called to the bar, and by the influence of Arthur Onslow, speaker of the house of commons, became a master in chancery. His reputation as a lawyer was inconsiderable,
, an English lawyer and antiquary, was born at Great Hadham in Hertfordshire, about the end of the seventeenth century, and was educated at Eton; whence he went to King’s college, Cambridge, and took his bachelor’s degree in 1707, and his master’s in 1711. He afterwards studied law, was called to the bar, and by the influence of Arthur Onslow, speaker of the house of commons, became a master in chancery. His reputation as a lawyer was inconsiderable, but he was esteemed a good classical scholar, and a man of wit and convivial habits. He became afterwards an alderman of the corporation of Guildford, and an useful magistrate in that neighbourhood. He died April 11, 1754, and was buried in the Temple church. He collected a biographical account of the members of Eton college, which by his will, dated 1753, he ordered to be placed in the libraries of the two colleges, and a third copy to be given to his patron, Mr. Onslow. He also compiled, at his leisure hours, or rather made collections for, an English dictionary of obsolete words, of words which have changed their meaning, as villain, knave, and of proverbial or cant words, as helter-skelter, which he derived from hiiariter cderiter. It is not known what became of this manuscript. He bequeathed his fortune, and probably his books, to a brother who was a Turkey merchant.
he queen’s army at St. Quintin in France. He also was successively, advocate in the court of arches, master in Chancery, chancellor to archbishop Whitgift, and lastly,
, an eminent civilian in queen Elizabeth’s reign, is said to have been a native of Cantre in Brecknockshire. He was educated at Oxford, where he took* his bachelor’s degree in law, and was elected fellow of All Souls college in 1547. He was made regius professor of civil law, Oct. 7, 1553, and proceeded D. C. L. in 1554. He was also principal of New Inn hall, Oxford, from 1550, probably to 1560, but the exact year has not been ascertained. He executed the office by deputies, as he was about that time judge advocate of the queen’s army at St. Quintin in France. He also was successively, advocate in the court of arches, master in Chancery, chancellor to archbishop Whitgift, and lastly, by the special favour of queen Elizabeth, he was made one of the masters of requests in ordinary. He died July 23, 1595, aged 66, and was buried in St. Paul’s cathedral under a monument which perished in the destruction of that church in 1666. Dr. Aubrey was a man of high character in his time, and is mentioned with great respect by Thuanus. His only writings remain in manuscript, except a few letters published in Strype’s Life of Grindal. He wrote some letters to Dr. Dee respecting the dominion of the seas and something respecting the reformation of the court of Arches in 1576.
, master in chancery, was educated in Trinity hall, Cambridge, where
, master in chancery, was educated
in Trinity hall, Cambridge, where in 1614 he commenced
LL. D. It was his usual practice to relax himself after his
severer studies with poetry. Besides his “Divine and
Moral Speculations
” in verse, London, Susanna, or the Arraignment of the two Elders,”
inverse, Lond. 1622, 8vo. Mr. Wood starts a question
whether he was author of
” Britannia Antiqua illustrata,“published under the name of Aylett Sammes, but said to
be written by his uncle. Certain it is that the nominal
author was unequal to it, though much learning and labour have been spent on it to very little purpose. The
Censura Literaria attributes to Dr. Aylett four pastoral
eclogues, entitled
” A Wife not ready made, but bespoken" the dedication of which is signed R. A. and the
second edition was published in 1653, 8vo.
ir John lien net, his son and heir; sir Thomas Bennet, knt. second son, doctor of the civil law, and master in chancery; and Matthew, third son, who died unmarried. His
, knt. grandfather to the preceding, and second son of sir Richard Bennet, was created on the 6th of July, 1589, doctor of laws by the university of Oxford, having been one of the proctors there. He was afterwards vicar-general in spirituals to the archbishop of York, and prebendary of Langtoft in the church of York. In the 24th of ELz. bearing the title of doctor of laws, he was in commission with the lord-keeper Egerton, the lord-treasurer Buckhurst, and several other noblemen, for the suppression of heresy. He was also in that reign returned to parliament for the city of York, and was a leading member of the house of commons, as appears from several of his speeches in Townshend’s collections. He received the honour of knighthood from king James before his coronation, on the 23d of July 1603, at Whitehall, and was made in that reign chancellor to queen Anne (consort of king James), judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, and chancellor to the archbishop of York. In the beginning of 1617, he was sent ambassador to Brussels to question the archduke, in behalf of his master the king of Great Britain, concerning a libel written and published, as it was supposed, by Erycius Puteanus, but he neither apprehended the author, nor suppressed the book, until he was solicited by the king’s agent there: he only interdicted it, and suffered the author to fly out of his dominions. In 1620, sir John Bennet being entitled judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, was in a special commission with the archbishop of Canterbury, and other noblemen, to put in execution the laws against all heresies, great errors in matters of faith and religioH, &c. and the same year bearing the title of chancellor to the archbishop of York, he was commissioned with the archbishop of York, and others, to execute all manner of ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the province of York. He died in the parish of Christ church in London, in the beginning of 1627, having had issue by Anne his wife, daughter of Christopher Weekes of Salisbury, in the county of Wilts, esq. sir John lien net, his son and heir; sir Thomas Bennet, knt. second son, doctor of the civil law, and master in chancery; and Matthew, third son, who died unmarried. His eldest son, sir John Bennet of Dawley, received the honour of knighthood in the life-time of his father, at Theobalds, on the 15th of June, 1616. He married Dorothy, daughter of sir John Crofts of Saxham, in the county of Norfolk, knt. by whom he had issue six sons, the second of whom was afterwards created earl of Arlington. This account drawn up also by Dr. Campbell as a note to his life of Arlington, partakes of the partiality of that account by suppressing that in 1621, certain mal-practices were detected in the judicial conduct of sir John, and he was committed to the custody of the sheriffs of London, and afterwards to prison, fined 20,000l. and deprived of his offices. In consequence of this, according to Mr. Lodge, he died in indigence and obscurity, in the parish of Christ church, in Surrey, not in London, at the time mentioned above; but another account says that he was merely required to find security to that amount for his appearance to answer to the charges brought against him. If the fine was imposed, we may conclude it was remitted; for in a letter from lord Bacon to king James, we read these words, “Your majesty hath pardoned the like (corruption) to sir John Bennet, between whose case and mine (not being partial to myself, but speaking out of the general opinion), there was as much difference, I will not say, as between black and white, but as between black and grey or ash-coloured.”
onotary ship in the chancery, and conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. In 1597, being then a master in chancery, he was sent ambassador to the king of Poland. In
, brother to Richard, hereafter mentioned, and second son of Thomas Carew, esq. and Elizabeth his wife, was probably born at his father’s seat at East Anthony, but in what particular year we are not able to ascertain. He was educated in the university of Oxford, after which he studied law in the inns of court, and then set out on his travels. On his return to his native country he was called to the bar, and after some time was appointed secretary to sir Christopher Hatton, lord chancellor of England, by the especial recommendation of queen Elizabeth, who gave him a pro thonotary ship in the chancery, and conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. In 1597, being then a master in chancery, he was sent ambassador to the king of Poland. In the next rei.gn, he was one of the commissioners for treating with the Scotch concerning an union between the two kingdoms; after which he was appointed ambassador to the court of France, where he continued from the latter end of the year 1605 till 1609. During his residence in that country, he was regarded by the French ministers as being too partial to the Spanish interest, but probably ttoeir disgust to him might arise from his not being very tractable in some points of his negotiation, and particularly in the demand of the debts due to the king his master. Whatever might be, his political principles, it is certain, that he sought the conversation of men of letters; and formed an intimacy with Thuanus, to whom he communicated an account of the transactions in Poland, whilst he was employed there, which was of great service to that admirable author in drawing up the 12lst book of his History. After sir George Caret’s return from France, he was advanced to the post of master of the court of wards, which honourable situation he did not long live to enjoy; for it appears from a letter written by Thuanus to Camden, in the spring of the year 1613, that he was then lately deceased. In this letter, Thuanus laments his death as a great misfortune to himself; for he considered sir George’s friendship not only as a personal honour, but as very useful in his work, and especially in removing the calumnies and misrepresentations which might be raised of him in the court of England. Sir George Carew married Thomasine, daughter of sir Francis Godolphin, great grandfather of the lord treasurer Godolphin, and had by her two sons and three daughters. Francis, the elder son, was created knight of the bath at the coronation of king Charles the First, and Attended the earl of Denbigh in the expedition for the relief of ilochelle, where he acquired great reputation by his courage and conduct; but, being seized with a fit of sickness in his voyage homeward, he died in the Isle of Wight, on the 4th of June, 1628, at the age of twenty-seven.
and particularly from Dr. Smith, the master; and on the next day Cumberland and Mr. Orde (afterwards master in chancery), who was of the same year, were announced as elected,
Whilst he was preparing to resume his studies with increased attention, he received a summons from lord Halifax to assume the situation of his private confidential secretary. He accordingly came to town; but, among the new connexions in which he was consequently thrown, he met with nothing that in any degree interested him, and at the recess he accompanied lord Halifax to Horton, and from thence went to Cambridge. There were six vacancies, and six candidates of the year above him. They underwent a severe examination from the electing seniors; and Cumberland particularly from Dr. Smith, the master; and on the next day Cumberland and Mr. Orde (afterwards master in chancery), who was of the same year, were announced as elected, to the exclusion of two of the year above them. After his election, he went home to Stanwick, and from thence made a short visit to lord Halifax.
, esq. of the Middle Temple, a barrister at law, afterwards master in chancery, and at the time of his death, Jan. 8, 1763, ac
, esq. of the Middle Temple, a barrister at law, afterwards master in chancery, and at the
time of his death, Jan. 8, 1763, accomptaiit-general of
that court, is noticeable as having translated the “Memoirs
of cardinal de Retz,
” which were printed in A Vindication of the New
Calendar Tables, and Rules annexed to the Act for regulating the commencement of the year,
” &c.
e law treatises, in ms. which became the property of his grandson, sir John Hoskins, -knt. and bart. master in chancery, but better known to the world as a philosopher,
He was much admired for his. talent in Latin and English poetry, and highly respected by the most eminent
men of his time, Camclen, Selden, Daniel, Dr. Donne,
sir Henry Wotton, sir Walter Raleigh, whose “History
”
he revised before it was sent to press; and others, particularly Ben Jonson, who used to say, “'t was he that
polished me, I do acknowledge it.
” Wood speaks of him,
as the author of the Greek lexicon already mentioned, left
in ms. and imperfeqj of several epigram-: and epitaphs,
ill Latin and English, interspersed in various collections;
“The Art of Memory,
” in which he himself excelled and
of some law treatises, in ms. which became the property
of his grandson, sir John Hoskins, -knt. and bart. master in chancery, but better known to the world as a philosopher, and one of the first members of the royal society,
of which he was president in 1682.
nations for fines, an office erected in the 18th year of queen Elizabeth. In 1592 he was appointed a master in chancery by sir John Puckering, lord keeper; and in 1597
In 1579 Lambarde was appointed a justice of peace for
the county of Kent, an office which he not only performed
with great diligence and integrity, but endeavoured to explain and illustrate for the benefit of other magistrates, in his
“Eirenarcha, or the Office of the Justices of Peace, in
four books,
” The Duties of Constables,
” &c. Pandecta Rotulorum.
” In the mean time he had written,
though not published, another work, entitled “Archeion,
or a Discourse upon the high courts of justice in England.
”
It was not published until
which our author replied, was not Fleetwood, which was an assumed name, but Samuel Burroughs, esq. a master in chancery. Dr. Long published also a “Commencement-Sermon,
Besides his astronomical work,- he published in 1731,
under the name of Dicaiophilus Cantabrigiensis, “The
Rights of Churches and Colleges defended; in answer to a
pamphlet called * An Enquiry into the customary estates
and tenant-rights of those who hold lands of church and
other foundations, by the term of three lives, &c. by
Everard Fleetwood, esq.;' with remarks upon some other
pieces on the same subject,
” 8vo. The author of this
pamphlet, to which our author replied, was not Fleetwood,
which was an assumed name, but Samuel Burroughs, esq. a
master in chancery. Dr. Long published also a “Commencement-Sermon, 1728;
” and an answer to Dr. Gally’s
pamphlet “On Greek Accents.
” We shall subjoin a few
traits of him, as delineated in 1769, by Mr. Jones: " He
is now in the eighty-eighth year of his age, and, for his
years, vegete and active. He was lately (in October) put
in nomination for the office of vice-chancellor. He executed that trust before; I think in the year 1737. A very
ingenious person, and sometimes very facetious. At the
public commencement in the year 1713, Dr. Greene
(master of Bene't college, and afterwards bishop of Ely)
being then vice-chancellor, Mr. Long was pitched upon for
the tripos-performance; it was witty and humourous, and
has passed through divers editions. Some that remembered the delivery of it told me, that, in addressing ttye
vice chancellor (whom the university-wags usually styled Miss Greene), the tripos-orator, being a native of Norfolk,
and assuming the Norfolk dialect, instead of saying, Domine vice-cancellarie, did very archly pronounce the words
thus, Domina vice-cancellaria; which occasioned a general
smile in that great auditory. His friend the late Mr. Bonfoy of Ripton told me this little incident: `That he and
Dr. Long walking together in Cambridge, in a dusky evening, and coming to a short post fixed in the pavement,
which Mr. B. in the midst of chat and inattention, took to
be a boy standing in his way, he said in a hurry, `Get
out of my way, boy.‘ `That boy, sir,’ said the doctor
very calmly and slily, `is a post-boy, who turns out of his
way for nobody.'
or better regulating and limiting the jurisdiction of the high court of chancery, he was continued a master in chancery, when their number was reduced to six only. It was
, an English writer, descended of an
ancient family in Shropshire, was born in 1615, and admitted pensioner of Emanuel college, in Cambridge, Nov. I 3,
1630, where he became eminent for his knowledge in the
Hebrew and Oriental languages. After having taken his
degrees at the usual periods, that of M. A. in 1638, in x
which year he was chosen fellow of his college, he removed
to Lincoln’s-Inn; where he made a considerable progress
in the study of the law, and was admitted one of the masters in ordinary in the court of chancery, June 1, 1644,
and was likewise one of the two masters of requests. In
1649, he was chosen town-clerk of London, and published
in the same year in 4to, a work with this title, “Rights of
the Kingdom: or, Customs of our Ancestors, touching the
duty, power, election, or succession, of our kings and
parliaments, our true liberty, due allegiance, three estates,
their legislative power, original, judicial, and executive,
the militia; freely discussed through the British, Saxon,
Norman, laws and histories.
” It was reprinted in 1682,
and has always been valued by lawyers and others. He
was greatly esteemed by Oliver Cromwell; who, by a letter from Cork, of Dec. 1, 1649, offered him the place of
chief justice of Munster in Ireland, with a salary of 1000l.
per annum; but this he excused himself from accepting.
In August 1650, he was made master of Magdalen college,
in Cambridge, upon the removal of Dr. Rainbow, who
again succeeded Sadler after the restoration. In 1653, he
was chosen member of parliament for Cambridge. In
1655, by warrant of Cromwell, pursuant to an ordinance
for better regulating and limiting the jurisdiction of the
high court of chancery, he was continued a master in
chancery, when their number was reduced to six only. It
was by his interest, that the Jews obtained the privilege of
building a synagogue in 'London. In 1658, he was, chosen
member of parliament for Yarmouth; and in December of
the year following, appointed first commissioner, under the
great seal, with Taylor, Whitelock, and others, for the
probate of wills. In 1660, he published in 4-to, his “Olbia The New Island lately discovered. With its religion,
rites of worship, laws, customs, government, characters,
and language with education of their children in their
sciences, arts, and manufactures with other things remarkable by a Christian pilgrim driven by tempest from
Civita Vecchia, or some other parts about ftome, through
the straights into the Atlantic ocean. The first part.
” Of
this work, which appears to be a kind of fiction, Dr. John
Worthiugton, in a letter to Mr. Samuel Hartlib, dated
April i, 1661, says, “Is the second part of Olbu like to
come out shortly? Jt is said to treat of the religion, worship, laws, customs, manner of education, &c. of that
place. The design promiseth much variety.
”
hancery stated,” which he undertook at the particular request of Samuel Burroughs, esq. afterwards a master in Chancery, who put the materials into his hands, and spent
, an English prelate of great
abilities and eminence, was born at Newark-upon-Trent,
in the county of Nottingham, Dec. 24, 1698. His father
was George Warburton, an attorney and town-clerk of the
place in which this his eldest son received his birth and
education. His mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of
William Hobman, an alderman of the same town; and his
parents were married about 1696. The family of Dr.
Warburton came originally from the county of Chester,
where his great-grandfather resided. His grandfather,
William Warburton, a royalist during the rebellion, was
the first that settled at Newark, where he practised the
law, and was coroner of the county of Nottingham. George
Warburton, the father, died about 1706, leaving his widow
and five children, two sons and three daughters, of which
the second son, George, died young; but, of the daughters, one- survived her brother. The bishop received the
early part of his education under Mr. Twells, whose son
afterwards married his sister Elizabeth; but he was principally trained under Mr. Wright, then master of Okehamschool in Rutlandshire, and afterwards vicar of Campden
in Gloucestershire. Here he continued till the beginning
of 1714, when his cousin Mr. William Warburton being
made head -master of Newark-school, he returned to his
native place, and was for a short time under the care of
that learned gentleman. During his stay at school, he did
not distinguish himself by any extraordinary efforts of
genius or application, yet is supposed to have acquired a
competent knowledge of Greek and Latin. His original
designation was to the same profession as that of his father
and grandfather; and he was accordingly placed clerk to
Mr. Kirke, an attorney at East Markham in Nottinghamshire, with whom he continued till April 1719, when he
was qualified to engage in business upon his own account.
He was then admitted to one of the courts at Westminster,
and for some years continued the employment of an attorney and solicitor at the place of his birth. The success he
met with as a man of business was probably not great. It
was certainly insufficient to induce him to devote the rest
of his life to it: and it is probable, that his want of encouragement might tempt him to turn his thoughts towards
a profession in which his literary acquisitions would be
more valuable, and in which he might more easily pursue the
bent of his inclination. He appears to have brought from
school more learning than was requisite for a practising
lawyer. This might rather impede than forward his
progress; as it has been generally observed, that an attention
to literary concerns, and the bustle of an attorney’s office,
with only a moderate share of business, are wholly incompatible. It is therefore no wonder that he preferred retirement to noise, and relinquished what advantages he might
expect from continuing to follow the law. It has been
suggested by an ingenious writer, that he was for some
time usher to a school, but this probably was founded on
his giving some assistance to his relation at Newark, who
in his turn assisted him in those private studies to which
he was now attached; and his love of letters continually
growing stronger, the seriousness of his temper, and purity of his morals, concurring, determined him to quit his
profession for the church. In 1723 he received deacon’s
orders from archbishop Dawes and his first printed
work then appeared, consisting of translations from Cæsar,
Pliny, Claudian, and others, under the title of “Miscellaneous Translations in Prose and Verse, from Roman Poets,
Orators, and Historians,
” 12mo. It is dedicated to hig
early patron, sir Robert Sutton, who, in 1726, when Mr.
Warburton had received priest’s orders from bishop Gibson, employed his interest to procure him the small vicarage of Gryesly in Nottinghamshire. About Christmas,
1726, he came to London, and, while there, was introduced to Theobald, Concanen, and other of Mr. Pope’s
enemies, the novelty of whose conversation had at this
time many charms for him, and he entered too eagerly
into their cabals and prejudices. It was at this time that
he wrote a letter to Concanen, dated Jan. 2, 1726, very
disrespectful to Pope, which, by accident, falling into the
hands of the late Dr. Akenside, was produced to most of
that gentleman’s friends, and became the subject of much
speculation. About this time he also communicated to
Theobald some notes on Shakspeare, which afterwards appeared in that critic’s edition of our great dramatic poet.
In 1727, his second work, entitled “A Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as related by Historians,
” &c. was published in 12mo,
and was also dedicated to sir Robert Sutton in a prolix article of twenty pages. In 1727 he published a treatise,
under the title of “The Legal Judicature in Chancery
stated,
” which he undertook at the particular request of
Samuel Burroughs, esq. afterwards a master in Chancery,
who put the materials into his hands, and spent some time
in the country with him during the compilation of the
work. On April 25, 1728, by the interest of sir Robert
Sutton, he had the honour to be in the king’s list of masters of arts, created at Cambridge on his majesty’s visit to
that university. In June, the same year, he was presented
by sir Robert Sutton to the rectory of Burnt or Brand
Broughton, in the diocese of Lincoln, and neighbourhood
of Newark, where he fixed himself accompanied by his
mother and sisters, to whom he was ever a most affectionate
relative. Here he spent a considerable part of the prime
of life in a studious retirement, devoted entirely to letters,
and there planned, and in part executed, some of his most
important works. They, says his biographer, who are unacquainted with the enthusiasm which true genius inspires,
will hardly conceive the possibility of that intense application, with which Mr. Warburton pursued his studies in
this retirement. Impatient of any interruptions, he spent
the whole of his time that could be spared from the duties
of his parish, in reading and writing. His constitution was
strong, and his temperance extreme; so that he needed no
exercise but that of walking; and a change of reading, or
study, was his only amusement.
In 1783, he was made a master in chancery, having been chosen for Tiverton, in Devonshire,
In 1783, he was made a master in chancery, having been chosen for Tiverton, in Devonshire, in the two preceding parliaments. Though seldom taking an active part in the debates of those times, he was always attentive to the important duties of a member of parliament, and constant in his attendance in the House. He uniformly opposed the American war, and though at the termination of that coatest, when the claims of the American loyalists were to be inquired into, and satisfied, it was most natural to suppose that some gentleman on the other side of the House would have been appointed commissioner for that purpose, yet Mr. Wilmot’s known abilities, integrity, and benevolence, were so universally acknowledged, that his nomination to that arduous office gave perfect satisfaction. How far the labours of himself and colleagues were crowned with success, the universal approbation of this country, and of America, sufficiently testify.