Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...

THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM JUXON, Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury;

BOrn at Chichester in Sussex, and bred in St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford, whereof he was Fellow and President; his deep and smooth parts (as appears by his Speeches and Poetry on publick Occasions, particularly on King Iames his death) exceeding his years, and yet his modesty and o∣ther vertues so exceeding as to hide his Parts, had not he been dis¦covered for Preferment by the Perfume of his worth, as the Ro¦man Gentleman was by the sweet Odour of his Cloaths for punish∣ment. Bishop Laud had taken great notice of his Parts and Tem∣per when he was Fellow with him, but greater of his Integrity and policy, when a stickler (in the Suit about President-ship of the Colledge) against him. When observing him a shrewd Adversary, he thought he might be a good Friend, being though Doctor of Law, yet a great Master of Divinity, all hearing him Preach with great pleasure and profit, so much he had of Paul and Apollos, of learned plainness, and an useful elaborateness: when he preach∣ed (saith one that heard him) Of Mortification, Repentance, and o∣ther Christian Practicks, he did it with such a stroke of unaffected Flo∣quence, of potent Demonstration, and irresistible Conviction, that jew Agrippaes, Festaes, or Felixes, that heard, but must needs for the time and fit, be almost perswaded to be penitent and mortified Christians. Dr. Laud finding him shining in each place, he was as the Divine Lights in their Orbs without noise, his Birth so Gentile, that it was no disgrace to his Parts, though not so Illustrious, but that his Parts might be an Ornament to him; his Vertues so modest, that they hid themselves from others, and so humble, that they were not known to himself: A temper as little moved with others in∣juries, as with his own merits; fit to Rule others, that command∣ed its self; Recreations Innocent and manly, traversing Hills and Dales for Health and for Instruction, studying God at home, and Nature abroad; fitting himself by generous Exercises for generous Employments, to which he knew a body comely, quick, and ve∣gel with Exercise, was more suitable than a minde dulled with studies. Though when he came to his Throne, over affections, the Pulpit, or his Chair of State, over reason his Colledge, it appeared

that his severe pleasures that refreshed his body, loosned; but melted not his minde. I say, sagacious Dr. Laud, finding him every way, rather than designing him, his successor, brought him out of his privacy, as Pearls and rich mettals are out of obscurity, to adorn his Majesties Court, his modesty gaining him that respect which others seek by their ambition. To have one near the King he could trust in his old age, made him Dean of Worcester, and Clerk of the Closet first, after that Bishop elect of Hereford, and then after himself Bishop of London, and Lord Treasurer. In the first of which places, being to have Saint Pauls combate with Beasts, he used Saint Pauls art, became all things to all, and as those that were of old exposed to Beasts, overcame by yielding, being most mild, and most vigilant; a Lamb, and a Shepheard. The delight of the English Nation, whose Reverence was the only thing all Factions agreed in, all allowing that honor to the sweetness of his manners, that some denied the sacredness of his Function; being by love, what another is in pretence, an universal Bishop; the greatest, because the last Bishop that was ruined, that insolence that stuck not at the other Bishops, out of modesty, till 1649. not medling with him. The other charge ofa 1.1 Treasurer (where∣by all lay upon him, both what the good Worship, and the bad Re∣ligion, and Money, which was now safe under the Keys of the Church) so the Romans Treasury was in their Temple, and the Ve∣netians have the one Guardian of their City and Money, St. Mark) he in the middest of large Expences, and low Revenues, man∣aged with such integrity, handling temporal wealth with the same holy temper he did the most spiritual Mysteries, that the Coffers he found empty, he in four years left filling; and with such prudent mildness, being admirably master of his Pen, and Passi∣ons, grace having ordered what nature could not omit, the tetrarch humor of Choler. That Petitioners for money (when it was not to be had) departed well pleased with his civilly languaged deni∣als, and though a Bishop was then odious, and a Lord always sus∣pected, yet he in both capacities was never questioned; though if he had, he had come out of his trial like his gold, having this hap∣piness, in an age of the bravest men, to see more innocent than the best, and happier than the greatest; and if it was a comfort to them to suffer for their too great, and to the Commonalty unknown, and therefore suspected virtues; it was more to him, to be loved for that integrity, which could be unk••own to few, and hateful to none.

He was above others in most of his actions, he was above himself in two.

1. His honest advice to save my Lord of Straffords life, who having appeared before a Parliament, was set at last before him; who though he heard Noblemen, yea Clergy-men too, pressing his death for the safety of the people, the highest law, they said, the King, the Church, the Commonwealth; asserting his life by law and right, which is above all these: And that brave Maxime, like another Athanasius of Justice against the world. Fiat justitia, & ruat coelum & terra; Ecclesia & Respublica.

2. His holy attendance on his late Majesty (who gave him the title on his death of That honest man, whereof before in his Maje∣sties Life and Death. Recollecting there all his virtues, to see what the excellent King, with a recollection of all graces, was to suffer; with a clear countenance, at least, before his Majesty, chusing to di∣sturb nature, rather than the King, looking on what his Majesty, with a chearful countenance, endured. Thus the Sun at our Savi∣ors Passion (whereof this a Copy) that was Ecclipsed to others, shined clear to Christ. It was much to see the King dye with so un∣daunted a spirit; it was more to see the Bishop behold him with so unmoved a countenance; but so it became him, whom his Ma∣jesty had chosen his Second, in that great Duel, committing to him the care of his soul, both departing in himself, and surviving in his Son; and with it his memory, and what was more, his Obli∣vion; with which, and the other holy suggestions of that Royal soul, he came down from the Scaffold, as Moses did out of the Mount, with Pardon, Peace, and New Law to a sinful people, after the breaking of the old.

After God had preserved him through the many years mise••ies of the usurpation, and the inexpressible torment of ••his disease, the Stone, which he endured as chearfully as he did his pleasures; having patience to bear those pains, which others had not patience to hear of, to deliver that message to the Son, which he received from the Father, he Crowned King Charles II. April 25. 1661. at Westminster, and went Iune 1663. to see King Charles I. Crowned in heaven; having seen the Church Militant here settled 1662. he was made a Member of the Triumphant 1663. full not only of ho∣nor and days, but of his own wishes too; leaving near 10000l. to augment the St. Iohns Revenue at Oxford Colledge, Repair St. Pauls and Cant••rbury Cathedrals, and finish the building of the New-hall at Lambeth which he had begun; besides directions through∣out the Province to repair Churches and Church-aedisices, improve Vicarages, and establish peace. Iuly 9. he was buried in St. Iohns, with as great solemnity as the University could afford; Dr. South making an excellent Oration upon the occasion in the Divinity Schools, and Dr. Levens of St. Iohns, the like in the Colledge; Crete being not more proud of the Grave and Cradle of Iove, nor the King of Spain of the Suns rising and setting in his Dominions, than that House may be that Dr. Iuxon and Dr. Laud was bred there. As he had gone on in the same course, acted on the same principles, enjoyed the same honors, so he lieth in the same Grave, with his friend and patron Archbishop Laud.

Dr. Walter Curle, born in Strafford near Hatfield, my Lord Cecil's [unspec II] house, to whom his Father was serviceable, in detecting several Plots, referring to the Queen of Scots, as his Agent; and in set∣tling the estate he had from the Queen of England, as his Steward. And by whom he was made Auditor of the Court of Wards to Queen Elizabeth and King Iames, and his Son preferred in Christ-Colledge and Peter-house in Cambridge. His Lord gave him a good Living, as a Scene of his abilities, and his good carriage in that

place, (wherewas no quarrel grown into a Law-suit during his time, where he did nothing below his Function, and something in a re∣solute suppressing of all houses of debauchery above it, regulat∣ing the dis••rders he found there, by the rules of Christian piety, and the known measures of Laws, gaining many dissenters from the Church by wise and meek discourses, and by a good example leav∣ing the obstinate to the wise and merciful disposition of the Laws) commended him to his Majesties immediate service, as Chaplain; who preferred him to the Deanery of Lichfield, in which capacity he was Prolocutor of the Convocation 1628. afterwards made Bishop of Rochester 1628. and then Bath and Wells 1629. upon his friend and contemporaries death Bishop Maw, and at last of Win∣chester, after his Patron Bishop Neils Translation to York; a chari∣table a 1.2 reliever in all places of Gods poor, his living Temples; and a careful repairer of his Temples and Houses, his dead poor. Much maliced, because a strict asserter of the Churches authority, yet not hurt, because wary in the exercise of his own; insomuch, that at the yielding of Winchester, where he was during the war, Peters and the Faction, that hated his Function, were very civil to his person; having ignorance enough not to understand his worth, and not malice enough to disparage it. After he had given most of his estate to his Master, and lost the rest, promoting the Poly∣glot Bible, and any thing that seemed serviceable to the afflicted Church; He died 1650. deserving the character of one of hisb 1.3 predecessors.

Vir fuit summa pietate, & ex rerum usu oppido quam prudens, doctrina etiam singulari.

[unspec III] Dr. Brian Duppa, 1. Born at Lewsham in Kent, in which Country his Father was a good benefactor, in erecting one Almes-house; and the Son a better, in erecting another 2. Bred at Westminster, where he then grew to a constant superiority above others, being Paidonomus, a Lord of his School fellows in jest, a presage that afterwards he would be one in earnest, all his after greatness being but a paraphrase upon those beginnings. 3. Preferred first Stu∣dent of Christ-Church, and after the discharge of some Offices there, that are bestowed on the deserving, both as rewards and tryals, Fellow of All-souls. 4. Imployed as Proctor of the Uni∣versity, where the comeliness of his presence, the gentleness of his carriage, the variety and smoothness of his learning, brought him first to the notice, and then to the service of the most learned and eloquent Earl of Dorset, who recommended him to his Maje∣sty, first for his own service as Chaplain, and after he made him Dean of Christ-Church, for his Sons the Princes and the Dukes of York as Tutor, to whom the Countess of Dorset was Governness; managing that trust by very prudential Lectures in his own per∣son, and by the pleasant Instructions of the choices wits in the University, as Mr. Cartwright, Dr.c 1.4 LLuelin, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Waring, &c. to whom he was a very eminent Patron, as he was to

alla 1.5 ingenuity in any kind extant (After he had been Vice-chancellor of Oxford 1632.) rendred him fit for another, the Bi∣shoprick of Chichester 1638. and the Bishoprick of Salisbury; and his great sufferings with, and services (at Oxford, where he set Dr. Hammond and others to vindicate the King and Church, and at the Isle of Wight, where by his excellent Converse and Sermons he comforted his Majesty himself) for King Charles I. made him capa∣ble of many Letters of Trust (one about supplying the Church with new Bishops upon the decay of the old, about which service his Lordship and four more (whereof the Reverend Bishop King was one) had several Consultations and Propositions from Charles II. during the Usurpation, and of the Bishoprick of Winchester, and the noble places of Prelate of the Garter, and Lord Almoner, after the Restauration. When having seen the two things he so much desired to see, his Soveraign restored to his Crown, and the Church to her Rights, he departed in peace, April 1662. leaving (besides the charity of his Soveraign, which he disposed of to suit∣able objects) great Legacies to Christ-church and All-souls in Oxford, to the Cathedrals of Chichester, Salisbury, and Winchester; and a conspicuous Monument of his charity, the Almes-house at Rich∣mond, the place of his last retirement, erected at his peculiar charge, together with his exemplary virtues.

1. His excellent parts, and comely deportment, making him ac∣ceptable to the King and Court (A man fit to stand before a King, Prov. 22. 29.) whilest able to come thither; and when disabled, rendring him worthy several Royal Visits made by his Majesty to him in person, both to see him in his weakness, and to comfort him amidst his pains; kneeling at his beds side a little before he died, and begging his blessing, which he bestowed, with one hand laid upon his Masters head, and the other lifted up to heaven.

2. His bountiful heart as large as his fortune, his generous way of living and hospitable table.

3. A free and open disposition,b 1.6 Vbique sentires illum hoc affici¦quod loquebatur.* 1.7

4. His general and great learning, and elegant and elaborate gift of Preaching (whereof we have an instance in one Sermon, Preached at the Isle of Wight 1648.) aiming not at the delight of the Ear, but the information of the Conscience.

Dr. William Roberts, Fellow of Queens-colledge in Cambridge, and [unspec IV] Proctor of that University; known to Bishop Laud by his activity under Bishop Bayley, in injoying Church-discipline, and prefer∣red by him for discovering 1000l. concealed Church-goods. He was made Bishop of Bangor 1637. sequestred of all his estate spiri∣tual and temporal 1649. restored 1660. and died 1664. being suc∣ceeded by Bishop Price, Colonel Price of Rhulas (an eminent actor, and a great sufferer for his Majesty) his Uncle, who died Bishop elect of Bangor 1665. as he is by the learned, pious, prudent Gen∣tleman, Bishop Morgan, who in the late times kept up his Majesties interest in keeping up himself, in the good affections of the Gen∣try of Anglesea, Caernarvon-shire, Merionith-shire; As

[unspec V] Dr.a 1.8 George Griffith a Scholar of Westminster, and an Emi∣nent Student and Tutor of Christ-church, Prebend of Saint Asaph, and Parson of LLanymynech in Montgom. did in Denbighshire, Mont∣gomeryshire, Flintshire, and Shropshire much service to his Majesty.

1. Baffling the Itenerants, particularly Vavaser Powell, at the Dis∣putation in Montgomeryshire, where he rendred him as ridiculous by his false Latine, no Logick, and little Sence, as he was before odious.

2. Rightly principling the most ingenious young Scholars of those times.

3. Keeping up the Offices and Ceremonies of the Church.

4. Maintaining a good correspondence with the Orthodox at London, and among the Gentlemen of the Country; for which ser∣vices, and his sufferings, he was Consecrated Bishop of Saint Asaph, October 28. 1660. in which place he died 1666. Being observed a discreet and moderate man in all Convocations, as in that 1640. when he made a motion for a new Edition of the Welch Bible, set out sixty years ago by Bishop Morgan, but in several places mis∣printed; which I would some again consider of: And in the Con∣vocation 1662. when he concurred effectually in drawing up the Act of Uniformity, and making the alterations in the Common∣prayer, then set out; the form for Baptizing those of riper years, being, I think, of his composing.

[unspec VI] Dr. Robert Wright, the youngest Fellow as ever was admitted of Trinity-colledge, and the first Warden that ever was of Wadham-colledge in Oxford; the richest Bishop that ever was of Bristol, whither he was preferred 1622. and the strictest that had been of Coventry and Lichfield, where he sat 1632. and died 1643. hisb 1.9 Castle being kept for his Majesty by Dr. Bird, a well known Civi∣lian; and half his estate devoted to his service by himself, whose advise to his Clergy was, that they should not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, em∣body and enervate their souls by idleness and sloath. Be it re∣membred, that he was one of the twelve Bishops that suffered, for protesting against the Laws that Passed in Parliament, during the tumults; and one of the two, that for his painfulness and integri∣ty, for his moderation and wariness, had the most favourable im∣prisonment for that protestation, being Committed only to the Black-rod, while the rest went to the Tower. His virtues having in∣deed the vices of the times for his enemies, but not the men.

[unspec VII] Dr. George Cooke, a meek and grave man, Brother to Secretary Cooke, in temper as well as bloud, born at Trusley in Derbyshire, bred in Pembroke-hall Cambridge, Beneficed at Bigrave in Hertfordshire, where three houses yielded him almost 300l. a year, advanced to the Bishoprick of Bristol 1632. and to that of Hereford 1636. where∣in he died 1650. much beloved by those that were under him, and yet much persecuted about the protest in Parliament 1641. and other matters, by those that where above him; insomuch, that he, who was thrist it self, had wanted, had not his Relations helped out his merit; and he been as Honorable, as Pious and Learned. He dropped Sentences as easily, as others spoke sence; happy in

expressing as well as conceiving (though as Plotin, he was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, wholly taken up with his minde) a serene and quiet man a∣bove the storm, the result of that unsettledness of lower minds.

Dr. Iohn Towers, born in Northfolk, bred in Cambridge, Fel¦low [unspec VIII] of Queens Colledge, Chaplain to Will. Earl of Northampton, and by his Donation Rector of Castle-Ashby in Northampton-shire; and upon his recommendation Chaplain to King Charles the I. succes∣sively Dean and Bishop of Peterborough; he indeavoured to put the humors of the times out of countenance, by acting of them in his younger days, and by punishing them in his elder; but both fail∣ing, dying about 1650. under great torments in his body, and great afflictions from the times, he suffered chearfully what he could not amend effectually, thereby shewing that he could suffer as hand∣somely as he could act; When rich only in Children (whereof one Mr. Towers of Christ-church was an Ingenious man, and an excel∣lent Scholar, as appears by his book against Atheism) and Patience.

Godfrey Goodman, a man of his name, born of a Worshipful Fami∣ly [unspec IX] of the Goodmans near Ruthen in Denbigh-shire, to which place he was yearly when I was at School there, even in his lowest conditi∣on a good Benefactor: though his Unkle Gabriel Goodman for for∣ty years Dean of Westminster, wasa 1.10 a better, under whom he was bred at Westminster, and by whom preferred Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, as he was afterwards by Bishop Andrews, Bishop Vaughan, and Bishop Williams made successively Prebendary of Windsor, Dean of Rochester, and Bishop of Gloucester 1624. main∣taining several Heterodox Opinions in his Sermons at Court, for which he was checked 1626. dissenting from the Canons 1640. for which after three admonitions (pronounced by Bishop Laud in half an hour) to subscribe, he was to his great honor imprisoned; and of all the Bishops since the Reformation, was the only man whom the miscarriages of the Protestants Scandalled into Popery, a harmless man, pitiful to the poor, Hospitable to his Neighbors, and compassionate to dissenters: Dying at Westminster in the year of our Lord 1654. and of his Age eighty, giving this Posie in his Funeral Rings, Requiem defunctis, having leave in those, as it is said of Bishop Leoline, that he asked leave of Edward the 1. to make his; he gave directions in one Draught how Impro∣priations might be recovered to the Church, to make it much the richer, and no man a jot the poorer. He was a great incourager of Sir Henry Middletons design of bringing the New River-water, through so many difficulties to London, as Davids Worthies did the Water of Bethlem to his Majesty: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, without which saith one, we should have burnt with the thirst, and been buryed with the filth of our own bodies.

Dr. Iohn Warner, born in St. Clements Danes Westminster, bred in [unspec X] Magdalen Colledge Oxford, to which he is a great Benefactor, pre∣ferred Prebend of the Church of Canterbury (to which he gave a Font most Curious and most Costly, the first gift by a private hand to that Church in latter times) and Rector of St. Dyonis Back. Church London, on which he bestowed a yearly Pension, advanced

Lord Bishop of Rochester, in which he built an Alms-house with 20l. a year a piece to forty poor Ministers Widdows, himself ha∣ving practised a single life. A great assertor of Episcopacy while he had a voice in Parliament, and when he had lost his voice, as he was deputed by the Bishops, soliciting their Cause with his Purse and Head, and when all failed, suffering for it, being Sequestred of all his Spiritual Estate, and compounding for his Temporal, which being very great by his Father a Citizen of Londons thrift, and greater by his own (who would say for his frugal and close way, that he eat the craggy Necks of Mutton, that he might leave the poor the Shoulder) enabled him to relieve his Brethren, the Clergy and their Wives; when others of his Order were glad to be relieved. A man to his last of accuratea 1.11 Parts, a good Speech, a chearful and undaunted Spirit: He dyed Octob. Anno. Dom. 1666. Aetat. 81. Episcopatus 29. being, as one calls Whitehall, A good hypocri••e, promising less than he performed; and more hearty within, than Courtly without.

[unspec XI] Dr. Iohn Ganden a Ministers Son in Essex, bred first at Colledge Cambridge, and afterwards Tutor to the Strangwayes in Wadham Colledge in Oxford, by the comeliness of his Person, the vastness of his Parts; strangely improved by his astronishing indu∣stry, bestowing most of the seasonable hours of day and night on study, and the unseasonable ones, on Mechanisms; (to keep his soul always intent, as appears, by making the exquisite Common∣place Cabinet, with other Rarities of his own left behind him) the majesty and copiousness of his Elocution, the seriousness and greatness of his Spirit, admitted him with advantage upon an Act-Sunday to the Pulpit at St. Maries, upon a solemn Festival to preach before his Majesty, and upon a Fast before the Parliament, being after his travels and relation to Sir Will. Russel, (to whose nearest Relations, affecting his great accomplishments recommend∣ed him, and after one Marriage that intervened, providence made way for him) and the Earl of Warwick he was setled first at Bright∣well in Berk-shire 1641. secondly, at Bocking in Essex 1644. thirdly, at the Temple London 1659. and at the Bishoprick of Exet••r 1660. succeeding in both those places Bishop Brownrigge, whose Life he writ, and exemplified, and at last Bishop of Worcester 1662. where he dyedb 1.12 1663. having commanding qualities, which carryed all the Country where he was to his Opinion about the Covenant 1644. and all the Kingdom to his sentiments about the King and Church; the first of whom he vindicated in a pathetick Remon∣strance delivered the General, the second he asserted vigorously in its Doctrine and Discipline, in his Hieraspistes 1653. pleaded for seriously in its Ministers, in his Declaration to O. P. about the Edict, Ian. 1. 1655. that turned out Orthodox Ministers out of all capacities of subsistence; sollicited for effectually in its Tyths and other Priviledges 1649. 1650. &c. in other Treatises, mourn∣ed for pathetically in his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 his Sighs and Groans of the Church 1659. Preached for boldly before the City, Feb. 1659. in his Slight Healers, in the Temple Dec. the same, in Bishop Brownriggs

Funeral Sermon, before the Parliament April 30. in his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 cleared unanswerably in his satisfactions given Sir L. Bromfield, and other scrupulous, but moderate Persons, and adorned exemplary by his excellent advices to, and conversation among his Clergy; his generous and obliging behaviour towards the Gentry, and gallant and healinga 1.13 Discourses in Parliament; many young Noble-men, as Mr. Richard, Heir apparent to the Earldom of War∣wick, &c. had their Education in his Family; more Scholars and Clergy-men owe their parts to his direction; several Citizens were inriched by his Correspondence, who was as great a Merchant as a Scholar, as great a Courtier and States-man as either; and indeed, the great Restauration was not a little furthered by his universal acquaintance and ubiquitary activity not be paralleled, but by his Brother Mr. Gauden his Majesties Purveyor for the Navy, an em∣ployment to be managed by no one man with such an universal sa∣tisfaction as it is now, but by himself: and 1668. they say Sheriff of London. In fine, he was born for great things, having such a Copia verborum, and those so full, pregnant, and significant, joyned with such an active fancy, as rarely accompanyeth so sound a Judgment and so deep an Understanding; Such a publick Spirit and ready Parts, that besides the many motions, he made for the promo∣ting of Commenius his way of advancing general Learning; Duraeus his indeavour of procuring universal Peace, theb 1.14 Royal Socie∣ties, Noble attempts for compleating Philosophy, Bishop Walsons and Dr. Castles Heroick Essayes for propagating the Eastern Learn∣ing; every man that came to him, went the better from him: Such great prudence in the managery of Affairs, like the provi∣dence that governs the world; that he could quickly see into the depth, and soon turn round all the sides of business, so as to be full and clear in his Resolutions and Debates, dexterous in his ad∣vice upon all straits, his Learning being so concocted into an active wisdom, that he was fit for any Imployment, understanding things so well at first sight, that he seldom had a second thought, generally standing to the resolution and determination of his first. Adde to this the integrity of heart, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, dipped into Justice; the stateliness of his Speech, the ingenuity, aptness, freedom, and gravity of his fansie; the luxuriancy of his ready in∣vention, tempered with such solid and serious mixtures, such grave Retreats and Closes, that it seemed no other than beauty well dressed, or goodness appearing in a fair and chearfull Sum∣mers day, becoming him as smiling doth a good Man, and a good Conscience, or flouring a laughter as we say doth a generous, pleasant, and spiritful liquor; the apt facetiousness of his native and fluent Wit, making way in converse for his more serious and weighty Conception, as did his Catholick love, tender of all (even (as appears by his discourse of the Oaths imposed upon them) of the poor Quakers themselves) but fond of worthy and good men, that he picked up all over the Nation; in his respect to whom you might 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 running 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

Historiola haec monstrat,* 1.15 quem fama monstrat magis sed & ipsa necdum fama quem monstrat satis ille totam solus Implevit tubam, tot ora solus Domuit & famam quoque fecit modestam. Ingens Academiarum certamen, quot quin & ipse Acade∣miae? In quo musae omnes, & gratiae nullibi magis sorores sub preside religione in tenacissimum sodalitium Coaluere Peralta rerum pondera cum vaga mens indomito Cucurrit animo, et natur amexhausit totam mille faeta Artibus, mille Scientiis se in eruditionem varians omnigenam, et toti cognata encyclopaediae; Coelo satur nativo in suam evolavit originem; relicto sub tantillo marmore quanto hospite! Eo nimirum majore Monumento quo minore tumulo morte pariter etvita modestus.

[unspec XII] Dr. Henry Ferne, Fellow and Master of Trinity Colledgea 1.16 in Cambridge, and Lord Bishop of Chester, well known in the late times by his clear resolutions of the Cases in difference between the King and Parliament, between our Church and Rome on the one hand, and Geneva on the other, in all which there were such weight of Arguments, such clearness of Expression, and such pie∣ty and seriousness of Spirit, that two Adversaries confessed that that Cause never looked so clearly and devoutly in any writings as in Dr. Ferns, and as well known by his Sermons at Oxford, then pres∣sing Humiliations, holy Vows and Resolutions, and at Cambridge and London, pressing the keeping of those Vows: He dyed within few Moneths after he was made Bishop 1661. being buryed at Westminister without any other Monument than his Name, of whom I may say:

[unspec XIII] Adeo se occuluit ut vitam ejus pulchram dixeris, R. C. et Pudicam dissimulationem: I mo vero et mortem, Ecce enim in ipso funere dissimulari se passus est.

Dr. Iohn Earls, on whom Merton Colledge, where he was bred and buryed, bestowed this History in this Epitaph.

Amice s•• quis hic sepultus est roges; ille qui nec meruit unquam, nec quod majus est habuitb 1.17 inimicum; qui potuit in Aula vivere, et mundumc 1.18 spernere; Concionator educatus Inter principes, et ipse facile princeps inter Concionatores, evangelista Inde festus Episcopus Pientissimus. Ille qui una cum sacratissimo rege, cujus et Iuvenilium studiorum et animae deo Charae Curam a beatissimo patre demandatam

Gessit, nobile ac religiosum exilium est Passus. Ille qui Hookeri Ingentis Politeiam ecclesiasticam Ille qui Caroli Martyris 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, volu∣men quo post Apocalypsin divinius nullum) legavit orbi, sic latine reddita, ut uter{que} unius fidei defensor patriam adhuc retine at Ma∣jestatem. Nec dum tibi suboleat (Lector) nomen ejus ut unguenta pretiosa Johannes Earl Eboracensis sereniss. Car. II. Oratoris Clericus; Aliquando

Westmonasteriensis	(Decanus
Ecclesiae	deinde Wigorniensis	Angelus.
tandem Salisburiensis
et nunc triumphantis

Obiit Oxonii Nov. Septimo. A.D. 1665. Aet. 65. Voluit{que} in hoc ubi olima 1.19 floruerat Collegio ex Aede Christi huc in socium ascitus ver Magnum ut Restorescat, expectare.

Dr. William Bedle, bred in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, pre∣ferred [unspec XIV] with Sir Henry Wotton as Chaplain of his Embassie to Venice, at the same time that Mr. Iames Wadsworth his intire friend, bred in the same Colledge, and Bene••iced in the same Diocesse with him, was sent with another Ambassador into Spain, Mr. Bedle as Sir Henry Wootton testified (upon Bishop Vshers recommendation of him from a private Minister in Suffolk, for many years to the Pro∣vostship of Dublin Colledge) to King Charles the I. behaved him∣self so well, that Padre Paulo took him into his own bosom, with whom he did command the inwardest thought of his heart, from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divi∣vinity, both Scholastical and positive, than from any he had con∣versed with in his days: Mr. Wadsworth (though the most zealous Protestant of the two) miscarryed so far, that he turned Papist; Mr. Hall, afterwards Bishop Hall, accosted him with a loving Let∣ter, but Mr. Bedle (upon Mr. Wadsworths opening to him the Mo∣tives of his Conversion, which he would not to Mr. Hall) with so∣lid Arguments to be seen in their mutual Letters extant, which are Controversies of love and Meekness, as well as Religion; much was the expectation it seems by a Letter of Mr. Hall to him, his Parts and Conferences had raised; and great the satisfaction he gave when Bishop of Kilmore to that expectation by his Christian temper, his great repute for Learning and Zeal, his strict Life, ob∣serving exactly the Ember-weeks, the Canonical hours, the Feasts and Fast-days of the Church, besides his private Devotion, his Pa∣tience and Charity so exemplary, that the very Romanists, whereof not a few in his Diocesse did ever look upon him with re∣spect and Reverence, testifying it by concealing and safe protect∣ing his Person in the Horrid Rebellion in Ireland, when they

could not secure his excellent Books and Writings, among whom the Bible in Irish Translated by him, with many years Labour, Conference, and Study: He dyed 1642/3.

[unspec XV] Mr. Iohn Hales, born, as I take it, in Kent, bred Fellow of Merton Colledge Oxford, where he was Greek Professor, preferred first Chaplain to Sir Dudley Carleton, when he was at the Hague about the business of the Synod at Dort, whereof being sent thither to that purpose, he writ a daily and exact account compleated as appears in his Remains by Dr. Balcanquell; and where upon Epis∣copius his well-pressing of 3 Iohn 16. he would say, There I bid John Calvin good night: and then Fellow of Eaton, and Prebenda∣ry of Windsor; in the first, of which places he was Treasurer which is strange, such his Integrity and Charity to his loss in point of Estate; and Fellow, such his prudence in avoiding the Oaths of the times without any snare to his Conscience. A Per∣son of so large a capacity, so sharp, quick, piercing, and subtile a Wit, of so serene and profound a judgement beyond the ordinary reach, built upon unordinary notions, raised out of strange ob∣servations, and comprehensive thoughts within himself, and so astonishing an industry, that he became the most absolute Master of Polite, Various, and Universal Learning, besides a deep insight into Religion; in the search after which he was Curious, and of the knowledge of it studious, as in the practise of it, (The best way to understand Christian Religion, is to observe it, we learn by doing those things we learn to do) sincere, being as strictly just in his dealings, so extraordinarily kind, sweet, affable, communi∣cative, humble and meek in his converse; so inimitably as well as unusually charitable, giving away all he had but his choice Books, and forced to sell them at last: That he was as good a man as he was a great Scholar; and to use the Reverend Dr. Pearsons words of him, It was near as easie a task for any one to become so knowing as so obliging. He had so long, and with such advantage and impartia∣lity judged of all Books, Things, and Men, that he was the Oracle consulted by all the Learned men in the Nation, Dr. Hammond, Mr. Chillingworth, &c. in Cases that concerned either, whereupon he used to say of Learned mens Letters, That they set up tops, and he must whip them for them. Its pity he was so averse, notwithstanding so general an importunity, from communicating his great thoughts by writing partly from an humor he had, as his intimate friend Mr. Faringdon observes, to draw the Model of things in his head, and never write till he needs must, and partly from his growing and unlimited thoughts; but chiefly from the exactness he re∣quired in others, (taking a great liberty its seems by Dr. P. of judging not of others, but for himself) and exacted of himself, being seldom pleased with his owna 1.20 performances, that there are no Monuments of his Learning (save the great Scholars made by his directions and assistance) extant but Sir H. Savile; Chrysostom, which he corrected with great pains in his younger days, and illustrated with admirable Notes, for which he is often honorably mentioned by Mr. Andrew Downs, Greet Professor of Cambridge, and a Col∣lection

of some choice Sermons and Letters made by Master Gar∣thwait.

Dr. William Chappel, a native of Lexington in Nottinghamshire, [unspec XV] Fellow of Christ-colledge in Cambridge, upon Bishop Vshers impor∣tunity Provost of Trinity-colledge in Dublin, and the Lord Deputies observation of him, Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse; a man of a very strict method, being an incomparable Logician; and of a very strict life, being an excellent man, famous for his many and eminent Pupils; more for the eminent Preachers, made so by his admirable method for the Theory, and Praxis upon 2 Tim. 3. 16. for the practise of Preaching; so good a disputant, as to be able to maintain any thing; but so honest a man, that he was willing to maintain only, as he would call them sober truths. Harassed be∣tween the Rebellion in Ireland and England, where it was imputed to Bishop Laud as a crime, that he preferred Bishop Chappel, and to him that he was preferred by him, being thought a Puritan before his preferment, and a Papist afterwards (though he was the same godly and orthodox man always) he died 1649. dividing his estate equally between his relations, to whom he was obliged in nature; and distressed Ministers, for whom he had compassion as a fellow•• sufferer; of whom I may say, as it was of Dr. Reynolds, that it must be a good heart that kept so good a head employed, rather in re∣scuing old truths, than in broaching new errors.

Dr. Iohn Richardson extracted of an ancient and worshipful Fa∣mily [unspec XVI] in Cheshire, brought up in Dublin, and made Bishop of Ardah in Ireland, peculiar for a very grave countenance, and his being ex∣traordinary textuary; by the same token, that they who would not let him Preach on the Scripture in the late times, desired his help to Comment upon it; for his is the painful Comment (in the larger Annotations) upon Ezekiel. Many the gifts in these times be∣stowed upon him, and much in Almes (his deep poverty abounding to the riches of liberaliy, as our Saviour relieved others, though living upon others relief himself) when living; and considerable his Legacies, especially to Dublin-colledge, when dead, which hap∣pened in the year of our Lord 1653. and of his age 74. being observed never to have desired any preferment, but to have been sought for to many; it being his rule to discharge his present place, well knowing that God and good men use this method, viz. to make those, who have been faithful in a little, Rulers over much; as he was, to the great benefit of the places he came, where being as good and dexterous a Lawyer as Clerk, he compounded Diffe∣rences, discharged Annuities and Pensions, set up Presidents of Frugality, built Houses that he long Inhabited not. Dido being feigned in love with Aeneis when dead many years, to salve the Anticronism, it is said, it was with his Picture; truly I never saw this Reverend Prelates Picture, but I was in love with him for his Portracture sake in Paper, as I am with God for his Image sake in him.

Mr. William Lyford Bachelor of Divinity, [unspec XVIII] a 1.21 born and bred in Piesmer in Berk-shire, preferred first Fellow of Magdalen-colledge (to

which he restored in way of Legacy, what he had taken for the re∣signation of his Fellowship (to his great grief many years) in a way of bribe; and thence by the favour of the Earl of Bristol, who had a great value for him, Minister of Sherburne; where he divided,

1. His people to two parts.

1. The weak, which he Catechised and Principled in the Do∣ctrines of the Church, for many years before the wars, whereof he drew a Scheme since.

2. The strong, whom he confirmed by his exact Sermons, his modesty visible in his comely countenance, and the meekness and prudence of his spirit in his courteous behaviour.

2. His time, into nine hours a day, for Study, three for visits and conferences, three for prayers and devotion, two for his affairs, and the rest for his refreshment.

3. His estate into one third part, for the present necessity of his family, another third part for future provision, and the third for pious uses; and his Parish into twenty eight parts, to be visited in twenty eight days every month; leaving knowledge where he found ignorance, justice where he found oppression, peace where he found contention, and order where he found irregularity, planting true Religion apart from all fond Opinions; the reason why, though I have heard (at a solemn Assembly 1658. at Oxford) him charactered for a man of an upright life, great gravity, and severity (by the same token, that it was wondred there, that so ho∣ly a man, so much acquainted with God as he was, should doat so much (these are their own words) on such sapless things, as a King, Bishops, Common-prayer, and Ceremonies) and he to win them over, used much their more innocent Phrases, Expressions, and Method; yet he suffered much from the Faction in his Name and Ministry, dying 1653.

[unspec XIX] Mr. William Oughtred, a native Scholar and Fellow of Eaton, bred in Kings-colledge Cambridge, and (his Mathematical Studies (where∣in by Study and Travel he so excelled, that the choicest Mathe∣maticians of our age own much of their skill to him, whose house was full of younga 1.22 Gentlemen, that came from all parts to be instructed by him) leading him to a retired and abstracted life) preferred onely by Thomas Earl of Arundel to Albury in Surrey, where having a strong perswasion upon principles of Art (much confirmed by the Scheme of his Majesties return in 1660. sent his Majesty some years before by the Bishop of Avignon) that he should see the King restored; he saw it to his incredible joy, and had his Dimittis a month after, Iune 30, 1660. and the 86. year of his age. Much requested to have lived in Italy, France, Holland, when he was little observed in England; as facetious in Greek and Latine, as solid in Arithmetique, Astronomy, and the sphere of all Mea∣tures, b 1.23 Musick, &c. exact in his stile, as in his judgment, hand∣ling his Cube, and other Instruments at eighty, as steadily, as others did at thirty; owning his, he said, to temperance and Archery, principling his people with plain and solid truths, as he did the

world with great and useful Arts, advancing new Inventions in all things but Religion. Which in its old order and decency he main∣tained secure in his privacy, prudence,a 1.24 meekness, simplicity, resolution, patience, and contentment.

Dr. Richard Stuart, a Gentleman of a great extraction and good education, [unspec XX] born at Pate-shull in Northamptonshire near N••••vesby, to Navelshy in the midst of England, (where was born Mart•••• de Pate-shull, who being a Divine, was the best Lawyer of his time, and Chief Justice of the Common-pleas; As he being a Lawyer bred, Fellow of All-souls, and almost, being a little person of great faculties, all soul himself, in Oxford, was one of the best Divines of his time, made successively Dean of Chichester, Provost of Eaton, Dean of Saint Pauls and Westminster, Prolocutor to the Convocation 1640. at Westminster, Clerk of the Closet to the Kings Charles I. and II. a great Champion of the Protestant Religion at Paris,b 1.25 where he Preached the excellent Sermon of Hezekia's Reformation in vindication of ours, and a discreet propagator of it; having with that publick spirited man Sir Georg-Ratcliffe, gone very far in making an accommodation between the Iansenists and the Re∣formed, a sit man for such a noble design, considering the modera∣tion of his principles; his breast being a Chancery for Religion, the Sweetness of his Temper, the Acuteness and Depth of his Reason, the Charm of his Rhetorick and Fancy (he having been formerly, upon all occasions, as great a Poet and Orator, as he was then a Divine) and the full Smartness of his Stile.

Vir (to give him the Elogy of his Country-man Holcot) in divinis Scripturis cruditissimus, & saecularium rerum hand ignarius Ingenio praestans, & clarus eloquio, declamator, quoque concionum egregius.

He ordered this Inscription on his Grave.

Hic jacet R.S. qui assidue oravit pro pace Ecclesiae.

Dr. Io. Nicholas, a Wiltshire man, I suppose, in the late times Pre∣bend of Salisbury (where he excellently Preached Bishop Dave∣nants Funeral Sermon) and since Prebend of Westminster, and Dean of Saint Pauls, to whose piety and moderation the Church is as much beholding, as the State to his Brother Sir Edward Nicholas, who attended both his Majesty and his Father, as a faithful Coun∣sellor and Secretary, in their best times and worst. A man in no Art or Science shewed its self formally, such his modesty; but all were eminently, such his ability. He dyingc 1.26 1662. refufed thou∣sands of pounds, for a Lease he might then have disposed of, say∣ing, he would not so wrong his successor, his successor.

Dr. Barwick, dying 1664. did the like, whose History is legible in this his Epitaph.

Amori & Aeternitati Quisquis es viator oculum, animum, hac adverte, Lege, Luge Iacent sub hoc marmore Tenues exuviae non tenuis animae

Johannis Barwick SS. T. D. Quem suum Natalibus gloriatur (Wappenslacke) Ager Westmoriensis Studiis Academia Cantabrigiensis Admissum socium in Sti. Johannis Collegium Indeque (quod magis honori est) Pulsum a Rebellibus Qui ne perduellium rabiem, nec Haemopsin quamvis aeque cruentam & certius tandem percussuram quicquam moratus Pro Rege & Ecclesia summa Ardua molitus Diroa 1.27 Carcere perquam Inhumana passus; Inconcussa semper virtute Renatum denuo vidit Diadema, & Infulam Etiam sua non parum obstetricante manu Qui deinde functus

• Decanatu
  • ...b 1.28 Dunelmensi. Paucis mensibus
  • Paulino Vero Triennio.

Parum diu utroque sed fideliter Tandem (post caelibatum, cum primis caste, cum primis sancte cultum Labe Pulmonum & Curis publicis eonfectus heic requiescit in Domino Atque inter sacras Aedis Paulinae ruinas reponit su••s Viriusque Resurrectionisc 1.29 securus

• Anno
  • Aetatis LIII.
  • Salutis M. DC. LXII.

Caetera scire si velis, dis••ede; & Disce ex Illustri primaevae pietatis exemplo Quid sit esse veri nominis Christianum.

He was very active and prudent in coporating with those Loyal persons that attempted his Majesties Restauration, and in assisting the Bishop of London in the Churches Reformation 1662. being fetched up to London for his quick and sweet way of managing Church-affairs, wherein he was so well instructed by his Patron Bishop Morton, in his many years attendance upon him; and therefore no wonder that his Majesty valued him so much, as to be willing to redeem his life (they are his own words) with the ex∣change of one that had endeavoured to deprive him of his own; and sustain it (otherwise likely to perish in prison) when his ene∣mies had robbed him even of bread for his own mouth.

Dr. Nicholas Monke, Brother to his Grace the Duke of Albemarle, born of an ancient Family in Potheridge Devonshire, and bred under an excellent Tutor in Wadham-colledge in Oxford, being a Private, but well-beloved Minister in his own Country, as his Brother was a private, but much observed Souldier in the Low-countries; he came to serve God in the capacity of a Bishop in the Church, as his Grace did to serve the King, in the highest capacity that ever Subject did in the State. From Sir Hugh Pollard, Sir Thomas Stukley and others, he being always loyally affected himself, he took a journey 1659. from Devonshire to Scotland, conferring with Sir

a 1.30 Iohn Greenvile, now Earl of Bath, in his way at London; and engaging Sir Thomas Clerges, who conveighed him safe on Ship∣board, so fully instructed how to manage his negotiation with cau∣tion, that with Dr. Samuel Barrow, Sir R. Knight, Dr. Iohn Price, and Dr. Gumbles assistance, he was able to perswade his Brother to march into England, upon Sir George Booths Declaration; and when that failed, to send to Sir Thomas Clerges, to tell him, That if the Par∣liament would assert their own authority against the Army, he would come into England in their defence, as he did under that co∣lour to their ruin; his Reverend Brother in the mean time trans∣acting an exact correspondence between him, and all the West of England; particularly, recommending to him Sir William Maurice, as a faithful and prudent Counsellor. For which services he was made Provost of Eaton, and Bishop of Hereford, where he died 1661.

Dr. William Paul, bornb 1.31 a Citizen of London in East-cheap; [unspec XXIV] bred Fellow of All-souls in Oxford, an accute Scholar. I have heard Dr. Barlow say, that he answered the Act, when proceeding Doctor, the most satisfactorily of any person he heard, and he heard many in his time; and his Sermon a little before the wars (upon that Text, Then Paul stood upon Mars-hill, and said, I perceive, that in all things ye are too superstitious) at an Episcopal Visitation of Oxfordshire, was extraordinary. Minister of Brightwell in Oxfordshire for thirty years, Prebend of Chichester, Dean of Lichfeld, and Bishop of Ox∣ford 1663. dying there 1665. A shrewd man in business, whether of Trade, Husbandry, Buying and Improving of Land, Disposing of Money; carrying a great command over the factious about him by his money (which he could lend to advantages, to the most considerable men of that party) in those sad times, when others of his Order submitted to them; exceedingly well versed in the Laws of the Church and the Land, and admirably well seen in the In∣trigues and Interest of State.

Dr. Matthew Wren, born near Cheap-side in London, descended [unspec XXV] from a worshipful and ancient Family of his Name in Northumber∣land, brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge; where the accute∣ness of his Philosophy Act (before King Iames, when he distinguish∣ed upon his Majesty, that his Dogs might perform more than o∣thers by the Prerogative) pleased his Majesty, and with other learned performances known to the Bishop, recommended him to be Chaplain to Bishop Andrews; his Education under him furnish∣ed him with such experiences in the affairs of the Church and State, that he was advanced Chaplain to Prince Henry, and his painful, but exact Preaching in that Court, brought him to Prince Charles his service, his prudent conduct of the religious part of their Journey into Spain, made his way to King Iames his own ser∣vice,

as afterwards to King Charles; where in his he had,

• 1. Two Parsonages to exercise his charity upon the poor, his munificence upon the Churches, Houses, and House-keeping; and his excellent arts of Government upon the people.
• 2. One Prebendary, to enter him into Church affairs.
• 3. The Master-ship of Peter-house, a Scene fit for his parts, learn∣ing, and discipline.
• 4. The Deanery ofa 1.32 Windsor.
• 5. The Bishoprick of Hereford 1634.
• 6. The Bishoprick of Norwick 1635.
• 7. The Bishoprick of Ely 1638.
• 8. And the Deanery of the Chappel, in which capacity he mar∣ried the Prince of Aurange.

In all which places, if heb 1.33 Preached, he gave great instances of pregnant Intellectuals, set off with notable Learning, and accute Oratory: If he visited or governed, he did it exactly, ac∣cording to the old Injunctions of the Realm, the Canons of the Church, and the Laws and Statutes of the place; of all which, his Visitation Articles were an exact Collection. For which, by men ignorant and impatient, he was cried down into Prison, with∣out ever being heard, for fifteen years together, by a Parlia∣mentary power; and by the same power (as St. Paul, Act. 16. 39. was intreated out of his bonds, by them that put him in) discharg∣ed out, out-living by a strong constitution, used to hardship, never seeing Fire in the coldest time, nor bating the hardest Meat in his weakest years; seldome a bed till eleven a clock at night, and al∣ways up at five in the morning, at his hours walk, without either Fire or Candle, and continual Study diverting his thoughts, whereof his Accurate and Critical Vindication of the Scripture against the Socinian Glosses, is a very great instance, Printed at the end of the Critica Sacra, a small part of a vast Treasure of such choice observations. If he discoursed, he did it to his last, with a vast comprehension and memory of particular and minute cir∣cumstances, though at never so great a distance of time or place. If he had relation to any Colledge, as he had to Peter-house, and Pembroke-hall, and, I think, St. Iohns Cambridge as Visitor, and Char∣ter-house as Governor, he looked to the concernments of each place narrowly, he incouraged hopeful men in them bountifully, and kept up the interest of the Church, as he did every where, strictly; if it was a time of Parliament or Convocation, he at∣tended them carefully and constantly; for he knew that a Vote may sometimes save or loose a kingdom.* 1.34 This Eminent Prelate dying 1667. above 80. years of age, was buried in a Chappel erect∣ed at his own charge, in Cambridge, with the greatest solemnity seen in the memory of man, performed by the whole University, ordered by an Herald.

Dr. John Pearson, Master of Trinity-colledge, and Margaret Pro∣fessor, making an excellent Funeral Oration upon the occasion; and all the Company (besides that, they laid the rich Miter and Crosier upon the Altar) making the greatest offering that ever was seen in the University.

I wish him so good an Historian of his life, as he had been of the Church, if he had undertaken what Bishop Andrews imposed upon him, before he understood Sir Henry Spelman was about it, viz, The Collection of Counsels, and so good an Epitaph.

David LLoyd Dr. of Law, born in Mongomeryshire or Shropshire, [unspec XXVI] bred in All-souls Oxon, sometime Comptroller of the Earl of Derbies house, and Chaplain to his Family, Warden of Ruthen, Denbighshire, and Dean of St. Asaph; an ingenious Gentleman, of greater spirit than estate, well esteemed of by the neighbour Gentry where he lived, and not understood by the populacy; a great agent and suf∣ferer for his Majesty, well understanding how to take off his ene∣mies, and ingage his friends. He died 1662/3.

Dr. Iohn Barneston born of a good Family in Cheshire, to which [unspec XXVII] he was an ornament, bred Fellow of Brasen-n••se-colledge in Oxon, to which he was a benefactor, founding there a Lecture for Hebrew, where he had been an excellent Proficient in Greek, that that Col∣ledge, which is so eminent for Philosophy, should be as excellent for the Tongues. Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton, to whom he was Counsellor; and Residentiary of Salisbury, where he was an hospitable House-keeper, a chearful Companion, and a peaceable Man; by the same token, that a Church-warden being brought before him by the Parish in a Consistory, for having lost the Chalice out of his House, which should have been kept in the Church, he perceiving that the Church-warden had carried it home with an honest intent, not to Imbezzle, but to scoure it; ended the con∣troversie thus, Well, I am sorry, that the Cup of Vnion and Communi∣on, should be the cause of difference and discord among you. Go home, and live lovingly together, and I doubt not, but either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same, or some other as good will be sent you. Which by a charity, as secret as the offer was prudent, was per∣formed, not only on the Doctors motion, but his charge too, who rested in that peace he lived, when the whole Nation was imbroil∣ed in a war, 1642.

About which time died Mr. Io. Bois, who credited Elesmeth in [unspec XXVIII] Suffolk by his Birth, Hadley School, and Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge by his Education, Boxworth in Cambridgeshire, where he was Parson; and Ely-church, where he was Prebendary by his pre∣ferment. His voluntary Greek Lecture read a Bed early in the morning to young Scholars (whereof Mr. Gataker was one) im∣proved him much, and the young men of those times more; King Iames his Translation of the Bible, wherein he was an eminent in∣strument; Sir Henry Savils Chrysostome, whereof he was the Super∣visor; and the choice Notes and Criticisms, that go up and down among learned men, whereof he was the Author, will preserve his memory in the world, as long as it is either religious or learned.

Bishop Andrews, who made it not his business to finde preferment for men, but men for preferment, stole those they had upon him, and Mr. Nicholas Fuller, in a way equally agreeable to their mode∣sty and merit.

As Bishop Laud did for Mr. Edward Symonds, a native of Cottered [unspec XXIX]

in Hertsordshire, Scholar of Peter-house in Cambridge, and Minister of Little Rayne in Essex before the wars; so strict his life, and so plain, piercing, and profitable his preaching (whereof some very perti∣nent Sermons extant are instances) that he was looked upon as a Puritan; yet in the wars, so early his care in vindicating his Maje∣sty, in a Book bearing that Title; in principling his Country a∣gainst Rebellion, in some controversies with Stephen Marshall, whom he after visited in his Bed at Westminster, telling him, That if he had taken him for a Wild Beast, he would not have rouzed him in his Den; and afterwards in being instrumental to set forth his late Majesties true 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that he was Sequestred of his Living, and forced first to Worcester, then to Exeter and Barnestable, after that to France, and at last to London, where he died 1649. being bu∣ried in St. Peters Pauls-wharfe, where he often preached and elabo∣rately; for being requested once to Preach upon a small warning, and told that the plain Auditors would be best pleased with his plain performance; he answered, I can content them, but not mine own Conscience to preach with so little preparation.

The Earl of Kildare being accused before Henry the eighth, for burning the Cathedral Church of Cassiles in Ireland, professed in∣geniously, That he would never have burned the Church, if some body had not told him, that the Bishop was in it: Several persons being urged with their severity to this good man, answered, He had ne∣ver suffered so, had he not been a stubborn Kingling and Prelatist. Tanti non est bonum, quanti est odium Christianorum.

[unspec XXX] Dr. Edward Simson, born April 13. 1578. at Tottenham-high-crosse in Middlesex, where his Father was the faithful Minister, who hav∣ing bred himself to a competent skill in Latine, sent him to West∣minster under Mr. Cambden, to learn Greek at fourteen, as he did him to Trinity-colledge in Cambridge, to accomplish himself with the Arts and Sciences at eighteen, whereof being Master at twenty five, as Bachelor of Divinity at thirty two: when after vast instances of his proficiency in Critical and Historical Learning, whereof his a 1.35 Catholique History (as good of the great world, as his Master Cambden is of Great Brittain) Printed 1652. at Oxford, a vast heap of Commentaries and Glosses upon the most known Authors lying in his Study, and several Treaties, as his Notae Selectiores in Horatium, Praelectiones in Persii satyras; Dii Gentium: Sanctae linguae soboles; Anglicanae linguae vocabularium Etymologicum; Tractatus de justifica∣tione: A Treatise concerning Divine Providence in regard of evil or sin: The knowledge of Christ in two Treaties, dedicated to the Countess of Maidston; Positive Divinity in three parts, containing an Exposition of the Creed, the Lords Prayer, and the Decalogue, b 1.36 worn out in the hands of private friends, gave a very good ac∣count; he was preferred for four years Chaplain to Sir Moyle Finch, and upon his death (whose Funeral Sermon he Preached with great applause) returning to the University for three years, Preacher in a private Parish at Cambridge, and then Commencing Doctor at fourty, advanced Rector of Eastling, in the Diocess of Canterbury, by the Viscountess Maidston, Sir M. Finches Relict, and

Prebend of Coringam, where being a man of an erect and tall, though not very strong body, a chearful soul, a strong memory, and quick senses to his last, he continued with infinite satisfaction to all his Neighbors (being complai••ant as well as studious) but the ignorant, thirty years, dying suddainly (if his death who had lived so well 73. years, might be thought suddain) for he went to bed over night, not to awake till the great morning, sleeping his last even without a Metaphor 1652. having written over his Chronicona 1.37 Catholicum Egregium & Absolutissimum opus summa Industria, omni∣gena eruditione, magno Iudicio et multorum annorum vigilis perduc∣tum, saith Dr. Edward Reynolds then Vice-Chancellor, in his License prefixed to it with his own hand, though very ancient, in as neat a Character almost as the Printer published it.

Ipsos Saturni tumularunt viscera natos, et Genitus rursus pars Genitoris erat: Scilicet in proprios saevit gula temporis artus; dum{que} necat serpens omnia primus obit. Sed iu defunctis tribuisti saecula saeclis, Qui vel praeteritos scis revocare dies: Vmbras, at{que} orcum redimcns e fa••cibus orci; nam sine te Manes bis po••uere ••••ri. Natales ante orte tuos, posi ••••ner•• v••••••x, Huic monstras aevo prist••, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 novo Tempore nata prius, nunc gignit Ale••∣••••••a tempus vitam alii mundo, debet ae•••• ••st••tibi.

H. Birchhed, Coll. Om. An. Soc.

Saecula qui vasta reparasti lapsa ruina Aequum est ipse feras mansuram in saecula famam.

Rob. Creswell Col. Trin. Cant.

St. Austinesb 1.38 Retractations was the noblest of his Works; and his Declaration about the Sermon before King Iames at Royston 1616/17. (after the two Professors of Cambridge gave in their judge∣ment against his Exposition of Rom. 7. for which Armenius had been lately blamed) was the most ingenious of his.

Dr. Wilford, Fellow and Master of Bennet Colledge in Cambridge, [unspec XXXI] Vice-Chancellor of that University, Archdeacon of Bedford, and Dean of Ely, well seen in the Statutes of the University, the Ca∣nons of the Church, and the Laws of the Land; a good Scholar, and a strict Governor, able to instruct men to do well, to restrain them from doing ill: He dyed Iuly 1667. having strugled much with bad manners, and sad times, wherein in promoting his Maje∣stie•• ••••rvice, he was discreet, close and active; he did as the gladia∣tors ••••ed to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, honeste decumbere, neither suffered Re∣ligion [unspec I] only with his Majesty, but all ingenuity too; For

Thomasc 1.39 Farnaby, that excellent Gramarian, Rhetorician, and Critick, as appears by his own systems, and his Notes upon most Classick Latine Authors so often Printed here, and oftner beyond

Sea (his life being taken up in making those excellent Collections) he had been forty years instilling those principles of Loyalty and Religion into young Gentlemen, for which, with those Gentle∣men he suffered; it was a good sight to see Sir Thomas Moore when Chancellor, condescend to ask blessing humbly on his knees in the middle of Westminster-Hall of his Father then Puisne Judge; and it was a sad sight to see so many Bishops and Doctors ata 1.40 Ely-House, thank plain Mr. Farnaby for teaching them those Maxims, Loyalty in the School, Affliction by his Patience, which he had taught them in the Grammar-School by his Lectures. The War spent him many of those thousands he had got in Peace, he throwing, as the Mariners, his Goods over-board, to secure himself and his Consci∣ence, keeping a calm within in the middle of a storm without; The Parliament not forcing from him so much, but he sent in more to the King. His discovering the false Glosses and Comments put upon words and things in those times, was as good service as the light and clearness he gave to the words and things of the old∣times; and when he could not correct the times to duty, he retired, though with trouble to his old way of breeding up young Gentle∣men that should hereafter alter them, planting a Nursery (in the advantageous way of Boarding and Schooling, which he always managed together, and he would say it was not worth the while to undertake them asunder,) for the next Age that would make amends for this, being Master of a grave Prudence to calm the unswayed humorsom Children; and a good Spirit and fancy to raise the depressed Genius of others, fixing and reducing each tem∣per, as Socrates did Alcibiades, to an usefulness. One that under∣stood Greek and Latine Authors, so as to understand himself.

[unspec II] Dr. Iohn Pottinger, the Famous Master of Winchester, who hath bred so many excellent men of late, Fellow of New Colledge (as Dr. Ailmer, Dr. Sharwicke, Dr. Ailworth, Mr. Turner, Mr. Ken, &c.) able by their great Parts to master that Faction that with force mastered him. The very discipline and method of his excellent School, was able to instill learning (like a Watch once well set that goeth always) even without him to the dullest capacity, and his fancy, parts and incouraging temper, put life into that Learn∣ing; instilling not the Learning only, but the Life of Authors, especially Homer into his Scholars, who came generally to the University in my time with more vigorous parts, than others went out fit; although otherwise he was a man as once Tully spake, qui opprimi potius onere officii maluit quam illud deponere, yet what pains he took to resign when his Conscience and Imploy∣ment could not consist together; and much troubled between his unhappiness, that he could not serve his Generation, and his tem∣per that would have its liberty, having quitted his place 1653/4. he injoyed not long his life.

[unspec III] Dr. Lambert Osbaston, suffering more for his Conscience by the Faction, than he had done for his waggery by the Government; he went beyond Canterbury, but he could not go beyond Westminster, where many of his own Scholars (that he made not onely Scholars,

but men; teaching his charge not only their Books, but themselves, breeding them to Carriage and Address, as well as Learning, and infusing a spirit with his notion) were as severe to him as he had been to them. Some favour they shewed his Person for his former services, which he repented; but Sequestred all his Preferments for his present integrity, in pressing all those he had an interest in (even Bradshaw himself upon his Death-bed) to repent. He was turned out of one Living in the Country for insufficiency; and yet employed at most examinations at Westminster for his parts, where he made boys do that which men durst not, tell truth to Oliver, then their Nose and Face, he being not pedantick in his carriage and discourse, was by some not thought rich in Learning, because he did not Jingle with it in his discourse. He gave the best alms to the poor, learning never paying boys, because their Parents did not pay him, encouraging poor Children to be painful in School, but never poor Scholars idly begging before it. Mr. Bust the admirable Greek School-master of Eaton, never suffered any wan∣dring Scholar (Rogues in the front of the Statute) to come to his School, privately relieving, and publickly chiding such, left his boys might be discouraged to those that had taken pains at School for maintenance, come beggars out of the University. He never dulled a quick head by mawling it, nor awed a fluent tongue into stuttering by affrightment, nor commuted correction into money, nor debased his Authority by contesting with the obstinate, turn∣ing such out when he could do them no good, and they might do others much hurt, studying the Childrens dispositions, as they did their books: the invincibly dull he pityed, consigning them over to other Professions, Ship-wrights, and Boat-makers, will chuse those crooked pieces of Timber, which other Carpenters refuse. The dull and diligent he encouraged, he had been a Child himself, if he had corrected nature as a fault in Children: the ingenious and idle he quickned, the ingenious and industrious he doted on, not only pardoning, but being infinitely pleased with a well-humored fault, that discovered parts as well as youth, and was an ingenious error.

Mr. Iohn Cleaveland, owing his Birth and School-breeding to [unspec IV] Hinckley in Leicester-shire; the heaving of his natural fancy by choicest Elegancies in Greek and Latine, more elegantly English∣ed (an exercise he improved much by) to Mr. Vines then School∣master. His University Education to Christs Colledge, where he was Scholar; and St. Iohns where he was Fellow, besides his being an exquisite Orator, and a pure Latinist. The first recommending him to the honor of making those publick Speeches of his to his late Majesty, the Prince, the Prince Palatine, &c. lately published, and the other preferring him to the place of Rhetorick-Reader: he was a general Artist, and universal Scholar, that had the patience to squeeze all the proper Learning that had any coherence with it, into each fancy, which ran like the soul it dwelled in in a minute, through the whole Circle both of Sciences and Languages, by the strength of an exercised memory that conned out of book all it

read; Mr. Cleaveland reckoned himself to know just so much as he remembred, his fancy in his elaborate Pieces of Poetry, wherein he excelled, summing whole books into a Metaphor, and whole Me∣taphors into an Epithite, walked from one height to another in a constant level and Champion of continued elevation: he ventured his Person and Prefermenta 1.41 for his Majesty at Newark, where he handled his Sword in the quality of Advocate, and his life at Oxford, where he managed his Pen as the highest Panegyrist, (witness his Rupertismus, his Elegy on my Lord of Canterbury, &c. on the one hand) on the one side to draw out all good inclinations to vertue; and the smartest Satyrist, (witness the Rebell Scot, the Scots Apostacy, the Character of a London Diurnal, and a Com∣mittee-man, blows that shaked triumphing Rebellion, reaching the soul of those not to be reached by Law or Power, striking each Traitor to a paleness beyond that of any Loyal Corps that bled by them; the Poet killing at as much distance, as some Philosophers heat-scars lasting as time, indelible as guilt-stabs beyond death) on the other, to shame the ill from Vice, sinking in the common ruine of King and Kingdom: he was undone first, and afterwards secured at Norwich, because he was poor and had not where with∣all to live, whereupon he composed an Addresse to the Pageant Power at Whitehall of so much gallant Reason, and such towring Language, as looked bigger than his Highness, shrinking before the Majesty of his Pen (the only thing that ever I heard wrought upon him that had been too hard for all Swords) representing that of his Master and Cause, like Faelix trembling, Paul flattered one of the meanest of three Nations, that he Ruled, and ominously sent him to study the Law, which he saw would prevail, it being in vain to suppress that was supported by the two greatest things in the World, Wit and Learning.

This great Wit (great in his easie veins and elaborate strein, no less to be valued by us, because most studyed by him) dyed at Grays-Inn April 29. 1658. and being carryed from thence to Huns∣don-House, was buryed on May-day at Colledge-hill, Dr. Iohn Pearson his good friend preached his Funeral Sermon, who rendred this reason why he cautiously declined all commending of the party deceased, because such praysing of him would not be adequate to any expectation in that Auditory, seeing some who knew him not would think it far above him, while those who knew him must needs know it far below him.

[unspec V] Mr. Richard Crashaw, his Father had done so well in the Temple where he was Preacher; and he promised so much where he was a Scholar, that two great Lawyers, I think Sir Henry Yelverton, and Sir Randolph Crew took him to their care, the one paying for his Diet, the other for his Cloaths, Books, and Schooling till he was provided of both in the Royal Foundation at Charter-House, where his nature being leisurely advanced by Art, and his own pretty conceits improved by those of the choicest Orators and Poets, which he was not onely taught to understand, but imitate and make, not only their rich sense his own, but to smooth his soul as

well as fill it, for things are rough without words, their expressi∣ons too; the essays Mr. Brooks (his worthy Master still alive, whose even, constant, and pursuing diligence and industry, did wonders in that School) imposed upon him, on the Epistles and Gospels, at School, were the ground of that Divine fancy, so famous ina 1.42 Pembroke-hall, where he was Scholar; and Peter-house, where he was Fellow, in Cambridge, where he was esteemed the otherb 1.43 Herbert of our Church, for making Poetry, as Divine in its object, as in its Original, and setting wit disparaged in talking out most of its gallant Genius on Fables, Women, Drollery, or Flattery; up∣on a matter and subject as noble as its nature, making his Verses not in his Study at St. Peters-house, but in his Devotions, wherein he spent many a night, at St. Maries Church; warbling his Hymns for St. Ambroses his Saints, under Tertullians Roof of Angels; hav∣ing no other Helicon, than the Iordan of his eyes; nor Parnassus, than the Sion where dwelled his thoughts, that made the Muses Graces, and taught Poems to do what they did of old, propagate Religion, and not so much Charm as Inspire the Soul. Hebrew, Greek, Latine, Spanish, French, Italian, were as familiar to him as English. Philosophy came as plausible from him as his Speeches or Sermons; those thronged Sermons on each Sunday and Holiday, that ravished more like Poems, than both the Poet and Saint (two c 1.44 of the most sacred names in heaven and earth) scattering not so much Sentences and Extasies, his soul breahing in each word, was the soul of the Assembly, as its original is of the World. Poe∣try, Musick, Drawing, Limning, Graving, (exercises of his curious Invention, and sudden Fancy) were the subservient recreations of his vacant hours, not the grand business of his soul; his diet was temperate, to a Lesson exactness, whence his memory was so clear, that he had ready at his service the choicest treasures of Greek and Latine Poets, those Gibeonites to draw water to the Taberna∣cle. The Divine Poet, that had set a Language (made up of the Quintessence of Fancy and Reason) for the Angels (as the School∣men state their way of discourse) to converse in; seeing Atheism prevailing in England, embraced Popery in Italy, chusing rather to live in the Communion of that corrupt Church, in the practise of fundamental truths, confessed to be then mixed with some errors, than to stay here, where was hardly the face of any Church, after the overthrow of those to make way for all errors; being resolv∣ed to any Religion, than that which taught a holy Rebelliond 1.45 and Perjury, a pious Sacriledge, a godly Parracide, and made the very horrors of nature, the glory of Christianity. And died of a Feaver, the holy order of his soul over-heating his body, Canon of Loretto, whence he was carried to heaven, as that Church was brought thither by Angels, singing.

Dr. Iohn Sherman, Scholar at Charter-house, London, and Fellow of [unspec VI] Trinity-colledge Cambridge, whom to use his owne 1.46 words, Reading makes a full Scholar, as appeared by his discourse, called, The Greek brought into the Temple: Conference a ready Scholar, evidenced in his successful contracts in these times with both papists and Secta∣ries;

and meditation a deep Scholar, as is legible in his excellent dis∣course (so much commended by the Reverend Dr. Pierce) of In∣••allibility; so conscientious a man, that because he had a small estate of his own, derived to him by providence, he would not re∣turn to his old Preferment, his Fellow-ship; and so modest, that he looked not after any new; being infinitely more happy in his rational and sublime self-satisfaction, whereby he neglected the lower advantages of his Majesties Restauration, than others have been in their thoughts since, that made it their business to enjoy them.

[unspec VII] Dr. Abraham Cowley, bred at Westminster (under the Reverend Dr. Busby, whose name will be deeply woven into the history of this age, most of the eminent Prelates and States-men owning their Abilities to his admirable Education, and their Loyalty to his choice Principles) preferred to Trinity-colledge Cambridge, and when ejected, admitted in France Secretary in effect to her Majesty the Queen Mother, in being so formerly to the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Albans; since the Restauration designed Master of the Savoy, and Charter-house, and the first failing, and the second not falling, rewarded with a rich Lease of her Majesties, I think, at Chersey in Surrey. A Poet, as all are born, not made, a Jewel brought forth with it fire and light about it, writing at eleven well at School for the entertainment of Noblemen, and at sixteena 1.47 excellent∣ly in the University, for the entertainment of a Prince; aiming according to his Motto (Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo, victorque virum voliture per ora) at nothing ordinary; he per∣formed upon all occasions extraordinary; arriving at the greatest heighth of English andb 1.48 Latine Poetry, (that is, a happy fertili∣ty of Invention, a great Wisdom of Disposition, a curious Judge∣ment in observance of Decencies, and quick Luster and Vigor of Elocution, a becoming Modesty, Variety, and Majesty of Num∣ber; c 1.49 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; bold and unusual figures; all every where like a Mans Soul; Grave, Calm, Sober, and Chaste as his Life; not gay all over, but skilled when to be witty, and when to be wise; in a word, his Poems) the great exactness in Greek and Latine Authors (his Comment being as Learned as his Poems Ingenious, the one opening what the other coucheth) Sublimated not Translated by him; richer in his grasping coherent and great thoughts, than in their own; a stupendious skill in most Lan∣guages and Sciences, particularly in the two great Mistrisses profes∣sions, Divinity and Physick, and their brave attendants, Philoso∣phy, Mathematicks, and History, besides Musick, Limning, &c. his recreations, and that in the pleasant privacy of a Colledge; not on the Banks of Cham, amidst the great Collection of the most learned Books and Men, where his thoughts run as clear and undi∣sturbed as the stream, and peaceable as the times; but among cares and fears, melancholy and grief, sufferings and removes, times fit to write of, (and its pity his three Books of the Civil Wars, reach∣ing as far as the first Battel of Newbury, are lost; and that he laid down his Pen, when his friends did their Armes; that he marched

out of the Cause, as they did out of their Garrisons; dismantling the Works and Fortifications of Wit and Reason, in his power to keep, when they did the Forts and Castles not so in theirs) but not in, In te inluens (they are Tullies words applied by Mr. C. to him∣self) Brute, Doleo, cujus in adolescentiam per medias laudes, quasi qua∣drigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna Reipublicae. Since Poesie, as he observeth there, that is, to communicate pleasure unto others, must have a soul full of bright and delightful Ideas; sad times, and a sad spirit, being as unsuitable to a good fancy, as (to use his comparison, for I make him all along, who best could express himself) the grave to Dr. Donnes Sun-dial, nothing buta 1.50 Love (the Poets necessary affection, Aristotle handleth the affecti∣ons in his discourses both of Rhetorick and Poetry) and Devotion, then keeping up his thoughts and parts; the melancholy result∣ing from thence, that made him in the midst of the brave discour∣ses in his House and Company, the Rendezvouz of all that was Noble, Learned, or Witty in the Nation) silent some hours toge∣ther, drew in all that he heard into great notions; and as if it had been a Meditation, all the while expressed them in greater. In a word, he became the best Poet, by being the best natured man in England; sufficiently honored, not so much by the great appea∣rance at his Funeral at Westminster-Abbey, as became the Funeral of the great Ornament of the English Nation, August 1667 as that he was intirely beloved by his Majesty King Charles II. the Augustus to this Virgil, familiarly entertained by her Majesty Mary the Queen Mother, received into the intimate friendship of his Grace George Duke of Buckingham, &c. and so happily immitated by the excel∣lent Mr.b 1.51 Sprat, the surviving Ornament of English Ingenuity, who hath done that right and honour to the Royal Society, that that doth to Philosophy, and the world; the first grounds and rules whereof were given by Dr. Cowley, in a way of Club at Ox∣ford, that is now improved into a noble Colledge at London.

[unspec VIII] Fran. Quarles, Esq Son toc 1.52 Iames Quarles, Esq born at Ste∣wards nigh Rumford in Essex, bred in Christ-colledge in Cambridge, and Lincolns-Inn, London, preferred Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohe∣mia, Secretary to Bishop Vsher, and Chronologer to the City of London; having suffered much in his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland, and as much in his Peace and Name (for writing the Loyal Conver••, and going to his Majesty to Oxford) by the Faction in Eng∣land; he practised the Iob he had described, and the best Embleme (though he had out-Alciated and Excelled in his Emblemes) of De∣votion and Patience himself, dying Septemb. 8.

• Anno
  • Domini 1644.
  • Aetatis 52.

the Husband of one Wife, and Father of eighteen Children, bu∣ried at St. Fosters, and living his pious books, that by the fancy take the heart, having taught Poetry to be witty, without profaneness, wantonness, or being satyrical, that is, without the Poets abusing God, himself, or his neighbor.

[unspec XI] To joyn together Poetry and Musick, Mr. Will. Laws, a Vicar Chorals Son, born and bred at Salisbury, but accomplished at the Mar∣quiss

of Hertfords, who kept him at his own charge under his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Govanni Coperario an Italian, till he equalled, yea, exceeded him. Of the private Musick to King Charles I. and of great respect among all the Nobility and Clergy of England; besides his fancies of the 3, 4, 5 and 6. parts to the Viol and Organ, he made above 30. several sorts of Composures for Voices and Instruments, there being no instrument that he Composed not to as aptly as if he had only studied that: When slain September 24. 1645. in the Command of a Commissary, given on purpose to secure him; but that the activity of his spirit disclaimed the Covert of his Office, he was particularly lamented by his Majesty, who called him the Father of Musick, having no Brother in that Faculty, but him that was his Brother in nature, Mr. Henry Laws, since gone to injoy that heaven where there is pleasures for evermore, after he had many years kept up that Divine Art of giving laws to Ayr & Fettering Sounds, in Noble Halls, Parlors, and Chambers, when it was shut out of Churches, where for many years (to use Mr. Hookers words) it was greatly available,

by a native puissance and efficacy, to bring the minde to a perfect temper when troubled, to quicken the spirits low, and allay them when eager; soveraign against melancholy and despair, forceable to draw forth tears of devotion, able both to move and moderate affections:

The Bards thereby communi∣cating Religion, Learning, and Civility to this whole-Nation. When it was asked, what made a good Musician? one answered, A good Voice; another, Skill; but a third more truly, Incourag••ment.

[unspec X] Having omitted the Reverend Bishop Bridgeman among the suf∣fering Prelates, it will be no offence to enter him among the dis∣couraged Artists, he being as ingenious as he was gra••e; and a great Patron of those parts in others, that he was happy in himself, for those thirty years that he was Bishop of Chester, every year maintaining more or less hopeful young men in the University, and preferring good proficients out of it; by the same token, that some in these times, turned him out of his Livings, that he had raised into theirs. A good Benefactor to Chester, I think, the place of his Birth, as well as his Preferment; and to Brasen-nose-colledge ox••n, the place of his Education; but a better, under God, to England, in his Son, the honorable Lord Chief Justice Bridgeman, a great sufferer in his Majesties Cause, and a great honor to it, his moderation and equity being such in dispensing his Majesties Law, that he seems to carry a kind of Chancery in his Breast in the Com∣mon-pleas; endearing, as well as opening, the Law to the people, as if he carried about him the Kings Conscience, as well as his own; an instances that the Sons of married Clergy-men, are as suc∣cessful, as the Children of Men of other Professions, against the Romanists suggestion, who against Nature, Scripture, and Primitive Practise, forbid the Banes of Clergy-men within their own juris∣diction, and be ••patter them without; though they might observe, that the Sons of English Priests prove as good men generally, as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals.

[unspec XI] Dr. George Wild, a native of Devonshire, Scholar and Fellow of

St. Iohns-colledge in Oxford, and Chaplain to Archbishop Laud at Lambeth; a great wit in the University, and a great wisdom in the Church; which in its persecutions he confirmed by his honest Ser∣mons in Country and City, in publick and private, particularly in his well-known 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or Oratory in Fleet-street, fitted for the Preaching of the Word, the Administring of the Sacrament, with a constant, solemn, and fervent use of the publick Liturgy, en∣couraged by his chearful spirit and converse; adorned with his great and gentile example of piety and charity, communicating with great care to others relief, that were Sequestred, Imprisoned, and almost Famished, what he himself by his great reputation and acquaintance received for his own maintenance; who hazarded himself by keeping correspondence beyond Sea most, yet suffered less than any (bold innocence is its own guard) only surprized sometimes to a few hours Confinement, and some weeks Silence, when as it is said of Saint Iohn Baptist, by Maldonate, miraculum non∣fecit, magnum fuit; so it is written of him by his successor Bishop Mossom, Concionem non habuit magna fuit. He preached no Sermon, yet was he himself, in the pattern of patience and piety, a good Ser¦mon, because Herod was afraid of this burning and shining light; he came not to execution himself for his Loyalty, because he fear∣ed not Herod; he attended all those, even the meanest, that went to it for their Conscience.

When 1660. that year of his faith and prayers came, no doubt he had his choice, whether he would accept that Bishoprick he had in Ireland, or an equal dignity in England; that which would have been the argument of anothers refusal, was the very reason of his choice, even the difficulty of the service, and the sad state of that Church; and so he underwent that rudeness there (to the danger of his life) from those under him, that he had here from those above him; notwithstanding which he went on with continual Sermons, to feed the peoples souls, and not their humors; a wholesom Dis∣cipline, that struck at their pertinacy, not their persons; and even course of Holiness and Devotion, made up of Fasting and Prayer, whereby he did 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 teach by the pattern of his Life,* 1.53 as well as the rules of his Doctrine, a generous and magnificent ho∣spitality, entertaining all his Diocess civilly, that so unworthily (not knowing him, till they had lost him) entertained him; a dif∣fusive charity (demonstrating that he sought them not theirs) to poor Widows, young Catechists, hopeful Scholars, needy Gentle∣men, and others, his Pensioners at Derry, Dublin, and Faughen in Ireland; Glascow in Scotland; London, Oxford, and Cambridge in England; by which, and other parts of his Pastoral cares, his body and spirits were so wasted with pains and study in five years, that repairing as a Peer to a Parliament in Dublin 1665. he brought death in his face thither, and preparing himself very late on Christmas Eve that year, for a Sermon on Hag. 2. 7. and Sa∣crament the following day, at St Brides in the same City, he felt it by a Paroxism, seizing his heart, whereof he died the Friday after, having received the holy Eucharist so chearfully, as one assured of

Life, having liveda 1.54 as one assured of Death, (saying, Thy will be done in earth, in terra mea, (with a Pathetick emphasis in my Body) being a pure Virgin, espoused only to Christ; and besides that, he laid out 5000l. per annum since he was Bishop in charita∣ble uses, and 200l. per annum in Buildings; he bequeathed his whole Estate, save some of his best Folio Books, given to St. Iohns Coll. Oxon. to furnish their Library; and an 100l. towards the building of their Founders Tomb. To the poor, to whom he never gave any out of his purse in a Contribution of Charity, but (such his huge ingenuity, as well as his goodness) he gave something of himself also in a compassionate pity, yea, and something of his Office too, in a Benediction and Prayer.

[unspec XII] Dr. Warmestry, a Scholar of Westminster, Student of Christ-church, and at last Dean of Worcester; for which Diocess he was Clerk in the two Convocations 1640. In the first, warily avoiding what might be offensive to the people at that time, (as the sitting of the Con∣vocation after the Parliament, and the making of new Canons, when the people could not be brought to observe the old ones.) And in the second, offering expedients to remove what had been so (according to the Levitical Law, covering the pit which they had opened) yet he that was so fearful to offend the multitude (while there was any hope of them) in things that her judged cir∣cumstantial, and prudential, was not affraid to be undone by them (when they grew desperate) for those things that he understood were essential. He was the Almoner-general of the noble Loya∣lists, the Confessor-general of Loyal Martyrs, and the Penitentiary∣general for visiting the sick, very zealous in convertingb 1.55 Infi∣dels, very industrious in reclaiming the loose, very careful in com∣forting the sad, satisfying the doubtful, and establishing the waver∣ing; very careful in preparing his flock for the Sacrament of the Lordsc 1.56 Supper, and for death; and very cautious against giving any offence. He died at Worcester 1665. out-doing the Faction at their own Bow, Preaching.

[unspec XIII] Mr. Humphrey Sydenham, born a good Gentleman at Dalverton in Somersetshire, bred F••llow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford, so elo∣quent a Preacher (as it seems by his, The Athenian Babler, and other admirable Sermons since published) that he was commonly called, The Silver-tongued Sydenham, but withal so honest a man, that he was in danger of being turned out in these times, as not fit (its the phrase of the times) to Preach the Gospel. As if wit, could be bet∣ter imployed any way, than to please men to heaven; and it were not as lawful to rescue that Divine thing, as well as Temples, Al∣tars, Sacrifices from Satans service, who hath usurped it so many ages to serve lusts to gods, who gave it to save souls. He died about 1651. happy in having the Tongue of Men and Angels, and Charity too, so that now he speaks Mysteries and Revelations.

[unspec XIV] Dr. Michael Hudson, a Gentleman of great parts, and greater courage, hazarding himself to discover the strength of most of the Parliament Garrisons; attempting many of them, and taking some, being best acquainted with the ways and passes of England,

of any person in his Majesties Army. The reason why he conduct∣ed him so safely, having made many journeys before, between Newcastle and Oxford, about the terms of his security there, through his enemies quarters to the Scots at Newcastle; and his Letters so securely to the Queen in France, till he was betrayed by a Cavaleer Captain into his Enemies hands, who imprisoned him three quarters of a year in London House, and after an escape thence, a year in the Tower, whence being permitted to take Phy∣sick in London, he got out (after a shrewd design to have taken the Tower) with a Basket of Apples on his Head, in a disguise, to the King at Hampton-Court, and from thence to Lincolnshires, where he raised a party for his Majesty, having engaged the Gentry of Nor∣folk and Suffolk in the like design, 1648. In the head of which, after quarter given, he was killed barbarously, Iune 6. at Wood-craft-house near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, being thrown down, when his Head was cloven asunder, into a Mote, and when he caught hold of a Spout, to save himself as he was falling, a Halbertier cuts off his Fingers; as others, now he was fallen into the Water, Swimming with one half of his Head over his Eyes, and begging to dye at Land, knocked him on the Head, cutting off his Tongue and Teeth, and carrying them about the Country, the Trophies of their shame, but his immortal honor; who, besides his life, lost 2000l. in a personal estate, and 900l. a year, leaving his Wife and Children to the charity of noble persons, himself be∣ing not vouchsafed a grave, till an Enemy, of more wit and charity than his fellows, said, Since he is dead, let him be buried.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Which no Clergy-man held since Bi∣shop Gray, who was Lord Treasurer 9. Edw. 4.
• a 1.2

  He was Lord 〈…〉〈…〉 to King Charles 1.
• b 1.3

  Bishop ••ush, Harps∣••ield Hist. Eccles. Aug. 15. ••aecul•• c. 24.
• c 1.4

  Whose Men Miracles were written on purpo••e to please the Duk into Learning.
• a 1.5

  〈…〉〈…〉
• b 1.6

  E••••s. de Aug.
• * 1.7

  He was bu∣ried a•• West∣minster-Ab∣he••, April 24. 1662.
• a 1.8

  He had another Bro∣ther a great sufferer, c••••n∣cellor of Ban∣gor and Saint Asaph. Sir Henry Griffith of Agnis••••rton York, Bar, with 1781. per annum settled 4461l. Mr. Ed. Grif¦fith of Hen∣slan Denb. 170l. Pe••. Griffi••h of Carnvy ••lint, Esq 113l. Sir Ed. Grif∣fith Ding by North. 1700l.
• b 1.9

  Eccle∣••••ull-castle 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••afford∣s••••••e ••••e ••••de an excellent Apo∣logy for him∣self in Parlia∣ment.
• a 1.10

  Fo••nding a School, and an Alms-house there.
• a 1.11

  An accu∣rate Logician, Philosopher, and School-Divine, as ap∣pears by his Letter to Dr. ••a•• ••or about his Unum Necessa••ium.
• b 1.12

  Much la∣mented by the whole King∣dome, more own by his Dio∣cesse, most of all by the Chuch and his Maje∣sty who was much concer∣ned for him.
• a 1.13

  〈…〉〈…〉
• b 1.14

  Whereof he was a Member.
• * 1.15

  R. C. in L. A. Ep. W.
• a 1.16

  And one of the Commis∣sioners, as Bi∣shop Gauden and Bishop Earls was for reviewing the Liturgy, and satisfying the dissenting Bre∣thren.
• b 1.17

  The very Parliament naming him as worthy to be one of the As∣sembly 1643. though he thought not it worthy of him.
• c 1.18

  How well he understood the world in his younger days, appears be his smart Characters how little be valued it, was seen in the careless in∣difference of his b••ly contemp∣••ative life.
• a 1.19

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 p••••la o•• the Vniversity, chaplain to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and ••••inister of a Living of his donation in W••l••shire, which he quit∣ted with i••s Lord when he attended be ••••ded not as urged with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Ar∣••••uns by h••m, his Ma∣ster.
• a 1.20

  Only Mr. Faringdon saith he spake of his Sermon, Di••i Custo∣dia••••, with complacency.
• a 1.21

  He pro∣ceeded 1631.
• a 1.22

  As Sir William ••ackehouse son, Mr. Stokes, Dr. Will. LLoyd, Mr. Arth, Haughton, who had much ado to prevail with his mode∣sty to publish his Trigono∣metria.
• b 1.23

  In the Mathematical way.
• a 1.24

  〈…〉〈…〉
• b 1.25

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 L' H••lic de Blmville, be∣•• the P••••icc of Wales. He 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Ba•••••• shment An 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dom. 1••42. Novem 14. Ann Ae a••, 58. le•• r••••ng 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••, st Charles Stu••t, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Oriel Colledge Oxon ••••bind him, a sweet-natured and a very 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Gentle¦men.
• c 1.26

  And bu∣ried, I think, in Salisbury.
• a 1.27

  He was in the Tower s••veral years sed with bread and water, which di••t, by Gods provi¦dence, having saved his life, when his ve•••• broke, hed•• onl•• little or nothing but water all his life time after, and eat nothing but once in 24. or 30. hours.
• b 1.28

  He was Prebendary of Durham be∣fore, and ••••••plain and Executor to Bishop Mor∣ten.
• c 1.29

  H•• gave liberally to∣wards the re∣pair of Saint Pauls.
• a 1.30

  〈…〉〈…〉, and the good I ex∣pect from you, will bring so great a benefit to your Coun¦try, and to yourself, that I cannot think that you will decline my Interest: I leave the way and manner of declaring it intirely to your own Judgement and will comply with the advice you will give me. The other to Sir John about him, in these words. I am confi∣dent that George Monke can have no malice in his heart against me, no•• hath he done any thing against me which I cannot easily pardon; and it is in his power to do me so great service, that I cannot easily reward, but I will do all I can; and perform what he shall promise his Army (whereof he shall still keep the Com∣mand) upon the word of a King, July 21. 1659.
• b 1.31

  I think that 〈…〉〈…〉 who was taken up 30. years after his Fu∣••eral, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as the first 〈◊〉〈◊〉 he was 〈◊〉〈◊〉, was his Fa∣••hel.
• a 1.32

  where 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Bro••her D. W••en him, Fa∣ther is the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 genieus and learned Dr. W. ••n Ajiro∣nony-prosessor in Oxford.
• b 1.33

  Two Ser mons a•• Cam∣bridge, made him m••st ••••¦ment, the one an ••ssize Ser∣mon, upon a disign to Drayn the Fens, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Amos 5. 24 the other 〈◊〉〈◊〉 veturn out of Spain on Psal. 42. 7.
• * 1.34

  (C) Twenty 〈…〉〈…〉 of St. Johns, Peter-I••ose, and Pem∣broke••hall, beirghi•• Rel••∣tions in mourn∣ing.
• a 1.35

  Whereof he sent out the first part, viz his Mosaique History first, the acceptance of which a∣mong the learn∣ed encouraged him to finish it
• b 1.36

  And the doctrine of Re∣generation in Joh 3. 6 which because he said•• that any great sin did extinguish grace, and that St. Paul Rom. 7. Sp••••t in the person of anunregener 〈◊〉〈◊〉 man, K. James was displeased
• a 1.37

  The My∣thological part is most excellent.
• b 1.38

  Wherein among ••thers he d••famed this opinion.
• c 1.39

  He got the skill in Gram∣mar in the Low-Coun∣tries, where he was a Souldier
• a 1.40

  Where he was a Pris••ner as he was in the Fleet, &c.
• a 1.41

  Being tur∣ned out of his Fellowship.
• a 1.42

  Whose ••ay of versitying on 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sub∣••ects was brought by Sir R. Dalling 〈…〉〈…〉 Greek Su•••••• there into the Chartet-house, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 was Maj•••• and 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• b 1.43

  Mr Her∣bert Brother to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lo••u 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Ch•••••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 University of 〈…〉〈…〉 of the Church of England, whose 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be was 〈…〉〈…〉 are with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 P••••ms the Timple.
• c 1.44

  A. C.
• d 1.45

  He was turned out for not taking the Covenant.
• e 1.46

  In his book called White-salt, or some sober Corrections for a mad world.
• a 1.47

  The Gua••dian w••it by h••m 1640 at th••se years.
• b 1.48

  See his Po••em of Pl••nts, Herbs, and his Do∣videus.
• c 1.49

  Diou. H••liearnass. de Al••aeo. Vide A. C. pres••t. ad su•• carmina
• a 1.50

  S•••• his Mis••••••ss, on incomparable 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• b 1.51

  In his Plague of Athens, when Dr. Cowley pres••wed his Bo••k to the Vniversity of Oxon, for which the Vaive 〈◊〉〈◊〉 presented him with a Degree 1656. Mr. Sprat writ an inimi••able Poem in La∣tine on his Poems to be ••••en, annexed to them in Wadham-colledge Library.
• c 1.52

  Clerk•• of the Green-cloath, and P••rveyor of the Navy to QEliz. and Brother to Sir Robert ••uarles.
• * 1.53

  St. Basil apud D. Mossom.
• a 1.54

  Not mak∣ing himself what he fore•• warned others not to do; his preparation for death, his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bed task.
• b 1.55

  So his book about Sigulor Dan∣diolo, conver∣ted by him, and the Rev••rend Dr. Gunning, Champion ge∣neral of that Cause at that ••••ne.
• c 1.56

  See his A••an••••l. cal¦led. The Box of Spike∣nard.