Mathew Slade

, second (a)(a) So I find it in the Pedegree of the Slades (of 17. or more generations.) sent to me from Amsterdam by some of the Slades living there, in Ap. 1690. Son of Joh. Slade of the West Country, Son of Joh. Slade of Roughley in Staffordshire, the second Son of Joh. Slade of the ancient and gentile Family of the Slades of Norton-Slade in Lancashire, was born in Devonshire, became a Batler of St. Albans hall in 1584. and in that of his age 17. took a degree in Arts four years after, and about that time was a candidate for a Fellowship of Morton coll. but what put him by, unless the want of Friends, for Philosophy he had sufficient, I know not. Afterwards he retired to his native Country, taught School for a time, and Married, as I shall anon tell you. At length upon an invitation, he went to Amsterdam in Holland, where by the High and Mighty States he became Rector of the learned Academy or Gymnasium, situated and being in the old part of that famous City; where he was esteemed, by all that knew him, an excellent L [•] tinist, a good Grecian, one well read in profound authors, a stiff Enemy to the Socinians, and a walking Library. His works are these:

Cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. de blasphemiis, haeresibus, & atheismis à Jacobo Rege Angliae 1. in ejusd. Vorstii de dei tractatu, &c. Scholasticae disputationis pars prima. In qua fides Orthodoxa de vera immensitate & infinitate triunius dei opponitur, &c. Amstel. 1612. qu.

Appendix prioris disceptationis. Amstel. 1614. qu. Which is set before this book following.

Disceptationis cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. pars altera, de immutabilitate & simplicitate dei: Qua docetur R. Jac. 1. juste & merito notasse blasphemum Vorsti dogma. Deum esse mutabilem & accedentibus subjectum adserentis. Amstel. 1614. qu.

C. Vorstii & F. Socini concentus, sive Bicinii exemplum: cum rerum, verborum atque testium Syllabo. Printed with the former, viz. Disceptationis altera pars. Clar. 1614. These things were replied upon by Vorstius, in 1615. but whether our author Slade put out a rejoynder, I know not as yet, or any thing else that he hath published. He took to Wife Alethea Daughter of Rich. Kirford of, or near to, Honiton in Devon. on the 20. of Sept. 1593. by whom he had Issue Cornelius Slade born in Amsterdam 14. of Oct. 1599. and made Rector of the Gymnasium there, (perhaps on the death of his Father) on the 9. of May 1628. who taking to Wife Gertrude the Daughter of Luke Ambrose a Preacher of Amsterdam, begot on her, among other Children, Mathew Slade born 9. of June 1628. and being strictly educated in learning, became a Doctor of Physick and a learned Man, and thereupon often mentioned with honour by Swammerdam, as also by Scrader, who dedicates a book to him. This Matthew Slade did publish, under the borrowed name of Theodorus Aldes (Slade) Anglus, a book intit. Dissertatio Epistolica de Generatione Animalium contra Harveium. Amstel. 1666. in tw. Reprinted with other Anatomical Works at Francfort, twice in the year 1668. in qu. and is extant in the Bibliotheca Anatomica. The Collectors of which have unveiled him, and put him down under his true name Mattheus Sladus Amstelodamensis M. D. He hath also written Observationes in Ovem. Amstel. 1673. in tw. which is also in the said Bibliotheque, and Sciagraphia nutritionis Foetus in utero; & de ejus urinâ. Ibid. At length coming into England in Sept. or Oct. 1689. retired to Oxon in Dec. following to see it, the Colleges, Libraries, and learned Men there: And after he had tarried at that place about a fortnight, went in the Stage-coach towards London, but being taken suddenly with an Apoplectical fit on Shotover hill, two miles distant from Oxon, died thereof before he came to Wheatley, on Friday the twentieth day of the same month, being the Eve of St. Thomas the Apostle. Whereupon his body being lodged in a common Inn there, was, by the care of James Tyrrell Esq and Dr. Edw. Bernard one of the Savilian Professors, conveyed thence the next day to the Angel Inn in Oxon, where lying till the day following, was buried in the yard (near to, and behind the West door leading therein,) belonging to the Church of St. Peter in the East; at which time were present certain Doctors of, and Graduats in, Physick, and Masters of Arts.