Edward Chaloner

, second Son of Sir Tho. Chaloner of Steeple Claydon in Bucks Knight (whom I have before mentioned) was born in the County of Middlesex, particularly, as it seems, at Cheswick, where his Father and Mother lived, and both were buried; applyed his muse to Academical studies in the condition of a Commoner in the coll. of S. Mary Madg. 1604. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated 1610. and the next year was chosen Fellow of Allsouls coll. Afterwards entring into the sacred function, he became Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James, Doctor of Div. Principal of St. Albans hall, and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. He was reputed, considering his age, a very learned man, able for the Pulpit, and well read in polemical Divinity, as some of his lucubrations shew. There was nothing of his composition so mean, which the greatest person did not value: and those Sermons of his making, which were published after his death, were looked upon as several choice pieces, or at least such, as would prove serviceable to the Church and Common-wealth. His works are.

Six Sermons, as (1) Babel, or the confusion of Languages on Gen. 11. 7. (2) Naioth, or the Vniversity Charter, on Am. 4. 14. (3) Ephesus Common-Pleas. (4) Judah’s prerogative. (5) The Gentiles creed. (6) Paul’s peregrination, or the travellers guide, &c. Lond. 1623. oct.

Vnde Zizania? The orig. and progress of Heresie, Serm. before K. Jam. at Theobalds, on Mat. 13. 27. Lond. 1624. qu. [•] b. 1638. in tw.

Credo Ecclesiam S. Catholicam. I believe the holy Cath. Church, the authority, universality and visibility of the Ch. handled and discussed. Lond. 1625. quarto, and 38. in tw.

Six Sermons, as (1) The Cre [•] ians conviction and reformaon, on Tit. 1. 13. (2) The ministers charge and mission, on Mat. 20. 6. (3) Gods bounty and Gentiles ingratitude. (4) Afflictions the Christians portion. (5) Duty and affinity of the faithful. (6) No peace with Rome, &c. Oxon. 1629. qu.

Status quaestionum inter nos & pontificios—MS. in qu. containing 92. pages in Lat. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow. At length, after he had lived 34. years, he was, to the great grief of many, untimely snacth’d away by the Plague that was then in Oxon. 25. July in sixteen hundred twenty and five, 1625 and was privately buried, late at night, in the south yard belonging to S. Maries Church within this University, leaving then behind him a disconsolate Widdow named Elizabeth, Daughter of Dr. R [•] b. Hoveden sometimes Warden of Alls. coll. besides children. Over his grave was soon after an altar-monument erected, with an Epitaph engraven thereon; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 181. b.