James Heath

Son of Rob. Heath the Kings Cutler, living in the Strand leading from London to Westminster, was born, I presume, there, educated in Westminster School, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term 1646, aged 17, ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, lived afterwards upon his Patrimony, and adhered to K. Ch. 2. in his Exile till it was almost spent, and then married, which hindred his restoration to his Students place in 1660. About that time having several Children, he was forced to write books and correct the Press for bread to maintain them. He was a good School-scholar, had a command of his Engl. and Lat. pen, but wanted a head for a Chronologer, and was esteemed by some a tolerable Poet. He hath communicated to the World,

A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. Lond. 1661. oct. enlarged by the Author and compleated from 1637 to 1663, in four parts.—Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo. Some Copies have in them the pictures of the most eminent Soldiers in the said War, which makes the book valued the more by some Novices. But this Chronicle being mostly compiled from lying Pamphlets, and all sorts of News-books, are innumerable Errors therein, especially as to name and time, things chiefly required in History. To this Chronicle is added a Continuation from the end of 1662 to 1675. by Joh. Philipps (Nephew by the Mother to Joh. Milton.)—Lond. 1676. fol. Which Continuation is mostly made up from Gazets. Another Edit. is continued to 1691.

Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller, that most incomparable Writer, who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661. Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet. This Dr. Th. Fuller was Author of The Ch. Hist. from the time of Christ till the year 1648, and and of divers other things.

The glories and magnificent triumphs of the blessed restitution of K. Ch. 2. from his arrival in Holland 1659 till this present, &c. Lond. 1662. in a large oct. It reaches to the month of May 1661, and hath added to it the names of the then Companions of the Order of the Ga [•] ter, the Nobility, Archb. and Bishops, Judges, Baronets, and the Marriage of Catherina of Portugal to K. Ch. 2. and their noble reception by the City of Lond. by water from Hampton Court to their Landing at Whitehall 23 Aug. 1662.

Flagellum: or, the Life and Death, Birth and Burial of Ol. Cromwell the late Usurper. Lond. 1663. The third Edit. came out with additions at Lond. 1665. all in oct.

Elegy (with Epitaph) on the much lamented death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincolne, who deceased in the latter end of Jan. 1662. Lond. 1663. on one side of a sh. of paper.

A new book of Loyal English Martyrs and Confessors, who have endured the pains and terrors of death, arraignment, &c. for the maintenance of the just and legal Government of these Kingdoms both in Church and State. Lond. 1663. in tw.

Brief but exact survey of the Affairs of the United Netherlands, comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant, all the particulars of that Subject, &c. Printed in tw. but when I know not, for I have not yet seen it. He died of a Consumption and Dropsie in Well-Close near to the Lame Hospital in the Parish of S. Barthelmew the Less in London on the 16 of August in sixteen hundred sixty and four,1664. and was the third day after buried in the Church of that Parish, near to the Skreen-door, leaving then behind him several Children to be maintained by the Parish, as also the foundation of other matters, which he intended to have published if life had been spared.