GERVASE WARMSTREY, the eldeſt Son of Will. Warmſtrey, principal Regiſtrary of the Dioceſs of Worceſter, by Cecelie his Wife Daug. of Tho. Smith of Cu • rdſley in Lanc. (an Inhabitant of S. Aldates Pariſh in Oxford) was born, and educated in Grammar Learning, within the City of Worceſter, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1621, aged 17 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards retiring to his native place, ſucceeded his Father in the before mention • d Office. While he continued in the Univerſity, he was numbred among the eminent Poets, eſpecially upon his writing and publication of

Vireſcit vulnere virtus. Englands wound and cure.—printed 1628. qu. Which being by many perſons of known worth eſteem'd an excellent piece, was by the Author dedicated to that great Patron of all ingenious men, eſpecially of Poets, Endimion Porter Eſquire, whoſe native place (Aſton under Hill, commonly called Hanging Aſton, near to Campden in Gloceſterſhire) tho obſcure, yet he was a great man and beloved by two Kings, James 1. for his admirable wit, and Ch. 1. (to whom, as to his Father, he was a ſervant) for his general learning, brave ſtile, ſweet temper, great experience, travels and modern Languages. Our Author Warmſtrey hath alſo written

Various Poems—And other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet ſeen. He concluded his laſt day on the 28 of May, 1641. in ſixteen hundred forty and one, and was buried among the Graves of the Warmſtreys, not far from the north door of, and within, the Cathedral Church of Worceſter, leaving then behind him a widdow named Iſabell. I ſhall make mention of his Brother Dr. Tho. Warmſtrey, under the year 1665.

JOHN THORNBOROUGH Son of Giles Thornborough, was born within the City of Salisbury, became a Semi-Com or Demie of S. Mary Magd. Coll. in the year 1570 aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and was made Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke, with whom continuing for ſome time, that Count beſtowed upon him the Rectory of Chilmark in Wilts, and thereby became the firſt that planted him in the Church of Chriſt. Soon after he became Chaplain in Ordinary to Qu. Elizabeth, by the endeavours of the ſaid Count, and beneficed in Yorkſhire: ſo that being put into the road of Preferment, he had the Deanery of York confer'd on him, (upon the promotion of Dr. Mathew Hutton to the See of Durham to which being elected 28 Oct. 1589, was ſoon after inſtall'd. In 1593 he was made Biſhop of Limerick in Ireland, where pe • forming many ſignal ſervices for the Crown of England, he was tranſlated to the See of Briſtow, in 1603, with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery of York in commendam. But as for his Benefices in Yorkſhire, which were the Rectories of Brandesburton and Miſperton alias Kirkby over Carr, they were beſtowed on Peter Rollocke Biſhop of Dunkell, in the month of Aug. the ſame year. On the 17 Feb. 1616, was tranſlated to Worceſter: whereupon his Deanery was given to Dr. George Meriton Dean of Peterborough, (elected thereunto 25 Mar. 1617) and his Biſhoprick of Briſtow to Dr. Nich. Felton Maſter of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge, to which being conſecrated 14 Dec. 1617, ſate there till the 14 March 1618, on which day he was tranſlated to Ely. As for Thornborough he was a perſon well furniſh'd with Learning, Wiſdom, Courage, and other as well epiſcopal as temporal, Accompliſhments, beſeeming a Gentleman, a Dean and a Biſhop. But above all he was much commended for his great skill in Chymiſtry, a ſtudy but ſeldom followed in his time: And 'tis thought that by ſome helps from it, it was that he attained to ſo great an age. A moſt learned Arth. Dee in his Preface to the Students in Chymiſtry, to his Faſciculus Chimicus, &c. Chymiſt of this mans time tells us, that he knew a Biſhop whoſe fame in Chymiſtry being celebrated of many, he viſited, and after he had ſeen a little chymical tract, written with his own hand, he took him labouring in our gold, whence he ſtudied to extract Vitriol, which he held his only ſecret; whereupon he left him, for that he knew that he had neither before him the proper matter, nor the manner of working, according to the doctrine of Philoſophers, &c. But who this Biſhop was, unleſs our Author Thornborough, or a Biſhop in Germany, whom he met in his Travels, I know not, nor doth it ſignifie much. His writings are theſe;

The joyful and bleſſed reuniting the two mighty and famous Kingdoms of England and Scotland into their ancient name of Great Britain. Oxon. 1605. qu. publiſhed under the name of John Briſtoll. But ſeveral things therein being conceived to be derogatory to the honor of both Houſes of Parliament, the Author was complained of only in the upper houſe, which was ſoon after paſſed over. In 1604 was printed at London, A Treatiſe of Union of the two Realms of England and Scotland: ſaid in the title page to be written by J. H.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 : ſive Nihil, Aliquid, Omnia, in gratiam eorum, qui artem auriferam phyſico-chymicè & pie profitentur. Oxon. 1621. qu.

The laſt will and teſtament of Jeſus Chriſt touching the bleſſed Sacrament of the body and blood, &c. Oxon. 1630. qu.

A diſcourſe ſhewing the great happineſs that hath, and may ſtill accrue to his Maj. Kingdoms of Engl. and Scotland by reuniting them into one Great Britaine, in two parts. Lond. 1641. in tw. publiſhed under the name of Joh. Briſtoll, but 'tis not the ſame with the former. 'Twas afterwards printed at Edenburgh in the Latin Tongue.

Pax vobis, concerning the Unity and Peace of the Church.—This I think is not printed, nor other things that he had lying by him at the time of his death. He departed this mortal life in the Caſtle called Hartilborough in Worceſterſhire (after he had been twice married) on the ninth day of July, in ſixteen hundred forty and one, and was buried on the north ſide of the Chappel behind the eaſt end of the choire belonging to the Cath. Chur. of Worceſter, 1641. near to a fair alabaſter monument which he had fourteen years before erected for himſelf, with his Statua in his epiſcopal Robes curiouſly carved in ſtone, lying thereon. On the Canopy over his head, I find this written on the ſide of it, Denarius Philoſophorum dum ſpiro ſpero. And on the north ſide is this. In uno, 20, 32, 41, 10. non ſpirans ſpero. Over his head is this, Qui dormis attolle caput, quia in infirmitate virtus, in morte vita, in tenebris lux. And over his feet, mors nubecula tranſiens laborum finis, vitae janua, ſcala coeli, mihi lucrum. Beſides theſe Sentences, is a large Inſcription painted on a table hanging above his feet, which for brevity ſake I now omit. See more in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 200 b. He had iſſue by his firſt wife, Sir Benj. Thornborough Kt. and Edw. Thornborough Archdeacon of Worceſter, who died in 1645; and by his ſecond named Elizab. Bayles of Suffolk, Sir Tho. Thornborough of Elmeley Lovet in Worceſterſhire Kt. &c. He had alſo a Brother named Giles, who was Subdean and one of the Canons of Sarum in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth, as alſo Rector of Orcheſton S. George in Wilts, who died in 1637, leaving a Relict behind him named Jane. He had alſo a nephew of the ſame name, Preb. of Worceſter in 1629, who dying in 1663, one Will. Owen M. A. was inſtalled in his place 13 Feb. the ſame year. A little before this Biſhops death, he told his Maj. K. Ch. 1. that he had outlived ſeveral that had expected to ſucceed him in the See of Worceſter, and now, ſaid he, I am afraid I ſhall outlive my Biſhoprick, which almoſt had come to paſs.

JOHN DAWSON, a moſt eminent Preacher of his time, was born in Oxfordſhire, particularly, as it ſeems, within the City of Oxon, became firſt of all converſant with the Muſes in Ch. Ch. in Mich. term 1620, aged about 15 years, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards entring into holy orders was made Vicar of Maydenhead in Berks, where and in the neighbourhood, he was much reſorted to for his edifying preaching. After his death were publiſhed of his compoſition, by one H. M.

Eighteen Sermons preached upon the incarnation of the nativity of Jeſus Chriſt, &c. Lond. 1642. qu. The five firſt are on John 1. ver. 1. the four following on Joh. 1. ver. 2. and the nine following thoſe four, are on Joh. 1. ver. 6. to ver. 14. Which learned Lucubrations promiſe no leſs than what they appear a compendious volumn of Divinity. He died in the prime of his years in the beginning of Septemb. in ſixteen hundred forty and one,1641. and was buried in the Pariſh Church of Cookham near to Maydenhead before mentioned, on the ſeventh day of the ſame month. Contemporary with the ſaid Jo. Dawſon, I find another of Ch. Ch. who after he had continued in the ſtate of M. of A. about ten years, was admitted Bach. of Div. 1634, but this perſon, who was of gentile parents in London, hath publiſhed nothing, as I can yet learn. I find alſo one Joh. Dawſon Author of Paraphraſis metrica in Proverbia Salomonis. Lond. 1639. oct. but whether written by either of the former, or by a third, I cannot tell unleſs I can ſee the book.

HENRY MARTEN Son of Anth. Marten of London, Son of Will. Marten of Okyngham in Berks, by Margaret his ſecond Wife, daugh. of John Yate of Lyford in the ſaid County, was born in the Pariſh of S. Michael of Baſinghaugh within the ſaid City of London, educated in Wykeham's School near Wincheſter, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1582, took the degrees in the Civil Law, that of Doctor being compleated in 1592, at which time he was an eminent Advocat at Doctors Commons, as afterwards in the High Commiſſion Court. In 1595 he left his College, and became ſucceſſively Judge of the Admiralty, twice Dean of the Arches, a Knight, and in 1624 Judge of the Prerogative in the place of Sir Will. Byrd deceaſed. In all which Offices and Employments he ſhew'd himſelf a moſt excellent Civilian, the beſt, for ought that I know, that ever appeared in our Horizon, and therefore highly venerated by all good and learned men. Towards his latter end he purchaſed a fair Eſtate, moſtly lying in Berks, which his ungodly Son Harry ſquandred away. His Writings were many, and by ſome were thought very worthy of the preſs, but in whoſe hands they are now, or whether embezil'd with his Eſtate, I know not. All that I have ſeen are theſe:

Several ſpeeches in Parliament. As (1) Speech at a general Committee of both houſes, 22 May 1628. (2) Sp. as to the rational part of the matter of a Conference had by a Committee of both houſes concerning Sovereigne Power, an. 1628. &c. In which Parliament Sir Henry was a Burgeſs for the Univerſity of Oxon.

Debates touching his Majeſties Propoſitions, and the Duke of Buckingham &c. an. 1628.—See in Jo. Ruſhworths Collections, vol. 1. p. 521.617.

Several arguments and diſcourſes in Parl.—See in a book entit. The Sovereigns prerogative and the Subjects privileges diſcuſſed, &c. 3 and 4 of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 140 &c. p. 188. Beſides other things among which is his Speech in Parl. concerning the petition of right. He paid his laſt debt to nature on the 26 of Sept. in ſixteen hundred forty and one, aged 81,1641. and was buried in a Chappel joyning on the north ſide of the Chancel belonging to the Church of his mannour of Longworth near to Abendon in Berks. Over his grave, and that of his Wife, their ſon Harry Marten before mention'd, erected a comely monument, with an inſcription thereon, the Contents of which, I ſhall now paſs by for brevity ſake.

ROBERT BURHILL or Burghill received his firſt breath at Dymock in Gloceſterſhire, but deſcended from thoſe of his name, as I conceive, that lived at Thinghill in Herefordſhire, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13 Jan. 1587 aged 15 years, Probationer Fellow thereof 20 Mar. 1584, being then M. of A. and about that time in holy orders. At length having a parſonage confer'd on him in Norfolk, and a Reſidentiaryſhip in the Church of Hereford, he proceeded D. of Divinity. He was a perſon of great reading and profound judgment, was well vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen, right learned and well grounded in the Hebrew Tongue, an exact Diſputant, and in his younger years a noted Latin Poet. He was much reſpected and valued by Sir Walt. Raleigh for his ſcholaſtical accompliſhments, who finding him a perſon of great learning, had his aſſiſtance in Criticiſms, in the reading and opening of Greek and Hebrew Authors, when he was compoſing the Hiſtory of the World, during his confinement in the Tower of London. But let thoſe things which he hath publiſhed, that have been taken into the hands of very learned men, ſpeak his worth and excellency. The titles of which follow.

Invitatorius panegyricus, ad regem optimum de Elizabethae nuper reginae poſteriore ad Oxoniam adventu, &c. Oxon. 1603. in two ſh. in qu.

In controverſiam inter Jo. Howſonum & Thomam Pyum S. T. Doctores de novis poſt divortium ob adulterium nuptiis &c. in ſex commentationes, & Elenchum monitorium diſtinctus. Ubi & ad excuſam D. Pyi ad D. Howſonum Epiſtolam, quâ libri Howſoniani refutationem molitur, & ad ejuſdem alteram manu ſcriptam Epiſtolam ejuſd. argumenti, quâ contra Alb. Gentilem diſputat, diligenter reſpondetur. Oxon. 1606. qu. In the general Title before the ſecond Edit. of Dr. Howſon's Theſis printed herewith, the aforeſaid large Title is thus abbreviated, Theſeos defenſio contra reprehenſionem Thomae Pyi S. T. Doctoris. The Elenchus Monitorius at the end, contains 4 ſheets.

Reſponſio pro Tortura Torti contra Mart. Becanum Jeſuitam. Lond. 1611. oct.

De poteſtate regiâ & uſurpatione papali pro Tortura Torti contra Parellum Andr. Eudaemon-Johannis Jeſuitae. Oxon. 1613. oct.

Aſſertio pro jure regio contra Martini Becani Jeſuitae controverſiam Anglicanam. Lond. 1613. oct.

Defenſio reſponſionis Jo. Buckridgii ad apologiam Roberti Card. Bellarmini. printed with the Aſſertio &c.

Comment. in difficiliora Job. MS. in two folio's in Corpus Ch. Coll. Library. Which book Elias Wrench of the ſaid Coll. tranſcribed in a fair character, and put the Hebrew into Hebrew letters, which before were in Latin. At the end of the ſaid Commentary, in the ſecond Vol. was added Paraphraſis poetica on the ſaid book of Job by E. Wrench before mention'd, born in Gloceſterſhire, Son of Elias Wrench, if I miſtake not, Prebendary of Gloceſter, admitted ſcholar of C. C. Coll. 5 Jan. 1621, afterwards Fellow, Bach. of Div. and in Apr. 1644 Rector of Trent in Somerſetſhire, (by the preſentation of the Preſident and Fellows of his houſe) where he died and was buried in the month of June 1680. Our Author Burhill alſo wrot a book entit.

Tractatus contra Monarchomachos & Hierarchomachos pro Regibus & Epiſcopis. MS. in the Archives of Bodlies Library; alſo,

Britannia Scholaſtica: vel de Britanniae rebus ſcholaſticis lib. 10. 'Tis a Lat. Poem in qu. dedicated to Sir Tho. Bodley, and is reſerved as a rarity (for 'tis a MS.) in the Archives of his Library. The ſaid ten books are thus entit. 1. Heroicus. 2. Provincia. 3. Heptarchia. 4. Alfredus. 5. Neotus. 6. Elfleda. 7. Paralliſmus. 8. Itinerarium. 9. Benemeriti. 10. Foxus, meaning Fox Founder of C. C. Coll. He alſo publiſhed a Sermon of Dr. Miles Smith B. of Gloc. preached at an Aſſize in Cirenceſter, on Jer. 9. ver. 23, 24. At length upon the approach of the Civil War in England, our Author Burhill retired for quietneſs ſake to his Rectory of Northwold near to Thetford in Norfolk, where dying in the month of Octob. or thereabouts, in ſixteen hundred forty and one, was buried in the Chancel of the Church there,1641. on the ſouth ſide, near to the entrance thereof from the Church, as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Joh. Burrell Miniſter of Thetford, dated 3 May 1673, who alſo tells me therein, that Dr. Burhill was had in general eſteem of a very great Scholar, and a right worthy Churchman—That the memory of him is pleaſant to thoſe that knew him, &c.

JOHN EATON a Kentiſh man born, became the firſt receiver of the exhibition which Rich. Blount gave to Trinity College, an. 1590 aged 15 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Maſter being compleated in 1603. Afterwards he became a Curat for ſeveral years in divers places, and at length in 1625 or thereabouts, he was made Miniſter and Preacher at Wickham Market in Suffolk, where he continued to the time of his death, being accounted by all the neighbouring Miniſters, a grand Antinomian, if not one of the Founders of the Sect ſo called. His Works are,

The diſcovery of a moſt dangerous dead faith. Lond. 1641. in tw.

Abrahams ſteps of faith—printed with the former.

The Honey-comb of free Juſtification by Chriſt alone, collected out of the meer authorities of Scripture, &c. Lond. 1642. in a thick quarto, publiſhed by Rob. Lancaſter, who, in his Epiſtle before it, tells us that the Authors Faith, Zeal, and Diligence in doing his calling; and his faith, patience, and cheerfulneſs in ſuffering for the ſame, were ſo exemplary, that they are worthy to be ſet forth as a pattern not only to all good People and Miniſters now, but even all ſucceeding Generations, &c. Thus he, who was one of his admirers and ſect: by which we are given to underſtand, that he ſuffered much from his Dioceſan and others for his heterodox opinions. At length dying at Wickham Market before mention'd in ſixteen hundred forty and one was there buried. In his paſtoral charge ſucceeded one Zeph. Smith, 1641. who afterwards publiſhed Directions for Seekers and Expectants: or a guide for weak Chriſtians in theſe diſcontented times, &c. on Pſal. 119. ver. 102. Lond. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things.

BARNABAS POTTER received his firſt being in this world within the Barony of Kendall in the County of Weſtmorland, became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1594 aged 15 years. Where after he had undergone, with ſome hardſhip, the place of a poor ſerving Child and Tabarder, he was, when M. of Arts, made Fellow of the ſaid College. Afterwards entring into holy orders, he became not only a puritanical Preacher in theſe parts, but at Totneſs in Devonſhire, where he was much followed by the preciſe party. In 1615 he proceeded in Divinity, and in the year following was elected Provoſt of his College: which place he holding about 10 years, reſign'd it, (being then one of the Kings Chaplains) and by his intereſt got his Nephew Chriſtopher Potter to ſucceed him. In 1628 he, tho a thorough pac'd Calviniſt, was made Biſhop of Carlile, to which being conſecrated in the Chappel of Ely houſe in Holbourn near London, on the 15 of March, had the temporalities thereof Pat. 4. Car. 1. p. 37. given to him by the King on the 23 of the ſame month, in the year before mention'd. He hath written and publiſhed,

Lectures on the ſixteenth Chapt. of Geneſis—When or where printed I know not.

Lect. on the 12.13.14.15.17.18. Chapters of Geneſis.—Whether printed I cannot tell. He had alſo written Lectures on the Plagues of Egypt from Exodus, and on the Beatitudes from part of S. Luke, but are not, as I conceive, extant.

Several Sermons, as (1) The Baronets burial: Or a funeral ſermon at the ſolemnities of that honorable Baronet Sir Edw. Seymours burial, on Deut. 34. ver. 5. Oxon. 1613. qu. (2) Sermon on Eaſter Tueſday at the Spittle, &c. This learned and godly Biſhop gave way to fate in his Lodgings within the Pariſh of S. Paul in Covent Garden near London in the beginning of January in ſixteen hundred forty and one:1641/2. whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to that Pariſh on the ſixth day of the ſame month: At which time he left behind him a widow named Elizabeth, but whether any Children I cannot tell.

BARTHELMEW PARSONS a moſt laborious and frequent Preacher, was a Somerſetſhire man born, and of the ſame Family with Fath. Parſons the Jeſuit, applied his mind to Academical ſtudies in Oriel Coll. in the year 1590 aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders, and preached conſtantly for a time in theſe parts. In 1611 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being about that time Vicar of Collingbourne-Kingſton, and Rector of Ludgarſhall in Wiltſhire; at which places he was much followed and admired for his hoſpitality and preaching. He hath written and publiſhed

Sermons, as (1) The barren tree's doome, on Math. 3.10. Lond. 1616. qu. (2) Sermon on Pſal. 82.6. printed 1616. qu. (3) Firſt fruit of the Gentiles, three Sermons on Math. 2. ver. 1.2. &c. Lond. 1618. qu. (4) Dorcas or a perfect pattern of true diſcipline, on Acts 9.36. Oxon. 1631. qu. (5) Boaz and Ruth bleſſed: or a ſacred contract &c. on Ruth 4.11. Oxon 1633. qu. (6) Four Sermons, on Acts 10.1.2. Lond. 1635. qu. (7) Sermon on Epheſ 6.12.13. Oxon. 1637. qu. (8) Hiſtory of Tithes: or, Tithes vindicated to the Presbyters of the Goſpell, on Deut. 33.11. Oxon 1637. qu. This Sermon hath alſo this lat. title, Honos eſt onus Levitarum. (9) Sermon at the funeral of Sir Franc. Pile Bt. at Collingbourne Kingſton in the County of Wilts, 8 Dec. 1635, on Iſay 57.1.2. Oxon. 1636. qu. and others which I have not yet ſeen. This venerable and frequent Preacher Mr. Barth. Parſons died in the latter end of February in ſixteen hundred forty and one, and was buried under the ſouth wall of the Chancel of the Church of Ludgarſhall before mention'd on the 27 day of the ſame month,1641/2. as the Regiſter of that Church inform'd my ſometimes acquaintance Tho. Gore of Alderton in Wilts Eſq.

GEORGE WEB or Webbe, a Miniſters Son, was born at Bromham in Wilts, began to be converſant with the Muſes in Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1598 aged 17 years, admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 8 May in the year following, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders, and about that time was made Miniſter of Steple-Aſhton in his native Country, by the favour, if I miſtake not, of the Earl of Pembroke, where alſo he taught Grammar, as he did afterwards, for a time, in Bathe. In 1621 Jul. 28. he was inducted Rector of the Church of S. Pet. and Paul within the City of Bathe, being then Bach. of Div. and three years after proceeded in that faculty. When K. Ch. 1. came to the Crown, he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary, and in his Attendance at Court he baptized his firſt child by the name of Charles James, 13 May 1629, which child died about an hour after. In 1634 he was made Biſhop of Limerick in Ireland, to which being conſecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin on the 18 of Decemb. the ſame year, his Rectory at Bathe was beſtowed on his Son Theoph. Webbe, M. of A. of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Webbe, who ſate at Limerick to the time of his death, was a perſon of a ſtrict life and converſation; and had ſo great a command of his Pen and Tongue, that he was accounted the beſt Preacher of his time in the royal Court, and the ſmootheſt writer of ſermons that were then publiſhed. His works are theſe,

A brief Expoſition of the Principles of Chriſtian Religion, gathered out of the holy Scriptures, for the benefit of all that are deſirous to hear ſermons, and to receive the Sacrament with comfort. Lond. 1612. oct. ded. to his beloved hearers and congregation of Steple-Aſhton and Semington.

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

Arraignment of an unruly tongue, wherein the faults of an evil tongue are opened, the danger diſcovered, and remedies preſerved &c. Lond. 1619. in tw.

Agurs prayer: or, the chriſtian choice, for the outward eſtate and condition of this preſent life, &c. Lond. 1621. in tw. It is grounded on Prov. 30.7.8.9. To which are added the rich, and poore, mans prayer.

Catalogus Proteſtantium. Or the Proteſtants Calender, containing a ſurvey of the Proteſtant Religion long before Luthers dayes. Lond. 1624. qu.

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

Pueriles confabulatiunculae: or Childrens talke, in Engl. and Lat.—pr. 1627. qu.

Several ſermons—They are in number at leaſt twelve, and were all publiſhed between the years 1609 and 1619. Among them I find theſe following (1) Gods controverſie with England, preached at Paules croſs on Hoſea 4.1.2.3. Lond. 1609. oct. (2) The Bride royal, or the ſpiritual marriage between Chr. and his Church. &c. on Pſal. 45.13.14.15. Lond. 1613. oct. 'Twas delivered by way of congratulation upon the marriage between the Palſgrave and the Lady Elizabeth in a ſerm. preached 14 Feb. on which day the marriage was ſolemnized, an. 1612. Seven more of his ſermons were publiſhed in 1610, one in 1611, one in 1612, and another in 1616. He alſo tranſlated into Engliſh the Firſt comedy of Pub. Terentius called Andria. Lond. 1629. qu. The book is divided into two columes, the firſt hath the Engliſh, the other the Latine. Alſo the Second comedy called Eunuchus, which is divided in columes and printed with the former: both very uſeful for ſchool-boyes, and are yet uſed, as his two former ſchool-books are, in many ſchooles. What other things he hath publiſhed, I cannot yet find, nor do I know any thing elſe of him, only that he dying in Limerick Caſtle in the latter end of the year ſixteen hundred forty and one (being then detained priſoner there by the Iriſh Rebels) was permitted by them to be buried in S. Munchins Churchyard in Limerick. 1641/2. But before he had lain 24 hours in his grave, ſome of the meaner ſort of Rebels took up the body and ſearched it in hopes of finding rings or other choice things, but being fruſtrated, they repoſed the body in the ſame place, as I have been informed by his Son.

HENRY ROGERS an eminent Theologiſt of his time, a Miniſters Son, and a Herefordſhire man by birth, was admitted ſcholar of Jeſus Coll. in 1602 aged 18 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders, and ſoon after was cried up for a noted preacher. At length being made Vicar of Dorſton in his own Country, and Reſidentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford, he proceeded in Divinity. This perſon having ſeveral years before fallen into the acquaintance of a Yorkſhire man named John Perſe alias Fiſher a Jeſuit, with whom he ſeveral times had diſputes, the ſaid Fiſher did at length without Rogers his conſent publiſh certain matters that had paſſed between them: whereupon our Author Rogers put out a book entit.

An anſwer to Mr. Fiſher the Jeſuit his five propoſitions concerning Luther, with ſome paſſages by way of dialogue between Mr. Rogers and Mr. Fiſher—printed 1623. qu. to which is annex'd Mr. W. C. his dialogue concerning this queſtion, Where was the Church before Luther? diſcovering Fiſher's folly. Afterwards came out a Reply by Fiſher or ſome other Rom. Cath. which made our Author Rogers to publiſh,

The proteſtant Church exiſtent, and their faith profeſſed in all ages and by whom. Lond. 1638. qu. To which is added A catalogue of Counſels in all ages who profeſſed the ſame. Clar. 1641. What other things he hath written or publiſhed I cannot tell, nor any thing elſe of him, only that, as his Son in Law hath told me by Letters, he was buried under the Parſons ſeat in the Church of Wellington about four miles diſtant from the City of Hereford, but when, he added not, or that he was beneficed there. Yet that he died in the time of the civil War, or Uſurpation, thoſe of his acquaintance have informed me.

ANTHONY STAFFORD an Eſquires ſon, was born of an antient and noble Family in Northamptonſhire, being deſcended from thoſe of his name living at Blatherwicke in that County, entred a Gentleman Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1608, and in that of his age 17, where by the help of a careful Tutour, but more by his natural parts, he obtained the name of a good ſcholar, became well read in antient hiſtory, Poets and other authors. What ſtay he made in that houſe, I cannot yet tell, or whether he took the degree of Bach. of Arts according to the uſual courſe. Sure I am that in 1609 he was permitted to ſtudy in the publick library, purpoſely to advance his learning, having then a deſign to publiſh certain matters, and in 1623, juſt after the Act, he was actually created M. of Arts as a perſon adorned with all kind of literature. His works are theſe.

His Niobe, diſſolved into a Nilus: or, his age drown'd in her own tears, &c. Lond. 1611 and 12. in tw.

Meditations and reſolutions, moral, divine, and political. cent. 1. Lond. 1612. in tw.

Life and death of that great Cynick Diogenes, whom Lucretius ſtiles Canis coeleſtis, the heavenly dog, &c. Lond. 1615. in tw.

The guide of honour: or, the ballance wherein ſhe may weigh her actions &c. Lond. 1634 in tw. written by the author in foreigne parts.

The female glory: or, the life of the Virgin Mary.—pr. at Lond. with cuts 1635 in oct. This little book, pen'd in a flouriſhing ſtile, was in another impreſſion intit. The Preſident of female perfection: or, the life &c. But the ſaid book being eſteemed egregiouſly ſcandalous among the Puritans, who look'd upon it as purpoſely publiſh'd to encourage the papiſts, Hen. Burton Miniſter of Friday ſtreet in London, did pretend to diſcover in his Sermon entit. For God and the King Pag. 123.124.125. ſeveral extravagant and popiſh paſſages therein, and adviſed the people to beware of it. For which, and nothing elſe (as W. Prynne tells In his book intit. Canterburies Doome &c. p. 217. us) he was brought into the Starr-chamber, and there cenſured. But on the contrary this popiſh book of Staffords (as he calls it) with many ſcandalous paſſages in it were by the Archbiſhops ſpecial direction, profeſſedly juſtified, both by Dr. Heylyn in his Moderate anſwer to Mr. Burton pag. 123.124., and by Chriſtoph. Dow in his p. 51.54. Innovations juſtly charged, and this book neither called in nor corrected, ſo audaciouſly popiſh was he grown, in this particular, among many others, &c. See more in Canterburies Doome, p. 215.216.217. Our Author Stafford hath alſo written,

A juſt apology or vindication of a book intit. The female glory, from the falſe and malevolent aſperſions caſt upon it by Hen. Burton of late deſervedly cenſured in the Starr-chamber &c.—Whether this book was ever publiſhed I know not: I once ſaw it in a quarto MS. in the library of Dr. Tho. Barlow, given to him by Sir Joh. Birkenhead.

Honour and virtue, triumphing over the grave, exemplified in a fair devout life and death, adorned with the ſurviving perfections of Henry Lord Stafford, lately deceaſed: which honour in him ended with as great luſtre as the ſun ſets in a ſerene sky, &c. Lond. 1640. qu. At the end of which are divers Elegies upon the death of the ſaid Lord, moſtly written by Oxford men, eſpecially thoſe of S. Johns Coll. Our author A. Stafford, who was Kinſman to the ſaid Lord, Clar. 1641. hath alſo tranſlated from Latine into Engliſh The oration of Juſtus Lipſius againſt Calumny. Lond. 1612. oct. What other things he hath written or tranſlated I know not, nor any thing elſe of him, only that he died, as I have been informed, in the time of the Civil Wars.

SHAKERLEY MARMION ſon and heir of Shak. Marm. Eſq. ſometimes Lord of the Mannour of Ainoe near Brackley in Northamptonſhire, was born in the Mannour houſe at Ainoe in January 1602 and baptized there 21 of the ſaid month, educated in Grammar learning in the free ſchool at Thame in Oxfordſhire, under Rich. Boucher commonly called Butcher LL. Bac. the then Maſter thereof, became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1617, took the degrees in Arts, and ſoon after was cried up for a noted Poet and a copious writer of Engliſh comedy, which appeared by theſe his writings following, which afterwards were made public.

Hollands Leaguer: or, a diſcourſe of the life and actions of Donna Britannica Hollandia the Archmiſtris of the wicked women of Utopia. A comedy. Lond. 1632. quart.

A fine Companion; com. Lond. 1633. qu.

Cupid and Pſiche; or, an Epick poem of Cupid and his miſtreſs, as it was lately preſented to the Prince Elector. Lond. 1637. qu. 'Tis a moral poem contained in two books, the firſt having in it four ſections, and the other three.

The Antiquary; com. Lond. 1641. qu. beſides copies of verſes diſperſed in ſeveral books; Clar 1641. and other things in Mſ. which he left ready for the preſs, but are either loſt, or in obſcure hands. This Poet Marmion who was deſcended from an antient and noble family, was a goodly proper Gentleman, and had once in his poſſeſſion ſeven hundred pounds per ann. at leaſt, but died, (as the curſe is incident to all Poets) poor and in debt, about the beginning, or in the height, of the civil war.

JOHN BARCHAM ſecond ſon of Laur. Barcham of S. Leonards in Devonſhire (by Joan his wife dau. of Edw. Bridgman of the City of Exeter) Son of Will. Barcham of Meerfield in Dorſetſhire (where his anceſtors had lived more than three generations before him) was born in the pariſh of S. Mary the Moore within the ſaid City, entred a ſojourner of Exeter Coll. in Michaelm. Term, 1587, aged 15 years, admitted ſcholar of Co. Ch. Coll. 24 Aug. in the year following, Probationer-Fellow 21 June 1596. being then M. of A. and in orders. Afterwards, being Bach. of Div. he was made Chaplain to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. (as afterwards he was to his ſucceſſour) Rector and Dean of Bockyng in Eſſex, and Doctor of his faculty. He was a perſon very skilful in divers Tongues, a curious Critick, a noted Antiquary, eſpecially in the knowledge of Coins, an exact Hiſtorian, Herald, and, as 'tis ſaid, an able Theologiſt. He was alſo a ſtrict man in his life and converſation, charitable, modeſt, and reſerv'd in his behaviour and diſcourſe, but above all he was remarkable for thoſe good qualities which became a man of his profeſſion. He hath written,

The hiſtory or life of John King of England—which is the ſame that is in the Hiſtory of Great Britaine, publiſhed by John Speed, and the ſame which ſheweth more reading and judgment, than any life beſides in that Hiſtory. 'Tis reported alſo By Anon. in a book intit. The ſurfeit to A. B. C. Lond. 1656. in tw. p, 22. that he wrot, or at leaſt had a chief hand in compoſing

The hiſt. or life of Hen. 2. K. of Engl.—Remitted by Speed alſo in his ſaid Hiſtory. Which Hist. or Life, Dr. Barcham wrot (as my Author Id. Anon. ſays) in oppoſition, or rather to ſuppreſs the ſame, written by one Boulton a Rom. Catholick, who did too much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas Becket, &c. This Boulton was the ſame with Edmund Boulton, who wrot The elements of Armorie. Lond. 1610. qu. and the Carmen gratulatorium Mſ. in bib. Cottoniana, ſub Tito. A. 13. de traductione corporis Mariae Reginae Scotorum à Petroburgo ad Weſtmonaſterium. Dr. Barcham hath alſo written,

The diſplay of Heraldry. Lond. 1610. &c. fol. much uſed by Novices, and the beſt in that kind for method that ever before was publiſhed. This book being moſtly compoſed in his younger years, he deemed it too light a ſubject for him to own, being then (when publiſhed) a grave Divine, Chapl. to an Archb. and not unlikely a Dean. Wherefore being well acquainted with John Guillim an Officer of Arms, he gave him the copy, who adding ſome trivial things to it, publiſhed it, with leave from the Author, under his own name, and it goeth to this day under the name of Guillims Heraldry. Our Author alſo publiſhed Crackanthorps book againſt Marc. Ant. de Dominis and wrot a preface to it. He alſo wrot a book concerning coins, in Mſ. but where it is now I know not. Sure I am that he had the beſt collection of coines of any Clergyman in England, which being given by him to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. (who much deſired them) they came ſoon after, by his gift, to Bodlies library, and are at this day repos'd in the Gallery adjoining. At length our Author ſurrendring up his pious ſoul to him that firſt gave it, in the Parſonage houſe in Bockyng before mention'd,1642. on the 25 of Mar. (the Annuntiation) in ſixteen hundred forty and two, was buried in the chancel of the Church there: over whoſe grave, tho there be no memory put, yet it is contained in a book entit. Affaniae: ſive Epigrammatum libri tres. Oxon. 1601. He had iſſue by Anne Rogers of Sandwich in Kent his wife, George, Henry, &c. In his Deanery of Bocking ſucceeded Dr. Joh. Gauden, but whether in the year 1642, or in the year after, I cannot be poſitive.

NATHANIEL SIMPSON was born at Skypton in the County and Dioceſs of York, admitted ſcholar of Trin. Coll. 28 May 1616 aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, became Fellow of the ſaid houſe 1630, and the year after Bach. of Div. He hath written

Arithmeticae compendium. printed 1622. oct. The beginning of which is Arithmetica eſt ſcientia bene numerandi, &c. It was compoſed purpoſely for the uſe of the Juniors of the ſaid Coll. but ſo ſcarce it is now, that I could never ſee but one copy. This Mr. Simpſon died in Octob. (on the ſame day that Edghill fight hapned) in ſixteen hundred forty and two,1642. and was buried in Trinity Coll. Chappel. I have been informed by ſome of his Contemporaries, that he had not only enlarged that Compendium, but had other things of that nature, lying by him fit for the preſs.

GABRIEL RICHARDSON a Miniſters ſon and a Lincolnſhire man born, was initiated a ſtudent in Braſnoſe Coll. 1602, made fellow of it, 1607, being then Bach. of Arts. The next year he proceeded in that faculty, took the ſacred function upon him, and at length became Bach. of Divinity. This perſon, who was admirably well read in Hiſtories and Geography, hath put out a book much valued by learned men intit.

The ſtate of Europe, in 14 books, containing the hiſtory and relation of the many Provinces thereof, &c. Oxon. 1627. fol. He had laying by him ſeveral volumes of Mſs. of his own writing, containing the ſtate of other parts of the world; but coming into the hands of a careleſs perſon called Dr. Hen. Bridgman, he neglected, if not mutilated, them, to the great injury of the Author, who dying on the laſt day of Decemb. in ſixteen hundred forty and two,1642. was the next day (being New-years day) buried in the Church of S. Mary the Virgin within the Univerſity of Oxford.

FRANCIS KINASTON ſon of Sir Edw. Kinaſton Kt. was born of, and deſcended from, an antient and gentile family of his name living at Otely in Shropſhire, became a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. under the tuition of Joh. Rouſe alias Ruſſe in 1601, and in that of his age 14, took one degree in Arts, and then left the Univerſity for a time without compleating that degree by Determination, being then more addicted to the ſuperficial parts of Learning, Poetry and Oratory, (wherein he excell'd) than Logic and Philoſophy. Afterwards he went to Cambridge, ſtudied there for ſome time, was made M. of Arts, and in 1611 returned to Oxon, where he was incorporated in that degree. Thence he went to the Court, where being eſteemed a man of parts, had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him in 1618, and afterwards was made Eſquire of the body of K. Ch. 1. This is the perſon who being every way accompliſh'd, was made the firſt Regent of the College or Academy called The Muſaeum Minervae an. 1635. and therefore worthily ſtiled by a polite and quaint Sir Joh. Borough in his book int. Impetus juveniles, & epiſtolae p. 136. Gentleman, Palladii Patrimaeque virginis Protomyſtes. The firſt members of the ſaid Coll. were Edward May, Tho. Hunt, Nich. Phiske, Joh. Spiedel, Walt. Salter and Nich. Maſon, ſtiled alſo by the ſaid perſon Flamines Deâ pleni, & myſtici, Artium liberalium roris promicondi. Our Author Kinaſton did draw up and publiſh▪

The Conſtitutions of the Muſaeum Minervae. Lond. 1636. qu. and tranſlated from Engliſh into Lat. Jeff. Chaucer his Troilus and Creſſeid which he entit. Amorum Troili & Creſeidae libri duo priores Anglico-Latini. Oxon. 1635. qu. Which being beheld as an excellent tranſlation, was uſher'd into the world by 15 copies of Verſes made by Oxford men, among whom are W. Strode the Orator, Dudley Digges and Sam. Kinaſton of Allſ. Coll. Tho. Gawen of New Coll. Maur. Berkley, Will. Cartwright, both of Ch. Ch. &c. Our Author and Tranſlator having performed other things, which I have not yet ſeen, gave way to fate in ſixteen hundred forty and two, or thereabouts,1642. and was, as I ſuppoſe, buried at Oteley. This is the perſon alſo who by experience falſified the Alchimiſts report, that a hen being fed for certain days with gold, beginning when Sol was in Leo, ſhould be converted into gold, and ſhould lay golden eggs, but indeed became very fat.

PETER SMART a Miniſters Son of Warwickſhire, was born in that County, educated in the College School at Weſtminſter, became a Batler of Broadgates Hall 1588. aged 19 years, and in the ſame year was elected Student of Chriſt Church, where he was eſteemed about that time a tolerable Latin Poet. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, he entred into orders, became Chaplain to Dr. W. James Biſhop of Durham, who not only confer'd upon him a Prebendſhip in that Church, but alſo the Parſonage of Bouden, and was the chief inſtrument of promoting him to be one of his Majeſties High Commiſſioners in the Province of York. But this perſon being puritannically given, took occaſion in 1628. to preach againſt certain matters, which he took to be popiſh Innovations, brought into the Church of Durham by Mr John Coſin and his Confederates, as Copes, Tapers, Crucifixes, bowing to the Altar, praying towards the Eaſt, turning the Communion Table of Wood, ſtanding in the middle of the Choire, into an Altar-ſtone railed in at the Eaſt end thereof, &c. But this his Sermon, or Sermons, preached ſeveral times to the people, being eſteemed ſeditious, and purpoſely made to raiſe commotion among them, he was firſt queſtioned in the High Commiſſion Court at Durham, then brought into the Commiſſion Court at Lambeth, and at length tranſmitted thence to the High Commiſſion at York: where for his ſaid ſeditious Sermon or Sermons, and his refuſal to be conformable to the Ceremonies of the Church, he was deprived of his Prebendſhip and Parſonage, degraded from his Miniſtry, fined 500 l. and impriſoned many years. At length when the Long Parliament began, he, upon petition and complaint, was freed from his Priſon in the Kingsbench, (where he had continued above eleven years) was reſtored to all he had loſt, (tho he enjoyed them but a little while) had reparations made for his loſſes, and became a witneſs againſt Archbiſhop Laud when the Presbyterians were ſedulouſly raking up all things againſt, in order to bring, him to his Trial. Our Author Smart hath written and publiſhed

The vanity and downfal of Superſtition and popiſh Ceremonies, in two Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Durham, preached in July 1628, on Pſal. 13. part of the 7. verſe—They were twice printed in that year, one impreſſion whereof was at Edinburgh.

A brief, but true hiſtorical, narrative of ſome notorious acts and ſpeeches of Mr. John Cozens, and ſome other of his Companions contracted into Articles.

Various Poems in Lat. and Engl.—Theſe, which are called in one or more Auction Catalogues Old Smarts Verſes, I have not yet ſeen, nor other matters of his compoſition.1642. He departed this mortal life in ſixteen hundred forty and two, or thereabouts, having ſeveral years before been the ſenior Prebendary of the Church of Durham, leaving then behind him this Character given by the Presbyterian, that he was a godly and judicious Miniſter, and a zealous enemy againſt ſuperſtition and the maintainers thereof. Alſo that he was the Protomartyr of theſe latter days of Perſecution, &c.

ALEXANDER GILL Son of A. Gill mentioned among the writers under the year 1635. was born in London, particularly, if I miſtake not in S. Anns Pariſh, became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1612. and in that of his age 15, exhibited to in his ſtudies by the Society of Mercers in London, took the degrees in Arts, became an Uſher under his Father in S. Pauls School, and under Tho. Farnabie the famous Schoolmaſter in Goldſmiths-Rents; under both which, he ſpent more than ten years. I find one Dr. Gill to have been Maſter of Okeham School in Rutlandſhire, but whether the ſame with our Author, who was of an unſetled and inconſtant temper, I know not. At length, after many changes, rambles, and ſome impriſonments, he ſucceeded his Father in the Office of chief Maſter of S. Pauls School, an. 1635. and in the latter end of the next year took the degree of Doct. of Divinity, being then accounted one of the beſt Latin Poets in the Nation. In 1640. he was removed from the ſaid School, with an allowance of 25 l. per an. allotted to him in requital of it; whereupon he taught certain youths privatly in Alderſgateſtreet in London, to the time of his death. His works are

Arithmeticorum 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 . Printed at the end of N. Simpſons book called Arithmeticae Compendium, 1623. oct.

Panthea. In honorem illuſtriſs. ſpectatiſs. omnibus animi corporiſque dotibus inſtructiſs. Heroinae, qua mihi in terris, &c. Printed in one ſheet in qu.

A Song of victorie, upon the proceedings and ſucceſs of the wars undertaken by the moſt puiſſant King of Sweeden—This was written in Latine alſo, but I have not yet ſeen it: And was engliſhed and explained with marginal notes by W. H.—Lond. 1632. qu.

ΠΑΡΕΓΑ, Sive Poetici conatus, ab aliquammultis antehaec expetiti, &c. Lond. 1632. in 5. ſheets in tw.

Elegy on Thom. Earl of Strafford beheaded on Towerhill May 12. an. 1641.—Beſides theſe I have alſo ſeen a Mſ. Book of Verſes of his compoſition, made on theſe Subjects following (1) Sylva Ducis, made 1629; afterwards remitted among his poems in Poetici conatus. (2) Suedus Ren, an. 1631. (3) In ejus obit. 1632. (4) Annivers. 1633. (5) Annivers, 2. an. 1634. (6) Ann. 3. 1635. (7) In caedem Walleſt. 1634. (8) Arx Skinkiana, 1635. (9) In Navarr. Reg. (10) Coopnelli Cingulum, 1629. (11) Ad eundem, 1629. (12) Epitaphium Rich. Pates, 1633. This Rich. Pates was a Maſter Commoner of Trin. Coll. who dying in that year, had a long Epitaph in proſe ſet over his grave in the pariſh Church of S. Marie Magd. within the North Suburb of Oxon. (13) In obitum Gulielmi Paddy Eq. Aur. et M. D. (14) Ad D. Chriſtoph. Yelverton. (15) In Obitum Edw. Vaughan, 1637. &c. At length after our Author Gill had made many rambles in this World, he did quietly, yet not without ſome regret, lay down his head and dye, towards the latter end of the year ſixteen hundred forty and two,1642/3. and was buried in the Church of S. Botolph without Aldergate in London. His Succeſſor in S. Pauls School was Joh. Langley, ſometimes Maſter of the College School in the City of Gloceſter, as I have elſewhere told you.

TOBIAS CRISP third Son of Ellis Criſp of London Eſq. was born in Breadſtreet in the ſame City, an. 1600, partly educated in Grammaticals in Eaton School near Windſore, and in Academicals in the Univerſity of Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards, for the accompliſhment of certain parts of Learning, he retired to Oxon, and in the begining of Febr. 1626. was incorporated in that degree as a Member of Balliol Coll. and towards the latter end of the ſaid month he was admitted to proceed in that Faculty. Which degree being by him compleated, as a Member of the ſaid houſe, in the Act following, celebrated in Jul. 1627. he became about that time Rector of Brinkworth in Witltſhire; where, being ſetled, he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching, and for his great hoſpitality to all perſons that reſorted to his houſe. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion (at which time he was Doctor of Divinity of ſome years ſtanding) he left his Rectory in Aug. 1642, and being puritanically affected, he did, to avoid the inſolencies of the Soldiers, eſpecially of the Cavaliers, (for whom he had but little affection) retire to London, where his opinions being ſoon diſcovered, was baited by 52 opponents in a grand Diſpute concerning the freeneſs of the grace of God in Jeſus Chriſt to poor ſinners, &c. By which encounter, which was eagerly managed on his part, he contracted a diſeaſe that brought him to his grave, as I ſhall anon tell you. After his death were publiſhed of his compoſition theſe things following.

Chriſt alone exalted, in 14. Sermons. Lond. 1643. in oct. Vol. 1. Some of which Sermons ſavouring much of Antinomianiſme, were anſwered by Steph. Geere, as I ſhall elſewhere tell you, and, if I miſtake not, by one or two more.

Ch. alone exalted, in 17. Sermons, on Phil. 3.8, 9. Lond. 1644. oct. Vol. 2.

Ch. alone exalted in the perfection and encouragement of his Saints, notwithſtanding ſins and trials, in eleven Sermons. Lond. 1646. ctc. oct. Vol. 3. Before which is the authors picture in a cloak. At length, many years after (viz. in 1683.) were, as an addition to the three former volumes, publiſhed in oct. Chriſt alone exalted, in two Sermons, found written with his own among ſeveral of his writings in the cuſtody of his Son Mr. Sam. Criſp one of the Governors of Ch. Ch. Hoſpital in London; who lately, with great Civility, informed me by his Letters that his Father Dr. Tobias Criſp dying of the Small Pox on the 27. of Feb. in ſixteen hundred forty and two,1642/3. was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family, ſituated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadſtreet, wherein his Father E. Criſp Alderman (who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nov. 1625.) was buried. Dr. Criſp left behind him many children, begotten on the body of his wife, the daugh • er of Rowl. Wilſon Alderman and Sheriff of London, one of the Members of the Long Parliament, and of the Council of State, 1648-9. See more in Obad. Sedgwick.

THOMAS GODWIN ſecond Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somerſetſhire, and he the ſecond Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells, was born in that County, became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll, where following the ſtudies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied induſtry, became at length, after he was Maſter of Arts, chief Maſter of Abendon School in Berks: Where, by his ſedulous endeavours, were many educated, that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State. In the year 1616, being then, and ſome years before, Chaplain to Dr. Montague Biſhop of Bathe and Wells, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and in 1636, was licenſed to proceed in Divinity. Before which time, he being, as 'twere, broken, or wearied out, with the drudgery of a School, had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. confer'd upon him, which he kept to his dying day. He was a perſon of a grave and reverend aſpect, was a grace to his Profeſſion, was moſt learned alſo in Latin, Greek and Hebrew antiquity, and admirably well verſed in all thoſe matters trequiſite for the accompliſhment of a Rector of an Academy. He hath tranſmitted to Poſterity.

Romanae Hiſtoriae Anthologia. An Engliſh expoſition of the Roman antiquities, wherein many Roman and Engliſh offices are parallel'd, and divers obſcure phraſes explained. In 3 books. Oxon 1613, &c. qu.

Synopſis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriuſque Teſtamenti valde neceſſaria, &c. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. &c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells, and Dean of his Majeſties Chappel.

Moſes and Aaron, Civil and Eccleſiaſtical rites, uſed by the ancient Hebrews, obſerved, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obſcure texts throughout the whole Scripture, in ſix books.—Printed 1625. in qu.

Florilegium Phraſicon, Or a Survey of the Latine Tongue—When this book was firſt printed I know not, for I do not remember that I ever yet have ſeen the firſt edition.

Three arguments to prove Election upon foreſight of Faith—which coming in Mſ. into the hands of Twiſſe of Newbury were by him anſwered. Soon after that anſwer being ſent to our Author Godwin, he made a Reply, which was confuted by the Rejoynder of Twiſſe. The Presbyterian George Kendal in Tuiſſii Vita & Victoria, &c. and Sam. Clarke in his Lives of Eminent perſons, &c. printed 1683. fol. p. 16. writers ſay that tho Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews, Greeks, and Latines, yet he was fitter to inſtruct Grammarians, than deal with Logicians, and had more power as Maſter of a School at Abendon, than as a Doctor of Divinity. They further add alſo that Twiſſe did by his writings and diſputes whip this old Schoolmaſter, and wreſted that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough uſed with pride, and expos'd him to be derided by boyes. Dr. Godwin, after he had for ſome years enjoyed himſelf in great repoſe, in requital of his many labours, ſurrendred up his ſoul to God,1642/3▪ 20. March in ſixteen hundred forty and two, and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell beforemention'd▪ He then left behind him a wife named Philippa Teſdale of Abendon, who at her own charge cauſed a Marble ſtone to be laid over his grave: the inſcription on which, you may read in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 201. a.

JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Wincheſter, began to be converſant with the Muſes in Magd. Coll. in Lent term, an. 1586/7 aged 16 years, made Demie of that houſe in 87, perpetual Fellow in 95, Maſt. of Arts in 98, one of the Proctors of the Univerſity in 1606, and three years after ſupplicated the ven. congreg. of Regents, that whereas he had ſtudied the Civil Law for ſix years together, he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty; but whether he was really admitted, it appears not. At length he was taken into the ſervice of Sir Joh. Digby Knight, (afterwards Earl of Briſtow) and was by him made his Secretary when he went Embaſſadour into Spaine: where remaining with him ſeveral years, improved himſelf in various ſorts of Learning, and in the Cuſtoms and Manners of that and other Countries: After his return into England, he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells, being then in orders, was eſteemed a learned man, good Orator, and a facetious conceited Wit. He hath tranſlated from Spaniſh into Engliſh, under the name of Don Diego Puede-Ser that is James may be (1) The Spaniſh bawd, repreſented in Celeſtina: or, the tragick comedy of Caliſto and Melibea, &c. Lond. 1631. fol. (2) The Rogue: or, the life of Guzman de Alfarache. Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit. Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman (3) Devout contemplations expreſſd in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadrageſimal Goſpels. Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonſeca (4) The Exemplarie Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in ſix books. Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the ſaid Cervantes entit. Delight in ſeveral Shapes, &c. in ſix pleaſant Hiſtories. Lond. 1654. fol. but who tranſlated that into Engliſh I cannot tell, nor the name of him who tranſlated his Second part of the Hiſtory of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Tranſlator Mabbe, Clar. 1642. he was living in ſixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorſetſhire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies, and dying about that time, was buried in the Church belonging to that place, as I have been informed by one of that name and family, lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon.

DAVID PRIMEROSE ſecond Son of Gilb. Primeroſe a Scot and D. D. mention'd in the Faſti, an. 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France, educated in Philoſophical learning in the Univerſity of Bordeaux, made an Excurſion to this Univerſity of Oxon in his younger years for the ſake of the Bodleian Library, and converſation of proteſtant Theologiſts, returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded Maſter of Arts, and viſited other places of learning. Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and ſtudies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the Kings Profeſſor of Divinity, entred himſelf a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623, was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year, and ſoon after performed the exerciſe for the degree of Bach. of Divinity: Which being done to the great liking of all the auditory, Prideaux openly ſaid before them in the Divinity School, thus, Accepimus reſponſionem tuam mi fili, tanquam ad ventantis Veris gratiſſimam primam roſam. Our Author Primeroſe hath written,

Theſes Theologicae de peccato in genere & ſpecie. Genev. 1620. qu.

Theſ. Theol de neceſſitate Satisfactionis pro peccatis per chriſtum Sal • ur. 1 20. qu.

Diſputatio Theologica de divina praedeſtinatione, et annexis articulis, amplitudine mortis Chriſti, vi et efficacia gratiae dei, et uſu liberi arbitrii in converſionis negotio, &c. Baſ. 1621.

Treatiſe of the Sabbath, and the Lords day, the nature and the original of both.—printed 1636. qu. with other things which I have not yet ſeen. After he had left Oxon he retired into France, and became Miniſter of the Proteſtant Church at Roan in Normandy, Clar. 1642. where I find him in ſixteen hundred forty and two. How long afterwards he lived, or when, or where, he died, I know not, nor can I yet learn of any perſon, tho many that have been in thoſe parts have told me that he was eſteemed one of the learnedſt reformed Divines in France.

THOMAS SALESBURY ſon and heir of Sir Hen. Salesbury Bt, was born of an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Leweni near Denbigh in Denbighſhire, became a Gent. Com. of Jeſus Coll. about the beginning of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. but taking no degree, he retired (after he had ſeen the vanities of the great city) to his patrimony; and having a natural genie to Poetry and Romance, exerciſed himſelf much in thoſe juvenile ſtudies, and at length became a moſt noted poet of his time, as it partly appears in this book following, which he wrot and publiſhed.

The hiſtory of Joſeph. Lond. 163 ... printed in Engliſh verſe in 13 chapters, and all contained in about 16 ſheets in quarto Daniel Cudmore Gent. did alſo exerciſe his mu • e on the ſame ſubject ſome years after: And in proſe, that hiſtory is written by ſeveral perſons in divers languages eſpecially in that of the French, which being tranſlated into Engliſh by Sir Will. Lower a Corniſh Knight, was printed at London 1655, oct. This Sir William, who was a noted poet, was ſon of John Lower of Tremere, a younger ſon of Sir Will. Lower of St. Winnow, in Cornwal, and died at London about the beginning of the year 1662, but where buried, unleſs in the pariſh Church of S. Clements Danes within the Liberty of Weſtminſter, where his Uncle Tho. Lower Eſq (to whom he was heir) was buried 21 of Mar. 1660, after he had laid dead ſince the 5 of Feb. going before, I know not. What other things our Author Salesbury hath written and publiſhed, I cannot tell, nor any thing elſe of him, only that he, as formerly a member of Jeſus Coll. was among ſeveral perſons of quality, actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this Univerſity in the year 1642, he being then a Baronet, and that departing this mortal life in the ſummer time (before the month of Aug.) in ſixteen hundred forty and three,1643. (at which time he left behind him a widdow named Heſter) was, as I ſuppoſe, buried in the Vault in Whitchurch joyning to Leweni before mentioned, near to the body of his Father Sir Henry, who died 2 Aug. 1632. The reader is to know, that there hath been one Thom. Salusbury, who tranſlated into Engliſh The learned man defended and reformed, &c. Lond. 1660. oct. written originally in the Italian tongue by Dan. Bartolus a learned Jeſuit; as alſo Mathematical Collections, from Gal. Galilaei, &c. but his ſirname differing in one letter from Salesbury, he muſt not be taken to be the ſame with Sir Thomas before mention'd, who was in time before him, and an active man in the Kings Cauſe in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642, for which, tho he died ſoon after, his Family notwithſtanding ſuffer'd for it.

DUDLEY DIGGES the ſon of Sir Dud. Digges mention'd before under the year 1638. was born in Kent, particularly, as I conceive, in Chilham, became a Commoner of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1629, where by his wonderful pregnant parts overcoming the crabbed ſtudies of Logic, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Lent term 1631, being then ſcarce 19 years of age. In the year following he was elected probationer-Fellow of Allſ. Coll. as a Founders kinſman, and in Octob. 1635 he was licenſed to proceed in Arts; at which time proſecuting his ſtudies with unwearied induſtry, advantaged by a great memory, and excellent natural parts, he became a great Scholar, general Artiſt and Linguiſt. In the beginning of the civil war, he wrot,

An anſwer to a printed book, entit. Obſervations upon ſome of his Majeſties late anſwers and expreſſes. Oxon. 1642. qu. 1647. third edit. He alſo wrot ſo ſubtile and ſolid a treatiſe of the differences between the King and Parliament, that ſuch Royaliſts that have ſince handled that controverſie have come far beneath him. The title of it is this.

The unlawfulneſs of Subjects taking up Arms againſt their Sovereign in what caſe ſoever, with anſwers to all objections. Oxon. 1643. qu. It was reprinted at Lond. 1647. whereupon a complaint being made to the Committee of Complaints, the Printers and Publiſhers of it were to be tried at the Kings-bench. It was alſo publiſhed again at Lond. 1662, in oct. part of which impreſſion lying dead, there was a new title dated 16 • 9 put to it. At length being untimely ſnatch'd away to the great ſorrow of learned men, by a malignant fever call'd the Camp diſeaſe, raging in the Garriſon of Oxon, 1643. on the firſt day of Octob. in ſixteen hundred forty and three, was buried in the outer Chappel of Allſ. College. Of the ſaid Diſeaſe Doctor Edward Greaves, Fellow of that houſe, wrot a little treatiſe entit. Morbus Epidemicus, &c. as I ſhall tell you when I come to him.

JOHN SEDGWICK ſon of Joſeph Sedg. a northern man born, ſometimes Vicar of S. Peters Church in Marlborough, afterwards of Ogbourne S. Andrew, in Wilts. was born in the Pariſh of S. Peter, in the ſaid town of Marlborough, educated in Grammar learning at that place▪ and in Logic in Queens Coll, into which he made his firſt entry in Eaſter term, an. 1619, and in that of his age 18. But making no long ſtay there, he tranſlated himſelf to Magd. Hall, where he applyed his mind to Divinity before he was Bach. of Arts. In the time of Chriſtmas 1621 he was admitted to the order of a Deacon by the Biſhop of London, and in Nov. and Dec. following, being a Candidate for the degree of Bach. of Arts, had his Grace denied four times by the Regents becauſe Reg. congreg. Univ. Ox. notat. in dorſ. cum litera O, fol. 3. a. that when he was to be admitted to the order of Deacon, he did belye the Univerſity in uſing the title of Bach. of Arts before he was admitted to that degree, &c. At length begging pardon for what he had done, and making a publick ſubmiſſion before the ven. houſe of Congregation of Regents, he was admitted to that degree, on the ſixth of the ſaid month of Dec. Afterwards he had ſome ſmall Cure about Biſhopſgate in London confer'd on him, took the degree of Maſter, and at length that of Bach. of Div. About which time he was a Preacher at Chiſwick in Middleſex, afterwards Miniſter of Coggeshall in Eſſex, and a • length upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, was ma •• a member of a Sub committee for the advancement of money to carry on the War againſt the King, and by a factious party became Rector of S. Alphage near London Wall and Cripplegate, in the place of a loyal perſon, firſt ſhamefully abuſed, then ejected, and ſoon after dead with grief. In that place being ſetled, tho it was but for a ſhort time, he exerciſed his gifts in preaching againſt Prelacy, and encouraging his Pariſhioners to Rebellion. He would diſpute and reaſon much againſt Antinomians, as thoſe that were his Contemporaries have told me; and tho he ſeemed to be a Saint, yet he was Sober ſadneſs, or, hiſtorical obſervations &c. of a prevailing party in both Houſes of Parl. Lond. 1643. in qu. p. 33. a Simoniake and perjur'd, ſtanding both upon record. Alſo, as another The Author of Merc. Aulicus, in the fortieth week, an. 1643. p. 576. ſaith, Tho he had but one thumb, yet would he have had not an eare, had not his Majeſty bestowed two on him, when twelve years ſince (about 1633) they were ſentenced to the pillory. Since which time he hath been ſuch a grateful penitent, that in one day he was proved guilty but of ſimony, ſacriledge, and adultery, &c. His works are,

Sermons, as (1) Fury fiered, or crueltie ſcourged, on Amos 1.12. Lond. 1625. oct. preached at S. Buttolphs without Biſhopſgate. (2) The bearing and burden of the ſpirit, in two ſermons on Prov. 18.14. Lond. 1639. oct. (3) Eye of faith open to God, on .... Lond. 1640. in tw. (4) Wonder working God. or, the Lord doing wonders, on .... Lond. 1641. in tw. with Englands troubles, in qu. which I have not yet ſeen.

Antinomianiſme anatomized. Or, a glaſs for the lawleſs; who denie the moral law unto Chriſtians under the Goſpel. Lond. 1643. qu. The ſubſtance of it is an extract from one of the books of Dr. Tho. Taylor. At length after all his actings to carry on the bleſſed cauſe, he did very unwillingly give up the ghoſt in Octob. in the year ſixteen hundred forty and three; whereupon his body was buried in the chancel of his Church of St. Alphage before mention'd,1643. on the 15 day of the ſame month. What relates farther to his death and burial, let another Idem ibid p. 640. ſpeak for me, as he had received it by letters from London. Joh. Sedgwick (one of the three brothers The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joſeph. with four fingers on a hand) hath ſpent his lungs, and cauſed Mr. Tho. Caſe to exerciſe his, which he did very mournfully in his Funeral ſermon lately preached, telling the auditory, that his departed brother was now free from plunder, and that when he was ready to expire, he would often ask, how does the Army? how does his Robert Earl of Eſſex. Excellency? with many ſuch ſweet expreſſions, as moved ſome Citizen to ſend Mr. Caſe a fair new Gown, leſt he chance to recurr to his old way of borrowing, &c.

JOHN BAINBRIDGE ſon of Rob. Bainbr. by Anne his wife daugh. of Rich. Everard of Shenton in Leyceſterſhire, was born at Aſhby de la Zouch in the ſame County, educated in Emanuel Coll. under the tutelage of his Kinſman Dr. Joſeph Hall, took the degrees in Arts, ſtudied Phyſick, retired into his own Country, practiſed there and taught a Grammar ſchool. At length publiſhing

An aſtronomical deſcription of the late Comet from 18 of Nov. 1618, to the 16 of Dec. following, Lond. 1619. qu. he became acquainted with Sir Hen. Savile, who founding an Aſtronomy-lecture in this Univerſity in the year wherein the ſaid book was printed, preferred our Author Bainbridge thereunto. Whereupon going to Oxon, he was entred a Maſter-Commoner of Merton Coll. was incorporated Doctor of Phyſick as he had ſtood at Cambridge, lived in the ſaid Coll. for ſome years, (the ſociety of which houſe confer'd on him the ſuperior Readers place of Lynacres lecture 1635) and afterwards in an houſe oppoſite to their Church. He alſo publiſhed,

Procli ſphaera. Ptolomaei de hypotheſibus planetarum liber ſingularis, &c. Lond. 1620. qu.

Ptolemaei canon regnorum. printed with the former. Both which were collated with Mſs, put into latine, and illuſtrated with figures by the ſaid Dr. Bainbridge, who alſo wrot,

Canicularia: being a treatiſe of the Dog-ſtar, and of the canicular days. Oxon. 1648. oct. publiſhed by Joh. Greaves, together with a demonſtration of the Heliacal riſing of Sirius, or the Dog-ſtar for the parallel of Lower Aegypt. At length after he had been Savilian Profeſſor of Aſtronomy about 24 years in this Univerſity, and ſuperior Reader of Lynacres lecture in Mert. Coll. about 8 years, ſurrendred up his laſt breath in his houſe near the ſaid Coll. on the third day of Nov. in ſixteen hundred forty and three: whereupon his body being conveyed thence to the public ſchools,1643. reſted there for ſome time. Afterwards an Oration being delivered before the ſeveral degrees that were then left in the Univerſity, in praiſe of the defunct and his learning, it was accompanied by them to Mert. Coll. Church, and there ſolemnly depoſited on the left ſide of Briggs his grave near to the high Altar. The Epitaph on his grave-ſtone, which was made by Mr. Greaves before mention'd, his ſucceſſor in the Aſtronomy lecture, you may read in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 89. b. 90. a. Many of his writings came after his death into the hands of the ſaid Greaves, beſides what is before mention'd, but whether worthy of the preſs, I cannot tell. Among them was his Diſcourſe of the Periodus Sothiaca, which the ſaid Greaves was about to perfect and publiſh, an. 1644.

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT the moſt noted Poet, Orator and Philoſopher of his time, was born at Northway near T • wksbury in Gloceſterſhire in Sept. 1611. (9. Jac. 1.) and baptized there on the 26 day of the ſame month. His father Will. Cartwright was once a Gent. of a fair Eſtate, but running out of it, I know not how, was forced to keep a common Inn in Cirenceſter in the ſame County, where living in a middle condition, canſed this his ſon, of great hopes, to be educated under Mr. Will. Topp Maſter of the Free-ſchool there. But ſo great a progreſs did he make in a ſhort time, that by the advice of friends, his father got him to be ſped a Kings-ſcholar at Weſtminſter; where compleating his former learning to a miracle under Mr. Lambert Osbaldeſton, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1628, put under the tuition of Jerumael Terrent, went thro the Claſſes of Logic and Philoſophy with an unwearied induſtry, took the degrees in Arts (that of Maſter being compleated in 1635) holy orders, and became the moſt florid and ſeraphical Preacher in the Univerſity. He was another Tully and Virgil, as being moſt excellent for Oratory and Poetry, in which faculties, as alſo in the Greek tongue, he was ſo full and abſolute, that thoſe that beſt knew him, knew not in which he moſt excell'd. So admirably well vers'd alſo was he in Metaphyſicks, that when he was Reader of them in the Univerſity, the expoſition of them was never better performed than by him and his Predeceſſor Th. Barlow of Qu. Coll. His preaching alſo was ſo graceful, and profound withal, that none of his time or age went beyond him. So that if the Wits read his Poems, Divines his Sermons, and Philoſophers his Lectures on Ariſtotles Metaphyſicks, they would ſcarce believe that he died at a little above thirty years of age. But that which is moſt remarkable, is that theſe his high parts and abilities, were accompanied with ſo much candour and ſweetneſs, that they made him equally beloved and admired of all perſons, eſpecially thoſe of the Gown and Court, who eſteemed alſo his life a fair copy of practick piety, a rare example of heroick worth, and in whom Arts, Learning and Language made up the true complement of perfection. He hath written,

The Lady-errant. Trag. Com.

Royal Slave. Trag. Com. Oxon. 1640. ſecond edit. Acted before the K. and Q. by the Students of Ch. Ch. 30 Aug. 1636. See in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 344. b. 345. a.

The Ordinary. Com.

Siedge: or Love's convert. Trag. Com.

Poems—All which were gathered into one Vol. and printed at Lond. 1651. oct. uſher'd then into the world by many copies of Verſes, moſtly written by Oxf. men; among whom were Jaſper Mayne D. D. Joh. Caſtilion B. D. (afterwards Dean of Rocheſter) Robert Waring, Mart. Lluellin, Joh. Fell, Franc. Palmer, Rich. Goodridge, Tho. Severne, &c. all of Ch. Church. Hen. Earl of Monmouth, Sir Rob. Stapylton, Edw. Sherbourn (afterwards a Knight) Jam. Howell, Franc. Finch, Joh. Finch of Ball. Coll. Brethren to Sir Heneage Finch ſometimes Lord Chanc. of England, Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. Joh. Birkenhead of Allſ. Coll. Hen. Vaughan the Siluriſt and Eugenius Philalethes his brother, both of Jeſus Coll. Joſias How and Ralph Bathurſt of Trin. Coll. Mathew Smallwood of Braſnoſe, Hen. Bold of New, and Will. Bell of S. Johns, Coll. &c. Our Author Cartwright alſo wrot,

Poemata Graeca & Latina.

An Off-ſpring of mercy, iſſuing out of the womb of crueltie. Or, a paſſion ſerm. preached at Ch. Ch. in Oxon, on Acts 2.23. Lond. 1652. oct.

Of the ſignal days in the month of Nov. in relation to the Crown and Royal Family. A poem. Lond. 1671. in one ſh. in qu. beſides Poems and Verſes, which have Ayres See in a book intit. Ayres and Dialogues for one, two, and three Voices. Lond. 1653. fol. compoſed by the ſaid Hen. Lawes; and in another intit. Select Ayres and Dialogues to ſing to the Theorbo-Lute and Baſs Viol. Lond. 1669. fol. compoſed alſo by the ſaid Hen. Lawes. for ſeveral Voices ſet to them by the incomparable Henry Lawes ſervant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private muſick; who outliving the tribulations which he endured for the royal cauſe, was reſtored to his places after the return of K. Ch. 2. and for a ſhort time lived happy, and venerated by all lovers of muſick. He was buried by the title of Gentleman of his Majeſties Chappel, in the Cloiſter belonging to S. Peters Church within the City of Weſtminſter, 25 Octob. 1662. As for Cartwright, who had the Succentors place in the Church of Salisbury confer'd on him by Biſhop Duppa, in the month of Octob. 1642, was untimely ſnatch'd away by a malignant fever call'd the Camp-diſeaſe, that raged in Oxon. (he being then one of the Proctors of the Univerſity) to the great grief of all learned and vertuous men, and to the reſentment of the K. and Qu. then there (who very anxiouſly enquired of his health in the time of his ſickneſs) on the 29 of Nov. in ſixteen hundred forty and three, and was buried on the firſt day of Dec. towards the upper end of the ſouth iſle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church. 1643. In his Proctorſhip ſucceeded Joh. Maplet M. A. of the ſame houſe, who ſerved out the remaining part of the year, and in his Succentorſhip Rob. Joyner of Oxford.

THOMAS MASTER ſon of Will. Maſter Rector of Cote near to a mercate town call'd Cirenceſter in Gloceſterſhire, was born at Cote, but deſcended from the gentile family of the Maſters living in the ſaid town of Cirenceſter, initiated in Grammar learning by Mr. Henry Topp a noted Maſter of that place, afterward ripened for the Univerſity in Wykeham's ſchool near Wincheſter, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had ſerved two years of probation, an. 1624, took the degrees in Arts, that of Maſter being compleated 1629, holy orders, and at length in 1640 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. At which time he was arrived to great Learning, was eſteemed a vaſt ſcholar, a general Artiſt and Linguiſt, a noted Poet, and a moſt florid preacher. He hath written,

Menſa lubrica Montgom. illuſtriſſ. Domino, D. Edwardo Baroni de Cherbury. Oxon. 1658. qu. ſecond edit. the firſt having been printed on one ſide of a large ſheet of paper. 'Tis a poem written in Lat. and Engl. deſcribing the game call'd Shovel-board play, publiſhed with Sir Henry Saviles Oration to Qu. Elizab. by Mr. Tho. Ba • low of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. an. 1658. printed there again in Dec. 1690. in half a ſh. in qu.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 . This Greek Poem which is printed with Menſa lubrica, was made by him on the Paſſion of Chriſt, 19 Apr. 1633. rendred into excellent Lat. verſe by Hen. Jacob of Merton Coll. and into Engliſh by Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets of his time: which Lat. and Engl. copies are printed with the Greek. Oxon. 1 • 58. qu.

Monarchia Britannica ſub auſpiciis Elizabethae & Jacobi in oratione quam pro more habuit in capella Coll. Novi 6 Kal. Apr. 1642. Oxon. 1661. qu. 1681. oct. publiſhed by his friend and acquaintance Joh. Lamphire Doct. of Phyſ. ſometimes Fellow of New Coll, afterwards Comdens Prof. of Hiſtory.

Iter boreale: Oxon. 1675, in two ſheets and an half in qu. written in proſe and verſe, and dedicated to his Father Will. Maſter beforemention'd, 25 Sept. 1637. publiſhed by George Ent of the Middle Temple, ſon and heir of Sir George Ent Kt. then a ſojourner and ſtudent in Oxon, being about that time entred a Member of Wadh. Coll. Which George Ent. the ſon wrot and publiſhed The grounds of Unity in religion: or, an expedient for a general conformity and pacification. printed in 1679 in one ſheet in qu. In which year (in Aug. or thereabouts) he departing this mortal life, was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London. Our Author Maſter alſo hath written other Poems, as (1) Carolas redux, 1623. (2) Ad regem Carolum, 1625. (3) On Biſh. Lake, 1626. (4) On Ben. Johnſon, 1637. and (5) On Vaulx, but theſe, I think, are not printed. He was a drudge to, and aſſiſted much Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, when he was obtaining materials for the writing the Life of K. Hen. 8. Four thick Volumes in fol. of ſuch materials I have lying by me, in every one of which I find his hand writing, either in interlining, adding, or correcting; and one of thoſe four, which is entituled Collectaneorum lib. ſecundus, is moſtly written by him, collected from Parliament Rolls, the Paper Office at Whitehall, Vicar Generals Office, books belonging to the Clerks of the Councill, Mſs. in Cottons Library, Books of Convocations of the Clergy, &c. printed Authors, &c. And there is no doubt, that as he had an eſpecial hand in compoſing the ſaid Life of K. Hen. 8. (which as ſome ſay he turned moſtly into Latine, but never printed) ſo had he a hand in latinizing that Lords book De veritate, or others. At length being overtaken by a malignant feaver, the ſame which I have mention'd in Dud. Digges and Will. Cartwright, died thereof, to the great reluctancy of thoſe that well knew him, in the Winter time, either in Dec. or Jan. in ſixteen hundred forty and three,1643. and was buried in the north part of the outer Chappel belonging to New Coll. His Epitaph is written in Latine by the ſaid L. Herbert in his Occaſional Verſes, p. 94. who hath alſo written a lat. Poem in praiſe of his Menſa lubrica, which may be there alſo ſeen. But the ſaid Epitaph muſt not be underſtood to have ever been put over his grave.

WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH ſon of Will. Chill. Citizen (afterwards Mayor) of Oxford, was born in S. Martins Pariſh there, in a little houſe on the north ſide of the conduit at Quatervois, in Octob. 1602, and on the laſt of that month received baptiſm there. After he had been educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester a noted Latiniſt and Greecian, (who taught privately in Allſaints Pariſh) or in the Free ſchool joyning to Magd. Coll. or in both, he became ſcholar of Trin. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Skinner, on the ſecond of June 1618, being then about two years ſtanding in the Univerſity, and going thro with eaſe the Claſſes of Logic and Philoſophy, was adm. M. of A. in the latter end of 1623, and Fellow of the ſaid Coll. 10 June 1628. He was then obſerved to be no drudg at his ſtudy, but being a man of great parts would do much in a little time when he ſetled to it. He would often walk in the College grove and contemplate, but when he met with any ſcholar there, he would enter into diſcourſe, and diſpute, with him, purpoſely to facilitate and make the way of wrangling common with him; which was a faſhion uſed in thoſe days, eſpecially among the diſputing Theologiſts, or among thoſe that ſet themſelves apart purpoſely for Divinity. But upon the change of the times, occaſion'd by the Puritan, that way forſooth was accounted boyiſh and pedagogical, to the detriment, in ſome reſpects, of learning. About the ſame time being much unſetled in his thoughts, he became acquainted with one who went by the name of Joh. Fiſher a learned Jeſuit and ſophiſtical Diſputant, who was often converſant in theſe parts. At length by his perſwaſions, and the ſatisfaction of ſome doubts which he could not find among our great men at home, he went to the Jeſuits Coll. at S. Omer, forſook his Religion, and by theſe motives Edw. Knott in his Direction to be obſerved by N. N. &c. Lond. in oct. p. 37. &c. following, which he left among them under his own hand, became a Rom. Catholick, Firſt becauſe perpetual viſible profeſſion which could never be wanting to the Religion of Chriſt, nor any part of it, is apparently wanting to Proteſtant Religion; ſo far as concern the points in conteſtation. (2) Becauſe Luther and his followers, ſeparating from the Church of Rome, ſeparated alſo from all Churches, pure or impure, true or untrue, then being in the World: upon which ground I conclude that either Gods promiſes did fail of performance, if there were then no Church in the world, which held all things neceſſary and nothing repugnant to ſalvation; or elſe that Luther and his Sectaries, ſeparating from all Churches then in the world, and ſo from the true, if there were any true, were damnable Schiſmaticks. (3) Becauſe if any credit might be given to as creditable Records as any are extant, the doctrine of Catholiques hath been frequently confirmed, and the oppoſite doctrine of Proteſtants confounded, with ſupernatural and divine miracles. (4) Becauſe many points of proteſtant Doctrine, are the damned opinions of Hereticks, condemned by the primitive Church. (5) Becauſe the prophecies of the Old Teſt. touching the converſion of Kings and Nations to the true Religion of Chriſt, have been accompliſhed in, and by, the Catholique Rom. Religion, and the Profeſſours of it. (6) Becauſe the doctrine of the Church of Rome is conformable, and the doctrine of the Proteſtants contrary to the doctrine of the Fathers of the primitive Church, even by the confeſſion of Proteſtants themſelves; I mean thoſe Fathers, who lived within the compaſs of the firſt 600 years; to whom Proteſtants themſelves do very frequently and confidently appeal. (7) Becauſe the firſt pretended Reformers had neither extraordinary commiſſion from God, nor ordinary miſſion from the Church, to preach proteſtant doctrine. (8) Becauſe Luther, to preach againſt the maſs (which contains the moſt material points now in controverſie) was perſwaded by reaſons ſuggeſted to him by the Devil himſelf, diſputing with him. So himſelf profeſſeth in his book De miſſa privata, that all men might take heed of following him, who profeſſeth himſelf to follow the Devil. (9) Becauſe the proteſtant Cauſe is now, and hath been from the beginning, maintained with groſs falſifications and calumnies; whereof their prime controverſie writers, are notoriouſly, and in high degree guilty. (10) Becauſe by denying all humane Authority, either of Pope, or Councils, or Church, to determine controverſies of Faith, they have aboliſhed all poſſible means of ſuppreſſing hereſie, or reſtoring unity to the Church. Theſe were his motives, as my Author Ibid. p. 40. tells me, who adds, that they were ſo ſtrong, that he (Chillingw.) could never ſince frame his mind to Proteſtancy: And the profeſſion of Catholique Religion not ſuting with his deſires and deſigns, he fell upon Socinianiſm, that is no Religion, &c. To theſe motives which are owned and reprinted In the preface to the author of Charity maintain'd, &c. ſect. 43. by Mr. Chillingworth, he made an Anſwer three years or better before the firſt edition of his book called The Religion of Proteſtants, &c. came out. Which anſwer was not publiſhed for two reaſons, one, becauſe the motives were never publick, until the author of The direction to N. N. made them ſo. The other, becauſe he was loth to proclaim to all the world ſo much weakneſs as he ſhew'd, in ſuffering himſelf to be abuſed by ſuch ſilly ſophiſmes. All which proceeded upon miſtakes and falſe ſuppoſitions, which unadviſedly he took ſect. 42. for granted, as 'twill quickly appear when the motives with his reſpective anſwers made to them and ſect. 44. printed, ſhall be impartially weighed in the ballance againſt each other. Tho Mr. Chillingworth embraced Proteſtantiſm very ſincerely, as it ſeems, when he wrot his book of The Religion of Proteſtants, &c. yet notwithſtanding not long before, and I think then alſo, he refuſed to ſubſcribe the 39 Articles, and ſo conſequently did not deſert the Religion of Rome out of deſire of preferment, or for temporal ends (which the Author of The direction to N. N. objected to him) by reaſon that this his refuſal did incapacitate him for all places of benefit in England, a previous ſubſcription of the ſaid 39 Articles being the only common door that here leads to any ſuch. This refuſal was grounded on his ſcrupling the truth, only of one or two Propoſitions contained in ſect. 29. & 40. them: and theſe his ſmall doubts too were afterwards fully ſatisfied and removed before his advancement in the Church, otherwiſe he could not have conſcientiouſly ſubſcribed the 39 Articles, which is indiſpenſibly required of all perſons upon any eccleſiaſtical promotion. But to return: ſo it was, that he finding not that ſatisfaction from the Jeſuits concerning various points of Religion, or, (as ſome ſay) not that reſpect, which he expected, (for the common report among his Contemporaries in Trin. Coll. was, that the Jeſuits to try his temper, and exerciſe his obedience, did put him upon ſervile duties far below him) he left them in the year 1631, returned to the Church of England (tho the Presbyterians ſaid not, but that he was always a Papiſt in his heart, or, as we now ſay, in maſquerade) and was kindly received by his Godfather Dr. Laud then B. of London. So that fixing himſelf for a time in his beloved Oxford, he did, in teſtimony of his reconcilement, make a Recantation, and afterwards wrot a book againſt the Papiſts, as I ſhall anon tell you. For which his ſervice he was rewarded with the Chancellourſhip of the Church of Salisbury, upon the promotion of Dr. Br. Duppa, to the See of Chicheſter, in the month of July 1638, and about the ſame time with the Maſterſhip of Wygſtans Hoſpital in the antient Borough of Leyceſter: Both which, and perhaps other preferments, he kept to his dying day. He was a moſt noted Philoſopher and Orator, and without doubt a Poet alſo, otherwiſe Sir Joh. Suckling would not have brought him into his Poem called The ſeſſion of Poets; and had ſuch an admirable faculty in reclaiming Schiſmaticks and confuting Papiſts, that none in his time went beyond him. He had alſo very great skill in Mathematicks, and his aid and counſel was often uſed in making Fortifications for the Kings Garriſons, eſpecially thoſe of the City of Gloceſter, and Arundell Caſtle in Suſſex. He was a ſubtile and quick Diſputant, and would ſeveral times put the Kings Profeſſor to a puſh. Hobbes of Malmsbury would often ſay that he was like a luſty fighting fellow, that did drive his Enemies before him, but would often give his own party ſmart back-blows. And 'twas the current Opinion in this Univerſity, that he and Lucius Lord Falkland had ſuch extraordinary clear reaſon, that if the great Turk, or Devil, were to be converted, they were able to do it. He was a man of little ſtature, but of great ſoul; which if times had been ſerene, and life ſpared, might have done incomparable ſervice to the Church of England. He wrot and publiſhed,

The Religion of Proteſtants a ſafe way to ſalvation; or, an anſwer to a book entit. Mercy and truth, or charity maintained by Catholicks, which pretends to prove the contrary. Oxon. 1636. 38. Lond. 1664. 74. &c. All which impreſſions were in fol. In which book the Author made very much uſe of Joh. Daillé a learned French Divine, as about the ſame time the L. Falkland did in his Writings; who was wont to ſay, it was worth a Voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him. He calls him our Proteſtant Perron, &c. The book that The Religion of Proteſtants, &c. anſwer'd, was written by Edw. Knott a Jeſuit, againſt Dr. Potters book entit. Want of Charity, &c. as I ſhall tell you, when I come to ſpeak of him, under the year 1645. Before the ſaid Relig. of Proteſtants, &c. went to the preſs, it was, at the deſire of Dr. Laud, corrected and amended by Dr. Joh. Prideaux, who afterwards, among his friends would liken Franc. Cheynell in his book intit. A diſcuſſion of Mr. Joh. Fry's tenents lately condemned in Parliam. &c. p. 33. it to an unwholſome Lamprey, by having a poyſonous ſting of Socinianiſm throughout it, and tending in ſome places to plain infidelity and atheiſme. After it was publiſhed the general Hug. Creſſy in his Exomologeſis, chap. 22. character given of its Author was, that he had better luck in pulling down buildings, than raiſing new ones, and that he has managed his ſword much more dexterous than his buckler, &c. yet the very ſame Author who reports this, doth in a manner vindicate him In his Epiſtle Apologetical to a perſon of honour, ſect. 7. p. 82. elſewhere from being a Socinian, which may in ſome ſort confute the Jeſuit (Edw. Knott) before mention'd. It muſt be now known, that our Author being of intimate acquaintance with Joh. Hales of Eaton, he did uſe his aſſiſtance when he was in compiling his book of The Religion, &c. eſpecially in that part, wherein he vindicates the Engliſh Church from ſchiſm, charged on her by Knott. And that he might more clearly underſtand Hales, he deſired him that he would communicate his thoughts in writing, concerning the nature of Schiſm. Whereupon he wrot a Tract thereof, (as I ſhall tell you when I come to him) out of which our Author Chillingworth urged ſome Arguments, which as one Tho. Long in his pref. before Mr. Hales his treatiſe of ſchiſme examined. Lond. 1678. thinks are the worſt in all his book; and ſo it is thought by many more. However, if not, as ſome affirm, yet they have cauſed ill reflections not only on the private reputation of Hales and Chillingworth, but on the Church of England, as if it did favour the Socinian Principles. But as for an exact ſummary of the doctrines of his belief, after what manner to be qualified, and how little he favoured Socinianiſm, which that he did in an high degree, his adverſaries of Rome, and ſome of the ſectarian party at home, did conſtantly and malitiouſly See ſect. 28. of the aforeſaid Preface. ſuggeſt. When the ſaid book was in the preſs, Dr. Potter of Qu. Coll. wrot Geſta Cancellariatus Laud, MS. pag. 149. to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. 15 Sept. 1637, that Knott the Jeſuit was in Oxon, and had the ſheets thereof ſent to him as they came from the preſs, giving five ſhillings for every ſheet, but this doth otherwiſe appear from Knott's words elſewhere. There was alſo another Jeſuit called Will. Lacey then dwelling in Oxon, who peruſing the ſaid book gave his opinion of it in a Treatiſe entit. The judgment of an Univerſity-man on Mr. Chillingworth's book, which I ſhall elſewhere mention. Beſides him were two or three more at leaſt that anſwered it, as J. H. in Chriſtianity maintained, or a diſcovery of ſundry doctrines tending to the overthrow of Chriſtian Religion contained in the anſwer to a book entit. Mercy and truth, &c. printed 1638. qu, the Author of The Church conquerant over humane wit, &c. printed the ſame year, and E. Knott in his Infidelity unmask'd, &c. Our Author Chillingworth hath alſo written,

The apoſtolical inſtitution of Epiſcopacy demonſtrated. Lond. 1660. qu. there again in 64, and 74. in fol. with The Religion of Proteſtants.

Nine ſermons—printed at Lond. 1664. and 74. in fol. with his Apoſt. Inſtitution &c. and The Religion of Proteſtants, &c. Theſe, I think, are all the things he hath written, except his Motives publiſhed by E. Knott, which being anſwer'd by him, as I have before told you, were replyed upon by the Author of a book entit. Motives maintained; or, a reply to Mr. Chillingworths anſwer to his own motives of his Converſion to Cath. Religion. printed 1638, in three ſh. in qu. It muſt be now known, that in the beginning of the civil diſtempers, our Author Chillingworth ſuffer'd much for the Kings Cauſe, and being forced to go from place to place for ſuccour, as opportunity ſerved, went at length to Arundell Caſtle in Suſſex, where he was in quality of an Engineer in that Garriſon. At length the Caſtle coming into the hands of the parliamentarian Forces, on the ſixth day of January 1643, he was by the endeavours of Mr. Franc. Cheynell (about that time Rector of Petworth) made to Sir Will. Waller the prime Governour of thoſe forces, conveyed to Chicheſter, and there lodged in the Biſhops houſe, becauſe that he being very ſick, could not go to London with the priſoners taken in the ſaid Caſtle. In the ſaid houſe he remained to his dying day, and tho civilly uſed, yet he was much troubled with the impertinent diſcourſes and diſputes of the ſaid Cheynell, which the royal party of that City looked upon as a ſhortning of our Authors days. He gave way to fate on the 24 of January (or thereabouts) in ſixteen hundred forty and three,1643/4. and the next day his body being brought into the Cath. Church accompanied by the ſaid royal party, was certain ſervice ſaid, but not common Prayer according to the Defuncts deſire. Afterwards his body being carried into the Cloyſter adjoining, Cheynell ſtood at the grave ready to receive it, with the Authors book of The Religion of Proteſtants, &c. in his hand: and when the company were all ſetled, he ſpake before them a ridiculous ſpeech concerning the Author Chillingworth and that book; and in the concluſion, throwing the book inſultingly on the corps in the grave, ſaid thus,— Get thee gone then, thou curſed book, which haſt ſeduced ſo many precious ſouls; get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten book, earth to earth, and duſt to duſt; get thee gone into the place of rottenneſs, that thou may'ſt rot with thy Author, and ſee Corruption. —After the concluſion, Cheynell went to the pulpit in the Cath. Church, and preached a ſermon on Luke 9.60. Let the dead bury the dead, &c. while the Malignants (as he called them) made a ſhift to perform ſome parts of the Engliſh Liturgy at his grave. About the time of the Reſtauration of K. Ch. 2. Oliver Whitby his great admirer, ſometimes M. A. of this Univerſity, did put an inſcription on the wall over his grave, which being for the moſt part in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 297. b. ſhould alſo have been here inſerted, but foraſmuch as ſeveral faults are therein, as that he was D. of Divinity, Chauntor of Salisbury, and that he died in 1642, I think it fit therefore to be omitted in this place. In his Chancellourſhip of Salisbury ſucceeded the learned and godly Dr. Joh. Earl on the 10 of Feb. 1643, but who in the Maſterſhip of Wygſtans Hoſpital I cannot yet well tell. By his Will In the Will-Office near S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in Lond. in reg. Twyſſe, qu. 140. dated 22 of Nov. 1643, he gave to the Mayor and Corporation of Oxon 400 l. to be paid by 50 l. per an. in eight years. And as it is paid, he would have it lent to poor young Tradeſmen by 50 l. a piece for ten years, they giving good ſecurity to repay it at ten years end, and to pay for it 40 s. per an. conſideration. And the uſe and conſideration ſo paid to be laid out in binding young poor Children, boys or girls, apprentices, allowing 8 l. a piece to every one, to bind him or her, out. &c.

HENRY FITZ-SIMON the moſt noted Jeſuit of his time, was Reg. Matric. P. pag. 555. matriculated as a member of Hart Hall 26 Apr. 1583, and in that of his age 14, ſaid then and there in the matricula to be an Iriſhman born, and the ſon of a Merchant in Dublin. In Decemb. following I Reg. prim. Act. & electionum Aed. Chr. ſub an. 1583. find one Henry Fitz-Simons to be elected Student of Ch. Ch. but whether he be the ſame with the former, I dare not ſay it. How long he continued in the Univerſity, or whether he took a degree, it no where appears. Sure it is, that he being in his mind then, if not before, a Rom. Catholick, he went beyond the ſeas, entred himſelf into the Society of Jeſus, and made ſo great a proficiency under the inſtruction of Leonard Leſſius, that he, in ſhort time, became ſo eminent, that he taught publickly among them Philoſophy for ſeveral years. At length retiring to his native Country, he endeavoured to reconcile as many perſons as he could to his Religion, either by private conference, or publick diſputes with proteſtant Miniſters. In which work he perſiſted for two years without diſturbance, being eſteem'd the chief Diſputant among thoſe of his party, and ſo ready and quick that few or none would undertake to deal with him. In fine, he being apprehended for a dangerous perſon, was committed to ſafe cuſtody in Dublin Castle in the year 1599, where he continued about 5 years. As ſoon as he was ſetled there, which, as 'tis ſaid, he deſired before, that it might be ſo, was ſeveral times heard to ſay, That he being a Priſoner, was like a beare tyed to a ſtake, and wanted ſome to bait him; which expreſſions being looked upon as a challenge, Mr. Jam. Uſher, then 19 years of age, did undertake, and did diſpute with, him once, or twice, or more concerning Antichriſt, and was ready to have proceeded farther, but our Author was, as 'tis Nich. Bernard in The life and death of Dr. Jam. Ʋſher—Lond. 1656. oct. p. 32. ſaid, weary of it and him. Afterwards, at the term of the ſaid five years, being freed from priſon, upon condition that he would carry himſelf quietly and without diſturbance to the K. and the Realm, he went forthwith into voluntary exile into the Low Countries, where he ſpent his time in performing Offices requiſite to his Function, and in writing books; ſome of which have theſe titles.

A catholick confutation of Mr. Joh. Riders clayme of antiquity; and a caulming comfort againſt his caveat. Roan 1608. qu.

Reply to Mr. Riders poſtſcript, and a diſcovery of puritan partiality in his behalf—printed with the former book.

Anſwer to certain complaintive letters of afflicted Catholicks for Religion &c.—printed with the former alſo.

Juſtification and expoſition of the ſacrifice of the Maſs, in 2 books or more—printed 1611. qu.

Britannomachia Miniſtrorum in pleriſque & fidei fundamentis, & fidei articulis diſſidentium. Duac. 1614. qu. See before in Franc. Maſon, p. 393, 394.

Catalogue of the Iriſh Saints—This I have not yet ſeen, and therefore cannot tell whether it be in Latine or in another Language. In the year 1608 he went according to ſummons to Rome, where being appointed for the miſſion of Ireland, he publiſhed his profeſſion of the four vows; and then being ſent back to the Low Countries, he went again into Ireland, where he ſpent many years in confirming the Rom. Catholicks in their antient Religion and in gaining proſelytes to his opinion. At length the Rebellion breaking out there in 1641, of which he was a great Abettor and Encourager, was, after the Rebels began to be ſubdued, forced to fly for ſhelter into Woods and on Mountains, and to creep and ſculk into every place for fear of being taken and hanged by the Engliſh Soldiers. In the beginning of the year 1643 he was forced to change his place, and retire for ſafety to a mooriſh and boggy ground, where ſheltring himſelf under a Shepherds cote (no better than a hovel) which could not keep out the wind and rain, lived there in a very ſorry condition, and had for his bedding a pad of ſtraw, which would be often wet by the riſing, and coming in of the water. Notwithſtanding all this miſery, he ſeemed to be very cheerful, and was ready to inſtruct the young ones about him, and comfort others. But being in a manner ſpent, and his age not able to bear ſuch miſery long, was with much ado taken away: And being conveyed to ſome of the brethren into a better place, expired among them on the Calends of Febr. the ſame year; but where, or in what place buried,1643/4. my informer tells me not. By his death the R. Catholicks loſt a pillar of their Church, being eſteem'd in the better part of his life a great ornament among them, and the greateſt defender for their Religion in his time.

GEORGE SANDYS a younger ſon of Edwin Archb. of York, was born at Biſhops Thorpe in that County, and as a member of S. Maries Hall was matriculated in the Univerſity in the beginning of Dec. 1589, and in that of his age eleven, at which time Henry his elder brother was remitted into the ſaid Matricula, but both, as I conceive, received their tuition in Corp. Ch. Coll. How long George tarried there, or whether he took a degree, it appears not. In the month of Aug. 1610 he began a long journey, and after he had travelled thro ſeveral parts of Europe, viſited divers Cities (particularly Conſtantinople) and Countries under the Turkiſh Empire, as Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Afterwards he made a view of the remote parts of Italy, and the Iſlands adjoyning. That being done he went to Rome, the Antiquities and Glories of which place were in four days time ſhew'd unto him by Nich. Fitzherbert ſometimes an Oxford ſtudent, who, as I have before told you, ended his days in 1612. Thence our Author went to Venice (from whence he firſt ſet out) and ſo to England. Where digeſting his notes, and enterlarding them with various parts of Poetry, according to the faſhion of that time, publiſhed them in Engliſh under this title.

Sandys Travailes &c. in four books. Lond. 1615. 1621. 27. 32. 52. 58. 70. 73. &c. all in folio, and illuſtrated with ſeveral Maps and Figures, except the firſt edit. The ſaid Travailes are contracted in the ſecond part of Sam. Parchas his books of Pilgrims, lib. 8. The Author upon his return in 1612 or after, being improved in ſeveral reſpects by this his large journey, he became an accompliſh'd Gent. as being Maſter of ſeveral Languages, of a fluent and ready diſcourſe and excellent Comportment. He had alſo naturally a poetical fancy, and a zealous inclination to all humane learning, which made his company deſir'd, and acceptable to moſt vertuous men and Scholars of his time. He alſo wrot and publiſhed,

A paraphraſe on the Pſalms of David, and upon the Hymns diſperſed throughout the Old and New Teſtam. Lond. 1636. oct. reprinted there in fol. 1638, with other matters following under this title.

Paraphraſe upon the divine Poems, which contain a paraphraſe on Job, Pſalmes of David, Eccleſiaſtes, Lamentations of Jeremiah, and ſongs collected out of the Old and New Teſt.—The ſaid Paraphraſe on Davids Pſalmes was one of the books that K Ch. 1. delighted to read in, as he did in G. Herberts Divine poems, Dr. Hammonds Works, Hookers Eccleſiaſt. policy, &c. while he was a Priſoner in Carisbroke Caſtle in the Iſle of Wight.

Paraphraſe on the divine Poems, viz. on the Pſalmes of David, on Eccleſiaſtes, and on the Song of Solomon. Lond. 1676. oct. Some, if not all, of the ſaid Pſ. of David, had vocal Compoſitions ſet to them by the incomparable Hen. and Will. Lawes, with a thorough baſs for an Organ, in 4 large books or volumes, in qu. He the ſaid G. Sandys tranſlated alſo into Engliſh (1) The firſt five books of Ovids Metamorphoſis. Lond. 1627. 32. 40. fol. methodized and expreſſed in figures. (2) Virgils firſt book of Aeneis. printed with the former. (3) Tragedy of Chriſts paſſion. Lond. 1640. written in lat. by Hug. Grotius; to which Trag. Sandys put alſo notes. What other things he hath written and tranſlated, I know not, nor any thing elſe of him only that he being then, or lately one of the Gent. of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. gave way to fate in the houſe of his neice the Lady Margaret Wyat (dau. of Sir Sam. Sandys and widdow of Sir Francis Wyat Kt. Grandſon to Sir Tho. Wyat beheaded in Qu. Maries Reign) called Boxley abbey in Kent, in the beginning of March in ſixteen hundred forty and three, and was buried in the Chancel of the pariſh Church there,1643/4. near to the door, on the ſouth ſide, but hath no remembrance at all over his grave, nor any thing at that place, only this which ſtands in the common Regiſter belonging to the ſaid Church. Georgius Sandys Poetarum Anglorum ſui ſaeculi facile princeps, ſepultus fuit Martii 7. ſtilo Anglic. an. dom. 1643. One Tho. Philpot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr. hath in his Poems printed at Lond. 1646. in oct. a copy of verſes, not to be contemn'd, on his death. I find another George Sandys, contemporary with the former and a Knight, who having committed felony, was executed (at Tybourne as it ſeems) on the fourth of March 1617.

HANNIBAL GAMMON a Londoner born and a Gentlemans Son, became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1599. and in that of his age 17, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards was made Miniſter of S. Maugan in Cornwall, where he was much frequented by the puritannical party for his edifying and practical way of preaching. He hath publiſhed

Several Sermons, as (1) Gods ſmiting to amendment, &c. preached at the Aſſizes in Launceſton 6. Aug. 1628. on Eſay 1.5. Lond. 1629. qu. (2) Praiſe of a godly woman, a wedding Sermon, &c. Lond. 1627. q. (3) Sermon at the Lady Roberts funeral, 10. Aug. 1626. &c. Theſe two laſt I have not yet ſeen, nor another Sermon preached at the Aſſizes in Launceſton, 1621, Clari. 1643. which was printed that year. In 1641 he ſided with the Presbyterians, and in 1643 he was choſen one of the Aſſembly of Divines, which is all I yet know of him.

CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldeſt Son of Calyb. Downing of Shennington in Glouceſterſhire, near to Banbury in Oxfordſhire, Gent. (Lord of the mannors of Sugarſwell and Tyſoe in Warwickſhire) became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623 and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts, compleated it by determination, and then went, as it ſeems, to Cambridge, or beyond the Seas, where taking another degree, he entred into orders, was made Rector of Hickford, (in Bucks.) Doctor of the Laws, and had, (as I have been informed by one that well knew him) the Rectory of Weſt-Ildeſley in Berks, beſtowed on him. About that time, he being a competitor for the Wardenſhip of Allſ. Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected, but loſt it, did at length exchange W. Ildeſley for the Rectory of Hackney near London, and was a great ſuitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland, thinking that employment the readieſt way to be a Biſhop. And whilſt he had hopes of that preferment, he writ ſtoutly in juſtification of that calling, and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Diſcourſes. But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way ſoever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him, did, upon ſome diſcontent, watch an opportunity to gain preferment, let it come what way ſoever. At length being eſteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any baſe employment, and one that (what ever he counterfeited) ever looked awry on the Church, in which (being ſetled and in peace) he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney, was by them ſent to feel the pulſe of the great City of London. While therefore diſcontents did riſe high in the North, the Scots having in an hoſtile manner entred the Kingdom, the people every where, eſpecially in London, ſtirred up by ſome Agents to petition the King for that Parliament, which began 3. Nov. 1640, our Author Downing did then (viz. on the firſt of Sept. 1640) preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden, and poſitively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church, it was lawful to take up arms againſt the King. He having thus kindled the fire in the City, did, for fear of being queſtioned, (for then it was not lawful to preach Treaſon) retire privately to Little-Lees in Eſſex, the houſe of Robert Earl of Warwick, and common rendezvouze of all ſchiſmatical preachers in thoſe parts, while in the mean time his Sermon, which did adminiſter in every place matter of diſcourſe, was cenſur'd as people ſtood affected, and in fine gave occaſion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon ſerious examination and ſtudy of this caſe of Conſcience: And, it ſeems, that they conſulting See a Letter from Merc. Civicus to Merc. Ruſticus. printed 1643. qu. p. 8. with the Jeſuits on the one ſide, and the rigid Puritan on the other; or indeed, becauſe without admitting this doctrine, all their former endeavours would vaniſh into ſmoak, they ſtood doubtful no longer, but cloſed with theſe two contrary parties, yet ſhaking hands in this point of Rebellion, and ſubſcribing to the Doctrine of Downing, as an evangelical truth. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion ſoon after, he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Eſſex, where he preached and prayed continually againſt the King and his Cauſe. In 1643 he ſhewed himſelf a grand Covenanter, and thereupon was made one of the Aſſembly of Divines, but leaving them ſoon after, he ſided with the Independents, and preached ſo ſeditiouſly that he was commonly Tho. Edwards, in his Third part of Gangraena 1 p. 81, 82. called Young Peters, or Hugh Peters the ſecond, and often and bitterly preached againſt ſuch Citizens of London that ſhew'd themſelves zealous for an union or right underſtanding between the King and his Parliament. But behold, while he was in the height of theſe diabolical and rebellious actions, he was ſuddenly, and as I may ſay moſt juſtly, cut off from the face of the earth and was no more ſeen. His Works are theſe.

A diſcourſe of the ſtate Eccleſiaſtical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil, conſidered under three concluſions, &c. Oxon. 1633. &c.

A digreſſion diſcuſſing ſome ordinary exceptions againſt Eccleſiaſtical Officers—To theſe two diſcourſes, tho his name is put, yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing, that he the ſaid C. Downing was not the Author of them.

Diſcourſe of the falſe grounds, the Bavarian party have laid, to ſettle their own Faction, and ſhake the peace of the Empire, &c. Lond. 1641. qu.

Diſcourſe upon the intereſt of England conſidered, in the caſe of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions—printed with the former book next going before.

A diſcourſive conjecture upon the reaſons that produce a deſired event of the preſent Troubles of Great Britaine, different from thoſe of Lower Germany, &c. Lond. 1641. qu. &c.

Divers Sermons, as (1) Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1 • 40. on Deut. 25.17. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) Faſt Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642, on 2. Theſ. 3. ver. 2.—(whether printed I know not,) and others which I have not yet ſeen. This perſon who had a hot and rambling Head, laid it down very unwillingly, and gave up the Ghoſt at Hackney, about the beginning of the year ſixteen hundred forty and four,1644. to the great grief of his aged Father, who died in Nov. following. This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George, a ſider with all times and changes, well skil'd in the common Cant, and a Preacher ſometimes to boot, a man of note in Olivers days, as having been by him ſent Reſident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces, a Soldier in Scotland, and at length Scout Maſter General there, and a Burgeſs for ſeveral Corporations in that Kingdom, in Parliaments that began there in 1654 and 56. Upon a foreſight of his Majeſty K. Ch. 2. his Reſtauration he wheeled about, took all opportunities to ſhew his Loyalty, was elected Burgeſs for Morpeth in Northumb. to ſerve in that Parl. begun at Weſtm. 8. May 1661, was about that time ſent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland, where to ſhew his zeal and love for his Majeſty, he ſeized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkſtead, Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet, whom he forthwith ſent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows. Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treaſury and one of his Majeſties Commiſſioners of the Cuſtoms, was by the name of Sir George Downing of Eaſt-Hatley in Cambridgeſhire Knight, created a Baronet on the firſt of July 1603.

BRIAN TWYNE Son of Tho. Twyne (mentioned before, under the year 1613 p. 329) was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey place on the 13. Dec. 1594 and in that of his age 15 or thereabouts. After he had taken the degrees in Arts, he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of the ſaid Houſe 3. Jan. 1605; about which time entring into Holy Orders, took the degree of Bach. of Div. five years after. In 1614 he was made Greek Reader of his College, performed his duty well, and about 1623, left that and the Houſe to avoid his being ingaged in a faction then between the Preſident and Fellows; knowing very well that if he favoured either ſide, expulſion would follow, becauſe he had entred into a wrong County-place. Afterwards he became Vicar of Rye in Suſſex (in which County, at Lewes, as 'tis ſuppoſed by ſome, he was born) by the favour, as it ſeems, of the Earl of Dorſet, but being ſeldom reſident on the place, he ſpent the moſt part of his time in Oxon, in certain hired Lodgings in Penverthingſtreet in the Pariſh of S. Aldate, where he continued to his dying day. The genius of this perſon being naturally bent to the ſtudy of Hiſtory and Antiquities, he publiſhed a Book in vindication of the antiquity and dignity of the Univerſity of Oxon, againſt ſuch matters that Londinenſis, otherwiſe called John Cay had ſaid in his book De antiquitate Acad Cantab. in derogation to Oxon, the title of it is this.

Antiquitatis Academiae Oxonienſis Apologia, in tres libros diviſa. Oxon. 1608. qu. To which books are theſe things added.

Miſcellanea quaedam de antiquis aulis & Studentium collegiis, quondam, & hodie, in univerſitate exiſtentibus.

Summorum Oxonienſis Academiae Magiſtratuum, hoc eſt Cancellariorum, Commiſſariorum, et Vicecancellariorum necnon Procuratorum, &c. catalogus.

In the aforeſaid Apology, tho ſufficient judgment, yet greater reading, is ſhewed; which hath occaſioned many underſtanding men, to ſuppoſe, nay rather confidently believe, that he had the helps of Tho. Allen and Miles Windſore in the compoſition of the work, eſpecially for this reaſon, that when he had fitted it for the Preſs, he was ſcarce 28 years of age. Howſoever it is, I ſhall not pretend to judge: ſure I am that notwithſtanding ſeveral perſons have endeavour'd to pick flaws and errors thence, and have characteriz'd it to be rather a rude heap, than an exact pile, yet the body and general part of it remains as yet unanſwer'd. The Author intended to reprint the ſaid Work with additions, collected from many obſcure places, but the grand Rebellion breaking out in 1642, (in the time of which he died) his deſign was fruſtrated, and the Book it ſelf interleav'd and filled with additions, together with many rarities, were, when the great fire hapned in Oxon (which was ſoon after his death) either burnt with the houſe wherein he died, (having been there left by his Executor) or elſe then conveyed away by ſuch who commonly ſeek advantage by ſuch diſaſters. I have heard ſome Maſters of Arts, who then bore Arms for his Majeſty in Oxon, ſay, that ſix or ſeven Volumes of his collections in quarto (either of Greek, Mathematicks, Philoſophy, Heraldry. Antiquities, &c. in all which he was well read,) were offered to them by a beggerly Soldier for very inconſiderable prizes; and Dr. Herb. Pelham ſometimes of Madg. Coll. hath aver'd it for an unqueſtionable truth that two or three Vol. were offered to him by ſuch indigent perſons for ſix pence a peice, ſuch is the ſordidneſs of ignorance and poverty. Our Author Twyne was of a melancholick temper and ſedentary life, and wholly ſpent his time in reading, writing and contemplation. He made it his whole endeavour to maintain the Univerſity Privileges and Liberties againſt its oppugners, and ſpent much mony and travel for that purpoſe, eſpecially for the obtaining copies of the antient Charters and Bulls which formerly had been granted thereunto. He left no Library, Office, or place, wherein he thought were repoſed monuments of Literature and Antiquity unperuſed, expecting in them ſomething that might redound to the honor of his Mother, making thereby an incredible pile of collections. But ſo it was, that moſt of them, except ſome which he bequeathed to the Univerſity relating to controverſial matters between the two Corporations, were, with great reſentment let it be ſpoken, loſt in the ſaid fire. Had they, or his interleav'd Book, been ſaved, the work of the Hiſt. and Antiq. of Oxon, which was ſome years ſince publiſhed, might probably have been ſpared, or at leaſt have come ſooner to light, with much gratitude to the lucubrations of this induſtrious Antiquary; but being loſt, as I have told you, tho Dr. Langbaine of Qu. Coll. and one or more did make diligent ſearch after it, I was forced to peruſe the records in all thoſe places, which he had done before, nay each College treaſury of muniments, which were, except one, omitted by him, to the end that all local antiquities in Oxford, and other matters of Antiquity, not well underſtood by him, might be by me known, and in future time deſcribed, if ever the Engliſh Copy of the ſaid Hiſt. and Antiq. of Oxon, may hereafter be publiſhed; to which I intend to add the Antiquities of the Town or City of Oxon. Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. had an eſpecial reſpect for our Author Twyne and employed him in drawing up the Univerſity Statutes now in uſe: which were afterwards corrected, methodized and furbiſht over with excellent Latine by Dr. Pet. Turner one of the Savilian Profeſſors, as I ſhall tell you hereafter. In the ſaid noble work of gathering the Statutes together, our Author being the chief, if not the only, Drudge, (for he tranſcribed them all under his own hand) he was rewarded with the place of Cuſtos Archivorum, founded and eſtabliſhed by the Chancellour and Scholars of the Univerſity after the Statutes were compleated, an. 1634. Which place he enjoying about ten years, took his laſt farewell of this world in his Lodgings in S. Aldates Pariſh before mentioned, on the fourth day of July in ſixteen hundred forty and four.1644. Afterwards his body was buried in the inner Chappel, or Choire of Corp. Ch. College, to which Houſe he had bequeathed in his laſt Will many choice Books, whereof ſome were Mſs. of his own writing. What I have further to obſerve of our Author is, that tho he was accounted by divers perſons an honeſt plain Man, one rather induſtrious than judicious, (notwithſtanding well skilled in the Mathematicks) cynical than facetious, moroſe than pleaſant, clowniſh than courteous, cloſe than communicative, and that he was evilly ſpoken of by the Oxonian vulgar, as a Conjurer, or one buſied in the Black Art, a betrayer of their Liberties and I know not what, yet he was a loving and a conſtant friend to his Mother the Univerſity and to his College, a ſevere Student and an adorer of venerable Antiquity. And therefore, foraſmuch as his love was ſo, which none that knew him could ever ſay to the contrary, his memory ought to be reſpected by all vertuous and good men.

REES PRICHARD was born, as it ſeems, at Llanymodyfri in Caermarthenſhire, and being educated in thoſe parts, he was ſent to Jeſus Coll. in 1597, aged 18 years or thereabouts, ordained Prieſt at Wittham or Wytham in Eſſex by John Suffragan Biſhop of Colcheſter, on Sunday 25. Apr. 1602, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in June following, and on the ſixth of Aug. the ſame year, had the Vicaridge of Llanymodyfri before mentioned, commonly called Landovery collated on him by Anthony Biſhop of S. David. On the 19. of Nov. 1613 he was inſtituted Rector of Llamedy in the dioc. of S. David, (preſented thereunto by the King,) which he held with the other Living by diſpenſation from the Archb. 28. Oct. 1613, confirmed by the great Seal on the 29 of the ſame month, and qualified by being Chaplain to Robert Earl of Eſſex. In 1614. May 17. he was made Prebendary of the Collegiat Church of Brecknock by the aforeſaid Anthony Biſhop of S. David; and by the Title of Maſter of Arts (which degree he was perſuaded to take by Dr. Laud his dioceſan) he was made Chancellour of S. David (to which the Prebend of Llowhadden is annex'd) on the 14. of Sept. 1626 upon the reſignation of Rich. Baylie Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. In Wales is a book of his compoſition that is common among the people there, and bears this Title.

Gwaith Mr Rees Prichard, Gynt Ficcer &c. The works of Mr. Rees Prichard ſometimes Vicar of Landovery in Caermarthenſhire, printed before in 3 Books, but now printed together in one book, &c. with an addition in many things out of Mſs. not ſeen before by the publiſher; beſides a fourth part now the firſt time imprinted. Lond. 1672 in a thick 8 • . It contains four parts, and the whole conſiſt of ſeveral Poems and pious Carols in Welſh, which ſome of the Authors Countrymen commit to memory, and are wont to ſing. He alſo tranſlated divers Books into Welſh, and wrot ſomthing upon the 39 Artiticles; which, whether printed I know not: ſome of it I have ſeen in Mſ. He dyed at Llanymodifri about the month of Nov. in ſixteen hundred forty and four,1644. and was, as I preſume, buried in the Church there. In his life time he gave Lands worth 20 l. per ann. for the ſetling a Free School at Llanymodifri, together with an Houſe to keep it in. Afterwards the Houſe was poſſeſſed by four School-Maſters ſucceſſively, and the mony paid to them. At length Tho. Manwaring (Son of Roger ſometimes Biſhop of St. David) who married Elizab. the only daugh. of Samuel, Son of the ſaid Rees Prichard, did retain, (as I have been informed by letters thence) and ſeiſe upon, the ſaid Lands under pretence of paying the School-Maſter in mony, which accordingly was done for an year or two. But not long after (as my informer tells me) the River Towry breaking into the Houſe, carried it away, and the Lands belonging thereunto, are occupied at this time (1682) by Rog. Manwaring Son and Heir of Thomas before mentined; ſo that the School is in a manner quite forgotten.

WILLIAM LAUD Son of Will. Laud by Lucia his Wife, widdow of Joh. Robinſon of Reading in Berks, and daugh. of Joh. Webbe of the ſame place, was born in S. Laurence Pariſh in the ſaid borough of Reading, on the 7. of Octob. 1573, educated in the Free-School there, elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1590, where going thro with great diligence the uſual forms of Logic and Philoſophy under the tuition of Dr. John Buckeridge, was made Fellow in 1594, and four years after Maſt. of Arts, at which time he was eſteemed by all thoſe that knew him a very forward and zealous perſon. About that time entring into the Sacred Function, he read the Divinity Lecture newly ſet up in the Coll, and maintained by one Mrs. ... May. In 1 • 03 he was elected one of the Proctors of the Univerſity, and became Chaplain to the Earl of Devonſhire, which proved his happineſs, and gave him hopes of greater preferment. In 1604 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and in 1607 he became Vicar of Stanford in Northamptonſhire. In the year following he proceeded D. of Div. and was made Chaplain to Dr. Neile Biſhop of Rocheſter. In 1609 he became Rector of Weſt-Tilbury in Eſſex, for which he exchanged his Advowſon of North-Kilworth in Leiceſterſhire. The next year his Patron the Biſhop of Rocheſter gave him the Rectory of Kuckſtone in Kent, but that place proving unhealthful to him, he left it, and was inducted into Norton by proxy. The ſame year viz. 1610 he reſign'd his Fellowſhip, and the year following he was elected Preſident of his College. In 1614 his Patron, then Biſhop of Lincoln, gave him a Prebendſhip in that Church, and after that the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, an. 1615, on the death of Matthew Gifford Maſter of Arts. In the year 1616 the King gave him the Deanery of Gloceſter after the death of Dr. Rich. Field, and in the year following he became Rector of Ibſtock in Leiceſterſhire. In 1620 Jan. 22. he was inſtalled Canon or Prebendary of the eighth ſtall in the Church of Weſtminſter, (in the place of Edw. Buckley D. D. who had ſucceeded Will. Latymer in that dignity 1582.) and the next year after, his Majeſty (who upon his own confeſſion had given to him nothing but the Deanery of Gloceſter, which he well knew was a ſhell without a kernel) gave him the grant of the Biſhoprick of S. David, and withal, leave to hold his Preſidentſhip of S. Jo. Coll. in commendam with it, as alſo the Rectory of Ibſtock before mention • d, and Creek in Northamptonſhire. In Sept. 1626 he was tranſlated to B. and Wells, and about that time made Dean of the Royal Chappel. In 1627 Apr. 29. he was ſworn privy Counſellor with Dr. Neile then B. of Durham, and on the 15 of Jul. 1628, he was tranſlated to London. Much about which time, his antient acquaintance Sir Jam. Whitlock a Judge uſed to ſay of our Author Dr. Laud that Bulſtr. Whitlock in his Memorials of the Engliſh Affairs, &c. p. 32 he was too full of fire, though a juſt and a good man, and that his want of experience in ſtate matters, and his too much zeal for the Church, and heat, if he proceeded in the way he was then in, would ſet this Nation on fire. In 1630 he was elected Chancellour of the Univ. of Oxon, and in 1633 Sept. 19. he was tranſlated to Canterbury, which high preferment drew upon him ſuch envy, that by the puritan party, he was afterwards in the beginning of the Long Parliament, impeached of high Treaſon. He was a perſon of an heroick ſpirit, pious life, and exemplary converſation. He was an encourager of Learning, a ſtiff maintainer of the rights of the Church and Clergy, and one that lived to do honour to his Mother the Univerſity and his Country. Such a liberal benefactor alſo he was towards the advancement of learning, that he left himſelf little or nothing for his own uſe; and by what his intentions were, we may gueſs that if the ſevere ſtroke of Rebels had not untimely ſequeſtred, and cut him off, S. Pauls Cathedral had ſilenced the fame of antient wonders, our Engliſh Clergy had been the glory of the world, the Bodleian libr. in Oxon. had daily outſtript the Vatican, and his publick ſtructures had o'ertopt the Eſcurial. Whoſoever alſo will read over the Breviat of his life and actions, pen'd by himſelf for private uſe, but purpoſely publiſh'd by his inveterate enemy W. Prynne with his raſcally Notes and diabolical Reflections thereon, purpoſely to render him more odious to the common people (followed therein by another Lewis du Moulin in his Patron. bonae fidei, &c. Lond. 1672. in cap. vel lib. de ſpecim contra Durellum, p. 62, 63, &c. Villain) will find that he was a man of ſuch eminent vertues, ſuch an exemplary piety towards God, ſuch an unwearied fidelity to his gracious Sovereign, of ſuch a publick ſoul towards the Church and State, of ſo fix'd a conſtancy in what he undertook, and one ſo little biaſſed in his private Intereſts, that Relation of the death and ſufferings of the Archb. of Canterb. Oxon. 1644. p. 2. Plutarch, if he were alive, would be much troubled to find a ſufficient parallel wherewith to match him in all the lineaments of perfect vertue. Next as for his great reading and learning, may be, by curious perſons, ſeen in his works, (and thereby eaſily perceive that he was verſed in books as well as in buſineſs) the titles of which follow.

Several ſermons, as (1) Sermon preached before his Maj. at Wanſted, 19 June 1621, on Pſal. 122.6, 7. Lond. 1621. qu. (2) Serm. at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1621, being the day of the beginning of his Maj. moſt gracious raigne, on Pſal. 21.6, 7. Lond. 1622. qu. (3) Serm. before his Maj. at Whitehall, on Pſal. 75.2, 3. Lond. 1625. qu. (4) Serm. at Weſtm. 6 Feb. at the opening of the Parl. on Pſal. 122.3.4.5. Lond. 1625. qu. (5) Serm. at Weſtm. 17 Mar. (1627) at the opening of the Parl. on Epheſ. 4.3. Lond. 1628. qu. (6) Serm. at Whitehall at a ſolemn Faſt before the K. 5 Jul. 1626. on Pſal. 74.22. Lond. 1626. (7) Serm. at Paules Croſs on the Kings inauguration, on Pſal. 22.1.—printed at Lond. Which ſeven Sermons were reprinted at the ſame place in oct. an. 1651.

Speech delivered in the Star-chamber, 14 June 1637, at the cenſure of Joh. Baſtwick, Hen. Burton and Will. Prynne. Lond. 1637. qu. &c.

Conference between him and Jo. Fiſher. Lond. 1623. fol. publiſhed under his Chaplains name R. B. i. e. Rich. Baylie of S. Johns Coll. Reprinted 1639 and 1673. fol.

Anſwer to the Exceptions of A. C.—printed with the former.

Which Conference was look'd upon as a piece ſo ſolidly compacted, that one of our Ham. L'Eſtrange in his Reign of K. Charles. printed 1656. p. 187. an. 1639. Hiſtorians (who ſhews himſelf to be none of Lauds greateſt friends) gives it the commendation of being the exacteſt Maſter-piece of polemique Divinity of any extant at that time, and farther affirms▪ that he declared himſelf therein, ſo little theirs (meaning the Papiſts) as he had for ever diſabled them from being ſo much their own, as before they were. Sir Edw. Deering alſo his profeſs'd adverſary, in the Preface to the book Collection of Parliam, Speeches, p. 5. of ſpeeches, could not but confeſs, that in the ſaid book of Laud, eſpecially in the laſt half of it, he had muzled the Jeſuit, and ſhould ſtrike the Papiſts under the fifth ribb, when he was dead and gone▪ and being dead, that whereſoever his grave ſhould be, Pauls ſhould be his perpetual monument, and his own book his Epitaph. It was anſwered by a Jeſuit named Tho. Carwell alias Thorold a Lincolnſhire man born, in a book intit. Labirinthus Cantuarienſis. Par. 1658. fol. Replied upon by Dr. Meric Caſaubon (as I ſhall tell you elſewhere) and by Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet.

Various Letters, as (1) Letters of ſtate, diſperſed in the Cabala's and divers books. (2) Letter with divers Mſs. to the Univerſity of Oxon. Lond. 1640, with the anſwer of the Univerſity in one ſh. in qu. which I have mention'd elſewhere. They were both written in Lat. but fooliſhly tranſlated into Engl. by a preciſe perſon, purpoſely to bring an Odium on Dr. Laud. See Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 348. b. (3) Letter to the Univ. of Oxon. when he reſigned his office of Chancellour. Oxon. 1641. in one ſh. publiſhed by occaſion of a baſe libel or forgery that ran under the ſaid title. The Univerſity's Anſwer in Lat. is joyned to it, &c.

Notes in Mſ. on a book entit. Romes Maſter-piece, &c. Lond. 1643. qu. Which book was publiſhed by Will. Prynne, and by his endeavours was conveyed to him when he was Priſoner in the Tower of London, where he wrot the ſaid notes. This book, with notes, coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Rich. Baylie, who married Dr. Laud's neice, came after his, into mine.

Breviate or Diary of his life. Lond. 1644. in 10 ſh. in fol. This was a pocket book, which he had wrot in the Lat. tongue for his own private uſe; but reſtleſs Prynne having had a hint of ſuch a thing, obtain'd an Order from the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed for the ſafety of the Kingdom, dat. 30 May 1643, to ſeize upon his papers, letters, &c. By vertue of which order, he, with others, repaired to the Tower of London the next day early in the morning, and ruſhing ſuddenly into his Chamber before he was ſtirring from his bed, went directly to his breeches lying by the bed-ſide, and thruſting his hand into his pockets with very great impudence, took the ſaid Breviate thence. Whereupon, thinking to plague the Archbiſhop as much as he could in his life time, and make him more odious to the Mobile, publiſhed it to the World, and cauſed, under hand, that a printed copy might be ſent to him. But ſo it fell out, that the Publiſher Prynne was extreamly miſtaken; for all judicious and impartial men did take it for the greateſt piece of Juſtice from Prynns hands, that ever he before had done. For what the generality could not think before of the Archbiſhop, were then confirm'd of his character, which I have before told you, that he was a man of eminent vertues, exemplary piety, &c.

Speech and Prayer ſpoken at his death on the Scaffold on Towerhill, 10 Jan. 1644. Lond. 1644—45. qu. This is call'd his Funeral Sermon, preached on Heb. 12.1, 2. and is kept in Mſ. under his own hand in S. Johns Coll. Library. It was anſwer'd by his implacable enemy Hen. Burton Miniſter of S. Mathews Ch. in Fridayſtreet, Lond. in a Pamphlet bearing this title, The grand impoſture unmasked: or, a detection of the notorious hypocriſie, and deſperate impiety of the late Archb. (ſo ſtiled) of Canterbury, which he read on the ſcaffold at his Execution, 10 Jan. 1645. printed in two ſh. and half in qu. Other Anſwers were publiſhed by Anonymi, which for brevity I ſhall now omit.

Officium quotidianum: or, a manual of private Devotions. Lond. 1650 and 63. in oct.

A ſummary of Devotions. Lond. 1667. in tw. publiſhed according to the copy written with his own hand in the archives of S. Johns Coll. Library.

Variae epiſtolae ad clariſſ. Ger. Jo. Voſſium. The number of them is 18, and are printed in a book intit. Gerard. Jo. Voſſii & clarorum virorum ad eum epiſtolae. Lond. 1690. fol. publiſhed by Paul. Colomeſius. I have ſeen and peruſed a Mſ. tranſcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead, containing all the paſſages which concern the Univerſity of Oxon. ſince Dr. Laud's firſt nomination and election to the Chancellourſhip of the ſaid Univerſity. It commences 12 Apr. 1630, and ends 14 Dec. 1640, bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorſed thus,

Geſta ſub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Mſ. was communicated to me, when I was compoſing the Hiſt. and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews Preſident of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many uſeful things for my purpoſe (which another may do for his, and therefore it eſcap'd Prynn's hands) I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here, as I could do of many other things under his hand, which I have ſeen reſerved in private cuſtody as choice monuments: but time calls me away, and I muſt haſten. Yet I cannot but let the Reader know, that there is a fol. Mſ. going from hand to hand, entit. Wholſome Queries reſolved by Dr. Laud, manifeſting that Monarchy is no ſafe Principle for Proteſtants, &c.—ſed caveat lector. At length in the beginning of the civil Diſtempers, this worthy Archbiſhop was upon ſuſpicion of introducing Popery into the Nation, arbitrary Government, and I know not what (aggravated in an high degree) committed Priſoner firſt to the Black-rod, and afterwards to the Tower, where remaining about four years, was at length by the Votes of a ſlender houſe, beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in ſixteen hundred forty and • our.1644/5. Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had conſecrated, remained there entire till July 1663, at which time being removed to Oxon, was on the 24 day of the ſame month, depoſited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick, near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel. Thus died and buried was this moſt reverend, renowned, and religious Archprelate, when he had lived 71 years, 13 weeks and four days; if at leaſt he may be properly ſaid to dye; the great example of whoſe vertue ſhall continue always, not only in the minds of men, but in the Annals of ſucceeding ages, with renown and fame.

RICHARD BAKER ſon of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. (by Cath. his wife daug. of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt.) a younger ſon of Sir Joh. Baker of Siſſingherſt in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent, particularly, (as I have been informed by his The Wife of .... Bury a Seeds-man, living at the Frying-pan in Newgate Market in Lond. daughter) at Siſſingherſt before mention'd, entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584, and was matriculated, in Mich. term that year, as a Kentiſh man born, and the ſon of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age: at which time ſeveral of the family of the Scots before mention'd ſtudied then in the ſaid Hall. After he had ſpent about 3 years in Logic and Philoſophy in that houſe, then flouriſhing with men of note in ſeveral Faculties, he went to one of the Inns of Court, afterwards beyond the ſeas, and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accompliſh'd perſon. In 1594, after the celebration of a moſt ſolemn Act, he was, with other perſons of quality, actually created Maſter of Arts, and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds; at which time this our Author (who lived at Highgate near London) was eſteem'd a moſt compleat and learned perſon: the benefit of which he reaped in his old, age, when his conſiderable eſtate, was, thro ſuretiſhip, very much impaired. In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordſhire, being then Lord of Middle Aſton, and of other lands therein, and, if I miſtake not, a Juſtice of the Peace. He was a perſon tall and comely, of a good diſpoſition and admirable diſcourſe, religious, and well read in various Faculties, eſpecially in Div. and Hiſt. as it may appear by theſe books following, which he moſtly compoſed when he was forced to fly for ſhelter to his ſtudies and devotions.

Cato variegatus. Or, Catoes moral diſticks varied. Lond. 1636. 'Tis a Poem.

Meditations and diſquiſitions on the Lords Prayer. Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit. qu. A copy of this book in Mſ. being ſent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the preſs, he returned this teſtimony of it; I much admire the very character of your ſtile, which ſeemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Auſtins age, full of ſweet raptures, and of reſearching conceits; nothing borrowed, nothing vulgar, and yet all flowing from you (I know not how) with a certain equal facility.

Med. and diſq. on the three laſt Pſalmes of David. Lond. 1639.

Med. and diſq. on the 50 Pſal. Lond. 1639.

Med. and diſq. on the ſeven penitent. Pſalmes. Lond. 1639. qu.

Med. and diſq. on the firſt Pſal. Lond. 1640. qu.

Med. and diſq. on the ſeven conſolatorie Pſalmes of David, namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103. and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu.

Med. and Prayers upon the ſeven days of the week. Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the ſame, I ſuppoſe, with his motives of prayer on the ſeven days of the week.

Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity. Lond. 1641. in tw.

Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer.—printed with the Apology.

A ſolliloquy of the ſoul, or, a pillar of Thoughts, &c. Lond. 1641. in tw.

Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government, unto the death of K. James, &c. Lond. 1641. &c. fol. Which Chronicle, as the Author ſaith, was collected with ſo great care and diligence, that if all other of our Chronicles were loſt, this only would be ſufficient to inform poſterity of all paſſages memorable or worthy to be known, &c. However the Reader muſt know, that it being reduced to method, and not according to time, purpoſely to pleaſe Gentlemen and Novices, many chief things to be obſerved therein, as name, time, &c. are egregiouſly falſe, and conſequently breed a great deal of confuſion in the peruſer, eſpecially if he be curious or critical. There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58, in which laſt was added The hiſtory of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps, ſometimes a ſtudent of Magd. Hall. Afterwards in 1671, if I miſtake not, came out another edit. in which was contained an addition of The firſt thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is, from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as alſo the Occurrences of his Reſtauration by George late Duke of Albemarle, extracted from his Excellencies papers, &c. which, as I have been informed, were for the moſt part done by Sir Tho. Clarges, (whoſe ſiſter the ſaid Duke had married) and put into the hands of the ſaid Philipps, but therein Mr. Philipps, attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true, he got the ill will of him. Therein are alſo added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created, and other matters. But ſo it was, that the Author Baker, and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors, Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Eſq. publiſhed Animadverſions on that edit. of 1671, and were printed in oct. at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a ſpecimen of the errors, may eaſily be diſcerned what the whole Chronicle containeth. But notwithſtanding theſe Animadverſions, the Chronicle, when afterwards it was ſeveral times reprinted, had none of the ſaid errors therein corrected, but came out full of faults as before, and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconſiderable perſons. By the way it muſt be known, that the ſaid Tho. Blount ſon of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordſhire, the fifth ſon of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the ſame County, was born at Bordeſley in Worceſterſhire, being of a younger houſe of an antient See more of his family in the third impreſſion of Hen. Peachams Compleat Gentleman, &c. Lond. 1661. p. 230.231. Which diſcourſe there of Blounts family, was drawn up by this Tho. Blount, and put into the hands of the Publiſher of the ſaid third impreſſion of Peacham. and noble family of his name, but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an Univerſity, only his own genie and induſtry, together with the helps of his ſcholaſtical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple, before and after he was Barriſter. His Writings are many, and ſome perhaps not fit here to be put down; among which are (1) The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat Engliſh Rhetorick. Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and ſeveral times after. (2) Gloſſographia: or, a Dictionary interpreting ſuch hard words, whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. &c. that are now uſed in our refined Engl. Tongue, &c. Lond. 1656. oct. Publiſhed ſeveral times after with additions and amendments. (3) The lamps of the law, and lights of the goſpel; or, the Titles of ſome late ſpiritual, polemical, and metaphyſical new books. Lond. 1658. in oct. Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard, and publiſhed under the name of Graſs and Hay Withers. (4) Boſcobel: or, the hiſtory of his Majeſties Eſcape after the battel of Worceſter, 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660, in oct. there again 1680. in oct. third edit. Tranſlated into French and Portugueſe; the laſt of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordſhire, a R. Catholic. (5) The Catholic Almanack, for 1661. 62. 63. &c. which ſelling not ſo well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did, he therefore wrot (6) Booker rebuked: or, Animadverſions on Bookers Alm. which made much ſport among people, having had the aſſiſtance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Auſten. (7) A law Dictionary, interpreting ſuch difficult and obſcure words and terms, as are found either in our common or ſtatute, antient or modern, laws, &c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691, with ſome corrections, and the addition of above 600 words. (8) Animadverſions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation, &c. Oxon. 1672. oct. (9) A world of errors diſcovered in The new world of words, &c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written againſt Edw. Philipps his book intit. A new world of Engl. words, &c. (10) Fragmenta Antiquitatis, Antient tenures of land, and jocular cuſtoms of ſome Mannours. Lond. 1679. oct. (11) Boſcobel, &c. the ſecond part. Lond. 1681. oct. To which is added, Clauſtrum regale reſeratum, Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somerſetſhire, publiſhed by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent. Our Author Blount alſo wrot Animadverſions upon Britannia, written by R. Blome, but whether printed I cannot tell; and tranſlated from French into Engliſh, The Art of making Deviſes. Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Eſti • nne Lord of Foſſez: To which Blount added, A catalogue of Coronet-Deviſes, both on the Kings and Parliaments ſide, in the late Wars. At length upon the breaking out of the Popiſh Plot, being much affrighted by the violent current of that time (he himſelf being a zealous Rom. Cath.) he contracted the Palſie, as by his laſt letter ſent to me, dated 28 Apr. 1679, I was informed, adding therein, that he had then quitted all books except thoſe of devotion. On the 26 of Dec. following, being S. Stephens day, he died at Orleton in Herefordſhire, (where he had a fair and plentiful eſtate) in the year of his age 61, and was buried in the Church there, and ſoon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict, daugh. of Edm. Church of Maldon in Eſſex Eſq. He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England, which he and J. B. (that's all I know of him, for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name) had for ſeveral years been compiling, but what became of it afterwards, I cannot tell. As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker, he hath written beſides what I have already mention'd,

Theatrum redivivum: or, the Theatre vindicated, in anſwer to Mr. Prynns Hiſtrio maſtix &c. Lond. 1662. octavo.

Theatrum triumphans: or, a diſcourſe of Plays. Lond. 1670, oct. He alſo tranſlated from Ital. into Engl. Diſcourſes upon Corn. Tacitus. Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53, and were written by Marqueſs Virgilio Malvezzi; and from French into Engliſh, Letters of Monſieur Balſac, in 4 parts. Lond. 1638. oct. and 54 &c. with additions, in qu. He alſo wrot his own life, which he left in Mſ. behind him, burnt or made waſt paper by one Smith of Pater noſter row, who married one of his daughters. At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world, departed this mortal life in the Priſon call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in ſixteen hundred forty and four, and was, the day following,1644/5. buried about the middle of the ſouth iſle joyning to S. Bridgets, commonly called S. Brides, Church near Fleetſtreet in London. By his wife Margaret, dau. of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropſhire Kt. (for whoſe family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts) he had iſſue Thomas, Arthur, Cecilia, Anne, Margaret, &c. But whereas he ſaith in his In his diſcourſe of the natural iſſue of K. Hen. 1. Chronicle, that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain, from whom, as he adds, is his family lineally deſcended through females, viz. thro Cummin, Chenduit, Brimpton, Stokes, Foxcote and Dyneley, is a great miſtake; for all, or moſt Chronicles, nay the Pedigree it ſelf of Corbet which I have ſeveral times ſeen, ſay that the Concubine (named in the ſaid Pedegree Sybill) and not the daughter, was married to the ſaid Fitzherbert whom ſome call Henry the ſon of Herbert.

WILLIAM STRODE the only ſon of Philip Strode ſometimes living near Plimpton, and he a younger ſon of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonſhire, was born in that County, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Weſtm. about the latter end of 1617, and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took the degr. in Arts, holy orders, and became a moſt florid Preacher in the Univerſity. In 1629 he was choſen the public Orator of the Univerſity, being then one of the Proctors of it, and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. In 1638. Jul. 1. he was inſtalled Canon of Ch. Ch. and in the ſame month proceeded D. of Div; before which time K. Ch. 1. had ſetled a Canonry of the ſaid Church upon him that ſhould be lawfully elected public Orator, but that pious Act hath been ſince annul'd by pretended Authority, and now ſuch a thing ſeems totally to be forgotten among us. As for Strode, he was a perſon of great parts, but not equal to thoſe of Cartwright, a pithy and ſententious Preacher, exquiſite Orator and an eminent Poet. He hath written,

Paſſions calmed. Or, the ſetling of the floating Iſland. Lond. 1655. qu. 'Tis a comedy, and was publickly acted before the K. and Q. in Ch. Ch. Hall 29 Aug. 1636.

Speech made to Qu. Mary at Oxon. at her return out of Holland. Oxon. 1643. qu.

Various Sermons, as (1) Serm. concerning ſwearing, on Math. 3.37. Oxon. 1644. qu. (2) Serm. concerning death and the reſurrection; preached at S. Maries in Oxon. on Low Sunday 28 Apr. 1644, on Coloſ. 3. ver. 3. Oxon. 1644. qu. (3) Serm. at a Viſitation held at Linn in Norfolk, 24 Jun. 1633, on Pſal. 76.11. Lond. 1660. qu. It was preached at the deſire of Dr. Rich. Corbet Biſh. of Norwich, to whom our Author, I think, was then Chaplain.

Orations, Speeches, Epiſtles, Sermons, &c.—They were left behind him fairly written in ſeveral Volumes; which coming into the hands of Dr. Rich. Gardiner Canon of Ch. Ch. came after, or before, his death, into thoſe of Rich. Davies of Oxon Bookſeller. Our Author Dr. Strode yielded to the ſtroke of death, to the great reluctancy of learned men,1644/5. on the tenth day of March in ſixteen hundred forty and four, and was buried in the Divinity Chappel, that is the iſle moſt northward from the Choire, belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. I have ſeen ſeveral of his Poems that have had muſical Compoſitions of two and three parts ſet to be ſung, by the incomparable Mr. Hen. Lawes; as alſo certain Anthems, particularly one to be ſung on Good Friday, which had a compoſition alſo ſet thereunto by Rich. Gibbs Organiſt of Ch. Ch. in Norwych. I ſhall make mention of another Will. Strode elſewhere.

WILLIAM BURTON the eldeſt ſon of Ralph Burton Eſq. was born Reg. Matric. Univ. Oxon. P. pag. 321. in Leyceſterſhire, at Lyndley, I ſuppoſe, near to Boſworth in that County, 24 Aug. 1575, educated in the Grammar School at Sutton-colfield in Warwickſhire, became either a Commoner or Gent. Com. of Braſn. Coll. in Mich. term, an. 1591, where by the benefit of a careful Tutor, he became tolerably well read in Logic and Philoſophy. On the 20 of May 1593, he was admitted into the ſociety of the Inner Temple, and in the month of June in the year following, he, as a member of Braſnoſe Coll. was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards ſetling in the Temple, without compleating that degree by Determination, was made a Barreſter: but his natural genie leading him to the ſtudies of Heraldry, Genealogies, and Antiquities, he became excellent in thoſe obſcure and intricate matters, and, look upon him as a Gentleman, was accounted by all that knew him to be the beſt of his time for thoſe ſtudies, as it may appear by a book that he publiſhed, intit.

The deſcription of Leyceſterſhire, &c. Lond. 1622. fol. Soon after the Author did very much enlarge, and enrich'd, it with Roman, Saxon, and other Antiquities, as by his letter In bib. Cotton ſub effig. Julii, c. 3. dated 9 June 1627, written to Sir Rob. Cotton that ſingular lover of venerable Antiquity, it appears. 'Tis now, as I have been informed, in the hands of Walt. Ch • twind of Ingeſtrey near to Stafford Eſq who intends to publiſh it. I have ſeen In bib. Rad. Sheldon de Beoly Arm. nunc in Heteria Fecialium Londini. a common place book of Engliſh Antiquities made by our Will. Burton, which is a Manuſcript in folio, compoſed moſtly from Lelands ſeveral Volumes of his Itinerary, being the firſt of that nature that I have yet ſeen; but it being a copy, and not written with his own hand, but by an illiterate ſcribe, are innumerable faults therein. This ingenious perſon who is ſtiled by a learned Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, &c. Lond. 1658. fol. p. 214. Author of both his names The great ornament of his Country, died in his houſe at Fald in Staffordſhire (after he had ſuffered much in the war time) on the ſixth day of Apr. in ſixteen hundred forty and five,1645. and was buried in the Pariſh Church belonging thereunto called Hanbury Church, leaving then behind him ſeveral collections of Arms and Monuments, of Genealogies and other matters of Antiquity, which he had gathered from divers Churches and Gentlemens houſes, and a ſon named Caſſibilian Burton the heir of his Vertues as well as of other fortunes, who was born on the 9 of Nov. 1609, but whether educated in this Univerſity I know not. His parts being different from thoſe of his Father, he exerciſed them moſtly in Poetry, and tranſlated Martial into Engliſh, but whether extant I cannot tell you. In 1658 it then remained in Mſ. which made a boon Companion Sir Aſton Cockaine Bt. in his Choice Poems of ſeveral ſorts, &c. Lond. 1658. oct. lib. 2. nu. 102. of his complain thus; When will you do your ſelf ſo great a right, To let your Engliſh Martial view the light.

This Caſſ. Burton who had conſumed the moſt, or better, part of the Eſtate which his Father had left him, died 28 Feb. 1681, having ſome years before, given moſt of, if not all, the aforeſaid Collections of his Father before mention'd to the ſaid W. Chetwind Eſq to be uſed by him in writing The Antiquities of Staffordſhire.

DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH, commonly called Featley, Son of John Featley (ſomtimes Cook to Dr. Laur. Humphrey Preſident of Madg. Coll. afterwards Cook of that of Corp. Chr.) by Marian Thrift his Wife, was born at Charlton upon Otmore near to, and in the County of, Oxford, on the 5. of March or thereabouts in 1582, educated in the Grammar School joyning to Madg. College, being then (1590 &c.) Choriſter of that houſe, admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13. Dec. an. 1594, Probationer-Fellow 20 Sept. 1602 being then Bach. of Arts, and afterwards proceeding in that faculty, (at which time he was Junior of the Act) he became a ſevere ſtudent in that of Divinity. Soon after, having laid a ſolid foundation in the poſitive part, he betook himſelf to the Fathers, Councils, Schoolmen, &c. and in ſhort time became eminent in them. His admirable diſputations, his excellent Sermons, his grave, yet affable demeanour and his other rare accompliſhments, made him ſo renoun'd, that Sir Tho. Edmonds being diſpatched by King James, to lye Leiger▪ Embaſſadour in France, he made choice of our Author to travel with him as his Chaplain. The choice he accepted and willingly obeyed, and ſpent 3 years in France in the houſe of the ſaid Embaſſador. During that time he became the honor of the Proteſtant Religion and the Engliſh Nation; inſomuch as his many conflicts with, and conqueſts of, the learned Sorboniſts in defence of the Proteſtants, and oppoſition to the Papiſts, cauſed even thoſe his adverſaries to give him this encomium that he was Featlaeus acutiſſ. & acerrimus. Upon his return into England, he repaired to his College, took the degree of Bac. of Div. 1613 and ſoon after became Rector of Northill in Cornwall by the favour of Ezeck. Arſcot, Eſq one of his Pupils and a Corniſh man born. But before he was ſcarce warm there, he was ſent for from thence to be domeſtick Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury, and by him was prefer'd ſoon after to the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey. In 1617 he proceeded in Divinity, and puzled Prideaux the Kings profeſſor ſo much with his learned arguments, that a quarrel thereupon being raiſed, the Archbiſhop was in a manner forced to compoſe it for his Chaplains ſake. The Archb. of Spalato being alſo preſent at the diſputation, was ſo much taken with our Authors arguments that he forthwith gave him a Brothers-place in the Savoy Hoſpital near London, he being then Maſter thereof. About that time he had the Rectory of Alhallowes Church in Broadſtreet within the City of London confer'd upon him by Canterbury; which, ſoon after, he changed for the Rectory of Acton in Middleſex, and at length became the third and laſt Provoſt of Chelſey Coll. In 1625 he left Canterburies ſervice (being then married) and retiring to Kennington near Lambeth, where his wife had a houſe, laid aſide his polemical Divinity, wholly devoted himſelf to the ſtudy and practice of Piety and Charity, and compoſed his Ancilla Pietatis, which the next year was publiſhed. From that time to the beginning of the Civil War, may be many things here ſpoken of him, worthy of memory, as of his often diſputes with perſons of contrary Religion, his writing of books againſt the Church of Rome, &c. which ſhall now for brevity ſake he omitted. In Nov. 1642, after the King had encountred the Parliament-Soldiers at Brentford, ſome of the Rebels took up their quarters at Acton: who, after they had miſſed our Author Featley, whom they took to be a Papiſt, or at leaſt that he had a Pope in his belly, they drank and eat up his Proviſion, burnt down a Barn of his full of Corn and two Stables, the loſs amounting to 211 l. and at the ſame time did not only greatly profane the Church there by their beaſtly actions, but alſo burnt the rails, pull'd down the Font, broke the windows and I know not what. In Feb. following the ſaid Rebels ſought after him in the Church at Lambeth on a Lords day to murder him, but he having timely notice of their coming, withdrew and ſaved himſelf. In 1643 when the Biſhops were altogether diſinabled from performing their Office, and thereupon the Aſſembly of Divines was conſtituted, by the Bleſſed Parliament, then by ſome ſo call'd, our Author was appointed a member thereof, ſhewing himſelf among them to have more of Calvin in him than before, being (as tis By Dr. Pet. Heylyn. ſaid) a Calviniſt always in his heart, tho he ſhewed it not ſo openly till that time. But ſo it was, that our Author being a main ſtickler againſt the Covenant there, which he was to take, did in a letter to the learned Dr. Uſher Primate of Ireland, then at Oxon, in the middle of Sept. the ſame year, ſhew to him the reaſons why he excepted againſt it. A copy of which letter, or elſe another, which he about the ſame time wrot, being treacherouſly gotten See in a book call'd Sacra Nemeſis. §. 3.4.5. &c. from him, was firſt carried to the Cloſe Committee, and at length to the Houſe of Commons. Whereupon our Author being judged to be a Spye and a betrayer of the Parliaments cauſe, was ſeiſed on, committed Priſoner to the Lord Petre's houſe in Aldergateſtreet on the 30 of the ſaid month, and his Rectories taken away, that of Acton being beſtowed on the infamous Independent Philip Nye, and that of Lambeth on Joh. White of Dorcheſter, the old inſtrument of ſedition, who afterwards got an order to obtain, and keep his Library of books, till ſuch time that he could get his own back, which had a little before been ſeiſed on at Dorcheſter by the command of Prince Rupert. In the ſaid Priſon-houſe he continued till the beginning of March 1644 and then after much ſupplication made to the Parliament in his behalf (he being then drawn very low and weak by the Dropſie) he was remov'd for health ſake to Chelſey Coll. of which he was then Provoſt, where ſpinning out a ſhort time in Piety and holy Exerciſe, ſurrendred up his laſt breath to him that firſt gave it. He was eſteemed by the generality to be one of the moſt reſolute and victorious Champions of the reformed Proteſtant Religion in his time, a moſt ſmart ſcourge of the Church of Rome, a Compendium of the learned Tongues, and of all the liberal Arts and Sciences: Alſo, that though he was of ſmall Stature, yet he had a great ſoul and had all learning compacted in him. He was moſt ſeriouſly and ſoundly pious and devout, and tam ſtudio quàm exercitio Theologus inſignis, &c. as 'tis expreſs'd in his Epitaph. What the Reader may further judg of him, may be by his works, the Catalogue of which follows.

The life and death of Jo. Jewell ſomtime B. of Salisbury—'Tis an abridgment of the ſaid Biſhops life written by Laur. Humphrey D. D. drawn up by our Author whilſt he was a Student in C. C. Coll. an 1609 at the command of Dr. Bancroft Archbiſhop of Canterbury. Which being by him concluded and ſent to Lambeth, was ſuddenly printed and prefix'd to the ſaid Jewells works, before he had time to reviſe it, and to note the errata therein. Moſt, if not all, of the ſaid life is printed in Engliſh in a book intit. Abel redivivus, collected and written by Tho. Fuller—Lond. 1651. qu.

Hiſtory of the life and manner of death of Dr. Joh. Rainolds Preſident of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxon.—It was delivered in a Lat. Oration from a pew ſet in that Coll. quadrangle, when the ſaid Rainolds was to be inter'd in the Chappel there. Moſt, or all of the ſaid life is remitted into the before mention'd Abel redivivus.

Life and death of Rob. Abbot D. D. ſomtimes Biſhop of Salisbury—Written in Latine alſo, as it ſeems, and remitted into Ab. rediv. in Engliſh.

The Romiſh Fiſher caught and held in his own net. Or, a true relation of his conference with Joh. Fiſher and Joh. Sweet. Lond. 1624. qu.

Appendix to the Fiſhers net, with a deſcription of the Romiſh wheel and circle—Printed with the former book.

A defence of his proceedings in the conference, together with a refutation of Mr. Fiſhers anſwer (under the name of A. C.) to a treatiſe intit. The Fiſher caught in his own net. Lond. 1624. qu.

The ſum and ſubſtance of that which paſſed in a diſputation between Dr. Featly and Mr. G. Musket, touching tranſubſtantiation, 21. Apr. 1621. Lond. 1624. qu.

True relation of that which paſſed in a conference at the end of Pater noſter row, called Amen, touching tranſubſtantiation, 18. Apr. 1623.

Conference by writing between Dr. Featley and Mr. Jo. Sweet a Jeſuit touching the ground, and laſt reſolution of faith.

Which five laſt things were printed with the Rom. Fiſher caught.

Ancilla Pietatis. or, the handmaid to private devotion, &c. Lond. 1626. oct. After which, were eight editions of it printed before the year 1676.

The practice of extraordinary devotion—Printed with Ancilla Pietatis. In one of theſe two he makes the ſtory of S. George the tutelar Saint of England a meer figment, for which he was forced to cry peccavi, and fall upon his knees before Dr. Will. Laud. A. B. Cant. as Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. hath noted it in the margin of a copy of the ſaid book, which did belong to him.

Summ of Saving knowledge delivered in a Catechiſme conſiſting of 52 ſections, anſwerable to the Sabbaths throughout the year. Lond. 1626. oct.

Pelagius redivivus. Or, Pelagius rak'd out of the aſhes by Arminius and his Scholars. Lond. 1626. qu. This book conſiſts of two parallels, one between the Pelagians and Arminians, the other between the Church of Rome, the Appealer, (viz. Rich. Mountague afterwards B. of Chicheſter) and the Church of England in three Columes; together with a writ of Errour ſued againſt the Appealer, &c. Seven men in diſtinct books ſoon after Mountagues Appeale came forth, appeared againſt it, viz. G. Carleton B. of Chich. &c. See more in the ſaid Carleton under the year 1628.

The grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome in taking away the Sacred Cup from the Laity at the Lords Table, &c. Lond. 1630. qu.

Two conferences: The former at Parys now ſtifled by the Romaniſts Biſhop of Chalcedon, another at London with Mr. Everard a Romiſh Prieſt, diſguiſed in the habit of a Lay Gentleman, unexpectedly met at a dinner in Noble ſtreet 25. Jan. 1626.—Printed with the Grand Sacrilege, &c.

Clavis Myſtica: A Key opening divers difficult and myſterious Texts of Holy Scripture, in 70 Sermons. Lond. 1636. fol. Which Sermons having ſeveral matters in them againſt the Papiſts and the Church of Rome, were as Prynne See in Canterburies Doome, p. 108.254.258.269. alias 279.284.293 527. &c. ſaith obliterated before they went into the Preſs by the Licenſer, Chaplain to Laud Archbiſhop of Canterbury.

Defence of Sir Humph. Lynd's Via tuta. Lond. 1638. qu. See in Sir H. Lynd under the year 1636.

Anſwer to a piece intit. A caſe for a pair of Spectacles. Lond. 1638. qu. This, with a Supplement thereunto added, tho publiſhed by Dr. Featly, yet 'twas originally written by the ſaid Sir Humphrey. See more in Sir Humph. in vol. 1. p. 513.

Tranſubſtantiation exploded againſt the Biſhop of Chalcedon. Lond. 1638. oct.

Several Funeral Sermons. Lond. 1640. fol. publiſhed again with other Fun. Sermons, under the Title of The Houſe of Mourning, &c. Lond. 1671.

Vertumnus Romanus. Or, a diſcourſe penned by a Romiſh Prieſt, wherein he endeavours to prove that it is lawful for a Papiſt in England to goe to a Proteſtant Church to receive the Communion, and to take the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy. To which are adjoyned animadverſions in the margin, by way of Antidote, againſt thoſe places where the rankeſt Poyſon is couched. Lond. 1642. qu.

Animadverſions upon a book intit. A Safeguard from Shipwrack to a prudent Catholick, wherein is proved that a Catholique may goe to a Proteſtant Church and take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Lond. 1642. qu.

Anſwer to the ſeaven articles exhibited againſt him to the Committee of plundred Miniſters by three mechanick Browniſts, in July 1643.—Which articles, with the anſwer, are extant in a book intit. The gentle Laſh, &c. written, I think, by our Author Featley.

The Dippers dipt. Or, the Anabaptiſts duck'd and plung'd over head and ears, at a diſputation in Southwarke, 17. Oct. 1642. Lond. 1643. 44. 45. &c. Anſwered by Sam. Richardſon an. 1645.

Tractate againſt the Anabaptiſts contained in ſix Articles.

Remarkable hiſtories of the Anabaptiſts, with obſervations thereupon—Theſe two laſt are printed with The Dippers dip't.

Anſwer to a Popiſh challenge touching the antiquity and viſibility of the true Church and other queſtions depending thereon. Lond. 1644. qu. Some Titles of this Book call it Roma ruens.

His Manifeſto and Challenge—Written upon report that he was turned Papiſt, an. 1644.

Sacra Nemeſis: The Levites Scourge, or Merc. Britannicus and Civicus diſciplin'd. Oxon. 1644. qu.

Divers remarkable diſputes and reſolves in the Aſſemb. of Divines related, Epiſcopacy aſſerted, truth righted,—In this, which is printed with Sacra Nemeſis, is Dr. Featley's learned Speech againſt the Covenant, ſpoken in the ſaid Aſſembly.

Pedum Paſtorale conc. hab. ad Cler. Oxon. ad Joh. 21.15. Ultratraject. 1657. in 12o.

Dr. Dan. Featley revived, proving that the Proteſtant Church (and not the Romiſh) is the onlie Catholick and true Church. Lond. 1660. tw. Preſerv'd from the hands of the Plunderers in the beginning of the Civil War, carefully kept for many years and at length publiſhed by his Nephew Joh. Featley.

The League illegal: or, an examination of the Solemn League and Covenant. Lond. 1669. qu. See in Jo. Gauden under the year 1662. and in Joh. Featley 1666.

Doctrine of the Church of England maintained, in a juſtification of the 39 Articles of the Church of England, againſt Papiſts and Schiſmaticks, &c. Lond. 1660. quarto.

Antiquity and Univerſality of the Proteſtant Faith—Printed with the former. He alſo publiſhed K. James his Cygnea Cantio. Lond. 1629. qu. wherein you may read a Scholaſtick Duel between that King and our Author; who dying in Chelſey Coll. near Lond. on the 17. of April in ſixteen hundred forty and five, was,1645. according to his Will, buried in the Chancel of Lambeth Church. At which time a very great multitude of perſons of Honor and Quality attended the Funeral Rites, and Dr. Loe, by ſome called Leo, preached a learned and pious Sermon: Which being afterwards printed, I ſhall now refer the Reader to it, if it may be had: wherein, as alſo in his life, written by his Nephew Jo. Featley before mention'd, (from whence I have taken ſome materials) you may receive farther ſatisfaction concerning thoſe rare accompliſhments of the party deceaſed. Over his grave was ſoon after a comly Monument erected, with an Epitaph engraven thereon; a copy of which you may ſee in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 242. b.

WILLIAM TWISSE written and called by ſome Outlanders and others, Twiſſius and Tuiſſius, was born at Speenhamlands in the Pariſh of Speen near Newbury in Berkſhire. His Grandfather was by nativity a Teutonic, but in the prime of his years, he ſetled himſelf with his Family (upon what account I know not) in England: which probably may be the reaſon why Franc. Annatus a Jeſuit, Antagoniſt to our Author Twiſſius, ſhould ſay that he was natione Teutonicus, fortunâ Batavus, religione Calviniſta, &c. His Father, who was a ſufficient Clothier of Newbury, perceiving this his Son to have pregnant parts, ſent him to the College at Wincheſter, where being elected a Child, and ſoon made ripe for the Univerſity in the School there founded by Will. of Wykeham, was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. in the year 1596, and two years after (having by that time ſhaken off his wild extravagancies) was admitted Verus Socius; after which he diligently applied himſelf to the Theological Faculty for 16 years together. In 1604 he proceeded in Arts, and about that time taking Holy Orders, became a frequent and diligent Preacher in theſe parts, noted to the Academians for his ſubtile wit, exact judgment, exemplary life and converſation, and for the endowment of ſuch qualities that were befitting men of his Function. In 1614 he proceeded Doct. of Divinity and about that time went into Germany as Chaplain to Princeſs Elizabeth Daughter of King James I. and Conſort of the Prince Palatine, where continuing for ſome time, did improve himſelf much by the converſation he had with German Divines. After his return he exchanged the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks, which the Society of New Coll. gave him before his departure beyond the Sea, for Newbury near to the place of his Nativity, with Dr. Nathan. Giles Canon of Windſor: where, being ſetled, he laid a foundation of his doctrine, and the ſeeds of his zealous opinion, tho not improved by his Auditors according to his wiſh. His plain preaching was good, his ſolid diſputations were accounted by ſome better, and his pious way of living by others (eſpecially the Puritans) beſt of all: yet ſome of New Coll. who knew the Man well, have often ſaid in my hearing, that he was always hot-headed and reſtleſs. The moſt learned men, even thoſe of his adverſe party, did confeſs that there was nothing extant, more accurate, exact, and full touching the Arminian controverſies, than what was written by this our Author Twiſſe. He alſo, if any one (as thoſe of his perſuaſion ſay) hath ſo cleared and vindicated the cauſe from the objected abſurdities and calumnies of his Adverſaries, as that out of his labours, not only the learned, but alſo thoſe that are beſt vers'd in Controverſies, may find enough, whereby to diſintangle themſelves from the ſnares of Oppoſites. The truth is, there's none almoſt that have written againſt Arminianiſm ſince the publiſhing any thing of our Author, but have made very honourable mention of him, and have acknowledged him to be the mightieſt man in thoſe Controverſies, that his age hath produced. Beſides Newbury, he was offer'd ſeveral preferments, as the Rectory of Benefield in Northamptonſhire, a Prebendſhip in the Church of Wincheſter, the Wardenſhip of Wykehams Coll. there, and a Profeſſors place at Franeker in Friſland. But the three laſt were abſolutely refuſed, and the firſt he would not accept, unleſs he could obtain liberty of his Majeſty (in whoſe gift Newbury was and is) to have had an able man to ſucceed him there. Beſides alſo, upon conference with Dr. Davenant Biſhop of Salisbury, Ordinary of that place, the King was well ſatisfied concerning Twiſſe, that he was unwilling to let him go from Newbury. In the beginning of the Civil War, began by the Presbyterians, an. 1641. -2. he ſided with them, was choſe one of the Aſſembly of Divines, and at length Prolocutor of them. Among whom ſpeaking but little, ſome interpreted it to his modeſty, as thoſe of his perſuaſion ſay, as always preferring penning before ſpeaking, and others to the decay of his intellectuals. But polemical Divinity was his Faculty, and in that he was accounted excellent. While he was Prolocutor he was one of the three Lecturers in S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London, which was given to him for his loſſes he ſuſtained at Newbury, being forced thence, as his brethren ſaid, by the Royal Party. He hath written,

Vindiciae gratiae, poteſtatis ac providentiae dei. Hoc eſt ad examen libelli Perkinſiani (Gul. Perkins) de praedeſtinationis modo & ordine, inſtitutum à Jacobo Arminio, reſponſio Sholaſtica, tribus libris abſoluta. Una cum digreſſionibus ad ſingulas partes accommodatis, &c. Amſtel. 1632. 1648. fol.

A diſcovery of Dr. Jackſons vanities, &c.—Printed (beyond the Sea) 1631. qu. This was written againſt Dr. Tho. Jackſon's Treatiſe of divine Eſſence and attributes, but the Doctor made no reply.

Diſſertatio de Scientiâ mediâ tribus libris abſolutâ, &c. Arnhem. 1639. fol. Wherein Gabr. Penots book intit. Libertatis humanae propugnaculum, and that of Franc. Suarez De Scientia dei, are anſwer'd.

Digreſſiones. Printed with the Diſſertatio.

Of the morality of the fourth commandment, as ſtill in force to bind Chriſtians: delivered by way of anſwer to the Tranſlator See in Dr. Pet. Heylyn, an. 1662. of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath. Divided into two parts (1) An anſwer to the preface (2) A conſideration of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture. Lond. 1641. qu.

Treatiſe of Reprobation, in anſwer to Mr. Jo. Cotton. Lond. 1646. qu.

Animadverſiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum Franc. Junio & Joh. Arnold Corvin. Amſtel. 1649. fol. publiſhed. by Andr. Rivet.

The doubting conſcience reſolved, in anſwer to a (pretended) perplexing queſtion, &c. Wherein is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures (not the Pope) is the foundation whereon the Church is built, &c. Lond. 1652. oct. publiſhed by Sam. Hartlib.

The riches of Gods love unto the Veſſels of Mercy, conſiſtent with his abſolute hatred or reprobation of the Veſſels of Wrath: Or, an anſwer to a book intit. Gods love to mankind manifeſted by diſproving his abſolute decree for their damnation: in two books. One againſt Mr. Sam. Hoard and the other againſt Mr. Hen. Maſon Rector of S. Andrews Underſhaft London. Oxon. 1653. fol.

Two tracts in anſwer Dr. to H. (Hammond) the one concerning Gods decree definite or indefinite, the other about the object of predeſtination—Printed with the former book.

The Synod of Dort and Ales reduced to practice, with an anſwer thereunto.

The Scriptures ſufficiency to determine all matters of Faith, made good againſt the Papiſts. Lond. in tw.

Chriſtian Sabbath defended againſt the crying evil in theſe times of the Antiſabitarians of our age; ſhewing that the morality of the Fourth Commandment is ſtill in force to bind Chriſtians unto the ſanctification of the Sabbath day. Lond. 165.. qu.

Fiveteen Letters to Mr. Joſeph Mede—See in the 4 book of the ſaid Mr. Medes works. Beſides theſe, and ſomething upon the Commandments, that are printed, he left behind him many Manuſcripts (moſtly compleat) of his own compoſition, which were carefully kept in the hands of his Son The ſaid Rob. Twiſſe was Author of Englands breath ſtop'd, being the counter part of Judahs miſeries, lamented publickly in the new Church at Weſtm. 30. Jan. being the Anniverſary of King Charles I. on Lament. 4.20.—Lond. 1665. qu. Rob. Twiſſe a Miniſter in Weſtminſter, but what became of them after his death, which hapned in the latter end of the year 1674, I know not. Among them are (1) Examen Hiſtoriae Pelag, written by Ger. Jo. Voſſius: put after the Authors death into the hands of Dr. G. Kendall to perfect, and afterwards to publiſh it, but never done. (2) Anſwer to a book intit. A Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion. Written by Sir Ken. Digby (3) Anſwer to the reſpective books concerning the Sabbath, written by Dr. Fr. White, Dr. Gilb. Ironſide and Mr. E. Breerword. He hath alſo either anſwer'd, or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Fuller, Joſ. Mede, the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker, Dr. Chriſt. Potter, Dr. Tho. Godwin, Dr. Tho. Jachſon, and Mr. Joh. Goodwin, the Titles of which I ſhall now paſs by for brevity ſake. At length after he had lived 71 years▪ departed this mortal life in Holborn, in ſixteen hundred forty and five,1645. and was buried on the 24 of July the ſame year near to the upper end of the poor folks Table, next the Veſtry in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter within the City of Weſtminſter. On the 14 of Sept. 1661 his body • ith thoſe of Thom. May the Poet, Will. Strong, Steph. Marſhall, Miniſters, &c. which were buried in the ſaid Church of S. Peter, were taken up and buried in one large pit in the Ch. yard of S. Margaret, juſt before the back door of the Lodgings belonging to one of the Prebendaries of Weſtminſter, having been unwarrantably buried there during the times of Rebellion and Uſurpation.

THOMAS HAYNE, Son of Rob. Hayne, was born in a Town commonly, but corruptly, called Thurciſton, near to, and in the County of Leiceſter: At the laſt of which places having received his juvenile learning, was ſent to the Univerſity, and matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Coll. in Mich. Term 1599 and in that of his age 17; where being put under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor, obtained great knowledge in Philoſophy, and the more for this reaſon, that he was taken off from various Recreations and Rambles by a lameneſs in his Legs from his Cradle. After he had taken a degree in Arts 1604 he became one of the Uſhers of the School in the Pariſh of S. Laurence Pountney in London, erected by the Merchant Taylors; and afterward being M. of Arts, Uſher of the School belonging to the City of London in Ch. Church Hoſpital. He was a noted Critick, an excellent Linguiſt and a ſolid Divine, beloved of learned Men, and particularly reſpected by Selden. He hath written,

Grammatices Latinae Compendium, an. 1637, &c. Lond. 1640. in oct. To which are added two appendices.

Linguarum cognatio: ſeu de linguis in genere, & de variarum linguarum harmoniâ diſſertatio. Lond. 1639. oct. It was alſo printed, if I miſtake not, in 1634.

Pax in terrâ: ſeu tractatus de pace eccleſiaſticâ, &c. Lond. 1639. oct.

The equal ways of God in rectifying the unequal ways of man. Lond. 1639 &c. in oct.

General view of the holy Scriptures: or, the times, places, and perſons of holy Scripture, &c. Lond. 1640 fol. ſec. Edit.

Life and death of Dr. Mart. Luther. Lond. 1641. qu. He gave way to fate on the 27. of July in ſixteen hundred forty and five, and was buried in the Pariſh Church of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the City of London. 1645. Soon after was put a monument over his grave, about the middle of the Church, on the North ſide, and a large inſcription thereon, which about 20 years after was conſumed and defaced, with the Church it ſelf, when the great fire hapned in London. In the ſaid inſcription he is ſtiled Antiquitatis acerrimus inveſtigator, antiquitatem praematuravit ſuam. Publicis privatiſque ſtudiis ſeſe totum communi bono coelebem devovit. Pacis Eccleſiae Irenicus pacificus jure cenſendus, &c. In the Library at Leiceſter is another inſcription put up to his memory, which being perfect, you may take inſtead of the other. See Hiſt. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b. By his will, which I have ſeen, he gave to the ſaid Library all his Study of books, except ſome few which he gave to the Library at Weſtminſter. He gave alſo 400 l. to be beſtowed in buying Lands, or Houſes in, or near, Leyceſter of the yearly Rent of 24 l. for ever, for the maintenance of a Schoolmaſter in Thurciſton alias Thruſhington or ſome Town near thereunto, to teach ten poor Children, &c. and for the maintenance of two poor Scholars in Linc. Coll. to come from the Free-School at Leyceſter, or in defect of that, from the School at Milton, &c. The Schoolmaſter to have 12 l. yearly, and the two Scholars ſix pounds yearly, &c. In the ſaid Will are other acts of Charity mentioned, which, for brevity ſake, I now paſs by.

EDWARD LITTLETON Son and Heir of Sir. Edw. Littleton of Henley in Shropſhire Knight, was born in that County an. 1589. became a Gentleman Commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of the year 1606, where by the care of an eminent Tutor, he became a proficient in Academical learning, took a degree in Arts an. 1609, and from Ch. Ch. removed to the Inner Temple, where he made ſuch admirable progreſs in the Municipal Laws, and was of ſuch eminence in his Profeſſion in a ſhort time, that the City of London took early notice of, and choſe him their Recorder, being alſo about that time Counſellor to Univerſity of Oxon. In the 8. of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of his Society, and in the 10. of the ſaid King (Oct. 17.) he was made Sollicitor-General. After which, upon the 6. of June next enſuing, he received the honor of Knighthood at Whitehall, at which time, and ſome years before, he was a Member of the Commons Houſe of no ſmall reputation. On the 27. of Jan. 15. Car. 1. he was made Chief Juſtice of the Common Pleas and on the 23. of Jan. the next year, his Majeſty confer'd upon him the utmoſt honor belonging to his Profeſſion, by giving the Great Seal into his cuſtody. In leſs than a month after, upon the 18. of Feb. he made Baronage of England. Tom. 3. p. 465. b. him a Peer of England, by the name of the Lord Littleton Baron of Mounſlow in his Native Country, being then in great eſteem for integrity and eminence in his Profeſſion. Shortly after, the troubles in this Realm taking their riſe, partly from the inſurrection of the Scots and their entrance into this Realm, which hapned in Aug. next enſuing (an. 1640) and partly from the predominancy of certain Members in the Long Parliament, then called by reaſon of that invaſion, he retired to the King at York in June 1642, having firſt conveyed the Seal thither. From which time to his death, which hapned in Oxon (where in 1642 he was actually created Doctor of the Civ. Law) he conſtantly attended his Majeſty with great fidelity. He was Author of,

Several Speeches, as (1) Speech at a conference with the Lords in Parliament concerning the Liberty of the Subject, and propriety in their Goods, 3. Apr. 1628. See in Jo. Ruſhworths Collections Vol. 1. p. 528. an. 1628. This with other Conferences were publiſhed by themſelves in 1642. quarto. (2) Speech in the Houſe of Commons at the paſſing of two Bills. Lond. 1641. qu. &c.

Several Arguments and Diſcourſes—See in Joh. Ruſhworths Append. p. 28. and in a book intit. The Sovereigns Prerogative and Subjects Privileges diſcuſſed, &c. Lond. 1657. fol.

Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer in the 2.3.4.5.6. and 7. of King Charles I. Lond. 1683. fol. Theſe things I think are all that he hath extant, except his Humble ſubmiſſion and ſupplication to the Houſe of Lords 28. Sept. 1642. which is more than once printed under his name, yet whether genuine I cannot tell. He was untimely taken from this world, to the ſorrow of his Majeſty,1645. on the 27. of Aug. in ſixteen hundred forty and five, being then a Colonel of a Foot Regiment in Oxon, and Privy Counſellor to his Majeſty, and was buried between the two lower Pillars, which divides the firſt North iſle from the ſecond, on the North ſide of the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon. At which time Dr. Hen. Hammond the Univerſity Orator, did lay open to the large Auditory then preſent, the great Loyalty, prudence, knowledge, virtue, &c. that had been in the perſon that then lay dead before them. Over his grave was a coſtly monument of black and white marble erected in the month of May, an. 1683, at the charge of his only daughter and Heir, Anne Littleton, the Widdow of Sir Thom. Littleton Bt, with a noble inſcription thereon, wherein 'tis ſaid, that this Edward Lord Littleton was deſcended from Tho. Littleton Knight of the Bath, qui ſub Edwardo IV. Juſticiarius, Leges Angliae municipales (prius indigeſtas) in Enchiridion feliciter reduxit: Opus in omne aevum Jctis venerandum, &c.

GILES WIDDOWES was born at Mickleton in Gloceſterſhire, elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1610, being then Bac. of Arts of that Houſe of two years ſtanding, or more. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty, entred into Orders, and became a noted Preacher. At length being made Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon, he reſign'd his Fellowſhip in 1621, and lived in the condition of a Commoner for ſeveral years in Gloc. Hall, of which he was for the moſt part of his time Viceprincipal. He was a harmleſs and honeſt man, a noted Diſputant, well read in the Schoolmen, and as conformable to, and zealous in, the eſtabliſhed diſcipline of the Church of England, as any Perſon of his time, yet of ſo odd and ſtrange parts, that few or none could be compared with him. He was alſo a great enemy to the ſchiſmatical Puritan in his Sermons and Writings, which being much offenſive to his quondam Pupil Will. Prynne, a controverſie therefore fell out between them, an. 1630, and continued for ſome time very hot, till Prynne was diverted by other matters. He hath written,

The ſchiſmatical Puritan: Serm. at Witney concerning the lawfulneſs of Church authority, for ordaining, &c. on 1. Cor. 14. ver. ult. Oxon. 1630. qu. Which being unadviſedly written, and much diſpleaſing to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. was as ſcurrilouſly anſwer'd by Prynne in his appendix to his Ante Arminiſme.

The lawleſs, kneeleſs ſchiſmatical Puritan. Or, a confutation of the Author of an appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jeſus, Oxon. 1631. qu. and other things, as 'tis ſaid, but ſuch I have not yet ſeen. He was buried in the Chancel of S. Martins Church before-mention'd on the fourth day of Febr. in ſixteen hundred forty and five,164 • . having been before much valued and beloved, and his high and loyal Sermons frequented, by the Royal Party and Soldiers of the garriſon of Oxford, to the poorer ſort of whom he was always beneficial, as alſo ready at all turns to adminiſter to them in their diſtreſſed condition.

CHRISTOPHER POTTER Nephew to Dr. Barn. Potter mention'd under the year 1641, received his firſt breath within the Barony of Kendall in Weſtmorland, became Clerk of Queens Coll. in the beginning of 1606, and in that of his age 15, afterwa • ds Tabarder, M. of Arts and Chaplain in 1613, and at length Fellow of the ſaid College. He was then a great admirer of Hen. Ayray Provoſt of that Houſe (ſome of whoſe works he publiſhed) and a zealous puritanical Lecturer at Abendon in Berks. where he was much reſorted to for his edifying way of preaching. In 1626, he ſucceeded the ſaid Dr. Barn. Potter in the Provoſtſhip of his Coll. and the next year proceeded in Divinity. Soon after, when Dr. Laud became a riſing favourite in the Royal Court, he, after a great deal of ſeeking, was made his creature, and therefore by the preciſe Party he was eſteemed an Arminian. In the latter end of 1635, he being then Chapl. in Ord. to His Maj. he was made Dean of Worceſter (upon Dr. Rog. Manwarings promotion to the See of S. David) having before had a promiſe of a Canonry of Windſore, but never enjoyed it, and in the year 1640, he executed the office or Vicechancellour of this Univerſity not without ſome trouble from the members of the Long Parliament, occaſion'd by the puritanical and factious party of the Univ. and City of Oxon. Afterwards the grand rebellion breaking out, he ſuffer'd much for the Kings cauſe, and therefore upon the death of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall, he was deſigned and nominated by his Maj. to ſucceed him in the Deanery of Durham, in the month of January 1645, but died before he was inſtalled. He was a Perſon eſteemed by all that knew him, to be learned and religious, exemplary in his behavior and diſcourſe, courteous in his carriage, and of a ſweet and obliging nature, and comely preſence. He hath written and publiſhed,

A Sermon at the conſecration of Barnab. Potter D. D. Biſh. of Carlile at Ely Houſe in Holbourne, 15. March 1628, on John 21.17. Lond. 1629. oct. It muſt be now noted that a certain Jeſuit known ſometimes by the name of Edw. Knott and ſometimes by that of Nich. Smith, and at other times by Mathew Wilſon (which was his true name) born at Pegſworth near Morpeth in Northumberland did publiſh a book intit. Charitie Miſtaken, &c. whereupon our Author Potter anſwered it in another intit.

Want of charity juſtly charged, on all ſuch Romaniſts as dare affirme that proteſtancie deſtroyeth ſalvation, &c. Oxon. 1633. oct. Which book being perus'd by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. he See Canterburies Doome, p. 251.252. cauſed ſome matters therein to be omitted in the next impreſſion, which was at Lond. 1634. oct. But before it was quite printed, Knott before-mention'd put out a book intit. Mercy and truth. or, charity maintained by Catholiques. By way of reply upon an anſwer, fram'd by Dr. Potter, to a treatiſe which had formerly proved, that charity was miſtaken by Proteſtants, &c. printed beyond the Sea 1634. in qu. Whereupon Will. Chillingworth undertook him in his book called The religion of Proteſtants, &c. which contains an anſwer only to the firſt part of Mercy and truth, &c. For tho Chillingworth had made ready, when this came out, a full examination and confutation of the ſecond part, yet he thought not fit to publiſh it together with this, for reaſons given in the cloſe of the work. Afterwards Knott did publiſh Infidelity unmasked. or, a confutation of a book publiſhed by Mr. Will. Chillingworth, under this title. The religion of Proteſtants, &c. Gaunt 1652 in a large qu. Which is the laſt time that I find Knott mentioned; for he dying at London on the fourth of January 1655, according to the Eng. accompt (buried the next day in the S. Pancras Church near that City) no body, that I yet know, vindicated Chillingworth againſt him. Our Author Dr. Potter did alſo tranſlate from Ital. into Engliſh The Hiſtory of the quarrels of P. Paul 5. with the ſtate of Venice. Lond. 1626. qu. Pen'd by Father Paul Sarp: And had lying by him at his death ſeveral MSS. fit to be printed; among which was one intit. A ſurvey of the new platforme of predeſtination; which coming into the hands of Twiſſe of Newbury, was by him anſwer'd, as alſo Three Letters of Dr. Potter concerning that matter. At length departing this mortal life in Queens Coll. on the third day of March in ſixteen hundred forty and five,1645/6. was buried about the middle of the inner Chappel belonging thereunto. Over his grave was a marble monument faſtned to the north Wall, at the charge of his Widow Elizabeth, Daughter of Dr. Charles Sonibanke ſometimes Canon of Windſore, (afterwards the Wife of Dr. Ger. Langbaine who ſucceeded Potter in the Provoſtſhip of the ſaid College) a Copy of which you may read in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. In his Deanery of Worceſter ſucceeded Dr. Rich. Holdſworth Archd. of Huntingdon and Maſter of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, and in his Deanery of Durham Dr. Will. Fuller Dean of Ely, but neither of them, I preſume, were inſtalled.

WILLIIAM LOE took the degrees in Arts as a Member of S. Albans Hall, that of Maſter being compleated in 1600, at which time he was much in eſteem for Lat. Gr. and humane learning. Soon after he was made Maſter of the College School in Gloceſter, (in which office he was ſucceeded by John Langley) Prebendary of the Church there, Chaplain in ord. to K. Jam. 1. and Paſtor of the Engliſh Church at Hambrough in Saxony, belonging to the Engliſh Merchant Adventurers there, in 1618; in which year he accumulated the degree of Doctor of Div. as a member of Merton Coll. His works are theſe.

Several Sermons as (1) Come and ſee. The Bible the brighteſt beauty, &c. being the ſum of four ſermons preached in the Cathedral of Gloceſter. Lond. 1614. qu. (2) The Myſterie of mankind made into a Manual, being the ſum of ſeven ſermons preached at S. Michaels in Cornhil, on Tim. 1.3.16. Lond. 1619. oct. (3) The Kings ſhoe; or Edoms doome, Sermon on Pſal. 60.8. Lond. 1623. qu. and another Serm. or Treatiſe called The Merchant real; which I have not yet ſeen.

Vox clamantis. A ſtill Voice to the three Eſtates in Parliament. Lond. 1621. qu. I find In The life and death of Dr. Dan. Featley, printed 1660. p. 75.80.81. one Dr. Loe to adminiſter comfort to Dr. Dan. Featley when he laid on his death bed, and afterwards to preach his funeral Sermon at Lambeth, printed at London 1645. qu. which Doctor I take to be the ſame with our Author, who, Clar. 1645. while he was Preb. of Gloc. did ſometimes ſubſcribe himſelf to certain Chapter-Acts by the name of Will. Leo. He died in the time of Uſurpation, when the Church was deſtroyed for the ſake of Religion; but where or when, I cannot tell. After the Reſtauration of K. Ch. 2. one Hugh Naſh M. of A. ſucceeded him in his Prebendſhip, which for ſome years had lain void.

GABRIEL du GRES a Frenchman, ſtudied ſometimes among the Oxonians, afterwards went to Cambridge for a time, as it ſeems, and returning thence ſoon after, taught privately for ſeveral years the French Tongue in this Univerſity. His works are theſe.

Grammaticae Gallicae compendium. Cantab. 1636. oct.

Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini. Oxon. 1639. 1652. and 1660. oct.

Regulae pronunciandi; & ut verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata. printed with the Dialogues.

Life of Jean Arman du pleſſis Duke of Richelieu and Peer of France. Lond. 1643. oct. and other things, Clar. 1645. as 'tis probable, but ſuch I have not yet ſeen, nor know any thing elſe of the Author.

THOMAS LYDYAT the ſon of Chriſtop. Lydyat Lord of the Mannour of Aulkryngton commonly called Okerton near Banbury in Oxfordſhire, and Citizen of London, was born at Okerton in the beginning of the year 1572, and having pregnant parts while a youth, was by the endeavours of his Father elected one of the number of the Children of Wykeham's Coll. near Wincheſter at about 13 years of age, where being ſoon ripened in Grammaticals, was elected Probationer Fellow of New Coll. 1591. At which time being under the tuition of Dr. (afterwards Sir) Hen. Marten, made great proficiency in Logicals, and two years after was admitted verus Socius. After he had taken the degrees in Arts he ſtudied Aſtronomy, Mathematicks, the Tongues and Divinity: in the laſt of which he had an eager deſire to continue and improve himſelf, but finding a great defect in his Memory and Utterance, of which he often complained, (particularly to Dr. Bancroft Biſhop of Oxon his Dioceſan, in his Epiſtle dedicatory to him of a Sermon preached at a Viſitation while he was a rural Dean) made choice rather to quit his place in the Coll. (for the ſtatutes thereof oblig'd him to Divinity) and live upon that ſmall patrimony he had, than to follow and proſecute the ſaid ſtudy of Divinity. What farther I have to obſerve of him is (1) That the ſeven years next enſuing, after he had left his Fellowſhip of New Coll. (which was 1603.) he ſpent in the finiſhing and ſetting forth ſuch books that he had begun in the College, eſpecially that De emendatione temporum, dedicated to Pr. Henry, to whom he was Chronographer and Coſmographer. Which Prince being ſolely given up to all vertue, did gratiouſly accept of it, and had ſo great a reſpect for the Author, that had he lived he would have done great matters for him; but dying in the flower of his youth, the hopes of our Author were interr'd with that Prince in his grave. (2) That at the end of thoſe ſeven years Dr. Uſher (afterwards Archbiſhop of Armagh) being in London found him out and had him with him into Ireland, where he continued in the Coll. near Dublin about two years. At the end of which he purpoſing to return for England, the Lord Deputy and Chanc. of Ireland, did, upon his motion, make him a joynt promiſe of a competent Maintenance upon his return back again thither. When he came into England the Rectory of Okerton before mention'd falling void, (which he before had refuſed when Fellow of New Coll. upon the offer of it by his Father the Patron) he did, after ſeveral demurrs, and not without much reluctancy of mind, accept of it in the year 1612. Where being ſetled, he did not only go over the harmony of the Goſpels in leſs than 12 years, making thereon above 600 Sermons, but wrot alſo ſeveral books, and laid the foundation of others. All which in due time he would have publiſhed, had he not been unadviſedly engaged for the debts of one very near related to him. Which debts he being unable for the preſent to pay, (having before ſpent his ſmall patrimony for the printing of his books) remained in the Priſon call'd Bocardo in Oxon, and in the Kings bench and elſewhere, till ſuch time Sir Will. Boſwell (a great encourager of deſerving men) Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll. and, if I am not miſtaken, Dr. Uſher before mention'd, had laid down the debt and releaſed him. Dr. Laud alſo Archb. of Canterbury did give his aſſiſtance (upon the deſire of Sir Hen. Marten) for the delivery of him from priſon, but Selden who was deſir'd and importun'd to contribute towards refuſed, it, for no other reaſon, as 'tis thought, than that his Marmora Arundeliana, could not ſtand uncontradicted by him, and that inſtead of a moſt judicious, he gave him only the name of an induſtrious, Author for his labour. (3) That about that time he put up a Petition to K. Ch. 1. wherein among ſeveral things, that he deſired was, that his Majeſty would give him leave to travel into foreign parts, viz. into Turkey, Ethiopia, or the Abaſen Emperors Country, to ſearch and find Copies, eſpecially of civil and eccleſiaſtical Hiſtories to be publiſhed in print, or whatſoever Copies may tend to the propagation or increaſe of good learning: And farther alſo, whereas he had Leiger-Embaſſadors and Agents with his Confederates Emperors, Kings and Princes of other Countries, they might in his Majeſties name, in behalf of Mr. Lydyat and his Aſſigns, move their Highneſſes to grant the like privilege to him and his Aſſigns, &c. What the effect of this Petition was, I find not: however from thence his noble intentions and publick ſpirit may be diſcover'd. (4) That tho he was a perſon of ſmall ſtature, yet of great parts and of a publick ſoul, and tho a poor and contemptible Prieſt to look upon, (for ſo he was held by the vulgar) yet he not only puzled Christop. Clavius and the whole College of Mathematicians, but alſo that great Goliah of literature Joſeph Scaliger; who, when he was worſted by our Authors Writings, (tho he would never acknowledge it, howbeit great men, particularly the famous Uſher, held it for granted) he betook himſelf unmanly to his tongue, by calling him in a ſcornful manner a beggarly, beardleſs, and gelt Prieſt. (5) That as he was much eſteemed by learned men at home, among whom were Uſher before mentioned, Sir Adam Newton Secretary, and Sir Tho. Chaloner Chamberlain, to Pr. Henry, Dr. Jo. Bainbridge, Mr. Hen. Briggs, Dr. Pet. Turner, &c. who were his great acquaintance: ſo was he by the Virtuoſi beyond the ſeas, who were pleaſed, and that worthily, to rank him with the Lord Bacon of Verulam and Mr. Joſeph Mede. But when they heard that our Author and the ſaid Mede, were very poorly prefer'd, they anſwer'd that the Engliſhmen deſerved not to have ſuch brave ſcholars among, ſince they made no more of, them. (6.) That in the civil War which began an. 1642, he ſuffer'd much at his Rectory of Okerton before mention'd, by the Parliament Party; for in a letter written by him to Sir William Compton Kt. Governour of Banbury Caſtle, dat. 10 Dec. 1644, I find that he had been four times pillaged by the Parliament Forces of Compton houſe (commonly called Compton in the hole) in Warwickſhire, to the value of at leaſt 70 l. and forced for a quarter of a year together to borrow a ſhirt to ſhift himſelf; that alſo he had been twice carried away from his houſe, once to Warwick, and another time to Banbury. To the firſt of which places being hurried away on a poor jade, was infamouſly uſed by the Soldiers there, and ſo ſorely hurt, that he was at the writing of the ſaid letter not throughly whole, and he doubted ſcarce ever ſhould be, &c. The cauſe of all which ill uſage, was for that he had denied them money, and had defended his books and papers, and afterwards while a Priſoner in Warwick Caſtle, had ſpoken much for the King and Biſhops. His Works are theſe;

Tractatus de variis annorum formis. Lond. 1605. oct.

Praelectio Aſtronomica de naturâ caeli & conditionibus elementorum.

Diſquiſitio phyſiologica de origine fontium. The two laſt were printed, and go always, with the firſt.

Defenſio tractatûs de variis annorum formis contra Joſephi Scaligeri obtrectationem. Lond. 1607. oct.

Examen Canonum Chronologiae Iſagogicorum. Printed with the Defenſio.

Emendatio temporum ab initio mundi huc uſque, compendio facta, contra Scaligerum & alios. Lond. 1609. oct.

Explicatio & additamentum argumentorum in libello emendationis temporum compendio factae, de nativitate Chriſti & miniſterio in terris. Printed 1613. oct.

Solis & Lunae periodus, ſeu annus magnus. Lond. 1620. oct. &c.

De anni ſolaris menſurâ Epiſtola Aſtronomica, ad Hen. Savilium. Lond. 1620. 21. oct.

Numerus aureus melioribus lapillis inſignitus, factuſ que Gemmeus; è theſauro anni magni, ſive ſolis & lunae periodi octodeſexcentenariae, &c. Lond. 1621. in one large ſheet on one ſide.

Canones Chronologici, ne • non ſeries ſummorum magiſtratuum & triumphorum Romanorum. Oxon. 1675. oct. Publiſhed from a Mſ. in the library of Dr. Jo. Lamphire.

Letters to Dr. Jam. Uſher Primate of Ireland.—Printed at the end of the ſaid Uſher's life, 1686, publiſhed by Dr. Rich. Parr. Theſe, I think, are all the things that he hath extant. As for thoſe many Mſs. which he left behind him at the time of his death, are moſtly theſe.

Annotations upon that part of Mr. Edw. Breerwood's Treatiſe of the Sabbath, wherein he denies the Chriſtian Sabbath on the Lords day or the firſt day of the week to be eſtabliſhed jure divino, by Gods Commandment.—The beginning of this Mſs. is, There was brought to me being Priſoner in the Kings Bench, on Friday Evening, 3 Dec. 1630. &c.

Annotations upon ſome controverted points of the chronical Canons.—The beg. is, Notwithſtanding there be divers, &c.

A few Annotations upon ſome places or paſſages of the ſecond and third Chapters of the book intit. Altare chriſtianum.—The beg. is, There have been Chriſtians ever ſince, &c.

Treatiſe touching the ſetting up of Altars in Chriſtian Churches and bowing in reverence to them or common Tables, and bowing the knee, or uncovering the head at the name, or naming of Jeſus, occaſionally made 1633.—Written upon the deſire of ſome London Miniſters, to declare his judgment therein: dedicated to Archb. Laud in gratitude for his releaſing him from priſon. In a poſtſcript at the end of his diſcourſe concerning bowing at the name of Jeſus, he endeavours to anſwer the four Arguments of Biſhop Andrews, which are in his Sermon on 2 Phil. 7.11.

Anſwer to Mr. Joſeph Mede's treatiſe of the name of Altar or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , antiently given to the holy table—Written in Feb. 1637.

Anſwer to the defence of the coal from the Altar.

Evangelium contractum ex quatuor Evangeliis, &c. Written in Hebrew.

Annales Eccleſiae Chriſti inchoati ſecundum methodum Baronii. This is written in Lat. but imperfect.

Chronicon Regum Judaeorum methodo magis perſpicu • . Written in Hebr.

Meſolabum Geometricum.

Chronicon mundi emendatum.

Divina ſphaera humanorum eventuum. The beginning is, Etiam abſque eo foret &c. dedic. to the King, 1632.

Problema Aſtronomicum de ſolis eccentricitate. The beginning is, Ternis Diatribis, &c.

Diatribae; & animadverſiones Aſtronomicae, ternae.

Circuli dimenſio Lydyatéa, Archimidéa.

Marmoreum chronicon Arundelianum, cum annotationibus, &c. This was afterwards printed in a book intit. Marmora Oxonienſia, publiſhed by Humph. Prideaux. All which Mſs. with others treating of Divinity, Mathematicks and Aſtronomy, amounting to the number of 38 at leaſt, were bound up in 22 Volumes, and reſerved as rarities in the hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire, lately Principal of Hart Hall. At length after our Author had lived at Okerton ſeveral years very poor and obſcurely, ſurrendred up his ſoul to him that gave it, on the third day of April in ſixteen hundred forty and ſix,1646. and was buried the next day (being the ſame day on which he had above 70 years before been baptized) by the bodies of his Father and Mother in the Chancel of the Church at Okerton, which he before had rebuilt. Over his grave near to the ſouth Window, and not far from the eaſt end of the ſaid Chancel, the Warden and Society of New Coll. did cauſe a ſtone to be laid at their charge, an. 1669. The inſcription on which you may read in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 149. a, as alſo the Inſcription on his honorary monument in New Coll. Cloyſter, pag. 155.

WALTER RALEIGH ſecond ſon of Sir Carew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts Knight, (by Dorothy his wife daugh. of Will. Wroughton of Broadhinton in the ſame County, relict of Sir Joh. Thynne Knight) elder Brother to the famous Sir Walter Raleigh, and both the Sons of Walter Raleigh of Furdell or Fardell in Devon. Eſq. was born at Downton before mention'd, educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Wincheſter, became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in Mich. Term 1602 (ult. Eliz.) being then 16 years of age. Afterwards proceeding in Arts, he was thought worthy, being a noted Diſputant, to undergo the Office of Junior of the Act celebrated in 1608. About that time taking holy Orders, he became Chaplain to that moſt noble Count William Earl of Pembroke, in whoſe family ſpending ſome time, had the Rectory of Chedſey near Bridgwater in Somerſetſhire conferred upon him on the death of George Mountgomery, in the latter end of 1620, and afterwards a minor Prebendſhip in the Church of Wells, and the Rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton in the ſame County. Much about the time of the lamented death of the ſaid Count, he became one of the Chaplains in ord. to K. Ch. 1. and by that title he was actually created D. of D. in 1636. On the 13 of January 1641, he was admitted Dean of Wells on the death of Dr. George Warburton, and on the breaking out of the Rebellion ſoon after, (which hindred his farther advance in the Church) he was perſecuted, plunder'd, and forced to abſcond for his Loyalty to his Prince. At length being taken Priſoner at Bridgwater by the Rebels 21 Jul. 1645, he was ſent to Banwell houſe as a Captive, and after ſeveral removes to his own at Wells, where being committed to the cuſtody of a Shoe-maker (David Barret a Conſtable of that City) by the Committee of the County of Somerſet, was treated by him far beneath his quality and function. Soon after having occaſion to write a letter to his Wife, the rude Keeper endeavoured to take it from him and read it, ſuppoſing it might be a letter of intelligence to be ſent to ſome noted Cavalier. But the Doctor preventing his ſaucineſs, the Keeper thruſt his ſword into his groyn, ſhedding his blood as the blood of a dog; of which wound he died about ſix weeks after to the great grief of the loyal party. His papers after his death, ſuch as could be kept, were for more than 30 years reſerved in obſcurity. At length they coming into the hands of the worthy and learned Dr▪ Simon Patrick, then Rector of S. Paul in Covent Garden, Preb. of Weſtm. and Dean of Peterborough, (now Biſh. of Ely) he viewed, amended, and methodized them: which being done they were made publick under this title,

Reliquiae Raleighanae. Being diſcourſes and Sermons on ſeveral ſubjects. Lond. 1679. qu. The number of Sermons are 13. What other things he left worthy of publication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes's hands, (whoſe ſiſter Mary our Author had married) but whether any of them are yet made publick, I know not. 'Tis ſaid that he wrot a Tract of Millinaniſm, he having for ſome time been much addicted to that opinion; but that, as I have been informed, was long ſince loſt. Thoſe that remember him, have often ſaid that he was a perſon not only of gentile behaviour, but of great wit and elocution, a good Orator and a Maſter of a ſtrong reaſon, which won him the familiarity and friendſhip of thoſe great men, who were the envy of the laſt age, and wonder of this; viz. Lucius Lord Falkland, Dr. Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth. The laſt of which was wont to Pref. to Reliq. Raliegh. by Sim. Patrick D. D. ſay, that Dr. Raleigh was the beſt Diſputant that ever he met withal. He departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob. (being Saturday) in ſixteen hundred forty and ſix,1646. and was buried on the thirteenth of the ſame month before the Deans ſtall in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Andrew in Wells. Over his grave is not yet an inſcription, only a rough marble ſtone, which had probably been laid there many years before the Doctors death. One Standiſh a Clergy-Vicar of that Cathedral, was afterwards queſtioned by the aforeſaid Committee for burying him in the Church; and his death being ſoon after call'd into queſtion at an Aſſize or Seſſions, there was a Jury of Rebels that brought in his murder either Ignoramus, or at leaſt but Man ſlaughter; for they ſaid that the Doctor to ſhun the Keepers reading of a letter which he wrot to his Wife, ran upon the Keepers ſword, &c. Much about that time the Committee turned the Doctors Wife and Children out of doors, and his Son (as 'tis Merc. Ruſti • rs, or Englands ruin, &c. printed 1647, at the end. ſaid) was forced to fly the Country, for that he would have farther proſecuted the Law againſt the murderer of his Father.

MATHIAS PRIDEAUX ſon of Dr. Joh. Prideaux Rector of Exeter Coll. was born in S. Michaels Pariſh in Oxon in the month of Aug. 1622, became a ſojourner of the ſaid Coll. in the beginning of the year 1640, was elected Fellow ſoon after, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1644, and in the year following, he, by the name of Captain Mathias Prideaux, was, by vertue of the Chancellours letters, actually created Maſter of Arts. Under the name of this perſon was publiſh'd after his death,

An eaſie and compendious introduction for reading of all ſorts of Hiſtories. Oxon 1648. qu. There again 1655. qu. To which is added A ſynopſis of the Councils, written by the Father of the Author Mathias, who, as 'tis ſaid, had a conſiderable hand in the Eaſie and comp. Introd. This Mathias Prideaux who was eſteemed by his contemporaries an ingenious man, died at London of the Small pox in ſixteen hundred forty and ſix,1646. or thereabouts, to which place he receded after the ſurrender of the Garriſon of Oxon to the Forces under the command of the Parliament. He had written one or more trite things, but were never publiſhed.

JOHN GREGORY the miracle of his age for critical and curious learning, was born at Agmundeſham commonly called Amerſham in Bucks, on the 10 Nov. 1607, applied himſelf to academical learning in the condition of a Servitour in Ch. Ch. an. 1624, being then put under the tuition (with his Maſter Sir Will. Drake) of the moſt ingenious and learned Mr. George Morley, (afterwards Biſhop of Wincheſter) where, for ſeveral years, ſpending ſixteen, of every 24, hours, he arrived to great learning, and took the degrees in Arts, that of Maſter being compleated in 1631. About which time being received into the favour of Dr. Duppa, the vigilant Dean of his houſe, he was by him made Chaplain or petty Canon of the Cathedral, and after that his own Domeſtick, and Prebendary of Chicheſter and Salisbury when he ſucceſſively ſate at thoſe places as Biſhop. He attained to a learned elegance in Engliſh, Latine, and Greek, and to an exact skill in Hebrew, Syriack, Chaldee, Arabick, Ethiopick, &c. He was alſo well vers'd in Philoſophy, had a curious faculty in Aſtronomy, Geometry and Arithmetick, and a familiar acquaintance with the Jewiſh Rabbines, antient Fathers, modern Criticks, Commentators, and what not. His works are,

Notes on the View of the Civil and Eccleſiaſtical Law, written by Sir Tho. Ridley Kt. Oxon. 1634. qu. ſecond Edit. Ox. 1662. oct. there again 1675. 76. qu. In which notes (he being ſcarce 26 years old when he wrot them) he made an early diſcovery of his civil, hiſtorical, eccleſiaſtical, ritual and oriental Learning, through which he miraculouſly travel'd without any guide, except Joh. Dod the Decalogiſt, whoſe ſociety and directions for the Hebrew tongue he enjoyed one Vacation at his benefice in Northamptonſhire.

Notes and Obſervations upon ſome paſſages of Scripture. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1660. 65. 71. 83. qu. tranſlated alſo into Lat. and remitted into the Critica ſacra. From • hich notes may eaſily be diſcovered his exact skill in the oriental Tongues.

Certain learned Tracts, as (1) A diſcourſe of the 70 Interpreters; the place and manner of their interpretation. (2) Diſcourſe declaring what time the Niceen Creed began to be ſung in the Church. (3) Serm. upon the Reſurrection, on 1 Cor. 15. ver. 20. (4) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ; or a diſproof of him in the 3 of Luke ver. 36. (5) Diſcovery of an antient cuſtom in the Ch. of Sarum, making an anniverſary Biſhop among the Choriſters on Innocents day. (6) The ſeveral accounts of time among all nations from the Creation to the preſent age. (7) The Aſſyrian Monarchy; being a deſcription of its riſe and fall. (8) Deſcript. and uſe of the terreſtial globe. Which eight Tracts were printed under the title of Gregorii poſthuma at Lond. 1650. 64. 71. 83. qu. with a ſhort account of the Authors life ſet before them, written by his deareſt friend John Gurgany (ſon of Hugh Gurgany of London Prieſt) ſometimes a Servitour of Ch. Ch. afterwards Chaplain of Merton Coll. who dedicated them to Edw. Byſſhe Clar. King of Arms, a Patron not only to the Author, but Gurgany, in the time of their Afflictions.

Optica promota: ſeu, abdita radiorum reflexorum & refractorum myſteria, Geometricè enucl • ata. Lond. 1663. publiſhed then under the name of Jo. Gregorius.

Obſervationes in loca quaedam excerpta ex Joh. Malatae chronographia. Mſ. which after his death came into the publick Library at Oxon, where it now remains. Edm. Chilmead having afterwards prepared the whole work of Mal • ta for the Preſs, intended, as it ſeems, to prefix the ſaid Obſervations, as a Preface, he having therein ſpoken ſomething of the ſaid Author; but that Author being publiſh'd at Oxon in 1691, Gregories Obſervations were laid aſide, as containing things little material, and inſtead of them there is added a Preface or Prolegomena to Malata by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. Fellow of Wadh. Coll. See the ſaid Preface §. xliii. He the ſaid Gregory did alſo tranſlate from Gr. into Lat. (1) Palladius de gentibus Indiae, & Bragmanibus. (2) S. Ambroſius de moribus Brachmannorum. (3) Anonymus de Bragmanibus. Which Tranſlations coming after his death into the hands of Edm. Chilmead Chapl. of Ch. Ch. came, after his, into thoſe of E. Byſſhe Eſq. before mentioned, who publiſhed them under his own name, in 1665. as I ſhall tell you elſewhere. At length after an induſtrious and ſhort life, he gave way to fate on the thirteenth day of March in ſixteen hundred forty and ſix,1646. and was buried on the left ſide of the grave of W. Cartwright in the iſle joyning on the ſouth ſide of the choire of the Cath. of Ch Church in Oxon. Some years before his death he being reduced to poverty, becauſe he was deprived of the benefit of his two Prebendſhips, he retired to an obſcure Ale houſe ſtanding on the Green at Kidlington near Oxon, kept by one Sutton, Father to that Son whom our learned Author had bred up from a boy to attend him. There I ſay ſpending ſome time in great retiredneſs, died obſcurely, and by the contribution of one or more friends, his body was conveyed to Oxon.

CHARLES BUTLER was born at one of the Wycombs (Great Wycombe I ſuppoſe) in Bucks, entred a Student into Magd. Hall in the year 1579, took a degree in Arts, and being made one of the Bible Clerks of Magd. Coll. was tranſlated thereunto. Soon after, proceeding in that faculty, he became Maſter of the Free-ſchool at Baſingſtoke in Hampſhire, where continuing 7 years, with the enjoyment of a Cure of a little Church called Skewres, was promoted to the Vicaridge of Lawrence-Wotton three miles diſtant thence, (a poor preferment God wot for ſuch a worthy ſcholar,) where, being ſetled, he wrot and publiſhed theſe books following, which ſhew him to have been an ingenious man, and well skill'd in various ſorts of learning.

The feminine Monarchy: or, a Treatiſe of Bees, Ox. 1609. oct. Lond. 1623. Ox. 1634. qu. tranſlated into Latine by Rich. Richardſon, ſometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, now, or lately, an Inhabitant in the moſt pleaſant Village of Brixworth in Northamptonſhire—Lond. 1673. oct. In this verſion he hath left out ſome of the ornamental and emblematical part of the Engliſh copy, and hath, with the Authors, ſcatter'd and intermix'd his own Obſervations on Bees, and what of note he had either heard from men skilful this way, or had read in other books. But this laſt tranſlation being ſlow in the ſale, there hath been a new title put to it, and ſaid therein to be printed at Oxon. 1682. oct.

Rhetoricae libri duo. Oxon. 1618. and 29. qu. Lond. 1635. oct.

De propinquitate matrimonium impediente regula generalis. Oxon. 1625. qu.

Oratoriae libri duo. Ox. 1633. qu. Lond. 1635. oct.

Engliſh Grammar. Ox. 1634. qu.

The principles of Muſick. Lond. 1636. qu. He took his laſt farewel of this world on the 29 of March in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven, and in that of his age 88, or thereabouts (after he had been Vicar of Wotton St. Laurence before mention'd 48 years) and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there.1647.

EPHRAIM PAGIT or Paget, ſon of Euſeb. Pag. mentioned before under the year 1617. p. 357. was born Reg. Matric. P. pag. 29. of a gentile family in Northamptonſhire, matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 25 of May 1593 aged 18, but whether he took a degree, it appears not. Afterwards, thro ſome petit imployments, he became Parſon of the Church of S. Edmund in Lombardſtreet within the City of London, where he continued many years. He hath written,

Chriſtianographia: or, a deſcription of the multitudes and ſundry ſorts of Chriſtians in the world, not ſubject to the Pope, &c. Lond. 1635. 36. 40. &c. qu.

Treatiſe of the Religion of the antient Chriſtians in Britany.—pr. with ſome editions of the former book.

Hereſiographia: or, a deſcription of the hereſies of later times. Lond. 1645. and 48. 4th. edit. in qu. He hath alſo a ſerm. extant called The myſtical Wolf, on Math. 7. ver. 15. Lond. 1645. qu. and other things, as 'tis probable, but ſuch I have not yet ſeen. Upon the breaking out of the civil War, he was ſo moleſted and troubled, that meerly for quietneſs ſake he was forced to leave his Benefice in his old age, being then commonly called Old Father Ephraim. So that retiring to Deptford in Kent, ſpent there the ſhort remainder of his days in great devotion and retiredneſs, At length ſurrendring up his pious ſoul to God in the beginning of the year (in Apr. as it ſeems) ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven, was buried according to his will in Deptford Churchyard.1647. One of both his names (his Uncle I think) tranſlated into Engliſh, Sermons upon Ruth, Lond. 1586. in oct. written originally by Lod. Lavater, but whether the ſaid Ephraim Paget was educated in Oxon, I cannot juſtly ſay, tho two or more of his ſirname and time, occur in our Regiſters.

THOMAS COLEMAN was born in Oxfordſhire, particularly, as it ſeems, within the City of Oxon, where ſeveral of his name and time have lived, made his firſt entry into Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615, and in that of his age 17, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became ſo accompliſh'd in the Hebrew Language, that he was commonly called Rabbi Coleman. Afterwards he was made Rector of Blyton in Lincolnſhire, but being ſchiſmatically enclined, he left that place in the beginning of the civil War, 1642, under pretence of perſecution by the Cavaliers, and retiring to the great City, became a grand Covenanteer, an inve • gher againſt the King and his Party, againſt the Biſhops and Orthodox Clergy, one of the Aſſembly of Divines, Rector of S. Peters Church in Cornhill in the place of a loyal Doctor ejected, and a Preacher before the Parliament. While he ſate in the Aſſembly, to which he was chiefly called for his language in the Hebrew tongue, he behaved himſelf modeſtly and learnedly, maintaining among them the tenets of Eraſtus. His works are theſe.

Several Sermons, as (1) The Chriſtians cauſe and complaint, &c. Faſt-ſermon before the Houſe of Commons, on Jerem. 8.20. Lond. 1643. qu. (2) The hearts engagement, Serm. at S. Margarets in Weſtm. at the publick entring into the Covenant, 29 Sept. 1643, on Jer. 30.21. laſt clauſe. Lond. 1643. qu. There were then preſent ſome Noblemen and Gentlemen, many Soldiers and People of all ſorts; and looking on the Soldiers he told them that the Covenant was the Parliaments ſword and buckler. For when the Cavaliers ſhall ſee you come arm'd with the Covenant, they will run, run, run away from the Lord of Hoſts, &c. (3) Gods unuſual anſwer to a ſolemn Faſt, Faſt-ſerm. before both houſes on Pſal. 65.5. Lond. 1644. qu. preached upon the ſad ſucceſs that the Parliament Forces had in Cornwall. (4) Hopes defer'd and daſhed, Faſt-ſerm. before the H. of Com. on Job 11.20. Lond. 1645. qu. He was not thanked for this ſermon according to cuſtom, but only ordered to print it, becauſe the Presbyterian Party diſliked him, for that he too ſlightly ſpoke of miniſterial Authority, and ſeemed not to diſlike the Independent &c. In his Epiſt. ded. to the H. of Com. he ſaith thus, There was never Sermon preached on theſe publick Faſts, that was received with ſuch contrary Affections, and Cenſures as this; ſome approving above commendation, others diſliking below deteſtation, &c. Soon after George Gilleſpie a Preſbyterian Miniſter of Edenburgh, educated in S. Andrews Univerſity, did not only preach againſt the ſaid ſermon in another delivered before the H. of Lords, and in a ſecond elſewhere, but alſo printed them in vindication of the Preſbyterians, whereupon our Author Coleman publiſhed,

A brotherly Examination examined: or, a clear juſtification of thoſe paſſages in a Sermon, againſt which the rev. and learned Commiſſioner Mr. Gilleſpie firſt in two ſeveral Sermons, and then in print, did preach and write. Lond. 1646. qu. To which is added,

A ſhort diſcovery of ſome tenets and principles which entrench upon both the honour and power of the Parliament—What elſe our Author hath written, I find not, only a thing called A modell as the Author of A Friendly debate In the third part printed 1672 p. 386. in marg. tells us, which was briefly viewed and anſwer'd in 1645, but neither the Modell or Anſwer have I yet ſeen. He died ſuddenly about the beginning of the year ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven,1647. but where buried I cannot tell, becauſe the regiſter of St. Peters in Cornhill mentions him not. I find one Tho. Coleman Miniſter of Allhallows Barkin near the Tower of London, who publiſhed a Sermon intit. Juſtification juſtified, an. 1653, but of what Univerſity he was, I know not yet. As for G. Gilleſpie before-mention'd, he was a high Covenanteer, had ſome good learning, but was very antiprelatical and bold beyond all meaſure. He wrot againſt the ceremonies, ſeveral pieces againſt the Eraſtians, and died about 1649. In the month of January 1660, the tombſtone of this Gilleſpie (who had alſo written a ſeditious book, intituled his Laſt Will and Teſtament) was, according to an order of the Committee of Eſtates in Scotland, fetcht from the burial place, and on a Market-day broke by the Common-hangman at the croſs of Kirkadie, where he had formerly been Miniſter.

THOMAS FARNABIE the moſt noted Schoolmaſter of his time, Son of Tho. Farn. of London Carpenter, Son of ... Farnabie ſometimes Mayor of Truro in Cornwall, was born in London about 1575, became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of 1590; at which time, being a youth of great hope, he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a learned Fellow of that Houſe, who made him his Poſtmaſter, and ſo conſequently his Servitour, being the faſhion then for Poſtmaſters to ſerve thoſe Fellows from whom they received their places. But this youth being very wild, tho of pregnant parts, made no long ſtay there, for being enticed to forſake his Religion and Country, he left the Coll. very abruptly, went into Spain, and was for ſome time educated there, in a certain Coll. belonging to the Jeſuits. At length being weary of their ſevere diſcipline, he found a way to leave them, and then, being minded to take a ramble, went with Sir Fr. Drake and Sir Joh. Hawkyns in their laſt voyage 1595, being in ſome eſteem with the former. Afterwards, as 'tis ſaid, he was a Soldier in the Low Countries, being more addicted to that employment than to be a Scholar, and that being reduced to poverty, he made ſhift to be ſet on ſhoare in the Weſtern part of England; where, after ſome wandring to an fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe (the anagram of his ſirname) he ſetled at Martock in Sommerſetſhire, and taught the Grammar School there for ſome time with good ſucceſs. For in the year 1646, when Mr. Charles Darby was called to teach that School, he found in that Town, and in the neighbourhood, many that had been his Scholars, ingenious Men and good Grammarians, even in their grey hairs. Among whom it was then reported, that when he landed in Cornwall, his diſtreſſes made him ſtoop ſo low, as to be an Abcdarian, and ſeveral were taught their hornbooks by him. After he had gotten ſome feathers at Martock, he took his flight to London, and taught a long time in Goldſmiths-rents in Cripplegate Pariſh behind Redcroſs-ſtreet, where were large gardens and handſome houſes, and great accommodations for the young Noblemen and other generous Youths, who at one time made up the number of 300 or more. The School-houſe was a large brick building, divided into ſeveral partitions or apartments, according to the diſtinctions of the Forms and Claſſes, under the care and circumſpection of the reſpective Uſhers allotted to attend them. In which time, while he taught there, he was made M. of A. of Cambridge, and ſoon after incorporated at Oxon. At length, upon occaſion of ſome underhand dealing of his Landlords and frequent ſickneſſes in the City, he removed about 1636 to Sevenock in Kent, (in the neighbourhood of which place, (at Otford) he had purchaſed an eſtate) taught there the Sons of ſeveral Noblemen and Gentlemen (who boarded with him) with great eſteem, grew rich, purchaſed an eſtate there alſo and near Horſham in Suſſex. Upon a foreſight of the Civil War, he was eſteemed ill affected to the cauſe, for that when the proteſtation was urged in 1641, he then ſaid it was better to have one King than five hundred. Afterwards, being ſuſpected to have favoured the riſing of the Country for the King about Tunbridge, in 1643, he was thereupon impriſoned firſt in Newgate, and thence removed on Shipboard, it being then urged in the Houſe of Commons, whether he ſhould be ſent to America, (further'd by ſome of his good neighbours in Kent, nay and by ſome that had been his Scholars, as I have heard, who ſate in the two Houſes) but at length it being rejected, he was removed to Ely-houſe in Holbourn, where he remained for about an year before his death. He was the chief Grammarian, Rhetorician, Poet, Latiniſt and Grecian of his time, and his School was ſo much frequented, that more Churchmen and Stateſmen iſſued thence, than from any School taught by one Man in England. The things that he hath written and publiſhed are theſe.

Notae ad Juvenalis & Perſii Satyras. Lond. 1612. oct. &c.

Notae ad Senecae tragoedias. Lond. 1613. oct. &c. For which work he is commended by a certain Joh. Owen in append. epigram. nu. 10. Poet who was his friendly acquaintance.

Notae ad Martialis Epigrammata. Lond. 1615. oct. Genev. 1623. 33. &c. in tw.

Notae ad Lucani Pharſal. Lond. 1618. oct.

Index Rhetoricus Scholis & inſtitutioni tenerioris aetatis ac commodatus. Lond. 1625. oct.

Phraſes Oratoriae elegantiores & poeticae. Lond. 1628. oct 5th. edit.

Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum, eorumque latina verſu à variis redditorum. Lond. 1629. in oct. &c.

Notae ad Virgilium. Lond. 1634. in oct.

Notae in Terentium. Lond. in tw.

Notae in Ovidii Metamorph. libros 12. Lond. in tw. &c. Ib. 1677. &c.

Syſtema Grammaticum. Lond. 1641. in oct.

Index Rhetoricus & Oratorius, cum formulis Oratoriis & indice poetico. Lond. 1646. oct.

Phraſiologia Anglo-Lat. Lond. in oct.

Tabulae Grecae Linguae. Lond. in qu.

Syntaxis. Ib. in oct.—

Epiſtolae Variae ad doctiſſ. viros. Other things he hath written, as I conceive, but ſuch I have not yet ſeen. He concluded his laſt day in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven,1647. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Sevenock commonly called Sennock be forementioned; over whoſe grave was this Epitaph put. P. M. viri ornatiſſimi Thomae Farnabii Armigeri, cauſae olim Regiae reique publicae ſed literariae vindicis acerrimi. Obiit 12 Junii 1647.

By his firſt Wife named Suſan, Dau. of Joh. Pierce of Launcells in Cornwall, he had a Son named John, who followed his Fathers martial humour, being a Captain in the Kings Army; to whom he left his eſtate in Suſſex, where he lived in good eſteem, and died about the beginning of 1673. By his ſecond Wife Anne, Daugh. of Dr. John Howſon Biſhop of Durham, he had ſeveral children, one of which was named Francis, to whom he left his eſtate at Kippington in the Pariſh of Sennock, where he was lately living a Juſtice of Peace in good eſteem, from whoſe mouth I formerly received ſeveral paſſages of his Fathers life, which are remitted into the former diſcourſe: At which time he aver'd to me, that the great Grandfather of his Father, viz. the Father of him who was Mayor of Truro, was an Italian Muſician. The memory of this eminent Schoolmaſter is celebrated by ſeveral Authors, among whom is John Dunbar In Epigram. cent. b. edit. Lond. 1616. in cent. ſext. nu. 74. a Scot who ſtiles himſelf Megalo-Britannus, Rich. In lib. ſuo cui tit. eſt Epigrammatum Hecatontades duae. Lond. 1627. in Hec. altera, nu. 17. Bruch and others.

DEGORIE WHEAR was born at Jacobſtow in Cornwall, retired to the habitation of the Muſes called Broadgates Hall, in the beginning of the year 1592 aged 19, took the degrees in Arts, that of Maſter being compleated in 1600, elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602, and ſix years after leaving that Houſe, travelled into ſeveral Countries beyond the Seas, whereby he obtained as well learning as experience. At his return he was entertain'd by the Lord Chandois, and by him reſpected and exhibited to. After his death our Author, with his Wife, retired to Gloc. Hall, where Dr. Hawley the Principal demiſed to him Lodgings, and then became acquainted ſo well with Mr. Tho. Allen, that by his endeavours, the Learned Camden made him his firſt Reader of the Hiſtory Lecture which he founded in this Univerſity. Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall, the which, with his Lecture he kept to his dying day, and was eſteemed by ſome a learned and gentile man, and by others a Calviniſt. He hath written,

De ratione & methodo legendi Hiſtorias diſſertatio. Oxon. 1625. oct. printed there again in 1637. in oct. with this title, Relectiones hyemales, de ratione & methodo legendi utriuſque hiſtorias, civiles & eccleſiaſticas, &c. At length Nich. Horſman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the ſecond Edition, and adding thereunto Mantiſſa de Hiſtoricis gentium particularium, &c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct. and had at the end, this Speech of our Author printed with it, viz.

Oratio auſpicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author. The ſaid Relectiones with the Mantiſſa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct. with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica, added thereunto, and Juſtus Lipſius his Epiſtle to Nich. Hacquevill De Hiſtoria, ſet before it. They were rendred into Engliſh, (I mean the Relectiones and Mantiſſa only) by Edmund Bohun of Weſthall in the County of Suffolk Eſq of whom by the way, I deſire the Reader to know theſe things following, viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the ſaid County, being the only Son of Baxter Bohun, (who, with his anceſtors, have been Lords of the mannour of Weſthall ever ſince 25. Hen. 8.) that in the year 1663, he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, and continued there till the latter end of 1666, when then he was driven out of that Univerſity by the plague that raged there, to his great hindrance in Learning. In 1675, he was made one of the Commiſſioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, and continued ſo till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was diſcharg'd. In the firſt year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary, he was reſtored to that office, upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then ſitting, without his ſeeking, and he now ſerves their Majeſties in the ſaid employment. This worthy Perſon hath written An Addreſs to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation, in three parts; being the Hiſtory of three Seſſions of Parliament: The firſt of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the laſt of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. (2) A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. againſt a pamphlet ſtiled, A juſt and modeſt vindication of the proceedings of the two laſt Parliaments—printed with, and added to, the Addreſs (3) A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer, againſt the miſtakes and repreſentations of Algernoon Sidney Eſq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill, on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there. Lond. 1684. in 4. ſh. and an half in fol. (4) The Juſtice of Peace his calling; a moral Eſſay. Lond. 1684. oct. (5) A preface and a concluſion to Sir Rob. Filmers book. entit.—Paetriarcha; or the natural Law of Kings, &c. Added to the ſecond and perfect edition of that book—Lond. 1685. oct. (6) A Geographical Dictionary, repreſenting the preſent and antient names of all the Countries, Provinces, remarkable Cities, &c. of the whole world, with a ſhort hiſtorical account of the ſame and their preſent ſtate. Lond. 1688. oct. (7) The hiſtory of the deſertion: or, an account of all the publick affairs in England, from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following. Lond. 1689. oct. (8) An anſwer to a piece called, The Deſertion diſcuſſed; in a letter to a country Gentleman. printed at the end of The Hiſt. of deſertion. The ſaid Pamphlet called The Deſertion diſcuſſed, was written by Jer • Collier of Cambridge (10) The Doctrine of Paſſive Obedience or Non-reſiſtance no way concern'd in the controverſies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites. Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a paſſage concerning Dr. Ken Biſhop of Bathe and Wells; which, Mr. Bohun is ſatisfied, is not true; and therefore he deſires that, and the whole paragraph, in which it is, may be cancel'd. (11) Life of Joh. Jewell Biſhop of Salisbury, as I ſhall tell you by and by. He hath alſo tranſlated into Engliſh ſeveral things, among which is (1) The origen of Atheiſme in the Popiſh and Proteſtant Churches, ſhewn by Dorotheus Sicurus—Lond. 1684. qu. (2) An Apologie of the Church of England, and an Epiſtle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent. Lond. 1685. in oct. written by Joh. Jewell ſometimes B. of Salisbury. To which is added a brief of the Life of the ſaid Jewell, collected by Mr. Bohun, from the large life of the ſaid Perſon, written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey (3) The method and order of reading both civil and eccleſiaſtical Hiſtories, as I have told you before (4) The univerſal Hiſtorical Bibliotheque: or an account of the most conſiderable books printed in all languages: wherein, a ſhort account is given of the deſign of almoſt every book, and the quality of the author, if known. For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687—Diſcontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookſeller, lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London. (5) The 25. and 26th book of the general Hiſtory of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome, began in Germany by Mart. Luther. Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. (6) The preſent ſtate of Germany: or, an account of the extent, riſe, forme, wealth &c. of that Empire, &c. Lond. 1690. oct. written in lat. by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name. What other things he hath written and tranſlated I know not; ſure I am that our Author Whear, hath, beſides the before-mentioned things, publiſhed theſe following.

Parentatio Hiſtorica. Sive commemoratio vitae & mortis V. C. Guliel. Camdeni Clarentii, facta Oxoniae in Schola Hiſtoricâ, 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.

Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Hiſtoricâ, 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.

Epiſtolarum Euchariſticarum faſciculus.

Chariſteria. Theſe two laſt are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis, &c. He hath alſo written Lectures on the three books of the Punick War, in Luc. Florus, which are now about to be publiſhed. At length departing this mortal life on the firſt of Aug. in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven,1647. was buried on the third day of the ſame month in Exeter Coll. Chappel. His ſtudy of books and collections in MS. came, after his death, into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouſe Provoſt of Eaton Coll. near to Windſore, and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys Library. He left alſo behind him a Widow and Children, who ſoon after became poor, and whether the Females lived honeſtly, 'tis not for me to diſpute it.

HENRY MASON was born in a Market Town in Lancaſhire called Wygan or Wiggin, became a Servitour of Braſn. Coll. in the beginning of 1592, elected one of Humph. Ogles Exhibitioners thereof 2. Nov. 1593, took one degree in Arts two years after, entred into Holy Orders, and became Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. in 1602. The next year he proceeded in Arts, and ſeven years after, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. At length being made Chapl. to Dr. Jo. King B. of Lond. was by his endeavours, as I ſuppoſe, made Rector of S. Andrews Underſhaft in that City; where by his exemplary life, edifying and judicious preaching and writing he did great benefit, and was by all that knew him accounted a true Son of the Church of England. His writings are theſe.

The new art of lying, covered by Jeſuits under the veil of Equivocation. Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1634. in tw.

Chriſtian humiliation: or, a treatiſe of Faſting, with a brief diſcourſe of Lent. Lond. 1625. qu.

Epicures Faſt: or, a ſhort diſcourſe diſcovering the licentiouſneſs of the Rom. Ch. in her religious Faſts. Lond. 1626. in qu.

Tribunal of the conſcience: or, a treatiſe of examination. Lond. 1626. 27. qu.

Short diſcourſe declaring the condition of Worldly cares, with ſome remedies appointed for them. Lond. 1628.

Certain paſſages in Mr. Sam. Hoards book entit. Gods love to mankind, &c.—Anſwer'd by Dr. Twiſſe under the name of Additions, in his Riches of Gods love to the veſſells of mercy, &c. as I have told you before in Dr. Twiſſe.

Hearing and doing the ready way to bleſſedneſs. Lond. 1635. in tw.

Rules for right hearing of Gods word—printed with the former book.

Several Sermons, as (1) The Chriſtians faſt, &c. on Matth. 4.2. Lond. 1627. qu. (2) Contentment in Gods gifts; or ſome Sermon notes leading to equanimitie and contentation, on Joh. 20.3.4.5.6. Lond. 1630. in tw. (3) Sermon on Luke 11.28. This I have not ſeen, nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of Divinity, which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr. Gilb. Sheldon, afterwards Archb. of Cant. From whom it came to Dr. Dolben Biſh. of Roch. afterwards of York, in whoſe poſſeſſion it was when he died. At length when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant in 1641, our Author Maſon through vexation, occaſion'd by that Party, was forced ſoon after to leave his Rectory of S. Andrew beforemention'd, purpoſely to make room for a godly brother. Afterwards he retired with his goods and books to Wygan his native place, where living in obſcurity for ſome years, (not without vexation by the Rebels) ſurrendred up his moſt pious and devout Soul to him that firſt gave it, in his houſe ſituate, and being in a ſtreet there called Scoles, in the beginning of Auguſt in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven,1647. and in that of his age 74 or thereabouts, and was buried on the ſeventh day of the ſame month in the yard or cemeterie, cloſe to the ground-work of the pillar or buttreſs at the eaſt end of the Church at Wygan: He had before given to the poor of that Town 13 l. per an. to bind poor children apprentices, his librarie of books to the School; and a conſiderable number of Bibles to the poorer ſort of people for their children there.

JOHN VERNEUIL (Vernulius) was born in the City of Bourdeaux in France, educated in the Univerſity of Mountalban till he was M. of Arts, flew from his country for religion ſake, being a Proteſtant, and went into England, where he had his wants ſupplied for a time by Sir Thom. Leigh. Afterwards he retired to the Univerſity of Oxon. in 1608, and on the fourth day of Nov. in the ſame year, being then 25 years of age, he was matriculated in the Univerſity as a member of Magdalen Coll. from which Houſe, as from others he received relief. In 1625, he was incorporated Maſter of Arts, being then ſecond-keeper of Bodleys Library, where he performed good ſervice for that place, and wrot for the uſe of the Students there, theſe things following.

Catalogus Interpretum S. Scripturae, juxta numerorum ordinem, quo extant in bibl. Bodl. Oxon. 1635. qu. ſec. Edition. The firſt was began by Dr. Tho. James.

Elenchus authorum, tum recentium quam antiquorum, qui in 4 libros ſententiarum & Thomae Aquinatis ſummas, item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni, & de caſibus conſcientiae; nec non in orationem Dominicam, Symbolum Apoſtolorum, & Decalogum ſcripſerunt. This is printed with the Cat. Interpretum, &c. an. 1635.

Nomenclator of ſuch tracts and ſermons as have been printed, and tranſlated into Engliſh upon any place, or book of the Holy Scripture, now to be had in Bodleys Library. Oxon. 1637. 42. in tw. He alſo tranſlated from French into Engliſh A Tract of the Soveraign Judge of controverſies in matters of religion. Oxon. 1628. qu. written by Joh. Cameron D. D. of Saumaur, Divinity Profeſſor in the Academy of Mountalban, afterwards Principal of Glaſcow in Scotland. And from Engliſh into Latine a book entit. Of the deceitfulneſs of mans heart. Genev. 1634. oct. written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge. The ſaid Joh. Verneuil died in his houſe within, and near, the Eaſtgate of the City of Oxon, in the latter end of Septemb. in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven, and was buried on the laſt day of the ſame month in the Church of St. Peter in the Eaſt, 1647. within the ſaid City; at which time our publick Library loſt an honeſt and uſeful ſervant, and his children a good Father.

ROBERT PINK Son of Hen. Pink of Kempſhot in the Pariſh of Winſlade in Hampſhire, was born there, educated in Wykehams School near Wincheſter, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1596, took the degrees in Arts, entred on the Phyſick line, was admitted Bach. in that faculty 1612, afterward ſtudied Divinity, was elected Warden of his Coll. 1617, proceeded in Divinity, and was much eſteemed by K. Jam. 1. for his dexterity in diſputing, as by K. Ch. 1. for his eminent loyalty. He was a zealous defender of the Univerſity privileges and liberties, eſpecially when he performed the office of Vicechancellour, and eſteemed by all that knew him moſt eminent for his knowledge in Philoſophy and Divinity. He hath written,

Quaeſtiones ſelectiores in Logicâ, Ethicâ, Phyſicâ, Metaphyſica inter authores celebriores repertae. Oxon. 1680. qu. publiſhed by Joh. Lamphire Principal of Hart Hall.

Poemata Latina.

Geſta Vicecancellariatus ſui. 'Tis a MS. containing the Acts and Geſts of his Vicechancellourſhip of the Univerſity, from 26. July 1634. to 22. Jul. 1636. It is written in a little thin fol. containing 80 pages, and hath therein ſeveral of his ſpeeches ſpoken in convocation. Which book I had the liberty to peruſe, when I was compoſing the Hiſt. & Antiq. of Univ. of Oxon, and may be uſeful to curious men in other reſpects, if given to a publick place, many things being therein, that are not entred into the publick regiſters of the Univerſity. He died much lamented by the members of his Coll. becauſe he had been a vigilant, faithful and publick ſpirited Governour, by the poor of the City of Oxon, becauſe he had been a conſtant benefactor to them, by the Orphans, to whom he had been a Father, and generally by all who knew the great vertues, piety▪ and learning of the Perſon, on the ſecond day of Novemb. in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven.1647. Whereupon his body was buried in the outer Chappel belonging to New Coll. between the pulpit and the ſcreen, leaving then behind him certain matters fit for the preſs. In 1677 Dr. Ralph Bridoake Biſhop of Chicheſter, who had in his younger years been patroniz'd by the ſaid Dr. Pink erected, out of gratitude, a comely monument for him on the W. wall of the outer Chappel, at ſome diſtance from his grave.

WILLIAM SLATYER a Sommerſetſhire man born, was matriculated as a Gentlemans Son of that County, and a member of St. Maries Hall in Lent time, an. 1600. aged 13 years. Whence tranſlating himſelf to Braſn. Coll. was entred there as a plebeians Son of the ſame County in July, 1607. The next year he took a degree in Arts, was made Fellow of the ſaid Coll, proceeded in that faculty, 1611. entred into holy Orders, was ſoon after beneficed, and in 1623 took the degrees in Divinity, being then in good eſteem for his knowledge in Engliſh Hiſtory, and his excellent vein in Lat. and Engliſh Poetry. His works are theſe.

Palae-Albion: or, the Hiſtorie of Great Britaine from the firſt peopling of this Iſland to the Raign of K. James. Lond. 1621. fol. in Lat. and Engl. verſe, the Lat. on one ſide and the Engliſh on the other; with various marginal notes on the Engliſh ſide, relating to Engliſh Hiſtory and Antiquity.

Pſalmes or Songs of Sion, turn'd into the language, and ſet to the tunes, of a ſtrange land—Printed at London, but when, I know not, becauſe not ſet down in the title.

Pſalmes in four languages and in four parts, ſet to the tunes of our Church—Printed at Lond. in tw. engraven on copper.

Genealogia Regis Jacobi—Lond. 1630. 'Tis in a thin fol. in lat. and Engl. and the Genealogie is derived from Adam. What other things he hath publiſhed I know not, nor any thing elſe of him, only that he giving way to fate at Otterden in Kent, where he was then, or before, (as I preſume) beneficed, in the month of Oct. or Nov. in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven, was there buried,1647. leaving behind him a Widow named Sarah. The Reader may be pleaſed now to know that one Will. Sclater a Bedfordſh. man born, was elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1593, was afterwards Vicar of Pitminſter in Sommerſetſhire and a publiſher of ſeveral Sermons, and Theological Tracts, as you may ſee in Oxford or Bodleys Catalogue of books; but this Perſon whoſe Sirname differs from him that was the Poet before-mention'd, muſt not to be taken to be the ſame with him, as ſome to my knowledge have done. He died in 1626 and left behind him a Son of both his names, who was born at Pitminſter, was Fellow of Kings Coll. alſo, and afterwards Miniſter of Columpton in Devon. Prebendary of Exeter and Doct. of Div. He hath ſeveral Sermons in print, of which one is entit.—Papiſto-Maſtix: or, Deborahs prayer againſt Gods enemies, on Judges 5.31. Lond. 1642. qu. and hath publiſhed An expoſition with notes on the fourth chap. of the Rom. Lond. 1650. qu. written by his Father, &c.

HENRY WILKINSON was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkſhire 9. Octob. 1566, made his firſt entrie into the Univerſity in Lent term 1581, elected Probationer-fellow of Merton Coll. by the favour of his Kinſman Mr. H. Savile the Warden, in the year 1586, proceeded in Arts, applyed his mind to the ſacred faculty, of which he was Bachelaur, and at length (1601) became Paſtor of Waddeſdon in Bucks. He hath written and publiſhed,

A Catechiſme for the uſe of the congregation of Waddeſdon in Bucks—This hath been ſeveral times printed in oct. and the fourth impreſſion came out at Lond. 1637.

The Debt-book; or, a treatiſe upon 13 Rom. ver. 8. wherein is handled the civil debt of money, or goods. Lond. 1625. oct. and other things which I have not yet ſeen. This Perſon being an old Puritan, was elected one of the Aſſembly of Divines in 1643, and dying on the 19 of March in ſixteen hundred forty and ſeven,1647/8. was buried in the Church at Waddeſdon before-mentioned, having had iſſue by his Wife Sarah, the only daughter of Arthur Wake (of whom I have made mention in Iſaac Wake an. 1632. p. 491.) three daughters, and ſix ſons, of which number Henry Wilkinſon Senior, commonly called Long Harry, was one; of whom ſhall be large mention made hereafter.

MICHAEL HUDSON a Weſtmorland man Reg. Matric. Univ. Oxon. P. P. fol. 87. b. born, became a poor ſerving child of Queens Coll. in the year 1621. and in that of his age 16, afterwards Tabarder, and in the year 1630 Fellow of that Houſe, he being then Maſter of Arts. About that time he took holy Orders, married Capt..... Pollards daughter of Newnham Courtney in Oxfordſhire, and was beneficed in Lincolnſhire: But when his Maj. K. Ch. 1. ſet up his ſtandard, he left his Benefice, adhered to him, and after Edghill battle, retiring to Oxon, was in Feb. 1642. actually created Doctor of Divinity, and made Chaplain to his Majeſty. About that time he being eſteemed an underſtanding and ſober Perſon and of great fidelity, was made Scoutmaſter General to the Army in the north parts of England, under the command of William Marqueſs of Newcaſtle, whereby he did wonderfully advantage himſelf in the ways and paſſes of thoſe parts. In that employment he continued ſome years, with very good ſucceſs. At length his Maj. (who uſually called him his plain dealing Chaplain, becauſe he told him his mind when others would, or durſt not) having an eſpecial reſpect for his ſignal loyalty and courage, entruſted him and John Aſhbournham one of the Groomes of his Bedchamber, with his Perſon, at what time he left Oxon in a diſguiſe 27. Apr. 1646, in order to ſurrender himſelf into the hands of the Scots, then beſieging Newark on Trent. Afterwards his Maj. being ſetled for a time in Newcaſtle, a Serjeant at Arms, or his Deputy, was ordered by the Parliament 23 of May following, to fetch our Author Hudſon to London, for conveying the King to the Scotch Army, and to bring Aſhbournham with him, but they having timely notice, drew aſide and eſcap'd the meſſenger. Afterwards Hudſon croſſing the Country in order to get to London, was diſcovered at Rocheſter, and apprehended on the 8 of June following, brought to London, and committed Priſoner to London-houſe. On the 18 of the ſame Month▪ he was examined by a Committee of Parliament, and confeſſed that the King, when he left Oxon, croſſed the Country, was at Henley in Oxfordſhire, Harrow on the hill, at Brentford, and almoſt perſwaded to go to London. Afterwards he went to St. Albans, and ſo to Harborow in Leycesterſhire, where the French Agent (Monſieur de Montereal or Montrevil) was to have met him, but came not. From thence he went to Stanford in Lincolnſhire, and thence to Downham in Norfolk, where he lay at a petty Alehouſe, and that ſometimes he paſſed by the name of Hudſons Tutor, at other times by the name of Doctor, and ſometimes went as Aſhbournhams Servant. On the 18. of Nov. the ſame year, he broke out of Priſon, and, as 'tis In the Memorials of Engliſh affairs, p. 237. ſaid, conveyed Letters from the King to Maj. Gen. Rowland Langhorne in Wales, which, I ſuppoſe, is falſe. In Janu. following, he was retaken by Maj. Gen. Sedenham Pointz, ſent from Hull to London, and committed cloſe priſoner to the Tower, with ſtrict order given, that none ſhould ſpeak with him, but in the preſence of his keeper. During his confinement there, he wrot,

The divine right of government, natural and political, in two books—Printed 1647. qu. wherein he ſhews himſelf to be a Scholar, as he before had, by his martial feats, a couragious Soldier. But he making an eſcape thence in the beginning of 1648, he went into Lincolnſhire, where he raiſed a party of horſe for his Majeſty, and had engaged ſome of the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like deſign. On the 6 of June 1648, intelligence was brought to the Parliament that the Malignants, that is the Royaliſts, were up in Arms in Lincolnſhire under the command of Dr. Hudſon, and two days following were letters read from Col. Tho. Waite that he had ſuppreſſed the inſurrection of Malignants at Stanford in Lincolnſhire and had killed their commander Dr. Hudſon. It ſeems the chief body of theſe Malignants ſo called, fled to Woodcroft houſe in the Pariſh of Helpſon near to Peterborow in Northamptonſhire about 7 miles diſtant from Stanford, where Hudſon was barbarouſly killed on the 6 of June in ſixteen hundred forty and eight.1648. The manner of which was briefly thus. After the Rebels had entred into the houſe, and had taken moſt of the Royaliſts, Hudſon with ſome of his couragious Soldiers went up to the battlements thereof, where they defended themſelves for ſome time. At length upon promiſe of quarter they yeilded, but when the Rebels had got in among them they denied quarter: Whereupon Hudſon, being thrown over the battlements, he caught hold of a ſpout or out-ſtone and there hung; but his hands being beat or cut off, he fell into the moat underneath, much wounded, and deſir'd to come on land to die there. Whereupon one Egborough (ſervant to Mr. Spinks the intruder into the Parſonage of Caſtor belonging to the Biſhop of Peterborough) knocked him on the head with the but-end of his musket. Which being done, one Walker a Chandler or Grocer in Stanford, cut out his tongue and carried it about the Country as a trophie. His body for the preſent was denied burial, yet after the enemy had left that place, he was by ſome Chriſtians committed to the earth. In Aug. 1684, I was informed by the letters of Mr. Joh. Whitehall Preb. of Peterborough and Dean of Oundle that the body of the ſaid Dr. Hudſon was removed ſoon after his death to Uffington near Stanford in Lincolnſhire where it was ſolemnly buried. Quaere. As for Egborough, he was not long after torn in pieces with his own gun, which burſt while it was under his arm in Long Orton; and Walker ſince, through poverty, quitted his trade, and was become a ſcorn and by-word to the boys when he paſſed through the ſtreets of Stanford.

JOHN WHITE uſually called Patriarch of Dorcheſter or Patriarch White, ſon of John White, was born in the time of Chriſtmas at Stanton S. John near to, and in the County of, Oxon, and was baptized there, 6. Jan. 1575, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Wincheſter, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had ſerved two years of probation, in the year 1595, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a frequent preacher in theſe parts. In 1606 he left his Coll. and about that time became, as I ſuppoſe, Rector of Trinity pariſh in Dorcheſter, in the County of Dorſet, where in the courſe of his Miniſtry he expounded the Scripture all over, and half over again, having had an excellent faculty in the clear and ſolid interpreting of it. So that his name being up in thoſe parts, gave occaſion to a neighbour Fred. Loſſius Hidelbergenſis Palatin. in Obſervationibus Medicinal. Lond. 1672. oct. lib. 1. obſervat. 15. p. 35. of his, (a puritanical Phyſician) to ſtile him Paſtor & Miniſter fideliſſimus, in quo praeter doctrinam inſignem, ingeniique vim acrem, mirum judicium, deinde & ſedulitas, pietas, atque fides incredibilis invicem certabant &c. But it muſt be known that theſe things were ſpoken of him after our Author White had bequeathed Reg. Fairfax in Offic. Prerog. qu. 105. to the ſaid Phyſician of Dorchester one of his pieces of plate. He was for the moſt part of his time a moderate, not moroſe or peeviſh, puritan, and conformed to the ceremonies of the Church of England before, and when, Archb. Laud ſate at the ſtern. But in the beginning of the Long Parliament, when the Saints raiſed a rebellion, he ſided with them, and with his Sub-levites. ...Thompſon and Will. Benne both Oxf. Students did in a miſerable manner cozen the people thereabouts with ſtrange Merc. Ant. in the 34 week, p. 468. reports, viz. That Maſs was ſaid openly in Oxon, that none but Papiſts were about his Majeſty, that 20000 Scots were already entred England, that they ſhould not look on any book printed at Oxon, or publiſhed by his Majeſties command. By which means they ſeduced almoſt all the Town to take the Covenant, aſſuring them moſt martyr-like that they would ſeal it with their blood, &c. But when Prince Rupert was in thoſe parts, and the knowledge of theſe Proceedings were ſpread abroad, a party of his Horſe retired to Dorcheſter, plunder'd the houſe of our Author White, and took away his library. So that he finding that place uneaſie, he and his Sub-Levites fled, and White retiring to London, was made Miniſter of the Savoy Pariſh, and carried on the Cauſe there. So that whereas before the Rebellion broke out, he, by his wiſdom, did keep the Inhabitants of Dorcheſter in good order and obedient to the Church, and alſo proved eminently uſeful in reforming the diſſolute manners of the people thereof, it fell out that after the turn of the times, it was by his means ſtocked with ſuch a factious and fanatical Crew, that all endeavours could not reform it, nor ever, as 'tis thought, will, it continuing ſo to this day. In 1643 he was choſen one of the Aſſembly of Divines, took the Covenant, and ſitting often with them at Weſtminſter, ſhewed himſelf one of the moſt learned and moderate among them, and ſoon after did by order not only ſucceed Dr. Featley in the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey, (ejected thence) but had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy it till ſuch time Dr. Featley could get back our Authors from the Soldiers under Prince Rupert. When the broils of the Nation were over, he repaired to Dorcheſter, and in Nov. 1647, was deſigned Warden of New Coll. upon the death of Dr. Pink, by Will. Lord Say, and Nath. Fiennes his ſon; but, if I am not miſtaken, he refuſed that office. He was a perſon of great gravity and preſence, and had always influence on the puritannical Party near to, and remote from, him, who bore him more reſpect, than they did to their Dioceſan. His works are theſe.

Commentary on the three firſt Chapters of Geneſis, with large Obſervations on the ſame. Lond. 1656. 57. fol.

Directions for the profitable reading of the Scriptures.—Printed in oct.

Of the Sabbath.—Printed in qu.

Way to the tree of life, in ſundry directions—Pr. 1647. oct. 'Tis the ſame, I think, which is called The Directory to perfection.

Several Sermons, as (1) The troubles of Jeruſalems Reſtauration: or the Churches Reformation, Faſt-ſermon before the H. of Lords, 26 Nov. 1645. on Dan. 9.15. Lond. 1646. qu. with others which I have not yet ſeen.

Ten vowes to the Pariſhioners of Dorcheſter—Mſ. written about the year 1628, anſwer'd by Dr. Gilb. Ironſide who became Biſhop of Briſtow in 1660. At length having lived beyond the age of man, died ſuddenly on the 21 of July, 1648. in ſixteen hundred forty and eight, and was inter'd in the Church porch of S. Peter in Dorcheſter, which is a Chappel belonging to Trinity Church before mentioned. Beſides this John White, was another of both his names, a Miniſters ſon, Doctor of Divinity, brother to Dr. Franc. White Biſhop of Ely and a publiſher of ſeveral books, born at S. Neots in Huntingdonſhire, bred in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became Vicar of Eccles in Lancaſhire. Whence, after he had continued ſome years, he was brought into Suffolk by Sir John Crofts, who beſtowed on him the beſt Living that he had to give. He ſent for him unknown from Eccles, where he lived in thoſe diſtreſſes, which he was never able to look through. He furniſhed him with books fit for his ſtudies, he honoured and countenanced him ſo much, that all the Country was ſatisfied he had a love and reſpect for him. He wrot a book called The way to the true Church, and A defence of it, againſt the two books that Joh. Fiſher the Jeſuit publiſhed, and other things as the Oxford Cat. will tell you. One T. W. P. (Prieſt) who had ſometimes, as it ſeems, been of Cambridge, wrot a book againſt Jo. White called White died black. But John dying before he could make a reply, his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the bucklers, and forthwith publiſhed a book againſt the ſaid T. W. intit. Orthodox faith and way to the Church explained, &c. Lond. 1617. qu. In the laſt In reg. Parker in Offic. Prerog. Qu. 17. will and teſt. of the ſaid John White without date, I find theſe things ſaid of himſelf— Whereas for 20 years paſt by preaching and writing, publiſhed in two books, I engaged my ſelf againſt Papiſtry; I profeſs I have done therein nothing againſt my Conſcience, but deſire all men to aſſure themſelves, that if any error hath eſcaped me, it hath paſſed me through overſight, when I always bended my ſelf to that work of writing, with much humility to God, and ſuch diligence as I was able to uſe: And having the books always by me, I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity, and in the writings publickly receiv'd in the Church of Rome it ſelf; and I conſtantly avouch, that what I have writ, is the truth, and have been the more confirmed therein by the unconſcionable behaviour of my Adverſaries againſt me, &c. This Will was proved 21 Feb. 1619, being two or more years after his death, at which time he was Chaplain in ordinary to the King; and his Father living, after he had ſpent 50 years in preaching the word of God.

EDWARD HERBERT ſon of Rich. Herbert by Magd. his wife, dau. of Sir Rich. Newport of High • Arcall in Shropſhire Knight, was born in the ſometimes moſt pleaſant and Romancy place in Wales called Mountgomery Caſtle, became a Gent. Com. of Univerſity Coll. in 1595, aged 14 years, where being put under the tuition of an eminent Tutor, laid the foundation of that admirable learning, whereof he was afterwards a compleat Maſter. Thence he betook himſelf to travel, as alſo to certain military exerciſes, in foreign parts, whereby he became much accompliſh'd. After his return, he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. afterwards one of the Counſellors to that King for his military affairs, and ſent Embaſſador to Lewes 13. King of France, to mediate for the relief of the Proteſtants in that Realm then beſieged in ſeveral places. In which ſervice continuing about five years, he was recalled Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. an. 1621. in July 1621, becauſe he had irreverently treated de Luyens the great Conſtable of France, and Edw. Sackvile was ſent in his place. In the 22 of K. Jam. 1. he was Baronag. of England, Tom. 2. p. 261. a. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of the Realm of Ireland by the name of Lord Herbert of Caſtle Iſland, and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Shropſhire. He was a perſon well ſtudied in the Arts and Languages, a good Philoſopher and Hiſtorian, and underſtood men, as well as books, as it evidently appears in his Writings, the titles of which follow.

De veritate, prout diſtinguitur à revelatione, à veriſimuli, à poſſibile & à falſo, &c. Par. 1624 and 1633. Lond. 1645. qu. &c. Tranſlated into French and printed 1639. qu, much valued by learned men, and repoſed, as 'tis ſaid, in the Popes Vatican. Anſwered by P. Gaſſendus in his third Tome (the title of which is Opuſcula philoſophica) from p. 411. to p. 419. in an Epiſtle directed to our Author Herbert—Lugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his More reaſons for the Chriſtian Religion, &c. Printed at Lond. in tw.

De cauſis errorum: una cum tractatu de religione Laici, & appendice ad ſacerdotes; nec non quibuſdam poematibus. Printed with the book De veritate, &c. 1645. qu.

Life and Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649 and 72. fol. Both which editions being collated with the original Mſ. in the Archives of Bodleys Library (given thereunto by the Author in 1643) by certain Scholars of this Univerſity, was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol.

Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream inſulam. Written by the Author in 1630, publiſhed by Timothy Baldwin Doct. of Law and Fellow of Allſ. Coll.—Lond. 1656. octav.

Occaſional Verſes (or Poems.) Lond. 1665. oct. publiſhed by Hen. Herbert his ſon, and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert Grandſon to the Author. Others of his Poems I have alſo ſeen in the books of other Authors, occaſionally written, particularly in that of Joſhua Silveſter, int. Lacrymae lacrymarum; or, the ſpirit of tears diſtilled for the untimely death of Pr. Henry. Lond. 1613▪ qu. There be others alſo of Sir Hen. Goodyere, Sir Will. Cornwallis, Joſ. Hall, &c.

De religione Gentilium, errorumque apud eos cauſis. Amſt. 1663. qu. At length after our Author Herbert had ſided with the Long Parliament, and had received ſatisfaction from the members thereof for their cauſing Mountgomery Caſtle to be demoliſhed, upon the declining of the Kings Cauſe, he ſurrendred up his laſt breath in his houſe in Queen ſtreet near London in ſixteen hundred forty and eight,1648. and was buried in the Chancel of S. Giles Church in the Fields. Over his grave, which is under the ſouth wall, was laid a flat marble ſtone with this Inſcription engraven thereon. Heic inhumatur corpus Edwardi Herbert Equitis Balnei, Baronis de Cherbury & Caſtle-Iſland, auctoris libri cui titulus eſt De veritate. Reddor ut herbae; viceſſimo die Auguſti anno domini, 1648. He was Father to Rich. Lord Herbert, and he to Edward, which laſt dying 21 Apr. 1691. was buried on the 28 of the ſame month near to the grave of his Grandfather. The Reader is to know, that one Edward Herbert an Eſquires ſon of the County of Mountgomery, was matriculated in the Univerſity as a member of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of July 1608 aged 17 years, but he is not to be taken to be the ſame with the former who was Lord Herbert, tho Iſaac Walton in the Printed at Lond. 1670. p. 14. life of Mr. George Herbert doth, and from him the ſociety of the ſaid Coll. I take him to be the ſame, who was afterwards a Knight and Attorney General, temp. Car. 1.

SAMUEL FELL was born within the Pariſh of S. Clements Danes without Temple-Barr near London, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Weſtminſter School 1601, aged 17 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Maſter being compleated in 1608, elected Proctor of the Univerſity in 1614, admitted Bac. of Div. in the year after, and about that time became Miniſter of Freſhwater in the Iſle of Wight. In the month of May 1619 he was inſtalled Canon of Ch. Ch. and the ſame year proceeded in Divinity, being about that time domeſtick Chaplain to King Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Margaret Profeſſor, and ſo conſequently Prebendary of Worceſter, (which was about that time annected to the Profeſſorſhip) he being then a Calviniſt. At length leaving his opinion, became, after great ſeekings and cringings, a Creature of Dr. Laud Archbiſhop of Canterbury, by whoſe means he was made Dean of Lichfield, upon the promotion of Dr. John Warner to the See of Rocheſter, an. 1637, Dean of Ch. Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa promoted to the See of Chicheſter, and would, without doubt, had not the Rebellion broke out, been a Biſhop. In 1647 he was ejected from his Deanery and Vicechancellourſhip, after he had ſuffered much for his Loyalty, and for the preſerving of the ſtatutes and liberties of the Univerſity. Afterwards retiring to his Rectory of Sunningwell near Abendon in Berks, ſpent the ſhort remainder of his life in obſcurity. He hath written and publiſhed,

Primitiae; ſive oratio habita Oxoniae in ſcholâ Theologiae 9 Nov. an. 1626. Oxon 1627. qu.

Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos die cinerum, in Coloſ. 2.8. Oxon. 1627. qu. and other things, as 'tis probable, but ſuch I have not yet ſeen. He died in the Parſonage-houſe at Sunningwell before mentioned, on the firſt day of Febr. in ſixteen hundred forty and eight,1648/9. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. In his Deanery Edward Reynolds M. A. (afterwards D. of Div.) had violently been thruſt in by the Authority of Parliament, in April 1648, as I have at large told In Hiſt. & Antiq. Ʋniv. Oxon. lib. 1. ſub an. 1647. & 48. you elſewhere.

WILLIAM TIPPING ſecond ſon of Sir George Tipp. of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordſhire Knight, by Dorothy his wife dau. of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks. Eſq. was born in Oxfordſhire, (at Dreycot I think) became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years, where making a conſiderable progreſs in Logicals and Philoſophicals, took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London, and ſpent ſome time in one of the Inns of Court, but his genie being theologically given, he retired to Oxon, lived a ſingle life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the ſake of ſcholaſtical company and of books, and was a Juſtice of the peace for Oxfordſhire. In the beginning of the civil War he ſided with the Presbyterians, (being always puritanically affected) took the Covenant, and at length was made one of the Viſitors of the Univerſity of Oxon by the power of Parliament, an. 1647, and the next year was actually created Maſter of Arts. He hath written,

A diſcourſe of Eternity. Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which, he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping, to diſtinguiſh him from others of his ſirname.

A return of Thankfulneſs for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous ſickneſs. Oxon 1640. oct.

A Fathers Counſel: or, directions to young perſons. Lond. 1644. oct.

The preachers plea: or, a ſhort declaration touching the ſad condition of our Clergy, in relation to the ſmalneſs of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom. Lond. 1646. in tw.

The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widdow, deceaſed in the 21 year of her age. Lond. 1647. in tw. He gave way to fate at Waterſtock near to, and in the County of, Oxon, on the ſecond day of Febr. in ſixteen hundred forty and eight, and was buried on the eighth day of the ſame month in the Chancel of the Church there.164 • . This perſon tho born to a fair eſtate, and ſo conſequently might have taken thoſe pleaſures which the generality of Gentlemen do, yet he gave himſelf ſolely up to Learning, Piety, and Charity. He gave 20 ſhillings yearly to Allſaints Pariſh in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday, and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell houſe without the north gate of the City, ſome years before the Rebellion broke out.

JOHN GEREE a Yorkſhire man born, became either a Batler or Servitour of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615, and in that of his age 15, took the degrees in Arts, that of Maſter being compleated in 1621, entred into holy orders, and became Miniſter of a market Town in Gloceſterſhire called Tewkesbury. But being ſchiſmatically inclined, he refuſed to conform to certain Ceremonies in the Church of England, whereupon being ſilenced by Goodman his Dioceſan, he lived by the helps of the Brethren. At length upon the change of the times in 1641, he was reſtored by the Committee of Religion to his ſaid Cure, where continuing till about 1645, became Preacher of the Word at S. Albans in Hertfordſhire, and in two years after, or leſs, at S. Faiths under Pauls in London: At all which places he was much reſorted to by thoſe of the Presbyterian Perſwaſion. He hath written and publiſhed theſe things following.

Several Sermons, viz. (1) The downfal of Antichriſt, &c. Sermon on 2 Theſ. 2.8. Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to John White Eſq. and the reſt of the Committee for Religion. (2) Judahs joy at the oath, (Covenant) Serm. on 2 Cor. 15.15. Lond. 1641. qu. (3) The red horſe, or the bloodineſs of war, Serm. at Pauls, 16 Jul. 1648. on Rev. 6.4. Lond. 1648. qu. &c.

Vindiciae voti: or, a Vindication of the true ſenſe of the national Covenant in anſwer to the Proteſtation proteſted. Lond. 1641. qu.

Vindiciae Eccleſ. Anglicanae: or, ten caſes reſolved, which diſcover, that tho there be need of Reformation in, yet not of Separation from, the Churches of Chriſt; in England. Lond. 1644. qu. ded. to Mr. Rich. Capell ſometimes of Magd. Coll.

Proofs that the King may without impeachment of his Oath, touching the Clergy at his Coronation, conſent to the abrogation of Epiſcopacy, and the Objections againſt it in two ſeveral Treatiſes printed at Oxon, fully anſwered. Lond. 1646. qu. in one ſheet. Or thus as 'tis in another Title, Caſe of Conſcience reſolved. Wherein it is cleared that the King may without impeachment of his oath, touching the Clergy at his Coronation, conſent to the abrogation of Epiſcopacy, Lond. 1646. qu. in one ſh. and half.

Aſtrologo-maſtix. The vanity of judicial Aſtrology. Lond. 1646. qu.

Vindiciae Paedo-Baptiſmi: or, a Vindication of Infant Baptiſm in a full anſwer to Mr. Tombes 12 Arguments alledged againſt it in his Exercitation, &c. Lond. 1646. quart.

Character of an old Engliſh Puritan, or Nonconformiſt. Lond. 1646. in 1 ſh. in qu.

Vindiciae vindiciarum: or, a Vindication of his vindication of Infant Biptiſm from the Exceptions of Mr. Harriſon in his Paedo-Baptiſme oppugned, and from the exceptions of Mr. Tombes &c. Lond. 1647. qu.

A Catechiſme in brief queſtions and anſwers &c. Lond. 1647. oct.

Touching Supremacy in Cauſes eccleſiaſtical, ſhewing how that the Power civil and eccleſiaſtical, may act without encroachment of each other.—Written 1647. printed in qu.

An Exerciſe, wherein the evil of Health-drinking is by clear and ſolid Arguments convinced. Lond. 1648. in two ſh. in qu.

The Sifters ſieve broken: or, a Reply to Dr. Boughen's ſiſting his Caſe of Conſcience, &c. touching the Kings Coronation Oath. Lond. 1648. qu.

Anſwer to Mr. John Goodwins Might and Right well met; wherein is cleared, that the action of the Army in ſecluding many Parliament men from the place of their diſcharge of truſt, and the impriſoning of ſome of them, is neither defenſible by the rules of ſolid reaſon, nor religion. Lond. 1649. qu. in 5 ſheets. Whereupon Jo. Goodwin came out with a Reply the ſame year intit. Might overcoming Right, &c. What other things our Author Joh. Geree hath written, I know not. See more of him in Will. Pemble among theſe Writers in 1623. p. 405. All that I have more to ſay of him is, that he died in his houſe in Ivey lane near to Pater-noſter-row in London in the latter end of the year (in Febr. as it ſeems) ſixteen hundred forty and eight,1648/9. but where buried, unleſs in S. Faiths Church before mentioned, I cannot tell. The Miniſter who preached his funeral Sermon told the Auditory that he died poor; whereupon there was a Collection of money made among the Brethren for his Children. This is the ſame Mr. Geree a Miniſter, whom a noted See Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Plea for the Nonconformiſts Miniſtry, Lond. 1681. p. 145. Author reports to have died with grief and trouble for the Murder of K. Ch. 1.

ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during his ſtay in the Univerſity, took the degrees in Arts as a Student of Ch. Ch. that of Maſter being compleated in 1615. Afterwards he became Rector of Stony-Stratford in Leiceſterſhire, wrot and publiſhed,

The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the original of Dominion. Wherein Gods perpetual propriety in the ſovereignty of the whole earth; and the Kings great charter for the adminiſtration thereof by authoritative Records in both the Teſtaments, &c. is jure divino.—Lond. 1648. qu. Clar. 1648. In which book the Author ſhews himſelf to be well read in various ſorts of Learning, and by ſome paſſages therein a Loyaliſt, and a ſufferer for the Kings cauſe.

GEORGE HAKEWILL ſon of John Hakewill of the City of Exeter Merchant, was born in the pariſh of S. Mary Arches within the ſaid City and educated in Grammar learning there, became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in the beginning of the year 1595 and in that of his age 16, where he became ſo noted a Diſputant and Orator, that he was unanimouſly elected Fellow of Exeter Coll. at two years ſtanding. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts, applyed himſelf to the deep reſearches in Philoſophy and Divinity, entred into the ſacred function, travelled beyond the ſeas, and at his return, became as noted for his Preaching and Diſputes, as before he was for Philoſophy. In 1610 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and the next year proceeded in Divinity. Afterwards he became the firſt ſworn Chaplain that attended Prince Charles, by whoſe endeavours, I preſume, he became Archdeacon of Surrey, an. 1616, which was the higheſt dignity that he enjoyed, being hindred, I preſume, from riſing higher for his zealous oppoſing the match of the Infanta of Spain with his Maſter the Prince. The ſtory of which was this: After he had with ſome pains written a ſmall Tract againſt that match, not without ſome Reflections on the Spaniard, which could not be pleaſing to the King, he cauſed it to be fairly tranſcribed by another hand. Which done, he unknown to the King preſented it to the Prince. The Prince after he had peruſed it, ſhew'd it to the King, who being offended at it, commanded Tho. Murrey the Princes Tutor and Secretary, the Author Hakewill, William his brother, and all others who knew of, or were conſenting to it, to be committed Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. ſub an. 1621. to cuſtody in Aug. 1621, whence being ſoon after releaſed, our Author Hakewill was diſmiſt from his attendance on the Prince. So that tho his Learning was accounted by the generality polite, his Philoſophy ſubtile, and Divinity profound, yet in this particular he was eſteemed very raſh and imprudent. A certain Author Sir Ant. Weldon in his Obſervations on K. Charles p. 217.218. at the end of his Court and Char. of K. James, printed 1651. oct. tells us, that when he preſented the ſaid MS. to the Prince, he ſhould ſay, Sir, I beſeech you make uſe of this, by reading it your ſelf, but if you ſhew it to your Father, I ſhall be undone for my good will. The Prince returned him many thanks, and aſſured him, it ſhould never go farther than the cabinet of his own breaſt; but withall he asked him to whom he had ſhew'd it, Hakewill replied, the Archbiſhop (Abbot) hath read it, who returning, ſaid to him, Well done thou good and faithful ſervant. Beſides him, he told the Prince, he had ſhewed it to Mr. Murrey his Tutor, who belike being better acquainted with his Maſters perfidious diſpoſition (ſo are the words of the libellous Author) than the other, did then diſſwade him from delivering it to the Prince, for ſaith he, he will betray you ▪ And it ſo fell out, for within leſs than two hours after his ſaid engagement to the Doctor, he preſented it to his Father, upon which he, or any thro whoſe hands or cognizance it had paſſed before, were all under a diſgrace, and baniſhed the Court, &c. The works of this our Author Hakewill are theſe.

The vanity of the eye. Oxon. 1608. in oct. Written for the comfort of a young Gentlewoman who became blind by the Small pox.

Scutum Regium adverſus omnes Regicidas & Regicidarum patronos ab initio mundi uſque ad interitum Phocae Imperatoris &c. lib. 3. Lond. 1612. oct.

The antient and eccleſiaſtical practice of Confirmation, confirmed by Arguments drawn from Scripture, Reaſon, Councils, Fathers, and later Writers, &c. Lond. 1613. qu.

Anſwer to a Treatiſe written by Dr. B. Carier by way of letter to his Majeſty, wherein he layeth down ſundry politick conſiderations, by which he pretendeth himſelf was mov'd, and endeavoureth to move others to be reconciled to the Ch. of Rome, &c. Lond. 1616. qu.

Treatiſe againſt the match with the Infanta—This little thing, which is in MS. I have not yet ſeen. But another of the like nature I have lying by me, written by one Thomas Allured ſometimes Secretary to Ralph Lord Ever Preſident of Wales, the beginning of which is this. Though to adviſe may ſeem preſumptuous, yet what is well intended, I am more than confident will be neither offenſive to your Lordſhip, &c. 'Twas written to the Marqueſs of Buckingham, who communicating it to the King, he was ſo much diſpleaſed, that the Author Allured was committed to cuſtody 10 June 1620, being a full year before Hakewill had written his Tract.

Twelve Sermons concerning Davids vow to reform himſelf, his Family, and his Kingdom, on Pſal. 101. Lond. 1621, 22. oct. Beſides which he hath other Sermons extant, as (1) Serm. preached at Barnſtaple, on Judg. 5.51. Lond. 1632. qu. (2) Serm. at the funeral of John Downe Bac. of Div. Rector of Inſtow in Devon. ſometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. on Dan. 12.3. Oxon 1633. quart.

Compariſon between the days of Purim and that of Powder Treaſon—Printed 1626. qu.

An Apology or Declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World, proving that it doth not decay, &c. in four books. Lond. 1627. To which were added two more—Lond. 1635. fol. 3d Edit. In the firſt of which are Hakewills Replyes to Biſhop Goodmans Arguments and Digreſſions, which he had made on the firſt four books of the before mentioned Apol. or Declar. having been incited thereunto by Hakewills former confutation of ſome paſſages in Biſh. Goodmans Fall of man, &c. relating to the eternity of the world, or for the univerſal and perpetual decay thereof, whereby Goodman would prove the fall of man. But this confutation made by our Author (whether in MS. or printed I know not) I have not yet ſeen.

Diſcourſe of the Lords day, on Rev. 1.10. Lond. 1641. quart.

Diſſertation with Dr. Heylyn concerning the pretended Sacrifice in the Euchariſt. Lond. 1641. qu.

A Treatiſe reſcuing Dr. Joh. Rainolds and other grave Divines, from the vain aſſaults of P. Heylyn, touching the Hiſtory of S. George, pretendedly by him aſſerted.—This I have ſeen in a MS. fol. but whether ever printed I cannot tell. Quaere. He alſo tranſlated into Latine The life of Sir Tho. Bodley, his Kinſman, which is in MS. in the publick Library. At length upon the promotion of Dr. Prideaux to the Biſhoprick of Worceſter, he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. (to which he had before been an eſpecial benefactor) but did little or not at all reſide upon it: for the Civil War breaking then forth, he receded to his Rectory of Heanton near to Barnſtaple in Devon. where he lived a retired life to the time of his death, which hapning in the beginning of April in ſixteen hundred forty and nine,1649. was buried on the fifth day of the ſame month in the chancel of the Church there. Over his grave was a ſtone afterwards laid, with this Inſcription ingraven thereon, Reliquiae Georgii Hakewell S. Th. D. Archidiaconi Surriae, collegii Exonienſis & hujus Eccleſiae Rectoris, in ſpem reſurrectionis hic repoſitae ſunt, an. 1649. aetatis ſuae 72. I have ſeen a copy of his laſt will and teſtament, proved 2 May 1649, wherein he deſires that his body might be buried in Exeter Coll. Chappel, if it could conveniently be; if not, at leaſt his heart under the Communion table, or under the desk where the Bible lays, with this Inſcription on a braſs plate to be put on it, Cor meum ad te Domine. But this I preſume was not done, becauſe no ſuch Inſcription appears. However the Society of Ex. Coll. did afterwards, in honor to his memory, hang up his Picture painted to the life in his doctoral formalities on the Organ-loft at the eaſt end of the iſle, joyning to the ſouth ſide of the Chappel. In the Rectory of the ſaid Coll. ſucceeded Mr. (afterwards Dr.) John Conant, and in his Archdeaconry, Joh. Pearſon D. D. of Cambridge, inſtalled therein 26 Sept. 1660, a learned man and famous for his Expoſition of the Creed, and other books. He was afterwards the worthy Biſhop of Cheſter, and died about the middle of July 1686.

ARTHUR DUCK was born of a wealthy family living at Heavytre in Devonſhire, (the place where afterwards his Father built an Hoſpital) became a Student in Exeter Coll. in the year 1595 and that of his age 15, took one degree in Arts in June 1599, and then was made Commoner of the ſaid Coll. Afterwards he tranſlated himſelf to Hart Hall, and as a member thereof proceeded in the ſaid faculty, an. 1602, and two years after was elected Fellow of Allſ. Coll. But his genie leading him to the ſtudy of the Civil Law, he took the degrees in that faculty, and much about the ſame time travelling into France, Italy and Germany, was after his return made Chancellour of the dioc. of Bathe and Wells. In which office behaving himſelf with great integrity, prudence and diſcretion, was honoured by, and beloved of, Lake Biſhop of that place, and the more for this reaſon, becauſe he was beholden to him for the right ordering of his juriſdiction. Afterwards he was made Chancellour of London, and at length Maſter of the Requeſts, and was in all likelyhood in a certain poſſibility of riſing higher, if the times had not interrupted him. In the beginning of 1640 he was elected Burgeſs for Q. Mynhead in Somerſetſhire to ſit in that Parliament which began at Weſtminſter 13 Apr. the ſame year, and ſoon after ſiding with his Maj. in the rebellious times ſuffer'd much in his eſtate, having 300 l. at one time given thence to one Serle a widdow. In the month of Sept. in 1648, he and Dr. Ryves were ſent for to Newport in the Iſle of Wight by his Majeſty, to be aſſiſting to him in his Treaty with the Commiſſioners ſent from Parliament. But that Treaty taking no effect, he retired to his habitation at Chiſwick near London, where, living to ſee his Maſter murdered before his own door, he ſoon after ended his life. He was a perſon of ſmooth Language, was an excellent Civilian, and a tolerable Poet, eſpecially in his younger days, and well vers'd in Hiſtories whether eccleſiaſtical or civil. He hath extant,

Vita Henrici Chichele Archiepiſcopi Cantuarienſis, ſub Regibus Henric. V. & VI. Oxon. 1617. qu. remitted into the Collection of Lives publiſhed by Dr. Bates, an. 1681.

De uſu & authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum in Dominiis Principum Chriſtianorum. lib. 2. Lond. 1 • 53. and 79. oct. Leyd •• 1654. Lipſ. 1668. in tw. &c. In which book Dr. Gerard Langbaines labours were ſo much, that he deſerved the name of Co-author. Dr. Duck paid his laſt debt to nature in the month of May in ſixteen hundred forty and nine,1649. and was buried in the Church at Chiſwick in Middleſex; to the poor of which place he gave 10 l. He left conſiderable legacies to Exeter and Allſ. Colleges, and 10 l. to the poor of North Cadbury in Somerſetſhire, beſides other gifts of charity elſewhere, which for brevity ſake I now paſs by.

RICHARD ALLEN was born in, or near to, Abendon in Berks, was originally of Ball. Coll. and as a member of that houſe he took one degree in Arts. Afterwards he was made one of the firſt Scholars of Pembr. Coll, proceeded in his faculty, was made Fellow, and at length beneficed near Ewelme in Oxfordſhire. He hath written,

An antidote againſt hereſie: or, a preſervative for Proteſtants againſt the poyſon of Papiſts, Anabaptiſts, &c. Lond. 1648. dedicated to his Uncles Sir Tho. Gainsford Kt, Clar. 1649. and Humph. Huddleſton Eſq. One of both his names, but after in time, was Paſtor of Henfield in Suſſex, and Author of Englands Diſtemper, their cauſe and cure according to the judgment of famous Princes, Peers, Parliaments, &c. occaſion'd by a learned Frier, accuſing the whole Nation of Perjury for abjuring Tranſubſtantiation; and ſent to the Author for a reply. Lond. 1677. qu. in 3 ſh and an half. Whether this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know not. I ſhall make mention of Rich. Allein among theſe Writers under the year 1681.

NICHOLAS DARTON a Corniſh man born, was entred into Exet. Coll. either in the condition of a Batler or Servitour, in Mich. term 1618 aged 15 years, took one degree in Arts, afterwards holy orders, and at length became Miniſter of Killesbye in Northamptonſhire. He hath extant,

Several ſermons, as (1) The true and abſolute Biſhop, with the Converts return unto him, on 1 Pet 2.25. Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to Will. Lord Say; at which time, the Author, who was always before eſteemed a Puritan, cloſed with the Presbyterian Party. He hath one or more extant, which I have not yet ſeen.

Eccleſia Anglicana: or, Clar. 1649. his clear and proteſtant Manifeſto, as an evangelical key ſent to the Governour of Oxford, for the opening of the Church doors there, that are ſhut up without prayers or preaching,—Printed 1649. qu.

JOHN PRIDEAUX was born in an obſcure town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devon, on the 17 of Sept. 1578, became a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme Bach. of Div. in Act term 1596, and in 1602 was elected probat. Fellow of that houſe, being then Bach. of Arts. In the year after, he proceeded in that Faculty, and thereupon entred into holy Orders: ſo that being ſoon after noted for his great Learning and profound Divinity, he was elected Rector of his Coll. upon the death of Holland, in 1612, he being then Bach. of Div. and the ſame year proceeded in the ſame faculty. In 1615 he was upon the promotion of Dr. Abbot to the See of Sarum, made the Kings Profeſſor of Divinity, by vertue of which, he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordſhire: And afterwards did undergo the Office of Vicechancellour of this Univerſity for ſeveral years, as I have elſewhere told you. In the Rectorſhip of his College he carried himſelf ſo winning and pleaſing by his gentle government and fatherly inſtruction, that it flouriſhed more than any houſe in the Univerſity with Scholars, as well of great, as of mean birth; as alſo with many Foreigners that came purpoſely to ſet at his feet to gain inſtruction. So zealous he was alſo in appointing induſtrious and careful Tutors, that in ſhort time many were fitted to do ſervice in the Church and State. In his Profeſſorſhip he behaved himſelf very plauſible to the generality, eſpecially for this reaſon, that in his Lectures, Diſputes, and Moderatings, (which were always frequented with many Auditors) he ſhew'd himſelf a ſtout Champion againſt Socinus and Arminius. Which being diſrelliſh'd by ſome, who were then riſing and in authority at Court, a faction thereupon grew up in the Univerſity between thoſe called Puritans or Calviniſts on the one ſide, and the Remonſtrants, commonly called Arminians on the other: which, with other matters of the like nature, being not only fomented in the Univerſity but throughout the Nation, all things thereupon were brought into confuſion, to the ſorrow of the Puritan, who had with all his might oppoſed Canterbury in his generous deſigns of making the Engliſh Church glorious. At length after he had ſate 26 years Profeſſor, he was one of thoſe perſons of unblemiſhed reputation, that his Majeſty, tho late, made a Biſhop, by the endeavours, as ſome ſay, of James Marq. of Hamilton his ſomtimes Pupil. The See which he was deſign'd to govern was Worceſter, to which being elected 22. of Nov. was conſecrated at Weſtminſter on the 19. of Dec. following, an. 1641, but received little or no profit from it, to his great impoveriſhment. So that upon that account and for his adhering to his Maj. in the time of the Civil War, (wherein he pronounced all thoſe of his dioceſs that took up arms againſt him excommunicated) he became at length Verus Dr. Jo. Gauden in his book intit. A pillar of gratitude, p. 13. Librorum helluo, for having firſt by indefatigable ſtudies, digeſted his excellent Library into his mind, was after forced again to devour all his books with his teeth; turning them by a miraculous faith and patience into bread for himſelf and his children, to whom he left no legacy, but pious poverty, Gods bleſſing, and a Fathers prayers, as it appears in his laſt will and teſtament. He was an humble man, of plain and downright behaviour, careleſs of money, and imprudent in worldly matters. All that knew him eſteem'd him a noted Artiſt, a plentiful fountain of all ſorts of learning, an excellent Linguiſt, a Perſon of a prodigious memory, and ſo profound a Divine, that they have been pleaſed to entitle him Columna fidei orthodoxae, and Malleus Hereſecus, Patrum Pater, and ingens Scholae & Academiae oraculum. In him alſo (as an ingenious Nath. Carpenter in his Geography delineated, &c. lib. 2. cap. 15. Author ſaith) the heroical wits of Jewell, Rainolds and Hooker, as united into one, ſeem'd to triumph anew, and to have threatned a fatal blow to the Babyloniſh Hierarchy: Inſomuch that he might have juſtly challenged to himſelf that glory, which ſometimes Ovid, ſpeaking of his own Country, Mantua Virgilium laudet, Verona Catullum Romanae gent is gloria dicar ego.

As his learning was admired by forreigners, Sext. Amama, Rivet and others, ſo were his books, eſpecially thoſe written in Latine; a cat. of which, and of the Engliſh follow.

Tabulae ad Grammaticam Graecam introductoriae, &c. Oxon. 1608. 1629. 39. &c. qu.

Tyrocinium ad Syllogiſmum legitimum contexendum.

Heptades Logicae: ſive monita ad ampliores tractatus introductoria. Theſe two laſt are printed and go with the Tabulae, &c.

Caſtigatio cujuſdem circulatoris, qui R. P. Andream Eudaemon—Johannem Cydonium E Soc. Jeſu ſeipſum nuncupat. Oppoſita ipſius calumniis in Epiſtolam Iſaaci Caſauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum. Oxon. 1614. oct.

Alloquium ſereniſſ. Reg. Jacobo Woodſtochiae habitum 24. Aug. 1624. pr. in one ſh. in qu.

Orationes novem inaugurales, de totidem Theologiae apicibus, prout in promotione Doctorum, Oxoniae publicè proponebantur in Comitiis. Oxon. 1626. qu.

Lectiones decem de totidem religionis capitibus, praecipuè hoc tempore controverſis prout publicè habebantur Oxoniae in veſperiis. Oxon. 1625. qu.

Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. at the conſecration of Exeter Coll. Chap. on Luke 19.46. Oxon. 1625. qu. (2) Purez Uzzah, Serm. before the K. at Woodſtock, on 2. Sam. 6. ver. 6.7. Oxon. 1625. qu. (3) Concio ad Art. Baccalaureos pro more habita in eccleſia B. Mariae Oxon. in die cinerum, in Act. 2.22. an. 1616. Oxon. 1626.

Twenty Sermons. Oxon. 1636. qu. The two firſt of which are entit. Chriſts counſell for ending law caſes. Among them are the Conſecration Serm. and Perez-Uzzah beforementioned.

Nine Sermons on ſeveral occaſions. Oxon. 1641. qu.

Lectiones XXII, Orationes XIII, Conciones VI, & Oratio ad Jacobum Regem. Oxon. 1648 fol. Among which are contained the former Lections, Orations, and Speech to the K. Jam. at Woodſt.

Faſciculus controverſiarum ad Juniorum aut occupatorum captum collegatus, &c. Oxon. 1649. 51. 52. qu.

Theologiae Scholaſticae Syntagma Mnemonicum. Oxon 1651.

Conciliorum Synopſis. Printed with the Syntagma beforementioned. Publiſhed in Engliſh at the end of An eaſie and compendious introduction, &c. mentioned before in Mathias Prideaux.

Hiſtorie of ſucceſſions in ſtates, countries or families, &c. Oxon. 1653. &c.

Epiſtola de Epiſcopatu. fol. a fragment of which I have ſeen in one folio ſh.

Euchologia: or, the doctrine of practical praying, being a legacy left to his daughters in private, directing them to ſuch manifold uſes of our Common-prayer-book, as may ſatisfie upon all occaſions, without looking after new lights from extemporal flaſhes. Lond. 1655. 56. oct. &c. Dedicated to his daughters Sarah Hodges Wife of Will. Hodges D. D. Archd. of Worceſter. and Elizabeth Sutton.

The doctrine of conſcience framed according to the form in the Common-prayer, left as a legacy to his Wife.—Printed in tw.

Manuductio ad Theologiam polemicam. Oxon. 1657. oct. Publiſhed by Mr. Tho. Barlow, with an Epiſtle before it, in the name of the printer.

Hypomnemata Logica, Rhetorica, Phyſ. Metaphyſ. &c. Oxon. in oct.

Sacred eloquence: or, the art of Rhetorick, as it is laid down in Scripture. Lond. 1659. oct. What other things are publiſhed under his name I know not, unleſs a Comment on the Church Catechiſme. pr. 1656. in oct. and therefore I am to add that he departing this mortal life, of a Feaver, at Bredon in Worceſterſhire, in the houſe of Dr. Hen. Sutton, (Son of Will. Sutton D. D. Chanc. of Gloceſter and Rector of Bredon) who married his daughter Elizabeth, 1650. on the twentieth day of July in ſixteen hundred and fifty, was accompanied to his grave, in the Chancel of the Church there, by many Perſons of quality in the neighbourhood of that place, on the 16. of Auguſt following. Over his grave was a plain ſtone ſoon after laid with an Epitaph compoſed by himſelf, (the day and year of his death excepted) engraven on a braſs plate, fixed thereunto; the copy of which is already In Hiſt. & Antiq. Ʋniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 99. printed, wherein you'll find that he was ſometimes Chaplain to Pr. Henry, and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. Before I go any farther, I ſhall take leave, upon the hint before-mentioned of Dr. Prideaux's making his College floriſh, to ſet down the names of ſuch Outlanders that have retired to Exeter Coll. for his ſake, have had Chambers there and diet, purpoſely to improve themſelves by his company, his inſtruction, and direction for courſe of ſtudies. Some of them have been Divines of note, and others meer Lay-men, that have been eminent in their reſpective Countries, wherein afterwards they have lived; moſt of them are theſe. Joh. Combachius the Philoſopher, Phil. Cluver the Geographer, Sixt. Amama Linguiſt, Nichol. Vignier and Dav. Primeroſe two learned Frenchmen: All whom are already mentioned among theſe Writers. Chriſtian. Rumphius an eminent Phyſician; ſee in the Faſti an. 1613. Jacobus Dorvilius commonly called D'Orville a Gentlemans Son of Heidelberg in Germany, matriculated as a member of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term 1615, and in that of his age 19. Joh. Schermarius a learned German, who occurs a member of Ex. Coll. 1613, in which year he had certain lat. verſes publiſhed at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frederick Dorvilius two other Germans, who are mentioned in the Faſti, an. 1613. and 15. Joh. Rodolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia, was a Sojournour of the ſaid Coll. in Mich. term 1615, and afterwards publiſhed ſome of Pet. Martyrs works, as I have before told you. Joh. Waſerus a Native of the ſame place, entred Soj. in the ſame term and year, and afterwards the writer of Elementale Chaldaicum, and other things. Caeſar Calendrinus entred into the ſaid Coll. in the beginning of 1616. ſee in the Faſti 1620. Imanius Young or de Junge a Zelander, in Mich. term 1619. Paul Amaraut or Amarant a Germ. matriculated among the Exonians, 1619 aged 18. Chriſtian Son of Herman Julius Viceroy to the K. of Denmark in the Iſle of Gotland, Gregory and Errick Sons of Pet. Julius Lord of Alſted, Linberg, &c. in Denmark. Which three young men were inſtructed in Logick and Philoſophy by Dr. Prideaux. Ovenius Julius elder brother to the ſaid Chriſtian, was alſo a Student in the ſaid Coll. under Prideaux, who dying 26. Sept. 1607. aged 23, was buried at the upper end of the S. iſle joyning to the body of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards Chriſtian put up a monument over his grave, which is yet remaining, but defaced. Mark Zeiglier a German, was entred into the Coll. about 1624. Wibbo Janſonius Artopaeus, Finſoendenſis Civis, Gen. was admitted into the Coll. in June 1635 aged 20. Hieronimus Erneſti Erffurto • Thuringus, was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of Aug. 1638, and continued in the College till July 1641. Beſides theſe and many more, which ſhall now be omitted, have been ſeveral of the Scotch nation that have been received into the ſaid Houſe, upon the ſame account, among which have been (1) Joh. Balcanquall: ſee in the Faſti 1612. among the Incorporations (2) .... Gilman who ſtudied there 1613, and ſome time after (3) Sam. Balcanquall, 1616. One of both his names occurs Fellow of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge 20 years after: See in the Faſti 1618 among the Incorporations (4) Rob. Spotſwood M. of Arts of Glaſcow was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of the year 1613. He was afterwards raiſed by the favour of K. James and K. Ch. 1. unto great honours, as his ſingular virtues did merit. K. Jam. made him a Knight and a Privy Counſellour: K. Charles advanced him to be Lord Preſident of the Seſſions, and at length Principal Secretary of Scotland, in the place of William Earl of Lanerick, (afterwards Duke of Hamilton) when he revolted to the Covenateers of that Kingdom. After James Marqueſs of Montroſs had gained great victories againſt the ſaid Cov. the ſaid Sir Rob. Spotſwood conveyed from the King at Oxon to him the ſaid Montroſs letters pattents whereby he was made Vice-Roy of Scotland, and General of the Army there. But being ſoon after taken priſoner, upon the defeat of Montroſs near Silkerke, he was conveyed to S. Andrews, where, at length, they found him guilty of High Treaſon, lamented by many, becauſe he never bore arms againſt them; for his eminency laid in the way of peace, and knew not what belonged to the drawing of a ſword. His treaſon being for conveying the ſaid let. pat. he was beheaded at S. Andrews, in 1645, leaving then behind him the general character of a moſt excellent and good man. He was a Gentleman of great abilities, both in the Art of Government and ſtudy of the law, hath written things in nature of our Reports of the law, which have been highly valued among Lawyers in Scotland. His Father was Dr. Joh. Spotſwood the famous and orthodox Theologiſt of Scotland, conſecrated Archbiſhop of Glaſcow in the Archbiſhps Chappel at Lambeth near London, according to the ceremonies of the Church of England, on the 20. of Oct. 1610. At which time Gawen Hamilton was conſecrated Biſhop of Galloway, and Andr. Lamb B. of Brechin. The ſaid Dr. Spotſwood was afterwards tranſlated to St. Andrews, and dying on the fourth of the Cal. of Dec. an. 1639. aged 74 years, was buried in the Abbey Church at Weſtminſter. (5) James Hamilton Earl of Arran, Baron of Evenu in Scotland, and of Ennerdale in Cumberland, eldeſt Son of James Marqueſs of Hamilton, was admitted a Noble man under the ſaid Dr. Prideaux his tuition, 6. Jul. 1621. He was afterwards Marqueſs and Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Cambridge. (6) James Baylie Governour to the ſaid Count, was admitted at the ſame time to the Fellows table with him. See in the Faſti 1621. among the Creations. It is farther alſo to be noted, that as the ſaid College did ſend out many eminent men into the Church and State, that had been under the Government of Prideaux, ſo alſo many that did great miſchief, and were enemies to them, as you may ſee at large in this work, in the lives and characters of ſeveral that had been educated in the ſaid College. Some alſo of the Engliſh Nobility having been ſent thereunto, have by the Principles that they have ſucked in, proved no great friends either to the Church or State. Among ſuch have been John Lord Roberts E. of Radnor a ſevere predeſtinarian, and a Promoter of the grand Rebellion. Philip Lord Wharton another Promoter; Sir Anth. Aſhley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury, of whom ſhall be large mention made elſewhere, Philip the ſecond, Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery, who lived and died little better than a Quaker, &c.

HENRY TOZER was born at North Tawton in Devonſhire, entred into Exeter Coll. in 1619, and in the year of his age 17, took one degree in Arts, and then was made Prob. Fellow of his Houſe 1623. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty, took holy orders and became a uſeful and neceſſary Perſon in the ſociety by moderating, reading to Novices and lecturing in the Chappel. At riper years he was admitted Bach. of Div, became an able and painful Preacher, had much of the Primitive Religion in his Sermons, and ſeem'd to be a moſt preciſe Puritan in his looks and life, which was the true reaſon why his preachings and expoundings in the Churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were much frequented by Men and Women of the Puritanical party. In 1643, he was elected one of the Aſſembly of Divines, but refuſed to ſit among them, chooſing rather to exerciſe his function in Oxon before the K. or Parliament, or in his cures there, than venture himſelf among rigid Calviniſts. In 1646, a little before the garriſon of Oxford was ſurrendred for the uſe of the Parliament, he was one of thoſe noted Theologiſts, who had either preached at Ch. Ch. before his Majeſty, or at S. Maries before the Parliament, that were nominated by the Chancellour of the Univerſity to have the degree of D. of D. beſtowed upon them, but that alſo, he, as others, refuſed. In 1647. and 48, he behav'd himſelf a ſtout Champion againſt the unreaſonable proceedings of the Viſitors appointed by Parliament. For which being by them poſted up for an expell'd Scholar, revoked their ſentence ſo far, that by an order dated 2. Nov. 16 • 8, they impower'd him to have liberty to uſe his Chamber in Exeter Coll. as alſo that he enjoy a Travellers allowance for three years. Afterwards he went into Holland, and became Miniſter to the worſhipful company of Engliſh Merchants at Roterdam. His works are theſe.

Directions for a godly life, eſpecially for communicating at the Lords table. Oxon. 1628. oct. There again the tenth time, 1680. oct.

Several Sermons, as (1) A Chriſtian amendment, Serm. on New-years-day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. on 2. Cor. 5.17. Oxon. 1633. oct. (2) Chriſtian Wiſdom, or the excellency, &c. of true wiſdom, Serm. on 1. Kings 10.24. Oxon. 1639. oct. (3) Sermon on Joh. 18.3. Ox. 1640. &c.

Dicta & facta Chriſti ex quatuor Evangeliſtis collecta, & in ordme diſpoſita. Oxon. 1634. oct. He gave way to fate on the eleventh day of Septemb. in ſixteen hundred and fifty (old ſtile) and was buried in the Engliſh Church at Roterdam, appropriated to the aforeſaid Merchants,1650. as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marſhall lately Rector of Linc. College, who ſucceeded him in that office of Preacher there.

HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an antient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommerſetſhire called Dulverton, became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606, took a degree in Arts as a member of that Houſe, made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundreſs thereof, an. 1613, and the year after proceeded in Arts, being the firſt of all that Coll. that took that degree. Afterwards he entred into the ſacred function, was made Prieſt by Lewis Biſhop of Bangor, in 1621, had the Rectory of Aſhbrittle in Sommerſetſhire beſtowed on him, by the preſentation of his Majeſty an. 1627, and three years after, that of Pokington in the ſaid County by the ſame hand. About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Eſcrick; ſo that thereby being capacitated to hold ſeveral Benefices, had the Rectory of Odcomb • in the ſame County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644, Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong, being then in his minority and a Ward. Which three Benefices, or at leaſt two, he loſt ſoon after by the Parliamentarian commiſſioners of Sommerſetſhire. He was a Perſon of a quaint and curious ſtile, better at practical, than School, Divinity, and was ſo eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham. He hath publiſhed theſe Sermons following.

Five Sermons preached upon ſeveral occaſions. Lond. 1627. qu. (1) The Athenian Babler, on Acts 17.18. (2) Jacob and Eſau &c. on Rom. 9.18. (3) Arraignment of an Arrian, on Joh. 8.58. (4) Moſes and Aaron &c. on Exod. 4.12. (5) Natures overthrow and deaths triumph, on Eccleſ. 12.5. preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625.

Other Sermons. Lond. 1630. qu. The firſt of which is called The paſſing bell, on Pſal. 32.6. (2) The rich mans warning peece, on Pſal. 62.10. (3) The waters of Marah and Meribah, on Rom. 12.1.

Sermons upon ſolemn occaſions preached in ſeveral auditories. Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number, and the firſt is entit. The well-tun'd Cymbal, on Pſal. 15.16. preached at the dedication of an Organ lately ſet up at Bruton in Sommerſetſhire. All which Sermons were at their preaching and publiſhing wonderfully cried up by moſt People of underſtanding; but books have their credit or diſcredit from the fancy of their readers, as they pleaſe to like or diſlike. He paid his laſt debt to nature in Sommerſetſhire in ſixteen hundred and fifty, or thereabouts,1650. but where buried, unleſs at Dulverton, I cannot tell, nor whether he had any other Sermons publiſhed after his death.

JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Maries Hall, where he was obſerved by his contemporaries to be ſtudious and a good Diſputant. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, he became Miniſter of Broadcliſt in Devonſhire, and wrot

Clar. 1650.A diſcovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures, &c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct. What other things he hath publiſh'd I know not, nor any thing elſe of him.

SAMUEL YERWORTH, or Jeruvorthus as he writes himſelf in the title of the book following, was born in Dorſetſhire, became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards, being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue, taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students, and for their benefit wrot,

Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam breviſſima, praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta, eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta, complectens, &c. Oxon. 1650. oct. At the time when it was publiſhed he gave notice to the Reader, Clar. 1650. that if the ſaid introduction ſhould be kindly received, he would put forth a more full and compleat Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter, as need ſhould require, but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars, and ſo conſequently the Author ſtood to his promiſe, I know not.

WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of playes with Will. Shakeſpear, was born in London, elected from Weſtminſter School a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Maſter being compleated in 1628, and, at hours of receſs from happier employments, than the delight of poetry, compoſed,

The fatal contract, comedie. Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy, by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived, See An account of the Engliſh Dramatick Poets, &c. Oxon. 1691. oct. p. 247. written by Gerard Langbaine. not many years ſince, under the title of Love and revenge, with ſome alterations; and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch, a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle, was ſaid in the firſt edition of it, 1653. to be a French Comedie.

The Jewes Tragedy: or, their fatal and final overthrow by Veſpaſian, and Titus his Son. Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentick Hiſtory of Joſephus. Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability, but whether they are yet publiſhed, I cannot tell. However the Fatal contract having juſtly gained an eſteem with men of excellent judgments, Clar. 1650. by ſeveral copies of it that flew abroad in Mſ, was therefore publiſhed for the ſatisfaction of all Perſons, eſpecially ſuch who had lighted upon imperfect copies.

CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names, was born at Cardiff in Glamorganſhire, became a Servitour of New Inn in Midſommer or Act term, 1635, aged 17 years, took a degree in Arts, holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedneſs aſcend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Baylie joyning to the ſaid Inn, and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical, as well as Lay, auditors. In 1642, he proceeded Maſter of Arts, and was Junior of the Act then celebrated, at which time he performed the exerciſe of that office with more confidence than was ſeemly. He himſelf In his Trial in Weſtm. hall, printed in Aug. 1651. tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon, and Maſter of Arts, he was the firſt Scholar that he knew of, or ever heard of in Oxon, that did publickly refuſe in the Congregation houſe to ſubſcribe unto thoſe impoſitions, or Canons, impoſed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer. For which, tho they would not denie him his degree, yet he was expelled the congregation, never to ſit as a member among them, &c. About that time he left the Univerſity, went to, or near, London, and became a ſedulous preacher up of treaſon and rebellion— About the beginning of the Wars (ſaith Ibid. he) I was the firſt Miniſter that I knew of in England, who was accuſed of preaching treaſon and rebellion, meerly for maintaining in a Sermon, in Kent at Tenterden, the lawfulneſs of a defenſive War, at the firſt breaking out and irruption of our troubles, &c So that being then eſteemed a leading man in the bleſſed cauſe, he became Preacher to the Garriſon of Windſore caſtle, then under the command of Collonel John Venn. In which office he ſhewed him ſo violent againſt the King and his cauſe, that he was uſually ſtiled by the Royaliſts Venns principal fireman at Windſore. This Venn, by the way it muſt be known, did, while Governour of that Caſtle, exerciſe very great cruelty againſt the Royaliſts that were Priſoners there; but being diſmiſt of his employ and Col. Chriſtopher Whitchcot put into his place, he retired to London, carried on the cauſe there with great zeal, was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himſelf in his chamber, as ſome ſay, others, that he died ſuddenly in his bed, on the 7 of July at night, or early next morning, an. 1650. In the year 1644, when the Commiſſioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace, this our Author Love did very officiouſly put himſelf upon preaching before ſome of them, on the firſt day of their meeting, (Jan. 30) being the Market-day. In which his Sermon, full of dire, he vented many paſſages very ſcandalous to his Majeſties Perſon, and derogatory to his honour, ſtirring up the People againſt the Treatie, and incenſing them againſt the Kings Commiſſioners, telling the ſaid People that they came with hearts full of blood, and that there was as great diſtance between the Treatie and Peace as between Heaven and Hell, or words to that effect, with divers other ſeditious paſſages againſt his Maj. and the Treaty. Whereupon the Commiſſioners belonging to the King, putting up their complaints to thoſe of the Parliament, they repreſented the matter to the Lords and Commons aſſembled at Weſtminſter, who thereupon, Merc. Aulicus Feb. 10. an. 1644. p. 1378. tho they could not with good conſcience impriſon Mr. Love, yet they did confine him; and where ſhould it be, but to that very houſe where his Miſtreſs then lived, whom for two years going before, he had wooed with prayers, ſermons and ugly faces. After this he was made Miniſter of S. Anns Church near to Alderſgate, a Recruiter of the Aſſemb. of Divines, and at length Miniſter of the Church of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London, which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt, and brought him to the Scaffold when he leaſt looked for it, which was upon this account. After the Presbyterians had been gull'd of their King by the Independents, the prime heads of them were reſolved to ſet up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland, and there had taken the Covenant and was crown'd, the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them, and to that end correſponded with him, and ſupplied him and his, with money contrary to an Act of Parliament, then lately made, in that caſe provided. Theſe matters being diſcovered, our Author Love, Mr. Tho. Caſe, Mr. Will. Jenkyns, and other London Miniſters, as alſo one Dr. Roger Drake, (a Phyſician as it ſeems) were by authority of the Council of State taken into cuſtody about the 7. of May 1651, as being the chief Actors in the ſaid treaſon, as they then called it. Soon after, it was reſolved by the great Maſters at Weſtminſter, that Mr. Love the Miniſter, then Priſoner in the Tower, ſhould be brought to his trial before the High Court of Juſtice on the 20. of June 1651, not for any matter of doctrine, as it was then given out, but for high treaſon as they ſaid, and conſpiracy againſt the common-wealth of England. He and the reſt (as the Independent then ſaid) had outſtript the Jeſuit both in practice and project, as having not only tamper'd with mens conſciences in private, (beyond which the Jeſuit doth very rarely venture) but preached open rebellion and treaſon with a full mouth in the Pulpit. On the ſaid day he made his firſt appearance in order to his trial, and one Jackſon a Miniſter (Arth. Jackſon, as it ſeems) refuſing then to give in evidence againſt him, was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Priſoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again, and, as 'twas then ſaid by his enemies, in his carriage and behaviour he diſcover'd as much ridiculous impudence, equivocation and hypocriſie, as ever any Perſon did upon the like occaſion, adding that in him you might have ſeen the true character of his faction, full of paſſion and ſpleen and void of all ingenuity. On the 25. and 27. days of the ſaid month of June, he appeared again, and on the laſt of thoſe two days he brought his counſel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale, Mr. John Archer, and Mr. Tho. Walter, but the two laſt, having not taken the Engagement, were not ſuffer'd to plead for him. At which time Mr. Love, as the Independent ſaid, was full of malepert carriage, matchleſs impudence, obſtinacy and impatiency. On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the ſame month, but then ſeveral petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf, viz. one from divers Miniſters, another from himſelf, and a third from his Wife, he was repriev'd till the 15. of Aug. following, and thence to the 22. of the ſame month. What farther may be ſaid concerning his principles and profeſſion, you ſhall have it from his own mouth In his Trial beforementioned, and in his Speech on the Scaffold. which he ſpoke. When he was tried for his life, thus— God is my witneſs, I never drove a malignant deſign, I never carried on a malignant intereſt, I deteſt both. I ſtill retain my covenanting principles, from which, through the grace of God, I will never depart, for any terrour or perſwaſion whatſoever—I do retain as great a keeneſs, and ſhall whilſt I live, and as ſtrong an oppoſition againſt a malignant intereſt, whether in Scotland or in England, or in any part of the world, againſt the Nation where I live, and have to this day, as ever I did in former times—I have all along engaged my eſtate and life in the Parliaments quarrel againſt the forces raiſed by the King. I gave my all, and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulneſs of a defenſive war, but (unleſs my books and wearing apparrel) I contributed all I had in the world—and tho my life is endeavoured to be taken away, yet for all that I repent not of what I have done—I have in my meaſure ventured my all, in the ſame quarrel that you were engaged in, and lifted up my hands in the ſame Covenant, that took ſweet counſel together, and walked in fellowſhip one with another.—I die cleaving to all thoſe Oathes, Vowes, Covenants and Proteſtations that were impoſed by the two Houſes of Parliament, as owning them, and dying with my judgment for them, to the proteſtation, the vow, and the covenant, the ſolemn league and covenant. And this I tell you all, that I had rather die a Covenant keeper, than live a Covenant breaker, &c. As for his writings and works they are theſe.

The debauched Cavilier: or, the Engliſh Midianite: wherein are compared by way of parallel the carriage or rather miſcarriage of the Cavaliers, &c. Lond. 1642. Which Pamphlet, tho 'tis but one ſheet in quarto, yet forſooth he had a co-operator in writing it, and who ſhould that be but one George Laurence of New Inn, as rank a Preſbyterian as Love.

Englands diſtemper, having diviſion and errour, as its cauſe; wanting peace and truth for its cure, &c. Serm. preached at Uxbridge 30. Jan. 1644. on Jerem. 33.6. Lond. 1645. qu.

His vindication from thoſe ſcandalous aſperſions caſt upon him by the Malignant party, who charge him to be a hinderer of the treaty at Uxbridge, &c.—Printed with Englands Diſtemper, and by it ſelf in one ſh. in qu. at Lond. 1651.

Short and plain animadverſions on ſome paſſages in Mr. Will. Dells Sermon preached before the H. of Commons, 25. Nov. 1646. on Heb. 9.10. Lond. 1646. and 47. qu. Which animadverſions were replyed upon the ſame year by Dell. The reader is to note, that our Author Love preached the ſame day, being a ſolemn Faſt, before the ſaid H. of Commons; but his Sermon being much diſpleaſing to the Independents, and malepert againſt the then proceedings of Parliament, he had neither thanks given him, or order to print it, but Dell, a Miniſter attending on his excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, being encouraged to print his, netled Love ſo much, that he forthwith wrot the ſaid animadverſions.

Anſwer to an unlicenſed Pamphlet annext to the Sermon, entit. A reply to Mr. Loves contradictions. Lond. 1647. oct. Which Reply to the contradictions of Mr. Loves Sermon, was written, as it ſeems, by Dell.

His caſe—Pr. 1651. qu. and thereupon followed ſoon after Quaeries upon it, but who wrot them I know not.

His vindication—Printed 1651. qu. pen'd by himſelf.

His Advocate—Pr. 1651. qu. pen'd, as I have been informed, by himſelf.

Several petitions to the Parl. in Jul. and Aug. Lond. 1651. qu.

A full narrative of the late dangerous deſigne againſt the ſtate, &c. Lond. 1651. qu. This is ſaid to be written by him, and by him ſent to the Parl. Wherein he ſetteth down his ſeveral meetings and ſeveral actings with Major Alford, &c. Mr. Tho. Caſe, Mr. Tho. Cawton, Dr. Drake, Mr. Rich. Drake, Maj. Rob. Huntingdon, Mr. Will. Jenkyns, &c.

His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Tower-hill, 22. Aug. 1651. Lond. 1651. qu. On which Sp. and Pr. were animadverſions made and publiſhed by Anonymus, and on his decollation a Poem by Dr. Rob. Wild Rector of Ainoe in Northamptonſhire intit. The tragedy of Chriſtop. Love at Tower-hill. Lond. 1660 in one ſh. in qu.

Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The ſum and ſubſtance of the laſt 15 Sermons preached by him. Lond. 1652. in oct. there again 1654, and a third time in 1657. qu. The firſt Sermon is on 1. Kings 14. part of the 13. verſ. publiſhed with an Epiſtle before them, ſubſcribed by Edm. Calamy, Simeon Aſh, Jerem. Whitaker and Will. Taylor, dated 13. Feb. 1634.

Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. B. being the laſt Sermon he ever preached, on Job 30.23.—Printed with the book of Grace beforemention'd.

Againſt the ſaid Sermons were great complaints See The Beacons quenched, &c. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 14. made by divers Officers of the Army and other notorious Independents to the Parliament in 1652, thus—ſeveral pamphlets have been lately publiſhed in vindication of Mr. Love, wherein they (the Presbyterians) account him a Martyr (as in the pref. to his Sermons) and charge the Parliament with injuſtice in putting him to death, &c. more particularly Mr. Edm. Calamy in his late Epiſtle before Mr. Loves Sermons; and his funeral Sermon hangs out a flag of defiance to the State, proclaiming Mr. Love to die in, and for the, Lord: And the Saints (meaning the Independents and Anabaptiſts) he calls Murtherers, Traytors, Rebels, Blaſphemers, &c. and chargeth the higheſt ſins to have aſcended into Pulpits and Thrones, &c. But upon examination, Mr. Calamy (as 'tis See The Beacon flaming with a non obſtante. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 2. ſaid) was not the Author of that Preface, but another, more violent than he.

Heavens glory, Hells terror: or, two treatiſes, the one concerning the glory of the Saints with Jeſus Chriſt, as a ſpur to duty, in 10 Sermons. The other of the torments of the damned, as a preſervative againſt ſecurity, in 8 Sermons. Lond. 1653. 58. qu.

Soules cordiall, in two treatiſes. Lond. 1653. oct.

Treatiſe of effectual calling and election, in 16 Sermons on 2. Pet. 1.10. Lond. 1653. qu. ibid. 1658. oct. This treatiſe hath an Epiſt. commend. before it, ſubſcribed by E. Calamy, Jerem. Whitaker, Simeon Aſh, Will. Taylor and Allen Geere.

Scripture rules to be obſerved in buying and ſelling. Lond. 1653. on one ſide of a ſh. of paper.

The true doctrine of mortification and ſincerity, in oppoſition to hypocriſie. Lond. 1654. in oct.

Combate between the fleſh and the ſpirit; as alſo the woful withdrawing of the ſpirit of God, with the cauſes thereof, &c. being the ſum and ſubſtance of 27 Sermons. Lond. 1654. 58. qu. Ded. by Will. Taylor to Edw. Bradſhaw Mayor of Cheſter, and the Epiſt. to the reader is ſubſcrib'd by E. Calamy, S. Aſh, and Jer. Whitaker, beforemention'd.

Sum or ſubſtance of practical Divinity: or, the grounds of religion in a catechiſtical way. Lond. 1654. in tw.

Chriſtians directory, tending to direct him in the various conditions that God hath caſt him into, in 15 Sermons. Lond. 1654 and 58 qu. The Epiſt. to the Reader is ſubſcrib'd by Calamy, Aſh, Taylor and Geere before mention'd, all Presbyterians.

The dejected Soules cure, tending to ſupport poor drooping ſinners, &c in divers ſermons. Lond. 1657. qu.

The miniſtry of the Angels to the heirs of Salvation. Or, a treatiſe of Angels. Lond. 1657. qu.

Of the Omnipreſence of God, in ſeveral ſermons, began 13 May 1649, and ended 3 June following. Lond. 1657. qu.

The ſinners Legacy to their poſterity, on Lam. 5.8. Lond. 1657. qu.

Theſe four laſt books have an Epiſt. commend▪ before them, ſubſcribed by Calamy, Aſh, and Taylor before mentioned, as alſo by Will. Whitaker, Math. Poole and Joſ. Church, Presbyterians.

The penitent pardon'd. A Treatiſe wherein is handled the duty of confeſſion of ſin, and the privilege of the pardon of ſin. Lond. 1657. qu.

Diſcourſe of Chriſts aſcenſion into heaven, and of his coming again from heaven, wherein the opinion of the Chioliſts is conſidered and ſolidly confuted. Lond. 1657. qu. This, with The penitent pardoned, &c. is the ſubſtance of ſeveral Sermons: Both publiſhed by Calamy, Aſh, Taylor, and Will. Whitaker before mention'd.

The natural mans caſe ſtated: or, an exact map of the little world, Man, in 17 ſermons. Lond. 1658. oct. Theſe are all the things that he hath extant, as I conceive, and therefore I have nothing more to ſay, only that he was beheaded on Tower-hill on the 22 of Auguſt in ſixteen hundred fifty and one.1651. Whereupon his body being afterwards carried to his houſe, and there repoſited for a time, was buried, with great lamentation by the Brethren, on the north ſide of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Laurence in the Jewry before mention'd: At which time Mr. Tho. Manton one of the chief Presbyterians in London preached his Funeral Sermon, which was afterwards made publick. It was obſerved by many, and looked upon as miraculous by the Brethren, that when the members of the Rump Parliament had paſſed their votes for his death, did happen one of the moſt terrible thunder claps that was ever heard. Alſo that that day on which he ſuffer'd, was ſeen a moſt clear sky; but ſoon after his death, which was about two of the clock in the afternoon, the sky began to thicken, and at laſt was envelop'd in a black and diſmal Cloud, and all that night and till the next morning, ſuch thunder, lightning and tempeſt hapned, as if the machine of the world had been diſſolving. This was the obſervation of the Presbyterian, who ſtuck not to ſay thereupon that God was angry at theſe things that had paſſed, &c. Yet the Independent, Anabaptiſt, and others, made another conſtruction of the matter, which was publiſhed ſoon after in the common Mercury called Politicus, viz. That on the 22 of Aug. the old Tyrant (Ch. 1.) did firſt erect his Standard at Nottingham, and then Mr. Love and his Brethren did well to cry it down. But it being down, and themſelves not ſet up (as they expected) then they deſerted their firſt principles, and cryed up his ſon; whoſe intereſt (however diſguiſed) is the ſame with his fathers; and he, by their inſtigation making way into England, entred and erected his Standard at Worceſter alſo, upon the 22 of Aug. 1651: upon which very day likewiſe it was, that Mr. Love, who having help'd to beat down the old malignant Standard, and then turning Apoſtate to ſet up the new one, loſt his head upon Tower-hill, as a juſt judgment of God for his implacable Apoſtacy and Enmity, and for a terror to all the men of his Confederacy, &c. At the ſame time, and upon the ſame Scaffold, was beheaded Mr. Jo. Gibbons engaged in the ſame plot; but as for others engaged therein and to be brought to their tryal, viz. Col. Joſeph Vaughan ſometimes a Leather-ſeller in London, Lieut. Col. ..... Jackſon, Capt. Hugh Maſſey (brother to Maj. Gen. Edw. Maſſey) Dr. Drake, Mr. Th. Caſe, Mr. Arthur Jackſon, Mr. W. Jenkyns Miniſter of Ch. Church in London, Mr. Th. Watſon, Mr. Ralph Robinſon, Mr. Rich. Heyrick, &c. were upon the motion of a certain noble perſon pardoned for Life and Eſtate, and freed both from Sequeſtration and Impriſonment.

CLEMENT WALKER was born at Cliffe in Dorſetſhire, educated in Acad. learning in Ch. Church, as I have been informed by his ſon Joh. Walker, ſometimes a Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll. but in what year, or years, of the Lord, I know not, for his name occurs not in the Matricula, either under Ch. Church, or Broadgates Hall adjoyning, a receptacle moſtly in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for Dorſetſhire men. Afterwards leaving the Univerſity without a degree, he retired to an Eſtate he had at Charterhouſe near Wells in Somerſetſhire, where living in good repute, was eſteem'd among the Gentry in thoſe parts for his knowledge in ſecular affairs, and always taken to be, as really he was, an enemy to the Puritans, as making it his frequent theme to declaim againſt them. Before the Civil War commenc'd, he was made Uſher of the Exchequer, but when the Puritans or Presbyterians were like to carry all before, he cloſed with, them, was elected one of the Burgeſſes for the City of Wells upon the retreat to his Maj. of Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir Edw. Rodney, who were elected to ſerve for that City in the Parliament began at Weſtminſter 3 Nov. 1640. Afterwards he became a zealous Covenantier, and was Advocate to that Congregation of Murderers, that adjudged Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher Citizens of Briſtow to death, having had (as 'tis In The two ſtate Martyrs; or the murther of Mr. R. Yeomans and Mr. G. Bowcher, &c. printed 1643 in qu. p. 11. See alſo in M • r. Ruſticus, nu. 19. ſaid) his hands ſtayned with his own Wives blood, before he dipped them ſo deep in thoſe Martyrs at Briſtow. About that time he and W Prynne, (inſeparable Brethren) became great Enemies to Col. Nath. Fiennes for his cowardly ſurrendring up the City of Briſtow, and were the chief men that brought him to a tryal for his life for the ſame. During the time that our Author Walker ſate in the Parliament, he was a curious Obſerver, and diligent Enquirer after, not only the Actions, but the Counſels of thoſe times. He was well read alſo, and notably vers'd in the Liberties and Privileges of Parliaments, and in the Statute Law of this Kingdom, as thoſe that knew him well, have often affirmed it: And when he ſaw how the Independent Faction began to ſway, and govern all things, then did he become a bitter enemy to Fairfax the General for his folly to be led by the noſe by O. Cromwell, and to Cromwell for his deviliſh hypocriſie, falſneſs, tyranny, &c. and an indefatigable enemy in his Writings and Prayers againſt the ſaid Independents that were then the Saints militant. But ſo it was, that tho he ſhew'd himſelf a zealous Presbyterian, yet he was very ſerviceable in many things to the Parliament, and did not at all get as others did, as his own In the firſt part of The Hiſtory of Independency, §. 49. words, which I believe are true, averr it thus— I have ſerved you (the Parliament) faithfully from the beginning, and have taken as much pains, and run as many hazards as moſt men in your ſervice, wherein I have loſt my health, and above ſeven thouſand pounds of my eſtate, without any penny of compenſation, as other men have had. Nor have I laid my hands upon any mans money or goods, or had any gainful Imployments from you. I was contented to ſerve my Country gratis, and ſome little honor I had gotten thereby, whereof you have now rob'd me, &c. by a roaving He was accuſed for ſetting on the Apprentices to force the H. of Commons. Accuſation ſhot at random at me, &c. Thus our Author: which ſervice of his was performed till 1647, when he ſaw the Independent Faction to grow mighty, he being then an elderly man and of a low ſtature. His works that are publiſhed are theſe.

An Anſwer to Col. Nathan Fiennes relation concerning his ſurrender of the City and Caſtle of Briſtow.—printed 1643 in 2 ſheets in qu. But for ſome miſconſtruction made of a clauſe in the ſaid anſwer, the Author was ſuddenly ſeiz'd and ſent Priſoner to the Tower of Lond. by the Parliament, where he continued for ſome time.

Articles of impeachment and accuſation, exhibited in Parliament againſt Col. Nath. Fiennes touching his diſhonorable ſurrender of the City and Caſtle of Briſtow. Lond. 1643. in 2 ſh. in qu. W. Prynne had a hand alſo in drawing up of the ſaid articles: at the end of which is his letter to the ſaid Fiennes.

True and full relation of the proſecution, arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governour of the City and Caſtle of Briſt. before a Counſel of War, held at S. Albans, during 9 days ſpace, in Decemb. 1643. Lond. 1644. qu. The ſaid Prynne was his co-operator in this work alſo.

Declaration and proteſtation againſt the actings and proceedings of the Army and their Faction, now remaining in the H. of Commons.—This was written on the 19 of Jan. 1648, the Author being then a member of that houſe ſecured, after he, with many of his fellows, had been by force taken thence.

Six ſerious Queries concerning the Kings tryal by the High Court of Juſtice—The Authors name is not ſet to them, but by all believed to have been written by Walker.

The myſterie of the two Juntoes, Presbyterian and Independent. Lond. 1647. in 3 ſh. in qu.

Hiſtorie of Independency, with the riſe, growth and practices of that powerful and reſtleſs faction. Lond. 1648. qu.

A liſt of the names of the members of the H. of Commons, obſerving which are Officers of the Army, contrary to the ſelf denying ordinance: together with ſuch ſums of money, Offices and Lands, as they have given to themſelves for ſervice done, or to be done, againſt the King and Kingdom. Lond. 1648. This being printed in one ſh. in qu. was ſoon after remitted into the firſt part of the Hiſt. of Independency. See more in George Wharton.

Appendix to the Hiſt. of Independency, being a brief deſcription of ſome few of Argyles proceedings, before and ſince he joyned in confederacy with the Independent Junto in England. Lond. 1648. qu.

Parallel between Argyle and Cromwell.—This is printed with the Appendix.

Anarchia Anglicana: Or, the hiſtory of Independency; the ſecond part. Lond. 1649. qu. Put out as the former part was, under the name of Theodorus verax.

The High Court of Juſtice: or, Cromwells ſlaughter houſe, being the third part of the Hiſt. of Indep. Lond. 1651. qu. Out of which, as alſo the two former parts, were many things tranſlated into Latine, and printed beyond the ſeas in a manual, 1653. After the Kings Reſtauration, one T. M. added a fourth part; which, with all the things before mentioned from The myſterie of the two Juntoes, &c. were printed in one thick volume in qu.—Lond. 1661. Upon the coming out of the ſec. part of the Hiſt. of Independency, the Author being diſcover'd by Cromwell, was committed Priſoner to the Tower of London, 13 Nov. 1649, where having got allowance of pen, ink, and paper, he wrot the third part of that hiſtory. He gave way to fate there, to the great grief of the Presbyterian Party, in the month of Octob. in ſixteen hundred fifty and one:1651. whereupon his body was conveyed to the Church of Allhallowes Barkin near to the ſaid Tower, and there buried, as I have been informed by his ſaid ſon John Walker. The next Writer that muſt follow according to time, was the greateſt Royaliſt in the age he lived, and a perſon much reverenced by thoſe who knew his Vertues and Piety.

RICHARD STEUART was born of a gentile family in Northamptonſhire, (at Patiſhul I think) became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1608 aged 14 or thereabouts, elected Fellow of Allſ. Coll. in 1613, being then Bach. of Arts, proceeded in his Faculty, ſtudied the Civil Law for a time, and took one degree therein. In 1624 he proceeded in the ſaid Faculty, and in 1628 he was made Preb. of Worceſter on the death of Rich. Potter Bach. of Div. About the beginning of March 1629 he had the Prebendſhip of North Aulton in the Church of Sarum confer'd upon him, and about that time was made Chapl. in ord. to his Majeſty. In 1634 he became Dean of Chicheſter in the place of Dr. Franc. Dee promoted to the See of Peterborough, and ſoon after Clerk of the Cloſet, in the room of Dr. Math. Wren, and Prebendary of Weſtminſter in his place, an. 1638. In which year he reſigned his Prebendſhip of Worceſter, and was ſucceeded therein by Will. Smith D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll. About the ſame time he was made Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral, and in Dec. or Jan. 1639 Provoſt of Eaton Coll. in the room of Sir Hen. Wotton deceaſed. He was alſo at the ſame time Dean of the Chappel Royal, and when Dr Williams Biſhop of Linc. (who kept the Deanery of Weſtminſter in commendam with that See) was tranſlated to York, he was made Dean of that Collegiat Church, not in 164 • , but in 1645. While he remained in the Univerſity, he was accounted a good Poet and Orator, and after he had left it a noted Divine, eloquent Preacher, and a perſon of a ſmart fluent ſtile. In the beginning of the Rebellion he ſuffer'd much for the Kings cauſe, loſt all, and at length retiring to France, became a great Champion for the Proteſtant cauſe at Paris, where, at le Hoſtle de Blinville, he preached an excellent ſermon of the Engliſh caſe, or Hezekiahs reformation, in vindication of ours. So that whereas Mr. Rich. Baxter in ſeveral of his publick Writings doth moſt uncharitably See in Tho. Pierce his Appendix to the New diſcoverer diſcovered, &c. §. 44. ſuggeſt as if he, (Dr. Steuart) when at Paris, had a deſign to introduce the French Popery by preaching, it appears to the contrary not only in that, but in another ſermon preached in defence of the Proteſtants againſt the Papiſts in an Auditory of Prelatiſts there. Beſides alſo, he, with that publick ſpirited man Sir George Ratcliff, did go very far in making an accommodation between the Janſeniſts and the reformed Party, our Author being then Chaplain to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. His works are theſe.

An anſwer to a letter written at Oxford and ſuperſcribed to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and Revenues thereof—Printed 1647 in 5 ſheets and an half in qu. This afterwards came out under this title, A diſcourſe of Epiſcopacy and Sacrilege by way of letter, written 1646. Lond. 1683. qu. The ſaid letter was written not at Oxon, but rather at Ailesbury by Joh. Fountaine lately a Royaliſt, but then a Turn-coat.

Three Sermons (1) On 1 Cor. 10.30. (2) On Mat. 28.6. (3) On 1 Cor. 15.29. Lond. 1656 and 58. in twelv.

Trias ſacra: A ſecond Ternary of ſermons. Lond. 1659 in tw.

Catholique Divinity: or, the moſt ſolid and ſententious expreſſions of the primitive Doctors of the Church, with other eccleſiaſtical and civil Authors, &c. Lond. 1657. oct.

Other ſermons, as (1) The Engliſh caſe exactly ſet down by Hezekiahs reformation, in a Court ſermon at Paris on 2 Kings 18.22. Lond. 1659. oct. and before: publiſhed for the full vindication of the Church of England from the Romaniſts charge of Schiſm, and commended to the conſideration of the late Author of The Grotian Religion diſcovered. The picture of K. Ch. 2. is ſet before the title. (2) Golden remains, or three ſermons, the firſt on Phil. 4.17. the ſecond on Mark 6.20. and the third on Heb. 10.1, 2. Lond. 1661. in tw. &c.

The old Puritan detected and defeated: or, a brief treatiſe ſhewing how by the artifice of pulpit Prayers, our Diſſenters at all times have endeavoured to undermine the Liturgy of the reformed Church of England. Together with the fault and danger of ſuch Prayers, whether vented ex tempore, or forethought by a ſpeaker. Lond. 1682, in one ſh. in qu. ſaid by the Bookſeller, who printed it, that Dr. Rich. Steuart was the Author. See more in Rich. Sherlock, an. 1689. The deſign of this ſmall treatiſe is, (as alſo another of the ſame ſubject, viz. about the meaning of the 55 Canon publiſhed by Dr. Heylyn) to make out and evidence that the 55 of K. Jam. 1. enjoyns only an exhortation to, or bidding of Prayer, and that that Canon contains an expreſs and preciſe form of Prayer, not in the leaſt to be deviated from by Miniſters, and that the primary deſign and ſcope of this Canon, was not barely to lay down and preſcribe matter, heads, and contents of Prayer, which were to be left to be worded and expreſſed according to the diſcretion of the Miniſter; which laſt is owned to be the more general practice of our Divines, tho he ſaith it is directly againſt the intendment of the Canon. Theſe are all the things that Dr. Steuart hath written, as I conceive, and therefore I ſhall only ſay, that when he lay upon his Death-bed at Paris in Nov. in ſixteen hundred fifty and one, K. Ch. 2. gave him two viſits,1651. being then newly arrived there from his eſcape from Worceſter Fight, and his concealment in England, and that he was interred in an open burying place in the ſuburbs of S. German, walled in, and ſome time before granted to thoſe of the reformed Religion to bury the bodies of their deceaſed. His Epitaph over his grave, made ſome years after his deceaſe, tells us that he died on the 14 of Nov. 1652, but falſe, for it ſhould be 1651, for every one of the Engliſh Nation that was then at Paris, ſaith that he died ſhortly after K. Ch. 2. came into France after his Eſcape from Worceſter Fight, which was in the month of Octob. 1651. See his Epitaph in Hiſt. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 182.

HENRY IRETON eldeſt ſon and heir of German Ireton of Attenton in Nottinghamſhire Eſq. and brother to Sir Jo. Ireton Lord Mayor of London 1658, was born there, or at leaſt in that County, became a Gent. Com. of Trinity Coll. in the year 1626 and in that of his age 16, took one degree in Arts in 1629, but left the Univerſity without compleating that degree by Determination: At which time he had the character in that houſe of a ſtubborn and ſawcy fellow towards the Seniors, and therefore his company was not at all wanting. Afterwards he went to the Middle Temple, learned ſome grounds of the common Law, became a man of a working and laborious brain, which in the end led him into ſome errors. When the grand Rebellion broke out, he, as a perſon natur'd to miſchief, took up Arms againſt the King, and about that time married Bridget one of the daughters of Oliv. Cromwell then a Colonel of a Regiment, afterwards Lord Protector of England. By whoſe endeavours, he became firſt a Captain, afterwards a Colonel of a Regiment of Horſe, and at length Commiſſary General upon the new modelling of the Army, in the beginning of the year 1645. About that time I find him an active man, and one very buſie in breaking the Presbyterian Faction in the Houſe of Commons, to the end that the Independents might get the King into their own clutches. His parts and abilities were ſuch, his diſſimulation ſo profound, and his miſchievous deſigns had ſo clean a conveyance, that his Father-in-law Cromwell made frequent uſe of him when he was put to a puſh to compleat his wicked deſigns: And having always found him to be very capacious of overthrowing Monarchy, and a thorow-pac'd diſſembler under the mask of Religion, (being abſolutely the beſt Prayer-maker and Preacher in the Army) he, with Col. Joh. Lambert (who had likewiſe ſtudied in the Inns of Court and was of a ſubtle working brain) did put him upon writing a Remonſtrance on the Armies behalf for juſtice to be done on the King. Whereupon retiring in private for ſome days to Windſore Caſtle, as I have been informed, he drew up the Remonſtrance, and after he had communicated it to Fairfax the Generaliſſimo (whom he and Cromwell made a ſtalking horſe, and to believe any thing) and the prime Officers of the Army, they cauſed it to be delivered to the H. of Commons, by the hands of Col. Iſaac Ewer and ſeven other Officers: Which done, it was printed under this title.

A Remonſtrance of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, Lord General of the Parliament Forces, and of the general council of Officers held at S. Albans the 16 of Nov. 1648. preſented to the Commons aſſembled in Parliament, the 20 inſtant, and tendered to the conſideration of the whole Kingdom. Lond. 1648, in 9 ſheets in qu. Which Remonſtrance being read to his Maj. at Newport in the Iſle of Wight, he propounded four Queries thereupon againſt the power of the Army, which may be ſeen in his Works printed 1662. p. 671. The ſaid Ireton alſo who was about that time one of the Commiſſioners of the Navy, did write, or at leaſt had a chief hand in a certain Pamphlet called

The Agreement of the people—meaning of the Army, publiſhed in the month of Jan. 1648; judiciouſly anſwer'd by Will. Aſhurſt Eſq. a Parliament man for Newton in Lancaſhire and a Presbyterian. The ſaid Agreement (with a Petition) was preſented Bulſtrode Whitlock in his Memorials of Engl. affaires, in Jan. 1648. p. 364. b. to the Parliament in the name of all the Army, by Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond, and divers chief Officers thereof, on the 20 day of the ſame month of Jan. He the ſaid Ireton was chiefly employed alſo, and took upon him the buſineſs of the pen in all the Declarations, Deſires, Modules, and Tranſactions of the Army, nay and in all or moſt Letters written by Fairfax the General to the Parliament, before the K. was beheaded, being eſteemed a perſon full of invention and induſtry, and skill'd in the common Law. About that time he became a buſie man to bring his Maj. to his Tryal, had a hand in drawing up the Ordinance for it, and the Precept for proclaiming the High Court of Juſtice, ſate as a Judge among the reſt when he was tried, and was one of the Committee that appointed the time and place of his Execution. Afterwards, in June 1649, he was appointed by Parliament the next Commander in chief under Cromwell in his Expedition for Ireland, that is to be Maj. General, and after his arrival, a Commiſſion and Patent was ſent to him to be Preſident of Mounſter. After Cromwell the Lord Lieutenant had given an account to the Parliament of affairs done there, he returned into England in June 1650, at which time he left Ireton his Deputy to proſecute the Parliaments Intereſt there, and acting highly againſt ſuch that they called Rebels, was, in his way to Limerick, taken with a ſudden diſeaſe, (ſome ſaid the plague) on the 16 day of November: whereupon being conveyed in all haſt to Limerick, died there on the 26 of the ſaid month, in ſixteen hundred fifty and one.1651. Afterwards Col. Edm. Ludlow, who was Lieut. Gen. of the Army there, did execute the Office of Deputy for a time by the appointment of the ſuperior Power. On the 9 of Dec. the Parliament ordered a Bill to be brought in for the ſetling of 2000 l. per an. on the Wife and Children of Ireton, out of the Lands belonging to George Duke of Bucks, and on the 17 of the ſaid month, his carcaſs being landed at Briſtow, was pompouſly conveyed towards London, and laying in ſtate for a time in Somerſet houſe in the Strand, all hung with black, was hung over the common gate an Atchievment commonly called a Hatchment, with this Motto under his Arms depicted thereon, Dulce eſt pro patria mori, which was engliſhed by an honeſt Cavalier thus, It is good for his Country that he is dead. On the ſixth day of Febr. following, his body was interr'd with great ſtate in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Weſtminſter; at which time John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. preached (not without ſome blaſphemy) on Dan. 12.13. and had about that time Elegies made on his death, and a ſtately tomb erected over his grave with the Effigies of him and his wife thereon. After the Reſtauration of K. Ch. 2. his body, with that of Oliv. Cromwell, were taken up on Saturday 26 Jan. 1660, and on Munday night following, were drawn in two ſeveral Carts from Weſtminſter to the Red Lyon in Holbourne, where they continued that Evening. The next morning the carcaſs of Joh. Bradſhaw Preſident of the High Court of Juſtice (which had been with great ſolemnity buried in S. Peter's Church at Weſtminſter 22 Nov. 1659.) was carried in a cart to Holbourn alſo: and the next day following that, (which was the 30 of January, on which day K. Ch. 1. was beheaded in 1648.) they were drawn to Tybourne on three ſeveral Sledges, followed by the univerſal outcry of the people. Afterwards they being pulled out from their Coffins, were hanged at the ſeveral angles of that triple tree, where they hung till the ſun was ſet. After which, they were taken down, their heads cut off, (to be ſet on Weſtminſter Hall) and their loathſome trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallowes, where they now remain. At the ſame time Iretons tomb was broken down, and what remained over the Graves of Cromwell and Bradſhaw, were clean ſwept away, and no footſtep left of their remembrances in that royal and ſtately burial place of our Engliſh Kings. While this Ireton lived came out a Pamphlet intit. Independency ſtript and whipt: or, Ireton's Petition, &c. 1648. qu. and after his death another called The Kingdom of Chriſt to the Parliament, from 1649 to 1652, with the name of Hen. Ireton Deputy of Ireland in the Title page. But theſe I have not yet ſeen.

FRANCIS WOODCOCK ſon of Rob. Woodcock was born in the City of Cheſter, applied his mind to Academical ſtudies in Braſn. Coll. in Eaſter term 1629, aged 15 years, took a degree in Arts, holy Orders from a Biſhop, and then left the Houſe, and had a Cure of Souls beſtowed on him. But being always puritannically affected, he ſided with the Presbyterians upon a defection of a predominant party in the Long Parliament, an. 1641, became a Lecturer of S. Laurence Ch. in the Jewry in London, a Covenantier, one of the Aſſembly of Divines, and at length by ordinance of Parliament dat. 10. Jul. 1646, was made Parſon of S. Olaves in Southwark, having for ſome time before exerciſed his function in that place. He hath written and publiſhed,

The two Witneſſes, in ſeveral Lectures at S. Laurence Jewry, on Rev. 11. with the great queſtion diſcuſſed, Whether the two Witneſſes were ſlain or no. Lond. 1643. qu. made extant by vertue of an order of the Committee of the H. of Commons bearing date 27 of Apr. the ſame year. This book was afterwards reprinted.

Several Sermons, as (1) Chriſts warning-piece, giving notice to every one to watch and keep their garments, Faſt-ſermon before the H. of Com. 30 Oct. 1644. on Rev. 16.15. Lond. 1644. qu. (2) Lex Talionis: or, God paying every man in his own coine, Faſt-ſerm. before the H. of C. 30 Jul. 1645 on 1 Sam 2.30. latter part. Lond. 1645. qu. (3) Joſeph parallel'd by the preſent Parliament in his ſufferings and advancement, Thankſgiving ſermon before the H. of C. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Cheſter by the Parl. Forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton, on Gen. 49.23, 24. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things he hath extant I know not, nor any thing elſe of him, only that he dying in ſixteen hundred fifty and one,1651. or thereabouts, was buried in the Church of S. Olaves befotementioned. One of his ſirname was by Act of Parl. dat. in Mar. 1659—60, appointed among ſeveral other Miniſters to approve of Miniſters of the Goſpel according to the Presbyterian way, which Act came ſoon after to nothing. He is the ſame perſon who was afterwards a frequent Conventicler, and has one or more Sermons extant in The morning exerciſe methodized. Lond. 1676. qu.

THOMAS RYVES, who writes himſelf in ſome of his books Rivius, was the fourth ſon of John Ryves of Damery Court in Dorſetſhire, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Wincheſter, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. as a native of Langton in the ſaid County of Dorſet, after he had ſerved two years of probation, an. 1598, where applying his ſtudies to the faculty of the Civil Law, took the degrees therein, that of Doctor being compleated 1610, about which time he was an eminent Advocate in Doctors Commons and the Court of Admiralty. Afterwards he was one of the Maſters of Chancery, and Judge of the Faculties and Prerogative Court in Ireland, where he was held in great eſteem for his knowledge in the Laws. At length upon the coming to the Crown of K. Ch. 1. he was made his Advocate, and by him knighted, was engaged in his Cauſe when the grand Rebellion broke out, wherein he gave good evidence of his Valour; and notwithſtanding he was then well ſtricken in years, yet he received ſeveral wounds in Fights and Skirmiſhes for his Cauſe. He was accounted a thorough-pac'd Scholar in all polite learning, was a pure Latiniſt, and Maſter of a ſmooth ſtile. He underſtood alſo the Common Law ſo well, that he was as fit to plead in Weſtminſter Hall, as in his proper Courts, and therefore his, and the aſſiſtance of Dr. Duck, were required by his Maj. at the Treaty for Peace in the Iſle of Wight. He hath written and publiſhed,

The Vicars plea: or, that a competency of means is due to Vicars out of the ſeveral Pariſhes. Lond. 1620. quart.

Regiminis Anglicani in Hiberniâ defenſio adverſus Analecten: lib. 3. Lond. 1624. qu.

Imperatoris Juſtiniani defenſio contra Alemannum. Lond. 1626. oct.

Hiſtoria navalis antiqua: lib. 4. Lond. 1633. oct.

Hiſt. navalis media: lib. 3. Lond. 1640. oct. What other things he hath publiſhed I know not, nor any thing elſe of him, only that he paid his laſt debt to nature on the ſecond of January, or thereabouts, in ſixteen hundred fifty and one, and was buried in the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-barr near London, 1651/2. on the fifth day of the ſame month, having ſuffer'd much in his eſtate for the Kings Cauſe, which he had ſtoutly defended.

PETER TURNER a younger ſon of Dr. Peter Turner a Phyſitian, mention'd among the Incorporations in the Faſti, an. 1599, was born, as it ſeems, in the pariſh of S. Helen within Biſhopſgate in the City of London, in which pariſh his father lived and practiſed his Faculty, admitted Probation. Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1607, proceeded in Arts, and being not bound to any particular Faculty, as the Fellows in other Colleges are, became moſt admirably well vers'd in all kind of Learning. He was a moſt exact Latiniſt and Greecian, was well skill'd in the Hebrew and Arabick, was a thorough-pac'd Mathematician, was excellently well read in the Fathers and Councils, a moſt curious Critick, a Politician, Stateſman, and what not. The firſt preferment that he had, whereby his parts were made manifeſt to the world, was the Profeſſorſhip of Geometry in Greſham College, which he kept with his Fellowſhip, as afterwards he did the Savilian Profeſſorſhip of Geometry in this Univerſity, obtained on the death of Hen. Briggs, in the year 1630. He was much beloved of Archb. Laud, and ſo highly valued by him, that he would have procured him to be one of the Secretaries of State, or Clerks of the Privy Council, &c. but being wedded to his College and a ſtudious life (entertaining hopes withal of being Warden thereof) he denied thoſe, and other honorable and beneficial, places. In 1636 he was actually created Doctor of Phyſick, and in the beginning of the grand Rebellion, was one of the firſt Scholars that went out and ſerved his Majeſty in the quality of a Volunteer Vide Hiſt. & Antiq. Ʋniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 355. under the command of Colonel Sir John Byron; for which, he did not only for the preſent ſuffer, as being a Priſoner of War, but was afterwards ejected by the Parliamentarian Viſitors from all right he had to his Fellowſhip of Mert. Coll, and from his Profeſſorſhip of the Univerſity. He wrot many admirable things, but he being too curious and critical, he could never finiſh them according to his mind, and therefore cancell'd them. He alſo made divers Tranſlations from Greek into Lat. particularly ſome of the Epiſtles, from an old authentick MS, of Iſidorus Peluſiota: Which Tranſ. were found among Hen. Jacobs Papers after his death. But that, with other Curioſities of our learned Turner, went afterwards into obſcure hands. He hath extant in ſeveral books,

Epiſtolae variae ad doctiſſimos viros. He had alſo a principal hand in framing Vide ibid. p. 338.339. the Univerſity Statutes now in uſe, and was the ſole perſon that made them run in good Latine, and put the Preface to them. He made the Caroline Cycle for the Election of Proctors, beginning in 1629 and ending in 1720, and did many other matters for the benefit of Learning and this Univerſity. At length being in a manner undone by the Severities of the Parliamentarian Viſitors in 1648, he retired to the Houſe of his Siſter, the afflicted widdow of one Wats a Brewer living againſt the Compter Priſon in Southwark near London, where ſpending the ſhort remainder of his life in obſcurity, ſurrendred up his ſoul to God in the month of January, in ſixteen hundred fifty and one,1651/2. and in that of his age 66 or thereabouts; whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Saviour there. This perſon having been of a proud and haughty mind, becauſe of his great parts, and intimate acquaintance with Archb. Laud and the great Heroes of that time, the ſnivling Presbyterians therefore, eſpecially thoſe of his College which he left behind him, as Alex. Fiſher, Ralph Button, &c. did not ſtick to report that he died no better than a Brewers Clerk, becauſe he often inſpected the Accompts of his Siſter before mention'd, and had a great care of her concerns.

JOHN ARNWAY a Shropſhire man born, became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in the year 1618, and in that of his age 18, took the degrees in Arts, entred into the ſacred function, and had a cure of Souls beſtowed on him. At length the Civil Wars breaking forth, he adhered to the Kings cauſe, ſuffer'd much for it in his own Country, went after him to Oxon, and was actually created D. of D. in 1642, being about that time (as I conceive) made Archdeacon of Lichf. and Coventry, in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig promoted to the See of Exeter. He had then quitted a large fortune to ſerve his Prince, and thereupon was plunder'd by the Rebels, and loſt his books and papers, which he could never recover. Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cauſe, he went to the Hague in Holland, and afterwards to Virginia where he died. He hath written,

The Tablet, or moderation of Charles the firſt, martyr.

An Alarum to the Subjects of England.

A few copies of theſe two little treatiſes were both printed together in a ſmall character at the Hague, an. 1650, afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1661. in oct. by the care of Will. Rider ſometimes of Mert. Coll. who married the authors near kinſwoman. Clar. 1651. Afterwards Dr. Arnway being reduced to neceſſity, left the Hague, and upon an invitation he went into Virginia to exerciſe his function among the Engliſh, where he died about Lyn haven, Elizabeth river or Nauſunum, but when I cannot tell, unleſs about the year 1653.

JOHN VICARS a Londoner born, deſcended from thoſe of his name living in the County of Cumberland, educated from his infancy, or time of underſtanding, in School learning in Ch. Ch. Hoſpital in London, and in Academical, partly in Oxon. particularly, as it ſeems, in Queens Coll. but whether he took a degree it appears not. Afterwards he retired to his native place, became Uſher of the ſaid Hoſpital (which he kept to, or near, his dying day) and was eſteemed among ſome, eſpecially the puritannical party (of which number he was a zealous brother) a tolerable Poet, but by the Royaliſts not, becauſe he was inſpired with ale or viler liquors. In the beginning of the Civil Wars, he ſhewed himſelf a forward man for the Presbyterian cauſe, hated all people that loved Obedience, and did affright many of the weaker ſort and others from having any agreement with the Kings Party, by continually inculcating into their heads ſtrange ſtories of Gods wrath againſt the Cavaliers. Afterwards when the Independents began to take place, he bore a great hatred towards them, eſpecially after they had taken away the Kings life. His works are theſe.

A proſpective glaſs to look into heaven: or, the celeſtial Canaan deſcribed. Lond. 1618. oct. 'Tis a Poem.

The Soules ſacred Soliloquie, &c. ſung in a moſt heavenly hymne—'Tis a Poem alſo, and printed with the former.

Englands Hallelu-jah: or, Great Britaines grateful retribution for Gods gracious benediction in our many and famous deliverances ſince the Halcyon dayes of ever bleſſed Qu. Elizab. to theſe preſent times. Lond. 1631. oct. This is a Poem alſo, and his kinſman Tho. Vicars of Qu. Coll. hath a Copy of verſes before it.

Quintiſence of cruelty: or, the Popiſh powder-plot related—'Tis a Poem and printed in a large oct.

Englands remembrancer. Or, a thankful acknowledgment of Parliamentarie mercies to the Engliſh nation. Lond. 1641. a Poem in one ſh. in qu.

The ſinfulneſs and unlawfulneſs of having or making the picture of Chriſts humanity, &c. Lond. 1641. in tw.

God in the mount: or, Englands remembrancer, being a panegerick piramides erected to the honour of Englands God. &c. Lond. 1642. qu. a Poem.

Looking glaſs for Malignants: or, Gods hand againſt God-haters. Lond. 1643. qu. in 6. ſheets. In this book is much bitterneſs againſt the Kings followers, whom, he often ſtiles cormorants, againſt the Prelates alſo, eſpecially Laud.

God in the mount: or, Englands remembrancer, being the firſt and ſecond part of a Parliamentary Chronicle, or a Chron. of the Parliament of England from 1641. to the month of Octob. 1643. Lond. 1644.

Gods Arke overtopping the worlds waves: or, a third part of a parliamentary Chronicle, &c. Lond. 1646. qu.

The burning buſh not conſumed: or, the fourth and laſt part of a Parliam. Chronicle, &c. Lond. 1646. qu. one J. Hart did put out in the year 1627. The burning buſh not yet conſumed, printed in oct. which title our author Vicars borrowed. Theſe three laſt books, viz. God in the mount, &c. Gods Arke, &c. and The burniſh buſh, &c. were all printed together, with this general title,—Magnalia Dei Anglicana: or, Englands parliamentary Chronicle, &c. Lond. 1646. qu. Of which Chronicle one Joh. Hornius a Dutchman is very liberal in his character In his Epiſt. ded. to the reader, before his book entit. Rerum Britannicarum libri 7. &c. thus—Chron. Vicarii qui priora belli complexus eſt, ſermones potius ſacros, quales ad populum habentur, quam hiſtorias continet, cum maxima operis pars Theologica ſit, &c.

Coleman-ſtreet-conclave viſited; and that grand impoſtor, the ſchiſmaticks cheater in chief (who hath long, ſlily lurked therein) truly and duly diſcovered; containing a moſt palpable and plain diſplay of Mr. John Goodwins ſelf conviction, &c. and of the notorious hereſies, errors, malice, pride and hypocriſie of this moſt huge Garagantua, &c. Lond. 1648. qu. in 7. ſheets. Before the title is John Goodwins picture, with a windmil over his head, and weather cock upon it, with other Hierogliphicks or Emblems about him, to ſhew the inſtability of the man.

The Schiſmatick ſifted, &c.

Soul-ſaving knowledge, &c. in oct.

Picture of a Puritan, &c.—Theſe three laſt I have not yet ſeen.

Dagon demoliſhed: or, twenty admirable examples of Gods ſevere juſtice and diſpleaſure againſt the ſubſcribers of the late engagement againſt K. Ch. 2. and the whole houſe of Peers, &c. Lond. 1660. in two ſh • in qu. He the ſaid J. Vicars tranſlated alſo from Lat. into Engliſh (1) Miſchiefs myſterie: or, treaſons Maſter-piece, the powder-plot: invented by helliſh malice, prevented by heavenly means, &c. Lond. 1617. qu. This is a Poem written in Latin by the rev. and learned Dr. Fr. Herringe, but much delated by Vicars; whoſe labours therein are commended to the world by ſeveral copies of verſes made by divers perſons; among whom are Thom. Salisbury M. A. of Cambridge, Joſhua Sylveſter, Nathan. Chamber of Greys-inn, &c. Afterwards Vicars making ſome additions to the ſaid tranſlation, repaired to Dr. Sam. Baker Chaplain to Laud B. of London, to have it licenſed, but denied for ſeveral reaſons. See in Canterburies Doome, p. 184. (2) Epigrams of that moſt witty and worthy Epigrammatist Mr. John Owen Gent. Lond. 1619. oct. (3) Babels Balm: or, the Honey-comb of Romes religion: with a neat draining and ſtraining out of the rammiſh honey thereof; ſung in ten moſt elegant Elegies in Lat. by the moſt Chriſtian Satyriſt Mr. George Goodwin. Lond. 1624. qu. (4) The XII Aeneids of Virgil into Engliſh deca-Syllables. Lond. 1632. oct. What other things this Presbyterian Poet hath written and tranſlated I know not, nor any thing elſe of him, only that he dying after he had ſpent 72 years in this vain world, about the 12. of Apr. in ſixteen hundred fifty and two,1652. was buried in the north iſle of the Church of Ch. Ch. Hoſpital beforemention'd. Over his grave was a large ſtone ſoon after laid, with an inſcription thereon, but defaced, and conſumed with the Church it ſelf, in the grand conflagration that hapned in London, in the beginning of Sept. 1666. One Joh. Vicars of Magd. Coll. was admitted Bac. of Arts, Nov. 7. an. 1587. and another Joh. Vicars of Broadgates Hall was admitted Maſter of that faculty in the beginning of July the ſame year, but both theſe are too ſoon for John Vicars the author beforemention'd, who had a Son of both his names, matriculated in this Univerſity as a member of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1631. aged 17. I have made mention of John Viccars among theſe writers under the year 1639.

ARTHUR WILSON Son of Rich. Wilſon of Yarmouth in Norfolk Gent. was born in that County, became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the year 1631 being then about 33 years of age, where ſpending more than two years, was all the Academical education that he ever received, but whether he took a degree, or was actually created M. of A. as ſome of his relations hath told me, it doth no where appear in the regiſters. During his ſtay in the ſaid Coll. he was very punctual in frequenting the Chappel and Hall, and in obſerving all orders of the College and Univerſity. He had little skill in the Lat. tongue, leſs in the Greek, a good readineſs in the French, and ſome ſmattering in the Dutch. He had travelled in Germany, France and Spain in the quality of a Servant to Robert Earl of Eſſex, and was well ſeen in the Mathematicks and Poetry, and ſomthing in the Common Law of the Nation. He had compoſed ſome Comedies, which were acted at the Black-friers in Lond. by the Kings players, and in the Act time at Oxon, with good applauſe, himſelf being preſent; but whether they are printed I cannot yet tell: ſure I am that I have ſeen ſeveral ſpecimens of his poetry printed in divers books. His carriage was very courteous and obliging, and ſuch as did become a well-bred Gentleman. He alſo had a great command of the Engliſh tongue, as well in writing as ſpeaking, and had he beſtowed his endeavours on another ſubject than that of Hiſtory, they would have without doubt ſeemed better. For in thoſe things which he hath done, are wanting the principal matters conducing to the completion of that faculty, viz. matter from record, exact time, name and place; which, by his endeavouring too much to ſet out his bare collections in an effected and bombaſtic ſtyle, are much neglected. The capacious title of theſe collections, is,

The Hiſtory of Great Britaine, being the life and raign of K. James the firſt, relating to what paſſed from his firſt acceſs to the crown, till his death. Lond. 1653. fol. In which Hiſtory (which ſome call an infamous Paſquil) you'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the laſt Earl of Eſſex and his allies, and to underprize ſuch as were more in the Kings favour than he. The reaſon is, becauſe he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber, and had received an annual penſion from him ſeveral years. After his death, he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick, and by him made his Steward; of whoſe Father, named Robert alſo, he maketh honourable mention in the ſaid Hiſtory; in which may eaſily be diſcerned a partial Presbyterian veine that conſtantly goes throughout the whole work. And it being the Genie of thoſe People to pry more than they ſhould into the Courts and Comportments of Princes, do take occaſion thereupon to traduce and beſpatter them. Further alſo, our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James, and his Son after him, were enclined to popery, and to bring that Religion into England, hath made him ſubject to many errors and miſrepreſentations. He gave way to fate at Felſted, near to Little Lighes (the ſeat of the Earl of Warwick) in the County of Eſſex, about the beginning of October in ſixteen hundred fifty and two,1652. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. After his death the ſaid Hiſtory coming into the hands of a certain Doctor, had ſome alterations made therein (as 'tis See in Will. Sanderſons Proem to The reign and death of K. James. printed 1656. fol. ſaid) by him, who ſhaped it according to his deſire. In the year before the ſaid Hiſt. was publiſhed, came out a moſt deſperate and libellous book, full of lyes, miſtakes, nonſenſe, &c. entit. The divine Cataſtrophe of the Kingly family of the houſe of Stuarts: or, a ſhort Hiſtory of the riſe, raigne and ruin thereof. Wherein the moſt ſecret and Chamber-abominations of the two laſt Kings (Jam. 1. and Ch. 1.) are diſcovered, &c. Lond. 1652. oct. written by one who pretended to be a diligent obſerver of the times, named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet, the ſame who had written and publiſhed A diſcourſe concerning the fitneſs of the poſture neceſſary to be uſed in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament. Lond. 1642. qu. The ſaid book called The divine Cataſtrophe, &c. being highly reſented by the Royaliſts, the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baſeneſs and ingratitude. His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time, and therefore he being out of my road, I have no more to ſay of him but this, that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury, that after he had left the Univerſity, he ſetled on his patrimony in Cambridgſhire, (in which County, I ſuppoſe, he was born) that afterwards he ſerved in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after, and was Cuſtos Rotulorum for Cambridgſhire, of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham. At length he ſiding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion, had his ſhare of ſufferings for that cauſe while the war laſted, wrot a ſharp Pamphlet againſt the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament (as he calls them) by endeavouring to ſeize upon, and impriſon five of the members thereof, 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occaſions to blaſt the reputation of his Majeſty and his followers. At length having lived to ſee the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time, died at Wicket in Cambridgſhire in the beginning of the year 1657.

JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampſhire, was born there, educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father, the moſt noted Schoolmaſter in all that Country, became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age, an. 1617, took a degree in Arts, and being Maſters ſtanding, was a Candidate for a Fellowſhip of Merton Coll. in 1624, at which time ſhewing himſelf an admirable proficient in Philoſophy, Latine and Greek Learning, was the firſt of five that was elected. Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Maſter of Arts, he had more liberty to purſue his critical ſtudies, much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a ſenior Fellow of that Houſe, who finding him a compleat Maſter and gentile withal, was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury. At length in the year 1633, his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Perſon, he ſent him to travel into the Eaſtern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him. The voyage he performed not without great danger, and having ſatisfied himſelf with many curioſities, return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron, and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge, he became not only the Savilian Profeſſor of Aſtronomy in this Univerſity, but alſo ſuperior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which, eſpecially that of Aſtronomy, his learning was ſo made manifeſt to the remnant of the Academians then left, that he gained thereby to himſelf an unperiſhing reputation. But then again the Parliamentarian viſitation coming on, the impetuous Viſitors (moſtly Presbyterians) who did not, or at leaſt would not, diſcern between Dunces and Scholars, threw him out of his Lecture, and right to his Fellowſhip, (which by ſupreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Aſtr. Lecture) and the rather for this cauſe that he avoided an anſwer to ſeveral articles of miſdemeanour, (pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon) that were by the endeavours of ſome factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and proſecuted. Among them I find theſe (1) That he betrayed the College in diſcovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treaſury, which thereupon was taken away for the Kings uſe. (2) That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a conſiderable part of the College goods, without the conſent of the company, and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houſes. (3) That he feaſted the Queens confeſſors, and ſent divers preſents to them, among which was an holy thorne, and that he was more familiar with them, than any true Proteſtants uſe to be. (4) That he was the occaſion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenſhip for adhering to the Parliament, and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place. (5) That he was the occaſion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button (puritannical fellows) were turned out of their reſpective offices and chambers in the College, becauſe they abode in the Parliaments quarters, &c. (6) That he gave leave to Father A Scot by birth, and by order an Oratorian Philips the Queens confeſſor, and Wyatt Rather Veatt a French man. one of her Chaplains, to come in the College library to ſtudy there, and that he put Mr. John French Fellow, out of his Chamber in Mert. Coll. and put them into it, &c. So that, I ſay, being ejected by the ſaid Viſitors, he retired to London, married and dyed ſoon after. He was a Perſon in great value, and much reſpected by learned men, particularly by Selden, who, had our Author lived, would have left to him part of his wealth, and have taken great care that Hen. Jacob and Pet. Turner ſhould not want, but they all died before him. He hath written,

Pyramidographia: or, a deſcription of the pyramids in Aegypt. Lond. 1646. in a large oct. Tranſlated into French and printed in a book of travels written in that Language. Our Author Greaves found and viſited theſe Pyramids in his travels, an. 1638. and 39, or the thouſand and forty eighth year of Hegira. He went twice to Grand Cairo from Alexandria, and from thence into the Deſerts; and for the greater ſolemnity to view them, he carried with him a Radius of ten feet moſt accurately divided, beſides ſome other inſtruments for the farther diſcovery of the truth. While he was there he made the meaſure of the foot, obſerved by all nations, in one of the rooms under the ſaid Pyramids, with his name John Gravius under it; which hath been noted by ſeveral Travellers.

A diſcourſe of the Romane foot, and Denarius: From whence, as from two principles, the meaſures and weights uſed by the Ancients, may be deduced. Lond. 1647. oct.

Demonſtratio ortus Syrii heliaci, pro parallelo inferioris Aegypti. Oxon. 1648. qu. publiſhed with Dr. Bainbridge his Canicularia. To which is ſubjoined out of Ulugh Beigh the Longitudes and Latitudes of the chiefeſt of the fixed Stars.

Elementa linguae Perſicae. Lond. 1649. qu. With which he publiſhed Anonymus Perſa de Siglis Arabum & Perſarum Aſtronomicis.

The manner of hatching Chickens at Cairo—See in the Philoſophical Tranſactions, numb. 137. p. 923. He publiſhed likewiſe in Arabick and Latine, Epochae celebriores, Aſtronomis, Hiſtoricis, Chronologiis Chaitaiorum. Syro-Graecorum, Arabum, Perſarum, Choraſmiorum uſitatae, ex traditione Ulugh Beigh; together with the Geographical tables of Abul Feda. Both which pieces he illuſtrated with his learned notes. In like manner he ſet forth Aſtronomica Shah Cholgii Perſae, together with the Hypotheſes of the planets: to which likewiſe he ſubjoyned the Geographical Tables of Naſſir Eddinus the Perſian, and of Ulugh Beigh, as you may further ſee in the Bodleyan or Oxford Catalogue, where you'll find his publication of the Deſcription of the Grand Signiour's Seraglio, or the Turkiſh Emperors Court. Lond. 1650. 53. oct. written by one Robert Withers. He alſo left behind him at his death, Lemmata Archimedis, apud Graecos & Latinos, è vetuſta codice MS. Arabico traducta, cum Arabum Scholiis. Which coming into the hands of Sam. Foſter the Mathematician, were by him reviewed and amended, and remitted into the body of the Miſcellanies, or Mathematical Lucubrations of him the ſaid Foſter: Many of which were tranſlated into Engliſh and publiſhed by the care and induſtry of John Twiſden C. L. M. D. whereunto he hath annexed ſome things of his own—Lond. 1659. fol. Other things our learned Author Greaves did intend to publiſh, (among which was a Map or Maps of Aegypt, firſt of all made by him) and the learned World might juſtly have expected them, had not death by a too haſty end of his life, put a ſtop to the courſe of his ingenious ſtudies; which hapning to the great grief of learned and vertuous men, in the month of October in ſixteen hundred fifty and two, his body was,1652. with the tears of many, accompanied to his grave in the Church of S. Benet Sherehog in London, as I was ſome years ſince informed by his learned Brother Dr. Tho. Greaves, whom I accidently met in London, when I was anxiouſly ſeeking after the place where his reliques had been lodg'd. See more of our Author Joh. Greaves in Dr. John Bainbridge, whom I have mention'd among theſe writers, under the year 1643.

HENRY JACOB Son of Hen. Jacob (whom I have before mention'd, under the year 1621) by his Wife Sarah, Siſter to John Dumareſque of the Iſle of Jerſey Gent. was born in the Dioc. of London, and in his youthful years was ſent by his Relations beyond the Seas to be educated in the Principles of his Father. At length being his good fortune to be put under the tuition of the famous Thomas Erpenius, did in a ſhort time by the help of a natural Genie, become the prodigie of his age for Philological and Oriental learning. This is that Erpenius, who went beyond all the Curioſi of his time for ſevere and crabbed literature; nay beyond Druſius the Belgick Critick, who would ſcarce give place to either of the Scaligers. For one Nich. Fuller in Append. ad 5. & 6. lib. Miſcellan. p. 183. who knew them well ſaith, that Erpenius was integerrimus doctiſſimuſ que vir, Linguae Arabicae non peritior tantum quam Druſio, ſed etiam multo peritiſſimus, &c. At two and twenty years of age or more, he came into England, and by the endeavours of Will. Bedwell (with whom the profeſſion of Arabick then only remain'd) he was preſented as a great rarity to that moſt noble and generous Count William Earl of Pembroke, Chancellour of this Univerſity, who forthwith for his encouragement, ſent his In reg. Convoc. R. fol. 4. a. Letters to the Univerſity in his behalf, that he might be created Bach. of Arts, dated 24. Nov. 1628. in which he ſaith, that Hen. Jacob a young Scholar had beſtowed divers years in the Low Countries in the ſtudy of good literature, and had his education principally under one Erpenius a famous Scholar, eſpecially in the Oriental language; in which learning he profited under him beyond the vulgar ſort of Students, and beyond the ordinary meaſures of his age, &c. In compliance to which Letters, he was in January following, adorned with that degree. At the ſame time being commended to the patronage of Joh. Selden, Hen. Briggs, and Pet. Turner, (men much famous in their generation) our Author was by their endeavours elected Probationer-Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year following. But then, he having not ſo much Logick and Philoſophy to carry him through the ſevere exerciſes of that Society, the Warden and Fellows tacitly aſſign'd him Philological Lecturer. This being done, he was called away to follow Lawſuites concerning his Patrimony, which being concluded, he fell into a dangerous ſickneſs, and by the ſudden loſs of his Patron (Pembroke) his life was in jeopardy. Soon after that great encourager of learning Biſhop Laud ſucceeding him in the Chancellourſhip of this Univerſity, a way was found out from Mert. Coll. ſtatutes to make him Socius Grammaticalis, that is Reader of Philology to the Juniors, a place that had been diſuſed for about an 100 years. So that being ſetled and made compleat Fellow, he ſpent ſome time with the famous Selden, an. 1636. in compoſing a book which he was then publiſhing—ubi ad interiorem Templum (ſaith In Vindic. Maris clauſi. Lond. 1653. p. 53. he) Amanuenſis mihi in codice Regi tunc porrigendo operam praeſtitit mihi vir doctiſſimus Henricus Jacobus, &c. At which time, as 'tis ſaid, he taught, or at leaſt improved, Selden in the Hebrew Language, and added ſeveral things, which Selden finding to be very excellent, let them ſtand. In the ſame year he was created Maſter of Arts, but upon the turn of the times, Brent then Warden of Mert. Coll. no friend to Laud, ſilenced him. In the year 1641, he was upon the death of John Thimble elected ſuperior Bedle of Divinity about the 14 of June, and in the beginning of Novemb. in the year following, he was created Bach. of Phyſick. But his head being always over-buſie about critical notions, (which made him ſometimes a little better than craz'd) he neglected his duty ſo much, that he was ſuſpended once, if not twice, from his place, and had his Bedles ſtaff taken from him. At length when the Parliamentarian Viſitors ſate, he loſt it for altogether, and the right he pretended to his Fellowſhip in Mert. Coll. So that being deſtitute of maintenance, he retired to London, where the learned Selden exhibited to him, gave him his cloaths, and an old ſcarlet cloak, of which laſt his friends would mock him, and call him Young Selden, when they ſaw it on his back. But he being a ſhiftleſs Perſon, as moſt meer Scholars are, and the benefactions of friends not ſufficing him, he ſold that little Land he had at Godmerſham in Kent to ſupply his neceſſities, and died before that was ſpent. He wrot many things, (but he himſelf publiſhed nothing in his life time) a Cat. of which is this.