John Lewgar

was born of gentile parents in London, admitted Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616, and in that of his age 14, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and in 1632 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being about that time beneficed in Essex. After Will. Chillingwrrth returned from beyond the seas, he had several Conferences with him about matters of Religion; wherein Chillingworth shewing himself a person of great dexterity, Lewgar was at length meerly by the force of his Arguments induced to believe that the Roman Church was a true Church, and that the Protestants were all in the wrong, as he used often to tell his friends, and withall to add, that Chillingworth was of no meek and winning spirit, but high and conceited, and so consequently unfit for a Religion that required Humility and Obedience, &c. Afterwards our Author Lewgar left his Benefice and Religion, and upon the invitation of Cecil Lord Calvert, called Lord Baltimore, (who had been his intimate acquaintance while he was a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll.) travelled into Maryland, belonging to the said Lord; where, after he had spent several years, and had buried his wife, he returned into England, some years before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. with Father Andrew White a Jesuit, who had been sent thither to gain the Barbarians to his Religion. After which time he lived in Wild-street near Lond. in the house of the said Lord Baltimore, where he wrot,

Erastus junior: a solid Demonstration by Principles, forms of Ordination, Common Laws, Acts of Parliament, that no Bishop, Minister, nor Presbyter, hath any Authority to preach, &c. from Christ, but from the Parliament. Lond. 1659. 60.

Erastus senior: scholastically demonstrating this conclusion, that admitting Lambeth Records to be true, those called Bishops here in England, are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction, or so much as legal, &c. Lond. 1662. oct. He died of the Plague in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London, 1665. in sixteen hundred sixty and five, by too much exposing himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks, as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest, who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things, besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen. but the just titles of them he could not tell. One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to, if not descended from, the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes, an. 1675, in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert.