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 '"'"'••• No, V. 3 ^ 
 

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 
 
 O F 
 
 ENGLAND, 
 
 FROM 
 
 EGBERT the GREAT to the REVOLUTION; 
 
 CONSISTING OF 
 
 CHARACTERS difpofed in different Classes, and 
 
 adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of 
 
 Engraved British Heads: 
 
 INTENDED AS 
 
 An ESSAY towards reducing our Biography to System, 
 and a Help to the Knowledge of Portraits: 
 
 INTERSPERSED WITH 
 
 Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a great Number of 
 Persons, not to be found in any other Biographical Work ; 
 
 With a PREFACE, fhewing the Utility of a Colleaion of 
 ENGRAViiD Portraits to fupply the Defed, and anfwer 
 the various Purpofes, of Medals: 
 
 By the Rev. J. GPvANGER, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordfhirc. 
 
 Animum pi6lura pafcit inani. Virg. 
 
 Celebrare domeftica fafta. HoR. 
 
 THE SECOND EDITION, 
 
 With large Additions and Improvements. 
 
 VOL. III. 
 
 LONDON 
 
 Printed for T. Davies, in Ruflel-ftreet 5 J- Robson, Bond-ftreet} 
 G.Robinson, Pater-NofterRow j T. Becket, T. Cad ell, and 
 T. EvANSj ill the Strand. 177$* 
 
%* P^g« io6, line 7, from the bottom, /or 
 Edward, read, Edwall. 
 
 P. 397. note, readi Reverend sir John Cullum. 
 
THE 
 
 I I S T O R Y 
 
 O F 
 
 ENGLAND, &c. 
 
 V 
 
 CHARLES 11. began his Reign, the 
 30th of January, 1648-9. 
 
 The INTERREGNUM, 
 
 CLASS r. 
 The ROYAL FAMILY, &c. 
 
 CHARLES IL infcribed, '' This is Charles 
 the Flrji^s heir.^* Faithome fc. 
 
 Carol us II. Van Hoeck p. Hollar f. 1650, ^to. 
 
 Charles II. crowned king of Scotland^ Jan. i, 
 1 65 1 \ in armour. 
 
 Caroli, Scotoruni Regis, viva &: noviiTima 
 Effigies. Hannenhm p, Gaywood f. h» ft), 
 
 Charles II. &c. King of Scotland, France, 
 and Ireland ; J. Chantry fc, in a fquare cf cakm fo- 
 Ijoge \ large ^tc?. 
 
 After the Scots h'id urged, or rather com- 
 pelled Charles to take the Covenant, and had 
 actually degraded him to the impotent condi- 
 tion of a doge, they crowned him king at Scoon, 
 January 1, 1650-1. 
 
 Ypl. III. B CuARLta 
 
The history Interr. 
 
 Charles II. now at the head of a gallant and 
 numerous army \ C. Van Dalen fc. ^vo. 
 
 Charles 11. was f reclaimed kingy iyc. at Wor^ 
 cejlcr^ 23 Aug. 1651, ^to, 
 
 Charles, foon after his coronation in Scot- 
 land, marched into England at the head of a 
 numerous army. But he thac was the fhadow 
 only of a king, was little more than the ihadow of 
 a general : He commanded fubjecfls who would 
 not obey, and an army which would not fight*. 
 He was prefently defeated at the battle of Wor- 
 cefter, by Cromwell, who called this decifivc 
 atflion, his crowning victory, 
 
 Charles II. and Major Careless, in an oak^ 
 h.JJj. Ste7it. 
 
 Upon the defeat at Worcefler, Charles and 
 this gentleman eluded the fearch of Cromwell's 
 emiflaries, by concealing themfelves in an oak, 
 in Bofcobel-wood, on the borders of Stafford- 
 fhirc. — After the Reftoration, the oak feemed 
 to be held in as great veneration by the Englifh, 
 as it ever was among the ancients. Oak-leaves 
 were worn on the 29th of May, by people of 
 all ranks : the very horfes were dreflcd with 
 boughs, and every tower was crowned with 
 branches of oak. The populace regaled them- 
 felves in oaken bowers, and the fign of the 
 Royal Oak was eredcd in almoft every town 
 and village in the kingdom. The people went 
 in pilgrimages to the tree iifelf : a great part of 
 It was cut away, and converted into tobacco- 
 
 • It muft be acknowledjjed, that fome part of the royal army 
 fought uith prodiiiious bravery. Tlie Highlanders, as we are 
 informed by VValkci, t\tv\ JhoU to Hght after they had loft their 
 legs, and covered the very Ipot with their i\t:\d bodies, which 
 they undertook to detend. Sec *• Hilt, of Independency," Pare 
 iv. p. 13. 
 
 ftoppers, 
 
Class I. ofENGLAND. 
 
 floppers, hafts of knives, and other memorials; 
 and many plants were propagated from its 
 acorns. The remains of this tree are enciofed 
 with a brick wall, the infide of which is cover- 
 ed with laurel *. 
 
 Charles II. in difguife^ riding before Mrs, Lane; 
 iordlVilfnot at a difinnce, M. Vandergucht fc. h. jh, 
 engraved for Clarendon's ** Hijiory^* Svo, See Mrs. 
 Lante ; Clafs XL 
 
 Carol us Secundus, &G, Hannemnn p. IL 
 Danckers fc, large h, fh. 
 
 Carolus II. R, Nafon p, C. Van t)alen fc, large 
 h. Jh. 
 
 HENRIETTA MARIA, queen-dow- 
 ager ; without infcription •, black veil-, engi^aved with- 
 out hatchings in the manner of Mellan j G. F, (Fai^ 
 thorne) fc. h.flo, 
 
 Henrietta Maria; G, Faithorne f. Before 
 *^ The ^een's Clojet opered-t^^ l^fS* i'ir,io. 
 
 This unhappy princefs, who was daughter of 
 Henry the Great of France, and inherited much 
 of her father's fpirit, is faid to have b^-cn re- 
 duced to the cruel neceflity of applying coCrom- 
 well for fomething towards her fupport, as queen- 
 dowager of England Certain it is, that flie had 
 but a fmall penfion from the French court, and 
 that but very ill paid. See the reigns of Charles 
 Land II. f 
 
 JACOBUS, dux Eboracenfis, ^t, iB, 1651 ; 
 Teniers p. Hollar f. h. Jh. In an oval of palms, ibis 
 print is very rare. 
 
 • — Stabis, mediamque tuebere quercnm.— 
 
 Ovid. *' Met." lib. i. v. 563. 
 t When I refer from theTnterregnum tc the reign of Charles 11. 
 I mean his aftual reign, after thekeftoratioa. 
 
 B 2 James 
 
 ^ 
 
/^ 
 
 The history Interr. 
 
 James, fccond Ten of the late king, lieutenant- 
 general of the French army •, 4/^. See the reigns 
 of Charles 1. and II. 
 
 Princeps ELIZABETH A. filia fecunda 
 Caroli Primi ; Hollar f. 1650, fmatl iimo. 
 
 Elizabeth Steward (Stuart) fecond daugh- 
 ter to the lace king ; an {7-:gcl taking a Jflack veil 
 from her !:ead\ Stent, See the preceding reign. 
 
 Eljlabeth d'Angleterre, Femme du Roy de 
 Bohenie, occ. 1658 ; B. Aloncornet exc, ^to. 
 
 I have given fome account of this princefs, 
 in the reign of James I. I (hall only add here, 
 that fhe came into England the 17th of May, 
 1661 •, that file was then betwixt fixty and fe- 
 venty years of age, and was one of the mod 
 fprightly and agreeable women of her years in 
 the kingdom. She died the i 3th of February, 
 1661-2. 
 
 CAROLUS LUDOVICUS, Palati- 
 Dus Rheni, Dux Bavaria, S. R. Imperii Elector; 
 Hondthorjl p. C. Vtfcher fc, F. Soutrnan dirigd^tdy 
 Ann. 1650 •, a large hcf.d^ JJj, 
 
 Charles Lewis, Count Palatine, holding a rich 
 fword in one hand^ and a crcwn in the other ^ dated 
 16^6, IV.yaillantf. h.ftj. 
 
 Charles Lewis, ele(51or Palatine, who died 
 tlie 28ch of Augull, 16S0, was i'uccctded in his 
 elt6torate by his Ion C!iarles ; who dying with- 
 out heirs, the i6th of May, 1685, the family 
 became extind, and the eledoral dignity, with 
 all its appendages, devolved to the houfe of 
 Newburci;. See the rcip;n of Charles I. 
 
 W I L H E L M U S li E N R I C U S, prince 
 of Orange, fon of the princefs royal ; 07i horfeback\ 
 Stent, ^to. He appears to le about eight years of age. 
 
 The 
 
Class I. o f E N G L A N D. 
 
 The reader may fee feveral curious medals 
 relating to the infancy and childhood of this 
 prince, together with many others (Iruck in his 
 more advanced age, in the " Hifloire Metali- 
 ' que" of the Low Countries. His metallic hif- 
 tory is more complete than that of any of the 
 princes of Europe, except that of Lewis the 
 fourteenth. 
 
 OLIVER CROMWELL, Lord Pro- 
 
 te(flor, &c. Frcm a mofi excellent limning^ by Sa- 
 muel Cooper^ in the foffejfion of fir Thomas Frank- 
 land^ knt. 1655; G. Vertiie fc. engraved for Rapin" s 
 Hijiory^-^^here is another^ from the fame original^ in 
 ^vo. by Ferine. 
 
 OuvER Cromwell ; Cooper p. Houbraken fc. 
 In the colle^ion of the duke of Devonftire \ Illuft, 
 Head, profile. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, &c. P. Lely p. 16^^, J, 
 Faber f 1740. E colle^ione IV. Poulet. Gen. h.fo, 
 mezz, 
 
 Oliver Cromwell ; Leiy p. Faher f. fh. mezz. 
 From a pi^ure in the collellion of lord James. Ca- 
 vendiflj* 
 
 He ordered Lely, when he drew his portrait, 
 to be faithful in reprclenting every blemifii or 
 defedl that he could difcover in his face ^, 
 
 Oliverius Cromwell, &c. {JVnIker p.) Lom^ 
 
 hart fc. His fon Richard is reprefenied tym?^ on his 
 
 ,fcarf \ h,fIo. -j There is a copy of this by Gay wood.' 
 
 * CroiTiweirs nofe, which was remaiknbij'^ led and lliining, 
 was the fubjeft of jm.ch ridicule. Cleaveland, -in his character 
 of a London Diurnal, fays, <« This Croniweil ftould be a bird of 
 ** prey, by his bioody beak ; his, nofe is able to try a young eagla 
 ♦• whether (lie be lawfully begotten : but all is not gold that 
 *' gliliers." Again: " CronnvtlTs nofe wears the dciuinical 
 ♦* letter." 
 
 t The original piclure was certainly in the pofleffion of t.lif earl 
 ©f Bradtoid, in J739. The n^uiej vvhich 1 am pciiuaded is Ki- 
 
 B X chard 
 
The history Interr- 
 
 Mr. Evelyn, who perfonally knew Cromwell, 
 informs ns, that this print is the (Irongeft re- 
 fcmblance of him. i hat gentlt- man, who (lu- 
 died phyfioi^nomy, fancied that he read " cha- 
 " racters ot the greateft dilTimulatlon, boldnefs, 
 " cruelty, and ambition, in every touch and 
 *' ftroke'* ot his countenance §. 
 
 Oliverius Cromwell i R. Walker p. P. Pel- 
 ham exc. 1725 •, h.JJj. mezz. 
 
 Oliver' Cromwell; Walker p. Faherf. ^to. mezz. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell*, Walker p. Careat Succejfi- 
 hus opto. h Jh, mezz. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell-, Walker p. Picart fculp,dir. 
 (fculptura-m direxii.)^ 1724, 4^^« 
 
 It is well known, that the grand duke of 
 Tulcany gave 500 1. to a relation of Cromwell, 
 for his pidlure, by Walkei f . Ihis portrait is 
 now in the Old Palace, a: Florence, where there 
 is a celebrated cad of his face J. 
 
 Oliverius Cromwell •, Wandeck (Vandyck) p^ 
 P, Lombart fc. large fl^. 
 
 This 
 
 cbard Cromwell, has been called Lambert Is it probable, tha^ 
 Lamb-.-^ (houlJ be painted tying on Oliver's Icarf? or, if it were, 
 is ir .onfiftent with probability, tl\at he (bould be renielented fo 
 young ? I Iny nothing <»^ the features, which are (ten, at the 
 firft- glance, to be mote like Richard's t!ian Lainbcit's. I am 
 ail'ured from unqueftionable auihoiity, that a copy, or repeti- 
 tion II of this piiUire, was called Oliver nnd his fon Richard, in 
 the earl of KinnouTv fannly, at Duplin in Scotbnd A copy of 
 the fame original, by Richiudfon, at Stow, was called Cromwell 
 and his page j and I think this page has been faid to be fir Peter 
 Temple 
 
 § *' Numifmata," pape 339, 340. 
 
 f See Graham's ** ElTay towards an Englifh fchool," &c. 
 Artie. Walker. 
 
 X We are infornBcd, in Breval'p *' Travels •," that this caft was 
 done from a mould taken frorp Cromwell's face, a fenv moments 
 after h's dcccafe, ♦* through the dextrous management of the 
 *« TuCcan rtfidcnt in London.'* The author obferves •' that 
 ♦' there IS fomething more remarkably itrong and cxprelfive in it, 
 
 " than 
 
 II Another, done by the fame painter, and deemed original. 
 • VoJ.iii. p. 154, 155. 
 
Class I. or ENGLAND. 
 
 This is the print of Charles I. ^nd the fuppofed 
 duke of Efpernon. The face of Charles is al- 
 tered to that of Cromwell. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, neaily and exactly etchedy 
 hy Bretherton^ from the picture given by Mr. Hollis 
 to Sidyiey College^ in Cambridge^ /^to. 
 
 Olivarius Primus ; Faithorne f. ^to. 
 
 Olivarius, Britannicus Heros •, Faithorne f. 
 In armour^ on horjeback^ /\.t0. From the " ParalU- 
 *' lum 0//W, nee non Olivarii" fol. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell •, O C. P, R. at the corners 
 of the print \ fh. This portrait is chiefly engraved by 
 Stipping^ or Dotting. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, &c. A P, Paris., Boijfeven. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, &c. Under the prints which 
 was fold at Paris^ are eight Latin verfes. See a 
 particular account of it in the " Biographia^^ p. 1568, 
 noteiJiK). 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, Protedleur van Engeland, 
 &c. large oval \ ornaments ; fh. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell •, Rombout Vanden Ho eye exp, 
 en horfeback \ large fl:. 
 
 Olivarius Cromwell j Segerdt Tiebnans exc* 
 on horfeback j large fb, 
 
 *' than in any pifture or buft of that ufurper he had ever fepn/* 
 The earl of Corke tells us, that *' it bears the ftrongclt charac- 
 ** teriftics of boldnefs, fteadinefs, fenfe, penetration, and pride,'* 
 and tliat he cannot yield to the aifertion of its having been taken 
 from his face after his death, as " the nuilcies are llroiig and 
 ** lively, the look is fierce and commanding. Death finks the 
 ** features, renders all the mufcles languid, and flattens every 
 ** nerve f." I, who have (ttn the chara^eriftic head of Henry 
 VII. at Strawberry-hill, wliith is unqueltionably a ca(l from a 
 mould wrought off from that politic prince's face, prefently after 
 his deceafe, and a model for his monumental effigy in Welbuinf- 
 fer abbey, am inclined to dlffent from the earl of Corke. It 
 feems to be fuch a reprefentation of him as Raj-hael would have 
 drawn the moment he expired. 
 
 ■f From an extraft pf a letjer of the earj of Corke, dated Florence, Oc- 
 tober 30, 1754, communicated by the ingenious Mr. DuRcomoe, ot Canter- 
 bury, This curioi»s letter >A'as lately printed, with fevcraF ather?. 
 
 B 4 Olives 
 
S The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 Oliver CroJiwell, Milord Protcdeur, 6rc. 
 w?; hprfeback. 
 
 O. Cromwell, the late Protei5lnr,<?;7/6^r/^^j^^;4/<? 
 Oliver Cromwell i B. Moncovntt exc. ^lo. 
 Oljv£Rius Cromwell ^ Coenard Waumam fc* 
 
 Oliver Cromwell •, P. a Gmfi fc. large flo, 
 
 Oliver, Lord Proicdtor, began his government ^ 
 I3c, <^c, ^lo. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell; infcrihcd 0. C a fmall 
 cvai\ mezz. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, wilh an engravrd border, 
 ijihich is from a different flate •, Stent ; h.JJj, 
 
 Oliver Cromwell ; 'T. Jenner f, ^t§. 
 
 Cromwell, my Lord Protedteur, bcc, a French 
 frint, &^to, 
 
 Oliver C rom w e l l j cval\ heads of king Da- 
 ffd, Solomon^ Alexander, and Cajar^ at the corners of 
 the print \ i/inio, 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, flandiv.g with a hock in his 
 hand betwixt two pillars : various emblems. Fai- 
 ihorne fcflo. 
 
 I go not remember to have feen more than two 
 proofs of this fine print \ Mr. Walpole has one, 
 and Mr. Gullton another. Mr. Bull has the 
 original drawing. The face was altered to that 
 of king William. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell; infcrihcd " Tyrannns •," 
 Perfidy and Cruelty aowjiing han with a wreath of 
 vipers \ ^to. 
 
 This is before the " Life of Agathocles, the 
 tyrant of Syracufe," i2mo. It is placed there 
 as the portrait of Agathocles, but it is apparent- 
 ly tliat of Croinwcli. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell -, a head from his crown- 
 piece, by Simon, Veriue fc, 
 
 Oliver. 
 
Class I, of ENGLAND. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell ; a medallion^ infcrihed^ 
 " Olivar. D. G. R. P. ANG, SCO. Htberni^, Pre- 
 *' te5lor,^^ R< verje^ Cromwell with his h^^ad in Bri- 
 tanni'i^s lap^ his t^i- ckf.de bare ; French ^ and Spanijh 
 amh.-:Jfador. The latter attempts to ktfs his hackfide^ 
 but is pulled back by the former., with thefe words in- 
 fcribed^ " Reuie coi, Thonnfur aparricnt au roi, 
 " moii .Tiai' re :" ?. e "■ Stand off, that honour be- 
 *' longs to the ktng my mafterf 
 
 The mi-dallion is alfo engraved in the " Hif- 
 *^' toire iVietallique de la RepublLque de Hol«- 
 «« lande." 
 
 The fingle print is very rare. Mr. Walpole 
 has the medallion from which it was taken : 
 both thefe are fometi:nes to be met with in the 
 hands of the curious, in Holland *. 
 
 Cliverius Cromwell, &c. *' Sat doftus verr 
 " fare doios." Eeneaih the oval is the head of 
 Charles L and feveral other heads of the Rcyalijis^ 
 who were eicecuted. 
 
 The following anecdore is related by Dr. 
 George Hickes. A gentleman came to Oliver 
 to beg a lock of Charles's hair for an honour- 
 ' able lady. '' Ah! no, fir. faith Cromwell, 
 " buiding into tears, that mud not be ; for I 
 *' fwore to him, when he was living, that not 
 " a hair of his head ihould perifli." ** Some 
 Difcourfes on Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotfon," 
 p. 25. 
 
 Cromwell; a whole lengthy with a crown on 
 his head. Before his ^-^ Char a 51 tr^^"* nmo. 
 
 Another who'e length of him., which reprefents him 
 in a fright i wiih colonel Titus's pamphlet in his hand, 
 
 ♦ There is an hiftorical print of Cromwell's inveftiturc, or in- 
 auguration, by Hollar. 
 
 and 
 
10 The HISTORY Interr: 
 
 and furround^d ivith his guards. Beneath the prints 
 which is poorly engraved^ is the aut/jor^s addrejs to 
 him ; h. Jh, 
 
 This addrefs is prefixed to the celebrated 
 pamphlet entitled, '* Killing no Murder," writ- 
 ten by Silas Titus, a man of wit, and fecretly 
 publi(l:ied in 1657, under the fictitious name of 
 William Allen. It was eagerly bought up by 
 the royalifts, at the high price of five fhillings. 
 The writer exerted all his rhetoric to perluadc 
 the people to afl^afTinate the ufurpcr ; and, as 
 Mr. Wood gravely fays, " oflrrs Oliver many 
 *** convincing and fatisfying reafons why he fhould 
 *' kill himlelf-, and very fairly gives him his 
 •* choice of hanging, drowning, or piftoling 
 " himfelf ; (hews him the abfolute neceffity of 
 *' it, the honour he would gain by it, and, in a 
 *' word, ules fuch arguments as miglit have pre- 
 *' vailed upon any body but a hardened rebel." 
 Cromwell was exceedingly terrified at the pub- 
 blication of this fpirited piece ; and was, as 
 fome imagined, almoft prevailed with to take 
 the author's advice, from a dread of falling by 
 fome ignoble hand *. 
 
 In the " Letters of Mr. Hughes," &-c. vol. ii. 
 p. 308, it is faid, that the bed pidlurc of Crom- 
 
 • Titus, who was not known to be the writer till after the Re* 
 f!oration, had a colonel's cominifllon given him by Cnar les II. 
 who made him one of the grooms of his hed-rhamber. He, 
 fomctimcs, to divert the king, or fink a declining favourite, prac- 
 tifed buffooneries better fuircd to Bartholomew Jair, than to the 
 court of a prince who ccitainly undeiltood decorum and pc4irc- 
 nefs f. Though Titus had pleaded (froiigly in parliament for the 
 ex( lufion of the duke of York, he was no Icfs urgent for the abo- 
 lition of the the tell and penal laws, as the fUrelf bulwark againit 
 popery. Jn the reign of king James, lie was fworn of the pnvy- 
 council. He died in 1704, aged Sz. 
 
 ■\ Suih low artR were pTi(\\(e^ by him, ind not w'uhout fucccfs, to de- 
 gr4dc (he car! ol Ciarcndon in the cilcetn of Charles. 
 
 well 
 
Class L of ENGLAND. U 
 
 well is that which was in the pofTefTion of fir 
 Robert Rich, at Rofe Hall. At fir Thomas 
 Frankland's, in Old Bond-ftrecr, is another por- 
 trait of him, with the crown hanging over the 
 arms. Dclfau carried this picture to Portugal, 
 where it was bought by fir Henry Frankland. 
 
 There is, in the poflefilon of the Rev. Dr. 
 Edward Cooper, of Bath, a portrait of Crom- 
 well, which belonged to the commiflioner 
 Whitelock ; and another, called Cromwell's 
 Wife, which was the property of Zincke the 
 painter, who prcfented it to Dr. Cooper's fa» 
 ther. This pldture is without character, and 
 very unlike the print of her, which 1 believe to 
 Ibe genuine. 
 
 This great man, whofe genius was awakened 
 by the diftradtions of his country, was looked 
 upon as one of the people, till he was upwards 
 of forty years of age, He is an amazmg in- 
 ftance of what ambition, heated by enthufiafm, 
 reftrained by judgment, diiguifed by hypocrify, 
 and aided by natural vigour of mind, can do. 
 He was never opprefl^ed with the weight, or 
 perplexed with the intricacy of affairs : but his 
 deep penetration, indefatigable adlivity, and in- 
 vincible refolution, Teemed to render him a maf- 
 ter of all events. He perfuaded without elo- 
 quence ; and exafled obedience, more from the 
 terror of his name, than the rigour of his ad- 
 niiniftration. He appeared as a • powerful in- 
 flrument in the hand of Provide ice, and dared 
 to appeal to the decifions of Heaven for the 
 jullice of his caufe. He knew every man of 
 abilities in the three kingdoms, and endeavour- 
 ed to avail himfelf of their refpe6live talents. 
 He has always been regarded by foreigners, and 
 of late years by the generality of his country-, 
 
 men, 
 
i'2 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 men, as t!ie greated man this nation ever pro- 
 duced. It has been difputed which he dcferved 
 moft, '* a halter or a crown i" and there is no 
 lefs difparity betwixt the chr>:-a(fl:ers drawn of 
 him, and the reports propagated by his enemies 
 and his friends. Colonel Liiidfey affirmed that 
 he faw him enter into a formal contradt with 
 the Devil ; and Dawbeny has drawn *'a Parallel 
 " betwixt Mofes the Man of God, and Oliver 
 *« the Protestor *." He died in his bed, on 
 the 3d of September, a day which he had long 
 efteemed fortunate, in the year 1658. The 
 French court went into mourning for him ; but 
 the famous Mademoifelle de Montpenfier dif- 
 dained to pay that refpeCt to the memory of an 
 Dfurper. See Clafs VII. 
 
 ELIZABETH CROMWELL, Wife 
 of the Protedor, in a black hood. In the upper part 
 cf the print is a monkey -f-, at the bottom are thefe 
 lines : 
 
 From feigned glory and ufurped throne. 
 And all the greatnefs to me falfely (hewn, 
 And from the arts of government fet free *, 
 See hovY Protedrefs and a drudge agree. 
 
 The print, which is neatly engraved, is pre- 
 fixed to a fcarce fatirical book, entitled ** The 
 Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, called Joan 
 Cromwell, the Wife of the late Ulurper, truly 
 defcribed and reprefented," &c. Lond. 1^64, 
 i2mo. The head has been copied by Chrifto- 
 pher Sharp, an ingenious turner, of Cambridge, 
 
 • See •* Hiftoiy and Policy reviewed,"' kc. by H. D. Lond« 
 l6e<j ; 12 mo. 
 
 t riiis alludes to the famous a./a^f of the ipe, T/ie higher it 
 ^''Ss, the mr.rc it cxpofcs its hackfiJe. The curious reader may ^tc 
 uit original of it in iiayie's *' Diet." ai tic. Ho.^pjtal, note (O). 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
Class I. o f E N G L A N D. 13 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of fir James Bourchier -f, 
 and wife of Oliver Cromwell, was a woman of 
 an enlarged underftanding and an elevated fpi- 
 rit. She was an excellent houfewife, and as 
 capable of defcending to the kitchen with pro- 
 priety, as (lie was of acting in her exalted fta- 
 tion with dignity. It has been alTcrted, that Ihe 
 as deeply interefted herfelf in fteering the hclm^ as 
 Ihe had often done in turning the y^^/V j and that 
 file was as conilant a fpur to her hufband in the 
 career of his ambition, as (he had been to her 
 fervants in their culinary employments : cer- 
 tain ir is, that fhe adled a much more prudent 
 part as proteclrefs, than Henrietta did as queen; 
 and that fhe educated her children with as much 
 ability as ihe governed her family with addrefs. 
 Such a woman would, by a natural tranfition, 
 have filled a throne*. She furvived her hufoand 
 fourteen years, and died on the Sch of Odober, 
 1672. 
 
 t This gentleman was of the fame family with the ancient 
 e^rls ofEfTex, of the fame name. His feat was in that county. 
 
 * James Heath informs us §, that Ihe was a relatioa of Mr. 
 Hamden's, and Mr. Goodwin 9 of Buckinghamfliire ; and that 
 Ihe was, by Oliver, " trained up and made the waiting-woman 
 *' of his providences, and lady-rampant of his fuccelsful great- 
 " nefs, which fhe perfonated afterwards as impsriouiiy as him- 
 *' felf }" and that '♦ the incubus of her bed made her partaker 
 ** too in the pleafures of the throne.'* We are told by an Italian 
 author J, that he gradually and artfully aflumed the government 
 at the inftigation of liis wife. Sir James Burjow,, in his " Anec- 
 ** dotes and Obfervations relating to Cromwell," invalidates the 
 charge brought againft her by this writer. I know no more of 
 ' lier, but that, about the time of the Reftoration, (he very pru- 
 dently ftole out of town, and lived for the remainder of her life 
 in tlie obfcurity of retirement. I am credibly informed that fhe 
 was a confiderable time in S>vitzerlan(i. 
 
 § See his anonymous Life of O. Cromwell, en>itleo', " Fl.»ge!!um," &c. 
 ^. 30, edit. 1672, 
 
 X Nicholas Comnenus PapadopoH, in his *< Hiftoria GymnaOi Patavini,'* 
 ^om. ii. lib. ii. feih 241. Mis words are, " Du<51a C^ntabrigias uxor-', hac 
 ti impellcntc, ad ^ercnjdm rcmpublicam n-'/ifim ac difliar.ulinter accelTit." 
 
 Richard 
 
41 The HISTORY Interr; 
 
 RICHARD CROMWELL, lord pro- 
 tector, &c. cloaks ba7id^ &c, 
 
 Richard, lord protestor, &c. Hollar f, /\to. 
 
 Richard, &c. Guil. Hayyiefworth fc. h. /h. 
 
 Richard, &c. Gammon fc. 
 
 Richard, &c. in armour \ Stent \ ^to. Before 
 Farivars *' Iron Age^'' fol. 
 
 Richard, &c. Fred, Bouttats fc, in armour'^ ^to. 
 
 Richard, &c. an etching-, ^to. 
 
 Richard, &c. on horfeback ; view of TVindJor* 
 caftle •, large Jh. Stent. 
 
 Richard Cromwell, the meek knight; the 
 giants Dejhorough and Lambert leading him by the 
 arms. FrontiJ piece to " Don Juan Lamb er to, or a 
 " Comical Hijiory of the late 'Ttmes^^^ faid to be writ- 
 ten by Flatman, 
 
 There is a miniature of him, by Cooper, in 
 the colledion at Strawberry-Hill. 
 
 It was impofTible that the feeble and unfkil- 
 ful hand of Richard fhould long hold the reins 
 of a government, which his father, with all his 
 vigour and dexterity, found fo difficult to re- 
 tain. He fucceeded him in the protedorate ; 
 but as he was heir to none of his great quali- 
 ties, he was prefently depofed from that dig- 
 nity, which he quitted without reludance ; 
 and probably experienced more folid happi- 
 nefs in retirement and obfcurity, than Oliver 
 did at the height of his glory. He pafled the 
 lad years of his life, in great privacy, at 
 Chefliunt in Hertfordfhire under the aflum- 
 ed name of Clark. In the latter part of his 
 life, he appeared at a trial in Weftminfler 
 Hall, where the lord chief juftice Holt, out of 
 relpedl to his former greatnefs, ordered him a 
 
 chair. 
 
Class II. o f E N G L A N D. 15 
 
 chair f. f^e is faid to have carefully preferved 
 a trunk full of addreffes, which were fent to 
 him on his accefilcn to the protedlorate *, and 
 ' to have bequeathed them to his friends. Ob, 
 13 July, 1712, yEt, 86. 
 
 ' CLASS II. 
 Great OFFICERS of STATE. 
 
 BULSTRODE WHIT LOCKE, (lord- 
 
 keeper.) See Clafs VI. v 
 
 Col. NATHANAEL FIENNES, (lord- 
 privy-feal) 5 Vandcrgncht fc. ^vo. 
 
 Nathanael Fiennes, fecond fon to lord Say, Promotej 
 engaged with zeal in the fervice of the parlia- J""^' ^^5S« 
 ment. But his courage was by no means pro- 
 portioned to his zeal, as he furrendered the 
 city of Briftol, of which he was governor, after 
 a (lege of two days. He was tried and con- 
 demned for cowardice, but found means to pro- 
 cure his pardon. He foon after attached him- 
 felf to the Independents, and was one of the 
 moil confiderable leaders of that party J. He 
 Was a frequent and copious fpeaker in parlia- 
 ment, to which his talents were much better 
 adapted than to the field. Many of his fpeeches 
 and pamphlets relative to the civil war are in 
 
 f All the defcendants of Oliver Cromwell, of the male line, 
 now fubfifting, are from his younger fon Henry. See an authen- 
 tic account of the family, fubjoined to Dr. Thomas Gibbon's Ser- 
 mon, preached at the death of William Cromwell, efq. July 9, 
 1772. 
 
 • The prailice of addrefTmg commenced on the acceHiion of 
 Richard. His Ihort continuance in his high ftation gained him 
 the nick-name of ^' Tumble down Dick." 
 
 I Fiennes, Cromwell, Vane, and St. John, were at the head of 
 that faction, 
 
 print. 
 
i6 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 print. See a catalogue of them in "Athen. 
 Gxon." 01?. 16 December, 1669. 
 
 Great OFFICERS of IRELAND. 
 
 OLIVER CROMWFLL, lord-lieu- 
 tenant of Ireland. See Clafs I. and VII. 
 
 General IRE TON ; Cooper p. Houhraken fc. 
 1741 ; Illuft. Head. In the pojfejfion of Bc-vid Pol^ 
 hily efq. 
 
 The lord-deputy Ireton •, fold by lValton\ whole 
 length ; large '6vo. 
 
 Henry Ireton, &c. Vandergucht fc. %vo, 
 
 PromotetJ Iretott, vvho on feveral occafions had figna- 
 
 june, jf>5o. jj-ed hls valouT and condud in the field, ap- 
 proved himielf a man of Ipiric and capacity in 
 his government of Ireland. He proceeded upon 
 Cromwell's plan, and gave abundant proof of 
 his being every way quaillied for that extcnfive 
 command. Though naturally a lover of juilice, 
 he made little fcruple of facrificing even that to 
 liberty, of which he was paffionacely fond. He 
 died at the fiege of Limerick, the 26th of No- 
 vember, 1 65 1, fincerely lamented by the re- 
 publicans, who revered him as a foldier, a 
 ftatefman, and a faint. In CruH's " Antiqui- 
 ties of Weftminfter Abbey" is a curious pane- 
 gyric, which was intended for his monument : 
 it is written in a very exalted (train, far be- 
 yond the common cant of epit iphs *. Ireton 
 had by his wife Bridget, eldcit daughter of Oliver 
 Cromwell, a daughter, named alfo Bridget, who 
 cfpoufcd Thomas Bcndilh clq. In Watts's " Ly- 
 
 • *' Creilas pro Deo militafle Iretonumi pro Iretono Deum," 
 
 ric 
 
Class II. o f E N G L A N D. 17, 
 
 ric Poems," is a copy of verfes addrefled to 
 her f . Sec the preceding reign, Ciafs VII. 
 
 Lieutenant-general FLEETWOOD; Walhr 
 p. Houhraken Jc. 1740. In the colletlion of 'Thomas 
 Cooky efq, lilnft. Head. 
 
 Lord-deputy Fleetwood •, ichole length -, in 
 armour, 
 
 f Bridget Bendifli, grand-daughter of Oliver Cromwell, re- 
 fembled Liim, more than any oF his defcendants, in the caft of 
 her countenance and chara6ler. She, on fome occafions, appeared 
 with all the dignity of a princefs ; and, at other times, had as 
 much the appearance of a low drudge of bufinels, being as labo- 
 rious as (he was intelligent in the management of her lalt-works. 
 After (he had harraflfed heri'ilf with toil, (lie was as carelefs how 
 or where (he (lept, or what (lie eat or drank, as Charles XII. was 
 ill the courfe of his campaigns. Her prefence of mind on no oc- 
 cafion forfook her; nor was (he ever known to betray the lead 
 fympton of fear. Sometimes, a('ter a day of drudgery, (lie 
 would go to the afi'embly at Yarmouth §, where the greatnefs 
 of her manner and the i'uperiority of her underilanding never 
 failed to attraft refpt61:. She was never known to bjeak her 
 promife; nor, in her common converfation, to pay much re- 
 gard to truth, as it would have been rafhnefs to have affirmed 
 any thing as a fa6l becaufe (lie faid it. Her charity appeared 
 to be a virtue of the heart, as well as the hand. She cxer- 
 cifed it in all places^ and on every occafion ; but in the exer- 
 tion of it, frequently left her debts unpaid. Her piety was llrong- 
 \y tinctured with enthufiafm. She, on emergent occalions, would 
 retire to her clofet, where, by farting, meditation, and prayer, 
 (he would work up her fpirit to a degree of rapture, and then in- 
 flexibly determine her conduit by fome text of fcripture that oc- 
 curred to her, which llie regarded as a divine revelation. She 
 would frequently fawn, difienible, and prevaricate, and that for 
 low, if not (iniiier ends and purpofes ; and was, indeed, the je(t 
 and admiration, not only of iier friends, but even of iier fervants, 
 who jurtly regaj'ded her as one of the heft miftreift?. in the world. 
 She had the higheft venejation for the memory of her grandfatheri 
 whom (lie reverenced as a coiifummate hero and glorified (a>nt. 
 She died in the year 172.7, or 1718. This imperfetf and con- 
 trafted ftcetch is chiefly taken from her charafler more at large, 
 by Mr. Sam.uei Say, a diHenting minirter, who was intiniateiy ac- 
 quainted with her, and drew her from the life. See the Appendix 
 to the fecond volume of the "Letters," pubr)(hc-d by Mr. Dun- 
 combe. See aifo the third volume, p. 168, &'c. whtre are many 
 curious and interelting anecdotes of herltif and famih'. We are 
 there informed that tiie print prefixed to the Life of Oliver Crom- 
 ijoell, in o<^avo, faid to have been pubhfhed by the late bidiop 
 Gibfon, about the year 1715, nearly reiembles Mrs. Bendifli as 
 well as the Protestor. 
 
 § She lived at South Town, in that neighbourhood. 
 
 Vol. IlL C The 
 
l3 The H I S TORY Interr. 
 
 The lord-deputy Fleetwood-, oh hcrfehacJz. 
 
 Pnmotcd Fleetwood, who, as well as Irtton, was fon- 
 
 ^^ in-law to Cromwell *, was a very nfrful inftru- 
 
 ment to tha: artful man, who knew how to 
 avail himldf of family-conneclions. The cha- 
 racter of Fleetwood was very different from 
 that of freton : he had no great fkill as a fol- 
 dier, and lefs as politician ^ but he had a very 
 powerful influence over the bigoted part of 
 the army. He thought that prayers fuper- 
 feded the ufe of '* carnal weapons •," and that 
 " it was fufficient to truft in the hand of Provi- 
 *' dence, without exerting the arm of fiefh." 
 He would fall on his knees and pray, when he 
 heard of a mutiny among the ioldiers ; and 
 was with the utmoft difficulty roufed to ac- 
 tion on feveral emergencies. In 1659 he was 
 declared comm>ander in chief of the army. 
 This was done by the intrigues of Lambert, 
 who intended to make the f^me ufe of him that 
 Cromwell had done of Fairfax. He died foon 
 after the Revolution. See Clafs Vil. 
 
 JOHN DESBOROUGH, lord chancel- 
 lor of Ireland. See Clals VI. 
 
 CLASS III. 
 
 PEERS. 
 
 EDWARD SOMERSET, Marquis of 
 "Worcefler ; in the manner of Faithcrnc \ an anony- 
 mous print ^ but Jiffficient'y afiertanied ; in ctmcur ; 
 b.Jh. 
 
 The marquis of WorcefLerf, a zealous ca- 
 thohc, and a man of courage and cnterprife, 
 
 • Fleetwood maij'ied Ir^-toirp witiow. 
 
 t He is better known in our inltojies by the title of earl of Gla- 
 moi^an. 
 
 was 
 
Glass III. o f E N G L A N D. i^ 
 
 was much in the favour and confidence of 
 Charles F. who is faid to have difpatchcd hiai 
 into Ireland, to treat with the rebels of thac 
 kingdom, and engage them in his fervice, in 
 oppofition to the parliament. The other powers 
 which were granted him were of fo extraor- 
 dinary a nature, as to (trike many of the roy- 
 alifl"s with aftonifhment. Nothing but the def- 
 Derate fuuation of the king's affdirs could apo- 
 logize for fuch ftrange (leps *. In 1665 -f, he 
 pubiilhed a fmall book, entitled " A Century 
 ^' of the Names and Scantlings of fuch Inven- 
 " tions as I can at prefent call to mind to have 
 " tried and perfected, which (my former Notes 
 *^ being loft) I have, at the indance of a pow- 
 " erful Friend, endeavoured now, in the Year 
 *' 1655, to fct thele down in fuch a Way as may 
 " fufficiently inllrudt me to put any of them iii 
 *' Practice." At the conclufiori he fays, '' This 
 making up the whole Century, and prevent- 
 ing any further trouble to the reader for the 
 prefenr, meaning to leave to poflerity a book, 
 " wherein, under each of thefe heads, the means 
 "to put in execution, and vifible trial of all 
 ^'' and every of thefe inventions, with the (liape 
 " and form of all thing;s belonging to them, 
 " (hall be printed by brafs plates." 
 
 A pradlical m.athematician, who has quick- 
 nels to feize a hint, and fagacity to apply it, 
 might avail himfeU greatly of thefe Scantlings, 
 though little more than a bare catalogue. It is 
 extremely probable that captain Savery took from 
 
 * sir Edward Hyde, in a letter to fecretary Nicholas, dated 
 164.6-7, fays, *' I care not how little I fay in tlirit bulinefsof Ire- 
 ^* land, fince thofe rtrange poweis and inltruftions given to your 
 ** favourite Glamorgan, wliich appear to me inexcufeable to 
 *' juftice, piety, and prudence *' He adds, a little below, "Oh ! 
 ** Mr. Secretary, thofe ftratagems have given me more fad hours 
 ** than all the misfortunes in war which have befallen the king," 
 Chancellor Clarendon*s " State Papers," vol. ii. p. 337. 
 
 t The date Ihould be 1665. 
 
 C 2 the 
 
Se> The HISTORY Interr; 
 
 the marquis the hint of the fleam-engine, for 
 raifing water with a power made by fire, which 
 invention alone wotikl intitle the author to im- 
 mortahty ^. lliat of Hopping a vehicle, by 
 indantly letting off the horfes, feems to have 
 been derived from the fame oricrin -f-. I am in- 
 formed by the reverend and ingenious Mr, 
 Gainfborough, of Henley, brother to the painter, 
 on whofe judgment in tl»e mechanic powers I 
 have reafon to rely, that this book is far from 
 being fuch a colledlion of whims and chimeras 
 as it has been fuppofed to be : on the contrary, 
 he highly efteems the author as one of the great- 
 eft mechanical genuifes that ever appeared in 
 the world. 
 
 WILLIAM CAVENDISH, marquis 
 of Newcafile; Jjis marchionefs^ and their family-, 
 Diepenlske del. P, Clouwet fc. h. flj. prefixed to " Na- 
 *' ture's Pi^ures^ drawn by Fancy's Pencil to the 
 " Life;' i6c^6, folio. 
 
 This beautiful print is very fcarce. It was 
 done when the family was at Antwerp. See 
 the reign of Charles 1. Clafs III. and that of 
 Charlei JI. Clafs IX. 
 
 In the marquis's fine book of horfemanfhip is 
 a print of CHARLES, Vifcount MANSFIELD 
 and Mr. HENRY CAVENDISH, on horfeback ; 
 the marquis and marchionefs, their three daugh- 
 ters, and their hufbands ; namely, the earl of 
 BRIDGEWATER J, the earl of '^ BULL1NG- 
 
 *« BROOKE'* 
 
 • S«e an account of it in Dr. Dtlliguliers's V/oiks. See alfo the 
 ** Scantlings," No. 68. 
 
 f See «* Scantlings," No. lo. 
 ^ X Elizabeth, daughter of Wilii.Tin, then earl of Newcaftle, mar- 
 ried John Egerton, carl of liruli;wacer, in the i(;th year of his 
 age. He ddircd that it njigl.t be recorded on his tomb that 
 *• lie ejijo)rcd, alniolt twenty-tv. J years, aii the happincfs that 
 
 ** Jiia 
 a 
 
Class III. o f E N G L A N D. 21 
 
 « BROOKE" and Mr. CHEYNE, are under a 
 colonade, as fpedlators. The plates for the Eng- 
 lifh edition of this book are the fame with the 
 French, but the latter has the fineft impreffions. 
 
 JAMES STANLEY, earl of Derby ; 
 
 Leggan /. large ^to. 
 
 James Stanley, &c. copied from the above-, 
 Vertuefc, large /^to. 
 
 James, earl of Derby; oval-, Svo, In ^^ Cla- 
 *' Tendon's Hijiory'^ 
 
 Lord Hyde has an excellent picflure, by Van- 
 dyck, of the earl and countefs of Derby and 
 child, whole lengths. It was broufrht from 
 Cornbury, and is elfcemed the moO; capital in 
 his colledlion. Mr. Walpole has a painting of 
 the countefs. 
 
 The earl of Derby gave many fignal proofs Cfeat.x486. 
 of his valour in the Civil War ; particularly in 
 that memorable adion near Wigan in Lanca-26 Aug, 
 fliire, where, with 600 horfe, he, for two hours, ^^^^* 
 bravely withflood a corps of 3000 horfe and 
 foot, commanded by colonel Lilburne. We 
 can eafily believe this, and much more, of a 
 man who could write fo fpirited a letter as that 
 which he fent to Ireton ^. He was taken pri- 
 foner at the battle of Worcefter, and beheaded 
 in violation of a promifc of quarter, given him 
 
 *' man could receive in the fweet fociety of the heft of wives " 
 It might be added, with truth, tiiat ihe virtues and the graces 
 confpired to render her one of the beft and inoft amiable women. 
 She died the i^th of June, 1.663, in the 37th year of her ag<*, 
 having left a numerous iffue. The worthy earl, who, upon her 
 deceale, was one of the moft difconfolate of men, as he had l^een 
 one of the h:ippiell of hufbands ; and, wiio for many years, may 
 be faid to have endured, rather than enjoyed life, died the 26rh 
 of October, i636, in his 64th year. See more of both theft per- 
 fons in Collins's ** Peerage." 
 
 * See the letter in " Hume's Hiftory/' cr in. the ** Catalogue 
 <» of Ray al. and Noble Autiiors." 
 
 C 3 by 
 
^t The history Interr. 
 
 by captain Fdge, into whole hands he fell. He 
 was executed the 15th of 06t. 1651 *. 
 
 GEORGE Lord D I G B Y, earl of Briftol ; 
 
 Vandjck p. Houhraken fc. In the colUEiion of ihe hon, 
 John Spencer^ ejq. lllnji. Head. 
 
 He fucceeded to the title of earl of Bi idol, 
 the i6th of January, 1652-3; the portrait was 
 painted in the former reign. 
 
 Crgjf^ The earl of Briftol, wrll known for his fine 
 
 35 s«r^ parts, his levity, and extravagant pafiions, was 
 
 *° J**^' • fccretary of ftate and privy-counlellor to Charles 
 II. at the time of the Interregnum. But he 
 forfeited both thefe ofnces, by reconciling him- 
 felf to the church of Rome, againft which he 
 hid written feveral pieces of controverfy. He 
 imputed his removal to the influence ot his 
 friend the lord chancellor Hyde, whofe ruin he 
 afterwards fought with all that vehemence which 
 was natural to him f . It is pity that the ro- 
 mantic 
 
 ♦ The heroine his conntefs, who fo bravely defended Latham- 
 Hoiife, with no lefs bravery defended the Ifle of Man. Here (he 
 looked upon lieneif as queen, and diidained to iubniit to legi- 
 cides and ufurpers. She was the iait perfon in the Biitifh domi- 
 nions, thnt yielded to the republic- 
 
 t Am<nig tlie excellent letters of the lor^ chancellor Claren- 
 don, lately publiftied [j, in the ftcond volume of his " State Pa- 
 *' pers J," is one addrelfed to lord Dig'.iy ^, in which are fon>e 
 mafter-ftrokes, which /hew at once the pious turn of mind, the 
 genius, and fricndfhip of the writci, and are alfo charai!;ter;ll:cal 
 of the great man to whom it is writttn. I (liall therefore give 
 the jeacitr the following cxtiait. It fcenr that loid Dighy, after 
 the wreck cf his foitune in the civil war, had formed a dtfigii oi 
 applying to the crown of France for employment and fubfiltence. 
 liis fiiend, then fir Edward H}de *, earneltiy ddluade^ him from 
 
 the 
 
 II 1773. 
 
 t I*. 330, 331. ^ It appears to have bten fcni from Jerfey, a$ it was 
 
 vrritten 1^146-7. 
 
 • Sir Edward tells li>rn in another letter, " I am fo far from driubtirg 
 V your affed'tion, that, if you (hould tell me you did not love me, I would 
 " not believe yoti ; tor I know it is m-t in your power not to Icve me ; for 1 
 •• ana ve.y jiift and iiue to you, and fliali bring no ihamc to you." Claren- 
 don's ** Papers," vol. ii. p. 384. 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. 23 
 
 mantic hiflory of this nobleman's life was never 
 written. Dr. Swift, in one of his letters, ftyles 
 
 him 
 
 this dilhonourable expedient, te'iing him, that be could " no 
 *' more be a fervnnt or penfioner to another crown, than he could 
 ** marry another wife. Borrow or beg," fays be, " (it is very 
 ** honeli) fo much as will keen you alive and cleanly for one 
 *' year ; and withdraw into a quiet corner, where you are not 
 *' known, and where not above two or three friends may hear of 
 ** you. If you can but live one year without being fpoken of at 
 *' all, wifhout being in a capacity of having your own or other 
 *' mens errors imputed to you, you w ill find a ftrange refuri'e6liori 
 *' of a good fame. In that retirement you will revolve the rare 
 *' accidents and misfortunes of your life ; in the confideratioii 
 *' whereof, I fear, you have been too negligent ; and, it may be, 
 ** you may believe you have encountered nevir and unulual dan - 
 *• gersj becaufe you have not duly weighfd pad and unulual de- 
 *' liverances. You will find as much of the immediate hand of 
 *' God in both, as can be obferved in the courfe of a man's life, 
 ** much fuperior to you in age, and it may be, in aiStion. You 
 ** may, in this difqulfition, confider by what frowardnefs of for- 
 *' tune it comes to pals, that a man of the moil exquifite parts, 
 " of nature and art, that this age hath brought forth, hath been 
 *' without fucceis in thafe very adlions f^r which meaner men 
 ** have been highly c(nnmendrd * ; that a man of the mod can- 
 *' did and obliging difpoiition, of the molt unrevcngeful and in- 
 <* offenfive temper and conftitution, fl^oulu not only havt fewer 
 ** friends in the general crowd of lookers-on, than many ftub- 
 *' born and infociahle complexions ufetofind, but more enemies 
 ** amungll thole, whofe advancement and proiperity he hath con- 
 *' tribured to, than ever man hath mtt wirh And, without doubt, 
 *' you will difcover fomewhat no man elfe can dilcover, and en- 
 *' joy an ample beneiit by tl)e difcovery, throughout the long 
 *' courfe of your life that is to come. I do not invite you to any 
 ** moroCe or melancholy fequettring yourfelf from the world ; if 
 *' I am not miltaken, it will be as chearful and pleafant a part of 
 ** your life as ever you enjoyed. And afttr you have given your 
 *' mind tills diet, exerciff, and repoie, you will return with 
 ** greater vigour upon the llage j and any Ihift you (liali then b? 
 ** nece.OHtated to, will be moie jultifiable to the world and com- 
 " fortable to yourfelf."* 
 
 * Sir E'Jward, in a fuhfequent lettfr, (iate"-! from the Hague, Novrrn'Ter, 
 1648, fays, " I cunfefs 1 have not viriue enonoh to teftr. in me within ai y 
 ** houn s, if I once let rayfelf loofe into irrs viK^ernefs <if ^uudential morives 
 *' and expedients." He fays afrerv/ards, in the fame Icitc-r, " Jg it poffiole 
 *' that ycu ar: the oniy man that do not difctrn a uinver(al combins.ri(Mi ia 
 " all to have you quiet ? It appears from thefe paflage-^, th t lord Digby's 
 part?, however excellent, were f^ir from beLig of any fervice to hispu.ty. 
 His difpofition W3S fo very mercurial, that no'hing was capable of fixing it j 
 find while it remained untixed^ was much more dangerous than ufefui. 
 
 C 4. Sir 
 
24 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 him " the Prototype of Lord Bolingbroke." 
 Oh. 15 March, 1672-3. ^t. 64. See the reign 
 Birch. of Charles 1. 
 
 HENRY CAREY, earl of Monmouth. 
 See Clals IX. 
 
 GIOVANNI, viconte MORDAUNTE; 
 
 W' Faitbcrne fc. oval ; h. jh. 
 
 This is one of Faithorne's beft heads. There 
 is another, in a fniall fquare. 
 
 Created lo This noblenisn, who was father of the great 
 
 July, 1659, earl of Peterborough, was the mofi adtive and 
 enterprifing of the royalifts during the ukirpa- 
 tion. He poflcfled much of that vigour of 
 body and mind, which was afterwards fo con- 
 fpicuous in his fon. He made feveral attempts 
 to reftore Charles II. for one of which he was 
 brought to a public trial. He behaved himfelf, 
 upon this occafion, with his ufual intrepidity % 
 evaded the evidence with remarkable addrefs \ 
 and was, after long debate, pronounced " Not 
 " Guilty." The moment he v;as fet at liberty, 
 he began to be rrore a6live than before : buc 
 his great merit created hiin many enemies, who 
 traduced and vilified him to the king. He 
 was numbered widi the neglecled royalifts. Ob, 
 5 June, 1675, Mt. 48*. • 
 
 Sir Edward, at the conclufion of this letter, intimates a defire 
 of his making fome hiftorical collections relative to liis great work, 
 pf which he lupplied fome of the materials. 
 
 * The following perfons are in the lill of Cromwell's lords j 
 namely, Nathanael Ficnnes, Charles Fleetwood, John Dcfbo- 
 rough, Bulltrode Whitlocke, Philip Skippon, Francis Rous. See 
 ^* Parliariientary ilUtojy," vol. xxi. p. 1O7. 
 
 SCOTCH 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. 
 
 SCOTCH PEERS. 
 
 ^5 
 
 WILLIAM, duke of HAMILTON; 
 
 Vandergucht fc, ?>'V0, 
 
 William, duke of Hamilton ; R, White fc, 
 
 William duke of Hamilton, who was a man Created 16 
 of too much fpirit to be neuter in the divifions^^^'^^^i. 
 of his country, was, in the civil war, carried by 
 the popular current much farther than he in- 
 tended to go. In his character were united the 
 accomplifhments of the gentleman, with the 
 opennefs and fmcerity of the foldier. In the 
 fatal battle of Worcefter, he gave the ftrongell 
 proofs of his courage and loyalty. He died of 
 a fhot in the leg, which he received valiantly 
 fighting for Charles II. In the article of death, he 
 expreflcd the higheft fatisfaclion, " that he had 
 '* the honour to lofe his life in the king's fervice, 
 *' and thereby to wipe out the memory of his for- 
 " mer tranfgrefTions, which, he always profelfed, 
 " were odious to himfelf." — He was brother to 
 the duke who was beheaded. 0^. Sept. 1651. 
 
 ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, earl 
 
 (marquis) of Argyle *, Vandergucht fc, ^vo. 
 
 The marquis of Argyle was, in the cabinet, Created 16 
 what his enemy the marquis of Montrofe was^°^' ^^^^' 
 in the field, " the firft charafler of his age and 
 " country for political courage and condudl." 
 He was the champion of the Covenant, or, in 
 other words, of the religion of his country, which 
 he zealoufly and artfully defended. Such were 
 his abilities, that he could accommodate him- 
 feif to ail characters and all times ; and he was 
 the only man in the kingdom of Scotland, who 
 was daily rifing in wealth and power, amidftthe 
 
 dif. 
 
The history Interr. 
 
 diilraclions of a civil war. Much unmerited 
 infamy has been thrown upon his charadler, 
 which is placed in a truer light than it ever was 
 before, in the " Biographia Britannica." He 
 was, loon after the relloration, condemned by 
 his capital enemy, the earl of Middleton^ for 
 his ILbminion to the EnglilL government, in 
 the time of the ufurparion ; a crime, in which 
 the bulk of the three kii'ii;doms were equally 
 involved with himfrlf. He was beheaded the 
 27th of May, 166 1. 
 
 JACOBUS GRAMIUS, marggraffvan 
 MontrofTe •, with a view of his execution \ a Dutch 
 frint^ 4to. See the reign of Charles L Clalsill. 
 and Vli. 
 
 AN IRISH PEER. 
 
 Fffi-^ies illuftriirimi domini C^CILII 
 CALVERT, baronis Baltimore, de Baltimore, 
 in regno Hiberni^; abfoluti dcmini et propnctarii 
 prov.nriarum Terr^ Maria^ et Avalonice^ in Amencay 
 i^c. An, Dom 16 jj. ^-Etatis ^1. Abra. Elootelirgfc, 
 
 His portrait is in the gallery at Gorhambury. 
 
 Cecil Calvcrc was fon of George, the nrit lord 
 Baltimore, who was f.>me time lecretary to fir 
 Robert Cecil, lord treafurer. hie afterwards 
 becam.e fecretary of ftaie 10 James I. by whom 
 v'T\\l^. he was created a peer. He obtained the grant 
 of the province of Maryland fiom Charles I. 
 Jt is oblervable that this country was Krmtrly 
 reckoned a part of Virginia *. 
 
 • P>3ncis Nichols, author of rhe •* Irifh C-omnendium," in- 
 forms us, 1 hat tlie title ot iJakimoic was conkrretl b)' Charles I. 
 and that Cecil Calvert iiift reteivtd the granr of Maryland frcm 
 thut prince J in both which particulars he appears robe millaken. 
 Set VVooii, i. cuJ. 365. bcc alio *' iVIagua Jiriiauaia," vol. vi. 
 P- i9«'» 597' 
 
 CLASS 
 
 Feb. 1624. 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. %j 
 
 CLASS IV. 
 
 The CLERGY. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP, and BISHOPS. 
 
 JACOBUS USSERIUS, archiepifco- 
 pus Armachanus, &c. holding a fcull \ frontifpiece to 
 f?is Funeral Sermon^ by Dr. Nicholas Barnard. 
 
 Archbifhop Uflier, who very fincerely la- 
 mented the diftrefs of his brethren *, and as 
 fincerely wept over the ruins of the church, was 
 much courted by Cromwell, who was proud of 
 exprefling a regard for fo great and fo good a 
 man. He died the 21ft of March, 1655-6, and 
 was buried with great pomp in Weilminfter- 
 Abbey, by command of the Protedlor, who bore 
 half the expence of his funeral ; the other half 
 fell very heavily upon his relations. 
 
 JOHN RICHARDSON, D. D. bifhop 
 of Ardagh ; aged 74, Anno Dom. 16^^. "T. Crofs fc, 
 ^to. 
 
 He deceafed bifhop of Ardagh, 1(^54. See 
 
 an anecdote of him in the reign of Charles II. 
 
 Clafs IV. Article Watson. 
 
 EDWARDUS PARRY, epifcopus Lao- 
 nenfis ♦, y. Bickfon f. 1660. Os^on. /\.to, 
 
 • The bifliops fufFered great hardfiiips during the ufurpation 
 of Cromwell ; and many of them were deprived of all mems of 
 fubfiftence. In the preceding reign, they were often inl'iilted 
 with the opprobrious appellation of " dumb dogsj'' and they 
 were now frequently called in dejilion, " poor dogs 5" and that 
 by perfons, " whole fathers they would have difdainedto have feC 
 ** with the dogs of their flock ;{:." 
 
 X Job. XXX. ver. i. 
 
 Edward 
 
ti The history Interji. 
 
 Edward Parry, a prelate of Irifh extraction, 
 was a man of an acute genius and an exemplary 
 charader. He was confecrated bimop of Kil- 
 laloe, the 28th of March, 1647 -, and died the 
 20th of July, 1650. He was author of '' Da- 
 *' vid rcllored, or an Antidote againd the Prof- 
 " perity of the wicked, &c. in a moft Jeafon- 
 *' able Difcourfe on the 73 J Pfalm. Opus poft- 
 •' humum." 8vo. 1660. He was father of John 
 and Benjamin Parry, fucceiTively bilhops of Of- 
 fory. See ^<?(?iii. Col. 605. 
 
 INFERIOR CLERGYMEN. 
 
 FDWARDUS REYNOLDS, S. T. D. 
 
 Logganfc. h,Jh. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds was dean of Chrilt-church. See 
 the reign of Charles 11. 
 
 JOHANNES OWEN, S. T. P. dean of 
 Chrill-church. See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 JEREMY TAYLOR, D. D. P. Lomhart 
 ft, loithont his name. Motto^ " Non magna loqid- 
 *' mur^ fed vivimiis, i^c.'* Fron/ifpiece to bis *' Due- 
 ** Ur Ditbitantium ;" fclio, 
 
 Jeremy Taylor, D. D. with the fame motto. 
 Before his " Meafures and Offices of Fncndjhtp ;" 
 cddreffed to the famous Mrs. Catharine t'hiitfs. 
 I imo. 
 
 This excellent man, who had too much learn- 
 ing and unaffeded piety to bethought orthodox 
 at this period, was deprived of his benefice, and 
 retired into Wales, where he kept Ichool. la 
 !:is retirement, he wrote n^,oil of his valuable 
 works See an account of him in the reign of 
 Charles II. 
 
 JOHN 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D, 29 
 
 JOHN LIGHT FOOT, D. D. Seethe 
 reign of Charles II. 
 
 B R I A N U S W A L T O N U S, S. T. D. 
 
 &c. Lombart fc. a fine head. Frojittfpiece to his Po- 
 lyglot Bible ; folio. 
 
 Dr. Brian Walton was the celebrated editor 
 of the Polyglot. In 1645 he formed the defign 
 of that great work, which was publifhed ia 
 1657 *. In 1653 ^^ ^"^^^ adiually engaged in it, 
 as appears from a letter that he wrote to arch- 
 bifhop Uilierj. This Bible, which is beautifully 
 printed in fix volumes folio, is in the Hebrew, 
 Greek, Vulgate, Latin, Syriac, Chaldee, Sama- 
 ritan, Arabic, ^thiopic, and Perfic languages. 
 Dr. Walton was, fcon after the Reftoration, pro- 
 moted to the bifhopric of Chefter. Ob. 1661, 
 
 It is fcarce known, that an Englifh piece of 
 his was firft printed in the " Colledanea Ec- 
 «' clefiaftica" of Samuel Brewfter, efq. London, 
 1752 ; 4to. It is called, " A Treatife concern- 
 " ing the payment of Tyths in London." Int 
 the Life of Dr. Edward Pocock, prefixed to his 
 *' Theological Works," are fome curious par- 
 ticulars relative to the London Polyglot. 
 
 JOHN B A R W I C K, D. D. one of the 
 
 moftadtive loyalifts at this period. Sec the reign 
 of Charles 11, 
 
 • This was the firrt book publifliedin England by fubfcription. 
 Blome, a notorious plagiary, aftervvaich carried the practice oF 
 pubii(hing books in this manner to a greater height than any of 
 his contemporaries. 
 
 t See " Gen. Dia." Artie. Walton. 
 
 Doaor 
 
3^1 The history Interr; 
 
 Doaor JOHN GAUDEN; a whole length ^, 
 before his " Hitra'pijles^ a Defence^ by ivay of Apo- 
 logy^ for the Mlnijiry and Mtnijlers of the Church of 
 England^* 1653,4/(9. There is a very fm all whole 
 lengthy intended for him^ before his " Tears^ Sighs ^ 
 *' i^c, of the Church (f Engl and y' \()^c^^ folio^ which 
 is his principal work. 
 
 Dr. Gaud EN ; a fcarce and curious portrait^ pre- 
 fixed to a libel of Milton's upon the " Etxwu Bao-iAixr," 
 entitled " Ejxx'v aAriStur'," Lond. 1649, ^to. It is in 
 the engraved frcntifpiece to this pamphlet y which repre- 
 fents a curtain drawn up by a handy and difcovers 
 Gauden peeping out. At the tcpy are thefe words : 
 
 " Speflatum admifTi, rifum teneatis ? 
 
 Underneath are the following verfes : 
 
 " The curtain'sdrawnjall may perceive theplot^ 
 *' And him who truly the black babe begot ; 
 *' Whofe fable mantle makes me bold to lay, 
 *' A Phaeton Sol's chariot riiTd that day : 
 " Prefumptuous prieft, to f!<ip into the throne, 
 " And make his king his baitard ifTue own ! 
 *' The author therefore hath conceived it meet, 
 ^' The do(5lor (hould do penance in this fheet." 
 
 See fome account of the pamphlet in Kenneths " Regifler 
 '* and Chronicle y"* p. 776, ']']^. 
 
 John Gauden, a native of Mayland, in EfTex,' 
 and redlor of Bocking, in that county, was a 
 man of ingenuity and learning, and author of 
 feveral books, which gained him a very con- 
 fiderable reputation. He had a hand in the 
 publication of the " Eikon Bafilikc," and has 
 been reputed the author ot'it •, but that he actu- 
 ally wrote it is abundantly difprovcd by external 
 
 and 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. ^i 
 
 and internal evidence *. He was, after the Re- 
 floration, lucceflively promoted to the biOiop- 
 rics of Exeter and Worcefter. He died the 
 20th of September, 1662, atred 57. The reader 
 may fee a remarkable account of his death, ac 
 p. 97 of the curious " Letters of Abraham Hill, 
 efq/' 1 mention this, as it difproves a fana- 
 tical (lory concerning ir, the purport of which 
 is, that it was owing to the promotion of Dr. 
 Motley to the bifhopric of Winchtfter, upon 
 which he had fet his heart. Whoever examines 
 the writings of the royal and reverend authors, 
 will find them fpecifically different •, and mull", 
 from taBe and Icntiment, conclude, as well as 
 from the peculiar circumflances of both writers, 
 that Charles could no more defcend to write 
 like Gauden, than Gauden could rife to the 
 purity and dignity of Charles. The (lyle of 
 the divine is more debafed with the pedantry, 
 than embeiliihed with the elegancies of learn- 
 
 ing. 
 
 ALEXANDER ROSSTEVS-, .^/. 63 ; 
 Lomhart fc. Before bis " P^vifebia^ cr View of all 
 *' Religions,''^ ^vo. 
 
 Alexand CR Ross \ /. Clarke fc, 1 7 ^3. 
 
 Alexander Ross, with a key in his hand \ vohule 
 length ; before his " Mufes Interpreter ♦," '^vo» 
 Another^ finall : motto^ " Ros et umbra fumus :" 
 before his '- Cent inuat ion of Ralegh* s UifloryP 
 
 Alexander Rofs, a native of Aberdeen in 
 Scotland, was m.aller of the grammar-fchool ac 
 Southampton, and chaplain to Charles I. He 
 was author of a confiderable number of books, 
 
 • See the Appendix to Dr. John Burton's ♦* Genuinenefs of 
 *• Lord Clarendon'i Hillory," VVa^flAife's *' Vindication of King 
 « Charles I." 5^c. 
 
 in 
 
■31 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 in L.atin and Englifh. He publifhed, in the 
 former of thefe languages, a cento on the life 
 of Chriil, entitled, " Virgilius Evangelizans •,*' 
 which is very ingenious, and was defervedly 
 admired. It was colledled entirely from Virgil. 
 It is well known how different a cento was ga- 
 thered by Aufonius from that chafte poet. Our 
 author's great work is, " A Continuation of 
 « Sir Walter Ralegh's Hiftory of the World." 
 This is like a piece of bad Gothic tacked to a 
 magnificent pile of Roman architedture, which 
 ferves to heighten the effedl of it, while it ex- 
 pofes its own deficiency in ftrength and beauty. 
 He was fo unfortunate as to attack fir Kenelm 
 Digby, Dr. Hervey, and fir Thomas Brown, 
 and to difparage their great abilities. This hurt 
 his repucation more than the meaneft of his writ- 
 ings could poflibly have done. Ob. 165^^ yEf. 
 64*. 
 
 THOMAS MANTON, D. D. minifter 
 
 of Covent-Garden, and a celebrated preacher at 
 this period. See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 Dr. JOHN HE WIT, 6 Englijh verfes-, 
 
 John Hewit, D. D. Vandergucht fc. ^vo. 
 
 Dr. John WY.\^\i^behcaded June (July) 8, 1658. 
 
 John Hewitt, /<?«r Latin verfes \ in Gaywoad's 
 manner^ %vo» His head is before his book on Repenl- 
 ance. 
 
 Dr. John Hewit was employed by Charles II. 
 in agencies betwixt his friends, and collecting 
 
 • Alexander Rofs, bifliop of Edinburgh, was probably of the 
 fame family with the above-mentioned perfon. He was deprived 
 of his hiihopric in 16X9, and died in 1720. •* He had the chance 
 " to out-live all the brethren of his order, and all the bifliops 
 ** likevvife in England, who had been poll'efled of fees before the 
 •' Revolution." Keith's " Catalogue of the Bifliops of Scotland," 
 p. 4.1. 
 
 money 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 3^ 
 
 money for his fupport. He was difcovered by 
 a fpy of Thurloe's, and tried by a high court 
 of juftice, in which LiQe prefided. He denied 
 the jurifdidiort of the court, and was, with lit- 
 tle ceremony, condemned for contumacy. He 
 was beheaded at the fame time with fir Henry 
 Slingfby. 
 
 Mrs. Claypole, Cromwell's favourite daugh- j„ivS^ 
 ter, was a very importunate, but unfuccefsful ^^^^* 
 advocate with her father in his behalf. When 
 Ihe lay upon her death- bed, fhe upbraided him 
 with the blood that he had fpilt, and fpokc with 
 uncommon emphafis of his cruelty with refpe^fl 
 to Hewit. Such a remonftrance from a beloved 
 child, in fo afFe(5ling a fituation, muft have funk 
 deep into his mind : it was ftrongly fufpcfled 
 that his confcience took the alarm, and was 
 never at reft, from that moment. 
 
 JOHN EVER ARD, D. D, See the 
 feign of Charles I. 
 
 THOMAS GOODWIN, D. D. pre- 
 fidcnt of Magdalen College, in Oxford. See the 
 reign of Charles II. 
 
 Vera Effigies LAMBROCI THOMAS^ 
 
 SS. T. D. Z). Savil fecit ^ T. Crofs fc. Svo. 
 ■****'^-*** ^ 
 
 EDWARD C ALA MY, B. D. His 
 
 head, with thofe of Jofeph Caryl and feveral other 
 minifters who flouriflied at this time, is defcribed 
 in the reign of Charles II. 
 
 SYDRACH SIMPSON, late mafter of 
 Pembroke- Hall •, i^lack caj), hook^ ^c. 
 
 Vol. IIL D Sydrach * 
 
34 The HISTORY Interr, 
 
 Sydrach Simpfon, who received his education 
 at Cambridge, was, in 165O, appoinred mafter 
 of Pembroke-Hall in that univerfiry, by the 
 Parliamentary vifitors. He was a miniiler in 
 London in the reign of Charles 1. and much 
 followed and admired as a preacher. Dr. Pref- 
 ton, Philip Nye, Jeremiah Burroughs, William 
 Bridge, and Sydrach Simpfon, were, as Neal 
 informs us, " the five pillars of the Independent 
 *' or Congregational party, and were diliin- 
 •' guifhed by the name of the dijfenting brethren^ 
 *' in the alTembly of divines *." Ob. 1654.. 
 
 NICHOLAS LOCKYERjM. A. //^//^r/. 
 
 Nicholas Lockycr was chaplain to Cromwell, 
 and a frequent preacher before the parliament-}". 
 He fucceeded Francis Rous in the provoftfhip 
 of Eton, of which he was deprived foon after 
 the Rciforation, and was himfelf fucceeded by 
 Nicholas Monck, brother to the general. He 
 was afterwards ejeded from St. Bennet's Sheer- 
 hog, and Pancras Soper-Lane. He publidied, 
 in the reign of Charles 1. *' England faithfully 
 *' watcht with her Wounds, or Chrift fitting up 
 " with his Children in their fwooning State •, 
 *' which is the Sum of feveral Ledlures, pain- 
 *' fully preached upon ColofTians I. by N. 
 " Lockyer, M. A." 4to. The title of this 
 book may ferve as a fpecimen of the ftrain in 
 which all his works are written. Ob. 1684. 
 
 • " Hid. of the Puritans," 4.to. i. 673. 
 
 f He was a native of" Gladonbury. in Somerfetlhire ; and vra$ 
 fome time of New Inn-Hall, in the univciruy of Oxford. On the 
 3ilt of January, 1649, be was aclmitud fellow of Eton College, 
 and elected piovulb, the ilt of Feb. 1658*9. He was luccecded 
 by Monck, the fiillof June, 1660 J. 
 
 X £ Regift. Coll. Etoacnf. 
 
 JOHN 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 55 
 
 JOHN HOWE, chaplain to Cromwell. 
 See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 JEREMIAH WHITE, chaplain to 
 Cromwell. His head belongs to the reign of 
 
 W^ILLIAM III. 
 
 ROBERTUS DINGL^US, in artibus 
 magifter ; T". Crofs fc. Before his " Spiritual Tajle 
 " defcrihed^ or a Glimpfe of Chrifi^ &c»'* 164.^. 
 Svo, 
 
 Robert Dingley was Ton of fir John Dingley, 
 knt. by a filler of the excellent Dr. Henry Ham- 
 mond. He was educated at Magdalen College 
 in Oxford, where he was a flrid obferverof all 
 church ceremonies. He afterwards became a 
 zealous puritan, and was remarkably adtive in 
 ejedling fuch as were, by that party, ftyled 
 *' ignorant and fcandalous minifters and fchool- 
 *• mailers.'* He was redor of Brightftone, in 
 the Ifle of Wight, when his kinfman colonel 
 Hammond was governor there. The Oxford 
 antiquary has given us a catalogue of his works; 
 the mod extraordinary of which is, " The De- 
 putation of Angels, or the Angel Guardian : 
 
 1. Proved by the divine light of nature, &c. 
 
 2. From many rubs and miftakeS;, &c. 3. 
 Applied and improved for our information, 
 &c. chiefly grounded on A6ls xii. 15. Lond. 
 1654.** 8vo. — Ok 1659, y^/. 40. 
 
 GULIELMUS OUGHTRED, J?/. 
 83 ; 6 Latin V erf es \ IV. Faithorne f exa^ly in the 
 manner of Hollar, inno. See an account of him 
 in the preceding reign. 
 
 EDWARD TERRY, redorof the church 
 at Greenford, Middlefex -, Mt. 64, 1655*, Vaughan 
 
 D 2 Edward 
 
35 T H E H I S T O R Y Interr. 
 
 Edward Terry, a man of polite manners, and 
 of exemplary li^V, wa-s chaplain to fir Thomas 
 Koe, in his emb^.ffy to the oreat Mogul, in the 
 reign of James I. He was a curious obfcrver in 
 his travels, as appears from his *' Voyage to 
 *' Eait India, &c." 1655, 8vo. to which his head 
 is prefixed. He was alfo author of fevcral fer- 
 mons, and other pieces of divinity, and of " A 
 *' Character otCharIesIl."*Heexpe;^led that the 
 king would have preferred him to the dear.ry of 
 Windlor ; bur it was given to Dr. Bruno Ryves, ' 
 ihe noted author of the " Mercurius RuRicus." 
 See more of him in ** Athen. Oxon." 
 
 JOHANNES T R A P P, A. M. lit. 55, 
 1654; Gaywood f. h.flj. Before bis ''^ Expofttion of 
 " the twelve Miner Prophets.*^ A worje imprejfion 
 cf this print is before his '-^ Expofiiion of the Ntw 
 " Tefiamcnt.^^ Under the head are fix verfesy 
 
 " One of this age^s sreatelf little men, <kc." + 
 
 Johannes Trapp, A. M. /Et. 59, 1660 ; ^to. 
 
 John l>app, vicar of Wefton upon Avon, 
 and fciiool-maiter at Stratford in Warwickfhire, 
 appears to have been one of the molt- laborious 
 men of his age. He has written large comments 
 upon almoll: all the books of the Old and New 
 leftament, not to mention feveral pieces of di- 
 vinity of lefs note. He never had, or even wifhed 
 for any preferment befides his vicarage, which 
 lav at the convenient dillance of two miles from 
 his fchool. Elis characler for Qriiflnefs of life, 
 and as a preacher, was iuch, that he was, on the 
 
 • See « Atlicn. Oxon." 
 
 •f 'ihisa^jc was famous for little men of great worth and emi- 
 nencej namely, archbifliop Lauil, the c:ui of Southampton, the 
 ]onl ralki.ind, fir Clu;;les Cavenciilh, brother to tlie marquis of 
 Ncwcaftir, Sidjicy Godolphin, Hales of Eton, Daniel Fcatiey, 
 ChUlin<;wGr:h, &c. 
 
 foot 
 
Class IV of ,E N G L A N D. . fj 
 
 foot of his merit, offered very confiderable be- 
 nefices, which he refufccf to accept as his con- 
 dition v/as equal no his wifhes. He v/as grand- 
 father of Dr. Jofeph Trapp.. late vicar of the 
 united pariilies of Chrill-Church, Newgate- 
 Street, and St. Leonard's, Foltcr Lane, in Lon- 
 don -^. Ob, 17 Oa. i66^. 
 
 BENJAMIN SPENCER, without his 
 name ; his right hand is on a fcull ; Crofs fc. Motto^i 
 *', Ferendo fepultus, Iperando refultus," Before 
 his " Golden Mean^' fdio, 
 
 Benjamin Spencer, who was born in London 
 about the latter end of the fixteenth century, 
 was probably educated at Cambridge, as no 
 mention is made of him by Wood* He was 
 minifter of St. Thomas's, in Southwark, and 
 reclor of Efher, in Surrey ; but, being a loyaliR", 
 he, by the iniquity of the times, fuffercd f-quef- 
 tration and imprilbnment. He was lecturer to 
 the mercer's company, and chaplain to fir John 
 Jacob, of Bromley, in EiToc, when he publiflied 
 his book, which has the following quaint title, 
 and nine epiftles dedicatory prefixed f : '* Chry- 
 
 " fomefon, 
 
 * Author of feveral books of Jlvitiiry, and of an excellent fe- 
 ries of lectures on poetry, in Latin. He alfo pnblifhed Latin 
 tranflations of Anac/eon and Milton, and an Englifh tranflatioa 
 of Virgil, in blank verfe. He has more rucct'(Vfiilly imitated the 
 gayety of Anacreon, than the fublimity of Milton, or the ma- 
 jefty of VirgiL 
 
 •f- This was an expedient to procure money, as the praftice of 
 publishing bocks by fublcription was then unknown. I have 
 heard of an author who contrived much better ttian Spencer. .He 
 prefixed a different dedication to a certain nunftber of printed co« 
 pies, and addrefTed them to every great man he knew that he 
 thought loved flattery, and would pay him handibraely for it. 
 But, perhaps, none of our authors ever managed better than Dr. 
 Fuller, who, in his " Church Hiftory," and the Appendix to it^ 
 which make but one volume, has, with admirable CQatrlvance, 
 introduced twelve title-pages befides the general one, and " as 
 ** many particular dedications, and no lefs than fifty-eicht or 
 
 D 3 «' fixty 
 
The history Interr. 
 
 *« fomefon, a Golden Mean, or a middle Way 
 *' for Chriftians to walk by ; wherein all Seeker's 
 ** of Truth, and Shakers t in the Faith, may 
 " find the true Religion, independing on Man's 
 ** Invention, and be eflabliflied therein ; 
 
 ias a Key to Chriftianity, 
 as a ^Touchflone for a 2"ravcller, 
 as a 6'eamark for a bailor.** 
 
 Speaking of this work, in his general epiftle to 
 the reader, he fays, " The outward figure of 
 *' this book is like the difh called the *' 0//V' 
 *' a mefs of altogether, which I have fo com- 
 " pofed on purpofe to give content to every 
 *' appetite ; at lead to fome, &c. 1 have form- 
 f ed it in the way of dialogue, becaufe it is an 
 *' inquifuive age, and allb becaufe fuch kind of 
 *' writing comes off more quick and home to 
 *' the underftanding than long difcourfes, which 
 *' oftentimes wearieth the reader, and confounds 
 *' the memory,'* This book was printed at Lon- 
 don, for B. S. the author, in 1650. 
 
 C A V E B E C K. The figure of the European^ 
 in the frontifpiece of his book is, with great probability^ 
 fuppofed to be his portrait. 
 
 Cave Beck, redorof St. Helen's, in Ipfwich J, 
 was author of a book, entitled " The Univerlal 
 *' Charader, by which all Nations in the World 
 ** may underftand one another's Conceptions, 
 
 •* ilxty of thofe by-infcriptions, which are addreflcd to his par- 
 *' ticular friends and benefa6lors :J." This fwells the bulk of it to 
 at lead the amount of forty (heets. Hcylin, in the preface to his 
 " Examen Hiltoricum," has cenfurcd him for walking in this 
 untrodden path. 
 
 f The Seekers, and Shakers, or Quakers, were notable fe6ts at 
 this time. 
 ' X " faftiOxon." ii. 35. 
 
 \ Hcylin. 
 
 " reading 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 3^ 
 
 " reading out of one common Writing their own 
 *' tongues," 1657, ^fTiall 8vo. The mod con- 
 fiderable work of this kind is that of bifhop 
 Wilkins, who, as Wood fays, took the hint of 
 his trearife from George Dolgarno's " Ars Sig- 
 *' norum," &c. publifhed in 1661. This per- 
 fon, who was a Scotfman, was a Ichool-mafter at 
 Oxford, where he died in 1687. Mr. Leibnitz, 
 who was in England in 1673, "told Mr. Boyle 
 " and Mr. Oldenburgh, that he did not think 
 " either Dr Wilkins or Dolgarno had come to 
 *' the point. They might, indeed, enable na- 
 *' tions, who did not underftand each other to 
 *' correfpond eafily together ; but they had not 
 ** obtained the true real character, which would 
 " be the bed inftrument of the human mind, and 
 " extremely affill: both the reafon and memory, 
 *' and the invention of things. Thele charac- 
 " ters ought to refemble as much as poffible 
 " thofe of algebra, which are very fimple and 
 " expredive, and are never fuperfluous or equi- 
 *' vocal, but whofe varieties are grounded on 
 *' reafon. Mr. Leibnitz fpeaks fomewhere of an 
 *^ alphabet, which he was contriving, of human 
 *' thoughts. Probably this alphabet had fome 
 *' relation to his univerfal language *.*' 
 
 SAMUEL FAIRC LOUGH, A.M. 
 
 &c. Van Hove ft, afmallhead f. In Clark's " Lives y^ 
 folio. 
 
 Samuel Fairclough, who was born at Have- 
 rill, in Suffolk, was one of the moft finifhcd 
 fchoiars and celebrated preachers among the 
 moderate puritans of his time. He was edu- 
 cated at Queen's College, in Cambridge, and was 
 
 * *< Biog. Brit/' artic. Wilkins, note (S). 
 
 f This print may be placed here, or in the reign of Charles I. 
 
 D 4 there 
 
4^(^ The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 there fuppofed to be puritanically inclined, when, 
 at an tarJy age, he was private tutor to Mr. 
 Compton, afterwards earl of Northampton, and 
 was chofen to adl the part of ^urda, in the co- 
 medy of Ignoramus, which he obitinately re- 
 fufed, though ftrongly folicited, and even laugh- 
 ed at for his refufal by the vice-chancellor. He 
 declared, that he thought it unlawful for a man 
 to wear women's clothes, though in a comedy. 
 Upon this declaration his pupil frankly offered 
 to a(5l his tutor's part, and that of Vince, which 
 was allotted for himfelf. He was fome time lec- 
 turer at Lynn, in Norfolk, and afterwards fuc- 
 ceflively minilter of Barnardifton and Ketton, 
 in Suffolk, to which benefices he was preferred 
 by fir Nathanael Barnardifton. In 1662, he 
 was eje6led for non-conformity, and was fuc- 
 ceeded in the redtory of Ketton by Mr. Tillot- 
 fon, whom he rcfembled in feveral circumftances 
 of his charader. He was, in the pulpit, con- 
 feffedly fuperior to any divine of his perfuafion, 
 and preached conftantly four times a v.^eek ; 
 once to the clergy, many of whom frequented 
 his ledures. His difcourfes were well digefted, 
 and carefully committed to writing before they 
 were publicly delivered. He had then his notes 
 conftantly before him -, but fuch was the ftrength 
 of his memory, that he fcarce ever was feen to 
 turn his eyes from the audience. This truly 
 pious and worthy man died the 14th of Decem- 
 ber, 1677, aged 84. His funeral fermon was 
 preached by an eminent conforming divine. 
 
 FRANCISCUS ROBERTS, y^/. 48, 
 
 1656; h,fi. Before his " Clavis Bihiiorum" 
 
 Francis Roberts, who was minifter of St. Au- 
 guftin's in London, and afterwards re6lor of 
 \Vfington in Somerfetlhire, was an affiftant to 
 
 the 
 
Class IV. or ENGLAND. 4f 
 
 the commifTioners appointed by the Parliament, 
 for the ejedlion of fuch as were then called 
 *' fcandalous, ignorant, and infufficicnt minifters 
 " and fchool-mafters." He was author of fe- 
 vera! pieces of pradical divinity ; but his prin- 
 cipal work is " Clavis Biblioriim, or A Key to 
 " the Bible," fucceiriveiy printed in 8vo. 4to. 
 and folio. Oh. 1675. See a catalogue of his 
 works in " Athen. Oxon." 
 
 HENRY STUBBES; Oh. July {y) i6;8, 
 JEt, 73 J iimo. 
 
 Henry Stubbes was a puritan divine of dif- 
 tinguifhed merit, who was educated at Wadham 
 College in Oxford. In 1654, when he refided 
 in the city of Wells, he was appointed one of 
 the commiflioners for ejecting " ignorant and 
 *' fcandalous minifters." Mr. Wood fpeaks of 
 him as a feditious preacher ; but Dr. Calamy, 
 who is acknowledged to be a writer of more 
 candour, gives us a very different character of 
 him ; and reprefents him as a man of great hu- 
 mility, meeknels, and charity, and " above all 
 •' factious inducements *." Certain it is, that 
 his incefiant and difinterefted labours in the mi- 
 niftry, his pradical writings, which breathe a 
 fpirit of piety, and the correfpondent life of the 
 author, gained him great eftcem and reverence 
 from the moderate of all perfuafions. — Mr. Bax- 
 ter preached his funeral lermon. 
 
 JOHANNES GOODWIN, S. Theol. 
 
 Cantabrig. Ob. Anno jEtat. 72, 1665. 
 
 John Goodwin \ wiih a 'wind-mill over his heady 
 and a weather -cock upon it j 4/^. 
 
 * See " Calamy's Account of the ejecled Minifters," p. 318, & 
 feq, 
 
 John 
 
42 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 John Goodwin, minifter of Coleman-ftreet *, 
 was a man who made more noife in the world 
 than any other perfon of his age, rank, and pro- 
 fefTion. He had the hardinefs to introduce Ar- 
 minianifm among the Calvinifts, which he brave- 
 ly and zealoufly defended, both in his fermons 
 and writings. It is hard to fay, whether he 
 difplayed more courage in attacking or repelling 
 the enemy. It is certain that he had a very pow- 
 erful body to deal with, as it was faid, that " he 
 ' *' was a man by himfelf ; was againfl; every man, 
 *' and had every man almoft againll him." His 
 genius feemed to be adapted to polemical di- 
 vinity, and to an ageof fadion and tumult. He 
 was appointed by the council of war to attend 
 upon Charles I. a little before his execution. 
 This was deemed an infult upon fallen majefty •, 
 as no man more eagerly promoted, or more zeal- 
 oufly defended the murder of the king. His 
 difcourfes and writings on this fubjed: were 
 well remembered at the Reftoration \ but it was 
 alfo remembered, that he had fown the feeds of 
 divifion among the fedtaries, which is fuppofed 
 to have faved his life. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER LOVE; ^/. 25^ 
 
 Aug. 2 2, 1651 ; T. Crofs fc. dfto, 
 
 Christopher Luve, ^t. -^^y 1652 •, Crofs fc, 
 limo, 
 
 Christopher Love, in the pulpit \ A Con- 
 r adits f. large h.jlo. 
 
 Christopher Love ; a jmall oval. 
 
 Christopher Love \ Vandergucbt fc. %vo, 
 
 Chriftopher Love, who was fuccefllvely mi- 
 nifter of St. Anne's Alderfgate, and St. Lau- 
 rence Jewry, in London, was auiJior of Ser- 
 
 • '• Johannes Goodwin, Norfolc " becnme fellow of Qu^een's 
 Ccllege, in Cambiidge, in 1617. MS. Lambeth, No, 805. 
 
 mons. 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 43 
 
 mons, and other pieces of practical divinity ^, 
 which gained him a confiderable reputaeion. He 
 was convided by the high court of juilice of 
 holding correl'pondence with the king, and con- 
 fpiring againft the lepublican government; for 
 which he was condemned to be beheaded. The 
 ftrongtft application was made to the pariiamenc 
 for his pardon, not only by his wife and friends, 
 but alfo by feveral parifhes in London, and by 
 fifty-four minifters ; who could only procure a 
 refpite of his execution for a month. He was 
 beheaded in July, 1651. 
 
 ARTHUR JACKSON; Boueji p. Log- 
 man fc, j\.to, 
 
 Arthur Jackfon, minifter of St. Michael, 
 Wood-ftreet, adhered ftrongly to the parliament, 
 upon the commencement of the civil war. He 
 was a particular friend of Love, and refufed to 
 give evidence againft him ; for which he was 
 fined 500 1. and commitied clofe priibner to the 
 Fleet. He, at the head of the prefbyterians, 
 prcfented the Bible to Charles II. when he made 
 his triumphant pruccffion through London. 
 There was a particular propriety in choofing 
 this perfon for that office, as he had written a 
 commentary upon feveral parts of it. This 
 work, to which his head is prefixed, is in three 
 vols. 4to. He was a man of prodigious appli- 
 cation. Dr. Calamy informs us, that he '' ftu- 
 *^ died 14 or 16 hours a day, at the univcrfity ; 
 *< and condantly rofe at 3 or 4 of the cluck ia 
 *' the morning, fummer and winter, to redeem 
 " his time, and held it to the age of 73 f." 
 Ob, 5 Aug. 1666. 
 
 * His Sermons in three volumes 8vo. were puWliflied in 1652, 
 2654, and 1657, with his funeral fermon by Thomas Manton. 
 t Sec Calamy 's « Account of the ejeded Miniiters," p. 3. 
 
 G U L I. 
 
44 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 GULIELMUS BRIDGE-, Sherwin fc. 
 llino, 
 
 William Bridge, who, in 1637, was filenced 
 by bifhop Wren for non-contormity, retired 
 afterwards to Rotterdam, where he was eledled 
 paftor of a congregational church. Upon the 
 breaking out of the rebellion, he returned to 
 England, and was chofen a member of the Af- 
 fembly of Divines. He was many years refident 
 at Yarmouth. — In Peck's "DefiderataCuriofa*," 
 is a letter of William Bridge to Henry Scobell, 
 efq. clerk of the council, about augmenting the 
 income of preachers, with the names of the inde- 
 pendent miniilers of prim^e note in the county of 
 Norfolk. This fhews that he was a leading man 
 among the independents. He was author of 
 one and twenty treatifes, in two vols. 4to. 1657 -, 
 Sermons before the parliament, &c. — Ob. 12 
 March, 1670, jEt. 70. 
 
 Mr. J O H N D U R A N T. " Moderata Bu- 
 " rant'y' fmall ^vo. 
 
 John Durant was a minider of fpecial note at 
 Canterbury, where he ufually preached in the 
 cathedral church. When the Bartholomew Adl 
 took place, he was ejedled thence for non-con- 
 formity. He was author of feveral fermons ; 
 of *' Comfort and Counfcl for dejedled Souls j" 
 and other treadfes on fimilar fubjefls, in a very 
 fingular canting flyle f- 
 
 SAMUEL 
 
 * Vol. ii. lib. xili no. 9. 
 
 t In his '* Sips of Swectnefs," upon Ifaiih xl 11 J, re-printed 
 in 1662, are the following pnflages : ** H^tll gently lead ihofe that 
 " are njohh yourig j that is, Chrilt will be very kind to thofe faints 
 
 ** that 
 
 t *• He fti all feed his florlc, like a fliephcrd ; he fti.ill gather the lambs 
 " with his arm, and cirry them in his bofom, and (hall gently Uad thole 
 *' that arc with young." 
 
Class IV. ofENGLAND, 45 
 
 SAMUEL CLARKE (minifter of St. 
 Ben net Fink) 5 /. Dunjlall fc. h, Jh, See the next 
 reign, 
 
 CUTFIBERTUS SIDENHAM, (or 
 
 Sydenham), JEt. 31, 1654-, Gaywood f. Before 
 his '* Greatiiejs of the Myfterie of Godlinejs^* 1656 ; 
 
 CuTHBERT Si DEN HAM, tfi a cloak. Before his 
 «« Hypocrite Dif cover ed^^ 1654 ; ^vo, 
 
 Cuthbert Sidenham, who was educated at 
 Oxford, was author of Sermons, and other prac- 
 tical pieces of divinity. His " Hypocrifie Dif- 
 " covered," &c. was the fubjecl of feven fer- 
 mons, taken from his mouth, in fhort-hand, by 
 one of his friends, and publijfhed without alter- 
 ation. It muft prefentjy appear, to an attentive 
 reader, that this circumftance is far from being 
 
 " that ftep afiJe." And he thus comforts thofe that are big with 
 young in a linful fenfe : '' O ye finning ewes, who have been bio* 
 ** with young ! hath not he gone after you, and found you, and 
 " laid you upon his fhoulders, rejoicing? It may be, thou haft 
 " been wandering, like Dinah, from thy father's houfe, and art 
 " big with young, and afraid to go home ; but fear not, go and 
 " try, he will not calt you out of doors, though you come with 
 ** big bellies ; he will deal gently with you, though with young. 
 *< And then it is our glory to be Chrift'sewes ; and then, when a 
 *' woman is big with young, and cries out, O my belly, my belly f 
 •' here is a point of comfort, that Chrift is fweet to fuch perfons.'" 
 Afterwards he thus exclaims : ** O bleifed ewes ! O believing- 
 *' ewes ! and O believing bees, that fuck the honey of fm-hatred 
 " out of the wormwood of fin a6ted !" In another place, he tells 
 us, that ** Chrift accounts their very ftammerings fweet. Meih, 
 *' meih ! faith the little one, and the mother counts it mufick 1|." 
 Incredible as it may feem, much in this ftrain was the popular 
 eloquence tlisit prevailed at this period j eloquence that attrafted 
 crowded audiences, and which was eagerly committed to writing 
 by the devout fcribes. *' Of all mortals," fays fir John Birken- 
 head, «* I admire the fhort-hand men who have tiie patience to 
 ** write from his mouth. Had they the art to fhorten it into 
 •' lenfe, they might write his whole fermon on the back of their 
 •* nailf." 
 
 ^1 See this, and more, in L'Eflrange's " DifTcnter's Sayings." 
 t *' Charafter of an AiTembly-]VI«ii/' p. 17, 18, 
 
 a recom- 
 
46 The HISTORY Interh. 
 
 a recommendation to thefe difcourfes *. He 
 wrote a warm piece of controverfy in vindication 
 of *' the two honourable patriots," Oliver Crom- 
 well and fir Arthur Haflerig ; in which he has 
 endeavoured to wipe off the afperfions of the fa- 
 mous incendiaryjohn Lilburne. Oi^. March, 1 654. 
 
 JOHANNES FROST, ^/. 31 i Faugb^ 
 anfc. 4io. 
 
 John Froft was fellow of St. John's College 
 in Cambridge, and afterwards paftor of the 
 church of St. Olave, in London. He was au- 
 thor of a volume of Difcourfes, entitled '' Se- 
 •* lc(5l Sermons," &c. 1658, fol. to which is pre- 
 fixed his head. He died about the time of the 
 Reftoration. 
 
 JAMES NALTON-, J, Chantry fc, iimo. 
 
 James Nalton was fome time paftor of St. 
 Leonard's, Fofler-Lane. He was concerned in 
 what was called *' Love's Plot," and fled into 
 Holland, to avoid punifhment for confpiring 
 againft the Independent government. Baxter 
 commends him highly for his great piety and 
 learning, and his uncommon fcrioujnefs as a 
 preacher. He was often fo deeply affedled with 
 his fubjed, as to flied tears while he was preach- 
 ing ; and it was no unufual thing to fee the tears 
 trickling down the cheeks of the congregation 
 at the fame time. A difcourfe, with which the 
 preacher appeared to be fo fcnfibly moved, could 
 fcarce fail of finding its way to the hearts of his 
 audience. This good man was, efpecially in 
 the latter part of his life, fubjed to melancholy, 
 
 • If fomc modern fertnons were taken down in fliort-hand, 
 and publiOied as they were delivered, it would be a clear proof 
 o\ what the toolifhnci's of preaching, aided by the power of adlion, 
 can ,do. 
 
 which 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 47 
 
 which fometimes threw him into defpair. He 
 died of this horrid diftemper, in December 1662. 
 A confiderable number of his fermons are in 
 print. 
 
 Mr. THOMAS CAWTON, y^/. 54 ; 8m 
 Front if piece to his Life, 1662. 
 
 Thomas Cawton, minifler of Wivenhoe in 
 EfTex, and afterwards of St. Bartholomew's be- 
 hind the Royal-Exchange, was educated at 
 Queen's College in Cambridge. He there laid 
 the foundation of that learnirig in which he had 
 few equals, and began to diftinguifh himfelf by 
 that piety in which he had fcarce a fuperior. 
 He was eminent for his knowledge in the an- 
 cient and modern languages, and was well known 
 in England and Holland as an orientalid. He 
 was very inftrumental in promoting the great 
 work of the Polyglot Bible, and was an encou- 
 ragcr of Dr. Caftlc's Polyglot Lexicon. He was 
 deeply concerned in Love's unhappy affair, and 
 fled into Holland at the fame time with Nalton, 
 where they were joint pallors of the Englifh 
 church at Rotterdam. He died abroad, the 
 7th of Augufl, 1O59. The Account of his Life 
 is an artlefs pidture of a man who did great 
 honour to his profeflion, and was a pattern of 
 virtue in every focial relation. The author tells 
 us, that when Mr. Cawton firft received the h- 
 crament, he fainted j and he ever afterwards 
 exprelfed the profoundefl reverence, and the 
 moft elevated devotion, at that awful folemnity. 
 The very learned Thomas Cawton, whofe life 
 is in the " Biographia," was his fon. 
 
 ISAAC AMBROSE, miniaer of Preftcm, 
 in Lancalhire. See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 OBADIAH 
 
48 TheHISTORY Intkrr; 
 
 CBADIAH SEDGWICK; fmainvo. 
 
 Obadiah Sedgwick, who had been chaplain 
 to fir Horace Vere, in his expedition into the 
 Netherlands, was luccefilvely preacher of St. 
 Mildred's parilh in Bread-ilreer, and minifter of 
 Sr. Paul's, Covent-Garden ; where he preceded 
 his Ton in-law. Dr. Mancon. He was one of the 
 Afrembly of Divines, a trier of miniflers, and a 
 frequent preacher before the parliament. He 
 efpoufed their caiife with uncommon zeal, and 
 was very forward, both by preaching and act- 
 ing, to carry on the *' great work of reformation 
 " in church and ftate"^." He was author of a 
 confiderable number of fcrmons, and other 
 pieces of pradlical divinity. Ob, 1657. 
 
 HEZEKIAH HOLLAND, minifterof 
 the gofpel, at Sutton Valence, in Kent ; 8w. 
 
 * Sir John Birkenhead, fpeaking of the popular declaimers in 
 the reign of Charles I. fays, " 'Tis pleafant toobferve how finely 
 " they play into each others hands. Marfhall f procures thanks 
 " to be given to Sedgwick j and, (for his great pains) Sedgwick 
 *' obtains as much for Marfhall, and fo they pimp for one an- 
 ** other. But yet (to their great comfort be it fpoken) their whole 
 •* feven years fermons at Weftminfter, are to be fold in Fetter- 
 ** Lane and Pye-Corncr." 
 
 -f- Stephen Marfhall, an independent, was mlnlftcr of Finchingfield, in 
 Eflex. He was, as Newcourt informs us, called *' The Geneva Bull H," 
 Wood ftyles hi-in " the Archflamen of the rebellious Rout J." He, with 
 his fon-in-law, Philip Nye, was fent to Scotland to expedite the Covenant. 
 Several years afterwards, they were appointed to treat with Charles I. at the 
 Ifle of Wight, fcr which each had a premium of 500 1. Marfliall, Nye, 
 and Peters, are fpoken of in much the f.ime terms by the royalifts, as being 
 alike preachei£ of refiftance, and notorious for their zeal and a£\ivity in pro- 
 moting the rebellion. The moft memorable of Marfhall's works is his fcr- 
 irion preached at the funeral of Pym, to wiiich is prefixed the head of the lat- 
 ter, by Glover. 
 
 |] '' Reportorium," il. p. 265. He had this appellation from CleaTclinJy 
 who, in his " Reoel Scot," has this diftich : 
 
 ** Or roar, like Marflull, that Geneva Bull, 
 
 '< Hell and damnation a pulpit full.*' 
 X ** Athene," li, 38, 
 
 Hezekiah 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. j^ 
 
 Hezekiah Holland flylcs himfelf Anglo- 
 Hibernus in his " Expofition, or a fhort, but 
 *' full, plain, and perfed: Epitome of the mod 
 *^ choice Commentaries of the Revelation of Sc. 
 *' John," 1650, 4to. This was, for the mod 
 parr, delivered by way of expofition, in his parilh 
 church of Sutton Valence. 
 
 JOHANNES MURCOT, ,Et. go; 
 F^ithorne /. ^to, Frontijpiece to his (Vorks : very 
 fcarce, 
 
 John Murcor, a prefbyterian, ftudied atMer- 
 ton College in Oxford, from which he removed 
 when that city was garriJbned for Charles I. He 
 was, for fome time, a minifter in Chelhire 5 and 
 afterwards at Dublin, where he was one of the 
 preachers in ordinary to the lord deputy. He 
 was much admired for his preaching, was a man 
 of great induftry in his profcfTion, and of un- 
 common ftridnefs o^ life, Mr. Wood ftyles 
 bim a " forward, prating, and pragmatical Pre- 
 *' cifian •," and tells us, that he gave up the 
 ghoft " very unwillingly," at Dublin, the 3d 
 of December, 1654. The authors of his Life 
 inform us, that he longed for his difTolution, 
 and exprefTed the greateft joy when it approach- 
 ed. See his Life before his Works, 
 
 Vera effigies JO. ROGERS; SaviUe />. Hoi- 
 iar f. 1653. Arms^ a chevron betwixt three flags 
 current. It appears that Vertue^s deJcript:on of this 
 portrait is taken from an imperfetl print. See his 
 *' Catalogue of Hollar's IVcrks^^' frji edit.' p. 74. 
 
 John Rogers, who was minifter of Purleigh 
 in Elfex, became afterwards paftor of St. Tho- 
 mas the Apoftle's in London. It appears, ihac 
 he was alfo minifter of Chrift-church in Dublin. 
 
 Vol. hi. E He 
 
?o 
 
 The history Interr: 
 
 He was a great fanatic, and no Icfs popular 
 among the Anabaptifls and Fifth-monarchy 
 nien than Love was among the Prefbyterians, 
 After Cromwell had deferted thefc fedlaries, he 
 took umbrage at th€ great popularity and enter- 
 prifing fpirit of Rogers ; and was little lefs ap- 
 prehcnfive of Feake, who was alfo regarded as 
 a leader of that party •''. They were both im- 
 prifoned, and the Protedor was thought to a6t 
 with extraordinary clemency in fparing their 
 lives. This was imputed to a fecret regard that 
 he retained for his old friends the Independents, 
 The writings of Rogers are of a very fingular 
 caft. Zachary Crofton wrote an anuver to a 
 book of his, entitled, " A Tabernacle for the 
 ** Sun, or Irenicum Evangelicum, an Idea of 
 " Church Difcipline," 1653 ; before which is 
 his head by Hollar. The fame perfon was au- 
 ' thor of " Bethfhemefh clouded, or fome Ani- 
 *' madverfions on the Rabbinical Talmud of 
 *^ Rabbi John Rogers." 
 
 THOMAS LARKHAM, &c. witboui^^ 
 the engr AVer's name. 
 
 Thomas Larkham, a zealous Puritan, was 
 perfecuted by the ftar-chamber, and other ec- 
 clefialtical courts, in the reign of Charles I. 
 which occafioned his flying to New-England. 
 Upon his return, he was chofen miniflier of Ta- 
 veftock in Devoniliire, where he was greatly 
 . cfteemed. He was author of feveral books ; 
 but his principal work is his " Difcourfe of the 
 *' Attributes of God, in fundry Sermons." ^to. 
 1656. Ob. 1669, ^t. 68. 
 
 • Ludlow informs us, that Rogers and Sympfon. minjfters, 
 preached againft CromweH's uiurpation. " Memoirs/" II, p. 490. 
 
 THOMAS 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 51 
 
 THOMAS MOCKET5 Crofsfc. iimo. 
 
 Thomas Mocket, who was mafter of arts of 
 both univerfities, was educated at Queen's Col- 
 lege in Cambridge. In the reign of Charles I. 
 he was minifter of Holt in Denbighfhirc, and 
 afterwards of Geldefden in Hertford (hi re. He 
 was chaplain to John Egerton, earl of Bridge- 
 water, when he was lord prefident of the Marches 
 of Wales. He was author of feveral books of 
 pradlical divinity, of which the moft confider- 
 able is his " Gofpel Duties and Dignity," 4to. 
 1641. The moft Angularly remarkable of his 
 works is entitled, " Chriftmas, the Chriftians 
 *' grand Feaft, its Growth ; and Obfervation 
 *« of Eafter, Whitfontide, and other Holidays, 
 ** modeftly difcuifed and determined," &c. 
 London, 1651 ^. 
 
 RALPH VENNING. See the reign of 
 Charles II. 
 
 THOMAS CASE. His head, with thofe 
 of ocher Prefbyterian minifters, is defcribed in the 
 reign of Charles II. to which they more properly 
 belong. 
 
 JOSEPH SYMONDS, late vice-provoft 
 of Eton ; jEt, 50 •, 4/(?. 
 
 Several pieces, written by a perfon of both 
 his names, occur in the Sion and Bodleian Ca- 
 talogues. They were printed in 1641, 1651, 
 1655. In one of thefe he is called " Miniiter 
 of St. Martin's, Ironmonger-Lane." Mention 
 Is made of liim, under that appellation, in 
 archbifhop Laud's «' Account of his Province," 
 
 * One of the popular topics of preacl'ing at this time, was 
 againft feftivals, to which falls were lomctimes iubltituted, merely 
 ffom a principle of oppcfition. 
 
 E 2 for 
 
'si The HISTORY Intejir* 
 
 for 1639. See " The Hiflory of his Trouble? 
 " and Tryal," p. 559. 
 
 SAMUEL MOORE; in n black cap and 
 cloak ) Marjkall fc, ^vo. Under the head^ in a fmall 
 oval^ is this motto : " Ncn eft mortale quod opto." 
 ne print may he placed here^ or in the preceding 
 reign. 
 
 He was author of a book called the " Yearn- 
 
 •' ings of Chrift's Bowels," &c. printed in 1648 
 
 and 1654, 8vo. 
 
 " ROBERT MATON, Preacher of the 
 t* Word," &c. Crofs fc, in MS. under the head, 
 
 Robert Maton, who was born at Tudworth, 
 in Wiltfliire, and educated at Wadham Col- 
 lege, in Oxford, was ftrongly pofiefied with the 
 millenary notions •, and, like other enthufiafts, 
 hrs contemporaries, feems to have dreamed that 
 the Millennium would have been ufhered in by 
 the rebellion. He was author of" IlVael's Re- 
 ** demption, or a Prophetical Hiilory of our 
 *' Saviour's Kingdom on Earth," &:c. on Adts 
 i. 6, 1642, 8vo. " A Difcourfe of Gog and 
 " Magog, or the Battle of the great Day of 
 " God Almighty," on Ezek. xxxviii. 2. '' A 
 *' Comment on the xx. Chapter of the Revc- 
 *' htion," 1652, 4to. " lirael's Redemption 
 *' redeemed, or the Jews miraculous Conver- 
 fion to the Faith of the Gofpel, and Returi^ 
 into their own Land, and our Saviour's per- 
 fonal Reign on Earth, proved from the Old 
 and New Teftament," &c. 1646. This was 
 re-printed under the title of '* T\\t Fifth Mo- 
 " narchy," bcc. in 1655, with his head pre- 
 fixed *. 
 
 • Sec Wood. 
 
 IHOMAS 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 5J 
 
 THOMAS HILDER, of Sandwich, In 
 Kent, ^t. 5^, 1 65 1. His name is not infer ibed. 
 Under the prints which was engraved by Vaughan^ are 
 tight verfes. 
 
 " The effigies here on which you look," &c. 
 
 His drefs dtnotes him a puritan divine. 
 
 He was author of an uncommon book, enti- 
 tled '* Conjugal Counfcl, or feafonable Advice 
 *' both to unmarried and married Perfons," to 
 which is prefixed his print, 8vo. It was writ- 
 ten chiefly for the ufe of Samuel, Mehetabelj 
 and Anne Hilder, his children, to whom he 
 has addrefled himfelf in a long dedication. 
 
 H tJ G H PETERS, in the pulpit ; a full 
 congregation : he is reprefented turning an hour-glafs ; 
 kear hini are thefe words : " I knew you are good f el- 
 *' lows^ ft ay and take the other glafs" Before his 
 Life^ by WilUam Toting^ AL D. (a fVelJh phyfuian.) 
 limo. 1663. 
 
 Hugh Peters, with a wind-mill on his head, 
 ^he devil is whifpering in his ear, l^vo. To this print 
 was after'u::ards affixed the name of father Peters *. 
 
 Hugh 
 
 * Before fir John Birkenhead's '* Aflembly-Man," which con- 
 tains 3. general and very iatirical chara6ier ot a fanatic divine be- 
 longing to the ailernbly at VVeftminiter, is a frontifpiece, by Fai- 
 rhorne, which is iuppoftd to have been intended for Hugh Peters, 
 or feme a6live zealot of that period. The figiire is a whole length, 
 in a cloak, treading on the Fathers, Councils, Comraon-Prayer, 
 
 Sir John, fpeaking of an Aflfernbly-Man, fays t» ** His whole 
 ** prayer is fuch an irrational bleating, that (without a metaphor) 
 *' 'tis the calves of his lips. He ufes fine new words, as fiving- 
 ** able, muchly, Chrift-Jefufnefs ; and yet he has the face to 
 *' preach againlt prayer in an unknown tongue jj " 
 
 *' Some- 
 
 JP. 14. 15- 
 
 Ij Dr. Suutn, in vol. v. p. 493, of his ** Sermons," where he mentions the 
 fimpiiciiy of St. Paul's language, fays, ** This was the way of the Apoftleg 
 ** difcoarfing of things facred. Nothing here of the fringes of the north-Jiar ; 
 ** nothing of neturii btioming unnatural \ nothing of the daivn of anieVs 
 
 £3 " 'W'trtgi^ 
 
if4 TheHISTORY Interr* 
 
 Hugh Peters, who was the Ton of a merchant * 
 at Foy in Cornwal, was fome time a member of 
 Jefus College in Cambridge •, whence he is faid 
 to have been expelled for his irregular beha- 
 viour f. He afterwards betook himfelf to the 
 ftage;}:, where he acquired that gefticulation 
 and buffoonery which he pradifed \n the pul- 
 pit §. He was admitted into holy orders by 
 Dr. Mountaine, bifliop of London ; and was, 
 for a confiderable time, Icdurer of St. Sepul- 
 chre's in that city : but being profecuted for 
 criminal converfation with another man's wife|l, 
 he fled to Rotterdam, where he was paftor of 
 the Englifh church, together with the learned 
 
 " Sometimes he's foundered j and then there is fuch hideous 
 ** coughing I but that's very feldom ; for he can glibly run over 
 «* nonfenfe, as an empty cart trundles down a hill. 
 
 *' His ufual auditory is moft part female j and as many fifters 
 *' flock to him as at Paris on St. Margaret's day, when all come 
 " to church that are or hope to be with child that year." 
 
 * See *' H. Peters's Legacy to his Daughter/' p. 9S. 
 
 •f See his Life by Dr. Young, p. 6. 
 
 t Life, p. 7. 
 
 § The Englifh language was much corrupted by the preachers 
 at this period. The eloquence of the pulpit differed widely from 
 every other fpecies, and abounded with fuch figures of fpcech as 
 rhetoric has fouinl no name for J. The language of prayer was 
 no lefs corrupted than that of preaching : the lecond perfon in 
 the Trinity was frequently addreffed in the familiar, the fond, 
 and the fulfome ftyle j much of which feems to have been bor- 
 rowed from " The Academy of Compliments," a fooliih'book 
 publilhed about this time. 
 
 II Life, p. 20. 
 
 ** tvifi^iy or the btautlful lochs cf cherab'mt ^ no ftnrched fimilltudcs, intro- 
 " duced with a tbui tu'vc I feen a clcud rolling iti Its j;Vv wanf..n ; and the like, 
 ** No, thel'e were fuSlitrites above the rile of the apoftolic fpiric j for the 
 ** apoftles, poor mortah ! were content to take lower reps, and to tell the 
 ** world in plain terms, that he 'wbo leiwvtdjbouid be faicd, ami that he lub* 
 ** bele'i.'ed not Jhould ' e datr.ned.'''' 
 
 X This is excnripl-fied in a printed account of a fermon of Hugh Peters's 
 •n Pfalm cvii. ver. 7. <' \\<i led thrm forth by the i\^\v. w ay, that they might 
 ** go to the ciry of habitation.** He told his audience, that God was 40 
 *^ years le.uiinj» llrael through the wildemcl's to Canjan, vi,hich wis not 4CK 
 ** days march ; but that God's right way was a gre.it wjy about. He then 
 made a circumflex on his cuffiioj), and laidf that the JlVaciitcs were led 
 " crinklcJorTi cum (ranklcdom" Sec thc ttory at large in the " Parlia- 
 ** mentary Hiflory," \tn. xxii, p. 72. 
 
 Dr. 
 
Class iV. b f E N G L A N D. 55 
 
 0r. William Ames. He afterwards exerclfed 
 his miniftry in New-England, where he conti- 
 nued about feven years. He was a great pre- 
 tender to the faintly charadler, a vehement de- 
 claimer againft Charles I. and one of the fore- 
 ' mod to encourage and juftify the rebellion "^. 
 The hiftorical and critical account of his life, 
 publifhed a few years fince, is chiefly taken front 
 " A dying Father's laft Legacy, &c. or H. Pe- 
 " ters's Advice to his Daughter.'' — See the 
 reign of ChapvLes II. 
 
 JOHANNES PORDAGEf; Faithcmf. ^to. 
 John Pordage, who is placed by Baxter at 
 the head of the BebmeJiifts, was fome time 
 preacher of St. Laurence's church in Readings 
 and afterwards reclor of Bradfield in Berkfhire. 
 He was a man of much natural enthufiafm ; 
 and having over-heated his imjagination by read- 
 ing the works of Jacob Bchmen, he, like that 
 vifionary, fancied himfelf infpired. He pre- 
 tended to know divine truth by a clearer light 
 than that of the fcripture, which he confidcred 
 as little better than a decid letter. He was ac- 
 cufed by Chriftophcr Fowler, a clergyman of 
 Reading, before the commiffioners of Berks for 
 
 ♦ When Charles was brought to London for his trial, Hugh Pe- 
 ters, as fir William "Warwick fays, *' was truly and really his 
 ** goaler (|.'* Dr. White Kennet informs us, that he bore a colo- 
 nel's commiflTion in the civil war j that he was vehement for 
 the death of the king 3 that it was ^rongXy fufpe Sled that he was 
 one of his mafked executioners j and that one Hulet was the other. 
 ** Regifter," Sec, p. 477, -sS^.. 
 
 t As I have never ktw the book to which this head belongs, 
 I am in doubt as to the perfon whoiu it reprefents. I have lately 
 feen the fame print, as I apprehend, infcribed, " Effigies Johan- 
 " nis Pordage, Phiiofophi, Medici, Theologi, Authoris hujus Fi- 
 " gurse HieroglyphicEE." He is ftyled *' chymift," in a manuf- 
 cript infcription under the head in the Pepyfian library. Qiiasre, . 
 if a fon of the clergyman, who had feveral Children, of whpm Sa- 
 muel was a poet. 
 
 y Memo'rp, p. 340. 
 
 E 4 ejed- 
 
S6 The HISTORY Interr- 
 
 eje6ling minifters, of preaching anti-fcriptural 
 dodrinc, of blafphemy, and familiarity with evil 
 fpirits. Much of the hiftory of this llrange 
 enthufiaft may be feen in l^ow)cr*s '' Dsemoni- 
 *' um Meridianum." He acknowledges him- 
 felf, in his anfwer to that book, that he had 
 fenfible communion with angels, and that he 
 knew good fpirits from bad by his fight, and 
 even by his fmell. He alfo acknowledges, thac 
 his houfe was, for a month, infefted with evil 
 fpirits ; and that he had a vifible conflid with a 
 fiery dragon, which filled a large room ; " that 
 *' an impreiiion was made in the brick-wall of 
 *' his chimney, of a coach drawn with tigers and 
 *' lions, which could not be got out, till it was 
 *' hewed out with pick-axes ; and another on 
 *' his glafs-window, which yer remaineth." But 
 thefe fpirits, as he believed, were raifed by one 
 Everard, whom he looked upon as a conjurer. 
 This man, who appeared to be a profelyte of 
 Pordage's, was for ieveral weeks a fojourner in 
 his family. — The charader of Pordage may be 
 fummed up in very few words : he was far gone 
 in one of the moll incurable kinds of madnefs, 
 the frer.zy of entbufiafm. See more of him in his 
 *' Vindication ot himfelf againfl: fcveral Afper- 
 " fions," &c. Lond. 1655. See alfo Wood's 
 Athena?, \{. 578 ; and Baxter's Life, fol. part i. 
 
 P- 77- 
 
 A SCOTCH DIVINE. 
 
 ROBERT LEIGH TON, S. S. Th. 
 
 ProfefTor primarius, ct academicc Edinburgenae 
 pra^tedlus, ^El. 46, 1^)34. R, White fc. fmall ^to. 
 
 This 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 
 
 61 
 
 This excellent perfon is reprefented by bi- 
 fhop Burnet as one of the moil perted charac- 
 ters of his own, or any other age. He was 
 learned, eloquent, and devout; but his piety 
 was the moft unafrrdled in the world. His 
 charity was comprehenfive with refped: to fpe- , 
 
 culative opinions ; but he could never overlook 
 flagrant vices and corruptions in the profefTors 
 of any religion. He was, for his lingular me- 
 rit, preferred to the bifhopric of Dumblain, and 
 afterwards to the archbiihopric of Glafgow. confec. n; 
 He had many enemies among the ri^id Epifco-^"* ^^^^' 
 palians, as he was ftronglv inclined to make 
 fome concelTions to the Prefbyterians, in order 
 to an accommodation^ . Though he was upwards 
 of 70 years of age, he appeared in great health 
 and ipirits, and in the full pofTefTiOn of all his 
 faculties, the day before he died •, but was even 
 .then apprehenfive of his approaching dijfrolution. 
 He feemed to think the circumfiances that ufu- 
 ally attend death worfe than death itfelf •, and 
 wiihed to die at an inn to avoid the forrowful 
 looks and troublefome aiLduities of his friends. 
 The event was according to his v^ifh, for he died 
 at the Bell Inn, in \Varwick-Lane, in 1684. 
 His feled works were pubiiilied in 8vo. 1746. 
 See more of him in Burnet's " Hiftory of his 
 *' own Time,'' and in Dr. Doddridge's Life. 
 The lail mentioned author publifhed his expofi- 
 tory works, and other valuable remains, 
 
 JOHANNES D'ESPAGNE, Sandi 
 Evangelii Minilter ; Doftrina fingulari. Studio in- 
 dcfelfo, Morum fuavitate, adverforum Tolcrantia, 
 inclytus. " Bejon bis '' E/aj,'' l^c, Zvo, 
 
 • Burnet's « Hiftory of his own Time," i. z-ji, & feq. 
 
 John 
 
gt tHE HISTORY Interim. 
 
 John D'Efpagne was minider of a French 
 congregation, which afTembledatDurhani-houfe 
 in the Strand ; and, after that was pulled down, 
 at the chapel in Somcrret-houfe, which was pro- 
 cured for that alTembiy by order of the houfe 
 of lords *, by many of whom he was much fol- 
 lowed and admired. He wrote on the Sacra- 
 ment, and feveral other fubjedls, in French. 
 The following books, which are the mod con- 
 fiderable of his works, have been tranflated into 
 Englifli : " The Ufe of the Lord's Prayer, 
 *' maintained againft the Objedions of the In- 
 «' novators of thefe Times," Engliihed by C. M. 
 London, 1646. " An Eflay on the Wonders 
 *' of God in the Harmony of the Times, Gene- 
 *' rations, and mod illuftiious Events therein 
 «* cnclofed ; from the Original of Ages to the 
 " Clofe of the New Teftament," 1662, 8vo. 
 This was publifned after his deceafe, by his exe* 
 cutor. 
 
 PRIESTS of the CHURCH of ROME. 
 
 RICHARDUS CARPENTERUS; 
 
 Fatthorne fc. fmall j^io. From bis '-^ fjco Ssrmcns'^ 
 ^befeccnd is entitled^ " Aflrokgy proved harmkfs, 
 •' ufefii!^ pious \' on Gen. i. 14. " And let them be 
 '-'' for fignsy It is didicated to Mr, /Iflomole, The 
 head is at the end of the dedication, 1'befe Sermons 
 were printed at London^ in ^to, 1657 -f. Seethe 
 reigns of Charles I. and II. 
 
 • The French church in the Savoy was ere6>c(^ in the reign of 
 Charles II. It was under the jurifdi6lion of the bifl)op of Lon- 
 don, and the Englifli Liturgy was ufed. 
 
 t It is probable that he profcfied himfclf a proteftant when his 
 Sermons were piinted. 
 
 PETRUS 
 
Glass IV. of ENGLAND. ^9 
 
 PETRUS WRIGHT, Sacerdos e Sor. 
 Jefu, ob Fidem, pafTus, Londini, 1651. C, Galle 
 
 fi- . 
 
 Peter Wright was a Jefuit and a mifiionary in 
 England. He was feme time chaplain to the 
 marquis of Winchefter, and afterwards to fir 
 Henry Gage, governor of Oxford in the time 
 of the civil war *. He afTifled that great man 
 in his lad moments, being with him when he 
 received his fatal wound in the fkirmifh at Cul- 
 ham-bridge. Wright, happening afterwards to 
 be feized, was tried and condemned to die on 
 account of his facerdotal charader. He fuffered 
 at Tyburn, the 29ch of May, 165 1. The prin- 
 cipal evideace againil him was Thomas Gage, 
 brother to fir Henry, who, from a Francifcan 
 friar, was " turned prieft-catcher, and captain 
 " of the band of purfuivants." He had aimed 
 an unlimited power to fearch the houfes of ca- 
 tholics in the reign of Charles I. -f- 
 
 The following perfon was of Scottifh extrac- 
 tion. 
 
 ALEXANDER MORUS, fummus Vir, 
 &c. Crifpin de Pas figu. half length ; h. Jh, 
 
 Alexander More, who was the fon of a Scotf- 
 man, at Cadres, in Languedoc, was one of the 
 completed fcholars, and mod eloquent and 
 graceful preachers of his age. He was well 
 fkilled in the Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Ara- 
 bic languages, and was an excellent divine, poer, 
 and hidorian. He didinguidied himfelf at a 
 very early period, when he, on the foot of his 
 merit, was eleded Greek profclTor at Geneva, 
 
 • This is the Jefait hinted at in Clarendon, vol. ii. 2vo. p. 
 553- ... 
 
 t Dod, iii. 114. 
 
 where 
 
6o THEHISTOkY Inters/ 
 
 where he fucceeded Spanheim in the diviniry- 
 chair. He was honoured with another divinity- 
 chair in the celebrated fchool at Middleburg ; 
 and, by the invitation of the magiftrates of Am- 
 fterdam, fucceeded the famous Gerard Voflius 
 in the profefTorfhip of hiftory, in which he ap- 
 peared to advantage, though he was fuccefTor to 
 io great a man. He afterwards became minif- 
 ter of the protedant church at Paris. He was 
 intimate with Salmafius, and rook his part againft 
 Milton, who treated him as a letcher and a li- 
 bertine ; not, indeed, without fome foundation, 
 as his charafter was not untainted in regard to 
 women. It appears, that his morals railed him 
 fome enemies ; his merits perhaps more ; and 
 his temper, which was ambitious, fickle, bold, 
 and prefumptuous, moft of all. 
 
 The reader may fee an account of his works, 
 which are chiefly theological, in Bayle, who par- 
 ticularly mentions his quarrel with Milton "^. 
 He died at Paris, in the houfe of the dutchefs 
 of Rohan, in September, 1670. The print, 
 which is well executed, is much like him. 
 
 LAY PREACHERS. 
 
 OLIVER CRO M W ELL cxercifed what 
 he called '* the fword of the fpirit," upon every 
 occafion, where he thought the military fword 
 would be ineffedlual. He well knew that the peo- 
 ple were ever more difpofcd to be led by preachers 
 than captains, and, to extend his influence over 
 
 • Artie. MoRu?, note (M). It appears, in note (K), that he 
 was in England in 1661 and i66a. 
 
 It will be worth the reader's while to fee what is laid of him b)'' 
 John Albert Fabricins, in the preface to his •* Obiervationes in 
 •* varia Loca N. T." and by Pr. Newton, in his <* X-ife of Mil- 
 *' ton/' p. 17, &c. 
 
 them. 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 6i 
 
 them, he united both charaders. There is a fcr^ 
 mon, faid to have been preached by him, on Rom. 
 iciii. I. *' The lad Lord's Day, in April, 1649, ac 
 " Sir P. T's houfe in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.'* Ic 
 was publifiied in 1680. As it abounds with low 
 ribaldry, and egregious nonfenfe, it carries with ic 
 no internal evidence of its beiny; o-enuine. — Har-r 
 rilbnjVane, and Peter Pett, were alio lay-preachers 
 in the time of the Interregnum : the firft of 
 thefe perfons war, head of ^ re-bapcifed congrega- 
 tion in London *. 
 
 CLASS V. 
 COMMONERS in great Employments. 
 
 EDVARDUS NICHOLAS, &c. A 
 
 flertochs f, h,jh. 
 
 This print, which was from a private plate, is 
 uncommon. The pidlure whence Tt was en- 
 graved was painted by Adrian Hanneman, in 
 1655, when fir Edward was fixty years of age. 
 }lannen:)an at that time refided at Bruflels -f-. 
 
 Sir Edward Nicholas was born the 4th of 
 April, in the year 1593, ^"^ entered of the Mid- 
 dle-1'cmple in 161 1. In 1622 he married Jane, 
 daughter of Henry Jay, of Hoi (Ion in Norfolk. 
 Between the years 161 1 and 1642, when he was 
 made fecretary of ftate; he was one of the fiJC 
 clerks in chancery, and fuccelFively fecretary to 
 lord Zouch, and the duke of Buckino-ham, in 
 the office of high-admiral. It is remarkable 
 that the latter was fpeaking to him when he was 
 dabbed by Felton. He was afterwards clerk 
 
 • " Myftcry of the good old Caufe," p. 24. 
 f MS. Letter of Mr. Wm. Nicholas, 
 
$% The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 of the council, and continued in that employ- 
 ment till the Teals were given him by the king. 
 He attended his majeily to Oxford, and refided 
 with him there till he went to the Scots army. 
 On the furrender of Oxford to Fairfax, he re- 
 tired to the prince of Wales in Jerfey. From 
 that time to the Reftoration, he lived for the 
 moft part with fir Edward Flyde, afterwards 
 earl of Clarendon *, at Caen in Normandy. The 
 above account is taken from an authentic letter, 
 fent with the print already defcribed, to the late 
 profeffor Ward, of Grelham College, by Mr. 
 William Nicholas, who died a few years fince 
 at HorQey in Surrey -f. He was dcfcended from 
 
 • When fir Edward Hyde, his moft intimate friend, was appre- 
 henfive that his life would be of veiy (liort duration } as the par- 
 liament was thought to meditate a ludden attempt upon Jerfey, 
 the place of his retirement, in 1647 j he, in a memorial, defign- 
 cd to be opened at his death, deiired that his papers ihould be 
 committed to the cultody of fecretary Nicholas : that he fliould, 
 ** if it pleafed God to redeem his majefty from the horrid oppref-r 
 *• fions under which he then groaned, receive his majefty's ab- 
 ** folute direftion what fliould be done with thefe papers." He 
 then deiired that they might «* be carefully examined and peruied 
 ^* by the lord keeper, fir Thomas Gardiner, Mr. GeofFry Palmer, 
 ** Dr. Sheldon, Dr. Earles, and Dr. Morley, or as many of them 
 ?* as Mr. Secretary Nicholas fhould be abi;; to draw to him." la 
 cafe of the death of the fecretary and himfelf, he fignified that the 
 papers fliouhl be delivered to lord Capel and lord Hoptoo, 
 *' whofe advice and affiltance was to have been always uled j and 
 *' he defired them to pnrfuehis former wifliesjl." 
 
 If the reader be ciiiious to contemplnte the pi^ure of a great 
 and good man in cxiUy reflei^fing, with death in profpe£f, on a 
 life utiiformly fpent in tl^e fervice of his God, his king, his coun- 
 try, and his friends, he will read with a melancholy pleafure, 
 perhaps with tears, the contents of the packet of papers, which 
 vere written in this interefting and awf-il fituation ; and were, 
 lipon his deceafe, to have been difpatchcd to the fecretary, his 
 worthy friend J. 
 
 t V/illiam Nicholas, efq. grandfon to the fecretary, was brought 
 \)p a Turkey merchant. He was one of the rcfturers of the Anti- 
 quarian Society, in 1717. Having furvivtd the relt of his family, 
 ilic eltates in London, Wiltshire, Surrey, 5:c. defcended to hun ^. 
 
 II Chancellor Cl.rendon*! " Papers," vol. ii. p. 357. 
 I See ibio. p. 551, 
 § Dr. D^tcaicl. 
 
 the 
 
C^Ass y. o F E N G L A N D. gj 
 
 the fecretary, and the lafl: of his family. Sec 
 more of fir Edward Nicholas in the reign of 
 Charles II. 
 
 JOHN THURLOW: Cooper p. Hou- 
 Iraken fc. In the colle^ion of the lord James Caven- 
 dtjh. This bead is^ with good reafon^ Juppofed to 
 have been done for fome oihtr perfon, 
 
 John Thurloe, &c. Vertuefc. 1741 : engraved 
 for his " State Papers^ 
 
 John Thurloe j from a gold medal ^ in the pof- 
 feffion of Dr, Mead •, a head piece. 
 
 Thurloe and Hugh Peters, receiving a pe- 
 tition of /^ deputies from the States of Holland, Sher- 
 winfc, /{to, 
 
 Mr. Cambridge has a good pidlure of him, 
 of the authenticity of which he has no doubt. 
 
 John Thurloe, fecretary of ftate to Oliver 
 Cromwell and his fon Richard, was as amiable 
 a man in his private, as he v/as great in his 
 public charader. His knowledge and his judg- 
 ment, his induftry and difpatch, were equally 
 extraordinary ; and he was as dexterous in dif- 
 covering fecrets, as he was faithful in keeping 
 them. His <' State Papers," in y vols, folio, 
 are an excellent hiftory of Europe during this 
 period, and are at once a proof ot his abiFuics 
 as a ftatefman, and his excellence as a writer. — 
 He was advanced to the office of fecretarv of 
 ftate, the 10th of Feb. 1653-4. Ok 21 Feb. 
 1667-8, j^t. 51. 
 
 EDMUND L U D L O W, knight of the 
 fhire for the county of Wilts, in the parliament 
 which began Nov. 3, 1640, one of the council of 
 ftate^ lieut, gen. of the horfe, and commander in chief 
 of the forces in Ireland, Drawn and etched^ 1760, 
 
 by 
 
^4 The H I STORY I^ 
 
 TERR. 
 
 hy J. B, Cipriani, a Florentine^ from a proof impref- 
 Jion of a feaU i>^ ^'-^ poffeffion of Thor/ias Ho His ^ of Lin- 
 coln's Inn, F. R. and J. S. S. b, /b. 
 
 Edmund Ludlow, Efq. Ravenei jc. ^to, 
 
 Edmund Ludlow vva'^, ac tv/enty-three years 
 - of age, made a colonel of a regiment, and foon 
 after promoted to the rank of lieutenant-j^^^ne- 
 ral. He, in that quality, commanded in Ire- 
 land, and had a confiderable hand in lubduing 
 that country, where he acquitted himfelf with 
 great courage and condu(5t. He entered with zeal 
 into all the meafures of the Republican party, 
 and tells us himfelF, that " he had the lionour 
 *' of being one of the late king's judges'^.'* 
 About the time of the Reftoration, he retired 
 into Switzerland, and was there thirty- two years, 
 among a people who loved his principles, and 
 refpedted his perfon. He compofed his "• Me^ 
 nioirs" in this land of libeity. His portrait 
 prefixed to that book, belongs to the reign of 
 William III. 
 
 PHILIP S K I P P O N, one of the council 
 of ftate to Crorpwell. See the preceding reign, 
 Clafs VII, 
 
 THOMAS K 1 L L E G R E W, who had 
 
 been page of honour to Charles I. was, in 1651, 
 appointed rcfident at Venice by Charles H. His 
 principal bufinefs was to borrow money of the 
 Lnglifli merchants in thar cuy, for the king's fup- 
 port. His behaviour, during his rcfidence, did 
 no honour to his mafler or liiniftlf. The Vene- 
 tians were lo much fcandalized at his irregulari- 
 ties, that they compelled him to leave the re- 
 public j and a complaint was preferred againlt 
 
 • " Memoirs," i» p. S71, 8vo. 
 
 him 
 
Class V. o f E N G L A N D. 6^ 
 
 him to the king, at Paris, by their ambafTador. 
 See the reign of ChArles II. Clafs VIII. and IX. 
 
 SAMUEL MORLANDUS, fe-eni[p.mi 
 domini prote5foris ad regcfu Gallic ^ dtuemque Sabaudi^^ 
 de rebus VoJenfium Inttrnuncius ; et dtinde extra ordi- 
 nem ccmmiffa^ius, P, Lilly (Lely) p. P, Lcmbai^ 
 
 Samuel Morland, of Sulhamfcc-d BaniHer, in 
 Berkfhirej was fome time one of the under fe- 
 cretaries to Thurloe *. He was employed by 
 the Protedor in feveral embaffieSi and was, iii 
 \6s']'i his refident at Geneva. His " Hiftory 
 of the Evangelical Churches of Piedmont" was 
 publifh^d in folio, 1658, with his head pre- 
 fixed t"- He was fent to Savoy, to forward the 
 charitable collc6lion made in England for the 
 Vaudois, and found the conveyance very diffi- 
 cult, as their enemies were hovering round to 
 intercept ic. The method of expediting money 
 by bills was then much lefs known than it is ac 
 prefent. In the beginning of the year 1660, 
 he waited on the king at Breda, and made fe- 
 veral important difcoveries 5 and was, in confi- 
 deration of his fervices, the fame year created a 
 baronet. In 1695, was publifhed his **• Urim 
 of Confcience," a fmall oclavo, before which, 
 as I am imformed, there is a neat print of him, 
 in a large wig, and point cravat tied Vv'ith a 
 black ribbon ; and Tome account of hin^felf. I 
 know not when he died, but am certain that he 
 lived to an advanced age, and was, in the latter 
 part of his life, afiiiuled with blindnefs. His 
 
 * See a very remarkable ftory of h'uTi, while he was fecretary 
 to Thurloe, in Welwood's " Nleinoirs," p. no, & feq. 
 
 f In vol. iii. of bilhop Gibfon's Papers, in the Latnbeth Li- 
 brary, is an " Abreviate of the Lifeof Sir Samuel Morland, Bart.'* 
 Written by himfelf. There are alio many Letters aivd Papers by 
 him in the fame volume. 
 
 Vol. III. F foh 
 
cc 
 cc 
 cc 
 
 i6 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 fon was mafter of the mechanics to Charles II. 
 He invented the drum-headed capftan tor weigh- 
 ing heavy anchors, the fpeaking-trumpet, an 
 engine for quenching fires, an arithmetical in- 
 ftrumenr, &c. Mention is made of feveral of 
 his works in the Bodleian Catalogue. 
 
 ALGERNON SYDNEY; J. B, Ci- 
 priani d. J. Bazire fc. 1763 j h.flo. Under the head 
 is the following infcripfion, "At the time when 
 •' Mr. Algernon Sydney was ambalTador at the 
 *' court of Denmark, Monfieur Terlon, the French 
 *' ambaflador, had the confidence ,to tear out of 
 the book of mottoes, in the king's library, this 
 verfe, which Mr, Sydney, according to the li- 
 berty allowed to all noble flrangers, had written 
 in it, 
 
 — ■ " Manus hacc inimica tyrannis, 
 
 •' Enle petit placidam fub libertate quietem." 
 
 •' Though Monfieur Terlon underftood not a 
 word of Latin, he was told by others the mean- 
 ing of that fenrence, which he confidered as a 
 libel upon the French government, and upon 
 fuch as was then fetting up in Denmark by 
 " French afiiftance or example." Lord Molef- 
 worth's preface to his " Account of Denmark." 
 
 Algernon Sydney, a younger fon of Robert 
 earl ot Leicellcr, was colonel of a regiment in 
 the civil war, and one of the ambalTadors fenc 
 to Sweden and Denmark by Richard Cromv/ell. 
 He was a man of a philofophic turn of mind, 
 had feen much of the abule of kingly power, 
 and was apprehenfive of much more. Hence 
 he became as zealous a Republican, from fpe- 
 cuhtion and principle, as others v.cre fromani- 
 mofity and fadlion. See more of him in the 
 reign of Charles II. Clafs IX. 
 
 ALEX- 
 
Class V. o f E N G L A N D. Cf 
 
 ALEXANDER ERSKEIN, S. Rcglre 
 Majcilatis Suecise a Confiliis fecretioribiis aulicis 
 et bellicis, &c. ad Tradatns Pacis univerfalis Pie- 
 nipotentiarius. Anfelmus van Hidlp, Corn. Gailefc, 
 1649, b. fb. His portrait is in Suyckrhoefs fine 
 print of the treaty of Munfter *. 
 
 This gentleman was probably of the YL^Wy 
 branch of the family of Marr ; fir Alexander 
 Erfkine, of that houfc, having been ennobled 
 by James VI. Many of his defcendants havs 
 been named Alexander •, but there is no ac- 
 count of the perfon in queftion in Douglas's 
 ** Peerage." 
 
 PHILIP earl of PEMBROKE, when the 
 iioufe of lords was aboliOied, condefcended to fic 
 among the commons, as knight of the (liire for 
 Berks. See the reign of Charles I. Clafs II. 
 
 FRANCIS ROUS, fpeaker of Barebone's 
 parliament. See the Clafs of Authors. 
 
 ANDREW MARVEL, member of par- 
 liament for Kingfton upon Hull. See the reign 
 of Charles II. 
 
 WILLIAM PRYNNE, the volumi- 
 nous writer, was, to ufe the epithet of lord Claren- 
 don, no lefs voluminous as a fpeaker. Clement 
 Walker mentions, with due commendation, a 
 fpeech of his addrelTed to the houfc of commons, 
 a little before the death of Charles I. in which he 
 proves his conceffions to the parliament to be fuf- 
 ficient ground for a peace |, He has, in this" 
 
 • There is a fet of prints of the ambafladors who were prefent 
 at this trenty ; Erlkein's is among them. 
 
 f '* Hift. of Independency," part ii. p. 15. This fpeech is rer 
 printed in the ** Parliamentary Hiltory." 
 
 F 2 fpeech, 
 
68 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 fpeech, recapitulated the arguments on both fides 
 with great freedom and propriety. He continued 
 to fpcak roundly ot abules, when others thought 
 it prudent to be filent-, and though he had loft his 
 cars for his patriotifn, he was drtermined to be a 
 patriot (till, though at the hazard of his head. 
 See the preceding reign, Clafs IX. 
 
 PRAISE GOD BAREBONEt, ^ 
 
 head in a fquarc j ^vo, 
 
 Barebone, who was by occupation a leather- 
 feller, was one of the mod adive, if not the 
 J"^y 4» mod able nrembers of the parliament affembled 
 
 ^^' by Cromwell, which took its denomination from 
 
 his name. When Monck came to London, 
 tvith a view of reftorins; the kino;, and was in- 
 tent upon the re-admiffion of the fecluded mem- 
 bers, this man appeared at the head of a nu- 
 merous rabble of fanatics, which was alarming 
 even to that intrepid general. A petition was 
 prefented by their leader to the parliament, for 
 the exclufion of the king and royal family. 
 Monck, who knew the popularity of Barebone, 
 was obliged to make a general mufter of his 
 army, and wrote a letter to the parliament, in 
 which he expoftulated with them for giving too 
 
 •\ I have been informed that there were three brothers of this 
 family, eacli of whom had a fentence to liis name ; viz. Praife 
 God Barebone; Chriil came into the world to fave Barebone ; 
 and IfCiirilthad not died thou hadft been damned Barebone. 
 Some are Trad to have omitted the former part of the fcntence, 
 and to have called him only •' Damn'd Barebone." Mr. Hume 
 has given us a lilt of names of this kind. In Montfaucon's " I>ia- 
 •* rium lialicum l]," is a lepulciiral ijifcription of the year 396, 
 upon Qiiodvuhdeus, with the followin>^ note: *• Hoc jcvo n 
 ])auci erant qui piis fententiolis nomma propria concinnarer 
 V. g. Quodvultdtus, Dtogratias, Habctdeum, Adeodatus." 
 
 oil 
 ent : 
 
 Edit. 4to. p. 170. 
 
 much 
 
Class VI. of ENGLAND. 
 
 much countenance to that furious zealot and 
 his adherents J. 
 
 CLASS VI. 
 M E N of the R O B E. 
 
 BULSTRODUS W H I T LOCK, Eques 
 
 Auratus, Windforii proconftabularius^ fcaccarii com- 
 miff, diidiim magni figilli cujios^ ^c. FaJthornefc, 
 There is a copy of this by Huljhergh^ h. Jh, 
 
 This print may be placed in the reign of 
 Charles 11. in which it was engraved. There 
 is a portrait of him, which was painted in Swe- 
 den, and is very like Faithorne*s print. It is in 
 the pofifenion of the Rev. Dr. Cooper, late of 
 Philis-Court, at Henley upon Thames *. This 
 gentleman's father married the heirefs of the 
 Whitlock family. 
 
 Bulftrcde Whitlock, a man of integrity, ef- 
 poufed the caule to which he adhered from prin- 
 ciple ; and though warmed, was never over- 
 heated by party. His knowledge in the laws 
 was very extenfive^ his judgment, his experi- 
 ence, his dexterity and addrcls in the manage- 
 ment of affairs, were no iefs extraordmary. He 
 was a leading member of the houfe of commons, 
 a principal commilfioner in the treaties of Ox- 
 
 X See Roger Coke's " Dete<5lion,'" kc. W. p. 89, 90. That au- 
 thor tells us, that William Prynne, " tied to a threat ba(ket-hilt 
 fwordf," was t!ie firft of the Included members that entered the 
 houle of commons, 
 
 * In the time of the civil war, Mr. Whitlock was appointed 
 governor of the town of Heiiley, and of the fort of Philis-Court, 
 his own feat, in which was a garrifon of 300 foot, and a troop 
 of horfe. He was known to be a man of great perfonal courage, 
 though he was never called upon to exercife it in a military ca- 
 pacity. 
 
 -j- Ghdio alUgatus Cic. — Spoken of a little man who wore a large fword. 
 
 F 3 ford 
 
*}0 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 ford and Uxbridge, and one of the ambafTadors 
 fent by Richard Cromwell to mediate a peace 
 betwixt Sweden and Denmark. His candour 
 was confpiciious in the vvarmeft debates j and 
 though he ftill adhered to the fide that was up- 
 permoft, it appears to have been more owing 
 to his moderation than the flexibility of his 
 principles. See the Clafs of Authors, in the 
 reit>n of Charles II. 
 
 HENRY ROLLE, lord chief-juftice of 
 the upper bench •, Hertochs f. h,JJj. 
 
 Henry Rolle was one of the fix judges who ac- 
 cepted of a commilTion from the commonwealth, 
 foon after the death of Charles I. 7 He was 
 intimately acquainted with the moft eminent 
 lawyers of his time; and was in the knowledge 
 of his profefijon fcarce inferior to the greateit. 
 His reading and his pra6lice were equally ex- 
 tenfive •, and he feems to have been formed by 
 nature for patient lludy, deep penetration, and 
 clearnefs and folidity of judgment. He foon 
 difcovered the hinge upon which every caufe 
 turned, and when he was convinced himfeif, had 
 the art of eafily convincing others. His inte- 
 grity, even under the uiurpation of Cromwell, 
 was acknowledged by the generality of the 
 royaliils themfelves. Hewas, of all the judges, 
 the mod averfe from tryipg any of the king's party 
 for treafon : he indeed thought their defence, in 
 which they inOfled upon the ill<rg.ility of the 
 government, v^as too well founded. Me died 
 the 30th of July, 1656, and was fucceeded 
 in his office by the celebrated Glynn. He was 
 author of the Reports and Abridgment which 
 bear his name. See " Athen Oxon." 
 
 + See Walker's «' Hift. of Independency," part ii. p. 119. 
 
 MAT- 
 
Class VL o f E N G L A N D. yt 
 
 MATTHEW HALE was eminent, at 
 this period, for the feveral qualifications that com^ 
 pole the charadier of an able lawyer, and a good 
 man. He was nnade a judge in 1653-4 ^ and was, 
 without exception, the mod impartial difpenfer of 
 juftice of any of his contemporaries. Sqq the reign 
 of Charles II. 
 
 Serjeant BRADSHAW; a head, partly 
 fcraped^ and partly ftipped:, large /{to. There is an 
 account of him in the preceding reign, Clafs XII. 
 
 JOHN R U S H W O R T H, Efq. barrifter 
 of Lincoln's Inn, was far more eminent as an hif- 
 torian, than a lawyer. See a defcripcion of his 
 portrait among the Hillorians, in the reign of 
 Charles II. Clafs IX. 
 
 WILLIAM PRYNNE, ^/. 49, 16535 
 four EngliJIo verfes. See the reign of Charles I. 
 See alfo Clafs V. 
 
 JOHiN SPARROW, a barrifter of the 
 Inner Temple. See Clafs IX. 
 
 THOMAS FIDEL L, of Furnival's Inn, 
 Gent, one of the attorneys of the court of com- 
 mon bench, aged ^6 years-, T, Crofs fc, 
 
 Thomas Fidell was author of a book, entitled, 
 ** A perfedl Guide for a ftudious young Lawyer ; 
 *' being Precedents for Conveyancing." The 
 firft edition, before which is his portrait, v/as 
 publilhed in 4to. 1654. 
 
 A Lord CHANCELLOR of IRELAND. 
 
 Major-general D I S B R E W f , on horfehack •, 
 Stent j 4/^?. 
 
 •J- Sic Orig. 
 
 F 4 John 
 
^2 The HISTORY Interr, 
 
 John Defborough (or Disbrowe) was bred 
 to the law, but was never like to rife to any emi- 
 nence in that profefTion. He was clurnTy and 
 iingain in his pcriun, clownifh in his manners, 
 and boiircrous in his behaviour, hlc was bror 
 ther-in-iaw to Cromwell •, but was lo violent a 
 republican, that he could never be reconciled to 
 the name or office of a king, in the nearcfl: of his 
 relations, or even in the beft of mankind. He 
 was one of the council of ftate to the Protector, 
 general at fea, major-general of the counties of 
 Glocefier, Wilts, Dorfet, Somerfet, Devon, 
 and Cornwal. But though he enjoyed thefe 
 great offices under him, he abhorred his power, 
 and was ever intriguing vvith the republicans. 
 He v;as promoted to the chancelloiTnip of Ire- 
 land by his nephew Kichard •, but was one of 
 the chief inflrumencs in pulling him down, and 
 transferring his power to the army. Defborough 
 himfelf was but a tool in the hand of Lambert. 
 
 CLASS VII. 
 
 OFFICERS of the ARMY, and NAVY. 
 
 General FAIRFAX, bolding the head of 
 Charles I. by the hair, in his right huiid^ and an axe 
 in his left. The prints which jeenis to be Dutch^ is 
 infcribcd *' Carnifex Regis Angliae j" 8vo. 
 
 OLIVIER CROMWELL, &c.lieute. 
 
 nant-general ; Joojl llartgers e>:c, Svo, 
 
 Oliver I us Cromwell, Lxercituum Anglican 
 reipubiicae generalis locum-tenens, gubcrnator Hi- 
 be mi, e^ iyc. P. Aulrey ; 4/^. 
 
 Olivekius Cromwell, vice-generalis. Heads 
 of Charles I. &c> ^to» 
 
 GEORGE 
 
Class VI. ofENGLAND. 71 
 
 GEORGE MONCK, general of the army 
 in Scotland, and the reftorer ot the king. See the 
 reign of Charles 11. Clafs 11. 
 
 Lieutenant-general FLEETWOOD, was 
 the chief of the fourteen major-generals appointed 
 by Cromwell over England and Wales. Thefe 
 men, mod of whom were obfcure per Tons, were 
 armed with an inquifitorial power over the royalifts 
 of all denominations. Their principal bufmefs was 
 to fearch out and examine fuch as had borne arms 
 for Charles I. or v/ere difaffedled to the prefent go- 
 vernment ; and to punifli them by imprifonmcnTj 
 decimation of their eftates, &c. See Clafs IL 
 
 EDMUND LUDLOW, lieutenant-ge- 
 neral. See Clafs V. 
 
 Lieutenant-general ^LAMBERT; 'talker 
 f. Houhraken fc. In the colledion of the late earl of 
 Bradford, Illujl. Head, 
 
 Major-general Lambert ; h. Jlo. mezz. 
 
 The honourable major-general Lambert ; oval 
 large ^to. 
 
 Major-General Lambert j in arr/iour \ cravat^ 
 
 Major-general Lambert diftinguiflied himfelf 
 by his valour and condud on many occafions, 
 during the civil war ; particularly at the battle 
 of Nafeby, at the battle of Fife in Scotland, 
 and by his vidlory in Chefhire, where he totally in Aug. 
 defeated the forces commanded by fir George ^^^^' 
 Booth : for which important fervice the parlia- 
 ment prefented him with loool. to buy a jewel. 
 He was, of all the officers of the army, the fe- 
 cond to Cromwell, in courage, prudence, and 
 
 * The infcription of this print is erroneous ; he was never 
 above the rank of % major-general, 
 
 capacity j 
 
y^ The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 capacity ; but was equal to him only in ambi- 
 tion. The protedlor regarded him with a jea- 
 lous eye -, and, upon his retuHil to take the oath 
 to be faithful to his governmenr, deprived him 
 of his commiffion, but granted him a penfion 
 of 200O 1. "j- This was an aift of prudence, 
 rather than generofity -, as he vvell knew, that 
 fuch a genius as Lambert's, rendered defperate 
 by poverty, was capable of attempting any thing, 
 'i hough Lambert had fo great a fl:iare in the 
 civil war, he cfcaped punifhment at the Kefto- 
 ration. The daring general, when he was 
 brought to his trial, behaved with more fubmif- 
 fion than the meaneft of his fellow-prifoners, 
 and was reprieved at the bar. He was banifhed 
 to the iOe of Guernfey, v;here he continued in 
 patient confinement for above thirty years. See 
 the CLifs of Artifts j fee alfo the preceding reign, 
 Clafs Vil. 
 
 Major-general DISBROWE. See the Clafs 
 of Lawyers. 
 
 Col. JOHN HEWSON; Vandergucht fc. 
 ^I'o. In Clarendon's " Hiftory. 
 
 The Gianr Husonio, that is^ Col Hezvfon. Before 
 ike fecond part of " Don fuo.n hamherto\ or a ccmi- 
 " cal Hijlory of the late Times ^'^ fa-d to be written by 
 Flat-man^ Lond. 1661 ; 4/^. 
 
 This man, who is reprefented in a buff coat, 
 once wore a leather apron ; and from a mender 
 of old (hoes, became a reformer of government 
 
 t Roger Coke informs us, tint " Tfrer he had been difcarded 
 *' by Oliver, he betook himfelf to Winiblcton Home, wlieie he 
 *• turned florift, and hnd the fnirclt tulips and gillitiowers that 
 •* could begot for love or money: yet in ihel'e outwajd plea- 
 *' lines he nouriihcd the ambition he entertained before he was 
 V cafliicred." Coke's '♦ Detection." &c. ii. p. 76. 
 
 an4 
 
Class VII. ofENGLAND. 75 
 
 and religion *. He was, allowing for his edu- 
 cation, a very extraordinary perlon. His be- 
 haviour in the army Toon raifea him to the rank 
 of a colonel ; and Cromwell had fo great an 
 opinion of him as to enrruil him with the go- 
 vernment of the city of Dublin, whence he was 
 called to be a member of Barebone's parliament. 
 He was a frequent fpeaker in that and the 
 other parliament of which he was a member, 
 and was, at length, thought a fit ptribn to be 
 a lord of the upper houfe. He was one of the 
 committee of iafcty ; and was, with feveral of 
 his brethren, very intent upon a new model of 
 the republic, at the eve of the Reftoration, 
 This event occafioned hi:> flyifig to Amfterdam, 
 where he died in his original obfcurity. See 
 more of him in the "Hiilory of Independency," 
 part iv. p. 79. 
 
 Col, P E N R U D D O C K ; G. Vertue fc. In 
 the pojfejfion cf his grandfon Penmddock, One of the 
 3et of Loyalifis. 
 
 Col. John Penruddock, in armour. In lord 
 Clarendon s " Hifioryr 
 
 This adtive and worthy loyalifl: was the third 
 of the three Tons of fir John Penruddock, of 
 Compton Chamberlain, m Vv^ilrfhire, who loft 
 
 ♦ The elevation of fome of the loweft of the people, to offices 
 of power and dillinclion in the army and the (iate, was matter of 
 great offence to many. Much fatire and abufe were lavifhed 
 upon thofe perCons, The civil wai was coinpared to the boiling 
 of a pot, in which the fcum rifes uppeimod. 
 
 I ftiall take occafion to ohlerve here, that Hewfon is faid by 
 Mr. Hume to have gone, in the fervour of his zeal againll bear- 
 baiting, and killed all the bears which he found in the city. But 
 we are told by the author of ■•' The Myftery of the good old 
 ** Caufe," a paini)hlet publifhed foon after thefe animals were de- 
 ftroyed, that they were killed by col. Pride. This is fuppofed to 
 have given occafiun to the weli-known fidtion of Hudibras. See 
 the above cited curious pamphlet, p. 155 or the fame pamphleti, 
 reprinted in the '• Parliamentary Hiftory." 
 
 their 
 
j6 The history Interr. 
 
 their lives in the fervice of the crown. He fpenc 
 thfr early part of his life in literary pursuits, and 
 acquired the other accompiifhments of a gentle- 
 man : but when the caufe of his king and coun- 
 try called him forth to adlion, he was among 
 the foremod to venture his life in that fervice. 
 Kc was polTefTed of an eai'y fortune, was happy 
 in the efteem of all his acquaintance, and (till 
 happier in his domeftic relations. But wiih all 
 thefe advantages, his happinefs was not com- 
 plete while his fovereign was an exile. He, 
 v.ith feveral of his friends, rofe in arms for the 
 king at Salifbury, and afterv/ards proclaimed 
 him at Blandford ; but was foon overpowered 
 and taken by col. Unton Croke. He was be- 
 headed, in violation of a promife of quarter 
 given him by that perfidious man, the i6th of 
 May, 1655. He died in a r'.ianner becoming a 
 foldier and a Chriilian. — He appears to have 
 been regardlefs of death as it afTeded himfelf, 
 but felt all that poignancy of grief, which the 
 bed of hufbands only could feel, for his fepara- 
 tion from the mod tender and amiable of wives. 
 The letters which pafled betwixt this unfor- 
 tunate pair, after their laft forrowful interview, 
 are printed in fir llichard Steele's ^' Lover." 
 Mrs. Penruddock's letter, in particular, has fe- 
 veral ftrokes in it of the moll: natural, the molt 
 animated, and pathetic tendernefs. 
 
 THOMAS S A N D E R S, de Ireton, Com. 
 Derb. Arm. nee non equitum Tribunus j B^illb, 
 Flcfiiersp. Lcgganjc. h. flo. 
 
 7>.cmas Sanders, efq. of Ireton and Cald- 
 vvtll, in Derbylhire, was a man of great in- 
 lluence in that county, of which he was cullos 
 rotulorum and reprcfentative in parliament, at 
 the time of the Interregnum. Upon the erup- 
 tion 
 
Class VII. ofENGLAND. 77 
 
 tion of the civil war, he had too much fpirit to 
 be neutral or inadtive, and therefore joined the 
 parliatnenc army, to which he with great con- 
 itancy and firmnefs adhered. He commanded 
 a regiment of horfe in the fervice, a«^d bore the 
 rank of a colonel till the reftoration of Charles 
 the Second. He died in 1695, aged 85 years. 
 His eftate at Caldwell is now poiTcircd by Mr. 
 Mortimer, who has feveral original letters of 
 Oliver Cromwell, addrelTed to colonel Sanders. 
 
 Major W I L D M A N ; Hollar f. 1653. / 
 never Jaw this prints at leafi with the name. It is 
 mentioned in a manufcript catalogue of EngUjlo heads ^ 
 hy Vertue^ which is in my pojfeffion, 
 
 John Wildman, who was educated in the uni- 
 verfity of Cambridge, was a man of excellent 
 parts, competent learning, infinuating addrefs, 
 and ready elocution ; and was, for feveral years, 
 one of the greateft confidants and mod uleful 
 inftruments of Cromv/ell. He eagerly entered 
 into the civil war with a view of making his 
 fortune, and feemed to pofiefs every talent that 
 was fuited to the purpofes of his own ambition 
 and the genius of the times. He preached, 
 prayed, and wrote with diftindion ; and was 
 one of Harrington's club, v^'here he ap- 
 pt'ared to advantage as a politician. He had 
 been one of the principal agitators for Crom- 
 well ; but perceiving the aim of that afpiring 
 man, he turned all his intereft and the whole 
 force of his pen, againft him ; and v/as em- 
 ployed in v/riting to inflame the minds of the 
 levellers^ of whom he was the incendiary and 
 diredor, when his papers were feized. He was, 
 to the furprife of all men, i<^t at liberty, when 
 they were in the higheit expedation of his exe- 
 cution. 
 
7« The HISTORY Interr: 
 
 cution. It was conjeclured that the ufurper was 
 afraid of exafperating a formidable fadion of 
 the army; and that he, by faving his life, had 
 a further view of engaging fo able a man in his 
 fervice, from a principle of gratitude. He was 
 afterwards generally believed, and indeed not 
 lightly, to have been employed by him in fecreC 
 fervices. It appears that his pen was, during 
 the war, of much greater utility than his fword. 
 See more of his chara6ler in lord Clarendon's 
 " Hiftory." 
 
 Col. JOHN LILBU RNE in prifon-^Fan- 
 dergucht fc, ^vo, ^ 
 
 John Lilburne, flanding at the ho.r^ on his trial. 
 At the top of the print is a medal of his head^ with 
 this infcription : " John Lilburne, faved by the power 
 " of the Lord, and the integrity of his jury, who are 
 ^^ judges of law ^ ai well as fa6l, 051. 26, 1649." 
 ^he names of the jury are on the reverfe. See Eve" 
 lyn^s ^^ Numifmata,'^ p, 170, 171. 
 
 John Lilburne was tried for tranfgrefllng the 
 new (latuce of treafons enaded by the com- 
 monwealth. He behaved upon his trial with 
 his ufual intrepidity ; and, though guilty, was 
 acquitted by the jury, who bore very little re- 
 fped to the legiflature. Weftminfler-hall re- 
 founded with the acclamations of the people, 
 and the medal reprefcnted in the print was 
 ftruck upon this joyful occafion. This popular 
 incendiary was known to have fuch influence 
 over the Republicans and Levellers that the 
 parliament ftood in great awe of him, and there- 
 fore ordered him, after he was difcharged by 
 the court, to be fcnt to the Tower. \ 
 
 A SCOTCH 
 
Class VII. o f E N G L A N D. ^^f 
 
 A SCOTCH GENERAL. 
 
 DAVID LESLEY, (or Leslie), general 
 of the Scotch army -, Svo, 
 
 David Ltfley, who was an able, though in 
 fome inftances an unfortunate general, learned 
 the art of war under the great Guftavus Adol- 
 phus. He defeased, but with a much fuperior 
 army, the broken forces of the heroic marquis 
 of Montrofe. He reduced Cromwell to great 
 ftraits before iht battle of Dunbar, and fought 
 that fatal battle merely in obedience to the 
 prefling importunities of the foldiers. Thefe 
 deluded people were told by their minifters, 
 that they had been wreftling with the Lord all 
 the night in prayer, and were very confident 
 that they had obtained the victory. Cromwell, 
 when he faw them advancing to the engagement, 
 exclaimed, with no lefs confidence, *•' that the 
 '^ Lord had delivered them into his hands.'* 
 Lefley was a fecond time defeated by Cromwell 
 at the battle of Worcefter, where he was takca 
 prifoner, and fent to the Tower. He was, upon 
 the Reftoration, (ct at liberty, and created ba- 
 ron of Newark. He is fometimes confounded 
 with his kinfman, the earl of Leven. 
 
 OFFICERS of the NAVY. 
 
 ROBERT BLAKE, admiral^ M. Fan- 
 dergucbt fc. Svo. 
 
 Robert Blake, general and admiral of the 
 forces of England, &c. Denatus^ 17 ^iug. i6^7> 
 ^t. 59. 
 
 — <*Thy 
 
So titE HISTORY Interr. 
 
 "Thy name 
 
 " Was heard in thunder through th' affrighted 
 
 " fhores 
 " Of pale Iberia, of fubmiffive Gaul, 
 *' And Tagus trembling to his utmoft fource. 
 " O ever faithful, vigilant, and brave, 
 *' Thou bold afierter of Britannia's fame, 
 " Unconquerable Blake 1" 
 
 Glover's '' London," p. 21. 
 
 "Done from a 'painting (late) in the pcjfejfwn cf Mr^ 
 
 J. AmeSy by captain Thomas Prejion, 
 
 Blake, who had approved himfelf a good fol- 
 dier in the courfe of the civil war, v/hen he was 
 above 50 years of age took the command of 
 the fleet. His want of experience feems to have 
 been of great advantage to him : he followed 
 the light of his own genius only, and was pre- 
 fently feen to have all the courage, the condudl, 
 and the precipitancy of a good fea-officer. Forts 
 and caftles by land were no longer dreaded, or 
 thouorht impregnable : he attempted whatever 
 oppoied him, and was generally fucceisful in 
 his attempts. The very temerity of his enter- 
 prifes (truck terror into his enemies, and con- 
 tributed greatly to his fuccefs. He not only 
 improved the method of attack, but carried the 
 naval power of Cromwell to a greater height 
 than had been known in any age or nation. 
 
 Sir GEORGE A I S C U E, (or Ayscough). 
 See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 PEN, reipublicx Anglicanse vice-preefeflus 
 maris. A bead in an oval-, 12 wo. 
 
 William Pen had all thofe qualifications of a 
 fea-officer which natural courage and experi- 
 ence can pive a man of a very moderate capa- 
 city. He was well qualilied to ace an under 
 
 pare 
 
Ci ASS VII. OF ENGLAND. 8l 
 
 part, in executing, with alacrity "and vigour,' 
 what had, been planned by his fuperiors in com- 
 mand. He was vice-admiral, under Monck and 
 Dean, in the famous fea-fight with the Dutch 
 that continued three days, and in which the 
 gallant Tromp was defeated. He was, with- 
 out declaration of war, fenc to take St. Domingo 
 from the Spaniards. The defign was well laid 
 By Cromv;ell, and would have been executed 
 with great facility by a Blake •, but it exceeded 
 the capacity of Pen. In this expedition he took 
 Jamaica, a colony which cod a great deal of 
 blood and treafure ; but which, in procefs of 
 time, proved advantageous to the nation. Fie 
 was father of a much greater man than himfelf, 
 who is well known among the Qi^akers as a 
 preacher and a Writer; and throughout the world 
 as the founder and legiflator of the colony of 
 Penfylvania *. There is acharadteriftic account 
 of admiral Pen in th^ " Continuation of Lord 
 '' Clarendon's Life,** p. 478. 
 
 JOHN L A W S O N, vice-admiral. See the 
 feign of Charles II. 
 
 * See a good account of him, in his legillative capacity, in the 
 «* Account of the European Settlements in America f." This' 
 illuftiious perfon had both great and amiable qualities, and war, 
 no liranger to the eflentials of good breeding, though he was 
 too (lubborn to yield to the forms of it. Ke had, or afftfted to 
 have, all " the fpirit of the hat," which availed him much as 
 fhe leader of a people vvho made it part of their religion. We 
 are credibly informed, that he fat with his hat on before Charles 
 II. and that "the king, as a gentle rebuke for his ill manners, 
 <* put off his own. Upon which pen faid to him, Friend Charles, 
 " why doft thou not keep on thy hat ? The king aufWered, ' Fis 
 •* the cuftom of this place, that never ab(?ve one perfon Qiould' 
 " be covered at a time ||.'* 
 
 •f- By Edmund Burke, efq. but without his namc^ 
 I Grey's *' Hudibras," i. p. 376, 
 
 Vol. Hi G JOHISF 
 
8^ ' TheHISTORY Interr; 
 
 JOHN DISBROWE is in the lift of 
 Cromwell's lords, as one of the generals of the fleet, 
 Ic does not appear that he ever commanded at Tea, 
 See the " Parliamentary Hiftory," xxi. p. 167. 
 
 CLASS VIII. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, and PERSONS in 
 inferior Civil Employments. 
 
 GULIELMUS PASTON, baronet- 
 tiis, 1659 •, Faithorne fc. h.flj. This head is ex- 
 quifitely finifhed, and is, by Mr. Walpole, efteem- 
 ed the mafter-piece of Faithorne. — There is a por- 
 trait of him, by Vandyck, at Mr. Windham's, at 
 Felbridge in Norfolk. 
 
 Tuneie^ Sir William Pafton, of Oxnet, or Oxnead, 
 
 in Norfolk, was defcended from fir Clement 
 Pafton, an eminent fca-captain, who fignalized 
 himfeif in the reign of Henry VIll. by taking 
 the baron of Blancard, admiral of France, pri- 
 foner, and bringing him into England. He was 
 the firft, as Lloyd informs us, " that made the 
 " Englifti navy terrible*." Sir William was 
 eminently a gentleman, and was alfo diftingnifh- 
 ed as a traveller. Fie not only made the ufual 
 tour, but v/as carried by his ardent curiolity, 
 into Afia and Africa. Few men of his time were 
 more cfteemed for their oeneral knowled":e. He 
 was generous, charitable, and loyal -, and piqued 
 himfclf upon keeping up the ancient hofpitality 
 of the family f. He died in 1662 jl. He was 
 father to Sir Kobert Pafton, whvO, for his emi- 
 nent fervices in the civil war, and his adivity at 
 
 * "Worthies," 8vo. firft edit. p. 202. 
 
 f See ti.e Dedication to Mays '* Accompliflied Cook,"^ 
 
 : Rev. Mr. Cull urn. 
 
 the 
 
Class VIII. o f E N G L A N D. 
 
 the Reftoration, was created vifconnc Yarmouth,. 
 25 Car. II. Fuller mentions a free -Ichool, found- 
 ed and handfomely endowed, by fir William 
 Pafton, knight^ at North- Walfam, in Norfolk. 
 Qtiaere if by the fame perfon. 
 
 Sir HENRY SLINGSBY; (a Nova 
 Scotia baronet.) From an original i^^ the pojfejjlon 
 of 'Talbot^ efq, Vertue fc. One of the Set of 
 
 Loyalifts, 
 
 Sir Henry Slingfby, a gentleman of an an- 
 cient family in Yorklhire, fpent a great part of 
 his ample fortune in the fervice of Charles I. 
 He raifed 600 horfe and foot at his own ex- 
 pence, and marched at the head of them into 
 the field, to affift the king. He was ever in 
 adion, during the civil war ; and, after the death 
 of Charles, was ever folicitous for the reftora- 
 tion of his fon. He was long a prifoner at 
 Hull ; and was tried for contra6ling with fome 
 officers to deliver up one of the block-houfes, 
 in that garrifon, for the fervice of Charles IL 
 Cromwell, v/ho was informed that the royalills 
 throughout the kingdom were intent upon a 
 fcheme to reftore the king, was relblved to in- 
 timidate that party, by facrificing fir Henry 
 Slingfby and Dr. Hewif. They were brought 
 before the high court of juflice where Lifle 
 prefided. They denied the jurifdidior; of the 
 court, but were condemned without any cere- 
 mony. Sir Henry Slingfby was a man of deeds 
 rather than words : he faid very little upon his 
 trial, and as little upon the fcaftbld. He per- 
 fiftcd in his loyalty, and told the people that 
 he died for being an honeft itsan* He was be 
 headed the 8th of June, 1658. 
 
 G a Sir 
 
The history Interr. 
 
 Sir FRANCIS WILLUGHBY, (ot 
 
 Willouchby) -, T. ivlanf. c^to. mczz. 
 
 In the print, which is extremely rare, is a 
 view of Woliaton-hall, his feat, built in a very 
 particular (lyle. There is a juft reprcfentation 
 of ir, by Hollar, in " Thoroton's Nottinghani- 
 fhire " This portrait is in the pofTeiBon of fir 
 William Mufgrave, bare. 
 
 Sir Francis Willaghby, a gentleman of a 
 plentiful fortune and eftimable charader, was 
 defcended from two ancient families of his 
 name; the one feated at Erefby in Lincolnfhire, 
 the other on the Woulds in Nottinghamfliire^ 
 He was anceftor to the prefcnt lord Middieton, 
 and father of Francis "Willughby, efq. one of 
 the mod dillinguifhed naturalifts that this king- 
 dom has produced. The fon was prevented 
 from publifliing many of his valuable collec- 
 tions by his untimely and lamented death, 
 which happened July 3, 1672, in the 37th year 
 of his age. His *' Ornithology,'* being a me- 
 thodical hiftory pf birds, was publifhed, both in 
 Tatin and Englidi, by his friend Mr. John Ray. 
 His '* tiiitory of Fifnes/* in Latin, was pub- 
 lifhed at the expence of the Royal Society : this 
 is lefs pcrfecl than the oihcr. Indeed this pait 
 of natural hillory is, for obvious reafons, very 
 imperfedly known. See a good account of 
 him in the preface to his " Ornithology." 
 
 Sir PETER TEMPLE, Knt. R. Gay^ 
 wood f. i6j8 ; lima. 
 
 It appears, upon fearching the pedigrees of 
 carl Temple and lord Palnierfl.OLi, that there 
 was only one fir Peter in both fan^ilies. This 
 gentleman had two wives, but neither of them 
 
 was 
 
Class VIII. of ENGLAND. 
 
 was named Eleanor§. It is evident then that 
 the pedon in queltion is another fir Peter Tem- 
 ple, or Peter Temple, eiq. * who fervcd an ap- 
 prenticefbip to a linen-draper, in Friday-ftreer, 
 London 5 but, upon the death of his elder bro- 
 ther, he left his trade, and took. pofTc-fion of 
 an eftate of about four hundred pounds a-year, 
 in Leicefterfhire ; and being ele6led a reprefen- 
 tative for the town of Leiceiler, in 164.0, fat in 
 the long parliament, where he rendered himfelf 
 fo confiderable, that he was nominated one of 
 the king's judges, and figned the warrant for 
 his execution. He was therefore excepted by 
 name from the a6l of oblivion at the Reftora- 
 tion. His life was, however, fpared ; but he 
 was fentenced to perpetual impfifoament, where 
 he probably ended his days. 
 
 Sir HUGH CARTWRTGHT, Che- 
 valier Anglois, age 60^ An. 1656. Diepenheke deL 
 Lucas Vorjterman^ jun. fc. b, fh. 
 
 Sir R I C H A R D C H I V E R T O N, lord- 
 mayor of London \ fitting in an elbow-chair. This 
 print is uncommon. Sir Richard Chiverton was 
 eledled into his office, 1657. 
 
 ROBERT HENLEY, Efq *' Faitborue 
 ad vivum f. 1658 |." 
 
 I take this gentleman to have been the fame 
 perfon with fir Robert Henly, knight, who was 
 m after of the king's-bench office .: but qu^re. 
 Quaere alfo, whether his father did i^ot build 
 the Grange, in Hampfhire, after a plan of Ini- 
 go Jones : this is one of the mod capital of his 
 works. Sir Robert Henley was undoubtedly 
 
 § See Clafs XI. 
 
 * His name is not in the lift of Cromweirs knights^ 
 
 f Vertue's MS, 
 
 G 3 the 
 
tS The HISTORY Ut^ku. 
 
 the dired^ anceftor of Robert, earl of Northing- 
 ton. 
 
 ROBERT RAWLINSON, of Cark, 
 in Lancafhire, Efq. 01?. 1665, ,<E/. s^ *. Nui- 
 tingjc, ^to. 
 
 Robert Rawlinron, of Cark-hall, in Lan- 
 calliire, was defcendtd from a very ancient fa- 
 mily of that name, formerly feated at Furnace 
 Fells, in the fame county. This gentleman 
 was fon of William Ravvlinfon, efq. by Mar- 
 garet Curwen, only daughter of Walter Curwen, 
 of Mirefide-hall, in Cartmell, efq. He was 
 many years a juftice of the peace; one of the 
 juftices of Oyer and Terminer for the counties 
 palatine of Lancafter and Chefhire, and vice- 
 chamberlain for the city of Chefter. He was 
 father to Curwen Rawlinfon, and grandfather 
 to Chriftopher Ravvlinfon, efq. a perfon of 
 fome eminence, who is again mentioned in the 
 reign of Charles II. 
 
 JOHN HOLT; Loggan fc. Over bis head 
 are two withered branches of cyprejs. 
 
 This print was prefixed to "A Plant of Pa- 
 ** radile, being a Sermon preached at St. Mar- 
 " tin's in the Fields, at the Funeral of John 
 *' Goodhand Holt, the young Son, only Child, 
 " and hopeful Heir of Thomas Holt, of Gride- 
 •' hurff, in the County of Lancalter, Efq. 19 
 *•' March, 1659 ; by K. M. (Molfom) Miniller 
 " of St. Pet. P. W. t London," printed 1660. 
 The text is from Ezckiel, chap. xvii. v. 22. "I 
 " will crop off from the top of his young 
 *' twigs a tender one, and will plane it on aa 
 
 • This head is in the fame plate with Nicholas Monck, biihop 
 of Hereford, and feveral orhers of the Rawlinfon family. 
 ' t St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf. 
 
 *' high 
 
Class iX. of ENGLAND. 87 
 
 •" high mountain and eminent." This young 
 gentleman, whom the author ftyles " the lall- 
 " born of the family, and the firft-born of his 
 " mother," died of a fever, upon the 12th of 
 March, 1659, in the 12th year of his age. 
 
 PERSONS in Civil EMPLOYMENTS. 
 
 JOHNMILTON, who wrote and fpoke 
 the Latin tongue with great facility and elegance, 
 was Latin fecrctary to Cromwell. His Letters, 
 which are dill extant, have been ever efteemed 
 the completcfl models for his fuccefibrs in that 
 office *. See Clafs IX. in this, and the two 
 preceding reigns. 
 
 ANDREW MARVEL, Efq. affiilant- 
 fecretary to Milton. See the reign of Charles II. 
 Clafs V. and IX. 
 
 C L A S S IX. 
 
 MEN of GENIUS and LEARNING. 
 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 THE. TURQ_UET de MAYERNE, 
 eques auratus, pcitria Gailus, religione refcrmatus^ 
 dignitate haro^ profefficne alter Hippocrates, ac triur/i 
 regum (exemplo rarijfuno) archiater^ &c. Mt, 82. 
 Before his works *, folio* 
 
 * In the negotiations with the Swedifli ambaffador, in 1656, 
 he complained to Whitelocke of the delay of his bufinefs, and 
 of fending the articles of the treaty with Sweden " to one Mr. 
 iVIilton, a blind man, to put them into Latin/' See Whitelock's 
 •••* Memorials," p. 633. 
 
 G 4 Theo. 
 
^ Thf history Interr» 
 
 Theo. de Mayerne, eques auratus, baro Al- 
 bonse, in aula magn<e regis Britannia "'^■, archiatro- 
 rum comes^ JEt, 82. W, Elder fc. >>vo. 
 
 Both thele prints reprefent him holding a 
 fc.ull. He is perhaps as fine a fio;ure, for a 
 man of 82, as was ever fcen. See the pre- 
 ceding reign, Clafs IX. 
 
 WALTER CHARLTON, neatly co- 
 graved by P. Lombart , 8vo. See an account of 
 this learned and eminent phyfician, in the reign of 
 Charles II. 
 
 CHRISTOPHORUS BENEDICTUS; 
 
 without his name. Under the head is this dijlich ; 
 
 " Hofpitii, quicnnque petis, quis incola tanti 
 ** Spiritus; egregia hunc, confule, fcripta dabunt. 
 
 *'Chr. Terne, M.D.C.L.'* 
 
 Lomhart fc. ^vo. 
 
 This print has been thought to reprefent Dr. 
 Chriftopher Terne, a licentiate of the college, 
 who wrote the diftich*, but it was done for the 
 following perfon : 
 
 Chriftopher Bennet, a native of Raynton, in 
 Somerfetlhire, was educated at Lincoln College 
 in Oxford. He was a diflinguifhed member of 
 the College of Phyficians, and in very ron- 
 fiderable pradice. Mr. Wood informs us, that 
 he was author of " Thcatri Tabidorum Vellibu- 
 lum," 1654, 8vo ; and ot "Exercitationes Dia- 
 noeticae," 1655; and that he corredcd and en- 
 larged iVIoufet's " Health's Improvement." His 
 death, which hap[)ened about the beginning of 
 May, 1655, prevented his publifhing one or two 
 books more which he had prepared for the prcfs. 
 
 • Sic Orig. 
 
 TOBIAS 
 
IClassIX. ojF ENGLAND. 
 
 TOBIAS VENN ER, M. D. 1660, ^/. 
 85 (83) ; Faithorne fcfmall ^to. 
 
 Tobias Venner pradifed phyfic for many 
 years at Bridgewater, and other places in Somer- 
 fetfhirc; but in the latter part of his life in 
 and near Bath. He was author of fcveral me- 
 dical books, the chief of which is his " Via rec- ' 
 ?* ta ad Vitam longam, or A Treatife wherein 
 *' the right Way, and the bed Manner of liv- 
 ** ing, for attaining to a long and healthful 
 5' Life, is clearly demonftrated," This book 
 was firil publifhed in 1620. It is written in a 
 plain and prolix ftyle, fuch as was then ufed in 
 common converfation. The dodtor adled judi- 
 cioufly in adapting a book of general ufe to or- 
 dinary capacities ; and we are told by Mr. 
 Wood that it got him mod of his pradtice. 
 He wrote upon Bath waters, and informs us, 
 that they were not prefcribed to be taken in- 
 wardly by any regular phyfician. It is obferv- 
 able, that his " Cenfure on Briftol Water" is 
 the firft treatife of the kind in our language. 
 Dr. Guidot, in his " Lives and Characters of 
 f ' the Bath Phyficians," fubjoined to his "^ Dif- 
 " courfe of Bath, tells us, that in the " Via 
 *' reda," &c. is this memorable oblervation, 
 ** That a gammon of bacon is of the fame na- 
 *' ture with the reft of the hog." — His general 
 charadler was that of a plain man, and a good 
 and charitable phyfician. Ob. 1660, Mt. 83. 
 He is fuppofed to have prolonged his own lite 
 by obferving the rules laid down in his book. 
 
 JOHN BULWER, chirofopher, 1650. 
 
 Front ifpiece to his " Artificial Changeling •," 1 2mo» 
 
 The next print is before the quarto edition of the 
 fame book. 
 
 Johannes 
 
<)o The history Inte 
 
 RR, 
 
 Johannes Bulwer, cognomento chirofophus, 
 alias philoccphus, vultifpex infignis : utriufque phy- 
 fiogncmite protomyftes : pathomyotomus : naturalis lo- 
 qutla primus indagator : anatomus moralis : Stagirita 
 novus : mot ejl arum clarijjimus : Jlator auguftus et vi?i- 
 dex nature ^ M. D. &c. Faitborne fc. "^vo. 
 
 Dr. Bulwer was author of feveral books of 
 the Language of the Fland, of Phyiiognomy, 
 and of lnilru£lions to the Deaf and Dunnb ; in- 
 tended, as he exprefTes it, " to bring thofe who 
 ^' are fo born to hear the found of words with 
 *' their eyes *, and thence to learn to fpeak 
 ^' with their tongues." He was alfo author of 
 '' Pathomyotomia, or a DiiTedlion of the fig- 
 " nificative Mufcles of the Affeclions of the 
 " Mind," 1649, i2mo. "[- The rrjolt curious 
 of his works in his *' Anthropo-Metamorphofis ; 
 *' Man transformed, or the artificial Change- 
 *' ling ;'* in which he fl^evvs what a ftrange va- 
 riety of fliapes and drelR-s mankind have ap- 
 peared in, in the different ages and nations of 
 the world. At the end of the firfl edition of 
 this book, in i2mo. is a catalogue of the au- 
 ihor*s works in print and manuicript. 
 
 WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN, a 
 
 phyfician anid a poet. Sec the next divifion of 
 this Clafs. 
 
 ROBERT US BAYFIELD, y^/ 25, 
 
 1654; Fsiithorne jc. In a hat \ ^1:0. finely en- 
 graved. 
 
 • Ml". Cliffe, a deaf and dumb gentleman now living J, is fa- 
 mous for iMuieiitamlijig any thing Tajd to him, by the motion of 
 the lips only. 
 
 t The human phyiiognomy is explained in the ** Crounian 
 " LeiSliues on Miifcuiar Motion, " for the year 174.6 ; read be- 
 fore the Royal Society, by James Parlons, M. D. and F. K. S. 
 being a Supoitmcnt to tlie *' Pliilolophital Tranla(!:tions" for that 
 year. 
 
 ROBERTUS 
 
/Class TX. o f E N G L A N D. $1 
 
 Robert us Bayfield, Ait, 27 j Faithorne fi. 
 fn a black f cull-cop •, 8t'^. 
 
 The following are the titles of two of his 
 books. He was probably author of fome others, 
 of which I have received no information. The 
 reader will perceive an anachronilm in com- 
 paring the title of the firft with the dates of his 
 two portraits : but this is not altogether unufual 
 in frontifpieces, which are fometimes prefixed 
 to different works of the fame writer, or to dif- 
 ferent editions of the fame work. " Traclatiu 
 " de Tumoribus pr^eter l^aturam ; or a Trea- 
 .*' tife of preternatural Tumours. By Robert 
 «' Bayfield, Phyfician." Lond. 1662. 8vo. His 
 head with the cap, Mu 27, is prefixed to this 
 book, which is dedicated to bifhop Reynolds of 
 Norwich; and a fecond part of it to the famous 
 fir Thomas Brown, M. D. of that city : viz. 
 " Exercitationes Anatomicse in varias Reeiones 
 .*' humani Corporis, a Roberto Bayfield, Medi- 
 " co: Edif 2^^. Lond. 1668." i2mo. This fe- 
 cond treatife is dedicated to his dear kinfman, 
 Robert Gawfell, efq. and a fecond part of it to 
 his loving relation, John Repps, cfq. both of 
 them jullices of the peace for Norfolk. 
 
 It is probable that none of the following per- 
 fons in this divifion were graduates. QuaLTc. 
 
 Dr. E V E R A R D, in his ftudy^ fmoking his 
 pipe j a book open before him ; 1 imo. 
 
 Dr. Everard had a higher opinion of the vir- 
 tues of tobacco, both in the prevention and 
 cure of difeafes, than ever Dr. Ralph 7\horius 
 had-f. He was author of a book entitled " Pa- 
 ^^ nacea, or a univerfal Medicine, being a Dif- 
 
 t See his Poem on Tobacco iq the ** Muf« Anglicanse." 
 
 '' covery 
 
j2 \ TheHISTORY Interr.' 
 
 *' covery of the wonderful Virtues of Tobacco ♦," 
 1659 ; fniall 8vo. To this book is prefixed his 
 portrait. 
 
 LIONEL LOCKYER, famous for his 
 pill. See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 NICHOLAS CULPEPPER, eques; 
 Crofsfc, ^to. Before his " Englijh Fhyfician ;'* foL 
 
 1652. 
 
 Nicholas Culpeper j his right hand on a 
 
 fcitll \ \2mo. 
 
 The portrait above defcribed, is prefixed to 
 his *' School of Phyfic," publifhed after his de- 
 ceafe by his widow, who married to her fe- 
 fond hufband John Heydon, a noted ftudent in 
 phyfic and aftrology, and a great dealer in ho- 
 rofcopes. About the time of the Reftoration 
 was publifhed, '* The beautifying Part of Phy- 
 ** fic,'* by Nicolas Culpepper. 
 
 EfBgies RICHARDI TOMLINSON, 
 i^t. 2 3 ; Crofs fc. a fmall ovaU in the title to his 
 Tranjlation of Renodaus's " Difpenfatory" 1657. 
 
 Nothing but the youth of this tranQator, who 
 was an apothecary, can excufe his naufeous 
 bombafl: and affectation in the preface to the 
 reader : 
 
 And all goes down like oxymel of fquills. 
 
 Rofcommon. 
 
 POETS. 
 
 MILTON: from a drawing of Mr. Beacon^ 
 taken from an imprejfion of afeal of T, Simon ^ in the 
 poffeffwn of Mr, Teo, 
 
 ^ Milton; 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D. ^j 
 
 Milton : engraved by Ryland^ from the fame feaL 
 This is much better executed than the former. See 
 Clal's Vlll. &c. 
 
 SAMUEL BUTLER wrote his inimU 
 table *' Hudibras" during this period. See the 
 reign of Charles II. in which his portrait was 
 painted. 
 
 ABRAHAM COWLEY. See the 
 
 reigns of Charles I. and II. 
 
 EDMUND WALLER, in his famous 
 Panegyric on Cromwell, has exceeded himfclf al- 
 moft as much as the Protedlor did other men. His 
 genteel reply to Charles II. in regard to his poem, 
 is well known. It is alfo well known that the 
 conquefts of Charles were of a very different kind 
 from thofe of Cromwell, and that they would have 
 made a much worfe figure in verfe. See the reigns 
 of Charles I. and II, 
 
 Sir WILLIAM D A V E N AN T, when 
 
 tragedy and comedy were held in equal abomina- 
 tion with the Liturgy, introduced an opera called 
 *' The fiege of Rhodes," under the notion of an 
 innocent mufical performance *. This was the 
 firft dramatic piece of the kind ever exhibited on 
 the Englifh ftage. See the reigns of Charles I. 
 
 * Among other canfes of the fuppreflion of ftage-plays, at this 
 period, was a pamphlet which had a very confiderable effeit : it 
 was entitled *' Tragicomcedia, or a Relation of the wonderful 
 *' Hand of God at Witney, in the Comedy afted there, where 
 ** Tome where flain : together with what was preached in three 
 " Sermons on that Occafion, by John Pvowe, of C. C. C. Oxon,'* 
 1653, 4.to. 
 
 In the " Hiftoria Kiftrionica,"" publilhed in 1699, 8vo. is a 
 eoiK:ire hiftory of the adlors during the rebellion, " (hewing how 
 *' honourably they ferved in the king's army. Next how they 
 ** returned to a6ting, but privately ; and in Oliver's time, at 
 " Holland Houfe." See an abftra^t of this pamphlet in Oldys's 
 ** Biitiih Librarian," p. 62. 
 
 and 
 
94 
 
 The history Inter£: 
 
 and II. to the latter of which his portrait be- 
 longs. 
 
 THOMAS MAY, Efq. Mt, ^^^ over his 
 head is a chapltt of laurel. Before the fee and edition 
 of his *' Breviary of the Hifiory of the Parliament i" 
 I2r,w. 
 
 Thomas May, a celebrated poet and hifto- 
 rian, was familiarly acquainted with the greateft 
 wits of his time ; and was himfelf ranked in the 
 firfl clafs of thofe who bore that character. He 
 was author of feveral dramatic pieces, and of 
 two hiftorical poems of the reigns of Henry II. 
 and Edward 11!. each of which is in {ttwtn 
 books. But his principal work is his " Tranf- 
 ** lation of Lucan's Pharfalia," and his Con- 
 tinuation of that Poem, to the death of Ju- 
 lius C^far. He tranflated the latter into La- 
 tin verfe. It is by this that we muil take our 
 cftimate of him as a poet 5 as the imperfed: 
 flate of our verfification when he wrote, and the 
 gradual flux of our language fince, have con- 
 tributed to fink the En^lifh far below the Latin 
 tranflation. He alfotranflated Barclay's ''Icon A- 
 •' nimorum," and had a hand in the tranQation of 
 his " Argenis." His lail work was his " Hif- 
 *' tory of the Parliament of England," and his 
 Abridgment of the fame in Latin andEnglifh. 
 There is more candour in this Hiftory than the 
 royalifts were willing to allow him ; but there is 
 lefs elegance than one would expedl from the pen 
 of fo polite and clafTical a fcholar. Oh. 13 Nov. 
 16505 JEt, 5^^, 
 
 THOMAS 
 
 • Payne Fiiher, poet hu rent to Cromwell, a copious, and not 
 inelegant writer of Latin verfes, flourilhed befoit and after the 
 Reftoration. The following charadter by Strada is exaftly fuited 
 to him. " Nuilus hodie mortalium aut nafcitur, aut moritur, 
 
 «' aut 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D. 9.5 
 
 THOMAS STANLEY, arm, P. Leiy 
 
 p. Fait borne fc. a fine head. Before the firft edition 
 Oj his " Hiftory of Philofcphyy'' 1 653 ; foL 
 
 Thomas Stanley, a polite fcholar, an accom- 
 pliihed gentleman, and an eminent poet and 
 hillorian, was author of many pieces in verfe 
 and profe. His original poems are, for the moft 
 part, on amorous fubjeds. His tranflations, 
 which are more numerous, are from Theocri- 
 tus, Anacreon, Bion, Secundus, &c. His ver- 
 fion of, and commentary on *' -^fchyli Tragoc- 
 *' dis feptem, cum Scholiis Grsecis omnibus, et 
 " deperditorum Dramatum Fragmentis," 1664, 
 fol. is a laborious and valuable work. This 
 ancient Greek poet, like fome of the precious 
 reliques of fculpture and archite61:ure of his 
 country, has fufFered much from the injuries of 
 time, but is ftill admirable, though greatly im- 
 paired and mutilated. The " Hiftory of Phi- 
 " lofophy," by our author, is a work of greac 
 merit, and generally known. Ob. 12 April, 
 1678. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER WASSE, (or Wase), 
 M. A. black cap^ own hair ; a fmall oval. 
 
 This ingenious perfon, who w^as a perfeft 
 mafter of the Greek and Latin languages, was 
 forne time fellow of King's College m Cam- 
 bridge, and afterwards fuperior beadle of law, 
 in the univerfity of Oxford. He tranflated Gro- 
 
 " aut prseliatur, ant rufticatur, aut ab;t peregre, ant redit, aut 
 *' nubit, aut eft, aut non eft (nam etiam mortuis i'te canit) cui 
 '* non ille extemplo cudat Epicedia, Genethliaca, Protreptica, 
 *' Panegyiica, Epitha'amia, Vaticinia, Propemplica, Soterica, 
 '* Pari^netica, Naenias, Niigas." See a catalogue of his works in 
 the ** Athenae Oxonienfes." 1 have met with no portrait of this 
 perfon. 
 
 tius's 
 
96 The HISTORY Interr; 
 
 tius*5 " Catechifm" into Greek vcrfe *. His 
 Englifh tranflation of Gratius's " Cynegeticon," 
 and his comment on that elegent poem, are a 
 fufficient proof of his abilities. Mr. Waller ad- 
 dreffed a copy of verfes to him on this per- 
 formance. Mr. Hearne, at page 20 of his Di^ 
 courfe prefixed to the eighth volume of Le- 
 land's '' itinerary," ftyles Mr. Chriftopher Wafc 
 *' that eminent philologer^" and makes ho- 
 nourable mention of a fon of his, of both his 
 names, who was fellow of C. C. C. in Oxford.^ 
 See Dr. Bafil Kennet's eighteenth fermon on oc- 
 cafion of the death of Dr. Creed and Mr. Wafe 
 the fon. The father died Auguft 29, 1690. 
 
 THOMAS HOBBES, of Malmfbury. 
 See the reign of Charles 11. * 
 
 RICHARD LOVELACE. See the 
 reign of Charles I. 
 
 EDWARD BENLOWES, Efq. Before 
 his ^^ Tbeophila^ or hove* s Sacrijice \ foU 1652. / 
 believe it was engraved by Barlow. 
 
 EtfwARD Benlowes; a fynall oval^ fur rounded 
 with laurel foliage \ Van. King fc. In a jheet^which 
 contains feveral views of the old church of St, Paul^ 
 together with feme verfes by this author. 
 
 There is a portrait of him in the Mafter's" 
 Lodge, at St. John's College in Cambridge, 
 where he was educated, and to which he was 
 a benefadlor. There is another in the Pidlure 
 Gallery at Oxford. 
 
 Edward Benlowes -f-, (or Bendlowes), was a" 
 man of genteel accompliflimcnts. He was 2t 
 
 • The original Is in Latin verfe, 
 f He wrote his name Benlowes, 
 
 great 
 
Class IX. of ENGLAND. 
 
 great patron of the poets and other writers of 
 his time, upon whom he lavifhed a great part 
 of his fortune. He was author of a conriderablc 
 number of poems in Latin and Engiilli, the 
 thief of which is his ^' Theophila," which gives 
 us a higher idea of his piety than his poetical 
 talents ; though there are many uncommon and 
 excellent thouglus in it. But his metaphors are 
 often (trained and far-fetched, and he fomerimes 
 lofes himfelf in myftical divinity. His Latin 
 verfes are generally better than his Englilli. He 
 died, m great want, i68<5, zEt. 73. See more 
 of him in the " Athen. Oxon.'* See alloHowers 
 " Letters," vol. ii. Letter LXVI. f 
 
 W I L L I A M C H A M B E R L A I Nj ^. 
 
 Hatochs f. %vo. Before his "''- Pharcrmida.^^ 
 
 William Chamberlain, a dodlor of Phyfic at 
 Shaftefbury in Dorfetfhire, was author of a play 
 called " Love's Vidory," printed in 4to. 1658^ 
 and a(5ted in 1678, under the title of " The 
 '' Wits led by the Nofe, or the Poet's Re- 
 ** venge." He alfo wrote an heroic poem, called 
 *' Pharonnida," printed in 8vo. 1659. This 
 was publifhed in profe, as a novel, in 168 3; : it: 
 was entitled "Eromena, or the Noble Stranc-er.** 
 Vide Langbaine and Jacob. 
 
 f Kis Prayer, at p. 19, of his *« TheophilaV has been deferved- 
 ly admired. The following is a quotation from it ; •' Let reli- 
 •* gion and right reafon rule as fovereign in me, and let the 
 ** irafcible and concupifcibie faculties be their fub}e6Vs ! Give 
 '* me an eflate balanced between want and wafte- pity and envy : 
 •• give me grace to fpend my wealth and ftrength in thy fervice: 
 *' let all my jnelancholy be iepentance, my joys fpiritual exul- 
 *' rations, my rell hope, my peace a good confcience, and my ac- 
 *' quiefcence in Thee ! In Thee as the principle of truth, in thy 
 ** word as the meafure of knowledge, in thy law as the rule of 
 ** life, in thy promife as the fatisf;icVK)n of hope, and in thy 
 *' union as the highell fruition of glory." 
 
 Vol. Ill, H W I L- 
 
 9? 
 
^S The HISTORY Interk. 
 
 WILLIAM, Marquis of NEWCASTLE, 
 who amufed himlelf at this period with poetry and 
 horlemanfhip, was, as a natural cor.ftquence of 
 his rank, rr.uch extolled as a poet. His poetical 
 works, which con fills of plays and poems, are 
 very little regarded -, but his fine book of horfe- 
 manfhip is ftiil in eltecm. It was lately reprinted. 
 Oh 25 Dec. 1676. See the reisn of Charles I. 
 Clafs III. 
 
 Sir W I L L I A M LOWER; a fmall am- 
 nymous head ; arms ; inctto^ *' AmiiO Rofa^ Inimica 
 
 SDinar 
 
 J, 
 
 Sir William Lower, a noted cavalier, wrote 
 and tranil.ued the following dramatic pieces. 
 I. '* The Phenix in Flames," a tragedy. IL 
 *' Pclyeudes, or the Martyr,'* a tragedy. IIL 
 *' Horatius," a tragedy, from the French of 
 Corneille : this is better tranilated by Mrs. Phi- 
 lips. IV. " The Noble Ingratitude," a palloral 
 tragi-comedy, from Monf. Qiiinault : to this 
 is prefixed his head. V. *' The Inchanted 
 *' Lovers," a dramatic pafloral. VI. " The 
 *' Amorous Phantafm," a tragi-comedy. All 
 thefe, except the firfl, v/ere written during the 
 Interregnum. He tranflated from the French 
 the firft and third tomes of the *' Innoce/;t 
 '• Lady, or illultrious Innocence." The moil 
 confiderable of the books pubhfhed by him, are 
 thofe two which relate to Charles the Second^'s 
 reception and entertainment at the Hague. One 
 of them was printed feveral years before the 
 Keftoration, the other at that a^ra. It is en- 
 titled, " A Relation of Cnarhs the Second's 
 " Voyage to, and Re(^.iencc at the Hague, from 
 f?«S. «' the 25th of May to June 2, 1660, &c.'* Hag. 
 
 Com. 1660. This is a tranllation from the 
 French. 
 
 FRAN. 
 
Class IX. of ENGLAND. 
 
 FRANCIS GOLDSMITH, of Gray's 
 
 Inn •, a fmall oval. There is another head of him^ 
 ^without his nmm^ engraved by Crofs j underjieath are 
 fevered verfes, 
 
 " His outward figure here you {\v\di^'' &c. 
 
 Francis Goldlmith trandated, from Grotius, 
 *' Sophompaneas, or the Hillory of Jofcph/' 
 which he publilhed with annotations, in the pre- 
 ceding reign. He alfo tranflated into Englifh 
 aCatechifm, v;ritten in Latin verfe, by the fame 
 author. This was printed after the Reftor- 
 ation ^. He died at Alhton, in Northampton- 
 fliire, in September 1655. 
 
 JOHN OGILBY; Frontifpiece to his <* Vir-^ 
 ^^ gily^ 1649 ; ?)Vo, See the reign of Charles il. 
 
 JOFIANNES Q^UARLES; Falihorne f 
 iimo. This has been copied, 
 
 John Quiarles, who was one of the eighteen 
 children of Francis Qiiarles, by Urfula his wife, 
 bore a captain's commifRon in the royal army, 
 in the time of the Civil War. Upon the de- 
 cline of the king's fortune, he retired to London 
 in a neceflitous condition, and applied himfelf 
 to writing books for his fupport. His works 
 are chiefly poems, in which he appears to be the 
 poetical^ as well as the natural fon of his father. 
 He died of the plague in 1665. Sec a detail of 
 his works in the " Athen. Oxon." 
 
 * We had lately a poet of the fame name with the perfon juft 
 rnentioned 5 perhaps of the fiime family, bur by no means of the 
 fame charafter. His writings, in general, are much efteemed j 
 but his poetry is greatly admired. Few tragedies have been 
 read with flronger emotions of pity, than the diitrefsful fceiies in 
 his " Vicar of Wakefield :*' yet we cannot but regret, that the 
 author of " The Traveller J' fliould have undervalued his ge- 
 nius fo far a» to write a romance. 
 
 \ Decies repetita plaeebit, 
 
 H 2 GEORGE 
 
 99" 
 
100 The HISTORY Interr, 
 
 GEORGE W I. T H E R publiaied a poem 
 of many hundred lines, upon the report of the 
 reiloranon of rhe parliament by general Monck, 
 ill 1659. It is entitled, " Furor Poeticus, i. e. 
 *" PropheticLis, a Poetic Plirenfie." ft is dated 
 from Hambledon, and he tells us thac i: was 
 meditated, 
 
 ** 1 17 dorfo pagi, recubans fub tegmine fagi." 
 
 I fiiall conclude all I have ta fay of this ever- 
 lading rhymer, with two lines of Dryden, which 
 comprehend his whole charaifler as a poet : 
 
 " He fagottcd his notions as they fell, 
 ' *' And if they rhym'd and rattled, all was well.'* 
 
 Sec the two preceding reigns. 
 
 HUGO C R O M P T O N ; ^/. 18 •, yf H.r- 
 
 tocbs fc. 12}}?0. 
 
 Hugo Crompton, gen. /mail Svo. Before bis 
 *' Pier ides " i^c. 1658. This print reprejcnts him 
 Jomc'what elder than the former, 
 
 Huah Crompron was a gentleman well edu- 
 cated, though but ofTmall fortune. His necel- 
 fities, as may be collected from hisepillle to the 
 reader, obliged him to turn author. He pub- 
 iilhed a volun-,e of poems, entitled, *' Pierides, 
 '•• or the Mufes Mount," out of which Win- 
 flanley has given us a tfifle^ as he calls it, cf tke 
 trijknffs of his Mufe ; but 1 mud confefs 1 can 
 -difcover no fuch matter in that fpecimen. He 
 informs us, that he intended his *' Mufes" for 
 wade paper, but that he afterwards altered his 
 mind in this particular. He fpeaks thus of his 
 " Muf's :" *' J, for want of a k^tter labour in 
 " my ramble, gathered this iallad from Par- 
 ** naffus, and waflit it in Helicon. But tliOa 
 ^' (reacier) mud find oil and vinegar, and fugar 
 *' it with thy good conceit, if thuu pleal'ed.'* — • 
 
 He 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D. loi 
 
 He left fo much to be fuppliecl by the reader, 
 that his work was, in a fliort tiiiie, generally 
 negledted. 
 
 JOHN TATHA M, Poet : an anonymous 
 Jjead, over which two Cupids hold a crown of laureL 
 Underneath art theje v.eyfes : 
 
 '' Here is no fchifme, the judging ey€ may fee 
 " In every line a perfe(St harmony. 
 ** And love and beauty, for fo great a grace, 
 " Joy in their lovely reconciler's face." 
 
 " John Tatham," fays Winftanley, ** wzs 
 ■*' one whofe mufe began to bud wich his youth, 
 " which produced early bloflbms of not alto- 
 *' gether contemptible poetry," of which he has 
 given us " a tafte" in the following lines. The 
 author addrelles himfelf in the perfon of Momus. 
 
 " How now, prefumptuous lad, think'fl thou 
 
 " that we 
 *' Will be diflurb'd with this thy infancy 
 " Of wit ? 
 
 " Or does thy amorous thoughts beget a Same, 
 " (Beyond its merit) for to court the name 
 ^' Of poet ? or is't common now a days 
 *' SuGh (lender wits dare claim fuch things as 
 
 «' bays.*^ 
 
 However ftrange it may fcem, it is certain tha-C 
 he did *' claim fuch things ;" and, what is more 
 ftrange, his claim was readily admitted. He 
 has been erroneoufly called dty Poet, and was 
 deemed a worthy fore-runner of Settle. He 
 undoubredJy wrote panegyrics upon two lord 
 mayors *, in whofe eftimation they were zsgoed 
 rhymes J and probably pieafed as much, as if 
 they had been written by Waller himfelf. He 
 was author of feveral plays, moft of which were 
 f ubliliied before the keftoration. 
 • In the reign of Charles JI. 
 
 H3 LEO. 
 
tC2 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 LEONARD WILL AN; a ht4 on a 
 
 ptdeflnl •, T. Crop fc. fix Englifh verfes. Le H^illaii 
 JcripfJ. Before his '-^ Jflrea, a PajloraW 1651. 
 
 This padoral was taken from a voluminous 
 romance, for^r.crly well known by the title of 
 " Ailrca." Willan was alio author of " The 
 ** perfe(5l Statefman, or Miniiler of State," i663, 
 folio. 
 
 The author, whom nature feems to have inr 
 tended for an humble profe writer, moves very 
 aukwardly when exalted on the fliks of poetry. 
 
 JOHN HODDESDON, ^t. 18; ft>} 
 Er'gUJJx-verfes •, ^vo. 
 
 He v/as author of " Sion and Parnaflus, or 
 " Epigrams on feveral texts of the Old and 
 " New Teftament," 1650, 8vo. 
 
 M U R F O R D ; in a cloak -, the fea and a JJjip 
 f.t a defiance. Under the head are four verfes that de- 
 note hhn a poet : 
 
 " He that views Murford's face," &c. 
 
 The fame plate appears to have been ufed 
 afterwards for Forbes. 
 
 A f mall whole le'igth of a man dreffed like the gen- 
 try of this period^ or the reign of Charles 1. Over his 
 head is the word NUM. // is in a f nail hock, called 
 *' ^'he Life of a fatyrical Puppy, called Nym ^, who 
 ** worrleth all thofe Soty rifts he hiows^ and barks at 
 " therefi', by T, M" 1657. 
 
 It is probable that this whelp never *' grew 
 " up to dog's eftatef •," and that, like other 
 puppies, he was rather impertinent and teafing 
 
 • Nyni, or Nim, feems to be the diminutive of Nimrod, 
 
 ** A mighty hunter, and his jprey was man." 
 ^ Prior. 
 
 than 
 
Cl AS5 IX. OF ENGLAND. lo^ 
 
 than formidable. I am equally a ilranger to 
 his real name and his works. 
 
 €C 
 
 THOMAS P E C K E, 8rc. four Latin virfes i 
 Eomdtim juveniU decus^ i£c.^^ iimo. 
 
 Thomas Pecke was a young gentleman of 
 great expedation, who tranfiated fix hundred 
 of Owen's ** Epigrams" into Englifli, while he 
 was at the Temple. They were printed with 
 *' Martial de Spedlaculis, or, Of the Rarities 
 *' to be feen in Rome, and with the mod leiecl 
 '* Epigrams of fir Thomas More ; to which is 
 *' annexed a Century of heroic Epigrams, &c.'* 
 Thefe were publifhed under the trrle of *' Par- 
 " naiTi Puerperium, or fome well Wilbes to In- 
 " genuity," 1659 ; 8vo. Payne Eiilier wrote 
 *' Epithalamium in Nuptias eruditiff. juvenis, 
 " Thorns Pecke, de Spixford, Com. Norf. Ar- 
 " migeri, & ledlilT. Virginis, Lucix Ball, Filiae 
 ^^ fpedatiff, Petri Ball, Eq. aur." 
 
 POETESSES. 
 
 Mrs. C A T H AR I N E P H I L I P S, ^ ^///, 
 
 infer ibed^ Orinda ; Fait borne /. Frontif piece to her 
 works ; folio, 
 
 Orinda Philips; J, Becket f. ^tv. mezz. 
 
 There is a portrait of her at Strawberry-hill. 
 
 Catharine, daughter of John Fowler, a mer- 
 chant of London, and wife of James Philips, 
 of the Priory of Cardigan, efq. was much and 
 defervediy edeemed for her poetical talents. She 
 was ftyled, " The matchlefs Orinda," and in- 
 deed (hone without a rival among the female 
 wiis of her time. S\\t was author of feveral po- 
 ems, which are more to be admired for propriety 
 
 H 4 and 
 
It)4 The HISTORY Interr, 
 
 and beauty of thought, than for harmony of 
 vcrfification, in which (he was generally dcfici- 
 tnt. She trandited the " Pompey" and '* Ho- 
 *' race" of Corneilie, and is faid to have beea 
 afTifled in the former by Charles lord Buckhurft 
 and Mr. Waller ^. " Pompey" was acled with 
 applaufe in Ireland, and " Horace" by perfons 
 o\ quality at court. Her Letters to fir Charles 
 Cotterel have been much admired, and are 
 among the beft of her works. Dr. Jeremy Tay- 
 lor, who was her intimate friend, has addrefTed 
 his excellent *' Letter on the Meafures and Of- 
 *' fices cf FriendPnip" to her. 01?. ^Jivne^ 1^64, 
 Mt. 32. Her works were publiihcd after her 
 deceafe, in 1667. 
 
 MARGARET CAVENDLSH, dutchcfs 
 of Neweadle. See the reign of Charles IL 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS 
 in Divinity, HiSTORY, Antiq^uities, &c. 
 
 JOHANNES P R r C i5i U S ; Perfyn fc. 
 prefixed lo "• Apuleii Met amor phofecs^ Lib, XL cum 
 Notis^ &c. y. Pric^., Goudce 1650;" ^vo. This 
 head., 'uuhicb is well executed^ is., in the copy of " Jpn- 
 ^' leius^' in my fcjftjjlcriy placed ijjimedialei'y after the 
 tide, 
 
 John Price, one of the firft theological critics 
 of his age, was educated at Chrid-Church, in 
 the univerfity of Oxford. Having embraced 
 the religion of the church of Rome, he travel- 
 led into Italy with Mr. Howard, a fon of the carl 
 of Arundel, and was afterwards retained in the 
 fervice of the earl of Strafford, when he was 
 
 f Sec ** Royal 3|id Noble Authors," II, p. 98, ad edit. 
 
 lord 
 
Class IX. of ENGLAND. 105 
 
 lord lieutenant of Ireland. Then it was that 
 his acquaintance commenced with the celebrat- 
 ed primate Ufher, In the time of the Civil 
 War, he wrote feveral pamphlets in defence of 
 the king, for which he luffered a tedious im- 
 prifonment. Upon his eniargemejit, he retired 
 to Florence, was made fupervifor of the Grand. 
 Duke's medals, and was afterwards, by that 
 prince, appointed profeilor of the Greek lan- 
 guacre at P^fa. He was particularly eminent for 
 his Commentaries on the Scriptures. His Notes 
 on the Pfalms and the New Teilamtnt arc 
 infcrted entire, and by themfelves, in the fifth 
 tome of the •' Critici Sacri." The learnec! Dutch 
 critic, John Alberti, fpends eight chapters of his 
 " Pericuium Criticuri)" in ftrid:urcs upon that 
 work. He is faid to have fpent the latter part 
 of his life in the convent of St. Auguftin, at 
 Rome. — Ob, clrc, i6y6* 
 
 EDWARD LEIGH, Efq. M. A. of both 
 univerftties^ Mt, 48, 1650. 
 
 This gentleman was educated at Magdalen- 
 Hail, in Oxford, whence he removed to the 
 Middle Temple, where he not only ftudied the 
 common law, but divinity and hiftory. The 
 books which he publifhed in the feveral facul- 
 ties to which he applied himfeif, are an abun- 
 dant proof of his great indullry and extenfive 
 learning; particularly his critical and theologi- 
 cal works, the chief of which are his ^' Critica 
 " Sacra" on the Hebrew words of the Old, and 
 the Greek of the New Teftament, and his " Bo- 
 *' dy of Divinity." He was reprefentative for 
 the towa of Stafford, in the Lortg Parliament, 
 and was one of the members appointed by the 
 commons to fit in the affembly of divines. Ob, 
 2 June, 1671. 
 
 GULL 
 
io5 The HISTORY Interr 
 
 GU LI ELM US HICKS, oen. JEt. 38, 
 1658 •, D. Loggan fc, 
 
 " Though ihou no prophet art, nor prophet's 
 
 " Ton, 
 *' Without their fpirit, this could ne'er be done. 
 " Though Brightman, Napier, Mede, are gone 
 
 " to reft, 
 " Their iprite yet lives redoubled in thy bread. 
 *' Ye that have caft th' Apocalypfr to ground, 
 *' Becaufe lb dark, myiterious, and profound, 
 •' Why take it up again, and ufe this glafs, 
 *" Twill then no longer for a myfl'ry pals." 
 
 Yv^illiam Hicks, who received his education 
 in the univerfity of Oxford, took arms againft 
 the kino; in the Civil Vv'ar, in which he bore a 
 captain's comn^/iffion in the trained bands. He 
 was author of a " Pra6lical Expofition on the 
 " Revelation," in folio, to which two feveral 
 titles, with different dates, have been prefixed. 
 The " Apocalypfe,'* like other things that are 
 unintelligible, has been explained a hundred dif- 
 ferent ways, and the lalt expofition has been 
 generally the moll elleemed, efpecially if it has 
 been adapted to the time when it was written. 
 Ob, March, 1659-60. Vide '' Athen. Oxon." 
 
 ED. C H 1 S E N H A L E, Efq. pefenting bis 
 hook to a man Jianding at a church door \ various em- 
 blematical figures \ Jmall 0^1 avo. Front ifpiece to his 
 " Hiftoryr 
 
 Edward Chifenhale, a gentleman of Lanca- 
 fhire, who bore a colonel's commifTion for the 
 king in the civil war, well deferves to be remem- 
 bered in the double capacity of a foldier and an 
 author. He was one of the garrifon that with 
 heroic bravery defended Latham-Houfe, whence 
 he fallied forth, jufi: after the enemy had been 
 
 boalbng 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D. 107 
 
 boaftino: of their provifions, and dole their din- 
 ner. He alfo, with fingiilar addrefs, drew the 
 befiCgers into a place v/here he cut ofFfive hun- 
 dred of them, under a pretence that the houfe 
 was open. This exploit was the occafion of his 
 being fined 800 L for delinquency ^. He was 
 author of '* A Catholic Hiftory, coUeded out of 
 *' Scriptures, Councils, Fathers, &c. occafioned 
 " by Dr. Thomas Vane's book, called The loft 
 " Sheep returned," 1653, fmall 8vo. -f 
 
 FRANCISCUS ROUS, armig. Collegii 
 JEtonenfiS praspofitus, 1656,^/. 77; Faithornefc, 
 Before *' i^he Works of Francis Rous, Efq. or Trea- 
 *' tifes and Meditations dedicated to the Saints, and to 
 ^' the excellent throughout the three Nations j" foL 
 1657: 
 
 There is an original portrait of him, with a 
 mace, as fpeaker of the houfe of commons, ia 
 the Provoft's Lodge, at Eton College. ^ 
 
 Francis, fon of fir Anthony Rous, of Flalton 
 in Cornwall, v/as burgefs for Truro, in that 
 county, in the reign of Charles L He was a 
 vehement declaimer in parliament againlt the 
 innovations and abufes in church and ilate •, and 
 particularly againft Arminianifm, which he re- 
 prefented as popery in difguife. He was one of 
 the few laymen appointed by the commons to 
 fit in the aifembly of divines at Weft minfter J. 
 His religious and political principles were per- 
 fe6tly accommodated to the party which he ef- 
 poufed, and feem to have ever varied with his 
 
 *See Lloyd's " Memorials," p. 690. Particulars of the fiege 
 are in Peck's " Defiderata Curiofa," xi. p. 42, &c. 
 
 •f" Vane was a convert to popery. 
 
 X He was faid to have entered into holy orders j but of this 
 there is no proof. See «< Athen, ©xon.'' 
 
 intereft. 
 
ic8 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 interefl, which appears to hav;j had a mucli 
 (Ironger hold upon him than liis enthufiafm. 
 He was appointed fpeakcr of Barebone's par- 
 liament; and made a wild propolal to form the 
 Enojidi Commonwealth after ihe model of the 
 Jcwiih. But as a theocracy was rejedted, he 
 thought fit to invefl; the regal power in Crom- 
 well, v;hom he affecled to look upon as a com- 
 pound of the charafters of Mofes and Jolliua. 
 He v/as one of thofe who were called by tlic pro- 
 teftor to the upper houfe ; and it was faid, " that 
 *• he could not well do lefs than make that gen- 
 " tleman a lord, who had made him a prince," 
 by the rcfignation of the infcrument of govern- 
 ment into his hands. He was called *' the il- 
 '• literate Jew of Eton ;'* but it does not at all 
 appear, from his writings, that hedefcrved that 
 appellation. Ch. 7 Jan. 1658-9. See more of 
 him in lord Clarendon's " Hiftory of the Re- 
 " bellion." 
 
 JOHANNES SPARROW, &c. D. Leg- 
 ^an deh ^fc.i6^q. In the upper part of the print 
 are two ftmi-circles full of Jirange lines and figures^ and 
 joined together by a hearty 'with this infcription^ '' The 
 "' I Fonder -Eye of Eternity ^ explained ly Jacob Eetm, 
 ** in the 40. §ueJlions of the Soul.'" ^to» 
 
 John Sparrow, a barriflier of the Inner Tem- 
 ple, tranllated '' The high and deep Searching 
 *' out of the Life of Man," and feveral others of 
 the numerous works of Jacob Behmen, a Ger- 
 man cobler '-, and a celebrated enthufiaft. Mr. 
 Law, who was alfo a tranflator of his writings, 
 and many other perfons, have lately helped to 
 
 • Some f"y that he was a cow- keeper till he wr.s abo\it twenty- 
 five years of age, when he Tuddenly fancied himfeif inlpired. 
 
 bring 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D* 109 
 
 bring this profound author into vogue *. The 
 myftical divinity of Behmen may be compared 
 to a cloudy fky in winter weather; in which the 
 fame cloud which one fancies to refemble a lion, 
 another fhall fancy to be like- a bear, and a third 
 a horfe. Mr. Law imagined, that fir Ifaac New- 
 ton took the firfl hint of his philofophy from 
 Behmen's divinity •, another, that there is a clofe 
 analogy betwixt that and eledricity-, and it is 
 very probable that fome of his readers have as 
 clearly difcovered in it the vortices of Des 
 Cartes. 
 
 Sir HENRY VANE deferves to be ranked 
 in the firfl: clafs of myiiics, as he is little lefs pro- 
 found than Jacob Behmen himfelf. We are amaz- 
 ed that a man, whole genius carried him fo far 
 above the common level of mankind in his public 
 charadler, fhould fink fo far below common fenfe 
 in his writings. Don Quixote is fuppofed to have 
 fpoken like a philofopher upon every thing but 
 knight-errantry ; fo did fir Henry Vane upon any 
 thing but religion. He, as well as every other 
 ridiculous broacher of heterodoxies, had many 
 followers f. See the reign ot^ Charles I. Cials 
 V. 
 
 Sir G E O R G E STRODE-, afm^ll oval ; 
 in the title to his tranjlation (from the Spanifi) of 
 Fcnf coo's '' Holy Love j" 1652. iimo, 
 
 * There are not myfteries enough In reUglon to exercife the 
 active faith of feme zealots, who cannot be fatisfied without add- 
 ing new ones, till they are loft in the darlcnefs of enthufiafm. But, 
 as they always fancy themielves under the immediate dirt(5tioii 
 of Heaven, they then think they are moft enlightened ; and be- 
 lieve that ihat faith which can ** remove mountains," can alfo 
 discover divine truth in nonfenfe and impoflibility. 
 
 t See the " Life of Baxter j" fol, part i. p. 74, & feq. 
 
 I have 
 
no TheHISTORIT Interf^; 
 
 I have fcen another book, publiOied by this 
 gentleman, namely, " The Anatomic of Mor- 
 " talitie, written by George Strode, utter Bar- 
 " ritler of the Middle lemple, for his own pri- 
 " vate Comfort, &c." Si^cond edition, 1632 5 
 4to. 
 
 BULSTRODE WHIT LOCKE, the 
 
 Memorialift. See the reisn of Charles II. 
 
 THOMAS MAY, Efq. hiftorian to the 
 parliament. See an account of him in the divifion 
 of the Poets. 
 
 JOHN RUSHWORTH, Efq. author of 
 e *' HiftorL 
 Charles II. 
 
 the *' Hiftorical Collections." See the reign of 
 
 GULIELMUS SANDERSONUS, jEl 
 
 6^, 1658 ; So eft p, Faithornefc, Front if piece to hi^ 
 " Graphice •," foL 
 
 GuLiELMUS Sandersonus, jEt. 68, 1658 ; by 
 Fait home y but without the name of fainter or en- 
 graver, 
 
 William Sanderfon was fome time fecretary 
 to George Villiers, the firft duke of Bucking- 
 ham of that name. He diftinguiflied himfeif by 
 his loyalty to Charles I. in the time of the Civil 
 War, and was a s^reat fufferer in the roval caufe. 
 He was author of " A complete Hiftory ot Ma- 
 *' ry Queen of Scotland, and her fon King James 
 <« of Great Britain ;" " The Hiftory of King 
 *' James of Great Britain •,'* and " The Hillory 
 " of Kins Charles I. from his Cradle to his 
 *' Grave." The firft of thefe was written in an- 
 fwer to Wilfon's " Life of King James," to 
 which it is inferior in every refped. This au-» 
 ihor, as appears by his " Graphice," was better 
 qualified to write on painting, than to compile 
 
 hillories. 
 
Class IX. of ENGLAND. iii 
 
 hiftories. All his hifloricai v/orks are more or 
 lefs deficient in ilyle, in method, and correct- 
 nefs. Dr. Heylin, in his '' Examen Hiftoricum," 
 has been very free, perhaps too fevere, in his 
 cenfures upon his writings : and bifhop Kenn'ec 
 has been at lead as rigid a ccnlbr, in his Notes 
 on Arthur Wiifon's " Life and Reign of James 
 " L" * Our author Sanderfon was knighted foon 
 after the Reftoration, and made a gentleman of 
 the king's bed-chamber. Ob. 1676. 
 
 JAMES HOWELL, Efq. in a cloak, lean- 
 ing againji a tree \ whole length ; motto, '' Hie tutus 
 " ohmhror •," ?Aellan and Boffe fc. Before his " Ger- 
 '^ man Diet^" 13 c, and alfo before his '^ Londinopolis ;" - 
 foUo. There is another print ^/imilar to thls^ with arms, 
 by the fame engravers \ but it is hatched -^^ which is 
 unufual in Mellan's works, There is alfo a fmall head 
 of him before his Letters, engraved by MarfbalL 
 
 James Howell, ^on of Thomas Howell, mi» 
 nifterof Abernant in Caermarthenfhire, was maf- 
 ter of more modern lano-uasjes, and author of 
 more books, than any ether Englilhman of his 
 time J. In the reigns of James and Charles L 
 he was emDloyed in many agencies in forei^ra 
 parts. In 1627, 1^^ was chofen one of the rc- 
 prefentatives in parliament for the town of Rich- 
 mond in Yorkfhire ; and in 1640, fucceeded fir 
 Edward Nicholas as clerk of the council. In 
 the time of the Civil War, he was committed 
 a clofe prifoner to the Fleet, where he conti- 
 nued for m.any years. The greateft part of his 
 
 * See Kennet's " Complete Hift." ii. p. 66z, 
 
 f By halchjng is meant engraving witl) crofs lines that ufuaJly 
 produce the iliades, which, in Mellan's prints, are generally caul- 
 ed by ftronger and bolder ftrokes of the graver. 
 
 X Gibber, in his *' Lives of the Poete," '(ays, that he publiHicd 
 no lefs than forty-nine; but the author of his Life, in the " Bic- 
 *' graphia," has not reckoned up half that number. 
 
 works 
 
12 The HISTORY Interr; 
 
 works were writtern for his fupport during his 
 confinement; and he indeed appears, in feveral 
 of his hafty produ6tions, to have been more 
 anxious to fatisfy his flomach, than to dojul- 
 tice to his fame. His *'Dodona's Grove," which 
 was publilhed in the reign of Charles I. gained 
 him a confiderabie reputation. But of all his 
 performances, his Letters are the mod efleem- 
 ed ; though, as Mr. Wood juftly obferves. ma- 
 i ny of them were never written till he was in 
 prifon. But this cenfure does not affefl his Let- 
 ters to the earl of Strafford, in the firft volume 
 of that lord's Papers, none of which are in the 
 *' Epiftolse Ho-Eliana?." Upon the reftoration 
 of Charles IL he was appointed hiftoriographer 
 royal, which office was created for him. He 
 continued in it till his death, which happened 
 in November, 1666. His life and character may 
 be feen in his Letters, which abound with anec- 
 » dotes. 
 
 THOMAS STANLEY, Efq. author of 
 the *' Hiftory of Philofophy," collected from Dio- 
 genes Laertius, and many other ancient authors. 
 i)ec the divifion of the Poets. 
 
 HENRICUSdom. CARY, baro de Lep. 
 pington, com. de Monmouth, &c. }V. Marjljall 
 f. Before his trarjlation of Renault's " Ufe of tie 
 " Pcijfwns '^'^ 1649. ^'^^' 
 
 Hen. Do. Cary, (vel Carey), baro de Lep- 
 pington, comes Monmouthenfis, et hon"^>- ord. 
 Balneae cques. Faithorne f. Before his tranjlation 
 of Boccalinis " Adveriiftmejiti /; om Pai nnfus \^ fcl. 
 1656. There is atwther head of lim before his tranf- 
 latioH of cardinal Btntivoglio s " Hiflory of the IFars 
 •' in Flanders \' fol 1654. 
 
 Henry 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D. i r j 
 
 Henry Carey, earl of Monmouth, was grand- 
 fon to Henry lord Hunfdon ■^, coufin-german 
 to queen Elizabeth. He was, in his tender age, 
 educated with the duke of York, afterwards 
 Charles the Firft-f. Before he entered upon his 
 travels, he received this admonition from Charles : 
 " Be always doing fomething while you are 
 " abroad." It appears that he adled in con- 
 formity to that prince's advice, as he returned 
 home a complete mafter of the languages of , 
 thofe countries through which he travelled. He 
 was a great fufferer by the Civil War, particu- 
 larly by the death of his fon, a young gentle- 
 man of great hopes, who was killed at Marfton- 
 Moor. But while Ibme of the nobility were 
 adfually embroiled in this war, and others were 
 mifcrable from the effects of it, the earl of Mon- 
 mouth enjoyed the calm pleafures of a ftudious 
 retirement. He compoled nothing of his own ; 
 but tranQated from Malvezzi, Bentivoglio, Fa- 
 ruta, Biondi, &c. no lefs than fcvcn folios, two 
 odtavos, and a duodecimo. See the " Cata- 
 *' logue of Royal and Noble Authors." Ob. 
 13 June, I 66 1, Mt. 6^, He lies buried in the 
 church of Rickmerlworth, in Hertfordfliire. 
 Some notices of him may be collected from the 
 infcription on his tomb. 
 
 • His fon, fir Robert Carey, father of Henry, and the firfl: ear! of 
 Monmonth, diltinguidied hin^ltlf by riding near three hundred 
 miles in lels than three days, wlitn he werit from London to Edin- 
 burgh, to inform king James of tlie death ot queen Elizabeth. 
 He had feveral falls and fore briiifes on the road, which occafioned 
 his going battered and bloody ijuo the royal prefence |( 
 
 f Lloyd, in his *' Memoirs." p. 650, fays, that fir Robert Ca- 
 rey, his father, was tutor toCliarlesj but he is miilaken. See 
 what he was to him, in the •• Memoirs of the Life of the Earl of 
 " Monmouth," p. 165, 176, 178. 
 
 11 See "His Majeflles (Kin^ James's) Entertainment from Scotland to 
 " London," p. 2. and 3. 
 
 Vol. III. I R O- 
 
114 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 ROBERTUS STAPYLTONUS, eques 
 
 auratus, &c. W. Marjkallf. Before his tranjlation 
 cf Scrada " De Bcilo BelguOy' 1650 ; foL 
 
 Sir Robert Stapylton tranilated from the La- 
 tin, Strada's " liiflory of the Bclgic War ," 
 which is the word work of that author, and the 
 beft of fir Robert •, as indifferent profe is pre- 
 ferable to indifferent verfe. See the reign of 
 Charles 1. Chifs IX. 
 
 ' JOHN PAW LET, (or Powlet), marquis 
 of Winchefter, famous for his defence of Bafing- 
 Houfe, tranflated from the French, " The Gal- 
 " kry of heroic Women," 1652 •, and Talon's 
 *' Hclv Hiftory," 1653 ; 4to. See the reign of 
 Charles I. Clafs 111, 
 
 ROBERTUS MENTETHUS*, a Sal- 
 rnoneto, Scotus ; P. Mignardp- Ran^^ 1656, R, 
 Lockonfc. 1661 j band^ cloak^ and coij . Under ths 
 oval are theje lines : 
 
 Hie eft quern legis et ftupes legendo, 
 Toto nobilis orbe Salmonetus. 
 Ilium, inter fcopulos & iliceta. 
 Sub coeli genuit rigentis axe 
 Horrens Scotia triftibus pruinis : 
 Ne tu forte putes fuilTe Galium, 
 Eacundos, lepidos, et elegantes 
 Toto nobilis orbe Salmoneti 
 Qui " Giillos'' legis et ftupes libellos. 
 
 '« iEgid. Menagius." 
 
 This infcription is at p. 120 of Menage's 
 ** Poems," the 8th edition, Amfterdam, 1687, 
 where is alio the following epigram, which con- 
 tains all that I know of his charader : 
 
 • Sometimes written Montetbus. He is placed here as a Scot- 
 tiih hiftorian. 
 
 In 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D. 115 
 
 In Libros Hiftoriarum Britannicarum Roberti 
 Montetii, Sahnoneti. 
 
 Afpera dumofis genuic quern Scotia fylvis; 
 Qucm blando excepit Gallia culta finii ; 
 En voluit grates •, genti devindus iitrique 5 
 Et potuit, dignas pendere Montetius. 
 Gallorum lingua, feclis memoranda futuris, 
 Scotorum fcripfu fortia fa<5la ducum. 
 
 I do not remember to have feen any of this 
 author's writings quoted, except his " Hiftory 
 *« of Great Britain." 
 
 JOHN MARSH AM, the celebrated 
 author of the " Canon Chronicus. See the reign 
 of Charles II. 
 
 GULIELMUS DUGDALE, ^/. 50, ' 
 1656; Hollar fc. Frontifpiece tQ his " Hijiory of 
 *' fVar wick/hire ;" fol. 
 
 William Dugdale, who vva«; the mofl labori- 
 ous and judicious antiquary oi his age, has ref- 
 cued from oblivion an infinite number of curi- 
 ous and ufeful records relating- to tlie hiftorv 
 and antiquities of his own country. His '' Mo- 
 " nafticon Anglicanum,*' in three volumes fo- 
 lio, in which Roger Dodfworrh had a large ihare, 
 contains an accounr of the ancient religious 
 orders of monks and friars, of the toundacions 
 of monafteries, and catKedrai and coliegiare 
 churches. His " Fnil-ory of VYarwickfhire," 
 fl:iews how hiilories ol: particular dillricb fhould 
 be written. \\s •' liiilory of imbanking and 
 ** draining the Fens," which Wi^j the mod ellinla- 
 bleof his performances, is compiled with great 
 accuracy andjudgment. But his '' Baronage,'' 
 the firft genealogical hillory of our nobility, is 
 not fo accurate as the reft of his compilations ; 
 
 I 2 though 
 
Ii(j The history Interr, 
 
 though it has its merit*. His " Hiftory of Sr. 
 *' Paul's Cathedral," his "Originesjuridiciales," 
 ^nd kvtral othtr works, are in their kind equal- 
 ly valuable : and his books in general are of 
 fpccial u\c to the readers, as well as the writers 
 of Englifh hiftoi-y. It is remarkable, that the 
 publication of the " Monafticon" was produc- 
 tive of many law-fuits, by the revival of old 
 writings -, and that the Puritans were highly 
 offended at it, as they looked upon it as a large 
 ilcp towards introducing Popery f. 0^. loFeb. 
 1685-6. 
 
 ELIAS ASH MOLE, Mercuriophilus 
 Anglicus. Be/ere bis " Fafciculus Cbemicus.'' 
 
 Kluas Ashmole •, hail home Jc, a huft •, 4/(7, 
 Faithorne was paid 7 /. for engraving this head. 
 
 El IAS Ashmole: copied from Faithorne hy Mi- 
 chael Van dcrgucht, Btfore the " Antif^uities of Berk^ 
 " foire^' ^vo. J. 
 
 Elias Askmole, together with the head of 
 Lilly the Aftrologer : J. Lodge fc. Before their 
 lives ajid that of Charles L 1774, ^vo. 
 
 • Mr. diaries Hornby, clerk of the Plpe-ofBce, publiHied an 
 anonymous o<^avo pamphlet, in 173S, with this title : '* Three 
 *' Letters, containing Remarks on fome of the numberlefs Er- 
 << rors and Dcfeils in Dugdale's Baronage." Mr. Ilearne, hav- 
 ing mentioneil the " Baronage," in a note on p. 251 of «♦ Lib, 
 " Nig, Scaccani," adds: " Specimen fatis amplum errorum Dugf- 
 «' dalianorum in libelliun, memoriae caufa, retulit Antonius a 
 " Wood, opufculuni in Mnfeo Aihmoliano adlervatum nonduni 
 «' autem in lucern edituni" 
 
 t Warton'8 ♦♦ Life of Dr. Bathurft," p. 14.8. It is alfo obferv- 
 able, that this being almclt the only one of our books that finds 
 a ready admittance into the libi .tries of monks, has remlered it 
 fcarce 
 
 X We are informed, at p. 81 of his " Diary," that he '* fat for 
 " a fecond picture to Mr. Hyley." I have feen neither of thefe 
 portraits. 
 
 Elias 
 
Glass IX. d f E N G L A N D^ nf 
 
 Elias A ill mole, whom Mr. Vv'ood flyles 
 " the greatell virtuofo and curiofo that wa3 
 *' ever known or read of in England," had a 
 happy facility in learning every art or fcience 
 to which he applied himlelf. He (tiuiied allro- 
 logy, botany, chemillry, heraldry, and antiqui- 
 ties ^ in all which he was a great proficient. In 
 the latter end of the reign of Charles I. he re- 
 tired to the pleafant village of Engleficld in 
 Berklliire, where he amiifed himfelf with bo- 
 tany. The time he fpent in this delicious re- 
 tirement appears to have been the happieft pare 
 of his life. In 1650, he publifhed, under the 
 feigned name of James Hafolle, efq. his '' Faf- 
 *' ciculus Chemicus, or Chemical Golle6lionsj 
 *' exprefllng the Ingrefs, Progrefs, and Egrefs, 
 *' of the fecret Hermetic Science, &c." j2mo. 
 His " Theatrum chemicum Britannicum," 
 publiflied in 4to. 1652, contains many pieces 
 of our old hermetic philofophers. This work 
 gained him a confiderable reputation, which was 
 very much increafed by his laborious and accu- 
 rate " Hiftory oi" the Order of the Garter," 
 publifhed in folio, 1672 *. He has not taken 
 proportionable pains in his '^ Antiquities of 
 •* Berkfhire." which might have been much 
 more complete. He enjoyed feveral lucrative 
 places under the government, in the reign of 
 Charles II. It is well known that he, in his 
 life-time, founded the M ufeum at Oxford, which 
 bears his name. Oi?. iS May, 1692, y^/. 76. 
 
 * He informs us himfelf, that he made an expenfive and labo- 
 fious coUeftion of materials for the " Lives ot" the Companions 
 *< of the Order of the Garter ||/' Thefe are probably tn the Ma- 
 feiim at Oxford. See Anfus's *' Regiller of the Garter/' vol. iiv 
 p. 150. 
 
 II " umr p; 643. 
 
 1 3 GULI- 
 
JiJ The history Interr; 
 
 GULIELMUS BURTON, LL. Bac- 
 cal aureus V Hollar f, 
 
 William Burton was fome time udier to Tho^ 
 mas Farnaby, a famous fchool-mafter in Kent, 
 and was himrdf afterwards a fchool-maller at 
 Kingilon upon Thames. When he was at the 
 univerfity, he was patronized by the very learn- 
 ed Mr. Allen, of Glocefter-Hall, who appointed 
 him Greek ledlurer there. He had the honour 
 of fpeaking a funeral orarion upon the death of 
 that excellent pcrfon, which was much applaud- 
 ed for its propriety and elegance. He wrote 
 annotations upon the firft of Clement^s Epiftles, 
 in Englifli-, and hiftorics of the Greek and Per- 
 fian tongues, in Latin -, both which were pub- 
 liflied in 1657. His principal work is his learn- 
 ed Commentary on " Antoninus his Itinerary, 
 " or Journies of the Roman Empire, fo far as 
 *' it coneerneth Britain," 1658 ; fol. to which is 
 prefixed his head. At page 136 of this booky 
 he gives fome account of his family, and tells 
 us that his great-grandfather expired with excefs 
 of joy, upon his being informed of the death of 
 queen Mary. Oh, 28 Dec, 1657. 
 
 RICHARDUS KILBURNE, Topo- 
 graph ias Cantianse author, /EL 52, 16 ^'j \ T. 
 Crofs fc. 
 
 This perfon was author of the " Survey of 
 " Kent," 1659 j 4to. Several of our greatelr 
 antiquaries fpeak of his book as modern and 
 fuperficial, and confequently of fmall value. 
 See p. 45 of Kennet's '' Life of Somner," be- 
 fore the fecond edition of that author's " Trea- 
 *' tife of Gavelkind," 1726, 4to ; and p. 15. 
 of the fecond edit, of " Nicollon's Hiftorical 
 
 Library," 1714 j folio, 
 
 JOHN 
 
 «( 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N t). 119 
 
 JOHN GREAVES; infcribed, '' Efi7ies 
 " Johannis Gravii^ A. D» 1650. E, M.f^c, * 
 
 This eminent mathematician and antiquary 
 was mafler, in a high degree, of the natural and 
 acquired qualifications which were neceffary to 
 excend thofe branches of fcience to which he 
 applied himfeif. He was educated at Baliol 
 College in Oxford, from which he removed to 
 Merton. He was afterwards^ on the foot of Jiis 
 great merit, chofen geometry profeiTor of Gre- 
 Iham College, His ardent third of knowledge 
 foon carried him into feveral parts of Europe, 
 where he eagerly feized every opportunity of 
 improving it. His next voyage was into the 
 Eaftern countries; where nothing remarkable 
 in the heavens, earth, or even fubterranean 
 places, feems to have efcaped his nice obferv- 
 ation. He, with indefatigable induflry, and 
 at the peril of his life, colledled a confi-^ 
 derable number of Arabic, Perfic, and Greek 
 manufcripts for archbiihop Laud. Of thefe 
 he well knew the value, as he was a mailer of 
 the languages in which they were written. He 
 alfo coiledled for that prelate many oriental 
 gems and coins -f-. He took a more accurate 
 furvey of the Pyramids than any traveller who 
 went before him. On his return from the Ea(l, 
 he vifited feveral parts of Italy a fecond time. 
 
 * In the improved copy of Ward's " Lives of the Grefham Prd« 
 ** feflbrs," in the Britifli Mufeuin, under John Gr.eavbs, at p. 
 15a, is the following additional paragraph : " The reverend JVIr. 
 •* Edward Browne, great grandfon of Dr. Thomas Greaves i|, 
 ** and rector of Walefby, in Lincolnfhire, has the head of Mr. 
 ** John Greaves, etched on a copper-plate ; feveral copies of 
 " which have been printed off at the expence of the reverend Dr* 
 " Thomas Birch." MS. 
 
 f He ranged the coins, which the archbiihop prefented to tlie 
 univerfity, in their proper order, and was appointed keeper of 
 them> 
 
 11^ Brother to John, 
 
 I 4 During - 
 
X20 The HISTORY Interr: 
 
 , During his ftay at Rome, he made a particular 
 enquiry into the true ilate of the ancient weights 
 and meafures. Soon after he had finiflied his 
 iecond voyage, he was chofen Savilian profeflbr 
 of aftronomy at Oxford. He was eminently 
 qualified for this profefTorlliip, as the works 
 of ancient and modern altronomers were 
 familiar to him. His books relatincr to orien- 
 tal learning, his " Pyramidographia, or a De- 
 " fcription of the Pyramids in iEgypt," his 
 *' Epochs Cclcbriores," and other curious and 
 uletul pieces, of which Dr. Ward has given us 
 a catalogue "^, Ihe v him to have been a great 
 man. Thole which he intended to publifh 
 would have Ihewn him to be a greater ♦, but he 
 was Hopped in his career by death, the 
 8th of Odlober, 1652, in the 50th year of his 
 age. 
 
 JONAS MOORE, Mt, 35, 1649; H, 
 St(.m p^'T, Crofsfc. finalL There is another head 
 of him before his " Arithmetic ;" 8vo. 1660. 
 
 Jonas Moore, one of the mod eminent ma- 
 thematicians of his age, was born at Whitlee -j- 
 in Lancafhire. He had a flrong propenlicy to 
 mathematical ftudies from his childhood, and in 
 the early part of his life taught the mathematics 
 in London for his fupport. He was employed 
 bv the comniilTioners for draining; and dividino; 
 the fens -, and in his furvey took notice that die 
 fea made a curve line on the beach, from v/hich 
 he took the hint to keep it effcdually out of 
 Norfolk. This added much to his reputation. 
 Mr. Aubrey informs us, that he made a model 
 of a citadel, for Cromwell to bridle the city of 
 
 • See Ward's " Lives of the ProfffTors of Gre(ham College/' 
 t Spelt WhitUy in Spelniau's *< Villaie Anglicuin."' 
 
 London, 
 
Class IX. of ENGLAND. 121 
 
 London, which was in the poflefiion of Mr. 
 Wyld ; and that this citadel was to have been 
 the crofs- building of St. Paul's church ^. He 
 patronized the tamous Mr. Fiamdeed, who had 
 but a very fcanty fubfiftencc at Cambridge 
 when he cook him under his protedion. He 
 and Sir Chrillopher Wren are laid to have per- 
 fuaded Charles II. to build the Oblervatory at 
 Greenwich, in which Flarnfteed was placed. 
 He was the firft Fnglifhman that compofed a 
 *' Syftem of the Mathematics," which was 
 publiflied in two volumes ^to. 1681. He was 
 knighted by Charles II. who appointed him fur- 
 veyor-general of the ordnance. Sixty pieces of 
 artillery, equal to the number of his years, were 
 difcharged at the Tower at his funeral. Ob, 
 Aug. 1679!. See more of him in Birch's 
 ** Hiftory of the Royal Society," vol iv. p. 
 106. 
 
 THOMAS HOBBES, of Malmfbury, a 
 famous philolbpher and mathematician. See the 
 reign of Charles II. 
 
 GULIELPvIUS LEYBOURN, phi- 
 lorn. yEL 27 5 oval; ^to, 
 
 GuLiELMus Leybourn, ^t. 30 ; Gaywood f, 
 iimo. Before his '' Arithmetic.^'' See the reign of 
 Charles II. 
 
 GULIELMUS BAG W ELL, Mt. 66, 
 1659. 
 
 '' In traillck firft his youthful time he fpent, 
 *' And over feas to foreign countries went ; 
 
 ♦ MS. in the «' AflniK^lean Mufeum," whence the above ac- 
 count of him is chiefly taken, Mr. Aubrey concludes the fhort 
 Sketch of his liiftory with laying, " that Jie was a good mathema- 
 ** tici.in, and a good fellow." 
 
 f Aflimolc's " Diaiy." 
 
 *' But 
 
i22 Th£ HISTORY Interr: 
 
 " But nature crofled him there, knowing his 
 
 " parts 
 " Were deftined rather to improve the arts : 
 *"• His ferious hours on them, his hours of lei- 
 
 *' fure, 
 " Elfewhere the firft, the next here brings you 
 
 " pleafure." 
 
 William Bagwell was author of " The Myf- 
 *' tery of Aftronomy made eafy to the meanefl 
 *' Capacity," 165 §1 8vo. I have not feen the 
 book to which the portrait above- defcribed ap- 
 pears to have been prefixed. 
 
 JOHN EVELYN, efq-, Gaywood ad in- 
 njum del. ^ f. i6/:4.. See the reign of Charles 
 II. 
 
 JAMES HARRINGTON, Efq. &c. 
 Frotn an original pt5iure in the pojjejfion of John 
 Hudfon^ efq^. of Bejfingby^ in Torkfhire, Marchi f hi 
 Jh, mezz. 
 
 Sir James Harrington*, JSt. 45, 16545 
 Faithornefc. /{to. 
 
 James Harrington, efq. P.Lely p. Hollar f* 
 1658 ; /[to. There is a copy of this head by Michael 
 Vandergucht, 
 
 This political projector was author of a cele- 
 brated book, intitlcd, " The Commonwealth of 
 *' Oceana-," in which he has laid down a plan 
 for an everlafting republic, the government of 
 which is to be kept up by rotation. There is 
 great ingenuity in this work j but it is, in many 
 inftances, as refined, and confcquently as im- 
 practicable, as the " Republic" of Plato, or the 
 " Utopia" of More. The author, who was a 
 great viHonary, was fanguine enough to expedt 
 to fee it put in execution. Baxter's " Holy 
 
 • He was never knighted. 
 
 « Com- 
 
Class IX. d f E N G L A N D. 123 
 
 " Commonwealth" was avowedly levelled at 
 this political romance. But Harrington, who 
 exprtfled a great contempt for that perform- 
 ance, did not voucbfafe to write a lerious an- 
 fwer to it ; but affedled to treat the author in a 
 very cavalier manner, in a half fheet full of 
 cant and ridicule. Two editions of Harrins:- 
 ton's works have been publifhed of late years. 
 O^. II Sept. 1677. See Katharine Har- 
 rington, Ciafs XI. 
 
 ALGERNON SIDNEY, a more ratio- 
 nal and mafterly writer on government than Har- 
 rington. See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 ROBERT LOVED AY, o.'icgon', en tbe- 
 fopt ^^ Luddamant C^ Faithorne fc. ^vo. There is a 
 copy of this before his *' Letters^'' 1659 ; %vo, 
 
 Robert Lovedav was tranOator of the three 
 firft parts of *' Cleopatra," and author of a 
 book of letters ; both which performances were 
 in good efteem. It appears from the latter, that 
 he was an upper fervant in lord C's family, at 
 Nottingham, at the time of the Interregnum. 
 There is a familiar opennefs in his letters, which 
 intimates that the author never intended they 
 fhould be made public. 
 
 HENRY MASSINGBERD; Crofsfc 
 h.fh. 
 
 This perfon was author of a folio, entitled, 
 *' Council and Admonition to his Children \* 
 Lond. 1656 ; to which his print is prefixed. 
 
 Sec feveral authors on mulic in the next Clafs. 
 
 Sir 
 
124 
 
 The history InterxJ 
 
 Sir BALTHASAR GERBIER. See 
 the reign of Chakles I. Clafs V. and X. See alfo 
 the reign of Charles II. Clafs IX. 
 
 RICHARDUS ELTON, generofus 
 Briftol. nee non artis militaris magiller, Ann. 
 1649, yEt, 39 ; J, Broejhout fc. h.Jh.^ 
 
 Under the print are eight verfes, which I fhall 
 tranfcribe, as they may ferve as a fpecimen of 
 the encomiums which have been formerly la-^ 
 vifhed upon authors, whofe works are now^ufed 
 for wafte paper. 
 
 *' If Rome nnto her conqu'ring Caefars raife 
 *' Rich obclifks, to crown their deathlefs praife -, 
 *' What monument to thee muft Albion rear, 
 *' To fliew thy motion in a brighter fphere ? 
 " This art's too dull to do't •, 'tis only done 
 *' Beft by thyfelf : fo lights the world the fun. 
 *' We may admire thy face, the fculptor's art, 
 " But we are extafy'd at th' inward part." 
 
 Richard Elton was author of " A complete 
 *' Body of the Art Military, being plain and 
 *' perfedl Diredtions for the ordering and fram- 
 *' ingofan Army, both of Horfe and Foot:' 
 " toorether with the Manner of Fortifications, 
 *' and the Art of Gunnery ;" fol. to which his 
 head is prefixed. I find by Clavel's " Cata- 
 logue," that this book was reprinted after the 
 Reftoration. 1 need not inform the reader, that 
 the art of war has been almoft totally changed 
 fince the publication of this work. 
 
 WILLIAM BARIFFE, who, in the 
 year 1642, was a major in col. Flamden's regi- 
 ment '^■, flourifhed during the Interregnum. He 
 
 • See the "Lilt of the Annies," publifljccl in 1642. 
 
 was 
 
CtASslX. OF ENGLAND. 125 
 
 was author of a book of " Military Difcipline," 
 of which there have been feveral editions. The 
 laft edition was, I think, printed in folio, 1661. 
 There is a head of him by Glover, in 8vo. and an- 
 other by an unknown hand, prefixed to this book. 
 J have feen a third print of him in armour, with 
 a fafh about his waijt. The name of Philip Skip- 
 pon is affixed to fome of the latter impreffions, 
 
 RIC. RAWLYNS; R.Gaywoodf. 1656. 
 
 This perfon, who ftyles himfelf " Profeflbr 
 *' of Arithmetic in Great Yarmouth," was au- 
 thor of a pradical treatife on that art, pub- 
 lifhed in 1656, 8vo. before which is the head 
 above defcribed, engraved much in the manner 
 of Hollar, of whom Gaywood was a difciple 
 and imitator. 
 
 THOMAS WILLS FORD, ^/. 4^; 
 
 R. Vaughan fc. Under the print are four verfes^ 
 figned M. Botcler. 
 
 Thomas Willsford was author of a book in 
 8vo. called " Nature's Secrets, or the Hiftory 
 '^ of the Generation of Meteors," 1658-, which 
 he dedicates to the lady Stafford, filler to lord 
 Henry Stafford. At the concIuHon he figns 
 himfelf " her affectionate kinfman." M. Bore- 
 ler, whofe name is affixed to the lines at the 
 bottom of the print, addreffes a long copy of 
 verfes to his honoured uncle, upon his book of 
 meteors, Thomas Willsford was alfo author of 
 a "Treatife of Arithmetic," in 8vo. His head, 
 by Vaughan, is prefixed to both his books. 
 Cocker, Leybourn, Hill, and others, have much 
 improved the art of arithmetic, fince the two 
 laft-mentioncd authors wrote on that fubjed. 
 
 W I L. 
 
126 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 WILLIAM LILLY, (tudent in aftrolo- 
 
 gy ; Hollar f. iimo. 
 
 William Lilly, yE"/. 57 ; Flollarf. 
 
 William Lilly, ftudent in aftrology ; copied 
 from Hollar. 
 
 In the Afhmolean Mufeum is his portrait, 
 which was the property of the founder. It may 
 be depended upon for the likenefs. 
 
 William Lilly was a native of Difevvorth, in 
 Leicefterfliire. He was, for feveral years, in 
 the condition of a fervant ; but having the good 
 luck to marry his mafter's widow, with a for- 
 tune cf 1000 1. he applied himfelf to the ftudy 
 of aitrology. He made fo great a proficiency, 
 that in feven or eight weeks he perfedly under- 
 ftood hovv^ to fet a figure. He intimates, that 
 there was fomething fupernatural in the progrefs 
 he made in this art ; as he tells us, that " he 
 *-• prayed for feveral weeks to thofe angels who 
 " were thought and believed by u'ife men to 
 *' teach and inftrudl in all the feveral liberal fci- 
 *' enccs*.'* In 1647, he finiflied his book call- 
 ed " Chriftian Allrology;" but has not any 
 where fignified that the angels lent him their af- 
 finance in that work *, nor does it appear that 
 there is any thing in it more than the author 
 b:o:felf was v/ell able to perform -f. It is very 
 certain that he regarded judicial aftrology as a 
 jcicnce \ and it is no lefs certain that he profti- 
 luted his pen to the political purpofcs of the 
 parliament, and of Cromwell^. Ailrological 
 
 pre- 
 
 ♦ He fays, that '* the angels very rarely fpeak to nr-iy operator 
 *« or matter; and when they do fpeak, it is like the Irifti, much 
 ♦' in the throat." Lilly's '• Life," by himielf, p. 88, lalljedit. 
 
 t '1 htre is betore tins book a good head of the author, by 
 Maifiiall. 
 
 \ ♦' When Cromwell was in Scotland, a foldier docd with 
 *• Lilly's 'jvkiiinus) Anglicus in his iiand, and laid, as the r^ve- 
 
Class IX. o f E N G L A N D. 127 
 
 prediflions and prophecies were perfedly fnired 
 to the enthufiafm of thefe times ; and Lilly well 
 knew how to apply them to the hopes and fears 
 of the populace. He was frequently ambigu- 
 ous and oracular, and fometimes amuled the 
 people with hieroglyphics ; many of which, as 
 we are told by Mr. Aubrey, he ftole from aa 
 old monkidi manufcript. Moore, the alma- 
 nack-maker, has (lolen feveral from him ; and 
 there is no doubt but fome future almanack- 
 maker will fteal them from Moore. Ob, June 9> 
 
 JOHN BOOKER; Hollar f.iimo. 
 
 John Booker was bred a haberdaflier-f ; but 
 quitted this employment, and followed that of 
 
 ^* ral troops raffed by him, " Lo hear what Lilly faith, you are 
 ^* promifed viclory, fight it out, brave boys 5" and then read 
 ** that month's prediction." — '■' Life," p- 83. 
 
 * Lilly, though kno/.n to be an impoftor t? had, however, a 
 penfion of an hundred pounds a year conferred on him by the 
 coun.ii or Itate. The royalifts treated him with ridicule and 
 contempt. He is the Sidrophel of Butler : and fir John Birken- 
 head, in his "Paul's Church- Yard §," fatirizes his almanack, 
 where he mentions << Merlinus Anglicus, the Art of difcovering 
 *' all that never was, and all that never Ihall be." Gataker, who 
 well knew the futility of his art, calls hiiu " blind buzzard j|" 
 He feems to have been checked by no fcruples in promoting the 
 rebellion ; and indeed tells us himfelf, that he " engaged body 
 and foul in the caufe of the parliament 4-." 
 
 The Life of Lilly, by himfelf, together with his Life of 
 Charles L and that of his friend Afhmole, written by that author 
 by way of diary, have, as :hey were become very fcarce, been, 
 lately republilhed by Thomas Davies. *' A fuil Anfwerto acon- 
 " fufed mixture of falfe, traiterous, and contradi(Sory Obferva- 
 " tions on the Life and Actions of the late King Charles, pub- 
 ** lifhed by William Lilley, in July, i65i,"' is one of the " Hif- 
 ** torical Difcourfes" of Sir Edward Walker, i7°5> fctl." 
 
 t So Lilly informs us j but Mr. Wood fays, that he was bred 
 a clerk under an alderman of London : this alderman was probably 
 a haberdafher. 
 
 X See Thurlbe's '^ State Papers," v. 431. 
 
 4 This pamphlet is a facetious faiire upon vtr'ious booko well known at 
 this time, af«d Aippofed to be fold in St. Paul's Church ysid. 
 
 li Gataker's Notes on the ad Verfe of the X. Chapter of Jeremiah, in the 
 *' AfTembly's Annotations." 
 
 + Lilly's « Life," p. 45, 
 
 a writing- 
 
128 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 a wrlting-mader, at Hauley in Middlefex. He 
 in a few years rendered himfclf lo eminent, that 
 lie was appointed liccnfer uf mathematical 
 books; under which were included all thole 
 that related to the celeftial fciences. Lilly tells 
 us, that he once thought him the grearell aflro- 
 loger in the world -, but it appears that he 
 afterwards funk in his cdeem, and that he 
 thought himfeif a much greater man. We are 
 told by the fame author, that *' he had a cu- 
 " rious fancy in judging of thefts, and as fuc- 
 *' ccfsful in refolding love queftions," which 
 was a capital branch of his trade. George 
 Wharton, who was formerly one of his aftrolo- 
 gical friends, had a great quarrel with him, 
 which occafioned his publifhing, '' Mercurio- 
 " ccclico Maftix ; or an Anti-caveat to all fuch 
 " as have heretofore had the misfortune to be 
 ** cheated and deluded by that great and trai- 
 " terous impoilor, John Booker ; in an An- 
 *' fvvcr to his frivolous Pamphlet, eniicled, 
 '^ Mercurius Coelicus, or a Caveat to all the 
 " People of England;" Oxon. 1644; 4^^- 
 The only work of Booker, worth the reader's 
 notice, is his '* Bloody Irifh Almanack," which 
 contains Ibme memorable particulars relative to 
 tiie war in Ireland. OIj, April, 1667. 
 
 Captain GEORGE WHARTON; fis 
 verfes ; " Here the true Ccwiterfeit^''^ err. 7 bis 
 print mny he placed iji the prccedin'^ reign. 
 
 G E o u G £ Wharton, fix verfes -, ' ' If'je xV«- 
 tare,'' ^c. 
 
 George Wharton, hy Faithornc \ fix verfes \ 
 " Who vieivs^'^ ^c. 
 
 George Wharton was defcendcd from a gen- 
 teel family in Weflmorcland. He fpent the 
 
 grcateft 
 
feiASs !X. F E N G L A N D. 
 
 greatefl part of his patrimony in the fervice of 
 Charles I. for whom he raifed a fine troop of 
 horfe, which he commanded in perfbn. When 
 he could no longer keep the field, he retired to 
 his iludies, which he purfued with uncommon 
 application ; particularly that of ailrology, to 
 which he had a (Irong and early propenficy. His 
 progrefs in this art was fuitable to his pafPiOn 
 for it ; and he was looked upon by the royal ids 
 as equal, at leaft, to Lilly and Boohr, of whom 
 he was the rival and antagonrfh. He was author 
 of Almanacks, Mercuries, and feveral aftrono- 
 mical pieces. We are indebted to him for a 
 chronology of the battles, fieges, and other re- 
 markable occurrences of the civil war, (ince 
 printed, with many additions, in the '' Hiflo- 
 <^« rian's Guide," and of late years in Salmon's 
 " Chronological Hiftorian." He had a knack 
 of verfifying, which he exercifed in little fallies 
 of drollery and fatire, which are interfpericd 
 with his aftrological works. Upon the Redo- 
 ration he was appointed treafurer and paymailer 
 of the ordnance, and created a baronet, which 
 fet him above the profefllon of an author. The 
 name of Naworlb, the anagram of fVbar/orj, is 
 fometimes prefixed to his almanacks. 01^. 12 
 Aug. 1681. See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 JOHANNES GADBURIUS, philo- 
 math, natus comitat. Oxon- An. 1627. Jlit. 3 i ; y'. 
 Crofs fc. Over his bead are the fun ^ moon^ and ftars \ 
 his left hand rejls on a celeflial glohe^ and the hook of 
 Heaven is of en before him ^. — Ihe print is before his 
 *' Be Brine of Nativities" 1 D58 ; fol. 
 
 Johannes Gadburius j Crojs fc, iimo. 
 
 ,* In the book is an aftrological fcheme, infcribed '' Lib^ 
 
 Vol. III. tL Johrf 
 
 ■.2§: 
 
X30 The HISTORY Interk: 
 
 John Gadbury, who fervcd an apprenticefhip 
 with a tailor at Oxford, left that occupation, 
 and purlued the vehement inclination he had to 
 aftrology. He learned much of his art from 
 Lilly •, under whoiii he profited to fuch a de- 
 gree, that he was foon enabled " to f:t up tl^.e 
 *' trade of almanack-making and fortune-telling 
 " for himfelf-j-." His pen was employed for 
 many years on nativilies^ almanacks^ and prodi- 
 <-ies. Other altroloijers were content to exercife 
 their art for the benefit of their own country 
 only, but Gadbury extended his to a remote pare 
 of the globe; as, in 1674, he publifhed his 
 -* Weft India, or Jamaica Almanack" for thac 
 year. He calculated the nativities of Charles I. 
 . the king of Sweden, and fir Matthew Hale ; 
 all which are in print. He ftyles fir Matthew 
 *' the jufl and pious Scorpionift, as he was born 
 *' under the ceiefcial Scorpion." He was very 
 careful to do jufiice to all the conftellations, par- 
 ticularly to that jufl: mentioned, as appears from 
 his " Obrequium Rationabilc ; or a reafonable 
 *' Service performed for the celeftial Sign Scor- 
 '' pio, in twenty remarkable Genitures of that 
 iorious, but ftigmatized Horofcope , againft 
 the malicious and falfe Attempts of that grand, 
 (but fortunate), Impofi:or, Mr. William Lil- 
 *' lyi^" He was no lefs careful to do jufiice to 
 the merit of his friend Mr. George Wharton, 
 moil of whofe works hecolleded and publifhed, 
 in 16S3, 8vo. He was living in 1600*, and 
 was thougiit to be alive for many years after his 
 deceafe, as his r.an:ie continued to be affixed to 
 an almanack fimilarto that which was publiflied 
 
 i Wood, ii. col. 686. 
 
 ■J- — — «« Tibi bracbia contrablt ardcns 
 
 '* SrorpiuF, et cuili jiilta plus paite leliquit." Vjrc 
 
 • Sec '• Allien, Oxon." ii. col, J051. 
 
 in 
 
 
 (( 
 
ItLAiis iX. 6 1 £ N G L A N D, i^f 
 
 in his life-time. " The black Life of John Gad- 
 *' bury" was written by Partridge. There are 
 feveral heads of him, which belong to the reign 
 of Charles II. 
 
 JOHN HEYD ON, chymift and adrolo- 
 ger. See the reign of Charles 11. 
 
 GULIELMUS RAMESEY, genero;- 
 fus; mf. civitat, Weflmonaft, 13 Mar. 1626-27. 
 Crofs fc, h.Jh. 
 
 GuLiELMus Ramesey, generofus ; jEt. 245 
 a huji, 
 
 William Ramefey was author of a chimerical 
 book in vindication of aftrology. This man did 
 not look upon darknefs as a privation of light, 
 but as a real fubftance. He affcrted that it is 
 an emanation from dark flars, as light is from 
 the fun. He even thought this abfurdicy fup- 
 ported by fcripture, where he read of " dark- 
 " nefs over the land of Egypt, v/hich may be 
 *« feltt;'* not diftinguifliing betwixt the itated 
 laws of nature^ and the extraordinary agency of 
 divine Providence; or, in other words, betwixc 
 natural and fupernatural darknefs. The author 
 of Number 582 of the " Specbator," has made 
 himfelf very merry with tHjs profound v*Titer, 
 who thought himfelf far more fagacious than 
 the reft of his aflrologica^ brethren. He ap- 
 pears to me to be the far.je perfon with Dr. Wil- 
 liam Ramefey, who was, perhaps, the mod cre- 
 dulous and confident of aii aflroloorers. He was 
 iriad by the rules of his art, and p;omifed him- 
 felf great affluence of fortune, and much con- 
 jugal felicity ; but died poor in a gaol, and had 
 fuch a termagant for his wife as provoked him 
 
 f £xod. X. 21. 
 
 K 2 m 
 
S3* The HISTORY Ihtekiu 
 
 to write, *'Conjugium Conjurgium," which ap- 
 pears to have been written from his feelings §. 
 
 GULIELMUS WILLIAMS, alias 
 WiLLisuM, nat, ccmilat, GIoc, Janu, 27, 1626; 
 i>h'doJo^hiis\ JEt, 92. 
 
 I am credibly informed that this print was co- 
 pied fron:^ that of Chriltian Ravius, profeirorof 
 Oriental languages at Amltcrdam. 
 
 William Williams was an aftrologer of infe- 
 rior note, of which many flourifhed at this pe- 
 riod, and after the Reftoration. The refpedt 
 then paid to adrologcrs, by the generality of 
 men of learning, was equal to the contempt 
 they lie under at prefent ^. Some among the 
 vulgar beheld them with a rude admiration,, and 
 thought that an order of men who were familiarly 
 acquainted with the tlars, and privy to the de- 
 crees of Heaven, were in the higheft degree re- 
 fpedable. Others, who looked upon their art 
 as Ibrcery, regarded them with horror and de- 
 teftation. The white witches were comm.only 
 thought to be mailers of the black art-y but were 
 fuppofed to have too much probity to put it in 
 practice. 
 
 ROBERT MAY, JEt. ju \66o',fixverfes', 
 •' What wouldjl thou vieWy' &c. Before his " ylc- 
 *''ccmj}!iJ/jedCock" i66o*, ^^vo, 
 
 Robert May, wfio was fon of a cook retained 
 by the old lady Dornier, was, at her expence^ 
 fent over to France, to improve himfelf in the 
 
 § See Dr. Ramesey's ariicle in the reiorn of Charles 11. 
 
 • The Famous Mr Jorej)h Mtde fpent mnch of his time in the 
 ftndy of altrology ; and the nnoft valuable oi' Lilly's aftrological 
 bocks helonged to the excellent bjllii>p BeJeli, whofe " Life'* 
 w.is written by Dr. iiurntt. bee Lillys " Life," p. a}, edit, 
 
 art 
 
Class IX. of ENGLAND. 
 
 art of cookery. Upon his return to England^ 
 he was bound apprentice to Arthur Holiingf- 
 worth, cook to the grocer's company and the 
 Star-chamber. Upon his leaving his mailer, hs 
 entered into the fervice of lady Dormer, who 
 kept four cooks befides our author and his fa- 
 ther. ^' Such notable houfes (fays he) were then 
 *' kept, the glory of that, and the Ihame of the 
 *' prefentage: then were thofe golden days where- 
 " in were pradlifed the triumphs and trophies 
 *' of cookery : then was hofpirality efteemed, 
 '* neighbourhood preferved, the poor cherifhed, 
 *' and God honoured.'* After the dcceafe of 
 the hofpitabie lady Dormer, he ferved the lord 
 Caftlehaven, and feveral others of the nobility 
 and gentry, and was, in 1659, when he put 
 the laft hand to his book, in the fervice of lady 
 Englefield. The auxhor's fundamental princi- 
 ple feems to be, to make things palatable with any 
 ingredients^ or at any expence. This has been 
 followed by a multitude of other writers on 
 cookery; and is indeed apparent in every book 
 on that art, from the '' Qiicen's Clofet opened,'* 
 down to the laft of the modern fyftems. He has 
 given us a handfomc bill of fare for lent ; which 
 confifts of fixteen articles in the firil: courfe, and 
 as many in the fecond. The puddin^T branch 
 has been greatly improved by our late writers, 
 one of whom has publifhed one hundred diffe- 
 rent receipts for puddings. Our author May 
 has wholly omitted to treat of the my -very of 
 carving, which is anatomically difcuficd in feve- 
 ral fubfeauent treatiles •, in one or two of v»/hich 
 is a fet of rules for doing the honours of the ta- 
 ble. — See more of this man in the account of 
 him before his book *. 
 
 An 
 
 * The author of the " School of Infl:iii6lion for the Onicers of 
 the Mouth/' fiounftied at the lame time with May. He excelled 
 
 IC 3 all 
 
 135 
 
il34 The HISTORY Interr^^ 
 
 An IRISH AUTHOR. 
 
 JACOBUS W A R At U S, cq. aurat. &c. 
 Vertue fc. h.fb. Before his ijjorks. 
 
 Sir James Ware, auditor-general of Ireland? 
 snd one of the privy-council in that kingdom, 
 in the reigns of Charles I. nnd II. was one of the 
 mod able and induftrious antiquaries of his time. 
 The gf-and objecf): of his refearches was the hiftory 
 -and antiquities of his own country ; for which 
 he made very copious collections, and on which 
 he publifhed feveral eftimable pieces. One of 
 the mcft confiderable of his writings is his book 
 » *' De Plibcrnia et Antiquitatibus ejus, Difquifi- 
 
 " tiones," 8vo; of which two editions were pub- 
 lifhed during the Interregnum. His fon, Robert 
 "Wire, efq. tranflated ail his works that have 
 any relation to ihe kingdom of Ireland, and 
 publifhed them in one volume folio, 1705. 
 This edition is improved to three volumes in fo- 
 lio, by Waiter Harris, efq. The learned and 
 induftriuus author, who was the Camden of 
 his age and nation, died at Dublin, the firft of 
 December, 1666. His valuable colledion of 
 manufcripts, which were purchafed by Henry 
 earl of Clarendon, were by him brought into 
 England, and delivered into the cuftody of Dr. 
 Tenifon, when he was vicar of St. Martin's in 
 the Fields. There is a catalogue of them in 
 print, by Edm. Gibfon, B. A. atterwards bifhop 
 of London, 
 
 3II his contemporaries in folding of napkins. See the prints in 
 his book, which exhibit tiiem under a great variety of forms. 
 This practice continued for many years. It fcems to have re- 
 c^uired almoft as much time as diefllngan elegant dinner. 
 
 CLASS 
 
Class X. of ENGLAND, I3.g 
 
 C L A S S X. 
 
 A R T I S T S, ace. 
 
 PAINTERS of H I S T O R y, 3cc. 
 
 ISAAC F U L L E R, ?» />. r. Chamharsfc. 
 In the " Anecdotes of Painting -^^ ^to. — -TiuTe is a 
 good portrait of him, by himfelf, in the Piclure 
 Gallery at Oxford. 
 
 Fuller was a difciple of Francis Perrier, who 
 etched the antique fcatues and bas reliefs. He 
 was as excellent in portrait^ as he was deficient in 
 hi/lory. He painted the altar-pieces at All Souls 
 and Magdalen College, in Oxford ; both vvhicli 
 are very indifferent performances. He has, in 
 the latter, imitated theLaft Judgment of Michael 
 Angelo, in which he has not fucceeded. There 
 is in the pidlure by that celebrated m.after a 
 wildnefs of invention ; but it is the wildnefs of 
 a great and irregular genius : Fuller's has more 
 of the wildnefs of a dream. His colouring is 
 harlh and unnatural. Mr. Addifon has written 
 a beautiful Latin poem on this performance, in 
 which he has Ihewn himfelf a better painter than 
 Fuller. He has defcribed v;hat fhould it be, not 
 what it is*. Ob. circ, 1676. 
 
 * Fuller has introduced into this piclure the portrait of an heft- 
 ier that lived at the Greyhound-Inn at (Jixford, who is Taid to 
 have oifended him, and to have been thereiore placed ainong the 
 damned. This feems to be in conformity with Michael Angelo, 
 who has introduced into his Laft Judgment a very ridiculous por- 
 trait of tl>e pope's mafter of the ceremonies, in as ridiculous a li- 
 tuation f . The painter of the well: window of the church of 
 Fairford, in Glocellen'hire, has, perhaps for a like reafon, exhi-- 
 bited, in his piece of the Refurre^lion, a devil driving an old 
 woman into hell in a wheel-barrow. 
 
 f The figure is at the bottom of the piere, and is known by the afics ears. 
 See Richardfon'a " Account of Statues," &c. t. 27i> fecond edit. 
 
 K J, ROBERT 
 
JS^ The history Interr: 
 
 ROBERT STREATER, or Streeter, 
 hiftory painter. See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 PORTRAIT PAINTERS, &c. 
 
 SAMUEL COOPER, an admirable 
 painter in miniature, did the portrait of Cromwell. 
 See the reign of Charles 11, 
 
 PETER LELY, a German, who came inr 
 to England in the late reign, painted the pi(fl:ures 
 pf Charles I. and of Cromwell. He pradifed hif- 
 tory, landfcape, and portrait ; but foon aban- 
 doned the two former branches, and cultivated 
 only the latter, in which he fucceeded. He be- 
 came the painter in vogue after the Rcftoration. 
 , See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 ROBERT US WALKER, picT:or ; fe 
 
 ipfe p. Lomhart fc. h. [Jo. 
 
 Robert Walker -, T". Chambers fc. In the 
 *' Anecdotes of Pamling i" copied from the abG%'e 
 frint. 
 
 The original portrait is at Belvoir-caflle. 
 There is another of him, by himfelf, in the 
 Piclure Gallery in Oxford. 
 
 Robert Walker, a good painter of portraits, 
 did thofe of Cromwell, and many of the parlia- 
 ment generals. The grand duke of Tufcany 
 gave 300 1. for a pidure of the Protector by his 
 hand. This was in the poflefTion of a gentlewo- 
 man who was related to him, and who afked 
 that fum for it becaufe fhe was determined not 
 to fell it. When the money was paid by the 
 grand duke's agent, Ihe parted from it with re- 
 gret. Mr. MifTon tells us, in his *' Travels," 
 that this portrait, and that of Thomas earl of 
 
 Oflbry, 
 
Class X. of ENGLAND. 137 
 
 Ofibry, were the only pidnres of Englifhmen 
 in the Gallery of illuftrious Generals at Florence. 
 This artift died foon after the Relloration. 
 
 EDVARDUS MASCALL, piflor;/^/^ 
 f, J, Gammon fc, ^to, 
 
 Edward Mafcal painted portraits at the time 
 of the Interregnum, but rofe to no great emi- 
 nence in his art. 
 
 BALTHASAR GERBIER. Seethe 
 reigns of Charles I. and II. 
 
 Major-general LAMBERT; Eannermanfc. 
 In the *' Anecdotes of Fai?iting ;" ^to. 
 
 Major-general Lambert took up the pencil 
 for his amufement, after Cromwell had wreded 
 the fword from his hand. He painted flowers, 
 which he was fond of cultivating. He is iup- 
 pofed to have learned his art of BaptifV Gafpars. 
 
 The arts, which flourifh bed under an ac- 
 complifhed and munificent monarch, in time of 
 peace, feemed to be almoft totally extind: dur- 
 ing the republican government. They could 
 fcarcely be faid to revive after the reftoration of 
 Charles II. 
 
 THOMAS SIMON; afmallovalhy Ver- 
 tue^ in his volume of the ^^ JVorks of the Simons y^ 
 ^late XXXV. 
 
 Thomas Simon, who was formed in England 
 by Briot, a celebrated French medallifl, rivalled 
 the claffic artifts of antiquity. He and his maf- 
 ter were retained in the fervice of Charles I. but 
 almoft all the capital works of the former were 
 executed during the protedlorate of Cromvv^ell, 
 
 the 
 
;3S The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 the dies for whofe crown y, half-crown, fhiU 
 Jing, and fix-pence were exquifitcly cut by 
 him, as were alfo his great feal, and that of the 
 commonwealth*. His trial-piece of the crown 
 of Charles II. Ihews to equal advantage the ex- 
 cellence of his hand. He was fometimes affift- 
 ed by his brother Abraham, the ingenious mo- 
 deiler in wax, of whom there is an account in 
 the reign of Charles. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 HENRY L A W E S ; Faitkrne /. 8 w. See 
 an account of this excellent maltcr of m.ufic in the 
 reign of Charles I. 
 
 CHRISTOPHORUS SIMPSON; 
 
 J, Carwardenp. Faithome fc» Before his " Diviftoii 
 ^' Vioiift, or an Introdu^ion to the playing on a 
 " Ground^'' fol, 1659. There is an original por- 
 trait of him in the mufic-fchool at Oxford. 
 
 Chriftopher Simpfon was patronized by fir 
 Robert Bolles, a gentlem.an of Lincolnfliire ; 
 who having a feat in parliament, fometimes re- 
 fided in London, and Mr. Simpfon with him. 
 He was a great compoferof inftrumental nnific, 
 and excelled on the divifion viol. Befides the 
 work above-mentioned, he made large annota- 
 
 \ This piece, which has about the edge a motto from Terence, 
 "HasJ nifi peritiirus mihi adimat nemo," is Tcarce. It Jold, 
 «' Credite, pofteri 1" at the late Mr. \Vtil's ihle, lor llxty-eight 
 pounds. I, who know not who was the purchafer, and therefore 
 am abfolutely free from perfonal prejudice, cannot help obferving, 
 tliat he appears to be far gone in the ^^hienfy of the virtu. Dr. 
 M,* *, though a virtuofo himfelf, would, furely, in this inftance, 
 have pronounced him infane, if he had given only a quarter of 
 the money. 
 
 X Scil. Ang. Scot, et Hlb. which »re In the legend of the obvcrfc V. Te- 
 rcnt. *' Andr." adt. iv. fc. 2. i. 14. 
 
 tions 
 
Class X. of ENGLAND. igc^ 
 
 tions on " The Art of fetting, or compofing 
 *< Mufic i" Lend. 1655. He alfo publilhed a 
 very good " Compendium of praclical Mufic j 
 *« containing, i. The Rudiments of Songj 2. 
 *' The Principles of Compofition : 3. The Ufe of 
 <*' Difcords ; 4. The Form of figurate Defcant : 
 " 5. The Contrivance of Canon i" 8vo. feveral 
 times printed *. Before this is a fmaller head 
 than that above-defcribed, engraved by the fame 
 hand. The author, who was a Roman Catho- 
 lic, died in the houfe of his patron, foon after 
 the Reftoration f . See the reign of Charles II. 
 
 JOHANNES GAMBLE, philomufi- 
 cus i "T, Crofs fc, b,Jh. 
 
 John Gamble was regularly bred to raufic 
 •under Ambrofe Beyland, a noted mafter of that 
 art, with whom he ferved an apprenticefhip. 
 Upon his leaving his mafter, he became one of 
 the muficians to the play-houfe, and afterwards 
 cornet to the king's chapel. After the Refto- 
 ration, he was appointed one of the violins to 
 Charles II. and compofer of mufic to the king's 
 theatre. He publifhed " Ayres and Dialogues, 
 ^' to be fung to the Theorbo-Lute, or Bafs- 
 *' Viol," 1657; fol. before which is his por- 
 trait. Some amorous pieces, written by Thomas 
 Stanley, efq. are in this book ; before which 
 are commendatory verfes by A. Brome, Richard 
 Lovelace, &c, 
 
 • This book has been commended by Dr. Hayes, now profef- 
 for of mufic at Oxford. 
 
 f The above article is chiefly taken from a manufcript accoun 
 ^f muficians, in the Aflimolean Mufeum, by Mr, Wood. 
 
 WRIT, 
 
(aq The history Interr. 
 
 .40 
 
 WRITING-MASTERS, &c. 
 
 EDWARD COCKER, Ji(. 26; Gay^ 
 wood f, . 
 
 Edward Cocker, yEt, 26, 1657 ; cvaly adorn- 
 ed with foliage ; 4/^. 
 
 Edward Cocker, /Et. 28, 1660 ; copied from 
 the nei<t above. See the reign of Charles II, 
 
 Edward Cocker, who was defervedly reckon- 
 ed among the improvers of the arts of writing 
 and arithmetic, publifhed no lefs than fourteen 
 copy books, engraved by his own hand. Some 
 of his calligraphical pieces, which were done on 
 filver plates, have a neatnefs and delicacy fupe- 
 rior to the reft. There was never any writing- 
 mafter before or after him who printed fo much: 
 indeed his being fo general a publifher has been 
 juftly obje6led to him as a fault. Mr. Evelyn 
 mentions Cocker, Gery, Gething, and Billingf- 
 ley, as comparable with the Italian mafters, 
 both for letters and flourilhes*. Cocker's " Vul- 
 *' gar and Decimal Arithmetics" have been 
 often printed. He was alfo author of a fmall 
 Engliili didionary, and editor of a book of fen- 
 tences for writing, called " Cocker's Morals." 
 Qb, circ. 1677. 
 
 THOMAS SHE ETON, mafler of Ihort- 
 hand ; y^/. 49, 1650^ i^imo. 
 
 Thomas Sh ELTON; /// a fmall oval of foliage, 
 nis is the title to bis ** Tacby-graply.'* There is a 
 fmall bujl of hifn in the Latin edition of this book^ 
 which was publifhed in 1 67 1 . 
 
 Thomas S II ELTON •, a fmall oval -^ Crofsfc. Be- 
 fore his Pfalms in fJjort-band^ probably publijhed at 
 
 • <' Sculptura," edit. 1759, p. 92, 
 
 this 
 
Class X, of ENGLAND. 141 
 
 this period, ^are. See an account of him in the 
 reign of Charles I. 
 
 JEREMIAH R ICH ; Cr^/i/r. I2w^. 
 Jeremiah Rich ; %vo, 
 
 *' Currant verba licet, lingua efl velocior illis : 
 ** Nondum lingua, fuum dextra peregit opus." 
 
 *' The Pen's Dexterity : by thefe incompar- 
 *' able Contradions, by which a fentence is as 
 " foon writ as a Word : allowed by Authority, 
 *' and paffed the two Univerfities, with great 
 " Approbation and Applaufe. Invented and 
 *« taught by Jeremiah Rich, 1659." This, which 
 is his beft work, is fuppofed to be that which is 
 recommended by Mr. Locke. 
 
 John Lilburne offered to give the author a 
 certificate under his own hand, that he took 
 down his trial at the Old Bailey with thegreateft 
 cxa6lnefs. The book of Pfalms in Rich's Cha- 
 radler is in print. His (hort-hand was taught 
 in Dr. Doddridge's academy at Northampton. 
 
 NOAH BRIDGES: ^' Res valet, Ars 
 
 ^^ praftat \ fi Res per it ^ Ars ?nihi reft at ',^* i2mo» 
 Engraved in the wanner of Loggan, 
 
 This gentleman, who was educated at Baliol 
 College in Oxford, was clerk to the parliament 
 that afiembled there in 1643. ^^ ^^^ author 
 of " The Ail of fhort and fecret Writing," 
 1659, i2mo. which it is probable Mr. Wood ^ 
 
 had not feen, as he makes no mention of it in 
 his article. His head is prefixed to this book. 
 Seethe reign of Charles II. 
 
 JOHN BROWNE, mathematical inftru- 
 ment- maker ; a whole length : Gaywoodfc, 
 
 Browne^ 
 
'jtji The HISTORY Interim} 
 
 Browne, in 1656, publifhed a " Defcription 
 *' and Ufc of the Carpenter's Rule," &c. to 
 
 which is prefixed his print. 
 
 JO FIN TRADESC ANT, junior, phy-: 
 fic-gardiner at Lambeth, and a noted virtuofo. 
 See the reign of Charles I. 
 
 CLASS XL 
 
 LADIES, and Others of the Female 
 
 Sex. 
 
 RACHAEL, MIDDLESEXIiE co- 
 
 mitifla ; Vandyck p. Lombart Jc. Flowers on a table 
 before her ; h,Jh. 
 
 Rachael, daughter of Francis Fane, the firfl 
 earl of Weftmoreland. She was firft married ta 
 Henry Bourchier, earl of Bath ; fecondly, to 
 Lionel Cranfield, the third earl of Middlefex, 
 who fucceeded his brother James in 1651. 
 Lionel died without iflue by her, Od. 26, 
 1674. I have feen her pidure at Bafilden in 
 Berklhire, among the anceftors of the late lord 
 vifcount Fane. She is faid to have left a very 
 large fum to build a private chapel ; but the 
 money was never applied to the ufe for which 
 it was intended. Lord Fane ufed to fpeak of 
 her as a very good woman. Her portrait was 
 painted by Vandyck, in the reign of Charles I. 
 The print fhould have been infcribed, " Lady 
 *' Rachael Fane, or Rachel Countefs of Bath." 
 Anachronifms of this kind are too common 
 upon portraits. 
 
 PENELOPE, counters ofWILTON^ 
 
 a jewel at her breajl '^ Hollar/^ \^mo, 
 
 Pene- 
 
Class XI. of ENGLAND. 
 
 Penelope, daughter and heir of fir Robert 
 Naunton, fecretary of ftate to James I, and au- 
 thor of the " Fragmenta Regalia." She was 
 firft married to Paul vifcount Banning, and af- 
 terwards to Philip lord Herbert j who, upon 
 the death of earl Philip his father, in 1652, be- 
 came earl of Pembroke. This is unqueilion- 
 ably the lady here meant. There was not a 
 countefs of Wilclliire for fome centuries, till 
 Edward VI. created an anceltor of the duke of 
 Bolton earl of Wiltfliire. 
 
 The Lady FALCONBERG; G. X"/;/^y?. 
 a medal. In Peck's " Life of Cromwell" We are 
 told by Dr. Swift, in vol. iv. p. ^4, of his " Let- 
 *' ters," that ihe was extremely like the pidlures 
 he had feen of her fa then 
 
 Mary, third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, 
 a lady of great beauty, but of greater fpirit, 
 ■was fecond wife of Thomas lord vifcount Fal- 
 conberg. Bifliop Burnet, who llyles her a wife 
 and worthy woman, fays, that " flie was more 
 " likely to have maintained the poll (of pro- 
 *' tedlor) than either of her brothers ; accord- 
 *' ing to a faying that went of her, " That thofe 
 " who wore breeches deferved petticoats better ; 
 " but if thofe in petticoats had been in breeches, 
 " they would have held fader *." After Ri- 
 chard was depofed, who, as fhe well knew, was 
 never formed for regal power, fhc exerted her- 
 felf in behalf of Charles II. and is faid to have 
 had a great and fuccefsful hand in his Reftora- 
 tion. It is very certain that her hufband was 
 fent to the Tower by the committee of fafety, 
 a little before that great event, and that he flood 
 
 ♦ Burnet's " Hill, ofhis ©vvji Time," p 85. 
 
 very:, 
 
 H: 
 
144- 
 
 tHE tIT STORY Interr^^ 
 
 very high in the king's favour f, Ob. March 
 14, 1712. 
 
 Domina PAS TON, 1659; Faithorne fc. h. 
 jld, ^his print is companion to that of Sir JVm. Paf- 
 ton. 
 
 This lady appears, from the arms, which are 
 a chevron betwixt three owls, to be the fecond 
 wife of fir William Pafton. His firft was Ca- 
 tharine, eldeit daughter of Robert Bertie, earl of 
 Lindfcy, who received his death's wound, va- 
 liantly fighting for Charles I. at Edge-hill j and 
 grand-daughter of the gallant Peregrine, lord 
 Willoughby of Erefby. It is obfervable that 
 this lady and her hufband were defcended from 
 two of the braved men that we read of in our 
 Englilh annals. See " Biographia Britannica," 
 article Bertie. See alfo Paston, Clafs Vlll. 
 
 The Lady ELEANOR TEMPLE; 
 Gaywoodf, 1658 ; iimo. 
 
 \ I am very credibly informed, that lady Falconber^ frequent- 
 ed the eftabliflied church. When fhe was in town, (he went to 
 St. Anne's, Soho j when in the country, to Chifwick. She was 
 a very genteel woman, but pale and fickly. She was knowrt to 
 be very charitable. From the information of a perfon who knew 
 her in the decline of life. See a remarkable paflage concerning 
 her in Dr. Z. Grey's " Review of Neal's Hiftory of the Puritans," 
 p. 36. 
 
 Since this note was printed, I had the honour to be informed 
 by the earl of Ilchefter, who remembers her well, and to whom 
 flie was gcd-mother, that (he mult have been far gone in the de- 
 cline of life when Ihe was pale and (Ickly, as (lie was not natu- 
 rally of fuch a complexion. The following anecdote of her is at 
 p. 39, of the " Vindiciae Anti-Baxterianas." «* It is a well-known 
 «* llory of a great man that would, before king Charles, put a 
 *' jeft upon Oliver's daughter, the lady Faulconbridge : Madam, 
 <* I faiu your father yef er day .—What thenjir P—Hefarik ?noJ\ abo- 
 *' m'mahly. — I fuppoje he ivas dead t hen \ avas he not? — Yes. — / 
 " thought fo J or elfe, IheUe-i'C, he n.vculd ha-ve made you Jiink n/jorje, 
 •* At which the king laughed heartily." 
 
 This 
 
Class XL o f E N G L A N D. US 
 
 This is mofl probably the wife of Peter Tem- 
 ple, elq. of Leicefterihire, ftyled, on the print. 
 Sir Peter Temple. His wife being called La- 
 dy Eleanor, does not prove her to have been of 
 a noble family. At this time, they had noc 
 eftablifhed the di{tin6lion betwixt Eleanor La- 
 dy *** and Lady Eleanor ***, which lad title 
 is now applied to the daughters of peers. But 
 it is at lead doubtful whether her hulband was 
 a knight •, and if he was. Dame, not Lady, is 
 the proper prefix to the Chriftian name of a ba- 
 ronet's or knight's wiit. 
 
 Lady KATHARINE HARRINGTON^ 
 
 wife to Sir James Harrington, j£t, 36, i6^j^y 
 Q^ogcn\ Fait horns fc, ^to. 
 
 There feems to be no doubt that this is the 
 portrait of Katharine, daughter of Sir Marma- 
 duke Dorrel, of Buckinghamfhire *, and wife 
 of Mr. Harrington, com>monly called Sir James 
 Harrington, the well-known author of '* The 
 ** Commonwealth of Oceana," and the tranflator 
 of the firft fix books of the «' ^neis :" but it is 
 certain that (he was not married to him till af- 
 ter the Reftoration f. He was then almoil to- 
 tally changed in body and mind : his conftiru- 
 tion was broken, and his intellcdts vifibly im- 
 paired, by a tedious impriibnment, by harfh 
 treatment, and, as fom.e believe, from the efR^cfls 
 of poifon. 1 his lady was, in her younger years^ 
 not only admifed for her perfonal accomplilli- 
 ments, but greatly celebrated for her wit. Mr. 
 Harrington made his addreffes to her when (he 
 was in the pride of youth and beauty, and fur- 
 
 • Several of the Dorrel family He buried in the church of Weft 
 tVycomb, Bucks 
 
 f See ♦< Biographia," IV. p. 2538. 
 
 Vol. hi. h Tounded 
 
146 The HISTORY Imterr; 
 
 rounded with admirers. He was then undiftin- 
 guifhed from the crowd •, but fhe afterwards, 
 from motives of intcreft, becanie his wife. As 
 he did not meet with the returns of afFe(5lion 
 from her that he expected, an open rupture en- 
 fued foon after their marriage : but they were 
 foon reconciled, and he treated her with great 
 civility to the end of his life. 
 
 Mrs. JANE LANE: In lord Clarendon's 
 " Hijlory-;' ^vo. 
 
 Mrs. Lane was a woman of uncommon fenfe 
 and fpirit, and famous for afTifling Charles JL 
 in his efcape, after the fatal battle of Worcefler. 
 The royal fugitive, difguifed in her father's li- 
 very, rode before heron horfeback, from Bent- 
 ley Hall in Staffordfliire '-, to Mr. Norton's 
 near Briftol. This adventure was conducted 
 with fuch fingular addrefs, that the king pafTed 
 unnoticed through that long journey. Her 
 fervices were amply rewarded at the Reftoration. 
 She was afterwards married to Sir Clement 
 Fifher, baronet, of Packington Hall, in War- 
 wickfhire f . 
 
 • Bentley Hall was the feat of Mr. Lane, and about twelve 
 miles from Bofcobel Wood, wheie the king was concealed in an. 
 oak. Col. John Lane, brother to Mrs. Jane, was aiding in his 
 efcape. 
 
 t " Life of Major Bernard!/' by himfelf, p. 5 and 6. That 
 author informs us, rhat atrer the king arrived at the late Sir 
 George Norton\< houfc, near Brillol, he went into the kitchen, 
 by the advice of his fuppofed miftrefs, the better to conceal him- 
 felf: and that, as he was *' (landing by the fire-fide, near the jack, 
 the cook juaid defned him to wind it up; and he fumbling un- 
 til the foit ftood ltd), the maid Itruck him, and calling him 
 black blotkheail, alked where the devil he had lived, that he 
 had not learned to wind up a jack ? The king modefily an- 
 fwered her with ablufli, that he was a poor tradelman's ion, 
 and had not been lon^ in his lady's fervice." Bernardfs 
 Life," p. 6 and 7. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
Class XI. o f E N G L A N D. 147 
 
 Mrs. SUSANNAH PERWlCHj T. 
 Crc/s/c, 1 2 mo, 
 
 Sufannah, daughter of Robert Perwich, 
 whofe wife was a miilrefs of a very noted board- 
 ing-fchool, at Hackney, was the admiration of 
 all that knew her, for her accompliu;ments 
 of body and mind. She had not only 
 that quicknefs of apprehenfion, and readi- 
 nefs of elocution, which is natural to her own 
 fex, but a folidity of judgment rarely fcen in 
 men. Such was the pregnancy of her parts, 
 that of eight hundred ladies educated in her 
 mother's fchool, there was not one that ever at- 
 tained to half her excellence in mufic, dancing, 
 and thofe other ufeful and ornamental qualifi- 
 cations in v/hich ladies are ufually educated* 
 Mufic was fo peculiarly adapted to her genigs, 
 that (lie excelled on feveral inftruments ; and 
 • was, at about fourteen, well qualified to play 
 any thing on the treble viol in concert, at firfl 
 fight. LaweSj Simpfon, Jenkins, and other ce- 
 lebrated maRers of mufic, liftened to her with 
 admiration, when ihe fung or played their com- 
 pofitions, or her own. Her name was fo well 
 known abroad, that (he was frequently vifited 
 by foreigners of eminence. But of all her ex- 
 cellencies, as the author of her *' Life" afTures 
 119, her piety was the greateft ; and her higheft 
 qualification v^as to die the death, as fhe had 
 lived the life of a Chriflian. 0^. 3 July, 1661, 
 yEt. 25. See her '^ Life" by John Batchiler, 
 both m profe and verfe, with various anagrams 
 and acrollics on her name, i2mo. 1661 ; before 
 which is her portrait. 
 
 Mrs DOROTHY RUTTER. Seethe 
 
 L 2 Madama 
 
 reign of Charles il. 
 
j^S The history Interr. 
 
 Madama K I L L E G R E {perhaps Killegrew) ; 
 
 Hollar f, 1652 i half length. 
 
 ******** * 
 
 An anommous foHralt of a woman : her hair is 
 drejfed in many formal curls^ which nearly refemble hot- 
 tk'fcrews. *This is the onlyfimilar idea that occurs to 
 me at prefent \ and I fl: all look no farther ^ as it is 
 fufficient to exprefs my meaning. J'he following lines 
 are under the head : 
 
 *' Lo here a beauty in her morn, who fJ:akes 
 ** Day from her hair •, and whofe perfection makes 
 *' T^he fun amazed ^ a heaven en earth to view * : 
 ** So QHich can birth and education do." 
 
 1 have the firft leaf only of the dedication be- 
 longing to the book to which this very ugly 
 print of a great beauty was prefixed. Ihis is 
 the addrefs : 
 
 " To the true mirrcur of her fex, the truly ho- 
 •' nourable Mis. Ellinor Pargiter; and to the 
 *' mod accomplifbed. with all real perfe(fl:ions, 
 *' Mrs. Elizabeth WaQiingron, her only daugh- 
 *' tcr, and heirefs to the trulv honourable Lau- 
 *' rence Wafhington, Efquire, lately deceafed." 
 It is probable, that this beauty, who dazzled the 
 lun out of countenance, '' Vuitus nimium/^/- 
 *' gidus afpici," icon changed her name ; and 
 efpecially as (he was kelrejs to a man of fortune f. 
 it is to be regretted that a lady of fo many ac- 
 complifhmencs fhould be fo little known, and 
 
 • I was about to cenfuie this paflage, till I recollected nn ob- 
 fervation (t Ivlr. Bitkcid^ir. ♦< That a metaphor cannot be car- 
 ried too far, when it is applied to a " lady s charm.s." See the 
 " Tatier," No. 34, 
 
 •f- We learn from ColTuns's •' Pteragr." tli.it tlie firft earl Fer- 
 rers married Klizaberh, <1r»uo;iiter and heir of Laurence Wafliing- 
 tonjtTq ofCaieldtn, 111 NA^iltlhire. 
 
 that 
 
Class XII. o f E N G L A N D. 149 
 
 that the engraver has given us fo vile an idea of 
 the fplendor of htr besLuty, 
 
 CLASS XII. 
 
 PERSONS remarkable from a finglc Circum- 
 ftance in their Lives, &c, 
 
 RICHARD PENDERILL, afarmer, who 
 
 helped to preferve Charles II. after the fatal bat- 
 tle of Worceftcr. See the reign of Charles, in 
 which his portrait was painted. 
 
 WILLIAM PENDERILL, brother 
 to the former. His portrait, which reprefents him 
 in the eighty-fourth year of his age, was probably 
 drawn in the reign of William Hi. 
 
 JAMES NAYLOR, born at Ardefloe 
 (Ardefley) near Wakefield in Yorkfhire, '* was an 
 " Independent, and ierved quarcer-mafter in the 
 " parliament army, about the year 1641 •, turned 
 *' Quaker in 1641, (1651-2) j was punifhed for 
 *' blafphemy, 16^6; author of many books. He 
 '* died at Holm, in Huntingdonlhire, 1600, aged 
 " 44." T. Preftonf. 
 
 James Naylor', a large B. in his forehead -^ a 
 fmall prifit. In Pagil's " Ilcre/iography.'* 
 
 I take this to be the only genuine likenefs of 
 him. 
 
 This enthufiaftic vifionary, who was con- 
 verted to Qiiakerifm by George Fox, v/as fome 
 time an admired preacher among the people of 
 that religion. As his features bore a near re- 
 femblance to the common pi61:ures of Chrill, 
 it flruck his imagination that he was transformed 
 into Chrift himfeif. He prefently afllimed the 
 
 L 3 cha« 
 
I50 The HISTORY Interim, 
 
 charafler of the MefTiab, and was acknowledged 
 as luch bv his deluded followers. He affeded 
 to heal the fick, and raife the dead ; and enter- 
 ed triurnp^hantly into Briilol, attended by nnany 
 of this iecl, who iirevved his way with leaves and 
 branches of trees, crying, '* Hofanna, blefied is 
 *' he that conieth in the name of the Lord *." 
 He was pilloried, burnt through the tongue, and 
 branded Vv ith a 5 in his forehead, for blafphemy, 
 and was n:ioreover fentenced to be whipped, and 
 confined to hard labour. The difcipline of a 
 priion foon refiored him to his fenfes f. One 
 of his books is intitled, " Miik for Babes, &c. 
 *' written in the l^ime of the Confinement of 
 *' his cutward Man in Pnfon." Lond. 1661 j 4to. 
 
 . "The Portraiture of MARTHA HAT- 
 FIELD." She is reprefented lying in a hcd^ in one 
 of the trances of "johich the hook that it belongs to gives 
 an account. The print is prefixed to '' The wife Vir- 
 *' gin^ or a wonderful Narration of the various Dif- 
 *' penfations of God to-war ds a Child of eleven l^ears of 
 *' Jge -, rjvherein^ as his Severity hath appeared in afr 
 ^^ fiitliug^ fo alfo his Gocdnefs^ both in enabling her 
 *' (when firicken dumb, deaf^ and blind, through the 
 •' Prevalency cf the Diferfe) at feveral Times to utter 
 " many gkricus Truths concerning Chrifi, Fuith, a::d 
 *' other Subjecis ; and alfo in recovering her^ without 
 ** the tife of any external Means., left the Glory fhould 
 *' be given to any other \ to the IVonderment cf nuvny 
 *' that came far ayid near to fee and hear her, with 
 ^-^ feme Obfervations in the fourth Tear fine e her Reco- 
 ** very.''* By James VtfJjer., a Servant of Chrifi, and 
 late Minijhr oj the Gojpel, in Sheffield ; the ^th edition^ 
 1664. The epifAe dedicatory.^ by the author, is dated 
 the! oth of Jan. 1652. 
 
 • Coke's " Dete<5tion/' &c. p. 59, 60. 
 
 •f See his Recantation in lord Somers's " Trafts," II. 272. 
 
 This 
 
Class IX. of ENGLAND. 151 
 
 This title fo fully expreffes the contents of 
 the book, that nothing more need be added, but 
 only that (he was the daughter of Anthony and 
 Faith Hatfield, of Leighton, in the Weft Rid- 
 ing of Yorkfhire, and was twelve years old, the 
 27th of September, 1652 ; that ihe wa5 feized 
 with the diforder which the author calls the 
 fpleen-wind, on the ^th of April, the fame year, 
 and fuffered repeated convulfions, and was rapt 
 into feveral trances, till the 9th of December 
 following, when fhe was reftored to her fenfes. 
 She continued in this ftate when the book was 
 firft publifhed with an Imprimatur, figned ** Jo- 
 " feph Caryl, 18 April, 1653." ^^'^ iicenfer 
 lays, that *' the truth of the particulars related 
 " in the Narrative will be avouched by many 
 " perfons of worth," and concludes thus : 
 *' We hope, reader, thofe that are engaged in 
 *' this work dare not commit fuch an impiety as 
 *' to gull the world with a forgery.'* This feems 
 to intimate that Caryl himfcif fufpecled the truth 
 of the relation, which will naturally remind the 
 reader of the ftory of Elizabeth Barton, the pre- 
 tended holy Maid of Kent. This pious fraud 
 was fo artfully managed as to deceive even fir 
 Thomas More, who cannot be fuppofcd accef- 
 fary to any kind of impofture. 
 
 ROGER CRAB; a wooden print ; whole 
 length •, four Enghjlo verfes. Before bis Lfe^ to which 
 is prefixed this title : " The Englifb Hermit^ or the 
 *' Wonder of this Age \ being a Relation of the Life of 
 *' Roger Crab ^ living near Uxbrid;^e^^ taken from his 
 " ozvn Mouthy /hewing his jira'>ige^ rcfcrved^ and un- 
 " paralleled Kind of Ltfe^ who counteih it a Sin againfl 
 *' his Body and Soul^ to eat any Sort of Flefh^ Fifi, or 
 
 * At Ickcnlnra. 
 
 L 4 " Uvin 
 
 S 
 
152 The HISTORY Interr. 
 
 *' living Creature^ or to drink any IVine^ Ale^ or Beer, 
 *' He can live ivith three farthings a Week, His con- 
 ^'' Jiant Fcod is Roots and Herbs \ as Cabbage^ Jur- 
 *' nips^ Carrots, Dock-Leaves^ and Grafs ; alj'o Bread 
 *' and Brarij "uoithout Butter or Cheefe. His Cloath^ 
 *' i)ig Sack-clotb. He left the Arm)\ and kept a Jhop 
 ^' at Chejham,^ and hath nozv left off that, and fold a 
 ^* conftderable Eflate to give to the Poor \ fioeiJiing his 
 *' Reafons from the Scripture : Mar, x. ii.Jer, xxxv. 
 «t — Wherefore^ if Meat make ray Brother to offend, I 
 *' will eat no Flejh while the World flandab^ ^f . 
 ^' I Cor* viii. i^,^' 
 
 Dr. Cheyne, who was an advocate for the Lef' 
 fian diet, and mentions the longevity of fome of 
 the ancient afcetics of the dcfart, who lived on 
 that kind of food, probably never heard of this 
 ftrange humourilt ; or if he did, has paffed him 
 over in filence, as a madman, who feems to have 
 deftroyed himfclf, by eating bran, grafs, dock- 
 leaves, and fuch other traih as was comprehend- 
 ed within his pious plan of living for three far- 
 things a week. It" Crab had refided in France 
 or Italy, he would indubitably have retired into 
 the monaftery of La Trappe. 
 
 M A R R I O T, the gr^eat eater ; h, fb, fever al 
 
 EnglifJ:f vcrjes. 
 
 Marriot was a lawyer of Gray's Inn, who 
 piqutd himfelf upon the brutal qualifications of 
 a voracious appetite, and a powerful digellive 
 faculty; and dtfcrvcs to be placed no higher in 
 the fcale of beings than a corniorant or an of- 
 trich. He increafcd his natural capacity for food 
 by art and application j and had as much vanity 
 in eating to excefb, as any monk ever had in 
 ftarving himfcif. See two copies of vcrfes upon 
 him, among the works of Chaiics Cotton, efq. 
 
 BAR. 
 
Class XII. o f E N G L A N D. 753^ 
 
 BARBARA URSELIN, &c. Ifaac 
 Brunn delin. et fc. 1653. She is reprefented flaying 
 on the harpfichord : underneath is a Dutch infer iption, 
 I never faw but one proof of this prints which is in the 
 colle^ion of the earl of Bute ^. 
 
 The lively portraiture of ^^RBAKA^ wife to Mi- 
 f/^^^/ VAN BECK, born at Augfhiirg^ in High Ger-- 
 many \ the daughter of B alt h afar and Anne Urfler -f ; 
 eged 2g^ Jo, Dom, 1651. R. G ay wood f. Lend, The ■ 
 following note was written under one of thefe prints 
 which is^ or was lately^ in the poffeffiun of Mr. Frede- 
 ricky bookfeller in Bath "^ : 
 
 *' This woman I faw in Rat cliff e Highway^ in the 
 *' year 1668^ and was fatisfied fhe was a woman, 
 
 John Bulfinch." 
 
 The face and hands of this woman are repre- 
 fented hairy all over. Her afped refembles that 
 of a monkey. She has a very long and large 
 fpreading beard, the hair of which hangs looie 
 and flowing like the hair of the head. She is 
 playing on an organ. Vanbeck married this 
 frightful creature, on purpolc to carry her about 
 for a fhow. 
 
 The following anonymous portraits belong to the In- 
 terregnumy or the reign of Charles 11. 
 
 A half length of a man \ hair^ black cap^ fafjj^ and 
 JloGulder-knot ; four verfes : 
 
 " The pencil can no more, &c." 
 
 T. Crofs fc, %vo. 
 
 • The Catalogue of Heads, in this fecond edition? has been en- 
 larged from the grand colltdion of prints in the poHtfTion of the 
 carl of Bute, in which is a great number of EngliHi portraits, and 
 many of them very rare. Lord Mountftuart was pleafed, in the 
 molt obliging manner, to point out to me fome confiderable ad- 
 ditions to the biographical part of this work. 
 
 i" Urflerin. 
 
 J I have heard that it was purchafed by Mr, Bull. 
 
 Another 
 
The history Interr. 
 
 Another portrait of a man in a loofe rche^ black cap^ 
 port falling band -y " Fiyma nobis hides ^'^ in a label 
 ever the unns. Faithorne fc. 
 
 A man in a cloak^ holding a pen \ with feveral 
 vtrfes : 
 
 *' This pidture reprefcnts a heavenly mind," 
 
 5". Crofs fc. i2nw. 
 
 To thcfe may be added : 
 
 ABRAHAMUS WOOFE, ^t. 60 ; 
 
 emblems ; battle at bottom* The engraver"* s name was 
 perhaps torn off, 
 
 REMARKS ON DRESS. 
 
 It appears by the broad feal of Charles II. in 
 Sandford, dated 1653, that he wore long hair 
 and whifkers. It alio appears from the prints 
 of him, in Sir William Lower's account of his 
 entertainment at the Hague, the fame year, that 
 he fometimes wore a large cravat, and, at other 
 times, a long falling band with taflels. His ruf- 
 fles were large, his doublet fliort, his boots were 
 alfo fhorr, with large tops, his hair long, with a 
 loclv on the right fide much longer than the 
 reft. 
 
 Mr. Benlowcs, in his " Theophila," pub- 
 liilied in 1652, has given us a print of a man 
 of mode. In his hat, the brim of which is ex- 
 tended horizontally, is a large feather : it in- 
 clines much to the right fide, as if it were falling 
 off his head. His hair is very long, his ruffies 
 are double, his doublc^t reaches no lower than 
 the waiftband of his breeches : his fword is enor- 
 mous, and fufpended to a belt, which comes 
 over his right fl-ioulder ; his breeches are large, 
 
 with 
 
Dkess. of ENGLAND. 155 
 
 with puffs like fmall blown bladders, quite rcyund 
 the knees ; his boots are very ftiorr, with fring- 
 ed tops, which are near as ample in their di- 
 menfions as the brim of his hat*. It appears 
 from the fame author, that black patches were 
 fomctimes worn by the beaux at the time of the 
 Interregnum f. Short hair, fhort bands, fhorc 
 cloaks, and long vifages, frequently occur in the 
 portraits of this period. 
 
 Mr. Benlowes has alfo given us prints of two 
 Udies, engraved by Hollar ; one in a fum- 
 mer, the other in a winter drefs. The former 
 is without a cap, has her hair combed like a wig, 
 except that which grows on the crown of the 
 htrad, which is nicely braided, and rounded in 
 
 * See " Theophila," p. 210. 
 
 •f Ibid, p. 194, Sitanza viii. — At this period, a bill againft the 
 vice of painting, wearing black patches, and immodeft drefs of 
 woiiien, was read in the houfe of Commons. See the *' Parlia- 
 <* njeatary Hiftory." 
 
 At the fame time was piiblifhed a pamphlet, entitled *' The 
 *< Loathfomenefs of long Hair, with an Appendix againft Paint- 
 «' ing, Spots, naked Breads," &c. 
 
 Patches, which derived their origin from the Indians, were 
 called, in the dialect of the vulgar, beauty fpots ; but were, in 
 reality, fpots of deformity, and would have been fo elteeraed had 
 they been natural. Sir Kenelm Digby informs us, that the fol- 
 lowing fa(5t was well known to all the Englifh court. 
 
 A lady, who was his relation, and who, as he fays, was *' niece 
 *' of Fortefcu, the daughter of count Arundel,'* made him a 
 vilit. She was then in all the pride of her beauty, which (he en- 
 deavoured to heighten with artificial embellifhuients, and was 
 particularly nice in her patches, to which fir Kenelm had an aver- 
 iion. He brought feveral arguments to diffuade her from the ufe 
 of thefe favage ornaments. Among others, as (hQ was with child, 
 he faid, " Have you no apprehenfion that your child may be born 
 ** with half moons upon his face ; or rather, that all the black 
 ** which you bear up and down in fmall portions, may aflemblc 
 ** in one, and appear in the middle of his forehead ?" This re- 
 monftrance occafioned her leaving off the prjictice of p;Uching j 
 but his words made fuch an inipiefliion upon her iu)>igination, 
 that the daughter of whom fne was then pregnant, wj.s born with 
 a fpot ** as large as a crown of gold," in the middle of her fore- 
 head. Digby's " Difcourfe concerning the Powder of Sympathy,** 
 p. loi, edit. 165?. 
 
 a knot. 
 
1^6 The HISTORY Interr 
 
 a knot. Her neck-handkerchief is furrounded 
 with a deep fcalloped lace, and her cuffs arc 
 laced much in the Tame manner. The fleeves 
 of her gown have many flaflies, through which 
 her linen is very confpicuous : her fan is of the 
 modern make. Ttie latter is rcprefcntcd in a 
 clofe black hood, and a black mail<> *, which 
 juft conceals her nofe. She wears a fable tip- 
 per, and holds a large muff of the fame kind, 
 which entirely hides her arms. 
 
 APPENDIX to the INTERREGNUM. 
 
 FOREIGNERS. 
 
 HENRICUS CAROLUS DE LA TRE- 
 MOUILLE, &c. nobilillimi Grdinis Garterii 
 Eques j /';/ armour-, P. Philippe fc, 
 
 Charles de la Tremouille, ftyled " Prince 
 " de Tarente,'* was fon of Henry de la Tre- 
 mouille, duke of Tho\*ars. He was tledled 
 knight companion of the Garter, together with 
 Henry, duke of Gloucefter, in 1653, at Paris ; 
 was inftalled at Windfor, in April, 1661. He 
 died in his father's life-time, the 14th of Sep- 
 tember, 1672. 
 
 • It is well known that the mafk has concealed many immo- 
 ralities, and that it was long worn by women of" intrigue, and 
 prcftitutes of the town. Dryden, in the epilogue to his " Love 
 ** Triumphant," mentions •* Mafks and TViifTes §" as pei Tons of 
 much the fame chaja6ler. It was indeed frequently worn by wo- 
 nieji of the ftridtelt virtue 5 and generally on the lirit night of a 
 comedy, in the reign of Charles II. 
 
 § The word yj'tfi was formerly ufcd for a woman of ill fame. 
 
 There 
 
Append. or ENGLAND. 157 
 
 There is a print hy Nantueil, after Champaigne^ 
 ^/HENRY of ORLEANS, dukeofLon- 
 gueville and Creqiii. 
 
 This was probably the fame perfon that was 
 fent ambaflador to Cromwell, together with 
 Mancini, nephew to cardinal Mazarine. 
 
 ERIC ROSENKRANTZ, Signeurde 
 
 Rofenholm, &c. A. F, f, a fmall huft in H of man. 
 
 Eric Rofenkrantz, who vKited England in 
 the reign of Charles I. from a motive of curio- 
 fity, was, in 1652, fent hither on an extraordi- 
 nary embafTy, in conjundion with P E D E R 
 REETZ, of whom Hofman has alfo given us 
 a print. Cromwell, whoconfidered Rofenkrantz 
 as a young miniftcr without experience, afked 
 him whether there were many fuch forward ge- 
 nuifes among the Danes, who were qualified to 
 manage the arduous affairs of ftate before their 
 beards were grown ? Rofenkrantz, who had oc- 
 cafion for all his temper and difcretion not to 
 fay too much or too little upon this attack, re- 
 plied, with an admirable firmnefs, " Sir, my 
 *' beard, though it be young, is, however, older 
 " than your republic." The protedor, from 
 this fmart reply, conceived a different opinion 
 of him, and treated him with much higher re- 
 gard *. He died in 1681. Peder Kectz, lord 
 of Tygeftrup, died in 1674, having been chan- 
 cellor, privy-counfellor, and chief treafurer, to 
 the king of Denmark, 
 
 * " Hofman," artic. Rosenkrantz, p. 30. 
 
 JACOBUS 
 
15$ The HISTORY Inters; 
 
 JACOBUS CATS Browerfliavius Ord, 
 Holl. Advocatus Sigillorum Cullos, Sec, Oh, 13 
 Sept. 1660 ; without the engraver s name. 
 
 This eminent perfon is memorable as a law- 
 yer, a politician, and a poet. He came firft 
 into England to confult Dr. Butler in a hedtic 
 cafe ; and, twice afterwards, in quality of am- 
 baflador, in the reign of Charles I. and in the 
 proteflorate of Cromwell, having been here at 
 the time of the engagement betwixt Blake and 
 Tromp. He foon after retired to Chelfea, 
 where his lodojinsf, and that of two others wha 
 were joined with him in the embafTy, was fur- 
 rounded by foldiers. This greatly alarmed 
 them : but, as Cromwell told him upon his 
 complaint, it was to prevent their being torn 
 to pieces by the mob, who were extremely ex- 
 afperated againfi; the Dutch. He and his col- 
 leagues were hereupon fecretly fenc away with 
 great care and defpatch by command of the 
 protedor. 
 
 MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL; Rem- 
 
 Irandi f. 1636; etched with tincGmmon nature and 
 fpirit^ ^to. See the " Catalogue of the JVorks of 
 " Rembrandt y^ No. 250. 
 
 Menafleh Ben Ifrael, a learned rabbi and phy- 
 fician, and the chief of the Jews who refided in 
 the Low Countries, was an agent in their behalf 
 with the prote6tor for their fettlement in Eng- 
 land ', for which he is faid, by feveral writers, to 
 have offered him 200,000 1. but upon condition 
 that St. Paul's cathedral lliould have been ap- 
 propriated to their ufc *. This tempting pro- 
 
 pofal 
 
 * Tovey, in his " Anglia Judaica," p. 259, fays, " As foon as 
 *' king Charles was munlered, the Jews petitioned the council of 
 " ivar to endeavour a icpciil of that at^ of parliament which 
 
 «« bad 
 
Append. of ENGLAND. t^^ 
 
 pofal perfuaded Cromwell, at lead he pretended 
 to be perlbaded, that the caufe of the Jews was 
 the caufe of God, and that their eftablifiimenc 
 would be in order to their converfion, as Chrif- 
 tianiry, in its purity, was to be found in Eng- 
 land, particularly among the Independents. 
 This met with the ftrongeft oppofition from the 
 generaliryof the people, efpecially the clergy •, fe- 
 veralof whom, contrary to the inftrudions which 
 they had received from Cromv;ell, exerted the 
 whole force of their arguments againfl: the rabbi, 
 in a fet difputation, and backed it with all the 
 weight of their authority. Heath, in his " Fla- 
 " gellum^," tells us, that Oliver " gulled the 
 " Jews of their earnelt-money.'* Mention is 
 made of feveral of Ben Ifrael's works in the Bod- 
 leian Catalogue. His " Vindiciae Judeeorum," 
 publiihed foon after his return to Holland, has 
 been mentioned to his credit by feveral writers, 
 who, though no friend to the Jews, were inclin- 
 ed to do juitice to his uncommon candour and 
 abilities. The completed account of his cha- 
 radler and writings is in Wolfius's " Bibiiotheca 
 " Hebr^-ea." 
 
 CHRISTIAN RAVIUS, of Berlin, of 
 whom there is a print in i2mo. which correfponds 
 with that of Williams, or Willifum, was, at this 
 time, a profelTor of Hebrew in London, 
 
 " had been made againft them, promifing, in return, to make 
 *' them a prefent of five hundred thoufand pounds, provided that 
 *• they couid iikewife procure the cathedral of St. Paul to be af- 
 *' figned them for a fynagogue, and the Bodleian library at Ox» 
 *' foi d to begin their traffic with ; which piece of fervice, it feems, 
 " was undertaken, by thofe honeftmetiy at the felicitation of Hugh 
 *• Peters and Harry Marten, whom the Jews employed as their 
 *' brokers, but v^'ithout any fuccefs jj." See what Tovey fays of 
 MenafTeh Ben Ifrael, p. 180, &c, 
 • P. 167. 
 
 jl Montcth'e *< Hjftory of Great Britain," p, 473. 
 
 After 
 
i<?o The history Interr. 
 
 After he had fpent about eight years in fo- 
 reign univerfuies, he, in i6i 3, became a fojoumer 
 at Oxford. He was, for his oriental learning, 
 patronized by archbilhop Uflier ; and was by 
 Grotius recommended and introduced to cardi- 
 nal Richelieu, who would have fent him as his 
 agent into the Eaftern countries ; but he de- 
 clined the propofal, alleging his attachment to 
 the archbifhop, who was indeed a very generous 
 patron. It is certain, that he was at Conftanti- 
 nople in 1639, and that he there became ac- 
 quainted with the learned Pococke. In 1648, 
 having taken the covenant, he was, by the pow- 
 ers in being, appointed fellow of Magdalen Col- 
 lege, in Oxford. Mr. Wood, whofe account of 
 him is chiefly taken from the Dedication of his 
 <* Difcourfe of the Oriental Tongues," addrefTed 
 to primate Ufher, has mentioned all his writ- 
 ings, of which this " Difcourfe," is the mod 
 gonfiderable. He is cenfured, in "• Dr. Pococke's 
 *'Life"^," as a man of little judgment and great 
 indifcretion in his condudl. He died in Ger* 
 many, in 1677. 
 
 JOANNES RULITIUS, Kirchbcrgs 
 natus 1602 ; -^t. 50. Heidelbergam redux j Mi- 
 nifteriofundtus Dorceftrix annos 5 j Heidelbergse^ 
 I ; Amftelodami in Ecclefia Anglica, 4 ; ibidem 
 in Germanica, 13. C. Dufart ad vivum del. J. Brow- 
 er fc, four Latin verfes ^ h.JJj, 
 
 I have placed this perfon here according to 
 the date of his age •, perhaps improperly. I 
 know no more of him than what is inlcribed on 
 his print. 
 
 AE0NAPA02 OIAAPAS TlOr lOANNOTt 
 A0HNAIOS. Claud Mellan del, et fc, b, Jh. See a 
 
 • P. 14, ^'c. 33, 51. 
 
 par- 
 
ApPENDe 6 F E N G L A N t). j6| 
 
 farticula}" defaiptiGft of this print in FIcrent Le 
 Compte, 
 
 Leonard Philaras, a native of Athens, was 
 minifter from the duke of Parma to the king of 
 France. He was a man of eminent learning, 
 and one of Milton's foreign correfpondents. In 
 his Twelfth Epirtle, which is addreffed to him, 
 , he mentions the receipt of one of his letters, 
 together with this head : " milTam dclnde falu- 
 *' tern cum effigie," &c. In his Fifteenth, which 
 is particularly curious, he gives him a circum- 
 ftantial account of his blind nefs. 'Philaras, whoi 
 deplored his calamity, made him a vifit in Lon- 
 don, and encouraged him not to defpair of a 
 cure. Milton was then Latin fecretary to the 
 Protedcr. 
 
 « RIGEP DANDULO, a Turk by fcvea 
 ^' defcents, came into England v/ith Abde Aga, 
 " agent from the illuftrious Hamec Bafh'a, of Ar- 
 *' gier; and was here baptized into the ChriPciaa 
 " faith, by Mr. Gunning *, at Exeter chapel in 
 ',' the Strand, Nov. 9, 1657. — Crofs Jc. Before 
 Dr. fVarrnftry^ s " Narrative of his Converfion^* 
 I658; \2niQ. 
 
 Rigep Dandulo, defcended from the noble 
 family of theDanduli at Venice, was the only fon 
 of a (ilk-merchant in the ifle of Tzio. He came 
 into England from a motive of curiofity, and 
 was entertained in the houfe of lady Laurence, 
 at Chelfca, with whofe fon he had beeti former- 
 ly acquainted at Smyrna, Dr. Warmflry, who 
 vifited this lady, v*^as llrongly inclined to at- 
 tempt his converfion % though Dandulo was ig- 
 norant of the laniiuao-es with which the doctor 
 was acquainted. Lady Laurence and her fa- 
 
 * Afterwards bilhop ut'EIr 
 
 Vol. 11 L M mily 
 
l62 The HISTORY Interr; 
 
 mily came heartily into this pious defign. Mr, 
 Peter Gunning offered to fecond Dr. Warmftry 
 in his arguments j and Mr. Samois, chaplain to 
 the earl of Elgin, and a good proficient in the 
 TurkiQi language, undertook the office of an 
 interpreter. Dandulo at firft appeared extreme- 
 ly averfe from changing his religion ; but his- 
 mind was ftrangcly wrought upon by a dream, 
 which was more efficacious than every other 
 motive ; and he was foon after baptized at Exe- 
 ter Houfe, in the prefence of feveral perfons of 
 diftindion. In the '*• Narrative" is a long dif- 
 courfe of dreams of the providential kind, and a 
 detail of the arguments ufed for his converfion-f-. 
 
 CATHARINE L E T H lEULLI ER, 
 born 8 Jan. 1587 ; married Jacob Defbouvrie, of 
 Killeghorn, in Holland, September 9, 1630. T, 
 Luttichuys f. anno 1656 •, a half lengthy fitting in a 
 chair, 
 
 Catharine Le Thieullier, or Lethieullier, as 
 now written, was daughter of John Le Thieul- 
 lier, a gentleman of Flemifli cxtradlion '-, who 
 refided chiefly in Germany, by Jane Frappe, 
 daughter of John Frappe, of Tournay, who 
 married, to her i'econd hufband, John de Weez, 
 of F>ankfort, v/ho deceafcd in 1604, in two 
 years after their marriage. In July, the follow- 
 ing year, flie came over to England, with her 
 
 t In Kennet's *' Rcgifter aiul Chronicle," under July 1660, is 
 this paflage : " Upon reaning the petition of Philip Dandulo, a 
 " convert Turk, (his majtlt'y being prelent) it is ordered that it 
 *' l>iaJU)e rccoinnundt-d to the niin. iters ot London, who are de- 
 •' fired to collect the charity and benevolence of all well-dilpofed 
 *' ptrlons within their ftvcial paridits." Kcnnet informs Ui«, that 
 another petition for his fui thcr relief was read and granted at 
 the conncil-board, on ihe 8tli of March, 1660-1. 
 
 • His fariier was inartyrrd for his' reliyion, at Valenciennes, 
 in Ilainault, iiiuler the ci-iKc of Aiva's aUmioiltration. 
 
 for) 
 
Append. of ENGLAND. i6: 
 
 fon John Le Thieullier, and her daughter Ca- 
 tharine, who was born on the Sch of January, 
 1587; married on the 9th of September, 1630, 
 to Mr. Jacob des Eouverie, minifter of Killeg- 
 horn, in Holland; and died in 1664, ^g^^ 7 7» 
 She probably left no iflbe, as file was in or 
 about her 43d year when flie married. She lies 
 buried, with her mother, in the church of St» 
 Helen's le Grand. She was great-great-aunt of 
 fir James Burrow, knight, mafter of the crown- 
 office, and fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian 
 Societies ; and alio of Smart Lethieullier, efq. 
 who was alfo fellow of the fame focieties ; and 
 of John Loveday, efq. of Caverfham, in Ox- 
 fordOiire. The prefenc family of Defbouverie 
 are collaterally related to this lady. Mr. Smart 
 Lethieuilier had a very good pidure of her, 
 which is now in the pofTefTion of Edward Hulfe, 
 efq. of Alderfbrook, in Effex, who married the 
 only child of Charles Lethieuilier, brother to 
 Smart, and fole heirefs of both thefe gentle- 
 men t. 
 
 CHARLES 
 
 J This article was communicated by fir Jamies Burrow. 
 
 It may here be obferved that there is a very curious print, by 
 Hollar, infcribed "Vera Effigies Domini Blafii de Manfre, Netin'^ 
 *' Siculi, JEt. 72, 1651 ;" in an oval. He is reprerented (landing 
 againft a niiiar, and again, at a dl fiance^ upon a ftage, Ipoucing^ 
 water in a large and violent tlream from his ear. Near him is a 
 long double row of glafles j above him is the fun in full fplendo:> 
 with this inrcriptic>n, " Solus ficut Sol ;" alfo Fafne with two 
 trumpeis, and another infcription, " Fama volat." Under ttje oval 
 are fixteen Latin verfes, which inform us of his drinking water io. 
 larg^ q'lantities, and difcharging it from his liomach converted 
 into various forts of wine, fimple-waters, beer, oil, and milk; and 
 performing this before the emperor and feveral kings It is cer* 
 tai:i, that he w:'.s one of the molt wonderful jugglers that ever ap- 
 peared in the world, and that he was, by the generality of the 
 people, and even by fome perforis of rank and erjunence, regarded 
 as a magician. But thole who are acquainted with the efFct51^5 
 of drugs, the tricks of legerdemain, and the 'wonderful faculties 
 of the human frame, may account for it, llrange as it is, with- 
 out; imputing it to fupernatural powers. He was certainly in 
 Germany, France, and feveral other cyuntrjes of Europe, but 
 
j^4 Th E H I S T O R Y Charles IL 
 
 CHARLES II. was reflored on his Eirth- 
 Day, May 29, 1660. 
 
 CLASS I. 
 
 The ROYAL FAMILY. 
 
 CHARLES II. en borfeback ; crown on his 
 head ; cavalcade underneath ; Overton ; Jhiee!. 
 
 Charles II. on horjehack^ as in the coronation 
 procejjion', G ay wood f. 1661 ; large Jh. There is an- 
 other print of hifHy with the fame procejfion^ by 
 Chantry, 
 
 The horfe on which the kino- rode at his co- 
 ronation, was bred and prefented to him by 
 Thomas lord Fairfax, the parhament general. 
 
 Charles II. ^^/. 30, 1660^ W, F. invcnit^ J* 
 Ch.fc, in armour •, h. JIo. 
 
 Carolus II. Lely p. Lutterelf, ^to. mezz» 
 
 Carol us II. Lely p. Bccket f. fmall-^ r,iezz. 
 
 Carolus II. Lely p. fold by Brown "^i, whole 
 length ; fitting j large h flo. mezz, 
 
 Charles li. Lely p. T'ompfon exc. fitting '9 h. fh. 
 mezz, 
 
 Charles II. Lely p, Blootelingf, 1680 ; h. fh, 
 mezz. 
 
 very piut^entfy declined going to Spain, for fear or" tnc Inquisi- 
 tion |[. Ti.e late Mr. James Vy\rc allcrttd, tiiat he lived long \\\ 
 Kngland j but 1 ftnd no proof of it in any of our books, nor do I 
 leiy implicity on the authority. 
 * Prcl^ubiy the engraver. 
 
 ij If 'r ccrain, that, in ir.y rem;mbranc<s a horf?, which had been taught 
 ro tell the Ipots upon cards, ciie hour t»f ti>e <ijy, &'c. by ('.gniricunt tokens, 
 W-s, '.ogtrhcr wi:h his owner, pur into the In4uifi.ion, as if thejr had botli 
 dealt vvitlj tlie devil ; but the '.(.'puof-d liumnn ciiminal loon convinced \hc 
 inquT.tois that he was an hcnclV :''i?gkrj and tliat his hojfc wa?as innocent 
 as any bcift in 5ip4in, 
 
 Carolus 
 
Class I. o f E N G L A N D. i^l 
 
 Carolus II, Lelyp, Vandrebanc fc. ahnofi as large 
 as the life, 
 
 CharlesIT. Lely p. Veriue fc, 1 7 3 6. From a 
 pi^ure in Bridewdl Hally London \h. Jh, One of the 
 Set of Kings, 
 
 Carolus II. &c. Lely p Faher /. 1 7 50 ; whole 
 length ; fh, mezz. From an original in the poffeffion 
 of the duke of Richmond, 
 
 Carolus II. Wijfmg p. Vandervaart f, h» fh. 
 mezz. 
 
 Carolus II. Knellerp, R, White fc. 1679-, fi^' 
 
 Mr. Waller obferves, that Robert White took 
 the firfl print from the works of Kneller. 
 
 Carolus II. Kneller p. Becket f, coronation robes \ 
 whole length ; large h, fh, mezz. 
 
 Carolus Secundum •, Knellerp. Smith f, h, fla, 
 
 Carolus Secundus; (Kneller p. \ Smith f, ^to, 
 mezz, 
 
 Carolus Seciindus ; (Kneller p, ^) J, Smith and 
 Roger Williams f. h,fh, mezz. 
 
 Carolus II. Knellerp. R, Williams f Sold by J. 
 Smith. The following infcription which was very probably 
 written by Smith himfelf^ is on the proof .^ which was 
 In the colle^icn of Mr. Spencer^ mi^ia/urc-paintcr : 
 " Drawn, begun, and finifhed by J. Smith ; and 
 *' the he;^d entirely by Smith." In the fame hand^ 
 is " J. Smith f/* 
 
 Charles II. KneKcr p. Skilman fc. large h. jh, 
 
 Charles 11. Knellerp. Picart fc, direx. 1724; 
 
 Carolus II. J. Riley p. IF. FaUhorne (jumor) f. 
 h. fh, mezz. 
 
 The king'^ remark iip-^n ti^e original portrait 
 was, " That if it was like him, he was a very 
 
 * Thaugh the painter's nnme is not engraved on this print and 
 the next al?ove, they are knov/n to \iz done after IC.nel!er. 
 
 M 3 •-' ugly 
 
|(56 The HISTORY Charj^es II. 
 
 " ugly fellow." But tlie painter, who was ai; 
 excellent artift, certainly did him juRice. 
 
 Charles II. o'con hair^Jlit Jlc^ves \ FaUhome cxc, 
 
 Carolus II. arms of England^ iSc. at the fcun 
 corners cf the print •, Fait home fc. large h. [h, 
 
 There is another^ hy the f mm hand, in odavo. 
 
 Charles II. ;;; armour -, fix Englijh verfes ^ Fai- 
 thorne fc, 
 
 Carolus II. Hollar f. ha f length-, h. Jh. 
 
 Carolus II. a head in a fquare •, Hollar f. %vo. 
 
 Carolus II. rex, &c. Hollar f ^vo, 
 
 Carolus II. ftanding \ ewbkmatic-al figures -, C. 
 Schut invenit. All but the face is done by Hollar. f}j. 
 
 Charles II. in armcur, half lengthy injcrihed^ 
 *' Redivivo Phoenici Carolo," &c. Emblematical 
 figures^ a phctjnix^ &c. engraved by Hollar \ the por- 
 trait is by another hand. 
 
 Charles II. on hcrfebnck; Diepenbeck invenit-^ 
 C(2ukercken f. emblematical figures ; fix French verfes i 
 
 Charles II. on horfehack^ with a fnall view of 
 Whitehall^ rcyal oak^fhip, i^c. ?7eat; /\to. 
 
 Carolus II. &c. a buji in the frontif piece to Sprat'' s 
 <* Htjlory cf the Rjal Society -'' Hollar f. ^to. 
 
 Charles II. hat a^d feather \ Gayu-^oodf. h.flo, 
 
 Charlrs U. &c. fold by Stent ; h fh. 
 
 Carolus 1 1 . Hertochs f fmall o vo . 
 
 Carolus II. done from a fine medal of him ; Bloote- 
 ling f. mezz. fm-ll. 
 
 Carolus II. Loggan fc. large falling hand-, ft ar 
 and garter \ oval. 
 
 Carolus II. l.cggan fc. in armour, ^ifureRofs^s 
 tranfiation of *' Sdius Italicus •," fol. 
 
 Charles II. Loggan fc without the king's name ; 
 infer ibedy " Fulei Dejefifor,^' 
 
 Carolus 
 
Class I. of ENGLAND. iSf 
 
 Carqlus Secundus ; in an oval of laurel -^ motto^ 
 rofe and thifile ; engraved by R. IVhite^ when a 
 youth ; 4/(9. 
 
 CarolusII R. White fc, whole length ; front if-* 
 piece to Pitt's " Atlas \' large h.fh. 
 
 Carplus II. R^ White fc. three 'prints^ in Svo, ovaL 
 
 CarolusII. Vandrebanc '^ fc, garter robes y large 
 
 jh. 
 
 Charles II. W, Skerwin fc. whole length \ h.fh. 
 
 Carqlus II. Sherwin fc. laurel chaplet \ ^to. 
 
 Carqlus II. Sherwin f 16^9 ; large fhtet\ mezz, 
 
 Carqlus II. Van Hove fc. ^vo. 
 
 Charles II. in armour-, in his right hand is a 
 fwcrd't his left points to a celeflial crown^ infcribed 
 " Carolus ad Carolum " various emblems \ Van 
 Hove fc. Hvo. 
 
 Carolus II. hat and feather -, P. S. excud.^^to, 
 
 Charles II. fitting \ E, le Davis fc. The face 
 was afterwards erafed^ and that of king William in^ 
 ferted. 
 
 Carolus II. fold by Becket ; ^to. mezz. 
 
 Carolus II. 7. iS. (Smith) f. E. Cooper, exc. whole 
 length ; 4/^. mezz. 
 
 Carolus II. &c. R. Cole f b. fJj, wezz. This 
 prints which was er.graved by fir Ralph Cole^ is very 
 ffarce : fo ts the following. 
 
 Charles II. Francis Place f. mezz. \ 
 
 Carolus II. Edward Rtxon f h.Jh. jmzz, 
 
 CarolusII. oval fra??ie -, above, '•' fidci Defsn- 
 for ;" below, '' Bieu ty Mon Broil.'''' 
 
 Carolus II. holding a fceptre in bis right haj?d -, 
 en the table are tb>ree crowns \ A^to 
 
 Carolus II. a head in a Juirning heart, onwlich 
 refl three crowns. 
 
 Charles H. i?tfcribed, ^^ God five tl>i King -^^ 
 \to, 
 
 * Sometimes fpelt Vnnderbank. 
 t Meucioiied in Vcrtuc's MS. 
 
 M 4 Charles 
 
|5$ The HISTORY Charles IT, 
 
 Charles II. Jtttin? in a chair of flate •, collar of 
 the Gcrier^ ^c. 
 
 Carolus II. Gonzales Cocciues p. ^. Bod /. aqua 
 forti, h. fa. 
 
 Carolus II. IVillcmfen f oval ^ fix Englijh 
 verfes, 
 
 Carolus II. Willemfenf, in armour % b.JJo. 
 
 Carolus II. Phil, a Gurift fc. oval\ foliage] large 
 
 Carolus Stuart II. Koninck van England^ &c. 
 ^to. 
 
 Carolus II. &:c. his ftatue in the Royal Ex^, 
 change ; Gibbons fecit ^ P. Vandrebanc fc. large fh-'et-\. 
 
 Carol us 1 1. &c. ^/; horfeback •, fold by Garret •, h.fh, 
 
 Carolus II. &c. onhorfback; A, de Blots fc» 
 
 Charles II. on horfeback -^ by N. ^^ijfcher -, ^to. 
 
 Charles II. and his queen •, whole Icyigths-, (land- 
 ing j the ar',ns of Great Britain betwixt them \ obiong 
 h.fJo. Stent. 
 
 Charles II. and his queen *, izvo plates^ by Ver^ 
 tue \ head-pieces in the quarto edition of fFaller^s 
 works. 
 
 Carolus et Catharinaj Frederick Hendrick 
 van Hove fc. crnamcn'.s : large fk. 
 
 Charles II. and his queen •, rhe duke of York, 
 the prince of Orange, prince Kuperr, the duke of 
 Monmouth, and general Monck *, J. Clarke fc, 
 
 HISTORICAL P I B C E S, &c. 
 
 CHARLES II. and his queen, ^/////«^ -, the 
 archhifuop of Canttrhitry and the clergy prefenting an 
 fddrrfs ; lord^ and ladies of the court. 
 
 f Gibbons is Taid to have had ♦' an exclufive licence for tlie 
 V Tole printing ot' this it.itue, and prohihiimg all peilons to tn- 
 " grave it without his leave," *' Anecdotes of Painting," Sec. 
 ill. p, 84, Notes, 
 
 Char-les 
 
Class!. of ENGLAND. I65 
 
 Charles II. and his queen, receiving Ogilhfs 
 look of fubfcriptons for his " Survey of the Roads ;" 4/^. 
 
 Charles il. on his throne^ prefenling a charter or 
 inftrument to the univerfity of Oxfsrd. Before Wood^s 
 *' Hifloria et Anliquitates Univerfnatis Oxonierifis ; 
 fol. 1674. 
 
 Charles JI. attended by fever al of the nobility^ 
 clergy <i &c, &'c» and William Prynne prefenting a book 
 to him* Front if piece to the fir ft volume of his ^'- Re- 
 •' cords^'' in folio ^fh. 
 
 Charles II. on his throne ; archhijlop Sheldon on 
 his right hand, and lord Clarmdon on his left % gene^ 
 ral Monck in an o'bal below ; Logganfc. ^to» 
 
 Charles II. leaning his hand on archbifhop Sheh 
 don \ a f mall head of general Monck at the bottom'^ 
 Loggan fc. Before R, Atkyn^s *' Origin and Growth of 
 *' Printing.^^ 
 
 Charles IL fitting in a chair of ft ate -y abp. 
 Sheldon and the earl of Shaftefbury ftanding by him \ W, 
 ^. {Fait home) f. Before fever al of the early editions 
 pf Chamber lay ne's ^"-Prefent State of England-" i2mo* 
 
 Charles II. though a genius, adled in dire(!t 
 oppolition to every principle of found policy ; 
 and, in appearance, without prcpenfity to ty- 
 ranny, made no fcruple of embracing fuch mea* 
 fures as were deftrudlive to the civil and religi- 
 ous iibrrties of his people. He chofe rather to 
 be a pwnfioner to France, than the arbiter of 
 purope ^ and to facrifice the independence of 
 his kingdom, and the happinefs of his fubje(5ls, 
 than to remit Ijis attachment to indolence and 
 pleafure. He, under the veil of opennefs and 
 candour, concealed the deepell and molt dan- 
 gerous dinimulation. Though he was a flavc 
 to love, he appears to have been an entire 
 ftranger to the fofter fentiments of pity and 
 compalTion. He was gay, affable, and polite ; 
 
 and 
 
170 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 and knew how to win the hearts, when he could 
 no longer gain the eReeni of mankind. He was 
 j"o accuftomed, for his own cafe, to divelt hini- 
 felf of his grandeur, that he feemed to have for- 
 got what belonged to his dignity as a king. 
 
 Donna CATHARINA, filler to Don Al- 
 fonfo, prefent king of Portugal; taken from the 
 ori^i>:aU as tt was prefented to Don brand fco de Mel- 
 lo^ embajjador oj Portugal in London ; K* Gayv^cod 
 /. 4/^. 
 
 Donna Catharina, daughter of John IV. 
 king of Portugal ; her hand on a crown \ b.Jh, 
 
 Donna Catharina, daughter of John IV. P. 
 JVilliamfcn f. Stent exc. h, flo. 
 
 Donna Catharina, &c. Hollar f. 4.(0, 
 
 Donna Catharina, Infanta, regina, &:c. Fan 
 Hove fc. ^vo. 
 
 Donna Catharina, ferenilT. Infanta, &c. h, 
 Jh. 
 
 Catharina, &c. daughter to John IV. D, a 
 Pleats p. A. de Bcis fc. h Jh. 
 
 Catharina, &c. D, a Plaats p» A. dc Bois fc. 
 large h. Jh. 
 
 Catharina, &c Fait heme fc. in the drefs in 
 which p.e arrived. Her hair is for anally curled like a 
 J)eruke\ her gown blacky with flafjjed Jleeves \ point 
 handkerchief and rvjfflcs^ an ample farihlrgaky with 
 laced pett. coat ^ gloves in her I (ft hand \ h. jh. 
 
 ('aiharina, ^c. Ovtuton^ 1662-, large h. fb. 
 
 Ca'ihakina, &c. Lily p. Becket f. ^to. Vtiezz. 
 
 CI' a T H a R 1 N' A , Sc c . P ely p . Blc ctelir,g /. h. /Jj. 
 
 Catharina, & c . Lei) p . Bloouling /. 1 6 S o \ h. 
 fo viezz. 
 
 Katmarine, queen, &c. drawn in the chnracler 
 0^ St. Catharine, with hir wheel \ j. IJuyfman * p. 
 '7 anpjon ex. wIdqU lei^gth ; fjo. m^zz. 
 
 « Sometimes fpclt iiuyfinan, and Iloufainn. 
 
 Catha- 
 
Class I. ofENGLAND. 171 
 
 Catharina, &c. J. Huyfmans p . W. Sherwbi fc, 
 in the character of St. Catharine •, whole length ; Jlo. 
 -—There is a portrait of her in this charader at 
 Gorhambury. 
 
 Katharine, &c. JViJJingp. Smith f. whole lengthy 
 farge h. JJj. 
 
 Catharina, &c. J. Bapt. Cafpars p. E. le Da- 
 ms fc, whole length j large h. flo. Before Pittas 
 
 Catharina, &c. Peter Williamfen /. large h. 
 
 jh. 
 
 • Katharine, &■€. G. Glover /. whole length 5 
 ^to, 
 
 Catharina, &c. Shevwinfc. oval -^ ^to, 
 Catharina, &c. Sherwin f, h. jh, mezz, 
 Catharina, &c. in an oval foliage -^ J. Gam- 
 mon fc. h.fh. 
 
 Catharina, &c. ermine d robe \ collar of dia- 
 monds •, crofs and pearly very large fh. 
 
 Catharine, confort of Charles II. pearls about 
 her jlays ♦, crowny &c. 
 
 Catharina, &c. Coenraet (Conrad) Waumans 
 fc. Martinus Vanden Enden exc. /\to. 
 
 Catharina, &c. A. Lommelinfc. large h.fh, 
 CathaPvINAj &c. Arnold de J ode Jc.h. fh. 
 
 The manners of this princefs, efpecially at her 
 firft appearance at court, retained a ftrong tinc- 
 ture of the convent j and were but ill formed 
 to pleafe, much lefs to reclaim, the polite and 
 diflblute Charles. ^\\t at fird rejcdled the Eng- 
 lifh drefs, and the attendarice ot Englifh ladies; 
 and chofe to appear in the formal habit of her 
 own country, and be arccnded by her duegnas, 
 whofe perfons were the fcorn and thejeft of every 
 courtier. She, for fome time, carried herfelf 
 towards the royal miftrefs with all the difdain 
 which (lie thought became her dignity and virtue ; 
 
 biit 
 
172 The history Charles II. 
 
 but when flie faw that the kinor was refolved to 
 retain her, fhe fuddenly fell into the other ex- 
 treme, and treattrd her with fuch excefiive affa- 
 bility and condefcenfion, as loft the little edeem 
 he had for her. The firft years of her marriage 
 were rendered unhappy by almoft every paTion 
 that could diflurb a female mind. At length, 
 every fpark of conjugal aifccbon feemed ro be 
 extinguifhed, and fhe funk into all the tranquil- 
 lity of indifference. See the next reign. 
 
 HENRIETTA MARIA, queen-mo- 
 
 ther ; four French verfes, 
 
 Henrietta Maria, late queen; black veil; 
 i2mo. 
 
 The queen-mother returned to England in 
 1 660, after an abfence of about nineteen years. She 
 declared, upon her re-entering Somerfet Houfe, 
 " That if fhe had known the temper ot the Eng- 
 " liHi fome years pafb, as well as (lie did then, fhe 
 ** had never been obliged to leave that houfe." 
 She exerted herjeif with her ufual vehemence 
 againft the marriage of the duke of York with 
 Anne liyde, which fhe was determined to prevent 
 orannul. She alfoexpreffed the flrongeft difliketo 
 thofc miniiters who had the greatefl fhare of the 
 royal confidence and favour. On a fudden fhe 
 appeared to be reconciled to the match, and to 
 acquicfce in the miniflry. This was imputed to 
 a foothing, or, to fpeak more properly, an in- 
 timidating letter, fcrnt her by cardinal Mazarine. 
 Upon die breaking out of the plague, in 1665, 
 ilic retired to France, where (he died in Anguli, 
 1669, in fhe fjxtieth year of her age f. It ap- 
 pears 
 
 f Ttie funernl oration, Q^ her interrrent in the chnrcli of St. 
 H' nis, was ipoken by father Ser.ault, who, in this difccurfe, im- 
 j^iit^d the trouble; ol' Charjes J. to his //;/./<•//{;■, uliich gave fixh 
 
 offence 
 
Class L of ENGLAND: 17^ 
 
 pears from fir John Rerelby's " Memoirs," that 
 fhe was fecretly married to Henry Jermyn, earl 
 of St. Alban's. 
 
 JAMES duke of York j Lely p. Tompfon exc. 
 in armour \ h. Jh. mezz, 
 
 James duke of York; Lely p. Browne: in ar- 
 mour^ rejting Ms truncheon ou the mouth of a can- 
 non. 
 
 Jacobus dux Eboracenfis, &c. Lely p. Blooteling 
 ,/, oval ; large as the life ; large Jh. mezz, 
 
 James, Duke of York, &c. Lely p. G. Valckf. 
 /^to. mezz, 
 
 James, Duke of York ; S. Cooper p, R. PFilliams 
 f, %vo. mezz, 
 
 James duke of York, in armour % Jhips at fea -, 
 Knellerp. Smith f, (1697) *i h.Jb, without the duke's 
 name. 
 
 It is commonly called James II. but there 1% 
 great realbn to believe that the original portrais 
 was painted in this reign, when he was lord high- 
 admiral. As the plate was by fome accident 
 loft, the prints became extremely fcarce in 
 Smith's life-time, who offered a guinea a proof 
 for as many as could be procured for him. 
 
 James duke of York; a f mall whole kngth,, in 
 his robes ; (Kneller p,) Smith f. 
 
 Another fmall whole length hy Smithy with fome va-' 
 riation ; F aimer e.^c, fmall h. fij. mezz. 
 
 ©ffence to Irr Leoline Jenkins, then anrbaffatlor ia France, that 
 he, on this occai'ion, expoitulated with Senault, who alleged \\\ 
 his exsuTe, that he ufed this word as lefa choij-uant than herefyX- 
 
 * The dare of the et)gra»ing tliis print, aiid many others h>* 
 Smith, is taken from a manurtilpt \tiX nre hy the late Mr, Mac 
 Ardell, tiie engraver, vho lold me that ir was a copy uoxn a hll 
 of the woiks of that artilt, written by liimfsUV 
 
 ■J See a cur'ou*. ].?:ier oo th:j fu■b'°£^; fa the " Letters of Sir Le'j)5»e Jjc- 
 *■* krnt," p. 670. 
 
 Iacobu^j 
 
J 7+ 
 
 The history Charles^; 
 
 Jacobus, &c. fupremus dominns admirallius; 
 Simon Lut tic buys {Lutwicb) p. VanDalenjun.fc, large 
 h.fi, 
 
 James duke of York; S, Cooper p, R. Williams f. 
 h,jh, mszz. 
 
 Jacobus dux EboracenfTs ; D. Logman fc. Be- 
 fore Pittas " /it! as j" whole length), large h. (h» 
 
 Jacobus dux Eboraci ; his right hand on his 
 hreaji\ R. White fc.Jh. This was altered when he 
 was king. 
 
 Jacobus dux Eboraci; James Gammon fc, a large 
 oval. 
 
 Jacobus dux Ebor. In the robes of the garter % 
 R, White [c.h.flj, 
 
 James duke of York ; large as the life ; in an 
 cval cf flowers ; £. le Davis fc. large fh, 
 
 James duke of York*, M. Merian fc. 
 
 James duke of York ; oval\ in armeur , arnis^ 
 i^c, at the four corners •, fmall ^to, 
 
 James duke of York, with Anne Hyde his dut- 
 chefs ; two head-pieces -, a reprejentation of a fea-fight 
 in both 'y Vertuefc, 
 
 There is a portrait of James duke of York, 
 with his dutchefs, by Lely, at the Queen's Houfe. 
 
 The duke of York, though he had a quick 
 relifh for pleafure, followed bufinefs with that 
 clofenefs of application which the king his bro- 
 ther wanted •, and wanted himfelf that quicknefs 
 of apprehenfion, that natural fagacity and appa- 
 rent benevolence of temper, which was foconfpi- 
 cuous in the king. His notions ot government 
 were as erroneous as thofe of his father and 
 grandfather ; and the large (leps which his bro- 
 ther took towards arbitrary power, were in a 
 great meafure owing to his infligation. He 
 was, what rarely happens, revengeful and va- 
 liant 
 
Class 1. of ENGLAND. 1,75 
 
 ' liant almoft in the fame degree; and diTplayed 
 fuch courage in the firft Diucli war, as rendered 
 
 • him more popular than all che other ads of his 
 life. His bigotry to the Roman Catholic reli- 
 gion, which was (till encreafing with his years, 
 had the ftrongeft influence upon his condudt ; 
 and at length prompted him to fuch meafures 
 as were condemned by the fober and judicious 
 of all religions. 
 
 ANNE HYDE, dutchefs of York ; P. U^ 
 ly p, Lombart fc, four French verfes \ " Telle eft la 
 '* charmante Duchejj'e^'' ^c. 
 
 There is a copy of this head in a latter edi- 
 tion of the trsnflacion of St. Evremond's works. 
 It is infcribed, ** The Dutchefs of Mazarine." 
 
 Anne, dutchefs of York ; Smith/, Sold by Pair 
 mr\ fmall h.Jb. 
 
 Anne Hyde, &c. Vander JVerffp. Simmoma^ 
 fc.h.jh. 
 
 Amne^ dutchefs of York ; Stent exc, h.Jh, 
 
 Anne, dutchefs of York ; Stent •, 4/0. 
 
 Her portrait by Lely, which was once the 
 property of her father, is now at Amelbury. 
 
 Anne, dutchefs of York, was the elder of th« 
 two daughters of the lord-chancelior Clarendon. 
 She poIfefiTed, together with a large portion oi 
 her father's underftanding, the beauty and ac- 
 complKliintnts of her own fex in an extrnord?- 
 nary drgree. She had a dignity in her behavi- 
 our, which was bv fome, who reiiarded her a$ 
 Ame Ilyde^ rather than the dutcbejs cf 2^ork, mif- 
 taken i"or haughtinels. She f'>metin)es amufed 
 herfeU with wriring, and nuiue a cpiUiderable 
 progreis in the Life c>f the duke her hulbaud^ 
 wj^ich ^he liiewed to Dr, Burritrt in n^anufcript-. 
 
^6 The tl IS TORY Charles IL 
 
 but the work was never finifhed. Her mifcon- 
 du(5l before (he was dutchefs of York wajs amply 
 atoned for by her conduft afterwards. Ob, 31 
 March, 1671. 
 
 MARIA, ducifla Eboracenfis ; Leiy p. Browne-^ 
 h.Jh, mezz. 
 
 Maria Beatrix, &c. Lely p. Blooteling f. h, 
 Jh, mezz. 
 
 The dutchefs of York •, IViJfmg p, R, IVilliams 
 f, h. Jh, mezz. 
 
 Maria Beatrix, &c. P. Vandrebanc fc, large 
 K jh, 
 
 Mary of Efte, dutchefs of York ; R, White fc. 
 whole length, 
 
 Mary of Efte, &c. R.White fc. Before'-^ the 
 " Hijlory of the Houfe of Efte^'' 1681 ; S-j^. 
 
 The dutchefs oj York ; Smithy f, whole length \ 
 h,jh, mezz, 
 
 Mary, dutchefs of York, P. Schenck f, mezz. 
 ^to. 
 
 There is a head of her, together with the 
 duke's, in lord Lanfdovvn's " Poems," 4to. 
 1732. It was engraved by G. Vandergucht. 
 See the reign of Jam^s II. 
 
 The Lady ISABELLA, Daughter of James, 
 Duke of York, and Mary his Dutchefs •, a child, 
 with a chap let cf flowers on her head^ and her left 
 hand on the forehead of a lamb\ h. fh, mezz. I am 
 i?jformedy that there is another mezzotinto of hcr^ 
 holding a dove. Quccre if the fame perfon ? 
 
 Ifabella, ftcond daughter of James, by Mary 
 of Efte, was born ihe 28th of Auguft, 1676. 
 She died the 2d of March, 16S0. 
 
 H E N R IC U S, dux Gloceftrise •, Luttlcluys 
 {Ltttwicb) p, C, van Balen^ junior^ fc. large h.fh. 
 
 Hen- 
 
Class I. of ENGLAND. 17^ 
 
 Henricus, dux Gloceftrl^, &c. y^/. 20; Lut- 
 iichuys p. oval-, i^juo. 
 
 Henricus, dux Glouceilri^, &c. Filiiis tertius 
 genitus regis Caroli primi, G. White fc, 
 
 Henricusj dux, &c. in the robes of the garter'^ 
 ■*whole length ; h Jh. 
 
 Henry, duke of Glocefter ♦, R, White fc. whole 
 length. 
 
 Henry, duke of Glocefter; Vertue fc, 17361 
 h.fh. This helongs to the Set of Kings. 
 
 There is an oval half-fheet print <?/ Prince Rupert, 
 in armour^ from a retouched and altered plate^ with 
 Stent's name on it^ thus infer ih ed : " The effigies of 
 *' the high-borne Prince Henry, Duke of Glo- 
 *' chefter, &c. 
 
 There is a portrait of him in the Aflimolean 
 Mufeum. 
 
 The duke of Glocefter was a young prince of 
 great hopes, who poflefTed ahnoft all the good 
 qualities of his two brothers, without any of 
 their bad ones. The king had an extraordi- 
 nary love and efteem for him, the effe6t of his 
 virtues and amiable deportment ; and was ob- 
 ierved to be more deeply affedled at his death, 
 than with any calamity that had ever befallen 
 him. Oh. 13 Sept. 1660, ^/. 20-21. See the 
 reign of Charles 1. 
 
 The heads of the following princes and prin- 
 ceffes are placed according to their heirfliip to 
 the crown. 
 
 MARIA, princeps Auriaca ; Leiy p. BkoteU 
 ing /. h. fh. mezz. 
 
 The princefs of Orange-, Lely p, R, Tompfon 
 exc, h.Jh, mezz. 
 
 Vol; IIL N The 
 
T7S The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 The princ<:fs of Grange-, Lely p. printed for 
 E, Cr.oper ; h.JJj, mezz. 
 
 The princefs of Orange-, Lely p. E, /e Davis 
 fc. 
 
 Maria, princefs van Orange ^ Lely p. G, Vakk 
 
 f. 167S. 
 
 The lady Mary was fo far from being cor- 
 rupted by a diflblute court, and a licentious age, 
 that fhe maintained throughout her life the mod 
 unaffeded piety and virtue. She was married, 
 in this reign, to the prince of Orange ; and made 
 the moft exemplary wife to a man, who, v/hcn 
 a hero in the bloom of youth, had fcarce a An- 
 gle quality to recommend him to the female 
 fex. 
 
 The lady ANNE; Lely p. ^Tompfcn exc. h, jJ:» 
 mezz, 
 
 I'he royal princefs Anne, married to prince 
 George of Denmark ; Nic. Vi^cher exc, large h, 
 Jb. 
 
 MARY, princefs of Orange, elded daughter 
 of Charles I. Hannanan p. 1660. Fait home junior 
 /. b,JI:>. mezz. See the reign of Charles I. 
 
 The prince of Orange ; Lely p, E, le Davis fc. 
 
 The prince of Orange j Lely p. fold hy Browne -^ 
 h.fh. 7nezz, 
 
 The prince of Orange ; Lely p, 'Tompfon exc. 
 h. Jh. mezz- 
 
 Gulielmus FIenricus, ScC. Le!y p. Blooteling 
 /. 1678 •, h. fJj. mezz. 
 
 Gulielmus Henricus, &c. Lely p. Blocteling 
 f. 1678 -, large h.fJo. 
 
 Gulielmus Henricus, &c. Lelyp. G.Valckfc. 
 mezz, large h.fh. 
 
 The prince of Orange j youngs in armour ; Bec- 
 ket axs. ?nezz. 
 
 William, 
 
Class I. o f E N G L A N D» • 179 
 
 William, Prince of Orange -, fold by R. Pecih; 
 
 GuiLLAUME Henry, prince d'Orange •, Rague* 
 nemp. P. Philippe fc, Jh. 
 
 The prince of Orange ; C. van Dalenfc. h.Jh, 
 
 Gu ILL AuME HeNx^vI, princc d'Ofangc \ J. Vcr- 
 kolie "^ f'jio. mczz. 
 
 GuLiELMus Nassavjus, &c. oval ; bat and fea- 
 ther ; fmall ^.to. 
 
 vViLHELMus Henricus, &c. P. Bouta-ts fc\ 
 large- h. flo, 
 
 WiLHELMUS III Prince van Orahge ; on hcrfd' 
 hack ; the mane of the horfe^ which is cdorned with 
 ribbands, reaches to the ground \ curious. 
 
 WiLHELMUS a Nassau, &C'. holding seven 
 DARTS, in the fame manner as they are held im the 
 PAW OF THE LION, in the arm s of the f even United 
 Provinces , 4/^. 
 
 There is a portrait of him, by Netfcher, in 
 his own hair, at Bulftrode. 
 
 When Lewis XIV. invaded the United Pro- 
 vinces, x\\Q whole people were feized with fuch 
 terror, as nothing but the immediate dread of 
 the horrible inundations to which rhofe countries 
 are fubjed, could equal. Then it was that the 
 young prince of Orange formed a rcfolution, 
 which feemed to be the effcdl of defpair itfelf, 
 K.0 dejiver his country, or perifh in the attempt. 
 He foon gave vigour and del^jatch to the coun- 
 cils of the States, infufed a miliiary fpirit into 
 their raw and undifciplined troops, and not on» 
 ly checked the rapid progrefs of Lev/is, but ra- 
 viflied from his hands the towns he fo perfidi- 
 ouiiy had taken. The molt unjuit, as well as 
 the mofl trivial adtions of this vainefl: of ail 
 
 * Or Veikolje. 
 
 N 2 princes. 
 
iSo Trfft H I S T O R y Cha^lles U: 
 
 princes, arc committed to fculpture * •, and even 
 his courage has been immortalized. There is a 
 print by Edelinck, after Le Brun, which repre- 
 ients him on hoci'eback ; and jufl under hk 
 horfc's feet is a figure partly man and partly 
 frog, holding the darts of the Seven Provinces. 
 But we know that the courage of the young 
 ftadtholder of thefe Provinces was as much fu- 
 perior to that of Lewis XIV. as the fpirit of a 
 lion is fuperior to that of 3. frog. 
 
 The Prince and Princefs of Orange ; whole 
 lengths^ with two gentlemen and four young ladies of 
 their court in waiting \ oblong b. JJj, "jery rare. 
 
 The princefs HENRIETTA, P. IVilliam^ 
 fen fc, 1661 ; h.fld. 
 
 Henriette d'Angleterre, Ducheffe d'Orleans \ 
 a large fheet, 
 
 Madame HeNxRIEtte Anne f, Princefle de la 
 Grande Bretagne •, C. M. {Claud Mellan)fc, a hufl j 
 
 Henriette Anne, &c. copied from the alove % 
 Vandcr Werff f. {delin.) J, Audran fc. In Monf, 
 Larrefs " Hijfory ; fol. 
 
 Henriette, &c. N, de VArmeJfinfc. large h, 
 
 A 
 
 There is a portrait of her at Dunham, the 
 feat of the earl of Stamford, by Largilliere. 
 There is another at Amefbury \ and a third, 
 by Petitot, at Strawberry. Hill. 
 
 Henrietta Maria was the youngeft daughter 
 of Charles I. and wife to Philip duke of Orleans^ 
 only brother of Lewis XIV. She was a woman 
 
 • See tb.e prints encrraved and printed at the Louvre, particu- 
 larly the volume of medals. 
 
 t She was named Henrietta Maiia, after her mother. See th« 
 *' Biographia," p. 2056, 
 
 of 
 
Class I. ofENGLAND. tSi 
 
 of uncommon fenfe and vivacity, and in readi- 
 nefs of wit fuperior to the king her brother. She 
 is faid to have attradled the particular notice of 
 Lewis, at the time that he extended his con- 
 quells over the ladies of his court, with as much 
 rapidity as his generals didoverthe Spa nifh ter- 
 ritories in the Netherlands -f. She came over 
 to England to attach her brother to the French 
 interelt ; and concluded a private treaty with 
 •him againft the Dutch, which was much more 
 for the advantage of Lewis than of Charles, but 
 equally to the difhonour of both. The duke 
 her hufband was certainly jealous of her, and 
 even furpe6led that too great familiarities had 
 palled betwixt her and her brother. He is faid 
 to have caufed her to be poifoned fooji after her 
 return to France'^. Ob, 30 June, 1670, JEt. 
 arc. 25* 
 
 Prince RUPERT; Lely p. I'ompfon c^c, roles 
 €}f the garter \ h.Jh. mezz, 
 
 RuPERTus, &c. totius Anglic vic-e-admirallus ; 
 Lely p, B loot cling exc. 1673-, 7^. "T/sis is the moft 
 chara^leriftic and valuable print of Rupert, 
 
 Prince Rupert •, Lf/y/). Vanfomerf. m?zz, 'This 
 prints which is mentioned in Venue's manufcript^ is 
 probably the fame that has on it " Tomfon excudit** 
 which is in Vanfomer'^s manner. 
 
 t Biiliop BurBet tells us, that Lewis'-s court'il-»ip of Madame was 
 ** only a pretence to cover his addrelVes to Mademoifelle La Va- 
 •* Here, one oF her maids of hononr ; whom he afterwards de- 
 -*' clared openly to be his miftrefs, and who is well known to 
 ** have loved him for his own kke." 
 
 • See Eurnet., I. p. 301. Ludlow, IIL p. 227. €he declared to 
 the duke her hufband, a little before fhe expired, ** that ^e was 
 *' the willinger to die, becnufe her con fcience upbraided h£r with 
 *' nothing ill in her conduct towards him." Fenton's ^' Obier- 
 <' varions on Waller's Poem to the Dutchefs of Orleans."" 
 
 In the " Gentleman's Magazine," for July, 1773, P- 3^4» 3^5» 
 is a very remarkable letter, concerning the death of that pnncefs \ 
 feut it fjeems not to be fuliiciently authenticated, 
 
 N 3 Friiice 
 
^22 The HISTOHY Charles II. 
 
 Pfince Rupert, &c. 5. Cooper f. etched by Brc- 
 therton. The engra^vcr gained much credit by this 
 print. 
 
 Hrince Rupert, &c. vice-admiral, &c. X«^//^r 
 p, R: White fc. large h./h. 
 
 Prince Rupert, &c. Faithorne fc. h. Jh. 
 
 RuPERTus, Princcps, &c. in armcur^ftanding by 
 the fea. His left hand is c;i a female heady adcrncd 
 xvith pearls -, h. fJo. 
 
 Prince Rupert, who was a man of harfli fea- 
 tures, a great bumourift, and of little elegance 
 in his manners or his drefs, was but indifierently 
 qualified to fl:iine in the court of Charles the 
 Second. He made a much better figure in his 
 laboratory, or at the head of the fleet-, in which 
 flation he was equal, in courage at lead, to any 
 of the fea officers of this reign. He particularly 
 diftinguifned himfelf in that memorable engage- 
 nnent in the fecond Dutch war, in which the 
 brave earl of OiTory commanded under him. 
 He died at his houfe in bpring Gardens, the 
 29th of Nov. T682. See the preceding reign 5 
 fee alfo Clafs VII. and X. in the prefent. 
 
 The prince of H A N O V E R j /;; armour \ 
 hat tie at a difance \.h.flj. ?nezz. 
 
 George Lewis, duke of Brunfwick and Lu- 
 ner.buro- as we are informed by Mr. Wood, 
 came into England in 1680, to pay his rtfpeits 
 to the lady Anne, daughter of the duke of York, 
 He was then created dodor uf law, with great 
 folemniry, at Oxford ■^. The mann^jr of en- 
 graving evidently Ihews that the print was done 
 about this time. It has been mulaken for the 
 portrait of his ion, afterwards George II. and 
 ihe battle for that of Oudenardc. 
 
 • " Faili Oxon/' ii. col. 216. 
 
 The 
 
Class II. o f E N G L A N D. p^ 
 
 The PRINCE Confort to the Princefs ANNE. 
 
 Prince GEORGE, &c. brother to the king 
 of Denmark. Prmted on the river Thames^ J 68^. 
 
 George, prince of Denmark ; two prints^ one a 
 large Jheet \ P. Vmidrehanc fc. *. See the following 
 
 reign. 
 
 C L A S S II. 
 
 Great O FF IC ERS of ST ATE, and of the 
 HOUSEHOLD. 
 
 See the Lord Chancellors and Lords Keepers 
 in the fixth Clafs. 
 
 THOMAS WRIOTHESLY, earl of 
 
 Southampton, (lord treafurer.) In Clarendon^s 
 " Hijicry,'' 8^'^. 
 
 His portrait, together with that of his coun- 
 tels, by Vandyck, is at Buifli-ode. 
 
 The earl of Sonthampton, like another Sully, 
 was placed at the head of the treafury after the 
 ravage and confufion of the civil war. He, 
 with the capacity and application of that able 
 niinifter, undertook to reduce the public ac- 
 counts to regularity and order ; and happily 
 fucceeded in that great attempt. But the king, 
 
 * The match betv/een prince George and one of the daughters 
 of the duke of Yoi k, leems to have been long in view, as niay be 
 preluined from Tome particulars in rhe ear! of Carlifle s fpeeches, 
 addrelfed to him in 1664, at the coint of Denmark. See '* Car- 
 *♦ 1 He's three EmbalTies," p. 399, 423. The princess marriage 
 with the lady Anne was celebrated on the 23th of July, 1683. 
 Ke (hoj tly after told the king, that he grew f-^t fmce he was mar- 
 ried. Tiie merry monarch replied, in his iilnal llrain of plea- 
 fantry, *' that if he would walk with hiui, hunt with his brothtr, 
 *' and do jullice on his niece, he would not grow fat." A. Wood's 
 " Life/' p. 318. 
 
 N 4 who 
 
S8 
 
 Great, earl 
 a6 Car. II, 
 
 Promoted 
 
 The history Charles IL 
 
 who had not the leafl: occonomy himfelf, was too 
 apt to overlook that virtue in others •, and, wh&t 
 was (till vvorfe, was inclined to pull down much 
 falter than his trealurer could build up. This 
 excellent perfon, who was loyal, and yet a pa- 
 triot, died too loon for the good of his country. 
 He was a man of a quick and lively conception, 
 prompt elocution, and invincible integrity. He 
 was of an amiable and exemplary character in 
 domeftic life ; and, to fay all in one word, was 
 in his great office in the treafury, what his friend 
 the lord Clarendon was in the hi&h court of 
 chancery. Oh, i6 May, 1667. Upon his de- 
 ceafe, the treafury was put into commifllon, and 
 ;he duke of Albemarle was appointed firlt com- 
 niiffioner. 
 
 THOMAS OSBORNE, earl of Danby, 
 lord high trealurer, &c. Lely f, Blooteling f, b.jh, 
 fcarce. 
 
 Sir Thomas Ofborne, afterwards earl of Dan- 
 by and duke of Leeds, fucceeded Thomas lord 
 Clifford in the office of lord high trealurer •, 
 which the latter refigncd upon the paffing of the 
 Teft Adt *. When he entered upon his em- 
 ployment, the treafury was totally exhaufted, 
 and the very name of a lord trealurer was be- 
 come odious : and it required the utmofl ftretch 
 of his abilities to reftore, in fome degree, the 
 public credit, and bring the revenue into toler- 
 able order. This he, by fkilful management, 
 and great indultry, effected : but he was thought 
 to be too much in the interetl of the court, to 
 act with integrity in his high office. I'he earl 
 
 • It is well known that Sir Thomas Clifford was rewarded with 
 the trealurer's Jtaff, and aftcrwar('s with a petiage, i'))" adviling 
 the king totlie ijnamous expedient of (hutting up the exchequer, 
 of vihich he ictcivcd tJic hint from the carl ot Shaftelbury. 
 
 of 
 
Class IL of ENGLAND. 
 
 of ShafteilDury, his capital enemy, caufed him to 
 be impeached in parliament, with a view of ex- 167S, 
 torting inch lecrets of ftate from him as might 
 increafe the popular odium againfl the court. 
 He made fuch a defence as was expedled from 
 his extraordinary talents, and proved that what 
 he had done was by the king's orders. He was 
 imprifoned till the year 1684, when he was re- 
 ieafed upon bail. 
 
 Upon the difgrace of the earl of Danby, the 
 treafury was put in commiflion ; and Arthur 
 Capel, earl of EfTex, was appointed firfl: com- 
 niilTioner. See Capel in the " Biographia." 
 
 JOHN, earl of Radnor, &c. lord privy feal ; Promotcai 
 Jinelkr -p. R, White exc. mezz, large h,fo. fcarce. *^^^' 
 
 John, lord Roberts, who commanded a regi- 
 ment under the earl of EfTex in the Civil V/ar, 
 was a leading man in the councils of the patri- 
 otic junto, and had afterwards a principal hand 
 in the Reftoration. He had much learning "^, 
 but it was mixed with the pedantry of the lail 
 age ; and fome virtues, but they were foured 
 and debafed by a morofe and fplenetic temper. 
 He was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, in jsfig. 
 a time of confufion, when the various claims to 
 the eftates in that kingdom were to be adjufted. 
 His parts were by no means equal to this go^ 
 vernment, at fo critical a jundure ; as he had 
 a genius rather for darting than folving difficul- 
 ties. He treated the Irifh nobility with haugh- 
 linefs and contempt, and was himfelf treate(i 
 with much lefs ceremony than he expeded. 
 
 * He was inftrucled in the mathematics by Matthias Pafor, (on 
 01 George Pafor, author of the •* Lexicon to the GreeJ< Tefta- 
 ** ment." I mention this as introduftory to the following more 
 memorable circumltnnce : The fame Pafor inftru^ted the great 
 Pr. Pococke in the oriental languages. See Pafor ii> Wood. 
 
 The 
 
i86 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 The king found it neceflary to remove him from 
 this employment ; and, foon after his return to 
 England, appointed him prefident of the coun- 
 cil, and created him earl of Radnor. He was 
 obfcrved to puzzle bufmefs, and retard the dif- 
 patch of it, more than any man that had ever 
 been in tiie great offices which he enjoyed. Ob, 
 1685. — His daughter Letitia Ifabella, who was 
 firll married to Charles, earl of Droghcda, was 
 afterwards the wife cf Mr. Wycherly, the fa- 
 mous dramatic poet*. 
 
 GEORGE S A VILE, marquis of Halli- 
 fax, lord privy feal. See the next reign. 
 
 HEN R Y, duke of Norfolk, earl marfhal, &c. 
 Lely p. Blcctelwgfc. Jh. 
 
 Elooteling received thirty guineas for engrav- 
 ing this head. 
 
 Henry Howard, duke of Norfolk, earl mar- 
 flia), and firft peer of the realm^ was grandlon 
 to Thomas, earl of Arundel, He was a man of 
 great good-nature, and a patron of learning ; 
 but there was nothing fnining in his charaifler. 
 On the concrary, he is reprelented, in the " Me- 
 *' mcirs of Grammonr," as a man of a llender ca- 
 pacity, and little or no politenefs in his manners. 
 He was a confiderable benefadtor to the Royal 
 Society, who alTcmbled at his houfe in Londori, 
 afeer the fire in 1666. He, at the motion of 
 Mr. Evelyn, gave the Arundel Marbles to the 
 
 * The counters of Drogheds went info a bookfellcr's fliop at 
 Tunbiidjre, wlicie Mr. Wych.erlcy happened to be, and aiktd 
 k-.i the " Plain Dealer ;" upon which a jienrleinan j)c>inting to 
 liiin, (aid, '' Mad.in, iheie is the Plai:) Dwaler tor you " This 
 jititivkw prodiiLcd an acquaintance, which ciided in maniage. 
 
 univerfity 
 
Class II. o f E N G L A N D. 187 
 
 univerfity of Oxford *. Thefe were by far the 
 nioft precious of the Grecian reliques which his 
 grandfather pofTefled, and the mod valuable of 
 their kind in the world. They formerly ftood 
 expofed to the air in the garden belonging to 
 Arundel Houfe i". This benefa(5lion will pro- 
 bably be remembered by the editions of the 
 *' Marmora Oxonienfia" of Dr. Prideaux, Mr. 
 Maittaire, and Mr. Chandler, when the original 
 infcriptions are totally obliterated. He died the 
 I ith of Jan. 1683., and was fucceeded by his fon 
 Henry, who married the lady Mary Mordaunt, 
 daughter of Henry, earl of Peterborough. It is 
 well known that this lady was divorced from the 
 duke, and afterwards married to Sir John Ger- 
 maine, bare. 
 
 Great OFFICERS of the HOUSEHOLD. 
 
 The duke of ORMOND, lord fteward of Promoted 
 the houfehold ; TViJfing p. R. Williams f, h, Jh, '^^°' 
 mezz, 
 
 James, duke of Ormond ; Kneller p. Ravenet 
 fc. hjh. 
 
 Jacobus, dux Ormondiae •, Kneller p. %vo. This 
 print is curious y as it is one of the very few e7igravings 
 executed by George White^ the mezzotintcr : it is zvith^ 
 out his name. 
 
 • See the Dedication to tl.e '* Idea of the Peifedion of Paint- 
 ^' Jng," trandated by Mr. Evelyn. 
 
 -j- The duke had a ieat at Albury, in Surrey, where the flypoge- 
 um, or Subterraneous Grotto, cut thro' a hill, h:is been much 
 admired. It is about a furlong in length, and leads irito a fine 
 valley jj. But this is exceeded by the Hypogeujn at Park Place, 
 the feat of Mr, Conway ; where, befides Itveral elegant woik.^ of 
 art, there is, perhaps, a greater varrecy of natural beauties tiiaii 
 are to be feen on any fpot of the fame txleut \n the three king- 
 doms, 
 
 II See Gibfon's " Camden/' col, 184. 
 
 Jaco^ 
 
teS The history Charles II. 
 
 Jacobus, dux, marchio, et comes de Ormond ; 
 Loggan fc. large h, Jh. 'This has been coped by Michael 
 Va72dergucht, 
 
 Jacobus, dux Ormondis -, Loggan fc. Zvo. 
 
 James, duke of Ormond j in armour -, oval % 
 mezz, 
 
 Vertuey in his manufcript^ mentio7is a half-length 
 tnezzotinto of the duke of Ormondy by Robert White. 
 
 There is a portrait of him, by Lely, at Araef- 
 bury, and another at Woburn. 
 
 The duke of Ormond was an excellent fol- 
 dier, an accompliilied courtier, and an able 
 flatefman ; and, what was a better character than 
 all thefe, he was the good, the humane, and be- 
 nevolent man. He did and fufFered much in 
 the caufe of Charles I. and was one of thofe 
 royalifts whofe characters were never tainted, 
 and which were revered even by their enemies. 
 Cromwell offered to reftore his immenfe eilate 
 to him ; but he was a man of too nice honour 
 to accept of that offer from one who, he thought, 
 had no right to make it. He was a warm friend, 
 and a placable enemy -, and was never known to 
 have any enemies himfcif, but thofe who were 
 offended at his virtues. He had an admirable 
 taient at fpeaking ; and never failed to convince, 
 as he fpoke only on the fide of truth and equity. 
 His military exploits in Ireland in the late reign, 
 and his wife government of that kingdom in 
 the prefent, the hardfliips he fuifered in 
 his exile, and his a6live loyalty to his baniflied 
 fovereign, are amply recorded in his *' Life" by 
 Mr. Carte, in two volumes folio. Ob, 21 July, 
 j688, Et. 78. 
 
 E D W A R D, earl of Manchefter, one of the 
 chiefs of the Prefbyterian party, was voluntarily 
 chofcn for the ofHce of lord chamberlain by the 
 
 king. 
 
Class ir, of ENGLAND, 189) 
 
 king. He indeed highly merited the honour which 
 was conferred upon him. See the " Continuation 
 " of lord Clarendon's Life,'* p. 47. See alfo the 
 reign of Charles L Clafs VII. 
 
 I am informed, that there is a fmall oval print of 
 the gay and gallant HENRY JERMYN, baron 
 of St. Edmondfbury, who followed the fortunes 
 of Charles II. and was, about the time of the Re- Created 
 iloration, created earl of St. Alban's ; and, in t 67 1, i^^* 
 appointed lord chamberlain of the houfehold. He 
 is laid to have died unmarried, the 2d of January, 
 1683 ; but is fuppofed to have privately efpoufed 
 Henrietta Maria, mother of the king. His head 
 fhould, perhaps, in ftridtnefs, be placed under the 
 Interregnum. Mr. Walpole has a painting of him, 
 much in the manner of Vandyck. 
 
 HENRY BENNET, earl of Arlington ; 
 P. Lely p, y. Houbraken fc. In the coUe5!ion of fir 
 T/pcmas Hanmer^ Bart, Iliufl. Head, 
 
 Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, lord cham- 
 berlain of the houfehold ; white flaff\ h.Jh, 
 
 Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington -, cellar and 
 badge of the garter. 
 
 Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington ; 8w. 
 
 There are portraits of him in Chrift-Church- 
 Hall, at Longleat, and lord Bathurll's, at Ciren- 
 cefter. 
 
 Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, fecretary ofcrcat.eari 
 ftate and lord chamberlain to Charles II. was ^^ ^p"'* 
 educated at Chrift-Church in Oxford, where hcMa^e' lord 
 
 amb. 
 
 Se 
 
 4* 
 
 diftinguilhed himfelf by feveral pieces of poetry, *^^ 
 which are printed in different collcdlions of oc- W-j ^^^ 
 cafional verfes. In the reign of Charles I. he 
 was one of the under fecretaries to George, lord 
 I^jgt>y, fecretary of (late ; and afterwards enter- 
 ed a volunteer into the royal army, where he 
 i received 
 
1^0 The HISTORY Charles It- 
 
 received many honourable wounds *. He fol- 
 lowed the fortunes of Charles II. with whom he 
 was long a wanderer ; and was einployed by 
 him in feveral embalTies, before and after the 
 Reftoration. He had an uncommon talent ac 
 raillery and ridicule, and employed thefe low 
 arts to undermine the credit of the lord chan^ 
 cellor Clarendon -, and when his own credit be- 
 gan to decline, the fame arts were returned up- 
 on himfelf. He was one af the cabinet coun- 
 cil, notorious by the name of the Cabaly to which 
 much of the political infamy of this reign will 
 for ever adhere. They advifed the king to fhuc 
 up the exchequer, and perfuaded him that his 
 interefl was unconneffted with that of his- people* 
 O^. July 28, 1685, ^£>. 67. 
 
 GEORGE, duke of Albemarle, mafler of 
 his majefly's horfe •, F, Bcrlow p. Stent e^c. h,Jh, 
 
 George, duke of Albemarle j Barlow p, Wm^ 
 Clarke fc. 
 
 Georgius dux Albemarlie •, B. Lo^gan ad vi- 
 *vtim deli f I. et ccelavit^ 1661 ; half lengthy h,JJo. This 
 is one of Loggcin^s heft prints^ and the original of feve- 
 ral others \ it refembles the pi5lure at the duke of 
 ^eenfberry's^ at Amefhury, The print is copied hy 
 Sheppard, 
 
 George, duke of Albemarle *, a fmall oval^ in* 
 fcribed G. M. in Fait home's manner. 
 
 George Monck, duke of Albemarle; Gay^ 
 woodf, h. Jh, There are two others £fto, and a third 
 %vo. by the fame hand, 
 
 George Monck, &:c. White fc. %n)o, 
 
 George Monck, &c. J. Ch. {Chantry) fc, 1663 ; 
 chaplet of laurel \ ^vo. 
 
 • The prints Tcpreient liim with a large cut on his nofe. 
 
 George, 
 
Class II. of ENGLAND, 191 
 
 George, duke of Albemarle, &c. Before his 
 ** Ohfervations on military and political Affairs^'' 
 \€7i\foL 
 
 George, duke of Albemarle ; R. Preeke e%c, 
 1661 ', large 4I0. 
 
 George Monck, &c. Before bis *' Funeral 
 " Sermotiy by Se:b, (IVard) bijhop of Sarum^ i6yo -, 
 
 George, late duke of Albemarle, &c. E» le 
 Ddzis fc. h.fh. 
 
 George Monck, &c. on horfehack -, Stent y b, 
 
 A 
 
 GeorgEj duke of Albemarle, and his durchefs, 
 flanding hand in hand > fold by Stent \ very bad ■•\ 
 
 Mr. Walpole, in vol. ii. p. 179, of the fecond 
 edition of his " Anecdotes of Tainting," men- 
 tions a caoital half-length of him at the coun- 
 teis of Montrath's, Twickenham-Park. 
 
 His portrait is in the gallery at Gcrham- 
 bury. 
 
 George Monck, duke of Albemarle, who had Appointed 
 a very early inclination to a military lite, ierveci lhe horfe, 
 in the Lov/ Countries, under the lords Oxford i/'^^^- 
 and Goring, In the Civil War, he at firlt ad- j,,iy7, '' 
 hered to the king; but having fufFered a tedi- *^^°' 
 ous impriibnment for his loyalty, he took the 
 Covenant, and entered into the fervice of the 
 parliament. He fignalized himfelf at the bat- 
 tle of Dunbar, where he had a principal (hare in 
 that important viflory. He was afterwards - 
 employed by Cromwell in reducing Scotland, 
 which he did effectually, and had the chief ma- 
 nagement of affairs in that kingdom. It is well 
 
 * There is 2 print of George, prince of" Deqniark, with n^val 
 trophies, d&figned ;:ind engraved by Burghers, and prefixed to 
 the Oxford verlea on the d^-ath of rhat prince. Ibis anonymous 
 portrait has been millakeii for the dut;e of Albemarie. 
 
 known 
 
192 The HISTORY Charles ll* 
 
 known that he had the greateft hand in the Re- 
 ftoration, and that his gallant behaviour on board 
 1666. the fleet, in the Dutch war, was almoft without 
 example. He is not fo well known as an author, 
 though in that charadter he was not without 
 merit ^, He had talents both for peace and 
 war; but his capacity was more adapted to the 
 field than the cabinet. His converfation and 
 addrefs were better fuited to thofe fcenes of ac- 
 tion to which he had been accuftomed, than to 
 the drawing-room of Charles II. 0^. 3 Jan. 
 1669-70. See Clafs VII. 
 
 GEORGE, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of 
 Buckingham •, S, Verelftp. Becket f. h.JJo, mezz. 
 
 George Villiers, duke, marquis, and earl of 
 Buckingham, &:c. R, White fc, h.Jh, In Guillim's 
 *« Heraldry *," folio, 
 
 George, duke, marquis, and earl of Bucking- 
 ham, ^c. mailer of the horfe. Before his ivorks, 
 8vo. 
 
 George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, a man 
 of great wit and humour, and of the mofl: whim- 
 fical caprice, was the admiration and the jefl: of 
 the reign of Charles the Second. He was the 
 alchymift and the philofopher ; the fiddler and 
 the poet ; the mimic and the flatefman. How 
 fhall I fl^etch the portrait of one who had fuch 
 a variety of faces, or draw him in miniature 
 who was of fo great, and at the fame time of fo 
 little a charader ? He has left us a fpecimen of 
 his admirable wit in his " Rehearfal," which is 
 a creation of his own, and had a confiderablc 
 eff'edt in reforming the (lage. Ob. April 16, 
 1687, ^t, 60 f. 
 
 JAMES, 
 
 • Sec the " Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors/' 
 t It is certain, from what lord Clarendon tells us, that the 
 duke frequently diverted himfelf with the preachers at court. 
 
 The 
 
fciAsi 11. b ^ E N G L A N D. I93 
 
 JAMES, duke of Monmouth, (mafter of the 
 horfe) ; Lely p, Blootelingfc. large h,fh, 
 
 James, duke of Monrnouth, &a. Lely p. BlooteU 
 ing /. oval j in armour ; large as ihe life j large Jh, 
 tnezz. 
 
 Jamess duke of Monmouth ; JViJfmgp. Vander- 
 vaartf, h. {h. m'ezz. 
 
 James, duke of Monmouth -, Knellerp, Vandre- 
 hancfc. in armour ) Jh» 
 
 Jacobus, dux de Monmouth, &c. rohes of the 
 garter \ Logganfc. h,JJj. This is the handfomeft 
 print of him. 
 
 The following ftory was told as a faft by Dr. Dibben, an intimate 
 friend of Mr. Prior, and the tranfiator of his Secular Ode into 
 elegant Latin. A young divine of great modefty, who preached 
 before the king, on Pfalm cxxxix. verfe 13, "I am fearfully and 
 ** wonderfully made," was the innocent occafion of much mirth 
 in the Chapel Royal. This young man, who is iuppolbd to have 
 been in a fweat, more from apprehenfion than the warmth of the 
 feafon, happened, before he named his text, to wipe his face with 
 o'rie of his hands, on which was a new glove, and with the die of 
 it unluckily blocked himfelf. The duke of Buckingham, upoa 
 comparing the words of the text with the figure of the preacher, 
 was inftantly feized with a tit of laughter, in which he was fol- 
 lowed by Sir Henry Bennet, and feveral other courtiers ; nor was 
 the king himfelf, who thoroughly enjoyed a jelt of this kind,, 
 able to keep his countenance. The reverend Mr. Gofling, of 
 of Canterbury, upon reading this anecdote, made the following 
 obfervation, which I fliall give the reader in that gentleman's 
 Qwn words. " I have heard my father, (who was of the chapel- 
 " royal in king Charles the Second's time) tell this Itory of a Dr. 
 *• Relbury, vvithout the circumftance of the glove, which feems 
 ** needlefs from another ftory of him. While he was in waiting 
 *' at VVindfor, he obferved a perfon pafs him in the ftreet, and 
 *♦ turn back to look at him fo often, that atlaft he pretty roughly 
 ** afked what he meant by it. He very civilly afked pardon j but 
 ** faid be was a painter ; that he had th^n in hand a pi6lure of 
 *• Nathan reproving David, and thought that the dodor had the 
 ** moft reproving/face he had evtr m.et with. This occafioned 
 *' fome harfner language, to which the artift replied, he had got 
 ** as much as he defired, and took his leave/' The anecdote of 
 the preacher, as corrected by Mr. Gofling, feems to be the mqre 
 authentic} bat he certainly was chaplain to king William and 
 queen Anne, as appears from his epitaph iti St, Giles's church, 
 at Reading. 
 
 VolIIL O James, 
 
194 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 James, duke of Monmouth ; two prints ly Van 
 
 Hove ', fmall %vo, 
 
 James, duke of Monmouth j P. Stent \ fold by 
 Overton. 
 
 James, duke of Monmouth and Buccleugh ; 
 Nic. VJfcher ; large h. Jfj, 
 
 James, duke of Monmouth », P. Schenck /. in 
 armour. 
 
 James, duke of Monmouth ♦, in armour ^ collar 
 of the garter. 
 
 James, duke of Monmouth ; a head-piece-^ in 
 the quarto edition of IVallefs works, 
 
 Jacques Scot, due de Monmouth-, V.Werff 
 p. (delin.) Picart fc. drrex, 1724 -, ^to. 
 
 Jacobus, dux de Monmouth, &c. onhorfehack\ 
 a cypher, probably for Francis Barlow *. 
 
 Mr. Pennant, in his " Tour in Scotland f,*' 
 informs us, that there is a large fpirited pidure 
 of the duke of Monmouth on horkback, and 
 another in armour, at Dalkeith Houfe J. The 
 fame author obferves, that all his pictures have 
 a handfome likenefs of his father. At this houfe 
 is a portrait of Lucy Walters, his mother, of 
 whom Mr. Bull has an authentic drawing. 
 
 Crent. duke James, dukc of Monmouth, was a natural ^o^ 
 
 rs?ar*ii. of Charles II. by Mrs. Lucy Walters jj, daughter 
 of Richard Walters, of Haverford Weft, in th& 
 county of Pembroke. Courage and good na- 
 ture, youth and btauty, ambicion and pliancy 
 of temper, contributed to render him the fa- 
 vourite of his 1-ather, the minion of the people, 
 
 * There is a poor print of him, *' fold by Overton," fli. This 
 16 not worth the collc61or"s notice. 
 
 t F. 61^ 
 
 X I .wn neii\bly informed, that captain Baillis has an excellent- 
 •porti;iit of hin), and that he intends to engrave it. 
 
 II She was fomctimes called Mrs. Barlow. 
 
 and 
 
tiASs ir. o F E N G L A N D. 19^ 
 
 and the tool of faction. Accumulated wealth 
 and honour, univerdil popularity and royal fa- 
 vour, though more than he could well bear, did 
 not farisfy him. He knew not how to be hap- 
 py without fovereignty, while he enjoyed all its 
 advantages, widiout any of its cares. He evea 
 pretended that he had a right to the fucceffion * ; 
 and it is certain that the king for fome time con- 
 nived at his ambition, as he thought his fa6lion 
 a proper counter-balance to that of the duke of 
 York f. The earl of Shaftefbury^ who manag- 
 ed him as he thought fit, firlt formed the pro- 
 je<5t of raifing him to the throne. See the nexc 
 reign |. 
 
 Great OFFICERS of SCOTLAND. 
 
 WILLIAM, duke of Queenlberry ; Knellcf 
 p, Vandrehanc fc. large JJj, 
 
 William, earl of Queenfberry, was made lord Creat. dukt 
 juftice general, and lord high treafurer of Scot- \^^^'.. 
 land, by Charles II. and appointed lord high 
 commilTioner of that kingdom in the beginning 
 
 • The pretended fecfet Hi.ftory of Charles II. and Lucy Wal- 
 ters, was publilhed, under borrowed names, in the *' Perplexed 
 ** Prince ;" written in the manner of a novel, and dedicated ta 
 William, lord Ruffel. The king is thtire faid to have been cer- 
 tainly married to her. This book, which is but a mean perform- 
 ance, had a great influence on the populace. 
 
 f Welwcod, p. 169. 
 
 X The duke of Monmouth had a lifter, Mary, who efpoufed 
 William Sarsfield, efq. of Lucan, in Irelaiid j|, by whom he had 
 an onjy daughter, named Charlotte, who was married to Mr. Ve- 
 {ty^ an Irilh gentleman. Mary efpoufed, to her fecond hnfban^, 
 William Fanthawe, cfq. mailer of the requelts to Charles It. She 
 died in April, 1693, leaving ilTue by him one fon and three daugh*- 
 ters. See Sandford's *' Genealogical Hiftory," p, 645, laft edit. 
 
 II Elder brother to Patrick, ftyled earl of Lucan, 
 
 O 2 ■ * of 
 
t^6 The HISTORY ChahlesII. 
 
 of the next reign. This nobleman and the earl 
 of Aberdeen had the management of the affuirs 
 of Scotland in i68i, after the departure of the 
 duke of York. They have been both juflly cen- 
 fured for their rigorous and opprefTivc admini- 
 ffration. Great numbers were outlawed by the 
 earl of Q^ieenfberry, only for converfing with 
 fuch as retufed the Scottifli Ted. Thefe confci- 
 cntious perfons were branded with the name of 
 rebels. He fell into dife^race foon after the ac- 
 cefiion of James, becaufe he refufed to change 
 his religion. Oi?, 1694. 
 
 JAMES, duke of Monmouth, lord great 
 chamberlain of Scotland. See his article in this 
 Clafs. 
 
 Great OFFICERS of IRELAND. 
 
 JAMES, duke of Ormond, was appointed 
 lord lieutenant of Ireland twice in this reign -, 
 namely, in 1662, and 1673. See the fecond divi- 
 fion of this Clafs. 
 
 T H OM A S, earl of OlTory, fon of the for- 
 mer, was twice lord lieutenant of Ireland in this 
 reign ; in the year 1664, and in 1668. See the 
 divifion of the Irilh nobility, in the next Clafs. 
 
 JOHN, lord R O B E R T S was appointed 
 lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1669. Sec Radnor, 
 in the firft divificn of this Clals. 
 
 ARTHUR C A P E L, earl of EfTcx, was 
 appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1672, and 
 acquitted himfelf with great abilities in that em- 
 ployment. See the next Clafs. 
 
 JOAN- 
 
Class II. of E N G L A N D. 197 
 
 JOANNES BAP. COLBERT, &c. 
 
 Baro de Seignelay ; Nanteuil fc. 1.660. nere are 
 "various other prints of him. T.he heft that I remem- 
 ber to have fien is that engraved hy Ant, Maffon^Jh, 
 
 John Baptift Colbert, privy-counfellor and 
 fuperintendant of the finances, lecretary, and 
 minifter of ftate to Lewis XIV. and one of the 
 ablcil politicians that any age or country has 
 produced, was born of ScottiQi parents in 
 France. He inftituted, eftablifhed, and direct- 
 ed manufaclures. He was perfedly acquainted 
 with all the fprings of opulence, and knew how 
 to convey them into their proper channels. 
 Trade received life, vigour, and ftability under 
 his aufpices ; and the French marine would have 
 become formidable, if the jealoufy of Louvois 
 had not turned afide his mafl:er*s ambition to 
 conquefts at land. The canal of Languedoc, 
 begun and carried on under his diredion, was 
 kfelfawork that would have immortalized a 
 Roman. He died at Paris, on the 6th of Sep- 
 tember, 1683. His library of books, printed 
 and manufcript, is faid to have been fuperior 
 to any private colledion that ever v/as made ^, 
 
 He is mentioned here, as being enrolled by 
 the Scots in the fplendid lilt of their illuftrious 
 perfons. 
 
 * Colbert had a brother, whom he introdnced into the m:inagc- 
 ment of affairs and an acquaintance with the great world. 1 he 
 Germans and the EngliO) found, to their detriment, if not their 
 difgrace, that he was a very artful and able ambaifador. He has 
 been frequently confounded with the great Colbert That he 
 was a different perfon will appear from his charaiter in Mon(^ 
 Wicquefort's *' Riglus, Privileges, and Ofike of AmbaHadors,"* 
 tr$n(lated by Digby t|. 
 
 Ij See p. 421. 
 
 O I ' CLASS 
 
I9§ T H E H I S T O R Y Charles IL 
 
 CLASS HI. 
 ENGLISH PEERS. 
 
 DUKES. 
 
 WILLIAM SEYMOUR, duke of 
 Somerfet J Lely p. 1671 ; Verttie fc. 1714 j large 
 h.Jh. 
 
 William, duke of Somerfet, was fon of Hen- 
 ry, lord Beauchamp, by Mary, daughter of Ar- 
 thur, lord Capel. He fucceeded his grandfather 
 William, who, on the 25th of April, i66q, was 
 reftored to the title of duke of Somerfet, for- 
 feited by the attainder of his great grandfather, 
 ifi the reign of Edward VI. Oh, 167 1. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER, duke of Albemarle, 
 (fon of George) j Sbermn fc. Jh. See the nex^ 
 feign. 
 
 create<i, WILLIAM CAVENDISH, duke of 
 
 1^64^-5-^' Newcaille ; Biepcnbeke del. Clouvetfc* See the reign 
 of Charles I. Clafs III. 
 
 The Duke of RICHMOND and LENOX; 
 
 with a black holding his hat and feather •, //. Gafcar 
 p. whole lengthy m^zz. 
 
 The duke of Richmond •, TV, W>ffmg p. J. Bee- 
 ketfwilhngreyhowid) h.fJj. mczz. 
 
 The duke of Richmond • IViffingp, R. fPWaws 
 /. robes of the garter \ /\to, tnezz. 
 
 The duke of Richmond •, Du Broyn p. R, Tompr 
 fon exc. h.fJd. mezz. 
 
 The duke of Richmond •, Kneller p. R. While 
 exc. h.fb. mczz, — All thefe prims reprcfent him 
 young. 
 
 At 
 
Class II. of ENGLAND. 199 
 
 At Dalkeith-Houfe, the feat of the duke of 
 Bnccleugh, in Scotland, are portraits of the duke 
 and his dutchefs in one piece. 
 
 Charles Lenos*, duke of Richmond^ was a Ctcated, 
 natural fon of Charles II. by his favourite mif- ^"^' ^^'^' 
 trefs, the dutchefs of Portfmouth, who had no 
 other iffue. The earl of Shaftefbury, who well 
 knew her influence over the king, amufed her 
 with the flattering, but vifionary hopes of a par- 
 liamentary fettlement of the crown upon the 
 duke, her fon f . He married Anne, eloeft 
 daughter of Francis, lord Brudenel, and widow 
 of Henry, lord Bellafyfe, of Worlabye. He 
 was grandfather to the prefenc duke of Rich- 
 mond. Ob. 1723. — His predeceflbr in the duke- 
 dom was Charles Stuart, who married a - tie- 
 brated lady of his own name, with whom the 
 king was deeply in love. He died in his em- 
 bafify to Denmark, the j2thof Dec. 1672. 
 
 HENRY, duke of Grafton ; t. Hawker p. 
 Becket f» whole length \ large k.fi\ mezz, 
 
 Henry, duke of Grafton •, Kne/ier p. Becket f, 
 large ^to. 
 
 The duke of Grafton •, J. Becknf. a fhip at 
 fea ; h.Jh. mezz. 
 
 The duke of Grafton j E. Cooper exc* fmrJ' ^to, 
 mezz, 
 
 Henry, duke of G^afron, was one of the na- Created, 
 tural lonsof Charles 11. by the dutchefs cf Cleve- jg^^^/^' 
 land J. ^ Upon the death of prince Ruprrr, he 
 was appointed vice-admiral of t.ngland, and 
 was, by his courage, well qualified to fuccetd 
 
 Or Lenox. 
 tDalrympb's *' Memoiri," vo!. i. p 47, Sec, 
 X It vas a coniiderablf time bti'oie the king would own him to 
 be his ion. 
 
 O 4. tlvit 
 
20P The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 that gallant fea-officer. In the reign of Wil- 
 liam, he went a volunteer to the fiege of Cork, 
 where he was mortally wounded, after he had 
 given the mod extraordinary proofs of his bra- 
 very. He was father of the late duke of Graf- 
 ton, by Ifabelia, only daughter of Henry, earl 
 of Arlington. He died the 9th of Oct. J690. 
 There is a doggrel epitaph upon him in the 
 •' State Poems *," which may ferve to give us 
 an idea of his great courage. It feems to have 
 been written by one who was an eye-witnefs of 
 his behaviour at the fiege. 
 
 GEORGE FITZROY, Earl (afterwards 
 Duke) of Northumberland, &c. H, Gafcar p. f 
 A. looker exc, large h.Jh. mczz. 
 
 The duke of Northumberland j Wijfingp. 
 Williams f. Ato. mezz. 
 
 Created, Gcorge Fitzfov, (duke of Northumberland, 
 
 \^z'^' was another natural fon of Charles II. by Bar- 
 
 bara, dutchefs of Cleveland. In 1683, he was 
 defied knight of the garter. In 1701, he fuc- 
 ceeded Henry, duke of Norfolk, as conftable 
 of Windfor Cattle, and lord lieutenant of the 
 county oi Surry. In the reign of Anne, he was 
 conftituted lord lieutenant of Berkfhire, lieute- 
 nant-general of the queen's armies, and one of 
 the lords of her privy council. He married, in 
 1685, Catharine, daughter of Robert Wheatley, 
 of Bracknol, Berks, efq. and relidl of Thomas 
 Lucy, efq. of Chariecote, in the county of War- 
 wick. He died without ilTue. 
 
 HENRY, duke of Beaufort; Wijfvjg p. R. 
 fFilliamsf. h/jh. mszz. 
 
 • Edit. T705, p. 273. 
 
 t It is obleivable that all the prints after Gafcar's paintings 
 ?rc Very unconjmon. 
 
 Henry, 
 
Class TIL o f E N G L A N D. ap| 
 
 Henry, duke of Beaufort ; Knellerp. R* JVhit$ 
 ff, large h,Jb, 
 
 A print from this plate, with forr-e alteration 
 in the arms, &c. was fold at Paris, in the reign 
 of Anne, for the head of lord Bolingbroke. The 
 name of Defrochers, the engraver, is infcribed 
 on the print, 
 
 Henry Somerfet was fon of Edward, marquis 
 of Worceftcr, who had a confiderable fhare in 
 the tranfadlions of the late reign ; and was, in 
 his father's life-time, created earl of Glamorgan 
 by Charles I. ^ He was, by Charles II. ap- 
 pointed prefident of the council for the princi- 
 pality of Wales, elecSled knight of the garter, 
 and created duke of Beaufort. He married *^^^''"*' 
 Mary, daughter to Arthur, lord Capel, and wi- 
 dow of Henry, lord Beauchamp. Ob> 21 Jan. 
 
 1^93- 
 
 MAR Q^U I S S E S. 
 
 CHARLES PAULET, marquis of 
 Winchefter. See the reign of James II. 
 
 HENRY SOMERSET, marquis of 
 
 Worcefter ; Blootelingfc» 
 
 Henj^y Somerset, marquis and earl of Wor- 
 cefter ; robes of the garter ; h.Jh, 
 
 He was afterwards created duke of Beaufort. 
 See the above article. 
 
 • See the article of Edward Somerset, marquis of Wor- 
 cefter, in the Interregnum, Clafs III. 
 
 EARL S. 
 
ft02 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 EARLS. 
 
 CHARLES, earl of Derby ; A. Blactelingf. 
 h,Jh. mezz. 
 
 The earl of Derby ; Lely p R. Towpfon exc, 
 h^fo, mezz. 
 Created, Charles Stanley was fon to James, earl of 
 
 ?426. Derby, by his counreff, grand-daughter to the 
 
 renowned Vvilliam, prince of Orange, and not 
 inferior to her great anccftor in (pirit and bra- 
 very *. In 1642, when his father joined the 
 royal army with a large fupply of men and mo- 
 ney, he committed to him the lieutenancy of 
 the counties of Lancafttr and Chefter, with an 
 injundlion to put the king's commifTion of ar- 
 ray in execution -, which he performed with re- 
 folution and defpatch, and then entered upon 
 hoftilities. This occafioned a proclamation to 
 be ifTued out againft him by the parliament, 
 *' for murdering, killing, and deftroying -f." 
 It is obfervable, that this was the firft procla- 
 mation of the kind, after the commencement 
 of the Civil War. He married Dorothea He- 
 lena Rupa, a German lady -, and dying the 2 ift 
 of Dec. 1672, was fucceeded by his ion, Wil- 
 liam ; who having no furviving ifTue male, the 
 title defcended to his brother, James, the twenty- 
 fecond earl of Derby, and the tenth of this fa- 
 mily. 
 
 J O S C E L I N E, earl of Northumberland j 
 
 JLcly p. Brozz/ne-j b.JJj.mezz. 
 
 Kis portrair, by fir Feter Lely, is at Pet- 
 wortii. 
 
 • Th's was the heroins that dtftndet} Latham Houfe, in the 
 Civil War. 
 
 I Ht \>as ih n lord Strange, 
 
 Jofceline 
 
^LASsIII. OF ENGLAND. 205 
 
 Jofceline Percy, the lafl: earl of Northumber- Created, 
 land of that name^ had ifiue by his countefs, '^^^' 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, earl of South- 
 ampton, and lord high treafurer of England, a 
 daughter, who was named Elizabeth, after her 
 mother. This great heirefs was married, firft, 
 to Henry Cavendifh, earl of Ogle, fon and heir 
 to Henry, duke of Newcaftle, by whom fhe had 
 no child : fhe was next claimed in marriage by 
 Thomas Thynne, efq. of Longleat; who was 
 murdered before confummation : and, laftly, 
 was married to Charles Seymour, duke of So- 
 merfet. Jofceline, her father, died at Turin, 
 the 2ifl: of May, 1670. After his deceafe, the 
 earldom of Northumberland was claimed by 
 James Percy, a trunk-maker, who pretended to 
 be the next heir-male, and commenced a fuit at 
 law in purfuance of his claim ; but it was ad- 
 judged to be ill founded *. He was father of 
 Anthony Percy, who was lord-mayor of Dublin 
 in -the year 1700. 
 
 Here may be placed the print of MILDMAY, 
 earl of Weftmoreland, engraved by Williamfen, 
 which Jias been mentioned in the reign of Charles 
 I. 
 
 The right honourable the lord BURLEIGH, 
 earl of Exeter ; P. Lely p. R. Tompfon exc. fondling 
 a greyhound ; h.Jb, mezz. 
 
 The original is in the grand collcclion at Bur- 
 leigh-Houfe, near Stamford. 
 
 John Cecil, pari of Excrer, fpent his time Created, 
 chiefly in retirement, which he weil knew howJ^^'J'^*' 
 to enjoy. He was one of the patrons of Mr. 
 
 * See «' The humble Petition of James PercV; Coiifin and next 
 fieii-Male of Jofceline, &c." fol, ■- 
 
 Prior, 
 
3^4, The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 Prior, who wrote feveral of his poems at Bur- 
 leigh-Houfe. Ob. 29 Aug. 1700. 
 
 JOHN EGERTON, earl of Bridgwater ; 
 1680 ; li^. Claret p, large ^to. mezz. There is an- 
 other portrait of him, which belongs to the reign 
 of William III. 
 
 E D W A R D RICH, earl of Warwick and 
 Holland ; IViJfing p. Smith f, (1684) whoie length -, 
 large /\to. 
 
 Created, Ed Ward Rich was fon of Robert, earl of War- 
 
 l^iZ,^* wick, by Anne, his fecond wife, daughter of 
 Edward, earl of Manchefter. He married Char- 
 lotte, daughter of fir Thomas Middleton, of 
 the county of Denbigh, bart. and by her had 
 one only child, named Edward Henry, who fuc- 
 ceedcd him in 1701. This Edward Henry was, 
 at the time of his death, which happened in 
 172 1, lord of the bed-chamber to George I. As 
 he died unmarried, the earldoms of Warwick 
 and Holland, with their appendages, defcended 
 to Edward, fon of Cope Rich, efq. Hie latter 
 was fon of another Cope, fourth Ion to the tarl 
 of Plolland who was beheaded. 
 
 PHILIP STANHOPE, Earl of Chef- 
 terficld j a f mall oval -^ Worlidgefc. iimo. 
 
 Created, Philip, thc fccond earl of Chellerfield, who, 
 
 in the early part ol his life, refided with his mo- 
 ther, in HDlland, received his education with 
 William 111. when prince of Orange He pro- 
 moted the reiioration of Charles II. who de- 
 jervedly eileemed him, aqd, in 162, appointed 
 him lord chamberlain to the queen. In 1680, 
 he was fworn of the privy council. His other 
 civil and military employments, hi«; marriages, 
 and ifTiie, are enumerated inCoIiins's*' Peerage." 
 
 >Ie 
 
 j6z8. 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. io^ 
 
 He lived temperately, and died calmly, at 
 upwards of eighty years of age, on the 28th 
 of January, 1713. He was grandfather to 
 Philip Dormer, earl of Chefterfield, lately de- 
 ceafed. The character of this great man, which 
 refledls a luftre upon his family, naturally in- 
 terefts the reader in the perfonal hiftory of every 
 one that has any relation to it. 
 
 JOHN, earl of Rochcfter -, Leiy p. R. White 
 
 John, earl of Rochefter, horn April, 1648, di- 
 ed the 26th of July, 1680 ; R. fFhitefc^vo, Be- 
 fors his " Life,'' by Br, Burnet \ 8 I'd?. 
 
 John, earl of Rochefter i Va?idergucht fc. * 
 
 John, fon of Henry Wilmot, earl of Rochef- Createt?, 
 ter, held the firft rank of the men of wit and 16^/^' 
 pleafure of his age ; and he will ever be remem- 
 bered for the extreme licentioufnefs of his man- 
 ners and his writings. He had an elegant per- 
 fon, an eafy addrefs, and a quicknefs of under- 
 ilanding and invention almoft peculiar to him- 
 felf ; and, what may now perhaps feem impro- 
 bable, he had natural modefty. He entered, 
 with blufhes in his face, into the falhionable 
 vices of this reign •, but he well knew that even 
 thefe vices would recommend him, and only be 
 confidered as fo many graces added to his cha- 
 radrer. [-lis flrong and lively parts quickly 
 enabled him to go far beyond other men in his 
 irregularities j and he foon became one of the 
 moft daring profligates of his age. He was in 
 a continual ftate of intoxication for fcveral years 
 together -f- •, and the king, who admired his {al- 
 lies of wit and humour, was more delighted 
 
 • There is ft portrait of him at Warwick Cadle, crowning his 
 jTionkey with a wreath, 
 
 t " Lite," by Burnet, p. 1*. 
 
 with 
 
t^e t H E H I S T O R Y Charles II. 
 
 with his company when he v/as drunk, than 
 with any other man's when he was fober. He 
 was ever engaged in fome amour or other, and 
 frequently with women of the lowefl order, and 
 the vileft proftitutes of the town. He would 
 Ibmetimes, upon thefe occafions, appear as a 
 beggar^ or a porter; and he as well knew how 
 to afTume the charadter as the drefs of either. 
 After he had run the giddy round of his plea- 
 fures, his eyes were open to convidtion, and he 
 became the Chriftian and the penitent. His re- 
 pentance began with remorfe and horror, but 
 ended with hope and confolation. See Ciafs 
 IX. 
 
 EDWARD, lord M O U N T A G U, earl 
 of Sandwich .; Lely p. Blocteiing fc, collar of the gar- 
 ter ; h. Jh* 
 
 Edward, lord MouNTAGUE,earl of Sandwich ; 
 Vertue fc, large '6vo. copied from the next above. 
 
 There is a portrait of him by Lely, at Chif- 
 wick. 
 
 Created, The catl of Sandwich, who fhone in his pub^ 
 
 a66o.*^' ^'^ character as the general, the admiral, and the 
 
 ftatefman, was in private, among his friends, the 
 open, the candid, and benevolent man. He 
 ferved Oliver, whom he regarded as his fo- 
 vercign, with the fame fidelity as he ferved 
 Charles II. but he could not transfer his alle- 
 giance to Richard, who he knew was born for 
 a much humbler (lation than that ot governor 
 of a kingdom. He commanded the fleet that 
 brought over the king at the Reftoration, and 
 was his proxy when he married the Infanta. His 
 counfels did honour to the cabinet, which he 
 never difgraced but once; and that was by ad- 
 vifins the Dutch war, in which he loll his life. 
 In the battle of Southvvold Bay, aher he had by 
 
 his 
 
Ct ASS III. o F E N G L A N D. loj 
 
 his condud refcued a great part of the fleet from 
 the moft imminent danger, and given at the fame 
 time the moft aftonifliing proofs of his bravery, 
 his (hip was furrounded with flames. He there- 
 upon leaped into the fea, where he unfortunately 
 periflied, on the 28i:h of May, 1672. Several 
 of his letters and negotiations are in print. Mr. 
 Evelyn informs us, that he fometimes amufed 
 himfelf with engraving *. Sec Clafs VII. 
 
 EDWARD, Lord MONTAGU, vif- 
 count Hinchingbrook, baron of St. Neot's, earl 
 of Sandwich ; Lelyp. Blootcling fc. half-lengthy h,Jh: 
 This print has been miftaken for the 'portrait of the 
 firft early whom it refembles, 
 
 Edward, fecond earl of Sandwich, fon of th^ 
 former, fucceeded his father in his honours and 
 efl:ate. He died in February, 1688-9, in the 
 prime of life. He married Anne, fourth daugh- 
 ter of Richard Boyle, earl of Burlington, by 
 whom he had two fons and a daughter, who fur- 
 vived him. 
 
 'There is a prints injcriltdy " Edvardo Montague, 
 Conte di Sandwich," &c. but it is totally unlike both 
 the father and the fon, 
 
 ARTHUR, earl of EflTex ; Lely p, Lutterelf 
 
 /^to, mezz, 
 
 Le Compte d'EssEX ; Lelyp. B. Picart fc. air, 
 Arthur, earl of Eflex, murdered July the 
 
 13 th, 1683; Savage fc. in a large half fJoeet^ "juith 
 
 Jeven others, 
 
 Arthur Capel, earl of Eflex, was fon of Ar- ^'^'=^^"^.', 
 fhur, lord Capel, who was beheaded. He v/as isti. 
 a man of refoiucion and ability, and gained great 
 
 * '* Sculptufa," tlilrd euit p. 115, 
 
 repu- 
 
^©8 The HISTORY Charles It; 
 
 reputation by aflerting the honour of the Britifll 
 flag, when he was Tent ambaflfador to Denmark. 
 His fpirited behaviour on this occafion recom- 
 mended him greatly to the king, who, on his 
 return, made him a privy-counfellor, and ap- 
 pointed him lord lieutenant of Ireland. He 
 adted with fingiilar prudence and integrity in 
 the government of a country which had not per- 
 feflly recovered its ftability, after the fliocks 
 and convulfions of a civil war, and where petty 
 factions and jarring interefts continually called 
 for the exertion of his abilities. He was par- 
 ticularly careful to exculpate his charadler from 
 falfe accufations, faying, that he " would ra- 
 *' ther fuffer himfelf to be made a pack-horfe, 
 " than bear other men's faults *." He was af- 
 terwards one of the leading members of the 
 houfe of lords ; and was, upon the difgrace of 
 the lord treafurer Banby, of whom he was an 
 avowed opponent, appointed one of the new 
 privy-council, and firft commifTioner of the 
 treafury. About this time, the nation was as 
 much intoxicated with fadion, as it had been 
 with loyalty at the Refloration ; and he was 
 named as one of the accomplices in the Meal- 
 Tub Plot. Upon this he threw up his place in 
 difgud, and fided with the duke of Monmouth 
 and the earl of Shaftefbury, though he was 
 one of the principal peribns who had contribut- 
 ed to their difgrace. Pie was afterwards accuf- 
 cd as one of the conlpirators in the Rye-Houfe 
 Plot, and committed to the Tower. He was 
 found there, not long after, with his throat cue 
 in the moft horrid manner. As he had been an 
 »• advocate for fuicide, and was fubjedl to the 
 
 fpleen f , it was fuppolcd by fome that he had 
 
 • Sec his <* Letters," p. 245. t Burnet. 
 
 laid 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. 209 
 
 laid violent hands upon himfclf: others, with 
 Ids probability, luppofcd that he was murdered 
 by his own fervant : and others, v/iih lead of 
 ' all, that he was killed by an affaffin Tent by the 
 duke of York, who, together wuh the king, 
 was feen at the Tower che fame morning on 
 which the murder v/as perpetrated. Ob. 13 
 July, 1683*. 
 
 CHARLES, earl of CarliQe ; Falthcrr.e f. 
 
 Charles Howard, earl of Carlille, had a con- Crcate.% 
 fideratoie fliare in the Refloration j and was, in ,66*, 
 his capi^city of a public miniftcr, well qualified 
 to do honour to the king his mafter, and him- 
 felf. In 1663, he was ient ambafTador to the 
 czar of Mufcovy, to recover the privileges of 
 the Ruflian coaipany. He met with no fuccefs 
 in this embalTy ; bur, on the contrary, was treat- 
 ed with difrcgard, and even indigniry, which he 
 refented with a proper fpirir. He afterwards 
 went in quality of ambaiTador to Sweden and 
 
 • See more of him in his *' Letters," with his Life prefixed, 
 publilhed in a quarto volume, 1770. Thele •' Letters" are written, 
 in the plain and clear ftyle of an expert and able man of hurincfs. 
 It Ihould be obferved, that the above chara6ler is coincident with 
 that given by bilhop Burnet, and (hould be admitted with cau- 
 tion, particularly in what relates to his death. His biographer 
 endeavour;^ to invalidate the charge of fuicide brought againfl 
 him, telling us, that, *' he was a nobleman of moil virtuous and 
 •• religious principles, and of the greateft fedatenefs of mind f." 
 //<?rays, that •' it was then, and hath fince been thought, frat he 
 «« was murdered by Paul Bomeney, a French fervant, who at- 
 <* tended him |." He adds, that Bomeney was Itrongly fufpetSfecl 
 to have been prompted to this a6^t by the ear! of SmherUnd and 
 lord Feverlh-Jm, and by the contrivance and dire(51ion of iha 
 duke: that Bomcjiey, in co'ifequence of this lulpicion, was d if* 
 milTed from the earl'e family, and " thereupon cherifhed and 
 ** entertained by the courtj and msde ons of the life-guards \,'* 
 
 "t" *' Llff,"" p. xiii. notes. 
 
 1 Ib=«f. p. v.. 
 
 § Ib'.d. p. XV. notes. 
 
 Vol. III. P Denmark, 
 
210 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 Denmark, to cultivate the alliance with thefe 
 kinL!;doms There is an account of the three em- 
 bafTies in print, with the earl's portrait prefixed. 
 This book contains manv curious remarks upon 
 the countries through which he palTed *. He 
 was afterwards appointed governor of Jamaica. 
 He died, according to Heylin, in 1684; accord- 
 ing to others, in 1686. 
 
 W I L L I A M, earl of Craven •, in armour ; 
 long wig •, half length. In Guillim^s '* Heraldry j** 
 foL 
 
 Created,^ The carl of Craven was colonel of the Cold- 
 
 J664. ^ ' ftream regiment of foot-guards, and one of the 
 privy-council to Charles II. He is faid to have 
 been fecretly married to the queen of Bohemia, 
 the kino-'s aunt. It is certain that he was much 
 in her favour and confidence. The duke of Al- 
 bemarle and this lord continued in Tondon, and 
 prevented much mifchlef during the peftilence. 
 He died April i(^^ 16S7, in the 88th year of his 
 ag;e. See the rejo;n of Charles I. 
 
 ROBERT, earl of Ailelbury ; Lely p, R. 
 White fc. h.fb. See the ne.xt reign, Clafsll. 
 
 Don CARLO, earl of Plymouth-, 7. Smith 
 exc, h./Jj. mezz. 
 
 Created, Charles Fitzroy, earl of Plymouth, common- 
 
 1675!^' ^y ^^^^^^ I^<^" Carlos, was a natural fon of Charles 
 
 II. by Mrs. Catharine Peg J, daughter of Tho- 
 mas Peg, of the county of Derby, cfq. This 
 young nobleman, who inherited his mother's 
 beauty, died at Tangier, Odober 17, 1680. 
 
 • It is reprinted in Harris's *' Voyages.'" 
 
 X She is lomeriines called Green, as (lie afterwards married fir 
 Edward Green, of Ellex, baronet. See *• Fall. Oxon." ii. col. 
 
 He 
 
Class III. of E N G L A N D. 211 
 
 He married Bridget, daughter of the lord-trea- 
 furer Danby, who was afterwards married to 
 Dr. BifTe, late bifliop of Hereford. 
 
 CHARLES BEAUCLAIRE, earl of g^^^^=^' 
 Burford; and JAMES lord BEAUCLAIRE, leje^' 
 
 his brother ; White fc. whole lengths •, h. Jh, In 
 Quiliini's " Heraldry ;" fol. 
 
 There are two beauiiful anonymous print s^ engraved 
 by A. Biooteling^ of thefe brothers ; the elder is in a 
 bonnet^ the younger in a cap and feather. The au- 
 thenticity of thefe heads hath been quefiioned -, but upon 
 ajiri5f examination^ I have no doubt concerning them. 
 
 The earl of Burford and lord Beauclaire were 
 natural fons of Charles II. by Mrs. Gwynn. 
 The former was created duke of St. Alban's, 
 Jan. 10, 1683-4: the latter died at Paris in 
 1680, There is a pidure of Mrs. Gwynn and 
 her two fons at Wei beck. It is faid, that before 
 the duke of St. Alban's was ennobled, his mo- 
 ther calling to him in the king's prefence, faid, 
 *' Come hither, you little bafta^d -," which the 
 king in a gentle manner reproved her for, (he 
 told him that ihe had no better name to call him 
 by : he was foon after created baron of Heding- 
 ton, and earl of Burford. 
 
 ROBERT, earl of Yarmouth, &c. lord- 
 lieutenant and vice-admiral pf the county of Nor- 
 folk ; P. Vandrebanc fc, large fh. 
 
 This print, v/hich is very rare, gives a juft 
 idea of his perfon, which, in the latter part of 
 his life, wasunwieldly from immoderate fatnefs, 
 to which his father was much inclined. 
 
 Robert, earl of Yarmouth; E. Lutterel p. 
 Lloyd e?ic. 1682, tnezz. 
 
 P 2 Robert, 
 
212 
 
 The history Charles IL 
 
 Created, 
 July 30, 
 1679. 
 
 Created, 
 Sept. II, 
 1679. 
 
 "Robert, earl of Yarmouth, Ton of fir William 
 Pallon, of Oxnead, in Norfolk, by Catharine, 
 daughter of Robert Bertie, earl of Lindfey, pof- 
 fefled many virtues as well as ornamenral and 
 amiable qualities, and was one of tiie mod learn- 
 ned and polite among the nobility. He was fo 
 zealous a cavalier, that he, in his father's life* 
 time, diftrelfed himfelf to fupply Charles II. 
 with money in his exile. He was fo devoted to 
 the court, that he was threatened with an im- 
 peachment by the popular party, though they 
 had nothing material to lay to his charge, and 
 no man was more capable of defending himfelf 
 to advantage. About eight years before his 
 death, he was attacked by feveral ruffians, who 
 (hot five bullets into his coach, and one into his 
 body. He had fuch a fenfc of this providential 
 efcape, that he folemnly kept an anniverfary 
 thankf^iving upon that day to the end of his 
 life. He was exemplary in the duties of reli- 
 gion, and exprcfled a ftrong ienie of it at the 
 approach of death. He died on the 8th of 
 March, 1682, aged 51 years, and was buried at 
 Oxnead. 
 
 GEORGE BERKELEY, earl of Berke- 
 ley ; in bis robes i h. jh. 
 
 George, earl of Berkeley, defcended in a di- 
 redl line from Roherr Fitzharding, who was of 
 the royal houfc of Denmark. He, with his 
 nephew, Charles Berkeley, had the principal 
 management of the duke of York's family, and 
 was one of the privv-council in this and the two 
 following rc'gns. He beftowed upon Sion Col- 
 lege a very valuable library, which was colleded 
 by fir Robert Coke '■■-, He was author of a lit- 
 
 • There is a printed catalogue of tiie books belonging to 
 this college. 
 
 tie 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. 213 
 
 tie book, valuable for its merit as well as its 
 rarity, entitled, " Hiftorical Applications, and 
 " occafional Meditations upon leveral Subjeds, 
 " written by a perfon of Honour," 1670 ; 
 l2mo. II In this book are feveral flriking in- 
 ftances of the teftimony which fome men of emi- 
 nence have borne to the importance of religious 
 life, and the confolation to be received from it, 
 efpecially at the approach of death f. Oh, 
 1698. 
 
 VISCOUNTS, &c. 
 
 THOMAS BELLASYSE, lord vif. 
 
 count Fauconberg, &c. Maria Beak p. A. Bloote- 
 lingfc, 16^/6, large h. flj. fcarce and fine. 
 
 Thomas Belasyse, (Bellasyse, or Bella- 
 sis), vifcount Falcon berg ^ white fc. h.jh, 
 
 Thomas Bellafyfe, vifcount Falconberg, was Created, 
 one of the council of ftare to Cromwell, whofe ^^l^}' 
 daughter, Mary, he married. He was much in 
 favour with Charles II. and was fcnt ambaffador 
 by him to the ftate of Venice, and the princes 
 of Italy. In 1672, he fucceeded his uncle John, 
 lord Bellafyfe, as captain of the band of pen- 
 fioners, and was created earl of Falconberg by 
 king William, April 9, 1689. He died Dec. 
 31, 170Q. 
 
 II Fenton, in his " Obfervations on Waller's Poem, to the au- 
 thor of •' Hiltorical applications," &c. fays, ♦• He was a perfon 
 *' of ftrift virtue and piety j and of fuch an undiltinguiHiing af- 
 «• fabilitv to men of all rnnks and parties, that I have been told 
 *^ Mr. Wyclicrly itrained his chara<5ler into that of Lord Plaufibie 
 " in the " Piain Dealer." The founder of this noble family is 
 " faid to have been a younger Ton to one of the Danilh kings, 
 *» who attended the duke of Normandy, and lettled in England 
 " after the Conquelh" 
 
 t I had itun this book, but did not know who wrote it, before 
 the public^ition of the fecond edition of the " Catalogue of R^)yal 
 ** and Noble Authors," where there is a further account of it. 
 
 p 2 WIL- 
 
214 The HISTORY Charles II, 
 
 WILLIAM, vifcount STAFFORD 5 
 jMttrelf, large ^to, mezz. 
 
 Sir William Howard, knight of the Bath, was 
 the fecond ion of Thomas, carl of Arundel, 
 Having efpoufed Mary, filler and heir of the lafl: 
 lord Stafford, he was created a vifcount by 
 Charles the Firft. Though a man of probity 
 and merit, he, in the next reign, fell a vidim to 
 the perjured Gates. He expreffed the utmofb 
 aftonifhment at thedepofition of that mifcreantj, 
 and on his trial, made a circumftantial and pa- 
 thetic fpeech, with great folemnity protefting 
 his innocence '« in the prefence of God ;'* but 
 he was condemned by a confiderable majority. 
 Such was the iniquity of the times from the rage 
 and infatuation of party. He was beheaded the 
 19th of December, 1680. 
 
 JOHN, vifcount MORDAUNT, Seethe 
 Interregnum. 
 
 WILLIAM, lord RUSSEL; Kneller p. 
 Houhraken Jc, In the colle^ion of the duke of Bed- 
 ford-^ Illuft, Head. 
 
 William, lord Russel ; JEt, 44, 1683J Knel- 
 ler p. Vandrehanc fc. large h. fJo. 
 
 William, lord Russel ; Kneller p, Pirart fc. 
 direx» 1724 *,• ^to. 
 
 William, lord Russel ; y^L 44, ^c. Cooper 
 €xc. mezz. /{to. 
 
 William, lord Russel, &c. favagefc. In a 
 large h.fh. with f even others. 
 
 His portrait at Woburn Abbey bears a drift 
 refemblance to Houbrakcn's print. 
 
 William, lord RufTcl, was a man of probity 
 and virtue, and worthy of a better age than that 
 jn which he liyed ; an age, when fiience and free- 
 dom 
 
Class III. ofENGLAND. 2 15 
 
 dom of ipeech were equally criminal ; when a 
 perjured v/itnefs was more efteemed than an ho- 
 nell patriot, and law and equity were wrefled 
 to the purpofes of an enraged fadlion, and an 
 arbitrary court. As he was apprehenfive for the 
 civil and religious liberties of his country, he 
 diftinguifhed himfclf by promoting the bill for 
 excludinof the duke of York from- the crown, 
 which he carried up to the houfe of peers *. He 
 thought refiftance preferable to flavery ^ he had 
 moreover the honefty to avow it, and perfifted 
 in it to the laft, though a retraflion of this prm- 
 ciple would probably have faved his life -f. He 
 was accufcd of being an accomplice in the Rye- 
 houfe Plot, and confequently of confpiring the 
 death of the king, a crime of which he was abfo- 
 lutely mnocent. All that was proved againft him, 
 byfufpedted witneiTes, was, that treafonable words 
 were uttered in his prefcnce, though he bore no 
 part in, or afiented U the converiation which oc- 
 cafioned them. When he had taken his laft 
 leave of his lady, he faid that *' the bitternefs of 
 " death was paft \'\ and he foon after went to 
 his execution, and fubmitted to the fatal flroke 
 with a refolution worthy of tht^ caufe in which 
 he fufTered. He was the protomartyr of pa- 
 triotifm in this reign : Algernon Sidney was the 
 fccond ||. He was beheaded July 21, 1683- 
 
 The 
 
 * Col. Titns, in his fpeech for excluding the duke of York, 
 iJeclared, " Tliat to nccepr of expedients for fecuring the Pro- 
 •' teftant religrion, afrer fic!i a kinp mounted the throne, was 
 
 /111 
 
 ** as ftiange as if there were a lion in the lobby, and they uiouid 
 ** vote, tliat they would rather fecure thenifelve?; by letting him 
 " in, and cliaining him, than by keeping him outi". T~his feii- 
 tinient is put into vcrfe by Hramfton, in his " Art of Politicks. " 
 
 t See Birci)'s '• Life of Tiilotlon," p. ioi,& feq. Edit. z. 
 
 11 Patriotifm is perhaps the moft frail, as it is the molt rvifpecled 
 of all human virtues: and it feems, from fome recent initances, 
 to be almoll as dillicult to bring pcfitive proof of t!ie fincerity of 
 jt, as it is to prove a negative in point of challiiy. The patiiotic 
 
 P 4 charadlers 
 
51^ The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 The lord GREY; Leiy p, Broi^.:s', h. Jh. 
 
 wezz. 
 
 Thomas, fon of Thomas, lord Grey, and 
 grandfon of Henry, earl of SranUord. He fuc- 
 ceeded his grandfather in titl.e and ePiate, after 
 the demife of his father, in 1673. He was, in 
 the rei^n of William III. chancellor of the duchy 
 of Lancailer, and lord-lieutenant and cuftos ro- 
 iiilorum of the county of Leiccfler. 
 
 rlnr,T5VerR of lortl Rufl' i and Algernon Sidney, fupported by an 
 apparent intit;xibility of condiidi, and fealed by martyrdom, Teemed 
 to be fixed upon an immoveable foundation. But this founda- 
 tion, everl:i(ting as it Teemed tc be, has, in the opinion of Tome, 
 lately fultained an alarming Ihock J. Pofflbly, in a mercenary 
 age, when other means had been tried in vain, they thought it 
 expeditr<)( iq baffle the arts and inftruments of corruption by 
 turning them againfl itTelf, and tofeem to yield to it from an ho- 
 nell motive of lioerty; and that in this " the end n.vould jujiify the 
 ** meansy Eat this is too difmgenuous a refinement in politics 
 to admit of any ftrefs. It is much more probable, that Barillon 
 appropriated a large portion of Tecret Tervice-money to his own 
 uTt, and artfully placeil it to the account of Algernon Sidney. 
 Hence be might at once have g-ained credit with the king his 
 jnalfer, by perTuadin^ him that he bad conqneied the (tub'oorn 
 virtue of a formidable enemy to deTpotifm, and paid that atten- 
 tion to his own emolument, which was very probably his princi- 
 pal aim. Fond as mankind are of novelty and cenfure, they 
 fcarce ever efface the early imprelTions which they have received 
 in favour of thole they love and admire. Hence it is that we are 
 extremely averie from believing that there was any real duplicity 
 of charatiter in thcTe i'luftriousperfons. 
 
 *' Tarda, qua; creditalaedunt» 
 
 *• Credimus." Ovid. 
 
 The whole matter ?ppcars to me to turn upon this (hort queftion : 
 
 Which is tile fairer obje6> of belief j the patriotilm of great and 
 eftablilhed charadlers, or the veracity of a man employed in evil 
 arts, and the avowed minifler of corruption ? I can by no means 
 perTuade myfeif to give credit to Haiillon's fafts againlt the tenor 
 of the lives of Tueh men as lord Rulllfl and Algernon Sidney. If 
 the venerable names of Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley Jhould he^ 
 and I mnke no qneition bur they are, wantonly ami wickedly 
 afperfed in the Frrnch archives, they would ftill, in niy cltima- 
 t on, rctam tiieii primitive purity and dignity, and itand fore- 
 moit in the brigiu lift of our protellant martyrs. 
 
 J See Birillon's difpalchcs, in the Appendix to Daliymplc's "Memoirs.'* 
 
 ANTHONY 
 
CtAss III. p F E N G L A N D. 217 
 
 ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 
 
 IprdAfhleyj R. Tompjon exc, b.flo, mezz. 
 
 Lord Afhley is better known as th,e fon of the 
 lord-chancellor Shaftefbury, and the father of 
 the author of the '« Charaderiftics/' than from 
 any thing extraordinary in his own character. 
 His fon, who was educated with tl>e greateft 
 care, was, in the early part of his life, under the 
 tuition of Mrs. Birch, the learned daughter of a 
 fchool-mafler in Oxfordfhire, who was fo great 
 a miftrefs of Greek and Latin thajc fhe could 
 readily fpeak thefc languages. Her pupil read 
 the clalTic authors in their refpedlive originals, 
 when he was but eleven years of age. He was 
 afterwards under the care of Mr. Locke, who 
 was principally concerned in his education. 
 Lord Alhiey, who became earl of Shaftefbury 
 upon the death of his father in 1682-3, died 
 Nov. 10, 1699 *. 
 
 BARONS. 
 
 ROBERT, lord BROOKE, baron Brooke, creatd, 
 of Beauchamp's court, in the county of Warwick, {g^o?* 
 lord lieutenant of the county of Stafford ; obiit 
 Feb. 13, 1676; G.Vakkfc. 1678; large h Jh. 
 
 This nobleman was fon of Robert Grevile, 
 lord Brooke (who was killed at Lichfield) by 
 
 • Dryden, in his charaaer of the lord-chancellor Shaftefbury, 
 fpeaks with great contempt of lord Afhley : 
 
 " Bankrupt of life, and prodigal ofeafe: 
 
 «* And all to leave what with his toil he won, 
 
 *' To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing a fon." 
 
 Absalom and Achit. 
 
 Here the poet evidently alludes to Diogenes's cock, with thp 
 feathers plucked off, which he called ♦« Plato's Man;" namely, 
 ^«ov liirHv, aTT^i^ov ; animal b!peSf implium. Vide *' Diog. Laert.** 
 Edit. Hen. Steph. p. 213. 
 
 Catharine, 
 
2l8 
 
 Created, 
 Jan. 27, 
 J684. 
 
 The history Charles H, 
 
 Catharine, daughter of Francis, earl of Bedford. 
 He married Anne, daughter of fir William Dod- 
 ington, of Bremer, in Hampfhire •, by whom he 
 had two daughters, one of whom efpoufed Wil- 
 liam, earl of Kingflon, and the other Charles, 
 duke of Manchefter. As he died without iflue- 
 male, the barony defcended to Fulk, his fur- 
 vivine brother. 
 
 « JOHN, lord BEL A SYS E, (or Bel- 
 
 «' LASYSE"^), baron of Worlaby, during the late 
 
 ** wars, lieutenant-general of the counties of York, 
 
 *' Nottingham, Lincoln, and Derby ; governor 
 
 *' of the city of York and garrifon of Newark, 
 
 *' and captain-gc^neral of his majefty's horfe-guards 
 
 *' to king Charles I. late captain-general of the 
 
 *' forces in Africa, and governor of Tangier; lord- 
 
 '" lieutenant of the Eaft" Riding of Yorklhire, go- 
 
 *' vernor of Hull, and captain of the guard of gen- 
 
 " tlemen-penfioners to his prefent majefty, king 
 
 «' Charles II." Vandyckp. {Reg Car. 1.) R. White 
 
 Jc, engraved in the manner of Lomhari^s half lengths, 
 
 John, lord Bellafyfe, fecond fon of Thomas 
 lord vifcount Falconberg, raifed fix regiments 
 for Charles I. in the civil war ; and was an of- 
 ficer of diftindtion at the battles of Edge-hill, 
 Newbury, and Nafeby, and at the fit-gtrs of 
 Reading and Brifiol. He fought with his ufual 
 falour at the battle of Selby, and bravely de- 
 fended the garrifon of Newark againft the 
 Englifn and Scottifh armies. He was, for his 
 loyalty, three times impnlbned in the Tower. 
 Upon the puffing of the Te(t Aft, in 1672, he 
 religncd all his employments on account of his 
 religion, which was that of the church of Rome Ij. 
 
 He 
 
 • Hi5 name is fometimes fptlt Eellafis, but it is more properly 
 Vviitteu Bellaiyfe. 
 
 li Titus Oaies. in his Narrative of the pretended Plot, 1678, 
 mentions this nobicuian as deeply concerned in exciting a rebel- 
 lion. 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. iji9 
 
 He was appointed firfl commifTioner of the trea- 
 fury in the next reign. Qb» lo Sept. 1689. 
 
 CHARLES, lord GERARD, of Bran- 
 
 don, gentleman of the bed-chamber to his facred 
 majefty, and captain of his majefty's horfe-guards, 
 &c. 1666 'y W, Sherwinfc, Jh, 
 
 Charles, lord Gerard, who defcended from created, 
 the very ancient family of Geraldine, or Fitz- ^' ^*'* ^* 
 gerald, in Ireland, raifed a regiment of foot, and 
 a troop of horfe, for Charles I. in the civil war. 
 He fought in many battles with the ardour of a 
 volunteer, and difplayed, at the fame time, all 
 the condu6l of a veteran. He particularly fig- 
 nalized himfelf in Wales, where he took the for- 
 trefTes of Cardigan, Emblin, Langhorne, and 
 Roche ; as alfo the ftrong town of Haverford- 
 Weft, with the caftles of Pidon and Carew. He 
 had two brothers and feveral uncles, who had 
 commands in the royal army. Ratcliffe Gerard, 
 one of his uncles, had three fons, who all fought 
 for the king at the battle of Edge-hill. He was 
 one of the lords who prefented the duke of York, 
 as a Popifh recufant, at the King's Bench bar, 
 in Weftminfler-hall *. He was created earl of 
 Macclesfield, July 23, 1679, ^^"^ ^^^^ J^"- 7> 
 1693-4. 
 
 DENZIL HOLLES, baron Holies i//^7^/Vj 
 fc, Frontifpiece to his *•*• Memoirs ^^^ 1699 ; 2vo, 
 
 Denzil, baron Holles, of Ifield ; Alt 78, 
 1676 j Ravemt fc. In the " Hiftorical Colkofions re- 
 *' luting to the Fam'lies of Cavendifh^ i^ere^ Harley^ 
 " and Ogle ; by Arthur Collins^'" 17^2 ; foL 
 
 lion. This occafioned his imprifonment in the Tower, v/here he 
 remained \i\ durance till the accefTion of James XI. 
 ♦ See Birch's ♦' X4fe of Tiilotlbn," fecond edit. p. 78. 
 
 There 
 
622 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 There is a portrait ot him at Welbeck. 
 
 Created, Dcnzil, lord HoUcs, fecond Ton of John, the 
 
 i3^Car!°ii. fifft carl of Clare, was one of the mod diftin- 
 guiilied of the popular leaders in the reign of 
 Charles I. His courage, which was very extra- 
 ordinary, was conrtitutional, and proceeded 
 from a principle inherent in his family. His 
 patriotilm, which was as extraordinary and as 
 adive as his courage, I'eemed to proceed from 
 as fixed a principle. In the part which he aded 
 againll Charles, with whom he had formerly lived 
 in great intimacy, he appears not to have been in- 
 fluenced by perlbnal hatred, party animoGty, or 
 thecorr.mon motivesofintereft or ambition. He 
 aded from a much nobler motive than any of 
 thcle, an inviolable attachment to the liberties of 
 his country. He had long entertained a jealoufy 
 of the prerogative •, and therefore, in the lalt 
 parliament of James I. fided with the party that 
 oppofed the court. This jealoufy was much 
 increafed in the next reign -, and he entered, with 
 his ufual fpirit, into all thole meailires that he 
 thought necelTary to reduce the power of the 
 king within bounds, and became a leader of the 
 Prcfbyterian party, as he believed it to be on the 
 Iklc of liberty. He was greatly alarmed upon 
 feeing Cron-iwell at the head of the Independ- 
 ents ♦, and Cromwell was little lefs alarmed at 
 feeing lo able a chief at the iiead of the Frciby- 
 terians. He was, by the Independent faclion, 
 impeached of high-trtafon, which occafioned his 
 flying into France. He was employed in jcve- 
 ral embailicrs after the Re{iuration, when he re- 
 tained the fame j^^ah-ufy for liberty. He re- 
 futed the infidious preftrnts offered him by Lewis 
 XIV. with as much difdaiji as he had before re- 
 fufed ^oool. offered him by the parliament, lo 
 
 indemnify 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. 221 
 
 indemnify him for his lofTcs in the civil war f . 
 Ob. 1679-80, ^/. 81. 
 
 SCOTCH NOBILITY. 
 
 JOHN, duke of Lauderdale ; Lely p. Hon- 
 hrakenfc. 1740. In the coUe5iion of the earl of Dyfert, 
 llluji. Head. 
 
 John, duvke of Lauderdale; Riley p. Becketf h.fjj^ 
 
 John, duke of Lauderdale; robes of the garier-^ 
 Valck fc. 
 
 The duke and dutchefs of Lauderdale ; Ldy 
 />. Tompjyn cxc. fJj, mezx. 
 
 The original pit^ture is in an apartment be- 
 longing to the earl of Breadalbane, in Hulyrood 
 Houfc. 
 
 The duke of Lauderdale, who had been em- Cr^a^dufct 
 ployed in feveral treaties in the late reign, and ' '^*' 
 had been a fuffeicr in the caufe of Charles il. 
 was highly in favour with that prince. He was 
 •thought, before the Relloration, and eQiecially 
 during his imprifonrr.enr. after the battlo of Wor- 
 ceiler, to have had fome ftnfc of religion ; but 
 his conduct afterwards was utterly inconfideni: 
 with every focial and religious principle. He 
 taught the king the political ma;:iui of '' ncg- 
 *' Itding his friends, and making fritnus of 
 *' his ene.nics." His whole fyllem of politics 
 was much of the fame caft. When he Vv'as high- 
 commiflioner in Scotland, he enfiaved hisco-un- 
 
 -j- If the rea'^er c?»ndidly confidcrs the iUnation of the pa^riofic, 
 or popular p^rty, with regard to France, in ibe year 1679, he will 
 be inclined to think that lord Mollis, how ijiU'.h Ibever iJ.irillo», 
 th^ French anibaiT.id'-ir, mififht fiatttr hinilelf, was far from being 
 cordially in the intereft of Lewis XiV, as it itood in oppofition to 
 that of his own coiiniry J. But granting all that is faid of him 
 by this niinilfer to he true, he feems to h^ve been the lafi and the 
 lealt corrupted of the patriots, 
 
 % Sfe Ddlrymplc's '»' Memoirs," vol. ii. artic. I. p. 7,So, Sec. ?n.j coti^- 
 |)are wh^t is faid of bijn with the tenor of his conJud, S-v 3l:o ths h^. 
 Aots to tht^ <iiti(.lc ot I'did RvssxLi.. 
 
 trv 
 
^22 
 
 The history Charles II. 
 
 Created 
 June 21, 
 
 try by every mode of oppreflion : he loaded it 
 with taxes, ruined its trade, plundered its inha- 
 bitants, and perfecuted its religion. When the 
 people were grown mad by his cruelty, he ob- 
 flru(5ted the courfe ofjuftice, and blocked up 
 every avenue to the throne. He was one of 
 thofe who were employed in forging chains for 
 the Englifii, and who will ever be remembered 
 by the name of the CahaL He was fervile and 
 imperious, haughty and abjedt ; was a man of 
 great learning, but aukward and ungainly in 
 fpeech and behaviour. He pradlifed all the arts 
 of cunning and difTimuiatian to gain power, and 
 was the barefaced tyrant after he had gained it. 
 0^.24 Aug. 1682. 
 
 J A ME S, earl of Perth, &c. y^/. 31 ; Wm. 
 
 Faithorne ad vivtim del. ^ fc. 
 
 " James, earl of Perth; lord Drummond 
 ' and Stobhall ; lord juftice-general of the king- 
 ' dom of Scotland j one of the extraordinary lords 
 ' of the fefTion ; and one of the lords of his ma- 
 ' jefly's moft honourable privy-council in that 
 ' kingdom-," 1683, -<£/. 34. Kneltcrp, R.TVhite 
 
 fc. h.pj. 
 
 The infcription cf this print has been altered, 
 both as to his age and preferments. This was 
 done when he was made lord high-chancellor of 
 Scotland, in 16S4. See the next reign. 
 
 THOMAS, carl of Elgin, Ht, 62, 1662; 
 Faithorne fc. h. JIj. Before his Fw/jeral Sermon, 
 
 There is a portrait of him at Dunham, the feat 
 of the late earl of Warrington, and now of the 
 carl of S tarn. ford. 
 
 This nobleman was brother am:l fuccefibr in 
 honour and cflate to Edward, lord Bruce, who 
 was killed in a duel by fir Edward Sackville, 
 
 afterwards 
 
Class III. of ENGLAND. 
 
 afterwards earl of Dorfet. He attended Charles 
 1. at his coronation in Scotland, when he was 
 created earl of Elgin. He was alfo created ba- 
 ron Bruce, of Whariton^ in the county of York, 
 17 Car. I. He was a man of uncommon parts, 
 and of a good domeftic charafler. The deli- 
 cacy of his conftitution, which was hectic, pre- 
 vented him from interefting himfelf in the ad- 
 miniftration of public affairs, for which he was 
 well qualified by his natural and acquired abili- 
 ties. He was the firft in defcent trom Mary, 
 queen of France, youngeft daughter of Henry 
 VII. His fon Robert was created earlof Ailef- 
 bury. Ob. 21 Dec. 1663. 
 
 RICHARDU3, dominus MAITLAND, 
 &c. Kneller p. Vandrehanc Jc, large h.Jh, 
 
 Richard, lord Maitland, was eldefl fon of 
 Charles, earl of Lauderdale, brother to the 
 high-commifTioner of Scotland *. He was lord 
 juftice-clerk for that kingdom? to which high 
 office he was promoted in 1681 : he was alfo 
 one of the privy-council in this reign. He lofb 
 his places for correfponding with the earl of 
 Argyle, who was attainted. This occafioned 
 his flying into France, where he tranilated the 
 " iEneis," which he thoroughly underilood as 
 a gramm.arian, or verbal cricic. We lee the 
 tame, the uninformed features of Virgil in this 
 tranQation ; but he has fcldom, if ever, hit the 
 majellic air of that prince of Roman poets: and 
 even wliere the latter has exerted all his lire, his 
 tranflator is as cold as death. 
 
 * upon the deceafe of the high-commlfTioner, the title of diike 
 became cxrinft, and the dignity of ear! defceiuied to his brother 
 Charles, who was fucceeded by his Iba Richard, 1^91, 
 
 *' Such 
 
 223 
 
^24 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 ^* Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, 
 •' That few but thole who cannot write tranf- 
 " late. Denham. 
 
 He died abroad, foon after the Revolution, 
 
 THOMAS, lord FAIRFAX, baron of 
 Cameron-, 0/>. 1671,^/. 60 -, 4/^?. See the reign 
 of Charles I. Clafs VII. 
 
 GUALTERUS, Comes de L E S L I E, 
 Csefareus ad Portam Ottomanicam Orator. A 
 neat whole lengthy holding a truncheon. 
 
 Count ^ Ledie, a Scotfman, who was able in 
 the cabinet, and prudent and intrepid in the 
 field, was from his exact knowledge of men and 
 manners, perfedlly flvilled in the arts of nego- 
 tiation. Sir Paul Rycaut, in his Dedication of 
 *' The prefent State of the Ottoman Empire," 
 informs us, that, in his embafTy to the Porte, 
 he was treated by the Turks with greater dif- 
 tinftion and regard than they had ever paid to 
 any ambafTador -f . The fame author, who was 
 well acquainted with his charadler, fpeaks of 
 him in thele terms : " To do juftice to this 
 
 • He was a count of the empire, and may be placed here, or at 
 the end of this clafs. 
 
 f See *' A Relation of a Journey of the right Honourable my 
 ** Lord Henry Howaid, from London to Vienna, and thence to 
 ** Conftantinople, in the Company of his Excellency Count Lef- 
 ** ley, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Counfellor of 
 ** State to his Imperial mnjefly, &c. and Extraordinary AmbafTa- 
 '* dor from Leopold ns, Emperor of Germany, to tl-.e Grand 
 *• Signior, Sultan Mahomet Hau the Fourth. By John Burbury, 
 *♦ Gent." 1671, i2mo. 
 
 Lord Henry Howard, who was afterwards duke of Norfolk J, 
 bagan hi« journey in February, 1664, and went to Conftantin- 
 ople ihe lame year. It appears, at p. 34 of this book, that Francis 
 Way, baron of Delgate, was nephew to count Leflie. He was one 
 of the embally, as was alfo Mr. Edward Howard, brother rolord 
 Henry. The eail of VVincheliea was then the Engiilh ambaffador 
 at Conftantinople. 
 
 t Wood's « Fani," il. co!. 172. 
 
 '* worthy 
 
Class HI. o f E N G L A N t). 52 J 
 
 ** worthy perfon, he hath brought a reputation 
 *' to the Britilh nation above any in our age, 
 " whofc virtues and induftry have acquired the 
 *' higheft trufts and preferments in foreign parts, 
 *' and done the fame honour to his king, under 
 *' whom he was born a fubjccl, as to the pre- 
 *' fent emperor and his anceftors, under whoni 
 *' he is, and hath always been a faithful mi- 
 " nifter; having deferved fo eminently for fav- 
 *' ing the whole German empire from the trea- 
 *' fon of Walleftein, by his own fingle a6l of 
 " bravery (a flory notorioufly known to all the 
 ** world) as can never in gratitude be forgot by 
 *' that nation, nor want its due record and place 
 " in the hiftory of that country." Lady Mary 
 Wortley Montague, in her letter from Peter- 
 Waradin-f, tells us that count Lefly laid Bel- 
 grade in afhes, 1685. It is probable, that, by 
 this exploit, he reftored tranquility to the em- 
 pire. 
 
 IRISH NOBILITY^. 
 ROGER, earl of Orrery, Sec. J, Mynde fc. 
 
 Roger, earl of Orrery §, fifth fon of Richard, ^"""M 
 earl of Corke, merited, as well as his father, 1660/' 
 the appellation of Great, He vvas great in the 
 cabinet, but much greater in the tieid, where 
 
 •j- V(j1. 1. p. 134. 
 
 • In Gough's " Anecdotes of Topography," p. 686, mention 
 It made of a head of lord Donnei;al, by Hollar, in a map of En- 
 t»ifhore (Enifliowen), a province in Ireland, dated 1667. The 
 perfon here repreCented is Arthur Chichelter, fecond ear! of Don- 
 negal, and nephew to Arthur the firft [j. See an account of him 
 in Lodge's " Peerage," vol. i. p. 218. 
 
 § He often occurs in hiltory under the title of lord BroghilL 
 
 jl Created 30 March, 1647. 
 
 Vol.. III. Q^ he 
 
226 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 he a6led a very capital part, and may deferved- 
 ly be ranked with our military heroes. No 
 man, in thefe latter ages, has more diftinguifli- 
 ed himfelf for cool courage, pregnant invention, 
 and reach of thought, than he has done, in the 
 very article of difficulty and danger -, in which 
 none of our countrymen ever equalled him but 
 the great earl of Peterborough, who was alto- 
 gether as happy in his ftratagems and expedi- 
 ents. He, like Atticus, prudently adapted him- 
 felf to the changes of the times ; but not by a 
 timid and cautious conducl, or fecuring him- 
 felf by inadion, muchQefs by mean or fordid 
 compliances. He was a mod ufeful fubjedl- to 
 Charles the Firfl:, Cromwell, and Charles the 
 Second. He was not great in poetry, having 
 written feveral of his dramatic pieces in the 
 gout, the paroxyfms of which fcem to have oc- 
 cafioned fome draining and dillortion of thought 
 ^ in thefe compofitions. Dryden fomewhere com- 
 pares the ifiue of his brain to the fon ofSemele, 
 ^ the God who was produced in torture. Mr. 
 
 Waipole, who has given us a detail of his 
 writings, obferves, that " the Gout was a very 
 " impotent Mule -." His '' Art of War," pub- 
 lifhed in folio, 1677, ^^ ^ ^oxk that does him 
 honour, and is well worthy the reader's notice f. 
 He died Odlober 16. 1670, inche fifty-ninth year 
 of his age. His " State Letters," together with 
 
 • *< Noble Authors," vol. ii. p. 239, 2d edit. 
 
 f I cannot ("ay lb much for his " Parthenifla," a romance, in 
 folio, which was never completed The author probably thought 
 it unfafliionable not to exercilb his pen in this Ipccies of writing, 
 which was much in vogue in ihe reign c*" Charles II. 
 
 When England ap'd the gallantries of France, 
 And every flowery courtier wrote romance. 
 
 The greatellwork of this kind is ** Art.imenes, or the Grand Cy- 
 rus," Cyrus w hich is of a fize fuiuible to the grandeur of its hero. 
 
 his 
 
Cl4ss III. o F E N G L A N D. 227 
 
 his Life, by his chaplain, Mr. Thomas Mor- 
 rice, are well worth the notice of the reader. 
 
 THOMAS, earl of Oflbry ; Van Hove fc. 
 
 Thomas, earl of Oflbry •, a /mail oval ; mezz, 
 Thomas, earl of Oflbrv •, Ravenet fc. Engraved 
 for Carte's " Life cf the duke of Oimond^'' foL 
 " Thomas, lord Sutler, carl cf Oflbry, ge- 
 neral of his majefty's fubjeds of Great Brirain, 
 in the fervice of his highnefs the prince of 
 Orange, and the States of the United Provinces j 
 iieiuenant-general o{ his majcfly's forces in the 
 kingdom of Ireland *, lord-chamb'-jrlain to the 
 queen ; one cf the lords of his ni:.r-fiy's rrioft 
 honourable privy-council, in the kingdoms of 
 Encriand and Ireland ; one of the lords of his 
 majeily's bed-chamber ; and knight of the moft 
 nobie order of the Garter." Lelyf^ Vandrehanc 
 fc. fh^ 
 
 A pompous lift of titles and honours, under 
 the portraits of men of rank, fometimes com- 
 pofe the hiilory of the perfons reprefented. 
 Here v/e have a man v;ho fhone v;irh unbor- 
 rowed luftre, whofe merit was the foundation of 
 his fame. Though he feemed born for the 
 camp only, he was perfectly qualified for the 
 court \ not as a wit, a mimic, or buffoon, but 
 by a propriety of behaviour, the refulc of good 
 fenfe and good breeding. His courage on board 
 the fleet was fcarceiy exceeded by that of prince 
 Rupert and the duke of Albemarle^ and theirs 
 was never exceeded by that of any other fea- 
 oflicer, He commanded the Engiifli troops in 
 the fervice of the prince of Orange •, and at the 
 battle 'A Mens contributed greatly to the re- 1677. 
 treat of marflial Luxemburg, to whom Lewis 
 XIV. was indebted for the greatefl: part of his 
 
 Q^t military 
 
^2^ The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 military glory. He, on this occafion, received 
 the thanks of the duke of Villa Hermofa, go- 
 vernor of the Spanifh Netherlands, and alfo the 
 thanks of his Catholic majefty himfelf. His 
 fpeech, addrefled to the earl of Shaftefbury, in 
 vindication of his father, was univerfally ap- 
 plauded "^ : it even confounded that intrepid 
 orator, who was in the lenate what the earl of 
 Oflbry was in the field. Thefe his great qualities 
 were adorned by a fingular modefty, and a pro- 
 bity which nothing could corrupt. Poets and 
 hiftorians praife him in much the fame terms, 
 as profe naturally rifes to the language of poetry 
 on fo elevated a fubje6t. He died July 30, 
 1680, in the 46th year of his age. I'he duke 
 of Ormond, his father, faid, " that he would 
 *' not exchange his dead fon for any living fon 
 «' in Chriftcndom." See Clafs YIL 
 
 ROGER PALMER, earl of Caftlemaine; 
 
 in a large wig ; iimo, 
 
 Roger Palmer, hufband to Mrs. Pahner, the 
 royal miftrefs-f, was, by Charles II. created 
 earl of Caftlemaine. A man of nice honour 
 would never have accepted of this title, as the 
 whole world knew on what account it was con- 
 ferred. It ind:fed appears that he had fomc 
 fcruples upon that head, as he did not accept 
 of it when it was firft offered him. In 16S0 he 
 was accufed as an accomplice in the Meal-Tub 
 Plot, and v.'as brought to a public trial j but 
 nothing was proved againll him. He was a 
 good proficient in the mathematics, and was the 
 inventor of a '* horizontal globe,'* of which he 
 wrote an e^^planatory pamphlet J. He was 
 
 • See «'Bio,2:. Brit.*' p. 1075. 
 
 + Afterwards dutchefs of Cleveland. 
 
 X *' Hill, of Europe for 1 705." 
 
 author 
 
CtAss in. OF ENGLAND. 223 
 
 author of " An Account of the prefent War be- 
 *' twixt the Venetians and the Turks," &c. 
 1666; i2mo. and of '' A (hort and true Ac- 
 *' count of the material Parages in the late War 
 "betwixt the iinglifh and Dutch ^" 1671; 
 izmo. His head is prefixed to both thefe 
 books. See more of him, and his works, in 
 the " Catalogue of the Royal and noble Au- 
 *' thors." See alfo the reign of James II. 
 
 WILLIAM, vifcount BRO U N C K E R, Created, 
 one of the lords commiiTioners of the admiralty, T645,"* 
 was better known as a man of genius and learning. 
 See Clafs IX. 
 
 HENRICUS HER US, Baro de Cole- 
 
 rane, &c. half-length ^ ft anding at a table ^ h,jh. This 
 print was begun by Faithorne^ who engraved the face^ 
 wig, and neckloth^ and a very fm all part of the ad- 
 joining drapery \ the reft was done by Vertue *. 
 
 Henry Hare, or Here, lord Colerane ; an 
 anonymous whole lengthy in a pilgrim'' s habit, fitting 
 and writing •, JacoFs ladder^ with a?2gels afcending 
 and defcending^ in a pyramid \ a view of Venice at a 
 diftance\ Faithorne fc, h.fh. 
 
 The reverend Mr. Lort, lare Greek profefTor 
 at Cambridge, on whofe authority I rely, in- 
 formed me, that this is the portrait of lord Cole- 
 rane ; and that the print is prefixed to Laure- 
 danus's " Afcent of the Soul." 
 
 Henry, fon of Hugh, the firft baron of Cole- Createi 
 rane, was eminent for divine and human litera- ^^^^* 
 ture. He was particularly fliilled in antiqui- 
 ties, efpeciaily medals, of which he well knew 
 the utility. His family, which is faid to have 
 fprung from a branch of that of Harcourt, m 
 
 - * From the information of his widow, 
 
 Q^ 3 Lorrain, 
 
ajp The PI I STORY CharlesII. 
 
 Lorrain, and to have had its defcent f|om one 
 of the Norman adventurers who attended the 
 Conqueror, has been noted for men of learn- 
 ing, 
 
 CLASS IV. 
 
 The CLERGY. 
 
 ARCHBISHOPS and BISHOPS. 
 
 GILBERT US SHELDON, archi- 
 epifcopus Cantuarienfis; half length \ h.jJo, mezz. 
 
 The print exadly correfponds wirh the origi- 
 nal painting of him in the Theatre, at Oxford. 
 1 here is another original at Amefbury, fimilar 
 to the former. 
 
 GiLBERTus Sheldon, a head, copied from this 
 fr:n.\ hy Vertue •, large ^to. 
 
 GiLBERTus -'HELDON, &c. D. LcggfiH ad vi- 
 *buM dtt. et Jc, ^his was done when he was bijhop of 
 LiOnd.n, 
 
 Archbifhop Sheldon; an engravingy Svo. copied 
 from the larger mszzovtuto. 
 
 Archbilhop Sh£ld:>n i ^vo, mezz, 
 
 Trannatcd Archbifliop Sheldon was feme time warden 
 
 fromLon- Qf p^\\ Souls college in Oxford, and clerk of 
 
 OOO AU2( ^-^ 
 
 J663. the clofet to Charles I. who had a great efteem 
 
 for him. He was, upon the reiioration of 
 Charles II. who knew his worch, and during 
 his exile had experienced his munificence, made 
 dean of the Chapel Royal. He was afterwards 
 fuccelTivcly promoted to the fees of London and 
 Canterbury, in both which he fuccet-ded Dr. 
 Juxon. His benevolent heart, public fpirir, 
 prudent condudl, and exemplary piety, merited 
 
 the 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 231' 
 
 the highefl: and mod confpicuous flation in the 
 church +. He expended, in public and private 
 benefadlions, and ads of charity, no lefs than 
 66,000 I. as appeared from his accounts Much 
 of this money was appropriated to the rehef of 
 the necefljtous in the time of the plague, and 
 to the redemption of Chriftian flaves. The 
 building only of the Theatre in Oxford coft 
 him 16,000 I. This ftru6lure alone is .ufficienc 
 to perpetuate the mc-mory of the founder and 
 the architect. Ob. 9 Nov. 1677. 
 
 WILLIAM SANCROFT fucceeded 
 archbifhop Sheldon in the fee of Canterbury. See 
 the next reign. 
 
 RICHARDUS STERNE, archiepif- 
 copus Eboracenfis ; F. Place/, large h,flo, mezz» 
 
 Richard Sterne, who was educated at Cam- Tranfiated 
 brido-e, was, in the rei^n of Charles 1. mailer [51'"' ^'^" 
 of Jefus college in that univerfity J, and chap- 20, 1664. 
 lain to archbiihop Laiid. Upon ihe commence- 
 ment of the civil war, v/hen rhe king's nereffi- 
 ties were very urgent, he, and fevera) others of 
 the heads of houfes, wrre very inltrumental in 
 ' fending the Cambridge plate to his majeily to 
 be coined for his ufe. i'his gave great offence 
 to Cromwell, who feized Dr. Sterne, Dr. Beale, 
 matter of St. John's College, and Dr. Martin, 
 
 f I?r. Eacharcl, in the Dedication of his fecond Dialogue 
 againli Hobhes, fays, that he was able to live down many " Le- 
 *• viathans/' 
 
 X In the •* Strafforde Papers," vol. i. p. 2c8, is this paiTage, in 
 a letter of G. Gesiird to the lord-dtputy VVentworth '* The 
 " long-difputed buiinefs for the hendOiip of St. John's College, in 
 ** Cand'>ridge, is now at an end, &c. and one Sterne, a iblid 
 *' fcholar, who firit lummed up the three thouland and fix hun- 
 " dred faults that were in our printed Bibies of London, i?, by 
 *' his majefty's diifdtion to the bifliop of Ely, who elects there, 
 <* made malter of Jefus College." 
 
 0^4 maRer 
 
^z ''The HISTORY Charles 11, 
 
 mafter of Qiiecn's, and carried them to Lon- 
 don ; where they were imprifoned for a year, 
 and afterwards fent on board afliip at Wapping, 
 put under hatches, and treated wich great inhu- 
 manity •^. A little before the execution of his 
 good friend and patron^ the archbifhop, he was 
 permitted to attend him, and performed the 
 laft offices for him on the fcaffold. He lived in 
 grt^atobfcurity till the Relloration, when he re- 
 turned to his mallcrtliip of Jefus College, which 
 he held till he was made bifhop of Carlifle. He 
 was afterwards trandared to York. He was a 
 man of worth, and of good abilities as an au- 
 thor -f. He compiled a fyftem of loajc, and 
 wrote a comment upon the 103d Plaltn. He 
 gave 1850 1. to\yard the re-build mg of i)t. Paul's 
 church. Ob. 18 June, 1683, Mt. 87. 
 
 GILBERTUS SHELDON, epifcopus 
 Londinenfis •, D. Loggan ad zivum del el jfc. b.jh. 
 See the fird article of this Clafs. 
 
 HUMPHREDUS HENCHMAN, 
 
 epifcopus Londinenfis J Lely p. half length \ b. Jh, 
 mczz, 
 
 Traniiatcd Humphrey Henchman, who was educated at 
 
 b'uT.^Scpr. Clarehall in Cambridge, was, for his merit, 
 J5,' 1663. promoted to the chantorfliip of Salifoury, in the 
 reign of Charles I. He was one of thofe that 
 helped to conceal Charles II. and were inftru- 
 niental to his efcape, after the battle of Wor- 
 ce(ier. Several of the royalifls who afiiiled the 
 
 • See irjoie in the " Querela Cantabrigienfis," at the end of 
 ^he «* Mercurius Rufticus," p. 4, & feq. Jt is there laid, that 
 iume aftually made it their bufinels to get them Told to Algiers 
 for flaves. 
 
 f He hsd the hono\ir of being reported the author of the 
 tt Whole Duty o; Man." bee Malttrs's " Hiltory of Corpus-Chrifti 
 «« .College, in Cambridge," where there is a good account of him. 
 
 king 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 233 
 
 king upon this important occafion, were reward- 
 ed by him at the Reftoration, and were then 
 among the moft popular pcrfons in the king- 
 dom. Dr. Henchman fucceeded Dr. Duppa in 
 the fee of Salifbury, and was removed to Lon- 
 don upon the tranflation of Dr. Sheldon to Can- 
 terbury. He was, foon afcer his removal, made 
 lord almoner. When the declaration for liberty 
 of confcience was publifhed, he was much 
 alarmed, and ftridly enjoined his clergy to 
 preach againft popery, though it gave great of- March 15, 
 fence to the king. His example was followed ^ '^'"^* 
 by the other billiops. He was editor of the 
 " Gentleman's Calling," fuppoffd to be written 
 by the author of the " Whole Duty of Man*." 
 Ob. 0(5t. 1675. 
 
 HENRICUS COMPTONUS, epifco^ 
 
 pus Londinenfis ; Logganfc, 1679^ large h.fif, — ^ 
 Henry Compton was fuccefTor to bifhop Hench- 
 man in the lee of London. There is fome account 
 of him in the next reign. 
 
 JOHANNES COSIN, epifcopus Du- 
 pelmenfis ; IV, Dolle fc* Before his " Hijiory of 
 " Tranfubfiantiation" 1676; ^vo. 
 
 John Cofin was mafler of Peter-houfe in Cam- confec. 
 bridge, and dean of Peterboroup-h, in the reign ^'f- 2. 
 
 O ' _ O ' D 1660, 
 
 of Charles^!, in which he enjoyed feveral other 
 confiderable preferments. He was accufed of 
 introducing fuperftitious innovations in the 
 church of Durham, of which he was then pre- 
 bendary -f-, by Peter Smart, who had been pro- 
 fecuted by him for preaching againft epifcopacy. 
 
 * See the eplftle prefixed to the oftavo edition of that book, 
 t He is, in Rapin's " Hiltory," faid to have been dean 3 but 
 Jhij is a miftake. 
 
 He 
 
134 "The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 He held his deanery but a Hiort time, as he was 
 the lirft of the clergy who were fequeftered from 
 their dignities and benefices by the parliament f. 
 In 1^43, he retired to Paris, where he was ap- 
 pointed chaplain to the Protcftant part of queen 
 Henrietta's family. He fucceeded Dr. Morton 
 in the fee of Durham •, and, while he fat in that 
 fee, expended large fums in public and private 
 charities and benefadtions. He died Jan. 15, 
 1671-2, in the 78th year of his age. His prin- 
 cipal work, which fliews him ro have been a 
 man of learning, is his '* Scholaftical Hidory 
 *' of the Canon of the Holy Scripture •," a book 
 ftill in efteem. The firfl: edition was pub- 
 lifned in 1657, the ftcond in 1672; 4to. 
 
 NATHANAEL CPvEW, fucce/Tively 
 bilhop of Oxford and Durham in this reign. See 
 the next. 
 
 BRIAN DUPPA, quondam epifcopus 
 Wintonienfis ; R. IV. (White) fc. Before bis '' HAy 
 " Rules mid Helps cf Devotion^''' &c, fmrJl 12 wo, 
 1674. 
 
 There is a portrait of him at Chrid-church 
 in Oxford, of which college he was dean. 
 
 '^'^ ^''"^ Brian Duppa, who was fuccefTivelv promoted 
 
 ocu 4, to the bifiioprics of Chicheder and Saiiibury 
 
 ifc6o. by Charles I. was, upon the reftoration of 
 
 Charles 11. advanced to the fee of Wmchcfter, 
 He had been preceptor to the latter of thefe 
 princes, and was, in all rcfpeds, well qualified 
 tor that important office. He was a very liand- 
 fome ptrrfonage, of a graceful deportment, and 
 of an irreproachable life. He Lved in retire- 
 (nent at Richmond during the Ufurpation j and 
 
 t He wasinftalled dean in Nov. 1640, 
 
 was 
 
Class IV. o p E N G L A N D. Z35 
 
 was then hofpitable, generous, and charitable, 
 to a degree beyond his fortune. He is faid to 
 have received 50,000 1. for fines, foon after his 
 tranflation to Winchefter. It is certain that he 
 remitted no lefs than 30,000 1. to his tenants, 
 and that he left 16,000 1. to be expended in ads 
 of charity and munificence. Ke left legacies 
 to Chrill-church, and All Souls College, in 
 Oxford ; and to the feveral cathedrals in which 
 he fat as bifhop ; and founded an alms-houfe at 
 Richmond. The king afl<ed his blefling on his 
 knees, as he lay on his death-bed. He died 
 March 26, 1662. He was author of fermons, 
 and feveral books of devotion. When he was 
 bifhop of Chicheller, he publifned his '* Jonfo- 
 ^' nius Verbius," which is a colieclion of verfes 
 in praife of Ben. Jonfon and his works, by 
 above thirty diftcrenc hands. 
 
 GEORGE MORLEY, bifhop of Win- 
 chefter -, P. Leiy p. i?.. Tompfon exc. large h. Jh, 
 mezz. 
 
 George Morley, &c. Lely p, Vertue fc.ij^o. 
 li} the CO He. Hon of general Dormer ^ at Rowftoam. 
 Illuft. Head. 
 
 George Morley, &:c, fitting in a chair \ h.fh. 
 mezz. 
 
 This prints as I learn from Vertue^s manufcript, was 
 done by Vanfomer, 
 
 There is a portrait of him at Chrift-church, 
 in Oxford, of which he was canon, and after- 
 wards dean. 
 
 There is another by fir Peter Lely, at Amef- 
 bury. 
 
 George Morley, fome time chaplain tOTrannatcd 
 Charles I. was a polite fcholar, and an emi- ^'°"'^^°^'- 
 nent divine, efpecially in controverfy. He was, ?4l'i66z? 
 
 in 
 
2^6 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 in the early part of his life, one of Ben. Jon- 
 fon's ions. He was alfo an intimate friend of 
 lord Falkland, iMr. Hyde, Mr. Chillingworth, 
 Mr. "Waller *, and others of the nrft eminence 
 in the late reign. One of his excellencies, 
 which raifed him n:uch in the eftcem of all his 
 friends, helped to degrade his charader in the 
 opinion of his enemies. This was his wit, 
 which was natural, but uncommon ; keen, but 
 inoffenfive. The very faculty was condemned 
 by many in this age, without the leaft regard to 
 its application. After the death of the king, 
 he retired to the Hague, where he attended on 
 Charles II. He afterwards refided at Antwerp, 
 where he was very alTiduous in his miniderial 
 duty. During his refidence abroad, he con- 
 traded an intimacy with Rivetus, Heinfius, Sal- 
 mafius, Bochart, and other perfons of rank in 
 the learned world. Upon the Rcftoration, he 
 "was made dean of Chrifl-church, and the lame 
 year bilhop of Worcefter, whence he was 
 tranflated to Winchefter. His conftant pradice 
 was to rife at five o'clock in the morning, to 
 go to bed at eleven, and eat but once a day. 
 By thefe rules he preferved his health, with very 
 3ittlc interruption, through the courfeofa long 
 life. He died 0(5l. 29, 16S4. His Vvritings 
 r»re chiefly on polemical fubjedts -f. 
 
 * Mr. Morley was under an arrcd for a debt, when this gen-f 
 tleman firft became acquainted with him; and it is (aid that he 
 paid the debt, on condition that he uould live with him at Be- 
 consfield, whicli he did for nianyyeais. Mr. W:tller acknow- 
 iedged that he was indebted to him for his tafte of the ancient 
 dailies. See the *' Life of Waller," before his works, izmo. 
 
 f In 16R3, he pubiirtied feveral treanfes in a quarto volinne. 
 In the preface is a good account of the leli^jous charadier 
 of Anne Hyde, dutchelii of York, before iier converfjon to 
 popery. 
 
 PETRUS 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND, 237 
 
 P E T R U S MEWS, Wintonlenfis eplfco- 
 pus, &c. qui pugnavit et oravit pro pace regni et ec- 
 clefiai ; D. Loggan ad vivum del. et fc, h. Jh, There 
 are two oval prints of bim, /mailer than the former^ 
 without the name of an engraver. 
 
 His portrait is at St. John's College in Ox- 
 ford, of which he was prefident. 
 
 Peter Mews, who was a fellow of St. John's Tranflated 
 College, left that fociety upon the commence- f^^^^^^i^ 
 ment of the civil war, and entered into the 22 Nov. 
 royal army, where he was promoted to the rank ^^'^^" 
 of a captain. He ferved the king both in Eng- 
 land and Scotland, and afterwards retired be- 
 yond the feas. In the time of the Interregnum, 
 he entered into holy orders, and was, by a rela- 
 tion, prelented to the redory of Lambourn in 
 EfTex, which he was not fuffered to enjoy. As 
 he had been a zealous royalift, preferments were 
 heaped upon him after the Reftoration, and he 
 rofe by the ufual gradations to a bifhopric. In 
 February, 1672-3, he was promoted to the fee 
 of Bath and Wells, whence he was tranflated to 
 Winchefter. Mr. Wood tells us, that " when 
 *' he fat in the former of thefe fees, he was much 
 *' beloved and admired for his hofpitality, ge- 
 *' nerofuy, juftice, and frequent preaching." 
 Bifhop Burnet reprefents him as a man of very 
 flender abilities, with a fmall pittance of learn- 
 ing, who by his zeal and obfequioufnefs raifed 
 himfelf through feveral fleps to his high ftation 
 in the church. In 1685, he again appeared in 
 arms to oppofe the duke of Monmouth, Oh. 
 Nov. 9, 1706. , 
 
 His portrait may be placed in the next 
 reign, in which it was probably engraved. See 
 the reign of James 11. 
 
 RO- 
 
ftj* The HISTORY Charles iL 
 
 ROBERTUS SANDERSON, Eprf- 
 copus Lincolnienfis, JEz. y6f 1662 ; Lcggan fc. K 
 Jh. 'I' his appears to be the original print. 
 
 RoBERTug Sanderson, epifcopus Lincolnien- 
 fis ; IV. Hollar f. 1668 ; 12;?/^. 
 
 RoBERTUs Sanderson, &c. ^t, ;6 fV, Dolle 
 Jc, Before his " Sermons^ with his Life ," folio. 
 
 Robertus Sanderson, &c. y£t. y6i R.JVhiie 
 Jc. Before his ^'' Life'' 1678; ^vo. 
 
 ^loa* ^'** S^ri<^^''^<^n» who (lands at the head of all 
 
 1660. * cafuifts, ancient or modern, was frequently con- 
 
 fulted by Charles J. His cafuiftry is founded 
 on the clear principles of truth and equity, and 
 is very different from that which hath been taught 
 in the fchools of the Jefuits ; in which fophiflry 
 was fubftituted for argument, and difguife and 
 mental refervation for candour and fmcerity *. 
 He was, efpecially in the former part of his life, 
 remarkable for his excefllve modefty ; an infir- 
 mity oftcner feen in men of the quickefl fenfi- 
 
 • The moral charadler of this great and good man has lately 
 been raftily and feebly attacked by the author of the Cotifejfional Xt 
 and as ably defended by the author of *' A Dialogue between 
 *' Ifaac Walton and Homologifles §." Every enemy to church- 
 government hath been, for the fame reafon, an enemy to bilhop 
 Sanderlbn and every other prelate; but I am confident that the 
 uprightnefs and integrity of his heart, as a caluift, was never before 
 called in queftion by any mnn who was not an entire ftranger to 
 his charafter. He faw and deplored, and did his utmoft, honeftly 
 and rationally^ to remedy the complicated ills of amrchy in church 
 and ftate ; when ** every man proje6led and refoimed, and did 
 ** what was right in his own eyes. No image can better exprefs 
 " fuch a condition, than that of a dead animal in a Hate ot pu- 
 ** trefaftion ; when, inftead q^ one noble creature, as it was when 
 •* life held it together, there are ten thoufand little naufeous 
 *' reptiles growing out of it, every one crawling in a path of its^ 
 «* cwn||." 
 
 \ ■ Telumque imbelle fine \€t\i 
 
 Conj-fcit. ViRG. 
 
 See ihe 2d edi^ of the " Confenional,'* betwixt page 299, and 31J. 
 f Lend. 176S, 8vo. 
 (j Mudge's *' Scrinons.*' Sermon on ibc Evils of Anarchy, p. 86, 
 
 bility 
 
Class IV, o f E N G L A N D. £331 
 
 bility and the bed nnderftanding, than in the 
 half-witted, the flupid, and the ignorant, lis 
 would often lament this weaknefs to his intimate 
 friends. His Latin ledures, read in the divi- 
 nity fchool at Oxford, are v^ell known "^. His 
 Sermons Rill maintain their reputation for clear- 
 nefs of reafon^ and a purity of ftyle, which feems 
 to be the effedl of it. Ob. 29 Jan. 1662-3. 
 
 Archbifhop Ufher has given us a jufl and ad- 
 mirable charaifler of this great prelate, which 
 may be feen at p. 531, of Lloyd's " Me- 
 *' moirs." 
 
 NICHOLAS MONCK, lord bifhop of 
 
 Hereford, &c. J of. Nutting fc, a fmall head^ with 
 fever al others of the Rawlinf on family ; 4/^. 
 
 Nicholas Monck was third fonof fir Thomas confec. 
 Monck, of Potheridge in Devonfhire f, and ^^^^q_\\ 
 brother to the general. He lived fome years 
 upon a fmall benefice in that county; but was, 
 before the Refloration, prefented by fir John 
 Greenvile to the rectory of Kilkhampton, worth 
 about 300 1. a year. Sir John, at the fame time, 
 fignified to him, that if he fhould have occafioa 
 to ufe his intereft with his brother, he hoped he 
 
 * Cafuiftry has perhaps darted more dIfHcultles than ever it 
 folved J as nothing is more common than lor icruples to multi- 
 ply upon refledlion. Dr. Sanderfon was frequently enibarraired 
 in nice points, and was fometimcs at a lofs to know v/hich reafoii 
 fhould preponderate, among the variety that offered, when the 
 clock informed him that it was time to read his lei5lure. He was 
 then obliged to determine from necelfity. It is obfervable, that 
 the hafty decifions which he made weie generally the fame that 
 he afterwards adhered to, upon the matured deliberation. 
 
 t The Moncks of Potheridge are faid to have defcended from 
 Arthur Plantagentt, vifcount Lifle, a natural fon of Edward IV. 
 It is afferted, that the race of Plantagenct btcame extinfl with 
 that of Monck : this is very improbab;e, as the Fitz-Edwards 
 were doubtlefs as numerous as the Fitz-Cr.arles's. But it was 
 rot ufu.il, in the age of Edward, for the natiiral .'bus of kings to 
 be created dukes, or even lo much as owned, 
 
 might 
 
«40 The HISTORY Charles II; 
 
 might depend upon him : Mr. Monck afTured 
 him that he might. He was afterwards em- 
 ployed by that gentleman, and fent over to Scot- 
 land to engage the general in the king's fervice. 
 It is probable that the arguments he ufed had 
 their due weight ; but he could not prevail 
 with his brother to enter into confidence with 
 him. His near relation to the man that fet the 
 king upon the throne, and his own pcrfonal fer- 
 vices, entitled him to preferment. He was there- 
 fore, in June, 1660, made provoft of Eton Col- 
 lege, and foon after promoted to the bifhopric 
 of Hereford. He could fcarcely be faid to en- 
 joy this preferment, as he died within a year 
 after his promotion, on the 17th of December, 
 166 1. 
 
 EDWARDUS REYNOLDS, epifco^ 
 pus Norvicenfis •, R. White fc. iimo. 
 
 Confec. Edward Reynolds, preacher at Lincoln's-Inn^ 
 
 2660."*. 3"^ °"^ o^ ^^^ aflembly of divines, was, by au- 
 
 thority of parliament, preferred to the deanry 
 of Chrift-church in Oxford, on the 12th of 
 April, 1648, foon after the ejection of Dr. Sa- 
 muel Fell. About two years after, he was him- 
 felf ejeded, and Dr. John Owen, who was as 
 highly efteemed and revered by the Indepen- 
 dents, as Dr. Reynolds was by the Prefbyteri- 
 ans, was promoted to that deanry, which he 
 enjoyed for about nine years. In 1659 Dr. 
 Reynolds was again reftored ; but the next yeaf 
 was obliged to give place to Dr. Morley, who 
 was appointed dean by royal authority. The 
 king, foon after his Relloration, endeavoured 
 to bring over to the church fome of the moft 
 eminent divines among the difTenters, by offer- 
 ing them dignities. They all retufed, except 
 Dr. Reynolds, who accepted of the bilhopric of 
 
 Norwich. 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 241 
 
 Norwich. He was univerfally allowed to be a 
 man of extraordinary parts, and difcovers in his 
 writings a richnefsof fancy, as well as a folidiry 
 of judgment. He died the 29th of July, 1676, 
 and was buried in the new chapel belonging to 
 his palace, which he buik at his own expence. 
 
 JOHN RACKET, bilhop of Lichfield 
 
 and Coventry, jEt, 78, &c. Faithorne fc. Over the 
 head is this rnotto^ " Serve God and be chearful.'* 
 There is a character of chearfulnefs in his countenace *, 
 This head is prefixed to his " CefJtury of Sermons.''^ 
 
 Johannes Hacket, &:c. 1670 j Faithornefc* 
 %vo. 
 
 The motto of this worthy prelate was per^ conffc. 
 feftly adapted to his chara6ler. He was pious ^^f''^' 
 and humane, learned and eloquent, and highly 
 efteemed by all that knew him. As his temper 
 was naturally lively, thefe advantages dill add- 
 ed to his innate chearfulnefs, and rendered him 
 the happy man that he appeared to be. He 
 was chaplain in ordinary to James I. who pre- 
 ferred him to the reftories of St. Andrew's, 
 Holbourn, and Cheam in Surrey -f. He was in 
 the next reign promoted to a prebend and refi- 
 dentiary's place in the church of St. Paul, Lon- 
 don ; but was foon after forced to quit that, 
 and his redory of St. Andrew's, which he re- 
 covered at the Redoration J. He was, the year 
 
 after, 
 
 • 
 
 Charafler, of any kind, is the ftrongeft prefumptive proof 
 that a portrait is like the perfon repreitnted. 
 
 t " Biog. Brir.^p. 24.56. 
 
 X Dr. Hackee, when minifter of St. Andrew's, Holbourn, hav- 
 ing, foon alter the Redoration, received notice of the interment 
 of a fanatic, belonging to his parith, got the Burial Office by 
 heart. Ashe was a great mafter of elocution, and was himfeif 
 always affedVed with the propriety and excellence of the compo- 
 fition, he delivered it with fuch emphaJis and grace, as "touched 
 the hearts of every one prefent, and cfpeciallv of the friends of 
 
 Vol. hi. R ' tjie 
 
242 The HI ST on Y Charles IT. 
 
 after, advanced to the bifhopric of Lichfield and 
 Coventry. He caufed the magnificent cathe- 
 dral, which Dr. Plot calls " the fined public 
 •'building in England "^," to be repaired and 
 beautified, at the expence of 20,000 1. He 
 wrote, during his retirement with his pupil Sir 
 John Byron, at Newftede Abbey, his Latin co- 
 medy, entitled, " Loyola," which was twice 
 adled before James I. His *' Sermons," and 
 his '* Life of Archbilhop Williams," to whom 
 he was domeftic chaplain, were publifhed after 
 his deceafe. The former are too much in the 
 ftyle of bifhop Andrews ; the latter is thought 
 to be too favourable to the charadler of the 
 archbiihop. But this is not to be wondered at, 
 as it is as difficult for a good-natured and grace- 
 ful perfon to fpeak ill of his friend and patron, 
 
 the decenfed, who unanimouny declared, that they never heard 
 a finer difcourfe. But how were they aftoniflied, when they were 
 told that it was taken from our liturgy, a book which, though 
 they had never read, they had been taught to regard with con- 
 tempt and deteltation % '• 
 
 This ftory, but without the name of Dr. Hacket, who was cer- 
 tainly meant, is circumftantially told in bilhop Sprat's excellent 
 Difcourfe to his Clergy, 1695, p. 15. Sec. 
 
 • The Welt fronts of the cathedrals of Lichfield, Wells, and 
 Peterborough, arc greatly and defervedly admired : So is the 
 church of Salifbury, which was begun early in Hervry the Third's 
 reign, and finifhed upon a fettled plan, without any variations} 
 and is therefore by far the moll regular of aU our ancient 
 churches § j but thefe beautiful and magniikent Gothic (li-u6lure» 
 are by no means comparable fo the church of St. Ambrofe at Mi- 
 lan, and the cathedral at Rheiras. There i-s a fine print of the 
 lall in Beger's Antiquities of that place j a fmall 4to. in French. 
 
 X The worthy bifliop Bull, when a parifh-prieft, is known to have prac- 
 tifcd the fanne honcft art, with like fucccls, in ufiiig other oftkes of our li- 
 turgy. See his "Life," p. 40 and 5v 
 
 § See Bcn'ham'i. " Hilt. S:c. of the Church of Ely," p. 3S, Sec. where 
 arc lome excellent remarks on our Gothic (.huiches f . There arc two prints 
 ot the catl.cdral ot SaliHury worth the reader's netice ; the one drawn by 
 Jjckfon, and en^iraved by Fouueron ; the other, an infidc view, drawn by 
 BidolctoDibe, a gentleman's fervant, and engraved by Miller, who ufed to 
 Wiile his name Miillcr. 
 
 t In Mr. Grofc's !^ca„ti^ul and curious work, is a no Id's excellent account 
 of (he Saxon aichitcdture. 
 
 as 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND; 24J 
 
 as it is to fpeak ill of himfelf. Oh, 28 061. 1670, 
 -^c. 78. 
 
 EDWARD RAINBOW, Bilhop of Car- 
 
 lifle, lEt. 74, Sturt fc. Before his '' L//^," by Jd- 
 fiathan Banks * v fcarce^ 
 
 Edward Rainbow was born at Bliton, nearconfec. 
 Gainfborough, in LincolnlTiire, on the 20th of J^^^ |°^ 
 April, 1608. He was educated at Magdalen 
 college in Cambridge, of which he was fome 
 time mafter. He gave early proofs of the quick* 
 nefs and brilliancy of his parts, by an extempo- 
 rary fpeech, fpoken at a public adi, when he was 
 called upon to fupply the place of the prevari- 
 cator -f, who was ordered, by the vice-chancel- 
 lor, to be pulled down for his fcurrility. He 
 afterwards acquitted himfelf with honour in an 
 unpremeditated fermon, preached, at the re- 
 queft of the vice-chancellor, before the univer- 
 fity ; the perfon whofe turn it was to preach 
 failing to perform his duty. He was celebrat- 
 ed for his eloquence in the pulpit; but his ftyle 
 tvas in the former part of his life too florid, and 
 bordering, at leaft, upon afFeflation, a fault 
 which he afterwards corre(5led^ He was a mart 
 «f polite manners, uncommon learning, and of 
 exemplary piety and charity. He died on the 
 s6th of March, 1684. There are only four of 
 his fermons In prints the moft confiderable of 
 which is that which he preached at the death of 
 Anne, countefs of Pembroke, Dorfet, and 
 Montgomery. There runs through all his works 
 a veiA of the pedantry of the two former 
 reigns. 
 
 ♦ See " Athen. Oxon.''* ii. col. ii68. 
 t Called Terrse Filius, at Oxford. 
 
 R 2 SETHUS 
 
244 TheHISTORY Charles IL 
 
 SETHUS WARD US, cpifcopus Salif- 
 buritnfis ; Logganfc. i6yS -, large Ljh. 
 
 His portrait, by Greenhill, is in the Town- 
 hall, at Salifbury. 
 
 Confec. Bp. Seth Ward was the firft that brought mathe- 
 
 of Exeter- jnatical learning; into voaoe in the univerfity of 
 i662,iranr- Cambridge; where he lectured his pupils in the 
 Kil'urJ''sfp'' " ClavisMathematica/' a well known work of 
 1667. the celebrated Mr. Oughtred. He was follow- 
 
 ed by Dr. Barrow, who carried this branch of 
 fcience to a great height. Thefe able mathe- 
 maticians were lucceeded by Mr. Ifaac Newton, 
 who made fuch difcoveries as perhaps no human 
 capacity was ever equal to but his own ^. Dr. 
 Ward particularly excelled in aftronomy, and 
 was the firft that demonftratively proved the el- 
 liptical hypothefis -f, which is more plain and 
 iimple, and confequently more fuitablc to the 
 analogy of nature, than any other. He fuc- 
 ceeded Mr. John Greaves, as Savilian profefifor 
 of aftronomy ac Oxford, and was, a little before 
 the Reflorarion, eleded prefident of Trinity 
 college, in that univerfitv 1 but was foon after 
 forced to quit this preferment. He publifhed 
 feveral books of divinity *, but the greateil part 
 of his works are on mathematical fubjecls. See 
 the *' Athenas Oxcnienils." "Hiis very able 
 man, whofe cI):iraCleT was exemplary as a pre- 
 late, died on the 6ih of January, 1688-9. He 
 was a clofe reafoner, and an admirable Ipeaker, 
 having, in the houfe of lords, been efteemed 
 equal, at lealf, to the carl of Shafteibury. He 
 
 * Dr. John North, who iiicceedcd Dr. Barrow in the mafterfhip 
 of Trinity collegt- , uled to fay, that he belipved Mr. Newton 
 would have killtrd hinifclf with iliidy, it lie had not wrought 
 with his hands in iniking irxperimeiitsj. *' Life ui' Dr. J. North, 
 *' by 11. North,"]). 24^ 
 • t Glanviirs " Plus Ultra," p. .46. 
 
 was 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 245 
 
 was a great benefaflor to both his bifhoprics, 
 as, by his interell, the deanry of Burien, in 
 Cornwall *, was annexed to the former, and the 
 chancellorfhip of the Garter to the latter, for 
 ever. He was polite, hofpitable, and generous ; 
 and, in his life-time, founded the college at Sa- 
 iifbury, for the reception and fupport of minif- 
 ter's widows ; and the fumptuous hofpital ac 
 Buntingford, in Hertfordfliire, the place of his 
 nativity. His intimate friend, Dr. Walter Pope, 
 the noted author of " The old Man's Wifb," 
 has given us a juft and curious account of his 
 life, interfperfed with agreeable anecdotes of his 
 friends. 
 
 JOHN DOLBEN, lord biOiop of Ro- 
 chefter -, J, Hay/mans (Huypnam) />. Tompfon exc. 
 large h, fh. mezz» 
 
 John Dolben, &c> together with bifhop Fell 
 and Dr. Allestry; Lely p, Loggan exc. large h. 
 Jh, mezz. 
 
 There is a portrait of him at Chrift-church. 
 
 John Dolben, who difiinguifhed himfdf byf^^jj'^*;^ 
 the early pregnancy of his parts at Weflminfler 1666. 
 fchool, v/as, in 1640, eiedcd a ftudent of Chrift- 
 
 • The laft dean of Burien was Dr. Thomas Wykes ||, who had 
 more wit than difcretion, and was notorious for his v^uiis, of 
 which the following is recorded by Dr. Pope J. When C'larles I. 
 was in Cornwall, in the time of the Civil War, Dr. Wykes, be- 
 ing well mounted, was near his majelly : ** The king fpoke thus 
 ** to him, *' Doctor you have a pretty nag iindei- you : I pi ay, 
 ^* how old is he ?" To which he, out of the abiuulauce i>\ the 
 ** quibbles o^ his hea; t, returned this anfwtr : ' If it pleafeyour 
 " majefty, he is in the fecond year of his rcign (rein)."" The 
 ** good king did not like this unmannerly jelt, aiid gave him 
 *♦ iuch an anfwcr as he defervcd, which was this : *' Go j vou are 
 « a fool/' 
 
 ^1 He was the hft dean before the annexr.ticii of the deanry to the biHiopric 
 of Exeter. It has fincc been feparatcd frcm that Ice. 
 X ** Lifeof Sah Ward," p. 59. 
 
 R 3 church 
 
846 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 church in Oxford. In the Civil War, when 
 that city was made a garrifon for the king, he 
 entered a volunteer into the royal army. He 
 acquitted himfelf fo well in his military capacity, 
 that he was foon made an enfi£rn, and at fength 
 advanced to the rank of a major. Upon the 
 dijfbanding cf the ariiiy, he again applied him- 
 felf to his ftudies ; and having entered into ho- 
 ly orders, he was, upon the Reftoration, prefetr 
 red to a canonry of Chrift-church. He was af- 
 terwards made archdeacon of London, clerk of 
 the clofet to the king, and dean of Weftminfter. 
 In 1666, he was advanced to the bilhopric of 
 Rochefter, with which he held his deanry in 
 commendam. He was a man of great genero- 
 fity, candour, and benevolence, and was juf^ly 
 admired as a preacher. The people, as they 
 afterwards did in the reigaof Anne, aflfembled 
 in crowds to hear 
 
 " Him of the weftern dome, whofc weighty 
 
 «' fenfe 
 ^' Flow'd in fit words, and heav'ply eloquence." 
 
 Dryden's Absalom, &c. 
 
 He was afterwards tranflated to York, and 
 died the nth of April, i<586. Two or three 
 of his fcrmons only are in print *. 
 
 JO- 
 
 * In the *' Hiftory and Antiquities of Rochefler, Sec I|." by an 
 able hand, is the following char3v5\cr of him, taken from a mj- 
 nufciipt of Sir Wiliiaw Trumbull, who drew this great and goodt 
 man from the life. «' He was an extraordinary comely perfcn, 
 *' though grown too fat ; of an open countenance, a lively pierc- 
 " ing eye, and a majeftic prelence. He listed flattery; and 
 •* guarded himfelf with all poflible care againlt the leafl infmua- 
 «* tion of any thing of that nature, how well Ibever he dcferved. 
 " He had admirable natural parts, and grear acquired ones ; for 
 ** whatever he read he made his own, and improved it. H« had 
 *• fuch a happy genius, and fuch an admirable elocution, that his 
 
 {{ Printed at Rocheftcr in 8vo. 1772, p. 176, 177, 
 
 " extern- 
 
Class IV, of ENGLAND. 247 
 
 JOHANNES WILKINS, nuper epif- 
 copus Ccftrienfis J M. Beak p* Blootelingfc, large 
 k/h. 
 
 Johannes Wilkins, Stc. White fc. Before his 
 ** Principles and Duties of Natural Religion y^* ^^75 9 
 
 Johannes Wilkins, &c. Siurt fc ^vo. 
 
 Dr. Wilkins, a man of a penetrating genius confec. 
 and enlarged underftandini^, feems to have been is ^or. 
 born for the improven-jent of every kind of 
 knowledge to which he applied himfelf. He 
 
 '* extempore preaching was beyond, not only moft of other mens 
 ** elaborate performances, but (I was going to fay) even his own. 
 ** I have been credibly informed, that in Weltminfter- Abbey, a 
 ** preacher falling ill after he had named his text, and propofed 
 " the heads of his intended difcourfe, the bifliop went up into the 
 ** pulpit, took the fame text, followed the fame method, and, I 
 ** believe, difcourfed much better on each head than the other 
 ** would have done. In the judgment he made of other men, 
 " he always preferred the good temper of their minds above all 
 ** other qualities they were mafters of. I have had the honour 
 ** toconverfe with many of the moft eminent men at home and 
 ** abroad, but I never yet met with any one that in all refpedls 
 ** equalled him. He had a large and generous foul, and a cou- 
 " rage that nothing was too hard for ; when he was bafely calum- 
 " niated, he fupported himfelf by the only true heroifm, if I may 
 ** fo phrafe it, I mean by exalted Chriftianity, and by turning 
 " all the flander of his enemies into the bell ufe of ftudying and 
 *' knowing himfelf, and keeping a conftant guard and watch 
 ** upon his words and aftions ; prafliling ever after (though 
 ** hardly to be difcovered, unlefs by nice and long obfervers) a 
 ** ltri(5l courfe of life, and a conftant mortification. Not any of 
 ** the bifliops bench, I may fay not all of them, had that intereft 
 " and authority in the houfe of lords which he had. He had ea- 
 " fily ma(tered all the forms of proceeding. He had ftudied 
 ** much of our laws, efpecially thofe of the parliament, and was 
 ** not to be brow-beat or daunted by the ari'ogance or titles of 
 ** any courtier or favourite. His prefence of mind, and jeadi- 
 ** nels of elocution, accompanied with good breeding anil ati 
 ** inimitable wit, gave him n greater fupeiiority than any other 
 *' lord could pretend to from his dignity of ollice. In him we 
 " loft tile greateft abilities, the ufefuleft converlation, the faithful- 
 " eft friendfhip, and one who had a mind that pra^^ifcd the beft 
 ** virtues itielf, and a wit that was bei'c able to rfConin>end them 
 ** to others j asPr. Spratt well exprefles it in his lire of Mr. Cow- 
 «' ley." 
 
 I make no apology for exceeding my ufiial length in this note ; 
 the chara^ler will beft apologize for itfclf. 
 
 K 4 was 
 
The history Charles II. 
 
 was a very able naturalift and mathematician, 
 and an excellent divine. He difdained to tread 
 in the beaten track of philofophy^ as his fore* 
 fathers had done •, but (truck into the new road 
 pointed out by the great lord Bacon. Confider- 
 able difcoveries were made by him and the in- 
 genious perfons who afiembled at his lodgings 
 in Oxford, before the incorporation of the Roy- 
 al Society ; which was principally contrived by 
 Theodore Haak, Mr. Hartlib*, and himfelf. 
 His books on prayer and preaching, and efpe* 
 cially his " Principles and Duties of Natural 
 " Religion," Ihew how able a divine he was. 
 His " Efiay towards a real Charader and Phi- 
 **^ lofophical Language" is a mafter-piece of in- 
 vention f, yet has been laughed at together 
 with his chimeras : but even thefe (hew them- 
 felves to be the chimeias of a man of genius :{;. 
 He projeded the impradlicable " Art of FJy- 
 '^ ing," when the nature of the air was but im- 
 perfedly known. That branch of philofophy 
 was foon after much improved by the experi- 
 ments of his friend Mr. Boyle. This excellent 
 perfon, whofe chara6ler was truly exemplary, 
 as well as extraordinary, died much lamented, 
 the 19th of Nov. 1672. 
 
 • See " Pari. Hlft/' xxi. p. 204, Notes. 
 
 f The Index to this " EfTay," by the famous Dr. William 
 l^loyd, is alfo in its kijid a mafter-piece. 
 
 X Such was his attempt to fhew the pcfilbility of a voyage to 
 the mooji j to which the dutche(s of Newcaftie §■ made this ob- 
 jeiVion : '* Do61or, where am I to iiiid a place for baiting at, in 
 ** the way up to that planet ?" Madam, faid he, of all the people 
 in the 'xvrld, I nenjer expired that quejlion jro7n jou, n.vho have 
 hiiilt fo many cajiles in the air, that you may he cvtry night at one qf 
 your oijun ? 
 
 § See her charadlcr, Clafs IX. 
 
 PETRUS 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 449 
 
 PETRUS GUNNING, Elienfis epifco- 
 pus; Logganfc. large h, Jh, 
 
 Peter Gunning, infer ibed^ " 'The hijhop of Ely j" 
 J. S. exc, fmall \to. mezz. 
 
 There is a portrait of him in the univerfity 
 library, and another in the library of St. John's 
 college, in Cambridge. 
 
 Peter Gunning, a man of quick and lively confec. 
 parts, and of uncommon elocution, was one of^^^^^"^^' 
 the mod diftinguifhed perfons of his time inxranfiat.^ 
 polemical divinity. He even carried the ^^^^chStcf^^l' 
 into the enemy's quarters, and not only attack- Mar. 1674. 
 ed the Papifts, but the fedtaries of every deno- 
 mination. As the Bible was the book which he 
 principally lludied, he was fcarcely equalled as 
 a textuary. He was alfo well read in the fa- 
 thers and ecclefiaftical hiflorians, which his me- 
 mory enabled him to quote upon every occafi- 
 on. His zeal for his religion, which was ground- 
 ed upon the knowledge of ir, was indeed extra- 
 ordinary ; but it never carried him to the ufual 
 excefTcs of bigotry •, nor was he ever known to 
 hate a man's perfon, becaufe he was no friend 
 to his tenets. He, foon after the Reftoration, 
 fucceeded Dr. Tuckney, a nonconformift, in 1661. 
 the mafterlhip of St. John's college in Cam- 
 bridge, and in the chair of regius profeflbr of 
 divinity in that univerfity. The ejeded pro- 
 feflbr was furprifed to find a generous friend and 
 benefador in his fucceflbr, v;ho fettled on him 
 a handfome annuity for life. He and Dr. Pear- 
 fon were the chief difputants againll the Prefby- 
 terian divines, at the conference held at the Sa- 
 voy, in the beginning of this reign *. Bifnop 
 Burnet informs us, that '' he was a dark and 
 
 * See a particular account of this eonfeiencp in the •* Life of 
 « Baxter," folio. 
 
 !' per- 
 
aso The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 *' perplexed preacher," and that his fermons 
 abounded with Greek and Hebrew, and quota- 
 tions from the fathers. He was neverthelefs ad- 
 mired by the court ladies : the king iaid, " they 
 *' admired his preaching, becawfe they did not 
 ♦' underfland him *." Almoft all his writings 
 are on fubjeds of controverfy |. 0^. 6 July, 
 1684, j^t. yt. See more of him in a difcourfe 
 by Dr. Humfrey Gowcr, in two fermons preach- 
 ed foon after his death J. 
 
 JOHANNES PEARSONUS, epif- 
 
 copus Ccft-rienfis, &c. /F. Sonman {Sunmaii) p» Van 
 
 Hove fc, h,jlo. 
 
 Johannes Pearson, Mt, 70 ; Elder fc, h.Jb, 
 John Pearson, bifhop of Cheftcr, JEt. 70 ; 
 
 1682; Loggan fcb.JIO' 
 
 • He was handfome in his perfon, and graceful in his manner. 
 This alone would account for his being admired by the ladies, 
 without that exercife, or rather play of the imagination, which is 
 fometimesoccafioned by an unintelligible dilcourfe. 
 
 + See Wood. 
 
 X Dr. Joiin Edwards, in the manufcript of his own Life, in the 
 poffefTion of the rev. Mr. Beadon of St. John's college, in Cam- 
 bridge, fays, " that he devoured plenty of authors, but digefted 
 '* none. Thoiigh he was at the pains to make long collections, 
 *' yet he could not make ufe of them, not being able to reduce 
 ** them into order, and bring them into any tolerable compafs i 
 *♦ whence it was, that whenever he came into the pulpit, he 
 *' marred all with his intolerable length, and ftretched his au- 
 " ditors upon the rack." It fliould be obferved here, that 
 Edwards and he were not friendf, 
 
 Mr. Baker, a man of more candour, in his manufcript '* Hif- 
 <' tory of St. John's College," fpeaks thus of him ; *« He was not 
 ** the moft papular preacher, being too digrelTive and immetho- 
 ** dical ; but what was wanting in his method was made up by 
 " his looks, the moft graceful and venerable I ever law. So 
 ** that, though his dilcourfes were generally long, yet to me 
 " they were never tedious j and I could cheai fully follow him 
 " through all his rambles, having fomething in them extremely 
 <' charming and apoltplical, either from the gracefulnefs of his 
 ** perfon, or the ftrcngth and authority wherewith they were de- 
 " livered J." 
 
 1 Sec .; £ :o<! account of hiri; in Maftcrs's " Hi^oiy of C, C. C, C." p. i57> 
 158. 
 
 There 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 251 
 
 There is a whole length of him by Whood, 
 difciple of Richardfon, in Trinity college hall, 
 in Cambridge ■^. It refcmbles the head by Log- 
 ean, which is the trueft likenefs of him. 
 
 This very learned and pious prelate was fuc- Conf«c, 
 ceflively mailer of Jefus and Trinity colleges ^^^^^' 
 in Cambridge, and alfo Margaret profefTor of 
 divinity in that univerfity. He enjoyed feveral 
 other very confiderable preferments in this reign, 
 which were as much above his ambition, as 
 they were below his merit. He was eminently 
 read in ecclefiaftical hiftory and antiquity, and 
 was a moft exadl chronologift. He applied him- 
 felf to every kind of learning that he thought 
 eflTential to his profcflion ; and was in every kind 
 a mafter. His works are not numerous, but 
 they are all excellent ; and fome of the lead of 
 them fhew that he was one of the completefl: 
 divines of his age. The chief are, his ** Ex- 
 ** pofition of the Creed," in Englifh, and his 
 ^' Vindication of St. Ignatius's Epiftles," in La- 
 tin. The former, which has gone through 
 twelve or thirteen editions, is one of the moft 
 finiflied pieces of theology in our language. It 
 is itfeif ^ body of divinity^ but not a body without 
 nfpirit. The Ityle of it is juft ; the periods are, 
 for the moft parr, well turned \ the method is 
 very exadl ; and it is in general free from thofe 
 errors which are too often found in theological 
 fyftems |. He died, after having entirely loft 
 his memory, the i6th of July, 1686 J. 
 
 JOHN 
 
 • The aflemblage of whole length portraits of truly great men, 
 educated in this college, gives its hall a noble and venerable ap- 
 pearance. 
 
 ^ T^^ere is a print of a dirviae, in a common clerical habit, 
 
 wbofe 
 
>252 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 JOHN FELL, bifhop of Oxford ; ////«^ ; 
 
 in the fame print imth John Dolbeity hifioop of Rochef- 
 ier^ and Dr. Richard Alkfiry. Btjhop Dolben is in 
 the middle^ Dr. uiUeJiry ii on his right-hand, and hi- 
 JJjop Fell on his left, Lely p, Loggan cr.c. large h, fh, 
 mezz. 
 
 Portraits of all three are at ChriLt-church. 
 There is one of Dr. Alleflry ia the pidun-gal- 
 lery at Oxford : this v/as given by Dr, Bathurfl: : 
 and there is another in the provoft's lodge at 
 Eton college. 
 
 Con'ec. 6 Dr. John Fell, bifhop of Oxford, and dean 
 
 Feb. 1675. of Chrift-chiirch, was one of the moft fhining 
 ornaments and munificent benefa(flors to that 
 college. His excellent government, while he 
 was at the head of it, railed its reputation for 
 difcipline to a higher pitch than it ever rofe to 
 in any former period ; and it is well known 
 that fome of the mod diftinguiflied perfons that 
 the kingdom itfelf ever produced, were trained 
 np under his infpedlion. He may be traced as 
 ^ benefa6t:or through feveral parts of his diocefc; 
 and his munificence is feen in every part of his 
 college. The beft redlories belonging to it were 
 purchafed by him, and he fettled on it no lefs 
 than ten exhibitions. He for many years pub- 
 lifhed annually fome book, generally a claflic 
 author, to which he wrote a preface and notes, 
 and prefcnted it to the (tudtnts of his houfe as 
 a new year's gift. Some of his writings are a 
 
 TPhofe name Is Pearfon, As I know not where to put It with pro- 
 priety, I fliall mention it in this place. It is in jsnio. or fmall 
 8vo. and engraved by Van Hove. Under the head are thclc 
 lines : 
 
 Prudence and piety agree 
 
 Herein to make an hai mony : 
 
 Engravejs wonders work with ayres ; 
 
 But Pcarfcn pierceth with hit prayers. 
 
 proof 
 
Ct ASS IV. o F E N G L A N D. ^53 
 
 proof of the depth, others of the elegance of 
 his learning $ and the books of which he was 
 editor, particularly the works of St. Cyprian, 
 are a confpicuous proof of his great induftry. 
 He and Dr. Alleflry are fuppofed to have writ- 
 ten almoft all the books attributed to the au- 
 thor of the " Whole Duty of Man ^." He has, 
 in his Life of the learned and pious Dr. Ham- 
 mond, fhewn how future biographers might do 
 juftice to merit in writing his own. Ob, 10 July, 
 1686. 
 
 THOMAS BARLOW, bifliop of Lin- 
 coln. See the reign of James II. 
 
 WILLIAM L L O Y D, billiop of St. A^ 
 faph. See the next reign. 
 
 THOMAS SPRAT, biOiop of Rochefter; 
 a writer of eminence, and efteemed by fome the 
 clafTic of this reign. See the next. 
 
 THOMAS KENN was promoted to the 
 bifhopric of Bath and Wells at the latter end of 
 the reign of Charles II. He attended that prince 
 on his death-bed, and did his utmoft to awaken 
 his confcience. Bifliop Burnet tells us, that he 
 fpoke on that occafion " with great elevation of 
 " thought and exprefTion, and like a man infpir^ 
 *' ed." See the next reign. 
 
 A SCOTCH PRELATE. 
 
 JACOBUS SHARP, Sti. Andrews archi- 
 cpifcopus, totius Scotia primas, &c, Lely p. Da. 
 Patton delin, Vertue fc. large h,Jh, Over bis head is 
 tbe crown of martyrdom, 
 
 * This was the ophiion of dean Piideaux, who excepts the 
 « Whole Duty of Man" itfelf. 
 
 Tacobus 
 
2S4 TriEHISTOkY Charles It. 
 
 Jacobus Sharpus, &c. 1675-, Loggan fc, b, 
 Jh. 
 
 James Sharp, archbiftiop of St. Andrew's, &c, 
 r. Dudley/. h.Jh. 
 
 This prelate was, foOn after the Reftoration, 
 fent by the Scottifh Prefbyterians to improve 
 their intercft with the king, who eafily prevail- 
 ed with him to abandon that party. He was 
 prefently after preferred to the archbifhopric of 
 St. Andrew's, and entrufted with the tnanagc- 
 ment of ecclefiaftical affairs in Scotland. His 
 dignity, which was of itfelf fufficiently odious, 
 became much more fo when conferred on a man 
 who was commonly efteemed the betrayer of 
 the religion of his country -, who was the frieftd 
 and coadjutor of Lauderdale, and confcquently 
 a perfecutor of thole that differed from the efta- 
 blifhed church. He was cruelly murdered by 
 nine affafTins, within a mile of St. Andrew^s, 
 the 3d of May, 1679, after he had fat in that 
 fee about feventecn years^ 
 
 IRISH PRELATES. 
 
 MICHAEL BOYLE, archbifhop of Ar- 
 magh, and lord chancellor of Ireland, See the 
 next reign* 
 
 JEREMY TAYLOR, bifhop of Down 
 and Connor-, R. IVbite Jc. Zvo. Before his *' Con- 
 *' tmplations of the State of Man^' 1684; ^vo. 
 7here are tzvo prints of him ftanding on a pedcjlal^ in- 
 fcribedy '' Mcrcnritts ChriJIianus^" ^c, and another 
 before his *' Holy Dyings" pointing to a Icoking-glafsj 
 which exhibits afkeleton \ a man, ivoman^ and child 
 fire /landing by. This is 7icatly engraved by Lombart, 
 and vjas done before he was made a bifljop. 
 
 This 
 
ClassIV. of ENGLAND. 255 
 
 This excellent prelate was not only one of con/ec. 
 the greateft divines that flourifhed in the feven- 1660-x*. 
 teenth century, but was alfo one of the com- 
 pleteft charadlers of his age. His perfon was 
 uncommonly beautiful, his manners polite, his 
 converfation fprightly and engaging, and his 
 voice harmonious. He united, in a high de- 
 gree, the powers of invention, memory, and 
 judgment \ his learning was various, almoft uni- 
 verlal ; and his piety was as unafFed:ed as it was 
 extraordinary. His pradlical, controverfial, and 
 cafuiftical writings are, in their feveral kinds, 
 excellent ; and, " anfwer all the purpofes of a 
 ** Chriftian^." His Sermons appear to the 
 leaft advantage at prefent ; though they mull 
 be allowed to be good for the time in which 
 they were written f . A brilliancy of imagin- 
 ation appears in all his writings ; but his " Due- 
 *' tor Dubitantium" is a fignal proof of his 
 judgment J. His works have been printed in 
 four, and alfo in fix volumes in folio, befides 
 feveral volumes of devotions in ocflavo and duo- 
 decimo. His books on " Holy Living," and 
 on " Holy Dying," which are frequently bound 
 together^ and his " Golden Grove," have pafTftd 
 through many editions. Oh, 13 Aug. 1667. 
 
 EDVARDUS WETENHALL, S. S. 
 T* P. Corcagienfis et RoiTenfis epifcopus -, J, Fan' 
 dervaart p. et /. laj'ge h, Jlo. mezz, 
 
 • The ingenious Mr. William Thompfon, late of Qaeen's col- 
 lege in Oxford, who was a good judge of divinity as well as po- 
 etry, ufed to call him <* The Homer of Divines." 
 
 t See Birch's •* Life of Abp. Tillotfon," p. aa, fccond edit. 
 
 X It ftiould be obferved, that the learned and judicious Dr. 
 Dodwell, in his ** Letter on the Marriage- Aft," p. 32, fpeaks 
 thus of him: '* Dr. Taylor, in his voluminous writings, faid 
 " many lively things which will not bear a lbi<5t examination." 
 
 Edward 
 
2sS The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 f^b^^i 8 Edward Wetenhall, a native of Lichfield, 
 
 was educated at Exeter college in Oxford. He 
 was fome time minifter of Coombe, near Wood- 
 ftock, and fucceflfively a fchool-malter at Exe- 
 ter and Dublin. He was preferred to the chan- 
 torfhip of Chrift-church, in the latter of thefe 
 cities, whn:h he enjoyed at the time of his pro- 
 motion to the fee of Cork and Rofs. In 1699, 
 he was tranflated to the united fees of Kilmorc 
 and Ardagh. He was a man of learning, efpe- 
 cially in divinity, and publiflied a confiderable 
 number of fermons, and other pradical works, 
 and fome pieces of controverfy -, of all which 
 Mr. Wood has given us a catalogue. Ob» 
 1714. 
 
 WILLIAM SHERIDAN, bifliop of 
 Kilmore and Ardagh. His portrait belongs to the 
 reign of William III. 
 
 EZEKIEL HOPKINS, bilhop of Der- 
 ry. See the next reign. 
 
 DIGNITARIES of the CHURCH, and 
 INFERIOR CLERGYMEN. 
 
 JOHANNES TIL LOT SON, &c. 
 
 Leiy p. Blooteling fc. large h. JJo, 
 
 JopiANNES TiLLOTSON, S. S. theologisc profef- 
 Promot. 4 for, regise majeilati a facris, decanus Cantuarien- 
 Kov. 1672. ^j3 . ^ White ad vivum delin. et fc. Zvo. The por- 
 traits of him, in his epifcopal charadter, belong to 
 the reign of William III, 
 
 JOHANNES BAR WICK, S. T. P. 
 
 S. Pauli Londinenfis decanus ; G. Vertue fc. Be* 
 fore bis ^^ Life^^ in LaWU 1721 ; 2vo^ 
 
 John 
 
Class IV. f E N G L A N D. 257 
 
 John Barwick was born in Weftmoreland,^"^^''*^ «9 
 and educated ac Sedberg fchool in Yorkiliirc, 
 where he gave many early proofs of an uncom- 
 mon capacity, and particularly diflinguifhed 
 himfelf by ading the part of Hercules, in one 
 of Seneca's tragedies. In the eighteenth year 
 of his ao;e he was ftnt to St. John's Collefj^e in 
 Cambridge^ where he prefvntly outflione all of 
 his age and Handing; and was fo remarkable 
 for his abilities, that, when he was little more 
 than twenty, he was chofen by the members of 
 his college to plead their caufe in a controvert- 
 ed eledion of a mailer, which was heard before 
 the privy*council. In the time of the Civil War, 
 he was inRrumental in fending the Cambridge 
 plate to the kin^ ; publifhed the '' Querela 
 *^ Cantabrigienfis *," in which he had the chief 
 hand ; and wrote againft the covenant. He 
 afterwards retired to London, where he under- 
 took to manage the king's correfpondence be- 
 tween that city and Oxford ; which he executed 
 with great dexterity and addrefs. He alfo car- 
 ried on a fecrct correfpondence with Charles, 
 vvhilft he was at Carifbrook-Caftle, and was, on 
 many other occafions, of fingular fervice to him. 
 He was no lefs afllduous in ferving Charles II. 
 He was a man of extraordinary fagacity, had a 
 fertile invention, an entcrprifing genius, and 
 great courage and prefence of mind. He was 
 at length betrayed by one Boftock, belonging 
 to the poft-office \ and was long confined in a 
 dungeon in the Tower. He was then far gone 
 in a confumption ; but living upon gruel and 
 vegetables, he, after fome time, recovered to a 
 miracle. Upon his enlargement, he renewed 
 his correfpondence with the king, and is faid to 
 
 • Piinted with the ** Mercurius Rufticus.** 
 
 Vol. III. S have 
 
i5S The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 have furnifhed lord Clarendon with a great part 
 of the materials for his Hiftory. He conveyed 
 money to hi^ majefty after the execution of 
 Hevvit ; and was lo de:xterous in all his convey- 
 ances, that he even eluded the vigilance of 
 Thurloe. See more of him in his " Life'^ 
 written in Latin by his brother : there are ma- 
 ny curious notes in the anonymous tranflatioa 
 of it, by Mr. Ililkiah Bedford. Oh. 22 Od. 
 1664. 
 
 RICHARD US MEGGOT, S. T. P. 
 
 decanus Wintonienfis -, Knciler p. Logganfe. large 
 
 RicHARDUS Mfggot, S. T. P. Knelkr p. 
 White fc, large h.JJj. ^ his print was afterwards co- 
 pied in ^vo. by the fame hand. It may be placed in 
 this or the next reign, 
 
 irfta^icd 9' Richard Meggor, of Qiieen's College in 
 
 oa.i67r, Cambridge, was^rcdor of St. Olave's in South- 
 wark, and vicar of Twickenham in Middlefex. 
 In 1677, he iuccceded Bruno Ryves, dean of 
 Windfor, in his canonry belonging la that 
 church ; and was, in about two years after, 
 made dean of Wincl-^eller. He was a preacher 
 of note in this rcign^ in which he publilhed fe- 
 veral occaficnal fermons. Ten of his dikourfcs 
 were printed together in 1699, oiftavo. He 
 died the 7th of Dec. 1692, and was buried in 
 the chapel at Windfor. 
 
 RADOLPHUS BATHURST, M. D. 
 
 Eccl. Calhedr. JVeilenfis decanus^ reg. maj^'. a facris^ 
 colL Trin. Pr^f et acad, Oxon, vice-cancellariuSy 
 1676 i Logganfc. h. Jh. 
 
 This is fuppofed ro have been done from 2t 
 portrait in ininiaturtv drawn by Loggan, which 
 
 he 
 
Class IV. o ir ENGLAND. 259 
 
 he left his fifler. The painting in Trinity col- 
 lege hall was done from the print. 
 
 Ralph Bathurst, Sec. copied hy JValker from 
 the preceding. It is prefixed to Mr, JVar ton's " Life'* 
 of him ^ 1761 j ^vo. 
 
 Dr. Bathurd, in the early part of his life, inftaiiedsS 
 applied himfelf to the ftudy of divinity, in which -J""^' ^^'°* 
 he made a very confiderable progrefs. But when 
 he faw that feme churches were defaced or de- 
 molifhed, and others converted into barracks 
 and ftables, and that a learned miniftry was 
 held in the utmoft contempt^ he changed the 
 courfe of his (Indies, and applied himfelf to 
 phyfic. He took a dodor's degree in that fa- 
 culty, in which he rofe to fuch eminence, that 
 he was, in the time of the Ufurpation, appoint- 
 ed phyfician to the (late. Upon the Reftor- 
 ation, he quitted his profcfTion of phyfic, was 
 eleded a fellow of the Royal Society, and pre- 
 fident of his college : and having entered into 
 holy orders, he was made chaplain to the kirig, 
 and afterwards dean of Wells. His learning and 
 talents were various : he was the orator and the 
 poet, the philofopher and the divine. He pofTefTed 
 an inexhauftible fund of wit, and was the fa- 
 cetious companionaceighty yearsofage. Ridicule 
 Was the weapon that he made ufe of to corredt 
 the delinquents of his college 5 and he was fo 
 abfolute a mailer of it, that he had it always ac 
 hand *. His poetical pieces in the " Mufas 
 
 '' An- 
 
 * Mr. Warton tells its thit he took a whip with him " when 
 «* he went our to furprife the Ccholars walking in the grove at 
 " unleafonable hours j" but that he never made ul'e of that il- 
 liberal weapon. — The following anecdote of him was told me by 
 a gentleman of charafler : A miich afs, which was keu: near his 
 college tor an invalid, who was a member of ir, happened to ifray 
 ifito the belfry, and intangling himfelf in one of thrr hell-ropes, 
 made an unulual jangling. Dr. Bathurft fent to enquire what 
 
 S z was 
 
2^0 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 ** Anglicancc" arc excellent in their kind : they" 
 are much in the fpiric of Ovid, who was his fa- 
 vourite poet. His ** Diatribne Theologicae" in 
 nianufcripr, which he began at twenty-three 
 years of age, are much commended by Mr. 
 Warton. He died greatly lamented by all thac 
 knew his worth, and particularly by the fociety 
 over which he prefided, the 14th of June, 1704, 
 in the 84th year of his age. 
 
 GEORGIUS STRADLING, S. T. P. 
 
 decanus Ciceflrienfis, prehe^jdarius JVeftmon. R, 
 White fi. Before his '* SermonSy' piiblijhed after his 
 deaths 1692 j Zvo, 
 
 inffaiied Gcorgc Stradling v^as educated at Jefus Col- 
 
 '^^^' lege in Oxford, whence he was elected a fellow 
 
 of All Souls. He continued in the univerfny 
 during the Interregnum, and was then much 
 cfteemed by Dr. Wilforr, the mufic profeflbr, 
 for his extraordinary fkill on the lute. He was, 
 upon the Reftoration, made chaplain to Dr. 
 Sheldon, bifhop of London •, and, about two 
 years after, preferred to a prebend of Wcft- 
 minfter. In 167 1, he was inilalled chantor of 
 Chichefter, and the next year dean of that 
 church. There is a fliort account of him be- 
 fore his " St:rmons," by James Harrington, cfq. 
 who gives him the character of a man of learn- 
 ing and exemplary life. Ob. 19 April, i6b8. 
 He lies buried in Well m in iler- Abbey. 
 
 was the meaning of it, and vva5 told that it was occafioned by the 
 als. ** I thought, faid he, with his ulual quicki)els, that it was 
 ** an aCti or a gentleman commoner.'' 'J his was humour as it 
 came from Dr. Llathurft; bur it was of that kind of humour 
 which by every repercuffion lolies fomething of its original torce, 
 
 R. LOVE, 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. ijSl 
 
 i^. LOVE, D. D. Dean of Ely, Mafter of 
 C. C. C. C. e/cbed by Mr. Michael Tyfon^ 4.(0. ^he 
 original is in the mafter'^s lodge, 
 
 Richard Love, a native of Cambridge, was 
 educated at Clare Hall, of which he was fome 
 time fellow. In 1632, upon the death of Dr. 
 Butts, he was, by royal mandate, admitted mat- 
 ter of CorpuS'Chrifti College, in Cambridge, 
 and, the next year, chofen vice-chancellor of 
 the univerfity. He greatly endeared himfelf to 
 that learned body, by the fignal vidory which 
 he gained over Davenport ^, at the commence- 
 ment ; and afterwards acquitted himfelf with 
 uncommon fufficiency in the courfe of his office, 
 as Lady Margaret's profefTor of divinity. He 
 was a man of good natural, as well as acquired 
 abilities j and no mean orator. His '' mode- 
 *' ration was known unto all men i" as by his 
 acquicfcence in, rather than his compliance with, 
 the changes of the times, during the civil war 
 and the ufurpation of Cromwell, he, with fm- 
 gular prudence, but without proftituting his 
 principles, not only maintained the mafterfhip 
 of his college when the majority of the heads 
 of houfes were ejedled, but fo recommended 
 himfelf to Charles II. that he, foon after the 
 Rclloration, was promoted to the deanry of Ely. inftaiM 
 He publiilied, about the fame tune, two Latin ^^p^- ^^' 
 Oration^s ; one, upon the kings return, Ipoken 
 at the commencement, in (660 -, t!ie other ad- 
 drefled to his majefty in perlon, at Canterbury, 
 when he, as fubllitute to the vice-chancellor, 
 went to meet him, on his Vi^ay to London. He 
 
 • Kis afTumed, or religious name, by which he commonly 
 went, was Fiancifcus a Snnda Clara. He had lately publiilied a 
 book, at Douay, in w'lich he attempted to reconcile tlie articles 
 of the church of England with the decrees of the council of 
 Trent. 
 
 S 3 enjoyed 
 
2.62 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 enjoyed his preferment but a few monihs, a^ 
 he deceafcd in January the next year j, 
 
 JOANNES SPENCER, S. T. P. de- 
 
 canus Elienfis, et coUegii Coj'poris Chrifti apud Canta- 
 brigienfes cujlos 5 Vcrtue fc. 1 7 27 •, h. Jh, 
 
 inftaiicd 19 This very learned author was, for his fin^ular 
 
 ^p^-»677. merit, elected mailer of Corpus Chrifti College 
 in Cambridge in \66'j ; and was afterwards pre- 
 ferred to the deanery of Ely. He publifhcd a 
 " Difcourfe upon Prodigies," together with 
 another concerning Prophecies, Lond. 1665 ; 
 8vo. His '' DifTertatio de Urim et Thummim," 
 &c. was printed at Cambridge, in 8vo. 1678. 
 But his capital work is his book " De I^egibus 
 *' Hebraforum,'* the bed edition of which was 
 publifhed by Mr. Chappelow, in two volumes 
 folio, 1727, to whicfi is prefixed his head, en- 
 graved at the expence of the fociety of Corpus 
 Chrifti College. Ob. 27 May, 1695, lEi. 63. 
 
 PETER H E Y L I N, fub-dean of Weft- 
 irjinftcr. See the divifion of the prebendaries. 
 
 GULIELMUS HOLDER, S. T. P. &c. 
 
 ^ocietatis Regia/Londinifocius^ 1683^ Z). Loggan ad 
 vivum del. h,Jh. 
 
 Dr. William Holder was educated at Pem- 
 broke Hall, in the univerfity of Cambridge. 
 About the year 1642, he was prefented to the 
 redory of Blechingdon in OxfordHiire. After 
 the Reftoration, he became canon ol" Ely, canon- 
 refidentiary of St. Paul's, and fub-dean of the 
 Chapel-Royal. He was a man of a truly phi- 
 lofophic genius, of which he has given abun- 
 
 t See a particular account of him in Maflers's " Hillory of 
 \i\ ^' V* V* 
 
 <iant; 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 2^5 
 
 dant proof in his " Elements of Speech, an Ef- 
 *' fay of Enquiry into the natural Production oF 
 ** Letters; with an Appendix concerning Per- 
 *^ fons that are deaf and dumb** His " Trea- 
 *' tife on the natural Grounds and Principles of 
 *' Harmony" is allowed to be as rational a dif- 
 courfe on that (\.ib]c6t as was ever publifhed. 
 He exacStiy knev/ the powers of the organs of 
 fpeech, and compofcd a Natural Alphabet adapt- 
 ed to thofe powers. This would be a much 
 more eligible alphabet for the Chinefe, who 
 have not yet adopted any, than that which is 
 flow in ufe. It was much controverted, whe- 
 ther the glory of firft teaching deaf and dumb 
 perfons to fpeak, and underftand a language, 
 was due to him or Dr. Wallis. The true the- 
 ory of the arc appears to have been publifhed 
 by the latter, in his book *'DeLoqueIa," which 
 came forth about fix years before Mr. Popham 
 was taught to fpeak by Dr. Holder *. Peter 
 de Ceftro, phyfician to the duke of Mantua, 
 is faid to have been the firfi: that hit upon this 
 difcovery f. 0^. 24 Jan. 1697. He lies bu- 
 ried with his wife, who was only filter to Sir 
 Chriftopher Wren, in the vault under St. Paul's 
 cathedral. See more of him in *' Athen. Oxon.*' 
 II. col. 139. 
 
 DANIEL WHITBY, was collated to the 
 praeccntorfhip of the church of Salifbury in Sep- 
 tember, 1672. His portrait, done in his old age, 
 belongs to the reign of Anne. 
 
 • Vide " Athen. Oxon." ii, col. 139. 
 
 t See the ** Univerfal Magazine" for J:in. 176Z, p. 15, et feq.— • 
 It is obvious to obf'erve here, that the firll rudiments of a nevvly- 
 difcovered art are generally io imperfect, that the improver of it 
 not only receives hir. own (hare of honour, but even that which 
 was due to the firft inventor. 
 
 S 4 JO- 
 
Z64 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 JOHANNES CON A NT, S. T. P. 
 
 l^Iac^ cap, i^c, 8r^. 
 
 Dr. John Conant was, in the time oF the In- 
 terregnum, rector of Exerer College in Oxford •, 
 where he maintained a ibicl cifcipline, ?.nd 
 caufed that fociety lo fiourifh more than aiy 
 other in the univcrfuy. In \6^A-> he was ap- 
 pointed king's profcfTor of divinity, in the room 
 of Dr. Sanderfon ; but was obliged to rtiir^n 
 the chair to him upon theRefl-oration. jn 1662, 
 he was eje(5led from his rccl:ory of Exeter Col- 
 lege for nonconformity ; but afterwards con- 
 forming, he became vicar of All Samts at Nor- 
 thampton, and was by bifhop Reynolds, wiiofe 
 daughter he had formerly married, made arch- 
 inftaiied dcacon of Norwich. He was a few years after 
 
 X'^yzntl^^* preferred to a prebend of Worcefter. He was 
 J676. a man of a modell and amiable charadlcr ; of 
 
 exemplary piery ; and was, in other refpeds, 
 well qualified for t!ie preferments which he en- 
 joyed. He particularly excelled as a preacher. 
 Several volumes of his Sermons were publifhcd 
 by bifhop Williams. Ob, March, 1693. 
 
 THOMAS HYDE, archdeacon of Glo- 
 cefter ; a hull ; Cipriani dd. F. Perry fc. Before the 
 col!e5ficn of his works publifhcd by Dr, Gregory Sharpe, 
 Oxon. iy6'], 
 
 inftaiicd Dodor Thorrias Hyde is a great charader, 
 
 \lk'\ ^"^ '^ much kfs known than he deferves to be, 
 
 becaufe the fludics in which he was occupied 
 are but little cultivated. Thofe that are acr 
 quainted with the Oriental languages are afto- 
 nifhed at the progrefs which was made in rhem 
 by one man, though aided by the powers of 
 genius, fupported and ftrengthened by incefiant 
 ;nduflry. Before he was eighteen years of age, 
 
 he 
 
 1678 9. 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 265 
 
 he was fent from Cambridge to London by the 
 celebrated Abraham Wheelock, to ariid Mr. 
 Brian Walton in the great work of the Polygloc 
 Bible; and, about that period, undertook to 
 tranfcribe the Perfian Pentateuch out of the He- 
 brew charaders, which archbilhop Ulher, who 
 well knew the difficulty of the undertaking, 
 pronounced to be an impoflible tafK to a native 
 Perfian. After he had happily fucceeded in 
 this, he afTjfted in correding feveral parts of 
 Mr. Walton's work, for which he was perfcdlly 
 qutalified. Of all his learned writings, the very 
 catalogue of which is a fingular curiofity ^, his 
 *' Reiigio veterum Perfarum" is the moft 
 celebrated. This will ever be a valuable book. 
 Dr. Gregory Sharpe, the learned and ingenious 
 mafter of the Temple, has colleded feveral of 
 his pieces, formerly printed, and rc-publiflied 
 them, with fome additional DifTcrrations and his 
 Life prefixed, in two elegant volumes in quarto. 
 Dr. Hyde was archdeacon of Gloceilcr, canon 
 of Chrifl-church, head keeper of the Bodleian 
 library, and profefTor both of Hebrew and A- 
 rabic in the univerficy of Oxford. He was in- 
 terpreter and fecretary of the Oriental languages 
 during the reigns of Charles II. James II. and 
 William III. He was perfediy qualified to fill 
 this pod, as he could convcrfe in the languages 
 which he underftood. There never was an 
 Englifhman, in his fituation of life, who made 
 fo great a progrefs in the Chincfe. Bocharr, 
 Pococke, and Hyde, are allowed to have been . 
 the greatefl Orientalifts that any age or nation 
 ever produced. OI7, Feb. 18, 1702. I am in- 
 formed by a good hand f , that his mind had 
 
 * See it in the " Athen. Oxon.'* or the " Biographia." 
 t The reverend Mr. Merrick, of Reading, whole father knevr 
 him well. 
 
 beei> 
 
265 The HISTORY Charles IT. 
 
 been fo much engrofled by his beloved [Indies, 
 that he was but ill qualified to appear to any 
 advantage in common converiation. 
 
 E D V A R D U S L A K E, S. T. P. M Van^ 
 der Gucht fc, ^vo. 
 
 Edward Eake, &:c. G. Vander Gucht fc Before 
 his ^^ Oficium EuchariHicum^'' i2mo. copied from the 
 former. — It is uncertain when the piflurc was done 
 from which his head was engraved. 
 
 Edward Lake, who had been a member of 
 both univerfuies, but took his degrees at Cam- 
 bridge, was chaplain to James, duke of York •, 
 and, as we learn from the infcription on his mo- 
 nument, he was alfo tutor and chaplain to his 
 two daughters, Mary and Anne, who after- 
 wards fat upon the throne of Great- Britain. 
 Mr. Wood informs us, that he was prebendary 
 and archdeacon of Exeter, and redor of the 
 united parifhes of St. Mary Hill and St. An- 
 drew Hubbard, in London. He was a man 
 of uncommon piety and charity, and a cele- 
 brated preacher. He died the firft of February, 
 1703-4, and lies buried in the collegiate church 
 of St. Catharine near the Tower, where a mo- 
 nument is ereded to his memory. Le Neve, 
 by midake, fays that he was buried in the church 
 of St. Mary Hill *. 
 
 MARCUS FRANCK, S. T. P. &c. 
 
 IV. Dollefc.fmallh,fh, 
 
 Mark Franck, mafter of Pembroke Hall, 
 Cambridge, and archdeacon of St. Alban's, was 
 author of fifty fermons, publifhed in folio, 1672, 
 with his print prefixed. His charader and pre- 
 ferments, except his redory of Barley, in Hcrt- 
 
 • See Le Nave's *• Fafti/' p. 93. 
 
 fori- 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 267 
 
 fordfiiire, to which he was admitted on the 2d 
 ot February, 1663, are mentioned in the follow- 
 ing infcription, which was formerly on his mo- 
 nument, near the entrance of the north door of 
 St. Paul's, but perifbed foon after its eredion, 
 together with the church, in the conflagration 
 of the city. 
 
 Hoc marmore tumulatur, 
 Doclrina, pieras, chariras, 
 Quippe monumentum illius Marci Franck, 
 S. T. D. 
 Archiepifcopo Cantuarenfi a facris, 
 Sandli Albani archidiaconi ; hujus ecclefiae the- 
 faurarii er prebendarii, 
 Cujus 
 Virtutem, humiiitatem, eloquentiam, 
 in fingulis fagacitatem, 
 Didis metiri non liceat; dicatpofteritas. 
 ^, .. (aetatis anno LI. 
 ^^^'^ifalutis MDCLXIY. 
 
 MERICUS CASAUBONUS, If. F. 
 
 {Ifaaci Ftliui) p. V^. Weyff p. Van Gunfl fc. h. Jh, 
 In the large volume of his father's and his own works \ 
 Roterodami^ 1709 *• 
 
 Meric, the learned fon of the mod learned 
 Ifaac Cafaubon, was born at Geneva in 1599^ 
 
 • T very lately faw a print of his father, which was engraved 
 by Van Gunft, after Vander WerfF; moll probably for the fame 
 volume J but it was not in the copy which I faw. His portrait 
 belongs to the reign of James I. as he was, by that prince, invit- 
 ed into England upon the death of Henry IV. of France, who 
 juftly efteemed him as a man of the firll: rank in the learned worU, 
 and made him his librarian. He was by James promoted to a 
 prebend of Canterbury. He died the iftof July, 1614, in the 
 55th year of his age, and was buried in Weftminfter-Abbey ; 
 where a tomb was ere6ted to his men^ory by Thonias Morton, 
 ^ifliop of Durham J. 
 
 I See his Epitaph in the <* Antio"itiee of Wf^inalnfler-'Abbey." 
 
 and 
 
205 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 and brought into England by his father when 
 he was about eleven years of age ^. He re- 
 ceived his education at Chrift-church in Ox- 
 ford, under Dr. lidward a Meetkirk, the king's 
 Hebrew profeflbr. Whilft he was a lludent of 
 that houle, he acquired a preat reputation at 
 home and abroad tor a " Vindication of his 
 *' Father againll an Inipoftor of the Church of 
 " Rome," who puhliHied under his name a 
 book on the Origin of idolatry. He aUo pub- 
 lilhed, by command of king Jamcs, another 
 vindication of him againft the puritans of that 
 age. Tbefe two pieces, which are in Latin, 
 v.tre the foundation of his fame. He intended 
 to purfue his father's great work againft Baro- 
 nius's *' Annals," but was prevented by the dif- 
 tractions of the civil war, wjiich interrupted the 
 courfe of his (tudies. Cromwell made him large 
 offers on condition of his writing the hiftory of 
 that tiirbulent period, which he t.housht pro- 
 per to decline. He alfo declined the advan- 
 tageous overtures made him by Chriilina queen 
 ol" Sweden, who, with a view to the advance- 
 ment of learning, was defirous of his fettling in 
 that country. He was fuccefllvely redor of 
 Bledon in Somerletfnire, and Ickham m Kent, 
 and is entitled to a place amon;:]: the dignitant-s 
 
 Trftaiicd ot our church as a prcheridarv of Canterbury. 
 
 ' ^'\ H's v,/orks in divinity and philology, particu- 
 
 larly his '* Notes on Claliic Authors," bear a 
 lurticient ttftimony to his learning and abilities j 
 but the honour vt the latter is believed to be 
 in fome mealurf owing to his father, as it is 
 more than probable that he availed himfelf of 
 his papers. What he has written concerning 
 apparitions and fpirits, and particularly his ac- 
 
 * See Battel) 's "Cant. Sacra/' p. 127. See alfo Word. 
 
 count 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 269 
 
 count of Dee and Kelly, deferves the notice of 
 the curious reader, who may fee a detail of his 
 works in the '* Athens Oxonienfes. He died 
 in July, 1671. 
 
 BENJAMIN CALAMY, S. T. P. 
 
 Drapentier fc, h. Jh. There is a large bdlf-{heet print 
 cf Calamyy with the name of Henry Finch ^ dean of 
 Tork^ prefixed, 
 
 Benjamin Calamy, D. D. I. V. P. E, D. C 
 /. £t exc, ^to. mezz* 
 
 Benjamin Calamy, S. T. P. M, Vandergucht 
 fc. ^vo. Before his 'volume of " Sermons,"*' 
 
 Benjamin Calamy, chaplain in ordinary to'"^'^"^^' 
 the king, and prebendary of St. Paul's, was ^685/ ' 
 fon of the famous Edmund Calamy, formerly 
 mentioned, by a fecond wife. In 1677, lie 
 fucceeded Dr. Simon Ford as minifler of St. 
 Mary Aldermanbury in London, of which 
 church his father was formerly minider. In 
 1683, he was preferred to the vicarage of St. 
 J^aurence Jewry, with St. Mary Magdalen, 
 Milk-Streer, annexed. Though he was of a 
 nonconforming family, he was a true fon of the 
 church of England, and one of her mofl: dii- • 
 tinguilhed ornaments. He was courteous and 
 affable in his behaviour, exemplary in his life, 
 and one of the befl preachers and writers of his 
 time. Lie has left us but few fermons ; but 
 thefe few are an abundant proof that he pofTeffed 
 that ftrrngth and clearnefs of head, as well as 
 goodnefs and fenfibility of heart, which are ef- 
 fential to the charader of a Chrillian orator. 
 He died, to the regret cf all that knew him, in 
 January, 1686. 
 
 fiDWARD 
 
270 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 EDWARD P O C O C K E, D. D. Sec. 
 
 fV, Green del. F. More lion la Cave fc. h. fb. — En- 
 graved from his portrait in the pidure gallery ac 
 Oxford. 
 
 ReftoreJto Dr. Edward Pococke, canon of Chrifl-church 
 
 hiscanonry \^ Oxford, and re(5lor of Childrey in Berkfhire, 
 ^660! ' in the reigns of Charles I. and II. was the great- 
 
 eft Orientalift of his age. He acquired an early 
 reputation at home and abroad, by publifhing 
 the four epiftles which were wanting to a com- 
 plete edition of the New Tellament in the Sy- 
 riac language *. He made two voyages into 
 the Eaft, where he attained to a perfedt know- 
 ledge of the Arabic tongue, which he fpoke 
 with fluency and propriety. He coUeded a 
 confiderable number of coins and manufcripts 
 for archbifhop Laud, and returned to England 
 from his fecond voyage in 1640, 
 
 ^^Spoliis Orientis onuftus 
 
 He was the firft that read the Arabic le6lurc 
 
 founded by his patron the archbifhop f : he 
 
 was alfo profeflbr of Hebrew ; and difcharged 
 
 the duties of both thefe employm^ents with great 
 
 punduality and fufficiency. He was ejcded 
 
 from his canonry of Chrift-church for not tak* 
 
 jng the Engagement ; and was fucceeded by 
 
 Peter French, brother-in-law to Cromwell. 
 
 He was very near being ejeded from his living 
 
 of Childrey for *' ignorance and infuiticiency •,'* 
 
 but Dr. Owen, the learned Independent, intc-* 
 
 refted himfelf in his behalf, and prevented his 
 
 ejeflment. He tranflated feveral books out of 
 
 • Thefe epiftles were the fecond of Peter, the fecond and third 
 of John, 311(1 tliat of Jude. 
 
 t Vk'hcn Pococke was in the Eaft, the mufti of Aleppo laid his 
 hand i\non h'u head, and faid, *' This yoimc; man fpeaks and un- 
 derilaiids Aiabiw as weil as the multi of " Aleppo," 
 
 I the 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. ^1i 
 
 the Arabic, and Grotius " Of the Truth of the 
 " Chriftian Religion," into that language. He 
 was not only a mailer of Hebrew, Arabic, 
 Syriac, Greek, and Latin, but was alfo well ac- 
 quainted with the Perfic, Samaritan, j^thiopic, 
 Coptic, and Turkifli languages : he underftood 
 the Italian, and was not ignorant of the Spanifh. 
 O^. lo Sept. 1691, jEt.%j, His Commenta- 
 ries on Micah, Malachi, Hofea, and Joel, to- 
 gether with his " Porta Mofis," were publidied 
 in two volumes folio, in 1740, by Mr. Leonard 
 Twells, with the head and life of the author 
 prefixed +, 
 
 RICHARDUS ALLESTRY, S. S. 
 T. profefTor reg. Oxon. asdis Chrifti canonicus, 
 coll. ^tonenfis praspofitus reg. majeftati a facris ^ 
 hoggan ad vivum delin, h, Jh, 
 
 Richard Allestry, D. D. In the fame print 
 with his two friends^ bijhop Bolben and bijhop FelL 
 The original pi^ure was painted by Lely, 
 
 It is remarkable that this worthy triumvirate 
 bore arms for Charles I. in the civil war. 
 
 Dodor Alleftry was educated in the gram- 
 mar-lchool at Coventry, under Dr. Philemon 
 Holland the tranjlator^ and afterwards at Chrift- 
 church in Oxford, under Mr. Richard Bufby, 
 who was then an eminent tutor. His parts, 
 which were very extraordinary, were improved 
 b-y a no lefs extraordinary indullry. Pic had 
 
 t Samuel Clarke, a native of Brackley in Northamptonftiire, 
 and fome time of Merton College in Oxford, was contemporary 
 with Pococke, and in the next eminence to him for Oriental 
 Teaming. He was the firft architypographus of the univerfity, to^^ 
 which was annexed the office of fupenor beadle of law. He held 
 both thefe employments upwards of ten years, and was poifefTed 
 C)f rhem till the time of his death, which happened on the 27th' 
 of December, 1669, His portrait is in the gallery at Oxford. See 
 particulars in *< Athen. Oxon." vol. ii. coi. 4.56', &c. 
 
 been 
 
27^ The history Charles II*' 
 
 been Teen, when he bore arms for Charles I. ta 
 carry his mufket in one hand, and his book in 
 the other. He was very a6live in the fervice of 
 Charles II. before his reftoration j and was 
 employed more than once by the royalifts in 
 tranlad:ing bufinefs with that prince during his 
 exile. In 1660, he was made a canon of Chrift-^ 
 church, and chaplain in ordinary to the king i 
 and was, foon after, appointed regius profefTor 
 of divinity. He fat in the chair feventeen years, 
 and acquitted himfelf in it with honour. In 
 1665, he was appointed provoft of Eton Col- 
 lege, where he railed the fchool, which he found 
 in a low condition, to an uncommon pitch of 
 reputation. The weft fide of the outward qua- 
 drangle of that college was built from the ground 
 at his expence. The excellent Dr. Hammond, 
 who was his intimate friend, left him his valu- 
 able library, which he bequeathed himfelf to his 
 fucceflbrs in the divinity chair. His eagernefs 
 for ftudy, and his intention of mind while he 
 was employed in it, was {o great, that it im- 
 paired his conftitution, and haftened his death* 
 He died Jan. 27, 1680-1. Forty of his fer- 
 mons, to which his head is prefixed, were pub- 
 lifhed by bifliop Fell. His Life, before his 
 Sermons, contain Ibme particulars well worth 
 the reader's notice. 
 
 ROBERT SOUTH, canon of Chriil- 
 church, was an eminent preacher at court, and 
 the fcourge of fanaticifm, in this reign. Some of 
 his contemporaries could not even read his fer- 
 mons with a fafe conlcience ; as elegance of ftyle 
 in divinity was, in their eltimation, fcarce a 1;^^/ 
 crime y but v/it was a mortal fin. His portrait be- 
 longs to the reign of William III. 
 
 EZEKIAS 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 27JJ 
 
 E 2 E K I A S BURTON, S. T. P. canoni- 
 cus Norvicenfis : M. Bealep, R. IVbite fc. Before 
 his Sermons^ 1684 j 81;^. 
 
 Hezekiah Burton, fellow of Magdalen col- 
 lege in Cambridge, and an eminent tutor there, 
 was, for his fingular merit, made chaplain to 
 the lord-keeper Bridgeman in 1667, and the 
 fame year prefented by him to a prebend of Nor- 
 wich. In the beginning of the year 1668, a 
 treaty was propofed by the lord-keeper, for a 
 comprehenfion of fome of the difienters, and a 
 toleration of others. Dr. Tiilotfon, Dr Stil- 
 lingfleet, Dr. Burton, and the lord chief-baron 
 Hale, were very defirous of an accommodation ; 
 and ready to do every thing to promote it, if it 
 could be done v;ithoL^t betraying the interefts of 
 the church. But this fcheme met v/ith fuch 
 powerful oppofition, that the debates upon the 
 terms of union were prefently concluded. Dr. 
 Burton, who was a man of great prudence, mo- 
 deration, and fweernefs of temper, was fnatched 
 from the world when he was capable of doing 
 mod: good in it ; and when his inceffant labours 
 and exemplary piety promifed a great deal. His 
 friend Dr. Tillotfon, who well knew the worth 
 of the man and the value of his writings, pub- 
 lilhed two volumes of his difcourf.'s *. Thefe, 
 though never intended for the public, and con- 
 fequently not fo perfedl as if he had put his lall 
 hand to them, give us a high idea of the piety, 
 and no m.ean one of the abilities of the author. 
 Ob. 1 68 1. See more of him in the preface to 
 the firft: volume of his " Difcourfes," and in 
 Birch's « Life of Dr. Tillotfon f." 
 
 THO- 
 
 • The only thing that he ever publiflied himfelf was the Free 
 face to Dr. Cumberland's book of the " Laws of Nature." 
 
 f I am very credibly informsd, that there is » print of « per- 
 
 Vol. III. T 4ei» 
 
274 
 
 The history Charles II. 
 
 THOMAS FULLER, S. T. D. ^t. 
 
 53, 1661 ; D. Loggan fc. Over his herd is this 
 motto ' Mel hod us Mater Memor'ne i" underneath are 
 tbej( verjes : 
 
 " The graver here hath well thy face defigned, 
 " But no hand Fuller can exprcb thy mind j 
 *' For that a refurredlion gives to tho'e 
 ** V/hom filent monuments did long enclofc." 
 
 Before his " HiJJory of the f-Forthies of England^'* 
 1662 i foL 
 
 I am informed that the bed ImprefTions arc 
 before his '^ Fifeah Sioht." 
 
 Cellared He is placed here as a prebendary of the ca- 
 
 \l]V^' thed.al church of Salilbury. See the reign of 
 Charles L 
 
 JOS. G L A N V I L L, &c. qui vehiculum 
 mutavit quarto die Novemb. 1680 "^. /^- Fait home 
 f. Bfore his '-^ DifcourfeSj Sermons,'' i^c, 1681; 
 
 It appears from the infcription on his monu- 
 ment ihat he was a prebendary of VVorcefter, 
 
 J^^feph Glanvill, redor of Bath, chaplain to 
 Charles il. and F. R S. was a man of good 
 natural and acquired abilities, and of confider- 
 ablc eminence as a divine and philofopher. He 
 was author of *' Elfays on ieveral important 
 " Sub'jcds, in Phiioluphy and Religion;" "An 
 *' EfTay concerning Preaching," &c. &c. He 
 
 fon infcribed *' Anthonins Sanderu3." QuTie, if Anthor,y 
 Saunders, who was chancellor oF bt. Paul's in Loudon, and rec- 
 tor of A6Von in Mi-diefex. See Wood's " Faiti," ii. col. 189, 
 207. He was living in 1700. 
 
 • The date of his death on this print, which agrees with that 
 on his monument in the abhev-church of Bath, fcrvcs to icilify 
 a miftaki.- of Mr. Wood, who informs us thai he died on the 4th 
 of 0(5lober. 
 
 has, 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 275 
 
 has, in his " Plus Ulrra," which is the fcarceft 
 and mod eftimable of his works, pointed out 
 the dilcoveries in the new world of fciencc, by 
 the light of reafon and experiment. In his " Sa- 
 *' ducifmus Triumphatus," he has endeavoured 
 to difcover the fecret tranfadions of the king- 
 dom of darknefs ; and has brought variety of 
 arguments, and a large colledion of relations, 
 to prove the real exiflence of witches and ap- 
 paritions ^. He wrote in defence of the Royal 
 Society, and the new philofophy, againft Dr. 
 Henry ScLibbe, a man of parts and learning, 
 but pofitive, arrogant, and. dogmatical ; and 
 extremely averfe from the belief of any truths, 
 but fuch as were familiar to himfelf. 
 
 JOHANNES LIGHTFOOT, S. T. P. 
 
 &c. R, IVbiu fc. h,Jh. 
 
 John Lightfoot, who v/as educated at Chrift's 
 college in Cambridge, was firft engaged in the 
 ftudy of rabbinical learnincr, by the perfuafion 
 and example of fir Rowland Cotton, who greatly 
 afilfted him in the Hebrew. He was, by ihis 
 oentleman, to whom he dedicated the firft fruits 
 of his ftudies, prefented to the redory of Afliiey 
 in Staffordfhire. Here he applied himfelf for 
 twelve years to fearching the Scriptures ; and 
 the world was foon after informed that his re- 
 fearches were to fome purpofe, by the books 
 that he publifhed, which are fo many proofs of 
 his induilry, learning, and judgment. He was 
 afterwards chofen minider of St. Bartholomew's 
 behind the Exchange, and a member of the af- 
 
 • Beavimont, in his ** Treatife of Spirits, Apparitions, Witch-. 
 craft," &c. has v«^rirten on the fame fide with Glanviil. The reader 
 may fee a colietfion of arguments and relntions on the other fid^ 
 of the queltion, in Scot's •* Difcovery of Witchcraft," and V'/eb- 
 fter*s " PJfplay ol'fuppofed Witchcraft.'' 
 
 T 2 fembly 
 
276 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 fembly of divines which fat at Weftminftcr-, and 
 was preferred by the parliament vifitors to the 
 mafterfhip of Catharine hall in Cambridge. He 
 offered to refign his mallerfhip at the Reftora- 
 tion, but it was not accepred ; and he had foon 
 ftfter a confirmation of that and his benefice 
 from the king. The lord-keeper Bridgeman, 
 who profeflcd a great efteem for him, prefented 
 jnftaiied him to a prebend in the church of Ely §. His 
 
 1667.^' ** Horas Hebraicas'* is efteemed his mod valu- 
 
 able work. His llyle is not good : it is pro- 
 bable that he paid but little attention to it. His 
 greateft excellence was criticifm. His works, 
 which rendered his name famous throucrhouc 
 Europe, are in three volumes folio ^, befides 
 his *' Remains." Ok Dec. 6, 1675 f^ 
 
 Dr. HUMPREY GOWER, mailer of 
 St. John's college in Cambridge, and prebendary 
 of Ely. His portrait, done in his old age, belongs 
 to the reign of Anne. 
 
 EDiMUN- 
 
 § " Biographia," p. 29? 5. 
 
 * The edition here meant is that publiflied by J. LeufJen at 
 Utrecht, 1699. 
 
 f He was ibcceeded in the mallejdiip of Catharine hall by Dr. 
 John Eacliard, author of a noted piece of drollery entitled, "The 
 *• Grounds and Occnlions cf the Contempt of the Clergy and Re- 
 •' lic'ion enquired into, in a Letter written to R. L." This 
 pamphlet, whioh was publilhcd without tlic author's name, made 
 a I'jreat noife in the world, and was loon anfwcred bj'' feveral 
 clergymen. The *' Letter to R. L.'' and the '* Dialogue betwixt 
 " Philautus ami TiTuothy," -on Hobbes's *♦ State of Nature," are 
 the molf conlidcrable of this author's works, which have been 
 evidently Hudi^d by Dr. Swift if. It hath be(.n laid of him, that 
 he had no l:)l;;nt at all foi' fcrijus luhi(.d^3. 
 
 The celehiiited Mr. liaker, oi' Sr. John's college, in Cam- 
 bridge, m a hhmk leaf oi his copy of Di: Eachard's *• Letter on 
 " the Contemi-t of the Clergy," obferves, that he went to St. 
 Mary's witli gi eat expectation 10 hear him preach, but was never 
 more difappointed. It has been laid, that he took, the initances 
 of abfuidity and nonfcnle in this Ittter, from his father's fcrmons. 
 
 Echard 
 
 t His works hav- bren lately rfprintfd, wiih an additional pamphltt, by 
 Thuuius D-vics, in Kuilcl-ftrtct, Covcm-g^nicn. 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND; 
 
 277 
 
 EDMUNDUS CASTELLUS, S. T. P. 
 
 ecclefias Chrifti Cantuarienfis, canonicusj, &:fc. 
 Mt, 63, Anno 1669 -, Fait home p. et fc, large h»Jh. 
 
 Dr. Edmund Caftle, who had been many infiaiied 
 years a member of Emmanuel college in Cam- g^^j^jj^T^^^ 
 bridge, was, in his advanced age, admitted intoQ^^re- 
 St. John's in that univerfity. In 1666, he was 
 chofen Arabic profeflbr; to which preferment 
 he was entitled by his merit as an Orientalill. 
 He had feveral years before, given very eminent 
 proofs of his abilities in the laborious work of 
 the Polyglot, which he revifed and corre6led, 
 A great part of his life was fpent in compiling 
 his " Lexicon Heptaglotton," on which he be- 
 llowtrd incredible pains and expence, even to 
 the breaking of his conftitution, and exhauft- 
 ing his fortune -f . At length, when it was print- 
 ed, the copies remained unfold upon his hands. 
 He died in 1685, and lies buried in the church 
 of Higham Gobyon, in Bedford (hire, of which 
 parifh he was redor. It appears from the in- 
 Icription on his monument, which he eredled in 
 his life-time, that he was chaplain to Charles II. 
 He bequeathed all his Oriental manufcripts to 
 the univerfity library at Cambridge, on condi- 
 tion that his name (liould be writren on every 
 copy in the collc6lion. See more of him at the 
 end of *' Thomas de Elmham," publiQied by 
 Hearne, p. ^^^^ 427, and in '' Lelandi Collec- 
 
 Echard the hiftorian tells us §, that he wa? too nearly rehred to 
 him to give him his jiift charafter without lufoicion of par- 
 tiality. 
 
 X It appears from Le Neve's '« Faftl," that Dr, C.i^J.e w.is pre- 
 bciuiary of llie eiglul) Hail in the cathedral churcli of Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 f He expended no Icfs than ia,oool. upon that v/ork. 
 
 ^ P. 922, edit. J720. It i? obfervaiile that Liursnce Echard d:ftVrtfii 
 frQoi Jonn in the fpelling of his r.am.'. 
 
 T 3 » ranca," 
 
W?8 The HISTORY CharlesII, 
 
 ** tanea,*' by the fame editor, vol. vi. p. 80 5 
 alio in Dr. Fococke's " Life/* fol. p. 50, Notes, 
 and p. 66. 
 
 See an account of Dr. Ralph Codworth, and 
 Dr. Jof. Beaumont, lower down in this clafs : 
 the former was prebendary ot Gloceftcr, the 
 latter of Ely. 
 
 P E T R U S H E Y L I N, S. T. P. ecclefi^e 
 CQllcgiatas Sancfli Petri Wellmonafterienfis canoni- 
 cus. Alar tyri et fuperjiiti Car olis^ patri ac filio^Mag- 
 nt€ Britannijc. zffc, tnonarchis^ clum viveret^ a facris. 
 Before kis *' Hiftcrical and Mifcellaneous ^ratls^* 
 1681 •, /J. 
 
 inftaiicd Peter Heylin was educated at Magdalen col- 
 
 Nov^'o'^,^^^' lege in Oxford, where he applied himfelf early to 
 ?63i. the ftudy of cofmography, and read a courfe 
 
 of lectures in that fcience, from which he in a 
 great meafure compofed his " Microcolm, or 
 little Defcription of the great V/orld •," which 
 was twice printed in fmall quarto, in the reign 
 of James I. This book, which was afterwards 
 enlarged, was the foundation of his fame as an 
 author, and the work to which he put his hit 
 hand, when his eyes failed him. It has been 
 often reprinted, and has more merit than any 
 of his compilanons. His " Iriiftory of St. 
 ^' George" recommended him to Charles 1. 
 who, foon afrer he prtfented it to him, prefer- 
 red him to a pit bend of Weflminrter, and to 
 the redlory of Houghton in the bifliupric of 
 Durham. He was ejedled from his prebend 
 and other preferments in the time of tfie civil 
 war. He, like James Plowe), fupported him- 
 felf by his pen ; and he appears, by the number 
 and bulk of his books, to have kept pace at 
 leafl: with that author in writing. He even con- 
 tinued 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 279 
 
 tinued to publiOi when he could no longer fee 
 to write ; and retained an amannenfis to the time 
 of his death. He was much in favour with 
 archbilhop Laud, and didmguifhed himt"::i: in 
 the controverfy between that prelate and a'ch- 
 bifliop Williams, concernino; the placing of ihe 
 altar. It appears, from the infcription on his 
 monument in WeJlminfter Abbey, that he was 
 fuhdcan to that church ; which vvas the highell 
 preferment he enjoyed, though he (hongly ex- 
 pelled a biiliopric. His knowledge in hiftory 
 and divinity was extenfive ; but he wrote with 
 more eafe than elegance, and his memory, 
 which was very extraordinary, was better than 
 his judgment. He is not free from the leaven 
 and acrmiony of party-prejudice*. The gene- 
 rality of his writings are \n no great ei^eern at 
 prefcnr ♦, but his " Help to Hiftory," which is 
 a work of great utility, deferves particular com- 
 mendation. Some ot the bcft of his pieces are 
 in the colleflion of hiftoricai and mifcelianeous 
 tracts above-mentioned f. O^. 8 May, i66>J. 
 
 • Dr. Glocefter Ridley, in his " Second Letter to the Autnor 
 ** of the Conteliional," p. 179, fpeaks thus of him : ** DoubOefs 
 ** he was bialVeJ and warm to a degree, wi)ich. notwithftanding 
 ** the dreadful provocations that he aiid jiis parry underwent, 
 " was very blameable ; bur I know not that he niifrcinclented 
 " things deliberately and wilfully. " 
 
 •f- His " Iliftoria Quinquarticularls" is among theli traits. It 
 relates to the quinqnarticular controverfy, wliich wts warmly 
 agitated in this aiid the preceding reign. It turned upon the 
 five points, which were the grand lubjeit of debate betwixt tlie 
 Calvinifts and Arniini-ins ; namely, the eterml decrees; fiee- 
 will ; grr^ce and converlion ; the extent of Chrill's .>edemption 
 and univerfal grace ; and the prefeverance of thp l^ints. Lim- 
 borch's " Theologia C^hrilliana," founded on the Arminiati 
 fcheme, and tranflated iutu aimoll every language of Europe, iiad 
 a great effect toward'^ purling an end to this controverfy. Dean 
 Swift's judgment on Hcylin's ♦' Hilt, of the Preibyteni.ns'' is juft 
 pubiiHied, in a fmall p^mpnlet called an Appendix to Ins Works. 
 
 X See Wood.— Thr r"-nuaph on Dv. Heyliii, which m a ^^ood 
 compofition, was written by Dr. John Earle, th-u dean of Well- 
 miniter ||. 
 
 11 Vide *' H-ft. ct Antiq. Univ, Oxon,*' p. 205, ic6. 
 
 T 4 RI^ 
 
ptKs, The history Charles II. 
 
 RICHARD BUSBY, prebendary of W^rft- 
 ininfter. His portrait belongs to the reign of Wil- 
 liam III. 
 
 GULIELMUS OUTRAMUS, S. 
 
 T. P. ecclefiae Sti. Petri apud Wtrftmonaftttrienfes 
 canonicus (prebendarius) ; R. White fc, >ivo. Be- 
 fore bis ■ " twenty Sermons, puhUjhcd Jrom the Au- 
 <* tier's own Copies^ by the Revd. Dr. James Gardiner, 
 *' now Lord BiJJjop of Lincoln'' 1697 \ hvo, 
 
 inftaiici Dr. Owtrani was a man of great induftry, 
 
 2670?°' charily, and piety, and an excellent preacner. 
 
 Mr. Baxter fpeaks of him as one of the bed and 
 abled of the conformifts^. indeed fuch was 
 his moderation, that men of all peiTuafions fpoke 
 well of him. Dr. Gardiner tells us, that he 
 never could be prevailed with, either by the in- 
 treaty of his friends or the authority of his fu- 
 "pericr?, to publilh any of his fermons. The 
 five printed under his name are not genuine. 
 He was famous for his knowledge in almofl all 
 kinds of fcience, particularly in rabbinical learn- 
 ing; of which he has given eminent proof in 
 his book " De SacrifiCiis," &c. Ob. 23 Aug. 
 1679, ^^' 54* ^^^ ^^'^^ buried in Weitminfter 
 Abbey. 
 
 T H O. BARLOW, S. 8. Theol. Dr. col. 
 reg. pr3c:)ofitus, et pro D. Mar^areta S. S. thcol. 
 profeffor puhlicus^ 0>ion. 1672 ; Z). Lcggan ad zn- 
 %'umfc. h,fh. 
 
 See an account of him among the bifliops in 
 the next reign. 
 
 1677. TIMOTHY H A L T O N fucceeded Dr. 
 
 Bariov/ in the provolllliip of Queen's College in 
 
 • **Life," partiii. p 19. 
 
 Oxford, 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 2S1 
 
 Oxford. His portrait belongs to the reign of 
 William III. 
 
 I S A A C U S BARROW, S. T. P. reg. 
 
 Mati. a facris, coll. S. S. Trini. Cantab, prsfec. 
 nee non acad. ejufdern procanc. 1676; Loggan 
 delin. Before his Englijh wcrks^ foL This print has 
 heen copied in fmall ^vo. by the fame engraver^ and 
 filfo by M. Vander Gucht^ and Lud. Du Guernier *. 
 
 The name of Dr. Barrow will ever be illuf- 
 InftrioLis for a flrength of mind and a compafs 
 of knowledge that did honour to his country. 
 He was unrivalled in mathematical learning, 
 and cfpecially in the fublime geometry ; in 
 which he has been excelled only by one man, 
 ^nd that man was his pupil +. The fame ge- 
 nius that feemed to be born only to bring hid- 
 den truths to light, to rife to the heights, or 
 defcend to the depths of fcience, could fome- 
 times amufe itfelf in the flowery paths of poetry J. 
 He at length gave himfelf up entirely to divini- 
 ty *, and particularly to the mod ufeful part of 
 it, that which has a tendency to make men 
 wifer and better. He has, in his excellent fer- 
 mons on the Creed, folved every difficulty, and 
 removed every obilacle that oppofed itfelf to 
 our faith, and made divine revelation as clear 
 as the demonftrations in his own " Euclid." 
 
 * Dr> Barrow would never confent to have his pjfture drawn ; 
 but Mrs. Mary Beale drew it by (tealtii, while fome of his friends 
 held him in difcourfe. This portrait was in the colle6tion of James 
 Well, efq. See Abraham Hill's '* Life of Dr. Barrow," prefixed 
 to his works, four pages from the end. The biographer, who 
 was the do6tor's intimare friend, fays, that " his pi6ture was 
 *' never made from the life." Hence I took the liberty to omit 
 ** ttd'vi'vum" after " Lo^gariy'' m the firft edition of this work. 
 It is however poffible, that the engraver might alfo have ftolen 
 his likenefs. 
 
 t Sir Kaac Newton. 
 
 j He compofed verfes both in Greek and Latin. 
 
 He 
 
i%i The history Charles II. 
 
 He was famous for the length § as well as the 
 excellence of his fermons. He knew not how 
 to leave off writing till he had cxhaufted his 
 lubje6t; and if his life had been prolonged to 
 feventy years, he might perhaps have gone as 
 far towards cxhaufling fcience itfelf as ever man 
 did |. This excellent perfon, who was a bright 
 example of Chriftian virtue, as well as a prodi- 
 gy of learning, died the 4th of May, 1677, in 
 the 47th year of his age. His Englilh and La- 
 tin works arc in four volumes folio. 
 
 R. CUD WORTH, D. D, Loggan del 
 
 1684-, G. Vertue jc. 'bvo. 
 
 Dr. Ralph Cudworth, who held the fame 
 rank in meCciphyfics that Dr. Barrov; did in the 
 fublime geometry, was, in the former part of 
 his life, a very eminent tutor at Emmanuel col- 
 lege in Cambridge, where he entered at thir- 
 teen years of age. He had no lefs than twenty- 
 eight pupils at one time under his care, among 
 whom vv^as Mr. William Temple *. He wasaf- 
 j«45, terwards appointed mafler of Clare hall -f, 
 
 where he had a (hare in the education of Mr. 
 
 § He was three liours and a Iia'f in preaching his nHmirable 
 fernion on " 7"he Duty and Reward of Bounty to rhe Poor." It 
 luuft be acknowle<lgcd that this ciilcourle was too long for the 
 pulpit: Dr. Banow did not confider t>.at the vtry onportunities 
 of doing good might be lot\ whUit wc are attending to the rales 
 of it, ri)e ITe cT man is too Ihort fir ii;ch long Icrnions. 
 
 I The reader will he ildighted wi'h h.is copious and rxa»5f de- 
 fcDption of wit, in the lei nun upon '♦ toolilli Talking nnd Jelt- 
 *' iiifj." 1 his a'one is a 'luil^cient ipetimcn q\ ids marvellous 
 talent for exhaullins: his fubjc^ Such were his richnefs of 
 tlioMfrht and copiou nefs of t-xorcfTion, upon tlie conimoii bufinefs 
 of- htc:, that no two of the Icticis. ili.il he wrote to iolicii couiri- 
 bu'ions for IVjtrjry c()llci;e library are aiike|{, 
 
 f Afterwards cie-itti! a baronet. 
 
 f In u'!;4. he was picicrred lo the mallcrfliip of Chrift's col- 
 lege. 
 
 U Thcfe letters are depofitcd in the library. 
 
 Joha 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. aSj 
 
 John Tillotfon. He had the courage to ftem 
 the torrent of irrcllgion and atheifm that pre- 
 vailed in the reign of Charles 11. by publidiing 
 his " True Intciledual Syllcm •," a book well 
 known for the excellence of its reafoning, and 
 the variety of his learning. He undcrltood the 
 Oriental iaiiguages ;]:, and was an exa(5t critic ia 
 the Greek and Latin. He was a good antiquary, 
 mathematician, and philoiophcr ; and was fu- 
 perior to all his contemporaries in metaphyfics. 
 He was father to the learned and accornplilhed 
 lady Maiham, of Cues \n Effcx, in v/hofe 
 houfe Mr. Locke fpc-nt the laft tourteen years of 
 his life. This learned and pious man died June 
 26, 1688, in the yiil year of his age. 
 
 BENJAMIN WHICHCOT, S. S. T. P. 
 
 White fc, %vo. Before the firji volume of his ''^ Dif- 
 ♦^ CQurJes.'^ 
 
 An original pidlure of him is in the pofTcnion 
 of my ingenious and very worthy friend, the 
 reverend Mr. Bagfhaw, minifter of Bromley, in 
 Kent. 
 
 Pr. Whichcot, when he was about thirty-five 
 years of age, was made provolt ot King's col- 1644. 
 lege in Cambridge, of whi' h he was a prudent 
 and vigilant governor. He was afterwards fuc- 
 cefTivtiy minifter of Black Friars and St. Lau- 
 rence Jewry in London, where he was univer- 
 fally beloved and reipeded as a parifh pried. 
 He was a man of great moderation and fwcet- 
 nefs ot temper, riis notions of religion were 
 like his chanty, exalted and diffjfive, and never 
 limited by the narrow prejudices of feds and 
 parties. He was much difgulted with the dry- 
 
 X f^e, in 1645, fucceeded Dr. Metcalf as regius profeffjr of 
 Hebrew. 
 
 nefs 
 
2^4 ' The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 nefs and foolidinefs of preaching that prevailed 
 in his time, and encouraged the young ftudents 
 of his colleo-e to form thenilelves after the bed 
 models of Greece and Rome. He was indeed 
 himfclf an example of plain and unaffeded 
 eloquence, as well as of fincerc piety. Mr. 
 Baxter numbers him with the '' bed and ableftof 
 " the conformiRs "^;" and another author fpeaks 
 of Chillingworth, Cud worth, and Whichcot, as 
 " men of manly thought, generous minds, and 
 •'incomparable learnmg |." He died at the 
 houfe of Dr. Cudworth, m after of Chrifl's col- 
 lege, in May, 1683, in the 74th year of his 
 age. His funeral fermon was preached by Dv. 
 Tillotfon, who, though his friend, is guilty of 
 no exaggeration in his charader. The firfl: vo- 
 lume of his ''Difcourfes" was publifhed, with 
 a preface, by Anthony, earl of Shaftefbury, 
 author of the '' Charadteriftics ;" the three next 
 by Dr. John Jeftery, achdeacon of Norwich ; 
 and the laft by Dr. Samuel Clarke. He was 
 a confiderable benefactor to the univerfity of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Dr. JOSEPH BEAUMONT, late the 
 king's profefTor of divinity, and mafter of St. Pe- 
 ter's college in Cambridge •, R. M^hite fc. Fron- 
 tifpiece to his ^' Pfychcy^ foL 
 
 Dr. Jofeph Beaumont fucceeded Dr. Pearfon 
 in the maRerfhip of Jefus college in Cambridge 
 in 1662 ; and was, within two years afterwards, 
 appointed mafter of Peter-houfe. In 1675, he 
 was preferred to the chair of ^c^?,ius profefibr of 
 divinity, in which he fat many years with great 
 
 • ** Life of Baxrer/' part ili. p. 19. 
 
 + T'ne ingenious authof of a *' Dialogue on the Ufes of Foreign 
 ?5 Travel, addrellcd to Lord Molerworil)/' 1764., 8vo. p. 178. 
 
 reputation, 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 285 
 
 reputation. He was author of " Pfyche, or 
 *' Love's Myftery, in twenty-four Cantos, dif- 
 " playing the Intercourfe betwixt Chrift and the 
 *' Soul.". This allegorical poem was not with- 
 out its admirers in the lad age. Giles Jacob 
 calls it an invaluable work. The f<:^cond edition 
 of it was printed in 1702. Dr. Beaumont alfo 
 wrote " Obfervations upon the Apology of Dr. 
 '* Henry More," Camb. 1685-, 4:0. A con- 
 fiderable number of his poems, &:c. were pub- 
 liihed in quarto, by fubfcription, in 1749, with 
 the life of tlie author prefixed. He died in 
 1699, in the 84th year of his age. He is, in 
 his epitaph in the antichapel at Peter-houfe, 
 ftyled, '' Poeta, Orator, Theologus prasftan- 
 ''tiJimus; quovis nomine H^reticorum Mal- 
 *' lens, et Veritatis.Vindex." 
 
 JOHANNES WALLIS, S. T. D. geo- 
 
 metriae profefTor Savilianus, Oxoni^e ; Faithorne 
 delin. et fc. 1688. Before his " Mechanical Jive de 
 « Motu^'' 1670 ; ^to. 
 
 Johannes Wallis, S. T. P. geometrise pro- 
 feflbr Savilianus, Oxon. reg. ma^'. a facris, Rega- 
 iis Societatis Lond. Ibdalis j Loggan advivum delin. 
 1678 •, h,Jlj» 
 
 There is a niezzotinto of him, by Faber, 
 which I omit to dcfcribe here, as the original 
 picture was painted in the reign of William 
 III*. 
 
 Dr. John Wallis was born at Afliford in 
 Kent, of which pariOi his father was minifter. 
 After learning a litcle arithmetic of his brother, 
 he made his way in the mathem,atics by the 
 
 • Some col]ei5lors place all their prints of the fame perfon to- 
 gether, though eii°[raved from origir.rJs painted in different 
 reigns, 
 
 force 
 
i8<5 The ills TORY Charles 11. 
 
 forcr of a gtnius which feemed to be defigned 
 by nature for this branch of fcience, and thac 
 was equal to every thing to which it was ap- 
 plied. He was not content with treading in the 
 footfteps of oihcr matfiematicians, but in fcve- 
 ral inftances went beyond them -, and is by Mr. 
 Glanvill ranked with Vieta and Des Cartes, who 
 are of the firll clals of difcoverers in mathema- 
 tical knowledge*. He invented the method 
 for meafuring all kinds of curves, and was 
 thought to have gone nearer than any other man 
 towards fq^uaring the circle^ which he has de- 
 monftrated to be impolTible. He greatly im- 
 proved decimal arithmetic, and was the firfl that 
 reduced a fradion, by a continued divifion, to 
 an infinite feries ; which feries was afterwards 
 employed by lord Brouncker in fquaring the hy- 
 perbola. He was the mventor of the modern 
 art of deciphering -f-, which he praftifed in the 
 time of the civil war. The wriiers of the pa- 
 pers which he undertook to explain, were afto- 
 niflied when they faw them deciphered ; and 
 fairly owned that there was great truth, if not 
 infallibility, in his art. He was probably the 
 firll that invented a method of teaching deaf 
 and dumb pcrfons to (peak, and to undcrftand 
 a language j; He compofed an Englifli gram- 
 mar, m which are many things entirely his own, 
 and which flievv at once the grammarian and the 
 
 • Glanvill's *' Plus Ultra," p. 31, & feq. 
 
 •f Thtrie is a diltourfe bv Dr. Wallis on this art, printed m 
 " An Eflay on the Ait of Decyphering ; ' Lend. 1737 ; 4to. This 
 eflay was written by the ingenious Mr. John Davys, formerly of 
 Hart hall in Oxford, and afterwards rtdor of Caille Afhby in 
 Northamptonfhire. 
 
 X See " Philof. Tranfaft." under the year 1670. Mr. Wood 
 attributes this invention to Dr. Holder j which is, with good 
 reafon, contradicted by Mr Warton, in his " Life of Dr. 
 *' BathurlV P- »57. See the article of Dr. Holder in this 
 Clafs. 
 
 philofopher. 
 
Class IV- o f E N G L A N D. 2S7 
 
 philofopher. Ob, 28 Ot51. 1703, ^/. 87. His 
 works are in three volumes foiio. 
 
 H E N R I C U S M O R U S, Cantabrigienfis, 
 S. S. T.D. A. Mt, 61, l^c, 
 
 " O chara anima, quando una eris ec nuda et 
 " fimplex !'* 
 
 M. Antoninus, Med. lib. X. He is represented fit- 
 ting under a large tree, IV. Faithorne del. et fc. Be- 
 fore his " Opera 'Ibcclogica^^^ 1675 -, foL 
 
 Henricus Morus, &c. D. Logman ad vivum 
 delin. h.Jh. 
 
 We are informed by the author of his " Life? 
 that this head is much like him ; and that Fai- 
 thorne, though his print is finely executed, has 
 not hit his features. 
 
 Henry More, &c. D. Loggan delin. M. Vander 
 Gucht fc. ^vo. copied from the next above ^ and pre- 
 fixed to his *' Life^'' by Richard V/ardy 17 10. 
 
 Dr. Henry More, who was by miSny efteemed ' 
 one of the greateft divines and philofophers *, 
 ;ind was certainly one of the bed men of his 
 time, had a good deal of natural enthufiafm. 
 He was fired, or rather enraptured, with the 
 Platonic philofophy •, and his writings fliew how 
 happy a vifionary the author was. Mr. John 
 Norris, his friend, and a man of a fimilar but fii- 
 
 * Mr. Hobbes, who was one of his admirers, fiid, that *< if 
 ** his own philofophy was nor true, he knew none that he (liould 
 ** fooner like than More's of Cambridge." 
 
 It is more natural for the human mind to fly from one ex- 
 treme to the other than it is commonly imagined. Hobbes, in 
 the inflance before us, if he had not been attached to his own 
 philofophy, would have chofen that whicii is juit ib.e contrary. 
 So Al'^xander declared, " That if he were not Alexander, he 
 "^ would w ilh to be Diogenes ;" having- probably been taught by 
 his maftcr Arsltotle, that contradlicn of dehre m?v produce hap- 
 pinefs, as well as amplitude of ponefnon, 
 
 perior 
 
(285 The HISTORY Charles II: 
 
 perlor charatfler, ftyles him " The intelledlua! 
 *' Epicure." His works, which were formerly 
 much read, have been long neglefled. Sir Sa- 
 muel Garth condemns them in the lump: fpeak- 
 ing of Dr. Tyfon's library, he fays, 
 
 •' And hither refcu'd from the grocer's come, 
 *' More's works entire, and endlefs reams of 
 '^Blomef." 
 
 He would at lead have excepted his excellent 
 " Syftem of Ethics," if he had been acquainted 
 with the book. This is commended by Mr. 
 Addifon, in No. 86 of the '' Speftator J." Oh. 
 I Sept. 1687, jEt, 73. Vide Johannes Cock- 
 SHuiT, Clafs VIII. 
 
 EDVARDUS SPARK E, S.T.D. 1662; 
 A> Hertochs f. ^vo. 
 
 Edvardus Sparke, S. T. D. regi a facris, 
 1666, 8i'^. White fc. Before his " Scintilla Al- 
 •' taris:' 
 
 Dr. Edward Sparke, who was educated in the 
 univerfity of Cambridge, was, in the reign of 
 Charles I. minifter of St. Martin's church in 
 Ironmonger-lane, London : from which he was 
 ejeded in the civil war, and plundered of his 
 goods. In 1660, he was reftored to his bene- 
 fice, and made chaplain to Charles 11. In i^^^y 
 he fucceeded Mr. William Bedwell in the vi- 
 carage of Tottenham High-crofs, in Middle- 
 fex. He publifhed a fermon preached at the 
 funeral of Henry Chitting, cfq. Chefter-herald; 
 a book of devotions ; and "• Scintilla Altaris, 
 •' or a pious ReBedion on Primitive Devotion, 
 " as to the Feafts and Fafts of the Chriftian 
 
 f " Difpenfary,'* canto iv. 
 
 X The book is in Latin, and has been often printed at home 
 and abroad. 
 
 «' Church 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. . 289 
 
 " Church orthodoxly revived." This book has 
 been feveral times printed. 
 
 RICHARD SHERLOCK, D. D. rec- 
 tor of Win wick ; M. Vandergucht fc. 
 
 The print is prefixed to his " Practical Chrif- 
 *' tian," the 6th edition of which was publifhed 
 in 8vo. 171 3. 
 
 Richard Sherlock, a native of Oxton, in 
 Werral f , in the county of Chefter, received 
 part of his education at Magdalen hall in Ox- 
 ford, whence he removed to Trinity college 
 near Dublin. He was fome time a minider of 
 feveral fmall parifhes in Ireland; bur, upon the 
 commencement of the civil war, he came into 
 England, and was chaplain to one or the king's 
 regiments at Nantwich in Chefliire. He v/as 
 afterwards curate to Dr. Jafper Mayne, of Chrift- 
 c'hurch, at Cafilngton, an obfcure village near 
 Woodftock. About the year 1652, he v,'as re- 
 tained as chaplain to fir Robert Bindlofie, of 
 Berwick H;I1 in Lancafhire, where he was much 
 troubled with the Quakers, againll whom he 
 wrote i'cvtvdiX polemical pieces, a fpecies of divi- 
 nity that ill fuited his difpofition, as pradlical 
 Chriflianity was his delight. Upon the Redo- 
 ration, he became dodior of divinity in the uni- 
 verfity of Dublin ; and was, by the favour of 
 his patron, James, earl of Derby, preferred to 
 the rich benefice of Win wick *. He was after- 
 wards the fame pious and humble man that he 
 
 •f- This place has reafon to blefs his memory for the ufeful cha- 
 rity which he lias there eltabliflied. 
 
 * In the county of Lancaller. It is etteemed the richell living 
 in England, and has been valued at 1400 1. per annum. 
 
 Vol, III. U was 
 
290 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 was before, and feemed to have only this ad- 
 vantage from his preferment, the conjlant exer- 
 tion of that charity towards the poor and dijireffed, 
 which was before a firong^ hut latent principle in 
 his heart. His chief work is his " Pradlical 
 *' Chriftian." He caufed this infcription to be 
 engraved on brafs, and fixed on a flat ftone laid 
 over his grave : '' Exuviee Richardi Sherlock, 
 " S. T. D. indignifTimi hujus ecclefias re6loris. 
 ** obiit 20. die Junii, Anno -Gratis 76, Anno 
 *' Dom. 1689. — Sal infatuum conculcate." — 
 To which a perfon, who knew his merit, added 
 thefe words : " En viri fandtifTimi modeftia! qui 
 " epitaphium fe indignum infcribi volebat, cum 
 *^ vita et merica ejus laudes omnes longe fupera- 
 •' rent." 
 
 His " Life," prefixed to the 6th edition of 
 his *' Pradical Chriftianf," was written by his 
 nephew Dr. Thomas Wilfon, the primitive bi- 
 fliop of Sodor and Man, who refembied him in 
 feveral circumftances of his charader. 
 
 GULIELMUS FALKNER, S. S. T. P. 
 
 J. Sturt fc. ^to. Before his ivorks, 
 
 William Falkner, who was one of the town- 
 preachers at Lynn Regis in Noriolk, was au- 
 thor of feveral pieces of divinity, printed in one 
 volume in quarto, 1684. His " Libcrtas Ec- 
 *' clefiaftica," written in EngliOi, and publiflied 
 in 8vo, 1674, is a book of merit. Mr. Wood, 
 in his " Fafti," under the year 1671, men- 
 tions William Falconer, M. A. of Aberdeen, 
 who was then incorporated into the univerfuy 
 
 + It is alfo printed in the " Memorials and CliaraiSlers," pub- 
 11 Hied by Wiltord, p. 64a. 
 
 of 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND, I91 
 
 of Oxford, and was one of the firft Scotch ex- 
 hibitioners at Baliol college ; but he was not, at 
 that time an author. Qusere if the fame per- 
 fon. 
 
 HENRY HIBBERT, D. D. D. Loggm 
 
 This print is anonymous. Under the head is 
 an epigram of fix lines, which contain nothing 
 but the old hacknied turn of thought, which . 
 is fo often ken under portraits j intimating that 
 the pencil or the graver can exprefs only the 
 outfide of an author, and that his mind is ex- 
 hibited in his book. The print is diftinguifhed 
 by the word Burin^ which is in larger letter than 
 the reft. 
 
 Henry Hibbert, who received his education 
 at Brazen-noie college in Oxford, was fuccef- 
 fively minifter of All-hallows the Lefs, and of 
 St. Olave in the Old Jewry, London. He was 
 author of fermons, and other theological dif- 
 courfes : but his chief work is " Syntagma 
 *' Theolosicum, or a Treatife wherein is con- 
 " cifely comprehended the Body of Divinity, 
 *' and the Fundamentals of Religion orderly 
 ** difcufied," &c. 1662, to which is prefixed 
 his portrait. Mr. Wood informs us that he 
 was accounted a Prefbyterian, but he was not 
 ejedled from St. Olave's, in 1662. O^. 18 Dec. 
 1678. 
 
 Dr. ADAM SAMUEL FIARTMAN; 
 
 9Vi?I ; clerical habit, 
 
 I never faw this print but in the Pepyfian 
 colledion, 
 
 U 2 Mr. 
 
^^2 The HISTORY Charles It 
 
 Mr. Wood informs us, that " Adam Samuel 
 '^ Kartman, D. D. of the univerfuy of Franc- 
 *' fort upon the Oder, biihop of the reformed 
 *' churches through Great Poland and PrufTia," 
 was incorporated dodlor of divinity at Oxford 
 in 1680. 
 
 ANDRE LORTIE, ci-devant Miniftrc 
 de TEgiife rt.forme de la Rochelle, et a prefent a 
 Londre. Van Somer f. 1681, h.JIo. mezz. 
 
 He is placed here as D. D. 
 
 Andrev^ Lortie, S. T. P. occurs in New- 
 court's *■ Repertory," vol. ii. p 459. as redlor 
 of Packlefham in EfTcx. He became fo May 7, 
 1683, and was the fame year incorporated D. D. 
 of Cambridge, by royal mandate. He appears 
 to have been prcfented to this benefice by Dr. 
 Compton, then bifhop of London, who, as 
 Burnet informs us J, " was a great patron of 
 *' the converts from popery, and of thofe pro- 
 *' tenants, whom the bad ufage they were be- 
 " ginninor to meet with in France drove over 
 '^ to us." Dr. Lortie was certainly living in 
 the year 1700. A pcrfon of both his names is 
 mentioned in Letfome's " Hilloiical Regider," 
 as the author of a volume of fcrmons, 1720, 
 8vo. He is there called " late redor of Bar- 
 " ton, Noctinghamfliire," and was probably a 
 fon of the former. 
 
 TITUS O A T E S, D. D. appeared at the 
 head of that cloud of wiinejjes which helped to ob- 
 fcure the reign of Charles II. As he has no right 
 
 X Vol. i. p. 351, fub. :^\\Ti. 1676. 
 
 to 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 295 
 
 to occupy this clafs, I have placed him with the 
 reft of his fraternity in the twelfth. His name is 
 a perfe6t contraft to the next. 
 
 JOHN R A W L E T, B. D. died Sept. 28, 
 
 1686, y^/. 44; ^VO. 
 
 John Rawlet, a man diflinguiHied by his many 
 and great virtues, and his excellent preaching, 
 was many years Icfturerat Newcaftle upon Tine. 
 His fermons were plain, convincing, and per- 
 fuafive-j perfedlly adapted to the lowetl, and 
 approved by the higheft capacities. He tho- 
 roughly underftood the nature of a popular dif- 
 courfe, of which he has left us a fpecimen in 
 his " Chriftian Monitor •," which has fully an- 
 fwered the purpofes for which ic was intended, 
 and has been oftener printed than any other trafl 
 of pradlical divinity. This is a v^ry proper 
 book for the clergy to diftribute among their 
 parifhioners ^. The pious author, who was 
 himfelf the good Chridian that he taught others 
 to be, laboured for the fake of doing good. He 
 was offered the living of Colefhill in Warwick- 
 Ihire, worth 400 1. a year j but refufed it, as 
 he thought he could be more ufeful at New- 
 caftle. As he declined the acceptance, lord 
 
 * The late ingenious and learned Mr. James Merrick, a well 
 known clergyman of Heading, who was in(iefatigab!e in his en- 
 deavours to proniote literature, ch:;rity, and ^y^^^y, has diftri- 
 buted near 10,000 copies of this excellent tra6l chiefly among 
 tiie loldiers, many of whom he has brought to a fenfe of reli- 
 gion.-^; Though I cheriih and reverence ti^e memory, I HialJ 
 
 not here attempt the chara^ler of this worthy perfon j fo worthy, 
 fo excellent, that it is, indeed, far beyond my po v^rr to do jul- 
 tice to it. I (hall only add, that if flagrant injiiitice had not 
 been done to the purity and benevolence of his inrenticn. a;ui 
 the arclefs and unfufpecting innocence of his life, in aUJujman 
 appearance, he would have been ftill living, and contributing 
 more than any man I ever knew, to the fupport of true rchgion, 
 and genuine learning. But alas !: — Flere, et mtniimlVe, i clic- 
 Xuni eft. 
 
 Us P'gby 
 
«94 The HISTORY Charles II, 
 
 Digby defired him to nominate fome other 
 perfon ; upon which he recommended Mr, Ket- 
 tlewell, on whom it was conferred. Mr. Raw- 
 let was author of feveral other pieces, all of 
 which have a tendency to promote practical re- 
 ligion f, 
 
 GULIELMUS WALKER, S. T. B. 
 
 fcholse publico quondam Ludenfis, nunc Grant- 
 hamienfis, magifter, jEl 59. Before bis " Englijh 
 " Examples" "^vo, 
 
 William Walker, who was one of the moft 
 able fchool-maflers of his time, was fuccefTively 
 mafter of the fchools of Lowth and Grantham 
 in Lincolnfhire. He wrote feveral books on 
 grammar, phrafeology, rhetoric, and logic ; 
 and alfo, " A modeft Plea for Infant Baptifm." 
 But the book which gained him moft reputa- 
 tion, and which has been oftener printed than 
 any of his works, except his *' Englifh Exam- 
 ples," was his " Treatife of Englifh Particles," 
 a judicious performance, and much wanted : it 
 is dedicated to Dr. Bufby. He is laid to have 
 had the honour of inftructing fir Ifaac Newton J, 
 who was born at Woolftrope, a hamlet belong- 
 to Colfterworth *, a few miles from Grantham. 
 Of this parifh Mr. Walker was re6tor, and he 
 lies buried in his own church with the follow- 
 
 t In Dr. James Stonehonfe's <* Friendly Letter to a Patient 
 *' jiiil adiniiteJ into an Infirmary," p. 25. edit. 6. are tliefe 
 words : " I cannot here rorbcar mentioning to perfons of tolcr- 
 *' able circumltances, (if this letter ihould come into (uch hands) 
 *' Rawlet's Treatife on Sacrameatal Covenanting," which has 
 *• palled through eight edition^, and is, in jiiy opinion a lively* 
 " and judii.ious hook, in which there is a happy mixture of the 
 *' inliruclive and pathetic." 
 
 1 This is contradicted in the «' Gentleman's Magazine,'* for 
 
 ^Iov. 1772, p. 522. 
 
 • Popularly called Coltfworth. 
 
 ing 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 295 
 
 ing infcriptlon on his tomb, which alludes to his 
 capital work. 
 
 Hie jacent 
 
 Gulielmi Walkeri 
 
 Particular. 
 
 obiit 
 I mo Augt^ 
 
 . jDom. 1684, 
 ^""0 iiEtatis, 61. 
 
 He had a fon who was vicar of Sunning in Berk- 
 Ihire. 
 
 E D W A R D U S BOYS, S. T. B. ^i. 66. 
 
 W, Fait borne fc. Before his Sermons. 
 
 Edward Boys, who received the former part 
 of his education at Eton fchool, was afterwards 
 fucceffively a fcholar and fellow of Corpus 
 Chrfti college, in Cambridge. In 1634, he 
 was appointed one of the univerfity preachers ^ 
 and, in 1640, was, by William Pafton, efq. pre- 
 fented to the reclory of Mautby, in Norfolk. 
 Mr. Mailers, to whom I am indebted for this 
 account of him, " apprehends" that he was 
 chaplain to Charles I. He certainly deferved 
 that diftinftion, as he was a man of acknow- 
 ledged merit, and a juftly-admired preacher ; 
 and therefore much in tavour with the bifliop 
 of Norwich. Roger Plynt, the editor of his 
 fermons, with difficulty obtained leave of the 
 dying author to communicate them ro the pub- 
 lic ; but if was upon condition ■' that he Jhouhi 
 *'*' fay nothing of him."^ From which he leaves 
 the reader to judge how ^reat a man he was, 
 who made lb little of himfelf. He hopes, how- 
 ever, that he may add, without breach or pro- 
 mife, " that when a man's genius is ficted for 
 '' government J when his perfon is guarded with 
 U 4 " authority. 
 
The history Charles II. 
 
 " authority, and his deportment with gravity j 
 *' when his courage is tempered with modera- 
 *' tion, and his knowledge with dilcretion ; 
 *' when a prieft and a gentleman meet in one 
 *' perfon, the church mud needs fufter a great 
 *' lofs, that fuch an one fhoold expire in a coun-r 
 *' try village confiRing only of four farmers. 
 *' But I mull fay no more than this, that he was 
 *' nephew to Dr. Boys, that famous dean of 
 ^' Canterbury ; and thou mayeft judge by his 
 " writings they were near of kin." 
 
 JOHN FLAMS TEED, rcdor of Bur- 
 flow in Surrey, and aftronomer to the king. His 
 ponrait belongs to the reign of Anne. 
 
 JOHANNES GOAD, artis aftro-meteo- 
 
 rologic^e inftaurator, JEt. Si-i 1677,^^. RJVhit& 
 fc> B'fcre his fofthnmous wcrk^ entitled^ " Ajiro^ 
 '" Mele'4ologia fana^^^ ^c. ^to. 1690. This print 
 is much like the author. 
 
 John Goad, who was educated at St. John's 
 Coiiege in Oxford, was, near twenty years, chief 
 mafter of Merchant Taylors School, in Lon- 
 don. In 1 68 1, he was ejeded from this em- 
 ployment, on account of fomc pafTages which 
 favoured ftrongly of popery, in his " Comment 
 *' on the Church Catechifm," compofed for the 
 ufe of his fcnolars. Atter his ejcclment, he 
 taught fchool in Wedmmller. He was a man 
 in general elleem for his probity and learning, 
 and particularly for his abilities as a fchool- 
 mafter. He d.ed 061. 28, 1689, having a fe\y 
 years before, declared himfclf a Roman Catho- 
 lic *. He was author of fcveral fermons, and 
 
 • It appears from Mr. Wood's account of him, that be only 
 outwaidiy conformed to the church of England, from the year 
 
 one 
 
CIlassIV. of ENGLAND. 297 
 
 one or two vocabularies, &c. but his great 
 work, which employed him for a confiderable 
 part of his life, was his *' Aftro-Meteorologicaj 
 " or Aphorifms and Difcourfes of the Bodies ce- 
 " leftial, their Natures and Influences, difcover- 
 *' ed from the Variety of the Alterations of the 
 *« Air, temperate or intemperate, as to Heat or 
 *^Cold, Froit, Snow, Hail, Fog, Rain, Wind, 
 *^ Storm, Lightnings, Thunder, Blading, Hurri- 
 ** cane," &c. London, 1686, fol. This book 
 gained the author a great reputation. I'hefub- 
 jefl of it is a kind of aftroiogy, founded, for the 
 mod part, on reafon and experim^ent, as will ap- 
 pear by comparing it with IVlr. Boyle's " Hif- 
 " tory of the Air," and Dr. Mead's book " De 
 *' Imperio Soiis et Lun^." 
 
 JOHANNES NEWTON, ^t. 39, 
 
 1 660 Before '' Mathematical Elements hy John 
 Bewton^ M, ^." 1660 •, ^to. 
 
 John Newton, who was fom^e time a com- 
 moner of Edmund hall in Oxford, was, foon 
 after the Refloration, created doctor of divinity, 
 made chaplain to the king, and preferred to 
 j:he rtdory or Rofs in Herefordfhire. He feems, 
 by his works, to have run through the whole 
 circle of fciences. There is in the '• Athenje 
 ^' Oxonienfes," a catalogue of his books of 
 arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, aftronomy, 
 the feven liberal arts, cofmography, geography, 
 logic, and rhetoric -, down to ephemerides, al- 
 manackSi and inftrudlions for children to read. 
 Mr. Wood fpeaks of him as a learned man, 
 but of a finguiar and capricious charadier. Ob, 
 Jan. 1678-9. 
 
 JOHN KETTLE WELL was vicar of 
 CokfhilJ in Warwickfliire, in this and the next 
 
 reign. 
 
498 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 reign. His portrait belongs to the reign of Wil- 
 liam III. 
 
 EDMUNDUS ELISEUS, A.M. Coll. 
 Bal. quondam Socius. He thus writes himfelf in 
 the title page to his '*'- Mijctllanea^'' 1662, s^to, he- 
 fore which is an anonymous print oj him by Fait homey 
 in an o5i agon frame. 
 
 Edmund Elys^, fon of a clergyman in De- 
 vonfhire, was educated at Baliol college, in 
 Oxford. In 1655, about the time when he took 
 the degree of bachelor of arts, being then fel- 
 low of the college, he publiflied a flnall volume 
 of divine poems, and another in 1658. The 
 fame year, ht- publifhed " MKcellanea," in La- 
 tin and Englilh verfe, and feveral fhort effays in 
 Latin profe. T^^'^ ^ook was reprinted in 1662. 
 In the y , ...id more particularly at p. 32, 
 
 he ip''ak> wiiii great fenfibility ot fome perfons 
 who had decried his performances, and afperfed 
 his character en account of fome levities and 
 Tallies of youih. In 1659, he fucceeded his fa- 
 ther in the ledory of Eaft Allington, in De- 
 vonfnire. His condud appears to have been ir- 
 reproachable afrer he entered into holy orders. 
 He, by his v;ritings, has given fufficient tefti- 
 mony of his parts, induflry, and learning. The 
 n")o(t remarkable of his numerous works, which 
 are mentioned by Wood, is the pamphlet which 
 he p'cbliflicd againd Dr. Tillotfon's *' Sermons 
 '* on tiie Incarnation -," and the moll eilimable 
 is his volume of " Letters," &c. as fome of 
 therp were writren to eminent perlbns, particu- 
 l.'irly \^t, Sherlock and Dr. Bentley. There are 
 alfo letters from Dr. Henry iVIore, Dr. Barlow, 
 ^nd others, to Edmund Elys. He was living, 
 
 * So written by Mr. Wood, 
 
 and 
 
CtAssIV. OF ENGLAND. 
 
 and in ftudious retirement, in 1693, at which 
 time he was a nonjuror. See " Athen. Oxon.*' 
 ii. Gol. 943. 
 
 CLEMENT ELLIS, An. JEtat. 68; cle^ 
 thai hahit^ fmall Svo, Under the head is a mermaid 
 in a circle |. 
 
 Clement Ellis was born in Cumberland, and 
 educated at Queen's college, in Oxford, of 
 which he became fellow. He was patronized 
 by William, marquis, and afterwards duke of 
 Newcaftle, who prefcnted him to the redory of 
 Kirkby, in Nottinghamfhire, of which he was the 
 laborious, ufeful, and exemplary minilier. His 
 writings, except one or two juvenile pieces of 
 poetry, have a tendency to promote practical 
 religion. His principal work is " The Gen- 
 *« tile Sinner, or England's brave Gentleman 
 *' charadlerifed, in a letter to a Friend,'' i66o, 
 fmall 8vo. of which feveral editions have been 
 publifhedj. His fmall traft, entitled "Chrif- 
 " tianity in fhort ; or the Ihort Way to be a 
 *' good Chriftian; recommended to fuch as wane 
 ^' either time or capacity for reading longer and 
 " learned Difcourfes," was, perhaps, oftener 
 printed than any of his works. This was one 
 of the popular tracts which was pirated and vile- 
 ly printed on tobacco papcfy " by Henry Hills, 
 ^' in Black-Friars, for the benefit of the poorj" 
 
 •f- The print, according to fl:n6lners of Chronology, may poA 
 fibly belong to a fubfequent reign. 
 
 t The vviiter, in this book, lirll draws the charailer of a vain 
 and deliauched man of failiion \ next of thofe who are vicious in 
 a lefs degree j and concludes with that of a Chriitian gentleman. 
 This work, which was written in a fortnight, in tlie early part 
 pf the author's life, is not without inerit, either in delign or 
 jcompofition } but we, in the courfe of ir, too iVcqu^atiy meet 
 uitli the fuUbme metaphors of fanatics, and fuch quaintncfles as 
 sbcund in Overbury's characters, 
 
 • by 
 
 299 
 
3©o The HISTORY Charles 11; 
 
 by which was meant the poor purchafer. The 
 author was living at Kirkby, in 1694. See 
 " Athen Oxon." ii. col. 959. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. W 1 L L I A M CRAY, of 
 
 Newcaftle ; a Jmall ancnymous mezzotinto \ F. Place 
 /. 1683. 
 
 This perfon was probably a friend of Mr. 
 Place, who engraved tor his arnufement. 
 
 J O S 1 A H P U L L E N, A. M. chaplain to 
 bifhop Sanderfon. His portrait was done in the 
 reign of Anne. 
 
 ROBERT WALWYN, late minifter of 
 Towceftcr, &c. 12 mo. 
 
 Robert Walwyn was auihor of a compendious 
 fyftem of divinity, entitled, *' A particular View 
 «' of the Fundamentals of the Chriftian Reii- 
 ** gion," 1666, fmali 8vo. 
 
 An anonym.ous portrait of a clergyman in a 
 furplice, underneath are four lines, intimating 
 that he was author of polemical pieces. W. Shcr^ 
 'ivinfc. iimo, 
 
 N. B. Stillingfieet, Patrick, Tcnifon, Horneck, 
 ^nd other eminent divines ot the eftablifhed church, 
 flounlhed in this reign, but their portraits belong 
 [fj a fubfequent period. 
 
 N O N- 
 
Class IT. of ENGLAND, 30^ 
 
 NON-CONFORMISTS. 
 
 JOANNES OWENUS, &c. R.White 
 fc.h.p, 
 
 Joannes Owen, S. T. D. &c. Vertue fc* copied 
 from the ah eve. Before his works^ i"]!!^ fol. 
 
 Joannes Owen, D. D. J, Vandevelde exc, ^to, 
 mezz. 
 
 John Owen, fome time dean of Chrift-church, 
 and vice-chancellor of the univerfiry of Oxford, 
 was a man of more learning and policcnefs thaa 
 any of the Independents ; and was, perhaps, 
 exceeded by none of that party in probity and 
 piety. Suppofing it neceffary for one of his 
 perfuafion to be placed at the head of the uni- 
 verfity, none was fo proper as this perfon •, who 
 governed it feveral years, with much prudence 
 and moderation, v/hen faction and animofity 
 feemed to be a part of every religion. He was 
 a man of an engaging converfation, and had an 
 excellent talent for preaching. Fie was highly 
 in favour with Cromweil, and was, after the 
 Relloracion, offered preferm.ent in the church, 
 which he refufed. Two days before his death, 
 he dictated a letter to a particular friend, in 
 which are thefe wo"ds •, *' 1 am leaving the (hip 
 " of the church in a ftorm, but whilil the great 
 " pilot is in it, the Kofs of a poor under-rower 
 *' will be inconfiderable*.'* He died Aug. 24, 
 1683, in the 67th year of his age|. There 
 
 are 
 
 * Calamy. 
 . f Mr. Wood reprefents him as a perjured perfon, a tlme-fcrver, 
 a hypocrite whole eodlinefs was gain, ami a blaiphamer : and, as 
 if tins were not fufjkient, he has alfo made him a fop. All which 
 means no more than this: That when Dr. Owen entered himfelf 
 a member of the univerfity of Oxford, he was of the eflablifhed. 
 church, and took the ufual oaths j that he turned Independenr, 
 
 preached. 
 
^61 TheHISTORY Charles IL 
 
 are fome very peculiar expreflions in his writ- 
 ings : Solomon's Song could not furnifh him 
 with a fufficient number of phrafes to exprefs 
 his love ot Chrilt, but he mud invent a jargon 
 of his own-f". Dr. William Clagget, in his 
 " Difcogrfe concerning the Operation of the 
 " Holy fpirir," wrote a confutation of part of 
 Dr. Owen's book on that fubjedt. There is an 
 excellent abridgement of the former, with con- 
 fiderable improvements, by Henry Stebbing, 
 M. A. 1719, 8vo. 
 
 THOMAS GOODWIN, S. T. P. &c. 
 
 R, White fc. a double cap on his head 
 
 Another by White^ in Svo, copied from the forme f. 
 
 Thomas Goodwin was one of the afiembly of 
 divines that fat at Weflminfter, and prefidcnt 
 of Magdalen college in Oxford. Mr. Wood 
 flyles him and Dr. Owen " the two AtlafTes 
 *' and Patriarchs of Independency." He was a 
 man of great reading, but by no means equal 
 to Dr. Owen, and was much further gone in 
 fanaticifm. The authors of his charadler pre- 
 fixed to his works inform us, that " he was 
 
 preached and ai5led as other Independents did, took the oath 
 called the Engagement, and accepted of preferment from Crom- 
 well j that he was a man of a good perfon and behaviour, and 
 liked to go well drefled. — We mvift be extremely cautious how 
 We form our judgment of charailers at this perioil : the difference 
 of a few modes or ceremonies in religious worfhip, has been the 
 fburce of infinite prejudice and mifreprefentation. The pra6Vice 
 of fome of the fplenetic writers of this period reminds me of the 
 painter well known by the appellation of HeUijh Dnieghely who 
 had lb accuftomed himfelf to painting of witches, imps, and 
 devil?, that he fometimes made but little difference betwixt his 
 human and infernal figures. I do not mean, by this remark, to 
 refleft particularly on Mr. Wood, who with his defeats had ver/ 
 grat merit. 
 
 f Dr. South, who knew him well, has mentioned feveral of bis 
 cant words, in his IVth volume p. 49. See alfo vol. V. p. 48, 
 S34- 
 
 *' much 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 503 
 
 " much addifted to retirement and deep con- 
 *' tcmplation J, had been much excercifed ia 
 *' the controverfies agitated in the age in which 
 *' he lived, and had a deep infight into the 
 *' grace of God, and the covenant of grace." 
 He attended Cromwell his friend and patron 
 upon his death-bed, and was very confident 
 that he would not die, from a fuppofed revela- 
 tion communicated to him in a prayer, but a 
 few minutes before his death. When he found 
 himfelf mifbaken, he exclaimed, in a lubfequenc 
 addrefs to God, " Thou hafb deceived us, and 
 *' we were deceived*." Ob, 25 Feb. 1679, 
 Mt, 80. His writings confift of expofitions, 
 fermons, &c. which have been much read. His 
 portrait, which very nearly relembles him, is 
 prefixed to his works, printed 1681, in two vo- 
 lumes folio. 
 
 THOMAS MANTON, D.D. ^.//^//^ 
 
 fc. Before his Sermons^ 1 678 ; 4/^. 
 
 Thomas Manton, &c. R, W, /. copied from 
 the above -, 8x-o. 
 
 X He was doiibtlefs the Independent minifterand head of a col- 
 lege, mentioned in No, 494 of the " Spc($tator ;" where a young 
 man, who went to be entered at his college, is faid to have besa 
 condudled '* with great lilence ^rid ferioufnefs to a long gallery, 
 *' which was dai kened at noon-daj^ and had only a fmgle candle 
 " burning in it. After a (tort ftay in this melancholy apartment, 
 ** he was led into a chatnher bung with black j where he enter- 
 *• tained himfelf for feme time, by the glimniering of a taper j 
 ** till at length the head of the college came out to him from an 
 " inner room, with half a do7en night-caps upon his head, and 
 *' religious horror in his countenance. The young man trembltd; 
 *' but his fears encreafed, when in Head of being aiked what pro- 
 *' grefs he had made in learning, he was examined how he abound- 
 ** ed in grace," &c. <S:c. 
 
 The long gallery, mentioned in this note, was taken down In 
 1770, for the improvement of the prefident's lod,gings. In the 
 Oxford Almanack for 1730, is an ouifiJe view of it. it is known 
 by the two doors in front, a fwi}ido<vj nxnth threg lights^ and as 
 many brackets underneath. 
 
 • lillotfon's "Life," p. 19, &c. fecond edit. 
 
 Thomas 
 
304 The HISTORY Charles H; 
 
 Thomas Man ton, &c. R. White fc. Before 
 his works ^ foL 
 
 He is reprefented very plump, or rather fat, 
 
 Thomas Manton, redlor of Covent-garden, 
 was one of the greateft divines among the Pref- 
 byterians. His induftry and learning, his ta- 
 lent as a preacher, his moderation, his activity 
 and addrei's in the management of their public 
 affairs, in all which he was a leading man, are 
 mentioned with refped:, by feveral writers. He 
 was one of the ccmmiflioneis at the Savoy con- 
 ference, and was very defirous of a compre- 
 henfion. Lord Clarendon intimated to Baxter, 
 that he fnould not have defpaired of bringing 
 that affair to a happy iffue, if he had been as 
 fat as Manton ■^. Archbiihop Ullier ufed to 
 call him a voluminous preacher ■\ \ and he was no 
 lefs voluminous as an author. He compofed 
 190 fermons on the 119th Pfalm, which are 
 printed in one volume folio. He was alfo 
 author of feveral other pieces fpecined by Dr, 
 Calamy. Ob, 18 06t. 1677. 
 
 G U L I E L M U S B A T E S I U S, S. S. T. P. 
 
 Fait home ddin. etfc. Before his " Harmony of di- 
 *' vine Attributes •,'* ^to, 
 
 GuLiELMUs Batesius, &c. jEt. 57, 16S2 ; 
 R, White fc, \imo, 
 
 • He feems to have had that well known palTage of Shakefpeare 
 in his mind, where Julius Cael'ar, fpeaking ofCallius, lays, 
 
 ** Let me have men about me that are fat," &c. 
 
 f The following paflage is in a letterof lord Bolingbroke ta 
 Dr. Swift : " My next fliall be as long as one of Dr. Manton's 
 *' (fermons) who tnught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to- 
 <• be a high churchman, that 1 might never hear him read, nor 
 *' read him more." Letters of Swift, &c. publiflied 1766, vol. ii. 
 p. 112* 
 
 There 
 
Glass IV. 6 f E N G L A N D, 3o| 
 
 There are other prints of him, by White, 
 which more properly belong to the reign of 
 Williamlll. 
 
 Dr. Willianfi Bates, nninider of St. Diinflan's 
 in the Weft, in the former part of this reign *, 
 was a man of a good and amiable charader; 
 much a fcholar, much a gentleman, and no 
 lefs a chrifiian. His moderation and fweetnefs 
 of temper, were known to all that cocverfed 
 wich him ; among whom were enhinent and pi- 
 bus men of various pcrfuaHons. Dr. Tillotfon's 
 friendfliip for him began early *, and as his me- 
 rit was invariiibly the fame, it continued with- 
 out interruption, to the end of that prelate's 
 life. His abilities qualified him for the highed 
 dignities in the church : and it is certain that 
 great offers were made him ; but he could ne- 
 ver be prevailed with to conform. All his works 
 except his " Seled Lives of illudrious and pious 
 *' Perfons |," to which his own life would be 
 a proper fupplement, were publiflied in one vo- 
 lume folio. He is edeemed the politeft writer 
 of his age, among the Prefbyterians. Ob. i6g^, 
 
 ANTON. T U C KN E Y^ D. D; i^. fFbke 
 
 Anthony Tuckney was one of the affembly of 
 divines, and fucceQivelvmafber of Emmanuel and 
 St. John's college in Cambridge-, regius pro- 
 feflbr of divinity, and vice-chancellor of th^c 
 univerfity. After the Rcftoration, he was ap- 
 pointed one of the commilTioners at the con- 
 
 • Near 2000 perfons, among whom was Dr. Bntes, were filenced 
 and deprived for nonconformity, after the Reftoration. 
 
 t Intitled, •• Vitae fele^tae aliquot Virorum," &c. It is littla 
 HiOie than a colle6tiQn publifhed by him. 
 
 Vol. III. X ferencc 
 
3o5 T H E H I S T O R Y Charles II. 
 
 ference held at the Savoy. He was fucceeded 
 in the mafterfhip of Emnianiicl college by Dr. 
 William Dillingham*, in 165^; and was, in 
 1661, f'jcceeded in the maftenhip of St. John's, 
 and the divinity chair, by Dr. Peter Gunning. 
 He was a man of great learning, and no lefs 
 modefty ; but is faid to have fliewn more cou- 
 rage in maintaining the rights and privileges ot 
 the univerlity, in the lawlefs time in which he 
 lived, than any of the heads of houfes at Cam- 
 bridge. He, with great prudence and ability 
 prefided over his college, which never flourifli- 
 ed more than under his government. He died 
 in 1669-70, in the 71ft year of his age. His 
 " Sermons," before which is his portrait, were 
 publifhcd after his death, in 410. 1676. His 
 «' Prselediones Theological" were alio publidi- 
 ed in 4to. 1679. 
 
 JOHANNES COLLING S, S. T. P. 
 
 &;c. R. JVhitefc. /\to, 
 
 Johannes Collings, &c. 1678, -^/. 53; 4/^. 
 mezz. 
 
 Dr. John Collings, who was one of the com- 
 miflloners at the Savoy conference in this reign, 
 was educated at Emmanuel college in Cam- 
 bridge ; and was forty-four years a minifter at 
 Norwich. He was a man of various learning, 
 but particularly excelled as a textuary and cri- 
 tic. He was generally efleemed for his great 
 induftry, humanity, and exemplary life. He 
 was author of many fcrmonsand books of prac- 
 tical divinity and controverly ; one of the mofl 
 fingular of which is his " Weaver's Pockec- 
 " Book, or Weaving fpiritualized j" 8vo 
 
 • An ingenious Latin poet, rome of whofe compofitions are 11 
 the fiilt volume of tiic new cJition of the ♦* Mulac Anglicanae." 
 
 1675 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. go? 
 
 1675*. This book was adapted to the place 
 where he lived, which has been long famous 
 for the manuraclure of fluffs. He had a very 
 confiderable hand in the Annotations on the 
 Bible, in two volumes folio ; which were be- 
 gun and carried on by Mr. Matthew Poolr, and 
 which go under his name. Oh. 1690, JEt. 6j. 
 
 THOMAS JACOMB, D. D. In the 
 
 fame plate with the heads of J of, Caryl^ Edmund Ca- 
 lamy^ Z)^ Tho. Manton^ ^ho. Cafe, Wm_ Jenkin^ 
 Ric. Baxter^ Dr, PF^. Bates, Tho, IVatfcn, Tho. Lye, 
 and Matth. Mead. The print is an engraved title ^ in 
 'which are ihefe words., " "-The Farewell Sermons of 
 *' the late London Minijlers, preached the 17//6 of 
 " Aug. 1662 f •/* Si'^. This was a little before ths^ 
 ^51 of uniformity took place, 
 
 Thomas Jacomb received part of his educa- 
 tion at MatTdalen hall in Oxford, whence he 
 removed to Emmanuel, and at length toTrinity 
 college in Cambridge. About the year 1647, 
 he was preferred to the re6lory of St. Martin's 
 near Ludgate, and alfo made chaplain to the 
 countefs dowager of Exeter J. After the Re- 
 ftoration, he lived in Exeter-Houfc vvith that 
 lady ; where he frequently preached when other 
 
 • Mr. Boyle, in his " Oocafional Refle6lions on feveral Sub- 
 ** jefls,"'' publifhed in 1665, (eetns to have led the way to fpiri- 
 tualizing the common obje(51s, bufinefs, and occurrences of life. 
 This was much pra6iifed by Mr. Flavel, and has been lately re- 
 vived by Mr. James Hervey. 
 
 f The publication of thefe fermons gave great offence, a? there 
 were feveral paflages in them which were thought to beof fediti- 
 ous tendency, Mr. Baxter informs us, that tbe bckfeilers pro- 
 cured copies of the Farewell Sermons from the fcribes that rook 
 them from the mouths of the preachers ; and rhat feveral ofMiem 
 were altered and mangled attlie difcretion of the editors. " Life," 
 part ii. p. 303. 
 
 X Daughter to John, earl of Bridgewater. Mr. Baxter ftylea 
 her " the excellent, fmcere, humble, godly, faithful lady, the 
 ** countefs dowager of Exeter." " Life," pare iii. p. 95. 
 
 X 2 minifters 
 
3^3 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 rniniflers were filcnced. Mr. Baxter and Dr. 
 Calamy fpeak of him as a man of great gravity, 
 fobriety, and moderation, and a good preacher. 
 Dr. Sherlock, who feems to have received fome 
 provocation from him, reprefents him as '' the 
 *' prettiefl, nonfenfical, trifling goofecap, that 
 *' ever fct pen to paper • ." He died in the 
 houfe of his parronefs, the 27th of March, 1687. 
 His library, which confifled of books in vari- 
 ous languages and faculties, fold after his death 
 for 1300 1. He publifhed a confiderable num- 
 ber of fermons. 
 
 EDMUND CALAMY, B. D. R.JVbite 
 fc. i2mo, 
 
 Edmund Calamy, wilh the head^ of J of, Caryl^ 
 James Janeway^ and Ralph Venning : 6vo, 
 
 Edmund Calamy was miniiler of Alderman- 
 bury, whence he was ejected in 1(^62. See an 
 account of him in the preceding reign. 
 
 S T E P H E iN C H A R N O C K, B. D. 
 
 R. White fc. Before his t-zvo volumes of " Difcourjes 
 ** on the Exiflencc^ Attributes.^ and Providence of 
 •' God;' &c. 1684-, foUo. 
 
 SccphenCharnock was educated atEmmanucl 
 college in Cambridge, where he was fome time 
 under the tuition of Mr. William Sancroft, 
 who was, in this reign, advanced to the fee of 
 Canterbury. In 16,2, he was, by authority 
 of the parliament vificois, appointed fellow of 
 New college in Oxford. He was afterwards 
 domeflic chaplain to Henry Cromwell, when 
 he was lord deputy of Ireland. Whilft he con- 
 
 • This jnconfifteni y of eharaolers is frequently feen in the 
 ^litings of fuch as riourifhed about this perioil, clpecially when 
 the authors happericd to d-fsgree in their feuiiments of religion. 
 Vid« •' Athcn. Oxon.^ii. col. 801. 
 
 cinued 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D, 309 
 
 tinned in that flation, he was a conftant preach- 
 er at one of the churches in Dublin, every Sun- 
 day in the afternoon. His fermons, which he 
 delivered without notes, were attended by all 
 perfons of diflindion in that city. In the latter 
 part of his life, when he exerciicd his miniftry 
 in London, his memory and his eyes failed him; 
 which occaiioned his readinti his fermons with a 
 glafs. The two volumes of his Difcourfes, tho' 
 not written with a view to their publication, 
 bear a fuflicient teftimony to the abilities of the 
 author ; whofe natural parts were more folid 
 than {hining; and were improved by every kind . 
 of learning requifite to form a divine. Mr. John- 
 fon, who preached the fermon at his funeral, 
 fays, *' he never knew a man, in all his life, 
 " who had attained near to that fkill that Mr. 
 " Charnock had, in the originals of the Old 
 *' and New Teftament, except Mr. Thomas 
 " Cawton." O^. 27 July, 1680, y^/. 52. 
 
 SAMUEL C R A D O C K, B. D. fome 
 time fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge j 
 
 R. White fc. Before his " Knowledge and Frail ice ^^ 
 i^c, folic. 
 
 Samuel Cradock, redor of North-Cadbury 
 in Somerfet(hire, was elder brother to Dr. Za- 
 chary Cradock, preacher at Cjray's Inn, and 
 provolt of Eton college. In 1662, he was, for 
 nonconformity, ejected from his bentrfice, worth 
 3G0 1. a year. He was afterwards fupported 
 by the generofity of Mr. Walter Cradock, a 
 gentleman of fortune, ro whom he was heir at 
 law. He, in this reign, kept a private academy 
 for which his learning ptrrfcclly qualified him, 
 and had a fharc in the education of ftveral per- 
 fons of v;orth and eminence. I never faw two 
 ciiiferenc charadters of Mr. Cradock. He was 
 
 X3 fo 
 
3 
 
 10 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 fo gnod and ipiOffenfive a man, that every body 
 fpoke well of him, when it was ufual for men 
 of all religions to fpeai: ill of each other. No- 
 thing WIS ever objcded to him but his noncon- 
 formity •, and if that were a crime, it was en- 
 tirely the crime of an erroneous confcience, v/ith- 
 oul the lead perverfity of his will. His '' Apof- 
 *' tolical Hiftory," his " Kiftory of the Old 
 *' and New 1 eitament," and his " Harmony 
 *' cf the four Evangehfls,'* are his principal 
 works, which have particular merit ^. 1 he 
 lad was revifed by his friend Dr. Tillotfon, who 
 preferved it from the flames in the fire of Lon- 
 don. Ok 7 Ocl. 1706, y£L 86. 
 
 DAVID CLARKSON, miniver of the 
 golpel, (B. D.) -, M, Beak p. R. PFhiie/c, Before 
 his " Sermons ^^^ foL 1696. 
 
 David Clarkfon, when he was fellov/ of Clare 
 hall in Camibridge, had the honour of inftrudl- 
 ing archbiiliop Tillotfon, not only one of the 
 grcateft, but alfoone of the bed men this king- 
 dom ever produced. It is well known that this 
 prelate ever maintained a refped: for him, not 
 merely becaufe he was his tutor, but becaufe he 
 was a man of uncommon learning and abilities, 
 and of fingular modelfy and humility. His 
 ferm.ons are efteemed judicious : they are writ- 
 ten in an un.iffeded fbyle and good method. 
 Tlie moft noLcd of his works is that entitled, 
 *' No Evidence of Diocefan Epifcopacy in the 
 " priiDitive Times;" 1681 -, 4to. in anfwer to 
 Dr. Stillingfieet. This book fhews him to have 
 been a man of great reading in church-hillory. 
 
 • Dr. Dodderidge recommends the firft and the laft of thefe 
 books to young Undents. See his " Family Expofitor," vol. iii. 
 
 P-378. 
 
 MAT- 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 311 
 
 MATTH^US POLE, (vel Poole), &c. 
 
 (M. A.); R.White fc J} Jj. 
 
 This learned critic and cafuifl finidied, in ten 
 years, a work that feemed kifficient to empioy 
 a much longer life than his own. It is entitled, 
 " Synopfis Criticorum aliorumque S. Scripturse 
 " Interpretum," and is printed in five large vo- 
 lumes in folio. It contains not only an abridg- 
 ment of the nine volumes of the " Critici Sa- 
 " cri," and various other expofitors *, but alfo 
 extracts and abridgments of a great number of 
 fmall treatifes and pamphlets, which, though of 
 confiderable merit, would have been ocherwile 
 negleded or loft. The plan of it was judicious -[-, 
 and the execution more free from errors than 
 feems confiftent with fo great a work, finifned 
 in fo thort a time, by one man J. Mr. Poole 
 made a great progrefs in the Engiifh Annoia- 
 tions on the Bible, completed after hisdeceafe 
 by fcveral divines, and publiQied in rwo volumes 
 folio. He was author of fome other pieces of 
 lefs note. His name was among thofe who were 
 to be murdered by the Papifts, according to 
 the depofition of Titus Gates. In 167Q, he 
 retired to Amfterdam, v/here he died the fame 
 
 year, not without fufpicion of being poifoned. 
 
 JOHANNES HOWE, V. D. M. (M. A.); 
 
 White fc. %vo. 
 
 • See Trapp's Preface to his " Explanatory Notes on the Four 
 <* Gofpels," p. 5. 
 
 f This ftupeiulous work was undertaken by the advice of the 
 very learned bilhop Lloyd, as appears by a letter of that prelate, 
 addreiltd to the famoi.s Mr. Dodwell, and communicated tome 
 by his Ton, Dr. Dodwell, archdeacon of Berks. 
 
 X This book is oi late much funk in its price, though intrinfi- 
 cally as good as ever. The truth is, Latin commentaries on the 
 Scriptures are little regarded ; but we have Englifli ones as often 
 as we have new almanacks. I have myfelf known about twenty 
 publiftied within thefe lalt twenty years. 
 
 X 4 JOHAN- 
 
rgii The HISTORY Charle$ IL 
 
 Johannes Howe, M. A. J. Pine fc. copied from 
 White. 
 
 John Howe, who had been chaplain to Crom- 
 well, was one of the mod learned and polite 
 writers among the difienters. His reading in 
 divinity was very extenfive: he was a good 
 Orlentalift, and undcrftood feveral of the mo- 
 dern languages. His icrmons, and other prac- 
 tical pieces, which are numerous, were, for the 
 mod part, publiihed in this reign. His " Blef- 
 *' fednefs of the Righteous" was the mod ee- 
 nerally efteemed of his performances. He was 
 an admired preacher, but was fometimes too 
 profound for ordinary capacities. There is an 
 uncommon depth of thought in feveral of his 
 works. It is obfervable, that his friend Dr. 
 Tillotfon afiferted, in a fermon preached at court 
 the 2d of April, 1680, that " no man, without 
 *' an extraordinary commiflion from heaven, 
 teftified by working miracles as the apoftles 
 did, ought to affront the cftablifhed religionof 
 a nation, though it be faife^ and openly to draw 
 men off from the profeflion of it, in contempt 
 of the magiftrate and the law," &:c. Mr. 
 Howe did not only write him a long letter up- 
 on this erroneous doctrine, but cxpoftulated 
 with him upon it in a friendly manner : upon 
 which Dr. Tillotfon buril into tears, and frank- 
 ly acknowledged that it was not to be juftificd. 
 Ob, 2 April, 1705. 
 
 JOSEPHUS CARYLj JVkite fc. h. fi. 
 Before his Commentary^ ^c 
 
 Joseph Cakvl, "&:c. (M. A.)*, R- IVhite fc. 
 Bvo. 
 
 Jofeph Caryl, a moderate Independent, was 
 fome tinre a commoner at Exeter college in 
 
 Oxford. 
 
 C( 
 
 
|:lass1V. of ENGLAND. 31 j 
 
 Oxford. He was one of the aflembly of di- 
 vines, and a frequent preacher before the long 
 parliament in the reigo of Charles I. He was 
 feveral times appointed to attend upon that un- 
 happy prince, particularly when he was a pri- 
 foncr at Hoidenby, and a little before his 
 death ; but the king waved all offers of his 
 fervice. In 1650, he and Dr. Owen were, by 
 order of parliament, fent to attend on Crom- 
 well in Scotland, and to officiate as minifters. 
 He was a man of parts and learning, and of in- 
 defatigable induftry. He was author of a con- 
 fiderable number of fermons ; but his great 
 work is an endlefs " Commentary on Job," in 
 two volumes folio, which confiil of upwards of 
 Bx hundred Iheets *. It is alfo printed in twelve 
 volumes 4to. 0<^. Feb, 1672-3 f. 
 
 THOMAS DOOLITTLE, (M. A.), 
 
 JEt. 51. Before his *' 'Treatife on the Lord's Sup- 
 per ,' i6Sc j izmo, 
 
 John Dunton, who printed the book, informs 
 us that Robert White, who was fuccefsful in 
 likenefTes, got much reputation by this head. 
 " Dunton's Life," p. 346. 
 
 f It is indifcregt in an author to be voluminous, as the gene- 
 j-ality even of Ichobrs are too lazy even to read hooks of an enoi- 
 jnous length. Indeed the age of Charles TI. or rather the feven- 
 ttenth century, was tlie age of duii rhapfodles and folios. Ifpeak 
 jnot this in difparagement of Mr. Caryl's performance : but a 
 commentary on the *' Iliad/* ia twenty-four volumes in folio, 
 which bears much the fame proportion to this on the Hebrew 
 poet, mud needs be heavy and rhapfodical, though written by 
 Longinus hirnftlf. One juft remark has been made on its utility, 
 that ic is a very fuflicient excrcife for the virtue of patience, v.hich 
 It was chiefly intended to inculcate and improve. 
 
 f A great-grandfon of this Mr. Caryl was lateJy a mercer ia 
 the Strand, but is now retired from bufinefs, and has an eliate in 
 Hertford (hire. Dr. Lyndford Caryl, mailer of Jefus college, 
 Cambridge, and prebendary of Canterbury, Lincoln, and South- 
 yvell, is his great nephew, 
 
 Thomas 
 
314 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 Thomas Doolittle -, Crofsfc, 4 Englijjj vci'fes, 
 Thomas Doolittle, hcldirig a hook \ \imo. 
 
 Thomas Doolittle, a native of Kidderminfter 
 in WorcefterHiirc, was miniller ot St. Alphage, 
 in London, before the cjedment. Mr. Baxter, 
 who thought him a promifing youth, fent him 
 to Pembroke hall in Cambridge ; where he 
 made fuch a proficiency in learning, as fully an- 
 fwered his expe<ffation. He kept a private aca- 
 demy in Monkwell-rtreet, Cripplegate, where 
 he continued to preach, and trained up fcveral 
 miniiters of confiderable note. He had the 
 charadter of a ferious and affedionate preacher, 
 ' and was very aHlduous in catechifing. He pub- 
 
 lilhed books of pra6i:ical divinity to almolt the 
 time of his death, which was on the 24th of 
 May, 1707*. In the " Hiftory of Europe," 
 for that year, he is faid to have built the fird 
 meetin9;-houfe in London, and to have been the 
 *' lad that furvived of the mioifters ejected by 
 *' the adl of uniformity." His " Trearife on the 
 *' Sacrament," has, perhaps, been oftener print- 
 ed than any other book on that fubjedl -, and his 
 <' Call to delaying Sinners," has gone through 
 many editions. He was father of Samuel Doo- 
 little, fom.e time a miniRer at Reading in Berk- 
 fhire. 
 
 THOMAS GOUGE, (M. A.)-, i?^/0'^ 
 
 jR. White fc. Before his " Funeral Sermon^ 1682; 
 iimo, 
 
 Thomas Gouge ; Van Hove fc. 
 
 Thomas Gouge, minifter of St. Sepulchre's 
 in London, from the year 1638, to 1662, was 
 fon of Dr. William Gouge of Black Friars. He 
 
 • See Calamy, vol, iii. p. 76. 
 
 was* 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 315 
 
 w^s, throughout his life, a perfon of exemplary 
 piety ; and was, efpecially in the latter part of 
 it, fuch an example of charity, as none but men 
 of fortune, and of enlarged and benevolent 
 minds like his own, could imitate. He caufed. 
 many thoufand copies of the " Bible," " Church 
 •^Catechifm," " Pradice of Piety," and ''Whole 
 " Duty of Man," to be printed in the Wellh 
 language, and difperfed over Wales -, where he 
 fet up three or four hundred fchools *. He 
 conftantly travelled over that country once or 
 twice a year ; where he inlpedled every thing 
 relating to the fchools himfelf, and inftrudted 
 the people both in public dnd private. He was 
 author of feveral pradlical books, which he ufu- 
 ally diftributed^r^/Vj wherever he went. He 
 was a ftranger to tHe narrow bigotry of fedts, 
 and loved good men of every denomination. He 
 was conftantly chcarful, and fcarce ever knew 
 what ficknefs was. He died in his fleep, with 
 a fingle groan f, in the year 1681, and the 77th 
 of his age. His funeral fermon was preached 
 by Dr. Tillotfon, who fpeaks thus of him : 
 " There have not, fince the primitive times of 
 " chriftianity, been many among the fons of 
 " men, to whom the glorious character of the 
 *' Son of God might be better applied, that He 
 ^^ went about doing good, ^^ He is faid to have 
 conformed to the church fome time before his 
 death J. 
 
 P H I L I P H E N R Y, M. A. father of Mr. 
 Matthew Plenry. His portrait belongs to the reign 
 of William III. 
 
 * He was afllfted by his friends in tliefe charitable works. 
 
 t Every one of his friends was ready to cry out on this occafion, 
 
 Sic mihi contingat vivere, ficque mori ! 
 X " Magna Britannia,' iii. p, i2o. 
 
 ARTHUR 
 
3:6 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 ARTHUR JACKSON, minifter of St. 
 Faith's in London, whence he was ejcdled, in 1662. 
 See the 1nt£rregnum. 
 
 WILLIAM JEN KIN, (M. A.) •, afmall 
 hend^ in a plate 'u.ithfeveral oth<:rs. See Jacomb. 
 
 William Jenkin. who was, by his mother, 
 defcended from John Rogers, the prcro-martyr 
 in the reign of Mary, leccived his education at 
 St. John's cc'llege in Cambridge. About ^he 
 year 16^.1? he was cholcn miniiler of Chrift- 
 churcli, in London, and foon after ledurci at 
 St. Anne's Bi^-ck Fnars. When the Indepen- 
 dent fadion prevailed, he was lufpended from 
 his miniftry and deprived of his benefice for 
 refufing tooblerve the public thankfgivings en- 
 joined by the parliament. He afterwards em- 
 barked in a defign for refloring the king, for 
 which his friend Mr. Love was beheaded : but 
 on prefenting a petition to the parliament they 
 voted him a pardon. Upon the death of Dr. 
 Gouge, he was chofen minifter of Black Friars, 
 v;hich he afterwards quitted for the benefice 
 from which he had been ejeded. He, for fe» 
 veral years, preached upon the names given to 
 Chrilf in fcriptnre, and a courfe of fermons up- 
 on the Fpilile of Jude, which he pub'iflied. 
 Mr. Baxter flyles him a fcntentiotts and elegant 
 'preacher. He continued to preach in private 
 after the ad of uniformity took place : and 
 even in, and after the year 1(82, when the non- 
 conformilfs were more obnoxious to the laws 
 than ever, he went from place to place, and 
 preached where he thought he could do it with 
 'moil fecrccy ^. lie was at length furprifed by 
 
 a party 
 
 ♦As tbelaw^-. in X\\'\^ tcipn, were very feveroagainll all religious 
 afitiublies wijich *\cic' iioi ct the elhibl.ilied church, the Noiicon- 
 
 t'ormirts 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 317 
 
 a party of foldiers, and fcnt to Newgate ; where 
 he died the 19th of Jan. 1684-5. " He was 
 *' buried by his friends with great honour ; 
 •' many eminent perfons, and fome fcores of 
 *' mourning coaches attending his funeral*.'* 
 
 THOMAS CASE, {M. A.) y a/mail head^ 
 with fever al others. See Jacomb. 
 
 Thomas Cafe, who was educated at Chrift- 
 church in Oxford, was one of the alTembly of 
 divines in the late reign, and a frequent preach- 
 er bel-ore the parliament. He diftinguilhed 
 himfclf by his zeal for the Covenant -f, to which 
 he, with his ufual conftancy, adhered. He was 
 
 formifts fometiemes met in veryobfcure places in the country. 
 There is a tradition, that a congregation of Proteftant Diflenters 
 were afTembled in abarn, which frequently harboured beggars and 
 other vagrants : and that the preacher, for want of a ladder or a 
 tub, was fufpended in a fack affiKed to a beam. He preached 
 that day upon the laft jvidgment, and towards the clofe of his fer- 
 mon, entered upon a deicription of me terrors of that tribunaU 
 He had no fooner mentioned the *' founding of the trumpet," 
 than a drolling mimic-trumpeter who lay concealed in the ftraw, 
 began to exert himfelf. The congregation, ftriick with the ut- 
 mo'it coafternation, fled in an inltant from the place; and left 
 the affrighted preacher to (hift for himfelf. The effeils of his 
 fright are laid to have appeared at the bottom of the fack 5 and 
 to have occafioned that oppro'^rious appellation by which the 
 Nonconformifis were vulgarly diftinguifhed. This idle ftory, 
 which was communicated by a Dilfenting miniiler, was propa- 
 gated throughout the kmgdom, in the reign of Charles 11. 
 
 * Calarny. 
 
 f I cannot help obferving, that there is fomething ^o fanguin- 
 ary in one, at leaft, of his fcrmons, thar, like that of jofias How |}, 
 of Trinity college, Oxford, it fhould have been printed in red 
 letters. In thefermon preached before the court-martial, 1644., 
 be fays, '* Noble firs, imitate God, and be merciful to none that 
 ♦* have finned of malicious wickednelsj" meaning the royaiilts, 
 who were frequently llyled malignants. 
 
 II He was a native of Grcndon Underwood, Bucks. The fermon, of 
 which only thirty copies were taken, was thus pr«nfe<l by command of 
 Clurles I. The autlior is f<i:d to b.tve made a whinifical vow, that if he 
 ever printed any thing, it fhould be in r»;d letters. See V/ood's " Fafti," 
 it. 56, and Hcirne's '* GllTdry to Robert of Glo'.ic.-fl-er," p. 66n. H^w 
 d'cd in jyor, 'ged go. His. Ser'ncn is mentioned here ao a very angular 
 euriofity. Wtoi had never fccn it j bui Hsarne hii a copy. 
 
 loaie 
 
3i8 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 fome time minifter of St. Mary Magdalen's in 
 Milk-flreet -, but was ejeded thence for refuf- 
 ing the engagement ; and became afterwards 
 redor of St. Giles's in the Fields. He was im- 
 prifoned for fix months in the Tower, together 
 with Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Drake, and Mr. Watfon, 
 for confpiring againft the Independent govern- 
 ment : this was commonly called Love's plot. 
 They appear to have been equally engaged in 
 a deiign to reftore the king; but all, except 
 Love, were pardoned upon their fubmifTion. 
 He firft began the morning exercife, or ledlure, 
 which was long continued at Cripplegate, and 
 other parts ^f the city. He died the 30th of 
 May, 1682, in the 84th year of his age, after 
 having furvived every one of the Diflenters that 
 fat in the aflembly of divines. His works are 
 chiefly fermons. Mr. Baxter ftyles him " an 
 " old, faithful fervant of God." 
 
 SIMEON ASHE; a fmall head, with a 
 feu II, It is in the fame plate with that of J a comb, 
 
 Simeon Afhe, who was educated at Emma- 
 nuel college, in Cambridge, under Dr. Stooker, 
 was intimate with Hilderfham, Dod, Ball, Lang- 
 ley, and other nonconformifts eminent in their 
 day. He exercikd his miniftry in London for 
 about three and twenty years. In the time of 
 the civil war, he was chaplain to the earl oi 
 Warwick. As he was a man of fortune and 
 charadler, his influence was great among the 
 Prefbyterians. He k'd^ no inconfiderable hand 
 in the reftoration of Charles the Second, Dr. 
 Calamy fpeaks of him as a man of fandity, be- 
 nevolence, and hofpitality. " He v/as," fay5 
 that author, " a Chrifiian of primitive fimpli- 
 *' city, and a nonconformift of the old damp." 
 i How 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 315 
 
 How far the narrow bigotry of a fe6t, and acri- 
 mony of railing, may accord with ''primitive 
 *' fimplicity," I leave the reader to judge. I 
 am very certain that he proves himfclf to be a 
 nonconformtft of the old jl amp by bitter invedtivcs 
 againft the conforming clergy, whom he calls 
 " blind feers, idle drones, mifguiding guides, 
 " and fcandalous minifters, who plucked down 
 " more with their foul hands than they built up 
 '* v/ith their fair tongues *." Oh. 1662. He 
 publilhed Ball's works, and feveral fermons of 
 his own compofition. The reader is referred to 
 Walker and Calamy for the particulars of his 
 charadter. 
 
 THOMAS LYE, (M. A.) ; a /mail head^ 
 "uoith feveral others. See Jacomb. Mr. Wood fays 
 that this head is very like him. 
 
 Thomas Lye, who was feme time a fervitor 
 at Wadham college in Oxford, was, in the 
 time of the Interregnum, made minifter of 
 Chard in Somerfetfhire ; whence he was ejedlcd 
 for refufing to fwear contrary to the Covenant. 
 In 1658, he became paftor of Allhallows Church 
 in Lombard-itrect, London ; and v;as, the next 
 year, made one of the approvers of minifters, 
 as he had been before in SomerfetPnire, He was 
 famous for catechifing children, and writing 
 books for their inflrudtion. His manner of 
 inftrudino; was fo en2;3^in<?, that the children 
 came with eagernefs to be catechifed by him. 
 His " Explanation of the fliorter Catechifm," 
 and his *' Child's Delight," have been often 
 printed. Mr. Wood, in his account of his fer- 
 mons, fays he has one in '' The Morning Ex- 
 '* crcifc at St. Giles's in the Fields, near Lon- 
 
 • Sermon Before the Commons, 164Z. 
 
 « don, 
 
320 
 
 The history Charles It 
 
 « don, in May, 1659." Lond. 1676, 4to; 
 " In which *' Morning Exercife" one John TiU 
 ** Utfon hath alio a fermon." Ob, 7 July, 
 1684. 
 
 THOMAS WATSON, &c. (M. A.) s 
 
 7. ^turtfc. 
 
 Thomas Watfon, who was educated at Emma- 
 nuel college in Cambridge, was minifter of St, 
 Stephen's Walbrook in London, where he was 
 much admired as a preacher-, and his powers 
 in praying extempore, are faid to have been 
 very extraordinary. Dr. Calamy tells us, that 
 bifhop Richardfon, before the Bartholomew adb 
 took place, went to hear him on a iedlure day, 
 and was much taken with his fermon, but more 
 with his prayer after it ; that he followed him 
 home to thank him, and beg a copy of the 
 prayer ; and that the prelate was furprifed, 
 when he told him it was not premeditated. 
 His " Art of Divine Contentment," has been 
 oftener printed than any of his works. After 
 his death, was publifhed his " Body of Divinity, 
 *« or Courfe of Sermons," 1692, fol. to which 
 his portrait is prefixed *. 
 
 SAMUEL CLARKE, (Senr.)-, r.CrofsJc, 
 Samuel Clarke •, R, Gaywoodf. ^to, 
 Samuel Clarke •, R. White fc. h.pj. 
 Samuel Clarke-, y^/. 75, 051. 10, i674» 
 
 Bbme-man fc. Before his " Looking-glafs for Perfe- 
 
 " culors." 
 
 Samuel Clarke, &c. W, Tringhamfc. h.fh. 
 
 • Dr. Doddridge, in his " Life of Col. Gardiner," p. 31, edit. 
 1747, mentions a book, written by Watfon, with this or the like 
 title : •' The Chrillian Soldier, or Heaven taken by Storm," 
 which was the book in which the colonel bad been reading juil 
 before his marvellous converfion. 
 
 Samuel 
 
Glass IV. o ^ ENGLAND. 
 
 Samuel Clarke, a preacher and writer of con- 
 fiderable note, was, during the Interregnum, 
 and at the time of the ejedlion, minifter of St. 
 Kennet Fink, in London. In November, i66oy 
 he, in the name of the Prefbyterian minifters, 
 prefented an addrefs of thanks to the king, for 
 his declaration for liberty of confcience. He 
 was one of the commifiloners at the Savoy, and 
 behaved on that occafion with great decency 
 and moderation. '' He fometimes attended the 
 " church as a hearer and a communicant *.'* 
 He was much efteemed by all that knew him^ 
 for his great probity and ind'iftry. He died the 
 25th of Dec. 1682. His works were much in 
 vogue among ordinary readers. The author^ 
 and his bookfeller, feem to have been thorough- 
 ly informed of this fecrer, '* That a taking titles 
 ^^ page becomes much more taking, with an 
 " engraved frontifpiece before it; and that lic- 
 " tie pi^ures, in the body of the book, are great 
 " embellilhments to ftyle and matter.'* Mr* 
 Clarke was more a compiler than an author. 
 His name was anagramacized to Su(c)kallCreum^ 
 alluding to his taking the beft parts of thole 
 books from which he made his colle6lions. 
 The moft valuable of his numerous worlds are 
 his '* Lives of the Puritan Divines, and other 
 *' Perfons of Note;" in which are fon:ie things 
 ilot to be found in other memoirs. Twenty- 
 tvvo of thefe lives are printed vvith his *' Mar- 
 " tyrology." The reft are in his " Lives of fun- 
 *' dry eminent Perfons in thi.s latter Age/' 1683, 
 folio f-, and in his " Marrow of Ecclefiaftical 
 ^' Hiftory," folio and 4:0. 
 
 * Calamy. 
 
 t I" ^^16 preface to this book) in which are feveral portrait?, 
 is the Life of the author, written by himfelf. It appears by this 
 accounts that he w:is the raoll painful and voluminous compiler 
 of his age. 
 
 Vol. ill y SAMUEL 
 
 321 
 
322 
 
 The history CharlesII. 
 
 SAMUEL CLARKE, M. A. natus Nov. 
 X 2, 1 6 2 J R. IVtite ad vivum fc. h. Jh, 
 
 This perfon was the Ton of the former, and 
 much fuperior to him in parts and learning. 
 He was fellow of Pcmbroktr hall in Cambridge, 
 but was ejeded from his fellovvlhip, forrefufing 
 to take the engagement. He was alio ejedled 
 afterwards, from his redory of Grendon in 
 Buckinghamfhire. He applied himfelf early to 
 the ftudy of the fcriptures ♦, and the books 
 which he publifhed, as helps to others in the 
 fame courfe of ftudy, are fo many proofs of his 
 induftry and abilities. His " Annotations on 
 •* the Bible," printed together with the facred 
 tt\i^ was the great work of his life. It is com- 
 mended in very high terms by Dr. Owen and 
 Mr. Baxter, as a laborious and judicious per- 
 formance ; and in ftill iiigher, by Dr. Calamy, 
 who fays, that it " bears the lively fignatures 
 *" of his exa6l learning, fingular piety, and in- 
 " defatigable indultry •, and has been valued 
 " by good judges, of different fentimenrs and 
 •' perfuafions, confidering the brevity of the 
 " parts, and intirenei's of the whole, as the beft 
 " finglc book upon the ftble in the world." 
 It has been an excellent fund for fome modern 
 commentators, who have republifhed a great part 
 of it, with very little alteration. Nothing is 
 more common atprefenr, than to buy old books 
 of divinity at three pence a pound, and retail 
 them to the public at three halfpence a fiiecc. 
 Ob. Feb. 24, 1700-1, .Et. 75. He has been 
 confounded with Samuel Clarke, a celrbrated 
 Orientalift, of whom there is an account, in 
 •' Athen. Oxon." 11. Col. 456. 
 
 T H O- 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 
 
 THOMAS WADS WORTH, M. A. 
 
 R. J^hite fc. Before his " B.emmns j" 1680 \ fmall 
 %vo, 
 
 Thomas Wadfworth received his education 
 at Chrifi;*s college in Cambridge, v/here he was 
 under the care of Mr. Owtram, a tutor of emi- 
 nence. He waS) at the Reftoration, minifccr of 
 Newington Butts, where he not only fpent his 
 time, but a great part of his fortune, in works 
 of piery and charity. He diftributed Bibles 
 among the poor, and conftaotly vifited his pa- 
 rilhioners, and inftrucled them from houfe to 
 houfe. He was, at the time of the ejedlion, 
 minifter of St. Laurence Poultney in London, 
 and afterwards preached privately at Newing- 
 ton, Theobalds, and Southvv^ark. He received 
 nothing for his labours, but was content to fpend 
 and be fpent \n his great mafter's fervice. His 
 " Diary," printed at the end of his " Life,'* 
 contains the ftrongeft proofs of his beino- an 
 excellent Chriftian : and it is no lefs evidenr, 
 from his pra6cical v;orks, that he ftrove to make 
 others as good Chriftians as himfelf. He died 
 of the ilone, the 29th of 06t. ibj6. His com- 
 pofure under the tortures of his diftemper was 
 fuch, as (liewed his patience to be, at leail, equal 
 to the reft of his virtues. 
 
 HENRICUS NEWCOME, M. A. 
 Mancunicnfis \ R. IVhite fc, ^to. 
 
 Henry Ncwcome, of St. John's college in 
 Cambridge, was fome time redor of Ciaufworth, 
 in Cheihire, whence, in 1656, he removed to 
 Manchefter. He v/as a man of parts and learn- 
 ing, of great humanity and modefty, and ad- 
 mired as a preacher by all that ever heard him. 
 When he was no longer permitted to preach, 
 
 Y 2 he 
 
 S^3 
 
224 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 he applied himfelf diligently to writing, and 
 publilhed difrourles on iVvcral religious fub- 
 jc6ts. He was alio author of " A faithful Nar- 
 " rative of the Life and Death of that holy and 
 " laborious Preacher, Mr. John Machin, late 
 *' of Aftbury in Chefnire i" 1671; Svo. In 
 the latter part of his life, he preached at a cha- 
 pel on the fouth fide ot the town of Mane heller, 
 which was built on purpofe for him. Ob. Sept. 
 1695, Ht. 68. 
 
 JAMES JANEWAY, (M. K,) four verfes, 
 " I'ime made no furroxvs^'^ iffc. iimo. 
 
 James Janeway •, Van Hove fc. \omo. 
 
 James Janeway, tcgetker with the heads of 
 Edm. Calamy, Ralph Venning^ and Jcf. Caryl, Be- 
 fore ''• Saints Memorials^ Qc. being a Cohcoiicn of 
 *' divers Sentcnces^'^ 1674 •, ^vo. — All thefe perfons 
 had a hand in this book. 
 
 James Janeway was the fon of a clergyman in 
 Hertfordlhire, and the third of five brothers, 
 who were ail bred to the miniftry. In 1655, 
 he became a lludent of ChriQ-church in Ox- 
 ford, and, foon after the Reftoration, miniiier of 
 Rotherhithe in Surrey. He was a young man of 
 great indullry and (Iridnefs of life, and his 
 preaching is faid to have been attended with 
 fional effects upon many, efpcciaHy in the time 
 of the plague, when he entered into the defert- 
 ed pulpits, antl preached to great numbers : he 
 alfo made it his bufmefs to vifu the fick. Mr. 
 Wood, who lays " he was admired for a for- 
 *' ward and precious young man, efpecially by 
 '^ thole of t:.e female lex," has omitted thiscir- 
 cumftanceof his life. His labours, vvhichvvere too 
 many for h:s delicate confticution, are faid to 
 have haftened his death, which happened on 
 the 16th of March, 1673-4. A confiderable 
 
 number 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 325 
 
 number of his lermons are in print. He alfo 
 publifhed the Life of his elder brother, John, a 
 young man of extraordinary piety : *' A Token 
 *' for Children," often printed. His '' Le- 
 " gacy to his Friends," before which is his 
 portrait, contains twenty-feven famous in- 
 ftances of God's providence, in and about 
 fea-dangers and deliverances, &c. 1674; 8vo* 
 See more of him in his funeral fermon by 
 Ryther, before which is his print. 
 
 RALPH VENNING, with fever al other 
 heads. See the above article. 
 
 Ralph Venning, &c. (M- A.) ijoho died the 
 10^^ of March ^ 1673-4, in the year of his age, ^^ j 
 Hollar f i2mo. 
 
 Ralph Venning, who had been educated at 
 Emmanuel college in Cambridge, was, before 
 the ejediion, lecturer of the church of St. Olave 
 in Southwark, where he was in high repute for 
 his preaching. He was, in his charity-fermons, 
 a powerful advocate for the poor, among whom 
 hediftributed annually fome hundreds of pounds. , 
 
 His oratory on this topic is laid to have been 
 aimoft irrefiflible ; as fome have gone to church 
 with a refolution not to give, and have been in- 
 fenfibly and involuntarily melted into compaf- 
 fion, and beftowed their alms with uncommon 
 liberality. As he was a man of no faction him- 
 felf, men of different factions and religions 
 were generally difpofed to do judice to his cha- 
 radler. He was author of the nine pra(5lical 
 treatifes, which are all fpecified by Dr. Cala- 
 my. 
 
 HENRY STUBBES, (or Stubbe) (M. A.) 
 Oh, July 7, 1678 5 ^t' 11 \ \2mo. 
 
 y 3 Henry 
 
32^ The HISTORY CharlesII, 
 
 Henry Stubbes, who, according to Mr. Wood, 
 was educated at Magdalen ball "^, or, accord- 
 ing to Dr. Caiamy, at Wadham college, in Ox- 
 ford, was, tor many years, a minifter of very 
 confiderable note. He exerciied his miniftry 
 at Wells in Somerfctfhire ; afterwards at Durl- 
 ]ey and Horfley in Glocefteilliire : but, in the 
 latter part of his life, he refided altogether in 
 London. Here he preached almoil every day, 
 ^nd fome days twice. He was one of the moft 
 moderate and generally rcfpecled of the non- 
 conformifts : as he loved, io he Teemed to be 
 beloved of all good men. Dr. Caiamy fays 
 ♦^ he lived like an incarnate angel -," and Mr. 
 Baxter, his intimate friend, has, in the " Nar- 
 *' rative of his own Life," and the fermon which 
 he preached at his funeral, rep re fen ted him as 
 a man of great fandtity of life, and a bleffjng to 
 thofe parts of the kingdom in which he lived. 
 ^' I fcarce remember, fays he, the man that I 
 *' ever knew, that fervcd God with more ablo- 
 ^' lute rcfignation and devotednefs, in fmplidty 
 " arid godly fine en ty \ living, like the primitive 
 *' Chriftians, without any pride or worldly mo- 
 ^' tive •, or in whofe cafe I had rathfr die." — - 
 Dr. Calamv and Mr. Wood have o;iven us a lift 
 of his practical works •, but they have both 
 omitted the following : '*^ Two Epiftles to the 
 *' profedlng Parents of baptized Children,'* 
 written a little before his death, in 1678. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER N E S S E, (M. A.; 
 minifler of the gofpel in Eiect--Streer, London ; 
 
 Chriftopher Nefle, who was fome time of St^ 
 John's college in Ca,mbridge, was a miniiler 
 
 * *' AtU<;B.. Oxon," ii. col. 668^ 
 
 in 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. |27 
 
 in feveral noted towns in Yorkfliirc ; particu- 
 larly at Leedes, where, at the time of the ejec- 
 tion, he was ledlurer to Dr. Lake, afterwards 
 hifliop of Chichefter. There had been, for 
 fome time, a bickering betwixt the doctor and 
 the led:urer, who preached with warmth againft 
 each other's dodtrine. After the pafling of the 
 Five Mile Adl, he preached in feveral of the 
 villages about Leedes. In 1675, he was in great 
 danger of being fcnt to prifon ; which occa- 
 fioned his flying to London, where he became 
 minifter to a private congregation, and fpent a 
 great part of his time in writing. The chief 
 of his works, which are nuiiierous, are his 
 " Hiftory and Mydery of the Old and New 
 *' Tedament," &:c. * in four volumes folio ; 
 and his '' Church Hillory from Adam," 16B1, 
 John Dunton the bookfclier tells us, that he 
 wrote for him. " The Life of Pope Innocent XI." 
 of which the whole impreflion ibid off in a fort- 
 night -j-. His ftyle is but very indifferent. Ob» 
 26 D^c. 1705, Alt, 84. 
 
 J. FORBES, (M. A.) four Engli/Jo verfes ', 
 " He that z'iezvs Forbes^ s face,'* &c. i2mo, J. 
 
 James Forbes, defcended from an honour- 
 able family in Scotland, was educated at Aber- 
 deen, where he took the degree of mafter of 
 arts, and was afterwards admitted to the fame 
 degree at Oxford §. In 1654, he began to ex- 
 ercife his mmiftry at Glocelter j where he preach- 
 
 * The reader will find Tome things well worth his notice in 
 thefe volumes. 
 
 t " Dunton's Life." 
 
 J There is a print from the fame plate, with the name of Mur- 
 ford on it, concerning whom, after particular fearch, I cannot 
 find the leaft mention, The verfes under the head denote him a 
 poet. 
 
 § Calamy. 
 
 Y A cd 
 
3^3 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 eel in the cathedral for fix years, and exerted 
 himfelf To much, that his life was apparently ia 
 danger. He was ftronaly perluaded by dean 
 Frampton, afterwards bifhop -^ Giocefter, to 
 conform to the cnurch ; but penilted in his 
 nonconformity. He was very aillduous iri 
 preaching privately, when he could no longer 
 preach in public ; which occafioned his being 
 ieveral times imprifoned, and once for a whole 
 year. He v.as, as to his tenets, a ftritl Cal- 
 vinid:, and an Independent. He was liberal and 
 charitable to a degree beyond his circumflances, 
 and was greatly refpecfted for his learning and 
 piety. He died the 31ft of May, 171 2, in the 
 83d year of his age, and lies buried at Giocefler, 
 where he conftantly refided in the latter pare of 
 his life. " He was off and on," as Dr. Calamy 
 tells us, '' fifty-eight years minifter in that city." 
 The moil confiderable of his works is his 
 " Chrifbian directed in the Way to Heaven." 
 
 NATHANAEL VI N GEN T, (M. A.) 
 3cc. R. White fc. Bsjore his '' True Tciuhjione of 
 f^ Grace and Nature " i6Si -, fmali Svo. 
 
 Nathanael Vincent, woo received his educa- 
 tion at Chriit-church in Oxford, became a mem- 
 ber of that univcrfity at eleven vears of age : 
 and, when he was about eio-hteen, took the de- 
 gree of mafler of arts. We are informed by 
 Mr. Wood, that before he took that degree 
 be was an extravagant and diffolute young man ^ 
 but that afterwards he was vilibly reformed. 
 He foon became a very noted preacher and 
 writer ; and as he was one of the moil affiduous, 
 \'o he was alfo one of the molf unfortunate of 
 his nonconforming brethren. He was feveral 
 times imprifoned, and heavily fined for holding 
 conventicles -, and was cnce fentenced to fuffcr 
 
 three 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND; 329 
 
 three years imprifonmenr, and then baniQiment, 
 in purfuance of an ad made in the 25th of Eli- 
 zabeth. But his counfel finding a flaw in the 
 indidtment, the fentence was never carried into 
 execution. He diftinguiftied himfelf by preach- 
 ins amidft the ruins after the fire of London, 
 where multitudes aflembled to hear him, many 
 of whofe confciences were awakened by that 
 dreadful calamity"^. He died in 1697. He 
 was author of many fermons, and other prac- 
 tical pieces of divinity. 
 
 GEORGE GRIFFITH, M. A, R. 
 
 Wbitefc, 4,to. 
 
 The print, which is anonymous, is known by 
 this infcription : 
 
 " Mod gladly would I learn, and gladly 
 " teach." 
 
 Mr. George Griffith, who was educated at 
 Emmanuel college, in Cambridge f, was, before 
 the cje(5lion, a preacher at the Charter-houfe, 
 ^nd a weekly ledlurer at St. Bartholomew's be- 
 hind th€ Exchange. In 1654, he was added to 
 the number of thofe divines who were appoint- 
 ed comniilTioners for the approbation or rejec- 
 
 ' Thomas Vincent, his brother, a man of a fimilar charafter, 
 exerted himfelf on the fame occafion j as he did alfo in the time 
 of the pellilence, when he conftantly preached and vifited the 
 fjck, but efcaped the dillemppr himfelf. He was author of 
 *' God's terrible Voice to the City by Plague and Fire j*' and 
 publiflied another book of the like kind, occafioned by an erup-^ 
 rion of Mount ^tna, intitled, ♦* Fire and Brimftone j I. From 
 lleaven, in the burning of Sodqm and Gomorrah formerly j 
 li. From Earth, in the burning of Mount iEtna lately j III. 
 From Hell, in the burning of the wicked eternally j" 16705 8vo. 
 I have mentioned this book, as it is not fpecified in the lift of bis 
 works by Dr. Calamy. 
 
 t This appears from Kennet's " Regifter and Chronicle,'* p. 
 953, 934. The perfon of both his names mentioned by Dr. Ca- 
 j.uny, as taking his mafter's degree i^ 1726, was aftexwards bi- 
 fliop of St. Alaph, 
 
 tion 
 
3J0 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 tion of minifters, and who were diftinguifhed 
 by the name of Triers^. Dr. Calamy informs 
 us, that he was much followed in the former 
 part of his life, for his " great invention and 
 " devotion in prayer ;" but that when he was 
 advanced in years, his congregation declined. 
 The fame author, who makes no mention of 
 any thing written by him, gives us alfo to un- 
 derftand, that he was a man of an agreeable 
 converfation and polite behaviour. 
 
 GEORGE T R O S S, M. A. His portrait 
 belongs to the reio;n of William II J. 
 
 / 
 
 JOHN RAY, M. A. an eminent divine and 
 naturalift, has been always reckoned among the 
 nonconformiifhs, though he died in the communi- 
 on of the church of England. His portrait alio 
 belongs to the reign of William. 
 
 The Revd. M''. BAXTER; frcjn an original 
 in the poJ[eJp,on of the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Fawcet^ at 
 Kiddcrminfter \ Sp'iljhury f. h.flo. mezz 
 
 Richard Baxtlr ; a bock on a table before bim\ 
 eight Englifh verfes ; ^to. 
 
 RiCHARDUS BaXTERUS, A 167O, y^/. [^^ ', 
 
 R. White fc. 
 
 Richard us Baxter us, &c, eight EnglifJj verfes. 
 B^^re his " Poor Man's Family Bookf" 1674 j 
 ^vo, 
 
 Rtchardus Baxter us, &c. eight Englifi verfes \ 
 R.lVhitefc. Before his '■'' Catholic Thcohgy" 1675; 
 J olio. 
 
 Richardus Baxterus, jEt. 61 -, R. White fc. 
 b.fh. 
 
 * Thefe Triers for the moft part broui^^ht tl-.e teft to a fhort 
 jffue. If a miniftcr leatiily g:\vc up the Hve points of Avniinius, 
 embmcecl the tenets of Calvin, and was orthodox in politics, he 
 was generally qualiticd to hold any benetice in the church. 
 
 RiCHAR- 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 331 
 
 RicHARDus Baxterus ; Arthuv Solyfc, 1683 > 
 1 2 mo, 
 
 Richard Baxter was a man famous for vveak- 
 ncfs of body and ftrength of mind ; for having 
 the ftrongeft fenfe of religion himfelf, and ex- 
 citing a fenfe of it in the thoughtlefs and the 
 profligate ; for preaching more fermons, en- 
 gaging in more controverlies, and writing more 
 books, than any other nonconformift of his age. 
 He fpoke, difputed, and wrote with eafc ; and 
 difcovered the fame intrepidity when he reprov- 
 ed Cromwell, and expoftulated with Charles II. 
 as when he preached to a congregation of me- 
 chanics. His zeal for religion was extraordinary, 
 but it feems never to have prompted him to 
 fadion, or carried him to enthufiafm. This 
 champion of the PrefDyterians was the common 
 butt of men of every other religion, and of thofe 
 who were of no religion at all. But this had 
 very little effedl upon him : his prefence and his 
 firmnefs of mind on no occafion forfook him- 
 He was juft the fame man before he went into 
 a prifon, while he was in it, and when he came 
 out of it; and he maintained an uniformity of 
 character to the laft gafp of his life. His ene- 
 mies have placed him in hell ; but every man 
 who has not ten times the bigotry that Mr. Bax- 
 ter himfelf had, mud conclude that he is in a 
 better place. This is a very faint and imperfedt 
 fketch of Mr. Baxter's chara6ler : men of his 
 fize are not to be drawn in miniature. His por- 
 trait, in full proportion, is in his " Narrative 
 *' of his own Life and Times ;" which, though 
 a rhapfody compofed in the manner of a diary, 
 contains a great variety of memorable things, 
 and is itfelf, as far as it goes, a hiftory of non» 
 conformity. His *' Catholic Theology, and 
 
 his 
 
332 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 his " Saints Everlafting Reft," are the moft 
 confidcrable of his writings, which confift of 
 an hundred and forty-five different treatifes. 
 His " Call to the Unconverted" has been of- 
 tener printed than any of his works*. See the 
 following reign. 
 
 MATTHiEUS MEAD, 1(583; R.White 
 fc. Before his '* Good of early Obedience^^ 1683 ; ^vo, 
 There is a copy cf this by Nuttings prefixed to his 
 *' Toung Maris Remembrancer ^^^ a book not mentioned 
 by Dr. Calamy, 
 
 Matthew Mead, defcended from a good fa- 
 mily in Buckinghamfliire, was fome time mi- 
 nifter of Brickhill in that county •, whence he 
 removed to Stepney near London, where he re- 
 fided the greater part of his life. He was long 
 a very eminent preacher, and of no fmall note 
 as a cafuift and a writer; his " Almoft Chrif- 
 " tian" being efteemed an excellent perform- 
 ance. Though he was accounted a zealous 
 nonconformift, he never meddled with contro- 
 verfies, but was extremely defirous of an union 
 of all vifible Chriftians f. He was, among 
 other innocent perfons, accufed as an accom- 
 plice in the Rye-Houle Plot ; upon which he 
 fled into Holland, and carried his fon Richard 
 
 • Baxter was the chief of the commifTioners for the Prefbyte- 
 rians, at the conference held at the Savoy; the iilue of which 
 was, that both parties were much further from a comprehenfion 
 tlian they were before it began. 
 
 At p. 54 of archdeacon Sharp's " Vifitation Charges," in the 
 notes, is the following paflage, fubjoined to that part of the 
 charge where the author fpeaks concerning the admiflion of 
 fchiiniatics, not lying under ecclefiaftical cenfurcs, to the facra- 
 ment. ** This matter was thoroughly confidered in the cafe of 
 ** Mr. Richard Baxter, the famous nonconformifl, if he may bs 
 ** called lb, who conllantly attended the church-fervice and f^- 
 •* crament in the parifli where he lived, at thofe times when he 
 ** was not engaged at his own meeting-houfe." 
 
 I bermon at his funeral, by Mr, John Howe. 
 
 with 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. S33 
 
 with him, whom he placed under an excellent 
 fchoolmafter. This fon, who was the eleventh 
 of his thirteen children, rofe to great eminence 
 in the profefTion of phyfic, and was many years 
 phyfician to George II. After his return to 
 England, he was fummoned to appear before 
 the privy-council, where he very fully vindicat- 
 ed his innocence, and was prefently difcharged. 
 He died on the i6th of Oct. 1699. Mr. John 
 Howe, who preached his funeral fermon, re- 
 prefents him as a man of exemplary condu6b in 
 every relation of life. 
 
 JOHN FLAVEL, yEL 50, 1680 5 R. 
 White fc. j^to, 
 
 John Flavel, who was educated at Univerfity 
 college in Oxford, was minifter of Deptford, and 
 afterwards at Dartmouth in Devonfhire, where 
 he refided the greateft part of his life. He 
 wrote many pieces of practical divinity, fomc 
 of which were calculated for failors \ particu- 
 larly his " Navigation fpiritualized, or a New 
 
 Compafs for Seamen, confifting of thirty-two 
 '^ Points of pleafant Obfervations, and ferious 
 '' Reflections, 8vo. to which are fubjoined fpi- 
 ■' ritual Poems." He was alfo author of 
 
 Hufbandry fpiritualized, &c. to which arc 
 
 added Occafional Meditations upon Beafts, 
 "' Birds, Trees, Flowers, Rivers, and feveral 
 
 other objedls *," 8vo. He was long a con- 
 ftant and a frequent preacher, and was thought 
 to have a good talent that way. Part of his; 
 Diary, printed with his Remains, muft give 
 the reader a high idea of his piety. Though he 
 was generally refpeded at Dartmouth ; 
 
 * See the note under the article of Dr. Collin gs, in this 
 Clafs. 
 
 vet, 
 
334 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 yet, In 1685, feveral of the aldermen of that 
 place, attended by the rabble, carried about a 
 ridiculous effigy of him, to which were affixed 
 the Covenant, and the Bill of Exclufion. He 
 thought it prudent at that time, to withdraw 
 from the town ; not knowing what treatment 
 he might meet with himfelf, from a riotous 
 mob, headed by magiftrates who were them- 
 felves among the lowefl of mankind. Ob. 26 
 June, 1 691, Mt. 61. His works were printed 
 after his death, in 2 volumes folio. 
 
 Mr. EDMUND TRENCH; M Beak 
 p, R. JVhite fc. MottOy *' In Simplicity and goodly 
 *' Sincerity,''^ Before his " hife^^ drawn out of his 
 cwn Diary y i6g^}, iimo. 
 
 Edmund Trench, when he was about fixteen 
 years of age, was lent to Queen's college in 
 Cambridge, whence he removed to Magdalen 
 hall in Oxford, where he (laid about two years. 
 He afterwards ftudied phyfic abroad : but his 
 inclination leading him ftrongly to the miniflry, 
 he applied himfelf to divinity. He was a man 
 of the fincereft piety, and appears to have been 
 very fenfibly affcdicd with the follies and irre- 
 gularities of his younger years. But thefe were 
 amply atoned for by his fubfequent condu(5l. 
 He fpent his time, and part of his fortune, in 
 the exercife of his miniftry, without receiving 
 any thing for his labours. He appropriated 
 the /eyith, and for fome years, the feventh part 
 of his income, to works of charity. His " Di- 
 ** ary,'* which was written for his private ufe, 
 without any defign of its being communicated 
 to the public, as fome late Diaries have bee)?, 
 fhews what fort of a man he was. Ob. March 
 30, i6Jq, ^t, 46. 
 
 ISAAC 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 535 
 
 ISAAC AMBROSE. ^/. ^9, 166^1 
 
 a hook in his right hand. Before his " Jrorks j" JoU 
 1674, & 1689. 
 
 Ifaac Ambrofe was minifter of Prefton, and 
 afterwards of Garftang, in Lancafhire ; whence 
 he was, in 1662, ejedlcd for nonconformity. Ic 
 was ufual with him to retire every year for a 
 month, into a little hut in a v;ood, where he 
 ftiunned all fociety, and devoted himklf to reli- 
 gious contemplation. He had, according to 
 Dr. Calamy, a very ilrong impulfe on his mind 
 of the approach of death •, and took a formal 
 leave of his friends at their own houfes, a little 
 before his departure : and the laft night of his 
 life, he fent his Difcourfe concerning Angels 
 to the prefs. The next day, he fhut himfelf up 
 in his parlour; where, to the great furprifeancl ^ 
 regret of all that faw him, he was found juft 
 expiring, Ob* 1663-4, Mt, "ji. Dr. Calamy 
 fays, that it is much to be ia ncnted that there 
 are no particular memoirs of his life. 
 
 EDWARD PEARSE, ^t. 40, 1673. 
 R. White fc. iimo. Before his " Lafi Legacy" 
 which is the fecond edition of hts " Beams of Divim 
 « Gloryr 
 
 Edward Pearfe, whom Dr. Calamy (lyles 
 ** a mod affcdlionate and ufeful preacher," was 
 ejecled from St. Margaret's Wcltminfter, when 
 the act of uniformity took place. He was au- 
 thor of feveral pradical trcatilcs ; the moR not- 
 ed of which is entitled, *' The great Concern, 
 *' or a lerious Warning to a timely and tho- 
 *' rough Preparation for Deatli," &c. which was 
 frequently dillributed at funerals. It has been 
 rcpiinccd above twenty times. He earneflly 
 prayed, in his lalt illaefs, that fo}i:ething of his 
 
 might 
 
33* 
 
 The history Charles 11. 
 
 ii 
 
 might be ufeful after his deceafe ; " which prayer, 
 fays Dr. Calamy, '* was remarkably anfwered 
 " in the fignal fuccefs of this little book." Ob, 
 1673, ^^. ¥^^* 
 
 G U L I E L M U S S H E R W I N, &c. /F. 
 
 Sherwinfc, We learn from the Latin infcfiption 
 on this print, that the engraver was the eldeft fon 
 of the perfon reprefcnted, and that he was made 
 royal engraver by patent. The head is prefixed 
 to his " Clavis," &c. 4to. 1672. 
 
 William Sherwin, minifter of Wallington in 
 Hertford/hire, and ledurer of Baldock in that 
 county, applied himfelf to the fludy of the ab- 
 flrufeft parts of fcripture, on which he has pub- 
 iiflied feveral books. He particularly fludied 
 the obfcure prophecies of Daniel, and St. John 
 in the Apocalypfe; and was much bigoted to 
 his millennial notions. 
 
 BENJAMIN KEACH, an Anabaptift, 
 and a noted apocalyptical author. His portrait 
 belongs to the reign of William III. 
 
 WILLIAM DYER; y£t. 27; 12;?;^. 
 
 William Dyer was minifter of Choleibury in 
 Buckinghamfhire : whence he was ejeded, in 
 1662, for nonconformity. He was author of 
 fermons on feveral fubjeds, printed in fmall 
 volumes, and commonly fold among chapmens 
 
 • There was another Edward Pearfe, who was author of" Tht 
 *< Conformiirs Plea for the Nonconformills,'" who has been con- 
 founded with the perfon above mentioned. I take this to be the 
 fninifter of Cottefbrook, in Northamptonlhire, whom Wood, vol. 
 ii. col. 999, calls *' a conforming Nonconformifh" That the 
 author of the •* Plea" really conformed is apparent from South'i; 
 ** Sermons," vol. vi. p. 33, from Kennet's " Regiller and Chro- 
 «* nicle/* p. 755, and from NeaPs *' Hiftory of the Puritans," 
 ▼ol. IV. p. 508, 
 
 books. 
 
Glass IV. o f E N G L A N D, 337 
 
 books. His " Glimpfe of Sion's Glory," which 
 contains the iubilancc of leveral Icimoivs upon 
 Rev. xiv. 4. is dedicated to the parifhiohers 
 of Cholefbury. His *' Chrili's fainous Titles, 
 " and a Believer's Golden Chain/* are in an- 
 other fmall volume. His *• Chi ill's Voice to 
 *' London," &c. contains two lermons preach- 
 ed in the time of the plague *. He turned 
 Qiiaker in the latter part ct his iifr, and lies 
 interred in the burying-ground in Soiuhwark. 
 Cl>, April, i6^6y ALt. 60. 
 
 THOMAS COLE, cUak, JJoort hand, ^to. 
 mezz. 
 
 Tlioilias Cole was author of flneral fermons, 
 printed in the Supplement to the '' Morning 
 *' Exercile at Cripplegate," ?.nd in the *' Ca- 
 *' fuidical Mornin^y Exercife." See Letlbme's 
 " Preacher's Afiiftant." 
 
 NATHANAEL PARTRIDGE, mtzz. 
 
 Nathaniel Partridge was minifter at St, Al- 
 ban^s : Dr. Calamy luppofes that he belonged 
 to St. JVlichael's, and thac he was rjcdcd ia 
 1662. 
 
 Mr. J O H N G O S N O L D, Minifter of the 
 Gofpel, &c. " Of whom the World was noc 
 worthy.'* Van Hove fc. limo, 
 
 John Gofnold, who vvas an anabaptifl preacher 
 in London of Tome note, v\as educated at Pem- 
 broke hall in Cambridge. He particularly ex- 
 erted himfelf againll Socinianii'm. He died, 
 
 • His works, which are much in the Ilyle of BuHyan, wer« 
 re-printed in 1761, 
 
 Vol. IIL Z much 
 
13^' 
 
 The history Charles H; 
 
 much regretted by his flock, 1678, in the fifcy- 
 third year of his age ^ . 
 
 HANSARD KNOLLIS, Minifler of the 
 Goipci, aged 6'] Years ; j'mall 8^'(?. 
 
 Hanfard Knollis, who was feveral times con- 
 vened before the committee for preaching An- 
 tinomianifm and Antip?edobaptifm, having been 
 prohibited from preaching in public churches, 
 opened a fe par cite congregation in Great St. He- 
 len's, which was foon fupprefled-]-. It appears 
 from his book on the nth chapter of the Re- 
 velation, which he publifhed in this reign J, 
 that he v^as ftrongly tindlured with Qiiakcrifm. 
 He was author of " A Flar/iing Fire in Zion,*^ 
 in anfwer to Mr. Saltmarlh's book entitled 
 " The Smoke in the Temple." If the reader 
 ihould have patience to perufe thefe two very 
 lingular pieces, he will moll probably be of opi- 
 nion, that there is much more fmoke than fire 
 m them both. 
 
 I take the two following perfons to be difient- 
 ing minillers, but know nothing of their per- 
 fonal hiflory. They may perhaps belong to a 
 fubfeauenc reign. 
 
 JOSUA MOONEv l^ir, cotf, Jhort ha^d 
 vo'itb firings^ a black Uoje robe^ arms. Met to ^ '' ^dd 
 " retrihuam Domino.'''' At hot tern., '' Mediis Iran- 
 ^' qui II us in undis." R. fVbite ad vivum delin, 
 
 JOHN HOP WOOD, .^/. 26, 1676. 
 
 H UGH PETER S, 0.7. 1660, .^/. 61 ; 
 izmo. 
 
 •Calamy. -]• l^;€al, iii. p. 163. t 1679. 
 
 *« Lo 
 
Class IV. or ENGLAND. 33^ 
 
 " Lo here the didates of a dying man ! 
 
 " Mark well his note ! who like the expiring 
 
 *' fwan 
 *' Wifely prefaging her approaching doom, 
 *^ Sings in fofc charms her epiccdium. 
 *' Such, fuch, were his • v^^ho was a fliining 
 
 " lamo 
 *' Vv^hich, though extinguiln'd by a fatal damp, 
 ** Yet his lad breathings fhall, like incenid 
 
 " hurl'd 
 " On facred altafs, fo perfume the world, 
 *' That the next will admire, and out of doubr^ 
 *' Revere that torch-light which this age puc 
 
 »' out *." 
 Before his " Laft Legacy to his Daughter, ^^ 
 
 Hugh Peters, together with his brethren the 
 fegicides^ went to his execution with an air of 
 triumph, rejoicing that he was to fuffer in {o 
 good a caufe. It appears from this inftance, 
 and many others, that the prerumption of an 
 enthufiaft is much greater than that of a fainr* 
 The one is always humble, and ^vonks out his 
 f aha Hon with fear and trembling ; the other is 
 arrogant and afTuming, and feems to demand ic 
 as his right. This portrait may be degraded to 
 the twelfth Clafs.- See the Interregnum. 
 
 * Lord Clarendon obferves, that the fanatics " difcovered a 
 ** wonderful malignity in their dilcoiirfes, and vows of revenge 
 *' for their innocent friends, (the regicides). They caufed the 
 ^* fpeeches they made at their deaths to be printed, in which 
 ** there was nothing of a repentance or ibrrow for their wicked - 
 *' nefs ; but a juftification of whr.t they had done for the caufe 
 ** of God." Tliey had their meetings to confulc about revenge, 
 and hoped that the difbanded artny would have efpoufed their 
 caufe. See the " Coiulnuauoh of lord Clarendon's Life," p^ 
 i3*» 135 ' 
 
 Z 5t CLER- 
 
340 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 CLERGYMEN of the CHURCH of ROME. 
 
 THOMAS PHH.IPPUS HOWARDUS, 
 
 &c. card in alls de Norfolcia, Nicolo Byli fc. large 
 Jh. 
 
 A copy by Clcuet^ /^to, -f 
 
 Philippus Howard, Cardinalis de Norfolk. 
 N, Noblin fc. '•' Offcrcbant Alumni Anglo-Dua- 
 *' ccni •/' h.Jb. From a private pUte in the pojfef- 
 fion of the honour<.ib:e Charies Howard of Greyfiock^ 
 efq. author (f the " Hijhrical Anecdotes of fome of 
 *' the Howard Family.^* 
 
 Thomas HowAPvD, cardinal, &c. Du Chatel p, 
 J. y under Briiggen f. mezz. b.fh. * 
 
 Thomas Philip Howard, third Ton of Henry 
 earl of Arundel, and younger brother to Henry, 
 duke of Norfolk, went abroad vvi:h his grand- 
 father, Thomas, earl of Arundel, in the time 
 of the civil war-, and at about fifteen years of 
 age, entered into a convent of Dominicans at 
 
 Cremona. In May, 1675, ^^ ^^^^ ^'^ ^'^^ ^"" 
 tt-reft of cardinal Altieri, advanced to the pur- 
 ple. It is probable that the pope had a view of 
 promiOting the Catholic caufe in England by 
 his means •, as the duke of York, the heir to 
 the crown, was proft'nediy of that religion. He 
 was fjmetimes called the cardinal of Englavd^ 
 as cardinal Allen was formerly, and was the 
 only Engliiliman raifed to that dignity, fincc 
 the reign o^ Elizabeth. Pie was a man of fin- 
 gular humanity and benevolence, and was ge- 
 
 f In " Vitx Pontif, & Cardinal.''* Romsc, 1751, 2 vol. fol. 
 
 • At lord Spencer's, at Wlmbleton, is a fine portrait, by Ru- 
 ben?, fahi to b-^ of cardinal Hownid, who did not armr.e the pur- 
 ple till the year 1675; but Rubens, who undoubtedly painted 
 the pi(^ure^dieJ in 1640. 
 
 nerally 
 
Class IV. of ENGLAND. 341 
 
 nerally vifittrd by the Englifli nobility and gen- 
 try in their travels. He was zealous for his re- 
 ligion, and very defirous of making converts. 
 The lady Theophila Lucy, widow of fir Kingf- 
 mill Lucy, and fecond daughter of George, earl 
 of Berkeley, was converted by him, when flic 
 was at Rome, in the latter end of this reign. 
 This lady became afterwards the wife of Roberc 
 Nelfon, efq. who, when he married h'rr, knew 
 nothino; of the chancre of her religion. 
 
 OLIVERIUS PLUNKET-, G, Mor^ 
 pheii p. J. Vandervaart f. h.Jh. mezz. 
 
 Oliver Plunket^ Murphey p. 'T, Bonbar exc* 
 h. Jh mezz. 
 
 Oliverius Plunket, archiepifcopus Armacha- 
 nus, &:c. roles ^ crofier^ t^c, ^vo. 
 
 The plate, which belonged to Dr. Rawlinfon, 
 is in the Bodleian Library, where there is a paint- 
 ing of him, 
 
 Oliverius Plunket, &c. Collhis BruxelL fi, 
 
 Oliver Plunket, titular primate of all Ireland, 
 was advanced to the archbiOiopric of Armagh 
 by the interefb of cardinal Rofpigliofi. His pro- 
 motion is faid to have been in lieu of a debt, 
 which a certain lady was unable, or unwilling 
 to pay, and therefore follicited the cardinal in 
 his behalf*. He was a man of an inoffenfivc 
 character ; but was condemned upon the telli- 
 mony of very infamous wirnefTes, for a defign 
 of bringing a French army over to Ireland, to 
 malfacre all the Proteflants in that kingdom. 
 The ground of the profecution againft him was 
 his ccnfuring feveral prielfs, who were fubordi- 
 nate to him, for their fcandalous Ic w d li efs -f, 
 
 • See " Athen. Oxon/' i. »2i. 
 
 f Burnet, ii. jcz. 
 
 Z 3 He 
 
342 
 
 The history Charles II, 
 
 He did not only deny the accufation upon his 
 trial, but perfifted in afierting his innocence to 
 the lad moment of his life. I'he parliament, 
 who toolv every oecafion of exprelTing their ani- 
 mofity againft the Papifts, owned themfelves 
 convinced of the reality of *' the horrid and 
 '' damnable lv\ih plot " He was hanged, drawn, 
 and quartered, July i, 1681. His quarters 
 were buried in the church-yard of St. Giles's in 
 the Fields, near the bodies of five Jefuits, who 
 were a little before executed at Tyburn. His 
 remains were afterwards taken up, and convey^ 
 cd to the monafbery of Benedidines, at Landf- 
 prug in Germany, 
 
 RICHARDUS RUSSELLUS, Por- 
 
 talegrenfis Ecclefioe Epifcopus ; T*. Dudley Anglusf^ 
 ^6^^' Itt the balit of a bijhop of the church Rome, 
 
 Richard RufTel, a native of Rutlandfliire, was 
 educated in the Englifh college of fecular priefts 
 at Lifbon. He, in the quality of interpreter, 
 attended Don Francifco de Mello to England, 
 when he came to negotiate the marriage betwixt 
 Charles II. and the mfanta. He v/as, upon his 
 return rewarded with the bifhopric of Portalc- 
 gro. I know not what pretenfions he had to the 
 i'aintly character, but Dod fpeaking of him, 
 fays, " I find, in a letter written by Dr. Godden 
 *' into England, that during the ceremony of 
 " his confecration, a dove was feen to come in 
 " at the window, and hover partly over his 
 *' head, which the doiflor leaves to his corref- 
 *' pondent to fpeculatc upon." Bifhop Ruflcl 
 was living in j688, 
 
 H. B R A D Y, ^ hc'jd in an ovaU ivith a fmall 
 peaked heard •, ^uirinus Bod del, &' f, Lovcuiii •, h. fh. 
 Round the oval is this ijifcripticn : " Adm. Rev. il- 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 343 
 
 " luftri clariirimoq-, D. D. H. Brady, Equiti, Pro- 
 
 *' thon. ApoftoL J. U. D. et Prof, infig. Exclef. 
 
 *« S. Petri, Lovanii, Cano. Colle. S. Ann^ Prs- 
 
 *' fidi, Natio. Hib. D. co." 
 
 This diftich, which was part of the epigram 
 on the print, feems to intimate that he publiihed 
 a book of canon law : 
 
 " O quantum y^/m thefaurum, !e<5lor, habcres, 
 *' Si fciret pidtor jus dare cuique fuum." 
 
 P. Fr. BONAVENTURA BARO, Hi- 
 
 bernus, Sec. JEt. 52. B. Schraman del, IV. Kilian 
 fc. An oval in an Qrnnmented fronlifphce to a booky 
 dated 1662, He ij reprefented in a cordelier'* s hoMt ; 
 h. Jb. 
 
 Bonaventure Baron, was a native of Clon- 
 mell, in the county of Tipperary, in Ireland.^ 
 Luke Wadding, his uncle, a celebrated friar of 
 the order of St. Francis, of which he wrote 
 an account, fuperintcnded his education, and 
 was the occafion of his taking the habit of the 
 fame order. He lived about fixty years in 
 Rome, where he was for a confiderable time 
 prasledor of divinity. He died very old and 
 blind, March 18, 1696. He was mafter of a 
 very good Latin ftyle, and was a voluminous 
 writer in that language. His capital work was 
 his " Theologia," in fix volumes. He alio 
 wrote three books of Latin poetry. See a lift 
 of his works in Sir James Ware's "Writers of 
 " Ireland," p. 253. 
 
 P. JOANNES YOUNGUS, Hibernus. 
 Societar. Jeiu, Ob. Romas, 13 Julii, 1664, Mk. 
 75 i izmo. 
 
 Z A An 
 
544 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 An anonymous Clergyman of the Church of 
 Rome; IV. Reader p. J, Collins fc. h.Jh, He is 
 luppored CO belong to this reign. 
 
 THOMAS PICK HIRING, ordinis Sf. 
 Benedidi Monachus ; pcijfas Lend. 9 Man^ ^^79t 
 JEt. 53 •, "i^vo. 
 
 l^honnas Pickering lod Iiis life upon the de- 
 pcfidon of I'itus Oates, who fwore that he and 
 Grove were tl'^e perfons who undertook to afiaf- 
 linate the kin^. Some of his letters, which 
 were produced in court againd him, contained 
 ambiguous eiipreifions that really ^rd^x'^^' nothing 
 at all ; but were thought to prove a great deal, 
 when the minds of men were ftrongly prcpof- 
 iciTcd, and people of all ranks throughout the 
 kingdom talked and dreamed of nothing but 
 Popifh plo:s, 
 
 "THOMAS H A R C O T T U S J, Sp- 
 
 ^^ cietatis Jefu R. P. prsep. per Angliam provin- 
 " cialis. Fidei odio fufpenlus et diffc6lus, ad Ti- 
 *' bourn prope Londinum, 4?- Junii, 1679." Mar- 
 tin Bcucbefc. Antverpi^. A k alter abcut his ncck^ 
 and a knife Ji tick in his hreafi •, 1 zmo. 
 
 Thomas Harcourt was hanged, drawn, and 
 quartered at Tyburn, together with four other 
 Jefuics; namely, Whitebread,Fenwick,Gavan *", 
 and Turner, for confpiring the death of the 
 king. Gates, Bedloe, and Dugdale, were evi- 
 dences againft thtm. Dugdale dcpofed, that 
 he had feen no lefs than a hundred letters relative 
 to the projected afladination *, which circum- 
 ftance alone was fufficient to invalidate his whole 
 
 J riis name was ^irobably pronounced Harcott. 
 
 • Gdvaa defu cd that \\\i innoceuce might be proved by the 
 
 evidence. 
 
IClass IV. o F E N G L A N D. 345 
 
 evidence. He alfo dcpofed, that Harcourt wrote 
 an account of the death of fir Edmundbury 
 Godfrey, the fame night in which he was mur- 
 dered, to one Ewers in StafFordfhire. Though 
 Oates's evidence, like that of Dugdale, was not 
 abfolutcly incredible in itfelf, it was contradidl- 
 ed by fixtecn witnefles of charader from St. 
 Omer's, who fwore that he was at that place 
 himfelf at the time the pretended confultation of 
 the Jcfuits was held in London. Such as were 
 difpofed to turn evidences againft the Papifts, at 
 this juncture, were much encouraged by the earl 
 of Shaftefbury. 
 
 JOHANNES FENWICKUS, Socie- 
 tatis Jefu Sacerdos, R. P. Fidci odio fufpenfus & dif- 
 fedus ad Tibourn, prope Londinum, 20-30 Junii, 
 J 679. Martin Bquchefc, Ant, fmall tvo, 
 
 GULIELMUS WARINGUS, Soc. 
 
 Jefu, fufpenfus & difledtus ad Tibourn, 20-30 
 Junii, 1679, Martin Boucbefc, fmall 2>vo. 
 
 Fenwick and Waring appear to have been 
 fellow-fuffercrs with the other Jefuits, and in 
 the fame caufe, 
 
 JOSEPH CARRERAS, chaplain to 
 queen Catharine. See the next reign. 
 
 THOMAS ALBIUS, or White. See 
 
 the reign of Charles I, 
 
 RICHARD CARPENTER; r. Crofs 
 fc, i2mo. Before his ^^ Pragmatical J efuity^* a co- 
 tned\\ publiJJjcd after the Rejloration -f , 
 
 Some particulars of this author's perfonal hif- 
 tory are to be found in his (trange medley, cn- 
 
 f Jacob, who mentions this comedy, has placed the author in 
 jhc reign of James I. See *' Lives of the Dramatic Poets." 
 
 titled, 
 
346 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 titled, " Experience, Hiftory, and Divinity.** 
 He tells us in his book^, in which he fpeaks 
 with great freedom of the corruptions of the 
 church of Rome, that his whole heart was never 
 converted to that church ; and we are fure that 
 it was never half converted to the church of 
 England. — Before I take my leave of Richard 
 Carpenter, I fhall prefent the reader with a fpe- 
 cimen of his ftyle : it is before the table of er- 
 rata, at the end of the book above mentioned. 
 *' I humbly defire all clean hearted and right 
 *' fpirited people, who (hall reade this book, 
 *' (which becaufe the prefle was opprcfred,feems 
 " to have been fuppreffed, when it was by little 
 " and little imprefled ; but now, at laft, hath 
 " prefled through the prefTe into the publicke), 
 " firfl: to reflore it by corrcdting thefe errata," 
 &c. — One would imagine that the author, 
 during his refidence in Spain, had been particu- 
 larly converfant with books of chivalry. This 
 fpecimen is exadtly of a piece with the follow- 
 ing, which was taken by Cervantes from one of 
 the Spanifli romances, and is the flyle which is 
 luppofed to have turned Don Qiiixotc's brain, 
 *' The reafon of your unreafonable ufage of 
 ** my reafon, docs fo enfeeble my reafon, that 
 " I have reafon to expoftulate with your beau- 
 *' ty," &:c. t 
 
 A LAY PREACHER. 
 
 JOHN BUNYANi Sturt fc. Before his 
 " Grace ahoundingy^ ^c. 12W0, 
 
 John Bunyan; Sturt fc. Before his " Pilgrim's 
 " Frogrefs j" 81^^. 
 
 • Part ii. p. 75. 
 
 f Motteaux *' Don Qnixote,'' |). 3, 
 
 John 
 
Class IV. o f E N G L A N D. 347 
 
 John BuNYAN ; White Jc. iimo, 
 
 John BuNYAN ; Burnfcrdfc. izmo, 
 
 John Bunyan; P. Bouche fc. iimo, 
 
 John Bunyan, jEt, 57 ; in a round, 
 
 John Bunyan ; another etchings large ^to, 
 
 John Bunyan ; etched by Mr, John Hcllahd^ late 
 
 cf Peter-houfe in Cambridge^ from a drawings fuppofed 
 
 to be hy Fait home ^ in the pojfejjion of the reverend Mr. 
 
 Lort, On the print is infcribed: " J. H. f. 1756 j" 
 
 4/^. 
 
 John Bunyan, a well known preacher and 
 writer, of antinomian principles, was Ton of a 
 tinker in Bedfordlhire, where he for fome time 
 followed his father's occupation. His conver- 
 fion, as he informs us himfelf, began in the 
 early part of his life, while he was at play among 
 his companions ; when he was fuddenly furprifed 
 with a voice which faid to him, " Wilt thou 
 " leave they fins and go to heaven, or have thy 
 *' fins and go to hell ?" Upon which he lifted 
 up his eyes, in great amazement, towards hea- 
 ven, whence the voice came, and thought he 
 faw Chrift looking down upon him *. This 
 had a great cfFed upon his mind : but he grew 
 far more ferious upon a cafual conference which 
 he held with four poor women of Bedford, upon 
 the fubjedt of the new birth. From that time 
 he applied himfelf diligently to reading the 
 fcriptures, and, in a few years, became a preacher 
 and writer of note. He was long confined in 
 the county goal at Bedford for holding conven- 
 ticles : here he fpent his time in preaching, 
 writing books, and tagging laces for his fup- 
 
 • This is the fubflance of his own account, in his " Grace 
 "Abounding," which contains the hiltory oi his converfion, and 
 irpany other particulars of his life. 
 
 port. 
 
348 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 port*. After his enlargement, he travelled in- 
 to many parts of the kingdom, *' to vifit and 
 " confirm the brethren." Thefc vifuations pro- 
 cured him the nick-name of Bipjcp Bunyan, 
 When he arrived at the fixtieth year of his age, 
 which was the period of his life, he had written 
 books equal to the number of his years : but as 
 many of thefe are on fimilar fubjt^ls, they are 
 very much alike. His maRer-piece is his " Pil- 
 " grim's Progrefs," one of the mofb popular, 
 and, I may add, one of the mod ingenious books 
 in the Englilh language J. The works of Bu- 
 nyan, which had been long printed on tobacco- 
 paper, by Nicholas Boddmgton and oihers, were, 
 jn 1736 and 1737, reprinted in two decent vo- 
 lumes folio. They are now come forth in a 
 fairer edition than ever, with the recommenda- 
 tion of Mr. George Whitfield -f . See the nexc 
 reign. 
 
 * The " Relation of his Imprifonment," &c. written by him-, 
 felf, was firft publifhed in 1765, izmo. 
 
 We are toUl that the library of this copious author, during 
 his confinemcjjt, which was upwards of twelve years, confifted 
 only of the Bible and the Book of Martyrs. See the ♦' Life of 
 ** Bunyan," at the end of his ** Heavenly Footman," p. 12S. 
 
 X Bunyan, who has been mentioned among the leaft and lowed 
 of our writers, and even ridiculed as a driveller by thofe who 
 have never lead him, defej vcs a much higher rank than is com- 
 monly imagined. His ♦' Pilgrim's Progrels" gives us a clear and 
 diftin6^ idea of Calviniftical divinity. The allegory is admirably 
 carried on, and the characters juftly drawn, and uniformly fup- 
 ported §. The author's original and poetic genius fhines 
 tbrpngh the coarlenefs and vulgarity of his language, and in- 
 timates, that if he had been a mailer of numbcis, he might have 
 compofed a poem woithy of Spencer him ("elf. As this opinion 
 nji^y be deemed paradoxical, 1 (hall venture to name two perfons 
 of eminence of the faiiie feniimcnts ; one, the late Mr. Merrick, 
 of Reading |] : the other. Dr. Roberts, now fellow of Eton col- 
 lege. 
 
 t We have perhaps as many lay-nreachers in the kingdom at 
 prefcnt, as there ntic during the ufuri'aiion of Cromwell. I 
 
 could 
 
 ^ This rhfervatirn is not to be extended to the Second Part. 
 
 J! Mr, Mcrr'r'< hsshren heard to fay. In convcr.arior, i hat his invcntipa 
 was like that of Homer, 
 
Class V. o f E N G L A N D, 349 
 
 C L A S S V. 
 
 COMMONERS in great Employments. 
 
 E D V A R D U S N 1 C H O L A S, &c. L^/jy 
 
 p. Venue fc. large h. [h. 
 
 Sir Edward Nicholas, fccretary of flare, &c. 
 From an original painting. In lord Clarendon's " Hi/- 
 *' tory.'* 
 
 Sir Edward Nicholas, a man of an nnblemilh- 
 ed character, and highly efteemed for his vir- 
 tues by all that knew him, was many years prin- Promoted 
 cipal fecretary of flare and privy-counfcllor to '^^** 
 Charles I. and If. Though he was, from long 
 experience and uncom.mon induilry, well qua- 
 lified for the fecretary's office, yet this old and 
 faithful fervant was difmiHed from his employ- 
 ment by the intrigues of Mrs. Palmer, the royal 
 miflrefs, and received \n lieu of it 20,000!. 
 granted him bv the king"^. J-Ie was fucceeded 
 by fir Henry Bennet, v/ho was afterwards creat- 
 ed earl of Arlington. This v^ras a flep towards 
 the difgrace of the lord-chancellor Clarendon, 
 as the old fecretary was his intimate friend, and 
 the new one his inveterate enemy. Sir Edward 
 Nicholas was father to fir John Nicholas, knight 
 of the Barh, and grandfather to Edward Nicho- 
 las, efq. who, in the rei;^n of Anne, was mem- 
 ber of parliament for Shaftefbury in Dorfet- 
 
 could name one, incompnraWy more illiterate tb:\n Bunyan, who 
 was a(5tually obliged to leave his ii:Uive place tov //ieep-j?cali>/p^ i 
 but has fiiice climbed o-ver the fence info the ffieep-fold^ and is i\K.^ 
 the lead?r of a numerous flock. Some look upon this man as a 
 thief and a robber in every lenfe of the word?} but others conlidtf 
 bim only in his regenerate (late, a.id revere him as a faint, 
 • H<; iciigncd the fsals in 16^3* 
 
 fhife. 
 
Sso The HISTORY Charles It 
 
 (hire f. His letters from the Hague to the mar- 
 quis of Ormond, at Caen, are in Carte's Col- 
 Icdlion of Letters, from 1641 to 1660. Ob, i 
 Sept. 1669, JiL yy. He lies buried at Weft- 
 Horfley in Surry. See the Interregnum. 
 
 Sir W I L L I A M M O R I C E, fecretary of 
 
 ft ate, &c. Houhrakenfc, 1747. In the collection of 
 fir William Morice^ bart, Illuft. Head, 
 
 Promoted sjj. William Morice, who was allied to orene- 
 
 1660. ' ral Monck, was, for his own merit, and that of 
 his illuftrious kinfman, preferred to the office 
 of fecretary of ftate. He was a man of learn- 
 ing and good abilities, but was not completely 
 qualified for his great employment, as he knew 
 but little of foreign languages, and lefs of 
 foreign affairs. It it currently reported, that 
 the general told the king, " that his coufin Mo- 
 '' rice was well qualified for the fecretary's of- 
 *^ fice, as he underftood the French, and could 
 *' write fhort-hand." This was very probably a 
 calumny, as it is inconfiftent with his good 
 fenfe. It is certain that the fecretary fpoke La- 
 tin fluently, that he underftood Greek, and that 
 he acquitted himfelf during the feven years that 
 he continued in his office * without reproach. 
 He was fucccedcd by fir John Trevor. Ob. 12 
 Dec. 1676. He was author of a book entitled, 
 •' The Common Right to the Lord's Supper af- 
 ferted," which was firft printed in quarto, 1651* 
 and again in folio, 1660* One Angularity is re- 
 
 f The advowfons of the churches of Shaftefbury were the pro- 
 priety of this family (which is now extindl) ever fitice the latter 
 end of the reign of Charles II. See more in '* Notitia Parliamen- 
 «• taria," by Browne Willis, efq. where there is a curious ac- 
 <M»unt of this ancient borough. The author has taken uncom- 
 mon pains in his biftory of the towns in Dorfetfhire, as he was 
 born in that dillri<5t. 
 
 • He refigned at Michaelmas, i668, 
 
 corded 
 
Class V. of ENGLAND. 351 
 
 corded of him, " That he would never fufFcr 
 *' any man to fay grace in his own houfe befides 
 *' himfelf i there, he faid, he was both prieft and 
 « king." 
 
 XEOLINUS JENKTNS, eq.aur.L.L; 
 D. &c. H. Tuer p. Neomagi^ 1679 ; G. Vander 
 Gucht fc, 1723; h. Jh. 
 
 Leolinus Jenkins, eq. aur. //. ^Iter p, et 
 exc* h. Jh, mezz. 
 
 Sir Leoline, or Lluellin Jenkins, who was 
 born at Llantrifient in Glamorganfhire, was the 
 fon of an honeft, plain countryman, whom Mr. 
 John Aubrey fays he knew. As his father's 
 circumftances were but narrow, and he was a 
 dillant relation to David Jenkins the famous 
 Welfli judge, that gentleman contributed fome- 
 thing towards his education. About the time 
 that he took his bachelor's degree, fir John Au- 
 brey fent for him home to his houfe at Llan- 
 trithied in Glamorganfhirc, to inftrudl his eldeft 
 fon Lewis in grammar learning; : he alfo took fe- 
 vera! otheryoung gentleman under his care, whom 
 he taught in the church-houfe belonging to that 
 place. He went to Oxford, together with his 
 pupils, and afterwards travelled with Mr. Lewis 
 Aubrey. Upon the refignation of Dr. Francis 
 Manfell, which was foon after the Reftoration, 
 he was eleded principal of Jefus college *. He 
 afterwards retired to London, and was made a 
 judge of the admiralty, and of the prerogative 
 court. In 1669, he was fent ambafTador to 
 France*, and, in 1673, was fent to Cologn, in 
 quality of plenipotentiary, together with the 
 carl of Arlington and fir Jofeph Williamfon. In 
 
 ♦ He gave the advowfon of the re61ory of RotherfielJ Peppard, 
 in Oxfordfliire, to that college, ** for the better fupport of the 
 •' headiliip. 
 
35^ The HISTORY Charles if. 
 
 1675, he was appointed a plenipotentiary at 
 Nimfguen, together with lord Berkeley and fir 
 William l>mple •, and, in 1680, he fucceeded 
 Mr. Henry Coventry in the office of fecretary 
 April 26. of ftate. He is faid to have preferved the lea- 
 ther breeches which he wore to Oxford, as a 
 memorial of his good fortune in the world. O^. 
 I Sept. 1685, ^t, 62. Several particulars irr 
 the above account are taken from a MS. of 
 Mr. John Aubrey's, in the Aflimolean Mu- 
 fcum. 
 
 Sir RICHARD F ANS H AW E, knight 
 and baronet, one of his majefty's moft honourable 
 privy-council, &c. Faithorne Jc, h.Jh. This print 
 was engraved as afrontifpiece for tbe Sermon preached 
 at bis Funeral by Henry Bag/haw, M, A» Student of 
 Chriji'church^ Oxon, 
 
 There is a portrait of him, by fir Peter Lely, 
 in the pofTeflion of Simon Fanihawe, efq. 
 
 Sir Richard Fanfhawe, who was the tenth 
 and youngeft fon of fir Henry Fanfhawe, of 
 Ware Park in Hertfordfhire, united, in an ex- 
 traordinary degree, the qualifications of the gen- 
 tleman, the fcholar, and the ftatefman. He was 
 taken early into the fervice of Charles I. who, 
 in 1635, appointed him refident to the court of 
 Spain ; and, in the lall year of his reign, made 
 him trcafurer of the navy, under the command of 
 prince Rupert. Fie was fecretary of ftate to 
 Charles II. during his refidence in Scotland : 
 and it was ftrong'y expeded that he would have 
 been preferred to the fame ofiice after the Re- 
 lloration ; but he was, contrary to his own and 
 the general expedaxion, appointed maflerof the 
 requcfts. He was employed in feveral import- 
 ant embaffies in this reign ; particularly in ne- 
 gotiating 
 
Class V. of ENGLAND. 353 
 
 gotiafing the marriage betwixt the king and the 
 infanta, and puning che laft hand to a peace be- 
 twixt the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, 
 which had been for twenty-five years engaged 
 in a ruinous war *. He was an exafl criric in 
 the Latin tongue, fpoke the Spanifh with eafe 
 and propriety, and perfedly undcrilood the Ita- 
 lian. The politencfs of his manners, and the 
 integrity of his life, did not only procure him 
 the love and efteem of his own countrymen, but 
 gained him unufual favour and refpedl in Spam ; 
 among a people notorious for their difregard to 
 ftrangers, and too ape to overlook all mcit but 
 their own. He died at Madrid, June 165 1666. 
 See more of him among the poets. 
 
 ^' Dominus GULIELMUS TEMPLE, 
 
 " eques et baronettus, fer-^i'. potmi. Mao- Britan* 
 
 '' niae regis ad ord^. f^d^i. Bclgii legatus extr^. cC 
 apud tra^tatus pacis tarn /Aqoifgrani, quam Ne- 
 omagi, legats. mediate ejufdem fcr"^'. regis a 
 fecrerioribus confiliis, 1670^'* P. Lely p, P. 
 
 Vandrehanc fc, large h. Jh, 
 
 Dominus Gulielmus Temple, &c. Lely p, 
 
 Vertue fc. Before bis works -, fol 
 
 Dominus Gulielmus Temple-, Lely p, R. 
 
 White fc, ^vo, 
 
 Dominus Gulielmus Temple; iimo. 
 
 His portrait is at lord Palmerfton's, at Sheene, 
 in Surrey. 
 
 Sir William Temple was dcfcended from a 
 younger branch of a family of that name, feated 
 at Temple Hall in Leicellerfhire. His grand- 
 
 • '* E'log. Brit." p. 1887. 
 
 His " Original Letters during his « EmbafHes in Spain and 
 Portugal," 1702, 8vo. cieferve the reader's notice. Some me- 
 morable paflages relating to him and lord Fanfhavv, of Ware 
 Park, are in Lloyd's <« Memoirs," p* 684, &c. 
 
 Vol. IIL A a father 
 
354 
 
 The history Charles IL 
 
 father was fecretary to the unfortunate earl of 
 Eflcx, favourite of queen Elizabeth, and his 
 father was fir John Temple, mailer of the rolls 
 in Ireland. He was as much above the com- 
 mon level of politicians, as he was above the 
 herd of authors. He difplayed his gre^. abili- 
 ties in feveral important treaties and negotia- 
 tions, the mod confiderable of which was the 
 bringing to a happy conclufion the famous tri- 
 ple league betwixt England, Sweden, and Hol- 
 land. This alliance, though the mod prudent 
 flep ever taken by Charles II. was foon defeat- 
 ed by the Cahal^ a fet of men who were as great 
 a difgrace to their country, as fir William Tem- 
 ple was an honour to it. He was ftrongly foli- 
 cited to go over to Holland, in order to break 
 that league which he had a little before conclud- 
 ed : but he was too much a patriot to yield to 
 any felicitations of that kind ; and chofe to re- 
 tire into the country, where he was much better 
 employed in writing his excellent *' Obferva- 
 " tions on the United Provinces," and other 
 elegant works. See Clafs IX. 
 
 Sir ROBERT SO UT H W ELL, envoy 
 to the courts of Bruflels and Brandenburg. His 
 portrait belongs to the reign of William III. 
 
 «Sir WILLIAM DAVIDSON, kn^ 
 " and baronet ; one of the gentlemen of his ma- 
 •' jelly's mod honourable privy-council •, confervi- 
 " tor and refident of his majefty's mod ancient 
 *' kingdom of Scotland in the fcventeen provinces; 
 " his majedy's fole commifTioner for England and 
 *' Ireland in the city of Amderdam ;" &:c. yEt, 
 48, 1664. Chr, Hcigens del, et fc. In bis own 
 " baii\ 
 
 Sir 
 
Class V. o f E N G L A N D. ss5 
 
 Sir STEPHEN FOX, one of the com- 
 miflioners of the treijruiy, and tirfl comrniffioner 
 in the office of mafter of the horfe. See the reign 
 of James II. His portrait was done in that of 
 William III. 
 
 Sir DUDLEY NORTH, commiffioner 
 of the treafury to king Charles the Second ; G. 
 Vertue fc. Fr on tij piece to his " Lifs'^ by the bori, 
 Roger Ncrth^ 1 742 ; 4/^. 
 
 Sir Dudley North, brother to the lord-keeper 
 Guilford) was third fon of the fecond Dudley^ 
 lord North) baron of Kirtling. Fie was bound 
 apprentice to a Turkey merchant in London, 
 who fent him on a trading voyage to RuiTia, and 
 fevcral other countries 5 at the conclufion of 
 which, he was appointed to refide as fadlor in 
 the Turkey trade at Smyrna. He afterwards 
 removed to Conftantinople, where he had the 
 chief management of the Englifh fadlory. He 
 continued here many years, became a complete 
 mafter of the Turkifh language, and had a per- 
 fedt infight into the manners, cuftoms, and ju- 
 rifprudence of the country. He knew the forms 
 of their courts of juflice, in which he is faid to 
 have tried no lefs than five hundred caufes *. 
 He committed many of his obfervations to v/ric- 
 ing, during his refidence in Turkey, which are 
 printed in Mr. Roger North's account of his 
 Life. He, with the affifTance of a mathemati- 
 cian, made a plan of Conftantinople ; but it was 
 never completely finifhed. Upon his return to 
 England, he fettled as a merchant in London. 
 He was afterwards made diredlor of the Afri- 
 can company, a commiffioner of the cuftom.s, 
 and alfo of the treafury. After his retiremcnc 
 
 * ** Life," by Roger North, efq. 
 
 A a 2 from 
 
2^6 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 from bufinefs, he amufed himfelf with mecha- 
 nics, for which he had a particular genius. 0^, 
 31 Dec. 1691. 
 
 JOHN HERVEY, Efq. &c. Lely p. R. 
 'Tompjon e^c* h.Jh, mezz. 
 
 In the print arc two pieces of antique fculp- 
 ture, of which he fccms to have been an ad- 
 mirer. 
 
 John Hervey, eldefl: fon of fir William Her- 
 vey, o\ Ickworth in Suffolk, was highly eftcem- 
 ed by fome of the moft ingenious and refped- 
 able perlons of his time, for his agreeable and 
 polite acGompliflimcnts. He, in the late reign, 
 exerted himlclf in parliament on the fide of the 
 ' prerogative, and bore arms for Charles I. for 
 
 which he was forced to compound for hiseftater 
 He was, in this reign, treafurer and receiver- 
 general to the queen, and one of the leading 
 members of the houfe of commons. He is, or 
 ou^ght to be, well known to the world, as the 
 friend and patron of Cowley. The foHowing 
 (lory is told of him by biihop Burnet ^ : " He 
 " was one whom the king loved perfonally j and 
 " yet, upon a great occafion, he voted againft 
 " that which the king defired. So the king 
 *' chid him feverely for it. Next day, another 
 *' important quefrion falling in, he voted as the 
 " king would have him. So the king took 
 " notice of it at night, and faid, you were not 
 <' againft me to day. He anfwered. No Sir, I was 
 ** againft my confcience to day. This was fo 
 " gravely delivered that the king fecmed pleafed 
 *' with it ; and it was much talked of." — He 
 died without ilTue, Jan. 18, 1679, and was fuc- 
 
 ♦ " Hift. of his own Time," i. p. 383. 
 
 cecdcd 
 
Class V. of ENGLAND. 3^7 
 
 cecded in his eftate by his brother Thomas, who 
 was father of the firft earl of Briftol, 
 
 SirWILLIAM F ORTM AN, wbo mar- 
 ried Jir John Culler'' s daughter : in an oval. 
 
 Sir William Foreman, who was the lafl of the 
 family of that name, feated at Orchard Port- 
 man, in Somerfetiliire, was defcended from fir 
 John Portman, lord chief-jullice of the Queen's 
 Bench, in the reign of Mary ^\ He was mem- 
 ber of parliament for Taunton, and pofiefiTed an 
 ample fortune; a great pare of which formerly 
 belonged to the Orchards of Orchard^ and de- 
 volved by heirfliip to the Portmans. This gen- 
 tleman purchafed Brianltone near Blandford, 
 mw one of the fineft feats in Dorfetfloirey of the 
 family of Rogers, which he left, together with 
 the reft of his eftate, to his nephew, Henry 
 Seymour, efq. fifth fon of fir Edward Seymour 
 of Bury Pomeroy, who took the name of Port- 
 man. 
 
 Col. GILES STRANGEWAYS, mem- 
 ber of parliament for Dorfetfhire. See Clafs Vll. 
 
 ANDREW MARVELL, &c. drawn 
 
 and etched by J, B, Cipriani j a Florentine^ from a 
 
 portrait painted in the year \ 6^0, lately in the poffef- 
 
 fion of i'homas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn, F. R, and A. 
 
 S. S, h.fh, 
 
 Mr. Nettleton, governor of the Ruflian com- 
 pany, has an original portrait of Marveil. 
 
 Andrew Marvel!, a merry, and yet an indig- 
 nant fatirift, an able ftatei'man, and an uncor- 
 
 * Lloyd, in his life of this eminent lawyer, fays that he could 
 not find the original of his family, it was fo ancient, bee his 
 «' Worthies." 
 
 A a 3 rupt 
 
35? The HISTORY Charl!ls 11. 
 
 rupt patriot, was chofen member of parliament 
 for Kmgdcn upon Hull, before and after the 
 Reftoration. I'he people cf that place, who 
 honoured his abilities, but pitied his poverty, 
 raifed a contribution for his fupport. This 
 was, probably, the lafl borough in iingland that 
 paid a reprefentative. As even trivial anec- 
 dotes of fo ingenious and fo honefl a man are 
 worth preferving; I Ihall fubjoin the following, 
 taken from a manufcript of Mr. John Aubrey, 
 who perfonally knew him. "• He was of a 
 *' middling (lature, pretty ftrong fct, roundifh- 
 " faced, cherry-cheeked, hazei-eyed, brown- 
 " haired. He was, in his converfation, very 
 .*' modeft, and of very fev/ words. He was 
 ** wont to fay, he would not drink high or free- 
 *' ly with any one, with whom he would not 
 *' trull his life." See more of him, Clafs IX. 
 
 THOMAS T H Y N N E, cCq. member of 
 parliament for WiUfhire. See Oafs VIII. 
 
 Sir FMILIP PERCEVAL, Bart. (7th 
 pf that Name) Req.ifter of the Court of Claims ; 
 one of the Councti of Trade ; one of the mod ho- 
 nourable Privy Council to King Charles II. and 
 Knight of the Shire for the County of Cork in 
 Ireland; born i62g> Oh. 1665. Faher f. 174;?, 
 %vo. mezz. Engraved for the *-'' Uift or y of the Hotifi 
 V ofTvcry.^^ 
 
 Sir John Perceval, barr. fon and heir of fir 
 Philip, found himfelf in embarrafied circum- 
 flances upon the deceafe of hisiathtrr ; but, by 
 the prudent managemcr,:, by paying court to 
 Lenthall, and elp'^cialiy Oliver and Henry 
 Cromwell, he fuon became poficfied of an eafy 
 and affluent fortune. He was the only perfon 
 ^hom the latter knighted during his lieutenancy 
 
 ja 
 
Class VI, of ENGLAND. 359 
 
 in Ireland. No man, perhaps, was more worthy 
 of this diftindlion, as he was perfecdy verfed 
 in the affairs or that country, and a molt ufeful 
 inftrument in the fettlement of it, after the ra- 
 vages and confufion of the civil war. it was 
 by his advice, that the refolution was taken of 
 tranfplanting the papifts into the province of 
 Connaught, " when worfe meafurcs were pro- 
 jected *." But, it muft be owned, that this ex- 
 pedient, however falutary or neceiTary it might 
 then appear, feems to us, who view it at a dif- 
 tance, extremely rigorous and oppreflive. He 
 was, foon after the Reftoration, fworn of the 
 privy council, and created a baronet ; and, in 
 1662, appointed regiller of the court of claims, 
 and the court of wards, which was eredted in 
 Ireland in favour of his family, but Ihortly after 
 abolifhed by parliament. He married Catha- 
 rine, daughter of Kobert Southwell, of King- 
 fale, efq. a lady of fingular merit. See more 
 of him in the " Hiftory of the Houfeof Yvery," 
 and in Lodge's " Peerage of Ireland." 
 
 CLASS VI. 
 MEN of the ROBE. 
 
 EDWARD, earl of Clarendon, &c. Lely p. 
 R, White fc, h,fb. 
 
 Edward, earl of Clarendon, &c. Lely p. M. 
 Burghers fc. h,JJj. 
 
 There is another^ hy Burghers^ in Svo. 
 
 Edward, earl of Clarendon, &c. Lely p. G. 
 W. (George White) fc, large Svo. 
 
 Edward, earl of Clarendon, &c. Zoufip.John- 
 fonf. b,Jh» mezz, 
 
 • Lodge's " Peerage,** ii. 160, 
 
 A a 4 Claren- 
 
3^0 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 Clarendon, chancelier d'Angleterre ♦, Zoujl p. 
 Picari Jc. direx. 1724*, /^to, 
 
 ** Kdoardus Hyde, equcs auratus, Clarendo- 
 *' mas comes, Cornburias vicccomes, baro Hyde 
 *« de Hindon •, iummus Angliae, nee non almse 
 *' Oxonienfis academiae canccilarius, ac facrte 
 *« maj^^ regiis a fecrctiorib'js confiliis." D. Lc*^- 
 gan ad vivum deli)!, et fc. In the fecond edition of fir 
 William DugdaU's " Origmcs Juridiciaks^'' 1671 i 
 foL 
 
 There is a portrait of him in the long gallery 
 at Gorhambury : it is dated 1660. There is 
 an^ichcr belonging to his family, painted by 
 Zouft. But the beft picture, aad the trueft 
 likeneis of him, is that which was pamted by 
 fir Peter Lely. It is now at Amelbury. 
 
 Promoted The vlrtuc of the earl of Clarendon was of too 
 
 * ftubborn a nature for tlie age of Charles II. 
 
 Could he have been content to cnflave millions, 
 he might have been more a monarch than that 
 unprincely king. But he did not only look upon 
 himlelf as the guardian of the laws and liber- 
 ties of hi3 country, but had alfo a pride in his 
 nature that was above vice; and chofe rather to 
 be a vidtim himfelf, than to facrifice his integri- 
 ty. He had only one part to adV, which was 
 that of an honeft man. His enemies allowed 
 thcmfelves a much greater latitude : they load- 
 ed him with calumnies, blamed him even for 
 their own errors and mifcondud, and helped to 
 ruin him by fuch buffooneries as he deipifed. 
 He was a much greater, perhaps a happier man, 
 alone and in exile, than Charles the fecond upon 
 his throne. See the ninth Clafs. 
 
 ORLANDUS BR IDG MAN*, miles 
 
 • The name is often erroneoufly written Biidgeman. 
 
 er 
 
Class VI. of ENGLAND. '361 
 
 et baronettus, cuftos magni figilli Anglic ; IV. 
 Faithorne ad vivum fc. In Dugdale's *' Origines Ju- 
 " ridi dales," fecond. edit, 1671. 
 
 Orlandus Bridgman, &c. R. White fc. Be- 
 fore his " Conveyances ;" foL 
 
 Orlandus Bridgman, &c. G. Vander Gucht 
 fc. h.Jh. 
 
 Sir Orlando Bridgman, fon of John Bridg- P'o^^otc* 
 man, bifhop of thciter, was a man of good na- 166^°' 
 rural parts, which he very carefully improved 
 by ftudy and application. He was, foon after 
 the Refloration, made lord chief-baron of the 
 Exchequer^ ; whence he was, in a few months, 
 removed to the Common Pleas. While he pre- 
 fided in this court, his reputation was at the 
 height : then " his moderation and equity were 
 " fuch, that he feemed to carry a chancery in 
 " his breaft J." Upon his receiving the great 
 feal, his reputation began to decline : he was 
 timid and irrefoluie, and this timidity was ftill 
 increafing with his years. His judgment was noc 
 equal to all the difficulties of his office. In nice 
 points, he was too much inclined to decide in 
 favour of both parties ; and to divide what each 
 claimant looked upon as his abfolute property. 
 His lady, a woman of cunning and intrigue, 
 was too apt to interfere in chancery fuits; and 
 his fons, who pradifed under him, did not bear 
 the faireft charadiers*. He was defirous of an 
 union with Scotland, and a comprehenfion with 
 the DifTenters •, but was againft tolerating Pope- 
 ry. He is faid to have been removed from his Nov. 17, 
 office for refufing to affix the feal to the king's ^^72- 
 declaration for liberty of confcience. 
 
 t He was lord chief-baron when he tried the regicides. 
 
 X Prince's " Worthies of Devon." 
 
 • North's " Life of the Lord-keeper Guilford," p. 88, 89. 
 
 ANTH. 
 
362 The history Charles II. 
 
 ANTH. ASHLEY COOPER, earl 
 of Shaftefbury •, Lely p. Houhaken fc. In the coU 
 union of the earl of Shaft ejhury. Illufl. Head, 
 
 Anthony, earl of Shahcibury ; Coopar p. Baron 
 fc, 1 744. ; large ^to, 
 
 Anthony Ashley Cooper, &c. lord high- 
 chancellor i^']Z\ fitti::g\ Blooteling fc. fh. fcarce, 
 
 Anthony, earl a Shaftefbury, &c. R, While 
 fc, large h.fJj, 
 
 Anoth:} fmaller^ by the fame (-md. 
 
 Anthony, earl or Shafu^iburv ; TV. Binneman 
 fc. h.Jh. 
 
 Anthony, earl of ShaKcfoury \ /. Greenhillp, 
 E, Lutterel f. ^to, rnezz. 
 
 Anthony, carl of Shaftefbury ; before his ^"-Life^^ 
 1605 ; iimo, 
 
 Anthony, earl of Shaftefbury ; tiatus eft Jul. 
 1621 ; mortuus efl 21 (22) Jan. 1682-3 *, Zvo, 
 
 Promoted The great talents of the earl of Shaftefbury, 
 
 ^°*'* ^^* and his exaft knowledge of men and things, 
 contributed to render him one of the firft cha- 
 radlers of his age. But the violence of his paf- 
 fions, and the flexibility of his principles, 
 prompted him to acl very different, and even 
 contrary parts. This was in fome meaiure ow- 
 ing to the changes in the times in which he 
 lived \ but is more to be attributed to the mu- 
 tability of his chara6ter, which ever varied with 
 the interefcs of his ambition. When we con- 
 iider him as fitting in the highefl: tribunal in the 
 kingdom, explaining and correcting the laws, 
 deteding fraud, and exerting all the powers of 
 his eloquence on the fide of jullice -, we admire 
 the able lawyer, the commanding orator, and 
 the upright judge. But when he enters into all 
 the iniquitous meafures of the Cabals when he 
 proftitutes his eloquence to enflave his country, 
 
 and 
 
Class VI. o F E N G L A N D. 363 
 
 and becomes the fadlious leader and the popu- 
 lar incendiary ; ve regard him with an equal 
 ipixture of horror and regret *. 
 
 HENEAGE F I N C H, haron of Daven- 
 try, lord high-chancellor, 1676; whole length. 
 
 Hen E AGE Finch, earl of Nottingham, &c. 
 lord high-chancellor, &c. i6Zi ; Kneller p. R, 
 White fc, large h.JJj. 
 
 Heneage, earl of Nottingham, &c. 1682; 4/^. 
 piczz. In the manner of Lut:creL 
 
 There is a portrait of him at Gorhambury, 
 
 Heneag;e Finch, who was made folicitor-se- Promote* 
 neral foon after the Refloration, rofe by regu- le^s.^* 
 Jar gradaiions tc the high office of chancellor, 
 for which he was eminently qualified. He pre- 
 fided in the Chancery when the whole kingdom 
 was divided into factions ; but had fuch a com- 
 mand of his p^ifTions, and was To nice in his 
 condud, that he alwavs appeared to be of no 
 faction himfelf. He was mafter of the powers 
 of elocution in a very high degref^j a talent ex- 
 jtremeiy dangerous in the poflcflion of adifhonefl: 
 man. This he took every occafion of exerting: 
 but it was only 10 enforce and adorn, never to 
 weaken or difguife the truth f. Several of his 
 fpeeches are in print. Ob, 18 Dec. 1682. 
 
 FRANCIS 
 
 * His friend Mr. Locke, who differs from other writers in his 
 charafter of him, tells us, that "^ that the good of his country 
 ** wa> what be (leered his councils and adlions by, through the 
 *' who'e courCe of his life." 
 
 t It would be injurous to the memory of this conAimmate 
 lawyer to omit the following chnra<5>er, or to give it in any other 
 -words than thofe of the ingenious author, 
 
 •* Sir Heneage Finch, who fucceeded (to the great feal) in 
 f 1673, and became afterwards earl of Nottingham, was a per- 
 ** fon of the greateft abilities and moft uncorrupted integry ; a 
 ** thorough mafter and zealous defender of the laws and confti- 
 ♦' tutjon of his country j and endued with a pcrvadinjj genius 
 
 «* that 
 
3(54 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 FRANCIS, lord Guilford, lord-keeper, &c. 
 Loggan del, et fc. large b. Jh, 
 
 Francis, lord Guilford, ^c. Loggan deL Ver- 
 tuefc. Afto. Before his " Life^' hy the Hon, Roger 
 North, 
 
 Francis, lord Guilford, ?iVo, 
 
 There is a portrait of him at Wroxton, by 
 Riley, v/hich Mr. Walpoie fays is capital 
 throughout. 
 
 1 here is another portrait in the Mafter's 
 Todgc, at Sc. John's college, in Cambridge, 
 >vhich has been milcalled lord Afhley. 
 
 Promoted The hoHOurable Roger North, biographer to 
 
 Vkc, 1682, irii • • o» 
 
 the ramily, has given us a minute account or 
 the lord-keeper Guilford, who appears to have 
 been a man of parts and various learning •, but 
 did not ihine with fuperior luftre in the court 
 of Chancery. He enjoyed his high office at a 
 time when it required a ftrong head and a (leady 
 hand to hold the balance of juftice even. He 
 was thought to be too much inclined to favour 
 the court ♦, though the author of his life tells 
 us, that he was fick of the times, and that 
 this ficknefs haflencd his death ; which happen- 
 ed at Wroxton, Sept. 5, 1685. He was fuc- 
 ceeded by the notorious Jcffcries, who was a 
 
 " that enabled him to difcover and to purfue the true fpirlt of 
 ** juftice, notwithllaiuling the embarrnfTmcnts raifed by the nar- 
 •* row and technical notions which then prevailed in the courts 
 ** of law, and the im perfect ideas of redrefs which had pofleired 
 •* the courts of equity. The reafon and neceflities of mankind, 
 •* arifing from the great change in property, by the extenfion of 
 •* trade and the abolition of military tenures, co-operated in 
 ** eftabliftiing his plan, and enabled him, in the courfe of nine 
 •* years, to build a fyltem of jurisprudence and jurifdiition upon 
 ** wide and rational foundations, which have alfo been extended 
 •* and improved by many great men, who have fmce pref)ded in 
 *' chancery ; and from that time to this, the power and bnfmefs 
 " of the court have increafed to an amazing degree." Black- 
 ilone's ** Commentaries/' book III, chap. iv« 
 
 fufficient 
 
Class VI. o f E N G L A N D. z^S 
 
 fufHcient contraft to his charadler. He ftudied 
 hiftory, the belles Icttres, mathematics, and the 
 new philofophy. He undcrftood mufic, on 
 which he has written a " Philofophical Effay.'* 
 He performed well on the bafs viol, and em- 
 ployed a mufician to play him to deep. An- 
 other fingularity was told of him, ** that he 
 ** rode upon a rhinoceros, which was carried 
 *' about for a Ihow :" but his biographer aflures 
 us, that it was only an invidious calumny. This 
 gentleman reprefents him as very eminent in his 
 proreffion ; and polTibly, with a view of railing 
 him the higher, has endeavoured to degrade 
 the charadter of the next perfon, but has not 
 fucceeded in his attempt. 
 
 Sir MATTHEW HALE, lord chief, 
 juftice of the King's Bench : M, IVright />. G. 
 Vertue fc, 1 7 ^» 5 *, h. Jh. 
 
 Matth^us Hale, miles &c. R. White fc. a 
 roll in his right hand ; large h, Jh. A copy by Van 
 Hove, 
 
 Sir Matthew Hale ; large h.Jh, mezz, copied 
 from White, 
 
 Matth^eus Hale, miles, &c. Van Hove fc. 
 fitting in an elbow chair j h./h. 
 
 Matthjeus Hale, &c. Van Hove fc* fitting y 
 2vo. 
 
 Matth.^us Hale, &c. Clarke fc. fitting -, Svo, 
 
 Lord chief-juftice Hale ♦, fmall /\to. printed 
 with the " Simi of Religion,^' in a large half fheet. 
 
 There is a portrait of him in Guildhall, by 
 Michael Wright, who painted portraits of many 
 of the judges. 
 
 This excellent perfon, whofe learning in the i'fomofc«J 
 law was fcarce equalled, and never exceeded ; le^i.^ * 
 was, in many refpedts, one of the moft pcrfedt 
 
 charaders 
 
j66 The HISTORY Charles it 
 
 chara6lers of his age. Nor was his knowledge 
 limited to his own pro^cnTion : he v/as far from 
 inconfiderable, as a philofopher and a divine. 
 He was as good and amiable in his private, as 
 he was great and venerable in his public, capa-" 
 city. His decifi "*ns npon the bench were fre- 
 quently a learned ledlure upon the point of law; 
 and fuch was his reputation for integrity, that 
 the interefted parties were generally fatisned with 
 them, though they happened to be againft them- 
 felves. No man more abhorred the chicane 
 of lawyers, or more difcountenanced the evil 
 arts of pleading. He was fo very confcientious, 
 that the jealoufy of being milled by his affec- 
 tions made him perhaps rather partial to that fide 
 to which he was leaft inclined. Though he was 
 a man of true humility *, he was not infenfible 
 of that honeft praife which was beftowed on 
 him by the general voice of mankind, and 
 which mud have been attended with that felf- 
 applaufe which is the natural refult of good and 
 worthy actions. This pride, which deferves to 
 be called by a fofter name, was a very different 
 thing from vanity. He is therefore very un- 
 juftly reprefented as a vain perfon by Mr. Roger 
 North, who, by endeavouring to degrade an 
 eftablilhed character, has only degraded his 
 own. 0^.25 Dec. 1676 J. 
 
 Sir RICHARD RAINSFORD, lord 
 chief-juftice of the King's Bench, &c. IF. Claret p. 
 R, Tompfon exc, large b, Jh> mezz. 
 
 • See Baxter's "Life," fol. part iii. p. 176. 
 
 J At the end of his " Life," fubjoined to his " Confempla- 
 •* tions," &c. 8vo. his printed works only are enumerated j but 
 bifljop Burnet, author of that *• Life," hath fpecified all his ma- 
 nufcripts, and told us where they are to be found. Seethefepa- 
 rate edition of the ** Life," 1682. 
 
 Sir 
 
Class VI. o f E N G L A N D. 367 
 
 Sir Richard Rainsford, who was bnt a fecon- p^^"***^^^ 
 dary chara6ter in his profefTion, had the difad- ' ^ * 
 vantage of iucceeding a man who was confefled- 
 ly at the head of it. His merit, eclipfed by the 
 fuperior luftre of his predecefTor, appeared to 
 be much lefs than it was in reality. He was as 
 much above fir William Scroors;s, his fucceflbr, ^f^H^^^ 
 
 ' . C • . '.A. L u 1 r May, 1672. 
 
 in point or mtegrity -f, as he was below fir 
 Matthew Hale in point of learning. 
 
 Sir FRANCIS PEMBERTON, lord 
 chief-juftice of England, 1681. His head is in the 
 print of the Bijhops CounfeL — See the next reign. 
 
 Sir Francis Pembercon is well known to have Promoted 
 been a better pra6litioner than a judge, to haveiGsl/'* 
 been extremely opiniated of '11s a'oiities, aad to 
 have rather 77tade than declared law. The lord- 
 keeper Guilford faid, that " in making law, he 
 " had outdone king, lords, and commons *." 
 The lord chief-juftice Saunders, who fucceeded 
 fir Francis Pembcrton,- was too extraordinary a 
 perfon to be palled over in filence. He was 
 originally a ftrolling beggar about the ftreets, 
 without known parents or relations. He came 
 often to beg fcraps at Clement's Inn, where he 
 was taken notice of for his uncommon fpright^ 
 linefs •, and as he expreiTed a ftrong inclination 
 to learn to write, one of the attorney's clerks 
 taught him, and foon qualified him for a hack- 
 
 f " T have read romewherc|I," fays Dr. Swiff, "of an Enfl-era 
 king, who put a judge to death for an iniquitous lentence, 
 and ordered his hide to be ftuifed into a cufhion, and placed 
 upon the tribunal, for the fon tp fit on -, who was prefeired to 
 his father's ofiice. I fancy fiich a memorial might not have 
 been unufefui to a fon of fir Wjjliani Scroggs; and that both 
 he and his AiccefTors would often wrigpje in their feats, as long 
 as the cufiiion lafted." Drapier's <' Letters," No. V, 
 * ♦■' Life of the Lord-keeper Guilford/' p. aaa. 
 
 H Probably in Latimer's " Sermons/' 
 
 ney 
 
368 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 ncy writer. He took all opportunities of im- 
 proving himfelf by reading fuch books as he 
 borrowed of his friends; and, in the courfe of 
 a few years, became an able attorney and a 
 very eminent coiinfel. His pra6lice in the court 
 of King's Bench was exceeded by none : his arc 
 and cunning were equal to his knowledge-, and 
 he carried many a caufe by laying fnares. If 
 he was dete(5led, he was never out of counten- 
 ance, but evaded the matter with a jeft, which 
 he had always at hand. He was much em- 
 ployed by the king, againft the city of London, 
 in the bufinefs of the quo warranto. His perfon 
 was as heavy and ungain, as his wit was alert 
 and fprightly. He is faid to have been " a 
 *' mere lump of morbid flefh :" the fmell of 
 him was fo ofFenfive, that people ufually held 
 their nofes when he came into the court. One 
 of his jefts on this occafion was, that " none 
 *' could fay he wanted iffue, for he had no lets 
 *' than nine in his back." See more of him 
 in North's " Life of the Lord-keeper Guil- 
 " ford,'* p. 224, 225 §. 
 
 Sir GEORGE JEFFE R I ES fucceeded 
 fir Edmund Saunders as lord chief-juftice of the 
 King's Bench, September 29, 1683 "^t 
 
 ^ One of the daughters of fir Francis Pemberton married Dr. 
 William Stanley, dean of St. Afaph, feme time mafter of Corpus- 
 chrifti college, Cambridge, and author of an anonymous traft 
 of particular merit, entitled " The Faith and Pradfice of a 
 •* Church of England Man." The editors of the Bodleian Ca- 
 « talogue" have attributed *' The Romilh Horfe-leech" to the 
 fame author; but of this Mr. Mafters fpeaks veiy doubtfully tt» 
 It has alio, with extreme probability, been attributed to Thomas 
 Staveley f, e(q. author of *' The Hiftory of the Churches in 
 ** England," which was become very fcarce, and has lately been 
 reprinted by T. Davies, with advantage. 
 • " Lives of the Chancellors/' p. 182. 
 
 11 P. 176. 
 
 t For whom Stanley was moft probably miftakwi. 
 
 L'Eftrangc 
 
Class VL of ENGLAND. 369 
 
 L'Eftrange and the Pope, together with Jef- 
 feries and the Devil, were burnt in effigy by the 
 populace in this reign< See the next. 
 
 JOHANNES Va UGH AN, miles, ca. 
 j^iralis judiciarius de Communi Banco, Anno 
 1674 ; R White fc. Before his '' Reports.''^ 
 
 Sir John Vaughan, a man of c?ccellent parts, Promoted 
 was not only well veiled in all the knowledge '^^^* 
 requifire to make a figure in his profefTion, but 
 was alfo a very confiderable mader of the po- 
 liter kinds of learning. He maintained a ftridt 
 intimacy with the famous Mr. Selden, who Was 
 one of the few that had a thorough efleem for 
 him. His behaviour among the generality of 
 his acquaintances was haughty, lupercilious, 
 and overbearing : hence he was much more ad- 
 iiiired than beloved. He was, in his heart, ah 
 enemy to monarchy -, but was never engaged in 
 Open hoftility againO: Charles I. The earl of 
 Clarendon, who had contradled fome friendfhip 
 with him in the early part of his life, renewed 
 his acquaintance after the Reftoration, and 
 made him overtures of preferment : but thefe 
 he waved, on a pretence of having long laid 
 afide his gov/n, and his being too far advanced 
 in life. He afterwards ftruck in with the ene- 
 mies of his friend the chancellor, and was made 
 lord chief-juitice of the Common Pleas ; an of- 
 fice whichj though not above his abilities, was 
 perhaps fuperior to his merit. He died in 
 J 674, and was buried in the Temple-church, as 
 near as poiTible to the remains of Mr. Selden. 
 His ^' Reports" v/ere publifhed by his fon Ed- 
 ward. 
 
 Vol. l\h B b Sir 
 
370 The HISTORY CharlesII. 
 
 Sir THOMAS JONES, lord chief-juf- 
 tice of the Common Pleas. See the next reign ; 
 iee alio below. 
 
 Sir THOMAS T W I SD RN, one of the 
 
 judges of the King's Bench. Ob, 1682 j b> p, 
 mezz. 
 
 Sir Thomas Twifden was fcnt to the Towe^ 
 by Cromwell, for pleading in defence of the 
 rights of the city of London, for which he was 
 retained as counfel. He was made a judge of 
 the King's Bench loon after the Reltoracion, and 
 continued in that office about twenty years > 
 after which he had his quietus. He was created 
 a baronet in 1666. 
 
 Sir THOMAS JONES, one of the judges 
 of the King's Bench j Claret p, Tompfon e.^c, b,J}j, 
 mezz. 
 
 Sir Thomas Jones was a lawyer of fome emi- 
 nence, but his name very rarely occurs in the 
 hiftories of this reign *. We oftener meet with 
 that of fir William Jones, who was a warm ad- 
 vocate for the Exclufion Billj:. Sir Thomas 
 Jones was member of parliament for Shrewi- 
 bury. On the 29th of September, 1683, he 
 was made lord chief-juftice of the Common 
 Pleas. He was author of '* Reports of fpecial 
 
 ♦ The curious reader may fee a paffage to his credit in fir J. 
 Rere(by's " JVlcir.oirs," 8vo. p. 233. Sir John Dalrymple J!, 
 •where he fpeaks of king James's vain attempt to aflVrt the dil- 
 penfing p-nvcr, mentions tlie follo'ving paiTiige. *' It is reported, 
 ** that the king laidto Jonts, *' lie Ihould have twelve judges of 
 ** his own opinion ; anU that Jones anlwered, " Twelve judges 
 ** you may poifibly find, fir j but hardly twelve lawyers." 
 
 f See Burnet, vol. i. 
 
 % ♦* Mcmoiri," i, p. 153. 
 
 " Cafes 
 
Class VI. o f E N G L A N t). ^7! 
 
 *« Cafes in the Courts of King's Bench and 
 •' Common Pleas, from the 22d to the 36th 
 ^ *' Year of the Reign of King Charles II. 1729-,'* 
 fol. 
 
 GALFRIDUS palmer, miles et 
 baronettus, attornacus geheralis Car. II. rcgi ; P* 
 Lely p* /v. IVhite fc, 
 
 Mr. Cambridge has the original pidlure. 
 
 Geoffry Palmer, a lawyer of diftincflion in the 
 reigns of Charles the Firil and Second^ was fon 
 of Thomas Palmer, efq. of Carlcton, in Nor- 
 thamptondiire, by Catharine Watlbn, filler to 
 the firfb lord Rockingham. Pie was reprc- 
 fentative for the borough of Stamford, in Lin- 
 colndiircj in the long parliament, in which he 
 was a chief manager of the evidence againft 
 the earl of istrafford. He afterwards, from prin- 
 ciple, adhered to the royal party, with which 
 he was a fellow-fufferer, having been imprifon- 
 ed in the Tower by Cromwell, who dreaded his 
 abilities, under a pretence of his plotting with 
 the cavaliers. Upon the reftoration of Charles 
 II. he was made attorney-general and chief- 
 jnftice of Chefter. It Ihould be remembered 
 to his honour, that he was, in the early part of 
 his life, one of the feledt friends of Mr. Ed- 
 ward Hyde, afterwards earl of Clarendon. He 
 died May 5, 1670, aged feventy-two years. 
 
 Sir JOHN M A R S H A M, a very learned 
 hiftorian, one of the fix clerks in chancery. Sec 
 Clafs IX. 
 
 Sir JOHN HOS KINS was an excellent 
 mafter in chancery, and a man of an irreproach- 
 able charadler. He was more inclined to the ftudy 
 of the new philofophy, than to follow the Uw 5 and 
 
 Bb 2 is 
 
^72 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 is befi known to the world as a virtuafo. See the 
 next rergn. 
 
 ''JOHANNES KING, eques auratus, 
 ' ferenifiimo Carolo 2^^^ regi iegibus Angiix con- 
 fuhus ; illurtriOimo Jacobo diici Eboracenfi ad- 
 vocatus generalis ; ac ctiam ex honorabili Inte- 
 rioris Templi communitate focius. Ob. 29 Ju- 
 «//, Ao Dom. 1677, yEt. 3S. Corpus in asde 
 Templorum fcpukum jacet "^, quarto die Julii 
 anno prasdido, ubi maulbleum erigitur,'^ &c. 
 IF* Sherwin fc» large h, Jh, 
 
 Sir John King, a finifhed fcholar, an accom- 
 plifned gentleman, a modeft man, and a pious 
 Chriflian, was educated at Qj-ieen's college, in 
 Cambridge, wence he removed to the Inner 
 Temple. He promifed to make a more con- 
 fiderable figure in the law than any man of his 
 age and (landing, and was greatly countenanced 
 by Charles II. who intended him for a rival to 
 fir William Jones the attorney-general, as he 
 llrenuoufTy oppofed all the meafures of the 
 court. It is probable that he would foon have 
 fupplanted him, if he had not been prevented 
 by death. Such was his reputation, and fo ex- 
 tenfive his practice, that, in the latter part of 
 his life, his fees amounted to forty and fifty 
 pounds a day +. 
 
 The Honourable ROGER NORTH, Efq. 
 JEt. tire. 30-, P. Lely p. 1680 •, G. Vertue fc. 1740. 
 Before his '' Examen^^ ^c. 1740 , large ^to. 
 
 Roger North, efq. was a near relation of the 
 lord-keeper Guilford, with whom he cliiefly 
 fpcnt the adive part of his life. He applied 
 
 • Sic. Grig. 
 
 i Echard, p. 936, 0.3.7. 
 
 himfclf 
 
Class VI. o f E N G L A N D. - 373 
 
 himfelf to the law, and was, in this reign, a 
 counfellor of note, and in the next attor- 
 ney-general. I^e has taken great pains, in his 
 *' Examen into the Credit and Veracity of a 
 " pretended Complete Hiftory f ," to vilify that 
 work ; and has, in leveral inltances, contradi(5l- 
 ed fa6ls founded upon authentic records, and 
 decried or extolled the characters of perfons, 
 whofe merit or demerit is as well eilabhfhed as 
 thefe fadls. He was alfo author of the Lives 
 of Francis, lord Guildford, lord keeper; of fir 
 Dudley North ; and of Dr. John North, mailer 
 of Trinity college in Cambridge. Thefe are 
 generally bound together in a large quarto. He 
 is fo very uncandid in his charadler of judge 
 Hale as to bring his veracity in queftion in the 
 chara6rers of others, where he had, perhaps, a 
 much ilronger temptation to deviate from the 
 truth. 
 
 R I C H A R D I. A N G H O R N, (counfellor 
 at law) ; E. Lutterelf. /\.to. mezz. 
 
 Richard Langhorne, a papiil, who had long 
 pafTed for a proteftant, v.as much employed by 
 the Jefuits in the management of their affairs. 
 Though he v/as faid to be of a fair charadler in 
 his profeffion, his condudt, on fome occafions, 
 feems to have been fufficientjy artful and jefult- 
 ical. A little before the rcfloration, he engaged 
 a half-witted perfon to manao;e eled::ons for him 
 in Kent •, and was af!s:ed by Mr. John Tillor- 
 fon J, who was privy to the fecret, v/hy he em- 
 ployed To weak a man in that bufinefs. He 
 very frankly told him, that it was a maxim with 
 
 t Dr. White Kennet's " Complete Hiftory of England," 
 X Afterwards archbifiicp of Canterbury. See Burnet's " Hift. 
 « of his own Time," i. p. 230. 
 
 B b 3 him 
 
374 
 
 The history CharlesIL 
 
 him to employ men of his character •, becaufe, 
 if fuch agents (hould take it into their heads to 
 turn informers, it would be eafy to invalidate 
 their evidence, by reprcfenting them as mad- 
 rjK'n. He was convidled, upon the tefnmony 
 of Titus Oates, of confpiring the death of the 
 king. During his trial, and at the place of 
 execution, he perfifted in aflerting his inno- 
 cence ; but his enemies gave little or no credit 
 to his affeverations. It was even faid, that pre- 
 varication and falfchood for the Catholic caufe, 
 was not only allowed, but deemed meritorious 
 by the church of Rome ; and that a man who 
 dared to perjure himfelf for the Romiih religion 
 was efteemed but little inferior, in point of me- 
 rit, to one that dared to die for it. He was 
 executed the j4thof July, 1679. 
 
 *' R I C H A R D GRAVES, Efq. of Mic- 
 «* kleton *, a bencher and reader of Lincoln's Inn, 
 *' clerk of the peace, and receiver-general for the 
 " county of Middlefex. He had two wives, by 
 *' vvhom he had ilTue nineteen children -, fix fons, 
 ^' and thirteen daughters -, and died 166^, aged 
 *' 59." G. Vertuefc. h.Jh. 
 
 WILLIAM P E T Y T, Efq. of the In- 
 ner Temple. See Clafs IX. 
 
 W I L L I A M P R Y N N E, Efq. prefenihtg 
 a hook to Charles IL See Clafs I. under " Hijiorjcal 
 ^' Piecesy &c:' 
 
 "^ Near Campdcn in Glocefterfliire. 
 
 SCOTCH 
 
Class VL of ENGLAND. 575 
 
 SCOTCH LAWYERS. 
 
 JAMES, earl of Perth, lord chancellor of 
 Scotland. See the reign of James II. 
 
 RICHARD MAITLAND, eldeft fon 
 of the earl of Lauderdale, lord juflice clerk of 
 the kingdom of Scotland. See Ciafs .II, 
 
 Sir JOHN N IS BET, of Dirleton, lord 
 Advocate; Paton deL R. White fc. h. fi. 
 
 Sir John Nifber, an eminent and upright 
 lawyer, an excellent fcholar, and an uncorrupc 
 patriot, particularly diftinguiflied himfelf by 
 pleading againft a Handing militia in Scotland, 
 in the reign of Charles II. in which he was one 
 of the commifTioners that treated with thofe of 
 , England concerning an union of the two king- 
 doms. He was fucceeded in his office of king's 
 advocate by fir George Mackenzie ^. 
 
 GEORGIUS MACKENZIUS, a 
 
 valle rofarum, &c. P, Vandrthanc fc, h.fh. 
 
 Sir George Mackenzie \ arms -^ motto '' Fir- 
 ma vel ardua;" h. Jh, 
 
 There is a good portrait of him, much like 
 this print, in the pidure gallery at Oxford. 
 
 Sir George Mackenzie, an able lawyer, a 
 police fcholar, and a celebrated wit; was kinf^'s 
 •f- advocate in Scotland, in the reign of Charles 
 and James II. He was learned in the laws of 
 nature and nations*, and particularly in thofe 
 of his own country, which he illuilratcd and 
 defended by his excellent writings. He finifhed 
 
 • Burnet. 
 
 '\ This anfvvers to the ofHce of attorney-general in England. 
 
 B b 4 his 
 
q-jG The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 his (Icdics at the univcrfuics of Aberdeen and 
 St. Andrew's, before he was fixreen years of 
 aee •, and is faid to have pleaded at the bar be- 
 fore he was twenty. He was a great mafter of 
 forenfic eloquence, on which he has written an 
 elegant difcourfe ^, which contains a brief, bun 
 comprehenfive compendium of the laws of Scot- 
 land. The poiitenefs of his learning, and the 
 fprightlinefs of his wit, were confpicuous in all 
 his pleadings, and fhone in his ordinary conver- 
 fation. Mr. Dryden acknowledges, that he was 
 unacquainted v/ith what he calls " the beauti- 
 *' ful turns of words and thoughts" in poetry, 
 till they were explained and exemplified to him, 
 jn a converiation which he had with *' that no- 
 " ble wit of Scotland, Sir George Mackenzie f." 
 He has written fevcral pieces of hiftory and an- 
 tiquities, and alfo efiays upon various fubje6ts; 
 none of which were more admired, than his 
 *' Moral EfTay upon Solitude, preferring ic to 
 *' public Employment, fuch as Fame, Com- 
 '? mand, Riches, Pieafure, Converiation," &c. 
 This was anfvvered by Mr. John Evelyn, it is 
 hard to fay, Vv'hich of thefe gentlemen was ca- 
 pable of enjoying the pleafures of folitude in a 
 more equifite degree. But Mr. Evelyn, who 
 in his charadler refembled Atticns^ as much as 
 fir George did Cicero •, was fo honeO:, as to pre- 
 fer the a6live life to fpeculative indolence, from 
 a confcioufnefs that it is infinitely more for the 
 advantage of mankind. Sir George came into 
 England foon aficr the Revolution, with a view 
 of enjoying that learned retirement which he 
 longed for, in the univcrfity of Oxford. In 
 June, J 690, he was admitted as a fludent into 
 
 f It is tntitled *' Tde.i Eloquentin:^ forenfis hndicrnr," Szc. 
 •j- Dedication to Dryden's " Jvuenal/' p. 132; 133, 5th edit. 
 
 the 
 
Class VIL o f E N G L A N D. 377 
 
 the Bodleian Library ; but died within a year 
 afcer his admiffion, at his lodgings in London, 
 on the 2d of May, 1691. He was a great be- 
 nefaftor to literature, having founded the ad- 
 vocates library at Edinburgh, which now con- 
 tains above thirty thoufand volumes*. His 
 works were printed at Edinburgh, in 17 16, in 
 two volumes folio. See the reign of James 
 11. 
 
 Sir PATRICK LYON, of Carfe, knt. 
 judge of the high court of Admiralty of the kifig- 
 dom of Scotland. R. White ad vivum fc. h,Jh, 
 
 ' CLASS VIL 
 
 MEN of the SWORD. 
 
 JACOBUS TURNER, eques auratus ; 
 in armour y arms, motto, ^^ Tu ne cede Maiis,'* R^ 
 White fc,h,Jh. 
 
 Sir James Turner was a man of great natural 
 courage, which was fometimes inflamed to an 
 uncommon degree of ferocity, by ftrong liquors; 
 in the ufe of which he freely indulged himfelf. 
 When the laws againft conventicles were put 
 in execution in Scotland, he was ordered to 
 quarter the guards, of whom he had the com- 
 mand, in different parts of that kingdom ; and, 
 in an arbitrary manner, to levy fines, and other- 
 wife punifh the delinquents. He treated the 
 people with fuch rigour as gave the highefl of- 
 fence : and happening to fall into their hands 
 unarmed, he exp(r61:ed every moment to be fa- 
 crificed to their refcntment. But as they found 
 by his orders, which they feized with his other 
 
 - -rennant's ** Tour in Scotland," p. 48. 
 
 papers^ 
 
578 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 papers, that he had been enjoined to afl with 
 Hill greater rigour, they fpared his lii-'e. He 
 was frequently reprimanded by lord Rothes and 
 archbifhop Sharp for treating the people with 
 too great lenity, but never for his ads of vio- 
 lence. He was a man of learning, and wrote 
 *' EiTays on the Arc of War," publifiied in fo- 
 lio, 1683. 
 
 Colonel GILES STRANGEWAYS, of 
 JVIelbury Sampford, in Dorfetfliire. 
 
 *' The reft fame fpeaks, and makes his virtues 
 
 '* known, 
 " By's zeal for the church, and loyalty to the 
 
 " throne. 
 *' The artift in this draught doth art excel, 
 *' None but himfelf, himfelf can parallel ^. 
 *' But if his fteel could his great mind exprefs, 
 '* That would appear in a much nobler drefs." 
 
 Z). Loggan ad vivum delin, h, Jh fcarce. 
 
 This worthy gentleman, who defcended from 
 one of the moft ancient and refpedable families 
 in Dorfetfhire, was reprefentative in parliament 
 for that county -f-, and one of the privy council 
 to Charles II. In the time of the civil war, he 
 
 • Theobald feems to have adopted this line, with very little 
 variation, in his *' Double Falfehood," 
 
 None but himfelf can be his parallel. 
 The thought is fo very fingular, that it is extremely improbable, 
 that two perfons fliould have hit upon it, and varied fo little in 
 the expiefllcn §. Sir William 1'tmple has varied more; where 
 fpeaking of Cacfar, he fays, that he was ** equal only to him- 
 «' felf||.-' 
 
 f It appears from the *' Notitia Parliamentaria," that the 
 county of Dorfet has not been without a rtpre'entative of this 
 family, from the reign of Mary, to that of George J. In the 
 former of thefe reigns, Giles btrangeu ays, knt. was member ot 
 parliament for that county. 
 
 § Sec Bathos, &r. chap. vH. 
 
 I Seethe •' Eilay O'Uhc Gardens of Eyicurwi," 
 
 had 
 
Class VII. of ENGLAND. 
 
 had the command of a regiment in that part 
 of the royal army which aded under prince 
 Maurice in the Weft. In 1645, he was im- 
 prifoned in the Tower for his adlive loyalty, 
 where he continued in patient confinement for 
 two years, and upwards of fix months. There 
 is a fine medallion of him, flruck upon this oc- 
 cafion ; on the revcrfe of which is repreiented 
 that part of the Tower which is called Cssfar's ; 
 with this infcription, 'Decufqiie adverfa dederunt ^, 
 When Charles fled into the Weft, in difguife, 
 after the battle of Worcefter, he fent him three 
 hundred broad pieces f ; which were, perhaps, 
 the moft feafonable prefent that the royal fugi- 
 tive ever received. But this was but a fmall 
 part of the fum which is to be placed to the ac- 
 count of his loyalty ; as the houfe of Strange- 
 ways paid no lefs than 35,000 1. for its attach- 
 ment to the crown J. Ob.iS'jS' The prefent 
 countefs of Ilchefter is heirefs of this family. 
 
 Sir GEORGE RAWDON, jEt, 631 
 Ji. White fc. ^.to. 
 
 This head belongs to a fet, which was en- 
 graved for a genealogical hiftory of this family, 
 in manufcriptj from which Mr. Thoreft)y has 
 given us fome extracts, in his " Ducatus Leo- 
 ^« dienfis." 
 
 Sir George Rawdon was of the elder branch 
 of the family of that name, long feated at Raw- 
 don, in the neighbourhood of Leedes, in York- 
 fhire. in 1641, he went into Ireland, in the 
 quality of ferjeant-major to lord Conway's regi- 
 
 • Evelyn's *' Numifmata/' p. 115, 
 
 t See *' An Account of the Prefervation of King Charles II. 
 ?' after the Battle of Worcefter,'' (publifhed by Sir David Dal- 
 rymple) p. 46. 
 
 I Lloyd's ** Memoirs." 
 
 ment 
 
 379 
 
380 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 ment of foot ; where he bravely attacked the 
 rebels, and gave the firft check to their rapid 
 progrefs. He was afterwards made a major of 
 horle, and had, for a long time, the folc com- 
 mand of the cavalry in the province of UKter. 
 He fignalized his valour upon many other oc- 
 cafions -, and was univerfally efteemed an excel- 
 lent foldier. He was, for his eminent fervices, 
 created a baronet on the 20th of May, 1663 •, 
 and died in Auguft, 1 6S^, in the Sid year of his 
 age. He married Dorothy, daughter of Ed- 
 ward, lord vifcount Conway. 
 
 A SCOTCH GENERAL. 
 
 '' General THOMAS DALYELL 
 ** (D A L Z I E L) who ferved Charles the fecond 
 *' at the battle of Worceller, and thereafter being 
 <* taken prifoner by the rebels, after long impri- 
 ^' fonment, m.ade his efcape out of the Tower of 
 *' London, w^ent to Mufcovy, wheie he ferved 
 *' the emperor of Ruflla as one of the generals of 
 *' his forces againfh the Polanders and Tartars, 
 ** till the year 1665, when he was recalled by 
 " kins Charles the fecond ; and thereafter did 
 " command his majefty's forces at the defeat of 
 *' the rebels at Pentland-Hiils, in Scotland ; and 
 " continued lieutenant-general in Scotland, when 
 " his majefty had any ftanding forces in that king- 
 *' dom, till the year of his death, 1685, Sec." 
 D. Pc.ttcn delin. P. Vandrehanc fc. h.JJj. Mr. Bull 
 and Mr. GuUron have each a proof of this print. 
 I never faw another. 
 
 Thomas Dalziel, an excellent foldier, but a 
 fmgular man, was taken prifoner, fighting * for 
 
 > See the memoirs referretl to at the end of this article. 
 
Class YIL o f E N G L A N D. ^gi 
 
 Charles II. at the battle of Worceder. After 
 his return from Mufcovy, he had the command 
 of the king's forces in Scotland ; but refufed to 
 ferve in that kingdom under the duke of Mon- 
 mouth, by v/hom he was fuperfeded only for a 
 fortnight. After the battle of Bothwell-bridge, 
 he, with the franknefs which was natural to him, 
 openly reproved the duke for his milcondu6t: 
 UDon that occafion. As he never fliaved his 
 " beard fince the murder of Charles I. it grew fo 
 long, that it reached almoft to his girdle. 
 Though his head was bald, he never wore a pe- 
 ruke ; but covered it with a beaver hat, the 
 brim of which was about three inches broad. 
 He never wore boots, nor above one coat, which 
 had ftraight fleeves, and fat clofe to his body. 
 He conftantly went to London once a year to 
 kifs the king's hand. His grotefque figure at- 
 traded the notice of the populace, and he was 
 followed by a rabble, with huzzas, wherever he 
 went. See a charafleriftic account of him in the 
 " Memoirs of Capt. John Creichton," in the 
 13th vol. of Swift's " Works *." 
 
 * The foilowing anecciote in Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs j| is 
 alfo charafteriftic of his fpirit : 
 
 *' James (the fecond) gained numbers of the Scotch by fami- 
 
 * liarity. He had long difgufted them by his diltance : the 
 
 * change in his manners was owing to an accident. When the 
 
 * dutchefs of York came firft to Scotland, fhe one day obferved 
 ' three covers upon the dining-table. She aflced the duke for 
 
 * whom the third was intended ? He anfwered for general Dal- 
 ' ziel, whom he had a/ked to dine v^ich him. Tiie dutchefs re- 
 ' fuitfd to permit a private gentleman to fit at table with her, 
 
 * Dalziel, who had been in the Imperial fervice, entered the 
 
 * room in the mean time ; and, hearing the fcruples of the 
 
 * dutchefs, told her, lie had dined at a table where her father 
 
 * had ibood at his back j alluding to the duke of Modena's being 
 ' a valVal of the emperoi,. The dutchefs felt the reproof, and 
 
 * adiifed her hufband not to oiFend the pride of proud men." 
 
 1[ Vol.. i. p, 136, ad edit, notes, 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
381 Th E H I S T O R Y Charles IL 
 
 OFFICERS of the NAVY. 
 
 JAMES, duke of York, lord high admiral^ 
 gained the higheft reputation by his courage on 
 board the fleer, in the firil: Dutch war. He under- 
 llood naval affairs: and his condudl with refpetfl 
 to the navy, after he afcended the throne, ought 
 to be remembered to his honour. He, in this reign, 
 invented the fisnals ufed at fea. See Clafs I *. 
 
 Prince RUPERT, who was i^rave to temerity^ 
 commanded the fleet in conjundlion with the duke 
 of Albemarle, in 1666. His courage in this war 
 is mentioned with high encomiums by our poets -f- 
 and hiftorians : but ail thefe he richly deferved* 
 It was indeed fo great, that it could fcarce be ex- 
 aggerated. In the laft Dutch v/ar, he feemed to 
 retain all the activity and fire of his youth, and 
 beat the enemy in leveral engagements. He was 
 fucceeded in his command of vice-admiral, by the 
 duke of Grafton, in 1682. See Clafs I. and X. 
 
 GEORGE MONK, duke of Albemarle^ 
 who had acquired a great reputation as a fea offi- 
 cer, before the Relloration, fignalized his courage, 
 in an afl:onifliing manner, in the memorable en- 
 gagement with the Dutch, which began the firfl: 
 of June, 1666, and continued four days. He was 
 very near being overpowered by numbers, when 
 he was joined, on the third day, by prince Rupert, 
 who ravidied the vlclory from the enemy's hands. 
 The laO: difplay of his courage, which was equal 
 
 • Charles II. never attended to any bullnefs, but that of the 
 navy, which he ))erfe<5t]y uiidcrftood. It is well known that the 
 naval hiftory of that prince is the nioft (hining part of the annals 
 of his reign. 
 
 f See bryden'4 " Annus Mirabilis," in his Mifcellanies, iii. 
 
 |>. 19, 20. 
 
 at 
 
 V 
 
Class VIL of ENGLAND. 383 
 
 at lead, to any other afl of his life, was expofing 
 himfelf CO the cannon (hot of the Dutch, when they 
 burnt the Englifh (hips at Chatham. This effort of 
 valour, which looked like radinefs, was then abfo- 
 lutely neceflary, to encourage others to do their 
 duty. The love which the feamen had for him 
 had as great influence on board the fleet as his 
 perfonal bravery. They freqiiently called hinn, 
 « honefl: George Monck.'* See Clafs II. 
 
 EDWARD, earl of Sandwich, a man of 
 clear, as well as fervid courage, commanded the 
 fleet which brought over Charles the fecond. One 
 of the greatefl: battles ever fought v/ith the Dutch, 
 or any other enemy, was on the 3d of June, 1665 ^ 
 when this gallant officer bore with his fquadron 
 into the centre of the Dutch fleet, and prefently 
 threw it into that confufion which ended in vid:ory. 
 He was not only a man of merit in himfelf; buE 
 had alio much of that kind of merit which endear-^ 
 ed him to the failors ; who, after the death of the 
 duke of Albemarle, loved and revered him as their 
 father and protedor. See Clafs III. 
 
 Sir EDV/ARD S PRAGUE, (Spragge) 
 kn^ admiral of the blue fquadron, 1672, &c. 
 
 " Si totus (fradus) iilabatur orbis, 
 
 " Impavidum ferient ruinse," h, jh. mezZi 
 
 This great and amiable man, who in 1672 
 fucceeded the earl of Sandwich in command *, 
 very nearly refembled that nobleman in courage, 
 benevolence, and fweernefs of temper; and was 
 no lefs eminent for his abilities in the cabinet. 
 He was captain of a man of war in the firll en- 
 gagement with the Dutch, on the 3d of June, 
 l66j J when he fo far dillinguiflied himfelf by 
 
 • Campbell . 
 
 his 
 
384 The HISTORY Charles II; 
 
 his gallant behaviour, that he was foon after 
 knighted by the king,on board the Koyal Charles. 
 He attracted the particular notice of the duke of 
 Albemarle, in the four days battle in 1666; 
 and in another battle, fought the 25th of July 
 the fame year, he contributed greatly to the de- 
 feat of the enemy. He burnt a confiderable 
 In June, number of the Dutch fire-fhips, when they came 
 
 *^*7' up the Thames, threw their fleet into confuflon^ 
 
 and purfued it to the river's mouth. In 1671, 
 he burnt in the Bay of Bugia, feven Algerine 
 men of war, which had been fele61"ed on purpofc 
 to fight him. In the laft Dutch war^ he fingled 
 out Van Tromp, whom, as he told the king, 
 he was determined to bring alive or dead, or pe- 
 rifh in the attempt. After he had loft two (hips 
 in his engagement with the Dutch admiral, and 
 was preparing to hoift his flag on board a third, 
 a (hot from the enemy funk him, together with 
 his boat. The generous Tromp did not only 
 do juftice to his valour, but even lamented his 
 death. Ob, 11 Aug. 1673. 
 
 Sir GEORGE AYS CUE, admiral of the 
 Englifh fleet; oval; b. JJj, 
 
 It is fcarce po(rible to give a higher charadler 
 of the courage of this brave admiral, than to fay 
 that he was a match for Van Tromp or de Dc 
 Ruyter-, both whom he engaged in the firft 
 Dutch war * without being conquered. In 1648^ 
 when the fleet revolted to prince Rupert, he 
 declared for the parliament, and brought the 
 Lion man of war, which he then commanded^ 
 into the river Thames. He was the next year 
 appointed admiral of the Irifh feas, and had a 
 great hand in reducing the whole ifland to' the 
 obedience of the Republic. In 1651, he forced 
 • Efcfore the Rslloration, 
 
 Bar- 
 
thASS Vil. o F E N G L A N D; 3§^ 
 
 Barbadoes, and feveral other Britifh fettlements 
 in America, to fnbmit to the commonwealth. 
 In 1652, he attacked a Dutch fleet of forty fail, 
 under the convoy of four men of war : of thofe 
 he burnt fome, took others, and drove the reft 
 on fhore. Lilly tells us, in his Almanack for 
 1653, that he, the year before, engaged fixty 
 fail of Dutch men of war, with fourteen or fif- 
 teen fhips only, and made them give v^ay. He 
 protefted againft Blake's retreat in that defperate 
 adtion of the^pth of Noven-^ber, 1652, thinking 
 it much more honourable to die by the ihot of 
 the enemy. This, and his great influence over 
 the feamen, are fuppofed to have been the rea- 
 fons for his being afterwards difmiiTed from his 
 , command. He was a iliort: time admiral in 
 Sweden, under Charles Guflavus ; but return- 
 ed to £lngland foon after the Reftoration. In 
 1666, he commanded on board the Royal 
 Prince, the largeft fhip in the navy, and gene- 
 rally efleemed the finefl in the world. He en- 
 gaged the Dutch with his ufuai intrepidity and 
 fuccefs, in that memorable battle which conti- 
 nued four days : but on the third day his (hip 
 ran on the Galloper fand, and he was compell- 
 ed by his own feaftien to ftrike. He was for 
 fome months detained a prifoner in Holland ; 
 and, during that time, was carried from one 
 town to another, and expofed to the people by 
 way of triumph. He never afterwards went 
 to fea. 
 
 WILLIAM PEN was, from a common 
 man, advanced to the rank of an admiral by Crom- 
 well, wifih whom he was a great favourite, before 
 he failed in his attempt upon St. Domingo. After 
 the Protedior's death, he was reftored to his com* 
 
 Vol. III. C c mand. 
 
386 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 mand, and knighted by Charles II. He was 
 appointed one of the afTeffors to the lord high ad- 
 miral, and had a great (hare of his confidence and 
 favour. See the Interregnum, Clafs VII. 
 
 JOHN LAWSON, admiral of the Englifh 
 fleet, i666j (1665) •, in armour -, b. Jb. mczz. 
 
 Sir John Lawfon, who was the fon of a poor 
 man at Hull, was, when he entered into the fea- 
 fervice, upon the fame foot with Pen, and like 
 him rofe by regular gradations to an admiral. 
 He was in all the a6lions under Blake, who faw 
 and did juflice to his merit. As he was a man 
 of excellent fenfe, he made the jufteft obferv- 
 ations upon naval affairs ; though in his man- 
 * ners he retained much of the bluntnefs and 
 
 roughneis of the tarpaulin. He was often ad- 
 vifed with by the duke of York, who had a 
 high opinion of his judgment. He acquitted 
 himfelf with areat cour.^o;^ and condu6l in ma- 
 ny engagements with the Dutch j particularly 
 in 1653, when he and Pen were rewarded with 
 gold chains for their eminent ferviccs. The 
 Algerines, who were robbers by principle and 
 profeffion, and had ereded piracy into a fyftem 
 of government, were effedtually chaftifed by 
 him, and compelled to fubmit to a more dis- 
 advantageous peace than they had ever made 
 with any of the dates of Chriftcndom. He was 
 vice-admiral under the earl of Sandwich, whom 
 he, for a (hort time, fucceeded in command, 
 when he was difmiflTed by the parliament. 
 Though he was in his heart a republican, he 
 readily clofcd with the defign for reftoring the 
 king. He died in June, 1665, ofafhotinthe 
 knee, which he received in an engagement with 
 
 . the 
 
Class Vli. of ENGLAND* 387 
 
 the Dutch, in which he v/as obferved to ex- 
 ceed all that he had done before ** 
 
 Sir THOMAS ALLEN, admiral of the 
 Englifli fleet, 1666 ^ a truncheon in his hand\ h.Jh^ 
 mezz. 
 
 This brave and expert officer was the firfl: that 
 entered upon hoftilities againft the Dutch, in 
 1665, by attacking their Smyrna fleet. The 
 fquadron that he commanded confifted but of 
 eight fhips ; but what he wanted in force, he 
 fupplied by courage and condudl. He killed 
 their commodore Brackel, took four merchant- 
 men richly laden, and drove the refl: into the 
 bay of Cadiz. On the 25th of July, 1666, he^ 
 at the head of the white iquadron, fell upon the 
 Dutch van, entirely defeated it, and killed the 
 three admirals who commanded that divifion. 
 The victory of this day, in which he had a prin- 
 cipal hand, was indifputably on the ^\dt of the 
 Englifh. Then it was that De Ruyter exclaim- 
 ed, *' My God, what a v^^retch am I ! among 
 ** fo many thoufand bullets, is there not one 
 " to put me out of my pain ?" See the reign of 
 James II. 
 
 Sir JOSEPH JORDAN, admiral; Le-^ 
 ly p, Tompfon exc, large h, ft), mezz. 
 
 • The late col. Richard Norton, of Southwick in Hampfiiire, 
 was grandfon to lir John Lawlon. This gentleman was remark- 
 able for making a very fingular will, in which he left his eftate 
 to the poor in genera!, and nominated the two archbjdiops his. 
 txecutors ; and, in cale of their declining the truft, the parlia- 
 ment. His orders with refpedl to his funeral, and feveral of his 
 legacies, were equally extraordinary. He bequeathed to the late 
 king George feveral pi<5lures, which now remain in the royal 
 colleftion, alfo a print of St. Cecilia, after a painting of Raphael ||. 
 His grandfather's gold chain and medal were left to Mr. Richard 
 Chichley — As the teltator was adjudged to be infane, his will 
 was fet a fide. 
 
 li I think it was that engraved by Marc Antonio. 
 
 C c 2 The 
 
S83 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 The mod memorable a6tion of Sir Jofeph 
 !t8 May, Jordan was in the famous battle of Solebay ^, 
 
 J^7a- when he fell with his fqiiadron into the midftof 
 
 the Dutch fleer, and threw it into the utmoft 
 confufion. The advantage was long on the fide 
 of the Dutch, as the Eno-lifh were ovaroowered 
 by numbers ; but by this adlion, the fortune of 
 the day was reverfed, and the Englilh gained 
 the vidlory. It fhould alfo be remembered, that 
 in this battle he abandoned the brave and ac- 
 complifhed earl of Sandwich to the Dutch firc- 
 Ihips, in order to fuccour the duke of York. 
 
 Sir WILLIAM BERKELEY, admiral^ 
 
 h*JI:. mezz. 
 
 Sir William Bartley f, admiral ; P^Lelyp. 
 R, T^ompfoneM* h.Jh. mezz. 
 
 Sir William Berkeley was fon of Sir Charles 
 Berkeley, and brother to Charles, earl of Fal- 
 mouth. He was vice-admiral of the white fqua- 
 dron, and led the van in the defperate engage- 
 ment with the Dutch, which began on the ift 
 of June, and continued four days. Prompted 
 by his ufual courage, he fleered into the midll 
 of :he enemy's fleet, where he was foon over- 
 powered by numbers. He was found dead in 
 his cabin, covered with blood. Ob» i June, 
 1666. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MINGH, (Minns), 
 admiral of the Englifli fleet, 1666 ; h.Jh. mezz. 
 
 Sir Chrifl:opher Minns was fon of an honefl: 
 fhoem.aker in London, from whom he inherited, 
 nothing but a good conflitution. He was re- 
 markable, early in life, for a fpirit of adven- 
 
 • Or Soutliwold Bay. 
 
 t His name is here fpelt according to the popular pronunci- 
 ation. 
 
 turej 
 
Class VII. of ENGLAND. 389 
 
 ture ; and had gained an edate in the Weft In- 
 dies, before he became an officer of rank in the 
 navy. He was a man of good underftanding, 
 which he difcovered both in fpeaking and adt- 
 ing. Though he was affable and familiar with 
 the feamen, no man knew better how to main- 
 tain his authority. I'he men under his infpec- 
 tion were well paid and fedy and had always 
 juftice done them in the diftribution of prizes. 
 Hence it was, that he was both honoured and 
 beloved. He had, in the courfeofhis life, of- 
 ten manifefted his adive and paflive courage ; 
 but never in a more extraordinary degree, than 
 at the approach of death. On the fourth day of 
 the famous battle that began the ift of June, 
 he received a fliot in the neck * : after which, 
 though he was in exquifite pain, he continued 
 in his command, holding his wound with both 
 his hands for above an hour. At length an- 
 other fhot pierced his throat, and laid him for 
 ever at reft. 0^. 4 June, 1666 f. 
 
 THOMAS, earl of Oflbry, is well known 
 to have fought fame in every part of Europe, and 
 in every fcene of a6lion where it was to be acquir- 
 ed. In 1666, upon his return from Ireland, he 
 paid a vifit to the earl of Arlington, at his feat ac 
 
 • Lloyd, by miftake, fays it was in the mouth. See Camp- 
 bell. 
 
 f I am credibly informed that he, when he had taken a Spa- 
 ni(h raanof war, and gotten thecommander on board his fliip, he 
 committed the care of him to a lieutenant, who was dire6ted to 
 ohfcrve his behaviour. Shortly after, word was brought to Minns 
 that the Spaniard was deploring his captivity, and wondeiing 
 
 what great captain it could be who had made Don — — 
 
 with along and tedious firing of names and titles, his prifoHer, 
 The lieutenant was ordered to return to his charge, and, if the 
 Don perfilled in his curiofity, to tell him that Kit Mim/s had taken 
 him. This diminutive name utterly confounded the titulado, 
 threw him into an agony of grief, and gave him more acute pangs 
 than all the i efl of his misfortunes. 
 
 C c 3 Eufton 
 
390 The HISTORY Charles If. 
 
 Euflon in SufToik J-, where he happened to hear 
 the firing ot guns a: (ea, in the famous battle that 
 began the firft of June. He inftantly prepared to 
 go en board the fleet, where he arrived on the 3d 
 of that month •, and had the fatisfadlion of inform- 
 ing the duke of Albemarle, that prince Rupert 
 was haftening to jo^n him. He had his fhare in 
 the glorious adions of "^hat and the fucceeding day. 
 His reputation was much increafed by his btha- 
 ^? May, vi )'.^' in fhe engagement off Southwold Bay. In 
 1672. 1673, he was fucctffively made rear admiral of the 
 blue and the red fquadrons : he having, in the 
 battle of the nth of Auguft that year, covered 
 the Royal Prince, on board of which Sir Edward 
 Spragge commanded, and at length brought off 
 the fhattered veflel in tow. On the loth of Sep- 
 tember following, he was, by the king, appointed 
 admiral of the whole fleet, during the abfence of 
 prince Rupert. See Clafs III. 
 
 Sir TRET SWELL HOLLIS, (Fret- 
 CHEviLLE HoLLEs) ; Lely p. Brown-, h.jh.mezz. 
 
 Sir Fretchevijle Holies pofi"cfltrd, in a high 
 degree, that courage for which his family v^as 
 diftinguifhed. He behaved with his ufual in- 
 trepidity in the famous engagement with the 
 Dutch, that continued four days, in which he 
 unfortunately loft an arm. He was rear-admiral 
 vindcr Sir Robert Holmes, when he attacked the 
 Smyrna fleet, which was the firft ad of holf ility 
 in the laft Dutch war. He was killed, with fe- 
 veral other brave officers, in the battle of South- 
 wold Bay, on the 2 8Lh ©f May, 1672. 
 
 X Eufton, or Eufton, is, in the Biographia," p. 1C72, ^*i<i er. 
 roiieoully to be \\\ Noitoljc. 
 
 Sir 
 
Class Vnr. of ENGLAND. 39I 
 
 Sir JOHN CHICHELEY; Lely p. 
 Browne ; b. Jh, mezz. 
 
 Sir John Chicheley was a rear-admiral under 
 prince Rupert in the lalt Dutch war. When 
 Sir Edward Spragge was like to be overpowered 
 by the enemy, fir John, together with the prince, 
 bore down to his afliftance: but notwithftand- 
 ing the efforts of his friends, and his own in- 
 vincible courage, that great man had foon after 
 the misfortune to lofe his life. Sir John Chi- 
 cheley was one of the commiflioners of the ad- 
 miralty, and member of parliament for Newton 
 in Lancafhire, in the reign of William III. 
 
 HENRICUS TERNE, armiger, qui. 
 Anno 1660, Hifpanorum VI. navium claflem, per 
 IX. horas, folus fuftinuit ; et quamvis graviter 
 faucius, repulit ; primus ob rcgem reducem fan- 
 guinem fudit ; In prselio demum adverfus Batavos, 
 Junii I, 1666, ftrenui ducis opera fungens, fortif- 
 fimam animam exhalavit. JV. Sheppard p, GuiL 
 Faithorne fc, large h. Jh, fcarce» 
 
 CLASS VIII. 
 
 SONS of PEERS without TITLES, 
 Baronets, Knights, Gentlemen, &c. 
 
 The honourable CHARLES CECIL; 
 
 Vandervaart p. Lens f. a child with a lamb ; h. Jh, 
 mezz, 
 
 Charles Cecil was third fon to John, the fourth 
 earl of Exeter. The original painting isatBur- 
 leigh-Houfe, near Stamford in Lincolnfhire. 
 
 ROBERT and DOROTHY SIDNEY, 
 
 fon and daughter of Philip, earl of Leicefter ; 
 
 C c 4 Hvo 
 
39^ TheHISTORY Charles II. 
 
 fj^o children playing with a dog -, Lely p. Brown ; 
 oblong h. Jh. mezz. 
 
 Robert Sidney fucceeded his father in title 
 and edate. He died on the i ith of November, 
 1702. 
 
 HENRY S I D N E Y, fon to Robert, earl 
 ofLeicefter; Lely p, Broiz'n -, large h. fi. 7nezz. 
 
 This gentleman, who was afterwards created 
 earl of Romney, was the youngeft fon of Ro- 
 bert, €arl of Leicefter, and brother tp earl Phi- 
 lip. He was one of the memorable seven, who 
 invited William, prince of Orange, over to Eng- 
 land, and who fiibfcribed an alTociation inform, 
 which they fent to Holland. He was, m the 
 reign of that prince, lord lieutenant of Ireland, 
 mafter of the ordnance, warden of the cinque- 
 ports, colonel of the royal regiment of foot- 
 guards, and one of the privy-council. He died 
 a batchelor in 1700. It is obvious to remark 
 here, that Mr. Swifc, afterwards dean of St. Pa- 
 trick's, has given us an idea of his charafter ia 
 a few bitter words ; but fome allowance is, in 
 candour, to be made for the difordered fpleen 
 of the writer, on a moll provoking occafion. 
 He tells us, that he " applied by petition to 
 *' king William, upon the claim of a promifc 
 *' his majedy had made to fir William Tem- 
 ple, that he would give Mr. Swift a prebend 
 of Canterbury or Wcftm.inlier. The earl of 
 Romney, who profefTed much friendfhip for 
 him, promifed to fecond his petition ; but, as 
 *' he was an old, vicious, illiterate rake, with- 
 *' out any fenfe of truth or honour, faid not a 
 " word to the king ; and Mr. Swift, after long 
 f' attendance in vain, thought it better to com- 
 " ply with an invitation given him by the earl 
 
 "of 
 
 C( 
 
 
Class VIII, of ENGLAND. 393 
 
 *< of Berkeley, to attend him to Ireland as h\% 
 *' chaplain and private fecretary *." 
 
 The Honourable WILLIAM VERNEY, 
 Efq. Lely p. R. Tompfon exc. h. Jh. mezz. 
 
 Sir Greville Verney, hereafter mentioned, 
 had a fon named William, who died in France 
 unmarried, the 23d of Auguli, 1683. This may 
 poflibly be that fon. As he is ftyled honourable, 
 I have placed him here, though perhaps he had 
 no right to that title. 
 
 « Dominus EDWARDUS BERING, creat. Bart. 
 ^' eques aur. illiiilris domini Edoardi Bering, de ^ ^^^* 
 '' Surrenden Bering, in com. Cantii, militis et 
 *' baronetti, filius ex matre optima, nee minus il- 
 " luftri, Untona, domini Radulphi Gibbes, equitis 
 aurati, filia. Pater ob. 1644 : Mater ob. 1676. — 
 I. Bering's Paternal Coat : 2. Sind a noble Sax- 
 on : 3. Ipre, earl of Kent : 4. Humph, de Bo- 
 hun, earl of Hereford, &c," Knelier p. R, IVhite 
 Jc, 1687. 
 
 This print may ferve to correal a miftake in 
 the '' Englifh Baronets," vol. i. p. 264. The 
 gentleman whom it reprefents is there faid to be 
 the Ton and heir of the firft Sir Edward Bering, 
 by his fecond lady, Anne, daughter of Sir John 
 Afliburnham : Unton, daughter of Sir Ralph ' 
 Gibbes, mentioned as above, was his third. 
 
 Sir T H O M A S I S H A M, baronet ; Lelj 
 p, D. Loggan exc* large h, jh, mezz, 
 
 Thomas Isham, de Lamport, in comitatu 
 Northamptoniae, baronettus ; Loggan del, i6-j6\ 
 large h, Jh, Suppofed to h^ engraved by Gerard ValcL 
 
 ♦ Appendix to " Swift's Life," by Swift, p. 50, 51. 
 
 Thoma^ 
 
394 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 Crciiieda Thomas Irtiam was fonof Sir Juftinian Ifham 
 
 Uxj,i6xj. of Lamport. He was a young gentleman of 
 
 great expedation, but died, to the regret of all 
 
 that knew him. in 1681, foon after he had fi- 
 
 nifhed his travels. 
 
 Sir JOHN LOWTHER, Bart. Lely p. 
 Browne exc b. Jh. mezz. 
 
 Sir John Lowther was a gentleman of a very 
 ancient and fiourifhing family, long feated in 
 Weftmoreland. He was father of fir John Low- 
 ther, who, in 1695, was created vilcount Lonf- 
 dale, and was afterwards lord privy-fcal to Wil- 
 liam HI. This family has been greatly enriched 
 by the colliery at Whitehaven, which has prov- 
 ed an inexhauftible fund of wealth. The pre- 
 fent fir James Lowiher does not only carry on 
 a very lucraive tfide to London, but alfo em- 
 ploys a confiderab.'e number of vefTeis to fupply 
 the city of Dublin with coals. Ob, 1675, ^^• 
 70. 
 
 Sir JOHN WEBSTER, Bart. Under- 
 neath is the following infcription : " Wollven- 
 *' hoerft, Cromwick, Linfhotterhaar, part of Ma- 
 '•^ eftwick Stuagger Engge, commiflary for the 
 •* emperor of all Ruflia and Mofcovia. Created 
 *' baronet of England, May the 31ft, 1660, by 
 " king Charles 11. at Igravenhaag. His arms, of 
 *^ Cattenbrouck, Schaagen, Dengge, part of Ifell- 
 ** field, Linfchooter Engge, in Holland, and the 
 
 '* province of Utrecht, lord ." The Jirft 
 
 imprefftons of this print bad eigbt Latin lines hy Bar^ 
 Uiis, wbich 'were afterwards erafed, and the above 
 tnfcription was fubftituted in its place* 
 
 Sir 
 
Class VIII. of ENGLAND. 395 
 
 Sir SAMUEL B ARN A RDIST ON, 
 Bart. His portrait belongs to the reign of Wil- 
 liam III. 
 
 Sir R O B E R T V I N E R, Bart, long hair, 
 blackcaps cloak, ^c. hy Faithorne\ without infer ip^ 
 tion\ h,Jh. very fear ce. 
 
 Sir Robert Viner, goldfcnith and banker ofcreated 
 London, was a very loyal, and no lefs ufeful ^sgg^' 
 fubjed to Charles II. As his credit was very 
 cxtenfive, he fometimes borrowed large fums of 
 money to lend the government. The intereft paid 
 on thele occafions mud have been very confider- 
 able, as he paid himfelf no lefs than fix per cent. 
 When he entered upon his mayoralty *, the king 
 did him the honour to dine with him, and he 
 had the honour of drinking fevcral bottles with 
 his majefty ; an indulgence not unfrequent in 
 this reign -f. He afterwards ereded an equef- 
 trian ftatue to the king at Stock's-market : it 
 was done originally for John Sobiefki, who raif- 
 ed the fiege of Vienna, when it was invefted by 
 the Turks J. The fine old houfe which belonged 
 to fir Robert Viner is now in the pofl"efrion of 
 the reverend Mr. Clarke. It is at Ickenham, 
 near Uxbridge Common, in Middlefex. 
 
 Sir EDWARD HARLEY, knight of 
 the Bath, 1660 ; Cooper p. Vertuefc. h,fh. 
 
 His portrait is at Welbeck. 
 
 * The pageant exhibited on the day he was fworn, was a very 
 magnificent one. It was called Goldfmith's Jubilee, and was 
 defigned by Thomas Stevenfon. ^ 
 
 t See the ** Speftator," No. 462. 
 
 X Voltaire mentions a remarkable text of a thankfgiving (er- 
 mon, preached on this occafion, namely, " There was a man 
 " feat from God, whofe name was John," 
 
 This 
 
^gS The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 This gentleman, who was knight of the (hire 
 for Hertrford, at the fame time with fir Robert 
 Harley his father, gave many fignal proofs of 
 his valour, at the head of a regur.ent raifed at 
 his own cxpence for the fervice of Charles I, 
 Upon the reiloration of Charles II. he was ap- 
 pointed governor of Dunkirk, and foon after 
 made a knig-ht of the Bath. He fat in all the 
 parliaments of this reign, and was a diftinguifh- 
 cd fpeaker in the houfe of commons. As he 
 well knew the importance of Dunkirk to the 
 nation, he made a motion for annexing it to the 
 crown. The parliament leemed to liften to this 
 propofal, but it was afterwards over-ruled. He 
 was offered io,goo1. and a peerage merely to 
 be pafTive in the fale of it, but he refufed the 
 offer with difdain. He had the honefty to tell 
 the king, that the artillery and mjilitary llores 
 only, were v/orth more than Lewis XlV. had 
 ever offered for that fortrefs. In the Britifh 
 Mufeum, is a manufcript by fir Edward Har- 
 ley, which contains many memorable particu- 
 lars relative to the governnient, expences, and 
 fale of Dunkirk. He was author of *' A fcrip- 
 *' rural and rational Account of the Chriftian 
 " Religion," ^6^^, 8vo. 0^. 8 December, 
 17C0. 
 
 Sir GREVILE V E R N E Y, knight 
 of the Bath, r:at. 26 Jau. 1648 i ol?. 2'^ JuU 166S ; 
 hoggan fc, large h. JIj* 
 
 Cieat.1660. Sir Grevile Verney, who defcended from a 
 
 family which has flourifhed for fcveral centuries 
 at Compton Murdac, in the county of War- 
 wick, was brother to Richard, the iirft lord 
 Willoughby of Brooke. Much of the hiflory 
 of this family may be learned from the fump- 
 tuous monuments belonging to it, at Compton 
 
 Murdac 5 
 
Class VIII. of ENGLAND; 39^ 
 
 Murdac ; or from fir William Dugdale's " Hif- 
 •' tory of Warwickfhire." 
 
 HERBERTUS PERROT, Eques Au- 
 ratus ; Jhoulder-knot^ arms, &c, R, White fc. 
 
 " Sir Herbert Perrot, defcended from fir 
 Owen Perrot, a favourite of Henry VII. and 
 related to the Plantagenets and Tudors, was 
 a man of great wit, large fortune, and exten- 
 ^\wt charity. He fuffered much in his for- 
 tune, by his attachment to the royal party 
 during the civil wars. He had three wives, 
 by whom he had only one daughter that fur- 
 vived him, who was married to fir John Pac- 
 kington, of Weftwood, in Worcefterfhire. 
 Sir Herbert had a fon of both his names, who 
 wrote Satires upon the court of Charles the 
 fecond, and was killed by captain South in 
 the pafifage of the Devil Tavern, in Fleet- 
 flreet. Of this family is the prefent fir Ri- 
 chard Perrot, made memorable lately by the 
 Flint addrefs *." 
 
 Sir ROBERT CLAYTON, knn lord 
 mayor of the city of London, 1680 j J, Riley f, 
 J. Smith/. large h.Jh. mezz. 
 
 His ftatue is at St. Thomas's hofpital. 
 
 Sir Robert Clayton well underflood, and fe- 
 duloufly promoted the commercial, civil, and 
 religious interefts of his country. He was eleft- 
 ed lord mayor in 1679, and was a reprefentative 
 in fcveral parliaments, for Bletchingly in Surrey. 
 Ashe had rendered himfelf obnoxious to the 
 duke of York, by voting for the Exclufion Bill, 
 
 • Communicated, with other notices, by the reverend Mr. 
 JohnCulKim, ofHardwick, in Suffolk, who quotes the Supple- 
 xoent to Kimber's *' Baronetage." 
 
 he 
 
398 The HISTORY Charles If. 
 
 he retired from bufinefs, and amufed himfelf 
 with building and planting, after that prince 
 afcended the throne. When the prince of Orange 
 was at Henley upon Thames, he was fent, in 
 the name of the city of London, to compliment 
 him on his arrival. He was appointed a com- 
 miffioner of the cuftoms, foon after the fettle- 
 ment of the kingdom. Ob. 1707. Great in- 
 juftice is done to his charadter in the fecond part 
 of " Abfalom and Achitophel*." His bene- 
 factions to Chrift's, and St. Thomas's hofpital, 
 will be remembered to his honour. 
 
 Sir J O H N M O O R, knt. lord mayor of the 
 city of London, 168 1, and one of the reprefenta- 
 tives in parliament for the faid city, &c. Lely p. 
 J. Mac Ardellf, fitting in a chair. The motto to his 
 arms is " Non civium ardor." From a private plate^ 
 extremely rare^ h,Jh, mezz. 
 
 Sir John Moor, who was fon of a hufband- 
 man at Norton, in Leiceflerfhire -f, became a 
 zealous partizan of the court, about the time 
 that the king triumphed over his enemies, and 
 was as much a mailer of his people as Lewis 
 XIV. had promifed to make him. He nomi- 
 nated two flieriffs, who, he knew, would be fub- 
 fervient to the miniftry ; and was careful to fe- 
 cure a fucceflbr who was as much devoted to 
 the king as himfelf. He is charadlerized under 
 the name of Ziloah, at the conclufion of the 
 fecond pare of " Abfalom and Achitophel." 
 I have been informed that the free-fchool at 
 Appleby, in Leicefterihire, was founded by 
 him. 
 
 • See the chara£ler of Tfliban in that poem. 
 •J- See VVJiillon's " Life," p. 16, 2d edit. 
 
 Sir 
 
Class VIII. o f E N G L A N D. 399 
 
 Sir THOMAS ARMSTRONG, exe- 
 cuted the 20th of June, 1684. J. Savage fc, This 
 bead is in a large halfjheety with /even others. 
 
 Sir Thomas Armftrong, who had been a great 
 fufferer in the royal caufe, was very a6live for 
 Charles II. before the redoration. His enter- 
 prifing fpirit excited the jealoufy of Cromwell, 
 who threw him into prifon, and even threatened 
 his life. He was an avowed enemy to popery, 
 and engaged with all the zeal that was natural 
 to him in the ferviceof theduke of Monmouth. 
 Soon after the new fherifFs were impofed upon 
 the city by the influence of the court, an infur- 
 redion was planned by the country party, not 
 only in London, but in feveral parts of the king- 
 dom. Sir Thomas Armftrong went, at this 
 time, with the duke of Monmouth, to view the 
 king's guards ; in order to judge whether they 
 might venture to attack them in the projected 
 infurredtion. Finding himfelf obnoxious to the 
 court, he fled the kingdom ; and his flight was 
 foon followed by an outlawry. He was feized 
 abroad, and fent to London, where he was con- 
 demned and executed without a trial, and with 
 peculiar circumftances of rigour, having been 
 condufled to death by thole fo^rowful foldiers 
 who had been accuftomed to obey his com- 
 mand. The king was much exafperated againft 
 him, as he believed him to be the feducer of his 
 favourite Ion. He, at his death, denied his ever 
 having any deflgn againft his majefty's life. 
 
 SirEDMOND BURY GODFREY; 
 
 P. Vandrebanc fc, large Jloeet, 
 
 Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey, Mt. 57 \ P. Van- 
 drebanc fc. large h, Jh. Another ^ fmaller^ by the fame 
 band. 
 
 Sir 
 
40« The HISTORY Charles It 
 
 Sir Edmond Bury Godfrey, ^t. 57 ^ twd 
 Englijh verfes, 
 
 ^ir Edmond Bury Godfrey; Va7i Hove fc. 
 Dvlogcn\ h. Jh, A co-py of the Jame^ hy Nutting. 
 
 Sir Edmond Bury Godfrey \ fold by Arthur 
 looker. 
 
 Sir Edmond Bury Godfrey j /;/ a large b.Jh, 
 with /even others. 
 
 Sir Edmond Bury Godfrey, an able magif- 
 trate, and of a fair charadler, who had exerted 
 himfelf in the bufinefs of the Popifh plot, was 
 found pierced with his own fword, and feveral 
 marks of violence on his body. His death, 
 which was imputed to the papifts, who were 
 then fuppofed to be the authors of all mifchief, 
 was generally deemed a mu'h flronger evidence 
 of the reality of the plot, than any thing than 
 Gates either did, or could fwear. Even the 
 foolifh circumftance of the anagram of his name, 
 helped to confirm the opinion of his being mur- 
 dered by papifts*. His funeral was celebrated 
 with the moft fclemn pomp : feventy-two cler- 
 gymen preceded the corpfe, which was followed 
 by a thoufand perfons, moft of whom were of 
 rank and eminence. His funeral fermon was 
 preached by Dr. William Lloyd, dean of Ban- 
 gor, and afterwards biftiop of Worcefter. He 
 was found dead, the 17th of Odober, 1678. 
 
 THOMAS THYNNE, Efq^. Lely p. 
 Browne ; h. JJo, mezz. 
 
 Thomas Thynne, Efq^. Kneller p. White fc4 
 h.jl?, 
 
 Thomas Thynne, Efq**. Cooper \ ^to. mezz. 
 
 There is a portrait of him at Longleat. 
 
 • Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey was anagrammatized to, " 1 find 
 <* murdered by rogues." 
 
 Thomas 
 
Class VIII. of ENGLAND. 401 
 
 Thomas Thynne, efq. of Longlear, in Wilt- 
 fhire, and member of parliament tor that county, 
 v/as noted for the affluence of his fortune, and 
 his uncommon benevolence and hofpitality. 
 Hence he gained the epithet of " Tom of ten 
 " thoufand." He was married to the lady Eli- 
 zabeth Percy, countefs of Ogle, fole daughter 
 and heir of Jofccline, earl of Northumberland ; 
 but was murdered in his coach, before confum- 
 mation, by three aflafllns, fuppoTed to be fub- 
 orned by Charles, count Koningfmark, a ne- 
 cefTitous adventurer, who had made fomc ad- 
 vances to the lady Ogle ^. He is the perfon 
 meant by the nam.e of IiTachar, in Dry den's 
 ^' Abfalorn and Achitophcl ;" and is hinted ac 
 in the following lines of the earl of Rochefter. 
 But it ought to be obferved, that this author is 
 fometimes as licentious in his fatire, as he is in 
 his other writings. 
 
 " Who'd be a wit In Dryden's cudgel'd 
 
 " ikinf, 
 «« Or who'd be rich and fenfelefs like 
 
 '' Tom—— r 
 
 Oh, 12 Feb. 16S1-2. 
 
 JOHANNES COTTONUS BRUCEUS, 
 
 '' Virtus repulfse nefcia fordida?, 
 " intaminatis fulget honoribus •, 
 *' Nee fumit aut ponit fecures, 
 V '' Arbitrio popularis aurse." Hor. 
 G. Kneller p. Vandrebanc fc. large fheet, 
 
 * See an account of this murder, in Rerefby's *' Memoirs," 
 Svo. p. 135. 
 
 f Dryden was cudgeled for rcfiedlingon the dutchefs of Portf- 
 raouth, a!Ki the earl of Rociiefter, in Ills *' Eflay on Satire," 
 which he wrote in conjundtion with the earl of Mulgrave. 
 
 Vol. III. D d John 
 
^02 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 John Cotton Bruce was the only Ton of fir 
 Thomas Cotton, bart. and grandfon to fir Ro- 
 bert Cotton, the celebrated antiquarian. This 
 gentleman, who died in 1702, made confider- 
 able additions to the valuable library colleded 
 by his grandfather. It confifted of manufcripts, 
 which, bound up, made about a thoufand vo- 
 lumes. They relate for the moft part to Eng- 
 liQi hiftory and antiquities-, the improvement 
 of which was what fir Robert chiefly aimed at 
 in his coUedions. They were methodically 
 ranged, and placed in fourteen fets of (helves ; 
 over which were the heads of the twelve Csefars, 
 Cleopatra, and Fauftina. They were purchafed 
 of fir John Cotton, great grandfon of fir Ro- 
 bert, by queen Anne •, and are now depofited 
 in the Britifh Mufeum. See more concerning 
 the Coctonian Library, in Ward's " Lives of 
 *' the Gre(ham Profeflbrs," p. 251, 252. 
 
 DANIEL COLWAL, Efq^. R. White fc, 
 
 1681 ; h,Jh. 
 Daniel Colwal, armiger, &c. h, Jh, Before 
 
 Dr. Grew's '' Mufeum Regalis Societal is," 1681 j 
 
 folio. 
 
 Daniel Colwal, efq. of the Friary near Guil- 
 ford, was a gentleman of good fortune, the fu- 
 perfluities of which he expended in making a 
 colledion of natural rarities. Thefe he prefented 
 to the Royal Society, and is therefore juilly 
 efteemed the founder of their Mufeum. Of 
 thefe. Dr. Grew has given us a catalogue, which 
 is at once a proof of the judgment of the com- 
 piler and the coUedlor. The moft valuable 
 branch of it is the (hells f , in the defcription 
 
 t This branch of natural hiftory was but little attended to 
 before the reign of Charles II. The States of Holland made that 
 prince a prefent of a fine collection, which he feems to have had 
 but little talte for, as it was prclently difTipated. 
 
 and 
 
Class VIII. o f E N G L A N D. 403 
 
 and arrangement of which, the ingenious doflor 
 has taken uncommon pains. Mr. Coivval was 
 at the expence of engraving thirty-one folio cop* 
 per-plates for this book. See more of him in 
 Birch's " Hillory of the Royal Society." 
 
 JOHANNES MEEKE, A. M. aul^e B. 
 Marios Magd. (Oxon ) olim alumnus ; centum li- 
 bras annuas decern fcholaribus in eadem aula ftu- 
 dentibus, aequaliter numerandas, teftamento in 
 perpetuum donavit : eodemq; cavit, ut crefcente 
 poftmodum terrarum redditu, plures itidem fcho- 
 lares iifdem proportione et loco alendi, denario- 
 numero adjicerentur : anno falutis reparat^e 1665. 
 Jheet, He is refrefenled in a lay-habit, 
 
 ROBERTUS FIELDING, aula^ Field- 
 ingenfis, in com. Warwici, armig. Lely p, Tomfjon 
 exc. h.Jh. mezz. 
 
 RoBERTus Fielding, ^c, Lely p, Vandervaart 
 /. h.Jh. mezz, 
 
 RoBERTUs Fielding, &:c. Wijfifigp. Bccket f, 
 h. Jh. mezz. 'There is an anonymous mezzotinto of him 
 fondling a dog, 
 
 Robert Fielding, a gentleman of a good fa- 
 mily in WarwickQiire, was fent to London to 
 ftudy the law -, but entering into the fafhionabic 
 vices of the town, he prefently abandoned all 
 thoughts of that profefTion. Flis perfon was 
 uncommonly beautiful -, and he (tudied every 
 art of letting it off to the befl advantage. He 
 was as vain and expenfive in his own drefs, as 
 he was fantaftical in the drcfles of his footmen j 
 who uCually wore yellow liveries, with black 
 fafhes, and black feathers in their hats. As he 
 was fond of appearing in public places, he foon 
 attradted the notice of the ladies. The king 
 himfdf was ftruck with his figure at court, and 
 
 D d 2 called 
 
404 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 called him handfome Fielding, From that mo- 
 ment he commenced the vainefl: of all fops: but 
 this circumflance occafioned hisbeintr Hill more 
 admired, and eltablifiied his reputation as a beau. 
 The contributions which he raifed from fomc 
 of the fex, he lavifhed upon others : but he was 
 fometimes forced to have recourfe to the gam- 
 ing-table for fupplies, where he was generally 
 fuccefsful. He was fird married to the only 
 daughter and heir of Barnham Swift, lord Car- 
 iingford, who was of the fame family with the 
 dean of ^i. Patrick's -f . Some time after the 
 death of this lady, he, to repair his fhattered 
 fortunes, made his addrefles to one Mary Wadf- 
 worth, who afTumed the name of madam De- 
 Jaune, a lady of 20,000 1. fortune. He married 
 this woman •, but forfook her as foon as he dif- 
 covered the cheat. He afterwards efpoufcd 
 Barbara, dutchefs of Cleveland, whom he treated 
 with infolence and brutality. This occafioned 
 a profecution againft him for bigam.y. He was 
 found guilty, but was pardoned by queen Anne. 
 His trial, v/hich is worth the reader's notice, is 
 in print. 
 
 ERASMUS SMITH, (or Smyth) Efq'*. 
 5:c. G, W, (Gecrge White) f. h,J}j. rr.ezz. 
 
 This print is companion to that of madam 
 Smith, mentioned in Clafs XI. 
 
 Erafmus Smyth, efq. defcended from an an- 
 citnt and honourable family, in Leicefterfliire, 
 was fon of fjr Roger Smyth, otherwife Heriz, of 
 Edmonthorpe, in that county, by his fccond 
 wife. He was largely portioned for a younger 
 fon, his mother having brought a very confi- 
 derabie fortune into the family. He, in the 
 
 ■[ See the Appendix to Swift's '* Life of Dr. Swift,'' p. 2. 
 
 former 
 
Class VIII. o f E N G L A N D. 405 
 
 former part of his life, engaged deeply in the 
 Turkey trade, and became an alderman of Lon- 
 don. Afterwards, upon the fettlemcnt of Ire- 
 land, in the reign of king William, he, by pur- 
 chafe, acquired a great and irnproveable pro- 
 perty in that kingdom. Vv^hen the beneficerit 
 and judicious inftitutions of charity and public 
 utility were fet on foot there, he gave, for thefe 
 purpofes, lands of great value. This donation 
 alone would render him memorable as a bene- 
 fador. Having bought the manor of Weald, 
 in Elfex, with a good old feat upon it, he, when 
 advanced in years, married Mary, daughter of 
 Huoh Hare, lord Colerane, by whom, befides 
 daughters, he had three fons ; of whom the two 
 elde'r dying without iifue, his eftare devolved to 
 Huah, his third fon, who left two daughters, 
 his coheirs ; namely, Dorothy, who married John 
 Barry, fourth fon of James, earl of Barrymore ; 
 and Lucy, who efpoufed James, lord Strange, 
 eldeil fon of Edward, earl of Derby. Thefe la- 
 dies, in purfuance of their father's will, have 
 borne the name and arms of Smith and Heriz, 
 in conjundion with their own f. 
 
 Hugh, fon of Erafmus Smyth, efq. married 
 a paternal aunt of the prefent lord Dacre, who, 
 in the moft obliging manner, communicated tp 
 me the above account. 
 
 The rev. Mr. Waffe informs us that a gen- 
 tleman, whom he ilyles Sir Erafmus Smith of Ef 
 (ex, offered to adopt the famous Jofhua Barnes, 
 when a fchool-boy at Chrift's hofpital, and fet- 
 tle 2000 1. a year upon him, on condition that 
 he would change his name. His father, though 
 in mean circumftances, relolved to be palTive in 
 
 t For the family of Smyth, fee Burton's ^« Leicefterfhlre/ 
 GuiHi»'s »* Heraldry," and Morant's " ElTex.' 
 
 Dd 3 ^^^^ 
 
406 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 this important affair, and left it entirely to his 
 fon's opiion, who refufed the offer f. This gen- 
 tleman was probably of the fame family, though 
 it does not appear that he was the fame perfon 
 with Erafmus Smith, efq :j:. 
 
 CURW EN RAWLINSON, of Cark, 
 
 Efq"*. fon of Robert Rawlinfon ; 01?. 16.^9 -, j¥A- 48. 
 Nutting fc. In the fame -plate with fever al others of 
 *he Rawlinfon family ; ^to. 
 
 This perfon was fon and heir of Robert Raw- 
 linfon, of Cark, in Lancafhire, efq. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth, fecond daughter and coheir of 
 Nicholas Monck. bilhop of Hereford, by whom 
 he was father of Chrillopher Rawlinfon, efq. 
 of whom there is an engraved portrait. 
 
 ROBERTUS STAFFORD, de Brad- 
 field, in comitatu Berks, armiger. 
 
 " Spirantes fiquis tabulas animataque figna 
 
 " Viderit, in multa queis Myos [] arte labor; 
 
 " Quam bene Staffordium dicat ? Mentitur 
 " imago ; 
 
 *' Expreffit dominum quam male fi(5la fuum ? 
 
 ** Novimus has fculptor veneres, hos frontis 
 " honores ; 
 
 " Amphitryonides de pede notus erat. 
 
 '' Sic oculos, fic ille manus, fic era ferebat ; 
 
 " Multa tamen ccelo quam bene digna latent ? 
 Archetypo abludit qu^vis tranfcripta tabella, 
 Quin fi vis fimilem fingere, iinge Deum." 
 
 This head is one of Loggan's capital per- 
 formances. 
 
 + See the ftory at large in Mr. WalTe's letter in the " General 
 ** D)6>iO!iary," article Bap.nes. 
 
 X Since the above article was written, I was informed that a 
 gentleman of botli his names, was fountlcr of a Itdure of ojatory 
 and hilloiy, in Trinity college, Dublin. 
 
 f) Sic Oiig. » 
 
 It 
 
 
Class VIII. of ENGLAND, 
 
 It appears from the above infcription, that 
 this gentleman was remarkable for the beauty 
 of his perfon ; and he is, indeed, reprefented 
 very handfome. He was one of the fons of fir 
 Edward Stafford, of Bradfield, in Berkfhire, by 
 Mary, fole daughter of fir William Forfter of 
 Aldermarfton in that county. Several of the 
 family are mentioned in Mr. Afhmole's "Dia- 
 ry," that gentleman having married his mo- 
 ther f . 
 
 WILLIAM BLUCK, Efqr. Kneller p. 
 R. White fc, LJh, 
 
 ******* 
 
 MARMADUKE RAWDON, Efq^ 
 R. White fc. ^to, 
 
 MARMADUKE RAWDON; a dif- 
 ferent perfon from the former ; R. White fc, ^to, 
 
 Mr. Thorefby and Mr. Collins mention feve- 
 ral perfons of the Rawdon family, of the name 
 of Marmaduke : namely, i. Sir Marmaduke 
 Rawdon, of whom there is an account below ^ : 
 
 2. Mar- 
 
 f This lady was married, after Sir Edward Stafford's deceafe, 
 to Mr. Hamlyn j next to Sir Thomas Manwaring, knt. recorder 
 of Reading j and laftly to Mr. Afhinole. She lived in very little 
 harmony with her lad hufband, againll whom (he commenced a 
 fuit at law for alimony, on very frivolous pretences. When the 
 caufe came to a hearing, ferjeant Maynard oblerved to the court, 
 ** that there were eight hundred flieets of'depofitions on his wife's 
 *' part, and not one word proved againlt him of ufing her ill, or 
 *' ever giving her a bad or provoking word." AOimole's ♦' Diary," 
 izmo. 1717, p. 34. It appears in the fame page, that fhe was 
 delivered back to her huiband the next day. 
 
 * Sir Marmaduke Rawdon, who defcended from the ancient 
 family of that name, near Leecies in Yorklhire, was a very emi- 
 nent merchant in the reigns of James and Charles I. He was at 
 the expencc of fitting out a fhip for the difcovery of a north-weft 
 pafTage, and was one of the firlt planters of Barbadoes. He trad- 
 ed to France, Spain, the Levant, Canaries, and Wefl Indies j 
 was confulted as an oracle in matters of trade j and frequently 
 
 D d 4 pleaded 
 
 407 
 
4o8 The HISTORY Charles IL 
 
 2. Maraiaduke, his third Ton, v^ho was bred to 
 rTierchandife : 3. Marmaduke, fun of Laurence 
 Rawdon, alderman of York, and nephew to fir 
 Marmaduke. This gentleman was a benefador 
 to that city. He gave a bowl of folid gold to 
 the corporation -, 100 1. to the poor of the parifh 
 of St. Crux ; and ere(5ted a crofs, near the pave- 
 ment, on which is his buft. He died in 1688, 
 in the 58th or 59th year of his age. He was 
 author of a manufcript account of the family, 
 of which Mr. Thcrefby had the perufal. One 
 of the heads above-mentioned is his portrait. 
 4. Marmaduke, eldeft fon of col. Thomas 
 Ravvdon, who was himfelf the eldeft fon of fir 
 Marmaduke. See more of this family in Tho- 
 refby's " Ducatus Leodienfis," and Collin's 
 *' Baronetage.'* 
 
 WILLIAM R AW D O N, (of the fame 
 family) J R. White fc. a^to. 
 
 ******* 
 
 JOHANNES COCKSHUTT^(CocK- 
 
 shuit) nobilis Anglus-, D. Loggan f. b.p. 
 
 John Cockfliuir, a gentleman of the Inner 
 Teir.ple, was one of the many admirers of the 
 works of Dr. Henry More. That author's 
 writi.'^gs were much in vogue in this reign ; par-- 
 liculariy his *' Myftery of Godlineis." He left 
 
 pleaded for the merchants at the council-board. He was gover- 
 nor ct" Bafing-houre in the civil war, where he diftinguiflied him- 
 jelf as a foklier, killing, in one Tally, three thoufand men, though 
 }ie had not above five hundred fighting men in the garrilon. The 
 king conferred on him the honour of knighthood for this heroic 
 exploit. It is remarkable that the marchionefs cf Wincheiter 
 and her maids caft the lead of the turrets into bullets, to fupply 
 the men for this fally. He v^-as relieved, at the lafl extremity, 
 by the famous col. Gage, whofe memorable (lory is in lord Claren- 
 don's Hiftory. 
 
 • So fpelt by Mr. Ames. 
 
 300 I. 
 
Class Vill. of ENGLAND. 409 
 
 300 1. for tranflating into Latin this book, his 
 " Myftery of Iniquity," and his " Philofophi- 
 " cal CoIIeclions." His head belongs to the 
 tranflation of the lafl-nientioned work. Ok 
 1669, yEt. 30. 
 
 SLINGS BY BETHEL, efq. one of 
 the fheriffs of London and Middlefex, in 1680 ; 
 gold chain, livery -gcwn^ [^c, Sberwinfc. whole lengthy 
 Jh, fcarce, 
 
 Slingfby Bethel, an Independent, and confe- 
 quently a republican, was one of the moft zeal- 
 ous and ad:ive of that party who were for ex- 
 cluding the duke of York from the crown. He 
 underilood trade, and feems to have been well 
 acquainted with thofe maxims by which an 
 eftate is favcd as v/ell as gotten. After riches 
 poured in upon him, his ceconomy was much 
 the fame as it was before. Parfimony was fo 
 habitual to him, that he knew not how to relax 
 into generofity upon proper occafions ; and he 
 was generally cenfured for being too frugal in 
 his entertainments when he was Iheriffof Lon- 
 don. 
 
 " Chaftewere his cellars, and his fhrieval board 
 " The groffnefs of a city feaft abhorr'd -, 
 •' His cooks with long difufe their trade forgot, 
 *' Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were 
 « hot." 
 
 Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. 
 
 He was author of a book entitled, " The In- 
 '• tereit of the Princes and States of Europe j'* 
 8vo. Lond. 1694. At the end is a narrative of 
 the moft material debates and paffages in the 
 parliament which fat in the protec1:orate of Ri- 
 chard Cromwell. This was iirfl printed by it- 
 felf in 1659. -^^ was alfo author of " Obfer- 
 
 " vations 
 
410 The HISTORY Charles II. 
 
 «' vations on a Letter written by the D. of B." 
 and " The World's Miftake in Oliver Crom- 
 '« well." 
 
 Alderman CORNISH, fheriff at the fame 
 time with Bethel. See the next reign. 
 
 EDWARD BACKWELL, (or Bake- 
 well) Efq. bis own hair^ lace-hand^ flowered gown, 
 laced ruffles^ a watch and portrait of Charles II. on a 
 table : at a diftance -a jhip under fail ; arms \ fh. 
 The prints which was very rare^ is now common 
 enough^ the plate having lately been difcovered, 
 
 Edward Backwell, alderman of London, was 
 a banker of great ability, induflry, and inte- 
 grity •, and, what was a confequence of his me- 
 rit, of very extenfive credit. With fuch qua- 
 lifications, he, in a trading nation, would, in 
 the natural event of things, have made a for- 
 tune, except in fuch an age as that of Charles 
 the Second, when the laws were overborne by 
 perfidy, violence, and rapacity ; or in an age 
 when bankers become G;ameflers inftead of mer- 
 chant-adventurers -, when they afFe6t to live like 
 princes, and are, wirh their mifcrable creditors, 
 drawn into the prevailing and pernicious vortex 
 of luxury. Backwell carried on his bufinefs in 
 the fame (hop which was afterwards occupied 
 by Child, an unblemifhed name, which is en- 
 titled to refped and honour ^ but was totally 
 ruined upon the fiiucting up of the exchequer. 
 He, to avoid a prifon, retired into Holland, 
 where he died. His body was brought for fe- 
 pulture, to Tyringham church, near Newport 
 Pagnel, in Buckinghamfnire J. 
 
 X Among fir William Temple's "Letters," is one addrefled to 
 Mm. It relates to the Tale of tin for Charles IL and intimates 
 the zeal of the alderman for his majcfty's fervice, and that he was 
 cfteemcd by the writer as a friend. 
 
 JOHN 
 
Class VIIL of ENGLAND. 411 
 
 JOHN KENRICK, Efq. y^t. 29;7{';/^//^r 
 
 />. 1681, Vertuefc. whole lengthy Jh, 
 
 John Kcnrick, efq. an eminent and refpedt- 
 able merchant of London, was father of the very 
 worthy Dr. Scawen Kenrick, late fubrean and 
 prebendary of Weftminfler, minifter cf Sl. Mar- 
 garet's, and redlor of Hambleden, in Bucking- 
 hamfhire •, whofe charity, humanity, and bene- 
 volence flowing from one of the gentled and 
 beft of hearts, gained him efteem and love. 
 Such was his condefcenfion and goodnefs, / 
 fpeak from perfonal knowledge^ that he would, 
 without debafmg himfelf, treat the poor as his 
 brethren ; and the meanejl of the clergy^ if not 
 totally devoid of merit, as his friends ; nor was 
 he ever known to defpife, much lefs to infult or 
 trample on a man merely becaufe he happened to he 
 of a low rank in the churchy or dependent upon 
 him as his curate *. 
 
 Dr. Kenrick had a fifter, named Martha, who 
 married fir Wilham Clayton, baronet. John, 
 their father, as I am informed, died in 1730. 
 His pidure, whence the print was taken, was 
 burnt in the piazza, in Covent-garden, in 1709, 
 having h^tn fent thither to be cleaned by An- 
 derfon, a painter. 
 
 It (hould be obferved, that the memorable 
 John Kenrick, or Kendrick, who left the poor, 
 particularly of Reading and Newbury, above 
 twenty thoufand pounds, was of the fame fa- 
 mily -f-, as v/as aifo, mofl probably, John Ken- 
 
 * See more of this worthy perfon in " The Man without 
 <^ Guile," an excellent fermon preached on occafion of his death, 
 by Dr. John Butler, 1753. 
 
 t See *' Thelall Will and Teftament of Mr. John Kendricke, 
 *< late Citizen and Draper of London/' i6z5, 410, 
 
 drick. 
 
412 The HISTORY Charles 11. 
 
 drick, who was IherifF of London in 1645, and 
 lord-mayor in 1651 \\. 
 
 JOHN M O Y S E R, Efq. of Beverly, in 
 
 Yorkfhirej F, Place f. 
 
 I never faw this print, which is mentioned at 
 p. 57 of the fecond edition of Mr. Walpole's 
 " Catalogue of Engravers." The gentleman 
 was a friend of Mr. Francis Place. 
 
 LEONARDUS GAMMON, genero- 
 
 fus ', falling band. 
 
 ******** 
 
 'SAMUEL MALINES; Claret p. Lorn- 
 hart fc 
 
 Samull Malines ; Claret p. Lodge f, 
 
 •^ -jf ^ ^ ^ -)f -^ 
 
 Mr. PHILIP WOOLRICH; J, Green- 
 hill p. F. p. (Francis Place) /. in armour ; 4/^. 
 mezz. 
 
 This perfon was probably a private gentle- 
 man of Mr. Place's acquaintance, who did the 
 portraits of feveral of his friends in mezzotinto. 
 He and the two preceding may perhaps belong 
 to another clafs. 
 
 II Stow's " Survey of London/* by Strype, book iv. p. 144, 
 145. 
 
 GENTLE- 
 
Class VIII. of ENGLAND. 413 
 
 GENTLEMEN in inferior Civil Employ- 
 ments *. 
 
 Sir C H A R L E S C O T T E R E L, mafler 
 of the ceremonies to Charles 11. See the next 
 reign. 
 
 *^The Honourable Sir HENRY COKER, 
 
 " of the county of Wilts, kn^ high-fneriff. Anno 
 *' 1663 i col, of horfe and foot to king Charles I. 
 *' col. to the king of Spain ; and col. to his majefty 
 " that now is, of the fervice at VVorcefier : now 
 ** gentleman of the privy-chamber, 1669." U^^* 
 Fait borne ad 'vhim f. h, jh. 
 
 There is a fliort account of a family of this 
 name in a *' Survey of Dorfetfhire," publiflied 
 in folio, 1732, from a manufcript of the Rev. 
 Mr. Coker of Mapowder in that county. The 
 author tells us, that the Cokers of that place 
 derived their name from Coker in Somerfet- 
 fhire, where they were anciently fcated ; and 
 that Edward Seymour, duke of Somerfet, 
 ancedcr to the prefent duke, defcend- 
 cd from it : that the branch of the family, 
 which has long flouriflied at Mapowder, were 
 very fortunate in marriages with the heirs of 
 Norris, Wallei.^, and Veale : and that the Cok- 
 ers of Auibofom are a didindl family. As Wilt- 
 (hire and Dorfetfhire are contiguous counties, in 
 is probable that this gentleman was of the an- 
 cient houft: of Coker: qujEre. I knew one gen- 
 tleman of the name, who lived at Knoyie, 
 near Hindon in Wiltfhire. 
 
 • By inferior civil employments is meant fuch as are inferior 
 to thoTe of the great officers. Sec. in the preceding clafTes. Per- 
 haps feme of the heads in this clafs may be as properly placed in 
 the iifth. 
 
 TFIO- 
 
414 The HISTORY Charles It. 
 
 THOMAS KILLEGREW*, &c./F;«. 
 
 Sheppardp. Faithorne fc. h. JJd. 
 
 Thomas Killegrew, &c. Wijfing p, Vander- 
 vaart f. large ^.to, mezz. 
 
 Sir Thomas Killegrew-, Tempeft exc. 2vo, 
 mezz, 
 
 Thomas Killegrew, drejfed like a pilgrim \ no 
 name^ hut thefe two verfes : 
 
 " You fee my face, and if you'd know my mind 
 *' 'Tis this: I hate myfelf, and all mankind." 
 
 h,Jh, mezz. 
 
 His portrait^ together with that of the lord Cole- 
 raney is engraved by Faitkorne. They are called the 
 princely Jhepherds. The print is fuppofed to have been 
 done for a mafque, 
 
 Thomas Killegrew was page of honour to 
 Charles I. and gentleman of the bed-chamber 
 to Charles II. who, in 1651, appointed him his 
 refident at Venice. He was a man of wit and 
 humour, and frequently entertained the king 
 with his drollery. As Charles was wholly en- 
 grofled by his pleafures, and was frequently in 
 his miftrefs's apartment when he fhould have 
 been at the council-board-]-, Killegrew ufed the 
 following expedient to admonifh him of his ex- 
 treme negligence in regard to the affairs of the 
 kingdom. He drefled himfelf in a pilgrim's ha- 
 bit, went into the king's chambers, and told him 
 that he hated himfelf and the world, that he was 
 refolved immediately to leave it, and was then 
 entering upon a pilgrimage to hell. The king 
 
 • His name is fometimes fpelt Killigrew. 
 
 •\ When love was all an eafy monarches care j 
 
 Seldom at council, never in a war, Pope. 
 
 alked 
 
Class VIII. o f E N G L A N D. 415 
 
 afked him what he propofed to do there. He 
 faid " to fpeak to the devil to fend Oliver 
 " Cromwell to take care of the Englifh govern- 
 " ment, as he had obferved, with regret, that 
 " his fuccefTor was always employed in other 
 " biifinefs."— See Clafs IX. See alfo the In- 
 terregnum, Clafs V. 
 
 Sir THOMAS N O T T, knt. one of the 
 gentlemen-ufhers in ordinary of thejhonourable pri- 
 vy-chamber to his prefent majcfty king Charles II. 
 R, JVhite ad vivum deL et fc. 1678 ; laced hand. 
 
 Sir Thomas Nott, who was well known, and 
 much efteemed for his learning and genteel ac- 
 complifliments, was eledted a fellow of the 
 Royal Society, foon after its incorporation by 
 Charles II. 
 
 TOBIAS RUSTAT, E^q. Jxieen Laiin 
 
 verfis : 
 
 " Quantum eft quod Ccelo ac Terris Ruftate 
 « dedifti ?" &c. 
 
 Emblem of Charity, with her children -, h, Jh» mezz. 
 extremely fcarce. 
 
 Tobias Ruftat was keeper of the palace of 
 Hampton-court, and yeoman of the robes to 
 Charles II. This gentleman, fenfible how much 
 youth of a liberal turn of mind muft fuffer for 
 want of a competent fubfiftence at the univer- 
 fity, what a check poverty is to a rifing genius, 
 and what an ill effed the want of common ad- 
 vantages of fociety has upon a man's future be- 
 haviour and condudl in life, beftowed a confi- 
 derable part of his fortune upon young ftudents 
 at Oxford and Cambridge. He gave 1000 I. 
 to purchafe 50 1. a year ; the income of which 
 was chiefly to be applied to the augmentation 
 
 of 
 
4i6 The HISTORY CharlesII- 
 
 of thirteen poor fellowfhips at St. John's col- 
 lege in Oxford ^. He founded eight fcholar- 
 fhips at Jefus college in Cambridge, for the or- 
 phans of poor clergymen. He was a confider- 
 able benefactor to Bridewell in London, and 
 contributed liberally towards the building of St, 
 Paul's church. The brazen llatue of Charles II. 
 in the middle of the great court at Chelfea hof- 
 pital, and the equeflrian (latue of him at Wind- 
 for, were erefled at his expence. This very 
 charitable perfon, who while he lived was a 
 blelTing to the poor and to the public, died, to- 
 the great regret of all that knew his worth, in 
 1693 t. 
 
 THOMAS WIND HAM J, Efq. Sir 
 Ralph Cole, hart.p, R, Tom/on e.'ic, h.jh, mezz. 
 
 In the lafl edition of Guillim's " Heraldry," 
 publiflied 1724, fol. is a coat of arms of a gen- 
 tleman of both his names. Under the achieve- 
 ment is the following account : 
 
 * See particulars in " Terras Filius," No. 49. 
 
 f Here follows his epitaph, taken from p. 145 of " Colie61anea 
 ** Cantabrigienha," by Francis Blomefieid, 
 
 ** Tobias Ruftat, Yeoman of the robes to king Charles IT. 
 *' whom he ferved, with all duty and faithfulnefs, in his adverfity 
 ** as well as profperity. The grcateft part of the ellate he ga- 
 ** thered by God's blefTmg, the king's favour, and his indulby, 
 ♦' he difpofed (of) in his life-time, in works of charity j|. He 
 ** found, the more he bellowed upon churches, hofpitals, uiii- 
 *' verfities, and colleges, and upon poor widows of ortliodox 
 ** minilters, the more he had at the year's end : neither was he 
 *' unmindful of his kindred and relations, in making them pro- 
 ** vifions out of what remained. He died a baclielor, the 15th 
 ♦* day of March, in the year, &c, 1693, aged 87 yeais." 
 X Sometimes (pelt VVyndham. 
 
 H Tn a letter of Tobias Ru(l,\t, efq. § his great-nephew, now living, are 
 thffc words : " If apprars, that, Ircm no very plentiful fortune, he gave 
 *• in all io,;'3^1. in bcnctaiftions, long bclorc his dcaib j molt of thetn 
 *' near 30 ytaii." 
 
 § Comoiunicatsd by Jofsph Gulden, t><\. 
 
 **This 
 
Class VIII. of ENGLAND. 417 
 
 " This coat is alfo born by Thomas Wind- 
 *' ham, of Tale in Devonfiiire, eiq. one of the 
 ** grooms of his now majefty's bed-chamber, 
 *' third fon of fir Edmund Windham, of Cat- 
 *' hanger, in Somerfetfhire, knight, marfhal of 
 «' his majefty's moft honourable houfhold, and 
 *' lineally defcended of the ancient family of 
 " Windham, of Crownthorp, in Norfolk." 
 The fame account was certainly printed in a 
 former edition of Guillim •, but it is not fuffi- 
 ciently clear whether Charles II. or fome other 
 prmce be meant by " his now majefty." I 
 conclude the former. 
 
 SAMUEL PEPYS, efq. fecretary to the ^ 
 admiralty in this reign. Seethe next. 
 
 w . 
 
 IRISH GENTLEMEN. 
 
 Sir PHILIP PERCEVAL, Bart, 2d of 
 
 that Name, eldelt fon of the Right Honourable 
 Sir John Perceval, Bart, the 7th of that Name, 
 born the 12th of January, 1656, died, without 
 ifTue, the i ith of September, 16H0 -, Faherf. 1744, 
 ^vo, I'bis and the three following prints zvere en- 
 graved for " ne Hijlory of ths Houfe of Tver yP 
 
 This gentleman was eldeft fon of fir John 
 Perceval, by Catharine Southwell. Having 
 completed his education, by arts, languages, 
 and travel, he fixed a regular plan for increaling 
 his paternal eftate and ferving the public in 
 X England, for which he appears to have been 
 perfedly qualified from his judgment, adivity, 
 and elevated, but well-tempered fpirit. He 
 was flopped fhort, in the very beginning of his 
 career, by death, the efFed:, as was reaionably 
 fuppoled, of poifon, adminiftered by an un- 
 
 VoL. III. E e known 
 
jLi^ The history Charles II. 
 
 known hand, while he was eagerly engaged in 
 tracing the dark and intricate circunTllances of 
 his brother Robert's murder"^, vvhich by his 
 great fagacity and indnitry, would probably 
 ibon have been unravelled and brought to 
 light f. 
 
 Sir JOHN PERCEVAL, Burt. (8th of 
 that Name) Lord of Burton, Lilcarrol, Kj.nturk, 
 Caftle Warning, and Oughterard, &c. born i66o, 
 died 1686 •, Faber f, 1743. 
 
 Sir John Perceval, v;ho was third Ton of the 
 feventh fir John, by Catharine Southwell, be- 
 came poiTcHed of the family eftate, upon the 
 untimely deaths of fir Philip at^d Robert, his 
 elder brothers. His piety, his benevolence, 
 and uncommon application to fludy, rendered 
 him, at an early period, the darling and hope 
 of his friends and relations. When he found 
 himfelf in affluent circumftances, he gave a 
 loofe to his natural difpofition, and difplaycd 
 his good-nature, affability, and politenefs, to 
 the whole co'.mtry, as on a public theatre, 
 where he met with the higheft approbation, as 
 a father and protecftor of the poor, a warm pa- 
 triot, and a generous and amiable man. His 
 liofpitality was without example, and fome of 
 l\is other virtues were of a peculiar call. He 
 generally confumed two bullocks and twenty 
 iheep in his family every week, in which he 
 had one public day, when multitudes came to 
 pay him their rcfpeds. His houfe was never, on 
 thefe occafions, a fcene of riot, but every thing 
 was conduced with the llri(5le(]: decorum. One 
 of his peculiarities was, that he rarely returned 
 
 • See his article a little below. 
 
 •\ '* Hiltory ot' the Houfe of" Yvery," p. 376, &c. 
 
 a vifit^ 
 
Append. of ENGLAND. 415 
 
 a vifit, or degraded himfelf by familiarity; yet 
 few men were more refpedled and beloved. An- 
 other was, always to retire from his company at 
 five o'clock, and to leave the reft of the enter- 
 tainment to be condutfted by a gentleman whom 
 he retained in his family for that piirpofe. To 
 fupply the defedl of returning vifits, he con- 
 ftantly went to the county alTizes, where he faw 
 the principal perfons of his acquaintance, to 
 whom he paid his civilities. It lliould here be 
 obferved, that fir John, who was rather an ob- 
 je6l of admiration than an example of prudence 
 and condudt, by his fingular method of life, in 
 the courie of fix years, plunged himfelf in a 
 debt of eleven thoufand pounds J. 
 
 GEORGE PERCEVAL, of Temple 
 Houfe, in Com. Sligo, Efq. youngeft Son of the 
 Right Honourable Sir Philip Perceval, Knight, 
 (ift of that Name) born 15 Sept. 1635, Ob, 
 i6y^', Fabcr f, 1744^ ^'^^• 
 
 This gentleman, of whofe chara6ler we know 
 very little, going over to England, in the fame 
 fhip with the earl of Meath and other perfons 
 of diflindion, was unfortunately caft away and 
 drowned, on the 25th of March, 1675. He, 
 
 by his wife, daughter and heir of Crofton, 
 
 efq. left two fons and a daughter. See v/hat is 
 faid of him and his family in the Epitome of the 
 '« Hiftory of the Houfe of Yvery," prefixed to 
 that work, and vol. ii. p. 324, of the '-'- Hifiory'* 
 
 ROBERT PERCEVAL, Efq. fecond 
 Son of the Right Honourable Sir John Perceval, 
 Bart (7th of that Name) born the dth of Februa- 
 ry, 1657, died, without IfiTue, the 5th of June, 
 1677; Faherf, iy^4^ Svo. 
 
 I " Hiftory of the Houfe of Yvery," vol. ii. p. 389, &c. 
 
 Robert 
 
20 T H E H I S T O R Y, &c. 
 
 Robert Perceval was, in early life, a youth 
 of uncommon expedation, as, during his ap- 
 plication to literary purfuits, he made a very 
 confiderable progrefs. He was feme time of 
 Chrift's college in Cambridge, and afterwards 
 entered at Lincoln's Inn -, but being of a high 
 fpirit, and having a ftrong propenfity to plea- 
 fure, he negledled his ftudies, and abandoned 
 himfelf to his paiTions. He is laid to have been 
 engao:ed in no lels than nmeteen duels before 
 he was twenty years of age. He was found in 
 the Strand, apparently murdered by aflaOlns, 
 who could never be difcovered after the ftridleft 
 enquiry -, but Fielding, the noted beau, with 
 whom he was known to have had a quarrel, did 
 not efcape fufpicion. A little before this tragi- 
 cal event, he, if himfelf might be credited, favv 
 his own fpedre bloody and ghaftly, and was fo 
 fliocked with the fight, that he prefently fwoon- 
 ed. Upon his recovery, he went immediately 
 to fir Robert Southwell, his uncle, to whom he 
 related the particulars of this gholily appear- 
 ance, which were recorded, word for word, by 
 the late lord of Egmont, as he received them 
 from the mouth of fir Robert, who communi- 
 cated them to him a little before his death. 
 Lord F^gmont alio mentions a dream of one 
 Mrs. Brown, of Briftol, relative to the murder, 
 which dream is faid to have been exadUy veri-. 
 fied J. 
 
 X " Hiflory of theHoufe of Yvery," Sec. vol. ii. p. 368, Sec, 
 
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