Peter Heylyn

Son of Henry Heylyn, descended from an antient Family of his name living at Pentrie-Heylyn in Mountgomeryshire, was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire, on the 29 of Nov. 1599, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there under Mr. Thom. North first, and after under Mr. Edw. Davys, where profiting in Trivials to a miracle, especially in Poetry, (in which he gave several ingenious Specimens as occasion offer’d) was in the year 1613 plac’d by his Father in Hart Hall under the tuition successively of two Tutors, viz. Mr. Joseph Hill, and Mr. Walt. Newbury a zealous Puritan. The next year he stood to be Demie of Magd. Coll, but being then put by, was the year following elected; by which time he had made a considerable progress in Academical Literature. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, which was in Oct. 1617, he read every Long vacation, till he was Master, Cosmography Lectures in the common refectory of the said College, of which the first being performed in the latter end of July 1618, it was so well approved, that for that and his other learning, he was chose Probationer, and the year following, perpetual, Fellow of the said house. On the 22 of Feb. 1619, he began the composing of his Geography according to the hint which he had taken the year before in his Cosmography Lectures, and finished it on the 29 of Apr. following. In Nov. the same year it was printed, and being dedicated to Prince Charles, he presented him (being then at Theobalds) with a copy of it, which was very graciously received. In 1623, he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxon in S. Aldates Church, and the year after having augmented and corrected his Geography, ’twas printed again and presented to the Prince, the Author being then introduced by Henry Lord Danvers, who then spake very affectionately in his commendations. About that time Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester presenting a Copy of it to the King, he approved of it well, but unfortunately falling on a passage therein, whereby the Author gave precedency to France before England, he became so much offended, that he gave order to the Lord Keeper to call in the Book: whereupon the Author, then at Oxon, being advised to repair to the Court and make use of the Prince to salve that sore, he gave such satisfaction concerning it in writing sent to the said Dean, that the King perusing it, rested very well contented with the matter. In 1625 he went into France, where spending about six weeks in several plac [••] , wrot the particulars of the said journey in a Book, the original of which he presented to the said Lord Danvers, but a copy of it he kept by him, which at length (30 years after or thereabouts) he publish’d to correct a false copy that had crept abroad. On the 24 April 1627 he answer’d pro forma on these questions. (1) An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis? (2) An Ecclesia possit errare? Both which he determined negatively contrary to the mind and judgment of Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity in his lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae, who thereupon fell foul upon him, calling him Bellarminian, Pontifician, and I know not what, and did his best to beat him from his grounds, but he held his own. This raised great clamour for the present, which Prideaux increased the munday after when Heylyn opposed Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. Hall, at which time he was once again proclaimed a Papist by him in the publick School of Divinity, which might have done him more mischief among his friends, but that (as he saith) God stood with him. On the 5 of Aug. following, being Sunday, Mr. Edw. Reynolds preaching to the University in the Chappel of Mert. Coll, (of which he was Fellow) touched upon the passages which had hapned between Prideaux and Heylyn, impertinently to his text, but pertinently enough unto his purpose, which was to expose Heylyn to disgrace and censure. But so it was that tho he was then present, yet it did little trouble him, as he himself acknowledgeth. In Feb. 1627 he was by the letters of the Lord Danvers, then Earl of Danby, commended to Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells for his advancement in the Church: By vertue of which, he was received by him; (as our Author Heylyn tells you at large in the life of the said Bishop ((d))((d)) In lib. 3. sub an. 1627. published 1668) at which time having several private discourses together, Laud fell upon the business at Oxon. between Prideaux and him, adding withal, that he had read his supposition when he answered pro forma; (a copy of which Heylyn had given to him) and found therein that it was so strongly grounded, that all the Prideauxes were not able to overthrow it in a fair way; that also he would not have him discouraged by noise and clamours, telling him farther, that he himself had in his younger days maintained the same positions in a disputation in S. Johns Coll. for which he was much clamoured at by Dr. Abbot then Vicechancellour, (afterwards Archb. of Cant.) and made a by-word and reproach in the University; but he thanked God he had overcome that difficulty and got the better of his Adversaries, and so might he. Finally he admonished him, to hold in that moderate course he found him in, and to apply his study to the making up of breaches in the walls of Christendome, &c. In the latter end of 1628 he went as Chaplain to the E. of Danby beforemention’d into the Isle of Guernsey, of which the said Earl was Governour, where continuing about 3 weeks, returned into England, drew up a discourse of that voyage, and in the Month of June in the year following, did present it to Laud then Bishop of London, to whose patronage, as it seems, he had committed it. The same year also (1629) he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and nominated one of his Maj. Chaplains in Jan. the same year. So that being Shipped and in hopes of a good wind, he thought it did concern him to do somewhat to be known at Court, especially by the great ones there. Whereupon he fell into a resolution to effect the History of S. George, Patron of the most noble Order of the Garter; the studying and writing whereof took up all the spring time of 1630. He found it full of difficulties, the whole world being against him, and no path to follow, but at length he overcame it. Upon Act Sunday the same year he preached the University Sermon at S. Maries on this text, But while men slept the Enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away. Matth. 13.25. In which Sermon he discovered ((e))((e)) See more in Canterburies Doom. written by Will. Prynne p. 386. Also in Dr. Heylyns Life of Archb. Laud. lib. 3. p. 210. the great mystery of iniquity, which lay hid under the specious project of the Feoffes for buying in of impropriations, and was the first who ever gave publick notice of the danger of it, to the undeceiving of the People. It made much noise, and brought to him more envy, as he is pleased to say (if I mistake not) in his Historie of the life of Dr. Laud. The same year also on S. Mar. Magd. day he resigned his Fellowship, having been married almost two years before. In Oct. 1631 he was made Rector of Henningford in Huntingdonshire by the procurement of Dr. Laud, and on the first of Nov. following the K. gave him a Prebendship of Westminster, void by the death of Dr. George Darrell somtimes Fellow of Alls. Coll. Which matter, so soon as it came to the knowledge of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and then Dean of Westminster, it put him to extreme vexation, because this our Author (Heylyn) was beloved of Dr. Laud, (between which Bishops there was never a right understanding) and that also there was likely to follow great discord between them, because of several affronts that Williams had before given him for his forwardness, high conceit of himself, and confidence. The next year the K. bestowed on him the rich Parsonage of Houghton in the Spring within the Bishoprick of Durham, void by the preferment of Dr. Aug. Lindsell to the Bishoprick of Peterborough; which, for his own convenience, the King gave way that he should change it with Dr. Marshall for the rectory of Ailresford in Hampshire. In 1633 he proceeded D. of D. and in the Vespers then held had these 3 questions following to answer to. (1) An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis? Aff. (2) An Eccles. habeat authoritatem decernendi ritus & ceremonias? Aff. (3) An Eccles. habeat authoritatem interpretandi Scripturas sacras. Aff. All which, tho taken Verbatim out of the 20 Article of the Church of England, were so displeasing to Prideaux the Professor, that he fell into very great heats and passion, in which he let fall certain matters very unworthy of the place where utter’d, as also distastful to many of the auditory, (among whom were James du Perron the Queens Almoner, afterwards Bishop of Angoulisme in France) which after drew some censure on him. The particulars were these. (1) Ecclesia est m [•] ra chimera. (2) Ecclesia nihil docet nec determinat. (3) Controversiae omnes melius ad Academiam referri possunt quam ad Ecclesiam. (4) Docti homines in Academiis possunt determinare omnes controversias, etiam sepositis Episcopis, &c. Upon occasion also of mentioning the absolute decree, he brake into a great and long discourse, that his mouth was shut up by Authority, else he would maintain that truth contra omnes qui sunt in vivis, which fetcht a great hum from the Country Ministers then present. What therefore followed upon this, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 440. a. But so netled was Prideaux, that the K. by Heylyns means should take cognizance of that matter, that when he put in his protestation against the utterance of those things, alledged against him, into the hands of the Chancellour of the University in Aug. following, did at the same time (the King being then at Woodstock) cause a paper to be spread about the Court touching the business of the Vespers in the last Act, very much tending to Heylyns disgrace. Heylyn therefore being not able to brook it, (for he was of an high and audacious spirit) it so fell out, that when in Oct. following, came out his Maj. declaration concerning lawful sports, which raised much clamour against the King, and more against Dr. Laud; Heylyn, for the appeasing it, fell upon a course of translating Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath, and putting a preface to the same; which being published in print in Hilarie term, an. 1633, conduced much to his Majesties proceedings in what he had done, and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans. In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. Johns Coll. for Islip near Oxon, and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire. On Ap. 10. an. 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster, and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincolne, W. Prynne, and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford. By the first, because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud, and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College. By the second, because he had furnished the Lords of the Council, with matter out of his Histrio-Mastix to proceed against him in order to the loosing of his ears, &c. and by the last, because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle, to the upper end, of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford, and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service. In the year 1642, leaving his Preb. of Westminster, and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come, he followed the King to Oxon, where having little to live upon, did, by the Kings command, write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus, which had been begun by John Birkenhead, who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries, far more than Heylyn. In the beginning of the year following (1643) he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm. because of his retirement to the King, and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate, and seize upon his Goods. Which Order being put in execution, his incomparable Lib [•] ary was taken away and carried to Portsmouth. In 1644 h [•] s singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded, his hopes of rising higher in the Church, were totally blasted: So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate, he stuck to his temporal (for which he compounded in Goldsmiths Hall) and to the earning of money by writing books. In 1645 he left Oxon, and shifted from place to place, like the old travels of the Patriarchs, and in pity to his necessity, some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him. The same year he setled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester, but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies, he left them in a disguise, and being entertained by several Loyalists, removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647; where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following, lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books; the publishing of which (especially his Geography which he inlarged to a folio) was a great relief to him. Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks, where he bought an house and land called Lacies Court, which being but five miles from Oxon, he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure, either from Shops, the Libraries of acquaintance there, (particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll.) or by his repair to Bodlies Library, and wrot several things in defence of the Church of England, and the true genuine sense thereof. Afterwards he suffer’d in his Estate by Decimation; which trick being brought up by Oliver, while Protector, many Families thereby (especially such that had before compounded) were thereby undone. In 1660 upon his Majesties return to his Kingdoms, he was restored to his spiritualities, but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster, which was a wonder to many, and a great discontent to him and his; but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person, I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther. He was a Person endowed with singular gifts, of a sharp and pregnant wit, solid and clear judgment. In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet, but very conceited and pragmatical, in his elder a better Historian, a noted Preacher, and a ready or extemporanean Speaker. He had a tenacious memory to a miracle, whereunto he added an incredible patience in study, in which he persisted when his Eyesight failed him. He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes, (tho of very mean port and presence) and therefore by some of them, he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed. On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the Kings Prerogative, either in their afflicted or prosperous estate, a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks, a despiser of envy, and in mind not at all discouraged. He writ many books upon various Subjects, containing in them many things that are not vulgar, either for stile or argument, and wrot also History pleasant enough, but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian, and equally ((*))((*)) See a book intit. Several conferences between a Rom. Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England, &c. in answer to Th. Goddens Dialogues—Lond. 1679. oct. written by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet. an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme. His works which are very many are these.

Spurius; a Tragedie—Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed.

Theomachia; a Com.—Made in the year 1618, but not printed.

Microcosmus; A description of the great World. Oxon. 1622. 24, &c. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio, entit. Cosmography in four books. Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrot with his own hand, (1651) for after it was finished, his eyes failed him, that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis, whom he kept to his dying day.

The Historie of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia; asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church, and opposition of the present. Lond. 1631. and 33. qu.

The institution of the most noble Order of S. George, named the Garter.—Printed with the former.

Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present; as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging—Printed also with the Hist. of St. George, 1631. and 33. In which last edition, is, at the end, A review of the whole work; consisting of additions and emendations. On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day, the Author of the said History and its adjuncts, was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London (a great incourager of learning and industry) to his Majesty, being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall, to whom he did present them. Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book, he did graciously accept of it, and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument. Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter, and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster, and was used by all of them with great respect, save only by Archb. Abbot, and William Earl of Exeter; the first of which disliked the argument, and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar, which he was after much asham’d of, when it came to be known. Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill, which was, as Heylyn saith, full of most base and malicious calumniations, both against the Person and Religion of the Author. Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud, (who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellour of that place, and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press) commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter, and withal sent him to Windsore to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there. Which command he accordingly obeying, occasioned a second edition of the said History, an. 1633, as I have before told you, wherein he answer’d all Hakewills allegations, letting pass his slanders. Upon the coming out of which, Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature, entit. An Apol. or Declaration of the Power, &c. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George. About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply, yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist. of S. George, in several letters sent abroad; one of which speaketh ((†))((†)) See in Will. Sandersons book, entit. Post-hast. A reply to Peters (Dr. Heylyns) appendix to his treatise entit. Respondet Petrus, &c. Lond. 1658. qu p. 13. thus “In the second impression of his book (The Hist. of S. George) where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers, especially the Legendaries, he magnifies them more, and when he mentions our men, he villifies them more than he did in his first edition: But the matter is not much, what he saith of the one, or of the other, the condition of the man being such, as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander, &c.” From the said Hist. of S. George, written by Heylyn, is a little Pamphlet taken and stoln, entit. The Hist. of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia, &c. Lond. 1661 in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part, intit. The Hist. of the life and Martyrdome of S. George the titular Patron of England, &c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh. in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also, with due acknowledgment, by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions, Laws, and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter. Lond. 1672. fol.

An Essay called Augustus—Printed 1632; since inserted into Heylyns Cosmography.

History of the Sabbath in two books. Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year. Written to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots, who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath, not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties, nor works of absolute necessity, which the Jews themselves never scrupled at. About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham, by Dr. Jo. Williams Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways; whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply, entit.

A coal from the Altar: or, an answer to the Bishop of Lincolns letter to the Vicar of Grantham. Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after return’d an answer under this title, The holy table, name, and thing, &c. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire, against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Maries raign: whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you.

Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons. Can. 55.—Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636, and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata.

Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nov. 1636, and in the Apologie set before them. Lond. 1637. qu.

Antidotum Lincolniense: or, an answer to a book entit. The holy table, name, and thing, &c. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table, &c. entit. Two looks over Lincolne: or, a view of his holy table, name, and thing, &c. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh. and an half; written by Rich. Day, who stiles himself Minister of the Gospel, yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church. In which book also Heylyns Coal from the Altar, is sometimes animadverted upon.

An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacons in their Visitations. Lond. 1640 qu.

De jure paritatis Episcoporum—MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lords house, whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford. Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts.

Reply to Dr. Hakewills dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist. Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill, under the year 1649.

An help to English history: containing a succession of all the Kings of England, and the English Saxons, the Kings and Princes of Wales, &c. As also of all the Archbishops, Bishops, Dukes, Marquesses, and Earles within the said dominions. In three tables. Lond. 1641, &c. in oct. Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book, were made by Christop. Wilkinson, a Bookseller living against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, London; the first edition of which additions, with the book it self came out in 1670. in oct. with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn, who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentarie of the Bishops of England, in his succession of Archb. and Bishops, and of Ralph Brook and August. Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings, Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, &c. ’Tis said also that in the same year, 1641. our Author Heylyn wrot and published a book intit. Persecutio Undecima, &c. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto, 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary, which I have several times perused, I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author.

History of Episcopacy; in two parts. Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman. This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata, &c. Lond. 1657. qu.

Historical narration of Liturgies, &c.—written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles. Vindicata. &c.

Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall, on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642/3. in one sh. in qu.

Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts, viz. The landing of the Queens Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland, and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark. Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh. in qu.

View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification.

Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge. shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only—Printed 1643 in 4. sh. in qu.

The Roundheads remembrancer: or, a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall, under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton, in Tuesday 16. May 1643.—Printed 1643 in one sh. in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn.

Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell.—This is the same, if I mistake not, with a Pamph. intit. Theeves Theeves: or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament. printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell, who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610, left it without a degree, exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas, retired to his patrimony, was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641, and being then a Presbyterian, took up arms soon after for the Parliament, became a Colonel and one of their Champions. Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder’d the King, he entred into a plot against the Parliament, (in which Coll. Euseb. Andrews being engaged, suffer’d death, an. 1650.) for which being imprison’d, was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice, but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it, he was condemn’d to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment; from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671, aged 79 years or thereabouts, and was, as I suppose, buried at Hopton, (Quaere) having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians, while they were dominant, that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies, valiant in his actions, and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace. Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire, and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury; which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year (25. of March or thereabouts) 1665.

The black ✚ Cross: shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion, &c.

The Rebells Catechisme, composed in an easie and familiar way; to let them see the hainousness of their offence, &c.—Printed 1643. in 4. sh. in qu.

Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion—Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed, it had this title following put to it. Parliaments power in Lawes for religion: or, an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists, nick-naming, &c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh. in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh. in qu. it hath this title. The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified, against the clamours of our Adversaries, reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion, &c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles. Vindicata.

Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury, with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted. Oxon. 1644 in 4. sh. in qu.

Bibliotheca Regia: or, the Royal Library, &c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct. Heylyns name is not set to it, but ’tis generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester, at Ragland; which by many is taken to be authentick, because published by Heylyn. See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly, p. 486.

Stumbling block of disobedience, &c. in answer to, and examination of, the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy—MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title, The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion, cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way, discovered, censured and removed.

The promised seed—Written in vers.

The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes, &c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie, which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn. Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles. Vindicata.

Theologia Veterum. The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines, &c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol.

Full relation of two journies. The one into the main Land of France: The other into some of the adjacent Islands, in 5 Books. Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie, &c.

Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie, with the isles depending, &c. in one book. Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former, and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn, because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life, as I shall farther tell you anon.

Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles, published by Hamon L’estrange Esq. for illustration of the storie, &c. Lond. 1656. oct. Upon the coming out of which observations L’Estrange printed another edit. of the said Hist.—Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit. The Observator observed: or, animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles, &c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit.

Extraneus Vapulans: or, the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L’Estrange Esq. and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean. Lond. 1656. oct. In our Authors Epist. to the reader before this book, dat. 7. June 1656, he tells us that in one week of the last term, he was plundered twice, first of his name, and secondly of his good name. Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller, who publishing a discourse of his (Dr. Heylyns) under the title of France painted to the life, by a false and imperfect copy, hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown. Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L’Estrange Esq. by loading him with abusive ((a))((a)) See Dr. Pet. Heylyns Life written by Joh. Barnard D. D.—Lond. 1683. p. 224.225. language.

Ecclesia Vindicata: or, the Church of England justified (1) In the way and manner of her reformation, &c. part. 1. (2) In the defence thereof, in an historie of Episcopacie, part. 2. &c. Lond. 1657. qu. Dedicated to Mr. Edw. Davys Vicar of Shilton in Berks (near Burford in Oxfordshire) somtimes his Master in the free-Grammar School at Burford. It contains all those five pieces before-mentioned, which I have told you were reprinted in Eccles. Vindicata.

Respondet Petrus: or, the answer of Pet. Heylyn D.D. to so much of Dr. Bernards book entit. 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, &c. Lond. 1658. qu. ’Twas not burnt as the report ((b))((b)) See in the pref. to the reader before a book entit. A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen, &c. written by Hen. Hickman, also in the said life written by Dr. Barnard, p. 237. was, or answer’d.

An Appendix in answer to certain passages in Mr. Sandersons history of the life and raigne of K. Ch. &c.—Printed with Respondet Petrus: whereupon Will. Sanderson Esq. came out with a Pamphlet entit. Post-haste: A reply to Peter’s (Dr. Heylyns) appendix to his treatise entit. Respondet Petrus. Lond. 1658. in 3. sheets in qu. Full of abusive language, and little or nothing to the purpose.

Short view of the life and raigne of K. Charles (the second Monarch of Great Britaine) from his birth to his burial. Lond. 1658. in 6. sheets or more in oct. This life I take to be the same with that (for they have the same beginning) that was printed, with, and set before, Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae. Printed at the Hague 1648/9 in a large oct.

Examen Historicum: or, a discovery and examination of the mistakes and defects in some modern histories, viz. (1) In the Church Hist. of Britaine by Tho. Fuller. To which is added, An Apologie of Dr. Jo. Cosin Dean of Peterborough, in answer to some passages in the Church Hist. of Britaine, in which he finds himself concern’d. (2) In the Hist. of Marie Qu. of Scots and of her Son K. Jam. 6. The Hist. of K. Jam. 1. of Great Britaine and the Hist. of K. Ch. 1. from his Cradle to his grave; by Will. Sanderson Esq.—Lond. 1658. 9. in a large oct.

Appendix in answer to some passages in a scurrulous Pamphlet called A post-haste reply, &c. (or Posthast: a reply, &c.) by Will. Sanderson Esq.—This Appendix is printed with Exam. Historicum. Soon after Th. Fuller came out with a thin fol. full of submission and acknowledgment, intit. The appeal for injured innocence, which was commonly bound with the remaining copies of his Ch. Hist. in quires; and a foolish and scurrilous Pamphlet entituled Peter persued: or, Dr. Heylyn overtaken, arrested and arraigned upon his three appendixes. (1) Respondet ((c))((c)) The Author here means the Appendix to Resp. Petrus. Petrus. (2) Answer to the ((d))((d)) This hath no Appendix, and therefore the Author (Sanderson) is mistaken, being it self an Append. to Examen Historicum, or advertisements on three Histories. Post-hast reply. (3) Advertisements on three Histories, viz. of Mary Qu. of Scots, K. James and K. Charles, Lond. 1658 9. in 8 sh. in qu. written by Will. Sanderson before mention’d, of whom I desire the Reader to know these things following. (1) That he was born in Lincolnshire. (2) That in his younger days he was Secretary to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham while he was Chancellour of the University of Cambridge, and therefore, I presume, graduated there, tho scarce understood Latine. (3) That he suffer’d for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. and after the restauration of his son in 1660, he was made Gent. in ordinary of his Majesties privy Chamber, and from him received the honour of Knighthood. (4) That dying in Whitehall on the 15 day of July 1676, aged 90 or more, was buried in the north isle or transcept joyning to the Choire of S. Peters Church in the City of Westminster. Over his grave was soon after a monument of Alabaster erected on the north wall with the bust of the defunct (in the place of Colonel (Sim.) Mathews which had been set up in the wall by the Parliament, but plucked down after the return of K. Ch. 2.) at the charge of Briget his widow, daughter of Sir Edw. Tyrell Knight. His Histories before mention’d, are not much valued, because they are mostly taken from printed Authors and lying Pamphlets.

The parable of the Tares expounded and applied in ten sermons, with three other sermons by the same Author. Lond. 1659 and 61. qu.

Certamen Epistolare; or, the letter combate managed by Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Rich. Baxter of Kederminster, &c. Lond. 1659. oct.

Intercourse of Letters betw. Dr. Heylyn and Dr. Nich. Bernard of Greys Inn, touching the intended burning of the book called Respondet Petrus.—Printed with Cert. Epist.

Letter combate part 2. containing the intercourse of Letters between Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Hen. Hickman of Magd. Coll. relating to the historical part of a book intit. A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen, &c.

Letter Combate part 3. containing a decertation about formes of Government, the power of Spartan Ephori, and the Jewish Sanhedrim, managed letter-wise betw. P. Heylyn and J. H. (Jam. Harrington) of Westminst. Esq.

Appendix to the former Papers, containing an Exchange of Letters between Mr. Tho. Fuller of Waltham and Dr. Pet. Heylyn of Abendon.

Examination of some passages in Mr. Fullers late Appeal for injured innocence.—These Letter Combates, Append. and Examination are printed with Certamen Epistolare, which is the general title to them.

Historia Quinqu. Articularis: or, a delaration of the judgment of the Western Churches, and more particularly of the Church of England, in the five controverted points, reproached in these last times by the name of Arminianism, &c. part 3. Lond. 1660. qu.

Postscript to the Reader concerning some particulars in a scurrulous Pamphlet intit. A review of Certamen Epistolare. In the same year (1660) was published a book intit.—Fratres in malo: or, the matchless couple represented in the writings of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw and Mr. Hen. Hickman, in vindication of Dr. Heylyn and Mr. Tho. Pierce. Lond. 1660. qu. said in the title to be written by M. O. Bach. of Arts, but all then supposed that Dr. Heylyn or Mr. Peirce, or both, had a hand in it.

Sermon preached in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westm. on Wednesday 29 May 1661, on Psal. 31.21. Lond. 1661. qu.

History of the Reformation of the Church of England, from the first preparations to it made by K. Hen. 8. untill the legal setling and establishing of it under Qu. Elizab. &c. Lond. 1661. 1670 and 74. fol. A character of this book and its design, is given by Dr. Gilb. Burnet in his Pref. to the first vol. of The Hist. of the Reformation of the Church of England. Lond. 1679 and 81. fol. answer’d at large by Mr. George Vernon in his Life of Pet. Heylyn D. D. Lond. 1682. oct. p. 189. &c. As for our Authors Hist. of the Reformation, &c. it was answer’d in a book intit.—Plus ultra: or, Englands reformation needing to be reformed. Being an examination of Dr. Heylyns History of the reformation of the Church of England, &c. Lond. 1661. in 7 sh. in qu. said in the title page to be written by H. N. O. J. Oxon. which, whether meant by Henry HickmaN, I know not as yet.

Cyprianus Anglicus: or, the History of the life and death of Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, &c. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol.

Aërius redivivus: or, the Hist. of the Presbyterians, &c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol.

Historical and miscellaneous Tracts. Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mention’d before, as (1) Eccl. Vindicata. (2) Hist. of the Sabbath, in 2 parts. (3) Hist. Quinqu articularis. (4) Stumbling block, &c. (5) Tract. de jure paritatis, &c. with Dr. Heylyn’s life before them, written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire, sometimes one of the Chaplains of Alls. Coll. Which life being alter’d and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. (T. Barlow) and the Bookseller that printed it; Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn, made a protestation against it: and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn’s daughter, wrot his life to rectifie that of Vernon which was alter’d, and Vernon wrot another, published in oct. Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schisme, and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud’s desire draw up The judgment of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedome and the Authority of the Rom. Church. Both which things, the said Dr. Laud intended, as materials, towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit, which came out the year following. He also (I mean Heylyn) did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath, as I have before told you, and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latine an. 1639, partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland, that then before brake out, had been raised. At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity, paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day (May 8.) in sixteen hundred sixty and two. Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choire of S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster, 1660. had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joyning on the north side of the said choire; a copy of the inscription on which, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205.