Brian Duppa

or de Uphaugh was born at Greenwich in Kent on the tenth day of March an. 1588, educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a Kings Scholar in the College School at Westminster while Dr. Lanc. Andrews was Dean of that Church, of whom he learned Hebrew. From thence he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in the month of May 1605, and thence to be Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1612, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty, he took holy Orders, travelled beyond the seas, and in the year 1619 he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University. In 1625 he took the degrees in Divinity, being then Chaplain to the Prince Palatine, and in the year after he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. In 1632 and 33 he did execute the Office of Vicechanc. of the University with great moderation and prudence, and in June 1634 he was made Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Franc. Dee promoted to the See of Peterborough. Soon after he was made Tutour to Prince Charles (afterwards K. Ch. 2.) which proved his future happiness, being then accounted by all a most excellent man. On the 19 of May 1638 he was presented to the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex, and being elected to the See of Chichester upon the translation of Dr. Rich. Mountague to Norwych, had restitution made ((†))((†)) Pat. 14. Car. 1. p. 19. to him of the Temporalities of that See on the 12 of June the same year: which Church of Petworth, he kept, I presume, for some time in commendam with his See. In 1641 he was translated to Salisbury in the place of Dr. Jo. Davenant, who died on the 20 of Apr. the same year: but soon after Episcopacy being silenced by the Long Parliament, (which the Presbyterians called The blessed Parliam.) when a prevalent party therein turned the Nation topsie turvey, he retired to Oxon for a time to wait on his Majesty and the Prince, and left not the former till his last days. After his Maj. was beheaded, this our worthy Author and Bishop retired to Richmond in Surrey, where spending most of his time in great devotion and solitude till the happy Restauration of King Ch. 2. an. 1660 was translated to Winchester, on the 24 of Sept. the same year, to the great joy and comfort of many Lords and Gentlemen, as well as the reverend Clergy, who all had a deep sense and memory of his Prudence and Piety, owing then a lasting tribute, not only for his great example of vertue and godliness, but for those excellent seeds and principles so happily laid in the youth of the then Sovereign Lord the King. About that time he was made Lord Almoner, and began that conspicuous monument of his charity, an Almshouse, at the said place of Richmond. He was a man of excellent parts, and every way qualified for his Function, especially as to the comeliness of his person, and gracefulness of his deportment, which rendred him worthy the service of a Court, and every way fit to stand before Princes. He was beloved of K. Ch. 1. of happy memory, who made use of his pious Conversation during his imprisonment in the Isle of Wight, and so much respected by his son K. Ch. 2. that when this worthy Prelate laid on his death-bed at Richmond, he craved his blessing on his bended knees by his bed-side. He hath written and published,

Several Sermons, as (1) The Souls soliloquie, &c. preached before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight 25 Oct. 1648, being the monthly Fast during the Treaty there, on Psal. 42.5. Lond. 1648. qu. (2) Angells rejoycing for Sinners repenting, on Luke 15.10. Lond. 1648. qu. &c.

A Guide for the penitent: or, a modell drawn up for the help of a devout Soul wounded with sin. Lond. 1660.

Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice, in 2 parts. Lond. 1674 in tw. with the Authors picture before them: which book was published by Ben. Parry of C. C. Coll. ’Tis said by some, particularly the Bookseller that printed The Church Hist. of Scotland, pen’d by Dr. Joh. Spotswood Archb. of S. Andrews, and printed at Lond. 1654. fol. &c. that he (Dr. Duppa) did write The life of the said Archbishop, which stands, and is put, before the said History. But the Reader is to know, that the person who wrot the Preface to the said History saith that the said life was pen’d by a reverend person of that Nation, meaning Scotland. So that if it be true which he delivers, Duppa an Englishman cannot be the Author; yet Quaere. He surrendred up his pious soul to the great God that first gave it, on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred sixty and two,1662. having the day before been visited by his Maj. out of his wonted piety and goodness. He died as he lived, honoured and beloved of all that knew him, a person of so clear and eminent candor, that he left not the least spot upon his life or function, maugre the busie sedition of those Brethren, who then, as before, black’d the very Surplice, and made the Liturgy profane. He had a more than ordinary affection to live at Richmond, where he privately resided several years in the late broken times, as I have before told you, but especially because it was the place where first he conveyed the Principles into the Prince. Afterwards his body being conveyed to York-house in the Strand, where it laid in state for some time, was decently conveyed thence on the 24 of April following to the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster, where it was buried in the Area on the North side of the Chappel of S. Edward the Confessor. At which time Dr. Hen. King B. of Chichester, a most admirable and florid Preacher in his younger days, preached a Sermon to the great content of the Auditory, containing many Elogiums of the Defunct, which, as also his monuments of piety and charity, I shall for brevity sake now pass by. Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white marble, fastned to the Wall over his grave, with an inscription thereon. In the Church Register of Lewsham in Kent, I find one Brian Son of Jeffry Duppa to be baptized there 18 March 1580, having been born in the Vicaridge-house of that place. Which Jeffry Duppa who was Vicar, I take to be Father of Dr. Duppa, and Brian to be his elder brother deceased.