ume of the latter bears the name of Avelin; but Christian Gryphius, in his account of the historians of the seventeenth century, attributes it to John George Schleder,
, a historian, born at Strasburgh, and who died about 1646, is perhaps better known
by the name of John Louis Gottfried, or Gothofredus,
which he used in most of his numerous works. Under his
proper name, he published only the first volume of the
“Theatre of Europe,
” which contains the history of Europe from Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus,
” begun
by Gothard Arthus, and containing the annals of Europe,
but particularly of France, from 1628 to 1636, Francfort,
1628—1636, 8vo. The Mercurius is in Latin, but the Theatre in German. The second volume of the latter bears
the name of Avelin; but Christian Gryphius, in his account
of the historians of the seventeenth century, attributes it
to John George Schleder, who also compiled some of the
subsequent volumes. The best edition of the “Theatre of
Europe
” is that published at Francfort, from
eral History of the Moluccas and the Philippines,” 2 vols. from the discovery of them, to the middle of the seventeenth century.
, a Spanish missionary
of the 17th century, who lived under the reigns of Philip III.
and Philip IV. was a barefooted Augustin, and celebrated
for his apostolic zeal. These religious had a principal
hand in the rapid, but for the most part short-lived, progress of the Catholic faith in Japan; and converted the populous nation of the Tagalians, or Tagaleze, Malayans by
descent, who inhabited Lucon, one of the Philippine islands,
and who remain Christians to this day. In 1640, Aganduru was appointed by his brethren, and with the authority of Philip IV. to go to Rome and offer to the pope,
Urban VIII. the homage and obedience of these new converts. He wrote a “History of Conversions in Japan and
the Philippine islands, with a detail of his religious embassy:
” and a “General History of the Moluccas and the
Philippines,
” 2 vols. from the discovery of them, to the
middle of the seventeenth century.
, a Spanish poet of the seventeenth century, who was born at Lisbon in 1599, and
, a Spanish
poet of the seventeenth century, who was born at Lisbon
in 1599, and carried on the business of a merchant. Devoting his leisure hours to literature, he wrote a work entitled “Viridarium anagrammaticum,
” and five “Novels,
”
which procured him, it is said, much reputation, not from
their merit, but from their originality. In each of these
novels, the author has contrived to get rid of one or other
of the vowels: a is not to be found in the first, nor e in the
second, &c. But this idle whim was not original, the same
having been practised by Tryphiodorus, whom Addison so
pleasantly ridicules as one of the lipogrammatists, or letterdroppers of antiquity. Moreri gives us the title of another
work by this author, printed at Lisbon, 1664. “Psalteriurn
quadruplex anagrammaticum, angelicum, immaculatum,
Marianum, Deiparse dicatum, sexaginta anagrammata Latina complectens.
” Alcala died Nov. 21, 1682.
inces, Ferrara, Bologna, and the Romagna, which were much exposed to inundations in the commencement of the seventeenth century, and published a plan for stopping their
, an Italian architect, who
died in 1630, was born of parents so poor that in his youth
he was obliged to carry bricks and mortar to the workmen;
but having a natural turn for architecture, by hearing
others talk, he learned all the rules of it, as well as those
of geometry; and was even able to publish works in those
sciences. He took great part in those famous controversies that arose concerning the three provinces, Ferrara,
Bologna, and the Romagna, which were much exposed to
inundations in the commencement of the seventeenth
century, and published a plan for stopping their progress.
Pope Clement VII. employed him to build the citadel of
Ferrara, and at Mantua, Modena, Parma, and Venice, are
several monuments after his designs. The only work we
have seen of his on the subject of the inundations is entitled “Difesa per riparare alia sommersione del Polesine,
” Ferrara,
sultan Mahomet IV. was born at Leopold, in Poland, under the name of Bobrowski, about the beginning of the seventeenth century. Dr. Hyde calls him Albert Bobowski.
, or Ali-Beigh, first interpreter to the sultan Mahomet IV. was born at Leopold, in Poland, under
the name of Bobrowski, about the beginning of the seventeenth century. Dr. Hyde calls him Albert Bobowski.
He was carried away while a youth by the Tartars, and sold
to the Turks, who, perceiving his talents, had him brought
up in the seraglio, where he spent twenty years. After
this he went into the service of a man of rank, to Egypt,
where, in consequence of his excellent behaviour, he was
made free, and, according to the custom of the Turks, had
a new name given him, that of Ali-Bey. On his return to
Constantinople, his general knowledge of the Western and
Eastern languages, gradually advanced him to the rank of
Tergjuman Bashi, or first interpreter of the Porte. He
composed a grammar and a lexicon of the Turkish language, about the year 1653, and translated at the request of
Dr. Basire, the catechism of the church of England into
the Turkish language. At the request of another gentleman, he translated the whole Bible, which was sent into
Europe to be printed, but remains in manuscript in the
library at Leyden. Dr. Hyde had the Psalms translated,
and written, in Ali’s hand. His death, which took place at
Constantinople in 1675, was much regretted by the Christians at Constantinople, but particularly by the English,
for whom he had great affection and esteem, and to whom
he often intimated his desire to have come over to England, and to return into the bosom of the Christian church.
It is said indeed that this design was on foot when he died.
In 1691, Dr. Hyde published “Tractatus Alberti Bobovii.
&c. de Turcarum Liturgia, peregratione Meccana, circumcisione, aegrotorum visitatione, &c.
” with notes, Oxford. This curious work was brought over by Dr. Thomas
Smith, who presented it to Dr. Hyde, and advised him to
translate it. It is the most succinct and probably one of
the most authentic accounts we have of the religious ceremonies of the Turks. The “Dialog! Turcici
” of Ali
Bey, and his translation of Commenius’s Janua Linguarum,
are in the royal library at Paris. It is thought that he furnished Ricaut with valuable materials for his history of the
Turkish empire, and that he had a principal hand in the
translation into Turkish of Grotius on the truth of the
Christian religion.
, 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
, 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.
, an English minor poet of the seventeenth century, was the son of James Allestry, a bookseller
, an English minor poet of the
seventeenth century, was the son of James Allestry, a bookseller of London, who was ruined by the great fire in 1666,
and related to provost Allestry, the subject of the next article. Jacob was educated at Westminster school, and entered at Christ-church, Oxford, in the act-term 1671, at
the age of eighteen, and was elected student in 1672. He
took the degree in arts; was music-reader in 1679, and
terrte filius in 1681; both which offices he executed with,
great applause, being esteemed a good philologist and
poet. He had a chief hand in the verses and pastorals
spoken in the theatre at Oxford, May 21, 1681, by Mr.
William Savile, second son of the marquis of Halifax, and
George Cholmondeley, second son of Robert viscount Kells
(both of Christ-church), before James duke of York, his
duchess, and the lady Anne; which verses and pastorals
were afterwards printed in the “Examen Poeticum.
” He
died of the consequence of youthful excesses, October 15,
1686, and was buried, in an obscure manner, in St. Thomas’s church-yard, Oxford.
by the demagogues, who fancy that they are advancing something new.” Althusen died in the early part of the seventeenth century.
, a German Protestant lawyer, was born about the middle of the sixteenth
century, and became law-professor p.t Herborn, and
syndic at Bremen. He wrote some treatises in the way of
his profession, “De Jurisprudentia Romana,
” and “De
civili conversatione;
” but what made him principally
known, was his “Politica methodice digesta,
” these strange opinions produced by the revolutionary spirit which prevailed in the sixteenth century,
have been revived in ours by the demagogues, who fancy
that they are advancing something new.
” Althusen died
in the early part of the seventeenth century.
, a traveller, was born at Tundern, in the duchy of Sleswick, about the beginning of the seventeenth century. It does not appear that he had enjoyed
, a traveller, was born at Tundern, in the duchy of Sleswick, about the beginning of the seventeenth century. It does not appear that he had enjoyed a regular education, but by strong sense, and powers of memory, he acquired a great stock of knowledge. He travelled in the east from the year 1644 to 1650, through Arabia, Persia, India, China, and Japan, and returned by Tartary, northern Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. When he came home, he entered into the service of the duke of Holstein-Gottorp, who, not being able to obtain from him a written account of his travels, invited him every day to his house, and drew from him in conversation the particulars of it, which were taken down in writing by Adam Olearius, who was concealed for the purpose behind the tapestry. The duke afterwards prevailed on him to revise the manuscript, and it was published at Sleswick, by Olearius, 1669, in German, fol.
prevailing corruption of style in his time, Crescembini and Le Quadrio rank him among the best poets of the seventeenth century. He wrote two poems: “Aci,” in ottava
, a Neapolitan
poet, flourished about the year 1630, and died in 1647.
Although he is not free from the prevailing corruption of
style in his time, Crescembini and Le Quadrio rank him
among the best poets of the seventeenth century. He
wrote two poems: “Aci,
” in ottava rima, Naples, Italia liberata,
” a heroic poem, Naples, Elpino, favola boscherec-.
cia,
” and “La Vana gelosia,
” a collection of lyric poems,
in two parts, and “Discorsi in prose
” on different subjects
of morality and philosophy, Naples, 1636, 4to.
ticular circumstances, independent of their merit. They are all in that bad style of Italian poetry, of the seventeenth century, peculiar to the school of Marino, and
, the son of the two preceding, was born at Florence in 1578, and was also a comedian, and wrote several pieces for the theatre, and some
poems. They once had a temporary reputation, but such
as have survived to our times, are indebted to particular
circumstances, independent of their merit. They are all in
that bad style of Italian poetry, of the seventeenth century,
peculiar to the school of Marino, and most of them, in the
plot and conduct, are irregular and fantastic, and demonstrate a wretched taste in the public. The only piece
worthy of our notice is his “Adamo,
” a sacred drama in
five acts, with chorusses, &c. Milan, 1613 and 1617, with
prints designed by Carlo Antonio Proccachini, a celebrated
landscape painter of his time, and of the school of the
Carracci, but in a wretched style, paradise being represented as full of clipt hedges, square parterres, strait walks,
&c. But what is more interesting, Voltaire, in his visit to
England in 1727, suggested that Milton took his hint of the
Paradise Lost from this drama. This obtained little credit
at the time, and was contemptuously rejected by Dr. Johnson in his life of Milton. Mr. Hayley, however, has revived the question, and with considerable advantage to
Voltaire’s supposition, and it seems now to be the opinion
that the coincidence between Andreini’s plan and Milton’s
is too great to be the effect of chance. We have no account of Andreini’s death.
, a writer of the seventeenth century, was a monk of the order of the minorites
, a writer of the seventeenth century, was a monk of the order of the minorites
of St. Francis, and a native of Marsalla in Sicily. He was
also vicar-general of his order at Madrid, and became afterwards one of the fathers of the Observance. He was
living in 1707, as in that year Mongitore speaks of him,
among living authors, in his “Bibl. Sicula.
” This monk
published two volumes, the nature of which may be judged
from the titles: the first was called “Lux magica, &c.
ccelestiurn, terrestrium, et inferorum origo, ordo, et subordinatio cunctorum, quoad esse, fieri, etoperari, viginti quatuor voluminibus divisa,
” Venice, Lux magica
academica, pars secunda, primordia rerum naturulium, sanabilium, infirmarum et incurabilium continens,
” Venice,
, a learned antiquary of the seventeenth century, was born at Terni, in the duchy of
, a learned antiquary of the
seventeenth century, was born at Terni, in the duchy of
Spalatto, and became secretary to the cardinal Hippolito
Aldobrandini, and apostolic prothonotary. He was also a
member of the academy of the Insensati at Perugia, and
made so extensive a collection of curiosities of art of every
kind, that it was thought worthy of the name of the Roman
museum. The marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani engaged Angeloni to publish his series of imperial medal’s, which accordingly appeared under the title “L'Istoria Augusta da
Giulio Cesare Costatino il magno,
” Rome, Storia di Terni,
” Rome,
, a learned Greek of the seventeenth century, author of several learned and curious
, a learned Greek of the seventeenth century, author of several learned and curious works, was born at Peloponnesus in Greece, and obliged by the Turks to abandon his country on account of his religion, for which he suffered a variety of torments. He came afterwards to England, where he was supported by the bishop of Norwich and several of the clergy. By this prelate’s recommendation, he went to Cambridge, and studied about three years in Trinity college. In Whitsuntide 1610, he removed to Oxford, and studied at Baliol college, where he did great service to the young scholars of the university, by instructing them in the Greek language; in which manner he employed himself till his death, which happened on the 1st of February 1638. He was buried in St. Ebbe’s church of church-yard, Oxford.
, a man of singular character and learning of the seventeenth century, was born in Transylvania, in the village
, a man of singular character and learning of the seventeenth century,
was born in Transylvania, in the village of Apatza, and
was sent at the expense of the government of his country
to Utrecht, where he studied the Oriental languages,
theology, and philosophy, with such distinguished success as
to be offered the rank of professor. But this he refused
out of regard to his country, to which he returned in 1653.
He was then appointed to teach geography, natural philosophy, and astronomy, in the college of Weissenburgh,
but having declared in favour of the philosophy of Descartes,
and many of the opinions of the reformed church, his
enemies were so inveterate as to sentence him to be thrown
from the top of a high tower. By powerful intercession,
however, they were induced to change his sentence to
banishment. He now went to Clausenburgh, and taught
for some time, but a fresh persecution arose, in which he
would probably have been sacrificed, had he not died a
natural death in 1659. He wrote “Dissertatio continens
introductionem ad philosophiam sacram,
” Utrecht, Magyar Encyclopedia!, &c.
” an Encyclopedia in the
Hungarian language, Utrecht, 1653. 3. “A system of
Logic,
” in the same, Weissenburgh, Oratio
tie studio sapientiae,
” Utrecht, Dissertatio de
politia ecclesiastica,
” Clausenburgh,
, a geometrician of the seventeenth century, was born at Lyons in 1597, and died
, a geometrician of the seventeenth century, was born at Lyons in 1597, and died there
in 1661. He was the friend of Descartes; this friendship
was of service to them both Descartes instructed hisfriend, and Des Argues defended his master against
Fermat and Bourdin. He wrote, 1. “Un Traite de Perspective,
” fol. 2. “Traite des Sections Coniques, 8vo. 3.
” La
Pratique du Trait,“8vo. 4.
” Traite de la coupe des
Pierres,“8vo, an excellent work on stone-cutting. 5.
” Maniere de poser l'essieu aux cadrans solaires.“6.
” Maniere
de graver en taille douce, et a l'eau forte." All these
treatises are said to be written with precision, and in a
better style than might have been expected from his
time.
, an eminent philosopher, chemist, and antiquary, of the seventeenth century, and founder of the noble museum at
, an eminent philosopher, chemist,
and antiquary, of the seventeenth century, and founder
of the noble museum at Oxford, which still bears his name,
was the only son of Mr. Simon Ashmole, of the city of
Litchfield, in Staffordshire, sadler, by Anne, the daughter of
Mr. Anthony Boyer, of Coventry, in Warwickshire, woollen-draper. He was born May 23, 1617, and during his
early r education in grammar, was taught music, in which
he made such proficiency as to become a chorister in the
cathedral at Litchfield. When he had attained the age of
sixteen he was taken into the family of James Paget, esq.
a baron of the exchequer, who had married his mother’s
sister, and as his father died in 1634, leaving little provision for him, he continued for some years in the Paget
family, during which time he made considerable progress
in the law, and spent his leisure hours in perfecting himself in music and other polite accomplishments. In March
1638, he married Eleanor, daughter of Mr. Peter Manwaring, of Smallwood, in the county Palatine of Chester,
and in Michaelmas term the same year, became a solicitor
in Chancery. On February 11, 1641, he was sworn an
attorney of the court of common pleas, and on December
5th, in the same year, his wife died suddenly, of whom
he has left us a very natural and affectionate memorial.
The rebellion coming on, he retired from London, being
always a zealous and steady loyalist, and on May 9, 1645,
became one of the gentlemen of the ordnance in the garrison at Oxford, whence he removed to Worcester, where
he was commissioner, receiver, and register of the excise,
and soon after captain in the lord Ashley’s regiment, and
comptroller of the ordnance. In the midst of all this business he entered himself of Brazen-Nose college, in Oxford, and applied himself vigorously to the sciences, but
especially natural philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy;
and his intimate acquaintance with Mr. (afterwards sir George) Wharton, seduced him into the absurd mysteries
of astrology, which was in those days in great credit. In
the month of July, 1646, he lost his mother, who had
always been a kind parent to him, and for whom he had a
very pious regard. On October 16th, the same year, be
was elected a brother of the ancient and honourable society
of Free and Accepted Masons, which he looked upon as a
high honour, and has therefore given us a particular account of the lodge established at Warrington in Lancashire and in some of his manuscripts, there are very
valuable collections relating to the history of the free
masons. The king’s affairs being now grown desperate,
Mr. Ashmole withdrew himself, after the surrender of the
garrison of Worcester, into Cheshire, where he continued
till the end of October, and then came up to London,
where he became acquainted with Mr. (afterwards sir Jonas)
Moore, William Lilly, and John Booker, esteemed the
greatest astrologers in 'the world, by whom he was caressed, instructed, and received into their fraternity, which
then made a very considerable figure, as appeared by the
great resort of persons of distinction to their annual feast,
of which Mr. Ashmole was afterwards elected steward. Jn
1647 he retired to Englefield, in Berkshire, where he pursued his studies very closely, and having so fair an opportunity, and the advantage of some very able masters,
he cultivated the science of botany. Here, as appears
from his own remarks, he enjoyed in privacy the sweetest
moments of his life, the sensation of which perhaps was
quickened, by his just idea of the melancholy state of the
times. It was in this retreat that he became acquainted
with Mary, sole daughter of sir William Forster, of Aldermarston, in the county of Berks, bart. who was first married to sir Edward Stafford, then to one Mr. Hamlyn, and
lastly to sir Thomas Mainwaring, knt recorder of Reading,
and one of the masters in chancery and an attachment
took place but Mr. Humphrey Stafford, her second son,
had such a dislike to the measure, that when Mr. Ashmole
happened to be very ill, he broke into his chamber, and if
not prevented, would have murdered him. In the latter
end of 1648, lady Mainwaring conveyed to him her estate
at Bradfield, which was soon after sequestered on account
of Mr. Ashmole’s loyalty but the interest he had with
William Lilly, and some others of that party, enabled him
to get that sequestration taken off. On the sixteenth of
November, 1649, he married lady Mainwaring, and settled
in London, where his house became the receptacle of the
most learned and ingenious persons that flourished at that
time. It was by their conversation, that Mr. Ashmole,
who hud been more fortunate in worldly affairs than most
scholars are, and who had been always a curious collector
of manuscripts, was induced to publish a treatise written
by Dr. Arthur Dee, relating to the Philosopher’s stone,
together with another tract on the same subject, by an unknown author. These accordingly appeared in the year
following but Mr. Ashmole was so cautious, or rather
modest, as to publish them by a fictitious name. He at
the same time addressed himself to a work of greater consequence, a complete collection of the works of such English chemists, as had till then remained in ms. which cost
him a great deal of labour, and for the embellishment of
which he spared no expence, causing the cuts that were
necessary, to be engraved at his own house in Black-Friars,
by Mr. Vaughan, who was then the most eminent artist in
that department in England. He imbibed this affection for
chemistry from his intimate acquaintance with Mr. William
Backhouse, of Swallowfield in the county of Berks, who
was reputed an adept, and whom, from his free communication of chemical secrets, Mr. Ashmole was wont to call
father, agreeably to the custom which had long prevailed
among the lovers of that art, improperly, however, called
chemistry for it really was the old superstition of alchemy. He likewise employed a part of his time in acquiring the art of engraving seuls, casting in sand, and
the mystery of a working goldsmith. But all this time,
his great work of publishing the ancient English writers in
chemistry went on and finding that a competent knowlege of the Hebrew was absolutely necessary for understanding and explaining such authors as had written on the
Hermetic science, he had recourse to rabbi Solomon Frank,
by whom he was taught the rudiments of Hebrew, which
he found very useful to him in his studies. At length,
towards the close of the year 1652, his “Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum
” appeared, which gained him great reputation in the learned world, as it shewed him to be a
man of a most studious disposition, indefatigable application, and of wonderful accuracy in his compositions. It
served also to extend his acquaintance considerably, and
among others the celebrated Mr. Seiden took notice of him
in the year 1653, encouraged his studies, and lived in
great friendship with him to the day of his death. He was
likewise very intimate with Mr. Oughtred, the mathematician, and with Dr. Wharton, a physician of great
racter and experience. His marriage with lady -Main-waring, however, involved him in abundance of law-suits
with other people, and at last produced a dispute between
themselves, which came to a hearing on October 8, 1657,
in the court of chancery, where serjeant Maynard having
observed, that in eight hundred sheets of depositions taken
on the part of the lady, there was not so much as a bad
word proved against Mr. Ashrnole, her bill was dismissed,
and she delivered back to her husband. He had now for
some time addicted himself to the study of antiquity and
records, which recommended him to the intimate acquaintance of Mr. (afterwards sir William) Dugdale, whom about
this time he attended in his survey of the Fens, and was
very useful to him in 'that excellent undertaking. Mr.
Ashmole himself soon after took the pains to trace the
Roman road, which in Antoninus’s Itinerary is called Bennevanna, from Weeden to Litchfield, of which he gave
Mr. Dugdale an account, in a letter addressed to him upon
that subject. It is very probable, that after his studies
had thus taken a new turn, he lost somewhat of his relish
for chemistry, since he discontinued the Theatrum Chemicum, which, according to his first design, was to have consisted of several volumes yet he still retained such a remembrance of it, as induced him to part civilly with the
sons of art, by publishing a treatise in prose on the philosopher’s stone, to which he prefixed an admirable preface, in which he wishes to apologize for taking leave of
these fooleries. In the spring of the year 1658, our author began to collect materials for his history of the order
of the garter, which he afterwards lived to finish, and
thereby rendered both the order and himself immortal,
the just reward of the prodigious pains he took in searching
records in the Tower, and elsewhere, comparing them with
each other, and obtaining such lights as were requisite to
render so perplexed a subject clear, and to reduce all the
circumstances of such a vast body of history into their proper order. In September following he made a journey to
Oxford, where he was extremely well received, and where
he undertook to make a full and distinct description of the
coins given to the public library by archbishop Laud, which
was of great use to him in the works which he afterwards
composed. He had lodged and boarded sometimes at a house
in South Lambeth, kept by Mr. John Tradescant, whose
father and himself hud been physic-gardeners there for
many years, and had collected avast number of curiosities,
which, after mature deliberation, Mr. Tradescant and his
wife determined to bestow on Mr. Ashmole, and accordingly sealed and delivered a deed of gift for that purpose,
on December 16, 1659. On the restoration of king Charles
II. Mr. Ashmole was Dearly introduced into the presence
and favour of his majesty, and on June 18, 1660, which was
the second time he had the honour of discoursing with the
king, he graciously bestowed upon him the place of Windsor herald. A few days after, he was appointed by the king
to make a description of his medals, and had them delivered into his hands, and king Henry VHIth’s closet assigned
for his use, being also allowed his diet at court. On August 21st, in the same year, he presented the three books
which he had published, to his majesty, who, as he both
loved and understood chemistry, received them very graciously. On September 3, he had a warrant signed for the
office of commissioner of the excise, in consequence of a
letter written by his majesty’s express command, to the
earl of Southampton, then lord high-treasurer, by Mr. Se^
cretary Morris. About this time, a commission was granted
to him as incidental to the care of the king’s medals, to
examine the famous, or rather infamous, Hugh Peters,
about the contents of the royal library which had fallen
into his hands, and which was very carefully and punctually
executed, but to very little purpose. On November 2d,
he was called to the bar in Middle-Temple hall, and January 15, 1661, he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society. On February 9th following, the king signed a warrant for constituting him secretary of Surinam in the West
Indies. In the beginning of the year 1662, he was appointed one of the commissioners for recovering the king’s
goods, and about the same time he sent a set of services
and anthems to the cathedral church of Litchfield, in memory of his having been once a chorister there, and he
gave afterwards twenty pounds towards repairing the cathedral. On June 27, 1664, the White Office was opened,
of which he was appointed a commissioner. On Feb. 17,
1665, sir Edward By she sealed his deputation for visiting Berkshire, which visitation he began on the llth
of March following, and on June 9, 1668, he was appointed by the lords commissioners of the treasury, accomptant-general, and country accomptant in the excise.
His second wife, lady Main waring, dying, April 1, in the
same year, he soon after married Mrs. Elizabeth Dugdale,
daughter to his good friend sir William Dugdale, kht. garter king at arms, in Lincoln’s-inn chapel, on Novembers.
The university of Oxford, in consideration of the many
favours they had received from Mr. Ashmole, created him
doctor of physic by diploma, July 19, 1669, which was
presented to him on the 3d of November following, by
Dr. Yates, principal of Brazen-Nose college, in the name
of the university. He was now courted and esteemed by
the greatest people in the kingdom, both in point of title
and merit, who frequently did him the honour to visit him
at his chambers in the Temple, and whenever he went his
summer progress, he had the same respect paid him in the
country, especially at his 'native town of Litchfield, to which
when he came, he was splendidly entertained by the corporation. On May 8, 1672, he presented his laborious
work on the most noble order of the garter, to his most
gracious master king Charles II. who not only received it
with great civility and kindness, but soon after granted to
our author, as a mark of his approbation of the work, and
of his personal esteem for him, a privy seal for 400 pounds
out of the custom of paper. This was his greatest undertaking, and had he published nothing else, would have
preserved his memory, as it certainly is in its kind one of
the most valuable books in our language. On January
29, 1675, he resigned his office of Windsor herald, which
by his procurement, was bestowed on his brother Dugdale,
It was with great reluctancy that the earl marshal parted
with him, and it was not long after, that he bestowed on
him the character of being the best officer in his office. On
the death of sir Edward Walker, garter king at arms, Feb_
20, 1677, the king and the duke of Norfolk, as earl marshal, contested the right of disposing of his place, on which
Mr. Ashmole was consulted, who declared in favour of the
king, but with so much prudence and discretion as not to
give any umbrage to the earl marshal. He afterwards himself refused this high office, which was conferred on his
father-in-law sir -William Dugdale, for whom he employed
his utmost interest. About the close of 1677, a proposal
was made to Mr. Ashmole to become a candidate for the
city of Litchfield, but finding himself poorly supported by
the very persons who would have encouraged him to stand,
he withdrew his pretensions. On the 26th of January,
1679, about ten in the morning, a fire began in the Middle
Temple, in the next chambers to Mr. Aslimole’s,- by which
he lost a library he had been collecting thirty-three years;
but his Mss. escaped, by their being at his house in South
Lambeth. He likewise lost a collection of 9000 coins,
ancient and modern but his more valuable collection of
gold medals were likewise preserved by being at Lambeth
his vast repository of seals, charters, and other antiquities
and curiosities, perished also in the flames. In 1683, the
university of Oxford having finished a noble repository
near the theatre, Mr. Ashmole sent thither that great collection of rarities which he had received from the Tradescants before-mentioned, together with such additions as he
had made to them; and to this valuable benefaction he
afterwards added that of his Mss. and library, which still
remain a monument of his generous love to learning in
general, and to the university of Oxford in particular. In
the beginning of the year 1685, he was invited by the magistrates, and by the dean of Litchfield, to represent that
corporation in parliament but upon king James’s intimating to him, by the lord Dartmouth, that he would take it
kindly if he would resign his interest to Mr. Levvson, he instantly complied.
ebrated painter of flowers, plants, birds, fish, &c. w&s born at Chalons sur Marne, about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was first employed to make drawings
, a celebrated painter of flowers,
plants, birds, fish, &c. w&s born at Chalons sur Marne,
about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was
first employed to make drawings in the king’s garden, and
discovered such accuracy, that Tournefort engaged him
to go with him to the Levant in that voyage which he took
in 1700. On his return he succeeded Joubert as king’s
painter in the royal garden, where he continued the fine
collection of natural history begun at Blois by the famous
Nicholas Robert, by order of Gaston of Orleans. Aubriet 1 s
most celebrated work, is a volume of paintings of
sea-fish which Louis XIV. kept alive in his managerie,
and which are admirably executed. The plates of Vaillant’s “Botanicou Parisiense,
”
, an eminent English penman of the seventeenth century. It is difficult to fix the time and
, an eminent English penman of the
seventeenth century. It is difficult to fix the time and
place of his birth we find him, early in life, in a menial
capacity with sir William Ashurst, who was lord mayor in
1694, to whom, and in which year, he dedicated his “Arithmetic made easy,
” a book which was well received by the
public, and has passed through several editions the twelfth
was printed in 1714, with an addition in book-keeping by
Charles Snell. In 1695, he published his “Tutor to Penmanship,
” engraved by John Sturt, in oblong folio. It is
dedicated to king William III. and though a very pompous
book, is valuable on many accounts; the writing being
plain and practical, and much more useful than his “A-la-mode Secretary,
” another writing-book he published from
the hand of the same engraver. In 1700 he published his
“Paul’s school round hand.
” It is no more than a set of
copies, ornamented but is clear and bold, and was engraved by Sturt. He lived then at the Hand and Pen in
St. Paul’s Church-yard, and is said to have gained 800l.
per annum by teaching and the sale of his works. We have
another of his performances under the title of the “Penman’s Daily Practice,
” which he calls a cyphering book
it contains examples of all the hands now in use, in thirtyfour plates done by the same engraver, but has no date.
He died about 1705, of an apoplexy.
, a learned English prelate in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, was born in Nottinghamshire, according
, a learned English prelate in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, was born in Nottinghamshire, according to Fuller, but in Devonshire, according to Izacke and Prince. After having received the first rudiments of learning, he was sent to Trinity college, Cambridge, of which he became fellow. On the 15th of July, 1578, he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford, as he stood in his own university. After studying other branches of learning, he applied to divinity, and became a favourite preacher in Cambridge, the place of his residence. When he was D. D. he was made domestic chaplain to Henry earl of Pembroke, president of the council in the marches of Wales, and is supposed to have assisted lady Mary Sidney, countess of Pembroke, in her version of the psalms into English metre. By his lordship’s interest, however, he was constituted treasurer of the church of Landaff, and in 1588 was installed into the prebend of Wellington, in the cathedral of Hereford. Through his patron’s further interest, he was advanced to the bishopric of Landaff, and was consecrated Aug. 29, 1591. In Feb. 1594, he was translated to the see of Exeter, to which he did an irreparable injury by alienating from it the rich manor of Crediton in Devonshire. In 1597 he was translated to Worcester, and was likewise made one of the queen’s council for the marches of Wales. To the library of Worcester cathedral he was a very great benefactor, for he not only fitted and repaired the edifice, but also bequeathed to it all his books. After having continued bishop of Worcester near thirteen years, he died of the jaundice, May 17, 1610, and was buried in the cathedral of Worcester, without any monument.
, a very learned Italian scholar of the seventeenth century, was born Aug. 31, 1651, at Borgo-san-Donino,
, a very learned
Italian scholar of the seventeenth century, was born Aug.
31, 1651, at Borgo-san-Donino, in the duchy of Parma.
In 1653 his father went to reside at Parma, where he spared
no expence in the education of this son, although his fortune was considerably reduced by family imprudence. For
five years he studied the classics, under the tuition of the
Jesuits, and in his sixteenth year entered the order of St.
Benedict, on which occasion he adopted the name of that
saint, in lieu of Bernardine, his baptismal name. Soon
after, his father died, leaving his widow and three children
with very little provision. Bacchini, however, pursued his
studies, and took lesson in scholastic philosophy from
Maurice Zapata; but by the advice of Chrysogonus Fabius, master of the novices of his convent, he studied mathematics, as the foundation of a more useful species of
knowledge than the physics and metaphysics of the ancients. He afterwards applied to divinity with equal judgment, confining his researches to the fathers, councils, and
ecclesiastical history. When he had completed his course,
his abbé wished him to teach philosophy, but he had no
inclination to teach that scholastic philosophy which he did
not think worth learning and having obtained leave, on
account of his health, to retire to a monastery in the country, he remained there two years, during which he studied
the science of music, and on his recovery began to preach,
agreeably to the desire of his superiors. In 1677, Arcioni, abbe of St. Benedict at Ferrara, having appointed him.
his secretary, he was obliged to follow him to Arezzo, Venice, Placentia, Padua, and Parma. While at Piacentia,
in 1679, he pronounced a funeral oration on Margaret de
Medicis, mother of the duke of Parma, which was printed
there. In 1681 he formed an acquaintance with Magliabecchi, the cardinal Noris, and many other eminent men of
the age. In 1683, on account of his health, he solicited
permission to resign his office as secretary to the abbe“, and
as public preacher, which was granted; and having his
time again in his own hands, he began to arrange the library belonging to his monastery, and to consult the fathers
and sacred critics, and studied with assiduity and success
the Greek and Hebrew languages. In 1635 he was appointed counsellor of the inquisition at Parma, and ne^t
year had a visit of three days from father Mabillon and father Germain, and about the same time began to conduct
the
” Giornale de Letterati." In this he was encouraged
and assisted by Gaudentio Roberti, who was eminent in polite literature. Bacchini accordingly began the Parma
journal, in imitation of that published at Rome, and continued it monthly, but without his name, until 1690. But
afterwards, when at Modena, he resumed it for 1692 and
1693, after which, the death of Roberti, who defrayed all
the expence, obliged him again to discontinue it. In 1695,
however, Capponi engaged to furnish the books and all necessary expences, and he edited itfor 1696 and 1697, when
it was concluded. The whole make nine small volumes
4to, the first five printed at Parma, and the rest at Modena.
, a very able lawyer of the seventeenth century, was the son of the preceding, and was
, a very able lawyer of the seventeenth century, was the son of the preceding, and was born at Heidelberg, and probably educated there. He was, however, celebrated for his knowledge of the civil law, when Heidelberg was taken by count Tilly in 1622, and the university dissolved. This obliged him to leave the place, but he appears to have returned soon after, and to have endeavoured to support himself for some time by giving private lessons to the few pupils whom the siege had not driven away. In 1624, he published his " Exercitationes ad partem posteriorem Chiliados Antonii Fabri, de erroribus interpretum, et de interpretibus juris,' 7 fol. The same year he entered into a correspondence with the learned Cuueus of Leyden, to whom he communicated his intention of leaving Heidelberg, as the university, then about to be restored, was to be composed of catholics, while he was disposed towards the principles of the reformed religion. He intimated also to Cuneus that he had no higher ambition, should he come to Leyden, than to give private lessons. During this correspondence an offer was made to Cuneus of a professorship in the academy of Franeker, and as he could not accept it, he took this opportunity of recommending Bachovius, but the latter had rendered himself obnoxious there by writing against Mark Lycklama, formerly one of the professors, and still one of the curators of the academy.
1666 he published a work upon the most celebrated preachers from the earliest times to the beginning of the seventeenth century, a 4to volume, under the title of “Sapientia
, a French divine,and subpemtentiary of
the metropolitan church of Paris, was born at Abbeville, it
is supposed of English parents. He arrived at his doctor’s
degree in 1628. In 1651 he published his most celebrated
work, dedicated to the archbishop of Paris; “De triplici
examine ordinand. confess, etpcenitent.
” 8vo, which passed
through many editions in his life- time. He assisted also in
the publication of some editions of the Councils. In 1666
he published a work upon the most celebrated preachers
from the earliest times to the beginning of the seventeenth
century, a 4to volume, under the title of “Sapientia foris
prgedicans,
” in which he not only gives a succinct account
of the lives of the most celebrated preachers, but also points
out in what they excelled, and the most remarkable passages in their discourses. Before this he published a tivatise, “De Beneficio Crncis,
” Paris, Philosophic affective
” appeared
at Paris in Pieuses reparties,
” or
pious repartees, selected from various authors, and some
from his own experience. The time of his death is not
specified in Moreri, or any of the authorities from which
this article is taken.
, an eminent Presbyterian divine of the seventeenth century, was born at Glasgow in the year 1599.
, an eminent Presbyterian divine
of the seventeenth century, was born at Glasgow in the
year 1599. His father, Mr. Thomas Baillie, was a citizen
of that place, and son to Baillie of Jerviston. Our Robert Baillie was educated in the university of his native
city where, having taken his degrees in arts, he turned
his thoughts to the study of divinity and, receiving orders
from archbishop Law, he was chosen regent of philosophy
at Glasgow. While he was in this station, he had, for
some years, the care of the education of Lord Montgomery, who, at length, carried him with him to Kilwinning;
to which church he was presented by the earl of Eglintoun. Here he lived in the strictest friendship with that
noble family, and the people connected with it; as he did
also with his ordinary the archbishop of Glasgow, with
whom he kept up an epistolary correspondence. In 1633,
he declined, from modesty, the offer of a church in Edinburgh. Being requested in 1637, by his friend the archbishop, to preach a sermon before the assembly at Edinburgh, in recommendation of the canon and service book,
he refused to do it; and wrote a handsome letter to the
archbishop, assigning the reasons of his refusal. In 1638
he was chosen by the presbytery of Irvine, a member of
the famous assembly at Glasgow, which was a prelude to the
civil war. Though Mr. Baillie is said to have behaved in
this assembly with great moderation, it is evident that he
was by no means deficient in his zeal against prelacy and
Arminianism. In 1640 he was sent by the covenanting
lords to London, to draw up an accusation against archbishop Laud, for his obtrusions on the church of Scotland.
While he was in England, he wrote the presbytery a regular account of public affairs, with a journal of the trial
of the earl of Strafford. Not long after, on his return, he
was appointed joint professor of divinity with Mr. David
Dickson, in the university of Glasgow, and his reputation
was become so great, that he had before this received
invitations from the other three universities, all of which
he refused. He continued in his professorship till the
Restoration but his discharge of the duties of it was interrupted for a considerable time, by his residence in
England for, in 1643, he was chosen one of the commissioners of the church of Scotland to the assembly of divines
at Westminster. Though he never spoke in the debates
of the assembly, he appears to have been an useful member, and entirely concurred in the principles and views of
its leaders. Mr. Baillie returned again to his own country
in the latter end of 1646. When, after the execution of
Charles I. Charles II. was proclaimed in Scotland, our professor was one of the divines appointed by the general assembly to wait on the king at the Hague; upon which occasion,
March 27, 1649, he made a speech in the royal presence,
expressing in the strongest terms his abhorrence of the
murder of the late king and, in his sentiments upon this
event, it appears that the Presbyterian divines of that
period, both at home and abroad, almost universally
agreed. After the restoration of Charles II. Mr. Baillie,
Jan. 23, 1661, by the interest of the earl of Lauderdale,
with whom he was a great favourite, was made principal
of the university of Glasgow, upon the removal of Mr.
Patrick Gillespie, who had been patronised by Cromwell.
It is said by several writers, that Mr. Baillie had the offer
of a bishopric, which he absolutely refused. Though he
was very loyal, and most sincerely rejoiced in his majesty’s
restoration, he began, a little before his death, to be extremely anxious for the fate of Presbytery. His health
failed him in the spring of 1662. During his illness he
was visited by the new-made archbishop of Glasgow, to
whom he is said to have addressed himself in the following
words “Mr, Andrews (I will not call you my lord), king
Charles would have made me one of these lords but I do
not find in the New Testament, that Christ has any lords
in his house.
” Notwithstanding this common-place objection to the hierarchy, he treated the archbishop very
courteously. Mr. Baillie died in July 1662, being 63 years
f age. By his first wife, who was Lilias Fleming, of the
family of Cardarroch, in the parish of Cadder, near Glasgow, he had many children, five of whom survived him,
viz. one son, and four daughters. The posterity of his
son, Mr. Henry Baillie, who was a preacher, but never
accepted of any charge, still inherit the estate of Carnbrae,
in the county of Lanerk, an ancient seat of the Baillies.
Mr. Baillie’s character ha% been drawn to great advantage,
not only by Mr. Woodrow, but by an historian of the opposite party. His works, which were very learned, and
acquired him reputation in his own time, are 1. “Opus
Historicum et Chronologicum,
” Amsterdam, A Defence of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, against Mr. Maxwell, bishop of Ross.
” 3. “A Parallel betwixt the Scottish Service-Book and the Romish
Missal, Breviary,
” &c. 4. “The Canterburian Self-Conviction.
” 5. “Queries anent the Service-Book.
” 6. “Antidote against Arminianism.
” 7. “A treatise on Scottish
Episcopacy.
” 8. “Laudensium.
” 9. “Dissuasive against
the Errors of the Times, with a Supplement.
” 10. “A
Reply to the Modest Enquirer,
” with some other tracts,
and several sermons upon public occasions but his “Opus
Historicum et Chronologicum,
” was his capital production. The rest of his writings, being chiefly on controversial
and temporary subjects, can, at present, be of little or no
value. But his memory is perhaps yet more preserved by a
very recent publication, “Letters and Journals, carefully
transcribed by Robert Aiken containing an impartial account of public transactions, civil, ecclesiastical, and military, both in England and Scotland, from 1637 to 1662 a
period, perhaps, the most remarkable that is to be met
with in the British History. With an Account of the
Author’s life, prefixed and a Glossary annexed,
” Edinburgh,
, a celebrated Italian poet of the seventeenth century, was distinguished in his youth for
, a celebrated Italian poet of the
seventeenth century, was distinguished in his youth for his
attachment to polite literature, and some verses of acknowledged excellence. He was a native of Palermo, and on
account of his talents, very early admitted into the academy of the Reaccensi, but his confined circumstances
obliged him to leave his native country in pursuit of better fortune. He went first, for a short time, to Naples,
and thence to Rome, where he entered into the army, and
served in Hungary in the papal army under the command
of John Francis Aldobrandini. He returned afterwards to
Rome, and having resumed his studies, was received with
great honour into the academy of the Humourists. Here
his poetry, his anacreontics, and particularly the encomiastic verses he wrote on the distinguished persons of the
court of pope Urban VIII. procured him fame, and might
have enriched him, if he had not been deficient in the article of ceconomy, which some of his biographers ascribe
to his extravagance, and others to his charity. It is certain, however, that he became poor, and was obliged to
enter into the service of some gentlemen in the capacity of
secretary, but either from feeling the miseries of dependarpce, or from an unsettled turn, he very frequently changed
his masters. Erythraeus relates many stories of the manner in which he shifted for subsistence, which are not much
to his credit, but the veracity of Erythneus on this as well
as many other occasions, has been called in question by
contemporary biographers of good authority, and whatever
truth may be in his account, we do not find that Balducci
lost the esteem of the learned at Rome. At length he took
prders, and officiated as chaplain in the hospital of St.
Sixte, but having afterwards been attacked by an illness
at the house of a nobleman, who had a high regard for
him, and would have administered to all his wants, he
caused himself to be removed to the hospital of St. John
Latran, where he died in 1642, or according to Crescembini, either in 1645 or 1649. His works were, 1. “Tributo di Parnasso alia Maesta Cesareo di Ferdinando III.
d' Austria,
” Rome, 1638, 4to. 2. “La Pace Urbana,
”
Naples, Poesie degli Accademici Fantastici di Roma,
” Rome, Rime, parte prima,
”
Rome, Rime, parte seconda,
”
Rome, Canzoni Siciliane,
” and prefaces to part of the
works of his friend Stigliani.
, a Puritan divine of the seventeenth century, was born in 1585> of an obscure family,
, a Puritan divine of the seventeenth century, was born in 1585> of an obscure family, at Cassington or Chersington, near Woodstock in Oxfordshire* He
was educated in grammar learning at a private school, under the vicar of Yarnton, a mile distant from Cassington
and was admitted a student of Brazen-nose college in Oxford in 1602. He continued there about five years, in
the condition of a servitor, and under the discipline of a severe tutor and from thence he removed to St. Mary’s hall,
and took the degree of bachelor of arts in 1608. Soon
after, he was invited into Cheshire, to be tutor to the lady
Cholmondeley’s children and here he became acquainted
witli some rigid Puritans, whose principles he imbibecL
About this time, having got a sum of money, he came up
to London, and procured himself to be ordained by an Irish
bishop, without subscription. Soon after, he removed into
Staffordshire, and in 1610 became curate of Whitmore, a
chapel of ease to Stoke. Here he lived in a mean condition, upon a salary of about twenty pounds a year, and the
profits of a little school. Mr. Baxter tells us, “he deserved as high esteem and honour as the best bishop in
England yet looking after no higher things, but living
comfortably and prosperously with these.' 7 He has, among
the Puritan writers, the character of an excellent schooldivine, a painful preacher, and a learned and ingenious
author and, though he was not well affected to ceremonies
and church discipline, yet he wrote against those who
thought such matters a sufficient ground for separation,
He died the 20th of October, 1640, aged about fifty-five,
and was buried in the church of Whitmore. Although he
is represented above, on the authority of Ant. Wood, as
living in a mean condition, it appears by Clarke’s more
ample account, that he was entertained in the house of
Edward Mainwaring, esq. a gentleman of Whitmore, and
afterwards supplied by him with a house, in which he lived
comfortably with a wife and seven children. He was likewise very much employed in teaching, and particularly in,
preparing young men for the university. His works are,
1.
” A short treatise concerning all the principal grounds
of the Christian Religion, &c.“fourteen times printed
before the year 1632, and translated into the Turkish language by William Seaman, an English traveller. 2.
” A
treatise of Faith, in two parts the first shewing the nature,
the second, the life of faith,“London, 1631, and 1637,
4to, with a commendatory preface, by Richard Sibbs.
3.
” Friendly trial of the grounds tending to Separation,
in a plain and modest dispute touching the unlawfulness of
stinted Liturgy and set form of Common Prayer, communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and
first receptacle of the power of the keys, &c.“Cambridge,
1640, 4to. 4.
” An Answer to two treatises of Mr. John
Can, the first entitled A necessity of Separation from the
Church of England, proved by the Nonconformist’s principles; the other, A stay against Straying; wherein^ in
opposition to Mr. John Robinson, he undertakes to prove
the unlawfulness of hearing the ministers of the church of
England,“London, 1642, 4to, published by Simeon Ash.
The epistle to the reader is subscribed by Thomas Langley,
William Rathband, Simeon Ash, Francis Woodcock, and
George Croft, Presbyterians. After our author had finished
this last book, he undertook a large ecclesiastical treatise,
in which he proposed to lay open the nature of schism, and
to handle the principal controversies relating to the essence
and government of the visible church. He left fifty sheets
of this work finished. The whole was too liberal for those
of his brethren who were for carrying their nonconformity
into hostility against the church. 5.
” Trial of the new
Church- way in New-England and Old, &c.“London, 1644,
4to. 6.
” A treatise of the Covenant of Grace,“London,
1645, 4to, published by his great admirer Simeon Ash.
7.
” Of the power of Godliness, both doctrinally and practically handled,“&c. To which are annexed several treatises, as, I. Of the Affections. II. Of the spiritual Combat. III. Of the Government of the Tongue. IV. Of
Prayer, with an exposition on the Lord’s Prayer, London,
1657, fol. 8.
” A treatise of Divine Meditation," Lond.
1660, 12mo.
rms, as a man of talents in natural history, first made a voyage to the East Indies, about the close of the seventeenth century, and remained there some time but was
, mentioned by Mr. Ray in very
high terms, as a man of talents in natural history, first
made a voyage to the East Indies, about the close of the
seventeenth century, and remained there some time but
was afterwards fixed in Virginia. In that country he industriously sought for plants, described them, and himself drew the figures of the rare species he was also
celebrated for his knowledge of insects and meditated
writing the natural history of Virginia, for which, Mr.
Ray observes that he was every way qualified. He sent
to Ray. in 1680, “A catalogue of Plants observed by him
in Virginia,
” which was published in the second volume
of Ray’s history, p, 1928. The world was deprived of
much of the fruit of his labours, by his untimely death.
Banister increased the martyrs to natural history. In one
of his excursions in pursuit of his object, he fell from the
rocks, and perished. His herbarium came into the
possession of Sir Hans Sloane, who thought it a considerable
acquisition. Four papers by him, on subjects of natural
history, peculiar to Virginia, are inserted in the Philosophical Transactions, No. 198, and 247.
, curate of St. Bernard de Potosi, at the contmen cement of the seventeenth century, is the author of a very scarce book
, curate of St. Bernard de
Potosi, at the contmen cement of the seventeenth century,
is the author of a very scarce book entitled “Arte de loa
metallos,
” Madrid, Recueil d'Ouvrages
” on the same subject; also
in 12mo, in very great esteem.
, an eminent French physician of the seventeenth century, was born at Cereste in Provence, and
, an eminent French physician
of the seventeenth century, was born at Cereste in
Provence, and studied at Aix and Montpellier, at which last
university he took his doctor’s degree in 1649, and in this
place he settled, and acquired very great reputation as a
practitioner and a man of learning. In his practice he appears to have attained the simplicity and sound principles
of modern times, founded on experience. The celebrated
Locke, who visited him at Montpellier, compared him to
cur Sydenham in manners and opinions. He died in 1699.
The only works he published are, 1. “Traites de Medicine,
” 12mo, Questiones Medicae duodecim,
”
, a native of Bayonne, of the seventeenth century, descended from one of the first families
, a native of Bayonne, of the seventeenth century, descended from one of the first families in that city. The celebrated abbot of St. Cyran, who
was his mother’s brother, educated him, sent him to Louvain, that he might study under the famous Jansenius
and some years after entrusted him with the tuilion of the
son of M. Arnauid d'Andilly. M. de Barcos at last returned with the abbot de St. Cyran, who employed him as
a secretary, undertook nothing without consulting him,
and they jointly composed the book, entitled “Petrus
Aurelius.
” It was at this time that the abbot de Barcos
formed a strict friendship with M. Arnauid the doctor,
with whom he was afterwards involved in the controversy
respecting Frequent Communion. Upon the death of
the abbot de St. Cyran, the queen mother gave that abbey
to M. de Barcos, who took possession of it, May 9, 1644,
went to reside there, re-established and reformed it he
nevertheless always retained his ecclesiastical habit, and
took no solemn vows. He died there, August 22, 1678.
His works are: 1. “A censure of- the Predestinatus of
pere Sirmond,
” 8vo. 2. “La grandeur de TEglise Romaine, etablie sur Fautorite de St Pierre et de St. Paul,
&c.
” 4to. 3. “Traitc de Pautorite* de St. Pierre et de
St. Paul, qui reside dans le Pape, successeur de ces deux
Apotres,
” Eclaircissemens de quelques
Objections, que l‘on a forme’es contre la Grandeur de
TEglise Romaine,
” St. Peter and St. Paul are two heads of the
Roman church, which form but one.
” This proposition
he had inserted in the preface to M. Arnauld’s book on
Frequent Communion, without his consent. He also left
“De la Foi, de I'Esperance, et de la Charite,
” 2 vols.
12mo. “Exposition de la Foi de l'Eglise Romaine, touchant la Grace et la Predestination,
” 8vo. or 12 mo. and
several other anonymous works. This last was condemned
by de Noailles, archbishop of Paris
, a very learned divine and antiquary, in the end of the sixteenth, and part, of the seventeenth century, was born in the parish of St. Mary
, a very learned
divine and antiquary, in the end of the sixteenth, and part,
of the seventeenth century, was born in the parish of St.
Mary the More, in the city of Exeter, about 1572. He was
the second son of Lawrence Barkham, of St. Leonard’s,
near that city, by Joan his wife, daughter of Edward
Bridgeman of Exeter, a near relation of John Bridgeman,
bishop of Chester. In Michaelmas term, 15^7, he was entered a sojourner.of Exeter college in Oxford; and on the
24th of August, the year following, admitted scholar of
Corpus Christi college in the same university. He took the
degre of B. A. February 5 1590-1, and that of M. A. December 12, 1594. On “the 21st of June, 1596, he was
chosen probationer fellow of Corpus Christi college, being
then in orders and July 7, 1603, took the degree of B. D.
Some time after, he became chaplain to Ric. Bancroft,
archbishop of Canterbury: and, after his death, to George
Abbot, his successor in that see. On the llth of June,
1608, he was collated to the rectory of Finchleyin Middlesex, and on the 31st of October, 1610, to the prebend of
Brownswood, in the cathedral of St. Paul’s on the 29th of
March, 1615, to the rectory of Packlesham; the 27th of
May following to the rectory of Lachingdon and, the 5th
of December, 1616, to the rectory and deanery of Bocking, all in the county of Essex. But, in 1617, he resigned
Packlesham, as he had done Finchley in 1615. March 14,
1615, he was created D. D. He had great skill and knowledge in most parts of useful learning, being an exact historian, a good herald, an able divine, a curious critic,
master of several languages, an excellent antiquarian, and
well acquainted with coins and medals, of which he had the
best collection of any clergyman in his time. These he
gave to Dr. Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, who presented
them to the university of Oxford. He died at Bocking,
March 25, 1642, and was buried in the chancel of that
church. He was a man of strict life and conversation, charitable, modest, and reserved, but above all, exemplary in
his duties as a clergyman. Dr. Barkham wrote nothing in
his own name, but assisted others in their works, particularly Speed in his history of Great Britain, which that author gratefully acknowledges. In this work Barkham wrote
” The life and reign of king John,“one of the most valuable in the book and
” The life and reign of king
Henry II.“in the same history. He is likewise the author
of
” The display of Heraldry,“&c. first published at London in 1610, folio, under the name of John Guillim. The
learned author having mostly composed it in his younger
years, thought it too light a subject for him (who was a grave divine) to own, and gave Guillim the copy, who,
adding some trivial things, published it, with the author’s
leave, under his own name. He published also Mr. Ric,
Crakanthorpe’s book against the archbishop of Spalato, entitled
” Defensio Ecclesiie Anglicanee,“Lond. 1625, 4to,
with a preface of his own. It is said also that he wrote a
treatise on coins, which was never published. Fuller, in his
usual, way, says, that he was <fr a greater lover of coins than
of money; rather curious in the stamps than covetous for
the metal thereof.
”
, a biographical and miscellaneous writer of the seventeenth century, was born at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire,
, a biographical and miscellaneous writer of the seventeenth century, was born at
Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, Nov. 23, 1609, and educated first at Abingdon school, whence he entered as a
servitor in Merton college, Oxford, in 1625, and in a short
time removed to Gloucester hall (novy Worcester college)
under the tuition and patronage of Dr. Gregory Whear,
the principal. Here he studied with great assiduity for
several years, took his degrees in arts, and entered into
holy orders. In 1637 he supplied the place of chaplain of
Lincoln college at the church of All-Saints, for a short
time, and was the same year appointed master of the freeschool at Hereford, vicar-choral there, and not long after
was promoted to the vicarage of All-hallows in that city.
When the garrison of Hereford was surprised by the parliamentary forces in 1646, he was rescued out of the danger,
and placed at Sudeley castle, doubtless by the Bridges family, where he exercised his ministry. After that he
taught a private school at Hawling in Cotswold, and on the
restoration his majesty gave him the living of Naunton
near Hawling in Gloucestershire, which he retained until
his death, Jan. 6, 1687-8. He was buried in the chancel
of Naunton church, leaving behind him the character of
a frequent and edifying preacher, and a good neighbour.
Wood further adds, that he was a good disputant, a great
admirer of Grotius, and a great pretender to poetry but
poetry is one of those subjects with which Wood is seldom
to be trusted. Barksdale was certainly more than a pretender to poetry. His works are very numerous, both original and translated; but the greater part of the former
are small pious tracts on various subjects, little known now,
although no doubt very useful in the time they were
published. His biographical works, mostly compilations from
very scarce tracts and funeral sermons, were published
under the title of “Memorials of Worthy Persons.
” Of
these, two decades were published, London, A remembrancer of Excellent Men,
”
London, Nympha Libaethris or the Cotswold Muse,
presenting some extempore verses to the imitation of young
scholars; in four parts,
” London, Ccnsura Literaria,
” vol. VI. Of Barksdale’s other writings it may be sufficient to mention,
, was an English Roman Catholic, of the seventeenth century, whose history has been imperfectly
, was an English Roman Catholic, of
the seventeenth century, whose history has been imperfectly related. According to Moreri (who refers to “Memoires du temps
”) he was an Englishman by birth, and
studied with great success at Lou vain. Wood savs he was
of a Lancashire family, and educated for some time at Oxford, whence he went to Spain, and studied divinity and
philosophy under the famous Dr. J. Alph. Curiel, who,
adds Wood, was wont to call Barnes by the name of John
Hiiss, because of a spirit of contradiction which was always
observed in him, but which, it appears by his writings,
was a spirit of thinking for himself that could not be very
acceptable to his superiors. He is said to have been
young when he entered among the English Benedictines
near Douay, for fear of the inquisition, with which he was
threatened at Louvain and some time after he was obliged
to leave the Benedictines, under the same alarm, for holding some sentiments they did not approve. Wood says,
that before this he was sent into England on a mission, but
being discovered there, he was imprisoned and sent to
Normandy with certain priests and Jesuits. Moreri says,
that on leaving Douay, he took refuge in Paris, where he
was protected by some persons of distinction, and admitted into the friendship of several men of learning. In
1625, at which time he was one of the confessors of the
abbey of Chelles, he published a work against mental reservation, entitled “Dissertatio contra equivocationes,
”
Paris, 8vo, of which a French translation was published at
the same time. In the approbation of the faculty of theology at Paris prefixed to this work, he is styled doctor of
arts and divinity, professor of the English mission, and
first assistant of the congregation of Spain. This work
made a considerable noise, and was attempted to be answered by father Theophilus Raynaud in 1627. His next
work, entitled “Catholico-Romanus Pacificus,
” gave yet
more offence, and the pope wrote to the king of France,
and to cardinal Richelieu, desiring they would send the
author of these publications to Rome. Barnes was accordingly taken up in December 1625. He wrote also an answer
to Clement Reyner’s “Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia,
” which Wood makes to precede the former. It appears certain, however, that in consequence of the moderation of his opinions, he was hurried like a malefactor
from place to place through Germany. While confined at
Mechlin, he contrived to make his escape from the room
by means of the strings of a bass viol, of which he had procured a quantity under pretence that the dampness of the
place had injured what belonged to his instrument; but he
was discovered while stepping into a vessel at Antwerp, and
conveyed to Rome. Here he was put into the prison belonging to the inquisition, in which he died, after thirty
years confinement. During part of this time, his sufferings
had brought on insanity. An edition of his “CatholicoRomanus Pacificus
” was printed at the theatre at Oxford
in Ancient Liberty of the Britannic
church.
” Wood mentions other writings by Barnes, but
without specifying their titles.
, an eminent mathematician and divine of the seventeenth century, was descended from an ancient family
, an eminent mathematician and divine of the seventeenth century, was descended from an
ancient family of that name in Suffolk. His father was
Mr. Thomas Barrow, a reputable citizen of London and
linen-draper to king Charles I.; and his mother, Anne,
daughter of William Buggin of North-Cray in Kent, esq.
whose tender care he did not long experience, she dying
when he was about four years old. He was born at London in October 1630, and was placed first in the Charterhouse school for two or three years, where his behaviour
afforded but little hopes of success in the profession of a
scholar, for which his father designed him, being quarrelsome, riotous, and negligent. But when removed to Felstead school in Essex, his disposition took a more happy
turn, and he quickly made so great a progress in learning,
that his master appointed him a kind of tutor to the lord
viscount Fairfax of Emely in Ireland, who was then his
scholar. During his stay at Felstead, he was admitted,
December the 15.th 1643, being fourteen years of age,
a pensioner of Peter-house in Cambridge, under his uncle
Mr. Isaac Barrow, then fellow of that college. But
when he was qualified for the university, he was entered a
pensioner in Trinity-college, the 5th of February 1645;
his uncle having been ejected, together with Seth Ward,
Peter Gunning, and John Barwick, who had written
against the covenant. His father having suffered greatly
in his estate by his attachment to the royal cause, our
young student was obliged at first for his chief support to
the generosity of the learned Dr. Hammond, to whose memory he paid his thanks, in an excellent epitaph on the
doctor. In 1647, he was chosen a scholar of the house;
and, though he always continued a staunch royalist, and
never would take the covenant, yet, by his great merit
and prudent behaviour he preserved the esteem and goodwill of his superiors. Of this we have an instance in Dr.
Hill, master of the college, who had been put in by the
parliament in the room of Dr. Comber, ejected for adhering to the king. One day, laying his hand upon our
young sflident’s head, he said, “Thou art a good lad,
‘tis pity thou art a cavalier;’ 7 and when, in an oration on
the Gunpowder-treason, Mr. Barrow had so celebrated the
former times, as to reflect much on the present, some fellows were provoked to move for his expulsion but the
master silenced them with this,
” Barrow is a better man
than any of us.“Afterwards when the engagement was imposed, he subscribed it; but, upon second thoughts, repenting of what he had done, he applied himself to the
commissioners, declared his dissatisfaction, and prevailed to
have his name razed out of the list. He applied himself
with great diligence to the study of all parts of literature,
especially natural philosophy; and though he was yet but a
young scholar, his judgment was too great to rest satisfied
with the shallow and superficial philosophy, then taught
and received in the schools. He applied himself therefore
to the reading and considering the writings of the lord Verulam, M. Des Cartes, Galileo, &c. who seemed to offer
something more solid and substantial. In 1648, Mr. Barrow took the degree of bachelor of arts. The year following, he was elected fellow of his college, merely out of
regard to his merit; for he had no friend to recommend
him, as being of the opposite party. And now, finding
the times not favourable to men of his opinions in matters
of church and state, he turned his thoughts to the profession of physic, and made a considerable progress in anatomy, botany, and chemistry: but afterwards, upon deliberation with himself, and with the advice of his uncle,
he applied himself to the study of divinity, to which he
was further obliged by his oath on his admission to his
fellowship. By reading Scaliger on Eusebius, he perceived the dependance of chronology on astronomy; which
put him upon reading Ptolemy’s Almagest: and finding
that book and all astronomy to depend on geometry, he
made himself master of Euclid’s Elements, and from
thence proceeded to the other ancient mathematicians.
He made a short essay towards acquiring the Arabic language, but soon deserted it. With these severer
speculations, the largeness of his mind had room for the amusements of poetry, to which he was always strongly addicted.
This is sufficiently evident from the many performances he
has left us in that art. Mr. Hill, his biographer, tells us,
he was particularly pleased with that branch of it, which
consists in description, but greatly disliked the hyperboles
of some modern poets. As for our plays, he was an enemy
to them, as a principal cause of the debauchery of the
times; the other causes he thought to be, the French education, and the ill example of great persons. For satires,
he wrote none his wit, as Mr. Hill expresses it, was
” pure and peaceable."
, a learned divine of the seventeenth century, was born in 1607, in the island of
, a learned divine of the seventeenth century, was born in 1607, in the island of Jersey, according to Wood, which an annotator on the Biog. Britannica contradicts without informing us of the place of his nativity. Grey, in his ms notes, says he was born at Rouen, in Normandy, but quotes no authority, nor do we know in what school or university he received his education. For some time, he was master of the college or free-school at Guernsey, and became chaplain to Thomas Morton bishop of Durham, who gave him the rectory of Stanhope, and the vicarage of EgglesclifF, b.oth in the county of Durham. In July 1640, he had the degree of doctor of divinity conferred upon him at Cambridge, by mandate; and was incorporated in the same at Oxford, the November following, about which time he was made chaplain in ordinary to king Charles I.; Dec. 12, 1643, he was installed into the seventh prebend of Durham, to which he was collated by his generous patron bishop Morton. The next year, August 24, he was also collated to the archdeaconry of Northumberland, with the rectory of Howiek annexed. But he did not long enjoy these great preferments, as in the beginning of the civil wars, being sequestered and plundered, he repaired to king Charles at Oxford, before whom, and his parliament, he frequently preached. In 1646, he had a licence granted him under the public seal of the university, to preach the word of God throughout England. Upon the surrender of the Oxford garrison to the parliament, he resolved with all the zeal of a missionary to propagate the doctrine of the EngJish church in the East, among the Greeks, Arabians, &c. Leaving therefore his family in England, he went first to Zante, an island near the Morea, where he made some stay; and had good success in spreading among the Greek inhabitants the doctrine of the English church, the substance of which he imparted to several of them, in a vulgar Greek translation of our church-catechism. The success of this attempt was so remarkable, that it drew persecution upon him from the Latins, as they are called, or those members of the Romish church, throughout the East, who perform their service in Latin. On this he went into the Morea, where the metropolitan of Achaia prevailed upon him to preach twice in Greek, at a meeting of some of his bishops and clergy, which was well received. At his departure, he left with him a copy of the catechism above mentioned. From thence, after he had passed through Apulia, Naples, and Sicily again (in which last, at Messina, he officiated for some weeks on board a ship) he embarked for Syria; and, after some months stay at Aleppo, where he had frequent conversation with the patriarch of Antioch, then resident there, he left a copy of our church-catechism, translated into Arabic, the native language of that place. From Aleppo he went in 1652 to Jerusalem, and so travelled over all Palestine. At Jerusalem he received much honour, both from the Greek Christians and Latins. The Greek patriarch (the better to express his desire of communion with the church of England, declared by the doctor to him) gave him his bull, or patriarchal seal, in a blank, which is their way of credence, and shewed him other instances of respect, while the Latins received him courteously into their convent, though he did openly profess himself a priest of the church of England. After some disputes about the validity of our English ordinations, they procured him entrance into the temple of the sepulchre, at the rate of a priest, that is half of the sum paid by a layman; and, at his departure from Jerusalem, the pope’s vicar gave him his diploma in parchment, under his own hand and public seal, styling him, a priest of the church of England, and doctor of divinity, which title occasioned some surprise, especially to the French ambassador at Constantinople. Returning to Aleppo, he passed over the Euphrates and went into Mesopotamia, where he intended to send the church-catechism in Turkish, to some of their bishops, who were mostly Armenians. This Turkish translation was procured by the care of sir Thomas Bendyshe, the English ambassador at Constantinople. After his return from Mesopotamia, he wintered at Aleppo, where he received several courtesies from the consul, Mr. Henry Riley. In the beginning of 1653, he departed from Aleppo, and came to Constantinople by land, being six hundred miles, without any person with him, that could speak any of the European languages. Yet, by the help of some Arabic he had picked up at Aleppo, he performed that journey in the company of twenty Turks, who used him courteously, because he acted as physician to them and their friends: a study (as he says) to which the iniquity of the times and the opportunity of Padua drove him. After his arrival at Constantinople, the French Protestants there desired him to be their minister, and though he declared to them his resolution to officiate according to the English liturgy (a translation whereof, for want of a printed copy, cost him no little labour) yet they orderly submitted to it, and promised to settle on him, in three responsible men’s hands, a competent stipend: and all this, as they told him, with the express consent of the French ambassador, but still under the roof and protection of the English ambassador. Before he quitted the Eastern parts, he intended to pass into Egypt, in order to take a survey of the churches of the Cophties, and confer with the patriarch of Alexandria, as he had done already with the other three patriarchs, partly to acquire the knowledge of those churches, and partly to publish and give them a true notion of the church of England; but whether he accomplished his design, is not certain. He went next into Transilvania, where he was entertained for seven years by George Ragotzi the Second, prince of that country; who honoured him with the divinity-chair in his new founded university of Alba Julia (or Weissenburg) and endowed him, though a mere stranger to him, with a very ample salary. During his travels he collated the several confessions of faith of the different sorts of Christians, Greeks, Armenians, Jacobites, Maronites, &c. which he kept by him in their own languages. His constant design and endeavour, whilst he remained in the East, was, to persuade the Christians of the several denominations there, to a canonical reformation of some errors; and to dispose and incline them to a communion or unity with the church of England, but his pious intentions were afterwards defeated by the artifices of court of France. Upon the restoration of king Charles II. Dr. Easier was recalled by his majesty to England, in a letter written to prince Ragotzi. But this unfortunate prince dying 'soon after, of the wounds he received in a battle with the Turks at Gyala, the care of his solemn obsequies was committed to the doctor by his relict, princess Sophia, and he was detained a year longer from England. At length returning in 1661 9 he was restored to his preferments and dignities; and made chaplain in ordinary to king Charles II. After quietly enjoying his large revenues for several years, he died on the 12th of Oct. 1676, in the 69th year of his age-, and was buried in the yard belonging to the cathedral of Durham, where a tomb was erected over his grave, with an inscription. His character appears to have been that of a learned, active, and industrious man; a zealous supporter of the church of England; and a loyal subject. His son, John Basire, esq. who had been receiver general for the four western counties, died ou the 2d of June 1722, in the 77th year of his age.
, an eminent nonconformist divine of the seventeenth century, was born in November 1625, and after
, an eminent nonconformist divine of
the seventeenth century, was born in November 1625,
and after a suitable school education, was sent to Cambridge, where he was admitted of Emanuel college, from
which he removed to King’s, in 1644. He commenced
bachelor of arts in 1647, and applying himself to the study
of divinity, became a distinguished preacher among the
Presbyterians. He was afterwards appointed vicar of
St. Dunstan’s in the West, London; and joined with several other divines in preaching a morning exercise at Cripplegate church. At this exercise Dr. Tillotson preached,
in September 1661, the first sermon which was ever
printed by him. Upon the restoration of Charles II.
Mr. Bates was made one of his majesty’s chaplains; and,
in the November following, was admitted to the degree of
doctor in divinity in the university of Cambridge, by royal
mandate. The king’s letter to this purpose was dated on
the 9th of that month. About the same time, he was
offered the deanery of Lichfield and Coventry, which he
refused; and it is said that he might afterwards have been
raised to any bishopric in the kingdom, if he would have
conformed to the established church. Dr. Bates was one
of the commissioners at the Savoy conference in 1660, for
reviewing the public liturgy, and was concerned in drawing
up the exceptions against the Common Prayer. He was,
likewise, chosen on the part of the Presbyterian minfoters,
together with Dr. Jacomb and Mr. Baxter, to manage the
dispute with Dr. Pearson, afterwards bishop of Chester,
Dr. Gunning, afterwards bishop of Ely, and Dr. Sparrow,
afterwards bishop of Ely. In 1665, he took the oath required of the nonconformists by the act commonly called
the Five Mile Act, and which had passed in the parliament
held that year at Oxford, on account of the plague being
in London. When, about January 1667-8, a treaty
was proposed by sir Orlando Bridgman, lord keeper of
the great seal, and countenanced by the lord chief baron
Hale, for a comprehension of such of the dissenters as
could be brought into the communion of the church, and
for a toleration of the rest, Dr. Bates was one of the divines
who, on the Presbyterian side, were engaged in drawing
up a scheme of the alterations and concessions desired by
that party. He was concerned, likewise, in another fruitless attempt of the same kind, which was made in 1674.
His good character recommended him to the esteem and
acquaintance of lord keeper Bridgman, lord chancellor
Finch, and his son, the earl of Nottingham. Dr. Tillotson had such an opinion of his learning and temper, that it
became the ground of a friendship between them, which
continued to the death of that excellent prelate, and Dr.
Bates, with great liberality, used his interest with the archbishop, in procuring a pardon for Nathaniel lord Crewe,
bishop of Durham, who, for his conduct in the ecclesiastical commission, had been excepted out of the act of
indemnity, which passed in 1690. When the dissenters presented their address to king William and queen Mary, on
their accession to the throne, the two speeches to their
majesties were delivered hy Dr. Bates, who was much respected by that monarch; and queen Mary often entertained herself in her closet with his writings. His residence, during the latter part of his life, was at Hackney,
where he preached to a respectable society of Protestant
dissenters, in an ancient irregular edifice in Mare-street,
which was pulled down in 1773. He was also one of the
Tuesday lecturers at Salter’s hall. He died at Hackney,
July 14, 1699, in the 74th year of his age. After his death,
his works, which had been separately printed, were collected into one volume fol. besides which a posthumous
piece of his appeared in 8vo, containing some “Sermons
on the everlasting rest of the Saints.
” He wrote, likewise,
in conjunction with Mr. Howe, a prefatory epistle to Mr.
Chaffy’s treatise of the Sabbath, on its being reprinted;
and another before lord Stair’s vindication of the Divine
Attributes. Dr. Bates is universally understood to have
been the politest writer among the nonconformists of the
seventeenth century. It is reported, that when his library
came to be disposed of, it was found to contain a great
number of romances; but, adds his biographer, it should
be remembered that the romances of that period, though
absurd in several respects, had a tendency to invigorate
1605; his father, Leonard Bausch, a physician in that place, acquired some fame about the beginning of the seventeenth century, by his commentary on two of the books
, was born at Schweinfurt,
Sept. 30, 1605; his father, Leonard Bausch, a physician
in that place, acquired some fame about the beginning of
the seventeenth century, by his commentary on two of
the books of Hippocrates, which was published at Madrid,
1694, fol. His son was early inclined to his father’s profession, and after studying medicine in Germany, went to
Italy, and lastly, took his doctor’s degree at Altdorf, in
1630. He practised afterwards at Schweinfurt, and
employed all his leisure time in botanical and chemical pursuits, accumulating a valuable library, and a rich museum
of natural history. In 1652 he founded a society called
“Collegium Curiosorum naturae,
” of which he was the
first president. He died at Schweinfurt, Nov. 17, 1665.
He was the author of 1. “Schediasmata bina curiosa de
lapide hcematite et cetite,
” Leipsic, Schediasma curiosum de unicornu fossili,
” Breslaw, Schediasma posthumum, de cceruleo et chryocolla,
” Jena,
was a German lawyer and astronomer of the latter part of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, but in what particular year or place
was a German lawyer and astronomer
of the latter part of the sixteenth and beginning of the
seventeenth century, but in what particular year or place
he was born, is not certainly known; however, his name
will be ever memorable in the annals of astronomy, on account of that great and excellent work which he first published in 1603, under the title of “Uranometria,
” being a
complete celestial atlas, or large folio charts of all the constellations, with a nomenclature collected from all the tables
of astronomy, ancient and modern, with the useful invention of denoting the stars in every constellation by the letters of the Greek alphabet, in their order, and according
to the order of magnitude of the stars in each constellation.
By means of these marks, the stars of the heavens may,
with as great facility, be distinguished and referred to, as
the several places of the earth are by means of geographical tables; and as a proof of the usefulness of this method,
our celestial globes and atlasses have ever since retained it;
and hence it is become of general use through all the literary world; astronomers, in speaking of any star in the
constellation, denoting it by saying it is marked by Bayer,
a, or ft, or y, &c.
, bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, and one of the most pious and exemplary prelates of the seventeenth century, was descended from a good family, and
, bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, and
one of the most pious and exemplary prelates of the seventeenth century, was descended from a good family, and
born in the year 1570, at Black Notley in Essex, and being designed for the church, was sent to Emanuel college
in Cambridge, where he was matriculated pensioner, March
12, 1584. He was placed under the care of Dr. Cbadderton, who was for many years head of that house, made
great progress in his studies, and went early into holy
orders. In 1593 he was chosen fellow of his college, and
in 1599 took his degree of bachelor in divinity. He then
removed from the university to St. Ednmndsbury in Suffolk, where he had a church, aud by an assiduous application to the duties of his function, was much noticed by
many gentlemen who lived near that place. He continued
there for some years, till an opportunity offered of his
going as chaplain with sir Henry Wotton, whom king James
had appointed his ambassador to the state of Venice, about
the year 1604. While he resided in that city, he became
intimately acquainted with the famous father Paul Sarpi,
who took him into his confidence, taught him the Italian
language, of which he became a perfect master, and translated into that tongue the English Common Prayer Book,
which was extremely well received by many of the clergy
there, especially by the seven divines appointed by the
republic to preach against the pope, during the time of
the interdict, and which they intended for their model, in
case they had broken absolutely with Rome, which was
what they then sincerely desired. In return for the favours he received from father Paul, Mr. Bedell drew up
an English grammar for his use, and in many other respects assisted him in his studies. He continued eight
years in Venice, during which time he greatly improved
himself in the Hebrew language, by the assistance of the
famous rabbi Leo, who taught him the Jewish pronunciation, and other parts of rabbinical learning; and by his
means it was that he purchased a very fair manuscript of
the Old Testament, which he bequeathed, as a mark of
respect, to Emanuel-college, and which, it is said, cost
him its weight in silver. He became acquainted there
likewise, with the celebrated Antonio de Dominis, archbishop of Spalata, who was so well pleased with his conversation, that he communicated to him his secret, and
shewed him his famous book “de Kepublica Ecclesiastica,
”
which he afterwards printed at London. The original ms.
is, if we mistake not, among bishop Tanner’s collections
in the Bodleian. Bedell took the freedom which he allowed him, and corrected many misapplications of texts
of scripture, and quotations of fathers; for that prelate,
being utterly ignorant of the Greek tongue, committed
many mistakes, both in the one and the other; and some
escaped Bedell’s diligence. De Dorninis took all this in
good part from him, and entered into such familiarity with
him, and found liis assistance so useful, and indeed so necessary to himself, that he used to say, he could do nothing
without him. At Mr. Bedell’s departure from Venice,
father Paul expressed great concern, and assured him, that
himself and many others would most willingly have accompanied him, if it had been in their power. He, likewise,
gave him his picture, a Hebrew Bible without points, and
a small Hebrew Psalter, in which he wrote some sentences
expressing the sincerity of his friendship. He gave him,
also, the manuscript of his famous “History of the Council of Trent,
” with the Histories of the Interdict and Inquisition, all written by himself, with a large collection of
letters, which were written to him weekly from Rome,
during the dispute between the Jesuits and Dominicans,
concerning the efficacy of grace, which it is supposed are
lost. On his return to England, he immediately retired
to his charge at St. Edmundsbury, without aspiring to any
preferment, and went on in his ministerial labours. It was
here he employed himself in translating the Histories of
the Interdict and Inquisition (which he dedicated to the king); as also the two last books of the History of the
Council of Trent into Latin, sir Adam Newton having
translated the two first. At this time, he mixed so seldom
with the world, that he was almost totally forgotten. So
little was he remembered, that, some years after, when the
celebrated Diodati, of Geneva, came over to England, he
could not, though acquainted with many of the clergy, hear
of Mr. Bedell from any person with whom he happened to
converse. Diodati was greatly amazed, that so extraordinary a man, who was so much admired at Venice by the
best judges of merit, should not be known in his own country; and he had given up all hopes of finding him out,
when, to their no small joy, they accidentally met each
other in the streets of London. Upon this occasion, Diodati presented his friend to Morton, the learned and ancient bishop of Durham, and told him how highly he had
been valued by father Paul, which engaged the bishop to
treat Mr. Bedell with very particular respect. At length
sir Thomas Jermyn taking notice of his abilities, presented
him to the living of Horingsheath, A. D. 1615: but he
found difficulties in obtaining institution and induction from
Dr. Jegon, bishop of Norwich, who demanded large fees
upon this account. Mr. Bedell was so nice in his sentiments
of simony, that he looked upon every payment as such,
beyond a competent gratification, for the writing, the wax,
and the parchment; and, refusing to take out his title
upon other terms, left the bishop and went home, but in a
few days the bishop sent for him, and gave him his title
without fees, and he removed to Horingsheath, where he
continued unnoticed twelve years, although he gave a singular evidence of his great capacity, in a book of controversy with the church of Rome, which he published and
dedicated to king Charles I. then prince of Wales, in 1624.
It is now annexed to Burnet’s Life of our author". However neglected he lived in England, yet his fame had reached
Ireland, and he was, in 1627, unanimously elected provost
of Trinity-college in Dublin, but this he declined, until
the king laid his positive commands on him, which he
obeyed, and on August 16th of that year, he was sworn
provost. At his first entrance upon this scene, he resolved
to act nothing until he became perfectly acquainted with
the statutes of the house, and the tempers of the people
whom he was appointed to govern; and, therefore,
carTied himself so abstractedly from all affairs, that he passed
some time for a soft and weak man, and even primate
Usher began to waver in his opinion of him. When he
went to England some few months after, to bring over his
family, he had thoughts of resigning his new preferment,
and returning to his benefice in Suffolk: but an encouraging letter from primate Usher prevented him, and he
applied himself to the government of the college, with
a vigour of mind peculiar to him.
eem to distrust an honest man.” He caused to be engraved the portraits of several celebrated persons of the seventeenth century, and collected memoirs of their lives;
, born at Blois in 1638, of a family
of distinction, in the former part of his life filled some of
the first offices of the law, and soon distinguished himself
by the acuteness of his penetration, and his attention to
method. The marquis de Seignelei, his kinsman, having
induced him to enter the marine, he successively filled
the place of intendant of the French West India islands,
of the gallies of Havre, and Canada, and of those of Rochefort and la Rochelle, till 1710, when he died, the 14th of
March, much regretted. The people loved him as a
disinterested officer, and the citizens as their friend and benefactor. The learned were not less warm in their praises
of one who protected and encouraged them, took a lively
interest in their prosperity, and kept his library open for
their use. He had an excellent taste in the choice of his
books. He possessed a rich cabinet of medals, antiques,
prints, shells, and other curiosities, collected from the four
quarters of the world. His books were generally marked
in front with the words “Michaeiis Begon et amicorum.
”
His librarian having once represented to him, that by letting every body have access to them, he would lose several
of them: he very liberally replied, “I had mjch rattier
lose my books, than seem to distrust an honest man.
” He
caused to be engraved the portraits of several celebrated
persons of the seventeenth century, and collected memoirs
of their lives; from which materials Perrault composed his
history of the illustrious men of France.
, an eminent divine of the seventeenth century, was born August 12, 1559, at Prestonbury
, an eminent divine of the
seventeenth century, was born August 12, 1559, at Prestonbury in Gloucestershire. He was admitted, at seventeen
years of age, a scholar of Corpus Christi college, Oxford,
and probationer-fellow of the same house, April 16, 1590.
After he had taken the degree of master of arts, he went
into holy orders, and distinguished himself as a preacher.
In 1599, he was appointed rhetoric -reader of his college,
and the year following was admitted to the reading of the
sentences. In 1608, he took the degree of doctor in
divinity, and five years after was chosen Margaret professor
in that university. He filled the divinity chair with great
reputation, and after fourteen years resigned it. He had
been presented, several years before, to the rectory of
Meysey-Hampton, near Fairford in Gloucestershire, upon
the ejection of his predecessor for simony and now he
retired to that benefice, and spent there the short remainder of his life (about four years) in a pious and devout retreat from the world. Dr. Benefield was so eminent a
scholar, disputant, and divine, and particularly so well
versed in the fathers and schoolman, that he had not his
equal in the university. He was strongly attached to the
opinions of Calvin, especially that of predestination; insomuch that Humphrey Leach calls him a downright and
doctrinal Calvinist. He has been branded likewise with
the character of a schismatic: but Dr. Ravis, bishop of
London, acquitted him of this imputation, and declared
him to be “free from schism, and much abounding in
science.
” He was remarkable for strictness of life and
sincerity; of a retired and sedentary disposition, and consequently less easy and affable in conversation. This worthy divine died in the parsonage house of Meysey-Hampton, August 24, 1630, and was buried in the chancel of
his parish church, the 29th of the same month. His works
are, 1. “Doctrinac Christianas sex Capita totidem praelectionibus in schola theologica Oxoniensi pro forma habitis discussa et disceptata,
” Oxon. Appendix ad Caput secundum de consiliis Evangelicis, &c.
adversus Humphredum Leach.
” This is printed with the
foregoing treatise. 3. “Eight sermons publicly preached
in the university of Oxford, the second at St. Peter’s in the
East, the rest at St. Mary’s church. Began Dec. 14, 1595,
”
Oxford, The sin against the Holy Ghost
discovered, and other Christian doctrines delivered, in
twelve Sermons upon part of the tenth chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews,
” Oxford, A commentary or exposition upon the first chapter of Amos, delivered in twenty-one sermons in the parish-church of
Meysey-Hampton in the diocese of Gloucester,
” Oxford,
Several Sermons, on occasional
subjects.
” 7. “A commentary, or exposition upon the
second chapter of Amos, delivered in twenty-one sermons,
in the parish-church of Meysey-Hampton, &c.
” London,
Prselectiones de perseverantia Sanctorum,
”
Francfort, A commentary, or exposition
on the third chapter of Amos, &c.
” London,
, an eminent physician of the seventeenth century, and a medical writer, was the son of
, an eminent physician of the
seventeenth century, and a medical writer, was the son of
John Ben net of Raynton in Somersetshire, and became a
commoner of Lincoln college in Qxford, in Michaelmasterm, 1632, being then fifteen years of age. After he had
taken the degrees of bachelor and master of arts, he entered upon the study of physic, but was created doctor in
that faculty elsewhere. He was afterwards chosen a fellow of the college of physicians in London, where he
practised with great success. Dr. Beunet died in April, 1655,
and was buried on the 2d of May, in St. Gregory’s church,
near St. Paul’s, in London. He gave the public a treatise
on Consumptions, entitled “Theatri Tabidorum Vestibuhun, &c.
” Lond. lt>54, 8vo. Also “Exercitationes Diagnosticir, cum hisioriis demonstratives, quibus alinientorum
et sanguinis vitia deteguntur in plerisque morbis, &c.
”
Our author corrected and enlarged a book written originally
by Dr. Thomas MotFet, and entitled “Health’s Improvement, or rules comprising or discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this
nation,
” Lond.
, a French poet and wit of the seventeenth century, was born at Lyons-la-Foret, a small
, a French poet and wit of
the seventeenth century, was born at Lyons-la-Foret, a
small town in Upper Normandy, in 1612. He was born
but not educated a Protestant, his father having turned
Catholic when he was very young; and when about seven
or eight years of age, he went to be confirmed, the bishop
who performed the ceremony asked him “if he was not
willing to change his name of Isaac for one more Christian.
”
*' With all my heart,“replied he,
” provided I get any
thing by the exchange.“The bishop, surprized at such
a ready answer, would not change his name.
” Let his
name be Isaac still,“said he,
” for whatever it is, he will
make the most of it." Benserade lost his father when he
was very young; and being left with little fortune, and
this much involved in law, he chose rather to give it up
than sue for it. His mother’s name, however, being Laporte, he claimed relationship to the cardinal Richelieu,
who without examining too nicely into the matter, had him
educated, and would have provided for him in the church
if he had not preferred the court, where he soon became
famous for his wit and poetry; and Richelieu granted him
a pension, which was continued till the death of this cardinal. It is probable that Benserade would have found the
same protection in the duchess of Aiguillon, if the following four verses, which he had made on the death of the
cardinal, had not given her great offence:
, pastor and professor of theology at Montauban, about the beginning of the seventeenth century, was chosen to enter into conference
, pastor and professor of theology
at Montauban, about the beginning of the seventeenth century, was chosen to enter into conference with cardinal
du Perron at Mantes, in 1593; and in 1598, wrote against
him “Brieve et claire defense de la vocation des ministres
de l'Evangile,
” 8vo. The lively interest he took in the
affairs of the duke of Rohan, during the civil wars of France,
induced him to publish several writings, particularly one,
in which he maintained that the clergy were bound to take
up arms and shed blood, for which he was censured by the
synod. Another Berault (Claude) succeeded D'Herbelot, as professor of the Syriac in the royal college of
Paris, but is best known by his edition of “Statius,
” Commentaire sur
la Coutume de Normandie,
”
, an Italian author of the seventeenth century, was born at Vincenza, Feb. 21 1627.
, an Italian author of
the seventeenth century, was born at Vincenza, Feb. 21
1627. When only nineteen years old, he was honoured
by the king of France, Louis III. with the ribbon of St.
Michael and the title of chevalier. In 1649, his family
were promoted to the rank of nobility at Venice. In that
republic he distinguished himself at the bar, especially
when he returned to Venice, which he had been obliged
to leave for a time in consequence of some indiscretion.
At his leisure hours he cultivated polite literature, and particularly poetry and history. His poems are not without
ease and elegance, although in other respects they partake
largely of the vicious and affected style of his age. He
died at Venice, Dec. 17, 1713, and preserved to the last
his love of study. Besides five dramatic pieces, all set to
music, he wrote 1. “Istoria delle guerre d‘Europa delle
comparsa delle armi Ottomane nell’ Ungheria l'anno 1683,
”
Venice, 2 vols. 4to. These two parts were to have been
followed by four others, two of which were put to press in
1700, but it does not appear that they were ever published.
2. “Composizioni poeticheconsistenti inrimesacre,eroiche,
morali ed amorose,
” Venice, Opere de
Claudio Claudiano tradotte ed arrichite di erudite annotazioni,
” Venice,
, a learned English divine of the seventeenth century, was educated in the university of Cambridge,
, a learned English divine of
the seventeenth century, was educated in the university of
Cambridge, where he took the degree of M. A. and was incorporated to the same degree at Oxford, July 15, 1628.
He was probably created D. D. of the university of Dublin,
but this has not been exactly ascertained. He was ordained by primate Usher, in 1626, in St. Peter’s church,
Drogheda, while he was only B. A. and made his chaplain,
and soon after, by his interest, was promoted to the deanery of Ardagh. His Grace having daily opportunities ojf
taking notice of the learning and judgment of Mr. Bernard,
employed him in making collections for some works he was
then meditating, particularly for the antiquities of the British churches; which did not appear till 1639. The primate always expressed great friendship and esteem for him;
and upon taking his leave of him at Drogheda in 1640,
gave him “A serious preparative against the heavy sorrows and miseries that he should feel before he saw him
again, and spoke of them with that confidence, as if they
had been within his view.
” This serious discourse proved
in the event to be a prophecy, as will be noticed in the
life of that prelate. The year following, Dr. Bernard published a book and a sermon which gave offence. These
were entitled, 1. “The penitent death of a woful Sinner;
or, the penitent death of John Atherton, late bishop of Waterford in Ireland, who was executed at Dublin the fifth of
December, 1640; with some annotations on several passages,
” London, A sermon
preached at the burial of John Atherton, the next night
after his execution, in St. John’s church, Dublin,
” Lond.
The
whole proceedings of the siege of Drogheda,
” London and
Dublin, A Dialogue
tetweeu Paul and Agrippa,
” London, A farewell sermon
of comfort and concord, preached at Drogheda,
” The life and death of Dr. James Usher, late archbishop
of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, in a
sermon preached at his funeral in the abbey of Westminster, on the 17th of April, 1656,
” London, The judgment of the late archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland concerning first,
the extent of Christ’s death and satisfaction secondly, of
the Sabbath, and observation of the Lord’s day,
” &c. London,
Respondet Petrus or, the answer
of Peter Heylyn, D. D. to so much of Dr. Bernard’s book
entitled
” The judgment of the late primate of Ireland, &c.
as he is made a party by the said lord primate in the point
of the Sabbath,“London, 1658, 4to. He also published
several letters which passed between him and Dr. Heylyn,
and published and enlarged several posthumous works of
Dr. Usher as,
” His judgment on Babylon being the present see of Rome, Rev. xviii. 4, with a sermon of bishop
Bedell’s upon the same words,“London, 1659.
” Devotions of the ancient church, in seven pious prayers,“&c.
London, 1660, 8vo.
” Clavi trabales, or nails fastened by
some great masters of assemblies, confirming the king’s
supremacy, the subject’s duty, and church government by
bishops being a collection of some pieces written on
these subjects by archbishop Usher, Mr. Hooker, bishop
Andrews, and Dr. Hadrian Saravia; with a preface by the
bishop of Lincoln," London, 1661, 4to.
, an English divine of the seventeenth century, and rector of Batecombe in Somersetshire,
, an English divine of the seventeenth century, and rector of Batecombe in Somersetshire,
was author of “Thesaurus Biblicus,
” a laborious work formerly much used by way of concordance. He was also
author of an “Abstract and Epitome of the Bible.
” In
A guide to grand jurymen with respect to Witches,
” the country where he lived being, if we
may believe Glanville, formerly much infested with them.
He died in 1641, and was succeeded by the famous
nonconformist Richard Allein, of whom there is an account in
vol. I. p. 479, of this work. Mr. Bernard, of whom we have
no farther biographical memoirs, was also the author of an allegorical work, entitled “The Isle of Man, or legal proceeding in Man-shire against sin
” the tenth edition of which was
published in Pilgrim’s Progress.
” The two authors agree, however, in our opinion, only in the personification of graces
and sins, or virtues and vices, which is of higher origin
than either; and, if the comparative merits of the two
works be examined, no reader can hesitate a moment in
giving the preference to Bunyan.
, a learned Italian of the seventeenth century, was born at Lucca, May 5, 1629. In
, a learned Italian of the
seventeenth century, was born at Lucca, May 5, 1629.
In classical learning he made such progress, that, when
only fifteen, he wrote notes and comments on the principal poets of the Augustan age, which drew the notice and
approbation of the learned. In his sixteenth year, he
went to Rome and entered the congregation of the regular
clerks, called the congregation of the “Mother of God.
”
After completing his theological studies, he taught divinity
for four years, at the end of which he was invited to Lucca
to be professor of rhetoric. From the salary of this place
he was enabled to maintain his aged father and family, and
would not afterwards accept of any promotion from his congregation, that his studies might not be interrupted by
affairs of business. He corresponded with many illustrious
personages of his time, and among others with Christina,
queen of Sweden, who often requested of him copies of
his sermons and poems. The facility with which he wrote
appears by his translation of the Eneid, which he says, in
the preface, he completed in thirteen months. He died
of a malignant fever, Oct. 24, 1686. He left a great
many works, of which his biographer, Fabroni, has given a
minute catalogue. The principal are 1. “Saeculum niveum Roma virginea et Dies niveus,
” three small
Latin collections on the same subject, “De nivibus Exquilinis, sive de sacris nivibus,
” Rome,
who has not laid bibliographers under many obligations, was a bookseller at Emmerich, about the end of the seventeenth century. His design in his compilations was
, whose name often occurs
in works of Bibliography, but who has not laid bibliographers under many obligations, was a bookseller at Emmerich, about the end of the seventeenth century. His
design in his compilations was evidently to serve the cause
of literature, but although all his plans were good, they were
imperfectly executed, and have proved perplexing and
useless. His principal publications in this department
were: 1. “Bibliographia Juridica et Politica,
” Amsterdam,
Bibliotheca medica et physica,
” Gallia critica et experimentalis ab anno 1665 usque ad 1681,
” Amst. Journal des
Savans.
” 4. “Bibliographia mathematica et artificiosa,
”
Bibliographia historica, chronologica, et geographica,
” Bibliographia
crudilorum critico-curiosa, seu apparatus ad historian!
literariam,
” Amst. 1689—1701, 5 vols. 12mo, a sort of
general index to all the literary journals, but containing
too many alphabets to be easily consulted. It extends
from 1665 to 1700. 7. “Incunabula typographic, sive
Catalogus librorum proximis ab iwentione typographic
annis ad annum 1500, editorum,
” Amst.
, a Swedish astronomer, was born about the middle of the seventeenth century. He became professor of mathematics
, a Swedish astronomer, was born
about the middle of the seventeenth century. He became
professor of mathematics at Upsal in 1679, but his zeal for
the Cartesian system made him be considered as a dangerous innovator, and he might have been a serious sufferer
from the prejudices raised against him, if he had not met
with a kind protector in Charles XL This prince having
travelled to Torneo, was so struck with the phenomena of
the sun at the spring solstice, that he sent Biilberg and
Spola to make observations on it, in the frontiers of Lapland, and their observations were confirmed by those of the
French mathematicians sent thither by Louis XV. Under
king Charles’s protection, Biilberg received considerable
promotion, and having studied divinity, was at last made
bishop of Strengnes. 'He died in 1717, leaving, 1. “Tractatus de Cometis,
” Stockholm, Elementa Geometrices,
” Upsal, Tractatus de refractione solis inoccidui,
” Stockholm, Tractatus de reformatione Calendarii Juliani et Gregoriani,
” Stockholm,
, a learned writer, and bishop, in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, was born in the city of Winchester,
, a learned writer, and bishop, in
the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth
century, was born in the city of Winchester, being the son
of Harman Bilson, the same probably who was fellow of
Merton-college in 1536, and derived his descent by his
grandmother, or great-grandmother, from the duke of t>avaria. He was educated in Winchester school and in
1565 admitted perpetual fellow of New-college, after he
had served two years of probation. October 10, 1566, he
took his degree of bachelor, and April 25, 1570, that of
master of arts; that of bachelor of divinity, June 24, 1579;
and the degree of doctor of divinity on the 24th of January 1580. In his younger years, he was a great lover
of, and extremely studious in, poetry, philosophy, and
physic. But when he entered into holy orders, and applied himself to the study of divinity, which his genius
chiefly led him to, he became a most solid and constant
preacher, and one of the most accomplished scholars of
his time. The first preferment he had was that of master
of Winchester-school he was then made prebendary of
Winchester, and afterwards warden of the college there.
To this college he did a very important service, about the
year 1584, by preserving the revenues of it when they were
in danger of being swallowed up by a notorious forgery, of
which, however, we have only an obscure account. In
1585, he published his book of “The true difference
betweene Christian Subjection and unchristian Rebellion,
”
and dedicated it to queen Elizabeth a work, which, although it might answer her immediate purpose, was of
fatal tendency to Charles I. few books being more frequently quoted by the mal-contents to justify their resistance to that prince. In 1593, he published a very able
defence of episcopacy, entitled, “The perpetuall Government of Christes Church: wherein are handled, the fatherly superioritie which God first established in the patriarkes for the guiding of his Church, and after continued
in the tribe of Levi and the Prophetes and lastlie confirmed in the New Testament to the apostles and their
successors: as also the points in question at this day,
touching the Jewish Synedrion: the true kingdome of
Christ: the Apostles’ commission: the laie presbyterie:
the distinction of bishops from presbyters, and their succession from the apostles times and hands: the calling and
moderating of provinciall synods by primates and metropolitanes the allotting of dioceses, and the popular electing of such as must feede and watch the flock and divers
other points concerning the pastoral regiment of the house
of God.
” On the 20th of April, 15y6, he was elected v
confirmed June the llth, and the 13th of the same month
consecrated bishop of Worcester and translated in May
following to the bishopric of Winchester, and made a
privy-counsellor. In 1599, he published “The effect of
certaine Sermons touching the full Redemption of Mankind
by the death and bloud of Christ Jesus wherein, besides
the merite of Christ’s suffering, the manner of his offering, the power of his death, the comfort of his crosse, the
glorie of his resurrection, are handled, what paines Christ
suffered in his soule on the crosse together with the
place and purpose of his descent to hel after death
” &c.
Lond. 4to. These sermons being preached at Paul’s Cross
in Lent 1597, by the encouragement of archbishop Whitgift, greatly alarmed most of the Puritans, because they
contradicted some of their tenets, but they are not now
thought consonant to the articles of the church of England. The Puritans, however, uniting their forces, and
making their observations, sent them to Henry Jacob, a
learned puritan, who published them under his own name.
The queen being at Farnham-castle, and, to use the bishop’s words, “taking knowledge of the things questioned
between him and his opponents, directly commanded him
neither to desert the doctrine, nor to let the calling which
he bore in the church of God, to be trampled under foot
by such unquiet refusers of trueth and authoritie.
” Upon
this royal command, he wrote a learned treatise, chiefly
delivered in sermons, which was published in 1604, under
the title of “The survey^of Christ’s sufferings for Man’s
Redemption and of his descent to hades or hel for our
deliverance,
” Lond. fol. He also preached the sermon at
Westminster before king James I. and his queen, at their
coronation on St. James’s day, July 28, 1603, from Rom.
xiii. L. London, 1603, 8vo. In January 1603-4, he was
one of the speakers and managers at the Hampton-Court
conference, in which he spoke much, and, according to
Mr. Fuller, most learnedly, and, in general, was one of
the chief maintainers and supports of the church of England. The care of revising, and putting the last hand to,
the new translation of the English Bible in king James Ist’s
reign, was committed to our author, and to Dr. Miles
Smith, afterwards bishop of Gloucester. His last public
act, recorded in history, was the being one of the delegates that pronounced and signed the sentence of divorce
between Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, and the lady
Frances Howard, in the year 1613 and his son being
knighted soon after upon this very account, as was imagined, the world was so malicious as to give him the title
of sir Nullity Bilson. This learned bishop, after having
gone through many employments, departed this life on
the 18th of June, 1616, and was buried in Westminsterabbey, near the entrance into St. Edmund’s chapel, on the
south side of the monument of king Richard II. His character is represented to the utmost advantage by several
persons. Sir Anthony Weldon calls him “an excellent civilian, and a very great scholler
” Fuller, “a deep and
profound scholar, excellently well read in the fathers
”
Bishop Godwin, “a very grave iman and how great a divine (adds he), if any one knows not, let him consult his
learned writings
” Sir John Harrington, “I find but foure
lines (in bishop Godwin’s book) concerning him and if I
should give him his due, in proportion to the rest, I should
spend foure leaves. Not that I need make him better
known, being one of the most eminent of his ranck, and a
man that carried prelature in his very aspect. His rising
was meerly by his learning, as true prelates should rise.
Sint non modo labe mali sed suspicione carentes, not onely
free from the spot, but from the speech of corruption.
”
He wrote in a more elegant style, and in fuller and betterturned periods, than was usual in the times wherein he lived.
It is related of our prelate, that once, when he was preaching a sermon* at St. Paul’s Cross, a sudden panic, occasioned by the folly or caprice of one of the audience,
seized the multitude there assembled, who thought that
the church was falling on their heads. The good bishop,
who sympathized with the people more from pity than
from fear, after a sufficient pause, reassumed and went
through his sermon with great composure.
, an English divine of the seventeenth century, was born in 1S84, and in 1600 became
, an English divine of the seventeenth century, was born in 1S84, and in 1600 became a
student in Queen’s college, Oxford, where he took his
master’s degree, and obtained a fellowship. In 1607 he
went into holy orders, and acquired much reputation for
his preaching, and among the learned, for his acquaintance with the fathers and schoolmen. In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and the year following became vicar of the church of Gilling, and the
chapel of Forcet, near Richmond, in Yorkshire, where he
increased his popularity by his punctual discharge of the
pastoral office, and by his exemplary life. During the
usurpation he was not ejected from this living, and died
Sept. 1656. His principal work, which was highly valued
by Selden and other learned men, is entitled “The Protestant’s evidence, shewing that for 1500 years next after
Christ, divers guides of God’s church have in sundry
points of religion taught as the church of England now
doth,
” London, 1634, 4to, and in 1657, folio, much enlarged. Some histories ol the church, particularly that of
Milner, seem to be written on this plan.
, a learned English writer of the church of Rome, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, was born in the county of Middlesex,
, a learned English writer of
the church of Rome, in the beginning of the seventeenth
century, was born in the county of Middlesex, and admitted a scholar of Trinity college in Oxford at seventeen years of age, May 27, 1562, probationer in 1565,
being then bachelor of arts, perpetual fellow the year following, and master of arts in 1567. But being more inclined to the Roman catholic than the Protestant religion,
he left his fellowship, and retired to Gloucester hall, where
he continued for some time, and was highly esteemed by
Edmund Rainolds and Thomas Allen, two learned seniors
of that hall. He afterwards went beyond sea, and spent
some time in one of the English seminaries newly erected
to receive the exiled English catholics andwas at last in
1598, with the permission of pope Clement VIII. constituted by Henry cardinal Cajetan, protector of the English
nation at Rome, and superior of the English clergy, with
the authority and name of Archpriest of England, and was
appointed by that pope notary of the apostolic see. This
affair being resented by the English catholic clergy, especially as they imagined that our author was absolutely under the influence of Henry Garnet, provincial of the Jesuits
of England, it occasioned a warm contest between them in
England. The Jesuits wrote and spoke against the secular
priests in so virulent a manner, as to detract very much
from BlackwelPs authority who upon this degraded them
of their faculties, so that when they afterwards appealed
to the pope, he caused them to be declared in a book
schismatics and heretics. They vindicated themselves
from this charge, and procured the censure“of the university of Paris in their favour; which was answered by our
author. He also declared his abhorrence of the Powder
Plot in 1605, and wrote two letters to dissuade the Roman
catholics from all violent practices against the king and
government. He held the office of archpriest till 1607,
when he was succeeded by George Birket. The reason of
this change was, because our author having been seized at
London June 24 the same year, he was committed to prison, and consequently deprived of the liberty required to
act in his office. He was released soon after upon his
taking the oath of allegiance. An account of this aft'air
was published at London, 1607, in 4to, entitled
” The
examination of George Blackwell, upon occasion of his
answering a letter sent by cardinal Bellarmine, who blamed
him for taking the oath of allegiance." He died suddenly
January 12, 1612-3, and was buried, as Mr. Wood supposes, in some church in London. He was esteemed by
those of his own persuasion, and by others likewise, a man
of great learning and piety, and a good preacher.
, a French surgeon, or physician, of the seventeenth century, by uniting the quack and the regular,
, a French surgeon, or physician,
of the seventeenth century, by uniting the quack and the
regular, acquired a considerable degree of reputation, and
belongs to a class, we fear, pretty numerous in other countries as well as France. He began his career as a
trussmaker, and then placed himself at the head of an academy
of his own creation for medical discoveries, the memoirs of
which were published monthly, and we presume there
must have been some papers of consequence among them,
as the celebrated Bonnet translated those of the first three
years into Latin, and published them under the title of
“Zodiacus Medico-Gallicus,
” Mercure savant.
” In the mean time Blegny endeavoured
to make himself famous, and that nothing might be wanting to shew his variety of talents he added to surgery and
pharmacy a course of lectures on wig-making. For some
time he appears to have imposed on the court itself, as
we find that in 1678 he was appointed surgeon in ordinary to the queen; in 1633 surgeon in ordinary to the
duke of Orleans; and in 1687, physician in ordinary
to the king: but in 1693, his real character becoming
more apparent, he was stripped of these honours for having
attempted to establish an order of knighthood, and sent to
prison at the castle of Angers, where he was confined for
eight years. After his release, he retired to Avignon,
where he died in 1722, aged about seventy. He published
various works, now in little estimation.
, an eminent writer towards the close of the seventeenth century, was the eldest “son of sir Henry Blount
, an eminent writer towards the close of the seventeenth century, was the eldest
“son of sir Henry Blount before mentioned, and was born
at Upper Holloway in the county of Middlesex, Sept. 12,
1649. He was carefully educated under the eye of his
father, who took care to acquaint him with the several
branches of polite literature most worthy the notice of a
person of his rank; and so great was the improvement he
made under so able an instructor, that, even in his junior
years, he was considered both as a judicious and learned
man, and on this account, as well as for other marks of
worth and genius, he was, by king Charles II. advanced
to the degree of a baronet, by apatent dated Jan. 27,1679,
in the thirtieth year of his majesty’s reign, and in the lifetime of sir Henry Blount his father. He was elected burgess for St. Albari’s in Hertfordshire, in the parliaments in
the thirtieth and thirty-first of king Charles II. and was
knight of the shire in three parliaments after the Revolution, having also the honour to be elected commissioner of
accounts for the three last years of his life by the house of
commons. He always distinguished himself as a lover of
liberty, a sincere friend to his country, and a true patron
of learning. His strong attachment for literature and criticism, and his extensive acquaintance with the best writers in all ages and sciences, appearecLfully in the
” Censura," which he composed, first for his own use and satisfaction, and then published in the universal language
for the benefit of others. His talents for original remark
appear from his essays, which, in point of learning, judgment, and freedom of thought, are certainly no way inferior to those of the famous Montaigne. His knowledge
and modesty are equally conspicuous in another piece
of his, wherein he presents the public with the fruits of
his reading on natural history, without depriving those
from whom he drew his knowledge, of any part of their
reputation. What he has written on poetry was likewise
drawn together for his own information, and afterwards
sent abroad for public use. Having thus satisfied in his
riper years, the great expectations which his friends had
of him in his youth, having been steady to one party,
without violence towards others, after acquiring honour in
his several public characters, esteem in private conversation, and affection in domestic life, he quietly ended his
days at his seat at Tktenhanger, June 30, 1697, in the
forty-eighth year of his age, and was buried the eighth of
July following, in the vault of his family, at Ridge in
Hertfordshire. He married Jane, daughter of sir Henry
Caesar, of Benington Place in the county of Hertford,
knight, and by her left issue five sons and nine daughters,
but the baronetage is now extinct.
, a miscellaneous writer of the seventeenth century, was born 1618, at Bardsley in Worcestershire,
, a miscellaneous writer of the seventeenth century, was born 1618, at Bardsley in Worcestershire, the son of Myles Blount, of Orleton in Herefordshire, who was the fifth son of Roger Blount of Monkland in the same county. He appears to have supplied
the want of an university education by diligent application,
and after studying the classics, entered himself of the
Inner Temple, and was in due course admitted to the bar.
Being, however, a Roman catholic, he never pleaded, but
after some time resided mostly at Orleton. A sedentary
life having much impaired his health, and the popish plot
breaking out in 1678, he was so hurried from place to
place, that the fatigue brought on a palsy, of which he died
at Orleton, Dec. 26, 1679. Whether by this mention of
the popish plot, his biographer means that he was concerned in it, does not appear. Wood seems to insinuate
that he was only alarmed, as he was known to be a zealous
Roman catholic. He was, however, a man of general
knowledge, and an industrious and useful writer. His
works are, 1. “The Academy of Eloquence, or complete
English rhetoric,
” Glossographia, or a Dictionary of hard words,
” Lond.
The Lamps of the Law, and the Lights of the Gospel,
” ibid. Boscobel; or the history of
his majesty’s escape after the battle of Worcester,
” ibid.
Claustrum regale reseratum,
” or the king’s concealment at Trent in Somersetshire, published by Mrs.
Anne Windham of Trent,” ibid. 1681. Both these now
are among the scarce and high-priced curiosities of the
seventeenth century. Extracts are given from them in
the Addenda to lord Clarendon’s History. 6. “The Catholic Almanac for 1661-2-3, &c.
” 7. “Booker rebuked;
or animadversions on Booker’s Almanac.
” 8. “A Law
Dictionary,
” ibid. 1671, fol. reprinted with additions. 9.
“Animadversions on sir Richard Baker’s Chronicle,
” Oxf.
A World of Errors, discovered in Mr.
Edmund Philips’s World of Words,
” London, Fragmenta Antiquitatis. Ancient tenures of land,
and jocular customs of some manors,
” ibid. Animadversions on Blome’s Britannia,
” not
published. 13. “The art of making Devises, treating of Hieroglyphics, Symbols, &c.
” a translation from the
French, A catalogue of the Catholics,
who lost their lives in the king’s cause, during the civil
war,
” printed at the end of lord Castlemain’s “Catholic
Apology.
” 15. “A Chronicle of England,
” left imperfect, and a history of Herefordshire, a ms. left with his
heirs, but which was probably lost, or has escaped the researches of Mr. Gough. 16. “A pedigree of the Blounts,
”
printed in Peacham’s “Complete Gentleman,
” edit.
, a German horticulturist, who came to England about the middle of the seventeenth century, was appointed first superintendant
, a German horticulturist, who came
to England about the middle of the seventeenth century,
was appointed first superintendant of the physic-garden at
Oxford, founded in 1632 by Henry earl of Danby. Some
writers call him doctor, and some professor of botany, but
he was neither, nor was there any professor, properly so
called, before Dillenius. The “Catalogus -Plantarum
”
in this garden, published at Oxford in on rejoicing days
old Bobart used to have his beard tagged with silver.
” He
left two sons, Jacob and Tillemant, who were both employed in the physi-garden. Jacob, who seems to have
been a man of some learning, published the second volume
of Morison’s “Oxford history of Plants,
” several fine copies of verses
were wrote on so rare a subject.
” Bobart afterwards
owned the cheat but it was preserved for some years, as
a master-piece of art. Dr. Pulteney thinks Bobart was
alive in 1704; but he appears to have lived considerably
longer, as Dr. Abel Evans dedicated “Vertumnus,
” a
poetical epistle, to him in
cal wit, was born at Loretto in 1556, the son of an architect of a Roman family, about the beginning of the seventeenth century. The method he took to indulge his turn
, a satirical wit, was born at Loretto in 1556, the son of an architect of a Roman family,
about the beginning of the seventeenth century. The
method he took to indulge his turn for satire, or rather
plot of his publications, was the idea that Apollo, holding
his courts Oh Parnassus, heard the complaints of the wholeworld, and gave judgment as the case required. He was
received into the academies of Italy, where he gained
great applause by his political discourses, and his elegant
criticisms. The cardinals Borghese and Cajetan having
declared themselves his patrons, he published his “News
from Parnassus/' and
” Apollo’s Secretary,“a continuation which being well received, he proceeded further,
and printed his
” Pietra di Paragone“wherein he attacks
the court of Spain, setting forth their designs against the
liberty of Italy, and inveighing particularly against themfor the tyranny they exercised in the kingdom of Naples.
The Spaniards complained of him in form, and were determined at any rate to be revenged. Boccalini was
frightened, and retired to Venice. Some time after he
was murdered in a surprising manner. He lodged with
one of his friends, who having got up early one morning,
left Boccalini in bed; when a minute after four armed men
entered his chamber, and gave him so many blows with
bags full of sand that they left him for dead so that his
friend, upon his return, found him unable to utter one
word. Great search was made at Venice for the authors
of this murder and though they were never discovered,
yet it was universally believed that they were set to work.
by the court of Spain. This story, however, has been
called in question by Mazzuchelli, and seems indeed
highly improbable at least it can by no means stand upon
its present foundation. His attacking the court of Spain
in his
” Pietra di Paragone,“is said to have been the
cause of his murder but another cause, if he really was
murdered, must be sought, for he died, by whatever means,
Nov. 10, 1613, and the
” Pietra“was not published until
two years after that event. It appears likewise from one
of his letters, that he had kept the manuscript a profound
secret, communicating it only to one confidential frienc!, to
whom the above letter was written. Besides, the register
of the parish in which he died, mentions that on Nov. 10,
1613, the signor Trajan Boccalini died at the age of fiftyseven, of a cholic accompanied with a fever. Apostolo
Zeno, vrho mentions this circumstance in his notes on Fontanini’s
” Italian Library,“adds, that in a speech publicly
delivered at Venice in 1<320, in defence of Trissino, whom.
Boccalini had attacked, ample mention rs made of him,
who had then been dead seven years, and in terms of severe censure; but not a word was said of his assassination,
which could not have then been a secret, nor could there
be any reason for concealing it. If indeed he suffered in
the manner reported, it formed an exact counterpart of
what he records to have happened to Euclid the mathematician. Euclid had demonstrated, as a mathematical problem, that all the lines both of princes’
” and private men’s
thoughts meet in one centre namely, to pick money out
of other men’s pockets and put it into their own and for
this he was attacked by some of his hearers who beat him
with sand-bags and perhaps, as a foundation for the story,
some of Boccalini’s readers may have said that he ought to
have been punished in the same manner. Boccal'mi’s works
are: 1. “Itagguagli di Parnaso, centuria prima,
” Venice,
Centuria secxinda,
” ibid. Pietra del Paragone politico,
” Cosmopoli (Amsterdam), political
touchstone
” bears hard on the Spanish monarchy, and may
be considered as a supplement to his “News from Parnassus.
” 3. “Commentari sopra Cornelio Tacito,
” Geneva,
La Bilancia politica di tutte le opere di Trajano Boccalini,
” &c. with notes
and observations by the chevalier Louis du May, at Castellana, 167S, 3 vols. 4to. The first two volumes of this
scarce work contain the Tacitus, on which the annotator,
not content with being very free in his religious opinions,
takes some extraordinary liberties with the text, and therefore they were soon inserted in the Index Expurgatorius.
They contain, however, many curious facts which tend to
illustrate the political affairs of the time. The third volume
is filled with political and historical letters, collected hy
Gregorio Leti but although these are signed with Boccalini’s name, they are supposed to have been written by his
son, and by the editor Leti, a man not very scrupulous in
impositions of this kind. 6. “La Segretaria d'Apollo,
”
Amst. Ragguagli,
” very much in Boccalini’s manner, but most probably we owe it to the success of his acknowledged works.
, a learned and pious writer of the seventeenth century, was the son of William Bogan, gentleman,
, a learned and pious writer of the
seventeenth century, was the son of William Bogan, gentleman, and born at Little Hempston in Devonshire, about
the feast of St. John the Baptist in the year 1625. He
became a commoner of St. Alban hall under the tuition of
Mr. Ralph Button in Michaelmas term in 1640. He was
admitted a scholar of Corpus Christi college November the
26th the year following, and left the university when the
city of Oxford was garrisoned for the king, and returned
after the surrender of it to the parliament. October 21,
1646, he took the degree of bachelor of arts, and was
elected probationer fellow of his college the year
following. November 19, 1650, he took the degree of master
of arts, and became a retired and religious student, and
distinguished in the university for his admirable skill in the
tongues. At last, having contracted an ill habit of body
by his intense application to his studies, he died September 1, 1659, and was interred in the middle of the north
cloister belonging to Corpus Christi college, joining to
the south side of the chapel there. “At that time and
before,
” Wood informs us, “the nation being very unsettled, and the university expecting nothing but ruin and
dissolution, it pleased Mr. Began to give by his will to the
city of Oxford five hundred pounds; whereas hud the nation been otherwise, he would have given that money to
his college.
” An original picture of him is to be seen in
the guild-hall of the city of Oxford. Mr. Wood adds,
that he was an excellent tutor, but a zealous puritan and
in his Hist. & Antiq. Univers. Oxon. he gives him the
character of vir studiosus et lingiiarum peritissimus, a studious person, and well skilled in the languages, in which
opinion some learned foreigners who have read his works
concur. He wrote, 1. Additions, in four books, to Francis
Rous’s “Archaeologioc Atticae,
” the fifth edition of which
was published at Oxford, 1658, 4to. These additions relate to the customs of the ancient Greeks in marriages,
burials, feasts, &c. at the close of which, Mr. Bogan, with
great simplicity of manner, gives his reasons for undertaking the work: “The cords,
” he says, “which drew
me to do it (and drawn I was) were three, such as, twisted
together, I could by no means break; viz. l.The importunity of my friend. 2. The necessity of the knowledge
of ancient rites and customs for the understanding of authors. And, 3. the hopes which I had by employment (as by an issue) to divert my humour of melancholy another
way. The causes why I did it no better are as many, viz.
1. Want of years and judgment, having done the most part
of it in my Tyrocinium (when I took more delight in these studies) us appears by the number of the authors which I
have cited. 2. Want of health. And, 3. want of time and
leisure, being called away by occasions that might not be
neglected, and by friends that could not be disobeyed. If
yet I have given but little light, and my labour and oil be
not all lost, I have as much as I desired myself, and thou
hast no more than I owed thee.
” 2. “A view of the
Threats and Punishments recorded in Scripture
alphabetically composed, with some brief observations on sundry
texts,
” Oxford, 1653, 8vo. 3. “Meditations of the mirth
of a Christian Life,
” Oxford, Help to
Prayer both extempore and by a set form as also to Meditation,
” &c. Oxford, Delphi Phcenicizantes, &c.
” published at Oxford, Homerus Æfipo/Jw sive comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi.
” In the preface he
declares that it is not his intention to make any comparison
between the sacred writers and their opinions and Homer,
but only of their idioms and ways of speaking. To this
book is added Hesiodus 'Opi^wv; wherein he shews how
Hesiod expresses himself very much after the same manner
%vith Homer, Oxford, 1658, 8vo. He designed likewise
to publish a discourse concerning the Greek particles but
he was prevented by sickness from completing it; and
another treatise concerning the best use of the Greek and
Latin poets. Freytag has bestowed an article on his
treatise on Homer’s style.
, a voluminous political and miscellaneous writer of the seventeenth century, was born at Ringsfield, in Suffolk,
, a voluminous political and miscellaneous writer of the seventeenth century, was born at
Ringsfield, in Suffolk, the only son of Baxter Bohun, who
with his ancestors, had been lords of the manor of Westhall, in that county, from the 25th Henry VIII. In 1663,
he was admitted fellow-commoner of Queen’s college,
Cambridge, and continued there till the latter end of 1666,
when the plague obliged him and others to leave the university. In 1675 he was made a justice of peace for Suffolk, and continued in that office till the second of James
II. when he was discharged, but was restored to that office
in the first of William and Mary. The time of his death
is not mentioned, but he was alive in 1700. He wrote,
1. “An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the
nation, in three parts, being the history of three sessions
of parliament in 1678, 1682,and 1683,
” 4to. 2. “A Defence of the Declaration of king Charles II. against a
pamphlet styled, A just and modest Vindication of the
proceedings of the two last Parliaments.
” This was printed
with and added to the Address. 3. “A Defence of Sir
Robert Filmer, against the mistakes and representations of
Algernon Sydney, esq. in a paper delivered by him to the
sheriffs upon the scaffold on Tower-hill, on Friday, Dec.
7, 1683, before his execution there,
” Lond. The
Justice of Peace’s Calling, a moral essay,
” Lond. A Preface and Conclusion to Sir Robert Filmer’s
Patriarcha,
” ibid. A Geographical Dictionary,
” ibid. The History of the Desertion; or an account of all the public affairs of England,
from the beginning of Sept. 1688 to Feb. 12 following,
”
ibid. 1689, 8vo. 8. “An Answer to a piece called The
Desertion discussed (by Jeremy Collier),
” printed at the end
of the “History of the Desertion.
” 9. “The Doctrine of
Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance no way concerned
in the controversies now depending between the Williamites
and the Jacobites,
” ibid. The Life of John Jewell, bishop of Salisbury,
” prefixed to a translation of his Apology, Three
Charges delivered at the general quarter sessions holden at
Ipswich, for the county of Suffolk, in 1691, 1692, and
1693,
” 4to. 12. “The great Historical, Geographical,
and Poetical Dictionary,
” Lond.
, an ingenious writer and antiquary, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, was a retainer to the great George
, an ingenious
writer and antiquary, in the beginning of the seventeenth
century, was a retainer to the great George Villiers, duke
of Buckingham, under whom he probably enjoyed some
office. He was a Roman catholic; and distinguished Himself by the following curious writings; l.“The Life of
king Henry II.
” intended to be inserted in Speed’s Chronicle; but the author being too partial to Thomas Becket,
another life was written by Dr. Barcham. 2. “The Elements of Armories,
” Lond. Prosopopoeia Basilica,
” a ms. in the Cottonian library. 4.
An English translation of Lucius Florus’s Roman History.
5. “Nero Cæsar, or Monarchic depraved. An historicall
worke, dedicated with leave to the duke of Buckingham,
lord-admiral,
” Lond. Vindiciae Britannicae, or London righted
by rescues and recoveries of antiquities of Britain in general, and of London in particular, against unwarrantable
prejudices, and historical antiquations amongst the learned;
for the more honour, and perpetual just uses of the noble
island and the city.
” It consists of seven chapters. In
the first, he treats “of London before the Britann rebells
sackt and fired it in hatred and defiance of Nero.
” In the
second he shows, that “London was more great and famous in Nero’s days, than that it should be within the
description, which Julius Cæsar makes of a barbarous Britann town in his days.
” In the third, he proves, “that
the credit of Julius Cæsar’s writings may subsist, and yet
London retain the opinion of utmost antiquity.
” In the
fourth, “the same fundamental assertion is upholden with
other, and with all sorts of arguments or reasons.
” The
fifth bears this title, “The natural face of the seat of
London (exactly described in this section) most sufficiently
proved, that it was most antiently inhabited, always presupposing reasonable men in Britain.
” The sixth contains
“a copious and serious disquisition about the old book of
Brute, and of the authority thereof, especially so far forth
as concerns the present cause of the honour and antiquity
of London, fundamentally necessary in general to our national history.
” The last chapter is entitled, <; Special, as
well historical, as other illustrations, for the use of the
coins in my Nero Cæsar, concerning London in and before
that time.“This ms. (for it never was printed) was in the
possession of Hugh Howard, esq and afterwards sold among
Thomas Rawiinson’s to Endymion Porter. Mr. Bolton was
also author of
” Hypercritica, or a rule of judgement for
writing or reading our histories. Delivered in four supercensorian addresses by occasion of a censorian epistle,
prefixed by sir Henry Savile, knt. to his edition of some
of our oldest historians in Latin, dedicated to the late
queen Elizabeth. That according thereunto, a complete
body of our affairs, a Corpus Rerum Anglicarum may at
last, and from among our ourselves, come happily forth in
either of the tongues. A felicity wanting to our nation,
now when even the name thereof is as it were at an end.“It was published by Dr. Hall, at the end of
” Triveti Annales,“Oxford, 1722, 8vo. Bolton likewise intended to
compose a
” General History of England, or an entire and
complete body of English affairs;“and there is in the
Cottonian collection, the outline of a book entitled
” Agon
Heroicus, or concerning Arms and Armories," a copy of
which is in the Biog. Britannica. The time and place of
his death are unknown.
we are acquainted, was an able professor, of considerable learning, who flourished about the middle of the seventeenth century. His work, which has for title “Historia
, a native of Perugia, and author of the first history of music in the Italian language
with which we are acquainted, was an able professor, of
considerable learning, who flourished about the middle of
the seventeenth century. His work, which has for title
“Historia Musica di Gio. And. Angelini Bontempi,
” was
published at Perugia, in small folio, Alia Palestrina
” for the
church: secular music was then but little cultivated, and
less respected there, till operas and oratorios had made
some progress in polishing melody, and in the just accentuation and expression of words.
his father, Gerard; and being sent to the East Indies, practised physic at Batavia about the middle of the seventeenth century. On his return to Europe he wrote several
, called by some, John, a native of
Leyden, was educated in philosophy and medicine under
his father, Gerard; and being sent to the East Indies,
practised physic at Batavia about the middle of the seventeenth century. On his return to Europe he wrote several
valuable works on the diseases and practice of medicine of
India, These are, “De conservanda Valetudine, ac dieta
sanis in India observandis;
” “Methodus modendi, qua
oportet in India orientali uti;
” “Observationes selectse
ex dissectione cadaverum ac autopsia descriptae.
” He also
published curious observations relating to the botany and
natural history of those regions, especially the vegetables
used in medicine and diet, in his work entitled “De Medicina Indorum,
” in De Medicina Ægyptiorum,
” Historia Nat. et Med. Indise orientalis,
”
, D. D. a pious and learned divine of the seventeenth century, and brother to sir William Boreman,
, D. D. a pious and learned divine of the seventeenth century, and brother to sir William
Boreman, clerk of the green cloth to Charles II. was fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, S. T. P. per literas
regias, 1661, and afterwards rector of St. Giles’s in the
Fields, London. He died in November, 1675, at Greenwich, where he was buried. He published, I. “The
Churchman’s Catechism: or the Church’s plea for Tithes,
”
Lond. The Triumphs of learning over
ignorance, and of truth over falsehood; being an answer
to four queries, first, whether there be any need of universities,
” &c. ibid. A Panegyrick and
Sermon at the funeral of Dr. Comber, master of Trinity
college, and dean of Carlisle,
” Life and
death of Freeman Sonds, esq.
” and “Relation of sir
George Sonds’ narrative of the passages on the death of
his two sons,
” ibid. 4to. This Freeman Sonds was executed for the murder of his brother. 5. “Life and death
of Alice dutchess Dudley,
” ibid.
, a famous chemist, quack, and heretic, was a Milanese, and born in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He finished his studies in the seminary
, a famous chemist, quack,
and heretic, was a Milanese, and born in the beginning of
the seventeenth century. He finished his studies in the seminary at Rome, where the Jesuits admired him as a prodigy for his parts and memory. He applied himself to
chemistry, and made some discoveries; but, plunging himself into the most extravagant debaucheries, was obliged
at last, in 1654, to take refuge in a church. He then set
up for a pietist; and, affecting an appearance of great
zeal, lamented the corruption of manners which prevailed
at Rome, saying, that the distemper was come to the
height, and that the time of recovery drew near: a happy
time, wherein there would be but one sheepfold on the
earth, whereof the pope was to be the only shepherd.
“Whosoever shall refuse, said he, to enter into that sheepfold, shall be destroyed by the pope’s armies. God has
predestinated me to be the general of those armies: I am
sure, that they shall want nothing. I shall quickly finish
my chemical labours by the happy production of the philosopher’s stone; and by that means I sball have as much
gold as is necessary for the business. I am sure of the
assistance of the angels, and particularly of that of Michael
the archangel. When I began to walk in the spiritual life,
I had a vision in the night, attended with an angelical
voice, which assured me, that I should become a prophet.
The sign that was given me for it was a palm, that seemed
to me surrounded with the light of paradise.
”
y his friends Don Bowle, was a descendant from Dr. John Bowle, bishop of Rochester in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was born in 1725, and educated at
, an ingenious scholar, who, from his
Attachment to Spanish literature, was usually called by his
friends Don Bowle, was a descendant from Dr. John Bowle,
bishop of Rochester in the early part of the seventeenth
century. He was born in 1725, and educated at Oriel
college, Oxford, where he took his master’s degree in
1750, and having entered into holy orders, was presented
to the vicarage of Idmiston, Wiltshire. In 1776 he was
elected F. S. A. He was a man of great erudition, and
muca respected for his various researches in antiquity,
and varios other lucubrations in obscure literature. He
had the honour or being one of the first detectors of Lauder’s forgeries, and according to Dr. Douglas’s account,
had the juste-st claim to be considered as the original detector o! thai unprincipled impostor. In 1765, he was
editor of “Miscellaneous pieces of ancient English Poesie,
”
containing Shakspeare’s “King John,
” and some of the satires of Marston. To a very accurate and extensive fund
of classical learning, he had added a comprehensive knowledge of most of the modern languages, particularly of the
Spanish, Italian, and French; and in the course of his
reading contracted a fondness for Cervantes’ admirable
romance, which could scarcely be said to be kept within
reasonable bounds. Don Quixote himself did not sally
forth with more enthusiasm than Mr. Bowie, when in 1777
he published “A Letter to the rev. Dr. Percy, concerning
a new and classical edition of Historia del valoroso CavaU
lero Don Quixote de la Mancha, to be illustrated by
annotations and extracts from the historians, poets, and romances of Spain and Italy, and other writers ancient and
modern, with a glossary and indexes, in which are occasionally interspersed some reflections on the learning and
genius of the author, with a map of Spain adapted to the
history, and to every translation of it,
” 4to. He gave also
an outline of the life of Cervantes in the Gent. Mag. for
1731, and circulated proposals to print the work hy subscription at three guineas each copy. It appeared accordingly in 1781, in six quarto volumes, the first four consisting of the text, the fifth of the annotations, and the sixth
is wholly occupied by the index, but the work did not
answer his expectations. The literary journals were either
silent or spoke slightingly of his labours; and the public
sentiment seemed to be that annotations on Cervantes were
not quite so necessary as on Shakspeare. He appears,
however, to have taken some pains to introduce them to
the public in a favourable light. In 1784 (Gent. Mag. LIV. p. 565) we find him lamenting certain “unfair practices respecting the admission of an account of the work
into two periodical publications to which he had some
reason to think he was entitled.
” He adds, that the perpetrators of these practices were “a false friend, and
another, whose encomium he should regard as an affront
and real slander the one as fond of the grossest flattery,
as the other ready to give it, and both alike wholesale
dealers in abuse and detraction.
” Nor was this all; in
1785 he published “Remarks on the extraordinary conduct of the Knight of the Ten Stars and his Italian Squire,
to the editor of Don Quixote. In a letter to I. S. D. D.
”
8vo. This produced an answer from the “Italian Squire,
”
Baretti, not of the most gentleman-like kind, entitled
“Tolondron. Speeches to John Bowie, about his edition of
Don Quixote,
” 8vo, Le Roman de
la Rose;
” on parish registers; and on cards. He was also,
under various signatures, a frequent contributor to the
Gentleman’s Magazine, but as a divine he was not known
to the public. He died Oct. 26, 1788.
justly drawn from them, instead of that notional and conjectural philosophy, which in the beginning of the seventeenth century had been so much in fashion.
In 1669 he published, 12. “A continuation of new
experiments touching the spring and weight of the Air;
”
to which is added a discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies; and the same year he revised and made
many additions to several of his former tracts, some of
which, as we have before observed, were now translated
into Latin, in order to gratify the curious abroad. 13.
<f Tracts about the cosrnical qualities of things cosmical
suspicions the temperature of the subterranean regions
the bottom of the sea to which is prefixed an introduction
to the history of particular qualities," 1670, 8vo. This
book occasioned much speculation, as it seemed to contain a vast treasure of new knowledge which had never
been communicated to the world before; and this too,
grounded upon actual experiments and arguments justly
drawn from them, instead of that notional and conjectural
philosophy, which in the beginning of the seventeenth
century had been so much in fashion.
, a learned clergyman of the seventeenth century, and nephew to the dean of Canterbury,
, a learned clergyman of the seventeenth century, and nephew to the dean of Canterbury,
hereafter mentioned, was of a good family in Kent, and
was educated at Eton school, from which he was admitted
a scholar of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, in May
1620. Here he took the degree of A. B. in 1623, of A. M.
1627, and was elected fellow in 1651. He proceeded
B. D. and was appointed one of the university preachers in
1634; and in 1640, was presented to the rectory of Mautboy in Norfolk, upon the death of Mr. Thomas D'Engayne;
but before he left college, he gave to its library a fine set
of Binnius’s Councils. His patron was William Paston,
esq. his friend and contemporary at college, to whose sou
sir Robert Paston, bart. of Oxnead in that county, a volume
of his “Sermons,
” Lond. Sermons,
” informs us that it
was with difficulty he obtained leave of the dying author to
make them public, and obtained it only upon condition that
he should say nothing of him. He has, however, given a
short, but excellent character of him.
, a noted historian and physician of the seventeenth century, was born in the county of Norfolk,
, a noted historian and physician of
the seventeenth century, was born in the county of Norfolk,
and admitted in Caius college in Cambridge, February 20,
1643. He took his degree of bachelor of physic in 1653,
and was created doctor in that faculty September 5, 1660,
by virtue of the king’s mandatory letters. On the first of
December the same year, he was, in pursuance of king
Charles’s mandate, elected master of his college, upon the
resignation of Dr. Bachcroft. About the year 1670, or as
some think not until 1685, he was appointed keeper of the
records in the Tower of London; in which office he employed himself in perusing those most valuable monuments
in his possession, with a view to his historical works. Some
time after, he was chosen regius professor of physic in the
university of Cambridge. In 1679, he wrote a letter to
Dr. Sydenham, on the influence of the air, &c. which is
published among that learned person’s works. But his
largest and most considerable performance was, “An Introduction to the old English History,
” in which he maintains these three propositions: 1. That the representatives
of the commons in parliament, viz. knights, citizens, and
burgesses, were not introduced till the forty-ninth of
Henry III.; 2. That William, duke of Normandy, made
an absolute conquest of the nation; 3. That the succession
to the crown of England is hereditary (descending to the nearest of blood), and not elective: And “A complete
History of England, from the first entrance of the Romans,
unto the end of the reign of king Richard II.
” in three vols.
fol. about which he was employed several years, and which
was printed 1685 and 1700, usually bound in two volumes.
In the year 1681 he was chosen one of the representatives
for the university of Cambridge, in that parliament which
met at Oxford; and again in 1685, in the parliament of
king James II. He was likewise physician in ordinary to
this king; and, on the twenty -second of October, 1688,
was one of those persons who gave in their depositions concerning the birth of the pretended prince of Wales. He
died on the nineteenth of August, 1700. He was an accurate writer, and a curious and diligent searcher into our
ancient records; but his impartiality has been called in
question, particularly by those who contend for the higher
antiquity of parliaments, and a larger proportion of popular influence in the constitution. Tyrell wrote his “General History of England,
” in opposition to that of Brady.
Dr. Gilbert Stuart, who hated all Scotch historians except himself, maintains that Hume executed his History
on Brady’s principles; allowing Brady to pdssess an excellent understanding and admirable quickness, Dr. Stuart asserts also, that he was the slave of a faction. Dr.
Brady’s other publications were, “An Answer to Mr. Petyt’s Book on Parliaments,
” London, An Historical Treatise of Cities and Burghs or Boroughs,
”
ibid.
, an eminent mathematician of the seventeenth century, son of Thomas Brancker, some time bachelor
, an eminent mathematician of the seventeenth century, son of Thomas Brancker, some time bachelor of artsj,in Exeter college, Oxford, was born in Devonshire in 1636, and was admitted batler (and not butler, as some late biographical compilations blunderingly assert), of the said college, Nov. 8, 1652, in the seventeenth year of his age. In 1655, June 15, he took the degree of bachelor of arts, and was elected probationary fellow the 30th of the same month. In 1658, April 22, he took the degree of master of arts, and became a preacher; but after the restoration, refusing to conform to the ceremonies of the church of England, he quitted his fellowship in 1662, and retired to Chester: but not long after, he became reconciled to the service of the church, took orders from a bishop, and was made a minister of Whitegate. He had, however, for some time, enjoyed great opportunity and leisure for pursuing the bent of his genius in the mathematical sciences; and his skill both in the mathematics and chemistry procured him the favour of lord Brereton, who gave him the rectory of Tilston. He was afterward chosen master of the well-endowed school at Macclesfield, in that county, where he spent the remaining years of his life, which was terminated by a short illness in 1676, at 40 years of age; and he was interred in the church at Macclesfield.
s, was archdeacon of Dortmund, and dean of Notre Dame at Cologne, and flourished about the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote a “Latin oration against the
, in Latin Braunius, Bruinus, or Brunus, was
archdeacon of Dortmund, and dean of Notre
Dame at Cologne, and flourished about the beginning of
the seventeenth century. He wrote a “Latin oration
against the Fornicating Priests,
” Civitates orbis terrarum
in aes incisse et excusce, et descriptione topographica, morali, politica, illustrate,
” 6 vols. large fol. with five coloured plates by Hohenberg and Hoeft'nagel, 1572, &c.
reprinted in 5 vols. 1612. He died in 1622.
, D.D. an eminent learned and pious divine of the seventeenth century, was born at Marton in Shropshire, in
, D.D. an eminent learned and pious divine
of the seventeenth century, was born at Marton in Shropshire, in 1656, where his parents were persons of good reputation. His infancy discovering promising parts, he was
early sent to the school at Oswestry, in the same county,
and his close application to school-learning, determining
his parents to dedicate him to religion and learning, he
was entered of Hart-hall, Oxford. Here he soon made a
considerable proficiency in divinity, as well as other studies
necessary for the profession for which he was intended:
but, labouring under the common disadvantages of a narrow fortune, his circumstances not permitting a longer
residence at Oxford, he left the university soon after he
had commenced bachelor of arts. Much about this time
he entered into holy orders; and the first duty he had
was that of a parish near Bridgenorth in Shropshire, his
native county, from which curacy he soon removed into
Warwickshire, officiating as chaplain in sir Thomas Price’s
family, of Park-hall, and had the donative of Lac Marsin
given him by sir Thomas, which proved very advantageous; for living now in the neighbourhood of Coieshill, his
exemplary behaviour, and distinguished diligence in his
calling, introduced him into the acquaintance of Mr.
Kettlewell, sir Charles Holt, and the lord Simon Digby.
One incident which contributed to establish his character
at this juncture, was his preaching the assize sermon at
Warwick, on which occasion Mr. Bray, though but young,
acquitted himself to the satisfaction of the whole audience,
particularly the lord Digby, who was afterwards pleased to
honour him with many proofs of his friendship and esteem,
recommending him to the worthy and honourable patronage
of his brother, the fifth lord Digby, who some time after
gave him the vicarage of Over-Whitacre in the same
county, since augmented, by his patron’s uncommon generosity, with the great tithes. In 1690, the rectory of
Sheldon being vacant, by Mr. Digby Bull’s refusing to take
the oaths at the revolution, his lordship presented Mr. Bray
to it; which preferment he held till about a quarter of a
year before his death, when he resigned it by reason of his
advanced age, and the known worth and abilities of his
appointed successor, the Rev. Mr. Carpenter. Dec. 12,
1693, he took his master of arts degree in Hart-hall, Oxford. In this parish of Sheldon he composed his “Catechetical Lectures,
” a work which met with general approbation and encouragement, and produced to him the sum of
700l. This publication, which drew him out of his rural privacy to London, determined Dr. Compton, bishop of London, to pitch upon him as a proper person to model the
infant church of Maryland, and establish it upon a solid
foundation. Accordingly, in April 1696, he proposed
to Mr. Bray to go, on the terms of having the judicial office
of commissary, valued, as was represented to him, at four
hundred pounds per annum, conferred upon him, for his
support in that service. Mr. Bray, disregarding his own
interest, and the great profit which would have arisen from
finishing his course of lectures on the plan he had formed,
soon determined, in his own mind, that there might be a
greater field for doing good in the Plantations, than by his
labours here, and no longer demurred to the proposal, than
to inquire into the state of the country, and inform himself
what was most wanting to excite good ministers to embark
in that design, as well as enable them most effectually to
promote it. With this view he laid before the bishops the
following considerations: That none but the poorer sort
of clergy could be persuaded to leave their friends, and
change their native country for one so remote; that such
persons could not be able sufficiently to supply themselveswith books; that without such a competent provision of
books, they could not answer the design of their mission;
that a library would be the best encouragement to studious and sober men to undertake the service; and that, as
the great inducement to himself to go, would be to do the
most good of which he could be capable, he therefore
purposed, that if they thought fit to encourage and assist
htm in providing parochial libraries for the ministers, he
would then accept of the commissary’s office in Maryland.
This proposal for parochial libraries being well approved
of by the bishops, and due encouragement being promised
in the prosecution of the design, both by their lordships
and others, he set himself with all possible application to
provide missionaries, and to furnish them with libraries,
intending, as soon as he should have sent both, to follow
after himself. But, upon his accepting of this employment
of commissary of Maryland, it fell to his share to solicit at
home whatever other matters related to that church, more
particularly to the settlement and establishment thereof,
which he laboured to promote with unwearied diligence,
and spared neither expence or trouble. But, above all,
it was his greatest care, to endeavour to send over to Maryland, and the other colonies, pious men, of exemplary
lives and conversations, and to furnish those whom he had
a hand in sending, with good libraries of necessary and
useful bdbks, to render them capable of answering the ends
of their mission, and instructing the people in all things
ecessary to their salvation. The sense of the clergy and
inhabitants, with respect to these'important services, was
testified by the solemn letters of thanks, returned him
from the assemblies of Maryland, from the vestries of Boston and Baintrie in New England, from Newfoundland,
Rhode Island, New York, Philadelphia, North Carolina,
Bermudas, and by the acknowledgments of the royal
African company, on account of those procured for their
factories. About the same time it was, that the secretary
of Maryland, sir Thomas Lawrence, with Mr. Bray, waited on the then princess of Denmark, in behalf of that province, humbly to request her gracious acceptance of the
governor’s and country’s dutiful respects, in having denominated the metropolis of the province, then but lately
built, from her royal highness’s name, Annapolis: and Mr.
Bray being soon after favoured with a noble benefaction
from the same royal hand, towards his libraries in America,
he dedicated the first library in those parts, fixed at Annapolis, and which had books of the choicest kind belonging to it, to the value of four hundred pounds, to her memory, by the title of the Annapolitan Library, which words
were inscribed on the several books. Another design was
also set on foot, much about the same time, by Dr. Bray,
to raise lending libraries in every deanery throughout England and Wales, out of which the neighbouring clergy
might borrow the books they had occasion for, and where
they might consult upon matters relating to their function,
and to learning. Upon this, many lending libraries were
founded in several parts of the kingdom, besides above a
hundred and fifty parochial ones in Great Britain and the
plantations, from ten to fifty pounds value, those in South
Britain being afterwards secured to posterity, by an act of
parliament passed for that purpose in 1708. Soon after,
upon the repeated instances of the governor and some of
the country, Mr. Bray was at the charge of taking the degree of doctor of divinity, which, though it might be of
some use, as procuring a certain degree of respect,
did then but ill comport with his circumstances. He
took his degrees of bachelor of divinity, and doctor, together, by accumulation, not of Hart hall where he was
entered, but of Magdalen college, Dec. 17, 1696. Soon
after, the better to promote his main design of libraries,
and to give the missionaries directions in prosecuting their
theological studies, he published two books, one entitled,
“Bibiiothee* Paroctnalis or, a Scheme of such
Theological and other heads, as seem requisite to be perused, or
occasionally consulted by the reverend Clergy, together
with a catalogue of books, which may be profitably read on
each of those points,
” &c. The other, “Apostolic Charity, its nature and excellency considered, in a discourse
upon Daniel xii. 3. preached at St. Paul’s, at the ordination of some Protestant Missionaries to be sent into the
plantations. To which is prefixed, a general view of the
English colonies in America, in order to show what provision is wanting for the propagation of Christianity in those
parts, together with proposals for the promoting the same r
to induce such of the clergy of this kingdom, as are persons of sobriety and abilities, to accept of a mission.
”
During this interval, viz. in the year The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in foreign parts,
” was laid before the society, and read
the ninth of June following. He received no advantage all
this time from his commissary’s place in Maryland; neither
was any allowance made him at home, or preferment give
him, to support the charge of living altogether in town, to
solicit the establishment and endowment of the church of
Maryland, and to provide missionaries for that and all the
colonies on the Continent; which, excepting Virginia, lay
upon him; all the benefactions that were received being to
be laid out to raise them libraries, which also he did faster
than money came in to answer the charge. This being observed by some of his friends, they endeavoured to persuade
him to lay his design of going abroad aside, and take two
good preferments that were then offered him at home, of
as good or better value than what was proposed to him in
Maryland, viz. that of sub-almoner, and the donative of
Aldgate, in the city of London. But he declined all offers
that were inconsistent with his going to Maryland, as soon
as it should become proper for him to take that voyage.
By the year 1699, having waited upwards of two years for
the return of the act of religion from Maryland, with such
amendments as would render it without exception at the
court of England; and it being presumed by his superiors,
that it would be requisite the doctor should now hasten
over, as well to encourage the passing of that act in their
assemblies, as to promote other matters for the service of
religion there, it was signified to him from them that
they would have him take the opportunity of the first
ship; and indeed, the doctor having, by this time, tried
all ways he could think of, and done all he was able
to do here, to serve those parts, and according to
proposal having provided Maryland, as also many other
colonies, with a competent number of missionaries, and
furnished them with good libraries, to be fixed in the
places where they were sent, to remain there for ever, he
was himself eager to follow, and did so accordingly, even,
in the winter, though he had no allowance made him towards his charge of the voyage, and the service he was to
do; but was forced to dispose of his own small effects, and
raise money on credit to support him. With this poor encouragement, and thus, on his own provision, he took the
voyage, December 16, 1699, and set sail from the Downs
the twentieth of the same month; but was driven back into
Plymouth-sound on Christmas-eve, and remained in harbour almost all the holydays, where his time was not unusefully spent, in the recovery of a tolerable library there
out of dust and rubbish, which was also indebted to him for
a benefaction of books and where he left a proposal for
taking in subscriptions to make it a sea- port library, for the
use of missionaries and sea-chaplains, as well as others.
After an extremely tedious and dangerous passage, the
doctor arrived at Maryland the twelfth of March, where he
applied himself immediately to repair the breach made in
the settlement of the parochial clergy; in order to which
he consulted, in the first place, the governor, whom he
found ready to concur in all proper methods for the re-establishment of their maintenance. Before the next assembly, which was to be in May following, he sent to all
the clergy on the western shore, who only could come together in that season, to learn from them the disposition of
the people, and to advise with them what was proper to be
done, in order to dispose the members of the assembly to
re-enact their law next meeting. Soon after he had dismissed their clergy, he made his parochial visitation, as
far as it was possible for him at that season; in which, he
met with very singular respect from persons of the best
condition in the country, which the doctor turned to the
advantage of that poor church. During the sessions of the
assembly, and whilst the re-establishment of the church
was depending, he preachod very proper and seasonable
sermons, with a tendency to incline the country to the establishment of the church and clergy; all which were so
well received, that he had the thanks of the assembly, by
messages from the house. The doctor was providentially
on such good term* with the assembly, that they ordered
the attorney-general to advise with him in drawing up the
bill; and that he himself might be the better advised in
that case, he sent for the most experienced clergy within
reach, to suggest to him, what they found would be of
advantage to them and the church, to be inserted in, or
left out of it; by which means the constitution of that
church had much the advantage of any in America. It may
not be amiss to observe in this place, that as well during the
general court or assize, which preceded the assembly, and
lasted thirteen days, as during the sessions of the assembly
itself, he was under a necessity of entertaining the gentlemen of the province, who universally visited him; a charge,
however, which he thought requisite as circumstances then
were, that he might strengthen his interest in them, the
better to promote the establishment of the clergy’s maintenance. The bill being prepared, passed with a nemiilt
contradicente; but it was on all hands declared and confessed, that it was very providential that Dr. Bray came
into the country at that juncture. Soon after the assembly
was up, the commissary cited the whole clergy of the province to a general visitation at Annapolis, to be held May
22, 1700. At the close of this visitation, the clergy taking
into consideration, that the opposition of the Quakers
against the establishment of that church would in all probability continue, so as to get the law for its establishment
so lately re-enacted, annulled again at home, they entered
into debates, whether it would not be of consequence to
the preservation and final settlement of that church, that
the doctor should be requested to go home with the law,
and to solicit the royal assent. It had been before voted,
at the passing the bill in the house of burgesses, that he
should be desired to request his grace of Canterbury, and
the bishop of London, to favour that good law, by obtaining his majesty’s royal assent to it with all convenient
speed; and the members who gave him an account of passing their vote, told him withal, that it was the general opinion of the house, that he could be most serviceable by
waiting personally on their lordships, rather, than by letters, in which he conld not crowd all that might be
necessary to be represented concerning the then state of the
church, and the necessity, at that time, of their utmost patronage: and it was in debate, whether this should not be
the desire of the assembly; but it was thought too unreasonable a request from them, who were sensible of the
great danger and fatigue he had already been at in the service of that province, as they had a few days before acknowledged by a message of thanks from that house. Such
were the sentiments of the members of the assembly, as to
the necessity of his coming home to solicit the establishment of that church; and the clergy meeting at their visitation, some weeks after, represented to him, as the earnest desire of the more sensible persons throughout the
country, as well as of the assembly-men, that he should go
over with the law for England; being aware that its opponents would make the utmost efforts against the establishment of that church, by false representations at home of
the numbers and riches of their party, and by insinuating,
that to impose upon them an established maintenance for
the clergy, would be prejudicial to the interest of the province, by obliging so many wealthy traders to remove from
thence, the falsity of which, or any other suggestions, they
thought him best able to make appear, by the information
he had gained from this visitation, There were also many
other advantages to the church in those parts, which they
proposed by his coming home at that time, upon the consideration of all which he took his voyage soon after. He
was no sooner arrived in England, but he found their apprehensions in Maryland'not ill grounded; but the objections raised against the plan, Dr. Bray refuted, by a printed
memorial, representing truly the state of the church of Maryland, to the full satisfaction of all to whom it was communicated. The quakers’ opposition to the establishment
now depending, was carried by united councils and contributions; but the doctor refuted their specious objections
by unanswerable reasons, and placed the affair in such an
advantageous light, that his majesty decided, without any
appearance of hesitation, in the church’s favour, and gave
the royal assent in these remarkable words: “Have the
Quakers the benefit of a toleration? let the established
church have an established maintenance.
” This chargeable and laborious undertaking having swallowed up the doctor’s own small fortune, lord Weymouth generously presented him with a bill of 300l. for his own private use, a,
large portion of which the doctor devoted to the advancement of his farther designs. Though he was vested with
the character of commissary, yet no share of the revenue
proposed was annexed to it; and his generosity even induced him to throw in two sums of fifty pounds each, that
were presented to himself in Maryland, towards defraying
the charges of their libraries and law. After the return of
Dr. Bray from thence in 1701, he published his “Circular
Letters to the Clergy of Maryland,
” a memorial, representing the present state of religion on the continent of
North America, and the acts of his visitation held at Annapolis; for which he had the thanks of the society above
mentioned. Not only the bishop of London approved entirely of all these transactions, but also the archbishop of
Canterbury declared, that he was well satisfied with the
reasons of Dr. Bray’s return from the West Indies, and
added, that his mission thither would be of the greatest
consequence imaginable to the establishment of religion in
those parts. In 1706, he had the donative of St. Botolph
without Aldgate offered him again, which he then accepted
of, worth about 150l. per annum. In the year 1712, the
doctor printed his “Martyrology; or, Papal Usurpation,
”
in folio. That nothing might be wanting to enrich and
adorn the work, he established a correspondence with
learned foreigners of the first distinction, and called in the
assistance of the most eminent hands. This work consists
of some choice and learned treatises of celebrated authors,
which were grown very scarce, ranged and digested into as
regular an history as the nature of the subject would admit.
He proposed to compile a second volume, and had, at no
small expence and pains, furnished himself with materials
for it; but he was afterwards obliged to lay the prosecution,
of his design aside, and bequeathed by will his valuable
collection of Martyrological Memoirs, both printed and
manuscript, to Sion college. He was, indeed, so great a
master of the history of popery, that few authors could be
presumed able, with equal accuracy and learning, to trace
the origin and growth of those exorbitant claims which are
made by the see of Rome. He was happily formed by nature both for the active and for the retired life. Charity
to the souls of other men, was wrought up to the highest
pitch in his own: every reflection on the dark and forlorn
condition of the Indians and negroes, excited in his bosoin the most generous emotions of pity and concern. His
voyage to Holland, to solicit king William’s protection and
encouragement to his good designs, and the proofs he gave
of a public spirit and disinterested zeal, in such a series of
generous undertakings, obtained him the esteem of M.
d‘Allone of the Hague, a gentleman not more celebrated
for his penetration and address in state affairs, than for a
pious disposition of mind. An epistolary correspondence
commenced very early between him and the doctor upon
this subject; the result of which was, that M. d’Allone
gave in his life-time a sum to be applied to the conversion
of negroes, desiring the doctor to accept the management
and disposal of it. But that a standing provision might be
inade for this purpose, M. d'Allone bequeathed by will a
certain sum, viz. 900 pounds, out of his English estate, to
Dr. Bray and his associates, towards erecting a capital fund
or stock, for converting the negroes in the British plantations. This was in the year 1723, much about which
time Dr. Bray had an extremely dangerous fit of illness,
so that his life and recovery were despaired of. In the year
1726, he was employed in composing and printing his
“Directorium Missionarium,
” his “Primordia Bibliothecaria,
” and some other tracts of the like kind. About this
time he also wrote a short account of Mr. Rawlet, the author of “The Christian Monitor;
” and reprinted the Life of
Mr. Gilpin. Some of these were calculated for the use of
the mission; and in one he has endeavoured to shew, that
civilizing the Indians must be the first step in any successful attempt for their conversion. In his “Primordia Bibliothecaria,
” we have several schemes of parochial libraries, and a method laid down to proceed by a gradual progression, from a collection not much exceeding one pound
in value, to one of a hundred. His attention to other good
works occasioned no discontinuance of this design, the success of which was so much the object of his desires; and
accordingly benefactions came in so fast, that he had business enough upon his hands to form the libraries, desired.
As trie furnishing the parochial clergy with the means of instruction, would be an effectual method to promote Christian knowledge, so another expedient, manifestly subservient to the same end, would be, he thought, to imprint on
the minds of those who are designed for the ministry, previously to their admission, a just sense of its various duties,
and their great importance. With a view to this, he reprinted the “Ecclesiastes of Erasmus.
” In the year
, a learned divine of the seventeenth century, was born in the Isle of Jersey, in
, a learned divine of the seventeenth century, was born in the Isle of Jersey, in the reign
of king James I. and probably educated in grammar-learning in that place. From thence he went and studied logic
and philosophy in the Protestant university of Saumur,
where he took the degree of master of arts, on September
12, 1634. Coming to Oxford, he was, October 12, 1638,
incorporated M. A. as he stood at Saumur. About this
time king Charles I. having through archbishop Laud’s
persuasion founded three fellowships in the colleges of
Pembroke, Exeter, and Jesus, for the islands of Jersey
and Guernsey, alternately, Mr. Brevint was nominated
the first fellow at Jesus-college upon this foundation, in
1638. Here he continued till he was ejected from his fellowship by the parliament- visitors, for refusing to take the
solemn league and covenant, and withdrew to his native
country, but upon the reduction of that place by the parliament’s forces, he fled into France, and became minister
of a Protestant congregation in Normandy. Not long
after, he had the honour of being made chaplain to the
viscount de Turenne, afterwards marshal of France, whose
lady was one of the most pious women of her time. Whilst
he was in that station, he was one of the persons “employed about the great design then in hand, of reconciling
the Protestant and Popish religions; which gave him an access into, and made him acquainted with every corner of that
church,
” as he says himself. At the restoration of king
Charles II. he returned to England, and was presented by
that prince (wjio had known him abroad) to the tenth prebend in the church of Durham, vacant by the promotion of
Dr. J. Cosin to that see, and was installed March 15, 1660-61.
By bishop Cosiu, who had been his fellow-sufferer, he was
also collated to a living in the diocese of Durham. On the
27th of February, 1661-62, he took his degree of D. D. at
Oxford. Having during his exile seen Popery in its native
deformity, and observed all the mean and dishonest arts
that are used to support it, he in 1672 published “Missale Romanum; or, the depth and mystery of the Roman
Mass laid open and explained, for the use of both reformed
and unreformed Christians,
” and the next year, “The
Christian Sacramenc and Sacrifice, by way of discourse,
meditation, and prayer, upon the nature, parts, and blessings of the holy communipn,
” reprinted on the recommendation of Dr. Waterland, in 1739. And in 1674,
“Saul and Samuel at Endor, or the new waies of salvation
and service, which usually tempt men to Rome, and detain them there, truly represented and refuted,
” reprinted
A brief account of R. F.
his Missale Vindicaturo, or vindication of the Roman mass,
”
being an answer to “The depth and mystery of the Roman
Mass,
” above-mentioned. The learning and other eminent
qualifications of the author having recommended him to the
esteem of the world, and to the favour of his sovereign, he
was promoted to the deanery of Lincoln, and was installed
January 3, 1681-82, and had the prebend of WeltonPayns-hall annexed thereto, January 7th following. He
died May 5, 1695, and was buried in the cathedral church
of Lincoln, behind the high altar; where, on a gravestone, is an inscription to his memory. He was a person
of extensive reading, especially in the controversy between
the Protestants and Papists; zealous for the church of
England; and for his life and learning, truly praise-worthy.
Besides the above works, he published in Latin: 1. “Ecclesiae primitives Sacramentum & Sacrificium, a pontificiis
corruptelis, & exinde natis controversiis liberum,
” written at the desire of the princesses of Turenne and Bouillon.
2. “Eucharistiae Christianse prsesentia realis, & pontificia
ficta, luculentissimis non testimoniis modo, sed etiam fundamentis, quibus fere tota S. S. Patrum Theologia nititur,
hsec explosa, ilia suffulta & asserta.
” 3. “Pro Serenissima Principe Weimariensi ad Theses Jenenses accurata
Responsio.
” 4. “Ducentue plus minus Praelectiones in
Matthaei xxv capita, et aliorum Evangelistarum locos
passim parallelos.
” He also translated into Frenck
“The judgment of the university of Oxford concerning
the solemn League and Covenant.
”
, one of the most eminent nonconformists of the seventeenth century, was born in 1600, and educated at Emmanuel
, one of the most eminent nonconformists of the seventeenth century, was born in 1600, and educated at Emmanuel college, Cambridge, where he took his master’s degree, in 1626, and was several years a fellow. After preaching in Essex for five years, he was called to Norwich, where he preached in the parish of St. George’s Tombland, until 1636, when he was silenced by bishop Wren for nonconformity in some points, and remaining obstinate, he was excommunicated, and the writ de ca> pitndo issued against him. On this he quitted Norwich, where he had a lecture and two cures, and went into Holland. At Rotterdam he was chosen pastor to a congregational church, but returned to England in 1642, frequently preached before the long parliament, and was chosen one of the assembly of divines, although he agreed with them only in doctrinal matters. At length he fixed at Yarmouth, where he preached until the Bartholomew act took place, when he was ejected. He died March 12, 1670. He was a man of considerable learning, and possessing a library well furnished with the fathers, schoolmen, and critics, was a very close student, rising every morning, both in winter and summer, at four o'clock, and continuing in his library until eleven. He was inflexibly attached to the independent party, but too charitable towards men of opposite sentiments to follow their example in all respects. His principal works are collected in 2 vols. 4to, 1657, besides which he published many single sermons before the parliament, and some tracts enumerated by Calamy. In Peck’s Desiderata are two letters from him to Scobell, the clerk of the council, by which we learn that he was a leading man among the independents.
he Musical Small-coal Man, was born at or near Hignam Ferrers, in Northamptonshire, about the middle of the seventeenth century, and went from thence to London, where
, a very singular personage, known
by the name of the Musical Small-coal Man, was born at
or near Hignam Ferrers, in Northamptonshire, about the
middle of the seventeenth century, and went from thence
to London, where he bound himself apprentice to a smallcoal man. He served seven years, and returned to Northamptonshire, his master giving him a sum of money not
to set up: but, after this money was spent, he returned again
to London, and set up the trade of small-coal, which he
continued to the end of his life. Some time after he had
been settled in business here, he became acquainted with
Dr. Garaniere, his neighbour, an eminent chemist, who,
admitting him into his laboratory, Tom, with the doctor’s
consent, and his own observation, soon became a notable
chemist; contrived and built himself a moving laboratory,
in which, according to Hearne, “he performed with little
expence and trouble such things as had never been done
before.
” Besides his great skill in chemistry, he became
a practical, and, as was thought, a theoretical musician.
Tradition only informs us that he was very fond of music,
and taat he was able to perform on the viol da gamba at
his own concerts, which he at first established gratis in his
miserable house, which was an old mean building, the
ground-floor of which was a repository for his small-coal;
over this was his concert-room, long, low, and narrow, to
which there was no other ascent than by a pair of stairs on
the outside, so perpendicular and narrow, as scarcely to
be mounted without crawling.
, an English divine of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, from whom the sect of the Brownists
, an English divine of the sixteenth
and beginning of the seventeenth century, from whom the
sect of the Brownists derived its name, was descended of
an ancient and worshipful family, says Fuller, (one whereof founded a fair hospital in Stamford), and was nearly allied
to the lord-treasurer Cecil. He was the son of Anthony
Brown, of Tol thorp, in Rutlandshire, esq. (though born at Northampton, according to Mr. Collier), and grandson
of Francis Brown, whom king Henry VIII. in the eighteenth year of his reign, privileged by charter to wear
Jiis cap in the presence of himself, his heirs, or any of his
nobles, and not to uncover but at his own pleasure;
which charter was confirmed by act of parliament. Robert
Brown studied divinity at Cambridge, in Corpus Christi
college, and was afterwards a schoolmaster in Southwark. He was soon discovered by Dr. Still, master of
Trinity-college, to have somewhat extraordinary in him
that would prove a great disturbance to the church. Brown
soon verified what the doctor foretold, for he not only jm^
bibed Cartwright’s opinions, but resolved to refine upon
his scheme, and to produce something more perfect of his
own. Accordingly, about the year 1580, he began to inveigh openly against the discipline and ceremonies of the
church of England, and soon shewed that he intended to
go much farther than Cartwright had ever done. In his
discourses the church government was antichristian; her
sacraments clogged with superstition; the liturgy had a
mixture of Popery and Paganism in it; and the mission of
the clergy was no better than that of Baal’s priests in the
Old Testament. He first preached at Norwich, in 1581,
where the Dutch having a numerous congregation, many
of them inclined to Ahabaptism; and, therefore, being the
more disposed to entertain any new resembling opinion,
he made his first essay upon them; and having made some
progress, and raised a character for zeal and sanctity, he
then began to infect his own countrymen; for which purpose he called in the assistance of one Richard Harrison, a
country schoolmaster, and they formed churches out of
both nations, but mostly of the English. He instructed
his audience that the church of England was no true
church; that there was little of Christ’s institution in the
public ministrations, and that all good Christians were
obliged to separate from those impure assemblies; that
their only way was to join him and his disciples, among
whom all was pure and unexceptionable, evidently inspired by the Spirit of God, and refined from all alloy and
prophanation. These discourses prevailed on the audience; and his disciples, now called Brownists, formed a
society, and made a total defection from the church, refusing to join any congregation in any public office of
worship. Brown being convened before Dr. Freake, bishop
of Norwich, and other ecclesiastical commissioners, he
maintained his schism, to justify which he had also written
a book, and behaved rudely to the court, on which he was
committed to the custody of the sheriff of Norwich; but
his relation, the lord treasurer Burghley, imputing his
error and obstinacy to zeal, rather than malice, interceded
to have him charitably persuaded out of his opinions, and
released. To this end he wrote a letter to the bishop of
Norwich, which procured his enlargement. After this,
hisjordship ordered Brown up to London, and recommended him to archbishop Whitgift for his instruction and
counsel, in order to his amendment; but Brown left the
kingdom, and settled at Middleburgh in Zealand, where
he and his followers obtained leave of the states to form a
church according to their own model, which was drawn in
a book published by Brown at Middleburgh in 1582, and
called “A treatise of Reformation, without staying for any
man.
” How long he remained at Middleburgh, is not
precisely known; but he was in England in 1585, when
he was cited to appear before archbishop Whitgift, to
answer to certain matters contained in a book published by
him, but what this was, we are not informed. The archbishop, however, by force of reasoning, brought Brown
at last to a tolerable compliance with the church of England; and having dismissed him, the lord treasurer Burgh.Jey sent him to his father in the country, with a letter to
recommend him to his favour and countenance, but from
another letter of the lord treasurer’s, we learn that Brown’s
errors had sunk so deep as not to be so easily rooted out as
was imagined; and that he soon relapsed into his former opinions, and shewed himself so incorrigible, that his good old
father resolved to own him for his son no longer than his son
owned the church of England for his mother; and Brown
chusing rather to part with his aged sire than his new schism,
he was discharged the family. When gentleness was found
ineffectual, severity was next practised; and Brown, after
wandering up and down, and enduring great hardships, at
length went to live at Northampton, where, industriously
labouring to promote his sect, Lindsell, bishop of Peterborough, sent him a citation to come before him, which Brown
refused to obey; for which contempt he was excommunicated. This proved the means of his reformation; for he was
so deeply affected with the solemnity of this censure, that
he made his submission, moved for absolution, and received
it; and from that time continued in the communion of the
church, though it was not in his power to close the chasrn^
or heal the wound he had made in it. It was towards the
year 1590 that Brown renounced his principles of separation, antl was soon after preferred to the rectory of
Achurch, near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. Fuller
does not believe that Brown ever formally recanted his
opinions, either by word or writing, as to the main points
of his doctrine; but that his promise of a general compliance with the church of England, improved by the countenance of his patron and kinsman, the earl of Exeter, prevailed upon the archbishop, and procured this extraordinary favour for him. He adds, that Brown allowed a
salary for one to discharge his cure; and though he opposed his parishioners in judgment, yet agreed in taking
their tithes. He was a man of good parts and some learning, but was imperious and uncontroulable; and so far
from the Sabbatarian strictness afterwards espoused by
some of his followers, that he led an idle and dissolute life.
In a word, says Fuller, he had a wife with whom he never
lived, and a church in which he never preached, though
he received the profits thereof: and as all the other scenes
of his life were stonny and turbulent, so was his end: for
the constable of his parish requiring, somewhat roughly,
the payment of certain rates, his passion moved him to
blows, of which the constable complaining to justice St.
John, he rather inclined to pity than punish him but
Brown behaved with so much insolence, that he was sent
to Northampton gaol on a feather-bed in a cart, being
very infirm, and aged above eighty years, where he soon
after sickened and died, anno 1630, after boasting, “That
he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of
which he could not see his hand at noon-day.
” He was
buried in his church of Achurch in Northamptonshire.
, a French physician, was born at Bealivais about the end of the seventeenth century, and after studying medicine, acquired
, a French physician, was born at Bealivais about the end of the seventeenth century, and after studying medicine, acquired
considerable reputation by his practice and his writings.
He also arrived at the honour of being royal censor of the
college, and a member of the academy or Angers. He
died in 1756, after having written or edited some works of
merit in his profession: 1. “Observations sur le manuel
des Accouchments,
” Paris, La Medicine Raisonnee,
” from Hoffman,
ibid. Caprices d'imagination, on
Lettres sur differens sujets,
” ibid. Memoires pour servir a la vie de M. Silva,
” ibid.
Traite des Fievres,
” from Hoffman, ibid.
La Pohtique du Medicin,
” from
the same, ibid. Traite des Alimens,
”
by Lemery, ibid. Dissertations
surPincertitude des signesde lamort, et Tabus des enterremens et embaumemens precipites,
” ibid.
, of the seventeenth century, was author of several books of the
, of the seventeenth century, was author of several books of the language of the hand, of physiognomy, and of instructions to the deaf and dumb, intended, as he expresses it, “to bring those who are so born
to hear the sound of words with their eyes, and thence to
learn to speak with their tongues.
” This is explained in
his “Chirologia, or the natural Language of the Hand,
&c.
” Pathomyotomia,
” or a dissection of the significative muscles of the
affections of the mind, 1649, 12mo. The most curious of
his works is his “Anthropo-metamorphosis; Man transformed, or the artificial changeling;
”
, another antiquary of the seventeenth century, son of William Burton of Atcham in
, another antiquary of the seventeenth century, son of William Burton of Atcham in Shrop^
shire, was born in Austin Friars, London, educated in St.
Paul’s school, and became a student in Queen’s college,
Oxford, in 1625. When at the university, he was patronised by the learned Mr. Allen, of Glocester-hall, who appointed him Greek lecturer there. His indigence obliging
him to leave the university in 1630, after he had taken the
degree of bachelor of the civil law, he was for some time
usher to Mr. Thomas Farnaby, a famous schoolmaster in
Kent. He was afterwards master of the free grammarschool at Kingston upon Thames, in which station he continued till within two years of his death, when he retired
to London, where he died in 1657, and was buried in St.
Clement’s Danes, Strand. He published, 1. “Laudatio*
funebris in obitum D. Thomae Alleni,
” Oxon. Annotations on the first Epistle of Clement the Apostle to the Corinthians,
” Lond. Graecse Linguae Historia,
” ibid. Veteris Linguae Persicae Historia,
” with a recommendatory epistle by Langbaine. 4. “A Commentary on Antoninus’s Itinerary, or
Journey of the Roman Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain,
” Lond. The beloved city, or the Saints’ reign on
earth a thousand years, &c.
” Lond. Commentary on Antoninus
” procured him, from bishop
Kennett, the character of the best topographer since Camden.
, an ingenious writer of the seventeenth century, was born in 1559, at High Wycomb, in
, an ingenious writer of the seventeenth century, was born in 1559, at High Wycomb, in
Buckinghamshire; and entered a student into Magdalen
hall, Oxford, in 1579, where he took a degree in arts;
and was translated to Magdalen college, and made one of
the bible clerks. Soon after, he became master of the
free school at Basingstoke in Hampshire; and had the
cure of a small church in the neighbourhood. About 1600
he was promoted to the vicarage of Lawrence Wotton, in
Hampshire; which Wood thinks a very inadequate preferment for a scholar of his abilities. There, however, he
appears to have remained until his death, March 29, 1647,
in his eighty-eighth year. He wrote: 1. “The Feminine
Monarchy; or a Treatise on Bees,
” Oxon. Rhetoricee libri duo,
” Oxon. De
propinquitate matrimonium impediente regula generalis,
”
on the marriage of cousin-germans, a work much approved
by Dr. Prideaux, Oxon. 1625, 4to. 4. “Oratoriae libri duo,
”
Oxon. English Grammar,
”
Oxon. The Principles of Music,
” Lond. Grammar/' with a specimen of his
orthography from his
” Treatise on Bees.“Of his
” Principles uf Music," Dr. Burney says* that it was the only
theoretical or didactic work published on the subject of
music during the reign of king Charles I. and that it contains more knowledge in a small compass than any other
of the kind in our language; but the Saxon and new characters he uses, in order to explode such letters as are
redundant, or of uncertain powers, render this musical
tract somewhat difficult to peruse.
, a puritan divine of considerable eminence in the beginning of the seventeenth century, was the son of Richard Byfield, minister
, a puritan divine of considerable
eminence in the beginning of the seventeenth century,
was the son of Richard Byfield, minister of Stratford-uponAvon, and was born in Warwickshire about the year 1579.
He became a servitor of Exeter college, Oxford, in Lent
term 1596, and remained at the university upwards of
four years, but left it without taking a degree. He was
admitted, however, into holy orders, and was soon after
invited to be pastor of St. Peter’s church, Chester, which
he gladly accepted, and continued there for several years,
“much followed and admired,
” says Wood, “by the precise party, who esteemed his preaching profitable, and his
life pious.
” He was a strict observer of Sunday, on which
subject he preached and wrote, and this involved him in
a controversy, particularly with Edward Brerewood the
mathematician. (See Brerewood.) The observation of
the Sabbath was at this time a subject of much controversy, and many pamphlets were written on both sides,
with the warmth natural at a period of increasing religious
dissension. From Chester Mr. Byfield removed, in 1615,
to the vicarage of Isleworth, where he died in 1622,
leaving behind him an excellent character for learning,
success in his ministry, and a pious and peaceable disposition. He was the author of many popular works, which
are enumerated by Wood. Of these, his “Commentary
on the First Epistle of St. Peter,
” 1637, fol. and “on
Colossians,
” 1628, fol. are held in the highest estimation,
and confirm the character which Wood, somewhat reluctantly, gives of him. Dr. Gouge, of Blackfriars, who drew
up an account of his death, informs us that on his body
being opened, a stone was taken out of his bladder that
weighed thirty-three ounces; and was in length and
breadth about thirteen inches, and solid, like a flint. A
print of him was published by Richardson, in 1790, with
an account of this very remarkable case. The noted Adonrram Byfield, a zealous adherent to the commonwealth
revolution, was his son; and Richard Byfield, another
ejected non-conformist, was his half brother; but neither
had his meek, loyal, and submissive spirit. Adoniram
is one of the few persons who have been, by name, stigmatized by Butler in his “Hudibras.
” He was the father
of Dr. Byfield, the noted Sal volatile doctor, who in his
epitaph is said to be “Diu volatilis tandem Jfcms.
”
, one of the most famous divines of the seventeenth century, among the French Protestants, was born
, one of the most famous divines of
the seventeenth century, among the French Protestants,
was born at Glasgow, in Scotland, about the year 1580,
and educated at the university of his native city. After
reading lectures on the Greek language for a year, he began his travels in 1600, and at Bourdeaux evinced so much
ability and erudition, that the ministers of that city appointed him master of a college which they had established
at Bergerac, for teaching Greek and Latin; and from this
the duke de Bouillon removed him to the philosophical
professorship at Sedan, where he remained for two years.
He then went to Paris, and from Paris to Bourdeaux,
where he arrived in 1604, and began his divinity studies, and in 1608 was appointed one of the ministers
of Bourdeaux, and officiated there with such increasing
reputation, that the university of Saumur judged him worthy to succeed Gomarus in the divinity chair. Having
accepted this offer, he gave his lectures until 1620, when
the university was almost dispersed by the civil war. He
now came over to England with his family, and was recommended to king James, who appointed him professor
of divinity at Glasgow, in the room of Robert Boyd, of
Trochrig, (whom Bayle and his translators call Trochoregius), because he was supposed to be more attached to the
episcopal form of church government. This situation,
however, not suiting his taste, he returned to Saumur in
less than a year; but even there he met with opposition,
and the court having prohibited his public teaching, he was
obliged to read lectures in private. After a year passed in
this precarious state of toleration, he went in 1624 to Montauban, where he was chosen professor of divinity, but
having declared himself too openly against the party which
preached up the civil war, he created many enemies, and
among the rest an unknown miscreant who assaulted him
in the street, and wounded him so desperately as to occasion his death, which took place, after he had languished a
considerable time, in 1625. Bayle says, he was a man of
a great deal of wit and judgment, had a happy memory,
was very learned, a good philosopher, of a chcarful temper,
and ready to communicate not only his knowledge, but
even his money: he was a great talker, a long preacher,
little acquainted with the works of the fathers, obstinate
in his opinions, and somewhat troublesome. He frankly
owned to his friends, that he found several things still to
reform in the reformed churches. He took a delight in
publishing particular opinions, and in going out of the
beaten road; and he gave instances of this when he was a
youth, in his theses “De Tribus Frederibus,
” which he
published and maintained at Heidelberg, although yet
but a proposant, or candidate for the ministry. He also
mixed some novelties in all the theological questions
which he examined; and when in explaining some passages of the holy scripture, he met with great difficulties,
he took all opportunities to contradict the other divines,
and especially Beza; for he pretended that they had not
penetrated into the very marrow of that science. It was
from him that monsieur Amyraut adopted the doctrine of
universal grace, which occasioned so many disputes in
France, and will always be found, at least upon Amyraut’s
principles, to be too inconsistent for general belief. Cameron’s works are his “Theological Lectures,
” Saumur,
Myrothecium
Evangelicum.
”
, a historian of the seventeenth century, was born in Campagnia, in the kingdom
, a historian of the seventeenth century, was born in Campagnia, in the kingdom of
Naples, of an obscure family, which was afterwards raised
by Capaccio’s merits. He studied at Naples the civil and
canon law, and afterwards read over the poets and historians. Being a person of note for his learning and parts,
he was made secretary to the town of Naples. He was
one of those that had the greatest share in setting up the
academy of the Otiosi. Francis de la Rovere, duke of
Urbino, employed him in the education of the prince his
son; and while he was employed in this business he wrote
most of his works. He died in 1631. His works are:
“Tratato de'l imprese
” “II secretario, prediche quadragecimali
” “II principe
” “Historia Puteolana
” “Historia Napolitana,
” &c. the latter are in Grgevius’s Thesaurus, but the separate editions of these, as well as of his
“Illustrium mulierum et virorum historia,
” Naples,
, a Roman musical composer of the seventeenth century, whose productions were not only the
, a Roman musical
composer of the seventeenth century, whose productions
were not only the delight of his contemporaries, but are
still sought and hoarded by the curious as precious relics,
was, very early in life, appointed master of the chapel to the German college at Rome, in preference to all
other candidates. Alberto delle Valle, an excellent judge
of music, speaking of the compositions of Carissimi, which
he heard at Rome, without knowing his name, says, that
he had heard the vespers performed on Easter Monday, by
the nuns only, at the church dello Spirito Santo, in florid,
music, with such perfection as he never in his life had
heard before; and on the last Christmas-eve, in attending
the whole service at the church of St. Apollinare, where
every part of it was performed agreeably to so solemn an
occasion; though, by arriving too late, he was obliged to
stand the whole time in a very great crowd, he remained
the*re with the utmost pleasure, to hear the excellent music
that was performed. In the beginning, he was particularly
enchanted by the “Venite exultemus,
” which was more
exquisite than words can describe. “I know not,
” says
Valle, “who was the author of it, but suppose it to have
been the production of the Maestro di Capella of that
church.
” There was no master in Italy at this time, 1640,
whose compositions this description will so well suit, as
those of the admirable Carissimi, who was now, in all probability, the Maestro di Capella in question. It was in
composing for this church that he acquired that great and
extensive reputation which he enjoyed during a long life,
and which his offspring, or musical productions, stifl deservedly enjoy.
, Lord Dorchester, an eminent statesman in the beginning of the seventeenth century, the eldest surviving son of Anthony
, Lord Dorchester, an
eminent statesman in the beginning of the seventeenth
century, the eldest surviving son of Anthony Carleton, esq.
of Baldwin Briglitweli, near Watlington,Oxon. was born at his
father’s seat, March 10, 1573. He was educated at Westminster school, and at Oxford, where he became a student
of Christ church about 1591, and distinguished as a young
man of parts. From hence, after taking a bachelor’s degree in 15L<5, he set out on his travels, and on his return
to Oxford, was created master of arts in July loOO. In
the same year we find him appointed secretary to sir Thomas Parry, our ambassador in France and in 1603 he served
in the same capacity in the house of Henry earl of Northumberland. He probably became afterwards a courtier,
as he speaks in one of his letters of holding the place of
gentleman usher. In the first parliament of James I. he
represented the borough of St. Mawes in Cornwall, and
was considered as an active member and an able speaker.
In April 1605, he accompanied lord Norris intoSpain, but
in the latter end of that year was summoned to England,
and on his arrival imprisoned, as being implicated in the
gunpowder treason but his innocence being proved, he
was honourably discharged. In 1607 he married a niece
of sir Maurice Carey, with whom he resided some time in
Chancery- lane, and afterwards in Little St. Bartholomew’s,
near West Smitlitield. At this period he appears to have
been unprovided for, as in one of his letters he complains
of an “army of difficulties, a dear year, a plaguy town, a
growing w if e and a poor purse.
” After being disappointed,
from political reasons, in two prospects, that of going to
Ireland, and that of going to Brussels, in an official capacity, he was nominated to the embassy at Venice, and
before setting out, in Sept. 1610, received the honour of
knighthood. The functions of this appointment he discharged with great ability, and soon proved that he was
qualified for diplomatic affairs. In 1615, he returned to
England, sir Henry Wotton being appointed in his room,
and on his arrival found all ministerial power and favour
centered in sir George Villiers, afterwards duke of Buckingham. Soon after, on the recommendation of sir Ralph
Win wood, one of the secretaries of state, he was employed
in what was then one of the most important embassiesin
the gift of the crown, that to the States General of Holland
and in this he continued from 1616 to 1628, and was the
last English minister who had the honour of sitting in the
council of state for the United Provinces, a privilege which
queen Elizabeth had wisely obtained, when she undertook
the protection of these provinces, and which was annexed
to the possession of the cautionary towns.
, a divine and poet of the seventeenth century, was educated at Eton college, and thence
, a divine and poet of the seventeenth century, was educated at Eton college, and thence elected scholar of King’s college in Cambridge, in 1622. About three years after, he left England, and studied in Flanders, Artois, France, Spain, and Italy; and at length received holy orders at Rome from the hands of the pope’s substitute. Soon after, having taken upon him the order of St. Benedict, he was sent into England to make proselytes; in which employment he continued somewhat above a year, then returned to the protestant religion, and, through the archbishop of Canterbury’s interest, obtained the small vicarage of Poling by the seaside, near Arundel castle, in Sussex. Here he was exposed to the insults of the Romish party, particularly one Francis a S. Clara, living in that neighbourhood under the name of Hunt, who used to expose him to scorn before his parishioners. In the time, however, of the civil war, he quitted his living, retired to Paris, and reconciling himself to the Romish church, he made it his business to rail against the protestants. Afterwards, returning to England, he settled at Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, where he had some relations; and, being once more a protestant, he would often preach there in a very fantastical manner, to the great mirth of his auditors. He was living there in 1670; but before his death he returned a third time to popery, causing his pretended wife to embrace that persuasion; and in that faith he died. He was generally esteemed a man of an absurd character, one that changed his opinions as often as his cloaths, and, for his juggles and tricks in religion, a theological mountebank.
, an English poet of the seventeenth century, was born at Northway near Tewkesbury,
, an English poet of the
seventeenth century, was born at Northway near Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, Sept. 1611. His father, after
spending a good estate, was reduced to keep an inn at
Cirencester; at the free-school of which town his son was
educated under Mr. William Topp. Being chosen a king’s
scholar, he was removed to Westminster school, under
Dr. Osbaldiston, and thence elected a student of Christ
church, Oxford, in 1628. After pursuing his studies, with
the reputation of an extraordinary scholar and genius,
he took his master’s degree in 1635, and in 1638 went
into holy orders, becoming “a most florid and seraphical
preacher in the university.
” One sermon only of his is in
print, from which we are not able to form a very high
notion of his eloquence; but whdn Mr. Abraham Wright,
of St. John’s, Oxford, compiled that scarce little book,
entitled “Five Sermons in five several styles, or ways of
Preaching,
” it appears that Dr. Maine and Mr. Cartwright
were of consequence enough to be admitted as specimens
of university preaching. The others are bishop Andrews’,
bishop Hall’s, the presbyterian and independent “ways
of preaching.
”
In 1642, bishop Duppa, with whom he lived in the
strictest intimacy, bestowed on him the place of succentur
of the church of Salisbury. In the same year he was one
of the council of war or delegacy, appointed by the university of Oxford, for providing for the troops sent by the
king- to protect the colleges. His zeal in this office occasioned his being imprisoned by the parliamentary forces
when they arrived at Oxford, but he was bailed soon after.
In 1643, he was chosen junior proctor of the university,
and was also reader in metaphysics. “The exposition of
them,
” says Wood, “was never better performed than by
him and his predecessor Thomas Barlow, of Queen’s college.
” Lloyd asserts that he studied at the rate of sixteen
hours a day. From such diligence and talents much might
have been expected, but he survived the last- mentioned
appointments a very short time, dying on December 23,
1643, in the thirty-second year of his age, of a malignant
fever, called the camp disease, which then prevailed at
Oxford. He was honourably interred towards the upper
end of the south aile of the cathedral of Christ church.
, a divine of the seventeenth century, who deserves to be recorded as a remarkable
, a divine of the seventeenth century, who deserves to be recorded as a remarkable example
of literary generosity, joined to literary industry, was born
in 1606, at Hatley in Cambridgeshire. After going
through a course of grammatical education, he became a
member in 1621, of Emanuel college, in Cambridge, in
which he continued many years. Afterwards he removed
to St. John’s college for the convenience of the library
there, which was of great service to him in compiling his
grand work, his “Lexicon Heptaglotton.
” In due course
he took the several degrees of bachelor and master of arts,
and of bachelor and doctor in divinity; and the fame of his
learning occasioned his being chosen a member of the
royal society. His “Lexicon Heptaglotton
” cost him the
assiduous labour of eighteen years, but his unwearied diligence in this undertaking, injured his health, and impaired
his constitution. Besides this, the work was the entire
ruin of his fortune; for he spent upon it upwards of twelve
thousand pounds. The truth of the fact is positively asserted by Mr. Hearne, whose authority for it was a letter
which he had under Dr. Castell’s own hand; and Hearne
pathetically and justly complains, that our author should
meet with so very poor a reward for his incredible and indeed Herculean labours. The doctor, in 1666, having
wasted his patrimony, and incurred heavy debts, was reduced to extreme distress; when, probably in consideration of his learned labours and disinterested generosity,
he was in that year made king’s chaplain, and Arabic professor at Cambridge; and in 1668, he obtained a prebend
of Canterbury. In the next year he published his “Lexicon Heptaglotton;
” but the publication procured him no
compensation for his large expences and his indefatigable
diligence. The copies of the book lay almost entirely unsold upon his hands. He received, indeed, some additional
preferments; but they were by no means sufficient to recompense him for his great losses. The small vicarage of
Hatfield Peverell in Essex was bestowed upon him; and he
was afterwards presented to the rectory of Wodeham Walter in the same county. His last preferment, which was
towards the close of his life, was the rectory of Higharn
Gobion in Bedfordshire.
ay by assemblies of musicians, we have been able to discover no instance earlier than the latter end of the seventeenth century, when there was a rage among the votaries
Musical and other historians have not been able to assign any better reason for honouring St. Cecilia as the patroness of music, than what may be found in her “Acts,
”
which still exist in Surius, but are now considered as of no
authority. Yet as they were credited in more credulous
times, painters fixed upon organs as the appropriate emblem of this saint; musicians chose her for their patroness,
and poets have described her as the in ven tress of the organ, and as charming angels to leave their celestial spheres,
in order to listen to her harmony. The earliest notice of
her as the tutelar saint of music seems to have been in the
works of the great painters of the Italian school; some representing her as performing on the harp, and others on
the organ. Raphael, in his celebrated portrait of the saint,
has placed in her hands a column of organ pipes, or rather
the front of a portable instrument called the regals, which
in Roman catholic times used to be carried by one person
and played by another in processions. But of the celebration of her birth-day by assemblies of musicians, we have
been able to discover no instance earlier than the latter end
of the seventeenth century, when there was a rage among
the votaries of music for celebrating the birth-day of this
saint, November 22, not only in London, but in all the
considerable cities and provincial towns in the kingdom,
where music was cultivated. Dryden’s Ode to St. Cecilia
has led Mr. Malone into a prolix and probably very accurate history of this saint, and into a chronological account
of all the great Cecilian festivals held in London from 1683
to 1740, with a list of all the odes written expressly for
the celebration of St. Cecilia, by whom written, and by
whom set to music.
r any other appointment of Cervantes iq La Mancha. What is certainly known is, that at the beginning of the seventeenth century he was in prison, but for an offence
Upon his return to Spain in the spring of the year following, he fixed his residence in Madrid, where his mother
and sister then lived. Following his own inclination to
letters, he gave himself up anew to the reading of every
kind of books, Latin, Spanish, and Italian, acquiring hence
a great stock of various erudition. The first product of his
genius was his “Galatea,
” which he published in Don Quixote,
” of
which he published the first part at Madrid in 1605. There
was a second edition of this in 1608, at the same place and
by the same printer, much corrected and improved, no
notice of which is taken by Pellicer, who speaks of that of
Valentia of 1605. supposing such to exist, but which he
had not seen. There is another of Lisbon in 1605, curious
only on the score of its great loppings and amputations.
we have an English translation by Bradley, 1725, 2 vols. folio. He was born at Paris towards the end of the seventeenth century, and studied medicine at Montpellier,
, a French physician, was
the son of Noel Chomel, an agriculturist, and the author of
the “DictionTiaire œconomique,
” of which we have an
English translation by Bradley, 1725, 2 vols. folio. He was
born at Paris towards the end of the seventeenth century,
and studied medicine at Montpellier, where he took his
degree of doctor, in 1708. Returning to his native city,
he was appointed physician and counsellor to the king.
The following year he published “Universal Medicince
Theoricse pars prima, seu Physiologia, ad usum scholae accommodata,
” Montpellier, Traite des Eaux Minerales, Baines et Douches de Vichi,
”
Memoirs
”
sent to the academy of sciences, and his “Defence of
Tournefort,
” published in the Journal des Savans, he published “Abrege de L'Histoire des Pi antes usuelles,
” Paris,
1712, 12mo. This was in 1715 increased to two, and in
1730, to three volumes in 12mo, and is esteemed an useful
manual. His son, John Baptiste Lewis, was educated also
at Paris, and took his degree of doctor in medicine in
1732. He was several years physician in ordinary to the
king, and in November 1754 was chosen dean of the
faculty. He died in 1765. He published in 1745, 1. “An
account of the disease then epidemic among cattle,
” and
boasts of great success in the cure, which was effected, he
says, by using setons, imbued with white hellebore. 2.
“Dissertation historique sur la Mai de Gorge Gangreneaux, qui a regne parmi les enfans, en 1748:
” the malignant sore throat, first treated of in this country by Dr.
Fothergill, about ten years later than this period. 3. “Essai historique sur la Medicine en France,
” Vie de M. Morin,
” and “Eloge historique
de M. Louis Duret,
”
, a very industrious and useful writer of the seventeenth century, less known than his services deserved,
, a very industrious and useful
writer of the seventeenth century, less known than his
services deserved, and particularly entitled to notice in a
work of this kind, was born Oct. 10, 1599, at Woolston,
in the county of Warwick, of which place his father had
been minister for upwards of forty years. Under his tuition he remained until he was thirteen years old, when he
was sent to school under one Crauford, an eminent teacher
at that time. Here he informs us that he fell into loose
practices from keeping bud company, but occasionally
felt the reluctance which a pious education usually leaves.
At the end of four years he was sent to Cambridge, and
entered of Emanuel, which was then, according to his account, the Puritan college. After taking his bachelor’s
degree, his father recalled him home, and he was for
some time employed as a family-tutor in Warwickshire,
after which, being now in orders, he was invited into
Cheshire, as assistant to Mr. Byrom, who had the living of
Thornton, and with whom he continued almost two years,
preaching twice every Sunday during that time. Some
scruples respecting the ceremonies occasioned him much
trouble, and. he had an intention of removing to London;
but happening to receive a pressing invitation from the inhabitants of Wirrall, a peninsula beyond West Chester,
he consented to settle among them at Shotwick, where no
regular service had been performed, and became here very
useful as a preacher, and very popular through an extensive district. After, however, five years’ quiet residence
here, a prosecution was instituted against him for the
omission of ceremonies (what they were he does not inform us) in the Chancellor’s court; and while about to leave
Shotwick in consequence of this, the mayor, aldermen, and
many of the inhabitants of Coventry, invited him to preach
a lecture in that city, which he accepted, and carried on
for some time; but here likewise he excited the displeasure of Dr. Buggs, who held the two principal livings in
Coventry, and who prosecuted him before the bishop, Dr.
Morton. After this, by the influence of Robert earl of
Warwick, he was enabled to preach at Warwick, and
although complained of, was not molested in any great
degree. Soon after, lord Brook presented him to the
rectory of Alcester, where he officiated for nine years,
and, as he informs us, “the town, which before was called
* drunken Alcester,' was now exemplary and eminent for
religion.
” When the et c<etcra oath was enjoined, the
clergy of the diocese met and drew up a petition against
it, which Mr. Clarke and Mr. Arthur Salway presented to
his majesty at York, who returned for answer, that they
should not be molested for refusing the oath, until the
consideration of their petition in parliament. This business afterwards requiring Mr. Clarke to go to London, he
was chosen preacher of the parish of St. Bennet Fink, a
curacy which is said to have been then, as it is now, in
the gift of the canons of Windsor. Walker, from having
included this among the livings sequestered by the parliamentary reformers, would seem to intimate that Mr. Clarke
must have succeeded to it at the expence of the incumfyent; but the fact is, there was no incumbent at the time.
We learn from Clarke’s dedication of his “Mirror
” to
Philip Holman, esq. of Warkworth in. Northamptonshire,
a native of St. Bennet Fink, and a great benefactor to it,
that for many years before this time (probably before 1646)
the parish had little maintenance for a minister; theif
tithes, being impropriated, went another way. They had
no stock, no land, no house for the minister, no lecture,
nor any one gift sermon in the year. This Mr. Holman,
however, had furnished a house for the curate and settled
it upon feoffees in trust, and had promised to add something towards his further maintenance. Such was the
situation of the parish when Mr. Clarke was elected, and
he remained their preacher until the restoration. During
the whole of this period, he appears to have disapproved
of the practices of the numerous sectaries which arose, and
retained his attachment to the constitution and doctrines of
the church, although he objected to some of those points
respecting ceremonies and discipline, which ranks him
among the ejected non-conformists. Most of his works appear to have been compiled, as indeed they are generally
dated there, at his house in Threadneedle- street, and it
was the sole business of his future life, to enlarge and republish them. In 1660, when Charles II. published a declaration concerning ecclesiastical affairs, the London clergy
drew up a congratulatory address, with a request for the
removal of re-ordination and surplices in colleges, &,c,
Vol. IX. D D
which Mr. Clarke was appointed to present. In the following year he was appointed one of the commissioners
for revising the book of Common Prayer, but what particular share he took we are not informed; nor are we told
more of his history, while in the church, than that he was
seven or eight years a governor, and two years president
of Sion college. When ejected for non-conformity, such
was his idea of schism and separation, that he quietly submitted to a retired and studious life. From the church,
which he constantly attended as a hearer, he says, he
dared not to separate, or gather a private church out of a
true church, which he judged the church of England to
be. In this retirement he continued twenty years, partly
at Hammersmith, and partly at Isleworth, revising what
he had published, and compiling other works, all of which
appear to have been frequently reprinted, notwithstand*ig their size and price. He died Dec. 25, 1682, universally respected for his piety, and especially for his moderation in the contests which prevailed in his time.
, son to the preceding, was born at Francfort on the Oder, towards the close of the seventeenth century, and died in 1755. He rose by his profound
, son to the preceding, was born
at Francfort on the Oder, towards the close of the seventeenth century, and died in 1755. He rose by his profound
knowledge of the civil law, to the post of minister of state,
and grand chancellor to the late king of Prussia. That
royal philosopher entrusted the baron Cocceius with the
reform of the administration of justice throughout his dominions. The “Frederkian Code,
” which this minister
compiled in Grotius de jure
belli ac pacis,
” more ample than any that had before appeared, printed 1755 at Lausanne, 5 vols. 4to. The first
volume, which serves as an introduction to the work, is by
Cocceius the father.
, a miscellaneous writer and translator of the seventeenth century, and probably an ancestor of the preceding,
, a miscellaneous writer and
translator of the seventeenth century, and probably an
ancestor of the preceding, was born of an ancient family
in Gloucestershire, in 1602, and educated at Oxford,
where he was elected demy of Magdalen college, in July
1619, and completed his degree of M. A. in 1626. He
then travelled, and on his return settled as a private gentleman in Norfolk, where he married. Wood says he
was always accounted a puritan. He died of the plague
in London, in 1665. His publications are: 1. “The Life
and Death of Robert earl of Essex,
” Loud. rank
parliamentarian.
” 2. “A Collection of Proverbs.
” 3.
“The Life of Æsop,
” prefixed to Barlow’s edition of the
Fables, On
the Knowledge of God,
” Lond. Heptameron,
or the History of the Fortunate Lovers,
” ibid.
, a learned and ingenious physician, was born at Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, towards the end of the seventeenth century. Being educated to the practice of medicine,
, a learned and ingenious
physician, was born at Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, towards
the end of the seventeenth century. Being educated to the
practice of medicine, after taking the degree of doctor, he
went to M.unster, where he soon distinguished himself by
his superior skill and abilities. His works, which are numerous, bear ample testimony to the vigour of his intellects, and
of his application to letters. His last work, “If ermippus
Redivivus,
” in which he professes to shew the practicability of prolonging the lives of elderly persons to 115 years,
by receiving the breath and transpirations of healthy young
females, was written, or first published, when he was in
his seventy-seventh year. This was translated into English,
and published, with additions and improvements, by the
late Dr. John Campbell, under the title of “Hermippus
liedivivus, or the Sage’s triumph over old Age and the
Grave.
” A vein of humour runs through this, and indeed
through most of the productions of this writer, which gave
them great popularity when first published, though they
are now little noticed, excepting, perhaps, the work ju$t
mentioned, in which the irony is extremely delicate; in
his rhapsody against the prevailing passion of taking snuff,
he affects to consider a passion for taking snuff as a disease of the nostrils, similar to that affecting the stomach
of girls in chlorosis, and therefore calls it the pica nasi.
The title of this production is, “Dissertatio satyrica,
physico-medico-moralis, de Pica Nasi sive Tabaci sternutatorii moderno abusu, et noxa,
” Amstelodami,
esident of Magdalen college, Oxford, an Arminian, who excited great notice in England, in the middle of the seventeenth century, by his ascetical and theological writings.
, a famous Jesuit, born
at St. Symphorien, two leagues from Lyons, in 1641, acquired great reputation among his order by his extraordinary talents in the pulpit. He was preacher for two
years at the court of James II. of England, who listened to
his sermons with great pleasure, and, as it is said by the
Romanists, with edification; hut, falling under the suspicion, though not convicted, of being concerned in a conspiracy, he was banished England, and betook himself to
Parai, in the Charolois, where he died, Feb. 15, 1682. In
conjunction with Marie Alacoque, he recommended the
celebration of the solemnity of the heart of Jesus, and
composed an office for the occasion. The first inventor of
this rite, however, was Thomas Goodwin, president of
Magdalen college, Oxford, an Arminian, who excited great
notice in England, in the middle of the seventeenth century,
by his ascetical and theological writings. His book entitled
“Cor Christi in ccelis erga peccatores in terris,
” printed
in Moral
Reflections,
” and “Spiritual Letters.
”
eceived the honour of knighthood. When he died is not ascertained, but probably it was about the end of the seventeenth century. He wrote: 1. “Moral Discourses and
, second
son of sir Thomas Culpeper of Hollingbourne, in Kent,
knight, was born in 1636, and entered a commoner of
University college, Oxford, in the beginning of 1640, and
was created B. A. in 1643. He afterwards travelled, and
on his return was elected probationer fellow of All Souls’
college, but soon retired to his estate in Kent, and after
the restoration received the honour of knighthood. When
he died is not ascertained, but probably it was about the
end of the seventeenth century. He wrote: 1. “Moral
Discourses and Essays upon several subjects,
” Lond. Considerations touching Marriage,
” 4to. 3. “A
Discourse shewing the many advantages, which will accrue
to this kingdom by the abatement of usury. Together
with the absolute necessity of reducing interest of money
to the lowest rate it bears in other countries,
” ibid. The necessity of abating
Usury, re-asserted,
” ibid. Brief Survey
of the growth of Usury in England, with the mischiefs
attending it,
” ibid. Humble proposal for
the relief of Debtors, and speedy payment of their Creditors,
” ibid. Several Objections against
the Reducement of Interest, propounded in a letter, with
the answer thereto,
” ibid. A Tract against the high rate of Usury, presented to the parliament in 1623,
” and reprinted by him
in
, a lady of great genius and learning, was born in Silesia about the beginning of the seventeenth century, and became celebrated for her extensive
, a lady of great genius and learning, was born in Silesia about the beginning
of the seventeenth century, and became celebrated for her
extensive knowledge in many branches of learning, particularly in mathematics and astronomy, upon which she
wrote several ingenious treatises; one of which, under the
title of “Urania Propitia,
” printed in
, a brave warrior in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, and created earl of Dariby by king
, a brave warrior in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, and created earl of Dariby by king Charles I. was the second son of sir John Danvers, knight, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir to John Nevil the last lord Latimer. He was born at Dantesey in Wiltshire, on the 28th of June, 1573. After an education suitable to his birth, he went and served in the Low Country wars, under Maurice count of Nassau, afterwards prince of Orange; and was engaged in many military actions of those times, both by sea and land. He was made a captain in the wars of France, occasioned in that kingdom by the League; and there knighted for his good service under Henry IV. king of France. He was next employed in Ireland, as lieutenantgeneral of the horse, and serjeant-major of the whole army, under Robert earl of Essex, and Charles Baron of Montjoy, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Upon the accession of king James I. he was, on account of his family’s deserts and sufferings, advanced, July 21, 1603, to the dignity of a peer of this realm, by the title of Baron of Dantesey: and in J 605, by a special act of parliament, restored in blood as heir to his father, notwithstanding the attainder of his elder brother, sir Charles Danvers, knight. He was also appointed lord president of Munster in Ireland; and in 1620 made governor of the Isle of Guernsey for life. By king Charles I. he was created earl of Danby, February 5, 1625-6; and made of his privy council; and knight of the order of the garter. Being himself a man of learning, as well as a great encourager of it, and observing that opportunities were wanting in the university of Oxford for the useful study of botany, he purchased for the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, five acres of ground, opposite Magdalen college, which had formerly served for a burying-place to the Jews (residing in great numbers at Oxford, till they were expelled England by king Edward I. in 1290), and conveyed his right and title to that piece of land to the university, on the 27th of March, 1622. The ground being first considerably raised, to prevent its being overflowed by the river Cherwell, the heads of the university laid the first stones of the walls, on the 25th of July following. They were finished in 1633, being fourteen feet high: and cost the noble benefactor about five thousand pounds. The entrance into the garden is on the north side under a stately gate, the charge of building which amounted to between rive and fix hundred pounds. Upon the front of that gateway, is this Latin inscription: Gloriie Dji Opt. Max. Honori Caroli Regis, in usum Acad. et Keipub. Henricus Comes Danby, D.D. MDCXXXII. For the maintenance of it, and of a gardener, the noble founder left, by will, the impropriate rectory of Kirkdale in Yorkshire: which was afterwards settled for the same purpose, by his brother and heir sir John Danvers, knt. The earl of Danby’s will bore date the 14th of December, 1640.
, a learned writer of the seventeenth century, whose works have but lately been brought
, a learned writer of the
seventeenth century, whose works have but lately been
brought to light, was born in the island of Chio; he took
the surname of Domesticus, as appears from the title of
his works. In 1637, became to Rome to prosecute his
studies in the Greek college, and seven years after he returned to his native country. During his studies at Rome,
he made so considerable a progress in learning and belles
lettres, that he was appointed to teach his fellow-students
the Greek language; but an illness, to which he became
subject, and which was thought likely to terminate in an
epilepsy, obliged him to leave the college, and disabled
him from taking the intended order of priesthood. Yet
before his return to the island of Chio, he made, with the
celebrated Lucas Holstenius, a tour to Florence, in order
to examine the Greek Mss. in the Laurentian library.
After his return to Chio, though he was not obliged to
preach the Roman catholic religion, he attempted to support and defend it by his writings. Controversial divinity
appears to have been the main object of his pursuits;
though he also cultivated poetry and physic. He composed a great number of iambic verses on sacred subjects;
one, among others, entitled “The Triumph of the Catholic
Faith.
” He wrote also a physical treatise against Galen and
his disciples. He married in 1649; but the latter part of
his life and his death are not recorded, though by the account of his countrymen he seems to have died at Messina.
His works were published for the first time in 1781, at
Rome, in 2 vols. 4to, under thfc title “Demetrii Pi-pani
Domestic! Chii Opera quie reperiuntur e Grseca in Latinum verr.it et adnotationes adjecit Bernardus Stephanopolus; accedit praefatio Joannis Christophori Amadutii,
cujus cura et studio nunc primum eduntur EpistoUe tres
Grgeco-Latinae Imperatorum Constantinopolitanorum Joannis et Emanuelis Comneni ad Romanos poutifices Houorium II. et Alexandrum III.
” Demetrius’s manuscripts
were discovered by signer Stellio Raffaetli, consul for the
English East India company at Chio, who sent them in
1776 to cardinal York, and earnestly requested of his eminence to get them published. The cardinal’s zeal for erudition, and for the interests of the Roman catholic religion,
prompted him to grant the request, and to charge Stephanopoli and Amaduzzi, two able Greek scholars, to
translate the Mss. in question into Latin, and to publish
both the text and their version together. They consist
chiefly of polemical treatises in favour of some points in
dispute between the Roman catholics and protestants, and
between the Roman catholics and the Greek church; but
the most valuable part of the work is the very learned preface by Amaduzzi, respecting the origin and progress of
the vulgar and modern Greek language, in which several
of Demetrius’s treatises are written; and another prefixed
to the letters mentioned in the title of the work, which
may be considered as one of the best essays extant on the
ancient Greek hand-writing.
brated man-midwife, was born at Deventer, in the province of Over-Yssel, in Holland, towards the end of the seventeenth century. Though skilled in every branch of medicine,
, a celebrated man-midwife, was
born at Deventer, in the province of Over-Yssel, in Holland, towards the end of the seventeenth century. Though
skilled in every branch of medicine, and honoured with
the dignity of doctor in that faculty, he was principally
employed in surgery, and in the latter part of his life he
almost entirely confined himself to the practice of midwifery, in which art he made considerable improvements.
He acquired also no small share of fame by his various mechanical inventions for assisting in preventing and curing
deformities of the body in young subjects. In that capacity he was repeatedly sent for to Denmark, whence he
drew a considerable revenue. His knowledge of mechanics did not, however, prevent his observing that much
mischief was done by the too frequent use of instruments
in midwifery; and he introduced such improvements in
the art, as gave him a decided preference over Mauriceau,
his almost immediate precursor. Satisfied with the principles on which his practice was founded, he published in
1701, “Operationes Chirurgicse novum lumen exhibentes
obstetricantibus,
” Leyden, 4to, which had been published
in Ulterius examen partuum
difficilium, Lapis Lydius obstetricum, et de necessaria cadaverum incisione.
” The two parts were published together, much improved, in 1733, but the work had already
been translated and published in most of the countries in
Europe. How long the author continued to live after the
publication of this improved edition is not known.
ral of his writings. He was very intimate with Richard Simon, and died canon of Avranches at the end of the seventeenth century. Besides his works in favour of the
, a learned doctor of the Sorbonne, was at first a friend to the society of Port-royal, but afterwards disagreed with them on account of the formulary, which he defended in several of his writings. He was very intimate with Richard Simon, and died canon of Avranches at the end of the seventeenth century. Besides his works in favour of the formulary, he left a treatise, entitled *‘ Preuves et Prejuges pour la Religion Chretienne et Catholique, contre les fausses Religions, et l’Atheisme," 4to, much esteemed by his Roman catholic brethren. It was Dirois who inserted the ecclesiastical history of each century in Mezeray’s History of France.
, an author and an actor, was born in Castle-street, Dublin, in the latter end of the seventeenth century, and made his first theatrical attempt
, an author and an actor, was born
in Castle-street, Dublin, in the latter end of the seventeenth century, and made his first theatrical attempt on the
stage of that metropolis but not meeting with encouragement suitable to his merit, he came over to England, and
entered himself in a travelling company, but from thence
very soon was removed to London, and established in
Drury-lane and Lincoln’s-inn-fields theatres, where he
was universally liked in every character he performed, but
in none more than those of Fondlewife in the “Old Bachelor,
” and Ben in “Love for Love,
” which Mr. Congreve, with whom he was a very great favourite, wrote in
some measure with a view to his manner of acting.
, born at Aberdeen in Scotland, bore some rank among the learned men of the seventeenth century. He had been in the retinue and service
, born at Aberdeen in Scotland, bore some rank among the learned men of the seventeenth century. He had been in the retinue and service
of David Cuningham, bishop of Aberdeen, and Peter Junius, great almoner of Scotland, when they went on an
embassy from king James to the court of Denmark, and to
the princes of Germany. After his return home, he went
to Heidelberg, where the famous Dionysius Gothofredus
taught the civil law. Donaldson, having there dictated to
some young students a short course of moral philosophy,
a young man of Riga in Livonia put the manuscript to
the press without his consent, but he seemed not displeased, and informs us of the several editions which were
made of that work in Germany, and in Great Britain,
under the title “Synopsis moralis philosophise.
” He was
afterwards professor of natural and moral philosophy, and
of the Greek tongue, in the university of Sedan, and was
principal of the college sixteen years after which he was
invited to open a college at Charenton but that establishment was immediately opposed by law. Mot to remain
idle while the law-suit was depending, he set himself to
collect from among his papers the several parts of his
“Synopsis Oeconomica,
” wnich he got printed at Paris in
Synopsis Locorum
communium, in qua sapientiae human imago repraesentatur,
” &c.
, an English gentleman of considerable learning and genius, of the seventeenth century, was a teacher of poetry and rhetoric
, an English gentleman of considerable learning and genius, of the seventeenth century, was
a teacher of poetry and rhetoric in the English college at
Doway, in 1618. He was invited thither by Dr. Kellison,
the president, who was then providing professors to teach
such young men as had been drawn from the protestant religion in England, and had hitherto been educated in the
schools of the Jesuits. Drury was for some time a prisoner
in England, on account of his religion, but about 1616 was
released at the intercession of count Gondemar, the Spanish
ambassador in England, to whom he dedicated his Latin
plays. These plays, three in number, entitled “Aluredus
sive Alfretius,
” a tragi-comedy “Mors,
” a comedy;
and “Reparatus sive depositum,
” a tragi-comedy, were
printed together at Doway, in 1628, 12mo, and often reprinted. There is a copy of his “Aluredus
” in the British
Museum, printed separately, of the date 1620, 16mo.
These plays, Dodd informs us, were exhibited with great
applause, first privately, in the refectory of the college of
Doway, and afterwards in the open court or quadrangle in
the presence of the principal persons of the town and university.
, an eminent Scotch divine of the seventeenth century, the eldest son of John Durham of E
, an eminent Scotch divine of the
seventeenth century, the eldest son of John Durham of
Easter-Powrie, esq. and descended from the ancient family
of Grange Durham in the county of Angus, was born
about 1622, and educated at the university of St. Andrew’s, which he left without taking a degree, as he had
then no design of following any of the learned professions.
When the civil wars broke out, he served in the army, with
the rank of captain, but was so much affected by his narrow escape from being killed in an engagement with the
English, that, encouraged by Dr. David Dickson, professor of divinity at Glasgow, he determined to devote himself to the church. With this view he went to Glasgow,
studied divinity under Dr. Dickson, and in 1646 was licensed by the presbytery of Irvine to preach. In the following year he was ordained minister of the Black-friars 7
church in Glasgow, where he became one of the most
popular preachers of his time. In 1650 he was chosen to
succeed Dr. Dickson as professor, and about the same time
attended Charles II. when in Scotland, as one of his chaplains. In 1651, when Cromwell and his army were at
Glasgow, Durham preached before the usurper, and upbraided him to his face for having invaded the country.
Next day Cromwell sent for him, and told him he thought
he had been a wiser man than to meddle with public affairs
in his sermons. Durham answered that it was not his common practice, but that he could not help laying hold of
such an opportunity of expressing his sentiments in his
presence. Cromwell dismissed him with a caution, but
met with so many other instances of similar rebuffs from
the Scotch clergy, that he thought it unadvisable to
pursue any more severe course. Durham was a man of such
moderation of temper and sentiment, as to be able to conduct himself without giving much offence in those troublesome times, and gained the favour of all parties by the
conscientious discharge of his pastoral duties. This character gave him unusual authority in the country where he
lived; but his incessant labours both as a preacher and
writer brought on a consumptive disorder, of which he died
June 25, 1658, in the prime of life. He wrote, 1. “A
Commentary on the Revelations.
” 2. “Sermons on the
liii. of Isaiah.
” 3. “Sermons on the Song of Solomon.
”
4. “A treatise on Scandal.
” 5. “An Exposition of the
Commandments:
” the two latter posthumous; with some
single sermons and pious tracts, which have been often
reprinted.
, a learned Maronite of the seventeenth century, was professor of Syriac and Arabic
, a learned Maronite of
the seventeenth century, was professor of Syriac and Arabic in the royal college at Paris, to which city he had been
invited from Rome by M. le Jay, that he might supply the
place of Gabriel Sionita, another Maronite, whom he had
employed in his edition of the Polyglot Bible. Gabriel
Sionita complained to the parliament, abused his countryman, and involved him in difficulties, which made much
noise. The abilities of Ecchellensis were also attacked by
M. de Flavigny, a learned doctor of the house and society
of the Sorbonne, and they wrote with much unbecoming
warmth against each other. There is, however, no doubt
but that Ecchellensis was well acquainted with the Arabic
and Syriac languages. The congregation de propaganda
JFidti associated him, 1636, with those whom they employed to translate the Bible into Arabic; and, recalling him
from Paris, appointed him professor of Oriental languages
at Rome. It was at that time that the grand duke, Ferdinand II. engaged Ecchellensis to translate the 5th, 6th,
and 7th books of the Conies of Apollonius from Arabic
into Latin, in which he was assisted by the celebrated John
Alphonso Borelli, who added commentaries to them. The
whole is printed with Archimedes “De Assumptis,
” Florence, Euthychius vindicatus,
”
against Selden and Hottinger, Rome, Remarks on the Catalogue of Chaldee Writers composed by
Ebed-jesu, and published at Rome,
” Chronicoa
Orientale,
” printed at the Louvre, Institutio* ling. Syriacae,
” Rome,
Synopsis Philosophise Orientalium,
” Paris,
Versio Durrhamani de medicis virtutibus
Animaiium, Plantarum, et Gemmarum,
”' Paris,
prophecies, and he finished his life in tranquillity, but without religion. He died about the close of the seventeenth century.
, an English musician, was much
admired 'for many years for his surprising skill on several
instruments, but while in the zenith of his fame, became a
quaker, and practised so many follies in this new profession that he was the ridicule of the whole town. He burnt
his lute and his violins, and by meditation found out a new
expedient for ascertaining the true religion; this was, to
collect under one roof the most virtuous men of the several sects that divide Christianity; who should unanimously
fall to prayer for seven days without taking any nourishment. “Then,
” said he, “those on whom the spirit of God
shall manifest itself in a sensible manner, that is to say,
by the trembling of the limbs, and interior illuminations,
may oblige the rest to subscribe to their decisions.
” He
found, however, none that would put this strange conceit
to the trial; and while he persisted in propagating his folly,
his prophecies, his invectives, his pretended miracles, only
served to pass him from one prison into another: till at
length, by this sort of discipline he was brought to confess
the vanity of his prophecies, and he finished his life in
tranquillity, but without religion. He died about the close
of the seventeenth century.
, in Latin Elichius, lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and probably was born at Marpurg. He
, in Latin Elichius, lived at the
beginning of the seventeenth century, and probably was
born at Marpurg. He there maintained a public dispute
on diabolical magic, in which he implicitly believed, and
would have printed a book on the same subject, if the
magistrates had not taken care to prevent it; who, on
searching his house, found several books on which he had
written immoral and impious notes. The books were confiscated, and he was cited before the judges; to whom he
promised upon oath and in writing, that he would renounce
such frivolous studies for the future; yet he published his
book at Francfort in 1607, under the title of ' De dapmoijomagia, de daemonis cacurgia, et lamiarum c-ner-gia,“with a very angry preface against the academical senate of
Marpurg. In this work he arrogantly contends against
those who doubt of the truth of what is related of witches,
hd of their being really conveyed through the air to their
meetings. He particularly attacks Tobias Tandler, professor of medicine at Wirtemberg, who had published an
oration
” De fascino et incantatione,“in 1606. This
Tandler reprinted in 1607, with some other tracts of the
same nature, and added a short reply to the calumnies of
Elichius,
” Repulsio calumniarum Elichii,“from which
Bayle took the materials of this article. Elichius, being
informed that he was to be called to account for his book,
made his escape, and turned Roman catholic. He is said
by Bayle to have published at Francfort, in 1609, another
book, entitled
” Innocentius; sive de miseria hominis, libri
tres, in ignominiam et confusionem superborum editi.“But Moreri thinks he was only the editor, and that it is the
same which is attributed to Innocent III. and of which
there is a Paris edition of 1645, entitled
” D. Innocentiae
papre, de contemptu mundi, sive de miseria humans conditionis, libri tres."
, a learned commentator of the seventeenth century, was a native of Hamburgh, and acquired
, a learned commentator
of the seventeenth century, was a native of Hamburgh, and
acquired very considerable fame as a critic. He published,
with notes, 1. “Arnobii disputationes adversus Gentes,
”
Hamburgh, Gennadius de dogmatibus
Ecclesise, ibid. 1614, 4to. 3. Sidonii Apollinaris Opera,
”
Hanover, Cebetis tabula cum versione
et uotis Jo. Caselii,
” Leyden, Apuleii
Platonic! Opera omnia,
” Francfort,
lists of controversy with many eminent English divines, who wrote against popery about the beginning of the seventeenth century, particularly Burhill, Prideaux, Abbot,
, a learned Jesuit, was a
native of Crete, and supposed to be descended from the
imperial family of the Palseologi. He went to Rome in
pursuit of knowledge, and entered himself a member of the
society of Jesus. He was afterwards professor of philosophy, and then of theology in the university of Padua, rector of the Greek college in Rome, and censor of the inquisition. He was honoured with the esteem and friendship
of pope Urban VIII. who appointed him chaplain to his
nephew cardinal Francis Barberini, when he was sent papal
legate into France. He died at Rome Dec. 24, 1625. He
was suspected to be the author of a work entitled “Admonitio ad Regem Ludovicum XIII.
” which attacked the
authority of the kings of France, in matters of an ecclesiastical nature. This treatise brought the Jesuits into general disrepute; it was likewise censured by the faculty of
the Sorbonne, and the assembly of the clergy at Paris in
1626, and condemned by the parliament. He merits notice here, however, chiefly for having frequently entered
the lists of controversy with many eminent English divines,
who wrote against popery about the beginning of the
seventeenth century, particularly Burhill, Prideaux, Abbot, and Collins, but the titles of his works may now be
spared.
, celebrated as a philosopher, patriot, and learned writer of the seventeenth century, was descended from an ancient and honourable
, celebrated as a philosopher, patriot, and learned writer of the seventeenth century, was descended from an ancient and honourable family, a branch of which, at the time of his birth, was settled in the county of Surrey, though it flourished originally in the county of Salop, at a place which is still called Evelyn. George Evelyn, esq. purchased the family estate at Wotton in Surrey, in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and had, by two wives, sixteen sons and eight daughters. He died May 30, 1603, in the seventy-third year of his age, leaving his estate at Wotton to Richard Evelyn, esq. his youngest and only surviving son by his second wife. This Richard Evelyn, esq. married Eleanor, or Ellen, daughter and heiress of John Stansficld, of die Cliff" near Lewes, esq. and had by her three sons, George, John, and Richard.
, an eminent protestant divine of the seventeenth century, was born at Schafhousen, July 29, 1639.
, an eminent protestant divine of the seventeenth century, was born at Schafhousen,
July 29, 1639. He began his studies under the inspection
of his father, who was rector of thq college; but in 1647
went to Cologne, where his brother Sebaldus lived, and
there for about a year studied Greek and Latin. In 1643
he returned to Schafhousen, but left it for Heidelberg in
the following year, where his brother had been appointed
professor of history and Greek. In 1650 he went to
Utrecht, and for about two years was employed in teaching. At the end of that time he visited Paris as tutor of
the son of M. de la Lane, governor of Reez, and remained
in tnis station for three years. Having returned to Heidelberg in 1656, he took his degree of master of arts, and the
following year was admitted into holy orders, and appointed
professor extraordinary of Greek, but was, not long after,
requested by the elector to go again to Paris as tutor to
the baron Rothenschild, and in 1659 he accompanied his
pupil to the Hague, and afterwards into England. On
their return to France they parted, and Fabricius went to
Leyden, where he took his degree of doctor in divinity.
Soon after he was appointed professor of divinity at Heidelr
berg, superintendant of the studies of the electoral prince,
inspector of the college of wisdom, and philosophy professor. In 1664 he was appointed ecclesiastical counsellor
to the elector, who, in 1666, sent him to Schafhousen to
explain to that canton the reasons for the war of Lorraine,
which office Dr. Boeckelman had discharged in the other
cantons. In 1674, when the French army advanced towards Heidelberg, Fabricius retired to Fredericksburgh,
and to Cologne, but returned the same year. In 168O,
although a Calvinist, he was commissioned with a Roman
catholic to open the temple of concord at Manheim. In
1688, the French, who had taken possession of Heidelberg,
showed so much respect for his character as to give him a
passport, which carried him safely to Schafhousen; but
the continuance of the war occasioned him again to shift
his place of residence, and when at Francfort, he was employed by the king of England (William III.) and the
States General to join the English envoy in Swisserland,
and watch the interests of the States General. In the
execution of this commission he acquitted himself with
great ability, and was particularly successful in adjusting
tjbe differences between the Vaudois and the duke of
Savoy, and afterwards in accomplishing an alliance between
the duke and the States General. We find him afterwards
at Heidelberg, and Francfort, at which last he died in
1697. From these various employments it appears that he
was a man of great abilities and political weight, and he
derived likewise considerable reputation from his writings
as a divine. Such was his abhorence of Socinianism that
he opposed the settlement of the Socinian Poles when
driven out of their own country in the Palatinate; in which,
however, at that time he was not singular, as, according
to Mosheim, none of the European nations could be persuaded to grant a public settlement to a sect whose members denied the divinity of Christ. The same historian
informs us that he “was so mild and indulgent
” as to
maintain, that the difference between the Lutherans and
Roman catholics was of so little consequence, that a Lutheran might safely embrace popery; an opinion, which,
mild and indulgent as Mosheim thinks it, appears to us
more in favour of popery than of Lutheranism. His works,
on controversial topics, were collected and published in a
quarto volume, by Heidegger with a life of the author,
printed at Zurich in 1698.
, a celebrated canonist of the seventeenth century, was regarded at Rome as an orator,
, a celebrated canonist of the seventeenth century, was regarded at Rome as an orator, and every cause which he took in hand as successful. He was for about fifteen years secretary to several popes, all of whom entertained a high respect for his talents, and frequently consulted him. He became blind at the age of forty-four, which misfortune does not appear to have interfered with his professional labours, for it was after this that he composed his celebrated " Commentary on the Decretals/' in 3 vols. folio, which extended his fame throughout all Europe. It was dedicated to pope Alexander VII. by whose order he had engaged in the undertaking, and was printed at Rome in 1661, and five times reprinted. The best edition is that of Venice, 1697, in which the entire text of the Decretals is given. Fagnani continued deprived of his sight, but in full possession of his mental faculties until his death in 1678, as it is supposed, in the eightieth year of his age. His memory appears to have been uncommon, and the stores of learning he had laid up before he was deprived of his sight he could bring forth with promptitude and accuracy, even to a quotation from the poets whom he studied in his youth.
, a very celebrated engraver, was born in London in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was the pupil of Peake, the printer
, a very celebrated engraver,
was born in London in the early part of the seventeenth
century. He was the pupil of Peake, the printer and
printseller, who was afterwards knighted, and worked with
him three or four years. At the breaking out of the civil
war, Peake espoused the cause of Charles I.; and Faithorne,
who accompanied his master, was taken prisoner by the
rebels at Basing-house, whence he was sent to London,
and confined in Aldersgate. In this uncomfortable situation he exercised his graver; and a small head of the first
Villiers, duke of Buckingham, in the style of Mallan, was
one of his first performances. The solicitations of his
friends in his favour at last prevailed; and he was released
from prison, with permission to retire on the continent.
The story of his banishment for refusing to take the oath
to Oliver Cromwell, would have done him no discredit,
had it been properly authenticated, but that does not appear to be the case. Soon after his arrival in France, he
found protection and encouragement from the abbe* de
Marolles, and formed an acquaintance with the celebrated
Nanteuil, from whose instructions he derived very considerable advantages. About 1650, he returned to England, and soon after married the sister of a person who is
called “the famous
” captain Ground. By her he had two
sons, Henry, who was a bookseller, and William, an engraver in mezzotinto.
, a Dominican, born at Valentia, in Spain, made a very distinguished figure among the divines of the seventeenth century. After teaching divinity for some time
, a Dominican, born at Valentia, in
Spain, made a very distinguished figure among the divines
of the seventeenth century. After teaching divinity for
some time at Burgos, he was appointed first professor at
Rome, where he remained for eighteen years and then
was made prior of Salamanca and three years after prefect, or regent of the students. He died in 1682. His
works consist of a “Commentary on the sum of St. Thomas,
” 'which appeared at Salamanca and Rome,
, a protestant minister and professor of divinity at Nismes, of the seventeenth century, is, contrary to his namesake in the
, a protestant minister and professor of divinity at Nismes, of the seventeenth century, is,
contrary to his namesake in the preceding article, memorable for becoming a papist, even after having maintained in public disputation, in 1602, that “Pope Clement
the VHIth was properly the Antichrist,
” yet he was the
first who began to yield in the political assemblies of the
reformed in France. Many circumstances in his behaviour
had made him suspected as a pensioner of the court, as a
false brother, and a traitor to the churches. He did not,
however, openly change his religion till a popular tumult
arose against him > in which his house was plundered, and
himself so near being murdered, that, for the sake of
escaping he was obliged to lie three days concealed in a
tomb. After this he settled at Paris, where he endeavoured
to make his fortune. He published in 1614, the year after
his conversion, a book of controversy upon the subject
of antichrist. The king employed him in several important affairs; and in 1626 he was commanded to attend
his majesty to Britanny, where he was honoured with the
title of state and privy counsellor. Cardinal de Richelieu
had a particular esteem for him. He died of a hectic fever
in 1626. His family was numerous; and he made all his
children promise that they would live and die in the catholic faith. His only daughter married M. Tardieu, lieutennnt-criminel of Paris, concerning which couple some
curious anecdotes are recorded in Boileau’s tenth satire,
and in the notes of St. Marc. Ferrier was the reputed
author of a famous political work, entitled “Catholique
d'Etat,
” published in
, an English Jesuit of the seventeenth century, whose true name was Piercy, was born
, an English Jesuit of the seventeenth
century, whose true name was Piercy, was born in Yorkshire, and admitted in the English college at Rome,
whence he removed to Louvaine, and became a Jesuit in
1594. Afterwards he was sent on a mission to England,
and laboured several years in endeavouring to make proselytes, until he was imprisoned and banished. Those of
his order then made him professor of divinity at Louvaine,
and vice-provincial of the English Jesuits. Returning thence
to England, he made a considerable figure in the reigns of
James I. and Charles I. in various controversies and conferences with some noted divines of the church of England.
His most remarkable conference was with Dr. Francis
White, dean of Carlisle, and afterwards bishop of Norwich, which was held in the king’s presence in 1622, at
three different times, at the request of the duke of Buckingham, on account of his duchess being a Roman catholic.
At the conclusion of these conferences, king James desired
Fisher to return an answer to nine points, proposed by his
majesty, which Fisher did in writing, except an article
concerning the supremacy, about which he desired to he
excused. He had conferences also with Laud, Featley,
and othrrs. He was alive in 1641, but how long afterwards we do not find. He published 1. “A Treatise of
Faith,
” Lond. A Defence of the preceding against Wooton and White,
” St.
Omers, A Challenge to Protestants; to shew
the succession of their pastors, from Christ down,
” ibid.
An Answer to nine points of Controversy proposed by king James I. with the censure of Mr. White’s
reply,
” The Romish Fisher caught in his own net,
” by Dr.
Featley, Lond. A Conference between bishop Laud
and Fisher,
” ibid. Reply to the relation, of the conference between Laud and Fisher,
” by an
anonymous author, Reply to Fisher’s
answer to some questions propounded by king James,
”
Orthodox faith and the
way to the church explained,
” by the same, Fisher’s folly unfolded,
” &c. by George Walker, Catalogus protestantium before Luther,
” by George
Webb, An answer to Mr. Fisher the Jesuit,
&c. in a dialogue,
” by Henry Rogers, The
Protestant church existent, and by whom their faith professed in all ages,
” by the same, A
Dialogue about this question, Where was your church before Luther?
” by C. W.
a degree of invention, imagination, spirit, and sublimity, which we seldom meet with among the poets of the seventeenth century before we arrive at Milton.
In the supplement to his second volume, Mr. Headley has demonstrated at considerable length how much Fletcher owed to Spenser, and Milton to Fletcher. For this he has offered the apology due to the high characters of those poets, and although we have been accustomed to see such researches carried too far, yet it must be owned that there is a certain degree to which they must be carried before the praise of invention can be justly bestowed. How far poets may borrow from one another without injury to their fame, is a question yet undetermined. After, however, erery deduction of this kind that can be made, the Fletchers will still remain in possession of a degree of invention, imagination, spirit, and sublimity, which we seldom meet with among the poets of the seventeenth century before we arrive at Milton.
, an ingenious gentleman of the seventeenth century, was the son of sir John Ford, knt.
, an ingenious gentleman of the seventeenth century, was the son of sir John Ford, knt. and
was born at Up-park in the parish of Harting in Sussex, in
1605. He became a gentleman commoner of Trinity
college, Oxford, in 1621, but left it without taking a degree, after which Wood has not been able to trace his
history, until he served the office of high sheriff for Sussex, and demonstrated his loyalty to Charles I. who conferred on him the honour of knighthood at Oxford, Oct.
4, 1643. About that time he bore a colonel’s commission
in the army, or, according to Clarendon, had a regiment
of horse in lord Hopton’s troops, and was afterwards a
considerable sufferer for his adherence to the royal cause.
In 1647, he and Dr. Stephen Goffe were imprisoned on.
suspicion of being accessary to his majesty’s escape from
Hampton court. How or when he was released we are not
told, but as he had married general Ireton’s sister, he
might owe his release to the influence of his brother-inlaw with the parliamentary party. In 1656 we find him
employed in certain mechanical inventions of considerable
importance. With Cromwell’s encouragement, and at the
request of the citizens of London, he contrived machinery
for raising the Thames water into all the higher streets of
the city, a height of ninety-three feet. This he is said to
have accomplished in a year’s time, and at his own expence; and the same machinery was afterwards employed
in other parts of the kingdom for draining mines and lands,
which it performed better and cheaper than any former
contrivance. He also constructed the great water engine at
Somerset-house, for supplying the Strand, &c. but this
obstructing the prospect from the windows, queen Catherine, the consort of Charles II. caused it to be pulled
clown. After the restoration he invented a mode of coining copper money (Wood says, farthings) which could not
possibly be counterfeited, as each piece was made to differ
from another in some minute circumstance. He failed in
procuring a patent for these for England, but obtained one
for Ireland. He went over accordingly to carry his design
into execution there, but died before he could accomplish
it, on Sept. 3, 1670, and his body being brought over, was
interred in the family buriai place at Harting. Wood
speaks of him as a man who might have done great things
if he had met with proper encouragement. He published,
1. “A Design for bringing a River from Rickmansworth in
Hertfordshire to St. Giles’s in the Fields, near London;
the benefits of it declared, and the objections against it
answered,
” Lond. Experimental Proposals how the king may have money to pay and maintain his
fleets, with ease to the people London may be re-built,
and all proprietors satisfied money may be lent at six
per cent, on pawns and the fishing trade set up, and all
without straining or thwarting any of our laws or customs,
”
ibid. Defence of
Bill Credit.
” About
lla Ragione di Guerra: Esposizione di tutta l'Opera di Lucrezio.” He died at Naples in the beginning of the seventeenth century, but at what age is unknown.
, an eminent political writer,
was a native of Rovigno in Italy, and spent several years
at Rome, where he was greatly esteemed by Sessa, ambassador of Philip II. king of Spain. He was employed in
civil as well as military affairs, and acquitted himself always
with great applause; yet he had like to have been ruined,
and to have even lost his Hfe, by his enemies. This
obliged him to withdraw to Naples; and still having friends
to protect his innocence, he proved it at length to the
court of Spain, who ordered count de Benevento, viceroy
of Naples, to employ him, and Frachetta lived in a very
honourable manner at Naples, where a handsome pension
was allowed him. He gained great reputation by his political works, the most considerable of which is that entitled
“II Seininario de Governi di Stato, et di Guerra.
” In
this work he has collected, under an hundred and ten
chapters, about eight thousand military and state maxims,
extracted from the best authors; and has added to each
chapter a discourse, which serves as a commentary to it.
This work was printed twice, at least, by the author, reprinted at Venice in 1647, and at Genoa in 1648, 4to;
and there was added to it, “II Principe,
” by the same
writer, which was published in 1597. The dedication
informs us, that Frachetta was prompted to write this book
from a conversation he had with the duke of Sessa; in
which the latter observed, among other particulars, that
he thought it as important as it was a difficult task, to inform princes truly pf such transactions as happen in their
dominions. His other compositions are, “Discorso della
Ragione di Stato: Discorso della Ragione di Guerra:
Esposizione di tutta l'Opera di Lucrezio.
” He died at
Naples in the beginning of the seventeenth century, but
at what age is unknown.
ieur de Chambrai, under which name he is classed in some biographical works, was a learned architect of the seventeenth century, and a native of Chambrai. He was connected
, sieur de Chambrai, under which
name he is classed in some biographical works, was a
learned architect of the seventeenth century, and a native
of Chambrai. He was connected by relationship, as well
as love of the art, with Sublet des Noyers, secretary of
state and superintend ant of the buildings under Louis XIII.
About 1640, Freart was sent, with one of his brothers, to
Italy, on an important mission to the pope, and he was
also ordered to collect antiquities, &c. and engage the
ablest artists to reside in France. Among the latter he
brought Poussin to Paris. Freart died in iv76. He published a French translation of Da Vinci on painting, Paris,
1651, fol. and another of Palladia’s Architecture, Paris,
1650. Of this a fine edition was printed by Nicolas du
Bois at the Hague in 1726, with engravings by Piea*t, but
he has strangely divided the translator into two persons,
asserting that Freart published one edition of Palladio, and
the sieur de Chambrai another. But the work by which
Freart is best known is his “Parallele de l'architecture
antique avec la rooderne,
” Paris,
, a celebrated French mathematician of the seventeenth century, was the contemporary and companion
, a celebrated French
mathematician of the seventeenth century, was the contemporary and companion of Des Cartes, Fermat, and the
other learned mathematicians of their time. He was admitted geometrician of the French academy in 1666; and
died in 1675. He had many papers inserted in the ancient
memoirs of the academy, of 1666, particularly in vol. V.
of that collection, viz. 1. “A method of resolving problems by Exclusions.
” 2. “Treatise of right-angled Triangles in Numbers.
” 3. “Short tract on Combinations.
”
4. “Tables of Magic Squares.
” 5. “General method of
making Tables of Magic Squares.
” His brother Nicolas
, a poet of the seventeenth century, born 160O, at Paris, was counsellor
, a poet of the seventeenth century, born 160O,
at Paris, was counsellor to the court of the mint, and died
dean of the same court, after the year 1661, leaving several children. Freriicle wrote many theatrical pieces as
“Palemon,
” a pastoral, 8vo; “Niobe,
” 8vo; “L'Entretien des Bergers,
” a pastoral, which is contained in
“Les Illustres Bergers,
” 8vo. Also a poem, entitled,
“Jesus crucifiej
” a “Paraphrase on the Psalms,
” in
verse, &c.
, one of the astrological impostors of the seventeenth century, was born at Wheatly near Oxford, Dec.
, one of the astrological impostors
of the seventeenth century, was born at Wheatly near Oxford, Dec. 31, 1627. His father, William, was a farmer
of that place, and his mother was a daughter of sir John
Curzon of Waterperry, knt. Our conjuror was first put
apprentice to Thomas Nicols, a taylor, in Oxford, but
leaving his master in 1644, he went up to London, and
became a pupil of the noted William Lilly, under whom
be profited so far as to be soon enabled “to set up the
trade of almanack-making and fortune-telling for himself.
”
His pen was employed for many years on nativities, almanacks, and prodigies. There is, we believe, a complete
collection of his printed works in the new catalogue of the
British Museum, and vre hope we shall be excused for not
transcribing the list. Dodd, who has given an account of
him, as a Roman catholic, says that some of his almanacks,
reflecting upon the management of state affairs during the
time of Oates’s plot, brought him into trouble. While
other astrologers were content to exercise their art for the
benefit of their own country only, Gadbury extended his
to a remote part of the globe, as, in 1674, he published
his “West India, or Jamaica Almanack
” for that year.
He collected and published the works of his friend sir
George Wharton in 1683, 8vo. His -old master Lilly, who
quarrelled with him, and against whom he wrote a book
called “Anti-Merlinus Anglicus,
” says he was a “monster
of ingratitude,
” and “a graceless fellow;
” which is true,
if, according to his account, he had two wives living at
one time, and one of them two husbands. Lilly adds, that
be went to sea with intention for Barbadoes, but died by
the way in his voyage. When this happened we are not
told. Lilly died in 16S1, and according to Wood, Gadbury was living in 1690. “The Black Life of John Gadbury
” was written and published by Partridge in
, or, as he sometimes styled himelf, de Speciosa Villa, one of those authors of the seventeenth century, who contributed somewhat to the amusement
, or, as he sometimes styled himelf, de Speciosa Villa, one of those authors of the seventeenth century, who contributed somewhat to the
amusement of the republic of letters, without adding much
to its credit, was the son of George Gayton of Little Britain, in London, where he was born in 1609. He was
educated at Merchant Taylors’ school, whence, in 1625,
he was elected scholar of St. John’s college, Oxford, became a fellow of that house, and master of arts. He was
afterwards superior beadle of arts and physic, and took
the degree of M. B. in 1647; but next year the parliamentary visitors ejected him from the beadleship. He
now went to London, married, and maintained himself
and wife by his writings. After the restoration, he was
replaced in his office of beadle; but, according to Wood’s
account, followed more “the vices of poets.
” His residence, however, was still at Oxford, where he died in
Cat-street, Dec. 12, 1666, and was buried in St. Mary’s
church, at the expence of the vice-chancellor, Dr. Fell,
not having “but one farthing in his pocket when he died.
”
Among his works Wood enumerates, 1. “Chartse Scriptae, or a New Game at cards, called Play by the Book,
”
Pleasant notes upon Don Quixote,
” Hymna
de febribus,
” Lond. Will Bagnal’s Ghost,
or the Merry Devil of Gadmunton,
” ibid. The Art of Longevity, or a dietetical institution,
” Lond.
Walk, Knaves, walk,
” a discourse intended
to have been spoken at court; the name of Hodge Turbervil is in the title of this work, but it was written by Gayton, when in the king’s bench prison, and published in
1659. 7. “Wit revived; or a new excellent way of Divertisement, digested into most ingenious questions and
answers,
” Lond. Poem upon Mr. Jacob Bobart’s Yew-men of
the Guards to the Physic garden, &c.
” Oxon.
, a learned Italian, who flourished in the early part of the seventeenth century, was admitted to the degree of doctor
, a learned Italian,
who flourished in the early part of the seventeenth century,
was admitted to the degree of doctor by the Ambrosian
college at Milan. He was author of a Latin translation of
the “Commentary of the three Rabbins on the Proverbs
of Solomon,
” Milan, Thesaurus Linguae Arabicse, seu Lexicon ArabicoLatinum,
”
, a divine and poet of the seventeenth century, was born at London in 1600, whence,
, a divine and poet of the seventeenth century, was born at London in 1600, whence, he
was sent by his father in 1614 to Christ church, Oxford,
where, soon after his being entered, he was elected a student on the royal foundation. At about seven years standing, he here took his degrees of bachelor and master of
arts, and before he left the university, which was in 1627,
he had the degree of bachelor of divinity conferred on him.
Being now in orders, he distinguished himself as a, preacher
at the university. For some time, during the plague at
Oxford, he resided at Flower in Northamptonshire, and was
afterwards vicar of Thorncornbe in Devonshire, where it is
probable that he resided till his death, which was in 1646.
He was accounted a good preacher, and printed a volume
of “Sermons,
” Lond. Levite’s
Revenge,
” being meditations, in verse, on the 19th and
20th chapters of Judges, and a tragedy called “Lodowick
Sforza, duke of Milan,
”
ty writings on political and religious subjects, was born at Kircudbright in Galloway, about th fend of the seventeenth century. He had an university education, and
, a native of Scotland, and onc
distinguished by his party writings on political and religious
subjects, was born at Kircudbright in Galloway, about th
fend of the seventeenth century. He had an university
education, and went through the common course of aca*
demical studies; but whether at Aberdeen or St. Andrew’s
is uncertain. When a young man he came to London,
and at first supported himself by teaching the languages,
but afterwards commenced party writer, and was employed
by the earl of Oxford in queen Anne’s time; but we know
not in what capacity. He first distinguished himself in the
Bangorian controversy by two pamphlets in defence of
Hoadly, which recommended him to Mr. Tjrenchard, an
author of the same stamp, who took him into his house, at
first as his amanuensis, and afterwards into partnership, as
an author. In 1720, they began to publish, in conjunction, a series of letters, under the name of “Cato,
” upon
various and important subjects relating to the public.
About the same time they published another periodical
paper, under the title of “The Independent Whig,
” which
was continued some years after Trenchard’s death by Gordon alone. The same spirit which appears, with more
decent language, in Cato’s letters against the administration in the state, shews itself in this work in much more
glaring colours against the hierarchy in the church. It is,
in truth, a gross and indecent libel on the established religion, which, however, Gordon was admirably qualified
to write, as he had no religion of his own to check his intemperate sallies. After Trenchard’s death, the minister,
sir Robert Walpole, knowing his popular talents, took him
into pay to defend his measures, for which end he wrote
several pamphlets. At the time of his death, July 28, 1750,
he was first commissioner of the wine-licences, an office which he had enjoyed many years, and which diminished his patriotism surprisingly. He was twice married. His second wife was the widow of his friend Trenchard by whom he had children, and who survived him.
Two collections of his tracts have been preserved the
first entitled, “A Cordial for Low-spirits,
” in three volumes;
and the second, “The Pillars of Priestcraft and
Orthodoxy shaken,
” in two volumes. But these, like many other
posthumous pieces, had better have been suppressed. His
translations of Sallust and Tacitus, now, perhaps, contribute more to preserve his name, although without conferring much reputation on it. His Tacitus appeared in 2
vols. fol. in 1728, with discourses taken from foreign commentators and translators of that historian. Sir Robert
Walpole patronised a subscription for the work, which
was very successful; but no classic was perhaps ever so
miserably mangled. His style is extremely vulgar, yet
affected, and abounds with abrupt and inharmonious periods, totally destitute of any resemblance to the original,
while the translator fancied he was giving a correct imitation.
, a Franciscan friar, was born at Douay, in the early part of the seventeenth century, and has been styled the abbreviator
, a Franciscan friar, was born
at Douay, in the early part of the seventeenth century,
and has been styled the abbreviator of Descartes. He was
an eminent professor both of philosophy and divinity in the
university of Douay, where he associated much' with the
English, and was sent by them as a missionary into England. His residence was chiefly in Oxfordshire, where he
led a retired life. He is said to have been the first who
reduced the Cartesian system to the method of the schools,
and his work on this subject, which was frequently printed
in England, first in 1671, 12mo, and afterwards, much
enlarged in 4to, was also translated and published in folio.
He carried on a controversy for some time with a Mr. John
Serjeant on metaphysical subjects. He was alive in Oxfordshire in 1695, but no farther particulars of his history
are now known. Among his works we find the following
mentioned: 1. “L'homme sans passions, selon les sentimens de Seneque,
” Hague,
Scydromedia, seu Sermo quern Alphonsus de la Vida habtiit, coram Comite de Falmouth, de monarchia,
” 1669, 16mo.
3. “Apologia Renati des Cartes contra Sam. Parkerum,
”
London, Historia naturee variis expe*rimentis elucidata,
” ibid. Compendium rerum
jucundarum, et memorabilium naturae,
” Norimb. Dissertatio de carentia sensus et cognitionis in
Brutis,
” Ley den, L'Epicure Spiritual, ou,
Pempire de la volupte sur les vertus,
” Paris, 8vo, 8. “Historia sacra a mundo condito ad Constantinum magnum,
”
which is said to be his best performance.
, an empiric, whose wori r derful cures have been attested by some of the most eminent men of the seventeenth century, was the son of William Greatrakes,
, an empiric, whose wori r
derful cures have been attested by some of the most eminent men of the seventeenth century, was the son of William Greatrakes, esq. and born at Affane, co. Waterforcl,
in Ireland, Feb. 14, 1628. He was educated a protestant
in the free-school of Lismore, until the age of thirteen,
when his friends intended to have removed him to Trinity
college, Dublin, but the rebellion breaking out, his mother took refuge with him in England, where he was kindly
received by his great uncle Edmund Harris, brother to
sir Edward Harris, knt. his grandfather by the mother’s
side. After his uncle’s death he spent some years in the
study of the classics and divinity under a clergyman in Devonshire, and then returned to Ireland, which was at that
time in so deplorable a state that he retired to the castle of
Caperquin, where he spent a year in contemplation, and
seems to have contracted a species of enthusiasm which
never altogether left him. In 1649 he entered into the
service of the parliament, and continued in the army until
1656, when, a great part of the English being disbanded,
he retired to his native country of Aflfane, and by the interest of the governor there, was made clerk cf the peace
for the county of Cork, register for transplantation, and
justice of the peace. At the Restoration all these places
were taken from him, and his mind being disturbed partly
with this disappointment, and partly for want of any regular and useful occupation, he felt an impulse, as he calls
it, that the gift of curing the king’s evil was bestowed upon
him and accordingly he began his operations, which were
confined to praying, and stroking the part affected and
such wonderful cures were effected, that he determined
not to stop here. Three years after, he had another impulse that he could cure all kinds of diseases, and by
the same simple remedy, which must be administered
by himself. When however he pretended to some supernatural aid, and mentioned the Holy Ghost with irreverent presumption, as his assistant, he was cited to the
bishop’s court, and forbid to take such liberties. This
probably was the cause of his coming to England in January 1665, where he performed many cures, was invited
by the king to Whitehall, and his reputation spread most
extensively. Even Dr. Henry Stubbe, an eminent physician, published a pamphlet in praise of his skill. Having
failed in one instance, that of a Mr. Cresset in Charterhouse square, there appeared a pamphlet entitled “Wonders no miracles: or Mr. Valentine Greatrakes Gift of
Healing examined,
” &c. Lond. A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrakes, and
divers of his strange cures,
” &c. ibid.
r Anderson, cousin -german of the said David, was professor of mathematics at Paris in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and published there several valuable
, the first of an eminent family of
learned men in Scotland, was the son of the Rev. Mr. John
Gregory, minister of Drumoak in the county of Aberdeen,
and was born at Aberdeen in November 1638. His mother
was a daughter of Mr. David Anderson of Finzaugh, or
Finshaugh, a gentleman who possessed a singular turn for
mathematical and mechanical knowledge. This mathematical genius was hereditary in the family of the Andersons,
and from them it seems to have been transmitted to their
descendants of the names of Gregory, Reid, &c. Alexander Anderson, cousin -german of the said David, was
professor of mathematics at Paris in the beginning of
the seventeenth century, and published there several valuable and ingenious works; as may be seen in our vol. II.
The mother of James Gregory inherited the genius of her
family; and observing in her son, while yet a child, a
itrong propensity to mathematics, she instructed him
herself in the elements of that science. His education in the
languages he received at the grammar-school of Aberdeen,
and went through the usual course of academical studies at
Marischal college, but was chiefly delighted with philosophical researches, into which a new door had been lately
opened by the key of the mathematics. Galileo, Kepler,
and Des Cartes were the great masters of this new method;
their works, therefore, Gregory made his principal study,
and began early to make improvements upon their discoveries in optics. The first of these improvements was the
invention of the reflecting telescope, which still bears his
name; and which was so happy a thought, that it has
given occasion to the most considerable improvements
made in optics, since the invention of the telescope. He
published the construction of this instrument in his “Optica
promota,
”
, a learned schoolmaster of the seventeenth century, was born in London in 1590, and was
, a learned schoolmaster
of the seventeenth century, was born in London in 1590,
and was educated at Westminster-school, whence he was
elected student of Christ-church, Oxford, in 1606. Here
he made great proficiency under the tuition of Dr. Samuel
Fell, and was considered even at this early period as eminent for his learning in the Greek and Latin languages.
Having taken his degrees in arts, he was in 1614 appointed
first master of the Charter-house, or Sutton’s new foundation of the hospital school; but some years afterwards,
having rendered himself incapable of holding that office by
marriage, the governors gave him the living of Castle
Camps in Cambridgeshire. On the 29th of January 1624,
he was admitted chief master of Merchant Taylors’ school,
on a disputed election, which, however, terminated in hw
favour, and he enjoyed the place with much reputation
until 1631, when he resigned and was elected head master
of Eton school, and a fellow. He was ejected by the
usurping powers from both his mastership and living, and
reduced to much distress. At length he obtained the
mastership of Tunbridge school, in which he continued
until the restoration, when he was re-appointed to his former preferments, but did not long live to enjoy them.
He died very poor at Eton in October 1660, and was.
buried in the choir of the chapel, near the stairs leading to
the. organ-loft. He published 1. “A Dictionary
” in Latin
and English, and English and Latin, an improvement on
Rider’s, but afterwards superseded by Holyoak’s. 2. “Luculenta e sacra scriptura testimonia, ad Hugonis Grotii
baptizatorum puerorum institutionem,
” Lond. Parabolse evangelical, Lat. redditse carmine paraphrastico
varii generis in usum scholar Tunbrigiensis,
” Lond. 8vo,
no date. Of the second article above-mentioned, we have
an edition of 1668, the title of which is, “Hugonis Grotii
Baptizatorum Puerorum Institutio, alternis interrogationibus et responsionibus.
” This contains Wase’s translation
into Greek, with grammatical notes, and other notes by
Barth. Beale, and Gouldsmith’s English version.
many valuable works by the cardinal patriarch Marino Grimani, and was preserved until nearly the end of the seventeenth century, when it was unfortunately destroyed
, a learned cardinal, was born at
Venice in 1460. His father being procurator of St. Mark,
and afterwards doge of the city, the son was soon brought
into public notice, and employed by the state in important
offices. In 1493 he was raised to the purple by pope
Alexander VI. having previously acquired great fame on
account of the piety which he displayed towards his father, who was commander of a fleet, and being defeated by
the Turks, was imprisoned and treated with great rigour.
The son offered to take his place, which being refused, he
attended him in prison, and rendered him all the service in
his power. Grimani was also an eminent patron of the
fine arts: he collected a choice and valuable library, consisting of eight thousand volumes in all languages, which,
at his decease, in 1523, he bequeathed to the canons regular of St. Salvadore, in Venice. It was afterwards increased by the addition of many valuable works by the cardinal patriarch Marino Grimani, and was preserved until
nearly the end of the seventeenth century, when it was
unfortunately destroyed by fire. Dominick Grimani also
made a fine collection of statues, and other remains of antiquity. In 1509, he was visited by Erasmus, who relates
the particulars of. his reception, in one of his letters, with
interesting minuteness, and afterwards dedicated to him
his “Paraphrasis in hlpistol. Pauli ad Romanes.
” On another occasion we find Erasmus soliciting cardinal Grimani
for a copy of Origen’s commentary on the Psalms, a translation of which he had been urged to undertake by
Warham, archbishop of Canterbury. Grimani is said to have
transiated irom the Greek some homilies of Chrysostom.
, a French poet of the seventeenth century, was abbot of Notre Dame de Cerisy,
, a French poet of the seventeenth
century, was abbot of Notre Dame de Cerisy, one of the
first members of the French academy, and the most distinguished among the beaux esprits of his time. He died
in 1655, and left several poems; that entitled “Metamorphose des Yeux d'Iris changes en Astres,
” Life, or Panegyric of Cardinal de Berulle,
” Le Temple de la Mort,
” written
on the death of M. de la "Meilleraye’s first wife, which
was once much admired.
, a Polander, of the seventeenth century, whose original name was Albert Bobowski,
, a Polander, of the seventeenth century,
whose original name was Albert Bobowski, was born a
Christian;but, being taken by the Tartars while a child,
was sold to the Turks, who educated him in their religion.
He acquired the knowledge of seventeen languages, among
the rest, of the French, English, and German, having had
part of his education in these countries; and became interpreter to the grand seignior. He translated into the
Turkish language the catechism of the church of England,
and all the Bible. He composed a Turkish grammar and
dictionary, and other things which were never printed.
His principal work is, “A Treatise upon the Liturgy of
the Turks, their pilgrimages to Mecca, their circumcision,
and manner of visiting the sick,
” which he was induced to
write by Dr. Smith, chaplain to the English embassy at the
Porte, and who gave the ms. to Dr. Hyde, by whom it was
published in Latin, in the appendix of the “Itinera muncli ab Abrahamo Peritsol,
” Oxford, The State of the Ottoman Empire.
”
, a French dramatist of the seventeenth century, remarkable for the fertility of his
, a French dramatist of the seventeenth century, remarkable for the fertility of his pen,
wrote an incredible number of pieces for the theatre, som
say six hundred, and some even more. Of these, however,
no more remain than thirty-four, which were published by
himself in six volumes, 8vo, Paris, 1625 1628. Among
these the only tolerable piece is “Marianne,
” so good, indeed, that his readers will wonder how it came there. All
his boast was a remarkable facility in writing; it was said
that he would write two thousand lines in twenty-four
hours: in three days his play was composed, and acted.
He certainly had considerable talents, but, as he was very
necessitous, and compelled to write against time, his abilities had not fair scope. He was the first French dramatist
who introduced the custom of being paid for his pieces.
He died at Paris in 1630.
ently belonged to theBruces earls of Huntingdon, which had been considerably modernized in the close of the seventeenth century. It is now the property of William Curtis,
, third and last baron
of that name and family, descended from John, younger
brother to sir Nicholas Hare, baronet, master of the rolls,
and privy-counsellor to Henry VIII. (both sons to Nicholas Hare of Homersfield, in the county of Suffolk, the elder branch being seated at Stow Bardolph, in Norfolk)
was born at Blechingley, in Surrey, May 10, 1693; educated at Enfield, under Dr. Uvedale, who had also the
honour of educating, among many other eminent men, the
late earl of Huntingdon, and sir Jeremy Sambrooke, bart.
After the death of his grandfather, Hugh lord Colerane,
in 1708, he succeeded to the title, and was admitted a
gentleman commoner of Corpus Christi college, Oxford,
under the tuition of Dr. Rogers, who afterwards married
Lydia, one of his lordship’s sisters . A lyric poem by
lord Colerane appeared in the “Academiae Oxoniensis
Comitia Philologica, 1713,
” and in the “Musaj Anglicanae,
” vol. III. p. 303, under the title of “Musaruin
oblatio ad reginam.
” Dr. Basil Kennet, who succeeded
Dr. Turner in the presidency of that society, inscribed
to his lordship an epistolary poem on his predecessor’s
death. He was a great proficient in the learned languages, particularly the Greek; and eminently versed
in history, both civil and ecclesiastical. He was grand
master of the society of free-masons, and had made the
tour of Italy three times; the second time with Dr.
Con yers Middle ton, about 1723, in which he made a noble collection of prints and drawings of all the antiquities,
buildings, and pictures in Italy; given after his decease
to Corpus Christi college. The esteem in which he was
held by the literati procured him admittance into the Republica Literaria di Arcadia, and the particular intimacy
of the marquis Scipio Maffei; who afterwards visited him
at his ancient manor and seat at Tottenham, in Middlesex.
His lordship died at Bath, Aug. 4, 1749; and was buried
in the family vault at Tottenham, built, with the vestrv,
by his grandfather. His very valuable collection of prints
relative to English antiquities, with a portrait of him when
a young man, by Richardson, were obtained after his
death by Mr. Henry Baker for the Society of Antiquaries.
His books were sold to T. Osborne, who detained some of
the family papers, which were with difficulty recovered
from him. The pictures, bronzes, marble, tables, urns,
vases, and other antiquities, were sold by auction, March
13 and 14, 1754, for 904l. 135. 6d. The coins, it is supposed, were disposed of privately. His lordship married
in 1717, Anne, only daughter of John Hanger, esq. by
whom he had a fortune of 100,000l. but she, having unaccountably left him within three years, and resisted every
effort of his to recall her, after twenty more years he
formed a connexion with a foreign lady, Miss Duplessis, by
whom he had a natural daughter, Henrietta Rosa Pevegrina, born in Italy, and afterwards naturalized. She was
married in 1764 to James Townsend, esq. alderman of
Bishopsgate ward, who in her right -enjoyed the extensive manor of Tottenham, and repaired the family seat,
commonly called Bruce-castle, from having anciently belonged to theBruces earls of Huntingdon, which had been
considerably modernized in the close of the seventeenth
century. It is now the property of William Curtis, esq.
son to sir William Curtis, bart.
His political, if not his religious creed, led him to study the history of the seventeenth century, which in his time had received few
His political, if not his religious creed, led him to study the history of the seventeenth century, which in his time had received few of the lights that have since been thrown upon it; and what he read, he read with the eager eye of a nonconformist, desirous to rescue his brethren from obloquy, and afford them a larger share in the merit of perpetuating the liberties of this kingdom. With this view, he resolved to become the biographer of the English branch of the Stuart family, and of Cromwell, and to assign to each their agency in the production of those great events in the seventeenth century, the rebellion, the restoration, and the revolution.
author of that opinion; and Vander Linden, who published an edition of Hippocrates, about the middle of the seventeenth century, took a great deal of pains to prove,
In 1628 he published at Francfort his “Exercitatio anatomicade motu cordis & sang inis;
” dedicated to Charles I.
There follows also another dedication to the college of
physicians, in which he observes, thiit he had frequently
before, in his “Anatomical Lectures,
” declared his new
opinion concerning the motion and use of the heart, and
the circulation of the blood; and for above nine years had
confirmed and illustrated it before the college, by reasons
and arguments grounded upon ocular d moustration, and
defended it from the objections of the most skilful anatomists. This discovery was of such vast importance to the
whole art of physic, that as soon as men were satisfied,
which they were in a tew years, that it could not be contested, several put in for the prize themselves, and a great
many affirmed the disc very to be due to others. Some
asserted, that father Paul was the first discoverer of the
circulation, but being too much suspected for heterodoxies already, durst not make it public, for fear of the
inquisition. Honoratus Faber professed himself to be the
author of that opinion; and Vander Linden, who published
an edition of Hippocrates, about the middle of the seventeenth century, took a great deal of pains to prove, that
this father of physic knew the circulation of the blood, and
that Harvey only revived it. But the honour of the discovery has been sufficiently asserted and confirmed to
Harvey; and, says Freind, “as it was entirely owing to
him, so he has explained it with all the clearness imaginable: and, though much has been written upon tuat subject since, I may venture to say, his own book is the
shortest, the plainest, and the most convincing, of any, as
we may be satisfied, it' we look into the many apologies
written in defence of the circulation.
”
, by some said to be a brother of the preceding, was born in the latter part of the seventeenth century at Juterbach, and educated at Wittemberg.
, by some said to be a brother of
the preceding, was born in the latter part of the seventeenth century at Juterbach, and educated at Wittemberg.
In 1711 he was appointed rector of the college of Luccau,
where he died in 1721. His principal works are on matters
of biography and antiquities; particularly “Germania
sacra et literaria,
” 1717, 8vo; “De Hcnrico Guelfo Leone
commentarius,
” Vita Joannis Tezeli;
”
“Memoria Joannis Lucani,
” &.c.
, and good sense, which pervade the whole, render it one of the most interesting pieces of biography of the seventeenth century, and induced Dr. Wordsworth to reprint
Upon the whole, his character seems to have been highly
exemplary and praiseworthy; and it may be asked, as Dr.
Busby asked him, “What made him a nonconformist
”
The reason which he principally insisted on was, that he
could *not submit to be re-ordained, which was required of
those who had been ordained only according to the presbyterian form. When named in the commission of the
peace, it was as Philip Henry, esq. He was, however, so
well satisfied with his call to the ministry, and solemn ordination to it, by the laying on the hands of the presbytery, that he durst not do that which looked like a renunciation of it as null and sinful, and would at least be a tacit
invalidating and condemning of all his administrations.
Despairing to see an accommodation, he kept a meeting at
Broad-oak, and preached to a congregation in a barn. He
died June 24, 1696. His “Life
” was written by his son,
the subject of our next article, and published in 1699.
The piety, Christian moderation, and good sense, which
pervade the whole, render it one of the most interesting
pieces of biography of the seventeenth century, and induced Dr. Wordsworth to reprint the whole in his “Ecclesiastical Biography,
” with some useful notes
, a French poet of the seventeenth century, was nephew to du Vair, a celebrated
, a French poet of the seventeenth century, was nephew to du Vair, a celebrated keeper
ef the seals. His original profession was military, but being
disabled by a wound from actual service, hfe bought the
place of treasurer to the French guards. He was afterwards appointed historiographer of France, and died in
1680. He wrote only two tragedies, of no great merit,
“Hercule furieux,
” and “Clavis,
” and a few fugitive
poems, some of which have a degree of elevation, particularly the “Portrait d'Amaranthe.
”
, a celebrated botanist, was born at Halle, in Saxony, towards the middle of the seventeenth century. Having resided some time in the East
, a celebrated botanist, was born at
Halle, in Saxony, towards the middle of the seventeenth
century. Having resided some time in the East Indies,
and especially at Ceylon, where he practised as a physician, he was induced to re-visit Europe in 1679, and filled
the botanical professorship at Leyden, and at the same
time having the care of the botanical garden, he soon more
than doubled the number of plants which had been introduced by his predecessors during 150 years. He was the
first in Holland who adopted a system of botany founded
on the fructification, partly following the arrangement of
Morison, and partly that of Ray. His works are remarkable for the excellence and neatness of his figures,
containing descriptions of many new plants found in various parts
of the world. He died on the 29th of January, 1695.
Linnæus, in his “Classes Plantarum,
” has given a sketch
of the Hennannian system, which is founded upon the
fruit, to which he adhered with more pertinacity than
either Ray or Morison themselves. The first work he published was a “Catalogue of the Leyden Garden,
” in Index Piantarum quse in horto Leidensi aluntur,
” to which
Boerhaave added a history of the garden. To Hermann
may be ascribed, on the authority of Sherard, the following work, “Florae Lugdunobatavrc flores,
” though publislied under the name of Zumbach. In Flora Lugdunobatava,
” was begun to be printed,
but after a few sheets were taken oft, its author’s death put
a stop to any further continuation of it. At this time the
“Paradisus Batavus
” was in a state of forwardness, and it
was published in 8vo, as a posthumous work, about three
years afterwards. It was, however, reprinted in quarto in
1705, having been edited by William Sherard, at the expence of Hermann’s widow. This indefatigable man left
a considerable number of papers and dried plants, the latter of which came into the possession of J. Burmann; and
formed the corner-stone of his “Thesaurus Zeylanicus,
”
published at Amsterdam in Flora Zeylanica
” was composed. They are
now finally the property of sir Joseph Banks. Besides the
above books, he was the author of the foliowing works
“Mussei Indici catalogus, continens varia exotica animalia,
insecta, vegetabilia, mineralia, quse collegerat,
” Lapis Lydius Materiae Medicae,
” Musaeum
Zeylanicum
” (unfinished) “Catalogus Plantarum Capitis Bonse Spei
” (unedited) and wrote various botanical
and medical tracts, which are of less moment, and some of
which are superseded by the former.
, chancellor of Bavaria at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and of a noble family in Augsburg,
, chancellor of Bavaria at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and of a noble family in Augsburg, published some
works in which his learning was more displayed than his
judgment, in supporting the most extravagant systems.
These are, 1. “Chronoiogia nova et vera,
” two parts, Admiranda Ethicae Theologicae Mysteria propalata, de antiquissima veterum nationum superstitione, qua lapis Magnes pro Deo habitus colebatur,
”
Monach. An Apology for the Emperor Louis of
Bavaria, against the falsehoods of Bzovius.
”
, a Dutch designer and engraver, who nourished towards the close of the seventeenth century, bad a lively imagination, by which
, a Dutch designer and engraver,
who nourished towards the close of the seventeenth century,
bad a lively imagination, by which he was sometimes led
astray and his works must be viewed with some allowance
for incorrectness of design and injudicious choice of subjects, which were in general of an allegorical cast, or distinguished by a kind of low caricature. His works are
chiefly extant in certain editions of books for which he was
employed; as, 1. Plates for the Old and New Testament,
in folio, published by Basnage in 1704. 2. Plates to “the
Academy of the Art of Wrestling,
” in Dutch, Cent Nouvelles nouvelles,
”
an article on the accusation of Tritheism, which Dr. Priestley had brought against the Trinitarians of the seventeenth century. The “Short Strictures on Dr. Priestley”
Dr. Priestley, in his letters, had expressed a great desire to draw Dr. Horsley into a tedious controversy on the
main question, the article of our Lord’s divinity, but our
author, knowing that question to have been long since exhausted, and that nothing new was to be said on either
side, chose, in his “Letters in Reply,
” to adhere closely
to his own main question. He, therefore, as we have mentioned, defended his own argument, and collected new
specimens from Dr. Priestley’s new publication, of his
utter inability to throw light upon the subject. Thus a
useless and endless contention on the main question was
avoided but many discussions necessarily arose upon secondary points, which perhaps the learned reader will es- 1
teem the most interesting parts of the controversy, such as,
the authority of the writings that go under the name of the
apostolical Fathers the rise of the two sects of the Nazarenes and Ebionites; the difference between the two and
the difference of both from the orthodox Hebrew Christians; and particularly an article on the accusation of
Tritheism, which Dr. Priestley had brought against the
Trinitarians of the seventeenth century. The “Short
Strictures on Dr. Priestley
” in the appendix to these Letters, it is now known, were written by Dr. Townson.
, an accomplished scholar of the seventeenth century, was born at Crendon in Buckinghamshire,
, an accomplished scholar of the seventeenth century, was born at Crendon in Buckinghamshire,
and elected scholar of Trinity-college in 1632, of which,
when B. A. he became fellow in 1637. By Hearne, in his
preface to “Robert of Gloucester,
” he is called “a very
great cavalier and loyalist, and a most ingenious man.
”
He appears to have been a general scholar, and in polite
literature was esteemed one of the ornaments of the university. In 1644 he preached before Charles I. at Christchurch cathedral, Oxford; and the sermon was printed, and
in red letters (but only thirty copies), of which perhaps the
only one extant is in the Bodleian library. In 1646 he was
created bachelor of divinity by decree of the king, among
others who were complimented with that degree for having
distinguished themselves as preachers before the court at
Oxford. He was soon afterwards ejected from his fellowship by the presbyterians, but not in the general expulsion
in 1648, according to Walker. Being one of the bursars
of the college, and foreseeing its fate, and having resolved
at the same time never to acknowledge the authority of
Cromwell’s visitors, he retired, in the beginning of 1648,
to a college estate in Buckinghamshire, carrying with him
many rentals, rolls, papers, and other authentic documents
belonging to his office. These he was soon after induced
to return on a promise of being allowed to retain his fellowship; but they were no sooner recovered than he was
expelled, and not restored until 1660. He lived forty-two
years after this, greatly respected, and died fellow of the
college, where he constantly resided, Aug. 28, 1701, and
was interred in the college chapel. Hearne says, “he
lived. so retiredly in the latter part of his life, that he rarely
came abroad; so that I could never see him, though I have
often much desired to have a sight of him.
”
, was an eminent English navigator, who flourished in high fame in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Where he was born and educated, we
, was an eminent English navigator, who flourished in high fame in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Where he was born and educated, we have no certain account; nor have we of any private circumstances of his life. The custom of discovering foreign countries for the benefit of trade not dying with queen Elizabeth, in whose reign it had been zealously pursued, Hudson, among others, attempted to find out a passage by the north to Japan and China. His first voyage was in 1607, at the charge of some London merchants; and his first attempt was for the north-east passage to the Indies. He departed therefore on the 1st of May; and after various adventures through icy seas, and regions intensely cold, returned to England, and arrived in the Thames Sept. 15. The year following he undertook a second voyage for discovering the same passage, and accordingly set sail with fifteen persons only, April 22; but not succeeding, returned homewards, and arrived at Gravesend on Aug. 26.
blic of letters, several circumstances must prevent us from ranking him among the first philosophers of the seventeenth century. Better qualified to accumulate testimonies
On the whole, though it cannot be questioned that Huet, on account of his great learning and fertile genius, may justly claim to have his name preserved with honour in the republic of letters, several circumstances must prevent us from ranking him among the first philosophers of the seventeenth century. Better qualified to accumulate testimonies than to investigate truth, and more disposed to raise difficulties than to solve them, he was an injudicious advocate for a good cause. If we are not very much mistaken, Huet did not strictly adhere to the scholastic art of reasoning which he had learned in the schools of the Jesuits; otherwise he must have seen that there can be no room for faith, or for, what he artfully conceals under that name, the authority of the church, if every criterion of truth be rejected, and human reason be pronounced a blind and fallacious guide.
picture of the manners of the age in which the writer lived. We may learn from it, that at the close of the seventeenth century, a man of the first quality made it
His State Letters, during his government of Ireland,
and his Diary for the years 1687, 1688, 1689, and 169O,
were published in 2 vols. 4to, 1763, from the Clarendon
press in Oxford. “This diary,
” says the editor, “presents us with a picture of the manners of the age in which
the writer lived. We may learn from it, that at the close
of the seventeenth century, a man of the first quality made
it his constant practice to go to church, and could spend
the day in society with his family and friends, without
shaking his arm at a gaming-table, associating with jockies
at Newmarket, or murdering time by a constant round of
giddy dissipation, if not of criminal indulgence.
” Besides
the above, lord Clarendon drew up “Some account of the
tombs and monuments in the cathedral church of Winchester, Feb. 1683,
” which was continued and printed with
Gale’s history of that church; and there are three tracts
attributed to him, printed in Gutch’s “Collectanea.
”
, an English botanist, of the seventeenth century, was born at Selby, in Yorkshire, and
, an English botanist, of the
seventeenth century, was born at Selby, in Yorkshire, and
bred an apothecary in London. He afterwards kept a shop
on Snow- hill, where, says Wood, by his unwearied pains
and good natural parts, he attained to be the best herbalist
of his age in England. He was first known to the public
by a small piece under the title of “Iter in agrum Cantianum,
” Ericetum Hamstedianum,
” 16&2;
which were the first local catalogues of plants published in
England. He soon after acquired great credit by his new
edition and emendation of Gerard’s “Herbal.
” In the
rebellion, “his zeal for the royal cause led him into the
army, in which he greatly distinguished himself;- and the
university of Oxford, in consideration of his merit, learning,
and loyalty, conferred upon him the degree of M. D. May
9, 1643. In the army he had the rank of lieutenantcolonel to sir Marmaduke Rawdon, governor of Basinghouse. Near this place, in a skirmish with the enemy, in
Sept. 1644, he received a shot in the shoulder, of which
he died in a fortnight after, and, as there is reason to
think, in the meridian of life. Besides the works abovementioned, and his improved edition of Gerard’s
” Herbal,“which was twice printed in his life-time, in 1633 and in
1636, fol. he published in 1634,
” Mercurius Botanicus,
sive plantarum gratia suscepti Itineris, anno 1634, descriptio,“Lond. 8vo. This was the result of a journey,
with some associates of the company of apothecaries,
through Oxford, to Bath and Bristol, and back by Southampton, the Isle of Wight, and Guiklford, with the professed design to investigate rare plants. To this was
added his small tract,
” De Thermis Bathonicis,“with
plans of the baths, and one of the city, which, to antiquaries, are now interesting. This was followed by a second
part of his excursion,
” Pars altera," which extends to
Wales. He was among the earliest botanists who visited
Wales and Snowdon, with the sole intention of
discovering the rarities of that country in the vegetable kingdom,
He also translated the works of Ambrose Parey, the celebrated French surgeon, published at London in 1643, and
reprinted in 1678. Miller consecrated the name of Johnson by assigning it to a berry-bearing shrub of Carolina,
belonging to the tetrandrous class, but it has not been retained in the LinnaDan system, where the plant is called
callicarpa.
, a divine of the seventeenth century, vvas a fellow of Etnanuel college,
, a divine of the seventeenth century, vvas a fellow of Etnanuel college, Cambridge, and admitted fellow of Queen’s college by the
parliamentary visitors, by whose interest likewise he probably became a fellow of Eton in 1650. He was re-admitted to the same in 1660. He published three Sermons
in 1639 and 1677, and wrote a religious romance in folio,
entitled “Bentivolio and Urania,
” Lond. Nineteen Letters from Henry Hammond, D. D. to Mr.
Peter Stanny nought and Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo,
” many of
them on very curious subjects.
torian, was born in the province of Munster, of English ancestry, and flourished in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, He was educated with a view to the
, an Irish historian, was born
in the province of Munster, of English ancestry, and
flourished in the earlier part of the seventeenth century,
He was educated with a view to the Roman catholic church,
and having received at a foreign university the degree of
D. D. he returned to his native country, and became a celebrated preacher. Being well versed in the ancient Irish
language, he collected the remains of the early history
and antiquities of the island, and formed them into a regular narrative This work, which he finished about the
time of the accession of Charles I. commences from the
first planting of Ireland, after the deluge, and goes on to
the seventeenth year of king Henry II. giving an account
of the lives and reigns of one hundred and seventy-four
kings of the Milesian race, replete with fictitious personages and fabulous narratives, which, however, it has been
said, he gives as such, and does not impose them on his
readers as true history. The work remained in ms. in the
original language, till it was translated into English by
Dermot O'Connor, and published in London in 1723; but
a better edition appeared in 1738, with plates of the arms
of the principal Irish families, and an appendix, not in the
former, respecting the ancient names of places. Keating
died about the middle of the seventeenth century, or, as
some think, much earlier, about 1625. He wrote some
pieces of the religious cast, and two poems, one, an
“Elegy on the Death of the Lord Decies,
” the other a
burlesque on his servant Simon, whom he compares with
the ancient heroes.
, an author of the seventeenth century, distinguished by his knowledge in history
, an author of the seventeenth century,
distinguished by his knowledge in history and geography,
was born at Antwerp, and died there in 1640, leaving
some very useful works behind him 1. “Novus Orbis,
”
Leyden, Historia Naturalis Brasilia,
” in folio, with cuts. 5. “De
Regis Hispanise Regnis et Opibus,
” in 8vi. 4. “Respublica Belgarum.
” 5. “Gallia.
” 6. “Turcici Imperii
Status.
” 7. “Persici Imperil Status.
” The four last
works are part of the little books called “Respublicse,
”
amounting to about forty volumes, printed by Elzevir in
24to, and treat in a general way of the climate, produce,
religion, manners, civil and political government, of these
several states; and have served at least as a good model for
future improvements. A more considerable work employed
the last years of Laet’s life; an edition of “Vitruvius,
”
which was printed also by Elzevir, Adversus obtrectatorem, opaca
quern bonum facit barba,
” but Laet’s positions were not to
be refuted.
, a naturalist and physician of the seventeenth century, was born at Grange, in Lancashire.
, a naturalist and physician of the
seventeenth century, was born at Grange, in Lancashire.
He entered in 1679, of Brazen-nose college, Oxford, and
took a bachelor’s degree in arts, whence he removed to
Cambridge, and proceeding in the faculty of medicine,
afterwards practised in London with considerable reputation. He was admitted a member of the royal society in
May 1685. He left the following works: “The Natural
History of the Counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, &c.
” London, Phtbisiologia Lancastrieusis, cum tentamine philosophico de Miueralibus Aquis in eodem comitatu observatis,
”
London, Exercitationes quinque de Aquis
Mineralibus, Thermis calidis, Morbis acutis, Morbis intermittentibus, Hydrope,
” ibid. History of Virginia,
”
drawn up from observations made during a residence in
that country, London, 1705, 12mo. Of his “Natural History of Lancashire,
” bishop Nicolson speaks with great,
and, as Mr. Gough thinks, deserved contempt. The coini
described in this book were left to Mr. Prescot of Catherine-hall, Cambridge. The time of his death is not mentioned
in any of the accounts we have seen of him.
, a learned theological writer of the seventeenth century, the son of Henry Leigh, esq. was born
, a learned theological writer of the
seventeenth century, the son of Henry Leigh, esq. was
born at Shawell in Leicestershire, March 24, 1602-3. He
had his grammatical learning under a Mr. Lee of Waishall in Staffordshire; and when removed td Oxford, became a commoner of Magdalen-hall, in 1616, under Mr.
William Pemble, a very celebrated tutor of that society.
After completing his degrees in arts in 1623, he removed
to the Middle Temple for the study of the law. During
the violence of the plague in 1625, he took that opportunity to visit France; and on his return to the Temple,
added to his law studies those of divinity and history, in
both which he attained a great stock of knowledge. He
was in fact a sort of lay divine, and superior to many of the
profession. About 1636, we find him representing the
borough of Stafford in parliament, when some of the members of that, which was called the Long parliament, had
withdrawn to the king at Oxford. Mr. Leigh’s sentiments
inclining him to remain and to support the measures of the
party in opposition to the court, he was afterwards appointed to a seat in the assembly of divines, and certainly
sat with no little propriety in one respect, being as ably
skilled in matters of divinity and ecclesiastical history as
most of them. He was also a colonel of a regiment in the
parliamentary service, and custos rotulorum for the county
of Stafford. He was not, however, prepared to approve of
all the proceedings of the parliament and army; and having, in Dec. 1648, voted that his majesty’s concessions were
satisfactory, he and some others, who held the same
opinion, were turned out of parliament. From that time he
appears to have retired from public life, and to have employed his time in study. He died June 2, 1671, at Rushall Hall in Staffordshire, and was buried in the chancel of
that church. His works, which afford abundant proofs of
his learning and industry, are, 1. “Select and choice Observations concerning the first twelve Cssars,
” Oxon, Analecta Ccesarum Romanorum.
”
Two other editions, with farther improvements and plates
of coins, &c. appeared in 1664 and 1670, 8vo. 2. “Treatise of Divine promises,
” Lond. Scripture Promises,
” and other
collections of the same kind. 3. “Critica Sacra, or the
Hebrew words of the Old, and of the Greek of the New
Testament,
” Lond. A Treatise of Divinity,
” ibid. The
Saint’s encouragement in evil times or observations concerning the martyrs in general,
” ibid. Annotations on all the New Testament,
” ibid. A philological Commentary; or, an illustration of
the most obvious and useful words in the Law, &c.
” ibid.
A System or Body of Divinity,
” Treatise of Religion and Learning,
”
ibid. Fcelix consortium, or
a fit conjuncture of Religion and Learning.
” H). “Choice
French Proverbs,
” ibid. Annotations on the five poetical books of the Old Testament, viz.
Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles,
” ibid.
Second considerations of the high court
of Chancery,
” England described,
” Choice observations on
all the kings of England, from the Saxons to the death of
Charles I.
” Three Diatribes, or Discourses, of travel, money, and measuring, &c.
” Gentleman’s Guide.
”
16. “Two Sermons,
” on the magistrate’s authority, by
Christ. Cartwright, B. D. To these sir Edward prefixed a
preface in vindication of his own character for appearing
in the assembly of divines. This gentleman is by some
writers called Sir Edward Leigh, but not so by Wood, nor
can we find any information respecting his being knighted.
In all his works, that we have seen, he is styled Edward
Leigh, Esq.
, an eminent lawyer in the early part of the seventeenth century, was the sixth and youngest son of Henry
, an eminent lawyer in
the early part of the seventeenth century, was the sixth
and youngest son of Henry Ley, esq. of Tesfont Evias, in
Wiltshire, and was born about 1552. In 1569 he entered
of Brazen-nose college, Oxford, whence he removed to
Lincoln’s-inn, studied the law, and was appointed Lent
reader in 1601, after which his learning and abilities raised
him to the highest rank of his profession. In 1603, he
was made serjeant at law, and the year following chief justice of the king’s bench in Ireland; on the ancient history
of which country he appears to have bestowed some attention, and collected with a view to publication, “The An.nals of John Clynne, a Friar Minor of Kilkenny,
” who lived
in the reign of Edward III.; the “Annals of the Priory of
St. John of Kilkenny,
” and the “Annals of Multiferman,
Rosse, and Clonmell.
” All these he had caused to be transcribed, but his professional engagements prevented his
preparing them for the press. They afterwards fell into
the hands of Henry earl of Bath. Extracts from them are
in Dublin college library.
, a loyal biographer and historian of the seventeenth century, the son of Hugh Lloyd, was born at
, a loyal biographer and historian of the seventeenth century, the son of Hugh Lloyd, was born at Pant Mawr, in the parish of Trawsvinydd, in Merionethshire, Sept. 28, 1625. He was educated in grammar learning at the free-school at Ruthen in Denbighshire, and in 1652 became a servitor of Oriel college, Oxford, at which time, and after, he performed the office of janitor. He took one degree in arts, and by the favour of the warden and society of Merton college, was presented to itie rectory of Ibston near Watlington in Oxfordshire, in May 1658. Next year be took his master’s degree, and after a short time, resigned Ibston, and went to London, where he was appointed reader of the Charter-house. Afterwards he retired to Wales, and became chaplain to Dr. Isaac Barrow, bishop of St. Asaph, who, besides several preferments in his diocese, gave him a canonry in the church of St. Asaph, in August 1670. On Aug. 14, 1671, he was made vicar of Abergeley, and on the same day, as is supposed, prebend of Vaynol in the church of St. Asaph, at which time he resigned his canonry. He afterwards exchanged Abergeley for the vicarage of Northop in Flintshire, where he settled and taught the free-school, until his health began to decay. He then returned, probably to try the effect of his native air, to Pant Mawr, where he died Feb. 16, 1691, and was buried there.
, a spirited and tasteful engraver of the seventeenth century, was the son of a merchant at Leeds,
, a spirited and tasteful engraver of
the seventeenth century, was the son of a merchant at
Leeds, where he was born July 4, 1649, and inherited an
estate of 300l. a year. From school he was sent to Jesus
college, Cambridge, and thence to Lincoln’s-inn, where
his studies appear to have ended. He afterwards went
abroad with Thomas lord Bellassis, in his embassy to Venice, and meeting with Barri’s “Viaggio Pittoresco,
” he
translated it, and added heads of the painters of his own
engraving, and a map of Italy. This was printed in 1679,
8vo. While on his travels, he drew various views, which
he afterwards etched. Returning to England, he assisted
Dr. Lister of York, in drawing various subjects of natural
history, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions. He
died at Leeds, in August 1689, and was buried in Harwood
church. Besides the portraits above mentioned, there are
several views by this artist, etched in a slight but spirited
style, from his own designs, which he made both at home
and abroad. They bear the marks of genius and a good
taste,
, an elegant poet of the seventeenth century, was the eldest son of sir William Lovelace
, an elegant poet of the seventeenth century, was the eldest son of sir William Lovelace
of Woolwich, in Kent, and was born in that county about
1618. He received his grammar-learning at the Charterhouse; and, in 1634, bt came a gentleman-commoner of
Gloucester hall, Oxford, being then, as Wood observes,
“accounted the most amiable and beautiful person that
eye ever beheld a person also of innate modesty, virtue,
and courtly tieponmerit, which made him then, and especially after, when he retired to die great city, much admired and adored by the female sex.
” In 1636 he was
created M. A. and, leaving the university, retired, as Wood
phmses it, in great splenlour to the court; where being
taken into the favour of lord Goring he became a soldier,
and was fir.it an ensign, and aiterwards a captain. On the
pacification at Berwick he returned to his native country,
and took possession of his estate, worth about five hundred
pounds per annum; and, about the same time, was deputed
by the county to deliver the Kentish petition to the House
of Commons, which Diving offence, he was ordered into
custody, and confined in the Gate-house, whence he was
released on giving bail of 40,000*. not to go beyond the
lines of communication without a pass from the Speaker.
During the time of his confinement to London he lived
beyond the income of his estate, chiefly to support the
credit of the royal cause; and, in 1646, he formed a regiment for the service of the French king, was colonel of it,
and wounded at Dunkirk. In 1648 he returned to England with his brother, and was again committed prisoner to
Peter-house in London, where he remained till after the
king’s death. At that period he was set at liberty, but,
“having then consumed all his estate be grew very melancholy, which at length brought him into a consumption, became very poor in body and purse, was the object
of charity, went in ragged cloaths (whereas when he was in his glory he wore cloaths of gold and silver), and mostly
lodged in obscure and dirty places, more befitting the worst
of beggars and poorest of servants.
” He died in a very
poor lodging in Gunpowder-alley, near Shoe-lane, in 1658,
and was buried at the west end of St. Bride’s church, tyis
pieces, which are light and easy, had been models in
their way, were their simplicity but equal to their spirit;
but they were the offspring of gallantry and amusement,
and seldom received a requisite degree of polish. Under
the name of Lucasta, which is the title to his poems, contained in two volumes (the latter published by his brother Dudley Posthumus Lovelace, in 1659), he compliments
a Miss Lucy Sacheverel, a lady, according to Wood, of
great beauty and fortune, whom he was accustomed to call
*' Lux Casta.“On the report of Lovelace’s death of his
wounds, at Dunkirk, she married. Winstanly has, and
not improperly, compared him to sir Philip Sidney. He
wrote also two plays,
” The Scholar,“a comedy, and
” The
Soldier," a tragedy.
, a pious clergyman of the seventeenth century, was born about 1598, at Peysmere, near
, a pious clergyman of the seventeenth century, was born about 1598, at Peysmere, near
Newbury in Berkshire, of which place his father was rector. In 16 14 he became a commoner of Magdalen hall,
Oxford, and a demy of Magdalen college in 1617. In
1622 he took his degree of M. A. and was then chosen a
fellow. In 1631 he was admitted to the reading of the
sentences, and, having taken orders, was presented to
the living of Shirburne, in Dorsetshire, by John Earl of
Bristol. Here, says Wood, “he was very much resorted
to for his edifying and practical way of preaching;
” and
appears indeed to have deserved the affections of his
flock, by the most constant diligence in discharging the
duties of his office. He divided his day into the following
portions: nine hours for study, three for visits and conferences with his parishioners, three for prayers and devotion, two for his affairs, and the rest for his refreshment. He
divided likewise his estate into three parts, one for the use
of his family, one for a reserve in case of future wants,
and one for pious uses. His parish he divided into twentyeight parts, to be visited in twenty-eight days every month,
“leaving,
” says one of his biographers, “knowledge where
he found ignorance, justice where he found oppression,
peace where he found contention, and order where he
found irregularity.
”
“Syntagmata linguarum Georgia,” Romae, 1670, folio; and lastly, Charles Maria Maggi, an Italian poet of the seventeenth century, and one of the restorers of good taste
There were other men of considerable eminence in Italy
of the same name, among whom we may enumerate, a
brother of the preceding, Bartholomew Maggi, a physician at Bologna, who wrote a treatise in Latin, “On the
Cure of Gun-shot Wounds,
” Bologna, Syntagmata linguarum Georgia,
” Romae, Scelta
” of his works; and in The Beauties
” of
C. M. Maggi, “paraphrased,
” were published by Mariane
Starke.
, a French poet of the seventeenth century, was bred up as an advocate, and for
, a French poet of the seventeenth
century, was bred up as an advocate, and for some time
followed that profession at Lyons. He then became a
dramatic writer, and produced several pieces, of which
the least bad is a tragedy called Artaxerxes; this has some
plot, good sentiments, and characters tolerably supported.
He then conceived the extraordinary project of writing an
encyclopaedia in verse, which was to consist of ten volumes,
each containing twenty thousand verses. Being asked,
after some time, when this work would be finished “Very
soon,
” said he, “I have now only a hundred thousand
verses to write.
” His project, however, was cut off, notwithstanding this near approach to its conclusion, as he
was murdered by thieves at Paris, in 1662. His verses
were bad enough to account for his facility in producing
them, yet he was a friend of Moliere. A part of his great
work appeared in folio in 1663, with the magnificent title
of “Science Universelle.
” The preface was still more
pompous: “Libraries,
” says he, “will hereafter be for
ornament only, not use.
” Yet how few contain this wonderful work!
, a celebrated German alchymist and rosicrucian of the seventeenth century, who sacrificed his health, his fortune,
, a celebrated German alchymist and
rosicrucian of the seventeenth century, who sacrificed his
health, his fortune, his time, and his understanding, to
those ruinous follies, wrote many works, all having reference, more or less, to the principles or rather absurdities of his favourite study. The following are mentioned
as the chief of these publications. 1. “Atalanta fugiens,
”
Septimana philosophica,
” Silentium post clamores, seu tractatus -Revelationum fratrum
roseae Crucis,
” De fraternitate roseae
Crucis,
” Jocus severus,
” De rosea Cruce,
” Apologeticus revelationum fratrum roseae Crucis,
” Cantilenas intellectuals,
” Rome, Museum Chymicum,
” De Cnrculo physico-quadrato,
”
, one of the most learned and eminent nonconformists of the seventeenth century, was born at Lawrence Lydiard, in S
, one of the most learned and eminent nonconformists of the seventeenth century, was born
at Lawrence Lydiard, in Somersetshire, in 1620. His
father and grandfather were both clergymen, but of them
we have no account, except that his father was settled at
Whimpole in Devonshire, and sent his son to the freeschool at Tiverton. Here his progress was such that he
was thought qualified to begin his academical studies at
the age of fourteen, and about a year after, in 1635, he
was entered of Wadham college, Oxford. From thence,
in 1639, he removed to Hart-hall, where he took his
bachelor’s degree in arts. Wood says, he was accounted
in his college, “a hot-headed person,
” a character very
remote from that which he sustained throughout life, and
when all eyes were upon him. After studying divinity, he
was admitted to deacon’s orders by the celebrated Dr. Hall,
bishop of Exeter, and although this was sooner than Mr.
Man ton approved upon maturer thought, bishop Hall appears to have thought him duly qualified, and predicted
that “he would prove an extraordinary person.
” As he
came into public life when principles of disaffection to the
church were generally prevalent, it appears that he entered so far into the spirit of the times, as to be content
with deacon’s orders, and to deny the necessity of those
of the priest
terary history are greatly indebted, was probably a native of Paris, and born towards the conclusion of the seventeenth century. He was bred up as a bookseller in that
, an author to whom the curious in literary history are greatly indebted, was probably
a native of Paris, and born towards the conclusion of the
seventeenth century. He was bred up as a bookseller in
that city, a business which always requires some knowledge
of books, but which he carried to an extent very unusual,
and for forty years employed almost the whole of his time
in inspecting the works of eminent authors, inquiring into
their history, their editions, differences, and every species
of information which forms the accurate bibliographer.
During the time that Mr. Bernard published the “Nouvelles de la Republiques des Lettres,
” Marchand was his
constant correspondent, and contributed all the literary
anecdotes from Paris, which appeared in that journal.
Being, however, a conscientious protestant, and suspecting that in consequence of the repeal of the edict of Nantz,
he might be interrupted in the exercise of his religion, he
went to reside in Holland, and carried on the bookselling
trade there for some time, until meeting with some lack of
honesty among his brethren (pen de bonne-foi qiCil avoit trouvej, he relinquished business, and devoted his time entirely to literary history and biography. In both his knowledge was so conspicuous, that the booksellers were always happy to avail themselves of his opinion respecting intended publications, and more happy when they could engage his assistance as an editor. In the latter character, we find that he superintended an edition, 1. of Bayle’s “Dictionary,
” and “Letters,
” both which he illustrated with notes. 2. “Satyre Menippee,
” Ratisbonne (Brussels), Cymbalum mundi,
” by Bonaventure de
Perrieres, Amst. Direction pomla conscience d'un roi,
” Hague, Histoire des Revolutions de Hongrie,
” ibid. Lettres, Memoires, et Negociations du comte d'Estrades,
”
London (Hague)^ Histoire de
Fenelon,
” Hague, Oeuvres de Brantome,
” ibid. Oeuvres de Villon,
”
ibid.
e, and purity of style. This laborious writer published also lives of the archbishops, &c. of Paris, of the seventeenth century, in 4to. He died in 1698, at the age
, seems to be one of the first French writers who practised the plan, so little approved in England, of translating the ancient classical poets into prose. He gave in this way, versions of, 1. Terence. 2. Horace. 3. Juvenal and Persius. 4-. Virgil. 5. Ovid, entire, in 9 vols. 12 mo. These translations are in general clear and exact, but want elegance, and purity of style. This laborious writer published also lives of the archbishops, &c. of Paris, of the seventeenth century, in 4to. He died in 1698, at the age of seventy.
, a French historian of the seventeenth century, was a protestant, and passed the chief
, a French historian of the seventeenth
century, was a protestant, and passed the chief part of
his life in the courts of Germany. He died September 22,
1681. He calls himself in the titles of his works Seigneur
de Sallettes, chevalier of the order of St. Michael, counsellor secretary to the elector of Mentz, and counsellor to
the duke of Wirtemberg, titles which, Marchand remarks,
do not very well agree with that of “teacher of the French
language in the college of Tubingen.
” His writings are
now considered as feebly written, and are little known or
consulted, but they had a degree of reputation in their
day. The principal of them are, 1. “Etat de l'Empire,
”
State of the Empire, or an abridgment of the public law
of Germany, 12 mo. 2. “Science des Princes,
” which is
an edition of the political considerations of Gabriel
Naudee; with reflections added by du May, 1683, 8vo. 3.
“The prudent Voyager,
”
, a very learned and ingenious physician of the seventeenth century, appears to have been born in Cornwall,
, a very learned and ingenious physician of the seventeenth century, appears to have been born
in Cornwall, in 1645, was a scholar of Wadham college,
Oxford, and a probationary fellow of All Souls’ college.
He took his degrees in civil law, but studied and practised
physic; and principally at Bath, in the summer. He died
at the house of an apothecary in York-street, Covent-garden, in September 1679, and was buried in the church of
that parish. He published, “Tractatus quinque medicophysici, 1. de sale nitro, et spiritu nitro-aerio; 2. de re
spiratione; 3. de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo; 4.
de motu musculari et spiritibus animalibus; 5. de Rachitide.
” These were published together at Oxford, in de respiratione,
” and “de Rachitide,
” published together at Leyden,
in 1671. The fame of this author has been lately renewed
and extended by Dr. Beddoes, who published in 179O,
“Chemical Experiments and Opinions, extracted from a
work published in the last century,
” 8vo, in which he gives
to Mayow the highest credit as a chemist, and ascribes to
him some of the greatest modern discoveries respecting air;
giving many extracts from the three first of his treatises.
His chief discovery was, that dephlogisticated air (or as he called it, with Scheele) fire-air, exists in the nitrous acid,
and in the atmosphere; which he proved by such decisive
experiments, as to render it impossible to explain how
Boyle and Hales could avoid availing themselves, in their
researches into air, of so capital a discovery. Mayow also
relates his manner of passing aeriform fluids under water,
from vessel to vessel, which is generally believed to be a
new art. He did not collect dephlogisticated air in vessels,
and transfer it from one jar to another, but he proved its
existence by finding substances that would burn in vacuo,
and in water when mixed with nitre; and after animals
had breathed and died in vessels filled with atmospheric
air, or after fire had been extinguished in them, there was
a residuum, which was the part of the air unfit for respiration, and for supporting fire; and he further shewed, that nitrous acid cannot be formed, but by exposing the substances
that generate it to the atmosphere. Mayow was undoubtedly no common man, especially since, if the above dates
are right, he was only thirty-four at the time of his death.
But he was not so unknown as Dr. Beddoes supposed, for,
since the repetition of the same discovery by Priestley and
Scheele, reference has frequently been made by chemists
to Mayow, as the original inventor; though no other person appears so closely to have examined his work as that
writer. At the same time it appears, that with the partiality of a commentator, he has exalted his author unwarrantably at the expence of other chemists, and to a height,
which, without the aid of strained interpretations, cannot
be justified by the text.
, a nonconformist divine of the seventeenth century, was descended from a reputable family
, a nonconformist divine of the seventeenth century, was descended from a reputable family in Buckinghamshire, where he was born in 1629. Of
his early life no account has been preserved, and the first
notice we have of him, is as possessing the living of Great
Brickhiil in his native county. In Jan. 1658 he was appointed by Oliver Cromwell, to the cure of the new chapel at Shadwell, from which he was ejected for non-conformity in 1662. In 1663 he resided in Worcester-house,
at Stepney, where he brought up a family of thirteen
children, one of whom was the illustrious subject of our
next article, and alone sufficient to give celebrity to the
name of Mead. When a temporary liberty was granted to
the dissenters, Mr. Mead returned from Holland, where he
had resided some time; and in 1674 the spacious meetinghouse at Stepney was erected for him, the four large pillars of which were presented to him by the States of Holland, as was frequently related by one of his successors.
In 1683, he was accused of being concerned in the Ryehouse plot, for which lord Russel and others were executed; but after an examination before the privy council,
in the presence of Charles II. he vindicated his innocence
in a manner so satisfactory, that his majesty himself ordered him to be discharged. He died at Stepney, Oct. 16,
1699, aged seventy. He published some sermons and
pious tracts, the most popular of which are his, I. “Almost
Christian.
” 2. “The good of early obedience.
” 3. “The
Young Man’s Remembrancer,
” &c.
, a physician of Augsburg, of the chemical sect, lived in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was eminent as a military physician,
, a physician of Augsburg, of
the chemical sect, lived in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was eminent as a military physician,
in which capacity he served several campaigns, and also
rose to high reputation and practice in the courts of Vienna
and Munich, where he was consulted by the principal nobility. He published the result of his experience relative
to the diseases of armies, in the German language; and this
work was translated into Latin, with the title of “Medicina
Militaris, seu, Liber Castrensis, euporista et facilè parabilia Medicamenta continens,
” Vienna, 1620, 8vo. This
work was several times reprinted, and was also translated
into English in 1674. He was likewise author of the following works “De Pestilentia Liber unus,
” ibid. Albedarium Marocostinum,
” ibid. De Calcantho, seu Vitriolo, ejusque qualitate, virtute, et viribus,
” Threnodia Medica,
seu, Planctus Medicinæ lugentis,
”
and procurator general of the congregation of St. Genevieve, and one of the most learned antiquaries of the seventeenth century, was born in 1620, at Chalons sur Marne,
, regular canon and procurator general of the congregation of St. Genevieve, and one
of the most learned antiquaries of the seventeenth century,
was born in 1620, at Chalons sur Marne, of a nohle and
ancient family. He collected a large cabinet of curiosities, and placed the library of St. Genevieve at Paris in
the state which has rendered it so celebrated. He died
September 2, 1687, aged sixty-seven. His principal works
are, an edition of the “Epistles of Stephen, bishop of
Tournay,
” with learned notes; “History of the Popes by
Medals,
” from Martin V. to Innocent XI. 1679, folio, Latin “Reflexions sur l'origine et Pantiquit6 des Chanoines
séculiers et réguliers,
” 4to “Dissertation sur ra Mitre des
Anciens;
” another “Dissertation sur une Tete d'Isis,
”
&c. “Le Cabinet de la Bibliotheque de Ste. Genevieve,
”
plus rempli d'erudition que de critique,
” and certainly
in some cases took little pains to discriminate between the
true and the fabulous.
, a distinguished botanist of the seventeenth century, was born at Aberdeen in 1620. Being
, a distinguished botanist of the
seventeenth century, was born at Aberdeen in 1620. Being
designed for the church, he devoted himself to the study
of mathematics in that university; but was diverted from
such pursuits by a taste for physic, and especially botany,
which, however, was interrupted, for a time at least, by
his loyalty, which induced him to become a soldier in the
service of king Charles. After receiving a dangerous
wound in the head, in the battle near the bridge of Dee,
about two miles from Aberdeen, which for a while disabled
him, he retired, like many of his countrymen after the ruin
of the royal cause, to Paris. Here he became tutor to a
young man of some fortune, while he sedulously cultivated
the studies necessary for his profession, and took the degree
of doctor of physic at Angers, in 1648. Botany, however,
was still his favourite pursuit; and by means of M. Robin,
who had then the care of the royul garden at Paris, he acquired the patronage of Gaston, duke of Orleans, and was
entrusted with the care of that prince’s garden at Blois,
accompanied by a handsome salary. He held this charge
from 1650 to 1660, when the duke dieil. During that
period he devoted himself to the study of theoretical as
well as practical botany. He began to plan a system, on
the subject of which his royal patron is reported to have
delighted to confer with him. He was also dispatched on
several botanical expeditions, to various parts of France,
for the purpose of enriching the garden. A catalogue of
this garden was printed in 1653, by Abel Brunyer, physician to the duke; of which Morison afterwards published
at London, in. 1669, a new and enlarged edition, accompanied by a regular and professed criticism of the works of
“Caspar and John Bauhin, which Haller has blamed more
than it deserves. Morison gives to these great men all the
rank and honour which their eminent learning and industry
deserve; and while he points out their mistakes or imperfections, he expresses a wish to have his own likewise
pointed out. The
” Hortus Blesensis" is disposed in alphabetical order, and accompanied by a double dedication,
to king Charles II. and James duke of York, to whom its
author had become known in France. On the restoration
he refused the most liberal offers to settle in France, and
on his arrival in London received the titles of king’s physician, and royal professor of botany, with a salary of 200l.
a year, and a house, as superintendant of the royal gardens,
He was also elected a fellow of the college of physicans.
perstitious opinions and practices that have infected the Greek and Latin churches* About the middle of the seventeenth century the Romish missionaries gained over
, from whom the sect of the Nestorians
derive their name, was born in Germanica, a city of Syria,
in the fifth century. He was educated and baptized at
Antioch, and soon after the latter ceremony withdrew himself to a monastery in the suburbs of that city. When he
had received the order of priesthood, and began to preach,
he acquired so much celebrity by his eloquence and unspotted life, that in the year 429 the emperor Theodosius
appointed him to the bishopric of Constantinople, at that
time the second see in the Christian church. He had not
been long in this office before he began to manifest an
extraordinary zeal for the extirpation of heretics, and not
above five days after his consecration, attempted to demolish the church in which the Arians secretly held their
assemblies. In this attempt he succeeded so far, that the
Brians, grown desperate, set fire to the church themselves,
and with it burnt some adjoining houses. This fire excited great commotions in the city, and Nestorius was ever
afterwards called an incendiary. From the Arians he
turned against the Novatians, but was interrupted in this
attack by the emperor. He then began to persecute those
Christians of Asia, Lydia, and Caria, who celebrated the
feast of Easter upon the 14th day of the moon; and for
this unimportant deviation from the catholic practice, many
of these people were murdered by his agents at Miletum
and at Sardis. The time, however, was now come when
he was to suffer by a similar spirit, for holding the opinion
that “the virgin Mary cannot with propriety be called the
mother of God.
” The people being accustomed to hear
this expression, were much inflamed against their bishop,
as if his meaning had been that Jesus was a mere man.
For this he was condemned in the council of Ephesus,
deprived of his see, banished to Tarsus in the year 435,
whence he led a wandering life, until death, in the year 439,
released him from farther persecution. He appears to have
been unjustly condemned, as he maintained in express
terms, that the Word was united to the human nature in
Jesus Christ in the most strict and intimate sense possible;
that these two natures, in this state of union, make but one
Christ, and one person; that the properties of the Divine
and human natures may both be attributed to this person;
and that Jesus Christ may be said to have been born of a
virgin, to have suffered and died: but he never would
admit that God could be said to have been born, to have
suffered, or to have died. He was not, however, heard in
his own defence, nor allowed to explain his doctrine. The
zealous Cyril of Alexandria (see Cyril) was one of his
greatest enemies, and Barsumas, bishop of Nisibis^ one of
the chief promoters of his doctrines, and the co-founder of
the sect. In the tenth century the Nestorians in Chaldsea,
whence they are sometimes called Chaldaeans, extended
their spiritual conquest beyond mount Imaus, and introduced the Christian religion into Tartary, properly so
called, and especially into that country called Karit, and
bordering on the northern part of China. The prince f
that country, whom the Nestorians converted to the Christian faith, assumed, according to the vulgar tradition, the
name of John, after his baptism, to which he added the
surname of Presbyter, from a principle of modesty; whence
it is said, his successors were each of them called Prester
John, until the time of Jenghis Khan. But Mosheim
observes, that the famous Prester John did not begin to
reign in that part of Asia before the conclusion of the
eleventh century. The Nestorians formed so considerable
a body of Christians, that the missionaries of Rome were
industrious in their endeavours to reduce them under the
papal yoke. Innocent IV. in 1246, and Nicolas IV. in
1278, used their utmost efforts for this purpose, but without success. Till the time of pope Julius III. the Nestorians acknowledged but one patriarch, who resided first
at Bagdat, and afterwards at Mousul; but a division arising
among them in 1551, the patriarchate became divided, at
least for a time, and a new patriarch was consecrated by
that pope, whose successors fixed their residence in the
city of Ormus, in the mountainous part of Persia, where
they still continue distinguished by the name of Simeon;
and so far down as the seventeenth century, these patriarchs persevered in their communion with the church of
Rome, but seem at present to have withdrawn themselves
from it. The great Nestorian pontiffs, who form the opposite party, and look with a hostile eye on this little patriarch, have, since 1559, been distinguished by the general denomination of Elias, and reside constantly in the
city of Mousul. Their spiritual dominion is very extensive,
takes in a great part of Asia, and comprehends also within
its circuit the Arabian Nestorians, and also the Christians
of St. Thomas, who dwell along the coast of Malabar. It
is observed, to the honour of the Nestorians, that of all
the Christian societies established in the East, they have
been the most careful and successful in avoiding a multitude of superstitious opinions and practices that have infected the Greek and Latin churches* About the middle
of the seventeenth century the Romish missionaries gained
over to their communion a small number of Nestorians,
whom they formed into a congregation or church, the patriarchs or bishops of which reside in the city of Amida,
or Diarbekir, and all assume the denomination of Joseph.
Nevertheless, the Nestorians in general persevere, to our
own times, in their refusal to enter into the communion of
the Romish church, notwithstanding the earnest entreaties
and alluring offers that have been made by the pope’s
legate to conquer their inflexible constancy.
the presidial of Alenon, was a celebrated preacher at Paris, and in the provinces, about the middle of the seventeenth century; but, having had a quarrel afterwards
, canon and theologal of Seez, the son
of John le Noir, counsellor to the presidial of Alenon,
was a celebrated preacher at Paris, and in the provinces,
about the middle of the seventeenth century; but, having
had a quarrel afterwards with M. de Mendavi, his bishop,
in consequence of the boldness with which he censured
not only the doctrine, but the conduct of his superiors,
he was banished in 1663, confined in the Bastille in 1683,
and condemned April 24, 1684, to make amende honorable
before the metropolitan church at Paris, and to the gallies
for life. This punishment, however, being changed to
perpetual imprisonment, M. le Noir was afterwards carried
to St. Malo, then to the prisons of Brest, and, lastly, to
those of Nantes, where he died April 22, 1692, leaving
several works, which are curious, but full of intemperate
abuse. The principal are, A collection of his Requests
and Factums, folio; a translation of “L'Echelle du Clottre
” “Les Avantages incontestable de PEglise sur les
Calvinistes,
” 8vo “L‘Herésie de la Domination Episcopate
qu’on etablit en France,
” 12mo “Les nouvelles Lumieres
politiques pour le Gouvernement de l'Eglise, ou TEvangile
nouveau du cardinal Palavicini dans son Histoiredu Concile
de Trente,
” Holl.
, one of the most celebrated scholars of the seventeenth century, was born at Verona, Aug. 29, 1631.
, one of the most celebrated scholars
of the seventeenth century, was born at Verona, Aug. 29,
1631. His baptismal name was Jerom, which he changed
tO'Henry, when he entered the order of the Augustines.
His family is said to have been originally of England,
whence a branch passed into Ireland, and even to Cyprus.
When this island was taken by the Turks, a James Noris,
who had defended it as general of artillery, settled afterwards at Verona, and it is from this person that the subject
of the present article descended. His father’s name was
Alexander, and, according to Niceron, published several
works, and among them a History of Germany. Maffei,
however, attributes this work only to him, which is not a
history of Germany, but of the German war from 1618 to
the peace of Lubec, translated from the Italian by Alexander Noris. His son discovered, from his infancy, an
excellent understanding, great vivacity, and a quick apprehension. His father, having instructed him in the rudiments of grammar, procured an able professor of Verona
to be his preceptor. At fifteen, he was admitted a pensioner in the Jesuits’ college at Rimini, where he studied
philosophy; after which, he applied himself to the writings
of the fathers of the church, particularly those of St. Augustine; and, taking the habit in the convent of Augustine
monks of Rimini, he so distinguished himself among that
fraternity, that, as soon as he was out of his noviciate, the
general of the order sent for him to Rome, in order to
give him an opportunity of improving himself in the more
solid branches of learning. Here he indulged his favourite
propensity for study to the utmost, and spent whole days,
and even nights, in the library of his order at Rome. His
daily course of reading was fourteen hours, and this practice he continued till he became a cardinal. It, is easy to
conceive that a student of such diligence, and whose memory and comprehension were equally great, must have
accumulated a vast stock of knowledge. But for some
time his reading was interrupted by the duties of a regent
master being imposed on him, according to the usual practice; and we find that for some time he taught at Pesaro,
and afterwards at Perugia, where he took his degree of
doctor of divinity. Proceeding then to Padua, he applied
himself to finish his “History of Pelagianism,
” which he
had begun at Rome, when he was no more than twentysix: and, having now completed his design, it was printed
at Florence in 1673. The great duke of Tuscany invited
him, the following year, to that city, made him his chaplain, and professor of ecclesiastical history in the university
of Pisa, which the duke had founded with that view.
, a learned French ecclesiastic, of the seventeenth century, was a native of Chinon in Tourraine,
, a learned French ecclesiastic, of
the seventeenth century, was a native of Chinon in Tourraine, and a canon of Tours, He enjoyed the reputation
of an universal scholar; was a poet, mathematician, divine,
a controversial writer, and even a musician, although in
the latter character he appears to have escaped the very
minute researches of Dr. Burney in his valuable history of
that art. He had been music- master of the holy chapel at
Paris for ten years, before he became a canon of Tours.
He wrote a great many works, among which some of his
controversial pieces against the protestants, his “History
of Music from its origin to the present time,
” and his dissertation on Vossius’s treatise “De poematum cantu et
viribus rythmi,
” remain in manuscript. Those which were
published, are, 1. “Secret pour composer en musique par
un art nouveau,
” Paris, Studiosis sanctarum
scripturarum Biblia Sacra in lectiones ad singulos dies, per
legem, prophetas, et evangelium distributa, et 529 carminibus mnemonicis comprehensa,
” ibid. Motifs de
reunion a l‘eglise catholique, presentes a ceux de la religion pretendue-reforme*e de France, avec un avertissement
sur la reponse d’un ministre a Poffice du saint Sacrement,
”
ibid. Le motifs de la conversion du comte de
Lorges Montgommery,
” dedicated to Louis XIV. ibid.
1670. 5. “Defense de Tancienne tradition des eglises de
France, sur la mission des premiers predicateurs evangeliques dans les Gaules, du temps des apotres ou de leurs
disciples immediats, et de Pusage des ecrits des S. S.
Severe-Sulpice, et Gregoire de Tours, et de Tabus qu‘on en
faiten cette rnatiere et en d’autres pareilles,
” ibid. 178.
This was addressed to the clergy and people of To'irs by
the author, who held the same sentiments as M.de Ma re a,
respecting St. Denis. 6. “L‘Art de la science des Nombres,
en Francois et en Latin, avec un preface de i’excellence de
Farithmetique,
” ibid. Architecture harmonique, ou application de la doctrine des proportions, de la
musique a ^architecture, avec un addition a cet ecrit,
”
ibid. Calendarium novum, perpetuum, et
irrevocable,
” Breviarium Turonense, renovatum, et in melius restitutum,
”
rticulture declined considerably after the time of Parkinson, previous to its restoration at the end of the seventeenth century. It is no small praise to Parkinson’s
His first publication was his “Paradisi in Sole Paradisus terrestris, or a choice Garden of all sorts of Rarest
Flowers, &c.; to which is annexed a Kitchen Garden,
” &c.
This was printed at London, anno much corrected and enlarged,
”
appeared in 1656, after the decease of the author. Both
editions are dedicated “to the Queen’s most excellent
Majesty,
” which could hardly have been, as Dr. Pulteney
supposed, queen Elizabeth; but rather the queen of
Charles I.; and it is to the honour of those who edited the
new impression, in 1656, that this dedication was not then
suppressed. About a thousand plants, either species or
varieties, are described in this book, of which 780 are
figured, in wood cuts, partly copied from Clusius and
Lobel, partly original, but all of them coarse and stiff,
though sometimes expressive. Numerous remarks are interspersed, respecting the botanical history or medical virtues of the plants, as well as their culture; but the latter
subject is, for the most part, given in the introductory
chapters, which display no small degree of intelligence
and experience. This book affords a very correct and
pleasing idea of the gardens of our ancestors, at the time
it was written -, and has been considered, by the learned
authors of the Hortus Kewensis," unequivocal authority
as to the time when any particular species was introduced
or cultivated among us. Though our kitchen-gardens had
not arrived at such perfection as they attained in king
William’s days, and have since preserved, there is reason
to think the science of horticulture declined considerably
after the time of Parkinson, previous to its restoration at
the end of the seventeenth century. It is no small praise
to Parkinson’s work, that the late Mr. Curtis held it in
particular estimation, always citing it in his Magazine with peculiar pleasure and respect.
, a Parisian architect of the seventeenth century, and one of a family of artists, excelled
, a Parisian architect of the
seventeenth century, and one of a family of artists, excelled in the ornaments and decorations of buildings, and
wa& architect to Louis XIV. and monsieur his only brother.
He planned the cascades, which are so justly admired, at
the castle of St. Cloud, and built the church of the nuns
of Port-royal, at Paris, in 1625. Le Pautre was received
into the royal academy of sculpture, December 1, 1671,
and died some years after. His “CEuvres d' Architecture
”
are engraved in one vol. folio, sometimes bound up in five.
John le Pautre, his relation, born in 1617, at Paris, was
placed with a joiner, who taught him the first rudiments of
drawing; but he soon surpassed his master, and became
an excellent designer, and skilful engraver. He perfectly
understood all the ornamental parts of architecture, and
the embellishments of country houses, such as fountains,
grottos, jets-d‘eau, and every other decoration of the garden. John le Pautre was admitted a member of the royal
aca<iemy of painting and sculpture April 11, 1677, and
died February 2, 1682, aged sixty-five. His *’ GEuvres
d' Architecture," Paris, 1751, 3 vols. fol. contains above
782 plates, which were much valued by the chevalier Bernin. Peter le Pautre, related to the two preceding, was
born at Pans, March 4, 1659, and excelled so much in
statuary as to be appointed sculptor to his majesty. He
executed at Rome, in 1691, the beautiful gronp of <flneas
and Anchises, which is in the grand walk at theThuilleries;
and completed, in 1716, that of Arria and Paetus (or rather of Lucretia stabbing herself in presence of Collatinus)
which Theodon had begun at Rome. Several of his other
works embellish Marly. This ingenious artist was professor and perpetual director of St. Luke’s academy, and died
at Paris, January 22, 1744, aged eighty-four.
Mr. Henry Peacham of Leverton, in Holland, in the county of Lincoln, and was born in the latter part of the seventeenth century, unless he was the Henry Peacham who
, a writer of considerable note inhis day, appears to have been the son of Mr. Henry
Peacham of Leverton, in Holland, in the county of Lincoln, and was born in the latter part of the seventeenth
century, unless he was the Henry Peacham who published
“The Garden of Eloquence,
” a treatise on rhetoric, in
Garden of Eloquence
” was a production of his father’s. Very little i&
known with certainty of his history, and that little has
been gleaned from his works, in which he frequently introduces himself. In his “Compleat Gentleman,
” he says
he was born at North Mims, near St. Alban’s, where he
received his education under an ignorant schoolmaster.
He was afterwards of Trinity college, Cambridge, and in
the title to his “Minerva,
” styles himself master of arts.
He speaks of his being well skilled in music, and it appears
that he resided a considerable time in Italy, where he
learnt music of Orazio Vecchi. He was also intimate with
all the great masters of the time at home, and has characterized their several styles, as well as those of many on the
continent. His opinions, says Dr. Burney, concerning
their works are very accurate, and manifest great knowledge of all that was understood at the time respecting
practical music.
, a learned anatomist, and a native of Dieppe, a considerable author of the seventeenth century, has rendered his name famous by his
, a learned anatomist, and a native
of Dieppe, a considerable author of the seventeenth century, has rendered his name famous by his discovery of
the thoracic duct, and the receptacle of the chyle; with
which, however, some alledge that Bartholomeus Eustachius was acquainted before him. But the world is obliged
to Pecquet for shewing, beyond all contradiction, that the
lacteal vessels convey the chyle to this receptacle; and for
proving that it is thence carried, by particular vessels,
through the thorax, almost as high as the left shoulder,
and there thrown into the left subclavian vein, and so directly carried to the heart. He died at Paris, in February
1674. The work in which he published the discovery was
entitled “Experimenta nova Anatomica, quibus incognitnm hactenus Chyli Receptaculum, et ab eo per Thoracem
in Kamos usque subclavios Vasa lactea deleguntur;
” to
which was subjoined a dissertation, “De Circulatione Sanguinis et Chyli Motu,
” De Thoracis lacteis,
” in answer
to Kiolan and many subsequent editions have appeared.
, an able mathematician of France, aud one of the most learned astronomers of the seventeenth century, was born at Fleche, and became priest
, an able mathematician of France,
aud one of the most learned astronomers of the seventeenth
century, was born at Fleche, and became priest and prior
of Rillie in Anjou. Coming afterwards to Paris, his superior talents for mathematics and astronomy soon made
him known and respected. In 1666 he was appointed
astronomer in the Academy of Sciences. And five years
after, he was sent, by order of the king, to the castle of
Urani burgh, built by Tycho Brahe in Denmark, to make
astronomical observations there; and from thence he brought
the original manuscripts written by Tycho Brahe; which
are the more valuable, as they differ in many places from
the printed copies, and contain a book more than lias yet
appeared. These discoveries were followed by many
others, particularly in astronomy: he was one of the first
who applied the telescope to astronomical quadrants: he
first executed the work called “La Connoissance des
Temps,
” which he calculated from A treatise
on Levelling.
” 2. “Practical Dialling by calculation.
”
3. “Fragments of Dioptrics.
” 4. “Experiments on Running Water.
” 5. “Of Measurements.
” 6. “Mensuration of Fluids and Solids.
” 7. ' Abridgment of the Measure of the Earth.“8.
” Journey to Uraniburgh, or Astronomical Observations made in Denmark.“9.
” Astronomical Observations made in divers parts of France.“10
” La Connoissance des Temps," from 1679 to 1683.
, a celebrated Dominican of the seventeenth century, was a native of Calabria. Having acquired
, a celebrated Dominican of the
seventeenth century, was a native of Calabria. Having
acquired a knowledge of the Eastern languages, he was
employed in the missions to the East, resided for a considerable time in Armenia, where he gained several converts,
particularly the patriarch, by whom he had at first been
opposed. He went also into Georgia, and Persia, and
afterwards into Poland, as nuncio from pope Urban VIIL
to appease the troubles which the Armenians, who were
very numerous there, occasioned by their disputes. Having re-united all parties, and embarked for Italy, he was
taken in his voyage by some corsairs, and carried to Tunis;
but his ransom being paid, he went to Home, and having
given an account of his mission, received the most public
marks of esteem from the pope, who sent him back to the
East, where, in 1655, he was made bishop of Nacksivan,
in Armenia. After governing this church nine years, he
returned to his native country, was entrusted with the
church of Bisignano, in Calabria, where he died three
years after, in 1667. Rewrote several controversial and
theological works; two dictionaries, one, “Latin and Persian;
” the other, “Armenian and Latin;
” “An Armenian Grammar
” and “A Directory
” all of which have
been esteemed of great utility.
, a celebrated divine in the beginning of the seventeenth century, descended from the Prestons, of Preston
, a celebrated divine in the beginning
of the seventeenth century, descended from the Prestons,
of Preston in Lancashire, was born at Heyford, in Northamptonshire, in Oct. 1587. An uncle on the mother’s side,
who resided at Northampton, undertook the care of his
education, and placed him at first at the free-school of that
town, and afterwards under a Mr. Guest, an able Greek
scholar, who resided in Bedfordshire. With him he remained until 1584, when he was admitted of King’s
college, Cambridge. Here he applied to what his biographer
tells us was at that time the genius of the college, viz.
music, studied its theory, and practised on the lute but
thinking this a waste of time, he would have applied himself to matters of more importance, could he have remained
here, but as not coming from Eton school, he could not be
upon the foundation. Being therefore incapable of preferment, he removed to Queen’s college, and by the instructions of Oliver Bowles, an able tutor, he soon became distinguished for his proficiency, especially in the philosophy
of Aristotle, and took his degrees with uncommon reputation. Bowles leaving college for a living, his next tutor was
Dr. Porter, who, astonished at his talents, recommended him
to the notice of the master, Dr. Tyndal, dean of Ely, by
whose influence ie was chosen fellow in 1609. This he
appears to have thought rather convenient than honourable,
for at this time his mind was much set on public life, and
on rising at court. He continued, however, to pursue his
studies, to which he now added that of medicine; and,
although he did this probably without any view to it as a
profession, we are told that when any of his pupils were
sick, he sometimes took the liberty to alter the physicians’
prescriptions. Botany and astronomy, or rather astrology,
also engrossed some part of his attention. But from all
these pursuits he was at once diverted by a sermon preached
at St. Mary’s by Mr. Cotton, which made such an impression on him, that he immediately resolved on the study of
divinity, and began, as was then usual, by perusing the
schoolmen. “There was nothing,
” says his biographer,
“that ever Scotus or Occam wrote, but he had weighed
and examined; he delighted much to read them in the first
and oldest editions that could be got. I have still a Scotus
in a very old print, and a paper not inferior to parchment,
that hath his hand and notes upon it throughout yet he
continued longer in Aquinas whose sums he would sometimes read as the barber cut his hair, and when it fell upon
the place be read, he would not lay down his book, but
blow it off,
”
, a Dominican of the seventeenth century, one of the greatest defenders of Thomism,
, a Dominican of the seventeenth century, one of the greatest defenders of Thomism,
and the doctrine of grace efficacious in itself, died 1676,
at Toulouse. His principal works are, a small theological
treatise “sur la celebre distinction du Sens compose* et du
Sens divise;
” and “De mente Concilii Tridentini circa
Gratiam per se efficacem.
” This last was edited by Arnauld and Quesnel, in
, a learned Italian ecclesiastical historian of the seventeenth century, was a native of Treviso, and was brought
, a learned Italian ecclesiastical historian of the seventeenth century, was a native of Treviso, and was brought up in the congregation of the oratory at Rome, of which Baronius had been a member. After the death of that cardinal, Rinaldi wrote a continuation of his 46 Ecclesiastical Annals," from 1198, where Baronius left off, to 1564, and with no inferiority to the preceding volumes. It consists often large volumes in folio, published at Rome at different periods, from 1646 to 1677. Rinaldi also was the author of a sufficiently copious abridgment, in Italian, of the whole annals, compiled both by Baronius and himself.
, a voluminous author of the seventeenth century, was born in 1590 in Scotland, and became
, a voluminous author
of the seventeenth century, was born in 1590 in Scotland,
and became a divine, but left that country in Charles I.'s
reign, and was appointed one of his majesty’s chaplainsj
and master of the free-school at Southampton. He died
in 1654, leaving a handsome bequest to the above school,
from which it is said he had retired for some time before
his death, and passed the remainder of his days in the family of the Henleys of Hampshire, to whom he left a large
library and a considerable sum of money, part of which
was concealed among his books. Echard says “he was a
busy, various, and voluminous writer, who by his pen and
ether ways made a considerable noise and figure in these*
times, and who so managed his affairs, that in the midst of
these storms, he died very rich, as appears from the several
benefactions he made.
” We have a list before us of thirty
pieces by this author, but whether published separately,
each forming a volume, we know not. Most of them occur very seldom. Among them are some whose dates we
have recovered, but cannot vouch for the accuracy of the
list. 1. “Comment, de Terrae motu refutatum/' Lond.
1634, 4to. 2.
” The new Planet no Planet^ or, the earth
no wandering star,“ibid. 1640, 4to, reprinted in 1646.
3.
” Virgilius Evangelizans;“ibid. 1634, 8vo. This is a
cento on the life of Christ, collected entirely from Virgil.
Granger says it is ingenious, and was deservedly admired.
4.
” Medicus medicatus, or, the physician’s religion cured,“ibid. 1645, 8vo. Th;s was one of the pieces in which he
attacked the reputation of sir Thomas Browne in his
” ReJigio Medici.“We find him returning to the charge afterwards in a work entitled, 5.
” Refutation of Dr. Browne’s
Vulgar Errors,“ibid. 1652, 8vo. 6.
” Observations upon
sir Kenelm Digby’s Discourse on the nature of Bodies,“ibid. 1645, 4to. 7.
” The picture of the Conscience,“ibid. 1646, 12mo. 8.
” The Muses’ Interpreter,“ibid.
1646, 8vo. 9.
” Arcana Microcosmi,“ibid. 1651 and
1652, 12mo and 8vo. 10.
” Observations upon Hobbes’s
Leviathan,“ibid. 1653, 12mo. 11.
” Observations upon
sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the World,“ibid. 12mo.
After this he published
” A Continuation“of that history,
which Granger calls his
” great work;“but adds, that it is
like a piece of bad Gothic tacked to a magnificent pile of
Roman architecture, which serves to heighten the effect
of it, while it exposes its own deficiency in strength and
beauty. 12.
” An Epitome“of the same history. 13.
” A View of all Religions,“the work for which he is best
known, and which has passed through variotfs editions, the
sixth in 1683. It had the merit of being the first compilation of the kind in our language, and attained a great degree of popularity. 14.
” Abridgment and translation of
John Wollebius’s Christian divinity,“ibid. 1657, 8vo. 15*
” Three Decades of Divine Meditations,“no date. This
is one of his poetical works, and valued in the
” Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica“at Si. tis. 16.
” Mel Helreonium,
or, Poetical Honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus,
&c.“ibid. 1642, 8vo. This, of which an account is given
by Mr. Park in the
” Censura Literaria,“is an attempt to
spiritualize the Greek and Roman mythology. In moral
and metre it resembles Quarles. Of the following works
we have no dates:
” De rebus Judaicis, libri quatuor,“in
hexameter verse;
” Rasura tonsoris,“prose;
” Chymera
Pythagoria;“”Meditations upon Predestination;“” Questions upon Genesis;“” Melissomachia;“”Four books of
Epigrams,“in Latin elegiacs
” Mystagogus poeticus“”ColloquiaPlantina;“” Chronology,“in English
” Christiados poematis libri tredecim," with others, which seem
of doubtful authority.
, a learned critic, of the seventeenth century, was professor of history at Leyden.
, a learned critic, of the seventeenth century, was professor of history at Leyden.
He was born in 1640, and after studying, probably at that
university, he visited England, France, and Italy, and was
every Tvhere esteemed for his talents and address. On his
return to Holland he followed the profession of the law for
some time at the Hague, but having little inclination for
either the study or practice of it, he accepted the professorship of history at Leyden, and became an honour to the
university. His lectures were much crowded, and he added
to the reputation they procured him by his publications,
particularly his edition of Tacitus, which Dr. Harwood
pronounces “a very correct and excellent one.
” It consists of 2 vols. 12mo, printed at Leyden in 1687, the first
containing the text of Tacitus, the second Rycke’s notes,
which are very valuable, and illustrate many passages that
had escaped the notice or sagacity of his predecessors. He
published also a curious dissertation “De primis Italian
coionis, et de adventu JEneze in Italiam,
” the subject of
which was to refute the opinion of Bochart, who maintained
that/neas had never seen Italy. He wrote another dissertation on giants, in which he collected all that had been
written on those remarkable beings; an “Oratio de Palingenesia literarum in terris nostris,
” published by Krieghius, at Jena in
nd died in England of a consumption in 1743. He must be distinguished from another landscape painter of the seventeenth century of the same name, who was a native of
Mr. Rysbrach, who had by no means raised a fortune equal to his deserts, before his death made a public sale of his remaining works and models, to which he added a Jarge collection of his own historic drawings, conceived and executed in the true taste of the great Italian masters. Another sale followed his death, which happened Jan. 8, 1770. He had two brothers, Peter Andreas, and G. Rysl>rach, who painted fish, dead fowls, and landscape, with Considerable merit, particularly the elder, who was born it Paris in 1690, and died in England of a consumption in 1743. He must be distinguished from another landscape painter of the seventeenth century of the same name, who was a native of Antwerp.
, a French poet of the seventeenth century, was born at Paris, and studied with
, a French poet of
the seventeenth century, was born at Paris, and studied
with a view to the ecclesiastical profession, but his private
attachment was wholly to the belles lettres and poetry,
which he diligently cultivated. He spent the greatest part
of his life at Livri, of which he was abbot, though no credit to the order, for he lived in a voluptuous, indolent
style, circulating and practising the pernicious maxims he
had learnt from his master, the poet Theophile, and to
which he was so strongly attached, that Boileau in his first
satire places St. Pavin’s conversion among things morally
impossible. The story of his having been converted by
hearing a terrible voice at the time Theophile died, in
1625, is entirely without foundation, for his conversion
preceded his own death but a very short time. He died in
1670, leaving several poems not inelegantly written, which
form part of vol. IV. of Barbin’s collection; and a collection of his works was published in 1759, 12mo, with Charleval, Lalane, and MontplaUir. He was related to Claudius
Sanguin, steward of the household to the king and the
duke of Orleans, who published “Les He-ires
” in French
verse, Paris,
, one of the most learned men of the seventeenth century, and whom Baillet has with great propriety
, one of the
most learned men of the seventeenth century, and whom
Baillet has with great propriety classed among his “Enfant
celebres par les etudes,
” was born at Semur-en-Auxois, in
Burgundy. His family was ancient and noble, and his father, an eminent lawyer, and a member of the parliament
of Burgundy, wasa man of worth and learning. Respecting the time of his birth, all his biographers differ. Peter
Burman, who has compared their differences, justly thinks
it very strange that so many persons who were his contemporaries and knew him intimately, should not have
ascertained the exact dates either of his birth or death. The
former, however, we presume may be fixed either in 1593
or 1594. He was educated at first solely by his father,
who taught him Latin and Greek with astonishing success.
At the age of ten he was able to translate Pindar very correctly, and wrote Greek and Latin verses. At the age of
eleven, his father wished to send him for farther education
to the Jesuits’ college at Dijon, not to board there, but to
attend lessons twice a day, and improve them at his lodgings. In this scheme, however, he was disappointed. His
mother, who was a protestant, had not only inspired Claude
with a hatred of the Jesuits, but encouraged him to write
satires against the order, which he did both in Greek and
Latin, and entertained indeed throughout life the same
aversion to them. Having refused therefore to comply
with his father’s request m this respect, his mothef proposed
to send him to Paris, where her secret wish was that he
should be confirmed in her religion. This being complied
with, he soon formed an acquaintance with Casaubon and
some other learned men in that metropolis, who were astonished to find such talents and erudition in a mere boy.
During his residence here he conversed much with the
clergy of the reformed church, and being at length determined to make an open avowal of his attachment to protestantism, he asked leave of his father to go to Heidelberg,
partly that he might apply to the study of the law, but
principally that he might be more at his freedom in religious matters. Baillet calls this a trick of his new preceptors, who wished to persuade Salmasius’s father that Paris,
with respect to the study of the law, was not equal to Heidelberg, where was the celebrated Denis Godefroi, and an
excellent library.
asari and Ridolfi for what concerns the Italian painters, and of Charles Van Manderfor the Flemings, of the seventeenth century. He died at Nuremberg, in 16S8. His
, a German painter, was born
at Francfort in 1606. He was sent by his father to a grammar school; his inclination to engraving and designing
.
being irresistible, he was suffered to indulge it, and went
on foot to Prague, where he put himself under Giles Sadeler, the famous engraver, who persuaded him to apply his
genius to painting. He accordingly went to Utrecht, and
was some time under Gerard lionthrost, who took him into
England with him; where he stayed till 1627, the year in
which the duke of Buckingham, who was the patron of
painting and painters, was assassinated by Felton at Portsmouth. He went afterwards to Venice, where he copied
the finest pictures of Titian and Paul Veronese; and from
Venice to Rome, where he became one of the most considerable painters of his time. The king of Spain sending
to Rome for twelve pictures of the most skilful hands then
in that city, twelve painters were set to work, one of whom
was Sandrart. After a long stay in Rome, he went to Naples, thence to Sicily and Malta, and at length returned
through Lombardy to Francfort, where he married. A
great famine happening about that time, he removed to
Amsterdam; but returned to Francfort upon the cessation of that grievance. Not long after, he took possession
of the manor of Stokau, in the duchy of Neuburg, which
was fallen to him; and, finding it much in decay, sold all
his pictures, designs, and other curiosities, in order to
raise money for repairs’. He had but just completed these,
when, the war breaking out between the Germans and the
French, it was burned by the latter to the ground. He
then rebuilt it in a better style; but, fearing a second invasion, sold it, and settled at Augsburgh, where he executed many fine pictures. His wife dying, he left Augsburgh, and went to Nuremberg, where he established an
academy of painting. Here he published his “Academia
artis pictoria?,
” Academia Todesca della architettura, scultura, e
pittura, oderTeutsche academic der edlen banbild-rnahleren-kunste,
” Nuremberg, Iconologia Deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur (Germanice), ibid. 1680, fol.
” Admiranda Sculptures
veteris, sive delineatio vera perfectissrma statuarum,“ibid.
1680, fol.
” Koiiiaj antiquse et novae theatrum,“1684, fol.
”Rotna-norum Fontinalia," ibid. 1685, fol. A German
edition of all his works was published by Volkmann, at
Nuremberg, in 1669 75, 8 vols. fol.
, lord chief justice of the King’s Bench towards the close of the seventeenth century, seems entitled to some notice on account
, lord chief justice of the
King’s Bench towards the close of the seventeenth century, seems entitled to some notice on account of his
“Reports,
” although his character in other respects may
as well be consigned to oblivion. He was originally a
strolling beggar about the streets, without known parents
or relations. He came often to beg scraps at Clement’s
Inn, where his sprightliness and diligence made the society
desirous to extricate him from his miserable situation. As
he appeared desirous to learn to write, one of the attornies
fixed a board up at a window on the top of a stair-case,
which served him as a desk, and there he sat and wrote
after copies of court and other hands, in which at length
he acquired such expertness, as in some measure to set
up for himself, and earn a pittance by hackney- writing.
He also took all opportunities of improving himself by
reading such books as he borrowed of his friends, and in
the course of a few years, became an able attorney and a
very eminent counsel, his practice in the King’s-bench
being exceeded by none. All this would have redounded
to his honour, had his progress in integrity kept pace with
other accomplishments, but he appears to have brought into
his profession the low habits of his early life, and became
as much a disgrace as an ornament to the bar. His art and
cunning were equal to his knowledge, and he carried many
a cause by sinister means, and when detected, he never
was out of countenance, but evaded the matter with a jest,
which he had always at hand. He was much employed by
the king against the city of London, in the business of the
quo warranto, and was a very fit tool in the hands of the
court, and prompted the attorney- general Sawyer, to overthrow the city charter. It was when this affair was to be
brought to a decision, that Saunders was knighted and
made lord chief justice Jan. 23, 1682-3. But just as sentence was about to be given, he was seized with an apoplexy and died. In our authority, a disgusting description
is given of his person, which seems to have corresponded
with his mind.
the seneschalshit> and presidial court of Clerinont in Auvergne, was born there about the beginning of the seventeenth century. He had an extensive ^knowledge of the
, a celebrated president and lieutenant-general in the seneschalshit> and presidial court of
Clerinont in Auvergne, was born there about the beginning of the seventeenth century. He had an extensive
^knowledge of the belles lettres and law, and was one of the
most learned men and eloquent magistrates of his time.
He attended the states-general held at Paris in 1614, as a
deputy from the Tiers Etat of the province of Auvergne,
and defended its rights with zeal and firmness against the
nobility and the clergy. He afterwards pleaded with great
credit in. the parliament of Paris, and died at a very advanced age in 1682, leaving many learned works much
esteemed; the principal are, an edition of “Sidonius
Apollinaris,
” Origine de Clermont, Capitale d' Auvergne,
” the most complete edition of
which is by Peter Durand, 1662, folio. “Traite des
”Duels,“8vo.
” Traite“de la Souverainte
” du Roi et de
son Roiaume aux Deputes de la Noblesse,“1615, 8vo, two
parts a curious and scarce work.
” Chronologies des Etats
G6ne>aux," 8vo the object of which is to prove that the
Tiers Etat has always had admittance there, a seat, and a
deliberative voice.
ed Frenchman who had the merit of introducing oriental printing into his country about the beginning of the seventeenth century, was the French ambassador at Constantinople
, seigneur de Breves, a learned
Frenchman who had the merit of introducing oriental
printing into his country about the beginning of the seventeenth century, was the French ambassador at Constantinople for twenty-two years. On his return, about
1611, Henry IV. sent him to Rome as ambassador
in the pontificate of Paul V. where, in 1613, he appears to have established a printing-office; for in the title
of a translation of Bellarmin’s conclusion, and a Psalter into
Arabic, they are said tp come tx typographia Savariana.
Savary is said to have cast the types, and employed on
these two works, as correctors, Scialac and Sionita, two
Maronites from mount Lebanon. In 1615, Savary returned to Paris, bringing with him Sionita and the printer
Paulin, who, in the same year, printed in small quarto, in
Turkish and French, the “Treaty of 1604, between Henry
the Great, king of France, and the sultan Amurath,
” &c.
The following year appeared an Arabic Grammar, edited
by Sionita and Hesronita. It appears that Savary had the
liberality to lend his types to those who were desirous of
printing works in the oriental languages. He died in 1627,
when, we are told, the English and Dutch made offers for
the purchase of his types, and the oriental manuscripts
which he had collected in the Levant; but the king of
France bought them, and soon after a new establishment
appeared at Paris for oriental printing, all the credit of
which was given to the cardinal Richelieu, while the name
of Savary was not once mentioned. Sic vos non vobis, &c.
These types are said to be still extant in the royal printing office. Savary published an account of his travels,
from which we learn, that he projected certain conquests
in the Levant, for the extension of the commerce of his
country, and the propagation of Christianity. The number
of oriental Mss. which he brought from the Levant amounted
to ninety-seven.
, professor of mathematics at Leyden about the middle of the seventeenth century, was a very acute proficient in that
, professor of mathematics at
Leyden about the middle of the seventeenth century, was
a very acute proficient in that science. He published, in
1649, an edition of Descartes’s geometry, with learned
and elaborate annotations on that work, as also those of
Beaume, Hudde, and Van Heauralt. Schooten published
also two very useful and learned works of his own composition; “Principia Matheseos universalis,
” Exercitationes Mathematics,
”
, one of the most learned men of the seventeenth century, wasthe son of John Selden, a yeoman,
, one of the most learned men of the
seventeenth century, wasthe son of John Selden, a yeoman, by Margaret his wife, only daughter of Mr. Thomas
Baker of Rushington, descended from the family of th
Bakers in Kent. He was born Dec, 16, 1584, at a house
called the Lacies at Salvinton, near Terring in Sussex, and
educated at the free-school at Chichester, where he made a
very early progress in learning. In 159$, at fourteen years
of age, as some say, but according to Wood, in 1600, he
was entered of Hart-hall, Oxford, where under the tuition
of Mr. Anthony Barker (brother to his schoolmaster at Chichester) and Mr. John Young, both of that hall, he studied
about three years, and then removed to Clifford’s Inn,
London, for the study of the law, and about two years
afterwards exchanged that situation for the Inner Temple.
Here he soon attained a great reputation for learning, and
acquired the friendship of sir Robert Cotton, sir Henry
Spelman, Camden, and Usher. In 1606, when only twentytwo years of age, he wrote a treatise on the civil government of Britain, before the coming in of the Normans,
which was esteemed a very extraordinary performance for
his years. It was not printed, however, until 1615, and
then very incorrectly, at Francfort, under the title “Analects Anglo-Britannicwv Hbri duo, de civile administratione
Britanniae Magnae usque ad Normanni adventum,
” 4to.
Nicolson is of opinion that these “Analecta
” do not so
clearly account for the religion, government, and revolutions of state among our Saxon ancestors, as they are reported to do. It was an excellent specimen, however, of
what might be expected from a youth of such talents and
application.
, a distinguished French physician, wag born in Gascony about the close of the seventeenth century, and is said to have been a doctor of
, a distinguished French physician, wag born in Gascony about the close of the seventeenth century, and is said to have been a doctor of the faculty of physic of Rheims, and a bachelor of that of Paris; which last degree he obtained in 1724 or 1725. He was a man of profound erudition, united with great modesty, and became possessed, by his industry in the practice of his profession, of much sound medical knowledge. His merits obtained for him the favour of the court, and he was appointed consulting physician to Louis XV. and subsequently succeeded Chicoyneau in the office of first physician to that monarch. He was also a member of the royal academy of sciences at Paris, and of the royal society of Nancy. He died in December 1770, at the age of about Seventy-seven years.
eptem aliis additi,“1629; the result of 40 years of practice, and equal to any of its contemporaries of the seventeenth century.” De Margaritis Judicium,“1618;” De
, an Italian physician of celebrity, was born at Milan, in February 1552.
He evinced great talents from his early childhood, and at
the age of sixteen defended some theses on the subject of
natural philosophy with much acuteness. His inclination
leading him to the medical profession,* he repaired to Pavia,
for the study of it, and obtained the degree of doctor in
his twenty-first year, and was even appointed to a chair in
this celebrated university two years after. At the end of
four more years he resigned his professorship to devote
himself entirely to practice at Milan, and while here Philip III. king of Spain, selected him for his historiographer;
but neither this, nor many other honours, that were offered
to him, could induce him to quit his native city, to which
he was ardently attached. The only honour which he accepted was the appointment of chief physician to the state
of Milan, which Philip IV. conferred upon him in 1627, as
a reward for his virtues and talents. In 1628, during the
plague at Milan, Septalius, while attending the infected,
was himself seized with the disease, and although he recovered, he had afterwards a paralytic attack, which greatly
impaired his health. He died in September 1633, at the
age of eighty-one. Septalius was a man of acute powers,
and solid judgment, and was reputed extremely successful
in his practice. He was warmly attached to the doctrines
of Hippocrates, whose work? he never ceased to study.
He was author of various works, among which are <k In
Lihrum Hippocratis Coi, de Aeribus, Aquis, et Locis,
Commentarii quinquc,“1590;
” In Aristotelis Problemata
Commentaria Latina,“torn. I. 1602, II. 1607;
” Animadversionum et Cautionum Meriicarmn Libri duo, septem aliis
additi,“1629; the result of 40 years of practice, and equal
to any of its contemporaries of the seventeenth century.
” De Margaritis Judicium,“1618;
” De Peste et Pestiferis Affectibus Libri V.“1622
” Analyticarum et Animasticarum Dissertationum Libri II." 1626, &c. &c.