. At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days, and there finished his course. This person, who was always accounted a Puritan, hath written and translated these things following.  
The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex, etc. containing at large the Wars he managed, and the Commands he had in Holland, the Palatinate, and in England, etc. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shows himself a rank Parliamenteir.  
Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs.  
The life of Aesop.— This is written in French and Latin; which, with that written in English by Tho. Philipot, are put before Aesop's Fables in English, illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow— Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English (1) Treatise of the knowledge of God. Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen. (2) Heptameron: or, the history of the fortunate lovers. Lond. 1654. in a thick oct. Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr, who divided it into eight days journey. This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq. And also from Lat. into English (1) The History of Justin, taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius, containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries, both in peace and war, from the beginning of the world, until the time of the Rom. Emperors. Lond. 1664. (second edit.) 1672. oct. 82. in tw. (2) Aesop's Fables, printed in oct. (3) Ignoramus, a Com.— Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement, which (out of respect to the Students of the Common Law) was hitherto wanting. (4) Prophecies of Christoph. Kotterus, Christiana Poniatovia, and Nich. Drabicius, three famous Germane Prophets, etc. Lond. 1664. oct. second edit. (5) Life and death of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon. In 10 books, Lond. 1673. oct. Written by Q. Curtius Rufus. He hath also translated (from French) the last vol. of Nich. Caussins' Holy Court, which I have not yet seen: Nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  but where buried I cannot yet tell, and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press.  
SAMUE● FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton, was born there, or at least in Northamptonshire, became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1623., aged 18 years, took one degree in Arts, as a member thereof, at which time being puritanically inclined, he translated himself to New Inn, where, by the stay that he made, which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A, he was throughly settled in his opinion, and as 'tis verily thought, he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done. About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicarage of lid in Kent; where, under the character of a very powerful Preacher, he lived in Conformity (though continuing still in his Puritanism) till about the year 1643, near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town, who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience, as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere. Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering, our Author Fisher enjoined himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days, wherein he, as the mouth of the rest, was to apply himself to God by Prayer, to require his immediate direction and guidance. After many of these religious Consults, during the continuance of their being dissatisfied, two persons professing themselves Anabaptists retired to lid, and under the title of Messengers of God desired of our Author the liberty of using his Pulpit the next Lord's day; wh●ch motion he seemed very inclinable to grant, but the Churchwardens strictly forbade it. Whereupon the said Anabaptists on the Saturday following preached by turns in the open Marketplace amongst a great concourse of people, wherein our Author had placed himself so near, as to have the conveniency of hearing their several Harangues. In the conclusion our Author desired a conference with them, and after some debate, he publicly disowned his former Tenants, revolted from the Ch. of England, and was immediately rebaptized, positively affirming that this opportunity was the return which God had made to his foregoing Fasts and Prayers; and with this plausible pretence he gained several Proselytes, renounced his Cure, and zealously propagated his opinions, as well by keeping a constant Conventicle, as by public Challenges and Disputes with several of the neighbouring Ministers, and writing several controversial Pamphlets, all reprinted in fol. as I shall anon tell you. About 8 or 9 years after his Apostasy, he turned a very zealous Quaker, and in the company of one of that Sect he undertook a Voyage to Rome, whether under pretence of converting the Pope, I cannot say it. Upon their return thence about 1658, his companion was in a very poor miserable condition, but our Author in a very gentile Equipage, having been (as 'twas credibly supposed in Kent) made in his absence a Rom. Priest. In the year following, he, as a Quaker, held a public disputation at Sandwich with Mr. Tho. Danson, as I shall tell you anon; wherein several Proposals being made to him about his Religion, he first denied not that he had been at Rome, but that he received a pension from the Pope, he utterly denied; which then, as 'twas said, was very probable, if not true; for it was reported from very good hands, that in his late Travels to Constantinople, and thence to Rome, he had as good bills of Exchange as most Gentlemen that travel, and yet it was well known then that he had no visible Estate; and the Quakers that came to the Dispute, did report that he did bear his witness against the Pope and Cardinals of Rome, and yet they suffered him not to be meddled with, etc. Secondly, it was sworn by sufficient and credible men of Sandwich that had some discourse with him at Dunkirk, that he told them, that he looked upon the Jesuits and Friars there to be sounder in Doctrine than those we call the Reformed Churches. And thirdly, that on the first day of the Dispute, he made very light of the charge of Popery against him, when Amesius against Bellarmine was produced; and with a gesture of derision he replied that Bellarmine held many truths which must not be rejected because he held them, etc. As for the books which he published, the titles of them follow, but the respective years when they were published, I know not.  
Anti-diabolisme: or, the true account of a true Counterfeit.  
One word yet to the Disputers and Scribes of the Ashford disputation: or, an Epilogetical Postscript on the Apologetical Preface.  
Anti-babism: or, the Babish disputation at Ashford for Baby-baptisme disproved.  
The second part of Anti●babisme: or, a Review of their Review.  
Anti-rantism: or, Christ'ndom unchristned.  
Anti-sacerdotism. Sacerdotale delirium diliatum. The dotage of the Priests discovered. Or a new Edition, with no small addition in way of emendation, &c of the third part of that treble Treatise, which is extant about the Ashford Disputation, intit. A pathetical exhortation to the Pastors to oppose the growth of Anabaptism, etc.— All which things being reprinted in fol. had this title set before them.— Christianismus redivivus. Christ'ndom both unchristned and new-christned; or, that good old way of dipping and in Churching of Men and Women after faith and repentance professed, (commonly, but not properly called Anabaptism) vindicated from that two-edged sword of the Spirit (the word of God) from all kind of calumnies that are cast upon it, etc. Lond. 1655. fol.  
Rusticus ad Academicos in exercitationibus expostulatoriis, & Apologeticis quatuor. The Rustics alarm to the Rabbins: or, the Country correcting the University and Clergy; and (not without good cause) contesting for the truth, against the nursing mothers and their children. In four Apologetical, and expostulatory Exercitations. Wherein is contained, as well a general account of all Enquirers, as a general Answer to all opposers of the most truly catholic, and most truly Christ-like Christians called Quakers, and of the true Divinity of their Doctrine. By way of entire intercourse held in special with four of the Clergies Chieftains, John Owen D. D. Tho. Danson▪ M. A. Joh. Tombs B. D. and Rich. Baxter of Kederminster, etc. Lond. 1660 in a thick quarto. with an additional appendix.  
A positive true testimony according to the external letter, to the internal and eternal light— Printed with the former, in Engl. and Lat. in two columes.  
Busy Bishop besides the business or Dr. Gauden overseen, etc. Lond. 1662. qu. This, which I have not yet seen, is the same I suppose, with the book about Tender consciences.  
Three disputations at Sandwich with Tho. Danson, an. 1659. Lond. 1664. oct. 3d. edit. Published by the said Tho. Danson sometimes fellow of Magd. Coll.  
Baptism before or after faith and repentance. Lond. 1669. fol. The same I suppose, (for I have not yet seen it) with the folio before mentioned, Christianismus redivivus, &c, only the title altered. What else he, or others under his name, have published I know not, nor any thing else of him, save only, that after his Majesty's restoration he lived obscurely in London, kept Conventicles, and thereupon was imprisoned in Newgate, and was accounted the Corypheus' of the Quakers. At length being at liberty, he retired to a village called Dalston in the Parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex, where he died (of the plague as 'twas said) in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five. 
1665.  This Person in his Disputes did always decline a direct answer to the question what University he was of, which gave some of the neighbouring Ministers in Kent occasion to suspect that the said Fisher was bred in some foreign Popish University; and the rather because he would often plead for popish Tenants, though when pressed to tell whether he did really believe them, he would pretend he did it disputandi gratiâ, to hold an argument for discourse sake. One or two of both his names have published several matters, and therefore they are to be remembered elsewhere.  
FRANCIS CHEYNELL son of John Cheynell Doct. of Phys. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll, by Bridget his Wife, was born in Catstreet in S. Mary's Parish within the City of Oxon, an. 1608 and on the sixth of July the same year received baptism there. After he had been educated in Grammar learning either in the School of that noted Grecian Edw. Sylvester (who taught in Allsaints Parish) or else in the Free●school of Magd. Coll, or in both, he became a member of this University in the beginning of the year 1623.: And being Bach. of Arts of two years standing, or more, he was by the intercession of his Mother (than the Widow of Dr. Rob. Abbot Bish. of Salisbury) made to Dr. Brent the Warden of Merton Coll. (who had married Martha the only Daughter of the said Bish. by his first Wife) elected Probationer fellow thereof, in the year 1629. After he had proceeded in Arts, he entered into the sacred function, and was a Curate in, or near, Oxon for a time. But when the face of things began to alter in 1640. and 41. he manifestly showed himself, what he was before but in part, viz. a Presbyterian, and an enemy to the Bishops and Ceremonies of the Church: So that closing with the mighty men of the predominant party, he took the Covenant, became one of the Ass. of Divines in 1643, a frequent Preacher before the members of Parliament, Rector of the rich parsonage of Petworth in Sussex, in the place of an honest and loyal Doctor ejected thence, one of the Apostles to convert the University from loyalty to Presbytery, an. 1646, a Visitor appointed by Parliament 1647.— 48 to take possession of, and enjoy, the places of other Persons, as the Margaret Professorship of the University, and Presidentship of S. John's Coll. But being forced to leave those two places soon after to his great grief (he being then Doct. of Diu.) he retired to Petworth where he remained a useful member for the covenanting cause till the King's restauration, and then, or at Bartholomew tide two years after, he was deprived of that Parsonage. I have said much of him 
(a) In Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 1. p. 367. b. 368. b. 369. a. b. 370. a. 386. a. 389. a. 391. a. b. 394. a. 398. b. 400. a. b. 402. a. b. 403. b. 404. a. 405. a. 407. a. 408. a. 410. b. 411. a. b. 413. b.— lib. 2. p. 34. b. 305. a.  elsewhere, and therefore I shall only now tell you that he was accounted by many, especially by those of his party (who had him always in great veneration) a good Disputant and Preacher, and better he might have been, and of a more sober temper, had he not been troubled with a weakness in his head, which some in his time called craziness. He hath commended to posterity these things following.  
Several Sermons, as (1) God's Alarm, Fast sermon before the H. of Commons 31. May 1643 on Zach. 2.7. Lond. 1643. qu. (2) The man of honour, Fast sermon before the H. of Lords 26 March 1645 on Psal. 49.20. Lond. 1645. qu. (3) Plot for the good of prosperity, communicated in a Fast serm. before the H. of Com. 25. March 1646 on Gen. 18.19. Lond. 1646. qu. etc.  
The rise, growth and danger of Socinianism, etc. Lond. 1643. qu. 'Tis the effect of 3. or more Sermons.  
Chillingworthi novissima. Or, the sickness, heresy, death and burial of Will. Chillingworth Clerk of Oxford, and in the conceit of his fellow soldiers, the Queen's Arch-engineer and grand Intelligencer. etc. Lond. 1643. qu.  
Speech at the funeral of Mr. Chillingworth's heretical and mortal book.  
Profane Catechism collected out of Mr. Chillingworths' works.— These two last things are printed with Chillingworthi novissima.  
Divers letters to Dr. Jasp. maine concerning false Prophets— Printed 1647. qu.  
Copy of some papers passed at Oxford between the Author of the Practical Catechism (H. Hammond) and Mr. Cheynell. Lond. 1647. qu. Published by Dr. H. Hammond.  
Truth triumphing over error and heresy: or, a relation of a Disputation at Oxon in S. Mary's Church between Mr. Cheynell and Mr. Erbury a Socinian, etc. Lond. 1646. 47. in one sh. in qu.  
Account given to the Parliament by the Ministers sent by them to Oxon. Lond. 1647 in about 8. sh. in qu. It must be now known that several socinian books being published about that time against the Holy Trinity by John Biddle, Jo. Fry and others, it was thought fit by the leading men or the Presbyterian party of the Uniu. of Oxon. that one or more of them should make answer to them. Wherefore this our Author Cheynell being looked upon as a Goliath among them, he was at a meeting of the Delegates of the said University 19 Feb. 1649 desired 
(b) Reg. Convocat. Uniu. Oxon. T. p. 97.  by them to set forth a book touching the vindication of the Trinity; so that he undertaking the matter, came out a book written by him thus entitled.  
The divine Trinunity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, etc. Lond. 1650. qu. Dedicated to the Uniu. of Oxon. in a Lat. Epist. written by Cheynell. Much about the same time came out a book written by him bearing this title.  
A discussion of Mr. Frye's Tenants lately condemned in Parliament: and Socinianism proved to be an unchristian doctrine— 'Tis not said to be where printed, or when, or by whom written, but all than took it by the stile or Cheynell, as indeed it is. Whereupon Fry being not able to retort, wrote a book, not without railing, against the Presbyterian Clergy, entit. The Clergy in their Colours, etc. Lond. 1650. oct. wherein p. 7. he speaks of Cheynell thus. But to use such expressions causelessly, or from a spirit of malice, is worthy of reproof; and therefore I may justly blame Mr. Cheynell (the Author of the Divine Trin-unity) for railing at my Bellows. If an ipse dixit, or foul mouthed Language be a sufficient confutation, I confess I am fully answered; for he is plentiful in it. But what do I mean? doubtless the sign was in Aries when he writ, and it might be in the Cuckoe-month too; and therefore he is the more to be excused; and till the man writes soberly, or I meet with one in his wits, that quarrels with my aforesaid book, I shall not be careful to vindicate it from blasphemy and error, though the Doctor is pleased to bestow those liveries upon it, etc.— What other things our Author Cheynell hath written, I know not, nor any thing else of him only that after he was turned out from Petworth he retired to an obscure Village called Preston, lying between Chichester and Mydhurst in Sussex (at which place he before had purchased an estate) where dying in a condition, little better than distracted, in the month of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five was buried in the Church there, 
1665.  leaving then behind him several Sons. You may see more of him in William Chillingworth, under the year 1643. As for John Fry before mentioned, who was a man of more than ordinary parts, was of Bursey in Dorsetshire, but whether he was educated in this, or in another University, I cannot yet tell. 'Tis true that one Jo. Fry became a Commoner of Exeter Coll, an. 1616 aged 17 years, but he was matriculated as a Native of Devon. and an Esquires Son, and so consequently cannot be the same with the former; who in 1640 was one of the Burgesses elected by the men of Shaftesbury in his own Country to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm. 3. of Nou. the same year, but his election being voted void, he sided notwithstanding with the faction, was seemingly a Presbyterian, and afterwards all things to all men. So that being esteemed very capable of carrying on the beloved cause, he was first made a Committee man of his County, and afterwards was called into the House of Commons by the Independents, upon their excluding the active Presbyterians, purposely to carry on their designs against the King. Afterwards, he being very ready to keep pace with them, he not only subscribed his vote for the trial of his Majesty Ch. 1. but personally sat in judgement when sentence was passed for his decollation. About that time he being observed by some of the H. of Commons to be a Person of strange principles in Religion, an Arrian, Socinian and I know not what, and also to be a Person of no good Morals, he was publicly complained of in the house by Colonel Joh. Downes one of the Regicides and afterwards a member of the Council of State. Whereupon Fry published The Accuser ashamed: or, a pair of Bellows to blow off the dust cast upon John Fry a member of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes, who charged the said John Fry of blasphemy and error. Printed at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct. To which he added (1) A word to the Priests, Lawyers, Royalists, Self-seekers, and rigid Presbyterians. (2) A brief ventilation of that chaffy and absurd opinion of three Persons or substances in the Godhead. Afterwards, he being exasperated by the Presbyterian Ministers and some Independents, he wrote and published, The Clergy in their colours: or, a brief character of them, etc. Lond. 1650 in 4. sh. in oct. Which, the next year was answered by J. D. Nephew, as 'twas said, to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Magdalen in Somersetshire. Soon after the publication of the said Clergy in their colours, the Parliament took so much cognizance of the matter that they sat on Saturday 22. Feb. 1650 from morning to night in debate of certain passages published in the said books, as (1) In debate of that added to the Accuser ashamed, in the title running thus, that chaffy and absurd opinion of three persons or substances in the Godhead. (2) In that in p. 22. running thus— that gross and carnal opinion of three distinct Persons or subsistences in the Godhead: Persons and subsistences, are subsistences or accidents. As for the word Person, I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man. It is out of doubt with me, that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a Person, they will either tell you 'tis a man, or else they are not able to give you any answer at all. As for the word Accident, I suppose none will attribute that to God, for according to my poor skill, that word imputes no more but the figure or colour, etc. of a thing; and certainly no man ever saw the likeness of God as the Scriptures abundantly testify, etc. These things being discussed, it was resolved by the members of Parliament that they were erroneous, profane and highly scandalous. Afterwards they proceeded to the book called The Clergy in their colours, wherein, p. 34 is this said by the Author— I cannot let pass one observation, and that is the strange posture those men put themselves into, when they begin their prayers before their Sermons, whether the fools and knaves in stage plays took their pattern from these men, or these men from them I cannot determine, etc. what wry mouths, squint eyes they make, etc. how like a company of conjurers do they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers, that the People may not hear them, etc. These passages being debated, the Parliament resolved that they were scandalous. Again also p. 42. thus— I must confess I have heard much of believing things above reason, and the time was when I swallowed that still: but I may say with S. Paul, etc. When I was a child, etc. Every man that knoweth any thing, knoweth this, that it is reason that distinguishes a man from a beast. If you take away his reason, you deny his very Essence, therefore if any man will consent to give up his reason, I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man, etc. These matters being debated it was resolved by Parliament that they were erroneous. Afterwards they resolved that the said book called The Accuser ashamed, and the other called The Clergy in their colours be burnt, and that the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause all the printed copies of both the said books, and every of them, wheresoever they should be found, to be burnt, some in the New-Pallace-yard at Westm. and some at the Old Exchange. Not a word in the order, was there of the Hangman, for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them, then in pomp and great splendour. At the same time it was resolved that the said Joh. Fry be disenabled to sit as a member of Parliament; so that being solemnly cashiered he had more liberty to keep company with John Biddle, which he did, as with others of that opinion. This Person who had run through most, if not all, religious, even to Rantisme, died soon after, and thereby saved the Hangman his labour.  
JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the Parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merionithshire, entered a Student in Hart Hall in the year 1617., and in that of his age 18. or thereabouts, where going through with infinite industry the several classes of Logic and Philosophy, became M. of A. in 1625 and three years after was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. being then in holy orders. In 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and soon after going into Scotland (upon what account I know not) was made and admitted Doctor of his faculty in the University of S. Andrew, on the day before the Cal. of August 1634, and in Oct. following was incorporated in this University. Before that time having taken to Wife Rebecka Daugh. of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach near to Thame in Oxfordshire Esq. became Rector of Whitfield near that place; which Benefice he keeping till about 1647 was made Rector of S. Mary's Church in a Market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his own county, where he continued till the time of his death, siding with all parties and taking all Oaths. His works are these.  
Clavis fidei, seu brevia quaedam dictata in symbolum Apostolorum. Oxon. 1642. 43. oct. Translated into English by Will. Fowler a composer in the Art of Printing— Camb. 1669. oct.  
Comment. in Obadium Proph. Lond. 1641. oct.  
Defensio fidei: seu responsio succincta ad argumenta, quibus impugnari solet confessio Anglicana, una cum nova articulorum version. Lond. 1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgethle before mentioned, in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  and was buried in the Ch. yard there belonging to S. Mary's Church aforesaid. In his Rectory succeeded his Kinsman Tho. Ellis Bac. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll, Son of Griffin Ellis of Dolbehman in Caernarvanshire, who having been well versed in British Histories, and a singular lover of Antiquities, made many additionals to the History of Cambria published by Dau. powel, as I have before told you; which being so done, the book was licenced and put into the Press at Oxon. But by that time he had printed 20 sheets or more, out came Percy Enderbie with his book entit.— Cambria triumphans, etc. Or ancient and modern British and Welsh History. Lond. 1661. fol. In which book, Tho. Ellis finding that Enderbie had seized upon those materials that he had collected for the fabric of his work, he did desist from going any further, and caused, what had been printed of his work, to be sold for waste paper. He died at Dolbehman▪ in the beginning of the year (in Apr.) 1673 and was buried in the Church belonging to that town. As for Enderbie who was an Author of no considerable note, as having not had that just education which is requisite for a genuine Historian, hath done his work but very meanly, being mostly a scribble from late Authors, and gives not that satisfaction, which curious men desire to know. And therefore I am persuaded that had Ellis finished his work, 'twould have been more acceptable to Scholars and intelligent Persons, as having had more opportunities and advantages by reason of his birth, and a continual succession of his family in Wales to know such matters, than Enderbie, who was a stranger; (for he was born at, or near to, the City of Lincoln, and knew little or nothing of Wales till he settled there by a clandestine Marriage with the Daughter of Sir Edw. Morgan of Lantarnam in Monmouthshire Baronet) but upon some encouragement received from certain Gentlemen, and from the Library at Lantarnam, he undertook it partly for fame, but more for money, sake. This Person who translated into English The ginger anatomised: or, the vanity of Stargazing Art discovered, written by Benedict Pererius, died at, or near, Carleon in Apr. 1670, leaving some other things (as 'twas said) fit for the press, but if they be no better than his Cambria triumphans, 'tis no matter if they suffer the same fate as the papers of Tho. Ellis did. Besides the beforementioned John Ellis was another of both his names and a writer, bred in Cambridge, and afterwards Vicar of Waddesdon in Bucks, Father to Philip Ellis bred in Westminster School, but in no University in England, because he had changed his Religion for that of Rome, consecrated a titular Bishop in the Chapel belonging to S. James house in Westminster on Sunday 6. of May 1688.  
MATTHEW GRIFFITH was born of gentile Parents in London, became a Commoner of Brasn. Coll. in the beginning of May 1615, aged 16 years or more, took one degree in Arts as a member of Glouc. Hall, then holy Orders and soon after became Lecturer of St. Dunstan's Church in the West, under the inspection, as 'tis 
(*) In the Memoires of noble and reverend Personages, written by Dau. Lloyd— Lond. 1668. fol. p. 521.  said, of Dr. John Donne, whose favourite he was. Afterwards he was made Rector of S. Mary Magd. near Old Fish-street in London by the presentation of the Dean and Chapt. of S. Paul, where showing himself a grand Episcoparian, was in the beginning of the rebellion sequestered from his Rectory, plundered, and imprisoned in Newgate; whence being let out, he was forced to fly, but taken and afterwards imprisoned in Peter-house. At length getting loose thence, he retired to the King at Oxon, by virtue of whose letters he was actually created D. of D. in June 1643, and made one of his Chaplains. Afterwards, upon the declining of the King's cause, he returned to London, and there by stealth read and continued prayers and other ordinances, according to the Ch. of England, to the poor Cavaliers during the Usurpation; for which he suffered seven violent assaults, as 'tis said, and five imprisonments, the last of which was in Newgate in the beginning of the year 1660. After the King's return, he was restored to his Rectory, was made Preacher to the honourable Societies of the Temples and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, but whether he was made a Prebend of a Church, or a Dean, which he much deserved, I know not. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Sermon on Psal. 37. ver. 1. Lond. 1633. oct. (2) Pathetical persuasion to pray for public peace, on Psal. 122.6. Lond. 1642. qu. For several passages in which Sermon he suffered imprisonment. (3) Sermon touching the power of the King, on Eccles. 8.4. Lond. 1643. qu. His name is not set to it, but the general report then and after was, that 'twas his. (4) The fear of God and the King, pressed in a Serm. at Mercer's Chapel 25. March 1660 on Prov. 24.21. Lond. 1660. qu. etc. In which Serm. showing himself too zealous for the Royal cause, before Gen. George Monk durst own it, was, to please and blind the fanatical party, imprisoned in Newgate, but soon after released. There was an answer made to this by John Milton, entit. Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled, The fear of God, etc.— Whereupon came out a little thing called No blind guides, etc. addressed to the Author in two sheets, in Rog. Lestrange his Apology— Lond. 1660. qu. (5) Communion Serm. preached at Sergeants inn before the Judges, on Rom. 12.4.5. Lond. 1661. qu. (6) Catholic Doctor and his spiritual Catholicon, on 1. John 1.7. Lond. 1662. qu. (8) The King's lifeguard; an anniversary Sermon preached to the honourable society of both the Temples, 30. Jan. 1664. on 1. Sam. 26.9. Lond. 1665. qu. Besides which he hath others that are extant, but such I have not yet seen, as The Samaritan revived; another called The blessed birth, etc. He hath also written,  
Bethel: or, a form for families; in which all sorts of both sexes, are so squared, and framed by the word, as they may best serve in their several places, for useful pieces in God's building. Lond. 1654. qu.  
Brief historical account of the causes of our unhappy distractions, and the only way to heal them. Lond. 1660. oct. This is added to a second edition of the Sermon called The fear of God and the King, etc. This most zealous and loyal Person departed this mortal life at Bladon before mentioned, on the 14. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. He had before broken a vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point, study to be quiet and follow your own business. In the said Rectory of Bladon (Woodstock being a Chapel of ease to it) succeeded Henry Savage D. D. Master of Balliol Coll. of whom I shall make mention among these writers under the year 1672.  
THOMAS WARMESTRY son of Will. Warm. Registrary of the Cath. Church at Worcester, was born, and educated in Grammar learning, in that City, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1624. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1631, and had some spiritual cure in his own Country conferred upon him soon after. In 1640 he was Clerk for the Diocese of Worcester in the two Convocations of the Clergy held that year, and in 1642 he retired for security sake (the Nation being then in a combustion) to the King at Oxon, where he was actually created D. of D. the same year, and afterwards lost what he had before obtained in the Church, notwithstanding he had always before been accounted a Puritan. After the King's cause declined, he lived mostly in London, was the distributer of money (obtained from generous Loyalists) to sufferers for the royal interest, was chief confessor to loyal Martyrs, a constant and indefatigable visitor and comforter of sick and distressed Cavaliers, (for so the Royalists were called) very zealous also in converting Infidels, industrious in reclaiming the loose, and establishing the wavering, zealous and careful in preparing his auditors for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death. After the King's return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost, was made Prebendary of Gloucester, and in the year following Dean of Worcester, upon the death of Dr. Jo. Oliver; in which Dignity he was installed 27. Nou. 1661. He hath written and published,  
A convocation speech against images, altars, crosses, the new canons and the oath. Lond. 1641 in 3. sh. in qu.  
Pax vobis: or, a charm for tumultuous spirits, being an advice to the City of London to forbear their disorderly meetings at Westminster. Lond. 1641. qu.  
Ramus Olivae: or, a petition for peace to his Maj. and the Houses of Parliament. Oxon. 1642. qu.  
Answer to one W. Bridges concerning the present war, and taking up Arms against the King— Printed 1643. qu. This W. Bridges, I take to be the same with him who wrote Some short annotations on The loyal convert. Lond. 1644. in 4. sheets in qu. but not the same, I presume, with Will. Bridges Preacher at S. Dunstan's in the East, London, Author of Joabs' counsel, and David's seasonable hearing it, serm. before the H. of Com. at the public fast 22. Feb. 1642, on 2. Sam. 19.5.6.7.8. Lond. 1643. qu. and of other things. I find one Will. Bridge to have been fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards a Minister in Norfolk, but to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories, he, with Jerem. Burroughes withdrew themselves into the Low countries. Upon the change of the times occasioned by the Presbyterians, Bridge returned, became Minister at Yarmouth in Norfolk, a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament, a notorious Independent and a keeper up of that faction by continual preaching during the time of Usurpation, silenced upon his Majesty's return, carried on his cause with the said Jer. Burroughs in Conventicles at Clapham in Surrey till about the time of his death, which happened in 1670. I say this Will. Bridge who while he lived published several Sermons and Theological Tracts, and after his death had 8 of his Sermons made public, which are entitled Bridges remains, etc. Lond. 1673. oct. with his picture before them, is not to be taken to be the same with Will. Bridges before mentioned, because of the different writings of their names. Dr. Warmestry hath also written.  
An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London before their meeting in their common Hall 24 1648. whereby they have an opportunity to become the happy instruments of their own safety, and the peace and preservation of the Kingdom. Lond. 1648 in two sheet in qu.  
Vindication of the solemnity of the nativity of Christ— Printed 1648. qu.  
Answer to certain Queries propounded by one Joseph Hemming in opposition to the practice of the Church in the solemnity of the said nativity.— Printed with the Vindication.  
Sighs of the Church and Commonwealth of England. Lond. 1648. in tw.  
A box of spikenard: or, a little manual of Sacramental instruction and devotion, especially helpful to the People of God, at, and about, the time of receiving the Lords Supper. Lond. 1664 third edit. in 12o. printed there again in 1671. and 74. in 24ᵒ.  
The baptised Turk: or, a narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo, the only Son of a silk Merchant in the isle of Tzio, etc. and of his admission unto Baptism by Mr. Pet. Gunning at Exeter house Chappel, 8. Nou. 1657. Lond. 1658. oct. This narrative was drawn up by our Author Warmestry who caused the picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish habit to be put before it.  
The countermine of union: or, the Jesuits mine of division, being a short platform of expedients for peace. Lond. 1660. What other books he hath extant I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying on the 30. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  aged 60 or thereabouts, was buried by his Father, Grandfather, and other relations in the body of the Cathedral at Worcester, not far from the north door. Over his grave is an inscription engraven on a black marble, the copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 279.6. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Will. Thomas of whom I shall make mention in his proper place.  
ROBERT POINTZ son of Sir John Pointz was born of, and descended from, an ancient and noble family of his name living at Iron-Acton in Glocestershire, was educated for a time in the quality of a Gent. Com. in this University, but in what Coll. unless in that of Lincoln, (for I cannot find him matriculated as yet) I know not. Afterwards he studied for a time in one of the Temples, and when K. Ch. 1. was crowned in 1625 he was made one of the Knights of the Bath. He hath written,  
A vindication of Monarchy and the government long established in the Ch. and Kingdom of England, against the pernicious assertions and tumultuous practices of the Innovators during the last Parliament in the reign of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. He was buried in the Church of Iron-Acton among the graves of his ancestors, on the tenth day of Nou. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  aged 79 years or thereabouts▪ leaving than behind him a Son named John a Knight, who died in the Middle Temple at London in 1680, and left behind him a relict named Anne▪ but not the estate at Iron-Acton, because it had been conveyed away by his Father. One of his name and family called Captain John Pointz wrote and published The present prospect of the famous and fertile Island of Tobago, etc. with Proposals for the encouragement of all those that are minded to settle there. Lond. 1683. in 7 sh. in qu. Whether he was of any University I know not.  
JOHN EARL received his first being in this vain and transitory world within the City of York, was admitted Probationer fellow of Merton Coll. in 1620 aged 19 years or thereabouts, and proceeded in Arts four years after. His younger years were adorned with Oratory, Poetry, and witty fancies; and his elder with acquaint preaching and subtle disputes. In 1631 he was one of the Proctors of the University and about that time Chaplain to Philip Earl of Pembroke, who, for his service and merits, bestowed upon him the Rectory of Byshopston in Wilts. Afterwards he was constituted Chaplain and Tutor to Charles Prince of Wales, after Dr. Duppa was made Bishop of Salisbury, was actually created Doct. of Diu. in 1642, elected one of the Ass. of Divines in the year following, but refused to sit among them, and Chancellor of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury in the place of Will. Chillingworth deceased, in the latter end of the same year 1643. Afterwards he suffered, and was deprived of all he had, for adhering to his Majesty K. Ch. 1, suffered in exile with his Son K. Ch. 2, whom, after his defeat at Worcester, he saluted at Rouen upon his arrival in Normandy, and thereupon was made his Chaplain and Clerk of the Closet. After the Kings return he was made Dean of Westminster, keeping his Clerkship still, was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, after the death of Dr. Gauden, on the last of Novemb. (S. Andrews day) 1662., and at length was translated to the See of Salisbury 28. Sept. 1663., void by the translation thence to London of Dr. Humph. Henchman. This Dr. Earl was a very gentile Man, a contemner of the world, religious, and most worthy of the office of a Bishop. He was a Person also of the sweetest and most obliging nature (as one 
(a) Ser. Cressy in his Epist. Apologetical, p. 46.47.  that knew him well, though of another persuasion, saith) that lived in our age, and since Mr. Rich. Hooker died, none have lived, whom 
(b) See in The life of Mr. Rich. Hooker— Lond. 1670. p. 95. written by Is. Walton.  God had blest with more innocent wisdom, more sanctified learning, or a more pious, peaceable, primitive temper, than he; so that this excellent Person seemed to be only like himself, and venerable Mr. Hooker, and only the fit man to make the learned of all nations happy, in knowing what hath been too long confined to the language of our little Island, I mean by his translation of the said Mr. Hooker's book called Eccles. Polity, as I shall tell you anon. He hath written,  
An Elegy upon Mr. Franc. Beaumond the Poet.— Afterwards printed at the end of Beaumont's Poems. Lond. 1640. qu. Put out with a poetical Epistle before them, subscribed by Laur. Blaik●lock a Bookseller near Temple-bar, afterwards an informer to the Committees of sequestration at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall, and a beggar defunct in Prison.  
Micro-cosmography: or, a piece of the world characterised in essays and characters. Lond. 1628. etc. in tw. Published under the name of Edw. Blount. He also translated from English into Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which he entitled Imago Regis Caroli primi in aer●●mnis & solitudine. Hag. come. 1649 in tw. and also The Laws of Eccles. Polity, in 8. books, written by Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. This is in Ms. and not yet printed. Dr. Earl being esteemed a witty man, while he continued in the University, several copies of his ingenuity and poetry were greedily gathered up, some of which I have seen, particularly that Lat. Poem entit. Hortus Mertonensis. The beginning of which is Hortus delitiae domus politae, etc. He had also a hand in some of the Figures, of which about 10 were published, but which Figure or Figures claim him as Author, I know not. The Figure of six I have bearing this title, The figure of six, containing these six things, wit, mirth, pleasure, pretty observations, new conceits, and merry jests. These Figures were not published all at once, but at several times. At length this worthy Bishop retiring to Oxon when the King, Queen and their respective Courts settled there for a time, to avoid the plague then raging in London and Westminster, took up his quarters in University Coll. where dying on the 17. of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  was buried near the high altar in Mert. Coll. Church, on the 25 day of the said month, being then accompanied to his grave from the public Schools by an Herald at Arms and the principal persons of the Court and University. In the See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Alexander Hyde sometimes Fellow of New Coll. of whom will be large mention made in his proper place.  
GEORGE WILD son of Hen. Wild a Citizen of London, was born in the County of Middlesex, elected Scholar of S. John's Coll. from Merchant Tailor's School in 1628., aged 19 years, entered on the Civ. Law line, took one degree in that fac. 1634, became one of the Chaplains to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant, who had an especial respect for him, and would have preferred him above the Vicarage of S. Giles Church in Reading had not the Civil distempers broke forth. In the heat of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of his Majesty, was an appointed Preacher before him and the Parliament in Oxon, being then in great esteem for his eloquent preaching, and therefore had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law conferred upon him. Afterwards being turned out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, he suffered much, yet kept up a religious meeting for the Loyalists in Fleetstreet London. After his Majesty's restauration, he was, in requital for his loyalty, made Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland, where he was highly valued for his public spirit, religious conversation and exemplary piety. In his younger years he was accounted a Person of great ingenuity, and in his elder, a man of singular prudence, a grace to the pulpit, and, when in Ireland, as worthy of his function as any there. He hath written,  
The Hospital of Lovers, or Love's Hospital, a Comedy— Acted in S. John's Coll. public refectory before the K. and Qu. 30. Aug. 1636, but 'twas not as, I conceive, printed.  
Hermophus, a Com.— written in Lat. and several times acted, but not printed.  
Sermon preached upon the 3. of March, in S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon. before the House of Commons, on Psal. 122.8.9. Oxon. 1643. qu. and other things, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen. He departed this mortal life at Dublin on Friday 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  and was buried in Christ Church there, at which time Mr. George Signior his Chaplain, (sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge) preached his funeral Sermon, to which I refer the Reader for his farther character, being, as 'tis said, made public. In London-Derry succeeded Dr. Rob. Mossom Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin.  
THOMAS VAUGHAN, who styles himself in all or most of his writings, which he published, Eugenius Philalethes, was the Son of Tho. Vaughan of Llansomfreid, but born at Newton in the Parish of S. Bridget near Brecknock in Brecknockshire, an. 1621., educated in Grammar learning under one Matthew Herbert, entered in Jesus Coll. in Mich. term, 1638, and was put under the tuition of a noted Tutor; by whose lectures profiting much, he took one degree in Arts, was made Fellow of the said House, and afterwards taking holy Orders from Dr. Manwaring Bishop of S. David, had about that time the Rectory of S. Bridget before mentioned conferred upon him by his kinsman Sir George Vaughan. But the unsetledness of the times hindering him a quiet possession of, he left, it, retired to Oxon, and in a sedate repose prosecuted his medicinal genie, (in a manner natural to him) and at length became eminent in the chemical part thereof at Oxon, and afterwards at London under the protection and patronage of that noted Chemist Sir Rob. Murrey or Moray Kt, Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland. He the said Vaughan was a great admirer of the labours of Cornel. Agrippa, whose principles he followed in most of his works, and to whom, in matters of Philosophy, he acknowledged that next to God he owned all that he had, and therefore in his praise he did often passionately 
(c) In Anthropos. Theomag. p. 53.54.  break out into poetical strains, as that he was 
Nature's Apostle, and her choice Highpriest,  
Her mystical and bright Evangelist. etc.  As he was a great admirer of Agrippa, so he was no great favourer of the Aristotelian Philosophy, condemning it as altogether imperfect and false, a mere Apothecary's drug, a mixture of inconsistent contrary Principles, which no way agree with the harmony and method of nature. The whole Encyclopaedia of which, abating the demonstrative mathematical part, he 
(d) Ibid. p. 63.  says is built on mere imagination without the least light of experience, and therefore he wishes that all true sons of his famous Oxford mother, would look beyond Aristotle and not confine their intellect to the narrow and cloudy horizon of his text. Our Author seems also to have had as little kindness for the Cartesian Philosophy as the former, for he says 
(e) In his Man-Mouse, p. 114.  that the Author of it was a whim and a wham, a Fellow that invented ridiculous Principles of his own, but hath cast them into such a method, that they have a seeming dependency, and (Scholars) mistake his knavery for his reason, etc. The truth is, our Author Vaughan was so wedded to his beloved Agrippa, that nothing could relish with him but his works, especially his Occult Philosophy, which he would defend in all discourse and writing. He was a great Chemist, a noted son of the fire, an experimental Philosopher, a zealous brother of the Rosie-Crucian fraternity, an understander of some of the Oriental Languages, and a tolerable good English and Latin Poet. He was neither Papist nor Sectary, but a true resolute Protestant in the best sense of the Church of England. His Works are these,  
Anthroposophia Theomagica: or, a discourse of the nature of Man and his state after death, grounded on his Creator's Protochimistry, and verified by a practical examination of principles in the great world. Lond. 1650. oct. Dedicated to his brethren of the Rosie-Cross.  
Anima magica abscondita: or, a discourse of the universal spirit of nature, with the strange, abstruse, miraculous ascent and descent. Lond. 1650. oct. It is joined with the former book, and they go both together. But the Reader is to know, that our Author having reflected on some of the Writings of Mr. Hen. More Fellow of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, particularly, as it seems, on his Psychodia Platonica; More thereupon came out with a book intit. Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica and Anima mag. abscond. under the name of Alazonomastix Philalethes— Par. alias Lond. 1650. oct. Which observations being somewhat satirical, charging our Author to be a Magician, and withal affirming that nothing but an implacable enmity to Immorality and Foolery, and a zeal of discountenancing Vanity, moved him to write against him, (in which his Writings he styles our Author a Mome, a Mimic, an Ape, a mere Animal, a Fool in a Play, a Jack-pudding, &c) our Author thereupon came out with an Answer in vindication of himself, intit.  
The Man-mouse taken in a trap, and tortured to death for gnawing the Margins of Eug. Philalethes. Lond. 1650. oct. Written in the greatest buffonery and scolding imaginable, outstripping the pattern laid before him by his Adversary; and not only plays and quibbles on his name like a Novice, but falls foully on his University in a childish manner. All which doth fully make out the fantasticalness of the title. But this also was replied upon by the said More under the name of Alaz. Philalethes in a book intit. The second Lash against Vaughan's Anthropos. Camb. 1651. oct. Which answer and reply of More did afterwards so little please him, though they tended to a good end, that he thought not fit to have them translated into Latin, with the rest of his Philosophical Works, which were printed 1679. fol. See the general Preface to the said Works concerning the occasion and stile of the aforesaid Answer and Reply. Th. Vaughan hath also written,  
Magia Adamica: or, the antiquity of Magic, and the descent thereof from Adam downward, proved etc. Lond. 1650. oct.  
A perfect and full discovery of the true Coelum terrae, or the Magician's heavenly Chaos and first matter of all things.— Printed with Magia Adam.  
The second wash: or, the Moor scoured once more; being a charitable Cure for the distractions of Alazonomastix. Lond. 1651. oct. The first wash was the Man-mouse This worthy person Dr. Hen. More (of whom we heard no farther as to this matter) was born of Calvinistical Parents in a market Town in Lincolnshire called Grantham, and there for a while bred up under a Master of the same persuasion. At about 14 years of age he was sent to Eton School near Windsor, where he usually spoke very slightly of the opinions of Calvin, and about three years after he was entered into Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, where he became Fellow, a great Tutor, and a most noted Philosopher. He died on the third day of Apr. 1687, aged 73 years, and was buried in the Chapel of Christ's Coll, as I have been informed thence.  
Lumen de lumine: or, a new magical light discovered, and communicated to the world. Lond. 1651. oct.  
Aphorismi Magici Eugeniani. Printed with Lum. de lum. 〈◊〉 both dedicated to the Uniu. of Oxon.  
Aula lucis: or, the house of Light: a discourse written in the year 1651. Lond. 1652. oct. Published not under the name of Eug. Philalethes, but under the two Letters of S. N. a modern Speculator, being the two last Letters of Thomas Vaughan.  
Large Preface with a short declaration of the physical work of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross.— Set by him before a book intit. The fame and confession of the Fraternity of R. C. commonly of the Rosy Cross. Lond. 1652. oct. Which Fame and Confession was translated into English by another hand. I have seen another book intit.— Themis aurea. The laws of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross. Lond. 1656. oct. Written in Lat. by Count Michael Maierus, and put in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honourable and mysterious Society of wise and renowned Philosophers. This English translation is dedicated to Elias Ashmole Esq. by an Epistle subscribed by 

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T. S.  
H. S.   but who he is or they are, he the said El. Ashmole hath utterly forgotten.  
Euphrates. A discourse of the Waters of the East; or of that secret fountain, whose water flows from fire, and carries in it the beams of the Sun and Moon. Lond. 1655. (oct.) He hath also translated into English, The Chemist's key to open and shut: or, the true doctrine of Corruption and Generation. Lond. 1655. Written by Hen. Nollius'. He hath also left several Lat. Poems behind him, which are in the hands of his Brother Henry, called by some Olor Iscanus, esteemed by many fit to be published. One Eugenius Philalethes hath written, A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses upon the burning of Mount Aetna, with refutations, etc. Lond. 1669. oct. but by the language of it, it seems not to be written by our Eug. Phil. but another: and besides, when Olor Iscanus sent me a Cat. of his Brother's works, the title of that book was not put among them. One who calls himself Eireneus Philalethes a Citizen of the World, hath published Ripley redivivus, etc. and another who writes himself Eireneus Philoponos Philalethes, hath published The marrow of Alchemy, etc. in two parts. Lond. 1654. and 55. oct. Both which parts (the second containing two books) are written in verse, and so consequently the Author is to be numbered among the Poets. As for our Author Eug. Phil. alias Thom. Vaughan, he did accompany Sir Rob. Murrey before mentioned to Oxon, at what time the great Plague at London drove their Majesties and their respective Courts to that place, where he continued for a time. Soon after taking up his quarters in the house of Sam. Kem Rector of Albury near to Thame and Ricot in Oxfordshire, 
1665/6.  died there on the 27 of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, and was buried on the first of March following in the Church belonging to the said Village of Albury alias Oldbury (about 8 miles distant from Oxon,) by the care and charge of the said Sir Robert Murrey: Of whom, by the way, I must let the Reader know these things; viz. That he was born of an ancient and noble family in, or near, the Highlands in Scotland, that his youth was spent in good letters, partly in the University of S. Andrew, and partly in France, where he had afterwards a military Employment in the service of Lewis 13, and was at length a Lieutenant-Colonel and an excellent Soldier. That he was General of the Ordnance in Scotland against K. Ch. 1. when the Presbyterians of that Kingdom first set up and maintained their Covenant. That at the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made one of the Privy Council of the said Kingdom, and about the same time became one of the first Contrivers and Institutors of the Royal Society, of which he was made the first Precedent. This person though presbyterianly affected, yet he had the King's ear as much as any other person, and was indefatigable in his undertake. He was a single man, an abhorrer of Women, a most renowned Chemist, a great Patron of the Rosie-Crusians, and an excellent Mathematician. His several relations and matters of experiment, which are in the Philosophical Transactions, show him to be a man well versed in experimental Philosophy. He died suddenly in his Pavilion in the garden at Whitehall, on the fourth day of July (some hours after he had informed my friend of the death and burial of Eugen. Philalethes) an. 1673. (25 Car. 2.) and was, at the King's charge, buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster, near to the grave of Sir Will. D'avenant, sometimes Laureate Poet to the said King. I find another Rob. Moray son of a Scotchman, to be Author of a little Pamphlet intit. Composition-credit: or, a bank of credit made currant by common consent in Lond. more useful than money. Lond. 1682. in one sh. in qu. and Author of An advertisement for the more easy and speedy collecting of debts; and of other things. But this person who was born in the Strand near London, was a Milliner and of the company of Cloath-workers, afterwards Clerk to the general Commissioners for the Revenue of Ireland, than Clerk to the Commissioners of the grand Excise of England, and in the latter end of 1679 the first inventor of the Penny-Post in London, which was carried on by one .... Docwray.  
GEORGE HOPKINS Son of Will. Hopk. was born at Beaudley in Worcestershire, 15 Apr. 1620, educated partly there in School learning under Joh. Graile, and partly at Kinfare in Staffordshire, became a Batler of New Inn in Lent Term 1637, took one degree in Arts in 1641, and then left the University for a time, being pruitanically affected. Afterwards he sided with the Presbyterians, took the Covenant, retired to Oxon after the Garrison thereof was surrendered for the use of the Parliament, submitted to the Visitors appointed by them, took the degr. of Master, and soon after became Minister of Allsaints Parish in Evesham in Worcestershire. In 1654. he was by the then Parliament appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and soon after published,  
Salvation from sin by Jesus Christ: or, the doctrine of Sanctification (which is the greater part of our Salvation) founded upon Christ, who is both the meritorious and efficient cause of sanctifying grace, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. This book which is leveled against Antinomianism, was preached in seven sermons in a weekly lecture at Evesham on Math. 1.21. In the Author's dedication of the book to the Borough of Evesham, he saith that to them he had dedicated himself to the work of the Gospel from his first beginning to be a constant Preacher of it, and saith afterward that Dr. Bayly preached to them part of The practice of Piety before he published it. See among the Writers in the first Vol. p. 485, 486. In 1662. our Author Hopkins left his Cure of Allsaints for want of Conformity, and retiring to Dumbleton in Glocestershire, died there at about one of the clock in the morning of the 25 of March (Annunc. day) in sixteen hundred sixty and six: 
1666.  whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. During the time he lived in that Town, he constantly, with his whole family, frequented the Parish Church and public Prayers on Holydays and Sundays in the Afternoons when there was no Sermon. He never failed to receive the Holy Communion as oft as it was celebrated, and did all things required of a Lay-member of the Ch. of England. Besides his knowledge in Divinity, he was a very good Mathematician, an example of great candour and moderation, and such as is rarely found among the Nonconformists, etc. as I have been informed, by one of his near Relations.  
JAMES SCUDAMORE Son of Joh. Scud. of Kenchurch in Herefordshire, was born in that County, educated in Westminst. School, transplanted to Ch. Ch. in Midsummer term 1661., aged 19 years, and soon after was made one of the Students of that house. This person who was poetically given, wrote  
Homer a la mode. A mock Poem upon the first and second books of Homer's Iliads. Oxon. 1664. in 9 sh. in oct. and in the next year he took the degr. of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards retiring to his Relations then living in the City of Hereford, was drowned in the River adjoining, (to the great reluctancy of all those that were acquainted with his pregnant parts) as he was recreating himself by swimming, in the month of July in sixteen hundred sixty and six: 
1666.  whereupon his body was conveyed to the graves of his Relations, where he was, with great lamentation, interred. In 1681 was published in oct. Homer a-la-mode, the second part, in English Burlesque; or a mock Poem upon the ninth book of Iliads. Invented for the Meridian of Cambridge, where the Pole of Wit is elevated by several degrees; but who the Author of it was I know not.  
WILLIAM STREAT was born of gentile Parents in Devons. became either a Batler or Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617., aged 17 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and was beneficed in his own Country. Upon the change of the times in 1641, he sided with the Presbyterians, and preached very schismatically, being about that time Rector of South-Pool near to Kingsbridge in Devonshire. When the Cause of K. Ch. 1. declined, he preached bitterly against him and his Followers, blasting them with the name of bloody Papists; and when his Son K. Ch. 2. was in Exile he became a desperate enemy to, and continually preached against, him: And every trivial thing that he could hear, or read in those satirical Prints called Merc. Politici and other Pamphlets against him, be sure he published in the Pulpit to his Parishioners, as I have been credibly informed by some Ministers of his Neighbourhood. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2, an. 1660 he wheeled about as many covetous and poor spirited Saints did, sneaked to the great men then in authority, conformed, and kept his rectory to his dying day, to the great reluctancy of the generous Royalists of those parts. He hath written a book entit.  
The dividing of the Hoof: or, seeming contradictions throughout sacred Scriptures, resolved and applied, etc. Lond. 1654. in a pretty thick qu. dedicated to God and God's People. Other matters, they say, he hath published, but such I have not yet seen, nor do I know any thing else of this Author, (who should rather have been buried in oblivion, than mentioned) only that dying at South-Pool was buried in the Church there in sixteen hundred sixty and six, 
1666.  leaving then this character behind him among the said Ministers of his neighbourhood, that he was as infinite a rogue, and as great a sinner that could be, and that 'twas pity that he did escape punishment in this life.  
ROBERT VAUGHAN was born of an ancient and gentile family in Merionithshire, was entered a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the year 1612, and in that of his age 20, where passing his course in Logic and Philosophy, retired without a degree to his patrimony in the said County called Hengwrt or Hengherst near Dolgethle, became noted for his admirable skill in the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country of Wales, having had a natural genie to them, and took infinite pains in describing the Genealogies of the most ancient families thereof. The things of his composition that are extant are only these.  
British Antiquities revived. Oxon. 1662. qu.  
Pedigree of the Earl of Carbury (Vaughan) Lord Precedent of Wales.  
Short account of the five tribes of Cambria.— These two last are printed with the first. He hath also several letters extant, 
(a) In the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. usher's Life fol. p. 261.270, etc.  which he formerly wrote to the learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland: in one of which dated 14 Apr. 1651, he tells the said Primate that he had translated into the English Tongue The Annals of Wales, which he then sent to him to be perused. He died at Hengwrt before mentioned in sixteen hundred sixty and six (being then a Justice of Peace) as I have been informed by Mr. Thom. Ellis sometimes Rector of Dolgethle, 
1666.  and was buried in the Church of that Parish, wherein Hengwrt (said 
(b) In Offic. Armorum, H. 8. fol. 32. b.  to be in Kyntons' land in the Lordship of Huntyndon) is situated. He left behind him a choice Library of MSS. in the British Tongue, now, as I have been informed▪ in the custody of Sir William Williams of Greys' Inn Baronet, occasioned by a Law suit concerning it.  
JOHN FAIRECLOUGH commonly called Featley, Son of Joh. Featley of Oxon (elder brother to Dr. Daniel Featley) was born in Northamptonshire, became either Clerk or Choirister of Alls. Coll. in Mich. term 1620, aged 15 years, took one degree in Arts four years after, and in 1626. had the honour to be the first Preacher of the Gospel in the infancy of the Mother Colony of S. Christopher's in the Western Indies. How long he continued there, I know not: sure I am, that after his return he became beneficed in Surrey, Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Prebendary▪ as it seems, of Lincoln. In the beginning of the Rebellion he lost all, was for a time Curate at Acton for his Uncle Dr. Featley; and in June 1643, he, with his Wife, Children, and Servants, shipped themselves for S. Christopher's before mentioned; where he and they continued several years. After his Majesty's return in 1660, he became one of his Chaplains, was installed Chantor of Lincoln in the same year, was in the next actually created D. of D. and soon after had the Vicarage of Edwinstow in Nottinghamshire (worth about 60 l. per an.) conferred on him by the Dean and Chapter of the said Church. He hath written and published,  
Several sermons, as (1) Serm. to the West-India Company, on Josh. 1.9. Lond. 1629. qu. (2) Obedience and Submission, at S. Saviour's in Southwark at a Visitation 8 Dec. 1635. on Heb. 13.17. Lond. 1636. qu. etc.  
A succinct history of the life and death of the learned and famous Divine Daniel Featley D. D. Lond. 1660. in tw. Printed at the end of a book intit. Dr. Dan. Featley revived: proving that the Protestant Church is the only Cath. and true Church.  
A divine Antidote against the Plague; or mourning tears in Soliquys and Prayers: as 1. For this general Visitation. 2. For those whose houses are shut up of the Plague, etc. Lond. 1665. He also published a book entitled The league illegal. Lond. 1660. qu. Written by his said Uncle Dr. Featley, and ded. to Edw. Earl of Clarendon by the Publisher, who put an Introduction to the book. 
1666.  He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six, and was buried in one of the Chapels, joining to the Cath. Church. Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley, a true and zealous son of the Church of England, was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a nonconforming Minister, and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles, (sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh. afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristol) one or more of whose Sermons, you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery, etc. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4▪ July 1682 aged 61, and was interred in the burial place joining to the Artillery Yard near London, in the presence of 500 Persons, who accompanied him to his grave. Of the same family, though remote, was Sam Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk, 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age, etc. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark, p. 153.  
JOHN WARNER received his first breath, as 'tis said, in the Parish of S. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster, was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. as a Surrey man born an. 1599 aged 16 years, where being put under the tuition of a careful Person, made a considerable progress in his studies, took the degrees in Arts, and in 1605 was made perpetual Fellow of that house, being then esteemed a witty man, a good Logician and Philosopher. In 1610 he resigned his Fellowship, was about that time Rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in London, and afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity was made one of his Majesty's Chaplains, Prebendary of Canterbury, Governor of Zion Coll, Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell (promoted to the See of Peterborough) an. 1633, and in the year 1637 being nominated Bishop of Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles, was consecrated thereunto on the 14th, and installed 21, of January the same year, being then noted for a good School Divine, and one well read in the Fathers. In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed Font in the Cath. Ch. of Canterbury, built one at his proper charge, which, whether more curious or more costly, was difficult to judge; and the same year it was consecrated by John L. Bishop of Oxon. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he showed himself a zealous assertor of Episcopacy in the H. of Lords, speaking for the function as long as he had any voice left, and very pertinently and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice of Bishop's votes in the H. of Parliament. Afterwards he did not only suffer with his Brethren, by having the Lands of his See taken away, but by compounding for his temporal Estate which was considerable. He hath written,  
Church Lands not to be sold: or a necessary and plain answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant, whether the Lands of Bishops and Churches in England and Wales may be sold?— Printed 1646. 48. qu.  
Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the Chapter of Original sin in the Unum necessarium— Printed in the said Dr. tailor's Collection of Polemical discourses. See more in Dr. Taylor among these Writers, under the year 1667. He hath also one or more Sermons extant which I have not yet seen, and perhaps other things. Quaere. At length he giving way to fate on the 14 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six, was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester, 
1666.  and soon after had a stately monument erected over his grave, with a large Epitaph thereon, wherein 'tis said that he died in the year of his age 86. By his last Will and Test. he left his personal estate, for an Hospital or Alms-house to be built as conveniently as might be near the Cath. Ch. of Rochester, and Lands for the maintenance therein of twenty poor Widows (though himself had always led a single life) the Relics of Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men, and a Chaplain to administer holy things to them according to the Church of England. To which Chaplain he bequeathed 50 l. per an. and to each of the Widows 20 l. per an. always reserving so much out of their exhibition, as may keep in good repair the said Hospital or Almeshouse. The election of the Chaplain is to be made out of Magd. Coll. in Oxon, and not out of any other House: And the election of the said 20 Widows, is to be made by his Executors for the time being, and after their decease, by such trusties as they shall appoint. In his life time, and at his death, he gave a 1000 l. for the increase of the Library of Magd. Coll. with books. Five hundred pounds at his death to buy books for the late erected Library at Rochester. Two hundred pounds in his life time for the reparation of Rochester Cathedral, and at his death he bequeathed 800 l. more. To the repair of S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in London he gave 1050 l. To ●he buying in of impropriations in the Dioc. of Rochester, to be laid to the smallest Vicaridges in the said Dioc. 2000 l. To S. Clem. Danes 20 l, to Bromley where his Bishop's seat is, 20 l, and an yearly pension to S. Dionyse Backchurch. By his said last will also he bequeathed 80 l. per an. to issue out of his manor of Swayton for the maintenance of four Scholars of the Scotch Nation to live and abide in Balliol Coll, to be chosen from time to time by the Archb. of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester, and each to have 20 l. yearly till they were Masters of Arts, and then to return to their Country and there be Ministers of God's word, etc. But the Overseers of the said Will being not willing to place the said Scholars in that College, neither the Master and Fellows thereof altogether willing to receive them, thoughts were had of making Gloucester Hall a College for them; and thereupon till they should come to a final resolution concerning that matter, the Scholars for the present time were placed there. At length when Dr. Tho. Good became Master of the said Coll. of Balliol, which was in 1672, he took order that they should be translated thither, where they yet remain.  
JOHN WALL was born of gentile Parents in the City of London, elected from Westm. School a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1604 aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders and afterwards exercised his function for several years in S. Aldates' Church in Oxon. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity, being about that time Chaplain, as I conceive, to Philip Lord Stanhop, and in 1632 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. L. Hutten deceased, which he kept to his dying day, notwithstanding the several revolutions in his time. In Nou. 1644 he was made Prebendary of Yatmister secunda in the Church of Sarum, given to him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof, which also keeping till his last day, was succeeded therein by Tho. Hyde of Qu. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Hyde B. of Salisbury. This Dr. Wall was a acquaint Preacher in the age he lived, and Dr. William's Bishop of Lincoln did use to give this character of him while he remained with him in his family, that he was the best read in the Fathers of any he ever knew. The truth is he was always a severe student, lived a retired life and spent his time in celibacy and books. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Sermon at Shelford in Nottinghamshire, on the death of Mr. John Stanhop Son and Heir to Philip Lord Stanhop Baron of Shelford; whose Corpse was translated from Ch. Ch. in Oxon, to the sepulchres of his Fathers in the Church of Shelford, on 2. Sam. 12.23. Lond. 1623. oct. (2) jacob's Ladder, on 1. Pet. 5.6. Oxon. 1626. oct. (3) Alae Seraphicae. The Seraphins wings to raise us unto heaven, in six sermons, partly at S. Peter's in Westminster, partly at S. Aldates in Oxon. Lond. 1627. qu. The first of which is entit. The Souls Ornament, on Cantic. 8.6. (4) Christian progress, serm. at Shelford in Nott. on Matth. 21.9. Oxon. 1627. oct. (5) The Lion in the Lamb: or, strength in weakness, serm. at Shelf. in Not. on Rev. 7.10. Oxon. 1628. oct. (6) Christian reconcilement: or, God at peace with man in Christ, serm. at S. Mary's in Oxon. on Rom. 5.11. Lond. 1658. oct. (7) Sermon on Rom. 10.15. Printed 1627. oct. This last I have not yet seen.  
Ramus Olivae; sive concio habita ad clerum in templo B. Mariae Oxon 8. Junii pro inchoando termino, in Luc. 24.36. Oxon. 1653. in a small oct. Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell.  
Solomon in solio: Christus in Ecclesia; sive concio latinè habita ad clerum in templo B. Mariae Oxon. primo Maii, in Cantic. 3.9.10. Oxon. 1660. oct. He paid his last debt to nature in his Lodgings in Peckwater quadrangle belonging to Ch. Ch. on the 20 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six, 
1666.  and was buried in the second Isle joining to Ch. Ch. choir on the North side. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 287. The Reader is now to know that this Person having got a plentiful estate in, and from, his College, did a little before his death show himself upon some small distaste so ungrateful to it, that instead of bestowing moneys thereon to carry on the public buildings belonging thereunto, he gave a thousand and twenty pounds to the City of Oxon, to be employed for certain charitable uses, and a greater sum to two 
(c) Sebast. Smith D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rich. Croke Recorder of the City of Oxon.  flattering Persons that wanted it not, or were any thing of kin to, or cared a straw for, him. The picture of this Dr. Wall drawn to the life, with his doctoral habit and square cap, hangs at this day in the Council Chamber belonging to the City of Oxon, joining on the East side to the upper Gild-hall. Besides this John Wall was another of both his names and time, Bach. of Divinity, sometimes Minister in Colchester, afterwards Preacher of God's word at S. michael's Cornhill in London, Author of None but Christ: or, a plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ, exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified; with a particular applicatory, and saving knowledge, in divers sermons on 1. Cor. 2.2. Lond. 1648, 50. 56. oct. But this John Wall who was a Presbyterian and much favoured by Sir Harbottle Grimstone, was, as it seems, educated in Cambridge.  
WILLIAM TOWERS son of Dr. Jo. Towers Bishop of Peterborough, was born in Northamptonshire, elected from Westm. School Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1634, aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed, an. 1641. In the latter end of the year following he was made Prebendary of Peterborough, in the place of Dr. Jo. Pocklington deceased, and in 1644 Parson of Barnack in Northamptonshire: Both which were only titular to him for some years. In 1646 a little before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendered to the Parliament (to which place he had retired for refuge) he was actually created Bach. of Divinity; and afterwards, being deprived of all his spiritualities, was patronised by Francis Lord Newport, and lived upon mean places and employments; the last of which before his Majesty's restauration, was the Curatship of Upton near Northampton. Afterwards he was restored to his Preb. of Peterborough and Parsonage of Barnack, and had that of Fisberton near Lincoln conferred upon him. His works of learning are these.  
Atheismus Vapulans; a treatise against Atheism. Lond. 1654. oct. Published also before that time, without the author's name to it.  
Polytheismus Vapulans; or a treatise proving that there is a God— Printed with the former book.  
Several Sermons as (1) Sermon against murder; occasioned by the Massacre of the Protestants in the Dukedom of Savoy; on Exod. 20.13. Lond. 1655. qu. (2) Obedience perpetually due to Kings; on Psal. 21.1. Lond▪ 1660. qu. (3) Thanksgiving Sermon for the blessed restauration of K. Ch. 2; on Psal. 21. former part of the first verse. Lond. 1660. qu. etc. At length this loyal and religious Person, W. Towers, going from his rectory of Fisberton to visit some friends living at Uffington near to Stanford in Lincolnshire, fell sick there, and dying on the 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six, 
1666.  was buried two days after in the Chancel of the Church at that place. Soon after was a little inscription put over his grave, but removed some years after, when the Chancel was new paved, after a burying vault had been made under part of it.  
JAMES SHIRLEY the most noted dramatic Poet of his time, did make his first entry on the stage of this transitory world in, or near, the Parish 
(*) So I have been informed by his Son, the Butler of Furnivals' inn in Holbourn, near London.  of S. Marry Wool-church (where the Stock-market now is) within the City of London, was descended from the Shirleys of Sussex or Warwickshire, as by his Arms (if he had right to them) painted over his picture hanging in the School-gallery at Oxon, appears, educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Tailor's School and transplanted thence to S. John's Coll. but in what condition he lived there, whether in that of a Servitor, Batler, or Commoner, I cannot yet find. At the same time Dr. Will. Laud presiding that house, he had a very great affection for him, especially for the pregnant parts that were visible in him, but then having a broad or large mole upon his left cheek, which some esteemed a deformity, that worthy Doctor would often tell him that he was an unfit Person to take the sacred function upon him, and should never have his consent so to do. Afterwards leaving this University without a degree, he went to Cambridge, where I presume he took those in Arts: so that soon after entering into holy Orders, he became a Minister of God's word in, or near to, S. Alban in Hertfordshire. But being then unsettled in his mind, he changed his Religion for that of Rome, left his Living and taught a Grammar School in the said Town of S. Alban; which employment also he finding uneasy to him, he retired to the Metropolis, lived in Greys' inn, and set up for a playmaker and gained not only a considerable livelihood, but also very great respect and encouragement from Persons of quality, especially from Henrietta Maria the Queen Consort, who made him her servant. When the rebellion broke out, and he thereupon forced to leave London, and so consequently his Wife and Children, (who afterwards were put to their shifts) he was invited by his most noble Patron William Earl (afterwards Marquis and Duke) of Newcastle to take his fortune with him in the wars, for that Count had engaged him so much by his generous liberality towards him, that he thought he could not do a worthier act, than to serve him, and so consequently his Prince. After the King's cause declined he retired obscurely to London, where, among other of his noted friends, he found Tho. Stanley Esq. who exhibited to him for the present. Afterwards following his old trade of teaching School, which was mostly in the White Friars, he not only gained a comfortable subsistence (for the acting of plays was then silenced) but educated many ingenious youths, who afterwards proved most eminent in divers faculties. After his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms, several of his plays which he before had made, were acted with good applause, but what office or employ he had conferred upon him after all his sufferings, I cannot now justly tell. His works are these.  
The Wedding: A comedy. Lond. 1629. qu.  
Grateful Servant, come. Lond. 1630. qu.  
Love tricks: or the School of Compliments— Pr. 1631. oct.  
Changes, or Love in a maze, come.— Pr. 1632. qu.  
The triumph of peace. A mask presented by the four houses or inns of Court before the K. and Qu. in the Banqueting house at Whitehall, 3 Feb. 1633— Printed several times within the compass of one year.  

Witty fair one, come. Lond. 1633. qu.  
Contention for honour and riches, a mask. Lond. 1633. qu.  
The Traitor, trag. Lond. 1633. qu.  
Bird in a cage, come. Lond. 1633. qu.   
The last of these was dedicated to Will. Prynne then a Prisoner for high misdemeanours.  

Gamester, Comedies Lond. 1637. qu.  
Hide Park, Comedies Lond. 1637. qu.  
Example, Comedies Lond. 1637. qu.  
Young Admiral, Comedies Lond. 1637. qu.  
Lady of pleasure, Comedies Lond. 1637. qu.   

Duke's Mistress, trag. come. Lond. 1638.  
Royal Master, come. Lond. 1638.   
Maid's revenge, trag.— Print. at the same place 1639. qu.  
S. Patrick for Ireland: The first part. A History. Lond. 1640. qu.  

Opportunity, come. Lond. 1640. qu.  
Pastoral called the Arcadia. Lond. 1640. qu.  
Love's cruelty, trag. Lond. 1640. qu.  
Constant Maid, come. Lond. 1640. qu.   
The last was also printed at the same place 1667. qu.  
Poems, etc.— Lond. 1646. oct. with his picture before them.  
Narcissus, or the self-lover. Lond. 1646. oct. Poetry.  
Via ad Latinam Linguam complanata, etc. Lond. 1649 oct. Written in English, and dedicated in fine language to William Son of Philip Lord Herbert. Before this book are several copies of verses in praise of the Author, made by the Poets of that time, among whom is Edward Sherburne Esq.  

Brothers. come. Lond. 1652. 53. oct.  
Sisters. come. Lond. 1652. 53. oct. 

Doubtful heir. tr. come. Lond. 1652. 53. oct.  
Imposture. tr. come. Lond. 1652. 53. oct.    
Cardinal, trag. Lond. 1652. 53. oct.  
Court secret, tr. co. Lond. 1652. 53. oct.   
The first five were acted at the private house in Black Friars, the last was never acted. They have the picture of the author before them, as before his Poems, and though not like to it, yet it most resembles that in the School-gallery.  

Gentleman of Venice, tr. come. Lond. 1655. qu.  
Politician, tr. Lond. 1655. qu.   
Manuductio: or, a leading of Children by the hand to to the Lat. tongue, by a short vocabulary, and familiar forms of speaking, in Engl. and Lat. Lond. 1656. octavo.  
Honoria and Mammon. Lond. 1660. oct. The Scene Metropolis or New Troy, represented by young Gentlemen of quality, at a private entertainment of some Persons of honour. Before this play is a shoulder-piece of the author standing on a pedestal: And thereunto is added The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the armour of Achilles.  
Cupid and death. A private entertainment, represented with Scenes and Music▪ vocal and instrumental Lond. 1659. qu.  

Coronation Com.  
Humorous Courtier Com.   
Triumph of beauty, a mask.  
These last three I have not yet seen, and therefore I cannot tell when, or where, they were printed. He the said James Shirley was half author also of these two plays following, viz. 

The Ball, come. Lond. 1639. qu. Admiral.  
The trag. of Chabot of France. Lond. 1639. qu. Admiral.    
The other half author or partner was George Chapman a poetical writer in the reign of K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1, and not the meanest of the English Poets of his time; who dying 12 of May 1634 aged 77 years, was buried in the yard on the South side of the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near London. Over his grave near to the South wall of the Church, was soon after a monument erected, built after the way of the old Romans, by the care and charge of his beloved friend Inigo Jones the King's Architect: whereon is engraven this, Georgius Chapmannus Poeta Homericus, Philosophus verus (etsi Christianus Poeta) plusquam celebris, etc. He hath been highly celebrated among men for his brave language in his translation of Homer's Iliads, those I mean which are translated into Tessara-decasyllabons, or lines of fourteen syllables. Our author Shirley did also much assist his generous Patron William Duke of Newcastle in the composure of certain Plays, which the Duke afterwards published; and was a Drudge for John Ogilby in his translation of Homer's Iliads, and Odysseys, and some of Virgil's works, into English verse, with the writing of annotations on them. At length after Mr. Shirley had lived to the age of 72 years at least, in various conditions, and had seen much of the world; he, with his second Wife, Frances, were driven by the dismal conflagration that happened in London an. 1666 from their habitation near to Fleetstreet, into the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields in Middlesex, where being in a manner overcome with affrightments, disconsolations, and other miseries occasioned by that fire and their losses, they both died within the compass of a natural day: whereupon their bodies were buried in one grave in the yard belonging to the said Church of S. Giles on the 29 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six. 
1666.  I find one Henry Shirley Gent. author of a play called The martyred Soldier. Lond. 1638. qu. Which Henry I take to be brother or near kinsman to James. As for John Ogilby, who was a prodigy in that part of learning which he professed, considering his education, was born in, or near to, Edinburgh in Scotland, in the month of Nou. (about the 17th day) an. 1600. His Father, who was of ancient and gentile extract, had run out of his estate, and being a Prisoner in the Kings-bench could give his Son but little education at School, however the youth being very industrious obtained some knowledge in the latin Grammar, and afterwards so much money, as not only to relieve his Father and get him out of Prison, but also to bind himself an Apprentice to one Draper a Dancing master living in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourn near London: Soon after he being dextrous in that art, and by insinuation into, and complying with, his Master's customers, got so much money from them as to buy out the remaining pa●t of his time, and set up for himself. But so it was that he being afterwards selected from the company of Masters to be one of those that should dance when the Duke of Buckingham's great Mask was to be represented, it happened that by his high dancing and cutting of Capers according to the then mode, he did, by a false step, sprain a vein in the inside of his leg, which ever after occasioned him to go lamish. Afterwards he taught to dance the Sisters of Sir Ralph (afterwards Lord) Hopton at Wytham in Somersetshire; where, at leisure hours he learned from that generous and accomplished Kt how to handle the pike and musket, and all postures belonging to them. When Thomas Earl of Strafford became L. Lieutenant of Ireland, he was entertained by him to teach his art in his family, and having a command of his pen, as to the writing a good hand, was also employed sometimes to transcribe several matters for that most noble Count In his family it was, that he first of all gave proof of his inclinations to Poetry, by translating some of Aesop's Fables in verse, which, afterwards, when he came to understand latin better, and had communicated them to several Scholars, he made public: And being then one of the Troop of Guard belonging to his Lord, he composed in English verse a witty thing entit. The character of a Trooper. About that time he became, by the favour of the said Lord, Master of the Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland, built a little Theatre to act plays in, in S. Warburghs-street in Dublin, and was then and there valued by all ingenious men for his great industry in promoting morality and ingenuity: But the rebellion breaking out soon after in that Kingdom, he lost all, and was several times in jeopardy of his life, particularly when he had like to be blown up by gunpowder in the Castle of Refernam near Dublin. Much about the time that the war was terminated in England, he left Ireland, and in his return being wrecked at Sea, went to London in a poor condition. Thence, after some short stay, he footed it to Cambridge, where his great industry and greater love to learning being discovered, was encouraged by several Scholars there, who, in compliance to his zeal, resolved his many doubts put to them, and in fine made him so great a Master of the Latin tongue that he translated The works of Pub. Virgil Maro, which he published with his picture before them in a large oct.— Lond. 1649. 50. and dedicated them to his most noble Patron William Marquis of Hertford, and thereupon obtained a considerable sum of money in his pocket. At that time living in London, Aesop the Prince of Mythologists became his quarry, descanted on his plain song and paraphrased his short and pithy sayings, whereby he raised his voice to such an height that he took the degree among the Minor Poets, after the publication of that author with this title: Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse and adorned with sculptures. Lond. 1651. qu. In commendation of which Sir Will. D'avenant then a Prisoner in the Tower, and Jam. Shirley made verses. Hitherto his translation of Virgil continuing in a mean oct, he printed it in a royal folio with this title The works of Publius Virgilius Maro, translated, adorned with sculpture and illustrated with annotations. Lond. 1654. It was the fairest Edition that till then the English Press ever produced, and hath his picture before it also, as most of the books which he published have. The said sculpture and the very same cuts, were also by him put into the bare Latin Edition of that author, without annotations, which was by him published at London in 1658, in a large fol. He also published the said author with sculpture and annotations in a large oct.— Lond. 1675. and 85. Which was much bought up by young Scholars and Gentlemen, such who could not spare money to purchase the folio, that being reserved for libraries and the Nobility. By the publication, with annotations, of that most noble author, Mr. Ogilby obtained the reputation of a good translator, a faithful interpreter, and of one that had dabbled well in another's Helicon. About that time, viz. 1654., he, by his great and unwearied diligence accompanied with an unsatiable desire of obtaining knowledge, did learn the Greek tongue of one of his Countrymen called David Whitford at that time Usher to Jam. Shirley before mentioned: And being in a manner Master of it, he put out Homer his Iliads translated, adorned with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations, Lond. 1660. fol. This author, the King of Parnassus, being by him performed with great cost and labour was by him dedicated to his most gracious Majesty K. Ch. 2. In the same year he put out The Holy Bible, according to the translation set forth by special command of K. Jam. 1. with the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England, with chorographical sculpture. This was printed at Cambr. in a large fol. and on very large paper. In the beginning of the year following he received orders from the Commissioners for the solemnity of his Maj. Coronation, for the conduct of the poetical part thereof, as Speeches, Emblems, Mottoes and Inscriptions, and thereupon drew up for the present The relation of his Majesty's entertainment passing through the City of London, to his Coronation: with a description of the triumphal Arches, and solemnity. Lond. 1661. in 10. sh. in fol. This I say was put out for the present, but by command from his Majesty, the author did, with most admirable sculpture, and speeches at large, publish it soon after in a royal folio; and it hath been much made use of in succeeding coronations. About the same time (1662.) he went into Ireland, being then by patent made Master of the Revels there, after Sir Will. D'avenant had made some struggling for that place: And at Dublin he built a noble Theatre, which cost him about 2000 l, the former being ruined in the troubles. Afterwards he put out Homer his Odysseys translated, adorned with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1665. fol. dedicated to his most noble Lord James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of Ireland. He than a second time betook himself to Aesop, became a Mythologist and not only paraphrased it, but was a designer of his own, or new, Fables therein. This was called the second Vol. being adorned with most admirable cuts and printed at Lond. 1665. fol. having been by him performed, during his retirement, in the time of sickness, at Kingston upon Thames. This author was afterwards published in lesser volumes with this title The Fables of Aesop, paraphrased in verse, adorned with sculptures, and illustrated with annotations. Lond. 1673. 74. in two vol. in oct. The next things that he composed were The Ephesian Matron, and The Roman Slave, two heroic poems dedicated to Thomas Earl of Ossory: And although a second part met with a fate not common, yet it was esteemed equal with the former. Afterwards he wrote Carolies an Epic poem, in 12. books, so called from our miracle of Heroes K. Ch. 1. being the best pattern of true prudence, valour and christian piety. This was utterly lost in the grand conflagration that happened in London, in the beginning of Sept. 1666, when then the habitation of our author Ogilby in the White friars near Fleetstreet was burnt, and he himself undone, having but 5 l. left to begin the world again. But so it was that he had such an excellent invention and prudential wit, and was Master of so good addresses, that when he had nothing to live on, he could not only shift handsomely, but would make such rational proposals which were embraced by rich and great men, that in short time he would obtain an estate again. He never failed in what he undertook, but by his great industry and prudence went through it with profit and honour to himself. Soon after the said conflagration he had his house in the White friars before mentioned rebuilt, set up a Printing-house therein, employed able workmen, became his Majesty's Cosmographer, and Geographick Printer, and by proposals printed several books that he and his Assistants had translated and collected as (1) An Embassy from New Batavia to the Emperor of China, etc. Lond. 1669. fol. adorned with Maps, prospects and various sculptures, as all the books following which he published were (2) Description of Africa, etc. Lond. 1670. fol. This is the first part of his English Atlas. (3) Descript. of America, etc. Lond. 1671. fol. This is the second (4) Atlas Japanensis: Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassy from the East India Company of the Unital Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan, etc. Lond. 1670. fol. (5) Atlas Chinensis: Being the second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two Embassies from the East India Company of the Un. Prov. to the Viceroy of Simlamong, etc. Lond. 1671. fol. (6) Asia, the first part; being an accurate description of Persia, and the several Provinces thereof, etc. Lond. 1673. 74. fol. The 2d part the author did not live to finish; however this is looked upon as another part of the English Atlas (7) Description of Europe, not finished by the Author who intended it to be the fourth part of the Engl. Atlas. (8) Britannia. An Historical and Geographical description of Brittany, etc. The first part fol. All which are printed on imperial paper, adorned with maps, and most curious sculptures, and were carried on and sold by way of standing Lotteries. There also goes under his name, A pocket book of Roads in England, and a new map of the City of London, as it is new built, etc. Printed in one sheet of large paper. He also and Will. Morgan made A new and accurate Map of the City of London distinct from Westminster and Southwark, etc. which is six foot long and six foot deep, with a long narrow book to describe the places therein, as also A Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, and A survey of Essex with the roads therein exactly measured, etc. At length Mr. Ogilby having lived to a fair age, gave way to fate on the fourth day of Sept. 1676. and was buried in the Vault under part of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London: At which time many Persons of great knowledge usually said that had he been carefully educated, when a young man, in an University, might have proved the ornament and glory of the Scotch Nation.  
JAMES HOWELL was born 
(a) Lib. matric. P. pag. 473.  in Caermerthenshire, particularly, as I conceive, at Abernant, of which place his Father was Minister. In what year he was born, I cannot precisely tell you, yet he himself saith that 
(b) In his Epist. or familiar Letters, vol. 1. §. 6. nu. 60.  his ascendant was that hot constellation of Cancer about the midst of the Dog-days. After he had been educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Hereford, he was sent to Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1610 aged 16 years, took a degree in Arts, and then, being a pure Cadet, a true Cosmopolite, not born to land, lease, house, or office, was in a manner put to it to seek his fortune; but by the endeavours of friends and some money that his Father assisted him with, he traveled for three years into various Countries, whereby he advantaged himself much in the understanding of several languages. Some years after his return, he was sent into Spain 1622 to recover of the King of that place a rich English Ship, seized on by his Vice Roy of Sardinia for his Master's use, upon some pretence of prohibited goods therein. Three years after his return, (in which interval he was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. 1623.) he was entertained by Emanuel Lord Scrope Earl of Sunderland and Lord Precedent of the North, and by him was made his Secretary. So that residing in York for that purpose, he was by the Mayor and Aldermen of Richmond chose a Burgess for their corporation to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster, in the year 1627. Four years after, he went Secretary to Robert Earl of Leycester Ambassador extraordinary from our King to the King of Denmark; before whom and his Children, he showed himself a acquaint Orator by divers lat. speeches spoken before them, showing the occasion of their Embassy, to condole the death of Sophia Qu. Dowager of Denmark, Grandmother to Ch. 1. K. of England. Afterwards going through several beneficial employments, particularly the assisting the Clerks of the Council, was, at length in the beginning of the Civil War, made one of those Clerks; but being prodigally inclined, and therefore running much into debt, he was seized on by order of a certain Committee, (after the King was forced from his Parliament) and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. So that having nothing to trust to but his wits, and to the purchase of a small spot of ground upon Parnassus, (which he held in fee of the Muses) he solely dedicated himself to write and translate books; which, though several of them are mere scribbles, yet they brought him in a comfortable subsistence, during his long stay there. After the King's return in 1660, we never heard of his restauration to his place of Clerk of the Council, (having before flattered Oliver and sided with the Commonwealths men) only that he was made the King's Historiographer, being the first in England that bore that title; and having no beneficial employment, he wrote books to his last. He had a singular command of his pen, whether in verse or prose, and was well read in modern Histories, especially in those of the Countries wherein he had traveled, had a parabolical and allusive fancy, according to his motto Senesco non Segnesco. But the reader is to know that his writings having been only to gain a livelihood, and by their dedications to flatter great and noble persons, are very trite and empty, stolen from other authors without acknowledgement, and fitted only to please the humours of Novices. His works are these.  
Dodena's Grove: or, the vocal Forest. Lond. 1640. 44. qu. Much cried up and taken into the hands of curious People at its first publication. The second part of it was printed at Lond. in 1650 oct. and though not so much admired as the first (which was translated into French and printed several times) yet there was a translation made of it into the new refined French by one of the prime wits in the Academy of Breux Esprits of Paris— Par. 1652. qu.  
Ou le Parler des Arbres. Par. 1648. qu. The English copy I have not yet seen, this being different from the Vocal Forest, which bears another title in the French edit.  
The vote: or, a Poem-Royal, presented to his Majesty for a New-year's gift, by way of discourse 'twixt the Poet and his Muse, call. Jan. 1641. Lond. 1642 in two sh. in qu.  
Instructions for foreign travel. Lond. 1642 in tw. Dedicated to Prince Charles: There again with additions, 1650 in tw.  
Casual discourses and interlocutions between Patricius and Peregrin, touching the distractions of the times, with the causes of them.— Written by the author in the prison called the Fleet, presently after Edghill battle, being the first book that came forth for the vindication of his Majesty.  
Mercurius Hibernicus: or, a discourse of that horrid insurrection, and massacre which happened lately in Ireland— Written in the Fleet 1643.  
Parables reflecting upon the times. Lond. 1644. in 2 sh. in qu. at the latter end of the second edit. o● Dodena's Grove.  
England's tears for the present wars, etc. Lond. 1644. in two sh. and half in qu. There again in 1650 in tw. Put into lat. under this title Angliae suspiria & lacrymae, etc. Lond. 1646. in tw.  
Pre-eminence and pedigree of Parliaments in two sections. Lond. 1644 in tw. There again in 1677 in 3 sheets in qu.  
Vindication of some passages reflecting upon him in a book called The Popish Royal Favourite, penned by Mr. Prynne. Lond. 1644 in tw. Printed with the very next pamphlet before mentioned.  
A clearing of some occurrences in Spain at his Majesty's being there, cited by the said Mr. Prynne out of the Vocal Forest— This is also printed with the former.  
Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar letters domestic and foreign, divided into sundry sections, partly historical, political and philosophical. Lond. 1645. 47. qu. Lond. 1650. oct. There again 1655 and 73 in oct. All which impressions contained two vol. and had, to the last, added a third and fourth volume. Many of the said letters, were never written before the Author of them was in the Fleet, as he pretends they were, only feigned, (no time being kept with their dates) and purposely published to gain money to relieve his necessities.  
A nocturnal progress: or, a perambulation of most Countries in Christendom, performed in one night by strength of imagination— Written in the Fleet 1645.  
Lustra Ludovici: or, the life of Lewis 13 K. of France and of his Cardinal de Richelieu. Lond. 1646. fol. Divided into 7 lustres, and dedicated to Pr. Charles at his Court in the Isle of Jersey.  
An account of the deplorable and desperate condition that England stands in, an. 1647. in a letter to Francis Cardinal Barberini— Written from the Fleet 1647.  
Letter to the Earl of Pembr. concerning the times, and the sad condition both of Prince and People— Printed 1647 in two sh. in qu.  
Bella Scot-Anglica. A brief of all the Battles, and martial encounters which have happened 'twixt England and Scotland, from all times to this present— Printed 1648.  
Corollary declaring the causes whereby the Scot is come of late years to be so heightened in his spirits— These two last are in 3 sh. in qu.  
The instruments of a King: or, a short discourse of Sword, Sceptre, and Crown. Lond. 1648. in 2 sh. in qu.  
Winter dream— Written in prose and printed 1649 in 3 sh. in qu.  
A trance, or news from hell brought first to town by Merc. Acheronticus. Lond. 1649 in 2 sh. and half in qu. Written in prose.  
Inquisition after blood: to the parliament in statu quo nunc, and the Army regnant, etc.— Printed 1649 in two sh. in qu.  
Vision, or dialogue between the soul and the body. Lond. 1651. oct. etc.  
Survey of the signory of Venice, of her admired policy and method of government▪ Lond. 1651. thin fol.  
Discourse of the Interests of the Reipublick of Venice, with the rest of the states of Italy— Printed with the Survey.  
Some sober inspections made into the carriage and consults of the late Long Parliament, etc. Lond. 1653. oct. Dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector, whom he compares to Charles Martel, and compliments him in smooth language. The fourth edition of this book came out in 1660 with several additions containing reflections upon government in general, with some prophetic paragraphs, and a supplement of divers signal passages, which the other three additions had not.  
Hist. of the Wars of Jerusalem Epitomised— Printed in oct.  
Ah, Ha; Tumulus, Thalamus: Two counter poems; the first, an Elegy upon Edward late Earl of Dorset. The second an Epithalamium to the L. Marquis of Dorchester; with an Hymeneum or Bridal-sonet of 4 stanzas, according to a choice Aire set thereunto by Mr. Will. Webb. Lond. 1653 in two sh. in qu.  
A Dialogue— Published and couched under the name of Polyander. Written about the time that Oliver began to be Protector. In this Dialogue he gives his opinion for a single Person against all other governments.  
The Germane diet: or, the balance of Europe, wherein the power and weakness, glory and reproach, virtues and vices, etc. of all the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are impartially poised. Lond. 1653 fol. The author's picture from head to foot is set before the title, leaning under a British oak.  
Parthonopoeia: or, the history of the most renowned Kingdom of Naples, with a list of their Kings, etc. Lond. 1654. fol. The first part of it was written by Scipio Mazzella; englished from Ital. by Samson Lennard Herald of Arms. The second part was compiled by our Authors Jam. Howell, who, besides some supplements to the first part draws the thread of the story to these present times. Collected and translated from several modern Ital. authors.  
Londinopolis. An historical discourse, or perlustration of the City of London and Westminster, with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new buildings. Lond. 1657. fol. 'Tis a short discourse, mostly taken from Jo. Stow's Survey of London, and his continuators.  
Discourse of the Empire, and of the election of the King of the Romans, etc. Lond. 1658. oct.  
Lexicon tetraglotton. An English-French-Italian-Spanish-Dictionary. Lond. 1659. 60. fol.  
A particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English, Italian, French and Spanish of the proper terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to common professions and callings, both liberal and mechanic, etc. in 52 Sections. Lond. 1659. Printed with the former book.  
Proverbs; or, old said saws and adages in English, (or the Saxon tongue) Italian, French, and Spanish: Whereunto the British, for their great antiquity and weight are added— This is also printed with Lex. tetragl.  
A cordial for the Cavaliers. Lond. 1661. Answered as soon as it peeped abroad by Rog. L'estrange in a book entit▪ A caveat for the Cavaliers: which having given offence to divers Persons, he published a second edition of it, with his name and a preface to it. Soon after our author Howell set forth a vindication of his Cordial under this title.  
Some sober inspections made into those ingredients, that went to the composition of a late Cordial for the Cavaliers. Lond. 1661. Upon which L'estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of his intit. A modest plea both for the Caveat and Author of it.  
A French Grammar, and a dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes with additions of the most useful and significant proverbs, etc.— Printed at London twice, the last time was in 1673 fol. He also added to A French and English Dictionary, composed by Randle Cotgrave, Sundry animadversions, with supplements of many hundreds of words never before printed, with accurate castigations throughout the whole work.  
The parley of Beasts: or, Morphandra Qu. of the enchanted Island, etc. Tom. 1. Lond. 1660 fol.  
The second part of casual discourses and interlocutions between Patritius and Peregrin, etc. Lond. 1661. oct. Printed in a book intit. Divers historical discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland.  
Apology for Fables mythologised— Printed in the said book also.  
Twelve treatises of the late revolutions. Lond. 1661. octav.  
New English Grammar for Foreigners to learn English, with a Grammar for the Spanish or Castilian tongue, with special remarks on the Portuguese dialect, for the service of her Majesty. Lond. 1662. oct.  
Discourse concerning the precedency of Kings, Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latin by B. Harris L. P.— Lond. 1664. oct.  
Poems on several choice and various subjects, occasionally composed. Lond. 1663. oct. Collected and published by one who calls himself Sergeant Major pain Fisher, sometimes Poet laureate to Oliver.  
Treatise concerning Ambassadors— Translated into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. Coll.— Lond. 1664. oct.  
Concerning the surrender of Dunkirk, that it was done upon good grounds. Lond. 1664. oct.  
He also translated from Italian into English (1) S. Paul's late progress upon earth, about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome by reason of her dissoluteness and excesses, etc. Lond. 1644. oct. The Author of it (whose name I cannot yet learn) made it public about the year 1642, and being forced to fly from Rome for so doing, in the company and under the conduct of one that pretended friendship to him, was betrayed at Avignion, and there first hanged, and then burned. (2) A Venetian looking-glass: or, a letter written very lately from Lond. to Card. Barbarini at Rome by a Venetian Clarissimo, touching the present distempers in England. Printed 1648. in 3 sh. in qu. (3) An exact history of the late Revolutions in Naples, and of their monstrous successes not to be paralleled by any ancient or modern History. Lond. 1650. oct. Published in Ital. by Lord Alex. Giraffi. The second part of this History came out soon after by the same hand, who also translated it from Ital. In both which it appears, that the said Revolutions were occasioned by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles; which exciting the Mobile, headed by Tomaso Anello commonly called Masaniello a Fisherman, all things in Naples were for some time turned topsie turvy. (4) A letter of Advice sent from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England may come to herself again. Dated at Flor. 12. Mar. 1659.— Printed at the end of The second part of casual discourses, etc. before mentioned. He also (Ja. Howell) translated from French into English, The nuptials of Peleus and Thetis; consisting of a Mask and Comedy, or the great royal Ball acted lately in Paris six times, etc. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into Engglish The process and plead in the Court of Spain upon the death of Anthony Ascham Resident for the Parliament of England, and of Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter, etc. Lond. 1651. fol. The said A. Ascham who was born of a gentile family, was educated in Eton School and thence elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1633: Afterwards taking the degree of M. of Arts, closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion, took the Covenant, sided with the Independents, became a great creature of the Long Parliament, (by whose authority he was made Tutor to James Duke of York) and an active Person against his Sovereign. At length being looked upon as sufficiently Antimonarchical, was by the Rump Parliament sent their Agent or Resident to the Court of Spain, in the latter end of the year 1649. In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid and had an apartment appointed him in the Court; but certain English Royalists then in that City, taking it in great disdain that such a notorious Rebel (one of the destroyers of their Nation as they called him) should come there from the murderers of his sacred Majesty of England, six of them named Joh. Guillim, Will. Spark, Valentine Progers, Jo. Halsal, Will. Arnet, and Hen. Progers, repaired to his lodging: Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs, two at the top, and two entered his Chamber, of whom Spark being the first, drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting, and pulling off his hat, said Gentlemen I kiss your hands, pray which is the Resident? Whereupon the Resident rising up, Guillim took him by the hair of the head, and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him. Then came in Spark and gave him another, and because they would make sure of their work, they gave him five stabs, of which he instantly died. Whereupon Jo. Bap. Riva his Interpreter thinking to retire to his Chamber, four others that were without the Chamber, gave him four wounds, whereof he presently expired. Afterwards five of the Englishmen took sanctuary, but were haled thence, imprisoned and Spark suffered. The sixth Person named Hen. Progers fled to the Venetian Ambassadors house and so escaped. The said Anth. Ascham who was slain 6. June. 1650, hath written A discourse wherein is examined, what is particularly lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government, etc. Lond. 1648. oct. and other things, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. But all this by the by; as for Jam. Howell he published— Cottoni posthuma: Divers choice pieces of that renowned Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton, etc. Lond. in oct. and the late King's Declaration in lat. Fr. and Engl. an. 1649. At length after he had taken many rambles in this world in his younger years, and had suffered confinement in his last, gave way to fate in the beginning of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and six, 
1666.  and was buried on the north side of the Temple Church in London, near the round walk. Soon after was a monument set up in the wall over his grave, with this inscription thereon. Jacobus Howell Cambro-Britannus, Regius Historiographus, (in Anglia primus) qui post varias peregrinationes, tandem naturae cursum peregit, satur annorum & famae, domi forisque huc usque erraticus, hic fixus 1666. This monument was pulled down in 1683 when the said Temple Church was beautified and repaired.  
JOHN GLYNNE third Son of Will. Glynne Esq. was born at Glyn-Llyvon in Caernarvanshire, (the ancient seat of his Ancestors) bred in the Coll. school at Westminster, went full ripe in Grammar learning to Hart Hall in Mich. term 1621. aged 18 years, where continuing about 3 years, he retired to Lincoln's Inn, became Barrister, a Counsellor of note and Bencher. Afterwards he was made Steward of Westminster, Recorder of London, and in 1640 was elected twice a Burgess for Westminster to serve in those two Parliaments called that year. In the last of which, commencing 3. of Nou. he was appointed one of those doughty Champions to bait the most noble and worthy Thomas Earl of Strafford, in order to bring him to the Block; which being done, he showed himself a great enemy to the Bishops and their function, a zealous Covenantier, a busy man in the Assembly of Divines, (among whom he sometimes sat) and what not to promote his interest and gain wealth. So that being then well known to be an useful member for carrying on the blessed cause, he was made Clerk of the Petty bag in Sir Edw. Wardour's place, (a known Royalist) esteemed to be then worth 1000 l. per an. and what other places he could not take because of his profession, he got them to be conferred on his creatures 
(a) See in the Mystery of the good old Cause, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. p. 11.  and kindred. In 1647 he with other Parliament men took a Pique against the Army and would needs have them disbanded: whereupon they impeached him and ten more of high treason on the 16 of June the same year, and forthwith by order of Parliament they were sent Prisoners to the Tower. In January following he was deprived of his Recorders place, but then wheeling about and flattering the Independents, he was made Sergeant at Law in Oct. 1648 and in July following Will. Steel Esq. was elected Recorder in his place, not, as 'tis supposed, without consideration given to Glynne. In the beginning of the year 1655 he was sent into the West (Hen. Rolls Ch. Justice refusing) to arraign that brave and valiant Gent. Col. John Penruddock and others his Associates, taken at South Moulton, (after the rising of the Cavaliers at Salisbury) by Article-breaking Unton Croke. For which good service, (as 'twas then called) and his complying principles to advance the Protectors interest, he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Upper Bench: To which office he was sworn 15 June 1655, by Fiennes and L'isle Commissioners of the Great Seal. The last of which did then make a learned speech, wherein he spoke much in commendation of the good government (as he termed it) that they then lived under. About that time our Author Glynne was made one of Olivers other House, that is House of Lords, and so long as that Person lived he was much favoured by him. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made his eldest Sergeant at Law, by the corrupt dealing of the then L. Chancellor; and on the 16. of Novemb. 1660, he by the name of John Glynne of Henly Park in Surrey, etc. received the honour of Knighthood. Under his name are these things following extant.  
Divers discourses in the managing of the evidence against Tho. E. of Strafford.— See Joh. Rushworth's Trial of the said Earl.  
Replication in the name of all the Commons of England to the general Answer of Tho. Earl of Strafford, etc. 13 July 1641. Lond. 1641. in 2 sh. and half in qu.  
Several Speeches, as (1) Speech at the presenting the Sheriffs of London, in Octob. 1644. (2) Speech to the point of Jus divinum, and the Presbyterian Government. This was spoken for an whole hour together in Nou. 1644, upon the advice of the Ass. of Divines, that the Presbyterian Government was jure divino, etc.  
Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient, and legal form of Government, in a conference had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector, and a Committee of Parliament, in Apr. 1658, and made good by several arguments. Lond. 1660. oct. besides other things which I have not yet seen. He departed this mortal life in his house situated in Portugal Row in Linc. Inn Fields near London on the 15 of Nou. in sixteen hundred sixty and six, 
1666.  and was buried with great solemnity (being accompanied to his grave by three Heralds of Arms) in his own Vault under the Altar in the chancel of the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster, as I have been informed by his son Sir Will. Glynne of Bisseter alias Burncester in Oxfordshire Baronet, who dying 28 of Aug. 1690, was buried also in the same Vault. See more of Sir Jo. Glynne in Sir Will. Jones in the first Vol. under the year 1640. p. 544. I have seen a book intit. A true account given of the proceedings of the right honourable Lord Glyn, the Lord Ch. Justice of England, and the honourable Baron Rog. Hill, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, in their Summer Circuit in the Counties of Berks, Oxon, etc. Lond. 1658. qu. But the Reader must know that this being writ in drolling verse by one that called himself Joh. Lineal, the L. Glynne was so far from having any knowledge of it, or consenting to its writing, that there was great enquiry after the Author to have him punished for his Abuses of, and smart Reflections on, him.  
GEORGE GRIFFITH was born at Penrhyn in Caernarvanshire, 30 Sept. 1601, educated in Westm. School, elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1619, took the degrees in Arts, became an eminent Tutor in his house, and a Preacher in these parts. Afterwards Dr. John Owen Bishop of S. Asaph, (to whom he was Chaplain) conferred on him the Rectory of Llanvechen in Montgomeryshire, which he changed for Llanymynech, situated partly in Shropshire and partly in Montgomeryshire. In 1635 he proceeded D. D. being then, or about that time, Canon (and as some say Archdeacon) of S. Asaph, and Minister of Llanchinio in the said County of Montgom. In the time of the Rebellion he lost all or most of his Spiritualities, did good service for his Majesty and the Church in several respects, and therefore rewarded after his Majesty's Restauration, as I shall anon tell you. While he lived at Llanymynech, whence, I think he was not ejected, he wrote,  
A modest Answer to a bold Challenge of an itinerant Preacher, (Vav. powel)— Printed 1652. The beginning of which is, Accepi hodie chartulam, etc. To which Vav. powel making a reply in most false and barbarous Latin, beginning, Domine in quartam ultimae diei hebdomadae, etc. our Author made a rejoinder beginning thus, Ehem! quid tandem video? etc. All which being in order to a public Disputation, Griffith afterwards, when he saw himself abused thereby, published,  
Animadversions on an imperfect relation in the Perfect Diurnal, numb. 138. Aug. 2. an. 1652. containing a narration of a Disputation between Dr. Griffith and Mr. Vavaser powel near New Chapel in Montgomeryshire, 23 Jul. 1652. Lond. 1653. qu. See more in Vav. powel, an. 1670. Our Author Griffith also wrote,  
Some plain discourses on the Lord's Supper, instructing the ignorant in a due preparation for that holy sacrament, and representing the great danger of communicating amiss. Oxon. 1684. in tw. It was then corrected, and had an Epist. to the Reader set to it, by Andr. Allam M. A. and Vice-Principal of S. Edm. Hall. Our Author also took upon him the Translation of the new Common-Prayer-book in the Welsh Tongue; but whether he ever finished it I know not. In a Convocation of the Clergy held 1640, he made a motion for a new Edition of the Welsh Bible, set out many years before by Will. Morgan B. of S. Asaph. At length having successfully asserted the Truth and Cause of the Ch. of England in Wales, in the times of Usurpation, in disputing with Itinerants, keeping up the Offices and Ceremonies thereof, etc. he was by his Maj. grace and favour made Bish. of S. Asaph, to which being consecrated 28 of Oct. 1660 in K. Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm. sat there till the time of his death, and kept the Archdeaconry of S. Asaph in commendam with it. In 1662., in a Convocation of the Clergy then held, he concurred 
(*) D. Lloyd in his Memoires, etc. p. 600.  effectually in drawing up the Act of Uniformity, and making certain Alterations in the Common Prayer than set out, and 'tis thought the form of baptising those of riper years was of his composing. He died on the 28 of Nou. in sixteen hundred sixty and six, 
1666.  and was buried in the choir of the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph. Soon after was a Monument placed over his grave, with this Inscription engraven thereon, Hic jacet corp. Rev. in Christo patris ac Dom. D. Georgii Griffith S. T. P. hujus Ecclesiae Asaph. Episc. sacratissimi, cujus altera melier pars, choro coelesti associata est, 28 die Novembris, an. Dom. 1666, aetat. 65 & consecrationis 7 more. Qui plura desiderat facile investiget.  
EDMUND GAYTON, or de Speciosa villa, as he entitled himself, Son of George Gayton of Little Britain in London, was born there, elected scholar of S. John's Coll. from Merchant Tailor's School in the year 1625, aged 16, became afterwards Fellow of that house, Master of Arts, superior Beadle of Arts and Physic of this University, in the place of Joh. Bell deceased, an. 1636, Bachelaur of Phys. actually created, by virtue of a dispensation from the Delegates 1647, turned out of his Beadleship in the year following by the Parliamentarian Visitors, lived afterwards in London in a sharking condition, and wrote trite things merely to get bread to sustain him and his wife. After the King's return in 1660, he was restored to his place by the King's Commissioners, but having got an itch in scribbling, followed that sometimes, but more the Vices of Poets, of which number he pretended to be one, and one eminent he might have been, had he not been troubled with the faculty of too much lifting. He hath written some good, others most vain and trashy, things, as you may partly see by the Catalogue following, which according to method must be here set down, though rather fit to be buried in oblivion.  
Epulae Oxonienses: or, a jocular Relation of a Banquet presented to the best of Kings, by the best of Prelates, in the year 1636 in the Mathematic Library at S. Jo. Bapt. Coll.— This is a song, and musical notes are set to it, in two parts, with this beginning, It was (my stuff upon't) in thirty six, etc.  
Chartae scriptae: or, a new Game at Cards, called, Play by the book.— Printed 1645 qu. Written, if I am not mistaken, in verse.  
Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot. Lond. 1654. fol. Written in prose, mixed now and then with verse; which is accounted our Author's Masterpiece.  
Hymna de febribus. Lond. about 1655. qu. in lat. verse.  
Will. Bagnals Ghost: or, the merry devil of Gadmunton, in his perambulation of the prisons of London. Lond. 1655. qu. Written mostly in verse, the latter end in prose. The title is in imitation of Shakespear's Comedy, called The merry Devil of Edmonton, which last word was changed into Gadmunton because it comes near the Author's name.  
Wit revived: or, a new excellent way of divertisement, digested into most ingenious Questions and Answers. Lond. 1660. in tw. Published under the name of Asdryasdust Tossoffacan.  
Poem upon Mr. Jacob Bobards Yew-men of the Guards to the Physic garden, to the tune of the Counter scuffle. Oxon. 1662., on one side of a sh. of paper. He also was, (if I mistake not) Author of A ballad on the Giants in the Physic garden in Oxon, who have been breeding feet as long as Garagantua was teeth. Ox. 1662. on one side of a large sh. of paper.  
Diegerticon ad Britanniam. Ox. 1662., on one side of half a sh. of paper.  
Poem written from Oxon to Mr. Rob. Whitehall at the Wells at Astrop. Oxon. 1666, in half a sh. of paper on both sides. To which Robin made an Answer, but 'twas not printed. The said Edm. Gayton did also collect and publish Harry Martens Familiar letters to his lady of delight, etc. with other things of that Author, not without some enlargements of his own, which hath made many to suppose that they were not written by Marten, but devised by Gayton, who also wrote a buffooning answer to a letter called A copy of Henry Martens letter in vindication of the murder of King Charles: Which answer is printed with the letters before mentioned. At length this our vain and impertinent Author Gayton dying in his lodgings in Catstreet near the public Schools, on the 12 day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and six (having had verses of his composition published but 7 days before) was buried in S. Mary's Church in Oxon. near to the entrance thence into the lower part of the Steeple, 
1666.  or near to the tomb of Edm. Croston, with moneys given for that purpose by the Vicechancellor. Three days after his death there was a Convocation for the election of his successor in the Beadleship: In the beginning of which the said Vicechancellor (Dr. Fell) stood up and exhorted the Masters in a set speech to have a care whom they should choose, and desired them by all means that they would not elect a Poet, or any that do libellos scribere, adding withal that the late Beadle (Gayton) was such an ill husband, and so improvident, that he had but one farthing in his pocket when he died, etc. But notwithstanding this exhortation, which was just, the Black-pot-men, or such who are called Boon Blades, who, (with shame be it spoken) carry all before them in elections, did instead of electing a Master of Arts (for there were two that stood) to that beneficial place, (which hath been done time out of mind) did choose a Yeoman-Beadle (Solad. Lichfield) who had formerly kept a public inn, and was good for nothing but for eating, drinking, smoking, and punning.  
CHARLES' HOOLE son of Charl. Hoole, was born at Wakefield in Yorks. educated in the Free-school there under Rob. Doughtie a Cantabrigian, who had taught in that school 50 years or more, sent to Linc. Coll. by the advice of his Kinsman Dr. Rob. Sanderson, in Mich. term 1628., aged 18 years, where, by the help of a good Tutor, he became a proficient in the Greek and Hebrew tongues and in Philosophy. After he had taken one degree in Arts, he entered into the sacred function, retired to Lincolnshire for a time, and by the endeavours of Sanderson before mentioned, he was made Master of the Free-school at Rotheram in Yorkshire, and then proceeded in Arts. In the beginning of the Civil War he went to London, and by the invitation of certain noted Citizens he taught a private School there, between Goldsmiths-alley in Redcross-street, and Maidenhead-court in Aldersgate-street. Afterwards, leaving that place (about 1651) he taught another private Grammar School in Token-house Garden in Lothbury, not far from the Royal Exchange; where, as in the former School, the generality of the youth were instructed to a miracle. About the time of his Majesty's restauration he was invited into Monmouthshire, with hopes of great reward, but promises answering not expectation, he returned to London; and Dr. Sanderson being then made Bishop of Lincoln, he appointed him his Chaplain, gave him a Prebendship in the Church of Lincoln, and would have done greater matters for him if he had lived. About that time he became Rector also of Stock near to Chelmsford in Essex, where he mostly spent the remainder of his days with great content to himself and his Parishioners. He was a noted Royalist (and therefore suffered for it in the beginning of the Wars) was a good Latinist, Grecian and Hebritian and admirably skilled in classical learning. He hath transmitted to posterity these things following.  
Pueriles confabulatiunculae, Anglo latinae, in varias clausulas distributae, etc. Lond. 1633. 53. etc. oct.  
Aditus facilis ad linguam latinam, etc. Lond. 1641. 49. etc. oct. in Lat. and Engl.  
Terminationes & exempla Declinationum & Conjugationum. Lond. 1650, 57, etc. in Engl. and Lat. in oct.  
Maturini Corderii Colloquia Scholastica. Lond. 1653. 71. etc. in Engl. and Lat. in oct.  
Plain and easy primer for Children, wherein the pictures of beasts and birds for each letter in the Alphabet, are set down, etc.  
Grammar in Lat. and Engl. Lond. 1654. oct. At first intended for the use of his private School, but since found the most necessary and easiest for attaining the lat. tongue, of any then extant.  
Aesopi fabulae. Lond. in oct. Engl. and Lat.  
The common rudiments of Latin Grammar, usually taught in all Schools. Lond. 1657. oct. The first part or book.  
The construction of eight parts of Speech. The second part or book.  
The examples of the English rules grammatically construed— The third part or book. The fourth edition of this Grammar in three parts was published in 1664, having been before approved by Bishop Sanderson and others, to be the shortest, orderliest and plainest for ease, both of Master and Scholars that had been then extant.  
Examination of common Accidence. Lond. 1657. etc. Engl. and Lat.  
Vocabularium parvum, etc. Lond. 1657. oct. Engl. and Latin.  
Catonis distica de moribus. Lond. 1659. 70. etc. oct. Eng. and Lat.  
The Ushers duty: or, a platform of teaching Lilies Grammar. Lond. 1659. in tw. The letters C. H. are set to it in the title, and therefore I suppose it was written by our Author Ch. Hoole.  
Dicta insignia septem sapientium Graeciae. Lond. 1659. 70. oct. in Engl. and Lat.  
Mimi Publiani, sive Senecoe proverbia. Lond. 1659. 70. oct.  
Examinatio Grammaticae latinae in usum scholarum adornatae, etc. Lond. 1660. oct.  
New discovery of the old art of teaching School, in four Treatises. Lond. 1660. oct. Written 1637 for the use and benefit of Rotheram school; and after 14 years' trial by diligent practice in London, it was published with Enlargements.  
Sententiae pueriles Angl. Lat. etc. Lond. 1681. octav. Printed then with Colloquia Corderii.  
Publii Terentii Comediae sex Angl. Lat. etc. Lond. 1676. octavo.  
Sententiae pueriles, etc. Lond. 1677. Engl. and Lat.  
Phraseologiae pueriles Angl. Lat. Lond. in oct. In the year 1653 he published the New Testam. in Greek, with all the positions of the most difficult words which are grammatically resolved in George Pasors Lexicon, put in the margin thereof. Afterwards were several Editions published, and that which came out in 1674 was ill corrected, and printed on bad paper, and in a worse character. He also translated from Lat. into English, The visible world: or, a picture or nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men's employments therein. Lond. 1659. oct. The book which is adorned with pictures to make Children understand it the better, was originally written by Joh. Amos Commenius. This most noted Grammarian Ch. Hoole paid his last debt to nature at Stock before mentioned, 
1666/7.  on the 7 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and six, and was buried in the chancel of the Church there, under an arch in the wall, near the Communion Table. I have been informed by one of his relations, that he the said Mr. Hoole hath 24 books and translations extant: which number is before set down, but whether in order as they came out, I cannot tell, for I have not yet seen all their editions.  
ISAAC ROET an Englishman of an ancient and gentile family, studied for some time in Oxon, but in what Coll. or Hall, it appears not in the Matriculation-book, or whether he took any degree, from any of the Registers. He hath written a book intit.  
Pestis adumbrata in libris V. Aphorismorum, etc. Lond. 1666. oct. 
Clar. 1666.  Which is all I know of him; nor should I have known that he ever studied in the University, had he not in the title of the said book wrote himself olim Oxonienses.  
WALTER bushnel Son of Will. Bushn. of Corsham in Wilts. became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628., aged 19 years, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country, where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times, was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver: whereupon he wrote,  
A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell, for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers, in the case of Walt. bushnel Clerk, Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts.— Which book being not permitted to be published, after he had made it fit for the Press, was, at his Majesty's return, printed at Lond. in oct. an. 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living, continued there to the time of his death; which happening in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven, 
1667.  was buried in the Church at Box, having then laying by him, one or more things fit to be printed, as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood.  
GEORGE WHITHER Son of George Wither, the first Son by a second venture, of the house of Whither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire, was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County, on the eleventh day of June 1588., (30 Eliz.) educated in Gram. learning under the noted Schoolmaster of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore, sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts, where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner, (afterwards B. of Roch.) whom, if I mistake not, he served, made some proficiency 
(a) See in the beginning of our Author's book intit. Abuses whipped and stripped, and there you'll find an account of himself while he studied in the Uniu. of Oxon.  with much ado in academical learning; but his genie being addicted to things more trivial, was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house, and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London, and afterwards to Lincoln's Inn, to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law. But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful, he did, at length, make himself known to the world (after he had taken several rambles therein) by certain Specimens of Poetry; which being dispersed in several hands, became shortly after a public Author, and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty. But so it was, that he showing himself too busy and satirical in his Abuses stripped and whipped, was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea, where continuing several months, was then more cried up, especially by the puritanical Party, for his profuse pouring forth of English rhyme, and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry, in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass, which he pretended to predict. In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots, and Quartermaster Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain, viz. of that Regiment of, o● next under, the Earl of Arundel, General of the Forces in the said expedition. But this our Author, who was always from his youth pruitanically affected, (sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs) sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars raised by them an. 1642, became an enemy to the King and Regality, sold the estate he had, and with the moneys received for it, raised a Troop of Horse for the Parliament, was made a Captain and soon after a Major, having this motto on his Colours, Pro Rege, Lege, Grege: but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers, Sir Jo. Denham the Poet (some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches) desired his Majesty not to hang him, because that so long as Wither lived, Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England. About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire, Surrey, and Essex, (which office he kept 16 years) and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey, in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently, gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist. After the King's Restauration in 1660, he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops, which he before had either bought, or had conferred upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause. And being then looked upon as a dangerous person to the King and State, especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed, was committed Prisoner to Newgate; and afterwards, upon his own confession, and the oaths of two persons, that he was the Author of it, he, by order of the H. of Commons, was sent in custody, and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London, to be debarred Pen, Ink, and Paper, and about the same time (24 of March 1661/2) an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him. In both which Prisons he continued three years and more, wrote several things by the connivance of the Keeper, of which some were afterwards made public, yet could never refrain from showing himself a Presbyterian Satirist. He began very early, being precisely educated from his childhood, to express and publish those conceptions, which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him, endeavouring to season them with morality and piety, as subjects of that nature are capable of; suiting them to the capacities of youngmen, who delight to see their own natural passions, represented as 'twere in a glass; wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for, but with such notions also therewith mixed, as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems, and rendered him so generally known, that thousands, especially such youths that were pruitanically educated, were desirous to peruse his future writings, and to take better heed of that, whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice, while others of generous education, and of more solid parts, looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain, and esteemed Tailor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rhymes. The things that he hath written and published are very many, accounted by the generality of Scholars mere scribbles, and the fancies of a conceited and confident, if not enthusiastical, mind. The titles of them follow.  

Iter Hibernicum▪ or, an Irish Voyage. Written in verse.  
Iter Bor. or, a northern Journey. Written in verse.  
Patrick's Purgatory. Written in verse.  
Philaretes Complaint. Written in verse.   
These four were called his Juvenilia, and though the original MS. of them was lost, yet they were recovered and printed more than once.  
Prince Henry's obsequies: or, mournful elegies upon his death. Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct.  
A supposed interlocution betw. the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britain.— Printed with the former.  
Abuses stripped and whipped: or, satirical essays, in two books. Lond. 1613. 14.15. and 22. in oct.  
satire written to the King (Jam. 1.) when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book. Lond. 1614 15. 22. in oct. Which first book is the same, I suppose, with Abuses whipped and stripped, which stands first in the six of his poetical pieces that he published in 1622, of which the said satire is one, intit. in the first edit. A satire dedicated to his most excellent Majesty.  
Eglogues. Lond. 1614 oct. at the end of The Shepherd's pipe, written by Will. Browne of the Inner Temple, to whom one of the said Egl. is dedicated.  
The Shepherd's hunting: being certain Eglogues made during the time of the Author's imprisonment in the Marshalsea. Lond. 1615 and 22. oct. Which book, as 'tis said, contains more of poetical fancy than any other of his writings.  
Preparation to the psalter. Lond. 1619. in a thin fol. in prose.  
Soliloquy: or, the Author's preparation of himself unto the study and use of the psalter.— This, written in verse, is printed at the end of Prep, of the psal.  
Hymn of thanksgiving after sickness.— This also is printed with it.  
Fidelia; a Poem. Lond. 1619. sec. edit. and 22. oct.  
Exercises on the first psalm, both in prose and verse. Lond. 1620. oct.  
Withers motto. Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo. Nor have I, nor want I, nor care I. Lond. 1618. and 21. in oct. written in verse, and dedicated to any body. Whereupon Joh. Taylor a Water poet came out with a book intit. Tailor's motto. Et habeo, & careo, & curo. I have, I want, I care. Lond. 1621. oct. dedic. to every body. This Joh. Taylor was born in the City of Gloucester, went to school there, and having got into his Accidence, was bound an Apprentice to a Waterman in London, which, though a laborious employment, yet such was his prodigious genie to Poetry, that he wrote very many things in that faculty, that made great sport in their time, and were most of them esteemed worthy to be remitted into a large folio. Had he had learning bestowed on him according to his natural parts, which were excellent, he might have equalled, if not excelled, many who claim a great share in the temple of the muses. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1642, he left London, retired to Oxon, (where ha' was much esteemed by the Court and poor remnant of Scholars for his facetious company) kept a common Victualling-house, and did great service for the royal Cause, by writing bitter Pasquil's against the Roundheads. After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendered, he retired to Westminster, kept a public house in Phoenix Alley near Long-Acre, and continued constant in his loyalty to the King. After whose murder, he set up a sign over his door of a Mourning Crown; but that being esteemed malignant, he pulled it down, and hung up his own picture, under which were these Verses written, 
There's many a head stands for a sign,  
Then, gentle Reader, why not mine?   
On the other side. 
Though I deserve not, I desire  
The laurel wreath, the Poet's hire.  He died in the year 1654., aged 74 years, and was buried in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden, as I have been informed by his Nephew a Painter of Oxford, who gave his picture to the School Gallery there, where it now hangs, showing him to have been of a quick and smart countenance. But all this of Taylor do I speak by the by. Now let's proceed to the rest of the Works of G. Wither, which are these.  
Epithalamia: or, nuptial Poems upon the most blessed and happy Marriage between Frederick the 5. Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Princess Elizabeth sole daughter of K. James. Lond. 1622. oct.  
Canonical Hymns and Songs.  
Hymns and Songs of the Church. Lond. in tw.  
Songs of Moses and other Hymns of the old Test.  
The scholars Purgatory, discovered in the Stationer's Commonwealth, and described in a discourse apologetical, as well for the public advantage of the Church, the State, and whole Commonwealth of England, as for the remedy of private injuries.— Where, or when printed, it appears not. 'Tis written in prose, and printed in octavo.  
Britain's remembrancer, containing a narration of the Plague lately passed, a declaration of mischiefs present, and a prediction of Judgements to come, etc. Lond. 1628. oct. Written in verse 1625.  
Psalms of David in lyric verse illustrated. Lond. 1632. oct. or tw.  
Prophecy of our present calamity, and (except we repent) future misery.— Written 1628.  
Emblems illustrated: or, a collection of Emblems ancient and modern. Quickened with metrical illustrations, both moral and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction and good counsel may be fathered by an honest and pleasant recreation, in 4 books. Lond. 1634. 35. fol.  
Apology to the Lords of the Council, in justification of the reproof of Vices in his poems.  
Discourse concerning the plantations of Ulster in Ireland, with pre-conjectures of what consequences would probably ensue.— Printed in prose.  
Meditations on the ten Commandments.— Printed in verse with sculptures. This was lately published again under this title, Divine Poems (by way of paraphrase) on the ten Commandments: illustrated with 12 Copper plates; showing how personal punishments have been inflicted, etc. Lond. 1688. oct.  
Haleluiah: or, Britain's second Remembrancer, bringing to remembrance, (in praisful and penitential Hymns, spiritual Songs, and moral Odes) Meditations, advancing the glory of God, etc. composed in a threefold Volume. The first contains Hymns occasional. 2. Hymns temporary. 3. Hymns personal, etc. Lond. 1641. in tw.  
The doubtful Almanac: or, very suspicious presages of great calamities yet to come— Printed in one sh. in qu. but when, unless in 1641. it appears not.  
Proclamation in the name of the King of Kings to all the Isles of Great Britain.— Printed in a large oct.  
Campo-Musae: or, the Field-musing touching his military engagement for the K. and Parl. Lond. 1643. 44. octavo.  
Mercurius Rusticus. Print. 1643. This was written in imitation of the weekly intelligences then published, offering between jest and earnest, some particulars to consideration, relating both to Civil and Military transactions, and hinted notions then pertinent to those times, etc. The beginning of this Merc. Rust. (to distinguish Merc. Rust. written by Dr. Ryves) is this. By your leave Gentlemen, when seriousness takes not effect, perhaps trifling may, etc.  
Letter of advice touching the choice of Knights Cit and Burgesses in Parl. etc.— Printed 1644.  
Vox pacifica: A voice tending to pacification of God's wrath, and offering those propositions, or conditions; by the acceptation or performance whereof, in some good measure, a firm and continual peace may be obtained, etc. Lond. 1645. oct. in 6. Books or Cantos.  
What peace to the wicked— Pr. 1646. This, which is a Poem, is an expostulatory answer to a derisory question concerning peace.  
Justiciarius justificatus. Lond. 1646. This being an apologetical discourse in English, reflecting upon Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey Kt, and Parliam. man, arose a debate in Apr. the same year, in the H. of Commons, occasioned by the said Sir Richard, concerning several unhandsome expressions therein against him. At length in Aug. following it was voted by them that G. Whither author thereof should pay to the said Sir R. Onslow 500 l. for damages, and that the book be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman; at which time Withers was then in prison for it and continued there about an year.  
Opobalsamum Anglicanum. An English balm lately pressed out of a shrub, and spread upon these papers, for the cure of some scabs, gangrenes and cancers, endangering the body of this Commonweal, etc. Lond. 1646 in 3 sh. and an half in qu. in verse.  
Amygdala Britannica: Almonds for Parrots. A dish of stone-fruit, partly shelled and partly unshelled: which (if cracked, picked and digested) may be wholesome against those epidemic distempers of the brain, now predominant, etc.— Printed 1647 in qu. in double columes, in tw. sh. in verse.  
Carmen expostulatorium— Printed 1647. This was written to prevent the engaging these nations into a second war, when the dividing of the City and Army was then by some endeavoured.  
A si quis: or Queries, with other verses annexed— Printed 1648. Presented to the members of Parliament in their single capacities, related to the Author's particular interest.  
A petition and narrative to the Parl.— Pr. 1648.  
The tired petitioner— Printed in a single sheet in verse, about the same time.  
Carmen Eucharisticon: A private Thank-oblation exhibited to the glory of the Lord of Hosts for the timely and wonderful deliverance vouchsafed to this Nation in the routing of a numerous army of Irish rebels before Dublin by Mich. Jones Lieut. Gen. for the Parl. of England. Lond. 1649, in one largesh. in qu. in double columns. Of which poem, and its author, several things are said by the writer of Mercurius Elencticus, numb. 19 p. 152. published 3. Sept. 1649.  
Se defendendo.— Not said when printed. 'Twas an Apology written by him in prose, to vindicate himself from such aspersions as had been injuriously, and without any probable cause cast upon him by malicious detractors.  
A thankful retribution. Lond. 1649 in vers.  
The British appeal, with God's merciful replies on the behalf of the commonwealth of England contained in a brief commemorative Poem, etc. Lond. 1651. oct.  
The dark lantern, containing a dim discovery, in riddles, parables, and semi-riddles, intermixed with cautions, remembrances, and predictions, etc. Lond. 1650, 53 oct. in vers.  
Poem concerning a perpetual Parliament— Printed with the Dark lantern.  
A sudden flash, on the stile of Protector.— Printed in oct.  
Westrow revived: a funeral poem.— Pr. in oct.  
Vaticinium casuale. Printed 1655.  
Boni ominis votum. Printed 1656. This poem was occasioned by the summoning of extraordinary Grand Juries out of the eminent Baronet's, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen, to serve in their Counties at a Summer assize, 1656.  
A cause allegorically stated— Printed 1657, with an appeal therein to all impartial censurers.  
Address to the members of Parl. in their single capacities— Printed 1657. a poem.  
Salt upon salt; made out of certain ingenious verses upon the late storm, and the death of his Highness, etc. by which occasion is taken to offer to consideration the probable near approaching of greater storms, and more sad consequences Lond. 1659. oct. in vers.  
A bitter-sweet passion of the Soul, expressed in a Hymn to God— Printed at the end of Salt upon salt.  
Poetic frenzy, occasioned by Gen. Monks restoring the Parliament.— Printed in a large oct.  
Speculum speculativum: or, a considering glass; being an inspection into the present and late sad conditions of these nations, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. poem.  
Glimmerings discovered, of what will probably ensue hereafter— Printed with the former. 'Tis a Poem.  
Postscript in answer to some cavilling objections made against the Author of this considering glass, since the composing thereof— Printed also with the former.  
Fides Anglicana: or, a plea for the public faith of these nations, lately pawned, forfeited, and violated by some of their former trusties, to the rendering it as infamous, as Fides punica was heretofore, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. prose.  
Triple paradox, affixed to a counter-mure raised against the furious batteries of restraint, slander, and poverty, etc. Lond. 1661. oct. poem.  
Crumbs and scraps lately found in a Prisoner's basket in Newgate. Lond. 1661. oct. poem.  
Metrical paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer— Printed 1665. 1688. oct. verse.  
Memorandum to London, occasioned by the pestilence in the year 1665. Pr. in oct. a poem.  
Sigh for the pitchers, with three private meditations. Lond. 1666. oct.  
Fragmenta prophetica: or, his remains, being a collection of the several predictions dispersed throughout his works. Lond. 1669 oct. Before which is his picture in armour, and his head bare, adorned with a wreath of Laurel.  
An interjection, being a sudden ejaculation cast in at the collecting of Fragm. proph.  
Metrical paraphrase on the Creed. Lond. 1688. oct. verse. 'Tis at the end of the 2d edit. of the Paraphrase on the 10 Com. before mentioned.  
Besides all these which I have mostly seen and perused, are many others which I have not seen, only their trite and imperfect titles, as they follow (1) The Scourge. (2) The Mistress of Philarete. (3) Vaticinium poeticum. All these written in verse, and the last reprinted in Fragm. Proph. (4) Caveat Emptor. in prose. (5) Britain's Genius. Pr. in oct. (6) Carm. Ternarium semicynium. ver. (7) Speech without door. (8) His Disclaimer. These two last are in prose. (9) Know thyself. ver. (10) The Delinquents purgation. prose. (11) Sinners confession. vers. (12) A cordial confection, etc. prose. (13) Verses to the individual members of Parliament. (14) Epistolium vagum prosau-metricum. (15) Furor poeticus. (16) Three grains of Frankincense. (17) The Protector. The three last are in vers. (18) Epistle to the three Nations. (19) Epistle at random. Pr. in qu. (20) Echoes from the sixth trumpet reverberated, by a review of neglected remembrances. Pr. in oct. etc.  
Besides these 20 pieces and others, which were printed, were many others of his composition which were not, as (1) Exercises on the nine Psalms, next following the first. These, which he intended to add to the Exercises on the first psalm (printed 1620) were lost, and could never be recovered, (2) Treatise of ancient Hieroglyphics, with their various significations. Lost. (3) Pursuit of happiness, being a character of the extravagancy of the author's affections and passions in his youth. Written in prose. (4) Riddles, Songs, Epigrams. (5) The Duchess, in vers. (6) Domestic devotions, prose. (7) Funeral Elegy. (8) Tract of usury, etc. prose. (9) The confession of his faith, both in fundamentals, and in relation to most points controverted by men of several judgements in religion. (10) Precatory meditation and soliloquy with God, on the behalf of his children and their posterity, if they have any. (11) Discourse to a friend touching the consolations in close imprisonment. (12) Familiar Epistles. (13) The true state of the cause between the King and Parl. Wr. in prose. (14) Declaration in the Person of Oliver Cromwell, given into his own hand, and tending to the settlement of such a government as he never intended. Wr. in prose. (15) Private address to Oliver, offering things pertinent to his consideration. This written in prose and verse, was sealed up and given into his hands. (16) Addr. to Oliver for the third of Sept. 1658. Given also into his own hands. (17) Addr. to Rich. Cromwell: Given into his own hands. These four last things contained the duties and failings of Ol. and Richard, and forewarnings of what soon after came to pass. There also goes about in Ms. his Poem of the History of the pestilence, or proceedings of justice and mercy, being the same, I suppose, which I have before mentioned. He hath also translated from Greek into English, with the help only of two copies, The nature of man, printed 1636 in tw. Written originally by Nemesius. At length after this our author George Wither had lived to the age of 79 years, mostly spent in a rambling and unsettled condition, concluded this life on the second day of May in sixteen hundred sixty and seven: 
1667.  Whereupon his body was buried between the east door and south end of the Church, (which stands north and south) belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the Strand near London. One George Wither was a Dignitary in the Church and a Writer, before the former George was born, as I have told you in the Fasti an. 1565, but what relation there was between them, I cannot tell.  
JAMES SMITH son of Tho. Smith Rector of Merston in Bedfordshire, and Brother to Dr. Tho. Smith sometimes an eminent Physician of Brasn. Coll, was born in the said Town of Merston, matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1622/3 aged 18 years, and soon after was transplanted to Linc. Coll. where he continued for some years a Commoner. Thence he was preferred to be Chaplain at Sea to Henry Earl of Holland, who was Admiral of a squadron of Ships sent for a supply to the Isle of Ree. Afterwards he was domestic Chaplain to Tho. Earl of Cleeuland, who had an especial respect for him for his ingenuity and excellent parts. In his service he continued six years, had a benefice in Lincolnshire which he kept for a time, and in 1633 took the degree of Bach. of Diu. by accumulation, being then much in esteem with the poetical Wits of that time, particularly with Philip Massinger, who call●d him his Son, Will. D'avenant, John Man's, etc. From his Benefice in Lincolnsh. he removed to Kings Nimphton in Devons, and leaving a Curate there, he went as Chaplain to the before mentioned Earl of Holland Lieutenant General of the English Forces in the first expedition against the Scots. Returning thence soon after, he settled at Kings Nimphton, where he resided during all the changes of government, by compliance with the power that was uppermost. After his Majesty's return, he was made one of the Canons of S. Peter's Cathedral in Exeter, Archdeacon of Barnstaple, Chaplain to Edw. Earl of Clarendon, and in July 1661., he was actually created Doct. of Divinity. In the next year he became Chauntor of Exeter in the place of Dr. S. Ward promoted to the Episcopal See of that place, and in 1663. was presented to the rectory of Alphyngton in Devonshire, (at which time he resigned Kings Nymphton and his Archdeaconry) where he finished his course. His chief works, that are of Poetry, are in  
Musarum delitiae: or, the muse's recreation, containing several pieces of poetic wit. Lond. 1656 oct. second edit. (See more in John Man's under the year 1670.) and also in another book entit.  
Wit restored, in several select poems. Lond. 1658. oct. Which book, I say, is mostly of our author Smith's composition. At the end of which is his translation, or poem, called The innovation of Penelope and Ulysses, a mock poem. Lond. 1658. oct. And at the end of that also, is Cleaulands' Rebel Scot, translated into Latin. He also composed.  
Certain Anthems— Not the musical, but poetical, part of them; which are to this day used and sung in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter. At length paying his last debt to nature at Alphyngton on the 20. day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, 
1667.  his body was conveyed to Kings Nimphton before mentioned, and was buried in the Chancel belonging to the Church there, near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife. Over their graves was soon after put a comely monument, with an inscription thereon, (enlarged after the death of his second Wife, who died 4 years after him) the contents of which, shall now for brevity sake be omitted.  
JOHN BERY or Bury was born in Devonshire, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 9 Feb. 1597, and in the year 1603, he being then Bach. of Arts, became tanquam socius of Balliol Coll. or the first Fellow that was put in there, to receive the benefaction of Peter blundel, by the appointment of Sir John Popham L. Ch. Justice of the King's bench. Afterwards he took the degree of Master, and retiring to his own Country, became Minister of Heavietree, Canon of Exeter and Rector of Widworthie. In Dec. 1643 were the Chancellor's letters read in a Convocation of Doctors and Masters in the behalf of him the said Bury (then Bach. of Diu. as in the said letters is expressed) that he might be actually created Doctor of that faculty, but he being then absent in the King's service, he was to have that degree conferred upon him, when he should desire it; but whether he did so, or was diplomated, it appears not in the registers. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) The School of godly fear, an Assize Sermon at Exeter 20. March 1614 on 1. Pet. 1.17. Lond. 1615. qu. (2) The moderate Christian, preached at Exeter at a triennial visitation, on 1. Cor. 10. vers. ult. Lond. 1631. qu. etc.  
God's method for man's salvation: or, a guide to heaven, leading between errors on both hands, etc. Lond. 1661. in two sheets in oct. 'Tis a Catechism for the use of his Parishioners at Widworthie. What else he hath published, I know not, nor any thing besides of him, only that he dying on the 5 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, aged 87 years, or thereabouts, 
1667.  was buried in the Cathedral Church at Exeter, having been before a liberal Benefactor to the Workhouse belonging to that City, as I have been informed by his Son Arthur.  
GEORGE HUGHES, distinguished, while living, from others of his surname, by the addition of Plymouth to his, was born 
(a) Lib. matric. PP. fol. 78. b.  of a Plebeian family in Surrey, particularly, as I have been informed by a learned 
(b) Dr. Lazarus Seaman.  Nonconformist, in the Borough of Southwark, was sent by his relations to Corp. Ch. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619, where continuing in the condition of a Clerk or Chorister till he had completed his Bachelaurs degree by Determination, translated himself to Pembroke Coll, took the degree of Master of Arts as a member thereof, entered into the sacred function, and for a time exercised the Ministry in, and near, Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer of Allhallows Church in Breadstreet within the City of London, took the degree of Bach. of Diu. in the year 1633, and about that time became Vicar of S. Andrews Church in the then factious town of Plymouth in Devon. where continuing in great liking among the godly party, did, for benefit and interest sake, side with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the most wicked rebellion raised by them, was a zealous and forward man against the King, his Party, and Bishops, took all oaths that followed, was an enemy to the Orthodox Clergy, and in 1654. was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon. to eject such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. In 1662. when the Act of conformity took place, he left his cure in Plymouth, lived there, and exercising his function in private, that is in Conventicles, among the Brethren, contrary to the Act, was, with Tho. Martin the late Lecturer of that Church (a Conventicler also) conveyed into S. Nicholas Island near Plymouth, an. 1665, where they remained about 9 Months. In which time our author Hughes wrote an answer to Joh. Sergeants book entit. Sure-footing. At length his health being much impaired, as the Brethren reported, and his legs black and swollen, he was offered his liberty, upon condition of giving security of a 1000 l, not to live within 20 miles of Plymouth: Which being accordingly effected by the Brethren without his knowledge, he retired to Kingsbridge in Devonsh, found entertainment in the house of one Daniel Elley a Brother, and was much frequented to the last by the fanatical party. He was the most noted Presbyterian (if not Independent) of his time in Devonshire, and a most eager defender of his, against the prelatical, party, and ceremonies of the Church of England. His works are these.  
Several Sermons as (1) Fun Sermon on 2. Kings 13.14. Printed 1632. qu. (3) Fun. Sermon on Psal. 16.10.— Pr. 1642. qu. (4) Dry rod blossoming, printed 1644. qu. (5) Vae-eugae-tuba: or, the Wo-joy-trumpet, etc. Fast serm. before the H. of Commons 26. May 1647. on Rev. 11.15. Lond. 1647. qu. etc.  
Exposition on the small prophets. Lond. 1657. fol.  
Sure footing in Christianity examined. Lond. 1668. oct.  
Exposition on the book of Job. Lond. 1669. fol.  
Aphorisms, or select propositions of the Scripture truly determining the doctrine of the Sabbath— Printed 1670. 71. oct.  
Exposition on Genesis, and on 23 Chapters of Exodus Amsterd. 1672. fol. and other things which I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to nature in the house of D. Elley of Kingsbridge before mentioned in the beginning of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, and was buried in the Church there near to the Pulpit. 
1667.  Over his grave is this inscription fastened to a pillar just opposite to the Pulpit. In memoriam suaveolentem aeternùm colendam viri desideratissimi Georgii Hughes SS. Th. B. Plymudensium nuper pastoris vigilantissimi, sacrae sensus paginae penitiores eruere, homines concione flectere, precibus Deum, mirè edocti. Qui (solis aemulum) ab oriente auspicatus cursum (ortu Londinâs) occidentale dehinc sidus diu claruit, lucem in vitâ spargens undique, moriens luctum: Vitaeque (verè vitalis) curriculo in an. lxiv perducto optima perfunctus, perpessus mala, requiem tandem invenit; animo quidem in caelis, corpori verò in subjacente tumulo, ipsis Julii nonis, an. salutis MDCLXVII. Symmistae longè charissimi Georgii Geofridi A. M. cujus exuviae ante ter-novem annos ibidem sitae, nunc primum in cineres solvuntur, novis miscendos.  

Nacta sacros cineres servata fideliter urna,  
Haec uterum satio tibi foecundabit inertem.  
O faelix tumuli matrix, de morte renatos  
Olim tam claros hosce enixura Gemellos!   

Posuit honoris & amoris ergô Thomas  
Crispinus Exoniensis.   
The said Tho. Crispin a rich Fuller of Exeter, and founder of a Free-school in Kingsbridge about the year 1670. was at the charge of setting up the said marble monument, and Mr. Joh. How who married Hughes his daughter drew up the inscription, as I have been informed by a neighbouring Minister of that place.  
RICHARD HEYRICK a younger Son of Sir Will. Heyrick of Beaumannour in Leycestershire Kt, (who fined for Alderman of London and died about 1653) was born in London, educated in Merchant Tailor's School, became Commoner of S. John's Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617. aged 17, took the degrees in Arts, was elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1624. and about that time entered into holy Orders. Afterwards he was beneficed in Norfolk, made Warden of Christ's Coll. in Manchester in Lancashire, sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the rebellion, took the Covenant, was made one of the Ass. of Divines, carried on the cause with great zeal, was in the plot, for which Christop. Love suffered, and afterwards became an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lancashire for the ejection of such, whom they then (1654.) called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. Upon the approach of his Majesty's restauration, he seemed to be zealous for it, and turning about, as many of his party did, kept his Wardenship to his dying day. He hath extant,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Three sermons preached in the collegiat Church of Manchester, the first on Psal. 122.6. the second 2. Thes. 2.15 and the third on Gen. 49.5.6.7. Lond. 1641. in oct. (2) Qu. esther's resolve, or a Christian pattern for heaven born resolution; Fast Sermon before the House of Com. on Esther 4.16. Lond. 1646. qu. Besides others which I have not yet seen, among which is A Sermon on 2. of Kings 11. ver. 12. Lond. 1661. qu. He departed this mortal life on the sixth day of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, 
1667.  aged 67 and was buried in the Collegiate Church of Manchester. Soon after was a comely monument put over his grave at the charge of Anna-Maria his Relict, with a large inscription thereon made by his ancient and entire friend Mr. Tho. Case a London Minister, who had been intimately acquainted with him while he was a student in the University of Oxon; part of it runs thus. Siste viator morae pretium est; sub eodem cippo cum venerabili Huntingdono primo hujus collegii Custode, jacet decimus quartus ab eo successor Ricardus Heyrick, Gulielmi Heyrick equitis Aurati filius, Collegii Om. Animarum apud Oxonienses socius olim studiosissimus, ecclesiae de North-Reps in agro Norfolciensi deinde pastor fidissimus, hujusce denique collegii per triginta duos annos (multa alia ultro sibi oblata Beneficia aversatus hâc solâ dignitate contentus) Custos sive Guardianus vigilantissimus. Qui judicium solidum cum ingenio acutissimo, singularem zelum cum prudentia eximia, gravitatem summam cum egregia morum suavitate, generis nobilitatem, nominis celebritatem & quaecunque minores animas inflare solent, cum humilitate unicâ felicissime temperavit. Infaelice's sui seculi errores non effugit modo, sed & strenuè fugavit, etc.  
JEREMY TAYLOR tumbled out of his mother's womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge, was educated in gonvil and Caius Coll. there till he was M. of A. Afterwards entering into holy orders, he supplied for a time the Divinity Lecturers place in the Cath. of S. Paul in London, where behaving himself with great credit and applause far above his years, came to the cognisance of that great encourager of learning, ingenuity, and virtue, Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. who thinking it for the advantage of the world that such mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement, than a course or constant preaching would allow of, he caused him to be elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. an. 1636: Where being settled, love and admiration still waited upon him; while he improved himself much in Books. But this the Reader is to know that though he came in merely by the paramount interest of the said Archb, yet it was done against the statutes of the Coll, in these two respects. First because he had exceeded the age, with in which the said statutes make Candidates capable of being elected, and secondly that he had not been of three years standing in the University of Oxon, only a week or two before he was put in. However he being a Person of most wonderful parts and like to be an ornament thereunto, he was dispensed with, and thereby obtained in that house much of that learning, wherewith he was enabled to write casuistically. About the same time he was in a ready way to be confirmed a member of the Church of Rome, as many of that persuasion have said, but upon a Sermon delivered in S. Mary's Church in Oxon on the 5. of Nou. (Gun-powder-treason day) an. 1638, wherein several things were put in against the Papists by the then Vicechanc, he was afterwards rejected with scorn by those of that party, particularly by Fr. à S. Clara his intimate acquaintance; to whom afterwards he expressed some sorrow for those things he had said against them, as the said S. Clara hath several times told me. About that time, he became one of the Chaplains to the said Archb. of Cant, who bestowed upon him the rectory of Uppingham in Rutlandshire, and other matters he would have done for him in order to his advance in the Church, had not the rebellion unluckily broke out. In the year 1642 he was with others, by virtue of his Maj. letters sent to this University, actually created D. of D. in that noted Convocation held on the first day of Nou. the same year, he being then Chaplain in Ord. to his said Majesty, and a frequent Preacher before him and the Court in Oxon. Afterwards he attended in his Majesty's Army in the condition of a Chaplain; where though he had not a command of his time and books. yet he laid the foundation of several Treatises in defence of Episcopacy, the Liturgy, Ministry, and Church of England. Upon the declining of the King's cause, he retired into Wales, where he was suffered under the Loyal Earl of Carbury of the Golden Grove in Caermerthenshire to officiat, and keep School, to maintain him and his Children. From which, though it continued but a few years, were several youths most loyally educated, and afterwards sent to the Universities. In this solitude he began to write his excellent discourses, which are enough of themselves to furnish a Library, and will be famous to all succeeding generations for the exactness of wit, profoundness of judgement, richness of fancy, clearness of expression, copiousness of invention, and general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian. By which he soon after got a great reputation among all Persons of judgement and indifferences, and his name grew greater still, as the world grew better and wiser. When he had spent some years in this retirement, in a private corner, as 'twere, of the world, his family was visited with sickness, and thereby lost the dear pledges or God's favour, three sons of great hopes, within the space 
(a) See Dr. Geo. Rusts Sermon at Bish. Tailor's funeral.  of two or three months. And though he had learned a quiet submission unto the divine will, yet the affliction touched him so sensibly, that it made him desirous to leave the Country: And going to London, he there for a time officiated in a private Congregation of Loyalists to his great hazard and danger. At length meeting with Edward Lord Conway a Person of great honour and generosity, that Lord, after he had understood his condition, made him a kind proffer; which our author Taylor embracing, it carried him over into Ireland, and settled him at Portmore, a place made for study and contemplation; which he therefore dearly loved. And there he wrote his Cases of conscience, a book that is able alone to give its author immortality. By this time the wheel of providence brought about the King's happy restauration, and out of a confused Chaos beauty and order began to appear: Whereupon our loyal Author went over to congratulate the Prince and People's happiness, and bear a part in the universal triumph. It was not long after his sacred Majesty began the settlement of the Church, and Dr. Taylor being resolved upon for the Bishopric of Down and Connor, was consecrated thereunto at Dublin on the 27. of January 1660, and on the 21. of June 1661., he had the administration of the See of Dromore granted to him by his Majesty, in consideration, that he had been the Church's Champion, and that he had suffered much in defence of its cause. With what care and faithfulness he discharged his office, all upon the place knew well, and what good rules and directions he gave to his Clergy, and how he taught them the practice of them by his own example. Upon his being made Bishop, he was constituted a Privy Counsellor, and the University of Dublin gave him their testimony, by recommending him for their Vicechancellor, which honourable office he kept to his dying day. He was esteemed by the generality of persons a complete Artist, accurate Logician, exquisite, quick and acute in his reasonings, a Person of great fluency in his language and of prodigious readiness in his learning. A noted 
(b) Hen. Jeanes in his Epist. to the reader before Certain letters between him and Jer. Taylor. Lond. 1660.  Presbyterian also (his Antagonist) doth ingeniously confess that Dr. Taylor is a man of admirable wit, great parts, hath a quick and elegant pen, is of abilities in critical learning and of profound skill in antiquity, etc. and another 
(c) G. Rust ut sup.  who knew him well tells us, that he was a rare Humanist, and hugely versed in all the polite parts of learning, and had throughly concocted all the ancient Moralists, Greek, and Roman Poets, and Orators; and was not unacquainted with the refined wits of the later ages, whether French or Italian, etc. But he had not only the accomplishments of a Gentleman, but so universal were his parts, that they were proportioned to every thing. And though his spirit and humour were made up of smoothness and gentleness, yet he could bear with the harshness and roughness of the Schools, and was not unseen in their subtleties and spinosities. His skill was great both in the civil and canon Law and casuistical Divinity: And he was a rare conductor of Souls, and knew how to counsel, and to advise; to solve difficulties and determine cases, and quiet consciences. To these may be added his great acquaintance with the Fathers and ecclesiastical Writers, and the Doctors of the first and purest ages both of the Greek and Lat. Church; which he hath made use of against the Rom. Catholics, to vindicate the Church of England from the challenge of innovation, and to prove Her Ancient, Catholic, and Apostolical. Add to all these, he was a Person of great humility, had nothing in him of pride and humour, but was courteous and affable and of easy access. He was withal a Person of great charity and hospitality: And whosoever compares his plentiful incomes with the inconsiderable estate he left at his death, will be easily convinced that Charity was steward for a great proportion of his revenue. To sum up all in a few words of another 
(*) Ibid.  author, this great Prelate had the good humour of a Gentleman, the eloquence of an Orator, the fancy of a Poet, the acuteness of a Schoolman, the profoundness of a Philosopher, the wisdom of a Chancellor, the sagacity of a Prophet, the reason of an Angel, and the piety of a Saint. He had devotion enough for a Cloister, learning enough for an University, and wit enough for a Coll. of Virtuosos: And had his parts and endowments been parcelled out among his poor Clergy that he left behind him, it would perhaps have made one of the best Diocese in the world. His works of learning are very many, and all that he hath written, are, I conceive, set down in the following Catalogue.  
The Golden Grove: or a manual of daily prayers and litanies, fitted to the days of the week, etc.— This is sometimes called The Guide of Infant devotion, and was composed at the Golden Grove in the County of Caermerthen before mentioned. Several impressions have been made of it, mostly in the Vol. called twelves, one of which was made at Lond. 1656 or thereabouts, and the fourteenth impression came out in 1683.  
Festival Hymns according to the manner of the ancient Church.  
An Apology for authorized and set forms of Liturgy, against the pretence of the spirit. etc. Lond. 1649. qu.  
Of the sacred order and offices of Episcopacy by divine institution, Apostolical tradition and Catholic practice. Or thus, Episcopacy stated. etc. Oxon. 1642. qu.  
The real presence and spiritual of Christ in the blessed Sacrament, proved against the doctrine of Transubstantiation. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Discourse of the liberty of prophesying. Lond. 1647. qu. In the writing of which book the author made use of a like stratagem (as Hales did in writing his book of Schism) to break the Presbyterian power, and so countenance divisions between the factions, which were too much united against the loyal Clergy. For in the said book (as a certain 
(d) Tho. Long in his Preface to the book entit. Mr. Hales his Treatise of Schism, etc.  author saith) he insists on the same Topics of schism and heresy, of the incompetency of Councils and Fathers to determine our Ecclesiastical controversies, and of scrupulous consciences; and urgeth far more cogent arguments, than Hales did, but still he had prepared his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an antidote to prevent any dangerous effect of his discourse. For the judicious reader may perceive such a reserve (though it lay in ambuscado, and is compacted in a narrow compass) as may easily rout those Troops, which began too soon to cry victoria, and thought of nothing else but of dividing the spoil. And if the learned author did this and was blameless, the goodness of the end in such cases denominating the action, I see no cause 
(e) Ibid. See also in Responsio Roberti Grovii ad lib. qui inscrib. Celeusma, etc. Lond. 1680. qu. p. 80.  why our author, whose ends were for the restoring of peace, seeing he represented the causes of the war so frivolous and inconsiderable, aught to be represented as a Criminal or Adversary. This book of Liberty of prophesying was animadverted upon by Sam. Rutherford Prof. of Divinity in the University of S. Andrew in his Free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience, etc. Lond. 1649. qu.  
Vindication of the Glory of the divine attributes, in the question of original sin. Lond. 1656. in tw.  
Measures and offices of Friendship; in a letter to the most ingenious and excellent Mrs. K. P. Lond. 1657. 2d. edit. in tw. By this K. P. is to be understood Katherine Philipps the Wife of Jam. Philipps of the Priory of Cardigan Esq. daughter of John Fowler of Bucklesbury in Lond. Merchant, by Katherine his Wife, daughter of Dan. Oxenbridge Doctor of Physic. Which Kath. Fowler alias Philipps (by the way it must be observed) was born in the Parish of S. Marry Wool-church in Lond, and baptised there on the eleventh of Januar. 1631, bred up in a School at Hackney under Mrs. ... Salmon, where she then much delighted in Poetry, notwithstanding brought up in the Presbyterian way. After her marriage with Ja. Philipps, she went into Ireland with the Vicountess of Dungannon (Trevor) and at Dublin she translated from French into Engl. the Tragedy called Pompey, which was several times acted in the new Theatre there, with great applause, an. 1663. and 64. in which last year it was made public. While she was young, she was very forward in English learning, by the blessedness of a quick and happy memory: At riper years she was esteemed the most applauded Poetess of our Nation, and not without reason, since her name is of a fresh and lively date from a published Vol. in fol. of her poetical Works, bearing this title. Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philipps the matchless Orinda. To which is added monsieur Corneille's Pompey and Horace's Tragedies; with several other translations out of French. Lond. 1667. fol, with her picture, a shoulder piece, before them standing on a pedestal, and underneath written Orinda. These Poems which were first printed in oct. an. 1664, without the translations, are commended to the world by the Poems of Abr. Cowley, Tho Flatman, Jam. Tyrrell Esq. etc. At length she being overtaken with the small pox, died of it in Fleetstreet, and was buried 22 June 1664, in the Church of S. Bennet Sherehog (at the end of Syths-lane) in London, under a great grave-stone, where her Father, Grandfather, and Gr. mother were before buried. Dr. Taylor hath also published  
Sermon at S. Mary's in Oxon upon the 5 or Nou. 1638. on Luke 9.54. Oxon. 1638. qu.  
All which books, and sermon before mentioned, were printed in one Vol. under this title. A collection of polemical and moral discourses. Lond. 1657. fol. To a third Edition of which collection, wherein are omitted The Golden Grove, and the Sermon at S. Mary's, are added (1) A dissuasive from Popery, the first and second part; written while he was B. of Down and Connor and received with so general approbation, that several impressions of them were made in qu. and oct. This Dissuasive from popery was answered first by a book bearing this title. Truth will out: or a discovery of some untruths smoothly told by Dr. Jer. Tailor in his Dissuasive from popery, etc.— Printed 1665. qu. written by his friendly Adversary Edward Worsely a Jesuit, of the Family of Worseley in Lancashire: And secondly by John Sargeant a Sec. Priest, in one of his Appendices to Sure footing in Christianity, as I shall elsewhere tell you. (2) Unum necessarium: or the doctrine and practice of repentance rescued from popular errors, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. (3) Two answers to the Bishop of rochester's (Warner) two letters, concerning the chapter of original sin in the Unum necessarium. Lond. 1656. in tw. (4) A discourse of confirmation. (5) Two letters to Persons changed in their religion. This was first Pr. at Lond. 1657 in tw. and put at the end of the second edit. of Measures and offices of friendship. (6) Three letters to a Gentlewoman that was tempted to the communion of the Romish Church. The said edit. containing the said six Treatises or Books, bears this general title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Or a collection of Polemical discourses; wherein the Church of England is defended in many material points, etc. Lond. 1674. in a large fol. The other books that our author Dr. Taylor hath written and go under his name are these.  
New and easy institution of Grammar, for the use of the youth of Wales. Lond. 1647. oct. This is commonly said to be his, yet there have not been wanting some that have said that it was written by Dr. Tailor's Usher or Assistant named Will. Wyatt. See more in the Fasti, an. 1661. among the created Bachelaurs of Diu.  
Twenty five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter half year; beginning on Advent Sunday and continuing till Whitsunday. Lond. 1678. fol. the fifth edit. with his picture before them, as before many of his other books.  
Twenty seven sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Summer half year, beginning on Whitsunday and ending on the 25 Sunday after Trinity. Lond. 1678 fol. sixth edit.  
A supplement of eleven Sermons, preached since his Maj. restauration. Lond. 1678. fol. seven of them were before printed at Lond. 1664. fol. To which, three more being added, were printed again at the same place an. 1667. fol. The ninth Sermon of the said eleven, is that preached at S. Mary's in Oxon before mentioned. The general title set before the said twenty five, twenty seven, and the supplement of eleven, Sermons, with other things contained in the said Vol. runs thus. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. A course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the year, etc. with a supplement of eleven Sermons preached since his Maj. restauration. Whereunto is adjoined, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness and separation of the office Ministerial, etc. written by the special command of K. Ch. 1. with Rules and advices to the Clergy, etc. This great vol. is closed with a Sermon on 1. Joh. 3.2. preached at the authors (Dr. Taylor) funeral by George Rust, who succeeded him in the See of Dromore, as I shall anon tell you.  
A short Catechism for the institution of young persons in the christian religion. Lond. 1652. oct. or tw.  
An explication of the Apostolical Creed— Printed with the Short Cat. and both composed for the use of the Schools in Wales.  
A discourse of Baptism, its institution and efficacy upon all believers. Lond. 1652. qu.  
A consideration of the practice of the Church in baptising infants of believing parents, and the practice justified— Printed with the former Discourse.  
The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life, according to the christian institution, described in the life and death of Jesus Christ. In three parts. Lond. 1653. fol. sec. edit. Lond. 1667. fol. 4th. edit. The sixth edit. of which book bearing the title of Antiquitates Christianae, etc. is printed together with another book entit. Antiquitates Apostolicae. Or the Lives, Acts and Martyrdoms of the holy Apostles of our Saviour, etc. Written by Will. Cave D. D. Chapl. in ord. to K. Ch. 2. sometimes of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. since Minister of Islington near Lond, Canon of Windsor, and author of several books.  
Clerus Domini: or, a discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness and separation, of the office Ministerial, etc. Lond. 1655 in a thin fol. This is mentioned before, but not so full.  
A farther explication of the doctrine of original sin. Lond. 1656. oct. The first explication is in his Unum necessarium before mentioned, cap. 7. Both which explications, being very heterodox, were generally condemned.  
A collection of Offices, or forms of Prayer, in cases ordinary and extraordinary, etc. Lond. 1658. oct.  
The Psalter or Psalms of David, after the King's translation, with arguments to every psalm.— Pr. with the Collection of Offices. See before in the first Vol. in Christoph. Hatton, an. 1591. p. 223.  
The Ephesian Matron. Lond. 1659. in tw.  
Certain letters to Hen. Jeanes concerning a passage of his (Jeanes) in the explication of original sin. Oxon. 1660. published by the said H. Jeanes.  
The worthy Communicant: or, a discourse of the nature, effects and blessings, subsequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper, etc. Lond. 1660. 67. etc. octavo.  
Cases of conscience, occurring in the duty of him that ministers, and him that communicates.— Pr. with the Worthy Com.  
Letter concerning praying with the spirit, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. set before Hen. Leslie B. of Down and Connor his Discourse of praying with the spirit and with understanding, in two serm. preached at hilsborough, an. 1659., on 1 Cor. 14. ver. 15. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Rule and exercise of holy living, etc. together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, etc. Lond. 1668, eighth edit. The twelfth edit. came out in 1680. and all printed in tw. and oct.  
Rule and exercise of holy dying, etc. Lond. 1668. eighth edit. The twelfth came out in 1680, and all printed in tw. and oct.  
Ductor Dubitantium: or, the rule of conscience in all her general measures, serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience. In four books. Lond. 1660. fol. which was the first edit. I think. There again 1676. third edit.  
Rules and advices to the Clergy of the dioc. of Down and Connor, etc. Dubl. 1661. oct. Lond. 1663., etc. See before.  
Discourse of artificial beauty in point of Conscience, between two Ladies.— Pr. 1662. oct.  
A dissuasive from Popery to the people of Ireland. Lond. 1664. qu. This seems to be different from the two parts of the Dissuasive before mentioned. Qu.  
Succinct narrative of the life of Dr. Jo. Bramhall Archb. of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland.— This is in, or at the end of, the Sermon preached at his funeral 16 Jul. 1663. by our Author Dr. Jer. Taylor. Which sermon is numbered among those before mentioned.  
Discourse upon the Beatitudes.— Left by the Author unfinished.  
Christian consolation taught from five heads. 1. Faith. 2. Hope. 3. Holy Spirit. 4. Prayer. 5. The Sacraments. Lond. 1671. oct.  
Contemplations of the state of Man in this life, and in that which is to come. Lond. 1684. oct.  
Moral demonstration proving that the Religion of Jesus Christ is from God. Lond. 1687. oct. set at the end of A copy of a letter written to a Gentlewoman newly seduced to the Ch. of Rome, printed then again at Lond. (being one of the five letters before mentioned) with some other little works of the said Author. The said Moral demonstration had before been printed with one of the edit. of his Cases of Conscience. These are all the books and sermons as I conceive, that this most worthy and eminent Author hath written, and therefore I shall only add, that he being overtaken with a violent fever, surrendered up his pious soul to the omnipotent at Lisburne alias Lisnegarvy on the thirteenth day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, 
1667.  and was buried in a Chapel of his own erection on the ruins of the old Cathedral of Dromore. In that See succeeded his most dear and excellent friend, (who preached his funeral sermon, and afterwards made it public) named George Rust D. D. sometimes Fellow of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, a learned Divine and an eloquent Preacher; who dying in Dec. (about S. Thomas day) in. 1670, was buried in the same Vault, wherein the said B Taylor had been deposited. After him succeeded in the same See (Dr●more) Dr. Essex Digby, and him Capel Wisem●n Dean of Raphoe, sometimes Fellow of Alls. College, an. 1683.  
STEPHEN SKINNER Son of Joh. Skin. of London Gent. was born either in that City, or in the County of Middlesex, applied his studies to academical learning in the condition of a Communer, as it seems, in the royal foundation called Christ Church, an. 1638, aged 16 years or thereabouts: but before he could take one degree, the most unnatural Rebellion broke out to the great horror and reluctancy of all good men: so that travelling beyond the seas, he made progress in the studies of Arts and Philosophy in several Universities, with very great improvement. In 1646 or thereabouts, he returned to his native Country; and the Garrison of Oxford being that year reduced for the use of the Parliament, he returned to the then disconsolate Muses, and took both the degr. in Arts that year. Afterwards he finished his rambles in several Countries, as in France, Italy, Germany, the Spanish Netherlands, etc. visited the Courts of dive●s Princes, frequented several Universities, and obtained the company and friendship of the most learned men of them. At length upon the renovation of the University of Heidelberge by Charles Lewis Elector Palatine, he was adorned there with the degr. of Doctor of Physic, and held in admiration by all learned men at that place. Afterwards returning once more to his native Country, and to his Mother the Uniu. of Oxon (than quite altered to what he had left it) was there incorporated in the same degr. an. 1654. About which time settling within the City of Lincoln, practised his faculty there and in the neighbourhood with good success, and therefore much reso●●ed to by persons of all quality, and beloved of the Gent●y. He was a person well versed in most parts of learning, understood all books whether old or new, was most skilful in the oriental Tongues, an excellent Grecian, and in short a living library. He hath written,  
Prolegomena Etymologica, with a large preface to it; and these things following. 

Etymol●g●con linguae Anglican●e.  
E●ym. Botanicum.  
E●ymol●gica Exp●sitio vocum forensium.  
Etymol. vocum omnium Anglicarum.  
Etym▪ Onomasticon. etc.   He died of a malignant fever at Lincoln before mentioned on the fifth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, 
1667.  and was buried in the Cath. Church there. After his death his before mentioned Works, which had been by him left imperfect, came into the hands of Thomas Henshaw of Kensington near London Esq. who correcting and digesting them, and adding many words to them of his own, were published 〈…〉 (with an Epistle before them to the Reader▪ of M●. H●●sh●w's writing) an. 1671. fol. with this 〈◊〉 E●y●●l●gicon linguae Anglicanae, etc. In which book 〈◊〉 Wo●ds▪ and Additions, and Explanations, that have 〈…〉 H put to them, were done by the said Th. 〈◊〉 a noted Critic, sometimes a Communer of Uniu. 〈◊〉▪ and therefore hereafter to be numbered among the 〈◊〉 W●●t●rs. See more of Dr. Skinner in Hist. & 〈◊〉 Uniu. Oxen. lib. 2. pag. ●80.  
JOHN READING born of sufficient Parents in Buckinghamshire, was admitted a Student in Magd. Hall in 〈…〉 of the year 1604. aged 16 years, took the 〈…〉, that of Master being completed in 1610, 〈…〉, a little b●fore the Cami●ia, he had 〈◊〉 himself a 〈◊〉 of S. Alb. Hall. On the last 〈…〉 1612 ●he was ordained Deacon by John Bishop of 〈◊〉 in the Church of Nowenham Courtney, and on the 〈◊〉 of June 1614, he was made a Priest by the said Bishop in the Church of Dorchester, in the County of Oxon. 〈◊〉 that time he became Chaplain to Edward Lord 〈◊〉 of Har●●gworth Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Dover Castle: with whom going to D●ver, where he preached divers Sermons, he was, at the instant request of the Parishioners of S Maries, (who 〈◊〉 very much taken with his preaching) made Mini●●●● of that Church ● Dec. 161●. So that being settled there, he was very much resorted to for his frequent and edifying Sermons, and held in great esteem by the neighbourhood, especially by the puritanical party. Afterwards he was made Chapl. in ord. to K. Ch. 1. and Bach. of of Divinity, but whether of this University, it appears not. Upon the change of the times, occasioned by the violent Presbyterians, he seemed much to discountenance them in his Sermons and Discourses, and therefore in Apr. 1642 his study of books at Dover was plundered by one .... Sandys of Northborne in Kent a Militia Officer, who usually showed his valour by plundering several of the loyal inhabitants in the County of Kent; and in Nou. following he was, by the command of Sir Edw. Boys a Parliamenteer, taken violently, by Soldiers out of his study (being then upon his Paraphrase upon the whole Evangelist of S. John, and had gone as far as the 8 and 9 verse of the 5 chap.) and sent to prison and banishment for a year and seven months, and not at all restored to his Cure of Souls at Dover: Which Sir Edward, that he might comply with the Schismatics, did prosecute, so long as he lived, our Author Reading, to his utter undoing. On the 27 of Jan. following (1642) his Majesty having had notice of his Sufferings, sent his letters to Archb. Laud then a prisoner in the Tower, that he bestow the Parsonage of Chatham in Kent upon him, then void by the death of Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean of Canterbury: Which being accordingly done, as much as laid in the Arbishops' power, Mr. Reading did not receive any profit from it, or from a Prebendship of Canterbury, about that time bestowed on him, because much opposed by Sir Nath. Brent Vicar-General. In the month of July 1644, Sir Will. Brockman did freely bestow upon him the Parsonage of Cheriton in Kent, and about the same time he was appointed by the Ass. of Divines to be one of the nine Divines to write Annotations on the New Test. Not long after, upon the discovery of a plot for the taking of Dover Castle by the Cavaliers, he was inhumanely seized on in a cold winter night in his house in Cheriton, by the command of Major Boys (Son of Sir Edw. before mentioned) and hurried to Dover Castle, and the next day sent to that of Leedes, with many others of the Town of Dover. Where continuing for some time, he composed the book called The guide to the holy city. At length being discharged from his imprisonment by the Committee of those parts, they ordered also his Goods that had been plundered should be restored to him. However Boys of Chilham a Sequestrator (different from either of the former) had money of him before he would part with them. On the 10 of March 1650, he publicly disputed (upon the receipt of a Challenge some days before) with Sam. Fisher an Anabaptist in Folkston Church in Kent. The subject of the debate was, Whether all Christians indefinitely were equally and eternally obliged to preach the Gospel without ecclesiastical ordination, or contrary to the commands of the civil Magistrate, or to that purpose. Fisher pleaded the affirmative, fetching most of his Arguments from Jer. Tailor's Discourse of the liberty of prophesying. After the debate was ended, our Author Reading thought himself obliged to answer several passages in the said book of Dr. Taylor, which gave too great a seeming advantage to Fanaticism and Enthusiasm. In the year 1660, May 25, (about which time he was restored to his Cure at Dover) he spoke a short Speech to his Maj. Ch. 2, at his first landing there, to take possession of those Kingdoms from whence he, by a barbarous Usurpation, had been ejected: Which being done, he presented to him a large Bible with gold Clasps in the name of the Corporation of Dover. About that time he was restored to his Prebendship of Canterbury and Rectory of Chatham near it, which he kept to his dying day. He was, in the opinion of many, a severe Calvinist, and one, who had not only defended the irresistability of Grace in several Sermons, in opposition to what Joh. Goodwin had delivered in the same Parish Ch. of S. Mary in Dover, but in his oral disputes with Fisher the Anabaptist, being then as zealous in disproving that man's tenet of Universal Redemption, as he was in asserting Paedobaptism against Reading. Farther, since his Maj. return, he did in a public Sermon in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury reprehend and disprove some doctrine to that effect, which had been in the same place then lately delivered by Dr. Thom. Pierce Prebendary of that Church. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) A fair warning after sickness. Lond. 1623. qu. (2) Job's hour; a funeral Sermon at Dover 10 Mar. 1623. Lond. 1624. qu. (3) Moses and Jethro: or the good Magistrate, preached at S. Mary's in Dover, on the election day, on Exod. 18.24. Lond. 1626. qu. (4) david's soliloquy, containing many comforts for afflicted minds, in sundry sermons at S. Mary's in Dover, on Psal. 42.11. Lond. 1627. in tw. (5) Characters of true blessedness, preached in the same Church 21 Sept. 1637, at the funeral of Mrs. Alice percival wife of Anth. percival Esq. on Psal. 84.4.5. Lond. 1638. in tw. dedic. to the said Anthony then Captain of Arcliff Bulwark near Dover, controller for his Majesty's Customs in Kent, etc. with several other sermons printed 1621. 1642. etc. which I have not yet seen.  
Brief instruction concerning the holy Sacrament, for their use who prepare themselves to receive the Lords Supper. Lond. 1645. oct.  
A guide to the holy city: or directions and helps to an holy life, etc. Oxon. 1651. qu.  
An antidote against Anabaptism, in a reply to the plea for Anabaptists. Or animadversions on that part of Liberty of prophesying, which in sect. 18. p. 223. beareth this title, A particular consideration of the opinions of the Anabaptists. Lond. 1654. qu. In another title of this book, which bears date 1655, it runs thus, A particular answer to all that is alleged in favour of the Anabaptists by Dr. Jer. Taylor, in his book called The liberty of prophesying. In the 18 Section of which, the Doctor hath mentioned more, or things in more plausible terms, than ever the Anabaptists have alleged for their own opinions.  
Survey of the controverted points concerning (1) Infant baptism. (2) Pretended necessity of Dipping. (3) The dangerous practice of re●baptizing.— This was printed with the Antidote 1654. qu. and is sometimes called Anabaptism routed, etc.  
An Evening sacrifice: or prayers for a family, in these times of calamity.  
Speech made before K. Ch. 2. on the shore, where he landed at Dover, 25 May 1660. Lond. 1660. on one side of a sh. of paper. To which is added a Lat. copy of Verses, with their English, by Rich. Bradshaw. This our Author Mr. Reading, who had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in affliction, surrendered up his last breath on the 26 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, 
1667.  and was buried on the 30 of the said month in the chancel of his parish Church of Chatham near to Canterbury before mentioned, leaving then behind him fit for the press (1) Several Sermons preached before the King. (2) Comments on the whole Bible. The former are in the hands of Joh. Reading his son, living in Essex; and the other in those of William, another son living in Dover. (3) A whip for sacrilege. Written in answer to a Pamphlet of Anth. Parsons intit. The great case of tithes. This Whip is contained in 13 sheets, and is now in the hands of Basil Kennet M. A. of the University of Dublin, Rector of Dimchurch, and Vicar of Postling in Kent. (4) A Lat. MS. in fol. containing a large Comment, Paraphrase, and Explication on the whole New Testament, dedic. to General George Monk, and sent to be printed at Lond. in 1666, but being prevented by the great fire that happened there that year, it was delivered into the hands of Dr. Wrenn Bishop of Ely; and whether it be recovered from the hands of his heirs or executors, I know not. The said Mr. Kennet hath also another Tract concerning Proper sacrifice, in vindication of Sir Edw. Deering from the attempts of a popish Priest or Jesuit; but being imperfect, 'twas not designed, I presume, by the Author Mr. Reading for the press.  
WILLIAM THOMAS was born in a market Town in Shropshire called Whitchurch, and educated in Gram. learning in the Free-school there. In 1609, May 17, he was admitted a Student of Brasn. Coll. aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1615, and in the year 1616 Jan. 4. he was admitted Rector of Ubley alias Obley near to Pensford in Somersetshire, by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor of England. This person Will. Thomas, being always a Puritan, closed with the Presbyterians when they raised a Rebellion against his Majesty, 1642, was a frequent preacher against his Cause and Followers, and was esteemed one of the chief Ministers in his time of that persuasion in the neighbourhood where he lived. He afterwards took the Engagement, as before he had the Covenant, and in 1654. 1654. he was appointed an Assistant to oliver's Commissioners for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. Afterwards he ran thro' the remaining part of the changes, and took the Oaths again, after his Maj. return, of Allegiance and Supremacy. His works are these.  
The dead speaking: or the living names of two deceased Ministers of Christ, viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver Pastor of Wells, and Mr. Sam. Croke, etc. containing two several speeches delivered at the funerals of them. Lond. 1653, qu. With them is printed a Sermon preached at the funeral of Sam. Oliver, by Joh. Chetwind sometimes of Exeter Coll. then a godly brother, and after the Kings return Prebendary of Bristol.  
Railing rebuked: or a defence of the Ministers of this Nation, by way of answer to the unparalelled calumnies cast upon them in an Epistle lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristol, unhappily became the Quakers Advocate, etc. Lond. 1656. qu. Answered by George Fox Quaker, in his book intit. The great mystery of the great whore unfolded, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 237. etc.  
The Protestants practice: or the complete Christian, being a true and perfect way to the celestial Canaan Lond. 1656. in tw.  
A vindication of Scripture and Ministry, in a rejoinder to a reply not long since published by Tho. Speed, formerly (but unsutably) Merchant in the City of Bristol, and a Preacher lately (but more sadly) Merchant and Quaker, etc. Lond. 1657. qu. Answered also by G. Fox in the aforesaid book, p. 104 105. etc.  
A preservative of piety, in a quiet reasoning for those duties of Religion that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of Godliness, etc. Lond. 1662. qu.  
Exposition on Ruth. Lond. 166 ... in tw.  
The Country's sense of London's sufferings in the late most lamentable fire, discovered in the opening and improving the lamentation of Jeremiah. Lond. 1667. oct.  
Scriptures opened, and sundry cases of conscience resolved, in plain and practical answers to several questions upon the Proverbs of Solomon, Jerem. Lam. Ezeck. and Daniel. Lond. 1675 and 83. oct. He died at Ubley before mentioned in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. 
1667.  Over his grave was soon after a Mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam. Thomas with this inscription following. Hic jacet Gulielmus Thomas ecclesiae hujus Rector plus quam quadragenarius, qui populum docuit, publicè & domatim, sermone & exemplo. Quem non tam mors rapuit quam ille mortem; munere scilicet, prius cedere coactus, quam mundo, vitam, quam pro grege diutius insumere, ut Pastor, non potuit, avidissimè summo pastori reddidit, Nou. 15. an. dom. 1667. aetat. 74. I shall make mention of another William Thomas, under the year 1689.  
WILLIAM HILL son of Blackleech Hill, was born at Cudworth in Warwickshire, at which time, his father, who in his younger years had been a petty Attorney, was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred, which is one of the four hundreds in Warwickshire and the largest; by which employment gaining a considerable subsistence, lived in a fashionable condition, and bred up his children very well. This William being trained up in Grammar in his own Country, became a Student in Merton Coll. about the beginning of Mich. term, 1634, aged 15 years, being then esteemed a sober and ingenious youth, and soon after was made one of the Postmasters of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he was a Candidate for a Fellowship of that house, and showing himself a most excellent proficient in Greek, Latin and Physics, was elected Prob. Fell. an. 1639. But soon after the time that he was admitted Bach. Fellow, he was preferred to be Master of the Free-school at Sutton Colfield in his own Country, and soon after to a rich Wife, though the Daughter of a plain country man: which school he brought into great credit during his abode there. In 1641 he proceeded in Arts, and having not long after buried his wife, he removed to London, where, having obtained a considerable practice in Physic, he married a young lass, daughter of one Mr. Burges a Physician, son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometimes Parson of Sutton Colfield before mentioned, who brought him forth a child that lived, within the seventh month after marriage. In 1649 and 52, he had leave from the Delegates of the University to accumulate the degrees in Physic; but whether he did so, it doth not appear in our Registers. Afterwards, (as before) being a man of those times and a cider with factious people, he was preferred to be chief Master of the great school at Dublin in Ireland, where continuing till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2, was then, as it seems, forced to leave that place. So that removing to Finglass a Village near to that City, taught there privately to the time of his death. He hath written,  
Dionysii orbis descriptio Graec. Lat. commentario critico & geographico (in quo controversiae pluraeque quae in veteri Geographia occurrunt, explicantur, & obscura plurima elucidantur) ac tabulis illustrata. Lond. 1658. 59 1663. 1679. etc. in a large oct. used in many schools, and by most Juniors of the University of Oxon. He hath also epitomised some of the works of Laz. Riverius a Physician, which I have not yet seen; nor a certain MS. of his which he wrote to justify his lawful begetting of the aforesaid child by himself: which MS. he showed to two Physicians for their approbation before it went to the press; but they looking upon the work as done by a mere scholar, unknowing in the world, returned it with seeming content, and afterwards jeered him behind his back for an antedated Cuckold. He died of a pestilential fever, which took away most of his family, in the month of November, in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, and was buried on the 29 of the said month, 
1667.  just before the Minister's seat in the Church at Finglas before mentioned. I find another Will. Hill, of Merton Coll. also, (the son of a Committee-man, a notorious Schismatic of Herefordshire) who became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647, and afterwards did all, or most of his, Exercise with much ado, for the degree of Bach. of Arts, and so abruptly left the College. But while he continued there, he showed himself a Dunce, a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University, and a factious person. Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man, and a wife: the first of which he keeping till his Majesty's Restauration, was then ejected and put to his shifts. At length repairing to London, he fell into the company of desperate fanatics, as Fifth-Monarchy men, Anabaptists, Independents, etc. and did seemingly plot with them to surprise the King at Whitehall, the Lord Chancellor Clarendon, George Duke of Albemarle, Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne, etc. to have the Tower, Windsor Castle, and other Holds delivered to them, and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state. These things being freely imparted to him by one, or more of the said fanatics, knowing that he and his Father had been Villains in the time of Usurpation, he secretly betrayed a● to the said Sir Rich. Browne. Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence, which he accordingly did, drawed them on, till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms, which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day, an. 1662. But two days before that time, when all things were in a manner made ready, some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne, and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London, according to the directions of the said Will. Hill, viz. Tho. Tonge, George Phillips, Franc. Stubbs, Jam. Hind, Joh. Sallers, and Nath. Gibbs. All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justice●Hall in the Old Bailie, four of them were condemned and afterwards suffered at Tybourne, on the 22 of Dec. following, viz. Tongue, Phillips, Gibbs and Stubbs. Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit. A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times, humbly presented to the King's Majesty, etc. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot, written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty: and in the Pamphlet following, wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons, Hill is one of the principal speakers, as being a chief witness. Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty, he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire; but being hated by one party for his falseness, and by another for his factiousness, did enjoy it but few years, he dying upon the place.  
JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes, was born in the City of Salisbury, entered a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626., aged 17 years, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie; whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion, suffered much by imprisonment in Ely House, and other miseries. At length returning to his native Country, he became Curate of Broadchalke, which, with much ado, he held for about two years, and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire. He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury,  
The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith, asserted and vindicated. Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie, but continued at Hale (which is not far from Surum) where he was first robbed in his own house, and then murdered, by Thiefs, 
1667.  in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts, and was buried in the Church there. What other things he hath published, or left behind him fit for the press, I cannot tell.  
WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford, about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following, an. 1605/6, he received baptism in the Church of that Parish. His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner, kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown, (wherein our Poet was born) and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman, of a good wit and conversation, in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William. The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen (yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers, especially Shakespeare, who frequented his house in his journeys between Warwickshire and London) was of a melancholic disposition, and was seldom or never seen to laugh, in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son, afterwards Fellow of S. john's Coll, and a venerable Doct. of Diu. As for William, whom we are farther to mention, and may justly style the sweet Swan of Isis, was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester, whom I shall elsewhere mention, and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough, in 1620. 21, or thereabouts, and obtained there some smattering in Logic; but his genie, which was always opposite to it, lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry, so that though he wanted much of University learning, yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty, as fancy could advance, without it. After he had left the said Coll, wherein, I presume, he made but a short stay, he became servant to (Frances) the first Duchess of Richmond, and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook, who being poetically given (especially in his younger days) was much delighted in him. After his death (an. 1628.) he being free from trouble and attendance, betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry, which he did with so much sweetness and grace, that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban; to both which he dedicated his poem, which he afterwards published, called Madagascar. Sir John Suckling also, was his great and intimate friend, who exercised his fancy on that book, and other of his Poems, but could not let him pass without this censure in his 
(a) In his Poems called Fragmenta aurea. Lond. 1648. oct. p. 8.  Session of Poets.  
Will. Davenant ashamed of a foolish mischance,  
That he had got lately travelling into France;  
Modestly hoped the handsomeness of his muse  
Might any deformity about him excuse.  
Thus Sir John, son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight, sometimes 
(†) The said Sir Joh. Suckling was made one of the principal Secretaries of State, 30 of March 1622. So Camden in his Annals of K. James 1. an. 1622.  one of the Secretaries of State, afterwards Controller of the Household to K▪ Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council: who dying 27 March 1627. (at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age) was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych. The said mischance which Sir John mentions, happened to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster, on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga in his Gondibert, which cost him his nose; and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him, and his accident, as Sir Jo. Man's, Sir Jo. Denham, etc. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureate, an. 1637: At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan, a candidate for that place, was put aside; which ever after, especially when the times were changed, caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause. In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament, he absconded, but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken, he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent, and committed to the custody of a Sergeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq. Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one, who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris. Hen. Jermyn Esq. (afterwards E. of S. Alban) Sir John Suckling Kt. etc. were two more, who all escaped: But D'avenant being bailed in July following, he fled towards France, and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury, and strictly examined; upon which Sir John Man's hath a pleasant Poem. After he had spent some time there, he returned, was entertained by William Marquis of Newcastle, and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance. In Sept. 1643 he received 
(†) Thomas Walkley in his New Catalogue of the Dukes, Marques. Earls, Viscounts, Barons of England, etc. also Baronet's, Kts, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. p. 163.  the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Gloucester, that City being then besieged, at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry. But upon the declining of the King's cause, and all things thereupon, especially the Church, being visibly tending to ruin, he retired again into France, changed his Religion for that of Rome, and settling for a time in Paris, where Charles Prince of Wales then was, he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert, and had not wrote scarce two books, but being very fond of, did print, them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury, and Hobbes' excellent Epistle to him, before them. The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince, could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece, which was the reason why some there (George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham, etc.) made Satirical verses on him and his poem. Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers, chiefly Weavers, from France to Virginia (being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England, who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France) he did effect it so far, that he and his company were shipped in their way thither, and had got on the main Ocean; but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England, he was carried Prisoner, first to the Isle of Wight an. 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London, in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice, an. 1651, but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others, especially two godly Aldermen of York (to whom he had showed great civility, when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquis of Newcastle) he was saved, and had liberty allowed him as a prisoner at large. At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians, and therefore by them silenced, he contrived a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Music: And that they might be performed with all decency, seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness, John Maynard Sergeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers. This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard, and was afterward translated to the Cockpit in Drewry-lane, and delighting the eye and ear extremely well, was much frequented for several years. So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas, when plays were, as damnable things, forbidden, did, after his Majesty's restauration, revive and improve it by painted sceenes, at which time he erected a new company of Actors, under the patronage of James Duke of York, who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincoln's inn Fields. He hath written and published,  
The tragedy of Albovine King of the Lombard's. Lond. 1629 qu.  
Just Italian, Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu.  
Cruel Brother. Trag. Lond. 1630. qu.  
Coelum Britannicum. Masque at Whitehall. 18. of Feb. 1633.— This is attributed to D'avenant, but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up.  
Triumphs of Prince D'amour. A mask presented by his highness at his palace in the middle Temple, the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu.  
Platonic Lovers, Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. etc.  
The Wits, Com. Lond. 1636 etc.  
Britannia Triumphans: A mask presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night, an. 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesty's works.  
Temple of Love: Masque before the Queen at Whitehall.  
Salmacida Spolia. A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones, the invention, ornament, scenes, etc. by the said Jones; and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesty's servant, and the music belonging to it, composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesty's Music.  
Unfortunate Lovers, Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu.  
Madagascar, with other poems. Lond. 1648. oct. 2d. Edit.  
Love and honour, Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu.  
A discourse upon Gondibert, an heroic poem. Par. 1650. in tw. This was written by way of pref. to his Gondibert in prose, that. at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649/50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury.  
Gondibert, an heroic poem, in 3. Books. Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two, finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia, Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses; and so hath Edm. Waller, which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions, printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167. The third book of the said Gondibert, or most part of it, was finished during his imprisonment in Cow's Castle in the Isle of Wight, an. 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time, as Sir Joh. Denham, Jo, Donne Sir Allen Brodrick, etc. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem, in a little book entit. Certain verses written by several of the author's friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert. Lond. 1653. oct. in 1. sh. and an half: whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit.  
The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires, Clinias, Dametas, Sancho and Jack pudding. Lond. 1653. oct. in 1. sh. Which, though it seems to be written by D'avenants' friend, yet he himself was the author. It was printed at the end of a second Edition of the said Certain verses, etc. with Hero and Leander a mock Poem.  
The first days entertainment at Rutland house by Declamations and Music. Lond. 1657. oct. Published in Sept. 1656, notwithstanding the nicety of those times.  
Playhouse to be let, containing the History of S. Franc. Drake, and the cruelty of the Spaniards at Perue. Com.  
News from Plymouth, Com.  
Law against Lovers, Co.  
The Distresses. Tr.  
The Siege. Co. or Tr. Co.  
Fair favourite. Co.  
A Panegyric to his excellency the Lord Gener. Monk. Lond. 1659. On one side of a sheet of paper, printed in the beginning of March the same year.  
A Poem upon his Majesty's most happy return to his dominions. Lond. 1660 qu.  
The Siege of Rhodes, Tr. Com. in two parts. Lond. 1663. qu. etc.  
Poem on the Kings most sacred Majesty. Lond. 1663. qu.  
Man's the Master, Com. Lond. 1669. qu.  
Poems on several occasions.  
The Tempest, or the enchanted Island. Com. Lond. 1676. qu. This play was originally Shakespears (whom and his works D'avenant much admired) as those that have seen his Sea Voyage may easily discern.  
The seventh or last canto of the third book of Gondibert. Lond. 1685. oct. never before printed.  
Most of which Comedies, Tragedies, Trag. Com. Masques and Poems were printed together in a large folio— Lond. 1672.— 3. with the author's picture before them (adorned with a wreath of Laurel) and a notch in his nose, as over the first letter of his surname. At length this noted and celebrated author having lived to about his grand climecterical year, made his last exit in his house in Little Lincolns-inn Fields, in the Parish of S. Clement Danes near London, on the seventh day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and eight, 
1668.  and was two days after buried in the s. Cross Isle, or south trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster, without any Laurel upon his Coffin, which, I presume, was forgotten. His body was deposited in the very place, or near it, where his Antagonist Tho. May the English Lucan had been buried, of whom I shall speak more anon, and in the mean time give you the Epitaph of Sir Will. D'avenant, made on him soon after his death, which runs thus.  
Here lies a Subject of immortal praise,  
Who did from Phoebus' hand receive his bays:  
Admired by all, envied alone by those  
Who for his glories made themselves his foes:  
Such were his virtues that they could command  
A general applause from every hand:  
His Exit then, this on record shall have,  
A Clap did usher D'avenant to his grave.  
In the office of Poet Laureate succeeded Joh. Driden, Son of Erasmus Driden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire, third Son of Erasm. Driden of Canons Ashby in the same County Baronet: which John was born at Oldwincle (called by some Aldwincle) near to Oundle in the same County, (being the very same place that gave breath to Dr. Tho. Fuller the Historian) educated in Grammar learning in the College School in Westminster, elected thence a Scholar of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1650, and is now highly celebrated among ingenious men for his poetry, and other polite learning.  
As for Tho. May before mentioned, he was the Son of Tho. May of Mayfield in Sussex Knight, by his Wife, the Daughter of .... Rich of Hornden on the hill in Essex, was educated in all kind of humane learning when he was a youth, and in Academical in his manly years in Cambridge. Afterwards, his genie being chiefly inclined to Poetry, he retired to, and mostly lived in, the City of Westminster, where performing divers things for the honour of this nation, never paralleled by any English man before, was graciously countenanced by K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort; but he finding not that preferment from either, which he expected, grew discontented, sided with the Presbyterians upon the turn of the times, became a Debauchee ad omnia, entertained ill principles as to Religion, spoke often very slightly of the Holy Trinity, kept beastly and atheistical company, of whom Tho. Chaloner the Regecide was one; and endeavoured to his power to asperse and invalidate the King and his cause. Among several things that he hath written and translated, some are these (1) The Trag. of Antigone the Theban Princess. Lond. 1631. oct. (●) The Heir, a Com. Acted 1620. Lond. 1633. qu. (3) The victorious reign of K. Ed. 3. in 7. books. Lond. 1635. oct. Written in verse by the special command of K. Ch. 1. (4) The reign of Hen. 2. Lond. in oct. Written also in verse, and dedicated to K. Ch. 1. (5) Trag. of Cleopatra Qu. of Egypt. Acted 1626. Lond. 1639. oct. Dedic. to Sir Ken. Digby. (6) Trag. of Julia Agrippina Empress of Rome. Acted 1628. Lond. 1639. oct. (7) Supplementum Lucani, lib. seven. Lugd. Bat. 1640. oct. Written in so lofty and happy Lat. Hexameter, that he hath attained to much more reputation abroad, than he hath lost at home. (8) The old couple, Com. Lond. in qu. (9) Historiae Parliamenti Angliae Breviarium, tribus partibus explicitum. Lond. 1649 or thereabout, in oct. It was afterwards translated into English by the Author, with this title. Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England, in three parts, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. see. edit. Before which is the picture of the author in a cloak, with a wreath of Laurel over his head. He hath also translated from Lat. into Engl. (1) Lucan's Pharsalia; or the civil wars of Rome, between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. In 10 books. Lond. 1635. oct. third edit. with annotations made by Th. May on each book. (2) A continuation of the subject of Lucan's Historical poem, till the death of Julius Caesar. in 7. books. Lond. 1635. oct. sec. edition, with annotations made by Tho. May on each book. (3) Virgil's Georgics, four books. Lond. 1622. oct. with annotations on each book. (4) Selected Epigrams of Martial. Lond. 1629. oct. At length this Person Tho. May (who had been favoured by the rebellious Parliament so much, as to be made their Historian) going well to bed, was therein found next morning dead, an. 1650 occasioned, as some say, by tying his nightcap too close under his fat chin and cheeks, which choked him, when he turned on the other side. Afterwards his body being conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster, was buried on the west side of the large south Isle or transcept there: And soon after had a large monument of white marble set in the w. Wall over his grave, with this inscription thereon made by March. Nedham. Quem Anglicana Respub. habuit vindicem, ornamentum literaria, secli sui Vatum celeberrimus, deliciae futuri, Lucanus alter plusquam Romanus, Historicus fidus, Equitis aurati filius primogenitus Thomas Maius h. s. e. Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae specimen usque adeo superaddidit, ut à supremo Anglorum senatu ad annales suos conscribendos fuerit ascitus. Tandem fide intemeratâ Parliamento praestitâ, morte inopinâ noctu correptus diem suum obiit id. Nou.  

Aᵒ libertatis humanae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo.  
Aº libertatis Angliae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo.  
Aetatis suae Lv.   
Hoc in honorem servi tam bene meriti, Parliament. Reipub. Angl. P. P. Soon after was an Epitaph made in answer to it, beginning thus. Asta viator, & poetam legas Lucani interpretem, quem ita feliciter Anglicanum fecerat, ut Maius simul & Lucanus videbatur, etc. But before his body had rested in the said South Isle eleven years, 'twas taken up, with other bodies that had been unwarrantably buried there, from 1641. to his Majesty's restauration, and buried in a large pit in the yard belonging to S. Margaret's Church in Westminster, where to this day it continueth. At the same time his monument also was taken down, and throwed aside; and in the place of it was set up that of Dr. Tho. Triplet, an. 1670.  
ALEXANDER HUISH was born in the Parish of S. Cuthbert within the City of Wells, became either a Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall, 1609, from whence being taken by the Foundress of Wadham Coll. was made by her one of the original Scholars thereof, an. 1613, and in the same year he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, being the first of all that obtained that degree as a member of that College. Afterwards being Master of his faculty, he entered into holy Orders, became a noted Preacher, and in the year 1627. was admitted to the reading of the sentences. Afterwards he was made Rector of Beckington, and of Hornbloton in Sommersetshire, the last of which he obtained on the death of Thom. Clarke, by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Milbourne Esq. in the beginning of Febr. 1638. Afterwards he became a sharer of afflictions for the King's cause in the sad time of rebellion, and tho driven from place to place, yet, in the quiet repose that he sometimes obtained, he did improve his talon for the public good of learning. After the return of his Maj. Ch. 2. an. 1660 he was restored to what he before had lost, and the same year Sept. 12, he was collated to the Prebendship of Whitlackington in the Church of Wells; the gift of which he had before obtained. He was a person well read in the Fathers, a noted Critic, a good Linguist, and a solid and sober Divine. He hath written,  
Lectures on the Lord's Prayer; in three parts. Lond. 1626. qu. He also was much assisting to Dr. Brian Walton in the completing the Polyglot Bible; was one of the four correctors of it at the Press, and took great pains in the Septuagint translation, the Greek text of the New Testament and the vulgar latin, compared with the most ancient Alexandrian MS copy with the old edit. of the Septuagint, printed at Rome according to the Vatican copy, and Rob. Stephen's his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament; and did diligently collect the various readings of the Alexandrian Copy, which are throughout the work put under the Roman edition of the Septuagint, and Stephens' edition of the Greek text of the New Testament. In the sixth vol. of the said Polyglot Bible, our author Huish hath a Greek Hymn with the latin to it; written by him on S. Hilaries day, 13. Janu. (Still. vet.) 1657/8 in the year of his great climacteric 63. At length having lived beyond the age of man, and done extraordinary benefit for the common good, died in the beginning of the year (in Apr. as it seems) in sixteen hundred sixty and eight, 
1668.  and was buried either at Beckington or Hornbloton. In his Prebendship succeeded Henry Dutton Bach. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon, to which he was collated on the 22. of April, in the same year. See more of Alex. Huish in the first vol. an. 1617. in John Flavell nu. 447.  
GEORGE HALL. son of Dr. Joseph Hall sometimes Bishop of Exeter, and afterwards of Norwich, was born at Waltham Abbey in Essex, (where his Father had been a constant Preacher for above 20 years) had the seeds of virtue sown in him very early by his said Father, who, when this his Son was ripe for the Uniu. sent him to Exeter Coll. an. 1628. aged 16 years: Where living in the condition of a commoner under a noted and careful Tutor, he became Fellow of that house, an. 1632, and afterwards proceeding in Arts, took holy Orders, became Archdeacon of Cornwall, and Vicar of Mayhenet in that County. What his sufferings were in the time of rebellion I know not: Sure I am that several years before his Majesty's restauration, he was first preacher of S. Barthelmews near to the Old Exchange, and afterwards Vicar of S. botolph's Church without Aldersgate, in London; and that after his Majesty's restauration he became one of his Chaplains, Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. G. Goodman who had held it in Commendam with the See of Gloucester, Doctor of Divinity actually created, and Archdeacon of Canterbury. At length upon the death of Dr. Hen. Ferne, he was consecrated Bishop of Chester, on the eleventh day of May, an. 1662., and about the same time had the rectory of Wigan in Lancashire conferred on him by Sir Orlando Bridgman then chief Justice of the Common-pleas: Which rich rectory he kept in Commendam with his See to his dying day. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) God's appearing for the tribe of Levy, Serm. preached at S. Paul's 8. Nou. 1655 to the Sons of the Ministers, on Rom. 8.31. Lond. 1656. qu. (2) Serm. at Court, on Psal. 7.9. Lond. 1666. oct. etc. He hath also written a book against Papists and Popery entit.  
The triumphs of Rome over despised protestancy. Lond. 1655. qu. there again 1667. oct. He paid his last debt to nature in the rectory house at Wigan before mentioned, on the 23. of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight, 
1668.  and was buried at the east end of the Rectors Chancel there. Over his grave was soon after a large marble stone laid, with this inscription thereon. P. M. S. ejus repostus pulvere in sacro cinis expectat istic ultimae sonum Tubae, mendace qui ne falleret titulo lapis sonum hoc sepulchro jussit incidi suo.  
Georgius Hall S. Th. Pr. Ecclesiae dei servus inutilis, sed cordatus, D. Josephi Hall Praesulis pientissimi, primo Exoniensis, dein Norwicensis, scriptis semper victuri filius, (imo umbra potius) sex inter septemque annos sedit, non meruit, Cestriae Episcopus; denatus aetatis suae anno LV. Christi vero MDCLXVIII.— Mirare lector Praesulis modestiam, aliunde quaeras caetera. By his last Will and Test. he gave to Exeter Coll. after the decease of his Wife Gertrude, (who was afterwards buried under the same marble) his Golden cup and all his Estate of land at Trethewen in S. Germane in Cornwall, to the end that they be employed to the best commodity and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof, with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living.  
WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight, Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England, as he is sometimes styled, by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of Samson Lennard Lord Dacre, was born at Knolle in Kent, matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an. 1612, aged 15 years, but making no long stay there, was translated to Hart Hall, where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris, and in an Academy there he learned to fence and manage the great Horse. Thence he went to the Germane Wars, where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperor. After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622, and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight, who dying at Bath in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there; over whose grave is a very fair monument erected, and thereon the statuas of her and her husband lying at length. Afterwards taking to him a second Wife, he was elected a Burgess for An●over in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament, that began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640, wherein he showed himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way. Soon after when the rebellion broke out, he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs, constituted (though little in person) by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King, an. 1642, in which year, and after, he performed, in the opinion of those of his persuasion, many notable exploits, yet not without great violation and injury to the Church, and its orthodox members, and therefore flattered and cajoled by the Parliament with several sums of money; part of which, was given, as a largess, to his soldiers, the more to encourage them in their service. About that time, that he might show his zeal for the beloved cause, he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons, merely to put forward some that had not taken it before, and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War. But being soon after very unfortunate by losing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament, caused a diminution of his former fame, which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General. In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrisoned, it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service, but the next year showing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents, was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason. Whereupon absconding for a time, returned and took his place, but in the very next year (1648) he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December, and on the 11. of Jan. following, he was committed Prisoner to S. James' house, and afterwards to Windsor and Denbigh Castles, and to the Tower of London during the reign of Oliver, as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were, lest he, and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King, or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver. So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man, and a Patriot of his Country, was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection, in Aug. 1659., where continuing till the beginning of Nou. following, gave then Bail for his farther appearance. What he got by his sufferings at the King's restauration, an. 1660, I know not; sure I am he was no loser. Under this Persons name were printed these things following.  
Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts. dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh. in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable, scarce worthy to be taken notice of, yet to encourage the party, it was made a very bloody matter.  
Full relation of the late proceedings, victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundel in Sussex, Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an. 1643— Scent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh. in qu.  
Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh. in qu.  
Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts. at the Devises, Lond. 1644. in 1. sh. in qu. or more. It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories, though little, or inconsiderable, yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren. See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London, entit. A survey of England's Champions, and truths faithful Patriots. Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion, the King's Majesty's Person, the privileges of Parliament, and the liberty of the Subject, etc. with a most exact narration of the several victories, etc. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders. Lond. 1647. oct with the author's picture before it.  
Divine meditations upon several occasions; with a daily directory. Lond. 1680. oct. They were written in his retirement from business and public employ, and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life. He hath also written,  
Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King— This he left behind him in MS, but whether published I cannot tell. In 1680. was published in one sh. in folio, Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation.  
Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers— This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not. He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight, 
1668.  and was buried in the new Chapel near the Chancel, in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster: Whose funeral, as to honour, being then falsely managed by an Herald Painter, without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms, his atchieument, helmet with a false crest, banners, etc. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter, were soon after plucked down by the aforementioned Officers, and thrown aside as false things. He left behind him a Son of both his names, sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll, afterwards a Knight, and Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex, etc.  
RICHARD RHODES a Gentleman's Son of London, was educated in Westminster School, transplanted thence to Ch. Ch. and soon after was made Student thereof, being then well grounded in Grammar and in the practical part of Music. He wrote and composed,  
Flora's Vagaries, a Comedy— Which, after it had been publicly acted by the Students of Ch. Ch. in their common Refectory on the 8. of Januar. 1663., and at the Theatre-Royal by his Majesty's Servants, was made public at Lond. 1670 and afterwards in 1677. qu. This Person who only took one degree in Arts (at which time he made certain compositions in Music of two or more parts, but not, as I conceive, extant) went afterwards into France, and took, as I have heard, a degree in Physic at Mountpelior: But being troubled with a rambling head, must needs take a journey into Spain, where, at Madrid, he died and was buried, 
1668.  in sixteen hundred sixty and eight. In which year also George More M. of A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll, died there also, being then in attendance on the English Ambassador.  
JOSEPH ALLEIN son of Toby Alleine, was born in a Market Town in Wilts. called The vieth or Devises, an. 1633, and being when a Child forward to learn, was educated in Grammar there; which faculty, he in a short time conquering, was instructed by a Minister of that, or a neighbouring, place in the art of Logic. At 16 years of age he was sent to Linc. Coll. (being then well skilled in the Lat. and Gr. tongue) where continuing till 8. of Nou. 1651. was then admitted Scholar of that of Corp. Chr. and in short time after, if the Wilts. Fellowship should happen to be void, as it did, he would consequently have been Fellow. But he esteeming himself as most admirably well gifted for extempore prayer, as indeed he was by those of his party, who took him to be a precious young man (for he and his friend could hardly ever walk or discourse together, but before they parted, they must, at his request, go and pray together) he humbly desired the Precedent of the said Coll. that upon the next vacancy of a Chaplainship, he would confer that office upon him, purposely (as was conceived by some) that he might show his excellencies in public twice in a day. I say that he being solicitous for that place, his acquaintance would often dissuade him from taking it, as being much inferior to a Fellowship: yet take it he did, prised it, and looked upon it as his honour and happiness to enjoy it. This was, I presume, in the beginning of the year 1653, for in July that year, he, as Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. was admitted Bach. of Arts. But before he could stay to take the degree of Master, he received a Call to assist George Newton Minister of Taunton S. Magdalen in Somersetshire, an. 1655: where being ordained in a public association meeting of the Brethren, he administered all ordinances jointly with Mr. Newton. Soon after our author Joseph received another Call to take to Wife a fair and holy Sister; which being 
(a) The marriage was consummated 4. Oct. 1655. So Theodosia his Widow in The narrative of his life from his silencing to his death, p. 91.  effected, he would (as in jest) complain to his intimate friend of C. C. C. of the inconveniences of marriage, viz. that whereas he used to rise at four of the clock in the morn▪ or before, his loving spouse would keep him in bed till about six. Also whereas he used to study 14 hours in a day, she would bring him to eight or nine. And lastly that whereas he used to forbear one meal a day at least for his studies, she would bring him to his meat, etc. At Taunton in this employment under Mr. Newton he continued till Barthelmewtide, called by his party The black day, an. 1662., at which time being deprived of it for nonconformity, sat silent for a time to his great regret. At length receiving a third Call for the propagation of the Gospel, he would by all means forsooth go into China to do it, but being dissuaded by the Brethren he fed the flock of God's people in private. At length he being snapped for a Conventicler, was committed to prison at Ilchester, where he continued some years not without teaching and preaching, and writing letters to the chosen of God in Taunton. Several pieces of his practical divinity he hath written, of which these are published.  
A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechism. Wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let the light by degrees into the minds of the learners— When this was first printed, I cannot find. Sure I am the last edition came out at Lond. 1674. in oct.  
A most brief help for the necessary, but much neglected, duty of self examination to be daily perused.— Printed with the former book.  
Letter of Christian council to a destitute flock.— Printed with the former also.  
Christian letters full of spiritual instructions, etc. Lond. 1672. oct. They are about 40 in number, and were all written in prison to persons of his Church. Five more were added to the second edit.— Lond. 1677. oct.  
Cases of Conscience, etc. Lond. 1672. oct. This goes under his name, and without doubt he was the Author of it.  
Remains: being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament speeches and letters, not heretofore published. Lond. 1674▪ oct.  
The true way to happiness, in a serious treatise, showing (1) What conversion is not, etc. (2) What conversion is, etc.— This book commended in two Epistles, one by Mr. Rich. Baxter, the other by Rich. Alleine, was printed at Lond. 1675. oct. It is the same book, with that of the same author which was publs. in 8ᵒ. an. 1672 entit. An alarm to the unconverted, etc. The other part of the title is altogether the same with this before mentioned; and at the end of this new impression (if they be different in more than their titles) is a copy of English verses, said to be made on the reading of Mr. Jos. Alleine's book entit. An alarm to the unconverted, which plainly shows that they are the same. Mr. Baxter 
(b) In the Introduction before Jos. Alleines life, p. 17.  tells us that he was also author of,  
The Synopsis of the Covenant. Or God speaking from mount Gerizim, etc.— Printed in Mr. Rich. Alleine's book, entit. Heaven opened, etc. being the third part of his Vindiciae poetatis; In which book is also printed another shorter piece, entit.  
A Sololoquie representing a believers trial in God's Covenant, etc.— Also another shorter than that called,  
A form of words expressing man's covenanting with God.— Besides these he hath also written,  
Prayers for his people's use— And a little thing entit.  
A call to Archippus; to persuade the silent Nonconformists, to pity Souls— And left behind him at his death several Theological MSS written and composed by him, but all, or most, are imperfect, except this,  
Theologiae Philosophicae, sive Philosophiae Theologicae specimen: In quo aeterni dei providentia solius natur● lumine comprobatur, etc. Written an. 1661., and licenced for the Press, but being Lat. and Greek, and such books having too few buyers in England, none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book. He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight, 
1668.  and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory, mostly consisting of Dissenters, wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him. Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone, 
Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies  
To God and you a sacrifice.   
Not long after was published his life 
(c) Printed at Lond. 1672 and 1677, in a large octavo.  written by Mr. Rich. Baxter (who wrote also the introduction) Rich. Alleine, Rich. Faireclough, George Newton, his Widow Theodosia Alleine, and two conforming Ministers, who conceal their names. From which Sermon and canting farce or life, especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia, the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos. Alleine was, and how his life was spent in actions busy, forward, (if not pragmatical) and meddling without intermission. The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a mere Xanthippe finding Jos. Alleine to be a mere Scholar and totally ignorant of women's tricks, did flatter, soothe him up and woe, and soon after married, and brought, him to her Luer. After she had buried him, and being not able to continue long without a consort, she freely courted a lusty Chandler of Taunton, alienated his affections by false reports, from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with, and by three days courting, they were the fourth day married, as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton, and so obtained him merely to supply her salacious humour. In 1●91. our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit. A sure Guide to heaven, etc. printed in tw.  
RICHARD GOVE a Gentleman's Son, was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh. became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term, an. 1604 aged 18 years, where going through the courses of Logic and Philosophy, he took the degree of M. of A. an. 1611. Afterwards entering into holy Orders, he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet, and in Aug. 1618. was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire; at which place, much about the same time, he taught a Grammar School. In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty, as some of his relations have said, but I think false; and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter, closed so much with the Presbyterians, that he became Minister of S. David's Church there, and for several years was much frequented by them. About the time of his Majesty's restauration, he went to East Coker in Somersetshire, (where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter) at which place he taught School for some time, and afterwards was made Minister of it. His works are,  
The Saint's hony-comb full of Divine truths, touching both Christian belief and a Christian life, in two cent. Lond. 1652. oct.  
The Communicants guide, directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations. Lond. 1658. oct. as also A Catechism, print. in oct. which I have not yet seen. 
1668.  He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour, in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mentioned, but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave.  
JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight, sometimes chief Baron of the Exchequer in, and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of, Ireland, by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt, sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom, was born within the City of Dublin, but being brought thence very young, at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchequer in England, an. 1617., he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster, and being made full ripe for the University, was sent to Trinity Coll, where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm. term, an. 1631. aged 16 years. But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries, and given more to cards and dice, than his study, they could never then in the least imagine, that he could ever enrich the World with his fancy, or issue of his brain, as he afterwards did. From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years, and had been examined in the public Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts, he went to Lincoln's inn, where though he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons▪ yet he would game much, and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters, who rooked him sometimes of all he could wrap or get. But his Father having received notice of these matters, took him severely to task, with many threatenings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing. Whereupon he wrote a Little Essay against Gaming, showing the vanities and inconveniencies, which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation, of it. After his Father's death, (who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey) he fell to gaming again, and shortly after squandered away several thousands of pounds that were left him, etc. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy, which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men, particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield, who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when no body was aware, or in the least suspected it. Shortly after he was pricked High Sherriff for Surrey, and made Governor of Farnham Castle for the King: But he being an inexpert soldier, soon after left that office, and retired to his Maj. at Oxon, where he printed his poem called Cooper's hill: which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead, hath a very noble prospect, and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there, which he mentions in that most celebrated poem. In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James' in Westminster, then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland, and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother, and not long after was sent with William (afterwards Lord) Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince, then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts, he returned into England, and being in some straits (for by gaming and the War he had squandered away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere, and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651) he was kindly entertained by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton; where, and sometimes at London, he continued with that Count more than an year: In which time he did translate one of Virgil's Aeneids and burlesqued it, but whether he ever published it, I know not. K. Ch. 1. did grant to him the reversion of the place of Surveyor of his buildings after the decease of Inigo Jones: Which place he entering upon at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. an. 1660 (for the said Jones 
(a) So have I been informed by the Letters of James Webb of Butleigh in Somersetsh. Gent. Son of John Webb who married the Cousin German of the said Inigo Jones.  died 21. July 1651 aged 79 years or thereabouts, and was buried in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London) he enjoyed it to the time of his death, and got by it 7000 l. In the year following he was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. and became much renowned in the Court of that King for his ingenuity; but upon some discontent arising from a second match, he became crazed for a time, and so consequently contemptible among vain Fops. Soon after being cured of his distemper, he wrote excellent verses on the death of Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets, and some months after followed him. The things that he hath written and translated have been many, but those that are published are only these.  
The Sophy: a tragedy. Lond. 1642. qu. and 1667. oct.  
Cooper's hill: a poem. Oxon 1643 in one sh. and an half in qu. Printed again with additions at Lond. 1650 and 55 in qu. There again in 1667. 68 in oct. A poem it is which for the Majesty of the stile, is, and ever will be the exact standard of good writing. It was translated into Latin verse by Moses Pengrey, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
An Essay against gaming. Lond. in about 3 sh. in oct. This I have not yet seen.  
Cato Major, of old age, a poem. Lond. 1648. in tw, in 4 parts, etc.  
The destruction of Troy: or an Essay upon the second book of Virgil's Aeneids. Lond. 1656. in 4 sh. and an half in cue, written in the year 1636.  
Panegyric on his excellency the Lord General George Monk, Commander in chief, etc.— Printed at Lond. in one sh. in qu. in the month of Mar. 16●●/●●. Tho the name of John Denham is not set to it, yet the frequent report was then among the Academians that he was the author of it.  
Various poems and translations. Lond. 1667 68 etc. oct. Among which is The Destruction of Troy, Cato Major, before mentioned, and A Poem on Mr. Abr. Cowleys death and burial among the ancient Poets: Which last was a little before printed by itself, in one sheet in fol. in Aug. 1667. Among them also, as I remember, is The Prologue to his Majesty at the first play presented at the Cock pit in Whitehall, being part of that noble entertainment which their Majesties received Nou. 19 an. 1660, from his Grace the D. of Albemarle. Which Prologue was printed by itself at Lond. 1660. on one side of a broad sheet or paper.  
A new version of the Psalms of David— This I have not yet seen, only mention of it in an excellent copy of verses made in its commendation by Mr. Sam. Woodford sometimes of Wadham Coll, in his Occasional compositions in English rhymes. Lond. 1668. p. 146.  
The true Presbyterian without disguise: or, a character of a Presbyterians way and actions. Lond. 1680. in half a sh. in fol. The name of Sir John Denham is set to this poem, but then questioned by many whether ever he was the author of it. See other works of his poetry in Sir Will. D'avenant, before mentioned. He died at his Office (near to Whitehall) which he before had built, in March in sixteen hundred sixty and eight, and was buried on the 23 of the same month, 
166●.  in the s. cross isle or trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster, near to the graves of Jeffry Chaucer and Abr. Cowley. In the year 1666 were printed by stealth in oct, certain poems entit. Directions to a painter, in four copies or parts, and each dedicated to K. Ch. 2 in verse. They were very satirically written against several persons engaged in the War against the Dutch, an. 1665, and at the end of the said four parts, is a copy entit. Clarindons' house-warming, Sir John denham's name is set, yet they were then thought by many to have been written by Andrew marvel Esq. and after that his epitaph; both bitterly reflecting on Edw. E. of Clarendon, his house called Clarendon house and his ways of scraping up wealth. To which Directions though The Printer that printed them, being discovered, stood in the pillory for the same.  
GEORGE BATE a most noted Physician of his time, Son of John Bate of Burton or Bourton in Buckinghamshire, was born at Maidsmorton near to Buckingham, became one of the Clerks of New Coll. in the beginning of 1622 aged 14 years, was thence translated to Qu. Coll. for a time, and thence to S. Edm. Hall, took the degrees in Arts as a member of the last, entered on the Physic line, and took a degree in that faculty 1629, at which time being licenced to practice, exercised it, in, and near Oxon. for some years among precise and puritanical people, he being then taken to be one of their number. In 1637 he proceeded in his faculty, and became thereupon more noted among men, especially when K. Ch. 1. (to whom he was chief Physician) and his Court kept their residence several years in Oxon in the time of the grand rebellion. Afterwards when his Maj. and his cause declined, he retired to London, closed with the times for interest sake, became Physician to the Charter-house, Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, and at length chief Physician to Oliver while he was General, and afterwards when Protector, and did not stick (though he pretended to be a concealed Royalist) to flatter him in an high degree. Upon the restauration of King Ch. 2. an. 1660 he got in with the Royal party, (by his Friends report that he by a dose given to Oliver hastened him to his end) was made chief Physician to K. Ch. 2. and a member of the Royal Society. His published works are these.  
The Royal Apology: or, the declaration of the Commons in Parliament, 11. Feb. 1647. canvassed.— Printed 1648 in about 14 sh. in qu. There was also a book entit. The Regal Apology, printed, as 'tis said, at Paris the same year in cue, but who the author of it was, I know not▪ unless the King himself.  
Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia, simul ac Juris regii ac Parliamentarii brevis narratio. Par. 1649. Franc. ad Maen. 1650. 51. qu. Which being communicated to Dr. Pet. Heylyn before it went to the Press, or else when the second part was joined to it, were by him made many observations on it, which much tended to the honour of the King and Church. This first part of Elenchus was translated into English by an unknown hand, and printed at Lond. 1652 in oct. The second part of the said Elenchus, wherein the author was assisted by some papers lent to him by Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chanc. of England, was printed at Lond. in Lat. 1661., and at Amsterdam in the year following, in oct. and reprinted with the first part at Lond. 1663. in oct. etc. Of which two parts and their author, hear what a learned 
(b) John durel in his S. Ecclesiae Anglicanae, etc. Vindiciae. Lond. 1669. cap. 28. p. 332.  writer says (after he had condemned George Hornius, Honorius Reggus, a Scotch 
(c) Qui scripsit Historiam motuum nuperorum in Scotia.  Anonymus, and Salmonetus 
(d) Qui Gallicè scripsit De rebus Anglicis.  Scoto-Britannus, who have written very falsely concerning our English affairs) thus— Eorum omnium qui hactenus de rebus apud nos nuper gestis scripserunt latino idiomate, unus Bateus dignus est, qui legatur; quanquam etiam ab Anonymo scriptore propensi nimium in Puritanos animi nuper est accusatus, etc. A third part of Elenchus motuum was slightly composed, and continued from Newer books to the year 1669 by Tho. Skinner a Doctor of Phys. of this University; published in Latin with the former parts, at Lond. 1676, which would have been far better performed by our author Bate, if he had lived but one year longer. At length after the impressions had all in a manner been vended, one A. Lovel M. A. of Cambridge, gave us a translation of all the Elenchi, but not well done— Pr. at Lond. 1685 oct. In which year he had two translations of other men's works extant, the mentioning of which, as being not pertinent, is now to be omitted. But the two parts published by Dr. Bate, having several passages in them that gave offence, not only to the Papists, but Cavaliers for the reason before given, one Robert Pugh who had been one Officer in the King's Army, wrote an answer to them entit. Elenchus Elenchi, etc. Par. 1664. oct. To which Bate made a reply, but as his Son hath told me, he did not publish it, only put it in Ms in the Cottonian Library; and upon that report did I in my Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. say as much in the life of 
(e) Lib. 2. p. 354.  Dr. Bate. Whereupon Pugh having had notice of, or else had read, it, he made a search after it in the said Library, (as he himself hath told me several times) but could not find it, otherwise he would have made a rejoinder. Now here by the way, I must let the Reader know that this Rob. Pugh was born at Penrhyn in the Parish of Eglos-Rosse in Caernarvansh. and educated in the Jesuits Coll. at S. Omers: Afterwards coming into England, he bore Arms for the King, and was a Captain in that War that began 1642: Which being done without the consent of the Superiors of his Order, he himself being then a Jesuit, he was ejected from among them. Afterwards he entered himself among the secular Priests, became confessor to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England, and by P. Innocent the 10. was created Protonotarius Publicus Apostolicus, an. 1653. Besides the former book, he wrote Bathoniensium & Aquis granensium Thermarum comparatio, variis adjunctis illustrata. Lond. 1676. oct. Written by way of Epistle to his patron Roger Palmer Earl of Castlemaine, dated at bath 7. Kal. Aug. 1675: Also another book Of the several states and governments that have been in England since 1642. Which is in Ms in the said Earls hands. I have seen also a Lat. Ode of his composition, made on the immature death of Sidney Montague, who either died of a wound, or in the flames or waters, in the Sea fight between the Engl. and Dutch, on the 5 of the Kal. of Jun. 1672, being then in the Ship of his kinsman Edw. Earl of Sandwich. 'Tis printed on one side of a broad sh. of paper. At length upon the breaking out of the plot called by some The Popish Plot, and by others Oats' Plot, he was, with other Priests, committed to Newgate Prison in London; where being not able to undergo hardship, and coldness of weather, he surrendered up his last breath about 12 of the Clock at night, on the 22 of January 1678, aged 69 years or thereabouts: whereupon his body was buried the next day in the yard or burying place, belonging to the parish of Christ-church, situate north west at some distance from the said Church, within Newgate, London; where, I remember, I saw his grave, soon after, under the middle part of a brick wall, on the north side of the said yard. He was a person of a most comely port, well favoured, and of excellent parts, and therefore he deserved a better end. Our author Dr. Bate also, with Franc. Glisson and Ahasuerus Regemorter Doctors of Physic and Fellows of the Coll. of Physicians did compile a book entit.  
De Rachitide, sive morbo puerili, qui vulgo the Rickets dicitur. Lond. 1650. oct. Chiefly composed by Glisson: which book was afterwards translated into English by Philip Armin.— Lond. 1651. oct. and about that time also by Nich. Culpeper, as I conceive, who writes himself a Student in Physic and Astrology, author of divers Physical Books and Almanacs. Dr. Bate died in his house in Hatton Garden in Holbourn near London, 19 April in sixteen hundred sixty and nine: 
1669.  Whereupon his body was carried to Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, and was buried by that of his wife Elizabeth (who died 17 Apr. 1667) in an isle or rather a vestry, joining on the north side of the Church there. Over his grave is a monument fastened to the east wall of the said vestry, between the two east windows, with an inscription thereon, which for brevity sake I shall now omit; and only tell you (1) That after his death was published Pharmacopoeia Bateana. In qua octingenta circiter pharmaca pleraque omnia è praxi Georgii Batei Regi Car. 2o. Proto-medici excerpta, etc. Lond. 1688 and 1691. oct. by the care of J. Shipton an Apothecary and (2) That whereas there hath been one George Bate who hath published The lives, actions and execution of the prime actors and principal contrivers of that horrid murder of our late pious and sacred sovereign K. Ch. 1. etc. Lond. 1661. oct. he is not to be understood to be the same with the Doctor, but another far inferior to him in all respects, one that had ran with the mutable times, and had after his Majesty's restauration endeavoured, by scribbling, to gain the favour of the Royalists.  
RICHARD MATHER son of Tho. Mather by Margaret his wife, was born at Lowton in the parish of Winwick in Lancashire, an. 1596, educated in Grammar learning in the School at Winwick, distant about 4 miles from Lowton, and thence was called to teach a public School at Toxteth Park near to Leverpool in the said County, an. 1612, where pretending to receive a new light within him, was converted to godliness, an. 1614 Thence he went to Oxon and was admitted a Student in Brasn. Coll. 9 May 1618., being then about 22 years of age; where he met with some that had been his Scholars, and became acquainted with a most zealous and godly Divine, from whom he gained much in his studies. Afterwards being invited by the people of Toxteth to take upon him the ministry there, he returned into his own Country, and preached the first Sermon among them on the 30. of Nou. following, and about that time married Catherine daughter of Edward Holt of Bury in Lancashire. For 15 years, or more, he preached every Sunday at Toxteth, and on Tuesdays at Prescot, and was much frequented at both places by the precise party. But so it was that he being a severe Calvinist and little or no friend to the Church of England, he was suspended for nonconformity to ceremonies, an. 1633, but quickly restored, and soon after was suspended again by the Visitors when they visited Chester Diocese. In 1635 he, with his family, left Lancashire and removed to New England, where putting in at Boston, in Aug. the same year, the People of Dorchester in that County gave him a call to be their Minister: Whereupon settling at that place, he continued among them in the laborious work of the Gospel to his dying day. He hath written, 

Answer to 32 Questions. Lond. 1643. qu.  
Discourse about the Church Covenant. Lond. 1643. qu.    
These two things pass under the name of the Elders of New England, but Mather was the author of them.  
Answer to Mr. Charl. Herle and to Mr. Sam. Rutherford; wherein is defended the congregational way of Church Government, and how it differs from the Presbyterian. Lond. 1646. qu.  
An heart-melting exhortation, together with a cordial consolation, presented in a letter from New England to his dear Countrymen of Lancashire, etc. Lond. 1650. in tw. Tho the name of Will. Tomson a Lancashire man born and Pastor of Braintry in N. Engl. is set to this book with that of Mather, yet Mather was the sole author of it, as his Son hath informed me.  
A Catechism: or, the grounds and principles of Christian religion, set forth by way of question and answer, etc. Lond. 1650. oct.  
Sermons on the second Epistle of S. Peter— They were transcribed by him for the press, but are not yet made public.  
Treatise of justification. Cambr. in N. E. 1652. qu. He also prepared for the press.  
A defence of the Churches in New England— Written against W. Rathbond Minister of the Gospel: And had a principal hand in drawing up The platform of Church discipline, agreed unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in N.E. an. ●648. He also left behind him a Ms of his composition, to prove that the power of rule and government in the Church belongs only to the Elders, and not to the Fraternity. At length after he had spent the greatest part of his time in the zealous Ministry of the Gospel, surrendered up his pious Soul to him that first gave it, 
1669.  on the 22. Apr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine: whereupon his body was buried at D●rchester in New England before mentioned. He had several Sons that were Nonconforming Ministers as (1) Samuel, whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1671. (2) Nathaniel sometimes Minister of Barnstaple in Devonsh, afterwards at Rotterdam in Holland, now Pastor of a congregation in London. (3) Eleazar, who died Pastor of the Church at Northampton in N. Engl. after he had been a preacher there eleven years. (4) Increase, or as he writes himself in his lat. books, Crescentius Matherus, born at Dorchester in N. E. educated in Harwarden Coll. in Cambridge there, and thence, after six years standing, removed to Ireland, where in Trin. Coll. near Dublin he proceeded Mast. of Arts 1658 aged 19 years or thereabouts. In 1661. he returned to his native Country, was elected Precedent of the Coll. wherein he had been educated, an. 1681, and in May 1688 he came into England to acquaint K. Jam. 2. from the principal Gentlemen in N. Engl. the state of his Subjects in that territory, whose civil liberties and properties were then invaded in an intolerable manner. This person who is also now, or at least was lately Pastor of a Church at Boston in his native Country hath written several things as (1) Discourse concerning the mystery of Israel's salvation, on Rome 11.26. Lond. 1669. oct. (2) The first principles of N. Engl. concerning the subject of Baptism and Communion of Churches Cambr. in N. E. 1675. qu. (3) A brief history of the war with the Indians in New England, from the 24 of June 1675 (when the first English man was murdered by the Indians) to 12 of Aug. 1676, when Philip alias Metacomet was slain, etc. together with a serious exhortation to the Inhabitants of that land. Boston in N. E. 1676 qu. Afterward, reprinted at Lond. (4) Some important truths about conversion, delivered in sundry Sermons Lond. 1674. oct. (5) The divine right of Infant baptism asserted and proved from scripture and antiquity. Bost. in N. E. 1680. qu. (6) Practical truths tending to promote godliness in the power of it. Bost. in N. E. 1682. (7) Diatriba de signo filii hominis, & de secundo Messiae adventu, etc. Amstel. 1682. oct. (8) An Essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age, especially in N. England. Boston in N. Engl. 1684. oct. with his picture before it. (9) Discourse concerning the person, office and glory of Jesus Christ. Bost. in N. E. 1686 oct. (10) De successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nova Anglia, Epistola ad cl. virum D. Joh. Leusdenum Ling. Sanctae in Ultrajectanâ Academia professorem scripta. Lond. 1688. in one sheet in oct. (11) The wonders of free grace: or, a complete History of all the remarkable Penitents that have been executed at Tyburn, and elsewhere, for these last thirty years. To which is added a Sermon preached in the hearing of a condemned person, immediately before his execution. Lond. 1690. in tw. etc. This Mr. Mather who is a person of learning, candour and civility, hath a son by his wife, the daughter of the famous Mr. John Cotton of N. England, named Cotton Mather, now Pastor of a Church in Boston, and in great reputation among the people, in N. Engl, author of Late memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions, clearly manifesting, not only that there are witches, but that good men (as well as others) may possibly have their lives shortened by such evil instruments of Satan. Lond. 1691. sec. Edit.  
HENRY BYAM son of Laur. Byam of Luckham alias East Luckham near Dunster in Somersetshire Clerk, was born there on the last of Aug. 1580 and in Act term 1597 was sent to Exeter Coll. where he continued in the condition of a sojourner till he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. 21. Dec. 1599 In both which houses, he, by the advantage of an ingenious and liberal education, joined with his own diligence and industry, soon became one of the greatest ornaments of this University and the most noted person there for his excellent and polite learning: which being seconded with judgement and experience, when he began to serve at the altar, made him like a burning and shining light, and to be looked upon as the most acute and eminent preacher of his age. Much about the time that he took the degree of Bach. of Diu. an. 1612 he was called home into his own Country, and succeeded his Father in the rectory of Luckham before mentioned, and Will. Fleet in that of Selworthy adjoining. From which time till the rebellion broke out, nothing occurs memorable of him, only that about the year 1636 he became Prebendary of Exeter, and when a Parliament afterwards was convened, he was, by the unanimous consent of the Clergy of the Diocese wherein he lived, elected to be their Clerk in convocation. In the beginning of the Civil War he was the first person that was seized on, in the parts where he lived, by Rob. Blake then a Captain of Dragoons, afterwards General at Sea under Oliver; from whom, after some time of imprisonment, making an escape, he fled to the King at Oxon, where, among many Loyalists, he was actually created Doct. of Divinity. Before that time he had raised both men and horse for his Majesty, and then, or after, had engaged his five Sons in that just quarrel (of which four were Captains) exposing all his estate, whether spiritual or temporal (which was not inconsiderable) to rapine, plunder and sequestration, his children to distress and danger, and himself to many grievous shifts and exigencies. His wife and daughter also that were left at home, were so much troubled by the Rebels, that they endeavouring to avoid their cruelties by flight over the Sea into Wales, were both drowned. All these sufferings our author Dr. Byam patiently endured, that he might keep a good conscience, not out of any base or greedy desire of reward, but merely out of generous and religious principles. When the Prince of Wales (afterwards K. Ch. 2.) fled from England, this our author went with him, first to the Island of Scilly, and afterwards to that of Jersey, where the Prince left him, as his Chaplain, to preach in his Chapel in the Castle called Elizabeth, and there he remained till that garrison was taken by the Parliament forces. From which time till the King's return, he lived in a poor and obscure condition; but as soon as that glorious star appeared in the British firmament, he was made Canon of Exeter and Prebendary of Wells: And then when he might have obtained what he would have asked, he contented himself only with what his Majesty was pleased freely to bestow upon him. However had not his own modesty stood in the way, 'tis well known his Maj. bounty towards him had not rested here, but he must have died a Bishop. Which honourable function he really deserved not only for sanctity of life but for learning, charity and loyalty, scarce to be equalled by any in the age he lived. His works are these.  
Thirteen Sermons, most of them preached before his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in his exile. Lond. 1675. in oct. They were delivered before the K. in the Island of Scilly and Jersey, at which time this worthy Dr. was Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty, who was his constant Auditor, admiring equally his learning and his loyalty. Among them are these two lat. sermons. Osculum pacis: concio ad clerum habita Exoniae in trien. visitat. D. Jos. Hall Episc. Exon, in S. Marc. cap. 9 ver. ult. And Nativitus Christi; conc. in ad. S. Mar. Ox. habita pro gradu an. 1612, in Matth. cap. 1. ver. 18. Also, if I mistake not, is his Sermon entit. A return from Argier, preached at Minhead in Somers. 16. Mar. 1627., at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Ch. on Rev. 2. part of the 5. vers. Lond. 1628. qu. All which 13 Sermons were published by Hamnet Ward M. D. Vicar of Sturmister-Newton-Castle in Dorsetshire. He the said Dr. Byam hath other elaborate pieces that were fairly written with his own hand and ready for the press, if the Executor will oblige posterity so far as to publish them: but these I have not yet seen. At length after he had lived to a great age, and had seen many changes in the world, concluded his last day on the 16. of June, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Luckham, 
1669.  on the 29 of the same month, in sixteen hundred sixty and nine. On the wall near to his grave, is a comely monument fastened. with this inscription thereon, made by Dr. Ward before mentioned. Non procul hinc sub marmore congenito, sepultum jacet corpus Henrici Byam ex antiquiss. Byamorum familiâ oriundi, SS. Theologiae Doctoris insignissimi, hujus ecclesiae & proximae Selworthianae Rectoris, Pastorisque vigilantissimi, ecclesiae Cath. Exon. Canonic●, ecclesiaeque Wellensis Prebendarii, sereniss. Majestatis Car. II. Regis Capellani & Concionatoris ordinarii, necnon ejusdem saeviente illâ tyrannide & semper execrandâ Phanaticorum rebellione, terrâ marique comitis, exulisque simul. Ex meliore luto ejus constructum corpus post annos tandem octoginta & novem, an sal. Millesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo nono, morti non triumphanti quam invitanti placide cessit. Sed extat adhuc viri hujus optimi celebrius multo hoc & ornatius monumentum non marmore perituro, sed typis exaratum perpetuis, scripta scilicet ejus plane divina; ubi animi vires & summum ejus ingenii acumen intueberis simul & miraberis. Lugubrem hunc lapidem honoris & reverentiae indicem posuit filius ejus obsequentiss. Franciscus Byam.  
RICHARD SAMWAIES son of Ric. Sam. was born at Illminster in Somersetshire, of which his Father was Vicar, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 26. Mar. 1630 aged 16 years, was afterwards Fellow, M. of A. and in holy Orders. In 1648 he was ejected his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliament, and afterwards, being a shiftless person, suffered great misery and hardship for his loyalty. In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by the King's Commissioners, was actually created Bach. of Div; and on the death of Hen. Jackson, became Rector of Meisey-Hampton in Glocestershire. He hath written,  
England's faithful reprover and monitor, under 9 heads; directed first to the Church of England, 2 to the inferior Ministers of the Gospel, 3 to the Nobility and Gentry, etc. with a postscript. Lond. 1653. in oct. Besides which he had one or more books fitted for the press, but were lost. He died 21. Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meisey-Hampton, near to the grave of his predecessor, H. Jackson before mentioned: Whereupon Will. Fulman succeeded him in that rectory as I shall tell you hereafter. One Peter Samwaies hath written An exposition on Catechistical principles, but whether he was related to the former, or was of this University, I cannot yet tell.  
HENRY KING the eldest Son of Dr. John King, (whom I have mentioned in the first vol. of this work, under the year 1621.) by Joan his wife, daughter of Hen. Freeman of Staffordshire, was born in the same house and chamber at Wornal in Bucks. wherein his father had received his first breath, in the month of January 1591. and was baptised there on the 16 of the said month, educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordsh. and partly in the College School at Westminster: from which last he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in. 1608, being then put under the tuition of a noted Tutor: Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts, entered into holy Orders, became a most florid preacher, and successively Chapl. in ord. to K. Jam. 1. of pious memory, Archdeacon of Colchester, Residentiary of S. Paul's Cathedral, Canon of Ch. Ch, Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1, D. of D. and Dean of Rochester, in which Dignity he was installed 6. Febr. 1638, but whether in the room of Dr. John Richardson, who occurs 
(a) In reg. Pile, in the Will. Office near S. Paul's Cath. Lond Qu. 52.  Dean of that Church in Apr. 1636 (in which month and year he died) or in that of Dr. Walt. balcanqual, who had the grant of the Deanery of Durham made to him in 1638, but not installed therein till May 1639, I cannot justly tell. In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester, (being one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty, though late, promoted to that honourable office) to which being consecrated (at Westminster as it seems) on the 19 of Decemb. the same year, sat there, without any removal, saving only that by the members of the Long Parliament, to the time of his death. When he was young he delighted much in the studies of Music and Poetry, which, with his wit and fancy made his conversation much accepted. When he was elder, he applied himself to Oratory and Philosophy, and in his reduced age fixed on Divinity; in which faculty he became eminent, as his Sermons partly show, which remained fresh in the minds of his Auditors many years after his death. His works are,  
Several Sermons as (1) Sermon preached at Paul's cross 25. Nou. 1621. upon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasy of Dr. John King late B. of Lond. on Joh. 15.20. Lond. 1621. qu. To which is added The examination of Tho. Preston taken before the Archb. of Cant. at Lambeth 20. Dec. 1621. concerning his being the author of the scandalous report of Bishop King's apostasy. (2) david's enlargement: the morning Sermon on Act Sunday, on Psalm 32.5. Oxon. 1625. qu. See more in John King in the first vol. an. 1638. p. 526. (3) Sermon of deliverance, at the spital on Easter Monday, on Psal. 91.3. Printed 1626. qu. (4) Two Sermons at Whitehall in Lent, on Eccles. 12.1. and on Psal. 55.6. Printed 1627. in qu. (5) Serm. at Paul's on his Maj. inauguration, on Jer. 1.10. Printed 1640. in qu. (6) Sermon at Whitehall 29. May being the happy day of his Maj. inauguration and birth, on Ezek. 21.27. Lond. 1661. qu. (7) Serm. at the funeral of Brian Bishop of Winchester in the Abbey Ch. of Westm. 24. Apr. 1662., on Psal. 116.15. Lond. 1662. qu. (8) Visitation Serm. at Lewis, 8. Oct. 1662., on Titus 2.1. Lond. 1663. qu. (9) Sermon preached 30. Jan. 1664 at Whitehall, being the day of the King's Martyrdom, on 2 Chron. 35.24.25. Lond. 1665. qu.  
Exposition on the Lords Prayer, delivered in certain Sermons, on Matth. 6.9. etc. Lond. 1628. qu. It must be now observed that this worthy Bishop being at divine Service on Sunday in a certain Church (at Langley, I think, in Bucks.) and hearing there a Psalm sung, whose wretched expression quite marred the Penmans' matter, and his devotion, he did at his return home that evening, try whether from the version of our Bible, he could not easily and with plainess, suiting the lowest understanding, deliver it from that garb, which indeed made it ridiculous. From one to another he passed on until the whole book was run through: Which done, he could not resist the advice and importunity of better judgements than his own, to put it to the press. He was, as he confessed, discouraged, knowing that Mr. George Sandys, and then lately one 
(b) Francis Rous, or Will. Barton.  of our pretended Reformers had failed in two different extremes. The first too elegant for the vulgar use, changing both metre and tunes, wherewith they had been long acquainted; the other as flat and poor, as lamely worded, and unhandsomely rimed as the old, which with much confidence he undertook to amend. He therefore ventured in a middle way, as he 
(c) See in the Collection of Letters, at the end of Archb. Ushers life, printed 1686. nu. 265.  himself said, aiming without affectation of words, and endeavouring to leave them not disfigured in the sense. This version soon after came out with this title.  
The Psalms of David from the new translation of the Bible, turned into metre, to be sung after the old tunes used in Churches. Lond. 1651. 54. in tw. etc. He hath also written,  
Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes and Sonnets. Lond. 1657. oct. When these poems were first published, all the report was that Dr. Philip King Brother to the said Hen. King was the author, and thereupon it was put into the Bodleian Catalogue under the said Philip's name.  
Several letters— Among which are extant one or more to the famous Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland; and another to Isaac Walton concerning the three imperfect books of Rich. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, that. 13. Nou. 1664. Pr. at Lond. 1665. oct.  
Divers Lat. and Gr. poems— Many of which are extant in several books. What remains to be observed of this Prelate is, that he was always pruitanically affected, and therefore to please the Puritan he was promoted to the See of Chichester: That after Episcopacy was silenced by the Long Parliament he mostly lived in the house of Sir Rich. Hobart (who had married his Sister) at Langley near to Colebrook in Bucks: That being restored to his See at the return of K. Ch. 2. became esteemed by many persons of his neighbourhood and diocese, the Epitome of all honours, virtues and generous nobleness, and a person never to be forgotten by his Tenants, and by the Poor: That also being not removed to a better See, became discontented, as I have heard, and a favourer thereupon of the Presbyterians in his Diocese: And lastly that dying on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669.  was buried on the South side of the Choir (near the Communion Table) belonging to the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Soon after was a comely monument put over his grave, with an inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said that he was antiquâ eâque regiâ Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi, prosapiâ oriundus, that he was natalium splendore illustris, pietate, doctrinâ & virtutibus illustrior, etc. Near to his body was in short time after buried his eldest Son named John, to whose, as also to the, memory of the said Bishop King, did his Widow Anne, Daughter of Sir Will. Russell of Strensham in Worcestersh. Kt and Bt (now the Wife of Sir Tho. Millington Dr. of Phys.) erect the said monument at her proper charges.  
JOHN TRAPP Son of Nich. Trapp of Kemsey, as it seems, in Worcestershire, was born at Crome D'abitot commonly called Crumdebitot in the same County, 5 June 1601, educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a King's scholar under Mr. Hen. Bright in the Free-school at Worcester, and made great proficiency in the three learned Languages. In 1618. he made his Academical entry into Ch. Ch. and lived there some years in the condition, as it seems, of a Servitor, under the tuition of Mr. George Jay a Student of that house, and partly by the benefaction of Dr. Corbet then Dean thereof. After he had completed the degree of Master of Arts, an. 1624., he was invited to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire, to teach a Free school there: where showing great industry in that employment, had the small Vicarage of Weston upon Avon in Glocestersh. (about two miles from his school) conferred upon him: both which places, (with the Church of Luddington in Warwicksh. for some time) he kept about 47 years. He was by those of the puritannical party esteemed to be a person endowed with several virtuous qualifications, and to be one of the prime Preachers of his time. Yet this the Reader must know, that upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, he closed with the Presbyterians, took the Covenant, and in his Preachings and Discourses became violent against the King, his Cause and his Adherents, yet lost nothing for so doing, but was a gainer by it, as he was by the publication of these books following, taken into the hands and admired by the Brethren, but by others not.  
God's Love-tokens: or, the afflicted man's lessons, brought to light, and laid before him, etc. on Rev. 3.19. Lond. 1637. oct.  
Theologia Theologiae: or, a true treasure of holy truths touching God's word, and God in the word. Being a discourse on Hebr. 1. ver. 1.2.3. Lond. 1641. oct.  
Comment upon the four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles.— When this was first published I know not; sure I am that his Exposition of S. Joh. the Evang. was pr. at Lond. 1646. qu.  
Comment upon all the Epistles of the Apostles, and upon the Revelation.— Pr. in qu.  
A decade of common places.— Pr. in qu.  
Clavis to the Bible. Or, a new comment upon the Pentateuch, or 5 books of Moses, wherein are first difficult places explained (2) Controversies discussed, etc. Lond. 1650. qu.  
Comment on Joshua, Judges, Ruth, first and second of Sam. first and sec. of Kings, and first and sec. of Chronicles.  
Solomonis ΠΑΝΑ′ΡΕΤΟΣ: or, a Commentary upon the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs; wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, etc. Lond. 1650. qu.  
Com. or Exposition upon all the books of the New Test. wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, etc. with a Decad upon these ten heads, Abstinence, Admonition, Alms, Ambition, Angels, Anger, Apostasy, Arrogance, Arts and Atheism. Lond. 1656. fol. sec. edit. with the Author's picture before it. In this folio book are contained the Comment. on the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles; Com. upon the Epistles of the Apost. and upon the Rev. as also A Decad of come. places before mentioned.  
Com. or Exposition upon the twelve minor Prophets. Wherein the text is explained, some controversies discussed, etc. Lond. 1654. fol.  
The righteous man's recompense. Or, a true Christian characterized and encouraged. Grounded on Malac. 3.16.17.18.— Printed with the Com. or Expos. upon the twelve min. Proph.  
Com. on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel. Lond. 1656 and 60. fol. In this folio is contained the Com. on the Proverbs, Eccles. and Song of Songs, before mentioned, which were pr. in qu. 1650.  
Com. on Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job and Psalms. Lond. 1656. fol. At length this voluminous Author paying his last debt to nature on the 17 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669.  was buried in the Church of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire before mentioned near to the grave of sometimes wife. What other things he left behind him fit for the press I know not. Since my writing of this, I find that our Author Trapp was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Warwickshire, for the ejection of such whom they then (in oliver's Reign) called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters.  
WILLIAM PRYNNE, a most noted and frequent Writer of his time, was born at Swainswick near bath in Somersetshire, an. 1600, at which time his Father (as afterwards this his son whom we now mention) was a Tenant to Oriel Coll. educated in Grammar learning (as I conceive) within the same City of bath, became a Commoner of the said Coll. of Oriel under the tuition of Giles Widows an. 1616, took one degree in Arts in 1620, went afterwards to Linc. Inn to obtain knowledge in the Common Law, where he was made successively Barrister, utter Barrister, Bencher and Reader. At his first coming to that Inn he became a great follower and admirer of that noted Puritan Dr. John Preston then Lecturer there; who finding him to be of an enterprizing nature, hot-spirited, and eager in pursuit of any thing that was put into him, he was looked upon by Preston and his party as the fittest person to adventure upon such exploits which a more sober and considerate man durst not have appeared in. Whereupon he was put into the road of writing, not without the helps and advice of Preston and the Brethren, and having made or gotten a Common-place-book, published several matters against the looseness and debauchery (so he took it) of the times, as against drinking of healths, long or womanish hair, stageplays, wherein the Queen (Henr. Maria) was in a gross manner reflected upon several times, and other matters relating to the Church, Discipline and Members thereof; which were altogether looked upon as alien from his profession, and pragmatical and impudent for him so to do. About the time of Christmas an. 1632, he published a book intit. Histriomastix, etc. wherein breathing out nothing but disgrace to the Nation, infamy to the Church, reproaches to the Court, dishonour to the Queen, and some things which were thought to be tending to the destruction of his Majesty's person, as Dr. Pet. Heylyn an enemy to our Author Prynne tells 
(a) In his Life of William Archb. of Cant. part. 1. lib. 3. an. 1632.  us; great complaints therefore were made of that book, notwithstanding it had been licenced by Mr. Tho. Buckner Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury. Before I go forward with this matter, you may be pleased to hear what a certain 
(b) Bulst. Whit●ock in his Memorials of English Affairs, under the year 1632.  Author saith of it, thus— About this time (meaning the latter end of 1632) Mr. Prynne published his book called Histriomastix, by licence of Archb. Abbot's Chaplain, which being against Plays, and a reference in the table of the book, to this effect, Women actors notorious Whores, relating to some Women actors mentioned in his book as he affirmeth— It happened, that about six weeks after this, the Queen acted a part in a Pastoral, at Somerset-house, and then the Archbishop Laud, and other Prelates, whom Prynne had angered, by some books of his against Arminianism, and against the jurisdiction of the Bishops, and by some prohibitions which he had moved, and got to the High Commission Court.— These Prelates and their instruments, the next day after the Queen had acted her Pastoral, showed Prynne's book against Plays, to the King, and that place of it, Women actors notorious Whores, and they informed the King and Queen, that Prynne had purposely written this book against the Queen and her Pastoral, whereas it was published six weeks before that Pastoral was acted. Yet the King and Queen, though thus exasperated, did direct nothing against him, till Laud set Dr. Heylyn (who bore a great malice to Prynne for confuting some of his doctrines) to peruse Prynne's books, and to collect the scandalous points out of them; which Heylyn did, though (as Prynne affirms) not at all warranted by the text of his book; but these two Gentlemen were well matched, and alike in other things, though so much different in Divinity, or show of it, etc. Thus our Author here quoted, of whom I shall hereafter make large mention. Upon the said Complaints concerning that book, Heylyn being appointed to collect such passages out of it that were esteemed scandalous to the King, Queen, State, and Government of the Realm, did, after some time, deliver them in writing to Sir John Coke or Cook Secretary of State and to Dr. Laud Bishop of London: the last of which, did soon after, on a Sabbath-day morning go to Will. Noy Attorney Gen. and charged him to prosecute Prynne for the said book, which Noy did rigorously enough. Afterwards Prynne was sent for before the Lords in the Inner Star Chamber, where being examined about the said matters, was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, on the first day of Febr. 1632, where remaining without permission of Bail till the month of Feb. 1633, was at last brought to a Trial in the Court of Star Chamber, (having been first precondemned by the Gentlemen of his own profession) and afterwards sentenced by that Court on the 17 day of the said month, thro' the eager prosecution of the said Noy, to be fined 5000 l. to the King, expelled the University of Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, degraded and disenabled from his profession in the laws, to stand in the Pillory, first in the Palace-yard in Westminster, and three days after in Cheapside, in each place to lose an ear, (though this last part of his censure was much moderated in the execution) to have his book called Histriomastix publicly burnt before his face by the hand of the Hangman, and remain prisoner during life. After this sentence was executed (which was in May an. 1634.) he was remitted to his prison: But all this was so far from working any remorse in him, that it rather hardened him in his ways: for on the 11 of June following, as soon as he could provide himself of pen, ink, and paper, he wrote 
(c) In the Life of William, etc. as before part. 1. lib. 4.  a most sharp and libellous Letter to Dr. Laud then Archb. of Cant. touching his censure in the said Court, and that which the Archb. in particular had declared against him. With this letter the Archb. acquainted his Majesty, who thereupon commanded him to refer it to Attorney Noy. Noy sent for Prynne from his prison, and demanded of him, whether the letter was of his own hand-writing or not: to which Prynne cunningly replied, that he could make no answer to that demand, unless he could see the letter, and might read the same. No sooner was the letter put into his hands, and Noy's back turned a little towards him, but presently he tore it to pieces, and flung the pieces out of the window, to the end that the said letter might not rise in judgement against him, if the Attorney should proceed to an Oretenus, as he meant to do. For this affront, and the principal passages of the letter, the Attorney acquaints their Lordships in open Court, but there was no remedy: for being there was no proof of the misdemeanour but the letter itself, and that the letter could not be brought in evidence as it should have been, the Archb. thought it a more noble act to remit the Crime, than trouble the Court, or any of his Majesty's Ministers in the prosecution of it. But herein Prynne sped better than some others, who had before been snarling at him, and laboured to expose him to scorn and danger. In Apr. the same year (which is a step back in this discourse) he was solemnly degraded in the Uniu. of Oxon, and his name dashed out of the Matricula. In 1636 he published two books at once, or immediately after each other. One of them was called The Quench Coal, in answer to that called A coal from the Altar, against placing the Communion-table altarwise. The other named The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus, against the Apostolical institution of Diocesan Bishops. But that which was entitled to him by the name of a Libel, was his Pamphlet called News from Ipswich, intended chiefly against Dr. Wrenn then Bishop of Norwych, who had taken up his dwelling in that Town: and fell as scandalously foul on the Archb. himself, and some of the other Bishops also, and such as acted under them in the present Service. For therein he descants very trimly (as he conceived) on the Archb. himself with his Arch-piety, Arch charity, Arch-agent for the devil, etc. With like reproach he fell on the Bishops generally, calling them Luciferian Lord Bishops, execrable Traitors, devouring Wolves, etc. with many other odious names not fit to be used by a Christian, and more particularly on Wrenn, etc. In Midsummer term he was brought to his Trial in the Star Chamber, for what he had done; but his Answer was so libellous and full of scandal, that no Counsellor could be found to put his hand to it, according to the course of that Court. So that instead thereof he exhibited a cross bill against the Archb. and his Confederates, (as he called them) charging them with the greatest part of those Reproaches which had been made the subject matter of his former libels: which being signed by no hands but by his own, and tendered so to the Lord Keeper, was by him rejected, and himself taken pro confesso, his obstinacy in not answering in due form of Law, being generally looked upon by the Court as a self conviction. On the 14 of June an. 1637, he received his sentence, which briefly was to this effect, that he be fined 5000 l. to the King, to lose the remainder of his ears in the Pillory, to be branded on both cheeks with the letters S. L. for a schismatical libeler, and to be perpetually imprisoned in Caernarvan Castle. At the pronouncing of which sentence the Archb. made a long and elaborate speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery, or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship, here by Law established. On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Palace-yard at Westminster; at which time suffered also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physic, not of this, but of another, University; and Hen. Burton Bac. of Diu. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London. On the 27 of July following, our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet, and the same day, being guarded, he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales: from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan, he was met, saluted, blessed and exhibited to, by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro'. But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there, that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle, or with the said Party, the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey. So that by virtue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither, not without great danger, in January following: where being well used, though closely shut up, he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations. In 1640, Nou. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons (as by the said godly party it was called) for his releasement from his prison, as also for the releasement of Bastwick, who was then in S. Mary's Castle in the Isle of Scilly, and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey. So that our Author Prynne and Burton, who were Prisoners at no great distance, met together at Guernsey, and traveled in each others company to London: In whose passage thither, divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth, Exeter, Lime, Dorchester, Salisbury, Andover, Basin and elsewhere, visited them, blest them, and accompanied them on horseback some part of their way. On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entered London, being then accompanied by thousands on foot, and horseback, and in coaches, with rosemary and bays in their hats, crying Welcome home, welcome home, God bless you, God be thanked for your return, etc. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice. On the 30 of the said month, they were both presented by their Keepers, who came with them, to the Commons House, where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names, according to their own liking, and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them. The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition, fully showing his sufferings, and the grand tyranny, as he called it, of the Archbishop, etc. for which afterwards he had 
(d) See Prynne's book intit. A new discovery of the Prelate's Tyranny, p. 141. and elsewhere.  a large requital. Not long after, upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members, purposely to adhere to his Majesty, he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall, to serve in that most unhappy Parliament, So that being settled in the House, he became the most busy and pragmatical person of the Herd, and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops, but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower, in public speeches against him in the Parliament-house, and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of, and against, him, that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetched off his head, in requital of his ears, that he (as Prynne pretended) had taken off before. But of these matters when it was too late, and that he had fully seen to what great woe, misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation, he did heartily repent, and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head. During the sitting of the Long Parliament he showed himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and settling Presbytery, but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren, he showed himself a bitter enemy to them, and advanced much the King's Cause, especially in his declension. In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Uniu. of Oxon by the said Parliament, and how busily he behaved himself the●e in Apr. 1648, I have told you elsewhere. See in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 1. sub an. 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648, he, with other members of the H. of Com. were turned out from the House by the Army, and imprisoned for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament. Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army, and Oliver their Leader; doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny. Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations, and thereupon denied the paying of taxes, and stood in open defiance to Oliver; for which he was imprisoned in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire, and brought into trouble. He then stood much upon Magna Charta, the liberty of the Subject (for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers) and I know not what. But all that he did being to little purpose, he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists, Jews, Quakers, etc. and in writing books of Divinity; which being not answered, or seemed to be regarded, he grew, as 'twere, weary of himself, began to look up at last, and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses. On the 21 of Feb. 1659., he, as a secluded Member of the Commons house, being restored to sit again, became instrumental for the King's Restauration, and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house, when it was not then seasonable for such expressions, that if the King must come in, it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes, who had made the War against his father, etc. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken, he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors, and admonished to be quiet; and than it was the business of Mr. Will. Morris to keep the then expiring Parliament steady and clear from intermeddling in the change of Government; in which case he did excellent service, punctually observing the directions of the General, who passionately longed for their dissolution. In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bath to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm. 25 of the said month; and after his Maj. Restauration, he, instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer, which, as 'tis said, he sought after, was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London, with 500 l. per an. salary, (but afterwards much lessened) purposely to employ his head from scribbling against the State and Bishops. But so it was that he extracting thence several books, did in some of them particularly in his two tomes of An exact chronological Vindication, etc. endeavour to bring an odium upon the Bishops and their function by giving an history in them of the Pope's Usurpations upon the King and Subjects of England and Ireland. In Aug. the same year he was appointed one of the six Commissioners for appeals and regulating the Excise; and in the month of Apr. 1661. he was again elected a Burgess for Bath to sit in that Parl. that began at Westm. 8. of May the same year: But in July following being discontented at some proceedings in the House, he published a seditious paper against them intit. Sundry reasons tendered to the most honourable House of Peers, etc. against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations. This Pamphlet coming into the hands of several Members of Parliament, who much complained against it, the House appointed a Committee to examine and inquire after the Author, the Printer and Publisher thereof. The Committee met and soon found that Prynne was the Author of it: And accordingly on the 15 of the said month of July the whole matter was reported to the House: who, thereupon, being highly provoked, Prynne unable to conceal it any longer (for 'twas proved that he had sent that paper to the Printing-house, and that he had corrected the Proof sheet and revise with his own hand) he flew to the Printing-house and commanded the Compositors to distribute the form, for they would be searched. Which being done, Prynne desired to be heard, and (unable to evade the evidence) confessed himself to be the unhappy Author. Then speaking largely, setting forth what service he had done for the King formerly, how kind and civil the King had been to him, etc. alleging that he had no mischievous intent, but was sorry for what he had done, and humbly craved their pardon; the House then unanimously called upon him to withdraw, and afterwards proceeded to debate it, and resolved upon the question That the said printed paper intit. Sundry reasons, etc. is an illegal, false, scandalous, and seditious Pamphlet. Prynne afterwards was called in again to receive the sense of the House, which was as aforesaid. Then Mr. Speaker (Sir Edw. Turner) worthily told him, how sorry he was that a person of his years and experience should commit so foul an offence, and one that had formerly much, and yet now deserved to suffer all his punishments over again, as imprisonment, pillory, etc. But the House had considered his late services and hazards for his Majesty, and in contemplation of them, and his expressions of his sorrow, (which truly seemed very great) the House showed mercy unto him. Prynne then did thankfully acknowledge the justice of the H. in their judgement of his great offence, that the said paper was an illegal, false, scandalous and seditious pamphlet, that he did humbly submit thereunto, and did render most humble thanks to the H. and every Member thereof for their mercy and favour to him: which words he spoke with great sense of his own offence, and the Houses goodness, not offering to justify the least line of his paper, which his conscience told him he could not. Whereupon the H. being satisfied with his confession and recantation, they did remit his offence, and Prynne sat down in his place. From which time to the day of his death we heard of no more libels published by him. The books and little pamphlets that he wrote, were theological, historical, political, controversial, etc. but very few of his own profession: all which are in number near 200, as the titles following show, bound up in about 40 volumes in fol. and qu. in Linc. Inn Library: To which, an eminent 
(*) Will. Noy of Linc. Inn Attorn. Gen.  Sage of the Law who had little respect for those published in his time, promised to give the Works of John Taylor the Water-poet to accompany them. 'Twas not only he, but many others afterwards, especially Royalists, that judged his books to be worth little or nothing, his proofs for no arguments, and affirmations for no testimonies, having several forgeries made in them for his and the ends of his brethren. They are all in the English Tongue, and by the generality of Scholars are looked upon to be rather rapsodical and confused, than any way polite or concise, yet for Antiquaries, Critics, and sometimes for Divines, they are useful. In most: of them he shows great industry, but little of judgement, especially in his large folios against the Pope's Usurpations. He may be well entitled Voluminous Prynne, as Tostatus Abulensis was 200 years before his time called Voluminous Tostatus: for I verily believe, that if it rightly computed, he wrote a sheet for every day of his life, reckoning from the time when he came to the use of reason and the state of Man. His custom when he studied was to put on a long quilted cap which came an inch over his eyes, serving as an Umbrella to defend them from too much light, and seldom eating a dinner, would every 3 hours or more be maunching a roll of bread, and now and then refresh his exhausted Spirits with Ale brought to him by his servant.  
Thou that with Ale, or viler liquors,  
Didst inspire Wythers, Prynne, and Vicars,  
And teach, though it were in despite  
Of nature, and the stars to write, etc.  
Thus Hudibras, part 1.— He was a right sturdy and doughty Champion for the Cause, a Puritan Beutifew, an inveterate enemy against the hierarchy of Bishops, especially upon his imprisonment and sufferings for his H●strio mastix, a busy, pragmatical and meddling man without end, and one that had brought his body into an ill habit, and so consequently had shortened his days, by too much action and concernment day and night. M. Nedham the Weathercock tells 
(a) In Merc. Pol. nu. 7.  us, that he was one of the greatest paper worms that ever crept into a closet or library, etc. and others that he never intended an end in writing books, and that his study or reading was not only a wearisomeness to the flesh, but to the ears: Nay a printed Petition, whereby some Wags, under the name of the peaceable and well affected people of the three Nations, did show that whereas Will, Prynne Bencher of Linc. Inn had for many years last passed (reckoning backward from 1659., in which year the said Petition was published,) been an indefatigable and impertinent Scribbler, and had almost nauseated the sober part of the said Nations with the stench of his carrion pasquils and pamphlets, for some whereof he had suffered under the hierarchy in the time of the late King, etc. that he might have an act of amnesty and pardon for all his Treasons, Seditions, Jesuitismes, Contempts of Government, misunderstanding of the Scripture, Law and Reason, Misquotations and misapplications of Authorities to his pasquils, etc. Which Petition I say being published, and cried in Westm. Hall and about London streets, did so extremely perplex Prynne for a time, that he became in a manner crazed. To conclude: I must now let the Reader know, that there was no Writer of his time, nor ever before, except Bale, that was given more to calumny and railing in his Writings than he, especially against the Bishops, true Churchmen of England, Episcoparians and Papists, while in the mean time his Brethren that deserved justly to be chastised by his pen, were omitted. As for his railing at the Episcoparians, all readers of his books penned against Dr. Laud and the Bishops may in a plentiful manner behold; and what he says against the Papists, let it be truth or not truth, may also in them be easily discerned. But for these last, the Papists, let one of their 
(b) Ser. Cressy in his Church Hist. of Britanny, book 14. chap. 4. p. 321.  number, who is a grave Writer, characterise our Author Prynne for an egregious lie that he hath committed against a red-letter'd-man and against the English Papists, when he would have them all massacred in 1666.— Yet of late this poisonous humour of calumniating Gods Saints is become the principal character of the new reformed Gospel. I will add one example more of a Calumniator, at least parallel to these; viz. Mr. Will. Prynne a late stigmatised Presbyterian, who in his not long since published censure of Archb. Whitgift, charges S. Anselm 
(c) See also in Prynne's Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy, etc. part 1. p. 10.  that he induced Sir Walt. Tyrrell to murder K. Will. Rufus. Now by the consent of all Historians, Tyrrell himself was no murderer, for it was by the unhappy casual glancing of an arrow that the King was slain. However it happened, yet certain it is that at that time S. Anselm was an exiled person in France: and whereas at the King's burial many noble men met, but few mourned for his death, yet saith a late Protestant 
(d) Th●m. Fuller in his Ch. Hist. lib. 3. sect. 40.  Historian, of all mourners Anselm expressed most cordial sorrow at the news▪ That blasphemous tongue therefore must expect that such envenomed darts as these, shot against heaven itself, will, if he repent not, one day descend upon his own head, and the wounds made by them never be cured. But alas, what repentance can be expected in such a person who is inveteratus dierum malorum, when we see in his decrepit age his rancorous tongue against innocent Catholics yet more violently set on fire of hell, so far as to solicit a general Massacre of them by publishing himself, and tempting others to damn their souls also, by publishing through the whole Kingdom that in the last fatal calamity by fire, happening to London (1666) they were the only Incendiaries. This he did, though himself at the same time confessed that not the least proof could be produced against them: But, said he, it concerns us that this report should be believed. Complaints of this most execrable Attentate were made, and several Oaths to confirm this were offered; but in vain. However surely there is a reward for the innocent oppressed. And whatsoever Mr. Prynne may think, doubtless there is a God who judges the World. Let him therefore remember what the spirit of God says, Quid detur, What must be given to thee, and what must be assigned to thee for thy portion, O deceitful Tongue? Sharp darts cast by an almighty arm with devouring coals (of Juniper) etc. The books and pamphlets that this unwearied Writer hath published are these.  
The perpetuity of a regenerate man's estate, against the Saints total and final Apostasy. Lond. 1627. qu.  
Health's sickness. Or a compendious and brief discourse, proving the drinking, and pledging of healths, to be sinful and utterly unlawful unto Christians etc. Lond. 1628. qu.  
The un-loveliness of Lovelocks, and long (womanish) hair. Ibid. 1628. qu.  
Brief survey and censure of Mr. Cousins his cozening devotions. Ibid. 1628. qu. This was written against the Private devotions that were published by John Cousin, afterwards Bishop of Durham, as containing Arminianism in them, as Prynne says; who adds that it was one of the 
(e) In A new discovery of the Prelate's Tyranny. p. 1.  reasons why Laud Archb. of Cant. did malign him and caused his Histriomastix to be called into question.  
Anti-Arminianisme: or the Church of England's old antithesis to new Arminianism, etc. Lond. 1630. It was twice pr. that year in qu.  
Appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus.— See more in Giles Widows, under the year 1645, who by the strangeness of his parts, was fitted as 'twere on purpose to duel with Prynne (as Don Quixot with the Windmill, which no man else was Knight errand enough to encounter) about the said matter.  
God no impostor or deluder: or, an answer to a Popish and Arminian cavil in defence of free will and universal Grace, wherein Gods tender of Grace, etc. Lond. 1629. 30. qu.  
Lame Giles his haltings, together with an appendix concerning the popish original and progress of bowing at the name of Jesus. Ibid. 1631. qu. Written against Giles Widows before mentioned.  
Histriomastix: The plays scourge, etc. against the intolerable mischief and abuses of common plays and playhouses. Ibid. 1633. qu.  Books written during his imprisonment in the Tower of Lond. 
Appendix, supplementum, & Epilogus, ad Flagellum Pontificis; touching the parity of Bishops and Presbyters jure divino— An. 1635. This Flagellum was written by Joh. Bastwick Dr. of Phys. of Milan, sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards a Practitioner at Colchester in Essex, in which County he was born.  
A breviate of the Bishop's intolerable usurpations and encroachments upon the King's prerogative, and Subjects liberties; with an appendix to it— An. 1635.  
Certain Queries propounded to the bowers at the name of Jesus, and the Patrons thereof— An. 1636.  
The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus; proving them no diocesan Bishops of Ephesus and Crete, and that Presbyters have a divine right to ordain Ministers, as well as Bishops, with a Postscript— Print. 1636, reprinted with additions at Lond. 1660. qu. the Bishops then being about to be restored by K. Ch. 2.  
Looking-glass for all Lordly Prelates— An. 1636.  
Certain Queries propounded to Bishops, etc.— An. 1636.  
Instructions for Church Wardens concerning visitatation— articles, fees, oaths, etc.— An. 1636.  
News from Ipswich, discovering certain late detestable practices of some domineering Lordly Prelates, to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our Church, etc.— Printed, as 'tis said, at Ipswich (but false) an. 1636 in one sh. in qu. Published under the name of Matthew White, three times in that year, and another time in 1641. He the said Prynne had also a special hand in the writing of a book intit. A divine Tragedy lately acted: or, a collection of sundry memorable examples of God's judgement upon Sabbath breakers, &c Printed by stealth an. 1636. qu. At the end of which is an Appendix, pr. in another character, containing the sufferings of Prynne for his Histriomastix, and the miserable end (as 'tis there said) that befell Will. Noy the chief instrument of his sufferings.  
Catalogue of such testimonies in all ages, as plainly evidence Bishops and Presbyters to be both one, equal and the same in jurisdiction office, etc. by divine law and institution, etc.— An. 1637. reprinted in qu. in double columes, an. 1641.  
A quench coal, with an appendix to it, in answer to A coal from the altar, and other Pamphlets. touching altars, and bowing to, or towards, them— An. 1637.  
An humble remonstrance against the tax of ship-money lately imposed, laying open the illegality, injustice, abuses and inconveniences thereof— Written 1636. corruptly printed without the author's privity at Lond. 1641. qu. Since which time 'twas reprinted by a perfect copy at Lond. 1643 in 4. sh. in qu.  
Additions to the first part of a dialogue between A. and B. concerning the Sabbaths morality, and the unlawfulness of pastimes on the Lord's day— Twice printed in 1636.  
The antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy, both to legal monarchy and civil unity. Or an historical collection of the several execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, state-schismes, contumacies of antimonarchical English, British, French, Scottish, and Irish Lordly Prelates, against our King, Kingdoms, etc.— Enlarged and published by authority, since the author's enlargement and return from exile— Lond. 1641. qu. in two parts. All the bad things concerning Bishops which Prynne could pick and rake out of Histories, he hath at large set down, but the good things he hath omitted, such was, and is the charity, of him and the Brethren. Those matters also which Dr. Godwin B. of Hereford did out of a puritanical peak collect against the ancient Cath. Bishops, he also very readily hath collected together to bring an odium on their function.  Books compiled by Prynne during his close imprisonment in Mount-Orgueil Castle in Jersey. 
Mount-Orgueil: or divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplations of these three leaves of nature's volume, 1. Rocks. 2. Seas. 3. Gardens. Lond. 1641. qu.  
A poetical description of Mount-Orgueil Castle to the Isle of Jersey.  
The Souls complaint against the body's encroachment on her: and comfortable cordials against the discomforts of imprisonment.— This is a poem.  
Pleasant purge for a Rom. Catholic to evacuate his evil humours, consisting of a century of polemical epigrams— These three last things are printed and bound up with Mount-Orgueil: or divine, etc.  
The reader is to observe that during the time of Prynn's imprisonment was published a book intit. Woodstreet-Compters plea for its prisoner. Or, the sixteen reasons which induce Nathan. Wickins, late servant to Mr. Will. Prynne, but now prisoner in the said Compter, to refuse to take the Oath ex officio, wherein, etc.— Printed 1638 in 10. sh. in qu. Which book, though put out under the name of Nath. Wickins, yet it was generally supposed that Prynne was the chief composer, because of the many quotations therein.  Books written by W. Prynne since his enlargement and return from exile; not to mention his Petition to be recalled from exile, etc. which was printed. 
New discovery of the Prelate's Tyranny, in their late prosecutions of Mr. Will. Prynne, Dr. John Bastwick and Mr. Hen. Burton. Wherein the joint proceedings against them in the High commission and Star-chamber, etc. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book he does Archbishop Laud a great deal of injustice, especially in this respect, that all the things that make against him, or sounds ill to his name, he with great zeal scrapes together, whilst any thing that sounds to his honour, or the least good that he hath done, he doth omit.  
A sovereign antidote to prevent, appease and determine our unnatural destructive Civil Wars and dissensions, wherein, etc. Lond. 1642 in three sh in qu. It was twice printed.  
Vindication of Psal. 105. ver. 15. (Touch not my anointed and do my Prophets no harm) from some false glosses lately obtruded on by Priests and Royalists. Ibid. 1642 and 44. in 1. sh. in qu.  
The treachery and disloyalty of Papists to their Sovereigns, with the sovereign power of Parliaments and Kingdoms, in 4. parts. Ibid. 1643 in a large qu.  
Appendix manifesting by sundry Histories that in the ancient Roman Kingdom and Empire, etc. the supreme Sovereignty of power resided not in Emperors and Kings themselves, but in their Kingdoms, etc.— This is printed at the end of The treachery and etc.  
Rome's Masterpiece. Or, the grand conspiracy of the Pope and his Jesuitical instruments, to extirpate the Protestant religion, re-establish popery, subvert laws, liberties, peace, parliaments, by kindling a Civil War in Scotland, etc. Lond. 1643 and 44 in 5. sh. in qu. see more in Dr. Will. Laud under the year 1644. who made notes in the margin of the said book, so far, and so much, as to vindicate himself from certain aspersions laid upon him in the said book.  
The opening of the great seal of England: containing certain brief historical and legal observations, touching the original, antiquity, progress, use, necessity of the great zeal of the Kings and Kingdom of England high respect of charters, etc. Ibid. 1643 in 5. sh. in qu. or thereabouts.  
The doom of cowardice and treachery. Or a looking glass for cowardly and corrupt Governors and Soldiers, who through pusillaminity or bribery, betray their trusts to public prejudice, etc. Lond 1643 in 10. sh. in qu. or thereabouts. Written in relation to Nath. Fiennes his surrendering up Bristol for the King's use. See more in Nath. Fiennes and Clem. Walker.  
Popish Royal favourite. Or, a full discovery of his Maj. extraordinary favour to, and protection of notorious Papists, Priests, Jesuits, etc. manifested by sundry letters of Grace, Warrants, etc. Ibid. 1●43 in about 10. sh. in qu. Answered by N. D. in a book intit.— Vindiciae Caroli Regis. Or, a loyal vindication of the King, etc. Pr. 1645. qu.  
Moderate apology against a pretended calumny: in answer to some passages in The pre-eminence of Parliaments, published by James Howell, etc. Ibid. 1644 in one sh in qu.  
Check to Britannicus for his palpable flattery, etc. Lond. 1644. Written against M. Nedham concerning some passages in one or two of his Merc. Britan. in Vindication of Nath. Fiennes. Whereupon came out soon after a pamphl. intit. A check to the chequer, etc.  
The falsities and forgeries of the Anonymous author of a Pamphlet intit. The fallacies of Mr. Will. Prynne discovered, in a short view of his book intit. The Sovereignty of Parliaments— The opening of the Great Seal, etc. Ibid. 1644 in 1. sh. in qu.  
Four serious questions touching excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament. Lond. 1644. qu.  
Twelve considerable serious questions touching Church-government. Ibid. 1644. in 1. sh. in qu.  
Independency examined, unmasked, refuted by 12 new particular interrogatories, etc. Lond. 1644 in two sh in qu. This was answered by a brother-sufferer of Prynne (Hen. Burton) and his late companion in tribulation. Lond. 1644. It was twice pr. in that year.  
A fuller reply to certain brief observations and anti-queries on Mr. prynn's 12 questions about Church government, etc. Ibid. 1644. in tw. sh. in qu.  
Brief animadversions on Mr. John goodwin's Theomachia, etc. Lond. 1644 in one sh. in qu.  
True and full relation of the prosecution, arraignment, trial and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes, late Colonel and Governor of the City of Bristol, etc. Ibid. 1644. qu. Clem. Walker was half author of this pamphlet.  
Just defence of John Bastwick Dr. of Physic against the calumnies of John Lilbourne Lieut. Col. and his false accusations: written in way of reply to a letter of Mr. Vicars, etc. Lond. 1645. in 5. sh. in qu.  
The liar confounded: or, a brief refutation of John Lilbourne, etc. Ibid. 1645.  
Truth triumphing over falsehood, antiquity over novelty: or, a seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiastical jurisdiction, right, legislative, and coercive power of Christian Emperors, Kings, Magistrates Parliaments, in matter of Religion, Church government, etc. in summoning of, and presiding in Councils, etc. in refutation of John goodwin's Innocency's triumph, and his dear brother B●rtons Vindication of Churches commonly called Independent, etc. Lond. 1645. qu.  
Hidden works of darkness brought to public light▪ or, a necessary introduction to the history of the Archbish. of Cant. Trial, etc. Ibid. 1645. fol.  
Suspension suspended: or, the Divines of Zion Coll. late claim of the power of suspending scandalous persons, from the Lords Supper, etc. is briefly examined, discussed, refuted, etc. Lond. 1646 in 6. sh. in qu.  
Vindication of four serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication, and suspension from the Lords Supper, etc. against a rev. brother 
(*) George Gillespie, as it seems.  of Scotland in a Sermon at S. Margaret's Westminster 5. Sept. 1645. Ibid. 1645. 6. in 9 sh. in qu. Answered by Joh. Saltmarsh in his pamph. intit. The opening of Mr. prynn's new book called a Vindication: or, light breaking out from a cloud of differences, or late controversies, wherein are inferences upon the Vindication, etc. Lond. 1645 in 6 sh. in qu.  
Fresh discovery of some prodigious new wand'ring blazing stars and firebrands, styling themselves New lights, firing our Church and State into new combustions. Divided into 10 sections, comprising, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. 2d. edit. To which are added of Prynn's collection Letters, papers, and a petition, lately sent from the summer Islands touching the schismatical, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, etc.  
Diatrophes catechised: or, 16 important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures, etc. Ibid. 1646. in two sh. in qu. 3d edit.  
Twelve questions of public concernment, touching the regulation of some abuses in the law and legal proceedings. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Scotland's ancient obligation to England and public acknowledgement thereof for their brotherly assistance and deliverance of them. Ibid. 1646. qu.  
Scotland's public acknowledgement of God's just judgements upon their nation for their frequent breach of faiths, leagues, oaths, etc. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Canterbury's Doom. or, the first part of a complete history of the commitment, charge, trial, condemnation, execution of William Laud late Archb. of Cant. &c Ibid. 1646. fol.  
Minors no Senators, Lond. 1646. in 2. sh. in qu. Written against young men (under age) sitting in the House of Commons.  
A Gag for Longhaird Rattle heads. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Plain and short expedient to settle the distractions of the Kingdom. Ibid. 1647.  
Counter-plea to the coward's apology. Ibid. 1647.  
Account of the King's Majesty's revenues and debts. Ibid. 1647.  
Declaration of the Officers and Armies illegal injurious proceedings and practices against the XI impeached members Lond. 1647.  
Eight queries upon the declaration, and late letter of the Army. Ibid. 1647.  
Nine queries upon the printed charge of the Army against the XI members. Ibid. 1647.  
The Hypocrites unmasked. Lond. 1647.  
New Presbyterian light, springing out of Independent darkness. Ibid. 1647.  
The total and final demands of the Army. Ibid. 1647.  
Brief justification of the XI accused members from a scandalous Libel. Ibid. 1647.  
A plea for the Lords. Ibid. 1647.  
The levellers levelled, etc. Lond. 1647. A pamphlet with such a title March. Nedham published the same year.  
The sword of Christian Magistracy supported: or, a full vindication of Christian Kings and Magistrates authority under the Gospel, to punish Idolatry, Apostasy, Heresy, Blasphemy and obstinate Schism with pecuniary, corporal, and, in some cases, with capital punishments. Lond. 1647 qu. Translated into latin by Wolfgangus Meyerus, and printed in Germany, an. 1650.  
Vindication of Sir Will. Lewes from his charge. Ibid. 1647. The said Sir William was one of the XI. accused members.  
Full vindication and answer of the XI. accused members, viz. Denz Hollis, etc. to a late printed pamphlet entit. A particular charge or impeachment in the name of Sir Tho Fairfax and the Army against the XI members. Ibid. 1647. in 6. sh. in qu.  
The Lords and Commons first love to, zeal for, and earnest vindication of their injuriously accused and impeached members, and violated privileges. etc. Ibid, 1647. in 3. sh. in qu.  
The University of Oxford's plea refuted. Or, a full answer to a late printed paper, intit. The privileges of the Uniu. of Oxf. in point of Visitation, etc. Lond. 1647. in 8 sh. in qu. Soon after came out a Pamphlet of one sh. intit. An account of Mr. Prynne's refutation of the Uniu. of Oxf. plea, etc. Penned by Rob. Waring as I have told you before; and another in two sh. intit. A short censure of the book of Mr. Will. Prynne intit. The Uniu. of Oxf. etc. Written by Edw. Bagshaw. The said Refutation of Oxf. plea, published by Prynne, was all taken from the papers of Dr. Laud Archb. which he had seized upon at Lambeth some years before; I mean the very same papers, which he the said Archb. had collected and framed in 1635, when he endeavoured to visit the Univers. of Oxon. as Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Nine proposals by way of interrogation, to the General, Officers, and Soldiers of the Army, concerning the justice of their proceedings in law or conscience against the Parliament. Lond. 1647. qu.  
Twelve Queries of public concernment. Ibid. 1647 in half a sh. in qu.  
Public declaration and solemn protestation of the Freemen of England, against the illegal, intolerable, undoing grievance of Freequarter. Ibid. 1648. in 8. sh. in qu.  
The Machevillian Cromwellist. Ibid. 1648.  
Irenarches redivivus. Or, a brief collection of sundry useful statutes and petitions in Parliament (not hitherto printed) concerning the necessity, institution, office, oaths, etc. or Justices of peace. Lond. 1648. in 8 sh. in qu.  
Ardua regni Or, 12 arduous doubts of great concernment to the Kingdom. Ibid. 1648.  
The case of the impeached Lords, Commons and Citizens truly stated. Ibid. 1648. in 3. sh. in qu.  
Practical law controlling, countermanding the common law, and the sword of war, the sword of Justice.— Printed, as 'tis said, in the title at Exeter 1648.  
Plea for the Lords. Or, a short yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peers. Lond. 1648. and 58. qu.  
The petition of right of the Freeholders' and Freemen of the Kingdom of England. Lond▪ 1648.  
A new magna charta. Lond. 1648.  
The County of Somerset divided into several Classes. Ibid. 1648.  
Mercurius Rusticus, containing news from several Counties of England, and their joint addresses to the Parliament. Ibid. 1648.  
Just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the Lord Mayor, Common-council-men, and Freemen of Lond. Ibid. 1648.  
The substance of a speech made in the H. of Com. on Monday 4. Dec. 1648 touching the satisfactoriness of the King's answer to the propositions of both houses for settlement of a firm lasting peace, etc. Lond. 1648 in 18. sh. in qu. Three editions of which came out in less than within the compass of one year. This Speech, as those of Prynnes opinion say, did so admirably well state the said Kings answer with such solid reasons, arguments and precedents out of Divinity, Law and History, that no man took up the bucklers against him.  
Appendix for the Kingdoms better satisfaction of some occurrences since the said speech— This was printed with, and added to, one of the editions of the said Speech.  
True and perfect narrative of the Officers and Armies forcible seizing divers members of the Commons house, Dec. 6. and 7. Lond. 1648.  
Second part of the narrative concerning the Army's force upon the Commons house, and members. Ibid. 1648.  
Protestation of the secured and secluded members. Ibid. 1648.  
Vindication of the imprisoned and secluded members of the H. of Com. from the aspersions cast upon them in the majority of the House, in a paper lately printed and published intit. An humble answer of the general counsel of Officers of the Army under Thom. Lord Fairfax, etc. Lond. 1649. in 5 sh. in qu.  
Demand of his (Prynnes) liberty to the General. 26. Dec. 1648, with his answer thereto, and his answer and declaration thereupon.  
Remonstrance and declaration of several Counties, Cities, and Boroughes against the unfaithfulness of some of their Knights, Citizens and Burgesses. Lond. 1648.  
Brief memento to the present un parliamentary Juncto, touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute K. Charles, Jan. 1. an. 1648. Ibid. 1649. in tw. sh. in qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1660. qu.  
Impeachment of high treason against Lieutenant Gen. Cromwell, and other Army-Officers ... Jan. 1648.  
Four considerable positions for the sitting members, Judges and others to ruminate upon, ... Jan. 1648.  
Six propositions of undoubted verity, fit to be considered of in our present exigency, by all loyal Subjects and conscientious Christians.  
Six serious Queries concerning the King's trial by the new high Court of Justice. Lond. 1648.  Books written by the said W. Prynne after the murder of K. Ch. 1. 
Proclamation proclaiming Charles Pr. of Wales, King of Gr. Britain, France and Ireland, 1. Feb. in the first year of his reign— An. 1648.  
Declaration and protestation of the Peers, Lords and Barons against the Usurpations of some members of the Common House, 8. Feb. 1648.  
Public declaration and protestation of the secured and secluded members of the H. of Com. against the treasonable and illegal late acts and proceedings of some few confederate members of that House, since their forcible exclusion, 13. Feb. 1648.  
New Babele's confusion: or, several votes of the Commons assembled in Parliament, against certain papers, intit. The agreement of the People, etc. Lond. 1649. in one sh. in qu. See in Hen. Ireton under the year 1651.  
Prynne the member reconciled to Prynne the Barrister. Or, an answer to a scandalous pamphlet intit. Prynne against Prynne: Wherein is demonstrated that Will. Prynne Utter Barrister of Linc. Inn in his Sovereign power in Parliaments and Kingdoms, is of the same judgement with, and no ways contradictory to, Will. Prynne Esq. a member of the H. of Commons in his Memento, etc. Lond. 1649 in 4 sh. in qu.  
First part of an historical collection of the ancient Councils and Parliaments of England, from the year 673 till an. 1216 etc. Ibid. 1649 in 4. sh. in qu.  
Legal vindication of the liberties of England against illegal taxes, and pretended Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people: or, reasons assigned why he (Prynne) can neither in conscience, law, or prudence submit to the new illegal tax and contribution of 90 thousand pounds the month, lately imposed on the Kingdom. Lond. 1649 in 8. sh. in qu. Reprinted with additions in 1660.  
Arraignment, conviction and condemnation of the Westmonasterian Junctoes' engagement. Ibid. 1650.  
Brief apology for all Non-subscribers, and looking-glass for all apostate Prescribers and Subscribers of the new engagement, etc. Ibid. 1650 in 2 sh. qu.  
The time serving Proteus and Ambidexter Divine, uncased to the world. Lond. 1650. qu. This was written against one John Durie, as I have told you in the Fasti, in the first vol. an. 1624.  
Sad and serious considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Brethren of Scotland— Written in Dunster Castle during his close imprisonment there, in Sept. 1650.  
A Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the ancient settled maintenance and tenths of the Ministers of the Gospel. Lond. 1653. Reprinted with the second part thereof, an. 1659.  
Jus Patronatus: or, a brief legal and rational plea for Advowsons' and Patron's ancient, lawful, just, and equitable rights and titles to present Incumbents to Parish Churches or Vicaridges upon vacancies, etc. Ibid. 1654. in 7. sh. in qu.  
Declaration and protestation against the illegal, detestable and oft condemned tax and extorsion of Excise in general, and for hope in particular. Ibid. 1654. qu.  
First part of a seasonable, legal and historical vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, rights, laws, government of all English Freemen. Lond. 1654. 55. qu. The second part of this was printed at Lond. 1655. qu.  
New discovery of free-state tyranny, containing four letters in his own vindication, sent to John Bradshaw and his Associates. Ibid. 1655. qu.  
Brief polemical dissertation, concerning the true time of the inchoation and determination of the Lords day sabbath, from evening to evening. Lond. 1655. qu.  
The Quakers unmasked, and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs, Jesuits and Franciscan Friars, sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddyheaded English nation, etc. Ibid. 1655 in 5. sh. in qu. printed there again in 1664.  
An old Parliamentary prognostication made at Westminster for the present new year, and puny members there assembled. Lond. 1655.  
Seasonable vindication of free admission to, and frequent administration of, the holy Communion, to all visible Church members, regenerate, or unregenerate, etc. Ibid. 1656 qu.  
New discovery of some Romish Emissaries, Quakers, as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anti-communion Ministers. Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent administration of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1656. qu.  
Legal vindication of two important Queries of present general concernment, clearly discovering from our statute, common, and cannon laws, the bounden duty of Ministers and Vicars of parish Churches, to administer the Sacraments, as well as preach to their parishioners, and the legal remedies against them, in case of obstinate refusal. Ibid. 1656. in qu. It was twice pr. in that year.  
Short demurrer to the Jews long discontinued barred Remitter into England; comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into England, their ill deportment, misdemeanours, condition, sufferings, etc. Lond. 1656. sec. edit. in qu. The second part of the said Short demurrer, etc. was printed at the same place also in 1656▪ qu.  
A summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, properties of all English Free men. Ibid. 1656. qu. Two editions, the second of which was much enlarged.  
Lord's Supper briefly vindicated, and clearly demonstrated to be a Grace-begetting, Soul-converting (not a mere confirming) ordinance. Lond. 1657. Answered by S. S. Minister of the Gospel in a book intit. Holy things for holy men: or, the Lawyer's plea nonsuited, etc. Lond. 1657. 8. qu.  
The subjection of all Traitors, Rebels, as well Peers as Commons, in Ireland, to the laws, statutes and trials by Juries of good and lawful men of England, in the King's bench at Westm. for treasons perpetrated by them in Ireland etc. Being an argument at law made in the court of the King's bench, term. Hillar. 20. Car. Reg. in the case of Connor Magwire an Irish Baron, etc. Lond. 1658. and 81. qu.  
Probable expedient for future peace and settlement. Ibid. 1658.  
Twelve serious Queries proposed to all conscientious electors of Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, for the Assembly Ibid. 1658.  
Twelve several heads of public grievances, and useful necessary proposals of the western Counties, Cities and Boroughs, to their Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, an. 1658.  
Eight military Aphorisms, demonstrating the usefulness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness and prodigal expensiveness of all standing English Forts and Garrisons, to the people of England, etc. Lond. 1658 in 5. sh. in qu.  
The first part of a brief register, calendar and survey of several kinds, forms of all Parliamentary writs, etc. Ibid. 1659.  
Beheaded Dr. John Hewyts Ghost, pleading, yea crying for exemplary justice against the misnamed high Court of Justice. Lond. 1659. qu.  
The true good old cause rightly stated, and the false uncased. Ibid. 1659. two edit. in one sh. in qu. Answered by Anon. in 3. sh. in qu. intit. Mr. prynn's Good old cause stated and stunted 10 years ago, etc. and by Hen. Stubbe in his Commonwealth of Israel, etc.  
The Reipublicans and others spurious good old cause, briefly and truly anatomised, to preserve our native Country, Kingdom, legal Government, etc. Ibid. 1659. three edit. in 3 sh. in qu. In answer partly to this came out soon after A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne, Mr. Baxter, and Mr. Ja. Harrington, for the true cause of the Commonwealth, being an answer to Mr. prynn's▪ Anatomy of the Republic and his True and perfect narrative. To part of Mr. baxter's Holy Commonwealth with some reflections on his Catholic key.— Written by John Rogers.  
New cheaters forgeries detected, disclaimed, etc. Lond. 1659.  
True and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the Army officers, and those now sitting, both in the common Lobby, house and elsewhere, on the 7. and 9 of May, etc. Lond. 1659. in 14. sh. in qu. Whereupon came out a pamphlet of one sh. in qu. intit. The character or Ear-mark of Mr. Will. Prynne, author of a great many scandalous pasquils, etc.  
Ten considerable Queries concerning Tithes, etc. against the Petitioners and petitions for their total abolition, as Antichristian, Jewish, burdensome, etc. Ibid. 1659. in 1. sh in qu.  
Answer to a proposition in order to the proposing of a Commonwealth or Democracy. Ibid. 1659.  
Concordia discors: or, the dissonant harmony of sacred public oaths, protestations, leagues, covenants, engagements, lately taken by many time-serving Saints, Officers, without scruple of conscience, making a very unpleasant consort in the ears of our most faithful, &c: Lond. 1659. in 6. sh. in qu.  
The remainder of A Gospel plea for the tithes and settled maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel. Ibid. 1659.  
A brief necessary vindication of the old and new secluded members, from the false malicious calumnies; and of the fundamental rights, liberties, privileges, etc. from the late avowed subversions. 1. of Joh. Rogers in his Christian concertion with Mr. Will. Prynne and others. 2. of March. Nedham in his Interest will not lie, etc. Ibid. 1659. in 8. sh. in qu.  
Short, legal, medicinal, useful, safe, easy prescription to recover our Kingdom, Church, Nation from their present dangerous distractive, destructive confusion, and worse than Bedlam madness, etc. Lond. 1659. in one sh. and half in qu.  
Conscientious, serious, Theological and Legal Queries propounded to the twice dissipated, self-created Anti-parliamentary Westminster Juncto, and its members. To convince them of, humble them for, etc. Ibid. 1660 in 6. sh. and half in qu. It was printed in Nou. 1659.  
Seven additional Queries in behalf of the secluded members, propounded to the twice broken Rump now sitting, the Cities of Westm. London etc. Ibid. 1660 in one sh. in qu. It was published in Dec. 1659.  
Case of the old secured, secluded, and twice excluded members, briefly and truly stated, for their own vindication, etc. Lond. 1660 in 1. sh. in qu. published in Decemb. 1659.  
Full declaration of the true state of the secluded members case, in vindication of themselves and their privileges, and of the respective Counties, etc. Ibid. 1660. published 5. Jan. 1659. in 7. sh. and half in qu.  
Remonstrance of the Noblemen, Knights, Gentlemen, Clergymen, Freeholders, Citizens, Burgesses, and Commons, of the late Eastern, Southern, Western association, who desire to show themselves faithful and constant to the good old cause, etc. Ibid. 1659.  
Ten Queries upon the ten new commandments of the general Council of the Officers of the Army, 22. Dec. 1659. Printed in 1. sh. in qu.  
Brief narrative of the manner how divers members of the H. of Commons, that were illegally and unjustly imprisoned or secluded by the Army's force in Dec. 1648 and May 7. an. 1659., coming on the 27 Dec. 1659. to discharge their trust, were again shut out by the pretended order of the members sitting etc. Lond. 1660 in 1. sh. and an half in qu. This was published in the latter end of Dec. 1659.  
Six important Queries proposed to the re-sitting Rump of the Long Parliament, fit to be satisfactorily resolved, etc.— Printed in Dec. 1659. in one sh. on one side.  
The privileges of Parliament, which the members, Army, and this Kingdom have taken the protestation and covenant to maintain— Reprinted in 1. sh. in qu. 5. Jan. 1659. the day appointed to remember them.  
Copy of the presentment and indictment found and exhibited by the Gr. Jury of Middlesex on the last day of Hilary term, 1659. against Coll. Matthew Alured, Coll. John Okey, and others for assaulting and keeping Sir Gilb. Gerard (and other members) by force of Arms out of the Commons house of Parl. on 27. Dec. 1659. Lond. 1660.  
Three seasonable Queries proposed to all those Cities, Counties and Burroughs, whose respective Citizens, etc. have been forcibly excluded, unjustly ejected and disabled to sit in the Commons H. by those now acting at Westm. Ibid. 1660. It was published about the latter end of Dec. 1659., on one side of a sh. of paper.  
Humble petition and address of the Seamen and Watermens in and about the City of Lond. to the L. Mayor, aldermans and Commons of the City of Lond. in Com. Council assembled, for a free and legal Parliament, etc. Ibid. 1660.  
Seasonable and healing instructions, humbly tendered to the Freeholders', Citizens and Burgesses of England and Wales, to be seriously commended by them to their respective Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, elected and to be elected for the next Parliament, 25 Apr. 1660.  Books and Pamphlets written after the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. 
Second part of a brief Register, Calendar, and Survey of the several kinds of Parliamentary Writs (relating to the H. of Commons) etc. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Bathonia rediviva. The humble address of the Mayor, aldermans and Citizens of the City of Bath to the Kings most excellent Maj. presented by Mr. Prynne, 16 June 1660. Lond. 1660.  
The first part of the signal loyalty of God's true Saints and pious Christians (as likewise of Pagans) towards their King, both before and under the Law and Gospel, expressed in and by their constant public prayers, supplications, intercessions, thanksgiving for them. Lond. 1660. quart.  
The 2 part of ●ig. Loyalty; together with various forms of prayers, supplications, votes, acclamations, ceremonies and solemnities used at the Coronations of Emperors and Kings, especially of the Kings of England. Ibid. 1660. quart.  
Vindication of Christian Kings, transcribed out of Joh. Hus. Ibid. 1660. qu.  
Sundry reasons humbly tendered to the most honourable H. of Peers, by some Citizens and Members of Lond. and other Cities, Burroughs, Corporations and Ports against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations.— Some few of these reasons were published, and the rest suppressed.  
A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to, the Common Prayer, etc. Lond. 1661. qu.  
Brevia parliamentaria rediviva: in 13 sections, containing several catalogues of the numbers, dates of all bundles of original Writs of summons and elections, newly found, or formerly extant, in the Tower of London, etc. Ibid. 1662. qu.  
Apology for tender consciences, touching not bowing at the name of Jesus. Ibid. 1662. qu.  
The fourth part of a register and survey of the several kinds and forms of Parliamentary Writs, etc. Lond. 1664. qu.  
The first Tome: or, an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English Kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction, in, over all spiritual, or religious affairs, causes, persons, etc. within their Realms of England, Scotland, Ireland, and other dominions, from the original planting of Christian Religion, etc. to the death of K. Rich. 1. an. 1199. Lond. 1666, in a large fol.  
The second Tome of an exact chronological vindication, etc. from the first year of K. John 1199 to the death of K. Hen. 3. dom. 1273, etc. Ibid. 1665. in a large fol. This second Tome came out before the first.  
Aurum Reginae: or concerning Queen-gold, etc. Lond. 1668. qu.  
Animadversions on the fourth part of Sir Edw. Coke Institutes of the Laws of England, etc. Lond. 1669. fol.  
The History of K. John, K. Hen. 3. and K. Edw. 1. wherein the ancient Sovereign dominion of the Kings of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, etc. is asserted and vindicated against all encroachments and innovations whatsoever, etc. Lond. 1670. in a thick fol. He also did revise, rectify in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several omissions and exact tables, a book intit. An exact abridgement of the Records of the Tower of London, from the Reign of K. Ed. 2. unto K. Rich. 3. of all the Parliaments holden in each King's reign and the several Acts in every Parliament, etc. Collected by Sir Rob. Cotton Kt. and Bar.— Lond. 1657. fol. etc.  
Besides these, and others which I have not yet seen, our Author Prynne hath published the works of other persons, as (1) Truth gloriously appearing from under the sad cloud of Obloquy: or, a vindication of the practice of the Church of Christ in the Summer Islands, etc. Lond. about 1650. Written by Nath. White Bac. of Diu. and Pastor of the Church of Christ at Summer Islands. (2) A discourse of the Spanish Monarchy. Written by Tho. Campanella: which having been translated into English by Edm. Chilmead, and published 1654., had a new Preface put to it by Prynne, with a Title bearing the date of 1659. (3) A breviate of the life of Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. published purposely to make him odious to the vulgar sort of people, yet the rational part, I mean those persons that were not guided by Presbyterian clamours, entertained other kind of thoughts of the Archb. than they had before. The original of this Diary was found after his death by Mr. Will. Dugdale and others, who were commanded by Authority to search for that and other matters, which he the said Prynne unwarrantably got into his custody. Several Pamphlets also are fathered upon him, of which he was not in the least Author: among which are (1) Mola Asinaria: or, the unreasonableness and insupportable burden now pressed upon the shoulders of this groaning Nation, by the headless head, and unruly rulers, etc. held forth in a remonstrance, etc. Lond. 1659. in 1 sh. in qu. (2) Two letters; one from Joh. Audland a Quaker to Will. Prynne, the other, Will. Prynne's Answer. Lond. 1672. in 3 sh. in fol. written by Samuel Butler, Author of the much celebrated Poem called Hudibras; of whom by the way, I desire the Reader to know, that he was born in the Parish of Strensham in Worcestershire, and baptised there 13 Feb. 1612. His father named Sam. Butler was a person of a fair estate, near 300 l. per an. but most of it lease-lands held of Sir Tho. Russell Grandfather to Sir Franc. Russell Bt, Lord of the Manor of Strensham before mentioned. The son Sam. Butler, whom we are farther to mention, was educated in Grammar learning in the Coll. School at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright, and from thence went, as his brother now living affirms, to the University of Cambridge, yet others of the neighbourhood say to Oxon, but whether true I cannot tell. Sure I am that one Sam. Butler was elected from Westm. school a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1623., but making little stay there, he was not matriculated, and so consequently the place of his nativity and age are not remaining on record; otherwise had he been made a member of the University, we should have known whether he was the same, who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras. After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years, but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not, he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent: in whose family living several years, he did, for a diversion, exercise his parts in Painting and Music, and at length became so noted for the first, that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age. Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess, had an esteem for, and would often employ, him to write letters beyond sea, and translate for him. At riper years he studied the Common Law, but did not practise it, only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. Precedent of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof, who, as 'tis said, made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived. Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England, especially for this cause, that his Majesty had a respect for him, and the more, for his poem called Hudibras; the first part of which came out in 8ᵒ. an. 1663., and was not only taken into his Majesty's hands, and read by him with great delight, but also by all Courtiers, loyal Scholars and Gentlemen, to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller. Afterwards came out a second part, and both printed together with several additions and annotations: And at length a third and last part, but without annotations, as by the copy printed 1678 appears. In 1682 was published in 8ᵒ. Butler's Ghost: or, Hudibras. The fourth part: with reflections on these times. But whether he was the Author of, I know not, for I have not yet seen, it. This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion, especially among the company he knew well, died of a Consumption, 25 of Sept. 1680, and was, according to his desire, buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster, viz. at the west end of the said yard, on the north side, and under the wall, of the Church; and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way. As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne, he died in his lodgings in Lincoln's Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669.  and was buried in the Walk under the Chapel there, which stands upon Pillars. Over whose grave, though there is no Epitaph, only his name and Obits, which are now worn out, yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him.  

Here lies the corpse of William Prynne,  
A Bencher late of Lincoln's Inn,  
Who restless ran through thick and thin.   

This grand scripturient paper-spiller,  
This endless, needless margin-filler,  
Was strangely tossed from post to pillar.   

His brains career were never stopping,  
But pen with rheum of gall still dropping,  
Till hand o'er head brought ears to cropping.   

Nor would he yet surcease such themes,  
But prostitute new virgin-reams  
To types of his fanatic dreams.   

But whilst he this hot humour hugs,  
And for more length of tedder tugs,  
Death fanged the remnant of his lugs.   
NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Viscount Say and Sele, of whom I have made mention before, was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire, educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein, because he was a Founder's kinsman, an. 1624. aged 16 years; where continuing about 5 years, departed without a degree, and went to the Inns of Court, or to travel, or both. In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm. in Apr. the same year, and again for the same place, to sit in that, that commenced the 3 of Nou. following: wherein showing himself very busy and zealous for the Cause, had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop, and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment, of Horse, under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King. Afterwards showing himself a zealot for the Covenant, and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer, was made Governor of the Garrison of Bristol, when first taken in for the use of the Parliament. Where, being no sooner settled, but he used many insolences and barbarities, too many here to be named: among which was (1) His causing the King's Proclamation, forbidding all Seamen and Mariners, and all Officers of his Navy, to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick, lately made Admiral of the King's royal Navy by the Parliament, to be burnt in the public marketplace there, 4 March 1642, by the hands of one of the City Sergeants, being then the chief market-day, notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before. (2) In causing to be murdered, under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament, two eminent Citizens of Bristol, Rob. yeoman's and George Bowcher (notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf, to have their lives spared) to the extreme horror and amazement of all honest men, and the great grief of his Majesty, who could not choose, but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him. (3) In his, and his murderous, Crews, contempt and profanation of God's holy Worship and Service, and permitting the rending of Surplices, tearing the book of Common-Prayer, breaking down Organs, exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations, etc. (4) His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places, the most infamous and notorious Schismatics that he could pick out of Bristol and other places, as Joh. Tombs of Lemster, (Edm) Cradock, .... Bacon, .... Walter, .... Simonds, and one Matthew Hazard; whom though I name last, yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest, as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion, violently egged on by his wife, whose disciple the silly man was. But at length the said City of Bristol being by Col. Fiennes surrendered to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty, 27 July 1643, he was thereupon called into question, and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker. So that he being tried for his life for the same, before a Council of War, sitting at S. Alban, in Dec. the same year (notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before) he was sentenced to lose his head for a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines, alias Fenys, alias Fienes; but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations, he was pardoned, and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March. Nedham, he was justified for what he had done as to that matter: See more in the Works of W. Prynne. Afterwards, though he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter, yet he became an active man in the Parliament, and was made a Commissioner in several matters. But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline, especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them (whereof he was one) by Col. Tho. Pride, he struck in with the Independents, took the Engagement, became great with Oliver, a Member of all, or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament, and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2, was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, after Oliver was installed L. Protector, one of his Privy Council, Lord Privy Seal in June 1655, a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords; and though before he had showed himself an Antimonarchist, yet then, when he saw what Oliver aimed at, became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy, purposely to gain honour, and riches for the establishing a family which he, and the rest of the godly party aimed at. His Works are these.  
Several Speeches in Parliament, as (1) Speech in the House of Commons, in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of London's petition, spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641, in 4 sh. in qu. The beginning is, Mr. Speaker, two things have fallen into debate this day, etc. (2) Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subject's liberty against the late Canons and the new oath. Lond. 1641. in tw. sh. and an half in qu. (3) Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland. Lond. 1641. qu. (4) Speech containing unparallelled reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy, etc. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mentioned, and shows that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy. (5) Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristol, 5 Aug. 1643, with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters, wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear. Lond. 1643, in 3 sh. and an half in qu. This was answered by Clem. Walker.  
True and exact relation of both the ●●ttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers. The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh. the other at Worcester, by Col. Browne, Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others, etc. Lond. Nou. 9 an. 1642. in two sh. in qu.  
Letter to the Lord General (Essex) concerning Bristol. Lond. 1643. in 1 sh. in qu.  
Reply to a Pamphlet intit. An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes' relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol. Lond. 1643. in 2 sh. in qu.  
Other Speeches in Parl. as (1) Speech before his Highness (Ol. Protector) and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657, being the first day of their sitting. Lond. 1657. in 3 sh. and an half in qu. (2) Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. etc.  
Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient, and legal form of Government, in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament, etc. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct. He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an 
(a) Clem. Walker, in his Hist. of Independency, pr. 1649. sect. 12. p. 32.  author a Legend or Romance, intit. Anglia rediviva, being the Hist. of the motions, actions, and successes of the Army, &c under Sir Tho. Fairfax, etc. published by Joshua Sprig, as I shall elsewhere tell you, but how true that report is I cannot tell. At length our Author Fiennes retiring, after his Majesty's return, to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts. where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife, Frances, daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire, continued there to the time of his death; which happening on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669.  was buried in the Church there. Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory, as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth, who both died in the flower of their age. This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John, who was a Colonel for the Parliament, and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords, and though a Sectary, yet he was no great stickler, notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel, but more by old subtlety, the Father. Another there was, who was the fourth brother, named Richard, of whom I know no great matter, only that he had a daughter named Mary, who was married to William, the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes; which Mary dying in childbed 23 Oct. 1676, was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele.  
HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry, son of Sir Dau. Foulis, (of an ancient family in Scotland) Baronet's, was born at Ingleby Manor in Clieuland in Yorkshire, educated in Grammar learning, and in the Presbyterian way, within the City of York, became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully, 6 June 1654., aged 16 years and thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1659., and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entering into holy orders, he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity, and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclined to the study of certain parts of History, he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty: The products of which, do evidently show him to have been a true son of the Church of England, a hater of Popery, Presbytery and Sectarism. He was endowed with a most happy memory, understood books and the ordering of them so well, that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius. He had also in him a most generous and public spirit, a carelessness of the world and things thereof, (as most bookish men have,) a most becoming honesty in his dealings, a just observance of collegiate discipline, and a hatred to fangles, and the French fooleries of his time. He hath written and published,  
The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints, the Presbyterians, etc. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674, both in fol. Which book, though full of notable girds against that party, yet it hath been so pleasing to the Royalists, (who have found much wit and mirth therein) that some of them have caused it to be chained to desks in public places, and in some country Churches, to be read by the vulgar. But as by the publishing of this book he hath much displeased the Presbyterians, of whom some 
(b) Lud. Molinaeus, in Patron. bonae fidei, in cap. cui tit. est Specimen contra Durelium, p. 19 & alii.  have fallen foul upon him in their Writings for so doing; so hath he more displeased another party for the writing of this book following.  
The history of the Romish Treasons and Usurpations, with an account of many gross corruptions and impostures of the Church of Rome, etc. Lond. 1671 and 81. fol. Which book, had it not fallen into the hands of a knavish Bookseller, might have been extant in the life time of the author, and so consequently more complete and exact than now it is. At its first publication I was informed by a letter written by a noted man of that party that the Papists did look upon the said book as a simple thing— That he (the Author) fought against his own shadow, and that all sober Catholics did disallow much of what he combats against.— That he prayed much to the Lord that he might live to see his book published, and then nunc dimittis, but it was not granted him, etc. This Mr. Foulis had laid the foundations of other books, which he intended to advance and have them published, but the day before he died he committed them to the flames, as many other notes he did, which would have been serviceable to some scholars. He ended his days, in the prime of his years, occasioned by a generous and good natured intemperance, on the Vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour, in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was buried under the north wall, 
1669.  at the upper end of the Chancel of S. Michael's Church, within the City of Oxon. on the 26 of Dec. being S. Steph. day. In his grave was afterwards buried William Stone, LL. Bach. sometimes Principal of New Inn, who died 22 June 1685.  
SAMUEL CLARKE, right famous for oriental learning, son of Thom. Clarke of Brackley a market town in Northamptonshire, was born there, or at least in that County, became a Student in Mert. Coll. in Lent term 1638, aged 15 years, where continuing about three years, left the University, then, with the City, about to be garrisoned for the King's use. Some time after the surrender thereof to the Parliament, he returned to his College, submitted to the Visitors, and the same year (1648) he took the degree of M. of Arts. The next year, July 24, he was designed the first Architypographus of the University, and for his better encouragement in that Office, had the grant of the superior Beadleship of the Civil Law (when it should fall void) given to him, and after his death to his Successors in that place for ever. In 1650 he was Master of a Boarding-school at Islington near London, where continuing for some time, did give his assisting hand towards the correcting and publishing of the Polyglot Bible. In 1658 he made another return to the University, and upon a foresight of the death of him that held the superior Beadleship of Law, was elected Architypographus, 14 May 1658, and on the 29 of the same month, superior Beadle of the Civil Law: both which places he kept to his dying day, and showed himself a most necessary and useful person in the concerns thereof belonging to the University.— Vir Graecis 
(c) Reg. Convoc. T. ad finem, p. 7.  latinisque literis probe instructus, & in studiis philologicis versatissimus, etc. His Works are these.  
Variae lectiones & observationes in Chaldaicum Paraphrasin. These are in the sixth Vol. of the Polyglot Bible, beginning in pag. 17. You are to understand that in this Vol. which consists chiefly of notes on the many versions of the other precedent Volumes, there are divers number of pages, and therefore I cannot better refer you to his Notes, than I have done already.  
Scientia metrica & rhythmica; seu tractatus de Prosodia Arabica ex authoribus probatiss. eruta. Oxon. 1661. oct.  
Septimum Bibliorum Polyglott 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen, cum versionibus antiquissimis, non Chaldaica tantum, sed Syriacis, Aethiopicis, Copticis, Arabicis, Persicis contextum. This is yet in MS, and not printed. He did also accurately describe and turn into Latin from the original Autographe in Cambridge public Library, Paraphrastes Chaldaeus in lib. Paralipomen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n. Which book Dr. Edm. Castell consulted when he composed his Lexicon Heptaglotton, as he tells you in the Preface to the first Vol. of that elaborate work: And it is mentioned to be the labour of Mr. Sam. Clerk in the Proposals of the University of Oxon for printing of MS, published in Sept. in half a sheet of paper, an. 1681 Our Author Clerk also took great pains in the Hebrew Text, Chaldee, Paraphrase, and the Persian Gospels in the Polyglot Bible; which last he translated into Latin. This Translation is placed next after the several Versions of the Apocryphal books. There also goes under his name a Translation out of Hebrew into Latin, the Mishna of the first Massěceth or Tract of the Talmud, called Beracoth, i. e. about their prayers and forms of blessing. See more in Tho. Greaves an. 1676. He paid his last debt to nature, in his house in Halywell, in the Suburb of Oxon, on the 27 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was buried in the middle of the body of the Church (belonging to the said Parish of Halywell) dedicated to the Holy Cross. 
1669.  Two days after his death was an election made for his successor in the place of Beadle and Architypographus: for which stood Tho. Bennet M. A. of Ch. Ch. then Corrector of the University press, being put up by his Dean Dr. Joh. Fell, as being the most fit person that could be then thought on. But Bennet stirring little in the matter, supposing the Masters could not otherwise but choose, though then they had little or no respect for, him, they elected a boon companion, not at all fit to be Archityp. named Norton Bold M. A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll. who had been put aside from being elected (when he stood) after the death of Edm. Gayton mentioned under the year 1666. This being done to the discontent of Dr. Fell, (as Lichfields Election was after Gayton's death) who could not otherwise but look upon it as a great contempt of his generous design, he upon a foresight of the short life of the then superior Beadle of Diu. (Tim. Wilkins) obtained a Mandamus that Mr. Bold should be translated to that place, and thereby make his once more vacant, and so consequently bring his man therein. Soon after Wilkins died, and a Convocation thereupon being called Oct. 6. an. 1671, Bold was translated to that place (by virtue of the said Mandamus) to his advantage and somewhat of disgrace. At that time were Candidates for the supply of that vacancy Mr. Bennet before mentioned, Noah Perkinson M. A. of Hart Hall. and Gowin Knight M. A. and Fell. of Mert. Coll. But before the Election was to be made, Perkinson desisted, and Knight by the persuasions (some say threatenings) of Dr. Fell, desisted: So that then the Masters were left to Hobson's choice, to choose Bennet and no body else. Whereupon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was resolved to get his man in merely by his Authority, without any application to them, and Bennets little stirring for it (only for form sake) without applying himself, according to the manner, with cap in hand to gain votes, they were resolved to cross the matter. So that when the Election was to be on the 10 of the same month, a majority of the Masters joined together, (headed and encouraged chiefly by a clownish factious person) did in despite of Dr. Fell, his Mandamus and Authority, of the Heads of Houses, Seniors, and the sober party, set up and choose a mere stranger, who lived remotely from Oxon, named Christop. Wase, (sometimes Fellow and Bach. of Arts of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards a Schoolmaster at several places) to the very great-discomposure of Dr. Fell, and something to the discredit of the University, as if not able to afford a man to execute the said Office. Afterwards Wase came to Oxon, was sworn and took possession of his place: But Dr. Fell, who had received a character of, would never let, him execute the Archityp. place, because, as he usually said, he was not fit for it, as being not a person of sobriety, etc. So that from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time, the superior Beadleship of the Civ. Law and the Architypographers place hath been joined.  
WILLIAM EYRE Son of Giles Eyre of White in Wilts. was born in that County, became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall, an. 1629, aged 16 years; where continuing under a severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in Arts, was appointed a Tutor in that House, and about the same time entered into the sacred function. But being always schismatically inclined, he sided with the factious party in the time of the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1, became a rigid Calvinist, an enemy to Tithes, and a purchaser of Church Revenues. In those sad times of calamity he was made Minister of S. Edmund's Church in the City of Salisbury, where, by his doctrine, he advanced much the blessed Cause, and in 1654. he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts, for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters; in which office he showed himself very forward against those people, of which, some were his acquaintance and contemporaries in Oxon. After the King's restauration he proceeded in his usual preaching, but in 1662. was silenced for Nonconformity, and lived for a time at, or near to, Salisbury. But finding that place and neighbourhood uneasy, he retired to Milksham near to Chippenham in Wilts, where he had purchased an Estate, and continued there to the time of his death. His works are,  
An Assize Sermon at Salisbury, on Psal. 45.6. Lond. 1652. qu.  
Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae: Justification without conditions: or, a free justification of a sinner, etc. vindicated from the Exceptions and Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors of conditional Justification, etc. against Mr. Ben. Woodbridge, Mr. Jam. Cranford, and Mr. Rich. Baxter. Lond. 1654. qu. Answered the same year by Mr. Baxter in his book intit. An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre of Salisb. concerning his miscarriages in a book lately written for the justification of Infidels, against Mr. B. Woodbridge, etc.  
Sermon on Acts 20.9. Lond. 1658. oct. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was buried in the Church at Milksham before mentioned on the 30 of Januar. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, as the Register of that Church enforms me, which, I presume, 
166●/70.  follows the English Account, and not the common. Another William. Eyre I find, who was long before this man's time educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, between whom and the learned Usher Primate of Ireland passed many letters; some of which were De Textus Hebraici veteris Testamenti variantibus lectionibus, an. 1607. Pr. at Lond. 1652. The said William. Eyre was living at Colchester in Essex, an. 1617. (15 Jac. 1.)  
EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the Minister of Ashted in Surrey, and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London, was born in that County, admitted Chorister of Corp. Ch. Coll. an. 1621. aged 12 years, afterwards he was successively Clerk, Scholar and Fellow of that House, Bach. of Diu. and at length Rector of Pichford alias Pisford in Northamptonshire. He hath written,  
The life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometimes Precedent of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford— 'Twas printed and set before the said Dr. jackson's Commentary on the Creed, an. 1653, and afterwards before the collection of his works, an. 1672. fol. This Mr. Vaughan died on the Purification of the Virgin Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Pichford, 
1669/70.  after he had suffered much, as a true son of the Church of England, and as a loyal man to his Prince and his cause, in the time of the grand rebellion began and carried on by a predominant party in both Houses of Parliament.  
THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire, applied his mind to Academical studies in S. John's Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged 16 years or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, holy Orders and had some little cure bestowed on him. At length about the time that Dr. Laud became Bishop of London, he was made Minister of S. botolph's Church without Aldgate there, where for his ready and fluent way of preaching, he was much frequented by the Orthodox party; but in the beginning of the grand rebellion, he being esteemed as one of Dr. laud's creatures, he was imprisoned in Gresham Coll. and afterwards in Newgate, was sequestered, plundered, and his wife and children turned out of doors. At length he with much ado getting loose, but in a manner distracted by the great miseries he endured, he retired to Oxon, where he was created D. of Diu. an. 1646; about which time, and after, he taught School in several places merely to gain bread and drink, as in London, and afterwards at Paddington, etc. Upon the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was re-invested in S. botolph's Church, but being wearied out there by the contentiousness of his parishioners, he left it, and in the year 1662., he was presented to the Vicarage of S. James in Dover upon the removal of one John Davis an Independent Preacher, and to the Rectory of Hougham near to that place, by the favour of Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury; but the yearly valuation of both not exceeding 80 l. per an. he was, at length, being grown crazy and infirm, presented (unsought after) to the Rectory of Allhallows Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire, by the favour of Edw. Earl of Clarendon, L. Chanc. of England; about 1664; which he kept to his dying day. His works are these.  
Sermons, meditations and prayers upon the plague. Lond. 1636. 37. oct. The sermons are on 2. Chron. 7.13.14. on Matth. 6.2.5.16.33. etc.  
The Sovereign's desire, peace: The subjects duty, peace, in 3. sermons: the first on Psal. 112.6, the second on Rom. 13.1, and the third on Rom. 15.2. Lond. 1643. qu. Which Sermons were preached in the Summertime an. 1642 at S. Paul's Cath. and S. Botolph near Aldgate, but such offence was given to the nice and precise party for several passages in them (though they contained praying for peace, and preaching for obedience to the King) that he was as a Malignant imprisoned from the 29. Oct. to 26. Dec. 1642. In all which time being unseen and unheard, he, by his letter sent to the Lord Mayor for releasement, was sent for to him. But being there accused of several things by John Levet a Tallow chandler, which were only praying for peace and preaching up obedience at an unseasonable time, he was remitted back to prison, not to Crosby House, where he was detained before, but to Gresham Coll. where he continued a long time, and afterwards in Newgate, where he had scarce straw allowed him to lie in, whilst his Majesty was exclaimed against, when he afforded the Rebels better usuage. He hath also written and published,  
The Scriptures vindicated from the unsound conclusions of Card. Bellarmine▪ and the controverted points between the Church of Rome and the reformed Church, stated according to the opinion of both sides. Lond. 1643. qu.  
Manual of Devotions suiting each day; with prayers and meditations answerable to the work of the day; as also each man's calling. viz. the Nobleman, the Soldier, the Lawyer, Trades-man etc. Lond. 1643. in tw.  
The Soldiers Catechism, composed for the King's Army etc. Lond. 1645. oct. the eighth edit.  
The Jesuit the chief, if not the only state-heretique in the world: or, a Venetian quarrel digested into a dialogue— Pr. 1647. qu.  
Mercurius Academicus: communicating the intelligence and affairs of Oxford, to the rest of the passive party throughout the Kingdom. Commencing from Monday in Easter-week, 1648. Pr. in 1. sh. in qu. How many sh. or numbers followed, I know not, for I have only yet seen the first. There was also a Merc. Academicus that began to come out at Oxon. in the beginning of Jan. 1645, but who wrote it, I know not.  
A Letter of an Independent to Mr. John Glynne Recorder of Lond.— Pr. 1645 in tw. sh. in qu. His name is not set to it, only common report makes him the Author. 


To all  
Paupertatis ergò  
Nè peream fame.   

To some  
Gratitudinis ergò  
Ne peream infamiâ.   
Whether it be better to turn Presbyterian, Roman, or, continue what I am, Catholic in matter of religion.   Lond. 1658. in two sh. in qu.  
Six and thirty questions propounded for resolution of unlearned Protestants &c.— Pr. 1659. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. on Psal. 136.26. Print. 1639. qu. (2) Divinity no enemy to Astrology, serm. for the society of Astrologers, in the year 1643 preached, as it seems, on Matth. 2.2. (3) The hand of God; or, King David's choice, on 2. Sam. 24.14. Lond. 1647. qu. etc.  
Twelve anniversary Sermons on the funeral of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. Among them is one on 1. Sam. 10.27, another on 1. Kings 21.19, a third on Ps. 169.30, etc. What other things he hath written and published I know not, and therefore I can only say that he died on the ninth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was buried the next day in the Chancel of Allhallows Church in Stanford beforementioned, and that his last words were Hic vixit temporibus quibus Carolum primum magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae Regem farino more trucidarunt Rebels. Which he would have to be put over his grave.  
JOHN DAVENPORT son of John Davenport, and elder brother to Christopher Davenport commonly called Franc. à Sancta Clara (whom I shall in his proper place mention) was born in the City of Coventry in Warwickshire, an. 1597, and in Grammatical learning there educated. In the beginning of the year 1613 he was by his Relations sent to Merton Coll; where continuing about two years under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Lane, was for a certain reason, which I shall tell you in the life of the said Christop. Dau. translated to Magd. Hall, where continuing under a severe and puritanical discipline for some time, he left it without a degree, retired to London, became a noted preacher among the Puritans, and at length Minister of S. Stephen's Church in Coleman-street. In 1625 he retired to Magd. Hall for a time, performed his exercise for the degree of Bach. of Div, accumulated and took that degree, and in short time after retired to London again; where, by the Brethren he was esteemed a person of excellent gifts in preaching and in other qualities belonging to a Divine. About the year 1630 he was appointed by certain factious and discontented persons one of the Feoffees for the buying in of impropriations; but that project, though seemed good to some, being quashed, he, about the year 1633, left his pastoral charge under pretence of opposition by the Prelates, because he scrupled at certain ceremonies, but without a certificate or testimony to show what he was or what he had been, and forthwith went beyond the Seas to Amsterdam without a call or invitation. At that place he endeavouring to be a Minister in the English congregation, and to join with them in all duties, he was much opposed by Mr. John Paget an Elder or one of the chief Ministers there, and especially for this reason, that he would not agree with him in all things relating to baptism. Whereupon our author Davenport, taking these, and other matters, in great disdain, he wrote in his own defence,  
Letter to the Dutch classis, containing a just complaint against an unjust doer; wherein is declared the miserable slavery and bondage that the English Church at Amsterdam is now in, by reason of the tyrannical government and corrupt doctrine of Mr. Jo. Paget their Minister— Printed 1634. qu.  
Certain instructions delivered to the Elders of the English Church deputed, which are to be propounded to the Pastors of the Dutch Church in Amsterdam— Pr. the same year in a qu. paper. About the same time he wrote (1) A report of some passages or proceedings about his calling to the English Ch. in Amsterdam against Joh. Paget. (2) Allegations of Scripture against the baptising of some kind of infants. (3) Protestation about the publishing of his writings. Which three things were pr. at Amsterd. 1634. qu. In the year following most of the aforesaid little scripts were answered by Paget, and at the same time were answered by him the complaints of one Will. Best, a member of Davenports persuasion. Whereupon Best came out with The Church's plea for her right; or a reply to an answer etc. Amst. 1635. qu, and soon after our author Davenport with  
An Apolegetical reply to the answer of W. B. Roterd. 1636. qu. About the same time Davenport who took these matters very ill, refused to join with the Ministers in their meetings, took away many of their disciples, such especially that had an esteem for his notable learning and singular parts, and preached and prayed to them in private houses. In the beginning of the rebellion, he returned into England, as other Nonconformists did, and had a cure bestowed on him, but finding matters not to go current with his humour, he, by the persuasive letters of Mr. John Cotton of New England (who was esteemed the misleader of him and John Goodwin) went into that Country and became Pastor of Newhaven there, where he continued in great esteem with those of his persuasion, to the time almost of his death. His other writings are these.  
Catechism containing the chief heads of Christian religion. Lond. 1659. oct. Published at the desire, and for the use of the Church of Christ at Newhaven in New England. In this Catechism one Will. Hook a teacher there, had a hand; I mean the same Will. Hook who was sometimes Minister of Axmouth in Devonshire, author of (1) New England's tears for old England's fears, etc. Print. 1640-1. qu. (2) The privileges of the saints on earth above those in heaven. Pr. in oct. (3) Sermon in New England in behalf of old England. Pr. 1645. qu. and other Sermons. He died in, or near, London, 21. March 1677. aged 77 years and was committed to the earth in the burial place situated on the north side of the New Attillery-yard or Garden, near to the said City. See more of him in Jerom Turner an. 1655.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Messiah is already come, on Acts 2.36. Lond. 1653. qu. (2) Gods call to his people to turn unto him, etc. in two Sermons on two public fasting days in N. England. Lond. 1670. qu. (3) Saints Anchorhold in all Storms and Tempests (on Lam. 3.26,)— Printed 1661. in tw. and others, among which is his Sermon on 2. Sam. 1.18.— Lond. 1629. qu.  
The power of congregational Churches asserted and vindicated; in answer to a treatise of Mr. Jo. Paget, entit. The defence of Church government exercised in classes and synods. Lond. 1672. oct. He also had a considerable hand in writing The life of Mr. John Cotton before mentioned, published by John Norton Minister of Boston in N. England, and had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain works of Dr. John Preston viz. his New Covenants, or Saints portion, in 14. sermons, with four other added, an. 1629. qu. etc. At length he having lived beyond the age of man, surrendered up his Soul to God, at Boston in New England (to which place he had removed from Newhaven in 1668) on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669/70.  and was interred there, in the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton, for whom, in his life time, he had an extraordinary respect. He left behind him An Exposition on the Canticles, contained in an 100 sheets in a small hand-writing: Which being esteemed very fit for the press, was recommended by Dr. Sam. Anely, and Mr. Ed. Veal, and accordingly proposals were made for the printing it, to be sold for 7. sh. in quires, in Mich. term an. 1687. But soon after, the printing of it was stopped, and the merchant who designed afterwards to publish it, died; so 'tis questioned now, whether ever it will see light.  
JOHN MAYNARD, esteemed by those of his persuasion an eminent and judicious Divine, was born of a gentile family in Sussex, at, or near, Riverfield, became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year, 1616, compounded for the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of that house, and afterwards translated himself to Magd. Hall. In 1622 he took the degree of Mast. of Arts as a Compounder, entered into holy Orders, and at length became Vicar of Maighfield in his own Country. But when the rebellion broke out, he showed himself more a Puritan, and preached with more liberty, than he did before; whereupon being appointed one of the Ass. of Divines, he took the Covenant, held forth several times before the members of the Long Parliament, had other preferments, I presume, bestowed upon him; and in 1654. he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Sussex, for the ejection of such, whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters. His writings are  
Several Sermons as (1) Sermon preached before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast, 26 Feb. 1644. on Prov. 23. ver. 23. Lond. 1645. qu. (2) A shadow of the victory of Christ, Fast●serm. before the H. of C. 28. Oct. 1646. on Phil. 3.21. Lond. 1646. qu. etc.  
The young man's remembrancer and old man's monitor. Lond. 1669 oct.  
The Law of God ratified by the Gospel of Christ: or, the harmony of the doctrine of faith, with the law of righteousness, wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded etc. delivered in several sermons. Lond. 1674. oct. What became of this reverend author after his Majesty's restauration, 
Clar. 1669.  I mean whether he conformed or was ejected, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to Magd. Hall, and that his Library was exposed to sale by way of auction, several years after his death, 13. June 1687. I find another John. Maynard who published a book entit. The XII wonders of the world, set and composed for the Viol de Gamba, the Lute and the voice to sing the verse, etc. Lond. 1661. fol. But this was no Divine but a most admired Lutenist at the famous School of S. julian's in Hertfordshire. Another John Maynard, who was an eminent Lawyer I shall mention hereafter, under the year 1690.  
WILLIAM SEDGWICK son of Will. Sedgw. of Lond. Gent. was born in Bedfordshire, became a Com. of Pemb. Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1624. aged 15 years: Where being put under the tuition of George Hughes profited more in Diu. than Philosophy. After he had taken the degrees in Arts, he entered into the sacred function, and became Rector of Farnham in Essex where he behaved himself conformable to the Ch. of England, but upon the turn of the times in 1●41, he closed with the Presbyterians, (having before been instructed in their principles by his Tutor) put in a Curate into Farnham, and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Sir Will. Constable a Parliamentarian Commander, the same who was afterwards one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After the loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings, he became the chief Preacher of the City of Ely, and was commonly called The Apostle of the isle of Ely, but what he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he lost after his Maj. restauration for want of conformity. He was a conceited whimsical person, and one very unsettled in his opinions: sometimes he was a Presbyterian, sometimes an Independent, and at other times an Anabaptist. Sometimes he was a Prophet and would pretend to foretell matters in the pulpit to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people. At other times, having received revelations, as he pretended, he would forewarn people of their sins in public discourses, and upon pretence of a vision that Doomsday was at hand, he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgshire (whose daughter, Henry, the son of great Oliv. Cromwell had married) and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowls, called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution, telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomsday would be some day the next week. At which the Gentlemen being well pleased, they, and others, always after called him Doomsday 
(*) See in the second part of Hudibras.— Lond. 1674. Cant. 3. p. 352. and in the annotations at the end. p. 408.  Sedgwick, and the rather for this reason that there were others of his surname that pretended to prophesy also. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons as (1) Zions' deliverance, and her friend's duty: or the grounds of expecting, and means of procuring Jerusalem's restauration: Preached at a public Fast 29. June 1642 before the House of Commons, on Isaiah 62.7. Lond. 1643. qu. (2) Some flashes of Lightning in the Son of man; in eleven Sermons. Lond. 1648. oct. These Sermons seem to have been preached on Luke 17.20.21.22. etc.  
The Leaves of the tree of Life, for the healing of the nations, opening all wounds of this Kingdom, and of every party, and applying a remedy to them etc. Lond. 1648 qu. This book, as soon as 'twas published (which was in the latter end of 1647) the author went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight, and desired the Governors leave to address himself too K. Ch. 1. then a Prisoner there. Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion, told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns, and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesty's perusal; which, as he said, if his Majesty would please to read, might, as he imagined, be of much advantage to him, and comfort in that his disconsolate condition. The King thereupon came forth, and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book. After he had read some part thereof, he returned it to the author, with this short admonition and judgement. By what I have read in this book, I believe the author stands in some need of sleep. These words being taken by the author in the best sense, he departed with seeming satisfaction. The next day came one John Harrington Esq. Son of Sir John Harrington and Epigrammatist in the time of Queen Eliz. and K. James 1. and being admitted into the Castle upon the like charitable account, desired to have some discourse with his Majesty, but his Maj. having heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington before mentioned, that he was a canting and prophetical Presbyterian, thanked him likewise for his good intentions, without discoursing with him upon any point. Whereupon Harrington wishing his Maj. much happiness, withdrew.  
Justice upon the Army-remonstrance: or, a rebuke of that evil spirit that leads them in their Councils and actions. With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their ways etc. Lond. 1649 qu.  
A second view of the Army-remonstrance: or, justice done to the Army; wherein their principles are new modelled, brought out of obscurity into clearer light, etc. Lond. 1649. in 5. sh. in qu. This last seems somewhat to contradict the former, but in such a canting fashion, that I know not what to make of it, unless the Author meant to claw with them in their own way.  
Animadversions on a letter and paper, first sent to his Highness (Oliv. Cromwell) by certain Gentlemen and others in Wales: And since printed and published to the world by some of the subscribers etc. Lond. 1656 qu.  
Animadversions upon a book intit. Inquisition for the blood of our Sovereign. Lond. 1661. oct. What other things this our author hath written and published I know not, 
Clar. 1669.  nor any thing else of him, only that after the return of K. Ch. 2. he lived mostly at Leusham in Kent, but leaving that place about 1668, retired to London, where he soon after died. I have been several times promised an account of his death and burial, but my friend Dr. S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word.  
NATHANIEL HARDY son of Anth. Hard. was born in the Old Bailiff in the Parish of S. Martin Ludgate in London, on the 14 of Sept. 1618., became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1632, where continuing several years under the course of a severe discipline, went thence to Hart Hall for a time, and took the degree of Mast. of Arts, an. 1638 and in the next year he was admitted into full Orders. Afterwards he retired to the great City, became a florid and very ready Preacher, and at the turn of the times was ensnared with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party; but at the treaty at Uxbridge between the Commissioners appointed by the King, and those by the Parliament, to treat about Peace, an. 1644, he was present, and being desirous to be impartially informed in the truth of that Controversy, he was fully convinced of his error, chiefly by the Arguments of Dr. Hen. Hammond. So that then being in the 26 year of his age, he immediately, as 'tis said, upon his return to London, preached a Recantation Sermon, and ever after, even in the worst of times, he attested his loyalty to the King, and conformity to the Church in discipline, as well as in doctrine, in his ministerial function. Of these matters I have been informed by his 
(a) Lewis Burnet a Scot, M. A. of Aberdene, lately a Reader in S. Mart. Ch. in the Fields, within the liberty of Westm.  friend; but this must be known, that in all, or most of, the times of usurpation he was Minister of S. Dionyse Back-Church in London, and tho frequented by some Loyalists, yet by more Presbyterians. His said friend also hath informed me that he kept up a Lecture in the said Church, which was called The Loyal Lecture, whereby many of the then suffering Clergy were relieved. Also that that year on which the King was beheaded and ever after, till near the time of the return of K. Ch. 2, he preached his funeral Sermon. In the year 1660 he, by his forward endeavours, got to be one of those Ministers that went with the Commissioners, appointed by the City of London, to the Hague, in order to his Majesty's restauration: And being there on a Sunday (20. May) he, with great confidence preached a Sermon before his Majesty on the 29 verse of the 26. chapter of Isaiah, wherein he applied his discourse to the then present Estate of affairs in England so pathetically and learnedly, that there was not any one present, but admired his elegancy and learning, and seemed much to be satisfied with those things that he had delivered. After his Majesty's return he was actually created Doctor of Divinity, as a member formerly of Hart Hall, was made Vicar of S. Martin's Ch. in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster, Archdeacon of Lewis and Dean of Rochester; in which last Dignity he was installed (upon the promotion of Dr. Ben. Laney to the See of Peterborough) on the 10. of Dec. 1660, being about that time Rector of Henly in Oxfordshire, and a frequent preacher before his Majesty. He hath published.  
Several Sermons preached upon solemn occasions, as (1) Justice triumphing, or the spoilers spoiled, at Paul's for the miraculous discovery of the Powder Plot, on the 5. of Nou. 1646, on Psal. 9.16. Lond. 1656 sec. edit. qu. (2) Faiths victory over nature; or the unparallelled precedent of an unnaturally religious father; at the funeral of Joh. Rushout son and heir of Joh. Rushout Merch. and Citizen of Lond, on Heb. 11.17. Lond. 1648. qu. (3) The arraignment of licentious liberty and oppressing tyranny, Fast serm. before the House of Peers in the Abbey Church of Westm. 24. Feb. 1646, on Hosea 5.10.11.12. Lond. 1647. qu. (4) The safest convoy, or the strongest helper, before Sir Thom. Bendish Bt. his Maj. Ambassador now resident with the Grand Signior at Constantinople, on Isa. 43 former part of the 2. vers. Lond. 1653. qu. (5) Love and fear the inseparable twins of a blessed matrimony, charactarized in a serm. at the nuptials between Mr. Will. Christmas and Mrs. Elizab. Adam's Daughter of Tho. Adam's sometimes Ald. and L. Mayor of Lond. on Ephes. 5.31. Lond. 1653. qu. (6) Divinity in mortality, or the Gospel's excellency and the preachers frailty, at the funerals of Mr. Rich. Goddard late Minister of the Parish of S. Gregory's near Paul's, who died 12. May 1653 and and was buried 16. of the same month, on 2. Cor. 4. former part of the 7. verse. Lond. 1653. qu. (7) A divine prospective: representing the just man's peaceful end, at Catherine Creechurch 14. Aug. 1649 at the interment of the remains of Sir Joh. Gayer Kt, deceased 20. July 1649, on Psal. 37. ver. 37. Lond. 1654. qu. (8) Mercy in her beauty: or, the height of a deliverance from the depth of danger, on Phil. 2. former part of the 27 vers. Lond. 1653. qu. It was preached upon his late unexpected recovery of a desperate sickness. (9) Thankfulness in grain: or, a good life the best return, on the same occasions on Psal. 116.9. Lond. 1654. qu. (10) Deaths alarm: or, security's warning-piece, at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Smith (Daughter of Mr. Isaac Colf formerly Minister of God's word at Chadwell in Essex, and late Wife of Mr. Rich. Smith of Lond. Draper) who died 9 Nou. 1653, on Matth. 24.44. Lond. 1654. qu. (11) The epitaph of a godly man: or, the happiness by death of holiness in life, at the funeral of Mr. Adam Pemberton of the parish of St. forster's (Vedastus) Foster-lane, who died 8. Apr. 1655, on Phil. 1.21. Lond. 1655. qu. (12) Safety in the midst of danger, in the Ch. of Allhall. Barkin 4. Jan. 1655 upon the anniversary commemoration of that dismal fire, which happened in the said parish, 4. Jan. 1649, on Exod. 3. ver. 2. latter part. Lond. 1656. qu. (13) The pious Votary and prudent Traveller, characterized in a fun. sermon occasioned by the voyage of Nath. Wych Esq. Precedent to the East Indies, on Gen. 28.20.21. Lond. 1658. qu. Preached at S. Dion. Backchurch, 14. Mar. 1657. (14) Mourning, lamentation and woe, Pr. after the great fire in London— Lond. 1666. qu. This I have not yet seen nor certain funeral sermons, as (1) On Rob. E. of Warw. (2) On Mr. Tho. Bowyer. (3) On Mrs. Anne Dudson. (4) On Sir Th. adam's. (5) On Mrs. A. Colquit. etc. He hath also written and published,  
The first general epistle of S Joh. the Apostle, unfolded and applied. In two parts.— The first printed at Lond. 1656. in qu. was delivered in 22 Lectures on the first chapt. and two verses of the second, in S. Dionyse Backchurch. The second part printed at Lond. in 1659. in qu. was delivered in 37 Lectures on the second chapt▪ from the third, to the last verse, in the said Church. At length this active and forward man, who had little or no character among the true Loyalists, especially that part of the Clergy who had suffered in the times of usurpation, giving way to fate in his house at Croyden in Surrey on the first day of June, in sixteen hundred and seventy, was buried on the 9 day of the same month in the Chancel of S. Martin's Church in the Fields before mentioned. 
1670.  Soon after his Widow erected a money on the north wall of the said Chancel to his memory, with an inscription thereon, which being printed in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 375. Col. 2. shall be now omitted. His funeral Sermon on 2. Cor. 5.1. preached by Dr. Sim. Patrick is extant, wherein you may see his character at large. In the Vicarage of S. Martin, succeeded Dr. Tho. Lamplugh, and in the Deanery of Rochester, Dr. Peter Mew; the former was afterwards B. of Exon. and Archb. of York, and the other B. of B. and Wells, and Winchester.  
WILLIAM NEILE the eldest Son of Sir Paul Neile Knight, one of the Ushers of the Privy Chamber to King Ch. 2, eldest Son of Dr. Rich. Neile Archb. of York, was born in the Archb. Palace at Bishops Thorp in Yorkshire, 7. Dec. 1637, became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. for the sake of Dr. Wilkins the Warden thereof, an. 1652, where by the instruction of him and Dr. Ward, he improved his nat. genius very much in the Mathematics. In July or Aug. 1657 he divulged his invention of the equating of a straight line to a crooked or parabole. The demonstration of which is at large set down in a book entit. De Cycloide & Corporibus inde genitis, etc. Ox. 1659. qu. p. 91.92. Written by John Wallis D. D. one of the Savilian Professors of the University of Oxon. to which place I refer the reader, where he may see also what benefit hath been made of it by Dr. Christop. Wrenn and Will. Viscount Brounker. Mr. Neile hath written,  
De motu, lib. 1.  
Of Morality, in one book.  
Whether these two are printed I cannot tell. He died in his Father's house at White Waltham in Berks. 24. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy, and was buried in the Church there, to the great grief of his Father, 
1670.  and resentment of all Virtuosos and good men that were acquainted with his admirable parts. See more of him, and his invention in the Philosophical Transactions, an. 1673. nu. 98. p. 6146. One Sir Will. Neale Knight, who had been Scout-master General to K. Ch. 1, and a stout proper man and a good Soldier against his enemies in the grand rebellion, died in Greys-inn-lane in Holborn on the 24 of March, the last day of the year, 1690, aged 81 years and was buried according to his desire near the west door fast by the Christening pew, in S. Paul's Church in Covent Garden, within the liberty of Westm, but he was no kin to the former Will. Neile, because he was of the Neales' of Wollaston near Northampton.  
JOSHUA CHILDREY son of Robert Childrey, was born within the City of Rochester, where being educated in Grammar learning, became a Student in Magd. Coll. in Lent term 1640 aged 17 years, and about that time was made one of the Clerks of the said house. But soon after leaving the University upon the eruption of the civil war, he returned to his native Country, and came not again till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendered for the use of the Parliament, at which time taking the degree of Bach. of Arts, was two years after that expelled by the Parliamentarian Visitors. Afterwards he taught School at Faversham in Kent, yet not without some disturbance by the godly party, where continuing till his Maj. restoration, was made Chaplain to Henry Lord Herbert, was actually created D. of D. and had the Rectory of Upway in Dorsetshire bestowed on him. In the year 1663. Jan 23, he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury, on the death of Dr. Anth. Hawles, and on the first of June 1664 he was collated to the Prebendship of Yatminster Prima in the Church of Salisbury by Dr. Earl Bishop of that place, he being then accounted a learned and religious Divine, a good ginger, and a great Virtuoso. His works are,  
Indago Astrologica: or, a brief and modest inquiry into some principal points of Astrology, as it was delivered by the Fathers of it, and is now generally received by the Sons of it. Lond. 1652. in 2. sh. in qu.  
Syzygiasticon instauratum: or, an Ephemeris of the places and aspects of the Planets, etc. calculated for the year 1653. Lond. 1653 oct. His chief design is to prove the aspects of the Planets related to the Sun, of greater efficacy in the change of the air, then when respecting the earth as centre, etc.  
Britannia Baconica: or, the natural rarities of England, Scotland and Wales. According as they are to be found in every Shire. Historically related, according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon, etc. with observations upon them, and deductions from them, etc. Lond. 1661. oct From which book Dr. Rob. Plot took a hint for the writing The natural History of Oxfordshire. As for the other works of his which are not extant, you may be pleased to know from his letter 
(*) In a Journal-book of the Royal Society, MS.  dated at Upway 12. Jul. 1669. written to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg Secretary of the Royal So●ciety concerning some observations of the weather, philosophical collections, Portland and Purbeck stones serving for fuel, shifting of tides at Weymouth, etc. thus— In my next (God willing) I shall send you part of my collections of Naturals out of voyages and itineraries. In the mean time take this brief account of my studies so far as concerns Philosophy. Some two years before the happy return of the King, I bought me as many paper books of about 16 sheets apiece, as my Lord Verulam (Bacon) had Histories at the end of his Novum Organon: Into which books (being noted with the figure and title given them by my Lord) I entered all Philosophical matters, that I met with observable in my reading, and intent (God willing) to continue it. This I acquaint you with, to let you see, how earnest and serious I have been for several years in that which is the business of the Royal Society, though indeed I first fell in love with the Lord Bacon's philosophy in the year 1646, and tried several experiments (though such as I now reckon be not of any moment) in 1647. 48. 49. 50; and besides these, I have two larger paper books in folio, one of which I call Chronologia naturalis, and the other Geographia naturalis; the former containing the time of all droughts, comets, earthquakes, etc. and the other the natural rarities of Countries. These paper books cannot be expected to be yet full, and God knows whether I shall live to see them filled. But, God willing, such and so as they are, I intent to bequeath them to the Royal Society, whensoever I die. etc. He concluded his last day at Upway before mentioned (having never been of the said Society) on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy, 
1670.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. In the latter end of Sept. following, succeeded him in his Archdeaconry John Sherman Doct. of Diu. of Camb. who dying in the parish of S. Sepulchre in London (after a short enjoyment of that Dignity) viz. in the latter end of the year (in March) 1670, was succeeded in the beginning of May following by John Prideaux D. D. as I shall elsewhere tell you. Besides this John Sherman was another of both his names, but before him in time, educated in Gramar learning in the Charter-house School, in Academical in Trin. Coll. in Camb. where he arrived to great eminence in several sorts of literature. He wrote a book entit. White salt or a sober correction of a mad world in some well wishes to goodness. Lond. 1654. oct. and another called The infallibility of the holy Scripture asserted, etc. Lond. 1664. qu. etc. This learned, religious and conscientious Person, died in Aug. as it seems, an. 1663.  
EDWARD FORD the eldest Son of Sir John Ford Knight, was born at Uppark in the parish of Harting in Sussex, became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621. aged 16 years, but before he took a degree he left that House, and whether afterwards he traveled or studied in the Inns of Court, I know not. Sure it is that about the beginning of the Civil War, he was pricked High Sherriff for Sussex, adheered to the King at Oxon, from whom he received the honour of Knighthood there, 4. Oct. 1643 and about that time had a commission to be a Colonel in his Army against the Rebels; for which afterwards he suffered equally with other Royalists. In Nou. 1647 when the King made his escape from Hampton Court, he, with Dr. Steph. Goffe. were committed to safe custody, as being suspected for the design of the King's escape. In 1656 he, upon oliver's encouragement, and invitation of the chief Citizens of London, raised the Thames water into all the highest streets of that City, ninety three foot high, in four eight-inch pipes, to the wonder of all, and honour of the nation: done at his own charge, and in one years' time, with his rare engine that he had invented for that purpose; by which several parts of the nation did afterwards find benefit in the draining of Mines and Lands, much better and cheaper than any other device before. 'Twas he also that made the great water Engine against Somersethouse, for the serving the Inhabitants of the Strand, and of other parts adjoining, with water; which hindering the prospect of Qu. Cath. the Royal Consort of K. Ch. 2, she found means to have it plucked down. Some time after his Majesty's restauration he invented a new way of farthings, of which he made demonstration to the King and Council so plainly, that they were satisfied that they could not possibly be counterfeited, and that one farthing could not be like another, but that they should differ in some little thing. And having then a design to get a patent for the making of them for England, was put aside by Pr. Rupert, and at length was content with one only for Ireland: To which place taking a journey soon after, died there before he could effect his design. He hath written and published,  
A design for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to S. Giles in the Fields near London: The benefits of it declared, and the objections against it answered Lond. 1641. in 5. or 6. sh. in qu.  
Experimental proposals how the K. may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets, with ease to the people; London may be rebuilt, and all proprietors satisfied; money may be lent at 6 l. per cent. on pawns, and the fishing trade set up, and all without straining or thwarting any of our laws and customs. Lond. 1666. qu.  
Defence of Bill-credit— Printed at the end of the former pamphlet. About the year 1663. he printed an ingenious proposal for the raising of money by bills of exchange, which should pass current instead of money, to prevent robbery, but this I have not yet seen. He died in Ireland, 
1670.  on the 3. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and seventy, and his body being brought into England, was buried in the Church at Harting by its Ancestors. He was a great Virtuoso of his time, yet none of the Royal Society, and might have done greater matters, if that he had not been disincouraged for those things he had done before.  
HENRY YELUERTON Baronet was born of an ancient and gentile family at Easton Manduit or Mauduit in Northamptonshire, baptised there 6 of July 1633, educated in Grammar learning in S. Paul's School in London, admitted a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1650, where he made as great proficiency in several sorts of learning as his age was capable of, and became so exact a Latinist and Grecian, that none of his time went beyond him. He hath written,  
A short discourse of the truth and reasonableness of the religion delivered by Jesus Christ. Wherein the several arguments for Christianity are briefly handled, the miracles done by our Saviour, Apostles and Christians, etc. Lond. 1662. oct. To which is added, A disquisition touching the Sibyls and Sybilline writings, etc. Written by John Twysden, Broth. to Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent, both the Uncles of Sir H. Yeluerton, who hath also written something in vindication of the Church of England against Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. which I have not yet seen; and a preface to a book of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish. of Durham entit. The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical, from the authority of the Primitive Church, etc. Pr. in oct. Which Bishop Sir Hen. had kept in his family several years in the time of that Bishop's persecution, and was as tender of him, as of his parent, showing thereby, as indeed he was, a true Son of the Church of England. He died in the flower of his age on the 3. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy, 
1670.  and was buried at Easton Manduit among the graves of his relations, leaving then behind him by Susan his wife, sole daughter and heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen, Charles his eldest Son, afterwards a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. and called up to the House of Lords, where he took his place as Lord Grey of Ruthen. He died of the small pox, unmarried, in his Lodgings in the Pall-mall, within the liberty of Westm. on the 17. of May 1679, and was, as I suppose, buried at Easton Manduit.  
CHRISTOPHER AIRAY was born at Clifton in Westmoreland, became a Student in Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1621., where going through the servile offices, was made Fellow when Master of Arts: About which time entering into holy Orders according to the statutes of that House, he became a Preacher, was actually created Bac. of Diu. in 1642, and afterwards made Vicar of Milford in Hampshire. He hath written,  
Fasciculus Praeceptorum Logicalium in gratiam juventutis Academiae (Oxon) compositus. Oxon. 1660. sec. edit. in oct. and other things, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen. 
1670.  He died on S. Luke's day, in sixteen hundred and seventy, and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Milford before mention'd· Over his grave was soon after put this epitaph. Memoriae sacrum Christopheri Airay S. T. Bac. olim Coll. Reg. Oxon. socii, & hujus ecclesiae Vicarii vigilantissimi, viri summae integritatis, judicii acerrimi & ingenii literarum omnium capacis; qui deficillimo seculo inter aestuantes rerum fluctus clavum rectum tenuit. Mortalitati tandem exuit 18. Oct. annos natus 69. etc.  
SAMUEL KEME or Kem was born according to the 
(a) Lib. vel reg. Matric. PP. fol. 295. a.  Matricula, in the City of London, became a Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Act term 1621. aged 16 years, but how long he continued there I know not. Sure I am that a certain 
(b) Merc. Aul. in the 33 week, an. 1644. p. 1123.  author tells us, that for those few weeks he wore a gown in Magd. Hall he obtained the title of a most notorious liar that ever wore long ears. In 1624. he was elected Demie of Magd. Coll, at which time he said that he was born in Surrey, and that he was in the nineteenth year of his age. In that House he continued till after he was Bach. of Arts, and then taking holy Orders he had a cure bestowed on him. In 1636, the King being then in Oxon, he was actually created Bach. of Divinity; about which time he became Rector of the Church at Oldbury commonly called Albury near Ricot in Oxfordshire, and a retainer, if I mistake not, to the family of Edward Wray of Ricot Esq, Patron of the said Church, by virtue of his marriage with Elizabeth the dau. and heir of Francis L. Norris Earl of Berks. At the turn of the times in 1641, he put a Curate into his Living, sided with the Rebels, took the Covenant, was made Chaplain to, and Captain of a Troop of Horse in, the Regiment of Basil Earl of Denbigh, prayed and preached often to encourage the Soldiers to fight, laid open to them the righteousness of their cause, preached against the K. and his followers, and endeavoured to make them believe, that all that were about him, were Papists or at least popishly affected. When any Officer of the Regiment was killed he was ready to preach his funeral Sermon, particularly that of Major Pinkney slain in the beginning of July 1644, and was ready at all hours to do the like, provided the party died not a natural death. When he was with the said Earl at Wolverhampton, he preached twice there before his Lordship as Quartermaster General 
(c) The same author in the thirtieth week, ending July 27. an. 1644. p. 1095.  to Sir Tho. Middleton, and within two hours after his last Sermon, he fell to practice on one of his brethren, and plundered a Townsman to the value of 500 l, though the man was as notorious as any in Coventry, Banbury, or Colchester. etc. This Keme was asked at Namptwich by a Bricklayer, why the Earl of Denbigh gave offence by wearing long hair? To which he made answer (being then the chief leader in cases of conscience) That to wear long hair was not against the rule, but to have it was the thing forbidden by the Apostle, for truly (said he) if my Lord should have long hair of his own, I hold myself bound to tell him of it, but that which his Lordship wears, is not his own hair, and if S. Paul were in England he would not mislike it, though it reached down as low as his knees. Such Levites as this Keme were Sprat and Lorkin the two twins of Greenwich, where they libelled and blasphemed every Sunday, according to their talents. In Nou. the same year (1644) he went with his Colonel, Basil Earl of Denbigh and the other Commissioners, constituted by Parliament, to treat with his Majesty at Oxon for peace, where he, with great confidence, preached before them, and about that time was made a Major, and became very active in several places within this Kingdom to carry on the cause as well by fight as preaching. Afterwards he took all oaths to keep what he had and to gain more, took all advantages to rake and scrape what he could together, merely to satisfy his unsatiable desire. The truth is he was a man of a very servile spirit, a flatterer, a time-server, an Epicure, a Lecher, etc. and yet always a pretender to Saintship. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he turned about, endeavoured to express his Loyalty, took the oaths again, as he had done when he took the Academical degrees, and when he entered on the Minister, and all to keep his living of Albury and the trade of eating and drinking. He hath published,  
Several Sermons as (1) The Martialists dignity, on Deut. 23.14.— Printed 1640. qu. (2) The messenger's preparation for an address to the King for a well grounded peace, preached at Oxon. 24. Nou. 1644 before the Commissioners of both Kingdoms, the morning before their presenting the propositions to his Majesty, on Esther 4.16. Lond. 1644. qu. Dedic. to the said Commissioners. (3) The King of Kings his privy marks for the Kingdom's choice of new members, etc. preached at Bristol at the choice of new Burgesses of that City 28. Feb. 1645, on Prov. 10. ver: 10.11. Lond. 1646. qu. The said City was then under the command of the Parliament. (4) The Olive-branch, etc. on 2. Thes. 3.16. Lond. 1647. qu. (5) Serm. on 1. Cor. 13. ver. 14. Lond. 1647. qu. This last, with others which he hath published, I have not yet seen. He died at Albury before mentioned on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy, 
1670.  and was two days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there, near to an inscription, which he before had caused to be painted on the wall to the memory of Anne Ball only daughter of John Ball Citizen and Skinner of London, Jemimah Pelham eldest dau. of Herbert Pelham of Lincolnsh. and of Feriars' Court in Essex Esq. and of Mary Bridger second daughter of Samuel Bridger of Dursley in the County of Gloucester. Which three Women had been the wives of him the said Samuel Keme, who at his death left behind him a young buxom Widow, with whom he had a good portion, but left her nothing, as having spent all that he could get to satisfy his Epicurism.  
JOHN STRICKLAND was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile family of his name in the County of Westmoreland, became a Batler of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618. aged 17 years, took the degrees of Arts, holy Orders and was made Chaplain, as I have been informed, to the Earl of Hertford. In the month of May 1632 he was admitted Bach. of Diu. and in Dec. following he became Rector of Middleton alias Pudimore Milton in Somersetshire by the presentation of Sir John Horner Knight. etc. This person, who was always puritanically affected, sided with the rebellious party in the beginning of the Civil War, took the Covenant, was made one of the Assembly of Divines, preached frequently before the Long Parliament, exciting the members thereof to proceed in their blessed cause, prayed several times 
(*) See in a book intit. A short view of the late troubles in England. Oxon. 1681. fol. Written by Sir Will. Dugdale, p. 567.  blasphemously, and in 1645 or thereabouts, was made Minister of S. Peter le poor in London, where he exercised his gifts against the King and his party, and was never wanting to excite his Auditors to carry on the said Cause. Afterwards he was made Minister of S. Edmund's Church in Salisbury, was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts. for the ejection of such whom they then (1654.) called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and took upon him great authority in his Apostleship, especially if he had to do with the loyal and suffering Clergy. He hath published,  
Several Sermons as (1) God's work of mercy in Zions misery, Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons, 27. Dec. 1643 on Isay 10.20. Lond. 1644. qu. (2) A discovery of peace. or, the thoughts of the Almighty for the ending of the people's calamities, etc. on Jer. 29.11. Lond. 1644. qu. (3) Immanuel: or, the Church's triumph in God with us, etc. Thanksgiving serm. before the House of Lords, 5. Nou. 1644. on Psal. 26.7. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) Mercy rejoicing against Judgement, Fast-serm. before the House of Commons 29. Oct. 1645, on Isay 30.18. Lond. 1645. qu. In his Epist. dedic. to the House of Com. he desires them to have a care how they plant the towns in Cumberland and Northumberland with able preachers, that they reform the Universities, etc. He hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen. See more of him in Hum. Chambers under the year 1662. p. 207. This Mr. Strickland, who is styled by one 
(†) Fred. Lossius Medic. Dorchest. in Observat. medicinalib. Lond. 1672 oct. lib. 1. observat. 8.  of his opinion Praeco fidelissimus, and so he was esteemed by the factious party, was ejected from his Living for his refusal to conform to the service and ceremonies of the Church of England, an. 1662.: Whereupon keeping Conventicles in, and near, Salisbury, was several times, as I have been informed, imprisoned. 
1670.  At length giving way to fate, in sixteen hundred and seventy, was buried on the 25 of Octob. in the Church of S. Edmund before mentioned, being then accompanied to his grave by many of his persuasion.  
VAVASOR POWELL, having often told his friends, and the Brethren, not without boasting, that he was once a member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon, I shall therefore upon his word number him among these writers. Be it known therefore that this person who was famous in his generation for his ill name among those that were not of his opinion, was born in the borough of Knacklas in Radnorshire, Son of Rich. Howell an Ale-keeper there, by Penelope his Wife, Daughter of Will. Vavasor of Newtowne in Montgomeryshire He was brought up a Scholar saith the publisher 
(a) Edw. Bagshaw, as 'tis reported, pag. 106.  of his life, but the writer 
(b) Alex. Griffith, p. 1.2.  of Strena Vavasoriensis tells us that his employment was to walk Guests horses, by which finding no great gain at such a petty Alehouse, he was elevated in his thoughts for higher preferment, and so became an Ostler (I would say Grooms) to Mr. Isaac Thomas an Innkeeper and Mercer in Bishop's Castle in Shropshire, etc. The time that he came to the said Coll. must be, if true, about 1634, at which time he was 17 years of age, being then encouraged in his studies and exhibited to by his Uncle 
(c) Ib. in E. Bagshaw.  Erasmus Howell, but whether he was matriculated, or avoided it to save a little money, as many have done that intent to take no degree, I know not, nor what stay or progress he made in his studies in the said Coll. Sure it is, that soon after, his said Uncle got him to be settled at Clun in Shropshire, where he taught School first, and then was Curate, or as Strena 
(d) pag. 2.  saith took upon him the habit of Sir John, and lest without ordination (under the Episcopal government) he might incur the danger of suspension, borrowed of an old decayed Minister (his near kinsman) his letters of Orders, raiseth out the other, and inserts his own, name, and under colour of these counterfeit letters, he goes unsent, and begins to thunder out of the pulpits as if he had been a fiery spirit raised out of hell. But by reason of his inconformity, and the many errors he had broached, his calling was questioned, and the orders being well scanned, were found spurious and counterfeit, and he bound to appear at the next great Sessions to be held for the County of Radnor; (where he frequently preached after he had left Clun) so that upon his appearance and indictment for nonconformity, forging of orders and seditious doctrine, he was with much ado reprieved from the Gallows— Being thus disenabled to preach in Churches, he exercised his function in houses, railing always much against the Common prayer, and when hunted from thence he would preach in fields, under hedges, on the side of hills, and in obscure valleys, so that Radnorshire which before was a dark country (saith the canting and ridiculous account of his life) came to have much light, and in short space many eminent professors were begotten in it: at which Satan began to rage exceedingly, and stirred up some of his instruments to persecute the truth, laying wait for his time and liberty, some by a judicial way, some by violence till they drove him out of his Country— He therefore finding the persecution so hot against him (so are his 
(d) In the Account of his Conversion and Ministry, p. 11.  own words) that he could not be permitted to serve the Lord there, he did by the advice of his brethren, leave his native Country of Wales, and by the guidance and providence of God was carried and conducted safely to London, where he arrived in Aug. 1642. Being therefore settled in that place (than free for all opinions) he preached for two years together almost every day, either in Churches or Houses, venting with great malice all that he read or heard against the King and his proceedings, thundered out strange notions and unheard of blasphemies, and took all occasions to promote the blessed and righteous cause. At two years' end he settled at Dartford in Kent, where he spread his errors for two years more, to the great 
(e) Strena Vav. p. 3.  cheating and seducing poor souls. No sooner was Wales reduced under the power of the Parliament, an. 1646, but he received a call, and was desired to exercise his gifts in his own Country: Whereupon he retired to the Synod, that is the Ass. of Divines, to gain a Testimonial from them, but Steph. Martial questioning him about his ordination, told him that unless he would be ordained, or take Orders from the Presbytery, they could not approve of him. To which he answered that he was willing to be tried as a Christian, and as a Scholar, but had some doubts about ordination, etc. At length after some arguings about that matter, they gave him a certificate of his religious and blameless conversation, and of able gifts for the work of the Ministry, subscribed by Herle the Prolocutor and 17 of the Assembly, 11. Sept. 1646, being by that time patched up with several notorious Independents, of whom Philip Nye, Pet. Sterry, etc. were of the number. Upon his return into Wales, in the latter end of the said month, there was great joy expressed among the Brethren, but the honest and loyal party perceived full well that he returned 
(f) Ibid. See also in Merc. Cambro-Britannus: or, News from Wales, touching the miraculous propagation of the Gospel there, etc. Lond. 1652.  not out of any affection to the cause, but for his own designs, security and advantage, and became as active and vigorous as the perpetual motion of a tongue, or the invention of a wicked brain could possibly be for the rooting out of the Ministry, branding the calling as Anti-christian, and rendering their persons by all scandalous aspersions to become odious to the people. And for the more speedy effecting thereof, he, together with others of the same cut promoted the Act for propagation of the Gospel in Wales, so really intended by the pious care and charity of those members of Parliament, yet by the unworthy managing thereof by our author and his fellow Itinerants, it proved like another Ephesian image of Diana for the benefit only of this Demetrius and his tradesmen, the silver shrines taking up the whole devotion of that worship, etc. By virtue of the said Act most of the Ministers and Schoolmasters were silenced, and none were left to preach the Gospel save only Vav. powel and certain ignorant Itinerants, who were, as 'twere, his Journeymen. There was not one day but he road about the Country like an Apostle to scatter his doctrine among simple people, insomuch 
(g) So in his Life before quoted p. 107.  that there was but few, if any, of the Churches, Chapels, Town halls in Wales wherein he did not preach Christ: yea very often upon Mountains and very frequent in Fairs and Markets, etc. For his encouragement in this he had a stipend and salary of an hundred pound yearly, allowed him out of the prebend's, Deans, and Chapters and other tithes, besides the vast emoluments of many other sequestered benefices in North Wales, and the wages of divers of the Itinerants and Schoolmasters, who were the Journeymen and Stipendiaries, he being accounted the Metropolitan of them. Farther also he and they, or such as were their Agents, had 
(h) Strena, p. 5.  the disposal of above forty thousand pounds per an. in Tithes, Gleabes, Impropriations, Rents reserved, and other ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions from the year 1649 inclusive, till the latter end of 1653, at which time it was unaccounted for. In that, and the year after, he spoke against Oliver to his face, preached publicly against, and wrote letters to, him, for assuming to himself the office of a single person, that is, the Protectorship, for which he was more than once imprisoned, to the terror of his party. In the latter end of 1654. he raised and headed a party of fanatics on the rising of the Cavaliers at Salisbury, and did all his endeavours to keep down their rising in Wales: So that by his great Authority and gains in those parts, he, from a poor boy, (a Groom or Ostler, as the Author of Strena tells you) became great and wealthy, purchased some of the King's Fee-farm Rents and Lordships, for the most part in another man's name, and to perpetuate his memory built for himself a very fair and sumptuous house in Kerry in Montgomeryshire. In 1657 I find him in Oxford, where, being minded to show his parts, he did, by the help of some of the Brethren there, get into Allsaints Pulpit on Wednesday 15 July the same year; and having got together a great Auditory in a very short time as well of Scholars as Layicks (many of whom came purely out of novelty) he did first of all very plentifully rail against the Universities and humane Learning, and then against certain persons in Oxon: among which was Mr. Hen. Hickman Fellow of Magd. Coll, for whom he told the Auditory that the Pope would provide for him a Mitre, and the Devil a Frying-pan, etc. said upon no other account, as was conceived, but because the said Mr. Hickman spoke publicly in the Divinity-school in the last Vespers when he disputed upon this question An Ministri Anglicani habeant validam ordinationem? that the Church of Rome for aught he knew, was a true Church, or to that effect; not that he was drawn to say so by force of argument, but opinion. Upon the approach of the King's restauration, he was seized upon and imprisoned at Shrewsbury, and according to the opinion of those of his persuasion, he suffered much: of which matter hear what one 
(i) Hen. Jessey in his book intit. The Lords loud Call to England, etc. printed 1660. p. 13.  of his mind doth cantingly deliver, Mr. Vav. powel who is accounted by many Ministers and others, that knew him well, to be a man of God, mighty in Scriptures, an able and painful Preacher of the Gospel in a great part of North and South Wales, usually preaching as that learned, eminent and holy man of God John Calvin did, six or seven times, or oftener every week, to the saving of many from their sins and from hell and swift destruction thereby, was seized upon and imprisoned at Shrewsbury, as also many of his friends in several northern Counties in Wales, not for any crime committed by him or them; yea and divers of their houses plundered by Soldiers, showing no warrant for their proceedings therein. This was about the latter end of Feb. 1659., etc. He tells us also, that in South Wales some of the Congregation, with that precious man of God Mr. Jenkin Jones, who preached the Gospel in several Counties as Mr. Vavasor powel did, was imprisoned also, as was Thom. Gwinn a Gentleman Cavalier in Wales, who about 1657, was wrought upon by the Ministry of the said Jones, and brought over to his party: But the said Jones and Gwinn were not imprisoned till his Maj. Restauration. About that time all the lands and tenements that had been purchased by V. powel were taken from him, and he removed from Shrewsbury where he was much haunted by his party, into Mountgomeryshire, and there kept in close custody, and from thence to the Prison called the Fleet in London. In 1662. he was translated thence to Southsea Castle near Portsmouth, where continuing 5 years, became intimate with Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch, who also was committed Prisoner to that place while Powel was there. In 1667 he was removed by Habeas Corpus obtained in Mich term; and being set at liberty, he retired to Wales; but before ten months' end, falling to the trade of conventicling and preaching Sedition, he was made Prisoner again at Cardiff 1668, and the year following was sent to the Fleet again, (being then at Lambeth, because not then rebuilt, after it had been burnt down by the dismal Conflagration that happened in Lond. 1666) where he continued till he was discharged by death. He was a person of good natural parts, but a grand Schismatic, a busy body, pragmatical, bold, and an indefatigable enemy to Monarchy and Episcopacy. What his Religion was I cannot justly tell you: some held him to be an Anabaptist, others a Fifth-monarchy man and a Millinery: sure it is he was neither Presbyterian or Independent, but a most dangerous and pestilent man, and one that did more mischief to his native Country of Wales, than can be imagined. As for those Books and Pamphlets which go under his name, they are these.  
Disputation between him and Joh. Goodwin concerning universal Redemption, held in Colemanstreet, Lond. 31 Dec. 1649. Lond. 1650. qu. The Reader may be pleased now to know that V. powel, upon this dispute, supposing himself able to encounter any Minister in Wales, did after his settlement there send a bold challenge to any Minister or Scholar, that opposed him or his brethren, to dispute on these two questions, (1) Whether your calling or ours (which you so much speak against) be most warrantable, and nearest to the word of God? (2) Whether your mixed ways, or ours of Separation, be nearest the word of God? This Challenge being sent flying abroad 11 of June 1652, it came into the hands of Dr. George Griffith of Llanymynech in Shropsh. who looking upon it as sent to him, he returned an answer in Latin two days after, with promise on certain conditions, to dispute with him, either in private or public. On the 19 of the same month, V. powel returned a reply in Lat. from Redcastle, but so full of barbarities, that any Schoolboy of 10 years of age might have done better. After this the Doctor made a rejoinder in elegant Latin, wherein he corrected powel for his false Grammar, Barbarisms and Solecisms, and did set a day whereon they should meet to dispute on the aforesaid questions: but the time, place, and method, with conveniences being discussed and delayed from time to time, the disputation was not held till the 23 of July following. At that time both parties meeting in the company of their friends, Powell's cause fell to the ground, merely, as 'twas conceived, for want of Academical learning, and the true way of arguing. So that he being then much guilty of his own weakness, endeavoured to recover it and his reputation by putting a relation of the Dispute in the Newsbook called the Perfect Diurnal, as if he had been the Conqueror. Which relation redounding much to the dishonour of the Doctor, he the said Doctor did publish a Pamphlet intit. Animadversions on, etc. See more in George Griffith among these Writers, an. 1666. p. 270. V. powel hath also written and published,  
Scriptures concord: or, a Catechism compiled out of the words of the Scripture, etc. Lond. 1647. oct. sec. edit. ibid. 1653. fifth edit.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Christ exalted by the Father, God the Father glorified, and Man's redemption finished, preached before the L. Mayor of Lond. Lond. 1649. qu. etc.  
Christ and Moses excellency: or, Zion and Sinah's glory; being a triplex treatise, distinguishing and explaining the two Covenants of the Gospel and the Law, etc. Lond. 1650. oct.  
Dialogue between Christ and a Publican, and Christ and a doubting Christian.  
Common-prayer book no divine service. A small curb to the Bishop's career, etc. Lond. 1660. in 5 sh. in qu.  
The bird in the cage chirping, etc. Lond. 1661.— 2. oct. Written while he was in Prison.  
The Sufferers Catechism— Written also when he was in Prison.  
Brief Narrative concerning the proceedings of the Commissioners in Wales against the ejected Clergy— Written upon the spreading of a report that he was put in the Fleet Prison for a great part of the Revenue of the Tithes of Wales: from which aspersion, as the Brethren called it, though a friend of his had written a Pamphlet called Examen & purgamen Vavasoris an. 1653, yet not knowing how far such a report might influence to the reproach of the Gospel, he did publish the said Pamphlet.  
The youngman's conflict with the Devil— Printed in oct. This I have not yet seen.  
Sinful and sinless swearing.  
An Account of his Conversion and Ministry. Lond. 1671. oct. 'Tis a canting and enthusiastical piece.  
A confession of Faith concerning the holy Scriptures— Printed with the said Account, as also two little Appendices.  
Some gracious, experimental, and very choice Sayings and Sentences.— Pr. also with the said Account.  
Certain Hymns.— There also.  
His deathbed Expressions.  
A new and useful Concordance of the Bible: with the chief acceptations and various significations contained therein. Also marks to distinguish the commands, promises and threatenings. Lond. 1671 and 73. oct. This was mostly done by V. powel, but finished by N. P. and J. F. etc. Commended to the world by Edw. Bagshaw and J. Hardcastle, and afterwards by Jo Owen D. D.  
Collection of those Scripture-Prophecies which relate to the call of the Jews, and the glory that shall be in the latter days.— Printed at the end of the said Concordance, to which was afterwards (1673) added near nine thousand Scriptures omitted in the former Edition: with the addition of the Scripture Similes, etc.— The most ingenious Mrs. Kath. Philipps of the Priory of Cardigan hath among her Poetry a Poem upon the double murder of K. Ch. 1, in answer to a libellous copy of rhymes made by V. Powel, but in what book those rhymes are, or whether they were printed by themselves, I cannot tell. He died in the Fleet prison before mentioned on the 27 of Oct. in sixteen hundred and seventy, and was buried at the lower or west end of the fanatical burial place near to Bunhill and the New Artillery garden in the Suburb of London in the presence of innumerable Dissenters that then followed his corpse. 
1670.  Over his grave was soon after erected an altar-monument of free stone; on the plank of which, was engraven this epitaph made by his dear friend E. Bagshaw before mentioned. Vavasor powel, a successful teacher of the past, a sincere witness of the present, and an useful example to the future, age, lies here interred, who in the defection of so many, obtained mercy to be found faithful; for which being called to several prisons, he was there tried, and would not accept deliverance, expecting a better resurrection. In hope of which he finished this life and testimony together, in the eleventh year of his imprisonment, and in the 53 year of his age, Octob. 27. an. 1671.  
In vain Oppressors do themselves perplex,  
To find out arts how they the Saints may vex.  
Death spoils their plots, and sets the oppressed free,  
Thus Vavasor obtained true liberty.  
Christ him released, and now he's joined among  
The martyred Souls, with whom he cries How long!  Rev. 6.10. 
I have been informed by M. Ll, who knew and was acquainted with V. powel, that he was wont to say that there were but two sorts of people that had Religion, viz. the gathered Churches and the Rom. Catholics, and would not allow it to the Church of England men or to the Presbyterians. He farther informed me, that when he preached, a mist or smoke would issue from his head, so great an agitation of spirit he had, etc. and therefore 'twas usually reported by some, especially those that favoured him, that he represented the Saints of old time, that had rays painted about their heads.  
JOHN HARMAR an excellent Grecian of his time, was born at Churchdowne commonly called Chursden near to, and in the County of, Gloucester, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, became a Semicommoner or Demie of Magd. Coll. 1611, aged 17 years or more, being then about an years standing in the University, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1617., which was the highest Acad. degree he took, though afterwards he was always called by the name of Doctor Harmar. About that time he entered into holy Orders, was Usher of the School joining to his College, and a Preacher for some time in these parts. At length he became the chief Master of the Free-school at S. Alban in Hertfordshire, and thro' some petite and pedagogical employments, (of which the under-Mastership of the Coll. school at Westm. was one) the King's Greek Professor of this University and Rector of the Donative of Ewhurst in Hampshire; the Patron of which being a convicted Recusant, the Vicechancellor and Masters did elect and present him thereunto, 30 March 1659. by virtue of the Chancellors letters (Rich. Cromwell whom he highly flattered) written in his behalf. But losing those two places after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2, he retired to Steventon in Hampshire, where he mostly lived on the Jointure of his wife. He was a most excellent Philologist, and a tolerable Latin Poet; was happy in rendering Greek into Latin, or Latin into English, or English into Greek or Latin, whether in prose or verse; which we now call transversing and transprosing. But as in these he did excel, and therefore often made use of by Scholars, so did he go beyond all that I knew of his condition, that affected popular applause, he being of so credulous a humour, as to take all that was said or done to him, to redound to his honour and credit, much like the humour of Tom Coryate, who was a Whetstone for the Wits of his time. Besides all this, he being also a mere Scholar, and therefore mostly in a poor and shabbed condition, whether in his way of living, or habit, he flattered all Men and Powers that were uppermost, whether lawful or usurping, and endeavoured to make himself known to all Patrons of Learning, if it were only for a meals meat, or gain applause. He hath written and published these things following.  
Praxis Grammatica: verum & genuinum declinationum & conjugationum usum liquidò indicans etc. cum sententiis & facetiis. Lond. 1622. 23. oct.  
Janua Linguarum: sive methodus & ratio compendiaria & facilis ad omnes linguas, ad latinum verò maximè aperiens, etc. Lond. 1617. qu. the sixth edition. There again in 1631.  
Eclogae sententiarum & similitudinum, è D. Chrysostomo deceptae, Graec. & Lat. cum annot. Lond. 1622. oct.  
Protomartyr Britannus. Seu Elegia sacra in conversionem & Martyrium S. Albani. Lond. 1630. qu. in one sh.  
Lexicon etymologicon Graecum, junctim cum Scapula. Lond. 1637. fol.  
De lieu venerea, libellus. This I have not yet seen, only a lat. copy of verses written in praise of it in the Poems of Tho. Philipot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr.  
Epistola ad D. Lambertum Osbaldestonum, cui intexitur Apologia pro honoratiss. illustrissimoque viro ac Domino, D. Johanne Williams Archiep. Eborac. & Angliae Primate. Lond. 1649. oct.  
Oratio Oxoniae habita, in schola publicâ Linguae Graecae assignatâ, 15 Kal. Aug. 1650. Lond. 1650. oct. Dedicated to Francis Rous, afterwards one of Olivers Lords.  
Oratio sereniss. Protectoris elogium complectens, Oxoniae habita quinto Kal. Maii 1654. Oxon. 1654. qu.  
Ad Protectorem carmina de pace cum Belgis sancitâ. This is printed with the Oration, and both are contained in less than two sh.  
Oratio gratulatoria inaugurationi nobiliss. honoratissimique Domini, D. Richardi Cromwelli etc. in Oxoniensis Academiae Cancellariatum consecrati etc. Oxon. 1657. oct.  
Oratio steliteutica Oxoniae habita 14 Oct. 1657. sive stricturae in hujus aevi delatores & pasquillos, & in Terrae filios (quos vocant) eorumque similes, Elisae; qui in Comitiis Oxoniensibus, mense Julio annuatim celebrari solitis, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. This was published purposely to flatter the Presbyterian and Independent Heads of the University, for which he was laughed at by the Masters and Juniors.  
Vindiciae Academiae Oxoniensis: sive oratio apologetica, quâ exercitiorum Academicorum in trimestre vacat. à crimine vindicatur, Oxon. 1662. oct.  
Marci Tullii Ciceronis vita, ex optimis quibusque scriptoribus delibata, & in compendium reducta. Oxon. 1662. in a little oct. in 3 sh.  
Oratio panegyrica in honour. Car. 2. etc. in Angliam, plaudente orbe Britannico, remigrantis, habita Oxoniae 27 Maii 1660. Oxon. 1660. 63. oct.  
Poemata Gr. & Lat. de Rege & Regina, & in nuptias Regias. These Poems are printed with the 2 edit. of the said Oration, and both are contained in 2 sh. in a large oct. He also translated from Lat. into English, (1) The mirror of humility, or two eloquent and acute discourses upon the nativity and passion of Christ, etc. Lond. 1618. oct. Written by Dan. Hensius. (2) From English into Gr. and Lat. The lesser or shorter Catechism, made by the Ass. of Divines.— Lond. 1659., 60. oct. Dedicated to Rich. Cromwell, the Parliament and University of Oxon. (3) From Engl. into Lat. A treatise or discourse concerning Ambassadors. Lond. 1664, oct. Written by Jam. Howell, and one or more of the Plays of Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, for which he was well rewarded. He paid his last debt to nature at Steventon in Hampshire (near to Newbury in Berks.) on Allsaints day in sixteen hundred and seventy, 
1670.  and was buried in the Churchyard there, partly, if not altogether, at the charge of Nich. Lloyd M. A. and Fellow of Wadham Coll, who always had a singular respect for him, and for his most excellent knowledge in the Greek and Latin Tongues.  
RICHARD GARDINER was born, and bred in Grammar learning, within the City of Hereford, made Student of Ch. Ch. in 1607 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a acquaint Preacher and Orator. At length by the favour of K. Jam. 1, who had been much pleased with a Speech that he had spoken before him in the Scotch tone when he was Deputy Orator, he gave him the reversion of the next Canonry of Ch. Changed: which afterwards falling void by the death of Dr. Tho. Thornton, he was installed therein 1629, and in the year following taking the degrees in Divinity, he was made one of the Chaplains in ord: to King Ch. 1. In 1648 he was thrust out of his Canonry by the Parl. Visitors, and for 12 years together lived obscurely in Oxon. After the return of K. Ch. 2, he was restored to what he before had lost, and whatsoever he got from that time to the day of his death, he bestowed on charitable uses, his kindred, and the College which gave him breeding. He hath published  
Many Sermons, as (1) Serm. at S. Mary's on Act Sunday 1622, on Gen. 45.8. Oxon. 1622. qu. (2) Serm. on Christm. day, on S. Joh. 1. the beg. of the 14 verse. Ox. 1638. qu. (3) Serm. on Easter day at Ox. in S. Peter's Church in the East, on Rom. 8.11. Ox. 1638. qu. (4) Serm. conc. the Epiphany, on Math. 2. ver. 2. Ox. 1639. qu. (5) Serm. at S. Paul's Church on his Maj. day of inauguration, 27 March 1642, on 1 Tim. 2.1.2. Lond. 1642. qu. (6) Sixteen Serm. preached in the Uniu. of Oxon and at Court. Lond. 1659. oct. The first is on Luke 13.23.24. The sec. on Joh. 2.11. and the third on Luke 7. part of the 47 verse, etc. (7) Serm. at Bow Church in Lond. on the Anniversary meeting of Herefordshire Natives, 24 Jun. 1658, on S. Joh. 19.27. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Concio ad Clerum in Templo B. Mariae 14 Feb. in 1 Tim. 4.14. Ox. 1631. qu.  
Specimen Oratorium. Lond. 1653. in 2 sh. in oct. In which is (1) A Letter from the Uniu. of Oxon. to K. Jam. 1. to thank him for his Works which he gave to the public Library. (2) Oration in the Convocation when the Members of the Uniu. received them. (3) Fun. Oration on Dr. Budden, 1620, (4) Oration in K. Hen. 7. Chapel at Westminster 11 Nou. 1640, when the Dean of Chichester was presented Prolocutor to the Convocation. (5) Gratulation for the King's safe return from Edghill battle 29. Oct. 1642. This little book was published again in 1657, and in 1662. in a little oct. with the additions of (1) Art. Bac. ex. Ed. Ch. Oxon Progymnasmata (2) Epistolae nonnullae è cumulo exceptae, nomini Subdecani inscriptae. (3) Orationes & Epistolae, etc. All which were again printed at Oxon 1668. 1675 etc. He died on the 20 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and seventy, aged 79, and was buried in one of the isles joining to the choir of Ch. Ch. Cathedral, 
1670.  on the north side. You may see his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Canonry succeeded Rob. South D. D. and Student of Ch. Ch, being but the fourth Canon of his stall since the foundation of the Cathedral by K. Hen. 8. The first wos Tho. Day LL. Bac. 1546. The second was Tho. Thornton D. D. an. 1567. and the third Dr. Gardiner, 1629, as before I have told you.  
HENRY THURMAN the Son, if I mistake not, of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex (who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest, an. 1643) was educated in Westminster School, and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline, became a Preacher some years before his Majesty's restauration; but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return, he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents: So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party, had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex. He hath written,  
A defence of humane learning in the Ministry: Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister (or Preacher) should be skilled in humane learning. Oxon. 1660. oct. Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it, for which he was then rewarded, but not altogether to his mind. This book being published in Mich. term 1659., was looked upon as a seasonable piece of service, because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake, and had certainly gone to the pot, had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief. This Mr. Thurman, 
1670.  died about sixteen hundred and seventy, in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch, have informed me, but where buried they could not further add.  
CORBET OWEN son of Will. Owen of Pontsbury in Shropshire Minister, was born at Hinton in that County, an. 1646 educated in the first rudiments of Grammar in a private School in Shrewsbury under one Scofield a loyal Parson (emulated by the Town Free-school under the government of the Saints) where he profited very much, and more might he have done, had not his friends sent him into France, and thence into Flanders to be touched by the then exiled King for the cure of the King's Evil, of which he was once so lame that he went upon crutches. In the month of May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster School, and in the year following, he was elected one of the King's Scholars there, where 'twas usual with him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex tempore, in little more than half an hour. In 1664 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and in short time was well versed in the most crabbed subtleties of Philosophy. After he was Bach. of Arts he applied himself to the study of Physic, in which he made so wonderful a progress, that had he lived, he would have gone beyond all of his time in that faculty. In 1670 he proceeded M. of A. and had there been an Act celebrated that year (which was put off because of the death of the Duchess of Orleans) he would have performed the exercise belonging to the Senior of that solemnity, and thereby would, as 'tis probable, have showed himself as excellent for Oratory, as he had the year before done for his poetry. He was the most forward person of his age in the University for his polite learning. He was enriched with a great and happy memory, a most accurate judgement, and with a clear and quick wit. He hath written,  
Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum, in solennibus magnifici operis Encaeniis. Oxon. 1669 in 4. sh. in qu.  
Divers poems. MS.— with translations of Poetry, particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille, (often acted on the French stage) which he rendered into English vers. He died to the great reluctancy of all those who were well acquainted with the wonderful pregnancy of his parts, about the 18. day of January in sixteen hundred and seventy, 
1671.  and was buried in the Church at Cundore in Shropshire. Soon after was a large epitaph made for, by one that entirely loved, him; but whether it was put over his grave, I know not. The beginning is this. Siste viator, & irrita naturae virtutisque molimina, vel risu vel lachrymis prosequere, etc.  
JOHN MAN'S the third Son of Andr. Man's Esq. (by Jane his second Wife, Daughter of John Blechendon Esq.) Son of Matthew Man's, was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in Kent, on the eleventh of May 1598. and was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there. In the 17th year of his age, or thereabouts, he became a Com. of Corp. Ch. Coll. where continuing for some years, did advance himself much in several sort● of learning, especially in Humanity and Poetry and something in History. Afterwards he became a great Traveller, a most noted Seaman, and as well skilled in marine affairs, in building of Ships, and all belonging thereunto, as any man of his time. In the reign of K. Jam. 1, he had a place in the Navy-Office, and in the reign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it. In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots. In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral, and by that title did he receive the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover, in the month of Feb. the same year. Afterwards, upon the breaking out of the rebellion, he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty, and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral, but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell; sure I am that when his Majesty's cause declined, he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England; who being successless, he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile, took his fortune as other Royalists did, yet always in a gay, cheerful and merry condition. After the return of his Majesty from his Exile, he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him, which he kept to his dying day, being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man, generous and religious, and well skilled in Physic and Chemistry. This Person who was always poetically given, and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men, was author of the greater part of a book intit.  
Musarum dilitiae: or, the Muse's recreation, containing several pieces of poetic wit. Lond. 1656. oct. 2d. edit. James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it. Sir John Man's hath also written.  
Epsom Wells, a poem.— Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other men's works. He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert, and did assist, as I have been credibly informed, Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry; on whom, and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy, he wrote a scoffing ballad. At length he having lived beyond the age of man, concluded his last day in the Navy-Office in Seething-lane within the City of London, on Saturday the 18. of Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventy: 
167●.  Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church of S. Olaves in Hartstreet, on the 27 day of the same month. Soon after was a neat monument erected over his grave, with an inscription thereon, much becoming the person for whom it was set up. His eldest Brother, which his Father had by his first Wife Elizabeth Warham, was named Matthew, who was created Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 1. The second was named Thomas, who was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Sandwich, in Janu. 1631.  
EDWARD LEIGH Esq. Son of Hen. Leigh, was born at Shawell in Leycestershire, 24. of March 1602, being the day and year on which Qu. Elizabeth deceased, bred in Grammar learning under one Mr. Lo of Walshall in Staffordshire, became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Will. Pemble, an. 1616, ran through the severe discipline then and there used, and proceeded in Arts in 1623.: But before his Regency was expired, he went to the Middle Temple and studied the common Law, (wherein he made considerable progress) yet before he had been there two years, he, with others were forced thence by though great plague that violently raged in London, an. 1625. So that instead of retiring into the Country, he went into France and spent there half an year with great improvement to himself and his studies. After his return he spent some years in the said Temple, not only in the study of the Laws but of Divinity and History; in both which in his elder years he attained to some eminence. Afterwards he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire, and became a constant hearer for some time of that noted puritanical preacher Will. Wheatley. But he dying in 1639 our author Leigh receded to London, where continuing till the civil distempers broke forth, was upon the withdrawing of divers members of that unhappy convention called the Long Parliament, to the King at Oxon, chose a Recruiter or Burgess for the Town of Stafford. Afterwards, upon a vacancy, he was appointed one of the House of Commons to sit in the Ass. of Divines (as did Philip Earl of Pembroke, Will. Visc. Say etc. of the House of Lords) with Joh. Selden, Franc. Rous, Bulstr. Whitlock, etc. other members of the said house; where he behaved himself as learnedly as most of the Divines then sitting. He was also then a Colonel of a regiment for the Parliament, was Custos Rotulorum for the County of Stafford, and afterwards was numbered among those Presbyterian members that were turned out of the House of Commons by the Army 6. Dec. 1648 and imprisoned thereupon in the public Inn called the King's head in the Strand. From which time till towards the King's restauration (when he with the rest of the ejected members then living, were restored by General Monk to their places in Parliament) he had little else to do but to write books, the titles of which, among others, which he wrote before that time, do follow.  
Selected and choice observations concerning the twelve first Caesar's &c. Oxon. 1635. oct. To which he added six more, making up the number 18, which were printed with the former, in another Edition. The observations on the rest that followed, were made by Henry Leigh the author's eldest Son, M. of A. of Magd. Hall, which being printed with the former at Lond. 1657 in oct, had this title put to them Analecta Caesarum Romanorum. Afterwards they were illustrated with their several effigies and coins— Lond. 1664. oct, and in another Edit. that came out in 1670 in oct. they had observations of the Greek Emperors added to them by the same hand.  
Treatise of Divine promises, in 5. books. Lond. 1633, there again the third time 1650, and the fourth in 1657. octavo.  
Critica sacra, on the Hebrew words of the old, and on the Greek of the New, Testament. Lond. 1639 and 46. in qu. There again in two parts in fol. 1662. In which book, the author expressing his great skill in the Languages, was the reason therefore why the learned Usher primate of Ireland had a respect and kindness for him.  
Supplement to the Critica sacra. Lond. 1662. fol.  
A Treatise of Divinity in three books. Lond. 1646. qu.  
The Saint's encouragement in evil times: or, observations concerning the Martyrs in general. Lond. 1648. 51. oct.  
Annotations on all the New Test. Lond. 1650. fol.  
A philological Commentary: or, an illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the Law, with their distinctions and divers, acceptations, as they are found as well in Reports ancient and modern, as in records and memorial never printed. Lond. 1652. 58. 71. oct.  
A Systeme or body of Divinity in 10 books Lond. 1654. and 62. fol.  
Treatise of religion and learning in 6. books Lond. 1656. fol. Which book, laying dead on the Booksellers hands, had this title put to it in 1663. Faelix consortium: or, a fit conjuncture of religion and learning, in one entire volume, consisting of six books, etc. From which Treatise Will. Crow of Suffolk, Master of the Free-school at Croyden in Surrey took many things when he composed his Elenchus Scriptorum in sacram scripturam, etc. Lond. 1672. octavo.  
Choice French proverbs. Lond. 1657. 64. oct.  
Annotations on the five poetical books of the old Test. viz. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Canticles. Lond. 1657. fol.  
Second considerations of the High Court of Chancery. Lond. 1658. in 2 sh. in qu.  
England described: or, the Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled. Lond. 1659. oct. Copied mostly from Camden.  
Choice observations on all the Kings of England from the Saxons to the death of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. oct.  
Three Diatriabes or discourses, 1. Of travel. 2. Of money. 3. Of measuring, etc. Lond. 1671. oct. This book is called in another edit. 1680. The Gentleman's guide in the three discourses, etc. He also published The Magistrate's Authority, in two Sermons, Lond. 1647 qu. penned by Christopher Cartwright B. of Diu. and Minister at York. To which our Author Leigh put a preface, to vindicate himself against a lying pamphlet, as he calls it, which entitles him, a man of a fiery disposition, and one generally made chairman upon any business that doth concern the Clergy. He paid his last debt to nature in his house called Rushall Hall, on the second day of June, 
1671.  in sixteen hundred seventy and one, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Rushall near to Walshall, a Market Town in Staffordshire, before mentioned, as I have been informed by letters written to me by his Son Henry.  
EDMUND STANTON son of Sir Franc. Stanton Knight, was born in Bedfordshire, became a Communer of Wadham Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged about 14 years, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year, and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders, he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire; but his title to the Rectory being weak, he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey. In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity, and being puritanically affected, he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers, was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London, and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament. In 1648 he was, for the services done for the cause, constituted Precedent of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being, and so long as he kept that place he showed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline. Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement, as before he had done the Covenant; but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him, whose bread he had eaten for 12 years, he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth, where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews' day, an. 1662., was then silenced for Nonconformity. He hath published,  
Several Sermons as (1) Rupes Israelis: the rock of Israel, preached at S. Marg. Westm. before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644, on Deut. 32.31. Lond. 1644. qu. (2) Phinehas' zeal in execution of judgement, Fast-serm. before the House of Lords, 30 oct. 1644. on Psal. 106.30. Lond. 1645. qu. (3) Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9 Dec. 1654., at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall, on 1. Thes. 4.14. Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death, 2 Verses and Elegies on her death, made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Uniu. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll, Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband, etc. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen.  
Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Treatise of Christian conference.— Pr. with the Dialogue. He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire (after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years) on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671.  and was buried in the Church there. His life, such as 'tis, was written by one Richard Mayow; wherein the reader may satisfy himself more of the Doctor, but not so fully, as may be wished, unless he reads the Appendix to it, written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clerk in his collection of printed lives 1683, involves all or most of that written by Mayow, without taking any notice of the Appendix, either because he had not seen it, or that it was too satirical, or made much against the Doctor, as it doth with unquestionable veracity. Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames, but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662., and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer. Pr. in oct.  
MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac, son of Arnold, Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife; which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan, both eminent men of their times, as their works manifest. This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention, who was descended from both sides of learned Parents, was born within the City of Geneva in France, in the month of Sept. 1599, and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father, was instructed by a private Master till 1614, at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University; where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. à Meetkirk the King's Hebr. Professor, was soon after elected Student of that House, and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logic and Philosophy, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1621., at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences. In the same year, though he was then young, he published a Book in defence of his Father, against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholic, as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following: Which making him known to K. Jam. 1, he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him. That book brought him also into credit abroad, especially in France, whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there, his Godfather Meric de Vic (sometimes Governor of Calis) being then, or soon after, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom. The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris, etc. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days, of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation. About that time, he being beneficed in Somersetshire, (at Bledon) by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton▪ and Bach. of Diu. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals, but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations. At length when he came to maturity of years, for such a work, and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design, (who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire, to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose) the troubles and divisions began in England: so that he having no certain place, was forced to sell a good part of his books, and in conclusion after 20 years' sufferings, more or less, he was grown so old and crazy in body, that he could not expect to live many years, and thereupon was forced to give over that project. Some years after his publication of the said two books, he was made Prebendary of Canterbury, (by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not) Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence, and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Diu. by command from his Majesty, when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there. In the beginning of the Civil War that followed, he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left. In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys' Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon, brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment, but his Wife being then lately dead, and not, as he said, buried, he desired to be excused. Afterwards Greaves came again, and our author being in some disorder for it, fearing that evil might follow, he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter▪ but Greaves refusing, went away the second time. At length he returned again and told him that the Lieu. Gen. intended his good and advancement, and that his particular errand was that he would make use of his Pen to write the History of the late War, desiring withal that nothing but matters of fact be impartially set down, etc. To which he returned answer, that he desired his humble service and hearty thanks be returned for that great honour done unto him, and withal, that he was uncapable in several respects for such an employment, and could not so impartially engage in it, but that his subject would force him to make such reflections as would be ungrateful, if not injurious, to his Lordship. Notwithshanding this answer, Cromwell seemed so sensible of his worth, that though he could not win him over to his desires, yet he acknowledged a great respect for him, and as a testimony thereof, he ordered that upon the first demand there should be delivered three or four hundred pounds by a certain Bookseller in London (whose name was Cromwell) whensoever his occasions should require, without acknowledging any benefactor at the receipt of it. But this offer, as I have been informed by our author's Son John Casaubon a Chirurgeon of Canterbury, he scorned to accept, though his condition was then mean. At the same time it was proposed by the said Greaves (who belonged to the library at S. James) that if our author would gratify him in the foregoing request, Cromwell would restore unto him all his Father's books, which were then in the Royal Library there, (given by K. James, who had invited him into England) and withal a Patent for 300 l. per an. to be paid to the family so long as the youngest Son of Dr. Is. Casaubon should live; but this also was refused. Not long after there was a proposal made by the then Sweedish Ambassador in England from Christina Qu. of Sweedland to our author M. Casaubon, whereby he was invited by the said Queen into her Country to have the government of one, or inspection of all her Universities, and for an encouragement she proposed not only an honourable Salary for himself, but offered to settle 300 l. per an. upon his eldest Son during life: But this also was waved, with full design to spend the remainder of his days in England. After the Kings return he was restored to his Spiritualities, and went on in writing books, which he continued almost to his last. He was a general Scholar, but not extraordinary in any one sort, unless in criticisms, wherein his Father's notes might probably have set him up. He was also a religious man, loyal to his Prince, exemplary in his life and conversation, and very charitable to the poor. The Writings and Translations which he published were many, as the Catalogue following will tell you.  
Pietas contra maledicos patrii nominis & religionis hosts. Lond. 1621. oct.  
Vindicatio patris adversus impostores, qui librum ineptum & impium De origine idolatriae nuper sub Isaaci Casauboni nomine publicavit. Lond. 1624. 25. in 8. sh. in qu. Which book Of the original of idolatry, was translated out of a French copy by Abr. Darcy, (Isaac Casaubon having been dead about 10 years before) and was dedicated to Prince Charles, and presented to K. James and all the Lords of the Council. It is said to have been written before Isaac Casaubon was born, but his name being fraudently inserted in the title page, Meric the Son who was then a Student of Ch. Ch. informed his Majesty by Letters of the wrong done to his Father by making him the author of such a book contrary to his Genius and constant profession, being full of impertinent allegations out of obscure and late authors, whom his Father never thought worthy the reading, much less the using their authority. After his Majesty's perusal of that letter he was much incensed at the matter, and Dr. Mountaigne Bishop of Lond. had 
(a) Tho. Fuller in his Church Hist. Lib. 10. Sect. 17.18. etc.  much ado to make his Chaplains peace for licensing it, the printer and translator being for some time kept in prison. Yet after all this, the same translation was printed at Amsterdam, with a justificatory preface of the former edition, to make the book more vendible for their own profit, though discredit to the memory of others. He the said Mer. Casaubon hath also written,  
Notae & emendationes in Optatum Afrum Milevitani Episcopum de schismate Donatistarum. Lond. 1631. oct.  
Translation out of Gr. into English of, and notes upon, Marc. Aurel. Antoninus his meditations concerning himself. Lond. 1634. 35. qu. Revised and corrected— Lond. 1664. oct. 3d. edit. etc.  
Treatise of use and custom, in things natural, civil, and divine. Lond. 1638. qu.  
The use of daily public prayers in three positions▪ Lond. 1641. qu.  
Notae & emendationes in Marci Antonini Imperatoris de seipso & ad seipsum libros XII. Lond. 1643. oct. Guil. Xylander did first of all make the said book public in Gr. and Lat▪ Which version our author did mend in many places, and made it new, etc.  
The original cause of temporal evils. Lond. 1645. qu.  
Discourse concerning Christ his incarnation and exinanition. Lond. 1646. qu. Before which is an introduction Concerning the principles of Christianity and Divinity.  
De verborum usu, & accuratae eorum cognitionis utilitate, Diatriba. Lond. 1647. in tw.  
De quatuor linguis commentationis pars prior: quae, de lingua Hebraica: &, de lingua Saxonica. Lond. 1650 oct. The author had not opportunity of finishing the other two tongues, Gr. and Lat.  
Some annotations on the Psalms and Proverbs— Done at the earnest request of certain Booksellers, whereof our author hath given a farther account in the first part of Credulity, p. 106. Which Annotations were in the last edit. of the Assemblies Annotations on the Bible, reprinted with some additions.  
Notae in Hieroclem de providentia & fato. Lond. 1655. octavo.  
Treatise concerning Enthusiasm, as it is an effect of nature; but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration, or diabolical possession. Lond. 1655. 56. oct.  
Translation into Engl. of, and notes on, Luc. Florus Hist. of the Romans. Lond. 1658. 59 oct.  

Notae in Epicteti Enchiridion. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Notae in Cebetis tabulam. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Notae in Paraphrasin Enchiridii. Lond. 1659. oct.   
De nupera Homeri Editione Lugdunâ-Batavicâ, Hackiana dissertatio. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Dissertatiuncula super loco Homerico, quo Dei in hominem tam mentes quam fortunas imperium asseritur. Printed with the former book, 1659.  
Vindication of the Lords prayer as a formal prayer, and by Christ's institution to be used by Christians as a prayer. Lond. 1660. oct. The first occasion of writing this treatise, was the relation of a strange affront done publicly unto Christ, or, if you will, more punctually to the Lords Prayer in the chief Church of Oxon, by one (Dr. John Owen) that had under the usurping powers the chief government of that famous University from 1652 to 1657. Concerning the heinousness of which affront, viz. by putting on his hat when the Lords Prayer was repeating by the preacher, see in Mr. Tho. Longs book intit. No Protestant but Dissenters plot, etc. p. 167. 168. See also in Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia ejectis; written, as 'tis said, by Mr. Hen. Hickman, who blames him also for it. This action is denied by Dr. Owen that he ever did it, in a letter 
(b) See in Dr. Jo. durels book, entit. Vindiciae Eccles. Angl. Cap. 3. p. 33.  to Dr. Lew. du Moulin, but therein he doth err much, for several now living in Oxon know it well enough.  
A King and his Subjects unhappily fallen out, and happily reconciled, in a Serm. at Canterbury on Hosea 3. ver. 4.5. Lond. 1660. qu.  
The question to whom it belonged anciently to preach, and whether all Priests might or did. Discussed out of antiquity, as also what preaching is properly. Lond. 1663. qu.  
Notae & emendationes in Diog. Laertium de Vitis, etc. Philosophorum. Lond. 1664. fol.  
Of the necessity of reformation in, and before, Luther's time, occasioned by some virulent books written by Papists, but especially by that entit. Labarinthus Cantuariensis. Lond. 1664. qu.  
Answer concerning the new way of infallibility, lately devised to uphold the Rom. cause; the holy Scriptures; the ancient Fathers and Councils laid aside, against J. S. (the author of Sure-footing) his letter lately published. Lond. 1665. qu. The said letter by J. S. that is Joh. Sargeant contained exceptions against some passages in the former book, viz. Of the necessity, etc. which letter was printed at the end of Sure footing in Christianity, and follows the four Appendices relating to Dr. Tho. Pierce, Dr. Dan. Whitby, Dr. J. Stillingfleet and Dr. Jer. Taylor— Printed 1664 in a large oct.  
Notae in duas posteriores Terentii Comaedias. Amstel. 1669. in tw.  
Letter to Dr. Pet. du Moulin D. D. and Prebendary of Canterb. concerning natural experimental Philosophy, and some books lately set out about it. Cambr. 1669 in 5. sh. in qu.  
Of credulity and incredulity in things natural and civil, etc. in two parts.— The first was printed at London 1668. oct. The second in Things divine and spiritual, was printed at the same place also 1670. oct. In this last part he takes a view of John Wagstaff's book entit. The question of witchcraft debated, Lond. 1669. oct. But these two parts lying dead on the Booksellers hands, they printed a new title to them running thus, A Treatise proving Spirits, Witches and supernatural operations by pregnant instances and evidences, etc. Lond. 1672. oct, the Author being then dead.  
Notae in Polybium. Amstel. 1670. oct. in the third Vol published by Jac. Gronovius.  
Notae & emendationes in Hieroclis commentarium. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Variae Epistolae ad Ger. Joh. Vossium & alios. He also enlarged and amended the third edition of his Father's Commentary on Aul. Persius his Satyrs, Lond. 1647. oct. And made fit for the press a book entit. A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and some spirits, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. To which book M. Casaubon wrote a large preface confirming the reality (as to the point of spirits) in the said Relation. At length, after a life spent partly in adversity, but mostly in prosperity, he gave way to fate on the 14 of July, in sixteen hundred seventy and one, and was buried in the south part of the first cross Isle joining southward to Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Canterbury. 
1671.  Over his grave was soon after erected a handsome monument, the inscription on which, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, Lib. 2. p. 282. b. He had a design in his last days of writing his own life, and would often confess that he thought himself obliged to do it out of gratitude to the divine providence, which had preserved and delivered him from more hazardous occurrences than ever any man (as he thought) beside himself had encountered with, particularly in his escape from a fire in the night time, which happened in the house where he lived, while he was a boy, in Geneva. Also by his recovery from a sickness while of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, when he was given over for a dead man: Which recovery was made by a young Physician that gave Chemical physic to him. In his wonderful delivery from drowning when overset in a boat on the Thames near London, the two Watermens being drowned and he bovyed up by the help of his priest's coat. In his bearing several abuses, fines, imprisonments, etc. laid upon him by the fanatical reformers in the time of his sequestration, and other memorables. But these things being by him deferred from time to time, were, at length, hindered by death, which seized on him sooner than he expected.  
GILBERT IRONSIDE son of Ralph Ironside Bach. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Uniu. Coll. (afterwards Minister of Long Bridie) by his wife dau. of Will. Gilbert M. A. of Madg. Coll. and superior Beadle of Arts of the Uniu. of Oxon, was born at Hawksbury near to Sadbury in that County, on the 25 of Nou. (S▪ Catherins' day) an. 1588., admitted Scholar of Trin. Coll. 28 May 1605, Fellow 1613, being then M. of A, and Bach. of Diu. in 1619. At length he became Rector of Winterbourn Stepleton, and Winterbourn Abbots (joining together) in Dorsetshire: both which he keeping till after the King's restauration, was made Preb. of Thokerington in the Church of York, in Oct. 1660; about which time being nominated to the See of Bristol, was consecrated thereunto (being first created D. D.) in S. Peter's Church at Westm. on the 6. of January 1660. That which I am to take notice of him further is, that though he was never Chaplain to any spiritual or temporal Lord, or to any King or Prince, or enjoyed any Dignity in the Church, (except the little Preb. beforemention'd) yet being wealthy, he was looked upon as the fittest person to enter upon that mean Bishopric. He hath written  
Seven questions of the Sabbath. Oxon. 1637. qu. Besides which and a Sermon printed in 1660, he had laid the foundation of other Theological treatises, and had in some manner brought them to perfection, but Civil Wars breaking forth, and old age following, the publication of them was hindered. He died at Bristol on the 19 Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671.  and was buried in the Cathedral there, near to the entrance into the Bishop's Stall, as I have been informed by his Son of both his names, lately Bishop of that See. See more in Joh. White among these writers, an. 1648. p. 61.  
FRANCIS DROP a younger Son of Tho. Drop B. D. Vicar of Comnore near Abendon in Berks, and Rector of Ardley near Bister in Oxfordshire, was born in the Vicarage House at Comnore, made Demy of Madg. Coll. in 1645, and ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he assisted Mr. Will. Fuller in teaching a private School at Twickenham or Twittenham in Middlesex, where continuing till his Majesty's return in 1660, was restored to his place, actually created M. of A, made Fellow of the said Coll. in 1662., and afterwards Bach. of Diu. and Preb. of Lincoln. He hath written on a subject which he much delighted in, and wherein he had spent a considerable part of his time; but was not printed till after his death. The title of which is,  
A short and sure guide in the practice of raising and ordering Fruit-trees. Oxon. 1672. oct. A large and laudable account of which, you may see in the Philosophical Transactions, numb. 86. p. 5049, etc. He died on the 26. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, and was buried near to the grave of his Father in the Chancel of the Church of Comnore beforemention'd. 
1671.   
SAMUEL MATHER the eldest Son of Rich. Mather mentioned before, under the year 1669. nu. 289. was born at Much-Woolton in Lanc, 13. May 1626., transported with his Father and Family to New England 1635, educated in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge there, took the degrees in Arts, returned into England in 1650, became one of the Chaplains of Madg. Coll. by the favour of Mr. Tho. Goodwin then Precedent, and was, as 'tis said, incorporated in the degree of M. of A. though no such thing occurs in the public register. Afterwards, being known be a man of parts and gifts, he received a call to go to Leith in Scotland, to be there a public Preacher. In 1655 he removed to Dublin in Ireland, where he became a Signior Fellow of Trin. Coll. and preached as a Lecturer in S. Nicolas Church there, and also before the L. Deputy and Council in his turn. At which time though he was a congregational man, and in his Principles respecting Ch. Government a high Nonconformist, yet he was observed by some to be civil to those of the Episcopal persuasion, when it was in his power to do them a displeasure: And when the L. Deputy (Hen. Cromwell) gave a Commission to him and others in order to the displacing of Episcopal Ministers in the Province of Monster, he declined it, as he did afterwards to do the like matter in Dublin, alleging that he was called into that County to preach the Gospel, and not to hinder others from doing it. He was a religious man in the way he professed, and was valued by some who differed from him as to opinion in lesser and circumstantial points in religion. After his Majesty's restauration he was suspended from preaching, till his Majesty's pleasure should be known, for two Sermons which were judged seditious, and being afterwards ejected and silenced for Nonconformity, preached to the brethren in private so long as he lived. He hath written,  
Wholesome Caveat for a time of liberty— Printed 1652. in oct.  
A defence of the protestant religion, in answer to Fiat Lux. Dubl. 1671. qu.  
An Irenicum: or, an Essay for union among Reformers. Lond. in qu.  
The figures or types of the old Testament explained and improved. Dubl. 1683. qu. He died on the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671.  and was buried in the Church of S. Nicolas within the City of Dublin, where he used formerly to preach a morning Lecture.  
OWEN PRICE a Mountgomeryshire man born, was put in Scholar of Jesus Coll. by the Parl. Visitors, 12. Oct. 1648; whence, after he had continued 4 years therein, he was called to the charge of a public School in Wales, where he advanced his Scholars much in Presbyterian principles. In the year 1655. making a return to the University, he was entered into Ch. Ch, (of which, if I mistake not, he was made Student) and in the year following, did, by the favour of the deligated power of the Chancellor, accumulate the degrees in Arts. Soon after he became Master of the Free-School near Madg. Coll, where by his industry and good way of teaching, he drew many youths of the City, whose Parents were fanatically given, to be his Scholars. But upon the King's restauration being ejected for Nonconformity, taught School, in which he much delighted, in several places, as in Devonshire, Besills-Lee near Abendon, &c, became useful among the brethren, and a noted Professor in the Art of Pedagogy. He hath written and published,  
The Vocal Organ: or, a new art of teaching Orthography, by observing the instruments of pronunciation, and the difference between words of like sound, whereby any outlandish, or mere Englishman, woman, or child, may speedily attain to the exact spelling, reading, writing or pronouncing of any word in the English tongue, without the advantage of its fountains, the Greek and Latin Oxon. 1665. oct.  
English Orthography: teaching 1. The Letters of every sort of print. 2. All Syllables made of Letters. 3. Short Rules by way of question and answer for spelling, reading, pronouncing, using the great letters and their points. 4. Examples of all words of like sound, etc. Oxon. 1670. oct. He died in his House near to Madg. Coll. 25. Nou. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671  and was two days after buried in the Church of S. Peter in the east, near to the door leading into the belfry, within the City of Oxon.  
JOHN WHITE was a Wiltsh. man born, became a Servitor of S. Alban Hall in Mich. term an. 1600; whence, after he had continued for some time, went to Mert. Coll. and there was entertained in the condition of a Servitor to Mr. (afterwards Sir) Isaac Wake, but whether he made a longer stay in Merton Coll. or in S. Alb. Hall, I know not; we will not contend for, and therefore let the Albanians take, him. After he had left the University without a degree conferred on him, he took holy orders, and had a Cure bestowed on him in his own Country at Monkton-Deverel, and at length became Vicar of Chert●n near to the Devises: From which place being ejected in the time of the Rebellion he practised Physic at Conock. Afterwards being restored in 1660, he set himself to the writing of poetry in his old age; the effects of which are contained in three volumes full of fooleries and impertinencies, entit.  
Miscellanea Variegata, Anagrammata, Epigrammata, Distica etc. The first vol. contains Anagrams, Epigrams, etc. on the Kings and Nobility of England— Printed at Lond. 1663. in a large thin oct, in the 79 year of the author's age. The 2d Vol. is on the Bishops and Clergy— Lond. 1664 in thin oct, in the 80 year of the author's age. The third is on the Gentry and other persons— Lond 1665. in a thin oct. in the 81. year of the author's age. In all which books are also several copies of English verses. 
1671.  He yielded to nature at Cherton beforementioned on the 6 of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the north side of Communion Table, near the wall. Soon after was this inscription set up on the said wall. John White Vicar of Cherton was buried near this place the 8 th' day of December An. Dom. 1671.  
EDWARD BAGSHAW son of Edw. Bagsh. mentioned before, under the year 1662., p. 211. was born at Broughton in Northamptonshire, educated in Westm. School, elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch, on the first of May 1646 aged 17 years, yet capable of that place an year before, but hindered from coming to Oxon, because it being a Garrison for the King, the discipline in that house was omitted. While he continued in the state of Under-Graduat and Bach, he did set an high value upon, and expressed himself very often intolerably impudent, saucy and refractory to the Censor, and thereupon was either Sconst, or put out of commons, or forced to make his Palinody in a Declamation in the public Hall. Farther also when quadragesimal Disputations were publicly performed in the Schools, he would, without any provocation, take the questions, either of an Under-Graduat or Bachelaur, purposely to dispute with him and so consequently show his parts, and be shouldered out, or carried out into the quadrangle on the Shoulders of his Admirers. When a Sen. Bachelaur of Mert. Coll. (E.W.) above the standing of Master of Arts, was present in the Schools in his formalities, according as the Statute of his House required, Bagshaw in despite of those things, which he called trifles, did express some scorn towards him and therefore being reprehended by the Senior Bach, he sent a challenge to him to dispute, but the other scorning to encounter with, caused, him to be kicked into better manners. In the year 1651 Bagshaw proceeded in Arts, (an year being then allowed to him) and was Senior of the Act then celebrated, and being soon after put in Office, he showed himself a turbulent and domineering person, not only in his College but in the University, where 'twas common with him to disturb the Vicechancellor with interposed speeches, without formalities, and his hat cocked: which posture also he used when he read the Catechist Lecture in his House. In June 1656 he was appointed to officiat as second Master of Westm. School in the place of Joh. Vincent, and in Dec. 1657 he was by the then Governors of that School made the second Master. But soon after, he showing himself too busy in that office, pragmatical and ungrateful to the chief Master Rich. Busbie, he was by his endeavours outed of that place in May 1658 and Ad. Littleton sometimes of Ch. Ch. was put into his room. Soon after he became Vicar of Amersden near Bister in Oxfordsh. in the place of Mr. Rich. Watkins sometimes of Ch. Ch. also, upon his removal to Whichford in Warwickshire, and in 1659. Nou. 3. he took upon him holy orders (as he himself confesseth) from the hands of Dr. Ralph Brownrig B. of Exeter. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was entertained by Arthur Earl of Anglesie to be his Chaplain, and then left Amersden, but finding not preferment to be thrust upon him, which he expected (so confident he was of his own merit and abilities) he grew highly discontented, and as he had always before showed himself opposite to that Government that was in being, so than did he to the Hierarchy, which before he had in some degree defended, such was the mutability of the man. In Dec. 1662., he upon his then return from Ireland, (where he had been gaping after great matters, but without success, and therefore enraged) retired to London among the faction, and being looked upon as a dangerous person, as having then lately written and preached several matters against his Majesty, and present Government, Ch. and Bishops, he was seized on by order of the Council and committed prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster: where continuing till the 16 of Jan. was removed thence to the Tower of London, and thence after a tedious imprisonment to Southsea Castle near Portsmouth, on the 5 of Apr. 1664. How long he continued there, I know not: sure I am that upon his release, and return to London, he fell to the old trade of conventicling and raising sedition, for which being ever and anon troubled, had at length the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy tendered to him, but he boggling at them at first, and afterwards denying to take them, was committed prisoner to Newgate, where he continued 22 weeks before his death. He was a person of very good parts (which he himself knew too well) well learned, but of a hot and restless head, and was (as an eminent 
(a) Rich. Baxter in his Apology for Nonconformist Ministers, p. 162.  presbyterian who wrote against him saith) an Anabaptist, fifth Monarchy Man, and a Separatist, and a man of an txtraordinary vehement spirit, who had been exasperated by many years hard and grievous imprisonments— And that the Nonconformist Ministers of England were so far from being of his mind and spirit, that when Mr. Baxter had written three books against him, as an Anabaptist, or a Millenary, no one Minister of England wrote in his defence nor pleaded for him. To these things I shall add, that while he continued in Oxon, he was a very troublesome person, of a huffing, proud and scornful carriage, was very loose in his morals, over familiar with another man's wife, (yet living in Oxon) was false, undermining, and no credit given to his words or promises. The books and pamphlets which he hath written are these.  
Dissertationes duae anti-socinianae, etc. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Discussio istius quaestionis, An bona Infidelium opera sint peccata? Aff. Printed with the Dissertat.  
De monarchiâ absolutâ dissertatio politica, etc. Oxon. 1659. qu.  
Appendix de monarchia mixta; at the end of the former book. These two were wrote against Monarchical Government; of which hear Mr. baxter's 
(b) In his Second admonition to Mr. Bagshaw, Printed 1671. in oct. p. 151.  Character.— The arguments in this discourse seem to be such poor, injudicious, slender stuff, that it was one occasion of my writing 20 arguments against Democracy, which I put into the book, which I have since revoked, viz. Political Aphorisms or holy Commonwealth, etc.— Which book was published at Lond. 1657 in a thick oct.  
Practical discourse concerning Gods decrees, part 2. Oxon. 1659. qu. Dedicated to John Bradshaw who condemned K. Ch. 1. to die, and in his epist. compliments in an high degree that famous Regicide. The said Discourse written to Tho. Pierce Rector of Brington in Northhamptonsh. is the sum of two sermons, and was answered by Laur. Womack Archdeacon of Suffolk at the end of a book, without his name set to it, Entit.— Arcana Dogmatum Anti-Remonstrantium: or, the Calvinists Cabinet unlocked, etc. under this title, Reflections upon a practical discourse, lately printed at Oxon. Which Reflections touching upon some passages relating to Bagshaw's quarrel with Mr. Rich. Busbie, he presently concluded that the said Mr. Pierce (sometimes of Madg. Coll) was the author, not only of them, but of the Arc. Dogm. etc. and therefore first of all in some one piece of his he nibbles at Pierce's name and writings, but finding him unconcerned at, as not to take notice of, it, he soon after published,  
A true and perfect narration of the differences between Mr. Busbie and Mr. Bagshaw, the first and second Masters of Westm. School. London. 1659. in 4 sh. in qu. and in the preface to it, doth give himself ease upon Pierce, by answering the calumnies (as he calls them) in he said Reflections that were thrown upon him. Whereupon Pierce finding a grand mistake in the matter, came out with a reply soon after, written by way of Letter to Dr. Pet. Heylyn, to vindicate himself as being not the author of those Reflections, etc.  
Saintship no ground of Sovereignty: or, a treatise tending to prove, that the saints barely considered as such, ought not to govern. Oxon. 1660. oct.  
The great question concerning things indifferent in religious worship, etc. Lond. 1660. qu.  
The second part of the great question concerning things indifferent in religious worship, etc. Lond. 1661. qu.  
The necessity and use of heresies: or, a third and last part of the great question about indifferent things in religious worship, etc.— pr. 1662. qu.  
Discourse about Christ and Antichrist: or a demonstration that Jesus is the Christ, etc. on Joh. 13.17. and Acts 26.8. Lond. 1661. qu.  
Treatise about the resurrection— pr. with the Discourse about, etc.  
Exercitationes duae, altera Theologica de presbyteris et episcopis, altera Academica de philosophiâ veteri, ejusque usu, unâ cum duabus rationibus ejusd. argumenti, etc. Lond. 1661. qu.  
Letter unto a person of honour and quality, containing some animadversions upon the Bishop of Worcester (Dr. G. Morley) letter. London. 1662. in one sh. and an half in qu. The said Bishop's letter was written to Mr. Baxter in Vindication of himself from his misreports. But to this letter of our author, which was subscribed by D. E, came out the same year three answers one by S. H. (Sam Holden) Bach. of Arts of Ball Coll. A second called A letter with animadversions upon the animadverter on the B. of Worcester's Letter, by J. C. M. D. in two sh▪ in qu. And the third by Rog. L'estrange entit. A whip for the Schismatical animadver. upon the Bish. of Worcester's Letter. Lond. in qu. But whilst the said Whip was in the press came out,  
The second part of animadversions, with an answer to all that R. L'estrange intends to write. Lond. 1662. qu. subscribed by D. E. The soberest excesses of which, L'estrange took notice of in his pamphlet called A memento, being chiefly a paraphrase on Sir Fr. Bacon's Essays. But our author Bagshaw not returning any thing to the particulars therein charged upon him, though challenged by L'estrange, both before and afterwards, to call him to make a particular proof of what he had said concerning him, he came out at length in print against L'estrange with a pamphlet Entit.  
A Letter to Edw. Earl of Clarendon L. high Chanc. of England, etc. Lond. 1661. qu. wherein he not only endeavours to vindicate himself, as to his former actions in relation to Church and State, but also to use all means possible by little and false stories to vilify and calumniate L'estrange. Whereupon the same year, the said L'estrange published an answer thereunto entit. Truth and Loyalty vindicated from the reproaches and clamours, of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw, etc. Lond. 1662. And though our author Bagshaw in these three foregoing papers was so forward as to appear in public for Mr. Baxter, yet afterwards he had no thanks 
(c) See Mr. baxter's pref. to his Second admonition to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw. Pr. 1671. oct. p. 11.  from him for his Labour, saying that it troubled him that Mr. Bagshaw had wrote so unskilfully for him against the than Bish. of Worcester.  
Treatise about the spiritual nature of God and his worship (grounded on Joh. 4.24.) Lond. 1662. qu.  
Brief enquiry into the grounds and reasons, whereupon the infallibility of the Pope and Church of Rome is said to be founded. Lond. 1662. qu. Answered by Ser. Cressy in a book entit. A non est inventus. See in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674.  
Antidote against Mr. Baxters' treatise of Love and Unity, viz. the cure of Church division. London. 1671. qu. Which being answered by Mr. Baxter in his Defence of the Principles of Love, etc. Lond. 1671. oct. our author came out with a Reply in 5. or 6. sh. in qu. which I have not yet seen. Mr. Baxter calls it a Libel, as he doth the Antidote, in his book entit. A Second admonition to Mr. Bagshaw, written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and especially fourscore palpable untruths in matters of fact published by him in two small Libels, etc. Lond. 1671. oct. To this Sec. adm. of Mr. Baxter our author published a third answer, intit. in part,  
A review, or all Mr. baxter's calumnies confuted— This was soon replied upon by Baxter in a small piece bearing this title. The Church told of Mr. Edw. Bagshawes scandal, and warned of the dangerous snares of Satan, etc. now laid for them in his Love-killing principles, etc. Lond. 1672. qu.  
Ready way to prevent sin. Lond. 1671. oct. This I have not yet seen, nor his  
Discourse of Conscience— Pr. in qu. nor his  
Letter to Sir Jo. Robinson Lieut. of the Tower— Written I suppose when he was a prisoner there. Mr. Baxter tells us that E. Bagshaw wrote and published The life and death of Mr. Vav. powel that faithful Minister and Confessor of Jesus Christ, etc.— Printed 1681. in oct: But how true his report is I cannot tell, because there are such silly things and such canting and impertinent stuff in it, that no generous Scholar, or a Scholar of Academical breeding, as Bagshaw was, would or could be author of it. 'tis true that he did finish and complete Vav. powel's little thing called A Collection of those Scripture prophecies which relate to the call of the Jews, etc. added to his Concordance of the Bible, yet I cannot believe that he was author of the said life. At length after his time had been spent in a continued agitation, in opposition to all that was in relation to the Church settled by Law, he unwillingly laid down his head, and died in an house in Tuttlestreet within the City of Westminster, on the 28. of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671.  and was buried on the first of Jan. following about the middle of the yard, called the Fanatical burial place near Bunhill, and on the north side of the New Artillery garden near London, being then accompanied to that place by near a 1000 of Protestant Dissenters. Over his grave was soon after built an altar monument, on which was this inscription (made by Dr. Jo. Owen) engraven. Here lies interred the body of Mr. Edward Bagshaw minister of the Gospel, who received from God faith to embrace it, courage to defend it, and patience to suffer for it; which by the most despised, and by many persecuted, esteeming the advantage of birth, education and learning as things of worth to be accounted loss for the knowledge of Christ. From the reproaches of pretended friends, and persecutions of professed Adversaries, he took Sanctuary by the will of God in eternal rest, the 28. Dec. 1971. On the plank of black marble which covers the monument, are the Arms of Bagshaw, impaling the pretended Arms of Peacock, the said Bagshaw having some years before his death taken to wife a virtuous and superannuated maid (but perfectly blind) named Margaret, the daugh. of John Peacock of Chawley in the parish of Comnore near Abendon in Berks, but had no issue by her.  
WILLIAM NICOLSON son of Christop. Nicolson a rich clothier, was born at Stratford near to Hadleigh in Suffolk, on the first day of Nou. 1591., educated in Grammar learning in the School joining to Madg. Coll, being then choirester of that House. Afterwards, having made an entrance into the Logical Class, he was made one of the Clerks, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1615, at which time, I conceive, he was Chaplain to Henry Earl of Northumberland, than a prisoner in the Tower of London and Tutor to his son the Lord Percy. But his chief delight being exercised in the fac. of Grammar, and therefore noted by many for it, he was made Master of the Free-School at Croyden in Surrey; to which office he was admitted 3 Jul. 1616, in the place of one Robert Davys Bach. of Arts of Oxon, then displaced for his frequent hunting with dogs, and neglecting the School. From that time to the beginning of 1629 he continued there, doing great benefit by his instruction, and then being succeeded by one Joh. Webb M. of A. of Madg. Hall, our author retired into Wales, where having a little before obtained the rectory of LLandilo-vaour or LLandellovar in Caermerthenshire, was made soon after Residentiary of S. David, and Archdeacon of Brecknock in the place of one Isaac Singleton, in the beginning, as it seems, of the rebellion. In 1643 he was elected one of the Ass. of Divines, but never, as I conceive, sat among them, and soon after losing his spiritualities, he taught a private School in Caermerthenshire, and by his writings defended and maintained the Church of England (then exceedingly clouded) against its Adversaries. After the King's restauration, he was by the endeavours of Edward Earl of Clarerdon L. Chanc. of England designed Bishop of Gloucester by his Majesty, (by virtue of whose letters he was diplomated Doct. or Diu. in the beginning of Dec. 1660.) and on the sixth of Jan. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster, after it had laid void several years, by the death of Godfrey Goodman. Which Bishopric he kept, without any translation to another See, to his dying day, keeping in Commendam with it the Archdeaconry of Brecknock, and the Rectory of Bishops-Cleeve in Glocestershire. He was a right learned Divine, well seen and read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, but above all, most excellent he was in the critical part of Grammar, in which faculty none in his time, or perhaps before, went beyond him. His writings which show him to be a person of great erudition, prudence, modesty and of a moderate mind, are these.  
A plain, but full, exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England, enjoined to be learned of every child, before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop. Lond. 1655. 61. 63. 71. qu. etc.  
Apology for the discipline of the ancient Church, intended especially for the Church of England. Lond. 1659. qu.  
Exposition on the Apostles Creed, delivered in several Sermons. Lond. 1661. fol.  
An easy Analysis of the whole book of Psalms Lond. 1662. fol. He died in the Bishop's Palace at Gloucester on the fifth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671/2.  and was buried on the vl day of the same month in a little isle joining, on the South side, to the Virgin Maries Chappel, in the Cathedral there. Over his grave was afterwards a blue stone laid, and on the wall near it a table of black marble erected, with this inscription following in golden letters. Aeternitati S. In spe beatae resurrectionis, hîc reverendas exuvias deposuit Theologus insignis, Episcopus verè primitivus Gulielm. Nicolson, in agro Suffolciano natus, apud Magdalenenses educatus, ob fidem Regi, & Ecclesiae affictae praestitam, ad sedem Glocestrensem meritò promotus, an. 1660. In concionibus frequens, in Scriptis nervosus, legenda scribens, & faciens scribenda. Gravitas Episcopalis in front emicuit, pauperibus quotidianâ Charitate beneficus, comitate erga Clerum & literatos admirandus, gloriae ac dierum satur, in palatio suo ut vixit piè decessit Febr. 5. anno aetatis LXXXII, Dom. MDCLXXI. Elizabetha conjux praeivit, in hoc sacello sepulta Apr. xx, an. Dom. MDCLXIII. Owenus Brigstock de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermerthen Armiger, praedictae Elizabethae nepos, hoc grati animi monumentum (executore recusante) propriis sumptibus erexit, an. MDCLXXIX. The said Brigstock was Grandson to the said Elizabeth.  
GRIFFITH WILLIAMS was born in the parish of Llanruc near to Caernarvon in Caernarvonshire, educated in a private School in Caernarvon, applied his muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church, in the latter end of 1603. aged 16 years, but before he was honoured with a degree, he left that House, and by the persuasions of John Williams (afterwards B. of Lincoln) he removed to Cambridg, where he preferred him to a Tutor, patronised him, furthered his entrance into the Ministry, and, after he had attained to the degree of M. of A. got him to be Chaplain to Philip Earl of Montgomery, being about that time also (1614) Parson of S. Bennet Sherhogg in London. About the time that he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, he was made Parson of Lhan-Lhechid in Wales, where he received good encouragement in the Ministry from Sir John Wynne Baronet and Sir Rich. Wynne his son, and was infinitely admired for his excellent way in preaching and for his religious life and conversation. He was then accounted a person very well read in scholastical and historical Divinity, as also in the Fathers, Schoolmen and Councils, and therefore it was that he was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1. he being then D. D. In 1628. he became Prebendary of the eighth Stall in the collegiate Church of Westminster, in the room of Dr. Laud, who till then had kept it in commendam with his Bishoprics, and in 1633 he was made Dean of Banger, (installed therein 28 Mar. 1634.) and Archdeacon of Anglesy; which Deanery had before been enjoyed by Edm. Griffith. Afterwards he was designed to be Tutor to Pr. Charles; but Archb. Laud commending to his Majesty Dr. Duppa for that Employment, our Author Williams (who had been Tutor to the Lord Charles Herbert Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery, I mean that Charles who died at, or near, Florence, an. 1634.) was then put aside to his great discontent. In 1641, he was, at the motion of his ever honoured Lord (the said Earl) made to the King, constituted Bishop of Ossory in Ireland, to which See being consecrated on the ●● of Sept. in the same year, had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam. In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty, and the first book that he wrote in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum, etc. for which he was fetched away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton, where the Committee, that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there, had the said book in their hands. Afterwards he retired to Oxon, and printed his Discovery of Mysteries; and on that very day he was preaching at S. Mary's before the House of Commons, the Soldiers from Northampton went and plundered his House, and all his Householdstuff at Apethorp, where his Wife and Children then resided, and sequestered his Lands for the use of the Parliament. The next winter following he wrote his Jura Majestatis, and according to his poor abilities, out of the means he had in Wales, he gave unto his Majesties own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power. Upon the the declining of the King's cause, this our author being then brought very low, the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann. conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament, but he refused it, as he did also the importunate invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose. Soon after he retired into Wales, where for 12 years together (as he saith) having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means, nor 20 l. per an. in all the world to maintain himself and servants, of any temporal estate, he was forced to live upon a little Tenement, for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann. to Sir Gr. Williams, and 4 l. Land per ann. besides of his own. So that he lived worse than a poor Curate, with oaten-bread, barleybread, buttermilk and sometimes water, being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lustres of years. He went attired in very mean clothes, (as he farther adds) and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House, Garden and cattle: And all this he did, as he said, rather than accept of means, benevolence, or maintenance from the Usurpers, Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church. He then also persuaded, as he had done before, some of the Earl of Pembroke's children, who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty, although their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament, but they refused. Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while his Father was Protector of England, offered him, as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann. if he, or they, would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry, but he scorned that motion also, as he farther tells us. After the King's return in 1660, he was restored to his Bishopric, Deanery and Archdeaconry, but rose no higher, or was translated to any other place, because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers, particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke; and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation, paying a small Rent to the Usurpers, and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruin, but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it; which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor. Afterwards he retired into Ireland, lived as privately as might be, obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishopric to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto. The Works that he hath written and published are these.  
The delights of the Saints. A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace, etc. Lond. 1622. oct.  
Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion. Lond. 1627. qu.  
The true Church showed to all men, that desire to be members of the same, in 6. books. Lond. 1629. fol.  
The best religion; wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel. Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least, which he had formerly preached, and mostly published, besides some treatises, among which is The delights of the Saints, before mentioned.  
Vindiciae Regum: or, the grand rebellion, that is a looking glass for Rebels, whereby they may see, how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the height of their design, etc. Oxon. 1643. qu.  
The discovery of Mysteries: or, the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion, etc.— Printed 1643. qu.  
Jura Majestatis: the rights of Kings both in Church and State; granted 1. By God, 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth. Oxon. 1644. qu.  
The only way to preserve peace, Sermon at the public fast 8. March, at S. Mary's in Oxon, before the H. of Commons, on Amos 5.6. Oxon. 1644. qu.  
The great Antichrist revealed; before this time never discovered: And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk, nor any single Person, nor the succession of any one Monarch, or Tyrant in any policy; but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical, blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men, that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture, etc. Lond. 1660. fol.  
Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days, to prevent the seven last vials of God's wrath, that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth; Revel. 16. etc. Lond. 1661. fol.  
The declaration of the just judgement of God, 1. Upon our late King's friends. 2. Upon the King's enemies that rebelled and warred against him, etc.— This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises, etc.  
Four Treatises; suffering of the Saints, burning of Sodom, etc.— Lond. 1667. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The happiness of Saints, on Joh. 20.26.— Printed 1657. qu. (2) God's war with the wicked, Rebels and Murderers, on Isa. 57.21. (3) The property and prerogative of true Saints, on Joh. 10.27.28. (4) The monstrous murder of the most holy Jesus paralleled to the murder of Kings. on Acts 7.32. (5) The four chief duties of every Christian man, on 1. Pet. 2.17. (6) The chiefest cause why we should love God, on 1. John 4.19. (7) The lively picture of these hard times, on Jer. 14.10. (8) The grand rebellion, etc. Psal. 106.16. (9) The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King, that was his Master, on 2. Kings 9.31. All these Sermons, (except the first) with others, were printed in folio an. 1662.  
Other Sermons, as (1) Description of the four Beasts, explained in 4 Sermons, on Rev. 4.8. Lond. 1663. qu. (2) The ejection of four devils, on Matth. 17.21. Lond. 1664. qu. (3) The saving Serpent, on John 3.14. Ibid. 1664. qu. (4) The monstrous murder of two mighty Kings, on 2. Cor. 24.23. Ibid. 1665. qu. (5) The faithful Shepherd, on Psal. 80.1. Ibid. 1665. qu. (6) The flying Sea, on Psal. 114.5.— Printed 1665. qu. (7) The only way to preserve life, preached before the House of Commons at Oxon, on Amos 5. ver. 6. Pr. 1666. qu. Besides all these, he hath several other Sermons, which I have not yet seen. He hath also written a book of his sufferings in the time of the grand rebellion, which was published in English, an. 1664, but this neither, have I yet seen. At length this good old Bishop giving way to fate in Feb. or the beginning of March, 
1671/2.  in sixteen hundred seventy and one, was buried in his Cath. Church at Kilkenny. By his last Will and testam. dat. 16. of Oct. 1671 and proved in the Prerogative Court at Dublin on the eleventh of Apr. following, he bequeathed his Lands in Ireland called Fermoile, worth forty pounds per an. to be settled upon eight poor distressed Widows, for whom he had erected eight several Almshouses in the Parish of S. Kenny in his Diocese. In the said Will was a passage by him inserted concerning the noble James Duke of Ormonde, L. Lieut, of Ireland for not promoting him, (as 'tis thought) to a higher Bishopric: Which being esteemed scandalous, was struck out of his Will, when proved.  
JOHN AILMER was born of gentile Parents, in Hampshire as it seems, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation, an. 1652, took the degrees in the Civil Law, that of Doctor being completed in 1663., being then and before accounted an excellent Grecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet, as it appears by this book, which he composed when a young man.  
Musae sacrae: seu Ionas, Jeremiae threni, & Daniel Graeco redditi carmine. Oxon. 1652. oct. and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses, dispersed in various books. He died at Petersfield, on Good Friday, Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two, 
1672.  and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire, as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton, dated at Farnham 26. May 1683.  
HENRY SAVAGE son of Francis Sau. was born of a gentile Family at Dobson hill in the Parish of Elderfield commonly called Eldsfield in Worcestershire, became a Communer of Ball. Coll. in the year 1621. aged 17 years or thereabouts; and taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in Nou. 1625, was three years after made Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. and two years after that, (1630) he was completed Master of his faculty. In the beginning of the grand rebellion, he traveled into France with William Lord Sandys (whose Sister the Lady Mary he afterwards married) and by the opportunity of that journey, he not only learned the Language of that Country, saw the fashions of their Clergy and Universities, but learned to shake off the morosity and rusticity which commonly attends severe Students. Soon after his return, he obtained the Mastership or Headship of his House, and in the year following was admitted Doctor of Divinity. After the restauration of K. Changed 2, and a submission to the Powers in the time of Usurpation, he became Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty, Prebendary of Gloucester, an. 1665, and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire on the death of Dr. Matth. Griffith. He hath written and published,  
Quaestiones tres in novissimorum comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. discussae, an. 1652. viz. An Paedobaptismus sit licitus? off. etc. Oxon. 1653. qu. Soon after, these questions were answered by John Tombs of Magd. Hall.  
Thesis' Doctoris Savage, nempe Paedobaptismum esse licitum confirmatio, contra refutationem Mri. Tombes nuper editum, etc. Oxon. 1655. qu.  
Vindicatio ejus à calumniis Mri. Tombs. Printed at the end of Thesis' Confirmatio, etc.  
Reason's showing that there is no need of such reformation of the public, 1. Doctrine, 2. Worship, 3. Rites and Ceremonies. 4. Church Government, and 5. Discipline as is pretended, etc. Lond. 1660 qu. This small piece, as likewise another of Dr. John Pearson, (since B. of Chester, the very learned Author of the much commended book on the Creed, of the Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii &c.) entit. No necessity, etc. which came out in qu. much at the same time with this of our author Savage, were wrote against a Pamphlet called Reasons showing the necessity of reformation, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Corn. Burges, an. 1665. Which, though in the title, it is said to have been wrote by divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England; yet Mr. Baxter saith 
(a) In Dr. Jo. Hinkley's book entit. Fasciculus, Literarum, etc. Lond. 1680. oct. p. 34.  that Dr. Corn. Burges was the Person that penned The necessity of reformation, etc. meaning, I conceive, the said Reasons, which so much, as he farther affirms, offended the Episcopal party. This is yet further rendered the more probable, because, that besides a reply made by Will. Hamilton Gent. to Dr. pearson's No necessity, etc. Cornel. Burges (as possibly judging himself more concerned than any body else in the success of these Reasons, etc.) in a Postscript to a Treatise of his, annexed a brief answer to Dr. Pearson; who not long after in a short piece vindicated himself from what was said in the said Postscript against his No necessity, etc. The said Reasons showing, etc. were answered again more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis. Dr. Savage hath also written,  
The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Zion: or, an answer to a book entit. Zions' groans for her distressed, etc. Offered to the King's Majesty, Parliament and People. Lond. 1663. qu. Some copies of the impression of this book (The dew, etc.) have this title Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted: or, an answer to a book entit. Zions' groans, etc.  
Balliofergus: or, a Commentary upon the foundation, founders and affairs of Balliol College; gathered out of the records thereof and other antiquities, etc. Oxon. 1668. qu. But the author having had no natural genie to the study of Antiquities and History, neither a timing head, nor indeed record enough from his Coll. (for there is no Register of Acts of the Society above the year 1520 (12. Hen. 8.) nor no ancient rolls of Accounts wherein the state of the Coll. is every year represented, as also the names of the Fellows) he hath committed many foul errors therein, especially in this respect that he hath made the said Coll. of Ball. Father or Parent to many eminent men, which never studied, or were conversant with the muses, therein; as Joh. Duns Scotus, Dr. Tho. Gascoigne, Steph. de Cornubia, etc. while in the mean time he hath omitted others that have studied there and have been of great fame in their time, as Richard Son of Ralph sometimes Archb. of Armagh, commonly called by Writers Ricardus Armachanus, Tho. de Wylton, Rich. Rotheram, Cardinal Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. Cuthb. Tonstall B. of Durham, etc.  
Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani Oxonii, 1624. Printed with Balliofergus, etc. This Dr. Savage died in Ball. Coll. on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and two, 
1672.  and was buried in the Chapel belonging thereunto, next below the steps leading to the altar, being the first that was ever known, to have received sepulture therein. In his Headship of Ball. Coll. succeeded Dr. Thom. Good, whom I shall mention elsewhere.  
ABIEZER COPPE, the Son of Walt. Coppe, was born in the ancient Borough of Warwick in Warwickshire, 20. May 1619, educated in Grammar learning there, and at about 17 years of age was sent to Alls. Coll. in the beginning of 1636, where continuing but for a short time (in the condition of a Servitor I think) he became one of the number of Portionists, commonly called Postmasters, of Mert. College; at which time, though he was put under the tuition of a good Tutor, (Ralph Button I think) yet being naturally vicious, all lectures or examples could not reform, or make, him live like a Christian: And it was then notoriously known that he would several times entertain for one night or more a wanton huswife in his Chamber (under that called Oxoniam quare, as I have heard) in the little or old quadrangle, to whom carrying several times meat, at the hour of refection, he would make answer, when being asked by the way, what he would do with it, that it was a bit for his cat. At length the Civil War breaking forth, he left the University without a degree, adhered to the blessed Cause, and at first was a Presbyterian: But the gap being widened for all heresies to come in, he became an Anabaptist, and after a Ranter, Muggletonian, and what not to satisfy his wand'ring head and filthy lusts. The stage of most of his villainies was Warwickshire, where and in the neighbourhood, and in other of his rambles, he had, while he was an Anabaptist, baptised seven thousand People, as he bragged to some Oxford Scholars while he was a Prisoner in Coventry. After he had left that opinion and had turned Ranter, 'twas usual with him to preach stark naked many blasphemies and unheard of villainies in the daytime, and in the night be drunk and lie with a Wench that had been also his hearer stark naked. He was wont to say, when he was reprehended for swearing, that though it was usual with him in common discourse and in his preachings, yet 'twas not formally but materially, as thus, By God's wounds I shall be saved, and the like: But he said these things when he was imprisoned for his rogueries, and not before. When also he was checked by the Brethren of the Anabaptistical party for leaving them, he would swear that he would rather hear an Arch Angel blaspheme and curse God, than hear a Presbyterian or Anabaptist preach. About the time of his publishing the Fiery flying Roll, he was for that and other rascallities imprisoned at Coventry, where 'twas usual with him, after he had swore and cursed most of the day, to be drunk at night: And when he was to be removed thence to London, a Brother of his Religion brought a collection of fifty pounds to pay his debts there. This brother, while he remained in that City, preached twice in one day, and towards night he preached in the Prison to Coppe and others of his gang: Which being done, they enjoyed the creature so much, that they were all downright drunk. To omit many other of his pranks that he acted then and before, I shall tell you what he hath written, viz.  
A fiery flying roll, etc. Lond. 1649. This book I have not yet seen, and therefore I cannot give a full account of it. In the month of January the same year, he, as a most notorious sectarist, and author of that book, was removed from Coventry to the Prison called Newgate in London, where, as before, he did little else but swear and curse, and obstinately held forth to all People that came to see him that God could not damn him: and having smooth arguments for what he had said, induced many to be of his Religion. On the 2. of Feb. following, it was voted by the members of Parliament (who by their most imparalleled actions, had been, and were then, the occasion of all England's woes and miseries, and so let it stand upon eternal record to their eternal shame) that the said book entit. A fiery flying roll, doth contain many horrid blasphemies and damnable and detestable opinions, and that the said book and all the copies of it that could be found should be burnt by the hands of the common hangman, etc. which accordingly was done. The errors that Coppe held, which he afterwards recanted were these (1) That there is no sin. (2) That there is no God. (3) That man or the mere creature is very God. (4) That God is in man, or in the creature only, and no where else. (5) That cursing and swearing is no sin. (6) That adultery, fornication and uncleaness is no sin. (7) That community of Wives is lawful, etc. Afterwards for fear of corporal punishment, or perpetual exile in an obscure place, Coppe recanted, and published another book, after he had been an year and an half in prison, entit.  
Copp's return to the way of truth, in a zealous and sincere protestation against several errors; and in a sincere and zealous testimony to several truths; or, truth asserted against, and triumphing over, error; and the wings of the fiery flying roll clipped, etc. Lond. 1651. qu, Before which is a large preface showing what the author Coppe had been, and was then, to the Parliament.  
Letter in answer to another of Mr. John Dury.— Printed with Copp's return; as also another to March. Nedham. Afterwards Coppe was set at liberty, was kindly entertained among those of his opinion, and being at Burford in Oxfordshire preached there A recantation Sermon, 23. Dec. 1651, but whether printed I cannot tell. Sure it is that John Tickell a Minister of Abendon in Berks. (sometimes of Ch. Ch.) did write Animadversions on it, which are printed at the end of his Bottomless pit smoking in familisme. Oxon. 1652. oct. He the said Coppe published also a book written by J. F. entit. John the Divines Divinity: or, the confession of the general assembly, or Church of the first born in heaven. Lond. 1649. Before which book Coppe hath put an Epistle dated at London 13 Jan. 1648, two or three days (as he saith) before the eternal God thundered at Great S. Ellens (in Lond.) This book is a silly thing, full of blasphemies, and more fit for a posterior use, than to be read by any man of Reason or Sobriety. Afterwards the Name of Coppe being odious, he did upon the King's restauration, change it to Higham, and practising Physic at Barnelms in Survey, and sometimes preaching in Conventicles to maintain him and his, went for divers years by the Name of Dr. Higham. At length being brought low by certain Infirmities which he had contracted in his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring, died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two: 
1672.  whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there, under the seats, on the 23 day of the same month. One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty, printed 1675. oct. but he is not to be taken for the same with the former, nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers, living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1, who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith. S. Omers 1619. in two, or more, tomes in qu.  
HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born, was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601, aged 16 years, and four years after was made Fellow thereof. So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entered into holy Orders, became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks, Bach. of Diu. 1615, and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire, near to which place he was born. He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit.  
Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ, as Priest, Prophet, and King, etc. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two, and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mentioned. Over his grave is this Inscription, 
1672.  Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity, who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672, in the 86 year of his age, having been Rector of this Parish 56 years.  
PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex, entered a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts, but making no long stay there, he removed to Madg. Hall, where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor, continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entered into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him, but where, unless in S. Michael's Church in Cornhill, Lond. where I find him in 1630, I cannot justly tell. But so it was that he being Schismatically inclined, did, with others of his persuasion leave his Cure, purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories, and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633, where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland, till about the latter end of 1640, at which time the Members of the Parl. (afterward called the Long Parl.) were very dominant and prevailing, he returned, and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton, (about that time Earl of Manchester) Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire: And though he then and before showed himself a severe censurer of Bishops, and those of the Episcopal Clergy for meddling in civil affairs, as eccentric to their calling, yet he, with Hugh Peter's, Steph. Martial, etc. did go beyond any of them in that matter, more than for 7 years together. In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines, became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause, and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant. In July the same year, he, with Steph. Martial (whose Daughter he had taken to Wife) were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant, where in set speeches he 
(b) Merc. Aul. in Oct. 1643. p. 610.  told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League, as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity, and both have occasion to remember it with joy: Also that such an oath it is, as for matter, persons and other circumstances, that the like hath not been in any age, sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story; for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms, so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms, to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England, etc. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year; at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant, showing the warrant of it from Scripture, and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London, in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected. But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass. of Divines, he dissented from them for a time, as others did, being incited thereunto by certain Politicians, with promises of reward, especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be settled. So that then closing with the rising party, the Independents, especially with the Grandees of the Army, he did, by their favour, hold rich Offices, and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them. In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Martial, were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight, with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills (the four dethroning votes) and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them. About that time also, he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King, while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one: See more in Jos. Caryl. In Apr. also the next year, he with the said Marshal and Jos. Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again, but they effected nothing. In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers, or rather Spanish Inquisitors, for the approbation of public Preachers; in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them, but also enriched himself with bribes, underhand-dealing, and with a Living of 400 l. per an. by the help of the said Marshal, one of that number. In 1654. he with Dr. Laz. Seamon, Sam. Clark, Rich. Vines, Ob. Sedgwick, Jos. Caryl, etc. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters, in the City of London, where he especially, and they acted with no little rigour to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons. In 1660, after his Majesty's restauration, it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together, whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouthed Independent, should be excepted for life, because they had acted so highly (none more except Hugh Peter's) against the King, and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion. At length it came to this result, that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military, should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life. In Nou. 1662. he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot, for which George filips, Th●m, Tongue, etc. were executed, but how he freed himself from that suspicion I know not. Sure it is that he was a most dangerous and seditious Person, a politic Pulpit driver of Independency, an insatiable esurient after riches, and what not to raise a family and to heap up wealth. He hath written,  
Letter from Scotland to his Brethren in England concerning his success of affairs there. Lond. 1643. qu. Steph. Marshals name is also subscribed to it.  
Exhortation to the taking of the solemn league and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion, etc.— Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1643 and there again once or twice. That edit. which came out in 1645 is in tw.  
The excellency and lawfulness of the solemn league and covenant, set forth in a speech to the H. of Commons and the reverend Assembly of Ministers, at the taking of the said covenant, 25 Sept. 1643. Lond. 1660. second edit. qu.  
Apologetical narration submitted to the honourable Houses of Parliament. Lond. 1643. qu. In this narration are joined with Phil. Nye, others, as Thom. Goodwin, Sidrach Simpson, Jerem. Burroughs and Will. Bridge, all formerly in exile, but then members of the Ass. of Divines. In an answer to this by Anon, 'tis said that it was written by Tho. Goodwin and Phil. Nye only, as the title of the said answer tells you thus. An anatomy of Independency: or, a brief commentary and moderate discourse upon The Apologetical narration of Mr. Tho. Goodwin and Mr. Phil. Nye. Lond. 1644. qu.  
An Epistolary discourse about toleration. Lond. 1644. qu. In this discourse are joined with him Tho. Goodwin and Sam. Hartlib.  
The keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and power thereof according to the word of God, etc. Lond. 1644. sec. edit. Thom. Goodwin had also a hand in this book.  
Mr. Anth. Sadler examined, or his disguise discovered; showing the gross mistakes, and most notorious falsehoods in his dealing with the Commissioners for approbation of public preachers in his Inquisitio Anglicana, etc. Lond. 1654. qu. Tho no name is set to this pamphlet, yet 'twas generally reported that it was wrote by Joh. Nye Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. and Clerk to the said Triers or Commissioners, assisted therein by his Father.  
The Principles of faith, presented by Tho. Goodwin Ph. Nye, etc. to the Committee of Parliament for religion, by way of explanation to the proposals for propagating the Gospel. Lond. 1654. qu.  
Beams of former light, discovering how evil it is to impose doubtful and disputable forms for practices upon Ministers, especially under the penalty of ejection for nonconformity unto the same, etc. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Case of great and present use, etc.— Printed 1677. oct.  
The lawfulness of the oath of Supremacy, and power of the King in Ecclesiastical affairs, with Qu. Elizabeth's admonition, etc. Lond. 1683. qu. It was then reprinted, and in 1687 being printed again, it was dedicated by Hen. Nye, the Author's Son, to K. Jam. 2.  
Vindication of Dissenters; proving that their particular congregations are not inconsistent with the King's supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs— Printed with The Lawfulness, etc. 1683.  
Some account of the nature, constitution and power of Ecclesiastical courts— Printed with the former also, an. 1683.  
The Lawfulness of hearing the public Ministers of the Church of England: proved by Phil. Nye and John Robinson. Lond. 1683. qu. He hath also a Sermon extant preached before the Citizens of London, an. 1659.— Printed that year in qu. and perhaps more; and something about catechising, which I have not yet seen. He died in the Parish of S. Mich. Cornhill, or near it, in Lond. in the month of September, 
1672.  in sixteen hundred seventy and two, and was buried on the 27 day of the same month in the upper Vault under part of the said Church of S. Michael. I have been informed by those that knew this Mr. Nye, that he had much more moderation in his last years, than he ever before showed. To which I then made answer that good reason he had so to be, because he was altogether incapacitated from being otherwise.  
JOHN WILKINS Son of Walt. Wilk. Citizen and Goldsmith of Oxon, was born at Fawlsley near to Daventry in Northamptonshire, in the house of his Mother's Father Joh. Dod the Decalogist, educated in Grammar Learning under Edw. Silvester a noted Grecian, who taught a private School in Allsaints Parish in Oxon, entered a Student in New Inn in Easter Term an. 1627., aged 13 years; but making no long stay there, he was removed to Magd. Hall under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Tombs, and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entering into holy Orders, he became Chaplain to William Lord Say, and afterwards to Charles Count Palatine of the Rhine and Prince Elector of the Empire, with whom he continued for some time. At length upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, he closed with the Presbyterians, having always before been puritanically affected, and took the Covenant. Afterwards being designed by the Committee for the reformation of this University to be Warden of Wadham Coll, he was actually created Bach. of Diu. in the Pembrochian Creation, 12 Apr. 1648, and the next day was put into possession of his Wardenship in the place of a loyal person then ejected. The next year he was created Doct. of Diu. and about that time took the Engagement, that is, to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords. In 1656 or thereabouts, he took to wife Robina the widow of Pet. French, sometimes Canon of Ch. Ch. and sister to Oliver Cromwell Protector of England: which marriage being contrary to the Statutes of Wadh. Coll. because they prohibit the Warden thereof from marrying while he is Warden, he obtained a dispensation from Oliver to keep it notwithstanding. Afterwards by the favour of Richard Cromwell, who succeeded Oliver in the Protectorship, he had the Headship of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge conferred upon him (upon the death of Dr. Jo. Arrowsmith) in the beginning of 1659., which is the best preferment in that University. But being ejected thence the next year, about the time of his Majesty's Restauration, he became Preacher, as it seems, to the honourable Society of Greys' Inn, Minister of S. Laurence in the Jewry in London, in the place of Dr. Ward, took the Oaths again, which he before had taken, when he took his Academical degrees, and entered into the Ministry, and became a member of the Royal Society, of, and to, which he was one of the Council, and at length a considerable benefactor. Soon after he was made Dean of Rippon (in the room, as I suppose, of Tho. Dod D. D. Rector of Malpass in Cheshire, and sometimes Chapl. in ord. to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. who dying 10 of March 1647, was buried in the Church of Malpass) and at length by the endeavours of George Duke of Buckingham then in favour with K. Ch. 2, he obtained upon the death of Dr. George Hall the Bishopric of Chester, to which he was consecrated in the Chapel at Ely house in Holborn on the 15 of Nou. 1668, by Dr. Cousin Bishop of Durham, Dr. Laney B. of Ely, and Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury; at which time Dr. Jo. Tillotson Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, delivered an excellent sermon upon that occasion. This Dr. Wilkins was a person endowed with rare gifts, he was a noted Theologist and Preacher, a curious Critic in several matters, an excellent Mathematician and Experimentist, and one as well seen in Mechanecismes and new Philosophy (of which he was a great 
(a) See in The Hist. of the Royal Society, etc. Lond. 1667. qu. Written by Tho. Sprat, part 2.  Promote●) as any of his time. He also highly advanced the study and perfecting of Astronomy, both at Oxford whilst he was Warden of Wadh. Coll, and at London whilst he was of the Royal Society; and I cannot say to the contrary that there was any thing deficient in him but a constant mind and settled principles. Dr. Gilb. Burnet tells 
(b) In The life and death of Sir Mat. Hale Knight, etc. Lond. 1682. in a large oct. p. 69.  us that this Dr. Wilkins (who was for a Comprehension and a limited indulgence for Dissenters in Religion) was a man of as great a mind, as true a judgement, as eminent virtues, and of as good a soul as any he ever knew, etc. And one or more of the Royal Soc. say that all that knew Bishop Wilkins must needs acknowledge him for his universal insight into all parts of learning, solid judgement, rare prudence and dexterity in the management of worldly affairs and transactions, universal charity, ingenuity, temper and moderation of spirit, to have left behind him but few equals, etc. To pass by the Characters given of him in discourse by the great men of the Church of England, as by Archb. Sheldon, B. Fell, Archb. Dolben, etc. who did malign him for his wavering and unconstant mind in Religion, which I know will be displeasing to many, I shall give you a cat. of his works.  
The discovery of a new world: or a discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the Moon. Lind. 1638. 40. oct. and there again in 1684. which is the fourth edit.  
Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage to the world in the Moon— Printed with the Discovery.  
Discourse concerning a new Planet: tending to prove that 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets, Lond. 1640. in oct. The Author's name is not put to any one of these three things; but they are so well known to be his, that Langrenus in his Map of the Moon (dedicated to the King of Spain) names one of the spots of his Selenographick Map after his name.  
Mercury, or the secret Messenger: showing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance. Lond. 1641. The publication of which was occasioned by the writing of a little thing called Nuncius inanimatus, by Fr. Godwin.  
Mathematical Magic: or the wonders that may be performed by mechanical Geometry in two books. Lond. 1648. 1680. oct. The last edit. hath the Author's picture before it in his Lawn sleeves.  
Ecclesiastes: or, a discourse of the gift of preaching, as it falls under the rules of art. Lond. 1646. 47. 51. 53. 56. and 1675. oct.  
Discourse concerning the beauty of Providence, in all the rugged passages of it. Lond. 1649. in tw. Lond. 1677 fifth edit. in oct.  
Discourse concerning the gift of Prayer, showing what it is, wherein it consists, and how far it is attainable by industry, etc. Lond. 1653 and 1674 oct.  
Essay towards a real Character and a philosophical Language. Lond. 1668. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions, num. 35. The Reader may be pleased now to know that one George Dolgarno a Scot, wrote a book intit. Ars signorum, vulgo character universalis & lingua philosophica. Lond. 1660▪ 61. oct. This book, before it went to the Press, the Author communicated to Dr. Wilkins, who from thence taking an hint of a greater matter, carried it on, and brought it up to that which you see extant. This Dolgarno was born at Old Aberdene, and bred in the University at New Aberdene, taught a private Grammar School with good success for about thirty years together, in the Parishes of S. Michael and S. Mary Magd. in Oxford, wrote also— Didascalocophus: or, the deaf and dumb man's Tutor. Oxon. in oct. and dying of a fever on the 28 of Aug. 1687, aged 60 or more, was buried in the north body of the Church of S. Mary Magd. in the Suburbs of Oxon. Dr. Wilkins hath also written,  
An alphabetical Dictionary: wherein all English words according to their various significations, are either referred to their places in the philosophical Tables, or explained by such words as are in those Tables.— This is printed with the Essay.  
Of the principles and duties of natural Religion, two books. Lond. 1675. oct. Published by Jo. Tillotson, D. D.  
Sermons preached upon several occasions. Lond. 1682. oct. They are in number 15, and were published by the said Dr. Tillotson. Our learned and critical Author Dr. Wilkins died of the terrible disease of the Stone, in the house of the said Dr. Tillotson, then in Chancery-lane in London, on the 19 of Nou. in sixteen hundred seventy and two, 
1672.  and was buried on the 12 of Dec. following under the north wall of the Chancel of the Church of St. Laurence in the Jewry before mentioned: At which time Dr. Will. Lloyd, than Dean of Bangor, preached his funeral Sermon; which having been since twice printed, you may see his full character therein, as also in the Epist. dedic. of Dr. Seth Ward made to Dr. Jonath. Goddard, put before the Inquisitio in Bullialdi Astronomiae fundamenta.  
JASPER maine made his first entry on the stage of this transitory world in a Market Town in Devonsh. called Hatherlagh, an. 1604, entered into Ch. Ch. in the condition of a Servitor, 1623., being then encouraged in his studies by Dr. Duppa. Afterwards he was chosen into the number of Students, took the degr. in Arts, holy Ord. and became a acquaint Preacher and noted Poet. At length, by the favour of the Dean and Canons of the said house, he was made Vicar of Cassington near Woodstock, and of Pyrton near Watlington, in Oxfordshire. In the beginning of the Rebellion, when the King took up his abode in Oxon, he was one of those many Divines that were appointed to preach before him, the Court, and Parliament, and for his reward was actually created Doct. of Diu. 1646. Two years after he was deprived of all right he had to his Students place, and soon after of the Vicarage of Pyrton, and at length of Cassington. So that being in a manner put to his shifts, he was preferred to be Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire, and so consequently to be a Companion with Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury, between whom there never was a right understanding. After the Kings return he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in Jul. 1660, and about that time was not only restored to his Vicaridges, but was made Archdeacon of Chichester, in the place of Dr. Hammond deceased, and Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty. All which he kept to his dying day, and was ever accounted a witty and a facetious Companion. He hath written and published,  
The City match: a Comedy. Oxon. 1639, etc. fol.  
The amorous War, Tr. Com. Oxon. 1658. 59 qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Sermon concerning Unity and Agreement, in Carfax Church in Oxon. 9 Aug. 1646. on 1 Cor. 1.10.— Printed 1646. qu. (2) Serm. against false Prophets, on Ezek. 22.28.— Pr. 1647. qu. (3) Serm. against Schism, or the separations of these times, on Heb. 10.24.25. Preached in the Church of Watlington in Oxfordshire, with some interruption, 11 Sept. 1652, at a public dispute held there betw. Jasp. Main D. D. and one Joh. Pendarves an Anabaptist. Lond. 1652. qu. See more in J. Pendarves, p. 127.  
A late Sermon against false Prophets vindicated by letter from the causeless Aspersions of Mr. Franc. Cheynell.— Printed 1647. qu. See more in Fr. Cheynell, pag. 246.  
The People's War examined according to the Principles of Scripture and Reason, etc. In answer to a letter sent by a person of quality, who desired satisfaction.— Pr. 1647. qu. These two last things, with the three Sermons before mentioned, were commonly bound together, and sold with this general title to them, Certain sermons and letters of defence and resolution, etc. Lond. 1653. qu. One J. M. D. D. wrote a book intit. Difference about Church Government, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. Whether written by our Author Jasp. maine I cannot justly tell, neither whether J. M. of Oxon, Author of Policy unveiled: or maxims and reasons of State. Printed in qu. in the times of Usurpation, be the same with Jasp. maine, or another. Qu.  
Concio ad Acad. Oxon. pro more habita, inchoante Termino, 27 Maii 1662., in Gal. 5.1.  
Sermon at the consecration of Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford, on 1 Tim. 4.14. Lond. 1662. qu. He also did render into English from the original, part of Lucian's Dialogues, an. 1638: To which afterwards he adjoined the other Dialogues, as they were formerly translated by Franc. Hicks.— Lond. 1663. 64. fol; And translated from Lat. into Engl. Dr. John Donn's Epigrams, which our Author maine intit. A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams. Lond. 1652. oct. He made his Exit on the 6 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two, and was buried in the second isle joining, 
1672.  on the north side, to the Choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Over his grave was laid soon after a marble stone, at the charge of his Executors Dr. Rob. South and Dr. Jo. Lamphire; the short Epitaph on which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 282. b. The said Dr. maine by his will gave 500 l. towards the rebuilding of S. Paul's Cathedral, and a 100 l. a piece to his Vicaridges of Cassington and Pyrton, but nothing to the place of his Education because he (as Dr. Jo. Wall had done) had taken some distaste for affronts received from the Dean of his Coll, and certain Students, encouraged by him, in their grinning and sauciness towards him.  
JOHN DOUGHTIE was born of gentile Parents at Martley near Worcester in Worcestershire, educated in Grammar learning in Worcester, under Mr. Hen. Bright, as it seems, and at 16 years of age, or more, became a Student in this Uniu. in Lent Term 1613. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, he was one of those many prime Scholars that were Candidates for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. an. 1619, and being throughly sifted by Sir Hen. Savile the Warden, was forthwith chosen and made signior of the Election. After he had completed the degree of M. of Arts, he entered into Orders, and became much frequented for his edifying Sermons. In 1631 he was admitted to the procuratorial Office, but before he had served four months of that year, he was deprived of it, and the reason why, is told 
(a) In Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 1. p. 335.  you elsewhere. About that time he became Chaplain to the Earl of Northumberland, and on the 11 of Jan. 1633 he was presented by the Warden and Society of Merton Coll. to the Rectory of Lapworth in Warwickshire: where continuing till the beginning of the Civil War, he left all there, purposely to avoid sequestration and imprisonment, and forthwith retired to the King at Oxon. Soon after meeting with Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury, he preferred him to be Lecturer of S. Edmund's Church within that City; where continuing about two years, at which time the King's Forces were routed in the West, he retired to London, and for some time found relief in the house of Sir Nath. Brent then living in Little Britain. After his Majesty's Restauration he became one of the Prebendaries of Westminster, Rector of Cheame in Surrey, and was actually created Doct. of Divinity. His works are these,  
Discourse concerning the abstruseness of divine Mysteries, together with our knowledge of them, on Rom. 12.16. Oxon. 1628. qu.  
Disc. touching Church schisms, on Rom. 16.17.— Printed with the former Discourse.  
The King's cause rationally, briefly and plainly debated, as it stands de facto, against the irrational misprision of a deceived people. Oxon. 1644, in 6 sh. in qu.  
Phil-Iren-Alethius. Velitationes polemicae. Or, polemical short discussions of certain particular and select Questions. Lond. 1652. oct. The two letters J. D. are only set to it, and it was then, and is, taken to be of Doughties composition. There is a great deal of good reading, and skill in the Gr. tongue showed in the book.  
Analecta sacra: sive excursus philologici super diversis sacrae scripturae locis, etc. part 2. Lond. 1658. and 1660. in a thick oct. He died at Westminster, after he had lived to be twice a child, on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and two, 
1672.  and was buried in the Abbey Ch. of S. Peter there, near to the body of Dr. Brian Duppa sometimes Bishop of Winchester, in the Area on the north side of the Chapel of S. Edward. Over his grave was soon after a stone laid, with this inscription thereon. Johannes Doughtie S. T. D. hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarius: obiit xxv. Decemb. MDCLXXII. aetatis suae lxxv.  
IMMANUEL BOURNE a Minister's son, was born in Northamptonshire, 27. Dec. 1590., entered in Ch. Ch. an. 1607, but whether in the condition of a Student, Commoner or Servitor, I know not, and took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed not till 1616. About that time, he, by the favour of Dr. Will. Piers Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of S. Christopher's Church near the Exchange in London, became preacher there, and was patronised in his studies and calling by Sir Sam. Tryon Kt. an Inhabitant in that parish. In 1622 he was made Parson of Ashhover in Derbyshire, which he kept several years, and was resorted to much by the puritanical party. At length when the rebellion broke forth in 1642, he sided with the Presbyterians, and being there-molested by the loyal party at Ashover and near it, he went to London, where he became preacher to the Congregation in S. Sepulchers Church, and was much admired by the Brethren. In the reign of Oliver, (about 1656), he, by the favour of those then in authority, became Rector of Waltham in Leycestershire, conformed at his Majesty's restauration, and on the 12. of March 1669 was instituted and inducted into the Rectory of Ailston in the said County. This person who was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, hath written and published these things following.  
Several Sermons as (1) The Rainbow, Sermon at Paul's Cross 10. June 1617. on Gen. 9.13. Lond. 1617. qu. (2) The Godly man's guide, on Jam. 5.13. Lond. 1620. qu. (3) The true way of a Christian to the new Jerusalem: or, a threefold demonstration, etc. on 1 Cor. 5.17. Ibid. 1622 qu. (4.) Anatomy of Conscience, etc. Assize Serm. at Derby, on Rev. 20.11. Ibid. 1623. qu. etc.  
A light from Christ, leading unto Christ, by the star of his word. Or, a divine directory for self examination and preparation for the Lords Supper, etc. Lond. 1645. oct. In another edition or another title Pr. there in a thick oct. the said book hath this title, A light, etc. Or, the rich Jewel of Christian Divinity, etc. by way of Catechism or dialogue.  
Defence of Scriptures, and the holy Spirit speaking in them, as the chief Judge of Controversies of faith, etc. Lond. 1656. qu.  
Vindication of the honour done to the Magistrates, Minister's and others— Printed with the Defence, etc. and both contained in a relation of a disputation at Chesterfield in Derbyshire, between some Ministers and James Nayler an erring Quaker. The said Defence and Vindication were both answered by George Fox a ringleader of Quakers, in his book entit. The great mystery of the great whore unfolded, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 127. etc.  
Defence and justification of Minister's maintenance by tithes, and of Infant-baptisme, humane learning, and the Sword of the Magistrate, etc. in a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to the said Im. Bourne. Lond. 1659. qu.  
Animadversions upon Anth. Perisons (Parsons) Great case of tithes— Printed with the Defence and justification, etc.  
A Gold chain of directions with 20 gold links of love to preserve love firm between husband and wife, etc. Lond. 1669. in tw. dedicated to his Patron John Lord Roos. What other matters he hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 27. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two, 
1672.  was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Ailston before mentioned, and that soon after, was a little inscription put over his grave, wherein 'tis said that he died in the eighty second year of his age.  
JOSEPH CARYL was born of gentile Parents in London, became a Commoner or Sojournour of Exeter Coll▪ in the beginning of 1621., aged 17 years, where, by the benefit of a good Tutor and discipline, he became in short time a noted Disputant. In 1627. he proceeded in Arts and entering into holy Orders, exercised his Function in, and near, Oxon for some time. At length, being puritanically affected, he became preacher to the honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, where he continued several years with good liking and applause. In 1642 and after, he became a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament, and a Licenser of books for the Cause: And in the year following being a zealous Covenantier and a pretender to reformation, he was elected one of the Ass. of Divines, among whom he frequently sat and controverted matters of Religion. In 1645 he was made Minister of the Church of S. Magnus near London bridge, by the factious party there, because he was an enemy to the Bishops and a zealous preacher up of rebellion, where for many years he carried on the cause without interruption. In January 1646 he, with Steph. Martial, both by that time notorious Independents and great siders with the Army raised by the said Parliament to pluck down the K. and his party, were appointed Chaplains to the Commissioners sent by the said Parliament to the King, then at Newcastle, in order for an accommodation of peace. Thence, by easy journeys, they accompanied the K. and Commissioners to Holdenly in Northamptonshire; where his Maj. making some continuance, without any of his Chaplains in Ordinary to wait upon him, (because they disrelished the Covenant) they the said Ministers, upon the desire of the Commissioners, did offer their service to preach before the K. and say Grace at Meals, but they were both by him denied, the K. always saying Grace himself, with an audible voice, standing under the State. So that our author Caryl and Martial, (to whom the King nevertheless was civil) did take so great disgust at his Majesty's refusals, that they did ever after mightily promote the Independent slander of the King's obstinacy. 'tis said that Martial did on a time put himself more forward than was meet to say Grace, and while he was long in forming his Chaps, as the manner was among the Saints, and making ugly faces, his Maj. said Grace himself and was fallen to his meat, and had eaten up some part of his dinner before Martial had ended the blessing, but Caryl was not so impudent: yet notwithstanding though they then fully saw the great civilities, moderation, sweet temper, humility, prudence, and unexpressible devotion in his Majesty, yet there was no reluctancy in them, as there were in some of the Commissioners, especially in Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne. In Sept. 1648 our author Caryl was one of those five Ministers that went with other Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat of peace at Newport in the Isle of Wight: where though he preached before them, yet his Maj. would not accept of him or of any of the rest among his Chaplains then with him, to pray or preach before him; which did again enlarge his disgust. The same year, January 30, some hours before the K. suffered death, the Committee of parl. ordered that he, Phil. Nye and other Ministers should attend the said King to administer to him those spiritual helps, as should be suitable to his then present condition, but the K. being acquainted with it, he would not be troubled with them: so that all the desires that our author had to serve, or rather impertenize, his Maj. were frustrated. In Apr. the next year, he with Marshal and Nye were employed by the Grandees of the Army to invite and cajole the secured and secluded Members to sit in the Parliament House among the Independents, but they effected nothing. In Sept. 1650 he and Joh. Owen an Independent Minister, were by order of Parliament sent to Scotland to attend Ol. Cromwell, who desired their company at that place to receive comfort by their prayers and preachings. In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of public Ministers, in which office he licked his fingers sufficiently; and in the year after he was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London, appointed by Parliament for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters, as they were then by the godly party so called. In 1659. Nou. 1. he with Whally, Goffe., etc. began their journey towards Scotland to give George Monk General of the Army there, a right understanding of affairs in England, in order to the avoiding effusion of more blood, but they returned unsatisfied, and on the 14. of March following, he was, with Edw. Reynolds and others, appointed by Act of Parliament to approve of and admit Ministers according to the Presbyterian way. But that being nulled at the King's restauration, he receded to his cure at S. Magnus, where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him. His works are these  
Several Sermons as (1) The works of Ephesus, explained in a Serm. before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 27. Apr. 1642, on Rev. 2. ver. 2.3. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) The nature, solemnity, grounds, property & benefits of a sacred Covenant, etc. preached to those that were to take the Covenant, 6. Oct. 1643, on Nehem. 9.38. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) The Saints thankful acclamation at christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdom, Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of C. 23▪ Apr. 1644, for the great victory given to the parl. Army under the command of the Lord Fairfax at Selby in Yorks. and to other of the parl. forces in Pembrokesh. on Rev. 11.16.17. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) Arraignment of unbelief as the grand cause of our national nonestablishment, Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. May 1645, on Isay 7.9. Lond. 1645. qu, (5) Heaven and earth embracing, or God and man approaching, Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. Jan. 1645 on Jam. 4.8. the former part of the vers. Lond. 1646. qu. (6) Joy out-joyed, etc. Th. giv. Serm. at S. Martin's in the fields, 19 Feb. 1645 for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton, on Luke 10.20. Lond. 1646. qu. (7) England's plus ultra, both of hoped mercies and required duties, Th. giv. Serm. before both Houses of parliament, L. Mayor and Aldermen, and Ass. of Divines 2. Apr. 1646, for recovering of the West and disbanding 5000 of the King's horse, etc. on Psal. 118.17. Lond. 1646. qu. Hugh Peter's was the other person that held out before the said auditory on the same day, on Psal. 31.23: which Sermon was printed twice in 1646. Besides these he hath other Sermons which I have not yet seen viz. (1) Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 29. July 1646: At which time Jeremiah Whitaker held forth before the said House, as Sam. Bolton and Simeon Ash did before the Lords. (2) Thanksgiving Serm. before the Parl. at S. Marg. West. Oct. 8. on Psal. 111.1.2.3.4.5. (3) Fast. Serm. before the Parl. 24. Sept. 1656, on Jer. 4. part of the ninth verse and (4) Fast and Thanksgiving Sermon, bef. the parl. in Aug. and Oct. 1659., etc.  
Sermons upon other occasions as (1) David's prayer for Solomon, Lond. 1643. qu. (2) Serm. pr. 1657. (3) Farewell Serm. at S. Magnus on Rev. 3.4. Lond. 1662. oct. Printed with other Farewell Sermons of certain Lond. Ministers of the presb. and Indep. persuasion, who were ejected from their respective Churches for nonconformity on S. Barth. day 1662. The names of them were Edm. Calamy, Dr. Th. Manton, Tho. Case, Will. Jenkins Rich. Baxter, Dr. Th. Jacomb, Dr. Will. Bates, Thom. Watson, Tho. Lie, and Matth. Mead. The pictures of all which are in the title page, and the title in the middle of them running thus. The farewell Sermons of the late London Ministers preached 17. Aug. 1662., etc. Our author Jos. Caryl hath also written and published  
Exposition with practical Observations on the book of Job, delivered in several Sermons and Lectures in S Magnus' Church, etc.— Printed at Lond. in 11 Volumes in qu. Afterwards published in two large folios. The first of which was printed at Lond. 1676. and the other in 1677 with the author's picture before it. Which volumes are epitomised in the second vol. of Math. Poole's Synopsis Criticorum.  
The nature and principles of Love, as the end of the commandment, declared in some of his last Sermons. Lond. 1674. oct, with an Epist. prefixed, by Jo. Owen D. D.  
Gospel-Love, Heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous, being his last Sermons. Lond. 1674 75. oct.  
He also had a prime hand in a book entit. An English Greek Lexicon containing the derivations and various significations of all the words in the New Testament, etc. Lond. 1661. (oct) The others that joined with him in this work were George (some call him Thomas) Cockayne, Ralph Venning, Will. del, Matth. Barker, Will. Adderley, Matth. Mead and Hen. Jessey, all Nonconformists. Also a hand in another book called Saints Memorials: or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Being a collection of divine Sentences by several Presbyterian Ministers. Lond. 1674. oct. Those parts which Caryl composed are (1) The Palmtree Christian. p. 51. (2) Practical and Experimental considerations and characters of the real Christian. p. 57 (3) On Gospel Charity. p. 65. (4) The heart anatomised. p. 74. (5) Divine Sentences; or, a guide to a holy life. p. 77. After which, in p. 109 follows his Elegy and Epitaph. The other persons that had hands in the said Saint's Memorials, were Edm. Calamy, and James Janaway, whom I have, and shall mention elsewhere, as also Ralph Venning sometimes of Emmanuel Coll. in Cambr. who among several things that he hath published, are Orthodox Paradoxes: or, a beleiver clearing truth by seeming contradictions. Lond. 1647. tw. To which is added an Appendix: or the triumph of assurance over the law, sin, the world, wants, and present enjoyments. He hath also several Sermons extant as A warning to backsliders, etc. preached at Paul's before the L. Mayor and Alderm. of Lond. on Rev. 2.5. Lond. 1654. qu. etc. He died on the 10 of March 1673 and was buried in the presence of very many Nonconformists; at which time Rob. Bragge preached his funeral Sermon entit. A Cry for Labourers in God's harvest, on Matth. 9 38. Lond. 1674. qu. At the end of which Sermon are the titles of nine books which had been written and published by Ralph Venning. As for our author Jos. Caryl, who was a learned and zealous Nonconformist, he died in his house in Bury street in London on the 25. of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and two, 
1672/3.  but where buried, unless in the Church of S. Magnus' before mentioned, wherein he had for many years possessed his auditors with many unworthy things against K. Ch. 1. and his Son, their followers and the prelatical party, I know not.— Several elegies were made on him after his death, of which two or more, I have seen extant.  
JOHN RILAND. son of Rich. Ril. of Radbrook in Glocestershire, was born at Over-Quinton in that County, educated in Grammar learning at Stratford upon Avon in Warwicksh. under John Trapp, became a Student in Magd. Hall, in 1633 aged 14, and soon after of Magd. Coll, where taking the degrees in Arts, became perpetual Fellow of that House, in 1641. Afterwards he submittted to the parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, was made Archdeacon of Coventry by Dr. Frewen B. of Lichfield, on the death of Dr. Jo. Arnway, Rector of Bilton by Tho. Boughton Esq an. 1660, and of Birmingham (both in Warwicksh.) by Sir. Sam. Marrow, 1665. He hath written and published.  
Several Sermons viz. (1) Doomsday book opened, an Assize Serm: at Warwick, on Rev. 20.12. Lond. 1660. qu. (2) Elias the second his coming to restore all things, on Isay 1.26. Oxon 1662. qu. (3) Moses the peacemaker, his offers to make one of the two contending brethren, on Acts 7. 26. Oxon. 1662. qu. (4) Confirmation revived, on Psal. 1.3. Lond. 1663. qu. 'Tis a Visitation Sermon, and 'twas preached at Coventry before Dr. Hacket B. of Lich. and Cou. He died on the third day of March, 
167●/3.  in sixteen hundred seventy and two, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Birmingham before mentioned. Over his grave was a marble table fixed soon after to the wall, with this inscription Engraven thereon. M. S. Johannis Riland (nèc non chariss. conjugis Ciciliae & filiolae unicae Mariae) Coventriae Archidiaconi & Parochiae hujus Ministri, simul & ornamenti. Qui Atheos pariter & Fanaticos, & quicquid deprivati moris & fidei, scelerosa aetas; non tantum scriptis & sermonibus, (utrisque licet nervosè) sed constanti & indeflexo vitae inculpatae decursu castigavit. Post absoluta Oxoniae juventutis tyrocinia in Coll. Magdal. ubi non dudum commoratus est, quin socius cooptatus: post vitam variisque locis & plagis injuriâ temporum peractam; hic tandem consedit, hic moriebatur 3ᵒ Martii anno Salutis 1672 aetatis 53.  
RICHARD BRATHWAYTE second son of Tho. Brath. of Warcop near Appleby in Westmoreland, Son and heir of Thom. Brathw. of Barnside, son of Richard Br. of Ambleside in the Barony of Kendal, became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. an. 1604 aged 16, at which time he was matriculated as a Gentleman's son and a Native of the County of Northumberland. While he continued in that House, which was at least three years, he avoided as much as he could, the rough paths of Logic and Philosophy and traced those smooth ones of Poetry and Roman History, in which at length he did excel. Afterwards, he removed to Cambridge, as it seems, where also he spent some time for the sake of dead and living authors, and then receding to the north parts of England, his father bestowed on him Barnside before mentioned: where living many years, he became Captain of a Foot-Company in the Trained-bands, a Deputy-Lieutenant in the County of Westmoreland, a Justice of peace and a noted wit and poet. He wrote and published several books in English, consisting of Prose and Poetry, highly commended in the age wherein published, but since slighted and despised as frivolous matters, and only to be taken into the hands of Novices. The titles of them are these.  
Golden-Fleece, with other poems. Lond. 1611. oct.  
The Poet's willow: or, the passionate Shepherd: with sundry delightful and no less passionate sonnets, describing the passions of a discontented and perplexed Lover. Lond. 1614 oct. Written in Lyric and Anacreontick measures.  
Annotations upon some of the Sonnets before mentioned— These are printed at the end of The Poet's Willow.  
The Prodigal's tears: or, his farewell to vanity: a treatise of Sovereign cordials, etc. Lond. 1614 oct.  
The Scholar's Medley: or, an intermixed discourse upon historical and poetical relations, etc.— Pr. 1614 qu.  
Essays upon the five senses. Lond. 1620. oct. there again. 1635. in tw.  
Nature's Embassy: or, the wildmans' measures: danced naked by 12 Satyrs. Lond. 1621. oct.  

Divine and moral essays. Printed with Nature's Embassy, etc.  
The Shepherd's tales. Printed with Nature's Embassy, etc.  
Omphale: or, the inconstant Shepherdess. Printed with Nature's Embassy, etc.  
Odes: or Philomel's tears. Printed with Nature's Embassy, etc.   
Time's curtain drawn; divers poems. Lond. 1621. oct.  
The English Gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations, tending to direction of every Gentleman, of selecter rank and quality, how to demean, or accommodate himself in the manage of public or private affairs. Lond. 1630. and 33. qu. There again with enlargments, 1641. fol.  
The English Gentlewoman containing, etc. Lond. 1631. 33. qu. There again with enlargments 1641. fol.  
Discourse of detraction. Lond. 1635. in tw.  
Chistian resolves and divine contemplations— Pr. with the Disc. of detract.  
The Arcadian princess: or, the triumph of Justice Lond. 1635. oct.  
Survey of History: or, a Nursery for Gentry: A discourse historical and poetical, etc. Lond. 1638. qu. Pr. again in 1652. qu. being then, I think, epitomised.  
A spiritual spicery containing sundry sweet tractates of devotion and piety. Lond. 1638. in tw. With which was printed a translation of A christian dial; by which he is directed, how he is to dispose of his hours while he is living, etc. written by Joh. Justus Lanspergius a Carthusian, who died 1539.  
Mercurius Britanicus: or, the English Intelligencer. Tra. Com.— Printed the second time, 1641. qu.  
Time's treasury or Academy, for the accomplishment of the English Gentry in arguments of discourse, habit, fashion, behaviour, etc. all summed up in Characters of honour. Lond. 1655. 56. qu.  
Congratulatory poem to his Majesty upon his happy arrival in our late discomposed Albion. Lond 1660. in 2. sh. in qu.  
Tragicemedia, cui titulum inscribitur Regicidium perspicacissimis judiciis accuratius perspecta, pensata, comprobata Lond. 1665. or thereabouts. What other things he hath written and published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that in his latter days he removed upon an employment or rather a second Marlinge, to Appleton near Richmond in Yorkshire, where dying on the fourth day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and three, 
1673.  was buried in the Parish Church of Catherick near that place; leaving them behind the character of a well bread Gentleman and a good Neighbour.  
WILLIAM LACEY was born in a Market Town in Yorkshire called Scarborough, became a Student in this University (in Magd. Hall as he used to say) in 1600 aged 16 years or thereabouts, but whether in the condition of a Batler or Servitor, I know not, nor what continuance he made there. After he had left the University, without the taking of any degree, he retired for a time to his native Country, and thence, by the persuasion of a certain person, to the English Coll. at Rome; where, a little after his arrival, Father Persons the Rector thereof gave up the Ghost. Thence he went to Nancy in Lorraine, where he entered himself into the Society of Jesus, an. 1611, at which time he bound himself by oath to observe the four vows. Afterwards he taught Humanity for some years at S. Omers, or was, as a certain 
(a) James Wadsworth in his book called The English Spanish Pilgrim: printed at Lond. the sec. time, 1630, qu. p. 13.  author tells us, Reader of Poetry and Master of the Syntax, (an. 1622.) About that time being sent on the mission into England, he settled in the City of Oxon. where, and in the Neighbourhood, he administered to the R. C. till towards the latter end of his life. He lived many years in a poor cottage without the east gate of that City, standing on the site of the habitation sometimes belonging to the brethren of the Holy Trinity. In the said cottage did then live two Ro. Cath. Virgins of mean condition, named Mary and Joan Meakyns, who from their Childhood had dedicated themselves to piety and good works, always lived singly and arrived both of them beyond the age of man. These two antiquated Virgins were owners of the cottage and did very carefully attend this Father, and took as much care of him, as if he had been their own Father or Brother. His fare was course, his drink of a penny a gawn or gallon, his bed was under thatching, and the way to it was up a ladder. With these two, I say, he lived in a most retired and devout condition, till God was pleased to translate them to a better place, and then the Father was removed to the Dolphin Inn in Magd. Parish in the suburb of Oxon, the Hosts of which was one of his persuasion, where he ended his days. He was esteemed by all, especially by those of his opinion, a learned Man, well versed in the Poets, of a quiet disposition and gentile behaviour: which made him therefore respected, and his company to be desired, by certain Scholars of the University, especially by Tho. Masters and other ingenious men of New Coll. But this their civility to, and esteem of, him was not while the Presbyterians governed, who made it a most dreadful and damnable thing to be seen in the company of Papists, especially of Romish Priests, but before the rebellion broke forth upon their account, when then the Men of the Church of England had a respect for Papists, as they now have for Presbyterians. The things that this Father hath written are,  
The judgement of an University man concerning Mr. Will. Chillingworth his late Pamphlet in answer to charity maintained— Printed 1639. qu. Reprinted at Camb. in 1653 in oct. in a preface to a book then and there published. The character that Edw. Knot the Jesuit gives 
(b) In his Pref. to Infidelity unmasked.  of this book is that it is a witty, erudite and solid work.  
Heantomachia: Mr. Chillingworth against himself.  
The total sum.— These two are printed at the end of The Judgement, etc. At length this Father Lacey, who had lived to be twice a child, died in the Dolphin Inn before mentioned, on the seventeenth day of July, in sixteen hundred seventy and three, aged 89 years, 
1673.  and two days after his body being carried to Somerton near Dedington in Oxfordshire, (to which place he usually retired) was buried in the Church there, noted for the splendid monuments of the Fermours, Lords of that Town and Roman Catholics From the same family of this Will. Lacey was descended John Lacey the Comedian, born near Doncaster in Yorks, originally an apprentice to John Ogilby a Dancing master, afterwards one of the best and most applauded of our English actors belonging to the King's Playhouse, and from an Actor to be Author of these Comedies (1) The Old Troop: or Monsieur Raggou. Lond. 1672. qu. (2) The dumb Lady: or the Farrier made Physician. Lond. 1672. qu. (3) Sir Hercules Buffoon, or the poetical Squire. Lond. 1684. qu. This Person who was of a rare shape of body and good complexion, and had served his Majesty in the time of the rebellion in the quality of a Lieutenant and Quartermaster under Coll. Charles Gerard (afterwards Earl of Macclesfield) died on the 17. of Sept. 1681 and was two days after buried in the farther Churchyard of S. Martin in the Fields, I mean in that yard on the other side of S. Martins-lane, within the liberty of Westminster. His Maj. Ch. 2. who had a great respect for, caused several pictures of, him to be drawn according to several postures which he acted in several parts, and do now, or else did lately, remain at Windsor and Hampton Court.  
JOHN THEYER was born of gentile Parents at Cowpers-hill in the Parish of Brockworth near to, and in the County of, Gloucester, began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. an. 1613 aged 16 years or thereabouts, where continuing about three years, partly under the tuition of John Harmur, retired to an Inn of Chancery in London called New Inn, where spending as many years in obtaining knowledge in the Common Law, he receded to his patrimony, and, as years grew on, gave himself up mostly to the study of venerable antiquity, and to the obtaining of the ancient monuments thereof, (Manuscripts) in which he did so much abound, that no private Gentleman of his rank and quality did ever, I think, exceed him. He was a bookish and studious Man, a lover of learning and the adorers thereof, a zealous royalist, and one that had suffered much (in the rebellion that began 1642) for the Kings and Church's cause. He hath written,  
Aerio-Mastix: or, a vindication of the Apostolical and generally received government of the Church of Christ by Bishops, against the scismatical Aerians of our time. Wherein is evidently demonstrated that Bishops are jure divino, etc. Oxon. 1643. qu. Dedicated to King Ch. 1. who afterwards made use of it in his Writings to Alexander Henderson a Presbyterian Scot, who died at Edenburg, 31. Aug. 1646 of grief, as some then said, because he could not persuade the said King to sign the propositions for peace which the members of Parliament sent to him at Newcastle by their Commissioners to treat with him for that purpose. In the same year (1643) our author Theyer was adorned with the degree of Master of Arts— Ob 
(c) Reg. Convoc. Un. Ox. S. p. 33.  merita sua in Rempub. literariam & ecclesiam, by virtue of the King's Letters sent to the Vicechanc. and Convocation, that. 6. July the same year. About which time he the said Theyer being discovered to be a man of parts, was persuaded to embrace the Rom. Catholic Religion by Father Philipps a Scot, confessor to Henrietta Maria the Queen Consort. He hath also written,  
A friendly debate between the Protestants and the Papists— MS. But before it was quite fitted for the Press the author died, and what became of it afterwards I know not. His death happened at Cowpers' hill, on the 25 of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and three, 
1673.  and two days after was buried among his Ancestors in the Church yard at Brockworth before mentioned, particularly near to the grave of his Grandfather ... Theyer who had married the Sister of one Hart the last Prior of Langthony near Gloucester. He then left behind him a Library of ancient Manuscripts consisting of the number of about 800, which he himself had for the most part collected. The foundation of it was laid by his Grandfather who had them from Prior Hart, and he from the library of Langthony when it was dissolved, besides household stuff belonging to that Priory. Afterwards Charles Theyer (Grandson to our author John Theyer who in his last will had bequeathed them to him) did offer to sell them to the University of Oxon, but the price being too great, they were sold to Robert Scot of London Bookseller, who soon after sold them to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. to be reposed in his library at S. James, he having first, as I have been informed, culled them.  
ROWLAND STEDMAN was born at Corfton in the Parish of Didlebury in Shropshire, 1630, admitted Communer of Ball. Coll. 13. Mar. 1647, and the year following removed to Uniu. Coll. In 1655 he was admitted Master of Arts, and soon after became Minister of Hanwell near Brentford in Middlesex; where continuing till 1660 he removed to Okingham or Wokingham in Berks, and thence, two years after, was ejected for Nonconformity. Afterwards he was entertained, in the condition of a Chaplain, by Philip Lord Wharton, in whose service he died. He hath written,  
The mystical Union of believers with Christ: or, a treatise wherein the great mystery and privilege of the Saints Union with the Son of God is opened, etc. Lond. 1668. oct.  
Sober Singularity: or, an antidote against infection by the example of a multitude; being practical meditations on Exod. 23.2. etc. Lond. 1668. oct. He died at Ubourne or Wobourne (where the Lord Wharton hath a Seat) near to Beaconsfield in Bucks. on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and three, and was buried two days after in the Church there, 
1673.  leaving then behind him the character of a zealous Nonconformist.  
GEORGE CASTLE son of John Castle sometimes Doctor of Physic of this University, was born in the County of Middlesex, in London as it seems, educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire while Dr. Will. Burt was the Master, admitted a Communer of Ball. Coll. 8. Apr. 1652, aged 17 years or thereabouts, elected Probationer Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1655, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he applied his Studies to Medicine with the help of his Father's notes, took the degrees in that faculty, that of Doctor being completed in the year 1665, being about that time a member of the Royal Society, and a Candidate, as it seems, of the Coll. of Physicians. He hath written,  
The Chemical Galenist: A treatise wherein the practice of the Ancients is reconciled to the new discoveries in the Theory of Physic, etc. Lond. 1667. oct.  
Reflections on a book intit. Medela Medicinae.— Printed with the former book. Afterwards by the favour of his intimate and dear friend Martin Clifford Master of Suttons Hospital alias the Charter-house, he became Physician there and practised his faculty with good success: But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgments, either to please his friend, or patient, or both, was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the twelfth day of Octob. (or thereabouts) in sixteen hundred seventy and three, 
1673.  and was, I suppose, buried in the Chap. belonging to the said Hospital. By the way I must tell you that the said Mart. Clifford had been educated in Westminster School, and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an. 1640, where he arrived to good learning, and might have been eminent had not the Wars hindered his progress. He was the author of A treatise of humane reason, Lond. 1675 in 4. sh. in tw. Which book being made public in Aug. 1674, it happened that Dr. B. Laney Bishop of Ely dined with many persons of quality in Octob. following in the Charterhouse; and whether he then knew that Mart. Clifford the Master was author of it, is uncertain. However he being then asked what he thought of that book, answered that 'twas no matter if all the copies were burnt and the author with them, knowing by what he had read in the book that the author makes every man's private fancy, judge of religion, which the Rom. Catholics have for these 100 years cast upon protestantisme. In Decemb. following were published Observations upon a treat. intit. Of hum. reason. Lond. 1675. in 3. sh. in tw. commonly reported then to be written by the same hand, and soon after another thing intit. Plain dealing: or, a full and particular examination of a late treatise intit. Humane reason. Lond. 1675 in 7. sh. in tw. said in the title to be written by A. M. a Country Gentleman. Whereupon came out a reply called An Apology for the discourse of humane reason, etc. Lond. 1680, in 7. sh. in tw. with a Review of, and an appendix to, it, written by Alb. Warren, who, at the end of all, hath added Clifford's Epitaph, and just character, to which I refer the reader. This Mr. Clifford died on the 10. of Decemb. or thereabouts, an. 1677 and was buried in the Chap. belonging to Suttons Hospital. Soon after was elected into his place of Master of that Hospital William Erskyne Esq. a member of the Royal Society, Cupbearer to his Majesty and a younger Son of John Earl of Marr.  
THOMAS WHARTON was descended from the ancient and gentile family of his name living in Yorkshire, educated in Pemb. Hall in Cambridge, retired to Trin. Coll. in Oxon. before the Civil Wars broke out, being then Tutor or Governor to John Scrope the natural and only Son of Emanuel Earl of Sunderland, whom he begat on the body of his servant-maid named Martha Jeanes Daughter of John Jeanes a Tailor, living sometimes in the Parish of Turfield near to Great Wycomb in Bucks. When the rebellion began our author Wharton left the Uniu. and retired to London, where he practised Physic under Dr. John Bathurst a noted Physician of that place. After Oxford Garrison was surrendered for the use of the Parliament in 1646, he retired to Trin. Coll. again, and as a member thereof was actually created Doctor of Physic in the beginning of the year 1647, by virtue of the letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliament Army. Afterwards he retired to London, was admitted a Candidate of the Coll, of Physicians the same year, Fellow thereof an. 1650, and for 5. or 6. years was chosen Censor of the said Coll, he being then a person of eminent esteem and practice in the City. He hath written,  
Adenographia, seu descriptio Glandularum totius corporis. Lond. 1656. oct. Amstel. 1659. oct. In which book he hath given a more accurate description of the Glands of the whole body, than was formerly done. And whereas authors have ascribed to them very mean uses (as supporting the divisions by vessels, or imbibing the superfluous humidities of the body) he assigns them more noble and considerable uses, as the preparation and depuration of the Succus nutritius, with several other uses belonging to different Glands, as well for conservation of the individual, as propagation of the species. Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered 
(d) Dr. Charles Goodall in his second pref. in his Historical account of the Colleges proceeding against Empirics▪ added to The Royal Coll. of Physicians of London founded and established by Law, etc. Lond. 1684. qu.  the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares, by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth. He hath also given 
(e) Ibid.  an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences, and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae, how new Glands are often generated, as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery, Pancreas, etc. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations. What else he hath written I find not, nor any thing besides of him, only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three, was, as I suppose, buried in the Church of S. Bottolph, 
1673.  situate and being without Aldersgate in London.  
GEORGE SWINNOCK was born in the ancient Borough of Maidstone in Kent, an. 1627., brought up religiously when a Child in the family of Rob. Swinnock a most zealous Puritan of that Town, educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts, went to Oxon to get preferment in the latter end of 1647, at which time he entered himself a Communer of Magd. Hall. Soon after he became one of the Chaplains of New Coll, and on the sixth day of Octob. following (1648) he was made Fellow of Ball. Coll, by the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament. In 1650 he became Vicar of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, and thereupon resigning his Fellowship on the 24 of Nou. the same year, took the degree of Master of Arts six days after. In 1660 or thereabouts, he was made Vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks, and in Aug. 1662., being ejected tor nonconformity, he was received into the family of Rich. Hamden of Great Hamden in the said County of Bucks Esquire, and continued with him for some time in the quality of a Chaplain. At length upon the issuing out of his Majesty's Declaration for liberty of conscience, in the latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native place, where he continued in preaching and praying among the Godly till the time of his death. His works are these.  
The door of Salvation opened by the key of regeneration: or, a Treatise containing the nature, necessity, marks and means of regeneration. Lond. 1660. etc. in oct. and in qu. commended to the Readers by the Epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D, Tho. Watson of S. Stephens Walbroke in Lond. and Mr. Rich. Baxter, written in Jan. 1659. This book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct.  
The Christian man's calling: or, a treatise of making Religion one's business, wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered, etc. Lond. 1661. etc. qu. The second part of this book, which directeth Parents, Children, Husbands, Wives, Masters, Servants, in prosperity and adversity to do their duties, was printed at Lond. 1663., etc. qu. and the third part there in 1665, etc. qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Pastor's farewell and wish of welfare to his people: or, a valedictory Serm. on Acts 20.32. Lond. 1662. qu. It was preached, as it seems, at Gr. Kimbell before mentioned. (2) The fading of the flesh, and flourishing of faith: or, one cast for eternity, etc. Funeral sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of Maidstone, on Psal. 73.26. Lond. 1662. qu. To which is added by the said Author The gracious persons incomparable portion. (3) Men are Gods, Gods are Men, two Assize sermons.— These I have not yet seen, and therefore I cannot tell you the Texts.  
Heaven and Hell epitomised, the true Christian characterized, as also an exhortation with motives, to be speedy about the work of Conversion. Lond. 1663. qu.  
The beauty of Magistracy: in an exposition of the 82 Psal. wherein is set forth the necessity, utility, dignity, duty and morality of Magistrates. Lond. 1660. etc. qu. Assisted therein by Tho. Hall, of whom I have spoken under the year 1665. p. 235.  
Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word, opened and applied. Lond. 1672. oct.  
The Sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission: wherein is discovered the nature, causes and cure of those sins. Lond. 1675 and 79. oct. What other things this Mr. Swinnock (who was accounted an eminent Preacher among those of his persuasion) hath written, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died on the tenth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three, 
1673.  and was buried in the Church at Maidstone before mentioned. In that most virulent and diabolical Pamphlet called Mirabilis annus secundus 
(f) Mirabilis annus secundus: or, the second part of the second years prodigies, etc. Printed 1662. in qu. pag. 49.  is a story of one Mr. Swinnock a Minister in S. Martin's lane near Canon street in London, sometimes Chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of that City, who for his Conformity to the Ch. of England, and for wearing a Surplice, which he began to do on the 21 of Sept. 1662., (after he had often said among the brethren, he would rather burn than conform, etc. as the Author of the said Mirab. an. saith) it pleased the Lord (as he further adds) to strike him with sickness, which proved a violent burning fever, whereof within a few days after, before another Lord's day came about, he died, etc. Who this Mr. Swinnock was, I cannot tell, neither doth the Author set down his Christian Name, otherwise we might have said something more of him, and something to the disproof of that most vile Author.  
THOMAS BROWNE was born in the County of Middlesex, elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1620, aged sixteen years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1627., made Proctor of the University in 1636, and the year after domestic Chaplain to Archbishop Laud, and Bach. of Divinity. Soon after, he became Rector of S. Marry the Great, called Aldermary, in London, Canon of Windsor in 1639, and Rector of Oddington in Oxfordshire. But upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion, he being forced from his Church in London by the impetuous Presbyterians, he retired to his Majesty (to whom he was Chaplain) at Oxford: By virtue of whose letters he was actually created Doct. of Diu. in Feb. 1642, having then only the profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him. Afterwards he lost all for his Loyalty, lived partly beyond the Seas in the condition of Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange; at which time he became acquainted with divers learned men in Holland, and suffered equally as other generous Royalists did. After the return of his Majesty, he was restored to what he had lost, kept some of his Spiritualities, especially Windsor, to the time of his death, without any other promotion in the Church. He hath written and published,  
A copy of the Sermon preached before the University at S. Mary's in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633, on Psal. 130.4. Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a Serm. of his on Joh. 11.4. preached before his Parishiones of Aldermary while he was Chapl. to Archb. Laud. Which Serm. being esteemed a blasphemous piece by the puritanical party of the said Parish, they complained of it to the said Archbish. who, instead of having him punished, was made (said they) Canon of Windsor; and afterwards, when the Archbishop's Writings were seized on at Lambeth, the Sermon was found lying on his Table: But this I presume was never printed. He hath also written,  
A Key to the King's Cabinet: or, animadversions upon the three printed speeches of Mr. L'isle, Mr. Tate and Mr. Brown (Members of the H. of Commons) spoken at a Common hall in London, 3 July 1645, detecting the malice and falsehood of their blasphemous Observations upon the K. and Queens letters. Oxon 1645. qu. The said Speeches were spoken by Joh. L'isle, Zouch Tate and Mr. Browne. Our Author Th. Browne wrote also a treatise in defence of H. Grotius against an Epistle of Cl. Salmasius De posthumo Grotii, published under the name of Simplicius Virinus.— Hag. 1646. in oct. But the said Treatise or Answer I have not yet seen; nor was he known to be the Author of it, till after his death, at which time Isaac Vossius (to whom he had sent a printed copy of it formerly, but never told him who was the Author) found the Manuscript of it, written with his own hand, with a Title page, owning himself therein to be the Author of it.  
Dissertatio de Therapeutis Philonis adversus Henricum Valesium. Lond. 1687. oct. Put at the end (under the name of Tho. Bruno) of the interpretation of S. Clement's two Epistles to the Corinthians, made by Pat. Junius, Gottifredus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius; published by Paulus Colomesius. Our Author Browne also did translate from Lat. into Engl. Camden's second Vol. of the Annals of Qu. Elizabeth, from the beginning of the year 1589 to the end of 1602: Which Translation bears this Title, Tomus alter & idem. Or the history of the life and reign of that famous Princess Elizabeth, etc. Lond. 1629. qu. To which Translation our Author Browne added An Appendix, containing Animadversions upon several passages, corrections of sundry errors, and additions of some remarkable matters of the History (before mentioned) never yet printed. He died at Windsor on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three, and was buried without, 
1673  and on the south side of, the King's Free-Chappel there, dedicated to S. George. Over his grave was soon after erected, at the charge of Dr. Isaac Vossius Canon of that Chapel (sole Executor to our Author Browne) a monument of free stone, with a plank of marble thereon, (joining to the south wall, between two Buttresses of the Chapel) and an inscription engraven upon it, made by the said Vossius: from which I am informed that he the said Browne was esteemed by all that knew him Vir apprimè doctus & eruditus, Criticus acutus, facundus Orator, felix Philologus, Antiquitatum Chronologiaeque cultor solertissimus, Aenigmatum Dilemmatumque conscientiarum dubitantium Oedipus admodum Christianus, etc. One Tho. Browne was elected from Eton School into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an. 1550. was afterwards Master of Westminster School, Prebendary of the collegiat Church there 1565, Doctor of Diu. and a worthy and learned Divine. He wrote a Tragedy called Thebais, and dying in 1584. or thereabouts, was buried at Westminster. What relation there was between this and the former, Thom. Browne, I know not, nor whether he was related to another Thom. Browne, whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1682.  
JAMES JANEWAY a Minister's son, was born, as it seems, at Lily or Lulley in Hertfordshire, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1655. or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, and became Tutor for a time to one George Stringer in his mother's house at Windsor, the same I mean, who was afterwards a Commoner and M. of A. of the said College. So that our author who had all his education under Presbyterians and Independents, did, after his Majesty's restauration, set up a Conventicle at Redriff near London, where to the time of his death he was much resorted to by those of his persuasion, and admired for a forward and precious young man, especially by those of the female sex. His works are,  
Several Sermons as (1) Death unstung, preached at the funeral of Tho. Mousley an Apothecary, with a brief narrative of his life. (2) Serm. at the funeral of Tho. Savage. (3) The duties of Masters and Servants, on Ephes. 6. ver. 5.6 7.8.9.— Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate, Lond. 1674 and 76. (4) Man's last end, fun. Serm. on Psal. 89 48. Lond. 1675. oct.  
Heaven upon Earth: or, the best friend in the worst of times. Lond. 1670. etc. oct. Delivered in several Sermons.  
A token for Children; being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary Lives and joyful deaths, of several young children. Lond. 1671. the first part in oct. The second part was printed there also in 8ᵒ. an. 1672.  
Invisible realities, demonstrated in the holy life and death of Mr. John Janeway Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge. Lond. 1673. etc. oct. This Jo. Janeway who was elder brother to James our author, was born at Lily in Hertfordshire, 27. Oct. 1633, bred in Paul's School under Mr. Joh. Langley, became a zealous Presbyterian, and dying in June 1657, was buried in Kelsall Church in Hertfordsh. This life is recommended to the world with an Epistle, written by Mr. Rich. Baxter.  
The Saint's encouragement to diligence in Christ's service: with motives and means to Christian activity. To which is added, as an example to prove the point handled, The deathbed experiences of Mistress B. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Legacy to his Friends containing 27 famous instances of God's providences in and about Sea-dangers and deliverances, with the names of several that were Eye-witnesses to many of them. Lond. 1674. 75 oct. Before which book is the author's picture in a cloak, aged 38 years, and at the end of it is a Sermon intit. Sea-dangers and deliverances, on Acts 27.18.19.20. by Joh. Ryther a Nonconformist of Wapping near London. The said Legacy is several times made use of by Increase Mather in his Essay for the recording of illustrious providences.  
Saint's memorial: or, words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Being a collection of divers sentences, Lond. 1674. oct. Edm. Calamy, Ralph Venning and Jos. Caryl had a hand, besides Janeway, in the said memorials. He died on the sixteenth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and three, 
1673/4.  and was buried 4 days after in the Church of S. Mary in Aldermanburic within the City of London, near to the grave of his father. At which time his friend Mr. Nath. Vincent preached his funeral Sermon; which being extant, the reader may satisfy himself more of the character of Mr. Janeway therein. Several Elegies I have seen, that were made on his death, as that by Ralph Venning, who saith he died on the 10. of March, another by Anon. who tells us the 12. of the said month, etc. but both false.  
HUGH CRESSEY or Cressy son of Hugh Cressey a Counsellor of Lincoln's Inn, by (Margery) his wife, dau. of Dr. Tho. D'oylie a Physician of London, was born in a market Town in Yorksh. called Wakefield, (descended from an ancient and gentile family of his name living sometimes at Holme near Hodsack in Nottinghamshire) and being educated in Grammar learning in his native country, was, at 14 years of age, sent to the University of Oxon. in Lent term an. 1619, but for want of a vigilant Tutor, he lost much time, yet having good natural parts, did, in the fourth year after his coming to the Uniu. take the degree of Bach. of Arts, and in 1625 being a candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. he was elected Probationer, and the year after was made true and perpetual Fellow: So that what time and learning he before had lost, was, by a strict and severe discipline then and there observed, recovered and advanced. After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had entered into holy Orders, he became Chaplain to Thom. Lord Wentworth while he was Precedent of the North, and afterwards when he was Earl of Strafford; but what he obtained from that most noble Lord while he enjoyed that honourable employment I know not. In 1638 he went in the quality of a Chaplain, as I conceive, with his most honoured Lord Lucius Viscount Falkland when he went into Ireland, and in the year after returned into England, but had nothing then and there confer'd upon him. In the latter end of 1642 he became, by the favour and interest of the said Viscount (than one of the Secretaries of State) Canon of Windsor, in the room of Dr. Gilb. Primrose deceased, but was never installed in that Dignity; and much about the same time had the Deanery of Laighlen in Ireland conferred upon him: In which year all things being in a confusion, he received no profits from either Dignity. So that being destitute of a comfortable subsistence, especially in the next year when he lost his most beloved Lord Falkland at Newbury fight, he traveled as a Tutor with Charles Berkley Esq. (afterwards Earl of Falmouth) an. 1644, and upon a foresight that the Church of England would terminate through the endeavours of the peevish and restless Presbyterians, he began to think of settling himself in the Church of Rome. At length, after mature consideration, he renounced his religion and made a public recantation at Rome of his errors and heresy (as they are there called) before the Inquisition, an. 1646. Which being so done, he returned to Paris, and there published his Motives that induced him to change his religion, not that he was so considerable, a person that all the World should take notice of it, but that he might 
(a) Pref. to his Exomologesis.  give some proof both of the mature advice and also reasonableness of his change. A certain 
(b) Edw. E. of Clar. in his book entit. Animadversions on a book entit. Fanaticisme fanatically imputed, etc.  author tells us that it was not devotion, but necessity, and want of a subsistence which drove him first out of the Church of England, and then into a Monastery: And 
(c) The author of Legenda Lignea, with an answer to the Moderator, chap. 36.  another that he became a Roman Catholic, and was ensnared to that new choice by the hopes and promise of being to be admitted an idle Drone or Monk in the Charterhouse at Paris, where he might live as warmly, as leapt all over in Lambskins, and like a Bee in a plentiful hive fed with the purest amber honey, etc. But how such a bait should allure him, no man that understands the rules of that order can easily imagine it so to be, considering that the Monks thereof spend most of their time, whether early or late, in prayer, in fasting, loneness and abstinence from all flesh whatsoever, etc. Of this I am sure that when he wrote and published his Motives, his mind became so humble, that it was his eager desire to be a Monk of the English Coll. of Carthusians at Neiuport in Flanders, a poor place God wot, and very slenderly endowed, as the Prior thereof, Peter Bilcliff a Yorkshire man born, did once tell me. But so it was, that he being dissuaded from that Order, because he could never be in a capacity, or Master of so much time as, to vindicate himself or the Roman Catholic Church by writing, he took upon him the habit of the Benedictine Order, as I shall anon tell you. As soon as his Motives called Exomologesis were made public, he sent a copy into England to his dear friend Dr. Henry Hammond, who in a kind letter returned him thanks for the book, and without the least exception against the stile, gave 
(d) Ser. Cressy in his Epistle Apologet. to a person of honour, etc. Sect. 5. p. 47.  this judgement of it, that an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did privily run through the whole contexture of the book. He did not interpret wherein the fallacy consisted, but added, we are friends, and I do not purpose to be your Antagonist. At the end of the letter, he kindly invited him into England, assuring him that he should be provided of a convenient place to dwell in, and a sufficient subsistence to live comfortably; and withal, that not any one should molest him about his religion and conscience. Our author Cressey had reason to believe that the said invitation was an effect of a cordial friendship, and he was also informed that he was well enabled to make good his promise, as having the disposal of great charities, and being a very charitable man himself. Yet rendering such thanks as gratitude required of him, he told him that he could not accept of so very kind an offer, being engaged almost by vow to leave all pretensions to the World, and to embrace poverty for his portion. Besides also, such a friend as this, he had many more, several near his Majesty; among whom, one especially there was of the highest rank, to whom formerly, upon the rebellion in Ireland, he being destitute of a present subsistence, he did acknowledge all gratitude due, for by his care alone, he was provided of a condition both honourable and comfortable. So that if he had lost all other friends, he had reason to assure himself he would have freely contributed, rather than extremity of want should have forced him to quit the world. But to return; while he continued at Paris, Henrietta Maria the Queen of England was very civil to him, and being about to leave that place, she assigned him an hundred crowns to furnish him in his journey towards a Monastery. Afterwards, upon an invitation, he went to Douai, took upon him the habit of the Benedictine order in the Coll, of the English Monks of that Order there: And being settled, he changed his name from Hugh Paulin, (which he received at the Font in Wakefield Church) to Serenus de, Cressy, lived according to their discipline for 7 years or more, and afterwards became one of the Mission in England. At length upon the King's Marriage with Catherine the Infanta of Portugal, he became one of her Servants and mostly lived in Somerset house in the Strand, within the liberty of Westminster, etc. One of his 
(e) Dan. Whitby in his Pref. to A reply to what S.C. hath returned to Dr. Pierces Sermon. Lond. 1664.  Adversaries tell us, that Cressy was an author grave and sober, whose reason was very keen and sharp, one that he was the Coripheus of the Roman party: which is true, but I must take leave here to tell the reader, that while he continued in Oxon he was accounted a quick and accurate Disputant, a man of a good nature, manners and natural parts, and when in Orders, no inconsiderable preacher. But after he had spent di●ers years in a religious order, and was returned into England, his former acquaintance found great alterations in him as to parts and vivacity, and he seemed to some to be possessed with strange notions, and to others, a reserved Person and little better than a Melancholic. Which mutation arose, not perhaps known to him, upon his solely giving himself up to religion, the refinedness of his soul, and the avoiding of all matters relating to humane and profane learning, as vanities. His works are these,  
Exomologesis: or, a faithful narration of the occasions and motives of his conversion to Catholic unity. Paris 1647. and 53. in oct. In the last edition is an Appendix, in which are cleared certain misconstructions of his Exomologesis, published by J. P. author of the Preface to the Lord falkland's Discourse of infallibility. This Exomologesis was the golden calf which the English Papists fell down to and worshipped. They bragged that book to be unanswerable, and to have 
(*) The Christian Moderator. Lond. 1652. sec. edit. penned by John Austen sometimes of Cambr.  given a total overthrow to the Chillingworthians, and book and tenants of Lucius Lord Falkland.  
Sancta Sophia: or, directions for the prayer of contemplation, etc. extracted out of more than XL treatises, written by the late rev. Father Aug. Baker a Monk of the English congregation of the holy Order of S. Benedict. Douai 1657. in 2. vol. in a large oct.  
Certain patterns of devout exercises of immediate acts and affections of the will— Printed with S. Sophia.  
Roman-Catholick doctrines, no novelties: or, an answer to Dr. Pierces Court Sermon, miscalled The primitive rule of reformation.— Print. 1663. in oct.  
A non est inventus, returned to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw's enquiry, and vainly boasted discovery of weakness in the grounds of the Church's infallibility— Pr. 1662. oct.  
Letter written to an English Gent, 16. July 1662., wherein Bishop Morley is concerned— Printed among some of the said Bishops treatises— Lond. 1683. qu.  
The Church History of Britanny from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest, etc.— Printed at Rouen in Normandy 1668. fol. 'Tis mostly taken from (1) annal Ecclesiae Britannicae. Printed at Leodes 1663. in 4. vol: written by Mich. Alford alias Griffith a Jesuit. (2) The first and 2 vol. of Monast. Anglic. Printed at Lond. 1655. and 1661. fol. (3) The Decem Scriptores Hist. Anglicanae. Printed there also in 1652. fol. and the collection in Ms. (contained in several folios) made from several ancient Mss. relating to English antiquities, (chiefly in the Cottonian Library) by Aug. Baker before mentioned. Many severe censures have been given by learned men of the author Cressy for publishing many Miracles and Monkish stories in the said Ch. Hist. of Britanny, particularly by that great Master of the English language, Edward, sometimes Earl of Clarendon, who knew him well in the University to be much averse to such matters, as also the author of Reflections upon the devotions of the Rom. Church, etc. Lond. 1674. oct. Yet let this be said of him, that forasmuch that he doth mostly quote his authors for, and leaves, what he says, to the judgement of the Readers, he is to be excused, and in the mean time to be commended for his grave and good stile, proper for an Ecclesiastical Historian. After it was published, he went forward with a second volume, which was to conclude about the time of the dissolution of Monasteries made by K. Hen. 8; but before he had finished 300 years after the Norman Conquest he died.  
Answer to part of Dr. Stillingfleets book, entit. Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome.— Printed 1672. in oct.  
Fanaticisme fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet, and the imputation refuted and retorted &c.— Printed 1672. oct.  

Question why are you a Catholic? Pr. 1673. oct.  
Qu. why are you a Protestant? Pr. 1673. oct.   
Epistle Apologetical to a Person of honour, touching his vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet— Print. 1674. oct. The Person of honour was Edw. E. of Clarendon.  
Reflections on the Oath of Supremacy— This I have not yet seen. He also published Sixteen revelations of divine love, showed to a devout servant of our Lord, called mother Juliana an Anchorete of Norwych, who lived in the days of K. Ed. 3. Printed 1670. oct. and dedic. by Cressy to the Lady Mary Blount of Sodington, Widow of Sir George Blount; and also changed from old into modern, English, more compendiously, a book written before the change of religion, entit. An abridgement of the book called the cloud of unknowing, and of the counsel referring to the same. This is not printed but in Ms. and was showed to me by Fath. Wilfrid R a Benedictine Monk. See more in Maur. Chawney in vol. 1. p. 160. At length Mr. Cressey having lived to about the age of man, he surrendered up his last breath at East Greensted in Sussex, in the house of Rich. Caryl Esq. on the tenth day of Aug. (S. Laurence day) in the year sixteen hundred seventy and four, 
1674.  and was buried in the Church there, as I have been informed by the Superior of his order on this side of the river Trent in England, named Gregory Mallet alias John Jackson, who dying in the Sheldonian Family on the 10. Sept. 1681, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Long Compton in Warwickshire.  
THOMAS TRAHERNE a Herefordshire man born, was entered a Communer of Brasn. Coll. on the first day of March 1652, took one degree in Arts, left the house for a time, entered into the sacred function, and in 1661. he was actually created Mast. of Arts. About that time he became Rector of Credinhill commonly called Crednell near to the City of Hereford, afterwards Domestic Chaplain to S. Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and Minister of Tuddington▪ called by some Teddington, near Hampton Court in Middlesex, and in 1669 Bach. of Divinity. He hath written,  
Roman forgeries: or, a true account of false records discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the Church of Rome. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Christian Ethics: or, divine morality, opening the way to blessedness, by the rules of virtue and reason. Lond. 1675. oct. He died at Teddington before mentioned, in the house of S. Orl. Bridgman, and was buried on the tenth day of Octob. in the Church there, under the reading desk, in sixteen hundred seventy and four. 
1674.  This Person who always led a single and a devout life, was well read in primitive antiquity as in the Councils, Fathers, etc.  
DAVID WHITFORD a Scotch man born, Son of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monkland, Bishop of Brechen, and of the house of Milneton, was elected one of the Students of Ch. Ch, from Westm. School an. 1642 aged 16 years, bore Arms for his Majesty soon after within the Garrison of Oxon, and elsewhere, took one degree in Arts, after the surrender of that garrison, and in 1648 was thrown out of his Students place by the impetuous Visitors appointed by Parliament. So that at present being out of all employ, he adhered to the cause of K. Ch. 2, paid his obedience to him when in Scotland, served him in the quality of an Officer at Worcester fight 1651, at which time he came to obtain his rights and inheritances, then most unjustly usurped by fanatics; was there wounded, taken Prisoner, brought to Oxon and thence among other Prisoners carried to London, where by the importunity of friends he was released. Afterwards he was relieved by Edw. bish Esq. K. of Arms, and became Usher to James Shirley the Poet when he taught School in the Whitefriars near Fleetstreet in London. After the King's return in 1660, he was restored to his Students place, was actually created Master of Arts, and having had no preferment bestowed upon him for his Loyalty, (as hundreds of Cavaliers had not, because poor, and could not give bribes and rewards to great and hungry Officers) he was taken into the service of John, Earl (afterwards Duke) of Lauderdale, and became his Chaplain, I mean that Earl whose Surname was Maitland, who dying at Tunbridge Wells in Kent on S. Bartholomews' day 1682, his body was conveyed by Sea to Scotland, and there deposited in a Church of his own erection called Lauder Church, where is the Mansion House and Seat of his Family. The said Dau. Whitford who was always accounted an excellent Grecian and Philologist, hath published, with a translation in latin verse,  
Musaei, Moschi & Bionis, quae extant, omnia. London 1655. qu. in Gr. and Lat.  
Selectiora quaedam Theocriti Eidyllia, in Gr. and Lat. Both dedicated to bish before mentioned, who is by Whitford styled Asylum & perfugium afflictis & egenis. He also translated into Latin the said bish his notes an old authors that have written of Arms and Armoury as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Person, under the year 1679. He also wrote an Appendix to The complete History of the Wars in Scotland under the conduct of James Marquis of Montrose or Montross, as I have been credibly informed by those that knew him well: which History was written by the learned and famous Geor Wishart D.D. as I shall tell you elsewhere. What other things this Mr. Whitford hath written, published, or translated, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying suddenly in his Chamber in Changed Ch. in the morning of the 26. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and four (at which time his Bedmaker found him dead, 
1674.  lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him) was buried in the south trancept joining to the Cathedral Church there, near to the body of his elder Brother called Adam Whitford Bach. of Arts and sometimes Student of the said house, who was buried 10. of Feb. 1646. There was another elder Brother, a stout and desperate man, called Colonel Walter Whitford, who had a prime hand in dispatching that notorious Villain Is. Dorislaw, as I have told you before in Jo. L'isle, pag. 228. Which Colonel was not executed in Scotland by the covenanting party there in June 1650 (as a certain 
(a) Bulst. Whitlock in his Memorials of English affairs, in the month of June 1650, p. 444. a.  author tells us) as having been one of the party under the illustrious and truly valiant Montross before mentioned, but is still (Sept. 1691.) living in Edinburgh, and in opinion a R. C. The said author tells 
(b) Ibid. p. 442. b. in June 1650.  us also, that about the same time (June 1650) one Spotswood another Officer, Son of a Bishop was beheaded on the said account, at which time was an acknowledgement made, as he farther adds, that he was one of those that murdered Dr. Dorislaus in Holland.  
EDWARD HYDE son of Hen. Hyde 
(c) Wiltshire Visitation book in the Herald's Office, fol. 118.  of Pyrton in Wilts. (by Mary his Wife, Daughter and Heir of Edw. Langford of Trobridge in the same County) third Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Mich. in Dors. descended from an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Northbury in Cheshire, was born at Dinton near Hindon in Wilts. on the 16. of Febr. or thereabouts an. 1608, entered a Student of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622, went, after he had taken one degree in Arts to the Middle Temple where he studied the Law. In the beginning of the year 1640 he was chosen Burgess for Wotton Basset in his own Country, to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 13. of Apr. the same year, and again for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that unhappy Parl. that began on the third of Nou. following: and when the troubles began betwixt the King and Parliament, he left the House of Commons and went with the King to York, and afterwards to Oxford, where he continued most of the time that that place was in the King's hands, was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, a Privy-counsellor, and a Knight. At length upon the declining of the King's cause, he with the Lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying Prince Charles, shipped themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the Isle of Scilley, then for Jersey, and afterwards for France. From which time our author Hyde adhering closely to the said Prince, and attending his motions in foreign parts, he was by him, when King, sent Ambassador into Spain, made his Secretary of State, and at length L. Chanc. of England at Bruges in Flanders, 29. Jan. 1657. After the King's restauration he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxon, made Baron of Hindon in Wilts, Viscount Cornbury in Oxfordshire (of which he was afterwards Lord Lieutenant) and Earl of Clarendon near Salisbury. After he had held the honourable Office of Lord Chancellor for seven years or more, the Great Seal was taken from him, 30. Aug. 1667, and about 4 months after retired into France, where he remained seven years, spending his time in several places there. Under his name were these things following published.  
Several Speeches, as (1) Speech in the House of Lords concerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North, an. 1640. (2) Sp. at a conference between both Houses, 6. Jul. 1641, at the transmission of several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport, Baron Trevor and Baron Weston. Lond. 1641. qu. etc. besides several arguments and debates. See in John rushworth's book called Historical Collections, in the first vol. of the second part, an. 1640 and in the Impartial Collection, etc. of Dr. John Nalson.  
A full answer to an infamous and traitorous Pamphlet intit. A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, expressing their reasons and grounds of passing their late resolutions touching no further address or application to be made to the King. Lond. 1648. qu.  
Several Speeches in Parl. during his office of L. Chancellor, from his Majesty's Restauration to 1667.— They are in number at least 10, and were printed in fol. papers.  
The difference and disparity between the Estates and Conditions of George Duke of Buckingham and Robert Earl of Essex.— See in Reliq. Wottonianae, etc. Lond. 1672 octav.  
Animadversions on a book intit. Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet, and the imputation refuted and retorted, by Ser. Cressy. Lond. 1674. oct. It was printed twice in that year, and once in 1685. oct.  
Brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes book intit. Leviathan. Oxon. 1676. qu.  
Letter to his daughter Anne Duchess of York, upon a report of her inclinations towards Popery, and at the same time another to the Duke upon the same subject.— Written about 1670. It was printed at Lond. 1681. 82. He hath also written (1) A History, or an Historical account of Ireland, MS, which Edm. Borlace made use of without acknowledgement, in his book, or books, which he published of the affairs of that Kingdom: so Dr. Jo. Nalson in his Pref. to his second vol. of his Impartial collection of Records, etc. (3) History from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. MS; as also an account of his own life, which being hereafter to be published, you may be pleased to take this present discourse of him, 
1674.  only as a Specimen of a larger to come. He died of the terrible disease of the Gout at Rouen in Normandy, on the ninth day of Decemb. (according to our account) in sixteen hundred seventy and four; whereupon his body being conveyed into England, 'twas buried on the north side of the Capella Regum, in S. Peter's, commonly called the Abbey, Church in Westminster. The Reader may be pleased now to know, that besides this Edw. Hyde have been two more, of both his names and time, that have been Writers, as Edw. Hyde jun. an enthusiastical person, who, among several things that he hath written, hath published A wonder and yet no wonder: A great red Dragon in Heaven, etc. Lond. 1651: And Edw. Hyde first cousin to our Author Edw. E. of Clarendon, as I shall tell you at large elsewhere.  
JOHN VAUGHAN a most noted and learned Lawyer of his time, was born at Trowscoed in the County of Cardigan, educated in Grammar learning in the King's School within the City of Worcester; whence, after he had remained there 5 years, he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this Uniu. in the 15th. year of his age, and thence at 18, he went to the Inner Temple, where for some time he chose rather to follow his Academical Studies of Poetry and Mathematics, than the municipal Laws of England. At length falling into the acquaintance of the learned Selden and others, was instructed by them in the value of civil learning: so that soon after he applied himself closely to the course of that Study, particularly of the said laws, which he after made his profession; but when he began to become noted and admired in the Parliament that began 3 Nou. 1640. (of which he was a Burgess for the Town of Cardigan) the Civil War broke forth and gave a stop to his Proceedings. Whereupon leaving London, he retired to his own Country, and mostly lived there till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Afterwards being elected Knight for the County of Cardigan, to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 8 May 1661., his Majesty was about that time pleased to take notice of his great worth and experience. Afterwards he conferred the honour of Knighthood upon him, and in few days after, viz. May 22. an. 1668, he was solemnly sworn Sergeant at Law in the Court of Chancery in Westm. Hall, and the next day was sworn L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas. He hath written and collected,  
Reports and Arguments, being all of them special Cases and many; wherein he pronounced the resolution of the whole Court of Common Pleas, at the time he was L. Ch. Justice there. Lond. 1677. fol. Published by his son Edw. Vaughan Esq and other things, as 'tis said, fit to be printed. 
1674.  He died in sixteen hundred seventy and four, and was buried in the Temple Church near the grave of Jo. Selden. Over his grave was a large marble stone soon after put, and over that was erected a marble Table in the south wall, near the round walk, with this Inscription thereon. Hic situs est Johannes Vaughanus Eq. Aur. Capital. Justiciar. de Com. Banco, filius Edwardi Vaughan de Trowscoed in agro Dimetarum Ar. & Leticiae uxoris ejus, filiae Johannis Stedman de Strata florida in eodem Com. Arm. unus è quatuor perdocti Seldeni Executoribus, ei stabili amicitia studiorumque communione à tyrocinio intimus & praecarus. Natus erat xiiii. die Sept. an. Dom. 1608. & denatus x. die Decemb. an. Dom. 1674. qui juxta hoc marmor depositus adventum Christi propitium expectat. Multum deploratus.  
JOHN OXENBRIDGE son of Dan. Oxenb. sometimes Doct. of Phys. of Ch. Ch. in this University, and a Practitioner of his faculty at Daventrey commonly called Daintrey in Northamptonshire, (and afterwards in London) was born in that County, became a Communer of Linc. Coll. in 1623. aged 18 years, and thence translating himself to Magd. Hall, took the degrees in Arts, and soon after became a Tutor there: but being found guilty of a strange singular and superstitious way of dealing with his Scholars by persuading and causing some of them to subscribe, as Votaries, to several articles framed by himself, as, he pretended, for their better government, as if the Statutes of the place wherein he lived, and the authority of the then present government, were not sufficient, he was distutored 
(*) Gesta cancellariatus Un. Ox. Gul. Laud, p. 76.  in the month of May 1634. Afterward he left the Hall, and showing himself very scismatical abroad, was forced to leave the Nation: whereupon he, with his beloved Wife called Jane Butler, went to the Islands of Bermudas, where he exercised his Ministry. At length the Long Parliament making mad work in England in 1641. etc. he, (as other Schismatics did) returned, preached very enthusiastically in severally places in his travels to and fro, while his dear Wife preached in the house among her Gossips and others. So that he being looked upon as a zealous and forward brother for the cause, he had some spirituality bestowed on him, and at length was made Fellow of Eton Coll. near Windsor, in the place of one Simonds deceased, who had been thrust into the place of Dr. David Stokes, in the time of the rebellion. Upon his Majesty's restauration, Oxenbridge was outed of his Fellowship, and afterwards retiring to Berwick upon tweed, he held forth there till the Act of conformity silenced him an. 1662. Afterwards he went to the West Indies and continued there at Syrenham for a time in preaching and praying. At length, having received a call, he went to New England, where he finished his course. This Person was composed of a strange hodg-podg of opinions, not easily to be described, was of a roving and rambling head, spent much, and I think died but in a mean condition. And though he was a great pretender to Saintship, and had vowed an eternal love to his Wife before mentioned, who died 22. Apr. 1655, yet before he had remained a Widower an year, he married a religious Virgin named Frances, the only Daughter of Hezekiah Woodward the scismatical Vicar of Bray near Windsor, who dying also in the first year of her Marriage (in Childbed I think) aged 25 years, he took soon after, as I have been told, a third Wife, according to the fleshly custom of the Saints of that time. He hath written,  
A double Watchword: or, the duty of watching, and watching to duty; both echoed from Revel. 16.5. and Jer. 50.4.5. Lond. 1661. oct. and perhaps other things. He died at Boston in New England in sixteen hundred seventy and four, and was buried there. 
1674.  In the Church or Chappel belonging to Eton Coll. was a monument with a large canting inscription set up by this D. Oxenbridge for his first Wife Jane Butler, wherein 'tis said that while he preached abroad she would preach and hold forth in the House. But the said inscript. or Epitaph giving great offence to the Royalists at the restauration of K. Ch. 2, they caused it to be daubed or covered over with paint. There was also a Monument and Inscription set up for his second Wife, the contents of which and the other I have, but this last is not defaced.  
JONATHAN GODDARD son of Henry Goddard a Ship-carpenter of Deptford, was born at Greenwich in Kent, became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 15 years, where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts, he then left that House, and went, as I presume, beyond the Seas. On the 20 of Jan. 1642 he was created Doctor of Phys. of the Uniu. of Cambridge, at which time he was a practitioner of that faculty in London, afterwards in the Army raised by the Parliament, and at length to Oliver Cromwell, with whom he went as his great confident into Ireland, and into Scotland after the murder of K. Ch. 1. In 1651 he, by the said oliver's power, became Warden of Mert. Coll. and in January the same year, he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University. Afterwards he was elected Burgess for the University to serve in the Little Parliament an. 1653, and made one of the Council of State in the same year. About that time he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London; afterwards of the Royal Society, and Professor of Physic in Gresham Coll. When he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. (which was in 1660) he lived mostly in that of Gresham, where (being an admirable Chemist) he had a Laboratory to prepare all Medicines that he used on his Patients, besides what he operated for his own satisfaction. He was also a zealous member of the Royal Society for the improvement of natural knowledge among them: and when any curious experiment was to be done, they made him their Drudge till they could obtain to the bottom of it. He hath written,  
A discourse concerning Physic and the many abuses thereof by the Apothecaries. Lond. 1668. oct. An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions, num. 41. He is said 
(a) Hen. Stubbe in his Campanella revived, p. 21.  to have written of this matter (of the Abuse of Physic) more warily and with greater prudence than Christ. Merret.  
Discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of Physic in London, etc. Lond. 166. qu.  

Proposal for making wine. See in the Hist. of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230.  
Experiments of the Stone called Oculus mundi. See in the Hist. of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230.   
Some observations of a Chameleon.— See in the Philosophical Transactions. nu. 137. p. 930. etc.  
Experiments of refining gold with Antimony.— See there also, nu. 139. p. 953. etc. And left behind him at his death Lectures read at Surgeons Hall; and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit, as 'tis said, for the press. He had also laying by him at his death,  
Arcana medicinalia: Published at the end of the second Edit. of Pharmacopoeia Bateana, by Ja. Shipton an Apothecary— Lond. 1691. oct. He died suddenly of an apoplexy at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside, in his going home from the Crown Tavern in Bloomsbury (where a club of Virtuosos sometimes met) to his Lodgings in Gresham Coll. about eleven of the clock in the night of the 24. of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and four, 
1674/5.  and was the third day after buried in the middle of the Chancel of Great S. Helen's Church in London. He was Master of a most curious Library of books, well and richly bound, which he intended to bestow on the Library belonging to the Royal Society, but he dying intestate, it came into the hands of the next Heir, viz. his Sister's Son, a Scholar of Cays Coll. in Cambridge. I find an excellent character of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr. Seth Ward in his Epist. dedic. 
(b) Edit. Oxon. 1653. qu.  before Praelectio de Cometis & inquisit. in Bullialdi Astronom. Philolaicae fundamenta; and in the Epist. ded. before Delphi 
(c) Ed. Ox. 1655. oct.  Phoenicizantes, etc. published by Edmund Dickenson of Mert. Coll. To both which I refer the reader if he be curious to know farther of him.  
RICHARD SMITH the Son of a Clergy man named Richard Smith a Native of Abendon, (by Martha his Wife, Daughter of Paul Darrel or Dayrell of Lillingston Darrel in Bucks Esq.) Son of Richard, Son of another Ric. Smith of Abendon in Berks. sometimes Gent. Usher to Qu. Elizabeth, was born at Lillingston Darrel before mentioned, an. 1590., and after the beginning of the reign of King James 1. was sent to the Uniu. of Oxon, where his stay being short, he was not matriculated, and therefore I cannot positively tell you of what Coll. or Hall he was a member. Thence he was taken away by his Parents, and put a Clerk to an Attorney belonging to the City of London, but his mind hanging after learning, he spent all the time he could obtain from his employment in Books. At riper years he became Secondary of the Poultry Compter within the City of London, a place of good reputation and profit, being in his time worth about 700 l. per an. which he executed many years, but upon the death of his Son an. 1655 (begotten on the body of his Wife Elizab. Daughter of George Deane of Stepney) to whom he intended to resign his place, he immediately sold it, and betook himself wholly to a private life, two thirds of which at lest he spent in his Library. He was a person infinitely 
(d) See in the Epist. to the reader set before Bibliotheca Smithiana, etc. Pr. at Lond. 1682. qu.  curious in, and inquisitive after, books, and suffered nothing considerable to escape him, that fell within the compass of his learning, desiring to be Master of no more than he knew how to use. He was constantly known every day to walk his rounds among the Booksellers shops (especially in Little Britain) in London, and by his great skill and experience he made choice of such books that were not obvious to every man's eye. He lived in times, which ministered peculiar opportunities of meeting with books, that were not every day brought into public light: And few eminent Libraries were bought, where he had not the liberty to pick and choose. Hence arose, as that vast number of books, so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them, and that of all kinds and in all sorts of learning, especially in History, of which he had the most considerable Writers of all ages and nations, ancient and modern, especially of our own and the neighbouring nations, of which, as 'twas thought, there was scarce any thing wanting that was extant. He was also a great collector of Mss. whether ancient or modern that were not extant, and delighted much to be poring on them. He collected also abundance of pamphlets published at, and before, the time of reformation of religion relating to Ecclesiastical affairs, and it was supposed, that the copies of some of them were not then extant in the World, and therefore esteemed as choice as Mss. Among the books relating to history were his collection of Lives, the Elogia of illustrious men, the authors who have written the lives and characters of Writers, and such who have writ of the foundations of Monasteries. Nor was he the owner of this choice treasure of books as an idle possessor, or did he barely turn over the leaves, but was a constant peruser of, and upon his buying, did generally collate, them, observed the defects of impressions, the all arts used by many, and compared the differences of editions: concerning which and the like cases, he, with great diligence and industry, entered many memorable and very useful remarks and observations upon very many of his books under his own hand. He hath written,  
Letter to Dr. Hen. Hammond concerning the sense of that article in the Creed, He descended into Hell— Dated from his house in Little moorfield's near London, (where he mostly lived after he had buried his Son) in Apr. 1659. Which Letter being answered by Dr. Hammond in the same month, were both afterwards published, an. 1684. See more in Dr. Hammond under the year 16●0. p. 161. This I think is all that R. Smith hath extant. Those things that are not, are these,  
Observations on the three grand Impostors.  
Exposition on these words used in the form of Marriage, with my body I thee worship— Written in qu.  
Collection of expositions of Baptism for the dead— Wr. in qu.  
Collection of several expositions and opinions of Christ's descent into hell— See more in Dr. Hammond before mentioned.  
Miscellaneous tracts, chiefly Theological.  
Collection of Arms belonging to the name of Smith, in colours— MS. in oct.  
Vita S. Simonis Stock Angli Carmelitae. Collected from the Writings and Mss. of John Bale.  
Life of Hugh Broughton and Cat. of his works.— He also translated from Latin into English. (1) The fifth book of Histories of Corn. Tacitus. (2) The order of receiving the new Bishop after his consecration, before he enter into the Cathedral Church of Salisbury; taken out of an old Ms. ritual belonging to that Church; and from French into English Bosquires Sermon before the company of Shoemakers in France, an. 1614 on the Festival of S. Crispin and Crispiana. Besides these and others of his writing and translations, he made ten thousand instances or remarks with his own hand either of authors in, or before the title, or in the margin of their works. This Mr. Rich. Smith who was a man of an excellent temper, great justice, 
1675.  etc. died 26. March in sixteen hundred seventy and five, and was buried in the Church of S. Giles near to Cripplegate in London. Soon after was a marble monument erected over his grave for him, his Wife and Children, with an inscription thereon, which for brevity sake I shall now pass by. Afterwards there was a design to buy his choice Library for a public use, by a collection of moneys to be raised among generous persons, but the work being public, and therefore but little forwarded, it came into the hands of Richard Chiswell a Bookseller living in S. Paul's Ch. yard, London: who printing a catalogue of, with others added to, them, which came out after Mr. Smith's death, they were exposed to sale by way of Auction, to the great reluctancy of public spirited men, in May and June 1682.  
HEZEKIAH WOODWARD the youngest of the nine Children of his Father, was born in Worcestershire, and after he had spent six years, or more, in a Grammar school, was sent to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1608, and settled in Ball. Coll. where being put under a careful Tutor, took a degree in Arts in the latter end of the year 1611. Afterwards he retired to London, taught school there several years, and was esteemed eminent in his profession; but having been always puritanically affected, he sided with the Presbyterians upon the change of the times in 1641, was a great Zealot and frequent Preacher among them either at S. Mary in Aldermanburic, or near it. Afterwards he took the Covenant, and showed the use and necessity of it in his discourse and preachings: but soon after, when he saw the Independents and other factious people to be dominant, he became one of them, and not unknown to Oliver; who having quartered more than an year in the Vicaridge-house at Bray near Maidenhead in Berks, during the time of the Rebellion, (in which time he had opportunity to know the Parish to be very large, being a whole Hundred of itself) he sent afterwards thither our Author Woodward, being then his Chaplain or at least Favourite, under the notion of doing some eminent good to that great place, and to take care of it and the souls therein. This was about the year 1649, at which time one Mr. Brice, the then Vicar, left it, and was afterwards Minister of Henly in Oxfordshire. Here he continued ten years or more, and had the good opinion of the rabble and factious people, but of others of sense and judgement, not. He was always very invective in his sermons (which by the sober party were accounted dull) against the King, his Followers, whom he called Malignants, the Church of England, her Rites, Ceremonies, and all Forms of Worship: and it is commonly now reported among the Inhabitants of Bray, that he wrote a book against the Lord's Prayer; which was answered by Brice before mentioned. He was also an eager man, and spent much time in preaching against observation of times and days, as Christmas, Easter, etc. against Maypoles, Morices, Dancing, etc. He had a select Congregation out of his Parish of those that were to be saved, who frequently met to pray in the Vicaridge-house: which if he had stayed an year longer or more, would have destroyed all that were to be saved by falling upon them; for he was a great Dilapidator, suffered some of the Offices, Stable and Wood-house to fall, made Hey-lofts of the Chambers, and suffered one side of the Hall (the assembling room) to drop down. Insomuch that Dr. Edw. Fulham who succeeded him at the King's restauration, was forced to build it up in the first month he had it, and Mr. Fr. Carswell in short time succeeding Dr. Fulham, spent about 150 l. to make the house habitable. He received his maintenance out of the then Augmentation Court, neglecting his tithes, and put whims into the people's heads that they were Romish and Antichristian, and only pleased himself in taking presents of the people's free will offering, as most becoming the Gospel. By these courses he had almost ruined a good Vicarage, for there are but few there now, but what are so principled, as they think it a piece of service to the established Religion to cheat or rob the Church, and an age is scarce able to repair that mischief which he hath done there, as other Saints elsewhere. I have been informed from that place by a very good hand, that he was a man very censorious and ready to damn all those that did not comply with him in his fancies: also that he always denied to pay, and cheated the wife of Mr. Faringdon his Predecessor in the Vicarage, of her fifths, or fifth part of the revenues of the said Vicarage, which he by Law was to pay and she to receive; and he thought it a sin to pay her, being the wife of one of the Antichristian Crew of the Ch. of England, though she lived near him and he knew full well that she had five or six small Children ready to starve, and her Husband a learned man. He would not administer the Sacrament in the Church to his Parishioners, nor baptise their Children, unless they were of his private Church, and would not so much as keep company with, or come near, those that were not of his mind. He hath left an ill name behind him, and none there have any esteem for his memory, only Anabaptists, Quakers, or such that tend that way. In this course he continued till his Majesty's Restauration an. 1660, and then leaving the place to prevent Ejection, he retired to Uxbridge, where he carried on the trade among the Brethren, either more or less, to the time of his death. His printed works are these.  
Gate to Sciences.— Written when he was a Schoolmaster.  
The Child's patrimony laid out upon the good nurture or tilling over the whole man. In two parts. Lond. 1640. qu. etc. This came out afterwards again with the title altered.  
Vestibulum: or, a manuduction towards a fair Edifice by their hands who are designed to open the way thereunto.— Printed with The Child's Patrimony.  
The Church's Thanksgiving to God her King, etc. Lond. 1642. qu.  
The Covenant cleared to the Consciences of all men, etc. Ibid. 1643. qu.  
Three Kingdoms made one by the Covenant, etc.— Pr. 1643.  
Cause, use, and cure of fear, etc.— Pr. 1643.  
The King's Chronicle; in two sections. Wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good Kings of Judah fully declared, with the ordering of their militia, and grave observations thereupon, etc. Lond. 1643. qu. Dedicated to the high court of Parliam. and written purposely to point out the bad actions of his Majesty, who then stood in his own defence against the inveterate Presbyterians and tumultuous factions in London.  
The Son's patrimony and daughter's portion, etc. Lond. 1643. qu.  
Inquiries into the causes of our miseries, etc. Lond. 1644. qu. Written partly against a book entit. An antidote against the contagious air of Independency, etc. by D. P. P. Lond. 1644. qu.  
Short Letter entreating a friends judgement upon Mr. Edward's book called Antipologia, with a large but modest answer thereunto, etc. Lond. 1644. qu.  
Lordsday the Saint's holiday, Christmas an Idol-day, etc. Lond. 1648. qu. About which time came out, Christmas-day the old Heathens feasting-day in honour to Satan their Idol-God, etc. Whether written by Woodward, quaere.  
A just account in truth and peace by Brethren, lovers of, and fellow-helpers to both, why they must open themselves to the view of the world, speaking to them as the house top, etc.— Pr. at Lond. in qu.  
Appeal to the Churches of Christ, for their righteous judgement in matters of Christ, the concernments of all his glory, over whom there is a defence, whether Christ's way be not poured forth in scripture to be traced by the footsteps of his near ones.— Pr. at Lond. in qu.  
Conference of some Christians in Church fellowship about the way of Christ with his people and the result therefrom, etc.— Pr. at Lond. in qu.  
Infant baptism, and the first quere thereupon. Whether all Parents how notorious soever for wickedness, are privileged upon account of their own baptism, to present their infants thereunto. The negative maintained— Pr. at Lond. in qu.  
An inoffensive answer to remove offences taken from some passages in a printed book, other some from report, which are cleared to be wholly mistaken by the Author of the Dialogue concerning the practical use of Infant baptism, in his Postscript to his scond part, p. 103. etc. Lond. 1657. qu. He hath also other things extant, which I have not yet seen, and had others fit for the press lying by him at the time of his death; which happening at Uxbridge in Middlesex, 29 of March in sixteen hundred seventy and five, aged 87 years or thereabouts, 
1675.  his body was carried to Eton near Windsor and buried in the Churchyard there near the grave of his sometimes wife Frances Woodward, who was (as I have been told) interred some years before him in the said yard. He had one only daughter named Frances, who became the second wife of John Oxenbridge Fellow of Eton Coll. and dying in childbed in the 25 year of her age, was buried in the Chapel there, and hath a monument over her grave, as I have before told you.  
HENRY BEESLEY son of Rob. Beesl. Chaplain of Merton Coll, was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in the City of Oxon, 22 Jul. 1605, and in Mich. term 1621. was made either Clerk or Portionist of the said College, where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, retired to S. Alban Hall, took the degree of Master as a member thereof, and was for his ingenuity made one of the Terrae filii in the Act following. Soon after he became Tutor in the Country to Tho. Pope the young Earl of Down, whose Guardian Joh. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire, Esq. did, for the great care he took on his Pupil, bestow on him the Rectory of Swerford near to Ch●pping-Norton in Oxfordshire; which was all the preferment, I think, that he enjoyed to his dying day. Afterwards he became a sufferer in the time of the Rebellion, lived poorly, and therefore for that his Loyalty, he was not only restored to what he had lost upon the King's restauration, but also was actually created Doct. of Diu. He was accounted a witty man and a good Poet in his younger years, and in his elder a good Preacher and sober Divine. He hath published,  
The souls conflict, etc. portrayed in eight several sermons, six whereof were preached before the King at Oxon. Lond. 1657. etc. oct. and other sermons which I have not yet seen. He died 29 May in sixteen hundred seventy and five, 
1675.  and was buried under the Communion-table at the east end of the Chancel of the Church of Swerford before mentioned. Tho. Pope E. of Down who was his Patron, died in S. Mary's Parish in Oxon 28 Dec. 1660, aged 38 years, leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizab. begotten on the body of Elizab. his wife, dau. and one of the heirs of Will. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq. Which said Elizab. his daughter was first married to Henry Francis Lea of Dichley in Oxfordshire, and afterwards to Robert Earl of Lindsey. The Earldom of Down went, after the death of the said Thomas, to Thom. Pope Esq. his Uncle, whose male issue also dying, the Estate went away among three daughters, the eldest of which was married to Sir Francis North afterwards L. North of Guildford. Both the said Earls were buried at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordsh. among the graves of their Ancestors.  
HENRY WILKINSON Senior, commonly called Long Harry, son of Hen. Wilk. mentioned before under the year 1647, was born at Waddesdon in Bucks, became a Com. of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622. aged 13. years, where making great proficiency in his studies, took the degrees in Arts, became a noted Tutor, Master of the Schools and Divinity Reader in his House. In the year 1638 he was admitted Bach. of Div, preached frequently in and near Oxon, yet not without girds against the actions, and certain men, of the times. On the 6. of Sept. 1640. he preached in his turn in S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon, on Rev. 3.16. So then because thou art lukewarm, etc. Which Sermon being very bitter against some ceremonies of the Church, very base also and factious, and intended merely to make a party for the Scots, was summoned the same day to make his recantation in a form then prescribed for him. But he obstinately refusing to do it, was suspended from all execution of his Priestly Function within the University and Precincts thereof according to the Statute, till he should make his Palinody. Soon after when that unhappy Parliament, called the Long Parl, began, he complained to the Members about the latter end of Nou. of the usage he had received from the Vicechancellor. Whereupon according to the command of the Committee of Religion in the H. of Com. the Vicehanc. sent up a copy of his sermon with his exceptions against it: which being received from the hands of Dr. Rich. Bailiff Dec. 9 was by them perused, but they finding nothing, as they said, that might make him guilty of punishment, they released him from his suspension and gave order that his sermon should be printed, which accordingly was done. Upon this our author Wilkinson grew very bold, preached and discoursed what he pleased, settled afterwards in London to carry on the Cause, was made Minister of S. Faith, under Paul's, one of the Ass. of Divines, became a frequent Preacher before the Members of Parliament, and Rector of S. Dunstan's in the West about 1645. At which time being esteemed a grand zealot for promoting the designs then on foot, he was constituted by the said Members one of the six Ministers to go to Oxon in 1646, (after the surrender of the Garrison there) to draw off by their preaching the Scholars from their Orthodox Principles to the Presbyterian persuasion, and soon after one of the Visitors to break open, turn out, and take possession: For which service he was not only rewarded with a signior Fellowship of Madg. Coll. (which he kept till he took to wife a holy woman called the Lady Carr) but also with a Canonry of Ch. Church, a Doctorship of Divinity, and after Cheynells' departure with the Margaret professorship of the University. After his Majesty was restored he was ejected, and thereupon went to London, continued a Nonconformist, lived and had his meetings at Clapham in Surrey near London, especially when the King's toleration was published in the latter end of 1671, whereby he gained from the Brethren a considerable maintenance. He was a good Scholar, always a close Student, an excellent Preacher, (though his voice was shrill and whining) yet his Sermons were commonly full of dire and confusion, especially while the rebellion continued. Under his name were these things following published, viz.  
Several Sermons as (1) Sermon against Lukewarmness in religion, on Rev. 3.16. Lond. 1641. qu. (2) Babylon's ruin, Jerusalem's rising, Fast serm. before the House of Com. 25 Oct. 1643. on Zech. 1.18.19.20.21. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) The gainful cost, Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 27. Nou. 1644. on 1. Chron. 21.24. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) Miranda, Stupenda. Or the wonderful and astonishing mercies which the Lord hath wrought for England in subduing and captivating the pride, power and policy of his Enemies, Thanks-giving Serm. before the H. of Com. for the surrender of Oxon, preached 21. Jul. 1646 on Numb. 23.23. Lond. 1646. qu. In his Epist. ded. to the H. of Com. he doth seriously exhort them to think of a sudden reformation of that University: and perhaps he had thoughts then of being a Visitor and to get what might be obtained while the Sun shined. (5) Serm. on Luk. 17.27.28.— Published in The morning exercise at Cripplegate, Lond. 1661. qu. (6) Serm. on 2. Thes. 2. from ver. 3. to 10.— Published in The morning exercise against popery, preached in Southwark— Lond. 1675. qu. (7) How we must do all in the name of Christ, on Col. 3.17.— Publ. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. 76. qu. What other things are published under his name I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at Clapham before mentioned, in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five, 
1675.  his body was thereupon conveyed to Draper's Hall in Lond, and thence conducted with solemnity by hundreds of the Brethren to the Church of S. Dunstan in Fleetstreet before mentioned, where it was in●e●'d. I shall make mention of another Henry Wilkinson under the year 1690, who for distinction sake, was commonly called Deane Harry.  
THOMAS HOLYOAKE or Holyoke son of Francis Hol. mentioned under the year 1653, was born at Stony Thorp near to Southam in Warwickshire, educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. White at Coventry, became a student in Queens Coll. in Michaelm. term 1632. aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, made Chaplain of the said Coll. and in the beginning of the Civil War, when Oxford became the Seat of K. Ch. 1. and garrisoned for his use, he was put into Commission for a Captain of a Foot Company, consisting mostly of Scholars. In which office doing good service, had the degree of Doct. of Diu. conferred upon him by the favour of his Majesty, though no such matter occurs in the public register of the University, which was then sometimes neglected. After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon for the use of the Parl. he, by the name of Tho. Holyoake, without the addition of Master, Bac. or D. of D, obtained a Licence from the University to practise physic: whereupon settling in his own Country he exercised that faculty with good success till 1660. In which year his Maj. being restored to his Kingdoms, Thomas Lord Leigh Baron of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire presented him to the Rectory of Whitnash near Warwick, and soon after was made Prebendary of the collegiat church of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. In 1674 Robert Lord Brook conferred upon him the Donative of Breamour in Hampshire (which he had by the marriage of his Lady) worth about 200 l. per an, free from presentation, institution, and episcopal visitation; but before he had enjoyed it an year or thereabouts, he died to the great grief of his family. He hath written,  
A large Dictionary in three parts: 1. The English before the Latin. 2. The Latin before the English. 3. The proper names of Persons, places and other things, necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets. Lond. 1677 in a thick large folio. Before which is an Epistle written by the author's son Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple, whereby he dedicates the book to Fulke L. Brook, and author written by Dr. Thom. Barlow B. of Lincoln, wherein are many things said of the work and its author. But this the reader is to know, that the foundation of the said Dictionary was laid by his father Fr. Hol. before mentioned, and upon that foundation is the largest Dictionary made that hath been ever yet published in England. The said Dr. Holyoake, who was much respected in the neighbourhood where he lived, for his ingenuity and humanity, died of an high Fever at Breamour on the tenth day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five. 
1675.  Whereupon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there interred by that of his father, in the great Church there dedicated to S. Marry the Virgin.  
THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a ministers Son of Gloustershire, as it seems, became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall, 1648, trained up there acording to the presbyterian way, took a degree in Arts, afterwards had a cure in the interval, and at length became Rector of S. Michael's Church in Gloucester, where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching. He hath extant,  
Fideles aquae: or, some pious tears dropped upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistress Sarah Gilby, together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother. Lond. 1661. oct.  
Dust returning to the earth: Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles. 12.7. Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things, as 'tis said, which I have not yet seen. He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five, 
1675.  and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mentioned, near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife, dau. of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh. Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts. Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb. 1665.  
BULSTRODE WHITLOCK son of Sir James Whitlock Knight, by Elizab. his wife, daugh. of Edw. Bulstrode of Hugeley or Hedgley-Bulstrode in Bucks, Esq, was born in Fleetstreet in London, in the house of Sir George Croke (Sergeant at Law) his Mother's Uncle, on the 6 of Aug. 1605, educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Tailor's School, became a Gent. Com. of S. John's Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1620; at which time he was principally recommended to the care and oversight of his father's contemporary and intimate friend Dr. Laud, than Precedent of that House, who showing to him several fatherly kindnesses, our author Whitlock did many years after make some returns when the said Doctor, than Archb. of Cant, was to be brought to a trial for his life, especially in this respect when he refused to be one of the Commissioners, or number of the Committee appointed by Parl, to draw up a charge against him. But before our author had taken a degree, he went to the Middle Temple, where, by the help of his father, he became a noted proficient in the Common Law, well read also in other studies, and in time made for himself a large provision from them and a retired contemplation. At length when the Long Parliament was to sit, he being then a Counsellor at Law, he was chose a Burgess for Marlowe in Bucks, to serve therein, and showing himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford, became noted in the House for a man of parts. In 1642 he, for his activeness for the cause then driving on, was made one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire, at which time a new Lieutenant was constituted by the Parliament; and soon after was named one of the Commissioners to treat for peace with the King at Oxon in the name of the Parliament, and one of the Lay-Gentlemen to sit among the Ass. of Divines. In 1644 he became Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster, Commissioner again for peace, and in the same year when Rob. E. of Essex was about to prove Ol. Cromwell an Incendiary, he gave him the said Oliver timely notice of the design, (he being privy to it) and thenceforth he became very gracious with that most active person, who, with his party were very willing to engage him as far as they could to them. In 1645 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Admiralty, and being then suspected to hold intelligence with the King's party, was in danger to have lost all, had he not freed himself from that suspicion, especially by his urging his losses that he had suffered by the said party for his adhering to the Parliament: in consideration of which he had afterwards given to him 2000 l. In 1646 he was sent for to the Leaguer before Oxon by Sir Tho. Fairfax the General of the Parl. forces, who being admitted one of his Council of War, he did oftentimes, being a friend to the Uniu. of Oxon, express his unwillingness that any thing of damage should be done to it, and pressed for honourable t●●ms to be offered to the Garrison there. In 1647 O. Cromwell used his advice in many things, and therefore by his power it was that in the beginning of March in the said year he was made one of the four Commissioners of the Great Seal. In 1648 Ph. E. of Pembroke, who was then lately made Constable of Windsor Castle, and keeper of the Forest adjoining, constituted him his Lieutenant of those places in the month of July: and in the same year, he was not only named one of the King's Sergeants, (which he refused to accept) but was made one of the 3 Commissioners of the new Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England, 8. Febr; at which time the King Great Seal was publicly broken in the H. of Commons. And farther also on the 14. of the said month he was elected one of the 30 persons for the Council of State, wherein he sat and acted according to his ability. In the month of June 1649 he was made High Steward of the City of Oxon by the Mayor and Citizens thereof, in the room of the Earl of Berks: Whom, they, for his Loyalty, displaced, and about the same time they made him their Recorder. In July following he was constituted keeper of the King's Medals and Library, which in 1647 he had hindered from being sold: And that employment he the rather took, because he was put upon it by Selden and other learned men, and that he himself, being accounted learned, took great delight in such matters. However being not always at leisure to attend those places he had a Deputy allowed him, and one John Dury a Traveller did the drudgery of the place. On the 24. of Nou. 1651 he was continued one of the Council of State, and likewise on the same day in the year following. In the beginning of Nou. 1653 he set forth with a gallant retinue in the quality of an Ambassador into Sweedland, being empowered thereto by Oliver and the Little Parliament, and had a thousand pounds per ann. for his Salary. In which Embassy and Country behaving himself with great prudence to the liking, and with the approbation, of all, Christina Queen of that Country made him a Knight of the honourable Order of Amaranta, of which Order the Queen herself is Sovereign, and wears the badge thereof (which is a rich Jewel tied to a crimson ribbon) under her left breast. You may be pleased to see more of this Order in Elias Ashmole's book intit. The institutions, laws and ceremonies of the Order of the Garter. Lond. 1672. fol. chap. 3. p. 123. and the copy or draught of the badge between pag. 94. and 95. After his return thence, which was in July 1654. he was in Aug. following made one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer or Treasury; for in his absence alteration, or pretended reformation being made in the Chancery, he stood off at his return from being any longer Commissioner of the Seal. In January 1656, he being then Sergeant at Law, was chose Speaker of the H. of Commons pro tempore, upon the indisposition of him lately chosen, and in the year following he was summoned by Oliver the Protector to sit in the other House by the name of Bulstrode Lord Whitlock: which summons he obeying, had thereupon a negative voice in that House over the people, though he had helped to put it down when it consisted of King and Lords. In Aug. 1659. he was made Precedent of the Council of State; in Octob, one of the Committee of Safety; on the first of Nov, keeper of the great seal pro tempore by the appointment of the said Committee, and on the 30 of Jan. following he retired into the country for fear of being sent prisoner to the Tower by some prevalent Members in the in the Rump Parl. then newly restored, for his being a member of the Committee of Safety. At which time he leaving the Seal with his wife, locked up in a desk, she forthwith delivered it to Lenthal the Speaker. From which time, to that of his death, we heard but little of him, only that he lived retiredly, mostly at Chilton in Wilts. near Hungerford in Berks, that he had been an observing person thro' all changes, guided more by policy than conscience, and that he had advantaged himself much in Civil affairs by his relation to the public, and his eminent station. To which I add that he was an excellent Com. Lawyer, was as well read in books as in men, and well versed in the Oriental Tongues, and therefore beloved of Selden (who would have made him one of his Executors) and the Virtuosos of his time. The things that he hath extant are these,  
Several Speeches viz. (1) Speech at a conference of both Houses, 17. Feb. 1641. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) Sp. to the Qu. of Sweden, an. 1653. The beginning of which is, Madam, by command of my Superiors, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England etc. (3) Speech in Lat. to the said Qu. in May or Jun. 1654. The beginning of which is, Multo equidem cum taedio ferrem, etc. (4) A learned and godly speech, spoken when Sergeant Willam Steel Recorder of the City of London, was made L. Chief Baron in the Court of Exchequer at Westm. 28. May 1655. (5) Sp. to the Mayor, aldermans and Common-Council of London 9 Aug. 1659. (6) Another Sp. to them, 8. Nou. the same year:— which two Sp. are published in one sh. in qu.  
Several discourses in the trial of Tho. E. of Strafford— See in Jo. rushworth's Trial of Tho. E. of Straff.  
Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient and legal form of government, in a conference had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector and a Committee of Parliament in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct. Made good by way arguments in at least five Speeches then by him spoken.  
Memorials of the English affairs: or, an historical account of what passed from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1682. fol. This is no more than a Diary which he began and continued for his private use. In this book you'll find divers of his discourses made on various occasions. It was published by Arth. Earl of Anglesie, but with a very bad index to it, which is a disadvantage to the book in many respects. He also left behind him several manuscript volumes of his own writing, which are not determined by the heir whether they may, or shall, be published. Several things in his life time were fathered upon him, among which was a little thing published in Jan. 1659. entit. My Lord Whitlocks Reports on Machiavil, etc. wherein the author tells us that when Whitlock was chose a member of the Long Parl. he had then no interest, but contented himself with seeing the fashions of the Parl. house. At length Pyms discerning eyes, spying that curiosity, presently attacked his unconcerned, undetermined mind, and with the proffers of greatness and popularity brought him over to his design, and became his Second, etc. Also that when he, with other Commissioners, attended the King at Oxon with propositions from both houses in order to peace, the K. showed to the Commissioners during their stay there great respect, but of Commissioner Whitlock he took small notice, etc. which implanted in him ever after an implacable malice to him and his posterity, etc. That he was sent to make speeches against the young King at Guild hall when he was at Worcester, which he did with so much vigour and confidence, that Tichbourne the next day durst throw the King's declaration into the fire made at the Exchange, etc. with other passages which for brevity sake I now omit. At length he dying of the stone in his house at Chilton Park on the 28. of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five, 
1675.  was buried in an isle joining to the Church of Falley or Fawley near Marlowe in Bucks, which he had built for a burying place for his family. Among the sons that he had by Rebecca his wife, daughter of Thom. Benet Alderman of London, was James Whitlock, first a Captain, afterwards Fellow of Alls. Coll, than a Colonel in the parliament Army, one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. of Sept. 1654., knighted by Oliver 6. Jan. 1656, Burgess for Aylesbury in Bucks, to serve in the Parl. which began at West. 27 Jan. 1658, etc.  
THOMAS TOMKINS son of Joh. Tomk. sometimes Organist of S. Paul's Cathedral, was born in Aldersgate-street (in the Parish of S. Botolph) in London, educated in Virtue and Learning from his cradle by the care of his Uncle Nathan. Tomkins Prebendary of Worcester, became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Act term 1651, probat. Fellow of Alls. in 1657, and taking the degree of M. of A. was elected one of the Proctors of the University for year 1663. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury, Rector of Lambeth in Surrey, Monks-Risborow in Bucks. and at length Chancellor of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter, and D. of D. The Archb. valued him so much that he kept him many years' Chaplain in his house, and resolving never to part with, made, him Rector of Lambeth before mentioned, which he kept to his dying day. The books that he hath published are these.  
The Rebel's plea examined: or, Mr. Baxters' judgement concerning the late war, etc. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Short Strictures: or, animadversions on so much of Mr. Zach. crofton's (Fastening of S. Peter's bounds) as concern the reasons of the Univers. of Oxon concerning the Covenant, Lond. 1661. oct.  
The inconveniencies of toleration: or, an answer to a book called. A proposition made to the K. and parl, etc. Lond. 1667. qu.  
The modern pleas for toleration, comprehension, etc. considered and discussed. Lond. 1675. oct. This book came out the second time with this title, The new distemper: or, the Dissenters usual pleas for comprehension, toleration and renouncing the Covenant considered and discussed. Lond. 1680. oct. To which is a large Preface written by Sam. Thomas Chantour of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. now Vicar of Chard in Sommersetsh. The first edition of this book (1675) is reflected upon by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Apol. for the Nonconformists ministry, etc. from p. 147. to p. 154. This Dr. Tomkins died at Exeter in sixteen hundred seventy and five, and his body being carried into Wocestershire, 
1675.  was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Marton near Droitwych▪ Soon after was a marble table fastened to the wall, over his grave, with this inscripton thereon. Thomas Tomkins SS. Theologiae Professor, Coll. Om. An. Oxon. olim Socius, reverendiss. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi à sacris, Ecclesiae cathedralis Exon. Cancellarius, Lambethanae, &c▪ Rector: Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra Schismaticos assertor exiimius. Vir ingenio, judicio, memoriâ, literaturâ & eloquentiâ clarus. Exoniae morbo correptus, obiit Augusti 20 an. Dom. 1675▪ aetat. 37. Cujus corpus huc translatum, hic subtus quiescit. Over his grave is laid a flat stone, with an inscription thereon, containing his name, dignity, and death, which for brevity sake I now omit. In his Rectory of Lambeth succeeded Dr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch, in Monks-Risborow John Wolley M. A. of Trin. Coll. and in his Chancellourship Dr. Joh. Copleston of Cambridge Canon of Exeter, the same who was elected Provost of Kings Coll. in that University, 24. Aug. 1681.  
THOMAS WILLIS the most famous Physician of his time, was born at Great Bedwyn in Wilts. 27. Janu. 1621. His father was Tho. Willis of North Henxsey near Abendon in Berks. sometimes a retainer to S. john's Coll, (but no Graduate) afterwards Baillive or Steward to Sir Walt. Smith of Bedwyn, and in his last days a constant inhabitant of N. Henxsey, before mentioned. Which last Thomas was son of another Thomas, a Tailor, as I have been informed, who mostly lived at Kennington near Abendon also. As for Thomas our author he was bred in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester, who taught a private School in Allsaints parish in Oxon, to whom he went every day from N. Henxsey. In 1636 he became a retainer to the family of Dr. Tho. Iles Canon of Ch. Ch. and was his Batler there, where applying himself very severely to his studies took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1642. About that time Oxford being garrisoned for the King, he, among the Scholars that were then remaining, bore arms in his defence, and all the time that he could obtain, he bestowed on his beloved study of Physic. In 1646, the Garrison being then surrendered for the use of the Parliament, he took the degree of Bachelaur of that faculty, fell to the practice of it, and every Monday kept Abendon Market. So that by his great care and industry he in short time became famous in these parts, settled in S. John Baptists parish, in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church, and was sent for far and near for his help, while in the mean time Mr. John Fell (whose sister he had married,) Mr. Joh. Dolben, and sometimes Mr. Rich. Allistry did constantly exercise in his house (as they had partly before done in his lodgings in Canterbury quadrangle) the Liturgy and Sacraments according to the Church of England, to which most of the loyalists in Oxon, especially Scholars that had been ejected in 1648, did daily resort. In 1660, after his Majesty's restauration, he became Sedlies' professor of Natural Philosophy, in the place of Dr. Josh. Cross then ejected, and shortly after he was created Doctor of his faculty, and upon the foundation of the Royal Society was made fellow of it. In 1666 after the dismal conflagration at London, he upon the invitation of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of C●nt, went to the City of Westminster, took a tenement in S. Martin's Lane, and in very short time after he became so noted, and so infinitely resorted to, for his practice, that never any Physician before, went beyond him, or got more money yearly than he. About that time he was made one of the Coll. of Physicians, who for the most part had him in great esteem. The truth is, though he was a plain man, a man of no carriage, little discourse, complesance or society, yet for his deep insight, happy researches in natural and experimented Philosophy, Anatomy, and Chemistry, for his wonderful success and repute in his practice, the natural smoothness, pure elegancy, delightful unaffected neatness of lat. stile, none scarce hath equalled, much less outdone, him how great soever. When at any time he is mentioned by authors, (as he is very often) it is done in words expressing their highest esteem of his great worth and excellency, and placed still, as first in rank, among Physicians. And further also, he hath laid a lasting foundation of a body of Physic chiefly on Hypotheses of his own framing. See more in the Epistle to the reader before his works printed at Geneva, in two vol. an. 1676. His works are these.  
Diatribae duae Medico-philosophicae de fermentatione, altera de febribus. Hag. Com. 1659. oct. Lond. 1660. 65 etc. in tw. Answered by Edm. de Meara a Doctor of Physic of Bristol, and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians. See more in Rich. Lower, an. 1690.  
Dissertatio Epistolica de Urinis. Printed with the former book.  
Cerebri Anatome. Lond. 1664. oct. Amstel. 1667. in tw. Whatsoever is anatomical in that book, the glory thereof belongs to the said R. Lower, whose indefatigable industry at Oxon produced that elaborate piece.  
De ratione motus musculorum. Printed with Cer. Anat.  
Pathalogiae cerebri & nervosi generis specimina, in quo agitur de morbis convulsivis & de scorbuto. Oxon. 1667. qu. Lond. 1668. Amstel. 1669. etc. in tw. An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions, num. 31.  
Affectionum quae dicuntur Hystericae & Hypochondriacae Pathologia spasmodica, vindicata contra responsionem epistolarem Nathan. Highmore M. D. Lond. 1670. qu. laid. 1671. in tw. etc.  
Exercitationes Medico-physicae duae 1. De sanguinis accensione, 2. De motu musculari. This is printed with the book next before going, and an account of both of them are in the Phil. Transact. num. 57  
De anima Brutorum, quae hominis vitalis ac sensativa est, exercitationes duae, etc. Lond. 1672. in qu. and oct. etc. Amstel. 1674 in tw. And also of this, num. 83. All which books except Affectionum quae dicuntur, etc. and that De anima Brutorum, were translated into English by S. P. Esq.— Lond. 1681. fol.  
Pharmaceutice rationalis: sive Diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore. Part. 2. Oxon. 1674. and 75 in tw. and qu. Published by Dr. Jo. Fell, who in a Postscript added to the author's preface, gives some running account of the said author, but false as to his parent. This Pharmaceutice was translated into English by Anon-Lond. 1679. fol. but being not well done it was corrected by S. P. Esq. before mentioned, and involved in the former translation of 1681. Afterwards came out The London practice of physic: or the whole practical part of physic contained in the works of Dr. Willis, faithfully made English and printed together for the public good. Lond. 1685. oct. with his picture before it. What are therein made English of his works are (1) His first and second parts of the Pharmaceutice rationalis. (2) His tract of Convulsive diseases. (3) His tract of the Scurvy. (4) His tr. of the Diseases of the brain, and Genus nervosum. (5) His tr. Of Fevers: The other parts of his works being Theoretical are therein omitted. This translation is said to be different from that containing the same pieces, contained in his former translations of all his works in fol.  
A plain and easy method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper, in City, Camp, Country, Fleet, etc. and for curing such that are infected with it— This was written in 1666, but not printed till the latter end of 1690. At length after a great deal of drudgery, that he did undergo in his faculty, (mostly for lucre sake) which did much shorten his life, he concluded his last day in his House in S. Martins-lane before mentioned, on the eleventh day of Nou. in sixteen hundred seventy and five: whereupon his body was conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster and there interred in the large isle or trancept, 
1675.  joining to the North side of the choir, near to the body of Mary his first Wife, Daughter of Samuel Fell D. D. sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon: Which Mary died on the Vigil of Allsaints an. 1670. The said Dr. Willis (who left behind him the character of an orthodox, pious, and charitable physician) did, some years before his death, settle a salary for a Reader to read prayers in S. Martin's Church in the fields in Westm. early and late every day, to such servants and people of that parish, who could not, through multiplicity of business, attend the ordinary service daily there performed. All his Latin works were printed in two vol. in qu. at Geneva 1676, as I have before told you, and at Amsterdam 1682. qu. by Gerard Blasius M. D. and ordinary professor of the same faculty at that place.  
JOSHUA STOPFORD a Lancashire man born, was entered into Brasnose Coll. in Mich. term 1654., aged 18 years, being then or soon after Scholar of that House, went afterwards to Magd. Coll, and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts, an. 1657. Afterwards he entered into Orders, became Preb. of Donington in the Church of York, (collated thereunto by Archb. Frewen 9 Nou. 1660) and about the same time Vicar of S. Martin's Church in Conystreet there. In the month of Apr. 1670 he was created Master of Arts, and in the next month he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being at that time Rector of Allsaints Church in the said City of York. He hath written,  
Paganopapismus: or, an exact parallel between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian in their doctrines and ceremonies. Lond. 1675. oct. publs. in Mich. term 1674. Before this work is a catalogue of books and authors made use of by this writer, which is very considerable both for number and value: To which piece is joined another of smaller bulk, written by the same author, entit.  
The ways and methods of Rome's advancement; or, whereby the Pope and his Agents have endeavoured to propagate their doctrines, discovered in two Sermons preached 5. Nou. 1671 on Rev. 18.23.24.— A catalogue of authors of the like nature with the former, is also prefixed; and in the Epistle to the Reader 'tis said, that those two Sermons were published to vindicate them and their author from the unjust aspersions and false accusations cast upon them by a generation of men, who make lies and calumnies a constituted part of their religion. He died in the month of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and five, and was, I presume, 
1675.  buried in the Church of Alls. before mentioned, and not in the Cathedral, because he resigned his Prebendship in 1663. He was a person very well read in substantial and noted authors, and might, had life been spared, done good service for the Church of England, of which he was a most zealous member.  
FRANCIS ROBERTS son of Hen. Robert's 
(a) Reg. Matric. PP. fol. 127. a.  of Alslake in Yorkshire, was born there, or at least in that County, entered a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1632, entered into the sacred function, and had some little▪ cure bestowed on him, but what I cannot tell. Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected, closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars, went to London, took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins' there, in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected. In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell, Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded; which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook. In this rectory our author Roberts showing himself a zealous man of those times, was among several Ministers of his County (of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another) constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such, whom they then (1654.) called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. After his Majesty's return, he, rather than lose his living, and so consequently the comforts of this world, did turn about, took the Oaths again (whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval) and conformed himself, without hesitation, to the ceremonies of the Church of England, and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron, to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex, 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards conferred upon him I know not, only that the degree of Doctor of Diu. was conferred on him by the University (I think) of Dublin, at what time his Patron (a favourer of such people) was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the place of John Lord Roberts, an. 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published.  
Several sermons as (1) A broken spirit, God●● sacrifice, Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9 Dec. 1646. on Psal. 51.17. Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgement of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom. (2) Checquer of God's providences, made up of black and white, fun. Serm. on Psal. 68.13. Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen.  
Believers evidences for eternal life; collected out of the first epistle of S. John, which is Catholic etc. Lond. 1649. 55. oct.  
Clavis Bibliorum. The Key of the Bible; unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures. Whereby 1. The Order. 2. Names. 3. Times. 4. Penmen. 5. Occasion. 6. Scope, and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test. are familiarly, and briefly opened, etc. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct. with the author's picture before it, aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit. was published 1675.  
The communicant instructed: or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1651. oct. with the author's picture before it. This was afterwards reprinted at least three times.  
Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum. The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible; viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall; and in the last Adam Jesus Christ, after the fall, from the beginning to the end of the world; unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorisms and their explanations, etc. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol.  
The true way to the tree of Life: or, the natural man directed unto Christ. Lond. 1673. oct. What other things he hath written, unless A Synopsis of Theology or Diu. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Zion Coll. Lond. I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at Wrington before mentioned in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five, was, as I presume, 
1675.  buried in the Church there. On the 28. of Jan. the same year, his immediate successor Mr. Joh. powel was instituted to the rectory of Wrington, then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts.  
THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully, was born in S. Mary's parish in the City of Carlisle in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620, educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter, and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmoreland, entered in Queens Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1634, where, by the benefit of a good Tutor, Ger. Langbaine, and a severe discipline, he became a noted Disputant, and at length through several advances, Fellow of the said College. In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts, and soon after, Oxford being garrisoned, he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire. After the surrender of the Garrison, he returned to his College, and became a noted Tutor and Preacher, and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity. Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall, so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before, there were very few or no Students in that House, only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there, he, by his diligence and severe government, made it flourish, equal with, if not beyond, any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation, a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend, the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts. by a quondam Pupil, and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh. from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile, who had that Deanery conferred upon him in the month of May, an. 1674. by the death of the preceding Incumbent. This Dr. Tully was a pious man, and many ways very learned, chiefly read in the more ancient Writers, yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them, but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors. Those that knew him and his constitution, accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversy, when as throughout the whole managery of it, he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities, which first by lingering decays, did sensibly impair, and at last wholly shatter, his weaker frame and constitution. He was a Person of severe morals, puritanically inclined, and a strict Calvinist; which, as may be reasonably presumed, was some stop to him in his way to preferment; the want of which he did in some degree resent, seeing so many of his juniors in the University, and all the King's Chaplains twice told over (during the time he served him) not more deserving than himself, advanced before him. He hath written,  
Logica Apodictica, sive tractatus brevis & dilucidus de Demonstratione; cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente. Oxon. 1662. in 2 sh. in oct. Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam, written by Philip de Trieu, sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Douai.  
A letter to a friend in Wilts. upon occasion of a late ridiculous pamphlet, wherein was inserted a pretended prophecy of Thom. Becket. Lond. 1666. in two sheets in qu. The said letter was written to Tho. Gore of Alderton Esq. who gave Dr. Tully the rectory of Grigleton, and the Prophecy was published by one W. Tinker alias Littleton a Minister, who therein usurped Dr. Tully's name to his disparagement.  
Praecipuorum Theologiae capitum Enchiridion didacticum. Lond. 1665.68. etc. oct.  
Appendicula practica de coena Domini. Printed with the Enchiridion.  

Symboli Apostolici Expositio. Ox. 1673. octavo.  
Precationis Dominicae Expositio. Ox. 1673. octavo.   
Justificatio Paulina sine operibus ex ment Ecclesiae Anglicanae omniumque reliquorum quae reformatae audiunt, asserta & illustrata, etc. Oxon. 1674. qu.  
Dissertatiuncula de sententia Paulinâ, etc. Printed with Just. Paulina, written chiefly against Mr. George Bulls book entit. Harmonia Apostolica, and Mr. R. Baxters Aphorisms. But Mr. Baxter sitting not still (as he never yet hath done) published an answer to it bearing this title. A treatise of justifying righteousness, in two books. 1. A treatise of imputed righteousness, etc. with an answer to Dr. Tully's Letter, (which he calls angry) 2. A friendly debate with the learned and worthy Mr. Christop. Cartwright, containing first his animadversions on his Aphorisms with my answer. Secondly his exceptions against that answer, thirdly my reply to the sum of the controversies agitated in those exceptions. All published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults of Dr. Tully's Justificatio Paulina. Lond. 1676. oct. The Aphorisms of Mr. Baxter here defended against Dr. Tully were answered as to some passages (1) By Will. Eyre of Salisbury in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae, etc. (2) By John Crandon Minister of Fawley in Hampshire, more largely in a just volume intit. Mr. Baxters Aphorisms exorized and authorised, etc. Lond. 1654. qu. To both which Mr. Baxter quickly after published distinct replies, placed at the end of his Apol.— Lond. 1654. qu. One called An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre, etc. and another, An unsavoury volume of Mr. John Crandons' anatomised, etc. But Crandon died before this answer against him came out. The said Aphorisms also were excepted against and animadverted upon at their first coming forth 1650, by many learned men (some of whom wrote upon the motion and desire of their author himself) among whom, were Mr. George Lawson, Dr. John Wallis, Mr. John Warren, and Mr. Christoph. Cartwright were the chief) which being (as he himself confesseth) then but crude and defective for want of time, and use of writing, (this being his first) some suspected it of error in doctrine, some of novelty, some of divers undigested expressions, and some overvaluing it, received those imperfections with the rest. Upon this he published his suspension of these Aphorisms, than his fuller explication and defence of them in his Apology, etc. Afterward his additional explication and defence both in his Confession of faith 
(a) Edit. Lond. 1655. qu.  etc. and in his Four Disputations of Justification 
(b) Ibid. 1658. qu.  etc. And though he hath in these three several pieces thus largely explained himself and his Aphorisms, yet Dr. Tully (as he complains) fell notwithstanding upon him, without taking notice of any of those following treatises, which clear and illustrate his former doctrine in these points. But whatever hath been the Doctors dealing towards him on this account, at which he seems to be so much concerned, of this I am assured that his publishing the above named book, consisting of two parts, the far greater part of the former being by his own acknowledgement written 3 or 4 years before, and nothing newly added, and immediately directed against the Doctor, but barely the 6.7. and 8. Chapters, with the answer to the Doctor's letter, and the latter part being wholly made up of papers which had passed so many years before between the learned Mr. Christ. Cartwright and himself concerning his Aphorisms: his publishing, I say, these in answer to the Doctor's book which came out some time after, was generally looked upon as a scornful slighting and very unfair way of his. And though he thinks fit to call the Doctor in the general Epistle to the Reader more than once a worthy Person, yet for all this in the very entrance on the 6 Chapt. of the first part, he sufficiently discovers his anger against him in liberally bestowing on a great part of his Justificatio Paulina this foul character, viz. that it is defective in point of truth, justice, charity, ingenuity, and pertinency to the matter. But his published papers wrote long before those books, to which they are very improperly by him called answers, is not unusual with him: and the ingenious and learned Mr. Hen. Dodwell hath not long since complained of this his unjust usuage in relation to himself. To conclude: since the publishing of the said Justificatio Paulina, the author thereof is charactarized by some Church men and fanatics to have been a main pillar of the Chur. in defence of her true doctrine. Nay, and long before it was published, a certain hot headed Fanatic, tells us in a book 
(*) Lew. du Moul●n in his Account of several advances the Ch. of Engl. hath made towards Rome, p. 31.  afterwards by him made extant, that he, Tully, with Mr. Tho. Barlow did keep this University of Oxon from being poisoned with Pelagianism, Socinianism, Popery, etc. The other things that Dr. Tully hath written, are these,  
A Letter to Mr. Rich. Baxter occasioned by several injurious reflections of his upon a treatise entit. Justificatio Paulina. Oxon. 1675. qu.  
Animadversions on Mr. Baxters' pamphlet entit. An appeal to the light. Oxon. 1675. qu. Printed with the aforesaid letter. At length our author Dr. Tully, after he had spent his last years in a weakly and lingering condition, surrendered up his pious Soul to God, in the Parsonage house at Grigleton before mentioned, on the fourteenth day of January in sixteen hundred seventy and five, 
1675/6.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. In his Deanery which he had not enjoyed an year, succeeded Dr. Tho. Cartwright sometimes of Qu. College, in his Principality of S. Edm. Hall, Steph. Penton M. A, sometimes Fellow of New Coll. who was elected thereunto by the Provost and Fellows of Queens Coll. (Proprietaries of the said Hall) on the 15 of Feb. 1675, but with this condition that he resign his rectory of Tingwick in Bucks. and that the society of New Coll. present a Fellow of that of Queens thereunto, which was accordingly done) and in his Rectory of Grigleton, Rich. Hine M. of Arts of Merton Coll.  
EDWARD WEST son of Tho. West of the ancient borough of Northampton Gent. became a Communer of Ch. Ch. in the year 1651 and there received a severe discipline under a Presbyterian Tutor. After he had taken one degree in Arts, he translated himself to S. Mary's Hall, where continuing till he was Master of that faculty, took the Ministry upon him according to the Presbyterian way and was beneficed. After his Majesty's restauration he lived in, and near, London a Nonconformist to his dying day, being in high value for his edifying preaching among the Brethren in Conventicles. Under his name are published,  
Several sermons, as (1) How we must govern our tongues, on Ephes. 4.29.— 'Tis in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. (2) Purgatory a groundless and dangerous doctrine, on 1. Cor. 3.15.— 'Tis the 24 sermon in The morning exercise against Popery, etc. preached in Southwark. Lond. 1675. qu. etc.  
His Legacy; being a discourse of the perfect man. Lond. 1679. in a small oct. 'Tis grounded on Psal. 37.37. At length this zealous person having preached twice to his congregation on the Lord's day, being then the 30. of January and finished his work, departed this life in the night of the same day, and went to his rest in the 41 year of his age, 
1675/6.  in sixteen hundred seventy and five. Whereupon his body was buried towards the West end of tindal's Cemetery, commonly called the Fanatical burial place, joining to the New Artillery Yard or Garden near London. Over his grave was soon after erected an Altar-monument of white stone, built on a brick foundation with this inscription engraven thereon.  
The Saint whose dust this stone doth hide,  
Sung Epicedium first, than died.  
His life he spent lost man to save,  
And yet's not silent in the grave.  
Reader no more, but underneath he lies,  
Who, whilst he lived, th' world had one good, one wise.  
EDWARD TURNOUR son of Arthur Turnour of Little Parendon in Essex Sergeant at Law, was born 
(c) Reg. Matric. P P. fol. 93. a.  in Essex, educated in Grammar learning partly under a private Tutor, but chiefly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks. under Dr. Tho. Godwin the famous Schoolmaster there, became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1632, aged 15 years, where spending about 10 terms in Logicals and Philosophicals, he afterwards retired to the Middle Temple, applied himself severely to the studies of the Municipal Laws, and took the usual degrees belonging thereunto. After his Majesty's restauration he became Attorney to James Duke of York, received the honour of Knighthood, was elected Speaker for the Parliament that began at Westminster 8. May 1661., afterwards made Solicitor Gen. to his Majesty, Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer 1671 and the same year Serjeant at Law. Under his name were printed.  
Several speeches as (1) Sp. to the House of Commons when they chose him Speaker, 8. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in one sh. in fol. (2) Sp. to his Maj. when he was presented to him by the House of Com. to be their Speaker, 10. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. sh. in fol. (3) Sp. after the L. Chanc. had declared the King's approbation of the choice of the H. of C. Lond. 1661. in 2. sh. in fol. (4) Sp. to the King at the passing of the bill for confirmation of the Act of oblivion, 8. July 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. or 2. sh. in fol. (5) Sp. to the K. at the adjournment of the Parl. 30. July 1661. Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh. in fol. (6) Sp. upon the Parliaments adjournment 20. Dec. 1661., Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh. fol. In which Speech, as 'tis 
(d) See in a book entit. Mirabilis annus secundus, etc. the first part. Printed 1662. qu. p. 7.  said he compared the restitution of our monarchy, to the return of the tide after a very low ebb, at which very time there happened at London-bridge a very strange double tide; which by the troublesome and factious party, was looked upon as a prodigy. (7) Sp. upon the Commons reasons and address presented to hi● Maj. 28. Feb. 1662. As also his report of the substance of his Majest. gracious answer thereunto. Lond. 1662. in two sh. in fol. or thereabouts. (8) Sp. to his Maj. representing the humble thanks of the H. for his gracious acceptance of their endeavours, in the service of his Maj. and of the public, etc. 17. May 1664. (9) Sp. to his Maj. and both Houses of Parl. at Oxon, at the prorogation of the Parl. 21. Oct. 1665. Oxon. 1665. in fol. (10) Sp. to the King's Majesty at the prorogation of the Parliam. 8. Feb. 1666▪ Lond. 1666. in 2. sh. in fol. or thereabouts. These are all that I have seen, (besides several of his discourses in the trial of the King's Judges, an. 1660) and therefore I have no more to say only that he the said Sir Edw. Turnour with Justice W. Ellis being appointed to go as Judges of the Assize for the Norfolk Circuit in the month of Feb, in the Lent then ensuing, died at Bedford on the fourth of March following, in sixteen hundred seventy and five: Whereupon his body being conveyed to London, 
167●/6.  laid there for some days in state. After which, he was (dignâ pompâ) carried to Little Parendon before mentioned; and according to his own command, he was interred in the Chancel of the Church there under the marble stone that covered the grave of his first Wife.  
THOMAS GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mentioned under the year 1652 p. 87. was born at Colmore in Hampshire, mostly educated in the Charterhouse School near London, admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 15. Mar. 1627., where making great progress in Log. Phil. and other learning he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he became Deputy Professor of the Arabic Lecture, in the absence of Mr. Edw. Pocock, an. 1637, Bach. of Diu. in 1641, Rector of Dunsby in Lincolnshire in the times of Usurpation, and of another place near London, had the degree of D. of D. conferred upon him in 1661., and a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough in the place of Mr. Will. Towers deceased, an. 1666, being then Rector of Benyfield in Northamptonshire: Which last he resigned some years before his death, through trouble from his Parishioners, who, because of his slowness of speech and bad utterance, held him insufficient for them and it, notwithstanding he was a man of great learning. His works are these.  
De Linguae Arabicae utilitate & praestantia; oratio Oxonii habita 19 Jul. 1637. etc. Ox. 1639. in 3. sh. in qu.  
Observationes quaedam in Persicam Pentiteuchi versionem. They are in the sixth Tome of Bib. Polyglot. p. 48.  
Annotationes quaedam in Persicam interpretationem Evangeliorum. In the said sixth Tome p. 56. Which annotations were translated into Lat. by Sam. Clerk. This learned person Dr. Greaves did, in his latter days, retire to Weldon in Northamptonshire, where he had purchased an Estate; and dying there on the 22. of May in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  was buried in the Chancel of the Church at that place. Over his grave was soon after a plain grave-stone laid in the N. East corner of the said Chancel, with this inscription thereon. Thomas Gravius S. Th. D. Ecclesiae Petroburg. Praebend. vir summae pieta●is & eruditionis; in Philosophicis paucis secundus, in Philologicis peritissimis par; in Linguis Orientalibus plerisque major; quarum Persicam notis in appendice ad Biblia Polyglotta doctissime illustravit. Arabicam publicè in Academiâ Oxon professus est; dignissimus etiam, qui & Theologiam in eodem loco profiteretur. Poeta insuper & Orator insignis, atque in Mathematicis profundè doctus. Reipublicae Literariae & Ecclesiae Christianae flebilis obiit Maii 22. an. 1676. aet. suae 65. I find one Thom. Greaves a Minister to have written A brief sum of Christian Religion, etc. Lond. 1656. oct. whether by the former, or another, Thomas Greaves, I cannot yet tell.  
JOHN TOMBS was born in a Market Town called Beaudley in Worcestershire, became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Lent term an. 1617. aged 15 years, where, in short time after, he showed himself a most excellent Disputant, a person of incomparable parts, and well versed in the Greek and Hebrew Languages. In 1623. he was appointed Catechism Lecturer of the said Hall, in the place of Will. Pemble deceased (whose Pupil he had been) and the next year proceeding M. of A, he became a noted Tutor there. About that time he entered into holy Orders and shortly after was esteemed so famous for his preaching, that he was much courted to be one of the Lecturers at S. Martin's Ch. commonly called Carfax in Oxon: which cure he at length taking, was much followed for his excellent Sermons, especially by the puritanical party, who held him in great admiration. In 1630 he left the University and became a Preacher in the City of Worcester, and the next year after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. But he continuing at Worcester not long, he went by virtue of a call to Leonminster, commonly called Lemster, a Market Town in Herefordshire, of which place he became Vicar, beloved of the Parishioners and Neighbourhood, and resorted to far and near for his familiar and practical way of preaching. As it was suspected while he was in Oxon, so was it at Lemster and elsewhere confidently believed, that he would in time (having no preferment given to him suitable to his merits) do a great deal of mischief to the Church of England, as most great Scholars have done for want of it. In the year 1641 when the restless fury of the Presbyterians vented out into a dismal rebellion, this our author sided with them, and in the following year when Nath. Fiennes managed Bristol for the Parliament, and made mad work there in ejecting loyal Citizens from the Corporation and Orthodox Ministers from the Church, he, upon invitation, came in to him; and thereupon he and his followers made him Minister of Allsaints Church in the place of one Williamson an Orthodox man then ejected. While he continued there, which was till Aug. 1643 (at which time the City was surrendered to the King's party) he did a great deal of hurt by his schismatical preaching. Afterwards going to London, he became Master of the Temple, where he preached against the errors of the Antinomians, ex male intellectâ doctrina (as he 
(*) In his Epist. ded. before Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bulli, de Harm. Apost.  says) the justificatione peccatoris, etc. But being supplanted of that place by Rich. Johnson sometimes of Bras. Coll. an. 1647, he went to Beaudley, at what time Mr. Rich. Baxter preached at Kidderminster, another Market Town about three miles distant from that place. And 'tis verily thought that he was put upon the project of going there, purposely to tame Baxter and his party, who then carried all the Country before them. They preached against one another's doctrines, Tombs being then a Preacher at Beaudley, which he kept with Lemster, newly restored to him, being before forced thence by the royal party, and published books against each other. Tombs was the Coryphaeus of the Anabaptists, and Baxter of the Presbyterians. Both had a very great company of auditors, who came many miles on foot round about, to admire them. Once, I think oftener, they disputed face to face, and their followers were like two Armies: And at last it came so to pass that they fell together by the ears, whereby hurt was done, and the Civil Magistrate had much ado to quiet them. All Scholars there and then present, who knew the way of disputing and managing arguments, did conclude that Tombs got the better of Baxter by far. In the year 1653 he being then, as before, frequently in London, he was by ordinance appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of public Ministers, but what preferment he got by that employment (which most of them had obtained) I find not, unless it was the Parsonage of Rosse and the Mastership of the Hospital at Ledbury, both in Herefordshire, which he kept with Lemster and Beaudley. About the year 1658 he married Elizabeth the Widow of Wolstan Abbot of the City of Salisbury, by whom enjoying an Estate, lived mostly there to the time of his death. At the King's restauration in 1660, when he then saw to what a woeful condition this poor Nation of England had been brought unto by restless men and their several opinions as to religion, he willingly submitted, sided with the Royal party, but yet would never accept of either Benefice or Dignity, which was offered to him. Set aside his Anabaptistical Positions, he was conformable enough to the Church of England, would frequently go to Common prayers and receive the Sacrament at Salisbury, and often visit Dr. Ward Bishop of that place, who respected Tombs for his learning. Dr. Sanderson sometimes the learned Bishop of Linc. had a great esteem for him, and so had one of his successors Dr. Barlow; but the same respect that the last bore to our author, the same he paid to all, of what sect soever, that were learned. In 1664 he was present at the Oxford Act, and there in the Vespers he did modestly challenge to maintain against any person certain Anabaptistical Tenants, but none there did think it then convenient to grapple with him, and the rather for this reason that he had made those matters his study for more than 30 years, and that none ever before, went beyond him. He seemed to many to be a very pious and zealous Christian, and would never be violent, especially in his latter days, against any party that was opposite to his opinion, but be charitable and complesant. His body was little and neat limbed; he had a quick searching eye, and was so exceeding apprehensive that he would find out the end, upon the first entry, of the Disputes. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Vae Scandalizantium: or, a treatise of scandalising, etc. preached at Lemster in Herefordsh. on Luke 17.1.2. Oxon. 1641. oct. (2) Jehovah Jireth, or God's providence in delivering the godly, in two Sermons in Bristol, on a Thanksgiving day 14. March 1642 for the deliverance of that City from invasion and plot by the Malignants, on 2. Pet. 2.9. Lond. 1643. qu. Before which is set by the author, A short narrative of the said bloody and damnable plot. (3) The Leaven of pharisaical Will-worship; preached at Lemster 24. Nou. 1641▪ on Matth. 5.9. Lond. 1643. qu. (4) Anthropolatria. The sin of glorying in men, especially in Ministers of the Gospel, on 1. Cor. 3.21. Lond. 1643. 45. 47. qu. (5) True old light exalted above pretended new light: or, a treatise of Jesus Christ, etc. in nine Sermons. Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also, as it seems, a Sermon extant on 1. Cor. 7.14. which I have not yet seen, only mention of it in the title of a book written by Mr. Baxter running thus. Plain Scripture proof of Infant-Church membership and baptism. Being the whole arguments at a public dispute with Mr. Tombs at Beaudley, and answers to his Sermon upon 1. Cor. 7.14. with all his letters by Messengers, and his calling for answers in pulpit and in point, with many things relating to Mr. Thomas Bedford and Dr. Ward, and others upon that subject. Printed 1652 or thereabouts, and in an. 1656.  
Two Treatises, and an appendix to them, concerning Infant-baptisme, etc. Lond. 1645. qu. Written mostly against Steph. Martial Minister of Finchingfield in Essex.  
An examen of a Sermon of Mr. Steph. Marshal about Infant-baptisme, in a Letter sent to him in 4. parts. Lond. 1645. qu.  
An apology for two treatises, and an appendix to them, concerning Infant-baptisme, published 15. Dec. 1645. against the unjust charges and complaints of Dr. Nathan. Homes, Mr. John Geree, Stephen Martial, John Ley and William Husley; together with a Postscript by way of reply to Mr. Blakes answer to Mr. Tombs Letter, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. See in Tho. Blake under the year 1657. p. 133.  
Exercitation about Infant-baptism, in 12 arguments, etc. Lond. 1646. qu.  
A serious consideration of the oath of the King's Supremacy. Lond. 1649. qu.  
Antidote against the venom of a passage in the first direction of the Epist. ded. to Mr. Baxters' book of the Saints everlasting rest. Lond. 1650. qu.  
Praecursor: or, a forerunner to a large view of a dispute concerning Infant-baptism, etc. Lond. 1652. qu.  
Anti paedobaptism: or, no plain or obscure scripture proof of Infant's baptism, or Church membership, being the first part of the full review of the dispute about Infant-baptisme, etc. against St. Martial, John Geree, Rich. Baxter, Tho. Cobbet, Tho. Blake, Josias Church, Nath. Stephens, etc. Lond. 1652. qu.  
Anti-paedob. or the second part of a full review and dispute concerning Infant baptism, etc. against the Writings of St. Martial, Dr. Nath. Homes, Dr. Daniel Featley, Dr. H. Hammond, Th. Blake, Tho. Cobbet, Rob. Bailee, Joh. Brinsley, Cuthb. Sydenham, Tho. Fuller, etc. Lond. 1654. qu.  
Anti-paedob. or, the third part; being a full review of a dispute concerning Infant-bapt. etc. against St. Martial, Rich. Baxter, J. Geree, Th. Blake, Th. Cobbet, Dr. N. Homes, John Drew, Jos. Church, Will. Lyford, Dr. D. Featley, Jo. Brinsley, C. Sydenham, Will. Carter, Sam. Rutherford, Joh. Cragge, Dr. H. Hammond, Joh. Cotton, Th. Fuller, Jo. Stallam, Tho. Hall and others, etc. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Refutatio positionis ejusd. confirmationis paedobaptismum esse licitum affirmantis ab Hen. Savage S S. Th. D. in comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. mense Jul. 1652 propositae. Lond. 1653. quart.  
Plea for Antipaedobaptists against the vanity and falsehood of scribbled Papers, intit. The Anabaptists anatomised and silenced, in a public dispute at Abergavenny in Monmouthshire 5 Sept. 1653 betwixt Mr. Joh. Tombs, Joh. Cragge and Hen. Vaughan touching Infant-baptisme. Lond. 1654. qu.  
Relation of a conference had between Joh. Tombs B. D. and Hen. Vaugen M. A. at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653, touching Infant-bapt. Lond 1656. oct.  
Relation of a dispute had between Joh. Tombs B. D. Respondent, and Joh. Cragge M. A. Opponent, at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653, touching Infant-bapt. Lond. 1656. octav.  
Animadversiones quaedam in Aphorismos Richardi Baxter de justificatione. Published by the said Baxter without the Author's knowledge, an. 1658. I never saw this book, only the mention of it made in our Authors Epist. ded. before his Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bulli.  
Short Catechism about Baptism. Lond. 1659., in one sh. in oct.  
Felo de se. Or Mr. Rich. Baxters self-destroying; manifested in 20 Arguments against Infant-baptisme, etc. Lond. 1659. qu.  
A discussion of Mr. Rich. Baxters ten reasons of his practice about Infant baptism, delivered in a serm. at Beaudley on Colos. 3.11. Lond. 1659. qu.  
Romanisme discussed: or an answer to the nine first Articles of H. T. (Turbervill) his Manual of controversies. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Sephersheba: or the oath-book. Being a treatise concerning swearing, etc. Lond. 1662. qu. Delivered in 20 catechistical lectures at Lemster, an. 1636.  
Saints no smiters, etc. a treatise showing the doctrine and attempts of Quinto-Monarchians or fifth Monarchy-men about smiting Powers to be damnable and antichristian. Lond. 1664. qu.  
Theodulia: or, a just defence of hearing the sermons and other teaching of the present Ministers of the Ch. of England, against a book unjustly intit. (in Greek) A Christian testimony against them that serve the image of the beast, etc. Lond. 1667. oct.  
Emanuel or God-man. A treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon Councils, concerning the two Nativities of Christ, is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine. Lond. 1669. oct.  
Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bullii, cui titulum fecit Harmonia Apostolica, etc. Lond. 1676. oct. What other things our Author Tombs hath written and published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died at Salisbury in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  and that he was buried on the 25 day of May in St. Edmund's Ch. yard there, over against the Steeple, on the north side, at a good distance: And lastly, that soon after was put over his grave a flat stone with this Inscription thereon. Here lieth the body of Mr. John Tombs Bachelor of Divinity, a constant Preacher of God's word, who deceased the 22 of May, an. 1676. aged 73.  
GILBERT COLES Son of Edm. Coles of Winchester, Priest, was born at Burfield in Berks, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll, after he had served two years of probation, an. 1637, took the degrees in Arts, and in 1648, or thereabouts, became Fellow of the Coll. near Winchester, but soon after was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament. Afterwards he was elected Fellow again by the Society of New Coll, for the great respect they had for him, he being about that time Rector of East-Meon in Hampshire, and accounted by many a learned man. Afterwards he became Rector of Easton near Winchester, Doct. of Divinity, and Rector of Ash in Surrey. He hath written,  
Theophilus and Orthodoxus: or, several conferences between two friends; the one a true son of the Church of England, the other fallen off to the Church of Rome. Ox. 1674. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  and was buried in the Church of Easton before mentioned. Over his grave, his widow soon after caused a stone to be laid, with this Inscription thereon, Gilb. Coles S. T. P. hujus ecclesiae Rector, Coll Winton. Socius. Obiit 19 Junii 1676, anno aetatis suae 59, Moerens conjux posuit hoc.  
HENRY STUBBE the most noted person of his age that these late times have produced, received his first breath in an obscure Village called Partney near Spilsbye in Lincolnshire, on the 28 of 
(a) So have I been informed by letters from his Mother.  Febr. an. 1631, at which place his Father, who was a Minister, then lived, but he being Anabaptistically inclined, was forced to leave it; and thereupon he, with his Wife and Children went into Ireland, and there at Tredagh he found an Employment, which was, if you'll believe a nameless satirical Author 
(b) Mercurius pragmaticus, numb. 1. Dec. 19 an. 1659.  the Office of Beadle of the Beggars, as being well acquainted with the executive part of Power at the Cart's tail. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in that Country in 1641, the Mother fled with our Author and another Child towards England, and landing at Leverpoole in Lancashire, they all beated it on the hoof thence to London, where she gaining a comfortable subsistence by her needle, sent her son Henry, being then 10 years of age, to the Coll. School at Westminster. At that time Mr. Rich▪ Busbie was the chief Master, who finding the boy to have pregnant parts to a miracle, did much favour and encourage him. At length Sir Hen. Vane junior (the same who was beheaded on Tower-hill 1662.) coming casually into the school with Dr. Lamb. Osbaldeston, he did at the Master's motion take a kindness to the said boy, frequently relieved him with money, and gave him the liberty to resort to his house, and to 
(c) Praef. of Hen. Stubbe to his Epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy, pag. 8.  fill that belly which otherwise had no sustenance but what one penny could purchase for his dinner: and as for his breakfast he had none, except he got it by making some body's exercise. Soon after, Sir Henry got him to be a King's scholar, and his Master perceiving him to be beyond his years in proficiency, he gave him money to buy books, clothes, and his teaching for nothing. In the beginning of the year 1649, Sir Henry got him to be sped for a Students place in Ch. Church, where showing himself too forward, pragmatical and conceited, (being well stocked with impudence at school) was often kicked and beaten: And in the year after abusing the Censor morum (Will. Segary that noted Disciplinarian) in a speech that he uttered, was, for so doing, and his impudence in other respects, whipped by him in the public refectory. The same year the Oath called the Engagement being framed by the then Parliament, was some time after sent to the University by him.— 'Twas I (saith he) that brought the Engagement down to Oxon (though I took it net, being then an Undergraduat) and having got Dr. S. F. (Sam Fell as it should seem) 
(d) Ibid.  and Dr. R. (Reynolds) to be turned out, I saved the remains of the Cavaliers of Ch. Ch. and Queens Coll, and gave them opportunities to live securely and educate others in their principles, etc. While he continued Undergraduate it was usual with him to discourse in the public Schools very fluently in the Greek Tongue, as it was at the same time with one John Pettie of Balliol, afterwards of Queens Coll, and others, whose names are forgotten. But since the King's restauration, we have had no such matters, which shows in some part, that Education and Discipline were more severe then (as indeed they were) than after, when Scholars were given more to liberty and frivolous studies. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and determined, he went into Scotland, and served in the Wars there for the Parliament from 1653 to 1655. Upon his return he took the degree of Master, and in the beginning of the year following (an. 1657) he was, upon the death of Mr. Franc. Yonge of Oriel Coll, preferred upon the motion made of Dr. Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. to Mr. Thom. Barlow the Head-keeper of the Bodleian Library, to be the second-keeper of the same. Which Office he holding three years, being all that time much favoured by the Head-keeper, did, by the benefit of a prodigious memory, most wonderfully advantage himself in several sorts of Learning. At length Dr. E. Reynolds being restored to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of 1659., (a little before which time, viz. in Feb. Stubbe was complained of in the Parliam. house, as one that palliated in print Sir Henry Vane's wickedness) he not only ejected him from his Students place in the said house, but found means to remove him from the Library, and especially for this reason, that he had written and published a most pestilent book called A light shining out of darkness, wherein are many things said against the Universities and Clergy. But if you'll believe the Author, he'll tell 
(e) Ibid.  you that that book (which he calls the Invidious Queries) was written to terrify the Presbyterians and make them more complacential, yet withal protests that they contained no tenets of his (for he knew they were not defensible against the learned and judicious Episcoparians, though they had force and address enough against the more ignorant Presbyterians) but were written to excuse those who had made those to be their Assertions which were his doubts; and this he declared in the Preface to that book. He tells us also, that what he wrote in that book and others, was against the Presbyterian Clergy, the Presbyterian Universities and the Usurpations of Oliver and Richard. After his Ejection he retired to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire to practise the Faculty of Physic, which he for some years had studied, and after the King's restauration he made early and voluntary Applications to Dr. Geor Morley for his Protection in his retirement, assuring him of an inviolable passive Obedience, which was all he could or would pay till the Covenant was renounced. When the restauration of the Bishops was made, he, at the first motion of the said Dr. Morley then his Diocesan, received confirmation at his hands, and soon after took occasion to publish a translation concerning the arts of Grandeur and Submission (which I shall anon mention) and in the Dedication thereof to make this mention of himself. I have at length removed all the Umbrages I ever laid under: I have joined myself to the Church of England, not only upon account of its being publicly imposed (which in things indifferent is no small consideration, as I learned from the Scottish Transactions at Perth) but because it is the least defining, and consequently the most comprehensive and fitting to be national. In the year following he took a journey to the Island of Jamaica, being designed Physician of that place by his Majesty, who, as he 
(f) In the Pref. beforemention'd, p. 12.  saith, honoured him with that title. In which place, having been mostly sick during his abode there, he would have otherwise advanced himself much in the knowledge thereof, and in experiments and things philosophical: For which reason also it was why he did not accept of an invitation to go to Mexico and Peru to practise his Faculty there. After his return, in 1665, he lived for some time in and near London, and thence going to Stratford before mentioned, and afterwards to Warwick, settled in the last of the said places, practised Physic, and in the Summertime retired to Bath: at both which places he gained repute and many Patients by the diligence and care he took in his Profession. As for his Writings, they are many, and of various subjects; some of which that he published before the King's restauration, were against Monarchy, Ministers, Universities, Churches, etc. provoking all men to whom those interests were dear.— He then trampled (as 
(g) Jos. Glanvill, in his pref. to his Prefatory answer.  one that wrote against him saith) on the ashes of his martyred Sovereign, defended and adored his murderers, styled all our Kings a succession of Usurpers, endeavoured the extirpation of Monarchy, and planting a Democracy of Independents, Anabaptists, Fifth-monarchy men and Quakers, in its room. He hath represented the meekest, justest and best of Kings, as an hateful Tyrant, and called our now Sovereign (Ch. 2.) an Usurper. He then did write maliciously against Ministry, Universities, etc. and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous fanatics, etc. But why our Author Stubbe did write so, he'll tell 
(h) In his pref. to Legends no Histories.  you 'twas to serve his Patron Sir Hen. Vane, and to express his gratitude to him, who relieved him when he was a child and after, and that because the quarrels 
(i) In his pref. to his Epist. discourse concerning Phlebotomy, p. 8.  and animosities grew high betwixt the Presbyterians and Sir H. Vane's Friends, he sided therefore with him.— My youth (saith 
(k) Pref. to Legends, etc. as before.  he) and other circumstances incapacited me from rendering him any great services; but all that I did, and all that I wrote, had no other aim; nor do I care how much any man can inodiate my former Writings, as long as that they were subservient to him, etc. The truth is, all that knew him here in Oxon, knew this of him for certain, that he was no frequenter of Conventicles, no taker of the Covenant or Engagement, no contracter of acquaintance with notorious Sectaries, that he neither enriched, or otherwise advanced himself during the late troubles, or shared the common odium and dangers, or prosperity of his Benefactor. Some years after the King's restauration, he took pet against the Royal Society (for which before he had a great veneration) and being encouraged by Dr. Jo. Fell, no admirer of that Society, became in his Writings an inveterate Enemy against it for several pretended reasons: among which were, first that the members thereof intended to bring a contempt upon ancient and solid Learning, upon Aristotle, to undermine the Universities, and reduce them to nothing, or at least to be very inconsiderable. Secondly, that at long running to destroy the established Religion and involve the Nation in Popery and I know not what, etc. So dextrous was his pen, whether pro or con, that few or none could equal, answer, or come near, him. He was a person of most admirable parts, had a most prodigious memory, though his enemies would not acknowledge it, but said he read Indices; was the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his age; and after he had been put upon it, was so great an enemy to the Virtuosos of his time, I mean those of the R. Society, that, as he saith, they alarmed him with dangers and troubles even to the hazard of his life and fortunes. He was a singular Mathematician, and thoroughly read in all political matters, Councils, ecclesiastical and profane Histories. He had a voluble tongue, and was very seldom known to hesitate either in public disputes or common discourse. His Voice was big and magisterial, and his mind was equal to it. He was of a high generous nature, scorned money and riches, and the adorers of them: which being natural to him, was one of the chief reasons why he hated the Presbyterians, whom he always found to be false, undermining, poor spirited, void of generous souls, sneaking, snivelling, etc. He was accounted a very good Physician, and excellent for those matters that complete it, as Simpling, Anatomy and Chemistry: and in the times of Usurpation, that is while Oliver and Richard ruled, when then he thought it the Nations interest to subvert the true Monarchy of England, he was passionately addicted to the new Philosophy, and motioned several ways for the introducing it amongst the Gentry and Youth of this Nation: and the reason was, as he (l) saith, that it would render all the Clergy contemptible, lessen the esteem and reverence in the Church, and make them seem egregious Fools in matters of common discourse. But as he was so admirably well qualified with several sorts of Learning and a generous Spirit, so he was very unhappy in this, that he was extreme rash and imprudent, and wanted common discretion to manage his parts. He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind, not only among his Companions, but in public Coffey-houses, (of which he was a great frequenter) and would often speak his mind of particular persons, then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in, for which he was often repremanded, and several times threatened to be kicked and beaten. He had a hot and restless head (his hair being carret-coloured) and was ever ready to undergo any enterprise, which was the chief reason that macerated his body almost to a Skeleton. He was also a person of no fixed Principles, and whether he believed those things which every good Christian doth, 'tis not for me to resolve. Had he been endowed with common sobriety and discretion, and not have made himself and his learning mercenary and cheap to every ordinary and ignorant Fellow, he would have been admired by all, and might have picked and choosed his Preferment. But all these things being wanting, he became a ridicule, and undervalved by sober and knowing Scholars and others too. His Writings and Translations are these.  
Horae subsecivae: seu Prophetiae Jonae & Historiae Susannae paraphrasis Graeca versibus heroicis. Lond. 1651. oct. To which are added his Translation into Greek of Miscellanea quaedam Epigrammata à Th. Randolpho, W. Chrashavio, etc.  
Epistola Lat. cum Poematibus Lat. & Graec. ad D. Hen. Vane Domini Hen. Vane de Raby Eq. aur. fill promogen. Ox. 1656. printed on one side of a sheet. The said Hen. Vane was then a Student or Sojourner in the Uniu. of Oxon. but wore not a gown, and soon after died.  
Otium literarum. Sive Miscellanea quaedam poemata. Ox. 1656. oct. They are printed with the Poems of Hen. Birchead of Alls. Coll. In the said vol. are our Author Stubbe his Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum translatae, which were printed again at Oxon. 1658. in oct. and had at the end added to them by him Elogiae Romae & Venetiarum.  
A severe enquiry into the late Oneirocrita; or, an exact account of the grammatical part of the Controversy between Mr. Thom. Hobbes and John Wallis D. D. Lond. 1657. qu. In the said book the Author Stubbe, a great admirer of the said Hobbes, with whom he was intimately acquainted, doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis, and why he doth so, is because, as he tells 
(m) In the said Severe Enquiry, pag. 7.  us, he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram (i e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines) and had been an active Preacher in the first War, and deciphered (besides others, to the ruin of many loyal persons) the King's Cabinet taken at Naseby; and, as a monument of his noble performances, deposited the original, with the deciphering, in the public Library at Oxford. He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction, which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patron's sake. In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject: but that, I suppose, was never printed.  
The Savilian Professors case stated. Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the public office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis etc. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh. and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellors Court for 30 years or more and well versed in the Statutes, Liberties, and Privileges of the University, did, upon great entreaties, stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof; but he being esteemed a Royalist, Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him, though altogether uncapable of that place, because he was one of the Savilian Professors, a Cambridge man, and a stranger to the usages of the University. At length by some corruption, or at least connivance, of the Vicechancellor, and perjury of the signior Proctor (Byfield) W. was pronounced elected. Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an earwitness of all that had most unjustly passed, he therefore wrote and published the said book.  
The Commonwealth of Israel, or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause. Lond. 1659. in oct.  
An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause, or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs, etc. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Vindication of the honourable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter. Lond. 1659. oct. The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit. A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lies and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter. Printed at Lond.  
A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate, mentioned by them in their proposals to the late Parliament. Lond. 1659. qu.  
Miscellaneous positions concerning Government. Lond. 1659. qu. They are, I suppose, the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations, mentioned by his 
(n) In his Prefatory answer before mentioned.  Antagonist Mr. Glanvill.  
A light shining out of darkness, or certain Queries, etc. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year, the second edition of which hath therein several Additions; and an Apology for the Quakers, written by the said Stubbe.  
The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a balance, and found too light. Or an account of the Republic of Sparta, with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model. Lond. 1660. qu.  
The Indian Nectar, or a discourse concerning Chocolata, etc. Lond. 1662. oct. Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physic hath learnedly written, and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done. It was rendered into English by one who called himself Capt. James Wadsworth, under this title, Chocolate: or an Indian drink, etc. Lond. 1652. oct. Which book our Author Stubbe had seen, and has, as I conceive, followed him in some things. As for the said Wadsworth, the Reader may know that he was the same who wrote The English 
(o) Printed the second time at Lond. 1630. qu.  Spanish Pilgrim, born in Suffolk, (son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Diu. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath.) bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain, in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers, but at riper years left them, and returned to the Church of England, was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver, an. 1655, at which time he was characterized by an English 
(p) Will. Sanderson in The reign and death of King James. Lond. 1655. fol. under the year 1620. p. 491.  Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote, of any Religion and every trade, and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catchpole Bailiffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book, enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct.  
The miraculous Conformist: or, an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak. Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon, etc. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes' books, I must make a digression, and tell you why this book was written, and who the subject of it was. Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes' son of Will. Gr. Esq. was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland, on S. Valentine's day (14 Feb.) 1628., was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore, and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin, but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation, he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England, where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight, his mother's father, he was for the present time relieved. After his death, his mother, for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High Germane, Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire, with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity, and found from his hands much favour and love. After 5 or 6 years' absence, he returned to his native Country, at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate, which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin, where he spent an years time in contemplation, and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world, (as he 
(q) In the Brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Lond. 1666. quart. pag. 17.  saith) that his life became a burden to him, and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay, as ever was Galleyslave of the oar, which brought his life even to the threshold of death; so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about, etc. In 1649, or thereabouts, he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish, Papists and others, than called the Rebels, and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded, he retired to his native country of Affane, the habitation of his Ancestors, and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Cork, Register for Transplantation, and Justice of the Peace. After his Majesty's Restauration, he was removed, as I have heard, from his employments, and grew thereupon discontented. In 1662. or thereabouts, he had an impulse, or a strange persuasion in his mind, (of which he was not able to give any rational account to another) which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the King's Evil: which for the extraordinariness of, he thought fit to conceal, it for some time, but at length he communicated it to his wife, and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil, for whether he were in private or public, sleeping or waking, still he had the same impulse, but her reply was to him, that she conceived this was a strange imagination: yet to prove the contrary, a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house, desiring his wife to cure him, who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours, according to her small skill in Chirurgery. On which, his wife told him there was one that had the King's Evil very grievously in the eyes, cheek and throat: whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it, or the dictates of God's Spirit on his heart; and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected, and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him, and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again, which he accordingly did, and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole, and the node which was almost as big as a Pullet's egg, was suppurated, and the throat strangely amended, and in a month discharged itself quite, and was perfectly healed. Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore, who had had the Evil seven years and upwards, far worse than the former, whom he cured to the wonder of all; and soon after his fame increasing, he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following, not meddling with any other distempers, till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues; all done by stroking with his hands. Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him, discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing; which the morning following he told to his wife and brother, but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it, though for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him. This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easter-day, 2 Apr. 1665, early in the morning, and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore, where there came into the house to him a poor man, that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double, and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black, wherein were five ulcers; who desired him for God's sake that he would lay his hands on him, and do him what good he could. Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank, and immediately run the pains out of him, so that he was released, and could stand upright without the least trouble. Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg, which forthwith changed colour and became red, and three of the five ulcers closed up, and the rest within few hours afterwards; so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in, and in two days after he fell to his labour, being a Mason by trade. After this, he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroking, and his name was wonderfully cried up. But the Clergy being jealous of these matters, he was cited to the Bishop's court, and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course. In Jan. 1665 he went into England, and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire, to cure, by stroking, his Lady, who for many years had laboured under a most violent Headache, but with all his endeavours he could not cure her: yet continuing there three weeks, he cured innumerable people in those parts, which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe, who then practised Physic at Stratford on Avon in that County, and was daily at ●agley with the Lord, and an eye-witness of the cures, to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist, etc. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London, but more mistakes, as 'tis said, caused Dau. Lloyd, a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles: or, Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined, etc. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroking, March 7. an. 1665, at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard. In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation, making him but little better than a Cheat, that person therefore came out with his vindication intit. A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed. Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honourable Rob. boil Esq. and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related. From this digression let's now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe, who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions.  
Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands, and in Jamaica, etc.— Remitted into the Philosoph. Transact. num. 27, an. 1667, and num. 36. an. 1668.  
Legends no Histories: or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society. Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat.  
Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpetre, penned by Mr. Tho. Henshaw.— Printed and bound with Legends no Histories, etc.  
Animad. upon The Hist. of making of Gunpowder, written also by the said Mr. Henshaw.— Pr. and bound with Legends, etc. also, and to it is added An additional review, written by Hen. Stubbe.  
The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus. Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos. Glanvill etc. with divers inquiries made about several matters. Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra, which seemed to assert that the ancient Physicians could not cure a cut-finger; which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought.  
Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society, etc. Oxon. 1670, in about seven sh. in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell, and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year, pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe.  
Campanella revived; or an enquiry into The Hist. of the Roy. Soc. etc. Lond. 1670. qu.  
Letter to Sir N. N. relating the cause of the quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royal Society, and an Apology against some of their cavils.— Printed with Campanella revived.  
Postscript concerning the quarrel depending between Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Christop. Merrett.— Pr. also with Campanella.  
Reply unto the letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe in defence of The history of the Royal Society. Oxon. 1671 quart.  
Reply to a letter of Dr. Hen. More (printed with Mr. glanvil's Prefatory answer to Hen. Stubbe) with a censure upon the Pythagorico-Cabbalistical Philosophy promoted by him. Oxon. 1671.  
A Preface against Ecebolius (alias Joseph) Glanvill, Fellow of the Royal Society, etc.— These two last are printed with the Reply unto a letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe, etc.  
Medice cura te ipsum. Or the Apothecary's plea in some short and modest animadversions upon a late Tract entit. A short view of the frauds and abuses of the Apothecaries etc. by Christop. Merrett Dr. of Phys. Lond. 1671. quart.  
An epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy in opposition to George Thomson Pseudochymist, a pretended disciple to the Lord Verulam. Lond. 1671. qu.  
A discourse concerning the Sweeting Sickness temp. Hen. 7.  
Relation of the strange Symptoms happening by the bite of an Adder and the cure thereof— These two last are printed with the Epistolary discourse, etc.  
A caveat for the Protestant Clergy: or, an account of the sufferings of the English Clergy upon the restitution of Popery in the days of Qu. Mary Lond. 1671. 78. in two sh. in oct. This is said to be written by Hen. Stubbe, but not I suppose by our author, but by another of both his names, whom I shall anon mention.  
A justification of the present war against the united Netherlands, etc. illustrated with Sculptures. In answer to a Dutch treatise entit. considerations upon the present state of the united Netherlands, etc. Lond. 1672. 73. qu.  
A farther justification of the present war against the United Netherlands, illustrated with several Sculptures. Lond. 1673. qu. For the compiling of these two last books, the author was allowed the use of the Paper Office at Whitehall, and when they were both finished he had given him 200 l. out of his Majesty's Exchequer, and obtained a great deal of credit from all people, especially from the Courtiers and all that belonged to the King's Court. In the month of Octob. the same year (1673) when the marriage to be between James Duke of York and Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena was controverted in the House of Commons, where were 180 voices for, and 188 against it, than did this our author Stubbe, about the latter end of the said month, write and publish,  
The Paris Gazette— Which being against the said marriage and for the breaking it off, gave great offence to many. It was printed in half a sheet, as one of our Gazettes are now, and was by the author with great confidence and impudence presented to several Parliament men. Whereupon a Writ being issued out against him, he was taken in the beginning of the next month, hurried in the dark from one private Prison to another, threatened with hanging, and was put to a great deal of charge. So that all the credit he had got before, was lost among the generality.  
Directions for drinking the Bathwater.  
Ars Cosmetica; or beautifying Art.— These two go under his (Stubbes) name, and are printed at the end of James Cook his translation from Lat. into English of a book written Originally by Joh. Hall entit. Select observations on Eminent persons in desperate diseases. Which translation was reprinted with additions in 8o, a, 1679. He also translated from Lat. into English (1) Introduction to Geography. Oxon 1657, oct. Written by Philip Cluver. (2) The Arts of Grandeur and submission. Lond. 166●. and 1665 oct. Written by John Casa Archb. of Benevento. (3) The History of the United Provinces of Achaia. Lond. 1673. qu. in 4 sh. and half, written by Jacobus Gothofredus, and others, as it seems, which I have not yet seen. I have now no more to say of this learned person only that he being at bath attending several of his Patients living in and near Warwick then there, he was sent for to come to another at Bristol, in very hot weather; to which place therefore going a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night, on the twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six (his head being then intoxicated with bibbing, 
1676.  but more with talking, and snuffing of powder) was drowned passing through a shallow River (wherein, as 'tis supposed, his horse stumbled) two miles distant from bath. So that his body being taken up the next morning and his death examined by the Coroner, was the next day after that (being Friday) buried in the great Church at bath dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul, in the grave of Dr. Pet. Wentworth, joining on the North side to the stately Tomb of Dr. Jam. Montague sometimes Bishop of that City, situate and being on the north side of the body of that Church. At which time his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill preached his funeral Sermon, but said no great matter of him; and soon after a certain Physician of that place, who seemed to be glad for his death, made this Epitaph following on him: Which, though not yet put on his grave, shall be here set down to his memory. Memoriae Sacrum. Post varios casus & magna rerum discrimina, tandem heic quiescunt mortalitatis exuviae Henrici Stubbe, Medici Warwicensis, quondam ex Aede Christi Oxon, ●ei Medicae, Historicae ac Mathematicae peritissimi, judicii vivi, & Librorum heluonis; qui quum multa scripserat, & plures sanaverat, aliorum saluti sedulo prospiciens, propriam neglexit. Obiit aquis frigidis suffocatus, 12 die July A.D. 1676. aetatis suae ... Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of both his names and time, a nonconforming Minister, and sometimes a preacher in the City of Wells, where I find him as an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliam. to eject such whom they then (1654.) called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters; who hath among several things pertaining to Divinity, written (1) Great Treaty of peace. exhort. of making peace with God. Lond. 1676. 77. oct. (2) Dissuasive from conformity to the world. Lond. 1675. in 8ᵒ. (3) God's severity against man's iniquity. Printed with the Dissuasive. (4) Gods gracious presence, the Saints great privilege, a farewell Sermon to a Congreg. in Lond, on 2. Thes. 3.16.— Printed also with the Dissuasive. (5) Conscience the best friend: or the happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience, very useful for this age. Lond. 1685. in tw, and other things which I have not yet seen; among which is his answer to the Friendly debate, an. 1669 in oct. When he died I know not; sure I am that after his death, which was in London, his books were exposed to sale by way of Auction 29. Nou. 1680.  
EDWARD REYNOLDS son of Austin Reynolds one of the Customers of Southampton, (by Bridget his wife) son of John Reynolds of Langport in Somersetshire, and he the son of another John, was born in the parish of Holy-rood within the said borough of Southampton, in the month of Nou. 1599, bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School there founded by K. Ed. 6. in the 7. year of his reign, became one of the Portionists or Postmasters of Merton Coll. in 1615, and Probationer Fellow in 1620, in which place (which he got by his skill in the Greek tongue) as also throughout his Bachelaurship, he showed himself a good Disputant and Orator. After he had taken the degree of Master he entered into holy Orders and became a noted Preacher, (though of an hoarse voice,) afterwards Preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn, and Rector of Braunston or Braynton in Northamptonshire. At length the grand rebellion breaking forth in 1642 he sided with the Presbyterian party (having long before that time been puritanically affected) and in the year 1643 he became one of the Assembly of Divines, a Covenantier, a frequent preacher in London, and sometimes before the Long Parliament. In 1646 he was appointed by the Parliament one of the six Ministers to go to, and settle in, Oxon to preach the Scholars into obedience to the said Parliament, afterwards one of the Visitors to brake open, turn out, and take possession, Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Sam. Fell ejected, and Vicechancellor of the University; at which time he became Doctor of Diu. by actual creation, and what not. But being forced to leave his Deanery in the latter end of 1650 because he refused to take the Independent Engagement, he retired to his former cure for a time: Afterwards he lived mostly in London, preached there and flattered Oliver and his Gange, and after his death, being then Vicar of S. Laurence in the Jewry, he did the like to Richard, and was the Orator or Mouth of the London Ministers to welcome that Mushroom Prince to his Throne, 11. Octob. 1658. Also when hopes depended on Monke's proceedings from Scotland, he struck in with him, and who more ready than he (Dr. Reynolds) and other Presbyterians, when he and they saw how things would terminate, and could not be otherwise holpen, to bring in the King, after his long exile, by using his interest in the City of London, where he was the pride and glory of the Presbyterian party. When the secluded Members were restored to sit in Parliament, they restored him to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of March 1659., with hopes to continue there and carry on the Presbyterian discipline. In May following (1660) when his Majesty was at Canterbury in order to his restauration, he and Edm. Calamy another zealous Presbyterian, were admitted his Chaplains on the the 26. of that month, and after his restauration he preached several times before him, as he did also before the Houses of Parliament. But in the latter end of June following, he being desired to leave his Deanery, to make room for an honest and Orthodox man, he was in the next month elected, by virtue of the King's Letter, Warden of Mert Coll, choosing rather to have something than nothing. Soon after, upon the feeling of his pulse, the King bestowed on him the Bishopric of Norwych; which See, he willingly taking without a Nolo, was, after he had taken the Covenant, and had often preached against Episcopacy and the Ceremonies of the Church of England, consecrated thereunto in S. Peter's Church within the City of Westminster, on the sixth day of January an 1660; by virtue of which Bishopric he became an Abbot, (a strange preferment, me thinks, for a Presbyterian) I mean Abbot of S. Bennet in the Holm, which he kept (with great regret to his quondam Brethren, whom he then left to shift for themselves) to his dying day. He was a person of excellent parts and endowments, of a very good wit, fancy and judgement, a great Divine, and much esteemed by all parties for his preaching and florid stile. A writer 
(a) Dr. Tho. Pierce in his Introduction to his Divine purity defended.  of another persuasion tells us that he was a person of great authority, as well as fame, among the men of the Calvinistical persuasion, etc. and many there were that were of the like opinion: One that knew him well saith 
(*) Sir Th. Browne Doct. of Phys. in his Repertorium of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych, MS.  that he was a person of singular affability, meekness and humility, of great learning, a frequent preacher and constant Resident: And it was verily thought by his contemporaries, that he would have never been given to change, had it not been to please a covetous and politic 
(b) Marry the daughter of Dr. Joh. Harding sometimes Precedent of Madg. Coll. Oxon.  Consort, who put him upon those things he did. His works are these,  
The vanity of the creature, on Eccles. 1.14.  
Sinfulness of sin, on Rom. 7.9. and on 6.12.  
Use of the Law, on Rom. 7.13.  
Life of Christ, on 1. Joh. 5.12.  
An explication of 110. Psal.  
Meditations on the holy Sacrament of the Lords l●st suppper.  
Explication of the 14 chapter of Hosea, in seven humiliation Sermons.  
Treatise of the Passions and faculties of the soul of man.  
All or most of which having been printed several times, in qu. were all printed in one folio at London an. 1658, with the author's picture before them, and went by the name of Dr. Reynolds his works. They were much bought up, read and commended by men of several persuasions and one 
(c) Rob. Wild in his Iter Bor. and Poems, printed 1670. oct.  (who was es●e●me● by all that knew him a jovial wet Presbyterian) that had read them several times could not forbear to write two short Poems in commendation of them.  
Thirty Sermons preached on several solemn occasions.— They were preached between the year 1634 and that of his death, and some of them had been printed several times. At length they were reprinted in the second impression of his works, at Lond. 1679 fol. Among them is his Lat. Sermon preached at Oxon. 1649 entit. Animalis homo, on 1. Cor. 2.14▪ He also wrote the Ass. of Divines Annotations which are on Ecclesiastes, which being admirably done, it was wished by many learned men of the Presbyterian persuasion that the rest had been all wrote pari filo, & erudition. He also was the author of the Epistolary preface to Will. Barlee's Co●reptory Correction, etc. of some notes of Tho. Pierce concerning Gods decrees, especially of Reprobation: which book of Barlee with the said Ep. Preface, a second of Tho. Whitfield, and a third of Dan. Cawdrey sometimes of Cambridge, were printed at Lond. 1656. qu. At length this learned Bishop Dr. Reynolds, who probably hath written other things besides those I have already mentioned, made his last change in this world on the 28 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  and was buried at the upper end of the Chapel (built by him 1662.) joining to the Bishop's Palace in in Norwych. Over his grave was soon after fastened marble to the wall, with this Epitaph engraven thereon. H. I. S. I. Edoardus Reynolds SS. T. P. primus a reditu Regis Caroli II. felicissimo Norvicensis Episcopus, quod honoris fastigium uti minime ambivit, ita pietate, prudentiâ, comitate, modestiâ, loco non animo elatus, maxim decoravit. Pastorum merentium pater amantissimus, pacis pietatisque culior devotissimus, potestatis arbiter equus & mitissimus. Quantus fuerit Theologus, tam multifaria lectione instructus, quam Scripturis potens, tam felix eorundem interpres & fidelis Praeco, silente hoc marmore, Scripta eloquuntur, caput eruditum, os facundum, cor caeleste spirantia, expirante authore suavissimo; cui nihil inerat duri acerbi praeter calculi stranguriaeque cruciatus, quos christiana, adeo atque invicta tulit side & patientia, ut albi lapilli, licet mortis instrumenta tessera forent vitae & victoriae, immortalitatis ascriptus est Jul. XXIIX. A. D. 1676 aetatis suae 76. Mortalitatis exuviae prope hinc depositae Augusti IX. Sacellum hoc ab ipso fundatum, dicatumque, denuo consecravit. In his Deanery of Ch. Ch. succeeded Dr. George Morley, afterwards the most worthy Bishop of Winchester, in his Wardenship of Merton Coll. Sir Tho. Clayton a Physician, and in his Bishopric Dr. Anthony Sparrow of Cambridge, translated from the See of Exeter.  
THOMAS BRANKER son, if I mistake not, of Tho. Branker sometimes Bach. of Arts of Exeter Coll. was born in Devonshire, admitted Batler of said Coll. 8. Nou. 1652, aged 17 years or thereabouts, elected Probationer Fellow 30. June 1655, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards taking the degree of Master, he became a Preacher, but refusing to conform to the Ceremonies of the Church of England, left his fellowship in 1662., retired into Cheshire, where conforming and taking upon him Orders from a Bishop, became Minister of Whitegate: At which time being well known to William Lord Brereton, for his sufficiencies in Mathematics and Chemistry, he gave him the Rectory of Tilston; but he keeping that not long, was afterwards made master of the well endowed School at Macclesfield in the said County, where he finished his course. He hath written, 

Doctrinae Sphaericae adumbratio Ox. 1662.  
Usus Globorum artificialium Ox. 1662.    
A Table of odd numbers less than one hundred thousand, showing those that are incomposit, and re●●●ving the rest into their Factors or coefficients, etc.— This is added by Branker to a translation which he made from High-dutch into English of An introduction to Algebra. Lond. 1668. qu. written by Rhonnius: A laudable account of which Table, and of the translation, you may see in the Philosophical Transactions, num. 35. p. 688.689. See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 871. He gave way to fate in Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  and was buried in the Church at Macclesfield before mentioned, leaving then behind the character of an able Mathematician.  
WILLIAM MORRIS son of Evan alias John Morice a Native of Caernarvanshire and Chancellor of the Diocese of Exeter, by Mary his wife, daugh. of Joh. Castle of Devonshire, was born in the Parish of S. Martin in the City of Exeter, educated in Grammar learning there, and in the beginning of the year 1619 or thereabouts, he was sent to Exeter Coll. (through his Mother's motion) by Sir Nich. Prideaux of Souldon in that County, who some years before had taken her to be his third wife; where continuing in the state of a Sojourner under the tuition of Mr. Nath. Carpenter (not without considerable proficiency in learning) till he was Bach. of Arts, was sent for home, and married to one of the Granddaughters of the said Sir Nicholas, by Humph. Prideaux his eldest son deceased. In the year 1640 he was put into the Commission of Peace for the aforesaid County, and five years after was elected Knight for that Shire, upon a recruit, to serve in the Long Parliament. In 1651 he was made High Sheriff of the said County, in 1656 he settled himself and his family at Werington, which he then, or lately, had purchased of Sir Franc. Drake; and in 1658 he was chose a Burgess for Westport in Cornwall to serve in Richard's Parliament that began at Westminster, 27. of Jan. the same year: And being related by his wife to General George Monk, he was entrusted by him with all his concerns in Devonshire, while he was Governor of Scotland, and discharged himself so faithfully and prudently therein, as to recommend himself so far to the General's esteem, that on his coming into England he made choice of him for his chief, if not only, Confident in the management of that great affair of the King's restauration, and the rather for this reason that our author being generally esteemed a Presbyterian, it would please the great Masters at Westminster who were most of that Religion. Upon the said Monke's coming to London, the secluded Members from all parts of the Kingdom came thither, and were by his means restored to the House of Commons, of which number our author Mr. Morice was one. This Gentleman was somewhat allied to him, as I have told you, but more in his favour, than his blood; for he had a great opinion of his prudence and integrity. He was one that much conversed with books and had then lately written one against the practice of Independent teachers, who would admit none in Parochial Cures, to the Lords Supper, but such only as, being distinguished by their separation, were most peculiarly their own flock. This had rendered 
(d) Mystery and Method of his Majesty's restauration. Lond. 1680. p. 118. written by Joh. Price, D. D.  him very grateful to the Presbyterians, whose cause he seemed most to serve; for the Ministers of the Church of England were generally contented with the exercise of their Religion in private Houses, though even these also, were often disturbed by Soldiers and Constables, who used to hale them from their very Communion Tables upon the more solemn Festivals of their despised Church; rending their Surplices, where any were used, and tearing their Mass-Book (for that was the name by which the crafty Statesman, and the more juggling gospeler taught the undiscerning multitude to call the English Liturgy) into pieces. The General, from and before the beginning of his enterprise, had pretended to be a Presbyterian, and had not then renounced his faith; but at that time it most behoved him to appear one, and to act his part well in it; for it was his last: wherefore our author Morice was received into his house, which much pleased the Masters at Westminster, who were mostly of that Religion as I have before told you; some few only excepted, who, by beholding the calamities of the Church, and their own errors, had been converted 
(e) Ibid.  to a better esteem of Episcopacy; which the learning of our author could not but favour: So that he was looked upon to have the good repute only of a Presbyterian. Him the General retained as his Elbow-Counsellor, and a State-Blind; concealing his own sense of things, and very often speaking contrary to his own thoughts, that so he might better understand the sense of others and take his measures accordingly. About the same time Mr. Morice received a letter from the King by Sir Joh. Greenvill (afterwards Earl of bath) to excite him to influence the General to his restauration, which he answered with assurance of his utmost zeal and affection for that service: whereupon in Feb. 1659. he received from his Majesty by the hands of the said Sir John (with approbation of the General) the Seal and Signet, as the badge of the Secretary of State's Office: About which time it was his business to keep the then expiring Session of Parliament steady, and clear from intermeddling with the change of the Government; in which case he did excellent service, punctually observing the directions of the General, who then passionately longed for their dissolution. On the 10. of March following, he was, by the General's motion, made a Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, and Governor of the Fort and Island of Plymouth, and after he had joined with the General in the great secret of the restauration, he was not only knighted by his Majesty, then at Canterbury, in his way to London, 26. May 1660, but had the Office of Secretary confirmed unto him, and then sworn also one of his Majesty's Privy Council. In 1661. he was chosen for Plymouth to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 8. of May, but he being much taken up with his new Employment, he could not do his duty in the House, so well and truly as he wished he could. How influential Sir William was in his Majesty's reduction and establishment, may easily be collected from the Letters under the hands of his Majesty, and Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chancellor, now in the custody of Henry Earl of Clarendon: And may perhaps be made more manifest unto the World upon the publication of an History said to be written by the said Sir Edw. Hyde, (afterwards E. of Clarendon) who was most particularly acquainted with all the steps made in the transacting of that whole affair. At Michaelmas in the year 1668 Sir W. Morice did, upon his humble desire made to his Majesty, resign his Secretariship, and was succeeded by Sir John Trevor, son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt; so that retreating into the Country, he passed the rest of his life in a quiet retirement at Werington before mentioned, situate in the west part of Devonshire, where he erected a fair Library, valued at twelve hundred pounds; which was the principal divertisement and most sensible pleasure he took during the last years of his life. He hath written and published,  
Coena quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: The new enclosures broken down, and the Lords Supper laid forth in common for all Church Members, having a dogmatical faith and not being scandalous. In a Diatribe and defence thereof. Lond. 1656. 57▪ qu. This book being afterwards much enlarged, came out again with this title, The common right to the Lords Supper asserted in a Diatribe and a defence thereof, etc. Lond. 1660. fol. The first edition of this book came out as it seems in 1651. qu. in answer to one Humph. Saunders, who had written a book of administering the Sacrament to a select company.  
Letter to Gen. Monk, in answer to his of the 23. of Jan. directed to Mr. roll, to be communicated to the Gentlemen of Devonshire— This Letter is dated 28. Jan. 1659., and is said to be written by an excluded Member of Parliament, particularly by W. Morice, as the general Voug than was, yet it is subscribed by R. M. He died on the twelfth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six, and was buried in Werington Church, 
1676.  in an Isle belonging to his Family. His eldest son William Morice Esq. was made a Baronet 20. of April 1661.  
MATTHEW HALE son of Rob. Hale Esq. a Barrister of Lincoln's inn, by Joan his Wife Daughter of Matthew Poyntz of Alderley in Glocestershire Gent, was born at Alderley on the first day of Nou. an. 1609, educated in Grammar learning at Wotton Underedge (the Seat of his ancestors) in the same County, not in the Free-school there, but under one Mr. Staunton the scandalous Vicar (so he was accounted by Orthodox Clergy of the neighbourhood) of that Town, became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Obadiah Sedgwick (mentioned under the year 1657. p. 138.) in Mich. term 1626., where continuing about three years, laid the foundation of some learning and knowledge which he afterwards built upon, and might have proceeded farther had not his thoughts been diverted by certain juvenile vanities. Afterwards, upon the advice of Sir Jo. Glanvill Sergeant at Law, who occasionally observed 
(a) Gilb. Burnet D. D. in The life and death of Sir Matth. Hale Kt. etc. Printed at Lond. in a large octav. 1682. p. 10.  in him a clear apprehension of things, a solid judgement and a great fitness for the study of the Law, he was taken off from the design of being a Soldier, which he intended, and was admitted a Student in Lincoln's inn, 8. Nou. 1629: And being then deeply sensible how much time he had lost, and that idle and vain things had overrun, and almost corrupted his mind, he resolved to redeem the time he had lost: And therefore for many years together he studied at the rate of 16 hours a day, threw aside all fine clothes, and betook himself to a plain fashion, which he continued to use in many points to his dying day. Will. Noy the Attorney General, being of the same Inn, took early 
(b) Ibid. p. 19  notice of him, directed him in his studies, and grew to have such friendship for him, that he came to be called Young Noy. The learned Selden also soon found him out, who though much superior to him in years, yet he came to have such a liking of him and also of Mr. John Vaughan of the Inner Temple, (afterwards L. Ch. Just. of the Common pleas) that as he continued in a close friendship with them while he lived, so he left them at his death two of his Executors. By his acquaintance it was that he pursued other learning than that of his profession: so that by great industry, accompanied with good natural parts, he became well read in the Civil and Rome▪ law's, attained to a great readiness in Arithmetic, Algebra and other mathematical sciences. He obtained also a great insight in Philosophy, whether experimental or theoretical, Physic, Anatomy and Chirurgery. He was well acquainted with the ancient Greek Philosophers, but want of occasion to use them, wore out his knowledge of the Greek tongue: And though he never studied the Hebrew, yet by his great conversation with Selden, he understood the most curious things in the Rabinical learning. But above all these, he seemed to have made the study of Divinity the chief of all others, to which he not only directed every thing else, but also arrived at that 
(c) Ib. p. 28.  pitch in it, that those who have read, what he has written on that subject, will think, that it hath had most of his time and thoughts. Some years before the unhappy Wars broke forth, he was called to the Bar, and when they did break forth he sided with the Presbyterians, having been for the most part, when young, educated under severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline. And being esteemed a plain honest man, a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law, he was entertained by both, as well loyal as Presbyterian, parties. In 1643 he took the Covenant, and, as I have been often informed, he appeared several times with other Lay-people among the Assembly of Divines. He was then in great esteem with the Parliament, and was employed by the members thereof, as to his counsel, about several matters, particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service; who, as a Lawyer, was added to the Commissioners appointed by them, to treat with those appointed by the King: And in that capacity he did good service by advising them, especially Fairfax the Generalissimo, to have in his eye a preservation of that place, (Oxon) so famous for learning, from ruin. Afterwards, though the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him, yet he took the oath called the Engagement, and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practise his profession. In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq. Recorder of the City of London, Charles George Cock Esq, Sir Hen. Blount Kt, John Fountain Esq. a common Lawyer, Hugh Peter's Clerk, Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn, Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt, etc. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law; and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords, but what the result of their meeting was, I cannot yet tell. On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Sergeant at Law, and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench, in which place he acted with great justice and integrity, not without the displeasure sometimes, as 'tis said, of the Protector. In 1654. he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Gloucester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 3. of Sept. purposely, as 'tis 
(d) Ib. p. 46.  said, to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot, by two parties, that had very different principles and ends. In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Uniu. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richard's Parliament, which began at Westm. 27. Jan. the same year, and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire, to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament, which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month. Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile, he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted. In the month of May 1671 he was, upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oaths before the Lord Keeper, and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an 
(e) Rich. Baxter in his Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matth. Hale, etc. Lond. 1682. oct. p. 43.44.  unwearied Student, a prudent man, a solid Philosopher, a famous Lawyer, the Pillar and Basis of justice, (who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive) the ornament of his Majesty's Government, and honour of England; the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall, and pattern to all the reverend and honourable Judges, a godly serious practical Christian, the lover of goodness and all good men, a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness, and unfaithfulness, etc. a great contemner of riches, pomp and vanity of the world, a pattern of honest plainess and humility, etc. As for his works relating to learning they are these.  
An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof. Lond. 1674. oct.  
Difficiles nugae, or, observations on the Torricellian experiment. Lond. 1674. oct. Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks, so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum, etc. Lond. 1676. oct.  

Contemplation's moral and divine. In two parts. Lond. 1676, etc. in a large oct.  
Directions touching and keeping the Lords day. Lond. 1676, etc. in a large oct.  
Poems on Christmas day. Lond. 1676, etc. in a large oct.   
Contemplation's mor. and div. The sec. part. Lond. 1677. oct. They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct.  
The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature. Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the author's death, and why he published it, I shall give you these three reasons. (1) Because that some writings of his (Contempl. mor. and divine) did without his privity come abroad in print, which he never intended: And this book might have had the same fate, if not in his life time, yet after his death. (2) Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof, than of some others that have gone abroad in public. (3) That although he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published (as worthy of public view) yet he found them well accepted by many, which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name, wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts, etc.  
Observations touching the principles of natural motion, and especially touching rarefaction and condensation, together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids'. Lond. 1677. oct. These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Moor's Remarks before mentioned, were replied upon by the said Doctor— Lond. 1678.  
The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature. Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions, nu. 136. p. 917.  
London's liberty: or, a learned argument of law and reason, an. 1650— This came out afterwards with this title. London's liberties: or, the opinions of those great Lawyers, Lord Ch. Justice Hale, Mr. Justice (will) Wild, and Mr. Serjeant Maynard, about the election of Mayor, Sherriffs, Aldermen and Common council men of London, and concerning their charter, etc. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control.  
Discourse touching provision for the poor. Lond. 1683. in tw.  
Short treatise touching Sherriffs accounts. Lond. 1683. oct. To which is joined his Trial of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. edmond's, on the 10. of March 1664, which was published by its self in oct. in 4. sh. an. 1682.  
Pleas of the Crown: or, a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject. Lond. 1685. sec. edit. in oct. The first edit. came out in 1678. oct.  
His judgement of the nature of true religion, the causes of its corruption, and the Church's calamity, by men's additions and violences; with the desired cure. Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times, published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges. To this book is annexed The judgement of Sir Franc. Bacon, etc. and somewhat of Dr. Is. Barrow on the same subject.  
Several tracts, as (1) A discourse of religion on three heads; first the ends and uses of it, secondly the life of religion and superadditions to it, and thirdly the superstructions upon it, and animosities about it. (2) A treatise touching provision for the poor, before mentioned. (3) A letter to his Children, advising them how to behave themselves in their speech. (4) A letter to one of his Sons, after his recovery from the smallpox. Lond. 1684. in oct.  
Discourse of the knowledge of God and of ourselves, first by the light of nature, secondly by the sacred Scriptures. Lond. 1688. oct.  
Brief abstract of the Christian religion.  
Considerations seasonable at all times for the cleansing of the heart and life— These two last were printed with Discourse of the knowledge of God, etc. He hath also translated into English The life of Pomponius Atticus, written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornel. Nepos, etc.— Lond. 1677. oct. To which are added by our author Hale.  
Observations political and moral thereupon.— He also wrote the preface to, and published, the Abridgement of many cases and resolutions, etc. made by Judge Henry roll, as I shall tell you when I come to him, and under his (Hale's) name aught to be put The perjured Fanatic: or, the malicious conspiracy of Sir John Croak of Chilton, Henry Larimore and other fanatics, against the life of Rob. Hawkins Clerk, and late Minister of Chilton, occasioned by his suit for tithes. Discovered in a trial at Ailesbury, before Sir Matth. Hale Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Lond. 1685. in 10. sh. in fol. Which Rob. Hawkins was afterwards Vicar (but a poor one if not scandalous) of Beckley in Oxfordshire. These, I think, are all that are published under the name of Judge Hale: The rest that he hath written and not yet extant are many; among which are (1) Concerning the Secondary origination of mankind. folio. (2) Concerning religion. fol. in 5. vol. (3) Of Policy in matters of religion. fol. (4) De anima. fol. written to Mr. Rich. Baxter. (5) De anima. fol. Transactions between him and the said Mr. Baxter, etc. and many others as you may see 
(f) In The life and death of Sir Matth. Hale before mentioned, written by Dr. Gi●b. Burnet p. 191.192.  elsewhere: And left behind him as a Legacy to Linc. inn Library several volumes of collections made by him, mostly from records in the Tower, and divers matters relating to Glocestershire; all which may be of great use to Lawyers and Antiquaries. At length after this most learned and religious person had lived to the age of 67, he gave way to fate on Christmas day, 25. Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and six: 
1676.  whereupon his body was buried on the 4. of Jan. following in the yard belonging to the Church of Alderley, among the graves of his Mother's Ancestors. At which time Evan Griffith, the pious Minister of that place, preached his funeral sermon on Isay 57.1. which was afterwards, as I have been informed, made extant by him the said Griffith sometimes of Oriel Coll. in Oxon (as it seems) who dying in the beginning of June 1681 (after he had been one of the Wednesdays Lecturers at Wotton Underedge in Com. Gloc. several years) was buried at Alderley before mentioned. To conclude; all that I shall farther say of this worthy person Sir Matth. Hale, whom we have now brought to his grave, shall be the very same words which conclude his life, written by a Native of Edinburgh called Gilbert Burnet D. D. sometimes Professor of Diu. in the Uniu. of Glascow, but then (1682) Preacher at the Rolls in Chancery-lane, running thus. He was one of the greatest patterns that this age hath afforded, whether in his private deportment as a Christian, or in his public employments, either at the bar or on the bench. Which character being without doubt true, as most things of him in the said life are, yet I must take leave to tell the reader, that most knowing and observing men had a better esteem of Judge Hale before the said life was published, than after; as also in some respects, before the publication of Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matth. Hale. The author of which (Mr. R. Baxter the learned and most eminent Nonconformist) takes often occasion to reflect in them 
(g) p 13.14.25.35.36.37.38.39.44.  on the Church of England's and its Orthodox Sons.  
THOMAS FORD was born of a Plebeian Family in Devons, entered a Batler in Magd. Hall in Easter term, an. 1619 aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, entered into Orders and became a very faithful Tutor in his House for several years. But being puritanically educated (as all in his time of the said House were) and not able to endure certain passages acted in the University, preached a very factious sermon at S. Mary's on 2. Thes. 2.10, for, which he was banished thence, an. 1631, as I have at large elsewhere 
(a) In Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 1. pag. 334.335. etc.  told you. So that retiring into his own Country to get preferment, he was kept back from it, by the endeavours of Archb. Laud, till such time that he should make his peace and recantation for what he had done. At length the small cure of Oundle in Northamptonshire, being bestowed upon him, he continued there, as I conceive, till the grand rebellion began: At which time finding no opposition, he retired to the City of Exeter, and became much resorted to for a time by those of the Presbyterian persuasion. But leaving that place, when garrisoned for his Majesty, he retired to London or near it, became one of the Ass. of Divines, in the room of Mr. Bolls deceased, an. 1644, and frequently preached up the cause there. Afterwards upon the declining of the King's interest, he went to Exeter again, was made Minister of S. Laurence Church there, became the prime leader of the faction, took the Engagement, as before he had done the Covenant, and was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon▪ for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. After his Majesty's restauration he continued in his cure, till silenced for Nonconformity, an. 1662., so that preaching in private among the brethren, he obtained a livelihood from them to the time of his death. A certain Doct. of Divinity of his time and persuasion, that knew him well, hath several times told me, that this our author was a man of very great parts and of unbiased principles, one and the same in all times and changes. He hath written,  
A treatise tending to prove the lawfulness of singing Psalms. Lond. 1657 in oct. or tw. 'Tis grounded on Ephes. 5.19. One John Ford hath written Expositio libri Psalmorum. Lond. 1646. qu. Published by Thom. Paget, but whether he was ever of Oxford I cannot tell.  
The Sinner condemned of himself: Being a plea for God, against all the ungodly, proving them alone guilty of their own destruction, etc. Lond. 1668 in oct. containing 256. pages. He preached once before the Lords of the Long Parliament, at a Fast held 29. Ap. 1646. and once, as it seems, before the Commons 30. July 1645, and his sermons without doubt were published, but such I have not yet seen, nor a little thing printed in tw. going under the name of Thom. Ford, entit. The Anatomy of the times. This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  and was buried on the 28 day of the same month, in the Church of S. Laurence before mentioned, near to the bodies of his Wife Bridget and several of his Children that had been there buried before him. I find one Thomas Ford, who entitles himself Philothal. to be author of— Virtus rediviva. A Panegyric on our late K. Ch. 1. etc. attended with several other pieces from the said pen, viz. (1) A theatre of Wits: being a collection of Apothegms. (2) A century of familiar Letters. (3) Loves Labyrinth, a Trag. Comedy. (4) Fragmenta Poetica: or poetical diversions; concluding with a Panegyric on his sacred Majesty's return. Lond. 1660. oct. But whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot yet tell, nor whether he was the same T. Ford who translated into English Lusus fortunae, etc. Lond. 1649. oct.  
GEORGE DIGBY son and heir of John Digby Earl of Bristol, was born in the City of Madrid in Spain, in the month of Oct. 1612, made his first entry into Magd. Coll. 15. Aug. 1626. and was then entered a Noble man there: At which time, and so long as he continued there, he was very familiar, and held great correspondence, with Pet. Heylyn Fellow of that House; by whose directions and conversation he improved himself much in several sorts of learning. In 1636, just after his Majest. had left Oxon, where he had been splendidly entertained by the members of the University, and by the Archbishop at S. john's Coll, he was, among other Persons of honour, actually created Master of Arts, being then esteemed a Person of good parts, and in hopes to do the State service. In the beginning of the Long Parliament (of which he was a member) he became one of the eminent Darlings of the People, as being a Person discontented; and therefore was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a charge against the most noble and eminently conspicuous Thomas Earl of Strafford, 11. Nou. 1640, and appointed one of the managers of the evidence against him. But upon a discovery of the unjust practices against him, he became his Advocate, though all the advantage he got by it, was that he lost his own esteem, both among the House of Commons, and among the Faction. From that time he became their declared enemy, by being a bold friend of truth and justice, which he showed in a Speech at the passing of the Bill of Attainder against the said Earl, 21. Apr. 1641, ordered to be burnt, as I shall tell you anon, and therefore was posted up by some, in the head of those called Straffordians. He was also a friend to the Bishops and their function, when both were called into question about that time, and a zealous enemy to the Covenant: All which do appear in speeches uttered in good language and sweetness. On the 10. of June 1641. he was expelled the House of Commons, not only for exceptions taken by them for words spoken concerning an oath, which Colonel G. Goring confessed he had taken to be secret to, saying he was a perjured Person, but because he was, the day before, made a Baron, and introduced into the upper House the very same 10. of June. In the beginning of January following he went on a message from his Maj. to Kingston upon Thames to certain Gentlemen there (some say to give Coll. Tho. Lundsford a visit) in a Coach with 6 horses, and no other equipage with him, save only a servant riding by him, and a Companion in a Coach. But his appearance there being represented to the Parliament as in a warlike manner, and every Coach horse reckoned for a Troop, the House of Commons made a complaint thereof on the 10. of the same month to the House of Lords: Whereupon it being voted that he then took up Arms for his Majesty, he was proclaimed Traitor, banished and made the public hatred of the Puritans or Presbyterians. But the King soon after leaving the Parliament, because of their desperate proceedings, he drew by degrees many Lords and Commons after him, together with this Lord from beyond the Seas, and therefore he was excepted by the Parliament in a treaty of peace with the King at Oxon, in the latter end of the year 1642. In 1643 he was made one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty, and high Steward of this University in the place of Will. Lord Say who adhered to the Parliament, and in the next year he would have been questioned for an Incendiary by the Parliament sitting at Oxon, because of a Mutiny that happened among the Soldiers of the Garrison there; but it was dissolved before the members could do any thing in the matter. In the latter end of 1645, he being then a stirring active man, he went into Ireland, where he did good service for his Majesty, and underwent great hazards of his life, but upon the declining of the King's cause, he left that place, and on the 24. of Oct. 1648 he was exempted from pardon by the Parliament. Afterwards upon the death of his Father he became Earl of Bristol, and Knight of the Garter, being then in exile beyond the Seas, suffering much by the loss of his Estate. After the Kings return he was restored to what he had lost, and the year after was installed (with others) Knight of the said Order, became a frequent Speaker in Parliaments, and an enemy to Clarendon while he was Lord Chancellor. Under his name were printed these things following.  
Several Speeches as (1) Speech in Parl. 9 Nou. 1640. concerning grievances and a triennial Parliament. Lond. 1641. qu. Printed in the 1. vol. of John Nalson's Impartial Collection etc. p. 505. (2) Speech in the H. of Com. to the bill of triennial Parliaments, 19 Jan. 1640. Lond. 1641. qu. Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's Historical Collections. (3) Sp. in the H. of Com. concerning Bishops and the City Petition, 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1640. in 4. sh. in qu. Remitted into the said 3d. part of Hist. Coll. with other discourses of our author Digby. This Sp. spoken 9 Feb. is called the L. Digbies third speech. (4) Sp. in the House of Com. to the bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford, 21. Apr. 1641. Lond. 1641. in two sh. in qu. Remitted into John Rushworth's Trial of the E. of Strafford, p. 50. and into Joh. Nalson's Impart. Coll. vol. 2. p. 175. On the 13 of July following, it was ordered by the H. of Com. that one part of the said speech should be publicly burnt on Friday after, at 10. of the clock in the morn. by the hands of the common hangman in the Palace-yard at Westminster, and another part in Cheapside, and the rest, or third part, in Smithfield. All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous, (so the predominant party in the House said) as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House, and that of the Commons, and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford, etc. (5) His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford, occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason, 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh. and half in qu. This also was burnt. (6) Sparke in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indemnity. Lond. 1660. in one sh. in qu. (7) Two speeches, with some observations upon them. Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery, 15. Mar. 1672, the King being then present. The other, in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663. in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple.  
Several Letters, as (1) Letter to the Queen's Majesty, dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641, (to which place he fled when he was banished) wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence, as well as from any place in England, over and above the service which he might do for him there; and accordingly he returned into England, not to London, (notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers, that if he appeared not in 20 days, he should be proclaimed Traitor) but to his Majesty at, or near, York. The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. (2) Letter to the Qu. Majesty, dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter, with another from Tho. Eliot Esq. written to the said Lord Digby, dated at York 27. May 1642, being intercepted by the Rebels, were ordered to be printed by the Parliament. 1. Aug. 1642, with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus. (3) Divers Letters, written at Oxon, in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London. They were intercepted by the Rebels, and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following, in a pamphlet entit. A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh. in qu. (4) Divers Letters, written in design to betray Abendon for the King's use: Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne (afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660) for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon, but after Browne, in a false manner, had drilled the said Lord on so long, which he could not in honour do longer, than did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament, and they to a Committee, who caused them to be printed. (5) Letter in the King's name to the Irish Commissioners. Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners. They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament, and printed with this title, Two remarkable letters concerning the King's correspondence with the Irish Rebels. (6) Several other Letters etc. These also were intercepted, and with others had this title put to them. The Lord Digbies Cabinet and Dr. (Steph.) Goffs negotiations; together with his Majesties, the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters, taken at the battle at Sherborn in Yorks. about the 15 of Oct. last. (1645) Also observations on the said Letters. Lond. 1646. qu. 'Tis a villainous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyred King's Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels. (7) Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebel's General in Munster. Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month, an. 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland, were sent to the Parliament in England, who caused them forthwith to be published. I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts, for the surrender of Plymouth to the King, an. 1644, and others to General Leven for peace, an. 1645, but whether printed, I know not. Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire, an. 1645 by the Parliament forces, were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year.  
Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion. Lond. 1651. oct.  
Elvira; or, the worst not always true; a Comedy.— Upon the writing of which, he the L. Digby (and not Sir Kenelm) was brought into the poem called The session of Poets, made by Sir John Suckling.  
Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum. MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance. Printed in oct. At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more, died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex, having been much afflicted with the Gout, on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676/7.  and was buried in the Church there: whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby, Lord Treasurer of England.  
JOHN PRICE, or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books, wherein he shows himself the greatest Critic of his time, was born in London, as one of his contemporaries 
(b) Tho. Lockey D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch.  hath informed me, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617., aged 17 years or thereabouts, left the University without a degree, or being matriculated, (otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage) and was taken into the retinue of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel, he being then a R. Catholic. At length he went beyond the Seas, and settling for a time in a certain University there, took the degree, as 'tis said, of Doctor of Law, for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. laud's MSS. in Bodlies' Library. Afterwards he returned into England, where continuing for some time, he went into Ireland, and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm, and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primate thereof. But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and questioned by the Parliament, in 1640, he returned into England, and published certain Pamphlets for the King's cause, but what the titles of them are I could never learn: certain it is▪ that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time. Afterwards being enlarged, he went beyond the Seas, and at length into Italy about 1652, and settling in Florence, was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany, who made him Supervisor of his Medals, yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude. Afterwards the said Duke made him Professor of the Greek Language in the University of Pisa, where he was held in great veneration not only for his great sufficiencies in that Tongue, but also in Divinity, for his great knowledge in the Fathers, and in polite and curious learning. His works are,  
Notae & observationes in Apologiam L. Apulei Madaurensis Philosophi platonici. Par. 1635. qu. To which are added certain fragments of Antiquity, in copper cuts.  
Matthaeus ex S. Paginâ, sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus ex parte illustratus. Par. 1646. oct.  
Annotationes in epistolam Jacobi. Par. 1646. in a little octav.  
Acta Apostolorum ex S. pagina, sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus illustrata. Par. 1647. in tw.  
In undecim Apuleianae metamorphoseos, sive Milesiarum libros annotationes uberiores. Goud. 1650. in a large thick oct, with Pricaeus his picture before it, in a cloak. Towards the publishing of this book, he borrowed an ancient copy of it from Archb. Laud's MSS.  
Index scriptorum qui in Hesychii Graeco vocabulario laudantur confectus, & alphabetico dispositus. This is printed at the end of the former book, viz. In undecim, etc. 'Tis also printed at the end of Hesychius' Lexicon, published by Corn. Schrevelius, an. 1668.  
Commentarii in varios Novi Testamenti libros. Involved in the fifth tome of the Critics.— Lond. 1660. fol. Among these, his Commentaries are those on Matthew, Acts of the Apostles, and James before mentioned, remitted.  
Annotationes in Psalmorum librum. Involved in the said 5 tome of Critics.— Lond. 1660. fol.  
Epistles to several learned men in Lat. and English.— This great Critic who had a rambling head, left the territory of the Duke of Tuscany, and went to Venice under pretence of putting out Hesychius his Lexicon there; and afterwards going to Rome, he was received, as I have heard, into the retinue, or at least patronage, of the famous Card. Franc. Barbarini the Protector of the English Nation, lived in his last days in the Covent of S. Augustin in that great City, where dying in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  or thereabouts, was buried in the Church or Chappel there. I have sent once or twice for the exact time of his obit, and for a copy of his Epitaph, if there be any over his grave; but as yet I have received no answer. I shall make mention of another John Price among the Incorporations in the Fasti, under the year 1680, but he was Doctor of Divinity.  
GASPER HICKS a Minister's son, was born in Berks. entered a Batler or Com. of Trin. Coll. in Mich. term 1621., aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and at length became Vicar of Lanerake in Cornwall, where he continued a constant Preacher under the name of a Puritan several years. At length, upon the change of the times, he openly expressed his zeal for the Cause in his Sermons, more than before he had done: but finding that place uneasy to him, when the Royalists were dominant in that County, he retired to the great City, became one of the Ass. of Divines, a frequent Preacher in London, and sometimes a Holderforth before the Members of the Long Parliament. Afterwards upon the declining of the King's Cause, he returned again to his Vicarage, and had something added to it in consideration of his sufferings. In 1654. he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cornwall for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and ever after, ●ll the Act of Conformity came forth, he was esteemed there the chief of the Presbyterian Ministers. He hath ●●blished,  
Several Sermons, as (1) The glory and beauty of God's portion, Fast-sermon before the H. of Commons 26 June 1644, on Isay 28.5.6. Lond. 1644. qu. The Author complaining either in this, or another sermon, that he had been plundered and wanted books, the H. of Commons gave him 30 l. to buy more. (2) Serm. at the funeral of Will. Strode Esq. a member of the H. of Com. 22 Sept. 1645. on Acts 13.36. Lond. 1645. qu. (3) The advantage of afflictions, Fast-serm. before the H. of Lords 28 Jan. 1645, on Hosea 5.15. Lond. 1646. qu. and other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. After the Act of Conformity was published, he was turned out of Lanerake, lived there, and near it, several years, not without keeping up private meetings, for which he was sometimes brought into trouble: At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, was, according to his desire, 
1677.  buried in the porch of the Parish Church of Lanerake before mentioned. At his interment on the 10 of Apr. the same year, were present very many of the godly Party living near to, and remote from that place.  
THOMAS CAWTON son of Tho. Cawton a learned and religious Puritan, (sometimes of Queens Coll. in Cambridge) was born, as it seems, at Wivenhoe near to Colchester in Essex, his Father being then Parson of that place, educated in Hebrew, Syriake and Arabic tongues at Rotterdam in Holland under Mr. Rob. Sheringham, than an Exile for his Loyalty, as Tho. Cawton the Father was for preaching against the murder of K. Ch. 1, and for being in the same plot with Christop. Love, for the raising of moneys to supply the Army of K. Ch. 1, when he was about to come into England (from Scotland) to gain his right there. Afterwards our Author Tho. Cawton was by his father settled in the University of Utrecht; whence, after he had spent 3 years in Academical learning, he came into England, and at length to Merton Coll. in Oxon. for the sake, if I mistake not, of Mr. Sam. Clark an eminent Orientalian: where, at his first coming, and after, he was much esteemed, and held in great respect for his admirable knowledge in the oriental tongues. In the beginning of the year 1660 he was admitted Bach. of Arts, at which time was publicly read his Testimonial, dated 18 May 1659., subscribed by Joh. Leusden the ordinary Professor of the Holy Tongue in Utrecht. Where: in, among other things, I find 
(c) Reg. Convoc. un. Ox. quod incipit 1659. p. 9  this of Cawton— Totum vetus Testamentum Hebraicum partim punctatum, partim non punctatum perlegit & explicuit— Regulas Grammaticae & syntaxeos Hebraicae optime perdidiscit. Deinde in lingua Chaldaica Danielis & Paraphrasibus Chaldaicis, in lingua Syriacâ Novi Test. & in lingua Arabica, & commentariis Rabbinorum strenuè seize exercuit. Denique quaestiones philologico-Hebraicas circa Vetus Test. Hebraeum movere solitas, ita perdidiscit, ut summo cum honore duas disputationes philologicas publicè defenderit, priorem de version Syriaca veteris & Novi Test, posteriorem vero, de usu linguae Hebraicae in philosophia Theoretica, illius fuit Respondens, hujus vero author & Respondens. Certe in disputatione hac componenda & in ejusdem strenua defension, ingenium & eruditionem suam omnibus palam fecit, etc. Afterwards our Author Cawton continuing for some time in Mert. Coll. was at length, upon the resetling of the English Liturgy in the University, called thence, and afterwards settling within the City of Westminster, lived a Nonconformist and kept religious meetings in private to his last. His works, besides the former, are these.  
Dissertatio de usu linguae Hebraicae, in Philosophia theoretica. Printed at Utrecht. And wrote also the life of his Father intit.  
The life and death of that holy and rev. man of God Mr. Tho. Cawton sometimes Minister of the Gospel at S. Barthelmews behind the Royal Exchange, and lately Preacher to the English Congregation of Rotterdam in Holland, etc. Lond. 1662. oct. The Life though it seem● to be written by another person, yet the son was the Author; who caused to be added to it his father's sermon intit. God's rule for a godly life, etc. preached before the Lord Mayor and his brethren the Aldermen of London at Mercer's Chapel 25 of Feb. 1648, on Philip. 1.27. Lond. 1662.; being the Sermon for which the Author was committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster.  
Balaam's wish: or, the vanity of desiring without endeavouring to obtain the death of the upright. Lond. 1670. 75. oct. 'tis a Sermon. He died on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677.  aged 40 years or thereabouts, and was buried in the new Church in Tuttle street within the City of Westminster; at which time Mr. Hen. Hurst his friend and sometimes Fellow collegian, spoke before a large Auditory a Funeral discourse: in the latter end of which are many things deservedly said of the Defunct; which being made public, I refer the Reader to it.  
RICHARD HOLLAND was born within the City of Lincoln, and for a time educated in this University, but took no degree. Afterwards he taught the grounds of Geography and Mathematics among the young scholars for about 50 years, grew wealthy, and being always sedulous in his employment, several afterwards became eminent by his instruction. He wrote for their use,  
Globe notes. Oxon. 1678. oct. sec. edit.  
Notes how to get the angle of the parallax, or a Comet. Oxon. 1668. oct. He died on the first day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, aged 81 years, and was buried very deep behind the south door of the Parish Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. 
1677.  His employment in instructing young scholars, was afterwards taken up by Joh. Caswell M. A. of Wad. Coll. afterwards Vice-principal of Hart Hall. Besides this Rich. Holland, is another of both his names, M. of A. and Rector of S. George's Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire, Author of one or more sermons.  
BRUNO RYVES kinsman to Dr. Tho. Ryves mentioned under the year 1651. p. 83. was born in Dorsetshire, made one of the Clerks of New Coll. in 1610, where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, became one of the Chaplains of Magd. Coll. 1616. Soon after he proceeded in Arts, became a most noted and florid Preacher, Vicar of Stanwell in Middlesex, Rector of St. martin's de le Vintry in London, Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 1. and in 1639 proceeded Doct. of Diu. But the Rebellion breaking out soon after, he was sequestered of his Rectory by the Presbyterians, plundered and forced to fly; and at length losing his Vicarage, he shifted from place to place, and by the favour of his Majesty had the Deanery of Chichester and the Mastership of the Hospital there, conferred upon him, though little or no profit accrued thence till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. About which time being sworn Chaplain in ord. to him, had the Deanery of Windsor conferred on him, in which he was installed 3 Sept. 1660, and so consequently was Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. Afterwards he became Rector of Acton in Middlesex, was sworn Scribe of the most noble order of the Garter, 14 Jan. 1660, and about that time was made Rector of Haseley near to, and in the County of, Oxford; which, I think, is annexed to his Deanery, as the Deanery of Wolverhampton is, but all separated by Mr. Baxter 
(*) In his Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matt. Hale etc. Lond. 1682. oct. pag. 25.  thereby to make him a great Pluralist, without any consideration had to his great sufferings occasioned by the Presbyterians. He hath written,  
Mercurius Rusticus: or, the Country's complaint, recounting the sad events of this unparraleled Warr.— Which Mercuries, in number at least 19, commencing from 22 Aug. 1642, came out in one sheet, sometimes in two, in qu.  
Merc. Rustic. The second part, in number 5, giving an account of Sacrileges in, and upon, several Cathedrals.— After the War was ended, all these Mercuries were pr. an. 1646 and 47. in oct. and had to them added (1) A general bill of mortality of the Clergy of London, etc. Or, a brief martyrology and catalogue of the learned, grave, religious, painful Ministers of the City of Lond. who have been imprisoned, plundered, etc. for their constancy to the Protestant Religion and their Loyalty, from 1641 to 1647, about which time it came out by itself in one sheet only, pr. on one side. (2) Querela Cantabrigiensis: or, a Remonstrance by way of Apology for the banished members of the flourishing University of Cambridge. Written by a member thereof. (3) Micro-Chronicon: or, a brief Chronologie of the time and place of the Battles, Sieges, Conflicts, and other remarkable passages, which have happened betwixt his Majesty and the Parliament, from the beginning of the unhappy dissensions to the 25 of Mar. 1647. Which Micro-Chron. I take to be written by our Author Ryves, and to have been partly collected by him from England's Iliads in a Nutshell, written by George Wharton. (4) A Catalogue of the names of all, or most part of, the Lords, Knights, Commanders and Persons of Quality slain, or executed by law martial, on both sides, from the beginning of this unnatural War, to the 25 of Mar. 1647. This also I take to be collected by Ryves. The Reader may be pleased now to take notice, that that edition of Merc. Rusticus which came out in 1647, had more in it than that of 1646. However Rich. Royston the Bookseller being minded to make another edition, he followed only that which came out in 1646. so that the third edit. which he made in 1685 hath less in it than that of 1647. Dr. Ryves hath also written and published  
Several sermons, as (1) Serm. on 1 Tim. 6.10.— Pr. in qu. 1652. (2) Fun. Serm. on 2 Tim. 4.7.— Pr. 1656. qu. (3) Serm. before the H. of Commons, 15 Jan. 1661.— Whether printed I know not as yet, for I have not seen it. He died at Windsor on the 13 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677.  and was buried in the Alley or Isle joining on the south side to his Majesty's Chapel of S. George there. Over his grave is this inscription engraven on a marble table fastened to the south Wall. Brunus Ryves S. Theologiae Professor, Reg. majestati à sacris, liberarum Windsorensis & Wolverhamptonensis capellarum, à restitutione sereniss. Caroli 2. Regis Decanus primus; nobilissimi ordinis à Periscelide Scriba, 

Fide in rebus Regis promovendis.  
Zelo in rebus Ecclesiae promovendis.  
Affectu in rebus Regni promovendis.   Toto nuperae rebellionis tempore nemini secundus, celeberrimis hujus seculi concionatoribus, à primo juventutis flore ad extremam usque senectam annumeratus, hic sepultus jacet, beatam expectans resurrectionem. Obiit Julii 13. an. dom. 1677. aetatis suae 81. Some are pleased to say that this Dr. Ryves hath written An exposition on the Church Catechism, printed in qu. but mistaken, as I conceive, because it seems to have been written by one Edm. Reeves. Quaere.  
WILLIAM BERKLEY a Knight's son, was born of an ancient and honourable family near to, and in the Diocese of, London, elected probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1625, and four years after was admitted Master of Arts. In 1630 he traveled into various Countries, and at his return he was much valued for his experience and knowledge in many matters. In 1646 he was sent to Virginia about public concerns, and in 1660 when Colonel Mathews the then Governor of that Country died, this our Author being then a Knight, was (in consideration of the service he had done there in defending the people thereof from being killed by the Natives, and destroying the great number of the Indians without the loss of three men of his own) made Governor thereof by the unanimous Votes of all that Country, and there continued in that honourable Office till 1676, in which year he was sent for into England, where he soon finished his course. He hath written,  
The lost Lady, a Trag. Com. Lond. 1639. fol.  
Description of Virginia— Printed in fol. and said in the title to be performed by an eye-witness.  
The Laws of Virginia now in force, collected out of the Assembly records, and digested into one vol. Revised and confirmed by the grand Assembly, 23 Mar. 1661. etc. Lond. 1662. fol. Published by Franc. Moryson, and by him dedicated to Sir Will. Berkley, in whose Epistle 'tis said that Sir William was Author of the most and best of the said Laws, and that little addition had been made to what he himself had done during the time of his Government, only what vicious excrescencies had grown in the body of them, by the corrupt humour of the times. This Sir Will. Berkley was buried in the middle Chancel of the Par. Church of Twittenham or Twickenham near Hampton Court in Middlesex on the 13 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven. 
1677.  Afterwards a Vault being made for the Lord J. Berkley in the south Chancel of the said Church, Sir William's body was removed to it, and there deposited 4 Septemb. 1678.  
TIMOTHY WOODROFFE son of Rich. Woodr. sometimes Vicar of Sherton, and afterwards Rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts, was born in that County, (at Sherston as it seems) educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under Rob. Latymer, who taught school there 40 years, and was Master to Tho. Hobbes the famous Philosopher. In 1610, T. Woodr. being then 16 years of age, he was sent to Balliol Coll. in Lent term, and ●hen matriculated as a Minister's son. After he had taken the degrees in Arts he translated himself to S. Alban Hall, and as a member thereof he was admitted and proceeded Master of that faculty. About that time he entered into holy orders, and became Chaplain in the family of the St. John's of Lidyard St. john's in his own Country, but before he had continued long there, he, by the favour of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England, was preferred to the Vicarage of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts, which being about 14, or more, miles from Oxon, gave him the opportunity of spending much of his time in Ball. College, where he set up a Divinity Lecture, and himself read it for several years, he being then Bach. of Divinity. In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much by both Armies, and was plundered of a very good library: whereupon he left his Living and removed to London, and thence, without his seeking, he was invited to Great Dunmow in Essex, where he was received as an Angel, and became a frequent Preacher. Not long after he was invited by Sir Rob. Harley Knight of the Bath to be one of the Preachers in the Minster or Cath. at Hereford; from whence by his favour he was again, in the year 1649, removed to the Parsonage of Kingsland in the same County; where after many years painful preaching and much good done in the Neighbourhood by the practice of Physic (wherein he always gave his advice and remedies gratis) he finished his course. He hath written and published,  
Heaven's Alarm etc. Serm. on Hosea 4.3.4. Lond. in tw.  
A religious Treatise upon Simeons' song: or instructions advertising how to live holily and die happily. Lond. 1659. oct. Built on Luke 2.29.30. and composed for the use of Sir Rob. Harley before mentioned, when weakness and old age confined him to his chamber. Before this book is a commendatory Epistle subscribed by Joh. Row and S. Wood, who style the said book a sound and savoury discourse, and such that wanteth not a pleasant quickness to hold on the Readers appetite, 
1677.  etc. He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was buried in the Church of Kingsland before mentioned. Among several Children that he left behind him at the time of his death, were Tim. Woodroffe sometimes of Magd. Coll, now a Physician at S. Alban in Hertfordshire, and Benj. Woodr. D. of D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.  
JOHN WAGSTAFFE son of John Wags. Citizen of London, descended from those of his name of Hasland Hall in Derbyshire, was born in Cheapside within the City of London, became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the latter end of 1649, took the degrees in Arts, and applied himself to the study of Politics and other learning. At length being called from an academical life to the inheritance of Hasland by the death of an Uncle, who died without male-issue, he spent his life afterwards in a single estate. But before he left Oxon he wrote and published,  
Historical reflections on the Bishop of Rome, chiefly discovering those events of humane affairs which most advance the Papal Usurpation. Oxon. 1660. qu. This book, tho much commended at its first appearance, yet the author was laughed at, because that he, being a little crooked man, and of a despicable presence, should adventure to encounter with so great person as the Pope. After he had left the University he wrote and published,  
The question of Witchcraft debated: or, a discourse against their opinion that affirm Witches. Lond. 1669. oct. To which is added Lucian's dialogue, called Lovers of lies, translated by another hand. But an answer coming out against the said book, intit. The opinion of Witchcraft vindicated, Lond. 1670. oct, written by R.T. and reflections made on it by Dr. Casaubon in his book of Credulity and Incredulity, our Author Wagstaffe came out with a second edition, and additions therein.— Lond. 1671. oct. For the writing of which book he was also laughed at by wags of this University, because, as they said, he himself looked like a little Wizard. It was also frequently reported, that he was Author of a libellous Pamphlet intit. Sundry things from several hands concerning the University of Oxford, viz. (1) A petition from some well affected therein. (2) A model for a College reformation. (3) Queries concerning the said University, and several persons therein. Lond. 1659., in one sheet and half in qu. But I think to the contrary, that he was not the Author, but rather one of the Students of Ch. Ch. that sedulously endeavoured to lay it at the door of Wagstaffe, who dying in his Lodgings opposite to the end of Chancery-lane in Holbourn on the second day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, aged 44 or thereabouts, 
1677.  was buried in Guildhall Chapel within the City of London, under the Seats on the left hand, as you enter into that Chapel. This person died in a manner distracted, occasioned by a deep conceit of his own parts, and by a continual bibbing of strong and high tasted Liquors.  
WILLIAM SQUIRE or Esquire, whose Father was a Proctor in the Archbishop's Court at York, was born in Yorkshire, entered a Student in Trin. Hall in Cambridge, an. 1647, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in that University, 1650. went thence to Oxon for preferment, and entering himself a Batler in Brasn. Coll. was incorporated in this University in the same degree in 1652. Soon after obtaining a Chaplainship in Alls. Coll, and taking the degree of Master of Arts, he was elected Fellow of Uniu. Coll, where continuing for some time after his Majesty's Restauration, was by the favour of Dr. Sheldon B. of London promoted to the Rectory of Raulaston or Rolleston in Derbyshire near Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire. Afterwards, being sensible of the increase of Popery in the Nation, he published these two books.  
The unreasonableness of the Romanists, requiring our Communion with the present Romish Church: or, a discourse drawn from the perplexity and uncertainty of the Principles, and from the contradictions betwixt the Prayers and Doctrine of the present Romish Church, to prove that it is unreasonable to require us to join in Communion with it. Lond. 1672. oct.  
Some more considerations, proving the unreasonableness of the Romanists, in requiring us to return to the Communion of the present Romish Church. Lond. 1674. in oct. He died at Raulaston before mentioned, in the beginning of September, 
1677.  in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was buried in the chancel of the Church there, under a black marble stone, which had been laid over the grave of one of his Predecessors, on the fourth day of the same month. In his Rectory succeeded Tho. Wickham Mast. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Oxon.  
JAMES HARRINGTON Esq. was born at Upton in Northamptonshire, on the first Friday in January, an. 1611, became Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll. in 1629, left it before he took a degree, traveled into France, Germany and Italy, learned the Languages of those Countries, returned an accomplished Gentleman, and afterwards for some years waited upon the Prince Elector Palatine in his Chamber. In the beginning of the Civil War 1642 he sided with the Presbyterians, and endeavoured to get into the H. of Commons to sit as a member there, but could not. In January 1646 he went as a Volunteire with the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to go to the King at Newcastle to treat for a Peace and Settlement, and bring him nearer to London. In the month of May 1647, he, with Thom. Herbert, were admitted Grooms of the Bedchamber to the said King then at Holdenbie in Northamptonshire, upon the dismissing first of some of his old Servants, and secondly upon the desire of the Commissioners, they being ordered so to do by the Parliament. His Majesty, it seems, had taken notice that those two persons had followed the Court since his coming from Newcastle: and being satisfied with the report he had received concerning them, as to their sobriety and good education, was willing to receive them into his service to wait upon his person in his Bedchamber with Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patrick Maule (afterwards Earl of Penmaure in Scotland) who were then the only persons of the Bedchamber that were remaining. While our Author Harrington was in this capacity, his Maj. loved his company, and did choose rather (finding him to be an ingenious man) to discourse with him, than with others of the chamber. They had often discourses concerning Government, but when they happened to talk of a Commonwealth, the K. seemed not to endure it. At that time it was that Harrington finding his Maj. quite another person, as to his parts, religion, morals, etc. than what were represented by the faction, who gained their ends by lies and scandals, he became passionately affected with, and took all occasions to vindicate him in what company soever he happened to be; but then again it being sometimes imprudently done, he did suffer for it in those captious times, as by this story 'twill appear. His Majesty being hurried away from Holdenby to the Headquarters of the Army, and from thence conveyed by slow paces to Hampton Court, and thence juggled into the Isle of Wight, (where he treated with the Commissioners of Parliament for peace) and from Newport there, hurried away by Lieut. Coll. Ralph Cobbet to Hurst Castle in Hampshire, on the last of Nou. 1648, it happened that Harrington, who was then with his Maj. as one of the Grooms of the Chamber, did one morning fall into discourse with the Governor of that Castle and some other Officers of the Parl. Army, concerning the late Treaty at Newport, wherein he magnified the King's wisdom in his arguments with the Commissioners upon the propositions for Peace and Satisfaction the Parliament had in his concessions, and probability in a happy event, if this force in removing him to Hurst Castle had not intervened and made an unhappy fracture, (which created parties) enlarging also upon his Majesty's learned disputes with Mr. Rich. Vines and other Presbyterian Divines, with such moderation as gained applause from all those that heard him argue. Which discourse, how inoffensive soever and without exception at any other time or place, truth is not at all times seasonable nor safe to be spoken, as by our Author's example was evidenced. For those captious persons with whom he held discourse being full of jealousy, and apt to wrest his words to the worst sense, they withdrew a little, and at their return they told him plainly they were dissatisfied with what he had said. He desired them to instance wherein, they replied in all particulars: which, when he began to repeat for his own satisfaction and their better understanding, they interrupted him, and told him in plain terms they could not suffer his attendance 
(*) So have I been informed by Letters from Mr. Tho. Herbert made a Baronet by K. Ch. 2.  any longer about the King. With which proceedings and dismiss, without acquainting him with the occasion, 'twas ill resented by the King, who had Harrington in good esteem, looking upon him as a Gentleman qualified with special parts, and having found him trusty, his service was the more acceptable, yet blamed him nevertheless for not being more wary amongst men that were at such a time full of jealousies, and very little obliging to his Majesty. Being thus dismissed, and Herbert only left to attend the K. in his chamber, I think he was never admitted again when the King was afterwards conveyed to Windsor, and so to St. James'. However he was with him on the Scaffold when he suffered death, where, or else a little before, he received a pledge of his Majesty's affection. From that time always, even when Oliver reigned, he would speak of the said King with the greatest zeal and passion imaginable, and would often say to his Companions, that his death gave him so great grief, that he contracted a disease by it, and that never any thing went more near to him than the death of that most wise and pious Prince. Before I go any farther with Harrington, I will here make a little digression concerning the condition then of his Majesty. Herbert was only then left to wait upon the K. in his Bedchamber, (for the other two were before dismissed) who, though sickly and in an aguish condition, yet he held out by his careful observing his Majesty's instructions: without which, as the times than were, it had been impossible for him to have kept his station. To this deplorable condition his Maj. being thus reduced, he could not choose but have some melancholy apprehensions, as indeed he had, for accordingly about midnight, there was an unusual noise in the said Hurst Castle, that awakened him out of his sleep, and was in some marvel to hear the Draw-bridg let down at that unseasonable hour, and some Horsemen enter, who being alighted, the rest of the night was in a deep silence. The King being desirous to know the matter, he rung his silver bell long before break of day; (which, with both his watches, he usually laid upon a stool near the wax Lamp that was set near them in a large silver basin) upon which call, Herbert opened the Bed chamber door to know his Maj. pleasure. The K. told him he would rise; and as he was making ready, he asked him if he heard the noise that was made about midnight. Herbert answered he did, as also the falling of the Draw-bridg, but he being shut up in the back-stair room next to the Bed chamber, and the door by the Governors' order being bolted without, he neither could nor would without his Maj. order adventure out at such a time of night. The K. then bid him go and learn what the matter was, which he did accordingly, and knocking at the back-stair door, the Soldiers unbolted it without; so that entering into the next room he happily found Capt. (Joh.) Reynolds there alone by a fire, and after some discourse, he enquired of him who they were that came so very late into the Castle last night, and their errand. The Captain in a joking way bade him be wary in carrying news to the K. for he was among supercilious superintendants, and his Comrade was served for an example. Herbert thanked him for his friendly caution, and at length got out of him who the Commander was that came so late into the Castle, but would not discover what his business was. Whereupon he returned to his Majesty, and told him it was Major Tho. Harrison that came so late into the Castle; Are you sure it was Major Harrison, said the King? May it please your Majesty (said Herbert) Captain Reynolds told me so: the K. then making a little pause, said, than I believe it, but did you see Major Harrison? No, Sir, said Herb. Then the K. said, Would not Capt. Reynolds tell you what the Major's business is? Herbert then replied, that he did what he could to be informed, but all that he could then learn from the Captain was, that the occasion of Harrisons coming would be known suddenly. The King said no more, but bade him attend in the next room, and forthwith his Maj. went to his prayers. In less than an hour the K. opened the Bedchamber door and beckoned to Herbert to come in and make him ready. Herbert was in some consternation to see his Maj. so much discomposed, and wept: which the K. observing, asked him the meaning of it; Herbert replied, because I perceive your Maj. so much concerned at the news I brought: said the K. thereupon, I am not afraid, but do you not know that this is the man (Harrison) who intendeth to assasianate me, as by letter I was informed during the late Treaty? To my knowledge I never saw the Major, though I have often heard of him, nor ever did him injury. The Commissioners indeed hearing of it, represented it from Newport to the House of Lords: what satisfaction he gave them I cannot tell; this I can, that I trust in God who is my helper, I would not be surprised, but this is a place fit for such a purpose. Herbert, I trust to your care, go again and make farther enquiry into this business. Immediately after Herbert went out, and finding an opportunity to speak in private with Capt. Reynolds (who being a Gent. well educated and at all essays ready to express civility towards the King, with whom he most times walked upon a long narrow passage of stony ground joining to the Castle, and was always courteous to his servants) he told him that the Major's business was to remove the King thenee to Windsor Castle, within three days at farthest. Herbert believing the King would be well pleased with the exchange, by leaving the worst, to enjoy the best, Castle in England, returned to his Majesty with a mirthful countenance, little imagining (God knows) the sad consequence; but as soon as the King heard Windsor named he seemed to rejoice at it. The Major tarried two nights at Hurst Castle, and when it was dark (having given orders for the King's removal) he departed to the place from whence he came, and what passed between the King and him in his Majesty's going from Hurst Castle to Windsor you shall have an account hereafter. Now let's return to our Author Harrington, who when he thought that after the death of his Master, Monarchy would never be restored, he followed his own genie, which chiefly laid towards the Politics and Democratical Government. He made several Essays in Poetry, as in writing of Love verses and translating of Virgil's Eclogues, but his muse was rough, and Harry Nevil an ingenious and well-bred Gentleman, and a good (but conceited) Poet being his familiar and confident friend, dissuaded him from tampering with Poetry, and to apply himself to the improvement of his proper talon, viz. Politics and political reflections. Whereupon he wrote The Commonwealth of Oceana, and caused it to be printed without his name by stealth at London. At the appearance of which, it was greedily bought up, and coming into the hands of Hobbes of Malmsbury, he, would often say that H. Nevil had a finger in that pie; and those that knew them both were of the same opinion: And by that book and both their smart discourses and inculcations daily in Coffee houses, they obtained many Proselytes. In 1659., in the beginning of Mich. term, they had every night a meeting at the then Turk's head in the New Palace yard at Westm. (the next house to the stairs where people take water) called Miles Coffee house, to which place their disciples and Vertuosis would commonly then repair: and their discourses about Government and of ordering of a Commonwealth, were the most ingenious and smart that ever were heard, for the arguments in the Parl. house were but flat to those. This Gang had a Balloting-box and balloted how things should be carried, by way of Tentamen; which being not used or known, in England before upon this account, the room every evening was very full. Besides our Author and H. Nevil, who were the prime men of this Club, were Cyriack Skinner a Merchant's son of London, an ingenious young Gentleman and scholar to Jo. Milton, which Skinner sometimes held the Chair; Major John Wildman, Charles Wolseley of Staffordshire, Rog. Coke, Will. Poultney, (afterwards a Knight) who sometimes held the Chair, Joh. Hoskyns, Joh. Aubrey, Maximilian Pettie of Tetsworth in Oxfordsh. a very able man in these matters, and who had more than once turned the Council-board of Oliver Cromwell, Mich. Mallet, Ph. Carteret of the Isle of Guernsey, Franc. Cradeck a Merchant, Hen. Ford, Major .... Venner Nephew to Dr. Tob. Venner the Physician, Tho. Marryot of Warwickshire, Hen. Croone a Physician, Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. and sometimes Rob. Wood of Linc. Coll. and Jam. Arderne, then, or soon after, a Divine, with many others besides Antagonists and Auditors of note, whom I cannot now name. Dr. Will. Petty was a Rotaman and would sometimes trouble Ja. Harrington in his Club, and one ... Stafford a Gent. of Northamptonshire, who used to be an Auditor, did with his Gang come among them one evening very mellow from the Tavern and did much affront the Junto, and tore in pieces their Orders and Minutes. The Soldiers who commonly were there, as Auditors and Spectators, would have kicked them down stairs, but Harrington's moderation and persuasion hindered them. The doctrine was very taking, and the more because as to humane foresight there was no possibility of the King's return. The greatest of the Parliament men hated this design of Rotation and Balloting, as being against their power. Eight or ten were for it, of which number Hen. Nevil was one, who proposed it to the House, and made it out to the Members thereof that except they embraced that way of Government they would be ruined. The model of it was, that the third part of the Senate or House should rote out by Ballot every year, so that every ninth year the said Senate would be wholly altered. No Magistrate was to continue above 3 years, and all to be chosen by Ballot; than which choice nothing could be invented more fair and impartial, as 'twas then thought, though opposed by many for several reasons. This Club of Commonwealths men lasted till about the 21 of Feb. 1659.; at which time the secluded members being restored by Gen. George Monk, all their models vanished. After the King's restauration our Author Harrington retired and lived in private, but being looked upon as a dangerous person, he, with Maj. Joh. Wildman, and Praisgod Barbon a notorious Schismatic, were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London 26 Nou. 1661., where continuing for some time, Harrington was transmitted to Portsey Castle and kept there for several months. Afterwards being set at liberty, he traveled into Italy, where talking of Models, Commonwealths and Government, he was reputed no better than a whimsical or crack'd-brained person. 'Tis true that his close restraint, which did not agree with his high spirit and hot and rambling head, was the protractick cause of his deliration or madness; I do not mean outragiousness, for he would discourse rationally enough and be facetious in company, but a deep conceit and fancy that his perspiration turned into flies and sometimes into bees. Which fancy possessed him a whole year before he died, his memory and discourse being then taken away by a disease. So that he, who had been before a brisk and lively Chevalier, was then made a sad sample of Mortality to H. Nevil (who did not leave him to his last) and others of his intimate acquaintance, who much lamented his loss. He hath written and published these things following.  
The Commonwealth of Oceana. Lond. 1656. in a thin fol. dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector, and the model therein admired by a noted author H. Stubbe 
(a) In his pref. to The Good Old Cause.  who was ready to cry out, as if it were the Pattern in the mount. In the praise whereof, he saith, he would enlarge, did he not think himself too inconsiderable to add any thing to those applauds, which the understanding part of the world must bestow upon him, and which, though eloquence should turn Panegyrist, he not only merits but transcends. Yet the said authors mind being soon after changed, he wrote Animadversions on Oceana as erroneous. The said Oceana was answered by Matthew Wrenn son of Matthew B. of Ely in his Considerations, as I shall elsewhere tell you. Afterwards our Author came out with a reply, wherein he reflects on the Club of Virtuosos which use to meet in Dr. Jo. Wilkins his lodgings in Wadham Coll. to make experiments, and communicate their observations in order to carry on a discovery of nature, in these words, that the University wits or good company are good at two things, a diminishing of a Commonwealth and the multiplying of a Louse.— He also in several places insinuates as if the Considerations of the Commonwealth of Oceana were not wrote by Mr. Wrenn, but composed by the University, or at least by some eminent persons in it, which is false. Soon after Wrenn wrote a rejoinder to Harrington's Reply, intit. Monarchy asserted etc. and afterwards our Author with Politicaster, as I shall anon tell you. Mr. Rich. Baxter also wrote something against the said Oceana and Sir Hen. Vane's Model: in answer to which Harrington wrote a paper of Gibberish as Baxter calls it, scorning at his ignorance in Politics. Whereupon he the said Baxter wrote his Political Aphorisms, called A holy Commonwealth 
(b) Printed at London 1659. oct.  pleading in the beginning for the divine universal Sovereignty and next for Monarchy as under God, and next seeing they were all for new modelling) how piety might be secured and promoted by Monarchy. This Holy Commonwealth (said to be written upon the invitation of our Author Harrington, to which is annexed a treatise of the late Wars to satisfy Sir Franc. Nethersole by what reasons he was moved to engage himself in the Parliaments War) contains very many most pernicious Principles and dangerous Tenets, and therefore were afterwards retracted by the Author, as having been unseasonably printed. Many Principles are taken out thence by many of his Adversaries, and thrown in his dish and objected against him: And in 1683, Jul. 21, the book was publicly burnt in the School-Quadrangle at Oxon by a decree then passed in the Convocation-house, as containing several matters therein destructive to the sacred persons of Princes, their State and Government, and of all humane society. Our Author Harrington hath also written these things following.  
The use and manner of the Ballot— Pr. on one side of a sheet of paper. In the middle of which is a fair cut representing the Session of Magistrates belonging to a Commonwealth.  
The prerogative of popular Government. A political discourse in two books, the former containing the first preliminary of Oceana, enlarged, interpreted and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alleged against, under the notion of Objections. The second concerning Ordination, against Dr. Hen. Hammond, Dr. Lazarus Seaman, and the Authors they follow. Lond 1658. qu. The said Lazarus Seaman had been one of the Ass. of Divines, was Master of Peterhouse in Cambridge, and Minister of all-hallows Breadstreet in London. Which two last places he lost after his Majesty's return, lived afterwards a Nonconformist, mostly in Warwick-Court near Warwick-Lane in London, where he died about the 9 of Sept. 1675, much lamented by the Brethren in regard he was a learned man. He hath two or more Sermons extant preached before the Long Parliament, and A vindication of the judgement of the reformed Churches concerning Ordination and laying on of hands, etc. Lond. 1647. qu. and other things.  
Aphorisms political. Lond. 1659. sec. edit. in two sh. and an half. They are in number 120.  
Politicaster: or, a comical discourse in answer to Mr. Wrenns book intit. Monarchy asserted, against Mr. harrington's Oceana. Lond. 1659.  
Brief direction showing how a fit and perfect model of popular Government may be made, found, or understood. Lond. 1659. in two parts. The first contains 10 models; the second part proposeth a model of a Commonwealth fitted unto the present state of this nation, under five propositions or heads. Printed in 3 sh. and a half.  
The Art of Law-giving. Lond. 1659. in a little oct.  
Pour Enclover le canon. Ibid. 1659. in one sh. in qu.  
Discourse upon this saying: The Spirit of the nation is not yet to be trusted with liberty, lest it introduce monarchy, or invade the liberty of Conscience. Ibid. 1659. in two sh. in qu.  
A proposition in order to the proposing of a Commonwealth or Democracie— Pr. on one side of a sh. of paper.  
Discourse showing that the spirit of Parliaments, with a Council in the intervals, is not be trusted for a settlement, lest it introduce monarchy and persecution for conscience. Lond. 1659. in one sh. and an half. At the end are Certain maxims calculated unto the present state of England, by the same hand.  
A parallel of the Spirit of the people with the Spirit of Mr. Rogers. And an appeal thereupon unto the reader, whether the Spirit of the people, or the Spirit of men like Mr. Rogers, be the fitter to be trusted with the Government. Lond. 1659. in one sh. in qu. Of this Mr. Rogers who was a noted Anabaptist of his time, I shall speak more at large in the conclusion of our author Harrington.  
Valerius and Publicola: or, the true form of a popular Commonwealth extracted è puris naturalibus. Lond. 1659. in 5. sh. in qu. written by way of dialogue. At the end of which is  
A sufficient answer to Mr. Stubbe his Letter to an officer concerning a select Senate.  
These last seven things, with his Aphorisms Political, I have seen bound all together, with this general title put to them. Political discourses: tending to the introduction of a free and equal Commonwealth in England. Lond. 1660. qu. Before which is the author's picture, which shows him to be an handsome man, and of a delicate curled head of hair.  
Letters between him and Dr. Pet. Heylyn containing a decertation about forms of Government, the power of the Spartan Ephori and the Jewish Sanhedrim. Lond. 1659. in oct. These letters are printed in the third part of The Letter Combat, published by the said Dr. Heylyn.  
The Rota: or, a model of a free state, or Equal Commonwealth: once proposed and debated in brief, and to be again more at large proposed to, and debated by, a free and open Society of ingenious Gentlemen. Lond. 1660 in 4. sh. in qu. Published in the beginning of Feb. 1659. About which time John Milton published a Pamphlet called The ready and easy way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. Lond. 1659/60 in two sh. and an half. In answer to which came out a waggish censure, pretended to be made by the Rota, Printed in two sh. in the latter end of March 1660. And a little before, was a sh. in qu. printed, intit. Decrees and Orders of the Committee of Safety, of the Commonwealth of Oceana, purposely to make the Junto of the Commonwealths men ridiculous, it being then newly dispersed upon Monk's restitution of the Secluded Members of Parliament.  
The Stumbling-block of disobedience cunningly imputed by P. H. unto Calvin, removed in a Letter to the said P. H. (Pet. Heylyn)— This Letter which hath J.H. set to it, was printed in two sheets in qu. about 1659.  
The ways and means whereby an equal and lasting Commonwealth may be suddenly introduced and perfectly founded, etc. Lond. 1660. in one sh. in qu. published in the beginning of Feb. 1659. He also translated from Lat. into English, two of Virgil's Eclogues and Aeneis, which he thus entitled. An Essay upon two of Virgil's Eclogues, and two of his Aeneis towards the translation of the whole. Lond 1657. 58. oct; and in 1659. was printed in 8ᵒ. his translation of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth books of the said Virgil's Aeneis. This eminent author died within the City of Westminster in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677.  and was buried in the Chancel of S. Margaret's Church there, next to the grave of Sir Walt. Raleigh, under the south side of the Altar where the Priest stands. Over his grave was this inscription soon after put. Hic jacet Jacobus Harrington Armiger, filius maximus natu Sapcoti Harrington de Rand in Com. Linc. Equitis Aurati, & Janae (uxoris ejus) filiae Gulielmi Samuel de Upton in Com. Northampton. Militis, qui obiit Septimo die Septembris aetatis suae sexagessimo sexto, an Dom 1677. Nec Virtutes nec animi dotes (Arrha licet aeterni in animam amoris dei) coruptione eximere queant corpus, etc. The said Sir Sapcote Harrington was younger brother to Sir Jam. Harrington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire Baronet, sons of Sir Edw. Harrington Baronet, (by his wife, daughter and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdonshire, Esq) younger brother to John Lord Harrington, sons of Sir Jam. Harrington Kt. (by Lucy his wife daughter of Sir Will. Sidney Kt.) son of Sir Jo. Harrington Knight, who was Treasurer of the Army to K. Hen. 8. Now as for Mr. Roger's before mentioned, whom our author Harrington answered in his Parallel of the Spirit, etc. as 'tis before told you, his Christian name was John, a notorious fifth Monarchy man and Anabaptist, living in Aldersgatestreet in London, and the title of his book which was answered, runs thus A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne, Mr. Baxter and Mr. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth, etc. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers was a busy pragmatical man, and very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell, for his seemingly running with them till he had got the reins of Government into his own hands, and then to leave them with scorn. He, with Christop. Feake as impudent and forward as himself, were the Coryphaei of their party (as Love in his time was of the Presbyterians) and were not wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion. Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure, Oliver caused, them to be imprisoned at Lambeth and to debar their party to have access to them, in Dec. or thereabouts 1654. (Rogers being then of S. Thomas the Apostles in Southwark. After they had remained there for some time, Rogers had prevailed so far with his party as to present an Address (which he himself had drawn up) to the said Oliver for his enlargement. Whereupon, on the 7 of Feb. the same year, Rogers was brought before the Protectors Council sitting at Whitehall, who told him what a high charge there was against him, and that he was not a Prisoner for the cause of Christ, but suffered as a busy body, and an evildoer, etc. At length it being desired by his friends that the cause might be debated between his Highness the Protector and himself, it was with his Highness his consent granted. Whereupon in the evening of the said day, Rogers with some of his friends were admitted into his Highness' presence, where being told of an high charge exhibited against him, Rogers charged them, that brought it in, to be Drunkards and Swearers. The Protector asked him which of them was so, that brought it in, but he could name none of them that he knew. The Protector pressed him for Scripture for his actings. He said the Scripture was positive and privative: And being asked which of those evil Kings that he mentioned, that God destroyed, he would parallel to this present State? he gave no positive but privitive answer. Whereupon the Protector showed what a disproportion there was, those being such as laboured to destroy the people of God; but his work (speaking of himself) was to preserve them from destroying one another, and if the sole power was in the Presbyterians, they would force all to their way, and they (the Fifth Monarchy men) would do the like and so the rebaptized persons also: And his work was to keep all the Godly of several judgements in peace, etc. And when Rogers cried down the national Ministry and national Church, mentioned to be antichristian, the Protector told him that it was not so, for that was to force all to one form, that was national, which was then done (as he said) in this Commonwealth, etc. Afterward Maj. Gen. Tho. Harrison, Col. Charles Rich and some others made an address to the Protector to desire the release of him, Feake and others, or to try them. The Protector showed how he kept them from trial out of mercy, because if they were tried, the Law would take away their lives. So he was remitted to his Prison and Feake and the rest were there to continue. On the 30 of March 1655, Oliver and his Council ordered that the said Rogers should be removed to Windsor Castle: whereupon the next day he was carried there, and his wife road after him.  
RICHARD ATKYNS, whose birth was neither glorious nor contemptible, as having been descended from Gentry on his father's side and Nobility on that of his mother. His father was son and heir of Rich. Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Glocestershire Esq (at which place, this our author, as I conceive, was born) chief Justice of West Wales and of Qu. Elizabeth's Council of the Marches of Wales, and brother to Sir Edward. Atkyns of Lincoln's Inn, one of the Barons of the Exchequer. His mother was second daughter of Sir Edwin Sandys of Latimer in Bucks, Baronet, by his wife the Lady Elizab. Sandys dau. and heir of Will. Lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke in Hampshire, descended from the Bray's, Barons. After he had been partly educated in English and Grammar learning under two bad Masters, he was sent to the College School at Gloucester, where being completed for the University, he was at 14 years of age sent to Balliol Coll, an. 1629 and continued there at least two years in the quality of a Gent. Commoner, studying the Zegardines' Philosophy more than that of Aristotle or Ramus. Thence he went to Lincoln's Inn, and soon after traveled into France with the son of the Lord Arundel of Wardour by a second venture, but that son dying there before they went farther, he returned, improved himself with the accomplishments of a Courtier, and then married, which towards his latte● end proved his ruin. Afterwards, upon the breaking out of the Civil Wars in England, he raised a Troop of Horse at his own charge for the King, and did him good service; for which afterwards he suffered much in his estate. After his Majesty's restauration, he was made (being then a Colonel) one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Glocestershire, where, and in that capacity, he expressed himself not only loyal upon all occasions, but an affectionate son of the Church of England. He was an ingenious and observing man, and saw the vanity of this world sooner than others, though of elder years; which fitted him the better for another. He hath written and published  
The original and growth of Printing, etc. Lond. 1664· in 4. sh. in qu.  
His Vindication. Lond. 1669. qu.  
Relation of several passages in the western War of England, wherein he was concerned.  
Sighs and Ejaculations.— These two last were printed with the Vindication. At length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt, died there on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677.  and two days after was buried without any public solemnity in the Parish Church of S. George the Martyr, within the said Borough of Southwark, by the care and appointment of Sir Rob. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and Edw. Atkyns Esq. afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchequer, both nearly related to the defunct.  
WILLIAM LUCY descended from an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Charlcote in Warwickshire, was born at Husboorne (as 'tis said in) Hampshire, became a Commoner of, and was entered as a Knight's son in, Trin. Coll. an. 1610, took one degree in Arts and then went to Lincols Inn and studied the Municipal Laws for some time. Afterwards upon second thoughts, and perhaps a desire of a sedate and Academical life, he went to Caies College in Cambridge, lived several years there on his Estate, and at length took the degree of Bach. of Divinity. About which time being made Chaplain to George Duke of Bucks, by his Majesty's special recommendations, (who then told the Duke that he should have an eye on him, as occasion served) he was admitted Dr. of Diu. at which time some scruples being made, the K. by his letters to the Uniu. of Cambridge approved of what was done. Much about the same time he became Rector of Burghcleere and Highcleere in Hampshire; where continuing in a quiet repose till the grand Rebellion broke out, was often disturbed for his Loyalty, and at length sequestered. After his Majesty's restauration he became Bishop of S. David by his nomination; to which being Consecrated in S. Peter's Church in Westminster, on the second day of Decemb. 1660, sat there till the time of his death. He was a person of signal Candor, and virtues requisite in a Church man, which in the worst of times gained him great esteem from the very enemies of his Order and Function. He hath written and published,  
Observations, censures and confutations of notorious errors in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan, and other his books. Lond. 1663. qu. put out under the name of Theophilus Pike, (Lucius)  
Occasional animadversions on some writings of the Socinians and such Heretics, of the same opinion with Mr. Hobbes.— Printed with the Observations, etc.  
Treatise of the nature of a Minister in all its Offices. Lond. 1670. qu.  
Answer to Dr. Patr. Forbes concerning the necessity of Bishops to Ordain: in answer to a question proposed in these late unhappy times by the author what is a Minister?— Pr. with the Treatise of, etc. besides one or more Sermons which are extant. He died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677.  and was buried in the Collegiate Church of Brecknock in Wales. Over his grave is the Effigies of the Defunct to the middle part, in a Gown and Lawn Sleves, curiously framed from Alabaster, with the right hand holding a book, and the left resting on a death's head: All set up in the wall near his grave, with this inscription in golden letters on a black Marble. M.S. Vigilantissimi Praesulis Gulielmi Lucy, qui veterum natalium prosapiâ, morum candore miro, ingenii acumine perspicaci, literaturae reconditioris claritate, integritate vitae spectabili, virtutis emnigenae praesidio ad amussim ornatus, & ad gradus episcopalis apicem faeliciter evectus voce praesidebat & exemplo, meritis & pietate, sacrâ infulâ dignissimus. Aequum servavit in utraque sorte mentem adversis fulvi probatus instar auri, non fractus unquam fuit, nec epatus rebus prosperis. Ecclesiae Anglicanoe fulgebat sidus lucidum, verbi divini (dum res tulit) concionator assiduus, veritatis orthodoxae vindex acerrimus, ordinis hierarchi decus & propugnaculum, & sedis Menevensis per annos octodecim ingens ornamentum. Satur dierum & maturus coelo huic mundo placidè nec invitus valedixit, Octobris die quarto, anno aetatis 86▪ Dom. MDCLXXVII.  
JOHN ROWE son of Joh. Rowe of Crediton in Devonshire, was born there, or at least in that County, entered a Batler in New Inn in the beginning of 1642 aged 15 years, but being soon after taken thence, because the City of Oxon was garrisoned for his Majesty's use, and the said Inn made a Mint-house, his friends sent him to Cambridge. where taking the degree of Bach. of Arts, retired to Oxon in 1648, to get preferment by the Visitation then and there made by order of Parliament. So that settling himself in that Inn again, was incorporated in the same degree in the beginning of Dec. and on the 12 of the said month was admitted M. of Arts, as a Member of the said Inn or Hall, and much about the same time was put in Fellow of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Lincolnshire place by the Visitors then sitting in Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer at Witney in Oxfordshire, where his Sermons were much frequented by persons of the Presbyterian persuasion; but leaving his fellowship soon after, he became preacher at Tiverton in his own Country for a time, and as a Minister of Devonshire he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners thereof, for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School Masters. Thence, upon the death of Will. Strong an. 1654., he was called to succeed him as preacher in St. Peter's, commonly called the Abbey Church within the City of Westminster: At which place his Sermons being constant, and much taking with the men of those times, he was frequented by the chiefest of the Quakers, to the conversion, as 'tis said, of some. On the 14 of March 1659. he was appointed by Act of Parl. one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way, but the vigour of that Act soon after ceasing, and he, after his Majesty's restauration, being deprived for want of Conformity, he set up a private meeting, in the parish (I think) of S. Andrew in Holborn near London, where he was assisted by Theoph. Gale. His works are these,  
Tragi-Comoedia. A relation of the strange and wonderful hand of God, discovered at Witney, in the Comedy acted on the 3. Feb. 1652. Oxon. 1653. qu. The said Comedy was acted by young men of the Country in an old upper room in a public Inn there, but the floor falling under them, in the middle of Play, some were slain and many hurt.  
Three Sermons preached on that occasion, on Rom. 1. 18.— Printed with the Relation. In which Sermons the author takes great liberty in speaking against Plays and the Actors of them.  
Several other Sermons as (1) Man's duty in magnifying God's work, Sermon on a public day of Thanksgiving, before the Parliament, 8. oct. 1656, on Job 36.24.25. Lond. 1657. qu. The said Thanksgiving was celebrated for the great victory obtained against the Spanish West-India Fleet. (2) The Saints temptations; wherein the nature, kinds, occasion of temptation, and the duty of the Saints under temptation, are laid forth. As also the Saints fence, etc. in Sermons. Lond. 1674 oct. (3) Emanuel or the Love of Christ, explicated and applied in his incarnation, being made under the Law, and his satisfaction, in 30 Sermons. Lond. 1680. Published by Sam. Lee sometimes Fellow of Wadham Coll. He also preached a Sermon at the interment of Joh. Bradshaw (Precedent of the H. Court of Justice that condemned K. Ch. 1. to die) in the Abbey Ch. at West. 22. of Nou. 1659., on Isay 57.1. but whether it was ever printed I cannot tell. Sure 'tis, that he took great Liberty in speaking much to the honour and praise of that monster of men.  
Heavenly mindedness and earthly mindedness, in two parts. Lond. 1672. in tw. with an Appendix of laying hold on eternal life. He also the said Jo. Rowe collected most of the materials of his Father's life entit. The life and death of John Rowe of Crediton in Devonshire▪ Lond. 1673. in tw. and was one of the three (Thom. Manton and George Griffith being the other two) who published Thirty and one select sermons preached on several occasions. Lond. 1656. written by Will. Strong sometimes preacher in the Ab. Ch. at Westm. He also left behind him at the time of his death, several things fit for the press, as (1) The love of Christ in his intercession. (2) A discourse concerning the person and office of the holy spirit. (3) A discourse etc. of the Trinity, (4) Sermons upon the first eighteen verses of the first Chapt. of the Gosp. of S. John, and also upon the 15 chap. All which may be published hereafter. He died in, or near to, 
1677.  Greys-inn-lane in Holborn, in sixteen hundred seventy and seven: whereupon his body was conveyed to the burial place joining to the New Artillery Garden and Bunhill fields, near London, and there buried in the presence of very many persons of his persuasion, towards the East end of that place. Soon after was erected over his grave an Altar-monument of a brick foundation, covered with a plank of marble of a brown colour, with this inscription engraven thereon. Here lieth the body of John Rowe, sometimes preacher in the Abbey at Westminster, who died Oct. XII. in the 52 year of his age, an. 1677. I find one John Row to have published Institutiones Linguae Ebraicae. Amst. 1649 in tw. but he must not be understood to be the same with the former because he was a Schoolmaster in Scotland, and afterwards an Independent Minister in Aberdene, Principal of the Kings Coll. there, an. 1652 and Primarius of that University. Another John Rowe is now of the Middle Temple, and did lately publish Judge Will. Dallisons book of Reports, etc.  
FRANCIS VERNON was born near Charing cross in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster, but descended from those of his name in Worcestershire, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School, an. 1654. aged 17 years or thereabouts, took his rambles before, and partly after, he was Master of Arts. At length being possessed with an insatiable desire of seeing, he traveled into various parts of the world, was taken by Pirates, sold and endured much misery. Afterwards, being let loose, he retired to his native Country with intentions to spend his time there, but having got an itch of rambling ventured again, though dissuaded to the contrary, and was afterwards hacked to pieces in Persia. He hath written,  
Oxonium Poema. Oxon. 1667. in 3 sh. and an half in qu. But the author being absent when 'twas printed, are committed many faults therein, especially in the Margin.  
Letter to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg, dat. Jan. 10, an. 1675, giving a short account of some of his observations in his travels from Venice through Istria, Dalmatia, Greece, and the Archipelago, to Smyrna, where this Letter was written.— This is printed in the Philosophical Transactions, num. 124. p. 575. an. 1676. Afterwards being in Persia, arose between him and some of the Arabs a small quarrel concerning an English Pen knife, that Mr. Vernon had with him; who showing himself cross and peevish in not communicating it to them, they fell upon him and hacked him to death near Spahan or Aspachan a City in Persia, in sixteen hundred seventy and seven or thereabouts. 
1677.  Whereupon his body was conveyed to that City and there interred. He then left behind him a piece of po●etry to be printed, and several observations made in his travels not fit to be published, because imperfect and indigested.  
THOMAS MANTON son of Tho. Manton of Whimpole in Devonshire, was born in that County, as 'tis said in the public 
(a) Reg. Matric. Uniu. Oxon. P P. fol. 258. b.  matricula, (though one of his persuasion who knew him well, hath lately informed me that his birth was at Laurence Liddyard in Somersetshire) and at 15 years of age in 1635 was entered a Servitor in Wadham Coll. in Lent term, where continuing till 1639, he translated himself to Hart Hall, being then accounted by those (yet living) that well knew him a hot-headed person, and as a member thereof he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards upon the turn of the times he became preacher, though not in holy Orders, at Culliton in Devon. whence, under pretence of some disturbance, either by his Diocesan, or the Royal party, he went to London, adhered to the Presbyterians, and being a forward and florid Preacher among them, became, after he had taken the Covenant, Minister of Stoke Newington in Middlesex, and in 1647 and after, a preacher before the members of the Long Parliament. When the Independents ruled, he closed with them, took the oath called the Engagement, and made a flattering speech to Oliver (to whom he was Chaplain) when he was inaugurated Lord Protector in Westminster Hall, and in the latter end of the same year (1653) he was by him made one of the Triers, or rather Spanish Inquisitors, for the approbation of godly preachers. In the beginning of 1654. he was by the favour of the Delegates (appointed by the Chancellor of this University) actually created Bach. of Divinity, and soon after, upon the resignation of his Wife's Father called Obad. Sedgwick, he became Rector of S. Paul's Church in Covent-garden near London, where he was much frequented by Presbyterians and Independents for his fluent and practical way of preaching. In the beginning of Sept. 1658 when the Titmouse Prince called Richard was inaugurated to the Protectorate according to the Humble petition and advice, our author Manton, the peculiar Chaplain to that dignity, as Prelate of the Protectorship, said prayers and blessed him, his Council, Armies, and People, and so concluded that scene. In the latter end of the year 1659. he was by Act of Parliament (I mean that Parl. to which the secluded members were restored by General Monk) constituted one of the Triers or Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way, and in the beginning of the year following, he took holy Orders at Westminster from Thomas Bishop of Galloway. Soon after his Majesty being restored to his Kingdoms (towards which he pretended to be a helper when he could not hinder it) he was sworn one of his Chaplains in Ordinary, and in that quality, he was, by virtue of his Majesty's Letters, actually created Doctor of Divinity among several Royalists, who had in a most miserable manner suffered for their Loyalty. He then, as 'twas observed by curious men present in the Convocation house, looked like a person rather fatted up for the slaughter, than an Apostle, (being a round, plump and jolly man) but the others (the Royalists) resembled Apostles by their most macerated bodies and countenances, and were indeed, in that respect, pitied by many, comforted, and blessed by true Hearts as they passed the streets. After his Majesty's restauration he did not read the English Liturgy in his Church in Covent garden, neither did the Parishioners enjoy it from the mouth of another, till the latter end of 1661., at which time they petitioned the Bishop of London to have it read unto them. In the interim this fat Doctor had a fat Deanery designed him by his Majesty upon a supposal that he would conform; and 'twas verily thought that he would have taken it, (as Reynolds had the Bishopric of Norwych) could he have been ascertained that the King's declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs (published at his restauration) would have indulged him while he was a Dean, as than while he was a parochial Minister, or, as 'tis said 
(b) In A Letter to a friend concerning some of Dr. Joh. Owen's principles and practices. Lond. 1670. p. 36.37. , had not a female Saint who had read many of his books and wrote much of his Sermons, extracted from them every sentence that made for the Covenant, for the government by presbytery, for the honour of Smectymnus, or that made against the Bishops and Liturgy of the Church; all put in a Letter and sent by her to him. Which of these two, was the reason, I am not certain: Sure it is that while these things were agitating, and after he had taken a great deal of pains, as a commissioned person by his Majesty, in the Savoy conference about the Liturgy, the Act of uniformity was published, and rather than he would conform, he not only refused the Deanery, but left his rectory at Barthelmew day, an. 1662. Afterwards he did set up a Conventicle in Covent-garden, and tho imprisoned for it for some time in the Gatehouse, yet, as 'twas thought, he got more from the Brethren, than if he had been a Dean, or had continued in his rectory. His works are these,  
Many Sermons as (1) Meat out of the Eater: or, hopes of Unity in and by divided and distracted times, Fast sermon before the House of Commons 30. June 1647▪ on Zech. 14.9. latter part. Lond. 1647 qu. (2) England's spiritual languishing, with the causes and cure, Fast serm. before the H. of Com. 28. June 1648 on Rev. 2.3. Lond. 1648. qu. (3) The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord, on Rev. 14 13. (4) Sermon before the L. Protector and Parl. on a public day of humiliation, 24. Sept. 1656. on Amos 4.12. (5) The Saint's triumph over death, Fun▪ serm. on Ch. Love, 25. Aug. 1651. on 1. Cor. 15.57. Lond. 1658▪ oct. (6) Sermon on Matth. 15.7.8.— Printed in the book called The morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1661. qu. (7) Farewell sermon at Barthelmewtyde, on Heb. 12.2. Lond. 1662. oct. This sermon though put out under his name, yet it was disclaimed by him under his hand in the common News of Sept. 24. an. 1663. published by Roger L'estrange (8) How we ought to improve baptism, on Acts 2.38.— Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. (9) Serm. on 2. Thes. 2.15.— Published in the Morning exercise against popery in Southwark. Lond. 1675. qu. (10) Serm. on Rom. 5.12.— Published in The morning exercise methodised, etc. Lond. 1676. qu. (11) Twenty sermons on the Psalms, Acts, etc. Lond. 1678. qu. with his picture before them, published by Dr. Will. Bates. (12) Eighteen sermons on the second Chapt. of the sec. Epist. to the Thess. containing the description, use, growth and fall of Antichrist, etc. Lond. 1679 oct. (13) Sermons on the 119 Psal. Lond. 1681. fol. They are in number 190 and have his picture before them. This is called The first vol. of Sermons. (14) A second Volume of sermons in two parts. The first containing 27 sermons on the 25 of S. Matthew; forty and five on the 17 of S. John, and twenty and four on the sixth to the Romans. The second part containing 45 sermons on the eighth to the Romans, and 40 on the fifth Chapt. of the sec. Epist. to the Corinthians, etc. Lond. 1684. 85. fol. (15) The third Vol. of sermons, in two parts. The first containing sixty six sermons on the eleventh Chapt. to the Hebrews. To which is annexed A Treatise of the life of faith. The second part contains A Treatise of self denial, with several sermons on the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and other occasions, etc. Lond. 1689. fol. Besides these there is now (May 1691) prepared for the press a fourth Vol. in fol. of select sermons on several Texts.  
A practical commentary or exposition on the Epistle of S. James. Lond. 1651. 53. qu.  
Exposition on the Epistle of S. Judas. Lond. 1652. qu.  
Smectymnus redivivus, being an answer to a book entit. An humble remonstrance, etc. Lond. 1653. 60. 61. This book called Smectymnus, was written, as I have elsewhere told you, by Steph. Martial, Edm. Calamy, Thom. Young, Matth. Newcommen, and Will. Spurstow, and first of all published in 1641, being the year after the said Humble remonstrance was published.  
Practical exposition of the Lords Prayer. Lond. 1684. oct. with his picture before it. He also made some additions to the second edition of The life and death of Ignatius Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of Exeter, written by Ferdinando nicols Minister of S. Marry Arches in Exeter— Lond. 1655. in tw: Also an Epistle commendatory before A Commendatory or Exposition on the second Epist. to the Corinth. Lond. 1655. fol. Written by Dr. Rich. Sibbs; was one of the three that collected and published Thirty and one select sermons, written by Will. Strong, and wrote the Epistle to the reader before the second edit. of The larger and lesser Catechisms of the Assemb. of Diu. Lond. 1658. qu. with several other little things of the like stamp. He paid his last debt to nature, after he had ran through many changes, 
1677.  on the 18. of Oct. (S. Luke's day) in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was accompanied to his grave, in the Church at Stoke-Newington near London beforementioned, by hundreds of the brethren: At which time Dr. Will. Bates one of his persuasion (the same, who also had been offered a Deanery, with our author, if he would conform) preached his funeral Sermon: Which being published, the Reader, if curious, may see therein the character and encomiums of him the said Dr. Manton.  
JOHN PARRY son of Edw. Parry sometimes Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland, was born in the City of Dublin, educated in Trin. Coll. there till he was Bach. of Arts: Afterwards going to Oxon in the latter end of 1650, was incorporated there in the same degree, and about that time being made Fellow of Jesus Coll. he proceeded in Arts. At his Majesty's restauration he went into Ireland in the quality of a Chaplain to James then Marquis (afterwards Duke) of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of that Realm, took the degree of Bach. of Diu. at Dublin 26. Jan. 1660, and in the next year returning to Oxon for a time, was incorporated in the same degree. In 1662. Feb. 19 he, by the name of John Parry S. T. prof. was installed Prebend of Bugthorp in the Church of York, on which day also Rob. Mossom D.D. was installed Preb. of Knaresburg in the same Church. Afterwards, by the favour of Ormonde, he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin, about the latter end of the year 1665, (in the place of Dr. Mossom before mentioned, made Bishop of Derry) and at length Bishop of Ossory (in the place of Griffith Williams deceased) by the same hand, an. 1672, with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery in Commendam. He hath written.  
Tears well directed: or pious reflections upon our Saviour's sufferings, and our own sins, etc. Lond. 1666. oct.  
Discourses and ejaculations upon the holy festivals of the Circumcision, Epiphany, Resurrection and Penticost— These two, which are printed together, are grounded upon several parts of Scripture.  
Sermon on Nehem. 13. ver. 14. Ox. 1670.  
Pious meditations and prayers. Lond. 1673. oct. He also wrote the large Epistle to Sir James Ware, set before The Comment. of the Bishops of Ireland, written by that Knight, and digested, fitted for the press and published a book written by his Father entit. David restored: or an antidote against the prosperity of the wicked and afflictions of the just; in a seasonable discourse on the 73 Psalm.— Printed in oct. 1600. This Dr. Jo. Parry died 21. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was buried near to the body of his Father in the Church of S. Audoen in Dublin. 
1677.  In the See of Ossory succeeded his Brother Dr. B. Parry, as I shall tell you among the Writers in the next year.  
ARTHUR BRETT was descended of a gentile family, but where born, unless in the City of Westminster I know not: In 1653 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. School, and afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, became one of the Terrae filii in the Act celebrated in S. Mary's Church 1661., (Rob. Field of Trin. Coll. being the other) at which time he showed himself sufficiently ridiculous. This person who was a great pretender to poetry, wrote and published,  
Poem on the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Threnodia. On the death of Henry Duke of Gloucester. Oxon. 1660. in 2. sh. and an half in qu.  
Patientia Victrix: or, the book of Job in lyric vers. Lond. 1661. oct. What other things he hath published I cannot tell: Sure I am that he taking holy orders afterwards, had some mean employment bestowed on him, but grew so poor, being, as I conceive, somewhat crazed, that he desired the alms of Gentlemen, especially of Oxford Scholars whom he accidentally met with in London: In which condition I saw him there in 1675. He died in his mother's house in the Strand near London about sixteen hundred seventy and seven, but where his lean and macerated carcase was buried (unless in the yard of S. Clement's Ch. without Temple-bar) I know not. 
1677.   
WILLIAM PETRE second son of Will. Lord Petre, was born in his Father's house at West Thorndon in Essex, became a Gent. Com. (with his Brother Robert, afterwards Lord Petre) of Exeter Coll. about the beginning of Lent term, an. 1612 aged 10 years, and soon after, when Wadham Coll. was finished by his great Aunt Dame Dorothy Wadham, he was translated thither and became the first Gent. Com. or Nobleman thereof. Afterwards leaving the University, without the taking of a degree, he went to the Inns of Court, traveled and became a Gen. of many accomplishments. He hath translated into English The lives of Saints, with other feasts of the year according to the Roman Calendar. St. Omer. 1669. Written in Spanish by Pet. Ribadeneira of the Society of Jesus. To which are added a translation by the same hand of all those Saints which have been put into the Calendar since the authors (Ribadeneira) edition, until the year 1669, besides those Feasts of Spain which the author himself hath inserted. This Mr. Will. Petre died 16. January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, in his house at Stanford Rivers in Essex (where he had an estate left him by his Father) and was buried in the Church there, 
1677/8.  as I have been informed by his Sister's Son, that most generous and well bred Gentleman Ralph Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire, commonly called Great Sheldon.  
WILLIAM JEMMAT or Gemote was born in the borough of Reading in Berks. of which his Father had been twice Mayor in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth, educated in the Free school there, became a Student in Magd. Coll. an. 1610, took one degree in Arts, which being completed by Determination, he retired to Magd. Hall, took the degree of Master as a member thereof, holy orders, and became preacher for a time at Leachlade in Glocestershire. Afterwards he was made Minister of Nettlested in Kent, Chaplain for a time to the Earl of Northumberland, and for 14 years a licenced Lecturer at Istleword in Middlesex. At length leaving that Cure in 1640 or thereabouts, he went to his native place, exercised his function in praying and preaching there among the Brethren, took the Covenant, became Minister of S. Giles Church in the said borough of Reading, and was much followed and admired by those of his persuasion. He hath written and published these things following.  
Several Sermons, in number about seven— Printed at Lond. 1623. 24. 27. 28. 1643. 44. etc. Among them is one entit. S. Matthews conversion, etc. another The Spiritual Trumpet, etc. and a third The rock: or, a settled heart in unsettled times, etc.  
Abridgement of Dr. John preston's works. Lond. 1648. 58. oct.  
Exposition of the historical prophecy of Jonah. Lond. 1666. qu. dedic. to the Lady Cecilia Knollys.  
Now and ever, etc. Lond. 1666. qu. This I have not yet seen. He also collected and published Five Sermons, preached by Tho. Taylor of Cambr. on occasion of the Gun-powder-treason— Lond. 1620. qu, did also put into order, correct and publish the said Doct. Plain and pithy exposition of the twelfth chapter of S. John's Revelation. Lond. 1633. qu. entit. Christ's victory over the Dragon, etc. and lastly his book entit. Christ revealed: or, the old Testam. explained, etc. Lond. 1635. qu. Before which Sermons, Exposition and Christ revealed, our author Jemmat hath put Epistles, as also before the said tailor's Commentary on the Epist. of S. Paul to Titus. Which Taylor commonly called the Illuminated Doctor, had for several years been a Minister in Reading, where he was held in great veneration by Jemmat in his tender years, and indeed by all that were his Auditors there. Mr. Jemmat hath also translated into Lat. some part of Dr. Thomas goodwin's works, which were printed at Heidelberg in 1658. oct. with his name thus set in the title Interpret Guil. de Magno conventu, that is William of the Great convention, Moot or Mote. At length after he had showed himself a mutable man according to the times he lived in, 
1677/8.  died full of years on the 28. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven: At which time he left a considerable legacy of books to the Church of S. Giles before mentioned: in the chancel whereof he was buried on the 31. of the said month. He had two Sons that were Ministers, one named John who was Vicar of the said Church, and the other Samuel, who lived and died Rector of Eastling in Kent.  
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER son of Joh. Fowl. of Marlborough in Wilts. was born there, became a Servitor of Magd. Coll. in 1627. aged 16 or thereabouts, where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, he retired to S. Edm. Hall, took the degree of Master of that faculty, as a member thereof, entered into holy Orders, and preached for some time in and near Oxon, and afterwards at West Woodhey near Dunnington Castle in Berks. At length upon the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians, (having before been puritanically affected) took the Covenant and became a very conceited and fantastical preacher among them. For by his very many odd gestures and antic behaviour (unbeseeming the serious gravity to be used in the pulpit) he drew constantly to his congregation a numerous crowd of silly Women and young People, who seemed to be hugely taken and enamoured with his obstreporousness and undecent cants. He was then, as I conceive, Minister of S. Margaret's Church in Lothbury, London, to which City he retired for safety, under pretence of being disturbed by the Malignants, as he called them, at Dunnington; and soon after being a zealous Brother for the cause, he became Vicar of S. Mary's Church in Reading, an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks, for the ejection of such that were then called by the Godly party scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and at length Fellow of Eton Coll. near Windsor, notwithstanding he had refused the Engagement. After his Majesty's restauration he lost his Fellowship of Eton, and being deprived of his cure at Reading for nonconformity, retired to London, and afterwards to Kennington near Newington S Mary in Surrey and carried on the trade of conventicling to his last. His works are these.  
Daemonium meridianum. Satan at noon, or antichristian blasphemies, anti-scriptural divilismes, etc. evidenced in the light of truth, and punished by the hand of justice. Being a sincere relation of the proceedings of the Commissioners of the County of Berks against John Pordage, late Rector of Bradfield in Berks. Lond. 1655. qu.  
Notes and animadversions upon a book of Jo. Pordage entit. Innocency appearing, etc.— Printed at the end of Daem. merid. This John Pordage, who was the Son of Sam. Pordage Citizen and Grocer of the Parish of S. Dionise Backchurch in London (who died in the latter end of the year 1626.) was called Doctor by a charientismus, and had been preacher at S. Laurence Church in London before he came to Bradfield. From which last, being ejected by the said Commissioners, as having been conversant with evil spirits, as they said, and for blasphemy, ignorance, scandalous behaviour, divilisme, uncleanness, and I know not what, he therefore wrote the said book of Innocency appearing, etc. in his own vindication. But that book availing nothing, he continued notwithstanding ejected, and as the Commissioners said, he took part with the great blasphemer Abiezer Coppe, and appeared in his behalf before, when he was accrimated by, them of various foul matters.  
Daemon. merid. the second part, discovering the slanders and calumnies cast upon some corporations, with forged and false articles upon the author, in a Pamphlet entit. The case of Reading rightly stated, etc. by the Adherents and Abettors of the said Joh. Pordage. Lond. 1656. qu.  
A word to Infant-baptisme, and a glance to Mr. Pendarves his Arrows against Babylon, etc.  
Answer to the Mayor, aldermans and Assistants of Reading in Berks. to a scandalous pamphlet entit. The case of the Town of Reading stated— These two last are printed with the second part of Daemon. Merid.  
Sober answer to an angry Epistle directed to all public teachers in this nation, and prefixed to a book called (by Antiphrasis) Christ's innocency pleaded against the cry of the chief priests, written in haste by Tho. Speed Quaker and Merchant of Bristol, etc. Lond. 1656. qu. Sim. Ford a Minister in Reading assisted our author Fowler in the composition of the said book, which was soon after animadverted upon by that noted Quaker called George Fox in his book entit. The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded, etc.  
Several Sermons as (1) How Christians may get such a faith, as may be not only saving at last, but comfortable and joyful at present, on 2. Pet. 1.8, This is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. (2) Scriptures to be read by the common people, on 1. Thes. 5.27, in The morning exercise against popery preached in Southwark. Lond. 1675. qu. (4) Sermon on S. John 19.42.— Printed 1666. qu. This, or any others besides, that he hath published, I have not yet seen. At length this our author Ch. Fowler, who was esteemed a little better than crazed or distracted for some time before his death, departed this mortal life in Southwark, in the latter end of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677/8.  and was buried within the precincts of S. John Baptists Church near Dowgate (in the Ch. yard I think) in London. As for John Pordage before mentioned, commonly called Dr. Pordage (whom I have heard Mr. Ashmole commend for his knowledge in, or at least his great affection to, Astronomy) was restored to Bradfield after his Majesty's return, lived there several years, leaving behind him a Son named Samuel of Linc. inn, author of Herod and Mariam Trag. and of The Siege of Babylon Trag. Com, also of Eliana a Romance, and of a Translation of Troades. Which Samuel was Steward to Philipp the second, Earl of Pembroke, and not to Old Philipp or Philipp the first, as I have told you among the Writers in the first Volume, pag. 336.  
NATHANIEL STEPHEN'S son of Rich. Steph. Minister of Staunton Barnwood in Wilts, was born in that County, became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Lent term an. 1622, aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in his own Country. At length upon the change of the times he closed with the Presbyterians, took the Covenant, preached frequently against the King's Followers and Prelacy, and was not wanting on all turns to carry on the blessed cause. At length having the Rectory of Fenny Drayton or Draiston in the Clay in Leycestershire conferred on him, wrote and published,  
A precept for the baptism of Infants out of the New Test. etc. partly against the Cavils of Mr. Everard in his late treatise intit. Baby-baptisme routed, etc. Lond. 1651. qu. Animadverted upon by Joh. Tombs in his first part of Antipedobaptisme.  
Plain and easy calculation of the name, mark and number of the name of the beast, etc. Lond. 1656. qu. grounded on Rev. 13.18. Which book is much commended by Matth. Poole in his fifth vol. of Synopsis Criticorum, on the Rev. and doth acknowledge that he had some MS. notes from our Author concerning that matter which he had made use of in that volume.  
Vindiciae fundamenti: Or a threefold defence of the doctrine of original sin: Together with some other fundamentals of Salvation: The first against the exceptions of Mr. Rob. Everard in his book intit. The Creation and the Fall of man. The second against the Examiner's of the late Assemblies Confession of Faith: The third against the Allegations of Dr. Jer. Tailor in his Unum necessarium, and two lesser Treatises of his. Lond. 1658. qu. After his Majesty's restauration, he the said Mr. Stephens kept his Rectory of Fenny-Drayton, because the owner of it had been some years before dead, but upon the publication of the Act of Uniformity in 1662. he left it because he would not conform, resided for some time in the said town, and preached thereabouts as a Nonconformist. At length after several disturbances, he removed to Stoke-Golding two miles distant from Fenny-Drayton, and preached there in Conventicles, till he was disabled by lameness some years before his death; which happening in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677/8.  was buried in the Churchyard of Stoke-Golding on the 24 of Feb. the same year. One of both his names an Esquire, was appointed one of the Commissioners of Glocestershire, 1654., for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, who had before been educated in this University.  
THEOPHILUS' GALE son of Theoph. Gale D. D. and sometimes Prebend. of Exeter, was born in Devonshire, became a Commoner of Magd. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon, made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an. 1648, and afterwards Fellow. In the year 1652 he proceeded in Arts, became a frequent Preacher in the University and a great resorter to the Presbyterian and Indep. meetings, especially that of Tho. Googwin in the Precedents Lodgings of his College. At the Kings return he lost all the right he had to his Fellowship, to make room for the true owner, and being then wholly addicted to nonconformity, traveled beyond the seas as a Tutor to the sons of Philip Lord Wharton. After his return he lived in London, was for some time an Assistant to Joh. Rowe in carrying on the work of preaching in his private congregation in Holborn, and published these books following, which show him to have been a person of great reading, an exact Philologist, and Philosopher.  
The court of the Gentiles. Or a discourse touching the original of humane literature both of Philology and Philosophy from the Scriptures and Jewish Church, etc. part 1. of Philology. Oxon. 1669, and there again 1672, both in qu. The second part which is Of Philosophy, was printed at Oxon. 1671, and at Lond. 1676, both in qu. Of these two parts there is a laudable account in the Philosophical Transactions, num. 74. p. 2231. an. 1671. The third part Of the vanity of Pagan Philosophy, was pr. at Lond. 1677, and the fourth Of Reformed Philosophy, was pr. there the same year, and both in qu. These four books or parts show the Author to have been well read in, and conversant with, the Writings of the Fathers, the old Philosophers, and those that have given any account of them or their works: As also to have been a good Metaphysician and School-Divine.  
The true Idea of Jansenisme, both historic and dogmatic. Lond. 1669. oct. The large preface to it was written by Dr. Joh. Owen.  
Theophilie: or a discourse of the Saints amity with God in Christ, etc. Lond: 1671. oct.  
The Anatomy of Infidelity: or an explication of the nature, causes, aggravations and punishment of unbelief. Lond. 1672. oct.  
Discourse of Christ's coming, and the influence with the expectation thereof, etc. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Idea Theologiae, tam contemplativae quam activae ad formam S. Scripturae delineata. Lond. 1673. in tw.  
Wherein the love of the World is inconsistent with the love of God, Sermon on 1 Jo. 2.15. Lond. 1674. and 76 in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate.  
Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata, una de ortu & progressu philosophiae, etc. Altera 1. De minorum gentium philosophia. 2. De novem habitibus intellectualibus. 3. De philosophiae objecto, etc. Lond. 1676. oct.  
Ars sciendi; sive Logica nouâ methodo disposita, & novis praeceptis aucta. Lond. 1682. oct. This is Joh. Clauberg's Logic, and Ars cogitandi (called the Jansenists Logic) digested into one volume, with some alterations and enlargments.  
A summary of the two Covenants.— This is set before a book by him published, intit. A discourse of the two Covenants, etc. Lond. 1678. fol. Written by Will. Strong sometimes Preacher in the Abbey Church at Westminster. This learned and industrious person Mr. Gale did design to have published other matters, but was cut off in the prime of his years (aged 49 or thereabouts) at Newington Green near London in Middlesex, where then his habitation was, in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was buried in the burial place of Dissenters joining to the New Artillery Garden and Bunhill Fields in Cripplegate Parish near London. 
1677/8.  He left all his real and personal estate for the education and benefit of poor Presbyterian and Independent Scholars, to be managed by certain Nonconformists for their use. All his Library also he gave to the Coll. in New England, except such philosophical books which are needful for Students of his opinion in Old England.  
JOHN GODOLPHIN the third son of Joh. Godolphin Esquire, of the ancient and gentile family of Godolphin in Cornwall, was born in the Island of Scilly beyond the lands end, in the said County, in the Castle there which belonged to his name, on S. Andrews Eve, an. 1617., became a Commoner of Gloucester Hall in Mich. term 1632, where profiting much in Logic and Philosophy, (as afterwards in the Civil Law) under the tuition of Will. Sandbrooke, was four years after admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions, that is, to the degree of Bach. of the said Law. In the beginning of 1643 he was actually created Doctor of his faculty, being then pruitanically inclined; and going afterwards to London, he sided so much with the men there in power, that after he had taken the wicked oath called the Engagement, he was by Act of Parl. 30 Jul. 1653 constituted and appointed with Will. Clerke Doct. of the Civ. Law and Charles George Cock Esq. Judges of the Admiralty, and in the middle of Jul. 1659., (Clerk being then dead) he and Cock were constituted again, yet to hold and exercise the said office but till 10 of Dec. following. After his Majesty's restauration he was made one of his Advocates, being then esteemed a learned man, and as well read in Divinity as in his own faculty, as may be seen in the books following of his writing.  
The holy Limbeck; or an extraction of the Spirit from the letter of certain eminent places in the holy scripture. Lond. 1650. in tw. Other copies have this title The holy Limbeck; or a semicentury of spiritual extractions, etc.  
The holy arbour, containing the whole body of Divinity: or the sum and substance of Christian Religion. Lond. 1651. in a thin fol.  
A view of the Admiral jurisdiction, wherein the most material points concerning that jurisdiction are fairly and submissively discussed etc. Lond. 1661. oct.  
A Catalogue of such that have been dignified with the office of Lord high Admiral in this Kingdom, etc. Printed at the end of the said View, and all or most taken from Sir Hen. Spelman's Glossary in the word Admiralius.  
The Orphan's legacy: or a testamentary abridgement in three parts. 1. Of last Wills and Testaments. 2. Of Executors and Administrators. 3. Of Legacies and Devises, etc. Lond. 1674. qu. etc.  
Repertorium Canonicum: or, an abridgement of the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm consistent with the temporal; wherein the most material points etc. Lond. 1678. 80, etc. qu. He also translated into English out of Garsias alias Ferrand, An extract of the ancient Laws of Oleron. Lond. 1661., printed with The view of Admiral jurisdiction before mentioned: to which translation he put marginal observations. He died in, or near, Fleetstreet, on the fourth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  and was buried in the north isle of Clarkenwell Church near London. As for Ch. Geor Cock before mentioned, he was of the Inner Temple and a Counsellor there, but whether he was ever of this Uniu. I cannot tell. However this I know of him, that he being a great Antimonarchist, was in some manner contributory to the death of K. Ch. 1, that he was one of those 21 persons that were appointed to be of a Committee to consult of a reformation of the Law, in Jan. 1651, he being then living and residing in Norwych; that he was one of the Commissioners of the Prerogative Court, one of the High Court of Justice in Nou. 1653, and author of a canting, whimsical and enthusiastical book intit. English-Law: or, a summary survey of the household of God on earth, and that both before and under the Law; and that both of Moses and the Lord Jesus, etc. Lond. 1651. in a thin fol. To which is added, Essay of Christian Government, under the regiment of our Lord and King, the one immortal, invisible, etc. Prince of Peace, Emanuel. Written by the same hand.  
THOMAS GOOD became scholar of Ball. Coll. in the latter end of 1624., aged 15 years, Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Mich. term 1628., and on the 29 of Nou. the next year, he was admitted probationer Fellow of that house, ran thro' all exercises of the Coll. and University till he was Bach. of Diu. in 1639. Afterwards, though he was absent in the times of distraction, yet he kept his Fellowship and submitted to the men of the interval. At length having obtained a small Cure at Coerley in his native Country of Shropshire, he resigned his Fellowship in 1658, and at the King's restauration was, as a Sufferer for the King's Cause, (as 'tis said in the Uniu. Reg. of that year) actually created D. of D. About that time he was made one of the Residentiaries of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford and Rector of Winstanstow in his own Country, and at length, on the death of Dr. Savage, Master of Ball. Coll. He was in his younger years accounted a brisk Disputant, and when resident in his Coll. a frequent Preacher, yet always esteemed an honest and harmless Puritan. A noted 
(†) Rich. Baxter in his Apol. for the Nonconformists Minist. p. 27. etc. Lond. 1681. qu. p. 146.  author of the Presbyterian persuasion tells us that he was one of the most peaceable, moderate and honest Conformists of his acquaintance, and subscribed the Worcestershire agreement for concord, and joined with the Presbyterians in their association and meetings at Kedirminster, and was the man that drew the Catalogue of Questions for their disputations at their meetings, and never talked then to them of what he afterwards wrote in his book called Dubitantius & Firmianus: which, when published he lost his credit among them and was lesser esteemed by Mr. Baxter the pride and glory of that party. He hath written and published,  
Firmianus and Dubitantius: Or certain Dialogues concerning Atheism, Infidelity, Popery and other Heresies and Schisms, etc. Oxon. 1674. oct. Animadverted upon by the said Mr. Baxter in a letter directed to him, dat. 10 Feb. 1673 in the Apology here quoted from pag. 142 to 146.  
A brief English Tract of Logic— Printed 1677. in a little oct. of 2 sh. and an half. He had, as I have been informed, other things laying by him at his death fit for the press, but of what subject they treated, or in whose hands they are gotten, I know not. He died at Hereford on the ninth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and was buried in the Cathedral Church there. 
1678.  On the 24 day of the same month, was elected in his place of Master of Ball. Coll. John Venn M. A. and Fellow of that House.  
BENJAMIN WELLS second son of John Wells the famous Mathematician of Deptford in Kent, was born there, or at least in that County, became a Communer of S. Alban Hall in 1632 aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts, and then being translated to that of S. Mary, was admitted Master as a member thereof, an. 1639, and the next year was elected Probat. Fellow of Alls. College. Afterwards entering on the Physic line, he was admitted to practise that faculty in Dec. an. 1650, having been about that time in some of the Western Plantations. Afterwards he settled at Greenwich alias East Greenwich in his native County, where he practised his faculty, but being of a morose temper, though able in his profession, was but little resorted to by Patients, which was the reason he died very indigent. He hath written,  
A treatise of the Gout, or Joint Evil. Lond. 1669. in tw. and translated into English The Expert Physician: learnedly treating of all agues and fevers. Lond. 1657. oct. Written originally by Dr. Brice Bauderon. This Mr. Wells died at East Greenwich before mentioned, in April in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  and was buried in the Church there on the 13 day of the same month. John Wells Esq. the father before mentioned, was Store-keeper of the naval Arsenal at Deptford, a charge of good credit, and requiring extraordinary application, was much valued for his mathematical sufficiencies by Briggs, Gunter, Gellibrand, Oughtred, etc. and learnedly wrote— Sciographia, Or the art of Shadows, plainly demonstrating out of the Sphere how to project both great and small circles, upon any place whatsoever, with a new conceit of the reflecting of the Sun beams upon a Dial, etc. Lond. 1635. oct. He married Catherine daughter of Thom. Wallenger Esq. by Benedicta Gonson his wife, who dying 5 Jul. 1634, aged 47, was buried in the Church at Deptford. Afterwards Joh. Wells went into Hampshire, and lived and died at Brembridge, as 'tis said, leaving a son of both his names to succeed him in his office at Deptford.  
FRANCIS POTTER was born in the Vicarage house at Meyre in Wilts, on Trinity Sunday, an. 1594, educated in Grammar learning in the King's school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright, became a Communer of Trin. Coll, under the tuition of his elder brother Hannibal Potter, in the latter end of the year 1609, took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity, and continued in the Coll. a close Student till his father died an. 1637, and then succeeding him in the Rectory of Kilmanton, (sometimes called Kilmington and Culmington) left the University for altogether, retired to that place, led a single and monkish life, without the conversation of ingenious men, till the day of his death. He was from a boy given to drawing and painting, and the Founder's picture that hangs in the Refectory of Trin. Coll. is of his copying. His genie laid most of all in the Mechanics, had an admirable mechanical invention, and excellent notions for the raising of water, and making Water-engins: many of which inventions being presented to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection, were highly approved by them, and forthwith the members thereof admitted him one of their number. About the year 1640 he entertained the notion of curing diseases by transfusion of blood out of one man into another: the hint whereof came into his head from Ovid's story of Medea and Jason. Which matter he communicating to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection, was entered into their books. But this way of transfusion having (as 'tis said) been mentioned long before by Andr. Libavius, our author Potter (who I dare say never saw that Writer) is not to be esteemed the first inventor of that notion, nor Dr. Rich. Lower, but rather an Advancer. He hath written and published,  
An interpretation of the number 666. Wherein not only the manner, how this number ought to be interpreted, is clearly proved and demonstrated; but it is also showed, that this number is an exquisite and perfect character, truly, exactly and essentially describing that state of government, to which all other notes of Antichrist do agree. Oxon. 1642. qu. Which book (as one 
(*) Joseph Mede of Cambr.  saith) is the happiest that ever yet came into the world; and such as cannot be read (save of those persons that will not believe it) without much admiration, etc. A book also called The key of the Scripture, written by a London Divine, wherein, being large upon the Revelations, he prefers the said Interpretation before all others. It was afterwards translated into French, Dutch and Latin; the last of which was done by several hands and severally printed. One copy was all or mostly performed by Tho. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall, printed at Amsterd. 1677. oct. And that, or the other, was partly remitted into Matth. Poole's Synopsis Critic. in the second part of the fourth volume, on the Revelations. What answers were made to the said Interpretation, that were printed, I think there were none: sure I am that one Lambert Morehouse Minister of Pertwood, about 6 miles from Kilmanton, accounted by some a learned man and a good Mathematician, did write against it, and seemed to be angry with the Author that 25 is not the true, but the propinque root: To which the Author replied with some sharpness. The MS. of this controversy, Morehouse gave to Dr. Seth Ward B. of Salisbury, an. 1668, before which time he was preferred by Dr. Henchman then B. of that place to the spiritual Cure of Little Langford in Wilts, where he died about 1672. He was a Westmoreland man by birth, was educated, I think, in Clare Hall in Cambridge, and wrote other things, but are not printed. As for our author Potter, he lived to a good old age, died perfectly blind at Kilmanton between Easter and Whitsuntide (in the month of Apr. I think) in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and was buried in the chancel of the Church there. 
1678.  His memory is preserved in Trin. Coll. by a Dial that he made and set up on the north side of the old Quadrangle, where it doth yet remain. His father's name was Rich. Potter an Oxfordshire man born, sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity, and afterwards Vicar of a little market Town in Wilts, and Rector of Kilmington or Kilmanton in Somersetshire before mentioned.  
ABRAHAM WOODHEAD son of Joh. Woodh. of Thornhill in Yorks. was born at Maltham in the Parish of Albonsbury alias Ambury in the said County, entered a Student in Uniu. Coll. under the tuition of Ionas Radcliff an. 1624., aged 16 years or thereabouts, and soon after was made Scholar. Afterwards going thro' the several classes of Logic and Philosophy with very great industry, he took the degrees in Arts, became Fellow in 1633, entered into holy Orders, passed a course in Divinity, and in 1641 was elected one of the Proctors of the University; which office being quitted, (not without trouble, occasioned by the denying of the Grace of Franc. Cheynell, of which he complained to the Long Parliament) he traveled into France with a Gent. Com. of his House called Thomas Radcliff son of Sir Geor Radcl. and afterwards with Thom. Culpeper and Thom. Strode both of the same House. At length settling for a time in Rome he was entertained by George Duke of Buckingham, whom he instructed in Mathematics, and was much respected by him. After his return into England, (being deprived of his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliam. for absence and non-appearance, an. 1648.) he lived for some time in York house in the Strand near London, by the appointment of the said Duke; but Arthur Lord Capell being informed of the great merits of the person, he entertained, and learned of him, the Mathematical Sciences. In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. Commissioners, and remained in his Coll. for a time: But his opinion, as to Religion, being then altered (as it had been since he was at Rome, which he always very warily concealed) got leave of the Master and Society to be absent, as intending again to travel, with the allowance of 20 l. per an. So that retiring to London, he afterwards settled at Hoxton alias Hogsden, near to that City, where he lived very obscurely and retiredly, upon that allowance that the College made to him as a Traveller, all therein, except one, knowing not to the contrary, but that he was beyond the seas. There, I say, being settled, he not only caused Youths to be trained up in the R. Cath. Religion (of which certain members of Parliament did openly make mention in the House, after the Popish Plot was discovered) but also wrote and published divers books in vindication of the Church of Rome, and thereby gained the character by the men of that party of the prime Champion of England to stand up for their Cause. A noted 
(*) Dan. Whitby in his Epist. before his Appendix following The absurdity and idolatry of Host-worship.  Author of the English Church saith that the author of the Guide in Controversies (Ab. Woodhead) is a person most highly famed among the Roman Catholics, and that he is, in his opinion, the most ingenious and solid writer of the whole Rom. Party. His Works plainly show him to have been a person of sound and solid judgement, well read in the Fathers, and in the polemical Writings of the most eminent and renowned Defenders of the Church of England, who have quite down from the Reformation successfully managed the Protestant Cause against Rome. He was so wholly devoted to retirement, and the prosecutions of his several studies, that no worldly concerns shared any of his affections, only satisfying himself with bare necessaries; and so far from coveting applause or preferment (though perhaps the compleatness of his learning and great worth might have given him as just and fair a claim to both as any others of his persuasion) that he used all endeavours to secure his beloved privacy, and conceal his name: And although he obtained these his desires in great part, yet his calm, temperate, and rational discussion of some of the most weighty and momentous Controversies under debate between the Protestants and Romanists, rendered him an Author much famed, and very considerable in the esteem of both. He hath written very many things, some of which were published in his life time, and some after his death, all without his own name or initial letters of it, set to them. The Catalogue of most of them follow.  
A brief account of ancient Church Government, with a reflection on several modern Writings of the Presbyterians [The Assembly of Divines their Jus divinum Ministerii Anglicani, published 1654., and Dr. Blondel's Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi, and others] touching this subject. Lond. 1662. and 85 in four parts in a thin quart. This book was generally reported to have been written by him, yet a certain R. Catholic, who was originally of Uniu. Coll, and much pretended to know all the Works that Mr. Woodhead had written, (which he had with great zeal bought and collected for the honour he had to the author) hath several times told me that he was not the author of that book, but Obad. Walker.  
The Guide in Controversies: or a rational account of the doctrine of the Roman Catholics concerning the ecclesiastical Guides in Controversies of Religion: reflecting on the later Writings of Protestants; particularly of Archb. Laud and Dr. Stillingfleet on this subject.— This book is divided into four discourses; the two first of which were printed at London 1666. in qu. But before they could appear in public they were burnt in the grand conflagration at London, except a very few copies that were saved, and vended abroad. The other two discourses were published at London 1667, qu. and there again, altogether, with additions and some alterations, an. 1673. qu. In the composition of this book (The Guide) I have been credibly informed by several R. Catholics, that one Perkins a learned man of that persuasion did assist the author. Part of the third discourse is refuted in a book intit. A second discourse in vindication of the protestant grounds of faith against the pretence of infallibility in the Rom. Church, in answer to [The Guide in Controversies, by R. H.] and against [Protestancy without Principles] and [Reason and Religion, &c] both written by E. W. I say refuted by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty.— Lond. 1673. oct.  
Exercitations concerning the Resolution of Faith, against some exceptions— Printed 1674. qu. These Exercitations are in vindication of some part of the third discourse from what was said against it by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet in the Second discourse, just before named.  
An appendix to the four discourses concerning The Guide in Controversies: Further showing the necessity and infallibility thereof, against some contrary Protestant Principles— Printed 1675. qu. Some copies of this book have this title, A discourse of the necessity of Church Guides for directing●Christians in necessary faith, etc. The second part of the Appendix (printed with the former) containeth.  
Annotations on Dr. Stillingfleet's answer to N. O's considerations of his Principles— These two parts contain an Answer to what Dr. Stillingfleet in a piece of his called An answer to several late Treatises occasioned by a book intit. [A discourse concerning Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome etc.] hath said against our author (Woodhead) his book named Dr. Stillingfleets Principles etc. considered, which I am now about to set down.  
Dr. Stillingfleets principles giving an account of the faith of Protestants, considered. Paris 1671. oct. This is answered in Dr. Stillingfleets first part named An answer to several late treatises, etc. before mentioned.  
Considerations on the Council of Trent: being the fifth discourse concerning The Guide in controversies.— Printed 1671. qu. 'Tis said that there is a sixth part which is concerning the alienation of Church lands, but Quaere.  
The Roman Churches devotions vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets misrepresentations— Printed 1672. oct.  
The Rom. doctrine of repentance and indulgence, vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets misrepresentations— Printed 1672. oct. These three last books were published under the initial Letters of N. O. or O. N: And the two last are briefly replied upon by Dr. Stillingfleet in the general preface to his first above named; wherein having only touched on Seren. Cressy's piece entit. Fanaticisme fanatically imputed, etc. wrote against him, saith these things of our author N. O. (Woodhead) compared with Ser. Cressy (whose book he affirms to be railing and the author mad) is a mere pattern of meekness, and that he writes pertinently without the others bitterness and passion: And elsewhere in the same Preface he styles him a moderate man.  
An historical narration of the life and death of our Saviour Jes. Christ, in two parts. Oxon. 1685 qu. Published by Obad. Walker, and then said▪ not to be of his composition, but of his Tutor Ab. Woodhead. Before it went to the press it was viewed by Dr. Will. Jane the King's Professor of Divinity, who made some deletions and corrections in it; yet afterwards they were put in again by Mr. Walker, when it was in the Press. Several exceptions were made against divers passages therein, and great clammoring there was in the University against the book, particularly by Dr. George Reynell of C. C. Coll; yet on the 13 of Oct. the same year when Mr. Nath. Boys of Uniu. Coll. was introduced into his late Majesties (K. Jam. 2.) presence, he, his Majesty was not then only pleased to commend him for his Sermon as being an ingenious and well penned discourse, (I mean that Sermon which he had preached in S. Mary's Church on 26. Jul. going before, being then a Thanksgiving day, for which he was forced to make his palinody on the first of Aug. following in the Apodyterian, for several things therein savouring of Popery) but also the said Historical narration lately published, as he said, by the Head of Uniu. Coll, for a very good book and wondered why any one should find fault with it, etc.  
Two discourses concerning the adoration of our B. Saviour in the Eucharist. The first contains, Animadversions upon the alterations of the Rubric in the Common Service in the Common prayer book of the Church of England. The second, The Catholics defence for their adoration of our Lord, as believed really and substantially present in the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist Oxon. 1687. qu. Published in an. 1686. by Mr. Walker without licensing by the Vicech, by virtue of the Kings licence granted to him to print certain books (laying by him) at Oxon. But A.C. of Trin. Coll. obtaining, by another hand, the said book (while 'twas in printing) sheet by sheet, from L. Lichfield the Printer, came out an answer to it about a month after entit. A discourse of the holy Eucharist in the great points of the real presence and adoration of the Host. In answer to the two discourses lately printed at Oxon on this subject. To which is prefixed a large historical Preface relating to the same argument. Lond. 1687. qu. Published in Feb. 1686, and written, as 'twas then reported, by Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. Another book also was published against it entit. A reply to two discourses lately printed at Oxford concerning the adoration of our blessed Saviour in the Eucharist. Oxon. 1687. qu. Published in the latter end of May that year, and written, as 'twas then commonly reported, by Doctor Hen. Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. In the introduction to this book 'tis said that a scandalous report was industriously spread about the nation, as if Oxford Converts came in by whole shoals, and all the University were just ready to declare. Upon the coming out of the first answer, Mr. Walker perceiving that he had been falsely dealt with by the Printer in permitting his book to go away sheet by sheet, as 'twas printed, he set up Cases of Letters and a Press in the back part of his Lodgings belonging to him as Master of Uniu. Coll. where he caused to be printed another book of Mr. Woodheed entit.  
Church government, part V. A relation of the English reformation, and the lawfulness thereof, examined by the Theses delivered in the four former parts. Oxon. 1687. qu. with K. alfred's picture in the title, cut in a wooden bordure. This was published in the beginning of Apr. the same year; but the zealous men of the Church of England, then in the University, perceiving that Mr. Walker would cut their own throats at home, (as they said,) were resolved to answer whatsoever he published. So that about the 13. of June following were published Animadversions on the eight Theses laid down, and the inferences deduced from them, in a discourse entit. Church government, part V. lately printed at Oxon. Oxon. at the Theatre 1687. qu.  
Two discourses. The first concerning the spirit of Martin Luther, and the original of reformation. The second concerning the celebracy of the Clergy. Oxon. (in Mr. Walkers lodgings) 1687. qu. This was published in a very short time after Church Government. To the said two discourses came out An answer to some considerations on the Spirit of Mart. Luther, and the original of the reformation, lately printed at Oxon. Oxon at the Theatre 1687. qu. Published on the 10. of Aug. the same year, and written by Mr. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch.  
Pietas Romana & Parisiensis: or a faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the Cities of Rome and Paris. The one taken out of a book written by Theodor. Amydenus, the other out of that by Mr. Carr. Oxon (in Mr. Walkers Lodgings) 1687. oct. Answered in a book entit. Some reflections upon a treatise called Pietas Romana & Parnell lately printed at Oxon; To which are added, etc. Ox. 1688. qu. Written by James Harrington B. A. of Ch. Ch. since a Barrister of the Inner Temple. The Pietas Parisiensis before mentioned was written by Tho. Car Confessor of Zion.— Printed at Paris 1666. in tw.  
Motives to holy living: or, heads for meditation, divided into considerations, counsels and duties. Together with some forms of devotion in Litanies, Collects, Doxologies, etc. Oxon. (in Mr. Walkers Lodg.) 1688. qu. Published by him about the 12 of July the same year.  

Catholic Theses. Ox. 1689. qu.  
Concerning images and idolatry. Ox. 1689. qu.   
Succession of the Clergy.  
Ancient Church Government.  
Apocalyps paraphrased.  
A larger discourse concerning Antichrist.  
The reader may now be pleased to know that when Mr. Walker left Oxon, which was on the 9 of Nou. 1688 to prevent the insults of the rabble, upon the coming into England of the Pr. of Aurange, he caused to be lodged in the house of a certain Boatman near Oxford Wharff many printed copies of certain books, written by our author Woodhead, that had not then been sold, and the copies of these four last books that were then about half finished, to the end that they might be conveyed by water to London, there to be disposed of as he should think fit; but the waters being then too high for their passage, the said books, remained in the Boatmans' hands till the 23. of Dec. following: At which time some of Col. Mordants Soldiers, then in Oxon. searching the house of the said Boatman a reputed Fanatic, under pretence for the finding out a P. Priest which he was suspected to harbour, they discovered the said books, and finding, upon examination, that they belonged to Mr. Walker, they seized on, and conveyed, them away to the Colonel's quarters, with intentions to have them publicly burnt; but upon farther consideration, they, at length, after they had detained them several weeks, did, as I have heard, restore them to the person, whom Mr. Walker had appointed to look after them. But to return: It was also reported very frequently that he (Woodhead) wrote God's benefits to mankind. Oxon. 1680. qu. Published by Mr. Walker as his own; nay and many stick not to say (which is a wonder to me) that he was the author of The whole duty of man, and of all that goes under the name of that author. He the said Abr. Woodhead did also translate from Lat. into English S. Augustine's Confessions: with the continuation of his life to the end thereof, extracted out of Possidius, and the Fathers own unquestioned works. Printed 1679 in a large oct. And from Spanish into English. (1) The life of the holy mother S. Teresa; foundress of the reformation of the discalced Carmelites, according to the primitive rule. Printed 1669. etc. qu. Written originally by herself. (2) The history of her foundations. (3) Her death and burial and the miraculous incorruption and fragrancy of her body. This S. Teresa was born 28. Mar. 1515, died 4. Oct. 1582 and was buried first at Alva, and afterwards in the Monastery of S. Joseph of Avila, in Spain. (4) Her Treatise of the manner of visiting the Monasteries of discalced Nuns. These three last were printed with her Life. (5) The second part of the works of S. Teresa of Jesus, containing 1 The way of perfection. 2. The Castle interior or the seven mansions, etc. Printed 1669. qu. (6) The holy life of Gregory Lopez, a Spanish Hermit in the West Indies. Printed 1675. in oct. 2d. edit. This Greg. Lopez was born at Madrid 4. Jul. 1542, died at Sancto●fe near Mexico, 20. Jul. 1596, and had his life afterwards written by Franc. Loza and translated into several languages. Mr. Woodhead also changed the stile of a book called The Scale (or Ladder) of perfection, written by Walt. Hilton a Carthusian in the time of K. Hen. 6. Which book having been printed an. 1494, he, I say, changed many antiquated words therein, and rendered them more intelligible for ordinary capacities— Lond. 1679. oct. He also changed the stile of another treatise of the same author, written to a devout man of secular Estate, teaching him how to lead a spiritual life therein— Printed with The Scale, etc. At length after this most pious, learned and retired person Mr. Woodhead had lived to the age of man, surrendered up his most devout soul to God in his little Cell at Hogsden before mentioned, in sixteen hundred seventy and eight: 
1678.  whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Pancras Church near Holbourn in Middlesex (distant about half a mile from the back part of Greys' Inn) and was buried in the yard there, about 22 paces distant from the Chancel of that Church, on the south side. Afterwards was a raised altar-monument built of brick, covered with a thick plank of blue Marble, put over his grave; and on the said plank, was this engraven. A. W. obiit Maii 4. A.D. 1678 aetatis suae LXX. Elegi abjectus esse in domo Dei; & mansi in solitudine, non quaerens quod mihi utilis est, sed quod multis. This monument being built 2 or 3 years after his death, those that put it up, caused his grave to be opened to view the coffin and body, that they might be sure that it was the person for whom the said monument was erected: And had K. Jam. 2. continued in his throne two years longer, his body would have been removed to the Chapel in Uniu. Coll. and there had a monument erected over him equal to his great merits and worth.  
WILLIAM WHITE who writes himself Guliel. Phalerius, was born of plebeian parents in a market town called Witney in Oxfordshire, in the month of June 1604, was entered a Student in Wadham Coll. in Act term 1620, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders and preached for a time near Oxon. At length the Mastership of the Free-School joining to Madg. Coll. falling void, it was conferred upon him some years before the Civil War began: where being settled, several persons by his care and industry proved afterwards eminent. But being ejected thence in the fatal year of 1648, he did, about that time, privately obtain of Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury the Rectory of Pusey near Faringdon in Berks, situated within his Diocese, and kept it during the interval by the favour of friends and the smallness of its profits. After the King's return Dr. Th. Pierce Precedent of Magd. Coll. (who had sometimes been his Scholar) procured the Rectory of Appleton near Abendon in the same County, of the Society of that house, to be conferred upon him: both which Livings he kept to his dying day and built houses on them, having been always accounted a noted Philologist, and a loyal and pious Divine. He hath published several small tracts, of which these only have come to my sight.  
Ad Grammaticam ordinarium Supplementa, & paedagogica alia, etc. Lond. 1648 and 52. oct.  
Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam. Lond. 1660. qu.  
Paraphrasis cum annotatis ad difficiliora loca catechismi Anglicani. Printed 1674 in Lat. and Engl. He died at Pusey before mentioned on the first day of June (about the first hour of the morn) in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, as I have been informed by letters written from one of his quondam Scholars living in those parts.  
HENRY GREISLEY son of Joh Gr. of Shrewsbury Gent. became a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. School, an. 1634, took the degrees in Arts, adheered to his Majesty's cause in the time of the rebellion, for which he suffered by ejection from his house and expulsion from the University by the impetuous Visitors, an. 1648. He hath translated from French into English (1) The Prince. Lond. 1648. oct. Written by Sieur de Balsac (2) The Christian man: or the reparation of nature by grace. Lond. 1650. in a large qu. Written originally by Jo. Franc. Senault. Besides which translations he hath certain Specimens of Poetry extant, which have obtained him a place among those of that faculty. After his Majesty's restauration he became beneficed in the Church, and on the 19 of Apr. 1672 he was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Will. Owen M. A. deceased. This Mr. Greisley died about the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was succeeded in his prebendship by Mr. Joseph Glanvill. 
1678.  I find R. G. sometimes M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. to be the translator of A discourse of Constancy. Lond. 1654. oct. Written in Lat. by Just. Lipsius, but who he was, unless Rob. Gomershall, I know not. Quaere.  
NATHANIEL HOLMES commonly called Homes, Son of George Hol. Minister of Kingswood in Glocestershire was born 
(a) Lib. Matric. PP. fol. 293. b.  in Wilts. became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 17 years; whence, after he had continued there for a little while, he was translated to Exeter Coll. for the sake of John Prideaux whom he much admired, and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards returning to Magd. Hall, he took the degree of Master and became a frequent preacher for a time in these parts. What his preferments were in the Church afterwards, I find not, unless it was a cure in Glocestershire. Sure I am that he took the degrees in Divinity as a member of Exeter Coll. that of Bach. in 1633 and that of Doctor four years after; and also that being a severe Calvinist, he did upon the defection of the members of the Long Parliament, close with the Presbyterians, and when the rout of Orthodox Ministers in and near London was made in 1642 and 43, he obtained one or more cures, of which the Church of S. Mary Staining was one. But being soon after delivered from the Presbyterian contagion, as he called it, he with Hen. Burton B. D. and Minister of Friday-street in London, became great advancers of the faction, set up 
(b) Merc. Aul. in the fifteenth week, an. 1643. p. 184.  their Independent congregations in the beginning of the year 1643, and would admit no man to the sacrament, but such as were members of the same, or baptise any children, though born within the Parish, (for which they were supposed to serve) but of such that should enter into their New Covenant, and that they challenged to themselves a power of examining the lives and conversations of the members of their said congregation, casting out whom they please, and for what they list, and not admitting any to the Eucharist, nor the children of any to baptism, till they had satisfied the Church, that is themselves, in the sincerity of their repentance, and be again restored by them: Also that neither of them would permit the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be administered in their parishes at Easter in 1643. Besides a congregation or more in London, our author Holmes had several in the Country particularly at Dover; and like a Bishop of a diocese he would go twice or thrice in a year to visit, purposely to pray and preach to them, and in one of his Sermons to the members there, he prayed God to bless and remember them who had but a bit once in a quarter or half a year. He was accounted by many, especially those of his persuasion, a profound Divine, and to be well skilled in the Tongues, particularly in the Hebrew, and by others a mutable and fantastical person. When the Act of conformity was published he left his cure or cures, and spent most of his time in the parish of S. Giles without Cripplegate, London, where he kept, or at least frequented, Conventicles. He hath written,  
Usury is injury: cleared in an examination of its best apology, alleged by a Country Minister out of Dr. Ames in his cases of conscience. Lond. 1640. qu.  
The new world; or the new reformed Church discovered out of the 2. Epist. of Pet. ch. 3.13. first briefly opened before some of the Nobility and others in the Country: Afterwards more fully delineated and prosecuted before the honourable House of Commons 30 May 1641. Lond. 1641. qu. Besides this he hath other Sermons extant as (1) God's gracious thoughts towards great sinners, in two Sermons, on Isaiah 55.8.9. (2) Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Com. in Ch. Ch. Lond. 6. Oct. 1659. on Psal. 33.1. Lond. 1659. qu. etc.  
Vindication of baptising believers. In some animadversions upon Mr. Tombs his exercitations about infant baptism, as also upon his examen, etc. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Daemonology and Theology: the first, the malady, demonstrating the diabolical arts and devilish hearts of men. The second, the remedy, demonstrating, God a rich supply of all good. Lond. 1650. oct. This was answered by Anon.  
Character of the crying evils of the times. Lond. 1650. octavo.  
Church cases cleared: Wherein are held forth some things to reclaim professors that are slack-principled, Antichurchians, Nonchurch-seekers, Church levellers; with a pacificatory preface.  
The resurrection revealed: or the dawning of the daystar, about to rise and radiate a visible incomparable glory, far beyond any since the creation, upon the universal Church on earth for a thousand years yet to come before the ultimate day of the general judgement to the raising of the Jews, etc. Lond. 1654. etc. fol. in 7. books. This piece is looked upon by some to be learnedly written, who take the author to be a perfect Chiliast or Millinarian, as Mr. Jos. Mede, Dr. Hen. More and many other Orthodox, as well as Hetrodox, Divines. Peter Sterry that high flown Blasphemer, and Joseph Caryl perused this book, and gave their judgements thereof, and the last of them an Imprimatur in the title. Whence 'tis very easy and proper to observe how ready and extremely forward the last pretended Reformers were not only to countenance but patronise the many generally exploded opinions (in matter of religion) of their Brethren however hetrodox, erroneous and groundless; insomuch that Divines by public appointment were ordered to peruse their books, and after a transient cursory view of, to represent, them to the world in extravagant lavish characters of their extraordinary worth and excellency. As for the author Holmes, though he was accounted a Millinarian, yet he doth not contend for a carnal, sensual and gross liberty and worldly to be enjoyed before the general resurrection by the Saints, but spiritual, purified and refined freedom from the dominion and enslaving vassalage of sin and corruption to be exercised in holiness and sanctity.  
Open door for man's approach to God. Lond. 1650 qu.  
Of Gospel music— Printed in qu. This, and the next going before, I have not yet seen. In the year 1652 was published by him the said Dr. Holmes a folio book containing 16 several treatises, as (1) Christ's offering himself to all sinners, as concerning all objections, on John 6.37. (2) Mistakes about prayer. (3) Faith in abstract, in its high acting, above outward sense, inward sensation and natural reason. (4) Antidote against Antinomianisme. (5) Gods gracious thoughts. This is mentioned before, (6) Gods gracious expressions engaging to comfort them that accept of his grace, on 1. Cor. 1.3.4. (7) Moderation of spirit, for quietation of mind in trying times, on Phil. 4.5. (8) Necessaria. Or the Body of Diu. necessary to salvation, on Rom. 8.29.30.31. (9) Soul-cordials against sore discomforts, in a Com. or explications and applications of the whole 43. Psal. (10) The gracious heart is not to seek great things in grievous times, on Jer. 45. ver. 5. former part. (11) God saving a people with a notwithstanding their sins, on Psalm. 106.8. (12) The Christian Hammerers against the Antichristian horns, on Zech. 1.21. latter part. (13) The Church's glory and defence, from Isay. 4. ver. 5. (14) The only happy people, described out of Psal. 144.15. (15) The malady of a mixed Communion. (16) Commentary literal or historical, and mystical or spiritual, on the whole book of Canticles.— These 16 things I say were printed for the author in one vol. at Lond. 1652. fol. with the general title to them of The works of Nathaniel Holmes. But they laying dead on the Booksellers hands, they printed a new title to them, with the year of our Lord 1669, which hath made them move among some of the Brethren.  
Ten Exercitations in vindication of The resurrection revealed. Lond. 1661. fol.  
An essay concerning the Sabbath; or the Sabbath day rest from controversy, etc. Lond. 1673. oct.  
The brazen serpent or Gods grand design, etc. Lond. 1673. qu. Besides several other things which I have not yet seen, as The peasant's peace, etc. At length this Dr. having lived till he was almost blind, departed this mortal life in the Parish of S. Giles without Cripplegate before mentioned, in the month of June, as I conceive, 
1678.  in sixteen hundred seventy and eight; and was buried, as I suppose, according to his will, in the Chancel of the Church of S. Mary Aldermanburic in London, close to the worthy Ministers there interred. He died rich, left behind him a Widow called Sarah, a Daughter named Bethiah, and a Brother called Nehemiah Holmes of Machin in Hertfordshire Clerk.  
GILES COLLIER son of Giles Collier of Pershore in Worcestershire, was born there, or at least in that County, became either a Batler or Servitor of New inn, in Lent term 1637, aged 15 years, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, and departed for a time, closing then with the Presbyterians. In 1648 when the Parliamentarian Visitors were in Oxon he proceeded in Arts, took the Covenant and afterwards became Vicar of Blockley near Evesham and Shipson in Worcestershire, and a busy man when he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such whom the Godly party called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, an. 1654. and after. At his Majesty's restauration he continued in Blockley, and when the Act of uniformity was published he conformed, not without the regret of some loyalists in the neighbourhood, whom he had much displeased in the interval. He hath written,  
Vindiciae thesium de sabbato: or a vindication of certain passages in a sermon of the morality of the Sabbath, from the exceptions of which they are subjected by Edw. Fisher Esq. in his book called A Christian Caveat, etc. Lond. 1653. 56. qu.  
Appendix wherein is briefly examined this bold assertion of Edw. Fisher, viz. There is an equal authority and equal antiquity for the observation of the 25 of Dec. as for the Lords day.  
Answer to 15 questions lately published by Edw. Fisher Esq. and the suggestions therein delivered against suspending ignorant and scandalous persons from the Lords Supper— These two last things were printed with the Vindiciae thesium.  
Fun. Sermon on Isaiah 57.1.— Printed 1661. qu. He died at Blockley in the latter end of July, 
1678.  in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 30. day of the same month in the Church there. In the said Vicarage succeeded Sam. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
BENJAMIN PARRY younger Brother to Joh. Parry before mentioned, was born, as I conceive, in Dublin, admitted in Arts in Trin. Coll. there, on the 5. of Decemb. 1648, came with his Brother to Jesus Coll. in this University, took the degrees in Arts, and after his Majesty's restauration, he was, by the favour of his Commissioners appointed to visit this University, made Greek Reader, and so consequently Fellow, of C. C. Coll. In 1663. Feb. 26 he was installed Preb. of Knaresbergh in the Church of York, (he being then Bach. of Diu.) upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Mossom; which Dignity he resigning upon his going into his own Country, was succeeded therein by Dr. Will. Asshton, in Feb. 1673. On the first of May 1674 he was made Dean of Kilkenny, and thence was translated to the Deanery of S. Patrick at Dublin on the 24 of March following. On the 27. of Jan. 1677 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in the place of his Brother deceased, which he kept to his dying day, that shortly after followed. He hath written,  
Chymia Caelestis: Drops from heaven, or pious meditations on several places of Scripture. Lond. 1659., 73 in tw. And also made fit for the press and published Holy rules and helps to devotion, etc. Lond. 1674. in tw. Written by Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winton. This Dr. Parry, who, I suppose, hath published no other things, died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight (having a little before been married, 
1678.  but not to his content) and was buried near to the graves of his Brother and Father in S. Audoens' Church in Dublin. In the See of Ossory succeeded Dr. Mich. Ward Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin, and soon after he was translated to London-Derry.  
PETER LEYCESTER son of Pet. Leycest. Esq, was born at Nether Tabley in Cheshire, 3. March 1613, became a Gent. Com. of Brasn. Coll. 13. Oct. 1629, but leaving that house without a degree, he went, I presume, to the Inns of Court. Afterwards he retired to his patrimony, where, besides the pleasures of a Country life, he exercised himself much in the study of History and Antiquities. After the restauration of his Majesty an. 1660 (for whose cause he before had suffered) he was created a Baronet and probably had he sought, he might have had beneficial places conferred on him, but such was the love he had to his native Country, that postponing all matters of profit, he studied and laboured to revive its antiquities, that had almost been buried in oblivion, which he afterwards published with this title,  
Historical antiquities in two books. The first treating in general of Great Britain and Ireland; the other containing particular remarks of Cheshire, and chiefly of Bucklow hundred. Lond. 1673 fol. But therein having made Amicia Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester a Bastard, was as to that matter answered in a book intit. A defence of Amicia, etc. by Sir Tho. Manwaring of Peover in Cheshire Bt; who, with this our author Pet. Leyc. were descended from her. Whereupon Sir Peter came out with  
An answer to Sir Tho. Manwarings book entit. A defence of Amicia, etc. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Addenda: or some things to be added to the former answer to Sir Thomas Manwarings book, to be placed immediately after pag. 90. Lond. 1673. oct. He also wrote,  
A reply to Sir Tho. Manwarings answer to Sir Pet. Leicester's Addenda. Lond. 1674. oct. and  
Sir Tho. Manwarings Law cases mistaken, and the ancient Law misunderstood, and the new law misapplied, etc. Lond. 1674. oct. There was a waggish and merry Ballad that went from hand to hand in Ms, concerning these petite controversies between the two Baronet's, and great sport there was made among idle and vain Gentlemen concerning the punctilios and minute things they insisted on; but at length at an Assize held at Chester 1675 their controversies were decided by the Justice's Itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Manwaring. As for our author Sir Peter, he died at Nether-Tabley on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  and was buried by his Ancestors in our Lady's Chapel on the north side of the Church at Great Budworth in Cheshire. Over his grave was soon after set up a comely monument for him and his Lady, (who died 26. of Jan. following aged 59 years) the inscription whereof being large, I shall now for brevity sake omit.  
THOMAS VINCENT second son of John Vincent sometimes a Gent of Lincoln's Inn and afterwards a Minister, was born in the ancient Borough of Hertford in the month of May 1634, educated partly in Grammar learning in Westminster school and partly in that at Felsted in Essex, and in 1648 became a Student of Ch. Ch. by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors then and there sitting. In 1654. he proceeded in Arts, at which time the Governor of his house had so great opinion of him, that he chose him Catechist, which usually belongs to a signior Master. Soon after he left Oxon and became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester, and afterwards, though not in Orders from a Bishop, he was made Minister of S. Mary magdalen's Church in Milkstreet in London; which place he keeping till the day of S. Barthelmew an. 1662., left it because he would not conform: Whereupon retiring to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London, preached in a Conventicle there to his dying day, being always held in great esteem for his piety by those of his persuasion. He hath written,  
Spiritual antidote for a dying soul. Lond. 1665. oct.  
God's terrible voice in the City by plague and fire. Lond. 1667. oct.  
Of Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgement. Lond. 1667. oct. and several times after: the sixth edit. came out in 1683. and the book itself is grounded on Rev. 22.20. last part.  
Answer to the sandy foundation of Will. Pen the Quaker.  
Defence of the Trinity, Satisfaction by Christ, and Justification of Sinners. Lond. 1667. in tw. or sixth.  
Wells of salvation opened: or words whereby we may be saved. With advice to young men. Lond. 1669. oct.  
Explicatory Catechism: or an explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechism, wherein all the Answers are taken asunder under Questions and Answers, the Truths explained and proved, etc. Lond. 1673, etc. oct.  
The true Christians love of the unseen Christ: or a discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians. Lond. 1677. 84. in tw.  
Appendix concerning Christ's manifestation of himself to them that love him.— Printed with The true Christians love, etc.  
Holy and profitable Sayings. Lond. 1680. Printed on one side of a sh. of paper.  
Several sermons, as (1) Fire and Brimstone from Heaven, from Earth, in Hell: or three discourses, 1. Concerning the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah formerly. 2. Concerning, etc. Lond. 1670. oct. contained in several sermons. (2) Wherein doth appear the blessedness of forgiveness, and how it may be attained, on Psal. 32.1. Lond. 1674. 76. qu. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate, published by Sam. Aneley. (3) Sermon on 1 Tim. 4.1.2. and part of the third verse.— This is the seventeenth sermon in The morning exercise against Popery etc. preached in a Conventicle in Southwark.— Lond. 1675. qu. (4) Serm. on Isa. 57.1.2.— Printed 1667 oct. This I have not yet seen, nor certain controversial Writings between him and Dr. William. Sherlock. This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden before mentioned in the Parish of S. leonard's Shoreditch in the month of Octob. (the 15 day as it seems) in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  and was buried in the new Churchyard belonging to Cripplegate Parish, (as his Brother Nathaniel hath informed me) at which time Sam. Slater preached his funeral sermon on Heb. 13.7, afterwards published 
(*) Publ. at London 1679. qu.  under the title of Vincentius redivivus; in the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr. Vincent was buried 27 of Oct. 1678.  
SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omvill alias Tailor son of Silvanus Taylor a Committee man for Herefordshire in the time of the rebellion, a busy man against the King's party, and a Commissioner for Herefordshire and certain Counties in Wales for the ejecting of scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, was born at Harley near Muchwenlock in Shropshire, on the 16 of July 1624., bred in the Free-Schools at Westminster and Shrewsbury, became a Communer of New Inn in the beginning of the year 1641, but being soon after called thence, without the taking of a degree, upon the eruption of the Civil Wars, he took part with the Rebels upon his father's instance, and at length became a Captain under Colonel, afterwards Major General, Edw. Massey; and when the Wars ceased he was made by his father's endeavours a Sequestrator of the Royalists in Herefordshire, and had in those times great power there; which he used so civilly and obligingly that he was beloved of all the King's party. His father settled upon him a good estate in Church Lands which he had bought, and had the moiety of the Bishop's Palace in Hereford settled on him, (the other part Col. John Birch had got into his clutches) on which he laid out much money in building and altering. Upon the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire, in the beginning of Aug. 1659., he received a Commission to be Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Militia of the City of Westminster, and showed himself very active in that employment; but at the King's return, he lost all and was in a manner ruined. Soon after, by the favour of certain persons whom he had before obliged, he became Commissary of the ammunition and warlike provision at Dunkirk, and five years after (about 1665) he was, by the endeavours of Sir Paul Neile and others, made keeper of the King's Storehouses for Shipping and other marine matters at Harwich a Seaport Town in Essex, where he continued to the time of his death. This person being a great lover of Antiquities, did in the times of usurpation ransack the Library belonging to the Church of Hereford, of most, or at least the best Mss therein, and did also garble the Mss in the Library of the Church at Worcester, and the evidences pertaining thereunto; among which, as I have heard, he got the original grant of K. Edgar: whence the Kings of England derive their right to the sovereignty of the Seas, which is printed in Mr. Seldens book called Mare Clausum, lib. 2. He had got also into his hands a quarto Ms of great antiquity which treated of the Philosopher's stone in Hieroglyphics, with some few lat. verses underneath: And being limned with very great curiosity it was presented to the view of his Majesty K. Ch. 2, who offered 100 l. for it, but was refused by the owner. This person commonly called Captain Taylor hath written,  
The History of Gavel-kind, with the Etymology thereof; containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the ancient Britain's, notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Lond. 1663. qu.  
Observations and remarks upon many special occurrences of British and English History— Printed with the former book. At the end of which is an Anonymus Ms. by him published entit. Brevis relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum, etc. The original of which is in the Archives of Bodlies' Library, communicated to him by Dr. Tho. Barlow the head keeper of that Library. He had also written and published several pamphlets before the restauration of K. Ch. 2, but his name being not put to, would never after own, them. He also laboured four years or more in collecting various antiquities, as Arms, monumental Inscriptions, etc. in many places of Herefordshire, during his employment there under the two Protectors: Which being now, or at least lately, in the hands of Sir Edw. Harley of Brompton Brian, may serve as an Apparatus for him who shall hereafter write the Antiquities of that County. He wrote also The description of Harwich, and all its appurtenances and antiquities; which is now in Ms. in a private hand. He had great skill not only in the practical, but theoretical part of Music, did compose several lessons, some of which were tried and played in the public School of that fac. in this University, while Dr. Wilson held the chair, before his Majesty's restauration; and after that time, he being well acquainted with that most admired Organist to the Queen, called Matthew Lock, (who had married one Garnons a Herefordshire Woman) he did compose several Anthems; two, or more of which were sung in his Majesty's Chapel; which being well performed, his Maj. was pleased to tell the author that he liked them. He had also good skill in the Mathematics and the Tongues, and might have proved excellent in them, had his continuance in the University been longer, or had he not spent most of his time in military matters. He died on the fourth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Harwich before mentioned. He died much in debt, so that all such Mss. and Papers that were then laying by him (some of which he had before pawned) were with his goods seized on by his Creditors. His Father Silvanus Taylor before mentioned, who also had been one of the High Court of Justice, and a grand Oliverian wrote and published, Common good: or, the improvement of Commons, Forests and Chases by enclosure: Wherein the advantage of the Poor, the common plenty of all, and the increase and preservation of timber, with other things of common concernment, are considered. Lond. 1652. in 7. sh. and an half in qu. Dedicated to the supreme authority of the Nation the Parliament of England. He had a son of both his names, sometimes a Communer of Wadham Coll. afterwards M. A. and Fellow of that of Allsouls, an ingenious man, and well skilled in the practical part of Music, who died at Dublin in Ireland in the beginning of Nou. 1672.  
MARCHAMONT NEDHAM was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire, in the month of Aug. 1620, and on the 21. of the said month received baptism there. He was son of a Father of both his names, born of gentile parents in Derbyshire (sometimes Bach. of Arts of S. John's Coll. and Gloc. Hall, afterwards an Attendant on the Lady Elizab. Lucas Sister to John Lord Lucas, and Wife of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden near Burford before mentioned) by Margery his Wife, Daughter of John Collier the Host of the George inn, than the principal place for the reception of Guests in Burford. But the said Father, dying in the year following, the Mother was the next year after that (scil. in 1622) married to Christoph. Glynn Vicar of the said Town, and Master of the Free-school there: which Glynn perceiving his Son-in-law to have very pregnant parts, did take him under his tuition, and spared not to encourage his forwardness. At about 14 years of age he was sent to Alls. Coll. where being made one of the Choristers, continued there till 1637, at which time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. So that being not capable of keeping that place any longer, because inconsistent with his degree, he retired to S. Mary's Hall for a time. At length being invited to London, he had conferred upon him an Ushers place in Merchant Tailor's School then presided by one Mr. Will. Staple; but how long he continued there I cannot justly tell. Sure it is, that upon the change of the times, he became an under-clerk in Greys' inn, where by virtue 
(a) Mercurius Anti-Britanicus, part 2. p. 25. And in The Hue and Cry after Britanicus, by one who calls himself Aulicus, printed 1645. p. 1.  of a good legible court-hand, he obtained a comfortable subsistence. Soon after siding with the rout, and scum of the people, he made them weekly sport by railing at all that was noble in his intelligence called Merc. Britan. wherein his endeavours were to sacrifice the fame of some Lord, or person of Quality, nay of the King himself, to the beast with many heads. Diego writeth 
(b) Diego Tornis, edit. Venet. 1604. See the character of Britanicus at large in Sacra Nemesis, written by Dan. Featly.  that Barcaeus meeting with the Devil sitting at his ease upon a chair, bid him rise up and give place to his betters. The tale was moralised in Britanicus, who might very well have challenged the precedency of Satan, and to have thrust him out of his chair, the seat of the scornful, wherein he sat several years, and out-railed all the Shimies and Rabsekehs, and out-lyed all the Simmeasses and Psedolusses that ever sat in that chair. So that this Nedham being become popular, and an active man in person among the rout, he was commonly called Capt. Nedham of Greys' inn, and what he said or wrote was looked upon as Gospel. About that time he studied Physic, followed the chemical way, and in 1645 began to practise it, and by that and his writing, maintained himself in very gentile fashion. But so it was, that whether by his imprisonment in the Gatehouse for his aspersions of his Majesty, in the opening or explaining his Cabinet Letters, an. 1645, or for some scorn or affronts put upon him, he forthwith left the blessed cause, and obtaining the favour of a known royalist to introduce him into his Majesty's presence at Hampton-court, an. 1647, he then and there knelt before him, and desired forgiveness for what he had written against him and his cause: which being readily granted, he kissed his Majesty's hand, and soon after wrote Mercurius Pragmaticus: which being very witty, satirical against the Presbyterians and full of Loyalty, made him known to and admired by the Bravadoes and Wits of those times. But he being narrowly sought after, left London, and for a time skulked at Minster Lovel near Burford in Oxfordsh. in the house there of Dr. Pet. Heylyn. At length being found out, imprisoned in Newgate and brought into danger of his life, Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Commons, who knew him and his Relations well, and John Bradshaw Precedent of the High Court of Justice, treated him fairly, and not only got his pardon, but, with promise of rewards and places, persuaded him to change his stile once more, meaning for the Independents, then carrying all before them. So that being brought over, he wrote Merc. Politicus, so extreme contrary to the former, that the generality for a long time, especially the most generous Royalists, could not believe that that intelligence could possibly be written by the same hand that wrote the M. Pragmaticus. The truth is, these last were written for about an year and an half, and were endeavoured by the Parliamenteers to be stifled, but the former (the Politici) which came out by authority, and flew every week into all parts of the Nation for more than 10 years, had very great influence upon numbers of inconsiderable persons, such who have a strange presumption that all must needs be true that is in print. He was then the Goliath of the Philistines, the great Champion of the late Usurper, whose pen in comparison of others, was like a weaver's beam. And certainly he that will, or can, peruse those his Intelligences called Merc. Politici, will judge that had the Devil himself (the Father of all lies) been in this Goliahs' office, he could not have exceeded him, as having with profound malice calumniated his Sovereign, scurrility abused the Nobility, impudence blasphemed the Church and Members thereof, and industry poisoned the People with dangerous principles. At the happy return of the times in 1660 he being conscious to himself that he might be in danger of the halte● once more, skulked (some said fled into Holland) till s●ch time he could get his pardon, or that the Act of Oblivion should pass. In the mean time were not wanting some forward loyalists to complain of, and write against, him: Among which was a nameless author entit. A rope for Pol. or a hue and cry after March. Nedham the late scurrilous News-writer, print. (in May) 1660. qu, wherein he showeth to the world the horrid blasphemies and revile against the King's Majesty's Person, his cause and his friends, published in his weekly Politicus. In Apr. also the same year, was put forth A conference between Tho. Scot and March. Nedham concerning the present Affairs of the Nation; wherein many of nedham's rogueries are ripped up and laid open to the world. In the beginning also of Jan. before going, when great hopes depended upon Monks proceeding, a poem entit. A New-year's gift for Politicus, said to be written by Will. Kilburne, flew about, wherein he tells you that Nedham wrote, 
Politicus, Intelligencer  
(As famous as old Meg Spencer)  
Pragmaticus, The Spy, what not?  
Britanicus; The Counter plot  
Of Hell, etc.   
But notwithstanding all verbal and printed complaints, he, for money given to an hungry courtier obtained his pardon under the Great Seal, which was his defence oftentimes, particularly at Oxford Act in 1661., when then several set upon him in S. Mary's Church to hale him before a Justice, and so to prison for treason: so that I say being free, and at liberty by virtue of that Seal, which he several times produced, he exercised the faculty of physic to his dying day among the Brethren, which was a considerable benefit to him. He was a person endowed with quick natural parts, was a good humanitian, Poet and boon Droll: And had he been constant to his Cavaleering principles he would have been beloved by, and admired, of all; but being mercenary, and valuing money and sordid interest, rather than conscience, friendship, or love to his Prince, was much hated by the Royal Party to his last, and many cannot yet endure to hear him spoken of. Among several things that he hath written and published, these following have only come to my sight.  
Mercurius Britanicus, communicating the affairs of Great Britain for the better information of the people.— These Mercuries began about the middle of Octob. 1643, and were carried on thence week by week every Monday in one sh. to the latter end of 1646, or beginning of 1647. I have seen a Trag. Com. intit. Merc. Britanicus or the English intelligencer, reprinted in 1641. qu. but the author of that was Rich. Brathwayte.  
A check to the chequer of Britanicus: or the honour and integrity of Coll. Nath. Fiennes revived, re-estated from certain prejudices and mistakes, occasioned by late misreports. Lond. 1644. qu.  
A Hue and cry after the King, etc.— Generally reported to have been written by this author, particularly (1) By the writer 
(c) Jam. Heath, under the year 1647.  of the Brief Chron. of the late intestine war, etc. who tells us that when the King fled from Hampton Court in Nou. 1647 to the Isle of Wight, one Nedham published a most execrable and blasphemous paper called A hue and cry after the King, etc. But how it can be so, I cannot judge, unless our author Nedham could write treason and loyalty in one breath; for at that time and some weeks before, he wrote Merc. Pragm. as I shall anon tell you (2) The writer of the witty 
(d) Printed at Lond. in one sh. in qu. 1647.  Poem entit Merc. Britanicus his welcome to Hell, wherein reckoning up most of the Intelligencies that were wrote for the Parliament, saith thus. 
Amongst all these (dear son Britanicus)  
Thou hast showed thyself the best Mercurius;  
Thou hast out-slandered Slander, and prevailed,  
And every railing Rogue thou hast outrailed.  
Thou bravely didst thy Sovereign vilify,  
Persu'dst his honour with an Hue and Cry.  
Abused the Queen with scandals, etc.  But the Reader is to know, notwithstanding these Writers, that the Hue and Cry was not written when the K. left Hampton Court, but after his defeat at Naseby, an. 1645. Our author Nedham hath also written,  
The case of the Kingdom stated according to the proper interests of the several parties engaged, etc.— When first published, I know not: the third edition was printed at Lond. 1647. in qu.  
The Levellers levelled: or the Independents conspiracy to root out Monarchy. An interlude. Lond. 1647. in two sh. in qu. Said in the title to be written by Merc. pragmaticus. See in Will. Prynne, under the year 1669. p. 320.  
Mercurius pragmaticus, communicating intelligence from all parts, touching all affairs, designs, humours and conditions throughout the Kingdom, especially from Westminster and the Headquarters.— There were two parts of them, and they came out weekly in one sheet in qu. The former part commenced the 14 Sept. 1647, and ended the 9 Jan. 1648. The other which was intit. Merc. pragm. for K. Ch. 2, etc. commenced 24 Apr. 1649, but quickly ended. There were now and then other Pragmatici that peeped forth, but they were counterfeit.  
A plea for the King and Kingdom, by way of answer to a late remonstrance of the Army. Lond. in Nou. an. 1648 in 3 sh▪ in qu.  
Digitus Dei: or God's Justice upon treachery and treason, exemplified in the life and death of the late James Duke of Hamilton, being an exact relation of his traitorous practices since the year 1630, etc. with his epitaph. Lond. 1649. in 4 sh. in qu. In the year before came out a book intit. The manifold practices and attempts of the hamilton's, and particularly of the present Duke of Hamilton now General of the Scottish Army, to get the Crown of Scotland; in a letter from a Malignant in London to his friend in Scotland. Lond. 1648. qu. But who the author of this was I cannot tell  
Mercurius Politicus. Comprising the sum of foreign intelligence, with the affairs now on foot in the three Nations of England, Scotland and Ireland.— These Mercuries came out weekly every Wednesday in two sheets in qu. commencing with the 9 of June 1649, and ending with the 6 of June 1650. At which time being Thursday he began again— Now appeared in print (saith a certain 
(e) Jam. Heath, as before, in his Chron. under the year 1650.  writer) as the weekly Champion of the new Commonwealth, and to bespatter the King (Ch. 2.) with the basest of scurrilous raillery, one Marchamont Nedham, under the name of Politicus, a Jack of all sides, transcendently gifted in opprobrious and treasonable droll, and hired therefore by Bradshaw to act the second part to his starched and more solemn treason— Who began his first Diurnal with an invective against Monarchy and the Presbyterian Scotch Kirk, and ended it with an Hosanna to Oliver Cromwell, who in the beginning of June returned by the way of Bristol from Ireland to London, etc. These Mercurii Politici (wherein were many discourses against Monarchy, and in behalf of a Free-state, especially in those that were published before Ol. Cromwell gaped after the Supremacy) were constantly carried on till about the middle of Apr. 1660, when then (as several times before) the author was prohibited by order of the Council of State. By virtue of which order, Hen. Muddiman and Giles Dury were authorized to publish their Intelligence every Monday and Thursday, under the titles of Parliamentary Intelligencer and Mercurius Publicus, which continued (Dury soon after giving over) till the middle of Aug. 1663., and then Rog. L'estrange published the Intelligence twice every week in quarto sheets, under the titles of The public Intelligencer and The News. The first of which came out 31 of Aug. and the other on the 3 of September an. 1663. These continued till the 29 of Jan. 1665, at which time L'estrange desisted because in Nou. going before were other kind of News-papers published twice every week in half a sheet in folio. These were▪ called The Oxford Gazette, and the first commenced 7 Nou. 1665, the King and Queen with their Courts being then in Oxon. These for a little time, were written, I think, by Hen. Muddiman: But when the said Courts removed to London, they were entitled and called The London Gazette; the first of which that was published there, came forth on the 5 of Feb. following, the King being then at Whitehall. Soon after Mr. Joseph Williamson Undersecretary of State, procured the writing of them for himself; and thereupon employed Charles Perrot M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. in Oxon, who had a good command of his pen to do that office under him, and so he did, though not constantly, to about 1671. After which time they were constantly written by Under-Secretaries, belonging to those that are Principal, and do continue so to this day.  
The public Intelligencer, communicating the chief occurrences and proceedings within the Dominions of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc.— These Mercuries came out weekly every Monday, but contained mostly the same matter that was in the Politici.  
The case of the Commonwealth of England stated: or the equity, utility and necessity of a submission to the present Government, against all scruples and pretences of the opposite parties, viz. Royalists, Scots, Presbyterians, Levellers, etc. Lond. 1649. in two parts in quarto. There again in 1650, in qu. also.  
Discourse of the excellency of a Free-state above Kingly government. Lond. 1650. qu. published with the former.  
An appendix added out of Claud. Salmasius his Defensio Regis and Mr. Hobbes De corpore politico.  
Trial of Mr. Joh. Goodwin at the bar of religion and right reason, etc. Lond. 1657. qu.  
The great accuser cast down, etc. An answer to a scandalous book intit. The Triers or Tormentors tried and cast, etc. Written by Mr. Joh. Goodwin. Lond. 1657. qu. The said Goodwin did not reply in another Pamphlet, only in a book 
(f) Triumvirs: Or the Genius, Spirit and Deportment of three men, Mr. Rich. Resbury, John Pawson and George Kendal, in their late writings etc. Lond. 1658. in the pref.  which he the year after published against other persons, doth characterize our author Nedham as having a foul mouth which Satan hath opened against the truth and mind of God, etc. as being a person of an infamous and unclean character for the service of the Triers, etc. A man that curseth whatsoever he blesseth, and blesseth whatsoever he curseth, etc. That his book hath a double image visibly stamped upon it, like our Philip and Mary Coin, and therein is a Nye 
(g) Philip Nye one of the chief Triers.  of Oxford learning, as well as a Mouth of Oxford railing in the composition, etc.  
Interest will not lie: or a view of England's true interest in reference to the Papist, royalist, Presbyterian, etc. in refutation of a treasonable Pamphlet intit. The interest of England stated. Lond. 1659. in 6 sh. in large quarto paper.  
The moderate informer, communicating the most remarkable transactions both civil and military in the Commonwealth of England, etc.— It commences with the 12 of May 1659., but not carried on for above two or three weeks. Nedham, it seems, was put out of his place of writing the weekly news in the time of Richard L. Protector, occasioned by the Presbyterians: yet notwithstanding though Joh. Can was put in his place, yet in spite of opposition he carried on the writing of his Mercuries.  
News from Brussels, in a Letter from a near Attendant on his Majesty's person, to a person of honour here, dat. 10 March still. vet. 1659.— There is no name to this Letter, (full of rascallities against K. Ch. 2. and his Court) but the general report was then, that it was written by M. Nedham, and conveyed to the Printer or Bookseller by that notorious Schismatic and grand Zealot for the Good Old Cause called Praise-God Bare-bone. It was answered about a week after in another thing in qu. intit. The late news or message from Brussels unmasked; but by whom it▪ was written I know not.  
A short History of the English Rebellion completed in verse. Lond. 1661. qu. 'Tis a collection of all such verses which he before had printed before each of his Merc. pragmat. and was then by him published to curry favour with the Royalists. This short History was printed again in 1680. qu. when the Presbyterians were busy to carry on their designs under the pretence of the Popish Plot. He did prefix to it The true character of a rigid Presbyter, and added the Coat of Arms of Sir John Presbyter to that edit. of 1661., but the said character was not of his writing.  
Discourse concerning Schools and Schoolmasters Lond. 1663. in one sh. and an half in qu.  
Medela medicinae. A plea for the free profession and renovation of the art of Physic, etc. Lond. 1665 in a large oct. Answered by two Doctors of that faculty, Fellows of the Coll. of Physicians at London, namely Joh. Twysden in his Medicina veterum vindicata, etc. and Rob. Sprackling in his Medela ignorantiae, etc. Our Author Nedham 
(g) In his Pref. to Fr. de le Boe his New idea of the practice of physic— Printed 1675.  saith that four Champions were employed by the Coll. of Physicians to write against this book. Two of which (he saith) are gone already: The third I hear (saith he) is often buried in ale at a place called The hole 
(h) The Hole in the Wall is a noted Alehouse in Baldwins Gardens in Holborn.  in the Wall, and the fourth hath asked me pardon before company, confessing that he was set on by the brotherhood of the confederacy.  
An epistolary discourse before Medicina instaurata, or a brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of Physic, etc. by Edw. Bolnest M. D. Lond. 1665.  
A packet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftsbury, etc. Occasioned by a seditious Pamphlet intit. A Letter from a person of Quality to his friend in the Country, etc. Lond. 1676. qu. Of which book and its author, you may see in another intit. An account of the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England. Lond. 1678. in a thin fol. p. 22. Written by Andr. Marvel Esq.  
A second Packet of Advices etc. occasioned by several seditious Pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people, since the publication of the former Packet, etc. Lond. 1677. qu. This answers first a Pamphlet intit. Some considerations upon the question, whether the Parliament be dissolved by its prorogation for 15 months. (2) Another intit. The long Parliament dissolved, written by Denzill L. Holles: the author of which being sought after, his Chaplain, a Nonconformist, named Cary or Carew, owned it to free his Lord; whereupon he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, in the beginning of Feb. 1676. This Cary after his Lord's death lived in Hatton Garden in Holborn, and practised Physic. (3) A letter from a person newly chosen to sit in this Parliament, to a Bencher in the Temple; with a pretended answer of the Bencher to the same. (4) A narrative of the cause and manner of the imprisonment of the Lords, now close prisoners in the Tower of London: The said two Pacquets of Advices were written as 'tis 
(i) See the third part of No Protestant Plot, p. 58.59.  said by Nedham, and he encouraged thereunto by Edm. Warcup a Justice of Peace, and Thomas Earl of Danby.  
Christianissimus Christianandus: or, reasons for the reduction of France to a more Christian state in Europe. Lond. 1678. in 10 sh. in qu. Besides all these, he hath written several other small things, which I have not yet seen. He hath translated into English Mare clausum, printed in fol. 1652 or thereabouts; but he being then no way affected to Monarchy, gave himself therefore the licence to foist in the name of a Commonwealth instead of the Kings of England, and also to suppress the Epist. ded. to the King. He also added an Appendix to it concerning the Sovereignty of the Kings of Great Britain on the sea, intit. Additional Evidences, which he procured, as 'twas thought, of Joh. Bradshaw. All which, besides treasonable Comments and false Glosses, were done in the life time of the learned author Joh. Selden. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. the English copy was corrected, perfected and restored, by J. H. Gent. and pr. at London 1662. fol. He the said Nedham also hath written a Preface before the book intit. A new idea of the practice of Physic, written by 
(k) Fr. de le Boe, died at Leyden in Holl. 1665.  Frane. de le Boe, Silvius; published in English at London in 1675. oct. In which Pref. towards the latter end, our author Nedham saith that he had then (1675 and before) a purpose to publish some Essays to discover what may be done by able men towards an advancement of knowledge in the power of Plants, by the examining their natures by the principles and operations of the Chemists: also that he was about to form divers Treatises for public view, etc. By the way it must be known that our author in the said Preface doth show himself a great disliker of the common way of the first studying of Physic in the Universities, and seems also to run down University promotions or degrees, calling them in derision the doctoral confederates, the scholastic family of a fine breed, who come to town with the learned Cushion, Cap, and Scarlet— The Apothecary's boys are able to tutor them in Town-practice— They vaunt and make a noise with their anatomical rattle— spend much time in Anatomy— neglect the chemical way, etc. Several things are fathered also upon him, of which he was not in the least the author, as the publication of The Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Hen. Ireton and Joh. Bradshaw, intended to have been spoken at their execution at Tyburn, 30 Jan. 1660, etc. Lond. 1660. in one sh. and half in qu. said in the title to be published by Marcham. Nedham and pain Fisher, Servants, Poets and Pamphleteers to his infernal Highness. At length this most seditious, mutable and railing author M. Nedham died suddenly in the house of one Kidder in D'eureux Court near Temple bar, 
1678.  London, in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and was buried on the 29 of Novemb. (being the Vigil of S. Andrew) at the upper end of the body of the Church of S▪ Clements Danes, near the entrance into the chancel. Soon after, that Church being pulled down and rebuilt, and the letters on his grave taken away or defaced, you shall have in their place this Epitaph made on him an. 1647, printed at the end of Merc. Britanicus his welcome to hell. 
Here lies Britanicus, Hell's barking Cur,  
That son of Belial, who kept damned stir:  
And every Monday spent his stock of spleen,  
In venomous▪ railing on the King and Queen.  
Who, though they both in goodness may forgive him,  
Yet (for his safety) we'll in hell receive him.  With this person may well be coupled Henry Care, several times reflected upon by Rog. L'estrange in his Observators, for a poor snivelling Fellow; who after he had wrote several things in the behalf of the Church of England, and the Presbyterians▪ and had reflected on both the Universities in several of his Writings as popishly affected, was at length prevailed upon in the time of King Jam. 2. to write for the Rom. Catholics, against the Church which he before had eagerly defended: where by it was made manifest, that what he wrote, was not for Religion or Conscience sake, which he before did pretend, but merely for Interest. After his death, which happened in Aug. 1688, was an Elegy written in his commendation, printed on one side of a sheet of paper, and a satirical thing called Henry Cares last Will and Testament.  
JOHN NEWTON son of Humphrey Newton of Oundle in Northamptonshire, and he the second son of Joh Newt. in Axmouth in Devo●sh. was born in Northamptonshire, became a Communer of S. Edm. Hall in Mich. term 1637, aged 15 years, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1641, and in the year following was actually created Master of that faculty among several Esquires, Gentlemen and Soldiers that belonged to the K. and Court then residing in this University. At which time his genie being naturally inclined to Mathematics and Astronomy, he, by continual industry, made great proficiency in them, which he found advantageous to him in the times of Usurpation. After his Majesty's return he was actually created Doct. of Div, made one of the King's Chaplains, and Rector of Rosse in Herefordshire, in the place, I think, of Mr. Joh. Tombs ejected; which he kept to his dying day. He hath written these things following, mostly printed in qu.  
Astronomia Britannica. Exhibiting the doctrine of the Sphere, and theory of Planets decimally by Trigonometry and by Tables, etc. in 3 parts. Lond. 1656. 57 qu.  
Help to calculation, with tables of Declinat. Ascensions, etc. Lond. 1657. qu.  
Trigonometria Britannica: showing the construction of the natural and artificial Sins, Tangents, and Secants, and table of Logarithms, and the use of the said Canon in the resolution of all Triangles, plain or spherical, etc. in two books. Lond. 1658. fol. one composed by our author Newton, the other translated from the lat. copy of Hen. Gellibrand.  
Chiliades centum logarithmorum. Printed with the former.  
Geometrical trigonometry, etc. Lond▪ 1659.  
Mathematical Elements, in three parts. Lond. 166●. 63. qu.  
A perpetual Diary or Almanac.— Engraven on copper, and printed on one side of a sheet of paper, 1662.  
Description of the use of the Carpenter's Rule. Lond. 1667.  
Ephemerideses: or Diary showing the interest and rebate of money at six per cent. etc. Lond. 1667.  

Chiliades decem logarith●o●um. Lond. 1667.  
Tabula partium proportionalium. Lond. 1667.   
The scale of interest: or the use of decimal fractions, etc. part 2. Lond. 1668. oct.  
School pastime for young Children: or an easy and delightful method for the teaching of Children to read English directly. Lond. 1669. oct.  
Art of practical gauging of casks and Brewers tuns, etc. Lond. 1669.  
Introduction to the Art of Logic. Lond. 1670. 78. in tw.  
Introd. to the Art of Rhetoric. Lond. 1671. in tw, which as to its form and method, is the same with that of Ch. Butler, and for invention and disposition, with that of the first part of Mich. Radau's Orator extemporaneus. But these two Introductions, I presume, are, or at least most part of them, involved in The English Academy that follows.  
The Art of natural Arithmetic in whole numbers and fractions, vulgar and decimal, etc. Lond. 1672. oct.  
The English Academy: or, a brief Introduction to the seven liberal Arts, Grammar, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, &c Lond. 1677. oct. Most of which Arts having before been published singly by themselves, are in this book epitomised, and chiefly intended for the instruction of young Scholars, who are acquainted with no other than their native language.  
cosmography: or a view of the terrestrial and celestial Globes, in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid Geometry, etc. Lond. 1679 oct.  
Introduction to Astronomy, in two parts.  
Introd. to Geography.— These two are printed with the Cosmography. This learned, but capricious and humorous person, Dr. Newton, died at Rosse before mentioned, on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour, in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under the south wall, as I have been informed by a Gentleman of the neighbourhood in those parts. He had an elder brother named Humph. Newton Bach. of the Civ. Law, and sometimes Fellow of Alls. Coll. who dying on the 6 of Sept. 1659., was buried in the Chapel of that College. Besides the said Joh. Newton, I find another, M. of Arts, sometimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambr. and afterwards Vicar of S. Martin's Ch. in Leycester, author of a Sermon intit. The penitent recognition of joseph's Brethren, etc. Lond. 1684. quart.  
ANTHONY PALMER son of Anth. Palm. was born at Great Comberton in Worcestershire, became a Student in Balliol Coll. an. 1634, aged 16 years, admitted Fellow thereof, after he had taken one degree, 29 Nou. 1640; and in the year after being then Master of Arts, he entered into holy Orders. But all things at that time being in a very sad confusion in the Nation, he sided with the Presbyterians then dominant, took the Covenant, had some employment among them, and was all things to all men, such was the mutability and vanity of the person. At length the rich Rectory of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire being made void, he got into it, resigned his Fellowship in Octob. 1649, took the Engagement, and was afterwards an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County, for the ejecting of such whom the Brethren called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, that is, loyal and orthodox Clergymen, being about that time (1654.) Anabaptistically inclined, and a great favourer of those of that persuasion and their Tenets. About the time of his Majesty's Restauration he was by the force of some of the Royalists of his Town driven from his charge, as having been a most pernicious person as to his doctrine, and a great enemy to the Loyal party: whereupon he withdrew and put in a Curate, but he being disturbed, they got one to read the Common-Prayer. In the year following there was published in that Villainous imposture called, Annus Mirabilis: or the year of prodigies and wonders, etc. Printed 1661. a story 
(*) Pag. 79. nu. 22.  concerning this matter, and an account of a strange judgement that befell two of his Disturbers, viz. one, who was soon▪ after suddenly stricken with death, and another, who was smitten in a very strange manner, etc. After our author Palmer had been forced to leave that comfortable harbour, he retired to London, where we find him to have had a hand in, or at least consenting to, that stupendious Tragedy, which was intended to be acted by the Satanical Saints, in Nov▪ 1662., for which George Phillipps, Tho Tonge, Franc. Stubbs, etc. suffered 22. Dec. the same year. Afterwards he carried on the trade of conventicling to his last, and thereby obtained a comfortable subsistence from the brethren. His works are these,  
A Scripture rail to the Lords table, against Mr. Jo. Humphrey's treatise of Free admission to the Sacrament. Lond. 1654. oct. or tw.  
Memorials of Godliness and Christianity; with the way of making religion one's business, etc. Lond▪ in tw.  
The Christians Freedom by Christ, or God's deed of Gift to the Saints. Lond. in tw.  
The Gospel new Creature; wherein the work of the Spirit is opened, in awakening the soul; to the gaining pardon of sin, and an interest in Jesus Christ is plainly opened, etc. Lond 1658 1674. oct.  
The Tempestuous soul Calmed by Jesus Christ— These two last are grounded upon certain texts of Scripture. He hath written other things which I have not seen, and therefore I shall only tell you, that he taking his last farewell of this world on the 26. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678/9.  was buried in the fanatical burial place joining to Old Bedlam near to morefield's by London; where some years since I saw an altar monument of stone over his grave. Several of the Surname of Palmer have been writers, and one Thom. Palmer who was Minister of S. Laurence Pountney in London did zealously assert the former rebellion as well with his Sword as Pen. Upon his Maj restauration being ejected, he retired into Derbyshire, where we find him at Aston carrying on the cause by preaching, but being thence ejected, he became an Itinerant preacher, and a gatherer of Churches here and there, and in the month of July or thereabouts, an. 1663., he was secured in Nottingham for preaching in Conventicles. But soon after getting loose, we find him engaged in that fanatical hellish plot in the north parts of England, which was discovered in the beginning of Oct. 1663., and for which several suffered death at York▪ and elsewhere: But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet. Sure I am that his name was in his Majesty's Proclamation for his apprehension, and was therein described to be a tall man, flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age.  
JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas, son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex, descended from those of his name in Cheshire, was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond, educated in Merchant-Taylors School▪ became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621., aged 18 years or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristol. In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex, and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew, in London. In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Diu. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching; but when the nation was turned topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people, he was despoiled of all, suffered much for the royal cause, was a brand snatched out of the fire, and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet. At length, after his Majesty's restauration, he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660, upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsor, and by virtue of the King's Congee d' eslire, being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663., upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln, was soon after consecrated, and on the 28. of May (Ascension day) installed. He hath written and published,  
Horae Succissivae: or spare hours of meditations upon our duty to God, others and ourselves. Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw. being the fifth edit. In the year 1620 was published in ●● a book entit.— Horae Subsecivae. Observations and discourses, but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish, who died before his father▪ Will. Earl of Devonshire, which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written  
Daily thoughts: or, a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane. Lond. 1651. oct. the third edit. with enlargements. He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street, Covent●Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight: 
167●/●.  whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex, was buried in the Church of East●Lavant near Chichester, close by the body of his only wife Jane, sometimes daughter of Thomas May of that place, and near to a son that he had buried there.  
JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hygh●Wycombe in Bucks, became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts, left the University about two years after, entered into the sacred function, and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant, he put in for one, having always been precisely educated, closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant; and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause, he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark, took the Engagement, was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough conferred on him, as I have been informed by those that knew the man; where, or else at S. Thomas, continuing till after his Majesty's restauration, was ejected for Nonconformity. He hath written and published,  
The glorious mystery of God's mercy: or, a precious cordial for fainting souls, etc. Lond. 1647. oct. This book is the effect of certain Sermons.  
The grand trial of true conversion, or sanctifying grace, appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts; wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in man's thoughts, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. This also, as it seems, is the effect of certain Sermons.  
The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel, and mystery of the Gospel in the Law— Printed in oct. Whether he hath any other things extant, I cannot tell: sure I am, that, after his ejection he removed to several places, and preached in Conventicles; and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity (High Wicombe) concluded his last there▪ to the great lamentation of the brethren, in sixteen hundred seventy and nine: 
1679.  whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place, was buried on th● ninth day of June, the same year, in the north isle joining thereunto.  
JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born, bred in Merchant Tailor's School, became Scholar of S. John's Coll. in 1665, junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts, and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of sheldon's Theatre, an. 1669. Afterwards, being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House, he was made Lecturer of St. Michael's Cornhill, and Curate to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin, in London. He hath written,  
Poems upon several occasions. Lond. 1667. oct.  
Character of a London Scrivener— Printed with the Poems. He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mentioned, 24 of August, in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, 
1679.  having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mentioned, widow of Sir John Man's, and always accounted an ingenious man.  
JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall, was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet, London, admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661. aged 16 years, cho●e probationer●fellow of Alls. Coll. soon after, upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq. one of the Secretaries of State; where, though he had a Legists' place and took the degrees in the Civil Law, yet he studied Physic, and became noted for his practice therein, especially in the Summer time, in the City of bath, but better known by these books, which show the pregnancy of his parts: 

De Respiratione, tractatus unus. Oxon. 1668. 69. etc. oct.  
De Rachitide, tract. un. Oxon. 1668. 69. etc. oct.    
Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions, nu. 41. p. 833. an. 1668.  

De Salnitro & spiritu nitro-acerbo. Ox. 1674. in a large oct.  
De Respiratione Faetûs in utero & ovo. Ox. 1674. in a large oct.  
De motu musculari & spiritibus ani malibus. Ox. 1674. in a large oct.   
Of these three last (with which were printed again the two first) is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact. nu. 105. p. 101. etc. And all five, were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct. He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecary's house, bearing the sign of the Anchor in Yorkstreet near Covent Garden, within the liberty of Westminster (having been married a little before not altogether to his content) in the month of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, 
1679.  and was buried in the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden. One Joh. Mayo was Minister of Catistock in Dorsetshire, and published certain Sermons, in 1630 and after, but of what University he was, I know not yet, nor where Jo. Maio was bred, who was author of the Pope's Parliament, wherein are throughly delivered, and brightly blazed out, the paltry trash and trumperies of him and his poling prelate's, &c. whereunto is annexed the life of Pope Joan. Lond. 1591. qu.  
JOHN SMITH the eldest son of a Gentleman, was born in Bucks, admitted a Communer of Brasn. Coll. 7. Aug. 1647 aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, entered on the Physic line, proceeded in that faculty 1659., and at length became one of the Coll. of Physicians, and eminent for his practice in London. He hath written and published,  
The Portrait of old age: wherein is contained a sacred Anatomy both of soul and body, and a perfect account of the infirmities of age incident to them both: Being a Paraphrase upon the six former verses of the twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes Lond 1666. oct. etc. 'tis a philosophical discourse, though upon a sacred theme, and therein is to be met with an ingenious observation concerning the antiquity of the doctrine of the blood's circulation. See in the Philosoph, Transactions, numb. 14. p. 254. Matth. Pool in his second vol. of Synopsis, makes an honourable mention and use of it. This learned Doctor died in his house in the Parish of S. Helen the Great in London, in Winter time, either in Octob. or Nou. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, 
1679.  and was buried in the Church there, in a vault near his wife. One John Smith a Physician published The complete practice of Physic, wherein is described, etc. Lond. 1656. in tw: but he is not the same, I suppose, with the former: Quaere.  
JOHN BIRKENHEAD son of Randall Birkenhead of Northwych in Cheshire Sadler, was born there, became a Servitor of Oriel Coll. under the tuition of Humphrey Lloyd (afterwards B. of Bangor) in the beginning of the year 1632 aged 17 years; where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, became Amanuensis to Dr Laud Archbishop of Cant, who taking a liking to him for his ingenuity, did by his Diploma make him Master of Arts, an. 1639 and by his letters commendatory thereupon, was elected Probationer-Fellow of Alls. Coll. in the year following. After the rebellion broke out, and the King and his Court hid settled themselves in Oxford, this our author Mr. Birkenhead was appointed to write the Mercurii Aulici; which being very pleasing to the Loyal party, his Majesty recommended him to the Electors, that they would choose him Moral Philosophy Reader: which being accordingly done, he continued in that office, with little profit from it, t●ll 1648, at which time he was not only turned out thence, but from his fellowship. Afterwards he retired to London, suffered several imprisonments for his Majesty's cause, lived by his wits in helping young Gentlemen out at dead lifts in making Poems, Songs, and Epistles, on, and to, their respective Mistresses, as also in translating and writing several little things, and other petite Employments. After his Majesty's restauration he was by virtue of his letters sent to the University, actually created Doctor of the Civil Law, and in 1661. he was elected a Burges for Wilton to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 8. of May the same year. In 1662. Nou. 14 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty, King Charles the Second and in Jan. 1663. he was constituted one of the Masters of Requests in the place of Sir Rich. Fanshaw when he went Ambassador into Spain,) he being then also Master of the Faculties, and a member of the Royal Society. A certain 
(a) The author of A Seasonable argument to persuade all the grand Juries to petition for a new Parliament, etc. Printed 1677. qu p. 19  Anonymus tells us that this Sir Joh. Birkenhead was a poor Alehouse-keepers son, and that he got by lying (or buffooning) at court, to be one of the Masters of Requests and Faculty Office, and in boons at Court 3000 l. The truth is had he not been given too much to bantring, which is now taken up by vain and idle people, he might have passed for a good wit. And had he also expressed himself grateful and respectful to those that had been his benifactors in the time of his necessity, which he did not, but rather slight them, (showing thereby the baseness of his spirit) he might have passed for a friend and a loving companion. He hath written,  
Mercurius Aulicus: communicating the intelligence and affairs of the Court (at Oxon) to the rest of the Kingdom— The first of these was published on the first of Jan. 1642 and were carried on till about the end of 1645; after which time they were published but now and then. They were printed weekly in one sheet, sometimes in more, in quarto, and contain a great deal of wit and buffonery. Mercurius Britanicus penned by Foul-mouthed Nedham, no more his equal than a Dwarf to a Giant, or the goodness of his cause to that of the Kings, tells us that 
(b) In Merc. Britan. nu. 16.  the penning of these Mercurii Aulici was the act of many, viz. Birkenhead the Scribe, Secretary Nicholas the informer, and George Digby the contriver. Also that an assessment of wits was laid upon every Coll, and paid weekly for the communion of this thing called Mercurius Aulicus. But let this liar say what he will, all that were then in Oxford knew well enough that John Birkenhead began, and carried them on, and in his absence P. Heylyn supplied his place and wrote many of them.  
News from Pembroke and Montgomery: Or Oxford Manchestered, etc.— Printed in 1648 in one sh. in qu. 'Tis a feigned speech, as spoken by Philip Earl of Pembroke in the Convocation house at Oxon. 12. Apr. 1648 when he came to visit and undo the University, as Edward Earl of Manchester had done that of Cambridg, while he was Chancellor thereof. 'tis exceeding waggish, and much imitating he way of speaking of Pembroke.  
Paul's Churchyard. Libri Theologici, Politici, Historici, nundinis Paulinis (una cum templo) prostant venales, etc. Printed in 3 several sheets in qu. an. 1649. These Pamphlets contain feigned titles of books and Acts of Parliaments, and several questions; all reflecting on the reformers and men of those times.  
The four-legged Quaker. A ballad to the tune of the dog and elders maid. Lond. 1659. in 3. columes on one side of a sh. of paper. Such another almost you may see in Sir Joh. denham's Poems and translations.  
The Assembly man. (or the character of an Assembly man) written 1647. Lond. 1662/3 in three sheets in qu. The Copy of it was taken from the author by those who said they could not rob, because all was theirs▪ so excized what they liked not, and so mangled and reform it that 'twas no character of an Assembly, but of themselves. At length after it had slept several years, the author published it to avoid false copies. It is also reprinted in a book entit. Wit and Loyalty revived in a collection of some smart Satyrs in verse and prose on the late times. Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley, Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam▪ Butler. He hath also several scattered copies of verses and translations extant, to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Laws, as (1) Anacreon's Ode, called The Lute, Englished (from Greek) and to be sung by a Bass alone. (2) An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater, 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers, and another called The Jolt, made upon the Protectors (Cromwell) being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach, at what time for recreation sake, who would needs, forsooth, drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park, drawn by six great Germane horses, sent him, as a present, by the Count of Oldenburgh, while his Secretary John Thurloe sat in the Coach, in July 1654. He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall, on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, 
1679.  and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Churchyard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster, leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets, which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston. See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers, an. 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead, was another of both his names a Divine, who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5. in qu.  
THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts, was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588., which day was then Goodfriday, by a memorable token that such, whom the world call Hobbists, have several times said, that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world, so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them, or to that effect. After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer, he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602, where being puritanically educated, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, an. 1607: which being completed by Determination, was, upon the recommendations of the then Principal, taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick, (afterwards Earl of Devonshire) with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity, temperate and jocund humour, was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish, several years younger than Hobbes. Soon after he traveled with him into France and Italy, where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries, but also as to men and manners. In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay, and in some manner to be forgotten, made use of all the spare hours that he could obtain, to retrieve it first, and then to build upon it afterwards, minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue, than Logic and Philosophy, because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men. After his return into England, he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets, and sometimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians, not that he might write floridly, but in a good latin stile, and with more consideration find out the congruity of words, and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easy. Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucydides in more esteem than the rest; which, at spare hours, he translating into English, was, after it had been approved by several persons, published about the year 1628., to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country. The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mentioned dying, after this our author had served him 20 years, partly in the office of Secretary, he traveled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas' Clifton: in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method, not only for the Theorems therein, but for the art of reasoning. In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire, to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature. After he had served in that office three years, he traveled with him, as his governor, into France and Italy. While he remained at Paris, he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science; which, when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion, he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense, understanding▪ representations and other proprieties of Animals: And what he did in this, he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim, conversant in all kind of Philosophy, and a good man as to life and conversation. In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil, (since his benevolent Patron) and remained with him in great respect in his family; from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledge with Marsennus. In the mean time the Scots, after they had ejected there Bishops, took up arms against their King, being encouraged thereunto, and favoured, by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the La●-party of England. To stop their career, a Parliament was called in England, began at Westm 3. Nou. 1640; from the proceedings of which Convention, our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning, that a Civil war would suddenly follow, he retired forthwith to Paris, that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there, and converse with Marsennus, Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning. While he remained at Paris, he wrote his book De cive, which afterwards he reviewed, and added many things thereunto. Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing, many Royalists of great note, particularly the Prince of Wales, retired to Paris: About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there, to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him; but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematics, he continued of Paris, followed that employment very diligently, and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit. Leviathan, not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations, which he procured to 〈…〉 at London, while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age. Soon after, being recalled home to the house of his Patron the Earl of Devon, he published two books, one De Corpore, and another De Homine. The first was oppugned by two Theologists, who were afterwards ashamed (as 'tis said) of what they had done; the other rested untouched. Soon after he published others, the titles of which I shall give you anon, and only now say, that though he hath an ill name from some, and good from others, yet he was a person endowed with an excellent Philosophical soul, was a contemner of riches, money, envy, the world, etc. He was charitable and beneficial to his Relations and others. He was a severe lover of Justice, and endowed with great Morals. Among those that he lived with and was conversant, he was cheerful, open, and free of his discourse, yet without offence to any, which he endeavoured always to avoid. Many writers do speak honourably of him in their respective works, and Dr. Sam. Sorbiere his great acquaintance doth mention him with venerable respect in the Relation 
(a) Printed at Paris in French, 1664. p. 65. etc.  of his voyage into England, and tells us also that his picture (which was drawn by the hand of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of the age he lived in) hangs in his Majesty's Closet at Whitehall. His Picture also hath been in great esteem in France, insomuch that the Vertuosis thereof have come as 'twere in Pilgrimage to the house of Sorbiere to see it. Outlandish Gentlemen also, when they came to London, during the life time of the author, did make it one of their employs to visit him, and Cosmo Prince (since the Great Duke) of Tuscany, went to him more than once, in the month of May 1669 and discoursed and was pleasant with him. He also expressed so great veneration for him, that he and some of his Genltemen carried with them all his published works. His Majesty also K. Ch. 2. delighted in his company when he learned Mathematics of him, and expressed his esteem so much of him after his restauration, that he allowed him a pension of an 100 l. per an. out of his Exchequer. He was most excellently well skilled in the Lat. and Gr. tongues, was a great Critic and Poet and above all a Philosopher and Mathematician; yet in his last days, after he had been exasperated by certain Academians, especially of Oxon, he expressed himself in his writings an enemy to the Universities, Scholastical Divinity, Metaphysics, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, etc. To conclude: A man he was of excellent parts, (as a noted 
(b) E●w. Hyde Earl of Clarendon in his Brief view and survey of Mr. Hobbes' L●viathan, p. 2.3.  author tells us) of great wit, some reading and somewhat more thinking.— One who had spent many years in foreign parts and observation, understood the learned, as well as the modern, languages, had long the reputation of a great Philosopher and Mathematician, and in his age had conversation with very many worthy and extraordinary men; to which, it may be, if he had been more indulgent in the more vigorous part of his life, it might have had an influence upon the temper of his mind, whereas age seldom submits to those questions, inquiries and contradictions, which the laws and liberties of conversation require: And it hath been always a lamentation amongst Mr. Hobbes his friends, that he spent too much time in thinking and too little in exercising those thoughts in the company of other men of the same, or of as good faculties; for want whereof his natural constitution, with age, contracted such a morosity, that doubting and contradicting men were never grateful to him.— In a word, besides his eminent parts of learning and knowledge, he was always looked upon as a man of probity and a life free from scandal, etc. The books and other things that he hath written are these.  
De Mirabilibus Pecci. This is a lat. poem and was printed at Lond about 1636, and the second time there in 1666 in qu. Translated into English by a person of quality, and printed with the Latin at Lond. 1678. oct. It treats of the wonders of the Devil's arse in peak, near Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Such a book also entit. The wonders of the peake, was written by Charles Cotton Esq— Lond. 1681. qu. a poem.  
Elementa Philosophica de Cive Par. 1642. etc.  
Answer to Sir Will. D'avenants' Epist. or pref. to Gondibert. Par. 1650. in tw. afterwards printed with Gondibert in qu.  
Humane nature: or the fundamental Elements of policy; being a discovery of the faculties, acts and passions of the soul of man. Lond. 1650 in tw. etc.  
De Corpore Politico: or of the Elements of the Law. Lond. 1650 in tw. etc.  
Leviathan: or the matter, form and power of a Commonwealth. Lond. 1651 fol. Reprinted there again with its old date, an. 1680 fol. Turned into lat. by another hand, and printed at Amsterd. 1668. qu. etc.  
Review of the Leviathan— Print. only with the English editions; and in the place of that, in those of the Lat. is an Appendix consisting barely of three chapters. As for the Review and the writing thereof, an eminent 
(c) The said Edw. Earl of Clar. in the same Brief view, etc. p. 317.  author will give you a better account than I can: therefore I pray go to him. It is said by one 
(d) March. Nedham in Merc. Pol. nu. 84, from Jan. 8. to Jan. 15. an. 1651.- 2.  who was no friend to K. Ch. 2. or Monarchy, that the author Mr. Hobbes being at Paris when his book was published, he sent one of them as a present to the King of Scots, which he accepted in regard he had been his Tutor in the Mathematics, but being afterwards informed by some of his Priests, that that book did not only contain many Principles of Atheism and gross impiety, (for so they call every thing that squares not with the Clergy interest) but also such that were prejudicial to the Church, and reflected dangerously upon the Majesty of Sovereign Princes; therefore when Mr. Hobbes came to make a tender of his service to him in person, he was rejected, and word brought him by the Marquis of Ormonde, that the King would not admit him, and withal told him the reason: By which means Mr. Hobbes declines in credit with his friends there of the Royal Stamp, etc. Many have been the authors that have written against this Leviathan, as may be seen in Auctarium Vitae Hobbianae, and partly in the body of this work: But more by far have been the censures of it, and those severe too, as having no true Divinity, or true Philosophy or true policy in it. The author several times saith that the law of nature is the law of God, and yet all wickedness is lawful by the law of nature.— That no Homicide, or Selfcide, or Fratricide, or Patricide is against the law of nature. If so, 'tis a wise law that forbids nothing. Also that there must be a law of God winking at most unnatural impieties: That which forbids nothing is no law. As for policy, he lays the foundation of the government in the populace, which overthrows all government, and that might is right: But if he had consulted the Scripture, the word of God would have showed that the foundation of government was not laid in the people. Read the Assyrian monarchy and the rest, and you'll find that the beginning of government was not in the people. See the story of Romulus and there is the contrary. 'Tis true, people are causa sine qua non, but no finite. The power of the key, is not given by God out of the common of the people, nor the power of the sword. As for Philosophy, 'tis enough that he kicks off Aristotle, a man admired by all ages and all persons, as a wise secretary of nature. There are some things or scales of the Leviathan which the Reader cannot conceive to be impregnable as yet, till he see farther and plainer proofs of them as (1) That the Sovereign hath no power but from the people, and that it is only the mutual consent of the major part, transferring their natural right upon him that makes it so. cap. 18. (2) That the Parent hath no right or power of dominion over the Child by generation, as his Parent, or because he begat him, but only by the Child's consent, either express, or by other sufficient arguments declared. cap. 20. (3) That the Victor can have no right or dominion over the vanquished, but only by the vanquisheds' consent, etc. ibid. And as for those matters which are looked upon as blasphemous by some Scholars, and others, I shall refer the reader to a little pamphlet entit. A Beacon set on fire, etc. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 14.15. This book of the Leviathan which hath a great name among, and is much celebrated by many, contains in it (notwithstanding some very odd principles) good learning of all kinds, politely 
(e) Edw. E. of Clar. in his Survey of the Leviathan, p. 2. See more in p. 5.6, 8.306.319. See also in the Epistle ded. to the King.  extracted and very wittingly and cunningly digested, in a very commendable method and in a vigorous and pleasant stile: which hath prevailed over too many, to swallow many new tenets as maxims without chewing; which manner of diet, for the indisgestion, Mr. Hobbes himself did much dislike, etc. At length after the Parliament had censured it, (as also the book of Purgatory written by Tho. de Albiis) in the month of Oct. 1666, (in which month a Bill was brought into the House against Atheism and Profaneness) and some of the principal Heads of this University had found therein, as in that De Cive, several positions destructive to the sacred persons of Princes, their state and government, and of all humane society, the venerable Convocation did, by their judgement and decree passed among them on the 21. of July 1683, condemn them as pernicious and damnable, and thereupon caused the said two books to be publicly burnt (with others of the like nature) in their School court or quadrangle, just after the dissolution of that Convocation. Our author Hobbes also hath written,  
Compendium of Aristotle's Rhetoric and Ramus his Logic.  
Letter about liberty and necessity. Lond. 1654. in tw. There again 1684. oct. 3d. edit. On this letter were observations made and written by Dr. Ben. Laney, as I have told you in the Fasti an. 1617.  
Elementorum Philosophiae sectio prima de corpore; part. 4. Lond. 1655. oct. There again in English, 1656. qu. etc.  
Six Lessons to the professors of Mathematics of the institution of Sir Hen. Savile (viz. Ward and Wallis) Lond. 1656. qu.  
The marks of the absurd Geometry, rural Language, etc. of Dr. Wallis. Lond. 1657. oct.  
De Homine sect. 2. Lond. 1657. qu. Amstel. 1668. qu.  
The questions concerning liberty and necessity, and chance, stated and debated between him and Dr. Bramhall Bishop of London-Derry. Lond. 1656. qu.  
Examinatio & emendatio Mathematicae hodiernae etc. in sex dialogis. Lond. 1660. Amstel. 1668. qu.  
Dialogus Physicus, seu de natura aeris. Lond. 1661. oct. Amstel. 1668. qu.  
Considerations upon the reputation, loyalty, manners and religion of Tho. Hobbes, by way of a letter to a learned person. Lond. 1662. and 1680. oct.  
De duplicatione cubi. Lond. 1661. Amst. 1668. qu.  
Problemata physica, una cum magnitudine circuli. Lond. 1662. Amst. 1668. qu.  
De principiis & ratiocinatione Geometrarum, contra fastuosum professorem Geometriae. Amst. 1668. qu.  
Quadratura circuli, cubatio sphaerae, duplicatio cubi; una cum responsione ad objectiones Geometriae professoris Saviliani Oxoniae editas, an. 1669. Lond. 1669. qu.  
Responsio ad objectiones Wallisii Oxoniae editas, an. 1669. ad. quadraturam circuli, etc. Lond. 1671.  
Rosetum Geometricum, sive propositiones aliquot frustra antehac tentatae, cum censura brevi doctrinae Wallisianae de motu. Lond. 1671. qu. There is some account given of this book in the Philosophical Transactions, nu. 72. an. 1671.  
Three papers presented to the Royal society against Dr. Wallis, with considerations on Dr. Wallis his answer to them. Lond. 1671. qu.  

Lux Mathematica, &c▪ Lond. 1672. qu.  
Censura doctrinae Wallisianae de libra▪ Lond. 1672. qu.  
Rosetum Hobbesit. Lond. 1672. qu.   
Principia & problemata aliquot Geometrica ante desperata, nunc breviter explicata & demonstrata. Lond. 1674. qu.  
Epistola ad D●m. Ant. à Wood authorem Historiae & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. Dated 20. Apr. 1674, printed in half a sheet on one side. It was written to the said Mr. Wood upon his complaint made to Mr Hobbes of several deletions and additions made in, and to, his life and character (which he had written of him in that book) by the publisher (Dr. Jo. Fell) of the said Hist. & Antiq. to the great dishonour and disparagement of the said Mr. Hobbes. Whereupon, when that History was finished, came out a scurrilous answer to the said Epistle, written by Dr. Fell, which is at the end of that History.  
Letter to William Duke of Newcastle concerning the controversy had with Dr. Laney Bishop of Ely about liberty and necessity. Lond. 1676 in tw.  
Decameron Physiologicum: or ten dialogues of natural philosophy, etc. Lond. 1678 oct. To which is added the Proportion of a strait line to hold the arch of a Quadrant. An account of this book is in the Philos. Transact. nu. 138. p. 965.  
His last words and dying Legacy— Printed on one side of a sheet of paper in Dec. 1679, published by Charles Blount (Son of Sir Hen. Blount) from the Leviathan, purposely to weaken and expose Hobb●s's doctrine. Much about the same time was published,  
His memorable sayings in his books, and at the Table— Printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper, with his picture before them.  
Behemoth. The History of the Civil Wars of England from 1640 to 1660. Lond. 1679. 80. 82. oct. In which book (containing many faults) are several things against religion, ancient learning, Universities, etc.  
Vita Thomae Hobbes: Written by himself in a lat. poem. It was printed at Lond. in qu. about 3. weeks after the author's death, viz. in the latter end of Dec. 1679, and a fortnight after that, about the 10 of Jan. it was published in English verse, by another hand.— Lond. 1680. in 5. sh. in fol. The said lat. copy was reprinted, and put at the end of Vitae Hobbianae auctarium.  
Historical narration of heresy and the punishment thereof. Lond. 1680 in 4. sh. and an half in fol. There again in 1682 oct. It is mostly taken out of the second chapter De Haeresi of his Appendix to the Leviathan in latin, and seems to have been wrote purposely to vindicate its author from all default in the publication of the Leviathan. For after he hath deduced from our Saviour's time the different punishments (by way of History) by laws enacted and inflicted on those who were declared Heretics throughout the several ages of the Church, (having told what was done in other parts of the world relating to this point) he proceeds to reckon up the many laws here in force against Heretics, from the first profession of Christianity, down to the ●ate Civil Wars, and saith that the Court of High Commission had the sole power of declaring what was heresy, according to the mind of the first four general Councils (that is according to the faith declared in the Nicene Creed, as is manifest from the Councils themselves) invested in them, in all Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, that after this Court was taken away at the beginning of the late troubles, thereby to satisfy the restless clamours of the Presbyterian party against it, no body stood then empowered by lawful authority either to declare what was heresy, or to punish any one proved to be this way obnoxious. At this time he saith his Leviathan came forth; for the writing of which, he could not be deemed heretical: And the reasons which moved him to compose and publish that book, (so much justly excepted against) he there gives and then concludes. So that 'tis manifest he aims and levels at this as his end in this narration, viz. to vindicial himself from the imputation of disturbing the peace contrary to the known laws of the realm by his setting forth such monstrous and dangerous tenets and principles in his Leviathan. He addeth also that at the first Parliament, after the King's restauration, the Episcoparians and Presbyterians accused it of heresy, and yet there was no law then which declared what it was. The falsity of the said Historical narration of Heresy, is shown in a small treatise entit. The Leviathan heretical: or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified, etc. written by John dowel Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leycestershire— Oxon. 1683. in tw. In which book p. 137 the author saith that Oliver gaining this Protectorship, was so pleased, with many of his principles laid down in the Leviathan, which tended to justify and support his usurpation, that the great place of being Secretary was proffered to him.  
Vita Thomae Hobbes. Written by himself in prose, and printed at Caropolis alias London before Vitae Hobbianae auctarium, an. 1681. oct. There again 1682. qu.  
A brief of the art of Rhetoric. containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books of that subject— Printed in tw. but not said when. Afterwards it was published in two books— Lond. 1681. oct. The first bearing the title of The Art of Rhetoric, and the other of The Art of Rhetoric plainly set forth; with pertinent examples for the more easy understanding and practice of the same. To which is added,  
A dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England.— He hath also written,  
An answer to Archb. bramhall's book, called The catching of the Leviathan. Lond. 1682. oct.  
Seven philosophical problems and two propositions of Geometry. Lond. 1682. oct. Dedicated to the King in the year 1662.  
An apology for himself, and his writings— In which he sets forth that those things he delivered in the Leviathan, were not his own opinions, but submitted to the judgement of the Ecclesiastical power, and that he never maintained any of them afterwards, either in writing or discourse: Adding also, that what is in it of Theology, contrary to the general warrant of Divines, was not put in as his own opinion, but propounded with submission to those, who had the Ecclesiastical power.  
Historia Ecclesiastica carmine Elegiaco concinnata. Aug. Trinob. i e. Lond. 1688. oct. Besides all these, he hath other things in Ms, not yet printed, among which is His defence in the matter relating to Dan. Scargil Bach. of Arts of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge, written in one sheet; a copy of which Sir John Birkenhead had in his possession; which, after his death, came into the hands of Hen. Birkenhead. See in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium. p. 108.109.  
Mr. Hobbes hath also translated into English (1) The History of the Grecian War, in eight books Printed in 1628. and afterwards at Lond. in 1676. fol. Written originally by Thucydides. (2) The Voyage of Ulysses; or Homer's Odysseys, book 9.10.11.12. Lond. 1674. oct. in English verse. (3) Homer's Iliads and Odysseys. Lond. 1675. and 77. etc. in tw. in Engl. verse. Before which is a preface concerning the virtues of heroic Poesy. What other things go under his name, I know not as yet: sure it is, if several persons of credit may be believed, that a certain Scholar, who was made a Bishop sometime after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, did say it openly in the time of Oliver, (he having been bred under Presbyterians and Independents) that he had rather be author of one of Mr. Hobbes his books, than to be King of England. To conclude; about two months before the death of this noted author, he was seized with an acute pain in making water, caused by a strangury, or ulcer in the bladder: which continuing for a considerable time, he made use of some medicines by the advice of a Chirurgeon, yet the Physician judged it incurable by reason of his great age, and natural decay. But he finding little benefit of the said medicines, he asked the Chirurgeon, whether he thought his distemper curable; to which being answered, it would be very difficult to make a perfect cure, and the best that could be expected was ease for the present, he thereupon made this expression, I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world at; seeming then to be more afraid of the pains he thought he should endure before he died, than of death. About the 20. of Nou. his Patron the Earl of Devons. being to remove from Chatsworth to Hardwyke in Derbyshire, Mr. Hobbes would not be left behind, and therefore with a featherbed laid in a coach, upon which he lay warm clad, he was safely conveyed to Hardwyke, and was, in appearance, as well after that little journey, (being but 10. miles) as before it. But within few days after, he was suddenly stricken with a dead Palsy, which stupefied his right side from head to foot, and took away his speech, and 'tis thought his reason and sense too, which continued about 7 days before he died. So that being so suddenly seized, he did not take the Sacrament, nor seem to desire the company of any Minister, which in charity may be imputed to his want of understanding, though 'tis well known, as the E. of Devonshire's Chaplain hath said, he several times (within two years after his death) received the Sacrament from him with seeming devotion. He died at Hardwyke before mentioned, about 10 of the clock at night, on the fourth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine: 
1679.  Whereupon his body being wrapped up in a woollen shroud and coffined; was two days after accompanied by most of the E. of Devonshire's Family and some of the neighbourhood, (after they had received a funeral entertainment) to the Parish Church called Hault-Hucknell; where, in an Isle joining to the Church, he was interred with the service in the Common-prayer book, close to the rail of the monument of the Grandmother of the then present Earl of Deu. Soon after was a Marble stone, with an inscription thereon laid over his grave, the contents of which, and a farther account of the person, you may at large see in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium, following the life in prose before mentioned (written by himself) and published by Rich. Blackbourne, born in London, sometimes M. of A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Doctor of Phys. of Leyden in Holland: The materials of which were all, or at least the most part, taken from the English life in M●▪ of Thom. Hobbes, largely and more punctually written by John Aubrey his ancient acquaintance, born at Easton-Piers near Malmsbury, bred under the same Master (who had been a Pedagogue above 40 years) that educated Hobbes in Grammatical learning; afterwards he became Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in Oxon, than a Student in the Middle Temple, and afterwards a member of the Royal Society. Mr. Hobbes by his last Will and Test. dat. 25. Sept. 1677. did bequeath to Mary Tirell, Daughter of his deceased Bro●ther Edm. Hobbes 40 l. To Eleanor Harding Daughter of the said Edm. 40 l. To Elizab. Alaby Daughter of Thomas Alaby 200 l, for her furtherance in marriage: which Eliz. was then an Orphan and committed to the tuition of M●▪ Hobbes Exec. to the said Tho. as also an 100 l▪ (which th● Earl of Devon. gave him to dispose in his will) to be equally divided among the Grandchilds of his said B●othe● Edm. Hobbes; to the eldest of which named Thom. Hobbes he had before given a piece of Land. He also lef● considerable Legacies to his Executor James Wheldon a servant to the Earl of Devonshire, who before had, for many years, been his Amanuensis.  
EDWARD bish, or Bissaeus, as he writes himself, Son of Edw. bish of Burstow in Surrey Esq. a Counsellor of Linc. Inn, was born at Smallfield in the Parish of Burstow, the capital tenement of which, he and six of his Ancestors, or more, were not only Lords of, but of divers other Lands in Horn near thereunto, and elsewhere in the said County; and some of them also owners of the Manor of bish or bish Court, situated and being between Burstow and Smallfield. As for our author whom we are now to mention, he became a Communer of Trin. Coll. in 1633 aged 18 years, but before he took a degree he went to Lincoln's Inn, studied the Common Law, and was made a Barrister. In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Blechenley in Surrey to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 3. Nou. the same year, and afterwards taking the Covenant, he was about 1643 made Garter King of Arms in the place of Sir John Borough who had followed his Majesty to Oxon. On the 20 of Oct. 1646 there were votes 
(a) Bulst▪ Whitlock in his Memorials of English affairs, an. 1646. p. 229. b.  passed in the House of Commons that he the said bish should be Garter K. of Arms and Clarenceaux, and Will. R●ley should be Norroy or the Northern K. of Arms, and that a committee be appointed to regulate their fees: so that if bish was ever invested in the said office of Clarenceaux (as several of the Coll. of Arms say he was) then did he succeed Arthur Squibb, who had obtained that office by the endeavours of his 
(b) Mystery of the good old cause, printed at Lond. 1660, 〈…〉 p. 11.  Son in Law Sir John Glynn a noted and leading member in that Parliament, upon the recess to his Majesty at Oxon of Sir Will. Le Neve. Howsoever it is, sure I am that in the greatest part of the interrupted times our author bish was both Garter and Clarenceaux, his genie being more adequat to Arms and Armoury, in which he did excel, than to the municipal laws. In 1654. he was elected Burgess for Rigate in Surrey to serve in that Convention (called the Little Parliament) that met at Westm. 3. Sept. the same year, and in 1658 a Burgess for Gatton in the same County, for that Convention that met at the same place 27 Jan. in that year. After the King's restauration he was forced to leave his Gartership, to make room for Sir Edw. Walker, who had that office conferred on him by his Majesty, on the death of Sir Hen. S. George, an. 1644. and with much ado obtaining the place of Clarenceaux, (Sir Will. Le Neve being then distracted) had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him. In 1661. he was chosen Burgess for Blechenley to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 8. of May the same year: which continuing 17 years or more, he became a Pensioner (as 'tis 
(c) Seasonable argument to persuade all the Grand▪ Juries in England to petition for a new Parliament, etc. printed 1677. p. 17.  said) and received 100 l. every Session, and yet was very poor. In the rebellious times he was a great gainer by being a Parliament man, and thereupon became an encourager of learning and learned men, particularly that noted Critic John Gregory of Ch. Ch. He had a very choice Library of books, all richly bound with gilt dorses, but after the King's restauration running much in debt, became at length necessitous, and not only took dishonest courses by issuing out divers Grants of Arms under hand, as Clarenceaux, to the undoing of the Herald's Office, merely to supply his necessities, but also sold many of his books, which cost him much, for inconsiderable prizes. He had been one that understood Arms and Armoury very well, but could never endure to take pains in Genealogies, and in his younger years was esteemed a worthy and virtuous Person, but in his latter not, being th●n much degenerated as to manners. His works of learning are these. 
Notae in librum Nichola● Upton, de study militari.  
Notae in Johannis de Bado aureo libellum de Armis.  
Notae in Henrici Spelmanni Aspidologiam.  These three things which were all printed together at Lond. 1654. fol. we●e written by Sir▪ Ed. bish in English, but translated into Latin by Dau. Whitford, to whom he exhibited after his expulsion f●om the Uniu. of Oxon. for several years. He also p●t out under his own name a translation from Gr. into Lat. with some notes and corrections, entit. Palladius de gentibus Indiae & ●ragmanibus. Lond. 1665. qu. in Gr. and Lat. To which he added (1) S. Ambrose de moribus Brachmannorum. (2) Anonymus de Bragmanibus: Both in Gr. and Lat. Of which three pieces, see more in Jo. Gregory, under the year 646. Sir Ed. bish also gave out among his acquaintance, before the King's restauration, that he wou●d write The Survey, or Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ●ut when after that time he was fixed in his Clarenceauxship, and had got a Knighthood, he did nothing but deturpate, and so continued worse and worse till his death; which happening in the Parish of S. Paul in Covent-garden on the 15 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, 
1679▪  was obscurely buried, late in the night, in the Church of S. Olaves in the Jewry within the City of London, by Mr. Green the Minister of that Church, Nephew to the Relict of the Defunct.  
JOHN SHIRLEY son of Jo. Shi●. of London Bookseller, was born in the Parish of S. Botolph▪ Aldersgate in London, 7. Aug. 1648, entered into Trin. Coll. in Lent term 1664, became Scholar of that House in 1667, took the degrees in Arts, made Terrae filius in 1673, but came off dull. Soon after he was elected Probationer Fellow of his Coll. being then esteemed a person of some parts▪ but behaving himself very loosely, was expelled when the year of his Probationship was expired, or rather before. So that retiring to the great City, he married an Innkeepers Daughter of Islington, corrected the Press, and wrote and scribbled for bread several trite things, as  
A short compendium of Chirurgery, containing its grounds and principles, more particularly treating of impostumes, wounds, ulcers, fractures and dissolutions. Lond. 1683. sec. edit. in oct. In the title of which he writes himself Med. Doctor, though never took it in this Uniu. or any other degree in that faculty.  
Discourse of the generation and birth of man, etc.— Printed with the former.  
The art of Rolling and Bolstering, that is the method of dressing and binding up the several parts, etc. Lond. 1682. oct. printed with the sec. edit. of the Compendium before mentioned.  
Life of the valiant and learned Sir Walt▪ Raleigh K●, with his trial at Winchester. Lond. 1677. oct. 'Tis the same that was a little before prefixed to the works of the said Sir Walter, printed in fol. He hath also written and published little things of a sheet, and half a sheet of paper, but what they treat of, I know not. He died at Islington near London before mentioned, on the 28. of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, 
1679.  and was buried in the Ch. yard there two days after. One John Shirley Gent. hath written The History of the Wars of Hungary: or, a. account of the miseries of that Kingdom, etc. Lond. 1685. in tw. and one John Shurley M. A. and Gent. hath written Ecclesiastical History epitomised; containing a faithful account of the birth, life, and doctrine, etc. of the holy Jesus: with the lives of the Apostles, etc. in two parts— Lond. 1682. oct. But whether either of these two was of Oxon, I cannot yet tell; nor whether J. Shirley author of The renowned History of the life and death of Guy Earl of Warwick etc. Lond. 1681. qu. be the same with our author John Shirley of Oxon.  
DANIEL CAPEL son of Rich. Capel mentioned under the year 1656, was born in the City of Gloucester, educated in the Coll. School there under Will. Russell, was first Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll, and about the time that he took the degree of M. of A. which was in 1651, he became a preacher. Afterwards he was successively Minister of Morton, Alderley and Shipton in his own Country; which last he resigning because, as I presume, he would not conform, he fell to the practice of Physic in the Town of Strewed in Glocestershire, where he continued to the time of his death. He hath written,  
Tentamen medicum de variolis, and one or two little things besides, which I have not yet seen. He died at Strowde in sixteen hundred seventy and nine or thereabouts, 
1679.  and was buried in the Church there. The next that follows, a most excellent School Divine and Philosopher, is Fr. à S. Clara, not known or called Christop. Davenport, after he had entered into a religious order.  
CHRISTOPHER DAVENPORT son of Joh. Dau. (by Elizabeth Wolley his Wife the fifth Son of Hen. Dau. Alderman of Coventry, Grandson to a younger Brother of the Davenports of Henbury in Cheshire, was born in the ancient City of Coventry in Warwickshire, and in Grammar learning there educated. At about 15 years of age, he, and his Brother John, were sent to Merton College, in the beginning of the year 1613, and became Pupils to Mr. Sam. Lane Fellow of that House. They were only Batlers and took the Cook's Commons, but the Warden Sir Henry Savile, having received notice of them and their condition, he dismissed them unless they would become Commoners: But their Parents being unwilling, John thereupon went to Magd. Hall, and became afterwards a noted Puritan, and at length an Independent, but Christopher continued longer in the Coll. especially upon Sir Henry's recess to Eton, but upon his return withdrew. So that having spent about two years among the Mertonians, he, by the invitation of some Rom. Priest then living in or near Oxon, went to Douai an. 1615, where remaining for some time, went to Ypres 
(a) Vide Hist. Min. Provinc. Angl. sect. 26.  and entered into the Order of Franciscans among the Dutch there, 7. Oct. 1617. Afterwards he returned to Douai, and was entered into the House of the English Recollects there, of the same order, 18. Oct. 1618., which was then built for them and dedicated to S. Bonaventure the same year. After he had ran a course there, and had read for some time a Lecture, he went into Spain and in an University there (Salamanca I think) he improved himself much in the supreme faculty. Thence he returned▪ to Douai, where he read first Philosophy, and afterwards became chief Reader of Divinity in the said Coll. of S. Bonaventure, and in fine was made Doctor of Divinity of his order, but not of any University. At length he became a Missionary in England, where he went by the name of Franciscus à Sancta Clara, and at length was made one of the Chaplains to Henrietta Maria the Royal Consort of K. Ch. the first, and became highly honoured of all of his profession, and of many Scholars too▪ (whether Protestants or Papists) for his great learning. After his settlement in England, where he continued going and coming more than 50 years, he did very great service for the R. Cath. cause by gaining disciples, raising▪ money among the English Catholics to carry on public matters beyond the Seas, in writing of books for the advancement of his Religion and Order, by his perpetual and unwearied motion day and night to administer among the Brethren, and by tendering his service to consult and help warping Protestant's etc. When Dr. Laud was made Archb. of Canterbury, he became his acquaintance, not to make use of him as an instrument to reconcile us to the Church of Rome, as inveterate Prynne would have it, but for that he was much respected by the Queen, that he was a person of excellent parts, civil behaviour and of great complaisance. This acquaintance, I presume, had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licenced for the Press, through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop, who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work. Howsoever it was, sure I am, that when articles of impeachment 
(b) Canterburïes Doom, p. 34.  were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament, 'tis said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm, the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received, harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits, namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Friar, who hath written a popish and seditious book, entitled Deus, natura, gratia, etc. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England, established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalised. The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him, while he was in writing the said book, and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon, etc. To which article the Archbishop made this 
(c) Ibid. p. 427.  answer. I never saw that Franciscan Friar (Sancta Clara) in my life, to the utmost of my memory, above four times, or five at most. He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell, I did fear he would never expound them (the Articles) so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it. He never came to me after, till he was almost ready to print another book, to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right, and this was after these unhappy stirs began. His desire was, to have this book printed here, but at his several addresses to me for this, I still gave him this answer: That I did not like the way, which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy: And howsoever, I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist, should be printed here: And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling, without calling in any aid from Rome, and would so do when they saw cause; and this is all the conference I ever had with him— Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond, and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity, sometimes beyond the Seas, sometimes at London, other times in the Country, and now and then in Oxon at the public Library, where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof, as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works. At length, after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal, he became her Theologist, or one of the chief Chaplains about her; and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England: After the expiration of which (for it lasts, if I am not mistaken, but for three years) he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death, being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order, and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof. He was excellently well versed in School divinity, the Fathers and Counsels, Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories. He was a Person of very free discourse, but Cressy was reserved; of a vivacious and quick countenance, the other clouded and melancholy, and quick of apprehension, but the other not, or at least would not: All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons. As for the books which this noted author hath published, mostly written in Latin, are these.  
Tract. adversus judiciariam Astrologiam. Duac. 1626. oct. This I have not yet seen, nor is it printed among his Works.  
Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae. This was printed first by itself, and afterwards at the end of Tract. de Praedest. following. This book was much talked against by the Jesuits, who by all means would have it burnt, but being soon after licenced in Rome, gave a stop to any farther rumour of it. However in Spain it was censured, and how and why, let the author tell you in his own 
(d) In his Letter dated 6 Apr. 1672.  words sent to me, thus— You told me that Mr. Leiburne showed you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain, wherein was named the book of articles, published by me. There was here (in London) a Spanish Ambassador under the Rebels, named Alonso, who had great malice to the last King, and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to, and accepted by, the King, whom he esteemed his enemy, he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured: He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome, but they answered as Pilate, Non invenio causam, and therefore it passed safe— This man (Alonso) had been a Jesuit, and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely, but to have given himself over to get money, etc.— In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635, I find these passages, that the book of S. Clara relished not well with the Catholics, and that there was a consultation about it, and some did extrema suadere, and cried ad ignem. Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter, who talking with the Pope's Nuntio at Paris about it, he told him 'twas the best course to let it die of itself, to which the Nuntio, a moderate man, was inclinable.  
Tractatus de praedestinatione, de meritis & peccatorum remissione, etc. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus, natura, gratia: sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis, etc. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him (if you'll believe 
(e) Ibid. in Cant. Doom, p. 423. and in his Introduction to Archb. laud's Trial, p. 143.  Prynne) to his religion, and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority, as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle: also that the whole scope of the book itself, with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it, was to 
(f) Ib. ●n Cant. Doom, p. 424. and 560.  reconcile, reduce both our King, Church and the articles of our Religion, which he comments upon, to the Church of Rome. He also endeavours to prove 
(g) Ibid. 429.  that St. Giles before mentioned, living in the Venetian Ambassadors house in London an. 1635, was the author of that book, and that it was printed at London, but he is much mistaken, and makes a confused story of the said two books, which is needless now to tell you.  
Systema fidei: sive tractatus de concilio universali, etc. Leod. 1648. qu.  
Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis.  
Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano.  
Fragmenta: seu Historia minor provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum.  
Manuale Missionariorum Regularium, praecipuè Anglorum S. Francisci, etc. Printed 1658, and at Douai 1661. in octav.  
Apologia episcoporum, seu sacri magistratus propugnatio, etc. Col. Agrip. 1640. oct.  
Liber dialogorum, seu summa veteris Theologiae dialogismis tradita. Duac. 1661. in oct.  
Problemata scholastica & controversialia speculativa, etc.  
Corollarium dialogi de medio statu animarum, etc.  
Paralipomena philosophica de mundo peripatetico. This was published at Douai, under the name of Francisc. Coventriensis, an. 1652. in oct. All these, except the three first (most of which had been printed in little volumes by themselves) were printed in two volumes in fol. at Douai, an. 1665, which cost the author (having no contribution given him towards the press) 220 l.  
Religio philosophiae Peripati discutienda; in qua offertur epitome processus historiae celeberrimi miraculi, à Christo nuperrimè patrati, in restitutione Tibiae abscissae, & sepultae, ab Aristotile in suis principiis examinati. Duac. 1662. oct.  
Supplementum Historiae Provinciae Angliae, in quo est chronosticon continens catalogum & praecipua gesta Provincialium Fr. Min. Provinciae Angliae. Duac. 1671. fol. to be put at the end of Fragmenta, seu Hist. Min. etc.  
Disputatio de antiqua Provinciae praecedentia. Printed there also the same year, and to be put in the same vol. at the end of Supplementum Hist. This Disputatio was also printed in qu. in two sh. an. 1670.  
Enchiridion of Faith, in a dialogue concerning christian religion.— Printed under the name of Franc. Coventrie 1655. oct.  
Explanation of the Roman Catholic belief— Printed 1656 and 1670 in one sh. in oct. 'Tis reported by a nameless author 
(i) The author of The Beacon flaming with a Non obstante— Lond. 1652. qu. p. 7.  that he (S. Clara) wrote and published, The Christian Moderator; or persecution for Religion condemned, etc. Lond. 1652. in qu. sec. edit. and that he, whom he calls that famous or rather infamous Priest, presented one of them to a Lady, who told it to a reverend Minister of this City (London) that he was the author of that book. But let this Anon. say what he will; sure I am, that I have been informed by R. Catholics of unquestionable veracity, that neither he, nor William Birchley, was the author, but one John Austen born at Walpole 
(k) So I have been informed by Joh. Smith alias Sargeant a sec. Priest, sometimes contemporary with J. Austen in S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr.  in Marshland in the County of Norfolk, and bred in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge; which house he leaving, and his religion too, about 1640, entered himself into the Society of Lincoln's Inn, with intentions to follow the municipal Laws; but the Rebellion breaking out soon after, he was driven thence. It is to be noted by the way, that this Austen being a man of good parts, and much in esteem with the R. Catholics, he did write and publish several books, that is to say (besides the three parts of The Christian Moderator which he put out under the name of W. Birchley) (1) Two vol. of Devotions after the old way, printed in octavo, and afterwards reprinted in 1672, with a preface to them, written by Joh. Sergeant. He also wrote a third volume, which is not yet published. (2) Treatise in behalf of the oath of Allegiance. (3) Letter from a Cavalier in Yorkshire to a friend, written in the time of war, and other things; among which must not be forgotten, A punctual Answer to Dr. Joh. tillotson's book called The rule of Faith, etc. Six or seven sheets of which were printed off, but for what reason all were not finished, I cannot tell. He died in his house in Bow street in Cou. Garden near London, in the summer time, an. 1669, and was buried in the Ch. of S. Paul there. Two parts of the said Christian Moderator being esteemed by certain Protestants to be like a venomous potion, as full of dangerous Ingredients, etc. was examined and animadverted upon in a book called Legends lignea, etc. p. 29.30. etc. One Will. Austen of Linc. Inn Esq. who died 16 Jan. 1633, wrote— Devotionis Augustinianae flamma: or certain devout and learned Meditations, etc. printed at Lond. after his death 1637. fol. but of what kin he was to John I know not. As for our author Christop. Davenport, alias Sancta Clara, who mostly went by the name of Francis Hunt, and sometimes by that of Coventrie, died in Somerset house in the Strand near London, on the 31 of May, early in the morning (being then Whitmunday) in sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buried (not according to his desire in the Vault under Somerset house Chappel, 
1680.  which the Queen opposed) but in the Church belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the said Strand. It was his desire many years before his death, to retire to Oxon in his last days, there to die, purposely that his bones might be laid in S. Ebbs Church, (to which the mansion of the Franciscans or Grey Friars sometimes joined, and in which several of the Brethren were anciently interred) particularly by those of his old friend Joh. Day a learned Friar of his order (born at the Mill in the Parish of S. Cross alias Halywell near Oxon) who was buried at the west end of the said Church near the Font, an. 1658, but troubles coming on by the breaking out of the Popish Plot, his design was frustrated.  
JOHN WILMOT Earl of Rochester, Viscount Athlone in Ireland, and Baron of Adderbury in Oxfordshire, was born at Dichley near Wodstock in the said County, .... Apr. 1648, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Burford, under a noted Master called John Martin, became a Nobleman of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Phineas Bury Fellow, and inspection of Mr. Blandford the Warden, an. 1659., actually created Master of Arts in Convocation, with several other noble persons, an. 1661.; at which time, he, and none else, was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity by a kiss on the left cheek from the Chancellor of the University (Clarendon) who then sat in the supreme chair to honour that Assembly. Afterwards he traveled into France and Italy, and at his return frequented the Court (which not only debauched him but made him a perfect Hobbist) and was at length made one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and Controller of Wodstock Park, in the place of Sir W. Fleetwood deceased. He was a person of most rare parts, and his natural talon was excellent, much improved by learning and industry, being throly acquainted with all classic Authors, both Greek and Latin; a thing very rare (if not peculiar to him) among those of his quality. He knew also how to use them, not as other Poets have done, to transcribe and steal from, but rather to better and improve, them by his natural fancy. But the eager tendency and violent impulses of his natural temper, unhappily inclining him to the excesses of Pleasure and Mirth; which with the wonderful pleasantness of his unimitable humour, did so far engage the affections of the Dissolute towards him, that to make him delightfully venturous and frolicsome to the utmost degrees of riotous extravagancy, they for some years heightened his spirits (inflamed by wine) into one almost interrupted fit of wantonness and intemperance. Some time before his death, were several copies of his verses printed (besides what went in MS. from hand to hand) among which were,  
A satire against mankind— Printed in one sheet in fol. in June 1679. Answered in another sheet in the next month by one Mr. Griffith a Minister. Andr. Marvel who was a good Judge of wit, did use to say that Rochester was the only man in England that had the true vein of satire.  
On nothing; a Poem.— Printed on one side of a sheet of paper in 2 columes. But notwithstanding the strict charge which the Earl of Rochester gave on his death bed to those persons, in whose custody his papers were, to burn all his profane and rude Writings, as being only fit to promote Vice and Immorality, by which he had so highly offended the Omnipotent and shamed and blasphemed that holy Religion into which he had been baptised; yet no sooner was his breath out of his body, but some person, or persons, who had made a collection of most of his Poetry in Manuscript, did, merely for lucre sake, (as 'twas conceived) publish them under this title,  
Poems on several occasions. Antwerp alias Lond. 1680. oct. Among which, as those before mentioned are numbered, so many of his composure are omitted, and there is no doubt but that other men's Poems are mixed among them. They are full of obscenity and profaneness, and are more fit (though excellent in their kind) to be read by Bedlamites, than pretenders to virtue and modesty: and what are not so, are libellous and satirical. Among them is a Poem intit. A Ramble in S. James' Park, p. 14, which I guess is the same with that which is meant and challenged in the preface to the Poems of Alex. Radcliff of Greys' Inn intit. The Ramble, an anti-heroick Poem, together with some terrestrial Hymns, and carnal Ejaculations. Lond. 1682. oct. as the true composure of the said Radcliff, but being falsely and imperfectly published under the Earl's name, is said there to be enlarged two thirds, above what it was, when before in print. The Reader is to know also that a most wretched and obcene and scandalously infamous Play, not wholly completed, passed some hands privately in MS, under the name of Sodom, and fathered upon the Earl (as most of this kind were, right or wrong, which came out at any time, after he had once obtained the name of an excellent smooth, but withal a most lewd Poet) as the true author of it; but if that copy of verses inserted among his printed Poems before mentioned, in pag. 129. wrote upon the author of the Play called Sodom be really his, then questionless the writing of this vile piece is not to be laid to his charge; unless we should suppose him to have turned the keenness and sharpness of his piercing satire (for such is this) upon himself. He hath also written,  
A Letter to Dr. Gilb. Burnet, written on his death bed. Lond. 1680. in one sh. in fol. And that he was the author of it, the Doctor himself acknowledgeth in the History 
(†) Printed at Lond. 1680. in the Pref. and in page 133.  of some passages of the life and death of John Earl of Rochester. About the same time also was published a sheet in fol. intit. The two noble Converts; or the Earl of Marlborough and the Earl of Rochester, their dying Requests to the Atheists and Debauchees of this age: but this was feigned and merely written by a Scribbler to get a little money. In Nou. 1684 was a Play of Joh. Fletcher's published intit. Valentinian: a Tragedy as 'tis altered by the late Earl of Rochester, and acted at the Theatre-Royal. Lond. 1685. qu. To which is put, by a nameless Writer, a large Preface concerning the Author and his Writings, wherein among too many things, and high-flown surfeiting Encomiums, that are by him given of the said Count, is this,— For sure there has not lived in many ages (if ever) so extraordinary, and I think I may add, so useful a person, as most English men know my Lord to have been, whether we consider the constant good sense and the agreeable mirth of his ordinary conversation, or the vast reach and compass of his invention, and the wonderful depths of his retired thoughts, the uncommon graces of his fashion, or the inimitable turns of his wit, the becoming gentleness, the bewitching softness of his civility, or the force and fitness of his satire; for as he was both the delight and wonder of Man, the love and the dotage of Women, so he was a continual curb to impertinence, and the public censor of folly, etc.— In another place he saith thus, He had a wit that was accompanied with an unaffected greatness of mind, and a natural love to justice and truth: a wit that was in perpetual war with knavery, and ever attacking those kind of vices most, whose malignity was like to be most diffusive, such as tended more immediately to the prejudice of public bodies, and were of a common nuisance to the happiness of humane kind. Never was his pen drawn but on the side of good sense, and usually employed like the Arms of the ancient Heroes, to stop the progress of arbitrary oppression, and beat down the bruitishness of headstrong will; to do his K. and Country justice upon such public State-Thieves, as would beggar a Kingdom to enrich themselves, etc.— To pass by other characters, which the said Anonymus too too fond mentions of the Count, I shall proceed and tell you that he hath also written,  
Poems, etc. on several occasions: with Valentinian a Tragedy. Lond. 1691. oct. They were published in the latter end of Feb. 1690. but the large Preface before mentioned is there omitted. These Poems, which are different from those that came out in 1680, have before them an admirable Pastoral on the death of the Earl of Roch. in imitation of the Greek of Moschus, made by Oldham; and among them songs and letters, as also (1) A copy of English verses made on the King's return, in a book intit. Britannia rediviva, printed at Oxon. under the name of the University, 1660. qu. (2) A Lat. and English copy on the death of Mary Princess of Orange, in another book of verses published under the name of the said University, at Oxon. the same year in qu. But these three copies were made, as 'twas then well known, by Rob. Whitehall a Physician of Mert. Coll, who pretended to instruct the Count (then 12 years of age) in the art of Poetry, and on whom he absolutely doted. (3) The translation of the ninth Elegy in the second book of Ovid's Amours; which was published in a thing intit. Miscellany Poems: containing a new translation of Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's love Elegies, Odes of Horace, etc. by the most eminent hands. Lond. 1684. oct. At length, after a short, but pleasant, life, this noble and beautiful Count paid his last debt to nature in the Rangers Lodge in Woodstock Park, very early in the morn. of the 26 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty, 
1680.  and was buried in a vault under the north Isle joining to Spelsbury Church in Oxfordshire, by the body of his Father Henry sometimes the generous, loyal and valiant Earl of Rochester, the same who had been Commissary General of the Army in the Scotch Expedition, an. 1639 under Thomas Earl of Arundel the General, and had then a troop of horse under him, and the same who had married Anne the Widow of Sir Harry Lee of Dichley before mentioned, and Daughter of Sir John St. John of Wiltshire. Which Henry Earl of Roch. dying beyond the Seas, in his attendance on his Majesty, on the 19 of Feb. 1657, aged 45 years, was, by leave obtained, privately buried in the before mentioned Vault, being the place of sepulture only for the family of Lee, since honoured with the title of Earl of Lichfield. The said John E. of Rochester left behind him a son named Charles, who dying on the 12 of Nou. 1681, was buried by his father on the 7 of Dec. following. He also left behind him three daughters, named Anne, Elizabeth, and Malet; so that the male line ceasing, his Majesty Ch. 2. conferred the title of Rochester on Laurence Viscount Killingworth, a younger son of Edward Earl of Clarendon.  
STEPHEN CHARNOCK son of Rich. Charnock an Attorney or Solicitor, descended from an ancient family of his name living in Lancashire, was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Creechurch in London; educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge, mostly under the tuition of Mr. Will. Sancroft, spent afterwards some time in a private family, and a little more in the exercise of his Ministry in Southwark, in the time of the Rebellion. In 1649, or thereabouts, he retired to Oxon, purposely to obtain a Fellowship from the Visitors appointed by Parliament when they ejected scholars by whole shoals; and in 1650 he obtained a Fellowship in New Coll. and thereby for several years did eat the bread of a worthy loyalist. In 1652 he was incorporated Master of Arts as he had stood in Cambridge, and two years after he did undergo the office of Proctor of the University, being then taken notice of by the godly Party for his singular gifts, and had in reputation by the than most learned Presbyterians; and therefore upon that account he was the more frequently put upon public Works. After he had discharged his office, he received a call to go into Ireland, where exercising his Ministry for about 4 or 5 years, he was held in admiration by the Presbyterian and sometimes by the Independent, and had the concurrent applause of some that were of different sentiments from him in matters of Religion: and such also who did not love his opinion, did notwithstanding commend him for his learning. After the King was restored in 1660, he was ejected from his public exercise, (being then, as I conceive, Bach. of Diu. of Dublin) returned into England, and in and about London he did spend the greatest part of 15 years without any call to his own work, whereby he took advantage to go now and then either into France or Holland. In the five last years of his life, he became more known by his constant preaching in private meetings in the great City, gaining thereby infinite love and applause from the Brethren, who held him to be a person of excellent parts, strong reason, great judgement, and (which do not often go together) curious fancy. They also esteemed him to be a man of high improvements and general learning, that his chief talon was his preaching gift, in which he had few equals, that also he was good in the practice of physic, in which he had arrived to a considerable measure of knowledge, and lastly that he was a true son of the Church of England in that sound doctrine laid down in the articles of Religion, and taught by our most famous ancient Divines and Reformers, etc. As for his Writings they are many, yet he published nothing while he lived. However after his death, his friends made extant these things following to prevent false copies, which were then likely to creep abroad.  
A Sermon of reconciliation to God in Christ, on 2 Cor. 5.19. Lond. 1680. qu.  
Treatise of divine providence, 1. In general. 2. In particular, as relating to the Church of God in the world, Lond. 1680. oct. Before which is an Epistle written by Rich. adam's and Edw. Veel, who, as I think, published the said book. This was afterwards involved in his Works.  
His Works, containing several discourses upon the excellence and attributes of God. Lond. 1682. in a large fol. published by the said two persons R. adam's and E. Veele.  
His Works, vol. 2. containing several discourses upon various divine Subjects. Lond. 1683. fol. with a Supplement. He died in the house of one Rich. Tymms a Glazier in the Parish of White Chapel near London, on the 27 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty, aged 52 years or thereabouts: 
1680.  whereupon his body being conveyed to Crosby house belonging to Sir Jo. Langham (in which house Tho. Watson M. of A▪ sometimes of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. Pastor of S. Stephen's Church Walbrook in Lond. in the times of Usurpation and the author of The art of divine contemplation, and of other things, did hold forth by praying and preaching as our author Charnock did) was thence accompanied by great numbers of the Brethren to S. Michael's Church on Cornhill in London; where, after John Johnson his contemporary in Emanuel and New Coll, had held forth in a funeral Sermon, (wherein many things were spoken in praise of the defunct) his body was committed to the earth on the 30 day of the same month, at the bottom of the Tower under the Belfry. I must now, having a just opportunity laid before me, tell the Reader, that the name of Charnock is ancient, and in Lancashire is now, or at least hath been lately, Charnock of Charnock, from whence was originally descended Thom. Charnock a noted Chemist and Rosacrucian of his time, born at Feversham (some say in the Isle of Thanet) in Kent, an. 1526, and being very covetous of knowledge, he traveled all England over to gain it, fixed in Oxon for a considerable time, where it happened that he fell into such acquaintance, that it proved his future comfort. About that time he became known to Mr. James S. a spiritual man living in the Close at Salisbury, who being a noted Chemist, he entertained Charnock to be his Operator. In 1554 he obtained the secret from his said Master (Jam. S.) who dying about that time, left him inheritor of it, but lost it by firing his Tabernacle on New years-day at noon, an. 1555. Soon after he learned the secret again, but not of Will. Byrd sometimes Prior of bath, who had bestowed a great deal of pains and money to obtain it, but of another, because Byrd had been dead several years before. Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant, and again by himself alone: in which work continuing 9 months, which was within a month of his reckoning, the Crow's head began to appear black; but a War being proclaimed against the French, an. 1557, and he thereupon, by the malice of a Gentleman (who was his neighbour) pressed for a Soldier, his operations were frustrated, and all cast aside. On the first of January the same year, he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy, and on the 20. of July following he ended it: In the title and end of which, he styles himself an unlettered Scholar, and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy. This Breviary is written in old English verse, which, in the next Century, coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus, who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle, (Elias Ashmole) was among other authors of the like nature, published by him under this title, Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum. In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire, being then, or soon after, settled there, but afterwards at a place called Comadge; and in the year after he buried Absalon his Son. In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy, figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosopher's stone. In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth, and dated the roll at Stockland, as he himself saith; which roll is written in Latin, being the same, I presume, with the Emblematical Scroll, supposed to be invented by George Ripley, the inside of which, was composed, as Charnock says, by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy, and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand, which show that he did not (or at least throughly) understand it. In 1572 he wrote the Poesy of the roll; which roll seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum, or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them, and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius. The same year he wrote Aenigma ad Alchimiam, and Aenigma de Alchimia, both in English Verse, and printed in Theat. Chem. before mentioned. In 1573 he wrote, as himself saith, the fragment Knock the Child on the head. See Theat. Chem. pag. 425, and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red, till the fiftieth year of his age. In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the roll. This roll so often mentioned, is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mentioned; where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations, he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work, and so ingeniously ordered, that no accident of fire could befall him, as it did on New-year's day 1555. It joins as a Closet to that which was his Chamber, to make a Servant needless, and the work of giving attendance more easy to himself. On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours, but rudely, an Emblem of his Work: So likewise about the walls in his Chamber, are several pieces of his painting differing from each other, some of which are obscure and almost woren out. Several fragments written by him, are published in the said Theat. Them Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesy upon the white and red rose, and verses on the Philosopher's Dragon which eateth up her own tale, etc. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge, and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater, 21. Apr. 1581.  
HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten, son of Sir Hen. Mart. mentioned among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford, particularly, as I conceive, in the parish of S. John Bapt, in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church, then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possessed at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father. After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon, he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617. aged 15 years; where, and in public, giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts, had the degree of Bach. of Arts conferred upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court, traveled into France, and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him, whom he married something unwillingly, and therefore afterwards living a part from her, and following other creatures, she was for sometime distempered. In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks, to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 13. Apr; and again (though not legally) in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following. In which last Parliament he showed himself, out of some little pique, the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House, as well in action as speech; for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein, was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, but soon after released. He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office, and all belonging thereunto, especially the Regalia, which he caused to be sold: for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642, he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster, and thence took out the Crown, Robes, Sword and Sceptre belonging anciently to K. Edw. the Confessor, and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations; and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices, he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toys and trifles, etc. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither (an old puritan Satirist) in the royal habiliments: who being crowned and royally arrayed (as well right became him) did first march about the room with a stately garb, and afterwards with a thousand apish and ridiculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter. Had the abuse been 
(a) P. Heylyn in his Hist. of the Presbyterians, printed 1672. p 452.  stripped and whipped, as it should have been, the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet, though he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths, whether that of Allegiance, Covenant, Engagement, etc. The last of which being by him taken, he would by all means, as the Independent Gang did, make the Covenant an old Almanac out of date, to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesty's person and authority, etc. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say. He was also an eager enemy against Lords, Gentry, Lawyers and Clergy, and a protestor for a Community of wealth, as well as of women. He was also a grand prodigal in not only spending 3000 l. per an. which his father and other relations left him (mostly lying in Berks) but several thousand pounds, and a 1000 l. per an. given to him and his heirs for ever out of the Duke of Buckingham's estate, by Parliament, in consideration of his losses (not of his members) for the holy and blessed cause. This viper, which had been fostered in the bosom of Parliament, was against the Parliament itself, and against all Magistrates, like a second Wat Tyler, all pen and Inkhorn men must down. This his levelling doctrine is contained in a Pamphlet called England's troubles troubled, wherein all rich men whatsoever are declared enemies to the mean men of England, and (in effect) war denounced against them. Besides all this, he being a Colonel, plundered so much where ever he came▪ that he was commonly called the plunder-master general, and all whatsoever he got that way, he spent to satisfy his filthy lusts. In 1648 he forbade the people to stand bare at a Sessions in Berkshire and do homage and fealty to the Lords; but in this he gulled them, (though they were not sensible of it) because he gave that which was not their due. Yet notwithstanding he robbed them of that which was their due, as of their horses, goods, money, etc. which he plundered from them, under pretence forsooth, for service of the State, and did beat those that defended their own. So that while he flattered them to be the supreme authority and Lords Paramount, and the Parliament to be their servants, he used them like slaves conquered by the Parliament. On the 8. of Dec. the same year, being the day after the Parliament house was purged of the Presbyterians, in came Ol. Cromwell out of the Country, bringing in under his protection our sanctified Member Harry Marten, who had spent much time in plundering the Country, had often bas●ed the House and disobeyed many of their orders, sufficient to have made an honest man liable to sequestration: But great was the privilege of the Saints; for there was nothing done in it, because it fortuned that day that the case of the secured Members was reported to the House: which Harry interrupting, desired them to take into consideration the deserts of the Lieu. General, (Cromwell) which, with all slavish diligence, was presently done. So Harry by this device escaped free, who in the beginning of the next month, was, (with Hugh Peter) a zealous solicitor in Parliament to have the Statute of banishment against the Jews repealed, according to their Petition for the same purpose then put up to the House. About the same time Cromwell finding him a man fit for his purpose, put him into the roll for one to sit as Judge upon the life of his Sovereign; in which Tragedy he acted his part so unconcernedly that he valued the life of his Prince no more than that of a dog; yet afterwards as the report 
(b) See in the S●cond part of The Hist. of Independency p. 149. §. 134.  goes, he, in a speech in the House, upon the debate whether a King or no King? He made answer that if they must have a King, he had rather have had the last than any Gentleman in England, for he found no fault in his person, but office. On the 14. of Feb. following, which was about a fortnight after the King was beheaded, he was appointed one of the thirty to be of the Council of State, and in the beginning of July 1649, he brought into the House an account of his arrears, which came to 25000 l. whereupon it was ordered that 1000 l. in Land should be settled upon him and his heirs: About which time the Welsh Counties were set on work to desire H. Marten for their Commander in chief. Afterwards Harry perceiving Oliver to aim at high things, he left him, fided with the Levellers, and would have done them good service, had not the Parl. given him 3000 l. more to put him upon the holy Sisters. In Nou. 1651 he was appointed again one of the Council of State, and had in a manner what he desired; but after Oliver had made him (as many a wiser person) his shooing horn, merely to serve his turn, he turned him off, and publicly called him a noted Whoormaster (as he did Th. Chaloner a Drunkard and a vicious Liver) at the dissolution of the relics of the Long Parliament. To conclude, he was a man of good natural parts, was a boon familiar, witty, and quick with repartees, was exceeding happy in apt instances, pertinent and very biting; so that his company being esteemed incomparable by many, would have been acceptable to the greatest persons, only he would be drunk too soon, and so put an end to all the mirth for the present. At length after all his rogueries acted for near 20 years together were past, was at length called to an account for that grand villainy of having a considerable hand in murdering his Prince: of which being easily found guilty, was not to suffer the loss of his life as others did, (for it was then commonly reported that if they hung him, his body would not hold together because of its rottenness) but the loss of his estate and perpetual imprisonment, for that he came in upon the Proclamation of surrender. So that after one or two removes from Prison to Prison, he was at length sent to Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire, where he continued another twenty years not in wantonness, riotousness and villainy, but in confinement, and repentance if he had pleased. Under his name go these things following.  
Several Speeches as (1) Speech at the Common Hall 28. Jul. 1643 concerning Sir Will. Waller and what course now is to be taken. Lond. 1643 qu. (2) Speech in Parl. etc.  
The independency of England endeavoured to be maintained against the claim of the Scottish Commissioners, in their late answer upon the bills and propositions sent to the King in the Isle of Wight. Lond. 1648 in 3 sh. and an half in qu.  
The Parliaments proceedings justified, in declining a personal treaty with the King, etc. Lond. 1648 in 3 sh. in qu.  
Familiar Letters to his Lady of delight. Oxon. 1663. Lond. 1685. qu.  
Politic and Oeconomical Letters— Printed with the first, and I think with the sec. Edit. of the said Familiar Letters. In the beginning of the said Letters, is that in justification of the murder of K. Ch. 1: See more in Edm. Gayton, under the year 1666. p. 271. Our author Marten was also the principal cause of publishing the letters of the King and Queen called the Cabinet, besides other things which have not yet come to my sight. I have seen also under his name A Speech in the H. of Com. before his departure thence, 8. June 1648. Printed in one sh. in qu. but 'tis a piece of roguery fathered upon him. This person, who lived very poor and in a shabbed condition in his confinement, and would be glad to take a pot of ale from any one that would give it to him, died with meat in his mouth, that is suddenly, in Chepstow Castle before mentioned, 
1680.  in Sept. in sixteen hundred and eighty, and was on the ninth day of the same month buried in the Church of Chepstow. Some time before he died he made this Epitaph by way of Acrostic on himself, which runs thus.  

Here, or elsewhere (all's one to you, to me)  
Earth, air, or water gripes my ghostless dust,  
None knowing when brave fire shall set it free.  
Reader, if you an oft tried rule will trust,  
You'll gladly do and suffer what you must.   

My life was worn with serving you and you,  
And now death's my pay, it seems, and welcome too.  
Revenge destroying but itself, while I  
To birds of prey leave my old cage and fly▪  
Examples preach to the eye, care (than mine says)  
Not how you end, but how you spend your days.  
Aged 78.   
Another Epitaph was made by his daughter who usually attended him, which for brevity sake I now omit.  
JOSEPH GLANVILL was born at a Seaport Town in Devons. called Plymouth, became a Batler of, and entered into Commons in, Exeter Coll, 19 Apr. 1652, aged 16 years, where being put under a good Tutor (Sam. Conant M. A.) and severely disciplined in religion, Logic and Philosophy, makes me wonder, considering that that House was then one of the chief nurseries for youth in the University, why he should afterwards lament that his friends did not first send him to Cambridge, because, as he used to say, that new Philosophy and the art of Philosophising were there more than here in Oxon, and that his first studies in this University did not qualify him for the world of action and business. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, he went to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of July 1656, where taking the degree of M. of Arts in the beginning of 1658, was about that time made Chaplain to old Franc. Rous one of Olivers Lords and Provost of Eton Coll. But he dying soon after, Glanvill returned to Oxon, continued in Linc. Coll. for a time and became a great admirer of Mr. Rich. Baxter, and a zealous person for a Commonwealth. After his Majesty's restauration, he turned about, became a Latitudinarian, a great pretender to the new Philosophy, wrote and published The vanity of Dogmatizing, to gain himself a name among the Virtuosos, was made a member of the Royal Society, entered into holy orders according to the Church of England, and, by the favour of Sir James Thynne, was presented to the Vicarage of a market Town in Somersetshire called Frome-Selwood in the beginning of Nou. 1662., in the place of John Humphrey a Nonconformist. In 1666 Jun. 23▪ he was inducted Rector of the great Church in bath dedicated to S. Pet. and S. Paul, and in July 1672 he changed from for the rectory of Streat with the Chapel of Walton annexed, in Somersetshire, with Rich. Jenkins M. A. So that by virtue of the presentation to those two Churches by Tho. Thynne Esq, Jenkins was instituted to from and Glanvill to Streat and Walton, on one and the same day viz. 26. July 1672. About that time he was made one of the Chaplains in ordinary to K. Ch. 2. and at length by the endeavours of Henry Marquis of Worcester (to whom our author's Wife pretended some alliance) he became one of the Prebendaries of Worcester, in the place of Hen. Greisley deceased; in which dignity he was installed 22. June 1678. A certain author named Hen. Stubbe who wrote much against, and did not care for, him, saith 
(a) In his Epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy, printed 1671. p. 14.15.  that Mr. Glanvill was the most impudent Liar in the world, that he would prove him a liar, and so ignorant and illiterate a fellow that he was not fit to come into any learned company or to open his mouth among them. He tells 
(b) Ibid. p. 22.  us also that he did not understand Greek only to read it,— he could 
(c) Ib. p. 25.  not construe Aristotle,— he knew 
(d) Ib. p. 26.  not Logic either in the practice or notion,— that he 
(e) Ib. p. 27.  was an ignorant and inconsiderate fellow,— that as much as he pretends to have studied Aristotle and the peripatetic Philosophy, yet he did not 
(f) Ib. p. 25.26.  know that Aristotle held the gravity of the air, and was therefore followed by the Avicennists and Averroists, etc.— that he was against 
(g) Ib. p. 16.  the fertility of the way of notion and dispute; concerning which he affirmed that it produced no practical useful knowledge. He charged 
(h) Ib. p. 6.7.  him with impiety and indiscretion, with decrying the learning of the Lord Bacon, yet to excuse his error and insolence, he made use of his great name, and thought it a sufficient apology that he could show that the subject of his most obnoxious periods and passages were to be found largely and often insisted on by so great and learned a man. He tells us also that he was a renegado Presbyter, Latitudinarian, a proud and conceited person, etc. But all these things, with many more, having been spoken by a rash person, and one that was well known not to abound with good nature and seldom to have spoken well of any body, I shall take the liberty to give this character of him, Glanvill, (with which those that knew him, as I did partly, will without doubt concur) viz. that he was a person of more than ordinary parts, of a quick, warm, spruce and gay-fancy, and was more lucky, at least in his own judgement, in his first hints and thoughts of things, than in his after-notions, examined and digested by longer and more mature deliberation. He had a very tenacious memory, and was a great Master of the English Language, expressing himself therein with easy fluency, and in a manly, yet withal a smooth, stile. He catcht at all occasions, as well in his discourse, as in his writings, of depreciating that renowned Master of reason and celebrated advancer of knowledge Aristotle, and of undervaluing his philosophy, although it hath been received in the Schools for many ages as if great authority, with general approbation and advantage; and in the place of it he substituted many pretty new fangled and fantastical Hypotheses of that Philosophy, which bidding defiance to the old, boasts itself in the winning and glorious title of being new. This also must be said, that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students, but did altogether disapprove the straightness and sloth of elder dijudicants, from whom a more generous temper might be expected, than to sit down in a contended despair of any farther progress into Science, than hath been made by their idolised Sophy, (as he is pleased to term it) and depriving themselves and all this world of their liberty in Philosophy by making a Sacramental adherence to an heathen authority: And this it was, together with the pedantry and boyishness of humour that drew from him those reflections he directed against Aristotle, in the Letter which I shall anon mention. He did more especially applaud and recommend that more free and generous way (as they call it) of promoting learning, now for some years carried on and professed (though not at this time (1690) and several years since, with that active vigour, as at first) by the Royal Society: The institution of which, its religious tendency towards the advancement of true substantial and solid improvements, and great benefit which hath, and may accrue thence to humane life by that real and useful knowledge there aimed at, and in part obtained, he hath with some show and appearance, at least of reason, defended against H. Stubbe; and all this against the old way which he calls a bare formal Scheme of empty airy notions, senseless terms and insignificant words, fit only to make a noise and furnish men with matter of wrangling and contention, etc. His reflecting on his University education with such regret and disatisfaction, (declaring often in common discourse, that his being trained up in that trite and beaten road, was one of his greatest unhappinesses that had ever befalen him) as it savoured plainly of too much arrogance thus rashly to condemn the statutable continued practice of such a learned body, which doth not, (as is by our modern Virtuosos falsely pretended) so slavishly tie up its youth to the magisterial dictates of Aristole, as not to be permitted in any cases to depart from his sometimes erroneous sentiments, but gives them free and boundless liberty of ranging and conversing with the many and different writers, who set up with the specious name of new Philosophy, referring still to the authority of Aristotle as unquestionable in the performance of public exercise; So neither did it seem to consist with those grateful returns which his more benign mother, the University, might here reasonably looked for from him, as some slender requital for her so frankly bestowing on him the groundwork, or foundation at least, of all that learning, which afterwards rendered him so mightily known and famous to, and among, some people. Mr. R. Baxter, to whom our author wrote a large 
(a) In Mr. Baxters Second true defence of the mere Nonconformists, etc. Lond. 1681. cap. 14. p. 179.  courting Letter, dat. 3. Sept. 1661. (wherein it appears that he admired his preaching and writings) saith that he 
(b) Ibid. p. 175.  was a man of more than ordinary ingeny,— that he was 
(c) Ib. p. 174.  one of themselves here (though an Originist) a most triumphant Conformist, and not the greatest contemner of Nonconformists,— and famous for his great wit, etc. which last commendation is given of him by the most famous Th. de Albiis 
(d) In Epist. ded. junioribus Britanic. Scholarum Academicis, ad libr. cui tit. est Sciri.  an eminent writer of another persuasion. As for the books that this our author Glanvill hath written, (the titles of which follow) some of them are new vamped, have fresh titles, and sometimes new dedications put to them: which, whether it was so contrived to make the world believe that he was not lazy, but put out a book every year, I leave to others to judge.  
The vany of Dogmatizing: or confidence in opinions, manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledge, and its causes; with some reflections on Peripateticisme, and an apology for philosophy. Lond. 1661. oct. All, or most of this book is contained in Scepsis scientifica, etc. as I shall tell you by and by. It was answered by Thom. Anglus ex Albiis East-Saxonum in his book entit. Sciri, sive Sceptices & Scepticorum a jure disputationis ex●lusio. Lond. 1663. in tw. By this Tho. Anglus we are to understand to be the same with Tho. White, second son of Rich. White of Hutton in Essex Esq. by Mary his wife, daughter of Edm. Plowden the great Lawyer in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth: which Th. White having been always from his childhood a Rom. Catholic, became at length a Secular Priest and a most noted Philosopher of his time, as his published writings, much sought after and admired by many, show. Hobbes of Malmsbury had a great respect for him, and when he lived in Westminster, he would often visit him, and he Hobbes, but seldom parted in cool blood: for they would wrangle, squabble and scold about philosophical matters like young Sophisters, though either of them was 80 years of age; yet Hobbes being obstinate, and not able to endure contradiction, (though well he might seeing White was his Senior) yet those Scholars, who were sometimes present at their wrangling disputes, held that the Laurel was carried away by White; who dying in his lodging in Drury lane between the hours of two and three in the afternoon of the sixth day of July, an. 1676 aged 94 years, was buried almost under the Pulpit in the Church of S. Martin in the fields within the liberty of Westminster, on the ninth day of the same month. By his death the R. Catholics lost an eminent ornament from among them; and it hath been a question among some of them whether ever any Secular Priest of England went beyond him in philosophical matters. Our author Glanvill hath also written,  
Lux Orientalis: or, an Enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern Sages concerning the pre-existence of Souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of Providence, etc. Lond. 1662. oct. There again 1683. See at the end of this Cat. of our author's works.  
Scepsis Scientifica: or confessed ignorance, the way to Schism; in an Essay to the vanity of Dogmatizing and confident opinion. Lond. 1665. qu.  
A reply to the exceptions of the learned Tho. Albius, etc. Or thus.— Scire/ i tuum nihil est; or the author's defence of the vanity of Dogmatizing, etc. Printed with Scep. Scient.  
A Letter to a friend concerning Aristotle— Printed also with Scep. Scient.  
Some philosophical considerations touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft. In a letter to Rob. Hunt Esq. Lond. 1666. qu. But all or most of the impression of this book being burnt in the great fire at Lond. in the beginning of Sept. the same year, it was reprinted there again 1667. qu. The said Phil. consid. were answered by John Webster practitioner in physic and chirurgery in the W. Riding of Yorshire, in a book which I shall anon mention.  
A blow at modern Saducisme, in some philosophical considerations about Witchcraft. Lond. 1668, etc. qu. See more towards the latter end of this Cat. of books.  
Relation of the famed disturbance at the house of Mr. Mumpesson— Printed with the Blow at Mod. Sad. This disturbance in the house of Tho. Mompesson of Tidworth in Wilts. Esq. was occasioned by its being haunted with evil Spirits, and the beating of a drum invisibly every night, from Febr. 1662. to the beginning of the year following and after.  
Reflections on drollery and Atheism— Pr. also with A Blow at Mod. Sad.  
Palpable evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft, in an account of the famed disturbance by a Drummer in the house of Mr. Mumpesson, etc. Lond. 1668. This is most, if not all, the same with the former, only the title altered.  
A Whip for the Droll, Fiddler to the Atheist; being reflections on Drollery and Atheism. Lond. 1668. This is also mostly the same with Rest. on droll. and Ath. beforementioned. 'Tis reprinted, as if it was a new thing, by Dr. Hen. More among the additions to the Sec. edit. of Saducismus triumphans.  
Plus ultra: or, the progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle, etc. Lond. 1668. oct. An account of which book you may see in the Royal or Phil. Transactions. nu. 36.  
Several Sermons as (1) Fast Sermon on the King's Martyrdom, on Rom. 13.2. Lond. 1667. (2) Catholic Charity, recommended in a Serm. before the L. May. of Lond. on 1. Pet. 1. part of the 22 verse, in order to the abating the animosities among Christians that have been occasioned by differences in religion. Lond. 1669. qu. (3) Seasonable recommendation and defence of reason in the affairs of religion against infidelity, Sceptisme and fanaticisme of all sorts, on Rom. 12. latter part of the first verse. Lond. 1670. oct. See more Sermons following.  
The way of happiness in its difficulties and encouragements: cleared from many popular and dangerous mistakes, Lond. 1679. oct. This had also another title put to it the same year, with alterations thus. A discourse concerning the difficulties of the way to happiness, whence they may arise, and how they may be overthrown; with an account of the shortness and vanity of the animal religion, etc. in oct.  
A Seasonable recommendation and defence of reason in the affairs of religion, against infidelity, Sceptisme, and Fanaticismes of all sorts. Lond. 1670. qu.  
Philosophia Pia: A discourse of the religious temper and tendences of the experimental Philosophy which is professed by the Royal Society. Lond. 1671. oct.  
A Praefaratory answer to Mr. Hen. Stubbe, the Doctor of Warwick, wherein the malignity, hypocrisy and falsehood of his temper, pretences and reports, etc. in his animadversions on Plus ultra, are discovered. Lond. 1671. oct.  
A farther discovery of Mr. Stubbe, in a brief reply to the last Pamphlet against Jos. Glanvill. Lond. 1671. oct.  
Ad Clerum Somersetensem Epistola ΠΣΟΣΦΩΝΗΣΙΣ. Pr. in one sh. in oct. at the end of the Farther discovery.  
An earnest invitation to the Lords Supper. Lond. 1673. 74. 77. in tw.  
Seasonable reflections and discourses in order to the conviction and cure of the scoffing and infidelity of a degenerate age. Lond. 1676. oct. Made up of four Sermons, viz. (1) The sin and danger of scoffing at religion, on 2. Pet. 3.3. (2) The Church's contempts from profane and fanatic Enemies, on Psal. 123.3.4. (3) Moral Evidence of a life to come, on Matth. 22.32. (4) The serious considerations of a future judgement, on Acts 17.31.  
Essays on several important subjects in Philosophy and Religion. Lond. 1676. qu. Which Essays (being 7 in number) except the last, were published singly before by the author; whose preface to them gives a particular account of his new furbishing and vamping them up in this collection.  
An Essay concerning preaching: written for the direction of a young Divine, etc. Lond. 1678. oct.  
A seasonable defence of preaching, and the plain way of it.— Printed with the Essay concerning, etc.  
Saducismus triumphans: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions, in two parts.— The first treats of the possibility, the second of the real existence of them; with a Letter of Dr. Hen. More on the same subject. The first part consists of his Considerations about Witchcraft, etc. reprinted herein the fifth time. The second part is made up of an Answer to part of Mr. John Websters Display of supposed Witchcraft, etc. Lond. 1667. fol. and of our authors former narrative of the Daemon of Tidworth, and a second relation printed with it enlarged, together with a collection of 26 modern relations. The authors imperfect preface to the second part gives an account of the several editions of his former treatise of Witches, and relates the many motives which induced him to those large additions in this edition. The person who perused his papers after his death, digested his materials (that were left somewhat incomplete) into order and distinctness, tied the pieces methodically together, and supplied what was wanting by advertisements scattered through the whole work. The last advertisement is the most considerable, and as an appendage to the first part concerning the possibility of apparitions, etc. is added an easy, true, and genuine notion, and consistent explication of the nature of a spirit, translated out of the two last Chapters of Dr. More's Enchiridion Metaphysicum, etc. Lond. 1681. oct. and there again in 82 with large additions of the said More the publisher of both editions: An account of which additions he gives in the beginning of the work.  
Some discourses, Sermons and remains. Lond. 1681. qu. with his picture before them. Before these Sermons, in number eleven, (most of which came out in small vol.) is prefixed a short preface of Anth. Horneck the publisher of the said Discourses, etc. In which is briefly drawn our author's character, mostly as to his eminent ministerial endowments, in very lively and graceful strokes.  
The zealous and impartial Protestant, showing some great, but less heeded, dangers of popery, etc. in a Letter to a member of Parliament. Lond. 1681. qu. This book being published a little before the author's death, was so displeasing to some Parliament men, that they would have called the author to an account for it if he had lived a little longer.  
Letter to the Earl of Bristol, with another to a friend of the usefulness of the universal character, with the way of learning it.— MS: which I think is not extant. See more of our author Glanvil and some of his writings in Rob. Cross, under the year 1683. He hath also published Two Discourses, viz. A discourse of truth, by Dr. Geor Rust Bishop of Dromore, and The way to happiness and salvation. Lond. 1677. in tw: which discourses came out afterwards (1683 in oct.) with this title, Two choice and useful treatises: The one Lux orientalis, etc. The other a discourse of truth, by the late reverend Dr. G. Rust L. Bish. of Dromore in Ireland, with Annotations on them, by Dr. Hen. More as I suppose. These Annotations are full as large as the discourses themselves, on which they are written. The title to the latter Annotations on Dr. Rusts discourse run thus, Annotations upon the discourse of truth: In which is inserted by way of digression, A brief return to Mr. Baxters' reply, which he calls a placid collation with the learned Dr. Hen. More, occasioned by the Doctor's answer to a letter of the learned 
(*) Meaning Rich. Baxter.  Psythophorist; (which letter of Mr. Baxter, Dr. More published without the author's knowledge in the sec. edit. of our author glanvil's Saducismus triumphans etc.) whereunto is annexed a devotional Hymn, translated for the use of the sincere Lovers of true piety. Lond. 1683. oct. Mr. Glanvill hath a pretty large letter before Dr. Rust's discourse concerning the subject and the author of it. The Annotator to the reader, before his Annotations on the last discourse, endeavours to make people believe that Dr. More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter, but the beginning of this Epist. doth implicitly own the same Person to be author. To conclude; Mr. Glanvill died in his House at bath on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty, 
1680.  and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there, on the 9th day of the same month; at which time Jos. Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon, which afterwards was made extant. In his Rectory of bath succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch, in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battle or Battle, M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge, and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton, Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells.  
MIRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Mirth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent, became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624. aged 16 years or thereabouts, took one degree, and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall, where applying his mind to the study of Div, took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House, and at two years standing in that degree, he wrote and published,  
An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon, concerning the real presence. Lond. 1634. qu, at which time he lived at (if not Minister of) Odyham in Hampshire. In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey, and in Decemb. that year, to be called 
(a) John Nalson in his Impartial collection, etc. Lond. 1682. fol. p. 660. see also p. 693.  into question by the Parl. then sitting, for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North (at York) by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on, etc. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not. In the time of the rebellion he suffered for the King's cause, but upon the return, he was rewarded (being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire) with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship, by creation, of this University, as a member of S. Alb. Hall. 
1680.  He died on the 5. of Nou. in sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester, having several years before, wrote one, or more books fit for the press. Quaere.  
EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mentioned under the year 1652. p. 87, was born at, or near, Croyden in Surrey, admitted Prob. Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1634, entered on the Physic line, took both the degrees in that faculty in this University, that of Doctor being completed in 1641, in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts. In 1643, Nou. 14, he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physic in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their public Refectory, founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physic: But when the King's cause declined, he retired to London, practised there, and sometimes in the City of bath, became a Member of the Coll. of Physicians, Physician in ord. to his Maj. Ch. 2, and at length a pretended Baronet. He hath written and published,  
Morbus Epidemicus, an. 1643. Or the new disease, with the signs, causes, remedies, etc. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris, that raged then in Oxon, the King and the Court being there.  
Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661., die Harvaei memoriae dicato. Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nou. in sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul, 
1680.  within the Liberty of Westm. He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves, who from a Communer of S. Mary's Hall, became Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1627., afterwards Proctor of the University, and a Dignitary in Ireland. There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves, whom I have mentioned among these writers under the year 1676.  
NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of God's word, was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire, educated in Wykehams' School there, admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years, and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon, our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain (being about that time Rector of S. Martin's Ch. in Oxon) and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester. At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marry near Lambeth in Surrey falling void, the said Dr. Blandford, as Bishop of Worcester, presented him to it, an. 1672. which he kept to his dying day. He hath written,  
Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum, gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, insularum, locorum, civitatum, etc. ad sacras & profanas historias, poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria, nomina, quo decet ordine, complectens & illustrans, etc. Oxon. 1670. fol, mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius. Afterwards the author made it quite another thing, by adding thereunto, from his great reading, almost as much more matter as there was before, with many corrections, etc.— Lond. 1686. fol, whereunto is added a Geographical Index. An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it, you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque, etc. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149, etc. written by Edm. Bohun Esq. Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mentioned, on the 27. of Nou. in sixteen hundred and eighty, 
1680.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, leaving then behind him, among those that well knew him, the character of a harmless quiet man, and of an excellent Philologist.  
EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the ancient Manor or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire, on the eleventh of Nou. 1621., and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts, he was by the care of his Father, Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County, sent to Uniu. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639, where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts, which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenced, he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclined, than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country, he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire: where continuing for some time, returned to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces, settled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl, was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected, an. 1648. Thence, after he had spent an year or more therein, he went into Kent and married Jane the Daughter of one Dr. Edw. Simson, who, being ancient, resigned his living (Pluckley I think) to him, and then took the degrees in Divinity in this University. But he being much vexed with factious Parishioners and Quakers, left his Benefice, and in the year 1657 he procured himself to be made Fellow of the new erected Coll. at Durham; where being appointed one of them that should teach Grammar, he followed precisely the Jesuits method, and the boys under him did by that course profit exceedingly. But that Coll. being dissolved in the beginning of 1660, or rather a little before; he returned into the South parts, settled at Islington near London, and in a large Gallery in a house belonging to Sir Thomas Fisher, he taught boys after an easy method, too large now to tell you. He had also there a little Academy for Girls to be taught Latin and Greek, and, as I have been informed, one of them at 14 years of age could construe a Greek Gospel. Afterwards, this person, who had a restless and freakish head, went with Coll. E. Harley to Dunkirk and was there a Chaplain for some time: Which place, with the garrison, being sold by the English, he returned, and that Colonel settled him in the Vicarage of Lentwarden in Herefordshire. But that being a poor thing, he soon after left it, and by the favour of the Bishop of London he obtained the cure of S. Mary Staining in that City, scarce worth 20 l. per an. unless benevolence make it more. Being settled there, the grand conflagration happened, which burned down his Church and Parish to the ground, an. 1666. So that being for the present destitute of a subsistence, he went soon after in the quality of a Chaplain to the garrison of Tangier, where remaining till the Church of S. Michael in Woodstreet was rebuilt, and the Parish of S. Mary united with it, he was sent for home and made Rector of that Church; which, with a Lecture elsewhere, he kept to his dying day. He was a person very well versed in Lat. Gr. and Poetry, and always took a very great delight to instruct youth. He understood Chronology well, and spent much time and money in the art of Alchemy. He was a person cynical and hersute, shiftles in the world, yet absolutely free from covetousness, and I dare say from pride: But above all that he is to be remembered for, is, that he was the first discoverer to his Majesty of that Plot commonly called the Popish Plot, and by many Oats his Plot, about the 25. of Sept. 1678, having a little before been told of it by Titus' Oats, who conferred together what to do in that matter. He hath written,  
A short compendium of Grammar.— Printed in two sheets at most in oct.  
Noun Substantives the names of things declare,  
And Adjectives, what kind of things those are, etc.  
And in 6 or 8 verses more are comprehended the concord's, etc.  
Observations, directions and inquiries concerning the motion of sap in trees— Remitted into the Philosophical Transactions, an. 1670 num. 57  
Inquiries relating particularly to the bleeding of Walnuts— Rem. into the same Trans. num. 58.  
Letter about the retarding of the ascent of sap, etc. and concerning the running of sap in trees— There also numb. 68  
The Royal Martyr— Whether printed, I cannot tell, because R●g. L'estrange refused to licence it, an. 1678.  
The Jesuits unmasked: or, political observations upon the ambitious pretences and subtle intrigues of that cunning society, presented to all high powers as a seasonable discourse at this time. Lond. 1678. qu.  
The new design of the Papists detected: or, an answer to the last speeches of the five Jesuits lately executed, viz. Thom. White alias Whitebread, Will. Harcourt alias Harison, John Gavan alias Gawen, Anthony Turner and John Fenwick. Lond. 1679. in 2. sh. in fol.  
An Answer to the objections against the Earl of Danby, concerning his being accessary to the murdering of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. Lond. 1679 in one sh. in folio. There is no name to it, but the general vogue than was that Dr. Tongue was the author.  
An account of Romish doctrine in case of conspiracy and religion. Lond. 1679. qu.  
Jesuits Assassins': or, the Popish Plot further declared, and demonstrated in their murderous practices and principles. Lond. 1680 in 9 sh. in fol. the first part. Whether the second was ever published I know not.  
The northern Star. The British monarchy, etc. Being a collection of many choice ancient and modern prophecies: wherein also the fates of the Roman, French, and Spanish monarchies are occasionally set out. Lond. 1680. fol. He also completed and published the Chronicon, written by the aforesaid Dr. Edward Simson sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, printed at Oxon 1652. folio. see more in Thom. Jones, an. 1682. He also translated from French into English. (1) Popish mercy and justice. Being an account, not of those massacred in France by the Papists, formerly, but of some later persecutions of the French Protestants. Lond. 1679. qu. (2) Jesuitical Aphorisms: or, a summary account of the doctrine of the Jesuits, and some other popish Doctors, etc. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. (3) The Jesuits morals: or, the principal errors which the Jesuits have introduced into Christian morality, etc. printed several times, particularly at Lond. in 1680. fol. (4) Abridgement of controversy, etc. Written by Ch. Drelincourt. (5) Combat Roman, etc. by the same author; and other things, as I conceive, which I have not yet seen. He died in the house of that factious Dissenter, called the Protestant Joiner, alias Steph. College (who kept him in his house, had much ado with him, and had been at great charge to keep him in order, for the carrying on of the cause then in hand) on the eighteenth day of December, in sixteen hundred and eighty, 
1680.  and was on the 23 of the same month conveyed by a numerous train (most of them of the godly party) from Scotch-Hall in the Black Friars, to St. Michael's Church in Woodstreet within the City of London; where his funeral Sermon was preached by Thom. Jones sometimes of University Coll. in Oxon, and therein highly characterized. Afterwards the body was reposed in the Vault of the Churchyard of S. Mary Staining before mentioned. He the said Dr. Tongue left behind him, at his death, two written folios touching Alchemy, which was the art wherein he was most excellent and took delight, besides certain MSS. of his composition concerning Divinity which he wrote at Durham and elsewhere, but whether fit for the Press, I know not. Some time before his death he invented among other things, the way of teaching Children to write a good hand in twenty days time, after the rate of 4 hours in a day, by writing over with black ink, copies printed from copper Plates in red Ink. After his death R. Moray Projector of the Penny-Post did cause to be engraven several Plates, and then to be printed off with red ink, by which means boys learn to admiration.  
JOHN CORBET Son of Rog. Corb. Shoemaker, was born, and educated in Grammar learning, within the City of Gloucester, became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1636, aged 16 years and in 1639 he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he was made a Master of one of the Schools, and a Lecturer, in that City; but when it was garrisoned for the Parliament use, he became Dinner-Chaplain to Col. Edw. Massey Governor thereof, preached seditiously, vilified the King and his party in a base manner, and would several times say in common discourse, and in the Pulpit sometimes, that 
(a) Merc. Aul. in July an. 1644. p. 1081.  nothing hath so much deceived the world as the name of a King, which was the ground of all mischief to the Church of Christ. When the War was terminated he was called to be a Preacher at Bridgwater in Somersetshire; whence, after some time spent in holding forth, he went to the City of Chichester, where he was frequented by schismatical people. At length being called to a richer Cure, he went to Bramshot in Hampshire; where being settled, it was his desire made to the Delegates of the Convocation of this University, that they would dispense with him for ten terms absence, and give him leave to accumulate the degree of Bach. of Divinity. Which desire being granted, his supplicate in order thereunto followed 14 May 1658, and granted simpliciter, conditionally that he perform all exercise requisite for the said degree: But whether he did so, or was admitted to that degree, it appears not in the Register. At Bramshot he continued till the Act of Uniformity cast him out, an. 1662., and then he retired to London, (as most Nonconformists did) where he lived privately, taking no employment till his first wife died, and then he lived in the house with Sir Joh. Micklethwaite Precedent of the Coll. of Physicians, and afterwards with Alderm. Webb; about which time he married a daughter of Dr. W. Twyss, and then lived privately with Mr. Rich. Baxter at Totteridge in Hertfordshire. At length the King's licence or toleration being published in the middle of March 1671, he was invited by the godly party to Chichester, where he preached till a month before his death: at which time removing to London to be cut of the stone in the bladder, he died as soon as he came to that City without effecting his desire. One of his 
(b) Rich. Baxter in his Sermon at the funeral of John Corbet. Lond. 1681. p. 28.  persuasion tells us, that he was a man so blameless in all his conversation, that he never heard one person accuse or blame him, except for Nonconformity— that he was of so great moderation and love of peace that he hated all that was against it, and would have done any thing for concord in the Church, except sinning against God and hazarding Salvation, etc. He hath written and commended to posterity,  
An historical relation of the military Government of Gloucester, from the beginning of the Civil War between King and Parl. to the removal of Col. massy from that Government to the command of the Western Forces. Lond. 1645. in 18 sh. in qu.  
A Vindication of the Magistrates of the City of Gloucester from the calumnies of Robert Bacon printed in his relation of his usuage there, which he entitles The Spirit of Prelacy yet working, or truth from under a cloud. Lond. 1646. qu.  
Ten questions discussed, which tend to the discovery of close Antinomianism.— Printed with the Vindication.  
The interest of England in the matter of religion, unfolded in the solution of three questions, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. in two parts. Answered first by R●g. L'Estrange in his Interest mistaken: or the holy cheat, etc. Lond. 1661. and 62. in oct. Wherein it appears that our author Corbet justifies in his said book the Presbyterian cause of 1641, that he excludes the Royal Party that served the late King from having any hand in the restoring of this, that he revives the pretended misdemeanours of the Bishops as occasioners of the last War, that he maintains the actings of the Presbyterians according to the Covenant, that he makes the two Houses participate of the Sovereignty, and denies the lawfulness of the English Ceremony, etc. (2) By an Anonymus in his book intit. The Presbyterians unmasked, etc. Lond. 1676. oct. Which book came out again▪ in 1681, under the title of The Dissenter disarmed, etc. supposed verily to be written by Sam. Thomas Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. This is the author whom Mr. Baxter styles 
(c) Ib. in Baxters Serm. p. 31.  A shamless Writer, who published a bloody invective against Mr. Corbets pacificatory book, called The Interest of England, as if it had been written to raise a War.  
The Kingdom of God among men; a tract of the sound state of Religion, etc. Lond. 1679. oct.  
The point of Church-unity and schism discussed.  
An account of himself about conformity.— These two last are printed with The Kingdom of God, etc.  
Discourse of the Religion of England, asserting that reformed Christianity, settled in its due latitude, is the stability and advancement of this Kingdom.— In 2 parts.  
Self-employment in secret: containing, (1) Evidences upon self-examination. (2) Thoughts upon painful afflictions. (3) Memorials for practice. Lond. 1681. in tw. Published after the Author's death, with a prefatory Epistle, by Joh. How.  
An account given of the principles and practices of several Nonconformists. Wherein it appears that their Religion is no other than what is professed in the Church of England, etc. Lond. 1682. qu.  
An Enquiry into the oath required of Nonconformists by an Act made at Oxon. Wherein the true meaning of it and the unwarrantableness of taking it, is considered. Lond. 1682. in 3 sh. in qu.  
An humble endeavour of some plain and brief explications of the decrees and operations of God about the free actions of men, more especially of the operations of divine grace. Lond. 1683. qu.  
Remaines— Lond. 1684. in tw, being most of the 9 Tracts which he left behind him to be published. He the said J. Corbet had also laboured much in compiling the first vol. of Historical Collections, published by Joh. Rushworth; and dying on the 26 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and eighty, 
1680.  was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in Holborn near London, as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Rich. Baxter, dated 22 of Feb. following. Besides this Jo. Corbet, was another of both his names, Minister of Bonyl one of the collegiat Churches of the Provostry of Dunbarton in Scotland; who, for not submitting to the Covenant, was ejected from that Kingdom and went into Ireland, where he published The ungirding of the Scotish armour, etc. Dubl. 1639. qu. and The Epistle congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor to the Covenanters in Scotland, etc. printed the year following in qu. Which Mr. Corbet, who was an ancient man, and a Minister of Galloway, had his head cut off by two Swiniards in the time of the Rebellion in Ireland, an. 1641. See more in the Epistle to the Reader written by Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall, set before the said Epistle congratulatory, etc. Printed at Oxon 1684. qu. Which Epistle was written (as I have been informed by a Scottish Writer since I wrote these things) by John Maxwell Bishop of Ross in Scotland, who therein compares the Presbyterians to the Jesuits. Sed qu.  
ANTHONY SADLER son of Tho. Sadl. of Chilton in Wilts. was born in that County, entered in S. Edm. Hall in the condition of a Batler, in Lent term 1627., admitted Bach. of Arts and in Orders, an. 1631, being then 21 years of age: Soon after he became Chaplain to an Esquire of his name in Hertfordshire, and in the beginning of the Civil War Curate of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire, afterwards Chaplain to the Lady Let. Paget Dowager, and at length being presented to the Living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire, was refused to pass by the Triers, an. 1654., and thereupon no small trouble passed between him and them. Soon after he was made Vicar of Mitcham in Surrey, where I find him in much trouble, an. 1664, (occasioned by Rob. Cranmer of London Merchant an inhabitant of that place) and afterwards to be Doctor of Diu. and Chapl. extraord. to his Majesty. He hath written and published,  
Inquisitio Anglicana: or the disguise discovered, showing the proceedings of the Commissioners at Whitehall for the approbation of Ministers, etc. Lond. 1654. in three sh. in qu.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Benedictio, Valedictio: or, the remembrance of thy friend and thy end, being a farewell serm. preached at the house of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased, on 2 Cor. 13.11. Lond. 1655. oct. (2) Mercy in a miracle; showing the deliverance and duty of the King and People, on Matth. 8.25. Lond. 1661. qu. It was preached at Mitcham in Surrey 28 Jun. 1660, in a solemn congregation for the restauration of his Maj. to his royal throne, etc.  
A divine Masque. Lond. 1660. qu, ded. to the Lord Gen. Monk.  
Strange news indeed, from Mitcham and Surrey; of the treacherous and barbarous proceedings of Rob. Cramer Merchant of London, against A. Sadler Vicar of Mitcham, etc. Lond. 1664. in one sh. in qu.  
Schema sacrum in ordine ad ordinem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ceremoniarum. Lond. 1683. on a broad side of a sheet of paper, written in English, partly in verse and partly in prose. This is the second or third edition, but when the first came out I know not, nor any thing else of the author, 
1680.  only that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty, or thereabouts, leaving then behind him the character of a man of a rambling head and turbulent spirit.  
RICHARD ALLESTRY or Allestree, son of Robert, son of Will. Allestry of Alveston in Derbyshire, was born at Uppington near to Wreken in Shropshire, educated in Grammar learning mostly in the Free-school at Coventry, where Philem. Holland taught, became a Commoner of Ch. Ch. in Lent term an. 1636, aged 15 years, being then put under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Busbie, and about half an year after was made Student of that House. In 1642 he put himself in actual arms for his Maj. under Sir Joh. Byron, and when Oxford was garrisoned for the King, he bore a musket among the Scholars for his service. In 1643 he proceeded Master of Arts, and the same year had like to have lost his life by the pestilential disease that then raged within the garrison of Oxon. Soon after he took holy Orders, and became a noted Tutor in the House; but when the Parliament Visitors came under pretence of reforming the University, he, with hundreds more, were ejected. So that being put to his shifts, he was soon after entertained as Chaplain to Francis Newport of Shropshire Esq. afterward L. Newport of High-Arcal: with whom continuing till Worcester fight, he did, after the King's miraculous escape from the Rebels there, attend him at Rouen in Normandy, and received his dispatches to the managers of his Affairs in England. Soon after coming to Oxon, where he found his friends Mr. Joh. Dolben and Mr. Jo. Fell living privately, and performing the Offices of the Church of England to the loyal party there, he joined with them, and continued there till Sir Anth. Cope of Hanwell near Banbury prevailed with him to live in his family; which for several years he did, having liberty allowed him to go or stay as his occasions required. By which advantage he was enabled to step aside, upon Messages from the King's friends, which he managed with courage and dexterity. But in the Winter of 1659. being snapped at Dover, in his return from his Majesty in Flanders, he was examined by the Committee of the Council of Safety, and committed Prisoner to Lambeth house, where he continued till things moved towards his Maj. restauration. In 1660 he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and soon after actually created D. of Div, and about that time made one of the Lecturers of the City of Oxon, to instill principles of Loyalty among the Citizens, who before had been led aside by schismatical Teachers. In 1663., he being then one of the King's Chaplains in ordinary, became Reg. Prof. of Diu. upon the death of Dr. Creed, and two years after he was made Provost of Eton Coll. near Windsor upon the death of Dr. Joh. Miredith, which was all the preferment he enjoyed, being little enough for such a sufferer as he had been, and one that had often ventured his neck to do his Majesty service. He was a good and most affectionate Preacher, and for many years by his prudent presiding in the Professors chair, he did discover perhaps as much learning as any, and much more moderation as to the five controverted points than most of his Predecessors. He was also a person richly furnished with all variety of choice solid learning, requisite to recommend him with the greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for one of the most eminent Divines of our age. He hath written and transmitted to posterity,  
The privileges of the Uniu. of Oxford in point of Visitation, in a letter to an honourable personage.— Pr. in one sh. and an half in qu. 1647. Whereupon W. Prynne came out with his University of Oxford's plea refuted, etc. and in answer to that R. Waring wrote An account of Mr. prynn's refutation, etc. and Ed. Bagshaw sen. with his Short censure, etc.  
Eighteen Sermons, whereof 15 were preached before the King, and the rest upon public occasions. Lond. 1669. fol, most of which had been before published singly.  
Of the authority and usefulness of the Scripture; serm. on 2 Tim. 3.15. Oxon. 1673. qu.  
Forty Sermons, whereof twenty one are now first published, the greatest part preached before the King, and on solemn occasions. Oxon. 1684. fol. These were published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxford, and had the 19 sermons before mentioned added to, with his picture before, them. 
1680/1▪  He died in January in sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buried in Eton Coll. Chappel, on the north side of the high Altar or Com. table. Over his grave was, soon after, laid a black marble stone, with this engraven thereon. Ricardu● Allestree Praepositus, obiit 28 Jan. 1680: And on the north wall was set up a white marble table, with this inscription thereon. H.S.I. Ricardus Allestree Cathedrae Theologicae in Universitate Oxoniensi Professor Regius; Ecclesiae Christi ibidem Praebendarius; & Collegii hujus Etonensit Praepositus. Muniis istis singulis ita par, ut & omnibus major. In disputationibus irrefragabilis, concionibus flexanimus, negotiis solers, vita integer, pietate sanctus. Episcopales infulas eadem industria evitavit, qua alii ambiunt; cui rectius visum, Ecclesiam defendere, instruere, ornare, quam regere. Laboribus studiisque perpetuis exhaustus, morte, si quis alius, praematura obiit vir desideratissimus Januarii xxviii. an. MDCLXXX aetatis LXI. Nobile sibi monumentum areae adjacentis latus occidentale quod à fundamentis propriis impensis struxit, vivu● sibi statuit. Brevem hanc tabellam haeredes Defuncto posuere. The fabric here mentioned was a new Grammar school, which cost Dr. Allestry about 1500 l. Dr. Zach. Cradock of Cambridge who had been installed Canon resid. of Chichester, on the 11 of Febr. 1669, succeeded him in the Provostship of Eton, by virtue of the election thereunto of the Fellows: so that Edm. Waller the Poet, who had tugged hard for it, was put aside. Of the same family with Dr. Allestree, was another of both his names of Derby, author of several Almanacs before the Rebellion began, one of which for the years 1629 and 1633, I have seen; but whether he was educated in Oxon, I cannot yet tell.  
WILLIAM BEN or Been, was born at, or near to, Egremond in Cumberland in Nou. 1600, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at S. Bee, transplanted thence to Qu. Coll. where, if I am not mistaken, he was a Servitor. Afterwards leaving the place without a degree, upon the obtaining a presentation to Okingham in Berks, he settled there; but one Bateman his contemporary in Oxon having got another Presentation thereunto, they both, rather than go to law, did jointly perform the duties and received the profits thence. At length our Author Ben became Chaplain to the Marchiones of Northampton living in Somersetshire, left his interest in Okingham to Bateman, and continuing in the service of the said Marchiones till 1629, he did by virtue of a call from John White the Patriarch of Dorchester, go to that place, and by Whites endeavours was made Rector of all-hallows Church there, where he continued in great respect from the precise party till S. Barthelmews' day an. 1662., excepting only two years, in which time he attended the said White when he was Rector of Lambeth in Surrey, in the place of Dr. Featley ejected. Besides his constant preaching at all-hallows he preached gratis on a weekday to the Prisoners in the Goal, situated in his Parish, where being much frequented by the neighbourhood, and so consequently the room, wherein he held forth, not spacious enough to contain the Auditory, he caused a Chapel to be built within the Prison walls, in good part, at least, at his own charge. After his ejectment from all-hallows for Nonconformity, he lived in Dorchester to the time of his death, but for his preaching in Conventicles there and in the neighbourhood, he was often brought into trouble, and sometimes imprisoned and fined. He hath written,  
Answer to Mr. Franc Bampfields' letter, in vindication of the Christian Sabbath against the Jewish. Lond. 1672. 77. oct. It is printed with the said Bampfields' judgement for the observation of the Jewish Sabbath: wherein Bens Answer begins p. 9 and ends in p. 86.  
Soul-prosperity, in several sermons, on Joh. 3.2. Lond. 1683. oct. This book contains 12 sermons at least. He died in the latter end of the year (22 of Mar. as I have been informed) of sixteen hundred and eighty, 
1680/1  and was buried in the yard belonging to his sometimes Church in the ancient Borough of Dorchester in Dorsetshire before mentioned. What I have farther to observe of this perperson is (1) That he was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Dorsetsh. and Pool for the ejection of such whom they then (1654.) called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. (2) That though he lived to be 80 years of age, yet he never used Spectacles, though he read and wrote much, writing all his Sermons generally as large as he delivered them, except the words of the texts of Scripture cited by him. (3) That it was always his custom, especially when he was at home, to pray in his Study seven times in a day, and in his prayers to give God thanks for certain deliverances of him from dangers, which happened 5 June 1636. 23 Oct. 1643, 12 Aug. 1645, etc. See more in Franc. Bampfield, an. 1683.  
JOHN DOBSON a Minister's son, was born in Warwickshire, became Demie of Magd. Coll. about 1653, perpetual Fellow in 1662., being then Master of Arts and a most celebrated Preacher; and in the year after he did repeat memoriter, in Dominica in Albis the four Easter sermons to the wonder of the auditory, in the University Church of S. Mary. In the month of Sept. the same year (1663.) he was expelled the University for being author of a Libel in vindication of Dr. Tho. Pierce against Dr. Hen. Yerbury; so that all the credit that he before had gained by his preaching, was lost among some: but being soon after restored, he continued in his Coll, took the degree of Bach. of Diu. and afterwards became Rector or Cold Higham near to Tocester in Northamptonshire and of Corscomb in Dorsetshire by the favour of Sir Will. Farmor of Easton Neston, sometimes his Pupil (if I mistake not) in Magd. Coll. He hath written  
Queries upon Queries: or Inquiries into Certain Queries upon Dr. Pierce's sermon at Whitehall, Feb. 1. Lond. 1663. in two sh. in qu.  
Dr. Pierce his preaching confuted by his practice. Sent in a Letter by N. G. to a friend in London.— This was printed in half a sheet in qu. and was first published in Oxon. 28 Aug. 1663. It is written in prose and verse: the beginning of the first is, Dear George, I send thee a copy of a Lampoon upon the Precedent of Maudlin's, &c. and the beginning of the other, which is the Lampoon, runs thus, 
Near to the ford, o'er which an Ass  
Or an Ox at least did pass, etc.  About 8 or 10 days after was published in Oxon. another libel intit. Dr. Pierce his preaching exemplified in his practice. Or, an antidote to the poison of a scurrilous Pamphlet sent by N.G. to a friend in Lond. etc. Which libel, though written by Dr. Pierce, yet Dobson took it upon him upon a close inquisition after the author, to save the Doctor: whereupon the Vicech. by his Bannimus dat. 10 of Sept. 1663., stuck up in public places in the University, did expel the said Dobson, and discommune for ever the Bookseller called Edmund thorn living near the East gate of Oxon, for selling the said libel or libels. Our Author Dobson hath also published,  
Sermon at the funeral of the Lady Mary Farmor, Relict of Sir Will. Farmor Bt, who died at Lond. 18 Jul. 1670, and was buried 5 of Aug. following at Eston-Neston in Northamptonshire, on 1 Thess. 4.13. Lond. 1670. qu. He died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred eighty and one, but where he was buried, 
1681.  unless at Corscomb, I know not.  
TIMOTHY TAYLOR son of Tho. Taylor of Hempsted in Hertfordshire, was born in that County, became a Student in Qu. Coll. 1626., aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1634, (at which time he was of S. Mary's Hall) holy orders, and then became Vicar of Almeley in Herefordshire, where he preached twice every Sunday; but the Chancellor of the Dioc. commanding him to turn his afternoons Sermon into a Catechism Lecture, he upon that occasion settled himself to study the second Commandment more elaborately and industriously than before he had done, and so became dissatisfied concerning Episcopacy and the Ceremonies of the Church. Afterwards being troubled in the Bishop's Court for Nonconformity, he did by consent leave Almeley, and lived about three years in a small Peculiar exempt from Episcopal Jurisdiction called Longdon in Shropshire; where continuing till the Rebellion began, he sided with the Presbyterians, afterwards with the Independents, and became Pastor to a Congregational Church at Duckenfield in Cheshire. Thence removing into Ireland about 1650, at which time he took the Engagement, he became Minister of Carickfergus there, and much resorted to by Presb. and Independents. After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2, he was silenced, and thereupon removing to his hired house called the Grange near Carickfergus, carried on the trade of preaching in private, whereby he gained a comfortable subsistence. In 1668 he removed to Dublin, took charge of a Church of Dissenters there, as Colleague with Sam. Mather, and after his death with Nath. Mather his bother● and continued in that employment till his death. He hath written,  
A defence of sundry Positions and Scriptures alleged, to justify the congregational way. Lond. 1645. qu. It contains about 130 pages.  
Defence of sundry Positions and Scriptures for the congregational way justified, the sec. part. Lond. 1646. It contains about 46 pages. The running title on the top of every leaf is Congregational way justified. In the composition of both which books he had the joint help of Sam. Eton of Cheshire. Soon after was published by a Presbyterian Minister called Rich. Hollingworth of Manchester in Lancashire a book intit. Certain Queries propounded to such as affect the congregational way, and especially to Mr. Sam. Eton and Mr. Tim. Taylor, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things our author Taylor hath published, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died of a Lethargy on the 31 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and one, 
1681.  and that he was buried on the third of June following in the Church of S. Michan in Oxmantowne near to Dublin.  
GEORGE NEWTON a Minister's son, was born in Devonshire, entered a Batler of Exet. Coll. in Mich. tetm 1617. aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1624., entered into holy orders, became Minister of Hill-Bishops near Taunton, and in Apr. 1631 was made Vicar of Taunton S. Magd. by the presentation of Sir Will. Portman Bt, and Rob. Hill Gent. After his settlement in that Vicaridg he behaved himself conformible for a time; but upon the breaking out of the rebellion, he sided with the Presbyterians, having always been puritanically educated, preached against the K. and his followers when Taunton was garrisoned for the Parliament, and became a mighty man in that interest and much followed and adored by factious people. In 1654. he was by ordinance appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the godly party called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters; in which employment he sufficiently gave an helping hand to the undoing of many loyal persons; and afterwards by his and the preaching of other Presbyterians and Independents, (who ridiculously make preaching only, their religion) the said Town of Taunton became the most factious place in all the Nation. In 1662. about S. Bartholmews' day, he was deprived of his Vicaridg for Nonconformity, and for the present that place was supplied by Mr. Thom. James fellow of Alls. Coll. in Oxon, much frequented by the loyal party there, and by the Gentry adjoining. Afterwards our author Newton preaching in several Conventicles very seditiously, he was seized on, imprisoned for several years, and justly suffered as a mover of sedition. He hath written and published,  
An exposition with notes unfolded and applied on Joh. 17, delivered in sermons preached weekly on the Lord's day in the Congregration in Taunton Magdelene. Lond. 1660 in a pretty large fol. It is dedicated to Col. John George's Governor of the City of London-Derry in Ireland, whom the author calls his brother.  
Several Sermons as (1) Magna Carta: or, the Christians charter epitomised, on Psal. 91.16. Lond. 1661. in tw. (2) Serm. at the fun. of Mr. Jos. Allein, on Luke 23.28. Lond. 1672. and 77. oct. etc.  
An account of the godly life and practice of Mr. Joseph Allein and of the course of his Ministry in Taunton. Lond. 1672. and 77. oct. See more in Jos. Allein among these writers, p. 299.300. This G. Newton died in sixteen hundred eighty and one, 
1681.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Taunton S. Magd. Soon after was a mon, with inscription put over his grave: the contents of which follow. Hic jacet corpus Georgii Newton Artium Magistri, qui obiit 12. Junii, 1681, anno aetatis 79, postquam officium Evangelistae in hoc oppido (viz. Taunton) per 50 annos fideliter prestiterat.  
Non fictis maestam lachrymis conspergite tumbam,  
Pastoris vestri nam tegit ossa pii.  
Vestra Salutifero planxit peccata flagello  
Delicti sensu corda gravata levans.  
Absolvet pensum sancti & mercede recepta  
Nunc caeli regno, ut stella corusca micat.  
GEORGE WHARTON descended from an ancient and gentile family living in Westmoreland, richly possessed with lands and inheritances therein, was born at Kirbykendal in that County 4. Apr. 1617., spent some time in the condition of a Sojourner in Oxon. 1633. and after, but his natural Geny to Astronomy and Mathematics was so predominant, that little or nothing of Logic and Philosophy could take place, in him. Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony, prosecuted his genius (which was assisted by Will. Milbourne Curate at Bransepeth near Durham) and by the name of George Naworth (Wharton) of West-Awckland published Almanacs: But being soon discontented at the then growing rebellion, he turned all his inheritance into money, espoused his Majesty's cause and interest, and raised a gallant Troop of horse therewith. After several generous hazards of his person in Battle, he was at last totally routed by the rebellious party near Stow on the Would in Glocestershire, where the noble and valiant Sir Jacob Astley was taken Prisoner, and himself received several scars of honour, which he carried to his grave. Afterwards he retired to Oxon, the then seat of his Majesty, and had, in recompense of his losses, conferred upon him an employment under Sir Joh. Heydon then Lieutenant General of the Ordnance, which was to receive, and pay off, money for the service of the Magazine and Artillery; at which time Edward Sherburne Gent. (afterwards a Knight) was Commissary General of the said Artillery. It was then, that at leisure hours, he followed his studies, was esteemed a member of Queens Coll. being entered among the students there, and might, with other officers, have had the degree of Master of Arts conferred on him by the members of the Ven. Convocation, but he neglected it. After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon, at which time the King's cause did daily decline, our author Wharton was put to his shifts, and lived as opportunity served, went to the great City, lived as privately as he could and wrote several small things for a livelihood. But they giving offence to the great men then in power, he was several times seized on, and imprisoned, as in the Gatehouse at Westminster, in Newgate and at length in Winsore Castle: At which time being threatened with greater punishment he found Will. Lilly his Antagonist a friend. After his Majesty's restauration he became Treasurer and Paymaster to the Office of his Majesty's Ordnance, repaid Lilly his courtesy, gained so well by his employment, that purchasing an estate, he was, in consideration of his former sufferings under, and for, K. Ch. 1, and for particular services to K. Ch. 2, created a Baronet, by patent dated 31. Dec. 1677; which honour, his son Sir Polycarpus Wharton now enjoys. Sir George was always esteemed the best ginger that wrote the Ephemerideses of his time, and went beyond W. Lilly and Jo. Booker the idols of the Vulgar, was a constant and thro-paced loyalist, a boon Companion, a witty Droll and waggish Poet. He hath written,  
Hemeroscopions, or Almanacs from 1640 to 1666.— Printed all in oct. The six first came out under the name of George Naworth and therefore by Lily usually called Noworth. The rest (that for 1646 being, as it seems, omitted) came partly out under the name of Captain George Wharton, and partly under George Wharton Esq. In that Alman. which he published in 1644, he began to fill the blank leaves of the respective months with Chronological notes: which continuing so (now and then interruptedly) till 1657 he then put them at the end of every Almanac under the title of Gesta Brittannorum, and commenced them from 1600, whereas before they were but from Dec. 1641. These Gests are all, or most part, involved in an octavo book called The Historians Guide, etc. In all the said Almanacs is a great deal of satirical poetry, reflecting on the times and rebellious persons thereof; which since hath been collected together and printed in his works.  
Mercurio-caelico Mastix. or, an anti-caveat to all such, as have (heretofore) had the misfortune to be cheated and deluded, by that great and traitorous Impostor Joh. Booker, in answer to his frivolous Pamphlet, Entit.— Mercurius-Caelicus: or, a caveat to all the people of England. Oxon. 1644. in. tw. sh. in qu.  
England's Iliads in a Nutshell. or, a brief Chronologie of the battles, sieges, conflicts, etc. from Dec. 1641 to 25. of Mar. 1645. Oxon. 1645 oct. Taken from his Almanacs for 1644. and 45. Mostly involved also in the said Hist. Guide, etc.  
An Astrological judgement upon his Majesty's present March begun from Oxon 7. May 1645— Print. in qu.  
Bellum Hybernicale: or Ireland's War Astrologically demonstrated from the late celestial congress of two malevolent Planets, Saturn and Mars, in Taurus, the Ascendent of that kingdom, etc.— Printed 1647. qu.  
Merlini Anglici Errata. Or the errors, mistakes, etc. of Mr. Will. lily's new Ephemeris for 1647— Printed 1647.  
Mercurius Elencticus: communicating the unparallelled proceedings at Westminster, the Headquarters, and other places, etc.— Printed by stealth in London. This Mercury which began 29. Oct. 1649, came out sheet by sheet every week in cue; and continuing interruptedly till 4. Apr. 1649, it came out again with numb. 1. and continued till towards the end of that year. I have seen several things that were published under the name of Merc. Elenct, particularly the first and second part of The last Will and Test, of Philip Earl of Pembroke, etc. Pr. 1649. qu, but whether George Wharton was author of them I know not.  
A List of the names of the members of the H. of Commons: observing which are Officers of the Army, contrary to the selfdenying ordinance, together with such sums of money, offices and lands, as they have given to themselves for service done, and to be done, against the King and Kingdom— Printed in one sh, in qu. 1648. It was all taken from the first part of The Hist. of Independency, written by Clem. Walker. In the said List are the names of an 100 persons; and to it was added a second Century, by the same author Wharton, printed on one side of a sh. of paper, the same year, and subscribed M. El. i. e. Merc. Elencticus. The reader is to note that in 1657. and 58 came out Two Narratives of the late Parliament (so called) their Election and appearing, etc. with the account of the places of profit, salaries and advantages which they hold and receive under the present power, etc.— Pr. in qu. but by whom they were written I know not. Sure it is that the author borrows several things from the said Hist. of Indep, and the said List, or Two Centuries; and from them all put together, doth borrow the author of another book entit. The mystery of the good old cause, briefly unfolded in a cat. of such members of the late Long Parliament that held offices both Civil and Military, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. Who the author of this Mystery was, I cannot yet tell: Sure it is, if Sir Will. Dugdale told me right, that Clem. Spelman, who was Cursitor Baron, published about the same time a Character of the Oliverians, on one side of a sheet; which Clement (after he had written and published a large preface to his fathers (Sir Hen. Spelman) book, De non temerandis Ecclesiis and some other little things, (as I suppose) he concluded his last day in June (after Whitsuntide) an. 1679: whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, London. G. Wharton hath also written,  
A short account of the Fasts and Festivals, as well of the Jews as Christians, etc.  
The Cabal of the twelve Houses Astrological, from Morinus— Written 1659. and approved by Will. Oughtred.  
A learned and useful discourse teaching the right observation and keeping of the holy Feast of Easter, etc. Written 1665.  
Apotelesma: or, the nativity of the World, and revolution thereof.  
Short discourse of years, months, and days of years.  
Something touching the nature of Eclipses; and also of their effects.  
Of the Crises in diseases, etc.  
Of the mutations, inclinations and eversions of Empires, Kingdoms, etc.  
Discourse of the names, Genus, Species, etc. of all Comets.  
Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus, etc.  
Secret multiplication of the effects of the Stars from Cardan.  
Sundry rules, showing by what Laws the weather is governed, and how to discover the various alterations of the same.— He also translated from Latin into English The art of Divining, by the Lines and Signatures, engraven in the hand of man, etc. Written by John Rothman M. D. Lond. 1652. oct. This is sometimes called wharton's Chiromancy. Most of which foregoing treatises, were collected together and publishd an. 1683 in oct, by John Gadbury, born at Wheatley near to, and in the County of, Oxon, 31. Dec. 1627., Son of Will. Gadb. of that place farmer, by his stolen Wife the Daughter of Sir John Curson of Water-perry Knight, bound an Apprentice to Tho. nichols a Tailor living in the Parish of S. Peter in the Bailiff in Oxon, left him after the great fire happened in that City 1644, and having a natural genius to the making of Almanacs, improved it at London under Will. Lilly then called the English Merlin, and afterwards set up the trade of Almanack-making, and Fortune-telling for himself; in which he became eminent. Our author Wharton hath also written,  
Select and choice poems— Composed during the Civil War, which I have before mentioned. At length dying in his house at Enfield in Middlesex, on the tenth day of Aug. or thereabouts, 
1681.  in sixteen hundred eighty and one, was buried on the 25 day of the same month, in the Chapel of S. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London, leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous Chevalier.  
JOHN TROUGHTON son of Nathan. Trought. a Clothier, was born in the City of Coventry, educated in the Free-School there under Sam. Frankland, became Scholar of S. John's Coll. an. 1655, afterwards Fellow and Bach. of Arts; but upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2, being ejected, to make room for one who had been expelled by the Visitors in 1648, he retired to a market town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister; where living a moderate Nonconformist, read Academical learning to young men, and sometimes preached in private, whereby he got a comfortable subsistence. Upon the issuing out of his Majesty's Declaration for the toleration of religion, that. 15. Mar. 1671 this Mr. Troughton was one of those four (Dr. Hen. Langley, and Tho. Gilbert and Hen. Cornish Bachelaurs of Diu. being the other three) who were appointed by the principal heads of the Brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the City of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet, without the north gate, in an house which had been built, a little before the Civil War began, by Tom. Pun, alias Tho. Airs; where each person endeavouring to show his parts, this our author Troughton was by the auditory of Scholars (who came among them merely out of novelty) held ●he best, and was by them most applauded. The truth is tho the man had been blind, occasioned by the small pox, ever since he was four years old, yet he was a good School Divine and Metaphysitian and was much commended while he was in the University for his disputations. He was not of so busy, turbulent and furious a spirit as those of his persuasion commonly are, but very moderate: And although he often preached as occasions offered themselves in prohibited Assemblies, yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices, too frequently practised by other hotheaded zealots of his fraternity, viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the Church, libelling the conformable ministry, by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the Church are regularly performing, etc. He did not, I say, by these and such like most unwarrantable contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosom of the Church, in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles. He was respected by, and maintained an amicable correspondence with, some of the conformable Clergy, because of his great knowledge and moderation. He hath written and published,  
Lutherus redivivus: or, the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only, vindicated. And the plausible opinion of justification by faith and obedience proved to be Arminian, Popish and to lead unavoidably to Socinianism. part 1. Lond. 1677. oct. This is reflected on by Tho. Hotchkis in his preface to the second part of A discourse concerning imputed righteousness, etc. Lond. 1678. oct.  
Luther. Rediu. or, the Protest. doctr. of justif. by Christ's righteousness imputed to believers, explained and vindicated. part. 2. Lond. 1678. oct.  
Letter to a Friend touching God's providence about sinful actions; in answer to a Letter intit. The reconcilableness of God's prescience, etc. and to a postcript of that Letter. Lod. 1678. oct.  
Popery the grand Apostasy. Being the substance of certain Sermons preached on 2. Thess. 2. from ver. 1. to 12, on occasion of the desperate plot of the Papists against the K, Kingdom and Protestant religion. To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18.4. preached 5. Nou. 1678. Lond. 1680. oct.  
An Apology for the Nonconformists, showing their reasons, both for their not conforming and for their preaching publicly, though forbidden by Law. Lond. 1681. quart.  
An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleets sermon and his defence of it; so much as concerneth the Nonconformists preaching.— Printed with the Apology. This learned and religious person Mr. Jo. Troughton died in an house of one of the Brethren, situate and being in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon. on the 20 of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and one, aged 44 years; 
1681.  whereupon his body was carried to Bister before mentioned, alias Burchester, and buried in the Church there. At which time Abrah. James a blind man, Master of the Free-school at Woodstock (sometimes of Magd. Hall) preaching his funeral sermon, did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the Defunct, but to make several glances on the government established by law. So that an Auditor there named Sam. Blackwell M. A. and Vicar of Bister (a zealous man for the Church of England) complaining to the Diocesan of him, James was glad to retract what he had said before him, to prevent an ejection from his School, which otherwise would inevitably have come to pass. Now I am got fnto the name of Troughton, I cannot, without the guilt of concealment, but let the Reader know this story of one of that name, which is this. While his Majesty K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was a Prisoner at Carisbrook in the Isle of Wight an. 1648 he was his own Chaplain, as not thinking it fit to accept of any of the Presbyterian Ministers upon that account, albeit, as occasion offered, he thanked, and was civil to, them when they applied themselves to him for that purpose. Among others one Troughton who was Chaplain to Col. Rob. Hammond Governor of the Isle of Wight, and Preacher to the Soldiers of the Garrison of Carisbrook, would many times be in the Presence Chamber when his Majesty was at dinner: And though he was a young man, yet he was a scholar, had good education, and would argue notably in defence of some Tenants he held in opposition to certain ceremonies and discipline in the Episcopacy. The King usually after meals would walk for near an hour, and take many turns in the Presence-Chamber; and when he found the Chaplain there, he would pleasurably enter into disputation with him, and the Chaplain would be very earnest in defence of his opinion. The K. never checked him for his confidence, but allowed him his liberty, and would be very pleasant and merry with him. The K. being a good Logician and well read in History and matters of Controversy, gained ground of his Opponent, and would please himself with one passage which happened, and that was this. During their discourse, the Chaplain then standing at the end of the Presence-Chamber, between a Lieutenant of the Garrison (who had a Sword in his hand and was earnestly listening to what the K. said in the Debate) and a Gentleman who was not known there, the King, in the heat of his discourse, suddenly disarmed the Lieutenant by taking the Sword out of his hand, which made him look strangely, and the more when his Majesty drew it, for that put the Chaplain into a fright also, he not imagining the reason, until the stranger (better understanding the King's meaning) fell upon his knees, and the K. laying the naked Sword upon his shoulder, conferred upon him the honour of Knighthood, telling him withal, it was to perform a promise to his Relations. This stranger's name was John Duncomb of Battlesdon in Bedfordshire Esq. who was afterwards a servant to K. Ch. 2, sworn a member of his Privy Council 22. May 1667, being then, or about that time, one of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and at length upon the resignation of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper, Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, about the 20. of Novemb. 1672. As for the Chaplain, Troughton, though Tho. Herbert then one of the Grooms of his Maj. Bedchamber (from whom I had this story) could not tell me his Christian name, yet I take it to be William, and him to be the same Will. Troughton, who afterwards was beneficed in Salisbury in the time of Oliver, silenced for Nonconformity after his Majesty's restauration, lived there several years after keeping his Conventicles, as he did afterwards at Bristol, and now, if living, in or near, London, where we shall leave him for the present, till an opportunity may be had to make farther mention of him.  
CHARLES' GIBBES the sixth son of Sir Ralph Gibbes, was born at Hunnington in Warwickshire, near to a Market Town called Shipson in Worcestershire, on the 4. of Nou. 1604, admitted a student in this Uniu. in the beginning of 1620, and taking the degree of Bach of Arts in the latter end of 1622, was chosen Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. two years after; where going thro' the severe exercise then used, (since, especially after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, much decayed) he became a noted Disputant, Orator and acquaint Preacher. In Apr. 1638 he was presented by the Warden and Fellows of his Coll. to the Rectory of Gamlinghay in Cambridgshire, and thereupon leaving the house he settled there, without hopes of being translated to another place. At length being involved in great troubles for his Loyalty, he resigned that Rectory in 1647 to prevent Sequestration, retired to Canterbury and taught a private School there with good success. After the blessed time of his Majesty's restauration, he was made Parson of Stanford-Rivers in Essex, which he enjoyed 21. years, Prebendary of Westminster, which he kept 19 years, and Doctor of Diu. by creation of this University. He hath written and published,  
Thirty and one Sermons preached to his parishioners of Stanford Rivers in Essex, upon several subjects and occasions. Lond. 1677. qu. He also took a great deal of pains in collecting and fitting for the Press several Sermons and discourses of Dr. Walt. Raleigh (who married the Sister of this our author Gibbes) but before they were finished, he paid his last debt to nature; which happening at Stanford Rivers on the 16 of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and one, 
1681.  was buried in the Church there, leaving then behind him the Character of a Loyal and Religious person, and of a charitable and a good neighbour.  
RICHARD ALLEIN son of Rich. All. Rector of Dicheat or Dichet in Somersetshire, was born there, entered a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term 1627. aged 16 years, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, went to New Inn, being puritanically affected, and not only completed that degree by Determination, as a member thereof, but continued there, in the study of the supreme faculty, till after he was Master of Arts. At length taking holy orders, he assisted his father, and became a frequent preacher in his own Country. In the middle of March 1641, at which time he showed himself a zealous person for the blessed cause then driving on, he became Rector of Batcomb in the same County, in the place of Rich. Bernard deceased; (who had held that Rectory from Novemb. 1613 to that time) where, being settled, he became a preacher up of sedition, a zealous Covenanter, (and therefore several times disturbed by the Cavaliers in those parts) and one of the number that subscribed The testimony of the Ministers of Sommersetshire to the truth of Jesus Christ and to the solemn League and Covenant. Printed at Lond. 1648. qu. In 1654. he, with his father, were constituted Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parliament for the ejection of such whom they and their brethren called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in the same County; in which office they showed themselves severe enough: But upon his Majesty's restauration our author Allein putting a curb to his activity, was soon after ejected for Nonconformity. So that removing from place to place for a time, settled at length at Frome-Selwood, where he remained, not without preaching sometimes in private, to his dying day. He hath written and published,  
Vindiciae Pietatis: or, a vindication of Godliness in the greatest strictness and spirituality of it, from the imputations of folly and fancy, on Ephes. 5.15. and on Joh. 1.47. Lond. 1664. and 69. oct.  
Several directions for the attaining and maintaining of a godly life. Lond. 1669 Pr. with Vindiciae Pietatis.  
The Godly man's portion and sanctuary: being a second part of Vindiciae Pietatis, on Psal. 4.9. Lond. in oct.  
Heaven opened: or, a brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's Covenant of Grace: Being the third part of Vindiciae Pietatis. Lond. in oct.  
The World Conquered: or, a believers victory over the World, laid open in several Sermons, on 1. Joh. 5.4: Being the fourth part of Vind. Pietat. Lond. 1668. oct. All which pieces were printed together at London 1671 in oct. and were entit. The Works of Mr. Rich. Allein in four parts. Dedicated to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Batcombe.  
Godly fear: or, the nature and necessity of fear, and and its usefulness; both to the driving sinners to Christ, and to the provoking Christians on in a godly life, through the several parts and duties of it till they come to blessedness. Lond. 1674. oct. This book consists of Sermons preached on several texts.  
A rebuke to Backsliders, and a spur for Loiterers, in several Sermons lately preached to a private Congregation. Lond. 1677 etc. oct.  
A Companion for Prayer: or, directions for improvement in grace and practical godliness in times of extraordinary danger. Lond. 1680. in tw.  
Instructions about Heart-work. What is to be done on God's part and ours, for the cure and keeping of the Heart, that we may live in the exercise and growth of Grace here, and have a comfortable assurance of glory, to eternity. Lond. 1682 oct, with a preface of Dr. Sam. Annesley, alias Aneley to it. To the second edit. of this, which came out in 1684, was added our author Allein's book entit. A Companion for prayer, etc. He also had a hand in writing The life of Joseph Alleine, his kinsman, and digested, fitted for the Press and published his Remaines, etc. See more in the said J. Alleine, among these writers, page 300.301. At length this our zealous author concluding his last day at from Selwood before mentioned, in the house of one Rob. Smith, (wherein he had lived several years and had kept Conventicles) on the 22. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and one, 
1681:  was buried in the Church there, in, or about, the midst of the middle alley: At which time Rich. Jenkins M. of A. (sometimes of Gloc. Hall) a Lukewarm Conformist and Vicar of that place, (the same who married Tho. Thynne of Longleat Esq. to Elizabeth Countess of Ogle, heir to the illustrious Family of Percy) preached his funeral Sermon, containing many pathetical Encomiums of him, having several times before also visited him in his sickness.  
THOMAS HERBERT son of Christop. Herbert, son of Thomas Herbert sometimes Alderman of the City of York, descended (being a younger brother) from Sir Rich. Herbert of Colebroke in Monmouthshire Knight, was born in Yorkshire, particularly, as I conceive, within the City of York, admitted Commoner of Jesus Coll. in 1621. under the tuition of Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd his kinsman; but before he took a degree, his Uncle called Dr. Ambr. Aikroyd fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. brother to his mother Jane, (dau. of Jo. Aikroyd of Folkerthorpe in Yorkshire) invited him to that house, where his continuance being short, he went thence to London to wait upon that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke, who owning him for his kinsman and intending his advancement, he sent him to travel in 1626., with allowance to defray his charges. So that spending some years in travelling into Africa and Asia the great, he did at his return wait on the said noble Count; who inviting him to dinner the next day at Baynard's Castle in London, died suddenly that night, whereby his expectation of preferment from him being frustrated, he left England a second time and visited several parts of Europe. After his return he married, and settling in his native Country, delighted himself more with the converse of the Muses, than in the rude and brutish pleasures which most Gentlemen follow. In the time of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament, and by the endeavours of Philip Earl of Pembroke, he became not only of the Commissioners of Parliament to reside in the Army of Sir Thomas Fairfax, but also a Commiss. to treat with those on the King's side for the surrender of Oxford Garrison. Afterwards he attended the said Count, especially at that time (in Jan. 1646) when he, with other Commissioners were sent from the Parliament to the King at Newcastle to treat about peace, and bring him nearer to London. When his Majesty came thence and was settled at Holdenby in Northamptonshire, jealousies increased which begat fears; against which there was then no fence. The Commissioners persuant to instructions, addressed themselves altogether, on a certain time, unto the King, and acquainted him therewith, and humbly prayed his Majesty to dismiss such of his servants as were there, and had waited upon him at Oxon. This their application was in no wise pleasing to the King, he having had long experience of the loyalty and good affection of those his servants, as it appeared by his countenance, and the pause he made, ere he gave the Commissioners any answer. Howbeit, after some expostulation and deliberation, he condescended to what they proposed, they not opposing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person, as Grooms of his Majesty's Bedchamber, in which place they had several years served the King. Next day his Majesty's servants came, as at other times, into the presence Chamber, where all dinner time they waited; but after his Majesty rose from dinner, he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the Commissioners, and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his Majesty's hand, and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss, they poured fourth their prayers for his Majesty's freedom and preservation, and so left Holdenby. All that afternoon the King withdrew himself into his Bedchamber, having given order that none should interrupt him in his privacy. Soon after this, his Majesty purposing to send a message to the Parliament; he, after dinner called Philip Earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into his Chamber, which the Earl acquainting the Commissioners with, Mr. Tho. Herbert, our author, was brought into the Bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell, and upon his knees desired to know the King's pleasure: He told him he would send a message to the Parliament, and having none there that he usually employed, and unwilling it should go under his own hand, called him in for that purpose. Mr. Herbert having writ as his Majesty dictated, was enjoined secrecy, and not to communicate it to any, until made public by both Houses, if by them held meet; which he carefully observed. This errand was, as I conceive, His Majesty's message for Peace, dated from Holdenby 12. May 1647. About a week after, the King was pleased to tell the Commissioners, that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston, Hen. Moray, John Ashburnham and Will. Legge were for the present dismissed, he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herbert, who had followed the Court from Newcastle, and having received satisfaction concerning their sobriety and education, he was willing to receive them as Grooms of his Bedchamber, to wait upon his person with Mr. Maule and Mr. Maxwell; which the Commissioners approving, they were that night admitted, and by his Majesty instructed as to the duty and service he expected from them. So as they thenceforth attended his Royal Person, agreeable to that great trust, with due observance and loyalty, and were by Maule and Maxwel affectionately treated. Being thus settled in that honourable office and in good esteem with his Maj. Mr. Herb. continued with him, when all the rest of the Chamber were removed, till his Majesty was, to the horror of all the world, brought to the block. It was then that Mr. Herbert was fully satisfied that the King was not the Man that the Presbyterians, Independents, and other factious people (who obtained their ends by lies and slanders) made him to be. He clearly found that he was no Papist, no obstinate Person, no cruel or bloody Man, no false dealer, etc. but purely a man of God, which made him in an high manner lament his untimely death. His Majesty though he found him to be Presbyterianly affected, yet withal he found him very observant and loving, and therefore entrusted him with many matters of moment, among which was his sending by him from the Isle of Wight his gracious Message to the Parliament, which in the evening he gave it sealed up to him, (directed to the Speaker of the Lords House) with a Letter to his Daughter the Princess Elizabeth, who was then at S. James' with her Governess. The wind was then averse and much ado Mr. Herbert had to cross the Sea. But no delay was suffered in regard the King had commanded him to hasten away, that his Letters might be delivered next day before the Lords rose. When he was Landed at S. Hampton, he took post, and it may not be forgotten, that at one stage the Postmaster (a malevolent person) understanding from whom the packet came, and that it required extraordinary speed, he mounted him upon an horse that had neither good eyes or feet, so as usually he stumbled much, which, with deep ways and dark weather, would have abated his haste and endanger the Rider: Yet so it fell out by good providence, that the horse, albeit at full Gallop most of that 12 miles riding, neither stumbled nor fell, at which the People at the next stage admired. The King's packet was within the time limited delivered to William Lord Grey of Werk, at that time Speaker. Which done Mr. Herbert waited on the young Princess at S. James'. who gave him her hand to kiss, and was overjoyed with his Majesty's kind Letter, to which her Highness the next day returned an answer by the said Mr. Herbert, who at his arrival at Carisbroke, had the King's thanks for his diligence: And for a badge of the fair esteem that K. Ch. 2. had of him for faithfully serving his royal Father during the two last years of his life, he did, after his restauration, by Lett. Pat. dat. 3. July 1660 advance him to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Thomas Herbert of Tinterne in Monmouthshire, because Little Tinterne about half a mile from Tinterne Abbey was his own estate and the seat of Tho. Herbert before mentioned. He hath written,  
A relation of some years' travels into Africa and the greater Asia, especially the territories of the Persian Monarchy, and some parts of the oriental Indies and Isles adjacent. Lond. 1634. 38. etc. 1677. which is the fourth impression, wherein many things are added, which were not in the former. All the impressions are in fol. and adorned with Cuts. He also, at the proposal of John de Laet his familiar friend, living at Leyden, did translate some books of his India occidentalis, but certain business interposing, the perfecting of them was hindered. He left behind him at his death an historical account of the two last years of the life of K. Ch. 1. the Martyr, which he entit.  
Threnodia Carolina; written by him an. 1678. in qu. on this account. viz. that the Parliament a little before taking into their consideration of appointing 70 thousand pounds for the funeral of the said King, and for a monument to be erected over his grave, Sir Will. Dugdale then Garter, King of Arms, sent to our author Sir Thomas living at York, to know of him whether ever the said King spoke in his hearing, where he would have his body bestowed in burial; to which Sir Tho. returning a large answer, with many observations and things worthy of note concerning that King, Sir William thereupon being much taken with it, as containing many things which he never heard of before, did desire him by another Letter to write a Treatise of the actions and sayings of the said King from his first confinement to his death; which he did accordingly. About the same time, the author of this book, having occasion to write to Sir Thomas for information of certain persons then, or about that time, attending the King, he thereupon sent him several Letters in answer to his Queries, with divers other matters by way of digression: which Letters contain, as it seems, the chief contents of Thren. Car. and are several times quoted in this work. He also assisted the said Sir Will. Dugdale in his compiling the third vol. of Monast. Anglic. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Knight in the Fasti, an. 1642. At length this worthy person Sir Thomas Herbert, who was a great observer of men and things in his time, died in his house at York on the first day of March (S. David's day) in sixteen hundred eighty and one, aged 76 years, 
1681/2.  and was buried in the Church there, commonly called S. Crux or S. Cross, situated in the street called Fossegate. Over his grave was a monument soon after erected, by his Widow Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir Gervas' Cutler of Stainborough in Yorksh. Knight, with a large inscription thereon. Wherein we are instructed that he took to his first Wife, Lucia Daughter of Sir Walt. Alexander Servant to K. Ch. 1, by whom he had issue Philip, Henry Heir to his Father, Montgomery, Thomas, William, etc. This Sir Thomas a little before his death gave several Mss. to the public Library at Oxon, and others to that belonging to the Cathedral at York; and in the Ashmolean Musaeum there are certain collections of his, which he made from the registers of the Archbishops of York, given thereunto by Sir W. Dugdale Knight. I find one Tho. Herbert to be author of a poem entit. An Elegy upon the death of Thomas Earl of Strafford, etc. Printed in one sh. in qu. an. 1641. but him I take not to be the same, with our author Sir Thomas, nor to be the same with Sir Tho. Herbert Knight, Clerk of the Council at Dublin, of Hen. Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland, an. 1657. 58.  
With the said Letters which the author of these Athenae Oxon. received from Sir Tho. Herbert, he received from him an account of the last days of K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory, with an earnest desire, that if he should have any occasion to make mention of that most pious and good King, that he would by no means omit him for these reasons. (1) Because in the said account there are many things that have not been yet divulged. (2) That he was grown old and not in such a capacity as he could wish to publish it, and thirdly that if he should leave it to his Relations to do it, they, out of ignorance or partiality, may spoil it. Upon his desire, and these reasons given, he did then promise him to find some place to receive it in a work that he was then consulting, which is this of the Athenae Oxonienses: And this place under Tho. Herbert the author of that account being most proper, as I conceive, shall be here set down.  
How therefore the said King was taken out of the Scots hands at Newcastle and thence carried to Holdenby in Northamptonshire, and thence hurried away to the Army and to Hampton Court, and thence frighted or juggled into the Isle of Wight, and thence hurried to Hurst Castle and afterwards to Windsor, I shall tell you hereafter in the Fasti following, in the history or characters of those men, (that I shall there mention) who were actors in those matters. When his Majesty was conveyed from Hurst Castle to that of Windsor and there for a time settled, just before Christmas day an. 1648, he seemed to take more delight than in any place he had been since his leaving Hampton Court: For there he had the liberty to walk when and where he pleased within the Castle, and on the large Terrace without, which looks towards the Coll. of Eton, and hath a delightful view of the River Thames, of many pleasant hills and valleys, villages and fair houses far and near: so as no place in this Kingdom may compare with it, save the little Castle or Lodge in Greenwich Park, which has the sight of the great and noble City of London, the Thames, and Ships of great burden daily under sail passing to and fro, with other things enumerated by John Barclay in his Argenis. The greatest part of the forenoon the K. spent in prayer and other exercises of piety; and part of the afternoon he appointed for health by recreating himself in walking, usually in the Terrace before mentioned, the Governor of the said Castle Coll. Chr. Whitchcot, as in other places, being for the most part in his company, (for want of others) to discourse with. None of the Nobility and but few of the Gentry, were suffered to come into the Castle to see the King, save only upon the Sundays to Sermons in S. George's Chapel, where the Chaplain to the Governor and Garrison preached. Colonel Whitchcot behaved himself nevertheless very civilly towards the King, and his observance was taken notice of by his Majesty: The Soldiers also there gave no offence, either in language or behaviour towards, or any that served, him. Whilst his Majesty continued at Windsor, little passed worth the taking notice of, only (1) That one night as the King was preparing to go to bed, he wound up both his watches as his custom was, one being gold, the other silver, and missing his diamond seal, a table that had the King's arms cut with great curiosity, and fixed to the gold watch by a gold chain, he could not imagine when, or where, he dropped it, yet thought he had it the day before when he looked upon his watch, as he walked in the long Terrace. At length after Mr. Herbert had made great search for it in the walks that his Majesty frequented, but in vain; his Majesty the next night discerned it sparkling at one end of his Chamber by the help of the Charcoal fire, and the wax-lights then burning in the said Chamber. (2) That on another night his Majesty appointed Mr. Herbert to come into his Bedchamber an hour sooner, than usual, the next morning, but so it happened he overslept his time, and awakened not till the King's silver bell hastened him in. Herbert (said the King) you have not observed the command I gave last night; and thereupon he acknowledged his fault. Well (said the K.) I will order you for the future, you shall have a gold alarum-watch, which as there may be cause, shall awake you: write to the Earl of Pembroke to send me such an one presently. He wrote, and the Earl immediately sent to Edw. East his Watchmaker in Fleetstreet about it, of which more will be said at his Majesty's coming to S. James'. (3) That on a third night an accident happened which might have proved of ill consequence, if God in his mercy had not prevented it. Mr. Herbert lodged in a little back room near his Majesty's Bedchamber towards Eton Coll. It had a back stair, which was at that time rambed up with earth to prevent any passage that way. In this room he had a pallet, which, for that the weather was very sharp, he laid somewhat too near the Chimney, near which were two baskets filled with Charcoal for the use of his Maj. Bedchamber. While Mr. Herbert was asleep a basket took fire, either from some sparkle from the charcoal in the Chimney, or some other way he knew not off, but the room was soon hot and the fire got to the Pallet-bed, which quickly roused Mr. Herbert out of his sleep; who thereupon ran to the King's Bedchamber door, and in a frightful manner with that noise awakened the King. Those without, being Soldiers, hearing the King's Chamber was on fire, desired entrance that they might help to quench it, but through the goodness of God, those within, without other assistance, did suppress it by stifling it with clothes, and confining it to the Chimney which was spacious. Mr. Herbert did humbly beg his Majesty's pardon for the disturbance he gave, not knowing how to help it, the King said he did but his duty.  
Soon after the Governor acquainted his Majesty that he was in few days to be removed thence to Whitehall. To which his Majesty made little or no reply, seeming nothing so delighted with his remove, as he was with the former, viz. from Hurst to Windsor Castles, and turning himself about said God is every where alike in wisdom▪ power and goodness. Some information he had received, how preposterously things went in both Houses of Parliament, and how that the Officers of the Army were hatching a thing called The agreement of the people, designing thereby an alteration of the government, and trial of his Person by some way that was extraordinary and unpresidented. So that immediately he retired into his Bedchamber, and was a good while private in his addresses to God, ever having recourse to him by prayer and meditation, in what condition soever he was, as being the surest way to find comfort.  
The day prefixed being come, (which was about 
(a) Iter Carolinum: Being a succinct relation of the necessitated Marches, retreats and sufferings of his Majesty Charles the l. from January 10. an. 1641 to the time of his death 1648. Lond. 1660. qu. Collected by a daily Attendant upon his sacred Majesty during all the said time.  the 9 of January 1648) his Majesty took Coach near the Keep in Windsor Castle, at which time was a Guard all along of Muskets and Pikes; both Officers and Soldiers expressing civility as he passed by. At the great gate a party of Horse commanded by Major Tho. Harrison was drawn up into the Market place and Peascod street end in the Town of Windsor, who followed the Coach, which passed through Brainford, Hammersmith, and the direct way to his Majesty's House at S. James within the liberty of Westminster. His Lodgings there were furnished by Mr. Clem. Kinnerslie his Majesty's Servant in the Wardrobe, strict guards were placed and none suffered to attend in his Maj. Bedchamber only Mr. Thom. Herbert before mentioned. His usual diet was kept up, and the Gentlemen that formerly waited were permitted to perform their respective services in the presence, where a state was placed, and for a few days all things were with decency and honour observed. Sir Fulk Grevill was Cupbearer, and gave it upon his knee: Mr. Anthony Mildmay was Carver: Captain Preston was sometimes Sewer and kept the Robes: Mr. Anstey was Gent. Ʋsher: Capt. Burroughs, Mr. Firebrass, Mr. Muschamp had their places: Capt. John joiner or Jeoner was Cook, Mr. Babington Barber, Mr. Reading Page of the Back-stairs, and some others also waited. The King's dishes were brought up covered, the say was given, and all things were performed with satisfaction in that point. But to return a little, it is very well worth the observation, that so soon as the King came into his Bedchamber, before he either eat or drank, or discoursed with any, he went to prayer or to reading in the Bible.  
Whilst he was in this sorrowful condition, none of his Nobility, Chaplains, or Counsellors, nor any of his old Attendants had the liberty to repair to him to converse about any matters; yet he had private notice that the H. of Commons in a resolve had declared that by the Laws of England it was treason in the King to levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom: which resolve, as he had farther been informed, they sent up unto the Lords for their concurrence, who, assoon as they had heard it read rejected it, and after some debate did pass two votes, etc. He had also information from private hands of the late proceedings in the House of Commons, and of their violent secluding and seizure of several members by force, by some eminent Army-officers, under a notion of purging the House, as also of their Votes passed concerning him. By which he was very apprehensive of their ill intentions towards him and his government, and did believe that his enemies aimed at his deposing, and confinement in the Tower, or some such like place, and that they would seat his Son the Prince of Wales in his Throne, if he would accept of it, but as to the taking away his life by trial in any Court of Justice or sub dio, in the face of the people, he could not believe, there being no such precedent, or mention in any of our Histories. 'Tis true his Grandmother Mary Queen of Scots suffered under Qu. Elizabeth, but in England she was no Sovereign, but a subject to Law. And indeed some Kings of England had been lamentably murdered by Ruffians in a clandestine way, as the Chronicles inform us, but the facts were neither owned, or approved of by any King. These were his Majesty's imaginations till he came unto his trial in Westm. Hall, when then he altered his mind. Nevertheless his faith overcoming his fear, he continued his accustomed prudence and patience, (so as no outward perturbation could be discerned) with Christian fortitude, submitting to the good pleasure of the Almighty, sometimes sighing, but never breaking out into passion, or uttering a reproachful or revengeful word against any that were his Adversaries, only saying God forgive their impiety.  
For about a fortnight after his Majesty's coming to St. James' House, he constantly dined in the presence-chamber, and at meals was served after the usual state, the Carver, Sewer, Cupbearer, and Gent. Ʋsher attending and doing their Offices respectively. His Cup was given upon the knee, as were his covered dishes, the say was given, and other accustomed Ceremonies of State observed, notwithstanding this his dolorous condition, and the King was well pleased with the observance afforded him. But soon after the case was altered, for the Officers of the Army being predominant, they gave order at a Council of War, that thenceforth all state, ceremony or accustomed respect unto his Majesty at meals should be forbourn, and his menial servants though few in number, should be lest'ned. And accordingly the King's meat was brought up by Soldiers, the dishes uncovered, no say, no cup upon the knee or other accustomed Court-state was then observed, which was an uncouth sight to the King, he then saying that the respect and honour denied him, no Sovereign Prince ever wanted, nor yet Subjects of high degree according to ancient practice, and adding, Is there any thing more contemptible than a despised Prince? So that seeing things were so ordered, the best expedient he had to reconcile them, was to contract his diet to a few dishes out of the bill of fare, and to eat in private. His eating was usually agreeable to his exercise, and his abstinence was in no wise displeasing. His temperance preserved his health, especially in the two last years of his life and reign, without any indisposition or recourse to Physic: So as in all probability, had not his thread of life been immaturely cut, he might have surpassed the age of any of his Royal Ancestors.  
On Friday the 19 of Jan. his Majesty was removed from S. James to Whitehall and lodged in his Bedchamber. After which a Guard of Musquetiers were placed, and Sentinels set at the door of his Chamber. Thenceforth Mr. Herbert (who constantly lay in the next room to the King, according to the duty of his place) was ordered to bring his pallet into his Majesty's Bedchamber, to the end that he might be nearer to his royal Person, and so accordingly he did rest every night after, during his Maj. life, in the said Bedchamber near the royal bed.  
The next day, Jan. 20. the King was removed in a Sedan or close chair from Whitehall to Sir Thom. Cottons House near the West end of Westm. hall Guards were placed on both sides of King-street, in the Palace-yard and Westm. hall. As his Maj. was carried through the Garden door belonging to Whitehall (which is between the two gates leading to King-street) none but Mr. Herbert went bare by him, because no other of his Majesty's Servants were permitted by the Soldiers. At Cotton house there was a Guard of Partisans, Colonel Francis Hacker sometimes, and Col. Hercules' Hunks at other times, commanding them. His Majesty being summoned by Hacker to go to the Court then sitting in Westminst. Hall, where Sergeant John Bradshaw was Precedent and seated in a chair, and about 72 persons, Members of the House of Commons, Officers of the Army, and Citizens of London sat upon benches some degrees above one another, as Judges; Hacker, I say, by order of the Court (which was erected in the same place where the Judges of the Kings-bench use to hear causes) brought his Majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the Precedent, at which time John Cook the Solicitor General was placed on the King's right hand. I shall pretermit the Judge's names, the formality of the Court and the proceedings there, by way of charge, as also his Majesty's replies, in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers. Nor indeed was much to be observed, seeing his Majesty having heard the allegations against him, would sometimes smile, but not acknowledge their jurisdiction, or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed in that manner against the King, it being without example also: whereupon the Court made no farther proceedings on that day. Afterwards his Majesty was conveyed to Cotton house, where Sir Tho. Cotton the Master thereof and Mr. Kinnerslie of the Wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the King's Chamber. The Soldiers that were upon the Guard were in the very next Chamber to that of the King; which his Majesty perceiving he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the King's bed, which he did and there slept.  
Sunday the 21. of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good Bishop of London had (as his Majesty desired) the Liberty to attend the King, which was much to his comfort, and (as he said) no small refreshing to his spirit, especially in that his uncomfortable condition. The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the King.  
Monday 22. Jan. Col. Hacker brought his Majesty the second time before the Court then sitting, as formerly, in Westminster Hall. Now the more noble the person is, the more heavy is the spectacle and inclines generous hearts to a sympathy in his sufferings. Here it was otherwise, for assoon as his Majesty came into the Hall, some Soldiers made a hideous cry for justice, justice, some of the Officers joining with them: At which noise the King seemed somewhat abashed, but overcame it with patience. Sure, to persecute a distressed soul, and to vex him that is already wounded at the heart, is the very pitch of wickedness, yea the utmost extremity malice can do or affliction suffer, as the learned Bishop of Winchester (Bilson) saith in one of his Sermons preached before Qu. Elizabeth upon Good Friday, which was here very applicable. As his Majesty returned from the Hall to Cotton house, a Soldier that was upon the Guard said aloud as the King passed by God bless you Sir: The King thanked him, but an uncivil Officer struck him with his cane upon the head, which his Majesty observing said, The punishment exceeded the offence. Being come to his apartment in Cotton house, he immediately fell upon his knees and went to prayer; which being done, he asked Mr. Herbert if he heard the cry of the Soldiers in Westminster hall for justice? he answered he did, and marvelled much at it, So did not I (said the King) for I am well assured, the Soldiers bore no malice towards me, the cry was, no doubt, given by their Officers, for whom the Soldiers would do the like if there were occasion. His Majesty likewise demanded of him how many there were that sat in the Court and who they were? he replied there were upward of threescore, some of them members of the House of Commons, others Commanders in the Army and others Citizens of London, some of whom he knew, but not all. The King then said he viewed all of them, but knew not the faces of above eight, and those he named. The names, though Mr. Herbert told me not, yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas Lord Grey of Grobie, William L. Monson, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir John Danvers, Oliver Cromwell who had showed seeming civility to him at Childerlie, Newmarket and Hampton Court, Major Harrison, Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond, etc.  
Tuesday 23. Jan. The King was the third time summoned, and, as formerly, guarded to the Court: where, as at other times, he persisted in his judgement, that they had no legal jurisdiction or authority to proceed against him. Upon which Cook the Solicitor began to offer some things to the Precedent of the Court, but was gently interrupted by the King, laying his staff upon the Solicitors arm; the head of which being silver, happened to fall off, which Mr. Herbert (who, as his Majesty appointed, waited near his Chair) stooped to take it up, but falling on the contrary side, to which he could not reach, the King took it up himself. This was by some looked upon as a bad Omen. But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22 of Jan. is a mistake for it happened on the first day of the Trial when the charge was read against the King. The Court sat but a little time that day, the K. not varying from his principle. At his going back to Cotton house there were many men and women crowded into the passage behind the Soldiers, who, as his Majesty passed said aloud God almighty preserve your Majesty; for which the King returned them thanks.  
Saturday 27. Jan. The Precedent came into the Hall and seated himself in his Scarlet Gown: whereupon the K. having quick notice of it, he forthwith went, seated himself in his chair, and observing the Precedent in his red Gown, did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting, and therefore he earnestly pressed the Court, that although he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those reasons he had given, yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the Painted Chamber with a Committee of Lords and Commons before the Court proceeded any farther: whereupon the Precedent and Court arose and withdrew. In which interval the K. likewise retired to Cotton house, where he and Dr. Juxon were private near an hour, and then Colonel Hunks gave notice that the Court was sat. The King therefore going away, he seated himself in the Chair: The Precedent told his Majesty that his motion for a conference with a Committee of Lords and Commons had been taken into consideration, but would not be granted by the Court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction, nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly. Whereupon the King with vehemency insisted that his reasonable request might be granted that what he had to offer to a Committee of either House might be considered before they pronounced sentence. His Majesty had the former day moved the Precedent that the grounds and reasons he had put in writing for his disavowing their authority might be publicly read by the Clerk, but neither would that desire be granted. The Precedent then gave judgement against the King, who, at the Precedents pronouncing it, was observed to smile and lift up his Eyes to Heaven, as appealing to the Divine Majesty the most supreme Judge. The King at the rising of the Court was with a guard of Halberdiers returned to Whitehall in a close chair through King-street: Both sides whereof had a guard of Foot soldiers, who were silent as his Majesty passed, but shop-stalls and windows were full of People, many of which shed tears, and some of them with audible voices prayed for the King till he was carried through the Privy garden door to his Bedchamber; whence after two hours' space he was removed to S. James'. Nothing of the fear of death, or indignities offered, seemed a terror or provoked him to impatience, nor uttered he a reproachful word reflecting upon any of his Judges, albeit he well knew that some of them were, or had been, his domestic servants; nor against any member of the House, or Officer of the Army, so wonderful was his patience, though his spirit was great, and might otherwise have expressed his resentment upon several occasions. It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastery of his passion, and submission to the will of God under such temptations. The same night, after which sentence was pronounced, Coll. Hacker, who then commanded the Guards at S. James' about the King, would have placed two Musquetiers in the King's Bedchamber; with which his Majesty being acquainted, he made no reply, only gave a sigh. Howbeit the good Bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horror of it, and disturbance it would give to the King in his meditations and preparation for his departure out of this uncomfortable world, they never left the Col. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men, representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature.  
The King now bidding a farewell to the World, his whole business was a serious preparation for death, which opens the door unto eternity. In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion, and in conference with that meek and learned Bishop before mentioned, who, under God was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition. And resolving to sequester himself, so as he might have no disturbance to his mind nor interruption to his meditations, he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him. I know (said the K.) my Nephew the Prince Elector will endeavour it and some other Lords that love me, which I would take in good part, but my time is short and precious, and I am desirous to improve it the best I may in preparation: I hope they will not take it ill, that they or any have not access unto me, only my Children: The best office they can do now, is to pray for me. What he had said, it fell out accordingly, for his Electoral Highness accompanied with James D. of Richmond, William Marq. of Hertford, Thomas Earl of Southampton, and Montague E. of Lindsey with some others, having go leave, came to the Bedchamber door, where Mr. Herbert, persuant to the King's command, acquainted his Highness and the said Noblemen with what the King gave him in charge, and thereupon they acquiesced, and presented their humble duty to his Majesty with their prayers: which done, they returned with hearts full of sorrow as appeared by their faces. The Prince of Wales also, then in Holland, did by the State's Ambassadors interceded to the Parliament, and used all possible means to prevent, or at least to defer, his Majesty's execution, and applied themselves likewise to the Army.  
At this time (Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert should have said) came to S. James' Edm. Calamy, Rich. Vines, Jos. Caryl, Will. del, and some other London Ministers who presented their duty to the King, with their humble desires to pray with him, and perform other offices of service if his Majesty would please to accept of them. The King returned them thanks for their love to his Soul, hoping they and all other good Subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him, but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon, whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned Divine and able to administer ghostly comfort to his Soul, suitable to his present condition, he would have none other. The Ministers were no sooner gone, but John Goodwin Minister in Coleman street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service, whom the King also thanked and dismissed with the like friendly answer.  
Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall, where the Lodgings of Philip Earl of Pembroke were, he then, as at sundry times, enquired how his Majesty did and gave his humble duty to him, and withal asked if his Majesty had the gold Watch he sent for, and how he liked it. Mr. Herbert assured his Lordship the K. had not yet received it. The Earl fell presently into a passion, marvelled thereat and was much troubled lest his Majesty should think him careless in observing his commands, and told Mr. Herbert that at the Kings coming to S. James', he, as he was sitting under the great elm tree near Sir Ben. Rudyerds Lodge in the Park, seeing a considerable military Officer of the Army going towards S. James', he went to meet him, and demanding of him if he knew his Cousin Tom Herbert that waited on the King, the Officer said he did, and was going to S. James'. The Earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the Alarm, desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the King. The Officer promised the Earl he would immediately do it. My Lord (said Mr. Herbert) I have sundry times seen and passed by that Officer since, and do assure your Lordship he hath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise, nor said any thing concerning it, nor has the King it I am certain. The Earl was very angry, and gave the Officer his due character and threatened to question him. But such was the severity of the times, that it was judged dangerous to reflect upon such a person, so as no notice was taken of it. Nevertheless Mr. Herbert at the Earls desire did acquaint his Majesty therewith, who gave the Earl thanks, and said, had he not told the Officer it was for me, he would probably have delivered it: he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it. This relation is in prosecution of what is formerly mentioned, concerning the Clock or Larm-watch which his Majesty would have to lay by Mr. Herbert's Pallet to awaken him at the hour in the morning which his Majesty should appoint when he was at Windsor. The name of this Officer Mr. Herbert told me not, only that he was executed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, and therefore I take him to be either Major Harrison or Col. Hacker.  
That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour a Gent. belonging to the Bedchamber of the Prince of Wales, came by Col. Hacker's permission (who commanded the Guards at S. James') to his Majesty's chamber door, desiring to speak with the King from the said Prince: and being admitted he presented to the King a letter from him, dated at the Hague 23 Jan. 1648; old stile. At Mr. Seymour's entrance he fell into a passion, having seen his Majesty in a glorious, and now in a dolorous, state: and having kissed the King's hand, he clasped about his legs and mourned in a most lamentable condition. Hacker came in with this Gentleman, and beholding these things was very much abashed. But so soon as his Maj. had read his sorrowing letter, and heard what his servant had to say, and he imparted to him what his Maj. thought fit to return, the Prince's servant took his leave, and was no sooner gone but the King went to his devotion, Dr. Juxon praying with him, and reading some select Chapters out of the sacred Scripture. The same evening also the K. took a ring from his finger, having an emrold set therein between two diamonds, and gave it to Mr. Herbert, and commanded him, as late as 'twas, to go with it from S. James' to a Lady living then in Canon row on the backside of Kingstreet in Westminster, and to give it to her without saying any thing. The night was exceeding dark, and Guards were set in several places, (as at the Houses, in the Gardens, Park, at the gates near Whitehall, in Kingstreet and elsewhere) nevertheless getting the Word from Col. Math. Tomlinson (than there, and in all places wheresoever he was about the K. so civil both towards his Majesty and such as attended him, as gained him the King's good opinion, and as an evidence thereof gave him his gold pick tooth case as he was one time walking in the Presence Chamber) Mr. Herbert passed currently, though in all places where Sentinels were, he was bid stand till the Corporal had the Word from him. Being come to the Lady's house he delivered her the Ring: Sir (said she) give me leave to show you the way into the parlour; where being seated, she desired him to stay till she returned: In a little time after she came and put into his hands a little Cabinet closed with 3 seals, two of which were the King's Arms, and the third was the figure of a Roman: which done, she desired him to deliver it to the same hand that sent the ring; which ring was left with her: and afterwards Mr. Herbert taking his leave, the Word served him in his return to the King, at which time he found that Dr. Juxon was newly gone to his Lodging in Sir Hen. Hens house near S. James' gate. Mr. Herbert gave the Cabinet into the hands of his Majesty, who told him that he should see it opened next morning.  
Morning being come, the Bishop was early with the King, and after Prayers his Majesty broke the seals and showed them what was contained in the Cabinet. There were Diamonds and Jewels, most part broken George's and Garters. You see (said he) all the wealth now in my power to give to my Children. That day the Bishop preached before the King on Rom. 2.16. In the day when God shall judge, etc. inferring from thence, that Although God's judgements be for some time deferred, he will nevertheless proceed to a strict examination of what is both said and done by every man. Yea the most hidden things and imaginations of men will most certainly be made to appear at the day of judgement, when the L. Jes. Ch. shall be upon his high tribunal, etc. It may not be forgotten that Sir Hen. Herbert Master of the Revels, and Gent, in ord. of his Maj. Privy Chamber, (one that cordially loved and honoured the King, and during the War had suffered considerably in his estate by sequestration and otherwise) meeting Mr. Tho. Herbert his kinsman in S. James' Park, first enquired how his Majesty did, and afterwards presenting his duty to him, with assurance that himself with many others of his Majesty's Servants did frequently pray for him, desired that his Maj. would be pleased to read the second Chapter of Ecclesiasticus, for he should find comfort in it, aptly suiting his present condition. Accordingly Mr. Herbert acquainted the King therewith, who thanked Sir Harry, and commended him for his excellent parts, being a good Scholar, Soldier, and an accomplished Courtier, and for his many years faithful service much valued by the King, who presently turned to that Chapter, and read it with much satisfaction.  
Monday Jan. 29. the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Gloucester her brother came to take their sad farewell of the K. their father and to ask his blessing. The Princess being the elder was the most sensible of her royal father's condition, as appeared by her sorrowful look and excessive weeping. Her little brother the Duke seeing his sister weep, he took the like impression, though by reason of his tender age, he could not have the like apprehension. The K. raised them both from off their knees, he kissed them, gave them his blessing, and setting them on his knees, admonished them concerning their duty and loyal observance to the Queen their mother, the Prince that was his successor, Love to the D. of York and his other relations. The K. then gave them all his Jewels save the George he wore, which was cut in an Onyx with great curiosity, and set about with 21 fair Diamonds, and the reverse set with the like number: and then again kissing his children had such pretty and pertinent answers from them both, as drew tears of joy and love from his eyes. And then praying God almighty to bless them, he turned about, expressing a tender and fatherly affection. Most sorrowful was this parting, and the young Prince shedding tears and crying most lamentable, moved others to pity that formerly were hardhearted: And at the opening the chamber door the K. returned hastily from the window, kissed them, blessed them and so parted. This demonstration of a pious affection exceedingly comforted the K. in this his affliction, so that in a grateful return, he went immediately to Prayer, the good Bishop and Mr. Herbert being only present. That day the K. eat and drank very sparingly, most of it being spent in Prayer and Meditation. It was some hours after night ere Dr. Juxon took leave of the King, who willed him to be early with him the next morning. After Dr. Juxon was gone to his Lodgings, the King continued reading and praying more than two hours after. The K. commanded Mr. Herbert to lie by his bedside upon a palate, where he took small rest, that being the last night his gracious Sovereign and Master enjoyed. But nevertheless the King, for four hours or thereabouts, slept sound, and awaking about two hours before day, he opened his curtain to call Mr. Herbert, (there being a great cake of wax set in a silver basin that then, as at all other times, burned all night) and perceiving him to be disturbed in his sleep, called again and bid him rise, for said his Maj. I will get up, having a great work to do this day, and then ask Herbert what troubled him, he told his Majesty he was dreaming: I would know your dream said the King, which being told, his Majesty said it was remarkable.  
Jan. 30. Tuesday. Herbert (saith the K.) this is my second marriage day, I will be as trim to day as may be, for before night I hope to be espoused to my blessed Jesus. He then appointed what clothes he would wear, Let me have a shirt more than ordinary (said the K.) by reason the season is so sharp, as probably may make me shake, which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear: I would have no such imputation, I fear not death, death is not terrible to me, I bless God I am prepared. Death indeed only sets men free from the misery of this world and breaks asunder the chains of bondage, etc. These, or words to the same effect, his Maj. spoke to Mr. Herbert as he was making ready. Soon after came Dr. Juxon B. of London precisely at the time his Maj. the night before had appointed him. Mr. Herbert then falling upon his knees, he humbly begged his Majesty's pardon if he had at any time been negligent in his duty while he had the honour to serve him. The King then gave him his hand to kiss, having the day before been graciously pleased under his royal hand to give him a certificate, expressing that the said Mr. Herbert was not imposed upon him, but by his Maj. made choice of to attend him in his Bedchamber, and had served him with faithfulness and loyal affection. At the same time his Maj. delivered to him his Bible, in the margin whereof, he had, with his own hand, wrote many annotations and quotations, and charged him to give it to the Prince of Wales so soon as he returned, repeating what he had enjoined the Princess Elizabeth his daughter, and that He the Prince would be dutiful and indulgent to the Queen his mother, (to whom his Maj. wrote two days before by Mr. Seymour) affectionate to his brothers and sisters, who also were to be observant and dutiful to him, their Sovereign: And forasmuch as from his heart he had forgiven his enemies, and in perfect charity with all men would leave this world, he advised the Prince his son to exceed in mercy, not in rigour, etc. And as to Episcopacy it was still his opinion that it is of apostolic institution, and in his Kingdom exercised from the primitive times, and therein, as in all other his affairs, he prayed God to vouchsafe, both in reference to the Church and State a pious and discerning Spirit, etc. and that it was his last and earnest request that the Prince would read the Bible, which in all the time of his affliction had been his best instructor and delight, and to meditate upon what he read, as also such other books as might improve his knowledge, etc. He likewise commanded Mr. Herbert to give his son the Duke of York his large Ring Sundial of silver, a Jewel his Maj. much valued: it was invented and made by Rich. Delamaine a very able Mathematician, who projected it, and in a little printed book did show its excellent use in resolving many questions in Arithmetic and other rare operations to be wrought by it in the Mathematics. To the Princess Elizabeth he gave the Sermons of Dr. Lanc. Andrews sometimes B. of Winchester and Prelate of the Garter, Archb. Laud's Conference between him and Joh. Fisher the Jesuit, which book (the K. said) would ground her against Popery, and Mr. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity. He also gave him a paper to be delivered to the said Princ. Elizabeth to be printed, in which his Maj. asserted Regal Government to have a divine right, with proofs out of sundry authors, civil and sacred. To the Duke of Gloc. he gave K. James' Works and Dr. Hammonds Practical Catechism. He gave also to Montague E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlain, Cassandra; and his gold Watch to Mary Duchess of Richmond: All which, as opportunity served, Mr. Herbert delivered. His Maj. then bid him withdraw, which being done, his Maj. with the Bishop were in private together about an hour; and then Mr. Herbert being called in, the Bishop went to Prayer, and reading the 27 chapt. of the Gospel of S. Matthew, which relates to the passion of our blessed Saviour, the K. after the Service was done, asked the Bishop If he had made choice of that Chapter, being so applicable to his present condition; the B. answered, May it please your Maj. it is the proper lesson for the day, as appears by the Calendar. Whereupon his Maj. was much affected with it, as so aptly serving a seasonable preparation for his death that day▪ His Maj. abandoned all thoughts of earthly concerns, continued in prayer and meditation, and concluded with a cheerful submission to the will and pleasure of the Almighty, saying he was ready to resign himself into the hands of Christ Jesus, and with the Kingly Prophet, as 'tis expressed in the 31 Psal. ver. 5. Into thy hands, etc. Col. Franc. Hacker then knocked easily at the King's door, but Mr. Herbert being within, would not stir to ask who it was that knocked: At length the Col. knocking the second time a little louder, the K. bade him go to the door, he guessed the business: So Mr. Herbert demanding wherefore he knocked, the Col. said he would speak with the King, the K. said Let him come in: The Col. in a trembling manner came near and told his Majesty, Sir it is time to go to Whitehall where you may have some further time to rest. The K. bade him go forth and told him I will come presently. Some time his Maj. was private, and afterwards taking the good Bishop by the hand, looking upon him with a cheerful countenance, said Come let us go; and bidding Mr. Herbert take with him the silver clock that hung by his bedside, said Open the door, Hacker has given us a second warning.  
The K. passed thro' the Garden into the Park, where making a stand, asked Mr. Herbert the hour of the day, and taking the clock into his hand, and looking upon it, gave it to him and said Keep this in memory of me, which Mr. Herbert kept to his dying day. The Park had several Companies of Foot drawn up, who made a guard on each side as the K. passed, and a guard of Halbertiers in company went, some before, and others followed, the King. The drums beat and the noise was so great, as one could hardly hear what another spoke. Upon the King's right hand went the Bishop, and on the left Col. Matthew Tomlinson, with whom his Maj. had some discourse by the way: Mr. Herbert was next behind the K, and after him the Guards. In this manner went the K. thro' the Park, and coming to the stairs leading into Whitehall, he passed along thro' the Galleries to his Bedchamber; where after a little repose, the Bishop went to Prayer: which being done, his Maj. bid Mr. Herbert bring him some bread and wine; which being brought the K. broke the manchet and eat a mouthful of it, and drank a small glass full of Claret, and then was sometime in private with the Bishop, expecting when Hacker would the third and last time give warning. In the mean time his Maj. told Mr. Herbert what satin cap he would use; which being provided, Mr. Herbert, after prayer, addressed himself to the Bishop, and told him the K. had ordered him to have a white satin nightcap ready, but he being not able to endure the sight of the violence that they would offer to the K. on the Scaffold, he could not be there to give it to the K. when he should call for it. The good Bishop bid him then give him the cap, and that he should wait at the end of the Banqueting house near to the Scaffold to take care of the King's body, for (said he) that and his interment will be our last office. Colonel Hacker came soon after to the Bedchamber door and gave his last signal: The Bishop and Mr. Herbert weeping, they both fell upon their knees: The K. thereupon gave them his hand to kiss, and helped the Bishop up for he was aged. Col. Hacker attending still at the chamber door, the K. took notice of it, and said Open the door and bid Hacker go, he would follow him.  
A Guard was made all along the Galleries, and the Banqueting house, but behind the Soldiers, abundance of men and women crowded in, though with some peril to their persons, to behold the saddest sight that England ever saw: And as his Maj. passed by with a cheerful look he heard them pray for him: The Soldiers did not rebuke any of them, for by their silence and dejected faces they seemed rather afflicted than insulting. There was a passage broke thro' the wall of the Banqueting house, by which the K. passed unto the Scaffold; where, after his Maj. had spoken and declared publicly that he died a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England (the Contents of which have been several times printed) the fatal stroke was given by a disguised person. Mr. Herbert during this time was at the door leading to the Scaffold much lamenting, and the Bishop coming from the Scaffold with the royal corpse, which was immediately coffined and covered with a velvet Pall, he and Mr. Herbert went with it to the Back-stairs to have it embalmed; and Mr. Herbert, after the body had been deposited, meeting with the Lord Fairfax the General, that person asked him how the King did? whereupon Herbert being something astonished at that question, told him the King was beheaded, at which he seemed much surprised: See more in the said Gen. Fairfax in the Fasti following, among the Creations of Doctors of Civil Law, under the year 1649. The royal Corpse being embalmed and well coffined, and all afterwards wrapped up in lead and covered with a new velvet Pall, it was removed to S. James' where was great pressing by all sorts of people to see the King, a doleful spectacle, but few had leave to enter or behold it.  
Where to bury the K. was the last duty remaining. By some Historians 'tis said the K. spoke something to the Bishop concerning his burial. Mr. Herbert both before, and after the King's death, was frequently in the company with the Bishop, and affirmed that he never mentioned any thing to him of the Kings naming any place where he would be buried: Nor did Mr. Herbert (who constantly attended his Maj. and after his coming from Hurst Castle was the only person in his Bedchamber) hear him at any time declare his mind concerning it. Nor was it in his life time a proper question for either of them to ask, notwithstanding they had oftentimes the opportunity, especially when his Maj. was bequeathing to his royal children and friends, what is formerly related. Nor did the Bishop declare any thing concerning the place to Mr. Herbert, which doubtless he would upon Mr. Herbert's pious care about it: which being duly considered, they thought no place more fit to inter the Corpse than in the Chapel of K. Hen. 7. at the end of the Church of Westm. Abbey; out of whose Loins K. Ch. 1. was lineally extracted, etc. Whereupon Mr. Herbert made his application to such as were then in power for leave to bury the King's body in the said Chap. among his Ancestors, but his request was denied for this reason that his burying there would attract infinite numbers of all sorts thither, to see where the K. was buried; which, as the times than were, was judged unsafe and inconvenient. Mr. Herbert acquainting the Bishop with this, they then resolved to bury the King's body in the royal Chap. of S. George within the Castle of Windsor, both in regard that his Maj. was Sovereign of the most noble Order of the Garter, and that several Kings had been there interred, namely King Hen. 6. K. Ed. 4. and K. Hen. 8. etc. Upon which consideration Mr. Herbert made his second address to the Committee of Parliament, who, after some deliberation, gave him an Order bearing date 6 Feb. 1648, authorising him and Mr. Anth. Mildmay to bury the King's body there, which the Governor was to observe.  
Accordingly the Corpse was carried thither from S. James Feb. 7. in a Hearse covered with black Velvet, drawn by six Horses covered with black cloth, in which were about a dozen Gentlemen, most of them being such that had waited upon his Maj. at Carisbrook Castle and other places since his Majesty's going from Newcastle. Mr. Herbert showed the Governor Col. Witchcot the Committees Order for permitting Mr. Herbert and Mr. Mildmay to bury him the late King in any place within Windsor Castle that they should think fit and meet. In the first place, in order thereunto they carried the King's body into the Deans House, which was hung with black, and after to his usual Bedchamber within the Palace. After which they went to S. George's Chap. to take a view thereof, and of the most fit and honourable place for the royal Corpse to rest in. Having taken a view, they at first thought that the Tomb-house built by Card. Wolsey would be a fit place for his interment, but that place though adjoining, yet being not within the royal Chapel they waved it: For if K. Hen. 8. was buried there, (albeit to that day the particular place of his burial was unknown to any) yet in regard his Maj. K. Ch. 1. (who was a real Defender of the Faith, and as far from censuring any that might be) would upon occasional discourse express some dislike in K. Henry's proceedings in misemploying those vast Revenues the suppressed. Abbeys, Monasteries and other religious Houses were endowed with, and by demolishing those many beautiful and stately Structures, which both expressed the greatness of their Founders and preserved the splendour of the Kingdom, which might at the reformation have in some measure been kept up and converted to sundry pious uses.  
Upon consideration thereof, those Gent. declined it, and pitched upon the Vault where K. Ed. 4. had been interred, being on the north side of the Choir, near the Altar, that K. being one his late Maj. would oftentimes make honourable mention of, and from whom his Maj. was lineally propagated. That therefore induced Mr. Herbert to give order to N. Harrison and Hen. Jackson to have that Vault opened, partly covered with a fair large stone of Touch raised within the Arch adjoining, having a range of iron bars gilded, curiously cut according to Church work, etc. But as they were about this work, some Noblemen came thither, namely the Duke of Richmond, the Marq. of Hertford, the Earl of Lindsey, and with them Dr. Juxon B. of London, who had licence from the Parliament to attend the King's body to his grave. Those Gent. therefore Herbert and Mildmay thinking fit to submit and leave the choice of the place of burial to those great persons, they in like manner viewed the Tomb-house and the Choir, and one of the Lords beating gently upon the Pa●ement with his staff, perceived a hollow sound, and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed, they discovered a descent into a Vault where two Coffins were laid near one another, the one very large of an antique form, and the other little. These they supposed to be the bodies of K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Jane Seymour his third wife, as indeed they were. The Velvet Palls that covered their Coffins seemed fresh though they had laid there above 100 years.  
The Lords agreeing that the King's body should be in the said Vault interred, being about the middle of the Choir, over against the eleventh stall upon the Sovereign's side, they gave order to have the King's name and year he died cut in lead; which, whilst the Workmen were about, the Lords went out and gave Puddifant the Sexton order to lock the Chapel door, and not suffer any to stay therein till farther notice. The Sexton did his best to clear the Chapel, nevertheless Isaac the Sexton's man said that a Foot Soldier had hid himself, so as he was not discerned: and being greedy of prey, crept into the Vault, and cut so much of the Velvet Pall that covered the great body, as he judged would hardly be miss, and wimbled also a hole thro' the said Coffin that was largest, probably fancying that there was something well worth his adventure. The Sexton at his opening the door espied the sacrilegious person, who being searched, a bone was found about him, with which he said he would ha●t a knife. The Governor being therefore informed of, he gave, him his reward; and the Lords and others present were convinced that a real body was in the said great Coffin, which some before had scrupled. The girdle or circumscription of capital letters of lead put about the King's Coffin had only these words King Charles, 1648.  
The King's body was then brought from his Bedchamber down into S. George's Hall; whence, after a little stay, it was with a slow and solemn pace (much sorrow in most faces being then discernible) carried by Gentlemen of quality in mourning. The Noblemen in mouring also held up the Pall, and the Governor with several Gentlemen and Officers and Attendants came after. It was then observed that at such time as the King's body was brought out from. S. George's Hall, the sky was serene and clear, but presently it began to snow, and the snow fell so fast that by that time the corpse came to the west end of the royal Chapel the black velvet Pall was all white, (the colour of innocency) being thick covered over with snow. The Body being by the Bearers set down near the place of burial, the Bishop of London stood ready with the Service book in his hands to have performed his last duty to the K. his Master, according to the order and form of burial of the Dead set forth in the book of Common Prayer; which the Lords likewise desired, but would not be suffered by Col. Whitchcot the Governor of the Castle, by reason of the Directory, to which (said he) he and others were to be conformable. Thus went the White King to his grave in the 48 year of his age and 22 year and 10 month of his Reign. To let pass Merlin's Prophecy, which some allude to the White Satin his Maj. wore when he was crowned in Westm. Abbey, former Kings having on purple Robes at their Coronation, I shall conclude this Narrative with the Kings own excellent expression running thus— Crowns and Kingdoms are not so valuable as my honour and reputation. Those must have a period with my life, but these survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone; a good name being the embalming of Princes and a sweet consecrating of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity.  
MARTIN LLEWELLIN, Lluellyn or Lluelyn (so many ways I find him written) the seventh son, without any daughter between, of Mart. Lluellyn, was born in London on the 12 of Decemb. 1616, and on the 22 of the said month was baptised in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew near Smithfield. In 1636 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. School, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1643, at which time he bore arms for his Majesty, and was at length a Captain. In 1648 he was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament; so that afterward going to the great City, he prosecuted then his genius as much to Physic, as before it had to Poetry. In 1653 he obtained the favour of the men in power, then in the University, to be admitted Doctor of Physic, and so consequently took the Oaths that were then required, and afterwards became Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians. In 1660 he was sworn Physician to his Majesty, at that time newly returned to his Kingdoms, and in the same year he was not only made Principal of the Hall of S. Marry the Virgin, but one of the Commissioners appointed by the King for regulating the University of Oxon, in which office he showed himself active enough. In 1664 he left the University, and settling with his wife and family in a market Town in Bucks. called Great Wycombe, practised his faculty there, was made a Justice of the Peace for that County, and in 1671 was elected Mayor of that Corporation; in which offices he behaved himself severe against the fanatics. He hath written, 

Men-miracles. A Poem. Printed 1656. in oct.  
Divers Poems. Printed 1656. in oct.  
Satyrs. Printed 1656. in oct.  
Elegies. Printed 1656. in oct.  
Divine Poems. Printed 1656. in oct.   Among his Elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch, another upon the eminent Poet and Orator Will. Cartwright, a third upon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and a fourth upon Sir Hen. Spelman the Antiquary.  
Verses on the return of K. Ch. 2, James Duke of York, and Henry Duke of Gloucester. Lond. 1660. in 3 sh. in folio.  
Elegy on the death of Henry Duke of Gloucester.— Printed 1660. (in a fol. paper.)  
Wickham wakened: or, the Quakers Madrigal in rhyme doggerel.— Printed 1672 in one sheet in qu. Written while he was Mayor of Wycombe against a Practitioner of Phys. who was a Quaker and took much from his practice. 
1681/2.  He died on the 17 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and one, and was buried in the middle of the north isle joining to the Chancel of the Church of Gr. Wycombe before mentioned. Over his grave was soon after a black marble stone laid, with this inscription thereon. Hic jacet Martinus Lluelyn eruditus Medicinae Doctor, ex Aede Christi olim Alumnus, saeviente Civilis belli incendio (dum Oxonium praesidio muniebatur) cohorti Academicorum fideli Praefectus erat adversus ingruentem Rebellium ferociam: posteaquam sereniss. Carolo secundo inter juratos Medicus, & Colleg. Med. Lond. socius. Aulae sanctae Mariae dudum Principalis, dein hujusce comitatus Irenarcha, necnon municipii hujus semel Praetor, Regiae authoritatis & religionis Eccles. Angliae legibus stabilitae strenuus assertor, inconcussus amator, celeberrimus insignis Poeta. Qui res egregias & sublimes pari ingenio & facundia depinxit. Bino matrimonio foelix septem liberos superstites reliquit, Laetitiam & Martinum ex priore, Georgium, Ricardum & Mauritium, Martham & Mariam ex posteriore nuper amantissima conjuge, Georgii Long de Penn Generosi filiâ. Heu! quam caduca corporis humani fabrica, qui toties morbos fugavit, ipse tandem morbo succumbit Anhelus doctorum & proborum maximum desiderium. Obiit xvii. Martii MDCLXXXI annoque aetatis LXVI.  
THOMAS CASE son of George Case Vicar of Boxley in Kent, was born in that County, became Student of Changed Ch. upon the recommendations of Tob. Matthew Archb. of York, in the year 1616; aged 17 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, preached for some time in these parts, and afterwards in Kent, at, or near, the place of his nativity. At the turn of the times in 1641, he closed with them, and being schismatically addicted, he became an enemy to the Bishops and Liturgy, a great Boutifieu and firebrand in the Church, a leader and abettor of the pretended reformation, and what not to vent his spleen, to become popular in the City of London, and so consequently to get preferment and wealth, which before he wanted, and therefore discontented. About the same time he was made Minister of S. Mary Magd. Ch. in Milkstreet in Lond, upon the sequestration thence of a Loyalist, where it was usual with him at his invitation of the people to the Lords table for the receiving of the sacrament to say 
(a) So in A Letter from Merc. Civicus to Merc. Rusticus: or London's Confession, etc. Printed 1643. p. 26. See also in Merc. Aul. 19 Feb. 1642.  You that have freely and liberally contributed to the Parliament for the defence of God's Cause and the Gospel draw near, instead of You that do truly and earnestly repent, etc. To the rest he threatened damnation, as coming unwillingly to the holy sacrament. In 1643, he, as a grand lover of the cause, was made by ordinance of Parliament one of the Ass. of Divines, being then, as before and after, a frequent Preacher before the members of the said Parliament, and about that time the Thursdays Lecturer at S. Martin's in the Fields. He was so zealous a Covenanteer also, that he published a Sermon about the solemn League and Covenant, advised all to take it, and was angry with those that did not, though they understood it not. He was, during the War, (as most of the Brethren were) a common Preacher of Rebellion. Atlength he, and they, being cozened of their King, and the designs they had upon him, by the Independents, he became a bitter enemy to that party, plotted with Love, Jenkyns, etc. and with the Scots, to bring in his son K. Ch. 2, an. 1651, Case being about that time Minister of S. Giles in the Fields near London; but their Plot being discovered, and Love the Corypheus' suffering for the rest, our author Case, with his Brethren that were in the Conspiracy, made 
(b) Memorials of Engl. Affaires, an. 1651.  a Petition to Oliver by way of acknowledgement and submission for what they had done. In the year 1653 he made it his endeavours to be one of the Triers for the approbation of Ministers, appointed by Oliver, but was rejected; yet when the Presbyterians began to lift up their heads in the latter end of 1659., upon the generous proceedings of General Monk, he was constituted by Act of Parl. dated 14 of Mar. that year, one of the Ministers for the approbation and admission of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way. But that foppery being soon after laid aside, he, himself, upon the coming out of the Act of Conformity an. 1662., was laid aside also; yet ever after so long as he lived, he was not wanting to carry on the beloved Cause in Conventicles for which he sometimes suffered. He hath written and published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Two Serm. before the House of Commons, on Ezek. 20.25. and on Ezra 10.2.3. Lond. 1642. sec. edit. (2) Gods rising, his Enemies scattering, before the H. of C. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642, on Psal. 68.1.2. Lond. 1644. qu. (3) The root of Apostasy and fountain of true Fortitude, Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of C. 9 Apr. 1644, for the great Victory given to Sir Will. Waller, and the Forces with him, against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton, on Dan 11.32. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) Deliverance-obstruction: or the set-backs of Reformation, Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 26 Mar. 1646, on Exod. 5.22.23. Lond. 1646. qu. (5) A model of true spiritual Thankfulness, Thanksgiving Serm. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton, on Psal. 107.30.31. Lond. 1646. qu. (6) Spiritual whoredom, discovered in a Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 26 May 1647, on Hosea 9.1. Lond. 1647. qu. (7) Serm. before the H. of C. 22 Aug. 1645, being the day appointed for the solemn Thanksgiving unto God for the Parliament forces their gaining of Bath and Bridgwater, Scarborough, and Sherburne Castle, and for the dispersing of the Clubmen, and the good success in Pembrokshire, on Isa. 43.14. Lond. 1645. qu.  
Other Sermons, as (1) God's waiting to be gracious unto his people, together with England's encouragements and cautions to wait on God, delivered in certain Sermons at Milk-street in Lond. on Isa. 30.18. Lond. 1642. qu. (3) Sermon on Ezek. 50.5. Lond. 1643. qu. (4) Jehosaphats caution to his Judges, on 2 Chron. 19.6.7. Lond. 1644. 45. qu. This Sermon, which I have not yet seen, was preached, if I mistake not, in Aug. 1644, upon the occasion of a Court Martial: From the Epistle before which, and from the Sermon itself, the Independents took great advantage, and quoted it when the Presbyterian Plot was discovered, to bring into England K. Changed 2. an. 1651; at which▪ time Chr. Love who was the chief man in that Plot, and our Author Case another, were to be brought to their Trial. The Sermon is all for revenge of blood, innocent blood, spilt; and 'tis in a most high and desperate manner a downright provocation to do justice upon Delinquents, that is Cavaliers, or those that adhered to the King, to spare not one of them living▪ etc. (5) The quarrel of the Covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel, in 3 Sermons on Leu. 26.25. and on Jer. 50.5. Lind. 1644. qu. (6) The vanity of vain glory, funeral Sermon at the burial of Kingsmyll Lucy, on 1 Cor. 1. ver. 29. with 31. Lond. 1655. in tw. (7) Sensuality dissected, Serm. before divers Citizens of London born in Kent— Lond. 1657. qu.) (8) Eliahs abateman; or corruption in the Saints, Sermon at the funeral of Walt. Roswell M. A. at Chatham in Kent, on Jam. 3.17. Lond. 1658. in tw. (9) Serm. on Prov. 31.19. Lond. 1658 oct. (19) Fun. Serm. on Malack. 3.17. Lond. 1659. qu. (11) Farewell Sermon at Barthelmewtyde, on Rev. 2.5. Lond. 1662. oct. (12) How the Sabbath ought to be Sanctified, on Isa. 58.13.14. Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 'Tis in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. (13) Sermon on 2. Tim. 1.13, preached in the Morning Exercise at S. Giles in the fields, in May 1659.: which Serm. is extant in a book entit. The morning Exercise methodised, published by our author Case, with his Epistle before it— Lond. 1676 qu. Besides these, and other Sermons which I have not yet seen, he hath published,  
The Morning Exercise: or some short notes taken out of the Morning Sermons, which divers Ministers of the Gospel in the City of Lond. preached at S. Giles in the fields, in the month of May 1655. Lond. 1655. in tw.  
Imitation of the Saints, opened in practical meditations. Lond. 1666. qu.  
Mount Pisgah: or a prospect of heaven. Being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Thess. from the 13 verse to the end of the chapt. Lond. 1670. qu. Dedicated to Sir Rob. Booth L. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, whose Mother the author Case had married.  
Correction, instruction: or a treatise of afflictions, first conceived by way of private meditations, after digested into certain Sermons. Lond. 1671. in tw. At length after our author had lived in continual agitation for carrying on the cause he professed, 
1682.  died in sixteen hundred eighty and two: whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Church called Christ Church within Newgate in London; and had soon after laid over his grave a large white stone, just below the steps going to the altar, with this Inscription thereon. Heic molliter dormit Thomas Case fideliss. Jesus Christi Minister, in hâc urbe & alibi, perquam plurimos annos egregius Concionator. In Aede Christi Oxon educatus, in hoc templo Christi tandem sepultus. Obiit 30. Maii, an. aetatis 84. annoque Domini 1682.  
BENJAMIN NEEDLER son of Tho. Needl. of 
(c) Reg. Matric. Un. Ox. PP. fol. 113. a.  Lanum in Middlesex, was born in that County, elected Scholar of S. John's Coll. from Merch. Tailor's School, an. 1642. aged 18 years, afterwards fellow and a cringer to the Presbyterian Visitors of the University, in 1648, by submitting to their power and accepting of, by way of Creation, the degree of Bach. of the Civ. Law. Whether he afterwards took orders from a Bishop, I know not: sure I am, that he being a well gifted brother for praying and preaching, he was some years after made Minister of Margaret Moses in Friday street within the City of London, where continuing till after his Majesty's restauration, was ejected for Nonconformity, an. 1662. He hath written,  
Expository notes, with practical observations, towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Genesis; delivered by way of Exposition in several Lords days Exercises. Lond. 1655 in a large oct.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. on Math. 5.29.30.— 'Tis the third Serm. in the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate, preached in Sept. 1661. Lond. 1661. qu. (2) Serm. on Math. 4.10.— 'Tis the thirteenth Serm. in the Morning Exercise against Popery, preached in Southwark, etc.— Lond. 1675. qu. (3) The Trinity proved by Scripture, Serm. on 1. Joh. 5.7, in the Morning Exercise Methodised, etc. preached in S. Giles in the fields, in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. What other things go under his name, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at Northwarnborough in Hampshire, (where for some years he had exercised his function in private) in the month of May or June, in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  was according to his will, as I presume, buried frugally in some Church yard, I think in that of Northwarnborough before mentioned: At which time he left behind him a son called Culverwell Needler, another named Benjamin, and a Brother in Law called Rich. Culverwell Minister of Grundesburgh.  
HENRY MUNDY was born in a Market Town called Henly in Oxfordshire, became one of the Portionists of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the rebellion, took one degree in Arts, in 1647, and kept pace with the interrupted times to enjoy some petit employment. In 1656 May 20 he was elected Master of the Free-Grammar School at Henly before mentioned, which being well endowed and replenished with Scholars, was very beneficial to him. At length following the practice of Physic, it fell to decay, and had not death prevented Justice, he would have been ejected. He hath written and published,  
Commentarii de aere vitali. 2 De esculentis. 3 De potulentis, cum corallario de perergis in victu. Oxon. 1680. in a large oct. He died by a fall from his horse, in his return to Henly from the house of John Lord Lovelace at Hurley, 
1682.  on the 28. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and two, aged about 58 years; and the next day his body was buried in the North Chancel of the Church at Henly. In the said School succeeded Dan. Ashford M. A. and Vice-Pr. of Hart Hall (sometimes of Wadh. Coll.) who by his industry and vigilancy made it flourish.  
PHILIPP HUNTON son of Ph. Hunt. of Andover in Hampshire, was born in that County, became either Batler or Servitor of Wadham Coll. in Lent term 1622, of which House he was afterwards Scholar, and Master of Arts. At length entering into the sacred function, he became successively Schoolmaster of Aburie in Wilts, Minister of Devises, afterwards of Hatchbury, and in fine of Westbury in the said County; and as Minister of the last place, he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts. for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians, Independents and other factious people called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, an. 1654. In the beginning of the year 1657 he was appointed the first Provost of the new College at Durham erected by Oliver the Protector; which, with the Academy there, being soon after dissolved, he retired to Westbury, and continued at that place till 1662., at which time being ejected for Nonconformity, held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived. He hath written,  
A treatise of Monarchy, containing two parts. 1. Concerning Monarchy in general. 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy, etc. Lond. 1643 qu. Answered by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises, etc. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy. Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct. This Sir Robert, by the way must be known, was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent, by Elizabeth his wife daugh. of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq, and was, as I conceive, educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge. Our author Hunton hath also written,  
A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy. Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles, was reprinted when the Press was open, in 1680, when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs, upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch, as 'tis said therein, that the Sovereignty of England is in the three Estates, viz. King, Lords and Commons, that proposition was condemned by the judgement and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation, held 21. July 1683, and the book itself wherein it is, was then publicly burnt in the School-quadrangle. Afterwards, as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England, at which time the Nation was in a hurry, it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it. Under our author's name goes also a book entit.  
Jus Regum, etc. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen, and therefore I can say nothing of it: Nor no more of the author, (who was a man of parts) only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned, having some years before married a widow with a good jointure, which maintained him, and kept up his port.  
THOMAS JONES son of John Williams, was born, and brought up in juvenile learning, at Oswestrie in Shropshire, entered into Jesus Coll. in the beginning of the grand rebellion, left it soon after, returned when Oxford garrison was surrendered for the use of the Parl, an. 1646, became fellow of Uniu. Coll. by the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament, in 1648, to whom he then submitted and acknowledged the use of the Covenant, and in the year following he took a degree in Arts, being at that time and after a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause. In 1652, he being then Master of his faculty, he wrote Vita Edwardi Simsoni S. T. D. ex ipsius autographo excerpta, which is set before the said Simsons Chronicon Catholicum, printed at Oxon. 1652. fol. and in 1654. he took holy orders, as 'tis said, from a Bishop. About that time he became Rector of Castle in Montgomerieshire in the dioc. of S. Asaph, and learned the Welsh tongue, purposely to serve those parts, when the Orthodox Clergy were miserably consumed by an act of propagation. From that place being ejected, upon one Wynns' discovery of a dormant title, he removed to the service of the Lord President and Council of Wales at Ludlow Castle, an. 1661., and thence to be domestic and naval Chaplain to James Duke of York, in 1663.: In whose service continuing till 1666, or after, was then by the means of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester (for some words spoken against him derogatory to his person and function) dismissed thence. So that soon after retiring to his rectory of Landurnog in the dioc. of Bangor, (which he some time before had obtained) found there but little quiet also from Dr. Morgan his Diocesan, being (as our author 
(a) In his book called Elymas the Sorcerer, p. 25.  saith) set on by the B. of Winchester. In 1670 Winchester called him to an account for an action of slander at the Kings-bench, for saying that he was a promoter of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England, attested upon oath by Bangor and two of his Chaplains: whereupon our author was fined 300 l. or mor, and the Rectory of Landurnog was sequestered for the payment of it. Which fine Winchester offered to remit wholly, if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness: But when he would not, the sequestration continued, and 20 l. of it was sent to our author, and some given for the repairing of the Cathedral of Bangor, and the rest for other pious uses. About the same time he was condemned and censured ab officio & beneficio by his Diocesan, occasioned by some controversy that happened between them about a reading Pew in the Church at Landurnog, the particulars of which you may read at large 
(b) Ib. in Elym. the Sorc.  elsewhere. So that being in a manner undone, did, much about the time of the breaking out of the Popish Plot, publish,  
Of the heart, and its right Sovereign: and Rome no Mother-Church to England. Or, an historical account of the title of an English Church; and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every County. Lond. 1678 oct.  
A remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true Mother Church of Christians?— Printed with the former book. At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates, his old acquaintance Ez. Tongue, Steph. College, etc. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by be Popish Plot, he wrote and published,  
Elymas the Sorcerer: or a Memorial towards the discovery of the bottom of this Popish Plot, etc. Published upon occasion of a passage in the late Duchess of Yorks declaration for changing her religion. Lond. 1682, in 8. sh. in fol. This book was written and published in Spleen against the Bishop of Winchester, grounded upon a passage in The History of Calvinisme, written by Monsieur Lewes Maimburgh 
(c) Printed in French in the beginning of the year 1682.  a French Jesuit, wherein he resolves the Duchess of Yorks declaration for Popery, into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned Bishops in England. One of these our author Jones doth endeavour to make the Reader to understand (though he nameth him not) to be Winchester. Notice of this book therefore coming to the said B. of Wint. he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication, as to have the said Elymas the Sorcerer to be publicly burnt, and the author to the further punished: But before he could compass his design, the author died. However Winchester, that he might not sit silent, published his own vindication, as to M. Maimburghs words, in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. Watson also D. D. of this University and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of York did answer it in a book entit. A fuller answer to Elymas the Sorcerer: or to the most material part (of a feigned memorial) towards the discovery of the Popish Plot, etc. in a letter addressed to Mr. Thom. Jones. Published at Lond. in Feb. 1682 in 8. sh. in fol. with the date in the title of 1683 set to it. Our author Jones also published his Sermon preached at the funeral of Ez. Tongue D. D. which I have not yet seen. At length this person, who was troubled with a rambling and sometimes crazed pate, dying at Totteridge in Hertfordshire on Sunday the eight of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  was buried in the Chapel or Church of that place. He had a little before been received into the house there belonging to Franc. Charlton Esq, the same who was suspected to be in Monmouths' rebellion an. 1685, and the same whose Sister Magaret had been married to Mr. Rich. Baxter.  
HENRY BLOUNT third son of Sir Tho. Pope Blount of Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire Knight, son of Will. Blount of Blounts' hall in Staffordshire, was born at Tittenhanger before mentioned, which is in the parish of Ridge, on the 15. of Decemb. 1602, educated in the Free-School at S. Alban, where, by the help of his pregnant parts, he made such large steps in learning that before he was 14 years of age he was transplanted to Trinity Coll, of which he became a Gent. Commoner, and there, not so much upon his relation to Sir Tho. Pope the Founder thereof, as upon account of his own intrinseck worth, and the facetiousness of wit so peculiar to him, he had in a particular manner the deference and respect of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts, he retired to Greys' Inn, studied the municipal Law, and at length, upon his retreat thence, sold his Chamber to Tho. Bonham of Essex the Poet. In 1634. May 7, he embarked at Venice for Constantinople in order to his voyage into the Levant, returned about two years after, became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Ch. 1, and by him Knighted 21. Mar. 1639. Afterwards he attended him at York, Edghill Battle and at Oxford for a time, and then leaving him, he retired to London, where being esteemed a Cavalier was called before the House of Commons and questioned by them for his adherence to his Majesty: But he remonstrating to them that he did no more than what his place required, that is his duty to wait, he was acquitted. So that closing with that party, he was appointed one of the Committee of 21 persons in Jan. 1651 to consult about the reformation of the Law, to consider of the inconveniences in it, and mischiefs which frequently arised from the delays, and other irregularities in the administration thereof, and about that time he showed himself active against the payment of Tithes, and endeavoured that every Minister should not have above an 100 l. per an. for his pains in administering the Gospel: In 1654. Jul. 5. he, with Dr. Rich. Zouch, Dr. W. Clerk, Dr. Will. Turner Civilians, Mr. Lucy, etc. sat in the Upper Bench in Westm. Hall for the trial of Pontalion Sa brother to the Portuguese Ambassador, three more Portugueses and an English boy, for a murder and a riot committed by them in the New Exchange, and on the 1. of Nou. 1655 he was appointed one of the Committee to take into consideration the Trade and Navigation of the Common wealth, etc. He was esteemed by those that knew him a Gentleman of a very clear judgement, great experience, much contemplation (though not of much reading) and of great foresight into Government. He was also a person of admirable conversation, and in his younger years was a great Banterer, which in his elder he disused. He hath written and published  
A relation of a voyage into the Levant. Lond. 1636. 37, cue, etc. In other editions in tw. it hath this title, A voyage into the Levant, being a brief relation of a journey performed from England, by way of Venice, through the Turkish Empire and Egypt, unto Grand Cairo, etc. It was so well esteemed abroad, that (as I have been informed) it hath been translated into French and Dutch: In the first of which Languages I have seen a book entit. Voyage de Levant Par. 1632 qu. written by D. C. He also wrote (as I have been informed by some of his relations, though his sons know nothing of it) a pamphlet entit. The Exchange Walke; printed much about the time that Hen. Nevil published his pamph. called The Parliament of Ladies, etc. 1647. This Sir Hen. Blount, whom I have mentioned in Joh. Lylie in the first vol. p. 257. and in Walt. Ramsey in this, p. 166. died on the ninth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  and was buried privately on the eleventh day in a vault joining to the Church of Ridge, leaving then behind him two ingenious sons, one named Tho. Pope Blount a Baronet, author of, Censura, celeberiorum authorum, sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi Scriptoribus judicia traduntur, etc. Lond. 1690. fol, as also of Essays on several subjects: and another called Charles, who published,— Anima Mundi: or an historical narration of the opinions of the Ancients, concerning man's soul after this life. Lond. 1679. oct. The Manuscript copy of this book (in which the father was supposed to have a considerable hand) went about the City of London with many gross passages in it. Afterwards being printed, it was taken for granted that the said book was published according to that copy. But those errors were all decried and exploded in the impression; and with those corrections Rog. L' estrange the Licenser was prevailed upon at the instance of a particular friend, to licence it. Afterwards L' estrange hearing the clamours that were raised about this book, and the fate to which it was doomed, he waited upon Dr. Compton Bishop of London, laid the matter before him; and his Lordship (thinking the book however inconvenient to be published) was pleased to rest satisfied, with the bare suppression of it: But advantage 
See in the Observator, num. 290.  was taken, in the Bishop's absence, of burning it, contrary to his Lordship's promise, and as 'twas believed, to his order. The said Mr. Ch. Blount also published, Great is Diana of the Ephesians, or the original of Idolatry, together with the politic institution of the Gentiles Sacrifices. Lond. 1680, oct. Also, Janua Scientiarum: or, a compendious introduction to Geography, Chronology, Government, History, Philosophy and all gentile sorts of literature. Lond. 1684 oct; and a little pamphlet for the Liberty of the Press, besides his publication in English, with philological notes on each chapter, of The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus, written Originally in Greek.— Lond. 1680 in a thin fol. Soon after suppressed and only a few copies dispersed.  
THOMAS BROWNE eldest son of Th. Br. Gent. was born in S. Michael's Cheap, or in the parish of S. Michael in Cheapside in London, on the 19 of Nou. an. 1605, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, entered a Commoner of Broadgates' Hall (soon after known by the name of Pembroke Coll) in the beginning of the year 1623., took the degrees in Arts, as a Member of the said Coll, entered on the physic line, and practised that faculty for some time in these parts. Afterwards he traveled beyond the Seas, was made Doctor of Physic at Leyden, and after his return he was incorporated in this University, an. 1637. About which time, he, by the persuasions of Tho. Lushington his sometimes Tutor, retired to the City of Norwych, where being settled he was much resorted to by Patients for his admirable skill in Physic, which he practised there with good success for many years, was made Socius honorarius of the Coll. of Physicians at London, and at length, in the latter end of Sept. 1671. had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him by his Maj. Ch. 2, then at, and near, the City of Norwych. He hath written,  
Religio Medici. Lond. 1642. etc. oct. in English. Answered in a book intit. Medicus Medicatus, written by Alex. Ross a Scot, and had English Observations put on it about the same time by Sir Ken. Digby, and Annotations by another. Afterwards the book itself was translated into Latin by Joh. Meryweather M. A. of Cambridge, and had latin annotations put to it by a certain Germane, who subscribes himself L. N. M. E. M. Printed at Strasburgh 1652. in oct: whose preface to it tells us that the book itself, which is translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Germane, etc. hath been much taken into the hands of curious and learned men, who have read it with great delight. See more there of the author Browne and of his Relig. Med. in the said translat.  
Pseud. Epidem. Inquiries into very many received Tenants, and commonly presumed truths, or inquiries into common and vulgar errors. Lond. 1646 in a little fol. There again 1650. and 57 etc. The sixth edit. in 1673 was enlarged by the author with many explanations, additions, alterations, etc. 'twas answered by the said Alex. Ross in his — Arcana Microcosmi: Or the hid secrets of man's body discovered, etc. Lond. 1652 oct. etc. And in a book written by Joh. Robinson M. D. entit. Eudoxa, seu questionum quarundam Miscelleniarum examen probabile, etc. Lond. 1656. oct. The Reader may be pleased now to know that there hath been published under Dr. Tho. Brownes name, a book bearing this title.  
Nature's Cabinet unlocked, wherein is discovered the natural causes of Metals, Stones, Precious Earth's, &c.— Printed 1657 in tw. A dull worthless thing, stole for the most part out of the Physics of Magirus by a very ignorant person, a Plagiary so ignorant and unskilful in his rider, that not distinguishing between Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus, hath told us of the Liver, that one part of it is gibbous and the other light: And yet he had the confidence to call this scribble Nature's Cabinet, &c, an arrogant and fanciful title, of which our authors (Browne) true humility, would have no more have suffered him to have been the father, than his great learning could have permitted him to have been the author of the said book. For it is 
(*) See a Discourse by way of Introduction to Baconiana; or certain genuine Remaines of Franc. Visc. S. Alban Lond. 1679. oct. p. 76.77. Written by Tho. Tenison D. D.  certain that as he was a Philosopher very inward with nature, so was he one that never boasted his acquaintance with her. Sir Tho. Browne hath written also,  
Urn-burial: or, a discourse of Sepulchral Urns, lately found out in Norfolk, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. etc.  
The Garden of Cyrus: or, the Quincunical, Lozenge or Network plantations of the Ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered, with sundry observations, etc.— Printed with Urn-burial.  
Certain Miscellany Tracts: (1) Observations upon several plants mentioned in Scripture (2) Of Garlands, and coronary or garden-plants (3) Of the Fishes eaten by our Saviour with his Disciples, after his resurrection from the dead. (4) Answer to certain equeries relating to Fishes, Birds, Infects. (5) Of Hawks and falconry, ancient and modern. (6) Of Cymbals, etc. (7) Of ropalie or gradual verses, etc. (8) Of Languages and particularly of the Saxon tongue. (9) Of artificial Hills, mounts or burrows in many parts of England. (10) What place is meant by that name. (11) Of the answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus' King of Lydia. (12) A prophecy concerning the future state of several nations. (13) Musaeum Clausum, or Bibliotheca abscondita, etc.— All these were printed at Lond. 1686 in oct. with the author's picture before them (showing him to have been an handsome man) and an Epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the publisher of them, who saith that there is on foot a design of writing the author's life, and that there are already some memorials collected for that purpose by one of his ancient friends, and puts the Reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief Discourses; among which is his Repertorium: or, some account of the Tombs, Monuments, etc. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich. This learned and worthy Physician (whose works were published in fol. 1686, with his picture also before them) died in his house in Norwych, on the 19 day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  and was buried within the Rails at the East end of the Chancel, in the Church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said City. Over his grave was a Monument soon after erected by his Relict Dame Dorothy, who had been his affectionate wife 41. years, with this inscription thereon. M. S. Hic situs est Thomas Browne M. D. & Miles, An. 1605 Londini natus, generosâ familiâ apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus, Scholâ primum Wintoniensi, postea in Coll. Pembr. apud Oxonienses, bonis literis haud leviter imbutus; in urbe hâc Nordovicensi Medicinam, arte egregiâ & faelici successu professus. Scriptis, quibus tituli, Religio Medici & Pseudodoxia Epidemica, aliissque per orbem notissimus. Vir pientissimus, integerrimus, doctissimus. Obiit Octob. 19, an. 1682. Pie posuit maestissima conjux D ᵃ Dor. Br. There is also an English Epitaph, which, for brevity sake, I shall now pass by.  
THOMAS TANNER son of a wealthy Citizen of London, was born in the Parish of S. Matthew in Friday-street within that City, an. 1630, educated in Paul's School, and thence sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the Visitours appointed by Parl. sat there, he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650, and about that time was made one of the Fellows of New Coll. by the said Visitors. In less than two years after he proceeded in Arts, having some time before had the degree of M. of A. conferred on him at Edinburgh in his rambles into Scotland, where the Doctors being taken with the forwardness, prettiness and conceitedness of the Youth, did confer on him that degree. In the beginning of May 1660 he was admitted the Sen. Proctor of the University, but being soon after ejected his fellowship of New Coll. by the King's Commissioners, to make room for that person, whose bread he had eaten for 10 years, he removed to Hart Hall, where he continued till his Proctorship was terminated: by which office he and his brother Proctor were great gainers by the many creations in several degrees that year made. Afterwards he retired to Greys' Inn, of which he was about that time a Barrister, and having consumed a considerable part of the estate left him by his relations, traveled beyond the Seas, was at Rome, and in Flanders he served in the wars as a volenteer for one Summer. After his return, having by that time but little left, he took holy orders, threw himself upon the Church, (a usual thing with Bankrupts) became Minister of Colleton in Devon. and of another Church in Sommersetshire: Both which he kept for some years, but having an unsettled head, he got himself to be made Chaplain to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winchester, who giving to him the Rectory of Brixton or Brightstone in the Isle of Wight, he settled there for a time: But the air agreeing not with his constitution, Mr. James Rudyerd presented him to Winchfield in Hampshire: so that being thereby incapacitated to hold Brixton with it, he changed Brixton for North Waltham near to Basingstoke in the same County; both which he kept together for about three years and then finished his course, occasioned sooner, than otherwise it might have been, by too much drudging at his study to carry on the duties required of him. He hath written and published,  
The entrance of Mazzasini. or, some memorial of the state of France between the death of the Cardinal of Richlieu, and the beginning of the late Regency. Oxon. 1657. oct. But his contemporaries then in the University, knowing him to be too forward and conceited, did generally report that he was not the author of the said book, but another man's plagiary. Whereupon he came out with another part entit.  
The entrance of Mazzarini, continued through the first years Regency of Anna Maria of Austria, Qu. Dowager of France, and Mother of the present Monarch Lovis xiv. etc. Oxon 1658. oct. And in the Epistle before it to the Reader, he saith that he was only a divulger of things that were before public in other Languages, intimating that this, as the former book, were rather translations from, or collections out of, other authors, than barely his own compositions.  
Euphuia, or the Acts and Characters of good nature. Lond. 1665. oct. After the writing of this book the author entered into holy Orders and afterwards published,  
Several Sermons as (1) A call to the Shumalite, or to the scattered and divided Members of the Church, on Cantic. 6.13. Lond. 1673. qu. (2) Wisdom and Prudence exhibited, preached before L. Ch. Justice Rainsford and L. Ch. Just. North, in their late Western Circuit, on Prov. 8.12. Lond. 1677. qu. etc.  
Primordia: or, the rise and growth of the first Church of God described. Lond. 1683. oct. To which are added Two Letters of James Rudyerd Esq. written to our author Tanner: One about The multiplying of mankind till the flood, the other concerning The multiplying of the children of Egypt. 
1682.  He died in the month of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, and was buried in the Church at Winchfield before mentioned, leaving then behind him in the hands of Elizabeth his widow, the second part of Primordia in manuscript.  
WILLIAM GOUGH commonly called Goffe., son of Will. G. Minister of Earl-Stoke in Wilts, was born there, became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. Narcissus' Marsh, in Mich. term 1671. aged 17 years; but when his Tutor was made Principal of S. Alban Hall, he was translated to that House, and took one degree in Arts as a member thereof, an. 1675. Afterwards leaving the University, he repaired to London, where he sided with the whiggish party upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot, an. 1678, industriously carried on the cause then driven on, and wrote  
Londinum Triumphans: or, an historical account of the grand influence the actions of the City of London have had on the affairs of the Nation, for many ages past: showing the antiquity, honour, glory and renown of this famous City, the grounds of her rights, privileges and franchises, the foundation of her Charter, etc. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo. He died of the Small Pox about the beginning of Nou. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  and was buried in the parish Church of S. Dunstan in Fleetstreet, commonly called S. Dunstan's in the West, in London.  
ROBERT WICKENS son of Joh. Wickens, of 
(a) Lib. Matric. Uniu. Oxon. P. P. fol. 26. a.  Shitlanger in Northamptonshire, was born in that County, entered a Servitor of Ch. Ch. in Lent term, an. 1632 aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, (that of Master being completed in 1639) holy Orders, and about that time taught School near Campden in Glocestershire, and afterwards at Worcester. At length, he being made Rector of Todenham in Gloc. (where for some also he had taught Grammar) on the death, as I presume, of Dr. Tho. Iles, wrote and published,  
Latinum & Lyceum Graeca cum Latinis, sive Grammaticae artis in utrâque Linguâ lucidissima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Oxon. 1654. oct.  
Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion. Printed with the former book.  
A complete and perfect Concordance of the English Bible, composed after a new and most compendious method. Oxon. 1655. in a thick oct. He died on the 29. of Nou. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  and was buried on the first of Decemb. following in the Chancel of the Church of Todenham before mentioned.  
OBADIAH HOWE. son of Will. How of Tattersal in Lincolnshire Priest, was born in Leycestershire, became either Batler or Com. of Madg. Hall in 1632 aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, and in the time of the rebellion, (siding with the rout) became Rector of Stickney, and some years after his Majesty's restauration, Vicar of Boston, in Lincolnshire. He was a person in Joh. goodwin's opinion 
(b) In his preface to his Triumvirs, etc. Lond. 1658 qu. §. 65. etc.  of considerable parts and learning, and yet (he believed) much more in his own. He hath written,  
The Universalist examined and convicted, destitute of plain sayings of Scripture, or evidence of reason: In answer to a treatise intit. The Universality of God's free Grace in Christ to mankind. Lond. 1648. qu.  
The Pagan Preacher silenced, etc. Lond. 1653. Written in answer to Joh. goodwin's book entit. The Pagans debt and dowry, etc. first published at London in 1652 and again in 1671. oct. The said Pagan Preacher was replied upon by Joh. Goodwin in his Preface to his Triumvirs, etc.  
Several Sermons as (1) The Royal Present, as it was delivered in a Sermon, in the Parish Church of Boston, 9 Oct. 1663., at the Archd. Visitation, on Isa. 16.13. Lond. 1664. qu. (2) Elohim: or God and the Magistrate, on Psal. 82.6. Ibid. 1663. qu. etc. In 1674 our author How accumulated the degrees in Divinity, became much respected for his learning in Lincolnsh. and dying in the winter time in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682.  was buried in his Church at Boston before mentioned. I find one Will. How to have been Minister of Gedney in Linc. a grand Presbyterian, and Independent in the time of Oliver, but what he hath written I know not. Since I wrote this I find one O. H. Minister of the Gospel to have written Meetness for heaven, promoted in some brief meditations on Col. 1.12. etc. Lond. 1690. in tw. Designed for a funeral Legacy by the said O. H. but whether the same with Ob. How, I know not. Qu.  
HENEAGE FINCH the eldest Son of Sir Heneage Finch of Kensington in Midd. Kt, Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London, by Frances his Wife, Dau. of Sir Edm. Bell of Beaupre in Norfolk Kt, was born 
(d) Reg. Matric. Uniu. Oxon. P.P. fol. 29. a.  in Kent, particularly, I presume, at Eastwell, on the 23. of Dec. 1621., educated in Westminster School, became a Gent. Communer of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1635, continued there two or three years, went to the Inner Temple, where by his sedulity and good parts he became a noted proficient in the municipal Laws, was successively Barrister, Bencher, Treasurer, Reader, etc. In 1660 on the 6 of June he was made Solicitor general to his Majesty, and on the day after, being then a Knight, he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, by the name of Sir Heneage Finch of Raunston in Buckinghamshire. The next year he was Autumn or Summer Reader of the Inner Temple, choosing then to read upon the Statute of 39 Elizab. concerning The payment and recovery of the debts of the Crown; which Statute (though ever seasonable and then most necessary) was never before read upon (as 'twas then reported) by any but himself. The reading and entertainment lasted from the 4th to the 17 of Aug. The former, was with great strength of reason, depth of Law, and admirable sense, and the other, with as great variety as could be imagined, carried on. The first days entertainment was of divers Peers of the Realm and Privy Counsellors, with many others of his noble friends. The second of the Lord Mayor, aldermans and chief Citizens of London. The third (which was two days after the former) of the whole College of Physicians, who all came in their caps and gowns. The fourth was of another long robe for all the Judges and Advocates (Doctors of the Civil Law) and all the Society of Doctor's Commons. The fifth was of the Archbishops, Bishops and chief of the Clergy; and the last which was on the 15 of Aug. was of the King, Duke of York, Lord Chancellor, most of the Peers and great Officers or Court, the Lords Commissioners of Scotland and Ireland, etc. In Apr. the same year (1661.) he was chosen Parliament man for this University, but did us no good, when we wanted his assistance, for the taking off the tribute belonging to Hearths. In 1665, after the Parliament then sitting at Oxon, had been prorogued, he was created, in a full Convocation, Doctor of the Civil Law, he being then one of the four members of Parliament, that had communicated the thanks of the honourable H. of Commons, lately sitting in the said Convocation House, to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant, negative Oath, etc. made 1647. Which creation being concluded, in the presence of several Parliament Men, (besides the said four) the Vicechancellor stood up and spoke to the public Orator to do his office. Whereupon he making a most admirable harangue, said among other things to this effect, that the University wished they had more Colleges to entertain the Parliament men, and more Chambers, but by no means no more Chymneys, etc. at which Sir Heneage changed his countenance, and drew a little back. In 1670 he was constituted the King's Attorney General, and upon the removal of Shaftesbury from being Lord Chancellor, he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, 9 Nou. 1673. Shortly after which he was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this realm by the title of Lord Finch of Daventre in Northamptonshire, and upon his surrender of the Great Seal to his Majesty on the 19 of Dec. 1675, he received it immediately back again with the title of Lord high Chancellor of England. In the most boisterous and ticklish times, when the swollen waves beat highest, (occasioned by the Popish Plot) he behaved himself with so regular, exactly poised and with such even steadiness, whilst others, whose actions not being so justly balanced, either were discharged from their Offices, or else they themselves by an ungenerous cowardice voluntarily resigned them up, as unwilling manfully to encounter approaching difficulties, of which they pretended to have prospects; that he still stood firm in the good opinion of his Prince, and which is more to be admired, at that time, when many worthy Ministers of State, were by the malice of designing men, branded with the old infamous character of Evil Counselors, in order to have them to be run down and worried by the violent outrages of the unthinking, giddy and headstrong multitude. During all which time and clamour against persons, (which continued from Oct. 1678. to the beginning of the year 1681, after the Oxford Parl. was dissolved) he was neither bandied against, or censured in the more private seditious Cabals, nor was his Master publicly addressed to for his removal. In 1681. May 14, or thereabouts, he was created Earl of Nottingham, as a mark of the great satisfaction his Majesty had in the many faithful services which his Lordship had rendered the Crown, being then a person of so eloquent and fluent speech, and of so great sapience, that he was usually styled the English Roscius and the English Cicero. A noted 
(e) Dr. Gilb. Burnet in his pref. to the sec. Vol. of the Hist. of the reformation of the Church of England.  author tells us that his great parts and greater virtues, are so conspicuous, that it were a high presumption in him to say any thing in his commendation, being in nothing more eminent than in his zeal for, and care of, this Church of England. See his character most excellently described under the name of Amri, in the second part of a poem entit. Absalon and Achitophel, Lond. 1682. first edit. p. 30. Under the name of this worthy person are published,  
Several speeches and discourses in the trial of the Judges of K. Ch. 1.— He being then Solicitor General. See in the book entit. An exact and most impartial account of the indictment, arraignment, trial and judgement (according to Law) of 29 Regicides, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. 1679. oct.  
Speeches to both Houses of Parliament, 7. Jan. 1673, 13. of Apr. and 13. Oct. 1675. 15. Feb. 1676. 6. March 1678 and 30. of Apr. 1679.— These were spoken while he was Lord Keeper and Chancellor.  
Speech at the sentence of Will. Visc. Stafford, 7. Dec. 1680— Printed in one sh. in fol. and in The Trial of the said Visc. p. 212.213. At which time he performed the office of L. High Steward of England.  
Answers by his Majesty's command, upon several Addresses presented to his Maj. at Hampton Court, 19 May 1681. Lond. 1681. in 1. sh. in fol.  
His Arguments: upon which he made the Decree in the cause between the honourable Charles Howard Esq. plaintiff; Henry late Duke of Norfolk, Hen. Lord Mowbray his Son, Henry Marq. of Dorchester and Richard Marriott Esq. Defendants: wherein the several ways and methods of limiting a trust of a term for years, are fully debated. Lond. 1685 in 9 sh. in fol. He also left behind him written with his own hand,  
Chancery Reports— MS in fol. in the hands of his Son Daniel Earl of Nottingham. At length his body being worn out with t●o much business, which his high station and office required, he yielded to nature in his house in Queen-street near Covent Garden, on the 18. of Decemb. in the afternoon, in sixteen hundred eighty and two: whereupon his body was buried on the 28 of the same month in the Church of Raunston before mentioned, 
1682.  near Oulney in Bucks. On the 20 of the said month his Majesty was pleased to commit the custody of the Great Seal to the right honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas, with the title of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and on the 22, he was sworn at the Council-board, and took his place as Lord Keeper. This noble Earl of Nottingham left behind him several Sons, the eldest of which named Daniel, who had been sometimes Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. succeeded his Father in his honours, having been before a Parliament Man, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Privy Counsellor. The second is named Heneage, bred also in the said House, and afterwards in the Inner Temple, who became Solicitor General in the place of Sir Franc. Winnington, but removed thence about the 21 Apr. 1686, and Sir Tho. Powis put in his place, about five days after. He hath been several times elected Burgess by the University of Oxon. to serve in Parliaments for the members thereof.  
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER Baronet, Son of Sir John Cooper of Rockbourne in Wilts. Kt. and Bt, by Anne his Wife Dau. and sole Heir of Sir Anth. Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire, was born at Wimbourne on the 22. of July 1621., (19 Jac. 1.) became a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1636 under the tuition of Dr. Prideaux the Rector thereof, and continued there about two years. Afterwards he went to Lincoln's Inn to study the municipal Law, and in the latter end of 1639, he was elected one of the Burgesses for Tewksbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 13. Apr. 1640. In 1642 he sided with his Majesty, being then, as 'tis said, High Sherriff of Dorsetshire, became Governor of Weymouth, and raised some forces for his use. But the mind of this person being mutable, he left the royal cause, went in to the Parliament and served them, was made Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and took the Covenant. But when the Presbyterians thought themselves sure of him, whip, he was gone (as one 
(*) The author of the First packet of Advices and Animad. to the men of Shaftesbury, etc. p. 19  saith) and in a trice commenced a Brother Independent: which was a wise part, and no trick of a changeling, to shift principles like shirts, and quit an unlucky side, in a fright, at the noise of a new prevailing party, with whom he stayed, till he grew up to the size of a great Commonwealths man, and made hay in the Sun shine, until the Commonwealth, and Cromwell were brought to bed of a strange new kind of Monarchy in the House of Commons; a three or four hundred-headed Monarchy called The Fifth Monarchy; and in those days it was also called, Cromwell's little Parliament: in which his little Lordship became one of the Princes among a Drove of Changelings, etc. In 1645 he was elected Sherriff of Norfolk, and the next year Sherriff of Wilts, both approved of, and consented to, by the members of Parliament. In Jan. 1651, he having before taken the Engagement, he was one of those 21 persons who were appointed by Parliament to sit as a Committee, to consider of the inconveniences which were in the Law, etc. and soon after he was chose one of the Council of State to Oliver: in which high office he continued till that person was Protector. In June 1653 he was constituted Knight for Wilts. to serve in the said Little Parliament that began at Westm. on the 4. of July the same year; but therein having spied out oliver's purpose of matching to another sort of Monarchy of his own, Sir Anthony then resolved, like a constant steady man to his own main point, to trepan his fellow members and strike in with him, and lent him thereupon a helping hand towards the confounding of Fifth Monarchy, to make way for a new one under the name of Protector; in which seen of affairs he was made a Protectorian Privy-counselor. In Aug. 1654. he was appointed by ordinance one of the Commissioners for Wilts, Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and about the same time he was elected a. Burgess for Pool before mentioned, and for Tewksbury in Glocestershire, to serve in that Parl. (called by Oliver, then Protector) that began at Westm. 3. of Sept. the same year. At which time he aspiring to become the Protectors Son-in-Law, Cromwell (who well enough understood him) either disdaining, or not daring to take him so near into his bosom, took occasion also to quit him out of his Council. So that being out of such public employs, he was at leisure to make court to all private Malcontents against the Protector; and wheresoever he found a sore, there he rubbed hardest till the end of the Reign of Richard. In 1656 he was elected a Parliament man for Wilts. to serve in that convention that met at Westminster 17 of Sept. the same year, and in 1658 he was elected again for that which began at the same place 27. of January: In both which the friends and favourites of Sir Anthony say that he endeavoured to cross the designs of Oliver and Richard. But the last being soon after laid aside, Sir Anthony thought it high time of necessity, to turn back to the old honest point of the compass, and get in again, to be thought a new man of his Majesty's party. To this end, notwithstanding he had been nominated one of the Council of State after the deposing of Richard, (May 15 1659.) he joined partly with the Presbyterians, and privately engaged with Sir George Booth, was of the Cabal, kept intelligence with him, and had a party in Dorsetshire, which should be ready to assist him, if little success should crown his beginnings. But Sir Geor party being dispersed in Aug. 1659. in the County of Chester, where he first appeared, the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely, that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it, and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile, was publicly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting. So that being called to the bar of the House, he made answer so dexterously to their objections, that he stopped the mouths of his Accusers, and most of the Members, having a great opinion of his fidelity, did then dismiss him. After this, he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored, he studied all the ways imaginable (especially when it could not be hindered) to promote it. He corresponded with Monk, then in Scotland, when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament (which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659.) was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following. So that he being very forward in that affair, he was on the 2 of Jan. following (the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit) nominated one of the Council of State, and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse, than very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood (commonly called the Lord Fleetwood) given to him to be Colonel thereof. Soon after Monks coming to Westminster, he became very great with him, and was, for his sake, not only made Governor of the Isle of Wight, but one of the Council of State, by the Rump, and secluded members then newly added to them, on the 16. of March 1659.; on which day they dissolved themselves. In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts. to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament, began at Westm. 25. of Apr. the same year, at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased. In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms, after 12 years' absence thence. The next day, being May 26, he was sworn a Privy Counsellor to his Majesty, being at that time at Canterbury, in his way to London, to be received by his Subjects there▪ at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oaths. In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides, directed to several noble persons, choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one: So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bailiff, with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion, caused Adrian Scrope Esq. one of the Regicides that then was tried, to say 
(†) In the Exact and most impartial account of the indictment, arraignment, etc. of 29. Regicides, the murderers of K. Ch. 1. etc. Lond. 1660. qu. p. 69.  of himself and them thus, his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the chief Judge then in that affair— But my Lord I say this, if I have been misled, I am not a single person that have been misled. My Lord I could say (but I think it doth not become me to say so) that I see a great many faces at this time, that were misled as well as myself; but that I will not insist upon, etc. As for the faces which he meant, that then sat as Judges on him, were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash. Cooper, Edward Earl of Manchester, Will. Visc. Say and Seal, John Lord Roberts, Denzil Hollis Esq. afterwards Lord Hollis, Arthur Annesley Esq. afterwards Earl of Anglesey, etc. But to return: Sir Anth. Ash. Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches, he was in the year following, on the 20. of Apr. (three days before his Majesty's Coronation) advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm, by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles. Afterwards he was made Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer (in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe, about the 20 of Nou. 1672) and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer, he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty, for the executing the said office, on the first of June, an. 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire, and a person in great favour with the K. and Court. In Dec. 1671 he, with Sir Thomas Clifford, were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchequer, (which was accordingly effected on the first of January following) and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers. In the beginning of March following, he, with the said Sir Thomas, were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience; effected also by the King's Proclamation for that purpose, dat. 15. of the same month, 1671; which was the source of all misfortunes that followed, even to the Popish Plot, an. 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annulled by the Parliament, which did begin to re-sit, 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672, he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date, created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury, and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurer's place, his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher, that is to be Lord Chancellor of England, 17. Nou. the same year, and on the 28 of the same month, he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas, then Lord Clifford. 'Tis reported by a 
(a) In his Memoires and just vindication of the Earl of Shaftesbury, etc. printed at Lond. in 8. sheets in fol. p. 8.  nameless author, but of no great credit, that when his Majesty (upon an occasional hearing of this Lords (Shaftesbury) public sagacity in discussing publicly some profound points) did as in a rapture of admiration say, that his Chancellor was as well able to vie (if not outvie) all the Bishops in point of Divinity, and all his Judges in point of Law; and as for a Statesman, the whole world in foreign Nations, will be an evident witness, etc. Before I go any farther it must be known that although his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland, with a manifesto of its causes, on the 17. of Mar. 1671, seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States, dat. 27. of the same month, in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch, 28. May 1672, off of Southwould-bay, (the D. of York being then Admiral) yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672: In the opening of which Session, I say that Shaftesbury did, in a speech the next day, promote and much forward the said War, and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago, that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch, etc. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us, the Dutch and the Sweed, in the latter end of the year 1667 (at which time William Albert Count of Dona Ambassador from Sweedland was here in England) was broken, and thereupon an alliance was made with France: In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State, for his pains, if his own affirmation may be credited, when he went into Sweedland, 1671. In the same Session of Parliament, Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test, to render Papists uncapable of public employments: And this he did (as 'tis thought) because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him, provided himself, by having a hand therein, with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy. On the 9 of Nou. 1673 (he being then Precedent of his Majesty's Council for trade and plantations) the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York, who found him untractable, and not fit, according to moderation, for that high place (or as another tells 
(b) The author of The th●rd part of 〈◊〉 Protestant Plot. p. 56.  us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test) and thereupon he grew much discontented, and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance. On the 16. of Feb. 1676, he, with George Duke of Buckingham, James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower, under the notion of contempt, for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them, viz. that Buckingham (just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting) endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was nulled and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved, was seconded by Salisbury, Shaftesbury and Wharton. For which reason, I say, and for endeavouring to raise sedition, they were sent to the Tower. Buckingham, Salisbury and Wharton were, by petition to his Majesty, freed thence in the beginning of May following, but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing, notwithstanding he before (Jun. 22. an. 1677) had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the King's Bench, which was granted, yet the Judges declared they could not release him. In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot, he became head of the factious party, who making it more terrible than 'twas, endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby. To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore, and so consequently please his party, his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord Precedent of his Privy Council (consisting then but of 30) 21. Apr. 1679, but he showing himself too busy and forward, and little, or not at all, to keep pace with the King's moderate humour, he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following, and was succeeded in that honourable office by John Lord Roberts, who behaving himself much like a Gentleman, was soon after created Earl of Radnor. After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People, removed into the City, and, to vent his spleen, became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York, especially at that time (15. of Nou. 1680) when William Lord Russell, eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford, did, in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons, carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britain. Then and there, I say, he was so heated with passion (being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax) that he talked almost all the time, being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over. But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing, he wrote, or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets, and endeavoured, with others by an Association, to depose the King in case he, and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168● should disagree, which he fully expected. But his traitorous designs being discovered, he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesty's Sergeants at arms, on the 2. Jul. 1681, examined by the Council, (the K. being then present) and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason, in compassing and imagining the death of the King, and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity, and to raise arms to that purpose. On the 24. of Nou. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him, read before his Majesty's Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Bailiff, London, and afterwards 
(c) See The Proceedings at the Sessions-house in the Old Bailiff, etc. upon the indictment for high treason against Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury. Lond. 1681. in 13. sheets in fol.  proved by several sufficient Witnesses; but the fanatical Jury packed on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute, they returned the Bill Ignoramus, and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty. Upon which deliverance, the seditious party made Bonfires and caused a medal to be cast: of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureate made a witty Poem. In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn, a Warrant was issued out against, to apprehend, him: Whereupon he skulked for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland, where he remained to the time of his death. He hath written divers things of which these are some.  
The fundamental constitutions of Carolina. Lond. in 7. sh. in fol. These constitutions are in number 120, and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina. When these constitutions were printed, it appears not, either in the title, or at the end of the book. They are dated on the first of March 1669, and so I presume they were soon after printed.  
Several Speeches as (1) Speech at the Lord Treasurers (Clifford) taking his Oath in the Exchequer, 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh. in fol. 1672. (2) Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament, 4▪ and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. (3) Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchequer Chamber, when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchequer, 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh. in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the King's Prerogative, and contained therein, as 'tis said, a good character of the Duke of York, showing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author, who then (1681) was a severe enemy against both. (4) Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 27. oct. 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet. (5) Speech in the House of Lords, 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease. Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Shirley was against Sir John Fag who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex. With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks, spoken in the House of Lords, on the 16. of Nou. the same year, for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters; together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament, etc. These two Speeches are said to be printed at Amsterdam, but were not. (6) Speech in the H. of Lords 25. Mar. 1679. upon occasion of the Houses resolving itself into a grand Committee to consider of the state of England. (7) Speech lately made by a noble Peer of the Realm. Printed in half a sheet of paper in fol. like a Gazette, in the latter end of Nou. 1680: The beginning of which is this, My Lord in the great debate concerning the King's Speech, etc. pretended to have been spoken in Parliament, but 'twas not. Which Speech being full of rascallities, was, by order of the House of Lords burnt by the hand of the common Hangman before the Royal Exchange, and in the Palace-yard at West. on the 4. of Dec. following. Therein, in the Shuboleth of factions, which he could truly pronounce, he had cajoled the Brethren of Scotland: But in the latter end of Jan. following, came out an answer to it by Anon. intit. A Letter from Scotland, written occasionally upon the Speech made by a noble Peer of this Realm: written by a better Protestant than the author of it, though a servant to his Royal Highness the Duke of York.  
Two seasonable discourses concerning this present Parliament. Oxon (alias Lond.) 1675. qu. The first discourse is thus entit. The debate or arguments for dissolving this present Parliament, and the calling frequent and new Parliaments. The other discourse is A Letter from a Parliament man to his friend concerning the proceedings of the H. of Com: this last Sessions, began 13. Oct. 1675. The first discourse contains 10 pages, the other seven: And though no name is set to them, yet it was very well known to all, that Shaftesbury wrote them; who tells us in the said Letter that the said Parliament consists of old Cavaliers, old Roundheads, indigent Cavaliers and true Country Gentlemen. The first of which discourses, if not both, together with the Speech before mentioned on the 20. of Oct. 1675, and the protestation and reasons aforesaid, are all answered in the body of a book which I shall anon mention, entit. A packet of Advices, etc. part. 1.  
A Letter from a person of quality to his friend in the Country— Printed 1675. qu. It contains 32 pages, and speaks much in the praise of some of the temporal Lords, but gibes at the spiritual bench, particularly at Ward of Salisbury, whom he makes a very rogue. It is also chiefly, as I remember, against the Test, and was published after the Parl. had been prorogued 22. of Nou. the same year. It was answered by March. Nedham in his pamphlet entit. A packet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftesbury, etc. part. 1. As for the Test itself, which was the same with the corporation oath and part of the Declaration required to be subscribed in the Act of Uniformity, only with this additional clause, I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour an alteration of the government either in Church or State, was brought into the House by Robert Earl of Lindsey, but violently opposed by Shaftesbury, although this very clause too had passed the Parliament long before, meeting with little opposition, in a particular Bill, which concerned only Nonconformist Preachers, known by the name of The Oxford or The five-mile Act, which hath been ever since so loudly clamoured against by that party.  
His case at the King's bench on his confinement to the Tower Lond. 1679 in 4. sh. in fol.  
Expedient for the settling of the nation, discoursed with his Majesty in the House of Peers at Oxford, 24. March 1680. Lond. 1681 in one sh. in qu. The expedient was for settling the Crown on James Duke of Monmouth.  
No Protestant Plot: or the present pretended conspiracy of Protestants against the King's Government, discovered to be a conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects. Lond. 1680 in 4 sh. and an half in qu. Tho no name is put to this, yet the general report was that the Earl of Shaftesbury was the author, or at least found materials for it, and that his servant who put it in the Printers hands, was committed to prison. Not long after the publication thereof (which was partly answered in a pamphlet intit. A plea for succession in opposition to popular exclusion, etc. Lond. 1682 in 5 sh. in folio) came out by the same hand, The second part of no Protest. Plot, etc. Lond. 1682 in 4. sh. and an half in qu. great part of which is concerning the duty and power of Grand Juries, with reference still to the Earl of Shaftesbury. Afterwards came out a third part in qu. containing about 20 sheets (written as 'twas vulgarly said by Rob. Ferguson a Scot by the appointment and consent of Shaftesbury) which mostly reflects on the printed 
(d) Lond. 1681. in 13. sh. in fol.  proceedings against Shaftesbury, when the indictment of High▪ Treason was charged against him. It endeavours also at large to lessen the credit, and invalidate the Testimony of those several witnesses, which appeared against the said Earl, when the before mentioned indictment was charged against him, by representing them singly in the blackest and most malicious characters that can be. It doth more than ordinarily reflect 
(e) See pag. 58.503.  upon Edmund Warcup a Justice of Peace in Middlesex, as if he had corrupted and managed most of the evidences against the said Count He is also touched upon in the 
(f) See the first part, p. 21.22.  first and second part, which I shall now for brevity sake omit, and only tell you that all three parts contain chiefly a vindication of Shaftesbury, as to his not being in the least concerned in any plotting design against the King, and that they are taken to task by Roger L'estrange in some of his Observators. They were written as well as the bad subject of them could bear; and the third part which is very libellous was answered by a pamphlet entit. A letter to a friend containing certain observations upon some passages, which have been published in a late libel entit. The third part of no Protestant Plot. Lond. 1682. in 3 sh. in qu. Written chiefly in vindication of James Duke of Ormonde and his administration of affairs and government in Ireland.  
A modest account of the present posture of affairs in England, with particular reference to the Earl of Shaftesbury's case. And a vindication of him from two pretended Letters of a noble Peer. Lond. 1682 in 5. sh. in fol. Which two letters supposed to belong to George Earl of Halyfax, were doubtless forged and ●eigned, only purposely to give Shaftesbury a greater liberty and scope of railing at, and libelling, the said Count But this the reader must know, that though there is no name to this Modest account, and therefore it cannot be reasonably fastened upon our author, yet the general report was, at its publication, that 'twas his, and at that time it was judged to be so by Rog. L'estrange in two or three of his Observators (weekly intelligences) that then came out, in which he reflected on the falseness of it; as 'twas also in a smart and ingenious answer to it, penned by John Northleigh of Exeter Coll. Besides also, I conceive that scarcely any body besides Shaftesbury would have adventured on such insolent and bold arraignments of some chief Ministers of State, not sparing the Government itself. He also made the little 
(g) So the Seasonable Address to both Houses of Parliament. Lond. 1681. qu. p 13.  short Speech intit. The Earl of Essex's Speech at the delivery of the petition to the King 25. of Jan. 1680; which petition was, that the King would change his mind from the setting of the Parl. at Oxon, to be at Westminster: Answered in a letter sent to him by Anon. in half a sh. in fol. as big as the speech and petition. He was also deeply supposed to have written A vindication of the Association, which was seized on in the hands of his servant (Stringer) as he was going to the Press with it in the beginning of Dec. 1682: who being examined about it confessed that it was written by Rob. Ferguson a Nonconformist Minister, author of, as he added, The second part of the growth of Popery▪ Whereupon soon after a Messenger was sent to Brill in Holland to demand the body of him the said Ferguson and of Shaftesbury, but the States refused so to do, as the common Letters dat. 13 January following told us. Much about the same time I was informed by Letters also that since the said Earls retirement to Amsterdam, he printed and published a book there, in which he endeavoured to free himself from all cause of Jealousy, and aspersions cast on him: upon which a back friend of his immediately dispersed a satirical reply in opposition thereunto. Which coming early to his Lordship's hands, he printed a second book, justifying the validity of the first, but he did so much confound himself therein, that the States had then a jealousy, that he came among them for some other intent, than barely his Majesty's displeasure with him. At length dying at Amsterdam of the Gout, 
1682/3.  on the 21. of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two, his body was conveyed into England and buried at Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire beforemention'd. What Epitaph there is over his grave, I know not, and therefore in its place take this character of him, given by a most ingenious 
(h) John Dryden in his Poem called Absalon and Achitophel. Lond. 1682 5. edit, p. 5.  author. 

For close designs and crooked counsels fit;  
Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit:  
Restless, unfixt in principles and place;  
In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace, etc.   

In friendship false, implacable in hate,  
Resolved to ruin or to rule the State, etc.   Before his death came out several Pamphlets in vindication of him, but very partially written by his admirers: At the time of his death or thereabouts was published The complete Statesman: demonstrated in the life, actions and politics of that great Minister of State Anth. Earl of Shaftsbury, etc. Printed in tw. at Lond. in Hillary term 1682. And after his death was published (besides some Memoirs of his life, which made against him) under the name of Philanax Misopappus a book intit.— Raleigh redivivus; or the life and death of the honourable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury. Lond. 1683. oct. with his picture before it. It is divided into two parts, and dedicated to the protesting Lords, but partially written, and containeth many errors, and slightly passeth over, and omits many of his actions during the time of Rebellion, wherein he had a prime hand. There were also published Elegies on him pro and con, as also A supplement to his last Will. and Test. written in verse; the particulars of which, I shall now for brevity sake pass by.  
THOMAS HUNT son of Hen. Hunt, was born in the City of Worcester, an. 1611, became a Student in Pembr. Coll. 1628., Master of Arts in 1636, but whether ever Bach. of that faculty it appears not; and therefore Hen. instead of Tho. Hunt in the Fasti 1630, among the Bachelaurs, is to be taken away. Afterwards he went into the Country and taught a private School, then to London and taught in the Church of S. Dunstan in the East, and at length being preferred to the Mastership of the Free-school of S. Saviour's in Southwark, did much good among the Youth there, as elsewhere he had done, by his admirable way (accompanied with much industry) in teaching. For the use of whom he wrote,  
Libellus Orthographicus: or, the diligent Schoolboy's Directory, etc. Lond. 1661., and several times after in oct. One Edit. of which bears this title— Libel. Orthograph: Or the diligent Schoolboy's Directory, very useful for Grammar scholars, Apprentices, etc. or any that desire to be exactly perfect (especially) in the English Orthography.  
Abecedarium Scholasticum: or the Grammar Scholars Abecedary. Lond. 1671▪ oct. or thus in the title of another edition.— Abecedarium Scholasticum: Or the Grammar Scholars Flower-garden, wherein are these following flowers; to wit Proverbs, proverbial Sayings, Sayings also on several subjects. What other things he hath written, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died 23 January, 
1682/3.  in sixteen hundred eighty and two, and was buried in the Church of S. Saviour in Southwark, close to the wall in the corner, on the left hand of that door that leads from the Bull Churchyard or Bullhead Churchyard into the said Church. The Reader may be pleased now to know, that besides this, hath been another, Thom. Hunt, who, though no Oxford man by education, yet having been famous in his generation among certain schismatical persons for several things that he hath written and published, I shall therefore give you these brief memoirs of him, viz. That he was born in London, in the Augustine Friars, as I conceive, near the Old Exchange, was first Scholar, than Fellow, and Master of Arts of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, where he was esteemed a person of quick parts, and of a ready fluence in discourse, but withal too pert and forward. Thence he went to Greys' Inn, where before he had been entered a Student, and making proficiency in the municipal Laws, was made Barrister, was had in repute for his practice, and acknowledged by most persons to be a good Lawyer. In 1659. he became Clerk of the Assizes of Oxford Circuit, but ejected from that office at his Majesty's restauration (to his great loss) to make room for the true owner. Afterwards he lived and followed his profession at Banbury in Oxfordshire, was Steward for a time to part of the Duke of Buckingham's Estate, and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk, etc. He hath written and published, (1) Great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York, or Successor to the Crown, etc. considered. And an answer to a Letter, etc. Lond. 1680. in 9 sh. in fol. (2) An Argument for the Bishop's right in judging in capital Causes in Parliament, etc. To which is added A postscript for rectifying some mistakes in some of the inferior Clergy, mischievous to our Government and Religion. Lond. 1682. oct. For the writing of which Argument, etc. he expected no less than to be made Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland: But falling short of that honourable office, which ●e too ambitiously catched at, and considering the loss of another place which he unjustly possessed, he soon after appeared one of the worst, and most inveterate enemies, both to Church and State, that was in his time, and the most malicious, and withal the most ignorant Scribbler of the whole herd, and thereupon styled by a noted 
(f) Joh. Dryden in The vindication or parallel of the French holy League and Covenant, etc. against Mr. Tho. Hunt's Defence of the Charter, and the Authors of the Reflections— Lond. 1683. quart. pag. 39  author, Magni nominis umbra. The said Postscript was reprinted the same year, with a large and most scandalous Preface to it, containing very groundless and abusive reflections on the Universities, and the rankest raillery imaginable on the whole body of the Clergy; and thereunto were annexed Great and weighty considerations, etc. before mentioned. But the said Postscript being wrote with a plain design to overthrow what he had maintained in the body of his book, occasioned (besides what Rog. L'Estrange said against it in some of his Observators, which came out soon after its publication) Edw. Pelling Rector of S. Mart. Church within Ludgate. Lond. (the supposed author of Protestant Apostate, etc. Lond. 1682. qu.) to point out from p. 21. to 35, the true original, (viz. Persons book of Succession put out under the name of N. Doleman) from whence he transcribed many of his most pernicious and destructive Principles, as well in the Great and weighty Considerations, etc. considered, as in the Postscript. Soon after one Wa. Williams of the Middle Temple Barrister did put out an Answer to the said Postscript intit. An answer to sundry matters contained in Mr. Hunt's Postscript, to his Argument for the Bishops Right in judging capital Causes in Parliament, viz. 1. As to his publishing a scandalous letter to the Clergy, etc. Lond. 1683. in 4 sh. in qu. Dr. G. Hicks also in the preface to Jovian, or an Answer to Julian the Apostate, as also in the first edit. of the book itself p. 237, and elsewhere in the same work, doth plainly insinuate that this factious and rebellious author contributed no considerable assistance towards the composing of Julian the Apostate, being a short account of his life, etc. written by Sam. Johnson: And Mr. Tho. Long of Exeter, in the Epist. to the Reader before his Vindication 
(g) Printed at Lond. 1683.  of the Primitive Christians, etc. points at several foul passages in the said Julian, clearly to be seen in Mr. Hunt's Postscript; and in the very entrance of the Appendix to the Vindication, and in other places, doth positively affirm, that both Hunt and Johnson have borrowed great part of their respective Libels from Joh. Miltons' villainous defence of the Murder of K. Ch. 1. Mr. Hunt hath also written (3) A defence of the Charter and municipal Rights of London. Lond. 1683. qu. For the publishing of which he was ordered to be taken into custody: whereupon he fled into Holland in June, or thereabouts, an. 1683, aged about 56 years. See more in the first Vol. of this work, p. 308. The said Defence was answered by Anon. by way of Letter to a friend in a treatise intit. The Lawyer outlawed: or, a brief answer to Mr. Hunts defence of the Charter, etc. Lond. 1683. in 5 sh. in qu. It is also taken for granted by one 
(h) Joh. Dryden before quoted in his Vind. of the Parallel, p. 40. , who may reasonably be supposed to have fully known the truth of what he asserts in this matter, that though Tho. Shadwell the Poet (bred in Cambridge) be author of the rough draught of the following libel, yet the finishing of it was done by Tho. Hunt: which piece is thus intit. Some reflections on the pretended parallel in the Play called, The Duke of Guise; in a letter to a friend. Lond. 1683. in 4 sheets in quar.  
RICHARD OWEN son of Cadwallader Owen sometimes Fellow of Oriel Coll, afterwards Minister of Llanvechen in Mountgomeryshire, was born in that County, entered into the said Coll. an. 1620, aged 15 years, or thereabouts, and made Fellow thereof in 1627., he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty, took holy Orders, and in 1635 he was presented by the University of Oxon to the Vicarage of Eltham in Kent, by virtue of an Act of Parliament began at Westm. 5 Nou. 3 Jac. disinabling Recusants to present to Livings. In 1638 he resigned his Fellowship, and the same year took the degree of Bach. of Divinity, being about that time also Rector of S. Swithins London Stow. In the beginning of the Civil Wars he adhered to his Majesty, and was thereupon thrown out of his Livings, that of S. Swithins being lost in 1643 or thereabouts, and suffered much, for about 17 years' time, for the royal Cause. After the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to what he had lost, became Minister of S. Mary Cray in Kent, was actually created Doctor of Diu. of this University, and in high esteem for his holy life and conversation, for his orthodoxness in judgement, conformity to the true, ancient Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England, and in the former revolutions for his Loyalty to his sacred Majesty. He hath written and publs.  
Sermon at S. Mary's in Oxon, on S. Luke's day 1637, on 2 Cor. 8.18.— I have seen this in manuscript, which for its rarity went from hand to hand, but whether ever made public I know not.  
Paulus Multiformis. Concio ad clerum Londinensem, in 1 Cor. cap. 9 ver. 22. Lond. 1666. qu. He hath also translated into English all, or most of the Satyrs of Juvenal, which I have not yet seen, and hath written something of Controversy. He died about the latter end of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two, 
1682/3.  and was buried in the chancel of the Church at Eltham before mentioned, having had some Dignity in the Church in those parts.  
RICHARD TOWGOOD or Toogood, was born near Brewton in Somersetshire, became a Servitor or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an. 1610, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and preached for some time in these parts. Afterwards he retired to the City of Bristol, was made Master of the School in the College Green there, and thence he was removed to the Pastorship of Allsaints Church. Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Diu. and was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1; to whose cause adhering in the time of the Rebellion, he suffered much for it, being then Vicar of S. Nicholas Ch. in Bristol: but at the return of his son, he was restored, was made, as I conceive, Preb. of Bristol; and upon the promotion of Dr. Glemham to the See of S. Asaph, had the Deanery thereof given to him by his Majesty, in requital of his Sufferings, which he kept to his dying day. He hath published  
Several Sermons, as (1) Disloyalty of Language questioned and censured, preached against the licentiousness of seditious tongues, on Job 34.18. former part of the 18 verse. Printed at Bristol 1643. oct. To which is added, A brief Corollary, questioning and censuring rebellious actions. The running title of which in the Corollary itself is this, Who can touch the Lords anointed and be guiltless? (2) A singular Masterpiece of furious Sedition, preached Jan. 15. an. 1642. on Psal. 94.20.— Printed with Disloyalty of Language questioned, etc. (3) The almighty his gracious token of love to his friend Abraham, preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol 3 Jan. 1674, on Acts 7.8. former part. Lond. 1676. qu. etc. He died in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
83  and was buried in the north isle of the choir at Bristol, over against the tomb of Sir Charles Vaughan. Soon after was a flat stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon. Richardus Towgood S. T. B. obiit Aprilis 21. An. Dom. 1683. aetatis suae octogesimo nono. Spes mea reposita est in caelis. In his Deanery succeeded Sam. Crossman Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge and Preb. of Bristol, son of Sam. Crossm. of Bradfield Monachorum in Suffolk, who had it conferred upon him by his Maj. in the beginning of May following. He hath written and published several things, as The young man's Monitor, etc. Lond. 1664. oct. and several sermons, among which are Two sermons preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol, 30 Jan. 1679, and 30 Jan. 1680. being the days of public humiliation for the execrable murder of K. Ch. 1. Printed at Lond. 1681. qu. Also A Serm. preached 23 Apr. 1680 in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol before the Gentlemen of the Artillery company newly raised in that City. Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. And An humble plea for the quiet rest of God's ark, preached before Sir Joh. Moor L. Mayor of Lond. at S. Mildred's Ch. in the Poultry, 5 Feb. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. etc. He died 4 Febr. 1683 aged 59 years, and was buried in the south isle of the Cath. Ch. in Bristol. After him followed in the said Deanery Rich. Thompson, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
MATHEW SMALWOOD son of Jam. Smal. of Middlewick in Cheshire, was born in that County, became a Student in this Uniu. 1628. aged 16 years, Scholar of Brasn. Coll. two years after, took the degrees in Arts, and left the University for a time. In 1642. Nou. 1. he was actually created Master of Arts, being then in holy Orders, and a sufferer in those times, if I mistake not, for the royal cause. After his Majesty's restauration in 1660, he was actually created D. of D. by virtue of the King's Letters for that purpose, was about that time made a Dignitary, and in 1671 Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Tho. Wood promoted to the See thereof. He hath published  
Several Sermons, as one upon Gen. 5.24. another on Prov. 11.18. a third on Math. 5.34. etc. All printed after his Maj. restauration. He died at Market Bosworth in Leicestershire on the 26 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
168●.  being then there to attend the funeral of Sir Wolstan Dixey, and was some days after buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. in Oxon.  
JOHN durel son of Jo. durel of S. Hillary in the Isle of Jersey, was born there, entered a Student in Merton Coll. in the latter end of the year 1640, aged 15 years, having then a chamber in S. Alban Hall; but before he had spent two years there, (which was under Mr. Tho. Jones) he left that ancient house, Oxford being then garrisoned for his Majesty and the Scholars in arms for him, and forthwith retired to France; where, at Caen in Normandy, he took the degree of Master of Arts in the Sylvanian Coll. 8. of July 1644. About which time he studied Divinity, carried it on for at least two years at Samaur under the famous Divine and Writer Moses Amyraldus Divinity Reader in that University. Afterwards he retired to his own Country, continued there for a time among his Relations, but at length being expulsed thence with Monsieur Le Conteur and Dan. Brevint, both born in Jersey, our author durel, who was the first that left that place, took his journey to Paris, and there received Episcopal Ordination in the Chapel of the honourable and truly noble Sir Rich. Brown Knight, his Majesties then Resident in France, from the hands of Thomas Bish. of Galloway, (after the King's restauration of Orkney) about 1651. So that being a native of Jersey, ordained in France, and by a Scotch Bishop, doth make a certain 
(a) Anon. in a book intit. The Nonconformists Vindication, etc. Lond. 1672. in oct. p. 133.  Writer doubt whether he was Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter, as our author styles himself in his books. Soon after he resided at S. Maloes', and acquainting his friends with the condition he was then in, he was thereupon kindly invited by the reformed Church at Caen, by an express on purpose, to come there and become one of their Ministers in the absence of Monsieur Sam. Bochart the famous Orientalian, Philologist and Critic, (author of Geographia sacra, etc. and of that Latin Letter to Dr. George Morley at the end of that book) who was then going into Sweden. Not long after the Landtgrave of Hessen having written to the Ministers of Paris to send to him a Minister to preach in French at his Highness' Court, he was by them recommended to that Prince: from whom likewise he received a very kind invitation by Letters, which he kept by him to the time of his death. But the providence of God not permitting him to go to either of those places, he became at length Chaplain to the Duke de la Force Father to the Princess of Turein, Monsieur Le Couteur being invited likewise at the same time to the reformed Church of Caen, and Brevint to another Church in Normandy, where he was preferred to be Chaplain to the Prince of Turein. Before I go any farther, I must tell you that about 1642 the Duke of Soubize living near to the Court at Whitehall, and finding it troublesome, and sometime impossible by reason of his infirmities, to go to the Walloons Church in the City of London, had commonly a French sermon preached before him in his own house every Sunday. This being found very commodious to the French living near thereunto, it was thought convenient upon the death of the said Duke, to set up a French Church about the Strand: And it being in a manner settled, that in the City did so highly resent it, that ever after the members thereof did endeavour by all means possible to pull it down. Upon the King's restauration the French Church in the City addressed his Majesty to have the French Congregation at Westminster broken, and forbidden to assemble, because it was not established by lawful authority. That at Westminster did present an humble suit to his Majesty that he would be pleased to continue it. His Maj. upon consideration of the matter, granted both their requests by breaking the Congregation at Westm. and by setting up a new Church under the immediate jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, wherein divine Service should be performed in French according to the book of Common Prayer by Law established, his Majesty providing for one Minister, and they themselves allowed to add to him as many as by them should be thought convenient, provided that the said Ministers be presented to the Bishop of London and by him instituted. By virtue of the said Grant the Liturgy of the Church of England was first read in French in the Fr. Ch. at Westm. assembled by the King's special favour in the Chapel of the Savoy in the Strand, on Sunday 14 July 1661., and the same day in the morning our author durel, (who had the chief hand in setting up this Church according to this new model) did preach, and in the afternoon Le Couteur, than Dean of Jersey: from which time, he with others were constant Preachers for several years following, and much resorted to and admired by all. In the beginning of Apr. 1663. he (durel) was made Preb. of North Aulton in the Church of Salisbury, (being then Chapl. in ord to his Maj.) and in Feb. following he succeeded Dr. A. Hawles in his Prebendship of Windsor, and about that time was made Prebendary of Durham, and had a rich Donative conferred on him. In the latter end of 1669 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity, as a member of Merton Coll, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters read in a full Convocation, held on the 13 of Octob. going before, whereby we are informed that his fame was so well known to them (the Academians) especially for the great pains he had taken in the Church, that he could hardly propose any thing to them in his behalf, in which they would not be willing to prevent him. The most noble Chancellor farther adds, that of his parts and learning they were better Judges than himself, but had not so much experience of his Loyalty, Fidelity and Service to his Majesty as himself, etc. In July 1677 he became Dean of Windsor in the place of Dr. Br. Ryves deceased, and so consequently Dean of Wolverhampton; and had he lived some years longer, there is no doubt but he would have been promoted to a Bishopric. He was a person of unbiased and fixed Principles, untainted and steady Loyalty, as constantly adhering to the sinking cause and interest of his Sovereign in the worst of times; who dared with an unshaken and undaunted resolution to stand up and maintain the honour and dignity of the English Church when she was in her lowest and deplorable condition. He was very well versed also in all the Controversies on foot between the Church and the disciplinarian Party; the justness and reasonableness of the established Constitutions of the former, no one of late years hath more plainly manifested, or with greater learning more successfully defended against its most zealous modern oppugners than he hath done, as by his Works following is manifest. Several of his professed Adversaries do give him great commendations, particularly Lewis du Moulin, who saith 
(b) In his Patronus bonae fidei, p. 1.  that he is in familiari progressu vir civilis ingenio, ore probo, pectore niveo, oratione profluente & lenocinante, etc. And one of another persuasion named Father Simon, Priest of the Congregation of the Oratory calls 
(*) In the Engl. translation from the French of the Critical History of the Old Test. Lond. 1682. quart.  him a learned English Protestant. But now let's proceed to the Works of Learning by him published, which are these,  
Theoremata Philosophiae rationa●is, moralis, naturalis & supernaturalis, quorum veritatem tueri conabitur in Coll. Sylvano Acad. Cadomensis, etc. 8 Jul. 1644. Cadom. 1644. quart.  
The Liturgy of the Church of England asserted in a Serm. on 1 Cor. 11.16. Lond. 1661. 62. qu. ded. to Jam. Duke of Ormonde. It was preached in French at the first opening of the Savoy Chap. for the French, 14 Jul. 1661. Translated into English by G. B. Doctor of Phys.  
A view of the Government and public Worship of God in the reformed Churches beyond the Seas; wherein is showed their conformity and agreement with the Church of England, as it is by Law established. Lond. 1662. qu. Tho this book (wherein the author speaks several things of himself) was wrote in English, yet the adverse party thought fit to rally up their scattered forces, and appear against it in different languages. One is in French, intit. An Apology for English Puritans: The Writer of which neither mentions Dr. durel, or any body else in the title; and though an Independent, yet he pleads the cause of the Presbyterians. The other Answer, which is an Apology also, is said by a certain 
(c) Matth. Scriuner in the beginning of his Actio in Schismaticos Anglicanos. Lond. 1672. qu. p. 4.5.  person to have been written by Hen. Hickman, bearing this title, Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia (vulgo) Nonconformists, an. 1662., Aug. 24 die Bartholomaeo dicto, ejectis, etc. And though this, and others are styled Apologies, yet our author durel saith 
(d) In his Preface to the Divines of all the reformed Churches, before his S. Eccl. Angl. Vind.  they are Satyrs, and no other but famosi adversus Ecclesiam Anglicanam libelli. Dr. Lew. du Moulin designed once to translate the said View of the Government, etc. (which is often quoted by many eminent Writers, and highly commended) into Latin for the sake and use of Foreigners; but William. Jenkyns the noted Presbyterian Minister deterred him from his purpose, threatening him with no lesser punishment than that of eternal damnation, if so pernicious a book, (as he was pleased to call it) in which the concord of the Church of England, with all the reformed Churches as to Church Government and divine Worship, should be by his means communicated to Foreigners. The Doctor himself hath told us this, saying that for this reason he let fall the work after he had began it, having proceeded no farther in it than the translation of the Preface, which Dr. durel had by him, as wrote with Moulins own hand. This, and more, concerning the whole matter, may be seen in our Authors Responsio ad Apologistae prefationem, going next before his Vindici●, etc. As for Jenkins before mentioned, a most rigid Presbyterian, he had been Pastor of the Black Friars, and afterwards of Ch. Ch. in London, had been engaged with the Presbyterian Ministers in their Plot to bring in K. Ch. 2. from Scotland 1651, (for which he had like to have gone to the pot, with his dear brother Love) was ejected from Ch. Ch. for Nonconformity, an. 1662., and carrying on afterwards the trade of Conventicling, was several times imprisoned and otherwise troubled. He hath written many things not now to be mentioned, among which is The busy Bishop, or the Visitor visited, etc. Lond. 1648, written in answer to a Pamphlet published by J. G. called Zion Coll. visited. He hath also several Sermons extant; two, or more, were preached before the Long Parliament, and a fun. sermon also on 2 Pet. 1.15. was preached 12 Sept. 1675, by the occasion of the much lamented death of the learned Dr. Laz. Seaman. But several passages therein giving offence, came out soon after an Answer to some part of it, intit. A vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresy, etc. in a letter to a friend. Printed in qu. He had a chief hand also in Celeusma which I shall anon mention, and wrote other things. He died in the Prison called Newgate in Lond. on the 19 of January 1684, (at which time were 80 Dissenters or more then and there remaining) and on the 24 of the same month his corpse, being attended by at least 150 Coaches, was interred in the burying place called by some the Fanatical, and by others Tyndales Burying place, joining on the north side to the New Artillery Garden or Yard near London. Soon after was printed and published An Elegy on that reverend and learned Minister of the Gospel, Mr. Will. Jenkyns: who finished his Testimony, etc. A comment on which, with many things concerning Mr. Jenkyns himself, you may see in the 2 vol. of The Observator, num. 209.210. written by Rog. L'estrange Esq. wherein also you'll find his Petition to the Supreme Authority the Parliam. of the Commonwealth of England, for the pardon of his life and estate, for being engaged in the Plot before mentioned; in which Petition being asserted by him that Possession and strength give a right to govern, and success in a cause or enterprise proclaims it to be lawful and just, etc. it was, by the decree and judgement of the Uniu. of Oxon passed in their Convocation 21 July 1683, burnt with certain books in the School Quadrangle, as destructive to the sacred person of Princes, their state and government, etc. Our author Dr. durel hath also written against the aforesaid two Apologies a book intit.  
Sanctae Ecclesiae Anglicanae adversus iniquas atque inverecundas schismaticorum criminationes Vindiciae, etc. Lond. 1669. qu. In which Vindiciae, the author doth only by the by sometimes take notice of the former or first Apologist, as thinking him unworthy of any larger confutation, but the other (Hickman) he answers more fully and designedly in his citations following his second edition. As for the character given of the said Vindiciae, hear what Matthew Scriuner saith in the place before cited, in relation to his answer to Hen. Hickman,— Justo volumine contemptissimi istius capitis veternos nuper obtrivit Durellus, fecitque vanissimum autorem inter pueros immodestiae & amicitiae suae infelicissimum deplorare exitum. And what Lew. du Moulin 
(f) In his Epist. p. 56.  delivers of it, is, that it is more offensive to the Puritans than the other book intit. A view of the Government, etc.— And therefore against it came out soon after a small piece intit.— Bonasus vapulans: or, some Castigations given to Mr. Joh. durel for fowling himself and others in his English and Lat. book. Lond. 1672. in a small oct: said to be written by a Country Scholar, yet generally believed to have been penned by Hickman before mentioned. Which book with some additions and alterations, came out again with this new title. The Nonconformists vindicated from the abuses put upon them by Mr. durel and Mr. Scriuner. Lond. 1679. oct. Of which edition and notorious falsities expressed in the title, I shall give you an account when I come to H. Hickman. Dr. L. du Moulin published also another book against it, without his name set to it, bearing this title, Patronus bonae fidei, in causa Puritanorum, contra Hierarchas Anglos: ut disceptatur in specimene confutationis Vindiciarum clariss. viri Joh. Durelli, cujus periculum fit, cum passim in ejus opere tum Maxime in capite primo, in quo agitur de authoribus nuperorum motuum in Anglia. Lond. 1672. oct. This book hath five distinct running titles, all differently paged, to the end that the sheets so printed might the better by that means escape the Searchers of the Press. The titles are 1. Epistola. 2 Specimen. 3. Prodromus. 4. Defensor. and 5. Patronus, etc. This Patronus bonae fidei, though fraught with scurrilities, and the utmost malice and bitterness, in which the author (whose excellency laid in ill natured satire) could possibly express himself against the Ch. of England and some of her most eminent, as well dead as living, Propugners; yet it is cited more than once, as a piece of notable authority in Will. Jenkyns' Celeusma, seu clamor ad caelum, etc. Lond. 1677. qu. In which book when the author refers you to the said Patronus bonae fidei, the Writer thereof (Moulin) is characterized as doctissimus, clariss. and eruditiss. possibly, as we may justly conceive, for his performance in that work. Nay 'tis not only quoted as a very authentic piece by the said Jenkyns, but is cited by Dr. Tho. God-den the great and eminent Rom. Cath. Writer against the Church of England in his Dialogues wrote in defence of Catholics no Idolaters, against Dr. Stillingfleet, as a Treatise to be credited in its account of some practices and usuages in the Ch. of England, but chiefly of bowing towards the Altar. To which citation from Du Moulin, Dr. Stillingfleet replies in his book 
(g) Printed at Lond. 1679. oct. p. 208.209. and p. 222.223. etc.  intit. Several Conferences between a Romish Priest, a fanatic Chaplain, and a Divine of the Ch. of England, being a full answer to the late Dialogues of T. G. In the pages here quoted in the margin you'll find an account of the great Knight-service which L. du Moulin did for the Papists, and what wonderful good use they made of him, besides the sharp character given of his performance in Patronus bonae fidei, which, I presume, could not be over pleasing to that proud and haughty Frenchman. A farther account of him and his Writings is in Dr. Rob. Grove his Defensio 
(h) Printed 1682. in qu. from p. 92. to p. 95.  suae responsionis ad nuperum libellum qui inscribitur Celeusma, etc. adversus reputationem ab authore Celeusmatis editum: but more particularly from the said Groves former piece called 
(i) Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. from p. 9 to p. 17.  Responsio ad Celeusma, etc. In the 15 page of this last mentioned book, you have this close and smart character of some of this French Doctors most considerable performances thus. Erat aliquando tempus cum tu excusatius peccares, cum esses olim Irenaeus Philadelphus, an. 1641, qui à te laesi erant, temeritati tuae veniam dabant; cum Paraenesin scriberes an. 1656 te opus viribus tuis majus aggredi putabant; cum Causae jugulum peteres anno 1671 delirare credebant; cum Bonae fidei Patronum ederes 1672 insanire videberis; nunc autem postquam Ecclesiae Anglicanae progressus ad Papismum emisisti, omnes te jam furore arbitrantur, etc. Although these Vindiciae of Dr. durel are well known to be written in good Latin, yet Dr. Du Moulin makes 
(k) In Patron. bonae fidei, p. 1.2.  such a boasting fulsome comparison between the goodness of Dr. durel's stile in this book, and that of his own in his Patr. bon▪ fidei etc. by a strange kind of modesty, giving himself the preeminence in such unbecoming extravagant Language, that Mr. Mat. Scrivener could not but take particular notice of, and reflect on this notable piece of self flattery (among other passages relating only to himself) in the margin of the Preface before his Body of Divinity:— Lond. 1674. fol. What other books our author durel hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that dying on Friday the 8 day of June, about 8 of the clock at night, in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683.  was buried on the 12 day of the same month about the middle of the north isle joining to the choir of the Chap. o● Ch. of S. George within the Castle at Windsor, in a small Vault of brick built for that purpose, and intended for his wife also after her decease. Soon after was a flat black marble stone laid, with a little inscription thereon containing his name, title and obit, as also his age when he died, which was 58. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Franc. Turner, and in his Prebendship of Durham Dr. Jo. Montague Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, Brother to the present Earl of Sandwich.  
WILLIAM BELL was born in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London, on the 4 of Feb. 1625, educated in Merch. Tailor's School, elected Scholar of St. John's Coll. in 1643, afterwards Fellow, but in 1648 ejected thence by the Visitors appointed by Parliament, he being then Bach. of Arts, and well skilled in the practical part of Music. Afterwards he lived in several places as opportunity served, was in France, an. 1649, and about 1655 he had a small benefice in Norfolk conferred on him, but could not pass the Triers. When his Majesty was restored in 1660, he became Chaplain in the Tower of Lond. to Sir Joh. Robinson Lieutenant thereof, and in the year after he was actually created Bach. of Divinity. In 1662. he was presented by the Precedent and Society of S. John's Coll. to the Vicarage of S. Sepulchre in London, void by the Nonconformity of Tho. Gough sometimes of Kings Coll. in Cambridge (who died 29 Oct. 1681, aged 77 years) and in 65 he was made Prebendary of S. Paul's Cathedral by Dr. Henchman Bishop of London. In 1667 he had the Archdeaconry of S. Alban conferred upon him by the said Bishop, was the same year sworn Chapl. in ord. to his Majesty, and in 1668 he proceeded Doctor of his faculty, and was for his eminence in preaching made soon after one of the Lecturers of the Temple, etc. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) City security stated, preached at S. Paul's before the Lord Mayor, on Psal. 127. latter part of the first vers. Lond. 1660. qu. (2) Joshuahs' resolution to serve God with his family: Recommended to the practice of the Inhabitants of S. Sepulchers Parish from 24 of Josh. 15. latter part. Lond. 1672. qu. sec. edit. (3) Serm. preached at the funeral of Mr. Anth. Hinton late Treasurer of S. Barthelmews' Hospital, 15 Sept. 1678, at S. Sepulchers. Lond. 1679. qu. He the said Dr. Bell was buried in the Chancel of S. Sepulchers Church before mentioned, on the 26 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683.  leaving then behind him a precious name among his Parishioners for his Charity, Preaching, and other matters, of which they could not speak enough; and was soon after succeeded in the said Vicarage by Edw. Waple Bac. of Diu. of S. John's Coll. in Oxon. On the marble stone which covers the said Dr. Bell's grave I find this written. M. S. Heic jacet Gulielmus Bell SS. Theologiae Professor, Ecclesiae hujus Pastor vigilantissimus; vir optimus, ingens Ecclesiae Anglicanae ornamentum, si primaevam spectes pietatem, faelicissimum ingenii acumen, morum suavitatem & integritatem; partibus regiis inconcussam fidelitatem, vel charitatem (denuo) vix imitabilem. Nec plus dicere decorum, nec fas minus. I tu, & fac similiter. Pientissimam exhalavit animam Julii 19 an. Chr 1683. aetatis 58. As for Th. Gough before mentioned who was D. D. he was buried in the Church of S. Ann Blackfriers 4 Nou. 1681, at which time Dr. Joh. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury preached his funeral sermon; which, with an account of his life therein, being extant, you may, if you please, satisfy yourself more of the person, who, as 'tis said, did translate several things into Welsh, as the Bible, Whole duty of man, A catechism, etc. Besides the said Will. Bell, I find another of both his names, Master of Arts, and late preacher of the word at Hyton in Lancashire, author of The excellency, necessity and usefulness, of patience, As also of The patience of Job, and the end of the Lord: or, the glorious success of gracious suffering opened and applied. Both which were printed at Lond. 1674 in oct, with a pteface to them written by Mr. Rich. Baxter. Which Will. Bell who was a Nonconformist and living at Sinderland in the Parish of Ashton-Underline in Lancashire in June 1668, I take to be the same with him who was author of (1) Well doing, well done to, Serm. on Jer. 22.15.— Printed 1650. qu. (2) Enucks Walk, on Gen. 5.24— Printed 1658. oct. (3) Incomparable company keeping, or a conversation on earth in heaven. Pr. in oct. Whether this Will. Bell be the same W. Bell, (son of Joh. Bell of Chigwell in Essex) who was matriculated in this University, as a member of Ch. Ch. an. 1634 aged 17. years, (but took no degree there) I know not. Quaere.  
JOHN BARNARD or Bernard the son of a father of both his names Gent, was born in a Market Town in Lincolnshire, called Castor, educated in the Grammar School there, whence going to Cambridg he became a Pensioner of Queens Coll, and thence journeying to Oxon to obtain preferment from the Visitors there, appointed by Parliament, in the latter end of 1647, was actually created Bach. of Arts in the Pembrokian creation, 15. Apr. 1648, and on the 29 of Sept. following, he was by order of the said Visitors then bearing date, made fellow of Linc. Coll. In 1651 he proceeded in Arts, and about that time became a preacher in, and near, Oxon. At length wedding the dau. of Dr. Pet. Heylyn then living at Abendon, became Rector of a rich Church in his own Country called Waddington near Lincoln, the perpetual advowson of which he purchased, and held for some time with it the Sinecure of Gedney in the same County. After his Majesty's restauration he conformed, and not only kept his Rectory, but was made Preb. of Asgarby in the Church of Lincoln. In 1669 he took the degrees in Divinity, being then in some repute in his Country for his learning and orthodox Principles. He hath written,  
Censura Cleri: or, against scandalous Ministers, not fit to be restored to the Churches livings, in point of prudence, piety and fame. Lond. 1660 in 3 sh. in qu. This was published in the latter end of 1659. or beg. of 1660 to prevent such from being restored to their Livings that had been ejected by the Godly party, an. 1654. 55, etc. His name is not set to this pamphlet, and he did not care afafterwards, when he saw how the event proved, to be known that he was the author.  
Theologo-Historicus: or, the true life of the most rev. Divine and excellent Historian Peter Heylyn D. D. Subdean of Westminster. Lond. 1683 oct. Published, as the author pretended, to correct the errors, supply the defects and confute the calumnies of a late writer, viz. George Vernon M. A. Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire, who had before published the said Doctor's life.  
Answer to Mr. Baxter's false accusations of Dr. Heylyn— Printed with the Theologo-Historicus, etc.  
Catechism for the use of his Parish.— This I have not yet seen, and therefore cannot tell you when or where 'twas printed. This Dr. Barnard died at Newarke in his journey to the Spa, on the 17. of August in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683.  and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Waddington before mentioned, as I have been informed by his son of both his names, lately Fellow of Brasn. Coll, who also told me that he left behind him a Manuscript chiefly against Socinianism, which is not yet printed.  
JOHN OWEN son of Hen. Owen sometimes a petty Schoolmaster at Stokenchurch, afterwards Vicar of Stadham near Watlington, in Oxfordshire, was born in the said Town of Stadham, bred in Grammar learning, mostly under Edw. Sylvester, who taught School for many years in Allsaintes Parish in Oxon, entered a Student in Queens Coll. in 1628., instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Tho. Barlow Fellow thereof, and took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being taken and completed in 1635; at which time, as the cumstom and statute is, he swore allegiance and fidelity to the King, his heirs, and lawful successors. Which Oath is taken by all who take but one degree: And this for one is to be noted of all such whom I have, and shall mention in this Work. About the same time he entered into holy Orders, and when made Priest swore canonical Obedience to the Bishop his Diocesan. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Dormer of Ascot in the Parish of Great Milton near the place of his nativity, where he served and did all things requisite to his Office according to the Church of England, and taught also the eldest son of the said Knight. About that time he became Chaplain to John L. Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire, where continuing till the turn of the times, he sided then with the rebellious rout, preached against Bishops and their Courts, Common Prayer Book, Ceremonies, etc. Afterwards he was made Minister of Fordham in Essex, took the Covenant, became Pastor of factious Coggeshall in the same County, where lately that noted Presbyterian Ob. Sedgwick had held forth. But then he perfectly beholding that the Independents grew prevalent, he changed his mind, adhered to them, and endeavoured to ruin the Presbyterians. He violated all Oaths, as of canonical Obedience, Solemn League and Covenant, etc. and being a man of parts was more enabled to do greater mischief by them, especially in preaching up Sectarisme, as he did ever and anon wheresoever he came. By the doing of these things he became endeared to Ol. Cromwell, who had him ever after in great respect, and in some things relied on his Council. In the latter end of 1648, when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded, he in his discourses and Sermons applauded 
(a) Letter to a friend concerning some of Dr. Owen's principles and practices. Lond. 1670. qu.  the Regicides and declared the death of that most admirable King to be just and righteous, preached against K. Ch. 2. and against all the Loyal party. In 1649 June 7. was a Thanksgiving by the Parliament Officers of the Army, Lord Mayor and Citizens at Ch. Ch. in London for Cromwell's victory over the Levellers, at which time Tho. Goodwin and this our author Owen (who had about that time taken the Engament) preached to them out of the Politics; and on the day after a Committee was appointed to consider how to prefer those two Preachers to be Heads of Colleges in this University, as a reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament and Cromwell, upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving day. It was not then thought fit that such men should serve God for nothing: In the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great gain, but in the days of the late Saints Gain was great godliness. On the 17. Sept. 1650, it was ordered by the Parliament, according to the desire of Ol. Cromwell then General of the forces, that he and Joseph Caryl should go into Scotland, and on the 18 of March following, it was ordered by them that he should be Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. In which place being soon after settled, he with Tho. Goodwin Precedent of Madg. Coll. (the two Atlases and Patriarches of Independency) did, with some others who were their admirers, endeavour to settle Independency in the University according to Cromwell's mind, but in their designs they found much opposition from the Presbyterians, with whom they had several clashes concerning the promoting of their doctrine. In the year 1652 he was made Vicechancellor, in which Office, he being then also one of the Visitors, (for by that time several Independents had been added to them) he endeavoured to put down Habits, Formalities and all Ceremony, notwithstanding he before had taken an Oath to observe the Statutes and maintain the Privileges of the University, but opposed in this also by the Presbyterians. While he did undergo the said Office, he, instead of being a grave example to the University, scorned all formality, undervalved his office by going in cuerpo like a young Scholar, with powdered hair, snake-bone bandstrings, (or bandstrings with very large tassels) lawn band, a large set of ribbons pointed, at his knees, and spanish leather boots, with large lawn tops, and his hat mostly cocked. On the 10. of Dec. 1653 he the said Owen, Tho. Goodwin, R. Fairclough the elder, Nich. Lockyer, Jos. Caryl, etc. were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners, by three in a Circuit, for ejecting and settling Ministers according to the rules then prescribed, but that project taking not effect, there were Commissioners appointed by Oliver for approbation of public preachers, whereof John Owen was one of the chiefest; and in the year following Commissioners from the Laity, and Assistants to them from the Clergy, in every County, for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines. At which time John Owen and Tho. Goodwin were appointed for the County of Oxon, together with Thankful Owen Pres. of S. Jo. Coll, Sam. Wells Minister of Banbury, Joh. Taylor Min. of Broughton, Cristoph. Rogers, Ambr. Upton, Pet. French, Hen. Wilkinson, Ralph Batton, Hen. Cornish Canons of Ch. Ch. Edm. Stanton Pres. of C CC. Rob. Harris Pres. of Trin. Coll. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Mr. Brice of Henly, etc. In 1654. Owen stood to be elected Burges for the University of Oxon, to sit in a Parliament then called, and rather than he would be put aside, because he was a Theologist, he renounced his orders, and pleaded that he was a mere Layman, notwithstanding he had been actually created D. of Diu. in the year before: But his election being questioned by the Committee of Elections, he sat only for a little time in the said Parliament. While he was Vicechanc. he preached frequently, blasphemed God with bold and senseless effusions, and in his Sermons and Prayers he did often confound the Royal Family. He had a wonderful 
(b) Sam. Parker, in his Defence and continuation of Eccles. policy, etc. after p. 588.  knack of entitling all the proceeding of his own party, however villainous and inhuman, nay any the least revolutions or turn of affairs, which happened to be in favour of his own cause, to an especial Providence, to the peculiar and plainly legible conduct of heaven; which he zealously preached up, as sufficient to untie the strictest bonds of faith, allegiance and all other Oaths to overlure all the obligations of conscience and religion. He could easily make the transactions of the three kingdoms to be the fulfilling of many old prophetical predictions and to be a clear edifying comment, on the Revelations, still teaching (as most of the Brethren did) that to pursue a success in villainy and rebellion, was to follow the guidant of providential dispensations. He was also then, while he was Vicechancellor, so great an enemy to the Lords Prayer, that when some Preachers concluded their own with it, which was very seldom done by any, especially the Presbiterians and Independents, (because it was looked upon, forsooth, as formal and prelatical so to do) he would with great snearing and scorn, turn aside or sit down and put on his hat. Which act of his being looked upon as diabolical, especially by the Royal party, it gave occasion to Dr. Mer. Casaubon to write and publish A vindication of the Lords Prayer, etc. as I have told you elsewhere. In 1657 when Rich. Cromwell (son of Oliver) was elected Chancellor of this University, our author Owen was removed from his Vicechancellourship, and the year after, when he was made Protector, he was, by the endeavours of the Presbyterians, removed also from his favour, and St. Mary's Pulpit cleansed of him and Goodwin. All which our author taking in great scorn, he, out of spite, set up a lecture at another Church, using these 
(c) Letter to a friend, as before, p. 28.  words, I have built Seats at mary's, but let the Doctors find Auditors, for I will preach at Peter's in the East; and so he did for a time and many flocked to him. In the latter end of 1659. he was outed of his Deanery of Ch. Ch, and then retired to Stadham, (the place of his birth) where a little before he had bought Land and a fair dwelling House. There he lived for some time, called together some of his party to preach, and many of his Disciples went from Oxon to hear him and receive comfort from his doctrine; but they being several times silenced by Soldiers of the Militia Troop belonging to the County of Oxon, and sorely threatened, that Congregation was broken. After all this (when our author for his rebellious actions, blasphemies, preachings, lyings, revile, perjuries, etc. was not excepted from the Act of Oblivion, which was much wondered at and desired) Sir E. Hyde then Lord Chancellor treated 
(d) Ibid.  him with all kindness and respect, and designed him, if he could not Conform, to employ his time and abilities in writing against the Papists, and not to violate public Laws and endanger public Peace by keeping Conventicles. Whereupon Owen gave his word that he would be obedient to his commands, but being not long after found preaching to about 30 or 40 of the godly party, in his house at Stadham, by an officer of the Militia Troop, he was complained of to the Lord Chancellor. Soon after Owen having received intelligence that that great person was very angry, upon information of the matter made to him while he was at Cornbury in Oxfordshire, he wrote to Dr. Tho. Barlow (whom he had obliged with the like kindness in the reign of Oliver) and desired him to mediate on his behalf to the said person. Whereupon Barlow went from Oxon to Cornbury, where the L. Chanc. hearing his Errand he 
(e) Ib. p. 39.40.  told him then that Dr. Owen was a perfidious person in that he had violated his engagements, and therefore he would have nothing▪ to do with him, but leave him to the penalty of those laws he had transgressed, etc. Upon this our author resolved to go to New England, but since that time the wind was never in a right point for a voyage. After this he settled in London, set up a Church, preached and prayed, having been encouraged thereunto (as 'tis said) by the Papists; and at length burying his wife, married (after 60 years of age) the young widow of Thom. D' oyley his neighbour, (younger brother of Sir Joh. D' oyley of Chesilhampton near Stadham Baronet) and took all occasions to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life. A certain Nonconformist (J. H.) doth charactarize 
(f) J. H. in his Authority of the Magistrate about religion discussed, etc. Lond. 1672. oct. p. 6.  our author thus. He is a reverend man, a Doct. of Diu. of much gravity and of long standing, excellent in learning and all sorts of it for his profession, of dignity in his time as much as any have been capable of, a person of noted constant piety and a studious life, of universal affability, ready presence and discourse, liberal, graceful and courteous demeanour, that speak him certainly (whatsoever he be else) one that is more a Gentleman than most in the Clergy, and that he is accordingly favoured sometimes with the Prince's converse, and the general veneration of the people, etc. Thus the author here quoted, whom I take to be Joh. Humphrey; but another, 
(g) The author of A Letter to a friend, as before.  (a great loyalist) several times before quoted, saith that this our author Dr. Owen was the Prince, the Oracle, the Metropolitan of Independency, the Achitophel of Oliver Cromwell— Or which is more than all a servant of Jesus Christ in the the work of the Gospel, and that as in the same sense as the innocent, meek and devout Christian is the servant of the Devil in the work and vassalage of sin. He also often styles him a blasphemer and perjured person, a libeler of authority after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, that he praised god for shedding the blood of Christian Kings and their loyal subjects, that he was guilty of reiterated perjuries against that God whom he confidently affirmed to be inspirer of all his prayers; and therefore (as he further adds) he ought in conscience, before he departs this life, to give satisfaction to the English Church and Nation, for those mischiefs which his Counsels, Preachings, Prayers and writings drew not only upon the Royal Family and Church, but upon the lives, liberties and fortunes of so many loyal Gentlemen, who were either murdered in cold blood and imprisoned and banished, etc. Another highflown 
(h) Sam. Parker in his Defence and Continuance of Ecclesiast. Policy, &c p. 610.  loyalist tells us of Dr. Owen that there is scarce a Principle of Blasphemy or Rebellion in the Alcoran that that wretch hath not vouched upon divine authority. He is a person of such a rank complexion that he would have vied with Mahomet himself both for boldness and imposture, etc. Much more of such black language the said author here quoted hath in his (1) preface Bishop bramhall's treatise, which he published, but shall be now omitted. Here you see the Characters given by persons of several persuasions according as their affections led them, but what I myself knew of him, which may, I hope, be mentioned without offence, envy or flattery is, (let rash and giddy heads say what they please) that he was a person well skilled in the Tongues, Rabinical learning, Jewish rites and customs; that he had a great command of his English Pen, and was one of the most gentile and fairest writers, who have appeared against the Church of England, as handling his Adversaries with far more civil, decent and temperate language than many of his fiery Brethren, and by confining himself wholly to the cause without the unbecoming mixture of personal slanders and reflection. Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet saith that this our author Owen treated him with civility and decent Language, for which he thanked him; and Mr. Hen. Dodwell, that he is of a better temper than most of his Brethren, as abstaining from personal slanders in confining himself wholly to the cause. His personage was proper and comely, and he had a very graceful behaviour in the Pulpit, an 
(i) Printed at Lond. 1673. oct. sec▪ ed●t.  eloquent Elocution, a winning and insinuating deportment, and could by the persuasion of his oratory, in conjunction with some other outward advantages, move and wind the affections of his admiring Auditory almost as he pleased. The things that he hath written are these.  
A display of Arminianise, being a discovery of the old Pelagian idol, Freewill, with the new Goddess contingency, etc. Lond. 1643. 49. qu.  
The duty of pastors and people distinguished: or, a brief discourse touching the administration of things commanded in religion, etc. Lond. 1644. qu.  
The Principles of the doctrine of Christ: unfolded in two short Catechisms, wherein those Principles of Religion are explained, the knowledge whereof is required by the late Ordinance of Parl, before any person is admitted to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1645. oct. Written for the use of the Congregation at Fordham in Essex, the author being then Pastor there.  
Several Sermons as (1) A vision of unchangeable free mercy, etc. Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 29. Apr. 1646, on Acts 16.11. Lond. 1646, qu. To which is added A short defence about Church Government. (2) Fast Sermon before H. of Commons, 31. Jan. 1648, on Jerem. 15.19.20. Lond. 1649. qu▪ To which is added A discourse about toleration, and the duty of the Civil Magistrate about Religion. In the epist. dedicatory before the said Sermon, he doth insolently father the most hellish action of the preceding day (the decollation of K. Ch. 1.) on the great dispensation of Providence, in order to the unravelling of the whole web of iniquity, interwoven of Civil and Ecclesiastical tyranny, in opposition to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus. But therein, and in the Sermon, being several positions destructive to the sacred persons of Princes, their state and government, etc. they were condemned by the University of Oxon, as pernicious and damnable, in their Convocation held 21. Jul. 1683, and thereupon burnt by the hand of their Marshal in the School quadrangle before the Members of the said University, then, and there, present. (3) The shaking and translating of heaven and earth, Serm. before the H. of Com. 19 Apr. 1649, a day of extraordinary humiliation, on Heb. 12.27. Lond. 1649. qu, the author being then Minister of Coggeshall in Essex. (4) The Steadfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering, preached at S. Marg. in Westm. before the Parliam. 28. Feb. 1649. being a day of solemn humiliation, on Rom. 4.20. Lond. 1650. qu. (5) The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Zion, etc. Two Sermons, one at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh, on Isa. 56.7. Edinburgh 1650. qu. (6) The advantage (or advancement) of the Kingdom of Christ, etc. Sermon of Thanksgiving preached to the Parliam. 24. Oct. 1651. for the destruction of the Scots army at Worcester, etc. on Ezeck. 17.24. Oxon. 1651. and 54. qu. (7) The labouring Saints dismission to rest, etc. Serm. at the funeral of Henry Ireton Lord Deputy of Ireland, in the Abbey Church of Westm. 6. Feb. 1651. on Dan. 12.13. Lond. 1652. qu. (8) Concerning the Kingdom of Christ and the power of the Civil Magistrate about things of the worship of God, preached before the Parliament, 13. Oct. 1652, being a day of solemn humiliation, on Dan. 7.15.16. Oxon. 1652. qu. (9) Gods work in founding Zion, preached before the Protector and Parl. 17. Sept. 1656. on Isa. 14.32. Oxon. 1656. qu. (10) God's presence with a people, the spring of their prosperity, with their special interest in abiding with him, preached to the Parl. of the Com. Wealth of Engl. etc. at Westm. 30. Oct. 1656. being a day of solemn humiliation, on 2. Chron▪ 15.2 Lond. 1656. qu. (11) The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel, opened in a Serm. at a private fast to the Commons assembled in Parliam. 4. Feb. 1658. on Isa. 4.5. Lond. 1659. qu. (12) How we may bring our hearts to receive reproofs, on Psal. 141.5. This is in the Supplement to the morning Exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu.  
Besides these Sermons he hath also others extant, that I have not yet seen; among which is (1.) A Thanksgiving Sermon, before the Parl. at S. Marg. in Westm. 25. Aug. 1653. (2) Sermon on 1. Joh. 1.3. printed 1658. qu. And thirdly another Sermon, as it seems, called Mene Tekell, which, as 'tis said, was published by him: wherein asserting that Birthright and proximity of blood give no title to Rule or Government, and that it is lawful to preclude the next Heir from the right of Succession to the Crown, it was therefore censured, and condemned to be burnt, by the whole body of Convocation of the Uniu. of Oxon. 21. July 1683. Dr. Owen hath also written,  
Escholl: A cluster of the fruit of Canaan, brought to the bordures, for the encouragement of the Saints, travelling thither wards, with their faces towards Zion. Or rules of direction for the walking of the Saints in Fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Lond. 1648. 55. 56. in oct. and tw.  
Eben-Ezer: Being an exposition on the first 10. verses of the third Chapter of Habukkuk, in two Sermons, one at Colchester, the other at Rumford, in memory of the deliverance of Essex County and Committee, 1648.  
Salus Electorum Sanguis Jesus. A Treatise of the redemption and reconciliation that is in the blood of Christ, with the merit thereof, and the satisfaction wrought thereby; wherein the whole controversy of universal redemption is fully discussed in four books. Lond. 1649. qu.  
Appendix upon occasion of a late book published by Mr. Joshua Sprigg, containing erroneous doctrine.— This is printed with Salus Elect.  
Premier for Children.— This little book which was written for the training up of children in Independency, I have not yet seen, and therefore I cannot tell you where or when 'twas printed.  
Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or the satisfaction and merit of the death of Christ cleared. and universality of redemption thereby oppugned, etc. Lond. 1650. qu.  
Diatriba de justitia divina, seu justitiae vindicatricis vindiciae, etc. Oxon. 1653. oct.  
The doctrine of the Saints perseverance explained and confirmed, etc. against Joh. goodwin's Redemption redeemed, etc. Lond. 1654. fol.  
Vindiciae Evangelicae: or the mystery of the Gospel vindicated, and Socinianism examined, in consideration of a Catechism called A Scripture Catechism, written by John. Biddle M. A, and the Catechism of Valentinus Smalcius, commonly called The Racovian Catechism. Oxon. 1655. qu.  
Vindication of the testimonies of the Scripture concerning the deity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ, etc. against Hugo Grotius— Printed with Vindiciae Evangelicae.  
Vindication of some things formerly written about the death of Christ and the fruits thereof from the animadversions of Mr. Rich. Baxter— Printed also with Vind. Evang.  
Of the mortification of sin in Beleivers, etc. resolving cases of conscience thereunto belonging. Lond. 1656. oct. etc.  
A review of the Annotations of Hugo Grotius, in reference to the doctrine of the deity and satisfaction of Christ, etc. with a defence of the charge formerly laid against them. Oxon. 1656. qu. Written in answer to Dr. H. Hammond.  
Catechism; or, an introduction to the worship of God, and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam.— Printed 1657. oct. etc. Animadverted upon by Geor Fox the Quaker in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 263.  
Of the true nature of Schism, with reference to the present differences in religion. Oxon. 1657. oct.  
Review of the true nature of Schism, with a vindication of the congregational Churches in England from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey Minister of Billing in Northamptonshire. Oxon. 1657 oct.  
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly; in love, grace and consolation: or the Saint's fellowship with the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, unfolded. Oxon. 1657. qu. In this book (as in some other of his works) he doth strangely affect in ambiguous and uncouth words, canting, mystical and unintelligible phrases to obscure sometimes the plainest and most obvious truths: And at other times he endeavours by such a mist and cloud of senseless terms to draw a kind of vail over the most erroneous doctrines. But against this book came out another, long after, written by Dr. Will. Sherlock, entit. A discourse concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ and our union and communion with him, etc. Lond. 1674, etc. Which book at its first coming out made a great noise and found many Adversaries, viz. besides Dr. Owen, who wrote a vindication as I shall tell you anon, was (1) Rob. Ferguson a noted Scotch Divine, who taught boys Grammar and University learning at Islington near London, in his book called The interest of reason in religion, etc. Printed in oct. (2) Edw. Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esq. in his Divine will considered, etc. as it seems. (3) Antisozzo, or Sherlocismus enervatus, etc. Pr. in oct. said to be written by Benj. Alsop a Nonconforming Minister, who since the death of their famous A. Marvel hath been Quibler and Punner in ordinary to the dissenting party, though he comes much short of that person. It was the first piece in which he bestowed his pretensions to wit and buffonery, and it was admired much by the Brethren. Besides these, Tho. Danson put in his answer entit. A friendly debate, etc. and one or two more viz. the author of Speculum Sherlockianum, supposed to have been written by Hen. Hickman, and Prodromus: or a character of Mr. sherlock's book called A discourse, etc. Lond. 1674. oct. Written by Sam. roll sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge. Afterwards Sherlock made a Reply to Owen's Vindication, and Fergusons' Interest of reason, etc. (not taking any particular notice of Polhill and Antisozzo) in a second piece called A defence and continuation of the discourse concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ and our union and communion with him, with a particular respect to the doctrine of the Church of England etc. Lond. 1675. oct. Dr. Owen hath also written,  
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self-contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey, written by himself not long before his death. Lond. 1658. oct, whereunto is prefixed by our author Owen.  
An answer to a late treatise of Mr. Cawdrey about the nature of Schism.  
Nature, power and danger of temptation. Oxon. 1658. octavo.  
Pro sacris scripturis adversus hujus temporis Fanaticos exercitationes Apologeticae quatuor. Oxon. 1658. oct.  
Of the divine original, authority, self evidencing light and power of the Scripture, etc. Oxon. 1659. oct.  
Vindication of the integrity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek text of the Scripture— Printed with The Divine Original, etc.  
Considerations on the Prologomena, and Appendix to the late Biblia Polyglotta— This, which is also printed with The Divine Original, etc. was written against Dr. Brian Walton.  
A paper containing resolutions of certain questions concerning the power of the supreme Magistrate about religion, and the worship of God; with one about Tithes. Lond. 1659. in one sh. in qu. Answered soon after by a Quaker in another sheet entit. A Winding-sheet for England's Ministry, which hath a name to live but is dead.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. sive de natura, ortu, progressu & study verae Theologiae, Libri 6. etc. Oxon. 1661. qu.  
Digressiones de Gratia universali scientiarum ortu, etc. Pr. with the former book.  
Animadversions on a Treatise entitled Fiat lux, etc. Lond. 1662. oct. Which book, Fiat lux: or a general conduct to a right understanding and charity in the great combustion and broils about religion in England, between Papists and Protestants, Presb. and Independents, printed the same year in oct, was written by a learned Franciscan Friar called John Vincent Cane, who dying in, or near, Somerset house in the Strand, within the liberty of Westm. in the month of June 1672, was buried in the Vault under the Chapel belonging to that House. About 1665 he, (Cane) published a little thing entit. Diaphanta, written by him, partly against Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet, in which he endeavours barely to excuse Catholic religion against the opposition of several Adversaries. It is briefly animadverted on by the said Mr. Stillingfleet in a Postscript to his reply to Mr. Joh. Sergeants Third Appendix; which reply is placed as an Appendix at the end of Mr. Joh. tillotson's book called The rule of faith. He also wrote An account of Dr. Stillingfleets late book against the Church of Rome. Together with a short postil upon his text. Print. 1672. in oct. The title of which in the first page of this book, is ΤΩ ΚΑΘΟΛΙΚΩ Stillingfleeton. He also wrote A Dialogue between a Knight and a Lady about Popery; and Letters under the name of Diaphanta in tw. Besides this Jo. Vinc. Cane, was one John Keynes a Jesuit, born, as I have heard his acquaintance say, at Compton Painsford in Somersetshire, author of Doctor Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet; which being answered, he came out with a reply entit. Dr. Stillingfleet still against Stillingfleet: or a reply to Dr. Stillingfleets answer to a book called Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet, etc.— But all this being spoken by the by, let's now go forward with Owen, who hath also written,  
Vindication of the animadversions on Fiat Lux. Lond. 1664. oct.  
A peace-offering; in an Apology and humble plea for indulgence and liberty of conscience. Lond. 1667. qu.  
Indulgence and toleration considered in a Letter to a person of honour— Printed with the Peace offering.  
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews: Also concerning the Messiah, etc. with an Exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said Epist. to the Hebrews. Lond. 1668. fol.  
Truth and innocence vindicated; in a survey of a discourse concerning Ecclesiastical Polity. Lond. 1669. oct. By the publishing of which book, written against Samuel Parker, he thought (as 'tis 
(*) In A Letter to a friend, as before, p. 34.  said) to have put a stop to the whole proceedings of Parliament, and to have involved the nation in confusion and blood.  
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity: As also of the person and satisfaction of Christ etc. Lond. 1669 in tw. etc. He the said Dr. Owen was also supposed to be the author of  
A sober answer to A friendly debate between a Conformist and Nonconformist; written by way of Letter to the author thereof. Lond. 1669. oct. Published under the name of Philagathus; but the true author, as it since appears, was Sam roll a Nonconformist, before mentioned.  
Practical exposition on the 130. Psalms, wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared and the truth and reality of it asserted, etc. Lond. 1669. 1680 qu.  
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use and continuance of a day of sacred rest, wherein the original of the Sabbath from the foundation of the World, the morality of the fourth commandment, etc. are inquired into, etc. Lond. 1671. oct.  
Discourse concerning evangelical Love, Church peace and unity, etc. written in vindication of the principles and practice of some Ministers and others. Lond. 1672. oct.  
Plea for Nonconformists, tending to justify them against the clamorous charge of Schism. Lond. 1674. oct, wherein are two printed sheets on the same subject, by John Humphrey.  
Discourse concerning the holy spirit; wherein an account is given of its name, nature, personality, dispensation, operations and effects, etc. Lond. 1674. fol. Answered by Will. Clagett of Cambridge in a book entit. A discourse concerning the operations of the holy spirit; with a confutation of some part of Dr. Owen's book on that subject. Lond. 1680. etc. oct. It consists of three parts, in the last of which the author proveth that the Ancients make not for Dr. Owen's turn, as Dr. Owen insinuats by adorning his margin with quotations out of the Fathers.  
Vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning Communion with God, from the exceptions of Will. Sherlock. Lond. 1674. oct. Soon after came out a book against this, entit. A discourse concerning the imputation of Christ's righteousness to us and our sins to him, with many questions thereunto pertaining, resolved: Together with reflections more at large upon what hath been published concerning that subject by Mr. Rob. Ferguson in his Interest of Religion, and Dr. Owen in his book styled Communion with God▪ Lond. 1675. oct. Written by Tho. Hotchkis Rector of Staunton near Highworth in Wilts, sometimes M. of A. of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge.  
Exercitations, and an exposition on the third, fourth and fifth Chapters of the Ep. of S. Paul the Ap. to the Hebrews Lond. 1674. fol. This is the second Vol. of the exercitations before mentioned. The first vol. is an exposition on the first and second Chapters, and the exposition on all five, is contracted by Matth. Pole (who styles it Lucubratio non vulgari doctrina conscripta) and put into the fifth vol. of Synopsis.  
The nature, power, deceit and prevalency of the remainder of indwelling sin in Believers; together with the ways of its working and means of prevention. Lond. 1675. oct. It was also printed in 1668. in oct.  
The nature of Apostasy from the profession of the Gospel, and the punishment of Apostates, in an exposition o● Hebrews chap. 6. ver. 4.5.6. Lond. 1676. oct.  
The reason of faith; or an answer unto the enquiry, whether we believe the Scripture to be the word of God; with the causes and nature of that faith wherewith we do so. Lond. 1677. oct.  
The doctrine of justification by faith through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, explained, confirmed and vindicated. Lond. 1677. qu. Briefly answered by the aforesaid Tho. Hotchkis in a Postscript at the end of the second part of his Discourse concerning imputed righteousness. Lond. 1678. oct.  
The causes, ways and means of understanding the mind of God as revealed in his word with assurance therein. And a declaration of the perspicuity of the Scriptures, with the external means of the interpretation of them. Lond. 1678. oct.  
The Church of Rome no safe guide: or reasons to prove that no rational man, who takes due care of his eternal salvation, can give himself up to the conduct of that Church in matters of religion. Lond. 1679. qu.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: or a declaration of the glorious mystery of the person of Christ, God and Man: with the infinite wisdom, love and power of God in the contrivance and constitution thereof. As also of the grounds and reasons of his incarnation, etc. Lond. 1680. qu.  
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews, viz. on the 6.7.8.9 and tenth chapters. Wherein, together with the explication of the text and context, the Priesthood of Christ as typed by those of Melchisedeck and Aaron with an account of their distinct Offices, etc. are declared, explained and confirmed. Lond. 1680. fol. This is the third vol. of exposition on Hebrews.  
A brief vindication of the Nonconformists from the charge of Schism, as it was managed against them in a Sermon preached before the L. Mayor; by Dr. Stillingfleet Dean of S. Paul's. Lond. 1680. qu. A character, first of this Answer, 2. of Mr. Baxters, which is in qu. 3. Of the Letter written 
(a) Printed at Lond. 1680. qu.  out of the Country to a person of quality in the City, 4. Of B. Alsops' book called Mischief 
(b) Lond. 1680. qu.  of imposition, 5. Of The Rector of Sutton committed with the Dean of Paul's, or a defence of Dr. Stilling fleets Irenicum, etc. against his late Sermon entit. The mischief of separation, against the author of The Christian temper (said to be written by John Barret M. of A.) in a 
(c) Ib. 1680. qu.  Letter to a friend; I say the respective characters of these five answers to Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon before mentioned, together with that of The peaceable design renewed, etc. wrote by John Humphrey (with which Dr. Stillingfleet begins first) are to be found in the preface to the said Doctor's Unreasonableness 
(d) Ib. 1681. qu. sec. edit.  of separation, etc. Which characters as are thus given, are reflected on by a short piece entit. Reflections on Dr. Stillingfleets book of the unreasonableness of separation. Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a Conformist Minister in the Country, in order to peace.  
The nature and efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ, as typed by all the sacrifices of the Law, the erection of the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern; with the institution of all its utensils and services; their especial signification and end, etc. Lond. 1681.  
An enquiry into the original, institution, power, order, and communion of Evangelical Churches, the first part. Lond. 1681. qu.  
Answer to a Discourse of the unreasonableness of separation, written by Dr. Stillingfleet— Printed with the Enquiry.  
Discourse of the work of the holy spirit in prayer, with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and forms. Lond. 1681. oct.  
An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful Churches and Nations: or, the only way to deliver a sinful Nation from utter ruin by impendent judgements: in a discourse on Luke 13.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Lond. 1681. oct. Printed with the Discourse of the work, etc.  
The grace and duty of being spiritually minded; declared and practically improved. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain of Sermons.  
A brief instruction in the Worship of God, and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam. by way of question and answer, with an explication and confirmation of those answers. Lond. 1682. oct. etc.  
Meditations and discourses on the Glory of Christ, in his person, office and grace, with the difference between faith and sight, applied to the use of them that believe. Lond. 1683. 84. etc. oct. Opus Posth.  
Treatise of the dominion of sin and grace; wherein sins reign is discovered, in whom it is, and in whom it is not; how the law supports it, how grace delivers from it, by setting up its dominion in the heart. Lond. 1688. oct.  
The true nature of a Gospel Church and its government; wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled. 1. The subject matter of the Church. 2. The formal cause of a particular Church. 3. Of the policy of the Church in general, etc. Lond. 1689. qu. Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book, but by whom written, I cannot tell.  
A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion, its present state in the World, its strength and weakness, with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its public national profession. Lond. 1690. qu.  
Continuation, or the second part of that book formerly printed, the difference between faith and sight, being the meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ, applied unto converted sinners, and Saints under spiritual decays, in two chapters from John 17.24. Lond. 1691. oct. Our author Dr. Owen, with Dr. Tho. Jacomb, Dr. Will. Bates, Dr. Jo. Collings, Mr. Pet. Vinke, Joh. How, Dau. Clarkson and Ben. Alsop did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture, in 2. vol. in fol. which were begun by Matthew Pole or Poole, and carried on by him to the 58 chapt. of Isaiah, and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work; who also hath written prefaces and epistles before divers books, by way of recommendation, among which are his and Dr. Tho. goodwin's epist. before Dr. T. Tailor's works: A preface also to the Exposition of the song of Solomon, written by Jam. Durham sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Glascow— Printed 1669. in qu. An Epist. commend. (with another by Mr. Baxter) to The Christians daily walk in holy security and peace, written by Hen. Scudder— Printed 1674. the eleventh edit. An ep. by way of recom. to A new and useful concordance of the Holy Bible, etc. Another before The Ark of the Covenant, and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenisme, as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale, etc. But as for Jo. Bradshawes Ultimum vale, being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him; as they were delivered in a Sermon preached at his interment, printed in two sh. in qu. and said to be written by John Owen D. D. timeserver general of England, is not his, but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great City. At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause, to promote his own interest and gain the applause of people, he did very unwillingly lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Middlesex on S. Barthelmews' day in sixteen hundred eighty and three, having a little before been knowing of, 
1683.  and consenting to, the Presbyterian Plot that was discovered some time before his death: Whereupon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James', where resting for sometime, was, on the 4. of Sept. following, attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed, to the Fanatical buryingplace, called by some Tyndales Buryingplace, joining on the North side to the New Artillery-garden, near London; where it was buried at the East end thereof. Soon after was an Altar-tomb of freestone erected over his grave, covered with a black marble plank, with a large inscription thereon, part of which runs thus. Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxoniensi oriundus, patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior, & seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus: Communibus humanarum literarum suppetiis, ménsura parum communi instructus; omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie suae jussis familiari Theologiae, etc.— Obiit Augusti 24. anno à partu virginio 1683 Aetat. 67. Besides this John Owen, I find another of both those names, Chaplain to Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen, author of Immoderate mourning for the dead proved unreasonable and unchristian, etc. Sermon on 2. Sam. 12.21.22.23. Lond. 1680 in oct, and perhaps of other things.  
WILLIAM GUISE, or Guisius as in his book following he is written, Son of John Guise, was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Gloucester in Glocestershire, became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an. 1669 aged 16 years, afterwards Fellow of that of Alls, Master of Arts and in holy Orders. In 1680 he resigned his Fellowship, being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning, but soon after cut off by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts. After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turned into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary, entit.  
Misnae pars: ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem. Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latin by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam. Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michael's Parish in Oxford, 
1683.  on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michael's Church within the said City. Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances, Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq. with an inscription thereon, beginning thus. MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti, è Coll. Oriel. in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti, Linguar. (praecipue Orientalium) peritissimi, Critici, Rhetoris, Mathemat. Theologi, in omnibus adeò eximii, ut raro quisquam in singulis; in juventute, ut raro quisquam in senio: quem, ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret, etc.  
HENRY BOLD fourth Son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the Parish of Buriton in Hampshire, sometimes Capt. of a Foot company, descended from the ancient and gentile family of the Bolds of Bold-hall in Lancashire, was born in Hampshire, elected Probationer-fellow of New Coll. from Winchester School, 1645 or thereabouts, ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, and afterwards going to the great City, became a member of the Examiner's office in Chancery and excellent at translating the most difficult and crabbed english into latin verse. He hath written,  
Poems Lyrique, Macaronique, Heroic, etc. Lond. 1664. oct. Ded. to Col. Hen. Wallop of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton; and to The ingenious he saith thus— If thou wilt read so; if not so: it is so, so, and so farewell— Thine upon liking H. B. Among these Poems is Scarronides; or Virgil travesty, etc. He hath also written,  
Latin Songs with their English: and Poems. Lond. 1685. oct. Collected and perfected by Capt. Will. Bold his Brother. This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincoln's inn on the 23. of Oct. (being the first day of the Term) in sixteen hundred eighty and three, aged 56 or thereabouts, 
1683.  and was buried in the Church at Twyford (West Twyford) near Acton in the County of Middlesex. I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an. 1657.  
WILLIAM SCROGGS son of Will. Scroggs, was born in a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Dedington, became a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 aged 16 years, but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke, where being put under the tuition of a noted Tutor, became Master of a good Latin stile and a considerable Disputant. Soon after, though the Civil War broke forth, and the University emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its Scholars, yet he continued there, bore arms for his Majesty, and had so much time allowed him, that he proceed Master of Arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a Divine, his Father procured for him the reversion of a good Parsonage; but so it was that he being engaged in that honourable, though unfortunate, expedition of Kent, Essex and Colchester, an. 1648, wherein, as I have been credibly informed, he was a Captain of a Foot Company, he was thereby disengaged from enjoying it. So that entering himself into Greys' inn, studied the municipal Law, went through the usual Degrees belonging to it, was made Sergeant at Law 25. June 1669 and Knighted; and the same year, on the 2 of Nou. he was sworn his Majesty's Sergeant. In 1678 May 31. he was made L. Chief Justice of the King's Bench, upon the resignation of Sir Richard Rainsford; but not long after his advancement, the Popish conspiracy was discovered: So that his place obliging him to have the chiefest hand in bringing some of the principal conspirators concerned therein to public justice, he, in several trials of them, behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit, giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the Protestant cause, that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole Nation, being generally esteemed as a main Patriot and support of his Country, whose all, seemed then (especially to the fanatical party) to lay at stake, and to be threatened with apparently impendent ruin. But at length the implacable and giddy headed rabble being possessed with an opinion, that he had not dealt uprightly in the trials of some of the conspirators, (he mitigating his zeal when he saw the Popish Plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others) which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him, (read in the H. of Commons and engrossed, and on the 17 of Jan. 1680 sent up to the H. of Lords) he was removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681 merely to stop their mouths and so obtain quietness. Whereupon Sir Francis Pemberton Kt. was sworn to the said office on the next day, as it seems, and the day following that he paid his duty to his Majesty. Soon after Sir William retired to his Estate at Weald hall near Burntwood in Essex, where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose. He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts, a good Orator and a fluent Speaker, but his utterance being accompanied with some stops and hesitancy, his Speeches effected more in the reading, than they did when heard with the disadvantage of his delivery. Under his name were printed,  
Several Speeches, as (1) Speech before the L. Chancellor, when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the King's Bench— Printed in half a sh. in fol. (2) Sp. in the King's Bench in Westm. hall on the first day of Mich. term, 1679. Lond. 1679 in 3 sheets in fol. Answered by an idle fellow, and remarks made on it, in one sh. in fol. entit. A New years gift for Justice Scroggs, etc. He hath other Speeches extant, as I shall tell you by and by.  
Notes on the writing found in the pocket of Laur. Hill, when he and R. Green were executed, 21. Feb. 1678. Pr. in one sh. in fol.  
Answer to the Articles against him, given in by Titus' Oats and Will. Bedlow, in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680 in two sh. and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses, arguings, and speeches printed in divers Trials and Condemnations while he was Lord Chief Justice as in (1) The Trial of William Staley Goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against his Majesty, etc. 21. Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. (2) Trial of Edw. Coleman Gent. for conspiring the death of the King, subversion of the government, etc. 28. Nou. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was, as I have heard, a Minister's Son, had been bred in Cambridge and was some years before reconciled to the Ch. of Rome by a R. Priest. (3) Tr. of Will. Ireland, Thomas Pickering and Jo. Grove for conspiring to murder the King, etc. 17. Dec. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. (4) Tr. of Rob. Green, Hen. Berry and Laur. Hill for the murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey Kt. etc. 10. Feb. 1678. Lond. 1679. fol. (5) Try. and condemnation of Tho. White alias Whitebread, Provincial of the Jesuits in England, Will. Harcourt, pretended Rector of London, John Fenwick, Procurator of the Jesuits in Engl. John Gavan alias Gawen, and Ant. Turner, all Jesuits; for High Treason in conspiring the death of the K. the subversion of government, etc. 13. and 14. of June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. (6) Try. of Rich. Langhorne Esq. Counsellor at Law, for conspiring the death of the King, etc. 14. June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. (7) Tr. of Sir George Wakeman Bt. Will. Martial, Will. Rumley and Jam. Corker, Benedictine Monks, for High Treason, in conspiring the death of the King, etc. 18. Jul. 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. But the generality of people supposing that Scroggs had dealt very unjustly with Wakeman, in letting him go free, and not condemning him to be hanged, came out Observations on the trials of the said persons, by one that called himself Tom Tickle foot the Tabourer, late Clerk to Justice Clodpate— Lond. in 3 sh. in fol. In which pamphlet the author intimates as if Scroggs was a Butchers Son. Soon after this, came out two other Pamphlets to the same purpose, one entit. The Tickler tickled, in 2. sh. and an half in fol. and the other A dialogue between Clodpate and Ticklefoot, in 3 sh. in fol. both reflecting on Scroggs, as also a piece of poetry that was published at that time called Scroggs upon Scroggs, in tw. sh. and an half in fol. (8) Tr. conviction and condemnation of Ad. Brommich and Will. Atkins for being Romish Priests, at Stafford Assize, 13. Aug. 1679 and Of Charles Kerne another R. Priest, at Hereford Assize 4. of Aug. the same year. Lond. 1679. in 5. sh. in fol. (9) Tr. and condemnation of Lionel Anderson alias Munson, Will. Russel alias Napier, Charles Paris alias Parry, Hen. Starkey, Jam. Corker and Will. Martial for High Treason as Romish Priests, etc. together with the trial of Alex. Lumsden a Scotch man and the arraignment of David Joseph Kemish for the same offence, etc. 17 Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. (10) Tr. of Sir Tho. Gascoigne Bt. for High Treason in conspiring, etc. 11. Feb. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. Which Sir Thomas being found guiltless and set at liberty, he left the Nation and feeling for a time among the Engl. Benedictine Monks at Lambspring in Germany, was there seen and visited by Will. Carr an English Gent. sometimes Consul for the English Nation in Amsterdam, in his rambles in those parts; of whom he makes 
(†) In his Remarks of the government of several parts of Germany, Denmark, Sweedland, etc. Printed at Amsterd. 1688. in tw. p. 143.  this mention— From the Prince's Court (meaning of Hessen) I directed my journey to Hanover, taking Lambspring in my way, a place where there is a Convent of English Monks; and there I met with a very aged worthy and harmless Gent. Sir Tho. Gascoigne, a person of more integrity and piety than to be guilty, so much as in thought, of what Miscreants falsely swore against him in the licentious time of plotting, etc. (11) Tr. of Roger Earl of Castlemaine for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King, etc. 23. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1681. fol. The reader is to note that this trial was not published immediately after it was done, as all others were, but in Janu. following, which was more than half an year after the said Trial had been passed: And 'tis thought that it would never have been printed, had it not been to bring an odium upon Scroggs (to the end that he might be turned out of his office, for his partiality, as 'twas by many thought, in the said Trial) for his too much baiting of Titus Oats, endeavouring (as they farther added) to lessen his evidence. (12) Tr. of Hen. Care Gent. upon information brought against him, etc. charging him to be the author of a scandalous, false, and malicious book entit. The weekly packet of advice from Rome; or the History of Popery, particularly of that of the first of Aug. 1680, wherein Scroggs is scandalised as to the Trial of Sir Geor Wakeman, etc. 2. Jul. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. (13) Tr. of Elizah. Cellier, etc. 11. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. in 4 sh. In all which Trials our author Scroggs being chief Judge and Speaker, they were by his authority printed. At length he giving up the ghost at Weald-hall before mentioned on Thursday the 25 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683.  was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto (Southweald): The late Industrious Garter Sir W. D. informed me by his Letters dat. 28. Jun. 1684 that the said Sir Will. Scroggs was the son of an one eyed Butcher near Smithfield Bars, and his Mother was a big fat Woman with a red face, like an Alewife, that he was a very ill humoured man, and as I have heard he would never pay his tithes— His boldness got him practice by the Law, and some wealth, wherewith he purchased a Lordship called Weald, etc. But the Reader must know that the said person (Sir W. D.) never speaking well of him after he had refused to pay the Fees of his Knighthood, to the Coll. of Arms of which he was to have had a considerable share, he is therefore desired to suspend his belief of the said character given of him the said Sir W. Scroggs till farther proof may be made to the contrary.  
JOHN OLDHAM son of Joh. Oldham a Nonconformist Minister, and he the son of Joh. Oldham sometimes Rector of Nun-eaton near Tetbury in Glocestersh. was born at Shipton (of which his Father was then Minister) near the said Town of Tetbury and in the same County, on the ninth day of Aug. 1653, bred in Grammar learning under his Father till he was nigh fit for the University, afterwards sent to the School at Tetbury, where he spent about two years under the tuition of Henry Heaven, occasioned by the desire of one yet an Alderman of Bristol, who had a Son then there under the said Master, whom Oldham accompanied purposely to advance him in his learning. This occasioned his longer stay at School, than else he needed, but conduced much to his after advantage. In the beginning of June 1670 he became a Batler of S. Edmund's Hall under the tuition of Will. Stephens Bach. of Div, where he was observed to be a good Latinist, and chiefly to addict himself to Poetry, and other studies tending that way, to which the bent of his Genius led him more naturally than to any other. Four years after he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, but went away and did not complete it by Determination. So that living for some time after with his Father, much against his humour and inclinations, got to be Usher of Croyden Free-school in Surrey, where he continued for about three years: In which time he became acquainted with John Earl of Rochester, who seemed much delighted in the mad, ranting and debauched specimen of Poetry of this author Oldham. Afterwards he was Tutor to the Grandsons of Sir Edw. Thurland (a late Judge) living in Surrey, with whom he continued till 1681, and then being out of all business and employ, he retired to the great City, set up for a Wit, and soon after became Tutor to a Son of Sir Will. Hicks near London: where, at his leisure hours, by the advice and encouragement of Dr. Rich. Lower, he applied himself to the study of Physic. At length being made known to that most generous and truly noble William Earl of Kingston, he was taken into his patronage, lived with him in great respect at Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire, where he made his last exit, as I shall tell you anon. This noted Poet hath written,  
Satyrs upon the Jesuits, (in number four) with a prologue written in the year 1679 upon occasion of the plot, (Popish Plot) together with the satire against virtue, and some other pieces by the same hand. Lond. 1681. 82. oct. The first satire is called Garnets' Ghost, etc. which was printed against the author's consent— Lond. 1679 in one sh. in fol. The satire against virtue was committed to the privacy of two or three friends, from whose hands it stole out in print, against the author's knowledge— Lond. 1679. qu.  
Some new pieces never before published, viz. (1) Horace his art of poetry imitated in English. (2) Paraphrase upon Horace: Book 1. Ode 31. and Book 2. Ode 14. (3) The praise of Homer, an Ode. (4) Two pastorals out of Greek, Bion. One in imitation of the Greek of Moschius, bewailing the death of the Earl of Rochester, the other in lamentation of Adonis, imitated out of the Greek of Byon of Smyrna, (5) Paraphrase upon the 137 Psalm. (6) Paraph. on the Hymn of S. Ambrose, ode. (7) A letter from the Country to a friend in Town, giving an account of the author's inclinations to Poetry, in vers. (8) Upon a Printer that exposed him by printing a piece of his, grossly mangled and faulty.— All these were printed in, one Vol. in oct. at Lond. 1681. He wrote also a satire in Pindaric verse supposed to be spoken by a Court-Hector: inserted in the Poems of John Earl of Rochester, printed 1680. p. 115: Which is the same with his satire against Virtue before mentioned.  
Poems and Translations. Lond. 1683. oct.  
Remains, in verse and prose. Lond. 1684. oct. Which Remains consist of (1) Counterpart to the satire against Virtue, in person of the author. (2) Virg. Eclogue 8, the enchantment. (3) Verses to Madam L. E. upon her recovery from a late sickness. (4) El. on the death of Mrs. Catherine Kingscourt a child of excellent parts and piety. (5) A Sunday thought in sickness. (6) To the memory of his dear friend Mr. Charles Morwent: a large Pindaric. (7) To the memory of the worthy Gent. Mr. Harman Atwood: Pindaric. (8) Character of a certain ugly old Parson. This last is the worst and most offensive of all the rest. These Remains are ushered into the world by the commendatory Poems of Joh. Dryden Esq. Thom. Flatman, Naham Tate, Tho. Durfey, Tho. Andrews, and Tho. Wood of New Coll. There is also an Anonym. with an Eclogue, and another with an Epitaph on the Author. As for Charles Morwent, on whom the large Pindaric before mentioned was made, which makes about the third part of the Remains, was born at Tetbury in Glocestershire, his father being an Attorney there, bred up in Grammar learning under Mr. Th. Byrton M. A. of Linc. Coll, at Wotton under Edge in the said County, became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in 1670, and Bach. of Arts four years after. Soon after he retired to Gloucester, fell sick of the Small Pox, died of it, and was interred in the Cathedral there, where there is a monument over his grave. He was a handsome, gentile and good natured man, and very well beloved in the said Hall. Our Author Oldham made also a little Poem, to which Music was set by a Doctor of that faculty, bearing this title, A second Musical Entertainment on Cecilia's day, 22 Nou. 1684. The words by the late ingenious Mr. Joh. Oldham etc. set to Music in two, three, four, and five parts. Lond. 1685. qu. By Dr. Joh. Blow Master of the Children, and Organist to his Majesty's Chapel Royal. To conclude: this most celebrated Poet died in the house of his munificent Patron at Holme Pierpont before mentioned in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683.  and was buried in the Church there. Soon after was a monument put over his grave, with this inscription thereon. M. S. Jo. Oldhami Poetae, quo nemo sacro furore plenior, nemo rebus sublimior, aut verbis felicius audax; cujus famam omni aevo propria satis consecrabunt carmina. Quem inter primos Honoratissimi Gulielmi Comitis de Kingston Patroni sui amplexus Variolis correptum, heu nimis immatura mors rapuit, & in caelestem transtulit chorum. Natus apud Shipton in agro Glocestrensi, in. Aula S. Edmunti Graduatus. Obiit die Decembris nono, An. Dom. 1683. Aetatis 30  
ROBERT CROSS son of Will. Cross of Dunster in Somerseishire, was born there, or at least in that County, became either Batler or Commoner of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term 1621., aged 16 years, where employing his Studies in Philosophy and Disputation, took the degree of Bach. of Arts. On the 14 of Dec. 1627. he was elected Fellow of the said Coll, so that taking the degree of Master the next year, he entered into holy Orders, became a great Tutor and Aristotelian, and much noted in the University for a learned man. In 1637 he was admitted ●o the reading of the Sentences, and being pruitanically inclined, sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars. In 1643 he was nominated one of the Ass. of Divines, took the Covenant, and sometimes sat among them, and in 1648 submitting to the Parliamentarian Visitors, he was named and appointed by the Committee for the reformation of the University to succeed Dr. Sanderson in the King's Professorship of Divinity of this University; but he refusing to accept it, had soon after the rich Vicarage of Great Chew near Pensford in Somersetshire conferred on him. So that resigning his Fellowship in 1653, he settled at Chew, and in the next year he was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliament for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters (as they were then called by the Faction) in Somersetshire. In 1660 at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he conformed, and because there was no body to claim his Living, he continued there to the time of his death. While he remained in the University he was accounted a noted Philosopher and Divine, an able Preacher, and well versed in the Fathers and Schoolmen; but when he lived in the Country, he had (if you'll believe his conceited Antagonist 
(a) Jos. Glanvill in his Plus ultra, etc. Lond. 1668. oct. pag. 2.  Glanvill) a reputation for learning among his neighbours, and was accounted a Philosopher in the peripatetic way,— and by employing his younger years in the Philosophy of Disputation, had gained 
(b) Ibid. p. 118.  to himself the reputation of a great Scholar, and a Disputant among his country Admirers, etc. But these, and other his foolish commendations of him that follow, as that he is a 
(c) Ibid.  person that understands the Quiddities and Haeccieties the Praecissiones formales and the Objectivae, the Homogeneities and Hetrogeneities, the Categorematice's and the Syncatagorematice's, the Simpliciter's and the Secundum Quid's, etc. merely to undervalue his learning, because of his undervaluing him, (Glanvill) the Royal Society and experimental Philosophy, I shall now pass by as needless to insert, and tell you that he wrote,  
Exercitatio Theologica de insipientia rationis humanae gratiâ Christi destitutae, in rebus fidei, 1 Cor. 2.14. Oxon. 1655. qu. I desire the Reader now to know, that after Mr. Joseph Glanvill had settled himself in the City of Bath, and had written certain things against Aristotle, and the Academical way of Education, 'twas the desire of some neighbouring Scholars that our Author Cross a noted Philosopher after the ancient way should be brought acquainted with him. In the year therefore 1667 Glanvill was conducted to his house at Great Chew, where after the usual Civilities were passed, Cross did in a sufficient manner vindicate Aristotle; and knowing Glanvill to be one of the Royal Society, and an undervaluer of Academical learning as to Aristotle and his Philosophy, he did plentifully then declaim against the proceedings of that Society. Glanvill thereupon being surprised, he did not then much oppose him, but afterwards by letters and common discourses he did to the purpose, especially against this Hypothesis of Cross that Aristotle had more advantages for knowledge than the Royal Society, or all the present age had, or could have, and for this strong reason, because he did totam peragere asinam, etc. Whereupon fell out a great difference between them; and Mr. Hen. Stubbe then a Summer-practitioner of Physic at Bath, bearing no good will to the conceited proceedings of Glanvill, took Crosse's part and encouraged him to write against the Virtuoso. Soon after our author Cross provided a book, which Glanvill 
(d) In his Prefatory answer, p. 2.  called a Fardel, though Stubbe not, but a good and seasonable book, yet rejected by the Licensers (as Glanvill adds) both at Oxford and London for its incomparable railing and impertinence. However Glanvill obtaining the contents of it, sent it in a private Letter to Dr. Nath. Ingelo Fellow of Eton Coll. near Windsor, who sending it also to a friend in London, he caused it to be printed, and entitled The Chew Gazet, and dispersed the copies (an 100 only, for no more were printed) into private hands, to the end (as Glanvill 
(e) Ibid. p. 187.188.  says) that his shame might not be made public, etc. that a specimen also of the learning he shows in school scraps and little ends of verse, and children's phrases (which are all his reading) might be discovered. After the Letter was abroad, Cross wrote Ballads against him, and made him and his Society ridiculous; while other Wags at Oxon, who seemed to be pleased with these Controversies, made a doggerel Ballad on them and their proceedings; the beginning of which is, 
Two Gospel Knights  
Both learned wights  
And Somersets renown a,  
The one in Village of the Shire  
But Vicarage too great I fear,  
The other lives in town a, etc.  Mr. Glanvill tells 
(f) Ib. pag. 211.  us also, that our Author Cross hath written a book called Biographia, which gives rules, how Lives are to be written, etc. to correct Dr. Fell for his way of writing the life of Dr. Hammond, because he denied a Licence to print his book. At length Mr. Cross having lived to a fair age, departed this mortal life about 4 of the clock in the morn. of the 12 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683.  and was buried in his Church of Chew magna before mentioned, leaving then behind him the character among grave and sobber persons of an able Theologist and Philosopher.  
GEORGE RITSCHEL, the eldest son of George Ritschel a Bohemian, by Gertrude his wife, was born at Deutschkana in the borders of Bohemia, on the 13 of Febr. still, nov. an. 1616, sent by his Relations when 17 years of age to the University of Straesburg, where he continued about 7 years. At length his father dying, and Ferdinando 2. driving the Protestants out of his Dominions, he, rather than he would conform to the Ch. of Rome, agreed with his younger brother, that he should have the Estate to which he was heir, conditionally that he would furnish him with money to travel into foreign parts. Which being agreed to, our Author G. Ritschel went into England, and settling for a time in Oxford, was there, on the 3 of Decemb. 1641, entered into the publs. or Bodleian library under this form Georgius Ritschel Deutchkanan, Bosellus; but the Rebellion breaking openly out in the year following, he went to the Hague, Leyden, and Amsterdam. In 1643 he traveled into Denmark, where he spent above an year at Copenhagen and Sora, and in 1644 he visited Poland, and from Dantzick he went into England, where continuing for some time in London, journied thence to Oxon, took up his quarters in Kettle Hall, (a member of Trin. Coll.) became a severe and constant Student in the Bodleian library, and wrote and published a book during his stay in the University, as I shall anon tell you; but whether he took a degree therein, it appears not. After he had left the University, he became chief Master of the Free-school at Newcastle upon Tyne; whence, after he had continued there several years, he was removed to the Vicarage of Hexham in Northumberland, where he continued Minister almost 28 years. He hath written,  
Contemplationes Metaphysicae ex natura rerum & rectae rationis lumine deductae, etc. Oxon. 1648. oct, dedicated to Sir Cheyney Culpeper, and Nich. Stonghton Esq. Before which is a Preface to show what Metaphysics are, and their use. This was reprinted at Frankfort in 1680, by the care of Magnus Hesenthalerus the late famous Professor of Wertemberg, with an Epist. ded. of the said Hesenthalerus to Wolfgangus principal Officer to the Duke of Wertemberg, with the title changed thus, Georgii Ritschel contemplationes Metaphysicae, quas rerum ex natura, rectaeque rationis lumine deductas, Oxoniae Anglorum 1648 olim publicatas ipsummet per Autorem auctas, revisas, emendatas: ab amica Magni Hesenthaleri manu impetratas exquisitio plurium Literatorum voto, etc. He hath also written another book intit.  
Dissertatio de ceremoniis Ecclesiae Anglicanae, quâ usus earum licitus ostenditur, & à superstitionis & idolatriae crimine vindicatur. Lond. 1661. oct. This book, which got him great credit with his Diocesan Dr. Jo. Cousin, is commended by Dr. durel in his S. Eccles. Anglicanae Vindiciae. Afterwards at the request of the said Hesenthalerus, our author Ritschel sent to Wertemberg his Ethica Christiana, in 2 vol. qu. with another Latin quarto called Exercitationes sacrae, which Hesenthalerus desired, and promised to take care of the printing them, and engaged his son to take the like care, if he should die before they were began: Whether they were printed is not yet certain. He also at his death left with his son two MSS. ready for the press, one De fide catholica, and the other against the English Quakers, both in qu. and in Latin. This learned author who for a time had been Tutor in his travels to the sons of the Prince of Transylvania, died on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hexham before mentioned, 
1683.  sometimes a Cathedral dedicated to St. Andrew; in the Vicarage of which his son named George Ritschel lately of S. Edm. Hall succeeded him. Soon after was a monument put over his grave, with this inscription thereon: Sub hoc marmore sacrae reconduntur reliquiae Georgii Ritschel Patria Bohemi, religione reformati, qui saeviente in Protestants Ferdinando secundo omnibus gentilitiis haereditatibus exutus, sed Argentorati, Lugduni Batavorum, aliarumque Academiarum exterarum spoliis onustus, quicquid eruditionis in istis florentissimis Musarum Emporiis viguit, secum detulit Oxonium, an. Dom. 1644, qua celeberrima Academia consummatis studiis aliorum commodo studere coepit; & contemplationibus Metaphysicis, vindiciisque ceremoniarum Eccles. Anglicanae, aliisque scriptis eruditissimis editis toto orbe statim inclaruit. Tanta fame auctus Ecclesiam Augustaldensem ad quam electus erat, & cui praefuit annos plus minus 27 magis Augustam & tantum non cathedralem, qualis olim fuerit, reliquit, etc. You may read more of the Encomiums of this worthy person in the sermon preached at his funeral by one Major Algood Rector of Simonbourne in Northumberland, and in an Elegy on his death at the end of it.— Printed at Lond. 1684. quart.  
FRANCIS BAMPFIELD third son of John Bampf. 
(a) Reg. Matric. Un. Ox. PP. fol. 257. b.  of Portimon in Devons. Esq. was born in that County, became a Commoner of Wadham Coll. in 1631, aged 16 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1638, and afterwards holy Orders from a Bishop. But being pruitanically inclined, he sided with the rebellious party in 1642, took the Covenant, preached up the Cause in several places, and was all things to all men except those of the royal party. At length, on the death of William Lyford, he became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire, having before taken the Engagement, an. 1653, where he continued, carrying on the trade among the factious people, not without great disturbance from Quakering Witches, as he pretended, till the Act of Uniformity cast him out, an. 1662. Afterwards he lived in the said Town for some time, kept Conventicles, was imprisoned 
(b) See The fourth Plea of Conformists for Nonconformists, p. 44.45.  for so doing several times, and forced to remove his quarters. At length retiring to London, the common refuge of such people, he preached in Conventicles there, was several times committed upon that account, and continued a Prisoner for about the ten last years of his life, at several times. He was always a person so strangely fickle and unsteady in his judgement, that he was first a Church man, than a Presbyterian, afterwards an Independent, or at least a fider with them, an Anabaptist, and at length, almost a complete Jew, and what not. He was also so enthusiastical and canting, that he did almost craze and distract many of his disciples by his amazing and frightful discourses. He hath written,  
His judgement for the observation of the Jewish, or seventh day Sabbath; with his Reasons and Scriptures for the same. Sent in a Letter to Mr. Will. Ben of Dorchester, etc. Lond. 1672 and 1677. oct. See more in William. Ben under the year 1680, p. 507. who by one 
(c) Fred. Lossius Medic. Dorchest. in Observat. Medicinal. Lond. 1672. oct. lib. 1. Observ. 5. p. 9  of his persuasion is commended for a pious man, for his holiness of life and for his dexterous preaching.  
All in one. All useful Sciences and profitable Arts in one book of Jehovah Aelokim, copied out, and commented upon in created Being's, comprehended and discovered in the fullness and perfection of Scripture-knowledges. The first part— Printed 1677 in 45 sh. in fol. The design of which fantastical and unintelligible book is for the advancement and augment of useful Arts, and of profitable Sciences in a scripture way, and that all Philosophy be taught out of the Scripture, and not from Heathen Authors. The Author shows himself dissatisfied with his Academical education, and is clearly against that way; and would, if he could, have his own Idea take place: and vainly endeavours to represent the many pretended inconveniencies of those methods which have been so long established in our Universities, saying 
(d) In All in one, etc. p. 3.  that Enthusiastic Phantasms, humane Magistralities, self-weaved Ratiocinations, forced Extractions, indulged Sensuations, and unsettling Scepticismes have laid, some of the most, claim to the highest advance of humane learning, that hath been hitherto made. 'Tis full of bombast great swelling and forced language, and oftentimes unintelligible.  
The house of wisdom. The house of the sons of the Prophets. An house of exquisite enquiry, and of deep research: where the mind of Jehovah Aeloim in the holy Scripture of truth, in the original words and phrases, and their proper significancy, is diligently studied, faithfully compared and aptly put together for the farther promoting and higher advancing of Scripture knowledge, of all useful Arts, and profitable Sciences, in the one book of books, the word of Christ, copied out and commented upon in created Being's. Lond. 1681. in 7 sh. in fol. In which fantastical book, the Author would have the Hebrew Tongue and Language to be the universal character over all the inhabited earth, to be taught in all Schools, and Children to be taught it as their mother language. He proposes a way for the erection of Academies to have it taught, and all Philosophy to proceed from Scripture, to have all books translated into that language, and I know not what. What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only (1) That he having been convicted, and committed for preaching at Pinmakers-Hall in London, was brought on the 24▪ of Feb. 1682 to the Sessions held at the Old Bailie, where being tendered the Oaths, he said that the King of Kings forbade him to take them, and thereupon was recommitted to Newgate Prison. (2) That he was brought thither again about the 18 of Apr. 1683, and refusing them, was sent to Newgate, from whence he came. (3) That he and one Griffith, Reynolds, and Warner, who had laid a long time in Newgate for refusing the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, were on the 18 of Jan. 1683 indicted for the same, and found guilty at the Old Bailie, and lastly that our Author Bampfield dying in the said Prison of Newgate, on Saturday the sixteenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683/4.  his body was two or three days after followed with a very great company of factious and schismatical people to his grave, in the new burying place bought by the Anabaptists in Glass-house Yard joining to Aldersgate street in London.  
THOMAS GAWEN son of a Minister of the City of Bristol of both his names, was born in a market Town in Glocestershire called Marifield, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, made perpetual Fellow of New Coll, an. 1632, aged 22 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, traveled, was at Rome, and accidently sometimes fell into the company of John Milton the Antimonarchist. After his return, he became Chaplain to Dr. Curl Bishop of Winchester, who gave him a Prebendship in that Church, and the Rectory, as I conceive, of Exton in Hampshire, he being then much valued for his Learning, Greek and Latin Poetry. About the latter end of 1642, he having the year before left his Fellowship, he was appointed by the said Bishop to be Tutor to his son, than a Commoner of Magd. Coll, where being esteemed a person of admirable breeding, his company was much desired and courted by reason of his travels and discourse, which savoured at that time nothing of Popery, but rather an aversion from it; of which great notice was taken among those with whom he communed. Afterwards upon the delivery up of his charge, and a foresight of the ruin of the Ch. of England, he traveled again to Rome with the heir of the Dorcestrian Pier ponts, spent some time there and in other parts of Italy, and returning thro' France, met with an intimate friend of his (then lately of Magd. Coll.) at Paris, with whom having several conferences, that person found his discourse changed, and some tincture therein of the Romish dye. Whereupon he acquainting Dr. Steph. Goffe. of the person, he desired his company, but could not by any means persuade him to come within the verge of the Court of the Queen Mother of England then there, and the reason of it was, as they conceived, because he would keep his opinion undiscovered, to the end that he might afterwards gain some profit from the Ch. of England. After his Majesty's return, he was restored to what he had lost, became Rector of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire and of Fawley, but the last he never enjoyed, because not inducted thereunto. About that time he being discovered to be what he was, a Rom. Catholic, he willingly left all he had, and to prevent danger that might ensue from his clerical brethren, he procured himself, by the endeavours of Dr. Goffe. and L. Abbat Montague, to be sworn a Servant to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother before mentioned. Afterwards he went a third time to Rome, married an Italian woman well born, and had a child by her; but because he had nothing with, left, her and the child, and returned to his native Country, his wealth being kept for the children of his brother, who was then P. of the P. P. at London. About that time he took up his quarters in the City of Westminster, lived a retired life, a perpetual Student in religionary Controversies, and wrote many things, of which some are extant, as,  
A brief explanation of the several mysteries of the holy Mass, and of the actions of the Priest celebrating, very necessary for all Roman Catholics, for the better understanding thereof. Lond. 1686. oct.  
Certain Reflections upon the Apostles Creed touching the Sacrament.  
Divers Meditations and Prayers, both before, and after the Communion.— These two last, go and are bound with the Brief Explanation, etc. Other things also which he left behind him, that are not as yet, I suppose, extant, are (1) A treatise of mental prayer. (2) How to gain a Jubilee or Indulgence. (3) Of the name of God Jehovah. (4) Meditations belonging to spiritual exercise. (5) Treatise touching the reading of Saints lives, etc. And among the Translations into Latin which he made, was Joh. cleaveland's Poem called The Rebel Scot; and among those from Spanish into English The life of S. Vincent of Caraffa the General of the society of Jesus. He died in his house situated in the Pall-Mall within the Liberty of the City of Westminster, on the 8 day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and three, 
1683/4.  and was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the said City, leaving then behind him the character among men, especially those of his persuasion, of a learned and religious person.  
THOMAS GORE was born of an ancient and gentile family living at Aldrington alias Alderton in Wilts. an. 1631, at which place his Ancestors, who originally came from Whitlegh near Melkesham in the said County, have lived about 300 years. In the time of the Rebellion he was educated in Grammar learning at Tetbury in Glocestershire under Mr. Tho. Tully, where being ripened for the University, became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in the month of May 1647, under the tuition first of Joh. King Fellow of that House, and afterwards, with leave from the Precedent, under the said Mr. Tully Fellow of Qu. Coll. After he had continued in Magd. Coll. more than three years, and had performed his exercise for the degree of Bach. of Arts, he retired to Lincoln's Inn, whence after he had spent some time in the municipal Laws, he receded to his Patrimony at Alderton, where prosecuting his natural Genius which he had to Heraldry and Antiquities, wrote and published these things following.  
A Table showing how to blazon a coat of Arms ten several ways.— Printed 1655 on one side of a single sheet, and taken verbatim, as it seems, from Joh. Fern's book called The blazon of Nobility, etc.  
Nomenclator Geographicus Latino Anglicus, & Anglico-Latinus alphabeticè digestus; complectens plerorumque omnium M. Britanniae & Hiberniae regionum, Comitatum, Episcopatuum, Oppidorum, Fluviorum, etc. nomina & appellationes, etc. Oxon. 1667. oct. To which the Author did afterwards add many other things, with an intention to come out with another edition.  
Series alphabetica, Latino-Anglica, nomina gentilitiorum, sive cognominum plurimarum familiarum, quae multos per annos in Angliâ floruere: è libris quà manuscriptis quà typis excusis, aliisque antiquioris aevi monumentis latinis collecta. Oxon. 1667. oct. This book was afterwards crept into a thick quarto, by the additions of the etymologies of the words and many little annotations concerning the Arms of the said Families, but before the Author could put it into the press, he was snatched away by death.  
Catalogus in certa capita, seu classes, alphabetico ordine concinnatus, plerorúmque omnium authorum (tam antiquorum quam recentiorum) qui de re heraldica, Latinè, Gallicè, Ital. Hispan. Germ. Anglicè scripserunt. Oxon. 1668. in 4 sh. and an half. To which the Author making many additions, with prefaratory discourses of Arms and Armoury, it was printed again at Oxon 1674. in 16 sh. in qu. After this the Author growing wealthy, and noted for a rich man, became High-Sheriff of Wilts. an. 1680, whereupon suffering in his reputation by some of his neighbouring gentry, he wrote and published,  
Loyalty displayed, and falsehood unmasked: or, a just Vindication of Tho. Gore Esq. High-Sheriff of the County of Wilts. in a letter to a friend. Lond. 1681. in 1 sh. qu. He gave up the ghost at Alderton before mentioned, on the 31 of March (Easter Monday) in sixteen hundred eighty and four, and was buried in the Church there, 
1684  among the graves of his Ancestors; leaving then behind him several pieces of Heraldry of his own composure, collections of Arms out of several Churches and Houses which he had made in his Journeys, additions to, and corrections of, the books that he had published, and a choice collection of Heraldry books, and books relating to that faculty, as well printed as in MS.  
WILLIAM CLARKE son of George Clarke, by his wife the sister of Will. Prynne Esq, was born at Swainswyke near Bath in Somersetshire, became a Communer of Oriel Coll, an. 1657, aged 17 years or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts 1661., and on the 30 of Mar. 1663. was made Fellow of his House. About that time applying his mind solely to the study of Physic, left his Fellowship three years after, retired to his native Country, and practised it in the City of Bath, where I saw him in 1678, and his book intit.  
The natural history of Niter: or, a philosophical discourse of the nature, generation, place and artificial extraction of Niter, etc. Lond. 1670. oct. Translated into Lat. and printed beyond the Seas, after a full account of it had been made public in the Philosophical Transactions, numb. 61. p. 2008. Afterwards the Author retired to Stepney near London in Middlesex, where he practised his faculty with good success, and dying on the 24 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and four, 
1684.  was buried in the Church there on the 27 of the same month. He was usually called there Dr. Clarke; but whether he ever took that degree elsewhere, I cannot tell. I am sure he was only Bach. of Arts of this University.  
DANIEL WHISTLER son of Will. Whistl. of Elvington in the Parish of Goring in the dioc. of Oxford, was born at Walthamstow in Essex, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame, admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in Jan. 1639, aged 20 years or thereabouts; where going thro' the severe exercise then kept up, proceeded in Arts four years after. About that time obtaining leave of his Society to travel, he crossed the seas to Holland, took the degree of Doctor of Phys. at Leyden, an. 1645, and returning the year following to his Coll. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University 1647. Afterwards he submitted to the power of the Visitors appointed by Parliament, kept his Fellowship, (though absent) became superior Reader of Lynacres Lecture, but read not, because he was practising his faculty in London; and in 1653 he went as chief Physician to the Embassy made by Bulstrode Whitlock into Sweedland. After his return he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal Society when first instituted, and at length upon the removal of Dr. Tho. Cox for being whiggishly inclined, he was made Precedent of the said College, about S. Luke's day 1683. He hath written and published,  
Disputatio medica inauguralis de morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indigenae vocant The Rickets, quam deo suppetias ferente, etc. Lond. 1645 and 1685. qu. This noted Doctor, though he had married a rich widow, and did obtain about 1000 l. per an. by his practice, many years before his death, yet he died in the Coll. of Physicians very much in debt, and worse than nothing, on Sunday the eleventh day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and four: 
1684.  whereupon his body was buried, but a little better than in private, towards the upper end of the north isle or alley joining to the Church called Christ Church in London, which is near the said Coll. of Phys.  
THOMAS LIE son of Tho. Lye or Leigh, was born at Chard in Somersetshire, 25 of Mar. 1621., entered a Servitor of Wadh. Coll. under his learned and faithful Tutor Mr. George Ashwell in Mich. term 1636, elected scholar thereof 29 Jun. in the year following, took one degree in Arts by the name of Tho. Leigh, (by which name also he had been matriculated) went afterwards to Cambridge when Oxford was garrisoned for his Majesty, took the degree of Master of Arts there in July 1647, being then or lately, Master of the school at Bury S. Edm. in Suffolk, returned afterwards to Oxon for preferment, was made Chaplain of Wadh. Coll, and incorporated Master of this University by the name of Tho. Lie, in the month of May 1649. Soon after he was made Minister of Chard before mentioned, and on the 24 of Aug. 1651, he preached a farewell sermon, as being under the sentence of banishment, because he would not swear against the beloved Covenant. In 1654. he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Somersetshire for the ejection of such whom the Saints then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. In 1658, upon the receipt of a Call, he entered on the pastoral charge of all-hallows Church in Lombardstreet in London, on the 20 of Nou. or thereabouts; and by Act of Parl. of the 14 of March 1659., he was made one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way: which Act being soon after annulled, upon a foresight of his Majesty's restauration, he himself two years after was ejected for Nonconformity. He hath extant,  
Several Sermons, as (1) The fixed saint, held forth in a farewell Serm. at all-hallows in Lombardstreet 17 Aug. 1662., on Phil. 4.1. Lond. 1662. qu. It was reprinted the same year in octavo, among other farewell Sermons at Barthelmew tide, with his picture, very like him, with other pictures of Nonconformists, that then preached in and near London, set in the title. (2) Sermon on Luke 17.10.— Printed in The morning Exercise against Popery, preached in Southwark. Lond. 1675. qu. (3) By what spiritual rules may catechising be best managed, on Prov. 22.6. Printed in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. (4) The true believers union with Christ, on 1 Cor. 6.17.— Pr. in The morning exercise at S. Giles in the fields near Lond. in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. In which Morn. exerc. one John Tillotson hath also a sermon.  
An explanation of the shorter Catechism, composed by the Assembly of Divines 1647. With a plain and familiar method of instructing the younger sort in that Cat. Lond. in oct. Several times printed.  
The Child's delight: together with an English Grammar. Lond. in oct. Several times printed.  
A new Spellingbook: or reading and spelling English made easse: wherein all the words of our English Bible are set down in an alphabetical order and divided into their distinct Syllables. Together with the grounds of the English Tongue laid in verse, wherein are couched many moral Precepts. Lond. 1674. oct. etc. What other Sermons or books are published under his name, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at Bednal green near London, on the seventh day of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four, 
1684.  was buried in the Ch. of Clapham in Surrey: in which Town he had usually held forth in Conventicles with Dr. Hen. Wilkinson, commonly called Long Harry, and Will. Bridge, sometimes Minister of Yarmouth. He also for a better livelihood instructed the sons of Nonconformists.  
JOSHUA SPRIG son of Will. Sprig sometimes servant to Will. Lord Say, afterwards Steward of New Coll, was born at Banbury in Oxfordshire, became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsummer term an. 1634, aged 16 years, left it without a degree, journied into Scotland, and became Master of Arts at Edinburgh, and a Preacher. A little before the Rebellion began he retired to London, was a Preacher at S. Marry Alderm, afterwards took the Covenant, was made Minister of S. Pancras Ch. in Soperlane, and at length a retainer to Sir Tho. Fairfax General of the Parliament Army. In 1648 he was constituted one of the Fellows of Alls. Coll. by the Committee and Visitors appointed by Parliament to reform the University, and in the year following he was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Edinburgh. While he continued in Alls. Coll, he was of civil conversation, but far gone in Enthusiasm; and blamed much by some of the Fellows then there, for his zeal of having the history of our Saviour's Ascension curiously carved from stone over that Coll. gate, to be defaced, after it had remained there since the foundation of that House. About that time he was esteemed also a noted Independent, and afterwards very well known to be a great favourer of factious and blasphemous persons, particularly that grand Impostor James Naylor Quaker, in whose behalf, he did, in the head of an 100 men, deliver a Petition in favour of him to Oliver L. Protector. After the King's return, he retired to an Estate which he had purchased at Crayford in Kent, lived privately there, and frequented Conventicles. At length, upon the death of James Lord Say, which was in the latter end of 1673, he married his widow named Frances, daughter of Edward Viscount Wimbledon, with whom he had great familiarity during the time of her first Husband. But she being a holy Sister, and kept, or caused to be kept, Conventicles in her house, they, upon trouble ensuing, removed to Highgate near London, where our Author- Sprig died, as I shall tell you anon. He hath extant these things following, viz.  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) God a Christians all, himself nothing, on Gen. 5.24.— Printed 1640. (2) A Testimony to approaching glory, in five Sermons delivered at S. Pancrass Church in Soperlane. Lond. 1649 sec. edit. In which Sermons are contained several blasphemies, as certain 
(a) The Beacons quenched, etc. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 13. And The Beacons flaming, etc. Lond. 1652. p. 20.21.  Pamphlets inform us. See more in Joh. Owen. (3) A farther Testimony, etc. Printed in oct. This I have not yet seen, (4) The dying and living Christian, etc. on Rom. 14.8. Lond. 1648. oct, and others, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen.  
Anglia rediviva; Fnglands' recovery: Being the History of the motions, actions and successes of the Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight, Capt. General of all the Parliament forces in England. Lond. 1647. fol. Characterised falsely by an outlandish 
(b) Georg. Hornius in Epist. ad Lectorem ante librum cui tit. est Rerum Britannicarum lib. 7. etc. Lugd. Bat. 1648. oct.  author to be opus rude & moles indigesta, etc. This book goes under the name of J. Sprig, but if a knowing 
(c) Clem. Walker in his Hist. of Independency— Printed 1649. § 12. p. 32.  author says true, Nath. Fiennes second son to Will. Lord Say had a chief hand in compiling the said book.  
Certain weighty considerations humbly tendered and submitted to the consideration of such of the Members of the High Court of Justice for the trial of the King, as they shall be presented unto. Lond. 1648. in two sh. in qu.  
Solace for Saints in the saddest times— Printed in oct. This I have not yet seen.  
News of a new world from the word and works of God, compared together; evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determined, and by the same right the days of the son of man are already commenced; with an account of the times of Gog and Magog, and of the three last Viols. Lond. 1676. oct. Besides these, he hath other things, without doubt, extant, but I cannot yet in all my searches find them out. He died at Highgate before mentioned in the month of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four: 
1684.  whereupon his body being carried to Crayford aforesaid, was buried in the Church there. About a fortnight after his beloved wife Frances dying, was, I presume, buried near him. So that the Estate of him the said I Sprig went to his younger brother William, who hereafter is to be mentioned as a writer.  
RICHARD HAYTER son of Will. Hayt. of the City of Salisbury, was born in Wilts, became a Commoner of Madg. Hall in 1628. aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, retired to Salisbury, lived three as a Layman, and wrote  
The meaning of the Revelation: or, a paraphrase with questions on the Rev. of the holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine, etc. wherein the Synchronismes of Mr. Joseph Mede, etc. are called into question, etc. Lond. 1675. qu.  
Errata Mori. The errors of Henry More Doct. of Diu. contained in his Epilogue annexed to his exposition of the Revelation of S. John, in which these questions are debated, etc.— This was made ready for the Press in Apr. 1683, and another book, but whether yet printed I cannot tell. He died on the 30. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four, 
1684.  and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Thomas in Salisbury; which is all I yet know of him, only that he and Joh. Warner are by the Printers mistake put among the Masters of Arts in the Fasti, an 1634. as Masters of Magd. College, instead of Madg. Hall, and that by another mistake in this vol. p. 254, he hath set down the death of Dr. H. More before mentioned, to be on the 3. of Apr. instead of the first of Sept. 1687.  
PETER GUNNING son of Pet. Gunn. Minister of How in Kent, by Elinor Trest his wife, (a Kentish woman of a good family) was born at How on the eleventh, and baptised on the 16 of Janu. 1613, bred up in the Free-School at Canterbury, where being found remarkably ripe for the University, he was at 15 years of age sent to Clare Hall in Cambridge, of which House he was soon after made Fellow; having been, from his first admittance, very much in the Eye of all that University, as having and never wanting in any kind of exercise either grave or jocose, as also noted for one whose extraordinary parts and indefatigable industry and study promised great things. After he was Master of Arts he took upon him the cure of Little S. Mary's Church in Cambridge, chosen to it by the Master and Fellows of Peter House, all Colleges being ambitious some way or other to make him theirs. When the grand rebellion began, or at least about to begin, he was very zealous in opposing the attempts of the then spreading Schism and troubles, and did not forbear to protest publicly against the faction when it was most formidable. In a Sermon also at S. Mary's in Cambr. he vehemently and convincingly urged the University to publish a formal protestation against the rebellious League: And being occasionally about that time in Kent (upon a short visit to his mother lately then a widow) he was hunted about and forced to lie in Woods, and at length was imprisoned for having assisted some Forces, belonging to the King at Tunbridge, with the charity he had moved a neighbouring Congregation to by two Sermons. Thence he was forced to his College to take the Covenant, which he resolutely denying so to do, was thrown out of his Fellowship, and soon after one John T ... n who took it, was put therein. But before he left Cambridge, he with Mr. Barrow, afterwards B. of S. Asaph, Mr. Ward afterwards B. of Salisbury, and Mr. John Barwick, with two or three others did write a resolute and well penned Treatise against the Covenant, which was afterwards published. In the beginning of the year 1644 if not before, he with the said Mr. Barrow, his great companion and fellow-sufferer, journied to Oxon, than his Majesty's head-quarter, and being forthwith made known to that most worthy patron of learning Dr. Rob. Pinks Warden of New Coll, he entered them Chaplains of that House, where they had lodging and diet. In July the same year, Mr. Gunning was incorporated Master of Arts of this University, but whether Mr. Barrow was, or took any other degree, it appears not in the public register. About the same time Mr. Gunning became Curate for Mr. Jasp. maine at Cassington, four Miles Northwest distant from Oxon, in which service continuing about two years, he endured several affronts and abuses by the Parliamentarian Soldiers from Abendon and elsewhere, either by interrupting him with base Language, or by pulling him out of the Church. Besides the constant duty at New Coll. and his reading Prayers and Preaching every Sunday at Cassington, he sometimes preached either before the King, or Parliament sitting at Oxon. In consideration of which, he was one of those many that had the degree of Bach. of Diu. conferred upon him, and accordingly he was admitted on the day before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendered for the use of the Parliament: So that he having been incorporated, and afterwards admitted to a superior degree with us, is the reason why I now put him among the Oxford Writers, though indeed Cambridge is more properly his Mother. After the surrender of Oxon. he undertook the charge and tuition of Christopher, afterwards, Lord Hatton and Sir Franc. Compton, in both whom, he instilled most excellent Principles of Loyalty. Afterwards he was Chapl. to Sir Rob. Shirley father of Rob. (which last was made Lord Ferrer of Chartley,) who settled on him about an 100 l per an. for his life, being more particularly moved thereunto for his great abilities, and the learning which he showed in the silencing a Popish Priest, with whom he held two or three set disputations for the satisfaction of his Patron and others that engaged him in them. Not long after Sir Rob. Shirley died in the Tower, having been committed to that place for his Loyalty; so that thereupon Mr. Gunning betaking himself to the holding a constant Congregation in the Chapel at Exeter house in the Strand, did, by his reading the English Liturgy, Preaching, and administering, assert the cause of the Church of England with great pains and courage, when the Parliament was most predominant: And his Sermons and Prayers being performed very regularly according to the ancient usuage of the Church, great numbers of well affected and honest people flocked to them, as others did to other Loyal Preachers in several parts in, and near, the City of London, whereby thousands being confirmed in the communion of the Church of England, as in other parts of the Nation, was thereby frustrated and taken away the groundless reproach cast upon the true Protestants by the Romanists that their Church was lost. Besides these his Labours, for which he was often sent for and reproved by the Usurper Oliver, he would on the week days look out all sorts of Sectaries and dispute with them openly in their own Congregations: Nor was there any considerable Sect, whether Presbyterian, Independent, Anabaptist, Quaker, Brownist, Socinian, etc. but that he held with them, some time or other, a set public disputation in defence of the Church of England. About the time of the King's restauration he was possessed of the Rectories of Cotesmore in the County of Rutland and of Stoke-Brewen in Northamptonshire, which he long before had title to, but kept out for his Loyalty. The Vicarage of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster was first designed him, and a Prebendship of Canterbury: The last he had, but the other not, as being thought more for the service of the public to fix him for a while in the University of Cambridge, where being first made D. of D. and Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. and soon after of S. John's, he was for a little while Margaret Professor; and as soon as Dr. Ant. Tuckney was removed, he was made Reg. Professor of Divinity as the fittest man for that Chair that could be then chosen, to settle the University right in their Principles again, after many corruptions had crept in there by means of the Rebellion. I say that he did not only succeed the said Tuckney in the Divinity Chair, but also in the Mastership of S. john's Coll; who having been lawfully ejected from both, as having had no right title to either, yet such was the goodness of Dr. Gunning that he allowed him a very considerable annuity during his life. Which act of his, being excellent and singular, is here remembered to his everlasting fame, and the rather for this reason, that no Presbyterian or Independent was ever known to allow any loyalist, whose places they had occupied for several years, the least farthing, but rather rejected and avoided them, vilified, scorned and exposed them to the Plebeians, as empty, formal, and starched nothings. These things I have known, and do remember them as done in this University, and the like without all doubt was used at Cambridge: and yet so it is, that some of the dregs of these men that yet remain among us, have not been content with the King's clemency to keep their places to this day, but take all occasions, upon the least interruption in the Nation, to breed faction among us, jealousies in the people of the violent coming in of Popery, make continual clamours after preferment, as if they had deserved it as well as sufferers, and I know not what. But now to return to the worthy person whom we are further to mention: Be it remembered therefore that upon the death of Dr. Hen. King he was promoted to the See of Chichester; to which being Consecrated on the sixth day of March (the third Sunday in Lent) an. 1669, sat there till the death of Dr. Benj. Lan●y Bishop of Ely, which happening towards the latter end of 1674, he was translated to that See, on the fourth day of March the same year, with a particular acknowledgement from his Majesty of his steaddiness to the Church, having kept up the face thereof in the worst of times. In all the several preferments that he went thro' from the first to the last, he was first thought of by his Prince, or Patron, before he himself made any application whatsoever. While he continued in Cambridge he was a constant Preacher, and looked upon as so umblameable in his life and practice, that his schismatical and factious Adversaries were sorry that they could not possibly fasten the least spot on him. He was admired by great Scholars, as well abroad, as at home, for his profund Divinity, was noted much also in England for his diffusive Charity; for what he had not spent in his life time by supplying Scholars at Cambridge, by his large endowments and bountiful benefactions in that place, by his great sums laid out on his Sees, as well as formerly on his Livings, by his daily relieving at his door from his Table all sorts of indigent and distressed persons, and by privately supplying others with a plentiful hand, he disposed the remainder by his last Will and Test. to be laid out for the augmentation of poor Vicariges. Under his name go these things following:  
A contention for truth: in two several public disputations before thousands of people in the Church of S. Clement Danes, without Temple Bar, on the 19 and 26. of Nou. (1657) between Mr. Gunning on the one part and Mr. (Hen.) Den on the other, concerning the baptism of Infants, whether lawful or unlawful. Lond. 1658. qu.  
Schism unmasked: or a late conference betwixt Mr. Pet. Gunning and Mr. John 
(*) The same, as it seems, who was afterwards Bishop of Chester.  Pierson Ministers, on the one part, and two Disputants of the Rom. persuasion on the other. Wherein is defined, both what Schism is, and to whom it belongs, etc. Paris 1658. in tw. This conference is said to have been began in May 1657. The large Preface to it was written by two Catholic Disputants, who published the whole, and 'tis presumed not so fairly on the Protestants side, as in truth and justice they ought to have done.  
View and corrections of the Common Prayer, an. 1662.,— At which Mr. Baxter, if I mistake not, carped.  
The Paschall or Lent-Fast Apostolical and perpetual. Lond. 1662. qu. This at first was but a Sermon preached before the King, who forced it into the Press by his repeated commands; and thereupon he added so much to it, as to make it a complete Treatise on that subject.  
Appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the Fast of Lent.— Printed with the former book. See in the Fasti 1669 among the incorporations, in Will. Saywell. At length, this worthy Bishop, who continued single all his days, wholly addicted to his studies and the service of God, and had made preaching and doing all the good offices proper to a Bishop so much his delight, that, according to the usual saying, he died in his calling; did surrender up his pious soul to God on Sunday the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four; 
1684.  whereupon his body was buried with due solemnity in the Cathedral Church of Ely. As Dr. Fr. Turner sometimes Fellow of New Coll, succeeded him in the Mastership of that of S. John's, chiefly by his means, so did he likewise in the Bishopric of Ely; between whom there passed many affectionate endearments. Much more may be said of this most pious and learned Bishop, but he being not totally ours, I shall omit it, and commend you to his large character given of him in a book entit. A discourse delivered in two Sermons preached in the Cathedral at Ely, in Sept. 1684 etc. p. 4.5. etc. Written, spoken and published by Humph. Gower D. D. Master of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge (in the place of Dr. Turner before mentioned) and one of the Prebendaries of Ely, printed 1685. in qu.  
WILLIAM DURHAM son of Joh. Durh. of Willersley near Camden in Glocestershire, was born there, educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Sturby who kept a private School at Broadway in the same County, became a Student of New Inn in 1626. aged 15 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and when about an years standing in the degree of Master, he was made Curate to Dr. Thom. Bunbury Rector of S. Mary's Church in Reading. In the beinning of the Civil War he left that place, retired to London, and there, after some short stay, was chosen preacher of the Rolls in Chancery Lane, at which time he took the Covenant. From thence, by a presentation, he went into Berks. and became Rector of Burfield, being about that time Bach. of Divinity, and thence was translated to the rich Rectory of Tredington in Worcestershire, which before, I cannot say immediately, had been enjoyed by Dr. Will. Smith sometimes Warden of Wadham Coll. After his Majesty's restauration he was ejected thence to make room for Dr. Joseph Crowther of S. John's Coll. who before had obtained a presentation thereunto: whereupon our author Durham retiring to London, lived there for some time without a cure. A length upon his Conformity to the Church of England, Sir Nich. Crispe presented him to the Rectory of S. Mildred in Breadstreet within the City of London (to which Parish, that of S. Margaret Moses was joined after the dreadful fire in the said City) where he finished his course. He hath extant  
Several Sermons as (1) Maran-Atha: The second Advent, or Christ's coming to judgement, an Assize Serm. at Warwick, 25. of July 1651. on Jam. 5.9. Lond. 1652. qu. (2) Serm. before the Artillery Company at S. Andrews Undershaft, 30 Aug. 1670. on 1. Cor. 16.13. Lond. 1671. qu. (3) Serm. before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at at S. Marry le Bow, 21. Nou. 1675. on Prov, 29.1. Lond. 1676. qu.  
A serious exhortation to the necessary duties of families and personal instruction, for the use of Tredington Parish— Printed in 1659. in tw.  
The life and death of that judicious Divine and accomplished preacher Rob. Harris D. D. lately Precedent of Trinity Coll. in Oxon, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. He died on the seventh day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Mildred before mentioned, 
1684.  in a vault belonging to the Ministers thereof, just under the Communion Table.  
ROBERT SHARROCH a Minister's son was born at Adstock near to, and in the County of, Buckingham, educated in Wyekhams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an. 1649 or thereabouts, took the degrees in the Civil Law, that of Doctor being completed in 1661., became afterwards Rector of Horewood in Buckinghamshire, Prebendary of Winchester, Rector of Bishops Waltham in Hampshire, a Justice of Peace for that County, and at length Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Walt. Darrell deceased; in which Dignity he was installed 28. Apr. 1684, being then accounted learned in divinity, in the Civ. and Com. Law, and very knowing in Vegetables and all pertaining thereunto. He hath published,  
The History of the propagating and improvement of Vegetables, by the concurrence of Art and Nature: showing the several ways for the propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England, as they are increased by Seeds, Off-sets, Suckers, etc. Oxon 1660 and 1672 oct. An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical Transactions, numb. 84. p. 5002.  
Hypothesis de Officiis secundum humanae rationis dictata seu naturae jus, unde casus omnes conscientiae quatenus notiones à naturâ supersunt dijudicari possint, etc. Oxon. 1660. oct. In this he writes against the Principia and Rationes of Hobbes of Malmsbury, belonging to Ethics and Politics. This book came out at Oxon again, in 1682 in a large octavo, with many additions to it, with the title a little altered and enlarged, and dedicated to the King.  
Judicia (seu Legum censurae) de variis in continentiae speciebus, etc. Oxon. 1662. in a large oct.  
De finibus virtutis Christianae. The ends of Christian religion, etc. justified in several discourses. Oxon 1673. qu. contained in ten Sermons. He also reviewed and compared with several copies Provinciale vetus provinciae Cantuariensis, cum selectioribus Linwodi annotationibus. Oxon. 1664. in a thick oct. He concluded his last day on the eleventh of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Bishops Waltham before mentioned. 
1684.  In his Archdeaconry was installed Tho. Clutterbook D. D. Rector and Vicar of South Stoneham near Southampton, in his Prebendship Sam. Palmer M. A. sometimes of Mert. Coll. and in Bishops Waltham succeeded Franc. Morley M. A. of Ch. Ch. great Nephew to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winton, who about the said time had a Prebendship bestowed on him in the said Church of Winton on the resignation of Dr. Geo. Beaumond, by the said Bishop.  
WILLIAM MASTERS second son of Sir Will. Mast. of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight, was born there, admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University, 25. Mar. 1650, being then an Undergraduat; took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after, and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following, he being then 26 years of age.  
Essays and observations Theological and Moral. Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized, etc. Lond. 1653. oct.  
Drops of Myrrh: or Meditations and Prayers— These are printed with the former book, and are fitted to divers arguments in that work. Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex, was Bach. of Divinity, Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Paul's Cathedral; but what else he published, I cannot yet find. He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts, 
1684.  in sixteen hundred eighty and four, and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mentioned. By his last will and test. he gave to the Uniu. of Oxon 5 l. per an, to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Mary's Church there, viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June.  
GEORGE MORLEY son of Francis Morley Esq, by Sarah Denham his wife, sister to Sir Joh. Denham one of the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer, was born in Cheapside within the City of London, on the 27. of Febr. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age, his mother when 12, and that little Patrimony that he was born to, by his father's being engaged in other men's debts. At 14 years of age, or thereabouts, he was elected one of King's Scholars of the Coll. at Westminster, and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became Student of Ch. Ch, where with very great industry running thro' all the Classes of Logic and Philosophy, he took the degrees in Arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of Master, he was invited by Robert Earl of Caernarvon and his Lady to be Chaplain in their house, where he lived till he was 43 years of age, without having, or seeking, any preferment in the Church. After this, he was preferred to the Rectory of Hartfield in Sussex, which, being a Sinecure, he exchanged with Dr. Rich. Stevart, than Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty, for the Parsonage of Mildenhall near Marlborough in Wiltshire. But before he had that charge, he had a Prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the K. (to whom he was Chaplain in Ord.) an. 1641, which was the only preferment he ever desired, and of which he gave the first years profit to the King, towards the charge of his wars, which were then commenced against him by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in the Long Parliament: At the beginning of which, he preached one of the first solemn Sermons before the Commons, but so little to their gust and liking, that they commanded all the rest of the Sermons, but not his, to be printed. Yet after this, he being then Doctor of Divinity, he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines by both Houses, as Dr. Prideaux B. of Worcester, Dr. H. Hammond, etc. were, but neither he, or either of them, appeared among them. As for his part, he always remained with his Majesty, did him what service he could, as long as the war continued. After which he was employed by his Majesty, than a prisoner at Hampton Court, to engage the University of Oxon not to submit to the illegal Visitation, that had been began, but for the present intermitted, because of the violent proceedings of the Army. Which affair he managed with such success, that the Convocation did presently pass an Act for that purpose, but with one dissenting voice only, though they were then under the power of the enemy, that is the Parliament forces. After this, he was chosen by the Members of the University, with some other Assistants named by himself, to negotiate the making good of their Articles which were framed at the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon, to the said forces: which he did to that degree, as to gain time for the getting in of their rents, and to dispose of themselves, I mean as many of them, as were resolved not to submit to their new Masters. Soon after, he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon, or elsewhere, for not submitting to them, though he was offered by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons, to keep all that he had, without being put to say or do, or subscribe any thing against his Conscience, if he would but then give his word only, that he would not actually appear against them or their proceedings. See in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 394. a. 395. a. 396. a. etc. After this he was one of the Divines that was sent for by the King to assist at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight; which proving ineffectual, he resolved (having first assisted the gallant Arthur Lord Capell, as his confessor, before his execution, in the beginning of Mar. 1648) to quit his Country and find out the young King, and never to return till he and the Crown and the Church were restored. With this resolution he left England in the 51. year of his age, and found him at the Hague, where he was graciously received by him. From thence he went first with him into France, and from thence with him to the Scotch Treaty at Breda, and there preached the last Sermon that the K. heard before he went into Scotland: whither being not suffered to carry any of his own Divines with him, he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague, and after some short stay there, he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earl to live at Antwerp, where they continued together in the house of Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies, for the space of one year or thereabouts. At which time Sir Charles being called thence to be Steward to the Queen of Bohemia, and Dr. Earl to attend on his Highness James Duke of York then in France, Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the Lady Frances Hyde (her Husband Sir Edw. Hyde being then Ambassador for the King in Spain) and all the time he was there, which was about 3. or 4 years, he read the Service of the Church of England twice every day, catechised once a week, and administered the Communion once a month to all the English in the Town, who would come to it, as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same Family. But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his coming to Breda, he was invited by the Queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be her Chaplain: And he thereupon knowing her condition to be necessitous, thought himself so much the rather obliged both in Conscience towards God, and in duty to the Royal Family (for she was Sister to K. Charles 1.) to wait on her, and accordingly he did, and readily officiated both in her family, and in the English Church there, about two years and an half, without expecting or receiving any Salary or gratuity at all for so doing. There, as in all other places, where he lived, especially at Breda, he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself and with many opportunities of doing much good to others also. For besides the constant reading of the Prayers of the Church, his Catechising of young persons, his administering the holy Sacraments, and his devoutest supplications for the K. and the Church in private, he visited the sick and buried the dead, and relieved many, whom their Loyalty had impoverished. His learned acquaintance abroad were Andr. Rivet, Dan. Heinsius and Claud. Salmasius, whom he often visited; to the last of which, then abiding at Leyden, the King sent our author Morley to give him thanks in his name for the Apology he had published for his martyred Father, but not with a purse of Gold as Joh. Milton the impudent liar reported. But his acquaintance was more intimate with the famous Sam. Bochart, to whom he wrote a Latin Letter from Paris, declaring his reasons of not coming to the French Congregation: To which Mr. Bochart printed an answer in Latin the year following. And as he was zealous for the Church, so he was also for his Royal Master, w●tness the large Epistle he wrote in Latin to Triglandius to vindicate his Master from the false aspersion of Popery. For his friends at home (of whom he never lost any but by death only) were eminent both for parts and quality: the chiefest of which were Lucius L. Falkland, and Sir Francis Wenman of Oxfordshire, both long since dead, and Edward Earl of Clarendon, who died long after them. Among the Clergy were Dr. Rob. pain, Dr. H. Hammond and Dr. Rob. Sanderson (late B. of Linc.) who were all Canons of Ch. Ch. at the same time with him. To these may be added many more as Mr. W. Chillingworth, Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Cant, Dr. Earl of Salisbury, etc. with the two last of which, he kept a constant friendship for above 40 years, and enjoyed the company of Dr. Earl very often abroad, which made his banishment less tedious to him. After his Majesty's return, this most worthy person Dr. Morley was first made Dean of Ch. Ch, (being then Chapl. to the Duchess of York) whence, after he had restored those that had been illegaly ejected in 1648, etc. and had filled up the vacant places, he was called to be Bishop of Worcester, to which See he was Consecrated in the Abbey Church at Westm, on the 28. of Octob. 1660, and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the King's Coronation-Sermon, and soon after made Dean of the Chapel Royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon. In 1662. he was upon the death of Dr. Duppa translated to the See of Winchester, (confirmed therein 14. May the same year) where he hath truly verified the saying that the King gave when he bestowed the said Bishopric on him that he would never be the richer for it, For besides his expenses in building and repairing his Palace at Winchester, he hath laid out much more than the supplies the Parliament gave him in the Act, which empowered him to lease out Waltham Park, and his Tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark. He spent 8000 l. in repairing the Castle at Farnham, before the year, 1672, and afterwards spent more, and above 4000 l. in purchasing Winchester House at Chelsey to annex it to the See, which when he came to, he found not an house to dwell in, yet afterwards, left two fair ones to his successors. At that time also he had not purchased one foot of Land or Lease, as if he had taken more care to enrich the poor than his Relations, and what his benefaction was to the Coll. that gave him education, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first year of his Translation he visited his Diocese in person, and went into the Isle of Wight, where had not been a Bishop before, in the memory of man. In July 1664 he came to Oxon and visited in person those Colleges which of right belonged to him as B. of Winchester, was received, and entertained with great solemnity in all, only in Co. Ch. Coll. finding stubborness he bound some to their good behaviour. Daniel Agas one of the Fellows, who had been educated there under the Presbyterians, accused the Bishop of injustice before his face, for granting and sending Letters to the Coll. in behalf of Tho. Turner (son of Dr. Th. Turner) to come in Scholar, for which his impudence he was put out of Commons for 3 weeks. This worthy Doctor who was most famous for his great charity and benefaction while he sat at Winchester, was a person of approved and throly tried Loyalty, not of the number of those lukewarm irreligious Temporizers, who had learned politicly to shift and quit their Principles to make them suit to the times, and so pliably to tack about, as still to be ready to receive what ever revolution and turn of affairs should happen, and by an easy submission to that government which was uppermost, always to stand fair for promotion under a succession of continued usurpations, though of a quite different nature and complexion. He was so firmly settled in, and fixed to, the Ch. of England that he constantly bore up against, and became impregnable either by the attempting allurements of a splendid papacy, or the reproachful and ignominious treatment of the ruder disciplinarian party. He had courage enough to own a persecuted Church, and an exiled Prince, and as he vindicated on all occasions the honour and dignity of the former, both against the open assaults and batteries of her professed Adversaries, and the mo●e sly and undermining insinuations of her pretended friends; so did he act with no less vigour, by leaving no projects unattempted, which carried in them any reasonable probability of success, whereby he might affect his Majesty's restauration to his Crown and just rights: which although managed with his utmost skill, industry and best interest, yet fell short of his design. And as he was a constant Adherer to his Master in his sufferings, who reposed so great confidence in his experienced fidelity, as to admit him to the honourable privacy of his most important and weighty concerns, so he was upon, and since the restauration, rewarded by him, as I have before told you, for his many eminent and good services done by himself, and, upon his engagement, by others, for the Royal Cause and Family. He was a great Calvinist, and esteemed one of the main Patrons of those of that persuasion. He was a good and pious Prelate, who by temperance and a regular exercise did arrive to a good old age, having enjoyed ease and quiet for many years, since that time he was forced to eat his bread in foreign Countries. In the 74 year of his age, and after, he was without any remarkable decay, either in his limbs or senses. His usual course than was, to rise about 5 of the clock in the morning, Winter and Summer, and to go to bed about eleven at night, and in the coldest mornings never to have a fire, or warm his bed at night. He eat but once in 24 hours, and had never either Gout, Stone, Stranguery, or Headache, but enjoyed almost a constant health from his infancy, having never kept his bed for any sickness, but twice only. Afterwards his grinders began to cease, and those that looked out of the windows began to be darkened, and other infirmities followed to conduct him to his long home, where, that he might safely arrive, and that it might be to him a place of everlasting rest and happiness, he did humbly in his last days beg all good men's prayers. As for his works of learning, they are these.  
Sermon at the coronation of K. Ch. 2. in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westm. 23. Apr. 1661., on Prov. 28. 2. Lond. 1661. qu.  
Letter to a friend in Vindication of himself from Mr. Baxters' calumny. Lond. 1662. qu. in six sh. and an half. The writing of which was occasioned by some passages in Mr. Baxters' Address to the inhabitants of Kiderminster before his book entit. The mischief of self-ignorance in the benefits of self-acquaintance. These reflected on that account which our author Morley had before briefly, both in a Sermon at Kederminster (soon after he, as Bishop of Worcester, had prohibited Baxter to preach there) and in a conference held in his own house with him, in the presence of Dr. Warmstry Dean of Worcester concerning a very groundless and dangerous exception made by the Commissioners of the Presbyterian persuasion (appointed by his Majesty to meet others of the Episcopal Divines at the Savoy in the Strand, an. 1661. to review the book of Common Prayer in order to a designed accommodation between both parties) against a solid, sound position at that time laid down in a due and regular form of reasoning by the Commissioners nominated to appear in the Church's behalf. But as to the letter before mentioned Baxter in his Second part of the Nonconformists plea for peace, etc. and in his Apology for the Nonconformists Ministers, etc. endeavours to answer some parts of it, and the Bishop (Morley) is mentioned by name among many others in the title to this last piece. It may not be now amiss here by the by to take notice that as Mr. Baxter is extremely guilty of still throwing upon the tired Reader the self same nauseated matter very often, so he seems to take no greater delight in the telling any other story than that concerning the Savoy Papers, viz. the proceedings of the Divines on both sides in persuance of his Majesty's Commission, that their reply to the answer of the Episcopal Divines returned to their general and particular exceptions against the Liturgy (all which are contained in a piece, printed at Lond. 1661. qu. without any Printer's or Bookseller's name to it entit. The grand debate, etc.) and also The petition of peace, with the reformation of the Liturgy, etc. (that is in their common and ordinary acceptation of that charming word Reformation, with an abolition and destruction of the Liturgy; for it was of this nature) printed also after the same skulking manner with the former,— Lond. 1661. qu, were never answered either by word or writing, although great importunity had been used to procure replies to these three several Papers. Mr. Baxter is generally said to have penned The Petition of Peace; with the reformation of the Liturgy, etc. before mentioned. He himself saith that these two were drawn up in eight days, but not by whom, and that a poor reading Curate, whom they were forced to use for copies, keeping some for himself, gave them to the Printer thro' mere poverty to get a little money, and that by his means they came out very false and without their knowledge, as did also those other Papers called The grand debate, etc. Mr. Baxter thinks himself qualified with such a peculiar excellency and knack of talking about these Papers, that I find him not a little angry with Dr. Joh. Hinckley, barely for being so bold and daring as to pretend to write something relating to them; for he himself saying that he believed no man then (viz. 1671.) living could give an account of them besides himself, he judged questionless that the Doctor herein had too rudely invaded his sole Province. Yet notwithstanding this, (together with a great deal of talk about their Sentiments and reception of his Majesty's Declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs, the reduction and model of Episcopacy made by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland, and that other of Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwych, subscribed to by Dr. Rich. Holdesworth, either of which, they would, as he saith, have willingly allowed of) he with a great deal of confidence repeated in the preliminary introductions to most of his very many late most bitter pieces against the Church, (as if he could not otherwise by any means begin a treatise, unless these hughly beloved relations did kindly usher the following very uneven, unconcocted, roving, often repeated and medley stuff) will hardly persuade us to believe, that he hath been so little conversant with books, especially such as have been wrote against his own party and himself, as not to have very well known that Roger L'estrange in a book of his entit. The relapsed Apostate, etc. published not long after those three Papers above mentioned, had fully, and at large answered his Petition for peace, animadverted on many parts of the reformed Liturgy, and that moreover he had in a Supplement to his Relapsed Apost. refuted the Two papers of proposals concerning the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church, together with a single sheet in form of petition to his Majesty, and that the Papers comprised in The great debate, etc. were briefly also touched and reflected on in the same Supplement, etc. Mr. L'estrang taketh notice also of this unwarrantable boast and vaunt of Mr. Baxter concerning these Papers in a late preface to the third edit. of The relapsed Apostate, etc. Lond. 1681. qu, therein citing Baxters words to that purpose, out of the Preface to his answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Charge of Separation, etc. Mr. Baxter indeed (although in some of his books he saith expressly that none of the above named Papers were ever answered by any) confesseth that two small treatises, one entit. Pulpit conceptions, popular deceptions: or the grand debate resumed in the point of Prayer, viz, in defence of prescribed forms, etc. Lond. 1662. qu. and the other Concerning Lent-Fast, had been wrote against some single parts occurring in those three Papers above mentioned, as also that L'estrange had said something against their Liturgy, and that he had no more to say (this last in his answer to a Letter of Dr. Hinckley) yet mentions nothing even there of L'estranges' answers to any of their other Papers. But all this being spoken by the way lets now return to our author Morley and his other writings.  
Epistola apologetica & paraenetica ad Theologum quendam Belgam scripta. Lond. 1663. in two sh. and an half in cue, written at Breda 7. Jun. 1659. This came out again with several of our author's treatises (which I shall anon mention) under this title. Epistola ad virum clariss. D. Cornelium Triglandium, unum ex Pastoribus Hagiensibus & Principi Auriaco à studiis conscripta, in quâ agitur de sereniss. regis Car. 2. erga reformatam religionem affectu, etc. Lond. 1683. qu. The author of this (as writing to a Protestant, who was a favourer of his Master's interest, and with whom he had before held some correspondence by Letters) fully clears K. Ch. 2. from all the least ground of suspicion of his inclining to Popery throughout his whole time of exile, contrary to what some English men had reported either thro' ignorance or hatred; and which was by an easy credulity too greedily entertained by some foreigners. After this he vehemently presseth the Dutch (as desiring that this his Epistle might be communicated to other Dutchmen of the like persuasion with the person to whom it was immediately directed) with strong reasons drawn from the several persuasive heads vigorously to employ their speedy and utmost endeavours to restore his Majesty to his lawful throne and just rights.  
The Sum of a short conference betwixt Fath. Darcey a Jesuit, and Dr. Morley at Brussels, 23 June 1649. Still. Nou. Lond. 1683. qu.  
An argument drawn from the evidence and certainty of sense, against the doctrine of Transubstantiation.  
Vindication of the argument drawn from sense, against Transubstantiation, from a pretended answer to it, by the author of a pamphlet called A treatise of the nature of Catholic faith and heresy.  
Answer to Father Cressy's Letter— This, which is about religion and the Clergy of England, was written in 1662.  
Sermon before the King at Whitehall, 5. Nou. 1667, on 1. Cor. 14.33.  
Answer to a Letter written by a Rom. Priest, 1676.  
Letter to Anne Duchess of York, some few months before her death, written 24 Jan. 1670.— This Duchess, who was dau. of Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England (afterwards E. of Clarendon) was carefully principled in the doctrine of the Protestant faith by our author Morley while he continued at Antwerp in the family of her father, yet died in the faith of the Rom. Church.  
Ad clarissimum virum Janum Ulitium Epistolae duae, de invocatione Sanctorum. Written on the first of July, 1659. The aforesaid Sum of a short conference, etc. with all the things that follow to these two Epistles, were with the Epistle to Corn. Trigland, etc. printed together in one vol. in qu. an. 1683. Soon after was published by L. W. a book entit. A revision of Dr. Morley's Judgement in matters of religion: or, an answer to several treatises of his, written on several occasions, concerning the Church of Rome. Which book was answered by another called The revision revised: or a vindication of the right rev. father in God George L. Bish. of Winton, against, etc. Lond. 1685. qu.  
Letter to the Earl of Anglesey, of the means to keep out Popery, and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof. Lond. 1683, At the end of A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesey. Printed in fol.  
Vindication of himself from divers false, scandalous and injurious reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his writings. Lond. 1683. qu. What else he hath published, I know not, unless A character of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. then vulgarly reported to be by him written; much about which time other Characters were published, as that by Dr. Wall. Charlton, etc. He made also an Epitaph on K. Jam. 1. an. 1625, which was afterwards printed at the end of Dr. John Spotswood's Church Hist. of Scotland. At length after this most worthy and pious Bishop had lived to a fair age, spent all in celibacy, and had done much good, he surrendered up his soul to God in Farnham Castle about three of the clock in the morn. of the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four: whereupon his body was conveyed to Winchester, 
1684.  and buried in a little vault in the body of the Cathedral there, betwixt two pillars, (just opposite to those, between which Bishop Will. Edendon was buried) at the foot of the steps ascending to the Choir on the north side. Soon after was an altar-tombe erected over his body, and the inscription put thereon, which he the said Dr. Morley had made for himself in the eightieth year of his age: The contents of which being too large for this place, shall be now omitted, and especially for this reason, because there is nothing in it, but what is mentioned before in his life.  
BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE the Son of a Minister of God's word, by his Wife, the Daughter of that noted Puritan called Rob. Parker, author of the four books De descensu Christi ad inferos, was born near Highworth in Wilts, became either Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall in Mich. term, 1638, aged 16 years: where he continued for some time under the tuition of Will. Eyre. But before the time came that he could be adorned with a degree, the times changed and the Civil War thereupon began. So that he removing to New England, he answered in the University of Cambridge there, several positions (which were about that time printed) for the taking the degree of Master of Arts. After his return thence, he retired to Oxon, and as a member of Magd. Hall, he was admitted to the same degree, an. 1648, being about that time a Minister in Salisbury. Afterwards settling at Newbury in Berks. where he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian persuasion, he was constituted one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County, for the ejection of such, whom that party and the Independents then (1654.) called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he became one of his Chaplains, and a Canonry of Windsor was offered to him, but he boggling long with himself, whether he should take that Dignity or not, it was at length bestowed on a Son of the Ch. of England. Soon after he being silenced by virtue of the act of conformity (for he seemed then to hate a surplice and the Common-prayer) he preached in private to the Brethren, but being often disturbed, and imprisoned once or twice, he, at length, by the persuasion of some of his friends took holy Orders from the hands of Dr. Earl Bishop of Salisbury, in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon, in Octob. 1665, with a resolution to be conformable to the Church of England. But finding not preferment, suitable to his desire, to be conferred upon him, and a grand neglect and scorn of the Brethren, he returned to his former opinion (which some then called his rags) and preached several times in Conventicles to the great disturbance of the government, the peace of Newbury and the neighbourhood. When the Proclamation for toleration or indulgence of Religion was issued out, 15 of March 1671, he became so audacious, that he did not only preach publicly in the Market place there to the Brethren, but disturbed, or caused to be disturbed the good people in their going to Church. Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot, an. 1678, when then the fanatics took all advantages to promote their respective interests, he did then appear more public again to the disturbance of the peace, preached every Sunday in a Conventicle at Highcleere in Hampshire, and generally once in a week at Newbury before mentioned, which is not far off that place. At length upon the breaking out of the Presbyterian Plot in June 1683, he skulked and retired to Inglefield in Berks, where, as I have been informed, he constantly, if his health permitted him, frequented the public service of the Church of England and Sermons in the Church there, to the time of his death. He hath written,  
Justification by faith: or, a confutation of that Antinomian error, that justification is before faith, etc. Lond. 1652. qu. 'Tis the sum of a Sermon preached at Salisbury, and is contained in 3. or 4. sh. of paper. It must be now known that one Tho. Warren Parson of Houghton in Hampshire preached at a Wednesdays Lecture in Salisbury in April 1651, and therein letting fall several passages which Will. Eyre a Minister in that City then present conceived to be very wide from the Orthodox faith; did desire a conference with him after its conclusion. Which being accordingly held with him, they parted without any satisfaction to each other. The next day Eyre preached in the same place and maintained what he had disputed upon the day before. Whereupon our author Woodbridge being much concerned at the matter, (for he was present at all these transactions) took Warrens part, preached the next Wednesday following on the same Subject that Warren had done before. Afterwards he and Eyre, at a conference about the matter in the public meeting place after Sermon, made it a public quarrel and defied each other. So that Woodbridge being much concerned at it, he published the aforesaid Sermon and entitled it Justification by faith, etc. in the body of which is contained the contents of the disputation with him by W. Eyre before mentioned. The famous Rich. Baxter saith 
(a) In his preface to his Admonition to Mr. W. Eyre, and in his Epist. before his Directions for comfort.  that the sight of the said Sermon of Mr. Woodbridge of so much worth in so narrow room, did cause him to bless God that the Church had such a man, and especially Newbury, who had so excellently learned a pastor before, (meaning Dr. Twysse) who had mistaken so much in this very point— Also 
(b) In the commendatory Epist. to Mr. Woodbridge's Sermon.  that the said Sermon is one of the best, easiest and cheapest preservatives against the contagion of this part of Antinomianism as any, etc. But by the way I must tell the Reader that as the said Mr. Baxter was inclining 
(c) See more in his Confession of faith, etc. printed at Lond. 1655. p. 6.  to Arminianism, so our author Woodbridge was in some points, who hath farther written.  
The method of grace in the justification of sinners against Mr. Eyre his Vindiciae Justificationis gratuitae, etc. Lond. 1656. qu.  
The Apostolic Protestant doctrine of justification by faith, asserted.— Printed with The method of Grace, etc.  
Church members set in joint: or, a discovery of the unwarrantable and disorderly practice of private Christians, in usurping the peculiar office and work of Christ's own Pastors, viz. public preaching, etc. Lond. 1656. 57 qu. He also preached an excellent Sermon before K. Ch. 2. while he was his Chapl. on Acts 17.11. but whether printed I cannot yet tell: sure I am that he published Moses and Aaron: or, the rights of the Church and State, containing two disputations, etc. penned by James Noyes sometimes of Newbury in New England— Lond. 1661. At length this Mr. Woodbridge, who was accounted among the Brethren a learned and mighty man, and had brought upon himself a very ill habit of body by his too too much agitation for the cause, gave up the Ghost at Inglefield before mentioned, on the first day of November, in sixteen hundred eighty and four: 
1684.  whereupon his body being attended by multitudes of Dissenters to Newbury, was buried in the Church there on the fourth day of the same month. As for Tho. Warren before mentioned, he also wrote against Mr. Eyre in a book entit. Unbelievers, no subjects of justification, nor mystical union, vindicated against Mr. Eyre's objections, in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae, with a refutation of that antifidean and antievangelical error, asserted therein, viz. The justification of a sinner before, or without faith. Printed in qu. He hath also two or more Sermons extant, and perhaps other things.  
JOHN DALE son of Anth. Dale of Gilfield in Yorkshire, was born there, or in that County, became a Student in Qu. Coll. an. 1634 aged 15 years, or thereabouts, where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, was elected into a Yorkshire Fellowship of Magd. Coll. In 1648 he submitted to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament, and in the year after he became Bach of Divinity and kept pace with the men then and afterwards in power, that is with Presbyterians and Independents. About the time of his Majesty's restauration he was presented by the Precedent and Fellows of his Coll. to the rectory of Stanlake in Oxfordshire, and soon after, upon an exchange for another in Yorkshire, was inducted into the rectory of Longworth in Berks, (near Stanlake) but deprived of it soon after for Simony. He hath written and published.  
The Analysis of all the Epistles of the New Testament, etc. Oxon. 1652. oct, and had written another book, as I have heard, fit for the press, but was never printed. He died at Stanlake before mentioned, on the 14 day of Nou. in sixteen hundred eighty and four, 
1684.  and was 3 days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Soon after the Pres. and Fell. of the said Coll. presented to the said rectory of Stanlake one of their society named Thomas Smith D. D, who keeping it not long surrendered it up to the College.  
SETH bushel son of Adam bushel, was born at Kuerdin in the Parish of Leyland near Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire, became a Commoner of S. Mary's Hall in 1639, continued there till about the time that the Uniu. and City of Oxon, were garrisoned for the King, and then retired to his own Country. In 1654. he returned for a time, and took both the degrees in Arts in that year, being then, as it seems, Minister of Whitley in Yorks; and in 1665 he took the degree of Bach. of Diu. at which time he was Minister of Euxton in his own County. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he became Vicar of Preston, and in the three last years of his life Vicar of Lancaster, where he finished his course. He hath published,  
Several Sermons as (1) A warning piece for the unruly, in two Serm. on 1. Thes. 5.14. at the metrapolitical Visitation of the most rev. Fath. in God Richard L. Archb. of York, held at Preston in Lanc. and there preached. Lond. 1673. qu. (2) The Believers groan for Heaven, preached at the funeral of the right honourable Sir R. Houghton of Houghton Baronet, at Preston in Amoundernes, on 2. Cor. 5.2. Lond. 1678. qu. And another preached on the 25. day of the first month an. 1658. which George Fox Quaker, answers in his book entit. The great mystery of the great whore unfolded, etc. Lond. 1659. fol.  
Cosmo-meros, The worldly portion: or the best portion of the wicked, and their misery in the enjoyment of it opened and applied. Lond. 1682 in tw. It is the substance of several Sermons, under some abridgements, on Luke 16.25.  
Directions and helps in order to a heavenly and better portion, enforced with many useful and divine considerations— Printed with Cosmo-meros, etc. 
1684.  At length giving up the Ghost at Lancaster in sixteen hundred eighty and four, was buried in the Church there, and soon after had this Epitaph put over his grave. P. S. Exuvias en hic deposuit Seth bushel, SS. Th. Pr. Deo & Ecclesiae Anglicanae reformatae usquam devotissimus, utrique Carolo angugustissimis temporibus piè fidelissimus, familiae suae, quibusque notus fuerat meritò charissimus: postquam hanc suam ecclesiam vitâ inculpabili & assiduis concionibus per triennium faeliciter rexisset, quo tempore (inter alia pietatis specimina) Parochi domum modò corruituram & instauravit & auxit. Immortalitati verò natus, coel●que maturus, spe resurrectionis terris valedixit, anno salutis 1684, aetatis 63. die Novemb. sexto.  
NICHOLAS LOCKYER son of William. Lock. of Glastenbury in Somersetshire, was born in that County, entered either Batler or Commoner of New Inn, in 1629 aged 17 years, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, but whether that of Master it appears not: And about the same time entering into holy Orders according to the Church of England, had some Cure conferred on him, but upon the change of the times, occasioned by the iniquity of the Presbyterians, he closed with, preached frequently among, them, took the Covenant, and afterwards preaching among the Independents he took the Engagement. On the 10 of Dec. 1653 he was one of the Independent Ministers that were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for the ejecting and settling of Ministers according to the rules then prescribed, but that project taking not effect, he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Oliver in the latter end of the said year for the approbation of public Preachers. In June 1654., he being then Fellow of Eton Coll, in great favour with Oliver, (to whom he was Chaplain) and entrusted in several Commissions, the then Delegates of the University ordered that he the said Mr. Lockyer sometimes of New Inn and Master of Arts of 12 years standing might have the degree of Bach. of Divinity conferred on him, but whether he was admitted to that degree, or was ever Master of Arts of this University, it appears not, as it is told you before. In the latter end of 1658, he became Provost of Eton Coll▪ in the place of Franc. Rouse deceased, was deprived of it at his Majesty's restauration, and two years after, when the act of Conformity was published he lost an Ecclesiastical Benefice: So that carrying on the trade of conventicling and plotting, he was shrewdly suspected, with Ph. Nye, to have had a hand in that stupendious Tragedy intended to be acted by the satanical saints, on the King, royal Family, Court and Loyal party, in Nou. 1662., for which George Phillips, Tho. Tongue, etc. suffered death. He hath written.  
Several Sermons as (1) Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 28 Oct. 1646. on Isa. 53.10. Lond. 1646. qu. (2) Fast Serm. bef. the H. of Com. 3. Aug. 1659.— This I have not yet seen, and therefore know not the Text. The sum of other Sermons do here follow.  
A divine discovery of sincerity, according to its proper and peculiar nature, etc. Lond. 1643. oct, delivered in three Sermons on 2. Cor. 11.12.  
Balm for bleeding England and Ireland: or, seasonable instructions for persecuted Christians, etc. Lond. 1643. 49. oct, contained in the sum or substance of 20 Sermons on Colos. 1.11.12.  
England faithfully watched with, in her wounds: or Christ as a father sitting up with her Children in their swooning state. Lond. 1646. qu, painfully preached on Colos. 1.  
Christ communion with his Church Militant. Lond. 1647. oct. and 1672, which is the fifth edition: First preached and afterwards published for the good of God's Church in general. The said fifth edit. which is in oct. also, hath the author's picture before it, in a cloak, with 4 verses engraven under it. The two first of which run thus, 
Note well the substance of this shade so bright,  
Lo, 'tis a burning and a shining light.   
An olive leaf: or a bud of the spring, viz. Christ's resurrection, and its end, viz. the correction of sinners and a Christians complete relief. Lond. 1650 oct.  
A Stone cut out of the mountain: A lecture sermon preached at Edinburgh concerning the matter of visible Church— Printed in tw. Refuted by Jam. Wood a Scotch man in his Pamphlet published 1654. qu. I mean the same James Wood who was afterwards Professor of Diu. and Provost of S. Salvators Coll. in the University of St. Andrew, who died about the year 1664. Whether he be the same Jam. Wood who was Chaplain to, and a constant companion with the most noble James Marquis of Montross when he made his first war against the Covenanteers in Scotland, and accompanied him when he left that Nation, after his Maj. K. Ch. 1, had commanded him to lay down his arms and disband, I know not. Quaere.  
Spiritual inspection: or, a review of the heart, needful for this loose and lascivious season— Pr. in oct.  
The young man's call and duty— Pr. in a small oct.  
Useful instructions for the People of God, in these evil times. Lond. 1656. oct. Delivered in 22 Sermons.  
A memorial of God's judgements spiritual and temporal: or sermons to call to remembrance etc. Lond. 1671. oct. First preached in six sermons, and then published for public use. What other things he hath published I cannot tell, nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he spending his last days at Woodford in Essex, where he kept, or at least frequented, Conventicles, died a wealthy man on the 13. of March or thereabouts, 
1684/●.  in sixteen hundred eighty and four: whereupon his body was buried some days after in the Church of S. Mary of Mountfallon, commonly called Whitechappel near London, leaving then behind him two Daughters called Abigail and Elizabeth.  
NATHANAEL HEIGHMORE son of a Father of both his names, sometimes Rector of Candel-purse or Cundel-purse in Dorsetshire, was born 
(*) Reg. Scholar & Soc. Coll. Trin. su● an. 1632.  in the Parish of Fordingbridge in Hampshire, elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. in 1632, took the degrees in Arts, studied Physic, admitted Bach. of that fac. in 1641 and in the latter end of the next year was actually created Doctor thereof. Afterwards retiring into the Country, settled at length at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire; where and in the neighbourhood he became famous for the happy practice in his faculty, and for the great love that he expressed to the Clergy of those parts; from whom, as 'tis said, he never took a fee, tho much employed by that party. This person, whose memory is celebrated by divers authors, hath written,  
Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica. Hag. Com. 1651. fol. To which he afterwards added an Appendix, but before he could perfect it to his mind, he died.  
The History of generation; with a general relation of the manner of generation as well in plants, as Animals. Lond. 1651. oct.  
Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy— Pr. with The Hist. of Gen.  
De histerica passione & de affectione hypochondriaca; theses duae. Oxon. & Amstel. 1660. oct.  
De histerica & hypochondrica passione responsio Epistolaris ad Doctorem Willis medicum Londinensem celeberrimum. Lond. 1670. qu. He also discovered a new Ductus in the Testicles, but whether published in a book by itself, I know not. He died on the 21. of March, 
1684/5.  in sixteen hundred eighty and four, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Candle purse before mentioned, near the body, as I suppose, of his Father. Afterwards was laid a plain marble stone over his grave, with this inscription thereon. Positae sunt hic reliquiae viri admodum docti Nathanaelis Heighmore in Med. Doctoris; in spem resurrectionis ad vitam aeternam. Qui obiit Martii 21. An. Dom. 1684. Aetatis suae 71.  
ROBERT WOOD was born in the Parish of Pepperharrow near Godalming in Surrey, educated in Grammar learning in the School at Eton near Windsor, was made one of the Eton Postmasters of Merton Coll. in 1642, took the degree of Master of Arts seven years after, having a little before submitted to the authority of the Parliamentarian Visitors, elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. by their order, dated 19 Sept. 1650 in the place of Thankful Owen made Precedent of S. john's Coll, went afterwards with the leave of his Society into Ireland and became a Retainer to Henry Cromwell L. Lieutenant of that Kingdom, who sent him as a spy into Scotland to give him an account how affairs stood there. Afterwards he returned into England, became one of the first Fellows of the Coll. at Durham, founded by Oliver Protector, an. 1657, a great Commonwealths man and a frequenter of the Rota-Club of Jam. Harrington. After his Majesty's restauration, he was turned out of his Fellowship of Linc. Coll by the King's Commissioners, and thereupon going into Ireland again, he▪ for lucre sake (for he was a covetous Person) expressed his Loyalty so much, that he became Doctor of Phys. there (and of the Law as I have heard) and Chancellor of two Dioceses, whereof Meath was one. So that purchasing an Estate in that Country, which he afterwards sold to buy one at Sherwill in Essex, he settled for a time in England, and became Teacher of the Blew-coated-childrens in Ch. Ch. Hospital in London in the Art of Mathematics and Navigation. At length giving up that place, he went again into Ireland and was made one of the Commissioners of his Majesty's revenue, and at length Accomptant-general to the Commissioners of the said revenue there, which he held at the time of his death, being then one of the Royal Society in England. Will. Oughtred the famous Mathematician saith 
(g) In his pref. to the Reader before his Clavis Mathemat. etc. Oxon. 1652. e●it. tert.  of this Dr. Wood (who had been sometimes his Scholar) that he is Philosophiae atque Medicinae studiosus, vir optimus atque doctissimus, qui non calamo solum, & scriptorum examinatione, n●quid forte mihi in computationibus erroris exciderit, amicum praestitit officium, sed etiam bene maximam horum partem (meaning his Clavis Mathematica) Anglicè non ita pridem edendam transtulit. Besides which he hath written,  
The times mended: or, a rectified account of time by a new Luni-solar year; the true way to number our days. Lond. 1681. in 4. sh. and an half in fol. An account and abstract of which, is in the Philosophical Collections, written by Mr. Rob. Hook, numb. 2. p. 27. an. 1681.  
A new Almond ac for ever; or a rectified account of time (beginning with March 10. an. 1680/1) by a Luni-solar year, or by both luminaries: that is by the moons monthly course primarily; so as the first of the month shall always be within about a day of the change, and yet adjusted to the Sun's yearly course also, viz. keeping within about a week thereof at a medium. Described in, and dedicated to the most noble order of the Garter.— Printed the same year, with the Times amended, etc. An account of which is also in the said Philosophical Collections, p. 26. He also wrote some things in Mathematics, not yet published; one piece whereof, he was pleased out of great friendship, and 〈◊〉 long acquaintance sake to dedicate to Mr. George T●●let a Teacher of Gentlemen in London the faculty of Mathematics. This Dr. Wood died at Dublin in Ireland on the ninth day of April in sixteen hundred eighty and five, 
1685.  aged 63. or thereabouts, and was buried in St. Michael's Church there, notwithstanding he had desired his friends, some days before his death, that he might be buried in the Ch. yard of the Parish Church where he should happen to die, thinking that Churches were the less wholesome for corpse being buried in them.  
THOMAS OTWAY son of Humph. Otway Rector of Wolbeding in Sussex, was born at Trottin in that County, on the 3. of March 1651, educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester, became a Communer of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1669, left the University without the honour of a degree, retired to the great City, where he not only applied his muse to Poetry but sometimes acted in plays, whereby he obtained to himself a reputation among the ingenious, and a comfortable subsistence to himself, besides the favour and countenance of Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth, one of the natural Sons of K. Ch. 2. In 1677 he went in the quality of a Cornet, with the new raised English, force's, designed for Flanders; but getting little or nothing by that employment, returned with the loss of time to London, where he continued to the day of his death, by writing of plays and little poetical essays. He was a man of good parts, but yet sometimes fell 
(†) Ger. Lang●a●ne in his Account of the English Dramatic Poets, etc. Oxon. 169●. p. 396.  into plagiary, as well as his contemporaries, and made use of Shakespeare, to the advantage of his purse, at least, if not his reputation. After his return from Flanders, which was in a poor condition, Rochester the biting Satirist brought him into his Session 
(a) In the Poems of Joh. Earl of Rochester, printed 1680. p. 113.  of Poets thus.  
Tom Otway came next, Tom Shadwells 
(b) Tho. Shadwell a Dram. Poet, afterwards Poet Laureate to K. Will. and Qu. Mary.  dear Zany,  
And swears for Heroics, he writes best of any;  
Don Carlos his pockets so amply had filled,  
That his mange 
(c) He returned from Flanders scabbed and lousy, as 'twas reported.  was quite cured and his lice were all killed.  
But Apollo, had seen his face on the stage,  
And prudently did not think fit to engage  
The scum of a Playhouse, for the prop of an age.  
As for his works, which have been approved by the generality of Scholars, a Catalogue of them follows.  
Alcibiades, a Tragedy. Lond. 1675. 87. qu. 'Tis writ in Heroic verse, and was the first fruits of the author's labours.  
Don Carlos Prince of Spain, Trag. Lond. 1676. 79.  
Titus and Berenice, Trag. Lond. 1677. qu.  
Cheats of Spain, a Farce— Printed with Tit. and Ber.  
Friendship in fashion, a Comedy. Lond. 1678. qu.  
The Poet's complaint of his muse; or a satire against Libels, a Poem. Lond. 1680. qu.  
The History and Fall of Caius Marius; Trag. Lond. 1680. qu.  
The Orphan; or the unhappy marriage; Trag. Lond. 1680. 84. etc. qu.  
The Soldiers fortune; Com. Lond. 1681. qu.  
Venice preserved; or, a plot discovered. Lond. 1682. qu.  
The Atheist; or, the second part of the Soldiers fortune. Lond. 1684. qu.  
Windsor Castle, in a monument to our late Sovereign K. Ch. 2. of ever blessed memory; a poem. Lond. 1685. qu. He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Phaedra to Hippolytus, in Ovid's Epistles, translated by several hands— Lond. 1680. 81. oct. Also The sixteenth Ode of Horace, in a book entit. Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's Elegies, Odes of Horace, etc. Lond. 1684. oct. In which Miscellany Poems, is our author Otway's Epistle to R. D. in verse, p. 218. He englished also The History of the Triumvirates; the first part of Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus. The second part of Augustus, Antony and Lepidus. Being a faithful collection from the best Historians and other authors, concerning that revolution of the Rom. government, which happened under their authority. Lond. 1686. oct. Written originally in the French language. At length after he had lived about 33 years in this vain and transitory world, made his last exit in an house on Tower-hill (called the Bull as I have heard) on the 14. of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and five: 
1685.  whereupon his body was conveyed to the Church of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster, and was buried in a vault there. In his sickness he was composing a congratulatory Poem on the inauguration of K. Jam. 2.  
THOMAS MARTIAL, or Mareschallus, as in his Observe. in Evang. he writes himself, son of a father of both his names, was born at Barkbey in Leicestershire, educated there in Grammar learning under Francis Foe Vicar of that Town, entered a Batler in Linc. Coll. in Mich. term an. 1640, aged 19 years, and on the 31. of July in the year following he was elected one of Rob. Traps Scholars in that House: much about which time he being a constant auditor of the Sermons of the most learned and religious Primate of Ireland Dr. Usher, delivered in all-hallows Church joining to his Coll, his affections were so exceedingly wrought upon, that he was always resolved from thence forth to make him the pattern of all the religious and learned actions of his life, and therefore ever after he could not endure those that should in their common discourse or writings reflect in the least on that sacred Prelate. Soon after Oxford, being garrisoned upon the breaking out of the rebellion, he bore Arms therein for his Majesty, in the Regiment of Henry Earl of Dover, at his own proper cost and charges, and therefore in 1645 when he was a Candidate for the degree of Bach. of Arts, he was admitted thereunto without paying fees. But upon the approach of the Parliamentary Visitation he left the University, went beyond the Seas, and became Preacher to the Company of English Merchants at Rotterdam and Dort, in the place of Henry Tozer deceased. In 1661. he was admitted Bach. of Div, and four years after publishing observations on the Evangelists, did thereby revive his memory so much in his Coll. that the Society chose him fellow thereof without his knowledge or seeking, 17. Dec. 1668. In the year following he proceeded in his faculty, was elected Rector of his Coll. an. 1672, upon the promotion of Dr. Crew to the See of Oxon, and afterwards was made Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty. In the month of May an. 1680 he became Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and upon the promotion of Dr. Frampton to the See of Gloucester, he was nominated Dean of that Church in Jan. 1680; in which Deanery being installed on the 30. of Apr. 1681. he gave up Bladon in Feb. 1682. He was a person very well versed in books, was a noted Critic, especially in the Gothick and English Saxon tongues, a painful preacher, a good man and governor, and one every way worthy of his station in the Church. He hath written,  
Observationes in Evangeliorum versiones perantiquas duas, Gothica scil. & Anglo-saxonica, etc. Dordrecht. 1665. in a thick large quarto.  
The Catechism set forth in the book of Common-prayer, briefly explained by short notes, grounded upon holy Scripture. Oxon. 1679. oct. and several times after. The said short notes were drawn up and composed by our author upon the desire and motion of Dr. John Fell Bish. of Oxon, to be used by the Ministers of his Diocese in the catechising of the Children of their respective Parishes. In other editions that followed soon after, was added An Essay of questions and answers framed out of the same notes, for the exercise of youth, by the same hand which Catech. with notes and essay, were translated into Welsh by John Williams a Cambridge Scholar, Tutor to a certain person of quality in Jesus Coll. in this University— Printed at Oxon. 1682. oct. He the said Dr. Martial did also take a great deal of pains in completing the large English life of the aforesaid Dr. Usher, (published by Rich. Parr sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll.) but died before it was published; which happening suddenly in his lodgings in Linc. Coll. early in the morning of the 19 of Apr. (being then Easter Sunday) in sixteen hundred eighty and five, 
1685.  was buried in that Chancel, commonly called the College Chancel, of the Church of Allhallows alias Allsaints within the City of Oxon. By his last Will and Test. he gave to the public Library of the Uniu. of Oxon, all such of his books, whether Manuscript or printed, that were not then in the said Library, except only such that were in his said will otherwise disposed: And the remaining part to Linc. Coll. Library, I mean such that were not there, at that time, already, etc. Also so much money, which was raised from his estate, that came to 600 l. and more, he gave to the said College; with which was purchased fourteen pounds per an. a fee-farm rend, issuing out of the manor of Little Dean in Glocestershire, and twelve pounds per an. a rent-charge, out of some Lands in Brill in Bucks. Which benefaction three Scholars of Linc. Coll. do now successively enjoy. In his Deanery succeeded Will. Jane D.D. Can. of Ch. Ch. and the King's Professor of Diu. in this Uniu. of Oxon; and in his Rectory of Linc. Coll. Fitzherbert adam's Bach. of Diu. and Fellow of the said House, who hath since been a considerable Benefactor thereunto, and may in time be a greater. Besides the said Tho. Martial, (who was always taken to be an honest and conscientious Puritan) was another of both his names, author of The King's censure upon Recusants, that refuse the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; delivered in three Serm. Lond. 1654. qu. and of other things.  
JOHN MARSHAM second son of Tho. Marsham Citizen and Alderman of London, descended from the ancient family of his name in Norfolk, was born in the Parish of S. Barthelmew in London, 23. Aug. 1602, educated in the Coll. School at Westminster under Dr. John Wilson, became a Communer of S. John's Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Walker (afterwards Master of Uniu. Coll.) in the beginning of the year 1619, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1625, in which year he went into France and wintered at Paris. In the two following years he visited most parts of that Nation, and of Italy, and some of Germany, and then returned to London. In 1629 he went through Holland and Gelderlandht to the siege of Boldoc or Baldock, and thence, by Flushing, to Bologne and Paris to attend Sir Tho. edmond's, Ambassador extraordinary, to swear the peace at Fountain Bleau. During his abode in London he studied the Municipal Laws in the Middle Temple, and in 1637/8 he was sworn one of the six Clerks in Chancery. In the beginning of the Civil War, he left London, followed his Majesty and the Great Seal to Oxon and thereupon was sequestered of his said place by the members of Parl. sitting at Westm, plundered and lost to an incredible value. After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and the declining of the King's cause, he returned to London and compounded among several hundreds of Royalists for his real estate: At which time he betook himself wholly to his studies and lived in a retired condition. In the beginning of the year 1660 he served as a Burgess for the City of Rochester in that happy Parliament that recalled the King, and took away the Court of Wards; about which time being restored to his place in Chancery, he had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him on the first of July 1660, being then of Whornplace in Kent, and three years after was created a Baronet. He was a person well accomplished, exact in Histories whether civil or profane, in Chronology and in the Tongues. Pere Simon calls him in a preface to a work of his Le grand Marsham de Angleterr, and Monsieur Corcaoy the K. of France his Libr. keeper and all the great and learned men of Europe his contemporaries acknowledge him to be one of the greatest Antiquaries and most accurate and learned Writer of his time, as appears by their testimonies under their hands and seals in their letters to him, which would make a vol. in fol. He hath written,  
Diatriba Chronologica. Lond. 1649. qu. Most of which was afterwards remitted into the book that follows.  
Chronicus Canon Aegyptiacus, Ebraicus, Graecus & disquisitiones. Lond. 1672. fol. This was reprinted in Lower Germany in qu. with a new Index, and Preface, wherein are given to the author, very great Encomiums by a Foreigner unknown to him. There are many things worthy to be inserted thence, which, for brevity sake I shall now pass by. He also wrote the Preface set before the first vol. of Monasticon Anglicanum. Lond. 1655. which he entit.  
ΠΡΟΠΥΛΑΙΟΝ Johannis Marshami. Printed in 7 sheets and an half in fol. but much disliked and disrellished by the Rom. Cath. party. He also left behind him at his death unfinished. (1) Canonis Chronici liber quintus: sive Imperium Persicum. (2) De Provinciis & Legionibus Romanis. (3) De re nummaria, etc. At length departing this mortal life at Bushy hall in Hertfordshire on the 25. of May in sixteen hundred eighty and five, his body was thereupon conveyed to Cuxton near Rochester in Kent (where he had an Estate) and buried in the Church there. 
1685.  He left issue behind him, begotten on the body of Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Hammond of S. Alban in East Kent, two Sons, viz. Sir John Marsham now of Cuxton Baronet, who is writing The History of England much more exact, as 'tis said, than any yet extant, and Sir Robert of Bushy hall Knight, who succeeded his Father in the place of Six Clerk. In the possession of the first of these two is Sir John's Library, which though diminished by the fire that happened in London 1666, yet it is considerable and highly to be valued for the exquisite remarks in the margin of most of the books; and in the possession of the other is his Cabinet of Greek Medals, as curious as any private collection whatsoever.  
ANDREW ALLAM the son of a sufficient Plebeian of both his names, by Bridget darling his Wife, was born at Garsingdon near to, and in the County of, Oxon, in Apr. 1655 and baptised there on the 23 of the same month, educated in Grammar learning in a private School at Denton in the Parish of Cudesdon near to his native place, under a noted Master named Will. Wild-goose M. of Arts of Brasn. Coll. (much famed for his dexterity in Pedagogy) became a Batler of S. Edmund's Hall in Easter term 1671; where, had it not been his misfortune to fall under the tuition of a careless and crazed person, he might have proved a prodigy in several sorts of learning. After he had taken the degrees in Arts, he became a Tutor, Moderator, a Lecturer in the Chapel, and at length Vice-principal of his House. In all which offices he behaved himself much to the credit, honour and flourishing thereof. In 1680, at Whitsuntide, he entered into holy Orders, and in 83 he was one of the Masters of the Schools; which last place he executed with very great judgement and prudence. He was a person of eminent virtues, was sober, temperate, moderate and modest even to example. He understood the controversial writings between Conform●sts and Nonconformists, Protestants and Papists, far beyond his years, which was advanced by a great and happy memory: And I am persuaded had he not been taken off by the said Offices, he would have gone beyond all of his time and age in those matters, and might have proved an useful and signal member to the Church of England, for which he had most zealous respect. He understood the world of men well, authors better, and nothing but years and experience were wanting in, to make, him a complete walking Library. His works that are extant are (1) The learned Preface, or Epistle to the Reader, with a dedicatory Epist. in the Printers name, set before The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor, etc. to the Covenanters of Scotland, etc. Oxon. 1684. (2) The Epistle, with the account therein of Dr. Rich. Cosins' life, set before the said Cosins' book, entit. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia in tabulas digesta. Oxon 1684. in a thin fol. The ded. Epist. to Sir Leolin Jenkins in the Printers name, was written by Christoph. Wase superior Beadle of Law in the Uniu. of Oxon. (3) The Epistle before, with a review and correction of, the book entit. Some plain discourses on the Lord's Supper, etc. Written by Dr. George Griffith B. of S. Asaph— Oxon. 1684. oct. (4) Five or six sheets of his own hand writing and composure, containing corrections in, and addit. to, a book entit.— Angliae Notitia; or the present state of England, etc. written by one who had been also of S. Edm. Hall. They were made by Mr. Allam in the edit. of that book, printed at Lond. 1684. and were all, as I presume, inserted in that edition which came out at that place in 1687, but without any acknowledgement, (with shame be it spoken) from the author of that Notitia, who neither returned those thanks that he ought, out of common civility, to have done, or granted him his company or acquaintance, when he went to Lond, to desire it, purposely to communicate such things by word of mouth, which he could not, without great trouble, by his Pen, concerning various matters in that book. (5) He also began, and made divers additions in Helvicus his Historical and Chronological Theatre, as occasion required, and would have quite finished the supplement at the end, from 1660 to 1685, had he not been cut off by cruel death. These things were printed with that author at Lond. 1687 fol: But the Reader is to understand, that whereas there was a colom in that book of the said editi-of 1687 made, to contain the names of the famous Jesuits, from the first foundation of their order, to the year 1685, which was not in any of the Latin editions, 'twas not done by Allam, but by a busy body, nor that passage under the year 1678 which runs thus. Titus' Oats discovers a pretended Popish Plot. (6) He had laid the foundation of a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae; wherein he would have spoken of the foundation of all Cathedrals, with a touch of their Statutes and Customs. Which done, to set down the names of the present Bishop, Dean, Archdeacon, Cannons and Officers of each Cathedral, but death also prevented the finishing this. He also many times lent his assisting hand to the author of this present work, especially as to the Notitia of certain modern writers of our Nation, while the said author was day and night drudging after those more ancient. For the truth is (which hath been a wonder to him since his death) he understood well what he wanted and what would be fit for him to be brought into this work, which none else in the University could, (as he and the author knew full well to their great reluctancy) or would give any assistance or encouragement. Further it must not be forgotten that he translated into English The Life of Iphicrates, written in Lat. by Corn. Nepos and remitted into the book of Lives of that author, translated by several Oxford hands— Oxon. 1684. oct. p. 99, etc. At length after a great deal of fear of, and avoidance from, the disease called the Small pox, he was in unseasonable weather overtaken by it: so that being not able to overcome its encounters, he did surrender up his spotless soul, (being too worthy for this world, and the people he lived with) and was wedded to his Saviour Jesus Ch. on the 17. of June (about noon) in sixteen hundred eighty and five: 
1685.  whereupon his body was buried the same day, late at night, at the west end of the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon, under the South wall, joining on the S. side of the tombstone of Silu. Wood  
ROBERT WHITEHALL son of Rich. Whiteh. sometimes Bach. of Diu. of Ch. Church, afterwards Rector of Agmundesham commonly called Amersham and of Addington in Bucks, was born at Amersham, educated mostly in Westminster School under Mr. Rich. Busbie, became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1644. or thereabouts, ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 for giving this answer to, when required of, them, whither he would submit to their authority, 
My name's Whitehall, God bless the Poet,  
If I submit, the King shall know it.   
But he cringing afterwards to his Countrymen and Neighbours, the Ingoldesbies', especially to Rich. Ingoldesbie the Regicide (before whom he often acted the part of a Mimic and Buffoon purposely to make him merry) he was, upon submission made to the Committee for regulating the Uniu. of Oxon, put in by them Bachelaur-fellow of Merton Coll, an. 1650. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts, was Terrae Filius with Joh. Glendall of Brasn. Coll. 1655, entered on the Physic line, and by virtue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chancellor of this Uniu. of Oxon, he was actually created Bach. of Phys. in 1657. Since which time he made divers sallies into the practice of Physic, but thereby obtained but little reputation, and lesser by his Poetry, to which he much pretended, having been esteemed no better than a mere Poetaster and time-serving-Poet, as these things following partly show.  
The Marriage of Arms and Arts, 12. Jul. 1651, being an account of the Act at Oxon to a friend. Lond. 1651. 'Tis a Poem in one sh. in qu. and hath in the title the two Letters of R.W. set down, being then, as since, generally reported to be his; and he would never positively deny it. The occasion of the writing of it was this, viz. that an Act having not been solemnised for several years before, it became such a novelty to the then Students of the University (most of which had been put into places by the Visitors) that there was great rudeness committed by them and the concourse of people in getting into places and thrusting out strangers, during all the time of that solemnity, in S. Mary's Church. Whereupon the Vicechancellor Dr. Greenwood of Brasenose a severe and choleric Governor, was forced to get several Guards of Musquetiers out of the Parliament Garrison then in Oxon, to keep all the doors and avenews, and to let no body in, only such, whom the Vicech. or his Deputies appointed. There was then great quarrelling between the Scholars and Soldiers and thereupon blows and bloody Noses followed.  
Carmen gratulatorium Olivero Cromwell in Protectorem Angliae inaugurato, 1653. Printed in half a sheet on one side.  
Carmen Onomasticon Gratulatorium Richardo Cromwell in Cancellarii officium & dignitatem faeliciter electo, an. 1657 Pr. in half a sh. on one side.  
The Coronation, a Poem. Lond. 1661. in one sh. in qu.  
Carmen gratulatorium Edvardo Hide, equiti aurato, summo Angliae & optato Oxoniae Cancellario, etc. Printed on one side of a sh. in Lat. and English, an. 1660.  
Urania, or a description of the painting of the top of the Theatre at Oxon, as the Artist laid his design. Lond. 1669 in 3. sh. in fol. etc.  
Verses on Mrs. Mary More, upon her sending Sir Tho. Moor's Picture (of her own drawing) to the Long Gallery at the public Schools in Oxon. Oxon. 1674. on one side of a large half sheet.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Iconicum quarundam extranearum (numero 258) explicatio breviuscula & clara apprimè Epheborum aliquot proenobilium in usum exculta, quâ ad SS. Scripturas alliciantur. Quibus singulis accessit symbolum, cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex autoribus Graecis & Latinis depromptâ. Being an Epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old and New Testament after each Sculpture or cut. Oxon. 1677 in a large and thick quarto. It must be noted that the author had bought from Holland as many Cuts of the Old and New Test. that cost him 14 l. Each Cut he caused to be neatly pasted in the middle of a large quarto paper, on which, before, was printed a running title at the top, and six English verses at the bottom to explain the Cut or Picture. Which being so done, in twelve copies only, he caused each to be richly bound, and afterwards presented a very fair copy to the King, and the rest mostly to persons of quality: of which number was Charles son and heir of Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester, for whom he pretended 'twas chiefly composed.  
Gratulamini mecum. Or, a congratulatory Essay upon his Majesty's recovery. Lond. 1679. in one sh. in fol. Written upon his Majesty's being freed from an Ague at Windsor, in Sept. 1679.  
The English Recabite: or, a defiance to Bacchus and all his Works. A Poem in 67 Hexasticks, etc. Lond. 1681. in four sheets in fol. See more of him in his old friend Edm. Gayton, p. 271, a Poet of the like stamp. This Mr. Whitehall died on the eighth day of July, in sixteen hundred eighty and five, 
1685.  and was buried the next day in the south part or Isle of Merton College Church, having for several years before hanged on that house, as an useless member.  
JOHN ROBERTS son and heir of Richard Lord Roberts of Truro in Cornwall, was born in that County, entered a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux, an. 1625, where he continued two years or more, and after his father's death he succeeded him in his honour. In the beginning of the grand rebellion raised by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in that unhappy Convention, afterwards called the Long Parliament, he adhered to the cause that was then by them carried on, was made a Colonel in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex, and Governor for a time of the Garrison of Plymouth in Devonshire against his Majesty's forces; but when he afterwards beheld how things would terminate, he withdrew and acted little or nothing during the times of Usurpation. After his Majesty's restauration, he retired to the Court, and in 1662. he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of William Lord Say deceased; but giving not that content which was expected, he was sent into Ireland to be Lord Lieutenant there▪ in Sept. 1669, and his Government being disliked, he was recalled in May following. In Octob. 1679 he was made Lord Precedent of his Majesty's Council upon the removal of Anthony Earl of Shatfsbury, and soon after he was made Earl of Radnor. He hath written,  
A discourse of the vanity of the creature; grounded on Ecclesiast. 1.2. Lond. 1673. oct. and one, or more books, as I have been informed, fit for the Press. He died at Chelsey near London on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five; 
1685.  whereupon, about 8 days after, his body was conveyed to Lanhedriock near Bodmin in Cornwall, and buried in the Church there.  
ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet, Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland, was born in Fish-shambles street in S. John's Parish within the City of Dublin, on the tenth day of July, an. 1614, became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630, or thereabouts, continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more, and having laid a sure foundation in literature, to advance his knowledge in greater matters, he returned to his native Country for a time. In 1640 he was elected 
(a) List of the names of the Long Parliament, a. 1640. likewise of the Parliam. holden at Oxon 1643. Lond. 1659. oct.  Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640, but his election being questioned, Charles Price Esq. then elected also, was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected, yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon, where he sat in that called by his Majesty. In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament, or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland, an. 1645 or thereabouts, and became 
(b) True account of the proceedings betwixt James Duke of Orm●nde and Arth. Earl of Anglesey, etc. p. 9  instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest, Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army, or falling into the body of Irish hands, etc. Afterwards he went into England, complied with the Parliament, Ol. Cromwell and his party, took the Oath called the Engagement, as before he had the Covenant: But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms, he then, when he perceived that it could not be hindered, struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home, as many of his persuasion did, and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publicly, that they were as instrumental in that matter, as the best of the Royal party, nay they stuck not to say, that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored. At that time he was made a Privy Counsellor, and, to show his zeal for his Majesty's cause, he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bailie on the Regicides, where one of them, named Adrian Scrope, did reflect upon him, as 'twas by all there present supposed, and of others too, as having before been misled as well as himself, as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury, under the year 1682. In the year following, (1661.) a little before his Majesty's Coronation, he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks. (of which Town one Thom: Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mentioned had been High Constable) as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey, as coming more near to his name, than another place, or Town. Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust, was, at length, made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673, and kept it till Aug. 1682, at which time, he was deprived of it (some have thought unjustly) for several reasons, as I shall anon tell you: whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire, which he, some years before, had purchased, vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair, as I shall tell you by and by. He was a person very subtle, cunning and reserved in the managery and transacting his affairs, of more than ordinary parts, and one who had the command of a very smooth, sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books, and a great Calvinist, but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different persuasions in matters of Religion, hath left it somewhat difficult, at least in some men's judgements, peremptorily to determine among what sort of men, as to point of Religion, he himself ought in truth to have been ranked. Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these, the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them, who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own, especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out, when then, out of policy, he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists, as it was notoriously observed by them, and of other pretenders to Politics, merely to save themselves, and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected. As for his published writings they are these,  
The truth unvailed, in behalf the Church of England, etc. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon (on 2 Cor. 5.20) preached before the King and published by his Majesty's command. Lond. 1676 in 3 sh. in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresy, containing some reflections on the said Sermon; was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit. Falshood unmasked, etc. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh. and an half in qu.  
Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts (once) of the Univers. of Cambridge calls Rational. Presented in Print to a person of honour, an. 1676 concerning Transubstantiation— Printed with Truth unvailed, etc. Which discourse was also answered by another, in a piece intit. Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all men's senses, reason and holy scripture, etc. Lond. 1676. qu.  
A Letter from a person of honour in the Country, written to the Earl of Castlehaven: Being observations and reflections upon his Lordship's Memoires 
(c) Printed at Lond. 1681, in octav.  concerning the Wars in Ireland. Lond. 1681. oct. Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde, and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein, reflected upon, with great disadvantage, as he thought; he wrote and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey, dated at Dublin, 12 Nou. 1681, to vindicate himself. Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another, and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682, both contained in two sh. in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King, on the 17 of June following: which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court, his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council; and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey, and that he appear and make answer thereunto, at a Council to be holden at Whitehall, on the 23 of the said month. In obedience to this, Anglesey, tho much troubled with the Gout, appeared, made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself, bandied the matter with Ormond, and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him. These things being done, another Council was held 13 July, at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him, it was then ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Anglesey, and that he return an answer thereunto on the 20 of the said month, at Hampton Court. But no Council being then held, (notwithstanding Anglesey had made answer to Ormond's particular charges against him the next day) the matter was deferred till the 27 of the same month. Another Council being therefore there held on that day, the charges and answers were debated. Which done, and the Lords concerned being withdrawn, this resolution passed by the Council on Anglesey's letter to the Earl of Castlehaven, viz. That it was a scandalous libel against his late Majesty, against his now Majesty, and against the Government. When the Parties, or Lords concerned, were called in again, the Lord Chancellor only told Anglesey that the King conceived him faulty in the clause, pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven, wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mentioned as having been in at the intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court. After which a farther hearing was appointed to be on the 3 of Aug. following, but Anglesey continuing extreme ill of the Gout, and finding himself prejudged by the Lords of the Council on the 27 of July, he wrote a Letter on the 2 of Aug. to his Majesty; which being openly read in Council the next day, he did in some manner (as 'twas said) resent it for some passages therein, yet nothing appeared entered to be done thereupon. Afterwards the Earl of Castlehaven (James Touchet) was called in several times and questioned about his Memoires; which he acknowledging to be his, the said book in conclusion was by his Majesty and Council judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government. On the 9 of the said month of Aug. 1682, the Privy Seal, by command from his Majesty, was taken away from Anglesey by Sir Leolin Jenkins Principal Secretary of State, without any farther hearing, and was given to George Marquis of Halyfax. Besides the aforesaid Letter of the E. of Anglesey written to the Earl of Castlehaven, containing Observations, etc. was another book published intit. Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires, etc. written by Dr. Edm. Borlase, (Author of The Hist. of the execrable Irish Rebellion, etc.) and printed at London 1682. oct. But the said Author, who commends Anglesey's Letter, was not regarded. Afterwards our Author Anglesey wrote,  
A true account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesie before the King and his Council, etc. Lond. 1682, in 18 sh. in fol. and  
A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian. Lond. 1683. in two sh. in cue; which Jovian was wrote by Dr. George Hicks Dean of Worcester. In the beginning of the year 1686 he began to be admitted into the favour of King James 2, but being about that time seized with a Quinsey in his throat, died soon after as I shall anon tell you, leaving behind him  
The History of Ireland, MS. and  
The King's right of indulgence in spiritual matters with the equity thereof asserted.— Which book being put into the hands of Hen. Care, he caused it to be published at Lond. in Nou. 1687. in 10 sh. and an half in qu. with the date of 16S8. put at the bottom of the title. So that that person, who in the time of the Popish Plot had showed himself the most bitter enemy in the Nation against the Papists, and Duke of York, by publishing The weekly Packet of Advice from Rome, and other things, was, when the said Duke came to the Crown, taken so much into favour, as to be made a Tool to print matters for the abolishing of the Test and Penal Laws, the publishing of which book was one. At length after our Author Arthur Earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a Politician, for more than 45 years, he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the Liberty of Westminster, on Easter Tuesday, 
1686.  the 6 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six: whereupon his body being conveyed to Farnborough in Hampshire, where he had an Estate, was buried in the Church there. He left behind him a choice Library of Books, which were exposed to sale, by way of Auction, in Oct. Nou. etc. following.  
JOHN DOLBEN son of Will. Dolb. D. D. was born at Stanwick in Northamptonshire, of which his father was Rector, elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. school, an. 1640, aged 15 years, bore arms for a time in Oxon, when made a Garrison for his Majesty; and having made proof of his Courage in that service, he was appointed an Ensign, and at length a Major in one of the Armies belonging to his Majesty; but after the surrender of Oxford, the declension of the King's Cause, and his Army disbanded, he returned to Christ Church again, and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1647, and the next year was ejected from his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament. Soon after, he took to wife Catherine daughter of Ralph Sheldon (elder brother to Dr. Gilb. Sheldon then lately Warden of Alls. Coll.) with whom he lived during the time of Usurpation in S. Aldates' Parish in Oxon, and assisted Mr. Joh. Fell in keeping up the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England in a private house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church. After the King's restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. 27 Jul. 1660, in the place of John Pointer then ejected, and soon after was created Doctor of Divinity: At which time the Uncle of his Wife being Bishop of London and in great favour with the King, he was, upon his recommendation, deservedly made not only Archdeacon of London in the place of Dr. Thom. Paske deceased, but afterwards Clerk of the Closet and Dean of Westminster, upon the promotion of Dr. Earl to the See of Worcester; in which last dignity he was installed 5 Dec. 1662. In 1666 he was made Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner deceased, to which See being consecrated in the Archb. Chapel at Lambeth on the 25 of Nou. the same year, he had then liberty allowed him by his Majesty to keep his Deanery in commendam. Afterwards he became Almoner to his Majesty, and at that time and before that place was managed to the benefit of the Poor with great justice and integrity. At length upon the death of Dr. Stern Archb. of York, he was, by virtue of the King's Congee d'eslire, elected to that See 28 Jul. 1683, and soon after viz. Aug. 16. being translated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth, was on the 23 of the same month enthronised. He was a man of a free, generous, and noble disposition, and withal of a natural bold and happy Eloquence. As he imitated his Uncle Bishop Williams in the greatness of his parts and abilities, so he by a certain hereditary right succeeded him in his Honours, both in his Deanery of Westminster, and his Archbishopric of York. He was not very careful to print his Sermons, which much deserve to be published; but such as are set forth are these.  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) Sermon before his Majesty on Good Friday at Whitehall, 24 Mar. 1664. on Joh. 19 part of the 19 ver. Lond. 1665. qu. (2) Serm. before the K. on Tuesday 20 June 1665, being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the late Victory at sea, on Psal. 54.6.7. Lond. 1665. qu. (3) Serm. before the K. 1666, on the like occasion, on Psal. 18.1.2.3. Land. 1666. qu. etc. He died of the Small Pox on the eleventh day of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six: 
1686.  whereupon his body was conveyed from Bishops Thorp to York, and there interred in the Cathedral. When he was promoted to the See of York Dr. Franc. Turner succeeded him in Rochester, and Dr. Tho. Sprat in the Deanery of Westminster: and an year and a half after his death, Dr. Tho. Lamplugh B. of Exeter succeeded him in the See of York, as I shall tell you elsewhere. Soon after was put a large and comely Monument over his grave, with this inscription thereon.  

Hic situs est  
Johannes Dolben filius Gulielmi S. Th. Professoris,  
Ex antiqua familia in Cambria septentrionali oriundus,  
Natus Stanvici in Agro Northampton. Mart. 20. A. D. 1624.   

Anno aetatis 12 Regiam scholam Westmonast. auspicato ingressus,  
Singulari istius loci genio plenus 15 exivit.  
In numerum Alumnorum Aedis Christi Oxon electus.  
Exardente bello civili  
Parts regias secutus est, in pugna Marstonensi Vexillarius.  
In defension Eboraci graviter vulneratus  
Effuso sanguine consecravit locum  
Olim morti suae destinatum.   

A. D. 1656. à Rev. Episc. Cicestrensi sacris ordinibus initiatus,  
Instaurata Monarchia factus est Aedis Christi Canonicus.  
Deinde Decanus Westmonasteriensis.  
Mox Carolo II. Regi optimo ab Oratorio Clericus,  
Episcopus postea Roffensis  
Et post novennium Regis Eleemosynarius.   

Anno denique 1683. Metropol. Eboracens. honore cumulatus est.  
Hanc provinciam ingenti animo & pari industria administravit  
Gregi & Pastoribus exemplo  
Intra 30 circiter menses seculi laboribus exhaustis  
Caelo tandem maturus  
Lethargia & Variolis per quatriduum lecto affixus.   

A. D. 1686, aet. 62, Potentis. Princ. Jac. II. altero, die dominico  
Eodem die quo praeeunte anno sacras Synaxes  
In Eccles. sua Cathed. septimanatim celebrandas instituerat  
Caelo fruebatur.   

Maestissima conjux, magni Gilberti, Cantuariensis Archiep. Neptis  
Ex qua tres liberos suscepit Gilbertum, Catharin. & Johan.  
Monumentum hoc posuit  
Desideratissimo Marito.   

In aede Christi sub illius auspiciis partim extructâ  
Bromleiensi Palatio reparato, in Caenobio Westmon. conservato;  
In Senatu & Ecclesiis, Eloquentiae gloriâ; In Diocoesibus suis Episcopali diligentia,  
In omnium priorum animis; justâ veneratione semper Victuro.   
WILLIAM COVENTRIE fourth son of Tho. Lord Coventrie, sometimes Keeper of the Great Seal of England, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Alderley of London, was born either in the City or Suburb of London, became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1642, aged 14 years; but leaving that house without a degree, he traveled beyond the Seas, and at his return seemed to adhere to the cause of K. Ch. 2. After his restauration he was elected a Burgess for the Town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 8 May 1661., and two years after was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University, being about that time Secretary to his Royal Highness James Duke of York. In 1665, Jun. 26, he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty, and was afterwards sworn one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, being then esteemed, upon all accounts, qualified for noble employments; for at that time, if I mistake not, he was Secretary to the Navy; (the said Duke being then General at Sea, in the Wars against the Dutch) by which employment he got a considerable estate in money, which ever after kept up his port according to his quality. But at length behaving himself displeasing to the said Duke, when there was need of him, he was removed from his service: whereupon settling at Minster Lovel near Witney in Oxfordshire, became much respected by the neighbouring Gentry; for whose sake, he was the first that found out a way for the ease of him, or them, that should bear the Office of Shrievelty: For whereas before, it was usual for the High Sheriff to expend four or five hundred pounds ere he could be quit of his Office, he then (in Octob. 1675) by certain Articles which he framed, and were afterwards subscribed by the Gentry to stand to, brought that sum to 50 or 60 l, and the first High Sheriff of Oxfordshire that enjoyed the benefit of the said Articles, was Sir Edm. Fetyplace of Swinbroke near Burford Baronet, who was elected to that office in Nou. the same year. Among several things which the said Sir Will. Coventrie wrote, and published, without his name set to them, were these.  
England's appeal from the private Cabal at Whitehall to the great Council of the Nation, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.— Printed 1673. in 7 sh. in qu.  
Letter written to Dr. Gilb. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pole's secret powers: From which it appears that it was never intended to confirm the alienation which was made of the Abbey-Lands. To which are added two Breves that Card. Pole brought over, and some other of his Letters, that were never before printed. Lond. 1685. in 5 sh. in qu. He hath also written another thing, to which his name was set, intit.  
The Character of a Trimmer. His opinion of 1. The Laws and Government, 2. Protestant Religion. 3. The Papists, 4. Foreign Affairs. Lond. 1689. in 6 sh. in qu. sec. edit. the first of which had not his name set to it. At length this honourable Knight retiring to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the sake of the Water there to cure his distemper, died at Somerhill near thereunto, of the gout in the Stomach, which the Physicians took to be the Stone, on Wednesday 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and six; 
1686:  whereupon his body was conveyed to Penshurst in the said County, and buried in the Church there. He bequeathed 2000 l. to the French Protestants that were then lately come into England upon their expulsion from their own Country upon account of Religion, and 3000 l. for the redemption of Captives at Algiers, as the current report than went, appointing Dr. Compton B. of London, and Dr. Jo. Fell B. of Oxon, Overseers of his gift.  
JOHN FELL son of Dr. Sam. Fell sometime Dean of Ch. Ch. by Margaret his wife, daughter of Tho. Wyld of the Commandery in the Suburbs of Worcester Esq. was born at Suningwell near to Abendon in Berks, educated mostly in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire, (founded by John Lord Williams) made Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1636, aged eleven years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1643, about which time he was in arms for his Majesty within the Garrison of Oxon, and afterwards was an Ensign. In 1648 he was turned out of his place by the Parliamentarian Visitors, he being then in holy Orders; from which year, to the King's Restauration, he spent his time in Oxon in a retired and studious condition, partly in the Lodgings of his brother-in-law Mr. Tho. Willis in Canterbury Quadrangle pertaining to Ch. Church, and afterwards partly in his House situate and being over against Merton Coll. Church; wherein he and others kept up the devotions and orders of the Ch. of England, administered the Sacrament and other duties to the afflicted Royalists then remaining in Oxon. After the King's restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Ralph Button ejected, on the 27 of July 1660, and Dean of the said Church on the 30 of Nou. following, being then one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, and Doctor of Divinity by actual creation. By his constant residence in Oxon in the time of Usurpation, he could not otherwise but behold with grief to what a miserable condition the whole University, and in particular those of his quondam Coll. were reduced to as to Principles in Religion, and he knew that things could not be reform suddenly but by degrees. His Predecessor Dr. Morley, in that short time that he governed the Coll. restored the Members thereof then living, that had been ejected in 1648, and such that remained factious Dr. Fell either removed or fixed in loyal Principles; yet when the Organ and Surplice were restored, there were not wanting those that to the great concern and resentment of the Dean, Dr. Dolben, Dr. Allestree, and others, used both of them with contempt and Indignity. As by his unwearied diligence he endeavoured to improve his College with Learning and true Religion, so also to adorn it with Buildings; for no sooner he was settled, but he took upon him a resolution to finish Wolsey's great Quadrangle. The north side of it which was left void and open in Wolsey's time, was begun to be supplied with Buildings suitable to the rest of the Quadrangle, by his father Dr. S. Fell, and was by him, the College and Benefactors, carried on to the top, and had all the frame of timber belonging thereunto laid; but before the inside could be finished and the top covered with lead, the Civil War began. In that condition it continued exposed to weather till the Reformers took place, who minding their own concerns and not at all the public, took the timber away and employed it for their private use. This imperfect Building, I say, was, by the benefaction of Dr. Joh. Fell, the then present Canons, and others of the House, as also by the benefaction 
(a) See Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 285. a.  of certain generous persons that had been formerly Members thereof and of others, quite finished for the use of two Canons, together with that part between the imperfect Building on the north side of the great gate, and the N. W. corner of the said Quadrangle. The next Fabric that he undertook was that in the Chaplains Quadrangle, and the long range of building joining thereunto on the East side. For whereas Philip King Auditor of Ch. Ch. had built very fair Lodgings of polished Freestone about 1638, in, or very near that place, whereon the said long range was afterwards erected, they were by carelessness burnt on the 19 of Nou. 1669, and with them the south east corner of the said Quadrangle, besides part of the Lodgings belonging to the Canon of the second stall, which was blown up with Gunpowder to prevent the spreading of the fire towards the Library, Treasury and Church. These Buildings being burnt and blown up, were by the care of Dr. Fell rebuilt, viz. the east side of the Chaplains Quadrangle, with a strait passage under it, leading from the Cloister into the Field, which was finished in 1672, and the long range before mentioned, in 1677 and 78. The third Fabric, which by his care was also erected, were the Lodgings belonging to the Canon of the third Stall, situate and being in the passage leading from Wolsey's Quadrangle, to that of Peckwater, which were finishing in 1674. And lastly the stately Tower over the great and principal gate next to Fish-street, began on the old foundation (laid by Wolsey) in June 1681, and finished in Nou. 1682, mostly with the moneys of Benefactors, whose Arms are with great curiosity engraven in stone on the roof that parts the Gatehouse and the Belfry. To this Tower was translated from the Campanile of the Church, the Bell called Great Tom of Christ Church, after it had been several times cast, an. 1683, and on the great Festival of the 29 of May 1684, it first rang out, between 8 and 9 at night; from which time to this, a Servant toll it every night at 9, as a signal to all Scholars to repair to their respective Colleges and Halls, as he did, while 'twas in the Campanile. In 1666. 67. 68 and part of 69, Dr. Fell was invested with the office of Vicechancellor, in which being settled, his first care was to make all degrees go in Caps, and in public Assemblies to appear in Hoods. He also reduced the Caps and Gowns worn by all degrees, to their former size or make, and ordered all Cap-makers and Tailors to make them so; which for several years after were duly observed, but now, especially as to Gowns, an equal strictness is not observed. His next care was to look narrowly towards the performance of public exercise in the Schools, and to reform several abuses in them; and because Coursing in the time of Lent, that is the endeavours of one party to run down and confute another in disputations, did commonly end in blows, and domestic quarrels, (the refuge of the vanquished side) he did by his authority annul that custom. Snce that time as those public disturbances, which were the scandal of the University, did cease; so likewise that vehemence and eagerness in disputations which was increased by those intestine broils having lost the incentives of malice, feuds and contentions did in great measure abate, and at length fall. However Dr. Fell, that he might as much as possibly support the exercises of the University, did frequent Examinations for degrees, hold the Examiner's up to it, and if they would, or could, not do their duty, he would do it himself, to the pulling down of many. He did also sometimes repair to the Ordinaries, (commonly called Wall Lectures from the paucity of Auditors) and was frequently present at those Exercises called Disputations in Augustine's, where he would make the Disputants begin precisely at one, and continue disputing till 3 of the clock in the afternoon; so that upon his appearance more Auditors were then present, than since have usually appeared at those Exercises. It was his endeavour before, and while, he was Vicechancellor, as also the endeavours of some of his friends and fellow-sufferers, to reduce the University to that manner and form, as to Preaching, Disputing, Discipline, Opinion, etc. as 'twas while Dr. Laud was Chancellor thereof; but because of the twenty years' interval, wherein a most strange liberty, looseness in manners and religion had taken place, they could not do it; and I remember that many made it a ridiculous thing, that he and they should in the least think of such a matter, which a whole age could not do, nor that also, unless a succession of good Kings came, that should be of the same mind and opinion with Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory. He was a most excellent Disciplinarian, kept up the exercise of his house severely, was admirable in training up Youth, of noble extraction, had a faculty in it peculiar to him and was much delighted in it. He would constantly on several mornings in the week take his rounds in his Coll, go to the Chambers of Noblemen and Gent. Commoners, and examine and see what progress they made in their studies. He constantly frequented divine Service in public four times in a day, and had, besides, Prayers twice every day in his own family. He was a most zealous Favourer of the Ch. of England, and none, that I yet know of, did go beyond him, in the performance of the rules belonging thereunto. He was a great encourager and promoter of Learning in the University, and of all public works belonging thereunto, witness not only the Edifices before mentioned, but his solicitation for the building of the public Theatre, to the end that the house of God might be kept free for its own use: He likewise advanced the learned Press, and improved the Manufacture of Printing in Oxford in such manner as it had been designed before by that public spirited person Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury; and certainly it would have been by him effected, as other matters of greater concern relating to Religion and Learning, had not the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians prevented him. He was also a person of a most generous spirit, undervalved money, and disbursed it so freely upon learned, pious and charitable uses, that he left sometimes for himself and his private use little or nothing. He was an eager defender and maintainer of the University and its Privileges (especially while he executed the office of Vicechancellor) against the Oppugners of them, and always endeavoured to advance its Liberties; for which he often gained the ill opinions of the Citizens. He was a bold and resolute man, and did not value wha● the generality said or thought of him so that he could accomplish his just and generous designs: which being too many to effect, was the chief reason of shortening his days. His charity was so great that he was a husband to the afflicted widow, a father to the orphan, and a tender parent to poor Children. He constantly allowed an yearly pension to a poor man of S. Thomas in the Suburb of Oxon, purposely that he should teach gratis 20 or 24 poor children of that Parish to read; some of which he afterward bound Apprentices or made Scholars. He was a person of great morals and virtues, spent his time in celibacy, of an unspotted life, and unquestionable reputation. On the 8 of Jan. 1675 he was elected Bishop of Oxon by the Chapter of Ch. Ch. by virtue of a Congee d'eslire sent to them from his Majesty, and on the sixth of Febr. following, being then Shrove Sunday, he was consecrated in the Chapel of the Bishop of Winchester at Chelsey near London; at which time liberty was given to him to keep his Deanery in commendam, purposely to keep him in his Coll. that he might do farther good therein, and in the University. No sooner he was settled in his See, but he betook himself to the rebuilding the Palace belonging thereunto, at Cudesden near Oxon: whereupon examining what had been done in order to it by any of his Predecessors, which was no considerable matter, he undertook and finished it, as I have told you in the first vol. p. 634, yet enjoyed but a little time in it. As for his Works pertaining to Learning, they are these.  
The life of the most learned, Rev. and Pious Dr. Hen. Hammond. Lond. 1661. etc. oct. Before which time, he was supposed to be author of The interest of England stated: or a faithful and just account of the aims of all parties now pretending; distinctly treating of the designments of the R. Cath, Royalist, Presbyterian, Anabaptist, etc. Printed in 1659. in two sh. in qu. but how true it is, I cannot tell, because I heard of it but very lately, and that from no considerable hand. It was answered by March. Nedham as I have told you in my discourse of him.  
The vanity of scoffing; in a letter to a Gent. Lond. 1674 qu. No name is set to it, only then generally reported to be his.  
Responsio ad epistolam Thomae Hobbes Malmsburiensis. See at the end of Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon.  
Several Sermons as (1) The Character of the last days, preached before the King, on 2. Pet. 3.3. Oxon. 1675. qu. (2) Serm. preached before the H. of Peers, 22. Dec. 1680, being the day of solemn humiliation, on Matth. 12.25. Oxon. 1680. qu. etc.  
Account of Dr. Rich. Allestree's life— This is in the preface before the said Doctors Forty Sermons, published by our author Dr. Fell, who also reviewed and illustrated with marginal notes the works of S. Cyprian, which he published under this title Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera recognita & illustrata, per Johannem Episcopum Oxoniensem. Pr. 1682 fol. in the printing house joining on the east side of the Theatre, erected at the charge of the University of Oxon on the motion of Dr. Fell, an. 1674. To which book were added annal Cyprianici, by Dr. John Pearson Bishop of Chester. He also translated into English Of the Unity of the Church. Printed also in the same house 1681. qu. Written originally by S. Cyprian. See more of his works in Pat. Young in the first vol. p. 794 and in Ger. Langbaine and Tho. Willis in this, p. 141 and 403. Dr. Fell also published or reprinted every year while he was Dean of Ch. Ch, viz. from 1661. to the time of his death, a book, commonly a classical author, against New-year's tide to distribute among the Students of his House. To which books he either put an Epistle, or running notes, or corrections. These I have endeavoured to recover, that the titles might be known and here set down, but in vain. The first piece which he published of the incomparable author of The whole duty of man, was The Ladies Calling; before which he put an Epistle to the Reader, giving an account after what a private manner the copy thereof, accompanied with a letter, was conveyed to his hands. This Epistle is left out in the folio edit. of that author's works, as also Dr. Hammonds Epistle before The whole duty of man, and that of Dr. Humph. Henchmans' before The Gentleman's Calling, which two books had been published by the said Doctors. Dr. Fell also published in the year 1675 two other pieces written by the same author, viz. The Government of the Tongue, and The Art of Contentment, and last of all The lively Oracles given to us, etc. which was first printed at Oxon 1678. oct. In 1684 all the works of the said excellent author were printed together in a pretty large folio, and fair character, at Oxon and London. The whole duty of man, The decay of Christian piety, and The Gentleman's Calling (which although published by Dr. Henchman some years before The decay of Christian Piety, is in this Edit. placed after it) make the first part, which is printed at London, and the four pieces above-named make the second part, printed at Oxon. Before the whole volume is placed a general preface of Dr. Fells composition; wherein among other things he points at no less than five spurious pieces, which have expressly, or by a designed implication boldly usurped on the name and authority of this unknown celebrated author. In this edition of his works complete, Dr. Fell hath inserted in the margin of the four last pieces, which make the second part of the said vol. (if not too, of The Gent. Calling, and The decay of Christ. Piety) the heads and contents of each section, with useful marginal abbreviations, which were till then wanting in all the parts, except only in The whole duty of man. He caused also at his own proper charge the Hist. and Antiq. of the Uniu. of Oxon, to be translated into latin, and kept two men in pay for doing it, besides what he did himself, which was considerable, and the Author, which was less: And being so done he caused it, at his own charge also, to be printed with a good character on good paper; but he taking to himself liberty of putting in and out several things according to his own judgement, and those that he employed being not careful enough to carry the whole design in their head as the Author would have done; it is desired that the Author may not be accountable for any thing which was inserted by him; or be censured for any useless repetitions or omissions of his Agents under him. At length this most godly, learned and zealous person, having brought his body to an ill habit and having wasted his spirits by too much zeal for the public, he surrendered up his pious soul to God, to the great loss of learning, and of the whole University, about three of the clock in the morning of the tenth of July (being then Saturday) in sixteen hundred eighty and six, 
1686.  leaving then behind him the general character of a learned and pious Divine, and of an excellent Grecian Latinist and Philologist, of a great assertor of the Church of England, of another Founder of his own College, and of a Patron of the whole University. He was buried on the 13 day of the same month in the Divinity Chap. which is the Isle most northward from the choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in a little vault built of brick, under the Deans seat on the right hand, and under the seats adjoining Eastward: His Monument long since promised by his Executors, is yet to be expected.  
JOHN JONES son of John Jones of Llang-Ellian in Denbighshire, became a Student in New Inn, in Act term 1675, aged 20 years, was translated afterwards to Trin. Coll. and as a member thereof taking the degree of Bach. of Arts, 1681, was soon after made Usher of the Free-school at S. Alban in Hertfordshire, where, as in the University, he was esteemed a good latin Poet. He hath written,  
Fanum S. Albani Poema carmine Heroico. Lond. 1683 in 4. sh. in qu. dedic. to Sir Harbottle Grimston Knight and Bt, Master of the Rolls. 
1686.  He died in sixteen hundred eighty and six, and was buried in the large Church of S. Alban before mentioned, with this epitaph soon after put over his grave. H. S. E. Johannes Jones Wallus, Scholae S. Albanensis Hypodidascalus literatissimus. Qui, dum Ecclesia haec Anno 1684 publicis impensis instauraretur, exsculpsit sibi quoque monumentum; quod inscripsit Fanum S. Albani, poema carmine Heroico, hoc lapide, hâc Aede, aevoque perrennius omni, etc.  
JOHN BENNET son of a Father of both his names, was born in S. Margaret's Parish within the City of Westminster, elected from the Coll. School there, a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1676, took one degree in Arts and wrote,  
Constantius the Apostate: Being a short account of his life, and the sense of the primitive Christians about succession. Wherein is shown the unlawfulness of excluding the next heir upon the account of Religion; and the necessity of Passive Obedience, as well to the unlawful oppressor as legal persecutor. Being a full answer to a late pamphlet entit. Julian the Apostate, etc. Lond. 1683. oct. Afterwards the author proceeded in Arts, studied Physic, and dying of a violent fever on the 6. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and six, 
1686.  was buried on the south side of the body of the Cathedral of Christ Church in Oxford.  
WILLIAM GOULD was born of gentile parents at Parhams farm in the Parish of Alston in Wiltshire, entered a Com. of Oriel Coll. 19 of May 1658, where being extravagant in his life and conversation, was forced thence, but taking up in time, and making a through reformation in himself, obtained the Chancellor's letters for the accumulating the degrees in Arts an. 1666, wherein I find this character of him, that he is a man of very good parts and learning and well qualified to do service in the Church, etc. But whether he was admitted Bach. or Master of Arts, it appears not. About that time being in holy Orders, he became Rector of Kenn near Exeter in his own Country, a most loyal and orthodox person and a good preacher. He hath published,  
Several Sermons as (1) Domus mea domus orationis, preached at S. Peter's in Exeter, on Matth. 21.13. Lond. 1672 qu. (2) Conformity according to the Canon justified, and the new way of moderation reproved, preached in the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in Exeter, at the Visitation of Anthony Bishop of Exeter, on 1. Cor. 14.20. Lond. 1674. qu. (3) The generosity of Christian love, on 1. Cor. 13.5. Lond. 1676. qu. (4) The primitive Christian justified, and Jack Presbyter reproved; or a scripture demonstration, that to be innocent and persecuted is more eligible than to be prosperously wicked▪ preached in his Abbey Church of Bath, on Job 36.21. Lond. 1682. qu. He died in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and six, 
1686.  and was buried on the first of Novemb. in the Church of Kenn before mentioned, where there is a Monument and Epitaph over his grave.  
THOMAS JACOMBE son of Job. Jac. was born at Burton Lazars near to Melton Mowbray in Leycestershire, became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall in Easter Term an. 1640, aged 18 years, left it upon the eruption of the Civil Wars, went to Cambridge, and taking the Covenant became Fellow of Trin. Coll. there, in the place of a loyalist ejected; and having the degree of Master of Arts in that University conferred on him, became a person of high repute, (as one 
(a) Sam. roll a Nonconformist in his Prodromus, or the Character of Mr. Will. Sherl●cks book called A discourse of the knowledge of Jes. Chr. etc. Lond. 1674. oct. p. 15.  of his persuasion tells us) for his good life, good learning and excellent gravity, greatly beloved of the than Master, who loved an honest man and a good Scholar with all his heart. About that time taking Orders according to the Presbyterian way, he retired to London and much about the same time that he became Minister of S. Martin's Church joining to Ludgate, he became one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of London for the ejecting of such whom the faction then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. From that time to his silencing, he was a very zealous person for promoting the cause, and in very great esteem by those of his persuasion, as the aforesaid author tells us, for his piety, parts, prudence, sound, judicious, practical, spiritual, substantial preaching: yet another 
(b) W●ll. She●●●ck D. D.  of a contrary persuasion, who lived afterwards, as now, in very great esteem for his loyalty and learning, represents 
(c) Ib. in Prodrom. p. 15.  him to have been the prettiest, nonsensical, trifling Goose. cap, that ever set pen to paper. On the 14 of March 1659. he was one of those Zealots, who, by Act of Parliament, were appointed Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way, before they were to be settled in Church Livings; but that being soon after laid aside upon his Majesty's restauration, he himself was ejected from S. Martin's and laid aside also for Nonconformity, at Bartholomew tide in 1662., he being about that time Doct. of Divinity. Afterwards he followed the trade of Conventicling, for which he was brought several times into trouble, and at length became Chaplain to the Countess of Exeter, in whose service he died. He hath extant,  
Several Sermons as (1) enoch's walk and change, funeral Sermon on Gen. 5.24. preached at the burial of Mr. Rich. Vines sometimes Master of Pembr. Hall in Cambridge, in the Church of S. Laurence Jewry, London, 7. Feb. 1655. Lond. 1657. qu. third edit. To which our author Jacombe hath added A short account of the life and death of Mr. Rich. Vines. (2) The active and public spirit, preached at S. Paul's 26. oct. 1656, on Acts 13. former part of the 36 vers. Lond. 1657. qu. (3) God's mercy for man's mercy, preached at the spital before the L. Mayor, aldermans, etc. of Lond. on Matth. 5.7. Lond. 1657. qu. (4) Two farewell Sermons at Bartholomew tide, on John 8.29. Lond. 1662. oct. His picture is before the title, among other pictures of Nonconformists that preached farewell Sermons in London. (5) Several Sermons preached on the whole eighth Chap. of the Epistle to the Romans: eighteen of which were preached on the first, 2.3. and fourth verses of the said eighth Chapt. Lond. 1672. 3. qu. This is sometimes called his Commentary on the eighth Chap. to the Romans. (6) How Christians may learn in every state to be content, on Phil. 4.11. This is in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. (7) The Covenant of redemption, on Isa. 53.10. This is in The morning exercise methodised, etc. preached at St. Giles in the Fields, in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. (8) The upright man's peace at his end, opened in a fun. discourse (or Serm.) 8. Dec. 1681. upon the death of Mr. Matth. Martin Citizen of London. Lond. 1682. qu. etc. He hath also written,  
A treatise of holy dedication both personal and domestic; recommended to the Citizens of London upon their entering into their new habitations. Lond. 1668. oct. This was written after the grand conflagration of London, and published after the Citizens had returned to their habitations when rebuilt.  
A short account of the life of Mr. Will. Whittaker late Minister of S. Mary Magd. Bermondsey in Southwark. Lond. 1674. 5. oct. This is set before Mr. Whittakers eighteen Sermons preached upon several texts of Scripture. Dr. Jacombe also was one of the eight Nonconforming Ministers that undertook in 1682 to finish the English Annotations on the Holy Scripture, in two vol. in fol. began by Matthew Pool and by him carried on to the 58 Chapter of Isaiah; and no doubt there is but that he did his share in that great work. At length he giving way to fate in the house of (Frances) Countess of Exeter, situate and being in Little Britain, on the 27. of March (being then Easter Sunday) in sixteen hundred eighty and seven, 
1687.  was buried five days after in the Church of St. Anne within and near, Aldersgate, in the City of London, in the presence of very many, as well Conformist, as Nonconformist, Divines. I find one Sam. Jacombe Bach. of Div▪ to have been sometimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Minister of S. Mary Wolnoth in Lombards●r●et in London in times of Usurpation, author of two or more Sermons, of which one is entit. Moses his death, preached at Ch. Church in London at the funeral of Mr. Edw. Bright Minister there.— Lond. 1657. qu. Which S. Jacombe, who was buried in his own Church of S. Mar. Woln. on the 17. June 1659., I take to have been brother of the before mentioned Dr. Tho. Jacombe.  
EDWARD SHELDON a younger Son of Edw. Sheldon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esq. was born there, on the 23 of Apr. 1599, became a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall, in the time of Dr. Hawley Principal thereof, about 1613, where spending three or more years, did afterwards travel beyond the Seas, and became Master of two languages (besides the Lat.) at least. Some years after his return, he settled on his Patrimony at Stratton near to Cirencester in Glocestershire, which at length he lost, or was forced to quit, for the cause of K. Ch. 1. and for his Religion, in the time of the grand rebellion raised and carried on by restless people. He hath translated from French into Engl. (1) The holy life of Gaston Joh. Bapt. de Renty a Nobleman of France. Lond. 1658. oct, mangled by an Irish Priest when it went to the press. It was printed there again with corrections, an. 1683. oct, (2) The rule of Cath. Faith, etc. Lond▪ 1660, there again (though said in the title to be printed at Paris) with its old date, an. 1672, both in oct. This book was originally written by Franc. Veron D. D. (3) Christian thoughts for every day in the month. Lond. 1680. in tw. (4) The Counsels of wisdom. or a Collection of the Maxims of Solomon, etc. with reflections on the Maxims. Lond. 1680. oct. in two parts. Dedic. by the Translator to Qu. Catherine. This Mr. Sheldon who spent most of his time in studies and devotion, paid his tribute common to the condition of the living, in a good old age, in his house situate and being in S. James' street near to S. James' house, within the liberty of Westminster, on the 27 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven: 
1687.  Whereupon his body was buried in the Chapel belonging to the said house of S. James'. He had several Sons, among whom Lionel Sheldon a Benedictine, Doct. of Divinity, and Chaplain to Anne Duchess of York after she had changed her religion for that of Rome, was one, and Dominick Sheldon another, lately a Colonel of Horse, of prudent and courageous conduct in Ireland, in the Army of K. Jam. 2. against that of K. Will. 3. Among his daughters were Mary (one of the Dressers belonging to Queen Catherine) Wife of Sir Sam. Tuke of Cressing-Temple in Essex Kt and Bt, a person sometimes of complete honour and ingenuity, a Colonel in the Army of his Majesty K. Ch. 1. and one of the prime Officers in that noble and generous expedition of Kent, Essex and Colchester, an. 1648, (for which he had like to have lost his life) afterwards a sufferer for his religion and loyalty, author of that celebrated Trag. Com. called The adventures of five hours. Lond. 1662., 64 and 1671 qu. He died in his house in the Parish of S. Marry le Savoy in the Strand near London, in May or June 1674, but where buried unless in the Church of that Parish, or in the Chap. at Somerset-house I know not. He the said Mr. Sheldon had another Dau. named Frances who was one of the Maids of honour to Qu. Catherine before mentioned, and was Uncle to Ralph Sheldon of Beoley Esq. commonly called Great Sheldon.  
THOMAS WASHBOURNE a younger Son of Joh. Washbourne of Wychenford in Worcestershire Esq. was born there, entered a Communer of Balliol Coll, in the beginning of the year 1622, aged 16 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, being then esteemed a tolerable Poet, holy Orders, and in 1636 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences. In the time of the rebellion he had a Prebendship in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester conferred upon him, and suffered for the Royal cause, but when his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was restored, he was settled and installed in it, actually created Doctor of Divinity and became Rector of Dumbleton in Glocestershire. He hath written and published,  
Divine Poems. Lond. 1654. oct.  
Several Sermons as (1) Serm. at the funeral of Charles Cocks Esq, on Psal. 90.9.10. Lond. 1655. qu. (2) The repairer of the breach, preached in the Cathedral of Gloucester 29 May 1661. being the anniversary of his Majesty's birth day, and happy entrance into his imperial City of London, on Isa. 58.12. Lond. 1661. qu. etc. He died on the sixth day of May in sixteen hundred▪ eighty and seven, 
1687.  and was buried in our Lady's Chapel within the Cathedral Church of Gloucester. Soon after was a little monument set up on the wall over his grave, with an inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said that he was Theologus vere Christianus, vere primitivus, per annos 44 Eccl. Cath. Gloc. Prebendarius, and that he desired to have this written on his money that he was primus Peccatorum, minimus Ministrorum Dei, etc.  
EDMUND HALL. was born, and educated in Grammar learning, within the City of Worcester, entered into Pemb. Coll. in 1636 aged 16, left the Uniu. before he took a degree, sided afterwards with the forces raised by the Parliament against his Majesty K. Ch. 1, took the Covenant and at length became a Captain among them. When the King's cause declined and the war ceased, he retired to his Coll, was made Fellow thereof, and in 1649 he took the degree of Master of Arts; much about which time he expressed himself an Enemy to Oliver for his diabolical proceedings, and was thereupon committed to custody, as I shall tell you anon. About that time he became, though a Calvinist, a conceited and affected preacher several years in these parts, kept pace with the leading men during the Interval, complemented with the times at his Majesty's restauration, and endeavoured to express his loyalty, yet could not endure to be called Captain. Afterwards he became Minister of a Market Town in Oxfordsh. named Chipping-Norton, where being much frequented by the neighbourhood obtained the character, from some, of a fantastical, and from others, of an edifying, preacher. About the latter end of 1680, the rectory of Great Risington near North Leech in Glocestershire falling void, it was conferred upon him by Sir Edm. Bray Knight, and soon after he took to him, in his elderly years, a fair and comely Wife. His Sermons preached before the University of Oxon, had in them many odd, light and whimsical passages, altogether unbecoming the gravity of the Pulpit: And his gestures being very antic and mimmical, did usually excite somewhat of laughter in the more youthful part of the auditory. His works are these,  
Lazarus' sores licked— Written against Dr. Lazarus Seamon, who affirmed in a book▪ published about 1648 that an Usurper ought to be submitted to, proving it from Christ's paying tribute money to Caesar.  
Lingua Testium.  
Manus Test.  
Digitus Test.  
These three pamphlets, the titles of which at large, I could never get from the author, were wrote by him against Oliver, to show that he had slain the Witnesses, was very Antichrist, and impossible for him to reign above three years and an half: Whereupon being imprisoned by the Council of state, continued there twelve months, and then with much ado, upon good Bail given, he obtained his liberty.  
A scriptural discourse of the Apostasy and the Antichrist, by way of comment, upon the twelve first verses of 2. Thes. 2. etc. in 4 parts— Printed 1653. in about 20 sh. in qu. with a Preface to it of about four.  
Discourse of slaying the Witnesses, and the immediate effects thereof— Printed with the former. These two last he wrote while he was a Prisoner.  
Sermon at Staunton Harcourt Church in the County of Oxon, at the funeral of the Lady Anne Harcourt, who deceased 23. Aug. 1664, on Ezek. 24.16. Oxon. 1664. oct.  
A funeral speech at her grave— Printed with the Sermon. This Lady Anne Harcourt, Daughter of Sir Will. Waller sometimes a General of one of the Parliaments Armies, was the Wife of Sir Philip Harcourt Knight, son and heir of Sir Simon. Which Philip dying at, or near, London, was buried by her, about the 12 of Apr. 1688, leaving then a son behind him named Simon, Recorder of Abendon. Our author Mr. Hall died in the month of August or thereabouts, 
1687.  in sixteen hundred eighty and seven, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Great Risington before mentioned. His elder Brother Thomas Hall I have at large mentioned already among these Writers, under the year 1665. p. 233.  
WILLIAM PETTY son of Anthony Petty a Clothier, was born in a little haven Town in Hampshire called Rumsey, on the 26 of May 1623., and while a boy he took very great delight in spending his time among Artificers there, as Smiths, Carpenters, Joiner's, etc. whose trades, in some respects, he understood so well in short time at 12 years of age, that he could work at them. At that time he went to the Grammar School there, had some smattering in the latin, and at about 15 years of age he entered into the Greek tongue. Soon after he went to Caen in Normandy, and with a little stock of Merchantdizing that he then improved, maintained himself there, learned the French tongue, and at 18 years of age the Arts and Mathematics. Afterwards he retired to Paris, studied Anatomy and read Vesalius with Hobbes of Malmsbury, who loved his company exceeding well, and was not wanting on all occasions to forward his pregnant genie. So that in short time being accomplished with such parts of learning that began then to be in great esteem in England, he returned (after he had visited the Netherlands) into England, and on the 6. of March 1647 a patent was ordered for him, by the members of Parliament, to endure for 17 years, to teach his art of double writing. At that time, being a man of fortune, he sided with the people then in authority, went to Oxon when the great rout of loyal Scholars was made by the Parliamentarian Visitors, settled there for some time, followed the faculty of Physic, exercised Anatomy and Chemistry much among young Scholars, to his and their great benefit, and became deputy professor of Anatomy for Dr. Thom. Clayton, who being possessed with a timorous and effeminate humour, could never endure the sight of a mangled or bloody body. On the 7. of March 1649 he, by the commendatory letters of certain persons then in authority, written to the Delegates of the University, was actually created Doctor of Physic, he being about that time made Fellow of Brasn. Coll. in the place of Nath. Hoyle Bach. of Divinity, and in Dec. 1650 his name was wonderfully cried up for being the chief person in the recovery to life of one Anne Green, who was hanged in Oxford Castle on the 14 of the same month, for making away her bastard child; at which time, instead of recovering her, he intended to have her made an Anatomy. In the beginning of January following, he was unanimously elected Anatomy professor of the University, upon Claytons' renouncing his interest therein, purposely to serve him, and shortly after, he was not only made one of the Coll. of Physicians at London, but Music professor of Gresham Coll, which last place he obtained by the interest of his dear friend Capt. Joh. Grant. In 1652, he being recommended to the Parliament to be one of the surveyors of Ireland, he procured a patent for that purpose, and in Aug. the same year, he took a voyage thither, practised his faculty in Dublin among the chief of that City, got to be Clerk of the Council there, and Secretary to the L. Lieutenant. In Dec. 1654. he began to survey, (for which he received 365 l. per an,) which was done in ten months' time or thereabouts, with that exactness, that there was no estate to the value of 60 l. per an. but he did exactly show it to its true value, and made maps of all that he had done. Those that he employed for the Geometrical part, were ordinary persons, that circumambulated with their box and needle, not knowing what they did, but our author Petty knew right well how to make use of their Labours. 'Tis said that by this employment, he obtained an estate in Ireland worth about 10000 l. per an, but a great part of it being refunded, because their former owners were declared innocent, as to the then late rebellion, he had left him about 5, or 6000 l. yearly, and could from Mount-Mangorton in Kerry behold 50000 acres of his own Land. But this survey was but a single proof of the great elevation of his understanding genius, which like a meteor moved above the spheer of other Mortals. In Jan. 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of Westlow in Cornwall to serve in Richard's Parliament, which began at Westm. on the 27 of the same month, wherein he was a considerable actor, as I have heard; but that Parliament being soon after dissolved and Richard laid aside, he went into Ireland, whence returning after his Majesty's restauration, and introduced into his presence, his Majesty was much pleased with his ingenious discourses, and seemed to be delighted in him. About that time the Royal Society being instituted, he was appointed one of its first members, and afterwards one of the Council belonging thereunto, being then esteemed the prime person to advance experimental Philosophy and Mechanics. On the 11. of Apr. 1661. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty, and did afterwards (as some say) design to be Earl of Kilmore in Ireland, but that project, which he knew the effect would cause great envy, came to nothing. In the beginning of the year 1663. he became famous in Ireland by the success of his new invention of the Double bottomed Ship against the judgement and resolution of almost all mankind; for in July the same year, when first the Ship adventured from Dublin to Holyhead, she stayed there many days before her return, and 'twas pleasant to consider how her Adversaries insulted, and having first established the conclusion, that she was cast away, did afterwards discourse the several necessities why it should be so. Some said it was impossible her Mast could be sufficiently planted against a strong gale, others said she was gone to Land at O Brasile, etc. But her return in triumph with those visible advantages above other vessels, did check the derision of some, and becalmed the violence of others, the first point having been clearly gained that she could bear the Seas. She then turned in against wind and tide into that narrow harbour (Holyhead) amongst the rocks and ships with such dexterity, as many ancient Seamen did then confess they had never seen the like. About the same time Thomas Earl of Ossory and other persons of honour were embarked in her, and drove to and again within the bar near Dublin. It than blew very hard, insomuch that a small Holland vessel (famous for a good sailer) which set sail with her, was in appearance after looked upon to be over set, whilst she inclined not above half a foot more to one side than another, so that it was truly then called The pad of the Sea. It appeared very much to excel all other forms of ships, in sailing, in carriage, in security and many other such benefits, but at length in its return home from a certain voyage, it was destroyed by a common fate, and by such a dreadful tempest, as overwhelmed a great Fleet the same night: So that the ancient fabric of Ships had no reason to triumph over that new model, when of 70 sail that were in the same storm, there was not one escaped to bring the news. In a word though this invention succeeded not, while it was only supported by private purses, it will (as one 
(a) Tho. Spra● in The Hist. of the Royal Society, etc. Lond. 1667. qu. part. 2. p. 240.  observes) undoubtedly produce great effects, if ever it shall be retrieved upon the public stock of the Nation, etc. A model of it (though lost) was given by the inventor thereof to the Royal Society, made with his own hand, and it is at this day kept in the repository at Gresham College. To conclude, he was a person of an admirable inventive head, of a prodigious working wit, and of so great worth and learning, that he was both fit for, and an honour to, the highest preferment. He hath written,  
Advice concerning the education of youth, etc. Lond. 1647. qu. Written to Mr. Sam. Hartlib under the two letters of W. P.  
Advice for the advancement of some particular parts of learning. Lond▪ 1648. written to Sam. Hartlib. This title which I have received from a second hand, may be (for I have not yet seen it) the same with the Advice before mentioned.  
A brief of proceedings between Sir Hierom Zanchy and him, with the state of the controversy between them. Lond. 1659. in 2 or 3. sh. in fol. The articles then put up against him relating to his actions in Ireland, were (1) That he the said Doctor Petty had received great bribes. (2) That he had made a trade of buying debenters in vast numbers against the statute. (3) That he had gotten vast sums of money, and scopes of land by fraud. (4) That he had used many foul practices, as Surveyor and Commissioner, for setting out lands. (5) That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some debenters in better places than they could claim, denying right to others. (6) That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Army's security; the debt still remaining chargeable on the state. All which, were according to the said Brief of proceedings, cleared by Petty: what the event of the matter was I cannot have.  
Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland, by letters to and from him: (Doct. Petty) with Sir Hierom Zanchy's speech in Parliament. Lond. 1660. oct, written mostly against his busy and envious Antagonist Zanchy, of whom I shall speak elsewhere.  
A treatise of taxes and contributions: showing the nature and measures of Crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-monies, lotteries, benevolence, etc. Lond. 1662. and 67. in about 10. sh. in qu.  
Discourse made before the Royal society, 26. Nou. 1674 concerning the use of duplicate proportion, in sundry important particulars. Lond. 1674 in tw. See in the Philosoph. Transact. nu. 109. p. 209.  
A new Hypothesis of springing, or elastique motions— Printed at the end of the said Discourse.  
An apparatus to the history of the common practices of Dying— See in The Hist. of the Royal Society, written by Tho. Sprat,— Lond. 1667. qu. part 2. p. 284. etc.  
Treatise or discourse about the building of Ships— It was presented by the author in MS, to the R. Society about 1665, contained in about a choir of paper of his own writing; but William Lord Brounker Precedent of the Council pertaining to that Society, took it away and kept it in his possession till 1682 and after, perhaps to the time of his death, saying it was too great an Arcanum of state to be commonly perused. The author, though he had no copy of it by him, yet Dr. Rob. Wood who lived in Ireland had one.  
Colloquium Davidis cum anima sua (accinente paraphrasim in 104 psalmum) de magnalibus dei. Lond. 1679 in two sh. in fol. This thing which is in latin Hexameter, was composed by the author 25 of March 1678, under the name of Cassid. Aureus Minutius.  
Political Arithmetic; or a discourse concerning the extent and value of land, people, buildings, husbandry, manufacture, commerce, fishery, artisans, seamen, soldiers, public revenues, etc. as the same relates to every County in general, and more particularly to the territories of his Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland and France— This was presented in MS, by the author, to his Majesty Ch. 2; and Sir Joseph Williamson had a copy of it, but was not printed till Mich. term 1690, 'Tis in oct, as the other volumes of Pol. Arithm. are.  
Another Essay in political Arithmetic concerning the growth of the City of London: with the measures, periods, causes and consequences thereof, an. 1682. Lond. 1683. 86 in 3 sh. in oct.  
Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality, 1681. and the state of that City. Lond. 1683 in 3. sh. in oct. He had also long before assisted, or put into a way, John Grant in his writing of Nat. and Pol. Observations of the bills of mortality of Lond.  
Maps of Ireland, being his actual survey of that whole kingdom— These were printed in fol. 1685. and were then valued at 2 l. 10 s. in quires.  
Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind. Lond. 1686. oct. With this was printed the second edit. of Another Essay in Pol. Arith. etc.  
Further observations upon the Dublin bills; or accounts of the houses, hearths, baptisms and burials of the City. Lond. 1686. oct.  
Two Essays in Political Arithmetic, concerning the people, housing, hospitals of London and Paris; with observations on the Cities of London and Rome. Lond. 1686. 7. oct.  
Five Essays in political Arithmetic. viz. 1. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia, and from Monsieur Aurout, against two former Essays answered, and that London hath as many people, as Paris, Rome and Roven put together. 2. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars. 3. Proofs, that in London within its 134. Parishes in the bills of mortality, there live about six hundred ninety six thousand People. 4. An estimate of the people, etc. Lond. 1687. oct.  
A treatise of taxes and contributions, particularly fitted for the state of Ireland— Lond. 1691. qu. Printed in a book entit. A Collection of three state Tracts, etc.  
Treatise of naval philosophy, etc. Lond. 1691 oct. Qu. whether the same with the Treatise or disc. about building of Ships, before mentioned.  
The Political Anatomy of Ireland, etc. Lond. 1691. oct.  
Verbum Sapienti: or, an account of the wealth and expense of England, etc. Ibid. 1691. oct. This is animadverted upon in a pamph. intit. A letter from a Gent. in the Country to his friend in the City, etc. Lond. 1692. qu. This learned Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty died in his house in Piccadilly-street, almost opposite to S. James' Church, within the liberty of Westminster, of a Gangreen in his foot, occasioned by the swelling of the Gout, on the sixteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven: whereupon his body was carried to Rumsey, 
1687.  the place of his nativity, and buried in the Church there near the bodies of his father and mother. By his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Hardress Waller Kt, and Relict of Sir Maurice Fenton, he had issue two sons, viz. Charles created Baron of Shelborne in Ireland soon after his father's death, and Henry, and a daughter named Anne. He had also a natural daughter more like to him than any other of his children, who was an Actress in the Duke's Playhouse an. 1680 and after. Could I have seen Sir Will. Petty's life, written by himself, which is in MS. in the hands of his brother in Law Waller, I might have spoken more fully and punctually of him, but the owner of it living remote from the author of this book, and altogether unknown to him, he could never gain a sight of it.  
THOMAS PITTIS' son of a father of both his names, a Captain sometimes of the trained Bands in the Isle of Wight, was born at Knighton there, became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the latter end of 1652, took one degree in Arts, and then translated himself too Linc. Coll. where he was esteemed by his Contemporaries a tolerable Disputant. Afterwards he took the degree of Master, and was made one of the Terrae Filii, but his speech being much disliked by the Godly party of those times, he was expelled the University, an. 1658. Afterwards he was preferred to the Rectory of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight, took the degree of Bach. of Diu. 1665, became Vicar of the Parish of Holy Rood in Southampton by the favour of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester, made Lecturer of Ch. Church in London, (being about that time one of his Maj. Chapl. in Ord.) proceeded in Diu. in 1670, and had the Rectory of Lutterworth in Leicestersh. bestowed on him by the King, which he exchanged with the successor of Mr. Rob. Clarke (sometimes of Linc. Coll.) for the Rectory of S. Botolph without Bishopsgate, London. So that before his death he was Rector of Gatcombe, Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty, Lecturer at Ch. Church, and Rector of S. Botolph before mentioned. His works are these.  
A private Conference between a rich Alderman and a poor Country Vicar, made public. Wherein is discoursed the obligation of Oaths, which have been imposed on the Subjects of England. Lond. 1670. oct.  
Several Sermons as (1) Serm. before the Artillery Company, on Luke 3.14. Lond. 1677. qu. (2) An old way of ending new Controversies, preached to the controller and Gentlemen of the Society of the Inner Temple, 8. Jan. 1681, on 1. John. 2. former part of the 24. ver. Lond. 1682. qu. etc.  
A discourse of Prayer: wherein this great duty is stated, so as to oppose some principles and practices of Papists and fanatics; as they are contrary to the public Forms of the Church of England, established by her Ecclesiastical Canons, and confirmed by Acts of Parl. Lond. 1683. oct.  
A discourse concerning the trial of Spirits: wherein enquiry is made into men's pretences to inspiration, for publishing doctrines in the name of God, beyond the rules of Sacred Scripture, in opposition to some Principles of Papists and fanatics, as they contradict the Doctrine of the Church of England, defined in her Articles of Religion, established by her Ecclesiastical Canons, and confirmed by Acts of Parliament. Lond. 1684 oct. Dedic. to Sir Edw. Worsley Kt, Deput. Gou. of the Isle of Wight. This Dr. Pittis' died on the 28. of Decemb. (Innocents' day) in sixteen hundred eighty and seven; 
1687.  whereupon his body was conveyed from the Parish of S. Botolph before mentioned into the Isle of Wight. and there buried at Westcowes', as I have been informed.  
CLEMENT BARKSDALE son of Joh. Barks. was born at Winchcomb in Glocestershire on S. Clement's day, 23. Nou. 1609, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School at Abendon in Berks, entered a Servitor in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of Lent term 1625, but making little stay there, he translated himself to Gloc. Hall under the tuition and Patronage of Deg. Where the Principal, where continuing a severe Student several years, he took the degrees in Arts, entered into the sacred Function and in 1637 he supplied the place of Chaplain of Lincoln Coll. at the Church of Allsaints, commonly called All-hallows in the City of Oxon. But being called thence the same year, he was made Master of the Free-School at Hereford, Vicar Choral there, and in short time after Vicar of All-hallows in that City. In 1646, the Garrison of Hereford which had been a little before surprised by the Parliam. Forces, he was rescued out of the danger of that time and placed at Sudeley Castle near the place of his Nativity, where he exercised his Ministry and submitted to the men then in power: And after that he sheltered at Hawling in Coltswold, where he taught a private School with good success. After the King's restauration, he was, by his Majesty's gift, settled in the Parsonage of Naunton near Hawling and Stow on the Would in Glocestershire, which he kept to the time of his death. He was a good Disputant, a great admirer of Hugh. Grotius, a frequent preacher, but very conceited and vain, a great pretender to Poetry and a writer and translater of several little Tracts, most of which are mere Scribbles: The titles follow.  
Monumenta literaria: sive ●obitus & Elogia doctorum Virorum, ex historiis Jac. Aug. Thuani. Lond. 1640. qu, and several times after with additions or corrections, in oct.  
A short Practical Catechism out of Dr. Hammond, with a paper monument▪ Lond. 1649. oct.  
Adagilia Sacra Novi Testamenti, Selecta & exposita ab Andr. Schotto. Oxon. 1651. in tw. They were drawn into a Compendium by Barksdale.  
Nympha Libethris: or the Co●swold Muse, presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of young Scholars. In four parts. Lond. 1651. oct. I have a book in my Study entit.— Annalia Dubrensia. Upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Rob. Dovers Olympic Games upon Cotsall Hills, etc. Lond. 1636 qu. This book, which hath the running title on every page of Cotsall Games, consists of verses made by several hands on the said Annalia Dubrensia, but nothing of the Cotsall Muse of Barksdale relates to them, which some, that have only seen the title of it, think it to be the same. The said Games were begun, and continued at a certain time in the year for 40 years by one Rob. Dover an Attorney of Barton on the Heath in Warwickshire, son of John Dover of Norfolk, who being full of activity, and of a generous, free and public Spirit, did, with leave from K. Jam. 1. select a place on Cotsall Hills in Glocestershire, whereon those Games should be acted. Endymion Porter Esq. a native of that County, and a servant to that King, a person also of a most generous spirit, did, to encourage Dover, give him some of the said Kings old clothes, with a Hat and Feather and Ruff, purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity. Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred, and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games, frequented by the Nobility and Gentry, (some of whom came 60 Miles to see them) even till the rascally Rebellion was begun by the Presbyterians, which gave a stop to their proceedings, and spoilt all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere. The verses in the said book called Annalia Dubrensia were composed by several Poets, some of which were then the chiefest of the Nation, as Mich. Drayton Esq. Tho. Randolph of Cambridg, Ben. Johnson, Owen Feltham Gent. Capt. Joh. Man's, Shakerley Marmion Gent. Tho. Heywood Gent, etc. Others of lesser note were Joh. Trussell Gent. who continued Sam. Daniel's History of England, Joh. Monson Esq. Ferryman Rutter of Oriel Coll, Will. Basse of Moreton near Thame in Oxfordshire, sometimes a Retainer to the Lord Wenman of Thame Parke. Will. Denny Esq. etc. Before the said book of Annalia Dubrensia is a cut representing the Games and Sports, as men playing at Cudgels, Wrestling, Leaping, pitching the Bar, throwing the iron Hammer, handling the Pike, leaping over the heads of men kneeling, standing upon their hands, etc. Also the dancing of women, men hunting and coursing the Hare with Hounds and Greyhounds, etc. with a Castle built of boards on a hillock, with Guns therein firing, and the picture of the great Director Capt. Dover on horseback, riding from place to place. But all this being spoken by the by lets proceed with the remaining titles of books written by Barksdale.  
Life of Hugo Grotius. Lond. 1652 in tw. Taken from Meursius his Athenae Batavae, and other authors that occasionally speak of that learned person.  
Noctes Hiberniae: winter nights exercise. The first night; being seven Decades of sacred sentences put into English vers. Lond. 1653 in one sh in oct.  
V. Cl. Elogia Anglorum Camdeniana. Lond. 1653 in about two sheets in oct. Taken from those Elogia which Camden sets down at the end of every year of his Annals of Qu. Elizabeth.  
The disputation at Winchcomb, 9 Nou. 1653. Oxon. 1653. oct. This disput. was between Barksdale then Minister of Sudeley, Respondent, and Christoph. Helm Minister of Winchcomb and Joh. Wells Min. of Tewksbury, Opponents. It was printed again at London, 1654., with some papers both before and after, containing several Letters and other matters; published by N. N. The said papers being reviewed, wherein are contained some short notes concerning the government of the Church, the Liturgy and forms of Prayer, Ordination and power of Ministers, were reprinted at Lond. 1657. oct.  
a Oxford conference of two young Scholars, touching their studies. Lond. 1659. in one sh. in oct.  
A modest reply, in three Letters, touching the Clergy and Universities. Lond. 1659. oct.  
Several Sermons as (1) The Sacrifice; at S. Mary's in Oxon, on Psal. 51.17. Lond. 1655. oct. (2) The King's return; at Winchcomb, 24. May 1660, on 2. Sam. 15. part of the 25. verse. Lond. 1660. qu. (3) Sermon at Glocest. on Psal. 122.6. Oxon. 1680. qu. etc.  
Of Contentment, a little treatise. Lond. 1660 in 240. and 1679. which is the fourth edit.  
In defence of the Liturgy. Oxon. 1661. in one sh. in qu.  
Memorials of worthy persons. Two Decades. Lond. 1661. in tw. The third Decad was printed at Oxon. 1662. in oct. The fourth there also, 1663. in oct.  
A remembrance of excellent men, etc. Lond. 1670. oct. This, which goes for the fifth Decad, contains the characters of 9 Divines, and one Layman, taken, and scribbled as the rest of the Decades were, from the Sermons preached at their Funerals, their Lives, and Characters occasionally given of them, in public authors.  
Masora. A collection out of the learned Master Joannes Buxtorfius' Commentarius Masoreticus. Lond. 1665. oct.  
Collection of Scriptures illustrated by Mr. Rich. Hooker. Lond. 1675. oct.  
Three Ministers communicating their collections and notions touching several Texts, at their weekly meetings. Lond. 1675. oct.  
Letter touching a College of Maids, or a Virgin-Society.— Written 12. Aug. 1675. Printed in half a sh. in oct.  
Hugonis Grotii Annotationes selectae, and VII Capita S. Matthaei Oxon. 1675 in two sh. in oct.  
Behold the Husband man. A short discourse on Jam. 5.7. Lond. 1677. in tw.  
Learn to die, a little discourse. Lond. 1679. oct.  
Bezae Epitaphia Selecta. Lond. 1680. oct. Angl. Lat.  
Sententiae Sacrae. Lond. in oct. Angl. Lat.  
Aurea dicta. The King's gracious words for the Protestant Religion of the Church of England, collected from his Majesty's Letters, Speeches, etc. Lond. 1681. in 3. sh. in qu.  
Memorials of Alderm. Whitmore, Bish. Wilkins, Bish. Reynolds and Alderm. Adam's. Lond. 1681 in 3 sh. in oct. Collected from the Sermons preached at their Funerals.  
Religion in verse. Ox. 1683 in 1▪ sh. in oct.  
The old Gentleman's wish▪ or the reformed old Gentleman.— Printed on half a side of a sheet of paper 1684.  
Of authors and books— Pr. on one side of half a sh. of paper, 1684.  
A Grateful mention of deceased Bishops— Pr. on one side of a broad sh. of paper 1686. Written, as the two former papers, in doggerel Rhyme; and other things of the like stamp.  
He hath also translated from Lat. into English. (1) A discourse 1. of God and his Providence. 2. Of Christ his miracles and doctrine. Lond. 1652. in tw. sec. edit. Written originally by H. Grotius. There were some annotations put on that Discourse by Barksdale. (2) H. Grotius his judgement in sundry points controverted, out of his vote for the Church's peace: printed with the former translation. (3) The Mourner comforted, written also by way of an Epist. Consolatory by the said H. Grotius: printed also with the former. (4) Of authority in sacred things. Lond. 1651. oct. (5) Part of the Law of War and Peace. Pr. in oct. (6) For the truth of Christian Religion, etc. the first part— Lond. 1669 in tw. fourth edit. (7) Against Paganism, Judaisme, Mahumatisme, etc. the sec. part— Lond. 1676. oct. (8) Part of the Hebrew Commonwealth. Lond. 1653 in tw, Written by Pet. Cuneus. (9) The learned Maid, or whether a Maid be a Scholar? A logic exercise. Lond. 1659. oct. Written by Anna Maria ● Schurman, whose picture 〈◊〉 before the said translation, aged 52 years an. 1659. (10) A conference of faith. Lond. 1679. in tw. Written by Sebast. Castelio. (11) Of Obedience, his modest Apol. and defence of himself. Printed with the Conference, and written originally by the said Castelio. (12) S. Cyprian of Virgins, of Prayer and of Patience, also S. Basil of Solitude Lond. 1675. oct. etc. He also published something of Will. Higford, as I have told you in him, under the year 1657, p. 133. and several little things written by other persons, which I have not yet seen. At length Mr. Barksdale having lived to a fair age, he concluded his last day on the 6. of January or thereabouts, 
1687/8▪  in sixteen hundred eighty and seven, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Naunton in Glocestershire before mentioned, leaving then behind him the Character of a frequent and edifying Preacher, and a good Neighbour▪  
SAMUEL PARKER an eminent writer of his time, was born in the ancient Borough of Northampton in the month of Sept. 1640. His father was John Parker, who having been bred towards the Law, he betook 
(a) Andr. Marvel in his Rehearsal transprosed, second part— Lond. 1673. p. 74.  himself, as his best practice, to be a subcommittee man, or as the stile ran one of the Assistant-Committee in Northamptonshire in the time of the Rebellion. Afterwards scraping up wealth, and gaining credit thereby, he became one of the number of those that gave Sentence against Arthur Lord Capell, Rob. Earl of Holland and James Duke of Hamilton, who were all beheaded. In 1650 he published a remarkable book called The government of the people of England, precedent and present, etc. and by virtue of a return dated 21. June 1655, he, by the name of Joh. Parker of the Temple, one of the Commissioners for the removing obstructions at Worcester House in the the Strand near London, was the next day sworn Sergeant at Law, Oliver being then Lord Protector. On the 18. of Jan. or thereabouts, an. 1659. he was appointed by the Parliament one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, but being soon after removed thence before, or at, the restauration of K. Ch. 2, we heard no more of him afterwards. As for Samuel whom we are farther to mention, he was by the care of his Parents, severe Puritans and Schismatics, puritanically educated in Grammar learning at Northampton, and being made full ripe for the University, he was by them sent to Wadham Coll. in Midsummer or Act term 1656, and being by them committed to the tuition of a Presbyterian Tutor, he did, according to his former breeding, lead a strict and religious life, fasted, prayed with other Students weekly together, and for their refection feeding on thin broth, made of Oatmeal and and water only, they were commonly called Grewellers. He and they did also usually go every week, or oftener, to an house in the Parish of Halywell near their College, possessed by Bess Hampton an old and crooked Maid that drove the trade of Laundrey; who being from her youth very much given to the Presbyterian Religion had frequent meetings for the Godly party, especially for those that were her Customers. To this house I say (which is commonly called the ninth house belonging to Mert. Coll.) they did often resort, and our author Parker was so zealous and constant a hearer of the Prayers and Sermons there held forth, a receiver of the Sacraments and such like, that he was esteemed one of the preciousest young men in the University. Upon the King's return in 1660, he being then Bach. of Arts, he was for some time at a stand what to do, yet notwithstanding he did Pray, Cabal and Discourse to obstruct Episcopal Government, Revenues and Authority; but being discountenanced in his doings by the then Warden of his Coll, Dr. Blandford, who, as 'tis said, did 
(b) So Lew. du Moulin in his book entit. Patronus bonae fidei, etc. Lond. 1672. p. 18.  expel him, but false, he went to Trin. Coll, and by the prevailing advice of Dr. Ralph Bathurst a Signior Fellow thereof he was 
(c) See Sam. Parkers epist. dedic. before his Free and impartial censure, etc.  rescued from the chains and fetters of an unhappy education, which he afterwards publicly avouched in print. So that ever after being a zealous Anti-puritan and strong Assertor of the Ch. of England, did cause an abusive and foul-mouthed▪ 
(d) Lew▪ du Moul. before mentioned in his Specim. Contra Durellum, in Patron. bon. fid. p. 19  author to say that he was worse than his Contemporary fool, (meaning Hen. Foulis of Linc. Coll.) the original of whose name though stinking and foul, as he saith, and in nature foul, yet he was always the same person in Principles, that is a bitter enemy against the Presbyterians. In 1663. our author Parker proceeded Master of Arts as a Grand-Compounder and a member of Trin. Coll, and afterwards entering into holy Orders he was frequently in London, and became, as 'tis said, Chaplain to a Nobleman and a great Droller on the Puritans, etc. In 1665 he published his Tentamina and dedicating them to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Cant. made himself thereupon known to that great person. About that time he became Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1667, just after Easter, leaving Oxford for altogether, he was summoned to Lambeth the Michaelmas after, and being made one of the Chaplains to the said Archbishop, was thereby put into the road of preferment. In June 1670 he was installed Archdeacon of Canterbury, in the place, as it seems, of Dr. W. Sancroft, and on the 26 of Nou. following he had the degree of Doctor of Diu. conferred on him at Cambridg, at which time William Prince of Aurange or Orange was entertained there. On the 18. of Nou. 1672 he was installed Prebendary of Canterb. as he himself hath told me, and about that time had the Rectories of Ickham and Chatham in Kent bestowed on him. In the beginning of 1685 he resigned his Prebendship, purposely to please his friend Dr. Joh. Bradford, but that person dying about 6 weeks after his instalment, Dr. Joh. Younger of Magd. Coll. in Oxon did succeed him by the favour of Josepha Maria the Royal Consort of K. Jam. 2, to whom he had spoken an Italian Oration in the said Coll. when she was entertained at Oxon, 1683. On the 17 of Octob. 1686 he was Consecrated Bishop of Oxon at Lambeth in the place of Dr. Fell deceased, and had liberty then allowed him to keep his Archdeaconry in Commendam with it. Before I go any further with his person, the Reader is to understand these brief things following, viz. that after the death of Dr. Hen. Clerk Precedent of Magd. Coll. a Citation was stuck up to warn the Fellows to an election of new Governor, but before the time was come to do it, came a Mandamus from K. Jam. 2. to the Society, to elect to that Office a junior Master of Arts named Anth. Farmer formerly of Cambridge, then Demy of the said Coll; but the Society taking little or no notice of it, they elected according to their Statutes one of their Society named Joh. Hough Bac. of Diu. on the 15. of Apr. 1687: whereupon his Majesty resenting the matter, it was tried and discussed before his Ecclesiastical Commissioners newly erected by him: Before whom there were then attested such vile things relating to the Life and Conversation of Farmer, that he was thereupon laid aside. On the 22. of June following the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners removed Mr. Hough from his place, which was notified by a paper stuck up on the West door of the Chapel, on the 2. of Aug. following, subscribed by the said Commissioners; whereupon his Majesty sent his Mandate of the 14. of the said month to elect Dr. Sam. Parker B. of Oxon, to be their Precedent; but they being not in capacity to elect him because of their Oaths and Statutes, his Maj. sent to Oxon three Commissioners to examine matters and put his Mandate in execution. So that after they had sat in the College two days, examined affairs and had commanded Dr. Hough thrice to deliver up the Keys of the Precedents Lodgings, which he refused; they thereupon installed in the Chapel the Proxy of Dr. Parker, (Will. Wiggins Clerk) Precedent, with the usual Oaths: which being done they conducted him to the Precedents Lodgings, broke open the doors, after thrice knocking, and gave him possession, 25. of Octob. 1687. On the 2. of Nou. following Dr. Parker took possession of them in his own person, being then in a sickly condition, where he continued to the time of his death which was shortly after, as I shall tell you anon. So that whereas he was first a Presbyterian and afterwards a true Son of the Church of England, he was then esteemed by the generality, especially when his Reasons for abrogating the Test, were published, very popishly inclined. It was about that time said 
(e) In the Third Collection of Papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in England, etc. published at Lond. in Dec. 1688. p. 11.  that he seemed very much to favour the Cath. Cause— that he proposed in Council, whether it was not expedient, that at least one College in Oxford should be allowed Catholics, that they might not be forced to be at so much charges, by going beyond the Seas to study— The same Bishop inviting two Noblemen, (R. Cath.) to a banquet, drank the King's health, to an heretical Baron there, wishing a happy success to all his affairs; and he added, that the Faith of the Protestants in England, seemed to him but to be little better than that of Buda was before it was taken; and that they were for the most part mere Atheists that defended it etc. Thus a certain Jesuit of Liege to another at Friburg, in a letter 
(f) Ibid.  dat. 2. Feb. 1687. And father Edm. Petre another Jesuit one of the Privy Council to K. Jam. 2. tells 
(g) Ib. p. 17.18.  us in the same month that the Bishop of Oxon has not yet declared himself openly: the great obstacle is his wife, whom he cannot rid himself of; his design being to continue Bishop, and only change Communion, as it is not doubted but the King will permit, and our holy father confirm: though I do not see how he can be further useful to us in the Religion in which he is, because he is suspected, and of no esteem among the Heretics of the English Church: nor do I see that the example of his Conversion is like to draw many others after him, because he declared himself so suddenly. If he had believed my counsel, which was to temporize for some longer time, he would have done better, but it is his temper, or rather zeal, that hurried him on, etc. But to let pass these and other matters which are related of him by that party, the Roman Catholics, I shall proceed to give you an account of his published writings, which are these.  
Tentamina Physico-Theologica de Deo, sive Theologia Scholastica, etc. lib. 2. Lond. 1665. qu. This book, (an account of which is in the Philosoph. Transactions numb. 18.) is answered by N. Fairfax M. D. in his book entit. Of the bulk and selvedge of the world. These Tentamina are much enlarged in a book, in a large quarto, entit. Disputationes de Deo, etc. as I shall tell you by and by.  
A free and impartial censure of the Platonic Philosophy. Lond. 1666. qu. Ox. 1667. oct. At which time, as his Adversary tells 
(h) Andr. Marvel in Rehears. transp. Sec. qart. p. 323.  us, he was proclaimed under the hand of another mascarade Divine The wonder of his age.  
An account of the nature and extent of the divine dominion and goodness, as they refer to the origenian hypothesis concerning the preexistence of souls, etc.— This book which is printed with the Free and impartial censure, is briefly reflected on by Anon. in a book entit.— Deus justificatus, or the divine Goodness vindicated, etc. Ox. 1667. Lond. 1668. oct.  
A discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity, wherein the authority of the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of subjects in matters of external Religion is asserted, etc. Lond. 1669. 79. oct. Of which book hear what Mr. Baxter 
(i) In his Second defence of the Nonconformists, etc. Lond. 1681. p. 187.  says— I can show you a Manuscript of one both impartial and truly judicious, even the late Judge Hale, expressing so great dislike of that Debate (The Friendly Debate) and Ecclesiastical Policy, as tending to the injury of Religion itself, that he wisheth the authors would openly profess that they would write for themselves, and no more so abusively pretend it is for Religion, etc.  
A defence and continuation of the Eccles. Polity, etc. (against Dr. Owen) Together with a Letter from the author of The Friendly Debate. Lond. 1671. oct. On the said book (Ecclesiast. Polity) and Reproof to the Rehearsal, a certain Scotchman named Rohert Ferguson a Divine of some note, hath written reflections in a book entit. A sober enquiry into the nature, measure and principle of moral virtue, etc. Lond. 1673 oct.  
A discourse in vindication of Bishop John Bramhall and the Clergy of the Church of England, from the Fanatic charge of Popery: together with some reflections upon the present state of affairs, etc.— This discourse was published by way of Preface to a Treatise of the said Bishop.— Lond. 1672. and by itself in oct. Lond. 1673. In the said Discourse or book is a great deal of raillery against Dr. Joh. Owen, his doctrine and writings, but more especially against some passages of his book of Evangelical Love, Church peace▪ etc. and much said in defence of that sharper way which he took in his former answer to the Doctor, and somewhat against Baxter's Grotian religion discovered. Whereupon our author Parker being esteemed by the Nonconformists a forward, proud, ambitious and scornful person, was taken to task, purposely to clip his wings or take him shorter, by their buffooning Champion Andr. Marvel sometimes one of John Miltons' companions, in a book which he published entit. The Rehearsal transprosed: or animadversions upon a late book entit. A Preface showing, etc. Lond. 1672. oct. Which title, The Rehearsal, etc. was taken from a Comedy then lately published by George Duke of Buckingham called The Rehearsal, wherein one Mr. Bayes acteth a part. Afterwards our author Parker wrote an answer to marvel, who styles him throughout his book Mr. Bayes, entit.  
A reproof to the Rehearsal transprosed, in a discourse to its author. Lond. 1673 oct. Besides which answer, came out five more against marvel, viz. 1. Rosemary and Bays: or Animadversions upon a treatise called The Rehearsal transprosed, etc. Lond. 1672 in 3. sh. in qu. (2) The Transproser rehearsed; or the fifth act of Mr. Bayes Play, etc. Oxon 1673 oct. Written by Rich. Leigh sometimes Commoner of Qu. Coll. (3) Gregory Father-Greybeard with his vizard off; or news from the Cabal in some reflections, etc. in a letter to our old friend R.L. from E.H. Lond. 1673. oct. subscribed Edm. Hickeringhill (4) A common place book out of The Rehearsal transprosed, digested under these several heads etc. Lond. 1673. oct. (5) Stoo him Bays; or some animadversions upon the humour of writing Rehearsals transprosed. Oxon. 1673. oct. All, or most of which answers (which were to the first part of The Rehearsal transprosed) were wrote in a buffooning, burlesquing and ridiculing way and stile; in which fashion of writing, Marvel himself had led the way. Besides marvel's answer to the said Preface of Dr. Parker, I find another small piece wrote against it, partly entit. The authority of the Magistrate about Religion discussed; in a rebuke to the prefacer of the late book of Bish. Bramhalls, etc. Lond. 1672. oct. by J. H, supposed to be Joh. Humphrey. Before I go any farther the Reader is to note that this Pen-combat exercised between our author and marvel was briskly managed with as much smart, cutting and satirical wit on both sides, as any other perhaps of late hath been, they endeavouring by all the methods imaginable, and the utmost forces they could by any means rally up, to blacken each others cause, and to set each other out in the most ugly dress: (their pieces in the mean while, wherein was represented a perfect trial of each others skill and parts in a jerking, flirting way of writing, entertaining the Reader with a great variety of sport and mirth in seeing two such right Cocks of the Game, so keenly engaging with sharp and dangerous weapons) And it was generally thought, nay even by many of those who were otherwise favourers of Parker's cause, that he (Parker) thro' a too loose and unwary handling of the debate (though in a brave, flourishing and lofty stile) laid himself too open to the severe strokes of his snearing Adversary, and that the odds and victory laid on marvel's side: Howsoever it was, it wrought this good effect upon our author, that for ever after it took down somewhat of his high spirit, insomuch that though Marvel in a second part replied upon our author's reproof, yet he judged it more prudent rather to lay down the Cudgels than to enter the Lists again with an untowardly Combatant so hughly well versed and experienced in the then, but newly, refined art (though much in mode and fashion almost ever since) of sportive and jeering buffonery. And moreover it put him upon a more serious, sober and moderate way of writing in other good treatises which he since did set forth, and which have proved very useful and beneficial to the public. The Reader may be pleased now to know by the way, for here I think it very proper to be brought in and no where else, that the said Andr. marvel was son of Andr. Maru. the facetious, yet Calvinistical, Minister of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, that being very well educated in Grammar learning was sent to Cambridge, particularly, as I conceive, to Trin. Coll, where obtaining the Mastership of the Lat. tongue became Assistant to Joh. Milton when he was Lat. Secretary to Oliver, and very intimate and conversant with that person. A little before his Majesty's restauration the Burghers of his native place of Kingston before mentioned did choose him their Representative to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm. 25. of Apr. 1660, and again after his Maj. rest. for that which began at the same place, 8. May 1661., and they loved him so well that they gave him an honourable pension to maintain them. From which time to his death, he was esteemed (though in his conversation very modest and of few words) a very celebrated wit among the fanatics, and the only one truly so, for many years after. He hath written, besides the two parts of The Rehearsal transprosed (1) A book entit. Mr. Smirk, or the Divine in mode, being certain annotations upon the Animadversions on Naked truth; together with a short historical Essay concerning general Councils, Creeds and impositions in matters of Religion. Lond. 1676. qu. Which Historical Essay, was afterwards printed by itself in fol. The person whom he calls Mr. Smirk, author of Anim. on Naked truth, was Dr. Franc. Turner Head or Master of S. John's Coll. in Cambridg, conceived and taken by marvel to be a neat, starched, formal and forward Divine. (2) The rise and growth of Popery, etc. Lond. 1678. fol. The second part of which, from the year 1677 to 1682, was penned by Rob. Ferguson before mentioned; said to be printed at Cologne, but really at Lond. 1682. qu. This Andr. marvel, who is supposed to have written other things, as I have told you in Joh. Denham, p. 303. died on the 18. of Aug. 1678. and was buried under the pews in the South side of the Church of S. Giles in the fields, near London. Afterwards his Widow published of his Composition Miscellaneous Poems. Lond. 1681. fol, which were then taken into the hands of many persons of his perswassion, and by them cried up as excellent. Soon after his death one Benj. Alsop then a Conventicling Minister about Westminster did put in very eagerly to succeed marvel in Buffonery, partly expressed in his Antisozzo written against Dr. Will. Sherlock, in his Melius inquirendum against Dr. Joh. Goodman (Chapl. in ord. to K. Ch. 2. and Rector of Hadham) his Serious and compassionate enquiry, etc. and in his Mischief of impositions against Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon entit. The mischief of Separation, etc. In all which pieces, upon little or no ground pretending to wit, he took more than ordinary pains to appear smart, but the ill natured jokes did still commonly hang off; and when he violently sometimes dragged them into a sentence, they did not in the least become their place, but were a disgrace to, rather than an ornament of, his seemingly elaborate and accurate periods. This person took upon him to act a part; for the due and laudable performance of which, neither the natural bent of his own genius, nor any acquired improvements this way, have in any measure tolerably qualified him, notwithstanding the poor well wisher to punning laboured under all these discouraging disadvantages, that he did still courageously go on in a way of pleasing, and at the same time exposing, himself, and furnished his Readers with matter only of laughter at him, and not at those whom he endeavoured to vilify, and was in 1682 and after cried up as the main witmonger surviving to the fanatical party, which argued a great scarcity of those kind of creatures among them, when such little things, as this person, were deemed by them fit for that title. As for the other books which our author Parker hath written, the titles are these.  
Disputationes de Deo, & providentia divina. Disp. 1. An Philosophorum ulli, & quinam Athei fuerunt, etc. Lond. 1678. qu. In which is much of his Tentamina de Deo involved. See a character of this book and its author in Dr. Hen. More's Praefatio generalissima set before the translation of the first tome of his Philosophical volume— Lond. 1679. fol. One Antonius le Grand a french man born and a Cartesian Philosopher of great note, now, or lately, living in London (author of 1. Institutio 
(k) Printed at Lond. 1680 qu. fourth edit.  Philosophiae secundum principia D. Renati Descartes, etc. much read in Cambr. and said in the title to be wrote in usum juventutis Academicae. 2. Historia 
(l) Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. sec: edit.  Naturae, and thirdly of a small piece in tw, maintaining a great paradox, called De carentia sensus & cognitionis in Brutis, etc.) published a book against some passages in the said Disp. de Deo, in which our author hath impartially examined and deservedly censured certain principles of the Cartesian Philosophy as grossly atheistical, and destructive of Religion. This piece of Le Grand is entit. Apologia pro Renato Descartes, etc. Lond. 1679. oct.  
A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion, in two parts. Lond. 1681. qu.  
The case of the Church of England briefly stated, in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church. 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right. 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div. right. 3. The institution of Episc. superiority by div. right. Lond. 1681. oct.  
An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years. Particularly showing, 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy. 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority. 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople, of universal Supremacy. Lond. 1683. oct.  
Religion and Loyalty: or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within itself, Supremacy of sovereign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Nonresistance to all their commands, exemplified out of the Records, etc. Lond. 1684. oct.  
Religion and Loyalty. The second part: Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church, from the beginning of the Reign of Jovian, to the end of Justinian. Lond. 1685. oct.  
Reasons for abrogating the Test, imposed upon all Members of Parliament, 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licenced by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2, on the 10 of Dec. 1687, and on the 16 of the said month it being published, all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day. Several Answers, full of girds and severe reflections on the Author, were soon after published, among which was one bearing this title, Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test, and notions of Idolatry, answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury. Lond. 1688 in about six sh. in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton.  
A discourse sent to the late K. James, to persuade him to embrace the Protestant Religion, with a letter to the same purpose. Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh. in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum. Lond. 1680. oct. and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptised in blood; and reported by 
(m) In his sec. part of The rehearsal transprosed, p. 121.  A marvel to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned; but let the report of these matters remain with their authors, while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Precedents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven, 
168●/8.  was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chapel belonging thereunto. In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall, as I shall tell you elsewhere, in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest, Bishop elect of Madaura, (in partibus Infidelium) who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688, took possession of his seat in the Chapel, and Lodgings belonging to him as Precedent, on the 15 of June following; and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688, one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge.  
WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire, descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire, was born in London, became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636, aged 16 years, left it without a degree, adhered to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion, and afterwards suffered for it. In the beginning of the year 1661. he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire (being then of Minterne in that County) to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. 8 of May the same year, was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after, and in the latter end of 1663. a Knight. About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claims in Ireland, and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth conferred upon him, from which being removed in the latter end of 1678, was soon after restored to it again. This person, though accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects, a great Royalist, and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England, yet a nameless and satirical 
(*) Author of A seasonable Argument to persuade all the grand Juries of England to petition for a new Parliament, etc. pr. in qu. 1677. p. 7.  author tells us that he was a Pensioner in the aforesaid Parl. (which continued till July 1679) and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government, that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York, and had got in Boons 10000 l: also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament. The book, wherein he mentions that passage, is intit.  
Divi Britannici: Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the World 28●5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book (which is very thin and trite) are the Arms of all the Kings of England, which made it sell among Novices, rather than for the matter therein. The aforementioned passage of raising of money, being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting, the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was, was reprinted without that passage, purposely to please and give content. This worthy Gent. Sir Winst. Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688.  being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth, and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster. He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill, who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State. This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland, in the latter end of Nou. 1683, at which time were also created (1) Edward Viscount Camden, Earl of Ganesborough, (2) Coniers Lord Darcy, Earl of Holderness, (3) Thomas Lord Windsor Governor of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull, Earl of Plymouth, (4) Horatio Lord Townsend, Viscount Townsend of Raynham, (5) Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet, Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth, (6) Col. George Legg of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance, Baron of Dartmouth, and (7) William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesty's Tower of London, Baron of Wymondley in England. After the decease of K. Ch. 2, the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke, than K, by the name of Jam. 2, and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour, but when his help was by him required, he deserted him in the beginning of Nou. 1688, and adhered to the Prince of Aurange then arrived in the West parts of England. In the month of Feb. following, the said Prince being then K. of England by the name of Will. 3. he was by him appointed to be one of his Privy Council among divers honourable persons then named and appointed also, and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was created Earl of Marlborough; at which time were also created and advanced to great honours these persons following, viz. (1) Prince George of Denmark and Norway, to be Baron of Okingham, Earl of Kendal and Duke of Cumberland, (2) Charles' Marquess of Winchester, to be Duke of Bolton, (3) William Bentick Esq. (a Dutch man) Groom of the stole to his Maj. to be Baron of Cirencester, Visc. Woodstock and Earl of Portland, (4) Thom. Visc. Fauconberg to be Earl of Fauconberg, (5) Charles Visc. Mordant, to be Earl of Monmouth, (6) Ralph L. Montague Visc. Mount Hermer, to be Earl of Montague, (7) Henry Sidney Esq. to be Baron of Milton and Visc. Sidney of Sheppy in the County of Kent, (8) Rich. Visc. Lumley of Waterford in Ireland, to be Visc. Lumley of Lumley Castle in the County Pal. of Durham, and (9) Hugh Visc. Cholmondley of Kellis in Ireland, to be Baron Cholmondley of Namptwich in Cheshire. Afterwards John Earl of Marlborough went into Ireland, was a Lieut. Gen. there and did his Maj. good service in the Wars had against the Army of K. James 2. in that Country, and afterwards returned full fraught with honour and glory, and continued in the good opinion of many for some time. At length upon some distaste taken against him, the reason why, let the Statesmen and Politicians tell you, he was deprived of all his Places and Employments by his Maj. K. Will. 3, about the middle of January 1691, viz. of his place of Lieut. General, his command of Captain of the third Troop of Guards, of his Reg. of Phusileers, and of his place of Gent. of the Bedchamber.  
GEORGE straddling fourth son of Sir John straddling of S. Donats' Castle in Glamorganshire Kt, was born there, became a Com. of Jesus Coll. in Lent term 1636, aged 15 years, took one degree in Arts, was elected junior Collector of the Bachelaurs in Lent 1640/1, chosen Fellow of Alls. Coll. two years after, proceeded in Arts, and kept his Fellowship during the times of trouble and usurpation, being then accounted a rare Lutinist, and much valued by Dr. Wilson the Music Professor. After the King's Restauration he was made Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon B. of London, and was actually created D. of D. in 1661. On the 30. of July 1663. he was installed a Preb. of Westminst. On the 22 of Jul. 1671 he was installed Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Chichester, and on the 21 of Dec. 1672 he was installed Dean thereof, (in the place of Dr. Nath. Crew promoted to the See of Oxon.) He hath written,  
Sermons and Discourses upon several occasions. Lond. 1692. oct.  
Sermon on Joh. 19.15. Lond. 1675. qu. He died on the 19 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688.  and was buried near the choir of S. Peter's, commonly called the Abbey Church, within the City of Westminster. In his Deanery succeeded one Dr. J. Hawkins Minister in the Tower of London.  
HENRY KEEP son of Charles Keep sometimes an Officer in the Exchequer, and in the Army of K. Ch. 1. against his Rebels, was born in Feuter, commonly called Fetter, lane, in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London, entered a Gent. Com. in New Inn in Midsummer term, an. 1668, aged 16 years, departed without a degree conferred on him, went to the Inner Temple, studied the municipal Law, and wrote,  
Monumenta Westmonasteriensia: or an historical account of the original, increase and present state of S. Peter's or the Abby-church of Westminster. With all the Epitaphs, Inscriptions, Coats of Arms, and Atchivements of honour to the tombs and grave-stones, etc. Lond. 1682. oct. In which book is involved Reges, Reginae, Nobiles & alii in Ecclesia collegiatâ B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, usque ad an. 1600, published by W. Camden, as I have elsewhere told you. These Monumenta Westm. were afterwards described at full with a pencil, and were designed to be engraven on copper plates, and the book to be enlarged to a folio. Which work being very chargeable to be carried on, there were papers of proposals printed to obtain money from such that would subscribe to them; but what the event of the matter was I cannot tell.  
The Genealogies of the highborn Prince and Princess George and Anne, of Denmark, etc. showing the lineal descent of those two noble and illustrious families, etc. from the year of Grace, M, to this present year MDCLXXXIV. etc. Lond. 1684. oct.  
A true and perfect Narrative of the strange and unexpected finding the Crucifix and gold chain of that pious Prince St. Edward the King and Confessor, which was found after 620 years' interment, etc. Lond. 1688. in 5 sh. in qu. Published under the name of Charles Taylour Gent, and by him dedicated to K. James the 2, by an Epist. set before it, wherein the Author tells us, that his father had served in the quality of a Cornet of Horse in Sir W. Courtney's Regiment in all the Wars against his Enemies: And in the book itself p. 5, he tells us that he had belonged to the Choir of Westminster 18 years. He the said H. Keep hath also made some collection of Antiquities relating to York, as some Booksellers have told me, but such I have not yet seen. He died in Carter lane near S. Paul's Cath. in London, about the latter end of the month of May in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688.  and was buried in the Church of S. Gregory joining to the said Cathedral. This person had changed his name, with his Religion for that of Rome, in the Reign of K. Jam. 2, his lodgings also several times, and died, as I have heard, but in a mean condition.  
JOHN BARBON son of Euseb. Barbon of Holcott in Northamptonshire, was born there, admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll, 7 Sept. 1640, aged 16 years, and took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being conferred on him in Febr. 1647. The next year he was expelled by the Visitors, and living afterwards in a mean condition, became much about the time of his Majesty's Restauration Vicar of Dallington, and at length Rector of Pitchford commonly called Pisford, in Northamptonshire, where he ended his days. He hath written  
The Liturgy a most divine service; in answer to a late Pamphlet styled Common prayer-book no divine service. Wherein that Authors 27 reasons against Liturgies are wholly and clean taken away; his 69 Objections against our ven. Service-book are fully satisfied, etc. Oxon. 1663. qu. with a large preface to it.  
Defence of Episcopacy.— This is printed with the former, and was wrote in way of answer to the said author's 12 Arguments against the Bishops. This Writer, Mr. Barbon, who was well read in various Authors, died on the 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688.  and was buried in the Church at Pisford before mentioned. He had some time before wrote the life of his wife, but because there were some trifling stories in it, it was not printed.  
WILLIAM FULMAN the son of a sufficient Carpenter, was born in a town famous for the birth, or at least habitation, of Sir Phil. Sidney, called Penshurst in Kent, in the month of Nou. 1632, and being a youth of pregnant parts while the most learned Dr. Hammond was Parson of that place, he took him into his protection, carried him with him to Oxon in the time of the troubles, procured him a Choristers place in Magd. Coll. and caused him to be carefully educated in Grammar learning in the School joining to that house, under the tuition of Mr. Will. White the vigilant Master thereof: And being there well grounded in School learning, that worthy Doctor put him upon standing for a Scholars place in Corp. Ch. Coll. where showing himself an exact Proficient in classical learning, was forthwith elected in 1647; and put under the tuition of an excellent Tutor but zealous Puritan, named Zach. Bogan. The next year he was ejected, among other young men, by the Parliamentarian Visitors, to the great loss of his learning; and though his Patron Dr. Hammond was involved in the same fate, yet he took him closer to him, and made him his Amanuensis, in which office he found him very serviceable and useful. After he had arrived to the state of man, he became, by that Doctor's endeavours, Tutor to the son and heir of the ancient and gentile family of Peto of Chesterton in Warwickshire, where he found a comfortable harbour during the time of the Church of England's disconsolate condition. At length, upon his Majesty's return, he was restored to his Scholarship, was actually created Master of Arts, and made Fellow of his House; where continuing several years a severe Student in various sorts of learning, was, upon the death of Mr. Rich. Samwaies, presented by the Precedent and Fellows of his College to the Rectory of Meysey-Hampton near Fairford in Glocestershire, where he finished his course. He was a most zealous son of the Church of England and a grand enemy to Popery and Fanaticism. He was a most excellent Theologist, admirably well versed in ecclesiastical and profane history and chronology, and had a great insight in English History and Antiquities; but being totally averse from making himself known, and that choice worth treasured up in, his great learning did in a manner die with, him. Had his indulgent Patron lived some years longer, or he himself had taken those advantages as others did for their promotion in the Church upon account of their sufferings for the Royal cause, he might without doubt have been a Dean; but such was the high value that he set upon himself and his sufferings, that he expected Preferment should court him and not he it. Besides also he had not in him a complisant humour, unless soothed up, flattered or admired, neither any application, whether to advantage himself in learning, experience, or for his own commodity, and therefore not known, and so consequently, as his merits deserved, not so much admired, as otherwise he would have been▪ He wrote much, and was a great Collector, but published little, as  
Academiae Oxoniensis Notitia. Oxon. 1665. qu. Published again in the same vol. at London 1675, with very many additions and corrections taken from Historia & Antiquitates Uniu. Oxon, published the year before; the several sheets of which, as soon as they were wrought off from the Press, were by its Author sent to Mr. Fulman at Meysey-Hampton.  
Appendix to the Life of Edm. Stanton D. D. wherein some passages are further cleared, which were not fully held forth by the former Authors. Lond. 1673. in 1 sh. in oct. Written upon the publication of the partial Life of that Doctor by one Will. Mayow a Nonconformist Divine. See more in Edm. Stanton, under the year 1671.  
Corrections of, and Observations on, the first part of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. Which Correct. and Observe. are remitted into the Appendix to the second vol. of the said Hist. of the Reform. written by Gilb. Burnet D. D.— Lond. 1681. fol. p. 411. etc. But the Reader may be pleased to know that some of the said Observations are omitted, and others curtailed, to the great dislike of their Author, who had applied himself with very great care and diligence for several years, on the like Subject of The History of Reformation, and so consequently was abler to judge more critically of such a matter than other persons. He also reviewed the whole copy of the second vol. of the said Hist. of the Reform. before it went to the Press, and with great judgement did correct such errors that he found in it. He also with great pains sought after, and found out, the Works of K. Ch.. 1. of ever blessed memory, and collected them into one large vol. with intentions to write the Life of that most religious Prince, and to set it before them; but he being unexpectedly taken with the Small Pox, the Bookseller R. Royston employed Rich. Perincheif D. D. to draw up a history of it. Which being so done, not without the notes of Fulman, it was printed before the said Collection, with the name of Perincheif to it, an. 1662. fol. and so consequently the whole work was looked upon and esteemed as due to him, which otherwise was to have been due to Fulman. Our author also did take a great deal of pains in writing the Life of the famous Joh. Hales of Eton, and had obtained many materials towards it, but for want of application to persons for farther information of the man, that work was left imperfect. Also the Life of his founder Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester, with an account of the learned Men, Writers, Bishops, etc. of C. C. Coll, but for want of application also, and endeavours to obtain Record from several Offices in Lond. and Westm. to which I did often advise him, and tell him where matter might be had, that work was also left imperfect: And what he did as to the publication of the works of Dr. Hammond, I have already told you in the life and character of that person. At length this our learned author being overtaken with a malignant fever, in a very unseasonable time, which he did not, nor would take care to prevent the danger that might ensue, died of it at Meysey-Hampton early in the morn▪ of the 28 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688.  leaving then behind him a great heap of Collections, neatly written with his own hand, but nothing of them perfect. All which being afterwards conveyed to C. C. Coll. to be, according to his desire, put into the Archives of the Library of that house, what had it been for those that had the care, to have permitted the author of this Work the perusals of, them, when they could not otherwise but know that they would have been serviceable to him in the promotion of this Work, than almost ready for the Press. But such is the humour of the men of this age, that rather than they'll act a part for the public good and honour of learning, they'll suffer choice things to be buried in oblivion. Mr. Fulman, who died to the reluctancy of many learned men, was buried in the Churchyard, at the east end of the chancel of the Ch. at Meysey-Hampton before mentioned, near to the body of his then late wife, named Hester, Grandaughter, by the father, of Dr. Rog. Manwaring sometimes Bishop of S. David.  
ROBERT CARY son of George Cary of Cockington in Devonshire Gent, was born there, adm. to the Communers table in Exeter Coll. 4 Oct. 1631, aged 16 years, where continuing till Oct. 1634, was then adm. scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll, and in the year after took the degree of Bach. of Arts; but whether he was ever Fellow of the said house, I know not. In 1638 he was licenced to proceed in Arts, and in Nou. 1644, he, as a Kinsman to Will. Marquis of Hertford, Chanc. of the Uniu. of Oxon, was actually created Doctor of the Civ. Law by virtue of his letters then read in Convocation. Afterwards he became Rector of East Portlemouth near Kingsbridge in Devonshire, and Archdeacon of Exe●er, being then accounted very learned in curious and critical learning. He hath written,  
Palaeologia chronica: A chronological account of ancient time, in three parts, 1. didactical. 2. Apodeicticall. 3. Canonical. Lond. 1677. fol. A large account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions, numb. 132. pag. 808.809, etc. What other things he hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at East Portlemouth before mentioned in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688.  was buried on the nineteenth day of Septemb. the same year in the Church there.  
THOMAS FLATMAN an eminent Poet of his time, was born in Aldersgate street in the Suburb of London, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' school near Winchester, elected Fellow of New Coll. in 1654., left it before he took a degree, retired to the Inner Temple, of which he became a Barrister and equally ingenious in the two noble faculties of Poetry and Painting or Limning, as several choice pieces show, the titles of the former of which are these.  
A Pindariqu' Ode on the death of the truly valiant and loyal George Duke of Albemarle late General of his Majesty's Forces, etc. Lond. 1670. in 3 sh. in fol. reprinted in his Poems and Songs following.  
Poems and Songs. Lond. 1674. oct. there again with additions and amendments, 1676. oct. and lastly with more additions in oct. 1682, with his picture before them.  
A Pindariqu' Ode on the death of Thomas Earl of Ossory. Lond. 1681. in 2 sh. in fol. Which Earl (the eldest son of James Duke of Ormonde) died at Westminster to the great grief of many, at about 7 of the clock in the evening of the 30 of Jul. 1680. This Poem, that pleased the author best, as it did the generality, was printed in the last edition of his Songs and Poems. Soon after the publication of the said Ode, it was read and perused by the said Duke, who being in an high manner pleased with it, he sent to the author a mourning Ring, with a Diamond in it, worth a 100 l, as a reward for his labour and ingenuity.  
On the death of K. Ch. 2. a Pindariqu' Ode. Lond. 1685. in two sh. in fol. At the latter end of which are Gratulatory Verses on K. Jam. 2. In the year 1660 came out under the two letters of T. F. a book called— Virtus rediviva. A Panegyric on the late King Charles the first of ever blessed memory, attended with several ingenious pieces from the same pen. Whether Thom. Flatman was th● author of these Poems I cannot justly tell, because they are not among his Songs and Poems. In the next year was published a piece in prose, intit. Don Juan Lamberto: or, a comical history of the late times, with a wooden cut before it containing the pictures of Giant Desborough with a great club in his right hand and of Lambert, both leading, under the arms, the meek Knight, i. e. Richard Cromwell; which book vending very fast, a second part was added by the same hand, with the Giant Husonio before it, and printed with the second impression of the first part. Lond. 1661. qu. To both which parts (very witty and satirical) though the disguised name of Montelion Knight of the Oracle, etc. is set to them, yet the acquaintance and contemporaries of Th. Flatman always confidently averred that he the said Flatman was the author of them. He also translated from Lat. into English, The Epistle of Laodomia to Protesilaus; which is in Ovid's Epistles translated from Lat. into Engl. by several hands.— Lond. 1681. oct. sec. edit. At length, he having lived to the age of 53 or thereabouts, gave way to fate in his house in Fleetstreet, Lond. on the eighth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688.  and was three days after buried in the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget, near to the rails of the Communion-table, under a grave-stone with inscription and verses thereon, which he had sometime before caused to be laid on his son, there buried. This person (whose father, a Clerk in the Chancery, was then living in the 80 year of his age or more) was in his younger days much against marriage, to the dislike of his said father, and made a song describing the cumbrances of it, beginning thus: 
Like a dog with a bottle tied close to his tail,  
Like a Tory in a bog, or a thief in a jail, etc.  But being afterwards smitten with a fair Virgin, and more with her fortune, did espouse her 26 Nou. 1672; whereupon his ingenious Comrades did serenade him that night, while he was in the embraces of his Mistress, with the said song.  
SETH WARD a most noted Mathematician and Astronomer of his time, was born in a little market town in Hertfordshire called Buntingford, and on the 15 of Apr. 1617., was baptised there. His father was an Attorney of good repute among his neighbours, who perceiving his son very forward to learn, he taught him common Arithmetic, and caused him to be carefully educated in Grammar learning. When he was fitted for the University he was sent to Sidney Coll. in Cambridge, where he became Servitor to Dr. Sam. Ward Master of that house, who being much taken with his ingenuity and industry, as also with the suavity of his nature, did soon after make him Scholar of the said house: And because he was of the same Surname, many supposed that he was of kin, occasioned by the Doctor's great kindness to him: But there was no relation at all between them, only the consimility of their dispositions, which made a greater tye of friendship than blood perhaps could do. His genie was then much inclining to the Mathematics, which being, as 'twere, natural to him, he quickly and easily obtained them. Mr. Cham Scarborough then an ingenious young Student and Fellow of Cays Coll. in the same University, was his great acquaintance, and both being equally Students in that faculty and desirous to perfect themselves, they took a journey to Mr. Will. Oughtred living then at Albury in Surrey, to be informed of many things in his Clavis Mathematica, which seemed at that time very obscure to them. Mr. Oughtred treated them with great humanity, being very much pleased to see such ingenious young men apply themselves to those studies, and in short time he sent them away well satisfied in their desires. When they returned to Cambridge, they afterwards read the Clau. Math. to their Pupils, which was the first time that that book was read in the said University. Mr. Laur. Rook a disciple of Oughtred, I think, and Mr. Ward's friend, did admirably well read in Gresham Coll. on the sixth Chapt. of the said book, which obtained him great repute from some, and greater from Mr. Ward, who ever after had an especial favour for him. In 1643 he with the Master and several of his Coll. were, for the King's Cause, imprisoned in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, and ejected from their several places; much about which time he and Mr. P. Gunning, Mr. Is. Barrow, Mr. Jo. Barwick etc. did write a well penned treatise against the Covenant which was made public. After his release, he was civilly and kindly received by his friend and neighbour Ralph Freeman of Aspden in Hertfordshire Esq. and upon the ceasing of the Civil War, he was entertained in the quality of a Chaplain to Thomas Lord Wenman of Thame Park in Oxfordshire. In 1649, his mind being then changed as to orthodox Principles, he, by friends made to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon, became Astronomy Professor thereof, in the place of Mr. Joh. Greaves then ejected, (who, upon an infallible foresight that he should be turned out put Ward upon, to gain, it, because he would be sure, as far as his power laid, to get an able Successor) and about that time he entered himself a Gentleman Commoner in Wadham Coll, for the sake of Wilkins then Warden of that House. In Oct. the same year he was incorporated Master of Arts, and admitted to his Professorship, and soon after took the Independent Oath called the Engagement, the effect of which was to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it was then established without a King or House of Lords. In 1654. he proceeded D. of D. in which year Mr. Joh. Wallis the other Savilian Professor proceeding also, fell out a Controversy between them (occasioned by Wallis) who should have seniority: which being decided by the Vicechanc. on Wards behalf, Wallis went out grand Compounder, and so got superiority, as I shall largely tell you in the Fasti of that year. In 1656 or thereabouts he obtained of Dr. Brownrigg, the silenced Bishop of Exeter, the Chantorship of that Church then void, and in the year following gaining an interest among the Fellows of Jesus Coll. he was elected by them to be their Principal, upon the resignation of Dr. Mich. Roberts, but Franc. Howell of Exeter Coll. an Independent got it from him by his interest used to Oliver the Protector. In 1659. he was elected Precedent of Trin. Coll. by a majority of Fellows, made by the interest of Dr. Ralph Bashurst, but being soon after forced to leave that place to make room for the right owner Dr. Han. Potter, who had in a most woeful manner endured great hardship, from the time of his ejection in 1648, the Politician retired to the great City, where he became Minister of S. Laurence in the Jewry, upon the promotion of Reynolds to Norwich, and in the same year (1660) he was installed in his place of Chantor of Exeter. At that time it was his endeavours to make his Loyalty known by being imprisoned at Cambridge, by his ejection, his writing against the Covenant, and I know not what. About that time he became a member of the Royal Society and soon after Dean of Exeter, where being settled, he wound himself in a short time, by his smooth language and behaviour, into the favour of the Gentry of the neighbourhood. In 1662. Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter being translated to Worcester, he was by the endeavours of a considerable party of the Gentry of Devonsh. (who were of the H. of Commons) advanced to that See: And being consecrated thereunto 20 July 1662., sat there but few years; for on the death of Dr. Hyde, he was translated to Salisbury 12 Sept. 1667. In 1671. Nou. 25, he was made Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter, by the restitution of K. Ch. 2, after that place had been occupied by Lay-people about 154 years. He was a benefactor to the Royal Society, gave a Pendulum Clock thereunto, which goes for a week together, to perpetuate the memory of his dear and learned friend Laur. Rook. Also, about 1672 he gave a considerable sum of money towards the making of the River at Salisbury navigable to Christ Church in Hampshire, and in 1679 he bestowed a 1000 l. on Sid●ey Coll. in Cambridge. In 1683 he built an Hospital or College at Salisbury for the entertainment of ten poor widows of Ministers of God's word, and in 1684 he built an Alms-house at the place of his nativity for four ancient men, and four ancient women, who had lived handsomely, and brought by misfortune to poverty, etc. His Works, as to learning are these.  
A philosophical Essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God, the immortality of the souls of men, and the truth and authority of Scripture. Oxon. 1652. oct. etc.  
De cometis, ubi de cometarum natura disseritur. Nova cometarum Theoria, & novissimae cometae historia proponitur. Praelectio Oxonii habita. Oxon. 1653. qu.  
Inquisitio in Ismaelis Bullialdi Astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta. Printed with the book De cometis.  
Idea Trigonometriae demonstratae in usum juventutis Oxon. Oxon. 1654. qu. The method of which, mentioned in the Preface to this book, Mr. Oughtred challenged for his.  
Vindiciae Academiarum. Containing some brief animadversions upon Mr. Joh. Websters book, styled The Examen of Academies. Oxon. 1654. qu. Before this book is an Epistle written to the author by one who subscribes himself N. S. i. e. John Wilkins of Wadh. Coll, being the two last letters of both his names.  
Appendix concerning what Mr. Hobbes and Mr. Will. del have published on the same arguments.— Printed at the end of Vindiciae Academiarum. As for del he had been educated in Cambridge, and Webster, who was then, or lately a Chapl. in the Parl. Army, had, as I conceive, been educated there also: See in Thom. Hall, under the year 1665, among the titles of his books p. 234, and in Will. Erbury, an. 1654. p. 104.  
In Thomae Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio Epistolica, ad D. Joh. Wilkinsium Guardianum Coll. Wadhami. Ox. 1656. octav.  
Appendicula, ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio (in sex documentis nuperrimè editis) in authorem congestas, responsoria. Printed with the Exercitatio epistolica.  
Astronomia Geometrica, ubi methodus proponitur qua primariorum Planetarum Astronomia sive Elliptica sive circularis possit Geometricè absolvi. Lond. 1656. oct.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Against resistance of lawful powers, preached 5 Nou. 1661. on Rom. 13.2. (2) Against the Antiscripturists, pr. 20 Feb. 1669, on 2 Tim. 3.16. (3) Concerning sinfulness, danger and remedies of infidelity, pr. 16 Feb. 1667, on Heb. 3.12. (4) Sermon before the H. of Peers at Westm. 10 Oct. 1666, on Eceles. 11.9. (5) Serm. concerning the strangeness, frequency and desperate consequence of impenitency, preached 1 Apr. 1666, soon after the great Plague, on Rev. 9.20. (6) Serm. against Ingratitude, on Deut. 32.6. (7) An Apology for the mysteries of the Gospel, preached 16. Feb. 1671 on Rom. 1.16. Some of which Sermons having been severally printed at several times were all printed in one vol. at Lond. 1673▪ 74. oct. and then said to have been all preached at Whitehall, except the fourth. (8) The Christians victory over death, preached at the funeral of George Duke of Albemarle, etc. in the collegiat Church of S. Pet. Westm. 30 Apr. 1670, on 1. Cor. 15.57. Lond. 1670. qu. (9) The Case of Joram, preached before the House of Peers, 30. Jan. 1673 on 2. Kings 6, last vers. Lond. 1674. qu. He also collected viewed and reviewed the Determinationes Theologicae, Tractatus de justificatione and Praelectiones de peccato originali of Dr. Samuel Ward before mentioned; which he caused to be printed and published at London. In the beginning of the year 1683 arose a controversy between him the said Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of the Cathedral Church there, occasioned by the denial, upon the first ask of Pierce for a Prebendship in the said Church for his Son Robert: which denial being much resented by Pierce, notwithstanding the reversion of it had been before promised by the Bishop, he studied revenge and forthwith raised a controversy by maintaining that the King had right of giving and bestowing of the Dignities in the Church of Salisbury and not the Bishop. Which controversy being laid before his Majesty's Commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs, they ordered Dr. Pierce to write a Narrative of that matter; which being done, Dr. Ward answered it, but 'twas not printed: Whereupon Pierce wrote A Vindication of the King's Sovereign rights, etc. which was printed at Lond. 1683 in 12. sh. in fol. Afterwards the controversy being carried on by the black and dismal malice of Pierce, it did so much discompose the Bishop, especially by the several journeys to London in unseasonable time and weather, that by degrees his spirits were exhausted, his memory gone, and totally unfit for business. About a month before he died, he took very little sustenance, and lived only on the stock and died a Skeleton; which happening in his house at Knightbridge near London on Sunday morn. the sixth of January, being the day of Epiphany, in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, 
1688/9.  his body was afterwards conveyed to Salisbury and buried in the Cathedral there. What epitaph he hath over his grave, I know not, notwithstanding I have more than once sent for it; and therefore take this character of him given by Mr. Oughtred in his pref. to Clavis mathem. running thus.— Vir prudens, pius, ingenu●s, nec mathesi solum sed & omni politioris literaturae genere cultissimus, etc. He tells us there that he was the first in Cambr. that expounded his Clau. Math. and that he had taken a large journey to see him in his hidden and retired condition, at which time, by his importunate desire, he did correct, add many things to, and republish his said book of Clau. Math. There had been formerly several learned Letters passed between him, and Ballialdus and Hevelius, which are yet kept private.  
THOMAS CARTWRIGHT son of Tho. Cartwright sometimes Schoolmaster of Brentwood in Essex, was born in the ancient Borough of Northampton on the first of Sept. 1634, educated in the School there, and being puritanically educated under Presbyterian Parents, was sent to Magd. Hall, where spending two terms in the study of Logic, was forcibly put into Queens Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament, an. 1649, and at that time was put under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully. Afterwards he was made Tabarder, and Chapl. of the Coll. for a time, but before he was elected Fellow, he left the House, (having before been ordained Priest by Dr. Robert Skinner B. of Oxon.) and became Vicar of Walthamstow in Essex, and a very forward and confident preacher for the cause then in being. In 1659. I find him Chaplain to Joh. Robinson Esq. Alderman and then Sherriff of London and a Preacher at S. Mary Magd. in Milkstreet, but whether he did then enjoy the Vicarage of Barking in Essex, which he did after his Majesty's restauration, I cannot tell. After the Kings return he showed himself very forward to express his loyalty, was made domestic Chaplain to Henry Duke of Gloucester, procured himself to be actually created D. of D, though not of full standing for it, was made Preb. of Twyford in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul, Minister of S. Thomas Apostle in London, Preb. of Shalford in the Church of Wells, and Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty. In Nou. 1672 he was installed Prebend of Durham, struck in on the death of Dr. Tully his quondam Tutor, and was made Dean of Rippon in the latter end of 1675. Afterwards putting in with great boldness, before his Seniors, for a Bishopric, particularly for that of S. David, but put aside by Dr. L. Womack, was at length made Bishop of Chester on the death of the most learned and religious Dr. John Pearson: to which See being consecrated, with Dr. Lloyd to S. David, and Dr. Parker to Oxon, at Lambeth, on the 17. of Octob. 1686, had liberty then allowed to him to keep the Vicarage of Barking and the Rectory of Wigan in Lanc. which he before had obtained, in commendam with his Bishopric. In the next year, he being then in favour with K. James 2, and ready upon all occasions to run with his humour, purposely to obtain a translation to a better Bishopric, he was by him not only added to the number of Ecclesiastical Commissioners, but also appointed one of the three Delegates or Commissioners (Sir Rob. Wright Ch. Just. of the Kings-Bench, and Sir Thomas Jenner one of the Barons of the Exchequer, being the other two) to go to Oxon, to examine and determine the affairs relating to Magd. Coll; and what they did there in ejecting the Precedent and Fellows thereof, a book entit. An impartial relation of the illegal proceedings against S. Mary Magd. Coll. in Oxon etc. Lond. 1689. qu. sec. edit, collected by a Fellow of that Coll, will at large tell you. At that time this Bishop making it his sole endeavours to be gracious with the then great and leading men, and to show himself in all public assemblies, particularly in those, wherein the Rom. Cath. Bishops were consecrated, he gained the ill will so much of the Sons of the Church of, that when the Pr. of Aurange made his expedition into, England, he, out of fear of suffering for what he had acted, and of the insults of the rabble (then committing great disorders in London and most parts of the Nation) did withdraw himself in private, sculk, and in a disguise fled into France; where repairing to his royal Master K. Jam. 2, then lately come thither, to avoid imminent danger in England, had by him, upon the news of Dr. Wards death the Bishopric of Salisbury conferred on him: and while he abode at S. Germains he did usually read the Liturgy of the Church of England in his Lodgings to such Protestants that came thither to him. Afterwards he went with his said Master towards Ireland, landed there on Tuesday the 12 of Mar. 1688, and on Sunday following being at Cork, he received the Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of that place. On Palm Sunday Mar. 24, he went to Dublin with the King, and on Easter-day, and the Octaves of Easter 1689 he again received the Sacrament at Ch. Ch. there, from the B. of Meath, to which Ch. B. Cartwr. went daily to prayers. Afterwards being overtaken with the Country disease called the Flux or Disentery, he finished his course there, as I shall anon tell you. He hath extant.  
Several Sermons as (1) God's arraignment of Adam, on Gen. 3.9. Lond. 1659. qu. (2) Serm. before the King at Whitehall on Judas 22.23. Lond. 1676. qu. (3) Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of S. Pet. in York before the Judges of Assize, on Judges 17.6. Lond. 1677. qu. (4) Sermon preached at Holy-Rood house 30. Janu. 1681 before her highness the Lady Anne, on Acts 7.60. Edinb. and Lond. 1682 qu. The author was then with James Duke of York, who, with his Royal Consort and the Lady Anne his Daughter were retired to that place upon the command of his Majesty, to put a stop to the fury of the Faction, then driving on their designs upon prosecution of the Popish Plot. (5) Sermon preached to the Gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bow Church. Lond, 24 June 1684 on Prov. 24.21.22. Lond. 1684. qu. (6) Sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of K. Jam. 2, in the Collegiate Church of Rippon, 6. Feb. 1685, on 1. Kings 8.66. Lond. 1686. qu. He hath also extant a Serm. on 2. Chron. 7.9.10, and another on Rev. 14.13, which I have not yet seen: And there is also extant under his name A Sp. spoken to the Society of Magd. Coll, 16. Nou. 1687; which, (much commended) with several of his Discourses, you may see in An impartial relation, etc. before mentioned. At length after he had declared himself to be a member of the Communion of the Church of England, in which he had always lived, had taken the blessed Sacrament and the Church's absolution, he surrendered up his Soul to God at Dublin on Monday morning 15 of April in sixteen hundred eighty and nine. On the day before in the afternoon, 
1689.  while the ven. Minister that usually attended him was at Church, the titular Bishop of Clogher and Dean of Ch. Ch. made his Lordship a visit; and after the first civilities were passed, one of them in latin desired him to be mindful of eternity, and to prepare for death. His servant being present, answered them that his Lordship had prepared himself already. They afterwards told him in latin there was but one God, one Faith, one Church. To which the Bishop replied, I believe so, and hope that I have made my peace with God. They again repeated There is but one God, one Church, intending, as was supposed, to enlarge upon that subject: whereupon the Bishop answered somewhat short, I know all this as well as you, but I am not able to answer you for the failing of my spirits; and therefore I desire you to forbear talking with me any more about this, for I have done already what, I hope, is necessary for my salvation. Hereupon they seeing they could not effect any thing with him, nor engage him in a discourse, took their leaves, and they themselves gave out, that the Bishop of Chester was dying, and that he would die a Protestant. As soon as he was dead, the said Bishop's servant acquainted Will. Earl of Powis and Dr. Anth. Dopping Bishop of Meath with his death, who, with the Earl of Longford, took care for his funeral after this manner. On Tuesday Apr. 16, the body was carried early in this morning from the house where he died, to that of the B. of Meath, which was near, where several rooms were hung with black; and that where the body lay, was furnished with many Lights in sconces, and eight large Tapers on stands about the Body, which was covered with a fair Velvet Pall. In the afternoon all the Nobility, Clergy, Judges and Gentry, of both Religions, that were in Town, among whom were the E. of Powis and the L. Chancellor came thither: And about six in the evening his body was carried in a velvet Hearse drawn with 6 horses, clothed in black, and attended by the King at Arms, the aforesaid company in near 30 Coaches, and a multitude of common people to Christ Church in Dublin, where the Subdean and Choir met the Body at the Church door, and sung it into the Choir, which was very much crowded. The Service was solemnly performed with several Anthems, and the Body afterwards interred in the North-east end of the Choir, by the Bishop of Meath in his Episcopal habit. It was then commonly reported that K. Jam. 2. did nominate Dr. Jam. Arderne Dean of Chester to succeed Dr. Cartwright in his Bishopric; but how true, I cannot tell. Sure it is, that K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne, he nominated to that See Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph, who thereupon was consecrated thereunto in the Bishop of London's Chapel at Fulham near London, on the 15 of Sept. 1689.  
JOHN SHAW a Minister's Son, was born at Bedlington in the County Pal. of Durham, educated in Grammar learning for the most part under Tho. Ingmethorp Rector of Great Stainton in the said County, was, at his first coming to the University, entered a Student in Qu. Coll. but making little stay there, he became a Batler of that of Brasnose, 2. Apr. 1629 aged 15 years or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, and retiring soon after to his native Country, took holy Orders and exercised the Ministry for some years in the northern parts of England. In 1645 he was instituted and inducted Rector of Whalton in Northumberland, but not then admitted, because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous royalist. Afterwards, with much ado, he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire, which being worth but 50 l. per an, (supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister) he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England. In 1661., his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then settled in the regal Throne, he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham, was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chapel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire (as he was again in 1679) and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland. He hath written,  
The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon, Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle, 1652. The other, from verse 22 to the end, was preached at the same place, an. 1659.— Both which were afterwards published in qu.  
Origo Protestantium: or, an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's, that would fain make the Protestant Catholic Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world, wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery. Lond. 1677. and 79. qu.  
Answer to the Jesuits letters— Printed with the former book, and the Jesuits letter with it.  
No reformation of the established religion. Lond 1685. oct. This loyal, religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, 
1689.  and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mentioned, just before the altar. Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Father's marble, part of which runs thus. Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris, Deo, Ecclesiae, Patriae, Regi pie fidelis, etc. Besides this John. Shaw was another of both his names and time, Minister of Hull in Yorkshire, author of several Sermons, among which are (1) Britannia rediviva: or, a sovereign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth, preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize, 9 Aug. 1649 (2) The Princess Royal, preached at the same place before the Judges 24, Mar. 1650. etc. And among other things he hath published a book entit. Mistress Shawes' tomb stone; or the Saints remains, being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw, who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct.  
WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland, was born in the said Burgh, an. 1633, and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England, in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny, an. 1638, they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom. He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an ancient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of elon, but now their estate there is out of their hands. In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Uniu. Coll, and though then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline, yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in, and near, Oxon. In 1656, he being then Bach. of Arts, he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland, in the beginning of Aug, and the same year we find him preacher of God's word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire, where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town. After he had proceeded in Arts, he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire, where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662., he then went, in the quality of a Chaplain, with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland, when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom. In the latter end of 1663. he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg, where continuing several years, was transplauded to the Throne Church of that City, which is also a Prebendship. In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty, under his royal hand, with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto, made Dean of Edinburgh, and on Oct. 1. an. 1685 he commenced Doctor of Diu. in the University of S. Andrew. His works as to learning are these.  
Fides Catholica: Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church, in eighteen grand ordinances, referring to the Word, Sacraments and Prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholickly maintained and publicly taught against heretics of all sorts. Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu.  
Solutions of many proper and profitable questions suitable to the nature of each ordinance, etc.— Print. with Fides Catholica, etc.  
Panem quotidianum: or, a short discourse tending to prove the legality, decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ, with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England. Lond. 1661. qu.  
Pater noster. Our Father or the Lord's Prayer explained, the sense thereof, and duties therein, from Scripture, History, and Fathers methodically cleared, and succinctly opened. Lond. 1670. oct.  
Mysterium Pietatis; or, the mystery of godliness, etc. Lond. 1671. oct.  
Doxologia: or glory to the Father, the Church's Hymn, reduced to glorifying the Trinity. Lond. 1672. oct.  
Dualitas: or, a twofold subject displayed and opened, conducible to godliness and peace in order: first Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of Magistracy, with the duties thereupon, etc. secondly Duorum unitas, or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honourable Magistrates of Edinburgh, and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev. Clergy there. Edinburg. 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn. of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine: 
1689.  whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day, to the vestry of that part of S. Giles' Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh, (in which Church, as Dean, he did ordinarily preach) at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendered up the Castle there to the Convention. On the 15 of the said month he was honourably interred in the Grey Friar's Church, but without a funeral Sermon, because not permitted by the Presbyterians, in whose hands the Magistracy than was. As his life was pious and devout, so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him. He received his Viaticum from the hands of Dr. Alex. Monro Principal of K. James' Coll. at Edinburgh; and his colleague in S. Giles' Church named Dr. John Strachan Professor of Diu. at Edinb. did assist after the manner of the Church of England. They and several other Ministers and Layicks communicating then with him, he regretted with tears the overthrowing of their Church, saying, he never thought to have outlived the Church of Scotland, yet hoped others should live to see it restored, etc. His Father Will. Annand before mentioned, lived very obscurely divers years after he came into England: But at length obtaining the Vicarage of Throwley in Kent, 1649, and afterwards the rectory of Leveland in the same County, the Usurper then ruling, he caused his Son to be educated in learning in a good condition.  
RICHARD SHERLOCK was born at Oxton in Cheshire, and originally (as 'tis said) a Student in Magd. Hall, where he obtained a part of Acad. learning. Thence he was translated to Trin. Coll. near Dublin, where he proceeded Master of Arts in 1633, entered into the sacred function, and soon after became Minister of several small Parishes in Ireland, united together, and yielding no more than 8O l. per an. At length upon the breaking out of the rebellion in that Country, he journied into England and became Chaplain to a Regiment of his Majesty's forces at Namptwich in Cheshire: But that place being taken by the Parliament forces in Jan. 1643, he retired to Oxon, where he became Chaplain to the Governor of the Garrison there, and at length, by the favour of Dr. Pink Warden of New College, he was made one of the Chaplains of that House, much about the time that P. Gunning and Is. Barrow were made Chaplains also. In 1646 he had the degree of Bach. of Diu. conferred on him, in consideration of several Sermons that he preached either at Court, or before the Parliament in Oxon, but in the year 1648, or thereabouts, being thrown out of his Chaplains place by the Visitors, he became Curate for Dr. Jasp. maine in an obscure Village called Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, who allowing him 16 l. per an. for his pains (for the Vicarage there is esteemed to be worth but 50 l. yearly) he gave a good part thereof away to the poor of that place. At length leaving that Cure, upon the ejection of the Doctor, about 1652, he went into Lancashire, became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Bindlosse of Borwick hall in the Parish of Warton Bt; where, as long as he continued, he was very much troubled with the People called Quakers, against whom he wrote several things, as I shall tell you anon. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2, an. 1660, he was made Doctor of Diu. of the Uniu. of Dublin, and about that time by the favour of his honourable Patron Charles E. of Derby (whose Chaplain he was) Rector of Winwick in Lancashire, a place 
(a) Camden in his Britannia in Lanc.  among other fat benefices of England of greatest name. He was a person of a most pious life, exemplary conversation, of great charity, hospitality, and so zealous a man for the Church of England that he was accounted by precise persons popishly affected and a Papist in Masquerade. He hath written and published,  
The Quakers wild questions objected against the Ministers of the Gospel, etc. briefly answered. Lond. 1654. oct. 1656. qu. Animadverted upon by a noted Quaker called Rich. Hubberthorne in a book entit. A Reply to a book set forth by the Priest of Borwick-hall in Lancashire, called Rich. Sherlock, etc. Lond. 1654. qu. and by another more noted than he, named George Fox in his book called The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 242.243. etc.  
A discourse of the holy spirit, his workings and impressions on the souls of Men— This is also against the Quakers.  
Discourse of divine revelation, mediate or immediate.  
Discourse of error, heresy and schism.— These three last pieces, are printed with The Quakers wild Questions, etc.  
The principles of holy Christian Religion: or, the Catechism of the Church of England paraphrased, etc. Lond. 1656. oct. Written for the use of Borwick-hall. The thirteenth impression of this book came out at Lond. 1677. oct.  
Sermon preached at a visitation held at Warrington in Lanc. 11. May 1669, on Acts 20.28. Lond. 1669. qu.  
Mercurius Christianus. The practical Christian: A treatise explaining the duty of self-examination, etc. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Confessions, Meditations and Prayers in order to the receiving of the holy Communion of the body and blood of Christ.— Printed with Merc. Christ.  
The second part of the practical Christian consisting of meditations and psalms, illustrated with notes, or paraphrased; relating to the hours of prayer, etc. Lond. 1675. oct.  
The practical Christian: or the devout Penitent. A book of Devotion containing the whole duty of a Christian in all occasions and necessities, etc. in 4 parts. 1. Of self examination, confession of sins, etc. 2. Of the Communion of the holy body and blood of Christ. 3. Of the hours of Prayer and occasional meditations. 4. Of the four last things, death, judgement, hell and heaven. Lond. 1676. 77. etc.  
Several short, but seasonable, discourses touching common and private prayer, relating to the public offices of the Church. etc. Oxon. 1684. oct. etc. This book contains, 1. The irregularity of a private prayer in a public congregation, which was first printed 1674 in 4 sh. in qu. 2. Dr. Stevarts judgement of a private prayer in public, etc. 3. A discourse of the differences between long prayers prohibited and continuance in prayers commanded. 4. Meditations upon our going to Church, with short directions▪ for our demeanour in the House of God, etc. 5. Sermon preached upon the Archbishop of Yorks provincial Visitation at Warrington. At length this most holy, zealous, mortified and seraphical Dr. Sherlock having spent all his time in holy and chaste celibacy, surrendered up his most pious▪ soul to God in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, 
1689.  and was buried on the 25 of June within the Chancel, at the first entrance into it out of the body of the Church at Winwick before mentioned; at which time his friend and acquaintance Tho. Crane M. A. preached his funeral Sermon, which being extant you may see a full account therein of the great piety, charity, hospitality, strictness of life, etc. of him the said Dr. Sherlock. Some years before his death he caused his Grave-stone to be laid in that place where his body was afterwards buried, and ordered for his epitaph, to be engraved in brass and sixth upon his stone, this following. Exuviae Richardi Sherlock S. T. D. indignissimi hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris; Obiit 20 die Junii, anno aetatis 76. an. dom 1689. Sal infatuum conculcate. Whereupon a certain Person reflecting upon it, and much honouring his pious memory, did subjoin and add this further inscription. En viri sanctissimi modestia! Qui Epitaphium se indignum inscribi volebat; cum vita & merita ejus laudes omnes longe superarent. In the Rectory of Winwick succeeded Thom. Benet M.A. Fellow of Uniu. Coll, lately one of the Proctors of this University, now Master of the said Coll.  
WILLIAM THOMAS son of John Thomas, was born on the bridge in the Parish of S. Nicholas in the City of Bristol, on the second day of Feb. 1613, educated in Grammar learning at Caermethen in Wales, by the care of his Grandfather Recorder of that Town, became a Student in S. John's Coll. in Mich. term 1629, thence translated to that of Jesus, (of which he was made Fellow when Bach. of Arts) proceeded in that faculty, took holy Orders, and before the Civil War began, he became Vicar of Penbryn in Cardiganshire. Afterwards being sequestered for his loyalty, he taught School at Laughern in Caermerthenshire, where, after a while, he read the common prayer and preached, yet not without some disturbance occasioned by oliver's Itinerant preachers. After his Majesty's restauration in 1660, he became Chauntor of the Cathedral Church of St. David, in the place of Dr. Griff. Higges deceased, was actually created Doct. of Divinity, made Chaplain to James Duke of York, and about that time had the Living of Llanbedder in the Valley, in Pembrokshire conferred upon him. In 1665, Nou. 25. he was installed Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmestry deceased, and about that time he gave up Llanbedder for the Rectory of Hampton Lovet, six miles distant from Worcester. On the 27. of January 1677 he was consecrated (with Dr. Sancroft to the See of Cant.) Bishop of S. David, at which time liberty was given him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it, and in the middle of Aug. 1683 he was translated to the See of Worcester in the place of Dr. James Fleetwood deceased, where he sat to the time of his death in good respect from the Clergy and Laity. He hath written  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. at the Assize at Caermerthen, on Exod. 20.16. Lond. 1657. qu. (2) Serm. before the right honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. Westm. upon the Fastday appointed, 10. Apr. 1678. on Luke 13.3. Lond. 1678. qu. (3) The mammon of unrighteousness detected and purified, preached in the Cathedral of Worcester 19 Aug. 1688, on Luke 16.9. Lond. 1689. qu.  
Apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it. Lond. 1678. 9 oct. Written in the time of Usurpation.  
A pastoral letter to his Clergy of Worcester Dioc. about catechising— Printed, with many things expunged, since his death. It was, as 'tis said, written in answer to Dr. G. Burnet Bishop of Salisbury his Pastoral letters about Oaths, an. 1689.  
Roman Oracles silenced: or the prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Hen. Turbervil in his Manual of controversies. Lond. 1691. Published in the beginning of Mar. 1690. This worthy Bishop Dr. Thomas died on the 25 of June, 
1689.  in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, and was buried according to his desire in the north east corner of the Cloister belonging to the Cathedral Church of Worcester, at the foot of the steps, in the way from the Deanery to the Cathedral. Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon. Depositum Gulielmi Thomas S. T. P. olim Decani Wigorniensis indigni, postea Episcopi Menevensis indignioris, tandem Episcopi Wigorniensis indignissimi, meritis tamen Christi, ad vitam aeternam resurrectionis candidati.— Sanctissimus & doctiss. Praesul, pietatis erga Deum, erga Regem fidelitatis, charitatis erga Proximos illustre exemplum expiravit. An. redemptionis MDCLXXXIX, Aetatis LXXVI, Junii XXV, & moribundus hoc quicquid supra est epitaphii pro modestia sua tumulo inscribi jussit.  
THOMAS MANWARING a younger Son of Philip Manwaring Esq. was born of an ancient and gentile family in Cheshire, either at Over-Peover or Baddily, on the 7 of Apr. 1623., became a Commoner of Brasn. Coll. 24. of Apr. 1637; where continuing about 3 years, receded without an Academical degree to his Father's house, and after the death of his elder Brother became Heir to the Lands of his Ancestors. In the time of the grand rebellion he sided with the dominant party, took the usual Oaths then prescribed, was Sherriff of Chester in the reign of Oliver, an. 1657, and after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he was created a Baronet, 22. Nou. 1660. He hath written and published,  
A Defence of Amicia daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester, wherein is proved that she was not a Bastard. Lond. 1673. oct. Written against Sir Pet. Leycester.  
A reply to an answer to The defence of Amicia, wherein is proved that the reasons alleged by Sir Pet. Leycester concerning her illegitimacy are invalid, &c Lond. 1673. oct.  
An answer to Sir Pet. Leycester's Addenda. Lond. 1673/4. oct. 
1689.  He died in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, and was buried by his Wife, Father and Mother, in a vault under a Chapel on the North side of the Chancel of the Church of Over-Peover before mentioned. See more in Peter Leycester under the year 1678, p. 463.  
SAMUEL DERHAM son of Will. Derham of Weston, called by some Weston Subter Wethele, near Camden in Glocestershire, was born in that County, entered a Student in Magd. Hall, in Mich. term 1672 aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, entered on the Physic line, took one degree in Physic and published,  
Hydrologia Philosophica: Or, an account of Ilmington waters in Warwickshire, with directions for drinking of the same. Oxon. 1685. oct.  
Experimental observations touching the original of compound bodies— Printed with Hydr. Philos. Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty, had then, and before some practice in it, and dying of the small pox on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, 
1689.  in his house in S. Michael's parish within the City of Oxon, was buried at the upper end of the north Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Parish.  
OBADIAH GREW was born at Atherston in the Parish of Manceter in Warwickshire, in Nou. 1607, partly educated in Grammaticals under Mr. Joh. Denison his Uncle, admitted a Student in Ball. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Trimnell, an. 1624., took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders at 28 years of age from the hands of Dr. Rob. Wright Bishop of Cou. and Lichfield, and had some cure I presume bestowed on him in his own Country. In the beginning of the Civil War, he sided with the Presbyterians, took the Covenant, and about that time became, upon the desire of the Mayor, aldermans and principal Citizens of Coventry, Minister of the great Parish of S. Michael in that City: In which place The soundness of his doctrine, (as those of his persuasion have told me) the sanctity and prudence of his conversation, the vigilancy and tenderness of his care, were of that constant tenor; that he seemed to do all that, which S. Gregory wrote a whole book (De cura Pastorali) to tell us it should be done. By which means he ever obtained the love and respects of the City of Coventry, and his ends for their good, amongst the Citizens thereof. Of his integrity and courage also, they farther add this instance, viz. In the year 1648 when Oliv. Cromwell, then Lieut. Gen. of the forces in England, was at Coventry, upon his March towards London, the said Ob. Grew took his opportunity to represent to him the wickedness of the design then more visibly on foot, for taking off the King, and the sad consequences thereof, should it take effect; earnestly pressing him, to use his endeavours to prevent it; and had his promise for it: And afterwards when the design was too apparent, he wrote a letter to him to the same purpose, and to mind him of his promise. Which letter was conveyed by an honest Gent. (since Mayor and Alderman of Coventry, now, or lately, living) to a Messenger then waiting at Whitehall, and by him delivered into Cromwell's own hand, etc. In 1651 he accumulated the degrees in Divinity, and in the next year he completed that of Doctor by standing in the Act; much about which time he preached the Concio ad clerum with applause. In 1654. he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Warwickshire for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and continued after, till his Majesty's restauration, in good repute among the Precisians. He hath written,  
A Sinners justification by Christ: or, the Lord Jesus Christ our righteousness. Delivered in several Sermons on Jer. 23.6. Lond. 1670. oct.  
Meditations upon our Saviour's parable of the prodigal son, being several sermons on the 15 Chapter of S. Luke's Gospel. Lond. 1678. quart. Both written and published at the request, and for the common benefit, of some of his quondam Parishioners of S. Michael in Coventry. What other things he hath written, that are fit for the Press, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, 
1689.  and that his body was buried in the Chancel of the said Church of S. Michael. This Divine was the Father of Dr. Nehemiah Grew a Physician of good note and practice in London, whose published works are so well known and valued, that divers of them have been translated into Latin and French, by learned foreigners; and many eminent persons both at home and abroad, have returned him their thanks with great respect: and it is believed that he hath still much under his consideration relating both to Philosophy and the practice of Physic. Among several things that he hath written and published are (1) Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or, a description of the natural and artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Coll. Lond. 1681. fol. (2) The Anatomy of the History of Plants and Vegetables. Lond. 1683. fol. etc.  
JOHN GOAD son of Joh. G. of Bishopsgate street in London, was born in St. Helen's Parish there, 15 Febr. 1615, educated in Merchant Tailor's School, elected Scholar of S. John's Coll. and admitted in his due course and order by the just favour of Dr. Juxon the then Precedent, an. 1632. Afterwards he became Fellow, Master of Arts, Priest and in 1643 Vicar of S. Giles' Church in the North Suburb of Oxon, by the favour of the Pres. and Fellows of his College: where continuing his duty very constant, during the time that the Garrison was besieged by the Parliament Forces, did undergo great dangers by Canon Bullets that were shot from their Camp adjoining, in the time of Divine Service. On the 23. of June 1646 he was presented to the Vicarage of Yarnton near Oxon, by the Chancellor and Masters of this University, by virtue of an Act of Parliament begun at Westm. 5. Nou. 3. Jac. 1, disinabling Recusants from presenting to Church Livings, and in the year following he was, in consideration of his Sermons preached either before the King, or Parliament, at Oxon, or both, actually created Bach. of Divinity. In 1648 he was solicited by Dr. Franc. Cheynell one of the Visitors appointed to visit the University of Oxon, to return to his College and Fellowship, he having heard of, and partly known the great worth and merit of him; but, because he would not conform himself to the new Directory, he refused to go, and with much ado keeping Yarnton till the King's restauration, did then, contrary to his friend's expectation, take the offer of Tunbridge School in Kent: But being scarce settled there, he was in July 1661. made chief Master of Merchant Tailor's School in London. In which place continuing with good success and great applause till Apr. 1681, at which time the great and factious City was possessed, by the restless Presbyterian Ministers, of the sudden introduction to Popery among them, he was summoned to appear before the chief Heads of the Society of Merchant Tailors. In obedience to which summons he appearing, and then charged with certain passages savouring of Popery in his Comment on the Church of England Catechism which he had made for the use of his Scholars, he was by them discharged with a considerable gratuity in Plate from them. The particulars of this affair being too many for this place, you may see them at large in a Postcript to a book entit. Contrivances of the Fanatical Conspirators, in carrying on the treasons under umbrage of the Popish-Plot, laid open: with Depositions, etc. Lond. 1683. in 8 sh. in fol, written by Will. Smith a Schoolmaster of Islington near London, who styles therein Mr. Goad a pious and learned person, so extraordinarily qualified (for his profession) that a better could not be found in the three kingdoms. Mr. Goad being thus dismissed he took a house in Piccadilly in Westminster; to which place many of the gentiler sort of his Scholars repairing to be by him farther instructed, he set up a private School, which he continued to, or near, the time of his death. In the beginning of 1686, K. Jam. 2. being then in the Throne, he declared himself a Rom. Catholic, having many years before been so in his mind, for in Dec. 1660. he was reconciled to that Faith in Somerset house by a Priest belonging to Hen. Maria the Qu. Mother, then lately returned from France. This person who had much of Primitive Christianity in him, and was endowed with most admirable morals, hath written,  
Several Sermons, as (1) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. An advent Sermon preached at S. Paul's, on Luke 21.30. Lond. 1664. qu. (2) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Sermon of the trial of all things, preached at S. Paul's, on 1 Thes. 5.21. Lond. 1664. qu. etc.  
Genealogicon latinum. A previous method of Dictionary of all Latin words (the compounds only excepted) that may fruitfully be perused before the Grammar, by those who desire to attain the Language in the natural, clear and most speedy way, etc. for the use of the Neophyte in Merchant Tailor's School. Lond. 1676. oct. 〈◊〉. edit.  
Declamation, whether Monarchy be the best form● of government— This is at the end of a book entit The English Orator, or Rhetorical descants by way of Decla●mation. Lond. 1680. oct, written by Will. Richard's of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. But the grand work which he laboured in from about the year 1650 to the time that it was published, but hindered from finishing it sooner, thro' the manifold avocations and the vastness of the enterprise is that intit.  
Astro Meteorologica: or Aphorisms and discourses of the bodies Celestial, their natures and influences, discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air, temperate or intemperate, as to heat or cold, frost, snow, hail, fog, rain, wind, storm, lightnings, thunder, blasting, hurricane, etc. Lond. 1686. fol. The whole discourse is founded on sacred authority and reason. About the time of his death was published of his Composition.  
Autodidactica: or a practical Vocabulary, being the best and easiest method, yet extant, for young beginners, to attain to the knowledge of the Latin tongue. Lond. 1690 oct, and after his death was published under his name.  
Astro-Meteorologia sana; sive Principia Physico-Mathematica, quibus mutationum aeris, morborum epidemicorum, cometarum, Terrae Motuum, aliorumque insigniorum naturae effectuum ratio reddi possit. Lond. 1690. qu, with his picture before it, very much resembling him while living, aged 62, an. 1677. He also wrote a book Concerning plagues, their number, natures, kinds, etc. Which, while in printing, was burnt in the dismal conflagration of London, an. 1666. At length this learned and religious person concluding his last day on Monday the 28. of Octob. (S. Simon and Judas) about 5 of the Clock in the morn. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, 
1689.  was buried on the Wednesday following among the graves of his Relations in the Church of Great S. Helen in Bishopsgate street in London. Soon after were published several Elegies on his death, two of which I have seen: One was made by Joshua Barnes Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, which begins thus, 
Can then a father of our Israel die,  
And none step forth to sound an Elegy?   
The other was made by his great Admirer James Wright of the Middle Temple Esq, the beginning of which also is this.  
Goodness inspire me, while I write of one,  
Who was all Goodness; but alas! he's gone.  
THOMAS SYDENHAM son of Will. Sydenham of Winford Eagle in Dorsetsh. Esq. was born there, became a Communer of Magd. Hall in Midsummer term, an. 1642. aged 18 years or thereabouts, left Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty's use, and did not bear Arms for him as other Scholars then and there did, went to London, fell accidentally into the company of a noted Physician called Dr. Tho. Cox, who finding him to be a person of more than ordinary parts, encouraged and put him into a method to study Physic at his return to the University. After the said Garrison was delivered to the Parliament Forces he retired again to Magd. Hall, entered on the Physic Line, was actually created Bachelaur of that faculty in the Pembrockian Creation, in Apr. 1648, having not before taken any degree in Arts; and about that time subscribing and submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament, he was, thro' the endeavours of a near relation, made by them Fellow of Alls. Coll, in the place of one of those many then ejected for their Loyalty. After he had continued for some years there in the zealous prosecution of that Faculty, he left the University without the taking of any other degree there; and at length settled in Westminster, became Doctor of his Faculty at Cambridge, an exact observer of diseases and their Symptoms, famous for his practice, the chief Physician from 1660 to 1670, and in his last day's Licentiat or Permissus of the College of Physicians. He was a person of a florid stile, of a generous and public Spirit, very charitable and was more famous, especially beyond the Seas, for his published books, then before he had been for his practice, which was much lessened after the year 1670, when then he was laid up with the terrible disease of the Gout. He was famous for his cool regimen in the Smallpox, which his greatest Adversaries have been since forced to take up and follow. He was also famous for his method of giving the Bark after the Paroxysm in Agues, and for his Laudanum. He hath written,  
Methodus curandi febres propriis observationinibus superstructa, etc. cui etiam accessit sectio quinta de Peste sive morbo pestilentiali. Lond. 1668. oct, sec. edit. more large and corrected than the former.  
Observationes Medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam & curationem. Lond. 1676. 85. oct, with his picture before them. An account of these Observat. are in the Philos. Transact. nu. 123. p. 568, and a just character in Dr. W. Cole's Epist. to our author, printed with Dissert. Epist. following.  
Epistolae responsoriae duae. Prima de morbis epidemicis ab an. 1675. ad an. 1680. Written to Rob. Brady Doct. of Physic, Master or Head of Cays Coll. in Cambr. and the King's Professor of Phys. there. Secunda de Luis venereae historia & curatione. Written to Henry Paman Doct. of Physic, Fell. of S. Joh. Coll. in Camb, Pub. Orator of that Univ, and Professor of Phys. in Gresham Coll. Both these Epistles were printed at Lond. 1680. and 85. oct. with two short Epistles set before them written by the said Doctors, Brady and Paman, which our author answers.  
Dissertatio Epistolaris ad Spectatiss. & doctiss. virum Guliel. Cole M. D. de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentiam, necnon de affectione hysterica. Lond. 1682. 85. oct. The three last books were reprinted at Amsterdam, 1683. oct. with several corrections in them.  
Tractatus de Podagrâ & Hydrope. Lond. 1683, 85. oct. All which books were reprinted at Lond. 1685. with an useful index.  
Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu, Lond. 1686. oct. This learned Doctor died in his house in the Pall-mall in the Suburbs of Westm. on the 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, 
1689.  and was buried in the South Isle near to the S. door of the Church of S. James there. He had an elder brother named William Sydenham an active man in the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1. was a Colonel of Horse and Foot, Governor 
(*) Mystery of the Good Old Cause briefly unfolded, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. p. 30.31.  of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis, and Commander in chief in Dorsetshire; afterward one of O. Cromwell's Council and a Lord of his other House, had a great command in the Isle of Wight, was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, a great Rumper, and one of the Committee of Safety, etc.  
HENRY HURST a late noted Preacher of the Nonconformists party, son of Hen. Hurst sometimes Vicar of Mickleton in Glocestershire, was born there, entered a Batler of Madg. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament forces; and being Pruitanically educated from his childhood, he submitted to the power of the Visitors when they came to reform, or rather deform the University, an. 1648. In the latter end of the next year he was made by them Probationer-Fellow of Mert. College, where, as in the public Schools, he showed himself a quick, dexterous and smart Disputant. After he had taken the degrees in Arts, he became a frequent preacher in these parts, (without any Orders from a Bishop) especially in the Church or Chapel of S. Cross of Halywell in the Suburbs of Oxon, where he was much frequented by those of his persuasion, and sometimes by others too, for his edifying way of Preaching. Much about the time of his Majesty's restauration he left the College and preached in London with the good approbation of those of his party. So that upon the vacancy of the Church of S. Matthew in Fridaystreet in London, he was, by the majority of the Parishioners votes, elected the Rector thereof. In 1662. he was ejected at Barthelmewtide for Nonconformity; whereupon taking all opportunities, he preached in Conventicles, for which he was sometimes brought into trouble. In the latter end of the year 1671. when then an Indulgence of Liberty was granted to Nonconformists, he preached openly in London and sometimes at his native place, where those of his party would usually say that the Gospel was then come among them: But that Indulgence being soon after annulled upon the petition of the Parliament made to his Majesty, he returned to his customary preaching in private, and about 1675 his preaching being much admired by Elizabeth Countess or Anglesey, he was taken into the service of her Family and made Chaplain to her Lord; with whom he continued several years. Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in Sept. 1678 he showed himself very active in aggrevating the concerns thereof in his preachments and common discourses: And it was usual with him to vent his mind in Conventicles, (not without some passion,) many things savouring of Treason. But when the Fanatical, which was generally called the Presbyterian, Plot broke out in June 1683 he skulked, being closely sought after, and was several times in danger of being brought into trouble. When K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown, and another Indulgence was soon after allowed, he preached openly again and continued his Lectures in and near London to the time of his death. His works are these.  
Several Sermons as (1) The inability of the highest improved natural man to attain a sufficient and right knowledge of indwelling sin, discovered in three Sermons preached at S. Mary's in Oxford, all on Rom. 7. latter part of the 7 verse. Oxon. 1659. oct. The running title on the top of every page is The natural man's blindness. In an Epistle to the Reader set before them, (which cut the very sinews, as 'tis said, of Pelagius and Socinus in some of their doctrines) written by one of the author's persuasion named Hen. Wilkinson D. D. Princ. of Magd. Hall, is this Character given of the author, viz. that he was sufficiently known to him and many others to be a godly, learned, and orthodox Divine, and that through his modesty, and low opinion of himself, did deny, for a long time, his consent to the making of those Sermons of public use, etc. (2) Whether well composed religious vows, do not exceedingly promote religion? on Psal. 116.12. and 14.— This is the thirteenth Sermon in The Morning Exercise at Cripplegate, preached in Sept 1661.— Lond. 2661. qu. (3) Kings and Emperors not rightful Subjects to the Pope, on Acts 26.2.— This is the third Sermon in The Morning Exercise against Popery, preached by Nonconformists in Conventicles in Southwark— Lond. 1675. qu. (4) The faithful and diligent Servant of the Lord, a funeral discourse on the death of Mr, Tho. Cawton, on Luke 12.43. Lond. 1677. qu. (5) How we may best cure the love of being flattered? on Prov. 26.28, in the continuation of The Morning Exercise, 1682. (6) How we may inquire after news, not as Athenians, but as Christians, for the better managing our prayers and praises for the Church of God? on Acts 17.21.— Preached in Oct. 1689.  
The revival of Grace, in the vigour and fragrancy of it, by a due application of the blood of Christ, a Sacrifice, a Testator, and bearing a curse for us; particularly each for the exciting and increasing the graces of the believing Communicant. Lond. 1678. oct. Dedicated to his Patron Arthur Earl of Anglesie.  
Annotations upon Ezekiel and the twelve lesser Prophets— In continuation of M. Poole's Annotations of the holy Scripture. At length this learned and religious Nonconformist preaching on the Lord's day in a Conventicle or Meetinghouse in, or near, Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster, on a Lords day Apr. 13, was taken with an apoplectical fit: whereupon being conveyed to a Goldsmith's house adjoining, expired the next day, ascending, as 'twere, from the Pulpit to the Throne, in sixteen hundred and ninty, aged 61, or thereabouts. 
1690.  Afterwards his body was buried in the yard (near the Sundial within the Rails) belonging to the Church of S. Paul within the said Cou. Garden, (wherein he before had buried 3 of his children) at which time Rich. adam's M. A. sometimes Fellow of Brasn. Coll. (a Nonconformist Divine) preached his funeral Sermon. Which being extant the Reader may see more of the person at the latter end thereof, p. 21.22. etc.  
ABRAHAM WRIGHT son of Rich. Wr. Citizen and Silk dier of London, son of Jeffr. Wr. of Longborough in Leycestershire, was born in Black-Swan Alley in Thamestreet in the Parish of S. James Garlickhith, in Lond. on the 23. of Decemb. 1611, educated in Grammar learning partly in Mercers-Chapel School in Cheapside, but mostly in Merchant-taylor's School under Dr. Nich. Grey, elected Scholar of S. John's Coll. an. 1629 by the endeavours of Dr. Juxon Precedent there, who finding him to be a good Orator, especially in proper and due pronunciation, (which in his elderly years he retained in his Sermons and public Offices) favoured him then and afterwards in his studies. In 1632 he was elected Fellow, and having then a Genie which inclined him to Poetry and Rhetoric, did, while Bach. of Arts, make his collection of Delitiae Poetarum, being then esteemed also an exact master of the Latin tongue, even to the nicest criticism. On the 30. Aug. 1636, at which time Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. entertained the King and Qu. at S. john's Coll, he spoke an English Speech before them when they entered into the Library to see, and be entertained in it at a dinner; and after dinner he was one of the principal persons that acted in the Comedy called Loves Hospital, or The Hospital of Lovers presented before their Majesties in the public refectory of that House. The chief Actor was the author Mr. Geor Wild, and the others, who were all of that House, were Joh. Goad, Humph. Brook (now one of the Coll. of Physicians) Edm. Gayton, Joh. Hyfield, etc. On the 24. of Sept. 1637. our author Wright took holy Orders from Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely in the Chapel at Ely House in Holbourn near London, and on the 22. of Dec. 1639 he was ordained Priest by Dr. Bancroft B. of Oxon in Ch. Ch. Cathedral; at which time he preached the Sermon, which was afterwards printed with 4 more: And it being then well approved, and thereupon he accounted an elegant preacher, was the reason why he did frequently appear in S. Mary's Pulpit in Oxon, before the City of Lond. at S. Paul's, and before K. Ch. 1. when he resided in Oxon, in the time of the grand Rebellion. In 1643 he took to him a wife from Yarnton near Oxon, and in Aug. 1645 he became Vicar of Okeham in Rutlandshire, by the favour of Dr. Juxon B. of London, and thereupon received Institution from Dr. Towers B. of Peterborough; but as for Induction he altogether refused, because he was then to have taken the Covenant; so one Benj. King a Parliamenteer was put into that Vicarage. Afterwards Mr. Wright went to London and resided there in a retired condition till after the decollation of K. Ch. 1. About that time Sir Geo. Grime or Graham of Peckham near Camberwell in Surrey gave him entertainment in his House; and because he would not be idle, he instructed Sir George's son in Lat. and Gr. learning, read the Common Prayer on all Sundays and Holydays, and on principal Feasts he preached and administered the Sacraments. About 1655 he was prevailed with to leave Peckham and to live in London, where he was chosen by the Parishioners of S. Olave in Silverstreet to be their Minister and to receive the profits of that little Parish, of which he was in effect the Relator, though formally to take actual possession of the Living he would not, (as his nearest Relation hath told me) because he would avoid Oaths and Obligations. This employment he kept 4 years and preached constantly twice every Sunday, once there, and once in some other Church, baptised and buried according to the Common Prayer, (as the Relator adds) and gave the Sacrament according to the Liturgy of the Church of England: whereupon being esteemed one of the Cavalier Ministers of London, as Dr. J. Hewit, Dr. J. Pearson, etc. were, had his share in troubles and was once or more examined for keeping intelligence with the Loyal party. About our Lady day in 1659. he left S. Olaves Ch. to prevent new impositions and engagements then offered to such as were in any public Ministry and applied himself to his private studies. After his Majesty's restauration, Benj. King before mentioned did by his Hand and Seal, 2. Aug. 1660 resign up all his title and pretensions to Okeham, whereupon he returned in Oct. following and had peaceable possession delivered to him of the Church there. A little before he had left London to go to Okeham, he was offered to be Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia only sister to K. Ch. 1. but he waved that honour and went to Okeham. He was a person of open and professed affections for Conformity and no favourer of Sectaries and their Conventicles, and therefore not beloved by the Dissenters of his Parish, which was always full of them. His Life and Conversation was sober and reserved, was a man very charitable to widows and fatherless children, and gave money to them and others, amounting to the twentieth part of the true value of his Living. His works, as to learning are these.  
Delitiae delitiarum, sive Epigrammatum ex optimis quibusque hujus novissimi seculi Poetis in amplissima illa Bib. Bodleiana, & pene omnino alibi extantibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in unum corollum connexa. Oxon. 1637. in tw.  
Five Sermons in five several styles or ways of preaching. The first in Bishop Andrews way, before the late King upon the first day of Lent. The second in B. Hall's way▪ before the Clergy, at the authors own Ordination in Ch. Ch. in Oxon. The third in Dr. Maynes and Mr. Cartwrights way, before the University at S. Mary's in Oxford. The fourth in the Presbyterian way, before the City at S. Paul's in Lond. and the fifth in the Independed way, never preached. Lond. 1656. oct. The first is on Matth. 9.15. (2) On Deut. 33.8. (3) On Cant. 2.2. (4) On Luke 16.9. (5) Luke 9.23. The chief end in printing these Sermons, was first to show the difference between the University and City breeding up of preachers, and to let the people know that any one that hath been bred a Scholar is able to preach any way to the capacity and content of any auditory. And secondly that none can do this, but they only, that have had such education: yet notwithstanding ordinary capacities are more taken with Cloak and Lay men's preaching, than that of the Gown.  
A practical Commentary or Exposition upon the book of Psalms, wherein the text of every Psalm is practically expounded according to the doctrine of the Cath. Church, in a way not usually trod by Commentators; and wholly applied to the life and salvation of Christians. Lond. 1661. fol. etc.  
Practical Commentary upon the Pentateuch or five books of Moses. Lond. fol. He also made a collection of Poems, which he entitled,  
Parnassus biceps. Or several choice pieces of Poetry, composed by the best wits that were in both the Universities before their dissolution. Lond. 1656 oct. The Epistle before them in the behalf those then doubly secluded and sequestered members, was written by the Collector Wright, and those verses of his composition in the said book are in p. 1.54.121.122.126 and 128. He hath also completed other books, which are not yet printed as (1) A comical entertainment called The Reformation, presented before the University at S. John's Coll. Written while he was an Undergraduate. (2) Novissima Straffordii: sive quaestio Straffordiana, prout à Parliamento exercebatur. 'Tis a Narrative of Tho. Earl of Strafford's trial, written in pure Latin and stile of Tacitus. (3) Several Sermons, besides an imperfect collection towards the completing A practical Commentary on the other parts of the Bible, besides what he had already done, some books whereof are finished. This Mr. Wright, who refused, for quietness and solitude sake, several preferments in the Church after his Majesty's restauration, departed this mortal life in a good old age on Friday the ninth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety, and was, 
1690.  on the Sunday following, buried in the Church at Okeham before mentioned. He left behind him a son named James Wright born at Yarnton near to, and in the County of, Oxon, in the house of James Stone, father to his mother Jane, entered in 1666, (without being educated in any Univ) into the Society of New Inn near London; from whence he removed three years after to the Middle Temple, where, at the end of the usual time of study, he was called to Bar. This person hath written and published The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland, collected from records, ancient Manuscripts, Monuments on the place and other authorities, illustrated with Sculpture. Lond. 1684 in a thin fol. To which was put an Addition— Lond. 1687 in 2 sh. and an half in fol. He hath also published little trivial things of History and Poetry, merely to get a little money, which he will not own.  
THEODORE HAAK was born at Newhausen near Worms in the Palatinate, on the day of S. James S. V. an. 1605, educated in Grammar, and in the Reformed Religion in those parts, traveled into England in 1625, retired to Oxon about the beginning of Aug. the same year, while the two Houses of Parliament were sitting there, continued half an year in obtaining Academical learning, and afterwards at Cambridg as much. Thence he went and visited several Cities and recesses of the Muses beyond the Seas, returned in 1629, became a Communer of Gloucester Hall, continued there near three years, but took no degree, and soon after was made a Deacon by Dr. Jos. Hall Bishop of Exeter. In the time of the Germane Wars he was appointed one of the Procurators to receive the benevolence money which was raised in several Dioceses in England to be transmitted into Germany, which he usually said was a Deacons work, and when the Wars broke out in this Nation he seemed to favour the interest of Parliament, having been always Calvinistically educated. The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly incite him to be his Secretary, but he, loving Solitude, declined that employment, as he did the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh, and for Fred. 3. King of Denmark, etc. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that when the Synod of Dort was celebrated in 1618., care was then taken that the most learned and pious Divines of the United Provinces should make a new and accurate Translation of the Bible, and Annotations to be put thereunto: In which work they were assisted by many eminent and able Divines from most of the reformed Churches, and particularly from England by Dr. Geo. Carleton Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Jo. Davenant B. of Sarum, Dr. Hall B. of Exon, Dr. Sam. Ward of Cambr. etc. by whose great and assiduous Labours, jointly for many years together, the said Annotations were completed, and came forth in print first, an. 1637. These Annotations I say, commonly called the Dutch Annotations, being thought very fit, and of great use, by the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westm. to be translated into English by the hand of Th. Haak, it was ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parl. 30. of March 1648. for the encouragement of the said undertaker Theod. Haak, that he, or whom he should assign, should have the privilege of printing and vending the said Annotations for the space of 14 years: (which term should begin from the time of the first impression) So that none else, under what pretence soever should be permitted to intermeddle in printing the whole, or any part thereof, upon the pain of forfeiting a thousand pounds to the said Theod. Haak, etc. Afterwards the work going forward and the whole Englished by Haak, it came out with this title The Dutch Annotations upon the whole Bible, together with their translation according to the direction of the Synod of Dort, 1618. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. Before which, is an exact narrative touching the work, and the said translation. Besides the translation of this great work Mr. Haak hath translated into High Dutch several English books of practical Divinity, as (1) Of the deceitfulness of man's heart, written by Dan. Dyke (2) The Christians daily walk, etc. written by Hen. Scudder, (3) The old Pilgrim, being the Hist. of the Bible, written by Anon. but not yet printed, as other translations, which he had made, are not. He also translated into High Dutch in blank verse, half the Poem called Paradise lost, written by Joh. Milton; which coming into the hands of J. Secbald. Fabricius the famous Divine at Heidelberg, he was so much taken with it, that in a Letter sent to the Translator he tells him— incredible est quantum nos omnes afficerit gravitas stili & copia lectissimorum verborum, etc. He also made ready for the Press before his death about 3000 Proverbs out of the Germ. into the English tongue, and as many into the Germ, from the Language of the Spaniard, who are famous for wise sayings and had most part of them from the Arabians. This Mr. Haak who was several years Fellow of the Royal Society, hath Observations and Letters in the Philosophical Collections, which were published in the beginning of May 1682, and perhaps in the Transactions, Quaere. At length this virtuous and learned person departing this mortal life in the house of his kinsman Fred. Slare or Slear M. D, situate and being in an Alley joining to Fetter Lane, on Sunday the ninth day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety, 
1690.  was buried three days after in a vault under the Chancel of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London: At which time Dr. Anth. Horneck a German, preached his Funeral Sermon, wherein were delivered several remarks of Mr. Haaks life; but that Sermon being not yet extant, I cannot therefore refer you to it. Among the many great and learned acquaintance which Mr. Haak had, were Prince Rupert, Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland, Dr. Williams Archb. of York, Joh. Selden, Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Predeaux B. of Worc. Dr. Walton B. of Chester, Dr. Wilkins B. of the same place, Briggs and Pell Mathematicians, Dr. W. Alabaster the Poet, (whose Manuscript called Elisaeis he had by him, and kept it as a choice relic of his deceased friend to the time of his death) Sir Will. Boswell Ambassador at the Hague, who encouraged him to keep and continue his correspondence with the learned Marseanus, and others of later time.  
JOHN RUSHWORTH was born of Gentile Parents in the County of Northumberland, educated for a time in this University in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1, but left it soon after without being matriculated, and retiring to London, he entered himself a Student in Lincoln's Inn, of which he became a Barrister. But his Geny then leading him more to State affairs than the Common Law, he began early to take in Characters Speeches and passages at conferences in Parliament and from the Kings own mouth which he speak to both the Houses, and was upon the stage continually an eye and an ear witness of the greatest transactions. He did also personally attend and observe all occurrences of moment during the eleven years' interval of Parliament, in the Star-Chamber, Court of Honour and Exchequer Camber, when all the Judges of England met there upon extraordinary cases; and at the Council Table when great causes were tried before the K. and Council. Afterwards when matters were agitated at a great distance, he was there also, and went on purpose, out of curiosity, to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick, at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne, with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York, an. 1640. Soon after, when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began, which was on the 3. of Nou. the same year, he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House, by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings: And both Houses having confidence in, they sent their addresses by, him to the King then at York, being forced thither by their violent proceedings: And it so fell out that he road several times with that expedition between London and that City, which is 150 miles, that he performed the journey in 24 hours. In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians; and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax (for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of ancient extract) he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces; in which Office he obtained, or at least might have so done, what wealth he pleased, which might, had he husbanded it well, have supported his necessities in his last days. In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieged by the said Generalissimo, his help was sometimes required, and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation, he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues, till it was concluded. In 1649 he attended his Master, (than Lord Fairfax) with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon, where being all splendidly entertained by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent persuasion, he was actually created Master of Arts, and at the same time, he, as a Member of Queens Coll, was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon, and Members of the said University. After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General, he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn, and being in great esteem by the men of those times, he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law. In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon tweed, (near to which place he had received his first breath) to serve in that Parliament called Richard's Parl, which began at Westm. 27. Jan. the same year, and again for the same place for that which commenced 25. of Apr. 1660, but for that which began in May 1661., he was not. In Sept. 1667, at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal, he was by him made his Secretary, and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his, he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself, or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day. Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant, he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678, as he was afterwards for that which commenced 17. Oct. 1679, and for the Oxford. Parl. that followed; he being then, as always before, esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy. After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament, he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster; but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the King's bench, he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you. His works are these.  
Historical Collections of private passages of State, weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments. Beginning the 16 year of K. James, an. 1618. and ending the fifth year of K. Charles, a. 1629, digested in order of time. Lond. 1659. fol. There again by stealth, bearing the same date, an. 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr. Whitlock one of Olivers Lords, and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself, but he having no leisure to peruse it, he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657, and accordingly running it over more than once, he made some alterations in, and additions to, it. After it was finished at the Press, he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwell then L. Protector.  
Historical Collections. The second part, containing the principal matters which happened from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628./ 9 until the summoning of the other Parliam, which met at Westm. 13. Apr. 1640, with an account of the proceedings of that Parl; and the transactions and affairs from that time, until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nou. following. With some remarkable passages therein, during the first six months, etc. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix, containing Star-Chamber Reports, for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628., Articles of Peace, intercourses and Commerce, with several other things.  
The trial of Thomas Earl of Strafford, L. Lieutenant of Ireland, upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament, in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England: begun in Westm. Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgement was given until the 10. of May 1641, etc. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl, precedent, concomitant, and subsequent to the said trial, with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder.— But the publisher of the said Collections, having, as 'tis said, concealed truth, endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times, as well as their barbarous actions, and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand; it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State; from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion, an. 1639. to the murder of K. Ch. 1. etc. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an. 1682, and the other to the said murder, an. 1683; both published by his Maj. special command, etc. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer, printed with his Treatises of the life of man, etc. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian, and otherwise well qualified, hath written besides the former volumes (1) The Countermine: or, a short, but true discovery of the dangerous principles, and secret practices of the dissenting party, especially the Presbyterians: showing that Religion is pretended, but Rebellion is intended. And, etc. Lond. 1677. oct. etc. (2) The common interest of King and people, showing the original, antiquity and excellency of Monarchy compared with Aristocracy and Democracy, and particularly of our English Monarchy: and that absolute, Papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative, property and liberty. Lond. 1678 oct. (3) A true copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice, for the trial of K. Ch. 1. as it was read in the H. of Commons, and attested under the hand of Phelps, Clerk to that infamous court. Lond. 1684. fol. With a large introduction by the said Nalson. He hath also translated into Engl. The History of the Crusade; or the expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land. Lond. 1685 fol. Written originally in French by the famed Monsieur Maimbourgh. What other things he hath written or translated I know not as yet, or any thing else of him only that he died at, or near, the City of Ely on the 19 of March, or thereabouts (according to the English account) an. 1685. to the great loss of the true Sons of the Church of England, of which he had been a zealous Member. Our author Rushworth hath also written  
The History of the Civil War of England— This which is the fifth vol. is in MS, and not yet published.  
Several Letters to the Parliament, and to particular Members thereof— These he wrote while the War continued, and were subscribed by himself and not by Gen. Fairfax as the printed copies show. What other books he hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he spent the six last years (or thereabouts) of his life in the Prison called the King's bench in Southwark, where being reduced to his second childship, for his memory was quite decayed by taking too much Brandy to keep up his spirits, he quietly gave up the Ghost in his lodging in a certain Alley there, called Rules Court, on Monday the twelfth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety, aged 83 years or thereabouts. 
1690:  Whereupon his body was buried on Wednesday following, behind the Pulpit, in the Church of S. George within the said Borough of Southwark. He had no son, only daughters, virtuous women, of which one was married to Sir Franc. Vane of the North.  
HENRY WILKINSON junior, commonly called Dean Harry, son of Will. Wilk. of Adwick, or Adwickstreet, in the West Riding of Yorkshire Priest; was born there, an. 1616, instructed mostly in Grammar learning in Edw. Sylvesters School in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon, entered a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1631, took the degrees in Arts, entered into holy Orders, and became a noted Tutor in, and moderator or Dean of, his House. At length upon the eruption of the Civil War in 1642, he left the University, adhered to the Parliament party, took the Covenant and became a forward and frequent preacher among them. After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendered to the Parliament Forces, he returned to the University, and by the authority of the then dominant party he was created Bach▪ of Divinity, made Principal of his Hall and Moral Philosophy Reader of the University. Afterwards we find him one of the most frequent and active preachers among the Presbyterians in the University, whether at S. Mary's, S. Martin commonly called Carfax, S. Pet. in the East, etc. being then Doct. of Divinity, and took all the ways imaginable to make his House flourish with young Students. At length the Act of Conformity being published in 1662., he, rather than conform, left his principality (though persuaded to the contrary by some of the Heads of the University, purposely to keep him there, because he was a good Disciplinarian) and lived for some time in these parts. Afterwards, upon the receipt of a Call, he lived by the help of the Brethren at Buckminster in Leycestershire, where he exercised his gifts in Conventicles, as he did afterwards at Gosfield in Essex, and in 1673 and after, at Sybill-Hennyngham near to that place, and a length at Great Connard near Sudbury in Suffolk; at which last place he finished this mortal life, as I shall tell you by and by, having before suffered by imprisonments, mulcts and loss of his Goods and Books for preaching in Conventicles against the Act. He was a zealous person in the way he professed, but overswayed more by the Principles of education than reason. He was very courteous in speech and carriage, communicative of his knowledge, generous, and charitable to the poor; and so public spirited (a rare thing in a Presbyterian) that he always minded the common good, more than his own concerns. His works as to learning are these,  
Conciones tres apud Academicos Oxonii nuper habitae. Oxon. 1654. oct. The first is on Psal. 119.9. The second on Eccles. 2.1. and the third on 1. Pet. 4.11.  
Brevis tractatus de jure divino diei dominici. Ibid. 1654. 58. oct.  
Conciones sex ad Academicos Oxonienses. Ib. 1658. oct. Among which are the former three.  

De impotentia liberi arbitrii ad bonum spiritale. Oxon 1658. oct. Print. with Conc. Sex.  
Epistolarum decas. Oxon 1658. oct. Print. with Conc. Sex.  
Oratio habita in schola moralis philosophiae. Oxon 1658. oct. Print. with Conc. Sex.   
Conc. duae ap. Ox. nuper habitae. Ibid. 1659. qu. Both on 1. Cor. 16.22.  
Concio de brevitate opportuni temporis Oxon habita ad Bac. die Cinerum, 7. Mar. 1659. Ib. 1660. qu, preached on 1. Cor. 7.29.  
Several English Sermons, as (1) Sermon at Haseley in the County of Oxon, at the funeral of Margaret, late wife of Dr. Edw. Corbet Pastor of Hasely, on Col. 1.27. Ox. 1657. oct. (2) Three decades of Sermons lately preached to the University in S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon. Ox. 1660. qu. (3) Several Sermons concerning God's All-Sufficiency, and Christ's preciousness. Lond. 1681. oct. etc.  
Catalogus librorum in Bibl. Aul. Madg. Oxon. Ox. 1661. oct.  
The doctrine of contentment briefly explained, and practically applied in a Treatise on 1. Tim. 6.8. Lond. 1671. oct.  
Characters of a sincere heart, and the comforts thereof, collected out of the word of God. Lond. 1674. oct.  
Two treatises concerning (1) God's All-Sufficiency. (2) Christ's Preciousness. Being the substance of some Sermons long since preached in the Uniu. of Ox. Lond. 1681. oct. These two treatises are the same with the Several Sermons before mentioned, with some alterations in, and additions to, them, purposely to please his friend and favourer (one of his persuasion) called Joh. Clark of S. Edm. Bury Esq. by a dedication to him, set before them.  
Praelectiones Morales. MS. in Magd. Hall Libr. They are his Lectures that he read in the Moral Philosophy School while he was public Reader of that Lecture. At length, after the latter part of the life of this zealous Theologist had been spent in trouble and adversity for the cause he professed, he very devoutly surrendered up, his soul to God at Great Connard before mentioned, on the 13 day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety: 
1690.  Whereupon his body being conveyed to Mildin or Milding near Lavenham in Suffolk, by very many persons of his persuasion, and by some others too, was buried in the Church there on the 15 day of the same month. Soon after was a stone laid over his grave, with a short inscription thereon.  
EZEKIEL HOPKINS son of the Curate of Sandford, a Chapel of ease to Crediton, in Devonshire, was born there, became a Choirister of Magd. Coll. 1649. aged 16 years or thereabouts, Usher of the School adjoining when Bach. of Arts, Chaplain of the said Coll. when Master, and would have been elected Fellow, had his County been eligible, in all which time he lived and was educated under Presbyterian and Independent discipline. About the time of his Majesty's restauration he became Assistant to Dr. Will. Spurstow Minister of Hackney near London, with whom he continued till the Act of Conformity was published; in which time being noted for his fluent and ready preaching, some of the parishioners of S. Mattew Fridaystreet in London would have chosen him to be their Rector, but Mr. Henr. Hurst another Candidate carried that place away from him by a majority. Afterwards the parishioners of Allhallows, or else of S. Edmund, in Lombardstreet did elect him to be their Preacher, but the Bishop of London would not admit him because he was a popular preacher among the fanatics. Afterwards he went to the City of Exeter, where he became Minister of S. Mary's Church there, and much approved and applauded for his elegant and dexterous preaching by Seth Bishop of that City. At length John Lord Roberts hearing him accidentally preach to his very great delight, he did afterwards freely offer to him the place of Chaplain when he went in the quality of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, an. 1669. Which Office he very freely accepting, went accordingly with him, and in the latter end of that year, or in the beginning of the next, he was by that Lord made Dean of Raphoe. Soon after the said Lord being recalled into England, he recommended his Chaplain to his Successor, who also taking especial notice of, conferred on, him the Bishopric of Raphoe, an. 1671, so that by virtue of Letters Pat. dat. 27. of Oct. the same year, he was Consecrated thereunto 29. of the same month. In the latter end of Octob. 1681 he was translated to London Derry in the place of Dr. Mich. Ward deceased; where continuing till the Forces in Ireland under the Earl of Tirconnel stood up in the defence of K. Jam. 2. against K. William 3, he retired into England in 1688, and in Sept. 1689 he was by the parishioners of S. Mary Aldermanburic in London elected to be their Minister, upon the removal of Dr. Stratford to the See of Chester. He hath written,  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Vanity of the World, on Eccles. 1.2. Lond. 1661. oct. (2) Serm. at the funeral of Algernon Grevill Esq. second brother to the right hon. Rob. Lord Brook who departed this life Jul. 21. at Magd. Coll. in Oxon, and was buried at Warwick on the 6. of Aug. 1662., on Ecles. 9.5. Lond. 1663. qu. (3) Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin Jan. 31. an 1669. on 1. Pet. 2.13.14. Dubl. 1671. qu. All which were reprinted at Lond. 1685. oct. (4) Serm. on John. 7.19. (5) Serm. on Gal. 3.10.— These two last were printed at the end of the Exposition f●llowing.  
An Exposition on the 10 Commandments. Lond. 1692. qu. Published in the beginning of Aug. 1691. with his picture before it, by the care of Dr. Edw. Wetenhall Bishop of Cork and Ross, author of the Epistle before it, dated at Peckham place, 3. Jul. 1671. This Bishop Hopkins died on the 19 day of June in sixteen hundred and ninety, 
1690.  and was buried on the 24. of the said month in the Church of S. Mary Aldermanburic before mentioned. He had an elder brother named John, Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll, who died before he took the degree of Master, and a younger called James, Bach. of Arts of Corp. Ch. Coll. who dying also before he was Master of Arts, in Octob. or thereabouts, an. 1663. was buried at Hackney near London. They were all three comely and ingenious persons, and beloved of their Contemporaries in their respective Colleges.  
THOMAS FRANKLAND a Lancashire man born, was entered a Student in Brasnose Coll. on the first of May, an. 1649, aged 16 years, took a degree in Arts, and in 1654. was made Fellow thereof. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty, he became a preacher (though not in Episcopal Orders) in these parts. In 1662. he was admitted one of the Proctors of the University, and in the year after, being then in holy Orders, he was with much ado (his Grace being denied three times as I shall till you elsewhere) admitted to the reading of the Sentences. Afterwards he applied his studies to the Faculty of Physic, settled in London and pretended to be a Doctor of that Faculty of Oxon, when he was in the company of Cambridg men, and to be Doctor of Cambridg, when in the company of Oxford men. At length being a Candidate to be Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, which he could not be without being Doctor, he produced a forged Certificate or Diploma to attest that he was Doctor of that Faculty, and thereupon he was at length admitted Fellow of the said Coll, and afterwards was Censor thereof. But he being of an haughty, turbulent and huffing spirit, and therefore much disliked by the Society, especially the Juniors, some of them, whom he had much displeased, were resolved to take him shorter and humble him. Whereupon, they having received a hint that he was no Doctor, they sent privately to Dr. Jam. Hyde the King's Professor of Physic and Mr. Ben. Cooper the public Registrary of the Uniu. of Oxon, that they would search the Registers thereof, and certify them whether he the said Tho. Frankland ever took the degree of Doctor of Phys. among them: whereupon they, upon their search, finding no such matter, did accordingly certify them of it. Afterwards they sent a Latin Letter to the Vicechancellor, Doctors, Proctors and Masters of the University to acquaint them with the forgery of the said Thom. Frankland, desiring them withal that they would certify the Precedent and Community of the Coll. of Physicians that he was no Doctor of Phys. of their University, which they accordingly did, in Nou. 1677. However this being a just reason for his ejection▪ yet notwithstanding, by the connivance of the Seniors of the said College, he did continue afterwards among them, but lost much of his Credit, and Practise too, as I have heard. This person, who was esteemed a good Scholar while he continued in Oxon, hath written and published.  
The Annals of K. James and K. Charles the first, containing a faithful History and impartial account of the great affairs of State, and transactions of Parliament in England, from the tenth of K. James, 1612, to the eighteenth of K. Charles, 1642. Wherein several passages, relating to the late Civil Wars (omitted in former Histories) are made known. Lond. 1681. in a large folio. It was also commonly reported, that he was author of a book entit. The honours of the Lords Spiritual asserted, and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents, etc. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh. in fol. but how true I cannot tell. Quaere. He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London, about Midsummer, in sixteen hundred and ninety, 
1690.  and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City, as I have been lately informed thence.  
JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County, educated in the Free School at Thame, became Demy of Magd. Coll. an. 1654., and on the 24. Sept. 1660, he being then Bach. of Arts, was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln: At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, notwithstanding he had been disciplined under Presbyterians and Independents, he afterwards took the degree of Master and entered into holy Orders. Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly called Coleorton in Leicestershire, and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham. Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne, he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire: which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham (which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop) he kept to his dying day. He hath published  
Several Sermons as (1) A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester, 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah. 4.5. Lond. 1679. qu. (2) Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer, Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2. ver. 1.2. Lond. 1679. qu. (3) The Gospel preached to the Romans, in four Sermons, of which two were preached on the 5. of Nou. and two on the 30. of Jan; all on Rom. 1.15. Lond. 1681. oct. (4) The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions, two Serm. on Heb. 12.9. Lond. 1682. qu. (5) King David's Deliverance and Thanksgiving; applied to the case of our King and Nation; in two Sermons, the one preached on the second, the other on the ninth, of Sept. 1683, the first on Psal. 18.48. the second on Psal. 18.49. Lond. 1684. qu. (5) Christian tranquillity: Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief, Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson (Wollaston) an only son and heir to a very fair estate, preached at Shenton in Leycestersh. Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety, 
1690.  aged 52 years or thereabouts, and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mentioned. In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincoln Coll.  
JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Main. of Tavistock in Devons. Esq. was born there, became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618., aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, but before he determined, or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet, he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law, was called to the Bar, and, being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General, was much resorted to for his Counsel. In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County, to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 13. Apr. and again for the same place, to serve in that Parl, that began there 3. Nou. following: In which last, he being noted for his activity, and readiness in pleading, he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford, whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England. Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant, took the Covenant, was one of the Laymen nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass. of Divines, got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament, an. 1647. In 1653 (1. Oliv. Protect.) he was by Writ dated 4. Feb, called to the degree of Sergeant at Law, having before taken the Engagement, and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Sergeant, and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royalists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice, wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death. Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper, was settled in his place of the Protectors Sergeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England, continued so in Richard's Reign and obtained wealth as he pleased. After his Maj. Restauration, in 1660, he wheeled about, struck in with his party, took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1, and by Writ dated in the beginning of June, he was called again to the degree of Sergeant, was made the King's Sergeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law, on the 9 of Nov, and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth, an. 1660; at which time he was appointed one of the Judges, but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment. In the beginning of 1661. he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm. 8. of May in the same year, wherein for some time he showed himself a Loyal person: But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to, the increase of Pensioners therein, and Popery in the Nation, he stood up for the good of this Country, and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot. After that Parliament was dissolved, he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2, and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679, (which, because of several Prorogations, did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680) he was one of the Committee appointed to manage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford, impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot, but he being then an aged man, he was not so eager in that employment, as he was before against Strafford. When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown, he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again, to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm. 19 May 1685, and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will. 3, he, with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq, and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law, were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts, an. 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England. In the year following he was chosen Burges for Plymouth to sit in that Parl. that began at Westm. 20. Mar, 1689, but being then grown very infirm by his great age, he gave up his place of Commissioner soon after: whereupon their Majesties did in the beginning of June 1690 constitute Sir Joh. Trevor Knight Speaker of the House of Commons, the said W. Rawlinson then a Knight and Sir Geo. Hutchins, Commissioners of the said Great Seal, and on the third of the said month, being all three sworn, their Majesties were pleased to deliver to them the Seal, with their Commissions. This Sir Joh. Maynard was a person, who, by his great reading and knowledge in the more profound and perplexed parts of the Law, did long since procure the known repute of being one of the chief Dictator's of the Long Robe, and by his great practice for many years together did purchase to himself no small Estate. And however obnoxious he hath rendered himself on other accounts, yet I judge myself, out of the sense of public gratitude, obliged to speak here thus much in his just vindication, viz. that he did always vigorously espouse the Interest and Cause of his Mother the University of Oxon (contrary to what others of his Profession, on whom she hath laid equal engagements, have too commonly done) by always refusing to be entertained by any against her: And when ever persons delegated by her authority for the management of her public litigious concerns have applied themselves to him for his advice and assistance, he did most readily yield both, by acting his best on her behalf. This Sir Jo. Maynard hath these things following extant under his name.  
Several discourses in the management of the evidence against Thom. Earl of Strafford.  
Seu. disc. in the man. of the Eu. against Will. Archb. of Cant.— These Discourses you may see at large in the Collections 
(*) See also in An impartial Collection of the great affairs of S●ate, etc. published by Jio. Nalson LL. D.  Joh. Rushworth.  
Speech to both Houses of Parliament 24. of Mar. 1640 in reply upon the Earl of strafford's Answer to his Articles at the Barr. Lond. 1641. qu. See in the Trial of the said Count upon an impeachment of High Treason, published by Jo. Rushworth Esq, wherein are many Arguings of this our author Maynard: of whom and his actions relating thereunto, are these verses 
(a) In The Ghost of the la●e House of Commons, to the new one appointed to meet at; published about the 19 of March 1680.  extant.  
The Robe was summoned, Maynard in the head,  
In legal murder none so deeply read:  
I brought him to the Bar, where once he stood,  
Stained with the (yet un-expiated) blood  
Of the brave Strafford, when three kingdoms rung  
With his accumulative active tongue, etc.  
Other verses of him are also in mother poem entit. A dialogue between the Ghosts of the two last Parliaments, at their late interview; published in the beginning of Apr. 1681, which for brevity sake I shall now omit.  
Speech at the Committee at Guildhall in Lond. 6. Jan. 1641. concerning the breaches and privileges of Parliament. Lond. 1642 in 1. sh in qu.  
London's Liberty: or, a learned argument of Law and Reason before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at the Guildhall, an. 1650. Lond. 1682 fol. See more in more in Sir Matth. Hale, p. 426.  
Reports and Cases argued and adjudged in the time of K. Ed. 2; and also divers memoranda of the Exchequer in the time of K. Ed. 1. Lond. 1079. in fol. published according to the ancient MSS. then remaining in the hands of him the said Sir Jo. Maynard.  
Speech and Arguings in the Trial of Will. Visc. Stafford, etc.— See the said Trial printed at Lond. in fol. 1680/1. wherein are also several of his Discourses. At length after this Sir Joh. Maynard had lived to a great age and had acted Proteus like in all changes to gain riches and popularity, he gave up the ghost in his house at Gonnersbury in the Parish of Eling in the County of Middl. on the ninth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and ninety; 
1690.  whereupon his body, attended by certain Officers of Arms and a large train of Coaches, was in few days after buried in the Church at Eling. In his time lived also another Sir Joh. Maynard, Knight of the Bath and second brother to the Lord Maynard, chose Burgess for Lestithel or Lestuthiel in Cornwall to sit in that unhappy Parl. that began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640, wherein expressing a pique to the Army by endeavouring to have them disbanded, an. 1647, he was by them impeached of High Treason, turned out of the H. of Commons and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London. He was a zealous Covenantier, a sharp 
(b) See more in a book entit. The Law's subversion: or, Sir Jo. Maynards' case truly stated, etc. Lond. 1648. qu. written by Joh. Howldin Gent.  Antagonist to the Independent Faction and hath some little things extant going under his name: Among which is A Speech in the H. of Commons, wherein is stated the case of Lieu. Coll. Joh. Lilbourne, etc. Lond. 1648. qu. These things I thought fit to let the Reader know, because both these Maynards' have been taken for each other in History. Whether this last be the same Sir Jo. Maynard who was of Graveney in Surrey, and died in the beginning of the year 1664, or thereabouts, I know not as yet. Quaere. Another Joh. Maynard I have mentioned under the year 1669 p. 335, but he was a Divine: And another I find, who was a Devonian born, bred in Exeter Coll, and afterwards was made Rector of Goodleigh in his own Country, but this person, who died at Goodleigh in 1627., hath not published any thing.  
RICHARD LOWER the late eminent Physician, was born of a gentile family at Tremere near Blissland and Bodmin in Cornwall, elected from the College School at Westminster a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1649, aged 18 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1655, entered upon the Physic Line, and practised that Faculty under Dr. Tho. Willis, whom he helped, or rather instructed, in some parts of Anatomy, especially when he was meditating his book De Cerebro, as I have elsewhere told you. In Apr. 1664, he, in his travels with the said Doctor to visit Patients, made a discovery of the medicinal water at East Throp commonly Astrop near Kings-Sutton in Northamptonshire, the Doctor being then, as usually, asleep or in a sleepy condition on horseback. Afterwards, our author Lower imparting his discovery to the Doctor, they in their return, or when they went that way again, made experiments of it, and thereupon understanding the virtue thereof, the Doctor commended the drinking of it to his Patients. Soon after the water was contracted into a Well, and upon the said commendations, 'twas yearly, as to this time it is, frequented by all sorts of people. In 1665 our author Lower took the degrees in Physic, practised the transfusion of blood from one Animal into another, and as if he had been the first discoverer, took the invention of it to himself in his book De Cord, but mistaken, as I have told you elsewhere. See my discourse of Franc. Potter, under the year 1678. p. 454. However the members of the Royal Society took the hint from his practice and made experiments of it in the year following. In 1666 he followed Dr. Willis to the great City, and settling at first in Hatton Garden, practised under him and became Fellow of the said Society. Afterwards, growing famous, he removed to Salisbury Court near Fleetstreet, and thence to Bowstreet, and afterwards to Kingstreet near Covent Garden; where being much resorted to for his successful practice, especially after the death of Dr. Willis, an. 1675, he was esteemed the most noted Physician in Westminster and London, and no man's name was more cried up at Court than his, he being then also Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians. At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in 1678. (about which time he left the Royal Society, and thereupon their experiments did in some manner decay) he closed with the whigs, supposing that party would carry all before them: But being mistaken, he thereby lost much of his Practice at and near the Court, and so consequently his Credit. At that time a certain Physician named Tho. Short a R. C. struck in, carried all before him there, and got riches as he pleased; but he dying in the latter end of Sept. 1685, most of his Practice devolved on Dr. Joh. Radcliffe. The works of Dr. Lower are these  
Diatribae Thomae Willisii Med. Doct. & Profess. Oxon de Febribus vindicatio, contra Edm. de Meara. Lond. 1665 oct. Amstel. 1666. in tw. An account of this book you may see in the Philos. Transactions, num. 4. p. 77.  
Letter concerning the present state of Physic, and the regulation of the practice of it in this Kingdom, by way of Letter to a Doct. of Phys. Lond. 1665.  
Tractatus de cord; item de motu & colore sanguinis & chyli in eum transitu. Lond. 1669, 70. oct. etc. ibid. 1680. oct. fourth edit. Amstel. 1669. 71. oct. An account also of this book you may see in the said Transactions, num. 45. p. 909. etc. num. 73. p. 2211.  
Dissertatio de origine catarrhi & de venae sectione. This was printed at first with the book De Cord, and afterwards by itself— Lond. 1672. oct. An account also of it, is in the said Transactions. This learned Doctor Lower died in his house in Kingstreet near Covent Garden, on Saturday the 17. day of January in sixteen hundred and ninety; 
169●/1.  whereupon his body being conveyed to St. Tudy near Bodmin in Cornwall, (where some years before he had purchased an Estate) was buried in a vault under part of the south side of the Church there. By his last Will and Test. he gave (as it was then said) a 1000 l. to St. Bartholomews' Hospital in London, 500 l. to the French Protestant Refuges, 500 l. to the Irish Prot. Refuges, 50 l. to the poor of the Parish of S. Paul in Cou. Garden, 40 l. to the poor of two Parishes in Cornwall where he had land, etc. He then left behind him two daughters, one called Loveday, the other Philippe, both then unmarried. Sir Will. Lower the Poet was of the same family and born also at Tremere, but when he died his Estate did not go either to the Father or Brethren of the Doctor, which was then much regretted by the Family.   

ATHENAE OXONIENSES: THE HISTORY OF THE Archbishops and Bishops Of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD, FROM The Beginning of the Year MDCXLI. to the End of the Year MDCXC.  
JOHN THORNBOROUGH sometimes of S. Mary magdalen's Coll, was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Ireland, an. 1593., translated thence to Bristol 1603, and to Worcester in the latter end of the year 1616. He departed this mortal life in the month of July, in sixteen hundred forty and one, 
1641.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 1.2. In the See of Bristol he was succeeded by Nich. Felton D. D. and Master of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, consecrated thereunto on the 14 of Dec. 1617.; where sitting about 15 months, he was translated to Ely, 14 Mar. 1618.: And in the See of Worcester succeeded Dr. Jo. Prideaux, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
BARNAB. POTTER sometimes Provost of Queen's College, was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in the latter end of the year 1628., and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred forty and one, 
1641/2.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 6. Soon after his Bishopric was given to the learned Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland, to keep in Commendam with Armagh in consideration of his great losses sustained in that Kingdom by the Rebellion that a little before that time broke out: The revenues of which, though much abated by the Scotch and English Armies quartering there, as also by the unhappy Wars that soon after followed in England, yet he made shift to subsist upon it, with some other helps, until the Houses of Parl. seized upon all Bishop's Lands: And though in consideration of his great losses in Ireland, as also of his own merits, they allowed him a pension of 400 l. per an. in consideration for what they had taken away, yet he did not receive that sum above once, or twice at most: For the Independent Faction over-topping the Presbyterian, an end was put to the payment thereof. From the time of his death, which happened in the latter end of 1655, the See of Carlisle laid void till 1660, and then Dr. Rich. Stern of Cambridge succeeded, installed or enthronised therein on the 4 of Jan. the same year. The said Dr. Ʋsher, a most reverend man, famous for Religion and Literature throughout Europe, an eminent Pillar of the Protestant Cause against the Papacy, and of the Commonwealth of Learning, died on Friday 21 of Mar. 1655, and on the 31 of the said month (1656) Oliver L. Protector signed a Warrant directed to the Lords of the Treasury for the sum of 200 l. to bear the charges of his funeral; which sum was paid to Nich. Bernard D. D. And this he did out of an honourable respect to the memory of so pious and learned a Champion of the Protestant Cause as he was. On Thursday the 17 of Apr. following, his body was conveyed from Riegate in Surrey, where he died, to S. George's Church in Southwark, at which place, about 12 of the clock, his friends and many of the Clergy met the corpse and accompanied it thence to Somerset house in the Strand: where laying for some time, it was accompanied thence to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster, where, after the said Dr. Bernard had preached before the large Auditory a sermon, it was interred▪  
GEORGE WEB or Webbe sometimes of University, afterwards of Corp. Christi, College, was consecrated B. of Limerick in Ireland, an. 1634, and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred forty and one, 
1641/2  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 7. In the See of Limerick succeeded one Rob. Sibthorpe Bishop of Kilfenore, mentioned in the first vol. p. 835, and in this p. 181.  
ROBERT WRIGHT was born in the Parish of S. Alban in Hertfordshire, and at 15 years of age, an. 1574, he was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll, and in 1581. Fellow, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he took holy Orders, was made Rector of Sonning in Berks, of Hays in Middlesex, Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth, Doctor of Divinity, Rector of Borton on the water in Glocestershire, Canon Resid. and Treasurer of Wells, Chaplain in ord. to K. Jam. 1, and in 1613 the first Warden of Wadham Coll, but resigned that office soon after, because he was not permitted to take to him a wife by Dame Dorothy the Foundress thereof. In 1622 he became Bishop of Bristol, was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth on the 23 of March the same year (Dr. Jo. Featley then preaching the Consecration sermon on Joh. 20.22.) but had not restitution made 
(a) Pat. 21. Jac. 1. p. 27.  to him of the Temporalities of that See till the 4 of Apr. following. In 1632 he was translated to Lichf. and Coventry, the Temporalities of which he received 
(b) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 12.  on the 3 of Dec. the same year, at which time he gave up the Treasurership of Wells, which he kept in commendam with Bristol. In Dec. 1641 when then he saw what mad work the Members of the Long Parliament made, and what farther they would do concerning the Hierarchy, he did, with eleven more Bishops, draw up a Protestation in behalf of themselves, against their unreasonable actions: which being first presented to the King, who refused to have any thing to do with it, it was transmitted to the H. of Commons, who thereupon impeaching the said Bishops of High Treason, they were all committed to custody, viz. ten of them, of which Lichfield was one, to the Tower, and two (Durham and Norwich) to the Black Rod; but before Lichfield was conveyed thither, he spoke an eloquent Speech at the bar of the H. of Commons, in answer for himself, which was afterwards printed in one sh. in qu. After he had continued Prisoner about 18 weeks to his great charge, he was released: Whereupon retiring to Eccleshal Hall in Staffordshire, (the Seat belonging to his Bishopric) which about that time was fortified for his Majesty, and kept for his service by Dr. Bird a Civilian, died therein in Jul. or Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and three, 
1643.  at which time the said place was besieged by Sir Will. Brereton and his Forces under the command of the Parliament; but where his body was buried, unless in the Cath. Ch. at Lichfield, which he desired in his last Will. and Test. dat. 3 May 1643, I know not. On the 17 day of the said month of Aug. his Maj. nominated Dr. Accepted Frewen Dean of Gloucester and Precedent of Magd. Coll. to succeed the said Dr. Wright in the See of Lich. and Coventry, Dr. Will. Brough to be Dean of Gloucester, and Dr. Joh. Oliver to be Pres. of Magd. Coll. The Reader may be pleased now to know that the said Dr. Wright having been much given up to the affairs of the world, he did in short time gather up so much wealth from the Church, as not only to purchase the rich Manor of Newnham Courtney in Oxfordshire of Hugh Audley of the Inner Temple Esq. and Tho. Audley his brother for the sum of 18000 l. (which manor they some years before had bought of the pollard's) but Lands also in other places. All which he leaving to his only son Calvert Wright sometimes Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll, he proved so ill a husband, as to sell the said Manor, some years before the restauration of K. Ch. 2, to John Robinson of London Esq. afterwards a Knight and Baronet, and Lieutenant of the Tower; in the Church of which place he was afterwards buried. As for Calv. Wright he died in a mean condition in the Prison called the King's Bench in Southwark, in the Winter time 1666.  
WILLIAM LAUD sometimes Fellow, afterwards Precedent of S. john's Coll, was consecrated Bish. of S. David in the Chapel belonging to the house of the Bishop of London, (with Joh. Davenant to Sarum and Dr. Val. Cary to Exeter) by the Bishops of London, Worcester, Chichester, Ely, Landaff and Oxon, on the 18 of Nou. 1621., the Archbishop (Abbot) being than thought irregular for casual Homicide. Thence he was translated to bath and Wells, in Aug. 1626., thence to London in Jul. 1628., and at length to Cant. in Sept. 1633. He was beheaded on Tower-hill near London on the tenth of January, 
1644/5.  in sixteen hundred forty and four, under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 30.31. etc. The See of Cant. lying void till 1660, was then supplied by Dr. Juxon B. of London, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
MORGAN OWEN a Minister's son, received his first breath in Caermerthenshire, was admitted a Student in Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1608, aged 23 years, and being afterwards made one of the Chaplains of New Coll. did, as a member thereof, take the degree of Bach. of Arts by the name of Owen Morgan, an. 1613, he being then a Preacher. In 1616 he was admitted M. of A, as a Member of Hart Hall, was afterwards well beneficed in his own Country of Wales, and a useful man in the Church there. When Dr. Laud became B. of S. David he then knew the man and his zeal for the Church, and therefore when he became Chanc. of the University, he was by his endeavours actually created Doctor of Divinity, as a Member of Jesus Coll. an. 1636. Soon after, that he might show himself grateful to his Mother the Uniu. of Oxon, he, at his own charge (being a rich man) enclosed the south yard belonging to S. Mary's Church with a fair free stone wall, and built also of the same stone (most curiously carved and engraven) the beautiful Porch leading from the high street into the said Church, with the image of our Lady and a babe in her arm, at the top of it. Which being finished about two or three years after, 'twas not only disgusted by the Puritan, and defaced by the Parliament Soldiers in the beginning of the Troubles, an. 1642, but laid in Laud's dish as an article against him at his Trial, that he did oblige the said Dr. M. Owen to build it, permitted him as Chancellor of the University, and connived at all when 'twas finished. About the beginning of March 1638 he was elected Bishop of Landaff in the place of Dr. William. Murrey deceased, (who before had been B. of Kilfenore in Ireland) which election being 
(c) Pat. 15. Car. 1. p. 15.  consented to by the King on the 19 of the same month, he was soon after consecrated, but the day when I know not; and on the 9 of Apr. following the Temporalities of the said See were 
(d) Pat. 16. Car. 1. p. 19  restored to him. In Dec. 1641, he was one of the Bishops that were impeached of High Treason for subscribing the Protestation mentioned before in Dr. R. Wright, and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower, remained there till about Whitsuntide following. Afterwards he retired to his own Country, suffered there for his Loyalty and for being a Bishop, and one promoted by Laud; much about the time of whose death, this Dr. Owen died also. By his Will dated 14 Dec. 1644, 
1644/5.  and proved 12 of Dec. 1645, it appears that he was rich and possessed of several Lands, which went, I presume, to Morgan Owen his brother's son. He endowed the Free-school at Caermerthen (where in his younger years he had taught) with 30 l. per an. charged upon the Impropriation of St. Ismaels' in the said County, about which time the present Fabric of the said School was erected.  
THOMAS HOWELL elder brother to Jam. Howell mentioned among the Writers under the year 1666, was born 
(e) Reg. Matriculat. Uniu. Oxon. P. p. 473.  in Caermerthenshire, admitted into Jesus Coll. (of which he was Scholar and afterwards Fellow) an. 1604 aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a painful Preacher in these parts for a time, and soon after elsewhere. Afterwards he was made Chaplain in ord. to K. Ch. 1, Rector of West Horsley in Surrey, of S. Stephens in Walbroke near London, D. of D. and Canon of Windsor an. 1636 in the place of Dr. Tho. Horn deceased. But in the beginning of the Troubles, he being forced thro' vexation to leave S. Stephens (though by many accounted a puritannical Preacher, and afterwards West Horseley, his Maj. thereupon nominated him to the See of Bristol on the death of Dr. Tho. Westfield, in July 1644, and soon after was consecrated at Oxon, Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland assisting then at the Ceremony. This worthy person, who was accounted a meek man and a good Preacher, died in sixteen hundred forty and six; 
1646.  whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Bristol, near to the entrance out of the south isle into the Choir. Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave, but no inscription thereon, only Expergiscar. One Mr. Thom. Howell published A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Rob. Butler, an. 1622— 3. Whether the same with him who was afterwards Bishop of Bristol I know not.  
LEWES JONES was born in Merionithshire, became a Student in this University in 15●2 or thereabouts, but in what house I cannot tell. In 1569, he being then Bach. of Arts, he was elected Fellow of Allsoules Coll. and about that time taking holy Orders, went, without the taking of any other degree in this University, into Ireland, where he was made Dean of Casshels, and afterwards being nominated to the See of Killaloa in that Country, was consecrated thereunto on the 23 of Apr. 1633. In 1641 when the rebellion broke out there, and great miseries followed thereupon, he retired to Dublin, where dying 
(f) Jac. Waraeus in Comment. de Praesulibus Hiberniae, edit. 1665. p. 232.  on the second of Nou. in sixteen hundred forty and six, aged 104 years, was buried in the Church of S. Werburgh, commonly called S. Warborough, in the said City. In the See of Killoloa succeeded Dr. Edw. Parry, Father to John and Benjamin successively Bishops of Ossory, and after him succeeded Dr. Edward Worth, who dying at Hackney near London in the beginning of Aug. 1669, was buried on the sixth day of the same month in the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet in London.  
GEORGE ANDREW received his first breath in a Market Town called Daventry, commonly Daintry in Northamptonshire, became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Lent term, an. 1588. aged 15 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts as a member of that Hall, and about that time holy Orders. Afterwards journeying into Ireland, he was made Dean of Limerick, and thence being advanced to the See of Ferns and Laighlin, was consecrated thereunto in S. Patrick's Church (of which he was Chauntor) near Dublin, on the 14 of May 1635. In the beginning of the rebellion he was forced thence, and retiring to London, lived for some time there in an obscure condition. At length he giving way to fate in the month 
(g) Ibid. p. 138.  of Octob, 
1648.  in sixteen hundred forty and eight, was buried in the Church of S. Clement Danes without Temple bar, within the liberty of the City of Westminster. In his Bishopric succeeded Robert Price, in the latter end of 1660, of whom mention shall be made hereafter.  
LANCELOT BULKLEY the eleventh Son of Sir Rich. Bulk. was born at Beaumarish in the Isle of Anglesie, entered a Communer of Brasn. Coll. in the beginning of 1587., aged 18 years, where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, translated himself to S. Edm. Hall, and as a member thereof he took the degree of Master in the same faculty, an. 1593. Afterwards he went into Ireland, became Archdeacon of Dublin, Doctor of Divinity there, and at length Archb. of the said City; to which being consecrated in the Church of S. Peter at Tredagh, on the 3. of Oct. 1619, was soon after made by K. Jam. 1. Privy Counsellor of that Kingdom. He lived to be spectator of the miseries that befell that Realm, occasioned by the rebellion that broke out in 1641, at which time securing himself in the City of Dublin, escaped the malice of the Rebels, and lived in a disconsolate condition several years after. At length arriving to 82 years of age, departed 
(h) Ib. p. 121.  this mortal life at Taulaughta, on the eighth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred and fifty: 
1650.  whereupon his body being conveyed to Dublin, was buried in S. Patrick's Church there. In his Archbishopric succeeded Dr. Jam. Margetson sometimes of Peter House in Cambridge, in the latter end of 1660, after the said See had laid void 10 years.  
JOHN PRIDEAUX Rector of Exeter Coll, and the King's Professor of Divinity of the Uniu. of Oxon, was consecrated Bishop of Worcester in the month of Decemb. 1641, 
1650.  and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred and fifty, under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 68.69 etc. After his death, the See lay void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then Dr. George Morley succeeded, as I have told you among the said Writers.  
NATHANIEL CONOPIUS a Cretan born, trained up in the Greek Church and became Primore to cyril Patriarch of Constantinople, who for his religious life and conversation had a respect for him. When the said cyril was strangled by the Visier, (the Grand Signior of the Turks being not then returned from the Siege of Babylon) Conopius to avoid the like barbarity fled thence and went into England, and addressing himself with credentials from the English Agent at Constantinople to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant, that worthy person sent him to Balliol Coll, and allowed him a comfortable subsistence during his abode there. Afterwards he became one of the Chaplains or Petty Canons of Ch. Church, but whether he took a degree in this University, I know not. In the beginning of Nou. 1648 he was expelled the University by the Barbarians, I mean the Parliamentarian Visitors, and had nothing left to maintain him as a Scholar and Divine. So that because of the barbarity of such who called themselves Saints, he returned into his own Country among the Barbarians and was made Bishop of Smyrna commonly called Le Smerne, 
Clar. 1651.  about the year 1651. While he was in Oxon, he had a book of Music laying by him, which as he 
(i) See in Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation, etc. of Ball. Coll. etc. Oxon. 1668. p. 121.  said was of his own composition: And being well skilled in that faculty, his Countrymen in their Letters sent to, styled, him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; but the notes were such, as are not in use with, or understood by any of, the Western Churches. When he died, or what he wrote after he had left England I know not. It was observed that while he continued in Ball. Coll. he made the drink for his own use called Coffey and usually drank it every morning, being the first, as the Ancients of that House have informed me, that was ever drank in Oxon. You may see more of this Conopius in the Epistles of Ger. Joh. Vossius written to learned men, lately published, part 2. p. 145.  
RICHARD PARR sometimes Fellow of Brasnose College was made Bishop of Sodor or the Isle of Man about the year of the Lord 1635, and died in the times of Usurpation, but the year when I cannot tell, 
Clar. 1652.  though several times I have sent Letters to know it. See more of him among the Writers p. 96. The See of Man laid void till 1662., and then in June Dr. Isaac Barrow being elected to govern it, was consecrated thereunto in K. H. 7. Chap. at Westm. on the 5. of July 1663., and not before, at which time his Nephew, Son of his Brother Thomas, called Dr. Isaac Barrow Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. preached the Consecration Sermon. This worthy and godly Bishop, who was Son of Isaac Barrow of Spiney-Abbey in the County of Cambridgeshire Esq, was educated in S. Peter's Coll. commonly called Peter House in Cambridge, of which he became Fellow, but turned out thence by the Presbyterians an. 1643 or thereabouts: whereupon going to Oxon, and his eminency being known there, he was made one of the Chaplains of New Coll, by the most loyal and generous Warden thereof Dr. Pink, where continuing till after the garrison of Oxon was surrendered for the use of the Parliament, shifted afterwards from place to place, and suffered with the rest of the loyal and orthodox Clergy till the most blessed return of K. Ch. 2. At which time he was not only restored to his Fellowship, but also made one of the Fellows of Eton Coll. near Windsor, which he held in Commendam with the Bishopric of Man. In Apr. 1664 he was made Governor of the Isle of Man by Charles Earl of Derby, governed it piously and prudently, held that office all the time he was Bishop of Man, and sometime after his translation to S. Asaph. He was a great benefactor to the Island, especially to the Clergy, did collect by his great care and pains from pious persons one thousand eighty one pounds eight shillings and four pence, with which he bought all the impropriations in the Island from the Earl of Derby, and settled them upon the Clergy as every one had need. He ordered them all to teach School in their respective Parishes, and allowed 30 l. per an. for a Free-school, and 50 l. per an. for Academical learning. He got also one hundred pounds a year settled (which was like to have been lost) upon the Clergy, which was given by K. Ch. 2, and gave 135 l. of his own money, for a lease upon lands of twenty pounds a year, which is settled towards the maintenance of three poor Manks Scholars in the College at Dublin, that in time there might be a more learned Clergy in the Island. He gave likewise 10 l. towards the making a bridge over a dangerous water and did many other good works there. Afterwards going into England for health's sake, and continuing in a house of the Countess of Derby in Lancashire called Cross-hall, he received the news of his Majesty's conferring on him the Bishopric of S. Asaph. See more of him in Hen. Glemham among these Bishops, under the year 1667. p. 670.  
ROGER MANWARING was born at Stretton in Shropshire, educated in Grammar learning in the King's School at Worcester under Hen. Bright, entered a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1604, and soon after was made one of the Clerks of Alls. Coll. After he had run through the usual courses of Logic and Philosophy, he took the degrees in Arts, being about that time, as I conceive, one of the Chaplains of that House. At length being made Vicar of S. Giles in the fields near London, he took the degrees in Divinity, and was made Chaplain in Ordinary to K. Ch. 1, before whom, while he was in his attendance at oatland's, he preached two Sermons in July 1627., entit. Religion and Allegiance, on Eccles. 8.2. Lond. 1627. qu. and about the same time preached them at his Country cure. In the year following, on the fourth of May, he preached on the same subject in his Church of S. Giles before mentioned; for which, as also for his former Sermons, he was the same year, June 14, censured in Parliament to be imprisoned, fined 1000 l, to make submission and to be disenabled to have or enjoy any preferment or office. At that time John Pym, a busy Man in the House of Commons, brought into the House a charge against him that he endeavoured to destroy the King and Kingdom by his Divinity, etc. On the 21 of the said month he made his submission, and in the next month following he was presented by the King to the rich rectory of Stanford Rivers in Essex (void by the promotion of Dr. Richard Montague to the See of Chichester) with licence to hold it and his other Living with it. On the 9 of Jan. following he procured his pardon, which in the next month made some stir in the Session of Parliament that then was. In the month of May 1633 he was made Dean of Worcester, in the place of Dr. William. Juxon promoted to the See of Hereford, where he made some alterations for the better in that Church; and in Dec. 1635 he was nominated Bishop of S. David, on the translation of Dr. Theoph. Field to Hereford. On the 28 of February following he was consecrated thereunto by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants in the Chap. at Lambeth, where he sat till his function was silenced. On the 22. Feb. 1640 were several complaints made against him in the Long Parliament, but not for the present prosecuted, because the members thereof were employed on greater matters. Afterwards the rebellion breaking out, he was imprisoned, violently persecuted from place to place, lost all his Spiritualities, and had only some small temporal Estate left to maintain him and his Family. He was a person that had some curiosity in learning, but greater zeal for the Church of England: He was of a pious life and conversation, charitable, and though (with Sibthorpe) accounted a Sycophant by the Puritans, yet by the Royalists he was esteemed worthy of the function of a Bishop. He finished his course at Caermerthen, after he had endured many miseries, on the first day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and three, 
1653.  and was buried in the Collegiate Church of Brecknock near to the high altar, leaving then behind him some things fit for the press, as I have been informed by one of his near Relations. It is said that he was much resolved on three things, 1. The redemption of Captives. 2. The conversion of Recusants. 3. The undeceiving of seduced Sectaries, and that he kept three diaries, one for the transactions of his own life, another for the public affairs of the Church and Kingdom, and a third for the remarkable passages of providence that happened in the World. The see of S. David continuing void till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, it was then supplied by Dr. Will. Lucy, as I shall tell you under the year 1677.  
GEORGE SING alias Millington sometimes a Com. of Balliol Coll, was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, an. 1638, and dying in sixteen hundred fifty and three, 
1653.  was buried at Bridgnorth in Shropshire. He is characterized 
(*) Jac. War. ut supr. p. 219.  to be Vir gravis admodum & doctus, praesertim in Polemicae Theologiae & juris utriusque scientia, procerioris praeterea staturae, formae decorae & generosae conversationis, etc. See more of him among the Writers, p. 97.  
THOMAS WINNIFF a grave, learned and moderate Divine, was born, as 'tis said, at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire, admitted a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term, an. 1593. aged 18 years, elected Prob. fellow thereof, 30 June 1595, admitted Master of Arts in 1601, and about that time entering into holy Orders, he became a noted Preacher and a Tutor. In 1609 he left the College, because he had an Ecclesiastical Benefice conferred on him, but the name of it I know not, unless Lambourne in Essex, which he enjoyed many years, and at length bought the advowson thereof of Rob. Taverner Gent, which he afterwards by his will gave to his Nephew Peter Mews. About that time he was Chaplain to Pr. Henry, and afterwards to Pr. Charles, which last he much displeased in two matters, first that in a certain harangue which he occasionally delivered in the beginning of Apr. 1622 he compared 
(a) Gul. Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS sub an. 1622.  Frederick King of Bohemia to a Lamb, and Count Spinola to a bloody Wolf, which also displeased the King; and secondly that in some little particulars, he expressed himself an enemy to his marriage with the Infanta of Spain. For these matters he had like to have lost his Spiritualities, had not his Maj. K. Jam. 1. highly valued him for his learning. In 1624. Nou. 10. he was installed Dean of Gloucester in the place of Dr. Rich. Senhouse promoted to the See of Carlisle, and after the said King's death being made Chaplain to his Successor Ch. 1. had the Deanery of S. Paul's Cathedral conferred on him, an. 1631. Afterwards upon the translation of Dr. Williams to York in 1641 he was nominated by the King Bishop of Lincoln purposely to please the Puritan, and was soon after consecrated. But the rebellion breaking out the next year, occasioned by a prevalent party in both Houses of Parliament, who silenced the Bishops and caused their Lands to be sold, this holy Bishop received little or no profit from the Lands belonging to his See, only trouble and vexation as a Bishop. Afterwards he retired to Lambourne, spent there for the most part the remainder of his days and justly obtained this character from a 
(b) Dr. John Gauden in his Suspiria Eccles. Anglicanae, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 614.  learned Bishop that none was more mild, modest and humble, yet learned, eloquent and honest, than Bishop Winniffe. He died in the summer time in sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654.  and was buried in the Church at Lambourne. Soon after was erected a comely monument over his grave, on which 'tis said, that he was made Bishop of Lincoln 1642 Ex eorum numero Episcoporum, quibus incumbebat nutantis episcopatus molem, pietatis ac probitatis suae fulcimine sustentare, etc.  
RICHARD SMITH sometimes a Student in Trinity College, was made Bishop of Chalcedon by Pope Urban 8, an. 1624. or thereabouts, and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred fifty and four, 
1654/5.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 114.  
HENRY TILSON a Yorkshire man born, was entered a Student in Balliol Coll. in the beginning of the year 1593., took one degree in Arts as a member of that house four years after, though in the Fasti, 1596 I have said, by an error, of Uniu. Coll, and soon after was elected one of Skyrlawes Fellows of the said Coll. of University, and took the degree of Master as a member of that house. In Oct. 1615 he was made Vicar of Rachdale in Yorkshire, by the death of R. Kenion, and afterwards being made known to that most generous Count Thomas Earl of Strafford, he became his Chaplain, went with him in that quality to Ireland, when that Count was made L. Lieutenant thereof. Soon after he was by him made Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, (commonly called Ch. Ch.) in Dublin, where continuing in good esteem for his learning and piety, had the See of Elphine. conferred on him, to which being consecrated on the 23. of Sept. 1639, endured soon after great misery by the rebellion that broke out in Ireland 1641. Afterwards he retired to his native Country, settled at Southill hall in Yorkshire, spent there the chief part of his time, and dying 
(c) Jac. War. ut supra, p. 260.  in peace 31. of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five, 
1655.  aged 80 years or thereabouts, was buried in the Chancel of the neighbouring Church of Dewsbury. In the said See of Elphine succeeded John Parker D. D. in the latter end of the year 1660.  
NICHOLAS MONK or Le Moyne, third Son of Sir Tho. Monk of Potheridge in Devonshire Knight, Son of Tho. Monk of the said place Gent, by Frances his Wife (Widow of Joh. Basset of Umbersley in the said County Esq.) Daughter of Arthur Plantagenet, natural Son of K. Edw. 4, by Elizabeth Lucy, as is supposed, his Concubine, was born in Devonshire, either at Potheridge, or at Marton; at the last of which places his Father lived when this Nich. Monk came first to Wadham Coll, an. 1626. aged 17 years or thereabouts. After he had spent several years in that house in the condition of a Commoner, he proceeded in Arts in 1634, entered into holy Orders, was beneficed in his own Country, and suffered in the time of the rebellion as other loyalists did. Afterwards he was permitted to keep some little cure by the endeavours of his Brother George while he was chief Commander under Oliver Cromwell in Scotland, was persecuted, as 'tis said, by the Triers appointed by Oliver, but at length had the Rectory of Kilkhampton in Cornwall worth 300 l. per an. bestowed on him by his kinsman Sir John Greenvill, (afterwards Earl of Bath) which he freely gave him without simony, purposely to oblige him to serve the public when ever he had occasion to make use of him, he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland, whom his family had obliged likewise. I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him, he was by his Brother's interest fixed therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family. In 1659. he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to, and soon after in Person in, Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms, being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monk: So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John, and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monk thither, where he omitted nothing of his instructions, but prudently managed them, as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had. Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards: And, if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part 
(d) Mystery and method of his Majesty's happy restauration. Lond. 1680. oct. p. 20. Written by John Price D. D.  of grain in the Scales. In the year following (1660) his endeavours and desires being effected, he was by the interest of the said Sir John, (minded thereunto by Gen. Monk) made Provost of Eton Coll, in the month of June, then, or lately, enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect. In the beginning of Aug. following, he was actually created Doctor of Divinity, by virtue of the King's Letters sent to the University for that purpose, and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford, which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook, he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January (Epiphany day) in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster, by the Archb. of York, Bishops of Durham, Chichester, Lincoln and Peterborough: But before he had enjoyed that See a full year, he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Palace-yard in Westminster, on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one; 
1661.  whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmund's Chapel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter. In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft, of whom may future mention be made, and of his works, as to learning.  
BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll, afterwards Dean of Christ Church, was consecrated Bishop of Chichester, an. 1638, translated to Salisbury in 1641, and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
1662.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new, and not to complete an old, College. He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll, to the Cath. Churches of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester, and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity, as I have elsewhere told you: Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House, but a great and wealthy one built it. In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley, of whom I have made large mention among the Writers, under the year 1684. p. 581.  
JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster, on the 2. of Decemb. (being the first Sunday in Advent) an. 1660, and translated thence to Worcester (on Morleys' going to Winchester) in the beginning of 1662.; in which year in Septemb. he died. 
1662.  See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester, succeeded Dr. John Earl, and him Dr. Rob. Skinner, as I shall tell you anon, under the year 1670.  
ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincoln College, was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln on the 28 of Octob. 1660, and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two, 
1662/3.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishopric by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough, who after he had sat there four years was translated to Ely.  
WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester, son of John Juxon of London, was born, as 'tis said, within the City of Chichester in Sussex, educated in Merchant Tailor's School, became Fellow of S. John's Coll. in 1598., and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603, being about that time a Student in Greys' Inn in Holborn near London. Soon after he took holy Orders, and in the latter end of the year 1609, he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon; where continuing about six years, he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching. In 1621. he was elected Precedent of his College, and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law. In 1626. and after, he did execute the office of Vicechancellor of this University, and in January 1627., he being then one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos. Hall promoted to the See of Exeter. On the 10. of July 1632, he was, at Dr. laud's suit, (than Bishop of London) sworn Clerk of his Majesty's Closet; which office was by that great person procured for him to the end 
(f) Dr. Laud in the Breviat of his life or Diary, sub an. 1632. p 17.  that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty, if he grew weak or infirm. In the beginning of the year 1633, he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased, was about that time made Dean of the King's Chapel, and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. (which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year) he was translated to London, that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction. About that time he was called to be one of his Majesty's Privy Council, who, finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice, did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer, on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time, as Doct. Laud 
(g) Ibid. p. 20.  observes, who adds this, I pray God bless him to carry it so, that the Church may have honour, and the King and the state service and contentment by it. And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God, I can do no more. In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the King's Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest, to the great content of all that had to do with him. In the time of the rebellion, began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians, he suffered as other Bishops did, was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren, and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishopric, as the rest did. In 1648 he had the honour and happiness, if it may be so called, to attend K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory in his most disconsolate condition, and to administer comfort, ghostly counsel and the Sacrament to him, and to be also present with him on the Scaffold, when he was beheaded before his own door by his most rebellious Subjects, to the great horror and amazement of all the world. Afterwards this holy Bishop retired to his Manor of Little Compton in Glocestershire, near to Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, where he spent several years in a retired and devout condition, and now and then, for health's sake, road a hunting with some of the neighbouring and loyal Gentry. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he was translated to the See of Canterbury, on Thursday 20 of Sept. 1660, to the rejoicing of all those, that then loved order in the Church. The solemnisation was in the Chapel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster; where, besides a great confluence of Orthodox Clergy, many persons of honour, and Gentry, gave God thanks for the mercies of that day, as being touched at the sight of that Good man, whom they esteemed a Person of primitive sanctity, of great wisdom, piety, learning, patience, charity and all apostolical Virtues. He died in his Palace at Lambeth on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  aged 81 years: whereupon his body being embalmed, was conveyed to Oxon in great Pomp on the 7 of July following, where laying in state the next day, and part of the ninth, in the Divinity School, accompanied always by some of the Heralds of Arms, was then, (after an eloquent speech had been openly spoken by the University Orator in the Convocation house adjoining, in praise of the defunct, and dispraise of the Presbyterians and Independents) conveyed in great state on men's shoulders (the Heralds and all the Degrees of the University attending) through Catstreet, and so up the High-street to Quatervois, and thence, through the North gate, to S. John's Coll. After it was placed in the Chapel there, an Anthem sung, a speech delivered near the grave by Mr. Will. Levinz, and the usual service for burial performed by Dr. R. Bailiff the Precedent of that College, the body was solemnly interred at the upper end thereof before the altar, in a grave walled with bricks, adjoining on the south side to that then made, to receive the body of his Predecessor Dr. Will. Laud, which in few days after was there reburied. As for the benefaction of this worthy Arch-prelate Dr. Juxon (besides that to S. Paul's Cathedral, to the Archbishop's Palace at Lambeth &c.) is mention made 
(h) In Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 304. b.  elsewhere; and as for his estate, that which remained when all his benefactions were disposed, went to his Brother's Son, Sir Will. Juxon Baronet, now living at Little Compton before mentioned. This Dr. Juxon hath only extant one Sermon on Luke 18.31.  
HENRY HALL. son of Thom. Hall sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, (afterwards a Minister in the City of Wells, whence he was preferred by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. to the Vicarage of Marcham near to Abendon in Berks) was born in Somersetshire, particularly, as I conceive, in the said City of Wells, became a Batler of Linc. Coll, an. 1630, aged 16 years or thereabouts, and took the degrees in Arts. In the beginning of the rebellion he became Chaplain to James Marquis of Ormonde in Ireland, by whose favour he was made Prebendary of Ch. Ch. in Dublin, and Dean of a certain Church in the said Kingdom. After the ill success and declension of the Marquis there, he returned into England, lived for a time at Badmington in Glocestershire with the Marquis of Worcester, and in 1654. had the Vicarage of Harwell in Berks, conferred on him by John Loder of Hinton in the said County Gentleman: Where continuing till his Majesty's restauration, he returned to Ireland, was actually created Doctor of Diu. at Dublin, and on the 27 of January 1660, he was 
(i) Jac. War. ut supra in Com. de Praes. Heb. p. 273.  consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry in the Church of S. Patrick near to the said City of Dublin. He gave way to fate on the 23 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three, 
1663.  in the Bishop's house at Killala, which he in a manner had rebuilt from the ground, and was buried in the Cathedral Church there; whereupon Thomas Bayly D. D. succeeded him in his Sees. Besides the said Hen. Hall, I find another of both his names, Bach. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, author of Heaven ravished, or a glorious prize, Fast Sermon before the H. of Com. 29. May 1644 on Matth. 11.12. Lond. 1644. qu. and of other things, as I suppose.  
ACCEPTED FREWEN the eldest Son of Jo. Frewen the puritanical Rector of Nordiam or Northiam in Sussex, was born 
(k) Reg. Electionum soc. & semicom. Coll. Magd.  in Kent, educated in the Free-school at Canterbury, became a student, and soon after a Demie, of Magd. Coll, about the beginning of the year 1604 aged 16 years; where making great proficiency in Logic and Philosophy, he was elected Probat. Fellow of that House about S. Mary Magd. day, an. 1612, he being then Master of Arts. About that time he entered into the sacred function, and became a frequent preacher, as being puritanically inclined. In 1622 he attended in the Court of Prince Charles, while he was in Spain courting the Infanta, and in 1625 he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to the said Prince then King. In 1626. he was elected Precedent of his Coll, and in the next year he proceeded in Divinity. In 1628. and 29 he executed the office of Vicechancellor of this University, and on the 13. of Sept. 1631, he being then, or about that time, Prebendary of Canterbury, he was installed Dean of Gloucester upon the removal of Dr. George Warburton thence to the Deanery of Wells. In 1638. and 39, he, upon the solicitations of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and Chancellor of this Uniu. (whose Creature then he was) did undergo the said office of Vicechancellor again, and on the 17 of August 1643, he was nominated by his Majesty to succeed Dr. Wright in the See of Lichfield and Coventry: But so it was, that the times being then very troublesome, he was not consecrated till the next year, that is to say on a Sunday in the month of Apr. following; at which time the solemnity was performed in the Chapel of Magd. Coll, by the Archb. of York, Bishops of Winchester, Oxford, Salisbury and Peterborough. But this preferment being then but little better than titular, because that the Hierarchy was about that time silenced, he retired to London, and lived there, and partly elsewhere, among his Relations for several years. At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he was elected to the See of York on the 22. of Sept, translated on the 4. of Octob, and enthronised in the person of Tob. Wickham Preb. of that Church on the 11. of the same month, an. 1660. At that time the See of Lichfield being not supplied by another for about the space of an year, in expectation that Mr. Rich. Baxter would take it, (for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform) Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too, all the fines for renewing, and for the filling up lives, to his very great profit, besides what he got from York. At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it, lest he, in an high manner, should displease the Brethren, it was offered to Dr. Richard Bailiff Precedent of S. John's College, and Dean of Sarum, who had been a very great sufferer for the King's cause, but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skimed it, it was thereupon conferred on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge, as I shall anon tell you. This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator, but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration, with certain verses, on the death of Prince Henry, (for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made public) died at his Manor of Bishops Thorp near York, 
1664.  on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four, and was buried on the third day of May following, under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York. Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave, with an inscription thereon; which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted. His Father John Frewen before mentioned, was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrote (1) Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine, to edify in the fear of God, etc. Lond. 1587. in tw. (2) Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation, against the slanders of the Pope and League, etc. Lond. 1589. qu. (3) Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion, with their several expositions, by way of questions and answers, etc. Lond. 1621. in octav. and other things. He died in 1627., (about the latter end) and was buried in Nordiam Church, leaving then behind these Sons, viz. Accepted before mentioned, Thankful, Stephen, Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas, Samuel, John, etc. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham, but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon, I cannot yet tell. Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mentioned who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a public spirit, I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him, though I have partly mentioned him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824, and elsewhere in the first volume. Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster, on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland, a signior Burgess of the City of Westminster, and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry, who, being a zealous Protestant, took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion. When he was very young therefore, he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster, and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning, was very kind to him, as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there, who, in the necessary absence of the Master, being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys, took this youth into his particular favour, and continued it to him, as long as the Bishop lived. Being made ripe for the University, he was in the year 1608 (with the pious Mr. George Herbert) elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge, by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevil Master of that Coll, (who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son, that he should go to Cambridge, or else he would carry him upon his back) and being there entered he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi, etc. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies, sober life, and great proficiency in learning, that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same. Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England, and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity, he took holy Orders in 1618. from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London, who had a great affection for him, and expressed the same on divers occasions; but above all others Dr. John William's Bishop of Linc, observing his great learning, and knowledge in the Tongues, chose him his Chaplain immediately after the Great Seal was committed to his charge, an. 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishop's service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity, and then begged leave to go to Cambridge to keep the public Act, an. 1623., which he performed according to expectation; and then returning to Court to his Master, he preferred him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1, before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking, he was the next year, by the recommendations of his Master, presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London, (then within his Majesty's disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton) and suddenly after, he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey, fallen likewise in his Majesty's gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishopric of Carlisle: which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642, and was constantly resident upon one of them. In 1628. he commenced Doct. of Diu. at Cambridge, where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time: And returning to Holborn and his duty there, he became very famous for excellent preaching, and decent order in his charge. In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an. 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year (commonly after Easter) and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church. Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holborn much in decay, he eagerly solicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair, and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose; but the unparalleled rebellion following soon after, the members of the Long Parliament (mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians) did seize on that, and all the money, collected for the repair of St. Paul's Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King. In the beginning of the Civil War, he was named one of the Committee, with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors, to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectify the same, in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church; but the Lords and Commons dashed that good intent by passing a Bill for taking away the Government of the Church by Bishops: Yet before the passing thereof, the Clergy being allowed liberty to speak for themselves, they all with one consent made the said Dr. Hacket their mouth to speak their sense of the matter; which being the next day performed with general applause of all, except those that nothing could please, it did for the present put a stop to that Bill; yet soon after by a new question it past, without a second hearing of the learned Doctor. Afterwards, he being silenced by them at S. Andrews in Holborn, he retired to Cheame, where he also used the Liturgy till forbidden by the Parliament. Afterwards he suffered by imprisonment by the Army under Robert Earl of Essex when they went to fight against their King, and being released he retired to Cheame, which he kept during the times of Usurpation. After his Maj. restauration, the Bishopric of Gloc. was offered to him, but he refusing it, the then L. Chanc. made advantage of it and caused it to be conferred on Dr. Nicolson. Afterwards being made B. of Lichfield and Cou. as I have before told you, as also in the Fasti, an. 1616, he repaired to Lichf. in the Spring time, an. 1662. and finding the Cathedral there quite ruined in the time of the most wicked rebellion, he set himself to the rebuilding thereof and finished the same in about eight years' time, making it far more beautiful than it was before, with the expense of 20000 l, a thousand of which he had of the Chapter, and the rest was of his charge and of his procuring from Benefactors. On Christmas Eve in 1669 the said Cathedral was dedicated by him with the usual ceremonies required in such a matter, and in feasting three several parties of men for three days. He also laid out a 1000 l. in repairing the house of his residence there, that of his predecessors having been destroyed in the time of the said rebellion, and did much endeavour to settle a pious and laborious Clergy in his Diocese, by his own example of constant preaching. This worthy Bishop died on the 28 of Oct. 1670, and was buried in his own Cathedral, where is a very noble and conspicuous monument over his grave, erected by his Son Sir Andrew Hacket of Moxhull in Warwickshire, sometimes one of the Masters in Chancery. After his death were A century of Sermons, that had been preached by the said Bishop published, with his life written at large, set before them, by Thomas Plume D. D. of Cambridge, afterwards Archdeacon of Rochester.  
WILLIAM BAYLY a Scotch man born, obtained most of his learning in the University of Glascow, completed it in this University of Oxon, returned to his native Country, but outed thence by the Covenantiers. Afterwards, if I mistake not, he went into Ireland, whence being driven by the rebellion that broke out in 1641, retired to Oxon, where his Majesty K. Ch. 1. had taken up his head quarter, and was by his Maj. command actually created Doctor of Diu. in Feb. 1642. In the next year Rob. Dawson Bach. of Diu. and Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland departing this mortal life at Kendal in Westmoreland, (the place of his nativity) his Majesty was pleased to grant the said Bishoprics to Dr. Bayly before mentioned. Whereupon being consecrated at Oxon on the second day of May 1644, by Dr. Usher Archbishop of Armagh and two Irish Bishops, sat there, without any translation to another See, till the time of his death; which happening 
(l) Ibid in Jac. War. p. 268.  at Clonfort before mentioned, on the eleventh day of Aug, in sixteen hundred sixty and four, was buried in the Cathedral Church there. 
1664.  In the said Sees of Clonfort and Kilmacogh succeeded Edw. Wolley Doctor of Divinity, of whom I shall make mention in the Fasti, among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1642.  
WILLIAM PAUL a person of good parts and well versed in Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws, was born in Eastcheap within the City of London, became a student in this University an. 1614, aged 15 years or thereabouts, and soon after one of the Clerks of Allsouls Coll. About Allsaints time in 1618. he was elected Fellow of the said house, and after he had proceeded in Arts he took holy Orders, and preached frequently in these parts. In 1632, he being then Rector of Brightwell alias Baldwin Brightwell near Watlington in Oxfordshire, he proceeded in Divinity, answered the Divinity Act with general satisfaction, was about that time made one of the Chaplains to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. and afterwards Residentiary of Chichester. A little before the rebellion broke out, he preached a Sermon at the Episcopal Visitation of Dr. Bancroft B. of Oxon on Acts 17.22. Then Paul stood up in the midst of Mars hill, and said, ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. In the time of the rebellion he did suffer in some part for his loyalty, and therefore upon his Majesty's restauration an. 1660 he was made one of his Chaplains, and Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Griff. Higgs who died the year before. Afterwards being esteemed wealthy, and knowing in secular affairs, he was by the endeavours of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Cant. (sometimes his fellow Collegiat) promoted to the See of Oxford, upon the translation of Skinner to Worcester, in hopes that he would rebuild the Bishop's Palace at Cudesden: And having in part promised so to do, he had liberty allowed him to keep the rectory of Brightwell before mentioned, and the rich rectory of Chinnor in Oxfordshire (which he some years before had obtained) in Commendam with his Bishopric. Soon after being consecrated, but the day when I know not, and installed or enthronised on the 7 of January 1663., he bought, and laid in at Cudesden a considerable quantity of timber, but before any thing else could be done in the matter, he died; which happening at Chinnor on the 24 of May in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  his body was conveyed to Brightwell before mentioned and buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Soon after was a comely monument set up against the wall, over his grave, at the charge of his disconsolate Widow, the beginning of which is this. Posteris & aeternitati sacrum. Hic subtus conduntur sacrae (heu quantillae) viri magni reliquiae Gulielmi Paul, infans ad magna natus Londini, an. 1599 Clarus olim ex virtute suâ quam ex urbe nomen habiturus, etc. In the See of Oxon succeeded Walt. Blandford D. D. as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
ROBERT PRICE the fourth Son of John Price of Runasse in Merionithshire Esq, was born there, or in that County, educated in Westminster School, elected Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1625, aged 18 years, took one degree in Arts, entered upon the Law line, and was adm. Bach. of that faculty in 1632. Afterwards he took upon him the sacred function, was made Chaplain to the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom, at which time he was esteemed well versed in the Ecclesiastical Laws. On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin, and going soon after into England, was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there, and suffered much for the royal cause, but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesty's return, was, in requital of his sufferings, made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom; to which Sees being consecrated 
(*) Ibid. p 138.  in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660, sat there to the time of his death, 
1665.  which happened in sixteen hundred sixty and five, as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus' Marsh, now Archb. of Cashiells, who also told me that Dr. Rich. boil succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees.  
JOHN EARL sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll, afterwards Dean of Westminster, was consecrated Bishop of Worcester (on the death of Gauden) in the latter end of Nou. 1662., and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an. 1663. He died in Nou. in sixteen hundred sixty and five; 
1665.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 251. In Worcester succeeded Dr. Skinner, and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde, as I shall tell you hereafter.  
GEORGE WILD sometimes Fellow of S. John's Coll. was consecrated in S. Patrick's Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660, by John Archb. of Armagh, Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore. He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, 
1665.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Moss●m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books, etc. and him Dr. Mich. Ward, and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins.  
JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll, was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637, (the temporalities of which See were 
(m) Pat. 13. Car. 1. p. 15.  delivered to him on the 30 of the said month) and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six, 
1666.  under which year you may see more of him among the writers, p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D, of whom I have made mention among the said Writers.  
GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660, and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six; 
1666.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 270. He succeeded in the said See, after it had laid void 9 years, one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge, of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled, etc. which I took from Mercurius Publicus, published 4. June 1663., wherein 'tis said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author, it proves an error, for David Owen was the writer of it, as I have told you in the said vol, in the Fasti p. 803, wherein the first part of the title is omitted, for whereas the title there, is, The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion, deposition and killing of Kings, it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled: or the concord of a Papist, etc. Camb. 1610. qu, reprinted under Dr. John Owen's name in 1663., and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the error by me made.  
ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son 
(n) Wiltshire visitation book in the Herald's Office an. 1623. fol. 118.  of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight, second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire, third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire, was born in S. Mary's Parish within the said City of Salisbury, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll, after he had served two years of Probation, an. 1617. aged 20 years or thereabouts, and took the degrees in the Civil Law, that of Doctor being completed in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough, and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church, upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman, he being then possessed of a Benefice elsewhere. What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion, (if any), or his merits afterwards, to be advanced to a Bishopric, let others speak, while I tell you that after his Majesty's restauration, he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England, not only made Dean of Winchester, an. 1660, in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead, (who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton, an. 1616) but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earl to the See of Salisbury: To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel, 31. Dec. 1665 (the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon) from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant, assisted by the Bishops of Winchester, Gloc, Peterb, Limerick and Oxon) enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment. In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge, who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London, Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge, Canon of Windsor, Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex, was installed in his place, 9 Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde, he died to the great grief of his Relations, 
1667.  on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years, and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury. Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave, with an inscription thereon, the beginning of which is this. Siste viator, hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum, etc. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq, was of Heale, near Salisbury, whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there, K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle, an. 1651, when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France. The next was Sir Rob. Hyde, who, by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mentioned, was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas. He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70, and was buried in the said Isle. Soon after was erected on the wall, near his grave, a splendid monument with his bust in white marble, and a large inscription thereon beginning thus. H. S. E. ordini par paterno, fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur. Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus, etc. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde, who adheering to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 in his exile, was by him sent Ambassador to the Grand. Signior at Constantinople, and demanding audience in his name, he was (by bribes given) delivered to some of the English Merchants there, who shipping him in the Smyrna Fleet, was conveyed into England. Soon after he being committed to the Tower of London, he was brought before the High Court of Justice, where he desired to plead in the Italian Language, which, he said, was more common to him than the English. But it being denied him, he was at length condemned to die: whereupon he lost his head on a Scaffold erected against the Old Exchange in Cornhill, on the fourth day of March an. 1650. It was then said by the faction in England, that he did, by virtue of a Commission from Charles Stuart as K. of Great Britain, act in the quality of an Agent to the Court of the Great Turk, with intent to destroy the trade of the Turkey Company, and the Parliaments interest, not only in Constantinople, but also in Mitylene, Anatolia and Smyrna. That also he had a Commission to be Consul in that matter, with an aim likewise to seize upon the Merchant's goods for the use of Charles King of Scots: For the effecting of which design, he presumed to discharge Sir Tho. Bendish of his Embassy, being Leaguer there for the state of England, etc. The said faction also reported, and would needs persuade the People in England, that those that abetted Sir H. Hyde at Smyrna had the heavy hand of judgement fell upon them. This Sir Hen. Hyde after his decollation, was conveyed to Salisbury and buried there in the Cathedral among the graves of his Relations. Another Brother, younger than him, was Edward Hyde D. D sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berkshire: From which being ejected in the time of Usurpation, he retired with his Wife and Children to Oxon, and hiring an apartment within the precincts of Hart Hall, lived there several years, studied frequently in Bodlies' Library, and preached in the Church of Halywell in the suburbs of Oxon to the Royal Party, till he was silenced by the Faction. In 1658 he obtained of his exiled Majesty by the endeavours of Sir Edw. Hyde before mentioned his kinsman, (then, though in banishment, Lord Chancellor of England) Letters Patents for the Deanery of Windsor (in the place of Dr. Chr. Wren deceased) dated in July the same year; but he dying at Salisbury of the Stone, a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he was never installed in that Dignity. He hath written and published several books which were taken into the hands of, and perused by, the Royal Party, as (1) A Christian legacy, consisting of two parts: preparation for and consolation against death. Lond. 1657. oct. (2) Christ and his Church: or, Christianity explained, under seven Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads Oxon. 1658. qu. (3) Vindication of the Church of England. Ibid. 1658. qu. (4) Christian vindication of truth against error. Printed 1659. in tw. (5) The true Catholic tenure, etc. Cambr. 1662. oct. and other things, as you may see in Joh. Ley among these Writers, an. 1662. Another Brother, the tenth in number, was Sir Frederick Hyde Knight, the Queen's Sergeant, an. 1670, and one of the chief Justices of South Wales, who died in 1676. Also another called Francis, who was Secretary to the Earl of Denbigh Ambassador, and died at Venice without issue. And among others must not be forgotten Dr. Thomas Hyde Fellow of New Coll, afterwards Judge of the Admiralty, and also the eleventh and youngest Brother of them all, named James Hyde, Dr. of Physic, lately Principal of Magd. Hall.  
HUGH LLOYD was born in the County of Cardigan, became a Servitor or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an. 1607 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, translated himself to Jesus Coll, of which I think he became Fellow, and in 1638 he proceeded in Divinity, being about that time Archdeacon of S. David and well beneficed in his own Country. In the times of Usurpation and Rebellion he suffered much for the King's cause, was ejected and forced to remove from place to place for his own security: In consideration of which and his episcopal qualities, he was consecrated to the See of Landaffe on the second day of Decemb. (being the first Sunday of that month) an. 1660, by the Archb. of York, Bishops of London, Rochester, Salisbury and Worcester: at which time six other Bishops were also consecrated. He died in June or July, 
1667.  in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, and was, as I suppose, buried at Matherne in Monmouthshire, where the House or Palace pertaining to the Bishop of Landaff is situated. In the said See succeeded Dr. Francis Davies, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
JEREMY TAYLOR originally of the University of Cambridge, afterwards Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in this University, was consecrated Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland, an. 166●, 
1667.  and died in Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven; under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 282.  
GEORGE HALL. sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll, became Bishop of Chester in the room of Dr. Henry Ferne deceased, an. 1662., 
1668.  and dying in sixteen hundred sixty and eight, (under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 297) was succeeded in that See by Dr. Joh. Wilkins, of whom I have largely spoken elsewhere already.  
HENRY KING sometimes Canon of Changed Church, afterwards Dean of Rochester, was consecrated Bishop of Chichester, an. 1641. and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 308. In the said See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Pet. Gunning as I have elsewhere told you.  
HENRY GLEMHAM a younger Son of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk Knight, by Anne his Wife, eldest daughter of Sir Tho. Sackvile Knight, Earl of Dorset, was born 
(a) Reg. Matric. Uniu. Oxon. P. fol. 124. b.  in the County of Surrey, became a Commoner of Trin. Coll in 1619 aged 16 years, being then put under the tuition of Mr. Robert Skinner. Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became well beneficed before the rebellion broke out; at which time suffering more for his loyalty than merits, was upon his Majesty's restauration, made Dean of Bristol in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas promoted to the Deanery of S. Paul's Cath. in London; where continuing till 1666, he was, by the endeavours of Barbara Duchess of Cleauland, made Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of that year, in the place of Dr. George Griffith deceased. He gave way to fate at Glemham Hall in Suffolk on the seventeenth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, 
1669.  and was buried in the Vault that belongs to the Family of Glemham, in the Parish Church of Little Glemham in the said County. To the said See of S. Asaph, was translated Dr. Is. Barrow Bishop of the Isle of Man, on the 21. of March 1669, to the great rejoicing of the true Sons of the Church in the Diocese thereof. After he was settled, he repaired several parts of the Cathedral Church, especially the North and South Isles, and new covered them with lead, and caused the East part of the choir to be wainscoted. He laid out a considerable sum of money in building and repairs about his Palace at S. Asaph, and the mill thereunto belonging. In the year 1678 he built an Alms house for eight poor Widows, and did endow it with twelve pounds per an. for ever. The same year he procured an Act of Parliament for the appropriating of the Rectories of Llaurhaiader and Mochnant in Denbighshire and Mountgomeryshire, and of Skeiviog in the County of Flint, for repairs of the Cathedral Church of S. Asaph and the better maintenance of the choir there; and also for the uniting several Rectories that were Sinecures, and the Vicaridges of the same Parishes, within his said Diocese of S. Asaph. He also intended to build a Free-school and to endow it, but was prevented by death. Yet since that time his successor Dr. Will Lloyd Bishop of S. Asaph did recover from Bishop Barrow's Executors 200 l. towards a Free-school at S. Asaph, an. 1687. This most worthy Bishop Dr. Barrow died at Shrewsbury, about noon of the 24 of June (Midsummer day) an. 1680, and on the 30 of the said month his Corpse was lodged in his house called Argoed hall in Flintshire, and from thence carried on the first of July to his Palace at S. Asaph, and the same day to the Cathedral Church there, where after Divine Service and a Sermon, the said Corpse was decently interred by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph on the South side of the West door in the Cathedral Church yard, which was the place he appointed. Over his grave was soon after laid a large flat stone, and another over that, supported by Pedestals. On the last of which is this inscription engraven. Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi, in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita. Obiit dictus reverendus Pater festo Divi Johannis Baptistae, anno Domini 1680 Aetatis 67 & Translationis suae undecimo. On the lower stone, which is even with the ground, is this inscription following, engraven on a brass plate fastened thereunto, which was made by the Bishop himself. Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi, in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita. O vos transeuntes in Domum Domini Domum orationis, orate pro Conservo vestro ut inveniat miserecordiam in die Domini. The said brass plate was fastened at first, as 'tis there reported, over the said West door, but afterwards taken down, and fastened to the lower stone, next the body. But so it was, that as soon as this last Epitaph was put up, the contents thereof flew about the nation by the endeavours of the godly faction, (then plumped up with hopes to carry on their diabolical designs upon account of the Popish Plot then in examination and prosecution) to make the world believe that the said Bishop died a Papist, and that the rest of the Bishops were Papists also, or at least popishly affected, and especially for this reason, that they adhered to his Majesty and took part with him at that time against the said Faction, who endeavoured to bring the Nation into confusion by their usual trade of lying and slandering, which they have always hitherto done to carry on their ends, such is the religion of the Saints. But so it is, let them say what they will, that the said Bishop was a virtuous, generous and godly man, and a true Son of the Church of England: And it is to be wished that those peering, poor spirited and sneaking wretches would endeavour to follow his example, and not to lie upon the catch, under the notion of religion, to obtain their temporal ends, private endearments, comfortable importances, filthy lusts, etc. The said Bishop was Uncle to a most worthy, religious and learned Doctor of both his names, as I have elsewhere told you, who dying 4. May 1677, aged 47 years, was buried in the great, or south cross Isle of Westm. Abbey, near to the monument of the learned Camden, sometimes Clarenceaux K. of Arms.  
WILLIAM PIERS son of William Piers a Haberdasher of Hats, Nephew, or near of kin, to Dr. John Piers sometimes Archb. of York and a Native of South Hinxsey near Abendon in Berks, was born in the Parish of Allsaints within the City of Oxon, in Aug, and baptised there on the 3. of Sept. an. 1580. In 1596 he was made Student of Ch. Church, and taking the degrees in Arts, fell to the study of Divinity, and was for a time a Preacher in and near Oxon. Afterwards being made Chaplain to Dr. King Bishop of London, he was preferred to the Rectory of S. Christopher's Church near to the Old Exchange in London and Vicarage of Northall in Middles. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity, being about that time Divinity Reader in S. Paul's Cathedral, and in 1618. he was made Canon of Ch. Church, and soon after Dean of Chester. In 1621. 22. 23. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellor of this University, wherein behaving himself very forward and too officious against such that were then called Anti-Arminians, he gained the good will of Dr. Laud then a rising star in the Court, and so consequently preferment. In 1622 he was made Dean of Peterborough in the place of Hen. Beaumond promoted to that of Windsor, and in 1630 had the Bishopric thereof conferred on him, by the death of Dr. Tho. Dove, to which being elected, he had the temporalities thereof given 
(b) Pat. 6. Car. 1. p. 24.  to him on the 30 of Oct, and installation on the 14 of Nou. the same year. While he sat there, which was but for a short time, he was esteemed a man of parts, knowing in Divinity and the Laws, was very vigilant and active for the good both for the ecclesiastical and civil estate. In Oct. 1632 he was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells, upon the translation of Dr. Curl to Winchester; the temporalities of which See being given 
(c) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 14.  to him on the 20 of December the same year, he continued there, without any other translation, to the time of his death. As for his actions done in his Diocese of Bath and Wells before the grand rebellion broke out, which were very offensive to the puritanical party, (who often attested that he brought innovations therein and into his Church, suppressed Preaching, Lectures, and persecuted such who refused to rail in the Lord's Table, etc. in his Diocese) let one of them named William Prynne a great enemy to the Hierarchy 
(d) In his book called Canterbury's Doom.  speak, yet the reader may be pleased to suspend his judgement, and not to believe all what that partial, cropeared and stigmatised person saith. When the Bishops were silenced, and their Lands sold by that Parliament, called by the faction the blessed Parliament, he lived retiredly on a considerable estate of his own, (sometimes at Cudesden near Oxon) and married a second Wife, which is well known to all the neighbourhood there; yet the said Mr. Prynne would needs persuade 
(e) In his book entit. A new discovery of some Romish Emissaries, Quakers, etc. Lond. 1656. qu. p. 32.  us that he was reduced to such extremity that in November 1655 he went to an honourable Knight of his acquaintance in Westminster and complained to him that he had not bread for him and his to put in their mouths, entreating his favour to procure any Lect. or Curates place for him though never so mean (which he, by all the friends he had, could no where obtain) to keep him from starving. Whereupon the Knight minded him of his former speeches and cruelty towards other Lecturers and Ministers, whom (as he added) he reduced to extreme poverty; wishing him to take special notice how God had justly requited him in his own kind, so as himself would now turn Lecturer, or the meanest Curate under others, in his old age, to get but a mere subsistence, and yet none would entertain him, as himself confessed, in any place. So as the judgement threatened against Ely his posterity, 1. Sam. 2.36. was then actually fallen on that great Prelate, etc. In 1660 he was restored to his Bishopric, and by the great fines and renewings that then came in, he was rewarded in some degree for his sufferings: but his said second Wife, too young and cunning for him, got what she could from the children he had by his first Wife, and wheedling him to Walthamstow in Essex got thousands of pounds and his plate from him (as the common report at Wells is) which of right should have gone to his said Children. He died at that place in the month of Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventy, 
1670.  and was privately buried in the Parochial Church there by the care of his said Wife. He hath two Sermons in print, preached during his restraint in the Tower with other Bishops that were committed thither by the Parliament an. 1641, both on 2. Cor. 12.8.9.— Lond. 1642. qu. He left behind him a Son of both his names, actually created D. of D. an. 1661., though of lesser merit than sufferings, and another called John Piers, who being a Layman, had a Lay-prebendship in the Church of Wells bestowed on him by his Father. He lived mostly at Denton in the Parish of Cudesden near Oxon, (where his Father had settled an estate on him) and dying 28. Nou. 1670, was buried in the Church at Cudesden: whereupon his Prebendship was converted to the use of a Clergyman.  
ROBERT SKINNER second Son of Edm. Skinner Rector of Pitchford or Pisford in Northamptonshire, (by Bridget his Wife Daughter of Humph. Radcliff of Warwickshire) Son of Thomas Skinner of the Parish of Ledbury in Herefordshire, and he the Son of Stephen, was born at Pisford, educated in Grammar learning in a School at Brixworth near to that place, admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll, an. 1607, aged 16 years, and six years after Fellow, he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty, he took holy Orders, and became a noted Tutor in the Coll, and some of his Pupils proved afterwards men of note, as Will. Chillingworth, Rich. Newdigale a Judge, etc. In 1621. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and afterwards going to London was unexpectedly chose Preacher of S. Gregory's Church near S. Paul's Cathedral, where preaching twice every Sunday for nine years, obtained love, honour and applause, especially from the Puritans. When Dr. Laud became Bishop of London, he caused him to be sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, and endeavoured to take him off from the principles that he then professed, was made Rector of Launton near Bister in Oxfordshire and Minister of Greensnorton. In the month of July or thereabouts, an. 1636 he being elected Bishop of Bristol, was, as Bishop elect of that place, diplomated Doctor of Diu. of this University, on the 13 of August the same year, and having the temporalities thereof given 
(f) Pat. 12. Car. 1. p. 5.  to him on the 20 of January following, had liberty allowed to him to keep Launton and Greensnorton in Commendam with the said See. In the beginning of 1641 he was translated to the See of Oxon, on the death of Dr. Bancroft, and soon after being one of the twelve Bishops that subscribed a Protestation in behalf of themselves against the immoderate Proceedings of the Parl. then sitting, was impeached by the members thereof of High Treason, and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, where continuing 18 weeks to his great charge, was, upon bail, released: Whereupon retiring to his Rectory of Launton, which he kept also in commendam with Oxon, lived there retiredly, and submitted so much to the men of those times, that he kept the said Rectory, when the rest of his Spiritualities were lost, merely, as 'twas supposed, for the bare maintenance of himself and children; in which time, he did usually, as 'tis said, read the Common Prayer, and confer Orders according to the Ch. of Engl. After his Maj. return in 1660, he was restored to his Bishopric, became one of his Maj. Commissioners of the Uniu. of Ox. for the visiting and rectifying it then much out of order, but was not translated to a richer See which he much expected, occasioned by a great and potent enemy at Court, who maligned him because of his submission in some part to the Usurpers. In the month of Oct. 1663. he was translated to the See of Worcester upon the removal of Dr. Earl to that of Sarum, where he became esteemed more by his many Tenants, than family or friends, because of his goodness as a Landlord. He died in sixteen hundred and seventy, 
1670.  and was buried in a Chapel at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester. Over his grave was soon after laid a flat marble stone, with this inscription engraven thereon. H. I. E. Rev. in Ch. Pater ac Dom. Robertus Skinner Coll. S. Trinitatis Oxon Socius, Carolo primo Britanniarum Monarchae à sacris, Doctoratum in SS. Theologiâ almae Matris diplomate oblatum sine ambitu cepit. A Rectoriâ Launton Dioeceseos Oxon ad Episcopatum Bristoliensem evocatus, (tantus ecclesiae filius meruit cito fieri parens) mox ad sedem Oxoniensem translatus. Turre Londinensi à Perduellibus diu incarceratus, tam sine culpâ, quam examine exivit. A Carolo II. ad sedem Vigorniensem promotus, postquam Presbyteris sanciendis assuetam dextram sufficiendis Praesulibus mutuam dedisset (eorumque quinque à suo collegio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉) omnibus ante sacrilegam usurpationem Episcopus superstes. Junii 14. A. D. 1670 Octogenarius ad summam animarum Episcopum ascendit, prius gratiâ, nunc gloriâ consecratus. While he lived in the times of Usurpation he was supposed to be the sole Bish. that conferred Orders, and after his Majesty's return an hundred and three persons did at once take holy Orders from him in the Abbey Ch. at Westm, and very many frequently in his respective Dioceses where he successively sat: so that at his death, it was computed that he had sent more Labourers into the Vineyard, than all the brethren he then left behind him had done. He hath extant, A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, 3 Dec. on Psal. 96.9. Lond. 1634. qu. and another preached in S. Gregory's Ch. 1628., which I have not yet seen.  
THOMAS BAYLY an English man born, was originally of this University, afterwards of Dublin in Ireland, whence flying in the time of the Rebellion, he retired to Oxon, and there became one of the Petty Canons or Chapl. of Ch. Ch. as the Ancients there have informed me, but how long he continued in that place, I cannot tell. After his Maj. restauration he became D. of D. and Dean of Down, and upon the death of Dr. H. Hall was made B. of Killala and Achonry, to which receiving consecration 
(g) Jac. War. in Com. de Praesul. Hibern. p. 273.279.  on 5 June 1664, sat there till the time of his death; which happening in July or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671.  was buried, as I presume, near the body of his Predecessor in the Cath. Ch. of Killala. Qu.  
JOHN LESLEY was born of the ancient family of his name of Balquhaine in the north parts of Scotland, and nearly related to both the Count Lesleys, who successively have rendered themselves conspicuous by their Arms in Germany, received some Academical education in his own Country (at Aberdene as I have heard) and afterwards for some time in Oxon; but whether he took a degree there in Arts it appears not. Afterwards he traveled into Spain, Italy and Germany, but most in France, where he perfected his Studies, and became remarkable for the most polite and abstruse points of Learning. He spoke French, Spanish and Italian equal to the Natives, and had such an extraordinary command of the Lat. Tongue, that it was said of him when he was in Spain, solus Lesleius Latin loquitur. He was from his tender years conversant in Courts, where he learned that address and freedom which was peculiar to his Education, and gave a particular air even to his Preaching. Whence it was said of him, and another Bishop of his name, that no man preached more gracefully than the one, nor with more authority than the other. These accomplishments introduced him to be treated, even with familiarity, by several Princes and great men abroad: And he was particularly happy in the good esteem of his Master K. Ch. 1, who admitted him to sit at his Council-Table both in Scotland and Ireland, (as his father K. James had done for the first) in both which he was continued by K. Ch. 2. His chiefest advancement in the Ch. of Scotland was the Episcopal See of the Isles, where sitting several years, not without trouble from the Faction, he was translated to the See of Raphoe in Ireland, an. 1633, and the same year was made one of his Maj. Privy Council in that Kingdom. When he first came to the said diocese, he found the Revenue of the Bishopric much embezel'd, several Gentlemen in that Country having engrossed great part of it to themselves, and combined together to maintain what they had got: But so it was, that he by his activity, did, though a stranger, retrieve from them by an expensive suit at Law what they had gotten, and by that means increased the revenue of the said See of Raphoe near a third part. He built a noble and stately Palace for his Successors the Bishops of Raphoe, there being none in that diocese before his access to it. He contrived it for strength as well as beauty, which proved of good use in that broken Country, for it held out against the Irish, during the whole Rebellion of 1641, and preserved great part of that Country. When the said Rebellion broke out, and the Irish Rebels spread over the Country, and all men forced to fight for their lives, and particularly those under his Protection and in his diocese, yet he would not take upon him any military command, as not becoming his character, though in effect he performed the Office of a General among them, even to the exposing his person, whenever there was occasion; of which a remarkable instance is told us in the Epist. to the Reader to the Hist. of the execrable Irish Rebellion, written by Dr. Edw. Borlase, viz. That when Sir Ralph Gore at Matchribeg, with many other British Inhabitants, were reduced to great extremity by a long Siege, and a necessity of a sudden Surrender of themselves without hope of quarter, to the enraged cruelty of the Irish; the Bishop sallied forth amidst the flames of the whole Country, and relieved him, at that time reduced to such straits, as he and they were forced to cast their dishes into Ball. I say that after the Laggan Forces consisting of three Regiments had refused the hazard of a Relief, the said Bishop with his Company, Tenants and Friends did attempt and perfect it, evidencing at that instant, as much personal valour as regular conduct, which is at this day remembered in Ireland with much astonishment. After the Rebellion, when his Majesty's Cause (K. Ch. 1.) was there maintained by the Royalists and such that had fled into Ireland after the declension of his Cause in England, he raised a Foot-Company, and maintained them at his own charges, while his affairs had any prospect, for he was loyal, if it was possible, to excess. He endured a Siege in his Castle of Raphoe before he would surrender it to Oliver, and held out the last in that Country. He declared then against the Presbyterian, as well as Popish, pretences for Rebellion, and would neither join in the Treason nor Schism of those times, but held unalterably to the practice, as well as principles of the Ch. of England; whose Liturgy he continued always in his family after he was thrust out of the Church. And even in Dublin, he had frequent Confirmations and Ordinations; for which, though he was persecuted by the faction, yet he persisted, and several of present Irish) Clergy (of whom the Archb. of Tuam is one) were then as Confessors admitted into holy Orders by him. After his Majesty's restauration, he went into England to present himself to him, and flew with that zeal that he road from Chester to London, which is 150 miles, in 24 hours. In 1661. he was translated to the See of Clogher, upon the translation thence of Dr. Hen. Jones to Meath, (who had succeeded in Clogher Dr. James Spotswood a Scot, buried in S. benedict's Chapel in the Abbey Church at Westminster 31. March 1645.) and afterwards his Maj. would have promoted him to a See more profitable in requital of his great sufferings, but he excused himself, and was resolved to end his labours among those with whom he had suffered, and where his influence was most beneficial. He was a person very temperate, which was the reason that he attained to a great age, and was so great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money, which yet he took care to employ to the best uses. His memory was prodigious in his younger years, not only natural but acquired, for he had studied and wrote of the Art of memory and improved it to great advantage. He wrote several Treatises curious and learned, which were designed to see the light, but were all lost together with his great Library of many years' collection, and several Mss. which he had brought from foreign Countries, partly by the Irish, and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an. 1689.90. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671.  aged an hundred years and more, being then, as 'twas computed, the ancientest Bishop in the world, having been above 50 years a Bishop. His death happened at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh, and was there buried in a Church of his own building, which he had made the Parish Church by virtue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland: Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator. Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops 
(*) Edit. Dubl. 1665. p. 77.  tells us, that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Diu. of Oxon, and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Diu. but of both the Laws of Oxford: How true these things are I cannot tell; sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg. or Convocation, or that he took any degree there.  
GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll, was made B. of Bristol in the year 1660, and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton, as I shall tell you under the year 1685.  
WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll, succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Gloucester, an. 1660, and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, 
1671/2.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett, as I shall tell you under the year 1680.  
GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, afterwards of the Uniu. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641, and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one; 
1671/2.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry, as I have told you among the said Writers an. 1677. p. 448.  
JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn, afterwards of Magdalen Hall, was consecrated Bish. of Chester, an. 1668, on the death of Dr. George Hall, and died in Nou. in sixteen hundred seventy and two; 
1672.  under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers, p. 370.371. In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creak in Norfolk, bred in Eton School, admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an. 1631, commenced M. of A, became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter, Preb. of Sarum, Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap, and afterwards at S. Christopher's, in London. In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey, after it had laid void about eleven years, (being then D. of D.) was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely, Chapl. in ord. to his Maj, and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Uniu. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester, was consecrated to that See (with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells) on the ninth day of Febr. an. 1672, having before published an Exposition on the Creed, etc. After his death, which I have mentioned elsewhere, succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright. The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard, born also at Creak, bred in Eton School, admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646, was afterwards M. of A, Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll, and kept his Fellowship with it, went out Doct. of the Civ. and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669, he being then Underkeeper of his Maj. Library at S. James. He was a most excellent Scholar, a most admired Grecian, and a great Traveller: He died in the summertime, an. 1670, being then, as 'twas vulgarly reported, a Rom. Cath.  
FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born, became a Student of Jes. Coll. an. 1628., aged 17 years, took the degr. in Arts, and was made Fellow of the said House. About that time entering into holy Orders, he became beneficed in Wales, and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. Afterwards suffering much for the King's Cause, lived as opportunity served, and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were. But being restored to what he had lost, after his Maj. restauration, he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661., being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard. In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd, paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year, and about that time was consecrated. He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four, and was buried, 
1674/5.  as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes. Coll, in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff. In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. John's Coll. in Cambr, consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675, where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw, he was translated to Peterborough, and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforementioned Franc. Davies, was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted, but before him in time, author of A Catechism, wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lord's Prayer and Creed, etc. Lond. 1612. oct. ded. to Mr. Tho. Digges, but whether he was of Oxford, I cannot yet tell. Qu.  
WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller, was born in London, educated in the Coll. School at Westminster, became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626. or thereabouts, aged 18 years, took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after, as a Member of S. Edm. Hall, having translated himself thither some time before. About that time he entered into holy Orders, was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch, and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion, he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there. Afterwards, upon the declension of the King's Cause, he suffered as others did, taught a private School at T●●ttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex, in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard, and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars. At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean of S. Patrick's Church near Dublin, and in August the same year he was actually created Doct. of the Civ. Law, as a member of S. Edm. Hall, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters written in his behalf, which say that he is a worthy and learned person and hath suffered much for his Loyalty to his Majesty, etc. Afterwards he went into Ireland, was installed Dean of the said Ch. on the 21 of Oct. following, and continuing in that dignity till 1663., he was made Bish. of Limerick and Ardfert in that Kingdom; to which being consecrated 
(*) Jac. War. ut supra p. 190.  on the 20 of March the same year, according to the English account, sat there (though much of his time was spent in England) till 1667, and then upon Dr. B. Laney's removal to Ely, on the death of Dr. Math. Wren, he was translated to the See of Lincoln (after he had taken a great deal of pains to obtain it) on the 28 of Sept. the same year. He paid his last debt to nature at Kensington near London, on the 22 of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and five; whereupon his body being carried to Lincoln, was buried in the Cath. Ch. there. In the afternoon of the very same day that he died, Dr. Tho. Barlow Provost of Qu. Coll, did, by the endeavours of the two 
(†) Hen. Coventry Esq. originally of Qu. Coll, afterwards Fell. of Alls. and Sir Jos. Williamson.  Secretaries of State, (both formerly of his Coll.) kiss his Majesty's hand for that See, and accordingly was soon after consecrated. The said Dr. Fuller did once design to have written the Life of Dr. Joh. Bramhall sometimes Primate of Ireland, and had obtained many materials in his mind for so doing; wherein, as in many things he did, he would without doubt have quitted himself well, as much to the instruction of the living, as honour of the dead: And therefore it was lamented by some, that any thing should divert him from doing so acceptable service. But the providence of God having closed up his much desired life, has deprived us of what he would have said of that most worthy Prelate. See in the beginning of the said Dr. Bramhall's Life, written by Joh. L. Bish. of Limerick.— Lond. 1677. fol.  
WALTER BLANDFORD son of a father of both his names, was born at Melbury Abbats in Dorsetshire, became a Servitor or poor Scholar of Ch. Ch. an. 1635, aged 
(a) Reg. Matric. PP. fol. 28. b.  19 years, admitted Scholar of Wadh. Coll, on the 1 of Oct. 1638, at which time he said he was born in 1619, took the degrees in Arts, and in 1644, Jul. 2, he was admitted Fellow of the said Coll. In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament to eject all such from the Uniu. that would not take the Covenant or submit to their power, they did not eject him, which shows that he did either take the Covenant or submit to them; and about the same time obtaining leave to be absent, he became Chapl. to John Lord Lovelace of Hurley in Berks and Tutor to his son John, to whom also afterwards he was Tutor in Wadh. Coll. In 1659. he was elected and admitted Warden of that Coll, and in the year after, in Aug. he was, among many, actually created D. of D, being about that time Chapl. to Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chanc. of Engl, who obtained for him the same year a Prebendship in the Ch. of Gloucester, and a Chaplainship in ord. to his Majesty. In 1662. and 63 he did undergo the office of Vicechanc. of this Univ, not without some pedantry, and in 1665 he being nominated Bishop of Oxon, on the death of Dr. Will. Paul, was elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. on the 7 of Nov, confirmed in S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon on the 28 of the said month, and on the 3 of Dec. following, in the same year of 1665, (the K. and the Q. with their Courts being then in Oxon) he was consecrated in New Coll. Chap. by the Bishops of London, Gloucester and Exeter. Soon after he was made Dean of the Royal Chapel, and upon the death of Dr. Skinner, was translated to the See of Worcester in the Ch. of S. Mary Savoy in the Strand near London on the 13 of June 1671. This Dr. Blandford who lived a single man, and never at all was inclined to Marriage, died in the Bishop's Palace at Worcester, on Friday the 9 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five, 
1675.  and was buried in the Chapel next beyond the east end of the Choir belonging to the Cath. Ch. there, commonly called Our Lady's Chapel. Afterwards was set up in the Wall that parts the said Chap. and the east end of the Choir, a monument of Northamptonshire marble, and in the middle of it was fixed a black marble table, with a large inscription thereon, part of which runs thus. H. S. I. Gualterus Blandford SS. T. P. etc. ad primorum Ecclesiae temporum exempla factus, & futurorum omnium natus: summis honorum fastigiis ita admotus, ut perpetuo super invidiam, citra meritum consisteret: non seculi artibus, assentatione, aut ambitu, sed pietate, modestia, animi dimissione & dignitatum fuga clarus. Ab Academiae gubernaculo ad Ecclesiae clavum, (quaeque anceps magis procuratio) ad conscientiae Principis regimen evocatus, muneribus omnibus par, quasi unico impenderetur. Nimirum eruditione recondita Academiam, sanctissima prudentia Dioecesim, illibata pietate Aulam, illustrabat. Donec perpetuis laboribus, & morbo diutino (quem invicta animi constantia tolleraverat) confectus, facultatibus suis Deo, Ecclesiae, Pauperibus distributis, etc. 'Tis said in the Epitaph, that he died in the year of his age 59, and on the 16 of July, which should be the 9, as I have told you before. In the See of Worcester succeeded him Dr. Jam. Fleetwood, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
EDWARD REYNOLDS sometimes Fell. of Merton Coll. and afterwards Dean of Ch. Ch, was consecrated B. of Norwych in the beginning of Jan. 1660, and died in sixteen hundred seventy and six, 
1676.  under which year you may see more among the Writers, p. 420. In the said See succeeded Anth. Sparrow D. D. Bish. of Exeter, who after his Translation, was confirmed on the 18 of Sept. the same year, where he sat to the time of his death. This learned Doctor, who was the son of a wealthy father named Sam. Sparrow, was born at Depden in Suffolk, educated in Queens Coll. in Cambr, of which he was successively Scholar and Fellow, but ejected thence, with the rest of the Society, for their Loyalty, and refusing the Covenant, an. 1643. Soon after he was prevailed upon to take the benefice of Hankdon in his native Country, but by that time he had held it 5 weeks, where he read the Common Prayer, he was ejected thence by the Committee of Religion sitting at Westminster. After the restauration of his Maj. he returned to his Living, was elected one of the Preachers at S. Edmunds Bury, and made Archd. of Sudbury, as I have told you in the Fasti under the year 1577. Soon after he became Master of the Coll. wherein he had been educated, and thereupon left his charge at S. Ed. Bury, and in short time after resigned Hankdon to his Curate, having before expended in reparations there 200 l. On the 3 of Nou. 1667 he was consecrated Bish. of Exeter, upon the Translation thence of Dr. Ward to Salisbury; where sitting with great commendations till the death of Dr. Reynolds, was then translated to Norwich, as I have before told you. He hath published (1) Rationale upon the book of Common Prayer of the Ch. of England. Lond. 1657. etc. in tw. (2) Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, etc. Ibid. 1661. qu, besides a Sermon concerning Confession of sins and the power of absolution, etc. He died towards the latter end of the month of May, an. 1685, and in the next month he was succeeded by Dr. Will. Lloyd B. of Peterborough, who continuing there till after K. Will 3. came to the Crown, was then ejected as a Non-juror, or one that would not violate his Oath so the former King.  
WILLIAM LUCY sometimes of Trin. Coll. in this Univ, afterwards of Cays in Cambr, was consecrated B. of S. David on the first Sunday in Advent, an. 1660, and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, 
1677.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 443. In the See of S. David succeeded Dr. Will. Thomas, as I shall tell you when I come to him.  
GILBERT SHELDON the youngest son of Rog. Sheldon of Stanton in Staffordshire, near to Ashbourne in Derbyshire, was born there on the 19 of July 1598., and had his Christian name given to him at his Baptization by Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury, to whom his father was a menial Servant. In the latter end of 1613 he became a Communer of Trinity Coll, and proceeding in Arts seven years after, was, in the year 1622 elected Fell. of that of Alls, and about the same time took holy Orders. Afterwards he was made domestic Chapl. to Thom. Lord Coventry L. Keeper of the Great Seal, who finding him to be a man of parts, recommended him to K. Ch. 1. as a person well versed in Politics. In 1634 he proceeded in Divinity, being then, as it seems, Preb. of Gloc, and in the latter end of the year following he was elected Warden of his Coll. About the same time he became Chapl. in ord. to his Maj, was afterwards Clerk of his closet, and by him designed to be Master of the Hospital called the Savoy and Dean of Westm, that he might the better attend on his royal person; but the change of the Times and Rebellion that followed, hindered his settlement in them. During the time of the said Rebellion he adhered to his Maj. and his cause, and therefore was not only ejected his Wardenship, but also imprisoned with Dr. H. Hammond in Oxon, and elsewhere, by the Visitors appointed by Parliament, an. 1648, to the end that their eminency in the Uniu. might not hinder their proceedings, and to keep them both from attending the King at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight. After he was released, he retired to his friends in Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire, whence and where, from his own purse and from others which he made use of, he sent constantly moneys to the exiled King, followed his Studies and Devotions till matters tended to a happy restauration of his Maj. On the 4 of Mar. 1659. Dr. Joh. Palmer, who had usurped his Wardenship almost 12 years, died, at which time there being an eminent foresight of his Maj. return, there was no election made of a Successor, only a restitution of Dr. Sheldon; who instead of re-taking possession in person (which he never did) was made Dean of his Maj. Chap, royal and nominated to succeed Dr. Juxon in London, upon his translation thence to Canterbury: Whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Chap. of K. H. 7. at Westm, by the Bish. of Winchester, (delegated thereunto by Canterbury,) assisted by York, Ely, Rochester and Chichester, on the 28 of Oct. (S. Sim. and Judas) an. 1660, sat there, as one thought fittest to take charge and care of that great and populous City, till the decease of the said Dr. Juxon; and then being elected to succeed him in Canterbury by the Dean and Chapter thereof, on the 11 of Aug. 1663., the Election was confirmed on the 15 of the same month by his Majesty (to whom Dr. Sheldon had been for some time before one of his Privy Council) and thereupon was translated with great solemnity in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth, the 31 of the said month. On the 8 of Sept. following Dr. Humph. Henchman Bish. of Salisbury was elected to the said See of London, and on the 15 he was translated thereunto in the Ch. of S. Marry le Bow, where he sat to the time of his death. In 1667 Dr. Sheldon was elected Chancellor of the Uniu. of Ox. but was never installed, or ever was there after that time, no not so much as to see his noble work called the Theatre, or ever at Canterbury to be there personally installed Archbishop, or upon any other occasion while he was Archbishop. At length arriving to a fair age, he surrendered up his soul to God on Friday about 7 of the clock at night, 
1677.  of the 9 day of Nou. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven: Whereupon his body was privately interred in the parochial Ch. of Croyden in Surrey, near to the tomb of Archb. Whitgift (according to his own special direction) upon Friday evening, the 16 of the said month. Soon after was a most stately monument erected over his grave by his heir Sir Joseph Sheldon, then lately L. Mayor of London, son of his elder brother Ralph Sheldon of Stanton before mentioned, with a large inscription thereon, part of which runs thus. Fortiter & suaviter hic jacet Gilbertus Sheldon antiqua Sheldoniorum in agro Staffordiensi natus, etc. vir omnibus negotiis par, omnibus titulis superior, in omnibus magnus, in propriis bonus, utriusque fortunae dominus. Pauperum parens, literatorum Patronus, Ecclesiae stator, de tanto viro pauca dicere non expedit, multa non opus est. Norunt praesen tes, posteri vix credent, etc. He hath only extant A Sermon before the King at Whitehall 28 June 1660, being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the happy return of his Maj on Psal. 18.49. Lond. 1660. qu. His works of piety and charity were many in his life time, as first the building of the Theatre at Oxon, which cost him more than 16 thousand pounds, besides the gift of 2000 l. to buy lands worth an 100 l. per an. to keep it in repair. This noble Structure was built chiefly for the celebration of the public Acts, yet since neglected. (2) The fair Library at Lambeth House, built at his own charge. (3) Two thousand pounds towards the Structure of S. Paul's Cathedral. (4) Considerable sums of money to Trin. Coll. in Oxon, and Trin. Coll. in Cambr, besides great and large sums of money annually bestowed, some to public, and some to private charities. His Legacies at his death for charitable uses came to 1500 l, which afterwards were paid, part to Alls. Coll, part to the Church of Canterbury, part to the Hospital of Harbledowne in Kent, and the rest to indigent persons. I have heard Sir Joseph Sheldon before mentioned say, (who was afterwards buried near to the body of his Uncle) that from the time of Dr. Sheldon's being made Bishop of London to the time of his death, it did appear in the book of his Accounts that he had bestowed upon public, pious and charitable uses, about threescore and six thousand pounds. In his Archbishopric succeeded Will. Sancroft D. D. Dean of S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in Lond. and sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge; who, after he had been nominated by the King (thro' the endeavours of James Duke of York) was consecrated in the Abbey Ch. of S Peter at Westm, on Sunday the 27 of Jan. 1677. What he hath written and published except (1) Modern policies taken from Machiavelli, Borgia, and other choice authors, by an eye witness. Lond. 1652, in tw. (2) Serm. on the first Sunday in Advent (1660) at the consecration of John Bishop of Durham, William Bishop of S. Dau. etc. Lond. 166●. qu. and (3) Serm. preached to the H. of Peers, 13 Nou. 1678, being the Fast day appointed by the King, etc. Lond, 1679. qu. I say, what he hath published besides these things let others speak, while I tell you that after he had sat in the said See, without the exception of any, and had behaved himself with great prudence and moderation, was, after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown, deprived with five other Bishops for not swearing Allegiance and Supremacy to that Prince and his Queen.  
JOHN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin, afterwards Fell. of Jesus Coll. in this Univ, was consecrated Bish. of Ossory in Ireland on the death of Griff. William's in the beginning of the year 1672, and died a little before the Nativity in sixteen hundred seventy and seven; 
1677.  under which year you may see more among the Writers, p. 448. In the said See succeeded his brother Ben. Parry, as I am now about to tell you.  
BENJAMIN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin, afterwards of Jesus in this Univ, and at length Fellow of Corp. Ch. was consecrated Bish. of Ossory in Jan. 1677, and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678.  under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 462. In the said See succeeded Dr. Michael Ward, as I have elsewhere told you.  
RALPH BRIDEOAKE son of Rich. Brid. (by Cicely his wife dau. of John Booth of Lancashire) and he the son of another Richard of Adbaston, was born, as I have been informed, at Chitham Hill near Manchester in the said County, was admitted a Student in Brasn. Coll. 15 Jul. 1630, aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts, and determining soon after, his Disputations did so much please Dr. Pinks Warden of New Coll, than Vicechancellor of the Univ, that he forthwith, upon enquiry that his condition was mean, made him a Pro-Chaplain of the said New Coll. In 1636, he, among many others, was actually created Mast. of Arts, by virtue of his Maj. Letters dated at Oxon, he being then accounted a good Grecian and Poet: But having nothing to keep up the degr. of Master only his employment in the said Coll, he became Curate of Wytham near Oxon, for Dr. Joh. Brikenden sometimes of Magd. Coll, and Corrector of the Press in Oxon. In which last employment, happening to correct a book of Dr. Tho▪ Jackson Precedent of C. C. Coll, to whom he had often recess, that Doctor had such an affection for him, that upon the vacancy of the Free-school at Manchester, founded by Bishop Hugh Oldham (of which the Precedent of the said Coll. for the time being is Patron) he forthwith gave the government of it to him. So that being soon after settled there, he, by his interest and great forwardness, became Chaplain to the Earl of Derby, whom and his family he much, pleased: And when Latham House in Lanc. belonging to the said Count was besieged by the Forces belonging to Parliament, he was all the time in it, and did good service. When the Kings Cause declined he stuck close to the said family, and managed, as 'tis said, most of the Estate belonging to it. In 1651 his Lord James Earl of Derby being engaged for K. Ch. 2. at Worcester fight, and before, he was, after the loss of the day, taken by the Parliamenteers in Cheshire: Whereupon he being like to lose his life, this his Chaplain Mr. Brideoake, with others, were desired to solicit the Grandees at Westminster to save him; and Will. Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Com. being much plied by the said Chaplain with more than ordinary reason and application, Lenthall thereupon (when he saw nothing could save his Lord's life) finding him to be a man of parts and business, made him his own proper Chaplain, and soon after Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane: Which act of his, though noble and generous, yet he was clamoured at, and gained the ill will of divers members of Parliament, for his entertaining openly, and afterwards preferring, a Malignant, as they termed him. Soon after by Lenthall's endeavours he became Vicar of a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Witney, where being settled, he preached twice every Lord's day, and in the Evening catechised the Youth in his own house, outvying in labour and vigilancy any of the godly Brethren in those parts. He also, by his Patron's means, got the Rectory of the said place (which had been leased out) to be annexed to the Vicarage, whereby it became one of the richest Rectories in Oxford Diocese; and not long after he was made Minister of S. Bartholomew near the Royal Exchange in London, where in holding forth, preaching, and laying about him in the Pulpit, he equalled any of the holy Brethren of that City. On the 14 of March 1659. he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Act of Parliament for the approbation and admission of Ministers of the Gospel after the Presbyterian mode: but that Act soon after vanishing upon the approach of his Majesty's restauration, he, by his unwearied diligence and application, was made Chaplain to his Majesty, installed Canon of Windsor, in the place of Dr. Thom. Howell B. of Bristol (several years before dead) on the 11 day of July, and actually created Doct. of Diu. in the beginning of Aug. following, an. 1660. About that time he became Rector of the rich Church of Standish in his native Country, given formerly to him by the Earl of Derby, but hindered from enjoying it by the Triers in Oliver's Reign, between whom and him, followed some controversy concerning that matter, but how terminated I cannot tell. In Sept. 1667 he was made Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Rich. Bailiff deceased, and in Feb. 1674 he was by the endeavours of Lodovisa Duchess of Portsmouth (whose hands were always ready to take bribes) nominated by the King to be Bishop of Chichester, on the translation of Dr. P. Gunning from thence to Ely. So that being consecrated thereunto on the 18 day of April an. 1675, had liberty then allowed to him to keep his Canonry of Windsor in commendam with that See, which he did to his dying day. This person, who had spent the chief part of life in continual agitation, for the obtaining of Wealth and settling a Family, (for he was a married man and left behind him 3 sons at his death) was suddenly taken from this world as he was visiting his diocese, on the fifth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight: 
1678.  Whereupon his body being conveyed to Windsor, was buried in Bray's Chapel, joining on the south side to the outer Chapel of S. George in the Castle there. Soon after was a fair altar monument erected over his grave, with his Statue from head to foot, adorned with Pontificalia (all curiously cut from one entire piece of Alabaster) laying thereon, with this inscription engraven upon it. M. S. maturus Deo mortalitatem exuit Rev. in Christo Pater Radulphus Brideoake. Vir audacter probus, magnus, sed humilis. Ingens Atticae, & omnis eloquentiae Thesaurus. Exule Carolo II. bonis omnibus mulctatus, reverso à sacris, hujus capellae Canonicus, Decanus Sarisburiensis, postea Cicestrensis Episcopus ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΣ ΦΙΛΑΤΑΘΣ, Dioeceseos tanquam Familiâs Pater. Qui (alienae salut iconsulens immemor suae) dum Gregem visitaret, grassante febri correptus Episcopali munere immortuus est, iii non. Octob. MDCLXXVIII, aetatis suae LXIV. Marito optimo monumentum hoc posuit conjux moestissima M. B. that is, Marry Brideoake, second daughter of Sir ..... Sal. tonstall of Okenden in Essex Kt, by his second wife.  
JOSEPH HENSHAW sometimes a Communer of Magdalen Hall became Bishop of Peterborough, upon the translation of Dr. Laney to Lincoln, in the beginning of the year 1663., and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and eight, 
1678/9.  leaving then behind him this character in his diocese, that he was a learned man and a good Preacher, but so proud and unhospitable, that in that respect he deserved not the name of a Bishop. I have already mentioned him among the Writers, under the year 1678, pag. 473, and therefore I shall only say that Dr. Will. Lloyd succeeded him in Peterborough, and confirmed in that See on the 17 of May 1679. Afterwards he was translated to Norwich, where sitting with good approbation till after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown, he was then deprived, as I have before told you in Dr. E. Reynolds.  
JOHN PRICHETT son of Walt. Prich. of Hillenden in Middlesex, (afterwards Alderman of Lond. as his Relations have told me) was born there, or in that County, admitted a Student of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1622, aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts as a member of S. Edm. Hall, that of Master being completed in an Act celebrated 1629. Afterwards marrying an Oxford Woman of inferior note, he became beneficed in his own Country, but whether he suffered for any Cause during the Civil War I know not. Sure 'tis that he being Vicar of S. Giles Church near Cripplegate in London, after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, and esteemed a rich man, as indeed he was, he, by the endeavours of Dr. Sheldon, Archb. of Cant, had the poor Bishopric of Gloucester conferred on him, after the death of Dr. Nicolson, with leave allowed to him to keep the said Ch. of S. Giles in commendam with it. So that being consecrated thereunto on the third day of Nou. (being the first Sunday of that month) an. 1672, sat there till the time of his death, which happening at Harefield in Middlesex, (where he had an Estate) on the first day of January in sixteen hundred and eighty, was buried on the seventh day of the same month under the Pulpit of the Church there. 
168●/●.  In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Frampton of Oxon, who sitting there with great liking till after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown, was then deprived of his Bishopric, for not taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.  
JOHN PARKER was born in the City of Dublin, educated partly in the University there, and partly in this, as a Member of Ch. Ch, as I have been not only informed there by certain Seniors, but also from Dublin. Afterwards he retired to his native place, became Prebendary of S. Michan, and much in respect there for his Religion and Learning. Afterwards, in the times of Usurpation, he was deprived 
(*) Jac. Waraeus, in Com. de Praesuiib. Hibern. p. 260.  of all his Spiritualities by O. Cromwell, and by him cast into Prison upon suspicion that he was a Spy from the Marquis of Ormonde. Afterwards being freed by exchange, he constantly adhered to the said Marquis as long as he continued in Ireland: But when he withdrew himself thence into France, Mr. Parker went into England, where making a shift to rub out till his Majesty's return, went then into his own Country, and being nominated Bishop of Elphine, was consecrated thereunto in S. Patrick's Church on the 27 of Jan. 1660, he being then Doctor of Divinity. In 1667, Aug. 9, he was by Letters Patents then dated, made Archbishop of Tuam in the room of Dr. Sam. Pullen, and afterwards Archb. of Dublin in the place of Dr. Mich. boil translated to Armagh: He died in the beginning of January in sixteen hundred eighty and one, and was buried, as I conceive, 
1681/2.  at Dublin: Whereupon Dr. Francis Marsh succeeded him in the See there. The said Dr. Parker hath extant A sermon preached before both Houses of Parliament in Ireland, on 2 Sam. 19.14.— printed 1663. qu. and, as I conceive, others.  
HENRY BRIDGMAN the third son of Dr. John Bridgman B. of Chester (who died an. 1652 aged 77 years) was born in Northamptonshire, entered a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the year 1629 aged 16 or thereabouts, elected Fellow of that of Brasnose, 6 Dec. 1633, he being then Bach. of Arts: Afterwards he was actually created Master of that faculty, and in 1639 he resigned his Fellowship, being then, by the endeavours of his father, beneficed or dignified, or both. In the time of the Rebellion he did his Maj. faithful service, and therefore was a sharer in afflictions, as other Loyalists were, occasioned by the violent Proceedings of the Presbyterians. After his Majesty's Restauration, he was elected Dean of Chester in July, in the place of Dr. Will. nicols, (who died in 1658) was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. following, and soon after installed in his Deanery, and on the 22 of Septemb. 1660 installed Preb. of Stillington in the Ch. of York, being about that time Parson of Bangor in Flintshire and of Barrow in Cheshire. At length upon the Translation of Dr. Is. Barrow to the See of S. Asaph, being nominated Bishop of the Isle of Man by the Earl of Derby, he was consecrated thereunto at Chester on Sunday the second of Octob. 1671, having had liberty before granted to him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it. What the merits of this person were, except his Loyalty and his benefaction to the Deans house at Chester, let others speak, while I tell you that he giving way to fate on the 15 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and two, (after he had had two Wives) was buried, as I suppose, 
1682.  in the Cath. Ch. at Chester. Qu. In his Deanery succeeded James Arderne or Arden D. D, whom I shall mention in the Fasti, an. 1673; and in the See of Man succeeded Dr. John Lake, who, after nomination thereunto by William Earl of Derby, and the issuing out of a Commission for his consecration in the beginning of Decemb. 1682, was accordingly soon after consecrated. This person, who was born in Yorkshire, was educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, was afterwards Rector of S. botolph's Church near Bishopsgate in London, instituted Rector of Prestwych in Cheshire 17 Octob. 1668, collated to the Prebendship of Friday Thorp in the Church of York upon the resignation of Hen. Bagshaw Bach. of Div, in Apr. 1670, was afterwards a Preacher in that City, and on the death of Dr. Rob. Field he was installed Archdeacon of Clieuland, 13. Oct. 1680. Before he had continued two years in the See of Man, he was, upon the death of Dr. Will. Goulson, elected Bishop of Bristol, to which he was translated in the Ch. of S. Marry le Bow in London, on the 12 of Aug, and on the first of Sept. following, an. 1684, he was installed by proxy, with leave then allowed him to keep his Prebendary, etc. in commendam with it. See more of him in Guy Carleton, an. 1685.  
EDWARD RAINBOW son of Tho. Rainbow A Minister, by Rebecca his wife dau. of Dau. Allen Rector of Ludbrough in Lincolnshire, was born at Bliton near Gainsborough in the said County, 20. Apr. 1608, educated in Grammar learning successively at Gainsborough, Peterborough, and at Westminster, entered a student in Corp. Christi Coll in Oxon, in Jul. 1623., his elder brother John being about that time Fellow of the said House, but before he had quite spent two years there, he was translated to Madg. Coll. in Cambridge, where he was adm. one of the Scholars of Frances Countess Dowager of Warwick, daugh. of Sir Christop. Wray L. Ch. Justice of England. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Fellow, a noted Tutor in that House, Master thereof in Oct. 1642, (in the place of Dr. Hen. Smith deceased) continued therein in the time of Rebellion without being ejected with others that denied the Covenant, commenced Doctor of Diu. in 1646 and in 1650 lost his Mastership for refusing a Protestation against the King, that is the Oath called the Engagement. Afterwards he became Minister of Chesterford near Audley inn in Essex, married Elizabeth, dau. of his predicessor Dr. Hen. Smith, and in the beginning of the year 1659. became Rector of Benefield in Northamptonshire; which though of considerable value, yet by the favour of friends he did not undergo the examination of the Tryers of that time, as he had not done for Chesterford. Upon his Majesty's return in 1660 he was restored to his Mastership, was made Chaplain to his Majesty, Dean of Peterborough the same year, and in 1662. Vicech. of Cambridge. In 1664 he became Bishop of Carlisle, upon the Translation thence of Dr. Rich. Stern to the See of York, 
1684▪  where sitting till the time of his death, was then succeeded by Dr. Tho. Smith sometimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in this University. See in the Fasti in the first Vol. p. 861. but more in a book entit. The life of the right rev. faith. in God Edw. Rainbow D. D. late L. Bishop of Carlisle. Lond. 1688. oct, written by one Jonathan Banks Bach. of Arts of Cambridge and Schoolmaster of Applebey in Westmoreland, who composed it by the help of some papers and a diary of the Bishop, which the widow of the said Bishop, furnished him with. He the said Dr. Rainbow published Labour forbidden and commanded, two Sermons at S. Paul's Cross on Joh. 6.27. Lond. 1635, and another at the Funeral of Susanna Countess of Suffolk, 13. May 1649, on Ecclesiastes 7.1. etc.  
PETER GUNNING sometimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge, afterwards one of the Chaplains of New Coll. in Oxon, etc. became first Bishop of Chichester, afterwards of Ely; and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and four (under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 577.) he was succeeded in Ely by Dr. Franc. Turner, 
1684.  B. of Rochester sometimes Fellow of New Coll, who for refusing the Oath of Alleg. and Supremacy to K Will. 3. was deprived of it.  
GEORGE MORLEY sometimes Dean of Ch. Church, was first Bishop of Worcester (where he was received and enthronized with very great solemnity on the 12. of Sept. 1661.) and afterwards of Winchester on the death of Dr. Duppa; 
1684.  who dying in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four (under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 581.) was succeeded in Winchester by Dr. Pet. Mews B. of bath and Wells.  
GUY CARLETON was born of an ancient and gentile family at Brampton Foot in Gilsland within the County of Cumberland, educated in the Free-School at Carlisle under Mr. Tho. Robson, and admitted a poor serving child of Queens Coll, under the tuition of Charles son of the said Tho. Robson, an. 1621. aged 17 years or thereabouts. Afterwards he was made Tabarder, Fellow, and in 1635 one of the Proctors of the University, Vicar of Bucklesbury near to Newbury in Berks, etc. At length upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he took part with his Majesty, and did him good service, being then accounted an excellent Horsman in a double sense, for which he had his share in sufferings as other loyalists had. After the King's Restauration, he was made one of his Chaplains, was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. 1660, made Dean of Carlisle in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber sometimes Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, (some years before dead) and on the 2. of Nou. the same year was installed Prebendary of Durham. In 1671, he was nominated Bishop of Bristol on the death of Dr. Gilb. Ironside, to which See being consecrated in S. Peter's Church at Westm, on the eleventh day of Febr. in the same year, had, much about that time, liberty allowed him to keep his Prebendship in Commendam. In 1678 he was translated to Chichester on the death of Dr. Brideloake, and was confirmed therein on the eighth day of January the same year, but had not the name there for a Scholar, or liberal Benefactor, as his predicessor and kinsman had, named Dr. George Carleton. This Dr. Guy Carleton died in the City of Westminster during his attendance in Parliament, on the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five: 
1685.  whereupon his body was conveyed, as I have been informed, to Chichester, and buried in the Cath. Ch. there. In the Bishopric of Bristol succeeded▪ Dr. Will. Goulson a Leicestershire man born, educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards was Chaplain to the Duchess of Somerset. He was consecrated at Lambeth on the ninth day of▪ Febr. 1678; and dying at his Rectory of Symondsbury in Dorsetshire (to which he had been presented by the said Duchess) on the fourth day of Apr. an. 1684, was buried on the 18. day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of that town. In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Carleton, the Bishop of Bristol, viz. Dr. Joh. Lake, in Aug. or Sept. 1685; who was one of the seven Bishops that were committed Prisoners to the Tower, on the 8. of June 1688, for contriving, making, and publishing a Seditious Libel against his Majesty (K. Jam. 2.) and his Government, that is for subscribing a petition to his Majesty, wherein he and the rest showed the great averseness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches, his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, etc. After K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he was one of the Bishops that denied the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him, and on his death bed, in the latter end of Aug. 1689. he did publicly declare against them. In the said See succeeded Dr. Sim▪ Patrick Dean of Peterborough, who was consecrated thereunto on the 13. of Octob, following. This Bishop Lake who had been Rector of S. botolph's Ch. without Bishopgate, London, hath written (1) A Serm. preached at Whitehall 29. of May 1670 being the day of his Majesty's birth and restaurat. Lond. 1671. qu. (2) The Character of a true Christian, preached in the Parish Church of S. Botolph Bishopsgate at the funeral of Will. Cade Deputy of the Ward. Lond. 1690. qu, and other things as I conceive, but such I have not yet seen.  
JOHN DOLBEN son of Dr. Will. Dolben, (by Elizabeth his wife, daugh. of Hugh Williams of Cyctiwillair in Caernarvanshire, a Captain somtiemes in Holland) son of Joh. Dolben of Haverford West in Pembrokshire, (descended from those of his name in Denbighshire) by his wife Alice sister to Sir Tho. Middleton of Chirk Castle in the said County of Denbigh, became Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner an 1666, and in 1683 was Translated to the Archiepiscopal See of York. He died in the beginning of the year, sixteen hundred eighty and six, 
1686.  under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 600. In the said See, after it had laid void till Nou. 1688, did succeed Dr. Tho. Lamplugh Bishop of Exeter, who upon the Prince of Aurangs arrival in the West, left Exeter and retired to London to pay his respects to King Jam. 2; which being taken very kindly by that King, he translated him to York on the 15 of the said month. The said Dr. Joh. Dolben was great Nephew to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York, and had much of his boldness and confidence in him but little of his learning: And whereas I have told you that the said Archb. Williams was, upon supposal, buried at Aberconway (where he had built an House in the place of that wherein he was born, which he caused to be called Lincoln's Inn) is false, for he was buried in the Church of Llandegay (which signifies the Church of S. Gay in the British language) near Bangor in Caernarvanshire, in which parish Penhryn the Seat sometimes of Archb, Williams is situated. He died at Glodded of a Quinsey in his throat, which being sudden, he told his attendants then by him that nothing troubled him more than that he should die like a beast, that had always lived like a Gentleman, etc. Afterwards his body being conveyed to Penhryn, was thence carried to the Church at Llandegay, and there buried in a little Vault at the upper end of the Chancel. Some years after, his Nephew and heir called Sir Griffith Williams erected on the north wall of the said Chancel a very fair monument, containing the Effigies of the Archbishop kneeling, carved and wrought from white marble, with a large inscription under it, made by Dr. Joh. Hacket his sometimes Chaplain; the contents of which being large, I shall now for brevity sake pass by. But whereas the said Doctor saith that he died 25 March 1650 is false, for he died on that day in 1649, aged 68 years or more.  
JOHN FELL D. of D. and Dean of Christ Church in Oxon, became Bishop of Oxford on the translation of Dr. Henry Compton to London, in the latter end of the year 1675, and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and six, (under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, 
1686.  p. 602.) was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Samuel Parker, as I have among the Writers told you, and shall among these Bishops. He the said Dr. Fell left behind him the character among some men of a Valde vult person, who by his grasping at and undertaking too many affairs relating to the public (few of which he throly effected) brought him untimely to his end to the loss of learning, etc.  
JOHN LLOYD son of Morgan Lloyd was born of an ancient family at Pentaine in Caermerthenshire, became a Student in Merton Coll. in Lent term 1655, aged 15 years or thereabouts, and took one degree in Arts as a member of that house. Afterwards he became Fellow of that of Jesus, Principal thereof on the resignation of Sir Leolin Jenkyns, D. of D. and Treasurer of Landaff. In 1682. 83. and 84 he did execute the Office of Vicechancellor of this University; and on the death of Dr. Laur. Womack being nominated by K. Jam. 2. to succeed him in the See of S. David, was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth on the 17 of Oct. 1686. Afterwards retiring to Oxon in a dropsical condition, died in Jesus Coll. on the thirteenth day of Febr. following, 
1666/7.  being then the first Sunday in Lent: Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chapel belonging to that Coll, near to the grave of Sir Leol. Jenkyns before mentioned. To the said See was nominated by the said King Dr. Tho. Watson of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 26 June 1687, and afterwards, upon dislike of his person and for that he had been recommended by the L. Dover to the said King, he did suffer and endure many affronts and intolerable abuses from the Rabble, in Dec. 1688, just after the said King had left England for France.  
JAMES ETKINS or Atkins son of Henr. Atkins Sheriff and Commissary of Orknay, was born in the Town of Kirkwall in the Stewartry of Orknay in Scotland, educated in the Coll. of Edinburgh, where he commenced Master of Arts, afterwards he retired to Oxon to complete his Learning, especially his Divinity, by the advice, instruction and lectures of Dr. Prideaux an. 1637. 38. etc. Soon after he, upon recommendations, became one of the Chaplains to James Marquis of Hamilton at that time his Majesty's High Commissioner for Scotland: In which station he did acquit himself so well to the satisfaction of his noble Patron, that upon his return to England he procured a Presentation for him from his Majesty to the Church of Birsa in the Stewartry of Orknay: where Continuing some years, his prudence, diligence and faithfulness in the discharge of his Office did procure him much of veneration and respect from all persons, especially from his Ordinary, who conferred upon him the dignity of Moderator to the Presbytery. In the beginning of the year 1650, when the noble James Marq. of Montross landed in Orknay, this Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery to draw up a Declaration in their names and his own; which, with their approbation and consent, was published, containing very great expressions of Loyalty, and constant resolution firmly to adhere to their dutiful Allegiance. For this the whole Presbytery being deposed by the general Assembly of the Kirk at that time sitting at Edinburgh, the said Doctor was likewise excommunicated, as one that conversed with the said Marquis, against whom they had emitted the like Brutum Fulmen. At that time the Scottish Council past an Act to apprehend him the said Doctor, to the end that he might be tried for his life; but upon private notice from his Kinsman Sir Archibald Primrose at that time Clerk to the said Council, he fled into Holland, where he skulked till 1653, and then returning into Scotland, he transferred his family to Edinburgh, where he resided quietly and obscurely till the year 1660. Upon the return then of his Majesty K. Ch. 2, he attended Dr. Tho. Sydserf Bishop of Galloway (the only Scottish Bishop who had the good fortune to survive the calamities of the Usurper's Government) to London, where the Bishop of Winchester presented him to the Rectory of Winfrith in Dorsetshire, and continuing there till the year 1677▪ he was elected and consecrated Bish. of Murray in Scotland, to the great rejoicing of the Episcopal Party. In 1680 he was translated to the See of Galloway, with dispensation to reside at Edinburgh, because it was thought unreasonable to oblige a reverend Prelate of his years to live among such a rebellious and turbulent People as those of that Diocese were: the effects of whose fiery zeal hath too frequently appeared in affronting, beating, robbing, wounding, and sometimes murdering the Curates. He had the oversight of the said Diocese for 7 years, which he so carefully governed, partly by his pastoral Letters to the Synod, Presbyteries and Ministers, and partly by his great pains in undertaking a very great journey for a man of his age and infirmities to visit his Diocese, that had he resided on the place, better order and discipline could scarce be expected. He died at Edinburgh of an Apoplexy, on the 28 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven, 
1687.  aged 74 years: Whereupon his body was decently interred in the Church of the Grey Friars there, at which time John then Bish. of Dunkeld (since deceased) preached his funeral Sermon. His death was sadly regretted by all good and pious men, who knew him to be a man of great reputation for his sincere piety, constant Loyalty, singular learning and true zeal for the Protestant Religion, according to the Constitutions of the Church of England, of which he lived and died a worthy Member. Upon his Coffin was fastened this Epitaph, 
Maximus Atkinsi pietate, & maximus annis,  
Ante diem, invitâ religione, cadis,  
Ni caderes, nostris inferret forsitan oris,  
Haud impune suos Roma superba Deos.  He was very zealous and vigorous in opposing the taking off the Penal Laws in Scotland; at which time, notwithstanding he was so infirm by age and sickness that he could not walk, yet he was daily conveyed to the Parliament, where he declared publicly his aversion to the abolishing the said Penal Laws, and to use his interest with the Nobility and Gentry of the Parl. in persuading them to a firm and constant adherence to the Protestant Religion, and to oppose all the designs that might be prejudicial to the same.  
SAMUEL PARKER sometimes of Wadh, afterwards of Trin. Coll, and Archd. of Canterbury, became B. of Oxford on the death of Dr. Fell, an. 1686, and dying in the latter end of sixteen hundred eighty and seven, (under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 616) was succeeded in the same See by Timothy Hall, 
1687/8.  as I shall tell by and by.  
SETH WARD sometimes of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards of that of Wadh. in Oxon, etc. was first made B. of Exeter and afterwards of Salisbury; who dying in the beginning of Jan. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight, was succeeded in that See by Gilb. Burnet D. D. sometimes Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane in London, 
168●/9.  consecrated thereunto, according to the form prescribed in the book of Common Prayer, in the Chapel belonging to the B. of London's house at Fulham, by the B. of London, Winchester, Lincoln, Landaff, S. Asaph and Carlisle, on Easter-day, 31 of March 1689. The said Dr. Ward, did, about his Majesty's restauration 1660 endeavour to make his Loyalty known by being imprisoned at Cambr, by his ejection, his writing against the Covenant and I know not what, but not a word of his cowardly wavering for lucre and honour sake, of his putting in and out, and occupying other men's places for several years, etc. See among the Writers, p. 627.  
HUMPHREY LLOYD the third son of Rich. Lloyd D. D. and Vicar of Ruabon in Denbighshire, by Jane his wife the daughter of Rudderch Hugh's Clerk, of the family of Maes●y Pandy, was born at Bod●y Fudden in the Parish of Trawsfynydd in the County of Merioneth, in Jul. or Aug. an. 1610, became a Com. of Oriel Coll. for a time, afterwards of Jesus where he was Scholar, and thence again to Oriel Coll, of which he became Fellow in 1631 and a great Tutor for many years. When the K. and Court were settled in Oxon he became known to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York then there, who made him his Chapl. and gave him the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York, which he kept to his death. After the decease of his father, which was in the time of the Troubles, he succeeded him in the Vicarage of Ruabon, but was soon deprived of it and his Prebendship by the Usurpers, till restored again to both by the happy Revolution in 1660. On the 13 of Aug. 1661. he was made Canon of S Asaph, and in the month following he was actually created D. of D. On the 14 of Dec. 1663. he was installed Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Dr. Dau. Lloyd deceased, and on the 19 of Dec. 1664 he resigned the Sinecure of Northop in Flintshire, in which he was succeeded by Mr. Will. Stone Princ. of New Inn in Oxon. In 1673 he was removed from Ruabon to the Vicarage of Gresford, vacant by the death of his elder brother Mr. Sam. Lloyd, and soon after succeeding Dr. Rob. Morgan in the See of Bangor, was consecrated thereunto in the Chap. of London house in Lond. on Sunday the 16 of Nou. 1673 by Dr. Hinchman B. of London, Dr. Morley of Wint, Dr. Ward of Sal, Dr. Dolben of Roch. etc. at which time Dr. Will. Lloyd, who was afterwards successively B of Landaff, Peterb. and Norwich, preached the Consecration Sermon, and on the 5 of Jan. following he was installed at Bangor by proxy. In 1685 he procured the Archdeaconries of Bangor and Anglesie and the Sine-cure of Llanrhaider in Kinmerch to be annexed to the Bishopric of Bangor, by Act of Parl. for ever, and two thirds of both the comportions of Llanddinam to the Ch, for the support of the Fabric and the maintenance of the Choir of Bangor, and the other third for the maintenance of the Vicaridges belonging to Llanddinam. He ordered the four bells formerly bestowed by B▪ Hen. rowland's on the Ch. of Bangor to be all new cast, and added a fifth bell bigger than the former, all at his own charge. He died on Friday the 18 of Jan. in six●een hundred eighty and eight, 
1688/9.  and was buried in the grave of B. Roland's on the north side of the Altar, in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor, leaving then behind him three sons named John, Francis Archdeacon of Merioneth and Rector of Llandyrnoe, and Richard Registrary of Bangor, as also a Relict named Jane the daugh. of John Griffyth of Llyn Esq, widow of Owen Brereton of Burros Esq. The inscription on the Monument, which, I presume, is by this time put over his grave, runs thus. M. S. Humphredi Lloyd S. T. P. Episcopi Bangor, qui è familia Lloydorum de Dulasseu oriundus, in agro Merviniensi natus & in Acad. Oxon. educatus. Postquam causae regiae sub Carolo Martyre strenuus Assertor & Confessor extitisset, sub Carolo secundo primo Decanatu Asaphensi, dein Episcopatu Bangor. insignitus. Huic Ecclesiae per tria annorum lustra praefuit & benefecit. Obiit xv. Kal. Feb. MDCLXXXVIII, aetatis suae LXXVIII.  
THOMAS CARTWRIGHT sometimes of Qu. Coll, afterwards Prebendary of Durham, Dean of Rippon, etc. became B. of Chester, on the death of Dr. Jo. Pearson, an. 1686, and dying in the beginning of sixteen hundred eighty and nine (under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, 
1689.  p. 629.) was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph, sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Oxon.  
WILLIAM THOMAS sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll, afterwards Dean of Worcester, B. of S. David, and at length of Worcester, where dying in June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine, 
1689.  (under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 635.) he was succeeded in that See by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral, to which he was consecrated in the Chapel of the B. of London at Fulham, with Dr. Simon Patrick to Chichester and Dr. Gilb. Ironside to Bristol, on the 13 of Octob. following.  
TIMOTHY HALL. the son of a Turner of Wood, was born in the Parish of S. Catherine near the Tower of London, (where his father obtained some estate in houses) became a Student in Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of the year 1654., aged 17 years or thereabouts, trained up there under a Presbyterian discipline, (which caused him ever after to be a Trimmer) took one degree in Arts, left the College without completing it by Determination, and what preferment he enjoyed afterwards in, or near, the great City, I know not: sure I am, that several years after his Majesty's restauration, he became Rector of all-hallows Staining in Mark lane in London; in which place we find him in 1688, when then, in the month of May or June, he, by virtue of his Majesty's Declarations for Liberty of Conscience bearing date 4 and 27 of Apr. going before, did read in his Church, (when the generality of London Ministers refused) the said Declarations in the time of Service on a Sunday, or at least gave half a Crown to another (the Parish Clerk I think) to do it: for which great service, his then Maj. K. Jam. 2, did confer upon him the Bishopric of Oxon, void by the death of Dr. Sam. Parker; an act so egregiously resented by the true sons of the Church of England, that they looked upon it as a matter to bring their Church into contempt, by throwing upon it such an obscure person to be a father, as he had before, two or more, etc. without any regard had to merit. He was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archb. of Canterbury, Bishops of Chichester and Chester, on the seventh of Octob. 1688; but when he came into these parts to see and take possession of his house at Cudesden, the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. refused to install him, the Gentry to meet or congratulate him, the Vicech. and Heads to take notice of him, or any Master or Bachelaur to make application to, or take holy Orders from, him: So that when he was in Oxon, at Whitsuntide in the month of May 1689, Baptista Bishop of Man then there, did that duty in Magd. Coll. Chapel on the 26 of the said month, at which time 84 persons or thereabouts were ordained Ministers. This Mr. Hall, called by some Doctor, and by others Sir, Hall, died miserably poor at Hackney near London, on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred and ninety, 
1690.  and was buried in the Church there on the 13 of the same month. In the said See of Oxon succeeded John Hough D. D. Precedent of Magd. Coll. This Bish. Hall hath published two Sermons, viz. one at the Funeral of Major Rob. Huntingdon, who died suddenly of an Apoplexy 14 Aug. 1685, aged 70 or more: And the other at Mercer's Chapel after he was Bishop: but neither of these have I yet seen. The said Rob. Huntingdon Esq (son of Rob. Huntingdon of Yarmouth in Norfolk) was Commissioner of the Excise at London, had been a Major in a Regiment in the Parliament Army, left them when he saw they would take away the life of King Ch. 1. (to whom he had been very civil in the time of his affliction, which that King acknowledges in his works) hated Oliver for his diabolical Proceedings, and was hated by him again so much that he imprisoned him several times. His body was buried in the Ch. of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, of which Town he was Impropriator, by virtue of a Lease from Allsoules Coll.  
EZEKIEL HOPKINS sometimes a member of Magd. Coll, afterwards a Preacher near London, and in Exeter, and Dean of Raphoe in Ireland, was first made B. of Raphoe and afterwards of London Derry in that Country, who dying in June in sixteen hundred and ninety (under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 647.) Dr. George Walker was designed to succeed him, 
1690.  but he dying of his wound or wounds received in passing over the River Boyne in Ireland, when K. Will. 3. went with his Army to encounter that of K. Jam. 2, in the beginning of July following, the said Bishopric of London Derry was conferred by his Majesty K. Will. 3. in the beginning of Decemb. following, on Dr. Will. King Dean of S. Patrick's Church near Dublin; at which time his said Majesty did dispose of other vacant Bishoprics in Ireland, viz. the Archbishopric of Cashiell on Dr. Narciss. Marsh B. of Ferns, etc. the Bishopric of Clogher, on Dr. Richard Tenison B. of Killala, the Bishopric of Elphine on Dr. Sim. Digby B. of Limerick, the Bishopric of Ferns on Dr. .... Vigures Dean of Armagh, the Bishopric of Limerick on Dr. Nath. Wilson Dean of Raphoe, the Bishopric of Clonfert on Dr. Will. Fitzgerald Dean of Cloyne, and the Bishopric of Killala on Dr. ...... Lloyd Dean of Achonrey.   

FASTI OXONIENSES.  



An. Dom. 1641.  
An. 17. Car. 1.    
THE Chancellor of the University this year, was Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury; but he being accused of divers capital crimes in both Houses of Parliament, and thereupon committed first to private custody, and afterwards to the Tower of London, he made a resignation on the 22 of June of all authority and academical administration belonging to him in the University. Which resignation under his hand and seal, he sent with his Letter of the 25 of the said month to Oxford, giving therein very great tokens, in a lamenting manner, of his love and affection to the University. Both which being received, they were, after a new Chancellor had been elected, answered with great affection and piety. On first of July following, the said resignation being published in Convocation, Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery, etc. High Steward of the University was then elected Chancellor, and on the eight of the said month was installed in his House called Bay●ards Castle in London.  
The Vicechancellor of the University this year was John Prideaux D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll, designed by the new Chancellor Oct. 7, and soon after became Bish. of Worcester. But now Hierarchy daily declining and Bishops not only ejected from the number of Peers in Parliament, but also divers Ecclesiastical Persons deprived of acting in secular affairs as alien from their profession, this our worthy Vicechancellor both a spiritual and a temporal Judge next to the Chanc. in academical causes, being thereupon thought not fit (at least with safety) to execute his office, the Chanc. by his Letters dated 2 of Mar. this year, appointed a Laical person named Giles Sweit LL. D. his Commissary or Deputy to supply his turn in the Courts of Civil affairs of the University. Which office, though it was for some time performed by him, (such were the times that required it) yet the like example we never before, or since, had.  

Proctors  
Baldwin Acland of Exet. Coll. May 15.  
Abrah. Woodhead of Vniv. Coll. May 15.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 13 Pet. Mews of S. Joh. Coll.  
May 13 Will. How of S. Joh. Coll.   
The first of these two, was afterwards successively Bish. of Bath and Wells, and Winchester.  
25. Tho. Leigh of Wadh. Coll.— He afterwards wrote his name Tho. Lie, as you may see among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 575.  
Jun. 25. Rob. Frampton lately of C. C. C, now of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards B. of Gloucester.  
Jul. 1. Joh. Newton of S. Edmund's Hall.  

Oct. 19 Giles Collier of New Inn  
Nou. 9 George Hopkins of New Inn   
11. Nathaniel Johnson of Hart Hall— I set him down here, not that he was afterwards a Writer, but to distinguish him from Nath. Johnston M. D. of Pomfret in Yorkshire now living, author of certain books, and the collector of Antiquities of one of the Ridings in Yorkshire.  

Nou. 18. Joh. Humphrey of Pemb. Coll.  
Dec. 4. Thom. Pierce of Magd. Coll.  
Jan. 18. Joh. Chetwind of Exet. Coll.   
The first and the last of these three are living, and they having published several books, are hereafter to be remembered.  
Feb. 18. Tho. Vaughan, alias Eugenius Philalethes of Jes. Coll.  
Mar. 3. Joh. Pendarves of Exet. Coll.  
24. Sam. Brunsell of Magd. Hall.— See among the created Doctors, an. 1660.  
Admitted in all, this year, 223.   

Bach. of Law.  

Jun. 26. Tim. Baldwin of Alls. Coll.  
Dec. 4. Humph. Newton of Alls. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctors of the Civil Law, an. 1652. The other I have mentioned among the Writers in Joh. Newton, an. 1678. p. 472.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 13. George Sikes of S. Joh. Coll.— He took the degree of Bach. of Arts 9 Ap. 1638, but then omitted by me to be put down under that year, because I did not know that he was a Writer. See more of him among the created Bach. of Diu. an. 1649.  
20. Joh. Biddle of Magd. Hall.  

22 Rob. Mead of Ch. Ch.  
22 Joh. Towers of Ch. Ch.   
Jun. 5. Hen. Birkhead of Alls. C.  
Jul. 1. Joh. Osborne of New Inn.  
7. Will. Hill of Mert. Coll.  
8. Hen. Greisley of Ch. Ch.  
Dec. 4. Tho. Greenfield of Pemb. Coll.— This is the same Thomas Greenfield, who, as I suppose, was afterwards Preacher to the honourable Society of Linc. Inn at Lond, and author of A Fast-sermon at S. Marg. Westm, 12. Jun. 1661., on Isa. 58.5.6.7. Lond. 1661. qu. and of other things, as I conceive; which is all I know of him, only that he was Son of Joseph Greenf. Minister of one of the Combs in Somers.  

Dec. 4. George Rogers of Linc. Coll.  
16. Anthony Palmer of Ball. Coll.   
Adm. 122.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jul. 10. Nath. Heighmore of Trin. Coll.  
Two only, besides him, were admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 15. Thom. Wood of Ch. Ch.— See among the Doctors of Div this year.  

Oct. 22. Tho. Greaves of C. C. Coll.  
Nou. ... George Kendal of Ex. Coll.   
Franc. Cheynell of Mert. Coll. was a Candidate for the said Degree in the month of December, but denied by the Regent's for two reasons; one of which was, that he had preached against his Majesty's Declaration.  
Adm. 5.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 26. Will. Basset of Alls. Coll.  
Jul. 6. Hen. Janson of Alls. Coll.   
The first of these two died at or near Miskin in Glamorganshire, in the beginning of 1677.  
Dec. 4. Joh. Nurse of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards a Captain of a Foot company in the service of his Maj. against the Rebels at Edghill fight, where he was killed about the 23 of Octob. 1642.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 13. Tho. Nurse of Linc. Coll.— He was an eminent Physician of his time, and was of great practice in the City of Westminster, especially after his Majesty's restauration. He died on 
(a) Hen. Krepe in his Monum. Westmonast. p. 361.  the nineteenth day of June 1668, aged 69 years, and was buried in one of the Cloisters belonging to the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. at Westminster.  

Jul. 8. Edw Greaves of Alls. Coll.  
Jul. 8. Joh. Sambach of Gloc. Hall.   

10. Edw. Lenton of Magd. Hall.  
10. Franc. Goddard of Exet. Coll.    

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 8. John Gauden of Wadh. Coll.— He was afterwards successively B. of Exet. and Worc.  
Mar. 13. Tho. Wood of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards B. of Lichf. and Cou. and being now living, he is hereafter to be remembered among the Bishops.   

Incorporations.  
April 2. Henry Stanley Doctor of Physic of Milan.— He was the Son of Henry Stanley, and took that degree in the said University, 1637.  
Ap. 3. Edw. Dynham Doct. of Phys. of Mountp●lier— He was a Londoner by birth and took that degree in the said Univ, on the 19 of March 1639.  

Feb .... Miles Martin B. A. of Dublin.  
Mar. 3. Tho. Lock B. A. of Dublin.   
The last was lately Scholar of Trin. Coll. there: And whether either of them were afterwards men of note, I know not.  
This year Rich, Crashaw of Cambridge was incorporated, not that it appears so in the public register, but in the private observations of a certain Master of Arts that was this year living in the University; but in what degree he was incorporated those observations mention not. This person who was the Son of an eminent Divine named Will. Crashaw, was educated in Grammar learning in Sutton● Hospital called the Charter-house near to London, and in Academical, partly in Pemb. Hall of which he was Scholar, and afterwards in Peter House of which he was Fellow; where, as in the former House, his admirable faculty in Latin and English Poetry was well known. Afterwards he was Master of Arts, in which degree, 'tis probable, he was incorporated: But being soon after thrown out of his Fellowship, as many others of the said University of Cambridge were, for denying the Covenant in the time of the rebellion, he was for a time put to his shifts. At length upon an infallible foresight that the Church of England would be quite ruined by the unlimited fury of the Presbyterians, he changed his religion and went beyond the Seas, and took up his abode for a time in the great City of Paris: But being a mere Scholar and very shiftless, Mr. Abr. Cowley the Poet, did, upon intimation of his being there, find him out in a sorry condition, an. 1646 or thereabouts. Whereupon exhibiting to him, as much as laid in his power, for the present, did afterwards obtain for him Letters of commendation from Henrietta Maria Queen of England, then in those parts, and some relief. Afterwards he journied into Italy, and by virtue of those Letters he became 
(b) So 'tis said among the names of the English Popish Converts set before Dr. Ben. Carrier's M●ssive to his Majesty of Gr Britain K. Jam. 1. etc. printed 1640▪ oct.  Secretary to a Cardinal in Rome, and at length one of the Canons or Chaplains of the rich Church of our Lady at Loretto some miles distant thence, where he died and was buried about 1650. Before he left England he wrote certain Poems, which were intit. Steps to the Temple, because in the Temple of God, under his wing, he led his life, in S. Mary's Church near to Peter House before mentioned. There, as 'tis 
(c) In the preface to Steps to the Temple, Lond. 164●. oct. second edit.  said, he lodged under Tertullia's roof of Angels. There he made his nest more gladly than David's swallow near the House of God, where like a primitive Saint he offered more prayers in the night, than others usually offer in the day. There he penned the said Poems called Steps to the Temple for happy Souls to climb Heaven by. To the said Steps are joined other Poems intit. The delights of the Muses, wherein are several Latin Poems; which though of a more humane mixture, yet they are sweet, as they are innocent. He hath also written Carmen Deo nostro, being Hymns and other sacred Poems, addressed to the Countess of Denbigh. He was excellent in five Languages besides the Mother Tongue, viz. in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian and Spanish; the two last whereof tho he had little use, yet he had the knowledge of them, etc.   

Creations.  
Nou. 18. James Casaubon of Exeter Coll. was actually created Master of Arts, which is all I know of him, only that he studied for some time in that House for the sake of the Rector Dr. Prideaux, merely to advance himself in the knowledge of Divinity.  
This year was a Student and Sojournour in the University for the sake of the Bodleian Library one Fabian Philipps of the Middle Temple Barrister, who some years before, in times of vacation, had also studied there, under the title of Juris studiosus.— This person who was eminent in his time, considering that his parts were never advanced, when young, by Academical education, was born at Prestbury in Glocestershire on the Eve of S. Michael an. 1601. His Father was Andrew Philipps of an ancient family in Herefordshire, born to a good estate in Lempster and near it, and his Mother was a Bagehott of a good family also and heir to one of her Brothers. When he was very young he spent some time in one of the Inns of Chancery, and thence translated himself to the Middle Temple, where, by his assiduity and continual lucubration, accompanied with a happy memory, he became a Proficient in some sorts of learning, and at length a great lover and adorer and well versed in some parts, of, and in, ven. antiquity. He was always a zealous Assertor of the King's prerogative, and so passionate a lover of K. Ch. 1. that two days before he was beheaded he wrote a Protestation against his intended murder, which he printed and caused to be put on posts and in all common places. He was afterwards, if not before, Philizer for London, Middlesex, Cambridgshire and Huntingdonshire, and did spend much money in searching and writing for the asserting of the King's prerogative, yet got nothing by it, only the employment of one of the Commissioners appointed for the regulation of the Law, worth 200 l. per an, which lasted only for two years. Among many things that this worthy person hath written are these (1) Considerations against the dissolving and taking away the court of Chancery and the Courts of Justice at Westminster, etc. Lond. 1653, Written when all the Courts of Justice in Westm. hall were voted down by the Little, called by some, Barebones, Parliament; for which he had the thanks of Lenthall the Speaker, and Keepers of the Liberties of England. (2) Tenenda non tollenda; or the necessity of preserving tenors in capite by Knight's service, etc. Lond. 1660. (3) Restauranda. or the necessity of public repairs, by settling of a constant and royal yearly revenue for the King, etc. Lond. 1662. qu. (4) The Antiquity, legality, reason, duty and necessity of praeemption and pourveyances for the King; or compositions for his conveyance, etc. Lond. 1663. (5) The antiquity and legality of Fines upon original writs in Chancery, etc. Ibid. 1663. (6) The mistaken recompense by the excise for the pourveyance and Tenors, etc. Ibid. 1664. (7) A perspective glass: or some reasons against the registering Reformation, etc. Ibid. 1669. (8) A reforming Registry: or a representation of the very many mischiefs which will unavoidably happen by the needless, chargeable and destructive way of Registries, proposed to be erected in every County of Engl. and Wales, for the recording of all deeds, evidences, mortgages, etc. Ibid. 1671. qu. etc. (9) Ligeantia lugens: or Loyalty bewailing the want of pourveyance and tenors. (10) Some reasons for the continuance of the process of arrest. Ib. 1671. qu. (11) Regale necessarium: or the legality, reason and necessity of the rights and privileges justly claimed by the King's Servants, etc. Ib. 1671. qu. (12) The ancient, legal, fundamental and necessary rights of Courts of Justice, in their writs of Capias, arrests and process of outlawry, and the illegality, many mischiefs and inconveniences which may arrive to the People of England, by the proposals tendered to his Majesty and high Court of Parl. for the abolishing of that old and better way and method of Justice, and the establishing of a new by peremptory summons and citations in actions of debt. Lond. 1676. 77. (13) Reasons against the taking away the process of arrest, which would be a loss to the King's revenue, etc. Ibid. 1675. (14) Necessary defence of the Presidentship and Council in the principality and marches of Wales, in the necessary defence of England and Wales protecting each other. (15) Ursa Major & Minor. Showing that there is no such fear, as is factiously pretended of popery and arbitrary power. Lond. 1681. (16) Plea for the pardoning part of the Sovereignty of the Kings of England. Ibid. 1682 (17) Investigatio Jurium antiquorum & rationalium regni sive Monarchiae Angliae, etc. The established government of England, vindicated from popular and Reipublican principles and mistakes, with a respect to the Laws of God, Man, Nature and Nations. Lond. 1686. 87. fol. (18) Legale necessarium. Or a true and faithful account of the antiquity and legality of his Majesties and our Kings and Princes rights of and unto fines and amerciaments imposed and forfeited in his Courts of Justice, etc. He hath also written— Veritas inconcussa: or that K. Ch. 1. was no man of blood but a martyr for his people. Lond. 1660. oct, and other things not yet printed. At length having lived to a great age, he surrendered up his Soul to God on the 17 of Nou. 1690, and was buried near to the body of his Wife, in the south west part of the Church of Twyford near to Acton in Middlesex. Some years before he died he made his own epitaph, which begins thus. Ms Fabiani Philipps Armigeri, Med●● Temp●i socii, qui quosdam perfidos & ingratos nimium amicos amando, seipsum non uti potuit amavit, curis librisque consenuit, etc. But whether it is put over his grave I know not.    



An. Dom. 1642.  
An. 18. Car. 1.    
Chanc. Philip Earl of Pembroke, etc. sometimes a Nobleman of New Coll.  
Vicechanc. etc. The year of Vicechancellourship of Dr. Prideaux Bishop of Worcester being ended, and he about the feast of S. John Bapt. not only quitting all right therein, without laying down the Ensigns of his office as the manner is, but rather leaving the University abruptly, as the advantage of time offered; the office for some time laid void, and nothing of it was done but by Deputies. The which, for what reason it so happened, is perhaps at this time too great a trouble for me to tell. For now the University the mother of togated peace being affrighted with the unwonted rumours of a civil war, the Muses deserted, and the adorers of them every where dispersed, knew not (as if put between the anvil and the hammer) which way to turn itself, or seek rest. The administration therefore of its government, was successively according to the manner of our Predecessors committed to Deputies, of whom the first was Dr. Rob. Pinks Warden of New Coll; who for his Loyalty in raising and settling the University Militia for the defence of it from the common incursions of the enemy, and for endeavouring to make the Citizens provide also men and arms for the defence of their City, they being then backward in so doing, he was afterwards treacherously seized on at Aylesbury, carried to Westminster and committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse there, about the 12 of Sept. After him Dr. Tolson Provost of Oriel succeeded as Provicechancellour, continuing in the said office (none, as I think, intervening) till the 7 of Feb. following; a little before which time he being nominated by the Chancellors Letters sent to the University, was, on the same day in a Convocation then held, sworn and admitted. Vicechancellor by the consent of the Doctors and Masters then present.  

Proct.  
Edw. Young of New Coll. Ap. 20.  
Tristiam Sugge of Wadham Coll. Ap. 20.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 20. Sam. Smith of S. John Coll.— He is now, or at least was lately Chaplain or Ordinary to the Prison called Newgate in London, and hath certain things extant.  
June 14. George Griffith of Magd. Hall.— This person who was a Mountgomeryshire man born, I take to be the same, who was afterwards a notorious Independent, a frequent preacher before Oliver and the Parliaments in his time, a publisher of certain Sermons, preacher at the Charterhouse near London, and the same who was silenced after his Majesty's restauration for his high actings in the interval, and I think for Nonconformity.  
July 8. Will. Richardson of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters of Arts, an. 1645.  
Oct. 25. Will. Lloyd lately of Oriel, now of Jes. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph, and is now living.  

Nou. 29. Arthur Bury of Exet. Coll.  
Nou. 29. Tho. Long. of Exet. Coll.   
These two, who have published several books, especially the last, are hereafter to be numbered among the Writers.  

Dec. 13. Bartholm. Ashwood of Exet. Coll.  
Mar. 4. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv. Coll.   
The first of these last two, hath published several things, and is now, or at least lately, living a Nonconformist Divine.  
Adm. 135. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Two only were admitted this year, viz. Barnaby Love of New Coll. June 9 and Donney Hodges of Ex. Coll. July 4. The others were by creation, some of which I shall mention anon.   

Mast. of Arts.  
March 26. Christoph. Love of New Inn.  
Apr. 23. Rich. Parr of Exet. Coll.  
30. John Nelme of Magd. Hall— He hath a Sermon extant on Psal. 118. ver. 21. to 26— printed 1660. qu. and perhaps others. Quaere.  
May 14. John Dale of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards known by the name of Analysis Dale. See among the Writers under the year 1684.  
June 18. Tho. Willis of Ch. Ch.  
28. Walt. Blandford of Wadh. Coll.  
Jul. 6. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll.— This person who was the son of Isaac Maudit of the City of Exeter, was afterwards a Chaplain in the Army raised by the Parl. against the King, one of the Proctors of the University, and published (1) The Christian Soldiers great Engine, Sermon before the Lord General (Fairfax) at S. Mary's in Oxon, 20 May 1649. qu. (2) A letter to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monk, containing the instrumental causes of the ruin of Government and Commonwealths, etc. This was printed at Lond. in Feb. 1659. in one sh. in qu. What other things he hath published I know not: sure I am, that after the restauration of K. Changed 2. he left his Benefice in Devonsh. to avoid Conformity, and died soon after.  
Adm. 112.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was admitted this year only created. See among the Creations.  

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. ... John Hillersden of C. C Coll.— He was the only person that was admitted this year; the others were created. In 1671 he became Archdeacon of Buckingham on the death of Dr. Giles thorn, and dying, Joh. Gery LL. D. was installed in his place 29 Nou. 16●4.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or licenced to proceed this year, only created; the names of which you shall have under the title of Creations.  

Doct. of Phys.  

Jun. 28. Hugh Barker of New Coll.  
Jul. 7. Rog. Puliston of Magd. Coll.   
8. Thom. Duke of S. Mary's Hall.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted or licenced to proceed this year, only created; the names of which you may see under the title of Creations.  

Incorporations.  
May 20. Thom. Gifford Doct. of Phys. of the Uniu. of Leyden in Holland.— He had that degree conferred upon him in the said Uniu. in the month of May 1636.  
Oct. 10. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.— He had that degree conferred upon him there, in the month of Apr. 1638. This person, or one of both his names, was incorporated in 1660.  

Jul. 8. Will Clegge M. A. of Dublin  
Jul. 8. Thom. Turner M. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr.   
Nou. 1. Charles Prince of Wales Mast. of Arts of Cambridge— He was afterwards King of England etc. by the name of K. Ch. 2. His Maj. Ch. 1. had then, after his return from Edghill fight, taken up his quarters in Oxon, and on the same day was a great Creation in all faculties, as I shall tell you by and by.  
Dec. 7. Will. Harvey sometimes of Cays Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Doctor of Phys. of the Uniu. of Milan, and at his return into England, of Cambridge, was then incorporated Doctor of the said faculty in this University.— This person who was son of Tho. Harvey Gent. by Joan Halke his wife, was born at Folksten in Kent on the second day of Apr. 1578, sent to a Grammar school in Canterbury at 10 years of age, and at 14 to Gonvil and Caies Coll. in Cambr. At 19 years of age he traveled into France and Italy, and at 23 he had for his Instructors in Medicine at Milan Eustac. Radius, Joh. Tho. Minadous and H. Faber ab Aquapend. At 24 he became Doct. of Phys. and Chirurgery, and returning into England soon after, he practised Phys. in London and married. At 25, or thereabouts, he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at London, and at 37, Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery: About which time (which was in the year of our Lord 1615) he discovered the wonderful secret of the Bloods circular motion, by which the anatomical part of Physic seemed then to be rising towards the Zenith of Perfection. At 54 years of age he was made Physician to K. Ch. 1, (having, as 'tis said by some, been Physician to K. Jam. 1.) and adhering to him in the beginning of the troubles, he attended him at Edghill battle. Thence going with him to Oxon, was there incorporated, as before 'tis told you. In 1645 he was elected Warden of Merton Coll. by virtue of the King's letters sent to the Society of that house for that purpose, but in the year following, when Oxford Garrison was surrendered for the use of the Parliament, he left that office and retired to London. In 1654. he was chosen Precedent of the Coll. of Physicians, but refused to accept of that honourable place: And after he had lived to see his doctrine (the circulation of the blood) with much ado established, (being the only man as one 
(a) Tho. H●bbes in praefat. ad Element. Philos. sect. 1. de corpo●e.  saith that did so) he surrendered up his soul to him that gave it, on the 30 of June an. 1657. Soon after his body being lapped up in lead, it was conveyed to Hempsted in Essex, and deposited in a Vault under part of the Church there. Several monuments of his learning, which have been, and are received into the hands of all curious men, as well abroad as at home, are extant, as the Oxford or Bodletan Catalogue will partly tell you; (besides his New Principles of Philosophy, containing Philosophy in general, Metaphysics, etc.) but more in MS. he hath left behind him; the titles of which you may see in the Epist. dedicat. before An historical account of the Colleges (Coll. of Phys.) Proceedings against Empirics, etc. Lond. 1684. qu. Written by Charles Goodall Doctor of Phys. 

Feb. 1. Joh. Bathurst M. A. of Cambr.  
Feb. 1. Tho. Browning M. A. of Cambr.   The first, who was of Pembr. Hall, was afterwards Doctor of Phys. a practitioner in London, and a Burgess for Richmond in Yorksh. to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver, an. 1656, and for that called by Richard, 1658.  
Feb. 11. Morgan Godwin Doct. of the Civ. Law of the University of Dublin.— Which degree was conferred upon him there 5 Octob. 1637. He was originally of Ch. Ch, afterwards of Pemb. Coll, and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach of the Civil Law in this University an. 1627., being about that time Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocese, conferred upon him by his father Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford, whose annal rerum Anglicarum, etc. he translated into English, as I have told you in the first vol. p. 497.498. What other things he hath translated, or what written, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was a Native of the Isle of Anglesie.  
Feb. 21. Rob. Creygton D. D. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr.— He was incorporated M. of A. an. 1628. as in the Fasti of that year, in the first vol. p. 861. I have told you. He wrote the Preface to Dr. Rich. watson's book called Epistolaris Diatribe, etc. dated at Brussels 25 May 1658; which book was printed at Lond. 1661. in tw.  
Francis Walsal D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day.— This person who was forced away from his benefices by the severity of the Presbyterians, did now attend the King in Oxon, and did afterwards participate of afflictions with other Royalists. In 1660, after his Majesty's return, I find him Rector of Sandey in Bedfordshire, Prebendary of Westminster, and author of (1) The bowing of the heart of Subjects to their Sovereign, Sermon preached 24 May 1660, being a day of Thanksgiving for the raising up his Excellency the L. Gen. Monk etc. to deliver this Nation from thraldom and slavery, on 2 Sam. 19.14. Lond. 1660. qu. (2) Cordifragium: or the sacrifice of a broken heart, Serm. at S. Paul's in Lond. 25 Nou. 1660, on Psal. 51.17. Lond. 1661. qu. and of other things.   

CREATIONS.  
After the battle at Edghill in Warwickshire between his Majesty's Forces and those belonging to the Parliament, the King retired to Oxon, and settling for a time in Ch. Ch. it was his pleasure that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had either done him service in the said battle, or had retired to him at Oxon for shelter to avoid the barbarities of the Presbyterians then very frequent throughout the Nation. Some called this Creation the Caroline Creation.   

Bach. of Arts.  
From the first of Nou. to the 16 of Jan. were about 35 young Students actually created Bachelaurs of Arts, in the head of whom was  
Tho. Wood or à Wood of Ch. Ch. Nou. 1.— This person, when he heard that the Forces belonging to the King and Parliament were drawing up to fight each other at Edghill, threw off his gown, ran thither, did his Majesty good Service, returned on horseback well accoutred, and afterwards was made an Officer. See more among the Creations in 1647. The next that follow are these,  
Matthew Skinner of Trin. Coll. son of Dr. Rob. Skinner Bishop of Oxon.— He was afterwards Doctor of Phys.  
Will. Slater.  
Hen. Dudley, etc.  
Dec. 20. Conway Whitterne of Pemb. Coll.— He was afterwards Captain of a Foot Company in his Maj. Service.  
Jan. 16. Hen. Berkley of Or. Coll, a younger son of Sir Hen. Berkley of Yarlington in Somersetshire Knight.  
Will. Norrys of Pemb. Coll. was created about that time.— He was afterwards a Corner in the Lord Hoptous Army, etc.   

Bach. of Law.  
From the 1 of Nou. to the 16 of January, were actually created 15 Bachelaurs, at least, of the Civil Law, of whom John Sutton, George Walker, Will. Birkenhead and Rich. Blome son of Joh. Blome of Brecknockshire Gent. were of the number. Which last I here set down, not that he was a man of note, but only to distinguish him from one of both his names, who was originally a Ruler of Paper, and now a Scribbler of books. See in the first vol. p. 389.390.  
I find also to be created Bach. of the Civ. Law, an Inhabitant of S. Aldates' Parish in Oxon called John Holloway Official to the Archdeacon and Registrary, of Berkshire: which▪ John was father to Rich. Halloway sometimes Fellow of New Coll, and afterwards a Counsellor of the Inner Temple, and a person for several years well reputed in these parts for his upright dealing in his profession. To which I must add, that in 1677 he was by writ called to be Sergeant at Law, and in 1683 he was knighted and made one of the Justices of the King's Bench in the place of Just. Thom. Raymond. In th● beginning of July 1688 he and Sir Joh. powel another Just. of the same Bench, did receive their Quietus from K. Jam. 2, because they had a little before given in their minds and opinions to the Jury in the Court of the King's Bench at Westm, at which time they were two of the four Judges in the Proceedings and Trial in the case of William Archb. of Cant, and six Bishops, that the Petition of the said Archb. and Bishops to his Maj, wherein they showed the great averseness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for liberty of Conscience, etc. was not libellous or seditious as Sir Rob. Wright L. Ch. Justice and Just. Rich. Alleb●ne the other two Judges did. Which act of Justice Holloway being much applauded by the true sons of the Church of England, yet for other matters he was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of Indemnity or Pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Marry, dated 23 May 1690.   

Mast. of Arts.  
From the first day of Nou. to the 21 of Feb, were more than an hundred and forty Masters actually created, of which number were these following.  
Nou. 1. James Duke of York.— He was afterwards King of England by the name of K. James the 2.  
Dom. Henr. Howard.  
Tho. Bosvile or Boswell a Kentish man (of Aynsford I think) and a Colonel in the King's Army.— One Tho. Boswell who had been knighted by his Maj. at Durham in the beginning of May 1642, was buried in S▪ mary's Church in Oxford 25 Oct. 1643. Whether he was the same who was created Master of Arts, or the same Sir Tho. Boswell who had a daughter named Isabel the wife of Tho. Gifford Doctor of Physic before mentioned, I cannot justly tell.  
George Manwaring an Officer in the King's Army.  
Will. Dugdale one of the Officers of Arms called Rougecroix, now (1642) lodging in Hart Hall.— This noted person who was son of John Dugdale, son of James Dugdale of Clether●w in Lancashire Gent, was born at Shustock in the County of Warwick, on the 12 of Sept. 1605 (3 Jac. 1.) at which time was a swarm of Bees in his father's garden, then esteemed by some a happy presage on the behalf of the Babe. This accident being many years after related by Mr. Will. Dugdale to the famous Figureflinger Will. Lily, he thereupon very readily told him that that swarm of bees did foretell that the Infant should in time prove a prodigy of industry, etc. But the Reader is to know, that the said Lily told him the said Will. Dugdale so, after most of his industry was made public. His first education in Grammar learning was under one Thom. Sibley Curate at Nether Whitacre near to Shustock before mentioned, with whom continuing till he came to ten years of age or more, was afterwards sent to the Free-school at Coventry then presided by one James Cranford, father of James Cranford, mentioned among the Writers, pag. 133. After he had continued in the said School till almost he was 15 years of age, he was taken home by his father, from whom he received instructions in reading that noted Law-book called Littleton's Tenors, and some others of that profession, besides History: In all which he soon after, by his indefatigable industry, became well versed. In the latter end of 1622, (his father being then grown infirm) he took to him a wife, and in 1625 (1 Car. 1.) his said father being then dead, he purchased the Manor of Blythe in the Parish of ●hustock: At which place settling soon after, he composed most of his Books, particularly that of The Antiquities of Warwickshere illustrated. His natural inclination tending then chiefly to the study of Antiquities and History, he was not a little encouraged thereto by one Sam. Roper a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn, much esteemed for his knowledge and abilities in those studies: with whom (by reason he was Cousin-german to Rich. Seawell who had married his sister) he had first acquaintance about the year 1618., and with whom he afterwards many times conversed. After Mr. Dugdale was settled at Blythe commonly called Blythe Hall, because situated on the River Blythe, he read The Description of Leycestershire, written and published by Will. Burton of Lindley in that County Esquire, (about 8 miles distant from Blythe Hall: with which being much taken, and thereby encouraged to do something of that nature for Warwickshire, he was introduced into his acquaintance by one Mr. Fisher Dilke of Shustock, a near Kinsman of the said Burton, to the end that he might receive instructions for the management and promotion of his studies. Mr. Burton being very much taken with the forwardness of the young man in his most early attempts, he was resolved to encourage him in his labours to the utmost of his power. Whereupon he brought him into the acquaintance of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the Parish of Tamworth in the said County of Warwick Knight; who being much affected with the studies of Heraldry and Antiquities, and having made very choice and considerable Collections out of divers ancient Writings relating to the said County, and the families thereof, he did not only communicate to him what he had got together, but brought him acquainted with most of the Gentlemen of note in the County. These Gentlemen having perused the labours of Mr. Burton before mentioned, were thereupon desirous thro' Sir Sim. Archer's incitation, to preserve the honour of their Families by such a work, as the said Mr. Burton had done for Leycestershire; and for that purpose they would (as afterwards they did) communicate to him the sight of their ancient Deeds and Evidences. Among the said Gentlemen, he found none more knowing in, and forward to encourage such a work, than Sir Sim. Clerk of Brome Court in the Parish of Salford, who with all freedom imparted to him not only divers ancient Writings of consequence, but also the Leiger-book of the Priory of Kenilworth, from which he found copious matter, as by his frequent quotation of it in The Antiquities of Warwicksh. it appears. The acquaintance of the said three persons, Burton, Clarke, and Archer, he endeavoured to continue with all observance imaginable, especially with the last, which began about 1630; but so it fell out that our Author Dugdale could not be more forward to continue, than Sir S. Archer was to promote, it, and withal to encourage him in his great designs; which did evidently afterwards appear, as the sequel will tell you. In Easter term 1638 Sir Simon with his Lady intended to go to London, and thereupon importuned Mr. Dugdale to accompany them in that Journey, assuring him that it would be worth his labour if he could spare so much time from his beloved study. This being easily assented to, they had several discourses in their way for the promotion of his designs; and when they were at their journeys ●nd▪ the first matter that Sir Simon did, he brought our Author Dugdale into the acquaintance of the learned Sir Hen. Spelman, a person famous for his knowledge in Antiquities, but then near 80 years of age, This worthy Knight received him with great humanity, and after some discourse and ●ight of several of his Collections relating to The Antiquities of Warwickshire, he found that he was a great Proficient, and had made a considerable progress in those studies; and then told him, that seeing he was a person so much inclined to that learning, he thought him very fit to serve the King in the Office of Arms, and that the most noble Thomas Earl of Arundel, than Earl Marshal of England, having, by virtue of that great office, the nomination of all such as were admitted into that Society, would esteem it a good service to the public, to prefer such thereunto, as were thus naturally qualified and found sedulous in those studies; offering to recommend Mr. Dugdale to his Lordship for that purpose. Soon after Sir Henry having acquainted his Lordship of him and his fitness for the office, he was introduced into the presence of that honourable person by Sir George Gres●eley of Drakelow in Derbyshire Baronet, who was then in London, and well known to his Lordship. During Mr. Dugdale's stay in London, he repaired sometimes to the Lodging of Sir Hen. Spelman, who among several discourses concerning their faculty, he told him that one Roger Dodsworth a Gent. of Yorkshire had taken indefatigable pains in searching of Records and other ancient Memorials relating to the Antiquities of that County, but especially touching the foundations of Monasteries there, and in the northern parts of the Realm: which work he did not a little commend to the pains and care of some industrious and diligent searchers into hidden Antiquity; affirming, that out of his great affection thereto, in his younger years, he had got together the Transcripts of the foundation Charters of divers Monasteries in Norfolk and Suffolk, (himself being a Norfolk, man) much importuning Mr. Dugdale to join with Dodsworth in that most commendable work, which, by reason of his youth and forwardness to prosecute those studies, might in time be brought to some perfection, as Mr. Dugdale hath informed me by his Letters, adding withal, that he the said Mr. Dugd. did readily incline, and within few days following casually meeting with Mr. Dodsworth in the Lodgings of Mr. Sam. Roper at Linc. Inn, and acquainting each other what they were then in hand with, as to their farther progress in those studies, they readily engaged themselves to prosecute what Transcripts they could from any Leaguer books, public Records, original Charters, or other Manuscripts of note in order thereto; but still with this reservation, that Mr. Dugdale should not neglect his Collections touching The Antiq. of Warwickshire; wherein he had by that time made a considerable progress. During his stay in London, he became acquainted with one Rich. Gascoign● a Yorkshire Gentleman, who also stood much affected to those studies, especially as to matter of Pedigree, wherein he had taken some pains for divers northern Families, especially for that noble and ancient Family of Wentworth: And having great interest with Sir Christop. Hatton of Kirby in the County of Northampton Knight of the Bath, (afterwards created Lord Hatton) a person highly affected to Antiquities, and who had not spared for any charge in obtaining sundry choice Collections from public Records, Leaguer books, and ancient Charters and divers old MSS, he brought him to that most worthy person, (than lodging in an Apothecary's hous● without Temple-bar) by whom he was welcomed with all expressions of kindness, and readiness in furthering his studies. In order thereunto he soon after brought him acquainted with his near Kinsman Sir Tho. Fanshaw at that time the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer: By reason of which great Office he had the custody of divers Leiger-books and other choice Manuscripts, especially that notable Record called the Red book, as also Testa de Nevil, Kerby's Quest, Nomina Villarum and others: to all which, by his favour, he had free access. Nor was he less careful to obtain the like access for him to the Records in the Tower of London, by his interest with old Mr. Collet, the chief Clerk at that time there under Sir John Burroughs; whom he amply rewarded with sundry kind gratuities for his friendliness in assisting Mr. Dugdale with what he thought proper for his purpose, from those rarities there reposed. He also about that time was introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Sir Tho. Cotton Baronet, whereby he had free access to that incomparable Library in his house near Westminster Hall, began and set up by his father that noted Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton Baronet, where finding rare MSS. and original Charters in that incomparable Treasury, made such Collections thence as were of singular use in several Volumes, which have since been made public by the press. He was likewise introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Mr. Scipio Squire then one of the Vicechamberlains of the Exchequer, thro' whose kindness and favour, he had access to that venerable Record called Domesday-book, as also to the Fines, Plea-Rolls, and sundry other Records remaining in the Treasury there. Nor was Sir Christ. Hatton backward in giving him all possible encouragement in those his studies: For having seconded Sir H. Spelman in recommending him to the Earl of Arundel, that Earl sent for him in Septemb. following (an. 1638) and obtained the Kings Warrant to create him a Pursuivant at Arms extraordinary, by the title of Blanch Lion, and thereupon so created him at the King's royal Palace of Richmond in Surrey upon the 24 of that instant Sept. Also upon the removal of Mr. Edw. Walker then Pursuivant called Rogue-Croix to the Office of Chester Herald, his Lordship obtained his Majesty's Letters Pat. for creating him Rogue-Croix Pursuivant in ordinary, bearing date 18 of Mar. 1639. By which means having a Lodging in the Herald's Office, and some benefit by funerals and other ways, with the yearly Salary of 20 l. out of the King's Exchequer for his support, he thenceforth spent the greatest part of his time in London, in order to the augmenting his Collections out of the Records in the Tower and other places in and near the said City, till by the influence of a very forward and predominant Party in the most unhappy Parliam. that began at Westm. 3 Nou. 1640, which aiming at the subversion of Religion established, (which came afterwards to pass) and unjustifiable extirpation of monarchick Government, whereby nothing less could be expected than the profaning of all places of God's public Worship, destruction of monuments in Churches, and defacing whatsoever was beautiful and ornamental therein, the said Mr. Dugd. therefore receiving encouragement from Sir Chr. Hatton before mentioned, than a member of the H. of C. for Higham-Ferres in Northamptonsh, who timely foresaw the near approaching storm, did in the summer time 1641 (taking with him one Will. Sedgwick a skilful Arms-painter) repair first to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London and next to the Abbey Church of Westminster, and there made exact draughts of all the monuments in each of them, copied the Epitaphs according to the very letter; as also of all Arms in the Windows or cut in stone: All which being done with great exactness, Mr. Dugdale road to Peterborough in Northamptonshire, Ely, Norwich, Lincoln, Newark upon Trent, Beverley, Southwell, Kingston upon Hull, York, Selby, Chester, Lichfield, Tanworth, Warwick, and did the like in all those cathedral, collegiate, conventual and divers other parochial Churches, wherein any tombs and monuments were to be found, to the end that the memory of them (in case if that ruin then eminent might come to pass) might be preserved for future and better times. As it was feared, so it soon after fell out, all things thro' the influence of the predominant party in that Parliament looking every day more and more that way, insomuch as in the middle of January following the King himself, his Queen and royal issue, forced by tumults, were constrained to betake themselves for safety to other places, viz. the King, Prince and Duke of York unto the City of York, and the Queen to her own relations in France. His Majesty being therefore necessitated at that time to continue in those northern parts, where many of the Nobility attended him, he did by his Warrant under his royal Signet manual, bearing date 1 June 1642, command the said Mr. Dugdale forthwith to repair thither to him according to the duty of his place. Upon the reception of which he obeyed and continued at York till about the middle of July, at which time he received his Majesties farther command to attend Spencer Earl of Northampton then L. Lieutenant of the County of Warwick, who was endeavouring to secure the chief places of that County and near it, and to disperse the Forces under the Lord Brook, which he had gathered together for the Parliament, by the Trained-Band Soldiers and other loyal persons under him. But they having secured the Castles of Banbury and Warwick, Mr. Dugdale did (by command from his Maj. who was advised at York of their proceedings) in his Coat of Arms, with a Trumpet sounding before him, repair to those Castles, and required them to disband and to deliver up their Arms, requiring also the said L. Brook and his Adherents to disband, etc. Accordingly the Castle of Banbury, with all the Arms and Ammunition therein were delivered up, but the Castle of Warwick being a place of more strength and defended by a greater number of Soldiers, under the command of Sir Edw. Peto of Chesterton in that County Knight, they did contemn the said Summons, etc. Afterwards when the King marched southward from York, and had taken up his quarters for some time at Stonley house about 4 miles distant from Coventry, on the 19 of Aug. 1642 Mr. Dugdale did, by his Majesty's special Warrant dated the next day, summon the said City of Coventry (a little before taken in for the use of the Parliament) with his Coat bearing the King's Arms thereon and a Trumpet sounding before him, to the end that the Defenders deliver up their Arms to his Majesty, and depart peaceably to their respective homes, etc. but they obstinately denying his Summons, he proclaimed them Traitors, and forthwith returned. Afterwards he attended the King at Kineton commonly called Edghill in Warwickshire, where the grand battle between him and his Army and that belonging to the Parliament was fought on the 23 of Oct. 1642. Which battle being finished and the royal party victorious, he attended his Maj. to Oxon, and thence to Reading and Brainford, his Maj. intending for London; but finding the power of the Rebels much recruited by the Inhabitants of that populous City, he did, after some skirmishes had at Brainford (where the royal party took many Prisoners) return to Oxford, fix his chief residence there, and fortified that City with Bulwarks for the better security thereof. So that Mr. Dugdale being bound by his place to attend his Majesty, he settled for a time in Hart Hall, and on the 1 of Nou. 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts, as I have before told. About that time he committed to writing the most memorable passages in the battle at Edghill: and that the relation of all particulars might be the better understood, he went to that place in Feb. following, being accompanied with some Gentlemen of note. At which time taking with him a skilful Surveyor, he road to Banbury (the Castle there being then his Majesty's Garrison) and thence to the field where the battle was fought, which he exactly surveyed, and noted where each Army was drawn up, where the Canons were placed, and the graves where the slain persons were buried; observing also from the relation of the neighbouring Inhabitants the certain number which lay buried in each pit or grave: Which by a just computation did not amount to full one thousand, though the report of the Vulgar made them at least five thousand. Returning thence to Oxford, he continued there by his Majesty's command until the surrender of that Garrison for the use of the Parliament, 24 June 1646, which wanted not 4 months of 4 years, (his Estate in the Country being all that while sequestered) in which time he notwithstanding got a subsistence by attending the Funerals of several noble persons and of others of great quality (some of which were slain in the Wars) according to the duty of his Office. On the 16 of Apr. 1644 he was created Chester Herald upon the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to be Norrey, and soon after he took a journey to Worcester, within which Diocese the southern parts of Warwickshire lie: where, having perusal of the Registers both of the Bishop and Dean and Chapter, he thence extracted several Collections, in order to his historical work of Warwickshire, as he before had done at Lichfield (within which Diocese the rest of the said County lies) as by the quotations in the elaborate work of The Antiq. of Warwicksh. (afterwards made public) it appears. While he continued in Oxon. where he had leisure enough to follow his studies, he applied himself to the search of such Antiquities as were to be found in the famous Bodlelan Library, as also in the Libraries of certain Colleges, and in private hands, as he thought any way conducible to the furtherance of the work designed by Rog. Dodsworth and himself touching the Monastery-foundations before mentioned; as also of whatsoever might relate to matter of History in reference to the Nobility of this Kingdom: in which he found very much for that purpose, whereof he made great use in his Volumes intit. The Baronage of England, since published. After the surrender of Oxford, Mr. Dugdale repaired to London and made his Composition in Goldsmith's Hall for at least 168 l. After which having proceeded very far in collecting materials in the Country for his designed work of Warwickshire, he repaired again to London for the farther perusal of the Records in the Tower and other places, and there perfected his Collection touching the Antiquities of that County, where happening to meet with Mr. Dodsworth, he told him how he had bestowed his time in Oxon and elsewhere, by gaining materials in order to that work of the Monasteries, and Mr. Dodsworth did the like to him: whereby Mr. Dugd. did understand that he had transcribed many Foundation-Charters and other Grants of consequence, relating to the Monasteries of Yorkshire, and some other northern Counties, which he copied for the most part from the Originals remaining in sundry large chests deposited in S. Mary's Tower at York. This Tower, with all such evidences therein, was accidentally blown up in the War time; so that had not Mr. Dodsworth made his Collections thence before that accident fell out, the loss would have been irreparable. Other matters that he collected thence are now in many volumes remaining in the Bodleian Library by the gift of Thomas Lord Fairfax, who also, to his great honour be it spoken, showed himself very generous to all such Soldiers at York that could retrieve any of the said Charters that were so blown up. After Mr. Dugdale's communication with Mr. Dodsworth concerning each others Collections, he waited upon the Lady Eliz. Hatton to Calais in the month of May 1648, there to meet with the Lord Hatton her husband from Paris: which being so done, he went back with that Lord thither; and making stay there about three months, he, thro' the favour of Monster Franc. du Chesne son to the learned Andr. du Chesne deceased, had a view of divers excellent Collections made by the said Andrew, relating to divers Monasteries in France, Normandy, and other parts of that Kingdom. Among which discovering divers things of note touching divers Religious Houses in England formerly called Priories Aliens (which had been Cells to sundry great Abbeys in foreign parts) he took copies of them, of which he made good use in those volumes called Monasticon Anglicanum, afterwards published; and then returned into England, having Letters of safe conduct under the Sign manual and Signet of the then Queen of England Henrietta Maria, bearing date at S. Germane in Lay, upon the third of Aug. This so fair and industrious Collection being got together by Mr. Dodsworth, as hath been observed, as also that made by Mr. Dugdale gathered out of divers Leiger-books and other authentic MSS. at Oxon, did encourage them to proceed in perfecting the work. Whereupon they resolved to go to the Records in the Tower of London, to which having free admission, they made a perfect and thorough search, and took copies of all that they deemed most material for their work. Which being done, they retired to the Cottonian Library, making the like search there, and left nothing omitted from the multitudes of Leiger-books there, that might serve them in that most elaborate work. Their business being there finished, Mr. Dugdale discovered many bundles of papers of State, which were original Letters and other choice memorial obtained by Sir Rob. Cotton from sundry hands, some whereof were the Transactions between Cardinal Wolsey, Thom. Cromwell (afterwards Earl of Essex) Secretary Will. Paget, Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh, Secretary Francis Walsingham and others, relating as well to foreign, as domestic, affairs: As also the Letters and Papers of Mary Qu. of Scots, Thomas Duke of Norfolk, etc. All which Mr. Dugdale sorted methodically, both as to time and otherwise, and caused them to be bound up with clasps, and Sir Tho. Cotton's Arms impressed on each side of every book, with the Contents in the beginning, what each book contained: All which amounted to 80 volumes, and were made useful to all lovers of historical learning. The Collections of the two volumes of the Monastery Foundations, intit. Monast. Anglic. being thus completed, and the publishing of them by the Press, desired, an offer was made to several Booksellers of the Copies, upon such different terms as might have defrayed the charge of those Transcripts so made from Records and otherwise, as hath been observed. But the Booksellers not willing to adventure on them, Mr. Dodsworth and Mr. Dugdale joined together, and hired several sums of money to defray the cost and expense of them. The care of which work as to the Printing, lay totally on Mr. Dugdale, because Mr. Dodsworth died in Lancashire about the midst of August, an. 1654., before the tenth part of the first vol. came off from the Press. The first vol. being finished an. 1655, a stop was made for some years of bringing the second to the Press, until the greatest part of the impression was sold, whereby money might be had to go on therewith. Mr. Dugdale therefore having with no small pains and charge finished his Collections in order to his designed historical work of Warwicksh. Antiquities, and at length perfected the frame thereof, was at the whole charge of Printing, and Paper for publishing the same; and continued in London to correct the Press himself, by reason that the ordinary Correctors were not skilled at all in the Pedigrees. Which book was finished and exposed to sale an. 1656. In the time of his continuance in London, he casually met with one Mr. Reading a Northamptonshire Gent, who had been Clerk of the Nisi prius for the midland-Circuit, and with whom he had been formerly acquainted. This Mr. Reading knowing Mr. Dugdale to be an indefatigable searcher into Records, he friendly invited him to his house at Scriveners' Hall (near Silverstreet) promising to show him divers old MSS, original Charters, and other ancient Writings. So that he going thither accordingly, he brought forth five ancient MSS. in folio, which were Chartularies of the Lordships and Lands first given to the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London. All which he freely lent, to carry with him to his house in Warwickshire till Mich. term ensuing, and then upon the restoration of them, he should have use of as many more. But in the said Term when he went to London to restore them, (whence he had extracted what he thought fit, as to any historical use) he found that Mr. Reading was dead, and had constituted one Mr. Williams a Barrister of the Temple his Executor. Whereupon Mr. Dugd. addressing himself to that person to desire a sight of the rest▪ he brought him to Scriveners' Hall and there showed him many other Manuscript-books, original Charters, old Rolls, and other very ancient Writings in bags and hampers, relating to the said Cathedral of S. Paul. All which he freely lent to Mr. Dugdale (amounting to no less than ten Porter's burdens) to be carried to his lodgings. Being thus in his private custody, he first bestowed pains to sort them into order, and afterwards made extracts from them of what he found historical in reference to that Cath. Ch. And to the end that the memory of those many ancient monuments therein, which were afterwards utterly destroyed (the Church also being made a Horse-garrison by the Usurpers) might be continued to posterity, Mr. Dugdale did by the help and favour of sundry worthy persons, who voluntarily offered to be at the charge of the plates, in which the Representations were cut in brass, as also the prospects of that whole Fabric (inside and outside) accomplish the same. Further also having succinctly framed an historical narration of the first foundation and endowment of the said Church, as also of all the Chantries, and what else was most memorable therein, or relating thereto, made it public by the Press, an. 1658.  
But as the longest day hath its evening, so did it at last please the omnipotent to put a period to the tyrannous actions of the said Usurpers by the most miraculous Restauration of King Ch. 2. an. 1660, which was about ●● years' after the most execrable murder of his royal Father. At which time to prevent the importunity of others, who aimed at the Office of Norroy King of Arms, void by the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to the Office of Garter (whom I shall mention by and by) Sir Edw. Hyde Kt, than Lord Chancellor, and afterwards Earl of Clarendon, having seen the Antiquities of Warwickshire and the first vol. of Monasticon, did move the King on the behalf of Mr. Dugdale for the said place. Whereupon it being readily granted, there was a special Warrant made under the royal Signet to prepare a Patent for the same: Which Patent, after his Majesty's return, passed the Great Seal accordingly on the 18 of June 1660. At the same time the second vol. of Mon. Angl. was in the Press, and the next year 'twas published: During the printing of which, he laboured about his historical work of Imbanking and draining the Fens and Marshes, deduced out of public Records and ancient MSS, at the instance of the Lord Gorges and others, who were the principal Adventurers in that costly and laudable Undertaking for draining the great Level, extending into a considerable part of the Counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northampton, Norfolk and Suffolk. This book was adorned with several exact Maps of the parts and places so drained, and was published in 1662. Further also having been much importuned by Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury and the Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor to perfect that Collection began by the learned Sir Hen. Spelman, for his intended second vol. of the Provincial Councils in England, Mr. Dugdale did in order thereunto make diligent search for all such materials that might be got, either out of the Cottonian Library, or otherwise: Which being done he made Transcripts of them, and methodised the same for the Press. So that the whole vol. amounting to 200 sheets in folio, all of it except 57, were totally of Mr. Dugdale's Collection. It was printed in 1664, but very full of faults, occasioned, if I am not mistaken, by the absence of the said Mr. Dugdale. Will. Somnore the Antiquary of Canterbury took a great deal of pains to correct a printed copy of it, with his pen in the margin: which copy is yet remaining in the Library belonging to the Ch. of Canterbury. At the same time also the second part of Sir Hen. Spelmans Glossary, which begins with the letter M, was brought to Mr. Dugdale to have it fitted for the Press: for so it was, that Sir Henry having lest it very imperfect, much of it being loosely written, and in sundry bits of paper, he took pains to dispose thereof into proper order by transcribing many of those loose papers, and afterwards by marking such parts of it, for differencing the character, as needed. The first part also that had been published by Sir Henry, an. 1626., was afterwards considerably augmented and corrected by its Author: Which also being brought to Mr. Dugdale, and by him reviewed and made fit for the Press, were both printed together, an. 1664. But the second part which Sir H. Spelman le●t imperfect, as is before told you, comes far short of the first. After this, Mr. Dugdale having in many years' labours in the search of Records for those works already published, perused the notes that he had taken of the Lord Chancellors, L. Treasurers, Masters of Rolls, Judges of all the Courts in Westminster Hall, King's Attorneys and Solicitors; as also of the Sergeants at Law, Courts of ●us●ice and Inns of Court and Chancery for Students in that excellent Profession, he compiled that historical work intit. Origines Juridiciales, adorned with exact cuts in copper plates of the Arms in the windows throughout all the Inns of Court and Sergeants Inns, which was first made public by the Press, an. 1666; but the grand Conflagration soon after happening, many of the copies were burnt. Further also, he having in the course of his Collections formerly made at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion extracted from sundry choice MSS. divers special notes relating to ancient Nobility of this Kingdom; and being not ignorant that those Volumes of Monasticon would yield many excellent materials of that kind, he then became encouraged to go to the Tower of London, Exchequer, Office of the Rolls in Chancery lane (which were the chief treasures of Records) as also to the Archbishop's principal Registers, and Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, of Wills and Testaments, Dispensations for Marriages, etc. Whence and out of sundry MSS. in private hands, monumental inscriptions, and other Authorities, which, after the greater part of 30 years' labour he had got together, he at length compiled that large work intit. The Baronage of England. In making which Collections he omitted nothing of consequence which related to the Foundations and Endowments of the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches in England and Wales, consisting of secular Canons, as also of what else he could observe concerning those Monasteries that were already published, to the end that use might be made of them as Additaments to those volumes: And in the year 1673 he published all those Additaments, together with what he had so gathered for those cathedral and collegiate Churches before specified. But the said Volumes of the Baronage hanging long at the Press, came not out till the year 1675 and 1676, being then and soon after taken into the hands, not only of his Majesty and royal issue, but also by the prime Nobility of the Nation. Towards the end of the said year 1676, Sir Edw. Walker Garter, Principal K. of Arms departing this mortal life at Whitehall, (Mr. Dugd. being then in Warwick●hire) much dispute grew between Henry then Earl of Norwich (afterwards Duke of Norfolk) as Earl Marshal of England, and the King, for the nomination of a person, unto whom his Majesty should by his Letters Patents make a grant of that Office; the Chancellor of the Garter on the King's behalf, as Sovereign of that most noble Order, strenuously insisting upon his Majesty's right to nominate by reason that the said Office of Garter was an employment merely belonging to that Order; and chiefly for attending at all Installations and Festivals, and performing other services unto the Sovereign and Knight's Companions thereof. The Earl on his part, as Earl Marshal and chief Superintendent of the Office and Officers of Arms, pleading the usage of his Predecessors in that honourable Office of Earl Marshal to nominate and recommend to the King, upon the death and vacancy of any King of Arms, Herald or Pursuivant, such person or persons to supply the place, as he shall think most fit and most properly qualified for that service. In which contest one Sir Will. Haward Knight (a person well accomplished with learning, especially in point of Honour and Arms) having obtained the favour of divers great men to move his Majesty on his behalf, the K. did thereupon much incline to, to have that office conferred upon, him. The Earl of Norwych on the other part, accounting it no little derogation to his Office of Earl Marshal to be refused the like privilege as his Predecessors in that great place had been permitted to enjoy (for which he produced some late Precedents, acknowledging, though he had nothing to do as to any superintendency over him as an Officer of the Garter, yet, as Garter was Principal K. of Arms, he was subordinate to his authority) did obtain the favour of the Duke of York, upon this great dispute, to speak to his Majesty on his behalf. The King therefore asked the said Count (Earl Marshal) whom he had a design to nominate and recommend, he answered Mr. Dugdale; tho 'tis well known he had another person (Th. Leigh Chest. Her.) in his eye, (against whom such objections might have been justly taken, as that he would have failed of his aim had he stuck to him) whereupon his Maj. immediately replied, Nay then I am content. So that the matter being thus ended, the Earl Marshal caused his Secretary to advise Mr. Dugdale thereof by the Post that night, and earnestly to press his speedy coming up to London, he then being at Blythe Hall in Warwickshire. This news did not a little surprise him, because he was so far from any thoughts of that Office, that upon some Letters from certain honourable persons ensuing Sir E. Walkers death, earnestly desiring his speedy repair to London, in order to his obtaining that Office, he excused himself in respect of his age, he being then above 20 years older than any other Officer in the Coll. of Arms then living, as he then told me, being then with him at Blythe Hall when those Letters came to him. After serious consideration what to resolve on therein, having a far greater desire to wave it, than otherwise, as he then said, he grew fearful that his Majesty so readily assenting to the Earl Marshal's nomination of him, should not take it well in case he did refuse what was so intended him as a favour. And doubting also the Earl Marshal's displeasure for not complying with him therein, did at length conclude with himself that it was by God Almighty's disposal thus cast upon him, and therefore he resolved to accept of it. So that within few days after repairing to London, he was welcomed by the Earl Marshal with many noble Expressions for his ready acceptance of his Lordship's favour herein. On the 26 of Apr. 1677 was passed the Patent for his Office of Garter, and on Thursday 24 of May following (being then Holy Thursday,) he was solemnly created Garter in the College of Arms by Henry Earl of Peterborough, who then exercised the Office of Earl Marshal, as Deputy to the Earl of Norwych, by virtue of his Majesty's immediate Warrant for that purpose: And the day following (25 May) Mr▪ Dugd. being brought before the King in the old Bedchamber at Whitehall by the Earl Martial, he then received the honour of Knighthood, (much against his will because of his small estate) at which time his Majesty put the badge of his office, hung in a gold chain, (usually worn by Garter K. of Arms) about, his neck. On the first of June following he took his oath of Garter Principal K. of Arms, in a solemn chapter held by the Sovereign and certain of the Knight's Companions of that most noble Order, in the red room at Whitehall: which Oath was administered to him by Seth Bishop of Salisbury Chancellor of the Garter, one of the Officers of that order then kneeling on his Majesty's left hand. As to the exercise of his office of Norroy, when he was Provincial K. of Arms for the northern parts of this Realm, the books of his visitation of the several Counties under his charge remaining in the Coll. of Arms, will sufficiently manifest his care therein, as by taking exact notice of all collaterals, viz. Uncles, Aunts, Brothers and Sisters in the descents there drawn. Also by publicly disclaiming all such as did take upon them the titles of Esquire or Gentlemen without just right, and truly registering the Arms of all such as could show any justifiable right thereto. His care also was manifested in defacing such Tablets of Arms, as he found in any public places which were fictitious, and by pulling down several Achievements (commonly called Hatchments) irregularly and against the law of Arms hung up in any Churches or Chapels within the precincts of his Province; the particulars whereof are expressed in that large book, in the Office or Coll. of Arms, covered with russet leather, and called the Earl Marshals book. Further also to vindicate the just rights of his said office, he commenced a suit at the common law against one Randal Holme a Painter of the City of Chester, who had boldly invaded the office of him the said Norroy, by preparing Achievements for the funeral of Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton in the County of Lancaster Kt, and giving directions for a formal proceeding at the solemnity thereof: whereupon he had a verdict against him the said Holme, at the general Assizes held at Stafford, in March an. 1667, and recovered good damages with costs of suit. The titles of such books, touched on before, which are published under Sir Will. Dugdales' name are these (1) Monasticon Anglicanum: sive Pandectae caenobiorum Benedictinorum, Cluniacensium, Cisterciensium, Carthusianorum, à primordiis ad eorum usque dissolutionem ex Mss ad Monasteria olim pertinentibus, Archivis turrium Lond. Ebor. etc. Lond. 1655. and 82. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys, Churches, etc. (2) Monastici Anglicani volumen alterum, de Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis, scil. Hospitaliariis, Templariis, Gilbertinis, Praemonstratensibus & Maturinis sive Trinitaniariis. Cum appendice ad vol. primum de Caenobiis aliquot Gallicanis, Hibernicis, Scoticis, necnon quibusdam Anglicanis antea omissis, à primordiis, etc. Lond. 1661. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys, Churches, etc. These two large volumes though they were published under the names of Roger Dodsworth of Yorkshire and Will. Dugdale of Warwickshire, yet the chiefest now of the Coll. of Arms have several times informed me that they were both collected and totally written by Dodsworth, as the original which they had seen do testify: And Dr. Barlow hath several times told me that much about the time of death of Dodsworth they were offered to him to be bought, that he might take some order to have them published. Howsoever it is, sure I am that Sir William did take great pains to have them published, did methodise and order them, correct them when at the press and made several indices to them. This Roger Dodsworth was the Son of Matthew Dodsworth Esq. (Registrary, as I have heard, of the Church of York) by Elinor his Wife, Daughter of Ralph Sandwith Esq, was born on the 24 July 1585. at Newton Grange in the Parish of S. Oswald in Ridale in Yorkshire, being the house and possessions of his Mother's Father; but whether he was ever educated in any University, I could never learn. This Person who had a natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities, began early to make collections of them, especially such that related to Yorkshire, and afterwards was much encouraged in his labours by Sir Thomas, afterwards Lord, Fairfax, who for several years allowed him a pension. He was a Person of wonderful industry, but less judgement, was always collecting and transcribing, but never published any thing. He died in the month of August 1654., and was buried in the Church of Rufford in Lancashire. After his death the said Lord Fairfax took into his possession, not only all the old Mss which he had obtained from several hands, but also all his proper collections which he had written from Mss, Leigher books, evidences in the Tower at York, in the custody of many Gentlemen, not only in Yorkshire but other northern Counties, as also his collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions, etc. which being done, he communicated them to Dr. Nat. Johnston a Physit. of Yorkshire, with hopes that he would extract from them, and make and complete a book of Antiquities of the West Riding of Yorkshire, which he hath not yet done, being, as I have been informed, weary of the work. When the said Lord Fairfax died, he bequeathed the said old Mss, and collections (which last amounted to 122 volumes at least) to the public Library in Oxon, but were not conveyed thither till June 1673; which being then a wet season, most of them took wet, and had it not been for the author of this book, who with much ado obtained leave of the then Vicechancellor to have them conveyed into the muniment room in the School-Tower, purposely to dry them on the leads adjoining, which cost him a months' time to do it, they had been utterly spoiled. The other books that Sir William Dugdale hath published are there. (3) The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombs and arms: Beautified with maps, prospects and portraitures. Lond. 1656. fol. The foundation of tnis book (which is his Master piece) was laid on the collections of divers antiquities for the said County made and gathered by Sir Simon Archer Knight, whom I have mentioned in the first vol. of this work, p. 504: which Sir Simon dying at Warwick, about the beginning of 1666, was gathered to the graves of his Fathers in Tamworth Church. (4) The History of S. Paul's Cathedral in London from its foundation till these times: extracted out of original charters, records, le●ger-books and other Manuscripts: Beautified with sundry prospects of the Church, figures of tombs and monuments. Lond. 1658. in a thin folio. (5) The History of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes, both in foreign parts and in this Kingdom; and of the improvement thereby. Extracted from records, Mss and other authentic testimonies. Lond. 1662. fol. Adorned with several Cuts. (6) Origines juridiciales: or historical memorial of the English laws, Courts of Justice, forms of Trial, punishment in cases criminal, law writers, law books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of Sergeant, inns of Court and Chancery. Also a chronology of the Lord Chancellors, and Keepers of the great Seal, L. Treasurers, Justice's itinerant, Justices of the King's Bench, etc. Lond. 1666. 1672. etc. fol. In the said Chronologie or Chronica series, are many faults. (7) Monastici Anglicani, volumen tertium & ultimum: Additamenta quaedam in volumen primum, ac volumen secundum, jampridem edita: Necnon fundationes, sive dotationes diversarum ecclesiarum cathedralium ac collegiatarum continens; ex archivis regiis, ipsis outographis, ac diversis codic. Manuscriptis decerpta. Lond. 1673. fol. Which, so soon as published, the faction commonly reported, that it was made extant purposely to introduce popery, they being then exasperated against it. To this book is only the bare name of Will. Dugdale set, without any mention of Dodsworth, though no doubt there is but some of his collections are therein. Some time before it was published, Mr. Dugdale desired the author of these Athenae Oxon, that if in his searches towards the work of Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, he could meet with any materials towards the completion of the said third vol. of Mon. Anglic. he would by all means help him to them. Whereupon for the great respect he had to the author, and such a noble work as that was, he soon after sent to him copies of many evidences, as first those four inserted in p. 11. concerning Wallingford. Secondly eleven others in p. 13▪ 14.15, concerning Littlemore Nunnery within the precincts o● Sandford in Oxfordshire, which by a mistake Sir William hath added to Sandford in Berkshire. Thirdly three copies of Charters in p. 18. concerning the Hermitage of Muswell in the Parish of Piddington. Fourthly four copies in p. 30.31. concerning Horkesley a cell to the Abbey of Tefford. Fifthly the six copies mentioned in p. 55.56.57, concerning the Priory of Cold-Norton in Oxfordshire. Sixthly the twelve copies in p. 62.63.64 concerning the Lands belonging to the Knight Templars of Sandford near to, and in the County of, Oxon, which I transcribed from a leiger book containing all the evidences belonging to the preceptory of Sandford; near which place was the Nunnery of Littlemore before mentioned situated. The said leiger-book which was then my proper book, is now in Bodlies' Library. Seventhly that copy in pag. 77. b. concerning Otteham Priory. Eighthly those copies of Charters in p. 83.84.85. concerning the Hospital of Brackley in Northamptonshire. Ninthly that Charter in p. 96. a. concerning the Hospital of Ginges in Essex, otherwise called Gynge-M●nteygney. Tenthly that large Charter concerning the Priory of Newinton-Longaville in Bucks, and others. He the said Sir Will. Dugdale was also assisted in the said third vol. of Mon. Angl, by Sir Thomas Herbert Baronet, but the number of Charters which he transcribed and sent to him, I cannot justly tell you. He was a great collector of ancient Mss, a singular lover of Antiquities, and there is not doubt, but that he having had more leisure than I, did his share therein. Sir Will. Dugdale hath also published (8) The Baronage of England: or an historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English Nobility in the Saxons time, to the Norman Conquest; and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of K. Henry the thirds Reign. Deduced from public records, ancient Historians and other authorities. Lond. 1675. fol. Tom. 1. (9) The Baronage of England: or an historical account, etc. from after the end of K. Henry the thirds Reign, and before the eleventh of K. Rich. 2. deduced, etc. Lond. 1676 in a thin fol. Tom. 2. (10) The Bar. of Engl. or an historical account, etc. from the 10. of Ric. 2. until this present year, 1676, deduced, etc. Ibid. 1676. in a thin fol. Tom. 3. These the two last were printed, and do always go, together. Augustin Vincen● sometimes Windsor Herald and ClerK of the Records in the Tower of London had laid a Foundation of a Baronage of England, but he dying before it was finished, it was taken in hand and continued by his Son John Vincent, who entitled it— He●●●logia Anglica. Or a Geneological history of the succession and creation of all our Princes, Dukes, Earls and Viscount's since the Norman conquest to this day. This I have seen in a thick fol. manuscript, [for 'tis not yet published) containing many quotations from the records in the Tower of London, but 'tis a very slight and trite thing in comparison of that of Sir W. Dugdales. The said three Tomes of the Baronage of England he gave, with other of his books, to the Coll. of Arms, but two of the Kings, and other Heralds there tell me that there are a world of faults in them; and they dare not depend upon the generality of matter relating to pedigree therein. The author also sent to the Writer of these Athenae and Fasti Oxon, copies of all the Tomes, with an earnest desire that he would peruse, correct and add to them what he could obtain from record or other authorities. Whereupon spending a whole long vocation in that matter, he drew up at least 16 sheets of corrections, but more additions; which being sent to the author, he remitted a good part of them into the margin of a copy of large paper of his three Tomes of Ba●onagium. (11) A short view of the late troubles in England; briefly setting forth their rise, growth and tragical canclusion. As also some parallel thereof with the Baron's wars in the time of K. H. 3, but chiefly with that of France, called the holy league, in the Reign of Hen. 3. and Hen. 4, late Kings of that Realm. Oxon. 1681. fol. To this book is added A perfect narrative of the Treaty at Uxbridge; which, having been before extant, was thought by the generality of Scholars to be superfluous, yet it made the book a folio, which otherwise might have been made an ordinary quarto. This book (A short view, etc.) was presented by the Vicechancellor of Cambridge, in the name of the members of that University to Queen Catherine, 27. Sept. 1681 at which time their Majesties were entertained there, (12) The ancient usage in bearing of such ensigns of honour as are commonly called Arms. Oxon. 1682. oct. There are two editions of this book, one of which was published in Oxon, 4. Feb. 1681 and the other in the beginning of the year 1682. 'Tis mostly taken from Will. Wyrley's book entit. The true use of Armoury, etc. see in the first vol. of these Athenae p. 363. (13) A true and perfect catalogue of the Nobility of England. Printed with The ancient usage, etc. To which is added, A true and exact list of all the present Knights of the Garter, etc. as they now stand in S. George's Chap. in Windsor Castle, 10. Sept. 1681. (14) A Cat. of the Baronet's of England; from the first erection of that Dignity until the 4 of Jul. 1681. inclusive. Printed also with The ancient usage, etc. The second edit. reacheth to the 6. of Dec. the same year. To both these editions are added, first An exact alphabetical Catalogue of all the Shires, Cities, Burrough-Towns, Cinque ports in England; specifying the number of the Knights of the Shires, Citizens, Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-ports, they do respectively elect, to serve as their Representatives in Parliaments, etc. collected and written by Charles Hatton Esq, Son of Christopher L. Hatton. Secondly A true and perfect Cat. of the Nobility of Scotland, with a list of the Royal Burroughs therein, etc. collected and written by the same hand; and thirdly A true and p●rf. Cat. of the Nobility of Ireland, with a list of all the Shires, Cities and Burroughs of Ireland, which make returns of Parliament, etc. collected and written also by the same hand, (15) A perfect copy of all the summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the 49 of Hen. 3▪ to this present; with Catalogues of such Noblemen, as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives, etc. Lond. 1686. fol. Further also our author Sir W. Dugdale took a great deal of pains in publishing the second vol. of Councils, and Glossary of Sir Hen. Spelman, as I have before told you. At length this most industrious Person contracting a great cold at Blythe Hall by attending too much his worldly concerns, died thereof in his Chair, about one of the Clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of February (S. Scholastica's day) an. 1685. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the parochial Church of Shustock in Warwickshire before mentioned, was on the 12 of the same month deposited in a stone-coffin, laying in a little vault, which he before had caused to be made under the north side of the Chancel of the Church there. It was laid near another stone-coffin in the said vault, containing the remains of his then late Wife named Margery, Daughter of John Huntbache of Seawell in Staffordshire Gent, who died 18 Decemb. 1681, after she had continued his Wife from the 17 of March 1622. Sir Will. Dugdale did also in his life time, erect over the said vault a strong tomb of Freestone, in form of an altar, joining to the North wall, with his Arms and those of his Wife carved on the South side thereof: And above it he caused to be fixed on the wall a tablet of white marble, bordered with the like Freestone, on which was engraven his epitaph made by himself. By his last Will and Testament he bequeathed all his Manuscripts and Collections of Antiquities to the Musaeum of Elias Ashmole in Oxon, who divers years before had married one of his Daughters; where they remain, and are of great use to curious and critical persons. To conclude, had this indefatigable person sequestered himself from worldly troubles, and totally addicted himself to his studies, and had minded the public, more than his private, concerns, the world might have justly enjoyed more of his lucubrations, and those more true and accurate, than such that are already published, especially those in his latter days: Yet however what he hath done, is prodigious, considering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty, and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through; and therefore his memory ought to be venerated and had in everlasting remembrance for those things which he hath already published, which otherwise might have perished and been eternally buried in oblivion. Le's now go on with the Creations.  
Nou. 1. Sir Rich. Byron Knight a most valiant Colonel in the King's Army, and Brother to John Lord Byron.  
Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall— He was afterwards a noted Mathematician.  

Thom. Smith of Queens Coll.  
Thom. Lamplugh of Queens Coll.  
Thom. Tully of Queens Coll.   
The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops.  
Edw. Walker Herald of Arms by the title of Chester— This Person who was second Son of Edw. Walker of Roobers in the Parish of Nether Stowey in Somersetsh, by Barbara his Wife, Daughter of Edw. Salkeld of Corby Castle in Cumberland, was born at Roobers, bred a servant in the family of Thomas Earl of Arundel Earl Marshal of England, to whom afterwards being Secretary, he gave him the Pursuivants place called Rogue-Croix in the Coll. of Arms. In 1639 when that noble Count was made General of the English Forces in the Scotch expedition, this Mr. Walker was by him made Secretary of War, and executed that Office till the return of the said Army to London. Afterwards when his Majesty and the Royal Family were by the endeavours of that unhappy Parl. that began 3. Nou. 1640, forced from London in Jan. 1641, Mr. Walker followed him into the North parts of England, and was with him at Edgh●ll fight and afterwards at Oxon, where he was actually created Master of Arts, being then Chester Herald as I have before told you. In the latter end of 1643 he was made Norroy King of Arms in the place of Sir Henry St. George promoted to the office of Garter, and in the year following, upon the death of the said Sir Henry, he was made Garter, and on the 2. of Feb. the same year (1644) he received the honour of Knighthood. This Person who with great diligence and observation had committed to writing in a paper book the several occurrences that passed in the K. Army and the victories obtained by his Majesty over his rebellious Subjects, the book was seized on at the fatal battle at Naseby by some of the forces belonging to the Parliament, than Victors. Afterwards it was presented to their General called Sir Thomas Fairfax, who perusing it, found one passage therein which was very observable to him, viz. that whereas he (Walker) had taken occasion 
(*) England's Recovery, etc. written by Josh. Sprigg— Lond. 1647. p. 45.  to speak of the Irish and called them Rebels; his Majesty, who before that time had perused the book, did, among several alterations made therein with his own hand, put out the word Rebels with his pen, and over it wrote Irish. This book was after his Majesty's restauration regained, and is now, or at least was lately, in the hands of Sir Joh. Clopton who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir E. Walker, who also hath written The order of the Ceremonies at S. George's feast at Windsor, which is printed in quarto. After his Majesty's return, he was confirmed in his Gartership and made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council; and dying suddenly in Whitehall, 19 Febr. 1676, his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire, and buried in the Church there, among the graves of the Cloptons' of Clopton in that Parish. In his office of Garter K. of Arms succeeded Will. Dugdale, Norroy, as I have before told you, and in his Clerkship of the Privy Council Sir Tho▪ Dolman of Shaw near Newbury in Berks.  
Nou. 1. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield.  
Ferdinando Marsham Esq.— He was Brother to Sir Joh. Marshaw the Critic.  
Jervais Hollis a Parliament man for Great Grimesby in Lincolnshire— He had lately retired to his Majesty, because of the violent proceedings against him his said Maj. in the Parliament sitting at Westminster, being then Sergeant Major, and in the next year he sat as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon.  
George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire— He also left that Parliament, retired to his Majesty, and sat in Oxford Parliam. 1643.  
On the said first of Nou. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts, among whom, towards the latter end of the solemnity, when it grew dark, some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created, which was signed by his Majesty. One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot, mostly educated in France, but at this time (1642) actually in Arms for his Majesty, and soon after was an Officer. Some years after the declining of the King's cause, he settled for altogether in Oxon, read and taught the French language to young Scholars, and for their use wrote and published (1) Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae. Oxon 1659. in tw. Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner. (2) Dialogues in French and English, etc. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was, had his principles been sound, (which were not, and therefore in some respects he debauched young men) died by a fall down stairs in S. John's Coll. (where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society) on the 28. of January 1668: whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon.  
Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Mary's Hall— He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock, whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ. Law.  
Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesty's Artillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day— This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning, was born in his Father's house in Goldsmith's Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London, on the 18. of Sept. 1618., Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq, a Native of the City of Oxon, and Clerk of his Majesty's Ordnance within the Kingdom of England, Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent, a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University, but descended from the ancient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire. After our author Edw. Sherburne, whom I am farther to mention, had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned, he was privately instructed for a time in his Father's house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie, but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge; I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrote a Poem entit. The battle of Crescy and Poitiers, and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh. Lond. 1638 oct, written in verse also, with The battle of Bosworth; who dying about 1640, was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London. In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel, he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year, having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France, and was intended for a journey into Italy, but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Father's sickness, who, not many weeks after his return died some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediately after his death, he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesty's Ordnance, granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords, and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince, where he lay for several months at great expenses, and charge of fees, till having in the beginning of Oct. following gained his Liberty, he went immediately to the King, who made him Commissary General of his Artillery. In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill, and during the four years Civil War; while in the mean time he was deprived of an estate of 160 l. per an, (till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland) his house plundered, and all his personal estate and household goods taken away, among which was the loss of a study of books, as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesty's restauration, which was great and choice, and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in, or near, London. After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon, where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you, and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did. After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces, he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire, at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention. While he continued there, you cannot but imagine that he was liable, (as indeed he was) to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication, as being a Cavalier, which the godly party then called Malignant; till at the return of Sir George Savile (afterwards Marquis of Halyfax) from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns, and sometime after by his honourable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour, he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad. In the beginning of March therefore in 1654. he left England with his charge, ran through all France, Italy▪ some part of Hungary, the greater part of Germany, Holland and the rest of the Low Countries, and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination, by conference with learned persons, when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse, more than what he could obtain at home. After his Majesty's restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England (after his old sequestrators were dead) by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken, I mean by that busy man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper, (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury) so that he was forced to plead the ●ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance. After some time of the King's settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former; for by the politic Reducers of the charge of his Majesty's revenue and treasure, he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an. and never received any consideration more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an. in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained. This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the ancient Greek and Latin as of the choicest modern Poets, both Italian, French and Spanish hath written and translated. (1) Medea, a Tragedy. Lond. 1648. oct, translated from Lat. into English, verse, with annotations: 'Tis one of Seneca's Tragedies. (2) Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere, why good men suffer misfortunes, seeing there is a divine providence? Lond. 1648. oct, written originally in Lat. prose, and translated into English verse. It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight, which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of (3) Salmacis, Lyrian and Sylva, forsaken Lydia, the rape of Helen, a comment thereon, with several other Poems. Lond. 1651. oct. On which three translations, as also annotations on each of them, the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembered (mentioned also in the Fasti, 1640) did make an excellent copy of verses, as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne; the beginning of which is this.  
Dear friend! I question, nor can I yet decide  
Whether thou more art my delight or pride?  
(4) The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem. Lond. 1675. fol. 'Tis adorned with Cuts, and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions, num. 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land, to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning. (5) A Catalogue (with a character) of the most eminent Astronomers, ancient and modern: Which, with other matters, as first Of the Cosmical System, secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsi●, etc. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man. before mentioned. (6) Troades: or the Royal Captives, a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct. Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca, englished with Annotations, by Mr. Sherburne. He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca (Hippolytus and Phaedra) long since by him translated, with Annotations. Which three Tragedies, viz. Medea, Troades and Hippolytus, he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher, among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca. The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him, and perhaps other things in other books. In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did, in consideration of his great sufferings, and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself, confer upon him the honour of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall; having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot, who endeavoured to out him of his place, for being, as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2▪ had abdicated the Government and left the Nation, he was outed for altogether and put to trouble: So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince, and had in some manner suffered after his restauration, as I have told you before, so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion, being living near London in a retired, yet cheerful, and devout condition, spending his time altogether in books and prayer.  
Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mentioned, was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts— He was soon after made controller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton, but how long he continued in that employment, I know not. While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon, while it was a Garrison for his Majesty, with all the fortifications, trenches, bastions, etc. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governor thereof, who showing it to the King, he approved much of it and wrote in it the names of the bastions with his own hand. This ichnography, or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson, was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed, purposely to be remitted into Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne, who was an ingenious man, was killed in a mutiny that happened among some of the Soldiers in Oxon, on the 12 of June 1646: Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City.  
January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts, by virtue of the Kings Mandamus then read, viz.  
Henry Lord Seymour, Son of Will. Marq. of Hertford— He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys. an. 1645.  
Sir John Stawell— See among the Doctors of Physic this year.  

Amia● Paulet Esq.  
Joh. Stawell Esq.   
Mr. Edw. Stawell.  
Rob. Hawley a Captain— Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts; but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not.  
Joh. Stanhop— He was Master of the Horse, as it seems, to the Marquis of Hertford.  
George Strangwaies an Officer— He was one of the ancient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire.  
Geor Trim, Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf.  
Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles.  
R●g. Sanders a Captain.  
Rich. Knightley, etc.  
All which, with others, were lately come to Oxon, among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquis of Hereford.  
In the same convocation were others also created, by virtue of the Letters of the said Marq. (soon after Chanc. of this Uniu.) which were then read: The names of some of them follow.  
Edw. Windham Esq▪  
Edw. Kirton Esq.— He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh, to serve in the Parl. began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640, but leaving it, because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof, he retired to his Majesty at Oxon, and late in the Parl. there, 1643.  
Tho. Lower Esq.— He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall, but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon, and sat there. I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight, which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster, as I have elsewhere told you.  
... Bampfield a Colonel.  
Joh. Miller a Captain.  
Hugh Windham.  
Hugh Smith.  
Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks— He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643.  
All which, with others, did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon.  
Feb. 1. Anth. Gosling was then created by virtue of a dispensation passed in convocation.  
Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated, and therein a Creation of Masters made to the number of about eleven: Among whom were,  
Paul Boston of Cambridge— After his Majesty's return he became Minister of S. Bride's Parish in London; whence being forced by the dreadful fire that happened in 1666 he became Reader of S. Giles in the Fields in Middlesex.  
Rich. powel a Retainer to the Lord Mowbray.  
Will. Jay a Retainer to the Marq. of Hertford.  
Charles Whittaker Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State. etc.  
Aston Cockaine was also about the same time created, but neglected to be registered.   

Bach. of Phys.  
From the first of Nou. to the 31. of Jan. were actually created 17 Bach. of Phys. or more; of which number were, 

Nou. 1. Hen. Jacob of Mert. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Edw. Buckoke of Trin. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Will. Croot of Exet. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Hen. Sawyer of Magd. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Steph. Boughton of Magd. Coll.    
The aforesaid Edw. Buck. was created Dr. of the same faculty in 1645.  

Dec. 10. Jam. Hyde of Corp. Ch. Coll.  
Dec. 10. George Rogers of Linc. Coll.   
The first of these last two was afterwards the King's professor of Phys. and the other a publisher of certain things of his faculty, and is now, or at least lately was, living.  

Jan. 31. Nich. Oudart.  
Jan. 31. Tho. Champion or Campion.  
Jan. 31. Tho. Johnson.   
Of the first I have spoken already in the Fasti; under the year 1636. p. 887. Of the second I know nothing only that one of both his names was a noted Poet in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. see in the Fasti under the year 1624., p. 848. And of the other you may see more among the created Doctors of Phys. 1643.   

Bach. of Diu.  
From the first of Novemb. to the 21. of Feb. were about 70 Bachelaurs of Diu. actually created; of which number were these following.  
Nou. 1. Caesar Williamson lately M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge— After the declining of the King's cause he went into Ireland, became Fellow of the College at Dublin, where being esteemed a good Orator, was put upon several Harangues ex tempore, and wrote a Panegyric on Henry Cromwell Lord Lieutenant of the said Kingdom, which I have seen several times quoted. Afterwards the College gave him a Living at, or near, Tredagh, where he ended his days in a crazed condition about 4 or 5 years after his Majesty's restauration.  
Edw. Sylvester of Ball. Coll. was created the same day— This person who was a professed Tutor in the Latin and Greek tongues for many years in a private house in Allsaints Parish in Oxon, was born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, and had his sole education in the said Coll. He was the common drudge of the University either to make, correct or review the Latin Sermons of certain dull Theologists thereof before they were to be delivered at S. Mary's; as also the Greek or Latin verses of others (as dull as the former) that were to be put in, or before, books that occasionally were published. He lived to see several of his Scholars to be heads of Houses in this University: Among whom were John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch, John Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll, Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall, &c. who, with other Scholars of his that were Doctors, Bachelaurs of Diu. Law and Phys, and Masters of Arts, had an annual feast together; to which their Master was always invited, and being set at the upper end of the table. he would feed their minds with learned discourses, and criticisms in Grammar. He died on the first of Dec. 1653 aged 67 or more, and was buried in the Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon. Near to his grave was afterwards buried his Brother Henry Sylvester, sometimes Mayor of the City.  
Rob. Wild of Cambridge was also created the same day, Nou. 1.— He was afterwards a Covenantier, Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire, in the place, as I conceive, of an honest Cavalier sequestered ●rom it, ejected thence for Nonconformity after the King's restauration, being then D. of D. and much celebrated for his Poetry, which he wrote in behalf of the Presbyterians, as John Cleauland did against them. Some of his works are (1) The tragedy of Christ. Love at Tower-hill. Lond. 1660. 'Tis a Poem in one sh. in qu. (2) Iter boreale. Attempting something upon the successful and matchless March of the L. Gen. George Monck from Scotland to London. etc. Lond. 1660. A Poem in 2 sh. and an half in qu. Another Iter boreale you may see in Rich. Eedes in the first vol. p. 280, a third in Rich. Corbets Poems, and a fourth in Thomas Master in this vol. p. 19 There is extant an ingenious Lat. Poem entit. Iter australe, a Regimensibus Oxon, an. 1658 expeditum, printed the same year in 3. sh. and an half in qu. Which Poem was written by Thom. Bispham a Gent. Com. of Qu. Coll. (Son of Dr. Sam. Bispham a Physician of London) and by him dedicated to the Provost thereof Tho. Barlow, who had the author in his company when he and some of the society of that House went the College progress into Hampshire and other places, Dr. Wild hath also written (3) A Poem upon the imprisonment of Mr. Edm. Calamy in Newgate, printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper, an. 1662., whereupon came out two Poems at least in answer to it, viz. First,— Anti-boreale. An answer to a lewd piece of Poetry upon Mr. Calamy's late confinement. Secondly, Hudibras on Calamy's imprisonment and Wild's Poetry: both printed the same year, and each on one side of a sheet of paper. In 1668 and 1670 was published in oct,— Iter boreale, with large additions of several other Poems, being an exact collection of all hitherto published; written by the said Dr. Wild, author also of (4) A Letter 〈◊〉 Mr. J. J. upon his Majesty's Declaration for liberty of conscience. Lond. 1672. qu; Against which came out soon after, Moonshine: being an answer to Dr. Wild's letter and his poetica licentia, pr. in qu. the same year (5) Certain Sermons, as (1) The arraignment of a sinner, on Rom. 11.32. Lond. 1656, qu. (2) Sermon on Rom. 1.32. Ib. 1656. qu. &c There are extant some of his Poems, with some of John Wilmots Earl of Rochester and others in a collection, intit. Rome Rhymed to death, but whether genuine I cannot tell. This Dr. Wild who was a fat, jolly and boon Presbyterian died at Oundle in Northamptonshire, about the beginning of Winter, an. 1679, and soon after had a Poem written on his death, intit. A pillar on the grave of Dr. Wild, besides another called A dialogue between Death and Dr. Wild; both printed in folio sheets, an. 1679. In the month of May 1672 there had like to have been a Poetical war between this Dr. Wild and Tho. Flatman, but how it was terminated I cannot tell.  

Nou. 1. Christop. Ayray of Qu. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Nich. Greaves of Alls. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Jonathan Edward's of Jes. Coll.   
The last, who was fellow of his House, was esteemed by those thereof a learned man, as were his contemporaries Jam. Birch, Philip Flower and Dan. Evans, all three Bachelaurs of Diu. and fellows of the said Coll.  

No. 1. Jaspar Main of Ch. Ch.  
No. 1. Rob. Joiner of Pemb. Coll.   
The last succeeded Will. Cartwright in the Succentorship of Salisbury.  

Jan. 16. Aylmer Lynch of Cambridge.  
Jan. 16. Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch.  
Jan. 16. Henry Myriell of Cambr.  
Jan. 16. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll.   
The first of these four, was, after his Majesty's restauration, made Prebend of Stratford in the Church of Salisbury, and of Welton-Westhall in the Church of Linc. The third (Hen. Myriell) died 22. Apr. 1643 aged 33 years, and was buried in Allsaints Church in Oxon. As for Fulham and Gurgany, there will be mention made of them in these Fasti, an. 1660.  
Tho 'tis said that Nath. Conopius a Grecian, and about this time one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch. was actually created Bach. of Div, yet no thing appears in the University register of that matter.   

Doct. of Law.  
From the first of Nou. to the 21. of Febr. were actually created 60 or more Doctors of the Civil Law, the names of most of which do follow.  
Nou. 1. Rob. Lord Pierpont, Viscount Newark and Earl of Kingston upon Hull, sometimes a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. was actually created Doct. of the said faculty— He was now Lieutenant General of all his Majesty's forces within the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Norfolk, and lost his life in his service near to Gaynsborough in Lincolnshire, 30 of July 1643. The most Loyal Sir Franc. Wortley hath an Elegy on him in his Characters and Elegies, which being just and deservedly spoken of him, I shall refer the Reader to it; but the book, I doubt, is scarce to be seen or had. This most noble Count Pierpont was Father to Henry Marq. of Dorchester, born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, an. 1606, educated for some time in Eman. Coll. in Cambr, and afterwards was a hard Student for 10 or 12 hours every day. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he adhered to his Majesty, was with him at Oxon after the battle at Edghill, and had a degree conferred on him, or at least was incorporated, though neglected to be registered by the common scribe of the University. He was then esteemed a learned man, as being well read in the Fathers, Schoolmen, Casuists, the Civil and Can. Law and reasonably well versed in the common Law, having about that time been admitted a Bencher of Greys Inn. In 1649 he applied his study to Medicine and Anatomy, and in 1658 he was admitted Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond, and became their pride and glory. He hath published (1) Two speeches spoken in the House of Lords. One Concerning the rights of Bishops to sit in Parliament, 21 of May, and the other Concerning the lawfulness and conveniency of their intermeddling in temporal affairs, on the 24 of the same month— Lond. 1641. in one sh. and an half in qu. (2) Speech to the Trained-bands of Nottinghamshire at Newark, 13 July 1642— Lond. 1642. qu. (3) Letter to John Lord Roos, written the 13, and printed on one side of a sheet of paper on the 25 of Feb. 1659. It was written upon occasion of some differences between the said Lord Roos and his Wife Anne, Daughter of the said Marquis: From which Lord the said Anne was afterwards for her whorishness lawfully divorced by sentence of the Court-Christian, and then commonly known by the name of the Lady Anne Vaughan. As soon as the said Letter was received by the Lord Roos, he wrote another in answer to it, in a buffooning stile, 25 Feb. 1659., assisted therein by Sam. Butler, afterwards known by the name of Hudibras: which being printed also on one side of a sh. of paper, the Marq. made a reply with another paper entit. (4) The reasons why the Marq. of Dorchester printed his letter, 25. Feb. 1659., together with his answer to a printed paper, called, A true and perfect copy of the Lord Roos his answer to the Marquis of Dorchesters' Letter, written 25. Februar. 1659.— Printed 20. of March 1659. on one side of a sh. of paper. He the said Marquis, hath, as 'tis probable, other things extant, or at least fit to be printed, which I have not yet seen. He died in his house in Charterhouse yard near London, 8. Decemb. 1680; whereupon his body, after it had laid in state for some time, was conveyed to his ancient Seat called Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire, where it was buried in the Church of that place among the sepulchres of his name and family. Soon after was published an Elegy on this noble and generous Marquis, by John Crouch sometimes his domestic servant; which being too large for this place, shall be now omitted.  
Rob. Dormer Earl of Caernarvan, was actually created at the same time, Nou. 1,— This most loyal Count, who was Mercurio magnus, sed Marti major, was killed the next year at Newbury fight, and soon after had an Elegy made on him by Sir Francis Wortley before mentioned, which is printed among his Characters and Elegies. His body was for the present deposited▪ in Jesus Coll. Chappel, but soon after removed to his seat in Bucks.  
James Lord Compton,— He was afterwards Earl of Northampton, Lieutenant of the County of Warwick, as also of the City of Coventry, Recorder likewise of the said City, as also of Northampton and of Tamworth, and did excellent service for his Majesty in the time of the Rebellion, especially by his routing the Parliament Forces near Banbury, 6 of May 1643. He died at Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire, 15 Dec. 1681, and was buried in a Vault by his Ancestors, under the Church of Compton Winniate commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire. He had a younger brother named Sir Charles Compton a most valiant person, and one that had done his Maj. great service in the said Rebellion. He died in the latter end of Nou. 1661., (being then a Parl. man for the Town of Northampton) and was buried at Sywell in Northamptonshire.  
Robert Lord Rich.— The same, if I mistake not, that was afterwards Earl of Holland.  
Colonel Sir John Byron Knight of the Bath, lately Lieutenant of the Tower of London.— He was about this time made Field-Marshal of all his Majesty's Forces in the County of Worcester, Salop, Chester, and North-Wales, and in the 19 of Car. 1. was advanced to the title of Lord Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire.  
Sir Will. Le Neve Kt, Clarenceaux King of Arms.— This person was of the ancient family of his name living at Aslacton in Norfolk, received some Academic. education in Cays Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards by the favour of the Earl Marshal of England was created Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray, 29 June 1624. Soon after he was made York Herald, was employed into France in the first of Car. 1, and from thence attended Qu. Henrietta Maria into England; who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald, were royally rewarded by her Majesty, with the 
(a) Joh. W●e●er in his Ancient funeral Monuments, etc. Lond. 1631. p. 678.  gift of a thousand French Crowns. He was also employed to attend upon his Majesty's Embassage, which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13, and at the Ceremonies done thereat, he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms, as it appears in a French relation about that time printed. At his return from thence, the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value, and a Medal of his Portraiture. Afterwards he was made Norroy, and at length Clarenceaux; and closely adhering to his Majesty's cause, was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty, and afterwards upon denial, by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traitors, in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding, but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation. I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies, which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq. intit. The institution, laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter. I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions, which have been used and quoted by others, and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters. At length being craized or distempered in his brain, was kept up close in a house of Lunatics at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London: So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesty's return, much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661., his Office was conferred on Sir Edw. bish, who kept it to his dying day. This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well versed in matters of Arms, Armoury, and all matters pertaining thereunto, died at Hogsden before mentioned: whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Paul's Wharf in London (in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated) was therein buried, 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker, some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir.  
Henry Hastings Esq. was actually created also Doctor of the Civ. Law on the same day, Nou. 1.— He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire, 22 Oct. 1643.  
Christopher Lewknore Esq.— He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester, to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov, 1640, but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof, he retired to Oxon, adhered to his Majesty's cause, sat in the Parliament there 1643, and on the 18 of Dec. 1644, he being then a Colonel in his Majesty's Army, received the honour of Knighthood.  
Thom. Hanmore.— His bare name only standing in the Register, I can say nothing of him, only by conjecture; viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet, who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm. on the 13 of Apr. 1640.  
Sir Rob Stapylton Knight.— This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq, was educated a Rom. Cathol. in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Douai in Flanders, and being too gay and poetical to be confined within a Cloister, he left them, went into England, turned Protestant, was made one of the Gentlemen in ord. of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles, followed his Majesty when he left London, was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642, followed him after Edghill Battle to Oxon, where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law, a before 'tis told you, suffered when the Royal Cause declined, lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation, and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. (if not happily before) he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him. He hath written (1) The slighted maid, a Comedy. Lond. 1663. qu. (2) The step mother, Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. (3) Hero and Leander▪ Trag. Lond. 1669. qu: And translated into English (1) Pliny's Panegyric; a speech in Senate, etc. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. (2) The first six Satyrs of Juvenal, with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History, Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans. Oxon. 1644. oct. Dr. Bart. Holiday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal, which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs. (3) The Loves of Hero and Leander, a Greek Poem. Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh. and at Lond. 1647. in oct. It was written originally by Musaeus. To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original. (4) Leander's letter to Hero, and her answer. Printed with The Loves, etc. 'Tis taken out of Ovid, and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. (5) juvenal's sixteen Satyrs. Or, a survey of the manners and actions of mankind, with arguments, marginal Notes and Annotations, clearing the obscure places out of the Hist. Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans. Lond. 1647. oct, with Sir Rob. Picture before it. It is dedicated to Henry Marquis of Dorchester, (as one or two of the former books are) who seems to have been a favourer of his muse. This last book being much enlarged by him, was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660, bearing this title— Mores Hominum: The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentic copy, lately printed by command of the King of France. Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures, with arguments to the Satyrs. Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert, curiously engraven, but represented too young. (6) The history of the Low Country Wars (or de Bello Galgico) etc. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada. What other Books he hath written and translated I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July, an. 1669, was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster. He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire, younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk: which last wrote himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton, being Precedent of the English Benedictines. He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Lorraine, 4 Aug. 1680, and was there interred.  
Will. Kelligrew Esq. sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. John's Coll.— He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books, and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter, he being now living.  
Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet.— He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and dying on the 23 of March 1674 aged 74 years, was buried in the Parish Church of Churchill before mentioned.  
Sir John Monson or Mounson of South Carleton in Lincolnshire Knight of the Bath and Baronet.— This person, who was son of Sir Tho. Mounson of the same place Baronet, was born in the Parish of S. Sepulchre in London, not bred in any University, only spent some time in one of the Inns of Court, whereby he became as good a Lawyer as any in London, and as wise a man as any now (1642) in Oxon, when then he assisted in all Councils, and was in all Treaties, particularly in that concerning the surrender of the Garrison of Oxford to the Parliament, an. 1646. He afterwards suffered much for his Loyalty, and at length was permitted a quiet retirement. He hath written (1) An Essay of afflictions by way of advice to his only son. Lond. 1661. 62. Written in the time of the unhappy Wars. (2) Antidote against the errors of opinions of many in their days, concerning some of the highest and chiefest duties of religion, viz. Adoration, Alms, Fasting and Prayer. Printed with the former book. (3) Supreme power and common right, etc. This I have not yet seen, and therefore I cannot give you a fuller title, nor the time when printed. He died in the year 1684, aged 84 or more, and was buried in the Church of South Carleton before mentioned, among the graves of his Ancestors. The report among his Relations at this day is, that when he was in Oxon in the War time he was made Doctor of Physic, but false; for he being versed in the Common, thought it convenient to be created Doctor of the Civil, Law, and among those doth his name stand.  
Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath.— He was created Lord Hatton of Kirbye in Northamptonshire, by Let. Pat. bearing date at Oxon 29 Jul. 1643, and about that time was made privy Counsellor to K. Ch. 1. and Controller of his Household, he being then accounted a friend to all that loved the King and Ch. of England, for which he suffered in a high degree. Some time after the restauration, his Majesty was pleased, of his own accord, in consideration of his vast Sufferings and eminent Loyalty, to make him one of his privy Council, and as a testimony of further favour, he not only made him Governor of the Isle of Guernsey for his life, but conferred the reversion of that Government on his son, as a lasting mark of honour on his family. This Christop. L. Hatton was a principal Maecenas of Learning, and more especially of Antiquities, wherein his skill and knowledge did far surpass any within the compass of his orb (the Nobility) that I know.  
Sir Brian Palms of Ashwell or Astwell in Rutlandshire Kt.— This loyal Knight, (son of Sir Guy Palms) who had been educated in Trin. Coll, was chose a Burgess for Aldbu●g in Yorkshire, to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. 13 Apr. 1640, but whether he did sit in the Parl. at Oxon 1643 I know not. He died in 1654.  
Sir Will. Brounker Kt, late Commissary general of the Musters in the Scotch Expedition an. 1639, now Vicechamberlain to Prince Charles and one of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1, was then also (Nou. 1.) actually created Doctor of the Civil Law.— This loyal Knight, who was son of Sir Hen. Brounker Precedent of Monster in Ireland, by Anne his wife sister of Henry Lord Morley, was created Viscount of Castle-Lyon in the said Kingdom 12 Sept. 1645, and dying in Wadham Coll. in the middle of Nou. following, was buried on the 20 of the said month in the isle joining, on the west side, to the north Trancept of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, leaving then behind him a son named William, aged 25 years or thereabouts, of whom I shall speak at large under the year 1646. Winefrid the widow of the said L. Brounker (dau. of Will. Leigh of Newenham in Warwickshire) died 20 July 1649, after she had lost and won vast sums of money by gaming: whereupon her body was conveyed to Oxon, and buried by that of her husband. Many years after was a large marble stone laid over their graves, and in the wall near it was erected a splendid monument of Aladaster containing their statuas sitting, both leaning on a table that stands between them.  
Sir Nich. Byron of Norfolk, was also then created Doctor of the Civ. Law.— He was Uncle to John Lord Byron, was a Colonel and an excellent Commander of foot. K. Ch. 1. did so much value him, that in all warlike engagements he would have him always near to him. I have been told by persons that had degrees conferred upon them in these Creations, that Thomas, Robert 
(*) Sir Robert Byron was Master of the Ordnance of the Kingdom of Ireland, 1664— 65.  and William Byron, all Knights, valiant Colonels for his Majesty and brothers to the most courageous Lord Byron before mentioned, had degrees conferred on them, but in what faculty they knew not, nor are they registered. For the truth is the public Scribe or Registrary of the University that now was, being given more to bibbing and smoking than the duty of his Office, many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him. Nay, those also that are by him remembered have only their bare names, and sometimes only their Surnames, set down, without the addition of their Titles, Quality, Office, or place of habitation. Sir Tho. Byron before mentioned was buried on the left side of the grave of William Lord Grandison in a little isle joining on the south side of the choir of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon, 9 Feb. 1643.  
Wingfield Lord Cromwell.— He was, after the death of his father, Earl of Arglas in Ireland.  
Sir Thom. Salisbury Baronet, sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University.  
Will. Chadwell Esq.— He was a Burgess for Michael in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm. 3 Nou. 1640: which Parliament he leaving because of the violent proceedings therein, retired to his Majesty at Oxon, and sat in the Parl. there.  
Ferdinando Stanhope Esq.— He was a Burgess for Tamworth in Staffordshire for the said Parliament, but leaving it, he retired to his Majesty and sat in Oxford Parliament: This worthy person, who was a younger son of Philip Earl of Chesterfield, was made a Colonel of Horse in the King's Army, and was soon after slain at Bridgford in Nottinghamshire.  
John Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq.— He was one of the Knights for that County to sit in the said Parliament; but being frighted thence by the tumults that came up to the Parliament door, as other Royalists were, he conveyed himself away privately to Oxon, and sat there. He was a learned and a prudent man, and as one of the richest, so one of the meekest, men in England. He was active in making the defence, and drawing up the Articles, of Oxon, when the Garrison was to be surrendered to the Parliament: for which and his steady Loyalty he afterwards was forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmith's Hall at London.  
John Lufton of S. John's Coll.— He was now Rector of Ibstock in Leycestershire, where being always esteemed a great Royalist and Episcoparian, was therefore forced thence by the faction: So that flying to Oxon as an Asylum, he was created Doctor of the Civil Law, and often preached there. He died (at Ibstock I think) an. 1647. or thereabouts.  
Daniel Vivian of New Coll.— He was a Founder's Kinsman, and dying at Farndish in Bedfordshire, an. 1670, was there, I suppose, buried.  
Brome Whorwood of Halton in Oxfordshire Esq, sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll.— This person though he stuck close to K. Ch. 1. in his necessities, yet he did not to his son K. Ch. 2, after whose restauration he was several times elected Burgess for the City of Ox. He died in the Old Palace Yard at Westminster, 12 Apr. 1684, and was buried in the Church of Halton near to the grave of his father Sir Thom. Whorwood Kt, leaving then behind him a natural son named Thomas, begotten on the body of his servant named Catherine daugh. of Thom. Allen of the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon, Baker.  
Sir Thom. He'll of Devonsh. Bt.— He was Burgess for Plimpton in the Parl. that began 13 Apr. 1640, and with Sir Joh. Helena (both Lords of great Estates in their Country) and Walt. He'll of Winston did retire to his Majesty at Oxon, adhere to him, and thereby brought his Cause into great credit for the justness of it, as also rich contributions thereunto, and many forces to maintain it.  
Will. Dowdeswell of Pembr. Coll.— This person who was accounted a learned man among those of his Society, became Preb. of Worcester in 1660, in the place of Francis Charlet M. A. some years before that dead; and had, if I mistake not, other Spiritualities in the Church. In his Prebendship succeeded Dr. George Benson Archdeacon of Hereford, an. 1671.  
On the same day (Nou. 1.) were also created Doctors of the Civil Law Joh. Knotsford (a Knight I think) Joh. Wandeston, Will. Atkyns, Joh. Palmer, and one Peachy; or at least were permitted to be created when they pleased; which is all I yet know of them.  
Nou. 10. Will. Smith Esq. sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll.— He was a Burgess for one of the Cinque-Ports called Winchelsey, for that Parl. that began at Westm. 3 Nou. 1640, but left it, went to Oxon, and sat in the Parl. there 1643.  
Dec. 20. Sir Tho. Manwaring Kt, Recorder of Reading in B●rks.  
Hen. Moody sometimes a Gent. Com. of Magd. Hall.— I take this person to be the same with Sir Hen. Moody Bt, (son of Sir Hen. Moody of Garsdon in Wilts. Knight and Baronet) who was now in some esteem at Court for his poetical fancy. The father who had been a well bred Gent, died in 1630.  

Dec. 20. Tho. Thory.  
Dec. 20. George Thorald.   
Sir Joh. Heydon or Heyden Kt. Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance belonging to his Majesty.— He was of the family of the Heydens' in Norfolk, was as great a Scholar as a Soldier, especially in the Mathematics, suffered much for his Majesty's Cause, and died in the Winter time, an. 1653. One Joh. Haydon Gent. was entered into the public or Bodleian Library, under the title of Juris Municipalis studiosas an. 1627.: Whether the same with the former I cannot tell. I have made mention of Sir Christop. Heyden (who perhaps was father to Sir John) in the first vol. of this work, p. 278.  
Jan. 31. Edw. Lord Littleton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.  
Sir John Banks Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law the same day.— This worthy person was born of honest parents in Cumberland, at Keswick as 'tis said, became a Commoner of Qu. Coll. in this University, an. 1604, aged 15 years, left it before he took a degree, entered himself a Student in Greys' Inn in Holborn near London, where applying himself most severely to the study of the Common Law, became a Barrister and a Counsellor of note. In the 6 of Car. 1. he being then a Knight, and Attorney to Pr. Charles, he was constituted Lent Reader of that house, and in the 7 of Car. 1. he was made Treasurer thereof. In 1640. 16 Car. 1. he was made 
(a) Will. Dugd. in Chron. Scrii, an. 1640.  L. Ch. Just. of the King's Bench, and soon after following his Majesty when he was forced by tumults from Westm, he was made one of his Privy Council at Oxon, and L. Ch. Just. of the Com. Bench or Pleas; where dying 28 Dec. 1644, was buried in the north trancept joining to Ch. Ch. Cathedral. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 289. a.  
Sir Francis Crawley of Luton in Bedfordsh. Kt, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, was also then actually created Doct. of the Civ. Law.— You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives and actions of excellent Personages, etc. published by Dau. Lloyd M. A.— Lond. 1668. fol.  
Sir Rob. Forster Knight, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, was then also created.— He was the youngest son of Sir Thom. Forster Kt. one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the time of K. Jam. 1, was, after he had left the University, a Student in the Inner Temple, where he became a Barrister and Counsellor of note. In the 7 of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of that House, in the 12 he was made Sergeant at Law, and in the 15 of the said Kings Reign one of the Justices of the King's Bench, and about that time a Knight. Afterwards he followed his Majesty to Oxon, sat in the Parl. there, as Sir Joh. Banks and Sir Franc. Crawley did, suffered as other Royalists when the Kings Cause declined, and compounded for his Estate. After his Majesty's restauration, he was made L. Ch. Just. of the King's Bench 31 May 1660, and in Octob. 
(b) Ibid.  following L. Ch. Just. of the Common Pleas. He died on the fourth day of Octob. 1663., aged 74 years, and was buried in the Church at Egham in Surrey, where there is a comely monument in the wall over his grave, in the body of the said Church.  
Febr. 7. Sir Rob. Heath L. Ch. Just. of the Come, Pleas, was then actually created Doctor of the Civ. Law.— This noted and loyal person was born in the Parish of Eatonbridge in Kent and baptised in the Church there, educated in the knowledge of the Common Law in the Inner Temple, made Recorder of London 10 Novemb. 1618., in the place of Rich. Martin deceased, Summer Reader of the same Temple in 1619, Solicitor General in the year following, (being then of Micham in Surrey, and Justice of the Peace for that County) Attorney General in 1625, Sergeant at Law 1632, one of the Justices of the Common Bench in 1640, and two years after, or more, Lord Chief Just. of the Common Bench or Pleas, he being then with his Maj. at Oxon. He hath extant Objections in a Conference discoursed by the Lords and held by a Committee of both Houses against the Rights and Privileges of the Subject, 3 Apr. 4 Car. 1. Lond. 1641. qu. Upon the declining of the Kings 'Cause he fled beyond the sea, being an excepted person by the Parliament, and died at Caen in Normandy about the end of Aug. 1649, leaving then behind him a son named Edward, who had his father's estate restored to him after his Majesty's return from his exile. One Rob. Heath Esq. wrote and published, Clarestella, together with other occasional Poems, Elegies, Epigrams and Satyrs. Lond. 1650. in tw. but what kin he was to Sir Rob. Heath the Judge, or whether he was of this University, I know not as yet.  
Sir Samson Emre Knight, sometimes written Evers, Sergeant at Law, was created the same day.— This person, who was the third son of Sir Franc. Ewer Kt, Brother to Ralph Lord Ewer, had been his Majesty's Attorney Gen. in Wales, was now with him in Oxon, sat in the Parliament there, and was afterwards a Sufferer for his Cause.  
Rob. Holborn a Counsellor of Linc. Inn, was also created Doct. of the Civ. Law the same day.— In 1640 he was chose Burgess for Michael in Cornwall to serve in that Parl that began at Westm. 3. of Nou. the same year, and on the 15 of Dec. following he argued two hours in the H. of Com. in justification of the Canons. In 1641 he was Lent Reader of the same Inn, and soon after leaving the Parl. because of their desperate proceedings, he retired to his Maj. at Oxon, sat in the Parl. there, 1643, and in the latter end of that year was made the Prince's Attorney, in the place of Sir Ric. Lane, one of his Majesty's Privy Council and a Knight. In the latter end of 1644 he was present at the Treaty at Uxbridge in behalf of his Majesty, as he was afterwards at that in the Isle of Wight: About which time retiring to London, he was forced to compound for his Estate, but not permitted to abide in any of the Inns of Court. He hath published, The Reading in Lincoln's Inn 28 Feb. 1641, upon the Statute of the 25 of Ed. 3. cap. 2. being the Statute of Treasons. Oxon. 1642. in two sh. in qu.; and revived The transactions of the high Court of Chancery, both by practice and precedent, etc. originally collected and written by Will. Tothill Esquire.  

Feb. 7. Charles Roser Esq.  
Feb. 7. Degory Collins Esq.   
Sir Troilus Turbervill Kt, was created the same day.— This most valiant person who was of the Turbervills of Moreden in Dorsetshire, was afterwards Captain Lieutenant of the King's Lifeguard of Horse, and was slain at his Majesty's going from Newark to Oxon, towards the latter end of August 1645.  
Sir Thom. Thynne Kt, was also created the same day.— I take this to be the same Sir Thom. who was a younger son of Sir Thom. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts. Kt▪ and the same who was father, by his wife the daughter of Dr. Walt. balcanqual sometimes Dean of Durham, to Thom. Thynne of Longleat, who was murdered in the Pall-Mall at Westm. on the 12 of Feb. 1681.  
Feb. 21. John Penruddock of Compton-Chamberlaine in Wilts. Esq. was then (being in the service of his Majesty) actually created Doctor of the Civ. Law, and three days after had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him by his Majesty.— He was father to Colonel John Penruddock, who, when a youth at Blandford school, and after when a Fellow Com. of Qu. Coll. in this University delighted in books, when a man in arms; which, in his maturer years he willingly put on to redeem the liberties of three enslaved Kingdoms, though with the loss of his own life by the axe in the Castle of Exeter, 16 May 1655. Let therefore all military men of Honour approach with devotion his altar-tomb, and offer up their tributary tears, as due victims to distressed valour.  
Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Esq, was actually created the same day.— This most valiant person, who was son of Sir Jervais Scrope of the same place and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1634, did most loyally attend his Majesty at the fight at Edghill, where receiving several wounds, was left among the dead, as a dead person, there, but recovered by the immortal Dr. Will. Harvey, who was there, but withdrawn under a hedge with the Prince and Duke, while the battle was in its height. 'Tis reported that this Adr. Scrope received 19 wounds in one battle in defence of his Majesty's Cause, but whether in that fought at Edghill I cannot justly say it: sure I am that he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. an. 1661. There was another Adrian Scrope a Soldier also, but taking part with the Parliament, became one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. as I shall elsewhere tell you.  

Feb. 21. Franc. Baker Esq.  
Feb. 21. Edw. Bosworth Gent.  
Feb. 21. Tho. Bosworth Gent.  
Feb. 21. Joh. Wentworth Gent.  
Feb. 21. Thom. Morris Gent.   
Mar. .... John Godolphin of Glouc. Hall.  
This year, but the month, week or day when, I know not, (being omitted by the Registrary) was actually created Doctor of the Civ. Law Rob. Levinz M. A. of Linc. Coll. now in arms for his Majesty, and a very zealous person for his Cause. He was son of Will. Levinz of Seukworth, joining to Botley, near Abendon in Berks, (who exercised the trade of Brewing in the Parish of S. Peter in the Bailiff, within the City of Oxon) and he the son of Will. Levinz sometimes Alderman and Apothecary of the said City. This Robert who was afterwards a Captain, did considerable service according to his capacity, but upon the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon. to the Parliament, he betook himself to his book again, as some hundreds of Scholars did that had boar arms. After the murder of K. Ch. 1, he engaged himself for his son, received a Commission from him for the raising of Forces and blank Commissions for divers Officers. But he being at length discovered by certain inquisitive persons employed purposely to find out plots against the State, he was hurried before a Court-Marshal, where acknowledging their allegations against him and the justice of his Cause, was by them sentenced to be hanged. Whereupon he was hurried away in a Coach from the Mewse (guarded by a Troop of Horse) to the Exchange in Cornhill, where he was executed about noon on the 18 of July 1650, aged 35 years, leaving a widow behind him, daugh. of Sir Peregrin Bertie, son of Robert Earl of Lindsey. These things I here set down because the said Dr. Levinz was afterwards numbered among the Loyal Martyrs.   

Doct. of Phys.  
From the 1 of Nou. to the 31 of Jan. were more than 20 Doctors of Physic actually created, of which number were these that follow.  
Nou. 1. Sir Rich. Napier Kt, originally of Wadh. Coll, afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules, was then actually created Doctor of Phys.— This person who was Nephew and Heir to Rich. Napier Rector of Linford in Bucks, a younger son of Sir Rob. Napier of Luton-Hoe in Bedfordshire Bt, was afterwards one of the first members of the Royal Society, a great pretender to Virtue and Astrology, made a great noise in the world, yet did little or nothing towards the public. He died in the house of Sir John Lenthall at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks, 17 Jan. 1675, and was buried in the Church at Linford before mentioned; the Manor of which, did belong to him; but after his death his son Thom. sold it for 19500 l. or thereabouts. The said Sir Richard drew up a book containing A collection of Nativities, which is now in MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq.  

Nou. 1. Francis Smith of Brasn. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Thom. Smith of Linc. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Joh. Hinton.  
Nou. 1. George Roe.   
The said Joh. Hinton was afterwards a Kt, and Physician to K Ch. 2. and his Queen.  

Dec. 20. Will. Hunt.  
Dec. 20. Andr. Pindar.   

Jan. 16. Joh. Merret a Captain in Cornwall.  
Jan. 16. Walt. Charlton of Magd. Hall.   

Jan. 31. Thom. Bailiff lately of Hart Hall.  
Jan. 31. Thom. Hayes a Physician in the King's Army.  
Jan. 31. Sir Hen. Manwaring Kt.   
The first of these last three, was son of Dr. Ralph Bailiff sometimes Fellow of New Coll, and afterwards a Physician of note at Bath; which Thomas practising afterwards at Newbury in Berks, died there of a high infection in the prime of his years. As for the last, Sir H. Manwaring, I find one of both his Names and a Knight too, author of The Seamens Dictionary: or an exposition and demonstration of all the parts belonging to a ship. Lond. 1670. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell.  
Sir Joh. Terryngham Kt. High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, was created the same day.— He died on the second day of May 1645, and was buried in S. Mary's Church in Oxon.  
Sir John Stawell Kt. of the Bath sometimes Gent. Com. of Queens Coll, was also created the same day.— He was one of the Knights for Somersetshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. 3 Nou. 1640, but leaving it when the King was forced to leave Westminster, he retired to him at Oxon, and sat there for a time in the Parliament convened there. That which is chiefly memorable of this most worthy person, is, that he being one of the most eminent men in Somersetshire for Estate, Wisdom and Prudence, did, after he had undergone all the principal services and employments for his Country, viz. High Sheriff, Deputy Lieutenant, and Knight for the Shire in several Parliaments, most loyally and courageously take up arms, with three of his sons, raised three Regiments of Horse and two of Dragoons and of Foot upon his sole charge in defence of his Maj. K. Ch. 1, as also of the Laws of this Kingdom, and Rights of the Subject, invaded by wicked Conspirators under colour of reformation, an. 1642. He was then a Colonel of Horse, and soon after was made Governor of Taunton, and continued there till remanded. Upon the declining of the King's Cause, he was not admitted to his composition, as others were, though comprised within the Articles of Exeter upon the surrender of that City to the Powers at that time prevailing: and the reason was because they thirsted not only after his large Estate, but conspired also to take away his life. He endured in those times of affliction long and tedious Imprisonments in the Press-yard in Newgate and other Goals, and after in the Tower of London: And did with admirable Wisdom and Courage approve himself an eminent Assertor of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, by making such a defence in their several bloody Tribunals, (viz. at their Upper Bench bar and High Court of Justice) as that he put to silence those bold Judges, who sat there with design to take away his life. And though he was reduced to the greatest want and misery which his severe opposers by sale of his Lands, cutting down his Woods and demolishing the principal Seat of his family at Cotholstone could bring upon him, yet by the subsistence which his aged Mother the Lady Elizabeth Griffin afforded him, which was all he had, he most cheerfully underwent the same, lived to see the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2, and to be again elected one of the Knights for the County of Somerset to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm. 8 May 1661. After he had continued there some months, his urgent affairs drew him to his house at Ham three miles distant from Somerton in his own Country; where dying 21 Feb. 1661., aged 62 years, was buried on the 23 of Apr. following on the south side of the Chancel of the Church at Cotholstone, five miles distant from Taunton. There goes under the name of this most loyal person, his Petition and Remonstrance to the Parliament and O. Cromwell, as also his Vindication, printed 1653 and 55. fol. In the latter end of Jan. 1682 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. was graciously pleased to create Ralph Stawell Esq. a Baron of England by the name and stile of Lord Stawell of Somerton, in consideration of the eminent Loyalty and Sufferings of his father before mentioned during all the time of the Troubles, and the many good and acceptable Services performed by him.  

Jan. 31. Sir Rob. Lee Knights.  
Jan. 31. Sir Joh. Paulet Knights.   
The last, who had been sometimes of Exeter Coll, as it seems, was a younger son of the Lord Paulet.  
James Young lately of Qu. Coll: in Oxon, eldest son of Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester, was created the same day.  

Jan. 31. Nathan. Heighmore sometimes of Trin. Coll.  
Jan. 31. Christop. Merret sometimes of Gloc. Hall.   
Mar. 4. Rob. Bosworth of Brasn. Coll.— He was chose Burgess for the City of Hereford to sit in Richards-Parliament began at Wes●minster 27 of January 1658.   

Doct. of Diu.  
From the 1 of Nou. to the 21 Feb. were between 40 and 50 Doctors of Divinity actually created; most of whom follow.  

Nou. 1. Rob. pain Canons of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 1. George Morley Canons of Ch. Ch.   
The last of which was afterwards successively Bishop of Worcester and Winchester.  
Barten Holiday sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Oxford, was created the same day.  

Nou. 1. Hen. Stringer of New Coll.  
Nou. 1. Joh. Meredith of Alls. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Jer. Tailor of Alls. Coll.   
The first of these last three had been Greek Professor of this University, and was afterwards Warden of his Coll: whence being ejected he retired to London, where dying in Febr. 1657, was buried in the Church of the Black Friars. The second was now, or about this time Fellow of Eton Col, and Master of Wigstons' Hospital at Leycester: from both which being ejected in the times of Usurpation, he suffered equally with other Loyalists: At length upon his Majesty's return he was not only restored to his Fellowship and Hospital, but elected Warden of Alls. Coll. in the place of Dr. Sheldon promoted to the See of London, and made Provost of Eton Coll. in the room of Dr. Nich. Monk advanced to the See of Hereford. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 185. b. The third, Dr. Taylor, was, after his Maj. return, made Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland.  

Nou. 1. .... Mason of Cambridge.  
Nou. 1. .... Sherwood of Cambridge.   
The first of these two was perhaps Charles Mason of Kings Coll. who was afterwards Rector of the Church of S. Peter le Poor in London, author of (1) Concio ad Clerum Londinensem in Eccles. S. Alphagi. Lond. 1676. qu. (2) Miles Christianus, preached to the Artillery Company 16 Octob. 1673, at S. Mich. in Cornhill, on 2 Tim. 2.3. and of other things. He died in the time of Winter 1677.  
Peter Hausted M. A. of Cambridge was also actually created D. of D. the same day.— This noted person was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire, educated in Queens Coll. in the same University, entered into holy Orders when M. of A, became Curate of Vppingham in Rutlandshire, and at length Rector, as 'tis said, of Hadham in Hertfordshire. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, or thereabouts, he became Chaplain to the noble and loyal Spencer Earl of Northampton, stuck close to him in all Engagements, was with him in the Castle of Banbury in Oxfordshire, when stoutly defended against them: where concluding his last day in the year 1645, was either buried in the precincts of that Castle, or else in the Church belonging to Banbury. This person who was always accounted an ingenious man and an excellent Poet, hath written and published several things, as, (1) The Rival Friends, a Comedy. Lond. 1632. qu. Acted before the K. and Qu. at Cambridge, 19 Mar. 1631. (2) Senile odium: Comedia Cantabrigiae publicè Academicis recitata in Coll. Reginali ab ejusdem Collegii juventute. Cantab. 1633. in tw. (3) Ten Sermons preached upon several Sundays and Saints-days. Lond. 1636. qu. To which is added An Assize Sermon. (4) Ad populum. A lecture to the people, with a satire against Separatists. Oxon. 1644, etc. in three sh. in qu. 'Tis a Poem, and the title of it was given by K. Ch. 1; who seeing it in Manuscript with the title of A Sermon to the People, he altered it, and caused it to be called A Lecture, etc. being then much pleased with it. He also translated into English Hymnus Tobaci, etc. Lond. 1651. oct. See in the first vol. p. 422, at the bottom.  
Nou. 1. George Roberts sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in this University, now Rector of Hambledon in Bucks.— This person who was a general Scholar and a most accurate Preacher, was afterwards thrown out of his Living by the Usurpers, and suffered much for his Loyalty. After his Majesty's return he was restored to his Living, and on the 9 of August 1660 he was installed Archdeacon of Winchester, in the place of Dr. Edw. Burby some years before dead. Dr. Roberts died at Istleworth in Middlesex about the middle of March an. 1660, and was buried in the chancel of his Church at Hambledon before mentioned, on the 17 of the same month. Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument, with an inscription thereon made by Dr. Ralph Bathurst. In his Archdeaconry was installed on the 19 of the said month of March Dr. Thom. Gorges sometimes Fellow of Alls. Coll.  
Gilb. Wats Bach. of Diu. of Linc. Coll. was actually created D. D. the same day.  
James Fleetwood of Cambridge was also then created.— He was the seventh son of Sir George Fleetwood of the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks. Knight by his wife Catherine 
(*) So in the Baronage of England, tom. 3. p. 419. b.  daugh. of Henry Denny of Waltham in Essex, and Sister to Sir Edw. Denny Earl of Norwich: And being, when a child, very forward to learn, he was sent to Eton School, where being ripened for the University, was admitted Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1622. After he was four years standing in the degree of Mast. of Arts, he became Chaplain to Dr. Wright Bishop of Lichfield, by whom he was presented to the Vicarage of Prees or Priss in Shropshire, and soon after collated to the Prebendship of Eccleshall belonging to the said Church of Lichfield, but before he was admitted or installed, the rebellion broke out. Afterwards being forced for his Loyalty to forsake his preferment, he betook himself to the Wars, and became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Earl of Rivers, and in the quality of a Chaplain he continued to the end of the said Wars. In 1642 he was by the King's special command honoured with the degree of Doct. of Diu. for the service he did for him at Edghill fight, and soon after he was made Chaplain to Charles Prince of Wales, and Rector of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire. After the Wars were ceased, and he ejected thence, he became Tutor to three Earls, viz. to the Earl of Lichfield, E. of Kildare and the E. of Sterling: Afterwards to two Dukes, namely to Esme Duke of Richmond and Lenox, with whom he traveled into France (where he died) and to Charles who succeeded him in his Dukedoms. After the restauration of K Ch. 2. he was the first that was sworn Chaplain in ord. to him, was made Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in June 1660, and about that time Rector of Anstey in Hertfordshire and of Denham in Bucks. On the 29 of Aug. 1675, the Archbishop of Cant. being then at Croyden, and the B. of London (Henchman) languishing and near his end, he the said Dr. Fleetwood was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, not in the Chap. at Lambeth, or in that at Fulham, nor in Bow Church because unfinished, but in the Church of S. Peter le Poor in Broadstreet in London, in the place of Dr. Walt. Blandford deceased; at which time his old friend and acquaintance Dr. Charles Mason sometimes of Kings Coll. was Rector of the said Church and procured for him a neighbouring Hall to keep his Consecration Feast in. He died on the 17 of July 1683, aged 81 years, and was buried near the body of Bishop Gauden in our Lady's Chapel within the Precincts of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester. In his Provostship of Kings Coll. succeeded Sir Tho. Page Knight, about Michaelmas 1675, a person of great experience, learning, and infinite accomplishments, (who died 8 Aug. 1681) and in his Bishopric Dr. Will. Thomas, as I have elsewhere told you. After Easter in 1687 was erected over the grave of the said B. Fleetwood a large marble Monument, with an Epitaph of his own making, which being too large for this place, shall be now omitted. Tho this Bishop was a very loyal person, yet several of his Family of the Vache were great Parliamentiers and Cromwellians, among whom was George Fleetwood one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1, for which he lost the Vache and his other Estate.  

Nou. 1. John Watkins of Alls. Coll.  
Nou. 1. Hen. Kelligrew of Ch. Ch.   
Will. Chillingworth of Trin. Coll. was put into the same roll with the former persons, by his Majesty, to be created D. D. but he came not to take it, nor was he diplomated.  
Nou. 10. John Earl sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Chaplain to Charles Pr. of Wales.  

Dec. 20. John Arnway of S. Edm. Hall.  
Dec. 20. Thom. Bradley of Exet. Coll.  
Dec. 20. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch.   

..... Staunton of Ch. Ch.  
..... Hodges' of Ch. Ch.   
These two last were created the same day, or at least were allowed their degrees when they would please to call for them; but whether they were educated in Ch. Ch. it appears not, and therefore I presume they were Strangers that came with, and attended, the King's Court, lodging now in that house. I find one Thom. Hodges to be Rector of Kensington near London before the rebellion broke out, a Preacher sometimes before the Long Parliament, one of the Ass. of Divines, and a Covenantier. After his Majesty's restauration he became Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill, London, and Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. H. Croft made Bishop thereof an. 1661.; which Deanery he holding to the time of his death, was succeeded therein by Dr. George Benson about Midsummer, an. 1672. This Tho. Hodges hath extant (1) A Glimpse of God's glory, Sermon before the H. of Com. at a solemn Fast, 28 Sept. 1642, on Psal. 113.5.6. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) The growth and spreading of Heresy, Fast-serm. before the H. of Com. 10 Mar. 1646. on 2 Pet. 2.1. Lond. 1647. qu (3) Inaccessible glory: or the impossibility of seeing God's face whilst we are in the body: Serm. at the funeral of Sir Theod. de Mayerne in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields, on Friday 30 of Mar. 1655. on Exod. 33.20. Lond. 1655. qu. and perhaps other things, but such I have not yet seen, nor can I believe him to be the same with Hodges before mentioned who was created D. of D, because I cannot find him written or called Doctor till after his Majesty's return. Another Thom. Hodges I find who was Rector of Soulderne near Deddington in Oxfordshire, and Bach. of Divinity, not of this University but of that of Cambridge, and afterwards one of the Chaplains of Allsouls Coll, in the time of Oliver, which he kept with his Rectory. This person who was also a zealous Presbyterian, was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire, first admitted into Emanuel Coll, and thence taken and made Fellow of that of S. John the Evangelist; the Master and Society of which presented him to the Rectory of Soulderne before mentioned. When the Act of Uniformity came out he prevailed so much with the said Society that they nominated his friend to be his Successor, viz. one Will. Twine Fellow of the said Coll: and then Hodges leaving the place, he retired to Okingham in Berks, and became Chaplain to the Hospital there, where he died and was buried about the month of January 1688, as I have been informed from Soulderne. The said Mr. Hodges hath written (1) A Treatise concerning Prayer, containing particularly an Apology for the Lords Supper. Lond. 1656. in tw. (2) A Scripture Catechism towards the confutation of sundry errors of the present times. Lond. 1658. oct. Besides which two things, he hath also several Sermons extant as (1) The hoary head crowned, a fun. serm. on Prov. 16.31. (2) The creatures goodness as they came out of God's hands, and the good man's mercy to the brute creatures, &c in two sermons, printed twice at least. (3) A cordial against the fear of death, preached before the University of Oxon, on Heb. 2.15. Oxon. 1659. qu. and one, two or more which I have not yet seen. This Thomas Hodges, though he lived in Oxon several years yet he was neither incorporated, or took any degree in Divinity.  
Dec. 20. Edw. Wolley M. of A. or Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, and at this time one of the Chapl. to his Majesty was actually created Doct. of Diu.— He was born in the ancient borough of Shrewsbury, educated in the King's School there, transplanted thence to St. John's Coll. in the said University, where he took the degrees in Arts; and afterwards adhering to the cause of his Majesty, retired to Oxon to attend, and preached sometimes before, him there. When his Majesty's cause declined he suffered as other Royalists did, attended his Son in his adverse fortune, while he himself endured great misery. After the return of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of a Church in Essex (Finchingfield I think) to settle the inhabitants thereof in loyal principles and to undo and invalidate the doctrine which that most notorious Independent Steph. Martial had instilled into them. In 1665 he was promoted to the Episcopal See of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland, to which being 
(†) Jac. Waraus in Com. de Prasul. Hi. Dab. 1665. p. 26●.  consecrated at Titam on the 16. of Apr. the same year, sat there for some time, and was held in great veneration for his admirable way Of preaching and exemplary life and conversation. Among several things that he hath extant, are these (1) Eulogia. The Parent's blessing their Children; and the Children begging (on their knees) their Parent's blessings, are pious actions, warrantable by the word of God and practised by God's saints and servants. Lond. 1661. etc. oct. (2) Eudoxia. A module of private prayers, or occasional helps in retired devotions. Printed with the former book. (3) Loyalty amongst Rebels, the true royalist, etc. Lond. 1662. oct.  

... edmond's M. A. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr.  
... Earskin B. D. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr.   
Both which were actually created the same day.  
Jan. 16. Christoph. Prior M. A. of Ball. Coll.— On the 24 of Dec. 1641, he was collated to the Prebendship of Slape in the Church of Salisbury, in Sept. 1643 he became Prebend of Barton Davy in the Church of Wells, and in the latter end of the same year Principal of New Inn in the place of Christoph. Rogers, who some time before had fled from Oxon to the Parliament. This person, who was always esteemed a good Grecian, and well furnished with other parts of learning, died about half a year before his Majesty's return, and thereby prevented not only his restauration to what he had lost for the King's cause, but his promotion to higher Dignities.  
Will. O dis of New Coll. sometimes Proctor of the University was actually created the same day— He was afterwards slain by the Parliament Soldiers, without any provocation given on his part, between Adderbury in Oxfordshire (of which place he was Vicar) and the Garrison of Oxon, about 1644.  

Jan. 16. Henry Ancketyll of Wadh. Coll.  
Jan. 16. Hugh Halswell of Alls. Coll.  
Jan. 16. Joh. Metelfer or Meltalfer of Cambr.  
Jan. 16. (Edw.) Hyde of Cambr.   
The last of these four, I take to be the same Edward Hyde, who is mentioned in Alexander Hide among the Bishops nu. 34.  
... Fowler of Ch. Ch. was created the same day.— On Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. took the degree of Bach. of Arts an. 1637, as I have in the Fasti of that year told you: So that if the said Fowler be the same with the other, than was he created D. D. at 5 years standing in the degree of Bachelaur. The said Matthew Fowler was now deeply engaged in his Majesty's service, for which afterwards he suffered as other Royalists did. After his Majesty's restauration he became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire in the place of Dr. Nich. Bernard deceased, where he continued to his dying day. He hath published besides Totum hominis, mentioned in the Fasti an. 1637, a Sermon entit. The properties of heavenly wisdom, preached at the Assizes held at Shrewsbury in the County of Salop.— Lond. 1681-2. qu. He died on S. Stephen's day 1683, aged 66 years, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch before mentioned. Soon after was a black marble monument set up in the north wall over his grave, with an inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said that he was almost 22 years' Rector of the said Church, that he was descended of the ancient family of his name living in Staffordshire that he was first of the University of Oxon, and afterwards of Cambridge and the ornament and glory of both, and that when he was a young man of Ch. Ch, he was one of the chief of those many Scholars that stood up, and valiantly defended the King's cause, etc.  
Other persons also occur created the same day, or at least were nominated by his Majesty, to be promoted Doctors of Divinity, when they were pleased to make intimation to the Vicechancellor, as one Ramsd●n of Linc. Coll, King of Magd. Hall, Babington of Ch. Ch. etc.  

Jan. 31. Rob. Marks of Merton Coll.  
Jan. 31. Rich. Langston of Merton Coll.  
Jan. 31. Will. Cox of New Coll.  
Jan. 31. John Jones of Bras. Coll.   
Thom. Hook of Cambr. was created the same day.  
Feb. 21. William Bayly a Dignitary in Ireland— He was soon after made Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in that Country.  

Feb. 21. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 21. Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll.  
Feb. 21. Thom. Bourman of Cambr.   
One Rob. Boreman or Bourman Brother to Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Green-cloth to K. Ch. 2. was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr, and afterwards D. of D. and Rector of S. Giles Church in the Fields n●●● London, but what relation he had to the said Thomas, I cannot yet tell. This Robert, who seems to be of the family of the Boremans' in the Isle of Wight, hath written several things, among which are (1) The Countryman's Catechism: or the Church's plea for tithes. Lond. 1651. qu. (2) The triumph of learning over ignorance, and of truth and falsehood. Being an answer to four queries, first whether there be any need of Universities? etc. Lond. 1653. qu. (3) Life and death of Freeman Sonds Esq. (4) Relation of Sir George Sonds narrative of the passages on the death of his two Sons. Both printed at Lond. in qu. The said Freeman Son of Sir George was hanged for murdering his Brother. (5) A mirror of Christianity, and a mirror of charity; or a true and exact narrative of the life and death of Alice Duchess Duddeley etc. Lond. 1669. qu. The said Duchess who had been the Wise of Sir Rob. Dudley, died in her house near the Church of S. Giles in the fields 22. Jan. 1668 aged 90 years. (6) Sermon on Philip. 3.20. Ibid. 1669. qu. This person Dr. Boreman, after he had spent his time in celibacy, died at Greenwich in Kent in the Winter time, 1675.  
Mar. 4. Laurence Hinton of Mert. Coll. Prebend of Winchester— He died at Shilbolton or Chilbolton in Hampshire (of which he was Rector) an. 1658.  
24. Will. Sherbourne of S. John Coll. in this Uniu. and Prebend of Hereford— He suffered afterwards much for the King's cause, and lost all his spiritualities, but being restored to them again after his Majesty's return, enjoyed himself in a quiet repose for almost 20 years. He died at Pembridge in Herefordsh. (of which he was Rector) in the month of Apr. 1679 aged 92 years.    



An. Dom. 1643.  
An. 19 Car. 1.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery etc. but he being thought unworthy to bear the said office by the King and University, forasmuch as he was actually against the former in the present War, and altogether neglected the other, the K. authorised 
(a) Reg. Convoc. S. p. 40.  the members thereof to make choice of another: wherefore they calling a convocation on the 24 of Octob. did elect 
(b) Ibid.  for their Chancellor, one that had been formerly of Magd. Coll, viz. Will. Marquis of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron Seymour, &c, and on the 31 of the said month they admitted and installed him in the House of convocation, (then in the north chap. joining to S. Mary's Church) in the presence of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, Salisbury, Rochester and divers of the Nobility that were then in the University.  
Vicechanc. Joh. Tolson D. D. Provost of Oriel, who continuing in his office till the 18 of Nov, Dr. Pink before mentioned succeeded him.  

Proct.  
George Wake of Magd. Coll. Apr. 12.  
Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Apr. 12.   
The signior Proctor having sprained his leg, or else put it out of joint, and therefore not able to come to the convocation house to be admitted, that ceremony (a dispensation being first granted) was performed in his Chamber at Magd. Coll. As for the other Proctor, he dying 29. Nou. Mr. Joh. Mapl●t of the same house succeeded, Dec. 9  
This year in the month of Oct. the courts of Parliament assembled in the Schools, and there sat for some time; so that upon that account, and that the other Schools were employed as Granaries, all exercises and lectures (if any at all) were performed in S. Mary's Church.  

Bach. of Arts.  
July 4. Joh. Ahier of New Coll.— See among the Masters an. 1646.  
Dec. 2. John Lakenby of Magd. Coll.— This person who was the Son of Simon Lakenby of Shadford in the County Pal. of Durham, did afterwards retire to S. Edm. Hall, and lived there a close student till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendered, an. 1646. At which time perceiving the English Church tottering, he went beyond the Sea, changed his religion, and was entered into the English Coll. at Douai. After some time spent there, he returned into England, became Usher to James Shirley when he taught in the White Friars at London in the time of Oliver, but being seized on, and imprisoned for some time, was at length released, and died in London in a mean condition. He was accounted famous among those of his opinion for the Greek and Latin tongues and for ecclesiastical history.  
Feb. 16. John dutch of Trin. Coll.— This person who was a Dorsetshire man born, hath extant A Serm. on 1. Sam. 10.24. Print. 1660. qu.  
Adm. 73.   

Bach. of Law.  
But two this year were admitted, viz. John Jennings of S. John's Coll. Apr. 20 and Thomas Godwin sometimes a member of this University.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 12. Gilb. Coals of New Coll.  
Apr. 12. Nich. Ward of Sidney Coll. in Cambr.   
20. George Jolliff of Pemb. Coll.  

May 4. Mart. Llewellin of Ch. Ch.  
June 2. John Fell of Ch. Ch.  
June 2. Rich. Allestree of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon.  

26. Will. Scroggs of Pembr. Coll.  
Jul. 7. Will. joiner alias Lyde of Magd. Coll.   
The last of these two, who was Son of Will. joiner Gent, was born in the Parish of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon, educated partly in the Free-school at Thame, but more in that within the City of Coventry, elected Demy of Magd. Coll. an. 1636, and afterwards Fellow. But upon a foresight of the utter ruin of the Church of England by the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion, he changed his Religion for that of Rome, renounced his Fellowship and became a Retainer to the most noble Henry Marquis of Worcester at Ragland, and after his death to Walt. Montague L. Abbot of S. Mart. near Pontois in France, in whose family there, he spent some years, and afterwards returned to his native Country. In 1687 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. K. Jam. 2, but outed thence after a years enjoyment. He hath written (1) The Roman Empress, a Comedy. Lond. 1670. qu. (2) Some observations upon the life of Reginaldus Polus Cardinal, of the blood royal of England, sent in a packet out of Wales, etc. Lond. 1686. oct. This person, W. joiner, is now living in an obscure village in Bucks, near Thame in Oxfordshire, in a most retired, studious and devout condition, and also in a capacity of publishing other things if he please.  

Feb. 8. Will. Beaw of New Coll.  
Feb. 8. Dan. Whistler of Mert. Coll.  
Mar. 21. Will. How of S. John. Coll.   
Adm. 39  
☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. or of Diu. was adm. this year only created.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Physic was adm. this year only created.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 6. Nich. Greaves of All's. Coll.— He was the only person that was admitted or licenced to proceed this year.   

Incorporations.  
June 15. Hen. Ferne D. D. of Cambridge— This learned person who was originally of S. Mary's Hall in Oxon, was afterwards Bish. of Chester.  
Dec. 9 Sir John Lamb Kt. Doct. of the Laws of Cambridge and Dean of the Arches.— This worthy Knight who had been a great persecutor of the Puritans, was now forced by them to leave his station and retire to his Majesty at Oxon, where for a time he found security. Afterwards he suffered much for the royal cause, paid a large sum of money for his composition, and was in a manner utterly ruined. He died in London (in the Bell Inn, as 'tis said, in S. Martins-lane) in the beginning of the year 1647.  
Jan. 31. Paul Knell Mast. of Arts of Clare Hall in Cambridge, now Chaplain to a Regiment of Curiasiers in his Majesty's Army, was then incorporated in the same degree— He hath written and published (1) A Looking-glass for Levellers, Sermon on Luke 20.14. Lond. 1648. qu. (2) Israel and England paralleled, Serm. on Amos 3.2. Lond. 1648. qu. (3) The lifeguard of a loyal Christian, Serm. on Isay 43.2. Lond. 1648. qu. Which three Sermons, with two more, were afterwards published with this title, Five seasonable sermons preached before eminent Auditories, etc. Lond. 1660. In the year following was this title put to them Five seasonable Sermons preached before the King's Majesty beyond the Seas, and other eminent Auditories in England, formerly prohibited, but now published and dedicated to his Majesty.  
Mar. 21. Will. Holder Mast. of A. of Pembr. Hall in Cambridge— You may see more of this person, who was about this time Rector of Blechington in Oxfordshire, among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1660.  
John Cruse or Cruso M. A. of the said University, was incorp. the same day.   

CREATIONS.  
Notwithstanding the chief members of the University had the last year put up a Petition to his Majesty against the promiscuous conferring of degrees and the danger that the University was like to fall into, if some remedy in the matter was not taken, as namely that the solemn Arts and Sciences would be destroyed, the fountain of the University treasury dried up (because that few or none that were created paid any fees) and hopeful Scholars discouraged and the University dishonoured; yet nevertheless his Majesty could not otherwise at this time but recommend (as he did the year before) several of his faithful subjects to have degrees conferred upon them, though with this caution (as the Chancellor of the University did the like in his recommendatory Letters) that they should pay all o● most of the fees belonging to each degree. The names of most of such persons that were actually created in several faculties, are here set down.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Oct. 17. Martin Barnes, created in Convocation.  
Feb. 8. Tho. Culpeper of Vniv Coll. was created by virtue of the letters of the Chanc. of the University.— He was afterwards Fellow of Alls. Coll, and a Writer, and therefore to be numbered hereafter among the Oxford Authors.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jan. 31. Will. Hinson.  
Mar. 18. John Baldwin— He was created in respect had to his loyalty and faithful service to his Majesty, and extraordinary sufferings and imprisonment for religion and the laws.  
Both these were created by virtue of the Chancellors letters, though Baldwin had not been educated in any University.  
On the 9 of May this year Tho Fletcher a Student in the municipal Laws had liberty granted to him, (though then absent) to take the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law, when he should come to the University.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Jun. 16. Sir Franc. Lee Kt.  
Jun. 16. Will. Killingtree Esq.   
The last of these two was buried in the middle isle of those three that join on the north side of the choir of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon, 4. Aug. 1643.  
Jul. 6. John Theyer Gent, sometimes a Student in Magd. Coll.— He was created by virtue of his Majesty's rescript written with his own hand to Sir Edw. Nicholas his Secretary, which was the same day sent to the venerable convocation, to the end that the members thereof freely 
(*) Reg. Convoc. S. p. 33.  bestow that honour upon him who hath well deserved of his Majesty and the Church. The said Mr. Theyer had a little before presented to his Majesty on the Mount in Merton Coll. garden, a book which he had dedicated to him, as I have told you among the Writers, an. 1673, p. 380.  
July 18. Rich. Evans B. A. of Magd. Coll.— He was then created Master because he had lately done for the King service in the Western parts of England, and for that also he was now about to go into Ireland.  
Oct. 17. Rich. Rallingson B. A. of Qu. Coll.— He was then created Master by virtue of the King's letters, which say that by our direction, and for our service he hath drawn a mathematical scheme or plot of this garrison (Oxon) wherein he hath given us good satisfaction, and is very like to be useful to us in our fortifications, etc. among the created Doctors of Diu. 1661.  

Oct. 17. John Poston  
Oct. 17. Cave Beck   
The last of these two hath published The universal character, by which all nations may understand one another. Lond. 1657. oct, and perhaps other things.  
Dec. 9 John Coke or Cook.  
Jan. 31. Dan. Southmead Bac. of Arts of this University was then created Master.  
Mar. 18. Will. Zanchie who had rendered both his life and fortunes in the King's service under the command of Richard Viscount Molineaux, and thereby had lost time in the University, was actually created Mast. of Arts by virtue of the King's Letters, dat. 10. of Jan. this year.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Oct. 17. Franc. Metcalf of S. Mary's Hall.  
Feb. 8. John Catchpole of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Oct. 17. James Bardsey— He was a stranger as it seems, and the only Bach. of Diu. that was created this year.  
In the month of May it was granted to Edw. Willisford then absent, that he might be created, when he came to the University, but whether he came or was admitted it appears not; perhaps he was the same Mr. Willisford who was lately ejected from Peter house in Cambridge for denying the Covenant.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 12. George Owen one of the Heralds of Arms by the title of York.  
May 29. Rich. Colchester, was then also actually created— He is styled in the public reg. dignissimus vir, and de republica optime meritus. One Rich. Colchester of Westbury in Glocestershire Esq. was one of the six Clerks in the High Court of Chancery, and died in the troublesome times, about 1646: whether the same Quaere.  
June 16. Jeffry Palmer of the Middle Temple Esq.— This worthy Gentleman who was son of Thom. Palmer of Carleton in Northamptonshire, by Catherine his wife daughter of Sir Edw. Watson of Rockingham Kt, sister to the first Lord Rockingham, was chosen Burges for Stanford in Lincolnshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640, wherein he was a manager of the evidence against Thomas Earl of Strafford, and seemed to be an enemy to the prerogative. But afterwards he perceiving full well what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took, he boldly delivered his mind against the printing of that Declaration called the Grand remonstrance; for which he was committed to custody in Nou. 1642. Afterwards being freed thence, he retired to Oxon, sat in the Parliament there, and was esteemed a loyal and able person in his profession. Upon the declining of the King's cause, he suffered as other Royalists did, lived obscurely in England, and upon pretence of plotting with the Cavaliers against Oliver the Protector, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, in the month of May 1655. On the 31. of May 1660, his Majesty being then newly restored, he was made Attorney General, and about that time chief Justice of Chester and a Knight, and on the 7 of June following he was created a Baronet. He hath collected and written Reports bearing this title, Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer Chevalier & Baronet, etc. Lond. 1678. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hamsted in Middlesex on the fifth day of May, an. 1670 aged 72: whereupon his body being conveyed to the Hall of the Middle Temple, laid there in state for a time, attended by three Heralds of Arms. Afterwards it was conveyed to the Seat of his Ancestors at Carleton in Northamptonshire before mentioned, and there buried in a Vault under part of the Parish Church. What inscription there is for him over his sepulchre I cannot tell: sure I am that Dr. Thom. Pierce hath composed a most noble 
(*) At the end of a book of his entit. Rationes sereniss. Caroli contra effectatam curiae 〈◊〉 dicibatur) Justitia jurisdictionem, etc. Printed in qu. about 1674.  epitaph on him, as also on his Wife Margaret (Daughter of Sir Franc. More of Fawley in Berks) who died on the 16. of the Cal. of May 1655 aged 47 years; but it being too long for this place I shall only give you the beginning. Galfridus Palmer vir ad omnia, praesertim optima, usque quaeque comparatus, etc.  
July 18. John Philipot Herald of Arms by the title of Somerset— This person who was of Eltham in Kent, was born at Folkston in that County, and having a genie from his childhood to Heraldry and Antiquities, was, from being an Officer of Arms extraordinary called Blanch Lion, created Officer in ordinary called Rouge-Dragon, 19 of Nou. 1618., and on the 8. July 1624. Herald by the title of Somerset: In which capacity he was employed by his Majesty to make a presentation of the most noble Order of the Garter to his Highness Charles Lodowick Prince Elector, in the Army at Bockstell or Bockstall in Brabant. In the beginning of the Presbyterian rebellion in 1642, he was one of those Loyal Heralds who followed his Majesty, was with him at Oxon, but took up his quarters two miles distant thence, at a place called Chawley in the Parish of Comnore: where being seized on by certain Parliament Soldiers of the Garrison of Abendon was conveyed thence a Prisoner to London, in 1644 or thereabouts. But being soon after set at liberty, he spent the short remainder of his days in London in great obscurity. At length yielding to nature, I cannot say in want, was buried within the precincts of S. Bennets Church near to Paulswharf on the 25 of Nou. 1645. He hath written (1) Catalogue of the Chancellors of England, the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurers of England. With a collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolls. Lond. 1636. qu. (2) Additions to Will. Camden's Remains concerning Britain. Lond. 1637, etc. qu. (3) Villare Cantianum; or, Kent surveyed and illustrated, being an exact description of all the Parishes, Boroughs, Villages and Manors of the County of Kent. Lond. 1659. fol. Published by, and under the name of, Thom. Philipot his Son, as I have told you among the Incorporations in the Fasti, under the year 1640. (4) An Historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent. This is added to the said Villare Cautianum. He the said Joh. Philipot hath also written, as 'tis said, a book proving that Gentry doth not abate with Apprenticeship, but only sleepeth, during the time of their indentures, and awaketh again when they are expired. But this book I have not yet seen.  
Aug. ... Sir John Borough Kt, Garter Principal King of Arms— His Grace did then pass in a Convocation to be Doctor of the Civil Law, but whether he was admitted, it appears not (as several Creations do not) in the public register. This person who was the Son of a Dutch man, a Brewer by trade, living in Sandwich in Kent, as I have been informed at the Office of Arms, was educated a Scholar, and afterwards in the come. Law in Greys' Inn, but his genie inclining him much to the study of Antiquity, he obtained the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, where by his searches he laid the foundation of certain books. In 1623. he, by the favour of the Earl Marshal, to whom he was then, or lately, Secretary, was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray, because no person can be King of Arms before he is Herald, and on the 23 of Dec. the same year, he was created Norroy King of Arms at Arundel-house in the Strand, in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux. On the 17 of July 1624., he received the honour of Knighthood, and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Arms in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased. This learned and polite person, who writes his Surname in Latin Burrhus, hath written (1) Impetus juveniles, & quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae. Oxon. 1643. oct. Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon, Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam, Thom. Farnabie, Tho. Coppin, Sir Hen. Spelman, etc. (2) The Sovereignty of the British Seas, proved by records, history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom. Lond. 1651. in tw. It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London, which I have not yet seen. He died in Oxon, to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office, on the 21. of Octob. 1643, and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joining, on the north side, to the choir of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon.  
Octob▪ 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt, sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv. Coll, was, after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Stevart Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral, actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel (commonly called Ad. Brome's Chap) of S. Mary's Church.— He afterwards suffered much for the King's cause, (as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford) was with him in his exile, and died some years before his restauration. You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives, actions, etc. of excellent personages, etc. by Dau. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149▪ etc.  
Nou. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the King's Army and about this time Governor of Eccleshal in Staffordshire, was then actually created.— After his Majesty's restauration, he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty.  
Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight, Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer, was then actually created Doctor of the Civ. Law with more than ordinary ceremony— This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County, was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple, where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries, was called to the Bar and became a Counsellor of note. In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn, but did not read because of the pestilence, and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles; at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took, when the King had given them leave to sit, he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellor of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there, all his goods therein, and an excellent Library; and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon, where in 1643 he was made Sergeant at Law, Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer, a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year, and about the same time one of his Majesty's honourable Privy Council. In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Uxbridge, and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon, on the death of Edward Lord Littleton. In May and June 1646, he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon, and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament. In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock, then in his greatness, to the end that the said goods of his Father, then in his possession, might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father, who then wanted them; but Whitlock would not 
(a) Mystery of the good old cause, printed 1660. p. 33.  own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard, and therefore he kept what he had of his, to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard, who died, as a certain 
(b) James Heath in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland▪ etc. ●r●n●ed at Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo, under the year 1650▪ p. 496.  author tells us, in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650, but false as I presume, because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a 
(c) In the Book o● Register of Administrations in the Will Office near S. Paul's C▪ h. Ch. in London, beginning in Jan. 1650. fol. 54. ●.  Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict, to administer the goods, chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire, who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchequer, beginning in the third, and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight.  
Sir John Glanvill Kt, Serjeant at Law, was created the same day (Jan. 31.) and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation, as Sir Rich. Lane was.— This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench, (who died 27 July 1600) and he the third Son of another John of the same place, where and in that County their name was gentile and ancient. When he was young, he was not educated in this University, but was (as his Father before him) bred an Attorney, and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincoln's Inn, and, with the help of his Father's notes, became a great proficient. When he was a Counsellor of some years standing, he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments. In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn, and on the 20 of May 1639, he was made Sergeant at Law, at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly, (for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative) he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm. on the 13 of April, in which he showed himself active to promote the King's desires. On the 6 of July the same year, he was made one of the King's Sergeants (being then esteemed an excellent Orator, a great Lawyer, and an ornament to his profession) and on the 7. of Aug. 1641, he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall. Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament, he followed him to Oxon, and was very serviceable to him in many respects. In 1645 he was disenabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency, as 'twas then called: So that retiring to his home after the King's cause declined, he was committed to Prison, where continuing till he had made his composition, was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant (1) Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth, seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham, a. 1626. See in John rushworth's Collections, under the year 1626. (2) Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628., wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House, why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords, concerning Sovereign power. Printed in qu. See in a book entit. The Sovereign's Prerogative and the Subject's Privileges discussed, etc. in the 3 d. and 4 th'. years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186. (3) Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right. (4) Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords, when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640, p. 1121.1123. (5) Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances, in Dec. 1640. etc. with other things, etc. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Sergeant also, and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661., was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire, the Manor of which, he some years before had bought. In Sept. 1673, Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave, with an inscription thereon, which for brevity sake shall be now omitted. One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622, and afterwards that of Master, but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John, because he was never bred in any University, as his Son hath informed me. The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock; who, when young, being very vicious, was disinherited by his Father and the Estate settled on Sir John: But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man, Sir John restored to him the Estate. See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, etc. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D.— Lond. 1682 in a large octavo, p. 11.  
Feb. 19 Sir Rich. Vivian Knight— He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640, but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sat in the Parl. there, an. 1643.  
Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight, Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon. was created the same day— In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter, afterwards the Queen's Solicitor and now (1643) her Attorney, and upon the declining of the King's cause a great sufferer. After his Majesty's return he was restored to what he had lost, became Recorder of Exeter again, after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield. At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendered that office in 1676.  

Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires.  
Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires.   
The first of these two, was a Knight for Anglesie, to serve in the Parl. began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640, but leaving it in 1642 sat in the Parl. at Oxon.  

March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires.  
March 21. Pierce Edgecombe Esquires.   
The first of these last two, who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall, was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County, and afterwards sat at Oxon, suffered for the King's cause, and dying in 1650, or thereabouts, was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn. The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County, and afterwards sat at Oxon, for which also he suffered in his Estate.  
This year was, among others, nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law, one Colonel Bard, but whether he was admitted I cannot tell— I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex, who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an. 1631. Whilst he was Scholar, he made an excursion to Paris, upon the customary leave of absence (which is but for 9 weeks in a year) without the College or his Relations privity. After he was made Fellow, he traveled for some years into France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason. After his return he lived high, as he had done before, without any visible income, and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library, supposed to be stolen by him out of a Mosque in Egypt; which being valued but at 20 l, he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventured his neck for it. This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition, yet proper, robust and comely, did, upon the approach of the grand rebellion, retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York, where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages, especially of the French, which the Queen took notice of, he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel, and afterwards to be Governor of Camden house in Glocestershire, (which, when he quitted, he burned) and then for a time of Worcester. On the 22 of Nou. 1643, he received the honour of Knighthood, and soon after being made a Baronet, his ambition was so great, that being not content with that station, he, by his, and the endeavours of others, was created Baron of Brombry and Viscount Bellomont in Ireland, 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesty's unfortunate battles, he wrote to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up arms neither for religion (for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of) nor for that moustrap, the Laws, but to re-establish the King in his Throne, and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come, he desired leave that they would discharge him, that he might relinquish the Land, which accordingly was done. After the murder of K. Ch. 1, he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2, then ●n Exile, Ambassador to the Emperor of Persia, upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court, in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus: But so it was, that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind, was choked by the Sands, giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta, having been a Roman Catholic several years before he died. He left behind him a Widow, not so rich, but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesty's return, from Kings Coll. in Cambridge, and two Daughters who were of his religion, one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert, as I have elsewhere told you. He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London, who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion. This Brother, as 'tis supposed, furnished him with money in his travels and high living, being a great admirer of his accomplishments, and as much despised by him.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 9 Sir Henry St. George Knight, Garter Principal K. of Arms, was then actually created Doctor of Physic— This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Arms, was born of an ancient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire, bred up to Heraldry, and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rougerose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Arms, commonly called the Herald's Office, afterwards Blewmantle, and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond, Herald of Arms. In 1627. he was joint Ambassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher, and daily waiter to K. Ch. 1, to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter, which being done, that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia, but gave them the Arms of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever, as an augmentation to their own Arms. Afterwards he was Norroy King of Arms and at length Garter, and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nou. 1644, was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joining to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon, leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas, afterwards a Knight, Norroy, and now (1691) Garter Principal King of Arms; Henry another Son, afterwards Norroy, a Knight and now (1691) Clarenceaux King of Arms, and lastly a third named Richard an Esq, who became Ulster King of Arms of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincoln's Inn Esq, and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin, an. 1660; which place he surrendering in 1683, was succeeded therein by Athlone, Pursuivant or Officer of Arms, named Rich. Carney, who, before (while he was Athlone) had received the honour of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran, and is the first King of Arms of that Kingdom that had that honour conferred on him. The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Arms, who died at Oxon, hath published nothing, only made collections of several matters relating to his profession, particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations, as they were in 1628., etc. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham, and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt, Lord Cottington of Hanworth. This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. Collected and published by Tho. Walkley.  
May 9 Thom. Johnson, whom I have mentioned among the created Bachelaurs of Phys. an. 1642, was actually created also Doct. of Physic, in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry (before this year) published— He was born near Hull in Yorkshire, bred an Apothecary in London, and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill; where by his unwearied pains, advanced with good natural parts, he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England. His works as to his profession are (1) Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus, etc. Lond. 1634. oct. (2) Thermae Bathonicae. (3) His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerard's Herbal, or general History of Plants, Lond. 1636. fol. (4) His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery. Lond. 1634. fol. etc. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now (1643) a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basin house in Hampshire, whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644, to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basin to fetch provision thence, but beaten back by the enemy (headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton) he received a shot in his shoulder, whereby contracting a fever, he died in a fortnight after in the said House: At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears, being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valour and conduct as a Sold, than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physician.  
Nou. 18. Spencer Lucy a Colonel in the King's Army, Son of Sir Tho. Lucy of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight.  
Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett, who had spent several years in the study of Physic in the University of Milan, was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of this University— He was a Scot born, or at least of Scotch extract, but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not.  
Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks— His bare name only stands in the reg. as created Doctor of Physic, and therefore I can say no more of him.  
Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq.— He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640, but leaving it, he retired to Oxon and sat in the Parliament there.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Diu. of Jes. Coll. in Oxon, was then created D. of D.  
May 29. Jeb. Weeks Preb. of Bristol, and Bach. of Diu. of Cambr. above 20 years standing.— This Doctor, a jocular person, was now a Preacher in Oxon, sometimes either before the King or Parliament, and suffered much for the royal Cause. Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwall upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells, and after his death the said Deanery was annexed to the Bishopric of Exeter.  
June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester, was created in Congregation by virtue of the King's Letters as Owen and Weeks were.— In his last Will and Test. proved 3 Apr. 1674, he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex.  
June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest, sometimes of Brasn. Coll, afterwards of Gloc. Hall.  
July 18. Will. Stamp of Pembr. Coll.  
Oct. 17. Rich. Langham.— Of him I know nothing.  
Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum, sometimes of Ball. Coll, now, as it seems, of S. Edm. Hall, was actually created the same day.— This person who was of the family of the Hides of Wiltshire, became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury, but also Chauntor thereof, in Nou. 1660, upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop thereof. He died about the beginning of Sept. 1666; whereupon his Prebendship of Teynton with Yalmeton, was conferred on Gab. Thistlethwayt sometimes Fellow of New Coll, on the 10 of the same month, and his Chauntorship on Dr. Joh. South on the 24.  
John Allibond of Magd. Coll, was created the same day, Oct. 17.— This worthy Doctor, who was a Buckinghamshire man born, and lately the chief Master of the Free-school joining to Magd. Coll, was a most excellent Lat. Poet and Philologist, and hath published, Rustica Academia Oxoniensis nuper reformatae descriptio: una cum comitiis ibidem, 1648 habitis. 'Tis a Latin Poem, and was twice printed in 1648. He died at Bradwell in Glocestershire, (of which place he was Rector) an. 1658.  
Joh. Hewit of Cambridge, was actually created also the same day.— This is the person who was Minister of S. Gregory's Church near S. Paul's in London, and who suffered death by the axe on Tower-hill 8 June 1658, for conspiring against the then Power and Authority. He hath extant several Sermons, among which are Nine select Sermons preached at S. Gregory's. Lond. 1658. oct; as also A Speech and two Prayers on the Scaffold, when he was to be beheaded— Lond. 1658. qu. and A letter to Dr. George Wild, written the day before his Execution; printed with his Speech and Prayers.  
Oct. 19 Rob. Hall of Exeter Coll.— This worthy person, who was the eldest son of Dr. Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter, was now Canon residentiary and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. there, suffered for his Majesty's Cause, lost all, but restored upon his Majesty's return. He was a learned man, a constant Preacher, very hospitable and pious. He died on the 29 of May 1667, aged 61 years, and was buried in the north side of the Choir of the said Cath. Ch. at Exeter.  
Nou. 16. Walt. Hungerford of All's. Coll.— He was afterwards Preb. of Wells and Rector of Buscot in Berks, where dying 18 Nou. 1681, was buried in the Church there.  
Feb. 22. George Edgeley of Cambridge.— In the Letters of the Chancellor of the University, written in his behalf and read in Convocation, I find these things of him. He is Prebend of Chichester and Rector of Nuthurst, a grave and orthodox Divine.— He is a person that hath expressed his Loyalty by his active services and passive sufferings in these times of hostility for the defence of his Majesty's Person, Religion and the Laws.— He is so deserving this honour (D. of D.) that he is beyond all manner of exception.— He is a Senior of the University of Cambr. etc.  
In the same Congregation wherein Dr. Edgeley was created, were Letters from the Chanc. read in behalf of Tho. Edward's formerly of this University, now Vicar of Keinton in Hertfordshire, to be Doctor of Divinity, but whether he was admitted it appears not.  
On the 29 of Dec. also, were letters read in behalf of Joh. Bury Bach. of Diu. and Can. resid. of Exeter, to be created Doctor of the said faculty; who being then absent in the King's Service, was to have the said degree conferred on him when he should desire it.    



An. Dom. 1644.  
An. 20 Car. 1.    
Chanc. William Marquis of Hertford.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Rob. Pinke again, Aug. 24.  

Proct.  
Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. May 1.  
Franc. Broad of Mert. Coll. May 1.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 5. Rich. Watkins of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters, an. 1647.  
6. Edw. Littleton of S. Mary's Hall, afterwards of All's. Coll.— See among the Masters in 1648.  
Edw. Sclater of S. John's Coll. was admitted the same day.— This person who is now living hath published several things, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered at large.  

Nou. 2. Mathias Prideaux of Exet. Coll.  
Feb. 15. Thomas Carls of Ball. Coll.   
Of the last of these two, you may see more among the Masters, 〈◊〉. 1649.  
Adm. 53.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was this year admitted, nor created.  

Mast. of Arts.  

Jun. 4. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll.  
21. Thom. Pierce of Madg. Coll.   
Adm. 29.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was this year admitted; nor one Bach. of Div, only one by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which was properly a Creation.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law, Physic, or Divinity, was admitted this year, only incorporated and created, as I am now about to tell you.   

Incorporations.  
Divers worthy persons, who had been formerly of Cambridge, or lately ejected thence, retiring now to Oxon for safety, were incorporated, as they had stood in their own University. Among such I find these following.  
Mar. 26. Thom. Westfield D. D. now Bishop of Bristol, and a Sufferer for his own and his Majesty's Cause.— See among the Incorporations in the Fasti of the first vol. an. 1611.  

Apr. 4. Tho. Yardley M. A. of Trin. Coll. All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation.  
Jun. 4. Joh. Boteler M. A. of S. Joh. Coll. All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation.  
Jul. 10. Pet. Gunning M. A. of Clare Hall. All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation.  
Aug. 7. Tho. Bayly M. A. and Subdean of Wells. All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation.   
As for Joh. Boteler, several of both his names have been Writers, and one Joh. Butler hath written against Joh. Selden, as in the pag. 110. of this work you may see. And as for Tho. Bayly, I have made mention of him in the first vol. p. 486. 487; but as for Isaac Barrow, who, as 'tis said, was also incorporated this year, appears not in the Register as incorporated Master of Arts, or created Bach. of Div, otherwise I should have made a Chapter or Number of him among the Bishops, as I have done of Pet. Gunning among the Writers, who was incorporated and took a degree here.   

Creations.  
This year were no Creations in Arts, only of one in Music: The rest were in the three great faculties, and of them only Doctors.   

Doct. of Music.  
Mar. 10. John Wilson now the most noted Musician of England, omnibus titulis & honoribus Academicis in professione Musicae par, & in Theoria & praxi Musicae maxime peritus (as it is said in the public Register of Convocation) was then presented and actually created Doctor of Music.— This eminent person who was much admired by all that understood that faculty, especially by his Maj. K. Ch. 1, an exact judge therein, was born at Feversham in Kent, and being naturally inclined in his youth to vocal and instrumental Music, became at man's estate so famous for it, that he was first made a Gent. of his Maj. Chapel, and afterwards his Servant in ordinary in that faculty. So that ever after giving his Majesty constant attendance, had oftentimes just opportunities to exercise his hand on the Lute (being the best at it in all England) before him to his great delight and wonder; who, while he played, did usually lean or lay his hand on his shoulder. After the surrender of the Garrison at Oxon, an. 1646, he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire, who, with his Lady, were great lovers of Music. At length, upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. (then Lecturer at Churchill) made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellor of this University, he was constituted Music Professor thereof, an. 1656; which, with other helps from some Royalists in these parts (he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll.) found a comfortable subsistence. Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions, he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty, and was made one of the Choir at Westminster: All which he kept to his dying day. He hath published (1) Psalterium Carolinum. The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings, rendered into verse, se● for three Voices, and an Organ or Theorbo. Printed about 1656 in fol. (2) Cheerful Airs or Ballads, first composed for one single Voice, and since set for three Voices. Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol: then ushered into the world by certain Poets of this University. (3) Airs for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol, etc. These are in a book intit. Select Airs and Dialogues. Lond. 1653. etc. fol. In which book are, besides Dr. Wilson's labours, the compositions of several Masters of Music, viz. of Dr. Charles Colman, Henry and Will. Laws, Will. Webb, Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian, one of the private Music to K. Ch. 1, and an excellent Painter, (who died about the beginning of the rebellion;) Will. Smegergill alias Caesar, Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile. (4) Divine Services and Anthems, the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems, etc. Lond. 1663. oct. p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published, is highly valued by curious men, a Manuscript of his framing, containing Compositions, partly to be played on the Lute, but chiefly on a Treble or Bass, set to several Odes in the first book, and in others, of Horace, on some part of Ausonius, Claudian, Petronius Arbiters Fragment, Statius, etc. This book which is in folio, bound in Russia leather, with silver clasps, he gave to the public Library at Oxon before his Majesty's restauration, but with this condition, that no person should peruse it till after his death. 'Tis in the Archives of the said Library, numb. 102, and hath, several copies of verses put before it, or in the beginning, made in praise of the author and the book: One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of Alls. Coll, was afterwards remitted into his book intit. Poematia, etc. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123. This Dr. Wilson, who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffonery, died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673, aged 78 years, ten months and 17 days: whereupon his body was buried in the little cloister belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm. He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent, that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich, and Joh Jenk●ns at Maidstone; both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Music, especially for Fancies. The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, but we have not yet his picture in the Music School, as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mentioned.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq.— He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts. to serve in that Parliam. which began at Westminster 3 Nou. 1640, but leaving it afterwards, retired to Oxon, and sat there.  
.... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg. and Convocation.— His christian name I cannot yet learn, or in what Coll. or Hall in this University, or in that of Cambridge, educated.  
May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq.— On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood, being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon; but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament, he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house, where he shortly after expired. He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basin house in Hampshire.  
June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt.— He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesty's service, and had fought most valiantly in divers battles for him. He afterwards suffered much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate.  
June 12. Henr. Bate.— He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ. Law by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of the University, and of those of the Marquis of Newcastle, which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service, and losses sustained by the Rebels, etc.  
Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt.  
Nou. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University.— He was Kinsman to the Marquis of Hertford Chancellor thereof.  
This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ. Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt, as his son hath by his letters informed me, but the day or month he cannot tell; neither doth it appear in the acts of the public Register, this, or in the, year following, because omitted, as it seems, among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nou. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon, 1646.— This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware, who, by his pen, hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation, I desire the Reader by the way (if not too tedious) to take these observations of him following. He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin, about two of the clock in the morn. of the 26 of Novemb. an. 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt, sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland, and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom; who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning, spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein. At 16 years of age he caused him to be entered a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin, where making great proficiency in his studies, was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts, he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. boil Earl of Cork, they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland, and in 1632 he became, upon the death of his father, Auditor General of Ireland: Notwithstanding which place of trouble, as well as of profit, and the cumbrances of marriage, he wrote and published several books, the titles of which I shall anon set down. In 1639 he was made one of the King's Privy Council in Ireland, and when the Rebellion broke out there, he suffered much in his Estate. In 1644, he with the Lord Edward Brabason (afterwards Earl of Meath,) and Sir Hen. Tichbourne Kt, were sent by James Marquis of Ormonde, than Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon, about the affairs of that Kingdom. Which being concluded to their minds, they returned; but in their way, they were taken on the seas by a Parliament Ship, just after Sir James had flung over board the King's packet of Letters directed to Ormonde: Whereupon being all conveyed to London, were committed Prisoners to the Tower, where continuing eleven months, were then released upon exchange. Afterwards Sir James returned to Dublin, continued there for some time, and was one of the hostages for the delivery of that City to Coll. Mich. Jones for the use of the Parliament of England. Afterwards the said Colonel, thinking it not convenient for several reasons, that he should remain there, commanded him to depart; so that by virtue of his pass he went into France, where he continued an year and an half, mostly at Caen and partly at Paris. In 1651 he left that Country, went into England, and settling in London, wrote several books, and published one or more there. Upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he went into Ireland, and by special order was restored to his place of Auditor General, and continued a privy Counsellor there. His works are these (1) Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium & Tuamensium vitae, duobus expressae commentariolis. Dubl. 1626. qu. This book was afterwards involved in his De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius. (2) Caenobia Cisterciensia Hiberniae. Included afterwards in his Disquisitiones de Hibernia, etc. (3) De praesulibus Lageniae, sive provinciae Dubliniensis lib. unus. Dubl. 1628. qu. Included also in his Comment. de praesulibus Hib. (4) De scriptoribus Hiberniae libri duo. Dubl. 1639. qu. A great part of which is taken out of the book of Joh. Bale intit. De script. maj. Britan. and from Rich. Stanyhurst his book intit. The Description of Ireland. (5) De Hibernia & Antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones. Lond. 1654. and 1658. in a thick oct. (6) De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius, à prima gentis Hibernicae ad fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora. Dubl. 1665. fol. (7) Note ad Bedae epist. Apologeticam. Dubl. 1664. oct. (8) Notae ad Historiam Abbatum Weremuthensium & Girwicensium per Bedam composit. Dubl. 1664. oct. (9) Notae ad Bede Epistolam ad Egbertum. Ib. eod. an. oct. (10) Notae ad Egberti dialogum, de institutione ecclesiastica. Ib. eod. an. oct. (11) Notae ad rem Historicam & Antiquariam spectantes ad opuseula, S. Patricio, qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit, adscripta, etc. Lond. 1656. oct. He also wrote and published Rerum Hibernicarum Henrico 7 regnante annal. Pr. at the end of his Disquisit. de Hibernia, and De praesul. Hib. comment. Also Rerum Hib. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. & Maria regnantibus annal, (which are at the end of the said book De praesul.) besides the publication of Campians Hist. of Ireland, the Chronicle of Mered. Hanmer, that of Hen. Marleburrough, and The view of Ireland, by Edm. Spenser. At length Sir James having lived beyond the age of man, and by his endeavours had gotten a fair estate, departed this mortal life at Dublin on Saturday Decemb. the first, an. 1666, and was buried on Tuesday following in a burying place appointed for his Family within the Church of S. Warborough in the said City. He had a choice Collection of ancient MSS, (many of which related to Irish affairs) procured from many persons as well in Engl. as Irel, a catalogue of which was printed at Dublin an. 1648. in ● sh. and an half in qu. All or most of which MSS. came into the hands of Hen. Earl of Clarendon, when he was Lord Lieutenant of Irel. an. 1686, who soon after brought them with him into Engl. and deposited them in the custody of Dr. Tho. Tenison Vicar of S. Martin's Church in the Fields, in Westm; a Catalogue of which is lately made extant by Edm. Gibson B. A. of Qu. Coll. in Ox.  
This year also, about the beginning thereof, as it seems, was a proposal made by virtue of a letter sent to the Vicechancellor, that Rich. Fanshaw Esq. Servant to Prince Charles', should have the degr. of Doctor of the Civil Law conferred upon him; but whether he was presented thereunto, though diplomated he might be, it appears not in the public Register. Howsoever it is, sure I am that certain Masters now living in the University, did many years after report that he had that degree conferred on him here, yet whether personally presented thereunto, they could not positively affirm.— This right worthy and loyal person Richard Fanshaw (originally of the University of Cambr.) was descended of the family of Fanshaw of Fanshaw gate in Derbyshire, being the 
(*) Book of Certificates in the Coll. of Arms endorsed J. 30. pag. 53. 54. etc.  great Grandchild of John Fanshaw of that place, brother of Henry Fanshaw, and father of Tho. Fanshaw Esquires, who were successively Remembrancers of the Exchequer to Qu. Elizabeth: Which Thomas was father to Sir Hen. Fanshaw Kt, (who died of an Apoplexy at the Assizes in Hertford 10 Mar. 1615.) father of Thomas sometimes Lord Viscount Fanshaw of Dromore in Ireland▪ father of him who is now, or at least was lately, L. Visc. Fanshaw: Which three last, have also been Remembrancers of the Exchequer to K. Jam. 1. K. Ch. 1. and 2. The said Rich. Fanshaw (brother to Lord Thomas) of whom we are farther to speak, was, for his early abilities taken into the Employment of the State by K. Ch. 1. an. 1635, and then sent Resident to the Court of Spain: Whence being recalled in the beginning of the Troubles (1640/1) into Engl. he followed the royal interest during all the calamitous times that followed, and was employed in several weighty matters of State. In 1644 he was appointed Secretary at War to Charles Prince of Wales, (afterwards King) whom he attended into the Western parts of Engl, and thence into the Isles of Scilly 
(†) Ibid.  and Guernsey. In 1648 he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy under the command of Prince Rupert, which he managed till the year 1650, when then he was preferred by his Majesty to the dignity of a Baronet, and sent Envoy extraordinary to the Crown of Spain; and being thence recalled into Scotland, he there served in the quality of Secretary of State: Which weighty and difficult Employment he performed in that conjuncture with great satisfaction of all parties, notwithstanding he never took Covenant or Engagement. Thence he attended his Maj. at Worcester, was at the battle there (1651) taken Prisoner, and conveyed to Lond. by the Rebels; where continuing in close custody till he contracted a great sickness, had liberty allowed him, upon Bail given, for the recovery of his health to go to any place he should choose, provided he stirred not five miles from the place without leave from the Parliament. During which time and other vacant hours he made several Translations and wrote divers Poems, as I shall tell you by and by. In Feb. 1659. he repaired to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. at Breda, who there knighted him in Apr. 1660, and made him his Secretary of the Latin Tongue (in which he did excel) and Master of the Requests. In 1661. he being then Burgess for the University of Cambridge, he was sworn one of the privy Council of Ireland, and sent Envoy to the Crown of Portugal, with a dormant Commission to be Ambassador, which he was to make use of as occasion should require. In 1662. he was again sent to that Crown with the title of Ambassador; and at his return thence in 1663. he was sworn one of his Majesty's privy Council and took his place accordingly, and in January the same year he was sent Ambassador to both the Crowns of Spain and Portugal: in which time the foundation of Peace betwixt those Crowns and England was laid by him. His deportment during his former Employments in those Courts won him such high value and estimation with the Princes, that his reception was most splendid and magnificent, exceeding all that were before: which those Kings declared was done as a particular respect to the person of the Ambassador, and was not to be a precedent for succeeding Ambassadors. He hath written (1) Divers Poems. Lond. 1664. oct, Printed with his Translation of Il pastor fido. The first of the said Poems is An ode upon occasion of his Majesty's proclamation, an. 1630, commanding the Gentry to reside upon their Estates in the Country. (2) A summary discourse of the Civil Wars of Rome. Lond. 1664. oct. extracted out of the best Lat. Writers in prose and verse. He hath translated from English into Lat. verse The faithful Shepherdess: a Pastoral. Lond. 1658. written originally by Joh. Fletcher Gent, and from Lat. into English (1) The fourth book of Virgil's Aeneis on the Loves of Dido and Aeneas. Lond. 1664. oct. (2) Two odes out of Horace relating to the Civil Wars of Rome, against covetous rich men. Ibid. 1664. oct. He hath translated from Italian into English,— I'll pastor fido: The faithful Shepherd, a Pastoral. Lond. 1646. qu. 1664. oct. Written originally by Guarini, a Native of Ferrara in Italy: And from Spanish into English an Historical Poem called— Querer per solo querer: To love only for Love's sake. Lond. 1671. qu. 'Tis a dramatic Romance, was originally written by Anton. de Mendoza and translated and paraphrased by our author at Tankerley Park in Yorkshire, 1654., when then he had obtained leave from the superior power to range beyond 5 miles within Lond. To this is joined another Translation by the same hand intit.— Fiestus de Aranjuez. Festivals represented at Aranjuez. He also translated from Portuguese into English, The Luciad: or Portugal's historical Poem. Lond. 1655. 56. etc. fol. Written originally by Lewis de Camoens. Besides these Translations, he hath performed others as I have been informed, which continue partly in MS, and hath written other Poems as well Lat. as English, which for brevity sake I shall now pass by the mentioning. At length this worthy person being overtaken with a violent Fever at Madrid in Spain on the fourth of June 1666, during the time of his being there Ambassador, died thereof on the 16 of the same month, old stile, aged 59 years: Whereupon his body being embalmed, was (after his funeral had been solemnised there, 25, of the said month) conveyed by his disconsolate Lady, with all his Children then living, by land thro' France to Calais, whence it was transported to England, and landed near Tower-hill at London. Thence it was removed to Lincoln's Inn fields, to the Pine Apples, which was then his Ladies hired house. The next day the corpse was carried to all-hallows Church in Hertford, and there deposited in the Vault of his father in law Sir John Harrison, until the 18 of May 1671; on which day it was removed into the Parish Church of Ware in the said County, and there laid in a new Vault made and purchased on purpose for him and his family, together with a fair Monument erected for him and his Lady, near the old Vault where all his Ancestors of Ware Park lie interred.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 1. Sir Arth. Aston Kt, Governour of the Garrison of Oxford, was created Doctor of Phys. with great solemnity, and admitted by the Vicechancellor with this clause, Honoratiss. Domine tu dabis fidem ad observand. statuta, libertates & consuetudines hujus Vniversitatis.— This person, who was of an ancient and knightly family in Lancashire, was a great Traveller, had spent most of his time in Wars in several Countries beyond the Seas: Whence coming in the beginning of the grand Rebellion, into Engl, with as many Soldiers of note that he could bring with him, joined himself and them to his Majesty's Forces, commanded the Dragoons at Edghill fight, and with them did excellent service. Afterwards, his Majesty having a great opinion of his valour and conduct, made him Governor of the Garrison of Reading in Berkshire, where he beat the Earl of Essex, General of the Parl. Forces, thrice from that place, till having received a dangerous Wound he was forced, as 'tis said, to devolve his Command upon Col. Rich. Fielding, called Lord Fielding, of the family of those of his name at Newenham Padox in Warwickshire, who afterwards surrendering that Garrison to the use of the Parliament upon quick and easy terms, suffered much in his reputation for so doing, yet recovered it afterwards in the battles at Newbury and Naseby. As for Aston who was lately made Governor of the Garrison of Oxford and afterwards expressed himself very cruel and imperious while he executed that office, broke his leg by a fall from his horse on Bullington Green near Oxon on the 19 of Sept. this year, and on the 25 of Dec. following being discharged of his office, to the great rejoicing of the Soldiers and others in Oxon, Colonel Will. Leg was placed in his room, and in his Sir Tho. Glemham 8 Oct. 1645, who kept the said Garrison till it was surrendered to the Parliament. Sir A. Aston had, at that time, his broken leg cut off to save his life, and in its place had one of Wood put: So that being recovered and in a posture to do his Majesty farther service, he went with the flower of the English Veterans into Ireland, where he became Governor of Drogheda commonly called Tredagh, about which time he laid an excellent plot to tyre and break the English Army. But at length the said Garrison being overpowered and soon after taken by Ol. Cromwell and his Forces, in September 1649, all the Defendants were put to the sword, and Aston the Governor (a zealous R. Catholic) was hewn in pieces, and his brains beat out of his head with his wooden leg. He then left behind him a daughter named Elizabeth Thompson alias Aston.  

May 1. Rob. Croak  
May 1. Lister Blount   
The first of these two, was of the family of the Croaks of Chilton in Bucks, was a Burgess for Wendover in the same County to serve in the Parl. began at Westm. 3 Nou. 1640, but leaving it, he retired to Oxon, and sat in the Parl. there. One Rob. Croke was knighted by his Maj. at Whitehall 9 Aug. 1641, but whether the same with the former (who is not styled Kt. in the Register) I cannot tell.  
Jul. 10. Joh. Castle Esq.— He was father to George Castle mentioned among the Writers, an 1673. p. 381.  
Dec. 12. Will. Thomas of Trin. Coll. in Oxon, was then admitted into the house of Congreg. and Convoc.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 2. James Dugdale Chaplain to the Marquis of Hertford.— He had been forced for his Loyalty out of Somersetshire, where he was Vicar of Evercreech and Rector of Shepton Beauchamp, did suffer also afterwards for his Majesty's Cause; but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to what he had-lost, and was made, as I have been informed, Canon of Wells. He died about the beginning of the year 1661.  
Jun. 10. Tho. Bunbury of Ball. Coll.— He had succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Vicarage of S. Mary's Church in Reading, but being put out thence by the Presbyterians, when that Town came into their possession, he fled to Oxon for protection.  
Dec. 12. Thom. Stephenson of Qu. Coll. in this Uniu.— He was then created because his Majesty had present and special occasion to employ him in places more remote about certain weighty affairs.  
Mar. 24. Joh. Pitt Warden of Wadham Coll.    



An. Dom. 1645.  
An. 21 Car. 1.    
Chanc. William Marquis of Hertford.  
Vicechanc. Sam. Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 29. He was some days before nominated Vicech. by the Chanc.  

Proct.  
Charles Where of Gloc. Hall Apr. 16.  
Joh. Michael of Ball. Coll. Apr. 16.   
In defect of a statutable Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. (whose turn it was this year to elect a Proctor) because that the generality of the Society were now absent, the Election fell to the Halls, who elected Where before mentioned, son of Degorie Where Princ. of Gloc. Hall.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Jul. 9 Thom. Marshal of Linc. Coll.  
12. Joh. Drop of Magd. Coll.   
The last of these two was now numbered among the minor Poets of the University. See among the created Masters of Arts, an. 1660.  

Feb. 7. Joh. Barbon of Exeter Coll.  
Feb. 7. Edw. Wood of Trin. afterwards of Mert. Coll.   
These four Bachelaurs were all of the 40 admitted this year, that proved afterwards Writers. They were now, as the rest of the Scholars were, in actual service for his Majesty within the Garrison of Oxon.  ☞ Not one Bach. of the Civ. Law was this year either admitted or created.  

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 21. Pet. Mews of S. Joh. Coll.  
30. Will. Richardson of Ch. Ch.— He was presented by the University to the Vicarage of Brayles in Warwickshire, an. 1651, by virtue of an Act of Parl. began at Westm. 5 Nou. 3 Jac. 1. to disinable Recusants to present to Church Livings. He hath written A Protestant Catechism. Printed 1681. qu. published purposely against the Papists then under Hatches, because of the Popish Plot.  
Jun. 5. Arthur Bury of Exet. Coll.  
Adm. 20. or thereab.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Only two were admitted by virtue of the Chancellors letters, viz. Pet. Eliot of C. C. Coll, Master of Arts and Preacher, and Tho. King M. A. of Brasn. Coll: Both which were admitted 26 Feb. being then in actual service for his Majesty in Oxford.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Diu. was admitted this year.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law, Phys, or Div, was admitted or licenced this year, only incorporated and created.   

Incorporations.  
Several persons who were lately forced to leave the University of Cambridge for their Loyal●y, and others, who had formerly been of that University, their respective Cures and Dignities, retired to Oxon to avoid the Cruelties and Barbarities of the Presbyterians, and were this year either incorporated or created. Those that were incorporated are these following.  

Aug. 12. .... Edshaw M. A. of Cambr.  
Aug. 12. .... Sharpington M. A. of Cambr.  
Aug. 12. .... Pindar Bach. of Diu. of Cambr.   
Aug. 12. Tho. Fuller D. of D▪ of Cambr. now Bishop of Ardfert in Ireland.— In the year 1600 he was made Archb. of Cashells in the said Kingdom. He hath one or more Sermons extant.  
Will. Fuller D. of D. of the same Uniu. and Dean of Ely was incorporated the same day.— This worthy person who had, as it seems, succeeded Dr. Hen. Caesar in the said Deanery, an. 1636, (or else afterwards Dr. Rich. Love) was about the middle of March this year (1645) made Dean of Durham on the death of Dr. Christop. Potter, and without doubt would have risen higher had it not been for the iniquity of the times. He was the son of Andrew Fuller of Hadleigh in Suffolk, at which place he was born, was educated in all kind of Learning in Cambridge, and afterwards became famous for it, his prudence and piety. He was also a good Linguist and an excellent Preacher, preached several times before his Majesty (to whom he was Chaplain in ord. as he had been to K. Jam.) while he was in Oxon this year, to his great approbation. In the beginning of the Rebellion, 1642, he was sequestered from his Church of S. Giles near Cripplegate, London, plundered, imprisoned, and spoiled of all for his Loyalty to his Prince by the impetuous and restless Presbyterians. After Oxford was surrendered, he retired to London, and lived there obscurely till the time of his death, which happening on Holy Thursday (May 12.) 1659., aged 79 years, was denied rest in his sometimes Church of S. Giles before mentioned: Whereupon his body being conveyed to S. Vedastus in Foster lane, was there buried at the upper end of the south isle. Soon after was a comely Monument put over his grave by his daugh. the wife of Dr. Brian Walton, and upon his Majesty's restauration his Deanery of Ely was conferred on Dr. Hen. Ferne. Under this Doctor Fuller's name goes a Sermon intit. The mourning of Mount Libanon. Printed 1628., and perhaps other things.  
Aug. 12. Lodowick Wemmys or Weems D. D. of Cambr. and Prebendary of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church at Westm, in the place of Dr. Joh. Holt, was then incorporated.  
Thom. Wilson D. of D. of the said University, was incorporated the same day.— He was originally of Merton Coll, and was Bach. of Diu. of this University an. 1621., at which time he was Preb. of S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in London and had been Sub-Almoner under Bishop Montague. In 1625 Jan. 10. he was installed Preb. of Westminster in the place of Dr. Hen. Caesar resigning; and about the same time was made D. of D. of Cambridge. In 1640 he occurs Archippus of Westminster, but he is not to be taken to be the same with Tho. Wilson beneficed at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire, because he died in 1638.  
Thom. Some or Soame D. D. was incorporated also the same day. (Aug. 12.) as he before had stood at Cambridge.— He had been Fellow of Peter House, was now Canon of Windsor, Preb. of S. Paul's in London, Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex, and, if I mistake not, Rector of Haseley near to, and in the County of Oxon; in which last Benefice he was succeeded by Dr. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Some who hath one or more Sermons extant, died at Stanes, as it seems, in the beginning of the year 1649, leaving a son then behind him called Henry.  
Will. Beale D. D. sometimes of Pemb. Hall, afterwards Master of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, now one of his Majesty's Chaplains, was incorporated the same day.— This most worthy person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, and by him promoted, and therefore esteemed an Arminian and popishly affected by the inveterate Puritans, did suffer much in the beginning of the Rebellion raised by them, as first for his having a hand in gathering and conveying the plate belonging to the University of Cambr. to his Majesty, he was violently hurried thence Prisoner to London, suffered great indignities from the Rabble in his way thro' that City to the Tower, where continuing some years was at length exchanged. Secondly by being plundered and thrown out of his Headship of S. John's Coll. before mentioned, for the same reason, and for denying their wicked Covenant, and lastly sequestered of all other his Spiritualities. After his Exchange, he fled to Oxon the common Asylum of afflicted Royalists, where he exercised his function, sometimes before his Majesty, and at other times before the remnant or the royal Court there remaining. After the Kings Cause declined he went beyond the Seas, where he died heartbroken in 1651. or thereabouts.  
David Stokes D. D. of the said Uniu. was incorporated the same day.— This most loyal Doctor was educated in the College School at Westminster and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in the same University an. 1610; afterwards he was Fellow of Peter House, Fellow of Eton Coll, Canon of Windsor, and Rector of Binfield in Berks: All which preferments he losing in the time of the Rebellion, was put to his shifts as other Royalists were, retired to Oxon for refuge, and there exercised his function for a time as others did. After his Majesty's return, he was restored to what he had lost, lived several years in great quiet and repose with much content to himself, and died 10 of May 1669. He hath written and published (1) An explication of the twelve minor Prophets, Hosea, Joel, etc. wherein the difficult places are unfolded, the seeming contradictions are reconciled, according to the best Commentators now extant, etc. Lond. 1659. oct. (2) Verus Christianus. Or directions for private devotions and retirements, with an Appendix, containing some private Devotions of Bishop Andrews never before extant. Oxon 1668, in tw. (3) Several sermons, which I have not yet seen, nor his Truth's champion, etc. pr. in oct.  
George Bardsey D. D. of Qu. Coll. in the said Univers. was also then (Aug. 12.) incorporated.— He died in Oxon, in January 1645, and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in that chancel commonly called The College chancel in S. Michael's Church joining to the north gate of the said City.  

Aug. 12. .... Peake D. D. of Cambr.  
Aug. 12. .... Andrews D. D. of Cambr.   
The christian name of the first of these I cannot yet recover, and therefore I can say nothing of him. The other I take to be Nich. Andrews, whom I have mentioned among the Incorporations in the first vol. an. 1626. p. 853.  
Aug. 12. Brian Walton D. of D. of the same University was also then incorporated▪— This most learned and loyal Doctor was born in Cleauland in the North Riding of Yorkshire; an. 1600, admitted first in Magd. Coll. under Mr. Joh. Gooch as a Sizer or Servitor, and thence removing to Peter House under one Mr. Blake, 4 Dec. 1616; took the degree of M. of A. as a member thereof, an. 1623. About that time, or before, he taught school in Suffolk, and served as a Curate there. Thence he removed to London and lived for a little time under the rev. and learned Divine Mr. Rich Stock Rector of Allhallows Breadstreet in London. After his death he became Rector of S. martin's Orgar in the said City, and of Sandon in Essex, at both which places he was highly valued by the orthodox party for his Learning and Religion. In 1639 he commenced D. of D, at which time he was Preb. of S. Paul's Cathedral, Chaplain to his Majesty, and a person of great esteem, especially for his skill in the Common Laws of this Realm, so far, I mean, as they related to the patrimony and liberties of the Church, as it appears by a little book written by him in defence of the Tithes within the City of London, according to the proportion of two shillings and nine pence the pound rend. Upon the breaking out of the diabolical Rebellion, he was assaulted by the faction, abused, sequestered and forced to fly: Whereupon retiring to Oxford, he did there lay the ground of a most noble design, which afterwards he did live to accomplish. For upon the declining of his Majesty's Cause, he returned to London, and residing with his father in law Dr. Will. Fuller, than a great sufferer for the royal cause, as he was, he had time and leisure at command, as being debarred the exercising of his ministerial function, (though often disturbed for his loyalty) of proceeding in the work, with the advice of the most learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland, his said father in law, Dr. Bruno Ryves, and some others residing in London, yet not without the leave and licence of Dr. Juxon Bishop of that City. I say that this most worthy person Dr. B. Walton being most eminent for his learning, especially in the holy Scriptures and Eastern Languages, did undertake and happily perform the publishing of the Biblia Polyglotta, printed at Lond. in six volumes in folio, an. 1657, wherein the sacred Text was, by his singular care and oversight, printed, not only in the vulgar Latin, but also in the Hebrew, Syriake, Chaldea, Samaritan, Arabic, Aethiopick, Persic and Greek Languages, each having its peculiar Latin translation joined therewith; and an Apparatus fitted for each, for the better understanding of those tongues. In this great Work, though he met with infinite disturbances and discouragements, by reason of the times, wherein the Usurping Powers ruled, and a multitude of other difficulties, yet he most happily accomplished it in about four years' space: which, when published, was by the generality of Scholars esteemed the most absolute and famous edition of the Bible that the Christian World had, or is like to enjoy. In this most noble work, so far as concerned the correcting of it while at the Press, and in collating of Exemplars, he had the assistance of several learned persons, of whom Edm. Castle or Castell Bach. of Diu. was the chiefest, Vir in quo eruditio summa magnaque animi modestia convenere, etc. as he doth characterise him; yet if you'll believe that learned person, who was afterwards Doctor of Div, Arabic Professor of Cambridge and Preb. of Canterbury, he'll tell you in his Preface to his Lexicon Heptaglotton, printed in Lond. 1669, that he had more than an ordinary hand in that Work, as indeed he had, and therefore deserved more matter to be said of him than in the said Pref. to Bib. Polyglot. is. The other persons were Alex. Huish of Wadh. Coll. Sam. Clarke (Clericus) of Mert. Coll. (of both whom I have spoken already) and Thom. Hyde, since of Qu. Coll. in this University. He had also some assistance from Dr. D. Stokes, Abr. Wheelock, Herb, Thorndyke, Edw. Pocock, Tho Greaves, Dudley Loftus, etc. men most learned in their time. Towards the printing also of the said great and elaborate work, he had the contribution of moneys from many noble persons and Gentlemen of quality, which were put into the hands of Sir Will. Humble Treasurer for the said Work, as Charles Lod●wick Prince Elector, William Marq. of Hertford, Will. Earl of Strafford, Will. E. of Bedford, Will. Lord Petre, Will. L. Maynard, Arth. L. Capell, John Ashburnham of his Maj. Bedchamber, Sir Rob. Shirley Bt, Will. Lenthall Mast. of the Rolls, Joh. Selden of the Inner Temple Esq, Joh. Sadler of Linc. Inn Esq. Joh. He'll Esq. Tho. Wendy Esq. afterwards Kr. of the Bath, and others, as Montague Earl of Lindsey L. Chamb. of England, George E. of Rutland, Mildmay E. of Westmoreland, John E. of Exeter, Tho. L. Fairfax, Bapt. L. Noel Visc. Camden, Sir Will. Courtney, Sir Anth. Chester and Sir Will. Farmer Baronet's, Sir Franc. Burdet Kt. and Joh. Wall D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. After his Majesty's restauration the Author Dr. Walton presented his said six vol. of Bib. Polyg. to, which being well received by, him, he not only made him his Chaplain in ordinary, but for his great Virtues, Learning, Loyalty, Sufferings, and indefatigable industry for the public benefit of Learning, did advance him to the See of Chester; to which being consecrated in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the second day of December an. 1660, sat there (though a little while) to the time of his death. In Sept. 1661. he, with a good retinue, went to take possession of his See, and when he came to Lichfield, many persons of very good worth, who had ridden from Chester to that City, which is 50 miles, did meet and congratulate him there, and very many others in his way thence to Chester. On the tenth day of the said month all the Gentry almost of the whole County of Chester, and the Militia both of Country and City, went out to meet him, and the day following the spiritual Militia (the true Sons of the Church of England) went to their reverend Diocesan upon the road. All which, and others, having brought him to his Palace with the loud acclamations of thousands of people, blessing God for so happy a sight, he forthwith put on his Episcopal robes and hasted to the performance of his devotions in the Choir. When he entered the body of the Cathedral Church, Dr. Hen. Bridgman the Dean and all the members of the Cathedral, habited in their Albes, received a blessing from his Lordship, sung Te Deum, and so compassing the Choir in manner of procession, conveyed him to his chair: This was on the eleventh of the said month of Sept. a day not to be forgotten by all the true Sons of the Church of England, though cursed then in private, by the most rascally faction and crop-eared whelps of those parts, who did their endeavours to make it a maygame and a piece of foppery. After his Lordship had made some continuance there and was highly caressed and entertained by noble and generous spirits, he returned to London, fell sick, and died in his house in Aldersgate-street, on the 29 of Nou. an. 1661. to the great reluctancy of all learned and loyal persons. On the 5 of Dec. following he was buried in the south side of the Cathedral Church of S. Paul, (of which he was Prebend) opposite to the monument of Sir Christopher Hatton sometimes Lord Chancellor of England, being then attended to his grave by three Heralds of Arms in their formalities. Soon after was a noble monument put over his grave, with a large inscription thereon running thus. Manet. heic novissimam, etc. Here awaiteth the sound of the last trump Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester. Reader, look for no farther epitaph on him, whose very name was epitaph enough. Nevertheless, if thou lookest for a larger, and louder one, consult the vocal oracles of his fame, and not of this dumb marble. For let me inform thee (if it be not a shame to be ignorant) this was he that with the first brought succour and assistance to the true Church, sick and fainting under the sad pressure of persecution. This was he that fairly wiped of those foul and contumelious aspersions cast upon her pure and spotless innocence by those illiterate and Clergy-trampling Schismatics. This was he that brought more light and lustre to the true reformed Church here established; whilst, maugre the malice of those hellish Machinators, he, with more earnest zeal and indefatigable labour than any, carried on, and promoted the printing of that great Bible in so many Languages. So that the Old and New Testament may well be his monument, which he erected with no small expense of his own. Therefore he little needs the pageantry of pompous titles emblazoned, or displayed in Herald's books, whose name is written in the book of life. He died on S. Andrews Eve, in the 62 year of his age, in the first year of his consecration, and in the year of our Lord God 1661.— This worthy person Dr. Walton hath written besides Bibl. Polyg. these two books (1) Introductio ad Lectionem Linguarum Orientalium. Lond. 1655. oct. (2) The considerator considered: or, a brief view of certain considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta, the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof, etc. Ibid. 1659. oct. See in Jo. Owen among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 561.  
Aug. 12. Richard Dukeson D. of D. of Cambr.— He was Minister of the Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster, of which being sequestered by the violent and restless Presbyterians, because of his Orthodox principles, as also plundered of his goods and forced to fly for his own security, retired at length to Oxon, where for a time he exercised his function. After his Majesty's return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost, and lived several years after in a quiet repose.  
Aug. 26. William Brough D. of D. of the said University— He had been educated in Christ's Coll. there, was afterwards Rector of S. Michael's Ch. in Cornhill, London, Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and Canon of Windsor, in which Dignity he was installed on the first of Feb. 1638. This person, who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and therefore esteemed by the Puritans an Arminian, popishly affected and I know not what, was, in the beginning of the rebellion raised by them, sequestered of his Rectory, plundered, his Wife and Children turned out of doors and he himself forced to fly: Whereupon, retiring to Oxon, the common mother and refuge in, those times of afflicted Royalists, he was, in considerations of his sufferings and loyalty, promoted by his Majesty to the Deanery of Gloucester, (upon the nomination of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield and Cou.) in Aug. 1643, and was possessed of it, as much as then could be, in Apr. following, in which month Dr. Frewen was consecrated. He hath written (1) The holy Feasts and Fasts of the Church, with meditations and prayers proper for Sacraments, and other occasions leading to Christian life and death. Lond. 1657. in tw. They are grounded on certain texts of Scripture. (2) Sacred principles, services and soliloquies: or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts. 1. The grounds of the Christian Religion, etc. 2. Daily and weekly forms of prayer. 3. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main Limbs of Divinity, etc. Lond. 1659. 1671. etc. in tw. and other things, as it seems. Quaere. After the King's return, he had restored to him what he had lost, had other preferments given to him, and dying on the fifth day of July, an. 1671 was buried in the Chapel of S. George at Windsor. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Thomas Vyner and in his Canonry Peter Scott LL. D, both of Cambridge.   

CREATIONS.  
The Creations made this year did partly consist of Military Officers, and partly of Cantabrigians that had taken Sanctuary at Oxon, most of all which follow.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 22. Charles Fox Captains in the King's Army, presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll.  
Apr. 22. pain Fisher Captains in the King's Army, presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll.  
Apr. 22. Joh. Beeton Captains in the King's Army, presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll.  
Apr. 22. Nich. Bertie Captains in the King's Army, presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll.  
Apr. 22. Rob. Johnson Captains in the King's Army, presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll.   
The said pain Fisher who was Son of Sir Will. Fisher, and one of the Captains of the Lifeguard to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon, was Father to pain Fisher an Officer also in the King's Army, and afterwards Poet Laureate to Oliver Protector, being now living an aged man. Nich. Bertie was of the noble Family of Bertie Earl of Lindsey, and all afterwards sufferers for the royal cause.  
Alexander Walwyn another Captain was also created the same day.  

Aug. 26. Joh. Squire B. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr.  
Aug. 26. Joh. Pattison B. A. of S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr.   
These two Bachelaurs, were then created Masters, because they before had, as they did this year, bear arms for his Majesty in Oxon.  
Dec. 3. Mathias Prideaux of Exet. Coll. a Capt. in his Majesty's service.  
Mar. ... Rob. Bingham Secretary to the Marquis of Dorchester.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Dec. 3. Will Spark of Magd. Coll.— See more of him among the created Doctors of Physic, an. 1661.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Feb. 21. John Barwick Mast. of Arts of 19 years standing, Priest and late Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, did then supplicate the ven. congregation that he might have the degree of Bach. of Diu. conferred upon him: Which being granted simpliciter, he was without doubt then admitted and created, though it appears not in the register so to be.— He had been lately turned out of his fellowship, being then, I suppose, Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Morton Bishop of Durham; who, as 'tis said, gave him, about this time, a Prebendship in that Church. After his Majesty's return he became Doct. of Diu. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and was in consideration of his great sufferings installed Dean of Durham on the first of Nou. 1660, in the place of Dr. Will. Fuller, who died in the year before going. On the 15 of Oct. 1661., he was elected Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral in Lond, in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas deceased: whereupon being installed in that Dignity on the 19 day of the same month, his Deanery of Durham was conferred on Dr. Joh. Sudbury, and accordingly was installed therein on the 15 of Feb. following. This worthy person Dr. Barwick hath published (1) The fight, victory and triumph of S. Paul, accommodated to Thomas (Morton) late Lord Bishop of Duresme, in a Sermon preached, at his funeral in the par. Church of S. Peter at Easton-manduit in Northamptonshire, on Mich. day, on 2. Tim. 4.7.8. Lond 1660. qu. (2) A summary account of the holy life and death of Thomas late Lord Bishop of Duresme, printed with the said Sermon: which Bishop died at Easton-manduit before mentioned on S. Matthews day, an. 1659. aged 95 years. (3) Deceivers deceived: or the mistakes of wickedness; etc. Sermon at S. Paul's Cathedral 20. Oct. 1661., on Prov. 14. part of the 8 ver. Lond. 1661. qu. See more of him in Peter Gunning among the Writers, an. 1684. p. 577. and in his epitaph following which was set over his grave in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul within the City of London. S. Amori & Aeternitati, etc. in English thus that it might be understood by vulgar capacities— Sacred to Love, and to generations to come. Thou that passest by, whosoever thou art, bring hither thine eyes, and understanding also, intuitively both to look and lament. For within this marble Wardrobe are folded up the thin worn weeds of the valuable, substantial, and well accountred Soul of John Barwick Doctor of Divinity, to whom Westmoreland may well boast to have given first breath and being: Next Cambr. may boast to have given him his first admission, and S. John's Coll. there a Fellowship in that foundation. From which Fellowship (which still makes more for his honour) he was unjustly ejected by a pack of Parricides; who notwithstanding, regardless of the rage of those bloody times or his own blood-spitting malady (equally pernicious) boldly attempted, and successfully managed matters of the greatest difficulty and danger, in the behalf of the King and Church: And for that cause was shut up in a dire and loathsome prison, where he suffered inhuman and barbarous usage, yet with a constant and undaunted spirit. And in the end, he saw by the miracle, as it were of a new creation, the revisal of both Crown and Mitre, himself playing the Man-midwives part, and vigorously assisting at the new birth of both. Last of all, for his active services and passive sufferings, he was dignified with the Deanery of Durham, which he held a few months, and afterwards of S. Paul's, which he enjoyed three years, though either of them too short a season; yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity; living and dying a Bachelor, and strictly chaste, and sanctimonious both in soul and body. And being much debilirated by a long and lingering consumption, here he rests in the Lord, and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Paul's Church, being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other. He died in the 53 year of his age, and of our Lord 1664. Reader, if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Churchman, go home and learn, by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed.— After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Paul's Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York, in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Leg Governor of the Garrison of Oxford— He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2.  
Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governor of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire— On the 21. of Dec. following, he had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him, being then, as 'tis 
(*) In The Walkley's New Cat. of Du●kes, Marquesses, Earls, Visc. etc. Printed at Lond. 16●●. in oct. p. 167.  said, Master of the Kings●Houshold, and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs. This person, I take to be the same, with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle, who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honourable as unfortunate expedition of Kent, Essex and Colchester, an. 1648, in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty, being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct, he was, (after the surrender thereof) shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas, on the 28 of Aug. the same year: At which time they being both obscurely buried, their funeral was afterwards, viz. on June the 7, an. 1661., with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoining: The particulars being too many for this place, must for brevity sake be now omitted.  
Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton, who hath this character given of him in the public register, fide & fortitudine pro Principe & pro Patria insignis, was actually created with due solemnity on that day, in Convocation— He was descended from, or at least near of kin to, Sir Will. Leighton Kt, an excellent Musician, author of a Poetical piece entit. Virtue triumphant: or, a lively description of the four Cardinal virtues. Published in 1603 and dedic. to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342.  
Nou. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt, sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University, now Governor of the Garrison of Oxford, was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity: At which time the Vicechancellor spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented, showing to them the holiness of his life and conversation, the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlisle, of which Cities he was successively Governor, and though brought to famine and pestilence, yet yielded neither, but upon honourable conditions, etc. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt, by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh- of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight, Earl of Dorset; and after he had thrown off his gown, betook himself to the Germane Wars, than the great nursery for English Gentlemen, where gaining much experience, was made fit for the service in the Wars at home. In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundel in the Scotch expedition then undertaken, as also in the next, if I am not mistaken, that was took in the year following. Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England, did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mentioned and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died, I cannot justly say; sure I am, that by his last Will and Test. dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor, who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mentioned, as I have been informed by some of his relations.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys. was then created Doct. of that faculty— In 1642, Nou. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts, and perhaps is the same (but mistaken by the Registrary) with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys. an. 1643, as before 'tis told you.  
Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created, and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation— Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour, who was created M. of A. an. 1642, as I have before told you, I know not, nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquis of Hertford, who became a Noble man of Christ Church, an. 1635. aged eleven years.  
Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys. was created Doctor by virtue of the Chancellors letters, which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness' Prince Charles in the place of Physician, and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour, he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physic, etc.— He was afterwards a Physician of some note in Yorkshire.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by virtue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert— This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London, being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians, took refuge in Oxon, and under the said Prince. He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out, who was Son of Tobell, the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer.  
Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D.— This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London, was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University, Rector of S. botolph's Church near Billingsgate in London, Prebend of S. Paul's Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes: But being sequestered of S. botolph's and forced to fly by the faction, he took sanctuary at Oxon, lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesty's return; at which time being restored to what he had lost, lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose. At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666, was buried at Langley in Bucks, where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart. Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M. of A. of this University 23. March 1614, a second born in Oxfordshire, who became Auditor of Ch. Ch. in 1608 or thereabouts aged 35, and a third born in Nottinghamshire and the Son of a Minister, who being entered into Ch. Ch. in 1624. took one degree in Arts four years after. I find also another, perhaps one of the two next before going, who dying at bath, was buried in the great Church there by the name of Mr. Philip King of Oxford, 23. Sept. 1635. etc.    



An. Dom. 1646.  
An. 22. Car. 1.    
Chanc. William Marquis of Hertford.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell again, without any nomination from the Chancellor, because he had left Oxon at the surrender of it to the Parliament Forces, 24 of June this year.  

Proctor's  
Rich. Wyatt of Oriel Coll. Apr. 8.  
Byrom Eton of Brasn. Coll. Apr. 8.   
But the Signior Proctor dying in his Father's house (Dr. Tho. Wyatt) at Ducklington near Witney in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob, his place was supplied by a Deputy till the 25 of Feb. following: At which time Mr. James Farren of the said Coll. of Oriel (who had been elected by the Masters of that house) was admitted therein by the consent of the Committee for regulating the University.  

Bach. of Arts.  
July 22. Joshua Childrey of Magd. Coll.  

Oct. 21. Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch.  
Oct. 21. Zachar. Bogan of C. C. Coll.  
Feb. 9 John Betts of C. C. Coll.   
The last is now living, and one of the Coll. of Physicians. Mar. 18. Rob. Wood of Merton, afterwards of Linc, College.  
Adm. 47.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted, but not one of them was afterward either a Writer, Bishop or man of note.   

Mast. of Arts.  
July 1. Thankful or Gracious Owen of Linc. Coll.— This person, who was the Son of Philip Owen, was born at Taplow in Buckinghamshire, became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll, under a Puritanical Tutor, in the year 1635, aged 16 years, elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. in the beginning of Aug. 1642, he being then Bach. of Arts, but soon after left the University and so consequently did not bear arms for his Majesty, as other Scholars did, within the Garrison of Oxon. Upon the surrender of the said Garrison for the use of the Parliament he returned to his Coll, took the degree of Master, as 'tis before told you, submitted to the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament, being then esteemed a Presbyterian. But the Independents at that time carrying all before them, he became one of their number, a Preacher in their private congregations, Proctor of the University in 1650 and the same year upon Cheynells marching off, Precedent of S. John's College and a noted Politician for carrying on the then cause. In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed by Oliver one of the Commissioners for the approbation of public preachers, and in 1654. he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire (as certain Heads of other Colleges were) for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, and was not wanting upon all occasions to promote the Independent interest in the University. In 1660 he was forced to leave his beloved Presidentship to make room for the right owner Dr. Rich. Bailiff, who for 12 years going before had suffered much for his Loyalty: So that retiring to London he took up his quarters at length in Hatton Garden and was not wanting to carry on the congregational way upon all occasions. This person, with James Baron, did, after Dr. Thomas goodwin's death, publish certain of his Theological works in two volumes in fol. and set before them a preface. See more among the Creations, under the year 1653. This Mr. Owen, who had a good command of the Latin tongue, died suddenly in his House in Hatton Garden in Holbourn near London, on the first day of April (Good Friday) 1681, and was buried near to the grave of the said Dr. Goodwin in the yard, called by some Tyndales, and by others The fanatical, burying place, joining on the north side to the New Artillery-yard or Garden near London. Some time before his death he had almost prepared for the press a book entit. Imago Imaginis. The design of which was to show that Rome Papal is an image of Rome Pagan, as I have been informed by one of his persuasion, who is remembered among the Writers under the year 1669.  
July 4. Thomas Clutterbook or Clotterbook of Magd. Coll.— This person is the same, I suppose, who was doctorated in Divinity elsewhere, and installed Archdeacon of Winchester, 31. Jul. 1684. See more in Robert Sharrock among the Writers, under the year 1684.  
Nou. 10. Joshua Ahier of New Coll.— This Loyal Gentleman, who was the Son of Guy Ahier of S. Saviour's in the isle of Jersey, translated from French into English The Elements of Logic. Oxon 1647 oct. Written originally by Pet. du Moulin. A translation of the said book had been before made with the author's approbation, and printed at Lond. 1624. oct, by one Nathan. de Lawn Bach. of Arts of Cambridge, educated in the Grammar Free-school in the City of Norwych, whence he was sent by the Mayor, Sherriffs and Aldermen thereof to C. C. Coll. in the said University, an. 1618.  
Nou. 10. Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch.— He then accumulated the degrees in Arts.  

Dec. 9 Will. Lloyd of Jes. Coll.  
Jan. 26. George straddling of Alls. Coll.   
Adm. 39   

Bach of Phys.  
Dec. 3. John Baber of Ch. Ch.— He was then admitted by virtue of the Letters of Colonel John Lambert Governor of the Garrison of Oxford for the Parliament: which Garrison was surrendered for their use on the 24 of June this year as I shall tell you anon.  

8. Thom. Willis of Ch. Ch.  
8. Humph. Brook of S. John Coll.   
The last of these two did, on the eleventh of Nou. going before, supplicate the ven. Convocation that he might accumulate the degrees of Master of Arts and Bach. of Phys. which was granted: See among the Doctors of Phys. an. 1659.  
Besides these three, who were all that were this year admitted, were two that were licenced to practise Phys. viz. Peter Dewever of Brasn. Coll, and Edward-Atkinson Chirurgeon to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parl. Army.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 23. Gilb. Stoaks of Wadh. Coll.— This person, who was the Son of a Gentleman of Devonshire, had taken one degree in Arts as a member of Hart Hall, an. 1608; at which time being noted for his Scholarship, he was afterwards made the Junior of the first two Chaplains of Wadham Coll, by the Dame Dorothy the Foundress thereof. Afterwards he became an indefatigable Student in Philosophy and Theology, and a continual Disputant even to his last among the Juniors in the time of Lent, being a usual thing in his time and before for grave Seniors to take the questions of quadragesimal Disputants to try and ferret them from one hole to another with subtleties: But since, that custom is esteemed forsooth pedantic and ridiculous, to the decay in some respects of disputation. He died on the 16 of Oct. 1654. aged 71 years (being then, or some time before Rector of Chilton Cantlow in the Dioc. of Wells) and was buried in the outer Chapel of Wadham Coll. He had written much, but published nothing, yet left behind a book, by him written in latin, treating of the Holy Eucharist, which, by the judgement of some, was thought fit to be published.  
He was the only person that was admitted this year, having several years before performed all his exercise in order thereunto.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or created this year.  

Doct. of Phys.  
June 17. James Hyde of C. C. Coll.— This person, who was the eleventh Son of Sir Laur. Hyde of the City of Salisbury Knight, became after his Majesty's restauration the King's Professor of Physic of this University and Principal of Magd. Hall. He died 7. May 1681, aged 64 years and was buried in the isle joining to the north side of the Chancel of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In the month of January 1641, the members of Parliament sent the Oath called the Protestation (made by them) to the University of Oxon to be taken by all there, of the University, that were upward of 18 years of age; whereupon the generality of the Academians did take it, yet some with limitations and exceptions: Others absented themselves because they did not rightly understand it, but this Mr. Jam. Hyde then Fellow of C. C. Coll. did plainly refuse it, which none else did beside. 'Tis true that Dr. Ralph Kettle Precedent of Trin. Coll did wave it, yet for no other reason, but that he was an old man and had taken many oaths already, etc.  
Nou. 16. John Wilby of Mert. Coll. was then admitted into the House of Congregation and Convocation.— In 1638 he took the degree of Bach. of the said fac. at Cambridge.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Diu. was adm. or licenced this year, only created.  

Incorporations.  
Apr. 9 Joh. Wedderbourne Doct. of Phys. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland, was then incorporated by virtue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University, which tell us that he is one of his Majesty's Physicians in ordinary and a Gentleman of known learning and vast experience.— He was originally a Professor of Philosophy in the said University, but that being too narrow a place for so great a person▪ he left it, traveled into various Countries, and became so celebrated for his great learning and skill in Physic, that he was the chief man of his Country for many years for that faculty. Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood, and was highly valued when he was in Holland with the Prince, 1646. 47. At length though his infirmities and great age forced him to retire from public practice and business, yet his fame contracted all the Scotch Nation to him: And his noble hospitality and kindness to all that were learned and virtuous, made his conversation no less loved, than his advice was desired. One of his name and family named James Wedderbourne, had spent some time in Oxon for the sake of the public Library, but the particular year when, I cannot justly tell. He was afterwards Doct. of Div, Prebendary of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Harrys of Winchester, in May 1631, and being some years after made Bishop of Dumblayne in his own Country, Tho. Row Bac. of Diu. was adm. to his Prebendship, 30. June 1638.  
Octob. ... Edmund Wilson (Anglus-Oxoniensis) Son of John Wilson, was incorporated Doct. of Phys. as he had stood in the University of Milan— This person who was admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty at Cambridge, 9 Apr. 1638, and to that of Doctor at Milan in Jan. 1641/2, I take to be the same with E. Wilson author of— Spadacrene Dunelmensis. Or a short treatise of an ancient medicinal fountain or vitrioline spa near the City of Durham. Together with the constituent principles, virtues and use thereof. Lond. 1675. etc. oct. as also the same who published The spirit of salt, with the true oil, or spirit of sulphur, etc. Printed in qu. 1665.  
Oct. 15. Thomas Cox Doct. of Phys. of Milan, Son of Thom. Cox of Somersetshire— This Gentleman, who had taken the said degree at Milan, in Decemb. 1641, was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, and Precedent thereof, but being whiggishly inclined, was deprived of that office in Octob. 1683; whereupon Dr. Daniel Whistler was put into his place about S. Luke's day in the same month. Afterwards Dr. Cox put himself in prison purposely to compound for his debts, and died as Dr. Whistler did.  
Nou. ... Will. Currer of Yorkshire, Doct. of Phys. of Leyden (where he took that degree in 1643) was then incorporated.  
Dec. 17. Will. Marshal Mast. of Arts of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge was then incorporated in the same degree.  
Feb. 12. Edw. Emilie of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys. of Leyden, was then incorporated Dr. of Phys.— In 1652 or 53 he held up his hand at the bar, at an Assize held in Oxon, for coining, but being freed, he went to London, practised his faculty in the Parish of S. Olaves Silver-street, and died there in the beginning of the year 1658, leaving then a relict behind him named Elizabeth.  
Mar. 22. Richard Jackson alias Keurden Bach. of Arts of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge.— In 1638 he became a Communer of S. Mary's Hall in this University, but upon the breaking out of the rebellion he went to Cambridge, where continuing till Oxford Garrison was surrendered, he retired to his Hall again, and was incorporated Bach. of Arts. See more among the created Doctors of Physic 1663.   

CREATIONS.  
The Creation's this year did mostly consist of Scholars, not of those only that were factious, after the Garrison was surrendered, but of those that were Orthodox, or had suffered for their Loyalty.   

Bach. of Law.  
June 17. Noah Bridges of Ball. Coll. lately Clerk of the Parliament that sat at Oxon, 1643. and 44, was then actually created Bach. of the Civil Law, being at that time esteemed a most faithful Subject to his Majesty.— He was afterwards author of— Lux Mercatoria: Arithmetic natural and decimal, digested into a more easy and exact method for resolving the most practical and useful questions that hath been yet published. Lond. 1661., and perhaps of other things. This person, who had a lodging allowed him in Ball. Coll, during the time of the War, is not to be taken to be the same (as some blundering persons that understand but little of authors and books, have done) with Noah Biggs the author of The vanity of the craft of Physic, etc. Lond. 1650. 51. qu.  
Alexander Dyer of Wadh. Coll, who for many years together had been trained in the Courts Ecclesiastical and Civil at London, etc. was created the same day.  
Aug. 4. Miles Smith of Magd. Coll, who had been admitted Bach. of Arts an. 1638, was actually created Bach. of the Civil Law by virtue of the Chancellors letters directed formerly to the Convocation.— This person, who should have been mentioned among the Writers, could I have obtained full information of him, was a Minister's Son of, or near to, the City of Gloucester, and nearly related to Dr. Miles Smith sometimes Bishop of that City, was at his first coming to Magd. Coll. a Servitor, as his contemporaries have informed me, was now a sufferer for his Majesty's cause, and after his restauration a retainer and secretary to the Archb. of Canterbury. He hath published The Psalms of K. David paraphrased into English Meeter. Lond. 1668. oct. and perhaps other things. He had a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll, who dying in the Parish of S. Peter in the East 17. Oct. 1682 aged 18, his body was conveyed thence to Lambeth near London I think, and there buried. The said Dr. Smith Bishop of Gloucester had a Son called Miles as I have elsewhere told you, which is all I know of him.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 17. James Aston of S. john's Coll, a Captain in the King's Army— Afterwards he was a suffererer for his Majesty's cause, but after his restauration he became well beneficed, and in Ap. 1682 Canon of Wells.  
July 1. Nathaniel Reading of Mert. Coll.  
20. Giles Oldisworth Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was then actually created Master, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters written in his behalf, and read in a Convocation held on the 21. of Feb. going before— This loyal Divine, who was the son of Robert Oldisworth Esq. by Miriel his Wife, Daughter of Nich. Overbury and Sister to Sir Thomas, who was poisoned in the Tower of London, was born at Coln-Rogers in Glocestershire, an. 1619, educated in the College School at Westminster, elected Scholar of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1639, forced thence for his allegiance to the King, retired to Oxon, and was there created Master, as before I have told you, he being then Rector of the Church of Bourton on the Hill near to Morton in the Marsh cammonly called Morton Henmarsh in Glocestershire. He hath written and published (1) The stone rolled away, and life more abundant: viz. The holy royalist: or secret discontents of Church and Kingdom, reduced unto self-denial, moderation and thankfulness. Lond. 1663. 64. qu. Before it, is his Majesty's picture, as being dedicated to him, from whom he had received, as it seems, some kind of preferment after his restauration. Into the body of this discourse, p. 370, is haled in (2) A Sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Dorothy Rutter, Wife of Mich. Rutter Esq. who died in Childbearing. 'Tis without a text, and dedicated to Sir Joh. Hales of Warwick Bt, Nephew to the said Dorothy. In this volume the author inserts many trivial, impertinent and weak passages, yet seems to show some considerable reading in the Fathers, and other old authors, to have been honest, loyal and a zealous stickler to his capacity for the establishment of the Church of England in its whole constitution. (3) The race set before us, showing the necessity laid upon Gospel believers, to run with diligence thorough all Gospel duties, Sermon preached at Mercer's Chap. in Lond. on the 11 of May 1665, on 1. Cor. 9.24. Oxon. 1666. qu. He hath also other things extant, which I have not yet seen, viz. (4) Visitation Sermon, preached at Camden in Glocestershire (on 2. Cor. 7.1) printed, as it seems, in 1662. qu. (5) The Father of the faithful tempted, etc. a funeral Sermon, etc. Oxon 1677. (6) Sir Tho. Overbury's Wife unveiled, etc. printed in tw. 'Tis a Poem, and called by some The illustrious Wife, etc. This author Giles Oldisworth died 24. Nou. 1678 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bourton on the Hill before mentioned.  
Aug. 5. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. lately in service for his Majesty in remote parts, was then created by virtue of his Majesty's Letters formerly sent to the University— He was a Dorsetshire man born and afterwards a sufferer for the royal cause.  
Dec. 17. Thom. Willis formerly of S. John's Coll. in this University, had then the degree of Master conferred on him by virtue of the Letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax General of the Parliament Army, which partly say that Of his approved ability and integrity for learning and life, he had been sufficiently informed, etc. He was presented to his degree by Mr. Joh. Goad of the same Coll. See more of him among the created Doct. of Diu. an. 1670.  
Mar. 11. Rich. Mansell of Ball. Coll. who had been adm. Bach. of Arts in 1643, was then created Master of that faculty by virtue of the Letters of the said Sir Tho. Fairfax, wherein 'tis said that he was then a Parliamentarian Officer— He was one of the Guard belonging to the said Fairfax, as a signior Fellow of Ball. Coll. hath informed me.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 6. In a Convocation then held, the Vicechancellor signified to the members thereof that several Preachers of this and the University of Cambridge had preached several laudable Sermons before the King, Court, and Parliament, at Oxon: For which their pains, the Delegates, appointed by the University, could think of no other way to requite them but by conferring on them Degrees: which matter being at length decreed by them, and approved by the Chancellors Letters, their names then were publicly read, with liberty given to the said persons to be created when they pleased. Among those that were created this year, are these following.  

Jun. 17. Rich. Sherlock Chapl. of New Coll.  
Jun. 17. James Masters of S. Alb. Hall.  
Jun. 17. Joh. Castilion of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 17. Will. Towers of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 17. Tho. Joyce of Hart Hall.   

Jun. 27. Rowland nicols of Magd. Coll.  
Jun. 27. Thom. Norgate of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these two last, became Chancellor of the Diocese of lile, in the room of one Hen. Martial M. A, an. 1667, and the other was now Chaplain to Sir Thom. Glemham Governor of the Garrison of Oxon.  
June 22. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall.  

23 Pet. Gunning Chaplain of New Coll.  
23 George Ashwell of Wadh. Coll.  
23 Will. Creed of S. John's Coll.  
23 Geor Gisbie of S. John's Coll.   
The last being afterwards ejected, was restored to his Coll. in 1660, and dying 13. May 1664, was buried in the Chapel of S. John's Coll. 'Tis said that on the same day Isaac Barrow Chaplain of New Coll. (afterwards B. of Man and S. Asaph) was actually created also Bach. of Div, yet he occurs not registered.  
July 1. Joshua Mynne of Ch. Ch, lately of Peter House in Cambridge.  
10. Josias How of Trin. Coll.— This person, who was now in good esteem for his ingenuity, hath published A sermon before the King at Ch. Ch, on Psal. 4.7. Printed as 'tis said, in red letters, an. 1644 or thereabouts, in cue, but this I have not yet seen. He hath also several copies of verses that are extant in various books, which show him to have been a good Poet. He was put out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors an. 1648, was restored in 1660, but was no gainer by his sufferings as many honest Cavaliers were not by theirs. He is now living and will tell you the reason why, etc.  
Others were created this year, which for brevity sake I shall now omit to set down: However the Reader must know, that several persons besides, were allowed to take the same degree of Bach. of Div; among whom were Obadiah Walker of Vniv. Coll. and Ant. Hodges Chapl. of New Coll, but they refused that favour.   

Doct. of Phys.  
April 9 Peter Massonet lately of the City of Geneva, now second or under Tutor to James Duke of York, was then actually created.  
June 23. Charles Scarborough of Merton Coll, lately Fellow of that of Cays in Cambr. was then actually created by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of the University, in which 'tis said that he was Master of Arts of Cambridge of 7 years standing and upwards, and that he was spoiled of his Library in the beginning of these troubles; and afterwards for his conscience deprived of his Fellowship at Cambridge, etc. His Letters testimonial under the hand of the famous Dr. Will. Harvey, say also that he is well learned in Physic, Philosophy and Mathematics, etc. While he abode in Mert. Coll, he did help the said Dr. Harvey then Warden of that House, (in his Chamber at the end of the Library there) in the writing his book De generatione Animalium, which was afterwards published by the said Harvey. Afterwards he became a most learned and incomparable Anatomist, one of the Coll of Physicians, principal Physician to K. Ch. 2. (from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 15. of Aug. 1669) and to his royal Highness James his Brother, while Duke of York, and when King, Physician to the Tower of London, and afterwards to K. Will. 3. etc. He was the first that introduced 
(a) Dr. Charles Goodall in his Royal Coll. of Physicians at London, etc. with a brief Hist. of the lives and works of several of the Members of that Royal foundation, etc. Lond. 1684. qu.  Geometrical and Mechanical speculations into Anatomy, and applied them as well in all his learned conversation, as more particularly in his famous Lectures upon the Muscles of humane Bodies for 16 or 17 years together in the public Theatre at Surgeon's Hall, which were read by him with infinite applause and admiration of all sorts of learned men in the great City. He is also most admirably well skilled in the Mathematic Arts, and was so esteemed by the famous Mr. Will. Oughtred, who speaks thus 
(b) In his pr●f. to Clavis Mathemat. Oxon. 1652. third edit. in oct.  of him after he had given a just character of Mr. Christop. Wren— Accessit & alter Hortator vehemens D. Car. Scarborough Doctor Medicine, suavissimis moribus, perspicatissimoque ingenio Vir; cujus tanta est in Mathesi solertia, & supra fidem faelix tenaxque memoria, ut omnes Euclidis, Archimedis aliorumque nonnullorum ex Antiquis propositiones recitare ordine & in usum proferre potis sit, etc. He hath extant under his name (1) Syllabus Musculorum, which is added to The Anatomical administration of all the Muscles of an humane body as they rise in dissection, &c, revived with additions by Will. Molins' Master in Chirurgery. This book, which hath been several times printed in oct. is, and ever will be used, as having a prospect of two excellent ends especially: one to show all the Muscles as they naturally rise in dissection, the other, to place every one of them by his proper Antagonist. (2) Trigonometry. printed in qu. He hath also compendiously methodised the Grammar of the famous Will. Lilye, which shows him to have been a critical Grammarian, as indeed he is; but this I have not yet seen, nor his Elegy upon Mr. Abr. Cowley, which goes from hand to hand in Ms. This worthy person is now living in great repute and veneration at Court, within the liberty of Westminster; of whom you may see more in the discourse of Dr. Seth Ward among the Writers in this vol. num. 522.  
June 23. Rob. Mead M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Captain in his Majesty's service.  
William Lord Brouncker Viscount of Castle Lions, Son of Sir Will. Brouncker, (mentioned among the created Doctors of the Civil Law under the year 1642) was actually created Doctor of Physic the same day— This noble person, did then solely addict himself to the study of Mathematics, and at length became a very great Artist in that faculty. He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and Precedent thereof for about 15 years: which society he did much honour and advance by his learning and experience. The places of honour and profit which he held, were the Chancellourship of her Majesty's Courts, and keeping of her Great Seal, one of the Lords Commissioners for the executing the office of the Lord High Admiral, and the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London: which last place he obtained in Nou. 1681, after a long suit of Law had depended between him and Sir Rob. Atkins a Judge, concerning the right thereof. He hath extant under his name Experiments of the recoiling of Guns, mentioned in the Hist. of the Royal Society, and Several Letters to Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland, which are at the end of his life published by Dr. R. Parr. He died in his house in S. James-street within the liberty of Westm, on the 5. of April early in the morning an. 1684 aged 64 years, and was buried on the 14 of the same month in a little vault which he had caused to be made, eight foot long and four broad, in the middle of the choir belonging to the Hospital of S. Catherine before mentioned: Which choir he a little before had divided in the middle, with a good screen (set up at his own charge) whereby he hath spoiled the beauty and state of it.  
Hen. Brouncker younger brother to the said L. Brouncker, was created the same day, Jun. 23.— After the death of Will. Lord Brounker, this Henry succeeded him in his honour, and dying about the 4 of January 1687, was buried at Richmond in Surrey, where there is a money over his grave.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 6. In a Convocation then held, the Vicechancellor signified to the Members thereof, etc. as before, under the title of Bach. of Div, this year: Whereupon these persons following were created, either for their preaching before the Court or Parl. at Oxon, or for their Sufferings for the Royal Cause.  

Jun. 17. Matthew Brooks of Mert. Coll.  
Jun. 17. Jasp. maine of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 17. Thom. Swadlin of S. Joh. Coll.  
Jun. 17. Tho. Philpot of New Coll.   
This last, Tho. Philpot son of Dau. Philpot, was born at Michael Dever in Hampshire, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1609, and afterwards taking holy Orders, he became Rector of Turveston and Akeley in Buckinghamshire. In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much for his Loyalty and a good Conscience, suffered also by the loss of his Goods and Imprisonment; and therefore retiring to Oxon, was there actually created D. of D. He hath published (1) An adieu to the Duke of Gloucester: or, a Sermon preached in a poor Parish Church (Turweston or Turveston) near Buckingham 23 Sept. 1660, on Eccles. 3.20. Lond. 1660. qu. (2) The Cripples Complaint, etc. Sermon on S. Joh. 5.7. Lond. 1665. qu. He died in 1669 or thereabouts, and was, I suppose, buried at Turveston.  

Jun. 22. Ger. Langbaine Prov. of Qu. Coll.  
Jun. 22. Thomas Bravell of Magd. Coll.   
23. John Croft now of Wadham Coll.— He was a younger son of Sir Hen. Croft of Teddington in Bedfordshire, was first a Com. of Linc. Coll, afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules, M. of A. and beneficed; but suffering for his Majesty's Cause he retired to Oxon, and was there created D. of D. as 'tis here said. After his Majesty's restauration, he was, by the endeavours of William Lord Croft his brother, promoted to the Deanery of Norwich in the place of Dr. Joh. Hassall some years before deceased; in which being installed 7 Aug. 1660, sat there to the time of his death, which happening on the 27 Jul. 1670, he was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwich. His said Brother Will. Lord Croft, died either in Aug. or Sept. 1677.  
Will. Stutevile of Ch. Ch. who had lately done his Maj. special service in the West, was actually created the same day, June 23.  
Tristram Sugge of Wadh. Coll. was also created the same day.— This person who was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire, had been public Metaphysic Reader and Proctor of the University. Afterwards he was ejected by the Visitors in 1648, and suffered much in the interrupted times for his Loyalty. In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship, and dying on the 27 of January in the same year, was buried in the Chapel of Wadham Coll. He was esteemed by all that knew him a profound Philosopher and Divine, and very fit to publish what he had written of those Subjects; but since his death his papers are gotten into such hands, that it is doubted whether ever they will see light.  
Jul. 1. Edward Boughen of Ch. Ch.  
Aug. 13. Joh. Pottinger of New Coll, the famous Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester.— He resigned the said Mastership soon after, was succeeded by Mr. Will. Burt, and died in 1659.  
This year it was allowed by the Members of the ven. Convocation that Hen. Tozer, Joh. Proctor and Baldwin Acland of Exeter Coll, Rob. Barker of New Coll, Rich. Washington of Vniv. Coll, Edm. Diggle of Magdalen, and John Good of New, Coll, might have liberty when they pleased to be created Doctors of Divinity, but they all refused then, and the next year, to accept of that favour.  
At the same time also Isaac Basire and Rich. Dukeson of Cambr. Thom. Bunbury of Ball. Coll, Rob. Sibthorp of Linc. Coll, Will. Haywood of S. john's Coll, etc. who had fled to Oxon, as an Asylum, and there had several times preached before his Majesty and the Members of Parliament, had each a licence given to them under the public Seal of the Uniu. to preach the word of God throughout England.  
This year Jun. 24, being Wednesday and Midsummer day, the Garrison of Oxford was surrendered for the use of the Parliament; at which time marched out in a body eastward about 3000 Soldiers, besides 500 or thereabouts northward, and a little before and after them, five hundred more, mostly Horsemen and private persons engaged in the Siege. On Monday going before, Prince Rupert and Pr. Maurice his brother, with their attendants, departed; and those that followed them the next day, were about 300 persons, most of them of quality, and their attendants. When the forces belonging to the Parliament were entered, who were all Presbyterians, Independents or worse, were among them their Chaplains of the same persuasion, who forthwith, upon all occasions, thrust themselves into the pulpits, purposely by their rascally doctrine to obtain either Proselytes, or to draw off from their loyal Principles and orthodox Religion the Scholars and Inhabitants. Among them were Hugh Peter's that diabolical Villain and Pulpit-buffoon, Will. del Chapl. to Sir Tho Fairfax, John Saltmarsh, Will. Erbury, etc. and what they did there besides, during their stay, is too large a story now to tell you. In Sept. following, were seven Presbyterian Ministers (who had formerly their education in this University) appointed by Parliament, sent to Oxon, to preach at S. Mary's and elsewhere, to draw off the Scholars from their loyal principles, but Edw. Corbet one of them, being about that time called thence, the six carried on the work, yet found opposition by the Independents and other Sectaries, of whom Will. Erbury was one, yet all, upon any occasion, would join together to pluck down and persecute the Malignants, that is Cavaliers and Royalists. So that whereas before the surrender, there was no place in England more loyal to their Prince, orthodox, and observant of the Ceremonies of the Church of England, than the Scholars and the generality of the Inhabitants of Oxon were; so after the entry of the said Parliamenteers, there appeared nothing but confusion, darkness, etc. Hell was broke loose upon the poor remnant, and they were overrun by Sectaries, Blasphemers, Hypocrites, Exciters to Rebellion, Censurers, Covetous persons, men of self-pride, envy, and what not. So that those of the Gown that could not brook such persons, did either leave the University, or abscond in their respective houses, till they could know their doom by the approaching Visitation. The Soldiery did declare their impudence so much, that they forbore not to preach in some of the Pulpits, and to thrust themselves into the public Schools, and there, in the places of Lecturers, speak to the Scholars against humane learning, and challenge the most learned of them to prove their Calling from Christ, etc. But let the restless Presbyterians be thanked for the original of all these Evils and others that followed; who, to fill their coffers, raise families, please and cherish their private lusts and endearments and nothing else, care not what mischief they do, or what ruin they bring upon this poor Nation, so that they might obtain their own unworthy ends.    



An. Dom. 1647.  
An. 23 Car. 1.    
Chanc. the same, viz. William Marquis of Hertford, etc. who continuing in his office till the beginning of February, Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery was about that time restored; and according to an order of the Lords in Parl. dated 2 March, he was desired to go to Oxford and re-take possession of his place. According to which order he went in the beginning of the next year, as I shall tell you by and by.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell without any nomination by the Chanc. So that being discharged of his office by order from the Visitors, 8 Oct. this year, because, as they said, he was neither nominated, or lawfully admitted thereunto, yet notwithstanding he took no notice of that order, but supplied the place still, either in his own person or by Deputies.  

Proct.  
Rob. Waring of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29.  
Hen. Hunt of Magd. Coll. Apr. 29.   
Notwithstanding an order issued out from the Visitors authorized by Parl. for the removal of the sen. Proctor, dated 20 January this year, yet he continued therein till▪ new Proctors were elected.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Mar. 30. David Whitford of Ch. Ch.  
Mar. 30. John Murcot of Mert. Coll.   

April 2. Henry Mundy of Mert. Coll.  
April 2. John Flower of New Inn.   
See more of the last among the created Masters of Arts an. 1648.  
May 22. John Finch of Ball. Coll.— This most worthy person, who was younger brother to Sir Heneage Finch (afterwards Earl of Nottingham) and both the sons of Sir Heneage Finch, brother to Thomas Earl of Winchelsey, was bred in Grammar learning under Mr. Edw. Sylvester, who taught in Allsaints Parish in Oxon; and when at about 15 years of age he became Gent. Com. of the said Coll. of Balliol. After he had taken one degree here, he applied his mind to the study of physic, but leaving the University when it was turned topsie turvie the next year by the Visitors, he some time after traveled into Italy, became Doctor of his family there (at Milan as it seems) and public Reader of it in several places. Afterwards he was made Consul of the English at Milan, and preferred by all the Italians and Greeks (though himself much opposed it) to be Syndick of that whole University, an honour no English man ever had before. In contemplation and memory of his excellent Government, they did set up his Statue in marble, and the great Duke, (invited by the fame of his learning and virtues) did make him the public Professor at Pisa; all Princes striving who should most honour a person (so vastly above his years) so knowing and meritorious. After his Majesty's restauration, he returned to his native Country, and giving a visit to Edw. E. of Clarendon L. Chancellor, he was by him conducted to his Majesty; and being by him presented as a rarity, his Majesty no sooner saw, but instantly conferred upon, him the honour of Knighthood (Jun. 10. an. 1661.) as a person who abroad had in an high degree honoured his Country. In 1665 he was sent Resident for his Maj. of Great Britain with the Great Duke of Tuscany, and upon his arrival at Florence Sir Bernard Gascoigne (a known friend to the English nation) did with an undeniable civility press him to take a quarter at his own house, till he should be farther provided; which he accordingly accepted, and the Duke was pleased to employ the said Sir Bernard to his Majesty's Resident with such notices and respects as he found then convenient. In the end, all things being agreed upon, as to the manner and dignity of his reception, the said Resident made his entry in a very noble coach, being attended with an answerable train, in rich Liveries, and a great number of other coaches, beside the whole Factory of Legorne, who very kindly appeared in a handsome equipage to do him all possible honour. Thus attended, he went to the palace, and received Audience, first from the Great Duke, and two days after from the Duchess and Prince, acquitting himself with a singular grace throughout the whole Ceremony. Afterwards he showed himself dexterous and happy in his public Ministry, as also in his private conversation, whereby he gained to himself the esteem and good will of all men. When he had continued there some years he returned, and was sent Ambassador to Constantinople, and continued there, with very great esteem also. After he had quitted that office, he returned to London, and dying early in the morn, of the 18 of Nou. 1682, (being then Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians) he was buried in the Chap. of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, to which House he had been a great benefactor. He had a brother named Francis Finch, bred up also under E. Silvester, was afterwards a Gent. Com. of Ball. Coll, but leaving it without a degree, went to London, studied the Law and became a Barrister of one of the Temples, but before he had long practised he died, yet lives still in those several pieces of ingenuity he left behind him, wherein he falls not short of the best of Poets: And because Poeta est finitimus Oratori, he might have proved excellent in that too, having so incomparable a Precedent as his brother Sir Heneage Finch. Among the several specimen of his Poetry which I have seen, is a copy of verses before Will. Cartwrights Poems, an. 1651, as there is of his brother John: Another before a book intit. Airs and Dialogues for one, two and three Voices. Lond. 1653. fol. published by Hen. Laws. In the body of which book he hath a Poem intit. Caelia singing, to which the said Laws composed an Air of two parts to be sung, etc.  

June 22. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll.  
Jul. 1. Rich. Werge of Trin. Coll.   
The first of these two, who is now living in Westminster in good repute for his practice in the faculty of Physic, hath published several things, and therefore aught to be remembered hereafter among Oxford Writers. The other, Rich. Werge, will be at large mentioned among the created Masters, an. 1648.  

Jul. 13. William Bell of S. John's Coll.  
Jul. 13. Sam. Ladyman of C. C. Coll.   
Of the last, you may see more among the Master's 1649.  
Jan. 19 Franc. Drop of Magd. Coll.  
Adm. 58.   

Bach. of Law.  
But one admitted this year, viz. Rich. Fisher Fellow of Alls. Coll, who had, with the rest of the Scholars, born arms for his Majesty.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 2. Joh. Lydall of Trin Coll.— He was an ingenious man, an excellent Philosopher, a great Tutor, and might have honoured the world with his Learning had his life been longer spared. He died 12 Oct. 1657, aged 32 years or thereabouts, and was buried in the Chapel belonging to his Coll. He had been ejected his Fellowship, but was allowed to take Pupils.  
Jul. 8. Rich. Watkins of Ch. Ch.— This person, who was son of Hen. Watkins mentioned among the Doct. of Diu. in the Fasti of the first vol. under the year 1619, was afterwards author of a pamphlet intit. News from the dead. Or a true and exact narration of the miraculous deliverance of Anne Greene, who being executed at Oxford 14 Dec. 1650, afterwards revived, etc. Oxon. 1651. qu. printed twice in that year. To which are added Poems written upon that subject by divers Oxford Scholars. He was afterwards Vicar of Amersden in the dioc. of Oxon, and is now Rector of Whichford in Warwickshire, and of Bourton on the Hill in Gloc.  
Jul. 13. Joh. Humphrey of Pemb. Coll.— He is now living a Nonconformist.  
Dec. 9 Joh. Dolben of Ch. Ch.— It doth not appear that he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, and therefore I suppose he did now accumulate. He was afterwards Bishop of Rochester and Archb. of York.  

Feb. 1. Joh. Barbon of Exet. Coll.  
Feb. 1. Edw. Sclater of S. Joh. Coll.   
Adm. 52. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Phys.  
But one admitted this year, named George Tanstall of Magd. Hall, Apr. 2. Some were created, but more admitted to practice Physic, among whom was Thomas Holyoake of Queens Coll.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Diu. was admitted only created.  
☞ Not one Doctor of the Civil Law was admitted only created.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 22. Joh. Skinner of Magd. Hall. He was afterwards Hon. Fell. of the Coll. of Phys.  
Jul. 24. John Maplet of Ch. Ch.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Diu. was either admitted or created.  

Incorporations.  
May 20. Dan. Whistler Fellow of Mert. Coll. and Doct. of Phys. of the Uniu. of Leyden.  
Jul. 10. Sam. Bruen M. of A. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland.— He was afterwards put in Fellow of Brasn. Coll, by the Visitors appointed by Parliament, and was one of the Proctors of the University.  
Rich. Bonner M. of A. of Gonvil and Caies in Cambr. was incorporated the same day.  
Jan. 17. Henr. Down a Devonian born, and Doct. of Phys. of the Uniu. of Caen in Normandy.   

CREATIONS.  
The Creations were in most faculties, either mostly of such that had boar Arms for, or otherwise useful to, his Majesty.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Nou. 2. Will. Browne of Magd. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. an. 1665.  
Rob. Whitehall of Ch. Ch.— He afterwards cringed to the Visitors, and became Fellow of Mert. Coll.  
Besides these two were six. of Magd. Coll, that had born arms, created, of which Edw. Philipps was one, different from him of Magd. Hall, who was afterwards a Writer: Two also of Jesus and one of Ball; all afterwards ejected.   

Bach. of Law.  
Three were created, of which two, who were of New Coll. were afterwards ejected.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 17. Amos Waldrond— He was then, as it seems, created, because in a Convocation then held, that degree was granted to him by the Members thereof. He had been admitted a Student in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. 18 Nou. 1637, was elected Scholar of that House in Easter Term 1641, and admitted Bach. of Arts in Jan. following. Afterwards he entered into holy Orders, had a Rectory conferred on him, but being forced thence by the Presbyterians, was taken into the protection of Will. Marquis of Hertford and by him made his Secretary: which place he now (1647) enjoyed.  
It was also then granted by the Convocation that John King lately a Student of Ch. Ch, son of Dr. Hen. King Bishop of Chichester, might be created M. of A. in any Congregation or Convocation; but whether he was so, it appears not.  
Jul. 8. Thom. Reading of Ch. Ch. lately freed from prison, wherein he had for a long time been detained from the Offices, not of a good Citizen, but from those of the University, was then actually created.  
At the same time the University Delegates did grant to Thom. Rastall Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. (lately an Undergraduat of the University of Cambr.) that he might have the degr. of M. of A. conferred on him, in consideration of the several services he had done for his Majesty; but whether he was adm. I cannot tell.  
On the 2. of Nou. three Bach. of Arts, who had been Soldiers in the Garrison of Oxon, were also then created Masters, but in the year after were ejected: And on the 24 of Jan. following it was dispensed with by the said Delegates, that Tho. Wood Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. of 5 years standing, who was the first young Scholar or Undergraduat that voluntarily left the Uniu. to serve his Maj. at the battle of Edghill, might be presented to the degr. of Mast. in any Congregation; which was accordingly done, but not registered. The next year he being deeply engaged in the Cavaleering Plot at Oxon, in order for the relief of the distressed Royalists besieged in Colchester, he was forced thence to save his neck: Whereupon going into Ireland, he became an Officer in the Regiment of Col. Hen. Ingoldsby (his quondam School-fellow at Thame) against those that were then called Rebels; where, at Tredagh, he ended his days of the Country disease called the Flux, an. 1651.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Feb. 1. Edm. Gayton of S. John's Coll.— He was turned out of his place the next year, and soon after compounded for his estate, for the sum of 47 l.  
About the same time it was allowed to three Masters to be created Bachelaurs of Physic, two of which (of Exeter Coll.) were afterwards ejected: Whereupon one of them going to Milan was there made Doctor, and incorporated here after his Majesty's restauration, and the other actually created, as I shall tell you when I come to the year 1660.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Nou. 2. Will. Walwyn of S. John's Coll.  
Nou. 2. Joh. Goad of S. John's Coll.   
The first of these two who was son of Franc. Walwyn of Muggwell street in Lond. was elected, from Merch. Tayl. school, Scholar of S. john's Coll, 1634 or thereabouts, aged 17 years, was afterwards Fellow, M. of A. and a noted Preacher. In 1648 he was ejected his Fellowship, suffered much in the interval, but at length obtaining the Vicarage of East Coker in Somersetshire, published (1) God save the King: or a Sermon of Thanksgiving for his Majesty's happy return to his throne, on 1 Sam. 10.24. Lond. 1660. qu. (2) A character of his sacred Maj. etc.  
Besides these two, were four more created, and three that had liberty to be created when they pleased. Some of those that were created had preached before the King and Parl.   

Doct. of Law.  
Nou. 23. George Wild of S. John's Coll.— He was the only person that was created this year, and after his Majesty's restauration he became Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 8. Capt. Anthony Morgan sometimes of Magd. Coll, was actually created by virtue of the Letters sent to the Uniu. from Fairfax General of the Parl. Army, which say that he hath faithfully behaved himself in the public Service, meaning the service of the Parliament.  
Thom. Wharton of Trin. Coll. was created the same day by virtue of the Lett. from the said Gen. which say that he was sometimes a Student in this University, and afterwards improved his time in London in the study of all parts of Physic, etc.  
In a Convocation held 17 June it was granted to John French M. A. of New Inn, now a Physician in the Parl. Army, that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Phys. but he did not.— See more in the next year, where you'll find him actually created.  
This year flocked to the University several poor Scholars, whom some called the scum of Cambridge, many poor Schoolmasters, Pedagogues from Belfries, Curates and sometimes Vicars, as also Parl. Soldiers, especially such that had been lately disbanded, to gain preferment by the Visitation approaching; for this year the Visitors could make nothing of it, as I have elsewhere 
(*) In Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 1. sub an. 1647.  told you. They were commonly called Seekers, were great frequenters of the Sermons at S. Mary's, preached by the 6 Ministers appointed by Parliament, and other Presbyterian Ministers that preached in other Churches in Oxon, and sometimes frequenters of the Conventicles of Independents and Anabaptists. The generality of them had mortified Countenances, puling Voices, and Eyes commonly, when in discourse, lifted up, with hands laying on their breasts. They mostly had short hair, which at this time was commonly called the Committee cut, and went in cuerpo in a shabbed condition, and looked rather like Prentices, or antiquated Schoolboys, than Academians or Ministers, and therefore few or none, especially those of the old stamp or royal party would come near to, or sort themselves with, them, but rather endeavour to put scorn upon them and make them ridiculous, etc.  
This year was a Sojourner and Student in Oxon, for the sake of the public Library, Pet. Laur. Scavenius a noble Dane; who, after his return to his own Country, became a learned man and a publisher of certain books, whereby he obtained an increasing admiration from his Countrymen.    



An. Dom. 1648.  
An. 24 Car. 1.    
Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Montgomery, etc. who took possession of the chair in his own person, in a Convocation held Apr. 12.  
Vicechanc. Edward Reynolds sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll, who being designed to this office (thro' the recommendations of the Chancellor) by an order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, 18 of Feb. 1647, he was first declared Doct. of Diu. by another order, and afterwards presented to his office, before the Chanc. sitting in his chair in Convocation, by Sir Nath. Brent Warden of Mert. Coll, on the 12 day of the said month of Apr.  

Proct.  
Joshua Cross of Linc. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr.  
Ralph Button of Mert. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr.   
The said Proctors, who were godly Brethren, were designed to their office by the same Authority that the Vicechanc. was, without any regard had to the Caroline Cycle, which appointed New, and Allsoules, Coll. to elect Proctors for this year: And being admitted on the said day (Apr. 12.) by the same Authority, Will. Bew or Beaw of New Coll. (afterwards Bishop of Landaff) who had been chosen by the Society of New Coll, for their Proctor on the first Wednesday in Lent 1647, was put aside, as also one Ed. Allason, who (as 'tis said in the Visitors Register) was chose by those of Allsoules; yet whether he was of that House, or had taken the degree of M. of Arts, I cannot yet find.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Nou. 3. Dan. Greenwood of Brasn. Coll.  
Nou. 3. Rich. adam's of Brasn. Coll.   
Of these two I shall speak more among the Masters an. 1651.  

Mar. 16. Josias Banger of Magd. Coll.  
Mar. 16. Dan. Capell of Magd. Coll.   
Of the first of these two, I shall speak more among the Masters in 1651. The other is mentioned among the Writers.  
Adm. 37.   

Bach. of Law.  
Aug. 4. Will. Scot of All's. Coll.— This person, who was the only Bachelaur admitted this year, had before spent six years in the study of humane literature and in the Civ. Law in Cambridge, whence coming to get preferment here from the Visitors, was by them made this year Fellow of Alls. Coll, by the endeavours of his father Thom. Scot, who being a great creature of Oliver Cromwell was by him nominated to be one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory in the latter end of this year, and accordingly did fit, but paid the debt for it after his Majesty's restauration.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Jul. 6. George Hopkins of New Inn.  
Jul. 6. Giles Collier of New Inn.  
Jul. 6. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv. Coll.   

Jul. 20. Sam. Clerk of Mert. Coll.  
Oct. 17. Joh. Chetwynd of Ex. Coll.   

Nou. 16. Benj. Woodbridge of Magd. Hall.  
Dec. 12. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall.   
The last of these two was afterwards a Student of Ch. Ch, and is now living in Worcestershire, a Conformist to the Church of England.  
Dec. 12. Joh. Row of New Inn.— He was about this time made Fellow of C. C. Coll.  
14. Edward Littleton of All's. Coll.— This person, who was son of Adam Littleton of Stoke S. Mildrid in Shropshire, of the ancient and gentile family of the Littleton's in that County and elsewhere, became a Commoner of S. Mary's Hall in the beginning of the year 1641 aged 15 years or thereabouts, and in 1647 he was elected Fellow of the said Coll. of Alls. In 1656 he was installed one of the Proctors, and continued in his House, as I conceive, till his Majesty's restauration. He hath written and published, De juventute: Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxoniensibus. Lond. 1664. in 10 sh. in qu. This Oration was spoken by him when he was Rhetoric Reader of the University of Oxon. The second edit. of this came out at Lond. 1689. qu. Which, by an Epist. before it, the author dedicates to Westminster School, wherein he was educated in Grammar Learning, to Alls. Coll, wherein he was educated in Academicals, to Linc. Inn, where he had studied the Common Law, and to the Island of Barbadoes, where he, as a Judge, had administered the Law.  
Feb. 13. Will. Ley of Ch. Ch.— He occurs not either matriculated of any House, or Bach. of Arts of this University, and therefore I suppose he was a Stranger put in Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors. I take him to be the same Will. Ley (son of Joh. Ley mentioned among the Writers, an. 1662. p. 190.) who was afterwards Minister of Wanting alias Wantage in Berks, Author of A Buckler for the Church of England, in answer to Mr. Pendarves his Queries called Arrows against Babylon, etc. Oxon. 1656. qu.  
Adm. 38. or thereab.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys, Bach. of Div, Doct. of Law, Doct. of Phys, or Doct. of Divinity, was admitted or licenced to proceed this year.  

INCORPORATIONS.  
The Incorporations this year did mostly consist of Can●abrigians who had lately come to this University for preferment from the Visitors, when the great rout of Royalists were by them made in this University.   

Bach. of Arts.  
About 20 were incorporated, of which number were these.  
June 10. Rich. Maden of Magd. Coll. in Cambridge.— This person, who afterwards took the degree of Master, as a member of New Inn, I set down here, not that he was afterwards a Writer, but to distinguish him from another of both his names who was author of certain Sermons of Christ's love towards Jerusalem, Lond. 1637. qu. and perhaps of other things.  
Jul. 4. Peter Pett of Sidney Coll.— He was soon after made Fellow of Alls. Coll, became a great Vertuoso, and at length a Kt. and a Writer, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Writers, with honour.  
Oct. 10. Jam. Ward of Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England— His testimony dated 3 Dec. 1646 is subscribed by Hen. Dunster Precedent, and Sam. Danforth Fellow, of that Coll; but whether this J. Ward published any thing afterwards, I know not. After he was incorporated, he was admitted Master. See among the created Bach. of Phys. 1649.  
Dec. 8. Joh. Row of Cambridge in Old England.— Two days after he was admitted Master, as I have before told you.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Seven or more Masters of the said Uniu. of Cambridge were incorporated, but such obscure persons they were that nothing can be said of them.  
Oct. 10. Will. Hamilton M. A. of the Uniu. of Glascow in Scotland. This person, who was noted among the Presbyterians for a learned man, was put in Fellow of Alls. Coll. this year by the Visitors, but left it in 1651 because he refused the Independent Oath called the Engagement. Afterwards he took his rambles, settled and had some place bestowed on him, but what I cannot tell. Among several things that he hath written is a Pamphlet intit. Some necessity of reformation, etc. Printed 1660/1 in reply to a Pamphlet written by the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson intit. No necessity of Reformation, etc. in answer to Reasons showing the necessity of reformation, etc. See in Corn. Burges p. 237, in Hen. Savage p. 366, and in Jo. Biddle p. 198.  
There were also 4 Englishmen who were Masters of Arts of the University of S. Andrew incorporated, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer, Bishop, or man of note. Two of them were at present of Merton Coll, who afterwards were preferred by the Visitors to be Fellows of Colleges in the places of Royalists ejected, viz. one of Wadh. and another of Brasn. Coll.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Apr. 14. Edm. Trench (Anglo-Nordovicensis) Doct. of Physic of Bourges in France.— He took that degree there in 1638.  
John Micklethwait a Yorksh. man born, who had taken the degree of Doct. of Phys. at Milan in Italy, 1638, was incorporated also the same day, Apr. 14.— He was now one of the Coll. of Physicians, was, several years after, Precedent thereof, Physician in ord. to K. Ch. 2, from whom he received the honour of Knighthood; and dying on Friday 28 July 1683, aged 70 years, was buried in the lower end of the Church (on the north side) of S. Botolph without Aldersgate, London.  
George Rogers of Linc. Coll. Doct. of Phys. of Milan, was incorporated the same day. Apr. 14.— He is now, as I conceive, or at least was lately, Precedent of the Coll. of Physicians, hath published certain things, and therefore is to be remembered hereafter.  
Oct. 13. Rob. Waydesden Doct. of Phys. of Cambridge, was then incorporated.   

CREATIONS.  
There were two or more Creations this year in all faculties, which were called the Pembrockian Creations, because they were made by the command of Philip Earl of Pembroke Chancellor of the University, while he continued in Oxon, to broke open Lodgings and give possession to the new Heads of the Presbyterian Gang. The Creations were made on the 12, 14 and 15 of April, and those that were not then created, are not to be numbered among those of Pembrockian Creations.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Twenty and three were created, (of which ten were of Magd. Hall) yet but two were afterwards Writers, as I can yet find, viz. 

Apr. 15. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll.  
Apr. 15. Tho. Nest of Magd. Hall.    
The last was afterwards made Fell. of New Coll. by the Visitors. See more among the Masters, an. 1650.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 14. Benjamin Needler of S. John's Coll.— He was the only person that was created Bach. of Law. He is mentioned among the Writers under the year 1682.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Among 61 Masters that were created, are these following.  

Apr. 12. Charles Dormer Earl of Caernarvan, Grandson, by the Mother, to Philip Earl of Pembroke.  
Apr. 12. James Herbert Sons of the Earl of Pembroke.  
Apr. 12. John Herbert Sons of the Earl of Pembroke.   

Apr. 12. Sir Will. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire. Visitors of the Uniu. appointed by the Parliam.  
Apr. 12. Will. Tipping of Draycot Esq. in Oxfordshire. Visitors of the Uniu. appointed by the Parliam.  
Apr. 12. Joh. Cartwright of Aynoe in Northampt●shire, sometimes of Brasn. Coll. Visitors of the Uniu. appointed by the Parliam.  
Apr. 12. Joh. Wilkinson Gent. Visitors of the Uniu. appointed by the Parliam.   
All these, besides three more, whose Christian names occur not, were presented by Sir Nath. Brent to the new Vicechanc. Dr. Reynolds, at which time the Chancellor of the Uniu. sat in the supreme chair in the Convocation-house.  
Apr. 14. Lieut. Col. Tho. Kelsey, commonly called Colonel Kelsey, now Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon, for the Parliament, was then actually created M. of A.— This person, who had been a mean Trader in Birchin-Lane in London, (a godly Button-maker as I have heard) was a great Creature of Ol. Cromwell, who made him a Commissioner of the Admiralty worth 500 l. per an. and Major Gen. for Kent and Surrey, the Salary for one of which Counties came to 666 l. 13 s. 4 d, per an. besides the Revenues due to him as being Governor of Dover Castle. After his Majesty's restauration, when then he was deprived of all his places, he took upon him the trade of Brewing in London, lived at least 20 years after, and died but in a mean condition, as I have heard.  
Francis Allen a Captain in Oxford Garrison was created the same day.— He afterwards lived at, or near, Abendon, and died but in a sorry condition. One of both his names, a Goldsmith in Fleetstreet, London, son of the poor Vicar of Gretton in Northamptonshire, was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and a constant Rumper, but whether of any kin to the Captain I cannot tell. Thom. Wait, another Judge of the said King, was the son of an Alehouse Keeper of Market Overton; but he was not created.  
Latimer Cross lately Manciple of Magd. Hall, now Steward of Magd. Coll.— He died 3 Dec. 16●7, and was buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel; whereupon his Stewardship was bestowed by the then Precedent on a godly brother called Elisha Coles.  
Francis Howell of Exet. Coll.— He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University, moral Philosophy Reader, and at length Principal of Jesus Coll. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell, as being an Independent to the purpose. After his Majesty's restauration, he was turned out of his Principality; so that living mostly in, and near, London, a Nonconformist and a Conventicler, died at Bednal Green in Middlesex on the 8 or 10 of Mar. 1679. Afterwards his body being conveyed to the fanatical Buryingplace joining to the New Artillery yard near London, was there buried in the presence of a great many Dissenters.  
Sam. Lee of Magd. Hall, was created also the same day.— He was afterwards made Fellow of Wadham Coll, became a Writer and Publisher of several Books, and is now living in New England.  
John Milward of New Inn was created the same day, Apr. 14.— This person, who was soon after made Fell. of C. C. Coll. by the Visitors, continued always after a Nonconformist, and died so. Under his name is published a Sermon intit. How we ought to love our neighbour as ourselves, on Matth. 22.39. Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate in London, an. 1674. 76. quart.  
Joh. Flower of New Inn, was also created the same day.— What preferment he had conferred upon him by the Visitors I know not: sure I am that he was soon after Preacher of God's Word at Ilmington in Warwickshire, and afterwards at Staunton in the County of Nottingham, where I find him in 1658, and that he was author of (1) The free and honourable servant, set forth in his privileges and prerogatives, etc. Lond. 1652. oct. (2) Several Queries concerning the Church of Jesus Ch. upon earth, briefly explained and resolved etc. Lond. 1658. oct. What other things he hath published I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only that he was son of Will. Flower of Cubley in Derbyshire Gent, and that he became a Commoner of New Inn in Act term 1640, aged 16 years.  
Jenkyn Lloyd of Jesus Coll, was also created the same day.— See more among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1661.  
Apr. 15. Rich. Werge of Trin. Coll was actually created in the second Pembrokian Creation.— This person, who was a Shoemaker's son, was born at Witney in Oxfordshire, became Servitor of the said Coll, in the beginning of the year 1642, aged 17 years, and this year was made Fellow thereof by the Visitors, being by them taken to be a godly brother for the Cause, as indeed he was. Afterwards he became Rector of Nelson or Nailson in Leycestershire, which he exchanged with Mr. Joh. Cave of Coleorton for Gateshead or Gateside near New Castle upon Tyne, he being then a Conformist. He hath written and published (1) A Sermon preached in S. Mary's Church at Gateshead in the County Pal. of Durham, on Hos 5.12. Lond. 1683. qu. (2) Sermon in S. Mar. at Gateshead, etc. at the funeral of George Johnson Gent. deceased, 29 May 1683, on Heb. 9 part of the 27 ver. printed in cue; whereunto is added an Elegy by a friend. This R. Werge died about Michaelmas 1687, and was buried in the Church of S. Mary at Gateshead.  
Apr. 15. Rob. Gorges of S. Edm. Hall.— He was soon after made Fellow of S. John's Coll. by the Visitors, became one of the Proctors of the Uniu. in 1653, afterwards Secretary to H●n. Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland, Doct. of the Civil Law of Dublin, and an enjoyer of several places of honour and trust, as also of an estate, in that Kingdom. At length he became Secretary to Frederick Duke of Schomberg General of his Majesty's Forces, and Scout-master general, in Ireland, etc.  
Ambrose Vpton of New Inn, was created the same day.— He was soon after one of those many, that were this, and the next year, made Fellows of Alls. Coll. by the Visitors. In 1651 he became, by the favour of Ol. Cromwell, Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, in the place of Dr. John Mills ejected for refusing the Engagement; but being discharged of that place about the 13 of Mar. 1659. to make. room for the said Mills, then restored by the Rump Parl. and secluded Members added to them, he retired to London, and lived for some time there a Nonconformist. Afterwards he went into Ireland, got a place there belonging to the Customs, and lived in good fashion for several years. Afterwards returning into England, he concluded his last day at Lond. about 7 or 8 years since, and was buried at Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the said City, as I have been informed by one of his persuasion, (a congregational man) who farther told me that he was of the ancient family of the Vptons' in Devonshire.  
Jan. 6. George Kellam Secretary to the Committee of Lords and Com. for affairs of foreign concernment, the Navy and Customs, was then actually created by virtue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University, which say that he is a Gent. whose parts and good affections to the Cause are very considerable, and found no less useful in the way of his employment, etc.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Apr. 14. Thom. Sydenham of Magd. Hall.— He was soon after put in Fellow of Alls. Coll. by the Visitors.  
There was but one more created, who was of Ch. Ch. and ran with all mutations, but good for nothing, and not worth the naming, unless it be for his ancient and gentile extraction.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 12. Francis Cheynell of Mert. Coll. now one of the Visitors appointed by Parl. to reform the University, was then actually created Bach. of Diu.— This person was to have been Bach. of Diu. in Decemb. 1641, but unjustly (as he said) kept back from his degree because he preached against Arminianism, that is against the King's Declaration, for which his Grace was then denied. It was then also (12 Apr. 1648.) desired and granted in Convocation that he might be declared Bach. of Div, he having performed his Exercise seven years before, and not lose his seniority, but be seated among the Bach. of Diu. of that year, etc. The next day, when the Chancellor and Visitors, with a great rabble following them, went from College to College to give the new Heads possession, they put this Mr. Cheynell into possession of the Precedents Lodgings in S. John's Coll. See more in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 1. p. 403. a. b. 404. a.  
Apr. 12. John Wilkins M. A. of Magd. Hall.— The next day the said Visitors gave him possession of the Wardens Lodgings of Wadham Coll.  
Henry Langley M. A, Master of Pembr. Coll. and one of the six or seven Ministers appointed by Parliament to preach the Scholars in to obedience to them, was created the same day— On the 26 of Aug. 1647 he was made Master of the said Coll, by order of Parliament, and on the 8 of Oct. following, he was established therein by the Visitors. In 1648 he became Canon of Ch Ch, in the place of Dr. George Morley, by the same power, and had possession given to him thereof in this month of April. See more of him among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1649.  
Henry Cornish M. A. of New Inn, another of the Ministers.— He was soon after put into possession of one of the Canonries of Ch. Ch. See in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 260. a. See also among the created Doct. of Diu. under the year 1649.  
The said four Bachelaurs of Diu. were presented to the Vicech. Dr. Reynolds, by Dr. Joh. Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall the signior Theologist of the University and the designed and nominated Precedent of Magd. Coll.  

April 14. Henry Wilkinson junior of Magd. Hall.  
April 14. Edw. Hinton of Merton Coll.  
April 14. Rob. Rogers of New Inn.   
May 19 Thom. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall— This person, who hath written and published several things, and is now living in Oxon a Nonconformist, aged 80 years or more, is hereafter to be numbered among the Writers.  
Aug 4. Thomas Borrace a Student in Divinity for at least twenty years, was then actually created— This zealous Presbyterian was now (1648) a forward Preacher up of the cause in the Church of S. Martin, and in that of Allsaints within the City of Oxon. His usual form of prayer for the King, before his Sermons, was, that if God took any pleasure in him, he would do so and so, etc. When he was created Bach. of Diu. he took the oath of Allegiance, but with this salvo— I take this Oath so far forth as it doth not contradict the national Covenant.  
Feb. 9 George Martial M. of A. of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, a Student in Divinity for twenty years at least, Chaplain to the Garrison of Oxon belonging to the Parliament, and the designed and nominated Warden of New Coll, was then also created.  
Johan Progulbicki born in the Province or Dukedom of Samogitie in Poland, was created the same day— He was now, or at least lately, Deacon or Catechist of the Church of Keidun in the said Dukedom, and one of the Scholars of the illustrious Prince Janusius Radzevill the chief Fautor and Patron of the reformed Church in those part. This Progulbicki had spent before this time four years in several Universities in Germany and Holland.  
Mar. 8. Isaac Knight Chaplain to Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parliament Army.   

Doct. of Law.  
April 14. Samuel Aneley of Queen Coll.— This person, who wrote himself afterwards, and was called, by the name of Annesley, because it is the same with a noble name, hath written and published several things, and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter among the Oxford Writers. He is now, or at least was lately, living a Nonconformist Divine, either in, or near, London. See in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 404. b.  
Jan. 5. John Miils LL. Bach. one of the Visitors and Canon of Ch. Ch.— He had been lately Judge Advocate of the Parliament Army, and was this year put into possession of his Canonry, but in 1651 being turned out thence for denying the Oath called the Engagement, Ambr. Vpton succeeded, as I have before told you. On the 13. of March 1659. he was restored to his Canonry by the Rump Parliament, with the secluded members added to them, but soon after, upon his Majesty's restauration, he was forced to leave it to make room for Dr. Edw. Pococke. See Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Ox, lib. 2. p. 259. a. 261. a. Soon after, by the favour of Dr. Edward Reynolds, he became Chancellor of Norwich, and died in, or near Doctors Commons in London, about the beginning of the year 1676.   

Doct. of Phys.  
April 12. Joh. Palmer alias Vaulx Bach. of Phys, of Queens Coll, now a Recruiter of the Long Parliament, was actually created Doct. in the presence of the Chancellor— The next day he was put into possession of the Lodgings belonging to the Warden of Alls. Coll. by the said Chancellor and Visitors, Dr. Sheldon the Warden being then dismissed by them and imprisoned. See Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 1. p. 402. b. 403. a.  
Apr. 14. Toby Garbrand alias Herks Bach. of Phys. and Principal of Gloc. Hall, was also actually created— In 1660 he being turned out from his Principality, he retired to Abendon in Berks, practised his faculty there, and dying 7. Apr. 1689, was buried in S. Helen's Church in that Town.  
Samuel Thompson of Magd. Hall— This person, who was Son of Will. Thomp. of Westbury in Wilts, Minister of God's word, wrote Exercitations and Meditations on some texts of holy Scripture, and most in Scripture phrase and expression. Lond. 1676. oct. In the title of this book, he writes himself Master of Arts and Doct. of Physic, but whether he was Mast. of Arts of this University, it appears not in the public register.  
April 14. John French of New Inn.— I have spoken of him at large among the Writers.  
Apr. 15. Peter Dormer of Magd. Hall— He was the fifth Son of Fleetwood Dormer of Grange in Bucks, and a Neighbour and Relation to the Earl of Caernarvan.  
Feb. 9 Humphrey Whitmore of S. Mary's Hall was then created by virtue of the Letters sent to the Convocation from Fairfax the General, now Lord Fairfax, which say that he is a Physician of note and eminency in those Cities and Towns where he hath lived,— and that he hath been a member of both Universities, etc.  
Mar. 8. Abraham Huard alias Lomprè sometimes of the University of Caen in Normandy, was then created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that his affections to the cause of the Parliament have exposed him to sufferings— That he is a Protestant of France, and his quality and sufferings have been made known to me by persons of honour, Gentlemen of quality and Physicians of this Kingdom, as also by one Mr. Joh. Despaigne one of the French Ministers of London, etc.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 12. Edward Reynolds M. A. Dean of Ch. Church by order of Parliament, and actually put into possession of it by the breaking open the doors belonging to the Dean in the morn. of this day, by the Chancellor, Visitors and a band of the Soldiers of the Garrison of Oxon, was declared Doct. of Div, in a Convocation held in the afternoon, by order of Parliament.— He was not presented Doctor according to the usual manner and custom, only stood near the Chancellors Chair while the order of the said Parliament was reading: And the reason for this unusual way was, because there was no Vicechancellor, to whom he should be presented, and if he had been presented to the Chancellor, he could not have returned any Latin, for he understood it not. After the said order was read and he seated among the Doctors, another was produced, by virtue of which he was to be Vicechancellor: which being read, he was admitted by Sir Nathan. Brent, as I have before told you, in the beginning of this year, and thereupon he took his place.  
Apr. 12. Rob. Harris Bach. of Diu. of Magd. Hall— The next day he was put into possession of the Precedents lodings of Trinity Coll, by the breaking open the doors thereof; a little before which time the old and loyal Precedent had withdrawn himself to avoid imprisonment. Afterwards he removed his family to the said Lodgings, but before they were settled there three quarters of a year, the new Precedent employed a Painter to do some work there for him, in the week before that of the Act, if one had been solemnised, an. 1649. Which Painter pulling down some old boards and shelves, found two bags sealed, and a paper in the mouth of each, which signified that there was an 100 l. in each bag: And though they were covered with dust about half an inch thick, yet Dr. Harris and his Wife (solely addicted to money and reformation) presently owned them, and said confidently that they were theirs; but oportet mendacem esse memorem: For first he had not been settled in his Lodgings scarce 3 quarters of a year, and the bags were so old and overcovered with dust, as if they had laid there 40 years. Secondly, his Wife said at first that they were left there by a friend, who desired her to lay them up, but she refused to take any charge of them, yet he told her he would leave them, and so hid them in that place where the Painter found them. Thirdly, on better consideration, Dr. Harris said that he himself laid them there, and that it was money he designed for his Daughters: And though no man believed him, yet he averred it verbo sacerdotis. This money being most probably left by Dr. Ralph Kettle sometimes Precedent (who died in 1643) was claimed by his Executor, who, or Mr. Fanshaw Kettle for him, went to Dr. Harris and desired of him to see the bags, for he knew his Uncle's seal and hand-writing, but the old Gentleman who had the money in possession would neither show bags, or seal or writing; which was a manifest argument that they were none of his; For first if the bags were of his sealing and superscribing, why did he not show them to convince people, or what need he to have feared to show his own hand and seal? Secondly if they were not of his sealing, why did he swear they were his? All these passages do manifestly show that the money was not his but another man's, as indeed all people did think so, it being then the common discourse of Town and Country, and could not be convinced to the contrary. Doubtless if it had been his, Will. Durham his Kinsman, author of the said Dr. Harris his Life, would have made mention of, and vindicated the Doctor in, it, as in other matters of smaller account he hath done. A little before this discovery, was another made by the new Precedent and Fellows of Magd. Coll. of 1400 l. in old gold or spur-royals by the breaking open a chest in their Treasury, which, though originally deposited there by the Founder, pro litibus & placitis defendendis, (so 'tis said in the statutes of that House) etiam pro possessionibus si opus fuerit amplioribus acqu●rendis, & pro repentinis (quod absit) incendiis & ruinis maneriorum, etc. yet upon pretence of knowing no such statute, they shared the said sum of money among them, Hen. Wilkinson signior, one of the Visitors and then Vicepresident of the Coll, being the chief man that promoted that affair. And in the next week following (in July) Dr. Reynolds the Vicechancellor and the two Proctors, whose hands also did in a grievous manner itch after money, would needs have broken open Bodlies' chest, but being dissuaded by Mr. John Rouse the chief Library keeper, who had lately a key thereof and had told and assured them that nothing was therein, they forbore. The next day also came one of the new Savilian professors, scarce warm in his place, I mean him, who before had been a witness 
(*) See in Will. Prynn's book entit. Canterbury's Doom, etc. printed at Lond. 1646. p. 73. etc.  against Archbishop Laud in order to bring him to his Trial and consequently to the Block, and the same who was successively a preacher up of treason and rebellion in two Churches in London in the time of the Presbyterian rebellion; I say that he, with Ralph Button Can. of Ch. Ch. his Guide and a poor spirited person, did go to the same Mr. Rouse for the Key of Sir Hen. Saviles' chest, but after they knew he had it not, and that there was no money in it, they did not break it open, though they said they would and came for that purpose. These things I am the more punctual to relate, that the world might know, that the said persons, who called themselves the Saints of God, minded more and sought after the bread, livelihood, being and money of other persons, than reformation which they according to Ordinance and their own consciences ought to have done.  

Ap. 12. Humph. Chambers of Vniv. Coll.  
Ap. 12. .... Caldicot a Minister.   
Of the first is large mention made among the Writers under the year 1662. The other, whose Christian name I cannot yet recover, was an obscure man, a Covenantier and one that was lately possessed of a rich Benefice belonging to a loyal person ejected.  
Edward Corbet Master of Arts of Mert. Coll, was created the same day— He was born at Pontsbury in Shropshire, of the ancient family of the Corbets in that County, was admitted Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. 1624., took the degrees in Arts, became one of the Proctors of the University, an. 1638, married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Nathan. Brent, turned with the times, being always pruitanically affected, made one of the Ass. of Divines, a preacher before the Long Parliament, one of the Preachers in Oxon 1646 to preach the loyal Scholars into obedience to the Parliament, (but quitted that employment soon after, whereby that duty laid on the shoulders of six only) one of the Visitors of the University, (yet seldom or never sat among them) Orator and Canon of Ch. Ch. in the room of Dr. Hen. Hammond, (which two places he soon after threw up, as being a person of conscience and honesty) and at length Rector of Great Haseley in Oxfordshire, in the place, as 'twas said, of Dr. Tho. Some, where he continued to the time of his death. He hath written and published God's Providence, Sermon before the House of Commons at their Fast, 28. Dec. 1642 on 1. Cor. 1.27. Lond. 1647. qu. There goes under the name of Edw. Corbet a little book called The Worldlings Looking-glass: or the danger of losing his Soul for gain. Printed 1630 oct. but I cannot tell whether our Edw. Corbet was the author of it, because I have not yet seen the book itself. He departed this mortal life at London on the 5. of Januar. 1657 aged 55 years or thereabouts, and was buried on the 14 day of the same month, near the body of his late beloved Wife, in the Chancel of Great Haseley before mentioned: Over whose grave he the said Dr. Corbet had before laid a large Marble stone.  

Ap. 14. Christop. Roger's M. A, Principal of New Inn and one of the Visitors.  
Ap. 14. .... Harding Rector of Brinkworth in Wilts.   
The first of these two was about the same time put into actual possession of a Canonry of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors, (in the place of Dr. Rich. Gardiner ejected) according to an order of Parl. bearing date in the beginning of Mar. 1647. This person when he usually preached at S. Mary's this year, before his Majesty was beheaded, he would in his long prayer before Sermon desire that God would open the King's eyes to lay to heart all the blood that he had spilt, etc. that he would prosper the Parliament and their blessed proceedings, etc. He ●as a person of most reverend aspect, yet of no parts, only had a plain way of preaching to please Women and ignorant People. He was an easy man and apt to be guided by the persuasions of others, and therefore by Cheynell and Wilkinson Senior, two violent and impetuous Presbyterians he was put into the roll of Visitors, merely to make a nose of wax of him. The other, ... Harding was a most violent Presbyterian, an indefatigable Preacher against the King and his cause, and because he would not conform after his Majesty's restauration, though courted to it, he was turned out of his Rectory.  
This year the generality of the Heads of Houses, Professors and Lecturers, Doctors and Bach. of Divinity, Masters and Bachelaurs of Arts, Undergraduats, Beadles, College Servants, and sometimes Bedmakers and scrapers of Trenchers, to the number of several hundreds, were thrown out of their respective places, and soon after banished the University by the Visitors, for not submitting to their power from Parliament and acknowledging their Covenant, etc.    



An. Dom. 1649.  
An. 1. Car. 2.    
Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery, who dying at the Cockpit near Whitehall, on the 23 of January this year, was buried in the Cathedral Church at Salisbury among the graves of those of his family on the 8. of Febr. following: From which time till Jan. ensuing, the Chancellors place laid void. Soon after the said Earls death came out against him several Satyrical prints, among which were (1) His last Will and Testament, Printed in one sheet in fol, (2) Pembrokes Pass from Oxford to his grave. 'Tis a Poem printed on one side of a sheet of paper, and hath this beginning, Hence Mountebank of honour, hence away, etc. At the end is his Epitaph. (3) The life and death of Philip Herbert, the late infamous Knight of Berkshire, once Earl of Pembroke and Mountgom. etc. having by a degenerate baseness betrayed his Nobility, and entered himself a Commoner amongst the very scum of the people. Printed in one sheet in qu. by way of interlude, with Poetry.  
Vicechanc. Edw. Reynolds D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. was readmitted Aug. 30, having been nominated a little before by the Chancellor.  

Proct.  
Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. Apr. 4.  
Hierome Zanchy of Alls. Coll. Apr. 4.   
The last was elected contrary to the Caroline Cycle, because it did appoint Queens Coll, to join with the said Coll. of Exeter; but so it was that that Coll. being not in a capacity of yielding a person zealous and suitable to the times, the members of Alls. therefore did choose, by recommendations of the Committee and Visitors, one of their number lately made Fellow thereof, but whether incorporated M. of Arts, as he had stood in another University, it appears not in the public register, and therefore what I have to say of him shall be set down. here. This Hierome Zanchy, who was born of a gentile family, was bred in Cambridge, but being more given to manly exercises than Logic and Philosophy, he was observed by his contemporaries to be a boisterous fellow at Cudgelling and Foot-ball-playing, and indeed more fit in all respects to be a rude Soldier than a Scholar or man of polite parts. In the beginning of the rebellion, he threw off his gown, and took up arms for the Parliament, and soon after became a Captain, a Presbyterian, an Independent, a Preacher, and I know not what. When the War was ceased, and the King's cause declined, he obtained a Fellowship of Alls. Coll. from the Committee and Visitors, and was the first, or signior, of those many, that were by them put into the said Coll, in the places of loyalists ejected by them an. 1648 and 49. But before he had served the least part of his Proctorship (about a month only) he returned to his Military employment, went in the quality of a Commander into Ireland to fight against those that were then called Rebels; and doing good service in short time was made a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse, and as a Colonel he had 474 l. and 10 s. per an. for his Salary, besides other advantages. In 1651 and 52, I find him Commander in chief of the Parliament forces in the County of Tipperary, where, as those of his party said, he did excellent service for the cause, being then a thorough-paced Anabaptist, and in 1654. he, with Joh. Reynolds Commissary General, were elected Knights for the Counties of Tipperary and Waterford to serve in the Parliament that assembled at Dublin that year. In 1658, he being then a Knight by the favour of Hen. Cromwell, he was, by the endeavours of Col. Charles Fleetwood a pitiful Anabaptist and Son-in-law to Ol. Cromwell, chosen Burgess for Woodstock in Oxfordshire to serve in Richard's Parliament that began at Westm. 27. Jan. that year; at which time living much, as he had done some time before, in the house of the said Fleetwood in Westminster, did often hold forth in Conventicles among the Anabaptists. It was observed then that he was a dull man, as indeed he was ab origine, for by his rebaptisation when he went into Ireland, and his herding among the Anabaptists, he did improve it to the purpose, otherwise had he continued among the Presbyterians or Independents who were accounted a more ingenious sort of people, he might have improved himself perhaps in something of ingenuity. Under this person● name was published (1) A Sermon on 1. of John 2.18, etc. printed in oct. but when I know not, for I have not yet seen it. (2) Speech in Parliament in Dublin, printed in Sir Will. Petty's book intit. Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland, etc. p. 70 71 etc. It is a most rude and nonsensical thing, and only fit to be read to make people laugh at the absurdity of the person. See more in Sir Will. Petty among the Writers, an. 1687. p. 611. where you'll find this Zanchy to concern himself much, merely out of envy, against that curious and polite Gentleman. What other things he hath extant I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only that he died in Ireland about the latter end of K. Charles 2. as I have been informed by those that knew him.  

Bach. of Arts.  

June 5. Joh. Rotheram of Linc. Coll.  
June 5. Charles Perot of Oriel Coll.   
Of the first you may see more among the Master's 1652, and of the other among the Mast. in 1653.  
June 11. Henry Hurst of Magd. Hall— He was soon after made Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. by the Visitors.  

27. Charles Potter of Ch. Ch.  
27. John Tickell of New Inn.   
The last who was afterwards made Student of Ch. Ch, by the Visitors, is said in the public 
(a) Reg. Convoc. T. p. 43.  register of Convocation to be Vir provectioris aetatis & firmatae eruditionis. This person who is now, or at least was lately, living did afterwards publish several things, and therefore he is to be numbered hereafter among the Writers of this University.  
July 6. Walter Pope of Wadh. Coll.— See among the created Doct. of Phys. 1661.  

Nou. 6. Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 6. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch.   
Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1651.  
Dec. 17. Theophilus' Gale of Magd. Coll.— He is said in the pub. reg. 
(b) Ibid. p. 26.  of Convoc. to be Vir provectioris aetatis & uberioris spei juvenis.  
Jan. 18. Joh. How of Brasn. Coll.— He was soon after made Fellow of that of Magd. by the Visitors, and is now living a Nonconformist Minister in London, and a Preacher in Conventicles. He hath written and published several things, and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter among the Writers of this University.  
Feb. 19 Thomas Danson Chaplain of C. C. Coll.— He was soon after made Fellow of that of Magdalen, and is now a Nonconformist Minister living at Abendon in Berks, and a Preacher in Conventicles there. He hath written and published several Books, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered.  

Feb. 23. Will. Carpender of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 23. Lewis Atterbury of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 23. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch.   
Of the first of these three you may see more among the Masters, an. 1652, and of the second among the Doct. that were licenced to proceed, an. 1660. The last (W. Crompton) is now a Nonconformist Divine living and holding forth at Columpton in Devonshire, and having published several things, he is hereafter to be remembered among the Writers.  
Thomas Jones of Vniv. College was admitted the same day, (Feb. 23.)  
Adm. 88 or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
I find but one to be admitted this year, named Joh. Gunter, sometimes of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, now of that of S. John's in Oxon. He was soon after made Fellow of New Coll, by the Committee of Parl. appointed for the reformation of the University and Visitors.   

Mast. of Arts.  
April 11. Edw. Hicks of Oriel Coll.— Whether he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts in this Uniu. it appears not. See more of him among the created Doctors of Diu. 1660.  
28. Joh. Billingsley of C. C. Coll.— This person, who was lately made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors, was afterwards a Writer and Publisher of several books, and is now, or at least was lately, living a Conformist in Derbyshire; and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter among the Writers.  
June 25. Will. Finmore of Ch. Ch.— He was installed Archdeacon of Chester on the 6. of March 1666, having been a little more than half an year before made Prebendary of the Cathedral Church there. He died in the beginning of 1686 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by John Allen M. of A. Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, and Chaplain to Dr. Pearson B. of Chester, and author of one or more Sermons that are extant.  
July 14. Rob. Wood of Mert. Coll.— He was afterwards made Fellow of that of Linc. by the Visitors.  
21. Samuel Ladyman of C. C. Coll.— He was the Son of John Ladyman of Dinton in Bucks, became a poor Scholar or Servitor of the said Coll, in Lent term 1642 aged 17 years, and in 1648 submitting to the authority of the Visitors, he was by them made that year Fellow thereof, in a Lincolnshire place. Soon after he became a frequent Preacher in these parts, and being a noted person among the Presbyterians he received a Call and forthwith went into Ireland and was beneficed there. He hath published The dangerous rule, Sermon preached at Clonmel in the Province of Monster in Ireland before the Judges, on 2. Sam. 19.29. Lond. 1658 in tw. and perhaps other things, which is all I know of him.  
Nou. 24. Henry Chapman of Magd. Hall— This Bachelaur, who was well advanced in years, was admitted Mast. by order of the Presb. Delegates of the University, who were well satisfied with the testimonial Letters of John Wallis the Mathematic Professor, written in his behalf to them, wherein he doth abundantly commend the said Chapman's ingenuity, industry and knowledge in various tongues.  

Nou. 27. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll.  
29. Edw. Wood or à Wood of Mert. Coll.   
Dec. 13. Thom. Careless of Ball. Coll.— He was the Son of Philip Careless of Lothbury near the Royal Exchange in London, became a Student of the said Coll. in the beginning of the year 1640 aged 15 years, and was afterwards Scholar and Fellow, and in the last year, did submit, as I conceive, to the power of the Visitors. In 1651, he being then esteemed an ingenious man, as indeed he was, he was made choice of to be Terrae filius with Will. Levinz of S. John's Coll. to speech it in the Act celebrated that year, being the first Act that was kept after the Presbyterians had taken possession of the University, and soon after, having obtained the name of a florid Preacher among the remnant of the Royalists in the University by his preaching often in S. Aldates' Church, he was preferred to be Rector of Barnsley, and afterwards to be Vicar of Cirencester, in Glocestershire. He hath published A Sermon preached at the Cath. Ch. in Gloucester on S. George's day, on which day his Majesty was solemnly crowned, on Psal. 21.3. Lond▪ 1661. qu. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying 7. Octob. 1675 was buried in his Church at Cirencester.  

Mar. 11. Edm. Hall of Pembr. Coll.  
14. Henry Hickman of Magd. Coll.   
The last was originally of Cambridge, whence going to Oxon, when Bachelaur of Arts, he entered himself into Magd. Hall, and in 1648 he was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors. He was afterwards a noted Writer, a person of great repute among those of the Presbyterian persuasion, and is now living in Holland and therefore to be remembered hereafter among Oxford Writers.  
Admitted 39 or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Not one was admitted only three created and one incorporated.  
The famous Mountebank of his time called Joh. Puntaeus an Italian and a Chemical Physician, who, for many years before this, had exercised his Art in several places within this Kingdom, had licence given to him to practise chirurgery throughout all England, Nou. 16. After his Maj. restauration he lived at Salisbury and died rich and full of years.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Diu. or Doct. of Law was admitted, only created and incorporated; as I shall tell you by and by.  

Doct. of Phys.  
June 8. Francis Barksdale of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was lately made Fellow of that Coll. by the Visitors, was then admitted by the favour of Fairfax the Gen. and Cromwell the Lieut. Gen. lately at Oxon, but with this condition that he perform all exercise requisite for the said degree, within an year after his admission.  
It was also their pleasure that Will. Hill sometimes of Mert. Coll, might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Physic, but whether he did so, it appears not.  
July 14. Daniel Malden M. of A. of Qu. Coll. in Cambr. who had studied Physic 7 years at least, and had read his solemn Lecturers in the School of Medicine, was then admitted by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of this Universe, which say that he was recommended to him by the Lord General— that he had improved his studies by travelling abroad— that he is affected to the cause, and that he hath engaged himself and shed blood for the Parliament, etc.  
Oct. 30. Gedeon Chabraeus a Student in Phys. (commended to the chief members of the University with great Eulogies) who had learnedly and laudably performed his exercise for the degree of Doct. of Physic, was then admitted in the House of Convocation— I find one Dr. Shawbry a Physician of Cambridge to have been buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon, 22 Nou. 1643, but what relation there was between him and the former I cannot tell, because their names differ.   

Doct. of Diu.  
April 6. Michael Roberts Bach. of Diu. and lately made Principal of Jesus Coll, by the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the University, was then presented and admitted without Scio's or Deponents for his abilities, because there wanted Doct. of Diu. to do that office.— He resigned his Principality into the hands of Oliver the Protector an. 1657, lived many years after obscurely (yet rich) in Oxon, and dying in the Parish of S. Peter in the East 3. May 1679, was buried in the yard belonging to that Church, close to the wall, under the upper window of the body of the Church. He hath written in Lat. An Elegy on George Duke of Albemarle Lond. 1670. qu. which is all, as I conceive, that he hath published.   

INCORPORATIONS.  
The Incorporations this year were mostly of Cambridge men, who came to Oxford for preferment from the Committee and Visitors.   

Bach. of Arts.  
April 24. Joh. Billingsley, lately of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. and Bach. of Arts of one years standing there— On the 28 of the said month of Apr. he was admitted M. of A. as I have before told you.  
May 23. Ant. Radcliff Bach. of Arts of Magd Coll. in Cambr.— He was lately made Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors. See among the Doct. of Diu. under the year 1681.  
26. Jam. Bedford B. of A. of two years standing of Eman. Coll. in Cambr.— Of this person, who was lately made one of the junior Fellows of Qu. Coll. in this Univ, by the Visitors, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. under the year 1657.  
Oct. 16. Joh. Johnson of two years standing Bach. of Eman. Coll.— He was lately made Fellow of S. John's Coll. in this Uniu. by the Visitors, and in the year following Fellow of New Coll. See more among the Masters under the year 1650.  
Besides these four were 7 more incorporated, that were about this time preferred to Fellowships in this University by the Committee and Visitors.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 8. Tho. Lie or Leigh M. A. of Cambr.— He was about this time Chapl. of Wadh. Coll.  
Oct. 10. Samuel Cradock M. A. Fellow of Eman. Coll.— This person, who did not go to Oxon for preferment, as I conceive, because I find him not Fellow of any House there, was afterwards Bach. of Diu. and Rector of North Cadbury in Somersetshere by the gift of the Master and Society of his Coll, about 1656. Among several things that he hath written and published are these (1) The harmony of the four Evangelists, and their text methodised according to the order and series of times, wherein the entire history of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, is methodically set forth. Lond. 1668. 69. fol. (2) The Apostolical History; containing the Acts, Labours, Travels, Sermons, Discourses, etc. of the holy Apostles from Christ's Ascension to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, etc. Lond. 1672. 73. fol. (3) Knowledge and practice: or, a plain discourse of the chief things necessary to be known, believed and practised, in order to Salvation, etc. Ibid. 1673. qu. sec. or third edit. (4) A supplement to knowledge and practice: wherein the main things necessary to be known and believed in order to salvation are more fully explained, and several new directions given for the promoting of real holiness both of heart and life. Lond. 1679. qu. (5) A serious dissuasive from some of the reigning and customary sins of the times, viz. Swearing, lying, pride, gluttony, drunkenness, uncleanness, etc. Ibid. 1679. qu. In the title to the said last two books 'tis said that the author was Late Rector of North Cadbury, so I suppose he was dead before 1679.  

Oct. 23. Joh. Wallis Geometry Prof. of the Uniu. of Oxon,  
Oct. 23. Seth Ward Astronomy Prof. of the Uniu. of Oxon,   
The first of these two was originally of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge and after Fellow of that of Queens, in the same University, than Minister of S. Martin's Church in Ironmonger-lane, and after of that of Gabriel Fenchurch, in London, in the time of the Presbyterian rebellion, from both which Churches had certain Loyalists been ejected; and having procured an order from the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon, dated 14. June 1649, whereby he was established Geom. Profess in the place of the most learned and loyal Dr. Peter Turner a little before ejected, (who afterwards died obscurely) did go to Oxon, and there was admitted to his place on the same day he was incorporated M. of A. As for the other, Ward, who was admitted also the same day to his Professorship, after incorporation, I have made mention at large among the Writers.  
Jan. 18. Joshua Sprig M. A. of Edinburgh— He was lately one of those many that was put in Fellow of Alls. Coll. by the Visitors.  
Besides these five were six or more of Cambridge incorporated, who all (one excepted) had gotten places in Colleges.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Only one was incorporated, named Joh. Arnold Bach. of Physic of Leyden, May 24.— This person, who was originally an Apothecary's boy, and had with great shift got to be Bach. of Physic at Leyden, was put in Fellow of Mert. Coll, by the Visitors in Feb. following, an. 1649.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 24. Nath. Hoyle Bach. of Diu. of Dublin— He was in the year before made Fellow of Brasn. Coll. by the Visitors, but what were his merits or learning I cannot tell.  
Aug. 30. Sam. Syllesbie Bach. of Diu. of Qu. Coll. in Cambr.— Nor of him.  
Joh. Worthington B. D. of Eman. Coll. in the same University, was incorporated the same day— He was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. there, in the times of Usurpation, being then esteemed by all a Presbyterian, Doctor of Divinity, and Rector of S. Bennet Fink in London, which he kept till the Church was burned down in the grand conflagration which happened in Lond. in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath written (1) A form of sound words: or a scripture Catechism, showing what a Christian is to believe and practise in order to salvation. Lond. 1673. 74. etc. oct. It was licenced for the press 8. Nou. 1672, at which time the author was dead. (2) The great duty of self-resignation to the divine will. Lond. 1675. etc. oct. (3) The doctrine of the resurrection, and the reward to come, considered, as the grand motives to an holy life. Discoursed of from 1. Cor. 15.58. Lond. 1689. 90. (4) Charitas Evangelica: A discourse of Christian love. Lond. 1691, oct. published by the authors Son.   

Doct. of Phys.  
July 14. Lewis du Moulin Doct. of Physic of the University of Leyden (incorporated in the same degree at Cambridge, 10. Oct. 1634) was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon— This person, who was a French man born, and Son of the famous Peter du Moulin a French Protestant, was lately established Camden's Professor of History in this University by the Committee of Parliament for the reformation thereof. After the restauration of his Majesty, he was turned out of his Professorship by his Majesty's Commissioners, for the regulating of the University: Whereupon retiring to the City of Westminster, lived there a most violent Nonconformist. The books that he hath written are these (1) Epistola ad Renatum Veridaeum (i e. Andream Rivetum) in qua aperitur Mysterium iniquitatis novissimè in Angliâ redivivum, & excutitur liber Josephi Hall, quo asseritur episcopatum esse juris divini. Eleutheropoli (alias Lond.) 1641. qu. Published under the name of Irenaeus Philadelphus. An answer to this book written by the said Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter, came out soon after entit. Theophili Iscani ad calumniosam Ir. Philadelphi Epistolam responsio. Quâ Anglicanae Ecclesiae sana fides pietasque, & episcopalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 institutio Apostolico-divina, à D. Jos. Hallo Exon. Episcopo pridem defensa, asseritur. Lond. 1641. qu. (2) Apologia pro Epistola ad Renat. Veridaeum. Lond. 1641. qu. (3) The power of the Christian Magistrate in sacred things, etc. Lond. 1650. oct. (4) Oratio auspicalis: cui subjuncta est Laudatio Clariss. Viri Guil. Camdeni. Oxon. 1652. qu. Dedicated to Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. (5) Paraenesis ad Aedificatores imperii in imperio, in qua defenduntur jura Magistratus adversus Moseum Amyraldum, & caeteros Vindices potestatis ecclesiasticae Presbyterianae. In praefatione excurritur in Joh. Dallaei Apologiam pro duabus Synodis. Lond. 1656. Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell. It was the opinion then of some eminent and judicious persons, that the said book did give a notable blow to those severe ones of the Presbyterian way, who build a jurisdiction within a jurisdiction: And also that it did conduce to the uniting of all interests, rendering the Magistrate his due, and stating the right of Churches. (6) Corollarium ad Paraenesim suam ad Aedificatores imp. in imp. etc. Lond: 1657. oct. (7) Epistola ad Amicum, in qua gratiam divinam, seque defendit, adversus objecta clariss. Viri Johan. Dallaei in prefatione libri in Epicritam. Ibid. 1658. in tw. (8) Of the right of Churches and of the Magistrates Power over them. Wherein it further made out, first, the nullity and vanity of ecclesiastical power, etc. secondly, the absurdity of the distinctions of power and laws in ecclesiastical and civil, etc. Ibid. 1658. oct. Dedicated to the Parliament of England. (9) Proposals and reasons whereon some of them are grounded, humbly presented to the Parliament towards the settling of a religious and godly government in a Commonwealth: with a short account of the compatibility of the congregational way, with the Magistrates ordering allmatters of religion in a national public way, etc. Lond. 1659. qu. (10) Morum exemplar seu characteres, etc. Hag. Com. 1662. in tw. (11) Patronus bonae fidei, in causa Puritanorum, contra Hierarchos Anglos: ut disceptatur in specimine confutationis vindiciarum clariss. Viri Joh. Durelli, etc. Lond. 1672 oct. See in Joh. durel among the Writers, under the year 1683. p. 553. That this book (Patronus, etc.) might escape the searchers of the Press, (as the author saith in his Admonitio) he was forced five times to change the running title of the book and the number of pages, each new title beginning with a new number. The titles are (after two Admonitions to the Reader) 1. Praefatio sive epistola ad rev. pastors Ecclesiarum reformat in Gallia, etc. 2. Specimen confutationis Vindiciarum Durellianarum. 3. Prodromus. 4. Defensor Veritatis, and then Patronus bonae fidei. For the writing and publishing of this book he was committed to Custody. (12) Jugulum causae: seu nova, unica, compendiaria, unâ propemodum periodo comprehensa, ratio: per quam totus doctrinarum Romanensium complexus, de quibus lis est inter protestants & Pontificios, etc. Lond. 1671. oct. To this are prefixed about 60 Epistles to several persons. (13) Papa Vltrajectinus. (14) Fascieulus. (15) A short and true account of the several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome: or a model of the grounds, upon which the Papists for these 100 years, have built their hopes and expectations, that England would ere long return to Popery. Lond. 1680. qu. Soon after came out an answer to this book entit. A lively picture of Lewis du Moulin, drawn by the incomparable hand of Monsieur D'aille late Minister of Charenton, etc. Lond. 1680. qu. (16) The conformity of the discipline and government of those who are commonly called Independents to that of the ancient Primitive Christians. Ibid. 1680. qu. (17) Moral reflections upon the number of the Elect; proving plainly from Scripture evidence, etc. that not one in a hundred thousand (nay probably not one in a Million) from Adam down to our times, shall be saved. Ibid. 1680. qu. To this, one Edw. Lane (mentioned in the F●sti 1639) made a quick answer entit. Mercy triumphant, etc. (18) His last words, being his retraction of all the personal reflections he had made on the Divines of the Church of England (in several of his) signed by himself on the 5 and 17 of Oct. 1680. Lond. 1680. in 2 sh. and an half in qu. Published after his death by Dr. Gilb. Burnet as it seems. The chief Divines that he had abused were Dr. Edward Stillingfleet Dean of S. Paul's, now Bishop of Worcester, Dr. Joh. durel Dean of Windsor and Dr. Simon Patrick Dean of Peterborough now Bishop of Ely. (19) An additional account of the Church of England's advances towards Porery. This was published by a Fanatic after the author's death, without the knowledge of his Wife or other Relations. See His last words, p. 15.16. (20) An Appeal to all the Nonconformists in England to God and all the Protestants, in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King. Lond. 1681. qu. (21) A sober and unpassionate Reply to the Author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin— Printed with the Appeal. (22) An Ecclesiastical History. The design of this being known to several of his persuasion before his death, the book itself came afterwards into the hands of a Nonconformist; which, whether published, I know not. See more in His last words p. 17. He also filled, smoothed and polished a book entit. Celeusma, etc. written mostly by Will. Jenkins, of whom I have made mention in John durel among the Writers an. 1683. What other books this Lew. du Moulin hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was a fiery, violent and hotheaded Independent, a cross and ill natured man, and dying on the 20 of Octob. 1680 aged 77 years, was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden, within the Liberty of Westminster, in the Parish of which he had before lived several years.   

CREATIONS.  
The Creation's this year were made in all faculties, especially in that Creation called by some the Fairfaxian Creation, that is that Creation which was made when the Lord Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliam. Army and his Lieut. Gen. Cromwell were created Doctors of Law, and when others afterwards were created by the said General's nomination when he was entertained by the then Members of the University.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 19 Robert Scrope, lately made Fellow of Linc. Coll. by the Visitors, was then actually created Bach. of Arts, being done in the same Convocation that Fairfax and Cromwell were created Doctors of the Civil Law, as I shall tell you by and by.— He was a younger son of Adrian Scrope of Wormesley in Oxfordshire Esq, sometimes a Gent. Com. of Hart Hall, and afterwards a noted Puritan, which made him take up Arms for the blessed Cause in the beginning of the Presbyterian Rebellion; in which being first a Captain was at length a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse. When K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was tried for his life by a pack of Hellhounds, this person sat and was one of his Judges in that dismal Tragedy, and afterwards signed the bloody Warrant for severing his head from his body. Just after his Majesty's restauration Sir Rich. Browne (soon after elected L. Mayor of Lond.) did accidentally meet him in the Speakers Chamber, (to whom, I suppose, he came to surrender himself upon his Maj. Proclamation) and when the said R. Browne was acquainted who he was, he drew up, and said, to him, What a sad case have we brought this Kingdom unto? Whereupon Scrope answered Why? Saith Browne then, Do you not see how it is ruined, now the King is murdered? etc. To which Scrope made answer, I will not make you my Confessor, or words to the same effect. All which being witnessed against him at his Trial, as words to justify what he had done, Browne being then L. Mayor elect, were the chief Cause of his Execution, otherwise, as 'twas then thought, he would only have suffered perpetual imprisonment and the loss of his Estate, as many others of the same Gang did. He suffered by hanging, drawing and quartering, with Tho. Scot, Greg. Clement and Joh. Jones, at Charing Cross on the 17 of Octob. 1660: Whereupon his Quarters were not hanged up as others were, but given to his Relations to be buried. His death was then much pitied by many, because he was a comely person, begged the Prayers of all good people, and that he was of a noble and ancient family, being descended from the Scropes' Barons of Bolton. After his death were printed under his name his Speech and Prayer spoken at the Gallows.  
May 31. Aubrey Thompson of Qu. Coll.— He was then created by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon.  
Jul. 14. Franc. Blackwall an Assistant to, or an Officer about, a Captain in the Parl. Army.— He is styled in the common Register Optimae indolis & eruditionis Adolescens. In 1657 I find one Capt. Blackwall to be Treasurer of the Army; whether the same I cannot tell.  
Mar. 14. Edw. Reynolds lately of Merton, now of Magdalen Coll.— He was about this time made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors. See among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1676.  
20. Brook Bridges of Gl●c. Hall, lately a Student of Trin. Coll. in Cambr.— He was son of Coll. John Bridges Governor of Warwick, and was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jun. 5. unton Croke a Captain in the Parl. Army was then created by virtue of a Dispensation from the Delegates of the University.— This person, who was son of unton Croke of Merston near Oxon, Counsellor at Law (descended from the ancient family of the Croaks of Chilton in Bucks.) had been made a Captain or at least a Lieutenant for his venturous service done in seizing on and carrying away with his party (to Abendon Garrison where he was a Soldier) many horses belonging to the Royalists of Oxford Garrison, while they were grazing in the meadows joining on the east side to Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Major, and in 1658 made High Sheriff of Oxfordshire by Richard and his Council, and soon after a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse. This is the Gentleman, who became infamous to the Royalists and all true generous Hearts for his falseness in denying and breaking the Articles which he had made with the truly loyal Col. Joh. Penruddock when he and his party were taken by him and his at South Molton in Devonshire, 15 March 1654., (after they had retreated from Salisbury where they first rose) at which time they endeavoured, but in vain, to redeem the Kingdom from Slavery and Tyranny. For this Service done by Croke, his father was called to the degree of Sergeant at Law by Oliver, by a Writ bearing date 21 of June following, and he himself, if I mistake not, to that of Major of a Reg. of Horse. After his Majesty's restauration, when he and his Reg. were disbanded, he was shunned and hated by Gentlemen and Royalists where he abode, whether in D●vonshire, (from whence he married his wife) at Cheddington in Bucks, in Oxford, or at the Wick in the Parish of Hedington near Oxon, or elsewhere. He is now, or at least was lately, living in a gouty condition, at or near London. He has a younger brother named Charles Croke sometimes Com. of Ch. Ch, who, after he had taken many rambles, been a Soldier and seen the vanities of the World, published Youths unconstancy, etc. Lond. 1667. oct.  
Dec. 18. Rob. King lately made Fellow of Alls. Coll. by the Visitors, was created by virtue of an order from the Delegates of the University.— This person, who was a younger son of Sir Rob King Kt, Commissary of the Musters in Ireland in the time of the Lord Lieut. Hen. Cromwell, was after his Majesty's restauration made a Baronet, and elected several times a Parliament-man in that Kingdom. He had an elder brother called Henry who was also made Fellow of Alls. Coll. by the Visitors, and another elder than he named John, who was by King Ch. 2. made Baron of Kingston in the same Kingdom.  
Jan. 18. Peter Pett of Alls. Coll. was admitted by virtue of an Order from the said Delegates.  
Besides the three before mentioned, Rowl. Hunt who had been lately made Fellow of the said Coll, was created also this year, which is all I know of him, only that he was a Salopian born.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Those that were created this year Masters of Arts, were mostly Officers that attended Fairfax the General and Cromwell his Lieut. Gen. to Oxon, when they were invited thither by the then Members of the University, to see what a Godly Reformation the Committee and Visitors had made therein.  
May 19 Sir Hardress Waller Kt, was the first that was presented by Zanchy the junior Proctor: which being done, he was conducted up to Cromwell (just before presented to the degree of Dr. of the Civ. Law) sitting on the left hand of him that then held the Chancellors chair (Dr. Chr. Rogers Deput. Vicechanc.) and with due Ceremony was seated on his left side.— This person was son and heir of George Waller of Groombridge in Kent Esq, by Mary his wife daugh. of Rich. Hardness Esq, Relict of Sir Will. Ashenden Kt; (which George was elder brother to Sir Thom. Waller, father of Sir Will. Waller, lately one of the Parl. Generals, mentioned among the Writers, an. 1668. p. 297.) and marrying with the daugh. and co-heir of Sir Joh. Dowdall or Dovedall of Limerick in Ireland Kt, enjoyed fair inheritances by her, and spent most of his time, there. In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he was a Royalist in opinion, but with the more gainfuller times he turned Presbyt●●ian, and at length a strong Independent, and thereupon was made a Committee-man, and afterwards a Colonel of Horse. He had been lately one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1, and sat when Sentence passed upon him for his decollation; for which service he was afterwards made Major Gen. of the Army in Ireland: Where continuing till the revolution of affairs brought Monarchy again into England, he did, upon the issuing out of the King's Proclamation, surrender himself to mercy: Whereupon being brought to his trial, for having a hand in the murder of his said Prince, he showed very great reluctancy for what he had done, and was thereupon conveyed from his prison in the Tower to the Isle of Wight, there to continue during his life, an. 1660 aged 56 years. Whither he was afterwards removed thence I cannot tell, nor where he died.  
May 19 Colonel Tho. Harrison was presented next by Zanchy, and conducted by him on the other side.— This person, who was the son of a Butcher or Grazier of Newcastle under Line in Staffordshire, was, after he had been educated in some Grammar Learning, placed with one Hulk or Hulker an Attorney of Clifford's Inn, and when out of his time, became a kind of a Pettisogger as 'tis said; but finding little profit thence, he betook himself, from the pen, to the sword in the Parliament Army when they first raised a Rebellion against their King; and having a tongue well hung, he did, by his enthusiastical Preaching and great pretence to piety, so far insinuate himself with the deluded Army, that he passed from one Command to another till he attained to be a Major and a great Confident of Ol. Cromwell, and so consequently his close friend in breaking the Presbyterian faction in both Houses, in depriving them of their King, and at length in bringing him to the block, as by these particulars it doth appear. First, he was the person appointed by Oliver, or at least the Adjutators of the Army, to go to Hurst Castle where the King was Prisoner, to the end that he should inform the Governor thereof that he deliver his Majesty up▪ to a party of Horse that should be ready to receive him, in order to his conveyance to Windsor Castle, and so to Westminster to be tried. This was by Harrison done about the 15 of Dec. 1648, for on the 21 following he was conveyed thence towards Windsor. See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers, an. 1677. p. 438. Secondly, that after his Majesty had left Hurst Castle and was conveyed from Milford, three miles distant thence, by a party of the Rebel's Horse to Winchester, and thence to Alton and so to Alresford, this Major Harrison appeared in the head of another party between that place and Farnham to the end that he might bring up the rear. His party was drawn up in good order, by which his Maj. was to pass, and the Major in the head of them gallantly mounted and armed, with a Velvet Montier on his head, and a new Buffcoat on his back, with a Crimson silk Scarf about his waist richly fringed. The King as he passed by on horseback with an easy pace, as delighted to see men well horsed and armed, the Major gave the King a bow with his head, Alla soldad, which his Majesty requited. This was the first time that the King saw the Major; at which time Tho. Herbert Groom of the Bedchamber (from whom I had this story) riding a little behind the King, his Majesty called him to come near and asked him who that Captain was, and being by him told that it was Major Harrison, the King viewed him more narrowly and fixed his eyes so steadily upon him, as made the Major abashed and fall back to his party, sooner than probably he intended. The K. said he looked like a Soldier and that his aspect was good, and found him not such an one as was represented; and that, having judgement in faces, if he had observed him so well before, he should not have harboured that ill opinion of him, for oft times the spirit and disposition may be discerned in the countenance. That night the K. got to Farnham, where he was lodged in a private Gentleman's house in the town, (the Castle there being then a Garrison for the Parliament) and a little before supper his Majesty standing by the fire in a large wainscoted parlour, and in discourse with the Mistress of the House, the King, (notwithstanding the room was pretty full of Army Officers and Country People that crowded in to have a sight of him) did at length see the Major at the farther end of the Parlour talking with another Officer: Whereupon beckoning to him with his hand to come nearer, he did so accordingly with due reverence: And his Majesty taking him by the arm, drew him aside towards the window, where for half an hour or more they did discourse together. Among other things the King minded him of the information that he had received concerning the murder that he intended on him in the Isle of Wight; which, if true, rendered him an enemy in the worst sense to his person. The Major, in his vindication, assured his Majesty that what was reported of him was not true, yet he might report that the Law was equally obliging to great and small, and that Justice had no respect to persons, or words to that purpose: which his Majesty finding affectedly spoken and to no good end, he left off farther communication with him, and went to supper, being all the time very pleasant, which was no small rejoicing to many there, to see him so cheerful in that company and in such a dolorous condition. Thirdly, that when his Majesty went thence to Bagshot and there dined in the Lord Newburgh's house, the said Major ordered Sentries to be set at every door where he was; and after dinner when he conveyed him to Windsor he appointed several of his Officers to ride close to the King, lest he should make 
(*) An exact and impartial Account of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial and Iudg●●●● of 29 R●g●e●des, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. p. 46.  an escape from them. Fourthly, that after the K. had continued at Winds. for some days keeping his last, but very sad, Christmas, he conveyed him in a Coach thence to S. James', in order to his trial; at which time Harrison was with him in the said Coach, with his 
(‖) Jam. Heath in his Brief 〈…〉 pr. a● Lond. 1663. under the year 1648. p. 355.  head covered, talked with little or no reverence to him: And when the King proposed to him What do they intend to do with me? whether to murder me or not? the Major made answer 
(†) Exact and impartial 〈…〉 as before, p. 44.  that there was no intention to kill him, me have no such thoughts, yet the Lord hath reserved you for a public example of justice, etc. Fifthly, That when the King was to be brought to his Trial, there was a Committee. sat in the Exchequer Chamber, at which the Major being present, he used these 
(‡) Ibid.  expressions before them, gentlemans it will be good for us to blaken him, (meaning his Majesty) what we can, pray let us blacken him, or words to that purpose. Sixthly, that he was one of the hellish crew that sat publicly in judgement on his Majesty, when he was by them tried for his life in Westm. Hall, was there when sentence passed for his decollation, and stood up, as the rest did, as consenting thereunto, and did afterwards set his hand to the bloody Warrant for his Execution, etc. For these his services he was soon after made a Colonel, and at length a Major General, and on the 24 of Nou. 1652 he was one of those that were elected to be members of the Council of State. While he was Major Gen. and in favour with Oliver, the Principality of Wales was appointed to be under his command, where, the then Laws appointed, were by him put in full force. No orthodox Minister could there be suffered, but whom he pleased to allow; and with the assistance of his Chaplain Vav. powel (a giddyheaded person and second brother to Hugh Peter) he endeavoured the modelling of that Country, so as that none but their own Proselytes should teach and instruct the people, etc. At length he perceiving full well that Cromwell gaped after the Government by a single person, he with great scorn and indignation left him, and became the Ringleader of all the Schismatics, especially of that dangerous party called the Fift-monarchy men, and great with Joh. Lilbourne as mad as he. Whereupon Cromwell to be quick with, committed, him to safe custody, and put him out of all commission. Afterwards he was set at liberty, but committed again and again upon every suspicious account, and in Feb. 1657 he was rebaptized purposely to gain the Anabaptists to his party. At length engaging himself with Maj. Gen. John Lambert newly escaped from his Prison in the Tower, to raise Forces against the King, who was then voiced in most parts of the Nation to be returning from his exile to take possession of his Kingdom, he was snapped in the very point of time, wherein he intended to have headed a party, and was conveyed Prisoner to the Tower of London for the same. After his Majesty's restauration a greater matter being laid to his charge, viz. of having a very deep and signal hand in the murder of his Prince, his imprisonment was made more close. At length being conveyed thence to Newgate, and so to Hicks Hall, and afterwards to the Session's house in the Old Bailie, was, after a long Trial, condemned to die for the same 11 Octob. 1660, and thereupon was sent to the said Prison of Newgate. On the 13 of the same month, he was conveyed thence on a Hurdle, guarded by a Troop of Horse and some of the Trained Bands to the railed place where Charing Cross stood; within which rails a Gibbet was set up on purpose, whereon he was hanged, with his face towards the Banqueting house at Whitehall, where the precious and innocent blood of K. Ch. 1. was spilt by the said Harrison and the rest of the bloody Regicides. When he was half hanged, he was cut down, his bowels burned, his head severed from his body, and his quarters carried back on the same Hurdle to Newgate, to be disposed at his Majesty's pleasure. On the 16 of the same month his head was set on Westminster Hall, and his quarters exposed to public view on some of the Gates of the City of London. Soon after was published under his name, Some occasional Speeches and memorable Passages after his coming to Newgate; with his Speech upon the Ladder. Printed at London in qu. With The Speeches and Prayers of other Regicides; as also Observations upon the last actions and words of Maj. Gen. Harrison. Written by a Minister to a Country-Gentlewoman, who seemed to take some offence at the same.— Lond. 1660. in two sh. and an half in qu.  
May 19 Colonel Richard Ingoldesbie now Governor of the Garrison of Oxon, was also then presented Master by Proctor Zanchy, and by him conducted to the other Officers just before presented, sitting in the Doctor's seats.— This person who was the second son of Sir Rich. Ingoldesbie of Lethenborough in Buckinghamshire Kt, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Oliv. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingtonshire, was born of a good family at Lethenborough, educated in the Free School at Thame, (as the rest of his brethren were) founded by Joh. Lord Williams, and being a stout youngman when the Civil War began, he betook himself, by the persuasions of his puritanical Parents, to the Parliament Cause, was a Captain in Col. Joh. Hamdens' Regiment, when he first of all appeared in Arms against his Majesty, and in short time after he was made, by the endeavours of his Kinsman Ol. Cromwell (afterwards Protector) a Colonel of Horse, and at length by his allurements one of the Judges of the said King in that bloody Court called The High Court of Justice; where he was present and stood up as consenting when Sentence passed for his decollation, and afterwards set his hand to the Warrant for his Execution. He was a Gentleman of courage and valour, and though he could neither pray, preach or dissemble, being rather a boon companion, yet complying very kindly with Oliver's new Court, and being in his Principles for Kingship, he was reckoned fit to be taken out of the House of Commons (having before been one of the Council of State) and to be made a Member of the other House, that is House of Lords by his cousin the Protector; who, about that time, committed him to the Tower (but soon released him thence) for beating the honest Innkeeper of Ailesbury in Whitehall. In the beginning of the year; 1660, when Colonel, commonly called Maj. General, Joh. Lambert broke loose from his prison in the Tower, (to which, he some time before had been committed by the restored Members of the Long Parliament, lest he and his Party should hinder their intended settlement of the Nation) and thereupon had got into the head of a considerable party of desperate fanatics near to Daventry in Northamptonshire, to hinder, if possibly it might be, not only the said Settlement but Restauration of the King, he the said Col. Ingoldesbie did, with his own Regiment and some other Troops, and Companies of Foot (such as he could confide in) draw towards him, and about the 23 of Apr. making an Onset, took Lambert with his own hands, while the other prime Officers were taken by others of Ingoldesbie's party, etc. Whereupon for this his good service, his Majesty did not only spare his life, (as having been one of his father's Judges) but gave order that he should be made a Knight of the Bath at his Coronation, which accordingly was done. Afterwards he retired to Lethenborough, lived several years after in a quiet repose and died in the beginning of Sept. 1685. Before which time his Estate at Lethenborough was, as it was then reported, sold to Elinor Gwynn for the use of her natural son (which she had by K. Ch. 2.) called Sir Charles Beaucleer Earl of Burford and afterwards Duke of S. Alban. This Col. Ingoldesbie was elder brother to Henry Ingoldesbie a Colonel also in the Parliam. Army, and to Thomas a Captain, etc.  
May 19 Col. John Hewson a Colonel of Foot, was also presented by Proct. Zanchy and by him conducted to his place among the other Officers— He was sometimes an honest Shoemaker in Westminster, but getting little by that trade, he, in the beginning of the grand rebellion, went out a Captain upon the account of the blessed cause, was very zealous for it, fought on stoutly, and in time became a Colonel. When K. Ch. 1. was by the godly brethren brought to trial for his life, he sat as one of the Judges, consented to the sentence passed upon him and sealed and subscribed the warrant for his execution. Afterwards for his said service he became Governor of Dublin, one of the Council of State in July 1653, a member of the Little or Barebones Parliament held the same year (and of all the Parliaments since, before his Majesty's restauration) a Knight also of the new stamp, and at length one of Olivers Lords to have a negative voice in the Other House. Upon an infallible foresight of the turn of the times, he conveyed himself away into Holland, to save his neck, and soon after died, and was buried at Amsterdam, about 1662., as the vulgar report went at that time.  
Colonel John Okey was another great Officer that was then also presented by Proct. Zanchy, May 19 and by him conducted to the rest— His parentage was as mean as his calling, having been originally as 'tis supposed a Dray-man, afterwards a Stroaker in a Brewhouse at Islington near London, and then a poor Chandler near Lion-key in Thamestreet in London. At length changing his Apron for a Buffcoat, he became, thro' certain military degrees, a Col. of Dragoons, and by the artifice of Cromwell, had, unknowing to him, his name inserted among the King's Judges, and so consequently was by him appointed to sit among that diabolical crew; which if he refused to do, he knew full well it would displease Cromwell much, and in the end contract prejudice against him. This Fellow, who was of greater bulk than brains, and of more strength than wit or conscience, left Cromwell when he saw that he aimed at the office of a single person, sided with the Anab. and Fift-Monarchy-men, and thereupon was committed to custody for a time, and his Regiment taken from him and given to a great Creature of Ol. called Ch. L. Howard, afterwards E. of Carlisle. At length upon a foresight of the return of Monarchy, he fled into Holland, and settling at Delf● in a very timorous condition under the name of Frederick Williamson, (because his father's name was William) with Miles Corbet and John Barkstead two other Regicides (the last of which went by the name of Joh. Harman) they were all seized upon in the beginning of March 1661., by the forward Endeavours of Sir George Downing his Majesty's Envoy or Resident at the Hague, by order from the States, they being then in an Alehouse. Soon after they were sent to England in the Blackamoor Frigate, and upon their arrival were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London. Afterwards being conveyed to the Kings-bench Bar at Westm. Hall to know what they could say for themselves why Execution should not pass upon them, they were returned to the Tower again; and on the 19 of April 1662. were all conveyed thence, each in a Sledge, to Tyburn, and there hanged, drawn and quartered. Afterwards Okey's quarters, were, instead of being hanged on several gates of the City of London, permitted by his Majesty's order to be interred by his Relations, because he had behaved himself dutifully towards him in his last words at the Gallows. Soon after were published their Speeches and Prayers, together with several passages at the time of their Execution at Tybourne, with some due and sober animadversions on the said Speeches. Lond. 1662. in 5 sh. in qu. and A letter from Col. Barkstead▪ Col. Okey and Mil. Corbet to their friends in their congregational Churches in Lond. with the manner of their apprehension. Lond. 1662., in 1 sh. in qu. But this last is a feigned thing, and reflects upon Sir Geor Downing as a Revolter from their Cause, as indeed he was, which afterwards was his advancement. He was then a member of that Parl. which began at Westm. 8 of May 1661., wherein acting much to the great dislike of those that took themselves to be the honest party of the House, had this 
(*) In A seasonable Argument to persuade all the Grand Juries in England to petition for a Parliament, etc. Printed 1677. qu.  character given of him, Sir Geor Downing a poor child, bred upon charity, like Judas betrayed his Master: What can his Country expect? He drew, and advised the Oath of renouncing the King's family, and took it first himself. For his honesty, fidelity, etc. he was rewarded by his Maj. with fourscore thousand pounds at least, and is a Commissioner of the Customs, the House-bell to call the Courtiers to vote at six of the clock at night, an Exchequer teller, etc.  
May 19 Geor Sedascue Adjutant General of the Parliament Army, was also then presented and took his place.— He had been a Cornet of Horse in the Expedition against the Rebels in Ireland 1641. 42.  
Col. Edward Grosvenour Quartermaster General of the said Army, was presented and created M. of A. the same day.— In 1656 he was chose Burgess for Westminster, to serve in that Parl. which began 17 of Sept. the same year, he being then a favourite of Oliver, and for the same place also to serve in Richard's Parliament, etc.  
May 19 Owen Roe Scoutmaster General, was also then created and conducted by Proctor Zanchy to the rest of the Officers.— He was originally a Silkman, and in the beginning of the Rebellion being a violent Covenantier, and afterwards an Independent, was by Oliver's interest made a prime Officer (Lieut. Col. I think) in the Militia of London, and became a firebrand in that City, and an enemy to its ancient Civil Government. In 1648 he was nominated one of the King's Judges, sat on the Bench when he was several times brought before them, stood up as consenting, when Sentence was passed for severing his head from his body, and at length set his hand and seal to the Warrant for his Execution. About that time he was made Keeper of the Magazines and Stores, received 5000 l. to buy Arms, which I think was never after accounted for. In 1659. Jul. 7. he was constituted Colonel of the Militia of the said City by the Rump Parliament, and was then in great favour with them; but in the year after when his Maj. was restored and a Proclamation thereupon was issued out for all such persons that had sat in Judgement on K. Ch. 1. to come in, he surrendered himself; so that after his Trial had passed in the Session's house in the Old Bailie, he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment, and his Estate confiscated. What became of him afterwards I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that much about the time that he was created M. of Arts, he got his son named Sam. Roe to be made Fellow of Alls. Coll. by the Committee and Visitors.  
May 19 Colonel William Gough or Goffe. was then also presented by Zanchy, and created M. A.— He was the son of Stephen Goffe. Rector of Stanmore in Sussex, and younger brother to Joh. Goffe. mentioned among the Writers, an. 1661., p. 171. and to Steph. Goffe. mentioned in the Fasti, an. 1636. p. 888. While this William was a Youth and averse to all kind of Learning, he was bound an Apprentice to one Vaughan a Salter in London, Brother to Col. Joseph Vaughan a Parliamentarian and a zealous Presbyterian; whose time being near, or newly, out, he betook himself to be a Soldier for the righteous Cause instead of setting up his trade, went out a Quartermaster of Foot and continued in the Wars till he forgot what he had fought for. At length thro' several military grades he became a Colonel, a frequent Prayer-maker, Preacher and Presser for Righteousness and Freedom, which in outward show was expressed very zealously, and therefore in high esteem in the Parliament Army. In 1648 he was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1, sat in judgement when he was brought before the High Court of Justice, stood up as consenting when Sentence passed upon him for his decollation, and afterwards set his Hand and Seal to the Warrant for his Execution. Afterwards, having like his General (Cromwell) an evil tincture of that spirit that loved and sought after the favour and praise of man, more than that of God, as by woeful experience in both of them it did afterwards appear, he could not further believe, or persevere upon that account, but by degrees fell off from the antimonarcal Principles of the chief part of the Army, and was the man, with Col. Will. White, who brought Musquetiers and turned out the Anabaptistical Members that were left behind of the Little or Barebones Parliament, out of the House, an. 1654. Complying thus kindly with the design and interest of the said General, he was by him, when made Protector, constituted Major General of Hampshire, Sussex and Berks, a place of great profit, and afterwards was of one, if not of two Parliaments, did advance his interest greatly, and was in so great esteem and favour in Oliver's Court that he was judged the only fit man to have Maj. Gen. John Lambert's place and command, as Maj. General of the Army of Foot, and by some to have the Protectorship settled on him in future time. He being thus made so considerable a person, he was taken out of the House to be a Lord, and to have a negative Voice in the Other House, and the rather for this reason, that he never in all his life (as he used several times to say) fought against any such thing as a single person, or a negative voice, but only to pull down Charles and set up Oliver, etc. in which he obtained his end. In 1660, a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he betook himself to his heels to save his neck, without any regard had to his Majesty's Proclamation, wandered about, fearing every one that he met should slay him, and was living at Lausanna in 1664 with Edm. Ludlow, Edward Whaley, and other Regicides, when John L'isle, another of that number, was there by certain generous Royalists dispatched. He afterwards lived several years in Vagabondship, but when he died, or where his carcase was lodged, is as yet unknown to me.  
May 19 Major John Blackmore.— He was a Burgess for Tiverton to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver, which began at Westm. 3 Sept. 1654.  
Major ..... Browne was actually created the same day.— This is all that appears of him in the Register; otherwise had his Christian Name been set down, I might have been more large upon him.  
The aforesaid eleven Officers, great favourites of Cromwell, were presented in Master's Gowns on one and the same day by Zanchy before mentioned, in a Convocation held by a Presbyterian Deputy Vicechancellor, Presbyterian Heads and mostly Presbyterian Masters, and all actually created Masters of Arts and seated in the Doctor's seats.  
Francis Buller Gent. Bach. of Arts of Cambr. was also then actually created Master, but presented by an ordinary Master.— He was the same person, as I conceive, who was chose a Knight for the County of Cornwall to serve in Richard's Parliament that began at Westm. 27 Jan. 1658.  
May 21. John Rushworth of Queens Coll, Secretary to Tho. Lord Fairfax, was then created M. of A. and admitted to suffragate in the House of Convoc. and Congreg.  

May 21. Edward Thelwall a Capt. of Foot.  
May 21. Hugh Courtney an Officer of note.   
Mar. 14. .... Humphreys Gent. of kin to the Earl of Lincoln, and the son of a Colonel, etc.  
In the conclusion of the aforesaid Creation, May 19, were the Names of certain other Officers read, to be created Masters of Arts when they were pleased to come to Oxon to be entertained. Their Names were written in a paper subscribed by Fairfax and Cromwell, but whether the contents of that paper were registered, or that the said Officers were afterwards created, it appears not. Two of them who are noted to posterity for their great rudeness and impudence towards sacred Majesty, I shall here set down, but the others not, because of little or no Name. The first of these two that I shall speak of, is,  
George Joyce an Officer of note, a Captain as it seems.— It must be now observed that when the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat with the King for Peace, did go to him at Newcastle upon Tyne, to which place the Scots had conveyed him when he committed his person to their protection near Newark upon Trent, it was the pleasure of the Parl. that he and the Commissioners should be conveyed thence to his Palace at Holdenby in Northamptonshire, there to continue during the Treaty, because it was a more convenient place for his Majesty, and much more near to London than the former place. On the 3 of Feb. therefore, an. 1646, he was conveyed thence by certain Forces appointed by Parliament, and on the 16 of the said month he arrived at Holdenby with the Commissioners, viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke, Basil Earl of Denbigh, Edward Lord Montague of Boughton, with double their number of some eminent members of the H. of Commons, namely Sir Jam. Harrington, Sir John Holland, and Sir Joh. Coke Baronet's, Sir Walter Earl Kt, Joh. Crew Esq. and Serg. Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne. Being all settled there, the Treaty went on, with fair hopes of a conclusion, but by the diabolical machinations of O. Cromwell and his confederates the Adjutators, it was after this manner dissolved, and the King by force taken thence. On the 3 of June 1647, his Maj. being in the afternoon at Bowls in the Green at A●thorp near Holdenby, belonging to the Lord Spencer Earl of Sunderland, it was whispered among the Commissioners then there with him, that a party of Horse obscurely headed were marching towards Holdenby, and for no good it was presumed, in regard that neither the Commissioners nor Colonel Rich. Greaves (a most confiding Presbyterian) who kept the Guard at Holdenby and was an Officer in the Army, nor the Commissioners servants had the least notice of it from any Officer, or other correspondent in the Army, other than that the General had removed his Head-quarter from S. Edmund's Bury to Newmarket, when the Army entered into an Engagement not to suffer themselves to be disbanded, such a motion having been made by the Commons in Parliament. Whereupon his Majesty so soon as he was acquainted with it, he immediately left the Green and returned to Holdenby, where the Commissioners, after consultation had with Col. Greaves, resolved to stand upon their guard; and accordingly they forthwith doubled their guards for the defence of his Majesty's person; and Serg. Maj. Gen. Browne calling all the Soldiers together, acquainted them with the occasion, who promised to stand by him, and not to suffer any attempt upon the King's person, or affront on the Commissioners, as I have been informed by one then present on the place, whom I shall anon mention: But the difference is great 'twixt saying and doing, as soon appeared; for about midnight came that party of Horse, which in good order drew up before the House or Palace at Holdenby, and, at all avenews, placed guards. This done, the Officer that commanded the party alighted and demanded entrance: Whereupon Greaves and Browne asked him his name and business, he answered his name was Joyce a Cornet in Col. Edw. whales Regiment, and his business was to speak with the King: From whom said they? From myself said Joyce, at which they laughed; and thereupon Joyce said 'twas no laughing matter. They advised him to draw off his men, and in the morning he should speak with the Commissioners: I came not hither (said he) to be advised by you, nor have I any business with the Commissioners, my errand is to the King, and speak with him I must and will presently, etc. They then bad the Soldiers within stand to their Arms, and be ready to fire when ordered: But during this short Treaty between the Cornet and Greaves and Browne, the Soldiers on each side had conference together, and so soon as they understood that they were Fellow-Soldiers of one and the same Army, they quickly forgot what they had promised; for they opened the gates and doors, shaken one another by the hand and bade them welcome, so little regard had they to their promises, either in reference to the King's safety or the Commissioners that attended him. Entrance being made, strict search was made after Col. Greaves, who (though faultless, yet was it suggested that he would privately have conveyed away the King to London) got happily out of their reach. Sentinels were ordered by Joyce to be set at the Commissioners chambers doors, that he might with less noise carry on his design, and find way to the Back-stairs where the Grooms of his Majesty's Bedchamber attended. Cornet Joyce being come unto the door, he in rude manner knocked: Those within asked who it was that in such an uncivil manner and unseasonable time came to disquiet the King's rest? The Cornet answered, My name is Joyce, an Officer of the Army, and sorry I am that I should disquiet the King, but I cannot help it, for speak with him I must, and that presently, &c This strange confidence of his, and the posture he was in, having a cocked Pistol in his hand, amazed the four Grooms of the Bedchamber, Jam. Maxwell, Patr. Maule, Jam. Harrington and Thom. Herbert, (from the last of which I had this story in writing) whose duty it was and care to preserve his Majesty's person, and were resolved to sacrifice their lives rather than give him admittance. They therefore in the first place asked Joyce if he had the Commissioners approbation for his intrusion? he said no, for I have ordered a guard to be set at their doors, and have orders from those that feared them not. They then persuaded him to lay aside his arms and to forbear giving disturbance, the K. being then asleep, assuring him that in the morning he should have his Majesty's answer to his errand. The Cornet refused to part with either Sword or Pistol, and yet insisted to have the Chamber door opened. But the Grooms of the Bedchamber keeping firm to their resolution that he should not enter, the noise was so loud, which in this contest could not be avoided, that it awakened his Majesty, who thereupon rung his silver bell: Upon which Maxwell went into the Bedchamber to know the King's pleasure, the other three Grooms in the mean time securing the door. The K. being acquainted with the business, and uncivil carriage of the Cornet, he sent word he would not rise nor speak with him until morning: Which being told the Cornet, he huffed, and seeing his design could not be effected in the night, he retired, so as for a few hours there was silence. Morning being come, the K. arose a little sooner than ordinary, and having performed his morning devotions, he sent for Joyce, who, with no less confidence than if he had been a supreme Officer, approached the King, and acquainted him with the commands he had concerning his removal. The K. desired that the Commissioners might be sent for, and his orders communicated to them, the Cornet made answer that they were to return back to the Parliament; by whose appointment, said the King? to which the Cornet made no answer. The K. then said, Let them have their liberty, and give me a sight of your instructions. That, said Cornet Joyce, you shall see presently: And forthwith drawing up the greatest and best part of his party into the inner Court, as near as he could unto the King, said These Sir are my instructions. The K. took a view of, and finding, them proper men, well mounted and armed, smilingly told the Cornet, His instructions were in fair characters, and legible without spelling. The Cornet then pressed the King to go along with him, no prejudice being intended, but rather satisfaction: The King told him he would not stir unless the Commissioners went along with him: The Cornet replied that for his part he was indifferent. However the Commissioners in this interim, had, by an Express, acquainted the Parl. with this violence, and so soon as they perceived his Majesty was inclinable to go with Joyce, and that it was the King's pleasure they should follow him they knew not whither, they immediately made themselves ready: And after that they had put several questions to the Cornet, whose answers were insignificant, and saw full well that reason was of no force to dissuade, nor menaces to affright, they were willing to attend the K. at all adventures. This audacious attempt exceedingly troubled the Commissioners, and the more for that they knew not how to help it, as well appeared by their countenances, for indeed it sadned the hearts of many. The K. was the merriest in the company, having, it seems, some confidence in the Army, especially from some of the greatest there, as was imagined. The K. being in his coach called the Earls of Pembroke and Denbigh, as also the L. Montague, into it. The other Commissioners, members of the H. of Commons, being well mounted, followed, leaving Holdenby languishing; for that beautiful and stately structure was in two years after pulled down among other Royal Houses, whereby the splendour of the Kingdom was not a little eclipsed, as it since appeared. His Majesty following his guide (the confident Cornet) he went that night to Hinchingbroke, where he lodged in the fair mansion house of Col. Edw. Montague, (made Earl of Sandwich after the restauration of K Ch. 2.) whose Lady was daughter to Joh. Crew Esq. than one of the Commissioners, and afterwards created a Baron by K. Ch. 2.; in which House his Maj. was treated with honour and welcome, as were also the Commissioners. From Hinchingbrooke the K. went next night to Childerley, a house of Sir Joh. Cutts, not far from Cambridge, to which, during his Majesty's three days stay, many Doctors, Graduates, and Scholars of that University repaired. To most of whom the K. was pleased to give his hand to kiss, for which honour they returned their gratulatory and humble thanks with a V●vat Re●. Thither also came Fairfax the General of the Parl. Army, Lieut. Gen. Cromwell, Commissary Gen. Hen. Ireton, Maj. Gen. Philip Ski●pon, Lieut. Gen. of the Ordnance Tho. Hammond. Col. Joh Lambert, Col. Edw. whaley, Col. Rich. Deane, Col. Charles Rich, and several other Field and Commission Officers; some of which, as soon as they came into the presence, kissed his Majesty's hand, after the General, who had begun the way. These things being done the K. took the General aside in the first place and discoursed with him, the General (unasked) disavowed his Majesty's seizure by Joyce at Holdenby, as done without his order and approbation, (but probably by some other powerful Officer in the Army, seeing that Joyce was neither at a Council of War, or otherwise, called into question for it) and by his Letter declared no less to the Parliament: Whereupon, as 'tis farther reported, the K. made answer, that unless he would hang up Joyce he would not believe him, etc. From thence he went to Newmarket, where he made a considerable stay, and thence to Royston, where continuing two or three days, a certain Envoy from some Germane Prince (whose dead father had been a Companion to the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter) made an Address to his Majesty, with a Letter and a return of the George and Garter (richly set with Diamonds) according to the usual custom, and to receive his Majesty's direction with whom to be deposited. A military Officer, whaley before mentioned (afterwards one of the King's Judges) being in the room, was so malapert as to interpose, and would be privy to what the Envoy had to communicate to the King, who by his frown expressing his displeasure at so great rudeness towards him and incivility to a stranger, Mr. Babington the King's Barber instructed the Officer better by a removal, which the King was pleased with, and the Officer had a reproof from the General for his disrespect to his Majesty. Afterwards his Majesty by easy journeys went to Hampton Court, where he continued in great splendour near a quarter of an year, in which time there were great hopes of an accommodation and conclusion of peace between him and his Parliament; but being frighted thence by the endeavours of the Adjutators of the Army at Putney, he retired obscurely to the Isle of Wight, and how he was violently taken thence and hurried to Hurst Castle, you shall hear more anon. As for Joyce before mentioned, a pragmatical and busy person, who had been a godly Tailor in London, and persuaded and egged on by a godly Minister of that City to take up arms for the righteous Cause, had soon after the said audacious act was by him performed, his Arrears paid, and was made at least a Captain, and at length a Colonel: But after Oliver had advanced himself to the Protectorate, and thereupon had cashiered and imprisoned divers prime Officers, who worse than maligned him for so doing, an. 1654., this Col. Joyce became a Malcontent at the change, and signified so much to Olivers face, whom he upbraided with his own service, and his faithfulness, but escaped any other censure than a bidding him be gone, Cromwell well knowing him to be one of those mad men that would say and do any thing they were bid.  
The next that I am to mention who had the degr. of M. of A. conferred on him if he would please to accept of it, was  
Lieut. Colon. Ralph Cobbet an Officer in Col. Faithful Fortescue's Regiment.— The Reader may be pleased now to observe that the Treaty for Peace at Newport in the Isle of Wight between the Commissioners appointed by Parliament and his Majesty, being in a manner concluded, insomuch that it was voted by the members thereof that his Majesty's answers and concessions were a ground sufficient and satisfactory to both Houses of Parliament to proceed upon in order to a settlement of a peace of the Kingdom, the Adjutators of the Army did thereupon conclude, that if a Peace was settled, the said Army should be disbanded and become useless, and therefore they framing Cases and a Remonstrance setting forth their grievances, and that the principal Actors of the King's party in the late War should be proceeded against according to justice, his Majesty not being excepted, they ordered among themselves that the said Treaty should be broken off and the King's person secured for their own ends thus. In the latter end of Nou. 1648 a considerable party of Horse and Foot belonging to the Army landed in the Isle of Wight under the command of the said Lieut. Col. Cobbet, and coming unexpectedly to Newport, the Lieut. Col. did in the first place make enquiry for the quarter of the Governor of that Isle called Col. Rob. Hammond, (for there, at Newprrt, he continued while his Majesty was present, albeit he was under no restraint) to the end that he might secure him and put his Lieut. Col. Is. Ewer in his place of trust and government. The reason for this intended seizure was not then known, for Col. Hammond had all along managed his trust with sufficient circumspection and asperity; so, as it continued him in the applause of most men in power, both in the two Houses of Parl. and the Army: insomuch, as 'twas believed this alteration proceeded principally from the apprehension either the Adjutators, or some that influenced them, had; and were not a little jealous that he was at length too much a Courtier, which they by no means approved of; and from that supposition they thought it the safest way to remove him: yet he being premonished, he evaded Cobbet, and at his coming to Westminster had a fair reception by the members of Parliament. In this conjecture his Opposites in the Army were mistaken, for albeit by his constant attendance, most times walking and discoursing with the King whensoever he walked for refreshment about the outworks of Carisbrook Castle, before he went to Newport to treat with the Commissioners, (there being none in the Garrison so fit, and forward as Hammond) it gave him opportunity to ingratiate himself into his Majesty's favour, yet it made the Army Officers jealous, he being solely entrusted with the Person of the King: And the truth is he did never forfeit the King's good opinion of him, only when he peeped into his Scrutore, for no good end as 'twas supposed; which, (as I have been told by one then present) with some aggravations from other hands, made the King to design an escape: For soon after, he made way for his descent out of his Chamber, as he farther told me, and Horses were provided and placed near the works, and a vessel ready for his embarking, but by a corrupted Corporal of the Garrison it took no effect, etc. Now to return; L. Col. Cobbet failing of his first enterprise, he made a higher flight, for in the morning of the 30. of Nou. 1648▪ (being S. Andrews day) he, just at break of day, did with other Officers in his Company come to the door of the King's Dressing-room, with Anth. Mildmay the King's Carver, (Brother to Sir Henry a Parliamentarian) and making a great knocking there, the King sent James Duke of Richmond, then in attendance as Gentleman of the Bedchamber, to know what it meant, and he enquiring who was there, was answered by Mildmay, that there were some Gentlemen from the Army that were desirous to speak with the King. The Duke returned and gave an account to the King, but the knocking increasing the King commanded the Duke to let them into his Dressing-room. No sooner was that done, but Cobbet in the head of them went into his Chamber, and made an abrupt and unexpected address to the King, letting him know that he had orders to remove him forthwith from Newport. The King beheld him with astonishment and interrogated him whether his orders were to remove him to his prison at Carisbroke? the Lieut. Col. said no: whither then? said the King, out of the Isle of Wight, replied the Lieut. Col, but the place he was to remove him to, he was not to communicate. Under favour, (said the King) let me see your orders, as to which the L. Col. desired to be excused, this business (said he) is of no ordinary concernment, I am not to satisfy any man's enquiry until a fitter season. Now was verified his Majesty's Maxim, that such as will assume the boldness to adventure upon a King, must not be thought over modest, or timorous, to carry on his design. His Majesty being thus denied a sight and answer, demanded if his orders and instructions were from the Parliament, or General of the Army? the Lieut. Col. answer was he had them from neither, said the King thereupon it may be so, seeing you are afraid to show them: But that he had orders or secret instructions for this bold act, is not to be doubted; for though there was but one General, yet things were at that time so much out of frame, both in the Commons House and Army, that there were many Commanders. The Duke of Richmond, Montague Earl of Lindsey, Thomas Earl of Southampton Gentlemen of the Bedchamber and other Nobility, several venerable Persons his Chaplains, and many of the King's Household servants at that time attending, were in a manner confounded at this surprise and unexpected accident, yea not a little affrighted with ideas and apprehensions of danger to his Majesty's person, and the more, for that Cobbet refused to satisfy any, to what place he would go, or what he intended to do with the King, other than that no harm or violence should be offered to him. The Lieut. Col. (Cobbet) did press the King to take Coach with what convenient speed he could: The Coach accordingly was made ready and brought to the door where the King lodged. Never at one time was beheld more grief in men's faces, or greater fears in their hearts, the King being at such a time and in such a manner hurried away they knew not whether. But no remedy appearing, the Noble men, venerable persons, and other his Majesty's servants approached to kiss the King's hand and to pour forth their supplications to Almighty God to safeguard and comfort his Majesty in that disconsolate condition. His Majesty, who at other times was cheerful, did, at this parting from his friends show sorrow in his heart by the sadness of his countenance, (a real sympathy) and wrote unto the Lords in Parl. acquainting them with this fresh violence, and complaining of the Army's severity to his person. The King being now ready to take Coach, he asked Cobbet whether he was to have any servants with him? To which he made answer only such as were most useful. The King then nominated James Harrington, and Tho. Herbert to attend him in his Bedchamber, and scarce a dozen more for other service: And at that time his Majesty taking notice that Herbert had for three days absented himself, Harrington told his Majesty that he was sick of an Ague. His Majesty then desired the Duke of Richmond to send one of his servants to see in what condition he then was, and, if any thing well, to come along with him. The Gent. that the Duke sent found him sweeting, but as soon as he received the message, he arose, and came speedily to his Majesty, who presently took Coach and commanded Harrington, Herbert, and Mildmay his Carver to come into his Coach; and L. Col. Cobbet offering to enter the Coach uninvited, his Majesty by opposing with his foot, made him sensible of his rudeness, so as with shame he mounted his horse, and followed the Coach with his party or guard, the Coachman driving as he directed, and Captain Merriman (a name ill suiting with the occasion) with another party went foremost. The King in this passage showed no discomposure at all (though at parting he did) and would be ask the Gentlemen in the Coach with him, Whether they thought he was travelling? they made some simple replies, such that served to make his Majesty smile at their innocent conjectures: Otherwhile he would comfort himself with what he had granted at the late Treaty with the Commissioners, whom he highly praised for their ingenuity and fair deportment at Newport. The Coach by the L. Colonel's direction went Westward towards Worsley's Tower in Freshwater Isle, and a little beyond Yarmouth Haven. About that place his Majesty rested, until the Vessel was ready to take him aboard with those few his Attendants. The King after an hours stay went aboard, a sorrowful spectacle and great example of fortune's inconstancy. The wind and tide favoured him and his company, and in less than three hours' time they crossed that narrow Sea, and landed at Hurst Castle, (or Block-house rather) erected by order of K. Hen. 8, upon a spot of earth thrust by nature a good way into the Sea, and joined to the firm land by a narrow neck of Sand, which is constantly covered over with loose stones and pebbles. Upon both sides of this passage the Sea beats, so as at spring tides and in stormy weather it is formidable and hazardous. The Castle has very thick stone walls, and the platforms are regular, and both have Culverins and Sakers mounted. A dismal receptacle, it was for so great a Monarch, as this King was; the greater part of whose life and reign had been prosperous and full of earthly glory: Nevertheless it was some satisfaction to his Majesty that his two Houses of Parliament abhorred this force upon his person, having voted that the seizing of the King's Person and carrying him Prisoner to Hurst Castle was without the privity and consent of either House of Parliament, etc. The Captain of this wretched place, was not unsuitable to it. At the Kings going on Shoar in the Evening of the said 30 of Nou. he stood ready to receive him with small observance. His look was stern, his hair and large beard were black and bushy. He held a Partisan in his hand and Switz-like had a great Basket-hilt-sword by his side. Hardly could one see a man of more grim aspect, and no less robust and rude was his behaviour. Some of his Majesty's servants were not a little fearful of him, and really thought that he was designed for mischief, especially when he vapoured as being elevated with his command, and puffed up by having so royal a Prisoner; so as probably he conceived he was nothing inferior to the Governor of the Castle at Milan. But being complained off to L. Col. Cobbet his superior Officer, he appeared a Bubble; for being pretty sharply admonished, he quickly became mild and calm, whereby 'twas visible that his humour (or tumour rather) was adulatory acted to curry favour; wherein also he was much mistaken: For to give the L. Colonel his due, he was, after his Majesty came under his custody, very civil to him both in language and behaviour, and courteous to those that attended him, on all occasions: Also that his disposition was not rugged towards such as in loyalty and love came to see, and to pray for, him as sundry persons out of Hampshire and the neighbouring Counties did. His Majesty (as it may be well granted) was very slenderly accommodated at this place, for the Room he usually eat in, was neither large nor lightsome, insomuch that at noon day in that Winter season, candles were set up to give light; and at night he had his wax Lamp set (as formerly) in a silver basin, which illuminated the Bedchamber, and Tho. Herbert then attending, being the sole person at that time left as Groom thereof, (for Harrington was soon after dismissed as I have elsewhere told you) he could not otherwise but call to mind a relation well worth the observance which is this, as by Letters, with several other stories relating to the Kings last two years of his life, he very kindly imparted to me. When Montague Earl of Lindsey, one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bedchamber, did lay one night on a Pallet by the King's bedside, a little before he left Oxon, in a disguise, to surrender his person up to the Protection of the Scots then laying siege to Newark upon Trent, was placed at the end of his Majesty's Bed (as was usually every night) a Lamp or round cake of wax in a basin set on a stool. The Earl awaked in the night and observed the room to be perfectly dark, and thereupon raising himself up, he looked towards the Lamp and concluded that it might be extinguished by water got into the basin by some creek: But he not hearing the King stir, he forbore rising, or to call upon those in the next chamber to bring in another light. About half an hour after he fell asleep again and awaked not till morning, but when he did awake, he discerned the Lamp bright burning, which so astonished him, that taking the boldness to call to the King (whom he heard by his stirring to be awake) he told him what he had observed: whereupon the King replied, that he himself awaking also in the night, took notice that all was dark, and to be fully satisfied he put by the curtain to look on the Lamp, but concluded that the Earl had risen, and set it upon the basin lighted again. The Earl assured his Majesty he did not. The King then said he did consider it was a prognostic of God's future favour and mercy towards him and his, that, though he was at that time eclipsed, yet either he or they may shine out bright again, etc. But to return, in this sad condition was the King at Hurst, the place and military persons duly considered: He was sequestered in a manner from the comfort that earth and air affordeth and the society of men. The earth confined him to that promontory or gravel walk overspread with loose stones a good depth; on which when he walked, as usually he did, was very uneasy and offensive to his feet, but endure it he did with his most admirable and accustomed patience and serenity of spirit, and more alacrity, than they that followed him. The air was equally noxious, by reason of the marish grounds that were thereabouts, and the unwholesome vapours arising from the ●argosses and weeds which the salt water constantly at tides and storms cast upon the shore, and by the fogs that those marine places are most subject to, so that the dwellers thereabouts find by experience how that the air is insalubrious and disposing to diseases, especially aguish distempers. Notwithstanding all these things the King was content in this most disconsolate and relegated place to walk two miles at least in length, containing but a few paces in breadth, either in the company of the Governor of the said Castle, or in that of Captain Reynolds an Officer therein; beside Harrington (while he was there) and Herbert, who according to their duties did always attend him. That which made some amendments was a fair and uninterrupted prospect a good way into the Sea, a view into the Isle of Wight one way, and main Land the other, with the sight of Ships of all sizes, daily under sail, with which his Majesty was much delighted. In this Castle his Majesty continued from the evening of the 30 of Nou. till the 21. of Dec. following, an. 1648. and what happened in that interval I have partly told you in Jam. Harrington among the Writers under the year 1677. p. 437.438. About the 15 of the said month of Dec. Major Harrison came late at night with orders for the removal of his Majesty thence, lodged there two nights, and went away without seeing the King or speaking with any of his Attendants. Two days after L. Col. Cobbet before mentioned came and acquainted his Majesty with the orders he had received for his remove thence to Windsor Castle forthwith. The King told him he was more kind at that time, than he was at Newport, when he would not gratify him or any other the knowledge of the place he was to go to. Windsor was the place he ever delighted in and 'twould make amends for what at Hurst he had suffered. All things in short time being made ready, he bade solitary Hurst adieu; and having passed the narrow passage before mentioned, which reaches well nigh from Hurst to Milford three long miles, there appeared a party of Horse belonging to the Army, who had then their Winter quarter at Lindhorsh, and were ordered to convoy the King to Winchester; but going first to Ringwood, then through the New Forest to Rumsey went thence to the said City. At his entrance therein the Mayor and Aldermen of the City, did, notwithstanding the times, receive the King with dutiful respect, and the Clergy did the like. During his short stay there, the Gentry and others of inferior rank flocked thither in great numbers to welcome his Majesty, and out of zeal to pray for his enlargement and happiness; with which the King was much satisfied and was pleased to give his hand to many of them to kiss. Thence his Majesty road to Alton, and so to Alresford, while the Inhabitants round about made haste to see his Majesty pass by, and to pour forth their prayers for his preservation. From thence he went to Farnham, 'twixt which two Towns Major Harrison met him with a party of Horse to convey him to Windsor. See more before in Thomas Harrison among these creations.   

Bach of Phys.  
May 19 Thomas Trapham Chirurgeon to the General of the Parl. Army was then actually created Bach. of Physic, while the said General, Cromwell and the aforesaid Officers were seated in their Gowns in the Doctor's seats.— This person who was Son of John Trapham of Maidstone in Kent, and had been licenced by the University to practise Chirurgery, an. 1633, did practise it in these parts for some time before the grand rebellion broke forth. Afterwards he turned tail for profit sake, practised in the Parliament Army, and became a bitter enemy to his Majesty K. Ch. the first; to whose body after his decollation in the latter end of Jan. 1648 he put his hand to open and embalm, and when that was done, he sewed his head to his body; and that being done also, he said to the company then present, that he had sewed on the head of a Goose. Afterwards he was Chirurgeon to Oliver Cromwell at the fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2, was a great man among his party and got what he pleased. After his Majesty's return, he retired to the fanatical Town of Abendon in Berks, practised there among the Brethren, and dying an absolute Bigot for the cause, in the latter end of Dec. 1683 was buried on the 29 of the same month in the presence of a great number of Dissenters in the Church yard of S. Helen there, close under one of the windows of that Church. One of both his names, and his Son, as it seems, I shall elsewhere mention.  
Nou. 14. James Ward was actually created by the favour of Fairfax the General— This person who was lately made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors I have mentioned among the Incorporations, an. 1648.  
Jan. 14. Edm. Scrope eldest Son of Col. Adrian Scrope mentioned among the Creations of Bachelaurs of Arts this year, was created by order of the Delegates of this University— This ingenious and most comely Gentleman, who had, by the endeavours of his Father, been made Fellow of Alls. Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors, was afterwards Keeper of the Privy Seal in the Kingdom of Scotland. He died much lamented by those that knew him in 1658, or thereabouts, and was buried with solemnity by two or more Officers of Arms at Ch. Ch. alias the Greyfriars within Newgate in London.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 19 Matthew Barten sometimes Mast. of Arts of New Inn, now a sturdy, zealous and daily Preacher up of the blessed cause in the Parliament Army, was actually created Bach. of Div, while the General, Lieut. General, and Officers were sitting in their respective stalls.  
It was the pleasure then of Fairfax and Cromwell that George Sikes, Jam. Baron, Joh. Dale and Josh. Cross, all zealous and doughty Brethren for the said cause, might be created Bachelaurs of Diu. when they pleased.  
June 8. George Sikes was created in a Convocation then held.— This person, who was Son of George Sikes of Lutterworth in Leycestershire, was originally of S. john's Coll, (a Servitor I think) and as a member of it he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards siding with the faction, he became a Presbyterian, a Covenantier, an Independent, was made Fellow of Magd. Coll, by the Com. and Visitors, (where he had his share of the old gold or spur-royals belonging to that house, went away with, and never restored, them again as others did and took the Engagement, became a great admirer and follower of Sir Hen. Vane junior, and therefore esteemed by the generality an Anabaptist, Fifth-monarchy man, and a Hodg-podge of religions. He hath written The life and death of Sir Hen. Vane Knight: or, a short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage. Printed 1662. in qu. 'Tis a most canting, and enthusiastical piece, and the effects rather of a crazed than settled brain: And instead of giving the Reader an account of the birth, extract, breeding, actions, etc. of that Knight, usually called Sir Humorous Vanity, he puts the Reader off with his (such as 'tis) Divinity. What else he hath written I know not, nor any thing besides of the person, only that he was a great encourager of Henry Stubbe in his proceedings.  
James Baron lately made Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. by the Com. and Visitors, was created the same day— He was Son of George Baron of Plymouth in Devons, had been puritanically educated in Exeter Coll, and closing with the dominant party in the time of the rebellion, got besides his Readers place, to be Minister of one of the Hendreths in Berks, and by the name of Mr. James Baron of Hendreth, he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom the Saints called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, that is Orthodox and Loyal Clergy. After his Majesty's restauration he retired to London and lived a Nonconformist mostly at, or near, Bunhill. He hath published under the name of Jacobus Baronius a little thing printed on one side of a sheet, entit. Quaestiones Theologicae in usum Coll. Magd Oxon. Oxon. 1657: And with Thankful Owen did gather and publish the works of Thom. Goodwin in two vol. in fol. and set before them a canting preface. He died in the beginning of the year 1683 and was buried, as I have been informed, near the graves of the Goodwin and Owen in the fanatical burial place near Bunhill-fields, and the New Artillery-yard.  
John Dale of Magd. Coll, was created the same day, June 8.  
As for Joshua Cross he was not created Bach. of Diu. but Doct. of the Civil Law, as I shall anon tell you.  
Febr. 16. Sim. Ford of Ch. Ch. was created by dispensation of the Delegates— On the 12. of Jan. going before, the said Delegates decreed that the said Mr. Ford. sometimes of Magd. Hall, who had been expelled the University with great injury, (as they said) should be restored with all Academical honour imaginable, and that his Grace be proposed for Bach. of Divinity, etc. He proceeded Doct. of Diu. in 1665.  
Mar. 14. Will. Durham sometimes of New Inn, now Chaplain to Will. Lenthall Master of the Rolls, was created in Convocation by dispensation of the Delegates.   

Doct. of Law.  
May 19 Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Camerone in Scotland, Generalissimo of all the Parliament Forces in England, and Constable of the Tower of London, was created Doctor of the Civil Law, being then in Oxford and entertained by the members thereof as Cromwell and divers prime Officers were.— The ceremony of the Creation was thus: After he had been adorned with a scarlet gown in the Apoditerium or Vestry belonging to the Convocation, but without hood or cap, the new Beadles, who had not yet got their silver staves from those that were lately ejected, conducted him with Cromwell towards the upper end of the Convocation House, the members thereof then standing up bare; whereupon Hierom Zanchy one of the Proctors rising from his seat, which pro tempore was supplied by a Master, and going to, and standing on, his left side took him by the right hand and presented him in a most humble posture to the Vicechanc. and Proctors standing, with a short flattering Lat. speech, such as 'twas: Which being done and he who then held the Chancellors Chair (Dr. Chr. Rogers) admitting him with another flattering speech, by his authority, or rather observance, Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him up to the next place on the right hand of the Chancellors Chair.  
This person who made a great noise in his time, not only in England, but throughout a great part of the world, was Son and Heir of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax a busy and forward man in Yorkshire in raising men and maintaining the Parliament cause against his Majesty, by the Lady Mary his Wife Daughter of Edmund Lord Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave; which Ferdinando dying 13. March 1647, aged 64 years, was buried in the Church of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire. As for his Son Thomas, whom we are farther to mention, he was born at Denton in the Parish of Otlay in the same County, in January, 1611 (9 Jac. 1.) and was baptised at Denton on the 25 of the said month. After he had spent some time in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, (to which afterwards, in his latter days, he was a benefactor) he went beyond the Seas, and spent the rest of his youth in martial discipline under the command of Horatio Lord Vere; among whose forces he trailed a Pike in the Low Countries, was at the considerable action of the taking of Buss in Flanders, but had no command while he was there. Afterwards he retired to his Father's house, and took to Wife Anne the Daughter and Coheir of the said Lord Vere, by whom he had issue Mary, born 3. July 1636 and Elizabeth. The first of which was married to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, 19 Nou. 1657. In the beginning of the rebellion in 1642, when his Majesty was forced to raise a Guard at York for the defence of his Person, this Sir Thomas Fairfax who was entrusted by his Country to prefer a petition to his Majesty, the scope whereof was to beseech him to hearken to his Parliament and not raise Forces, he did accordingly deliver it, but his Majesty refusing it, as a Parliamentarian 
(a) Josh. Sprig in his England's recovery; being the Hist. of the mo●ions, actions, etc. of Sir T●●. Fairfax Kt. etc. Lond. 1647. fol. pag. 8.  Writer tells us, he pressed it with that instance and intention, following the King so close therewith in the Field called Heyworth-moor in the presence of near a hundred thousand People of the County (the like appearance was ever hardly seen in Yorkshire) that he at last did tender the same upon the pommel of his saddle. But finding no propitiatory, as the said author tells us, and seeing a War could not be avoided, he early paid the vows of his martial education; and as soon as the unhappy troubles broke forth, he took a Commission under his Father Ferdinando before mentioned, whose timely appearance and performances for the Rebels in the North, deserves a story of itself. He had not served the Parliament in lower commands long, but that the great Masters at Westminster did vote him their General, 31. Dec. 1644, at which time they cashiered Robert Earl of Essex of that high command, with whom they had sworn 12. July 1642, to live and die. This making of a new General was done when the Parliament ordered their Army to be new modelled: So that victory in a manner being prepared to his hand, he vigorously proceeded, and what he did in a short time for the blessed cause, which is too much here to be set down, let the author 
(*) Idem.  of England's recovery, etc. tell you; who, though in the latter end of that book, p. 321. he doth highly characterize him, especially for his religion but little for policy, yet a severe Presbyterian 
(b) Clem. Walker in his Hist. of Independency, etc. part. 1. §. 3.  will tell you that he was a Gentleman of an irrational and brutish valour, fitter to follow another man's counsel than his own, and obnoxious to Cromwell and the Independent faction, (upon whose bottom he stood for his preferment) it having been no dishonour to him to become the property of another man's faction, etc. adding 
(c) Ibid. §. 34.  these matters, but what will not a fool in authority do when he is possessed by knaves? Miserable man! His foolery did so long wait upon Cromwell's and Iretons knavery, that it was not safe for him then to see his folly and throw by his cap with a bell and his babble. Elsewhere 
(d) Ib. part. 2. §. 22.  he speaks of his ill breeding and churlishness, of 
(e) Ib. §. 23.  his being a cipher, or Prepositor in the Free-school called the Army, while Cromwell was Head-master, and Ireton Usher, etc. that 
(f) Ib. §. 146. 162. etc.  he was a stalking horse, a Brute, etc. and indeed his Majesty K. Ch. 1. doth once, at least, in his works style him the brutish General, as being a person not fit to hearken to reason. When the War was terminated, and no enemy either in Field or Garrison left, he went to London in Nou. 1646 where he was in a most high manner joyed and caressed by the Citizens of London and Parliament for the great service he had done for the Commonwealth, and nothing was thought too good or great for him. After his Majesty was taken away from Holdenby and conveyed to Childerley, Newmarket, etc. he expressed himself civil to him, as he did afterwards at Hampton-court, but then having no pious frauds in him, or dissimulation for a good end, he did not, or could not endeavour, as being no politician, to countermand the diabolical designs of Cromwell and the hellish crew. He did not endeavour to repel or hinder the Remonstrance of the Army, the purging of the House of Commons of its chief members, the Agreement of the People, etc. but was lulled on in a kind of stupidity. 'Tis true that before the King was beheaded (in order to whose trial he was nominated the chief Judge but did not sit) he did use his power and interest to have the execution deferred for some days, forbearing his coming among the Officers, and did fully resolve with his own Regiment to prevent the execution, or have it deferred till he could make a party in the Army to second his design: But behold his policy! all the morning of that day on which the King was beheaded, and the time when he was beheaded, he was with certain Officers of the Army at Prayer or in discourse, or both, in Maj. Tho. Harrisons apartment in Whitehall, (being a room at the hither end of that Gallery looking towards the Privy-garden) and knew nothing of it; as it doth appear by this passage. When his Majesty was beheaded on a Scaffold joining to the Banqueting-house at Whitehall, and his Corpse thereupon immediately coffined and covered with a black velvet Pall, Bishop Juxon who attended him on the Scaffold, and Thomas Herbert the only Groom of his Bedchamber that was then left, did go with the said Corpse to the Back-stairs to have it embalmed, and Mr. Herbert, after the body had been deposited, meeting with Fairfax the General, Fairfax asked him how the King did? whereupon Herbert looking very strangely upon him, he told him that the King was beheaded, at which he seemed much surprised. Afterwards Herbert walking farther in the Gallery with the said Bishop, they were met by another great Commander named Ol. Cromwell, who knew what had lately passed, for he told them unasked, that they should have orders for the King's burial speedily, as I have been informed by the Letters of the said Thomas Herbert. In little more than a fortnight after, viz. Feb. 14. an. 1648. General Fairfax was elected one of the Council of State, consisting of 30 persons, and soon after, when K. Ch. 2. shipped himself near the Hague in Holland to go to Scotland there to be invested in his right, he laid down his Commission as General, being influenced thereunto by certain Presbyterian Ministers, because he would not engage against him; whereupon Cromwell was made General in his place, and how he afterwards acted against that King, especially when he went into England to obtain his right, all Histories will tell you. Afterwards the Lord Fairfax retired to his Seat in Yorkshire, lived there mostly during the Reign of Oliver, was ready to rise with the people of his County, to assist Sir George Booth in Cheshire, if any ways successful, and soon after did not only appear in the head of a great party, when the forces belonging to Col. Jo. Lambert began to desert him, when they were about to fight Gen. Monk, at what time he was coming into Engl. from Scot to restore the Rump, but declared with his party in Decemb. 1659. against illegal taxes and freequarter, as also for the freedom of a Parliament; as it was in the year 1648. On the 2. Jan. 1659., the Rump Parliament then sitting, he was by them appointed one of the Council of State, and in Apr. following being elected the first Knight for the County of York to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 25 of the said month, he was by the members thereof appointed one of those 12 Commons, to go with those persons appointed by the House of Lords to attend on his Majesty in Holland, for the greater solemnity and lustre of his Court there. On the 16 of May following they were there with his Majesty at the Hague, where Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eye● of all men, as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliament Army. And when the first ceremony was past, he desired, as 'tis said, to see the King in private and to ask him pardon for the past offences, which accordingly he did with all submission. After the said Parliament was dissolved, he retired to his seat, lived retiredly, and dying there, was buried in an Isle joining on the south side to the Chancel of Bilborough or Bilburgh near York. Over his grave was soon after put this Epitaph. Here lie the bodies of the right honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax of Denton, Baron of Camerone, who died Novemb. the 12, an. 1671 in the sixtieth year of his age. And of Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere Baron of Tilbury. He had Issue Mary Duchess of Buckingham and Elizabeth. Under this Lord Fairfax his name were published while he bore arms for the Parliament, especially when General, Many Letters, (of which most were to the Speaker of the House of Commons) some Relations concerning skirmishes, battles, taking of Castles, Towns, etc. As also Remonstrances, Declarations, Speeches, Messages, etc. He was a great lover of learning, religious in the way he professed, and when Oxford Garrison was surrendered for the use of the Parliament, he took great care for the preservation of the public Library, which in several respects did suffer while the Garrison was possessed by the Royal Party: And what he did for it at the time of his death I have elsewhere told you.  
May 19 Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then also created Dr. of the Civ. Law— He was conducted with Fairfax by the Beadles towards the upper end of the Convocation, the members thereof then standing bare, and was presented by Zanchy with a flattering speech in a most humble posture; which being done he that then held the Chancellors Chair, who all the time stood up bare, admitted him with another flattering speech, by his authority or rather observance. Which being done Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him to his place next on the left hand to the Chancellors Chair.  
This person also who had a greater name in his time than Fairfax had, not only in England but throughout the whole World, (which he obtained more by policy, dissimulation under the cloak of religion, whether in prayer, preaching, discourse and action, rather than valour) must according to method have something said of him, which shall with as much brevity as may be done, because all Histories ring of his fame as well as infamy. Born therefore he was in the Parish of S. John in the ancient Borough of Huntingdon on the 
(a) Collection of Nativities by Sir Rich. Napiers MS. in the hands of El. Ashmole Esq.  24 of Apr. 1599 (41. of Elizab.) and was Christened 
(b) Flagellum: or the life, death, etc. of Ol. Cromwell etc. Lond. 1665. third Edit. in oct. p. 4.  in that Church on the 29 of the same month, where Sir Oliver Cromwell his Uncle gave him his name. His Father, who lived in the same Town, was Rob. Cromwell, second Son of Sir Hen. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingdonshire Kt. (who died in 1603) His Mother was Elizabeth sister 
(c) Collect. Joh. Vincent, MS. nuper in bib. R●d. Sheld. nunc in Coll●●trm.  to Sir Thomas, Son 
(d) Ibid.  of Sir Richard Steward Kts; whence 'twas that when Oliver gaped after the Protectorship, it was given out by those of his party, that he was descended of the Royal Blood, and had right to the Crown of England. His said Mother Elizabeth lived to See her Son Lord Protector, and dying in Whitehall 18. Nou. 1654., was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chapel at Westm. where her body continuing till after his Majesty's restoration, was removed from that place, 12. of Sept. 1661., and buried with other Cromwellian bodies in a pit dug in S. Margaret's Churchyard adjoining, where it now resteth. Oliver her Son was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Huntingdon under one Dr. Tho. Beard a Minister in that Town, and in Academical in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge, but his Father dying while he was there, he was taken home and sent to Lincoln's Inn to study the Common Law, but making nothing of it, he was sent for home by his Mother, became a Debauchee and a boisterous and rude Fellow. At length being reform, and pretending to Saintship, he married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir James Bouchier of Essex, became heir to his Uncle, his Mother's Brother, spent the estate which was considerable, took a Farm at S. Ives, thrived not and therefore had intentions to go to New England, a receptacle for Puritans and Nonconformists; but that project taking not, he removed to the Isle of Ely, where he more frequently and publicly owned himself a Teacher. In 1640 he, by the endeavours of one Rich. Times, (afterwards Alderman of Cambridge) who had several times heard him preach at Ely, was first made free of the Corporation of Cambridge, than a Burgess thereof to sit in that unhappy Parliament, which began at Westm. 3. Nou. 1640. Soon after, when the rebellion began, towards which he gave a considerable helping hand, he had a Commission given to him to be a Captain of Horse, which he soon raised in his native Country, and doing great service in those parts, he soon after was made a Colonel, and at length Lieutenant General to Edward Earl of Manchester, who had the separate command in a distinct supremacy of the associated Counties. Afterwards doing great service at Marston-moor near York, after Sir Tho. Fa●rfax and the Scots had been totally routed there, Cromwell and his party of Curassiers being then in the left wing, his atchieument was industriously cried up at Westminster and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto. Within 4 months after, we find him in the second battle at Newbury in Be●ks, where the fates favoured him again, though not with a complete victory, yet on that side where he fought, with a part of one; and so much as endangered the Person of the King, if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed, and bore off the pursuit. Soon after the Army being new modelled, Essex the General was laid aside as unfortunate, and Sir Thomas Fairfax being put into his place, Cromwell was made Lieutenant General of the same Army; from which time he continued, as Fairfax did, victorious, and upon all occasions did lull, and bewitch, with the syrene charms of his zealous insinuations, the said Fairfax to carry on his pernicious designs. Afterwards we find him the chief person, under the cloak of great dissimulation, of hurrying the King from place to place, of defaming him among the people, and bringing him to judgement: Which done he sat with the rest of the Judges on him, stood up when sentence was passed, and set his hand and seal to the warrant for his execution. Soon after, he being made one of the Council of State, he was ordained Commander in chief or Lord Governor of Ireland, in June 1649, conquered there, returned and was made General of the Parliament Army upon Fairfax's laying down his Commission. Afterwards he went into Scotland, did some seats there against K. Ch. 2, but that King giving him the go-by, he followed him into England, encountered him at Worcester conquered his party and put him to flight▪ Thence he went to London, and was highly caressed by the Citizens and Parliament, and soon after dissolving the Parliament, he called another, but that being not suitable to his designs, he dissolved that, and took upon him the Protectorship; which he enjoyed during his life time. Under his name were published Many Letters written to the Speaker of the House of Commons, to the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Committees, etc. containing relations of skirmishes, victories, taking of Castles, Towns, etc. as also some Speeches and Declarations, etc. By his Wife Elizabeth before mentioned, he had Sons and Daughters as (1) Rich. Cromwell, who being young when the War began did not bear arms, but several years after they were concluded, he was made Colonel and Privy-counselor in order to have the Protectorship conferred on him. (2) Henry Cromwell, afterwards Commander of the General's Lifeguard, and at length on the 25 of Nou. 1657, was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon the recalling of Charles Fleetwood. He married the Dau. of Sir Francis Russell of Cambridgshire Kt and Bt, first a royalist afterwards a Parliament Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manch●ster and Chamberlain of Chester. (3) Bridget the Wife of Hen. Ireton, of whom I have made mention among the Writers an. 1651. p. 81. After his death she was married to Charles Fleetwood before mentioned, a Gent. of Bucks. and a Recruiter of the Long Parliament, afterwards a Colonel in their service, a strong Anabaptist, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of Olivers Lords and Lieutenant General of the Army, and Major General of several Counties in the time of Cromwell's Protectorship. (4) Elizabeth the Wife of John Cleypole a Gent. of N●rthamptonshire, made by Oliver Master of the Horse, one of his House of Lords, and a Knight and Baronet 16. of July 1657, he being then Clerk of the Hamper. The said Elizabeth died 7. Aug. 1658, and was buried in Henry the Sevenths' Chap. at Westm. in a Vault made on purpose. (5) Mary, the second Wife of Thom. Bellasyse Viscount Fauconberg or Fauconbridge, married to him with a great deal of state at Hampton-Court on the 18 of Nou. 1657; much about which time he was made one of Olivers Lords. Several years after his Majesty's restauration he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners. (6) Frances the youngest Daughter was married to Mr. Rob. Rich the only Son of Robert Lord Rich, Son of Robert Earl of Warwick, on the 11 of Nou. 1657, and about the same time was made one of Olivers Lords or of the Other House. This Mr. R. Rich died 16. of Feb. 1657, his Father on the 29. of May 1659., and his Grandfather on the 18 of Apr. 1658. Oliver Cromwell had also four Sisters; one of which was married to John Desborow a Yeoman and a great lubberly Clown, who by oliver's interest became a Colonel, and if not of the Long, yet of the Little Parliament, which he helped to break. About that time he became one of the Generals at Sea, helped to set up his Brother in Law Protector, for which he was made one of his Council, Major General of divers Counties in the West, one of the Lords of the Cinque-ports, and of the other House, etc. Another Sister was married to Roger Whetstone an Officer in the Parliament Army, but he dying before Oliver came to his greatness, she was remarried to Joh. Jones a pretended Gent. of Wales, a Recruiter of the Long Parliament and a Colonel, afterwards one of the King's Judges, Governor of the Isle of Anglesie, one of the Commissioners of Parliament for the government of Ireland (in which office he acted tyrannically) and one of the other House, that is H. of Lords belonging to Cromwell, etc. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing-cross for having had a hand in the murder of his Prince, on the 17. Oct. 1660. A third Sister was married to Valentine Walton of Stoughton in Huntingdonshire, afterwards a Colonel in the Parliament Army, and one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After her death he married the Daughter of one Pimm of Brill in Bucks (Widow of Austen of the same place) but upon the foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled from Justice to save his neck, settled either in Flanders or the Low Countries, and lived unknown for some time in the condition of a Gardener with a certain Gentleman. At length being sick, and foreseeing he should die, discovered himself to have been a man of fashion, and desired that after his death his near relations in England might be acquainted with it. His said second Wife retired after his Majesty's restoration to Oxon, and living in an obscure condition in Catstreet, died meanly on the 14 Nou. 1662., and was buried in S. M●ries Church. A fourth Sister named Robina was married to Peter French D. D. and after his death to Dr. John Wilkins as I have told you elsewhere, whereby she hung upon, and was maintained by the revenues of, the Church to her last. Oliver Cromwell had several Uncles, whose descendants taking not part with him, only one or two; they were not preferred by him. He had also five Aunts, the eldest of which named Joan was married to Francis Barrington, whose Son Robert was countenanced by Oliver. The second named Elizabeth, was Wife of John Hamden of Hamden in Bucks, Father of John Hamden one of the 5. members of Parliament excepted against by K. Ch. 1, and a Colonel for the Parliament in the beginning of the rebellion; which John lost his life in their service in June 1643. By this match Oliver Cromwell came to be related to the Ingoldesbies' and goodwin's of Bucks. The third named Frances was the second Wife of Rich. whaley of Kirton in Nottinghamshire, Father to Edward whaley a Colonel in the Parliament Army, one of the King's Judges, Commissary General in Scotland, one of Olivers Lords and a Major General. He fled from justice upon the approach of the return of K. Ch. 2, and lived and died in a strange Land.  
But now after these large digressions, let's return to the rest of the Creations this year.  
Feb. 16. Joshua Cross lately of Linc. Coll, and sen. Proctor, now Fellow of that of Magd, and Natural Philosophy Reader of the University by the authority of the Committee and Visitors, was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon— Soon after he left his Fellowship, because he took to him a Wife, but keeping his Readers place till his Majesty's return, was then discharged of it by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for the regulation of the University. He died in his house near Magd. Coll. 9 May 1676 aged 62 years, and was buried in the North Isle joining to the Chancel of the Church of S. Peter in the East, within the City of Oxon.  
In a meeting of the Delegates of the University the same day, just before the Convocation began, wherein Cross was created, it was consulted among them, that some Academical honour should be conferred on Hierome Zanchy the Proctor, than a Colonel in Ireland for the service of the Parliament. At length it was Concluded that he should be adorned with the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the beginning of the next year, but whether it was done, o● that he was diplomated, it appears not.   

Doct. of Phys.  
June 13. Thomas Sclater M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was created by virtue of the Commendatory Letters of the Chancellor of the University, which say, that he was put upon this recommendation by Sir Thom. Widdrington, etc. This Thomas Sclater was Burgess for the University of Cambridge to serve in Richard's Parliament, an. 1658.  
Feb. 16. John Wilkinson sometimes of Magd. Hall, now one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon, was created by virtue of a dispensation from the Delegates— He was nephew to Dr. John Wilkinson Precedent of Magd. Coll, and Brother to Dr. Henry Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall, lived afterwards at Doncaster in Yorkshire, where he practised among the Godly party, and dying in 1655, was buried at Arksey near to that place. I have made mention of two of both his names that were Writers, in the Fasti of the first vol. pag. 816. 817, but this John the Physician was no Writer.  
Mar. 7. Will. Petty about this time Fellow of Brasn. Coll, was created by virtue of a dispensation from the Delegates of the University, who had received sufficient testimony of his rare qualities and gifts from L. Col. Kelsey the Deputy Governor of Oxford Garrison.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 24. Daniel Greenwood Bach. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Brasn. Coll, lately made Principal of the said Coll. by the Committee and Visitors, was then actually created Doct. of Diu.— He was a severe and good Governor, as well in his Vicechancellourship as Principality, continued in his Coll. till the King's return, and then being discharged by the King's Commissioners to make room for Dr. Thom. Yate, he and his wife retired to Studley near Oxford and continued there in a private condition till her death. Afterwards he lived in the House of his Nephew Mr. Dan. Greenwood Rector of Steeple-Aston near Dedington in Oxfordshire, where dying 29. January 1673 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there; and soon after had a Mon. put over his grave.  

July 24. Franc. Cheynell Presid. of S. Joh. Coll.  
July 24. Hen. Wilkinson Senior, Can. of Changed Ch.   
Dec. 18. John Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll.  
Henry Langley Master of Pembr. Coll, was created the same day.— This person, who was originally Fellow of the same Coll, was made Master thereof by order of Parliament, 26. Aug. 1647, and established therein by the Visitors on the 8. of Octob. following, he being then one of the six Ministers appointed by Parliament, to preach at S. Mary's and elsewhere in Oxon, to draw off the Scholars from their Orthodox Principles. In the beginning of the year following he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. G. Morley ejected by the Visitors; but being forced to leave his two places after his Majesty's restauration, he retired to Tubney near Besills-Lee and Abendon in Berks, where he instructed the sons of dissenting brethren in Academical Learning, as 'twas usually reported, and oftentimes preached in Conventicles at Abendon, of which place his father Thomas Langley had been a Shoemaker. He died about the 10 of Sept. 1679, and was buried in S. Helen's Church in Abendon. One of both his names, Minister of Treswell in Nottinghamshire hath written and published The Chariot and Horsemen of Israel: A discourse of Prayer, etc. Lond. 1616. oct. and other things, but whether he was ever of Oxon, I cannot tell.  
About the same time when the two last persons were created, it was granted to Henry Cornish Bach. of Diu. and Canon of Ch. Ch, that he, if he please, might be actually created Doct. of Diu. but he refused it and was not. This person who was Son of Will. Cornish of Ditthet in Somersetshire, was originally a poor Scholar of New Inn and an Assistant to the Butler there to put on, (or enter battles) in the buttery book; and as he had been pruitanically educated at home, so more under Dr. Roger's Principal of the same Inn. Afterwards he took the degr. in Arts and became a puling Preacher, left Oxon when it was garrisoned for his Majesty, preached among the Godly party, and was appointed by the Parliament with Langley before mentioned, Corbet, Cheynell, etc. to preach the Scholars into obedience to the then Powers: For which his service he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Rob. Sanderson ejected. After his Majesty's restauration he was removed, and preached in these parts as a Nonconformist till the Five-mile-Act was made, and then retiring to Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, where he was patronised by Sir Philip Harcour● a favourer of such like persons, (as having been educated in their Principles by one of the Parl. Generals named Sir Will. Waller, who had married his mother) he lived and carried on the trade there for many years, and took all occasions to preach elsewhere when the Indulgences for tender Consciences were granted, and did sometimes (after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown) preach in an antiquated Dancing-School just without the north Gate of Oxon, to which place many people did usually resort. Afterwards this Meeting was translated to a house in S. Ebbs Parish, where it now (1691) continueth, and is chiefly carried on by a certain person who has received some education in Cambridge, etc. In the year 1690 Mr. Cornish left Stanton Harcourt, and translated himself to a market Town in Oxfordshire called Bister, where he now holds forth. So that he who had been a licenced Preacher by the Blessed Parliament, as it was by the Brethren so called, and had been Canon of Ch. Ch, and much respected by those of his persuasion while he lived in Oxon, for a godly man, doth now in his old age, being about 80 years old, preach in a Barn in the said Town of Bister for profit sake to silly women and other obstinate people, such is the poor spirit of the person.  
Feb. 16. Edward Hinton was then actually created Doctor of the said faculty by the favour of the Delegates of the University.— This person, who was son of a father of both his names of Marlborough in Wilts, Minister of God's word, was elected Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. 1629, (having been before Postmaster of that house) took his Master's degree, became Vicar of Maldon in Surrey by the presentation of his Coll, an. 1639, ran with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion, and was a Preacher up of Sedition and Discontent among them. After the War was ceased, he became Rector of Islip in the County of Oxon, in the place, as I suppose, of a Loyalist ejected, which by conformity after his Majesty's restauration, and the death of the former Incumbent, he kept to the day of his death. He hath published, The vanity of Self-boasters, Sermon at the funeral of Joh. Hamnet Gent. late of Maldon in Surrey, on Psal. 52.1. Oxon. 1651. qu. He died 22 July 1678, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Islip: Whereupon Rob. South D. D. and Preb. of Westminster, succeeded him in that Rectory.  
In the month of January this year, the Delegates of the University gave leave to four persons thereof that they might supplicate the ven. Congr. or Convoc. for the degr. of Doctor of Diu. viz. (1) Tho. Goodwin the new Precedent of Magd. Coll. but he being not yet settled, did not. See more among the created Doctors of Diu. 1653. (2) George Martial the new Warden of New Coll, who refused it. (3) Edw. Pococke Canon of Ch. Ch, but he being soon after turned out for denying the Engagement, he did not then take that degree. (4) Ralph Button M. or A, Orator of the Uniu. and Canon of Ch. Ch, who being newly married, or upon the point of Marriage, refused to be at the charge, and so continued in the degree of Master all his life time.— This person who was the son of Robert Button of Bishopston in Wiltshire, was originally of Exeter Coll. where, being put under the tuition of a puritannical Tutor, he made so great a progress in philosophical and other Literature, that when he was Bachelaur of Arts he was recommended by Dr. Prideaux his Rector to Sir Nath. Brent Warden of Merton Coll, to stand for a Fellowship there: Whereupon an Election being appointed in 1633, very many stood, and twelve were chosen Probationer Fellows, whereof the said Ralph Button being one, Prideaux said after his joking way, that all the Election besides him was not worth a Button. Afterwards he became a noted Tutor in the House, and several of his Pupils became some of them famous and some infamous. When the Rebellion began, he left Oxon, being pruitanically affected, and especially because he would not bear Arms for his Majesty while Oxford was a Garrison, or be any way contributory thereunto. When the War was ceased he returned, took Pupils again, became one of the Proctors (though out of course) in 1648, as I have before told you; and while he bore that office he was, upon the refusal of Dr. E. Corbet, made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Orator of the University, in the place of the learned and religious Dr. H. Hammond. After his Majesty's restauration he was discharged of his Canonry and Oratorship, and when he was in removing his goods from his lodgings in the Cloister at Ch. Ch, to make room for Mr. Joh. Fell, he would usually say, when he heard the two little bells ring to canonical Prayers, There now go the Mass-bells, and let those that are affected that way go to the Church, for be sure I shall not, or words to that effect. Afterwards retiring with his family to London, he settled at Islington near to that City, where he preached in Conventicles and taught youths to the time of his death; which happening in the latter end of Octob. 1680, was buried in the Church there, with his son, who died at or near the same time of a Consumption.    



An. Dom. 1650.  
An. 2 Car. 2.    
Chanc.— The place of Chancellor being void by the death of Philip E. of Pembroke, the Visitors assumed the power thereof into their hands till the first of January this year: On which day a Convocation being assembled, the then members of the University did unanimously choose (leave being first granted by the Committee to make choice of a fit person) Oliver Cromwell Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces now on foot in England. Which office, (after he had been acquainted what the Convocation had done by certain Doctors and Masters sent to him, then at Edinburgh in Scotland) he kindly accepted, and forthwith promised to be a friend to the University, by his canting Letter sent thereunto dated at that place on the 4 of Feb. following, part of which runs thus,— But if these prevail not, (meaning some Exceptions for the refusal of the Office) and that I must continue this honour until I can personally serve you, you shall not want my prayers, that that seed and stock of Piety and Learning (so marvellously springing up among you) may be useful to that great and glorious Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ; of the approach of which so plentiful an effusion of the spirit upon those hopeful plants is one of the best presages. And in all other things I shall by the divine assistance improve my poor abilities and interests in manifesting myself to the University and yourselves, etc. Which Letter being read in Convocation, the members thereof made the House resound with their cheerful Acclamations.  
Vicechanc. Daniel Greenwod D. D. Principal of Brasn. Coll. 12. Oct, having been on the 12 of Sept. going before nominated and designed to that Office by the Committee for the reformation of the University, the Chancellourship being then void.  

Proct.  
Thankful Owen of Linc. Coll. Apr. 24.  
Philip Stephens of New Coll. Apr. 24.   
These Proctors were elected contrary to the Carolyne Cycle, which appointed Trin. and Wadh. Colleges to elect this year. So that the Cycle being interrupted (for those Colleges did not choose till the year following) it continued so till 1662., as I shall tell you when I come to that year.  

Bach. of Arts.  

May 23. Hamlet Puleston of Jes. Coll.  
Nou. 17. Will. Masters of Mert. Coll.   
Dec. 16. Rob. Lovel of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards an excellent Botanist, wrote Enchiridion Botanicum, etc. and other things, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Writers, being, as I conceive, now living.  

Feb. 7. Thom. Ashton of Brasn. Coll.  
Feb. 7. Joh. Smith of Brasn. Coll.   
Of the first of these two, you may see more among the Master's 1653.  

18. Will. Cole of Mert. Coll.  
Mar. 11. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll.   
The last of these two was afterwards Bishop of Bristol.  
18. Christopher Wren of Wadh. Coll.— He was afterwards Fellow of Alls. Coll. and an eminent Mathematician.  
Adm. 96.  
This year Thom. Clifford of Exeter Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Arts; but whether he was admitted it appears not— This person who was son of Hugh Clifford of Vgbrook in the Parish of Chudleigh in Devonsh. Col. of a Regiment of Foot in the first Expedition against the Scots, by Mary his wife, dau. of George Chudleigh of Ashton in the said County Baronet, was born there (at Vgbrook) on the first of Aug. 1630, became Commoner of Ex. Coll. 25 May 1647, and afterwards went to one of the Inns of Court, or to travel, or both, being then accounted by his Contemporaries a young man of a very unsettled head, or of a roving shattered brain. In the beginning of Apr. 1660 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Totness in his own Country, to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. on the 25 of the same month; and after his Majesty's restauration, he was chose Burgess again for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 8 May 1661.: Wherein showing himself a frequent and forward Speaker, especially in behalf of the King's Prerogative, he was taken notice of by the great men at Court, and thereupon taken into favour, and had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him. Afterwards he attended James D. of York at sea, an. 1665, in the battle fought against the Dutch in the beginning of June, continued at sea also the same year when the Fleet was commanded by Edward E. of Sandwich, and was in person at the Expedition at Bergen in Norway: Which attempt upon the Dutch in that Port, was made on the 2 of Aug. the same year. He was also in that year sent Envoy to the two northern Kings of Sweden and Denmark, with full power to conclude new Treaties and Alliances with them. In 1666 he attended his Highness Pr. Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle at sea against the Dutch, and was in that fight which continued on the 1.2.3. and 4. days of June, being with the same Generals also upon the 25 of July following in another great fight with the Dutch. On the 8 Nou. following his Maj. gave him the White staff of controller of his Household, in the place of Sir Hugh Pollard Kt. and Bt, who died the day before, and on the 5 of Decemb. following that, he was sworn one of his Maj. Privy Council, for his singular zeal, wherein he had, on all occasions, merited in his Maj. service, and more eminently in the honourable dangers in the then late War against the Dutch and French, where he had been all along a constant Actor, and, as 'twas observed, had made it his choice to take his share in the warmest part of those services. On the 12 of June 1668 died Charles Visc. Fitzharding Treasurer of his Majesty's Household, whereupon Sir Tho. Clifford changed his White staff, and was by his Maj. advanced to that place the day following; and Francis Lord Newport succeeded Clifford as controller: Much about which time his Maj. by Patent made him one of the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury. In 1671 his Maj. gave him a lease of 60 years of the Pastures of Creslow in Bucks, and in the same year he finished a new Chapel at Vgbrook, which was consecrated, and dedicated to S. Cyprian, by Anthony Bishop of Exeter. Upon the death of Sir Joh. Trevor, and in the absence of Henry Earl of Arlington, he executed the office of Secretary of State in the year 1672, until the return of the said Earl from his Embassy into Holland, and Mr. Hen. Coventry from his Embassy into Sweden. On the 22 Apr. 1672 his Maj. by Patent created him Baron Clifford of Chudleigh in Devonsh, and in June following, he gave him and his heirs males the manors of Cannington and Rodway Fitzpayne in Somersetshire. On the 28 of Nou. the same year, his Maj. valuing his many eminent services, and his great abilities in experience in the affairs of his Treasury, he was pleased to advance him to the place of L. High Treasurer of England, which had remained void since the death of Tho. late Earl of Southampton: At which time his Maj. conferred the place of Treasurer of the Household on the L. Newport beforemention'd, and the place of controller on Will. Lord Maynard. On the 29 Mar. 1673 an Act of Parl. passed for the entailing of Vgbrook, and the Rectory of Chudleigh on his Lordship and the heirs of his body, and on the 19 of June following he resigning into his Majesty's hands his staff, as L. Treasurer, (because he, as 'twas said, refused the Test) it was thereupon given by his Maj. to Sir Tho. Osborne Kt. and Bt. In the beginning of the Winter following the L. Clifford died, and was, as I suppose, buried at Chudleigh.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted, incorporated or created this year.  

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 27. Joh. Johnson of New Coll.— He afterwards lived a Nonconformist, and hath published a Serm. at the funeral of Steph. Charnock, mentioned among the Writers under the year 1680. p. 492. and perhaps others. Quaere. One John Johnson Gent. hath written The Academy of Love, describing the folly of young men, and the fallacy of Women. Lond. 1641. qu. But whether he was of this, or of any other, University, I know not yet.  

Nou. 19 Zachary Bogan of C. C. Coll.  
30. George Swinnock of Ball. Coll.   
Jan. 14. Tho. Nest of New Coll.— This person, who was originally of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge, was lately made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors, and afterwards by his Warden and Society presented to the Rectory of Hardwick in Bucks. Thence going to London, lived for some time after his Majesty's Restauration a Nonconformist, and preached in Conventicles. Afterwards conforming, he became Minister of S. Martin's Ch. in Ironmonger-lane, and a little before the grand Conflagration was presented to S. Stephen's Church in Colemanstreet, London. He hath extant Serm. on Ephes. 6.24, printed in The Morning exercise at Cripplegate, etc. Lond. 1661. qu, published by Sam. Annesley or Anely, and perhaps other things.  

Feb. 20. Tho. Jones of Vniv. Coll.  
Feb. 20. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll.   ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was admitted this year, only Benj. Wells M. A. and Fellow of All's. Coll. was admitted to practise that faculty, 10 Dec.  

Bach. of Diu.  
..... George Kendal of Exeter Coll, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences this year, but the day or month when, it appears not.   

Doct. of Law.  
Oct. 19 John Wainwright of Alls. Coll, Chancellor of the Dioc▪ of Chester.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. or Doctor of Diu. was admitted this year.  

Incorporations.  
May .... Christoph. Tearne or turn Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.— He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London, hath published something of his faculty, and died about 1685. He was, as it seems, originally of Cambridge.  
May 11. Sam. Collins Doct. of Phys. of Cambridge.— This person, who was son of Dan. Collins sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University, was lately Fellow of that House also, but now of New Coll. in Oxon by the favour of the Visitors. Afterwards he traveled into remote parts of the World, resided at the Great Tzar's Court of Moscow for the space of nine years and wrote The History of the present state of Russia, in a letter written to a friend in London, Lond. 1671. oct, illustrated with many copper plates and published under the name of Dr. Sam. Collins of the Coll. of Physicians in London and Fellow of Kings Coll. I have made mention of another Sam. Collins in the first vol. of this work p. 538, and shall make mention of another Samuel in these Fasti.  
July 6. Thom. Jeanes or Janes Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge.— This person, who took that degree in Camb. 1649, was now, or soon after, Fellow of Magd. Coll. in this Uniu. See more in the year 1652 and 59  
18. Joh. Baber Doct. of Phys of the Uniu. of Angers in France.— This Gent. who had that degree conferred on him in the said Uniu. in Nou. 1648, was son of Joh. Baber of the City of Wells, was educated in Westm. School, elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1642, and traveled during the time of the War. Afterwards he practised his faculty in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster, became Physician in ord. to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. after his restauration, and on the 19 of March 1660 he received the honour of Knighthood from him. See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 894.  
Nou. 29. George Swinnock Bach. of Arts of Cambr.— The next day he was admitted M. of A, as before I have told you.  
Dec. 16. Peter French Bach. of Diu. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr.— He was about this time made Canon of Ch. Ch. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell, whose Sister he had married. See more among the created Doctors of Diu. 1653.  
Feb. 4. Tho. Tanner lately Bach. of Arts of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge.— He was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors.  
Mar. 18. John Parry lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin.— He was now, or soon after, made Fellow of Jesus Coll. in this Uniu.   

Creations.  
Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sydenham lately of S. Alb. Hall, now a Presbyterian Preacher at Newcastle upon Tyne, was created Master of Arts.  
12. John Waterhouse who had been a Student for 18 years in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. was then created Doctor of Phys. by virtue of the Letters of Ol. Cromwell Gen. of the Parl. Army and Chanc. of this Uniu. which partly run thus— Mr. Waterhouse went over into Ireland as Physician to the Army there, of whose diligence, fidelity and abilities I had much experience while I was there.— He constantly attended the Army, and had to my knowledge done very much good to the Officers and Soldiers by his skill and industry. Whether this Joh. Waterhouse hath published anything I know not, sure I am that Edw. Waterhouse Esq. of the same family hath; in order to which he had spent some time as a Sojourner in Oxon, for the sake of the public Library in the time of Oliver. He hath written, A discourse and defence of Arms and Armoury, showing the natures and rises of Arms and Honour in England, from the Camp, the Court, the City, etc. Lond. 1660. oct: and wholly composed (as Sir Will. Dugdale hath informed me) a book intit. The Sphere of Gentry: deduced from the principles of nature. An historical and genealogical work of Arms and Blazon, in 4 books. Lond. 1661. fol, published under the name of a busy and pragmatical person called Sylvanus Morgan an Arms-Painter living sometimes near the Old Exchange in London. 'Tis a rapsodical, indigested and whimsical work, and not in the least to be taken into the hands of any sober Scholar, unless it be to make him either laugh or wonder at the simplicity of some people. This Edw. Waterhouse Esq. one of the Royal Society and a cock-brained man (who hath published other things as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you) did afterwards, by the persuasion of the Archb. of Canterbury, take holy orders on him, and became a fantastical Preacher. He died near London an. 1671.    



An. Dom. 1651.  
An. 3 Car. 2.    
Chanc. Oliv. Cromwell Gen. of the Parliament Forces now on foot in England.  
Vicech. Dr. Greenwood again, Nou. 6, nominated and recommended to his Office by the Chancellors Letters dat. 2. Octob. this year.  

Proct.  
Matth. Vnit. of Trin. Coll. Apr. 9  
Sam. Lee of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 9   
The junior Proctor being not of sufficient standing in the degr. of Master for the taking on him the Procuratorial Office, at which time he was elected by the Society of his Coll, the Visitors dispensed with it by their order dat. 22 Mar. 1650.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Oct. 16. Rowl. Stedman lately of Bal●. now of Vniv. Coll.  
Feb. 10. Benj. Parry of Jes. Coll.   
The last of these two was afterwards of C. C. Coll. and at length Bishop of Ossory.  

Feb. 13. Nathan. Hodges' of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 13. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 13. Edw. Veel of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these three was afterwards an eminent Physician in London, and the last (whom I shall mention among the Master's 1653) a Nonconformist, and both, as I presume, now living.  
Feb. 28. Joh. Cawley lately of Magd. Coll, now (1651) Fellow of that of All's.— See among the Doctors of Diu. in 1666.  
Mar. 2. Tho. Wo●lnough of Magd. Hall.  
16. Thom. Vincent of Ch. Ch. Adm. 112.  ☞ But one Bach. of Law was admitted this year.  

Mast. of Arts.  
May 29. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn. Coll.— This person who was son of Joh. Greenwood, was born at Sowerby in the Vicarage of Halyfax in Yorksh, became Scholar of Christ's Coll. in Cambr. an. 1645, or thereabouts, where spending as much time as made him capable for the degree of Bach. of Arts, went to Oxon, and, by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood Principal of Brasn. Coll, was made Fellow of that House in 1648, in which year several of the ancient Fellows thereof were ejected for their Loyalty. In 1653 he became Rector of Steeple Aston near Dedington in Oxfordshire, by the presentation thereunto of the Princ. and Fellows of his Coll. and wrote and published (1) Sermon at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funeral of Mr. Franc. Croak of that place, 2 Aug. 1672, on Isay 57.1.2. Oxon. 1680. qu. (2) Serm. at the funeral of Alex. Croke of Studley in Oxfordsh. Esq. buried at Chilton in Bucks, 24 Oct. 1672, on 2 Cor. 6. ver. 7.8. Oxon. 1680. qu. He the said Dan. Greenwood died suddenly of an apoplexy at Woodstock, an. 1679, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Steeple-Aston before mentioned, near to the body of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood. Over his grave is a table of marble fixed to the north wall of the said Chancel containing an Epitaph for the said Doctor and another for this his Nephew: Which last runs thus.— Heic etiam deponuntur reliquiae rev. viri Danielis Greenwood hujus Ecclesiae per anno xxv. Rectoris, qui singulari erga Deum pietate▪ pauperes munificentia, & omnibus quibus innotuit, humanitate, feliciter decurso hujus vitae stadio in celest. Patriam festinans tristi sui desiderium moriens reliquit Octob. xiv, an. Dom. MDCLXXIX, aet. suae LI.  
May 29. Rich. adam's of Brasn. Coll.— He was a Minister's son in Worral in Chesh▪ and originally of Cambridge, where he was examined and admitted in Arts, 26 Mar. 1644. Afterwards he went to Oxon, when the Garrison thereof was surrendered to the Parliament, was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. 24 Mar. 1646, aged 20 years, and soon after made Fellow thereof. In 1655 he left his Fellowship, being about that time beneficed in Breadstreet in London, and in 1662. he was removed for Nonconformity; from which time to this he hath continued a Nonconformist Preacher, and now liveth, if I mistake not, in Southwark. Under his name hath been published several Sermons, as (1) The duties of Parents and Children, on Col. 3.20.21.— 'Tis in the Supplement to the Morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. (2) Of Hell, on Mat. 24.41.— 'Tis in The Morning exercise methodised, etc. preached at S. Giles in the Fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. (3) The earthly and heavenly building, on 2 Cor. 5.1. at the funeral of Hen. Hurst M. A. etc. Lond. 1690. qu. etc. He also, and Edw. Veel or Veal, did publish Steph. Charnock's book intit. A treatise of divine providence, etc. Before which they put an Epist. to the Reader giving a short (but imperfect) account of the said Charnock's life. See among the Writers in Steph. Charnock, an. 1680. p. 491.  

Jun. 18. Edw. Ba●shaw of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 18. Hen. Eedes of Linc. Coll.   
Of the last of these two is large mention made among the Writers: The other was originally of Cambridge▪ where he performed his exercise for Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he entered himself into Magd. Hall, where continuing till the ejection of loyal Fellows of Linc. Coll, was made by the Visitors in 1648, he was by them put in Fellow there, where he behaved himself very factious and turbulent. On the first of May 1660 he resigned his Fellowship, otherwise had he tarried there a little longer, he had been expelled. About which time, by money and friends, he obtained one or two rich Parsonages, and in 1662. became Canon residentiary of Chichester, and afterwards Doctor of Diu. at Cambridge. This is the person who showed himself a zealous brother for the interest and Party of James Duke of Monmouth, for whose title to the Crown speaking certain matters at Ch●chester, he was on the 10 of Febr. 1685 tried upon an information of high misdemeanour; of which being found guilty, he was thereupon committed to the King's Bench Prison.  

July 8. Dan. Capell of Magd. Coll.  
July 8. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these two is mentioned among the Writers; the other, who was son of Will. Cole of London Gent, was educated in Westm. School, and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch. In 1656 he became Principal of S. Mary's Hall, but being ejected thence by the King's Commissioners in 1660▪ he lived afterwards a Nonconformist, kept a Boarding-school, and taught Youths of the Presb. and Indep. persuasion at, or near, N●ttlebed in Oxfordshire. Under his name hath been published (1) How we may steer an even course between presumption and despair, on Luke 3.5.6. printed in the Supplement to the Morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. (2) A discourse of regeneration, faith and repentance, preached at the Merchant's Lecture in Broadureer in London. Lond. 1689. oct, and other things, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen.  
Jul. 10. Josich Banger of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was son of Bern. Banger M A. and Rector of Yerlington in Somersetshire, became Fellow of Trin. Coll. this year. He hath written An alarm to secure sinners: or, God discovered to be as well a burning as shining light. Lond. 1676. oct. This is the same, I suppose, which was several years before printed under the title of A serious Item to secure sinners. What other things he hath written I know not, or whether he was a Nonconformist after his Majesty's restauration.  

Jul. 10. Walt. Pope of Wadh. Coll.  
Jul. 10. Charles Potter of Changed▪ Ch.   
Dec. 17. Sam. Thomas of S. Joh. Coll.— He was before incorporated B. of A. as I shall tell you in the Incorporations following.  
Admitted 54.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Three were admitted, who also were admitted Doctors this year, as I shall anon tell you.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Oct. 10▪ Obadiah Grew of Balliol Coll.— See among the Doctors of Diu. following.  ☞ Not one admitted Doct. of Law, only created, as I shall tell you by and by.  

Doct. of Phys.  

June 14. Anth. Nurse of Wadh. Coll. Accumulators.  
Aug. 10. Tho. Arris of Brasn. Coll. Accumulators.  
Dec. 13. Alan Pennington of Qu. Coll. Accumulators.   
As for Arris he was licenced to proceed by virtue of an order from the Committee for the regulating of the University, which partly runs thus,— He is thirteen years standing in the University, and is well affected to the Parliament and present Government, etc. In 1661. he was chosen Burgess for S. Alban in Hertfordsh. to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 8 May the same year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Oct. 10. Obad. Grew of Ball. Coll.  
16. Henr. Savage of Ball. Coll.   
The first accumulated the degrees in Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
Aug. 20. Sam. Thomas lately Bach. of Arts of 4 years standing of Peter House in Cambridge, was then incorporated Bach. of Arts.— After his Majesty's restauration, at which time he was turned out of his Fellowship of S. john's Coll, he became one of his Chaplains or Petty-Canons, and at length Chauntor of Ch. ch. He hath written and published several things, and therefore ought hereafter to be remembered among the Oxford Writers.  
Nou. 6. John Twisden a Kentish man born, who had taken the degree of Doctor of Phys. in the University of Angers, an. 1646, was incorporated in the same degree.— He was afterwards a Physician of note in the great City, a Mathematician, one of the Coll. of Physicians, and author of several books, among which are these (1) Medicina veterum vindicata: or, an answer to a book intit. Medela medicinae, etc. Lond. 1666. oct. (2) Answer to Medicina instaurata, etc. Lond. 1666. oct, written by Dr. Edw Bolnest Physician in ord. to his Maj. (3) The use of the great Planisphere, called the Analemma, in the resolution of some of the chief and most useful Problems of Astronomy. Lond. 1685. 86. qu. See more of the said Dr. Twisden's Works in Joh. Greaves among the Writers, p. 89. and in Hen. Yeluerton, p, 341.  
Dec. 12. Joh. Rant L. L. Pac. of Cambr.— He was now Fellow of Alls. Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors.  
Jan. 14. Jonathan▪ Goddard Doctor of Phys. of Cambr.— He was now Warden of Mert. Coll. by the favour and power of Oliver Cromwell.  
21. Rich. Gibbon Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— He had that degree conferred upon him at Milan 1645.  
Mar. 11. Sam. Argall Doct. of Phys. of the said Uniu. was also then incorporated.— He was an Essex man born, and took that degree at Milan in 1648.  
24. Will. Aims M. A. of Cambr. etc.   

Creations.  
Apr. 9 Will. Stephens a Parliament man and one of the Judges of the Admiralty, was openly declared in Convocation Doctor of the Civil Law by a Diploma then dated, by virtue of a Statute tit. x. §. 4. quo Magnates vel Nobiles honoris causa gradus academicos intra Vniversitatem dignentur; as it is said in the publs. Reg. of this time. He died in 1658, being then an Inhabitant of the Isle of Wigh●.  
Jul. 3. Edw. Wise of Exeter Coll. Esq, who had spent some terms in Cambr. was actually created Bach. of Arts.— On the 24 of July 1652, it was granted by the Delegates of the Uniu. that he the said Edw. Wise (ex nobili stemmate ortus as they say) might be admitted to the degree of Mast. of Arts in Congregation; but whether he was really admitted it appears nor.  
Sept. 9 Sir Thom. Honywood of Essex Kt▪ was actually created Doct. of the Civ. Law.— This person, who was brother in law to Sir Hen. Vane, (the same who was beheaded in 1662.) was a Committee man in the time of the Long Parliament that began 3 Nou. 1640, was also a military man, and led, as a Colonel, a Regiment of Essex men to fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2. an. 1651. To which place coming in good time, he endeavoured to show his valour against Kingship and the House of Stuarts. In 1654. he was one of the Knights to serve for Essex in that Parliament began at Westm. 3 of Sept. the same year, and a Knight again for the same County in that Parl. which began at the same place 17 Sept. 1656; both which Parliaments were called by Oliver L. Protector: And being a man soft in spirit, and too easy, like a nose of wax, to be turned on that side where the greatest strength than was, was taken into oliver's Court, and by him made one of the Other House, that is House of Lords. One Sir Rob. Honywood his near Relation, was made one of the Council of State about the 16 of May 1659., but had no degree conferred on him in this University as I can yet find.  
Thom. Cook a Colonel of the County of Essex, was created Doct. of the Civ. Law the same day.— I take this person to be the same with Thom. Coke of Pebmersh in Essex who was chosen one of the Knights for the said County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 1654.  

Sept. 9 Joachim Matthews created Doct. of the Civ. Law.  
Sept. 9 Will. Herlakinden created Doct. of the Civ. Law.  
Sept. 9 Christop. Earl created Doct. of the Civ. Law.   
The first of these three was afterwards a Commissioner of the County of Essex for the ejecting of such whom the godly party then (1654.) called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters, and the same year he was chosen Burgess for Maldon (of which he was Recorder) in the same County to serve in Parliament, being then a Justice of Peace and an Inhabitant of Havering. In 1656 and 59 he was elected Burgess again for the same place, to serve in the two Parliaments called in those years by Oliver and Richard, being then a leading and forward man for the Cause then drove on and professed. He was father to Philip Matthews of Great Gobions within the Liberty of Havering in Essex, created Baronet 13 of June 1662. The second, Herlakinden, was a Commissioner or Committee man for the said County of Essex, a godly brother, and a leading man in the times of Usurpation as Earl was.  

Sept. 9 Joh. Langley of Essex.  
Sept. 9 Will. German.  
Sept. 9 John Guy.   
These three, who are said to be well deserving of the Commonwealth, were then actually created Masters of Arts.  
Feb. 27. Joh. Tickell of Ch. Ch. lately of New Inn, was actually created M. of A. by virtue of a dispensation from Oliver Cromwell Chanc. of this Uniu.  
George Croak of Alls. Coll. was actually created Master the same day, by virtue of the said dispensation.— This person, who was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors, was son of Dr. Hen. Croak sometimes of Brasn. Coll, and heir to his Uncle Sir George Croak of Waterstoke near Oxon. After the return of his Maj. he was Knighted, and in 1664 became High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. At length, having run out of his estate, he died at London in 1680; whereupon his body being conveyed to Waterstock, was buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to that of Sir George, (and that of his wife who died 4 years or more before him) on the 21 of the said month.  
Mar. 1. Lewis Atterbury of Ch. Ch. was admitted or created in Convoc, by virtue of a dispensation from the Chanc.; with liberty then allowed to him to suffragate in Convoc. and Congreg.    



An. Dom. 1652.  
An. 4 Car. 2.    
Chanc. the same, viz. O. Cromwell, who being now in Scotland, and sensible how troublesome it was to the Academians to apply themselves to him about their concerns, he did, by an instrument dated 16 Octob. this year, commissionate, appoint and delegate Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll, Dr. Jonath. Goddard Warden of Mert. Coll, Thom. Goodwin Precedent of Magd. Coll, and Pet. French Preb. of Ch. Ch, or any three or more of them to take into consideration all, and every matter of dispensation, grant or confirmation whatsoever, which required his assent as Chanc. of this University. At the same time he delegated his power of hearing and determining College differences to the Vicechancellor and Heads of Houses for six months.  
Vicechanc. Joh. Owen M. of A. Dean of Ch. Ch, admitted 26 Sept. having been nominated by the Chancellors Letters, dated 9 of the same month.  

Proct.  
Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Apr. 28.  
Pet. Jersey of Pemb. Coll. Apr. 28.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 1. Dan. Nichols of S. Joh. Coll.  
May 15. Zachary Main of Magd. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1657, and of the other (originally of Ch. Ch.) among the Master's 1654.  

Oct. 12. Will. Sprig of Linc. Coll.  
Oct. 12. Franc. Cross of Wadh. Coll.   
The first of these two hath several things extant, but without his name set to them, and being now, or at least lately, living, he is hereafter to be remembered among the Writers. Of the other (originally of S. Joh. Coll.) you may see more among the Masters, an. 1655.  
Feb. 2. Tho. Laurence lately of Mert. Coll, now of S. Alb. Hall.— See more among the Masters, an. 1655.  

Feb. 4. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll.  
Feb. 4. George Boraston of Wadh. Coll.   
The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristol and Hereford. Of the other you may see more among the Master's 1655,  

Feb. 3. Thom. adam's of Brasn. Coll.  
8. Thom. Frankland of Brasn. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Mast. an. 1655. The other, is mentioned among the Writers an. 1690. p. 648.  

Feb. 17. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 17. Tho. Cartwright of Qu. Coll.   
The last was afterwards B of Chester.  
Rob. Harrison of Changed Ch. was adm. the same day.— See more among the Master's 1655:  
Adm. 129.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nine were admitted this year, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer, Bishop, or man of note in the Church or State.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 6. John Rotheram of Linc. Coll.— This person, who was a Bedfordshire man born and of kin to Archb. Rotheram the second Founder of Linc. Coll, was made Fellow thereof by the Visitors in 1648, and afterwards became a Barrister of Greys Inn. In June 1688 he was, among other Counsellors, (Dissenters from the Church of England) called by the Writ of K. Jam. 2. to take upon them the state and degree of Sergeant at Law, and he being sworn at the Chancery Bar on the 18 of the same month, was in the beginning of July following made one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and by the name of Baron Rotheram he went the Oxford Circuit in the latter end of the said month.  
June 18. Theoph. Gale of Magd. Coll.  
25. Will. Carpender of Ch. Ch.— This person who was a Herefordshire man born was made Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors, an. 1648, became Proctor of the University in 1656, moral Philosophy Reader in the year following, and much about the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Minister of Staunton super Wye, or Waga in his native Country, and afterwards beneficed in Bucks. He hath written— Jura Cleri: or, an Apology for the rights of the Clergy; proving out of ancient and modern Records that the conferring of Revenues, Honours, Titles, etc. upon ecclesiastics, is consistent to Scripture, etc. Oxon. 1661. qu. He was living in 1686, as the Seniors of Ch. Ch. tell me, and perhaps may be so still.  
George Annesley of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.— He was son of the Viscount of Mount Norris in Ireland, and had before obtained a Students place in the same House by the favour of the Visitors.  

Jul. 9 Joh. How of Magd. Coll.  
31. Thom. Tanner of New Coll.   

Nou. 18. Hen. Hurst Coll.  
Nou. 18. Rob. Whitehall Coll.  
Nou. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch.   
19 Will. Master of Mert. Coll.  
Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall.— See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers, an. 1671. p. 352.  
Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll.— In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys. at Leyden, and published his Disputatio med. inaug. de cholera morbo, the same year.  
Adm. 63.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Five were admitted this year, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr. Coll. had liberty allowed him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Diu.— See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occur really admitted.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll.  
Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of Alls. Coll.   
The last of these two, who was a younger, son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent, became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634, and Fellow of that of Alls. in 1640, being then Bach. of Arts; where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he became Principal of Hart Hall, afterwards Chancellor of the dioceses of Hereford and Worcester, (in which last he succeeded James Littleton) one of the Masters of the Chancery, and a Knight in July 1670. (being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire.) He hath published The privileges of an Ambassador, written by way of Letter to a Friend, who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Ambassador.— Printed in 1654. in one sh. and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62; and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb▪ brother who was beheaded, and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published. He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin, bred in Balliol Coll. also, afterwards a Common Lawyer, and by writ called to be Sergeant at Law an. 1669, and in 1672. made the King's Sergeant.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll, who accumulated the degrees in Physic by virtue of the Chancellors Letters— He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physicians, succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll, and dying in the house of his Son-in-law (Sir Rich. Shuttleworth) called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire, 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire, among the graves of his ancestors. In his Presidentship was elected ●ch. Hough Bach. of Diu. 15. Apr. 1687.  
July 9 Pet●r E●io● of S. Mary's Hall, sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher— He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon, and dying 5. Mar. 1681, was buried in the North Isle joining to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon.  
20. Tim. Clerk of Ball. Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall, a Compounder— On the 28. of Oct. following, the Vicechancellor admitted him in Convocation as complete Doctor, and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirmed by a Diploma. This person was usually called Deane Harry, as I have told you among the Writers, under the year 1690. p. 646.   

Incorporations.  

April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys. of Milan.  
April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys. of Milan.   
These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys. in the said Uniu. of Milan, in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659.  
June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knight's Son, Fellow of New Coll, by the favour of the Visitors, and Doct. of Physic of Milan, was then incorporated— The said degree he took at Milan in October 1649.  
29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr, now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ, was then incorporated.— He was adm. Mast. of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year. See among the Doctors of Physic an. 1659.  
Aug. 9 Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein, was then incorporated in Convocation— This person, who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London, was born in that City, bred in Emanuel Coll, of which he became Fellow, and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars, among, whom John Wallis was one. In 1637 he was constituted one of the public Preachers of the Uniu. of Cambr. and in 1638, or thereabouts, he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity. Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys' Inn, Reader of Diu. in Gresham Coll, a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament, Vicar of Great S. Helen's in London, and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of public Preachers an. 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian persuasion a sound and solid Divine, a good Textuary and well skilled in the original Languages. Under his name hath been published (1) Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist. of the Apost. Paul to the Romans. Lond. 1674. fol. (2) Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms, viz. the 4. Psalms, in 8 Sermons, the 42 Psal. in 10 Sermons, the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons, the 63 Psal. in 7 Sermons. Lond. 1675. fol. (3) One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts: fifty upon the Old Test. and fifty on the New. Lond. 1679. fol. He also, with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles: or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorisms and Exercitations, wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved. Lond. 1660, written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. John's and Trin. Coll. successively, and the King's Professor of Diu. in the University of Cambridge: Published since his death according to his own Manuscript. This Dr. Horton died in 1673, and was, I presume, buried in the Church of S. Helen before mentioned, leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy, who administered 28. Aug. the same year.  
Nou. 19 Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favour of the Visitors.  
Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys. of Milan— The same degree he took at Pad. 30. Oct. 1648.  
Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ. Law of Cambr.  
16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr.  
27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey, Doct. of Physic of Milan— This person, who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir, took the said degree at Pad. in the latter end of Octob. 1648.   

Creations.  
June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys. 17 years, was then actually created Doctor of that fac. by virtue first of an order from the Committee, and secondly by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of the Uniu. dated 29. May 1650 (rather 51) which say that his conversation is pious and sober, and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament, etc.  
July 9 Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. in Convocation, by virtue of a dispensation from the Delegates.  
24. Samson Eyton of Vniv. Coll. (lately made Fellow thereof by the Visitors) who had spent 8 years in study in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England, was then actually created M. of A. by virtue of the Delegates order.  
Dec. 22. Joh. Boncle commonly called Bunkley, was actually created M. of A. by virtue of the Chancellors Letters (O. Cromwell) which speak very honourable in his behalf, as that his eminent learning and worth is such that I acco●●t that I may very freely commend him unto you— He is known to learned men— He is like to adorn that degree (viz. of Mast. of Arts)— a considerable ornament to the University, etc. The same day he was elected superior Beadle of Divinity (in the place of John Blagrave deceased) by virtue of the Letters from the said Chanc. also. But Boncle being soon after made Master of Charter house School near London in the place of Samson Wilson removed to a Living in Peterborough, he resigned his Beadleship in the year following. Afterwards he became Master of Eton School and Fellow of the Coll. there: whence being removed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he became Master of the School in Mercer's Chapel in London, where he was living in 1673.  
In the latter end of July this year, Ralph Austen Deputy Registrary to the Visitor for Will. Woodhouse, and Registrary afterwards in his own right was entered a Student into the public Library, to the end that he might find materials for the composition of a book which he was then meditating. The book afterwards he finished and entit. it A treatise of Fruit-trees, showing the manner of grafting, planting, pruning and ordering of them in all respects, according to new and easy rules of experience, etc. Oxon. 1657. sec. edit. qu. Ded. to Sam. Hartlib Esq. This book was much commended for a good and rational piece by the honourable Mr. Rob. boil, who, if ● mistake not, did make use of it in a book or books which he afterwards published: And it is very probable that the said book might have been printed more than twice had not he, the author, added to, and bound with, it another treatise as big as the former entit. The spiritual use of an Orchard, or garden of Fruit-Trees, etc. Which being all divinity and nothing therein of the practic part of Gardening, many therefore did refuse to buy it. He hath also written A dialogue, or familiar discourse and conference between the Husbandman and Fruit-trees, in his nurseries, orchards and gardens: wherein are discovered many useful and profitable observations and experiments in nature in the ordering of Fruit-trees for temporal profit, etc. printed 1676. 76. in oct. Much of the former book, is, I presume, involved in this. This Mr. Austen who was either a Presbyterian or an Independent I know not whether, was a very useful man in his generation, and spent all his time in Oxon to his death, in planting gardens there and near it, in grafting, in oculating, raising Fruit-trees, etc. He was born in Staffordshire, and dying in his house in the Parish of S. Peter in the Bailiff in Oxon, was buried in the Church belonging thereunto, in the Isle joining on the S. side of the Chancel, on the 26. of Octob. 1676, after he had been a practiser in gardening 50 years.    



An. Dom. 1653.  
An. 5. Car. 2.  
An. 0/1 (Oliv. Protect.    
Chanc. Oliver Cromwell General of the Parliament Forces, sworn Protector of Engl. Scotl. and Irel. 16. Dec. this year, and soon after proclaimed.  
Vicechanc. John Owen again, 19 Oct.— He was created Doct. of Diu. by a Diploma dated 23. of Dec. this year, as I shall tell you by and by among the Creations.  

Proct.  
Philip Ward of Ch. Ch. Apr. 20.  
Rob. Gorges of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 20.   

Bach. of Arts.  

June 21. Thom. Wight of C. C. Coll.  
30. Richard Lucy of Queens Coll.   
Of the first of these two, you may see more among the Masters, an. 1656. The other was made Chancellor of the Church of S. David by his Father Dr. Lucy Bishop thereof, and died in 1689.  
July 4. Henry Stubbe of Ch. Ch.— He was now a usual courser in the Greek tongue in the public Schools.  

6. Joseph Alleine of Corp. Ch. Coll.  
Oct. 17. Ezek. Hopkins of Magd. Coll.   
The last was afterwards successively Bishop of Raphoe and London-Derry.  

18. Joh. Wagstaff of Oriel Coll.  
Dec. 23. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll.  
Jan. 25. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll.   
The second of these three, who was admitted in Convocation, was afterwards B. of Gloucester and a Writer, and therefore to be remembered among the living Writers hereafter. The last was afterwards B. of Chester and a Writer also, and therefore to be remembered in future time.  

Feb. 2. Clement Ellis of Qu. Coll.  
Feb. 2. Joseph Williamson of Qu. Coll.   
Both these are living, the one a Writer, the other a man of note. See more of the last among the created Doctors of the Civil Law in 1674.  
Will. James of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.  

Feb. 4. Tho. Duncombe of C. C. Coll.  
23. John Nye of Magd. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctor of Diu. 1671. and of the other among the Writers in this Vol. under his Father Philip Nye, p. 370.  
Adm. 157. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were adm. but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 25. Hamlet Puleston of Jes. Coll.  
Apr. 25. Will. Squire of Brasn. Coll.  
June 10. Joh. Parry of Jes. Coll.   
21. Rob. Lovel of Ch. Ch.  

22. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll.  
27. Joh. Smith of Brasn. Coll.   
30. Charles Perot or Perrot of Oriel Coll.— This person was born at Radley near Abend●n in Berks, had spent some time in travel to learn the modern languages, returned a well bred Gentleman, wrote two or more political pamphlets in defence of the prerogative, without his name set to them, and therefore he would not publicly acknowledge, or communicate the titles of, them to me. See in March. Nedham among the Writers, an. 1678. p. 469. This Mr. Perot, who was Fellow of Oriel Coll, died on the 23 of April 1677, aged 45 or thereabouts; his Father being then living: Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Grandfather Rob. Perot Gentleman, and by that of his Mother Elizabeth, daugh. of Sir Will. Stonehouse of Radley before mentioned, in the Chancel of the Church of North-Lee near to Witney in Oxfordshire.  
Oct. 11. Thom. Ashton of Brasn. Coll.— This forward and conceited Scholar, who was Son of a Father of both his names, was born at Tuerdley in Lancashire, admitted Servitor of the said Coll. 13. June 1647. aged 16 years, took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow thereof. After he had proceeded in that faculty he became straightway a malapert preacher in and near Oxon: And at length having a turn to preach at S. Mary's on Tuesday, a Lecture day, 25 July 1654., he did then deliver a very offensive Sermon preached on Job 37.22. With God is terrible Majesty. In which Sermon speaking of the attributes of God, particularly of that in the text, took a hint from the word terribilis, (which might, as he said, signify with some terrae bilis) to say that God was a Melancholy God, etc. and in the conclusion to maintain that those that had no teeth to gnash, should gnash their gums, etc. For which Sermon he being called into question, was in a fair way of expulsion, but by the intercession of friends, the business was compromised; yet two years after he was forced to leave his Fellowship upon some quarrel between him and Dr. Greenwood Principal of his House. Afterwards he was entrusted with a Commission from Oliver to be Chaplain to the English Forces in Jersey, an. 1656, where continuing for some time in preaching, suffered soon after in his relations, reputation, salary, etc. by a new Governor placed there, who forced him, as it seems, thence. He hath published (1) Bloodthirsty Cyrus unsatisfied with blood. Or the boundless cruelty of an Anabaptists tyranny, manifested in a letter of Colonel John Mason Governor of Jersey, 3. Nou. 1659., wherein he exhibits seven false ridiculous and scandalous articles against Quartermaster Will. Swan, etc. Lond. 1659. in one sh. in qu. (2) Satan in samuel's mantle: or the cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey, containing the arbitrary, bloody and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason, of a baptised Church, commissionated to be a Colonel, and sent over into the Island of Jersey Governor, in July 1656, against several Officers and Soldiers in that small place, etc. Lond. 1659. in 4. sh. in qu. After his Majesty's restauration the author was beneficed near Hertford in Hertfordshire, where he soon after finished his restless course.  
Dec. 11. Christoph. Wren of Wadh. Coll.  
Feb. 21. Edward Veel or Veal of Ch. Ch. was admitted M. of A. in Convocation and at the same time was admitted ad regendum— This person, who had been elected Fellow of Trin. Coll. near Dublin between the time that he took the degree of Bach. and Master in this University, I take to be the same Ed. Veel, who is now, or at least was lately, a Nonconformist Minister in or near London, and author of (1) What spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for, that desire to be saved. Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate. Lond. 1674. 76. qu. (2) Sermon on Psalm. 62.12.— 'Tis the eleventh Serm. in The morning exercise against Popery, etc. preached in Southwerk. Lond. 1675. qu, and perhaps of other things, but such I have not yet seen. See in Joh. Davenport and Steph. Charnock among the Writers p. 335 and 491.  
Adm. 63 or thereabouts.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys, or of Div, or Doct. of the Civil Law was admitted this year.  

Doct. of Phys.  

July 4. Tho. Waldron of Ball. Coll.  
6. Will. Page of S. Joh. Coll.  
6. Will. Coniers of S. Joh. Coll.  
6. Thom. Cummyns of Wad. Coll.   
The first of these four was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. and Physician in Ord. to K. Ch. 2.  
15. Martin Luellyn of Ch. Ch.  
Dec. 14. Rob. Fielding of Ball. Coll.— He was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was adm. or licenced this year.  

Incorporations.  

May 14. Tho. Wolfius Doct. of Phys. of Milan.  
May 14. John Clerk Doct. of Phys. of Milan.  
21. Thomas Pepys Doct. of Phys. of Milan.   
The first was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, and the second is the same, I suppose, with him who published Disputatie medica de Ilio vero. I find one John Clark to have been Doct. of the Laws of Doctor's Commons in Lond. who died in the latter end of the year 1672, but whether ever of Oxon, I cannot yet tell. See another Joh. Clerk among the created Doctors of Phys. 1660. As for the third I know nothing of him.  
June 13. Walt. Mills Doct. of Phys. of Leyden— He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physicians.  
15. Will. Whitaker Doct. of the same faculty of Franaker in W●st Freisen— He was afterwards, as I conceive, one of the Coll. of Physicians, and lived several years in good repute for his learning in the Parish of S. Andrew in Ho●bourne near London, but died in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster in the month of Dec. or beginning of January 1670. He hath written The tree of life, or blood of the grape, etc. pr. in oct. and perhaps other things. Qu. I have made mention of a learned Divine of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 744, and another (a Nonconformist) in this, in Tho. Jacombe under the year 1687. p. 607.  
July 12. John Sherman M. of A. of Cambridge— He was afterwards Archd. of Salisbury. See in Josh. Childrey among the Writers p. 339.  
Rob. Dixon M. A. of the same University, was incorporated on the said day— I take this person to be the same Rob. Dixon who was afterwards Doct. of Diu. and Prebendary of Rochester, author of (1) The degrees of Consanguinity, and affinity described and delineated. Lond. 1675. oct. (2) The nature of the two Testaments, or the disposition of the Will and Estate of God to mankind▪ etc. In two volumes: The first of the Will of God, the second of the Estate of God. Lond. 1676. 77. fol: and of other things, as 'tis probable.  
Isaac Barrow M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the same University was incorporated on the said day.— In the next year he took a long journey into several foreign Countries, and returned a complete Master of divers Languages. In 1660 he was chose Greek Professor of Cambridge, and two years after, on the death of Laur. Rook, Geometry Lecturer in Gresham Coll. In 1672 he was elected Master of Trin. Coll, being then in great esteem for his learning and accomplishments: And dying on the fourth day of May 1677 aged 47 years, was buried in the South cross Isle of S. Peter's, commonly called the Abbey, Church in the City of Westminster. His works were afterwards collected and published by Dr. Joh. Tillotson, an. 1683; before the first of which is a full account of the life of the said Is. Barrow, to which I refer the Reader.  
These three last, Sherman, Dixon and Barrow were of the number of 25 Cambridge Masters of Arts that were incorporated just after the Act this year.  
July 12. Edw. Spark Bach. of Diu. of Cambr.— He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty, Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 2, and well beneficed if not dignified. He hath written and published (1) The Christians map of the world: drawn at the solemn funerals of Henry Chitting Esq. Chester-Herald at Arms, interred 11. January 1637. Lond. 1637. oct. 'Tis a Sermon preached at the said Chittings funeral 11. Jan. 1636 on Heb. 13. ver. 14. (2) Scintilla Altaris: or a pious reflection on primitive devotion as to the Feasts and Fasts of the Christian Church orthodoxly revived. Lond. 165. oct. etc. In other editions this title is contracted. (3) Devotions on the 5. of Nou. 30. of Jan. and 29. of May etc. Lond. 1666. oct. These were afterwards added to some of the editions of Scintilla Altaris, and consist of prose, poems, sculptures, etc. He hath other things extant, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. This person who was living at Tottenham Highcross near Lond. in 1675 (where I presume he was beneficed) had a Son of both his names, Bachelaur of the Laws and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Oxon; who dying on the last day of Nou. 1675, was buried in the Chapel there and soon after had a comely money set over his grave by his Father.  
Henry Maisterson D. D. and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. was then (Jul. 12.) incorporated— He was afterwards beneficed at Namptwich in Cheshire, and died in 1671.  
These two last, were also incorporated just after the celebration of the Act.  
Feb. 9 Zurishaddeus Langius Doct. of Phys. of Milan— The said degree he took at Pad. in the beginning of Oct. 1649, and was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London.   

Creations.  
Mar. 26. Edm. Lewis a Knight's Son of Magd. Coll. was actually created Bach. of Arts, as also was Rob. Simons a Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll.  

Oct. 19 Thure Thureson Sweeds.  
Oct. 19 Paul Kiefengeller Sweeds.  
Oct. 19 Joh. Widechennius Sweeds.   
These three, who were actually created Masters of Arts, were Retainers to the Ambassador of Christina Queen of Sweedland to the Commonwealth of England.  
Dec. 23. John Owen M. A, Dean of Ch. Ch, and Vicechancellor of the University, was then (he being at Lond.) diplomated Doct. of Diu.— He is said in his Diploma to be in Palaestra Theologica exercitatissimus, in concionando assiduus & potens, in disputando strenuus & acutus, etc. His Dipl. was dated 22. and read and sealed in Convocation 23 of Dec. this year.  
Thom. Goodwin Precedent of Magd. Coll, and Bach. of Diu. of several years standing, was then also, Dec. 23, diplomated D. of D.— This person, who is said in the common Register to be in scriptis in re Theologicâ quamplurimis orbi notus, was born in the County of Norfolk, educated for a time in Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, then in Catherine Hall, of which he was Fellow. Afterwards disliking conformity, he removed (as others did) beyond the Seas into Holland to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories; where remaining till the beginning of the Long Parliament, he returned, and became one of the Ass. of Divines at Westminster: but disliking their proceedings, he left them and about the same time had preferment conferred upon him. At length upon the increasing of the Independents, he, being one himself, struck in with Ol. Cromwell, became his Favourite, and by his power Precedent of Magd. Coll. about the beginning of January 1649, purposely to promote the Independent cause in this University, which he afterwards did to the purpose by his constant preaching at S. Mary's, by his sometimes preaching in his Coll. Chapel, and by his setting up and continuing a weekly meeting in his Lodgings in the said Coll, where all those that were to enter into that fraternity were openly to make a confession of their sins, etc. In 1653 he was one of the prime men appointed by ordinance to be a Trier or Commissioner for the approbation of public preachers, and in the year following he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire for the ejection of such, whom the Saints of that time called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines; whom, especially such that had rich benefices or well endowed Schools, be sure they ejected, and either took their benefices themselves or conferred them on their confiding brethren or those of their Church. In the beginning of the year 1660 he was removed from his Presidentship to make room for Dr. Joh. Oliver; whereupon retiring to London, lived mostly in the Parish of Great S. Barthelmew, where dying 23 Feb. 1679 aged 80 years, was buried in a little vault towards the East end of the new burial place for Dissenters, joining on the North side of the New Artillery-yard or Garden by Bunhill fields near London. Over the Vault was soon after erected an Altar-monument, with a large inscription thereon engraven, made by the common Epitaph-maker for Dissenters called Tho. Gilbert Bach. of Diu. now a Nonconformist living in Oxon. After his death, his works consisting of Expositions, Sermons, Theological discourses, etc. were gathered together and published in two volumes in fol. (with his picture before them much resembling the author while living) by Thankful Owen and Jam. Baron— Lond. 1681: Before which is a canting preface, written by the said two persons, wherein many things are said of the author and his learning. See in Phil. Nye among the Writers, under the Year 1672. p. 370.  
Dec. 23. Peter French Bach. of Diu. and Canon of Ch. Ch. was then diplomated Doct. of Diu.— He had before taken to Wife Robina, Sister of Oliver Cromwell, as I have before told you, and dying 17. of June 1655, she was afterwards married to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll.  
Mar. 18. Gasparus Tizabetzi of Transylvania, was actually created Mast. of Arts— In the public reg. he is said to be humanâ Literaturâ & bonarum Artium cognition probe instructus.    



An. Dom. 1654.  
An. 6. Car. 2.  
An. 1/2 Oliv. Protect.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Ol. Cromwell L. Protect.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Owen again, Dec. 13.  

Proct.  
Tho. Cracroft of Magd. Coll. Ap. 5.  
Steph. Charnock of New Coll. Ap. 5.   

Bach. of Arts.  

June 17. Gabr. Towerson of Queens, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  
27. Edw. Pearse of S. John's Coll.   
Both these are now living as I conceive, and Writers: The first a Divine of note, the other a Lukewarm conformist.  
July 6. John Franklin of C. C. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. an. 1665.  

Oct. 12. Malachi Conant of Magd. Coll.  
Oct. 12. Rich. Berry of Brasn. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1665: of the other among the Masters, an. 1657.  
18. George Castle of Balliol, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  
Jan. 25. Tho. Turnor of Ball. Coll.— This Gentleman who was Son of Sir Tim. Turnor of Shrewsbury Kt, Serjeant at Law, and one of the King's Council in ord. for the Marches of Wales, went afterwards to Greys' Inn where he became a Barrister, and wrote (1) The case of the Bankers and their Creditors stated and examined. Lond. 1674. in 5 sh. in qu. Printed there again in 1675 qu. with several additions, in all making up 8. sh. (2) The joyful news of opening the Exchequer to the Goldsmiths of Lombardstreet and their Creditors, etc. Lond. 1677. qu. Said in the title to be celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the Country, to whom the Bankers case was formerly sent. In 1680 was a book published entit▪ The rights of the Bishops to judge in Capital cases in Parliament, cleared. Being a full answer to two books lately published: the first entit. A letter from a Gentleman to his friend, etc. The other, A discourse of the Peerage and jurisdiction of the Lords spiritual in Parliament endeavouring to show the contrary. Lond. in oct. Tho no name is set to this book, yet it was commonly then reported to have been written by Thom. Turner, the same, I suppose, who was author of The Case, etc. Sir Tim. Turner before mentioned died very aged in 1676. and his Son Thom. the Writer about the beginning of the year 1680. Qu.  

Jan. 25. Lancel●t Addison of Qu. Coll.  
29. Thomas Sprat of Wadh. Coll.   
Both these are Writers and now living, and therefore are to be remembered hereafter: The first is Dean of Lichfield, the other B. of Rochester.  
Feb. 13. Tho. Tomkins of Ball, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  
24 Rob South of Ch. Ch.— He is also living and hath published several things, and therefore he is to be numbered hereafter among the Writers.  
Adm. 147.   

Bach. of Law.  

Oct. 12. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll.  
Dec. 14. Nath. Bond of Alls. Coll.  
Mar. 15. Joseph Keble of Alls. Coll.   
As for Nath. Bond, who was of the same family with Dennis Bond mentioned in the first vol. p. 323, he was, as I conceive, Recorder afterward of Weymouth, being then a man of those times. In the latter end of Apr. 1689 he being by writ called to the degree of Sergeant at Law by K. Will. 3, was sworn on the 2 of May at the Bar of the Common-pleas in Westm. Hall, with several others that had been with him called to that degree. Afterwards he was Knighted, made one of the King's Sergeants, etc. The last of the said three (Joseph Keble) is living in Greys' Inn and hath published several things, and therefore he ought hereafter to be mentioned among the Writers.  
Adm. 10.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 30. Benj. Parry of Jesus Coll.  

31. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch.  
June 1. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch.   
13. John Cawley of Alls. Coll.  
July 6. Zachary Main of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was originally of Ch. Ch. and afterwards made by the Visitors first Demie of Magd. Coll, and then Fellow, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1652, at which time he had the letters of the Chancellor (O. Cromwell) for the dispensation of the want of two or three terms; in which letters he is styled eminently godly and of able parts. Afterwards he was signior Collector of the Lent in 1652, and when Master of Arts a godly preacher in these parts. After his Majesty's restauration he conformed and wrote (1) Treatise of Justification, etc. Lond. 1662. oct. (2) S. Paul's travelling pangs, etc. Pr. 1662. oct. and perhaps other things. He is now living a Schoolmaster in or near Exeter, as I have lately been informed by one of his contemporaries in Magd. Coll.  
July 6. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 23. Seth Bushel of S. Mary's Hall— He accumulated the degrees in Arts, and was admitted in Convocation.  
Adm. 65.   

Bach. of Phys.  

Apr. 11. Joh. Betts of C. C. Coll.  
June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll.   
These were both learned Physicians, the former of which hath published several things of his faculty, the other not, but left his profession for his original fac. of Diu. as I am now about to tell you.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Two were admitted this year, as Jam. Stops of Magd. Hall, and Thomas Harward of Trin. Coll. but neither of them were Writers.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year.  

Doct. of Phys.  
Apr. 11. John Arnold of Mert. Coll.— He afterwards withdrew himself and stood not in the Act to complete his degree, went to York and there practised his faculty to the time of his death.  
Joh. Betts of C C. Coll, was adm. the same day— He accumulated the degrees in Phys.  
June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll.— He accumulated, having before been employed in the service of the State as Physician to the sick and wounded of the Navy: which work he managed with much diligence and success to the full satisfaction both of the Generals at Sea, and also of the Commissioners of the Admiralty, etc. After his Majesty's restauration he reassumed his former fac. of Divinity, became one of the Royal Society, Precedent of his Coll, one of his Majesty's Chaplains, and on the 28. June 1670 was installed Dean of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Rob. Creighton to the See of B. and Wells. In Apr. 1691 he was nominated by their Majesty's Bishop of Bristol, with liberty to keep his Deanery in Commendam, but he refused it, because he was minded to carry on his benefaction to his Coll, being then about to re-edify the Chapel thereof, and to do good thereunto and his Church of Wells. He is accounted a most celebrated Latin Poet, as it appears by those many Copies of verses of his that are extant, some of which are made public in a book lately printed at the Theatre in Oxon, entit. Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta, etc. printed in oct.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 29. Joh. Conant M. A. Rector of Exeter Coll. was then admitted in Convocation— In 1662. he left his Rectory because he refused to subscribe to the Act of conformity, but afterwards, upon better thoughts, conforming, he became a Minister in Northampton, where he now continues an aged man. In 1676 June 8. he was installed Archdeacon of Norwich, (in the place of Mr. John Reynolds deceased) which Dignity was conferred upon him by Dr. Edw. Reynolds B. thereof, whose Daughter he formerly had married; and on the 3. of Dec. 1681 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Nath. Tomkins deceased. He is a learned, pious and meek Divine, but hath published nothing.  
Seth Ward of Wadham Coll, Savilian professor of Astron. was admitted in the same Convocation.  
May 31. Joh. Wallis of Exeter Coll. Sau. Prof. of Geom.— About this time arose a controversy between Dr. Wallis, and Dr. Ward before mentioned concerning seniority in Doctorship. Wallis he averred that he was incorporated Mast. of Arts of this University before Ward and therefore 'twas his, but it appearing that Ward stood first in the Proctor's book at Cambridge (for they proceeded in Arts both in one year) the Vicechancellor Dr. Owen decided the matter on Wards behalf: Whereupon Wallis went out Grand compounder, and so got seniority not only of Ward but of the rest that proceeded in Diu. this year. Dr. Wallis was afterwards, against oath and statute elected Custos Archivorum in the place of Dr. Langbaine, at which time stood for that office one every way capable of it, viz. Dr. Rich. Zouche; which being a most unjust act, as being carried on and done by the godly brethren, therefore did Hen. Stubbe write and publish The Savilian Professors case stated, etc. as I have told you in my discourse of him, p. 415.  
July 4. George Kendal B. D. of Exet. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
May 26. John Wyb●rd Doct. of Phys. of Franaker in West Friesen— He was the Son of Walt. Wyberd of Tackley in Essex, became a Commoner of Pemb. Coll. in the latter end of the year 1638, aged 24. years, left it when the troubles began in England, traveled and took the degree of Doct. at Franaker before mentioned in July an. 1644, and at length became well versed in some parts of Geometry. This person, who in his certificate for his degree at Franaker is styled Trinobans Anglus hath written— Tactometria, or Tetagmenometria. Or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed. Lond. 1650 oct.  
Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys. of Heidelberg was incorp. the same day.  
July 11. Joh. Mapletoft Bac. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge— See among the Incorporations, an. 1669.  
Hezekiah Burton M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. in the same University— He was afterwards D of D, Chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Rector of the Church of S. George in Southwark, Prebend of Norwich in the place of John Rhodes deceased, in Octob. 1667, and at length Rector of Bernes or Barnes in Surrey. He died in Aug. or Sept. 1681 and afterwards had published under his name (1) Several discourses, viz. first of piety and chastity, secondly of repentance, thirdly of seeking first the Kingdom of Christ. Lond. 1684. oct. (2) A second vol. of discourses. Lond. 1685. oct; the contents of which are in the next leaf following the title: Both published by Joh. Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury and Residentiary of S. Paul's Cathedral, afterwards Dean of the said Church upon Dr. Stillingfleets promotion to the See of Worcester, in Sept. 1689, Clerk of the royal Closet, and at length Archbishop of Canterbury (to which See he was consecrated in the Church of S. Marry le Bow, 31. May 1691) upon the deprivation of that most conscientious and religious Archprelate Will Sancroft D. D.  
July 11. John Bodington M. A. of Sidney Coll. in Cambr.— He was afterwards Rector of Newton-Blossomvile in Bucks, and author of The Mystical Solomon's coronation and espousals, on Cant. 5.11. Lond. 1662. oct. and perhaps of other things. Qu.  
These three last Mapletoft, Burton and Bodington were of the number of 32 Cantabrigians who were incorporated just after the Act; whereof two were Bach. and the rest Mast. of Arts. Among the Masters Samuel Clerk of Pemb. Hall was one, and John Smith of Qu. Coll. another; several of both whose names have been Writers, and one Joh. Smith who writes himself M. of A. wrote— Grammatica quadrilinguis: or brief instructions for the French, Italian, Spanish and English tongues, with the Proverbs of each language, etc. Lond 1673▪ 74. oct; and another who writes himself C. M. (Coll. Med) is author of several books; among which is A complete discourse of the nature, use and right managing of the wonderful instrument the Baroscope, etc. Lond. 1688. oct. See in p. 475.   

Creations.  
Apr. 5. Joh. Windebanke M. A. sometimes Fellow of New Coll, Son of Sir Franc. Windebanke formerly Secretary of State to K. Ch. 1, was then actually created Doct. of Phys. by virtue of the Chancellors Letters (Ol. Cromwell) which say that since he hath left the University he hath spent some time in foreign parts in the study of Physic, and hath been a practitioner in that faculty for some years with much credit and reputation, etc. He afterwards practised Physic at Guildford in Survey and became honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys.  
Apr. 20. Thom. Manton sometimes of Wadh. Coll. was created Bach. of Diu. by virtue of a dispensation from the Doctor's delegated by the Chanc. of the Uniu.  
June 5. It was ordered by the Delegates that Nich. Lokyer sometimes of New Inn might have the degree of Bach. of Diu. conferred on him, which was confirmed by the Doctor's delegated by the Chancellor; yet it doth not appear that he was created or diplomated.    



An. Dom. 1655.  
An. 7. Car. 2.  
An. 2/3 (Ol. Protect.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Ol. Cromwell.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Owen, Sept. 18, 

Proct.  
Sam. Bruen of Bras. Coll. Apr. 25.  
Edw. à Wood of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25.    
But the junior Proctor dying 22. May Mr. Richard Franklin of the same Coll. was admitted into his place on the first of June following.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 4. Job Roys of Mert. Coll.  
7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch.— He is living, and a Writer and therefore to be remembered hereafter.  
June 15. Tho. Branker of Ex. Coll.  

28 Joh. Bridal of Queens Coll.  
28 Rob. Southwell of Queens Coll.   
The first of these last two was afterwards a Common Lawyer, and hath published several things of his profession. The other was created Doctor of the Civ. Law in 1677, under which year you may see more of him.  

July 5. Tho. Tregosse of Exet. Coll.  
Oct. 11. Joseph Glanvill of Exet. Coll.   
The first of these two who did not complete his degree by Determination, was born of an ancient and gentile family at S. Ives near to the Lands end in Cornwall, bred in the said Coll. in the condition of a sojourner under the tuition of Francis Howell, and after he had left the University, took orders according to the Presbyterian way and was a constant Preacher at the place of his nativity for two years. In Oct. 1659. he removed to the Vicarage of Milar and Mabe in Cornwall, where continuing till 1662., was silenced because he would not conform according to the Act of Uniformity then published. Afterwards preaching in private and in Conventicles, he was several times brought into trouble and imprisoned. At length giving way to fate at Penryn on the 18. of Jan. 1670, was published the next year a little book entit. The life and death of Thomas Tregosse late Minister of the Gospel at Milar and Mabe in Cornwall, with his character. Lond. in oct, and at the end are The Letters of Thomas Tregosse: All written according to the Presbyterian mode.  
Oct. 11. Edw. West of Ch. Ch. afterwards of S. Mary's Hall.  
16. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll.— This person who is now living at Totness in Devon, a Non-juror, is to be remembered hereafter as a Writer, because he hath written and published several books.  
Dec. 14. John Williams of Magd. Hall— He is now an eminent Minister in Lond. and a frequent Writer.  

Jan. 16. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll.  
21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll.   

Jan. 30. John Fitwilliams of Magd. Coll.  
Jan. 30. Joh. Price of Vniv. Coll.  
Jan. 30. Will. Annand of Vniv. Coll.   
Of the first of these three you may see more among the Doct. of Diu. 1677: Of the second among the Masters, an. 1658; and of the last among the Writers an. 1689. p. 632.  
Feb. 1. Nath. Crew of Linc. Coll.— He was afterwards successively Bish. of Oxon and Durham.  
14. Joh. Lock of Ch. Ch.— He is now living in London, and being a Writer, he is to be remembered hereafter.  
Mar. 13. Nath. Vincent of Ch. Ch.  
18. Rich. Stretton Chap. of New Coll.  
These two last are now Nonconformist Divines living in London: The first, who is a frequent Writer, is to be remembered among the Writers hereafter: Of the other you may see among the Master's 1658.  
Adm. 122.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted this year.  

Mast. of Arts.  

June 15. Will. Sprig of Linc. Coll.  
21. Thom. Cartwright of Qu. Coll.   

22 Franc. Cross of Wadh. Coll.  
22 Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll.   
Franc. Cross who was of Stoke-Gomer in Somersetshire and had been Fellow of Wadh. Coll, went after his Maj. restauration to Leyden in Holland, where he had the degree of Doct. of Physic conferred on him: And afterwards retiring to the City of Bristol, practised there with good success among the precise party. He hath written and published, Disputatio medica inauguralis de Febre intermittente, hab. in alm. Lugd. Bat. Academiâ pro grad. Doct. in Med. etc. 19 May 1664. Oxon. 1668. oct. He died in the Parish of S. Walburg in the said City of Bristol in the year 1675, and was, I presume, buried in the Church belonging to that Parish.  
Jun. 28. Thom. Laurence of S. Alb. Hall.— This person, who was an Apothecary's son of London, became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1649, and did for some time participate of the Exhibition of Joh. Willyot there. But being forced to leave that House for some Extravagancies by him committed, he retired to the said Hall of S. Alban; where he continued two or three years after he had completed the degree of Master, and studied Physic. Afterwards he practised that faculty in Norfolk, and was of some eminence there, especially upon his writing and publishing— Mercurius Centralis▪ Or, a discourse of subterraneal Cockle, Muscle and Oyster shells, found in the digging of a Well at Sir Will. D●ylies in Norfolk, many foot under ground, and at considerable distance from the sea; sent in a Letter to Tho. Browne Doctor of Physic. Lond. 1664. in 5 sh. in oct. He died in Norfolk some years after.  

June 28. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch.  
June 28. Tho. Frankland of Brasn. Coll.  
June 28. Tho. adam's of Brasn. Coll.   
The last of these three, who was younger brother to Rich. Adam's mentioned among the Masters under the year 1651, became a Student of the said Coll. of Brasn. in Jul. 1649, and was made Fell. thereof on the 2 of June 1652. After he had taken the degree of Master he became a frequent Preacher in these parts, was removed from his Fellowship in 1662. for Nonconformity, went to London and carried on his Nonconformity by preaching in Conventicles. He hath written, The main principles of Christian Religion, in 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally received, as being proved from Scripture; now further cleared and confirmed by the consonant Doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England, under four heads, viz. of things to be, 1. Believed, etc. Lond. 1675 and 77. oct. much about which time the author died.  
Jul. 4. Rob. Harrison of Ch. Ch.— This person, who was born at Doncaster in Yorkshire, and uterine brother to Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall, was made Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors in 1648, and being afterwards beneficed, published two Sermons, viz. one on Am. 5.23.24. and another on Prov. 13.34. etc.  
George Boraston of Wadh. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He hath published The royal Law, or the golden rule of justice and charity: Sermon at the Anniversary Meeting of the Gentlemen, Inhabitants of London, and others, born within the County of Worcester; at S. Laurence Ch. 29 Nou. 1683. on Math. 7.12. Lond. 1684. qu. and perhaps other things. His father was Minister of Beaudley in the same County, at which place the Author of the said Sermon was born; and some years after he had left the University he was presented to the Rectory of Hever in Kent by Dr. Gunning, while he was B. of Chichester.  
Jul. 6. Henr. Hallywell of Brasn. Coll.— I set him down here not that he was a Writer, but to distinguish him from another of both his names who was one, Master of Arts and sometimes Fell. of Chr. Coll. in Cambr, and afterwards Minister of Ifeild in Sussex: who, among several things that he hath published, hath written (1) An account of Familisme, as it is revived and propagated by the Quakers, etc. Lond. 1673. oct. Answered by Will. P●nn a Quaker sometimes Gent. Com. of Ch. ●h. (2) A Vindication of the Account of Familisme, from the impertinent cavils of Will. Penn. Lond. in oct. (3) The sacred method of saving humane souls by Jesus Christ. Lond. 1677. oct. (4) Mel●mpronoea: or, a discourse of the policy and kingdom of darkness. Together, with a solution of the chiefest objections brought against the being of Witches. Lond. 1682. oct. He hath also collected and published The remains of that rev. and learned Prelate Dr. George Rust late L. Bishop of Dromore in Ireland. Lond. 1686. qu.  
Mar. 22. Rowl. Stedman of Vniv. Coll.  
Admitted 8●. or thereabouts.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Physic was admitted this year.  

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 19 Ezrael Tongue of Vniv. Coll.— He was the only person that was admitted to the said degree this year.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was adm. this year.  

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 19 Rich. Nayler of Magd. Hall.— This Gent. who accumulated the degrees in Phys. was originally of Cays Coll. in Cambridge, into which he was admitted an. 1639, and afterwards studied Physic for 9 years together.  
Feb. 16. Philip Stephen's Principal of Hart Hall.— This Physician who was born at Devises in Wilts, was originally of S. Alban Hall, and afterwards made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors, and became half author (William Browne being the other) of a book of Simpling or Botany intit. Catalogus horti botanici Oxoniensis alphabeticè digestus, etc. cui accessere plantae minimum sexaginta suis nominibus insignitae, quae nullibi nisi in hoc opusculo memorantur. Oxon. 1658. oct. The foundation of the said book was taken from another intit. Catalogus plantarum horti medici Oxoniensis, scil Latino-Anglicus & Anglico-Latinus. Oxon. 1648. oct. Written by Jacob Bobart of Brounswick in Germany Keeper of the Physic Garden belonging to the University of Oxon. Dr. Stephens died at London after the restauration of K. Ch. 2, and J. Bobart in his Garden-house on the 4 of Febr. 1679, whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon.  ☞ Not one was admitted or licenced to proceed in Divinity this year.  

Incorporations.  
Jul. 11. Gasper Needham M. of A. of Peter House in Cambr.— This person, who was at this time and the year before a Student in this Uniu. for the sake of the public Library, was afterwards Doct. of Physic, one of the Coll. of Phys, and eminent for the practice of it in London. He paid his last debt to nature on the 31 of Oct. 1679, aged 57 years: Whereupon his body was buried in the middle of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget near Fleetstreet in the said City. There is a monument, not over his grave, but on the south wall at the upper end of the south alley or isle joining to the said Church. One of his surname and family called Walter Needham Doct. of Phys, honorary Fellow of the said Coll. of Physicians, and Physician to Sutton's Hospital called the Charter house near Lond, did spend also some time in Oxon for the sake of the public Library; but whether ever incorporated it appears not. He hath written Disquisitio Anatomica de formato Foetu. Lond. 1667. oct, with Sculptures. He died on the 16 of Apr. 1691, and was buried obscurely in the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near Lond, having for several years before not lived in Sutton's Hospital for the relief of the poor Pensioners as he ought, according to the Founders will, to have done, but in Great Queenstreet within the Liberty of Westm. where he died as honest a man as Dr. Th. Cox and Dr. D. Whistler did elsewhere, and yet he (as both the others) had great practice. Executions were out against him to seize both body and goods, etc.  
Jul. 11. Rob. Sawyer M. A. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr.— He was a younger son of Sir Edm. Sawyer living sometimes near Windsor in Berks, and was now, or soon after, a Barrister of the Inner Temple, (of which he at length became Treasurer) grew eminent for his practice in Lond, and in Oxford Circuit which he frequented several years. Afterwards he was a Recruiter for Great Wycomb in Bucks, to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. 8 May 1661., was Knighted, and on the 14 of Feb. 1680, was sworn Attorney Gen. in the place of Sir Creswell Levinz or Levens made one of the Judges of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Will. Ellis deceased. In the beginning of Dec. 1687 he was removed from that honourable place of Attorney by K. James 2, and Sir Tho. Powis was put in his room, and in his of Solicitor Gen. Will. William's Esq▪ on whom his Maj. at that time conferred the honour of Knighthood. Under the name of this person (Sir R. Sawyer) and under those of Mr. Heneage Finch, Sir Geo. Treby and Mr. Hen. Polexfen, are extant Plead and Arguments with other Proceedings in the Court of King's Bench upon the Quo Warranto touching the Charter of the City of London, with the Judgement entered thereupon, etc. Lond. 1690. fol. In the year following he built and finished the Church of Highcleere in Hampshire, where he hath a plentiful Estate.  
Jul. 11. Hen. Paman M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. in the said Uniu. of Cambr. was then also incorporated.— See more among the Incorporations an. 1669.  
Thom. Viner M. A. of Catherine Hall in the same Uniu. was incorporated on the said day.— This person, who was brother to Sir Rob. Viner of Lond. Goldsmith, was afterwards Rector of Bradwell in Essex, Bach. and Doct. of Div, Preb. of Gloc. in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmstry deceased, an. 1665, Canon of Windsor in the room of Dr. Joh. Heaver sometimes of Clare Hall in Cambr. deceased, in Jul 1670, and at length Dean of Gloucester on the death of Dr. Will. Brough, an 1671. He died on the eleventh of Apr. 1673, aged 44 years, and was buried in our Lady's Chap. at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Gloucester, where there is a monument, with an inscription thereon, over his grave. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Rob. Frampton, and in his Canonry of Windsor Dr. Isaac Vossius, etc.  
The said 4 Cambr. men who were incorporated, were of the number of 26 Masters of Arts of the said Uniu. that were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act.  
Octob. 31. Abel Collier Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— He had that degree conferred on him at Milan in Jan. 1654.  
Dec. 13. Lodovic de Lambermont of Sedan, a young man of great hopes and learning, son of Joh. Lambermont of the same place, and Doctor of Phys. of the Uniu. of Valence, was then incorporated Doctor of that faculty.— His Diploma for the taking of that degree at Valence, bears date 8 Mar. 1651. Under the name of Lambermontius, is extant Anthologia Graec. Lat. Lond. 1654. oct. Whether published by the said Lod. Lamberm. I know not. Qu.  
Jan. 18. George Bear Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— The said degr. was conferred upon him at Pad. in Octob. 1652. He was originally of Exeter Coll.   

Creations.  
Jul. 16. Steph. Budaeus a Transylvanian, who had spent some years in the Uniu. of Groaning, Vtrecht and Franaker, was actually created Master of Arts.  
At this time, and before, were several Hungarians that studied in Oxon, for the sake of the publs. Library: some of which being poor, had Commons daily allowed to them in Ch. Ch. Hall, by the favour of Dr. Joh. Owen the D●an and the then Canons of that House.  
Jul. 18. It was then granted by the Delegates of the University, and afterwards by the Convocation, that Sam. Smith late Fellow of S. Joh. Coll, who was admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts 12 years before this time (since which he was a constant Preacher, partly in Essex, but mostly in London) might be actually created M. of A. in any Convoc. or Congreg.— This person is now, or at least was lately, Ordinary of the Prison in Lond. called Newgate, and hath published several things.  
Nou. 23. Sam. Birch of S. Mary's Hall, who had been several years a Captain in the Parl. Army, was actually created M. of A. being then between 30 and 40 years of age.— He was about this time made one of the Chaplains of C. C. Coll, and afterwards being averse to Conformity, he taught a private School at Shilton in Berks, near Burford in Oxfordshire, where he had constantly under his tuition the sons of divers persons of quality, and those too who were good Loyalists. He died at that place 22 Jan. 1679, leaving behind him the character of a good man among the precise people, but otherwise among the neighbouring Royalists, who esteemed him an instiller of evil Principles into youth.  
Feb. 12. Gustavus Queckfeldt a noble Sweed of high birth and eminent for his learning, lately commended to the favour of the University by an Englishman called Sir George Fleetwood a Baron of Sweedland, was actually created Doct. of the Civ. Law.  
Benedict Queckfeldt brother to Gustavus, commended also by the said Sir Geo. Fleetwood, was at the same time created Doct. of the Civ. Law.  
These two persons, with Joh. Stuart another Sweed, were then Sojourners and Students in this University, as they had been about a year before, purposely to have the benefit of the publs. Library. The said two brothers, are now, or at least were lately, men of great name and place in Sweedland. The last, or the younger, who in his printed book, or books, writes himself Benedictus Gustavus Queckfeldt Sudremanius Suecus, that is, I suppose, of the Province of Sodermanland in Sweedland, did some exercise for the said degree which he printed with this title. Disputatio juridica inauguralis, de obligationibus ex contractibus qui re, verbis, literis & consensu perficiuntur, in illustriss. Anglorum Vniversitate quae Oxoniae est, etc. pro gradu Doctoratus ejusque privilegiis in Jure etc. ... Dec. 1655 modestè exhibita, Oxon. 1656. in 3 sh. in qu.  
This year Jacobus Oúzelius, who entitles himself Jurisconsultus Dantiscanus, was a Sojourner in Oxon, purposely to obtain the benefit of the public Library. He hath written De numismatibus, and is the same, as I conceive, who hath published Animadversiones in Minutii Felicis Octavium.    



An. Dom. 1656.  
An. 8 Car. 2.  
An. 3/4 Oliv. Prot.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Ol. Oromwell.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Owen, Oct. 7.  

Proct.  
Edw. Littleton of Alls. Coll. Apr. 16.  
Will. Carpender of Ch. C. Apr. 16.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Mar. 25. Will. Glynne Principal-Commoner of Jes. Coll.— In Jan. 1658 he was elected Knight for the County of Caernarvon to serve in Richard's Parliament, which began at Westm. on the 27 of the said month. On the 20 of May 1661. he was created a Baronet, and in 1668 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. See in Joh. Glynne among the Writers, p. 270.  

Jun. 5. Thom. Pittys of Trin. Coll.  
Oct. 13. Sam. Austin of Wadh. Coll.  
Oct. 13. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll.  
Oct. 13. Tho. Traherne of Brasn. Coll.  
Oct. 13. Hen. Hesketh of Brasn. Coll.   
The last of which, who hath written and published several things, is, as I presume, living, and therefore to be remembered hereafter.  

Jan. 29. Tho. Hockin of Magd. Coll.  
Jan. 29. Will. Shippen of Vniv. Coll.   
Of both which you may see among the Masters, an. 1659.  

Jan. 30. Dau. Lloyd of Oriel Coll.  
Jan. 30. Rich. Morton of New Coll.  
Feb. 3. Hen. Foulis of Queens Coll.   
The two first of these three are now living, one at Northop in Flintshire, and the other in Greyfriars Court within Newgate in Lond, and have published several things. The first of History, which he will scarce acknowledge, and the other of Physic; of which faculty he was created Doctor an. 1670, as I shall tell you when I come to that year.  

Feb. 6. Sam. Woodford of Wadh. Coll.  
Feb. 6. Arth. Brett of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these two is now Preb. of Winchester, and is and hath been celebrated for his Poetry. The other was a pretender to it, but not to be named or compared with the former.  
19 Joh Paradise of Mert. Coll.— This person, who was a Wiltshire man born, bred up among Presbyterians, and so dexterous in shorthand writing that he would take a Sermon verbatim from the mouth of any Preacher, which he would repeat in the College Chapel on Sundays after supper, was soon after made Minister of Westbury in his own Country, left his Presbyterian Principles, and became a Tory-Preacher for the Royal Cause. He hath written and published, A Sermon on David's humiliation for cutting off the royal robe, and detestation of cutting off the royal head of the Lords anointed, preached Januar. 30. an. 1660; being a solemn Fast for the horrid murder of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory. Lond. 1661.  
Mar. 21. Hen. Denton of Qu. Coll.— See among the Masters of Arts, an. 1659.  
Adm. 142.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul. ... Joh. Ailmer of New Coll.— He was now esteemed an excellent Grecian.  
Adm. 5.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 6. Owen Price of Ch. Ch. lately of Jesus Coll.  

Jun. 5. Ezek. Hopkins of Magd. Coll.  
20. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll.   
30. Will. James of Ch. Ch.  

Jul. 9 Joh. Wagstaffe of Oriel Coll.  
Jul. 9 Clem. Ellis of Qu. Coll.   
Dec. 13. Hen. Stubbe of Ch. Ch.  
Mar. 17. Tho Wight of C. C. Coll.— This person, who was made Fellow of the said Coll, as born in the County Pal. of Durham, was afterwards Rector of West Hendreth in Berks, and wrote and published A discourse of Schism, for the benefit of humble Christians. Lond. 1690. qu. He is living there, and may publish hereafter more things.  
Adm. 64.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll.  
Besides him were four admitted, and Rob. Wood M. A. of Linc. Coll, who had studied Physic six years, was licenced to practise that faculty, by the decree of Convocation, Apr. 10.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Diu. was adm. this year, only created.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law was adm. this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Jul. 3. Franc. Hungerford of Alls. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Rich. Lydall of Mert. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll.   
These three accumulated the degrees in Physic.  
7. Thom. King of Brasn. Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 12. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv. Coll.  
He was the only person that was licenced to proceed this year.   

Incorporations.  
Mar. 27. James Windet Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.— The said degree was conferred on him at Leyd. in July 1655. This person who was afterwards of the Coll. of Physicians at Lond. was a good Latin Poet, a most excellent Linguist, a great Rabbi, a curious Critic, and rather shaped for Divinity than the faculty he professed. He hath extant under his name (1) Ad Majestatem Caroli II. sylvae duae. Printed in qu. (2) De vitâ functorum statu: ex Hebraeorum, atque Graecorum comparatis sententiis concinnatus: cum corollario de Tartaro Apost. Petri in quem praevaricatores Angelos dejectos memorat. Lond. 1663. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen, among which is the Epist. ded. to the most ingenious Joh. Hall of Durham set before an edition of Stierius' Philosophy, printed and published by Rog. Daniel Printer to the University of Cambridge; who having a great respect for the said Mr. Hall, got Dr. Windet to write it; which being done, Mr. Daniel set his own name to it, purposely to do honour to that young Gent. of great and wonderful hopes. This Dr. Windet left behind him at his death (which, those of his profession say, happened about 1680) a quarto Manuscript containing many of his Lat. Poems, which at this day go from hand to hand, having been exposed to sale in one or more Auctions.  
Apr. 25. Huntingdon Plumtre Doct. of Phys. of Cambr.— This person was a Nottinghamshire man born, was descended from those of his name of Plumtre in that County, and when a young Master of Arts of Cambr. wrote Epigrammatum opusculum, duobus libellis distinctum. Lond. 1629. oct. and to it added Homeri Batrachomyomachia latino carmine reddita, variisque in locis aucta & illustrata.  
Jun. 3. Thom. Browne Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— This person, who had that degree conferred on him at Pad. in Sept. 1654., is different from the famous Sir Thom. Browne of Norwich, whom I have mentioned among the Writers, under the year 1682. p. 535.  
Jul. 5. Rich. Steel M. of A. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr.— This person, who was living a Nonconformist Minister in 1684, hath written several things, among which are (1) The Husbandman's calling, showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties of the christian husbandman, in eleven Sermons. Lond. 1668. 72. etc. oct. (2) A plain discourse of uprighteousness, showing the properties and privileges of an upright man. Lond. 1671. etc. oct. (3) An antidote against distractions; or, an endeavour to serve the Church in the daily case of wander in the worship of God. Printed thrice at least in oct. The third edit. was printed in 1673. (4) The Tradesman's calling. Being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, etc. of a calling in general: and directions for the right managing of the Tradesman's calling in particular. Lond. 1684. oct.  
Jul. 5. Edw. Fowler now or lately Chapl. of C. C. Coll. in Oxon, was incorporated Mast. of Arts as a member of Trin. Coll, in Cambridge.— He is the same who took the degree of B. of A. an. 1653, and the same who was afterwards B. of Gloc. He retired, as it seems, for a time to Cambr. and taking the degree of Master there, returned to his Coll. again in Oxon.  
Oct. 10. Pet. du Moulin D. of D. of Leyden in Holland, (afterwards confirmed or incorporated at Cambr,) was then incorporated in this Uniu. in the same degree.— He was the son of Pet. du Moulin the famous Protestant Writer of France, came into England in his elder years; but whether he had preferment before the grand or Presbyterian Rebellion broke forth I know not. After Ireland was reduced by the Parl. Forces, he lived there, sometimes at Lismore, Yoghal, and Dublin, under the Patronage of Richard Earl of Cork. Afterwards going into England, he settled in Oxon (where he was Tutor or Governor to Charles Visc. Dungarvan and Mr. Rich. Boil his brother, Canon Commoners of Ch. Ch.) lived there two or more years and preached constantly for a considerable time in the Church of S. Peter in the East. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he became Chaplain in ordinary to him and Prebendary of Canterb, where he spent the remaining part of his days. He hath written, (1) Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum. Hag. Com. 1652. qu. See more in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 883. (2) Treatise of peace and contentment of mind. Lond. 1657. etc. in a thick oct. The third edition, of this book which came out in 1678 was revised and much amended by the author. (3) A week of Soliloquies and Prayers, with a preparation to the holy Communion. Printed there the same year, and again in 1678. 79. in tw. In which edition are added other Devotions, in two parts. (4) Vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Religion in point of obedience to Sovereigns, etc. in answer to a Jesuitical libel intit. Philanax Anglicus. Lond. 1667. qu. and 1679, which is the 4 edit. (5) Poematum Libelli tres. Cambr. 1670. oct. In which book, p. 128, is an Epicedium on Dr. Will. Juxon Archb. of Cant. In another edition of these Poems in 1671 was added Mantissa aliquot poematum. (6) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Incrementum Psal. XCII. ver. 14. Lond. 1671. oct. (7) Serm. at the Funeral of Dr. Thomas Turner Dean of Canterb. 17 Oct. 1672, on Philip. 1.21. Lond. 1672. qu. (8) Addition to a book written by his father intit. The papal Tyranny as it was exercised over England for some ages. Lond. 1674. qu. (9) Papal Tyranny; two Sermons on Rev. 18. 4.5. Ibid. 1674. qu. (10) Reply to a person of honour his pretended answer to the Vindication of the Protestant Religion in point of obedience to Sovereigns, and to the book of Papal Tyranny. Lond. 1675. qu. (11) Ten Sermons preached on several occasions. Lond. 1684. oct. Among which are those, I presume, before mentioned. He hath written, as I conceive, other things, but such I have not yet seen, and also translated from French into English (1) Faith in the just, victorious over the World; Serm. preached at the Savoy in the Fr. Church 10 Oct. 1669. Lond. 1670. qu. Which Serm. was preached by Dr. Franc. Durant de Brevall (heretofore Preacher to Hen. Maria the Qu. Mother) installed Preb. of Westminster in May 1671. (2) The ruin of Papacy: or, a clear display of the Simony of the Romish Clergy. With a circulatory Letter to the Fathers of those Virgins that desert their families to turn Nuns. Lond. 1679. oct. etc. This Dr. du Moulin, who was an honest and zealous Calvinist, died in the 84 year of his age, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury 10 Oct. 1684. The last words which he uttered on his deathbed were, Since Calvinism is cried down, actum est de religione Christi apud Anglos, etc. In his Prebendship succeeded the learned and pious Will. Beveridge a Native of Leicestershire, D. of D. of Cambr. and Archdeacon of Colchester, installed therein 5 Nou. 1684.  
Feb. 16. Joseph Teate Mast. of Arts of Dublin.— He was originally Bach. of Arts of S. John's Coll. in this Uniu. Whence going into Ireland, he took the degree of Master at Dublin 17 Aug. 1655. I find A Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of S. Canier Kilkenny, 27 Feb. 1669. Lond. 1670. qu, preached by Joseph Teat Dean thereof; which Joseph is to be understood to be the same with the former.  
Feb. 19 Joh. Packer Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond.  
Mar. 10. The most famous and learned Theophilus de Garencieres of Paris, made Doct. of Phys. at Caen in Normandy 20 years before this time, was then (Mar. 10.) incorporated here in the same degree, not only upon sight of his testimonial Letters (which abundantly speak of his worth) subscribed by the K. of France his Ambassador in Engl. (to whom he was domestic Physician) but upon sufficient knowledge had of his great merits, his late relinquishing the Rom. Church, and zeal for that of the Reformed.— This person who was one of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond. hath written (1) Angliae flagellum, seu Tabes Anglica. Lond. 1647. in twenty fours. (2) The admirable virtues and wonderful effects of the true and genuine tincture of Coral in Physic, grounded by reason, established by experience, and confirmed by authentical authors in all ages. Lond. 1676. in oct, and other things as I conceive, but such I have not yet seen. He also translated into English The true prophecies or prognostications of Mich▪ Nostradamus', Physician to K. Hen. 2, Francis 2, and Charles' 9 Kings of France, etc. Lond. 1672. fol. He died poor and in an obscure condition in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westm, occasioned by the unworthy dealings of a certain Knight, which in a manner broke his heart; but the particular time when I cannot tell.  
19 Walt. James Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— The said degree he took at Milan in October 1655.   

Creations.  
Apr. 10. Peter Vasson was created Bach. of Phys. by virtue of the Chancellors (O. Cromwell) Letters, dat. 25 Mar. this year, which say that he the said Chanc. had received very good satisfaction from several hands touching Mr. Vasson, as to his suffering for his Religion in his own Nation, his service in the late Wars to the Commonwealth, his skill in the faculty he professeth, and success (through the blessing of God) in the practice of it, together with the unblameableness of his conversation, etc.  
25. Oliver Pocklington M. of A. of Cambr. now a practitioner of Physic at Nottingham, was created Doct. of Physic by virtue of the said Chancellors Letters written in his behalf.  
May 6. Thom. Tiszaebetsi or Tizabetsi a Transylvanian (Hungario Transylvanus) was created M. of A.  
Dec. 29. Faustus Morsteyn a Noble man of the Greater Poland was created M. of A. by virtue of a Dispens. from the Delegates.— He was a Student or Sojourner in the Uniu. several years purposely to obtain learning from the publs. Libr.  
Jan. 29. Abrah. Conyard of Rouen in Normandy, who had studied Divinity several years in Academies in France and Switzerland, was created Bach. of Diu. by the decree of the Members of Convocation, who were well satisfied with his Letters testimonial under the hands of the Pastors of the reformed Church of Rouen, written in his behalf.  
In the beginning of this year studied in Ox. in the condition of a Sojourner Henry Oldenburg who wrote himself sometimes Grubendole, and in the month of June he was entered a Student by the name and title of Henricus Oldenburg, Bremensis, nobilis Saxo; at which time he was Tutor to a young Irish Noble man called Henry o Bryen, than a Student also there. He had been Consul for his Countrymen in the Duchy of Breme in Lower Saxony to reside in Lond in the time of the Long Parl. and Oliver, and acted for his Country men in that Office for some years. At length being quitted of that Employment, he continued in Engl, was Tutor to L. O Bryen before mentioned, and afterwards to Will. L. Cavendish, and at length upon the foundation of the Royal Society Fellow and Secretary thereof. He hath written, Philosophical Transactions; commencing from 6 March 1664, and carried on to Numb. 136, dated 25 June 1677; all in qu. By which work he rendered himself a great benefactor to mankind, by his affectionate care and indefatigable diligence and endeavours, in the maintaining philosophical intelligence and promoting the designs and interests of profitable and general Philosophy: And translated into English (1) The prodromus to a dissertation concerning Solids naturally contained within Solids, etc. Lond 1671. oct. Written by Nich. S. Steno. (2) A genuine explication of the book of Revelation, full of sundry new christian considerations, etc. Lond. 1671. oct. Written by the learned and pious A. B. Peganius. (3) The life of the Duchess of Mazarine. Printed in oct, and other things which I have not yet seen. This Mr. Oldenburg died at Charlton near Greenwich in Kent in Aug. 1678, and was buried there, leaving then behind him issue (by his wife the dau. and only child of the learned Joh. Dury a Scot, by whom he had an Estate of 60 l. per an. in the Marshes of Kent) a son named Rupert, Godson to Pr. Rupert and a daughter called Sophia. As for Henry Lord O Bryen before mentioned, he was the eldest son of Henry Earl of Thomond, and was afterwards one of his Majesty's Privy Council in Irel. He died in Aug. 1678, to the very great grief of his Relations: Whereupon his widow Catherine, Baroness Clifton, Sister and Heiress to Charles sometimes Duke of Richmond, was married to Sir Joseph Williamson, one of the principal Secretaries of State, in Decemb. following. By which match, though he lost his place of Secretary, by the endeavours of Tho. Earl of Danby, who intended her for one of his sons, yet he obtained large possessions in Kent and elsewhere, and the hereditary High Stewardship of Gravesend in the said County.    



An. Dom. 1657.  
An. 9 Car. 2.  
An. 4/5 Oliv. Prot.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Oliver Cromwell, etc. but he resigning on the 3 of July, his eldest son commonly called Lord Rich. Cromwell was elected into his place on the 18, and installed at Whitehall the 29, of the said month.  
Vicechanc. Joh. Conant Doct. of Diu. Rector of Exeter Coll. Oct. 9  

Proct.  
Sam. Byfield of C. C. Coll. Apr. 8.  
Sam. Conant of Exet. Coll. Apr. 8.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 20. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll.  
May 28. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll.   
The first of these two was afterward a celebrated Writer, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered. Of the other you may see among the Bach. of Diu. 1669.  

Jun. 8. Joseph Guillim of Brasn. Coll.  
12. Jenkin Christopher of Jes. Coll.   
Of the first of these two, who was originally of Mert. Coll, you may see among the Bach. of Diu. 1669, and of the other among the Masters of Arts 1660.  
Jul. 7. Rich. Griffith of Vniv. Coll.— He was lately Censor of the Coll. of Phys, and hath published one or more things of his faculty. See among the Masters, an. 1660.  
Oct. 10. Joh. Quick of Exet. Coll.— This person, who was a Servitor of that House, and afterwards beneficed in the West parts of England, I take to be the same Joh. Quick who published The Test of true godliness: Sermon preached at the Funeral of Philip Harris late of Alston in the County of Devon. Esq. 10 Aug. 1681. Lond. 1681. 2. qu.  

Oct. 15. Tho. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll.  
Oct. 15. George Vernon of Brasn. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more under the tit. of Doct. of Phys 1668. The other is now living in Glocestersh, and hath published several things.  

24. Philip Marinel of Pemb. Coll.  
24. Capell Wiseman of Qu. Coll.   
Of the first you may see more among the Master's 1660. The other, who was afterwards Fellow of Alls. Coll, is now Bishop of Dromore in Ireland.  

Dec. 17. Edm. Thorn of Or. Coll.  
Jan. 15. Tim. Hall of Pemb. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see among the Masters, an. 1661. The other, who took no higher degree in this Uniu. was afterwards Bishop of Oxon.  

Jan. 28. Franc. Vernon of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 4. Nath. Bisby of Ch. Ch.   
The last of these two did afterwards publish several Sermons, and is now, I suppose, living and beneficed near Sudbury in Suffolk.  
9 Tho. Marsden of Brasn. Coll.— See among the Masters in 1661.  

12. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll.  
12. Narcissus' Marsh of Magd. Hall.   
The first hath published several things, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered. The last was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll, Principal of S. Alb. Hall, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and at length Archb. of Cashells, in Ireland. He hath written and published certain matters, and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter among the Writers and Bishops.  

Feb. 19 Tim. Nurse of Vniv. Coll.  
23. Joshua Stopford of Magd. Coll.   
The first of these two hath published several ingenious books, and is now living in Worcestershire. The other was esteemed a good Grecian, and would sometimes coarse in Greek in the public Schools.  
Mar. 9 Robert Huntingdon of Mert. Coll.— In the beginning of the year 1692 he became Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland in the place of Dr. Will. Sherendon a Non-juror, who had been consecrated B. of that City on the 19 of Febr. 1681.  
Adm. 152.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul. 4. Thomas Ireland of S. Mary's Hall.— This ingenious person, who was son of Will. Ireland Vergerer of the Church of Westminster, was bred in the Coll. School there, and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch, but ejected in the time of Oliver by Dr. Owen his Dean: Whereupon retiring to S. Mary's Hall, he entered upon the Law line and took a degree as a member of that house. After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2. he obtained his Students place again, but took no higher degree, yet in the vacancy of the See of Durham between the death of Dr. Joh. Cousin and the translation thereunto of Dr. Crew, he had conferred on him the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Durham. He hath extant, besides several copies of verses occasionally printed in books, Verses spoken at the appearance of the K. and Cue, Duke and Duchess of York in Christ Church Hall, Oxford, 29 Sept. 1663. Oxon. 1663. qu. They were also about the same time printed at Lond. with this title, Speeches spoken to the K. and Cue, Duke and, etc. pr. in qu. After dinner of the same day his Majesty with his royal Consort and their royal Highnesses went from their Lodgings with their respective Retinews purposely to see that spacious Refectory which had been built by the great Cardinal Wolsey; where the Dean, Canons and Students waiting their coming, Mr. Ireland spoke the said Verses (in number 116) on his knees: Which being well done the K. thanked him for them, gave him his hand to kiss and commanded a copy of them. This Mr. Ireland, who might have done greater matters had not his mind been diverted by the frequent indulgences of Poets, died at or near the Golden Lion in the Strand within the Liberty of Westm. during his attendance on his beloved Miss, in the middle of Decemb. 1676. Whereupon Dr. Rich. Lloyd of Alls. Coll. succeeded him in his Chancellourship.  
Dec. 15. Hugh Davis of New Coll.— He hath published an English book in fol intit. De jure Vniformitatis Ecclesiasticae, etc. and therefore larger mention is to be made of him hereafter.  
Adm. 5.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 9 Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the Univ, and Chaplain to Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury, who, while he was L. Chancellor of Engl. procured for him a Prebendship in the Church of Nerwich and Gloucester. Another of both his names is a Physician now living, and therefore this Nath. Hodges ought to be mentioned for distinction sake.  
21. Gabr. Towerson of Qu. afterwards of Alls. Coll.  

May 29. George Castle of Alls. Coll.   

June 11. Tho. Sprat of Wadh. Coll.  
June 11. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch.  
June 11. Nath. Vincent of Ch. Ch.   
12. Rob. South  
15. Edw. West of S. Mary's Hall.  
17. Thom. Owen of Mert. Coll.— He was afterwards Archdeacon of S. David.  

Jul. 4. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll.  
20. Richard Berry of Brasn. Coll.   
The last of these two was afterwards made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. purely upon the account of his Voice and good Singing, but being forced to leave that house, upon no good account, in the beginning of June 1670 he went into Ireland to seek his fortune; but whether beneficed there I cannot tell. He hath published A Sermon upon the Epiphany, preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin, 1672.— printed in qu. and perhaps other things. Qu.  
Dec. 15. Dan. Nicols of S. Joh. Coll.— This person, who had, by the Visitors, been made Scholar of his Coll, of which he was afterwards Fellow, conformed after his Majesty's restauration, and at length became Rector of Scotton in Lincolnshire. He hath published A Sermon preached in the Cathedral of Lincoln 18 Jul. 1681, being Assize-Munday, on 1 Sam. 12.14.15. Lond. 1681. qu. and perhaps other things.  
Adm. 101. or thereabouts.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was adm. this year.  

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 18. James Bedford of Queens Coll.— This person, (a young forward Presbyterian) who was one of the number of Cambridge men that came to Oxon in 1648 to obtain preferment from the Visitors, was by them made Fellow of Queens Coll, being then Bach of Arts. So that he and George Phillips another of the same gang (afterwards Proctor of the Uniu.) being Juniors and wanting good chambers, they did on the 21 of May 1649 make a motion to the Society of that House that forasmuch as the younger Fellows had bad Chambers, they would allow that the outward Chapel (which they said was useless) might be converted into Chambers for them to lodge in, etc. Which motion being looked upon by the Seniors there (men of the old stamp) as a horrid and villainous thing, they did not dare to express it so, for fear of danger that might ensue, but passed it over as a slight matter. Afterwards this Mr. Bedford, who was a forward and conceited person, and presumed to take his degree of Bac. of Diu. before those who were much his Seniors in the House, became Pastor of Blunsham and Erith in Huntingdonshire before this year, and wrote and published The perusal of an old Statute concerning death and judgement, Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. Francis Bedford (dau. of Sam. Bedford a member of Parliament and Justice of Peace for the County of Bedford) who died 18 Jan. 1656 aged 12 years, on Heb. 9.27. Lond. 1657. qu. The said Sam was brother to James Bedford the author, who perhaps hath published other things. Qu.  

Jul. 23. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll.  
Jul. 23. Tho. Lamplugh of Qu. Coll.  
Jul. 23. Tho. Tully of Qu. Coll.  
Jul. 23. Rich. Rallingson of Qu. Coll.    

Doct. of Law.  
Jun. 27. Will. Offley of Vniv. Coll.  
He was the only person that was adm. this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Jun. 18. Pet. Fiott of Exet. Coll.  
19 Edw. Stubbe of Pemb. Coll.  
23. Will. Quaterman of Pemb. Coll.  
30. Elisha Coysh of Pemb. Coll.   
The last was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physicians.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted this year.  

Incorporations.  
May 14. Joh. Collins M. A. of Cambr.— Whether he be the same Joh. Collins who was Doct. of Diu. and author of Several discourses concerning the actual providence of God; divided into three parts, etc. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. and of other things as 'tis probable, I cannot yet tell. He is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Collinges Bach. of Diu. and sometimes Minister of S. Stephen's Parish in Norwich, a frequent Writer before this time, because their names differ. See the titles of some of his works in Bodlies' Catalogue and elsewhere in others. Now I am got into the name of Collins I cannot but let the Reader know something of John Collins the Accountant, who, having been a person of extraordinary worth, considering his education, you may be pleased therefore to know that he was born at Wood-Eaton near to, and in the County of, Oxon, on Saturday 5 March 1624. His father was a Nonconformist Divine, and though not suffered to preach in Churches, yet in Prisons to Malefactors, which, with the correcting of the Press, obtained him a subsistence. At 16 years of age Joh. Collins was put an Apprentice to a Bookseller (one Tho. Allam) living without the Turl-gate of Oxon, but Troubles soon after following, he left that Trade, and was employed in Clerkship under, and received some mathematical knowledge from, Mr. Joh. Marr one of the Clerks of the Kitchen to Pr. Charles, afterwards K. Ch. 2, I mean the same Mr. Marr who was eminent for his mathematical knowledge, and noted for those his excellent Dial's, wherewith the Gardens of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. were adorned. But the intestine Wars and Troubles increasing, Collins lost that employment and went seven years to sea, most part of it in an English Merchantman, that became a Man of War in the Venetian Service against the Turks: In which, having leisure, he applied part of his studies to Mathematics, and Merchant-Accompts, and upon his return he fell to the practice thereof, and afterwards professed Writing, Merchant-Accompts, and some parts of Mathematics: And having drawn up some books of Accounts, and divers loose questions, for the instructions of his Scholars in the year 1652, he committed them to the press, under the title of An introduction to Merchant's Accounts. They were reprinted in 1665 without alteration, and in 1666 the fire consumed the greatest part of the impression. At length it was reprinted with the addition of two more Accounts than were formerly extant. On the 12. of Oct. 1667 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society upon the publication in the Philos. Transact. of his Solution of a Problem concerning time, to wit, about the Julian Period, with divers Perpetual Almanacs in single verses; a Chorographical Problem, and other things afterwards in the said Transact. concerning Merchants Accounts, Compound Interest, and Annuities, etc. While Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury was L. Chanc. he nominated him in divers references concerning suits depending in Chancery, about intricate Accounts, to assist in the stating thereof, which was some emolument to him, and to the shortening of the charge of the parties concerned: From which time especially, his assistance was often used in other places and by other persons; whereby he not only obtained some wealth but a great name, and became accounted in matters of that nature the most useful and necessary person of his time, and thereupon, towards his latter end, he was made Accountant to the Royal Fishery Company. His works, besides those before mentioned, are among others (1) The Sector on a Quadrant: or, a treatise containing the description and use of four several Quadrants, etc. Lond. 1658. qu; in which there are very curious prints of two great Quadrants, and of two small Quadrants, with particular projections on them, serving for the Latitude of London. See in the Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Manilius made an English Poem. Lond. 1675. fol. pag. 116, written by Edw. Sherburne Esq, afterwards a Knight (2) Mariners plain Scale new plained. This is a treatise of Navigation and was print. in 1659. In which, besides projections of the Sphere, there are constructions for many Astronomical Problems and Spherical propositions. This book hath found good acceptance, and is now become a common Theme to the Scholars of Christ Ch. Hospital in London, whereof forty (by his Majesty's bounty and the establishing a Lecturer to instruct them) are constantly taught Navigation. (3) Treatise of Geometrical dialing. printed 1659. 'Tis of good esteem, both for the newness and easiness of method in situating the Requisites, and drawing the Hour-lines. (4) The doctrine of Decimal Arithmetic, simple interest, etc. As also of compound Interest and Annuities; generally performed for any time of payment, etc. Lond. 1664 in a quarter of a sheet, for portability in a Letter-case. It was published again by J. D.— Lond. 1685. (5) An introduction to Merchant's accounts: containing seven distinct questions or Accounts. 1. An easy question to enter beginners, etc. Lond. 1674. fol. (6) A plea for bringing in of Irish Cattle and keeping out of fish caught by Foreigners, etc. Lond. 1680. qu. (7) Address to the members of Parl. of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, about the advancement of Tin, Fishery and other Manufactures. Ibid. (8) Salt and Fishery: A discourse thereof insisting on the following heads. 1. The several ways of making salt in England, etc. Lond. 1682. qu. (9) Arithmetic in whole numbers and fractions, both vulgar and decimal: with Tables for the forbearance and rebate of money, etc. Lond. 1688. in tw, published by Tho. Plant Accountant. What other things Mr. Collins hath written I know not; and therefore I shall only say, that if we did not further enlarge by telling the World how much it is obliged for his pains in exciting the learned to publish their Works, and in acting the part of an ingenious Obstetrix at the Press, in correcting and in drawing of Schemes, we should be much injurious to his memory. After the Act at Oxon was finished, 1682, he road thence to Malmsbury in Wilts, in order to view the ground to be cut for a river between Isis and Avon: which journey being performed between twelve at noon and eleven at night in a hot day, he did, at his arrival in his Inn, drink more than he should at that time (being very hot and his blood not settled) of Red streak Cider; which giving him an Astma, and that a consumption, he died thereof in his Lodging on Garlick-hill in London, on Saturday 10. of Nou. 1683: whereupon his body was buried on Tuesday following in the Church of S. James Garlick-hythe in the South Isle just behind the Pulpit.  
June ... Tho. Margetson Doct. of Phys. of Aurange or Orange— This Physician, who was Son of Jam. Margetson of Yorkshire, was admitted a Student of Trin. Coll. near Dublin, 5. May 1647, retired to Oxon, in the latter of 1650, entered himself a Student of S. Mary's Hall, and as a member thereof he took the degrees in Arts: Afterwards applying his mind to the study of Phys. had the degree of Doctor of that faculty conferred on him at Aurange before mentioned in the middle of March 1656.  
These Cambridge men following were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act, on the 14 of July.  
John Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambr.— He became soon after Rector of Beckingham in Lincolnshire, and at length D. of Diu. He hath published one or more books.  
Edw. Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. before mentioned was incorporated on the same day— This person, who was younger Brother to the said Joh. Still. was born near Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire, was first Rector of Sutton in Bedfordshire by the favour of Sir Rog. Burgoyne, then of S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London, D. of D, Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty, Prebendary of Canterbury, Can. resid. of S. Paul's Cathedral, Dean thereof upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Sancroft to the See of Canterbury, and at length Bishop of Worcester: to which See he was consecrated in the Bishop of London's Chapel at Fulham on Sunday the 13 of Oct. 1689, with Dr. Sim. Patrick to Chichester, and Dr. Gilbert Ironside to Bristol, by the Bishops of London, S. Asaph and Rochester, by virtue of a Commission directed to them in that behalf. He hath published divers books, too many to have their titles set down here, in defence of the Church of England, which show him to be an orthodox and learned man. The first book which made him known to the world was his— Irenicum: A weapon salve for the Church's wounds. Lond. 1661.  
Tho. White of Peter House— I find one Thom. White a Minister of London (of Allhallows the Great as it seems) to be author of (1) Method, and instructions for the art of divine meditation, etc. Lond. 1655. etc. in tw. (2) Observations on the fourth, 5 and 6 Chapters of S. Matthew, etc. Lond. 1654. oct. (3) Treatise of the power of godliness, in three parts, etc. Lond. 1658 in tw. (4) A manual for Parents, wherein is set down very particular directions in reference to baptising, correcting, etc. Lond. 1660. etc. and of other things. Whether this author who was dead before 1671 be the same with the former Tho. White of Peter House, I know not.  
Rich. Cumberland M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Doct. of Diu. and published (1) De Legibus naturae disquisitio Philosophica, in qua ●arum forma, summa capita, ordo, promulgatio, & obligatio è rerum natura investigantur; quinetiam elementa Philosophiae Hobbianae, cum moralis tum civilis, considerantur & refutantur. Lond. 167●. qu. (2) An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures and weights, comprehending their moneys, by help of an ancient standard compared with ours of England, useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and Eastern Nations. Lond. 1686. oct. etc. This Dr. Cumberland was consecrated Bish. of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Tho. White (deprived for not taking the Oaths to K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary) in the Church of S. Mary Le Bow in London, on the 5 of July 1691; at which time other Bishops were consecrated.  
Matthew Pole or Poole M. of A. of Emanuel Coll.— He was Minister of S. Michael's in Le Querne in London, from whence being ejected for Nonconformity, an. 1662., he set himself to the writing of those admirable and useful books entit. Synopsis Criticorum Bibliorum, etc. The two first Volumes of which were printed at Lond. 1669, and three more afterwards, besides one in English; all in fol. He hath also written, (1) The Blasphemer slain with the sword of the spirit: or, a plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost, wherein the Deity of the spirit is proved against the Cavils of Joh. Biddle. Lond. 1654. in tw. (2) A model for the maintaining of Students of choice abilities in the University, and principally in order to the Ministry, etc. Printed 1658 in 3. sh. and an half in qu. (3) Letter to the Lord Charles Fleetwood. Lond. 1659. in one sh. in qu. It was delivered to that person (one of Olivers Lords) 13. of Dec. the same Year, in reference to the then juncture of affairs. (4) Quo Warranto. A moderate debate about the preaching of unordained persons: election, ordination, and the extent of the Ministerial relation, in vindication of the Jus Divinum Ministerii, from the exceptions of that late piece entit. The Preacher sent. Lond. 1659. qu. Written by the appointment of the Provincial Assembly at London. (5) Evangelical Worship, serm. before the L. Mayor 26. Aug. 1660. etc. Lond. 1660. qu. (6) The nullity of the Romish faith, etc. Oxon. 1666. oct. (7) Dialogue between a Popish Priest and English Protestant, wherein the principal points and arguments of both religions are truly proposed and fully examined. Lond. 1667 and several times after in tw. (8) Seasonable Apology for religion, on Matth. 11.19. Lond. 1673. qu, besides other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. He died at Amsterdam in Holland, (to which place he had retired for the free exercise of his religion) in the middle of Octob. 1679, leaving then behind him the character of Clarissimus Criticus & Casuista: whereupon his body was buried in a certain Vault under the Church which belongs to the English Merchants trading there. He left behind him certain English Annotations on the Holy Scripture, which being imperfect, were finished by other hands in two volumes in fol. an. 1685. See more among the Writers in Joh. Owen p. 564.  
Joh. Meriton M. A. of S. John's Coll.— He was before his Majesty's restauration the Sunday's Lecturer at S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster, afterward D. D. Rector of S. Michael's Church in Cornhill, Lecturer at (S. Marry Hill) etc. in London. He hath published several Sermons as (1) Curse not the King, preached at S. Mart. in the Fields, 30. Jan. 1660, on Eccles. 10.20. Lond. 1660. 61. qu. (2) Religio Militis, on Josh. 1.7, preached to the Artillery Company 24. Oct. 1672 at S. Mich. in Cornhill, Lond. 1673 qu. etc. I find another Joh. Meriton who was M. of A, Vicar of S. Ives in Huntingdonshire, Rector of St. Mary Bothaw in London, etc. and Chaplain to Henry Earl of Arlington, a publisher also of several Sermons, as of (1) The obligation of a good conscience to civil obedience, preached before the Judges at an Assize held at Huntingdon 24. Aug. 1670, on Rom. 13.5. Lond. 1670. qu. (2) Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, 30. July 1676. Lond. 1676 qu. etc.  
Will. Williams M. A. of Trin. Coll.— Several of both his names have been Writers, but whether this hath published any thing I know not.  
Anthony Walker M. A. of S. John's Coll.— He was afterwards Doct. of Div, Rector of Fyfield in Essex, Chaplain to his Majesty, and a publisher of several Sermons, as (1) Planctus Unigeniti, & spes resuscitandi: Or the bitter sorrows for a first born, etc. funeral Serm. on Luke 7.12. Lond. 1664. qu. (2) Leez lachrymen. sive Comitis Warwici justa. Serm. at the funeral of Charles Earl of Warwick, Baron Rich of Leezes, who being the fourth Earl of the Family and last of the direct line, died at his house of Leez le Rich in the County of Essex, 24. August 1673 aged 55, and was interred among his Ancestors in their Vault at Felsted adjacent 9 Sept. following, on Sam. 3.38. Lond. 1673. qu. (3) The virtuous Woman found, her loss bewailed and character, preached at Felsted in Essex 30. Apr. 1678 at the funeral of Mary Countess-Dowager of Warwick, etc. with so large additions which may be styled the life of that noble Lady. Lond. 1678. oct. To which are annexed some of her Pious and useful meditations. This book was afterwards reprinted twice at least in tw. (4) Say on: or, a seasonable plea for a full hearing between man and man, preached at Chelmsford in Essex, at the general Assize holden for that County, 8. July 1678. Lond. 1678. oct. (5) Serm. at the Blackfriars before the Company of Apothecaries 8. Sept. 1681. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. (6) The true interest of nations impartially stated, preached at the lent Assizes at Chelmsford in Essex 2. March 1690 proving, that the etc. Lond. 1691. qu. He hath also written and published The great evil of procrastination, or the sinfulness and danger of deferring repentance; in several discourses. Lond. 1681 in tw. And was, as it seems, the author of The holy life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker late Wife of (him) A. W.D. D. etc. giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity, etc. Lond. 1680. oct. with some Useful papers and letters written by her on several occasions. He hath other things extant which I have not seen, as Serm. on 2. Chron. 23.11.— printed 1660. qu. etc.  
Joh. Dillingham Bach. of Diu. of Sidney Coll.  
Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys. of Camb.  
.... Bernard D. of D. of the fame Uniu.— The Christian name of this Doctor is not registered, and therefore I do not know to the contrary but that he may be Nich. Bernard, of whom I have spoken in the Fasti 1628. Qu.  
All which Cambridge men viz. Joh. and Edw. Stillingfleet Thomas White, R. Cumberland, M. Poole, J. Meriton, W. Williams, A. Walker, J. Diliingham, Jo. Browne and ... Bernard were incorporated on the 14. of July. There were 34 Masters of that University incorporated on the same day, among whom, besides those before mentioned, was Tho. Wilson of Clare Hall; one of both whose names was Rector of Arrow in Warwickshire, after his Majesty's restauration, a Writer against the Quakers, as Will. Pen, G. Fox, G. Whitehead, etc. an. 1678 and author of Sermons in 1679. 83 etc. whether the same I cannot tell. One Will. Johnson also of the said Hall of Clare, was then incorporated, but not to be taken with one of both his names, who was D. of D, Chaplain and Sub-Almoner to K. Ch. 2, author of Deus nobiscum; A narrative of a great deliverance at Sea. Lond. 1659., etc. oct. and of other things. He died 4. March 1666 aged 54 years, and was buried in the north trancept, or isle joining on the north side of the choir of S. Peter's Ch. in Westminster.   

Creations.  
July 9 Edw. Davenport of Vniv. Coll. was created Bach. of Phys. by dispensation from the Delegates— I find this person to be admitted to the said degree 15 June 1661., and the same day admitted to practise his faculty.  
July 29. Richard Cromwell Chanc. elected of the University of Oxon, was actually created Mast. of Arts in a Convocation of certain Doctors and Masters of the University held in Whitehall, within the liberty of Westm, and soon after, in the same Convocation, he was installed Chancellor of the said University, which was the first public honour done unto him in the nation.— He was the eldest Son of Oliver L. Protector, and had no other breeding than in hawking, hunting, horse-racing, etc. He was a boon companion, and had done no service in the Parliament Army, unless it was the often drinking his Father's Landlords (K. Ch. 2.) health. His abilities in praying and preaching and love to the Sectaries was much like those of his cousin Rich. Ingoldesby, mentioned among the Creations of M. of A. under the year 1649. However he being designed to be his Father's successor in tne Protectorate, was, about the time that this honour was done to him, sworn a Privy Counsellor, made a Colonel in the Army, (when fight was over) to the end that he might have an interest in parties and parts of the Body politic, and the first Lord of the Other House. About that time he was commonly called the most noble Lord Richard, and rife discourses there were of Richard the fourth, but they proved no more than the story of Queen Dick. On the 4 of Sept. 1658, he was proclaimed Lord Protector (his Father dying the day before) at the usual places in London where Kings use to be, and soon after had addresses flew to him at Whitehall from all parts of the three Nations, to salute and magnify his assumption to the Sovereignty, wherein he was celebrated for his excellency of his wisdom and nobleness of mind, for the lovely composition, of his body, etc. as if he had been another Titus, Deliciae Gentis & Dominii Britanici, etc. In the latter end of Apr. 1659. he was, as a pitiful thing, laid aside and deposed: Whereupon withdrawing to Hursley in Hampshire, absconded there for a time. He had before taken to Wife Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Rich. Maijor or Mager of Hursley before mentioned, Son of Joh. Maijor sometimes Mayor and Alderman of Southampton, by whom he had issue Oliver Cromwell and other Children. The other Daughter and Coheir named Anne was married to John Dunch of Pusey in Berks, Son of Sam. Dunch of North Baddisley in Hampshire Esq, by whom he had a Son named Major or Maijor Dunch and other Children. This Rich. Cromwell, who was born in the ancient Borough of Huntingdon, has gone through no death as yet, only a political one. His younger Brother formerly called Lord Harry L. Lieut. of Ireland, was born also at Hunt. and died, and was buried some years since at Wickhen in Cambridgshire.  
Sept. 5. Robert Whitehall M. of A. of Mert. Coll. was created Bac. of Phys. by virtue of the Letters of R. Cromwell Chanc. of the University.  
Nou. 11. Jos. Williamson of Qu. Coll, now in France, was diplomated M. of A.  
Dec. 2. Abraham Cowley the great ornament of our Nation, as well by the candour of his life, as the excellency of his writings was created Doctor of Phys.— This Gentleman, who is justly characterized to be Anglorum Pindarus, Flaccus, Maro, deliciae, decus, & desiderium aevi sui, was born in Fleetstreet near to the end of Chancery-lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London, an. 1618. His Father, who was a Grocer, dying before the Son was born, the Mother, by her endeavours and friends, got him to be a King's Scholar at Westminster, where in the year 1633, being then going into the sixteenth year of his age, he composed a book called Poetical Blossoms; whereby the great pregnancy of his parts was discovered. Soon after having obtained the Greek and Rom. Languages, he was removed to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, of which he was elected Scholar an. 1636: where by the progress and continuance of his wit, it appeared that two things were joined in it, which seldom meet together, viz. that it was ripe and lasting. In the beginning of 1643, he being then M. of A, was among many others ejected his Coll. and University: whereupon retiring to Oxon, he settled in S. john's Coll, and under the name of a Scholar of Oxon he published the same year a Poem entit. A Satire. The Puritan and the Papist. In that House he prosecuted his Academical Studies with the like success as before, and was not wanting in his duty in the War itself, whereby he became acquainted with the great men of the Court and the Gown. After he had left Oxon which was a little before the surrender thereof for the use of the Parliament, he went to Paris, where falling into the acquaintance of Dr. Stephen Goffe. a Brother of the Oratory, he was by him preferred and placed in the family of the noble and munificent Henry Lord Jermyn, afterwards E. of S. Alban: who having a great and singular respect for him, he was by his most generous endeavours designed to be Master of the Savoy Hospital; which, though granted to his high merit by both the Charles, 1. and 2, yet by certain persons, enemies to the Muses, he lost that place. He was absent from his native Country about 10 years, which were for the most part spent either in bearing a part in the distresses of the Regal family, or in labouring in the affairs thereof. In the year 1656 he returned into England, and was for a time brought into trouble, but afterwards complying with some of the men then in power, (which was much taken notice of by the Royal party) he obtained an order to be created Doctor of Physic: Which being done to his mind (whereby he gained the ill will of some of his friends) he went into France again, (having made a copy of verses on oliver's death) where continuing till towards the time of the blessed restauration of K. Ch. 2, he returned; but then not finding that preferment conferred on him which he expected, while others for their money carried away most places, he retired discontented into Surrey, where he spent the remaining part of his days in a private and studious condition, mostly at Chertsie, where he had a lease of a Farm held of the Queen, procured for him by George Duke of Bucks, from the Earl of S. Alban before mentioned. The writings of this most eminent Poet are these (1) Poetical Blossoms. Lond. 1633. qu, which contain Antonius and Melida, and The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe. The first is ded. to Dr. William's Bishop of Line, and the other to his Master Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston. Before both is his picture, with his age set over it, viz. 13 (but false) an. 1633. There are also verses made by his Schoolfellows in commendation of them, one of which is Rob. Mead, who proved afterwards a most ingenious person, as I have elsewhere told you; and at the end are two Elegies, one on Dudley Lord Carleton, and another on his kinsman Rich. Clerk of Linc. Inn Gent, and A dream of Elysium. I have seen a book entit.— Sylva: or, divers copies of verses made upon sundry occasions. Lond. 1636. oct, said in the title to be written by A. C. but whether by Abr. Cowley, I doubt it, because the said A. C. seems to be not of Cambr. (2) Loves riddle, a pastoral Comedy. Lond. 1638. oct, written while he was at Westminster School, and ded. to Sir Ken. Digby (3) Naufragium joculare, Comaedia. Lond. 1638. oct: Acted before the Academians of Cambr. in Trin. Coll. there, on the 4. of the nonce of Feb. 1638. (3) A Satire. The Puritan and the Papist. Pr. in 1643 in one sh. and an half in qu. This was published again at London in 1682 in qu. in a book entit. Wit and Loyalty revived in a collection of some smart Satyrs in verse and prose, on the late times. The prefacer to these Satyrs complains that this of Mr. Cowley was not set forth by the publisher of his first collection of pieces of Poetry, and gives two presumptive reasons thereof, and wonders that his Poem called Brutus, and that upon the B. of Lincoln's enlargement from the Tower (which he guesseth not to be his) have met with so good fortune as to have place therein. See more in Joh. Birkenhead, among the Writers, an. 1679. p. 476. (4) The Mistress: or several copies of love verses. Lond. 1647. oct. (5) Guardian, Com. Lond. 1650. qu. Acted before Pr. Charles at Trin. Coll. in Cambr. 12. Mar. 1641. (6) Cutter of Colemanstreet Com. (7) Poems, viz. 1. Miscellanies. 2. The Mistress or Love verses. 3. Pindariques, etc. with notes. Lond. 1656. fol. Before a copy of this book, which he gave to the public Library at Oxon, he wrote with his own hand A Pindaric Ode, whereby the book presents itself to the University Library of Oxon. (8) Ode upon the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. qu. (9) Poemata Latina, in quibus continentur sex libri Plantarum, cum notis. Lond. 1668 and 78. oct, with his picture before them, and a short account of his life written in Lat. by Dr. Tho. Sprat. Among these books, were reprinted Plantarum libri duo, which had been printed at Lond. 1662. oct. A translation of the sixth book of these Plants, was printed in 1680. qu. (10) Miscellan. lib. 1, wherein is Opus imperfectum Davideios sacri Poematis. Pr. with Poem. Lat. (11) Poem on the late Civil War. Lond. 1679. qu. This was afterwards printed in the translation of the sixth book of Plants before mentioned. As for other of his writings which have escaped my sight, you may see more in the first part of his Works printed at least eight times in fol, in the second part of his Works, being what was written and published by himself in his younger years, pr. at least four times in fol, and in the third part of his works, containing his 6. books of Plants, made English by several hands. fol. etc. A little before his first return into England 1656 there was a book published under his name, entit. The iron age, which he disclaimed in the preface of his Poems which came out that year. He died at Chertsey in Surrey before mentioned, on the 28. of July 1667 aged 49 years: Whereupon his body being conveyed to the house of his great Patron George D of Bucks, called Wallingford house near to Whitehall, was conveyed thence to Westminster Abbey, on the 3 of Aug. following, accompanied by divers persons of eminent quality, and there, in the South cross isle, or large isle joining to the South side of the Choir, was buried near to the place where the relics of Jeffr. Chaucer had been lodged. About the middle of May 1675, the said Duke of Bucks, did, at his own charge erect over his grave a curious Pedestal of white Marble, and a stately urn placed thereon. On the pedestal is a most elegant and befiting inscription engraven, made by his great admirer Dr. Tho. Sprat before mentioned, and all environed with an iron grate, where we shall now leave him.  
Petrus Schumacherus a young Dane, was a sojournour this, and several years after in Oxon, purposely to obtain literature in the public library, and was much favoured and encouraged by Mr. Tho. Barlow the Keeper thereof— Afterwards he became a man of note in his own Country, and, though the Son of a Vintner, Chancellor of Denmark, etc. He hath lately sent his picture to the University of Oxon, and it now hangs in the School-Gallery.    



An. Dom. 1658.  
An. 10. Car. 2.  
An. 5/1 Oliv. Protect.  
An. 5/1 Rich. Protect.    
Chanc. Rich. Cromwell, usually called Lord Rich. Cromwell, who, on the death of his Father Oliver, was proclaimed Protector of England, etc. 4. Sept. this year.  
Vicechanc. Joh. Conant D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll, Oct. 9  

Proct.  
Sam. Byfield of C. C. Coll. Apr. 8.  
Sam. Conant of Exet Coll. Apr. 8.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Mar. 25. Nich. Billingsley of Mert. Coll.— He was a Minister's Son at, or near, Bristol, as I suppose, and having had a long sickness hanging upon him, was dispensed with by the Ven. Congreg. for the absence of eight Terms. In which time living in his Father's house, he wrote in verse.— Hagio— Martyrologia: Or an exact epitome of all the persecutions which have befallen the People of God in all ages. Lond. 1657. oct. Of which Poetry and its author you may take this character from a very conceited 
(*) Sam. Austin in his Naps upon pernastus, etc. Lond. 1658. oct.  Writer, who was his contemporary, thus.  
Stand off thou Poetaster from the press,  
Who pygni'st Martyrs with thy dwarf-like verse,  
Whose white long bearded flame of zeal aspires  
To Wrack their ashes, more than did their fires.  

Jun. 11. Tho. Trapham of Magd. Coll.  
Jun. 11. John Cave of Magd. Coll.   
Of the first of these two (who was signior collector of the determining Bachelaurs this year) you may see more among the Masters, an. 1661.  
July 6. Sam. Jemmat of Vniv. Coll.— See among the Masters in 1661.  
Oct. 12. Rich. Burthogge of All's. Coll.— He went afterwards to Linc. Coll, completed his degree by Determination as a member thereof, and soon after left the University. Afterwards he was doctorated in Physic elsewhere, (at Leyden I think) lived at Bowden near Totness in Devonshire, wrote several books of Divinity, but nothing of his own faculty, is a cider at this time with the fanatical crew, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among Oxf. Writers.  
Feb. 12. Nathaniel Alsop of Brasn. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1670.  
Joseph Constable of Magd. Hall.— He translated into English The Works of Jo. Bapt. Van Helmont— Lond. 1664. fol.  

Feb. 12. Edw. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll.  
Feb. 12. Joh. Troughton of S. Joh. Coll.   
The first of these last two was lately one of the Savilian Professors, and hath written and published several things, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among Oxford Writers.  
Adm. 137.   

Bach. of Law.  
Three were admitted this year, but not one of them was afterwards either a Writer or a Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Mar. 25. Joh. Franklin of C. C. Coll.  
Apr. 22. Tho. Branker of Exet. Coll.   

Jun. 11. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll.  
Jun. 11. Joh. Williams of Magd. Hall.   

29. Nath. Crew. of Linc. Coll.  
29. Thom. Pittis' of Linc. Coll.  
29. Jos. Glanvill of Linc. Coll.   

July 6. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll.  
July 6. Will. Annand of Vniv. Coll.  
July 6. Tho. Tomkins of Alls. Coll.   
9 Joh. Price of Vniv. Coll.— This person, who was a Minister's Son, became soon after Curate of S. Cross alias Ha●ywel in the Suburbs of Oxon, where preaching many Sermons, he published four of them, the titles of which follow (1) The Christians excellency, on Matth. 5.47. (2) Truth begets Eternity, on Gal. 4.16. (3) A Nation's happiness in a good King, on Eccles. 10.17. (4) The praise of charity, on Heb. 13.16. These four Serm. were printed at Oxon. 1661. in oct, and by him dedic. to Dr. Hen. King Bishop of Chichester, who taking him into his patronage, conferred a Cure on him near that City, where soon after he finished his course in a crazed condition, occasioned by a high conceit of his own worth and parts.  
July 9 Rich. Stretton of New Coll.— This person, who was Chaplain of the said House, was afterwards Chaplain to the L. Fairfax, a Nonconformist Divine and a Traveller. He hath written A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War; being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Brittany to Thoulon and back again. With a description of the situation and fortifications of all the eminent Towns on the road, of their Prisons and Hospitals, the number and names of them that d●ed, with the charity and sufferings of the Protestants. Lond. 1690 qu. etc. published under the name of Rich. Strutton, an eye-witness of those things, who perhaps hath written other matters Quaere. This person who held forth among the godly for a time in an antiquated Dancing-school without the north gate of Oxon in the Winter season 1689 (K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne) lives now a Nonconformist-Preacher in Warwick lane in London.  
Mar. 17. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll.  
Adm. 81.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Three were admitted this year, and one to practise Chirurgery, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Man of note.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 29. Henry Hickman of Magd. Coll.  
Beside him were but two admitted, but neither of them was then or afterwards a Writer.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was this year admitted, nor one of Phys. or of Divinity.  

Incorporations.  
These Cambridge men following were incorporated 13 July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act was finished.  
Benedict Rively M. A. of Eman. Coll.— He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Reynolds Bishop of Norwich and a Preacher in that City, and author of A Sermon preached in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich at the funeral of Dr. Edw. Reynolds Lord Bish. of Norw. on Job 30.23. Lond. 1677. qu.  
Joh. dowel M. A. of Christ's Coll.— He was afterwards Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leicestershire and author of The Leviathan heretical: or, the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes, justified by the refutation of his book, entit. The historical narration of heresy and the punishments thereof. Lond. 1683 in tw. See more in Tho. Hobbes among the Writers, an. 1679. p. 481.  
Robert Sprackling M. of A. of Peter House— This person, who was born of a gentile family living at S. Laurence and Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, became afterwards Doctor of Physic at Angers in France, in which degree being incorporated in Cambridge, became one of the Coll. of Physicians and author of— Medela ignorantiae: or a just and plain vindication of Hypocrates and Galen from the groundless imputations of M. N: wherein the whole substance of his illiterate plea entit. Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered. Lond. 1665. See more in March. Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards, upon some controversy that happened between his Father and Mother, (the last of which was made away) he became much discontented, turned Papist, went into Lancashire, settled at Preston in Amunderness, practised among the Roman Catholics and by them cried up, though, as 'tis said there, he led a drunken and debauched life. Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England, and dying at Preston, was buried there, but when, my author (a Physician of those parts) tells me not, only that 'twas after or about the year 1670.  
Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll.— This learned person (a Suffolk man born I think) was afterwards Rector of S. martin's Outwich in London, installed Preb. of No●wich (in the place of Hezek. Burton deceased) on the 16 of Sept. 1681, (being then D. of D.) Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester, an. 1689, and at length became Bish. of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary: He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691, upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge, and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le B●w in London by John Archb. of Cant, Gilbert B. of Sarum, Peter B. of W●nton, John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Gloucester: At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely, and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristol upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford. Dr. Kidder hath written (1) The young man's duty. A discourse showing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes, as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or deathbed repentance. Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits. Lond. 1663. and several times after in tw. The sixth edition was published in 1690. (2) Convivium coeleste: A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lord's Suppor, showing at once the nature of that Sacrament, as also the right way of preparing ourselves for the receiving of it, etc. Lond. 1674. oct. and afterwards again with additions. (3) Charity directed: or, the way to give alms to the greatest advantage. In a Letter to a friend. Lond. 1677. qu. (4) The Christian sufferer supported: or, a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude, showing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence, etc. Ibid. 1680. oct. (5) Reflections on a French Testam, printed at Bourdeaux 1626., pretended to be translated into the French, by the Divines of Louvain. Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as (1) A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes. 1.4. Lond. 1673. (2) Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guildhall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. (3) Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen, 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4. Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books, chiefly for conformity, against Quakers, Anabaptists, etc. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery, during the reign of K. Jam. 2, and other things, which for brevity sake I now pass by.  
James Arderne M. A. of Christ's Coll.— See among the Incorporations an. 1673.  
All the said Cambridge men, viz. B. Rively, J. dowel, R. Sprackling, R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July; at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University, among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House.  
Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— This person, who had been turned out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648, did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad. in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesty's return he was restored by his Commissioners, an. 1660, was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys, and dying on the 25 of March 1686, was buried in the Chapel belonging to Magd. Coll, near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein. I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce.   

Creations.  
Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams' School near Winchester, was created Doct. of Diu. by virtue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Uniu.— This person, who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester, was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School there, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll, in 1627., took the degrees in Arts, and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire. In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County, and soon after became chief. Master of Wykehams' School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger. On the 9 of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased, and after his Majesty's restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there. He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris, in Psal. 72.17. Oxon. 1659. in tw. Dedic. to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England, with whom, and the great men going before, in the interval, he kept pace. This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div, I do therefore put him under the Creations. He died at Winchester 3 July an. 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chapel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester.  
May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Uniu. for 8 years' time, and a Burgess, as 'tis said in the register, in the late Parliament, was actually created Master of Arts— I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sat in the three Parliaments going before this time, only Charles Wolseley Esq. who was one of Olivers Lords.  
July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorn in Prussia, was actually created Mast. of Arts— He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch, and is now, or else was lately, Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person, who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations, an. 1680, hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar, as I have heard.    



An. Dom. 1659.  
An. 11. Car. 2.  
An. 1/● (Rich. Protect.    
Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell, deposed from his Protectorship in the beginning of this year.  
Vicechanc. the same, viz. Dr. Conant, 8. Oct, 

Proct.  
George Philipps of Qu. Coll. Ap. 13.  
Thomas Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Ap. 13.    

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 14. Franc. Turner of New Coll.  
July 11. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll.  
Oct. 12. Joh. Lloyd of Mert. Coll.   
The first of these three was afterwards successively B. of Rochester and Ely, and having written and published several things he is hereafter to be remembered among the Writers and Bishops. The second was afterwards an Archdeacon, as I shall tell you among the Masters, an. 1662.; and the last, who was afterwards of Jesus Coll, was at length B. of S. David.  
Oct. 12. Jam. Janeway of Ch. Ch.  
14. Sam. Hardye of Wadham Coll.— He was the author of The Guide to Heaven, etc. printed at several times in two parts in oct: the last part of which was published 1687. 88 and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxford Writers.  
Nou. 1. Benj. Woodroff of Ch. Ch.— He hath published several things, and therefore he is also hereafter to be remembered.  

Jan. 16. Thom. Guidott of Wadh. Coll.  
Feb. 28. Sam. Parker of Wadh. Coll.   
The first of these two, who is now a Physician of note, is hereafter to be remembered among the Writers: The other, who was afterwards of Trin. Coll. was at length B. of Oxon. I have mentioned him at large among the Writers in this vol.  
Feb. 28. Joh. Langford of Ch. Ch.— This person who was a Ruthyn man born in Denbighshire, did afterwards translate into good welsh The whole duty of man; Lond. 1672. oct. He took no higher degree in this University, but elsewhere, and is now living and beneficed in Wales.  
Mar. 15. Sam Holding or Holden or Linc. Coll.— This person who hath published several things is hereafter to be remembered among the Writers.  
Adm. 148.   

Bach. of Law.  

May 18. Thomas Jones of Mert. Coll.  
Oct. 12. Will. Trumbull of Alls. Coll.   
Of the last you may see more among the Doct. of the Civil Law, 1667.  
Adm. 4.   

Mast. of Arts.  

June 2. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll.  
4. Joh. Skelton of Queens Coll.   
The last was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln, who collating him to the Archdeaconry of▪ Bedford, was installed therein 22. Mar. 1678, and afterwards to the Prebendship of Biggleswade in the Church of Linc. was installed also therein 3. May 1684.  
June 21. Thomas Hockin of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was afterwards Fellow of Alls. Coll, hath written A discourse of the nature of God's decrees: Being an answer to a Letter from a person of quality concerning them. Lond. 1684. oct. In the title of this book he writes himself Bach. of Div, sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and late Preacher at Great S. Barthelmews in London: But whether he took the said degree of B. of D▪ in this University it appears not.  
June 21. Will. Shippen of Vniv. Coll.— He was afterwards Proctor of the University and at length Rector of Stockport in Cheshire and author of The Christians triumph over death, Sermon at the funeral of Rich. Legh of Lime in the County Pal▪ of Chester Esq. at Winwick in Lancashire, 6. Sept. 1687, on 1. Cor. 15.55. Oxon. 1688. qu. He is Doct. of Divinity, not of this University, but by the Diploma, if I mistake not, of Dr. W. Sancroft Archbishop of Canturbury.  

June 25. Henry Foulis of Qu. Coll.  
June 25. Capel Wiseman of Qu. Coll.  
June 25. Henry Denton of Qu. Coll.   
The last of these three who was Son of Thomas Denton of the ancient and gentile family of his name living at Warnel-Denton in Cumberland, traveled afterwards to Constantinople in the quality of a Chaplain to the English Ambassador, and after his return did translate into English, A description of the present state of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos and Mount-Athos. Lond. 1678. oct. Which book was written by Joseph Georgirines' Archbishop of Samos, living then (1678) in London; who the year before had for some weeks been in Oxon, about the Act time to obtain money from the Academians towards the finishing the Greek Church in London. This Mr. Denton, who was Fellow of Queens Coll, and presented by the Provost and Fellows thereof to the Rectory of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire, (on the death of Joh. Hook B. D. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll, which happened 20. of Feb. 1673,) was buried in the Church there, 19, Aug. 1681.  
July 2. Arthur Brett of Ch. Ch.  

4. Dau. Lloyd of Oriel Coll.  
8. Rich. Morton of New Coll.   
Adm. 78.   

Bach of Phys.  
June 4. Nath. Hodges of Changed Ch.  
July 9 Joh. Smith of Brasn. Coll.  
Adm. 6.  
Two also were licenced to practise Physic, of whom Hen. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall was one.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Diu. was adm. this year.  

Doct. of Law.  
May 18. Nicholas Staughton of Exet. Coll. Esq. was adm. Doctor of the Civ. and Can. Law, being then dispensed with for certain Terms; and on the 27 of June following, after he had spoken a formal Speech before the Members of the University (for which he was laughed at, because not at all desired or required) he was admitted ad suffragandum in domo Convocationis & Congreg. About a month or two after was printed a sharp Libel intit. Sundry things from several hands concerning the University of Oxford, etc. And at the end of it were printed 25 Queries: the last of which runs thus. Whether the Boy Dr. Staughton of Exeter Coll. did well to lie in his scarlet Gown that night he was made Doctor, since his degree was a thing he ought not to have dreamt of? He was then Lord of the ancient Manor of Staughton in Surrey, which unexpectedly fell to him after the death of divers persons of that name, and on the 29 of January 1660 he was created a Baronet.  
May 18. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll, who accumulated the degrees of Law by virtue of the Chanc. Letters, was then adm. to proceed.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jun. 2. Thom. Jeanes of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. did, while he was a Junior there, with Joh. Fidoe and Will. Shaw his Contemporaries of the said House, write and publish, The Parliament justified in their late proceedings against Charles Stuart. Or a brief discourse concerning the nature and rise of Government, together with the abuse of it in Tyranny and the people's reserve. To which is added An answer to a certain paper entit. The humble advice to the Lecturers of Banbury in Oxfordshire and of Brackley in Northamptonshire. Lond. 1648, in 2 sh. and an half in qu. Afterwards Jeanes going to Oxon, was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors, and always after, during his stay there, he was esteemed by all that knew him a good Scholar and a generous and stour man. But so it fell out, that after Dr. Tho. Pierce became Precedent of the said Coll. he found means to expel him thence, an. 1662., under pretence of having a hand in the said vile Pamphlet; but those then of the House, who knew the proud and malicious humour of Peirce, have often told me that that was not the reason of his ejectment, but because Dr. Jeanes had found fault with his Concio Synodica ad Clerum Anglican, published that year; wherein he said were several barbarisms and false Latins. Which report coming to ears of Dr. Pierce, his malice became so great against, that he never left, till he had outed him from the College. After his expulsion, which the generality of the Society were against and did lament, (because they knew he was sorry for what he had done in his raw years) he went to Peterborough, where he practised his Faculty with good success, but in his journey homeward from a certain noble Patient, in a dark night without a Companion, his horse floundred in a Gravel-pit, flung him off from his back, and was forthwith stifled, in the month of Nou. 1668.  

Jun. 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. Accumulators.  
Jul. 2. Joh. Hill of Alls. Coll. Accumulators.   

4. Peter Vasson or Vashon of Ball. Coll.  
9 Thom. Millington of Allsoules Coll.   
The last did succeed Dr. Thom. Willis in Sedly's Lecture of Nat. Philosophy, an. 1675, and had the honour or Knighthood conferred on him in the latter end of 1679, he being then Fell. of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond.  

Jul. 9 Rich. Higges of Hart Hall.  
Jul. 9 Joh. Smith of Brasn. Coll.   
Jan 19 Humph. Brook of S. John's Coll.— This person, who was son of Rob. Br. of Lond Gent, was bred in Merchant-taylor's School, and thence was elected Scholar, of S. Joh. Coll, of which he was afterwards Fellow. In 1646 he took the degree of Bach. of Physic. and thereupon soon after retiring to Lond. practised that Faculty there, and wrote and published A Conservatory of health, comprised in a plain and practical discourse upon the six particulars necessary for man's life. 1. Aire. 2. Meat and Drink, etc. Lond. 1650. in tw. Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness and prolongation of life. After he had taken the degree of Doct. of his Faculty he became one of the Coll. of Phys, and is now, as I conceive, living in London.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted this year.  

Incorporations.  
May 5. Barnham Dobell Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— He had that degree conferred on him at Milan in the beginning of the year 1654.  

Jun. 6. Will. Parker Doct of Phys. of Milan.  
21. Tim. Hodson Doct of Phys. of Aurange.  
24. Sam. Collins Doct of Phys. of Milan.   
The last of which was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London, was known by the name of Dr. Sam. Collins junior, and hath, if I mistake not, published one or more vol. in fol. of Anatomy. Quaere.   

Creations.  
Apr. 13. Thom. Hyde of Qu. Coll. was created Master of Arts by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that he is of full standing since his admission into the Vniv. of Cambridge for the degree of M. of A, that he hath given public testimony of his more than ordinary abilities and learning in the Oriental Languages, etc. The Delegates of the University ordered the day before that he should accumulate the degree of M. of A. by reading only a Lecture in one of the Oriental Languages, etc. which was afterwards accordingly done in the Persian Language in Schola Linguarum. Since that time he hath published several books, and being now living, he is hereafter to be remembered among the Writers of this University.    



An. Dom. 1660.  
An. 12 Car. 2.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Rich. Cromwell lately L. Protector; but he upon a foresight of the restauration of K. Ch. 2, resigning his Office by his Letter sent to the University, dated at Hursley in Hampshire. 8 May this year, (read in Convocation 16 of the same month) the most noble William Marquis of Hertford▪ etc. was restored to his place of Chancellor by the House of Lords on the 26 following▪ and on the 6 of June was confirmed by the Convocation. But the said Marquis dying in the night time of the 24 of Octob. (being then Duke of Somerset) Sir Edw. Hyde Kt. sometimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall, now L. Chanc. of England and of the Privy Council to his Majesty, was elected into his place on the 27 of the same month, and installed at Westminster 15 Nou. following.  
Vicechanc. Paul Hood D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. was admitted on the first of Aug. having before been nominated by our Chanc. the Duke of Somerset: At which time Dr. Conant was removed from his Office of Vicechanc.  

Proct.  
Tho. Tanner of New Coll. May 2.  
John Dod of Ch. Ch. May 2.   
The signior Proctor being Fellow of New College, was ejected thence in Aug. by his Majesty's Commissioners to make room for those that had been turned out by the Visitors appointed by Parl. So that then he retiring to Hart Hall, he spent the remainder of his Proctorship there. The junior Proctor wanting time when he was elected, a Protestation was openly read in Convocation at the time of his admission by Mr. Will. Hawkins of Ch. Ch. a Candidate for the Procuratorial Office. The particulars of which being many and large, I shall now pass them by for brevity sake, and only say that Mr. Dod continued in his Office while Mr. Hawkins appealed to the Court of Chancery.  
The Scene of all things was now changed, and alterations made in the Countenances, Manners and Words of all men. Those that for 12 years' last passed had governed and carried all things in a manner at their pleasure, did now look discontented and were much perplexed, foreseeing that their being in the University must inevitably vanish. Those that had laid under a cloud for several years behind, appear with cheerful looks, while others that had flourished, drooped or withdrew themselves privately, they knowing very well that they had eaten the bread of other men, and that if they should continue in the University, should undergo a Visitation and Censure by those persons, whom they themselves had formerly visited and ejected. But Justice being to be done, Commissioners were appointed by his Majesty, after his restauration, to rectify all things in the University, who sitting several weeks in Aug. Sept. etc. restored all such that were living unmarried to their respective places, and many that were peaceable and willing to conform and renounce their factious Principles they kept in, etc.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 3. Thom. Cawton of Mert. Coll.  
5. Thomas Bevan of Jes. Coll.   
Of the last of which you may see more among the Doct. of Diu. 1683.  

May 3. Will. Morehead of New Coll.  
Oct. 11. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll.  
15. Moses Pengry of Brasn. Coll.   
Of the first of these three you may see more among the M. of A. 1663., of the second among the Doct. of Diu. 1681, and of the last among the Bach. of D. an. 1672.  

Jan. 16. George Hooper of Ch. Ch.  
Jan. 16. Hen. Rose of Linc. Coll.   
The first of these two hath published several things, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered among the Oxford Writers. Of the other you may see among the Bach. of Diu. 1672.  
Mar. 15. Thom. Smith of Queens Coll.— He was recommended to the Chanc. of the University by Dr. Barlow the Provost of his Coll, for his progress in learning far beyond his age and standing, and therefore would be capable of a place designed for him towards his subsistence, if he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, for which he wanted a little time. Whereupon the Chanc. desired that he might be dispensed with, for the defect of two Terms, which was accordingly done. This person Th. Smith was afterwards D. of D, and a Writer and Publisher of several books, whereby he hath obtained the character of a learned Gent. and therefore ought hereafter to be remembered among the famous Writers of this University. Adm. 125. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Two were admitted this year, but neither of them was afterwards a man of note.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 10. Dan. Whitby of Trinity Coll.  
May 3. Jenkin Christopher of New Coll.   
The last of these two, who was lately of Jesus, but now one of the Chaplains of New Coll, was afterwards a Minister in the dioc. of Landaff, and a Graduate in Diu. (at Sedan I think) beyond the Seas. He hath published Theses Theologicae de nature justificationis & constantiâ fidei. Sedan 1665. qu.  
May 3. Rich. Griffith of Vniv. Coll.— This person, who had been chosen into a Fellowship in Kings Coll. in Cambr, was entered as a new Comer and Fellow of Vniv. Coll. on one and the same day, in the place of Ezr. Tongue, an. 1634. Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts, and intended to be a Preacher, but being not minded to conform, he left the Coll, applied his mind to the study of Physic, and went to Leyden in Holland, where he took the degr. of Doct. of that faculty. Whence returning and settling at Richmond in Surrey, became at length Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond, of which he was lately Censor. He hath written and published A-la-mode Phlebotomy, no good fashion: or the copy of a Letter to Dr. Hungerford (Dr. Franc. Hungerford of Reading) complaining of, and instancing in, the fantastical behaviour and unfair dealings of some London Physicians, when they come to be consulted withal about sick persons living at a distance from them in the Country. Whereupon a fit occasion is taken to discourse of the profuse way of blood-letting formerly unheard of, though now a days so mightily in request in England. Lond. 1681. oct.  
Jun. 21. Philip Marinel of Pemb. Coll.— This person, who was one of the Jersey or Guernsey Fellows of that House, did translate from French into English, The Hinge of Faith and Religion: or, a proof of the Deity against Atheists and profane persons by reason, and the testimony of the holy Scriptures. Lond. 1660. oct. Written, originally by Ludou. Cappel Doct. or Prof. of Diu. of Samur. Mr. Marinel died soon after, and was buried in the yard of S. Aldates' Church joining to Pemb. College, near the south door leading into the Church, as the Parish Clerk of that place has told me.  

Jul. 3. Thom. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll.  
5. George Vernon of Brasn. Coll.  
13. Narcissus' Marsh of Ex. Coll.   

17. Franc. Vernon of Ch. Ch.  
17. Nath. Bisbie of Ch. Ch.   
Dec. 17. Tim. Nurse of Vniv. Coll.  
Adm. 81.   

Bach. of Phys.  
In the Register it appears that only one person was admitted this year, namely George Constable of Qu. Coll, who had been a Tutor for three years in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England, which is all I know of him.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Only two, or more were admitted, who having been neither Writers, Dignitaries or Bishops, their names are here omitted.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul. 6. George Wake of Magd. Coll.  
Feb. 12. Henr. Beeston of New Coll, chief Master of Wykehams' School near Winchester.— He was afterwards Prebendary of the Cathedral there, and Warden elected of New Coll. (in the place of Dr. Joh. Nicholas) 7 August 1679.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was adm. this year, only created.  

Doct. of Diu.  
Dec. 1. Lewis Atterbury M. A. of Ch. Ch.— This person, who had been lately Chaplain to Henry Duke of Gloucester, was afterwards Rector of Milton in Bucks, and published several Sermons, as (1) A good Subject: or, the right Test of Religion and Loyalty, preached 17 Jul. the last Summer Assizes held at Buckingham, etc. on Prov. 24.21.22. Lond. 1684. qu. (2) The ground of Christian Feasts, with the right way of keeping them, preached at a meeting of several Natives and Inhabitants of the County of Buckingham, in the Parish Church of S. Marry le Bow, 30 Nou. 1685. Lond. 1686. qu. (3) Babylon's Downfall; or, England's happy deliverance from popery and slavery, preached at Guildhall Chapel before the L. Mayor and Aldernien, 9 Jan. 1691. etc. Lond. 1691. qu. etc.   

Incorporations.  
Mar. 27. Andrew Beech Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— This Gent. who was a Londoner born, and son of a father of both his names, took the said degree at Pad. in Dec. 1657.  
David Bruce a Scot of an honourable family, Doctor of Phys. of Valence, was incorporated the same day.— He was the son of Andr. Bruce the youngest of 10 sons of the Laird of Fingask, D. D. and Principal of S. leonard's Coll. in the University of S. Andrew, had been educated there in Humanity, and admitted M. of Arts, etc. Afterwards travelling into France, he studied Physic at Mount●●l●er and Paris several years, with a design to be doctorated in that faculty at Milan, but the Plague raging in Italy, he went to Lions for a time, and afterwards going to Valence in Daupheny he took the degree of Doct. of Phys. there, an. 1657. After his return into Engl. he was incorporated as before I have told you, and soon after attended as Physician on their Royal Highnesses James and Anne Duke and Duchess of York with his great Uncle Sir Joh. Wedderbourne Doct. of Phys. But after some years of attendance being wearied by the Court toll, most of the service lying on him because of the said Sir John's infirmity, he retired from that Employment, as the said Sir John had done a year before, and at length after many peregrinations he settled in his own Country, and is now living at Edinburgh in good repute for his practice.  
June 20. Andrew Bruce younger brother to David before mentioned, M. of A. of S. leonard's Coll. in the Uniu. of S. Andrew.— He was lately Professor of Philosophy in the said Coll, was now conversant in Studies in Ch. Ch. in this University, and after his Incorporation in the degree of Master he returned to Scotland, and became Minister of Newtyle in the Shire of Angus, where he finished his course about 21 years since.  
Jul. 17. Patrick Sherenden M. of A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin.— He was afterwards D. of D. and Bish. of Cloyne in Irel. 1679, on the death of Dr. Edw. Sing, who being Bish. of Cloyne, Cork and Ross, the two last Sees were then, the same year, conferred on Dr. Edw. W●tenhall sometimes of Linc. Coll.  

Aug. 4. Nich. Stanley Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.  
7. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.   
The first of these two, who was son of Dr. Edw. Stanley mentioned among the Writers, p. 195, was Fellow of New Coll, and afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at London.  
Edmund Borlase Doct. of Phys. of Leyden, was incorporated the same day, Aug. 7.— This person, who was son of Sir Joh. Borlaso Kt, Master of the Ordnance and one of the Lords Justices of Irel. 1643, (Sir Hen. Tichborne being the other) was educated in the Coll. near Dubls, and going afterwards to Leyden had the said degr. of Doct. of Phys. conferred on him there 1650. Afterwards he settled in the City of Chester, where he practised his faculty with good success to his dying day. Among the several books which he hath written and published I find these, (1) Latham Spa in Lancashire: with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it. Lond. 1670. oct. dedicated to Charles Earl of Derby. (2) The reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England. With the Governors since the Conquest by K. Hen. 2, an. 1172, with some passages in their Government. A brief account of the Rebellion an Dom. 1641. Also, the original of the Vniv. of Dublin, and the Coll. of Physicians. Lond. 1675. in a large oct. (3) The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion, traced from many preceding Acts to the grand eruption 23 Oct. 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement 1672. Lond. 1680. fol. Much of this book is taken from another intit. The Irish Rebellion: or, the History of the beginnings and first progress of the general Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, 23 Oct. 1641, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. Written by Sir Joh. Temple Kt, Master of the Rolls, and one of his Majesty's honourable privy Council in Irel. (4) Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires of his engagement and carriage in the War of Ireland. By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since, are vindicated from aspersions cast on both. Lond. 1682. oct. In the third p. of the Epist. to the Reader before the book is a pretty severe reflection made on the design of the eighth Chapt. of Sir Will. Dugdale's book intit. A short view of the late Troubles in England, as was a little before by another person in A Letter in answer to a friend, upon notice of a book entit. A short view, etc. Wherein in the vl Chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish Rebellion in 1641 is egregiously mistaken. This Letter, which is dated on the last of Apr. 1681, was printed at Lond. in 1 sh. in fol. the same year. What other things Dr. Borlase hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died and was buried at Chester, after the year 1682.  
Sept. 20. Joh. Bidgood Doct. of Phys. of Milan, was ●hen incorporated.— This person, who had been Fellow of Exeter Coll, was ejected thence in 1648 by the then Visitors appointed by Parl, first for Non-submission, and secondly for drinking of healths to the confusion of Reformers. This last reason was mentioned in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 397. a. under the tenth head, next following the matter of Nich. Braine there mentioned, which is under the ninth. But the author communicating the copy of that book before it went to the Press to a certain Doctor in Oxon of Bidgood's faculty, he, upon the perusal of that passage, did falsely (unknowing to the author) acquaint, by another hand, the said Bidgood then living at Exeter of it. Whereupon Bidgood, a covetous person, fearing that such a passage as that might, when made public, hinder his practice among the godly party at Exeter and near it, he made application by letters to the said Doctor of Oxon, and to Dr. Fell the publisher of the History, to have it taken out: Whereupon Dr. Fell wondering that he should scruple at such a passage, which made much for his Loyalty, the sheet wherein it was, was reprinted, and the eleventh head in the said p. 397. a, was made the tenth in its place. This Health, though said by his Contemporaries in Exeter Coll, to be a Cup of Devils to Reformers, yet the author of the aforesaid History, finding it not so in the Visitors Register of their actions, but as it is word by word before mentioned, therefore did he set it so down, without any invention of his own as some did surmise. This Dr. Bidgood, who was honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at Lond, died very rich at Exeter on the 13 of Jan. 1690, after he had cashiered and disinherited his nat. son called Joh. Summer's sometimes M. A. of Trin. Coll. His Estate was computed to be worth between 25 and 30000 l; the main bulk of which he left to one Humph. Bidgood his Kinsman, and some to pious uses: And having been a person of a surly and proud nature, and offensive in word and action, he did a little before his death desire pardon and forgiveness of all the world, especially of several persons with whom he had any animosities.  

Oct. 17. Robert Henchman Doct. of Phys. of Milan.  
Oct. 17. Christop. Bathurst Doct. of Phys. of Milan.   
The first of these two, who was son of Onuphrius Henchman, had the degree of Doct. conferred on him at Pad. an. 1654., the other in 1659., and afterwards practised his fac. in Lincolnshire.  
Nou. 19 Franc. Giffard M. A. of Cambr:— One of both his names, and Mast. of Arts, hath written and published, The wicked Petition: or, Israel's sinfulness in ask a King, explained in a Serm. at the Assizes held at Northampton, first of March 1680. Lond. 1681. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell. Sure I am that the Sermon was seasonably delivered, the K. being then tired our by factious people with Petitions relating to Parliaments.   

CREATIONS.  
After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2, it was his and the pleasure of the Marquis of Hertford Chanc. of the Uniu. of Ox, and of Sir E. Hyde, who succeeded him in that Office this year, that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had suffered for his Majesty's Cause, and had been ejected from the University by the Visitors appointed by Parl. an. 1648. 49. etc.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Seventy and one Masters of Arts at least were actually created, among whom, some that had not been Sufferers, thrust themselves into the crowd for their money. Others, yet few, were Gentlemen, and were created by the favour of the Chancellors Letters only. Among the 70 and odd Masters which were created, I shall mention these following.  

Aug. 2. Charles Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely.  
Aug. 2. Will. Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely.   
Charles was afterwards Burgess for the Town of Cambridge to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm. 19 May 1685, 1 Jac. 2. He and his brother at the time of their Creation and before, were Sojourners for a time in the Uniu. of Oxon.  
Aug. 23. Joh. Drop of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was son of Tho. Drop Vicar of Cumnore near Abendon in Berks, was born in the Vicaridge-house there, became Demy of Magd. Coll, an. 1642, aged 16 years or thereabouts, bore arms for the King soon after within the Garrison of Oxon, made true and perpetual Fellow of his Coll. in 1647, and ejected thence in the year following. Afterwards he was made the first Master of the Free-School in Dorchester in Oxfordshire, founded by Sir Joh. Fetiplace, but leaving it soon after he was succeeded therein by Dau. Thomas Usher of Thame School. After his Majesty's return he was restored to his Fellowship, studied Physic, and practised it afterwards in a market Town in Lincolnshire called Burrough. He hath written (1) An Hymenaean Essay: or, an Epithalamy upon the royal Match of Ch. 2. and Katherine, Infanta of Portugal, 1662. Oxon. 1662. in one sh. and an half in qu. (2) A Poem upon the most hopeful and ever flourishing Sprouts of Valour, the indefatigable Centries of the Physic Garden in Oxon. Oxon. 1664. on one side of a broad sh. of paper in two Columes. See more among the Works of Edm. Gayton his jocular friend and companion, p. 271. (3) Poems on several occasions. These I have seen ready written for the Press, and tho commended by several persons, yet they are not printed. He died in the beginning of Octob. 1670, and was buried in the Church at Burrough before mentioned.  
Franc. Drop brother to John before mentioned, was created the same day, Aug. 23.— I have mentioned him already among the Writers, p. 357.  
Aug. 23. James Metford of C. C. Coll.— He was the son of Joh. Metford of Crookhorne in Somersetshire, was elected Scholar of the said Coll, from that of Merton, in Jan. 1647, ejected soon after thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors, but being restored in 1660, was, after he had been created M. of A, made Fellow of his house. Afterwards, by the presentation of the Precedent and Society thereof, he became Rector of Bassingham in Lincolnshire, (where he now lives) and in Aug. 1687 he became Preb. of Bole in the Ch. of York (by the resignation of Rob. powel. He hath published A general discourse of Simony. Lond. 1682. oct, having been put upon the writing of it by Dr. Mich. Honywood Dean of Linc, who was pleased to inform the author with some resentment, of the too great progress of it in the Nation, bewailing the fatal consequence of it in the Church, and commanding him to say something (if possible) to stop its growth.  
Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. was created the same day.— I have at large made mention of him among the Writers, under the year 1688. p. 624.  
Philip Fell of Trin. Coll. was created also the same day.— This person, though he was no sufferer for the King's Cause, or ever took the degree of B. of A, as having before left his Coll. abruptly, upon no good account, yet by the favour and interest of his elder Brother Dr. Joh. Fell he was not only created M. of A, but also sped Fellow of Alls. Coll, had the degree of Bach. of Diu. conferred upon him without any Exercise for it, as having been nominated by his said brother while he was Vicechancellor, to answer the Doctors in Comitiis when there was no Act, and at length to be Fell. of the Coll. at Eton. He was always esteemed a most excellent Latin Poet, as his copies of Verses in several books occasionally published in the name of the University, and in others, do manifestly show. He died at Hereford in the house of Dr. George Bens●n Dean of the Church there (who had married his sister) on the 26 of Febr. 1682, aged 49 or thereabouts: Whereupon his body was conveyed to Worcester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there among the graves of his Mother's relations.  

Sept. 20. Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll.  
28. Dennis Greenvill of Exet. Coll.   
The last, who had been no Sufferer for the King's Cause, nor ejected his Coll, because entered therein after the Parl. Visitors had turned all the Royalists out thence, was created by the favour of his great Relations, and at length by their endeavours he became Dean of Durham. He hath published several things, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered. See among the created Doct. of Diu. 1670.  
Nou. 29. George Brereton of Qu. Coll, a younger son of Will. Lord Brereton.— This person, who had been no Surferer or was expelled, was not only created among the Sufferers, but also made soon after Fellow of Alls. Coll; which place he being in a manner forced to leave, was by the favour of Dr. Cousin made Prebendary of Durham. He died in the beginning of March 1672.  

Dec. 15. Clem. Couteur a Jersey man born. of Ch. Ch.   

Jan. 14. Dau. Whitford of Ch. Ch.  
Jan. 14. Will. Godolphin of Ch. Ch.   
The last, which had not any way suffered, I shall mention hereafter.  
Feb. 14. Henry Hyde eldest son of Edward Lord Hyde of Hindon Chanc. of this Uniu. (afterwards Earl of Clarendon) was diplomated M. of A.— This Henry, who was afterwards Lord Cornbury, and after his father's death Earl of Clarendon, became L. Chamberlain to Q. Catherine, in which office I find him in 1665, was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council and took his place at the board, 26 May 1680. In the middle of Febr. 1684, he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of George Marquis of Hallifax made L. Precedent of the Privy Council, and about the beginning of Dec. 1685 (K. James 2. being then in the throne) he was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: which honourable office he keeping a full year, was recalled, and soon after the Privy Seal was taken from him, as being a person that answered not that King's expectation, etc. About the time of his recalment, he was elected High Steward of this University, and after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown, he suffered in several respects, (without offence let it be spoken) because he was a Non-juror. He is a true son of the Ch. of Engl, a lover of the regular Clergy, etc.  
Laurence Hide younger Brother to Henry before mentioned was also diplomated M. of A. the same day.— In Apr. 1661. he was elected one of the Burgesses for this University to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. 8 of May the same year, and on the 30 of Oct. following, he with Will. Lord Croft and Sir Charles Berkley Groom of the Stole and Gent, of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York, began their Journey for France, the two former being sent by his Majesty, and the latter by the said Duke, to the K. of France, to congratulate the happy birth of the Dauphine, of whom the Qu. was delivered Nou. 1. stilo novo. About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made, by the endeavours of his father, Master of the Robes to his Majesty, and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Ambassador to Poland. In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts, to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month, and on the 19 of Nou. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury, (being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before, upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer) and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor, he took his place accordingly at the Board. This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury, and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council. In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased, in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office, and other Employments of eminent trust, to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts, and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester, to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nou. (or thereabouts) 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684, his Maj being then at Windsor, did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord Precedent of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor, whom his Majesty had given, in consideration of his great age; leave to retire: Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin, Secretary of State, was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place, and Charles' Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place. In Feb. following, K. Jam. 2, who was then newly proclaimed King, did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England, and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff. On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter, and was then invested with the George and Garter, having been first Knighted by the Sovereign, and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chapel of S. George at Windsor; at which time were also installed Henry Duke of N●rfolk Earl Marshal of England, and H●nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty. In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer, and soon after John Lord Bellasyse, Sidney Lord Godolphin, Henry Lord Dover, Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchequer, and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office. On the first of March 1691 he was, with Richard Earl of Ranelagh, Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt, sworn of their Majesty's hon. Privy Council, etc.   

Bach. of Phys.  

Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall.  
Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll.   
The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty, and therefore hereafter he is to be remembered among the Writers. The other had practised Phys. 20 years before this time, but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Eighteen were created, of whom were these.  
Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll.— He is now B. of Carlisle.  
7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll.— This person, who was a Staffordshire man born, was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire, and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster, 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu.  
Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll.   

Doct. of Law.  
Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall.— He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc.  
7. Will. Parsons of New Coll.— He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians, and had been kept in Jail at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion. Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex, did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation, and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts. After his Majesty's restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester, Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex. At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy, was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671, aged 72 years. This person, though said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law, yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf, it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law, he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes, an. 1635.  
Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648, was actually created the same day, Aug. 7.— He was afterwards of Doctor's Commons, and usually lived at Rainham in Essex, where, I think he died, in the latter end of 1677.  
Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. John's Coll.  
Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll.— This person, who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire, was born at Llanthrished in the same County, and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll, but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following, he retired to his own Country, and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq, which was then left void by Sequestration; where continuing from 1648 to 1651, he removed with his charge to Oxon, and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv. Coll, then possessed by Samson White a Mercer, afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight, where he educated them, as in Glamorganshire before, according to the way of the Church of England. In 1655 they were dispersed, because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University, and forthwith traveled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years. After Mr. Jenkyns his return, and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations, he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him, an. 1658, the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead; where continuing till his Majesty's restauration in 1660, he then returned to Jesus Coll, of which he was first made Fellow, and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell, Principal, and Dr. of the Civ. Law, as before 'tis told you. Afterwards he retired to London, and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton, which he managed with great dexterity and prudence, and at length was Judge in his own right, and when Dr. Will. Merick died, which happened, as it seems, in Jan. 1668, he became Judge of the Prerogative. In Nou. 1669 he was sent by his Majesty to the K. of France to claim the Jewels of Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England, then lately dead there, and after his return he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty on the seventh of January the same year. About which time he was a Recruiter (for hieth one of the Cinque-Ports) in that Parl. that began at Westminster 8 May 1661., wherein, as his Enemies 
(*) See in A seasonable Argument to persuade all the Grand Juries in England to petition 〈◊〉 a new Parliament. Or, a list of the principal Labourers in the great design of Popery and 〈…〉, etc. Printed 1677 qu, p. 22.  say, (who tell 
(†) Ibid.  us that he was the son of a Tailor, and indefatigably industrious in promoting a peace for France, which has been our ....) he affirmed, That upon necessity the King might raise moneys without Act of Parliament. In the beginning of the year 1673 he resigned his Principality of Jes. Coll. being then about to go to Colen in Germany with Henry Earl of Arlington and Sir Joseph Williamson in the quality of Plenipotentiaries from his Maj. of Great Britain to mediate for a Peace between the Emperor and K. of France. Afterwards (being returned thence) Sir Leolin was sent in the same quality by his Maj. to Neomagin in Dec. 1675, and in 1677 when Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterb. di●d, all the report than was, that he was to succeed him in that See, being then esteemed eminent for his profession, for his great Loyalty to his Prince, love and care of the Church of England and its orthodox Clergy. In Aug. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses of this University to sit in that Parl. which was to meet at Westm. on the 17 of Octob. following, and on the eleventh of Feb. following that, he was sworn one of his Majesty's Privy Council, being then appointed to succeed Mr. Hen. Coventry in the place of Secretary of State. On the 26 Apr. 1680 he was sworn Secretary, and received the Seals which the said Mr. Coventry then delivered up to his Maj. and in the beginning of Feb. following he was chose Burgess again by the Members of this Uniu. to serve in that Parl. which was to begin at Oxon on the 21 of March the same year. But so it was that the Faction being then very high in their Proceedings and Designs, which they carried on under pretence of prosecuting the Popish Plot, Sir Leolin was so much oppressed with business, and the more because his brother Secretary did not understand it, that his body was in short time after so much broken, (followed with great and dangerous indispositions) that he with leave obtained from his Maj. did at length on the 14 of Apr. 1684 deliver up the Seals of his Office to his Majesty. Whereupon giving a farewell to all secular Employment, he retired to a House at Hamersmith near London which he had hired, and there spent the remainder of his days. In the middle of March 1684 (K. Jam. 2. being then in the throne) he was elected Burgess again by the Members of this University, to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm. on the 19 of May 1685, but his body being then exceedingly out of order, he did not sit. He died on the first of Sept. 1685 aged 62 years; whereupon his body being embalmed, it was conveyed from Hammersmith towards Oxon, being then attended by some of his friends and domestic servants. When it came near the City, several Doctors and principal Members of the University, as also the Mayor, aldermans and Citizens, some in Coaches and others on Horseback met it, on the 15 of the same month, and being conducted to the public Schools, the Vicechanc, Bish. of the Diocese, and whole body of the University received and placed it in the Divinity School which was fitted for that purpose. On Thursday the 17 day, the Vicechancellor, Bishops, together with the Noblemen, Doctors, Proctors and Masters met there in the said School in their formalities; and the memory of the deceased being solemnised in a Latin Speech by the University Orator, the Corpse was removed to the Chapel of Jesus Coll, where the Vicechanc. Principal thereof, read the Offices of Burial, and a Latin Speech was also spoken by one of the Fellows, which was accompanied with Music and Anthems suitable to the occasion. He was a great Benefactor to the new Buildings in the Quadrangle on the West side of the Refectory of the said Coll. in his life time, and when he died he gave to the said Coll. 700 l. per an. and the advowson of two Churches. There is a fair money over his grave in that Chapel with a large inscription thereon, the contents whereof shall now for brevity sake be omitted, while I tell you that under his name are printed Several Debates in the House of Commons at the Parl. held at Westm. 21 of Oct. 1680. Printed in a book intit. An exact Collection of the most considerable Debates in the honourable H. of Com. at the Parl. held at Westm. 21 Oct. 1680. etc. Lond. 1681. oct. As also A Letter to K. James 2, to persuade him to embrace the Protestant Religion, printed with Dr. Sam. Parker's Discourse on the same subject.  
Jan. 16. Henr. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall.— He had before been admitted to practise Physic, but after his Majesty's restauration, laying aside that faculty, he betook himself to Divinity and became Rector of Chaworth in Nottinghamshire, Prebendary of Ely and of Southwell. I shall make mention of his brother Sam. Brunsell among the created Doctors of Diu. this year.  
Mar. 9 Henr. Ailworth of New Coll.— He was about this time Chanc. of the Dioc. of Oxon, which Office he now enjoyeth.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Aug. 2. John Clerk of Trin. Coll.— I have mentioned another Joh. Clerk Dr. of Phys. of Milan among the Incorporations an. 1653. Which of these two was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. I know not.  
Will. Durston of Magd. Coll. was created the same day by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of the University which say, that he appeared in Comitiis and performed his exercises for the degree of Dr. of Phys. in Vniv. of Dubls, and that from the beginning of the late unhappy wars (and more particularly in the City of Oxon when it was a Garrison) he faithfully served his Majesty, and afterwards for his loyalty was ejected out of Magd. Coll. for not submitting to the then Visitation. (1648)  
Aug. 2. Thom. Wren second Son of Matthew B. of Ely and sometimes a Student of Cambridge was created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that by force of the late unhappy times he was constrained to leave the University of Cambridge (in divers Colleges whereof his Father was Visitor) and for his proficiency in studies he was fain to settle himself in the verg of the Vnivers. of Oxon, that the pressures under which his Father lay for 17 years together, were such, that he could not (his estate being taken away) allow his Children bread, much less supply their expenses for living in Colleges, and the taking of their degrees, only to have the benefit of the public Library, etc. This person, who was much addicted to Music while he studied in Oxon, which was about 8 years, was made Archdeacon of Ely by his Father after his Majesty's restauration, had other spiritualities, as I conceive, conferred upon him and became a member of the Royal Society. He died in 1679, being then of Wilberton in the Isle of Ely, and whether he was Doctor of the Laws at Cambridge I cannot tell.  

Aug. 7. Daubigney Tarbervill of Oriel Coll.  
Aug. 7. Degorie Pollwhele of Exet. Coll.   
The first, who afterwards practised Phys. in the City of Salisbury, was created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, the other who had been ejected his Fellowship of Exeter Coll. by the Parliament Visitors in 1648, was also created by virtue of the said Letters which say that he the said D. Pollwhele had from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles vigorously and faithfully served his Majesty under the command of Ralph Lord Hopton, then of Sir Jam. Smith in the quality of a Major of Horse, and continued in Arms until the surrender of Pendennis Castle, from whence he went to his late Majesty of blessed memory, and afterwards followed his now Majesty for some time in Holland and Flanders: And in or about the year 1650 he returned into Cornwall, his native Country, where he betook himself to the study and practice of Physic, etc.  

Aug. 10. Edw. Duke of Gloc. Hall.  
Aug. 10. Augustus or Augustine Caesar of the Uniu. of Cambr.   
16. Will. Jacob of Ch. Ch.— He was created by virtue of the King's Letters which say— We have received good testimony of his abilities in the Theory and practice of Physic— He hath been formerly a Graduate in Oxon, and hath studied in Foreign Countries, etc. This person, who was Son of John Jacob a Physician of Canterbury, was bred in Ch. Ch, afterwards practised his faculty with good success for many years in the said City, and was, if I mistake not, a Burgess to serve in one of the Parliaments that began after the discovery of the Popish Plot.  
Oct. 17. Edw. Hawtaine M. A. of Magd. Coll.  
30. John Lamphire M. A. of New Coll. and Camden's Professor of History— This person, who was Son of George Lamphire an Apothecary of the City of Winchester, was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City, educated in Wykehams' School there, made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1636, entered on the Physic line when Master of Arts, ejected his Fellowship by the Parl. Visitors, and afterwards practised his faculty with good success in and near Oxford. After his Majesty's return he was restored to his Fellowship, became Camden's Professor of History upon the ejection of Lewis du Moulin, Principal of New Inn in the place of Dr. Roger's ejected for Nonconformity and soon after Principal of Hart Hall. He hath published of other men's works, with Epistles before, corrections on, and sometimes additions to, them, these following (1) Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris commentariis, etc. and Dictata. Both written by Hugh Lloyd. See in the first Vol. of the Athenae Oxon. p. 269. (2) Monarchia Britannica, &c, Written by Tho. Master. See in this sec. Vol. of Athenae. pag. 19 (3) Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrews Episcopi Winton. preces privatae Graecè & Latinè. Oxon. 1675 in tw. Afterwards Dr. Lamphire obtained a more perfect copy of the said prayers, which he was about to publish, but hindered by other affairs. (4) Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita, 1592. 'Tis the oration of Sir Hen. Savile, and 'twas published by Dr. Lamphire with the sec. edit. of Monarchia Britannica. See in the first Vol. of Ath. Oxon. p. 397. (5) Questiones selectiores in Logica, Ethica, etc. See in Dr. Pink among the Writers of this Vol. p. 58. This Dr. Lamphire, who was Justice of the Peace for the County and City of Oxon, a good, generous and fatherly man, of a public Spirit, and free from pharasaical leven, or the modish hypocrisy of the age he lived in, died in his Lodgings in Hart Hall on the 30 of March 1688, aged 73 years, and was buried in the outer Chapel, near the W. door, belonging to New Coll. The next day Will. Thornton M. A. of Wadh. Coll. was admitted Principal of the said Hall in his place, and on the 2. of Apr. following the learned Hen. Dodwell M. of A. of Dublin was elected Camden's Professor of History to the great content of the generality of the members of the University.  
Oct. 30. Thom Willis of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 29. Rich. Franklin of Queen Coll.— He was put in among the rest, though no sufferer for the royal cause.  
Dec. 6. Henry Wyatt of Pemb. Coll.— He was no sufferer but was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors in 1648, and by virtue of the Letters sent to the Convocation by Lenthall the Speaker of the H. of Commons he was created M. of A. in 1649. Afterwards he went Physician with the Lord Rutherford lately made Earl of Tiveot in Scotland to the Garrison of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa, and practised his faculty there with good success. At length he accompanying the said Count with a select party of horse out of that Garrison to view the Moors Country, on the 3. of May 1664, were all, some very few excepted, cut off, (after they had passed the Jews River some Miles distant from Tangier) by Gayland the chief of the Moors and his party; who having had notice, by the treachery of a certain person, that they would take a view of the Country, there was an Ambuscade planted to receive them by Gayland, and sheltered by a thick wood, and seconded, as 'twas supposed, by his whole Army.  
March 12. Joh. Fisher M. A. of Cambridge.  
Steph. Bowden of Magd. Coll. was nominated by the Chancellor's Letters dat. 1. Dec. this year to be created Doct. of Physic, but whether he was so it appears not.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Aug. 1. Nich. Monk sometimes of Wadh. Coll, now Provost of Eton, Brother to Gen. George Monk Duke of Albemarle (at this time in high value by the King, Church, University and all British People) was presented by Dr. Rob. Sanderson the King's Professor of Diu. to the degree of Doct. of that faculty, and actually created by the Vicechancellor in Convocation by virtue of the King's Letters, which say that we are well satisfied of the full standing, sufficiency and merit of Nich, Monk M. of A, as duly qualified for the degree of D. of D, and also well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings and service for ourselves and the Church during the late distractions, etc.  
These persons following, till you come to Byrom Eton, were actually created Doctors on the second day of Aug, though several of them had not suffered for the King's cause.  

Guy Carleton M. A. of Qu. Coll.  
Anth. Hawles M. A. of Qu. Coll.   
The last was Chaplain to his Majesty in his Exile, was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury by Bishop Duppa in January 1657, in the place of Will. Buckner deceased, and about the same time to a Prebendship in the same Church. After his Majesty's restoration he was installed Canon of Windsor 18. July 1660 in the place of Joh. Hales, some years before dead, and had two good rectories bestowed on him in Wilts. He died on the 16 of Jan. 1663. and was buried in the Chapel of S. George at Windsor: whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Josh. Childrey and his Canonry on Joh. durel.  
Joh. Lloyd M. A. of Alls. Coll. Chaplain also to his Majesty in his Exile, who on the 18 of July going before had been installed Canon of Wind. in the place of Hugh Cressey, who in the War time had changed his Religion. This Dr. Lloyd died on the 9 of April 1671, and thereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Joh. Saumares M. A. of Pemb. Coll, and Dean of Guernsey. One Joh. Lloyd wrote A Treatise of Episcopacy, Liturgies, and Ecclesiastical Ceremonies. Pr. in 1660. qu. but whence he was I cannot yet tell: And Joh. Lloyd D. D. was of Hombleston in Kent, and died about the beginning of the year 1679.  
Joseph Crowther Bach. of Diu. of S. john's Coll, and Chaplain to James Duke of York— He was about this time Chantor and Preb. of S. Paul's Cathedral and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the diocese of Worcester. On the 7. of March 1661. he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Herbert Croft promoted to the See of Hereford, and on the 26. of Dec. 1664 he was admitted Principal of S. Mary's Hall. In his last days he was committed Prisoner to the Prison called the Fleet in London by the endeavours of Sir Tho. Draper, because he refused to renew a Corpse belonging to S. Paul's Cath. than in the possession of Sir Thomas; which the Doctor intended to wear out for the benefit of the said Cathedral. He died in the Fleet on the 16 of Dec. 1689, and was buried in S. Paul's Cathedral. Whereupon his Chantorship was bestowed on Dr. Tho. Turner Precedent of C. C. Coll, his Preb. of Worc. on Jonathan Blagrave of Magd. Hall, Sub-Almoner to the Queen, his rectory of Tredington on Tho. Kerry of Ch. Ch. and his principality on Will. Wyatt M. A. of the same House.  
George Benson M. A. of Qu. Coll, and about this time Archdeacon of Hereford— On the 16. of June 1671 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Dowdeswell deceased, and in the year following he became Dean of Hereford on the death of Tho. Hodges.  
Ralph Brideoake M. A. of New Coll.— He was afterwards B. of Chichester.  
Edw. Fulham Bach. of Diu. of Ch. Ch.— This person who had been Rector of Hampton Poyle in Oxfordshire in the times of Usurpation, was installed Canon of Windsor on the 12 of July this year, in the place of Dr. Thomas Some, some years before deceased, (who had been of Peter House in Cambridge and Preb. of S. Paul's Cathedral) and about the same time he became Preb. of Chichester.  
George Hall of Exeter Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Chester.  
Nath. Hardy of Hart (sometimes of Magd.) Hall.  
Joh. Townson of Magd. Coll.  
Joh. Lee M. A. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was Son of Thom. Lee of London, by Anne his Wife, Daughter of Harman Warner and Sister and Heir of Dr. John Warner Bishop of Rochester, was now Preb. of Rochester, and Archdeacon thereof in the place of Elizeus Burges some years before deceased. He afterwards wrote himself Joh. Lee alias Warner, because he was heir to the said Bishop, hath published one or more Sermons, which I have not yet seen, and dying about the beginning of June 1679 (at which time he left behind him a Son named Hen. Loe Esq.) was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Thom. Plume D. of D. of Cambr, installed therein on the 10 of the said month and in the same year.  
Henry Bridgman M. A. of Brasn. Coll, was created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that he hath done his Majesty faithful service, etc.— He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man.  

Mich. Woodward B. D. Warden of New Coll.  
Tho. Barlow B. D. Provost of Qu. Coll.  
Rob. Say M. A. Provost of Oriel Coll.  
Walt. Blandford M. A. Warden of Wadham Coll.  
Thomas Yate B. D. Principal of Brasn. Coll.   
The first of these five dying on the 16 of June 1675, was succeeded in his Wardenship by Joh. Nicholas M. A. and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester. The second was afterwards B. of Linc, and was succeeded in his Provostship by Tim. Halton D. D. The third dying on the 24 of Oct. 1691, was succeeded in his Provostship by George Royse D. D. The fourth was afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Worcester, and was succeeded ih his Wardenship by Gilbert Ironside Bach. of Div; and the last dying on the 22 of Apr. 1681, was succeeded in his principality by Joh. Meare M. A. But this the Reader is to know, that though all five were created, as Loyalists, yet none of them suffered for their Loyalty in the times of Rebellion and Usurpation, only the last.  
Rob. Davenant of S. john's Coll, Bach. of Diu. of 28 years standing, and now Preb. elect of Salisbury, as 'tis said in the public register— He was Brother to Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet.  
Ralph Cook of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Diu. and Prebendary of Rochester.  
Rich. Harwood B. D. of Magd. Hall— This person, who was Son of a Father of both his names, was born in the City of Gloucester, educated in Grammar learning there, became a Com. of the said Hall in Mich. term 1631. aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts, entered into the sacred function, and being accounted a learned Preacher was appointed by the Delegacy of the Uniu. to be one of those persons to preach before K. Ch. 1▪ at Ch. Ch. in the time of the rebellion. Afterwards, upon the death of that King, he suffered, as all Divines that adhered to him did, but upon his Son's restauration, he became Chaplain in Ord. to him, was created Doctor, as before 'tis said, made Preb. of Glocest. and Rector of a Church near Stow on the Would in Glocestershire. He hath written and published, (1) King David's Sanctuary, Sermon before his Majesty at Ch. Ch. on Psal. 73.25. Oxon. 1644. qu. (2) The Royal Subjects retiring-room, Serm. at S. Mary's 13. July (being Act Sunday) on Esay 26.20.21. Oxon. 1645. qu. and other things as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. He died in the year 1669, and was succeeded in his Preb. by Will. Washbourne M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll.  
Rich. Hyde M. A. of S. Edm. Hall— He was sometimes a Chaplain in the King's Army, was now Preb. of Warmister in the Church of Salisbury, afterwards Subdean of the said Church by the resignation of Dr. Alex. Hyde, in the beginning of Aug. 1661., and at length Preb. of Winchester.  

Rich. Owen B. D. of Oriel Coll.  
Tho. Good B. D. of Ball. Coll.   

Thomas powel M. A. of Jes. Coll.  
Will. Thomas M. A. of Jes. Coll.   
The first of these two had performed his exercise for Bach. of Diu. 20 years before this time. The other was created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters which say thus of him— I have heard of the great worth and deserts of him, as well in respect of his learning and orthodox judgement, as of his most exemplary life and conversation— who for divers years together hath lived in S. Wales, etc. He was afterwards B. of St. Dau. and Worc. successively.  
These four last Doctors I have mentioned at large among the Writers in their respective places.  
Byrom Eton of Brasn. Coll.— He was soon after Principal of Gloc. Hall, and when Dr. Barlow became Bish. of Linc. he gave him first the Archdeaconry of Stow, and afterwards that of Leycester, in which last he was installed 8. Sept. 1683.  
All the said Doctors before mentioned from Guy Carleton to Byr. Eton were created on the 2. of Aug.  
At the same time were letters from the Chancellor read for George Jay of Ch. Ch. to be created D. of D, but being not present, he was to be admitted when he made his appearance. The said Letters speak thus of him— He continued a Student of Ch. Ch. for the space of 20 years and upwards, and in the year 1614 he proceeded M. of A, and was first made Grammar Reader, then Terrae filius at the public Act, and afterwards was made Chaplain to the Earl of Anglesie and after to the Duke of Bucks, and then to Dr. White B. of Ely lately deceased. And now his Majesty taking special notice of Mr. Jays worth and abilities, as also of his services done to him, and his sufferings for him, hath been graciously pleased, without any privity or seeking of his own, to give unto him an eminent preferment in the Church— By reason of the late troubles he was forced beyond the Seas to save his life, etc. This Mr. Jay who was born of gentile parents in Dorsetshire, but not admitted Doctor, hath several Sermons extant, which I have not yet seen.  
Aug. 7. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Linc. was created by virtue of the King's Letters, which say that we are well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings for us and the Church, etc. He was installed Archdeacon of Linc. in the place of Morgan Wynne deceased, an. 1645, and dying on the second day of Febr. 1666, was buried in S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London.  

Aug. 7. Tho. Pierce M. A. of Magd. Coll.  
Aug. 7. Will. Creed B. D. of S. Joh. Coll.   

Aug. 7. Will. Owen of Mert. Coll.  
Aug. 7. Joh. Priaulx of Mert. Coll.   
The former of these two last, was Treasurer of the Cathedral Ch. of S. David, afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan, and died in 1680. The other, who was fourth Son of Peter Priaulx of Southampton, and born, and educated in Grammar, there, was admitted Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. of Merton, an. 1635, proceeded in Arts, and soon after entered into the sacred function. In the time of the rebellion he left the College, sided with the men that were uppermost, became Rector of Fovant in Wilts, and afterwards Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians and Independents called ignorant, scandalous and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, an. 1654. After his Majesty's restauration he became Preb. of Netherbury in terra in the Church of Salisbury, D. of D. as before 'tis said, and being then esteemed an excellent Theologist, the King's Professorship of Divinity was offered to him upon Dr. sanderson's promotion to the See of Linc, but he modestly refusing it, it was conferred on Dr. William Creed. In May 1671 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury in the place of Joh. Sherman deceased, and dying at Salisbury, on the second day of June 1674, was buried in the Cathedral Church there; whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Thomas Lambert on the 12 day of the said month of June. This Dr. Priaulx hath written Confirmation confirmed, and recommended from Scripture, antiquity and reason, in a Sermon preached in the Cathedral Ch. of S. Mary in Salisbury, at a solemn confirmation there administered by Humph. B. of Sarum, on Acts 8.17. Lond. 1662. qu.  
Aug. 10. Jam. Lamb M. A. of S. Mary's Hall.  
16: Thomas Washbourne Bac. of Diu. of Ball. Coll.— He was created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that he is a learned, pious and orthodox person.  
Sept. 11. Matthew Smalwood B. D. of Brasn. Coll.  

20 Edw. Pocock B. D. Can. of Ch. Ch.  
20 Rob. Townsend M. A. of New Coll.   
The last was installed Preb. of Bedford Minor in the Church of Linc. 9 Nou. 1660.  

Oct. 3. Joh. Fell M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch.  
Oct. 3. Rich. Allestry M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch.  
Oct. 3. Joh. Dolben M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch.   
10. Joh. Arthur a noted Theologist was diplomated by virtue of the King's Letters written to the University in his behalf and unknown to him— This Diploma was to pass because Mr. Arthur's great age would not permit him to take a journey to Oxon to be there presented in person. He was Son, if I mistake not, of Laur. Arthur of Springfield in Essex, and had been mostly educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge, but ejected from his living at Capham in Surrey for Nonconformity, an. 1662.  
17. Mirth Waferer of S. Alb. Hall.  

Oct. 19 Joh. Doughtie B. D. of Mert. Coll. Preb. of Westm.  
Oct. 19 Walter Jones B. D. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm.  
Oct. 19 Rich. Busbie M. A. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm.   
The last of these is now living in the Coll. at Westminster, and is an author, and therefore he is hereafter to have a place among the Oxford Writers.  
30. Rich. Parr of Ex. Coll.  
In the month of Octob. were the King's Letters, dated 27 of Sept, read in behalf of one Herbert Astley to be Doct. of Divinity, but whether he was admitted it appears not.— He was afterwards Dr. of Law of Cambridge, as it seems, Preb. and at length Dean of Norwich: in which last Dignity he was installed on the second day of Sept. 1670 in the place of Dr. Joh. Croft deceased. This person, who was Son of Herb. Astley, or Ashley rather, of Plymouth in Devonshire, was, upon his accidental coming into N●rfolk, taken into the patronage of Sir Jac. and Sir Isaac Astley, and by them, who took him to be their kinsman, was preferred to several Livings in those parts, and marrying with a Hobart, he was, by the endeavours of that family, promoted to the said Deanery. He died in the month of May, as it seems, in 1681 and was interred in the Cath Ch. at Norwych near to the monument of Sir Hen. Hobart.  

Nou. 9 Walter Dayrel or Darrell M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Winchester.  
Nou. 9 Tho. Lamplugh B. D. of Qu. Coll.  
Nou. 9 Tho. Tully B. D. of Qu. Coll.   
The first of these three became Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Tho. Gorges, deceased, and dying on the 29 of March 1684, aged 74 years his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Rob. Sharrock.  
19 Thom. Manton of Wadh. Coll. the noted Presbyterian.  
29. Thom. Lockey B. D. and Student of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Canon of that House, and dying on the 29 of June 1679 aged 78 years, was buried in the second isle joining on the north side to the Choir of Ch. Ch. where there is a neat monument over his grave. He was a retired and studious person, had been a great Tutor in his house in the time of Usurpation, a Collector of pictures, coins, medals, etc. All or most of which, with his choice Library, came into the hands of Dr. Hen. Killigrew Preb. of Westminster.  
Tho. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin was actually created the same day— He was Dean of Cork in Ireland, afterwards Vicar of Cheston in Hertfordshire, Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty, and at length Bishop of Downe. He hath extant A Convocation Sermon at Dublin, on 1. Cor. 14.16, printed 1662. in qu. and A Sermon preached at the spital upon Tuesday in Easter week, 1672 printed the same year at Lond. in cue, and perhaps other things.  

Dec. 1. Nich. Cordel of Alls, Fellow of Eton Coll.  
Dec. 1. Joh. Gough commonly called Goffe. M. A. of Magd. Coll.  
Dec. 1. Rich. West M. of A. of Ch. Ch.   
The last of these three, who was Son of Thomas West of the ancient Borough of Northampton Priest, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. School, an. 1632, aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1639, and afterwards suffered for the Royal cause. Much about the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of Shillingston in Dorsetshire and afterwards Preb. of Wells. He hath published, The profitableness of piety, opened in an Assize Sermon preached at Dorchester, 24 of March 167 0/1 before Sir Rich. Rainsford Kt, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, on 1. Tim. 4. latter part of the 7. and 8 verses. Lond. 1671. qu.  

Dec. 1. Edw. Clerk M. A. of Hart Hall.  
Dec. 1. Edm. Morgan M. A. of Magd. Hall.  
Dec. 1. Edw. Hicks of Oriel Coll.   
The last of these three, who was Son of Joh. Hicks Minister of Barrington in Glocestershire, became a Student in the said Coll. of Oriel, in 1639 aged 15 years, left it when the War began without taking the degree of B. of A, sided with the predominant party, returned to his house after the War was ended, submitted to the Visitors and then took the degree of Master. Afterwards he became Rector of Hartingfordbury in Hertfordshire, procured by his interest, (as certain other Presbyterians did,) to be created D. D. among the Royalists, and afterwards being ejected from his living for Nonconformity, (as a printed Catalogue of the generality of Nonconformists in England informs me) did afterwards conform and became Rector of S. Margaret Patens in the City of London. He hath published The righteous Judge, Sermon preached at Hertford Assize, 10. March 1681/2 on Gen. 18.25, last part. Lond. 1682. qu. It is dedicated by the author to Sir Nich. Miller Kt, High Sherriff of Hertfordshire, by his Epist. dated at Buckland in the same County, 29 of March 1682, of which place he was then, as I suppose Rector. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died in the latter end of the said year, 1682.  

Dec. 1. Gilb. Ironside the designed B. of Bristol B. of D. of Trin. Coll. Diplomated D. of D.  
Dec. 1. Will. Nicolson the desig. B. of Gloc. B. of D. of Magd. Coll. Diplomated D. of D.  
11. Tho. Smith, afterwards Bishop. of Carlisle. B. of D. of Queens Coll. Diplomated D. of D.   
15. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. was created for his several laudable Sermons preached before the King and Parliament while Oxon was a Garrison for his Majesty.— This person, who had been outed of his Chaplainship of Merton Coll. by the Visitors in 1648, suffered afterwards as other loyalists did, but after his Majesty's restauration he became Preb. of Winterbourne Earls in the Church of Salisbury, Preb. of Chichester, and Rector of Clapham in Surrey, at which place he died in Aug. or thereabouts, an. 1675. See more of him in Joh. Gregory, among the Writers p. 50.  
John Castillion M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Canterbury was created the same day— On the 15 of Nou. 1676 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh promoted to the See of Exeter, and dying about the latter end of Octob. 1688, his Majesty K. Jam. 2. nominated Mr. Sim. Lowth to succeed him, but he being not then D. D, and not in a possibility to obtain that degree before the said K. left the Nation, K. Will. 3. gave it to one Dr. ... Vllock.  
January 16. Sam. Brunsell of Magd. Hall.— This person, who was Son of Oliver Brunsell of Wroughton in Dorsetshire, became a Com. of the said Hall 1636 aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts 1641, and then left the University because the rebellion soon after broke out. After his Majesty's restauration, if not before, he became Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire, and at length Preb. of Southwell, etc. He hath published, Solomon's blessed Land, Sermon before an extraordinary assembly at Newark upon Trent, on the 29 May 1660 on Ecclesiast. 10.17. Lond. 1660. qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
Jan. 24. Joshua Childrey of Magd. Coll.  
Mar. 1. Edw. Cotton M. A. of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Cornwall in the place of Dr. Rob. Hall— I have made mention of his Father of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 813.  
James Stermont a Dutch Divine was diplomated the same day, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which partly run thus— While his Majesty was in the parts beyond the Sea, he had evidence of the affections of this Mr. James Stermont Minister of the Hague in Holland, who has a great repute for piety and learning with those among whom he lives: And by the affections he has declared to the Church and Crown of England, deserves the acknowledgement of all who wish well to either, etc. This person being a high Royalist for the cause of the King of England, 'twas frequent with him to have several passages in his Sermons at the Hague, (esteemed by those that were not lovers of his Majesty, to be extravagancies, invectives and strange digressions) which being looked upon as much tending to the prejudice of peace and the intended treaties between England and Holland, he was forced to recant before the high and mighty States general, an. 1651.  
Mar. 12. William Holder of Cambridge— This worthy person, who is a Nottinghamshire man born, was educated in Pemb. Hall there, where he had a Greek Scholars place, commenced M. of A, entered into holy Orders, and in 1642 or thereabouts, he became Rector of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire, and in the year following was incorporated M. of A. in this University, as before I have told you. After his Majesty's restauration he became Canon of Ely, Fellow of the Royal Society, Canon of S. Paul's, Subdean of his Majesty's Chapel (in the place of Dr. Walt. Jones deceased) and Subalmoner to him. He is a great Virtuoso and a person of many accomplishments, and hath obtained a great name for his most wonderful art in making a young Gentleman named Alex. Popham, (Son of Colonel Edw. Popham sometimes an Admiral at Sea for the Long Parliament) who was born deaf and dumb, to speak; and how soon, and by what method he did it, he tells you in an Appendix to his most rare and ingenious discourse of The Elements of speech, which I shall anon mention. This great cure was performed by him (whereby he is the first that is remembered ever to have succeeded therein in England, or perhaps in the world) in his house at Blechingdon an. 1659.: And because it was a wonderful matter many curious Scholars went from Oxon to see and to hear the person speak, but he being afterwards called home by his friends, he began to lose what he had been taught by Dr. Holder. Afterwards a great noise being made, that Dr. Joh. Wallis had, by his art, made another young Gentleman named Mr. whaley, who had lost his speech ever since he was five years of age, to speak, the said Mr. Popham was by his Relations sent to the said Dr. Wallis to make him speak, which he effecting, he afterwards, very vainly assumed the glory of it to himself, without taking notice of what had been before done to him. This Dr. Holder hath written The Elements of Speech, an Essay of inquiry into the natural production of Letters; with an Appendix concerning persons that are deaf and dumb. Lond. 1669. oct, as also A supplement to the Philosophical Transactions of July 1670, with some reflections on Dr. Wallis his Letter there inserted. Lond. 1678 in two sh. in qu. This last was written by him to vindicate himself that he had taught Mr. Popham to speak, which Dr. Wallis in the said Letter did claim to himself. Whereupon, soon after, Dr. Wallis (who, at any time, can make black white, and white black, for his own ends, and hath a ready knack of sophistical evasion, as the writer of these matters doth know full well) did soon after publish an answer to that Supplement entit. A defence of the Royal Society and the Philosophical Transactions, particularly those of July, 1670, in answer to the Cavils of Dr. Will. Holder. Lond. 1678 in 4. sh. in cue, written by way of Letter to Will. L. Visc. Brouncker. Dr. Holder also, who hath good skill in the Theoretic and practic parts of Music, hath written in English A treatise of Music, which is ready, as I have heard, for the press.  
Mar. 14. Anton. Elcocke M. A. of Brasn. Coll.— He was now Prebend of Donington in, and Subdean of, the Church of, York.  
19 Francis Mundy of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Law and public Actuary— He was Rector of Welford in Berks, Subdean of Wells and Treasurer of Landaff. He died 22. Nou. 1678 aged 65 years, and was buried in the Church of Welford: whereupon his Subdeanery was bestowed on Dr. Will. Levinz of S. John's Coll. and his Treasurership on Dr. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll.  
In the month of July this year Will. Wicherley became a sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library, and whether he had his lodging and diet in Qu. Coll. I know not.— He was afterwards numbered among the Poets of the first rank by his writing, and publishing four Comedies, which have been much taken into the hands of all ingenious men.  
In the month of Sept. became also a Sojourner in this Uniu. for the sake of the said Library Francis Willoughby of Middleton in Warwickshire Esq, a person much celebrated to this day among the Virtuosos of great renown— He was the only Son of Sir Francis Willoughby Kt, descended 
(a) So in. the Preface of Joh. Ray Esq. to The Ornithology of Franc. Willoughly Esq.— Lond. 1678. fol.  of two very ancient families, both Willoughbys, the one honourable, viz. that of Eresby in Lincolnshire, by the Father's side, the other Worshipful, viz. that of Willoughby on the Woulds in Nottinghamshire, by the Mothers. While he was young his relations discovered in him most excellent gifts and abilities both of body and mind, and therefore nothing was by them spared to promote and enlarge them, as being also blessed with a fair estate. Howbeit, when he grew elder, as he did duly prise these advantages of birth, estate, and parts, so did he not content himself therewith or value himself thereby, but laboured after what might render him more deservedly honourable, and more truly to be called his own, as being obtained by the concurrence at least of his endeavours. First then as God had given him a quick apprehension, piercing wit and sound judgement; so by his great industry and constant use of these gifts he did highly improve and advance them. He was from his childhood addicted to study, and ever after when he came to the use of reason so great a husband of his time, that he did not willingly lose or let slip unoccupied the least fragment of it, detesting no vice more than idleness, which he looked upon as the Parent and Nurse of almost all others: Nay, so excessive was he in the prosecution of his studies without any intermission or diversion that most of his friends were of opinion he did much weaken his body and impair his health by his uncessant labours and perpetual intention of mind upon business. Whence it came to pass that he obtained very great skill in all parts of learning, and particularly a deep insight into those sciences which are most abstruse and impervious to vulgar capacities; I mean the most subtle parts of the Mathematics. Of his skill in natural Philosophy, chiefly the History of Animals (Birds, Beasts, Fishes and Infects) I shall say no more at present, but that it hath not been my hap to meet with any man either in England or beyond the Seas of so general and comprehensive knowledge therein. To pass by his eminent virtues, as his humility, sobriety and temperance, exemplary chastity and purity, his justness, constancy, charity, etc. I shall give you the Catalogue of of his works, viz. (1) Ornithologiae libri tres: in quibus Aves omnes hactenus cognitae in methodum naturis suis convenientem redactae accurate describuntur, descriptiones iconibus elegantissimis, & vivarum Avium simillimis, aeri incisis illustrantur. Lond. 1676. fol. Viewed, corrected and digested into Order by Joh. Ray Fellow of the Royal Society. Afterwards it was translated into English, with an Appendix added to it by the said Mr. Ray— Lond. 1678. fol. The author Mr. Willoughby observing in the busy and inquisitive age he lived in the Hist. of the Animals alone to have been in a great measure neglected by English men, he made the study thereof his province, applying himself with all diligence to the cultivating and illustrating of it. Which that he might the more effectually do, he not only read what had been written by others, but did himself accurately describe all the Animals he could find and procure either in England or beyond the Seas, making a voyage into foreign Countries, chiefly for that purpose, to search out, view and describe the several species of nature; and though he was not long abroad, yet traveled he over a great part of France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the Low Countries. In all which places he was so inquisitive and successful, that not many sorts of Animals, described by others, escaped his diligence. He drew them out or described them with a pencil, which are with great curiosity engraven on copper plates, at the charge of his Relict Emm, and are printed in the Lat. and Engl. edition of the said Ornithologia. He hath also written (2) Historiae piscium libri quatuor, etc. Oxon. 1686. fol. Which work was with great pains, viewed, reviewed, made fit for use, and the two first books entirely completed by the said most eminent Virtuoso Mr. Ray. It is adorned with very many cuts of several sorts of Fishies, that were not ever before known in England. (3) Letter containing some considerable observations about that kind of wasps called Ichneumones, etc.— dat. 24. Aug. 1671. See in the Philos. Transact. num. 76. p. 2279. (4) Letter about the hatching a kind of Bee lodged in old Willows— dat. 10. July 1671. See in the said Transact. num. 74. p. 2221. At length this most worthy and learned person Mr. Willoughby dying to the great reluctancy of all curious and inquisitive persons, especially those of the Royal Society, (of which he was an eminent member and ornament) to his friends and all good men that knew him, and the great loss of the Commonwealth of learning, on the third day or July 1672 aged 37 years, was buried, as I presume, at Middleton among the graves of his Ancestors.    



An. Dom. 1661.  
An. 13. Car. 2.    
Chanc. Sir Edw. Hyde now Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Cornbury and Baron of Hindon.  
Vicechanc. Rich. Bailiff D. D. Precedent of S. John's Coll. and Dean of Salisbury, 9 August. He had been Vicechancellor in 1636 and 37.  

Proct.  
Nich. Meese of Trin. Coll. Apr. 24.  
Henr. Hawley of Oriel Coll. Apr. 24.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 3. Tho. Ken of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells, and is now living a Nonjurer and a sequestered person. He hath also published several things, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered in a double respect.  
June 14. Joh. March of S. Edm. Hall— He hath published several things, and therefore he ought to be hereafter remembered among the Writers.  
21. Henry Dolling of Wadham Coll.— See among the Master's 1664.  
Oct. 15. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall— He is an eminent Virtuoso, hath published several books, and being living, he is to be hereafter remembered among Oxford Writers.  
Matthew Hole of Exet. Coll. was admitted the same day— See more of him among the Bach. of Diu. an. 1674.  
Nou. 14. Will. Clerk of Or Coll.  
Mar. 22. Rich. Rhodes of Ch. Ch.  
Adm. 164.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were admitted, and several created, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 30. Joh. Cave lately of Magd. now of Linc. Coll.  
Apr. 30. Sam Jemmat of Vniv. Coll.   
The last of these two, who was Son of John, Son of William Jemmat, mentioned among the Writers in this Vol. p. 449, was at this time Fellow of the said Coll, and soon after taking holy Orders, he became a florid preacher in these parts. In 1665 he was the Repeater or Repetitioner in S. Mary's Church on Low Sunday, of the four Easter Sermons, which being admirably well performed, all to a word memoriter, without any hesitation, he obtained a great esteem among the Academians; and in the same year he became Rector of Somerton in the Dioc. of Oxon, and not long after Vicar of S. Nicholas Church in the Borough of Warwick, where he now lives. He hath published, A Sermon preached at the Assizes held in Warwick 19 March 1682, on 2. Cor. 19.6. Oxon. 1683. qu. and may hereafter other things.  
May 14. Tho. Trapham of Magd. Hall, lately of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was Son of Tho. Trapham sometimes a Chirurgeon living in Oxon, and afterwards Bach. of Phys. by Creation, as I have told you under the year 1649 in these Fasti, was afterwards a Traveller and Doctorated in Phys. in another University, and after his return became one of the Fellows of the Coll. of Physicians and author of, A discourse of the state of health in the island of Jamaica, with a provision therefore calculated from the Air, the place and the water: The customs and manner of living, etc. Lond. 1679. oct. An account of which book is in the Philos. Transact. numb. 141. p. 1030.  
May 28 Joh. Whitehall sometimes of Merton, now of Oriel Coll.— He was afterwards Preb. of Peterborough and Dean of Oundle in Northamptonshire. He died in January, 1685.  
July 2. Edmund Thorn of Oriel Coll.— He hath published A funeral Sermon upon the much lamented death of Col. Edward Cook, who died at London, January 29, and was buried in the Chapel at Highnam (or Higham) near Gloucester, on the second of Feb. 1683, on Rev. 14.13. Lond 1684. qu. He is now living in those parts, and may publish other things hereafter.  
July 4. Thomas Marsden of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards Chaplain to the English Merchants trading at Lisbon in Portugal, and after his return became Vicar of Walton in his native Country of Lancashire. He hath written, Roman Catholics uncertain, whether there be any true Priests, or Sacraments in the Church of Rome: evinced by an argument urged and maintained (upon their own Principles) against Mr. Edw. Goodal of Prescot in Lancashire, printed in the reign of K. Jam. 2. He is now living and able to publish other matters.  
July 10. Edward Wetenhall of Linc. Coll.— He was afterwards a Writer, and Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Writers and Bishops of this Uniu. of Oxon.  
Oct. 15. Joh. Ellis Chaplain of New Coll, lately a Student of Wadh.— He was afterwards D. D. elsewhere, and in 1678 was made Chantor of S. David in the place of Dr. Will. Thomas promoted to the See thereof. He is also now a Dignitary in the Church of S. Asaph.  
Adm. 68   

Bach. of Phys.  
There was only one that was admitted this year, of whom I have made mention elsewhere.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 3. Joh. Good M. A. of Ball. Coll.— This person, who is mentioned in the, ●asti of the first Vol. p. 833.834, died early in the morning of the 26. of Feb. 1675 aged 54 years, and was buried in Ball. Coll. Chappel. There was an epitaph made for him, but not put over his grave, part of which runs thus. Hic jacet Johannes Good ●. T B. Coll. Ball XXX plus minus annos socius meritissimus. omnigenâ o●natus eruditione neutiquam inflatus. Sic excultus ipse alios pariter excoluit sedulitate usus adeò indefessâ, ut celebriori Tutoris quam Johannis prenomine diu innotuerit, etc.  
Octob. 17. Thomas Ellis M. A. of Jesus Coll.— He is at large mentioned among the Writers in this Vol. p. 248.  
Adm. 4.   

Doct. of Law.  
May 14. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll.— He was then licenced to proceed, but did not stand in the Act following to complete that degree.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was licenced this year only created.  

Doct. of Diu.  
July 3. George Escourt of Trin. Coll. a Compounder.   

Incorporations.  
May 21. George Smith Doct. of Phys. of Milan— This person who was lately of Qu. Coll. in this Univ, took the said degree at Pad in Mar. 1651/8. He was afterwards of the Coll. of Phys.  
June 18. Edw. Wetenhall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge— In the next month he was admitted M. of A. as I have before told you.  
25. Joh. Parry Fellow of Jesus Coll. and M. of A. of 8 years standing, who having performed all his exercise for Bach. of Diu. in Trin. Coll. Chap. near Dublin on the 26. of January 1660, and the same day declared Bach. of Diu. there, was incorporated Bach. of Diu. of this Uniu.— He was afterwards B. of Ossory as I have among the Writers told you p. 448.  
Ralph Whitfield B. A. of Dublin was incorporated the same day— He took that degree at Dub. 7. Aug. 1655, which is all I know of him.  
July 9 Tim. Puller M. A. and Fellow of Jes Coll. in Cambr.— He was afterwards Rector of Sawcombe in Hertfordshire, D. of D. of Cambr. an. 1675, Rector of the Church of S. Marry de la Bow in London and author of, The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers, which the indisposition of the time hath contracted. Lond, 1679 oct. etc.  
At the same time when this worthy person Mr. Puller was incorporated, (which was just after the Act time) nine Mast. of Cambr. were incorporated also; among whom Joh. Ellis of Cays Coll. was one, Will. Williams of Emanuel another, (of both whose names have been several Writers) and Tho. Leigh of the said Coll, a third. One Thom. Leigh Bach. of Diu. and Vicar of Bishops Stortford in Hertfordsh. hath published, The keeping of Holydays, Serm. preached at Hadham before Henry B. of London, at his Lordship's conference with the Clergy there. Lond. 1684. 85. qu. Whether he be the same with the former Tho. Leigh, I know not. Quaere.  
Hamnet Ward Doctor of Physic of Angers in France was incorporated on the same day July 9— This person, who was a Dorsetshire man born, had the said degree conferred on him at Angers an. 1646, and was now Vicar of Stourminster-Newton-Castle in his own Country, and one of the Minor Preb. of Wells. He hath published (1) The Protestant Soldier fight under truth's banner, printed 1642. (2) Sermon preached at Shaftesbury in the primary visitation of Guy B. of Bristol, on Ephes. 3.8. Lond. 1674. qu, and other things which I have not yet seen. See more in Hen. Byam among the Writers, p. 307.  
July 9 Tobias Dickson Doct. of Phys. of Cambr.  
11. Will. Bright Doct. of the same fac. at Milan— The same degree was conferred on him at Pad. an. 1658. He was afterwards Hon. Fell. of the Coll. of Phys.  
Sept. 9 Rob. Wishart M. of A. of S. Andrew in Scotland— He was Son of the learned and famous George Wishart D. D, of whom the Reader may be pleased to know that he was a Scotch man born and a Minister in the Church of S. Andrew in the same University, that he had suffered in the time of the Covenant a long and tedious imprisonment in the nastiest part of the Tolbooth at Edinburgh called the thief's hold, and afterwards did accompany the most victorious and noble James Marquis of Montross in his conquest of Scotland: But upon the much lamented declension of that immortal person, he became Chaplain to the Sister of K. Ch. 1. called the Queen of Bohemia, and, about the time of his Majesty's restauration, a Minister in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was held in great veneration for his unspotted Loyalty. In 1662., Jun. 1, he was consecrated at S. Andrews Bishop of Edinburgh, with Dr. Dau. Michael to Aberdene, and dying at Edinburgh in Jul. or Aug. 1671, was buried in the Abbey Church of Halyrood house. He was a person of great religion, and very charitable to the poor, and having been a Prisoner, he was always careful, at each dinner that he made, to send the first dish from his table to the Prisoners. He hath written The complete Hist. of the Wars of Scotland, under the conduct of the illustrious and truly valiant James Marquis of Montross, etc. Printed several times in Lat. and English. The first edit. came out at the Hague in 1647. oct. See in Dau. Whitford among the Writers, pag. 389.  
Nou. 12. Rich. Trevor of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— This well-bred Gent. who was son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt, and younger brother to Sir Joh. Trevor who was made Secretary of State in the latter end of Oct. 1668, after his return from his Embassy in France, died near the Temple Gate on the 17 of July 1676, and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet, Lond.  

21. Levin Fludd Doct. of Phys. of Milan.  
21. Rob. Stap●ey Doct. of Phys. of Milan.   
The first of these two had that degree conferred on him at Pad. in Aug. 1639, and the other in May 1648.  

Dec. 7. John Downes Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.  
Mar. 4. Joh. Atfield Doct. of Phys. of Caen.  
13. Thom. Bathurst Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.   
The first of these three was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond. The second who was a Londoner born, and had taken his degree at Caen in 1657, was also afterwards Fellow of the said Coll; and the third who took his degree at Leyden in 1659., was afterwards a Knight, and I think Fell. also.   

CREATIONS.  
Creations were made in all Faculties, either by the favour of his Majesty, or of Clarendon the Chancellor of the University, when he was entertained by the Uniu. in Sept. 1661.   

Bach. of Law.  
About five were created, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop: Among them were Tho. Wilkins of Jes. Coll, a Sufferer for his Majesty's Cause, Sept. 12, Edm. Arnold of Mert. Coll. belonging to the Court of Arches, Oct. 10. etc.   

Mast. of Arts.  
The Creations of Masters were mostly made in a Convocation held in the morn. of the 9 of Sept, at which time Edw. Earl of Clarendon Lord Chanc. of England and Chanc. of the Uniu. was seated in the supreme Chair.  
Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester, of Wadh. Coll.  
Jam. Levingston Visc. of Kimardin (as 'tis said in the Reg.) and Earl of Newburgh in Scotland, sometimes of Mert. Coll.  
Edw. M●ntague elder son of Edw. L Montague of Boughton.  
Edw. Hyde of Ch. Ch. third son of Edw. Earl of Clarendon.— He died of the Small pox on the 10 of January an. 1664, aged 19 years or thereabouts, and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster, leaving then this character behind him, that he was the most hopeful youth and the best natured Creature in the world.  
John Lovelace of Wadh. Coll. eldest son of John Lovelace.— He was after the death of his father Lord Lovelace, but obtaining no great matter during the reigns of K. Ch. 2. and K. Jam. 2, which he expected, because his father had been a great sufferer for the cause of K. Ch. 1, he was by the favour of K. Will. 3. (to whom he adhered when he arrived in the West in the beginning of Nou. 1688, and for his sake was for some time imprisoned at Gloucester) made Captain of his Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, in the beginning of March 1688.  

Edw Sebright of S. Joh. Coll. Baronet's.  
John Williams of S. Joh. Coll. Baronet's.   
The former was of Besford in Worcestershire, the other of Dorsetshire.  
Sir Alan Broderick Kt, His Majesties Surveyour General for the Kingdom of Ireland.— This person, who was endowed with a poetical wit, and hath several Specimens' thereof extant, died at Wandesworth in Surrey, 25 Nou. 1680, and was buried there 3 of Dec. following.  
John Bulteel Secretary to Edw. Earl of Clarendon.— This person, who was son of John Bulteel a Frenchman, sometimes living at Dover, died a Bachelaur in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster, an. 1669. One Joh. Bulteel Gent. translated from French into English A general chronological History of France before the reign of K. Pharamont, and ending with the reign of K. Hen. 4. etc. Lond. 1683. fol. Whether he be the same with the former who was created M. of A. I know not. I have made mention of another Joh. Bulteel in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 849.  
Matthew Wren or Wrenn Secretary to the said Edw. Earl of Clar.— This person, who was the eldest son of Dr. Matthew Wren Bish. of Ely, was originally a Student in Cambridge, and afterwards a Student for several years (in the time of Usurpation) in this University, not in a Coll. or Hall, but in a private House. After his Majesty's restauration he was taken into the service of the Earl of Clarendon, was elected a Burgess for S. Michael in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm. 8 May 1661., became a Member of the Royal Society and of the Council thereof, and after the fall of the said Clarendon, he became Secretary to James Duke of York, and continued in his service to the time of his death. At length giving way to fate on the 14 of June or thereabouts, an. 1672, aged about 42 years, his body was conveyed to Cambridge, and there buried in Pemb. Hall Chappel, in the same Vault wherein his father was five years before buried. This ingenious person hath written (1) Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana; restrained to the first part of the preliminaries. Lond. 1657. oct. Before these Considerations is a large Letter sent by the author to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll, by whom the said author was desired to give his judgement concerning the Commonwealth of Oceana. (2) Monarchy ass●rted: or the state of monarchical and popular Government, in vindication of the Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Oceana, Lond. 1659. and 1660. oct. See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers, p. 440.  
Joh. Dugdale chief Gent. in the Chamber of the said Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of Engl.— This person, who was the son of Sir Will. Dugdale mentioned in these Fasti, an. 1642, p. 643, etc. was afterwards Windsor Herald upon the resignation of Elias Ashmole Esq, and at length Norroy King of Arms, (upon the promotion of Sir Thom. St. George to the office of Garter, in the place of the said Sir William deceased) in the beginning of March 1685; about which time he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty. This Sir Joh. Dugdale hath published A Catalogue of the Nobility of England, according to their respective precedencies, as it was presented to his Majesty on New-year's day an. 1684. To which is added The Blazon of their paternal Coats of Arms, and a List of the present Bishops, by permission of the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal. This was printed at Lond. on a broad side of a large sh. of paper, an. 1685, and came out again with additions in 1690.  
Thom. Agar.  
Sam. Gabrie.  
All which persons from Joh. Earl of Rochester to the said Sam. Gabrie were created Masters of Arts on the 9 of Sept.  

Sept. 12. Rich. Newporn of Ch. Ch. elder son of Francis Lord Newport of High Ercall.  
Sept. 12. Seymour Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronet's.  
Sept. 12. Edw. straddling of Jes. Coll. Baronet's.  
Sept. 12. Jam. Rushout of Ch. Ch. Baronet's.  
Sept. 12. Edw. Stanley of Brasn. Coll. Baronet's.   
All which were created by the favour of the said Chanc.  
Oct. 19 Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll.— He was afterwards Preb. of Salisbury, and a publisher of Several Sermons, and therefore he ought hereafter to be mentioned more at large.  
Nou. 6. Tho. Traherne of Brasn. Coll.  
Besides all these were several others created, among whom were Rich. Newborough of Ball. Coll, May 28, who had served his Maj. in the late Wars, and was this year Preb. of Hereford.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Thirteen Bach. of Diu. were created by virtue of the Chancellors recommendations, among whom were these.  

Jul. 1. Thom. Marshal of Linc. Coll.   

Sept. 12. Will. Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll.   
As for Wyatt who was born at Todenham in Glocestershire was not graduated in Arts, because before the time came when he should take the degree of Bach, the Civil War began. Afterwards he was Assistant to Dr. Jer. Taylor when he taught School in Caermerthenshire, and wrote, as 'twas usually said, (which he himself did also acknowledge) A new and easy institution of Grammar, etc. which was published under Dr. Tailor's name. See more in the life of the said Doctor among the Writers, p. 285. Afterwards Mr. Wyatt taught at Evesham in Worcestershire, and at length assisted Mr. Will. Fuller while he taught a private School at Twittenham in Middlesex. Afterwards when that person became Bishop of Linc, he made him not only his Chapl, but also Preb. and afterwards Chantor of the Church there. Which Dignities he resigning in 1681, he retired to Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire, where he died in the house of Sir Ric. Newdigate, about 1686. What other things the said Mr. Wyatt, hath written I cannot tell.   

Doct. of Law.  

Apr. 6. Joh. Birkenhead or Berkenhead of Alls. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Thom. Croft of Alls. Coll.   

Sept. 12. Rob. Matthew of New Coll.  
Sept. 12. Christop. Wren of Alls. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Sam. Davies of Jes. Coll.   
As for Christop. Wren, who had been Astron. Prof. in Gresham Coll, was now Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this Univ, and a member of the Royal Society, etc. He is a most eminent Mathematician, and is hereafter to be mentioned with all honour for his curious discoveries in Philosophy and Mathematics, as they stand recorded by the excellent pen of the ingenious author (Dr. Thomas Sprat) of The Hist. of the Royal Society, etc.  
Nou. 6. Rich. Bailiff of S. Joh. Coll.— He was son of Dr. Rich. Bailiff Precedent of that Coll, and dying at London, (where he was a Merchant) in the latter end of 1675, his body was conveyed to Oxon, and buried in a Vault under a little Chapel (built by the said Doctor an. 1662.) joining to that of S. Joh. Coll, on the 15 of March the same year.  
Dec. 11. David Budd.— The Coll. or Hall of which he was a member (if of any) is not set down in the Register.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 9 Will. Jackson of Vniv. Coll, was created by virtue of the King's Letters, which tell us that his father was Doct. of Diu. and sequestered in the late Rebellion from about 300 l. per an: Also that this William was in the old King's Service at Colchester, and in the Service of this King; That his near Kinsman Col. Rob. Levinz suffered and was executed by the bloody Rebels, etc.  
Jun. 18. Geoffrey Rishton M. A. of S. Mary's Hall.— He was now a Parl. man for Preston in Lancashire.  
Jul. 11. George Neale M. of A. of Ch. Ch.  

Sept. 12. Joh. Metford of S. Edm. Hall.  
Sept. 12. Will. Bentley of Ball. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Freder. Sagittary of Qu. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Rob. Peirce of Linc. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Walt. Pope of Ball. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Tho. Bedingfield of Ch. Ch.   
These were created while the Chanc. of the University was near Oxon. Metford and Sagittary were afterwards honorary Fellows of the Coll. of Phys, and Dr. Pope who was uterine brother to Dr. Joh. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester, is now Fellow of the Royal Society and Astron. Prof. of Gresham Coll, and hath spent much time in observing the motions and appearances of the Heavens; the result of which he hath delivered 
(*) Edw. Sherburne Esq. in his Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of M. Manilius made an English Poem. Lond. 675. p. 113.  in his Astronomical Lectures there read, which 'tis hoped he may be prevailed with to be made public hereafter, and not publish vain and trivial things, as he hath hitherto done: among which must not be forgotten, The Memoires of Mounsieur Du Vall; containing the history of his life and death, as also his Speech and Epitaph, written out of a pique, and printed at Lond. 1670. qu.  
Oct. 10. Will. Spark of Magd. Coll.— See in vol. 1. p. 740. at the bottom.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 1. Tho. Triplet M. of A. was then diplomated.— He was born in, or near, Oxon, was educated a Student of Ch. Ch, where, and in the Univ, he was always esteemed a great Wit and a good Grecian and Poet. In Oct. 1645 he became Preb. of Preston in the Ch. of Sarum, at which time he was also beneficed, but soon after being sequestered, he taught School at Dublin in Ireland, was there when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded, and afterwards taught at Hayes in Middlesex. After K. Ch. 2. was restored, he was made Preb. of Westminster, and of Fenton in the Church of York; and dying 18 Jul. 1670, aged 70 years, his body was buried in the south Transcopt or large south Isle joining to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in Westminster. Over his grave was, soon after, fastened to the west wall of the said Isle a fair monument, in the very place where the monument of Tho. May the Poet once stood. This worthy Doctor, of whom you may see more in the first vol. p. 502, hath several Specimens' of his Poetry extant in various books, and some that yet go from hand to hand in MS.  
May 21. Franc. Davies of Jes. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Landaff.  
Jun. 7. Joh. Fairclough commonly called Featley of Alls. Coll.  
12. Sam. Bolton of Linc. Coll. now one of the King's Chaplains, was then created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that he is a man of extraordinary abilities and great integrity; and one who by his preaching in this City (London) is very serviceable to the interest of the K. and Church, etc. On the 15 of Jan. 1661. he and Dr. Br. Ryves preached before the H. of Commons at S. Margaret's in Westm. and were by them desired to print their Sermons; but whether they were printed, I know not, for I have not yet seen either. See more of this Dr. Bolton in the first vol. p. 481.  

Jun. 7. Edw. Drop of Magd. Coll.  
Jun. 7. Edm. Diggle of Magd. Coll.   
The first of these two who was esteemed a good Preacher, and therefore put upon preaching before the K. and Parl. at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion, and upon that account had the degree of Doctor conferred upon him, died in Magd. Coll. 13 Apr. 1683, aged 84 or thereabouts, and was buried in the outer Chapel there. The other, who also had his degree conferred upon him on the like account, was then Canon of Lichfield (which they call the Golden Prebend) by the favour of Dr. Frewen Bishop thereof (to whom he was Chaplain) and afterwards became Preb. of Hustwait in the Church of York and Archdeacon of York, or of the West Riding of Yorksh. in the place of Dr. Rich. Marsh deceased; in which last dignity he was installed 19 Oct. 1663. He died at Slimbridge in Glocestershire (of which he was Rector) on the first of August, anno 1688.  
Jul. 3. Cornelius Trigland a learned Theologist, and Chapl. to the Prince of Aurange or Orange, was diplomated by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say, that he is one of the Ministers at the Hague,— was very kind to the King (Ch. 2.) and his friends, while they lived in those parts— showed himself kind to the Church of England— entrusted by our King with a great share of the education of his Nephew the Prince of Orange, etc. There is mention made of this learned person in Dr. George Morley among the Writers, an. 1684. p. 585.  

Jul. 3. Rich. Mervin Bach of Diu. of Exet. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Jam. Smith Bach of Diu. of Linc. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Giles thorn Bach of Diu. of Ball. Coll.   
The first of these three was Chancellor of the Church of Exeter, in which Dignity he was succeeded, as it seems, by Dr. Tho. Tomkins. The second I have mentioned among the Writers p. 279, and the third was now (1661.) Archdeacon of Bucks in the place of Rob. newel who died in the time of the Civ. War.  
Jul. 9 David Michael (Sanctandrianus as in the reg. he is so called) Preb. of Westminster, was created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that Mr. Dau. Michael of Aberdene is a person very learned and honest, and from the beginning of the Troubles has been a great Sufferer for the Cause of his Majesty and the Church, etc. This worthy person was born in the Shire of Merne, was Minister at Edinburgh and there challenged for Arminianism in the time of the Covenant, and forced afterwards to fly into Engl, where he enjoyed some Benefice during his exile. After his Maj. restauration he was made Preb. of Westm. as before 'tis told you, and on the first day of June 1662. he was consecrated Bishop of Aberdene at S. Andrews, with Dr. Wishart to Edinburgh, where sitting but one year, died of a Fever, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Macchar at Old Aberdene among his Predecessors.  
Jul. 19 Tho. Gorges of All's. Coll.— On the 23 Apr. 1643 he was collated to the Prebendship of Woodford and Willsford in the Ch. of Salisbury, and afterwards suffered much for the royal Cause. After the return of his Maj. he was restored to his Prebendship, was installed Archdeacon of Winchester on the death of Dr. George Roberts, 19 Mar. 1660, and soon after became Preb. of Westminster. After his death his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Walt. Dayrel, and his Preb. of Salisbury on Dr. Will. Lloyd, to which he was collared in Dec. 1667, but who succeeded him in Westm. I cannot yet tell. In 1629 the said Tho. Gorges was elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. with Gilbert Talbot a Native of Worcestershire, son of Sherington Talbot an Inhabitant then of Lacock in Wilts: Which Gilb. (who was originally of Ch. Ch.) was by his Majesty sent ordinary Agent to the Republic of Venice, about 1638, was afterwards a Sufferer for his Cause in the time of the Rebellion, and having the honour of Knighthood conferred on him, became Master of the Jewel house and one of the first 21 persons who were appointed by his Majesty to be of the Council of the Royal Society at its first institution, etc.  
Sept. 5. Will. Barker of New Coll, was created Doctor for his laudable Sermons preached before the King and Parl. at Oxon during the time of Rebellion.— He was now Preb. of Canterbury, and dying in his Rectory house at Hardwick in Bucks, 26 Mar. 1669 was buried in the Church there. I have seen his Epitaph, wherein 'tis said that he was always noted for his orthodox Sermons and for his frequent and innocent Conceits and Jests.  
Sept. 9 Rich. Rallingson or Rawlinson of Queens Coll, Chaplain to the Duke of Newcastle, was created while the Chancellor held the Supreme Chair in Convocation.— He was an ingenious man, well skilled in the Mathematics, but had not preferment conferred on him equal to his merits. He died in 1668, being then, as I conceive, Rector of Pulborough in Sussex.  

Sept. 12. Sam. Cotton of Pemb. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Laur. Hungerford of Pemb. Coll.   

Sept. 12. Rob. Henderson of Mert. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Hen. Parkhurst of Magd. Coll.  
Sept. 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel Coll.  
Sept. 12. Jenkin Lloyd of Jesus Coll.   
The second of these four was beneficed at Norton in Kent, and died in 1669 or thereabouts. The third was afterwards Bish. of Bangor, and the last beneficed in his own Country; of whom by the way I must let the Reader know these things; viz. That he was a Cardiganshire man born, son of Joh. Lloyd of Varedreff in the same County Gent. That he became a Student in Jesus Coll. in Mich. term an. 1640, but the Rebellion breaking out soon after, he left the University without a degree, and closed with the predominant party. That in 1648 or before he retired to the University again, submitted to the Visitors appointed by the Parl, and was actually created Mast. of Arts in the Pembrokian Creation. That about that time he was Rector of Llandishill in his own Country, and afterwards wrote and published, Christ's Valedictions: or, sacred Observations on the last words of our Saviour delivered on the Cross. Lond. 1658. in tw. They are discourses, or at least the effect of certain Sermons on Luke 23. ver. 34.43.46, and on Joh. 19 ver. 28.30. etc. That he put in among the Royalists, and several Presbyterians, to be created D. of D.  

Sept. 12. Thom balow of Ch. Ch.  
Sept. 12. Nich. Searle of Cambridge.  
Sept. 12. Henry Beesley of S. Alb. Hall.  
Sept. 12. Sam. Rich of Hart Hall.  
Sept. 12. Tim. Dewell of Magd. Hall.  
Sept. 12. Joh. Jones of Hart Hall.   
Francis Gregory of S. Mary's Hall, was created the same day.— This person, who was the son of Francis Gregory, was born at Wodstock in Oxfordshire, educated in Gram. Learning in the Coll. school at Westminster, in Academical at Cambr, whence he returned to Westm. and was an Usher under Mr. Rich. Busbie. Afterwards he became Master of the Free-school in the Town of his nativity (founded by Rich. Cornwell Cit and Skinner of Lond. 27 Eliz. dom. 1585.) and at length the first Master of the Free-school founded at Witney in Oxfordshire by Hen. Box a Druggist of Lond, after his Majesty's restauration: At both which places continuing several years, he did much good by his sedulous instruction. In 1672, or thereabouts, he became Rector of Hambleton near Great Wycomb in Bucks, and about that time one of his Majesty's Chaplains in ordinary. He hath written (1) Etymologicum parvum ex magno illo Sylburgii, Eustathio, Martinio aliisque magni nominis authoribus excerptum, digestum, explicatum, etc. in usum Scholar publs. Westmon. Lond. 1654. etc. oct. (2) Instructions concerning the art of Oratory, for the. use of Schools, more especially for the use of Westm School. Lond. 1659. etc. (3) Nomenclatura brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca in usum Sch. pub. Westm. (4) Examples of five declensions of Nouns. These last two have been several times printed, and with some impressions were added Centuriae duae proverbiorum Ang. Lat.-graecorum. (5) Vorivum Carolo: Or a welcome to his sacred Majesty Charles 2, printed 1660, in 3 sh. and a half in qu. This book consists of several copies of Verses, mostly made by Mr. Greg. and some by his Scholars at Wodstock. (6) The trial of Religions, with cautions to the Members of the reformed Church against defection to the Roman. Lond. 1674. 75. qu. (7) The grand presumption of the Rom. Church, in equalling their Traditions to the written word; and their jealousies of themselves, in refusing to admit the holy Scriptures as the rule for the trial of their Religion: in two discourses. Lond. 1675. qu. (8) Discourse upon the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, etc. Oxon. 1678. qu. He hath also several Sermons extant, as (1) David's return from his Banishment, Thanksgiving sermon for the return of K. Ch. 2, preached at S. Mary's in Oxon, 27 May 1660, on 2 Sam. 19.30. Ox. 1660. qu. (2) The Gregorian Account: or the spiritual Watch, preached to the Society of the Gregory's, dwelling in and about the City of London and assembled in the Church of S. Mich. Cornhill, 19 June 1673, on Mark 13.37. Lond. 1673. qu. (3) Three Sermons; the first on Deut. 23.9. the second on Mark 13.37, and the third on 1 Tim. 4.16. Lond. 1673. qu. (4) Serm. on Judas 12, preached at the Oxfordshire Feast, Lond. 1676. qu. (5) The religious Villain, preached before Sir Rob. Clayton L. Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen, 5 Nou. 1679, at S. Marry le Bow, on 2 Sam. 19.3. Lond. 1680. qu. This Dr. Gregory, who is now living at Hambleton free from the noise of a School, had a younger brother named John Gregory born at Wodst●ck, educated in Cambr, afterwards Master of the Coll. School in Gloucester, Rector of Hemsted in Glocestershire by the favour of the Lord Scudamore, and at length Archdeacon of Gloucester, on the death of Edward Pope, in the latter end of 1671. He hath written A discourse of the morality of the Sabbath, being an exposition of Exod. 20.8.9.10.11, with prayers relating thereunto. Lond. 1681. oct. In which book the author shows a great deal of ancient Learning, especially as to Criticism and the Languages. It is dedicated by his son Joh. Greg. M. A. of Magd. Hall to John Lord Visc. Scudamore his Patron, by whose grant he succeeded his father in the Rectory of Hemsted before mentioned. The said John the father hath also written Greek Scholia on the New Test, but whether yet printed, I know not. He died in the beginning of Dec. 1678; whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Thom. Hyde M. A. of Queens Coll. in Ox. There is another younger brother named Abrah. Gregory who is D. D. and Preb. of Gloucester.  

Sept. 12. Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall.  
Sept. 12. Henry Eve of Cambr.  
Sept. 12. Tho. Cartwright of Qu. Coll.   

Oct. 10. Andr. Dominick of Pemb. Coll.  
Oct. 10. Tho. Greaves of Co. Chr. Coll.   
The first of these two, who was originally of Trin. Coll, where he had in a manner been drawn off from his Religion to that of Rome, but reclaimed by the endeavours of Dr. Christoph. Wren Minister of Bishopsknoyle or Knahill in Wilts, (afterwards Dean of Windsor) was now beneficed in that County, and afterwards published Dies nefastus, on Psal. 22.12, printed 1662. qu. and perhaps other things.  

Oct. 17. Joh. Gandy of Oriel Coll.  
Oct. 17. Joh. Whitmore of Wadh. Coll.   

Nou. 6. George straddling of Alls. Coll.   
In the Fasti of 1640 I have made a reference to this last person, with intentions when I wrote that part, to mention one Sermon that he had published, in this place; but since that time several of his Sermons and Discourses being made extant, I have put him among the Writers, under the year 1688. p. 622.  
Nou. 16. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch.— He was son of Dr. W. Piers Bishop of Bath and Wells, who conferred on him, though of little merit, the Archdeaconry of Bath, with the Preb. or Rectory of Cudworth and the Chapel of Knowle annexed, on the death of Dr. Tim. Revett, in the beginning of Apr. 1638, and in Dec. following had the Rectory of Buckland S. Mary given to him. In the latter end of March 1639 he was collated to the Preb. of Whitchurch in the said Ch. of Wells, and in the latter end of June following, he resigning Cudworth with Knowle, was succeeded therein by Rich. Busbie M. A. of Ch. Ch. In 1643 he resigned the Archdeaconry of Bath to Will. Davis, having other preferments bestowed on him, and after his Majesty's restauration he had settled on him the Archdeaconry of Taunton with a Prebendship in the Ch. of Wells of 10 l. per an. annexed to it, the rich Rectory of Christian Malford in Wilts, and a resid. Canonship in the said Ch. of Wells. All which he enjoyed many years, gaining from them a good estate in Lands and Money. He died on the 4 of Apr. 1682, and thereupon Dr. Mews Bish. of Bath and Wells bestowed his Archdeaconry of Taunton on Edw. Waple B. D. of S. Joh. Coll, his Canonship on Dr. Will. Levinz Precedent of that Coll, and Christ. Malford on Dr. Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll. afterwards B. of the Isle of Man.  
Nou. 16. Will. Hodges of Exet. Coll.— In 1645, May 30, he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester in the place of Dr. Edward Thornborough deceased, by the favour of Dr. Prideaux Bish. of Worc. whose dau. he before had married. Dr. Hodges was about that time, if not before, one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire, and Rector of Ripple in Worcestersh, which last he kept in the times of Usurpation; and dying about the latter end of Aug. 1676, (within few days after the death of his beloved son Thomas, M. A. lately of Ball. Coll. esteemed a florid Preacher during his stay in the University) his Archdeaconry was conferred by Dr. Fleetwood B. of Worcester on his son John Fleetwood, M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, and was admitted thereunto on the 4 of Sept. following.  
Dec. 7. Rich. Heylyn B. D. of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Wall deceased.  
17. Henr. Sutton of Brasn. Coll.— I have made mention of this person in Dr. Prideaux p. 70.  
Feb. 27. Dan. Brevint M. A. of Jes. Coll. and a Student in Diu. 20 years.— This person, is now Dean of Lincoln, hath written several things, and therefore he is to be numbered hereafter among the Oxford Writers.    



An. Dom. 1662.  
An. 14 Car. 2.    
Chanc. the same; viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon.  
Vicechanc. Walt. Blandford D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll, 18 Septemb.  
The Caroline Cycle being still kept back a year, Merton and Magd. Colleges did choose Proctors this year, according as the said Cycle was kept back, viz. Mr. Rob. Crippes for the first, and Mr. Joh. Hook for the other. But the Vicechanc. and Heads of Houses being then and before inclined to reform it and set it right, Ch. Ch. and Brasnose chose also according to the true tenor of the Cycle. So that from thence a Controversy arising, it was on the 22 of March last year, decided at Westminster in the Chancellors house, by him the said Chancellor and the Bishops of London and Worcester, viz. Sheldon and Morley, who ordered that the Proctors chosen by Ch. Ch. and Brasnose should stand and be admitted. Which being the result of the matter pronounced before certain members of the Unversity then present, of which the Precedent of Magd. Coll. was one, and the Warden of Mert. should have been another, but withdrawn when he saw how the business was carried, these persons following were admitted Proctors in Convocation.  

Proct.  
Tho. Frankland of Brasn. Coll. Apr. 9  
Henry Bold of Ch. Church Apr. 9   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 11. Will. Asshton of Brasn. Coll.  
May 5. George Howell of Alls. Coll.   
Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1666.  
Jun. 28. Nich. Adee of Magd. Hall.— This person, who took no higher degree in this University, was afterwards Vicar of Rodborne-Cheyney in Wilts, and published A plot for a Crown, in a Visitation Sermon at Cricklade 15 May 1682, on Luke 20.14, being a parallel between the Heir and the Husbandmen in the Parable, and the rightful Prince, and his Excluders in Parl. Lond. 1685. qu. in 5 sh: Before which is a large Preface by the Author, in vindication of himself for what he had preached in that nice time.  
Nou. 11. Tho Alvey of Mert. Coll.— See among the Doctors of Phys. in 1672.  
22. Will. Wyatt of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters an. 1665.  
Jan. 17. Edw. Hinton of S. Alb. Hall, lately of Mert. Coll.— See also among the said Masters an. 1663.  

Feb. 24. Will. Richards of Trinity Coll.  
Feb. 24. George Hickes of Magd, afterwards of Linc. Coll.   
As for Will. Asshton and George Hicks, they are hereafter to be mentioned at large, and perhaps too, Will. Richards with his Wallography and English Orator, etc.  
Adm. 120.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was adm. this year.  

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 16. Edw. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll.  
May 5. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll.— He was Nephew to Sir Orlando Bridgman sometimes L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal, by whose endeavours he was promoted to the Archdeaconry of Richmond. His breeding in Grammar and trivial Learning, had been at Harlem beyond the Seas, where, under his name, was published in 1653 Carmen contra praecipua hujus saeculi vitia. Printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper. He died 26 Nou. 1678, aged 40 or thereabouts, and was buried in the outer Chap. of Qu. Coll. Whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Hen. Dove B. D. of Cambr, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
May 31. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll.  
Jun. 17. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch.  

Oct. 16. Tho. Bevan of Jes. Coll.  
Oct. 16. Tho. Guidott of Wadh. Coll.   

25. Sam Holding or Holden lately of Linc. now of New Coll.  
Jan. 14. Francis Turner of New Coll.   
21. Rob. Huntingdon of Mert. Coll.  
Adm. 80.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was admitted this year.  

Bach. of Diu.  
June 28. John Beeby of Qu. Coll.— He was afterwards Doctorated in Diu. at Cambr, but was no Author; and dying 19 Oct. 1672, was buried in Qu. Coll. Chap.  

Jul. 12. Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll.  
15. Joh. Smart of Trin. Coll.   
The last was an excellent Preacher, but no Author, was frequented much by precise people when he held forth; and dying 26 March 1666, was buried in Trin. Coll. Chap.  
Adm. 9   

Doct. of Law.  

Jul. 16. John Allmer of New Coll.  
Dec. 2. Richard Lloyd of Alls. Coll.   
The last of these two was an Advocate in the Court of Arches, afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Landaff, a Knight, Chanc. of the Dioc. of Durham in the place of Tho. I●e●and deceased, Dean of the Arches, and Judge of the Admiralty in the room of Sir Leol. Je●kins. He died in Doct. Com. on the 28 of June 1686, and was buried on the first of July in the Yard belonging to the Church of S. Bennet near Paul's Wharf in Lond. Soon after was a large monument of black marble, breast high, erected over his grave, joining to the north wall of the said Church.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 19 Jam. Farewell an English man, D. of D. of Leyden.  
Nou. 4. Geor Croyden of Ch. Ch. Doct. of the Laws at Milan.— Which degree was conferred on him at Pad 1656. He was afterwards Canon of the said House, in the place of Dr. Joh Dolben promoted to the See of Rochester, and dying on the 14 of June 1678 aged 60 years, was buried in one of the north Isles joining to the Choir of the Cath. of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 11. Arthur Amherst a Gent. of ancient and noble descent, sometimes a Student for 4 years together in this University, afterwards Doct. of Phys. of Bourges in France, and Practitioner of his Faculty at Hastings in Sussex, was then incorporated Doctor.— He afterwards practised at Timbridge in Kent, where he died in 1680 or thereabouts.  
17. Pet. Richierius of Maremne in the dioc. of Xantoigne in France, Doct. of Phys. of Bourdeaux.— Which degree he took at Board. 1634.  
Feb. 7. George Glen M. A. of Edinburgh.— This person, who had that degree conferred on him there in 1624., was installed Preb. of Worcester, 7 Sept. 1660, in the place of Anth. Tyringham some years before dead, and dying in May 1669, Dr. Tho. Lamplugh of Oxon succeeded him.   

Creations.  
The Creation's this year were but in two Faculties, viz. Arts and Divinity, as they follow.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 7. Sir Francis Popham of Ch. Ch. Knight of the Bath, was created by the decree of Convocation.  
Mar. 2. Godfrey Earl of Montgomery in the Province of Gwienne in France, Principal Commoner of Jesus Coll, now about to return to his County, was then created with liberty allowed him to suffragate in Congregat. and Convocat.— In the Matricula, under the title of Jesus Coll, he is thus entered.— Jan. 15. an. 1661. Godfredus de Duras an. natus 16, filius Guy-aldenii Marchionis de Duras apud Aquitanoes.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 7. Dan. Estcot of Wadh. Coll.— He was afterwards Prebendary and Archdeacon of Exeter.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 9 Rich. Watson of Cays Coll. in Cambr. and Chaplain to James Duke of York, was declared Doctor in Convocation, he being then absent; whereupon a Diploma for it being drawn up, it was sealed on the third of the Ides of the same month.— He had been Master of the Free-School in Cambr. while he was Fellow of the said Coll, and being a most zealous man for the Ch. of Engl. preached A Sermon touching Schism in S. Mary's Church there an. 1642, which being highly offensive to the Presbyterians, he was ejected from his Fellowship and School. Afterwards, to avoid their barbarities, he fled into France, was patronised at Paris by Sir Rich. Brown Clerk of his Majesty's Council, officiated for some months in his Oratory or Chapel there, and was one of those English Divines who did many times argue with the contrary party concerning the visibility of their Church. The said Sir Richard also endeavoured to have such an establishment made for him, as thereby, in the most difficult of times, he might have had a comfortable subsistence and a safe protection under his sacred roof, besides the other graces and civilities received from him. Afterwards he became Chapl. to Ralph Lord Hopton, in whose service he continued till that Lord's death, being then accounted one of the prime Sufferers of the English Clergy beyond the seas. After his Majesty's restauration he did not return with him, but continued at Caen till 1661., and then repairing to his native place became Chaplain to the Duke of York, Rector of Pewsie in Wiltshire in Septemb. 1662., Preb. of Warmister in the Ch. of Sarum by the ceasing of Rich. Hyde in the latter end of March 1666, Preb. of Bitton in the said Ch. in the place of Tho. Hill in Dec. 1671. etc. He hath published (1) Historical Collections of ecclesiastic Affairs in Scotland, and politic related to them. Lond. 1657. oct. ded. to Dr. Warner B. of Roch. (2) The Royal Votary laying down sword and shield to take up prayer and patience; the devout practice of his sacred Majesty K. Ch. 1. in his solitudes and sufferings, in part metrically paraphrased. Lond. 1661. (3) Effata regalia: Aphorisms divine, moral, politic: scattered in the b●oks, speeches, letters, etc. of K. Ch. 1, King of Great Britain. (4) Three Treatises concerning the Scotch discipline. 1. A fair warning to take heed of the same, by Dr. Bramhall, etc. 2. A review of Dr. Bramhall his fair warning, etc. 3. A second fair warning, in vindication of the first against the seditious reviewer; printed at Lond. (5) The right rev. Dr. Joh. Cousin late Lord Bish. of Durham his opinion (when Dean of Peterb. and in exile) for communicating rather with Geneva than Rome: Also what slender authority, if any, the English Psalms, in rhyme and metre, have ever had for the public use they have obtained in our Churches, etc. in two letters with annotations on them etc. Lond. 1684. 85. oct. He hath also written Epistolaris Diatribe, etc. which I have mentioned before in these Fasti among the Incorporations, an. 1642, p. 692. See in the first vol. in the Fasti p. 902.903. and in Thom. Jones in this vol. among the Writers, p. 534. This person who was a good scholar, but vain and conceited, died on the 13 Jan. 1684, whereupon his Prebend. of Bitton was bestowed on Benj. Johnson and his Rectory on Dr. Rob. Woodward Chanc. of the Dioc. of Salisbury.  
Apr. 19 Henry Carpenter sometimes of Exeter Coll, now Chapl. to the honourable the H. of Commons assembled in Parl, was declared D. D. by a Diploma then dated, upon the earnest request of his Nephew Sir Edw. Turnour Speaker of the said House of Com. made to the Chancellor of the University.— The Masters than murmured that they should be imposed upon to confer degrees on those they never saw, and great grumbling there was: with which the Chanc. being acquainted, he by his letters dated 30 of the said month doth in a manner excuse himself for what he had done for several reasons; the contents of which being large, I shall now for brevity sake omit them. This Hen. Carpenter, who was son of Rich. Carpenter Minister of Culleton in Devonsh. became Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Church of Sarum, in Aug. 1660, and on the 20 of May this year (1662.) Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. George Hall promoted to the See of Chester, he being then Rector of S. Dionise Back-church in Lond. He hath written The Deputy-Divinity, or inferior Deity, and subordinate God in the world, Conscience; in two Sermons. Lond. 1657. in tw. He died on the 14 of Oct. 1662., after a short enjoyment of Windsor. Whereupon Dr. Pet. Mews of S. John's Coll. succeeded him in the Canonry there.  
Apr. 22. Edw. Baynes of Exet. Coll, was created by the favour of the Chancellor and decree of Convocation.  
May 7. Charles Gibbes of Mert. Coll.  
This year, June 23, the venerable Convocation did confirm the degree of D. of D. which John Wallis the Sau. Prof. of Geometry, took in the time of Oliver Cromwell, viz. an. 1654.: Whereupon a Diploma being drawn up for that purpose, it was sealed on the 25 of the said month.    



An. Dom. 1663.  
An. 15 Car. 2.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Blandford again, Sept. 11.  

Proct.  
Nathan. Crew of Linc. Coll. Apr. 29.  
Thom. Tomkins of Alls. Coll. Apr. 29.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 5. Jam. Fen of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters, anno 1666.  

7. Steph. Penton of New Coll.  
7. Joh. Rainstropp of S. Joh. Coll.   
Of the last of these two you may see more among the Mast. an. 1667.  

May 19 Tho. Staynoe of Trin. Coll.  
June 19 Ionas Proast of Qu. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Bachelaurs of Divinity, an. 1677, and of the other among the Masters of Arts, an. 1666.  
June 19 Josias Pleydell of New Inn, lately of Brasn. Coll.— This person, who was a Glocestershire man born and a Ministers, son, was afterwards Minister of S. Peter's Church in Bristol, where being a great stickler against the Presbyterians, and a constant Adherer to Dr. Carlton Bishop of that place in his contentions with them and other factious people of that City, his Lordship, soon after his Translation to Chichester, bestowed on him the Archdeaconry of that place (in which he was installed 3 Oct. 1679) and afterwards a minor Prebendary. He hath published (1) Loyalty and Conformity asserted, in two Sermons: the first on Rom. 13.4. and the second on Eclesiast. 5.1. Lond. 1681. qu. (2) Sermon at S. Peter's Church in bath 9 Nou. 1680, at the funeral of Mr. Jos. Glanvill lately Rector thereof. Lond. 1681. qu. Printed and bound with Some discourses, Sermons, and Remains, of the said Mr. Glanvill.  

Oct. 13. Thom. Pargiter of Linc. Coll.  
17. Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1677. The other was afterwards Bishop of Sodor or of the Isle of Man.  
Feb. 19 Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Bishop of Kildare in Ireland.  
Admitted 146. or thereabouts.   

Doct. of Mus.  
July 8. Will. Child Bach. of Music, styled in our public reg. Chantor of the King's Chapel, was then licenced to proceed Doct. of Music: which degree he completed in an Act celebrated in S. Mary's Church on the 13 of the same month— This person, who was born in the City of B●istow, was educated in the Musical Praxis under one Elway Bevan the famous Composer, and Organist of the Cathedral Church there. Afterwards he succeeded Dr. Joh. Mundy in one of the Organists places belonging to his Majesty's Chapel of S. George at Windsor, and at length became one of the Organists of his Majesty's Chapel at Whitehall (Ch. 1. and 2. etc.) and at length of the private Music to K. Ch. 2. He hath composed and published (1) The first set of Psalms of three voices, etc. with a continual Bass either for the Organ or Theorbo, composed after the Italian way. Lond. 1639. oct. engraven on copper plates. (2) Catches, Rounds and Canons. Some of which were published by Joh. Hilton Bach. of Mus. (3) Divine Anthems, and vocal compositions to several pieces of poetry. Some of these Compositions I have seen, which were made to some of the Poetry of Dr. Tho. Pierce. This Dr. Child is now living at Windsor, aged 83 or more.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or a Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  
July 9 Sam. Parker of Trin. Coll. a Compounder.  
Oct. 13. Tho. Smith of Qu. Coll. afterwards of that of Magd.  
Jan. 14 Will. Morehead of New Coll.— This person, before he was Bach. of Arts, wrote, Lachrymae, sive valedictio Scotiae sub discessum clariss. prudentiss. & pientiss. Gubernatoris Domini Georgii Monachi in Angliam revocati, etc. Lond. 1660 in 5. sh. and an half in qu. After he was Bach. he was sen. Collector of the determining Bachelaurs in Lent, and some years after he was Master, he became Rector of Bucknell in the Dioc. of Oxon, where he died about the 18 of Feb. 1691, while I was writing these things of him.  
Adm. 66. or thereabouts.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was adm. this year.  

Bach. of Diu.  
July 2. Tho. Frankland of Brasn. Coll.— His Grace was denied thrice, for that he in his speech at the laying down of the Fasces of his authority of Proctorship, did much reflect upon the ignorance of the Regent or examining Masters; but by the Vicech, Proctors and major part of the Regent's of the House, he was at length, upon consideration of his answer to the allegations made against him, forthwith admitted.  
Adm. 4.   

Doct. of Law.  

June 22. Edw. Master of New Coll.  
30. Tho. Bouchier of Alls. Coll.   
The first of these two was afterwards Chanc. of the Diocese of Exeter, the other the King's Professor of the Civil Law, Principal of S. Alb. Hall, (to which he was admitted in the place of Dr. Narcissus' Marsh, 14. Feb. 1678.) and Commissary of the Diocese of Canterbury.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted.  

Doct. of Diu.  
July 2. Joseph Maynard Rector of Exeter Coll.— This person, who was the only Doctor that was licenced to proceed this year, was afterwards Preb. of Exeter and Vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall, where he died in the year 1670.   

Incorporations.  
June 1. Rich. Read Doct. of Phys. of Leyden— He took that degree at Leyd. in July 1656.  
July 9 Will. Hawes Doct. of Phys. of Milan— He took that degree at Pad. in Jan. 164●.  
19 Rob. Pory D. D. of Christ's Coll. in Cambr.— This person, who had been Chaplain to Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury, and while he was B. of London, did enjoy several Dignities by his favour, as the Archd. of Middlesex, a Residentiaryship of S. Paul, etc. besides several Churches. Which being looked upon as too many for one person, was an Almanac published this year (1663.) by Poor Robin, in the title of which was an imprimatur pretended to be set by Rob. Pory D. D, who dying in 1669 was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Tho. Lamplugh D. D. of Oxon.  
July 10. Joh. Bargrave D. D. of Peter House in Cambr.— This Gentleman, who was of the Family of Bargrave in the Parish of Patringbourne in Kent, had been a great Traveller, was now, or soon after, Canon of Canterbury, and dying on the eleventh of Mar. 1680 aged 70 years, was buried in the passage from the corner of the Cloister to the Choir of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury. 'Tis said that he had an especial hand in An Itinerary containing a Voyage made through Italy in 1646 and 47, etc. Lond. 1648. oct, published by Joh. Raymond Gent.  
Laurence Womack D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day— On the 8 of Sept. 1660 he was installed Archdeacon of Suffolk, in the place of Rich▪ Mileson, some years before that dead, and in 1683 being nominated Bishop of S. David in the place of Dr. W. Thomas translated to Worcester, he was consecrated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth (with Dr. Francis Turner to Rochester) on the eleventh of Nou. the same year. He died in the City of Westm. 12. March 1685, but where buried, I cannot yet tell. He was a great royalist and true Son of the Church of England, as by his published books is evident, among which, these are some (1) The examination of Tilenus before the Triers, etc. To which is annexed The tenants of the Remonstrants touching the 5 articles, voted, stated, etc. and An essay of annotations upon the fundamental Theses of Mr. Tho. Parker, etc. Lond. 1658. in tw. This book being reflected and animadverted upon by Rich. Baxter in his preface to his Discovery of the Grotian Religion, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. as also by Henry Hickman in his Justification of the Fathers, etc. Oxon. 1659. 2d edit, in oct, Dr. Womack came out with (2) Arcana Dogmatum Anti-Remonstrantium. Or the Calvinists Cabinet unclosed: In an Apology for Tilenus against a pretended Vindication of the Synod of Dort, at the provocation of Mr. Richard Baxter held forth in the preface to the Grotian Religion; together with a few drops on the papers of Mr. Hickman Lond 1659. in tw. (3) The result of false principles: or, error convinced by its own evidence; managed in several dialogues: whereunto is added A learned disputation by Dr. Tho. Goad Rector of Hadley in Suffolk, sent by K. James to the Synod of Dort. Lond. 1661. qu. (4) The solemn league and covenant arraigned and condemned, by the sentence of the Divines of London and Cheshire, etc. Lond. 1662. qu. (5) Go show thyself to the Priests: safe advice for a sound Protestant. Lond. 1679. qu. (6) Verdict upon Melius inquirendum, etc. Lond. 1682. oct. (7) Letter containing a farther justification of the Church of England Lond. 1682. With it is pr. another letter written by one of the rev. Commissioners of the Savoy 1681. (8) Suffragium Protestantium. Wherein our Governors are justified in their proceedings against Dissenters; Meisner also and the verdict rescued from the cavils and seditious sophistry of The Protestant reconciler. Lond. 1683. oct. He hath also one or more Sermons extant, as The harmless Traitor self-condemned, preached in the Cath. Ch. of Ely Jan. 30. Lond. 1676. qu. etc.  
July 14. Joh. Hales Doct. of Phys. of Cambr.— He was of Eman. Coll. in the same University.  
Sir Peter Wyche Kt. M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day— He was originally of Exeter Coll. in this University, afterwards of Trin. Hall in that of Cambridge, hath written and translated several things, and therefore he ought to be remembered hereafter among the Oxf. Writers.  

Edw. Gelsthorpe M. A. of Gonu. and Caies Coll. Sen. Proctor. of the Uniu. of Cambr.  
Rob. Pepper M. A. of Chr. Coll. jun. Proct. of the Uniu. of Cambr.   
The junior was afterwards Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich.  
Sam. Fuller M. A. of the said University, was incorporated the same day— He was of S. John's Coll. in that University afterwards Chancellor of the Cath. Ch. of Lincoln and a publisher of one or more Sermons.  
Tho. Davison M. A. of Cambr.— He was of S. John's Coll. in that University; and I know not yet to the contrary, but that he may be the same Tho. Davison M. A. who published The fall of Angels laid open. 1. In the greatness of the sin that caused it. 2. In the &c. Sermon before the Mayor, Recorder and Sherriffs of Newcastle upon Tyne. Lond. 1685. qu.  
Franc. Fuller M. A. of the said Uniu.— He was of Qu. Coll. there, and I know not yet to the contrary, but that he may be the same Franc. Fuller M. A. who published (1) A treatise of faith and repentance. Lond 1684. 85. oct. (2) Words to give to the young man knowledge and discretion: or the law of kindness in the tongue of a Father to his Son. Lond. 1685. oct. etc.  
These six last Masters were of the number of 31 Masters of Cambr. who were incorporated the next day after the conclusion of the Act, July 14.  
Sept. 28. James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Visc. Doncaster, etc. was incorporated M. A. as he had stood at Cambridge, at which time the King, Queen, and their respective Courts were in Oxon— He was presented by the University Orator with a flattering speech, and in the plague year 1665, when the said King and Queen were at Oxon, he was entered as a member in C. C. Coll. there. This person who was the eldest natural Son of K. Ch. 2, was begotten on the body Mrs. Lucy Welter's alias Barlow of Pembrokeshire, as I have heard, who, as a spy, was by Oliver imprisoned in the Tower of London, in the beginning of 1656, but released thence in July the same year. He was born at Rotterdam in 1649, and for some time nursed there, but when his Father K. Ch. 2. went into Scotland to be there crowned by the Presbyterians, he was (being then known by the name of James Crofts) committed to the care of his Grandmother Hen. Maria the Queen Mother of England, then in France. And what became of him afterwards, a book written by S. T. a Novice, and an unskilful author, will tell you in his book entit. An Historical Account of the heroic life and magnanimous actions of James Duke of Monmouth, etc. Lond. 1683. oct: Which book coming out in his life time, I shall only add this, that for raising a rebellion in the West parts of England in the beginning of K. Jam. 2, (against whom he had acted several times very unworthily while he was Duke of York in order to the disinheriting him of the imperial Crown) was taken, carried to London, committed to the Tower, and at length on the 15 of July 1685 was beheaded on Tower-hill; whereupon his body was buried in the Church or Chappel there, dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula. Having now this just opportunity laid before me, I shall give you the names of all or most of the natural Children of the said K. (Ch. 2.) but before I begin with them you are to know that the said Mrs. walter's gave out that the said King did beget on her body a Daughter, but because he would not own her, I shall not number her among the Children. She was first married to a Gentleman of Ireland, and afterwards to Will. Fanshaw one of the Masters of the Requests. The second was Charlott begotten on the body of ... Boil Vicountess Shannon, Sister to Tho. Killigrew Groom of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2, who was first married to .... Howard the only Son of Tho. Howard a younger Brother to the Earl of Suffolk, and after his death to Will. Paston Son and Heir to Robert Viscount Yarmouth. She died in her house in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westm. 28. July 1684, and was buried without any Arms of her own (because the King had not assigned her any) in the Abbey Church at Westminster. (3) Charles Fitz-Charles, commonly called Don Carlos, Earl of Plymouth, begotten on the body of Mrs. Catherine Peg of Leycestershire, afterwards the Wife of Sir Edw. Green of Essex Bt. This Ch. Fitz-Ch. who had married one of the Daughters of Tho. Earl of Danby, died of a Bloodyflux at Tangier, (a City in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa, which had been given to K. Ch. 2. when he took to Wife Catherine the Infanta of Portugal) on the 17 of Octob. 1680; whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried, as I presume, in the Abbey Ch. of Westminster. Qu. (4) Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton, begotten on the body of Barbara, Wife of Roger Palmer Esq. (afterwards Earl of Castlemaine) and Daughter of Will. Villiers Lord Grandison; which Lord dying of his wounds received at Edghill Battle in 1642, was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon; over whose grave a stately monument was erected some years after his Majesty's restauration by his said Daughter Barbara. This Charles Fitz-Roy, who was born in Kingstreet in Westm. and was for some time a Nobleman or Canon Commoner of Ch. Ch, married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Henry Wood sometimes one of the Clerks of the Spicery in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth, by his second Wife, the Daughter of Sir Tho. Gardiner sometimes Recorder of London. This Duchess of Southampton died without Issue near Whitehall in Nou. or Dec. 1680, and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster. (5) Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewsion and Duke of Grafton, begotten on the body of the said Barbara Wife of Rog. Palmer. This Henry, (whom the K. for a considerable time would not own to be his Son, and therefore the titles of Charles Fitz-Roy, were, in case he die without heirs male of his body, to descend to George Fitz Roy, whom I shall anon mention) married Isabel the only Child of Henry Earl of Arlington. He died at Cork in Ireland of a wound received while that place was besieged by the Forces of K. Will. 3, on the ninth of Octob. 1690: whereupon his body was conveyed into England, and buried at Ewston in Suffolk near the body of the said Earl of Arlington. (6) Geor. Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland, begotten on the body of the said Barbara. He was born in a Fellows Chamber in Merton Coll, 28. Decemb. 1665, at which time the Queen and her Court lodged in that Coll, as the King did at Ch. Ch, to avoid the plague then raging in Lond. and Westm. In the latter end of the year (in Jan. or Feb.) 1685 there was committed a clandestine marriage between him and a Woman of ordinary extract, Widow of one Captain Lucy of Charlecot in Warwickshire, a Captain in the Earl of Oxford's Regiment, but were, as it seems, soon after parted. (7) Charles begotten on the body of Eleanor Quinn or Gwinn a Comedian in the King's Playhouse, etc. was born in Lincolns-Inn-Fields about the 14 or 15 of May 1670, had the Surname of Beauclere given to him 27. of Dec. 28 of K. Ch. 2, being then created Earl of Burford, etc. He is now Duke of S. Alban. (8) Charles' Lenos Duke of Richmond, begotten on the body of Lovisa de Querovall a Lady of French extraction, and an attendant on Henrietta Duchess of Orleans when she came into England to give a visit to the K. her Brother, an. 1670. She was afterwards made Duchess of Portsmouth. (9) Charlot a Daughter begotten on the body of Barbara before mentioned, than Countess of Castlemaine, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland. The said Charlot was married to Sir Edw. Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordsh. Bt, afterwards Earl of Lichfield. (10) Marry begotten on the body of Mary Davies a Comedian in the Duke of Yorks Playhouse. She had afterwards the Surname of Tuder given to her, and on the 18 of Aug. or thereabouts, an. 1687, she was married to the Son of Sir Francis Radcliffe, afterwards Earl of Derentwater. (11) James begotten on the body of the said Eleanor Quinn, was born in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westminster on Christmas day or thereabouts an. 1671, and died in France of a sore leg about Michaelmas in 1680.  
Here are eleven natural Children set down, but whether in order according to Birth, I cannot justly tell you. There was another Daughter begotten on the body of the said Barbara Duchess of Cleveland which the King would not own, because supposed to be begotten by another, and whether he owned it before his death I cannot tell. He also adopted for his Daughter, the Daughter of the said Rog. Palmer E. of Castlemaine, which was born of Barbara his Wife before she had knowledge of his Majesty. After her adoption she was married to Thomas Lennard Lord Dacres, Earl of Sussex. But now after this digression le's proceed to the rest of the incorporations.  
Feb. 13. Joh. Heaver D. D. of Cambr.— He had been Fellow of Clare Hall in that University, was now Canon of Windsor and Fellow of Eton Coll, and dying 23 of June 1670, was succeeded in his Canonry by Tho. Viner Bach, (afterwards Doct.) of Diu.  
Mar. 15. Anthony Horneck a Germane of Qu. Coll, Mast. of Arts of Wittenberg— He is now an eminent Minister in Lond, hath published several books of Divinity and Sermons, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered among the Oxford Writers.   

CREATIONS.  
By the command of the Chancellor of the University were Creations made in all faculties in the latter end of Sept. at which time the King and Queen were in Oxon.   

Bach. of Law.  
Sept. 28. Joh. Bailiff of S. John's Coll.— This Gentleman, who was a younger Son of Dr. Rich. Bailiff Precedent of that Coll, was afterwards Chancellor of the Dioc. of B. and Wells.— He died at or near Wells, about the 20. of Jan. 1688.   

Mast. of Arts.  
These following persons were created on the 28 of Sept. in a full Convocation then celebrated.  
James Howard Earl of Suffolk.  
John Greenvill Earl of bath, chief Gentleman of his Majesty's Royal Bedchamber— He was before the Wars began a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall, and after they began a Commander of note in his Majesty's Army against the Rebels, and at length entrusted by his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in the great affair of his restauration, etc.  
John Middleton Earl of Middleton in Scotland, and L. High Commissioner thereof.  
Henry Hamilton a young Nobleman of Ch. Ch, E. of Clanbrazill, Son of James sometimes E. of Clanbrazill.  
Henry Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland— He was afterwards Marq. of Worcester and Duke of Beaufort.  
Charles Berkley Visc. Fitz-Harding.— He was now Treasurer of his Majesty's Household, and one of the Lords of the Privy Council, and dying in Whitehall of a short apoplectical distemper on the 12 of June 1668, Sir Thomas Clifford succeeded him in his Treasurership.  
William Lord Cavendish Son of the Earl of Devonshire— He was afterwards Earl of Devonshire.  

Joh. Hales of Ch. Ch. Bts.  
Franc. Hen. Lee of Ditchley Bts.   
Sir Allen Apsley Kt.— He was originally, as 'tis said, of Trinity Coll. in this University, and afterwards a faithful adherer to his Majesty's cause in the worst of times. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made Captain Lieutenant in the Regiment of James Duke of York, Falconer to his Majesty, and Treasurer of the Household and Receiver general to the said Duke. This person who died in S. James Square near London about the 15 of Octob. 1683, hath written and published a Poem entit. Order and disorder: or, the world made and undone. Being meditations upon the Creation and the Fall, as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis. Lond. 1679. in five Cantos. He was a Burgess for Thetford in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 8. May 1661.  
Henry Guy Esq. sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Cupbearer to the Qu.— He was afterwards an Officer of the Excise in the North, was a Recruiter for Headon in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 8. May 1661., became Secretary to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury 26. Mar. 1679, and in the same year, one of the Grooms of his Majesty's Bedchamber, upon the resignation of Col. Silas Titus. Afterwards he was made a Commissioner of the Custom-house, etc.  
Sidney Godolphin Esq.— This person, who is of the ancient family of Godolphin in Cornwall, was afterwards a Recruiter for Helston in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 8. May 1661., one of the Grooms of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and the last of the four Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury on the 26. Mar. 1679, about which time Thomas Earl of Danby was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer. In the middle of Apr. 1684 he succeeded Sir Leol. Jenkyns in the place of Secretary of State, and on the 17 of that month he was sworn to that office at a Council held at Hampton Court. On the 24 of Aug. following, he was by his Majesty declared the first Commissioner of the Treasury, and thereupon Char. Earl of Middleton succeeded him in his Secretaryship, and in the beginning of Sept. following he was by his Majesty created a Baron by the title of Lord Godolphin of Rialton in Cornwall. About the 16 of Feb. 1684 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then newly dead, he was by K. Jam. 2. made Lord Chamberlain to his Queen, and about the 5 of Jan. 1686, he with John Lord Bellasyse, Henry Lord Dover, Sir Joh. Ernle Chanc. of the Exchequer and Sir Steph. Fox were appointed Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer of England, Laurence Earl of Rochester being about that time removed from that great office. On the 15 of Nou. or thereabouts, an. 1690 his Majesty K. Will. 3. was pleased to order a new Commission to pass the Great Seal, constituting the said Sidney Lord Godolphin the first Commissioner of the Treasury: The other Commissioners then appointed were Sir Joh. Lowther of Lowther Bt. Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesty's household, Richard Hamden Esq. Chanc. of the Exchequer, Sir Steph. Fox Kt. and Tho. Pelham. Esq.  

Sir Franc. Drake of Exeter Coll. Bts.  
Tho. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bts.   
Charles Berkley Knight of the Bath, a Noble man of Ch. Ch. and eldest Son to George Lord Berkley.  
Grevill Verney of Compton Murdack in Warwickshire Knight of the Bath— He died at Lond. 23. July 1668.  
Bernard Greenvill Esq.— He was afterwards a Recruiter for Leskard in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 8. May 1661., and one of the Grooms of his Majesty's Bedchamber.  
Sir Rob. Atkyns— Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the public register, yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath, who became Sergeant at Law, an. 1671, one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following, and at length, when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Speaker of the House of Lords, etc. He hath written (1) An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes: together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas, entit. A short account etc. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti, an. 1669. in Edw. Herbert. (2) The power, jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament; and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted: occasioned by an information in the King's Bench, by the Attorney gen. against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689, with which is printed, A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England, occasioned by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes. This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the King's Bench in the troublesome times, and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire.  
Edm. Warcup— See among the created Doctors of Law, an. 1670.  
James Tyrrell Esq. of Qu. Coll.— This Gentleman hath published four or more books, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxford Writers.  
Thomas Ross Esq.— This person, who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard, adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile, and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth. Upon his Majesty's return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber, and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punic War between Hannibal and the Romans: written originally by Silius Italicus, with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal. Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King, and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts.  
Besides these, who were created on the 28 Sept, were about 30 more (some of quality) that had the said degree of Master conferred upon them. It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission, among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. (now of the Royal Society) was one, but whether he or they were admitted it appears not.   

Doct. of Law.  
Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow.  
Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty.— This Gentleman, who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex, by Dorothy his Wife, Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk, was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch, took the degrees in Arts, and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries, which was evidenced by certain copies of his composition, occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University, and in others, in his time. In the beginning of the Civ. War, when his Majesty fixed his chief residence in Oxon, he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State, and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause, in which condition he did his Majesty good service, especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire, etc. When the Wars were ended, he left not his Majesty when success did, but attended his interest in Foreign parts, and, the better to fit himself for his Majesty's service, he traveled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom. Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York, received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges, in March (Still. nov.) 1658, and then was sent Leaguer to the Crown of Spain; in which negotiation with that wary Court, he carried things with so much prudence, circumspection and success, that his Majesty, upon his happy return for England, soon called him home, and made him Keeper of his privy Purse. In the month of Octob. 1662., he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas, whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was conferred on the Son of Charles Visc. Fitz Harding, called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governor (under his Highness) of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth, etc. In the latter end of the year 1663. he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex, and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington. On the 15 of June following, he was elected one of the Knight's companions of the most noble order of the Garter, and on the 22 of the same month he, with George Duke of Buckingham, began their Journey towards Holland, as Ambassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States. In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britain to Colen, to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King, and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was, upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban, made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household: In which honourable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown. He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685, aged 67 years: whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk, and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place. Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury, who, after a short enjoyment of it, died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire, on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year. See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887. The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John, Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King, under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston, in Novemb. an. 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll, to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof, but by giving a Fellowship thereunto.  
Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll, Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie— I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601.  
Richard nicols one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to James D. of York.  
Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mentioned— This person, who was descended from the ancient family of his name in Cornwall, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. School an. 1651, where he continued till his Majesty's restauration under Presbyterian and Independ. discipline: Afterwards getting into the service of the said Sir Henry, he was chose a Recruiter for Camelford in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm. 8. May 1661., wherein showing himself zealous for the prerogative had several Boons bestowed on him. On the 28. of Aug. 1668, his Majesty conferred on him the honour of Knighthood, he being then about to send him to the Catholic King and Qu. Regent of Spain, to reside as his Ambassador in that Court, upon the return thence of Edward Earl of Sandwich his Maj. late Ambassador extraordinary there. So that going, and continuing there several years, he changed his Religion for that of Rome.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Mar. 26. Rich. Keurden sometimes known by the name of Jackson, M. A. of S. Mary's Hall, was then actually created Doctor of Phys.— He was the Son of Gilbert Keurden, (who died in 1662.) Son of Rich. Keurden, (who died 1630) Son of Gilb. Jackson of Keurden near to Preston in Lancashire, and was at this time and several years after a practitioner of his faculty at Preston and in the Country adjacent. But his genie being more adaquat to antiquities than his proper profession, he neglected his practice and wrote in honour of his Country— Brigantia Lancastriensis restaurata. Or History of the honourable Dukedom, or County Palatine of Lancaster, in 5. vol. in fol. The method of which he printed in certain proposals by him scattered among his friends, in July and Aug. 1688; wherein it appears that he had then obtained several sums of money from some of the Gentry of Lancashire, and elsewhere to print that work.  
Sir Hen. de Vic of the Isle of Guernsey Bt.— He had been Resident at Brussels for K. Ch. 1. near 20 years, and after that, he was made Chancellor of the noble order of the Garter. He died 20. of Nou. 1672, and was buried in the north cross Isle of the Abbey Church dedicated to St. Peter in Westminster. About that time his Chancellourship went to Seth B. of Sarum and his Successors in that See.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Oct. 1. Rob. powel M. A. of Alls. Coll. was then created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters.— This person who had been made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Parliamentarian Visitors an. 1648 was now Archdeacon of Shrewsbury, and afterwards Chancellor of S. Asaph, and took all advantages to thrust himself into other places, though he himself had been no sufferer for the King's cause, but rather an enemy to him and his friends. After the Letters of the Chancellor had been read for his creation, the generality of the members of Convocation cried none, and protested with great clamours against his creation: whereupon a scrutiny being made, he was by the falseness of one of the Proctors pronounced passed. Afterwards Dr. Joh. Wallis presenting him to the Vicechancellor, he was admitted Bach. of Diu. and after another presentation by the said person, Doct. of that faculty.  
Rob. South M. of A. of Ch. Ch. of six years standing, was created at the same time— This Gent. who had been bred in the said House during the times of Usurpation, was now Orator of the University and Chaplain to the Chanc. thereof. After the Letters of the said Chanc. had been read for his creation, the Bachelaurs of Divinity and Masters of Arts were against it, (as they were against that of powel) but at length after a scrutiny, the said Proctor pronounced him virtute juramenti●●ui (as he had done powel) passed by the Major part of the House. Whereupon, by the double presentation of Dr. Joh. Wallis, he was first admitted Bachelaur, then Doct. of Divinity.  
James Sessions Bach. of Diu. of Magd. Hall, was also then (Oct. 1.) created, but not at all denied.  
At the same time the Chancellor commended to the members of Convocation one Mr. Joh. Clegge of S. Alb▪ Hall, a person of good affections to the King and Church, to be also created D. D, but he did not then appear.  
Mar. 21. Thomas Barton of Magd. Hall was then created by virtue of the Chancellors Letters then read, which say that he is Master of Arts and hath been throughout the War Chaplain to Prince Rupert in the Army, etc.  
This year became a Sojourner in the University to improve himself in Literature one Laurence Son of Nich. Fessius a Dane, born in the City of Schaane sometimes belonging to the K. of Sweedland afterwards to the K. of Denmark; which Laurence, after his return to his own Country, wrote several Panegyrics on the K. of Denmark and other things.    



An. Dom. 1664.  
An. 16. Car. 2.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon.  
Vicechanc. Rob. Say D. D. Provost of Oriel Coll. Sept. 1.  

Proct.  
Joh. Hearne of Exet. Coll. Apr. 20.  
Will. Shippen of Vniv. Coll. Apr. 20.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 23. John Prince of Brasn. Coll.— This person, who was afterwards Mast. of Arts of Cays Coll. in Cambridge, is now Vicar of Berry-Pomery near Totness in Devonsh. and having published a Serm. and two other things, (as he may more hereafter) he is therefore in future time to be remembered among the Writers of Oxon.  
Apr. 30. Will. Basset of Magd. Coll.— He hath published four Sermons at least, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered.  
June 14. Nathan. Wilson of Magd. Hall— He was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland.  
16. Will. Jane of Ch. Ch.— He has several things extant, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered.  
Octob. 15. Thom. Wagstaff of New Inn— He hath four Sermons at least extant, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Writers.  
20. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll.  

22. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 3. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Ch.   
Of these two you may see more among the Masters an. 1667.  
23. Tho. Laurence of S. John's, afterwards of Vniv, Coll.— See among the Master's 1668.  
Mar. 16. Morgan Godwin of Ch. Ch.— Several things are extant under his name, and therefore he ought hereafter to be remembered among Oxford Writers.  
Adm. 165.   

Doct. of Music.  
July 7. Christoph. Gibbons one of the Organists of his Majesty's Chap. was then licenced to proceed Doctor of Music: which degree was completed in an Act celebrated in S. Mary's Church on the eleventh of the said month, with very great honour to himself and his faculty. He was licenced by virtue of his Majesty's Letters, written in his behalf, which say that the bearer Christopher Gibbons one of our Organists of our Chap. royal, hath from his youth served our Royal Father and ourselves, and hath so well improved himself in Music, as well in our own judgement, as the judgement of all men well skilled in that science, as that he may worthily receive the honour and degree of Doctor therein, etc. This person, who was Son of Orl. Gibbons mentioned in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 842. was bred up from a Child to Music under his Uncle Ellis Gibbons Organist of Bristol (mentioned in the said Fasti p. 768) and for his great merits in that faculty, had a place conferred on him in his Majesty's Chapel before the Civil War. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2, he was Principal Organist of his Chapel, his Principal Organist in private, Master of the singing boys belonging thereunto, Organist of Westminster, and one of his Majesty's private Music. He had a principal hand in a book entit.— Cantica Sacra. Containing Hymns and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Latin and English. Lond. 1674. in fol. See before in the said Fasti p. 808. The other hands in the same work besides those of Gibbons, were those of Rich. Deering, Benj. Rogers of Windsor and Matthew Lock. This Doctor Gibbons died in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster, an. 1676.   

Bach. of Law.  
Two were admitted, of whom Will. Carr of Alls. Coll. of Scotch extract, was one, but not to be understood to be the same with Wil Carr Gent. sometimes Consul for the English Nation at Amsterdam, author of Remarks of the Government of several parts of Germany, Denmark, Sweedland, Hamburg, Lubeck, and hansiatick Towns, but more particularly of the United Provinces, etc. Amsterd. 1688. in tw. I find another Will. Carr who translated from Latin into English The Universal body of Physic in 5. books, etc. Written by Dr. Laz. Riverius— Pr. at Lond. 1657 but of him I know no more.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 26. Joh. March of S. Edm. Hall.  
June 14. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall   
June 28. Henry Dolling of Wadham Coll.— He was afterwards Master of the School at Dorchester in Dorsetshire, and translated into Latin The whole duty of man: fairly transcribed for the Press, and licenced by Dr. William Jane in 1678, but whether yet published I cannot tell.  

Jan. 14. Edw. Spencer of New Coll.  
18. Will. Asshton of Brasn. Coll.  
21. Thom. Ken of New. Coll.   
The first of these three was afterwards Master of an Hospital (St. Nich. Hospital) in, and Chancellor of the Dioc. of Salisbury.  
Adm. 86.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Oct. 12. Thom. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll.— He was the only Bach. that was admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 5. Henry Bold of Ch. Ch.— He was at this time Chaplain to Henry Lord Arlington, by whose endeavours he became not only Fellow of Eton Coll, but Chantor of the Church at Exeter. He died in France (at Mountpe●i●r as 'twas reported) either in the latter end of Sept. or beginning of Oct. 1677.  

Oct. 12. Gilbert Ironside of Wadh. Coll.  
Nou. 29. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll.   
Adm. 3.   

Doct. of Law.  

July 2. Nathaniel Crew of Linc. Coll.  
Mar. 18. Joh. eliot of New. Coll.   
The last, who was a Compounder, became Chancellor of the Dioc. of Salisbury in the year following.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Divinity was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
Mar. 31. Charles' Willoughby of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Physic of Milan.  
May 26. Luke Glen M. A. of Edinburgh.  
June 13. Joh. Rogers Doct. of Phys. of Vtrecht.— This person, who was Son of Nehemiah Rogers of Duddinghurst in Essex, hath published Analecta inauguralia, sive disceptationes medic●e: Necnon Diatribae discussoriae de quinque corporis humani concoctionibus, potissimumque de pneumatosi ac spermatosi. Lond. 1664. oct. He then lived at S. Mary Magd. Bermondsey in Surrey, where he practised his faculty.  
On the 12. of July, being the next day after the conclusion of the Act, were 28. Masters of Arts of the Uniu. of Cambridge incorporated; among whom were these.  
Miles Barn M. A. and Fellow of Peter House— He was afterwards D. of D, and Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. In the beginning of March 1686 he with others were put into the Commission of peace by K. Jam. 2. for the County of Cambridge, and, what became of him afterwards let others speak. He hath three or more Sermons extant, and other things as it seems.  
Thom. Tenison M. of A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll.— He was about this time Chaplain to Edward Earl of Manchester, and afterwards to his Son Robert, Doct. of Divinity, Chaplain to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Vicar of S. Martin in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster, in the place of Dr. Lloyd promoted to the See of S. Asaph, Archdeacon of London, and at length worthily promoted to the See of Lincoln, on the death of Dr. Thomas Barlow, in the Winter time 1691. He hath published several Sermons, and other matters of Divinity, as also several things against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam 2, which show him to be a learned man; besides his book called The Creed of Tho. Hobbs of Malmsbury. See in Vitae Hobbianae Auctarium, published 1681. p. 199. See also in what I have said of Sir Thom. Browne the Physician, among the Writers of this Vol. p. 536.  
Joh. Templer M. A. of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards D. of D, published one or more Sermons, and Idea Theologiae Leviathanis, etc. Cantab. 1673 against Thom. Hobbes. See there in the said Auctarium. p. 199.200.  
Besides the said Masters, were also then incorporated two Bachelaurs of Divinity, one of which was named Thom. Longland of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, author of— Quatuor Novissima. Or meditations on the four last things, etc. printed 1657 in tw. etc.  
Among several Foreigners that became Sojourners and Students in the University this year, to improve themselves in Literature by the use of the public Library were (1) Joh. Christop. Becmannus a Saxon, who, after his departure, published several things in his own Country, whereby he obtained the name of a learn'd-man (2) Christop. Sandius, who sojourned in an house near Qu. Coll, and gave his mind up for the most part to the perusal of Socinian books, not only in the public Library, but in others belonging to Colleges and in Booksellers shops. He was born at Konigsberg in Prussia 12 of Oct. 1644, and afterwards being instructed by his Father of both his names (the most noted Socinian in the Country wherein he lived, and therefore deprived of those places of trust which he enjoyed, about 1668) in the Socinian Tenets, was sent by him to Oxon to improve them by reading and studying. Afterwards retiring to his Country he wrote and published several books, and after his death (which happened at Amsterdam on the last of Nou. 1680) was published of his composition Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum, etc. Freistad. 1684. oct. in which, p. 169.170, etc. you may see a Catalogue of his works, some of which are Socinian. (3) Joh. Michael Benson a Dane, who afterwards became Doctor of the Civil Law in another University, Counsellor to the King of Denmark, and a publisher of several things of his faculty, etc.    



An. Dom. 1665.  
An. 17 Car. 2.    
Chanc. Edw. Earl of Clarendon.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Say again Aug. 23.  

Proct.  
Phineas Bury of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 6.  
David Thomas of New Coll. Apr. 6.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 10. Will. Beach of Trin. Coll, afterwards of that of Ball.  

Jun. 10. Will. Hopins of Trin. Coll.  
14. Edm. Sermon of Ball. lately of Trin. Coll.   
Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1676.  
27. Jam. Scudamore of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 11. John Brandon of Oriel Coll.— He hath two or more things of Divinity extant, is now living, and therefore is to be hereafter numbered among the Oxford Writers.  

Dec. 18. John Wolley of Trin. Coll.  
Dec. 18. Rich. Reeve of Trin. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1668. The other, who was afterwards Master of the Free-School joining to Magd. Coll. is now of the Order of S. Benedict, hath published several things, and therefore to be hereafter recorded among Oxford Writers.  
Feb. 15. James Bristol of C. C. Coll.— This person, who was son of a father of both his names of Ribly in Lincolnshire Gent, was bred in Eton School, and in the year following this, he was elected from being Scholar of C. C. Coll. to be prob. Fell, of Alls. where he ended his days to the great reluctancy of all those that were inwardly acquainted with his most admirable parts. He had began to translate into Latin some of the Philosophy of Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, upon the desire of those whom she had appointed to inquire out a fit person for such a matter, but he finding great difficulties therein, through the confusedness of the subject, gave over, as being a matter not to be well performed by any. He died on the 16 of Dec. 1667 aged 21 years or thereabouts, and was interred in the outer Chap. of Alls. Coll. Soon after came out an Elegy on his death, as having been a person that deserved, (considering his age) the best copy of verses that could be made by any Academian, as I shall tell you under the year 1668.  
Mar. 16. Tho. Turner of C. C. C.— See among the Doctors of Diu. 1683.  
Adm. 127.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 15. Ralph Bohun of New Coll.— See among the Doctors an. 1685.  

May 30. Joh. Mayow of Alls. Coll.  
Oct. 10. Joh. Harrison of New Coll.   
The last of which having published several books, he is therefore to be remembered hereafter.  
Adm. 10.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 21. Spencer Lucy of Queens Coll.— He was afterwards Canon and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of S. David, by the favour of his father Bishop of that place; and dying at Brecknock 9 Feb. 1690, was buried in the collegiate Church there.  
Jun. 28. Will. Wyatt of Ch. Ch.— This person, who was educated in S. Paul's School, was for some time Deputy-Orator of the University for Dr. South, afterwards Orator in his own right on the death of Thom. Cradock of Magd. Coll, 26 of March 1679, and at length Principal of S. Mary's Hall: to which office he was admitted on the death of Dr. Crowther, 20 January 1689. He hath published, Sermon preached to those, who had been Scholars of S. Paul's School, in Guildhall Chappel, London, at their anniversary meeting on S. Paul's day, 1678. on 1 Cor. 8.1. Lond. 1679. qu.  
Oct. 12. Edwin Sandys of Magd. Coll.— On the 14 of Nou. 1683 he was installed Archdeacon of Wells with the Prebend. of Huish and Brent annexed.  
14. Edw. Hinton of S. Alb. Hall lately of Mert. Coll.— This person, who was son of Edw. Hinton mentioned among the created Doctors of Diu. 1649, was afterwards Master of the Free-School at Witney in Oxfordshire founded by Hen. Box; afterwards he taught at Kilkenny in Ireland, where, at Dublin, he had the degree of D. of D. conferred on him. He hath translated from Greek into English, The Apothegms or remarkable Sayings of Kings and great Commanders, etc. Lond. 1684, in the first vol. of Plutarch's Morals. In the same year Mr. Hinton left Witney to go to Ireland.  
Dec. 8. George Hickes of Linc. Coll. Adm. 44.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jun. 21. George Castle of Alls. Coll.  
28. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch. Adm. 4.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Jun. 10. Tho. Pittis' of Linc. Coll.  
Jun. 10. Seth Bushel of S. Mary's Hall.   
27. Hen. Glover of C. C. Coll.— This person (born at Mere in Wilts) who had been ejected his house by the Parl. Visitors in 1648, was now Rector of Shroton in Dorsetshire, and published Cain and Abel paralleled with K. Charles and his Murderers, Sermon at S. Thomas Church in Salisbury 30 Jan. 1663., on Gen. 4.10.11. Lond. 1664. qu.  
Jul. 8. Will. Browne of Magd. Coll.— This Divine, who was an Oxford man born, was one of the best Botanists of his time, and had the chief hand in the composure of a book intit. Catalogus Hor●● Botanici Oxoniensis alphabetice digestus, etc. Oxon. 1658. oct. See more in Philip Stephens among the Doctors of Phys. an. 1655. This Mr. Browne died suddenly on the 25 of Mar. 1678, aged 50 or thereabouts, and was buried in the outer Chapel of Magd. Coll, of which he was a signior Fellow.  
Dec. 18. Malachi Conant of Magd. Coll.— This Theologist, who was a Somersetshire man born, became, by the presentation of the Pres. and Society of his Coll, Minister of Beding alias Seal, where and in the neighbourhood he was esteemed a good and godly Preacher. He hath written and published, Vrim and Thummim: or, the Clergy's dignity and duty, recommended in a Visitation sermon preached at Lewes in Sussex 27 Apr. 1669, on Math. 5.16. Oxon 1669. qu. He died and was buried at Beding before mentioned in the beginning of the year 1680.  
Feb. 15. Joh. Franklin of C. C. Coll.— This person, who was a Wilts. man born and esteemed a good Philosopher and Disputant while he was living in his House, was by the Precedent and Fell. thereof presented to the Rectory of Heyford Purcells or Heyford ad pontem near Bister in Oxfordshire, an. 1670, where by the loneness of the place and his retired condition, his excellent and profound parts were in a manner buried. He hath published A resolution of two cases of Conscience, in two discourses. The first, of the lawfulness of compliance with all the Ceremonies of the Church of England. The second, of the necessity of the use of Common Prayer in public. Lond. 1683 in 5 sh. in qu. He died on the 7 of Decemb. 1689, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Heyford before mentioned.  
Adm. 17.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 10. Joseph Harvey of Mert. Coll.  
14. Kenelm Digby of Alls. Coll.  
27. Hen. Deane of New Coll.   
The last of which was at the time of his admission Chancellor of the Dioc. of Wells, where he died about the beginning of Decemb. 1672.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Jun. 21. George Castle of Alls. Coll. Accumulators.   

28. Edm. Davys of Exet. Coll. Accumulators.  
28. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch. Accumulators.    

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 21. Simon Ford of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 5. Edward Rogers of Magd. Coll.  
The first of these two, a most celebrated Lat. Poet of his time, hath published several things of his profession, and therefore he ought to be numbered hereafter among the Oxford Writers.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 5. John Board Doct. of the Laws of Cambr.— He was of Trin. Hall in that University.  
Sept. 8. Edward Montague Earl of Mancester, Baron of Kimbolton etc. Master of Arts and Chancellor of the Uniu. of Cambridge, (which University he had ruined in the time of the grand and unparallelled Rebellion) was incorporated in the same degree as he had stood at Cambridge.— After he had been conducted into the House of Convocation in his Master's Gown and Hood by the Beadles, and seated on the right hand of the Vicechancellor, the Orator of the University who then stood on the other side, near and above the Registraries desk did then speak (directing his voice to him) an eloquent Oration: which being done, the said Orator went from his place, and going to, he took, him by the hand, and led him to the middle of the Area, where he presented him to the Vicechancellor and ven. Convocation; which being done, and he incorporated by the vicechancellors Sentence, he retook his place. This is that Kimbolton, who with 5 members of the House of Commons were demanded by his Majesty on the 4 of Jan. 1641 for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government, and to deprive the King of his legal power, etc. and the same, who after he had sedulously endeavoured to promote, did carry on, a Rebellion, and continued his course till the Wars were ceased. Afterwards striking in with Oliver, he became one of his Lords, that is, one of the Lords of the other house, and was a great man, a thorough-paced Dissembler, etc. and never a loser for his high actings against the Royal Family. After his Majesty's restauration, towards which he pretended to be a great helper, when it could not otherwise be avoided, he was made L. Chamberlain of his Majesty's household, and in that quality did he, with Edw. Earl of Clarendon Chanc. of the Univ, come this year to Oxon from Salisbury, (where they left their Majesties) in order to have Lodgings provided for them, about to come hither to take up their Winter-Quarters to avoid the Plague then raging in Lond. and Westminster. This Edw. Earl of Manchester had a younger brother named Walter Montague born in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate in London, educated in Sidney Coll. in Cambr, afterwards traveled beyond the Seas, and returning with an unsettled mind, did, at length, (after he had been sent once or more into France about public concerns) give a farewell to his own Country, and Religion wherein he had been born and baptised, and going beyond the Sea he settled himself in a Monastery for a time, and wrote A Letter in justification of his change, which was afterwards answered by Lucius Lord Falkland. Afterwards being received with great love into the favour of the Qu. Mother of France, she made him Abbot of Nantveil of the Benedictine order in the dioc. of Mets, and afterwards Abbot of the Benedictines of S. Martin's Abbey near Pontois in the dioc. of Rouen, in the place of Job. Franc. de G●ndy deceased. He was also one of her Cabinet Council, and a promoter of Mazarine into her favour, who, when fixed, showed himself in many respects ungrateful to Montague and his friends: And whereas Mazarine made it one of his chief endeavours to raise a family and to do such things that might perpetuate his name, so Montague, who was of a most generous and noble spirit, and a person of great piety, did act to the contrary by spending all that he could obtain for public and pious uses. In his younger years before he left the Ch. of England he wrote The Shepherd's paradise. Com. Lond. 1629. oct: And after he had left it— Miscellanea spiritualia. Or devout Essays, in two parts: The first was printed at Lond. 1648, the other at the same place in 1654., and both in qu. I have seen a book intit. Manchester all Mundo: Contemplations on death and immortality. Lond. 1635. oct. and several times after; the fifteenth impression of which was made at Lond. in 1690. in tw. Which book was written by one of the family of the Earl of Manchester, but whether by this Walter Montague, who was a younger son to Henry Montague the first Earl of Manchester of his name, I cannot tell, because his name is not set to it. This person, who was commonly called Abbot Montague and sometimes Lord Abbot of Pontois, died after Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England, who concluding her last day on the last of Aug. 1669, he soon after followed, as I have been informed by one of his domestic Servants, who told me further, that he was buried in the Chapel or Church belonging to the Hospital of Incurables at Paris. You may read much of him in a book called Legenda lignea, etc. Lond. 1653. oct. p. 137.138. etc. but that book being full of satire, persons of moderate Principles believe little or nothing therein.  
As for the other persons who were incorporated besides the said Earl of Manchester, were these.  
Dec. 8. Joh. Logan M. A. of Glascow, with liberty to suffragate in Convoc. and Congreg. which is all I know of him.  
Mar. 8. Henr. Montague M. A. of Cambridge, a younger son to the said Edward Earl of Manchester, and others.   

CREATIONS.  
The Creation's this year were mostly made on the 8 of Septemb. when the said Edward Earl of Manchester was incorporated M. A. at which time the Chancellor of the University was then in Oxon.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Rob. Montague Visc. Mandevile eldest son to Edw. Earl of Manchester.— He was presented by the Orator of the University with a little Speech, and afterwards was seated on the left hand of the Vicechancellor. After his father's death in 1671 he became Earl of Manchester, and died at Paris about the latter end of Decemb, according to the English Account, an. 1682.  
Charles Dormer Visc. Ascot of Mert. Coll, eldest son of Charles Earl of Caernarvan.  
Edward Capell of Wadh. Coll. a younger son of Arthur Lord Capell.  
Vere Bertie a younger son of Montague Earl of Lindsey.— He was made Sergeant at Law in 1675, and afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchequer.  
Charles Bertie his brother.— He is now Treasurer of the Ordnance.  

Nich. Pelham Bt. of Ch. Ch.  
Scrope How Kt. of Ch. Ch.   
Will. Dolben a Counsellor of the Inner Temple, and brother to Dr. John Dolben.— He was afterwards Recorder of London, a Kt, Serjeant at Law, and one of the Justices of the King's Bench.  
Rich. Cooling or Coling Secretary to Edw. Earl of Manchester.— He was afterwards Secretary to Hen. Earl of Arlington while he was L. Chamberlain, and on the 21 of Feb. 1688 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Maj. Privy Council in ordinary: at which time were sworn with him Sir John Nicholas Kt. of the Bath, Will. Blathwait and Charles Montague Esquires. This Rich. Cooling was originally, as it seems, of Alls. Coll.  
The said nine persons were actually created on the 8 of Sept.   

Doct. of Law.  
Sept. 8. Sir Cyrill Wyche Kt, (son of Sir Pet. Wyche sometimes Controller of his Majesty's Household,) now a Burgess in Parliament for Kellington in Cornwall.— He was M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in the times of Usurpation, was afterwards Secretary to the Lieutenancy in Ireland, one of the Royal Society, and a Burgess in other Parliaments.  
Nou. 7. Sir Henneage Finch Kt, Solicitor General, and one of the Burgesses of the Uniu. to sit in Parliament.  
Col. Giles Strangwaies sometimes of Wadh. Coll. now a Knight for the County of Dorset to serve in Parl, was created the same day.— This most loyal and worthy Gent. who was of Melbury Samford in the said County, died 1675.  
The said two persons were created Doctors of the Civil Law in a Convocation held on that day, (Nou. 7.) after they had communicated the thanks of the honourable House of Commons, lately sitting in the said Convocation-house, to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant, negative Oath, etc. made 1647. Laurence Hyde Esq, another Burgess for the University, and Sir Joh. Birkenhead were the other two that were, besides the two former, appointed to return thanks, and were then present in Convocation; but the first of these last two was not created Doctor of the Civ. Law, because he had before been diplomated M. A, which he then thought was sufficient, and the other created Doctor, as I have before told you.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Sept. 8. Robert boil Esq. was created after Edw. E. of Manchester had been incorporated.— This honourable person, who was the fourth son of Richard the first Earl of Cork, was born at Lismore in Ireland, whence, after he had been well grounded in juvenile Learning, he went to the Uniu. of Leyden, and spent some time there in good Letters. Afterwards he traveled into France, Switzerland, Italy, etc. and spending some time in Rome, he was so much satisfied with the curiosities there, that afterwards he never had any desire to see or view the Curiosities or Antiquities of other places. After his return into England, being then accounted a well bred Gentleman, he settled in Oxon, in the time of Oliver, about 1657, where he carried on his great delight in several studies, especially in experimental Philosophy and Chemistry, spent much money, entertained Operators to work in his Elabratory which he had built for his own use, and often did repair to the Club of Virtuosos in the Lodgings of Dr. Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll, and they to him, in his joining to Vniv. Coll. and opposite to that of Allsoules. After his Majesty's restauration, when the Royal Society was erected, he was made one of the first members thereof, was one of the Council belonging thereunto, and the greatest promoter of new Philosophy of any among them. After he had left Oxon for London, he settled in the house of his sister Catherine Lady Ranelaugh, where he erected an Elaboratory, kept men at work, and carried on Chemistry to the last. The books that he hath written are many, some of which are printed beyond the Seas, and are there highly valued: In all which he hath done such things for the benefit of the world and increase of knowledge, that none hath yet equalled, much less gone beyond him. In them you'll find the greatest strength and the gentilest smoothness, the most generous knowledge and the sweetest modesty, the noblest discoveries and the sincerest relations, the greatest Self-denial and the greatest love of men, the profoundest insight into philosophy and nature, and the most devout, affectionate sense of God and of Religion, as in any Works whatsoever written by other men, etc. This worthy person died 30 of Decemb. 1691, aged 64 years or thereabouts, and was buried on the 7 of Jan. following at the upper end, on the south side, of the Chancel of the Church of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster near to the body of his sister the Lady Ranelaugh before mentioned, who dying about a week before him, the grief for her death put him in convulsion fits which carried him off. Soon after were Elegies and Epitaphs on him made public, as also the Sermon at his funeral, preached by Dr. Gilb. Burnet Bish. of Sarum; in all which you'll find just Encomiums of him, as no doubt you will in the life of him the said Mr. Boil about to be published by the said Doctor. The eldest brother of this Mr. Rob. boil was Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork. The next was Roger Earl of Orery a great Poet, Statesman, Soldier, and great every thing which merits the name of great and good. He hath published four Plays in heroic verse highly valued and commended by ingenious men, and died in Octob. 1679. The third was Francis Viscount Shannon, whose Pocket Pistol, as he styled his book, may make 
(*) Anth. Walker in his Virtuous Woman found, Fun Serm. of Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick, etc. Lond. 1678. oct.  as wide breaches in the walls of the Capitol, as many Canons. These were his elder brothers, and besides them he had seven Sister all married to noble persons.  
This year in the month of Septemb. Andr. Marvel a Burgess for Kingston upon Hull to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. 8. May 1661., became a Sojourner in Oxford for the sake of the public Library, and continued there, I presume, some months. See in Sam. Parker among the Writers an. 1687, p. 619, where you'll find an account of him and his Works. In the beginning of Dec. following was entered into the said Library Arthur Trevor an eminent and famous common Lawyer, etc.  
In January following Francis Sandford an Officer of Arms attending the King now in Oxon, was entered also in the said Library, with the liberty then allowed to him of a Student. This person having published several books, I must, according to the method that I have hitherto followed, let the Reader know, that though he was descended from the ancient and gentile Family of the Sandfords of Sandford in Shropshire, yet he was born in the Castle of Carnow in the County of Wicklow in Ireland and half Barony of Shelelak; which half Barony was purchased of K. Jam. 1. by his mother's father called Calcot Chambre. When the Rebellion broke out in Ireland, Francis being then about eleven years of age, his Relations carried him thence into England, settled themselves at Sandford with intentions to breed him a Scholar, but then the Rebellion breaking out there, and his family afterwards Sufferers for the Royal Cause, he had no other education than what Grammar Schools afforded. On the 6 of June 13 Car. 2. he was by Letters Patent created Pursuivant at Arms by the name and title of Rogue Dragon, and afterwards on the 16 of Nou. in the 27 of the said Kings Reign he was created Lancaster Herald of Arms: Which office he held till 1689, and then surrendered it up. He hath written and published (1) A genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal. etc. Lond. 1664. fol. 'Tis partly a Translation. (2) The Order and Ceremonies used at the funeral of his Grace, George Duke of Albemarle, etc. with the manner of his Effigies lying in state in Somerset house, the whole proceeding to the Abbey of Westminster, the figure of his hearse in the said Abbey, etc. Printed in the Savoy near Lond●n 1670, in a thin fol, all exactly represented in Sculpture, with the form of the offering performed at Westm. (3) A genealogical history of the Kings of England and Monarches of great Britain etc. from the Norm. Conq. an. 1066 to the year 1677, in seven parts or books, with their effigies, seals, tombs, cenotaphs, devises, arms, etc. Pr. in the Savoy 1677. in fol. (4) The History of the Coronation of K. Jam. 2. and Qu. Marry, solemnised in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster on Thursday 23 of Apr. 1685, with an exact account of the several preparations in order thereunto, etc. the whole work illustrated with sculptures. Pr. in the Savoy 1687 in a large fol. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him besides, only that he now lives in, or near, Bloomsbury in Middlesex.    



An. Dom. 1666.  
An. 18 Car. 2.    
Chanc. the same, viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon.  
Vicechanc. John Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch, Aug. 3.  

Proct.  
Nathan. Hodges' of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26.  
Walt. Bailiff of Magd. Coll. Apr. 26.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 3. Jam. Fen of Ch. Ch.— He hath extant A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guildhall Chap. 18 Jul. 1686. Lond. 1686, at which time the author was Vicar of Goudhurst in Kent.  

Apr. 5. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll.  
May 3. John Miln or Mill of Queens Coll.  
8. Abraham Markland of S. John's Coll.   
Of Joh. Mill you may see among the Doct. of Diu. 1681.  

31. Tho. Bennet of Ch. Ch.  
31. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch.  
31. Joh Lloyd of Wadh. Coll.   
Of the first of these last three (who were afterwards Writers) you may see among the Masters, an. 1669.  
Jul. 14 Sam. Master of Ex. Coll.— He hath published several Sermons, and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter among the Oxford Writers.  
Oct. 20. Joh. Cook of Ch. Ch.  
27. John Inett of Vniv. Coll.  
Of these two last you may see more among the Masters in 1669.  
Dec. 13. Charles powel of Ch. Ch.— This person, who was son of Edw. Pow. of the Burrow of Stafford Minister, became Student of the said House under the tuition of Mr. Benj. Woodroff in 1662., aged 17 years or thereabouts, and after he had taken one degree in Arts, became Curate of South Marston in Wilts, and afterwards Chapl. to John Earl of Bridgwater, who preferred him to the Rectory of Cheddington near Aylesbury in Bucks. He hath published A sermon preached at South Marston near Hyworth in Wilts, 9 Sept. 1683, being the day appointed for a Thanksgiving from the horrid plot of the Presbyterians, on Psal. 10.10. Lond. 1683. qu. This being all that he hath published, I can only say that he died at Cheddington in the latter end of 1684.  
Jan 26. Hugh Barrow of C. C. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1681.  
Feb. 12. Joh. wiles of Trin. Coll.— He hath published several things, and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter among the Oxford Writers.  
14. William Williams of Jesus Coll.— See among the Masters, an. 1669.  
In a Convocation held 31 of Octob. were the Chancellors Letters read in behalf of Will. Gould formerly of Oriel Coll. that he might accumulate the degree of Bach. of Arts, that so he might be enabled to take the degree of Master, etc. but whether he was admitted to either I find not.  
Adm. 170.   

Bach. of Law.  
Seven were admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast of Arts.  

Mar. 29. Will. Richards of Trin. Coll.  
Apr. 7. George Howell of Alls. Coll.   
The last of these two, who was son of Dr. Tho. Howell sometimes Bishop of Bristol, was afterwards Rector of Buckland in Surrey and Author of A sermon preached July the first 1683, on Matth. 10.33. Lond. 1684. qu.  
May 3 ●● Ionas Proast lately of Qu. Coll. now (1666) of Gloc. Hall.— This person, who is a Ministers son and a Colchester man born, was afterwards one of the Chaplains of Alls. Coll, and Author of (1) The argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly considered and answered. Oxon at the Theat. in 3 sh. and an half in qu. an. 1690, published in Apr. that year. Afterwards was written and published by the same hand who wrote the said Letter, a Pamphlet intit. A second Letter concerning Toleration. London 1690, in 9 sh. and an half in qu. This second Letter which is dated 27 of May 1690, doth reflect much upon The argument, etc. before mentioned: Whereupon our Author Proast came out with (2) A third Letter concerning Toleration: In defence of the argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly considered and answered. Oxon 1691. in 11 sh. in qu.  

Jun. 27. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll.  
30. Will. Richard's of Allsoules Coll.   
The last of these two, who was Chapl. of his Coll, became Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Dr. John Sharp when he was translated from the Deanery of Norwych to that of Canterbury, 1689.  

Jan. 17. Steph. Penton of New Coll.  
Feb. 12. Thom. Staynce of Trin. Coll.   
The first of these two, who hath published several books, was admitted Principal of S. Edm. Hall in the place of Dr. Tully deceased, 15 Feb. 1675: Which place he at length resigning, was succeeded therein by Thom. Crosthwait. See among the Doct. of Diu. 1684.  
Mar. 7. Will. Basset of Magd. Coll.  
21. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 70.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jul. 14. Tho. Guidott of Wadh. Coll.  
Adm. 8.   

Bach. of Diu.  

J●n. 22. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll.  
Jul. 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll.  
Oct. 16. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll.   
Adm. 12.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jun. 19 Thom. Sargeant of Alls. Coll.  
Jul. 6. Thom. Style of Ch. Ch.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Jun. 19 Will. Levinz of S. Joh. Coll.  
Jun. 19 Edw. Exton of Magd. Coll.  
Jun. 19 Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll.   
The first of these three (who hath written Appendicula de rebus Britannicis, placed at the end of a book intit. Flosculi historici delibati, nunc delibatiores facti, etc. Oxon 1663. in tw. fifth edit.) was afterwards Precedent of his College, Subdean, and at length Can. resid. of Wells: And the last, Practitioner of his faculty at Southampton and a publisher of one or two trivial things of Poetry.  

Jun. 19 Henr. Danvers of Trin. Coll.  
Jun. 19 Rich. Torless of S. Joh. Coll.   

Jul. 3. Joh. Paris of C. C. Coll.   
5. Will. Cole of Glocest. Hall.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 31. Rich. Clayton Master of Vniv. Coll.— He died at Salisbury (where he was Can. resid.) on the 10 of June 1676, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there: Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June.  
Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All's. Coll.— He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury, in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant (who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh. 12 March 1679;) and dying on the 5 of January 1686, was buried in the outer Chap. of Alls. Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A.  
23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder.— He was now Can. resid. of Salisbury, one of his Majesty's Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts. On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx.  

Jun. 23. Tho. Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll.  
Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll.   
The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts, the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire.  

27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll.  
30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll.   
The former, who accumulated, was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty; the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder.— He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire.  
Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.— He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same: For which opposition, some, if not all, of the Fellows that sided with him, were ejected. Afterwards, if not at that time, he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey, then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster, Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, Subdean of Westminster, and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport, who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow, an. 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham, in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased, and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner, deprived of his Bishopric for not taking the Oaths to their Majesty's K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie. This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons, Theological discourses, and other things, relating to the supreme faculty, extant, which show him to be a learned Divine, and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England.  
July 5. Joh. Cawley of All's. Coll.— This person, who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester, was, by the endeavours of his Father, made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament, an. 1649, where he continued several years. Some time after his Majesty's restauration he became Rector of Henly in Oxfordshire, and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton, Archdeacon of Lincoln; in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an. 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony. Wherein is argued, whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits, be reducible to that head. And a sentence, in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches, is examined. Lond. 1689 in 5. sh. in qu.  
July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll.— He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire, and afterward B. of Landaff.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton, was then incorporated M. of A, with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation.— This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University, and afterwards, through several preferments, he became B. of London.  
June 19 Edward Browne Bach. of Phys. of Cambridge— I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year.  
27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge— I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Diu. of this year.   

CREATIONS.  
Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law conferred on him.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge, was created Mast. of that faculty; and the same day was admitted Bach. of Diu. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon. The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law.  

James Russell of Magd. Coll.  
George Russell of Magd. Coll.   
They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford.  
Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley.  
Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley— He was after his Father's death Earl of Shaftesbury, an. 1682.  
Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt.— This Gentleman, who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes, was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt, and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl. to serve in several Parliaments, particularly for that which began at Westm. 26. of Jan. 1679, and for that which began at Oxon, 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland, and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Ambassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull. Some time after his return, he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts, an. 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland, who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office, because, that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome, he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him, if the enterprise of the Prince of Orange should succeed, as it did. In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following, who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire, but the sudden change of affairs being then made, to the great wonder of all People, there was no Seal passed in order to it. In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken, with others, in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2, upon some dangerous design, as 'twas said, and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower, was in danger of his life, and endured a long and tedious imprisonment, etc. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments, and a zealous lover of the Church of England. etc.  
Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt.— This person, who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt, became a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll. in 1664 and on the 16 of January 1666 he was created a Baronet. He hath translated into English The Epistle of Sappho to Phaon, which is in a book entit. Ovid's Epistles, translated by several hands, etc. Lond. 1681. sec. edit. in oct: And in another book called Miscellany Poems, containing a new translation of Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's love Elegies, Odes of Horace, etc. by the most eminent hands. Lond. 1684 oct, Sir Carr hath translated The fourth Elegy of Ovid's first book of Elegies, which is in the 110 page of the said Miscellany Poems: as also The parling of Sireno and Diana, out of the 3 book of Ovid's Elegies, which is in the 173 page of that Miscellany. He wrote also the Prologue to The Rival Queens, or the death of Alexander: Trag. Lond. 1677 qu. made by Nath. Lee: And as divers Satyrical copies of verses were made on him by other persons, so he hath divers made by himself on them, which to this day go from hand to hand. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster in Nov, or thereabouts, 1680.  
All which persons from Jam. Russell to Sir Carr Scrope were created on the fourth of Feb.  
Feb. 5. John Scudamore a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. Grandson and Heir of Visc. Scudamore of Slego in Ireland.— He was to be created the day before with the rest, but was absent.   

Doct. of Law.  
Feb. 4. Thom. Boteler Earl of Ossory in Ireland and Lord Roteler of More-Park in England, the eldest Son of James Duke of Ormonde, and General of all the Forces in Ireland under his Father now Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom, was created Doct. of the Civil Law with more than ordinary solemnity.— He was afterwards made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, and in 1673 May 17 he was made Rear-admiral of the Blew-Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, in order to the great Sea-fight against the Dutch, which shortly after happened: In which fight, as also in others, he gallantly acted beyond the fiction of a Romance. Afterwards he was made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, and on the 16 of Apr. 1680 he was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable Council. At length this brave Gent, of whom enough can never be spoken, died of a violent Fever in Whitehall on Friday 30. July 1680: whereupon his body was in the next evening carried privately and deposited in a vault in the Chap. of Hen. 7, joining to the Abbey Church at Westminster, there to remain till his Father the Duke of Ormonde should order the farther disposal of it. Afterwards it was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland (as I have been informed) and there laid in the Vault belonging to the Ormondian Family under part of the Cath. Church. His eminent Loyalty and forward zeal on all occasions to serve his Majesty and Country, were manifested by many brave and generous actions; which, as they made him to be honoured and esteemed by all when living, made him also when dead generally lamented. There were several Elegies made on his death, deploring much the untimely loss of so great and valiant a Commander as he was, the chiefest and best of which was made by Thomas Flatman, which being his Masterpiece, he was nobly rewarded for his pains, as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 626.  
George Douglas Son of the Marquis of Douglas in Scotland, lately an Officer of note in the Army under the K. of France, now an Officer or Captain under the K. of Poland was created next after the Earl of Ossory.  
Sir Nich. Armorer Kt, Governour of Duncannon Castle, with the territory adjoining, in Ireland.  
The said three persons were presented by Dr. Hen. Deane of New Coll, and created by the Vicechanc. with a little complimental Speech: which being done and they conducted to their respective Seats among the Doctors, Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. the Dep. Orator did congratulate them with an accurate Speech in the name of the University. Afterwards were created Masters of Arts certain Noblemen and persons of quality of this University, as I have before told you among these Creations.  
In the latter end of this year, Joh. Jacob. Buxtorfius Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Basil became a Sojournour in this University for the sake of the Bodleian Vatican, and continued there some months. He was a learned man, as by the things that he hath published appears.    



An. Dom. 1667.  
An. 19 Car. 2.    
Chanc. the same viz. Edw. E. of Clar, etc. but he being accused of divers crimes in Parl, which made him withdraw beyond the Seas, he resigned his Chancellourship of the University by his Letter bearing date at Calis, Dec. 7. Which being read in Convocation on the 20 of the same month, the right reverend Father on God Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury was then elected into his place.  
Vicechanc. the same viz. Joh. Fell D. D. Aug. 16. by the nomination of the E. of Clar.  

Proct.  
George Roberts of Mert. Coll. Apr. 17.  
Edw. Bernard of S. John's Coll. Apr. 17.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 21. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch.  
May 21. George Walls of Ch. Ch.   
Of the last of these two, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1682.  

Jun. 27. Rob. Parsons of Vniv. Coll.  
Jun. 27. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll.   
Of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1670.  

July 4. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll.  
July 4. Thom. Jekyll of Trin. Coll.   

Oct. 17. Tho. Crane of Brasn. Coll.   
Of the first and last of these three, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1684, and among the Masters, 1670. As for Thomas Jekyll, he hath published several Sermons and other things, and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter among the Oxford Writers.  
Oct. 17. Maurice Wheeler of New Inn, afterwards Chaplain or Petty Canon of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters, an. 1670.  

Oct. 17. William Pindar of Vniv. Coll.  
Oct. 17. Rich. Thompson of Vniv. Coll.   
The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an. 1670. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ, I must mention here. He was the Son of Rob. Thomps. of Wakefield in Yorkshire, was bred in Grammar learning there, and thence sent to Vniv. Coll. where he became a Scholar of the old foundation, took one degree in Arts, left it upon pretence of being unjustly put aside from a Fellowship there, went to Cambridge, took the degree of Master of Arts, had Deacons orders conferred on him, and afterwards those of Priest: which last he received from Dr. Fuller B. of Linc. in Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm. 14 of March 1670. Being thus qualified, he became Curate of Brington in Northamptonshire for Dr. Thomas Pierce, who, when made Dean of Salisbury, an. 1675, left that Living and took his Curate with him to that City, and in 1676 he gave him a Prebend there, and afterwards a Presentation to S. Mary's in Marlborough in Wilts. In 1677 he traveled with Joh. Norbourne of Caln in the same County Gent; but before he had spent 12 months in France with him, he was recalled and had the Church of Bedminster near Bristol conferred on him, and afterwards the Vicarage of St. Mary Radcliff: At both which places expressing himself a most zealous and orthodox man for the Church of England, especially when the Popish Plot broke out, the Faction aspersed him with the name of Papist, and more particularly for this reason, when he said in his Prayer or Sermon in the Church of S. Thomas in Sa●isbury, 30. of Jan. 1679, that there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot. About which time showing himself a great stickler against petitions to his Majesty for the sitting of a Parliament, which the Faction with all their might drove on, he was brought into trouble for so doing, and when the Parliament sat, he was, among those many that were against petitioning, brought on his knees in the H. of Commons and blasted for a Papist: whereupon to free himself from that imputation, he wrote and published The Visor plucked off from Rich. Thompson of of Bristol Clerk, in a plain and true character of him. Printed in one sh. in fol. in 1681, wherein he takes occasion to show, that while he was in his travels, he did not study at S. Omers or Douai as the Faction gave out, but sojourned in Protestant Houses in Paris, Glen, Blois, and frequented Protestant Chapels, Company, etc. Afterwards, in consideration of these his sufferings, his Majesty gave him the Deanery of Bristol, void by the death of Mr. Sam. Crossman; in which being installed on Trinity Sunday 1684, had the degree of Doct. of Diu. conferred on him about that time at Cambridge. He hath published besides the Visor before mentioned. A Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol before Henry Duke of Beaufort L. Lieutenant of Glocestershire, etc. on Titus 3.1. Lond. 1685. qu. He died on the 29 of Nou. 1685, and was buried in the South Isle joining to the said Cath. Changed whereupon Dr. Will. Levett of Oxon succeeded him in his Deanery.  

Jan. 28. Henry Maurice of Jes. Coll.  
Jan. 28. Joh. Garbrand of New Inn.  
Jan. 28. Joh. Graile of Exet. Coll.  
Jan. 28. Thom. Salmon of Trin. Coll.   
The first of these four was afterwards an author of note, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered. The others are Writers also, have published several things, and, if living, may more hereafter.  
Adm. 193.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted this year, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 2. Nathan. Wilson of Magd. Hall.  
May 2. Will. Harrison of Wadh. Coll.   
The first of these two, was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland, as I have before told you. The other Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester, and Preb. of Winchester and well beneficed by the favour of B. Morley, whose near Kinswoman he had married. He is called Doctor, but took no higher degree than Master of Arts in this University.  
7. Joh. Rainstropp of S. Joh. Coll.— This person, who was a Minister's Son, was afterwards Master of the City Free-school in Bristol and published Loyalty recommended; in a Sermon preached before the Merchant Adventures at S. Stephens Ch. in Bristol, 10. Nou. 1683, on 2. Sam. 15.21. Lond. 1684. qu.  
June 20. Tho. Wagstaff of New Inn.  
27. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Rector of Newbury and Preb. of Sarum, and published A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Newbury in Berks 26. July 1685, being a day of Thanksgiving for his Majesty's late victory over the Rebels. on 2. Sam. 18.28. Lond. 1685. qu.  

Oct. 31. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll.  
Mar. 10. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll.   
Mar. 14. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Changed— He was Son of Dr. Edward Pocock Canon of Ch. Ch. and published Philosophus Autodidactus; seu Epistola Abi Giaaphar fill. Tophail, de Hai fill. Jokdhan, Arab. Lat. Oxon 1671. qu.  
Adm. 89.  ☞ Not one Each. of Physic was admitted this year.  

Bach. of Diu.  
July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jes. Coll.  

Oct. 21. Joh. Rosewell of C. C. C.  
Oct. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. C.   
The first or these two, who was at this time, and after, in great esteem for his Greek and Latin learning, was afterwards made Master of Eton School, and continued there in a sedulous instruction of the youth for several years. In 1678, Oct. 26 he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. R Brideoake deceased, and in Aug. or Sept. 1683. he became Fellow of Eton Coll. on the death of Dr. Nathan. Ingelo. He died at Eton 30. Oct. 1684, and was buried in the Chap. or Collegiate Church there, leaving then most of his choice Library to C. C. Coll.  

Nou. 7. Hen. Foulis of Linc. Coll.   

Dec. 12. Franc. Drop of Magd. Coll.  
Dec. 12. Joh. Dobson. of Magd. Coll.  
Dec. 12. Narciss. Marsh of Ex. Coll.   
Adm. 11.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 27. Edw. Low of New Coll.  
Jun. 27. Will. Oldys of New Coll.   

July 4. Tho. Musprat of New Coll.   
The first of these three was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery and a Knight, and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Sali●bury, in the place of Dr. Joh. eliot deceased, an. 1671. He died in the latter end of May 1684. The second (Dr. Oldys) was afterwards Advocate for the office of Lord high Admiral of England, and to the Lords of the Prizes, his Majesty's Advocate in the Court Martial, and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Lincoln; and of the third I know nothing.  
July 6. Will. Trumbull of All's. Coll.— This person, who was originally of that S. John's Coll. was afterwards an Advocate in Doctor's Commons, Chancellor of the Dioc. of Rochester and one of the Clerks of the Signet. On the 21. Nou. 1684 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty, and in Nou. in the year following, he was sent Envoy extraordinary into France. In the beginning of 1687 he was sent Ambassador to the Ottoman Port in the place of James L. Shandois; where he continued till 1691. etc.   

Doct. of Phys.  
July 4. Edward Browne of Mert. Coll.— This Gent, who was Son of Sir Tho. Browne the famous Physician of Norwych was afterwards a great Traveller, and after his return became Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians (of which he was censor 1683) and Physician in ord. to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. He hath written and published (1) A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Friuli. As also some observations on the gold, silver, etc. Mines, Baths and Mineral waters in those parts, etc. Lond. 1673. qu, afterwards with additions in fol. An account of which is in the Phil. Transactions nu. 95. (2) An account of several travels through a great part of Germany, in four journeys. 1. From Norwich to Colen. 2. From Colen to Vienna, with a particular description of that Imperial City. 3. From Vienna to Hamburg. 4. From Colen to London. Wherein the Mines, Baths, etc. Lond. 1679. qu. An account of which also is in the Royal or Phil. Transact. nu. 130. He hath also several Discourses printed in the said Phil. Trans. and in the Phil. Collections, hath translated into English The life of Themistocles, which is in Plutarch's lives, translated from the Greek by several hands Lond. 1683. oct. and The life of Sertorius in the Third vol. of Plutarch's lives. Lond. 1684. oct. etc.   

Doct. of Diu.  

July 2. Gilb. Coals of New Coll.  
July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jesus Coll.   
The last accumulated the degrees in Diu. and was afterwards B. of S. Asaph.   

Creations.  
Mar. 28. Sir Joh. Huband of Qu. Coll. Bt.  
Apr. 17. William Julius Coyett Son of the Lord Peter Julius Coyett Lord of Lynbygord and Bengsboda, Counsellor of the State and Chancellourship of Sweden, now Ambassador extraordinary (with the Lord Baron Fleming) from his Majesty of Sweden to the King of Great Britain, was presented with a little Speech by Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Deputy-Orator, and actually created and admitted Master of Arts by the Vicechancellor. The said Pet. Jul. Coyett had been Resident for the K. of Sweden in the Court of Ol. Cromwell, who conferred on him the honour of Knighthood, 3. May 1656: And afterwards, before the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2, he was Envoy extraordinary from the said King to the States of Holland and West-Friesland.  
Peter Trotzigh a young Nobleman, companion to the former, Son of the most noble John Trotzigh, chief Governor or Master (while he lived) of the Copper Mines in Coperberg for his sacred Majesty of Sweden, was also presented by the said Dep. Or. and actually created M. of A. on the said day.  
Sir Will. Farmor of Magd. Coll. Bt. was also created M. of A. in the same convocation.  
Apr. 23. Sir Edw. Acton of Qu. Coll. Bt, was created M. A.  
July 4. Lewis Reness Pastor of the Church at Breda and the Professor of Diu. in the Aurangian Coll. there, was declared Doct. of Diu. in a Convocation then held, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters written in his behalf: whereupon he was diplomated the day following.  

July 4. Franc. Plant another Pastor of the said Church and Profess. of the Heb. tongue in the said Coll.  
July 4. Anton. Hulsius Pastor of the Church belonging to the Low Countries at Breda.   
Both which being then declared Doctors of Div, were diplomated the next day.    



An. Dom. 1668.  
An. 20. Car. 2.    
Chanc. Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Fell again, continued in his office by the decree of the Delegates of Convocation, Octob. 5, without any nomination thereunto by the Chancellor, he being, as yet, not sworn or installed: so that thereby all the Chancellors power rested in the Deputy.  

Proct.  
Rich. White of S. Mary's Hall Apr. 1.  
Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. Apr. 1.   
Balliol Coll. having not a statutable Master to undergo the procuratorial office this year, which the Carolyne Cycle did appoint, Mr. Benj. Woodroffe a Student of Ch. Ch. entered himself a Commoner in the said Coll. a day or two before the time of election. And being elected by the Master and Masters of the said College, he stirred so much in the matter for admission thereunto in Convocation, as to have a hearing before the King and his Council. But they finding it a litigious thing, referred it to the University: Wherefore the Doctors and Masters assembled in Convocation for the admission of the Proctors, they did (after Mr. Woodroffe had made an eloquent Speech before them in his own defence and for the obtaining of the office) adjudge the matter to the Halls; so that Mr. White, who had been chosen before, was then admitted.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 16. Joh. Floyr of Qu. Coll.  
May 5. Rich. Peers of Ch. Ch.  

Octob. 22. Rich. Lucas of Jes. Coll.  
Feb. 11. Jerem. Wells of S. Joh. Coll.   

18 Joh. Shirley of Trin. Coll.  
18 Rich. Bank of Linc. Coll.   
Of the last of these four you may see more among the Masters, an. 1671.  
Feb. ... Edward Palmer of Cue▪ Coll.— This Gent, who was a younger Son of Sir Will. Palmer of Werdon in Bedfordshire, wrote An Elegy on the death of Mr. James Bristol late Fellow of Alls. Coll. Oxon. 1667 in one sh. in qu.  
Adm. 171.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 1. Edward Yonge of New Coll.— He hath published several things, and therefore he is to be remembered hereafter.  
Adm. 5.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 8. Will. Hopkins of S. Mary's Hall lately of Trin. Coll.  
June 5. Thom. Laurence of Vniv. Coll.— This person, who was lately a Gent. Com. of S. john's Coll, but now Fellow of that of Vniv. was eldest Son of Sir Joh. Laurence of Chelsey in Midd●esex Bt, and being esteemed an ingenious person, he was elected Music reader for the Act an. 1671. While he was of S. john's Coll, he was appointed to speak a Speech in verse before the King, Queen, and Duchess of York, when they in the afternoon of the 29 of Sept. 1663., went to visit that Coll: which being well performed, they were printed with this title, Verses spoken to the King, Queen and Duchess of York in S. John's Library in Oxon, printed at the end of Verses spoken, etc. by Thom. Ireland, mentioned in these Fasti, an. 1657.  

July 9 Richard Reeve of Trin. Coll.  
Dec. 12. Joh. Wolley of Trin. Coll.   
The last of these two who was a Minister's Son of Oxfordsh, was afterwards Rector of S. Mich. Church in Crooked-lane London, and at length Rector of Monks-Risborow near Aylesbury in Bucks. He hath published A Sermon preached at Oxfordshire Feast in Lond. 25. Nou. 1674, on Gen. 13.18. Lond. 1675. qu. He died at Monks-Risborow before mentioned on the 5. Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church there.  

Feb. 11. Abrah. Markland of S. Joh. Coll.  
18. John Lloyd of Wadh. Coll.   
Adm. 63.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Only one was adm. and another to practise that fac.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 9 Edw. Bernard of S. John's Coll.  

July 7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch.  
July 7. N●than. Bi●bie of Ch. Ch.   
Adm 3.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year.  

Doct. of Phys.  
July 9 Thom. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll.— This Physician, who was Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Shabbington in Bucks, was born at Ricot in Oxfordshire, and after he had been some years' Scholar, was made Fellow of his House. He hath written Artificial Embellishments: or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it. Oxon. 1665 oct. His name is not set to the book, neither did he (being then Bach. of Phys.) desire to be known to be the author of it. But having taken vent by the prattling of the Bookseller, the author was laughed at and commonly called Artificial Embellishments. Afterwards the book sold well, and I think it was printed a second time. The author died in the great City of Paris in July 1674, and was there, in some yard or burial place, committed to the earth.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll.  
July 7. Nathan. Bisbie of Changed Ch.  
The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys. of Milan— He was sometimes Physician to Hen. Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society, Physician to the Queen Consort, and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians.   

Creations.  
June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk, and a munificent Benefactor to this University, by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana, or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London, was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law— He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Martial of England, an. 1672, and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas (who died distracted at Milan) in the Dukedom of Norfolk. This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January, 1683, and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex. He then left behind him a Widow (which was his second Wife) named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland, who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an ancient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons. Under this Duke of Norfolk's name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna, and from thence to Constantinople, in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellor of State to his Imperial Majesty, etc. Lond. 1671. in tw.  
Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mentioned, was, after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ. Law, created Master of Arts.— On the 28 of January 1677, he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel, his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk, he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray; at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lord's House, and seated next before Will. Lord Stourton, by the name of Lord Ferrer of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Father's death Duke of Norfolk, and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, etc. See in the creations, an. 1684.  
After these two Henry howard's were created and seated, one on the right, and the other on the left, hand of the Vicechancellor, the public Orator of the University stood up, and in an excellent speech congratulated them, especially the Father, in the name of the University.  
June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mentioned, was then actually created Master of Arts— This Thomas Howard, who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created, but was then absent, was, with his said Brother Henry, Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury, but they did not wear Gowns, because both were then Rom. Catholics. The said Thomas, afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptised, became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq, about the 12 of Mar. 1686, and afterwards, upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine, was sent Ambassador to Rome, where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William. Prince of Orange. Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France, and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England; but going thence about public concerns to France in behalf of his Master, the Ship wherein he was, was cast away and he himself drowned, about the beginning of the year 1690.  
June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch, was created Mast. of Arts— He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory, and is now Earl of Stamford, etc.  
Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North, of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day.  
July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll, of 20 years standing, was created M. of A.— One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847, but whether this was, I cannot yet tell. Quaere.  
In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library, where improving himself much in Literature, he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physic which he published.    



An. Dom. 1669.  
An. 21. Car. 2.    
Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury, who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University (being never sworn thereunto or installed) by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July, the most high, mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde, Earl of Ossory and Brecknock, L. Steward of his Majesty's Household, etc. was unanimously elected Chancellor on the 4. of Aug, (having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ. Law) and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster, on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting.  
Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ. Law and Precedent of S. john's Coll, Sept. 23.  

Proct.  
Nathan. Alsop of Brasn. Coll. Apr. 21.  
Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21.   

Bach. of Arts.  
April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll.— This Gentleman, who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt, was educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll, but before he took the degree of Master, he went to the Middle Temple, and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland, Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the King's Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683, and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast. of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased, he was made Attorney to the Duke of York. On the 16 of Oct. 1685, he was sworn L. Ch. Just. of the King's Bench, and one of his Majesties (K. Jam. 2.) most honourable Privy Council; whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Sergeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester: And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law, upon which judgement was given in Sir Edward Hales his case. Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answered by W. Atwood Barrister, and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atk●ns Kt. of the Bath, then late one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Afterwards Sir Edw. was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of indemnity or pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Marry, dated 23. May 1690.  
May 6. Thomas Adderley of S. John's Coll.— This person, who was a Warwickshire man born, was a Servitor of the said Coll, and after he had taken one degree in Arts, he left it and became Chaplains, as it seems, to Sir Edw. Boughton of Warwickshire Bt. He hath written and published The care of the peace of the Church, the duty of every Christian. In a discourse on Psal. 122.6. Lond. 1679. qu. To which is added, A Letter showing the great danger and sinfulness of popery, written to a young Gentleman (a Roman Cath.) in Warwickshire.  

May 27. Rich Roderick of Ch. Ch.  
May 27. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch.   

Jun. 15. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch.   
Of the first of these three, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1682, of the second among the Master's 1672, and of the third among the Bach. of Diu. 1681.  
June 19 Rich. Leigh of Qu. Coll.— This Gent, who was a younger Son of Edw. Leigh mentioned among the Writers in this Vol. p. 351. hath Poetry and other things extant, and therefore he is to crave a place hereafter among the Writers.  
Oct. 19 Humph. Humphreys of Jes. Coll.— He was afterwards B. of Bangor.  
26. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1681.  
Dec. 11. Richard Forster of Brasn. Coll.— See among the Masters in 1673.  
Feb. 1. Joh. Clerk of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Fellow of Alls. Coll. See among the Mast. an. 1673.  
Mar. 15. Joh. Rogers of S. Joh. Coll.— See among the Mast. an. 1672.  
Admitted 208, or thereabouts.   

Doct. of Mus.  
July 8. Benj. Roger's Organist of Magd. Coll, was then admitted Doctor of Music; which degree he completed in that great and solemn Act celebrated in sheldon's Theatre, on the 12 of the same month, being the third day after the opening and dedication of the said Theatre for a learned use.— This person, who was Son of Peter Rogers belonging to his Majesty's Chap. of S. George at Windsor in Berks, was born at Windsor, was, when a boy, a Choirester, and when a Man, Clerk or Singing-man of the said Chap. at Windsor. Afterwards he became Organist of Changed Ch. in Dublin, where continuing till the rebellion broke out in 1641 he was forced thence, and going to Windsor, he obtained a Singing man's place there. But being soon after silenced, by the great troubles occasioned by the Civil Wars in England, he taught his profession at Windsor and in the neighbourhood, and, by the favour of the men then in power, got some annual allowance in consideration of his lost place. In 1653 or thereabouts, he being then famed for a most admirable Composer, did, at the request of great personages, compose several sets of Airs of four parts to be performed by Violins and an Organ: which being esteemed the best of their kind that could be then composed, were sent, as great rarities, into Germany to the Court of Archduke Leopold, (now Emperor) and were tried and often played by his own Musicians to his very great content, he himself being then a Composer and a great Admirer of Music. In 1658 his great favourer and encourager of his profession Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo Fellow of Eton, conducted him to Cambridge, got the degree of Bach. of Mus. to be conferred on him, as a member of Qu. Coll, (that Doctor having been sometimes Fellow thereof, and at that time a Proceeder in Diu.) and giving great content by his song of several parts, (which was his exercise) performed in the Commencement that year by several voices, he gained the reputation there of a most admirable Musician, and had the greater part of his fees and entertainment defrayed by that noble and generous Doctor. After his Majesty's restauration, the Lord Mayor, aldermans and chief Citizens of London being unanimously disposed to entertain the King, the two Dukes, and both Houses of Parliament with a sumptuous Feast, it was ordered among them that there should be added to it the best Music they could obtain: And B. Rogers being then esteemed the prime Composer of the Nation, he was desired of them to compose a song of several parts to be performed while the King and company were at dinner. Whereupon, in order to it, Dr. Ingelo made Hymnus Eucharisticus; the beginning of the prelude to which is Exultate Justi in Domino, etc. This also he translated into English, and both were printed in single papers. These things being done, B. Rogers composed a song of four parts to that Hymn, which was more than once tried in private. At length on the 12. of July (Thursday) 1660, being the day that his Majesty, James Duke of York, Henry Duke of Gloucester, and both Houses of Parliament were at Dinner in the Guild-hall of the City of London, the said printed papers in Latin and English being delivered to the King, the two Dukes, and dispersed among the Nobility, etc. purposely that they might look on them while the performance was in doing, the song was begun and carried on in Latin by twelve Voices, twelve Instruments and an Organ, mostly performed by his Majesty's Servants. Which being admirably well done, it gave very great content, and Mr. Roger's the author being present, he obtained a great name for his composition and a plentiful reward. Much about that time he became Organist of Eton Coll, where continuing till Theodore Colby a Germane was preferred to be Organist of Exeter Cathedral, Dr. Thomas Pierce who had a great value for the man (he himself being a Musician) invited him to Magd. Coll. and gave him the Organists place there, and there he continued in good esteem till 1685, and then being ejected, (the reason why let others tell you) the Society of that house allowed him an yearly pension to keep him from the contempt of the world: In which condition he now lives, in his old age, in a skirt of the City of Oxon unregarded. He hath extant certain compositions in a book entit.— Cantica Sacra: Containing Hymns and Anthems for two voices to the Organ, both Latin and English. Lond. 1674. fol. As also in The Latin Psalms and Hymns of four parts, published by Joh. Playford. His compositions for instrumental Music, whether in two, three, or four parts have been highly valued, and were always, 30 years ago or more, first called for, taken out and played as well in the public Music school as in private Chambers: and Dr. Wilson the Professor, the greatest and most curious Judge of Music that ever was, usually wept when he heard them well performed, as being wrapped up in an ecstasy, or, if you will, melted down, while others smiled or had their hands and eyes lifted up, at the excellency of them, etc. But now le's go on with the admissions.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 3. Thom. Bennet of Ch. Ch.— He was born at Windsor in Berks, elected Student of the said House from Westminster School, an. 1663., and when Master, he became corrector of the Press at the Theatre, and after Vicar of Steventon near Abandon and Minister of Hungerford, in Berks. He hath written Many useful observations by way of Comment out of ancient and learned Grammarians, on Lillyes Grammar. Oxon. 1673 etc. oct. This Grammar is, in some Auction Catalogues, called Dr. Fells Grammar, and Oxford Grammar, and the Observator elsewhere is called the Oxford Grammarian, by which name he and his Oxford Grammar were afterwards answered or animadverted upon by John Twells Schoolmaster of Newark upon Trent in his— Grammatica reformata. or a general examination of the Art of Grammar, etc. Lond. 1683 in oct. Mr. Bennet died and was buried at Hungerford in the month of Aug. 1681.  

Apr. 3. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch.  
Apr. 3. Will. Clement of Ch. Ch.   
The last of which, was afterwards Rector of Bath, Master of an Hospital there, and Archdeacon of Bath in the place of John Selleck deceased, in Sept. 1690.  
Apr. 27. Sam. Master of Exet. Coll.  
June 15. Joh. Cook of Changed Ch.— This Divine, who was Son of Thom. Cook of Bromsgrave in Worcestershire, became, after he was Master, one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of his House, and afterwards Rector of Kuckstone and of Mersham in Kent. He hath published (1) A Sermon on Joh. 8.34, preached Dec. 19 an. 1675 in Bow Church before the L. Mayor and Alderman of the City of London. Lond. 1676. qu. (2) Serm. preached 13. May 1683 at the Guildhall Chapel before the Lord Mayor, etc. on Rom. 12.18. Lond. 1683. qu.  
July 8. Joh. Inett of Vniv. Coll.— This worthy Divine, who was Son of Rich. Inett of Beawdley in Worcestershire, became a Leycester exhibitioner of the said Coll, an. 1663., and, after he had taken the degree of Master, was made Rector of S. Ebbs Church in Oxon: which place he keeping about 3 or 4 years, became Vicar of Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire, where he continued in good repute for some time. At length, upon the resignation of Will. Wyatt, he was installed Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Lincoln 27. Feb. 1681, and became Residentiary thereof. He hath published (1) Sermon preached at the Assizes held in Warwick, 1. Aug. 1681, on Prov. 14. part of the 34. vers. Lond. 1681. qu. (2) A guide to a devout Christian; in three parts. The first containing meditations and prayers, etc. Lond. 1688. oct. & e.  

Nou. 9 Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll.   

16 Joh. wiles of Trin. Coll.  
16 Will. Williams of Jes. Coll.   
The last was afterwards Vicar of Haverford west in Pembrokeshire and author of The necessity and extent of the obligation, with the manner and measures of restitution, in a Sermon preached 9 of Octob. 1681, before the corporation of Haverford-west at S. Mary's in Haverford, on Luke 19.8. Lond. 1682. qu. What other things he hath published I know not.  
Mar. 23. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch.  
Adm. 110.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Four were admitted whereof Thomas Alvey of Mert. Coll. was one.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 26. Hen. Compton of Ch. Ch.  
May 26. Edw. Wetenhall of Linc. Coll.   
These two were afterwards Bishops, and are now living.  

July 3. Thomas Sprat of Wadh. Coll.   

6. Franc. Turner of New Coll.  
6. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll.   
The two first of these three, were afterwards Bishops and are now living.  
Oct. 26. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll.— This Divine, who was Son of a Father of both his names, mentioned among the Writers an. 1684. p. 580 was born in Glocestershire, educated in Charter-house School, was afterwards Scholar and Fellow of his House, Proctor of the University, Rector of Letcombe Basset in Berks, and Chaplain to James Duke of Monmouth Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; by whose recommendations, he was actually created D. of D. of that University, an. 1676. He hath published Encouragement to Charity, Sermon preached at the Charter-house Chappel, 12. Dec. 1678, at an anniversary meeting in commemoration of the Founder, on Heb. 13.16. Lond. 1679. qu. He died of an Apoplexy in his Rectory House at Letcombe Basset before mentioned, on the 18 of June, an. 1686, and was buried in the Church there.  

Dec. 11. Joseph Guillim of Brasn. Coll.  
Dec. 11. Tho. Traherne of Brasn. Coll.   
The first of these two, was a Herefordshire man born, became a poor Scholar of Mert. Coll. in 1653, and thence elected Fellow of that of Brasnose in the place of Joh. Carpender deceased, an. 1655. He hath written The dreadful burning of London described in a Poem. Lond. 1667 in two sh. and an half in qu. He died in Greys-Inn-Lane in Holborn near London, on the 10. of Sept. 1670, but where buried unless in the Yard or Church of S. Andrew, or at Highgate, where his constant place of residence was, I know not.  
Mar. 15. Joh. Lloyd of Jes. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of S. David.  
Adm. 26.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 22. Joseph Tailor of S. Joh. C.  
Jun. 22. Charles Perott of S. Joh. C.   
The first was a Compounder: The other was several times a Burgess for this University to serve in several Parliaments, and dying in S. Joh. Coll. on the 10. of June 1686, aged 45 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at Fyfield near Abendon in Berks, where there is Land belonging to his name and Family.  

Jan. 28. Richard Osgood of New Coll.  
Jan. 28. Gabr. Thistlethwayte of New Coll.   
The last of these two was now Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalm●ton in the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. Hyde deceased, and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester.   

Doct. of Phys.  

July 7. Edward Jones of Mert. Coll.  
July 7. Nich. He'll of Exet. Coll.   

July 7. Tho. Hayes of Brasn. Coll.  
July 7. Pet. Gerard of Brasn. Coll.    

Doct. of Diu.  

June 26. Joh. Price of New Coll. Accum. and Compounders.   

28. Henry Compton of Ch. Ch. Accum. and Compounders.  
28. Will. Bethel of S. Alb. Hall. Accum. and Compounders.  
28. Thom. Marshal of Linc. Coll.  
28. Joh. Hall of Pembr. Coll.  
28. Joh. Derby of Vniv. Coll.   

July. 3. Tho. Sprat. Accumulator of Wadh. Coll.   

6. Franc. Turner Compounder of New Coll.  
6. Joh. Barnard Accum. of Linc. Coll.   
Four of these Doctors were afterwards Bishops, viz. Compton, Hall (who succeeded Dr. Barlow in the Margaret Professorship 24. of May 1676) Sprat and Turner.   

Incorporations.  
May 4. Joh. Bapt. Gornia Doct. of Phys. of Bononia, public prof. at Pisa and Physician to Cosmo de Medicis Prince of Tuscany, was incorp. Doct. of Phys.— In a Convocation held in the afternoon of that day, the said Prince, who was entertained by the University, was then sitting, when the ceremony of Incorp. was performed, in a chair of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellor. The said Prince is now the Great Duke of Tuscany.  
May 6. Hen. Dove M. A. of Cambr.— He was of Trin. Coll. in that University, was afterwards D. of D, Chaplain to Dr. Pearson B. of Chester, Archdeacon of Richmond (in the place of Charles Bridgman mentioned under the year 1662.,) Minister of S. Brides Ch. in London, and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. Jam. 2. K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary. He hath published five or more Sermons.  
May 6. Rich. Wro● M. A. of Camb.— He was of Jesus Coll. in that University was afterwards Chaplain to the said Dr. Pearson B. of Chester, Warden of the College at Manchester in the place of Dr. Nich. Stratford, in the beginning of the year 1684, and Doct. of Diu. He hath three or more Sermons extant.  
May. 11. Joh. Beveridge M. A. of Cambr.— He was of S. John's Coll. in that University, and I know not yet to the contrary but that the public Registrary might mistake him for Will. Beveridge M. A. of the said Coll, afterwards D. of D, Archdeacon of Colchester, Rector of S. Peter Cornhill in Lond. Canon of Canterbury and Chaplain to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary. This Dr. W. Beveridge, who denied the Bishopric of B. and Wells in the beginning of the year 1691 (of which Dr. Ken had then lately been deprived for not taking the Oaths to the said K. W. 3. and Queen Mary) is a right learned man and hath published several books and sermons, which show him so to be.  
June 15. Joh. North M. A. of Cambr.— This Gentleman, who was Fellow of Jesus Coll. in the said University, but now of Trinity Coll. in this, (where he continued for some time) was a younger Son of Dudley Lord North of Kirtling, was afterwards Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, D. of D, Clerk of the Closet and Preb. of Westminster. He hath published one Sermon, and made a strict review of Plato's select Dialogues De rebus divinis in Greek and Latin, purged many superfluous and cabalistical things thence; (about the fourth part of them) which being done he published them in 1673. He died at Cambridge in the month of April (about the 12 day) an. 1683, being then esteemed a good Grecian.  
July 8. Theoph. Howerth Doct. of Phys. of Cambr.— He was of Magd. Coll. in that University, and, of the Coll. of Phys. at London.  
This year sheldon's Theatre being opened and dedicated for a learned use, was a most splendid Act celebrated therein on the 12 of July; and very many Cambridge men coming to the solemnity, were 84 Masters of Arts of that Uniu. incorporated in a Congregation held in the House of Convocation the next day. The names of some of which follow.  
Will. Saywell Fellow of S. Joh. Coll.— He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Peter Gunning B. of Chichester and afterwards of Ely, was installed Chancellor of the Church of Chichester, 5. Dec. 1672, became Master of Jesus Coll. in the said University, D. of D, and Archdeacon of Ely in the place of Barnab. Oley deceased. He hath written several things, among which are Evangelical and Cath. unity maintained in the Church of England: or an apology for her government, liturgy, subscriptions, etc. with answers to the objections of Mr. Baxter, Dr. Owen and others against conformity. Also the L. Bishop of Ely's (Gunning) Vindication, showing his way of true and christian concord. And a Postscript in answer to Mr. baxter's late objections against myself concerning general Councils, etc. Lond. 1682. oct. The book of Mr. Baxter which he answers, is his Apology for the Nonconformist Ministry, etc. Lond. 1681. qu. and that or Dr. Owen, is An enquiry into the Original of Evangelical Churches, etc. He hath also written The reformation of the Church of England justified, according to the Canons of the Council of Nice, etc. being an answer to a paper reprinted at Oxford, entit. The Schism of the Church of England demonstrated, etc.— Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. etc.  
Samuel Scattergood Fell. of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Vicar of Blockley in Warwickshire, an. 1678, and is author of two or more Sermons.  
Tho. Gale Fell. of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity— In 1672 he became chief Master of S. Paul's School in London, was afterwards D. of D, Prebendary of Paul's, Fellow of the Royal Society, and much celebrated for his admirable knowledge in the Greek tongue, for his great labour and industry in publishing Greek authors as well Mss as printed exemplars, as also certain books of English antiquities. He hath written Philosophia Generalis in duas partes disterminata, etc.  
Joh. Sharp of Christ's Coll.— He was made Archdeacon of Berks in the place of Dr. Peter Mews promoted to the See of B. and Wells, an. 1672, was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage Lord Finch Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Preb. of Norwich, Rector of S. Giles in the Fields near London, Dean of Norwich, (in which Dignity he was installed 8. June 1681 in the place of Herb. Astley deceased) afterwards of Canterbury, upon Dr. Jo. Tillotson's translation thence to that of S. Paul in London, in Sept. 1689, and at length, upon the death of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh, Archbishop of York; to which he was consecrated in the Church of S. Marry le Bow in London, on Sunday the 5. of July 1691. He hath 10 Sermons or more extant.  
Hen. Jenks Fellow of Gonvile and Caies Coll.— He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and author of The Christian Tutor; or a free and rational discourse of the Sovereign good and happiness of man, etc. in a Letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies. Lond. 1683. oct.  
Rob. Wensley of Sidney Coll.— He was afterwards Vicar of Chesthunt in Hertfordshire, Chaplain to James Earl of Salisbury, and author of two or more Sermons, and of The form of sound words: or the Catechism of the Ch. of Engl. proved to be most Apostolical, etc. Lond. 1679. in tw.  
Joh. Newton Fellow of Clare Hall— He hath one or more Sermons extant. See in Joh. Newton among the Writers in this Vol. p. 472.  
Jam. Loud Fell. of Clare Hall— He was afterwards Rector of Esington in Yorkshire, Chaplain to John Earl of Bridgwater and author of one or more Sermons. He hath also translated from French into English A discourse concerning divine dreams mentioned in Scripture: together with the marks and characters by which they might be distinguished from vain elusions. Lond. 1676. oct. Written originally in a Letter by Moses Amyraldus to Monsieur Gaches.  
Thom. Bambridge of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards a Doctor, and author of An answer to a book entit. Reason and authority, or the motives of a late Protestants reconciliation to the Cath. Church: With a brief account of Augustine the Monk and conversion of England. Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2.  
Henry Anderson of Magd. Coll.— He is the same, I suppose, who was afterwards Vicar of King sumburne in Hampshire, and author of three or more Sermons.  
All which Masters, viz. Saywell, Scattergood, Gale, Sharp, Jenks, Wensley, Newton, L●wde, Bambridge and Anderson were incorporated on the 13 of July.  
At the same time were five Bach. of Diu. incorporated, among whom were these.  
Bryan Turner late Fellow of S. Joh. Coll.— He was first Rector of S. Faith's Church under Paul's, where he continued till the great fire in Lond. 1666, and in the year after he succeeded Mr. Will. Twine deceased, in the Rectory of Sculderne near Dedington in Oxfordshire. He hath two Sermons extant, and a small Tract entit. De primi peccati introitu: sive de lapsu Angelorum & Hominum tentamen, quo ratio reddatur amico postulanti. Lond. 1691. qu.  
John Standish Fellow of Peter House— He was afterwards Rector of Conington in Cambridgshire, D. of D, Master of Peter House, Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty K. Ch. 2, and author of five or more Sermons, which show him to be no ordinary Calvinist. He was second Son of David Standish one of the Vicar's Choral of Peterborough, and died in, or near, London about the last day of December an. 1686 aged 51 years or thereabouts.  
At the same time also July 13, were several Doctors of the same Uniu. incorporated, as  
Will. Fairbrether Doct. of the Laws of Qu. Coll.  

Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys. of Jes. Coll.  
Griffith Hatley Doct. of Phys. of Pemb. Hall.  
Clem. Townsend Doct. of Phys. of Cath. Hall.   
Joh. Mapletoft Dr. of Phys. of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Professor of Phys. in Gresham Coll. and Fellow of the Royal Society.  
Henry Paman Doct. of Phys. of S. John's Coll.— He was about this time Orator of Cambridge and Fellow of the Royal Society, afterwards Honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, and Professor of Phys. in Gresham Coll. in London. He hath written Epistola brevicula ad Tho. Sydenham M. D. See in Tho. Sydenh. among the Writers under the year 1689. p. 639.  

Abrah. Allen of Trin. Coll. D. D.  
Anth. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. D. D.   

Malach. Harrys of Eman. Coll. D. D.   
The said Doctor Scattergood, who was Preb. of Linc. and Lichfield and Rector of Winwick and Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire and sometimes Chaplain to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York, was eldest Son of Joh. Scattergood of Ellaston in Staffordshire, was a learned man and hath extant several Sermons and other things. He was living in 1681 aged 70 years or more.  
All which Doctors from Will. Fairbrother to Mal. Harrys were incorporated on the 13. of July.  
Dec. 1. Thom. Waterhouse Doct. of Phys. of Leyden— He was a Londoner born, and had the degree of Dr. of the said fac. conferred on him at Leyd. 1655.  
Dec. 17. Rob. Morison of Vniv. Coll, Dr. of Phys. of Angers in France— This eminent Botanist was born at, and educated in Acad. learning in, Aberdene in Scotland: From which place he was forced to fly after the battle at Brigg of Dee near Aberdene, wherein Middleton the General of the Covenantiers was conqueror. Afterwards going to Paris, he was employed in the education of a young Gent. called Monsieur Bizet the Son of a Counsellor, and addicted his mind then to the study of Medicine; for the obtaining of which faculty he began to learn the art of simpling or knowledge of plants and herbs under one Monsieur Roobin: And in short time making a great progress therein to the wonder of all, he was, upon Roobins' recommendations, taken into the service of the D. of Orleans, with whom he continued till that D. died, and in the year 1648 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys. at Angers. At length upon the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2, an. 1660, he came with him into England, was made his Botanic Professor and Overseer of all his Gardens, and had a garden and a house allowed him, and an ample Salary, but enjoyed it, with his apartment, but for a short time, While he was in that capacity, he was chosen Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at London, and became highly valued and esteemed for his most admirable skill in Botany. At length coming to the knowledge and acquaintance of Mr. Obad. Walker Sen. Fel. Master of Vniv. Coll, he recommended him to the Dean of Ch. Ch. and other leading men of the University, to be chosen Botanic Professor: Whereupon, by the great testimonies and recommendations of his worth, he was elected on the 16 of Dec. and incorporated Doctor on the day. following, an. 1669 as I have before told you. He made his first entrance on the Botanic lecture in the Medicine School, on the 2. of Sept. 1670, and on the 5 of the same month he translated himself to the Physic Garden, where he read in the middle of it (with a table before him) on herbs and plants thrice in a week for 5 week's space, not without a considerable auditory. In the month of May 1673 he read again, and so likewise in the Autumn following: which course, spring and fall, he proposed always to follow, but was diverted several years by prosecuting his large design of publishing the Universal knowledge of Simples. He hath written (1) Praeludiorum Botanicorum pars prior, seu Hortus Regius Blaesensis auctus, etc. Lond. 1669. oct. (2) Praelud. Botan. pars secunda, in qua Hallucinationes Casp. Bauhini, & dialogus cum socio Regalis Societati●. Ibid. eod. an. (3) Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis, ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxon. 1672 fol. A laudable account of this book is in the Philos. Transact. num. 81. (4) Plantarum Historiae Vniversalis Oxoniensis pars secunda. Se● Herbarum distributio nova, per tabulas cognationis & affinit●tis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxon. 1681 fol, adorned with many cuts. The author designed to go forward, with one or more volumes, but being suddenly cut off, the work ceased. However there is now in the press at Oxford a Vol. in fol. in continuance or pursuit of the said last Vol. of Dr. Moryson, written by Jacob Bobart keeper of the Phys. Garden in Oxon, with Annotations thereunto of the Eastern names by Dr. Tho. Hyde chief keeper of the Bodleian Library. After which is done, there will come out another Vol. of Trees by the same hand. This Dr. Morison, who was esteemed the best in the world for his profession, taking a journey from Oxon to Lond. and Westm. in order for the carrying on his great designs of publishing one or more Volumes of Plants, did, when in Westminster, receive ● bruise on his breast by the pole of a Coach, as he was crossing the street between the end of S. Martins-lane and Northumberland house near Charing cross, on the ninth day of Novemb. 1683: whereupon being soon after carried to his house in Green-street in Leycester fields, died the next day to the great reluctancy of all those that were lovers and admirers of his faculty. Afterwards he was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster.   

Creations.  
The Creation's this year were in all the four faculties, occasioned mostly by the dedication of the Theatre, and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde.   

Mast. of Arts.  
On the 9 of July, in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theatre betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn. (at which time it was dedicated to a learned use) were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there.  
George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord (afterwards Earl of) Berkley— He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire, at Segrave I think, and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686, on Matth. 7.12. Lond. 1686. qu. etc.  

Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronet's.  
Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronet's.  
Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronet's.   

Ralph Ashton of Brasn. Coll. Baronet's.  
Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronet's.  
Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronet's.   
Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house, at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law.  

Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronet's.  
Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronet's.   
Sir Rob. Shirley, Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London, was brought into the Lord's house, and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrer of Chartley, 28. Jan. 1677, as I have before told you.  

Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq.  
Jul. 17. George Bruc●.   
These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honoured the degree of Doct. of Law, had they been present. The first was of the ancient family of his name in Cheshire, and was a Burgess, as it seems, to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown. The other was a Scot of an ancient and noble race.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler, Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ormonde, Earl of Oss●ry and Brecknock, Viscount Thorles, Baron of Lanthony, and Arclo, chief Butler of Ireland, Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary, Chanc. of the Uniu. of Dublin, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of his Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland, one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesty's Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household, L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset, Gentleman of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation, in order to his election of Chancellor of this University, which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following. He was paternally descended 
(*) Baronage of England. Tom. 3. p. 1●8.  from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2; whose posterity, afterwards, became Earls of Ormonde; whereof another James, surnamed Boteler, (who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex, Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England, by Elizabeth his Wife, one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3.) was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory, where he performed great things for his cause, and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile. Afterwards, for these his loyal actings and sufferings, he was by his Majesty, after his restauration, made L. Lieutenant of Ireland, and advanced to honours and places in England, as before 'tis told you. At length in the latter end of Nou. 1682 his Majesty K. Changed 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England, by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde. This most noble person, who was a true Son of the Church of England, a zealous adherer to the Royal cause, and a great lover of the regular Clergy, Universities and Scholars, hath going under his name several Declarations, Letters, etc. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland, and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1, as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland. Lond. 1682 in 3 sh. in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an. 1686. p. 598.599. He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire, on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years: whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory, Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory. Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland, and there deported in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors.  
Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day, Jul. 15.— He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde.  

Rob. Spencer Esq.  
Joh. Evelyn Esq.   
The last of these two, who was originally of Ball. Coll, hath written many things of great curiosity, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among Oxford Writers with honour.  
It was then also, (July 15.) granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland, who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts, might be created Doctors of Law, but whether they were so, it appears not.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Nou. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq. sometimes of Brasn. Coll, now (1669) chief controller of his Majesty's excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys.— ab eruditione reconditâ & benevolentia in Academ. propensa nobis charissimus, as it is said in the pub. reg. of the University. He hath written several things, and therefore he is with due respect to be numbered hereafter (as he is partly already) among the Oxford Writers.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Feb. 28. Joh. durel of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed, was then created.  
On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created, it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland, might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div, but whether he was so, it appears not. He was now public Professor of Diu. of the University of Dublin, of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin, was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there, on the 13 of Nou. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death: In both which, the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was interred, may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth. He was originally of the University of Cambridge, and hath written among other things, A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman, leaving the University, concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world. Printed in tw. 1670, etc. The said letter was written to James Lane of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. eldest Son of Geor Visc. Lanesborough.  
Peter Worm a Dane, son of the great Antiquary Olaus Worm, was a Student this year and after in Oxon, where obtaining several accomplishments, became, after his return to his Country, Secretary to the K. of Denmark, etc.  
In the beginning of July, Joh. Rodolph. Westenius and Sebastianus Feschius, both of Basil in Germany, were entered Students in the public library and continued in Oxon about two years. The first was afterwards Professor of the Greek tongue at Basil, and a publisher of several noted books, the other also a publisher of certain curious and critical matters, which are now highly valued by Scholar's o● his Country, etc.    



An. Dom. 1670.  
An. 22 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, etc.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Mews now Dean of Rochester, Sept. 16.  

Proct.  
Alex. Pudsey of Magd Coll. Apr. 13.  
Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. Apr. 13.   

Bach. of Arts.  
June 18. Benj. Hoffman of S. Edm. Hall, afterwards of Ball. Coll.— See among the Master's 1673.  

Oct. 10. Walt. Harrys of New Coll.  
20. Robert Cooper of Pemb. Coll.  
31. Gilbert Budgell of Trinity Coll.   
Of the last of these three you may see more among the Masters an. 1673.  

Jan. 18. Austin Freezer of S. Edm. Hall.  
Feb. 8. Edward Tyson of Magd. Hall.   
Of A. Freezer you may see more among the Masters an. 1879.  
Mar. 4. John Hughes of Ball. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1684.  
W. Harrys, R. Cooper and Edw. Tyson have published several things, and therefore they are to be remembered hereafter.  
Admitted 240. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Six were admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 22. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll.— This ingenious person hath translated from English into Latin a book written by the honourable Rob. boil Esq. entit. The Origine of forms and qualities. See more of him the said Mr. Russell in William Russell among the Writers, p. 150.  
Apr. 22. Rob. Parsons of Vniv. Coll.— He was afterwards Chaplain to Anne the Countess Dowager of H●nry Earl of Rochester, and Curate of Adderbury in Oxfordshire for Dr. B●aw Bishop of Landaff, (who gave him a Preb. in that Church) Rector of Shabington, and at length one of the Vicars of Waddesdon in Bucks, on the death of Joh. Ellis. He hath published A Sermon preached at the funeral of John Earl of Rochester, 9 Aug. 1680. on Luke 15.7. Oxon. 1680 qu. A discourse it is so excellent, that it hath given great and general satisfaction to all good and judicious readers.  

May 11. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll.  
May 11. Tho. Jekyll of Trin. Coll.   
June 8. Will. Pindar of Vniv. Coll.— This person, who was son of Nich. Pindar, was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, bred in Grammar learning there, and for a time was an Apprentice to an Oil-drawer in that Town, as Rich. Thompson (mentioned under the year 1667) was. Afterwards, entering into Holy Orders, he succeeded Joh. Inett in the Rectory of S. Ebbs Church in Oxon: which place he keeping but for a little time, was made Chaplain to Ford Lord Grey of work, in whose service he died. He was a very ready Disputant and a noted preacher, and might, if life had been spared, been very serviceable to the Church of England. He hath published (1) A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at Guildhall Chappel, on Prov. 17.27. Lond. 1677. qu. (2) Sermon of divine providence in the special preservation of government and Kingdoms, on Psalm 127.1.— This Sermon being prophetically delivered a little before his death, concerning some change that would follow, was, upon the discovery of the Popish Plot in the latter end of Sept. 1678, published in the beginning of Nou. following, in qu. with the date at the bottom of the title of 1679. He died 23 Sept. 1678 and was buried, as I have heard, at Gosfield in Essex, where the Lord Grey hath a Seat.  
June 8. Jam. Lane of Ch. Ch.— He was the eldest son of Sir Geor Lane Bt, Visc. Lanesborough in Ireland.  
28. Thomas Crane of Brasn. Coll.— This Divine, who was son of a Father of both his names of Lathom in Lancashire, was afterwards Curate at Winwick in his own Country for Dr. Sherlock, and published Job's assurance of the resurrection, Sermon at Winwick in Lancashire 25. June 1689 at the funeral of Rich. Sherlock D. D. late Rector there, on Job. 19.25.26.27. Lond. 1690. qu. He is now living in Lancashire a Non-juror.  
July 5. Maurice Wheeler of Ch. Ch.— He afterwards had a hand in translating from Greek The second Vol. of Plutarch's Morals. Lond. 1684. oct. That part which he performed bears this title, Of curiosity; or an overbusy inquisitiveness into things impertinent. He is now Master of the College School in Gloucester, and is in a capacity of doing greater matters.  

July 7. Edward Drew of Or. Coll.  
July 7. Tho. Salmon of Trinity Coll.   
The first of these two, who was originally of Exeter Coll. was afterwards Can. resid. of the Church of Exeter and Archdeacon of Cornwall.  

Oct. 20. Joh. grail of Exet. Coll.  
Mar. 1. Joh. Floyr of Queens Coll.   
Adm. 81. or thereabouts.  ☞ But one Bach. of Phys. was admitted this year.  

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 16. Nathan. Alsop of Brasn. Coll.— This Divine, who had been Proctor of the Uniu. was afterwards Rector of Church-Laugton in his native Country of Leycestershire and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester for that County 23. Mar. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu.  
May 11. Joshua Stopford of Brasn. Coll.  
July 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch.  
Adm. 10.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 5. John Mayow of All's. Coll.— He was now and after a professed Physician.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Dec. 17. David Thomas of New Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  

June 25. Thomas Pit●is of Linc. Coll.  
July 2. Giles Hinton of Mert. Coll.  
9 Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll.   
The second was an Accumulator, and the last a Compounder.  
12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Accumulator— His Letters Test. under the hand of Humphrey B. of London, which he brought with him when he was to take his degree, partly run thus— Vir egregiè doctus, multiplici literatura excultus, eoque doctis bonisque plurimi factus est & adamatus, tum ob singularem eruditionem, humanitatem, morumque suavitatem, tum ob vitam inculpatam & pie institutam, in concionando facultatem promptam & exquisitum ingenium— His nominibus apud nos claret, etc.   

Incorporations.  
July 12. Joh. Bonwick Bach. of Diu. of Cambr.— He was of Christ's Coll. in that University.  
Octob. 26. Will. Briggs M. A. of C. C. Coll. in Cambr.— He was afterwards Doct. of Phys, Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, Physician to the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark and author of Opthalmographia, sive oculi ejusque partium descriptio Anatomica. Cui accessit nova visionis Theoria. Camb. 1676 in tw. etc. An account of this book is in the Philos. Transact. nu. 129.147; in which the author hath one or more Discourses.  
Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theatre while the Prince of Orange was entertained with the delights of the Muses there.— He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange.  
Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys. of Leyden and Physician in the Court of the said Prince, was then and there also incorporated.  
Sam. Morris Doct. of Physic of the said University was also then and there incorporated— He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall, an. 1662.  
These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated.   

CREATIONS.  
The Creation's this year were in all the four faculties, occasioned mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose, lately of Magd. Coll.— He was soon after admitted Bach. of Diu. as I have before told you.  
Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. john's Coll, was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theatre, while the Prince of Orange sat in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellor— This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland (by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder) younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale, and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale (for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died, which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews' day 1682) and after the said Charles his death, which happened about the ninth day of May an. 1691, the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale, and is now living in Scotland. After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation.  
Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch, who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University, was next, after Lauder, created.— He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity, and Rector of the University of S. Andrew, afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peter's Church, commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster, 15 of Decemb. 1661., at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfo●d Minister of D●nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow, James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Ga●loway, and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesty's Chapel Royal in Scotland, and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh, to the See of D●mblayne. This most worthy Archbishop Scharp, who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum, pacis Angelus, sapientiae oraculum, gravitatis imago, etc. was most barbarously murdered, for his function sake, near the City of S. Andrew, by a pack of Hellhounds, enemies to God, Man and all kind of Religion, to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world, on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years: whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew, and had soon after put over it a stately monument, with a most noble inscription thereon; the contents of which being now too large for this place, they shall for brevity sake be omitted.  
George Sheild a Scot, Governor to the before mentioned John Lauder.  
Andrew Bruce a Scot of an ancient family— I have made mention of another Andr●w Bruce among the Incorporations, an. 1660.  
Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and of his most honourable Privy Council— The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years, and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London: whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq. was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following. The said Sir Joh. Trev●r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt, who, after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation, as his said Son had done, (for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper) died full of years in the said City, in the Winter time, before the month of Dec. an. 1673.  
Besides the aforesaid persons, were then actually created William Tailor, Joh. Dan, Franc. Anshenhurst, Jam Innys, Clem. Dolby, Joh. Matthew and James Wadding; of all whom I know nothing.  

Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll.  
Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll.   
These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey, and were to have been created, had they not been absent, in the Orangian Creation. I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1689.  
Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt.— He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honoured the degree of Doct. of the Civil, but was then absent.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll.— This Divine, who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks, became Servitor of Wadh. Coll. in 1647, left it without a degree, took holy Orders, but from whom I know not, succeeded his Father in Yattenden, an. 1656, resigned it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an. 1665, at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury, by the death of one Will. Hobbes, and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll, (which is false) he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created, while he was entertained at Oxon. About which time, he, by the endeavours of one Say●r his Majesty's chief Cook, procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire. He hath published, A Sermon preached at Reading, 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks, etc. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers. Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex, which is all that I hitherto know of him.   

Doct. of Law.  
Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard V●ssius, was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law, after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges, as his Father had been before, in 1629; much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury— This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased, 12 May 1673, and dying in his Lodgings in Windsor Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688, was buried there, leaving then behind him the best private library, as it was then supposed, in the whole world. He hath published several books, the titles of some of which you may see in the Bod●eian catalogue. Several also he wrote while he was at Windsor, among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis: Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae, etc. Oxon. 1680. oct.  
Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau, was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theatre— The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the public register, given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants, thus. Comes Cattimelibocii, Viendae, Dietziae, Lingae, Moersiae, Bureniae, Leerdamiaes, & Marchio Verae & F●issingiae, Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae, Vrbis, Graviae & d●tionis Cuychiae, Diestae, Grimbergae, Herstalliae, Cronendonchiae, Warnestonii, Arlaii, Noseretti, Sancti Viti, Daesbergae, Aggeris, Sancti Martini, Geertrudenbergae, utriusque Swaluwe, Naelwici, etc. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae & Vezantionis, Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae, Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques.— This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctor's robes, with a velvet round cap, from the Apodeterium (or Vestry of Convoc.) by the Beadles with their silver staves erected, and chains about their necks, in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law: And when he came near to the grades leading up to the vicechancellors Seat in the Theatre, the said Professor, in an humble posture, presented him with a short speech, the Pr. having his cap on; which being done, the Vicechancellor created him with another, and then descending from his place, he took the Prince by the arm and conducted him up to his chair of state, standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech. at some distance above it. The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will. 3.  
A little before his entrance into the Theatre, the Vicechancellor read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts, Law, Physic and Divinity, which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies, who gave it into those of the Vicechancellor. The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts, one to be Bach. of Divinity, eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law, (whereof one was incorporated) six to be Doctors of Physic and seven to be Doct. of Divinity. After the names were read by the Vicechancellor, and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents, there was a general murmuring among the Masters, not against the Strangers to be created, but some of their own Body. This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation, though not so pleasing to the generality, as might be wished for. After the Prince was seated, these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ. Law.  
Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae, Obdami, Hensbrokii, etc. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major, Gubernator urbium Willemstadii, ●landriaeque, ut & propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio.  
William Albert Earl or Count of Dona, who was now, or at least was lately Ambassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britain— He was here in England in the same quality, an. 1667, as I have told you in p. 543.  
Henry de Nassau, Lord in Ouwerkerk etc.— One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown, and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesty's Horse-Guards.  
Will. de Nassau, Lord in Leersum, in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus, etc.— This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince.  
William Benting or Bentink— After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England, he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse, and in the beginning of Apr. 1689, he was made Baron of Cirencester, Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland.  
John de Buy Lord in Albranswert— His other titles stand thus in the register— Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius, Canonicus Vltrajectensis, Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus & Vice Colonellus.  
James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen, Malden, Oploo and Floresteyn.  
Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse, was, being absent, diplomated.  
Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests.— This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire, succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies, an. 1641, and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages, that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwell's design to have taken Ostend by treachery, in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw: And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra. Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers, p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686, he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave, by reason of his age, to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies, his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father, Brother (to whom he adhered in his exile) and himself, to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq, sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll, into the said office, and to constitute his Grandson (by his Daughter) Joh. Dormer Esq, Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place. On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty conferred the honour of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel, and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal, the mark of his office.  
Sir Walt. Vane Kt.— Of the family of the Vanes of Kent.  
Henr. Cocceius.  
John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq.— He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire, had been educated in Cambridge, and afterwards became Barrister of Greys' Inn, etc.  
Thomas Duppa Esq.— He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and daily waiter to his Majesty; and, upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret, Usher of the Black rod, about the middle of March, 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight.  
Edm. Warcup Esq.— This person, who is a Cadet of an ancient family of his name at English near Henly in Oxfordshire, became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out, afterwards a Traveller; and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army, by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament; and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper, in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex, of which, as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York, he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington. But being soon after restored, upon his submission to the said Count, he became very active in that office, especially against the Priests and Papists, when the Popish Plot was discovered, an. 1678. In 1663. he was created Master of Arts, in 1670, Doct. of the Civ. Law, as 'tis here told you, and on the 15 of Dec. 1684 being then of North More in Oxfordshire, he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall. He hath translated out of the originals An exact survey of the whole Geography and History of Italy, with the adjacent Isles of Sicily, Malta, etc. and whatever is remarkable in Rome. Lond. 1660. fol.  
Edm. Jeffryes.  
Joh. Alleyn Warden of the Coll. or Hospital at Dulwich— He was then, being absent, diplomated.  
Joh. Moor.  
All which Doctors of the Civil Law, from the Prince of Orange to this Joh. Moor, were created on the 20 of Dec; the Prince being then seated in his chair of State.  
Dec. 20. Thom. Hayes was created Dr. of the same faculty, in the said Convocation, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that he had served his Majesty as Chaplain to Sir Thom. Allyn (Vice-Admiral) as well in all the Turkish Wars as before. etc.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Abraham Clifford an English man, Secundarius à secretis to the Prince of Aurange— This person, who was a Presbyterian, hath written— Methodus Evangelica: or the Gospel method of Gods saving sinners by Jesus Christ, practically explained in 12 positions. Lond. 1676. oct. To which is prefixed a preface by Dr. Tho. Manton and Mr. Rich. Baxter. This Dr. Clifford died in the Parish of S. Sepulchre in London, in the beginning of the year 1675.  
Will. Brian one of the Princes Court.  
Richard Morton— This Physician, who was a Minister's Son, was originally of Magd. Hall, afterwards one of the Chaplains of New Coll, took the degrees in Arts, and about the time, that he took that of Master, became Chaplain in the family of Foley of Worcestershire. Afterwards showing himself a Nonconformist when the Act of Uniformity was published, he studied Physic, and after he had the degree of Doctor of that faculty bestowed on him by the Prince of Orange, he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians in London, and at length author of Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de Phthisi tribus libris comprehensae. Totumque opus variis historiis illustratum. Lond. 1689 in a large oct.  
Edm. Grey.  
Edw Crump Esq.  
Theodor. Calladonius Esq.— He, being absent, was diplomated.  
All which Doct. of Phys. were created on the 20. of Dec.  
Feb. 28. In a Convocation then held, James Alban Ghibbes or Gibbes (or Ghibbesius as he writes himself) Poet Laureate to Leopold the Emperor of Germany, was declared Doctor of Physic by virtue of the Chancellors Letters written to the Vicechanc, which partly run thus— Understanding that you have received a present of a gold chain and meddal from Mr. Gibbes Poet Laureate to his Imperial Majesty, I think it will become you to make him some handsome return by sending him a degree of Doctor of Laws or Physic, by a Diploma, or else a letter of thanks, or both, etc. After the letter was read, and the Vicechancellor had proposed the matter to the Convocation, he was declared Doctor of Physic: yet his Diploma was not sealed till the 10. of Aug. 1673. See more among the Creations of that year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Dennis Greenvill of Exet. Coll.— He was afterwards Dean of Durham, and when the Prince of Orange came to the Crown, a Non-juror.  
Joh. Davys.  
Thom. Willis— This person, who was sometimes of S. Joh. Coll, as I have told you among the Creations in 1646, was now Minister of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey and Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty. He hath published The excellency of Wisdom, disclosing itself in the virtues of a good life, recommended to the Natives of Warwickshire, in a Sermon on Prov. 4.7.8.9. preached to them on their anniversary feast day, in Lond. 30. Nou. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. He hath written and published other things, and therefore he may be remembered hereafter among the Oxford Writers. He afterwards resigned Kingston to his Son, and removed to a Living near Buckingham.  
James Bateman— Of him I know nothing.  

Joh. Sculer Philosophy Prof. at Breda. Diplomated.  
Theod. Winkelman Pastor of Osterhuse in the Province of Breda. Diplomated.  
Lew. Herald Pastor of the French Church at London. Diplomated.   
All which Doctors of Divinity were created on the 20 of December.  
Jacobus Gronovius of Deventer or Deventre in the Province of Overissel, Son of the famous Joh. Fred. Gronovius was a Student this year in the University, and after; where being a sedulous Student in the public Library and a great companion of learned men while he continued in Oxon, became afterwards a learned man himself, a Professor of Leyden and author of several excellent books, etc.  
Dethlevus Cluverus also, of Sliswick in Holland, was a close Student there in the same Libr, for two years at least, and after his return to his Country wrote and published Astronomical Tables and Mathematical books, etc.    



An. Dom. 1671.  
An. 23. Car. 3.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Pet. Mews, ult. Aug.  

Proct.  
Joh. Hersent of New Coll. May 3.  
Alan Carr of Alls. Coll. May 3.   
The junior of these Proctors being found uncapable, as to standing in the degree of Master, according to Caroline Cycle or Statutes, the Aularians put in a protestation against his admission, to the Vicechancellor, to be registered, to the end that posterity might know that they were not backward in vindicating their right.  

Bach. of Arts.  
May 6. Joh. Okes of Oriel Coll, afterwards of S. Mary's Hall.— See among the Masters, an. 1673.  
11. Jonathan Kimberley of Pemb. Coll.— See among the Mast. an. 1673.  
18. Matthew Morgan of S. John's Coll.— He hath published several things of Poetry, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxford Writers.  
24. Thom. Stripling of Trin. Coll.— See among the Masters an. 1673.  
June 7. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch.— He hath several Sermons extant, and therefore he is to be numbered among the Writers hereafter.  
Oct. 16. Aaron Baker of Wadh. Coll.— See among the Master's 1674.  
Nou. 9 Joshua Richardson of S. Edm. Hall— This person, who was Son of Joh. Richard's. of Whitchurch in Shropshire Minister, left this University without taking any other degree there, went to London and became Lecturer of S. Marry hill, and preacher of another place there, as also Chaplain to Sir Joh. More L. Mayor of London during his Mayoralty, an. 1681. 82. He hath published A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, at the Guild-hall Chappel, 17 Sept. 1682, on Prov. 14.34. Lond. 1682. qu.  

Jan. 23. Joh. Barrow of S. Edm. Hall.  
Feb. 17. Joh. Bennion of S. Edm. Hall.   
Of these two, you may see among the Masters, an. 1674.  
29. Will. Bolton of S. Joh. Coll.— This person, who was Son of a Father of both his names of Lond. was afterwards one of the Schoolmasters of the Charterhouse there, and author of (1) A Serm. preached at Ch. Ch. Tabernacle on Sunday 9 Sept. 1683, being a day of Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his Maj. sacred Person and Government from the late fanatic conspiracy. Lond. 1684. qu. (2) joseph's entertainment of his Brethren, Sermon at the Herefordshire feast at S. Marry Le Bow 25 Jun. 1684. Lond. 1684. qu.  
Adm. 194. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
June 8. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall.  
Besides him were 8 more admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 12. Sam. B●nson of Ch. Ch.  
Apr. 12. Rich. Peers of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these two was afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford.  

July 5. Henry Maurice of Jesus Coll.  
Nou. 28. Joh. Shirley of Trin. Coll.   
Jan. 18. Rich. Bank of Linc. Coll.— He was the Son of a Father of both his names of Ilkley in Yorkshire, and translated from French into English, A discourse of Women showing their imperfections alphabetically. Lond. 1673. oct.  
Mar. 21. Seth Ward of New Coll.— This person, who was Nephew to Seth Bishop of Salisbury, became Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Henry Banks deceased, in Octob. 1672, and Archdeacon of Wilts in the room of Tho. Henchman deceased, in the beginning of Feb. 1674, being about that time Prebendary of Winchester. In the beginning of Nou. 1681 he was made Chanc. of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Rich. Drake and Can. resid. thereof: whereupon he resigned his Archdeaconry, and was succeeded therein by Rob. Woodward Bach. of Law of New Coll. as also his Prebendship of Winton, which was bestowed on Will. Harrison sometimes M. of A. of Wadh. Coll. and about that time Master of the Hospital of S. Cross. In the latter end of 1686, he being then Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. (as he had been some years before) he was made Treasurer of the Chur. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. James deceased, and dying in the month of May, 1690, was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury near the body of his Uncle, where there is a comely monument over their graves. In his Treasurership succeeded a French man named Pet. Alex D. D. author of several English books pertaining to Divinity.  
Adm. 102.  ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was adm. this year.  

Bach. of Diu.  
Seven Bach. of Divinity were admitted, but not one of them was a Writer or Bishop.   

Doct. of Law.  
June 8. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall— He accumulated.  
July 4. John Harrison of New Coll.   

Bach of Phys.  
July 1. Thom. Alvey of Mert. College— He was afterwards Fellow of the College of Physicians at London, and author of Dissertatiuncula Epistolaris, unde pateat urinae materiam potius è sero sanguinis, quam è sero ad renes transmitti. Lond. 1680 in two sheets and a half in qu.   

Doct. of Diu.  

June 23. Narcissus' Marsh of Exet. Coll.  
28. Thom. Duncombe of Corp. Ch. Coll.   
The last of these two, who went out Compounder, was a Surrey man born, and at this time Rector of Shere in that County. He hath published The great efficacy and necessity of good example, especially in the Clergy; recommended in a Visitation Serm. at Guildford, on 1. Tim. 4.12. Lond. 1671. qu.  
Nou. 28. Henry Bagshaw of Ch. Ch.   

Incorporations.  
June 11. Henry James M. A. of Cambr.— This person, who was Fellow of Qu. Coll. in that University, was about this time domestic Chapl. to Rob. Earl of Aylesbury, afterwards Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty, Master of his College, Vicechancellor of Cambridge 1684, etc. He hath one or more Sermons extant.  
After the conclusion of the Act, were 20 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated, among which were these.  
Jul. 11. Joh. Stripe of Cath. Hall.— This person, who is a Londoner born of Germane Extraction, was afterwards Vicar of Low-Leyton in Essex, and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Hertford, 8 Jul. 1689, on 1 of Sam. 12.7. Lond. 1689. qu. It must be now known that George Bright D. D. Rector of Loughborough in Leicestershire, sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange, and now Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Dr. N. Stratford promoted to the See of Chester, did collect and publish the first vol. of Dr. Joh. Lightfoot's Works, containing all those English Books which had been put out by the said Lightfoot in his life time.— Lond. 1684. fol. At the same time Mr. Stripe collected and published the second vol. of the said Works, several of which having been written in Latin by the Author, were translated into English by Stripe, who also collected from Dr. Lightfoot's Papers several of his Sermons and made them fit for the Press, which are the second part of the second vol: Before which sec. vol. is a Preface written by Mr. Stripe, who also wrote the Appendix to the Life of Dr. Lightfoot written by Dr. Bright; which Append. is larger than the Life itself.  
Drue Cressener of Pembr. Hall.— He was afterwards D. of D. and author of (1) The judgements of God upon the R. Cath. Ch. from its first rigid Laws for Universal Conformity to it, unto its last end, etc. Lond. 1689. qu. (2) A demonstration of the first Principles of the Protestant applications of the Apocalypse; together with the consent of the Ancients concerning the fourth beast in the seventh of Daniel and the beast in the Rev. Lond. 1690. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen.  
Rich. Carr of Christ's Coll.  
Besides the said Masters, were also incorporated the same day (July 11.) two Bachelaurs of Div, of whom Joh. Bradshaw of Eman. Coll. was one, and, as I conceive, an Author. See in the Bodleian Cat.  

Jul. 11. Mich. Geddes M A. of Edinburgh in Scotland.  
Jul. 11. Will. Falconer M A. of Aberdene in Scotland.  
Jul. 11. George Monypenny M A. of S. Andrew in Scotland.  
Jul. 11. Stafford Wallies M A. of S. Andrew in Scotland.   
These were the four first Scotchmen that did partake of the exhibition of Dr. Joh. Warner mentioned among the Writers in this Vol. p. 258. They lived first in Gloc. Hall, and afterwards in Ball. Coll, where their successors do yet remain. Mr. Geddes was afterwards the only Writer of the said four persons, and therefore he, (being now Chanc. of the Church of Salisbury) ought to be remembered hereafter among the Oxford Writers.   

Creations.  
Jun. 7. Joh. Saumers of Pemb. Coll. was created D. of D. by virtue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that Mr. Joh. Saumers Dean of Guernsey is a person that hath done his Maj. and the Church very good and acceptable Service, particularly in his prudent and successful endeavours in bringing the misled Subjects of that Island to be conformable to the Liturgy of the Church of Engl. during the space of 10 years, etc. On the 19 of Apr. going before, he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Joh. Lloyd (sometimes of Alls Coll.) deceased, and was about that time Rector of Hartley Westpoll in Hampshire.  
27. Sam. Jackson. M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Practitioner in Physic for several years in this University and near it, was created Doct. of that faculty by virtue of the King's Letters.— This person, who had been an Officer in the King's Army during the grand Rebellion, died 3 of March 1674, and was buried in the body of S. Mary's Church in Oxon, near that of his Father, sometimes an Apothecary of that City.  
Joh. Henr. Otho of Berne in Switzerland became a Sojournour in the University in the latter end of this year, where improving himself much in Literature by the use of the public Libr. did afterwards write a Talmudical Lexicon, and a book De autoribus Mishnae, that is of the Talm. Text, or of those old Jewish Doctors who wrote the parts of the Mishna, which is the Text of the Talmud, and other things.    



An. Dom. 1672.  
An. 24 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, etc.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Mews made this year Bish. of bath and Wells.  

Proct.  
George Verman of Ex. Coll. Apr. 19  
Tho. Crosthwaite of Qu. Coll. Apr. 19   
Which Proctors were not admitted till the third day of Easter term, because on the first was observed a public Fast for a prosperous War against our Enemies the Dutch, and on the second was preached a Lat. Sermon, and other Preparations made for the beginning of the Term.  

Bach. of Arts.  
May 14. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll.— See among the Masters, an. 1682.  

Jun. 22. Jonath. Trelawny of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 22. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristol and Exeter; the other hath published several books, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Writers.  
Adm. 213.   

Bach. of Law.  
Eight were admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop. Among them Rob. Rigby of Ch. Ch. was one, a person of good rank and a Traveller, as the Chancellor's Letters, written in his behalf, tell us.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Mar. 28. Rich. Lucas of Jesus Coll.   

Jun. 12. Joh. Williams of Jesus Coll.  
Jun. 12. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll.   
The second of these three was afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan.  
19 Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Curate for Dr. George Hooper at Woodhay in Hampshire, and Author of The Antidote: or a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13.1. showing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher Powers: with an account of the divine right or original of Government. Lond. 1684. oct.  
Mar. 22. Joh. Rogers of S. John's Coll.— He was afterwards Chaplain to George Earl of Berkley, and published A Sermon preached before the Corporation of Trinity-House in Deptford Strand at the election of their Master, 30 May 1681, on Jonah 1.6. Lond. 1681. quart.  
Adm. 120.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Two were admitted this year, but neither of them was afterwards a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 1. Henr. Rose of Linc. Coll.— He was about this time Minister of all-hallows Church in Oxon, and afterwards wrote A philosophical Essay for the reunion of the Languages, or the art of knowing all by the Mastery of one. Oxon. 1675, in about 5 sheets in oct. He afterwards went into Ireland, and whether he be there now living, I cannot tell.  
Jul. 10. Moses Pengry of Brasn. Coll.— He was about this time Chaplain to Will. Earl of Devonshire, to whose son Will. Lord Ca●endish he dedicated his Translation into excellent Latin Verse of Sir John Denham's English Poem called Cooper's hill, which Mr. Pengry entitled Cooper's hill latin redditum, etc. Oxon 1676. in 3 sh. 〈…〉 This Mr. Pengry, who was born in the City of Gloucester, was an ingenious man, well read in the Poets and humane Literature: And had not death untimely snatched him away, he might have given us larger Specimens of his curious fancy. He died on the fourth day of Octob. an. 1678, (being then Minister of Gillingham in Kent) and was buried in the Cath. Church of Rochester.  

Jul. 10. Will. Ashton of Brasn. Coll.  
Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll.   
Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. Adm. 8.  
This year, Oct. 22, Anth. Saunders M. A. of Ch. Ch. was created Bach. of Diu. by the Diploma of Gilbert Archb. of Canterbury.— See among the Doct. of Diu. 1677.   

Doct. of Law.  
May 11. Hugh Wynne of All's. Coll.— He was afterwards Chanc. of the dioc. of S. Asaph, and is now a Non-juror.  
14. Hen. Jones of Magd. Coll.— He was now Chanc. of the dioc. of Bristol.  

Jun. 7. Franc. Lennard of Alls. Coll.  
12. Joh. Edisbury of Brasn. Coll.   
The last of these two was chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm. 6 Mar. 1678, and was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 4. Joh. Master of Ch. Ch.— He accumulated the degrees in Physic, and was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 27. Seth Bushel of S. Mary's Hall.  
Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll.  
Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch.  
The two last were Accumulators.   

Incorporations.  
Jun. 22. Edward chamberlain Doctor of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, was then incorporated as he had stood at Cambridge.— This person who was originally of S. Edm. Hall, and M. of A. of this University, hath written several things, among which is Angliae Notitia, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered among the Oxford Writers.  
In the month of July were 15 Masters of Arts of Cambr. incorporated, among which were,  
Nathan. Bacon of Qu. Coll.  
Joh. Gregory of Pemb. Hall.  
The first of which was a Writer, as it seems, for one of both his names hath published several things. The other is the same, I presume, with Joh. Gregory mentioned among the Creations of D. of D. in Franc. Gregory. an. 1661. Besides them was one Bach. of Phys, and two Bach. of Diu. of the same University incorporated also.   

Creations.  
Jul. 17. Thom. skinner of S. John's Coll. in Oxon, was actually created Doct. of Phys. by virtue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University, which say that he was for some time bred in Cambridge, but was forced to leave that University in the times of Usurpation by reason of the illegal Oaths and other impositions offered to him, whereby he was prevented the taking his degree, etc.— This Doctor hath added a third Lat. part to Dr. G. Bate his Elenchus motuum, etc. Lond. 1676. oct. which he calls Motus compositi; afterwards translated into English by another hand, with a Preface to it by a person of quality.— Lond. 1685. oct. See in George Bate among the Writers in this vol. p. 304.  
Mar. 19 Edmund Webbe of Ball. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Diu. by virtue of the Chancellor's Letters, which say that he is Master of Arts, and now Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty— recommended to me by the L. Chief Just. Hale as a person that hath been always truly loyal, and was by reason thereof deprived of the Vicarage of Kings Clear in the usurped times, etc.  
One Hadrian Beverland who entitles himself Dominus Zelandiae, became a Sojourner in Oxon this year for the sake of the public Library. He was afterwards Doctor of the Law, and a Publisher of prohibited, obscene and profane books.  
In the same year, and before, was a Student in Divinity in the said Library, one Andreas Fredericus Forneretus of Lausanna in Switzerland, who wrote and published Dissertatio Theologica de persona & officio Christi mediatorio. Oxon. 1673. qu. dedicated to Peter Bish. of bath and Wells, who was an encourager of his Studies.    



An. Dom. 1673.  
An. 25 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, etc.  
Vicechanc. Ralph Bathurst Doct. of Phys. and Priest, Precedent of Trin. Coll. and Dean of Wells, Oct. 3.  

Proct.  
Abrah. Campion of Trin. Coll. Apr. 9  
Nathaniel Salter of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 9   
The signior of these two Proctors was elected and admitted (while Proctor) Moral Philos. Professor in the place of Mr. Nath. Hodges, 21 Nou. 1673.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 9 Thom. Mannyngham of New Coll.  
10. John Hough of Magdalen Coll.   
The last of these two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon.  
30. Daniel Prat of S. Joh. Coll.— See among the Master's 1677.  
Jun. 28. Joh. Knight of New Inn.— See among the Masters in 1675.  
Jul. 9 Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll.— See also among the Masters in 1676.  
Jan. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn, sometimes of Wadh. Coll.  
Mar. 23. Pet. Birch of Ch. Ch.— See among the Doctors of Diu. 1688.  
As for Mannyngham and Howell they have written and published several things, and therefore they are to be remembered hereafter among the Writers.  
Adm. 211.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul. 9 Joh. Jones of Jes. Coll.  
Besides him were 9 more admitted, of whom Charles Hales of Vniv. Coll. was one, son of Sir Edw. Hales of Kent.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 9 Tho. Cradock of Magd. Coll.— He was elected Orator of the University on the resignation of Dr. Rob. South, 10 of Nou. 1677, and dying 22 of March 1678, Will. Wyatt of Ch. Ch. was elected into his place 26 March 1679. This I set down to carry on the Succession of Orators from Dr. South, who is the last Orator mentioned in the printed Cat. of them in the 2 book of Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon.  

May 31. Rob. Cooper of Pemb. Coll.  
Jul. 1. Benj. Hoffman of Ball. Coll.   
The last of these two, who was son of John Hoffman a German, Rector of Wotton near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, was afterwards Lecturer of S. George's Church in Botolph lane London, and at length, by the favour of Nottingham L. Chanc. of Engl, he became Rector of a Church in Sussex. He hath published Some considerations of present use; wherein is shown that the strong aught to bear with the weak, and the weak not clamour against or censure the strong, etc. Delivered in a Sermon at S. George Botolph lane, on Rom. 15.5.6.7. Lond. 1683. qu.  
Jul. 9 Rich. Forster of Brasn. Coll.— This Divine, who was son of Clem. Forster of the City of Chester, was afterwards Rector of Beckley in Sussex, and author of Prerogative and Privilege, represented in a Sermon in the Cath. Church of Rochester in Kent, 18 March 1683, at the Assizes holden there, etc. on Prov. 17.26. Lond. 1684. qu; preached and published at the request of Archibald Clinkard Esq. in the third year of his Shrievalty of Kent.  
Oct. 15. Joh. Clerk of All's. Coll.— This Gent, who was son of Sir Franc. Clerk of Rochester, and had been Proctor of the Uniu. was afterwards Rector of Vlcomb and Haristsham in Kent, and Author of A Sermon preached in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester, on the 29 of May 1684, on 1 Cor. 10.10. Lond. 1684. qu. He died about 3 years after.  

Nou. 4. Edw. Tyson of Magd. Hall.  
Nou. 4. Gilb. Budgell of Trin. Coll.   
The last of these two was afterwards Rector of Simondsbury in Dorsetshire, and Author of A Discourse of Prayer, Sermon at S. Clem. Danes, Lond. 28 July 1689, on Jam. 4.3. Lond. 1690. qu.  
Jan. 29. Jonathan Kimberley of Pemb. Coll.— He was in the year following Junior of the Act, and soon after a famed Preacher in the University, which carried him to the Vicarage of Trinity Church in the City of Coventry. He hath published Of Obedience for conscience sake, Sermon preached at the Assizes held at Warwick 7 Aug. 1633, on Rom. 13.5. Lond 1683. qu.  
Feb. 19 Tho. Stripling of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards one of the Chaplains of New Coll. and author of A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on S. Andrews day. Lond. 1681. qu. He died on the 6 of Mar. 1678, aged 27 years, and was buried near the north end of the west Cloister of that Coll.  
Feb. 26. Joh. Okes of S. Mary's Hall.— He was before of Oriel Coll, and after this time became Vicar of Shinfield in Berks and Author of An Assize Sermon at Reading, on Mark 12.19. Lond. 1681. qu.  
Adm. 117.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Jul. 9 Rob. Field of Trin. Coll. a Comp.  
Jul. 9 George Hooper of Ch. Ch.   
Of the first of these two you may see among the D. of D. following.  
Mar. 23. Joh. March of S. Edm. Hall.  
Adm. 5.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 19 Rob. Holte of Allsoules, sometimes of Brasnose, Coll.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 11. Joh. Luffe of S. Mary's Hall, sometimes of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards the King's Professor of Physic of this Uniu.  
On the 3 of Oct. were the Chancellors Letters read in Convocation in behalf of Joh. Harford M. A. of S. john's Coll, that he might accumulate the degrees in Physic, but whether he did so, it appears not.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 15. Thom. Tomkins of Alls. Coll. a Comp.  
Jul. 8. Rob. Frampton of Ch. Ch. Dean of Gloc.  

9 Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. Compounders.  
9 Rob. Field of Trin. Coll. Compounders.   
The first of these two was now Warden of the Coll. at Manchester, and soon after Dean of S. Asaph; and at length B. of Chester. The other was Subdean of York, to which he had been collated on the 3 of Sept. 1670, on the death of Dr. Anth. Elcocke. and on the 27 of Apr. 1675 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clieuland, on the death of Joh. Neile D. D. who was also Dean of Rippon and Preb. of York. He died on the 9 of Sept. 1680, aged 42 years, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of York, in that Chap. wherein his Patron and Benefactor Dr. Rich. Stern Archb. of that place, was afterwards buried. In his Subdeanery succeeded George Tully M. A. of Qu. Coll. in this University, and in his Archdeaconry Joh. Lake D. D. of Cambridge, afterwards B. of the isse of Man, etc.  
Jan. 23. Will. Assht●n of Brasn. Coll— He had 9 Terms granted to him by virtue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the Uniu. to whom he was Chaplain.   

Incorporations.  
From the 5 of May to the 26 of Feb. was one Bach. of Laws and 19 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated. The Bach. of Laws was,  
Jul. 14. George Oxinden of Trin. Hall in the said Uniu.— He was afterwards Doct. of his Faculty, Dean of the Arches, Vicar-General to the Archb. of Canterbury, and Chanc. to the Bishop of London. Among the Masters that were incorporated were these following.  
May 5. Matthew Smallwood of Qu. Coll, signior Proctor of the Uniu. of Cambridge.  
Jul. 15. Nathan Resbury of Eman. Coll.— He was afterwards Minister of Wandsworth and Putney in Surrey, Chaplain to Arthur Earl of Anglesey, and after his death to James his son, and at length Chapl. in ord. to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Marry, etc. He hath published 4 or more Sermons, and two little things against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2.  
Jul. 15. Rich. Pearson of Eman. Coll.— He was afterwards Rector of S. Michael's Crooked-lane in Lond. and author of three or more Sermons.  
Steph. Vpman of Kings Coll, was incorporated the same day.— He was afterwards Secretary to Rob. Earl of Aylesbury, Fellow of Eton Coll. an. 1677, Preb. of Westminster, etc.  
Joh. Moor of Catherine Hall, was incorporated also the same day.— He was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage E. of Nottingham Lord Chanc. of England, D. D, Minister of S. Ann's Church built in, and taken from, the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near Lond, afterwards Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holborn, and Chapl. in ord. to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Q. Mary. He hath 4 or more Sermons extant, and perhaps other things. Quaere. On the 5 of Jul. 1691 he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich in the Church of S. Marry le Bow in Lond, (with otherbishops) in the place of Dr. Will. Lloyd deprived for not taking the Oaths to King Will. 3. and Qu. Mary.  
Besides the said Masters, were two Bach. of Diu. of the said Uniu. of Cambr. incorporated, of which one was,  
Richard Richardson of Eman. Coll, Jul. 15.— I have made mention of him and his Translation of A Treatise of Bees, which he intit. Caroli Butleri foeminia Monarchia, sive Apum Historia, etc. in Ch. Butler among the Writers of this vol. p. 51. The other Bach. of Diu. who was incorp. was John Balderston of the said Coll. of Eman.  
There were also two Doctors of the Laws of the said Uniu. incorporated, viz.  
May 5. Ionas Docwra of Christ's Coll, and  
July 15. Rob. Thompson of Trin. Hall.— This last, who was, if I mistake not, Secretary to the Archb. of Canterb, wrote and published— Sponsa nondum uxor: Or, the marriage between the Lady Kath. Fitz-Gerald and Edw. Villiers Esq; asserted. Being an answer to Dr. Dudl. Loftus his book intit. ΔΙΓΑΜΙΑΣ ΑΔΙΚΙΑ, etc. Lond. 1678. in 5 sh. and half in qu.  
July 15. Henr. Atherton Doct. of Phys. of Cambridge.— He was of Christ's Coll. in that Uniu. and afterwards Author of The christian Physician. Lond. 1683. oct. and perhaps of other books. Qu.  
July 15. James Arderne D. D. of Cambr.— This person, who was a Cheshire man born, was educated in Christ's Coll. in that University, and this year 1673 and in the year after, he was Fellow Commoner of Brasn. Coll, partly for the sake of the public Library, and partly for the conversation of the Divines and others in this University. He was also about that time Minister of S. Botolph Aldgate in Lond, afterwards Chapl. in ord. to his Maj. K. Ch. 2, who bestowing on him the Deanery of Chester upon the death of Dr. Hen. Bridgman B. of the Isle of Man, (who had kept it in commendam with his Bishopric) was installed therein in July 1682. He hath written (1) Directions concerning matter and stile of Sermons. Printed 1671. in tw. (2) Conjectura circa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 D. Clementis Romani. Cui subjiciuntur castigationes in Epiphantum & Petavium de Eucharistia, de Coelibatu Clericorum & de orationibus pro vitâ functis. Lond. 1683. in 4 sh. in qu. In the title of this book he writes himself Jacobus de Ardenna. He hath also published two or more Sermons, as The true Christians character and crown, etc. on Rev. 1.10. Lond. 1671. qu. As also A Sermon at the Visitation of John Bishop of Chester, at Chester, on 2 Tim. 4. ver. 5. latter part. Lond. 1677. qu. etc. At length, after this Doctor had run with the humour of K. Jam. 2, and therefore did suffer several Indignities and Affronts from the Vulgar of and near Chester, when that King withdrew himself into France in Decemb. 1688, he gave way to fate on the 18 of Sept. 1691; whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of Chester on the 22 of the said month. By his Will he bequeathed his books, and chief part of his estate to provide and maintain a public Library in the Cath. Church of Chester for the use of the City and Clergy.   

Creations.  
Aug. 10. James Alban Ghibbes or Gibbes, or as he writes himself in his books Ghibbesius, Poet Laureate to the Emperor, was diplomated Doct. of Physic.— This most celebrated Poet, who was too well known in Rome, had to his Father Will. Gibbes a Native of the City of Bristol, sometimes educated in Brasn. Coll, and afterwards taking to wife a zealous Catholic named Mary Stoner of the Family of Stoner near Watlington in Oxfordsh, was, by her endeavours, as I have heard, drawn over to her Religion. Soon after they settled in London, but finding not that quiet enjoyment relating to their opinion, which they expected, they went to the City of Rouen in Normandy, where this our Poet Laureate was born, an. 1616 or thereabouts, and had the Christian name, at the Font, given him of James Alban, in memory of the great Protomartyr of Engl. S. Alban. Thence, at 9 years of age, he was conveyed into Engl, and spent some time in trivial Literature there, his Father being then Physician to Hen. Maria Queen of Engl. Afterwards he was sent to the English Coll. at S. Omer, where he spent some years, with great advantage, in Academical Learning: And after he had laid a good Foundation there, he traveled thro' several parts of the Low Countries, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc. and spent some time at Milan under the famous Anatomist Joh. Veslingius. In the latter end of 1644 he settled in Rome, in which year Pope Vrban 8. died, and was there received, especially among the English, with great humanity. Soon after, upon the discovery of the worth of the person, he was entertained by Franc. Atestinus Duke of Modena, to be Tutor to Almeric his son; with whom continuing about two years, (in which time he was mostly at Modena) he was taken into the Patronage and Family of Bernardin Cardinal Spada Bishop of Fraschatie, called by some Tusculan, with whom living in the quality of Physician till that Cardinal died, he was taken into the Protection of Prince Justinian, in whose Palace he continued till the time of that Prince's death. In 1657 Pope Alexander 7, an encourager of all good Arts, advanced him to the Lecturership of Rhetoric, in the School called Sapienza at Rome, in the place of Hen. Chifillius (a person of great name and learning) deceased; Which being worth about 60 l. per an. was a great help to his poetical Muse. About that time he had also a Canonry of S. Celsus bestowed upon him by the said Pope, who having published a book of Verses, our Poet Ghibbesius had a copy commendatory set before them. In the year 1667 Leopold the Emperor of Germany, did, by his Diploma dat. 2 of May, constitute and create him his Poet Laureate, and at the same time gave him a gold Chain with a Medal hanging thereunto, to be always worn by him, especially at public and solemn times and in public places. Which great honour being made known to Pope Clement 9, he was admitted into his presence, kissed his Foot, and was congratulated by him. In 1668 he published his Carminum pars Lyrica ad exemplum Q. Horatij Flacci quamproxime concinnata, printed at Rome in 4 books in oct. They are dedicated to the said Pope Clement 9, and have before them the Author's picture, (showing him to be a handsome person, as indeed he was) which is supported by the Roman Eagle, with a Laurel in its beak hanging over the Author's head, and under it two verses, made by the famous Athanas. Kircherus (who well knew the vain humour of the Poet) running thus: 
Tot pro Ghibbesio certabunt regna, quot urbes  
Civem Moeoniden asseruêre suum.  At the end of the said four books, is one of Epods dedicated to his dear Mother the English Coll. at S. Omer, and at the end of that is Symphonia Clarorum Virorum ad Ghibbesii Lyram, wherein his humour, which was much addicted to Flattery and inane Applause, is exactly hit by the Pens of Cardinal Spada, Thom. Farnabie of England, (mentioned among the Writers, p. 53.) Joseph Maria Suares Bishop of Vaison in France, Leo Allatius the famous Jesuit, Claudius Grattus, Thomas the son of Casper Bartolin, Joh, Veslingius a Physician of Milan, Franc. Angelus Cardinal of Rapacciol, etc. In the year 1670 he being minded to make a present of his gold Chain and Medal to the famous University of Oxon, he wrote a Letter to Dr. Pet. Mews the Vicechancellor thereof, dated at Rome 5 of Apr. the same year, which verbatim runs thus.  
‛ Right rev. Sir,  
Having received sundry literary honours from Princes abroad in the space of these last 30 years of my being out of England, but especially from his sacred Imperial Majesty a glorious Diploma, characterizing me his Poet Laureate, sent me to Rome with a rich Chain and Medal of gold, I have thought to make a solemn consecration of this Cesarean present to the altar of memory and posterity, in the worthiest Temple I could in any place think upon. In this resolution I was not long to make a choice, where the headstone of gratitude like the Chrysomagenes Naturalists speak of, draw to itself, and fix my Golden Fleece. In Brittain's Athena●●m than, Oxford, that general Mart of Sciences, as in a Treasury or Cabinet of Fame, I desire to deposit with an eternal do, dico, dedico, this dear pledge with all my hopes of future renown. What I said of gratitude I would have understood doubly, for my fathers concern of good memory, and mine own particular interest. He having received, being a Student, his virtuous education in Brasennose College, and transfused part of it into me, it would seem an act of omission unpardonable, did I not profess openly, and correspond in some measure to the great obligations I owe in both our names to such an Alma Mater, that famous University, from whose abundant streams I had the good fortune to draw some milk. I have been of late in a strange anxiety how to bring my purpose happily to effect. I consulted finally with some Gentlemen, Oxford Scholars, that now are in this City, who unanimously speak your worth and great learning, congratulating with me the good luck I have now to send the present, in your time of Vicechancellor, under whose conduct the matter might find its wished issue. Wherefore, most rev. Doctor, be pleased to think upon a way to inform us particularly, how I am to consign and convey a Donative I so much esteem. I hear there is a fair large Gallery, wherein are kept rarities of Antiquity, Medals and things of that nature. I shall be ambitious of a corner among them.— Mr. Scamen 
(*) Joh. Seawen (as it seems) M. A. of Ch. Ch.  my Lord of Northumberland's Secretary hath been pleased to take upon him the conveyance of these lines, who will likewise accompany them with his Letter to you. When you shall honour me with an Answer, I shall send jointly my book of Lyrics newly printed here, and make an oblation of it to the Library. Now I begin henceforth to wait your commands, accordingly to govern myself, which I doubt not with your best convenience shortly to receive. In the mean while with low veneration due unto your grand deserts, I kiss your hands, as most reverend and learned Sir, Your, etc.  
This Letter being received by the Vicechanc. a return of thanks for the present time was made soon after, with direction how to send his present. Afterwards the gold Chain, Medal, Diploma (whereby he was created Poet Laureate) were conveyed by the hands of the Steward belonging to Josselin Earl of Northumberland, (I mean that Earl who died in his Travels at Turin in Savoy, in May an. 1670) who, when he came to London, sending them to Dr. H. Compton Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, he thereupon presented them to the Vicechancellor: At which time the most noble James D. of Ormonde Chanc. of the University, having received an account of this generous gift, he thereupon sent his Letters to the Vicechancellor to make some handsome return for it. Whereupon a Convocation being called, he was declared by a Diploma Doctor of Physic, in the latter end of Febr. 1670. See more among the Creations in these Fasti under that year. But so it was, that the Poet having received little or no notice, especially by writing, how, and with what honour his gift was received, which did much perplex him, (for though the Diploma then passed, yet it was not sealed, much less sent to Rome) he thereupon wrote a Letter to the said Dr. Compton to know the full proceeding of the matter, and what he was to trust to: Whereupon that worthy person, did by his Letter dated 17 Sept. 1672 tell him that The whole University in Convocation, nemine contradicente, in answer to your noble Present, but more to your worth, did vote a Diploma under the University Seal to confer the degree of Doctor of this place upon you, and there is order taken that the best Poets we have, shall endeavour to show how much right they would do you, had they your pen. These things with the vicechancellors Letter of thanks to you, have been all (except the Verses which were lately finished) about these six months ready to send you* We expect daily from London to have some Ships, etc.  
But notwithstanding all this, the Letter, and Diploma for his Creation of Doct. of Phys. being very slow in coming, he wrote another Letter to the truly noble and generous Ralph Sheldon of Beoley Esq. (with whom he had been well acquainted when at Rome, and had received of his benevolence) dat. 12 of Aug. 1673, which partly runs thus— Be pleased to consider what perplexity I am now in, attending this glory from that famous University of Oxford. For now I am setting out a new book, the second part of my Verses, which I dedicate to the Emperor: and had I that Diploma and Verses promised me, I would insert them conveniently in the Cesarean volume, to be seen and read by the Emperor's Majesty, as I have put his Diploma in my book of Lyrics, which I hope makes you sometimes 
(†) He presented a copy of the said Lyrics to Mr. Sheldon when he was at Rome, an. 1669.  think of your humbly obliged Servant. The title of the book is to be this, Carminum Jacobi Albani Ghibbesii Poet. Laur. Caes. altera pars: exhibens, post Lyram Horatii jam vulgatam, cothurnum & Soccum aliorum Poetarum in utraque lingua. When this book is printed with all my honours, then will I send it away with my Lyrics to the University, and accompany it with my picture in a frame, by the hand of the late great Master Pietro di Cortono for a perpetual monument of my observance to the place.— You see now, Sir, in what a posture I stand, ready to fall, unless you'll vouchsafe me with your propping hand, as you have already lent it me with all benignity before, etc. I have had lately another thwart from my Lady Fortune that doth not a little trouble me. I have made an heroic Poem of some 1000 Verses for an Epithalamium upon his Royal Highness James Duke of York, his Marriage with the Duchess of Inspruck, with a large Comment, and you see what it is come to. I will print it for all that, and dedicate it to an eminent person. Mean time be pleased to receive this enclosed Epigram I last made upon the valiant James D. of Monmouth under Mastricht, etc.  
But by that time Mr. Sheldon had received the said Letter, the Poet received his Diploma and verses, which, as I conceive, were printed with his Altera pars Carminum, etc. In the Diploma he is styled Natione noster, magnum plane Britanniarum suarum & ornamentum & desiderium, Europaeiorum Principum deliciae, etc. He hath written besides those things before mentioned, these following in prose (1) Orationes & praefationes, etc. (2) Epistolarum selectarum tres centuriae. (3) De Medico libri 3, in imitation of Cicero de Oratore, etc. (4) Pinacocheca Spadia, sive Pontificum Romanorum series; besides Miscellanies and other things, as I have been informed by those that knew the author well, who have farther told me that he was as esurient after fame as Tom. Coryate, was a very conceited man, a most compact body of vanity, so great a lover of flatteries (though he himself flattered none) that he took all whatsoever was said of him to be real, and a great lover of those that sought after, or courted, him; to which I may add that he was the greatest Mimic of his time, which made therefore his company acceptable among many. He was buried in the Pantheon at Rome, now called S. Maria Rotundo, and by some Allsaints, and soon after was his Bust or Effigies or proportion to the middle, set over his grave, with this inscription following. D. O. M. Jacobus Albanus Ghibbesius Doctor Oxoniensis, Mirum! & unà Catholicus Poeta Laureatus Caesareus pontificius eloquentiae professor emeritus. Anglus origine, natione Gallus, in Vrbe omnium Patria mori, in omnium Sanctorum aede condi voluit, expectans cum eis non tam memoriae quam vitae perennitatem. Obiit sexto Cal. Julii An. Dom. MDCLXXVII, aetatis suae LXVI. Benedictus Ghibbesius Haeres moestissimus posuit.  
Marmora nil signant, monstrat minus oris imago,  
Extinctum Latiâ vivere cerne Lyrâ.  
In the month of June this year came to the University of Oxon from London an Irish man called Anthony Egan a Franciscan Friar, and in the beginning of July following he was entered a Student in the public Library— This person had lately left the R. Catholic Religion wherein he had been educated and professed, and under pretence of suffering for what he had done relating thereunto, came to the University more for the sake of relief than study. And after he had continued there about 4 months, in which time he obtained the charity of 60 l. or more from several Colleges and private persons, he went to Cambridge thinking to obtain there the like sum, and when that was done, to return, as 'twas commonly then reported, to his former religion. Among several things that he hath published are these (1) The Franciscan convert, or a recantation Sermon at S. Maudlin's in Old Fish-street Lond. 6. Apr. 1673, on Luke 22.32. Lond. 1673. qu. In the title of this Sermon he writes himself Confessor general of the Kingdom of Ireland and Guardian of the Friory of Monasterioris in the Province of Lemster, and Chaplain to several persons of quality of the Popish Religion there. To which Sermon is added A narrative of the behaviour and speeches of the Papists in Ireland since his Majesty's declaration of indulgence, etc. (2) The book of rates, now used in the sin customhouse of the Church and Court of Rome; containing the Bulls, Dispensations and Pardons for all manner of villainies and wickednesses, etc. Lond. 1675. etc. qu. In the title of this book he styles himself Bach. of Diu. (3) The Romanists designs detected, and the Jesuits subtle practices discovered and laid open, etc. Lond. 1675. qu.    



An. Dom. 1674.  
An. 26. Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, etc. but he being about to go into Ireland about weighty affairs, he did by his Instrument dated 18 of May declare these persons following to manage and execute in his absence the powers and jurisdiction belonging to him in the University, viz. Ralph Bathurst Dr. of Phys. Vicechanc, Joh. Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch, Tho. Yate D. D. Princ. of Brasn. Coll, Thom. James D. D. Warden of Alls. Coll. and Rich. Allestree D. D. Can. of Ch. Ch.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Bathurst, nominated by the delegated power of the Chancellor, confirmed by Convocation 7. Octob.  

Proct.  
Will. Frampton of Pemb. Coll. Apr. 29.  
Tho. Huxley of Jesus Coll. Apr. 29.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 4. Will. Guise of Alls, lately of Oriel, Coll.  
6. James Parkinson of Gloc. Hall, lately of Corp. Ch. afterwards of Hart Hall, and at length Fellow of Linc. Coll.  

May 30. Joh. Oldham of S. Edm. Hall.  
June 2. Thom. Baker of Magd. Hall.   
The first of these two who was the celebrated Poet of his time, I have mentioned among the Writers; the other, who was afterwards of Alls. Coll. I shall mention among the Masters, an. 1677.  
25. Joh. Kettlewell of S. Edm. Hall, afterwards of Linc. Coll.  

Nou. 3. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 3. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall.   
Of these two, you may see more among the Masters, 1677.  
Jan. 19 Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall.  

Feb. 6. George Tully of Qu. Coll.  
13. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll.   
Mar. 1. George Royse of S. Edm. Hall, afterwards of Oriel Coll.  
These three last Bachelaurs, with J. Parkinson J. Kettlewell, etc. having since published several things, ought therefore to be remembered at large hereafter.  
Adm. 244. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Six were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 7. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch.  
May 16. Joh. Barrow of S. Edm. Hall.— He was admitted Master two terms sooner than he ought to have been, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, because he was to go Chaplain to Sir Will. Temple of Shene in Surrey Bt, his Maj. Ambassador to Holland. After his return he became Lecturer of S. Mich. Cornhill in Lond. and Curate to Dr. George Hooper at Lambeth during the said Dottors attendance on Mary Princess of Orange in Holland. Afterwards he became Vicar of New Windsor in Berks, and on the 26. of Aug. 1682 he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Joh. Butler deceased. He hath published A Sermon preached at the triennial Visitation of Seth L. Bish. of Sarum held at Reading 6. Sept. 1683, on Philip, 1.15.16.17.18. Lond. 1683 qu. This person, who was a Northamptonshire man born, was esteemed, while he continued in the University, a man of polite parts, a good Poet and Orator. He died in 1684 or thereabouts.  
June 26. Aaron Baker of Wadh. Coll.— He was afterwards a Preacher at, or near, Putney in Surrey, and at length beneficed in his own Country of Devonshire. He hath published Achitophel befooled, Sermon preached 5. Nou. 1678 at S. Sepulchers in Lond. on 2. Sam. 15.31. Lond. 1678-79. qu.  

July 4. Francis Lloyd of Oriel Coll.  
9 Matthew Morgan of S. Joh. Coll.   
The first of these two was afterwards Archdeacon of Merioneth.  
July 9 Jonath. Blagrave of Magd. Hall— He was afterwards Sub-Almoner to Qu. Marry, Preb. of Worcester, etc.  
Oct. 24. Joh. Bennion of Hart, lately of S. Edmund's, Hall— He was afterwards Vicar of Malmsbury in Wilts. and author of Moses' charge to Israel's Judges, opened in an Assize Sermon at Salisbury 27. Feb. 1680, on Deut. 1.16. and part of the 17 verse, Oxon. 1681. qu.  
Adm. 129.   

Bach. of Phys.  
June 27. Joh. Floyer of Qu. Coll.  
Feb. 6. Joh. Lock of Ch. Ch. Adm. 5.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 9 Obad. How of Magd. Hall.  
Oct. 13. Matthew Hole of Exet. Coll.— This Divine, who is now Vicar of Stogursey in Somersetshire, hath two Sermons extant viz. (1) Our Saviour's passion, in a Serm. on Good Friday 1. Apr. 1670 in S. Peter Cath. Ch. Exon, on Acts 2.23. Lond. 1670. qu. (2) Sermon preached at Taunton on the Feast of Epiphany before the Forces of the Militia of the County of Somerset, met there for the preservation of the peace of the town, on Luke 2.17. Lond. 1689. qu.  
Oct. 29. Thom. Smith of Magd. Coll.  

Nou. 3. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch.   

11 William Jane of Ch. Ch.  
11 Joh. Morton of Linc. Coll.   
The last, who was afterwards Preb. of Durham, was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland on the death of Dr. William Turner sometimes of Trin. Coll, on the 5 of Octob. 1685. The degree of Doct. of Diu. was granted to him on the 6. of Apr. 1692.  
Mar. 24. Nathan. Sterry of Mert. Coll.— In the month of Sept. going before, he was made Dean and Rector of Bocking in Essex.  
Adm. 19   

Doct. of Law.  
May 30. Thom. Tailor of Magd. Hall.   

Doct. of Phys.  

June 25. Joh. Jacobeus a Dane Accumulators.  
July 4. Franc. Eedes of Ch. Ch. Accumulators.   
The first of these two had spent 14 years in study in several Universities, and more than the last five in Oxon, where he wholly addicted himself to the study of Physic. He did not stand in the Act to complete his degree, neither was he licenced to practise his faculty, though sometimes he did it privately in these parts: whereupon he returned to his Country of Denmark and practised there. etc.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Apr. 6. Thomas Ryves of New Coll.  
June 4. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll.   
17. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. a Compounder.— In the month of Feb. 1675 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. upon the translation of Dr. Henry Compton from the See of Oxon to that of London; who while he was B. of Oxon, held his Canonry in Commendam with it.  
17. Timothy Halton of Queens Coll. a Comp. Archdeacon of Brecknock and Canon of S. David— In 1675 he became Archdeacon of Oxford, on the promotion of Dr. Thom. Barlow to the See of Linc, and on the 7 of Apr. 1677 he was elected Provost of Queens Coll; which place Dr. Barlow had kept in Commendam with his Bishopric two years.  
July 9 Obad. How of Magd. Hall— He accumulated the degrees ●n Diu.   

Incorporations.  
From the 5. of May to the 14. of July, were 12 Cambridge Masters of Arts incorporated, whereof 9 of them were received into the bosom of this University on the said 14. of July, being the next day after Act Monday, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.  
July 18. Michael Ward Doct. of Diu. of Dublin and Cambridge, was incorp. in the said degree, with liberty given him to suffragate in Congreg. and Convoc.— He was afterwards Provost of Trinity Coll. near to, and the King's Professor of the Uniu. of, Dublin, afterwards B. of Ossory, and at length of London-Derry, in which last he was succeeded by Ezek. Hopkins, an. 1681.   

CREATIONS.  
In the month of June, the Sweedish Ambassador with other Foreigners, accompanied by some English men, coming to the University were Creations made in the two faculties of Arts and Civil Law.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 27. David Macklier Captain of a prefectorian company belonging to the King of Sweedland.  
Sam. Monsson Agriconius, Secretary to the extraordinary Embassy from the K. of Sweedland, was created the same day.  
Christianus Fredericus, Secretary to the Ambassador or Envoy extraord. from the Elector of Brandeburg was also created at the same time.   

Doct. of Law.  
June 27. The most illustrious and excellent Lord Peter Sparre free Baron in Croneberge, Lord of Nynas, Peuteberg and Tulgarne, General of the Army of Foot belonging to the King of Sweedland, Governor of Elfborglhen and Daal, and extraordinary Ambassador to the King of Gr. Britain from the said King of Sweedland, was with solemnity actually created Doct. of the Civil Law.  
The illustrious Lord Otto free Baron of Schwerin, Counsellor of the State of the Elector of Brandeburg, as also of the Hall and Judicial Chamber, Chamberlain and Chieftain of the Province or County of Ruppin, Knight of the order of Johamites and Envoy extraordinary to the King of Gr. Britain from the said Elector of Brandeburg, was created the same day.  
Sir Joseph Williamson Kt, Mast. of Arts and Fellow of Qu. Coll.— This person, who was a Minister's Son of the County of Cumberland, had been Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas, and afterwards under Hen. Earl of Arlington while they were Principal Secretaries of State, and on the 24 Jan. 1671 he was sworn one of the Clerks of the Council in Ordinary and Knighted. About that time he was Clerk of the papers, or Keeper of the Paper Office at Whitehall and a Recruiter for Thetford in Norfolk to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm. 8. May 1661. Afterwards he was sent twice in the quality of a Plenipotentiary, once to Holland, and another time to Colen in Germany and after his return, he was sworn Principal Secretary of State (upon the promotion of Henry Earl of Arlington to be Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household) and a Privy Counsellor, on the eleventh of Sept. 1674. Both which offices he keeping till Feb. 1678, did, on the 9 of the same month, resign the seals of his Secretaryship into the hands of his Majesty, who forthwith giving them to Rob. Earl of Sunderland, he was sworn the next day Secretary and Privy Counsellor. This Sir Jos. Williamson (who was then Precedent of the Royal Society) hath been a great Benefactor to his Coll. and may be greater hereafter, if he think fit.  
The illustrious Lord Ignatius Vitus Baron ot Vicque, a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under his Catholic Majesty in Flanders, was created the same day, June 27.— One Ignatius Vitus alias White, second Son of Sir Dominick White of Limerick in Ireland, was created a Baronet on the 29 of June 1677, and, for want of issue male, that title was to descend to his Nephew Ignatius Maximilian Vitus and to the heirs male of his body. This Sir Ignat. White is the same, as I conceive, with him that was Baron of Vicque.  
D. Car. Gabr. de la Salle Eq. Groom of the Chamber to the King of Sweedland, was also then created.  
In a Convocation held 30 of May this year, were the Chancellors Letters read in behalf of Sam. Speed formerly a Student, now Canon, of Ch. Ch. to have the degree of Doct. of Diu. conferred on him; but whether he was created or admitted, notwithstanding he had formerly suffered for his loyalty, it appears not. On the sixth of the said month of May, this year, he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Seb. Smith deceased, and dying at Godalming in Surrey, of which he was Vicar, about the 22 of January 1681, Henry Aldrich M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. was installed Canon in his place, on the 15. of Febr. following. One Sam. Speed a pretender to Poetry, hath written Prison-piety: or meditations divine and moral, etc. Lond. 1677. in tw. and other trivial things, but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former.  
In the month of January this year, came to this University, J. Secbaldus Frabricius an old Professor of Heidelberg, who was forced to leave his Country because of the Wars between the Emperor and the King of France. He lived for some time here in a studious condition, had a collection of moneys made throughout the University to relieve his wants: And while he continued among us, he published De unitate Eccles. Britannicae Meditationes Sacrae. Oxon. 1676 oct, and wrote and drew up another book entit. Dissertatio Historica Dionis Cassii Scriptoris Graec. Selectiora Commata. etc. Lond. 1678. oct.    



An. Dom. 1675.  
An. 27. Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde. etc.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Ralph Bathurst, Oct. 7.  

Proct.  
Joh. Jones of Ch. Ch. Apr. 14.  
Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 14.   

Bach. of Arts.  
June 8. Thom. Tully of S. Edm. Hall.— See among the Masters an. 1678.  
10. Will. Gough commonly called Goff of S. Alb. Hall, lately of Exeter Coll.  

Oct. 26. Will. Hallifax of Corp. Ch. Coll.  
Jan. 18. Tho. Pigott of Wad. Coll.  
29. Joh. Bagley of Ball. Coll.   
Of the first of these three, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1687, and of the other two, among the Master's 1678.  
Feb. 23. Will. Nicholson of Qu. Coll.— He hath written and published several things, and therefore he ought at large to be remerabred among the Oxford Writers hereafter.  
Adm. 149.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were only admitted, of whom Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. was one. See among the Doct. of Law following.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 29. Jonathan Trelawny of Ch. Ch.  
Apr. 29. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch.   
June 8. Joh. Knight of New Inn— He afterwards was made Vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire, upon the removal thence of Richard Knight sometimes Proctor of the University of Oxon to a good Parsonage in Worcestershire, and was author of The Samaritan Rebels perjured by a Covenant of Association, in a Sermon at the Assizes held at Northampton, 30 March 1682, on Hosea 10, the former part of the 4th. vers. Lond. 1682 qu. He is a good Scholar, very loyal and of good name and esteem where he lives, and might have been Preb. of Linc. which he much deserves, had not Dr. B. Bish. thereof showed him a Dogtrick.  
Nou. 23. Jam. Parkinson of Linc. Coll.  
Jan. 19 Joh. Massey or Measey of Mert. Coll.— This person, who was originally of Vniv. Coll, was one of the Proctors of the University in 1684, and then, and after, did not look for, or expect, preferment. At length, after K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown, he was, by the endeavours of Mr. Obad. Walker Master of Vniv. Coll, advanced by his Majesty (on the death of Dr. Fell) to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, about the middle of Octob. 1686. Whereupon renouncing his religion for that of Rome (which he was so to do, before he could be settled in it) he received the Patent for it on his bended knees from his Majesty on the 19 of Decemb. and on the 29 of the same month 1686, he was installed in that Dignity in his own person. Afterwards he set up and furnished a Chapel for the R. Cath. use in Canterbury Quadrangle within the Precincts of Ch. Ch, and was put into the Commission of Peace for the County of Oxford. At length upon the arrival of the Prince of Orange in the West parts of England, and the committing thereupon by the Mobile great outrages in several parts of the Nation on R. Catholics and their Houses, the said Mr. Massey did, to avoid them, (together with Mr. Thom. Deane a R. C. Fellow of Vniv. Coll.) withdraw himself privately, before break of day, on the 30 of Nou. 1688, went to London, and there continued privately till an opportunity carried him over the Sea to France, where, I think, we may now leave him.  
Adm. 129.   

Bach. of Physic.  
But two were admitted, of whom Joh. Radcliff of Linc. Coll. was one, July 1.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 14. George Hickes of Linc. Coll.  
June 26. Will. Hopkins of S. Mary's Hall.  
July 6. Lanc. Addison of Qu. Coll.  
Adm. 7.   

Doct. of Law.  
May 18. Rowl. Townshend of Alls. Coll.  

Jun. 26. Steph. Brice. of Magd. Coll. Compounders and Accumulators.  
Jun. 26. Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. Compounders and Accumulators.   
The last of these two, who was originally of Magd. Hall, became Chancellor of Rochester in the place of Dr. Will. Trumbull, afterwards Judge of the Admiralty, a Knight, Master of the Faculties etc.  
June 26. Roger Stanley of New Coll.— He died at Ham in Wilts. 17 Sept. 1678 and was buried there.   

Doct. of Phys.  

July 6. Sam. Izacke of Exet. Coll.  
8. Christop. Dominick of Wadh. Coll.   
The first did accumulate the degrees in Physic.   

Doct. of Diu.  

July 6. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll.  
8. Joh. Nicholas of New Coll.   
The last, who was a Compounder, was now Warden of his Coll, to which he was elected (on the death of Dr. Mich. Woodward) 30. of June 1675, being then Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester and Master of S. Nich. Hospital in Salisbury. On the 17 of July 1679, he was elected Warden of the said Coll. of Wykeham, on the death of Dr. Will. Burt, and on the second of Apr. 1684 he was installed Preb. of Winchester.   

Incorporations.  
On the 13 of July, just after the finishing of the Act, were seven Bach. of Arts, one Bach. of Law, 24 Masters of Arts, one Bach. of Diu. and one Doct. of Physic of Cambridge incorporated, but not one of them can I yet find to be a Writer, only.  
Joh. Turner M. A. and Fellow of Christ's Coll, who was afterwards Hospitaller of S. Thomas in Southwark and author of several Sermons and discourses; which being too many to be here set down, shall for brevity sake be omitted.  
Thomas Allen Doct. of Physic of Gonvill and Caies Coll, was also then (July 13) incorporated— He was one of the Coll. of Phys. at London, and lived to the year 1685, but hath written nothing. Quaere.  
Besides the said Cambridge men, was one John Ouchterlon M. A. of S. Salvators Coll. in the University of S. Andrew in Scotland incorporated, which is all I know of him.   

CREATIONS.  
June 2. The most illustrious Pr. John William Prince of Neoburg (Son of the Duke of Neoburg) Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Giuliers, Cleve and of Mons, Count or Earl of Valdentia, Spinhim la Mark, Ravensberg and Moers, Lord in Ravenstein, etc. was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law— He was conducted bareheaded in his Doctor's robes, from the Apodyterium into the Convocation House, with the Beadles marching before, and the King's Professor of Law with, him, the Vicechanc. then, with the Doctors and Masters standing bare: And being come to the middle of the Area, the said Professor presented him with a short speech, which being done, the Vicech. created him with another. Afterwards he was conducted to his seat of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellor, and then the Dep. Orator, who stood on the other side near to the Registraries desk, complemented him with another speech in the name of the University. All which being done he was conducted by the Vicechanc. Doctors and Masters to the Theatre, where being placed in another seat of state on the right hand of the vicechancellors chair, he was entertained by the Music professor with vocal and instrumental Music, from the Music gallery. This Prince was then about 18 years of age, and had taken a journey into England purposely to pay his respects to the Lady Mary, the eldest Daughter of James Duke of York: And after he had seen most of the rarities in the public Library, several of the Colleges, Physic Garden, etc. the Vicechancellor Dr. Bathurst, Dr. Fell, and other Doctors, made a present to him at his departure of Hist. & Antiquitates Uniu. Oxon, with Cuts, in two Volumes, very fairly bound.  
June 23. Henry Justell Secret, and Counsellor to the most Christian King, was diplomated Doctor of the Civil Law— He was a most noted and learned man, and as the public regist. saith non modo omni scientiarum & virtutum genere per se excelluit, verum etiam Parentis optimi & eruditissimi Christop. Justelli doctrinam & merita, ornando atque excolando, sua fecit. He had given several choice Mss. to the public Library, and had sent by Mr. George Hicks of Linc. Coll. (who became acquainted with him at Paris) the Original Ms. in Greek of the Canon's Ecclesia Vniversalis, put out by his Father Christopher, which is at this time in the public Library. What this eminent author Hen. Justell hath written and published the printed Cat. belonging to that Library, commonly called Oxford Catalogue, will tell you.  

Nou. 10. Thaddeus Lantman diplomated Doct. of Diu.  
Nou. 10. Joh. Woolnove diplomated Doct. of Diu.   
These two persons were Ministers at the Hague, and having been represented by the Prince of Orange to be persons of good esteem in Holland, for their preaching, learning and prudence, and for the great veneration they had, and have, for the Church of England, were upon those accounts recommended to the Chanc. of the University, and by Henry Earl of Arlington (lately in Holland) to the Vicechanc. and Convocation for their degrees.  
Jan. 26. Hippolytus du Chastlet de Luzancy of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts— This Divine, who made a great noise in his time, was the Son 
(a) Letter from a Gent. in London to his friend in the Country, Printed at Lond. in the beginning of Apr. 1676 in two sh● and a half in qu. pag. 3.  of a famous common Woman named Beauchasteau a Player belonging to the Hostel de Burgoyn at Pa●is, and educated in the University there, as I shall tell you by and by. Afterwards he became 
(b) Ibid. p. 13.  Usher, or Regent of the fifth form among the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine at Vitry, then lived among the Monks at Vendosme, and a little after in the service of a Bishop, then in the Abbey of Trape, next with another Prelate, and at length a Preacher errand, here and there, but chiefly at Montdidier in Picardy, where counterfeiting the name of Luzancy, by a bill signed with that name, he cheated the Damoizele Carti●r of a piece of money. So that by that and other pranks, which exposed him to the pursuit of Justice, he left France, went into England by the 
(c) Ibid.  name of De la March (which he quitted about a month after his arrival) and at length to London without 
(d) Ibid. p. 1.  clothes, without shoes, without money, and without any recommendation from France. Soon after upon his own word, and at the instance of some who solicited in his behalf, he was permitted to get into the Pulpit at the Savoy within the liberty of Westminster, not only to declare the motives of his conversion, but his abjuration from, and abhorrency of, the Roman Catholic Faith, which was solemnly done on the eleventh of July an. 1675. The discourse he made, and which he delivered with much boldness, gained him the esteem of his Auditors, who for the most part charmed with his eloquence, and full of compassion for his misery, soon cast about to put him into a condition of appearing in a decent habit and subsisting. After this he was much favoured by some, and as much hated by the Roman Catholics, particularly by St. German a Jesuit in London, who pretending to assassinate him, as Luzancy gave out, was a Proclamation issued forth for his protection, and the taking of S. German to bring him to condign punishment, After this, Luzancy's advancement being powerfully carried on, the B. of London took care to have him ordained, with a design of putting him in a condition of becoming one day a great Defender of the Church of England: All which being done in a hurry, 'twas to little purpose for the Pastors and several Masters of Families of the Church at the Savoy to cry out against. But while these things were in doing, a Minister of the Church of England belonging to the French Church at the Sav●y named Rich. du Marescq, full of zeal to the truth, printed a Sermon which he had preached during these bustles, and in the preface to it doth give a true and just character of Luzancy, not for his goodness, but baseness, lying, dissimulation, etc. Which Serm. and Pref. as soon as they appeared in public, the B. of London caused all the copies to be seized, and the author to be cited to the Bish. Court, interdicted the function of his charge, because he refused to ask God forgiveness, his neighbour, the Church, his Superior, and to sign and seal a Declaration, and at length openly suspended him for reasons reserved to the Bishop and his Officers. After he had continued in that condition for some time, he was at the entreaties of Dr. Jo. durel and Monsieur Ruvigny (who had a mind to oblige the Bishop) restored to the exercise of his charge upon a bare acknowledgement that he was in the wrong to print his preface without licence from his Superior, or any else in authority, etc. After the following Christmas, our author Luzancy went, to Oxford; where, by virtue of several Letters of commendation, he was received into Ch. Ch. by the Dean there, had a Chamber allowed to him, and such diet that belongs to Master-students, at the charge, I think, of the Bishop of London. On the 26 of Jan. following, there was a Convocation of Doctors and Masters celebrated, wherein the Letters of the Duke of Ormonde Chanc. of the University (dat. 2. Dec.) were publicly read in his behalf, which partly run thus— This Gentleman Monsieur Luzancy was bred in the University of Paris in the Romish religion, but having lately professed himself a member of the Church of England, and given some testimonies of his adherence thereunto, has made it his humble request for his encouragement, to be recommended to the University for their favour in conferring upon him the degree of Master of Arts— He has not his Testimonials from the University of Paris of the degree he took there, but I doubt not, when you shall discourse with him, you'll find him a person meriting that favour, etc. After the reading of that Letter, Luzancy by the consent of the House was then actually created M. of A, as I have before told you. About the time of Easter, in the beginning of Apr. 1676, was spread abroad by certain R. Catholics a Pamphlet entit. A Letter from a Gentleman at Lond. to his friend in the Country, etc. Printed at Lond, in two sheets and an half in qu: wherein are some of Luzancy's actions represented while he was in France, but more while he was in England, the Bishop of London and Dr. Franc. Durant de Brevall Preb. of Westm. and Rochester, (sometimes a Capuchin Friar.) reflected on severely, and many things said, which doth invalidate the K. Proclamation before mentioned. At length some of the dispersers of that Pamph. it being discovered, particularly Will. Rogers of Linc. Inn a zealous Proselyte for the R. Cath. cause, he was seized on by a Messenger and brought before the King's Council in Aug. following; from whom receiving several checks and threatenings was at length released. In the latter end of 1679, Luzancy left the University, having before borrowed a considerable sum of money of one of the Chapl. of Ch. Ch. (P. B.) for whom he pretended kindness, but he minding not the payment of, he was sued for, it by Law. At the same time he became, by the favour of the Bishop of London, Vicar of Dover-Court in Essex, to the Church of which place the Town of Harwich belongs; so that he was Vicar of that also, as well as of Dover-Court. Soon after, to prevent an unchaste life, he married a Gentlewoman in those parts, where he was lately (perhaps still) living. He hath written and pub. (1) Serm. on the day of his abjuration at the Savoy, 11. July 1675, on Joh. 8.32. Lond. 1675 qu. in French. Translated into English— Lond. 1676. qu. (2) Reflections on the Council of Trent. Oxon. 1677. oct. (3) Treatise against irreligion. Lond. 1678. oct.  
Justus Christop. Schomerus and M. Meno Reich. both of Lubeck in Saxony were Sojournours and Students this year in the University, and afterwards learned men in their own Country. The first, who was Professor and Superintendent at Lubeck, wrote one or more books against the Socinians and other things Besides them were also Sojournours Paul Bauldrey a Frenchman of note, and Joh. Wandalinus of Copenhagen in Denmark, both learned men: the first of which hath written notes on Lanctantius de morte Persecutorum, &c. and the other (who was afterwards Professor of Diu. at Copenhagen) De esu sanguinis, etc.    



An. Dom. 1676.  
An. 28. Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, etc.  
Vicechanc. Henry Clerk Doct. of Physic and Priest, Precedent of Magd. Coll. Oct. 9  

Proct.  
Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll. Apr. 5.  
Nathan. Pelham of New Coll. Apr. 5.   
The Senior of these two Proctors was (while Proctor) elected and admitted moral Phil. Professor in the place of Mr. Abr. Campion, 27. Mar. 1677, who enjoying it till the beginning of the year 1682 Will. Halton M. A. of Qu. Coll. was elected thereunto, about the 7 of April the same year. After his time was expired (for he that is Professor enjoyeth the Lecture but for 5 years) Joh. Barnard M.A. of Brasn. Coll. was elected thereunto, 28. Mar. 1687, by virtue of the Mandamus of K. Jam. 2, dated on the first of January going before. After his removal thence for being a Papist, (though since returned to his former opinion) which was after the said King left England, Will. Christmas M. A. of New Coll. succeeded him in the latter end of Dec. 1688.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 6. Tho. Lyndesay of Wadh. Coll.— See among the Masters in 1678.  
29. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch.— He hath published two or more books.  
May 27. Nathaniel Williams of Jes. Coll.— He was the Son of Thomas Williams of Swansey in Glamorganshire, went away without completing his degree by Determination, and was author of (1) A pindaric Elegy on the famous Physician Dr. Willis. Oxon. 1675 in one sh. in fol. (2) Imago saeculi: or the image of the age represented in four characters, viz. the ambitious Statesman, insatiable Miser, atheistical Gallant and factious Schismatic. Oxon. 1676. oct. The Pindaric Elegy is printed with, and added to, this last book. He died in his own Country about 1679.  
June 13. Sam. Derham of Magd. Hall.  

Oct. 17. Theoph. Downs of Ball. Coll.  
26. Will. Haylie of Alls. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1679, and of the other in 1680.  
Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. was adm. the same day— He hath written and published many things relating to Divinity, and therefore he is to have a place hereafter among the Oxf. Writers.  
Feb. 6. Rob. Brograve of Magd. Hall— See among the Master's 1679.  
Adm. 188.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 6. James Bampton of New Coll.— This person, who took no higher degree, entered afterwards into holy Orders and published a Sermon, but the title of it I know not, only the text, which is Suffer the little children to come, etc. Mark 10.14. He also had provided another thing for the press, which, I think is not yet published, or ever will. He died of a consumption, 9 May 1683 aged 37, and was buried in the west Cloister belonging to that Coll.  
Adm. 11.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 8. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll.  
July 3. Edm. Sermon of S. Mary's Hall— This person, who was the Son of a Father of both his names of Naunton Beauchamp in Worcestershire, was originally of Trin, and afterwards of Ball. Coll, and as a member of the last he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, an. 1665, but left the University without completing it by Determination. Afterwards he took upon him a spiritual cure, and the education of a youth of noble extraction, but instead of taking the degree of Bach. of Div, (in order to which he had the Chancellors Letters) he with much ado obtained that of Master. He hath published The wisdom of public piety, discoursed in a Sermon at Guildhall Chap. on Jam. 3.13. Lond. 1679. qu. He died about 1680. Nearly related to him was that forward, vain and conceited person named Will. Sermon, who wrote himself Doctor of Physic and Physician in ord. to his Maj. K. Ch. 2, author of (1) The Lady's companion or English Midwife, etc. Lond. 1671. oct. (2) A friend to the sick, or the honest English man's preservation, etc. Lond. 1673. 4. oct. and of other things, but whether he was of this, or of any University, I know not. He died in his house in the Parish of St. Bride alias St. Bridget in Lond. in Winter time, an. 1679.  
Oct. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn.  
Nou. 23. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Rector of Vplime in his native Country of Devonshire, and author of The Rebel's text opened and their solemn appeal answered; Thanksgiving Sermon 26. July 1685 on Josh. 22. ver. 22. Lond. 1686. qu.  
Jan. 15. Tho. Mannyngham of New Coll.  
Adm. 130.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Two were admitted, but neither of them is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Six were admitted, of whom Tho. Snell Can. resid. of Exeter was one. Three others I shall make mention among the Doct. of Diu. in their respective places.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 6. Rich. Warren of S. Joh. Coll.   

Doct. of Phys.  

July 4. Joh. Ludwell of Wadh. Coll.  
6. William Warner of S. Joh. Coll.   
7. Ralph Harrison of New Coll. a Compounder— He had been of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge, of which Uniu. he was Bach. of Phys, and coming to Oxon, he was incorporated in that degree on the 26 of June this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

July 6. Edward Reynolds of Magd. Coll.  
July 6. Will. Hawkins of Magd. Coll.   
These were both Compounders, as being dignified in the Church. On the 20 of Sept, 1660, the first was installed Preb. of Worcester, and on the 15 of Apr. 1661., Archdeacon of Norfolk on the death of Philip Tenison: which last Dignity was conferred upon him by his Father Dr. Edw. Reyn. Bish. of Norwich. The other was Preb. of Norwich and had some other preferment in the Church.  

July 6. George Owen of Alls. Coll.  
July 6. Tho. Pargiter of Linc. Coll.   
The first of these two, who was originally of Mert. Coll, was now Canon of S. David. The other was Rector of Greetworth in his native Country of Northamptonshire, and published A Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond, 23. July 1682, on 1. Thess. 4.6. Lond. 1682. qu.   

Incorporations.  
July 6. Will. Howell, or as he writes himself Hoëlus, Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge— He was educated in Magd. Coll. in the said University, of which he was Fellow, was afterwards Tutor to John Earl of Mulgrave, and at length Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln. He hath written (1) An institution of general History from the beginning of the world to the monarchy of Constantine the Great. Printed 1661. oct. In this work the Reader may, without any intervening matters impertinent to his present purpose, read the History of any Empire or Kingdom contemporary to it, by itself. The principal passages in all of them are linked together by Synchronisms, not only placed in the Margin, but in the beginning or end of every occurrence. This book, which was afterwards put into latin by the author, for the use of the said Earl, entit. Elementa Historiae ab orbe condito usque ad Monarchiam Constantini magni, etc. Lond. 1671. in a thick tw. was increased to two folios— Lond. 1680. and afterwards had three remaining parts of it published in 1685. 6. (2) Medulla Historiae Anglicanae. Being a comprehensive History of the lives and reigns of the Monarches of England. From the time of the invasion thereof by Julius Caesar, to the death of K. Ch. 2, with an abstract of the lives of the Rom. Emperor's commanding in Britain. There have been several editions of this book to the great benefit of the Bookseller that printed it. One came out in 1679, with the addition of A list of the names of the H. of Com. then sitting, and a list of his Majesty's Privy Council, &c: And in 1687 the third edit. of it was published in oct. with a continuation from the year 1678 to 1684 by a great favourer of the Roman Catholics. There is no name set to this Medulla Hist. Angl. only report makes Dr. W. Howell the author, and upon that report, I presume here to set it down under his name. He hath without doubt other things extant, but such I have not yet seen, and therefore I can only now say that he died in the beginning of the year 1683. One William Howell Minister of Tuttleworth in Sussex hath published A Sermon at the Bishop of Chichesters' first Visitation. Lond. 1675. 6. qu. but whether he was of this, or of the University of Cambridge, I cannot yet tell.  
This year were 28 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated after the Act, on the 11 of July, among whom were  
Thom. Lynford of Christ's Coll.— He had been lately the ingenious Prevaricator of Cambridge, was afterwards Rector of S. Edm. Lumbardstreet in London, D. of D, Chapl. in ord. to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Marry, etc. author of three or more Sermons, and of four discourses against Popery in the time of K. Jam. 2. etc.  
As for the rest that were then incorporated, I cannot yet find one of them to be a Writer or Bishop.  
Sim. Digby M. A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin was incorporated the same day, Jul. 11.— He was son of Essex Digby Bish. of Dromore. See in the Creations under the year 1677. Besides these, were two Bach. of Diu. of Cambr. incorporated, but neither of them was then or afterwards a Writer, or afterwards a Bishop.   

Creations.  
Apr. 5. Steph. Le Moine one of the ordinary Preachers to the reformed Congregation of Rouen in Normandy, lately advanced by the Prince of Orange to the supreme Chair of the Theological Faculty in the Uniu. of Leyden, was declared in Convocation Doct. of Div, by virtue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University, and on the eleventh of the same month he was diplomated, he being then in the University, and well known to be one who had upon all occasions testified his great affections and zeal for the Ch. of England. He hath written some things, which I have not yet seen.  
Jun. 22. Andrew Shall lately a Jesuit, was actually created Doct. of Diu.— He was born in the County of Tipperary in Ireland, educated from his Childhood in the Roman Faith; and when he was in his riper years, he entered into the Society of Jesus. Afterwards he became Professor of Divinity in the Colleges of Pamplona, Polencia, and Tudela in Spain, Rector and Professor of Controversies in the Irish Coll. of the University of Salamanca, Professor of Moral Theology in the Coll. of the Soc. of Jesus in the same University. At length he being sent on the Mission into Ireland, he was in his elder years, by the unspeakable Constancy and indefatigable Charity, as also solid Doctrine and Example of the pious and upright Life of Dr. Tho. Price Archb. of Cashells or Cashiels gained to the Church of England. In testimony of which he made a public declaration on the 17 of May 1674, before the said Archbishop, Hugh Bishop of Waterford, and others, in the Church of S. John in the City of Cashel. On the 5 of Jul. following, he preached a Sermon in Ch. Ch. in Dublin before Arthur Earl of Essex L. Lieutenant of Ireland and the Council there, in detestation of the Church of Rome and its Doctrine, and about the same time he became Chaplain to the said L. Lieut, and had preferment there bestowed on him. In the latter end of July or thereabouts, an. 1675, he came to Oxon, and, by Letters of Commendation, was not only received into Wadh. Coll, where he continued for some months, but afterwards actually created (not incorporated) D. of D. as before I have told you, and in the Act following (as in that in 1677) he showed himself a smart Disputant in the Theological Vespers, being then domestic Chaplain to his Majesty and dignified in Wales. After he had remained in the said Coll. and in an House in Halywell adjoining, for some time, in a weak and sickly condition, he, by the favour of Dr. Fell, removed to convenient Lodgings in the Cloister at Ch. Ch. near the Chaplains Quadrangle, where he remained about two years. In 1680 he went into Ireland to live upon his Preferments there, which were a Prebendary of Swords, the Rectory of Ardmulchan, and the Chantorship of Cashels, where he continued in a weak condition till the time of his death. He hath written and published (1) Declaration for the Church of England. (2) Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dubls. before the L. Lieu, and Council 5 Jul. 1674, on Matth. 24.15.16.17.18. Dubl. 1674—. oct. After these two things were published, came out The doleful fall of Andr. sal, a Jesuit of the fourth vow, print. in oct. 1674, and The un-erring and un-errable Church, in answer to the said Sermon.— Pr. 1675. oct. etc. (3) The Catholic and Apostolic Faith maintained in the Church of England; being a Reply to several books published under the names of J. E. N. N. and J. S. against his Declaration for the Church of England, and against the Motives for the Separation from the Rom. Church, declared in a printed Sermon which he preached in Dublin. Oxon. 1676. oct. etc. (4) Votum pro pace Christianâ, quâ exponuntur & amoventur praecipua obstacula pacis per Romanae Ecclesiae Ministros objecta, & ostenditur quam immerito pacem respiciant cum reliquis Christianis Ecclesiis, praecipue vero cum Anglicanâ. Oxon 1678. qu. (5) Ethica, sive moralis Philosophia ex veterum & recentiorum sententiis ad disputationem juxta ac concionem totiusque vitae humanae usum congruo ordine & rerum apparatu concinnata. Oxon. 1680. oct. He paid his last debt to nature on the sixth day of Apr. an. 1682, aged 70 years or thereabouts, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Patrick near Dublin; leaving then behind him A body of Philosophy, which he designed, if he had lived, to publish.  
July 11. Rob. Digby Baron of Geashill in Ireland, lately of Magd. Coll, now of Coleshull in Warwicksh, was actually created M. of A.  
The Reader may be pleased now to know that whereas Francis Junius had spent much time in Oxon in his younger years for the sake of study, Libraries and Conversation of learned men, as also in his elderly years in 1658 and 59; he did retire to Oxon in the month of Octob. this year, purposely to die there, give his MSS. and Collections to the publs Libr. where he had spent much time, and to have his bones laid in some Church or Chapel in Oxon. He came for the sake of Dr. Thom. Marshal Rector of Linc. Coll. a great Critic in the Gothick and Saxon Languages, as Junius was, from whom Martial had formerly received instruction as to those studies, and taking up his Lodging against the said Coll. he began to put his Collections in order; but being troubled by often Visits, he removed his Quarters to an obscure house in Beefhall lane in S. Ebbs Parish, where he digested some notes for the Press, and made a deed of gift of his MSS. and Collections to the publs. Libr. He continued there till Aug. 1677, at which time he went, upon the earnest invitation of his Nephew Dr. Is. Vossius, to Windsor, and continued for a time in good health and cheerfulness there and near it. At length being overtaken with a Fever, died of it in his said Nephew's house near Windsor, on Monday the 19 of Novemb. 1677; whereupon his body was conveyed to Windsor and buried in the Chap. or Church of S. George within the Castle there. In the year following was a table of white marble fixed to the wall near his grave, with this inscription thereon. M. S. Francisco Junio, Francisci Junii Biturig is filio, nobilitate generis, integritate morum & omnigenâ doctrina, conspicuo viro; nato Heidelbergae anno salutis MDLXXXIX, qui per omnem aetatem, sine quaerelâ aut injuriâ cujusquam Musis tantum & sibi vacavit. Vniversitas Oxoniensis, cui scripta & monumenta laboris sui moriens pene nonagenarius commisit, in grati animi significationem lubens meritoque titulum posuit, an. MDCLXXVIII. The titles of some of the books that he published you may see in the Bodleian or Oxf. Catalogue.  
To this learned person I must add another of less name (much noted in his time, but since not, for the art and fac. of Poetry) who had spent about eight years in Oxen, partly in custody, but mostly in liberty and freedom in the public Library, and conversation with ingenious Scholars. The Anagram of his surname is Benevolus, given to him by Flatterers and Pretenders to Poetry for his Benevolence to them. His Christian Name was Edward, Son and heir of Andr. Bendlowes Esq, Son of W●ll. Bendlowes' Esq, Son and heir of Andrew Bendlowes Sergeant at Law, etc. all Lords of Brent Hall and of other Lands in Essex, but descended from those of their name of Bendlowes in Yorkshire. When he was young he was very carefully educated in Grammar learning, and when at about 16 years of age he became a Gent. Com. of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, to which he was afterwards a Benefactor. Thence he was sent to travel with a Tutor or Guide, and having rambled thro' several Countries and had visited seven Courts of Princes, he returned a most accomplished person as to behaviour and discourse, yet ringed with Romanism: But being a very imprudent man in matters of worldly concern, and ignorant as to the value or want of money, he did, after he was invested in his Estate at Brent hall and elsewhere, which amounted to seven hundred, some say a thousand, pounds per an. make a shift, though never married, to squander it mostly away on Poets, Flatterers, (which he loved) in buying of Curiosities (which some called Baubles) on Musicians, Buffoons, etc. He also gave from his said Estate a large Portion with a Niece who was married to one Blount of Mapledurham in Oxfordshire Esq, supposing thereby that so long as they lived he should not want, but the case being otherwise, he lived afterwards in a mean condition. He also very imprudently entered himself into Bonds for the payment of other men's debts; which he being not able to do, he was committed to prison in Oxford, which was the matter that first brought him thither; but being soon after released, he spent the remainder of his days there in studies, till the time of his death. This person, who was esteemed in his younger days a great Patron of Poers, especially of Franc. Quarles, Will. D'avenant, pain Fisher, etc. who had either dedicated books, or had written Epigrams and Poems on him, hath several things (whereby he hath obtained the name of a Divine Author) extant; among which are these (1) Sphinx Theologica, seu Musica Templi, ubi discordia concors. Camb. 1626. oct. (2) Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice. A divine Poem. Lond. 1652. fol. with his picture before it. Several parts thereof had Airs set to them, or were fitted for Airs by the incomparable Musician Job. Jenkyns, who had been favoured much and patronised by Benevolus. A whole Canto of this Theophila, consisting of above 300 verses, was turned into elegant Latin Verse in the space of one day by that great prodigy of early parts John Hall of Durham (mentioned in the first vol. p. 455.) having had his tender affections ravished with that divine piece. (3) Summary of divine Wisdom. Lond. 1657. qu. (4) A glance at the glories of sacred friendship. Lond. 1657, printed on one side of a large sheet of paper. (5) De sacra Amicitia. Printed with the former in Lat. verse and prose. (6) Threnothriambeuticon. Or Latin Poems on K. Ch. 2. his restauration. Lond. 1660, pr. on a side of a large sheet of paper. Some he caused to be printed on white Satin, a copy of which, in a frame suitable to it, he gave to the public Library at Oxon. (7) Oxonii Encomium. Ox. 1672. in 4 sh. in fol. It is mostly in Lat. verse. (8) Oxonii Elogia. Oxon 1673. on one side of a large sh. of paper. They consist of 12 Stanza's, and afterwards follow 1. Oxonii Elegia. 2. Academicis serenitas. 3. Academic. temperantia. 4. Studiosis cautela, and other things. (9) Magia Coelestis. Oxon 1673. 'Tis a Lat. Poem pr. on one side of a large sh. of paper. These three last, under the 7.8. and 9 heads, were, with other things, composed at Oxon, while he was conversant there. He hath also a Mantissa to Rich. Fens Panegyricon inaugurale, intit. De celeberrima & florentiss. Trinobantiados Augustae civ. Praetori reg. senatui populoque. Lond. 1637 qu. In the title of which Mr. Bendl. styles himself Turmae equestris in Com. Essex praefectus. He hath other things extant, which I have not yet seen, and therefore I shall only tell you, that after he had been courted and admired for his ancient Extraction, Education and Parts by great men of this Nation, and had been a Patron to several ingenious men in their necessities, and by his generous mind, void of a prudential foresight, had spent a very fair Estate without keeping little or any thing to support him, did spend his last days at Oxon, but little better than in obscure condition: in which, for want of conveniencies required fit for old age, as Clothes, Fuel, and warm things to refresh the body, he marched off in a cold season, on the 18 of Decemb. at eight of the clock at night, an. 1676, aged 73 years or more: Whereupon, by a collection of money among certain Scholars, who knew what he had been, he was decently buried with Escocheons in the north isle or alley joining to the body of S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon, near to the door that leads thence into Adam Brome's Chapel. In his younger years he was esteemed a Papist, or at least Popishly affected; but being drawn off from that Opinion in his elderly years, he would take occasion oftentimes to dispute against Papists and their Opinions, (which was not at all acceptable to his Nephew and Niece Blount before mentioned, which was the cause that his room, rather than company, was desired by them) and could not endure any person that seemed to favour the Opinions of Arminius or Socinus. His picture now hangs in the Gallery belonging to the public Library at Oxon.  
This year one Joh. Wulferus of Nuremberg became a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library, went to his own Country, became a Professor, and published Secalim and other Talmudical Authors in Hebrew and Latin.    



An. Dom. 1677.  
An. 29 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, but he being made L. Lieut. of Ireland, he did by his instrument dated 20 of Aug. delegate the Vicechanc. for the time being, and certain Doctors, to manage and execute in his absence the Powers and Jurisdiction belonging to him in the University.  
Vicechanc. Joh. Nicholas D. D. Warden of New Coll, nominated by the Vicechancellors' Letters dated at Chester 16 Aug. confirmed by Convocation 8 Octob.  

Proct.  
Nathan. Wight of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25.  
Rich. Warburton of Brasn. Coll. Apr. 25.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 3. Jo. Webb of Wadh. Coll.  
10. Nich. Kendal of Exet. Coll.   
Of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1679.  
Jun. 26. Will. Coward of Wadh, afterwards of Mert. Coll.— See among the Doctors of Phys. 1687.  

Jul. 4. Hugh Todd of Qu. Coll.  
Jul. 4. Francis Digby of Qu. Coll.   
The first of these two was afterwards of Vniv. Coll. and a Writer. The other a Translator from the original Greek into English of the first four books of The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great. Lond. 1685. oct, written originally by that famous Philosopher Xenophon of Athens. The other four books were translated by Joh. Norris M. A. and Fellow of Alls. Coll.  

Jul. 19 Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall.  
Oct. 16. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall.   
Of both these you may see among the Masters, an. 1680.  

Oct. 16. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll.   

Nou. 20. Thom. Williams of Jes. Coll.  
27. Thom. Walter of Jes. Coll.   
Of these three you may see more among the Mast. an. 1680.  

Jan. 29. John Howell of Trin. Coll.  
Feb. 14. Obad. Danae of Trin. Coll.   
The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an. 1680. The other was afterwards a Monk among the English Benedictines at Douai.  
Adm. 211.   

Bach. of Law.  

Jun. 30. Rob. Woodward of New Coll.  
Jun. 30. Charles Morley of Alls. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctors of Law, an. 1685. The other was afterwards Vicar General of the Spiritualities, or Chancellor to the Bish. of Winton, by the favour of his great Uncle Dr. Morley Bishop thereof, etc.  
Aug. 2. James Astrey of Brasn. Coll a Compounder.— In 1682 he became High Sheriff of his native County of Bedford, (where he enjoyeth Lands of ancient Inheritance) and in the beginning of 1683 one of the Masters in Chancery, and in Nou. the same year a Knight. This person, who is now one of the Gent. of the Privy Chamber in ord. to his Maj. K. Will. 3, hath augmented and corrected the third Edition of Glossarium Archaiologicum of Sir Henry Spelman, and before it hath put a large Epistle of the Life, Manners and Writings of the said Sir Henry.  
Adm. 6.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 7. Daniel Prat of S. Joh. Coll.— This person, who was son of a father of both his names of London, wrote, as 'twas generally reported, The Life of the blessed S. Agnes Virgin and Martyr, in Prose, and Verse. Lond. 1677. oct, published under the name of L. Sherling. He died in 1679, or thereabouts.  

May 3. Joh. Kettlewell of Linc. Coll.  
14. John Hutton of Queens Coll.   
The last of these two was installed Archdeacon of Stow 21 Feb. 1684, in the place of Byrom Eton translated to the Archdeaconry of Leycester.  
Jun. 16. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Vicar of Cassington in Oxfordsh, and Author of A Sermon at Oxon before Sir Will. Walker Mayor of the said City 26 Jul. 1685, being the day of Thanksgiving for the defeat of the Rebels in Monmouths Rebellion, on Judges the 5.51. Oxon. 1685. qu. Soon after he became Vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire, where he now lives. He hath also made a Translation of one of the Lives (Eumenes) in Corn. Nepos.— Oxon. 1684. oct.  
Jun. 26. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall.— He hath written A brief (but full) account of the doctrine of Trigonometry both plain and spherical Lond. 1689. in 4 sh. in fol, at the end of Dr. Jo. Wallis his Treatise of Algebra.  
Jul. 3. Sam. Sing of Ch. Ch. a Compounder.— He was eldest son of Dr. Edw. Sing Bishop of Cloyne, Cork, and Ross, and in the year 1681 he was Dean of Kildare.  

Oct. 16. Will. Guise of Alls. Coll.  
Oct. 16. Andrew Allam of S. Edm. Hall.   
Dec. 13. Villiers Bathurst of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Judge Advocate of the Navy.  
Jan. 17. Thom. Baker of Alls. Coll, lately of Magd. Hall— He was Author of The head of Nile: or the turnings and windings of the Factious since sixty, in a Dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby. Lond. 1681. in 6 sh. in qu. He is now Rector of Haritsham in Kent, in the place of Mr. Joh. Clerke deceased, whom I have mentioned among the Masters in these Fasti, an. 1673.  
Adm. 134.   

Bach. of Phys.  
But two were admitted, one of which was Ch. Twysden, as I shall tell you among the Doct. of Phys. this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll.  
Jun. 22. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll.   
The last of these two became, by the favour of Dr. Mews Bish. of B. and Wells, Prebendary (a golden Preb.) of the Church of Wells on the death of Dr Grindal Sheaf in May 1680, and Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Kilverton prima in the said Ch. of Wells annexed to it on the death of Dr. Will. Piers: In which Archdeaconry he was installed 22 Apr. 1682. Soon after he was made Vicar of S. Sepulchers Church in London on the death of Dr. Will. Bell.  

Jul. 3. Thom. Staynoe of Trin. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Thom. Sykes of Trin. Coll.   
The first of these two is now a Minister in London, hath published two Sermons, and may hereafter publish more, or at least other things. The other was elected Margaret Professor of the Uniu. of Oxon, 6 Nou. 1691, on the sudden death of Dr. Hen. Maurice of Jesus Coll, who had been elected thereunto, upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Hall to the See of Bristol, on the 18 of July the same year. He the said Mr. Sykes was admitted Doctor of his faculty 12 May 1692.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul. 21. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll.— On the 13 June 1678 he was licenced to practise Physic, which afterwards he did at Windsor, and hath since published one or more books of that faculty, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxf. Writers.  

Nou. 20. Joh. Irish of Alls. Coll.  
27. Charles Trumbull of Alls. Coll.  
Jan. 17. Joh. Clotterbuck of Alls. Coll.    

Doct. of Phys.  
May 22. Charles Twysden of Ch. Ch. an Accumulator and Compounder.— This person, who had spent several years in foreign parts, was son of Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent, and Nephew to Judge Tho. Twysden.  
Jan. 17. Will. Coker of Alls. Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 30. Steph. Philipps of Brasn. Coll. a Compounder.— He was now one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire, Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocese (obtained on the death of Mr. Tho. Cook the father of his wife, an. 1669.) and Can. resid. of Hereford. He died 20 Aug. 1684, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Bampton. In his Archdeaconry succeeded one .... Wheeler and him .... Oatley.  

Jul. 3. George Hooper of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 3. Ant. Saunders of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these two is a Writer, and therefore he is hereafter to be remembered. The other, who was Chapl. to the Archb. of Cant, was now (1677) Chanc. of S. Paul in Lond. and Rector of Acton in Middlesex.  
John Fitzwilliams of Magd. Coll. was adm. the same day.— He was afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of York, Rector of Cotenham near Cambridge and Preb. of Windsor. He hath published A Sermon preached at Cotenham near Cambridge on the 9 of Sept. 1683 being the day set apart for public Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his sacred Majesty and the Government from the late treasonable Conspiracy, on Prov. 24.21.22. Lond. 1683. qu. He is now a Non-juror, and therefore hath lost his Spiritualities.   

Incorporations.  
May 14. Walt. Leightonhouse Bac. of Art of Magd. Coll. in Cambr.— He was soon after elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. See among the Masters in 1679.  
After the conclusion of the Act, were 23 Mast. of Arts of Cambr. incorporated Jul. 10, among which was  
Aylett sam's of Christ's Coll.— This person published under his own name— Britannia antiqua illustrata: or the Antiquities of ancient Britain, deriv●d from the Phoenicians: Wherein the original trade of this Island is discovered, the names of Places, Offices, Dignities, as likewise the Idolatry, etc. are clearly demonstrated from that Nation, many old monuments illustrated, etc. Together with a chronological History of this Kingdom, from the first traditional beginning, until the year of our Lord 800, when the name of Britain was changed into England, etc. Lond. 1676. vol. 1. fol. An account of this book is in the Philosophical Transactions, num. 124. p. 596, wherein though the Author of them Mr. Oldenburg doth stile Mr. sam's the learned and curious Undertaker of that great work, yet the common report than was, that not he, but his quondam Uncle was the Author; and to confirm it, was his great ignorance in matters and books of Antiquity. I was several times in his company when he spent some weeks this year in Oxon, and found him to be an impertinent, girning and pedantical Coxcomb, and so ignorant of Authors, that he never heard of, before I mentioned it to him, of the great Antiquary Joh. Leland, or of his printed or manuscript Works, nor any thing of Baleus, nor could he give any account of Authors that are quoted in the said Britannia antiqua illustrata, etc. He died in the year 1679 or thereabouts, perhaps in the Inner Temple where he had a Chamber, but where buried I know not, nor is it material to be informed, I find one Rob. Aylett Mast. of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated at Oxon, an. 1608. Quaere whether he was his Uncle.  
Jul. 10. Will. Birstall D. D. of Kings Coll. in Cambr.  
Feb. 19 Patrick Dunn Physician in ord. to James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut. of Ireland, Doct. of Phys. of Aberdene in Scotland, Valentia in Dauphiny, and of Dublin in Ireland, was declared, (he being then absent) incorporated Doctor of the said faculty of this Uniu. of Oxon, and on the 23 of March following, a Diploma of his Incorporation was sealed and sent to him.   

Creations.  
The most noble James Duke of Ormonde Chancellor of the University coming to Oxon in the beginning of Aug. this year, where he was splendidly entertained by the Academians with Treats in several Colleges and Speeches in the Theatre, it was his desire that there should be a Creation of Doctors of the Civil Law, and a Creation of two persons in Divinity. Those that were created in the former faeulty, which was on the sixth day of Aug. in the Theatre, were these.   

Doct. of Law.  
Richard Boteler Earl of Arran in Ireland and Baron Boteler of Weston in Huntingdonshire in England, second son of James Duke of Ormonde.— This noble and courageous person, who had done good service against the Rebels at Carickfergus in Ireland, and in that perilous Sea-sight against the Dutch, when James D. of York, was General at Sea (for which and other Services he was made Baron of Weston) died on the 26 of Jan. 1685. Whereupon his body was deposited in the same Vault in the Abbey Church at Westminster, where that of his elder brother Thom. E of Ossory, and their mother Elizab. Duchess of Ormonde had been laid: which Duchess died in her house in S. James' Square within the Liberty of Westminster, on the 21 of July 1684. But whether their bodies were afterwards removed to Kilkenny in Ireland, there to be deposited in the Vault among the bodies of the Ormondian family, I know not as yet.  
Pierce Boteler Visc. Galmoy in Irel. of the Ormondian family.  
Francis Aungier Viscount, afterwards Earl, of Longford in the same Kingdom.  
Robert Fitz-Gerald son of the Earl of Kildare.  
Sir Kingsmill Lucy Bt.  
Sir Thom. Erscott Kt.  
Sir James Boteler Kt.— He was natural son of James Duke of Ormonde, by Isabel daugh. of Henry Earl of Holland, and wife of Sir James Thynne of Langleate in Wilts. This person, who was bred up to the Common Law in Linc. Inn, succeeded Will. Lord Brouncker in the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near the Tower of London, etc.  
Sir Edw. Scott Kt.  
Sir Rob. Southwell Kt.— This most worthy and accomplished person, who was son of Rob. Southwell of Kinsale in the County of Cork in Irel. Esq, Vice-Admiral of Monster and of the Privy Council there, (descended from the ancient family of his name in Norfolk) was born in Kinsale, educated in Queens Coll. in this University (where he was Bach. of Arts) and afterwards became a Barrister of Linc. Inn On the 27 of Sept. 1664 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Majesty's Privy Council, and on the 20 of Nou. 1665 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty, being then accounted a Gent. of known worth and abilities, and fitted every way for the Service of his Majesty, who then thought good to give him the character of his Envoy extraordinary to the King of Portugal, whether he was to go in few days after. In the latter end of Octob. 1671 he was sent Envoy extraordinary to Count de Monterey Governor or Viceroy for his Catholic Maj. of the Spanish Netherlands, and in the beginning of Decemb. 1679, (the Presbyterians and fanatics being then rampant upon the account of the Popish Plot) he resigned his Clerkship of the Council. In Feb. following he was sent Envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Brandeberg, and after his return he was much respected for the Services he had done for the Crown. Afterwards he was one of the Commissioners of the Customs for England, Secretary of State for Ireland, and one of the Privy Council for that Realm, and in the latter end of Nou. 1691 he was chosen Precedent of the Royal Society in the room of Dr. Walt. Charlton, having been Fellow thereof several years before, etc. He hath a very hopeful son named Edward Southwell lately a Gent. Com. of Merton Coll, who hath translated into English An account of Virtue: or, Dr. Henr. Moor's Abridgement of Morals Lond. 1690. oct. It is done so well and the style is so masculine and noble, that I know not as yet any book written in better English.  

John Fitz-Patrick Colonels.  
Edw. Vernon of N. Aston in Oxfordsh. Colonels.  
Garret Moor Colonels.   
Thom. Fairfax, a Major.  
Gustavus Hamilton, a Capt. etc.  
And among the Gentlemen that were created, was James Thynne of Buckland in Glocestershire son of Sir Hen. Frederick Thynne of Kempsford in the said County Bt: Which James was younger Brother to Thom. Visc. Weymouth, and elder to Henr. Frederick Thynne Keeper of his Majesties. Library at S. James', in the place of Thom. Rosse deceased, and afterwards Treasurer and Receiver general to Catherine the Qu. Dowager.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Dec. 12. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. domestic Chaplain to James Duke of Ormonde was then declared Doct. of Div, and on the 29 of Jan. following was diplomated.— He was afterwards Bishop of Kildare.  
Sim. Digby another domestic Chaplain to the said Duke, was declared D. of D. the same day, and afterwards diplomated with Moreton.  
The said two Doctors were nominated by the Chancellor of the University, who then thought it not fit to have them created when he was in Oxon, lest a gap thereby should be made for others. As for Dr. Digby (son of Essex Digby B. of Dromore) who had been incorp. M. of A. in 1676, he became Bish. of Limerick an. 1681, where, sitting till 1691, was, in Dec. the same year, nominated by his Maj. King Will. 3. Bishop of Elphine, to which soon after he was translated.  
This year was a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library Theod. Dassovius of Hamburgh, who was afterwards Professor of Poetry and of the Heb. Tongue in the Uniu. of Wittenberg and a Publisher of certain Talmudical matters.    



An. Dom. 1678.  
An. 30 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Nicholas Warden of New Coll, nominated by the delegated power of the Chancellor, confirmed by Convocation and thereupon readmitted 26 Aug. He continued in his Office till after he was elected Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester, (an account of which I have given you among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1675.) otherwise, 'tis very probable, he would have served a third year, rather than be out of authority, which he loVed.  

Proct.  
James Hulet of Ch. Ch. Apr. 10.  
Joh. Clerk of Alls. Coll. Apr. 10.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 2. Jo. Hammatt of S. Ed. Hall.— This Bach, who was the son of a faith. of both his names of Taunton in Som. became afterwards the sniuling, nonconforming, conforming Vicar of Stantonbury in Bucks, and Author of A burning and a shining Light, Sermon preached at the funeral of the late rev. Mr. James Wrexham Minister of Haversham in Bucks, on Joh. 5.35. Lond. 1685. qu. In the title of this Sermon (a pitiful, canting and silly discourse) the Author entitles himself Mast. of Arts; which degree, I presume (if he speaks truth) was taken at Cambridge, for I am sure he did not take it here.  

Jun. 25. Thom. Sawyer of Magd. Coll.  
Oct. 15. Thom. Bend of Linc. Coll.   
Of the first of these two you may see among the Master's 1680, and of the other among those in 1681.  
Adm. 212.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted this year, but not one of them is a Writer.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 12. George Royse of Or. Coll.  
Jun. 4. Thom. Tully of S. Edm. Hall.— He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Edw. Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle, Chancellor of the dioc. of Carlisle in the place of Rowl. Nicols Bach. of Div, and Author of A sermon preached at the funeral of Dr. Ed. Rainbow late B. of Carlisle, on Rev. 14.13. Lond. 1688. oct. It is added to the Life of the said Bishop, written by another person, as I have told you among the Bishops in Edw. Rainbow.  

Jul. 1. George Tully of Qu. Coll.  
Oct. 15. Joh Bagley of Ball. Coll.   
The last of these two did afterwards take the degree of Doct. of Phys. at Vtrecht, and published his Theses after he had taken it, intit. Disputatio medica inauguralis continens considerationes quasdam Theoretico-practicas circa Foetum humanum, etc. 27 Jul. 1682. ultr. 1682. qu.  
Oct. 17. Thom. Pigott of Wadham Coll.— This person, who was son of Hen. Pigott mentioned among the created Bachelaurs of Diu. in these Fasti, an. 1660, was born at Brindle in Lancashire, became Vicar of Yarnton near Oxon 1679, which he kept with his Fellowship of Wadh. Coll, and afterwards Chaplain to James Earl of Ossory. He hath written, An account of the Earthquake that happened at Oxford, and the parts adjacent, 17 Sept. 1683. Printed in one sheet and a half in the Philosophical Transactions, numb. 151. He also made a new discovery or certain Phoenonema's in Music; an account of which was drawn up in a Letter by Dr. Wallis dat. Mar. 14. an. 1676, which was remitted into the said Phil. Trans. numb. 134. p. 839. But before that time, viz, an. 1673. the very same discovery was made by Will. Noble M. A. of Mert. Coll, very well skilled in the practic part of Music, far beyond Pigott, which he keeping to himself, only imparting it to one or more friends, Pigott being a more forward and mercurial man got the glory of it among most Scholars. See in Dr. Wallies his Letter before mentioned, and in Dr. R. Plot's book intit. The natural History of Oxfordshire cap. 9 par. 199.200. Mr. Pigott died in the Earl of Ossory's house in S. James' Square, within the Liberty of Westm. on the 14 of Aug. 1686, being then Fellow of the Royal Society, and was buried in the Chancel of the new Church of S. James near the said Square. As for Mr. Noble, who had proceeded in Arts 1673, he died in Ch. Ch. on the 4 of Sept. 1681, being then one of the Chapl. of that house, and was buried in the Cathedral there.  
Feb. 22. Nathan. Ellison of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards Chapl. to Thomas B. of Lichfield, who gave him the Archdeaconry of Stafford, installed therein 14 Jul. 1682.  
Mar. 13. Thom. Lindesay of Wadh. Coll.— He was afterwards Chapl. to the Earl of Essex, Minister of Woolwich in Kent and Author of A Sermon preached at the Anniversary meeting of the Dorsetshire Gentlemen in the Church of S. Marry le Bow 1. Dec. 1691. on Gal. 6.10. Lond. 1692. quart.  
Adm. 103.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Four were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer.  
In a Convocation held on the 10 of Apr. was a Letter read from the delegated power of the Chanc. of the Univesity in behalf of Henr. Fowler formerly of Oriel Coll, who, after he had been a Graduate, served very faithfully in his Majesty's Army during the grand Rebellion began by the Godly Party; and afterwards having not an opportunity of returning to the University to prosecute his studies and take his Degrees in the usual way, he chiefly betook himself to the study of Physic, wherein he made so laudable a progress that he was well qualified to be a Licentiat in the said faculty, etc. This Order being read, and thereupon proposed to the house, whether he should be licenced to practice, or not, the Nons made so much noise that the Proctors were put to the trouble of taking Suffrages in the crowd; (which might have disordered a man to speak a Speech presently after, I mean Mr. Wight the sen. Proct. who was then to surrender up the badges of his Authority, but he came off well enough notwithstanding) At length it was carried by 145, against 63, Votes; whereupon Mr. Fowler was licenced to practise Phys. on the 2. of May following, which afterwards he did with good success in his own Country, but hath not published any thing that I know.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 6. Thom. Ken of New Coll. Adm. 7.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jan. 13. Fisher Littleton of Alls. Coll.  
Jan. 13. Thom. Stafford of Magd. Coll.   
27. Henr. Newton of Mert. Coll. lately of S. Mary's Hall.— He was afterwards Chanc. of the dioc. of London and principal Official to the Archd. of Essex.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 10. Thom. Mayow of Ch. Ch.  ☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted this year.  

Incorporations.  
Jun. 25. Rich. Smith who had taken the degree of Doct. of Phys. at Vtrecht in January 1675, was incorporated in this Uniu.— He was M. of A. of this Uniu. and Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll▪ and is now of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond.  
A little before the Act time and after, were several Cambridge Masters of Arts incorporated, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer, as I can yet find.  
Oct. 10. Thom. Lane Bach. of Arts of Cambridge.— He had been of S. John's Coll. there, was now of Ch. Ch, and afterwards Fellow of Mert. Coll. He hath written certain matters, but whether he'll own them you may inquire of him.  
Henr. s●ve of Camb. who was created D. of D. 12 Sept. 1661., as I have before told you, had Letters rest. of it dated 21 Jan. this year.   

Creations.  
May 28. Charles Fitz-Roy of Ch. Ch. Duke of Southampton and one of the not. sons of K. Ch. 2, was actually created Mast. of Arts.— See more of him in these Fasti among the Incorpor. anno. 1663.  
Dec. 3. Edmund Halley of Queens Coll. was actually created M. A. by virtue of the King's Letters dat. 18 Nou. going before, which say that he had received a good account of his learning as to the Mathematics and Astronomy, whereof he hath gotten a good testimony by the Observations he hath made during his abode in the Island of S. Helena, etc.— This person hath written and published divers things of great curiosity, and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxford Writers.  
This year was a Sojourner in the Uniu. and a Student in the public Library Paul. Vindigius son of Erasm. Vind. of Copenhagen in Denmark.— He was afterwards a Professor in the said Uniu. of Copenhagen, and Author of several Theol. and Philosoph. Books.  
Thom. Bartholin a Dane, son of a Father of both his names was also this year a Student in the same Libr. and afterwards Author of several Medicinal and Theological Books, etc.    



An. Dom. 1679.  
An. 31 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde,  
Vicechanc. Timothy Halton D. D. Provost of Queens Coll, who being nominated by the Chancellors Letter dated from Dublin Castle 19 Jul. was admitted in Convoc. 5 Aug.  

Proct.  
Sam. Norris of Exet. Coll. Apr. 30.  
Hugh Barrow of C. C. Coll. Apr. 30.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jun. 27. Rawlins Dring of Wadh. Coll.  
Oct. 23. Thom. Rogers of Hart Hall, lately of Trin. Coll.  
Humph. Hody of Wadh. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Jan. 29. Miles Stapylton of Vniv, afterwards of All's. Coll.— See among the Master's 1683.  
Adm. 175.   

Bach. of Law.  
Seven were adm, but not one of them, that I can yet learn, is a Writer.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 8. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch.  
May 3. Sam. Derham of Magd. Hall.  
Jun. 27. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch.  

Jul. 2. Hugh Tod of Vniv. Coll.  
3. Will. Nicholson of Qu. Coll.   
Jul. 10. Theoph. Downs of Ball. Coll.— He was afterwards author of An answer to A call to humiliation, etc. Or a Vindication of the Church of England from the Reproaches and Objections of Will. Woodward, in two Fast Sermons preached in his Conventicle at Lemster in the County of Hereford, and afterwards published by him. Lond. 1690. qu. and two other things relating to the Case of Allegiance, etc.  
Jul. 10. Aug. or Austin Freezer of S. Edm. Hall.— This person, who was a Native of Newcastle upon Tyne, was afterwards Preacher to the Merchant Adventurers of England residing at Dort and author of The divine original and the supreme dignity of Kings no defensative against death; Sermon preached 22 Feb. 1684/5. still. vet. before the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England resid. at Dort, upon occasion of the decease of K. Ch. 2, on Psal. 82.6.7.8. Rotterdam 1685. qu.  
Dec. 17. Robert Brograve of Magd. Hall.— This Divine, who was son of Rowl. Brog. of Wappenham in Northamptonshire Gent. was afterwards Lecturer of S. Mich. Basingshaw in Lond, Chaplain ord. to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Marry, Rector of Gatesside in the Bishopric of Darham and Author of A Sermon preached before the K. and Q. at Hampton Court 12 May 1689, on Math. 5.16. Lond. 1689. qu. He died at Gateside about the beginning of 1691.  
Jan. 22. Nich. Kendal of Ex. Coll.— He was afterwards Rector of Sheviock in Cornwall, and author of A Serm. preached at the Assizes held for the Count of Cornw. 18. Mar. 1685. Lond. 1686. qu. etc.  
29. Joanna Webb of Wadh. Coll.— This person, who was about this time Chapl. of the said Coll, was afterwards Master of the Free-school at Bruton in his nat. Count. of Som. and author of Perjury the crying sin of the Nation, etc. Pr. 1691. qu. etc.  
Feb. 5. Walt. Leightonhouse of Linc. Coll.— He was afterwards Chapl. to the Earl of Huntingdon, Rector of Washingbourgh near to, and in his native County of, Lincoln, and author of The duty and benefit of frequent Communion, Sermon preached in S. Peter's Church in Lincoln upon Passion Sunday 1688, on Luke 22.19. Lond. 1689. qu. As also of A Sermon preached at the Assizes on the 6 of Mar. last before Sir Joh. Holt Kt, L. Ch. Just. of England.  
Adm. 102.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Four were admitted, but not one a Writer as yet▪   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 22. Humph. Humphreys of Jes. Coll.  
Jul. 9 Joh. Hinckley of S. Alb. Hall.  
Nou. 29. Henr. Maurice of Jes. Coll. Adm. 12.   

Doct. of Law.  

July 2. Rich. Jones of Jes. Coll.  
Dec. 17. Hen. Davies of S. Joh. Coll.   
Both these were Compounders.   

Doct. of Phys.  

July 10. Edw. Wrigglesworth of S. Joh. Coll.  
Dec. 17. Joshua Lasher of S. Joh. Coll.    

Doct. of Diu.  
June 30. Thom. Ken of New Coll.  
July 4. Will. Jane Can. of Ch. Ch. Compounder— On the 19 of May 1680 he was admitted in Convocation the King's Professor of Diu. upon the resignation of Dr. Allestree.  
9 Joh. Hinckley of S. Alban Hall— He accumulated the degrees in Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
After the conclusion of the Act were 17 Mast. of Arts of Cambr. incorporated, among whom were Rich. Holland of Eman. College, mentioned as a Writer of both his names, among the Writers in this vol. p. 433. and Tho. Wright another, one of both whose names of S. Peter's Coll. in Cambr. hath published The glory of God's revenge against the bloody and detestable sin of murder and adultery, etc. print. in 1685 and other things.   

Creations.  
Dec. 17. George Hickes Bach. of Diu. of Linc. Coll. was created Doct. of Diu. by virtue of the Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc, which say that he hath been several years attendant upon the Duke of Lauderdale in his Majesty's service in the Kingdom of Scotland, as well as in England— that he hath done remarkable service to the Church of England during his abode in that other Kingdom, and hath received several marks of honour from the late Archb. of S. Andrew and the Clergy of Scotland, etc.  
Joh. Snell born at Comonell in Carrick in the Sherriffdome of Air in Scotland, bred in the University of Glascow under Jam. Darumpley Prof. of Philosophy, of which he was afterwards diplomated Mast. of Arts, died in the house of Mr. Benj. Cooper in Halywell in the suburb of Oxon on the sixth day of Aug. this year, aged 50 years (after he had spent some time there) and was buried at the upper end of the Chancel (under the north wall) of the Chap. or Church of S. Cross of Halywell. This I mention because that in his last Will and Testament he bequeathed the Manor of Vffeton alias Olufeton alias Vlveton in the County of Warwick, worth about 450 l. per an. to be employed (after certain years spent, and moneys raised and paid thence) for the maintenance of certain Scotch Scholars in such Coll. or Hall in Oxon, that the Vicechancellor of the Uniu. of Oxon, Provost of Qu. Coll, Master of Ball. Coll. and Precedent of S. john's Coll, for the time being, shall think fit. Their number is not to be above twelve, or under five, to be chosen from Glascow Coll. from the number of such that had spent 3 years, or two at the least, there, or one or two in some other Coll. in Scotland, etc. They are to enjoy the said exhibition about ten or eleven years, and then they are to return into their own Country to get preferment there, etc. This estate Mr. Snell got by being, first a Clerk under Sir Orlando Bridgman while he had Chamber-practice in the time of Usurpation. Secondly by being Crier of the Court of Exchequer while the said Sir Orl. was L. Chief Baron thereof, and of the Common-pleas when Sir Orl. was Ch. Justice of that Court, and lastly by being Seal-bearer when he was Lord Keeper. Afterwards, being much esteemed for his great diligence and understanding, he was employed sometimes into Scotland for James Duke of Monmouth, and bore the Seal again when Anth. E. of Shaftesbury was L. Chancellor of England, etc.    



An. Dom. 1680.  
An. 32. Car. 2.    
Chanc. James D. of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton, nominated by the Chancellors Letters dat. at Kilkenny 19 Aug, confirmed by Convoc. 2. Oct.  

Proct.  
Charles Hawles of Magd. Coll. Apr. 21.  
Robert Balche of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 21.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 12. Thomas Hoy of S. Joh. Coll.  
12. Henry Hellier of C. C. Coll.  
June 15. Joh. Norris of Exeter Coll.   
The last of these three was afterwards of Alls. Coll.  
Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Linc, afterwards of Brasn. Coll.— He hath published several things, but such is his modesty that he'll acknowledge none.  
June 15. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch.  
Oct. 27. Thom. Creech of Wadh. afterwards of Alls. Coll. etc.  
Adm. 224.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were admitted, whereof one was a Compounder.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 23. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll.— This Divine, who is Son of Will. Talbot of the City of Lichfield Gent, became Dean of Worcester in the place of the most worthy and learned Dr. G. Hickes, deprived for not taking the Oaths of Alleg. and Supremacy to King W. 3. and Qu. Marry, in Apr. 1691. and was afterwards author of (1) A Serm. in the Cathedral Ch. of Worcester upon the monthly fast day, 16. Sept. 1691, on Amos 4.21. Lond. 1691. qu. (2) A Serm. pr. before the Qu. at Whitehall 26. Feb. 1691. on. Haback. 1.13. Lond. 1692. qu. etc.  
June 23. Will. Hayley or Healey of All's. Coll.— He was afterward Chaplain to Sir Will. Trumbull Embass. to Constantinople or to the Ottoman Port and author of A Serm. preached before the right hon. George E. of Berkley Governor of the Company of Merchants trading to the Levant Seas, at S. Peter's Ch. in B●oadstreet, Lond. Jan. 30. 1686. on Prov. 8.18. Lond. 1687. qu.  
June 25. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall— He was afterwards Minister of Peterborough, and author of An answer to the Bishop of Condom (now of Meaux) his Exposition of the Cath. Faith, etc. Wherein the doctrine of the Church of Rome is detected and that of the Church of England expressed, etc. Lond. 1686. qu. To which are added Reflections on his pastoral Letter. Both these are contained in 17. printed sheets.  
July 5. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall— This Gent. was the fourth Son of Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet, and taking holy Orders about the time he was Master, was presented to a Living in Surrey by Rob. Wymondsold of Putney Esq, with whom travelling into France, in the quality of a Tutor, was drowned in the Summer time in the presence of his Pupil, as he was recreating himself by swimming in a River near the City of Paris, an. 1681. He translated from French into English with some additions— Notitia Historicorum selectorum: Or animadversions upon the famous Greek and Latin Historians, etc. Oxon. 1678. oct. Written by Franc. Lafoy moth Le Vayer, Counsellor of State to the present King of France. The eldest Brother of this Will. Davenant is Charles, who, became a Gent. Com. of Ball. Coll. in 1671, but receding without the taking a degree here, had the degree of Doct. of the Civ. Law conferred upon him elsewhere. He is author of Circe a Tragedy. Lond. 1677. qu. The Prologue to it was written by Mr. Jo. Dryden, and the Epilogue by John late Earl of Rochester. The Songs in this Trag. were printed by themselves in two sh. in qu. In 1685 he was elected Burgess for S. Ives in Cornwall to sit in that Parl. that met at Westm. 19 May the same year, being the first of K. Jam. 2. etc.  

July 5. Thom. Williams of Jes. Coll.  
July 5. Thom. Walter of Jes. Coll.   
The former of these two, who is Son of Will. Williams who was adm. M. of A. 1676, hath translated into the Welsh tongue Dr. W. sherlock's book entit. A practical discourse of death Oxon. 1691. oct. The other, who was Son of Joh. Walter of Percefield in Monmouthshire wrote The excommunicated Prince, or the false Relic; a Tragedy, etc. Lond. 1679 in a thin fol. To which Trag. though the name of Capt. Will. Bedloe is put, as author, yet this Mr. Walter wrote all, or the most part of it. See more in a book entit. An Account of the English Dramatic Poets, etc. Oxon. 1691. oct. Written by Gerard Langbaine (Son of the learned Dr. Ger. Langbaine sometimes Provost of Qu. Coll.) lately a Com. of Vniv. Coll. now superior Beadle of Law in the Uniu. of Oxon, wherein p. 15. he ascribes it to the said Captain, without any notice at all of Tho. Walter.  
Oct. 27. Joh Howell of Trin. Coll.— He hath written and published A discourse of persecution, or, suffering for Christ's sake, etc. Lond. 1685. qu. and may other things hereafter.  
Mar. 11. Thom. Sawyer of Magd. Coll.— This person, who was Nephew to Sir Rob. Sawyer Attorney General, was Music Reader in the Act, 1681, and author of a Poem called— Antigamus. Or a satire against Marriage. Oxon. 1681. in one sh. in qu. Written upon the denial of a certain Gentlewoman, to whom he was a suitor for Marriage, etc.  
Adm. 127.   

Bach of Phys.  
Three were admitted, of whom Francis Smith M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. was one— I set him down here, not that he was a Writer, but upon this account following, viz. that after the death of Dr. James Hyde Principal of Magd. Hall, which happened on the 7 of May 1681, the Fellows of Magd. Coll. calling into question the power of the Chanc. of the University of putting in a Principal of the said Hall, did thereupon (the Precedent. being then absent) elect to be principal the said Francis Smith, 21 May 1681, and did intend to seal up the Hall gates against the Vicechancellor, in case he should come to admit a Principal of the Chancellors nomination. But the Precedent in the mean time returning, and the Fellows desired by the B. of Winchester to desist from these their proceedings, the matter came to nothing. So that the Vicechancellor finding no opposition, he did forthwith admit Dr. Will. Levet of the Chancellors nomination, as I shall tell you among the D. of D. following. This Mr. Smith was afterwards Dr. of his faculty and Physician in the Army of K. Will. 3. in Ireland, where he died about the beginning of June 1691.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 8. Sam. Master of Exeter Coll.  
July 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll.  
Feb. 1. Joh. wiles of Trin. Coll.   
Adm. 12.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year.  

Doct. of Phys.  
July 8. Joh. Floyer of Queens Coll. a Compounder— He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of certain matters in fol. and other vol. of his faculty, and therefore he is to be hereafter numbered among the Oxford Writers.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 8. Joh. Hammond of Ch. Ch. a Compounder— On the 2 of May 1673 he was installed Preb. of Brampton in the Ch. of Lincoln, and on the 23 of Sept. the same year, Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Rich. Perincheif, (both which he obtained by the favour of Dr. Will. Fuller Bish. of Linc. to whom he was Chaplain) and on the 8. July 1679 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, on the death of Dr. Thom. Lockey. The said Dr. Perincheif, who had been Minister of S. Mary Colechurch in London, Preb. of Westminster and Subalmoner to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was installed in the said Archdeaconry of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Henry Downhall, 2 Apr. 1670. and died at Westminster on the 3. of Sept. 1673. See more of him in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 243. b, and in Will. Fulman among the Writers in this vol.  
June 25. Will. Levett of Ch. Ch. a Comp.— On the first of June 1681, he was admitted Principal of Magd. Hall after the death of Dr. James Hyde, and on the 10 of January 1685 he was installed Dean of Bristol upon the death of Dr. Rich. Thompson.  

Mar. 10. Alex. Pudsey a Comp. of Magd. Coll.  
Mar. 10. Hen. Fairfax of Magd. Coll.  
Mar. 10. Joh. Younger of Magd. Coll.  
Mar. 10. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll.   
In the middle of Sept. 1689 Dr. Fairfax had the Deanery of Norwich conferred on him, (by the promotion of Dr. Joh. Sharp to the Deanery of Canterb.) upon the account of his sufferings in the reign of K. Jam. 2, whereupon he was installed in that Dignity on S. Andrews day, 30. of Nou. following. As for Dr. Younger he was afterwards Preb. of Canterbury, as I have told you in Sam. Parker among the Writers, p. 617.  
March 10. George Reynell of C. C. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
On the 13 of July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act, were 23. Masters, one Bach. of Diu. one Doct. of Law and one Doct. of Physic, of the University of Cambridge incorporated. Among the Masters I find only one, as yet, a Writer, viz.  
Steph. Key of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Rector of Manton in Lincolnsh. and author of A discourse teaching the excellency and usefulness of Christian Religion, both in principles and practices chiefly designed by the author for the benefit of his Parishioners. Printed at York 1686. qu. It is dedicated to Sir Joh. Kay of Woodsome Bt, one of the Dep. Lieutenants of the West-Riding in Yorkshire, who, as it seems, was a favourer of his studies. The Bach. of Diu. and Doctors were these following.  
Nathan. Shute Bach. of Diu. of Kings Coll.— He hath one or more Serm. extant.  
Henry Hitch Doct. of Law of Jes. Coll.  
Rob. Witty Doct. of Phys. of Kings Coll.— This learned person hath written (1) Scarborough Spa: or a description of the nature and virtue of the Spa at Scarborough in Yorkshire. (2) Treatise of the nature and use of Water in general, and the several sorts thereof, as sea, rain, snow, pond, etc. with their original causes and qualities etc. (3) A short discourse concerning mineral waters, especially that of the Spa. These three which go and are bound together, were several times printed in oct. and all, or most, of them (which go under the general name of Scarborough Spa) were put into latin by the author, with this tit. Fons Scarburgensis: sive tractatus de omnis aquarum generis origine & usu, etc. Lond. 1678 oct. Dedic. to Sir Joh. Micklethwait Precedent of the Coll. of Physicians, a Yorkshire man born, and bred in the same School with Dr. Witty. (4) Pyrologia Mimica: or an answer to Hydrologia Chymica of Will. Sympson in defence of Scarborough Spa: Wherein the five mineral principles of the said Spa are defended against all his objections, etc. Lond. 1669. oct: with which is printed (5) A vindication of the rational method and practice of Physic called Galenical, and a reconciliation between that and Chemical: As also (6) A further discourse about the original of Springs. Besides the answer of Dr. Will. Sympson, made to the aforesaid book called Scarborough Spa, came out another answer entit. Scarborough Spa spagirically anatomised: together with a New years-gift for Dr. Witty. Lond. 1672. oct, written by George Tonstall Doct. of Phys. sometimes Bach. of Phys. of Magd. Hall. in Oxon as I have told you in these Fasti, p. 741. Dr. Witty hath also written (7) Gout raptures: or an historical fiction of a War among the stars; wherein are mentioned the 7 planets, the 12 signs of the Zodiac and the 50 constellations of Heaven mentioned by the Ancients, etc. Lond. 1677 oct. written in vers. (8) A survey of the Heavens: a plain description of the admirable fabric and motions of heavenly bodies, as they are discovered to the eye, by the Telescope, and several eminent consequences illustrated thereby. 1. The infinite wisdom, etc. of God in the Creation. 2. The verifying, etc. Lond. 1680. 81. oct. To which is added the Gout raptures in English, Latin and Greek Lyric verse by the author Dr. Witty, who hath also done another work mentioned in the first vol. of this book in the Fasti, an. 1628. p. 864. This Dr. Witty, who was always esteemed an ingenious and learned man, was Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at London, had practised Physic for 18 years together with Dr. James Primrose at Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, and after the said Primerose's death, carried on his practice there, and in the neighbourhood for several years after with good success. At length retiring to Lond●n in his old age, died in Basingshaw-street about the latter end of Nou. 1684.  
The before mentioned Cambridge men, viz. Steph. Kay, N. Shute, H. Hitch and R. Witty were incorporated on the 13. of July.  
Oct. 2. Adam Samuel Hartman Doct. of Diu. of the University of Francfurt upon Oder, Bishop of the reformed Churches through Great Poland and Prussia.  
Oct. 19 Joh. Price Doct. of Diu. of Cambr.— This worthy Doctor was born in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, educated in Eton School, elected thence into Kings Coll. in Cambr. 1645, (of which he was afterwards Fellow) left it when he was Master of Arts and became Chaplain to George Monk when he was chief Governor or General of Scotland, and afterwards was privy to all the secret passages and particularities in order to the restauration of K. Ch. 2, made by the said most noble and generous Monk: At which time he came with him into England when he effected that matter, and as a reward for his services done in that affair, he had first conferred upon him, by the intercession of James Earl of Northampton, a Fellowship in Eton Coll. in the place of the learned Joh. Hales some years before dead, a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury and the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex. He hath published (1) A Serm. preached before the H. of Com. at S. Margaret's in Westm. 10. May 1660 on 1. Sam. 2. ver. 9 Lond. 1660. qu. (2) The mystery and method of his Majesty's happy restauration, &c, Lond. 1680. oct. and died in the beginning of the year, in the month of May, as it seems, 1691.   

CREATIONS.  
The Creation's this year were in all faculties, occasioned mostly by the coming to the University of certain noble Foreigners.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 21. Rich. Bulkley of Ch. Ch. Son of Sir Rich. Bulkley of the Kingdom of Ireland, four years standing in the condition of Fellow Com. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin, etc. was actually created Bach. of Arts.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Sept. 6. James Boteler Earl of Ossory of Ch. Ch. Son of Thom. late Earl of Ossory, and Grandson to James Duke of Ormonde, was presented by the Orator with a little speech to the Vicechancellor, which done he was created M. A.— He became, after the death of his Grandfather, Duke of Ormonde and Chancellor of this University.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 14. Rich. Bravell of Exet. Coll, Chaplain to the Garrison of Tangier within the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa (where he had showed himself so useful to the public, that upon his desire of return, the Bishop of Lond. and other eminent persons required his continuance there) was diplomated Bach. of Diu.   

Doct. of Law.  
Charles the Electoral Prince Palatine being entertained at Oxon in Septemb. this year, some of his retinue were created Doctors of Law, viz.  
Sept. 9 Johan. Philippus ab Adelsheim, France-Germanus, Master of the Horse to the Electoral Prince.  
Fredericus Adolphus Hansen, Lord in Grumbuy and Beulshubygard.  
Gustavus Georgius D' Haleke of Brandeberg in Germany.  
Paulus Hackenbergh of Westphalia in Germany, Professor of Eloquence and Histories in the Uniu. of Heidelberg.  
The said four persons were created on the 9 of Sept.  
Feb. 25. George Lewes Duke of Brunswick and Lunenberg, was then created with solemnity— This person, who was now commonly called Prince of Hannover, and had come to Whitehall on the 16 of Decemb. going before, purposely to pay his respects to the Lady Anne Daughter of James Duke of York, was, the day before he was created, received in the University with solemnity at his coming thereunto, and being lodged in Ch. Ch, he with his retinue, were conducted the next day by the Bishop Dr. Fell to the public Schools, and being habited in scarlet in the Apodyterium was thence conducted by three of the Beadles with the King's professor of Law to the Theatre, (where the Convocation was then held) and coming near to the vicechancellors seat, the Professor presented him, (the Prince being then bare) which done, the Vicechancellor then standing bare, as the Doctors and Masters did, he created him Doctor of Law. That also being done, he went up to his chair of state provided for him on the right hand of the vicechancellors seat, and when three of his retinue were created Doctors, (as I am now about to tell you) the Orator complemented him in a speech in the name of the University. The next day he left the University, at which time was presented to him, in the name thereof, Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, with the cuts belonging thereto.  
The noble John free Baron of Reek of the retinue of the said Pr. of Hannover, was created at the same time.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Sept. 9 The Electoral Prince Charles Count Palatine of the Rhine, was with solemnity created Doctor of Phys.— This most noble person, who was Son of Charles Lovys Count Pal. of the Rhine and Prince Elector of the Empire (elder Brother to Pr. Rupert) and he the Son of Frederick Co. Pal. of the Rhine, Pr. Elect. of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of King Jam. 1. of England, was received with solemnity the day before in the University, and took up his Lodgings in the Deans apartment in Ch. Ch. The next day being conducted to the public Schools by the Bishop and others, and thence to the Apodyterium, he was there habited in scarlet with some of his retinue: Thence he was conducted by the Beadles and Dr. Morison the Botanic Professor (who at that time executed the office of the King's Professor of Phys. then absent) to the Theatre where the Convocation was solemnised: And coming near to the Vicech. Seat, the said Doctor presented him with a little Speech; which being done the Vicech. created him with another, and then was conducted to his seat of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellor. All which, with the Creation of some of his retinue being finished, the Orator complemented him with another Speech in the name of the University. The next day his Highness left Oxon, went to Hampton Court, and just at his arrival there (Sept. 12) news was brought him that his Father died suddenly at Edingen between Manheim and Frankendale on the 7 of the said month according to the account there followed.  
Philip Christopher de Koningsmarck Count or Earl of Westerwick and Stegholme, Lord in Rotenburg and Newhouse, was created Doct. of Physic the same day (Sept. 9) as one of the retinue of the aforesaid Electoral Pr.— He was Brother, if I mistake not, to Charles' John Count of Koningsmarck, who in the latter end of 1681 was committed to Newgate, and brought to a public trial of his life for a deep suspicion of having a signal hand in the murder of Tho. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts. Esq. in revenge, as 'twas then said, for depriving him of his Mistress called Elizabeth Countess of Ogle, dau. and heir of the ancient and illustrious family of Piercy Earl of Northumberland.  
William Dutton Colt an Engl. man, Master of the Horse to Prince Rupert, Uncle to the Elect. Pr.— He is now, or else was lately, his Majesty's Resident at Lunenberg and Brunswick.  
Eberhardus Frederic. à Venningen of Alsatia in Germany, Master of the Game or Hunting to the Elect. Prince.  
Abraham Dorr a Germane of Hanaw.  
Joh. Bernhardus Ferber a Saxon.  
These four last were of the retinue of his Electoral Highness.  

Feb. 25. Andr. de Mellevil a Knight and Colonel.  
Feb. 25. Anton. de Saictot.   
These last two, who were of the retinue of the Prince of Hannover, were created Doct. of Phys. after the said Prince had been created Doct. of the Civil Law.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Sept. 9 Fred. Christian. Wincherus Professor of Medicine in Heidelberg (as in the pub. reg. 'tis said) was created in the same Convocation wherein the Electoral Prince was created, being one of his retinue.  
Oct. 21. Thom. Hind Bach. of Diu. of Brasn. Coll. and Chaplain to James Duke of Ormonde— He succeeded in the Deanery of Limerick in Ireland one Dr. Will. Smith promoted to the See of Killala, and died in his house in Limerick in the month of Nou. 1689.    



An. Dom. 1681.  
An. 33. Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, who being as yet in Ireland, did, on the 2 of June this year, upon notice received that some of the delegated power were dead, appoint new Delegates to manage and execute in his absence all powers and jurisdiction belonging to him in the University.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton again, nominated by the Chanc. Letters dat. at Kilkenny 27. Sept. confirmed by Convocation, 2. Oct.  

Proct.  
Joh. Halton of Qu. Coll. Apr. 13.  
Rich. Oliver of S. Jo. Coll. Apr. 13.   

Bach. of Arts.  
July 4. Joh. Hudson of Qu. Coll.— See among the Master's 1684.  
5. Will. Digby of Magd. Coll.— He succeeded his Brother Simon (sometimes of Magd. Coll.) in the honour of Baron of Geashill in Ireland: which Simon, who had succeeded in the said Barony his elder Brother Robert (mentioned in these Fasti, an. 1676) died on the 19 of January 1685 and was buried in the Church of Coleshull in Warwickshire among the graves of his Ancestors.  
Oct. 27. Rich. Stafford of Magd. Hall— Soon after he went to one of the Temples to study the Law, and is now a frequent Writer. See in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 829.  
Dec. 1. Joh. Jones of Trin. Coll, lately of New Inn.  
17. Leopold William Finch of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsey.  
Adm. 177.   

Bach. of Law.  
June 6. Joh. Northleigh of Exet. Coll.— He was afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. and a publisher of certain books.  
Adm. 7.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 10. Tho. Bend of Linc. Coll.— This Gentleman, who was Son of a Father of both his names, was born in, or near, Friday-street in London, bred in the quality of a Com. in the said Coll, and afterwards traveled, but died before he had consummated his intended journey. He hath translated from French into English An historical defence of the Reformation: in answer to a book entit. Just prejudices against the Calvinists. Lond. 1683 in a pretty large cue, originally written by Monsieur Claud, Minister of the reformed Church at Charenton. The Translator hath a preface to this book, wherein he saith that the Romanists caused the said book of Claud to be burned in France. This Mr. Bent died at Geneva, 21. of May, 1683 aged 23 years, and was buried in the Cemitery or Yard on the south side of the Church of S. Gervaice there. Soon after was a monument fixed on the wall of that Church near his grave, with an Epitaph thereon made by Richard Blackmore M. A. of S. Edm. Hal●, which being too large for this place, shall be now omitted.  
Adm. 95.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Feb. 9 Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall. Adm. 4.   

Bach. of Diu.  

June 10. Edw. Fowler of Corp. Ch. Coll.   

Oct. 27. Hugh Barrow of Corp. Ch. Coll.  
Oct. 27. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch.   

March 2. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch.   
Mr. Barrow, who is now Rector of Heyford Purcells or Heyford ad Pontem near Bister in Oxfordshire, hath written, A brief account of the Nullity of K. James' title and of the obligation of the present Oaths of Allegiance. Lond. 1689. qu. He is a learned man and able to write other things, which would, without doubt, be more pleasing to the sober part of Scholars. As for Mr. Cade, who was now, or about this time, Rector of Allington and Vicar of Smeeth in Kent, hath published The foundation of Popery shaken, or the Bishop of Rome's Supremacy opposed, in a Sermon on Matth. 16.18.19. Lond. 1678. qu.  
Mar. 2. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards Chaplain of S. Saviour's (in Southwark) and author of A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Lond. in Guildhall Chappel, on Sunday 20. Jan. 1688. Lond. 1689. qu.  
Adm. 8.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 27. Edward Filmer of Alls. Coll.   

Doct. of Phys.  

July 7. Thomas Rose of Ex. Coll.  
Feb. 16. Rob. Pitt of Wadh. Coll.   
The last of these two was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 10. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll.— He accumulated the degrees in Diu. and is now Bishop of Gloc.  
20. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll.— This Divine, who is now Vicar of Bray in Berks, and had been Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty K. Ch. 2, hath published (1) The State-informer enquired into, Sermon before the Judges at Aylesbury Assizes in Bucks 3. Mar. 1683, on 2. Sam. 15, part of the 3. and 4. verses. Lond. 16●4. qu. (2) England's restauration paralleled in Judges: or the Primitive Judge and Counsellor, Sermon at Abendon Assizes for Berks 6. Aug. 1689, on Isay 1.26.27. Lond. 1689. qu.  
July 8. Anth. Radcliffe of Ch. Ch.— He had been Chapl. to Hen. Earl of Arlington, and, after the death of Dr. Rich. Allestree, he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of Feb. 1680.  
Dec. 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll.— This learned Divine, who is now Principal of S. Edm. Hall, hath in the Press at Oxon the New Testam. in a Greek fol, according to Rob Stephens his fair fol. Edition, an. 1550, wherein he gives an account of the various lections of all the Mss that could be met with, both at home and abroad: Also the Readins of the Father's Greek and Latin, with a judgement upon such Lections, as are more considerable, with large annotations upon them; together with a very full collection of parallel places of holy Scripture, and other places illustrative of particular words, or passages in each verse, placed at the foot of the Greek Text in each page, with distinct Asteristiques and marks of reference; by which, in every verse, may be seen what part of each verse, the said places of Scripture do refer to. This most elaborate work was begun above 15 years since, and without intermission carried on with great industry and care. He hath consulted all the ancient Mss of the whole, or any part of the New Test. now reposited in England and has procured a collation of the most authentic Ms copies at Rome, Paris and Vienna. The work was attempted by the advice and countenance of Dr. Joh. Fell Bishop of Oxon, and the impression began at his charge in his Lordship's Printing-house near the Theatre. After the said Bishop's death, his Executors being not willing to carry on the undertaking, the author (Dr. Mill) refunded the prime costs, and took the impression on himself, and at his proper expense it is now so near finished, that the publication is expected within an year, with very learned Prolegomena, that will give an historical account of the tradition or conveyance of the New Test. and other most early records of the Church.  
Mar. 2. Henry Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch.— He accumulated the degrees in Divinity, and on the 17 of June 1689 he was installed Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Mr. Joh. Massey, who withdrew himself from that office in the latter end of Nou. going before.  
In a Convocation held in the beginning of July this year, were Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University read in behalf of Will. Hore M. A. of Exet. Coll, Chapl. in ord. to his Majesty and Preb. of Worcester, that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Diu. but whether he did so, it appears not.   

Incorporations.  
Thirteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated this year, (mostly after the Act) but not one of them is yet a Writer, as I can yet find. Among them was Byron Needham, Brother to Tho. Visc. Kilmurrey in Ireland.  
July 12. William Cave D. D. of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge— This person, who was now Rector of Great Allhallows in London, and in 1684 had succeeded Mr. Joh. Rosewell in his Canonry of Windsor, (about which time he became Rector of Haseley in Oxfordsh. as it seems) is a learned man, as divers books published by him in English and Lat. show, the titles of which are now too many to be here set down. See before, in p. 286.  
Liveley Mody or Moody D. D. of the said Coll. of St. Joh. was also incorporated this year, May 2, he being then a Master Com. of S. Alb. Hall and beneficed in Northamptonshire.   

Creations.  
Feb. 18. George Compton Earl of Northampton, of Ch. Ch, being about to leave the University, was actually created Mast. of Arts.  
Charles' Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland, of Ch. Ch, the eldest Son of Henry Marquis and Earl of Worcester, was then also actually created M. of A. The said Marquis is now Duke of Beaufort.  
These two young Noblemen were presented by the public Orator, each, with a little speech.  
This year was a Sojournour in the University and a student in the public Library, one Andreas Arnoldus of Nuremberg, who published the Sermon of Athanasius to the Monks and other things; and afterwards became Professor of Diu. in the University of Altorf, Rector of a Church in Nuremberg, etc.    



An. Dom. 1682.  
An. 34. Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Joh. Lloyd D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll, Oct. 6.  

Proct.  
Roger Altham of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26.  
Will. Dingley of New Coll. Apr. 26.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 2. White Kennet of S. Edm. Hall.  
Oct. 24. Joh. Glanvill of Trin. Coll.  

Dec. 15. Rich. Simpson of Qu. Coll.  
Dec. 15. Rob. Harrison of Qu. Coll.   
The first of these two, who was Son of Jam. Simpson Senior Alderman of the Corporation of Kendal in Westmorl. was born, and bred in the Free-school, there, and being put aside from being Tabarder of his Coll, when Bach. of Arts, he retired to his native place in discontent and there concluded his last day. He hath written Moral considerations touching the duty of contentedness under afflictions. Oxon. 1686 in 6. sh. in oct. Written by way of Letter to the most affectionate and best of Fathers Mr. Jam. Simpson. To this Letter are added Two Prayers, one for the submission to the divine Will, another for contentment. This ingenious and religious young man died in his Father's house, 20. Decemb. 1684, and was buried the day following in the middle Isle of the Parish Church of Kendal before mentioned, on the W. side of the Pulpit. The other, Rob. Harrison, who was Son of Joh. Har. of the said Corporation of Kendal, and who became a Student of Queens Coll. 1678. aged 15 years, hath written A strange relation of the sudden and violent tempest, which happened at Oxford May 31. an. 1682. Together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms. Oxon 1682 in two sheets in qu. He hath also written another book, which is not yet extant, entit. Mercurius Oxonio-Academicus, etc. taken mostly from Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. and said to be written by a wellwisher to Astron. and Astrology. He is now Schoolmaster of Carlisle.  
Adm. 266.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were admitted this year, of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one, June 14. He was afterwards Secretary to the Royal Society for a time, and wrote the Philosophical Transact. from numb. 167. to num. 178 inclusive, at which time followed Mr. Ed. Halley who began with nu. 179. This Mr. Musgrave was afterwards Doctor of Physic.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 24. Rawlins Dring of Wadh. Coll.  
June 19 Humph. Hody of Wadh. Coll.   
July 5. Thomas Rogers of Hart Hall— Author of a Poem called Lux occidentalis, etc.  

6. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll.  
6. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll.   
The first of these two is Vicar of Totness, the other of Dartmouth, in Devonshire, and both authors and writers, and persons of good repute in that Country for their learning, and zeal for the Ch. of England.  
Mar. 6. Hen. Hellier of C. C. Coll.  
Adm. 101.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Five were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 3. Tho. Hyde of Qu. Coll. Compounder.  
July 18. George Walls of Ch. Ch.— He hath published A Sermon preached to the Natives of the City and County of Worcester in the Church of S. Laurence Jewry at their solemn meeting, 28 June 1681. on Nehem. 8.10. Lond. 1681. qu. He was afterwards, or about that time, Chaplain to the Company of English Merchants trading at Hamborough.  

Nou. 15. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch.  
Mar. 12. Rich. Roderick of Ch. Ch.   
The last of these two, who was Vicar of Blandford forum in Dorsetshire published A Serm. preached 19 of Aug. 1684 at the consecration of the Lord Weymouths Chapel in Longleat, on 2. Chron. 7.16. Lond. 1684 qu. Dedicated to Thom. L. Thynne, Baron of Warmister, Viscount Weymouth, etc.  
Adm. 16.   

Doct. of Law.  

Apr. 26. Thomas Wainewright of Alls. Coll.  
July 21. Rich. Maris of S. John's Coll.   
The first of these two is Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester.   

Doct. of Phys.  
May 24. Joh. Bateman of Mert. Coll.— He was afterwards Fellow and Censor of the Coll. of Phys.  

July 5. Joh. Radcliff of Linc. Coll.  
July 5. Charles Lybbe of Magd. Hall.   
The first of these two is now Fellow of the said Coll. of Physicians.  
Dec. 1. Phineas Ellwood of C. C. Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 3. Thom. Hyde of Queens Coll, an Accumulator and Compounder.  

July 5. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll.  
7. Thom. Seddon alias Sidney of Alls. Coll.   
The first of these two is now the worthy Bishop of Bangor.   

Incorporations.  
Three and twenty Masters of Arts of Cambridge were incorporated this year, (mostly after the Act) among whom I find these.  
July 11. Charles Montague of Trin. Coll, a younger Son of Edward Earl of Sandwich— He was this year Gent. Com. for a time of Linc. Coll, afterwards Chancellor of the Dioc. of Durham in the place of Sir R. Lloyd deceased, and is now High Sherriff of Durham.  
Michael Altham of Christ's Coll. was incorporated the same day— He was afterwards Vicar of Latton in Essex and author of A dialogue between a Pastor and Parishioner touching the Lord's Supper, etc. printed several times in tw: As also of 3. or more Discourses against Popery in the reign of K. Jam. 2.  
Tho. Browne of S. john's Coll, was incorporated also the same day— He was afterwards Bach. of Diu. and published Concio ad clerum habita coram Acad. Cantab. 11. Junii 1687 pro gradu Bach. in S. Theol. ubi vindicatur vera & valida Cleri Anglicani ineunte reformatione, ordinatio Lond. 1688. qu. To which is added an English Sermon of the same author turned by him into Lat. intit. Concio habita 3 Julii 1687 de Canonica Cleri Anglicani Ordinatione, as also the Instruments of the consecration of Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Besides the said Masters were also incorporated these persons following.  
Jul. 11. James Fulwood Doctor of the Laws of Queens Coll. in Cambridge.  
John Worth Doct. of Diu. of Dublin and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Patrick there, was incorporated the same day, etc.   

Creations.  
Jul. 11. John Pooley M. of A. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde, and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of Kilkenny in Ireland, was actually created Doct. of Diu. by virtue of the Letters of the said Duke, Chanc. of this Uniu.  
Hugh Drysdale of the Uniu. of Dublin, Preacher in the Cath. Ch. at Kilkenny, Chapl. to the said Duke and Archdeacon of Ossory, was actually created Doct. of Diu. on the same day by virtue of the Letters of the said Duke.  
Feb. 12. Samuel De Langle or Del' Angle was actually created D. of Diu. without paying any fees, by virtue of Chancellors Letters written in his behalf, which partly runs thus,— Mr. Sam. De Langle Minister of the reformed Church at Paris is retired into England with his whole family, with intentions to live here the remainder of his time.— He hath exercised his function 35 years, partly at Roven and partly at Paris.— He is only Mast. of Arts, which the Protestant Divines usually take and no farther, etc. When he was conducted into the house of Convoc. by a Beadle and the King's Professor of Div, all the Masters stood up in reverence to him, and when the Professor presented him, he did it with an harangue: Which being done, and Mr. De Langle had taken his place among the Doctors, he spoke a polite Oration containing thanks for the honour that the most famous University of Oxon had done unto him, etc. He had been Preacher of the chief Church of the reformed Religion in France called Charenton near Paris, and was afterwards made Prebendary of Canterbury, etc.  
This year was a Sojourner in the University and a Student in the public Library, Fredericus Deatsch of Conigsberg in Prussia, who is now, or at least was lately, Professor of Divinity and of the Tongues at Conigsberg, and there held in great esteem for his learning, etc.    



An. Dom. 1683.  
An. 35 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Lloyd Princ. of Jes. Coll.  

Proct.  
Henr. Gandy of Oriel Coll. Apr. 18.  
Arthur Charlet of Trin. Coll. Apr. 18.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 9 Francis Lee of S. Joh. Coll.  
Jun. 20. Thom. Sowtherne of Pemb. Coll.  
Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll.   
26. Thom. Armestead of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters in 1686.  
Nou. 27. Will. nichols of Wadham, afterwards of Merton, Coll.  
Adm. 161.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted, of whom Charles Finch of Alls. Coll. was one, a younger son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 24. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch.  
Apr. 24. Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Brasnose Coll.   

Jun. 13. Thom. Creech of Wadh, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  
Oct. 10. Miles Stapylton of Alls. Coll.   
The last of these two hath translated into English The Life of Caius Marius. Printed in the Third vol. of Plutarch's Lives. Lond. 1684. oct.  

Dec. 13. Tho. Lane of Mert. Coll.  
Mar. 22. Tho. Hoy of S. Joh. Coll.   
Adm. 132.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Five Bachelaurs of Physic were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 15. Rob. Huntingdom of Mert. Coll.  
22. Rog. Altham of Ch. Ch.— On the 24 of Nou. 1691 he was installed Canon of his house, in the place of Dr. Edw. Pococke deceased.  
Jul. 4. Tho. Sayer of S. Joh. Coll.— He was afterwards Archd. of Surrey.  
Adm. 11.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jun. 22. John Conant of Mert. Coll.— He is now an Advocate in Doctor's Commons, etc.   

Doct. of Phys.  

May 9 Will. Gibbons of S. Joh. Coll.  
Jul. 4. David Williams of Oriel Coll.   
The last of these two accumulated the degrees in Physic.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jun. 15. Abrah. Campion of Trin. Coll.  
Jun. 15. Rob. Huntingdon of Mert. Coll.   
The first of these two was a Compounder, the other who was an Accumulator, was lately made Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin, and on the 31 of March 1692 was nominated Bish. of Kilmore.  

22. Tho. Smith of Magd. Coll.  
22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll.   
The last was soon after made Bishop of the Isle of Man.  

Jul. 2. Tho. Turner of C. C. Coll. Comp.  
Jul. 2. Will. Turner of Trin. Coll. Comp.   
The first of these two (who were brothers, and both the sons of Dr. Tho. Turner sometimes Dean of Canterbury) was installed Archd. of Essex in the place of Dr. Edward Layfield deceased, in January 1680, was elected Precedent of C. C. Coll. on the death of Dr. Neulin, 13 March 1687, and after the death of Dr. Crowther he became Chantor of S. Paul's Cath. in London, etc. He hath published A sermon preached in the King's Chap. at Whitehall, 29 May 1685, on Isay 1.26. Lond. 1685. qu. At which time he was Chap. in ord. to his Maj. The other, Dr. Will. Turner, had been collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland, on the death of Dr. Is. Basire, 30 Oct. 1676, and dying in Oxon, 20 Apr. 1685, aged 45 or thereabouts, was buried in the Church of S. Giles there, near to the monument of Alderman Henr. Bosworth, father to Elizabeth, mother to the wife of the said Dr. W. Turner.  

Jul. 2. Tho. Beale of C. C. Coll.  
Jul. 2. Tho. Bevan of Jes. Coll.   
The last of these two, who is now beneficed in his native Country of Wales, hath written, The Prayer of Prayers, or the Lord's Prayer expounded. Lond. 1673. oct, dedicated to Nich. Lloyd M. A. and Tho. Guidott Bach. of Physic, of Wadh. Coll.  

5. Henr. Maurice of Jes. Coll.  
5. Jam. Jeffryes of Jes. Coll.   
The first was a Compounder, the other had been installed Canon of Canterbury 8 Nou. 1682, by the endeavours of his brother Sir George Jeffryes, and died in few years after.  
6. Nich. Hall of Wadh. Coll. a Compounder.— He was now Treasurer and Can. resid. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter, which he obtained by the favour of Dr. A. Sparrow Bishop thereof, whose da●. or else near Kinswoman he had married.   

Incorporations.  
Eighteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated after the Act, Jul. 10, among whom were Adam Oatley of Trin. Hall, as also one John Lowthorpe of S. John's Coll. in that University, afterwards Author of A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Burnet) in answer to his Lordship's pastoral Letter, printed in 5 sh. and an half in qu. in July 1690: Which being esteemed a pernicious, scandalous, seditious and notorious Libel against the K. and Government, etc. he the said Mr. Lowthorpe was indicted for high misdemeanour in Sept. following, at the Sessions in the Old Bailie in London: And the matter being fully proved against him, he was fined 500 Marks, and condemned to be degraded of his Ministerial Function; the 400 Copies also of the said Letter to the L. B. of Salisbury, etc. that were found in his custody, were then ordered to be burnt by the common Hangman in the Palace yard at Westminster, at Charing Cross, and without Temple Barr.  
Jul. 11. Joh. Eliot Doct. of Phys. of Cath. Hall in Cambr.  
Mar. 4. Edw. Gee M. A. of S. John's Coll. in the said Univ, was then incorporated.— This learned Divine, who is of the Geese of Manchester in Lancash. is now Rector of S. benedict's Church near Paul's Wharf in London, and Chapl. in ord. to their Majesty's King Will. ●. and Q. Mary. He hath written and published several books, mostly against Popery, which came out in the Reign of K. Jam. 2, the titles of which, I shall now for brevity sake omit.   

CREATIONS.  
Mar. 26. Sir George Wheeler Kt, sometimes Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll, was actually created Mast. of Arts.— He had been before recommended to the Members of the ven. Convocation for that degree by the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University, who by their Letters told them that He is a person of great integrity and affection to the interests of Learning and the Church,— that he had spent several years in travel in the eastern parts, and had brought back with him divers pieces of Antiquity, and as a testimony of his respects and kindness to his Mother the University, hath deposited them in this place, etc. This Gent. who about the same time took holy Orders, was in the month of Dec 1684 installed Preb. of Durham upon the promotion of Dr. Dennis Greenvill to the Deanery thereof, and is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxford Writers.  
In the month of May his Royal Highness James Duke of York with his Royal Consort Josepha Maria or Beatricia Maria, with the Lady Anne his daughter, were entertained by the University of Oxon; and it being the Duke's pleasure that some of his retinue should be created Doctors of the Civil Law, there was a Convocation celebrated in the morning of that day (May 22) of his departure, wherein these following persons were created Doctors of that faculty, viz.   

Doct. of Law.  
John Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Baron of Ophalia in Ireland.  
Christopher Lord Hatton, Visc. Gretton, Governor of Garnsey or Guernsey.— I have made mention of his father in these Fasti among the created Doctors of Law in 1642.  
Heneage Finch eldest son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsea, Captain of the Kings Halbadiers and one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York.  
Joh. Werden Bt, Secretary to the said Duke.  
Joh. Conway Bt.  

Hugh Grosvener Esq.  
Tho. Cholmondeley Esq.  
Joh. Egerton Esq.   
The second of these last three, was afterwards a Knight for Cheshire to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm. 19 May 1685. 1 Jac. 2.  
May 23. Rob. Bulkley second son of Rob. Lord Bulkley Visc. Cashels in Ireland.— He was nominated the day before to be created, but did not then appear, as others then nominated, did not at that time or afterwards: Among such were Henry M●rdant Earl of Peterborough, and Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon; which last, who was son of James Earl of Roscommon, was educated from his youth in all kind of polite Learning; but whether he had spent any time in this University, unless in the condition of a Sojourner, I cannot tell. Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena, he became, by his endeavours, Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2, and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos. Maria Duchess of York; both which places he quitted some time before his death. This worthy person, who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry, hath written and published (1) An Essay on translated Verse. Lond. 1680. 1684, etc. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which, John Dryden the Poet Laureate hath a copy of Verses in praise of it, as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others. The second edit. of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit. An Essay upon Poetry, written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter. To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse, is added by the said Earl of Roscommon, A specimen of blank Verse, being the fight between the Angels, taken out of Joh. Milton's book called Paradise lost. (2) Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays, as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations; which are published with the respective Plays themselves, and in the Miscellany Poems, etc. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English, Horace's Art of Poetry. Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Wa●ler Esq. hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry: As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers, etc. Lond. in oct, written by Dr. Will. Sherlock. At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James, within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January▪ or thereabouts, an. 1684, was buried in the Church of S. Peter, commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm. He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3; from which place going into England, was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester, in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mentioned, father to Wentworth the Poet, was, when young, reclaimed from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland, and thereupon was sent by him into England, as a Jewel of Price, to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill, who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts, placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Diu. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley, in the beginning of the year 1628.; in which Coll. continuing some years, became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland. The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law, but were not, were James Boteler Earl of Ossory, Franc. Visc. Newport George Savile Lord Elande, eldest son of George Marquis of Halyfax, Robert Lord Lexinton, (who with Anth. Visc. Falkland were sworn of their Majesty's Privy Council 17 Mar. 169●) Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke, who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King, being then a Major General. He died in Red-lyon-Square near London. on S. James day or thereabouts, 1690. The next who was in Oxon, but not created, was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke, and after him James Graham Esq. younger brother to Rich. Visc. Preston; which James was afterwards Privy Purse to, and a Colonel under, K. Jam 2, to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled, to avoid imminent danger in England, into France, etc.  
In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made, the said Duke, Duchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon, the Vicechancellor with other Doctors went to, to take their leave of, them, at which time the Vicechancellor did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist. and Antiq. of the Vniv. of Oxon, with the Cuts belonging thereunto, to the Duchess the said Cuts by themselves, and the Natural History of Oxfordshire, written by Dr. Plot; and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne. All which books were richly bound.  
On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria, aged 20 years or thereabouts (son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland) came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast. of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day, after he had viewed most places in the University, and the Theatre, he went thence to the Apodyterium, where he with such of his retinue that were to be created Doctors, being habited in Scarlet, were conducted into the Convocation house, and created, as now I am about to tell you.  
Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan. Count Pal. of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, etc. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator: Which being done, the Vicechancellor created him with another, Doct. of the Civ. Law, and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellor. Afterwards were these following presented.  

D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ. Law.  
D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ. Law.   

D. Fred. Harder a Noble Germane Created Doctors of the Civ. Law.  
Andr. Fleman Secret. to Pr. Adolph. Created Doctors of the Civ. Law.   
It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jun. 14. Laurence Croning Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned, was created Doctor, while the said Prince sat in his chair of State.  
Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq. was declared Doctor of Phys. by virtue of the Chancellors Letters sent to the members of the ven. Convocation then assembled, partly running thus— He was lately a Practitioner of Physic, at York, now here in London, a person of exemplary Loyalty, and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein, and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published.— He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon, that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed, and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars, Coins, and other Antiquities, together with a great number of Curiosities of nature, whereof several cannot be matched for any price; which yet he declares to be but an earnest of what he farther intends, etc. On the eleventh of the said month of March the Diploma for his Creation was sealed, etc. This learned Doctor who is a Yorkshire man born, and had been bred up under Sir Matthew Lister (mentioned in the Fasti of the first vol. of this Work, p. 793.) was educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, was afterwards of the Royal Society, and after, when Doctor, Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. Among several things that he hath written, are (1) Historiae Animalium Angliae tres tractatus, etc. Lond. 1678. qu. An account of which is in the Philos. Transactions, numb. 139. pag. (2) De Fontibus medicatis Angliae, exercitat. nov. & prior. Ebor. 1682. etc. oct. An account of which is also in the said Phil. Trans. nu. 144. This was reprinted at Lond. with additions 1684, oct, and to it was added De Fontibus medicatis Angliae exercitatio altera, dedicated to the Uniu. of Oxon, (3) Historiae Conchyliorum liber primus, qui est de cochleis terrestibus. Lond. 1685. fol. All represented in cuts, etc. There be also several of his Letters, Inquiries, etc. in the said Transactions, nu. 70.72.73.75.76.77.79.83. etc. 87.89.95.105.117.144.145.147.149. etc. Also in Philosophical Collections, numb. 4. etc.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 4. Thom. White Mast. of Arts and Chapl. to James Duke of York (or rather to the Lady Anne) was declared Doct. of Diu. and two days after was diplomated.— On the 13 of Aug. following, he was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham in the place of Vere Harcourt deceased (who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Will. Robinson, in Sept. 1660) and being nominated Bishop of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Lloyd to the See of Norwych, in the latter end of July 1685 was consecrated thereunto in the Archb. Chapel at Lambeth on the 25 of Oct. following, at which time Rich. Blechynden Bach. of Diu. of S. John's Coll. in Oxon preached the Consecration Sermon. This worthy person, who was born in Kent and educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, was one of the six Bishops, that were (with the most religious and conscientious William Archb. of Canterbury) committed Prisoners to the Tower of London on the 8 of June 1688 for subscribing and delivering a Petition to his Maj. King James 2, wherein they showed their great averseness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, etc. which was then esteemed libellous and seditious. Afterwards coming to their Trial in Westminster Hall on the 25 of the same month they were quitted, to the great rejoicing of the generality of people. After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown and settled, he was one of those Bishops, together with the said Archb, that were deprived of their respective Sees for not taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and the Qu: Whereupon Dr. Rich. Cumberland of Cambridge being nominated to the said See of Peterborough by their Majesties, he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Marry le Bow in London on the 5 of July 1691.    



An. Dom. 1684.  
An. 36 Car. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Joh. Lloyd again, Sept. 1.  

Proct.  
Joh. Massey of Mert. Coll. Apr. 9  
Philip Clerk of Magd. Coll. Apr. 9   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 15. Peter Lancaster of Ball. Coll.— See among the Masters, an. 1686.  

Jun. 13. Francis Atterbury of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 13. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll.   
See more of the last of these two among the Master's 1687.  
Adm. 153.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted, but not one yet is a Writer.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 22. Joh. Norris of Alls. Coll.  
Jun. 13. Rob. Boothe of Ch. Ch. a younger son of George Lord Delamere, and brother to the Earl of Warrington.  
Feb. 12. Joh. Hudson of Qu. afterwards of Vniv. Coll.  
The last of these three is Author of Introductio ad Chronologiam: sive Art Chronologica in Epitome redacta. Oxon. 1691. oct. etc.  
Adm. 100   

Bach. of Phys.  
Only three were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 3. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 17. Joh. Hughes of Ball. Coll.— While he was Master of Arts he published A Sermon on Psal. 107.23.24. preached before George Earl of Berkley Governor and the company of Merchants of England trading in the Levant Seas, etc. It was preached in S. Peter's Ch. in Broadstreet, 18 Nou. 1683, the author being then Fellow of Ball. Coll. and Chapl. to James Lord Chandois Ambassador at Constantinople.  
Dec. 17. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll.— This Divine, who is now Rector of Kiddington near Wodstock in Oxfordshire hath published Fides Ecclesiae Anglicanae vindicata ab incertitudine. Sive concio coram Academia Oxoniensi habita ineunte Termino, Octob. 9 an. 1688, in S. Matth. 6.23. Oxon. 1688. quart.  
Adm. 17.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Jul. 1● Rob. Smith of Wadh. Coll.  
9 Richard adam's of Alls. Coll.   
The first of these two was a Compounder.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 6. Barnab. Long of Magd. Coll. a Compounder.— On the 6 of Feb. 1681, he was installed Prebend of Boterant in the Church of York, and on the 24 of May 1682, of Stillington in the said Church, on the death of Dr. Hen. Bridgman, who had kept it in commendam with the See of Man. On the 10 of Jan. 1682, he was installed Archdeacon of Clieuland in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake, and dying in the house of Dr. Will. Beaw B. of Landaff at Adderbury in Oxfordshire, (he being then dignified in the Church of Landaff) about the eleventh of Apr. 1685 was buried in the Church there. In his Archdeaconry was installed Joh. Burton M. A. 29 Jul. 1685.  
Jul. 3. Charles James of Ch. Ch.— He accumulated the degrees in Divinity.  
9 Thom. Bayley of Magd. Coll.  
Oct. 21. Joh. Meare of Brasn. Coll.— This person, who accumulated the degrees in Div, was elected Principal of his Coll. on the death of Dr. Thom. Yate, 7 May 1681.  
30. Edw. Bernard of S. John's Coll.— On the ninth of Apr. 1673 he was admitted Savilian Professor of Astronomy, on the resignation of Sir Christoph. Wren: which place he leaving for the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks, David Gregory M. A. of the Uniu. of Edinburgh was admitted to it, after he had been incorporated in the same degree, 6 Feb. 1691. On the 18 of the said month, and in the same year, he accumulated the degrees in Physic, and is now a Master Com. of Ball. Coll. This Gent, who was born at Aberdene and mostly educated there, hath extant Exercitatio Geometrica de dimensione Figurarum. Sive specimen methodi generalis dimetiendi quasdam figuras. Edenb. 1684. qu, at which time he was Mathematic Professor there.  

Dec. 2. Thom. Crosthwait of Qu. Coll.  
Dec. 2. Beaumond Percival of New Coll.   
The first of these two was elected Principal of S. Edm. Hall on the resignation of Mr. Steph. Penton, 15 Mar. 1683, and admitted thereunto on the 4 of Apr. following, but he being outed thence for several reasons, notwithstanding he had been re-elected by the majority of the Fellows of his Coll, Dr. John Mill of the said Coll. was elected and adm. in his place 5 May 1685. These things I set down, purposely to carry on the succession of the Principals of S. Edm. Hall; a printed Cat. of which, to Dr. Thom. Tully, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2.  

Feb. 6. Rob. Harsnett of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 6. Charl. Hickman of Ch. Ch.   
23. John wiles of Trin. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Thirteen Masters of the University of Cambridge were incorporated after the Act time, but not one of them is a Writer, as I can yet find.  
Jun. 9 Joh. Chrysostom du Charoll M. A. of Avignion (who had taken that degree there in 1669) was incorporated by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that he had served in his Maj. Chap. royal as one of the daily Chaplains for 7 or eight years past, etc.  
Jul. 9 Bartholdus Holtzfus a Native of Pomerania, and a Master of Arts of Frankfurt upon the Order in the Marquisate of Brandeburg, was incorporated also by virtue of the said Letters, which tell us that he was sent to the University of Oxon to study by his Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandeburg, etc.  
14. Thom. Friar Doct. of Phys. of Pemb. Hall in Cambr. was incorporated as he had stood there, after the Act time. He was, as it seems, honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys.   

Creations.  
Sept. 1. Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of Engl. etc. was with solemnity created Doctor of the Civil Law, after he had been presented with an encomiastical Speech by Dr. Rob. Plot Professor of Nat. History and Chemistry.— This person, who was afterwards Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter, and L. Lieutenant of Berks, Norfolk, Surrey and the City of Norwich, I have mentioned among the Creations under the year 1668.    



An. Dom. 1685.  
An. 1 Jac. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Timothy Halton Provost of Queens Coll. Oct. 6.  

Proct.  
Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29.  
Tho. Smith of Brasn. Coll. Apr. 29.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jun. 17. Francis Willis of New Coll.  
Jul. 9 Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. a Compounder.  

Oct. 27. Philip Bertie of Trin. Coll.  
Oct. 27. Dau. Jones of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these two last, is a younger son to Robert E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlain of England, etc. The other is a frequent Preacher in London and a Publisher of several Sermons.  
Dec. 8. Will. King of Ch. Ch. a Comp.  
Adm. 167.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted, of whom Matthew Bryan of Magd. Hall was one Jul. 10.— See among the Doctors of Law following.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Novemb. 24. John Glanvill of Trin. Coll.  
Dec. 17. Leop. William Finch of Alls. Coll.   
The last of these two was elected Warden of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Tho. James deceased, by virtue of a Mandamus from King Jam. 2, on the 21 of January 1686.  
Adm. 90.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Six were admitted, of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one, Dec. 8. lately admitted Bach. of the Civil Law.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 7. Luke Beaulieu of Ch. Ch.— This Divine was born in France, educated for a time in the Uniu. of Samur there, came into England upon account of Religion 18 years or more before this time, exercised his ministerial function, was naturalised, made Divinity Reader in the Chapel of S. George at Windsor, was a Student in this University for the sake of the public Library 1680 and after, became Chaplain to Sir George Jeffreys L. Ch. Justice of England, Rector of Whitchurch in the dioc. of Oxon, an. 1685, and by his published Writings did usefully assert the Rights of his Majesty and Church of England. This person, who is called by some Dean Beaulieu, who hath written several things in French and English, (chiefly against Popery) is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxford Writers.  
July 9 John Scot of New Inn.— This learned Divine, who is not yet mentioned in these Fasti, because he took no degree in Arts, or in any other faculty, hath published divers books of Divinity (some of which were against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2.) and therefore he is hereafter to crave a place among the Oxford Writers.  
11. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. a Comp.  
Adm. 12.   

Doct. of Law.  
May 5. John Rudston of S. Joh. Coll. a Comp.  

Jul. 7. Rob. Woodward of New Coll.  
Jul. 7. Rich. Traffles of New Coll.   
The first of these two who was a Compounder, became Archdeacon of Wilts. upon the resignation of Mr. Seth Ward, in Nou. 1681, Chanc. of the Dioc. of Salisbury upon the death of Sir Edw. Low in June 1684, Rector of Pewsie in Wilts, on the death of Dr. Rich. Watson in Jan. the same year, Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of the said Mr. S. Ward, in Jan. 1686, Dean of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Pierce, in Apr. 1691. etc.  

July 7. Joh. Gibbs of Alls. Coll.  
July 7. Steph. Waller of New Coll.  
July 7. Matth. tindal of Alls. Coll.  
July 7. Matth. Morgan of S. Joh. Coll.   

10 Edm. Evans of Jes. Coll.  
10 Matth. Bryan of Magd. Hall.   
The last of these two is a Divine and Non-Juror, hath one or more Sermons and A persuasive to the stricter observance of the Lords day, etc. extant. See in the first vol. of Athenae Oxon. p. 513.  
July 11. Ralph Bohun of New Coll.— He hath written A discourse concerning the origine and properties of wind, etc. and may hereafter publish other books.   

Doct. of Phys.  

July 7. Steph. Fry of Trin. Coll.  
9 Robert Conny of Magd. Coll.  
10. Sam. Kimberley of Pemb. Coll.   
The last accumulated the degrees in Phys.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jun. 26. Joh. Venn of Ball. Coll.  
Jun. 26. Thom. Dixon of Qu. Coll.   
The first of these two had been elected Master of his Coll, on the death of Dr. Tho. Good, 24 Apr. 1678.  

July 3. Fitzherbert adam's of Linc. Coll.  
July 3. Will. Johnson of Queens Coll.   
The first of these two was elected Rector of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Thom. Martial deceased, May 2. this year, and was afterwards Prebendary of Durham.  
July 4. Constant Jessop of Magd. Coll. a Comp.  
9 Joh. Scott of New Inn— He accumulated the degrees in Diu.  

11 Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Comp.  
11 Henry Godolphin of Alls. Coll. Comp.   
The first of these two, who hath published one or more books, is now a Non-Juror. The other Fell. of Eton and can resid. of S. Paul's, &c.  
Nou. 3. Will. Bernard of Merton Coll.   

Incorporations.  
The Act being put off this year, no Cambridge Masters, or others, were incorporated, only one in the degree of Master, July 9   

Creations.  
Apr. 29. Michael Morstin a Polonian, Son of John Andr. Morstin Treasurer to the King of Poland, by his Wife Catherine Gordon Daughter of the Marquis of Huntley in Scotland, was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law— This noble person was entit. in his presentation thus, Illustriss. Dom. Michael Morstin Comes Castrovillanus, Tucoliensis Radziminensis, Marchio Aquensis, Baro Giensis, Orgensis, Curcelotensis, Dominus Montis rubri & aliorum Locorum. He was now Envoy from Poland to the Crown of England.  
Sept. 9 James Le Prez lately one of the Professors of Divinity in the University of Samur and Warden of the Coll. there before it was suppressed, was actually created Doct. of Diu. by virtue of the Chancellors Letters sent in his behalf— This learned Theologist was one of those eminent Divines that were forced to leave their native Country upon account of religion by the present King of France: And his worth and eminence being well known to the Marquis of Ruvigney, he was by that most noble person recommended to the Chancellor of this University to have the degree of Doctor conferred on him.  
Oct. 10. Thom. Musgrave of Qu. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Diu.— This Divine, who was Son of Sir Philip Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmoreland Bt, a person of known Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. the Martyr, became Archdeacon of Carlisle in the place of Dr. Tho. Peachell of Cambridge resigning, an. 1669, was installed Prebendary of Durham, 12 of July 1675, Preb. of Chichester, 10. Nou. 1681, and at length Dean of Carlisle upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Smith to the Episcopal See thereof, in July an. 1684. He died in the beginning of Apr. 1686 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Will. Graham M. A. of Ch. Ch. as I shall tell you among the Creations, an. 1686.  
Oct. 26. Sir Jonathan Trelawny Bt, M. of A. of Ch. Ch. the nominated Bishop of Bristol, was diplomated Doct. of Diu.— He was consecrated B. of Bristol on the 8 of Nou. following.  
Philip Bennet of Exet. Coll. was diplomated Bach. of Diu. the same day, being then in his Majesty's Service at Jamaica.  
Dec. 29 Joh. Haslewood M. A. of Oriel Coll. Chapl. to Henry Earl of Clarendon L. Lieutenant of Ireland, was diplomated, or, as 'tis said in the register, created Simpliciter Doct. of Diu.  
Mar. 9 Nathan. Wilson M. A. of Magd. Hall, Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Dean of Raphoe in Ireland, was diplomated or, as 'tis said in the reg, created Simpliciter Doct. of Diu.— He was afterwards Bish. of Limerick, etc.    



An. Dom. 1686.  
An. 2. Jac. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. John Venn D. D. Master of Ball. Coll. Sept. 30.  

Proct.  
Edw. Hopkins of Linc. Coll. Apr. 14.  
Joh. Walrond of Alls. Coll. Apr. 14.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Jun. 15. George Smalridge of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 15. Edw. Hannes of Ch. Ch.   
Adm. 178.   

Bach. of Law.  
Eight were admitted, among whom Will. Beaw of Magd. Coll. was one, Oct. 20, who, a little before was made Chanc. of the Dioc. of Landaff by his Father the Bishop thereof, on the death of Sir Rich. Lloyd.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 28. Thom. Armestead of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards author of A Dialogue between two Friends wherein the Church of England is vindicated in joining with the Prince of Orange in his descent into England. Printed in A ninth collection of Papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in England, etc. published in the beginning of March at Lond. 1688, with the date at the bottom of the title of 1689.  
June 15. Joh. Smyth of Magd. Coll.— He hath written and published a Comedy called Win her and take her, etc. Lond. 1691. qu. Dedic. by the author to Peregrine Earl of Danby, under the name of Cave Vnderhill an Actor of plays. Mr. Smyth hath published one or more things besides, and therefore he is her easter to be remembered among the Oxford Writers.  
July 7. Peter Lancaster of Ball. Coll.— He hath translated from Greek into English A discourse of envy and hatred, in the first vol. of Plutarch's Morals— Lond. 1684. oct. As also How a man may praise himself without envy, which is in the second vol. of the said Morals.  
Mar. 19 Francis Lee of S. Joh. Coll.— He is author of Horologium Christianum and other things.  
Adm. 96.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Apr. 27. Thom. Hoy of S. Joh. Coll.  
Beside him were four more admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Mar. 10. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Preb. of Worcester.  
Besides him were six more admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer or Bishop.   

Doct. of Law.  

July 8. Thomas Lane of Mert. Coll.  
12. Charles Aldworth of Magd. Coll.   
Both these were Accumulators, and the last was elected Camden's Professor of History in the place of the learned Mr. Henry Dodwell a Non-Juror, on the 19 of Nou. 1691.  

Oct. 29. Brian Broughton of Alls. Coll.  
Nou. 23. Laurence Smith of S. Joh. Coll.    

Doct. of Phys.  
Jan. 18. Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 8. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch.  
July 7. Ralph Tailor of Trin. Coll.  
10. George Bull of Exeter. Coll.— This learned Divine, who is not yet mentioned in these Fasti, because he took no degree in Arts, or in any other faculty, hath published several books of Diu. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbered among the Oxford Writers.  
Dec. 1. Jonathan Edward's of Jesus Coll.— On the 2 of Nou. going before, he was elected Principal of his Coll. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Lloyd to the See of S. David.  
Mar. 4. Joh. Hearne of Exet. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
The Act being put off this year, no Cambridge Masters, or others, were incorporated, only one in the degree of Bac. of Arts, Jul. 5.   

Creations.  
June 14. William Graham M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Chaplain to her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Denmark was diplomated Doct. of Diu. or as 'tis said in the reg. was created Simpliciter— This Divine, who is younger Brother to Richard Visc. Preston was installed Preb. of Durham, 26. Aug. 1684, and Dean of Carlisle on the death of Dr. Tho. Musgrave, in Apr. or May 1686.  
Nou. 18. Rene Bertheau late Minister of the reformed Church in the University of Montpelier in France was actually created Doct. of Diu. by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of the University, who had a little before received Letters of recommendation in his behalf from the L. High Treasurer of England, as a man of great reputation in his own Country and very eminent both for learning and piety, etc.  
Mar. 8. James D' Allemagne a French Minister of the Protestant Church lately retired into England upon account of religion was actually created D. of D. without the paying of fees.    



An. Dom. 1687.  
An. 3. Jac. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Gilbert Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll. Aug. 16.  

Proct.  
Tho. Benet of Vniv. Coll. Apr. 6.  
Joh. Harris of Exet. Coll. Apr. 6.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 28. Jam. Harrington of Ch. Ch.  
May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll.   
Dec. 9 Will. Watson of S. Mary's Hall, lately of Trin. Coll.— See among the Masters in 1690.  
Adm. 143.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll.  
Besides him were five more admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll.— This Gentleman, who is Son of a Father of both his names mentioned among the Writers p. 648, hath written and published, Daphnis. A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston. Oxon. 1685. etc.  
Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch.  
Adm. 84.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Six were admitted, but not one is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Nou. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C.— He hath translated from French into English, The Elements of Euclid explained, in a new, but most easy method. Oxon. 1685. oct. Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus.  
Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch.  
Adm. 12.   

Doct. of Law.  

June 25. Rich. Parsons. of New Coll.  
30. Will. Rhymes of New Coll.   
The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Gloucester.  

June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll.  
July 2. George Gardiner of Alls. Coll.   
The first of these two accumulated.  

July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll.   

8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll.  
8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these last three was a Compounder, and the last an Accumulator.   

Doct. of Phys.  
June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn. Coll.  

July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll.  
July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll.   
The last of these two translated into Lat. heroic verse the English Poem called Absalon and Achitophel— Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh. in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq. Poet Laureate to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch.  

July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch.  
July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll.   
The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys. of this University, as he before had stood at Dublin, 20 of April this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll.— On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected Precedent of his Coll, in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased, and on the 22 of June following (being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D.) he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm. to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon, whom the K. had nominated, appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer. See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers, p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof, he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. (commissioned for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2) on the 25 of Octob. 1688, after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life, and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford, by his Majesty's command. Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon, with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it.  
July 2. Edward Winford of Alls. Coll.  

8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn.  
8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll.   
The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall, on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone, 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham.   

Incorporations.  
The Act being put off again, no Cambridge Masters, or others, were incorporated, only a Bach. of Law from Dublin, July 6.   

Creations.  
In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel (born a● Rochel, partly bred under his Father an eminent Physician, and two years or more in the University of Samur) to be created Bach. of the Civ. Law, but whether he was created or admitted it appears not. He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England, to enjoy the liberty of their religion, which they could not do in France, because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country.  
Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year, yet there was no creation made in any faculty, which was expected and gaped after by many.    



An. Dom. 1688.  
An. 4. Jac. 2.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde, but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James (lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch.) Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory, was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month. The next day came a Mandate from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University, but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked, there were Letters sent to satisfy his Majesty concerning that matter. The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James' Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following: which being concluded, followed an entertainment for his noble Friends, acquaintance and the Academians, equal to, if not beyond any, that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor.  
Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19  

Proct.  
Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26.  
Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26.   
The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day, and the first day of the Term, their admission was not till the next.  

Bach. of Arts.  
June 19 Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll.— This person hath written and published Maggots: or Poems on several subjects never before handled. Lond. 1685. oct.  
Adm. 152.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were admitted, but not one is yet a Writer.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 19 Will. nichols of Mert. Coll.— He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel, etc.  

July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp.  
July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp.   
Adm. 89.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Six were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Five were admitted, but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary.   

Doct. of Law.  
Mar. 23. Charles Finch of Alls. Coll, a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  

July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll.  
7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll.   
The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder.  

7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll.  
7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch.   
The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased, 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons, on John 26.3. Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu.   

Incorporations.  
The Act being now the fourth time put off, not one Cambridge Master was incorporated.  
May 14. Jacob. Sartreus Mast. of Arts of the Uniu. of Puy-Laurence in Languedock.— He is now Prebendary of Westminster; in which Dignity he succeeded, if I mistake not, Dr. George straddling.  
21. Henry Dodwell M. of Arts of the Uniu. of Dublin, who had been generously elected by the University of Oxford Camden's Professor of History, in his absence and without his privity, (after the death of Dr. Joh. Lamphire) on the 2 Apr. this year, was then (May 21.) incorporated in the same degree— This learned person, who was the Son of Will. Dodwell of Ireland, Son of Hen. Dodwell of the City of Oxon, Son of William, supposed to be Brother to Alderman Hen. Dodwell Mayor of the said City in the 34. of Q. Eliz. dom. 1592., was born in the Parish of S. Warburgh commonly called S. Warborough within the City of Dublin, in the beginning of the grand rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom in Octob. 1641, educated in Grammar learning under Christopher Wallis in the Free-school, situated in the Bederew, within the City of York, from 1649 to 1654., and afterwards for a years time in Dublin, entered a Student in Trin. Coll. there, an. 1656, and when Bach. of Arts, was made Fellow thereof. After he had proceeded in that faculty, he left his Fellowship to avoid entering into holy Orders, and in 1666 I find him a Sojournour in Oxon, purposely to advance himself in learning by the use of the public Library. Thence he returned to his native Country for a time and published a posthumous book ent. De obstinatione, Opus posth. pietatem Christiano-stoicam, Scholastico more suadens. Dubl. 1672 oct. Before which book, (written by his sometimes Tutor named Joh. Stern M. D. and publs. Professor in the University of Dublin) Mr. Dodwell put of his own composition Prolegomena Apolegetica, de usu Dogmatum Philosophicorum, etc. In the beginning of this book is Dr. Stearne's Epitaph without date, ensculpt on a marble, on the north side of the Altar in Trin. Coll. Chapel near Dublin, part of which is this— Philosophus, Medicus, summusque Theologus idem Sternius hic, etc. Afterwards Mr. Dodwell returned into England, spent his time there in divers places in a most studious and retired condition, and wrote and published these books following (1) Two letters of advice. 1. For the susception of holy orders. 2. For studies Theological, etc. Printed at Dubls. first, and afterwards twice at Lond. in oct. At the end of the first letter is added A Catalogue of Christian Writers, and genuine works that are extant, of the first three Centuries: And to both in the 2d and 3d edit, is added A discourse concerning Sanchoniathans Phoenician History. (2) Considerations of present concern, how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another Communion. Lond. in oct. (3) Two short discourses against the Romanists. 1. An account of the fundamental principles of Popery, and of the insufficiency of the proofs which they have for it. 2. An answer to 6 Queries proposed to a Gentlewoman of the Ch. of England by an Emissary of the Church of Rome. Lond. 1676. oct. To another edition of this, which came out at Lond. in 1689 in qu. was added by the author A preface relating to the Bishop of Meaux and other modern complaints of misrepresentation. (4) Separation of Churches from Episcopal government, as practised by the present Non-conformists, proved Schismatical from such principles as are least controverted, and do withal most popularly explain the sinfulness and mischief of Schism. Lond. 1679. qu. In this Treatise, the sin against the Holy Ghost, the sin unto death, and other difficult Scriptures are occasionally discoursed of, and some useful rules are given for explication of Scripture. (5) A reply to Mr. baxter's pretended confutation of a book, entit, Separation of Churches from Episcopal government, etc. Lond. 1681. oct. To which are added Three Letters, written to him in the year 1673, Concerning the possibility of discipline under a diocesan government; which, though relating to the subject of most of his late books, have never yet been answered. (6) A discourse concerning the one Altar and the one Priesthood, insisted on by the Ancients in their disputes against Schism, etc. Being a just account concerning the true nature and principles of Schism, according to the Ancients. Lond. 1682. 3. oct. (7) Dissertationes Cypriniac●e. There were two editions of these, viz. one in fol. at the end of S. Cyprians works published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxon, an. 1682; and another in oct. printed in sheldon's Theatre 1684, purposely for the sake of such Scholars who could not spare money to buy those in fol. which were to go, and were always bound, with S. Cyprians works before mentioned. (8) Dissertatio de Ripa Striga ad Lanctant de morte Persecutorum. Printed at the end of Lanctantius Firm. his works, with commentaries on them made by Thomas Spark M. A. of Ch. Ch.— Oxon. 1684. oct. (9) De jure Laicorum sacerdotali, etc. This book, which is written against Hug. Grotius, was printed at Lond. in oct. at the end of a piece of that author entit. De Caenae administratione ubi Pastores non sunt, etc. Much about which time was published Antidodwellisme; being two curious tracts formerly written by Hug. Grotius, concerning a solution of these two questions. 1. Whether the Eucharist may be administered in the absence of, or want of Pastors, etc. Made English by one who calls himself Philaratus. (10) Additiones, & dissertatio singularis, in the Opera posthuma chronologica of the famous Dr. Jo Pearson, sometimes Bish. of Chester.— Lond. 1687-8. in qu. (11) Dissertationes in Irenaeum. Oxon. è Theat. Sheldon. 1689. oct. To which is added a Fragment of Phil. Sideta de Catechistatum Alexandrinorum successione, with notes. Besides these books, the author, now in the prime of his years, designs others, which in good time may be made extant for the benefit of the Church of Engl. (for which he hath a zealous respect) and commonwealth of learning. His universal knowledge and profound judgement in all sciences and books has rendered him famous amongst all the learned men of France and Italy, and the great sanctity and severity of his life has gained him a veneration very peculiar and distinguishing among all sorts of people. His greatest study has been to assert the honour and interest of religion and the Clergy; and his writings in defence of the Church of England against Papists and Presbyterians have been esteemed perfect pieces in their kind. But notwithstanding all this, the Reader may be pleased to know, that whereas he suffered much in his Estate in his native Country, for not coming in, and taking part with the Forces of K. Jam. 2, when they endeavoured to keep possession of Ireland against K. Will. 3. and his Forces, an. 1689 etc. for which he was proclaimed Rebel: Or had he been there, as he was not, they would have imprisoned him, if not worse; so soon after did he suffer in England (where he then was) for keeping close and adhering to the oaths of allegiance which he had taken to the said K. Jam. 2, by being deprived of the Professorship of History (founded by the learned Camden) to the great prejudice of learning. He lives now obscurely, (mostly in his Cell in the north suburb of Oxon) and is preparing his learned Lectures and several useful discourses for the press.    



An. Dom. 1689.  
An. 1. Will. 3.  
An. 1. Qu. Marry.    
Chanc. The most Illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ormonde, Earl of Brecknock and Ossory, Viscount Thorles, Baron of Lanthony, and Arclo, chief Butler of Ireland, Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary, Gent. of the Bedchamber to his Majesty, Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter.  
Vicechanc. Jonathan Edwards D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll, Sept. 25.  

Proct.  
Will. Cradocke of Magd. Coll. Ap. 10.  
Thom. Newey of Ch. Church Ap. 10.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 10. Thom. Fletcher of New Coll.— He hath lately published Poems on several occasions and Translations, etc.  
20. Albemarle Bertie of Vniv. Coll. a younger Son of Robert Earl of Lindsey, etc.  
Adm. 145.   

Bach. of Law.  
Two were admitted, but not one yet a Writer.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 30. Francis Willis of New Coll.  

June 6. Edw. Hannes of Ch. Ch.  
July 4. Geo. Smalridge of Ch. Ch.   
Adm. 77.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Five were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  

July 5. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch.  
July 5. Tho. Benet of Vniv. Coll.   
The last was 〈…〉 Master of his Coll, upon the death of Dr. Edw. Ferrar 〈…〉, and died there 12 of May 1692.  
Oct. 31. 〈…〉 Wadham Coll.  
Adm. 10.  ☞ Not on● 〈…〉 was admitted this year.  

〈◊〉. of Phys.  

July 3. 〈…〉 Joh. Coll.  
July 3. 〈…〉 Mert. Coll.   

5. Francis 〈…〉 Coll.  
6. Wilhelm 〈…〉 Coll.    

Doct. of Diu.  
July 4. Will. Harris of New Coll.— He accumulated the degrees in Diu.  
5. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. a Comp.— This person, who was a younger Son of Arthur Earl of Anglesie, was now Preb. of Westminster and Dean of Exeter, which last Dignity he obtained on the death of Dr. George Cary in the beginning of Febr. 1680, and Carry on the promotion of Dr. Seth Ward to the Episc. See of Exeter.  

July 5. Zacheus Isham of Ch. Ch. Compound.  
July 5. William Wake of Ch. Ch. Compound.   
The first of these two is now Canon of Canterbury, and the last, who accumulated the degrees in Div, was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. Hen. Aldrich promoted to the Deanery thereof, 20. June 1689.  

July 5. Joh. James of Ch. Ch.  
July 5. Edw. Ferrar of Vniv. Coll.   
The first of these two became Chanc. of the Church of Exeter, in the place of Dr. Joh. Copleston deceased, an. 1689: The other was elected Master of his Coll. upon the removal of Mr. Obadiah Walker for being a Roman Catholic, on the 15 of Feb. 1688. He died suddenly in his Lodgings in Vniv. Coll. 13. Feb. 1690, whereupon Mr. Tho. Benet Rector of Winwick in Lanc. was elected into his place, as I have before told you among the Bach. of Diu.   

Incorporations.  
The Act being now the fifth time put off, not one Cambr. Master was incorporated at that time.  
June 21. Joh. Deffray a French Protestant, M. of A. of Samur— He was lately forced out of his Country upon account of Religion.  
July 4. Rich. Bentley M. A. of Cambr.— This Divine, who was of S. John's Coll. in that University, was now and after a Master-Com. of Wadham Coll, and afterwards domestic Chaplain to Edward L. Bishop of Worcester, and author of (1) The folly of Atheism and (what is now called) Deism; even with respect to the present life, Sermon preached in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields 7. March 1691, on Psal. 14.1. being the first lecture founded by the honourable Rob. boil Esq. Lond. 1692. qu. (2) Matter and motion cannot think: or a confutation of Atheism from the faculties of the Soul, Serm. preached at S. Mary-le-Bow 4. Apr. 1692 being the second Lecture founded by the hon. Rob. Boil Esq. on Acts 17.27. Lond. 1692. qu. He hath also extant a Latin Epist. to John Mill D.D. containing some Critical observations relating to Johan. Malala a Greek Historiographer, published at the end of that author at Oxon. 1691. in a large oct. The said Mr. Bentley, who is a Yorkshire man born, designs to publish other things.   

Creations.  
June 15. Joh. Mesnard was actually created Doct. of Diu. by virtue of the Chancellors Letters; which say that he had been 16 years' Minister of the reformed Church of Paris at Charenton, and afterwards Chaplain to his Majesty (K. Will. 3.) when he was Prince of Orange for some years, in which quality he came with him into England— that he has his Majesty's warrant to succeed Dr. Is Vossius in his Prebendary of Windsor, etc.  
Feb. 26. George Walker an Irish Minister lately Governor of London-Derry, and the stout Defender of it against the Forces under the command of K. Jam. 2. when they besieged it in Apr. May. etc. this year, was, after he had been presented by the King's Professor of Divinity, actually created Doct. of that faculty— He was born of English Parents in the County of Tyrone, as 'tis said, educated in the University of Glascow, and afterwards beneficed at Dungannon, many miles distant from the City London-Derry: To which place retiring when the Protestants therein, and in those parts, were resolved to keep and defend it against Richard Earl of Tirconnel Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Forces under K. Jam. 2, he became a Defendant therein, and at length Governor of it, which he managed with great prudence and valour. After the siege was raised and that part of the Country secured from the incursions of the said Forces, he went into England to pay his respects to K. Will. 3, who receiving him graciously, was highly caressed by the Courtiers, and afterwards by the Citizens of London; at which time the common discourse was that Dr. Hopkins Bishop of London-Derry should be translated to Chichester, and Mr. Walker succeed him in Derry. He hath published A true account of the siege and famous defence made at London-Derry. Lond. 1689. qu. &c. (2) Vindication of the true account, etc. Ibid. 1689. qu. etc. Afterwards being about to return to Ireland to do further service therein for his Majesty, he obtained the Letters of the Chancellor of the University to have the degree of Doct. of Diu. conferred on him: so that taking Oxford in his way, in the company of Dr. Joseph Veasey Archb. of Tuam, he was created as before I have told you. Thence he went into Ireland, where having a command conferred on him in the English Army, he received his death's wound in the very beginning of July an. 1690, at what time the said Army passed over the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2, and soon after he expired, at or near Tredagh.    



An. Dom. 1690.  
An. 2. Will. 3.  
An. 2. Qu. Marry.    
Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Edward's again, Oct. 6.  

Proct.  
Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30.  
Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30.   

Bach. of Arts.  
July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch.— He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries, Kingdoms, Provinces, Islands, etc. of the now known world, etc. one in English and another in Latin, and both printed at Oxon. 1690.  
Adm. 156.   

Bach. of Law.  
Four were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer, or person of note.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll.— He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus etc. Lond. 1691. oct. etc.  
8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch.— He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple, and hath written and published several books.  
July 8. Will. Watson of S. Mary's Hall— He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance, and the practical belief of Gospel, as being the only way to have peace and content here, etc. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw. etc.  
Adm. 71.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Eight were admitted, but not one is yet a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Seven were admitted, of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll, a Compounder, and Chancellor of the Diocese of S. Asaph, was one, June 26.  ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year.  

Doct. of Phys.  
June 28. Nich. Stanley of All's. Coll.— He compounded and accumulated.  
July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll.— He accum.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll.— He was elected Warden of his Coll, upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristol, on the 21 of Octob. 1689.  
June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn. Coll. Comp.  

July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch.  
July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch.  
July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch.   
The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators.   

Incorporations.  
The Act being the sixth time put off, not one Cambr. Master was incorporated, only one, which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin.   

Creations.  
May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll, was actually created Doct. of Diu.— On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased.  
Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guildford, a Nobleman of Trin. Coll, was, after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator, actually created Master of Arts, being then about to leave the University— His Father Sir Francis North, second Son of Dud●ey Lord North, was, from being L. Ch. Just. of the Common-pleas, advanced to the honourable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, on the 20 of Dec. 1682, and in Sept. 1683 he was, for his great and faithful services that he had rendered the Crown, created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guildford in Surrey. He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685, and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there, among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Down in Ireland, uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Down of the strait or linial descent of that family, who died at Oxon, in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book: But whereas 'tis said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an error, for it was the second, the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire, and the youngest named Finetta, to Robert Hyde Esq. Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury.  
Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh) (de Valle Rosarum) in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there, and violent proceedings of the K●rk party, an. 1689, he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year, became a Sojournour there for a time, a frequenter of the public Library, and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regent's admitted a Student therein, where he continued all that Summer.— This most worthy and loyal Gentleman, Son of Simon Makenzie (Brother to the Earl of Seaforth) by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an ancient and heroic Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew, was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an. 1636, and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters, he was, at about 10 years of age, (at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors) sent to the University of Aberdene, where, and afterwards in that of S. Andrew, he ran through the Classes of Logic and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age. Afterwards applying his studies; with great zeal, to the Civil Law, he traveled into France, and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years' time. After his return to his native Country, he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edinburgh, being then scarce 20 years of age, and in 1661. he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquis of Argyle; and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court, which office he performed with great faith, justice and integrity. In 1674, or thereabouts, he was made the King's Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council; and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party, yet he continued in those places, and stood steady, faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the reign of K. James 7, at which time, being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws, he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place. Some time after his removal, he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellor till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland, and then he went into England, as I have before told you. He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors, whether ancient or modern, of indefatigable industry in his studies, great abilities and integrity in his profession, powerful at the Bar, just on the Bench, an able Statesman, a faithful Friend, a loyal Subject, a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities, of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies. His conversation was pleasant and useful, severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority, a great lover of the Laws and Customs of his Country, a contemner of popularity and riches, frugal in his expenses, abstemious in his diet, etc. His works, as to learning are these (1) Aretina, a Romance— printed in oct. (2) Religio Stoici. Edenb. 1663. etc. in oct. The running title at the top of the pages is The Virtuoso or Stoic. (3) Solitude preferred to public employment, printed at Edenb. in oct. (4) Moral Gallantry, printed several times in oct. It is a discourse wherein the author endeavours to prove that point of honour (abstracting from all other ties) obliges men to be virtuous, and that there is nothing so mean (or unworthy of a Gent.) as vice. (5) A moral Paradox, maintaining that it is easier to be virtuous than vicious, printed with Moral Gall. (6) Plead in some remarkable cases before the supreme Courts of Scotland since 1661., printed in qu. (7) Observations upon the 28 Act of the 23 Parl. of K. Jam. 6. against Dispositions made in defraud of Creditors. Printed at Edenburg in oct. (8) Of the laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal. Edenb. 1678. qu. (9) Observations on the laws and customs of nations as to precedency, with the science of Heraldry, treated as a part of the Civil Law of Nations; wherein reasons are given for its principles, and etymologies for its harder terms. Edenb. 1680. fol. (10) Idea eloquentiae forensis hodie●nae: una cum Actione forensi ex unaquaque juris parte. Ed. 1681. oct▪ (11) Jus Regium: or, the just and solid foundations of Monarchy 〈◊〉 general; and more especially of the Monarchy of Scotland: maintained against Buchanan, Napthali, Dolman, Milton, etc. Lo●● 1684 etc. in oct. This book being dedicated and presented by 〈◊〉 author to the University of Oxon, the Members thereof assemb●● in Convocation 9 June 1684, ordered a Letter of thanks to be 〈◊〉 to him for the said book and his worthy pains therein, etc. 〈◊〉 The discovery of the Fanatic plot. Printed 1684. fol (13) Ins●●tutions of the Laws of Scotland, printed in 1684. oct. (14) 〈◊〉 against Bayly of Jerviswood. (15) A defence of the antiquity of 〈◊〉 Royal line of Scotland. With a true account when the Scots were ●●verned by Kings in the Isle of Britain. Lond. 1685 oct. Writte● 〈◊〉 answer to An historical account of Church government, etc. published by Dr. William Lloyd Bish. of S. Asaph. This Defence of Sir G. Makenzie was published in the latter end of June an. 1685; but before it was extant, it was animadverted upon by Dr. Edw. Stillingster (who had before seen the Ms of it) in his preface to his book 〈◊〉 Origines Britannicae, published in fol. at Lond. in the beginning 〈◊〉 June 1685. (16) The antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland 〈◊〉 cleared and defended against the exceptions lately offered by Dr. Si●●lingfleet in his Vindication of the Bishop of S. Asaph. Lond. 16●● oct. (17) Observations upon Acts of Parliament. Edenb. 1686. 〈◊〉 (18) Oratio inauguralis habita Edenburgi id. Mar. 1689 the structure Bibliothecae pure juridicae, & hinc de vario in jure scribendi 〈◊〉 Printed 1690 in oct. (19) Moral History of Frugality, with 〈◊〉 opposite vices, covetousness and prodigality, niggardliness and 〈◊〉 Lond. 1691. oct. Dedic. to the Uniu. of Oxon. (20) 〈◊〉 humanae rationis, in oct, printed also in English at Lond. 1690 〈◊〉 (21) Vindication of the government of Scotland during the 〈◊〉 K. Ch. 2, against the misrepresentations made in several 〈◊〉 Pamphlets. Lond. 1691. qu. (22) The method of proceeding 〈◊〉 Criminals, as also some of the fanatical Covenants, as they were 〈◊〉 and published by themselves in that (K. Ch. 2.) reign, printed 〈◊〉 the Vindication. (23) Answer to the Scotch Ministers: Being a Vindication of the proceedings against Argyle. Pr. at Edenb. (24) Defence of the proceedings of the Privy Council in Scotland. (25) Memorial about the Bishops to the Prince of Orange, etc. The said Sir George Makenzie hath also left behind him about 14 Mss of his composition, which in good time may see light. At length this good Gentleman dying much lamented by all the friends of the Church, Monarchy, learning and religion, in S. James'- street near S. James' House within the liberty of Westminster, on the eighth day of May, an. 1691 his body was thereupon conveyed by Land to Scotland, and being lodged for a time in the Abbey Church of Halyrood house at Edinburgh, was on the 26 of June following, buried in great state and pomp (being attended by all the Council, Nobility, Colleges of Justice, University, Gentry and Clergy; and so great a concourse of people that hath not yet been seen on such an occasion) in a Vault, made some time before by himself, with a Cupulo of freestone over it, in the yard of the Franciscan or Grey-fryers Church in the said City. At the same time was fastened to his Coffin a large inscription in Latin for him the said Sir George; part of which runs thus— Patriae decus, religionis vindex, justitiae propugnator, juris Regii Assertor strenuus & indefessus. Collegii Juridici, sive Jurisprudentiam summam, sive eloquentiam eximimu, sive in instruenda Jurisconsultorum Bibliotheca curam, & locupletanda munificentiam, Spectes, ornamentum imprimis illustre. Comitatis exemplar, eruditorum Mecaenas eruditissimus, omnibus charus, si perduellium colluviem excipias. A quorum violentia, patriam patriaeque patrem, cum ore, tum calamo acerrimè vindicavit, virulentiam jure & justitia temperavit, ferociam rationis viribus retudit ac tantum non domuit. Monarchiae Genius tutelaris, fama, eloquio, morum integritate, factis & scriptis clarus, Ecclesiae, Regi, Reipublicae, Literis & amicis vixit, Maii die octavo an. 1691 in Dom. obiit desideratissimus.     

TABLE or INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF Athenae and Fasti Oxonienses.  


A.  
ACton Edw. 844.  
Adam's Fitzherb. 593.897. Rich. 491.775.  
Adderley Thom. 847. Will. 377.  
Adee Nich. 824.  
Adelsheim Jo. Phil. 886.  
Addison Lanc. 784.  
Adolph. Joh. Co. Pal. of the Rhine 893.894.  
Agas Dan. 151.  
Agriconius Sam. Mon. 869.  
Ahier Josh. 735.  
Ailmer Jo. 365.  
Airay Christop. 341.  
Akroid Ambr. 515.  
S. Alban Cham Duke of 829.  
Albiis de Tho. 161.240.480.497.  
Aldrich Hen. 457.869.889.  
Aldworth Char. 898.  
Alfred King 228.  
Allam Andr. 594.  
Allason Edw. 743.  
Allein Jo. 858. Jos. 299.300. Rich. 513.301. Theodosia 301.  
Allen Franc. 745. Rich. 68 Tho. 871.  
Allestree Char. 878. Rich. 505.  
Aleyn Cham 702.  
Allibond Joh. 723.  
Allington Lord 622.  
Alured Tho. 66.  
Alix Pet. 860.  
Allmagne Jam. 899.  
Alonso 487.  
Alsop Ben. 561.563.564.620. Nath. 855.  
Altham Mich. 890. Rog. 891.  
Alvey Tho. 860.  
Ambrose Is. 225.226.152.  
Amherst Arth. 825.  
Amidei Alex. 232.  
Amyraldus Mos. 550.  
Anderson Hen. 851.  
Andrew Geo. 657.  
Andrews Lanc. 215. 216.5●5. Nich. 730.  
Aneley Sam. 335.514.747.  
Angel Joh. 118.  
Angier Joh. 226.  
Anglesey Arth. Earl of 597.401.542. See Annesley.  
Annand Will. 632.  
Annesley Altham 856. Geor 778. Rich. 856.903. See Anglesey and Aneley.  
Anselm St. 316.  
Apsley Allen 830.  
Archer Sim. 693.  
Archytopographus 331.  
Arderne Jam. 439.631.864.  
Argall Sam. 776.  
Arlington Hen. Earl of 831  
Aristotle 254.479.496.497.569.  
Armachanus Rad. 366.  
Armestead Tho. 898.  
Armourer Nich. 842.  
Arnway Jo. 84.377.  
Arnold Andr. 889. Joh. 753.784.  
Arran Rich. Earl of 879.  
Arris Tho. 776.  
Arrowsmith Joh. 371.  
Arthur Joh. 814.  
Ascham Ant. 268.  
Ash Sim. 376.  
Ashbournham Joh. 59.515.  
Ashford Dan. 532.  
Ashmole Elias 492.853.  
Ashton Tho. 781. Will. 215.824.  
Ashurst Will. 81.  
Astley Herb. 814.851.  
Aston Arth. 727. Jam. 736.  
Astrey Jam. 877.  
Astrop Well 651.  
Atherton Hen. 864.  
Atterbury Franc. 458.899. Lew. 777.805.  
Atfield Joh. 819.  
Atkins Jam. 685.  
Atkinson Edw. 735. Tho. 183.  
Atkyns Rich. 442.443. Rob. 831.  
Atwood A. 847.  
Aubrey Joh. 439.483.  
Audley Hugh 655.  
Aungier Franc. 879.  
Austen Joh. 34.488. Ralph 780.  
Austin Sam. 232.  
Aylesbury Rob. E. of 832.  
Aylesbury Will. 138.  
Aylet Rob. 879.  
Aylmer Edw. 733. Joh. 734.    


B.  
BAber Jo. 735.774.  
Bacon Franc. 134. Nath. 862. Nich. 173.  
Bagley Jo. 881.  
Bagshaw Edw. 211.359.360. etc. 345.347.439. Hen. 211.  
Bainbridge Jo. 17.  
Baker Aust. 387.388. Aron. 868. Rich. 33. Tho, 867.878.  
balcanqual Walt. 309.  
Bale Jo. 135.  
Baldwin Joh. 718. Sam. 779. Tim· 62.778.  
Ball Pet. 721.  
Bambridge Tho. 851.  
Bampfield Franc. 571.  
Bampton Jam. 873.  
Banger Jos. 776.  
Bank Rich. 859.  
Banks Hen. 859. Joh. 683.710.  
Barbon Joh. 623. Praisgod 439.469.  
Barcham Jo. 9.10.  
Bard Hen. 722.  
Bardsey Geo. 730.  
Bargrave Is. 288.  
Barker Mat. 377. Will. 822.  
Barksdale Clem. 613.614. Fr. 752.  
Barkstead Jo. 758.  
Barlow Tho. 18.19.141.398.407.409.413.486.555.558.724.812.  
Barnard Jo. 555.190.833.873.  
Barn Mil. 834.  
Barnes Josh. 638.  
Baron Jam. 766.  
Barret Dau. 49. Joh. 563.  
Barrington Franc. 770.  
Barrow Hugh 888. Joh. 868. Is. 426.577.658.670.671.724.737.782.868.  
Barten Mat. 765.  
Bartholin Tho. 882.  
Barton Sam. 888. Tho. 833. Will. 149.  
Barwick Joh. 577.732.  
Basire Is. 739.  
Basset Will. 833.  
Bastwick Joh. 192.313.317.  
Bate Geor 303.305. Hen. 725.  
Bateman. 506.  
Bates Will. 125.377.447.564.  
Bathurst Christop. 807. Joh. 691. Ra. 616.713.784. Tho. 819. Vil. 878.  
Battle Ra. 500  
Battleley Jo. 621.  
Bauldrey Paul 873.  
Bayley Tho. 900.  
Bailiff Jo. 830. Rich. 31.663.664.817.820. Tho. 217.712.  
Bayly Tho. 673. Will. 666.716.  
Baxter Rich. 62.80.226.300.301.331.360.361.377.383.385.402.406.409.410.411.426.427.433.440.453.497.534.555.563.564.579.584.585.587.618.664.901.  
Beach Will. 897.  
Beale Will. 729.  
Bear Geo. 788.  
Beauclere Cham 829.  
Beaufort Duke of 830.  
Beaulieu Luke 896.  
Beaumond Geo. 581.  
Beauvoir Gab. 779.  
Beaw Will. 743.841.898.  
Beck Cave 718.  
Becman Jo. Chr. 834.  
Bedford Jam. 752.794.  
Bedwell Will. 89.  
Beeby Jo. 825.  
Beech Andr. 805.  
Beecher Will. 109.  
Beesley Hen. 396.  
Beeston Hen. 805.  
Bell Will. 554.555.  
Bellasyse Joh. 808. Tho. 769.  
Ben Will. 506.  
Bendlowes Edw. 876.  
Benet Hen. 831. Tho. 634.902. See Arlington.  
Bennet Chr. 117. Jo. 606. Phil. 897. Tho. 330.331.848.  
Bennion Joh. 868.  
Benson Geo. 710.714.812. Jo. Mich. 834. Sam. 859.  
Bent Tho. 888.  
Bentick or Benting Will. 622.857.  
Bentley Rich. 903.  
Berkley Cham 808 830.831. Geor 852. Joh. 434. Will. 434.  
Bernard Edw. 565.779.895. Nich. 188.189.654.797.  
Bery see Bury.  
Berry Rich. 793. 79●.  
Bertheau Ren. 899.  
Bertie Alb. 902. Cham 837. Phillip 896. Vere 837.  
Best Will. 334.  
Bevan Tho. 892.  
Beveridge Will. 791.800.850.  
Beverland Hadr. 862.  
Biddle Joh. 197.198. etc.  
Bidgood Joh. 806.  
Bignall Rich. 188.  
Biggs Noah 736.  
Billingsley Joh. 751.752. Nich. 779.  
Birch Joh. 464. Pet. 901. Sam. 789.  
Birchley Will. 488.  
Birckbeck Sim. 128.  
Birkenhead Joh. 475.143.183.222.838.  
Birkhead Hen. 90.725.  
Bird Tho. 720.  
Birstall Will. 879.  
Biscoe Joh. 474.  
Bispham Tho. 705.  
Blackbourne Tho. 483.  
Blackmore Jo. 760. Rich. 888.  
Blackwell Franc. 755. Sam. 512. Tho. 725.  
Blagrave Jo. 868.812.  
Blaiklock Laur. 252.  
Blake Tho. 133.  
Blandford Walt. 677.812.  
Blane or Blaney Al. 132.  
Blathwait Will. 837.  
Blechynden Rich. 894.  
Blome Jo. 34.  
Blood its circulation 454.  
Blount Cham 481.535. Hen. 534.525. Tho. Pope 535. Tho. 34.  
Blow Jo. 568.  
Bobart Jac. 787.852.  
Bochart Sam. 550.582.  
Bodington Joh. 785.  
Bodley Laur. 893.  
Bodvill Jo. 721.  
Bogan Zach. 151.  
Boherel Elias 900.  
Bohun Edm. 55. Ra. 897.  
Bold Hen. 565.834. Tho. 209. Will. 565.  
Bolnest Ed. 470.  
Bolton Sam. 376.822. Will. 859.  
Boncle Geo. 725. Jo. 780.  
Bond Nath. 784.  
Bonner Rich. 741.  
Bonwick Jo. 855.  
Booker Jo. 34.510.  
Board Geo. 541. Joh. 836. Rob. 895.  
Boraston Geo. 787.  
Boreman Rob. ●16.  
Borlase Edm. 599.806.  
Borough Jo. 719.  
Boston Paul 704.  
Bosvile Tho. 693.  
Boswell Tho. 693.  
Boteler Jam. 879. Pierce 879. Rich. ibid. See Arran, Galmoy, Ormonde and Ossory.  
Bourne Im. 374.  
Bowater Sam. 841.  
Bowden Steph. 811  
Bowes Paul 111  
Boughen Edw. 115  
Boulton Edm. 10  
boil Franc. 838. Rog. 228.417.838. Rob. 838.854  
Bradford Joh. 617  
Bradshaw Jo. 82.445.466.470.520.521.564. Rich. 289  
Brady Rob. 639  
Bragge Rob. 377  
Bramball Jo. 115.677  
Brandon Joh. 835  
Branker Tho. 422  
Brathwayte Rich. 378.467  
Bravell Rich. 886  
Brent Nath. 92. Will. 92.168  
Brereton Geo. 808  
Brett Arth. 448  
Brevall Fr. Dur. 791.872  
Brevint Dan. 550.824  
Brian Will. 858  
Brice .... 395  
Bridal Tho. 786  
Bridge Will. 250.370.576  
Bridges Br. 755. Noah 736. Will. 169.250  
Brideoake Ra. 58.205.680.681  
Bridgman Cham 824. Hen. 10.682.812  
Briggs Will. 855  
Bright Geo. 860. Will. 818.  
Brigstock Ow. 363  
Bristol Jo. 3  
Bristol Jam. 835  
Broderick or Broderwick Al. 294.819  
Brograve Rob. 882.  
Brook Fulk 228.292. Humph. 641.735.803  
Brough Will. 731  
Brounker Hen. 739. Will. 612.709.738  
Browne 384.760. Edw. 841.844. Rich. 95.202.238.281.376.430.550.755.760.761.825. Tho. 383.384.515.790.890. Will. 787.836  
Bruce And. 806.856.905. Dau. 805. Geo. 852. Rob. 832  
Bruen Sam. 741  
Brunsell Hen. 804. Sam. 741.815  
Brunswick Geo. Lew. Duke of 886  
Bryan Math. 897  
Bryen Hen. 792  
Buckingham Geo. Duke of 293.543.544  
Buckner Will. 812  
Buckoake Edw. 733  
Budaeus Steph. 788  
Budgell Gilb. 863  
Bull Geo. 4●6. 898  
Buller Fr. 760  
Bulkley Lanc. 657. Rob. 893. Rich. 886  
Bulteel Jo. 819  
Bunbury Tho. 728  
Burby Joh. 713  
Burges Anth. 134. Corn. 235.236. etc. 209.366. Eliz. 812. Jo. 290.  
Burhill Rob. 4.5  
Burnet Gilb. 189.424.489.625.635.686.721.754  
Burrough Jer. 235.250.370  
Burscough Rob. 890  
Burt Will. 801  
Burthogg Rich. 779  
Burton Cassib. 36. Hen. 8.31.186.313.460. Hez. 785. Joh. 895. Will. 36.137.138.693.  
Bury Arth. 840. Joh. 279.723.  
B●●by Rich. 359.360.412.814.  
bushel Seth 588  
Bushmell Walt. 273  
Butler Cham 51. Joh. 110.724. Sam. 326  
Button Ral. 771.772.743.748  
Buxtorfius Jo. Jac. 842  
Byam Hen. 306.307  
Buy Jo. 857  
Byfield Adon. 207.229.415. Nich. 229. Rich 229. Sam. 415.  
Bird Will. 4.492  
Byron Jo. 707. Nich. 709. Rich. 701. Tho. 709  
bish Edw. 483.50.51.100.389.    


C.  
CAde Will. 888  
Caldicot Dr. 749  
Caernarvan Char. Earl of 745. Rob. 707  
Caesar Aug. 811. Hen. 729.  
Calamy Edm. 76.235.377.385.522  
C●●idonius Theod. 858  
Campion Abr. 862  
Can Jo. 469  
Cane Jo. Vinc. 561  
Canon Nath. 235  
Capell Dan. 485. Edw. 837. Rich. 128.129  
Care Hen. 471.599  
Careless Tho. 751  
Carleton Geo. 684. Guy 683.684  
Carney Rich. 722  
Carpender Will. 778  
Carpenter Hen. 826  
Carr Alan 859. Rich. 860. Tho. 458. Will. 567.833  
Carswell Franc. 395.888  
Carteret Phil. 439.  
Cartwright Chr. 352.406. Tho. 629.685. Will. 18.143.  
Cary or Carew 470  
Cary Hen. 167.168. Luc. 22. See Falkland. Rob. 625  
Carwell Tho. 31  
Caryl Jos. 375.376. etc. 46.112.369 385.522.556  
Cas●ubon Jam. 689. Is. 355. Mer. 353.354.31  
Case Tho. 529.17.377  
Castell Edm. 330.730  
Castilion Joh. 815  
Castle Edm. 730. Geo. 381.232  
Castlemaine Rog. Earl of 846  
Caswell Joh. 433.878  
Cave Jo. 648.899. Will. 286.889  
Cavendish Gilb. 474. William 830. See Newcastle.  
Cawdrey Dan. 161.421  
Cawley Jo. 775.841  
Cawton Tho. 432.76  
Chabraeus God. 752  
Chadwell Will. 709  
Chalk Franc. 704  
Chaloner Ja. 162. Tho. 295.494.  
chamberlain Edtu. 862  
Chambers Humph. 105. Rob. 112  
Chapman Geo. 262. Hen. 751  
Charles the first, King of Engl. 25.59.77.81.179.213.314.215.264.336.375.436.437.438.515.516.517.518.519.520. 521. & c. 662.686.703.713.724.755.756.760.761.762.763. His Prophecy 764  
Ch. 2. King 77.478.479.522.582.668.691. His not. Issue 828.829  
Charles Count Pal. of the Rhine 887  
Charlet Fr. 710  
Charlot the not. dau. of K. Ch. 2.829.  
Charlton Fr. 535. Walt. 586.880  
Charnock Steph. 491.779. Thom. 492  
Charrol. Jo. Chrysost. 896  
Chesterfield Phil. Earl of 853  
Chetwind Joh. 290. Walt. 36  
Cheynell Franc. 245.23.746  
Childrey Josh. 339.812  
Chillingworth William 20. etc. 45.124.126.246.714  
Cholmondeley Franc. 852. Hugh 622. Tho. 893  
Christina Q of Swed. 400  
Christmas Will. 872  
Christopher Jenk. 805  
Church French at Lond. 550.551  
Churchill Jo. 622. Winston 621  
Churchman Theoph. 186  
Clagett Nich. 220. Will. 220.562  
Clara Franc. 485.486. etc.  
Clarendon Edw. Earl of 389.390.303.842. Hen. 726.808. See Hyde.  
Clerk Joh. 782. Sam. 330.409.730.785. Will. 574.668. Sim. 693  
Clarkson Dau. 568  
Claub●●gh Joh. 452  
Clayton Rich. 840  
Cleauland Joh. 144  
Clegge Joh. 832  
Clement Will. 848.500  
Clerk Hen. 779. Jo. 810.863. Will. 452  
Cleypole Joh. 769  
Clifford Abr. 858. Mart. 381. Tho. 542.543.772.773  
Cloppenburch Joh. 198.  
Clutterbook Tho. 735.  
Cluver Death. 859  
Cobbet Ral. 762.763.764.765.  
Cocceius Hen. 857  
Codrington Rob. 243  
Cock Ch. Geor 425.452.453  
Cockaine Ast. 705. Geor 377. Tho. 377  
Coffey and its use 657  
Coke Rog. 439.645  
Colchester Rich. 718  
Cole Will. 212.186.226.639.809. Tho. 775.  
Coleman Edw. 566. Tho. 52.53  
Coals Elish. 745. Gilb. 412  
Colf Is. 115  
College Steph. 502  
Collier Ab. 788. Gilb. 462. Jer. 55. Tho. 234  
Collings Joh. 132.564.794  
Collins Joh. 794.795. Sam. 774.779.803  
Colomesius P. 384  
Colt William. Dutt. 887  
Comber Tho. 684  
Commonwealths men 439  
Compton Hen. 535.841.866. Jam. 707. See Northampton  
Con Geo. 114  
Conant Jo. 785.891. Malac. 836  
Coniard Abr. 792  
Coniers Will. 781  
Conold Rob. 126  
Conopius Nath. 657.706  
Constable George 805. Jos. 779  
Conway Jo. 893  
Cook Geo. 661. Ja. 419. Joh. 227.520.521.849. Tho. 177  
Cooling or Coling Rich. 837  
Cooper Ant. Ash. 540.541.841. See Shaftsbury  
Coppe Abiezer 367.450  
Coppin Rich. 149  
Copleston Jo. 402  
Corbet Edw. 739.749. Joh. 503.504. Mil. 758. Rich. 170  
Cordel Nich. 814  
Cornish Hen. 771.212.511.747  
Cornubia de Steph. 366  
Cornwell Rich. 118  
Coryate Tho. 232.348  
Cousin Jo. 11.317. Rich. 595  
Cotterel Ch. 138.582.857. Ch. Lod. 857  
Cottington Fr. 178  
Cotton Ch. 479. Edw. 815. Jo. 334  
Covenant or Sol. League 369.539  
Coventry Fr. 488. Hen. 543.810. Will. 601  
Coursing in Schools 603  
Couteur 550.551. Clem. 808  
Coward Will. 899  
Cowley Abr. 797.798.19.284.294.302.303.476  
Cox Tho. 575, 638.736.788  
Coyette William. Jul. 844  
Cradock. Fr. 439. Sam. 752. Tho. 835.863. Zach. 506  
Crandon Joh. 406  
Crane Tho. 634.854  
Cranford Jam. 133  
Crashaw Rich. 688  
Crawley Fr. 710  
Creed Will. 218  
Creighton Rob. 692  
Cressener Drue 860  
Cressey Hugh 385.386.486  
Crew Jo. 761. Nath. 593.623.786  
Crisp Tob. 12.13  
Crispin Tho. 281  
Croft Herb. 714. Joh. 739. Will. 302.739.808  
Crofton Zach. 208.209  
Croak Ch. 755. Geo. 777. Rich. 119. Rob. 728. Sam. 404. Vnt. 119.755  
Crompton Will. 751  
Cromwell Hen. 336.358.769.797. Rich. 769.797.804. Oliv. 78.82.201.208.303.354.376.442.468.476.494.521.541.654.728.760.761.767.768.769.772. Wingf. 709  
Croning Laur. 894  
Croon Hen. 439  
Cross Fr. 786. Josh. 302.743.770. Lat. 745. Rob. 569  
Crossing Hugh 217  
Crossman Sam. 549.843  
Crosthwait Tho. 840.895  
Crowe Will. 233.532  
Crowther Jos. 580.812.835  
Croyden Geo. 825, Tho. 779  
Cudworth Joh. 895  
Culpeper Nich. 305. Tho. 175.455.718. Nich. 305  
Cumberland Rich. 796.894  
Culverwell Rich. 531  
Currer Will. 736  
Curwyn Pet. 126  
Cycle Carol. 824    


D.  
DAcre Tho. Lord 846  
Daille Joh. 22  
Dale Joh. 588  
Danae Ob. 877  
Danby Tho. E. of 830  
Danson Tho. 244.245.561.750.780  
Derby Ch. 53  
Darrel or Dayrel Walt. 580.814.822  
Darton Nich. 68  
Dassovius Theod. 880  
Davenant Cham 884. Edw. 840. Rob. 813. Will. 884  
D'avenant William 292 etc. 263.264  
Davenport Chr. 485. etc. Edw. 797. Joh. 333.334  
Davies Franc. 676. Nich. 691  
Davis Edw. 188. Hugh 793. Will. 823  
Davison Tho. 828  
Davy Jo. 247  
Davys Rob. 362  
Daws Lanc. 98  
Dawson Jo. 3.4. Rob. 666  
Day Joh. 488. Rich. 186. Tho. 349  
Deane Hen. 836. Tho. 870  
Deatsch Fred. 891  
Dee Franc. 79  
Deffray Jo. 903  
Delamaine Rich. 525  
De Langle Sam. 891  
del Will. 377.522.739  
Denham Joh. 301.302.303.274.293.294  
Den Hen. 579  
Denton Hen. 802  
Derham Sam. 635  
Desborough Jo. 769  
D'ewes Sim. 109.110  
Dickinson Edm. 151.741  
Digby Ess. 287.880. Ever. 241. Franc. 877. Geor 428.429. Joh. 93.94.95.241. Ken. 238.239, etc. 430.535. Rob. 875. Sim. 686.875.880.887. Will. 887  
Digges Dudl. 16 143  
Diggle Edm. 821  
Dillon Cary 893. Went. ibid.  
Dingley Rob. 155  
Dixon Rob. 782  
Dobell Barn. 803  
Dobson Joh. 507  
Dod Jo. 804. Tho. 371  
Dodsworth Rog. 694.696.699  
Dodwell Hen. 901.407.558.811  
Dolben Joh. 684.600.505.825. Will. 837.  
Dolgarno Geor 372  
Dolling Hen. 833  
Dominick Andr. 823  
Domville Sil. 464  
Dona Will. Alb. Count of 857  
Dopping Ant. 631  
Dorchester Marq. of. See Pierpont  
Dorislaus Is. 228  
Dormer Cham 837. Pet. 747. Rob. 707.  
Door Abr. 887.  
Dorvilius Jac. 70  
dutch Joh. 716  
Dove Hen. 824.850  
Dover Hen. Lord 808  
Dover Rob. 614  
Doughtie Jo. 373  
Douglas Geor 482  
Dow Chr. 8  
Dowdeswell Will. 709  
dowel Jo. 800  
Down Hen. 742. Joh. 66.  
Downes Joh. 47.819. Theoph. 882  
Downing Cal. 26.235. Geor 27.758.759  
Drake Rich. 76.859. Rog. 74.76.  
Draper Tho. 812  
Drew Edw. 855  
Drop Edw. 821. Franc. 357.807  
Dryden Cham 893. Joh. 295.544.884.893  
Drysdale Hu. 891  
Duck Arth. 67  
Dugdale Jam. 728. Jo, 820. Will. 693.694.110.516.517  
Dugres Gab. 46  
Dukeson Rich. 731  
Du Moulin, see Moulin  
Dunn Pat. 879  
Duncomb Joh. 513.542. Tho. 860.  
Du Perron, see Perron  
Duport Ja. 840  
Duppa Br. 176.177.661  
durel Jo. 550.551. etc. 754  
Durham Jam. 564. Will. 580.748.766.849  
Duns Jo. Scot 366  
Dunster Tho. 904  
durel Joh. 853  
Durston Will. 810  
Dury Gil. 468  
Dutton Hen. 297. Jo. 709  
Dyer Alex. 736  
Dyke Dan. 643:  
Dynham Edw. 688    


E.  
EArl Joh. 251.23.582.583. 600.667  
Eton Byr. 813. Joh. 5.6. Nath. 232. Sam. 231  
Edgar K. and his grant 465  
Edgley Geor 723  
Edisbury Joh. 862  
Edmondson Hen. 150  
Edward's Jonath. 706.898. Tho. 192.723  
Eedes Hen. 775. Joh. 291  
Egan Anth. 867  
Egborough 60  
Egerton Joh. 893  
Eland Geor 665  
Elcocke Ant. 816.864  
Elderfield Chr. 92.93  
Eliot Joh. 892. Pet. 728.779  
eliot Joh. 834.844  
Ellis Clem. 99 Jo. 248.249.366. 818. Phil. 249. The. 248. Will. 856  
Ellison Nath. 881  
Elizabeth Princes 524  
Elmer Edw. 733  
Elsing Hen. 105  
Elys Edm. 786  
Emilie Edw. 736  
Enderbie Per. 248  
Ent Geor 19  
Erbury Will. 103.104.739. Dorc. 105  
Ernle Sir Joh. 808  
Erscott Tho. 879  
Erskyne Will. 382  
Etkins Jam. 685  
Evans Rich. 718  
Eve Hen. 823.881  
Ewer Samp. 711  
Exton Joh. 809  
Eyre Sam. 649.900. Will. 331.332.406.587  
Eyton Samp. 780    


F.  
FAbricius Secb. 870  
Fairclough Dan. 37.61.257. Joh. 257. Rich. 258.301.404.556  
Fairfax Ferd. 766. Hen. 885. N. 616. Tho. 766.767.70.81.526. 576.699.762.769.880  
Falkland Anth. Lord 893. Hen. 204. Luc. 22.159.203.386.387  
Fanshaw Rich. 726. The. 694.726  
Farabosco Alph. 725  
Farewell Jam. 825  
Faringdon Ant. 144  
Farrington Joh. 202 in marg.  
Farmer Ant. 617. Will. 844  
Farnabie Tho. 53.54.865  
Fauconberg Tho. Lord 622.769  
Feake Chr. 442  
Featley see Fairclough  
Feild Rob. 448.864. Theoph. 659  
Fell Joh. 602.603. etc. 141.159.330.331.402.403.414.481.505.570.685. Phil. 807. Sam. 63.740  
Felton Nich. 653  
Fen Jam. 839  
Ferber Jo. Bern. 887  
Ferguson Rob. 545.546.560.618  
Ferne Hen. 717.729  
Ferr and Jam. 99  
Fessius Laur. 833  
Fidoe Jo. 803  
Fielding Rob. 782  
Fiennes Joh. 329. Nath. 327.78.409.576. Will. 178.179.429.542  
Filmer Rob. 532  
Finch Cham 900. Dan. 540. Fr. 740. Heneage 538.540.837.893. Joh. 740. Leop. Will. 888.896  
Finmore Will. 751  
Fisher Edw. 132. Joh. 8.20.38.61. Pain 155.268.471.732. Sam. 243.244.288  
Fitton 239  
Fitzcharles Cham 829  
Fitzgerald Jo. 892. Rob. 879. Will. 686  
Fitzharding Cham Visc. 773  
Fitzpatrick Jo. 880  
Fitzroy Cham 829.882. Geo. 829. Hen. 829. Jam. 828  
Fitzsimon Hen. 24  
Fitzwilliams Joh. 878  
Flatman Tho. 626.232.284.706.842  
Fleman Andr. 894  
Fleetwood Cham 542.769. Geor 789. Jam. 713.714. Joh. 824. Will. 489  
Fletcher Tho. 718.902  
Floyer Joh. 885  
Floyd Joh. 114.154  
Flower Joh. 746  
Fludd Leu. 819  
Foley Jo. 899  
Ford Edw. 340. Sim. 450.744.766.836  
Forneretus And. Fred. 862  
Forster Rich. 863  
Rob. 710. Will. 96  
Foster Sam. 96  
Fou'is Hen. 329.616  
Fountain Joh. 80.425  
Fowler Chr. 449.450. Edw. 780.790.888. Hen. 881. Mat. 715  
Fox Geo. 156, 290.560.634. Rich. 625. Steph. 808  
Frampton Rob. 593.681.682  
Frankland Tho. 648  
Franklin Jo. 836. Rich. 811  
Fredericus Chr. 869  
Freezer Aug. 882  
French Joh. 136.743.747. Pet. 770.774.783. Will. 136  
Frewen Accept. 663.664. Joh. 664  
Fry Joh. 246.247  
Friar Tho. 896  
Fulham Edw. 395.812  
Fuller Fra. 828. Sam. 828. Tho. 38.189.192.226.295.729. Will. 45.676.729  
Fulman Will. 624.163.353  
Fulwood Franc. 196. Jam. 891.    


G.  
GAdbury Jo. 511  
Gale Theoph. 451.750. Tho. 850  
Galmoy Visc. of 879  
Gataker Tho. 192  
Garamon Han. 26.  
Garbrand Jo. 843. Tob. 747.  
Gardener Rich. 349  
Garenciers Theoph. 791  
Gascoigne Bern. 740. Rich. 694. Tho. 366.567  
Gauden Jo. 207.208. etc. 10.662  
Gawen Tho. 572  
Gayton Edm. 271  
Geddes Mich. 860  
Gee Edw. 163.152.892  
Gell Joh. 186.187. Rob. 187  
Gelsthorp Edw. 828  
Gentilis Rob. 116  
George Pr. of Den. 623  
Georgirines Jos. 802  
Geree Jo. 64. Steph. 132  
S. German 872  
Gery Jo. 691  
Getsius Jo. Dan. 416  
Ghibbesius Jac. Alb see Gibbes  
Gibbes Cham 513. Jac. Alb. 858.865  
Gibbons Chr. 833. Rich. 776  
Gibbs Rich. 35  
Gibson Edm. 726  
Giffard Fra. 807  
Gifford Bonav. 621.900. Mat. 30. Pet. 34. Tho. 691  
Gill Alex. 12  
Gilbert Jo. 884. Tho. 512.747.783  
Gillespie G●o. 52.53  
Gisbie Geo 737  
Glanvi. ●●anc. 721. Joh. 720.721. Jos. 4 Ri. & 419.569.570. Will. 722  
Glemham Hen. 670.733. Tho. 733  
Glen Geo. 825  
Glendall Jo. 596  
Glisson Franc. 304  
Gloucester Duke of 524  
Glover Hen. 835.836  
Glynn Chr. 466  
Glynne Jo. 269. Will. 270 789  
Goad Jo. 638  
Goddard Jonath. 392.776  
God-den Tho. 553  
Godolphin Hen. 897. Joh. 452. Syd. 808.830. Will. 832  
Godwin Fr. 318. Morg. 692.833. Tho. 13  
Goff or Gough Jo. 171. Steph. 340.573.798. Will. 171.759. See Gough  
Goldsmith Fr. 119  
Good Jo. 817. Tho. 453.250  
Goodman Godf. 66. Joh. 620.  
Goodwin Joh. 65.85.168.219.288.334.469.538. Tho. 783.370.556.564  
Gore Tho. 573.406  
George's Lord 679. Rob. 746. Tho. 713.814.822  
Goring Geo. 428  
Gornia Jo. Bap. 850  
Gove Rich. 301  
Goughe Jo. 171. Tho. 554. Will. 537.759. See Goffe.  
Gould Will. 606.839  
Goulson Jos. 723. Will 682.684.  
Gower Humph. 579  
Grafton Hen. Duke of 829  
Graham Jam. 893. Rich. 841. Will. 898  
Grand Ant. 620  
Grandison Will. Lord 829  
Grant Jo. 612  
grail Jo. 105.176  
Greatrakes Val. 416  
Greaves Edw. 500 Joh. 87.88.17.627. Nich. 500 Rich. 760.761. Tho. 408.430.  
Greenfield Tho. 687  
Greenvill Bern. 851. Den. 808.858. Joh. 661.830  
Greenwood Dan. 596.770.772.775  
Greisley Hen. 460  
Gregory Abr. 823. Dau. 895. Fran. 822.823. Joh. 50.143.823.862  
Grevil Fulk 519  
Grew Obad. 636. Neh. 636  
Grey Nich. 163.164. Will. Lord 516. Tho. 521.846  
Griffin Joh. 200  
Griffith 572.489. Alex. 116. Evan 427. Geor 270.346.667.690. Mat. 249. Rich. 792.805. Will. 143  
Grobie Tho. Lord 521.846  
Gronovius Jac. 859  
Gross Alex. 103  
Grosvenour Ed. 759. Hugh 893  
Grove Rob. 998.801  
Guidott Tho. 802  
Guildford Lord 904  
Guillim Jos. 849  
Guise Will. 564  
Gumbleton Joh. 135  
Gunning Pet. 577.199.683  
Gunter Edm. 129. Joh. 751  
Gurgany Joh. 50.815  
Guy Hen. 830    


H.  
HAak Theod. 642  
Hackenberg Paul 886  
Hacker Fr. 520.522.523.525.526  
Hacket Andr. 666. Joh. 664.665.237.685. Tho. 814  
Hakewill Geor 65.66.185.186. Will. 65  
Hale Mat. 424.75.618  
Haleke Gust. Geo. 886  
Hales Jo. 123.124. etc. 22.145.284.625.828  
Haley Will. 884  
Hall Edm. 609. Geor 297.670. Hen. 663. Joh. 419.790.801.850.876. Jos. 585.753. Nich. 892. Rob. 186.723.815. Tim. 685.686  
Halley Edm. 882  
Hallifax Will. 899  
Halsius Edw. 855  
Halton Tim. 812.869. Will. 873  
Halyfax Geo. Earl of 544.546.599  
Hallywell Hen. 787  
Hamden Jo. 178.770  
Hamilton Gust. 880. Hen. 830. Jam. 71. Will. 366.744  
Hammat Jo. 880  
Hammond Hen. 158.159.337.386.525.560.605.624.772. Joh. 885. Rob. 162.762. Tho. 162.762  
Hanks Hen. 722  
Hanmer Franc. 119  
Hanmore Tho. 707  
Hannover Prince of 886  
Hanson Fred. Ad. 886  
Harcourt Phil. 609.771. Vere 894  
Hardcastle J. 347  
Harder Fred. 894  
Hardy Nath. 336.337. Sam. 802  
Harding 749  
Harford Jo. 863  
Harlow Pedael 194  
Harley Rob. 435  
Harmar Jo. 347  
Harrison Jo. 835. Ra. 874. Rob▪ 787.889 Tho. 438.518.521.523.756.765. Will. 843  
Harrington Ja. 436.437.141.189.458.904. Jo. 336  
Hart Jo. 85  
Hart Prior of Langthony 381  
Hartlib Sam. 370  
Hartman Ad. Sam. 886. Geor 240. Paul 801  
Harvey Christ. 175. Fr. 119. Will. 691  
Harwood Rich. 813  
Haslewood Jo. 897  
Hastings Hen. 707  
Hatton Cham 701. Chr. 694.695.708.893.  
Hausted Pet. 713  
Hawkins Jo. 171.623. Tho. 170.171. Will. 804.874  
Hawles Ant. 339.812  
Hawley Fr. 704  
Hayes Tho. 858  
Hayne Tho. 42  
Haywood Jo. 218. Will. 218.739  
Healey Will. 884  
Heath Ja. 226. Rob. 710  
Heaver Jo. 830  
Hedges Ch. 871  
Heighmore Nath. 590  
Helena Tho. 709  
Helm Joh. 614  
Hemmings Will. 73  
Henchman Humph. 162.668.679.723. Rob. 807. Tho. 219.859.  
Herald Lew. 858  
Henderson Alex. 380  
Henrietta Maria Qu. of Engl. 311  
Henshaw Jos. 473. 6●1 Tho. 287  
Herbert Lord, of Ragl. 889  
Herbert Edw. 62.63.19.20 831.847. Hen. 62.524. Tho. 514.515.162.436.437.438.519.520.521.522.523. etc. 525. etc. 763.767. See Pembroke  
Herlakinden Will. 777  
Herle Cham 151.152  
Herring Franc. 86  
Hertford Will. Marq. of 522.527.716.804  
Hesenthalerus Magn. 570  
Hewit Joh. 723  
Hewson Joh. 758  
Heydon Joh. 710  
Heylyn Pet. 181.182.183. & 8.170.311.428.476. Rich. 824  
Heyrick Rich. 281.77  
Heywood Joh. 840  
Hickman Cham 859. Franc. 899. Hen. 189.345.552.553.561  
Hicks Edw. 751.814. Gasp. 431. Geor 548.599.871.883.884. Joh. 228. Will. 157  
Higford Will. 132.133  
Higham Jo. 368  
higgon's Theoph. 154  
Higgs Griff. 152.153.635  
Hill Will. 290.291  
Hillersden Jo. 691  
Hilton Walt. 459  
Hind Tho. 887  
Hine Rich. 407  
Hinkley Jo. 585  
Hinton Edw. 771.835. Joh. 843. Laur. 716  
Hitch Hen. 885  
Hoard Sam. 141.142  
Hobbes Tho. 477.478. etc. 293.294.373.497.  
Hoby Edw. 154.155  
Hockin Tho. 802  
Hodges Ant. 738. Nath. 775.793.862. Tho. 714.824. Will. 823  
Hody Humph. 51.99  
Hoffman Ben. 863  
Holborn Rob. 711  
Holbroke Hen. 100  
Holden Sam. 361.802  
Holder Will. 815  
Holdesworth Rich. 45  
Holding Sam 361.802  
Hole Math. 868  
Holland Rich. 433.883  
Hollingworth Rich. 508  
Hollis Denz. 542. Geru. 702  
Holloway Rich. 692  
Holme Rand. 699  
Holmes Nath. 460.461. etc.  
Holiday Bart. 169.170.708  
Holyoke or Holyoake Ch. 398. Fr. 97. Tho. 398  
Holtzfus Barthold. 896  
Honywood Tho. 776  
Hood Paul 804  
Hook Rob. 831. Will. 334.  
Hooker Rich. 179.209.210.215.252.525  
Hoole Ch. 272.273  
Hooper Geo. 402.804.842.844.878  
Hopkins Ezec. 647.686. Georg. 255  
Horn Th. 106.107  
Horneck Ant. 499.830  
Horsman Nich. 55  
Horton Tho. 779  
Hoskyns Joh. 439  
Hotchkis Tho. 512.562.563  
Hough Jo. 617.779.898.899  
Howard Cham 758. Jam. 830. Tho. 846. See Norfolk  
How Joh. 281.505.564.750. Jos. 737. Obad. 538. Will. 127.538  
Howell Franc. 627.745. Geor 839. Jam. 265. etc. 96. Joh. 884. Tho. 656. Will. 863.874  
Howerth Theoph. 850  
Howson Joh. 191  
Hoyle Josh. 113. Nath. 753  
Huard Abr. 748  
Huband Jo. 844  
Hubberthorne Rich. 534  
Hudibras 326.476  
Hudson Joh. 895. Mich. 59.60  
Hungerford Walt. 723  
Hughes Geo. 280. Joh. 895  
Huish Alex. 296.730  
Hulett Joh. 223  
Hulsius Ant. 845  
Humphrey Jo. 495.558.562  
Humphreys 760  
Humphreys Hump. 847.890  
Hunks Herc. 520.521  
Hunt Franc. 488. Tho. 547.548  
Huntingdon Rob. 76.686.793.892  
Hunton Phil. 532  
Hurst Castle 764  
Hurst Hen. 639  
Hutchins Geor 650  
Hutton Cham 874.877.878  
Hyde Alex. 668. Edw. 389.190.194.212.303.391.423.557.669.715.804.819. Exed. 669. Hen. 668.669.808. Jam. 669.735. Laur. 668.808.838. Rich. 813.826. Rob. 668. Tho. 259.669.723.804.423. See Clarendon and Rochester.  
Hyfield Joh. 641    


I.  
JAckson Arth. 75.77. Hen. 194.195. Rich. 736. Sam. 861. Tho. 680. Will. 821  
Jackson alias Keurden Ric. 736.832  
Jacob Hen. 89.90.19. Will. 91.811  
Jacobeus Joh 868  
Jacomb Sam. 607. Tho. 606.377.564  
James Abr. 512. Hen. 683. Joh. 903. Tho. 840.860. Walt. 791. Will. 217  
James 2. King. 686.900.892  
Jane Will. 833.883  
Janeway Jam. 385.377. Joh. 385  
Jay Geor 813  
Jeamson Tho. 846  
Jeanes Hen. 195. Tho. 774.779.803  
Jeffryes Edm. 858. Geor 847. Jam. 892.  
Jekyll Tho. 842  
Jellinger Chr. 129  
Jemmat Sam. 817. Will. 449  
Jenkin Hen. 862  
Jenkins Rich. 496.514. Will. 74.76.77.222.377.552.  
Jenks Hen. 851  
Jenkyns Dau. 220.221. etc. Joh. 725.876. Leol. 809.  
Jermin Hen. 150  
Jeruvorthus Sam. 73  
Jessey Hen. 377  
Jessop Constant 175  
Ince Pet. 207  
Inett Joh. 848  
Ingelo Nath 570.844.848  
Ingoldesbie Rich. 757.758 St. john's Coll. its Christmas Prince 153  
Johnson Benj. 239.826. Cath. 206 in marg. Joh. 492.752.773. Rich. 112. Sam. 548. Tho. 226.722. Will. 797  
Johnston Nath. 687  
Jolliff Geor 100  
Jones Dau. 896. Jenk. 345. Inig. 294. Joh. 606.769.878. Lew. 656. Rich. 96. Rob. 173. Tho. 532.533. Walt. 814.815  
Joyce Geor 760.761.  
Joiner Joh. 519. Rob. 19.706. Will. 717  
Ireland Tho. 793  
Ireton Hen. 81.767.769  
Ironside Gilb. 357.675.685.795.812.840  
Ives Jer. 201  
Junius Franc. 875. Pat. 387  
Justell Hen. 871  
Juxon William 662.520.521.522.523.524. etc. 659    


K.  
KAye Steph. 885. Will. 100  
Keble Jos. 784  
Keck Anth. 640  
Keeling Joh. 425  
Kellam Geor 746  
Kelsey Tho. 745  
Keme or Kem Sam. 341.342  
Kendal Geor 219.233. Nich. 882  
Ken Tho. 800.817  
Kennerslie Clem. 519  
Kennet Bas. 289  
Kerry Tho. 812  
Kersey Joh. 130  
Kettle Ralph 735  
Kettlewell Jo. 867.868  
Keurden Rich. 736.832  
Keyns Joh. 561  
Kidder Rich. 800  
Kildare Jo. E. of 892  
Killigrew Will. 708  
Killingtree Will. 718  
Kimberley Jon. 863  
Kinaston Franc. 11  
King Benj. 641. Dan. 163. Hen. 308.309.177.670.755. Joh. 309.742. Phil. 309.603.734 Rob. 755. The. 728. Will. 686  
Kingston E. of, see Pierpont.  
Kirton Edw. 704. Joh. 171    


L.  
LAcey Joh. 380. Will. 379.22  
Ladyman Sam. 751  
Lake Joh. 682.684.640  
Lakenby Joh. 716  
Lamb Jam. 228.229. Jo. 717  
Lambermont Lod. 788  
Lambert Jo. 81.757.758. Tho. 840  
Lamphire Jo. 19.373.811  
Lamplugh Tho. 338.600.815.825.684  
Lancaster Pet. 898. Rob. 5  
Lane Ed. 754. Jam. 853. Jos. 778. Rich. 720. Tho. 881  
Laney Ben. 337.579.676  
Langbaine Ger. 140.67.91.112.884  
Laniere Nich. 724.725  
Langford Joh. 802  
Langius Zur. 782  
Langley Hen. 511.747 770.771. Joh. 135  
Lantman 'thad. 871  
Latch Joh. 119  
Latham Paul 793.820  
Laud William. Archb. 30. etc. 11.28.109.124.183.185.211.224.311.312.326.384.399.486.487.525.603.604.655.656.657.662.672.687  
Lauder Rich 855  
Lauderdale Joh. Duke of 389  
Lauderdale Rich Earl of 855  
Laurence Geor 75. Tho. 136.169.737.845  
Laws Hen. 19.25.36.95.476.741. Will. 25  
Lawson Geor 406  
Lee Franc. 898. Joh. 812. Nath. 841. Sam. 745.774  
Legg Geor 622. Will. 515.733  
Leigh Edw. 351. Hen. 352. Rich. 847. Tho. 698.818.841  
Leighton Hen. 702. Will. 733  
Leightonhouse Walt. 879.882  
Le Neve Will. 707  
Lennard Samps. 267  
Lenos Ch. 829  
Lenthall Joh. 206. William 203.204. etc. 680  
Leo Will. 46  
Lesley Cham 673. Hen. 286. Joh. 673.674  
Lestrange Ham. 188. Rog. 249.267.361.447.468.535.546.548.585  
L●vett Will. 843.884.885  
Levingslon Jam. 515.819  
Levinz Bapt. 686.823.828.873.892. Rob. 711. Will. 663.751.816.823.840  
Llewellin Mart. 528  
Lewgar Joh. 241.242  
Lewis Edm. 782  
Lewknore Chr. 707  
Lexinton Rob. Lord 893  
Ley Jo. 190.191. etc. Will. 744  
Leycester Pet. 463.635  
Lichfield Cath. Ch. 666  
Lightfoot Joh. 860  
Lilbourne Joh. 100.101. Rob. 102  
Lilly Will. 509.510.511.693  
Linch Aylm. 706  
Lindesay Tho. 881  
Lindsell Aug. 183.486  
Lindsey Mount. Earl of 522.525.527.764  
Lineal Jo. 270  
Linford Tho. 875  
Linguard Rich. 853  
Lisle Al. 228. Geor 733.227.228  
Lister Mart. 894  
Littleton Ad. 108.359.744. Edward 43  
Lock Joh. 786. Mat. 833  
Lockey Tho. 814  
Lockyer Nich. 589.556.786  
Loftus Dud. 730  
Logan Joh. 837  
Lo Will. 45  
Long Barn. 895. Thom. 126.548  
Longford Fr. E. of 879  
Longland Tho. 834  
Longman Ja. 840  
Lords Prayer despised 557  
Lorkin 342  
Love Chr. 73.74. etc. 530. Rich. 729  
Lovelace Dud. 146.147. Joh. 677.819. Rich. 146.147  
Lovel A. 304. Rob. 77●  
Low Edw. 844  
Loud Jo. 851  
Lowen Jo. 809  
Lower Rich. 651.403.454. Tho. 704 Will. 15  
Lowick Tho. 185  
Lowth Sim. 815  
Lowthorpe Joh. 892  
Lloyd 725  
Lloyd Dau. 418.710.789. Franc. 685.868. Hug. 92.669.767. Jenk. 822. Joh. 685.802.812.816.861. Nich. 501.349. Rich. 685.686.793.825. Will. 670.676.822.844.864.894  
Lucas Ch. 733  
Lucy 534  
Lucy Kingsm. 879. Rich. 780. Spencer 722.835. Will. 443  
Ludlow Edm. 82.760  
Luffe Jo. 863  
Lufton Jo. 709  
Lumley Lord 622  
Lushington Tho. 171.172  
Luzancy Hip. 871  
Lydall Joh. 741  
Lydyat Tho. 46  
Lie Tho. 575.377  
Lyford Will. 96    


M.  
MAbbe Jam. 14  
Macklier Dau. 869  
Maden Rich. 744  
Maisterston Hen. 782  
Maistre N. 114  
Mattland Joh. D. of Lauderd. 389  
Makensie Geor 905.906  
Malden Dan. 752  
Mallet Mich. 439  
Malone Will. 113  
Man whole duty of 605  
Manaton Ambr. 721  
Manchester Ed. E. of 836.476.542.827  
Mander Rog. 901  
Mannyngham Tho. 863  
Mansel Rich. 737  
Manton Tho. 446. etc. 112.139.786  
Manwaring Hen. 712. Reg. 658.659. Tho. 635.463.710  
Mapletoft Jo. 851  
March Joh. 817  
Marescq Rich. 872  
Maresius Sam. 198.199.201  
Margetson Jam. 657. Tho. 795  
Maria Hen. Queen 311  
Marinel Phil. 805  
Marmion Shak. 9  
Marryot Tho. 439  
Marsden Tho. 817  
Marsh Narc. 689.793. Rich. 821  
Martial Geo. 747. Hen. 737. Steph. 235.269.375: 376.410.715. Tho. 592.593.875.876. Will. 736  
Marsham Joh. 593.594. Rob. ibid.  
Marten Hen. 4.493.494. etc. 173.212.271  
Martin Tho. 280  
marvel Andr. 126.619.838  
Massey Joh. 870.889  
Mason Cham 713.714. Hen. 56  
Massonet Pet. 738  
Master Joh. 862. Sam. 839. Tho. 19 Will. 581  
Mather Cot. 306. Eleaz. ibid. Incr. 306.385. Nath. 306. Rich. 305. Sam. 357  
Matthew Tob. 120  
Mathews Joac. 777. Sim. 189  
Maton Rob. 123  
Maule Pat. 436.515  
Maurice Hen. 843.878  
Maxwell Jo. 504.515. Jam. 436  
Maynard Joh. 335.641.651. Jos. 827. Will. 773  
maine Jas●. 372.127.128. Zach. 784  
Mayow Jo. 474.475. Rich. 353  
Meara Ed●. 403  
Mead Rob▪ 95  
Meade Ma. 377  
Meare Jo. 812.895  
Meddens ●o. 904  
Mede Geo. 779  
Meggot R●ch. 668  
Mellevil ●nd. 887  
Meredith Jo. 713  
Merick W●ll. 809  
Meriton Jo. 796  
Merriot Tho. 195  
Man's J. 350.193.474. Mat. 351. Tho. ibid.  
Merryma● Capt. 763  
Merton ●oll. it's Christmas Lord 153  
Mervin ●ich. 822  
Merywea●er Jo. 535  
Mesnard ●o. 903  
Metcalf ●dr. 733  
Metford Jam. 807. Joh. 821  
Mews P●. 338.660.809.675.865  
Michael ●av. 819.822  
Micklethiait Jo. 745  
Middleto Cham E. of 808.830. Jo. 83  
Middleto Jo. 117  
Mildmay Ant. 519.527.763. Hen. 521  
Mill Jo. 895.888  
Millingm Tho. 803  
Mills Jo 746.747  
Milton J●. 249.441.582  
Milwar● Jo. 746. Rich. 111  
Mody or Moody Hen. 710. Liv. 889  
Moine Seph. 875  
Molins ●ill. 738  
Mompes● Tho. 498  
Monk ●●ch. 660.661.811  
Monmou● Jam. Duke of 828  
Monro Ax. 633  
Monson J. 708. Will. 521  
Monsson ●m. 869  
Montagu● Cham 837. Edw. 836. Hen. 8●. Joh. 554. Rob. 837. Walt. 86.837. See Montague, see Ma●●hester.  
Montgome Godf. Earl of 825  
Moor Gar 880. Joh. 864  
Moray Herald 515. R. 503. See Murrey  
Mordant C● 622  
More Geo. 299. Hen. 253. 254.425.42● 498.499.500.577  
Morehouse umb. 455  
Moreton Jo Card. 367. Will. 880  
Morgan Dr 533  
Morgan An 743. Mat. 859. Will. 264  
Morice Wi 422. etc.  
Morison Rol 851.852  
Morley Cha● 77. Franc. 581. Geor 581.582 etc. 535.602.683  
Morris Same ●55  
Moryson Fr●c. 434  
Morsteyn F●st. 792  
Morstin Mi●. 897  
Morton Jo. 88 Rich. 858. Tho. 668  
Morwent Changed 568  
Mosson Rob. 53.448.667  
Moulin Lew 753.552.553.554. Pet. 791  
Montague ha. 890. Ra. 622. Rich. 39.59. Sidn. 304. See Montague  
Muddiman ●n. 468.469  
Mulcaster R●. 108  
Mulgrave J● E. of 893  
Mundy Fra ●16. Hen. 532  
Murcot Jo. 112  
Murrey Ro● 253.255. Tho. 65. See Mora  
Musgrave T●. 897. Will. 890.896  
Music unknown 658  
Musket Gr● 38  
Myriel Hen. 706    


N.  
NAlson Jh. 645  
Napie Rich. 712  
Nassau Will. Hen. 856.857. Hen. 857. Will. ibid.  
Naylor Rich. 787  
Neale Will. 338  
Nest Tho. 773  
Nedham Byr. 889. Gasp. 788. Marchim. 465.466. etc. 316.328.476.545  
Needler Ben. 531  
Neile Joh. 405.864. Will. 338  
Nelme Jo. 690  
Neoburg Prince of 871  
Nethersole Sir Franc. 440  
Neve Sir Will. 707  
Nevil Hen. 438.439.534  
Newborough Rich. 820  
Newcastle Will. Duke of 262. Marg. Duchess 835  
newel Rob. 822  
Newport Franc. Lord 773  
Newton Geor 508.299.301. Hen. 881. Humph. 472 Joh. 471.472.851  
nicols Dan. 794. Ferd. 150.447. Rich. 822. Rowl. 737. Will. 682.900  
Nicholas Joh. 812.837.871.880. Math. 670.732  
Nicholson Will. 870  
Nicolson Will. 362.675  
Nisbett Hen. 722  
Noble Will. 881  
Noel E. of Gainsborough 622  
Norfolk Hen. Duke of 698.808.846.896  
Norgate Tho. 737  
Norris Joh. 144.877. Will. 692  
North Francis 397.904. Joh. 850.  
Northampton Geor Earl of 889. Jam. 707. Spencer 695  
Northleigh Jo. 888  
Northumberland Geor Duke of 829. Joss. Earl of 866  
Norton Joh. 334  
Nottingham Earl of, see Finch  
Nourse Joh. 688. Tim. 793. Tho. 688  
Noy Will. 312.317.424  
Nye Hen. 370. Joh. ibid. Phil. 368.369. etc. 376    


O.  
OAtley 878. Ad. 892  
O Bryen Hen. 792  
Ogilby Joh. 262.263.264  
Okes Joh. 863  
Okey Joh. 758  
Oldenburgh Hen. 792  
Oldham Hugh 680. Joh. 567.490  
Oldis Will. 715.844  
Oldisworth Giles 737  
Oley Barn. 850  
Oliver Joh. 250  
Olor Isc. 254  
Onslow Rich. 228.277  
Oratorship of the Vniv. 35  
Orery Rog. Earl of, see boil  
Ormonde Jam. Duke of, 546.598.599.853.879.900.902.886  
Osborne Joh. 232·333  
Osbourne Sir Tho. E. of Danby 430 470  
Ossory Jam. Earl of 886. Tho. 626.842  
Otho Jo. Hen. 861  
Otto Lord 869. Count of Lipstat 894  
Otway Tho. 591  
Ouchterlon Jo. 871  
Ouzelius Jac. 789  
Oughtred Will. 627.628  
Owen Corb. 350. Dau. 667. Geor 874. Joh. 555.556. etc. 82.126.201.347.355.362.376.452.464.618.667.782.783. Morg. 655. Rich. 548. Thankf. 734. Tho. 793  
Oxenbridge Joh. 391  
Oxford Garrison surrendered 739, its Loyalty 740  
Oxfordshire High Sher. 601  
Oxinden Geor 864    


P.  
PAcker Jo. 791  
Page Tho. 714. Will. 223.224  
Paget Jo. 334  
Pagit Ephr. 51.52  
Palmer Ant. 472. Edw. 845. Jeffr. 718. Jo. 678.747. Sam. 581. Tho. 473  
Palms Br. 708  
Paman Hen. 639.788.851  
Panzani Greg. 114  
Paradise Jo. 789  
Pargiter Tho. 874  
Parker Hen. 142.143. Joh. 616.660.682. Rob. 586. Sam. 616.617. etc. 686.899  
Parkhurst Hen. 822  
Parkinson Ja. 867.868. Noah 331  
Parliam. Long 367  
Parr Elnath. 96. Rich. 48.96.593.658  
Parry Ben. 462.177.680. Edw. 657. Jo. 448.680.818  
Parsons Rich. 899. Rob. 548.854. Will. 809  
Pask Tho. 600  
Pates Rich. 12  
Patrick Sim. 840.841.49.685.754.795  
Paul Will. 666  
Paybody Tho. 846  
Peachel Tho. 897  
Pearse Edw. 783  
Pearson Jo. 67.237.366.579.605.675. Rich. 675.864  
Peirce Rob. 158  
Pelling Edw. 548  
Pemberton Franc. 566  
Pembroke Phil. Herbert E. of 179.364.399.510.515.522.687.716.740.745.749.  
Pendarves Jo. 127  
Pengry Mos. 91.861  
Penruddock Jo. 269.701.711.755  
Penton Steph. 407.840  
Pepper Rob. 826  
Percival Ant. 289  
Percy Hen. 293  
Perinchief Rich. 625.885  
Perron Jam. 183  
Perot or Perrot Ch. 469.781.849  
Peterborough Hen. Earl of 698.808  
Peter Hu. 369.376.425.494.739  
Peto Edw. 695  
Petre Edm. 618. Will. 448  
Petrie Alex. 123  
Pett Pet. 744  
Pettie Max. 439  
Petty Will 609.610. etc. 439.750.770  
Peyton Edw. 87  
Philagathus 562  
Philalethes Eiren. 255. Eugen. 253.255  
Philipot Jo. 719. Tho. 25  
Philipps Cath. 284.347. Edw. 33.34.742. Fath. 88.380. Geor 794. Jo. 226.621. Steph. 878  
Philpot Tho. 739  
Pierce Tho. 117.162.288.360.507.629.719.803.843.848.897  
Piers Jo. 672. Will. 671.823  
Pierpont Hen. E. of Kingston 706.708. Rob. 706. Will. 568  
Pigott Hen. 809. Tho. 881  
Pindar Will. 854  
Pink Rob. 57.577.658.690  
Pittis' Tho. 613  
Plant Fr. 845  
Pleydell Jos. 500.826. Will. 725  
Plot Rob. 339.817.893  
Pocklington Oliv. 792  
Pocock Edw. 91.110.565.730.747.771.843  
Pointz Jo. 251. Rob. ibid.  
Polexfen Hen. 788  
Polhill Ed. 561  
Pollard Hug. 773  
Pooley Jo. 891  
Pole or Pool Math. 198.451.562.564.796  
Pollwhele Deg. 811  
Pope Edw. 117. Tho. Earl of Down 397  
Pordage Jo. 450. Jam. 451  
Porter Endim. 1.614. Rich. 172  
Potter Barn. 6.653. Cham 222. Christop. 44.6. Fran. 454. Han. 628. Rich. 455  
Pottinger Joh. 739  
Poultney Will. 439  
powel Cham 839. Joh. 405. Rob. 832. Tho. 165. Vav. 343.344. etc. 270.116.757  
Powis Tho. 539  
Prat Dan. 877  
Presbyterians 210.379.414.740.749  
Preston Rich. Visc. See Graham  
Prez Ja. 897  
Priaulx Joh. 813.840  
Price Jo. 430.431.800. Owen 358. Rob. 667. Tho. 875  
Prichard Rees 29. Tho. 676  
Prichett Joh. 681  
Prideaux Edm. 721. Humph. 48 108.861. Joh. 68.69. ●2. 50 182.183.657.687.690. Mat. 50  
Primrose Archb. 686. Dau. 14.15  
Prince Jo. 833  
Proast Ionas 839.840  
Progulbicki Jo. 747  
Prynne William 311.312. etc. 30.31 32.78.99.101.120.183.224.328.671.672  
Pugh Rob. 304  
Puleston Ham. 177  
Puller Tim. 818  
Pulleyne Jos. 215  
Puntaeus Jo. 751  
Pym Jo. 178.659  
Pyperd 203    


Q.  
QVarles Jo. 242.243.  
Queckfeldt Ben. 789. Gustav. ibid.  
Quick Jo. 792    


R.  
RAdcliff Alex. 489. Ant. 752.888. Geor 80.720. Joh. 652. Tho. 455  
Rainbow Edw. 683.840  
Rainstropp Jo. 843  
Raleigh Walt. 48.49.513  
Rallingson Rich. 704.718.822  
Rastall Tho. 742  
Rawlingson Will. 650  
Ray Jo. 816  
Read Tho. 115  
Reading 697. Jo. 287.288 etc. Tho. 742  
Reck Jo. Bar. of 887  
Reeve Rich. 91.835  
Regemorter Ahas. 304  
Reich Men. 873  
Reness Lew. 844.845.  
Resbury Nath. 864  
Reynell Edw. 225. Geor ib. and 457  
Reynolds 572. Edw. 420.63.182.376.383.413.677.743.748.755. Joh. 438.750  
Rhine Char. Count. Pal. of 887. Adolph. Jo. 893.894  
Rhodes Rich. 299  
Rich R●●. 769  
Richard Lew. 294  
Richard's Will. 840  
Richards Will. 638.824  
Richardson Gabr. 10. Joh. 308. Josh. 859. Rich. 51.864. Will. 738.  
Richierius Pet. 825  
Richmond Cham Duke of 829. Jam. 522.527  
Ricraft Jos. 298  
Rider Will. 84  
Rigby Rob. 861  
Riland Joh. 377  
Ripley Geor 492  
Rishton Jeffr. 821  
Ritschel Geo. 570  
Riva Jo. Bapt. 268  
Riveley Bened. 800  
Roberts Franc. 404. Geor 713. John Lord 597.542.543.647. Mich. 752. Will. 722  
Robinson Hug. 117. Joh. 655. Ral. 77. Will. 894  
Roborough H. 110  
Rochester Cham Earl of 491. Hen. 490. Joh. 488.489. etc. 568.591.854.884. Laur. 830.  
Roderick Rich. 890  
Roe Owen 759  
Roet Is. 273  
Rogers Ben. 847.848. Christop. 740. Geor 745. Hen. 8. Humph. 162. Joh. 323.324.441.442.834.861. Tho. 890. Will. 872  
Roll Sam. 561.  
Rook Laur. 627.628  
Roos Joh. Lord 706  
Roper Sam. 693.694  
Rose Hen. 861  
Rosewell Jo. 844  
Ross Alex. 240.535.536. Tho. 831  
Roscommon Wentw. Earl of 893  
Rotheram Jo. 778. Rich. 366  
Rous Franc. 147.148  
Rowe Jo. 444.445.744  
Rowland Will. 155.223  
rowland's Joh. 209  
Royse Geor 812.868.904  
Roys Job 210  
Rudolph Count of Lipstat 894  
Rudyard Benj. 179. Jam. 537  
Rumsey Edw. 166. Walt. ibid.  
Rushworth Joh. 643.644.425.760  
Russell Geor 841. Jam. 841.854. Joh. 209. Rich. 150. Sam. 854. Will. Lord 544  
Rust Geor 285.287.499  
Rutherford Sam. 152.284  
Ryther Joh. 385  
Ryves Brun. 433.144. Tho. 83    


S.  
SA Pantal. 167.534  
Sadler Ant. 505  
Sagittary Fred. 821  
Saicton Ant. 887  
Saint George Hen. 707.722. Rich. 712.719.722. Tho. 722  
St. German 872  
St. Giles 844  
Salesbury Tho. 15  
Salisbury Jam. E. of 543  
Salkeld Joh. 156  
sal Andr. 875  
Salle Car. Gabr. 869  
Salmasius Cl. 582  
Saltonstall Hen. 779  
Salusbury Tho. 15  
sam's Ail. 879  
Samwaies Pet. 308. Rich. ibid.  
Sancroft Will. Archb. of Cant. 617.635.679.692.894  
Sandbrooke Will. 149  
Sanderson Rob. 213.214. etc. 210.662. Will. 188.189  
Sandford Fr. 838.839  
Sandius Chr. 834.  
Sandwich Edw. E. of 832  
Saravia Adr. 216  
Sargeant Jo. 34.160.161.285.356.488.561  
Sarson Laur. 118  
Sartreus Ja. 901  
Savage Hen. 365.366.237  
Savile Geor Lord 893. See Halyfax  
Saumers Jo. 861  
Saunders Ant. 862.878  
Savoy conference 447. Papers 584  
Say Lord. See Fiennes  
Say Rob. 812  
Sayer Jos. 856. Tho. 891  
Saywell Will. 850  
Sawyer Rob. 788. Tho. 884  
Scaep Hen. 857  
Scarborough Char. 627.738  
Scattergood Ant. 851. Sam. 850  
Scavenius P. L. 743  
Schermarius Jo. 70  
Schomerus Just. Chr. 873  
Schumacherus Pet. 799  
Sclater Edw. 723. Sam. 464. Tho. 770. Will. 58  
Scot Edw. 879. Joh. 141.896.  
Phil. 126. Will. 743  
Scrope Adr. 542.711. Carr 841. Edm. 765. Joh. 382. Rob. 754  
Scroggs Will. 565.566.  
Scudamore Jam. 256. Joh. 842  
Scudder Hen. 564.643  
Sculer Joh. 858  
Scager Jo. 73  
Seaman Laz. 440  
Sebright Edw. 819  
Sedascue Geor 759  
Sedgwick Joh. 16. Obad. 138. Will. 335.  
Seekers 743  
Signior Geor 253  
Segary Will. 412  
Selden Jo. 107.108.90.424.470  
Selleck Jo. 848  
Senhouse Rich. 660.665  
Sermon Edm. 873. Will. 874  
Severne Tho. 223  
Seymour Hen. 523.704.733. Rob. ibid.  
Shadwell Tho. 548  
Shannon Visc. See boil  
Sharp Jo. 126.851  
Sharrock Rob. 580.814  
Shaw Joh. 631.632. Will. 803  
Shaftsbury Ant. E. of 540.541. etc. 841  
Sheild Geor 856  
Sheldon 608. Edw. ibid. Gilb. 678.679.842.847. Jos. 679. Lion. 608. Raph. 449.608.866  
Sherbourne Will. 716  
Sherburne Hen. 704. Edw. 702.703  
Sherenden Pat. 806. Will. 793  
Shirley Tho. 544  
Sherlock Rich. 633. Will. 464.560.561.563.620.893  
Sherman Joh. 339.340.782.813  
Shippen Will. 802  
Shipton Jam. 393.305  
Shirley Hen. 262. Jam. 260.261. Joh. 483. Rob. 578.846.852  
Short Tho. 652  
Shurley Jo. 485  
Shute Nath. 885  
Sibbs Rich. 334.447  
Sibthorpe Rob. 180.181.739  
Sictor Joh. 92  
Sikes Geor 687.765. See Sykes  
Silvester Josh. 62. See Sylvester.  
Simpson Edw. 501.502. Nath. 10. Rich 889. Sidr. 370. Will. 885  
Sing Edw. 98.806. Geor 97.659  
Singleton Is. 362  
Skelton Jo. 802  
skinner Cyr. 439. Mat. 692. Rob. 672.673. Steph. 287. Tho. 304.862  
Slatyer Will. 58  
Smalwood Mat. 546.864  
Smart Jo. 825. Pet. 11  
Smectymnus 447  
Smith Franc. 884. Geor 818. Hen. 683.868. Humph. 868.890. Jam. 279. Joh. 475.197.785. Miles 736. Nich. 114. Rich. 114 393.161.660.881. Sam. 224.225.690.788. Tho. 126.161.804.809.815. Will. 163.637.710.887. Zeph. 6  
Smyth Joh. 898  
Snell Joh. 883. Tho. 874  
Some Tho. 729.812  
Summer Joh. 806  
Somerset Ch. 889. Hen. 830  
Somnore Will. 697  
Sorbiere Sam. 478  
South Rob. 349.373.771.784.832  
Southampton Cham Duke of 829. Tho. E. of 522  
Southwell Edw. 880. Rob. 879  
Spalleto Archb. of 37  
Spark Edw. 782. Tho. 873.901. Will. 268  
Sparre Pet. 869  
Sparrow Ant. 422.677.678.840  
Speed Jo. 840. Sam. 869  
Spelman Clem. 510.511. Hen. 230.693.697  
Spencer Edw. 834. Rob. 841  
Spinks 60  
Spotswood 389. Joh. 71. Rob. 71  
Sprackling Rob. 470.800  
Sprat 342. Tho. 232.600 784.798.799  
Sprig Josh. 576. Will. 577  
Squibb Arch. 483  
Squire Will. 436.694  
Stafford 439. Ant. 8. Hen. 9  
Stamp Will. 98  
Standish Jo. 598.851  
Stanh●pe Ferd. 709. Phil. 853  
Stanley Edw. 195.806. Hen. 688.704. Rog. 871. Tho. 703  
Stanton Edm. 352  
Stanwix Rich. 131  
Stapley Rob. 819  
Stapylton Bened. Greg. 708. Mil. 891. Rob. 707  
Staughton Nich. 803  
Stawell Joh. 712. Ralph ibid.  
Staynoe Tho. 878  
Stern Jo. 901  
Stedman Rowl. 381  
Steel Rich. 790. Will. 4●5.  
Steenhuys Jam. 857  
Stephens Jer. 230.231. Nath. 451 Phil. 787. Will. 776  
Stephenson Tho. 728  
Stermont Jam. 815  
Sterne Rich. 600.864  
Sterry Pet. 461  
Stewart Rich. 79.581  
Stillingfleet Jo. 795. Edw. 795.31.126.456.457.553.558.561.565.620.685  
Stoakes Gilb. 735  
Stokes Dau. 392.729.730  
Stone Will. 686  
Stopford Josh. 403.404.793  
Strachan Joh. 633  
straddling Geor 620.621.823  
Strafford Tho. E. of 428  
Strangwaies Gil. 837  
Stratford Nich. 631.780.864  
Streat Will. 256  
Stretton Rich. 800  
Strickland Jo. 342.343  
Stringer Hen. 713  
Stripe Joh. 860  
Stripling Tho. 863  
Strode Tho. 455. Will. 35.178.179  
Strong Will. 139.444.447.452  
Stubbe Hen. 412.413. etc. 420.570.780  
Stuckey Nath. 202  
Stutevile Will. 739  
Suckling Jo. 168.292.293  
Sudbury Joh. 732  
Sugge Tristr. 739  
Sunderland Rob. E. of 841  
Swadlin Tho. 332  
Sweet Joh. 38  
Sweit Gil. 687  
Swinnock Geor 382.235  
Sydenham Cuthb. 100 Humph. 72. Tho. 638. Will. 639.  
Sidney Hen. 622  
Sydserf Tho. 686  
Sykes Tho. 878. See Sikes  
Sylvester Edw. 20.705  
Sing Sam 878. See Sing    


T.  
TAlbot Gilb. 822. Tho. 487. Will. 884  
Tanner Tho. 536  
Tany Jo. Tho. 200  
Tate Zouch 384  
Taverner Phil. 157.158.  
Tailor Cham 623. Jer. 282.283, etc. 288.289.669. Joh. 275.315. Silas 464. Silu. 232.465. Tim. 508. Tho. 449. Will. 168  
Teate Jos. 791  
Temple Joh. 806  
Templer Joh. 834  
Tenison Tho. 536.687.726.834.  
turn Cbr. 773  
Terry Edw. 165.166  
Terryngham Joh. 712  
Theyer Jo. 380.718  
Thirlby Cham 500  
Thistlethwayte Gab. 849  
Thomas Sam. 290.401.504.776  
Thompson Aub. 755. Rich. 843.854. Rob. 864. Sam. 747  
thorn Gil. 691.822  
Thornborough Ed. 3. Gil. 3.668. Joh. 1.2.653  
Thorndyke Herb. 730  
thorn Edm. 817  
Thornton Tho. 349. Will. 811  
Thorold Tho. 31  
Throckmorton Ralp. 813.841  
Thurman Hen. 349  
Thynne Hen. Fred. 880. Jam. ibid. Tho. 138.622.711  
Tickell Jo. 368.750.777  
Tillotson Joh. 371.372.488.554.561.851  
Tinker alias Littleton W. 406  
Tipping Will. 63.64  
Tiszabetsi or Tizabetzi Gasp. 783. Tho. 792  
Tiveot Earl of 811  
Todd Hug. 877  
Tollet Geo. 591  
Tolson Jo. 690  
Tombs Joh. 409.410.451  
Tomkins Tho. 401  
Tomlinson Math. 523.526  
Tomson Will. 305  
Tonstall Cuth. 367. Geor 885  
Tongue Ezr. 501.502  
Toogood Rich. 549  
Top Hen. 168  
Touchet Jam. Earl of Castlehaven 599  
Towers Will. 260  
Towerson Gabr. 783  
Townsend Lord 622  
Townson Rob. 814  
Toy Joh. 223  
Tozer Hen. 71.72.739  
Traherne Tho. 388  
Trapp Jo. 310  
Trapham Tho. 765.817  
Tra●ers Walt. 156  
Treby Geor 788  
Tregoss Tho. 786  
Trelawny Jonath. 862. 8●  
Trelenie Phil. 187  
Trench Edm. 745  
Trevor Jo. 423. 650.8●. Rich. ●19  
Trigland Corn. 821  
Triplet Tho. 821  
Trotzigh Pet. 844  
Troughton Joh. 511.512. Will. 513.  
Trumbull Will. 844  
Tuckney Ant. 578  
Tuder Mary 8●9  
Tuke Sam. 608  
Tully Geor 868. Tho. 05.99.629.880  
Turbervill Daub. 811. Tryl. 711  
Turner Bri. 851. Franc. 54.579.600.620.802. Jer. 21. Joh. 871. Pet. 83.28.91.53. Tho. 892. Will. 534.892.  
Turnor Tim. 784. Tho. 78  
Turnour Edw. 407.408  
Tuscany Cosmo Pr. of 478.850  
Twells Jo. 848  
Twiss Rob. 42. Will. 40.14  
Twisden Jo. 89.776. See ●wysden  
Twine Bri. 27.28  
Twysden Cham 878. Joh. 31.470.  
Tyringham Ant. 825  
Tyrrell Jam. 284.831    


V.  
VAne Hen. 412. 413.4●.415.416.440.766  
Vasson Pet. 791  
Vaughan Edm. 332. Edw. 31. Hen. 173.254. Joh. 391.44. Rob. 257. Tho. 253.254  
Veal Ed. 335.491.775.81  
Venn Joh. 236.897  
Venner Tob. 158.439  
Venning Ralph 377.385  
Venningen Eber. Fred. 87  
Vernevil Joh. 57  
Verney Greu. 831  
Vernon Franc. 445. Geor.▪ 89.190.555.793  
Vic Hen. 832  
Vicars Joh. 85.86.315. Tho. 85  
Vigures 686  
Villiers Will. 829  
Vilvaine Rob. 216  
Vincent Aug. 700. Joh. 100 Tho. 463.737. Nath. 786  
Vindigius Paul 882  
Viner Tho. 788  
Vines Rich. 134.159. ●2. 437  
Vink Pet. 564  
Vitus Ign. 869  
Vivian Dan. 709. Fra. 721  
Vlacq Joh. 855  
Vllock 815  
Vossius Is. 384.856  
Vpman Steph. 864  
Vpton Ambr. 746  
Usher Jam. 24.197.20.215.585.592.653.893    


W.  
WAdsworth Jam. 46  
Waferer Mirth 100L  
Wagstaff Joh. 435. Th' 833  
Wainwright Joh. 773. T●o. 890  
Wait Joh. 226. Tho. 6.745  
Wake Will. 457.873  
Wakeman Geor 566  
Wall Jo. 259. 260.3●●  
Waldrond Am. 742  
Walker 60. Ant. 796. ●em. 77.78.328. Edw. 701. Ge● 686.903. Joh. 861. Nich. 665 Obad. 456.457.458.738.840.870. Will. 122.123  
Waller Edm. 294.893. Hardr. 755.756. Will. 297. 29● 299.756.771  
Wallis Joh. 338. 406.415.480.627.7●5.779.785.715.816.826.881  
Walls G●o. 890  
Walsal Franc. 692  
Walter Tho. 884. Will. 708.727  
Walton Br. 561. Val. 156.769.  
Walwyn Will. 742  
Wandelnus Joh. 873  
Waple Idw. 823.878  
Warburon Geo. 664  
Warcup Edm. 470.546.857  
Ward Hymn. 307.818. Jam. 744.765. Mich. 869. Sam. 627.629. Seth 627.480.577.686.785.859. ●97  
Ware Jan. 448.725  
Waring Rob. 148.740. Walt. 144  
Warmstiey Ger●. 1. Tho. 250.635  
Warner 572. Joh. 142.258.259.577.600.667.812  
Warren Alb. 382. Joh. 406. Tho. 587.588  
Warwick Rob. Earl of 769  
Wase Christop. 164.331.595  
Washbo●rne Tho. 608. Will. 813  
Wassen●r Jac. 857  
Waterh●use Edw. 774. Joh. 774. Rich. 741. Tho. 851  
Watkin● Rich. 741  
Wats Gilb. 134  
Watson Rich. 207.534.825.826. Tho. 77.377.383.491.685. Will 904  
Weave● Tho. 212  
Webb Edm. 862. Geor 7.654. Jo. 362.882. Theoph. 7. Will. 163.267  
Webster Jo. 234.498.499.628.651  
Wedderbourne Jam. 736. Joh. 735.806  
Weeks Jo. 723  
Weem● Lod. 729  
Welde● Jo. 103  
Weldo● Rob. 65  
Wells Benj. 454.773. Edw. 904. Jer. 474. Joh. 614.454  
Wensley Rob. 851  
Wentworih Geo. 702. Pet. 419  
Werge Rich. 649.746  
West Edw. 407. Rich. 814  
Westcot Redm. 108  
Westenius Jo. Rod. 854  
Westfield Tho. 656.724  
Westley Sam. 900  
Wetenhall Edw. 647.806.817  
Whaley or whaley Ed. 760.762.770  
Wharton Geor 509. Phil. 179.543. Tho. 382.743  
Where Deg. 54.55  
Wheeler Geor 892.878. Maur. 843.855  
Whelock Abr. 730  
Whetstone Rog. 769  
Whistler Dan. 574.788  
Whitaker Cham 705. Jer. 376  
Whitby Dan. 792  
Whitchcot Chr. 517.528  
White Franc. 6. Ign. 869. Joh. 60.358.61.211.236.507. Math. 317. Tho. 796.894. Will. 459. See Albiis  
Whitfield Ral. 818. Tho. 421  
Whitford Dau. 388.389.484  
Whitgift Dr. 210  
Whitehall Rob. 595.490.596  
Whitlock Bulstr. 399.179. Jam. 401.645.720  
Whitmore Humph. 747  
Whitterne Comv. 692  
Whorwood Bro. 709  
Wicherley Will. 816  
Wickham Tho. 436  
Widows Giles 44.227.317. Tho. 118  
Wight Tho. 790  
Wiggins Will. 617  
Wild Rob. 76.196.705.742  
Wild Geor 252  
Wildman Joh. 102.439  
Wilkins Joh. 370.371.440.628.746.820.838.675. Tho. 819  
Wilkinson Hen. 59.397.646.640.748.779. Joh. 770  
wiles Joh. 839  
William 3. King of Engl. 856.857  
Williams Griff. 363.364.675. Joh. 182.183.185.213.363.364.593.684.687.786.819.861. Nath. 873. Tho. 884. Wa. 548. Will. 796.849  
Williamson Caes. 705. Jos. 99.469.797.809.869  
Willis Tho. 122.402.602.737.858  
Willisford Edw. 718  
Willoughby Cham 834. Fr. 816  
Wilmot Joh. 488. See Rochester.  
Wilson Arth. 86. Edm. 736. Joh. 724.848. Nath. 686.833.897. Rowl. 139. Tho. 729.797  
Wincher Fred. Chr. 887  
Winchester Marq. of 622  
Windebank Jo. 785  
Windet Jam. 789  
Windham Ann. 34  
Windsor Tho. Lord 622  
Wingate Edm. 129  
Winkleman Theod. 858  
Winniffe Tho. 659  
Winnington Franc. 540  
Winter Sam. 112  
Wise Edw. 776  
Wiseman Cap. 793  
Wishart Geor 818. Rob. ibid.  
Whither Geor 274.275.279.315.493  
Withers Rob. 89  
Witty Rob. 885  
Wolfius Tho. 782  
Wolley Edw. 715. Joh. 402.845  
Wolseley Cham 228.301  
Wolsey Card. 517  
Wolveridge Jo. 857  
Wood Hen. 829. Jam. 589. Rob. 590.439.790. S. 435. Tho. 550  
Wood or à Wood Ant. 481.700. Edw. 117. Tho. 692.742.899.  
Woodcock Fra. 82.83  
Woodbridge Ben. 586  
Woodford Sam. 232.789  
Woodhead Abra. 455  
Woodroff Ben. 802.845. Tim. 434.435  
Woodward Hez. 394.395. Mich. 811. Rob. 859.896.897  
Wooldridge Joh. 857  
Woolnough Tho. 398  
Woolnove Joh. 871  
Werden Jo. 893  
Workman Gil. 122. Joh. ibid.  
Worm Pet. 854  
Worsley Edw. 285  
Worth Edw. 657. Joh. 891  
Worthington Joh. 753  
Wotton Hen. 33  
Wrench Elias 5  
Wrenn Cham 807. Chr. 669.772.820. Math. 312.440.676.819. Tho. 810  
Wright Abr. 640.641. Calv. 655. Jam. 638.642. Rob. 654. Tho. 883  
Wroe Rich. 850  
Wulferus Jo. 877  
Wyatt Tho. 840. Will. 835  
Wyatt Hen. 8●1. Rich. 734. Will. 812.820.849  
Wyberd Joh. 785  
Wyche Cyr. 837. Pet. 828  
Wylton Tho. 366  
Wynne Hug. 862. Morg. 813. Rob. 904    


Y.  
YAte Tho. 770.812  
Ye●verton Cham 340. Hen. ib.  
Yerbury Hen. 507.801  
Yerworth Sam. 73  
York Jam. Duke of 302.419.693.829. Ann Duchess of 586. See Jam. 2.  
Young Edw. 845. Jam. 713. Joh. 668. Patr. 137. Pet. 722  
Younger Jo. 617.885    


Z.  
ZAnchy Hier. 611.750.766.768.770. Will. 718  
Zeiglier Mark 71  
Zouche Rich. 166.167.415.534     

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A.  
HENRY ALDRICH D. D. Dean of Christ Church, Oxon.  
Dr. Fitzherbert Adam's Rector of Linc. Coll. Ox.  
Roger Altham B. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. Oxon.  
Roger Altham M. A. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon.  
Dr. Ch. Alston.  
Lewis Atterbury D. D.  
Lewis Atterbury L. L. D.  
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B.  
† HENRY Duke of Beaufort.  
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† Francis Bernard M. D.  
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† Mr. Charles Barnard, Chirurgeon.  
† Mr. Thomas Bennet late Rector of Winwick.  
Mr. Bartholomew Burton.  
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Edward Brown M. D.  
Benjamin Browne M. A. Fellow of Brasnose Coll. in, and Proct. of the Uniu. of, Oxon.  
Mr. Blythe of Pemb. Hall Cambr.  
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Mr. Ro. Bourne M. A. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon.  
Mr. William Bunbury M. A. Fell. of Brasnose Coll. Ox.  
Mr. William Binks Minister of Lemington in Warwicksh.  
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Mr. John Bennion M. A. Vic. of Malmsbury in Wiltshire.  
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Mr. Will. Bishop M. A. Fellow of Balliol Coll. Oxon.  
Mr. John Blagrave.  
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William Cotton Esq. of Croke Marsh in Staffordshire.  
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John Cook Esq.  
Robert Conny M. D.  
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Mr. Christopher Davies.  
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Richard Diet Esq. of Litchfield.    


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F.  
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Mr. Geo. Fulham M. A. Fell. of Magd. Coll. Ox.  
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Mr. Isaac Fox Minister of St. Michael in Coventry.  
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G.  
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JOHN Lord Archbishop of Glascow.  
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H.  
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Mr. Nathan. Hunt of Clifford's Inn.  
Will. Hugesson Esq.  
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Mr. John Hilton M. A.  
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John Harris M. A. Fellow of Ex. Coll. Ox.  
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Mr. Tho. Hunt.  
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Mr. Jonathan Kimberley Minister of Trin. Ch. in Coventry.  
Mr. Bezeelial Knight of the Middle Temple.  
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Mrs. Lloyd.  
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Emanuel Langford M. A. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon.  
Mr. Line.  
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GEORGE Earl. of Northampton.  
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Oliver Le Neve of Wiching in Norfolk Esq.  
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Mr. Richard Newman.  
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O.  
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Richard Stratford Esq.  
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T.  
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Richard Traffles LL. D. Fel. New Coll. Oxon.  
Edw. Tyson M. D.  
John Torksey M. A. of Ch. Ch. Ox.  
Mr. Michael Theobalds' of Trin. Coll. Oxon.  
Mr. Tyrwhitt of Pemb. Hall Camb.  
Mr. John Taylor.  
Avery Thompson M. A.  
Mr. Haswell tint. Esq. of Ball. Coll.  
Thomas Tack M. A.  
Mr. John Trott.    


V.  
JOhn Verney of Waseing in Berksh. Esq.  
Charles Vincent of the Middle Temple Esq.  
John Vaughan Esq.  
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W.  
† CHARLES' Earl of Winchelsea.  
† PETER Lord Bishop of Winchester.  
† Edw. Lord Bishop of Worcester.  
† Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth.  
Sir James Worseley.  
Mr. Hen. Worseley.  
Sir Charles Winley.  
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Edw. Williams of Mellionydd Esq.  
John wiles D. D.  
John Williams Rector of Lonbedwick.  
Mr. William Whitfield Rector of St. Martin's Ludgate.  
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Mr. Jasper Ward of Widdall Hartfordshire.  
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Matthew Yate A. M.  
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Z.  
MR. Zouch.    
FINIS.