Athenæ Oxonienses. Vol. 1. an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690 representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings : to which are added, the Fasti, or, Annals, of the said university, for the same time ...

Bach. of Law.

June 26. Hen. Coventrie of Alls. Coll.—This honorable Per∣son who was the only Bach. of Law that was admitted this year, was a younger Son of Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England, and was, as it seems, before the grand rebellion broke out Chancellour of Landaff. Afterwards suffering much for his Majesties Cause, was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Grooms of his Bedchamber, in Decemb. 1661. and in May 1667, he, with Denzill Lord Holles, went Embassadors extraordinary from his Majesty of Great Bri∣taine to Breda to consummate a certain Treaty there. In Sept. 1671, he went Embassador to Sweden (having been an Envoy extraordinary there, in 1664) at which time he gave his helping hand to the breaking of the Triple-league, and on the 3. July 1672. he was sworn Principal Secretary of State, in the room of Sir Joh. Trever deceased. Which honorable office he keeping till his body was much broken with business, to the beginning of the year 1680, resign'd it with his Majesties leave, and retired for health sake to Enfield for a time. Whereupon the place of Secretary was bestowed on Sir Liolin Jenkins Knight. At length Mr. Covencry giving way to fate in his house situated in the H••y∣market near to Charing-cross in Westminster, 5. Dec. 1686, aged

68 years or thereabouts, was buried in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields: which is all I can speak of him for the present, only that he was a native of London.