Henry Stubbe

the most noted person of his age that these late times have produced, received his first breath in an obscure Village called Partney near Spilsbye in Lincolnshire, on the 28 of ((a))((a)) So have I been enformed by letters from his Mother. Febr. an. 1631, at which place his Father, who was a Minister, then lived, but he being Anabaptistically inclin’d, was forced to leave it; and thereupon he, with his Wife and Children went into Ireland, and there at Tredagh he found an Employment, which was, if you’ll believe a nameless satyrical Author ((b))((b)) Mercurius pragmaticus, numb. 1. Dec. 19. an. 1659. the Office of Beadle of the Beggars, as being well acquainted with the executive part of Power at the Carts tail. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in that Country in 1641, the Mother fled with our Author and another Child towards England, and landing at Leverpoole in Lancashire, they all beated it on the hoof thence to London, where she gaining a comfortable subsistance by her needle, sent her son Henry, being then 10 years of age, to the Coll. School at Westminster. At that time Mr. Rich. Busbie was the chief Master, who finding the boy to have pregnant parts to a miracle, did much favour and encourage him. At length Sir Hen. Vane junior (the same who was beheaded on Tower-hill 1662.) coming casually into the school with Dr. Lamb. Osbaldeston, he did at the Masters motion take a kindness to the said boy, frequently reliev’d him with money, and gave him the liberty to resort to his house, and to ((c))((c)) Praef. of Hen. Stubbe to his Epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy, pag. 8. fill that belly which otherwise had no sustenance but what one penny could purchase for his dinner: and as for his breakfast he had none, except he got it by making some bodies exercise. Soon after, Sir Henry got him to be a Kings scholar, and his Master perceiving him to be beyond his years in proficiency, he gave him money to buy books, cloaths, and his teaching for nothing. In the beginning of the year 1649, Sir Henry got him to be sped for a Students place in Ch. Church, where shewing himself too forward, pragmatical and conceited, (being well stock’d with impudence at school) was often kick’d and beaten: And in the year after abusing the Censor morum (Will. Segary that noted Disciplinarian) in a speech that he utter’d, was, for so doing, and his impudence in other respects, whipt by him in the publick refectory. The same year the Oath called the Engagement being fram’d by the then Parliament, was some time after sent to the University by him.—’Twas I (saith he) that brought the Engagement down to Oxon (though I took it net, being then an Undergraduat) and having got Dr. S. F. (Sam. Fell as it should seem) ((d))((d)) Ibid. and Dr. R. (Reynolds) to be turned out, I saved the remains of the Cavaliers of Ch. Ch. and Queens Coll, and gave them opportunities to live securely and educate others in their principles, &c. While he continued Undergraduate it was usual with him to discourse in the publick Schools very fluently in the Greek Tongue, as it was at the same time with one John Pettie of Balliol, afterwards of Queens Coll, and others, whose names are forgotten. But since the Kings restauration, we have had no such matters, which shews in some part, that Education and Discipline were more severe then (as indeed they were) than after, when Scholars were given more to liberty and frivolous studies. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and determined, he went into Scotland, and served in the Wars there for the Parliament from 1653 to 1655. Upon his return he took the degree of Master, and in the beginning of the year following (an. 1657) he was, upon the death of Mr. Franc. Yonge of Oriel Coll, prefer’d upon the motion made of Dr. Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. to Mr. Thom. Barlow the Head-keeper of the Bodleian Library, to be the second-keeper of the same. Which Office he holding three years, being all that time much favoured by the Head-keeper, did, by the benefit of a prodigious memory, most wonderfully advantage himself in several sorts of Learning. At length Dr. E. Reynolds being restored to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of 1659, (a little before which time, viz. in Feb. Stubbe was complained of in the Parliam. house, as one that palliated in print Sir Henry Vane’s wickedness) he not only ejected him from his Students place in the said house, but found means to remove him from the Library, and especially for this reason, that he had written and published a most pestilent book called A light shining out of darkness, wherein are many things said against the Universities and Clergy. But if you’ll believe the Author, he’ll tell ((e))((e)) Ibid. you that that book (which he calls the Invidious Queries) was written to terrifie the Presbyterians and make them more complacential, yet withall protests that they contained no tenets of his (for he knew they were not defensible against the learned and judicious Episcoparians, tho they had force and address enough against the more ignorant Presbyterians) but were written to excuse those who had made those to be their Assertions which were his doubts; and this he declared in the Preface to that book. He tells us also, that what he wrot in that book and others, was against the Presbyterian Clergy, the Presbyterian Universities and the Usurpations of Oliver and Richard. After his Ejection he retired to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire to practise the Faculty of Physick, which he for some years had studied, and after the Kings restauration he made early and voluntary Applications to Dr. Geor. Morley for his Protection in his retirement, assuring him of an inviolable passive Obedience, which was all he could or would pay till the Covenant was renounced. When the restauration of the Bishops was made, he, at the first motion of the said Dr. Morley then his Diocesan, received confirmation at his hands, and soon after took occasion to publish a translation concerning the arts of Grandure and Submission (which I shall anon mention) and in the Dedication thereof to make this mention of himself. I have at length removed all the Umbrages I ever laid under: I have joyned my self to the Church of England, not only upon account of its being publickly imposed (which in things indifferent is no small consideration, as I learned from the Scottish Transactions at Perth) but because it is the least defining, and consequently the most comprehensive and fitting to be national. In the year following he took a journey to the Island of Jamaica, being designed Physitian of that place by his Majesty, who, as he ((f))((f)) In the Pref. beforemention’d, p. 12. saith, honored him with that title. In which place, having been mostly sick during his abode there, he would have otherwise advanced himself much in the knowledge thereof, and in experiments and things philosophical: For which reason also it was why he did not accept of an invitation to go to Mexico and Peru to practise his Faculty there. After his return, in 1665, he lived for some time in and near London, and thence going to Stratford before mentioned, and afterwards to Warwick, setled in the last of the said places, practised Physick, and in the Summer-time retired to Bathe: at both which places he gained repute and many Patients by the diligence and care he took in his Profession. As for his Writings, they are many, and of various subjects; some of which that he published before the Kings restauration, were against Monarchy, Ministers, Universities, Churches, &c. provoking all men to whom those interests were dear.— “He then trampled (as ((g))((g)) Jos. Glanvill, in his pref. to his Prefatory answer. one that wrote against him saith) on the ashes of his martyr’d Sovereign, defended and adored his murtherers, stiled all our Kings a succession of Usurpers, endeavoured the extirpation of Monarchy, and planting a Democracy of Independents, Anabaptists, Fifth-monarchy men and Quakers, in its room. He hath represented the meekest, justest and best of Kings, as an hateful Tyrant, and called our now Soveraign (Ch. 2.) an Usurper. He then did write malitiously against Ministry, Universities, &c. and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous Phanaticks, &c.” But why our Author Stubbe did write so, he’ll tell ((h))((h)) In his pref. to Legends no Histories. you ’twas to serve his Patron Sir Hen. Vane, and to express his gratitude to him, who relieved him when he was a child and after, and that because the quarrels ((i))((i)) In his pref. to his Epist. discourse concerning Phlebotomy, p. 8. and animosities grew high betwixt the Presbyterians and Sir H. Vane’s Friends, he sided therefore with him.—My youth (saith ((k))((k)) Pref. to Legends, &c. as before. he) and other circumstances incapacited me from rendring him any great services; but all that I did, and all that I wrot, had no other aim; nor do I care how much any man can inodiate my former Writings, as long as that they were subservient to him, &c. The truth is, all that knew him here in Oxon, knew this of him for certain, that he was no frequenter of Conventicles, no taker of the Covenant or Engagement, no contracter of acquaintance with notorious Sectaries, that he neither enriched, or otherwise advanced himself during the late troubles, or shared the common odium and dangers, or prosperity of his Benefactor. Some years after the Kings restauration, he took pet against the Royal Society (for which before he had a great veneration) and being encouraged by Dr. Jo. Fell, no admirer of that Society, became in his Writings an inveterate Enemy against it for several pretended reasons: among which were, first that the members thereof intended to bring a contempt upon antient and solid Learning, upon Aristotle, to undermine the Universities, and reduce them to nothing, or at least to be very inconsiderable. Secondly, that at long running to destroy the established Religion and involve the Nation in Popery and I know not what, &c. So dextrous was his pen, whether pro or con, that few or none could equal, answer, or come near, him. He was a person of most admirable parts, had a most prodigious memory, tho his enemies would not acknowledge it, but said he read Indexes; was the most noted Latinist and Greecian of his age; and after he had been put upon it, was so great an enemy to the Virtuosi of his time, I mean those of the R. Society, that, as he saith, they alarm’d him with dangers and troubles even to the hazard of his life and fortunes. He was a singular Mathematician, and thoroughly read in all political matters, Councils, ecclesiastical and profane Histories. He had a voluble tongue, and was very seldom known to hesitate either in publick disputes or common discourse. His Voice was big and magisterial, and his mind was equal to it. He was of a high generous nature, scorn’d money and riches, and the adorers of them: which being natural to him, was one of the chief reasons why he hated the Presbyterians, whom he always found to be false, undermining, poor spirited, void of generous souls, sneaking, sniveling, &c. He was accounted a very good Physitian, and excellent for those matters that compleat it, as Simpling, Anatomy and Chymistry: and in the times of Usurpation, that is while Oliver and Richard ruled, when then he thought it the Nations interest to subvert the true Monarchy of England, he was passionately addicted to the new Philosophy, and motion’d several ways for the introducing it amongst the Gentry and Youth of this Nation: and the reason was, as he (l) saith, that it would render all the Clergy contemptible, lessen the esteem and reverence in the Church, and make them seem egregious Fools in matters of common discourse. But as he was so admirably well qualified with several sorts of Learning and a generous Spirit, so he was very unhappy in this, that he was extream rash and imprudent, and wanted common discretion to manage his parts. He was a very bold man, utter’d any thing that came into his mind, not only among his Companions, but in publick Coffey-houses, (of which he was a great frequenter) and would often speak his mind of particular persons, then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in, for which he was often repremanded, and several times threatned to be kick’d and beaten. He had a hot and restless head (his hair being carret-colour’d) and was ever ready to undergo any enterprize, which was the chief reason that macerated his body almost to a Skeleton. He was also a person of no fix’d Principles, and whether he believed those things which every good Christian doth, ’tis not for me to resolve. Had he been endowed with common sobriety and discretion, and not have made himself and his learning mercenary and cheap to every ordinary and ignorant Fellow, he would have been admired by all, and might have pick’d and choos’d his Preferment. But all these things being wanting, he became a ridicule, and undervalued by sober and knowing Scholars and others too. His Writings and Translations are these.

Horae subsecivae: seu Prophetiae Jonae & Historiae Susannae paraphrasis Graeca versibus heroicis. Lond. 1651. oct. To which are added his Translation into Greek of Miscellanea quaedam Epigrammata à Th. Randolpho, W. Chrashavio, &c.

Epistola Lat. cum Poematibus Lat. & Graec. ad D. Hen. Vane Domini Hen. Vane de Raby Eq. aur. fil promogen. Ox. 1656. printed on one side of a sheet. The said Hen. Vane was then a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. of Oxon. but wore not a gown, and soon after died.

Otium literarum. Sive Miscellanea quaedam poemata. Ox. 1656. oct. They are printed with the Poems of Hen. Birchead of Alls. Coll. In the said vol. are our Author Stubbe his Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum translatae, which were printed again at Oxon. 1658. in oct. and had at the end added to them by him Elogiae Romae & Venetiarum.

A severe enquiry into the late Oneirocrita; or, an exact account of the grammatical part of the Controversie between Mr. Thom. Hobbes and John Wallis D. D. Lond. 1657. qu. In the said book the Author Stubbe, a great admirer of the said Hobbes, with whom he was intimately acquainted, doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis, and why he doth so, is because, as he tells ((m))((m)) In the said Severe Enquiry, pag. 7. us, he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram (i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines) and had been an active Preacher in the first War, and decyphered (besides others, to the ruin of many loyal persons) the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby; and, as a monument of his noble performances, deposited the original, with the decyphering, in the publick Library at Oxford. He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction, which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake. In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject: but that, I suppose, was never printed.

The Savilian Professours case stated. Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis &c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh. and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers’d in the Statutes, Liberties, and Privileges of the University, did, upon great intreaties, stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof; but he being esteemed a Royalist, Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him, tho altogether uncapable of that place, because he was one of the Savilian Professors, a Cambridge man, and a stranger to the usages of the University. At length by some corruption, or at least connivance, of the Vicechancellour, and perjury of the senior Proctor (Byfield) W. was pronounced elected. Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed, he therefore wrot and published the said book.

The Commonwealth of Israel, or a brief account of Mr. Prynne’s anatomy of the Good old cause. Lond. 1659. in oct.

An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause, or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs, &c. Lond. 1659 oct.

Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter. Lond. 1659. oct. The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit. A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter. Printed at Lond.

A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate, mention’d by them in their proposals to the late Parliament. Lond. 1659. qu.

Miscellaneous positions concerning Government. Lond. 1659. qu. They are, I suppose, the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations, mention’d by his ((n))((n)) In his Prefatory answer before mention’d. Antagonist Mr. Glanvill.

A light shining out of darkness, or certain Queries, &c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year, the second edition of which hath therein several Additions; and an Apology for the Quakers, written by the said Stubbe.

The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance, and found too light. Or an account of the Republic of Sparta, with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model. Lond. 1660. qu.

The Indian Nectar, or a discourse concerning Chocolata, &c. Lond. 1662. oct. Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written, and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done. It was rendred into English by one who call’d himself Capt. James Wadsworth, under this title, Chocolate: or an Indian drink, &c. Lond. 1652. oct. Which book our Author Stubbe had seen, and has, as I conceive, followed him in some things. As for the said Wadsworth, the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English ((o))((o)) Printed the second time at Lond. 1630. qu. Spanish Pilgrim, born in Suffolk, (son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath.) bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain, in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers, but at riper years left them, and returned to the Church of England, was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver, an. 1655, at which time he was characterized by an English ((p))((p)) Will. Sanderson in The reign and death of King James. Lond. 1655. fol. under the year 1620. p. 491. Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote, of any Religion and every trade, and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book, enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct.

The miraculous Conformist: or, an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak. Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon, &c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes’s books, I must make a digression, and tell you why this book was written, and who the subject of it was. Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq. was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland, on S. Valentines day (14 Feb.) 1628, was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore, and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin, but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation, he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England, where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight, his mothers father, he was for the present time relieved. After his death, his mother, for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German, Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire, with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity, and found from his hands much favour and love. After 5 or 6 years absence, he returned to his native Country, at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate, which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin, where he spent an years time in contemplation, and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world, (as he ((q))((q)) In the Brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Lond. 1666. quart. pag. 17. saith) that his life became a burthen to him, and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay, as ever was Gally-slave of the oar, which brought his life even to the threshold of death; so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about, &c. In 1649, or thereabouts, he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish, Papists and others, then called the Rebels, and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded, he retired to his native country of Affane, the habitation of his Ancestors, and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke, Register for Transplantation, and Justice of the Peace. After his Majesties Restauration, he was removed, as I have heard, from his employments, and grew thereupon discontented. In 1662 or thereabouts, he had an impulse, or a strange perswasion in his mind, (of which he was not able to give any rational account to another) which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the Kings Evil: which for the extraordinariness of, he thought fit to conceal, it for some time, but at length he communicated it to his wife, and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil, for whether he were in private or publick, sleeping or waking, still he had the same impulse, but her reply was to him, that she conceived this was a strange imagination: yet to prove the contrary, a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house, desiring his wife to cure him, who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours, according to her small skill in Chirurgery. On which, his wife told him there was one that had the Kings Evil very grievously in the eyes, cheek and throat: whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it, or the dictates of Gods Spirit on his heart; and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected, and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him, and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again, which he accordingly did, and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole, and the node which was almost as big as a Pullets egg, was suppurated, and the throat strangely amended, and in a month discharged it self quite, and was perfectly healed. Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore, who had had the Evil seven years and upwards, far worse than the former, whom he cured to the wonder of all; and soon after his fame increasing, he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following, not medling with any other distempers, till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues; all done by stroaking with his hands. Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him, discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing; which the morning following he told to his wife and brother, but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it, tho for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him. This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easterday, 2 Apr. 1665, early in the morning, and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore, where there came into the house to him a poor man, that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double, and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black, wherein were five ulcers; who desired him for Gods sake that he would lay his hands on him, and do him what good he could. Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank, and immediately run the pains out of him, so that he was released, and could stand upright without the least trouble. Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg, which forthwith changed colour and became red, and three of the five ulcers closed up, and the rest within few hours afterwards; so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in, and in two days after he fell to his labour, being a Mason by trade. After this, he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroaking, and his name was wonderfully cried up. But the Clergy being jealous of these matters, he was cited to the Bishops court, and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course. In Jan. 1665 he went into England, and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire, to cure, by stroaking, his Lady, who for many years had laboured under a most violent Headach, but with all his endeavours he could not cure her: yet continuing there three weeks, he cured innumerable people in those parts, which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe, who then practised Physick at Stratford on Avon in that County, and was dayly at [•] agley with the Lord, and an eye-witness of the cures, to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist, &c. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London, but more mistakes, as ’tis said, caused Dav. Lloyd, a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles: or, Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined, &c. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking, March 7. an. 1665, at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard. In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation, making him but little better than a Cheat, that person therefore came out with his vindication intit. A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed. Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq. and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related. From this digression let’s now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe, who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions.

Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands, and in Jamaica, &c.—Remitted into the Philosoph. Transact. num. 27, an. 1667, and num. 36. an. 1668.

Legends no Histories: or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society. Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat.

Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpeter, pen’d by Mr. Tho. Henshaw.—Printed and bound with Legends no Histories, &c.

Animad. upon The Hist. of making of Gunpowder, written also by the said Mr. Henshaw.—Pr. and bound with Legends, &c. also, and to it is added An additional review, written by Hen. Stubbe.

The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus. Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos. Glanvill &c. with divers enquiries made about several matters. Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra, which seemed to assert that the antient Physitians could not cure a cut-finger; which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought.

Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society, &c. Oxon. 1670, in about seven sh. in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell, and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year, pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe.

Campanella revived; or an enquiry into The Hist. of the Roy. Soc. &c. Lond. 1670. qu.

Letter to Sir N. N. relating the cause of the quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royall Society, and an Apology against some of their cavills.—Printed with Campanella revived.

Postscript concerning the quarrel depending between Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Christop. Merrett.—Pr. also with Campanella.

Reply unto the letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe in defence of The history of the Royal Society. Oxon. 1671 quart.

Reply to a letter of Dr. Hen. More (printed with Mr. Glanvill’s Prefatory answer to Hen. Stubbe) with a censure upon the Pythagorico-Cabbalistical Philosophy promoted by him. Oxon. 1671.

A Preface against Ecebolius (alias Joseph) Glanvill, Fellow of the Royal Society, &c.—These two last are printed with the Reply unto a letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe, &c.

Medice cura te ipsum. Or the Apothecaries plea in some short and modest animadversions upon a late Tract entit. A short view of the fraudes and abuses of the Apothecaries &c. by Christop. Merrett Dr. of Phys. Lond. 1671. quart.

An epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy in opposition to George Thomson Pseudo-Chymist, a pretended disciple to the Lord Verulam. Lond. 1671. qu.

A discourse concerning the Sweating Sickness temp. Hen. 7.

Relation of the strange Symptoms hapning by the bite of an Adder and the cure thereof—These two last are printed with the Epistolary discourse, &c.

A caveat for the Protestant Clergy: or, an account of the sufferings of the English Clergy upon the restitution of Popery in the dayes of Qu. Mary Lond. 1671. 78. in two sh. in oct. This is said to be written by Hen. Stubbe, but not I suppose by our author, but by another of both his names, whom I shall anon mention.

A justification of the present warr against the united Netherlands, &c. illustrated with Sculptures. In answer to a Dutch treatise entit. considerations upon the present state of the united Netherlands, &c. Lond. 1672. 73. qu.

A farther justification of the present warr against the United Netherlands, illustrated with several Sculptures. Lond. 1673. qu. For the compiling of these two last books, the author was allowed the use of the Paper Office at Whitehall, and when they were both finished he had given him 200 l. out of his Majesties Exchequer, and obtained a great deal of credit from all people, especially from the Courtiers and all that belonged to the Kings Court. In the month of Octob. the same year (1673) when the marriage to be between James Duke of York and Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena was controverted in the House of Commons, where were 180 voices for, and 188 against it, then did this our author Stubbe, about the latter end of the said month, write and publish,

The Paris Gazette—Which being against the said marriage and for the breaking it off, gave great offence to many. It was printed in half a sheet, as one of our Gazetts are now, and was by the author with great confidence and impudence presented to several Parliament men. Whereupon a Writ being issued out against him, he was taken in the beginning of the next month, hurried in the dark from one private Prison to another, threatned with hanging, and was put to a great deal of charge. So that all the credit he had got before, was lost among the generallity.

Directions for drinking the Bath-water.

Ars Cosmetica; or beautifying Art.—These two go under his (Stubbes) name, and are printed at the end of James Cook his translation from Lat. into English of a book written Originally by Joh. Hall entit. Select observations on Eminent persons in desperate diseases. Which translation was reprinted with additions in 8o, an, 1679. He also translated from Lat. into English (1) Introduction to Geography. Oxon 1657, oct. Written by Philip Cluver. (2) The Arts of Grandure and submission. Lond. 166 [•] . and 1665 oct. Written by John Casa Archb. of Benevento. (3) The History of the United Provinces of Achaia. Lond. 1673. qu. in 4 sh. and half, written by Jacobus Gothofredus, and others, as it seems, which I have not yet seen. I have now no more to say of this learned person only that he being at Bathe attending several of his Patients living in and near Warwick then there, he was sent for to come to another at Bristow, in very hot weather; to which place therefore going a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night, on the twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six (his head being then intoxicated with bibbing,1676. but more with talking, and snuffing of powder) was drowned passing through a shallow River (wherein, as ’tis supposed, his horse stumbled) two miles distant from Bathe. So that his body being taken up the next morning and his death examined by the Coroner, was the next day after that (being Friday) buried in the great Church at Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul, in the grave of Dr. Pet. Wentworth, joyning on the North side to the stately Tomb of Dr. Jam. Mountague somtimes Bishop of that City, situat and being on the north side of the body of that Church. At which time his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill preached his funeral Sermon, but said no great matter of him; and soon after a certain Physitian of that place, who seemed to be glad for his death, made this Epitaph following on him: Which, tho not yet put on his grave, shall be here set down to his memory. Memoriae Sacrum. Post varios casus & magna rerum discrimina, tandem heic quiescunt mortalitatis exuviae Henrici Stubbe, Medici Warwicensis, quondam ex Aede Christi Oxon, [•] ei Medicae, Historicae ac Mathematicae peritissimi, judicii vivi, & Librorum heluonis; qui quum multa scripserat, & plures sanaverat, aliorum saluti sedulo prospiciens, propriam neglexit. Obiit aquis frigidis suffocatus, 12 die July A.D. 1676. aetatis suae ... Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of both his names and time, a nonconforming Minister, and somtimes a preacher in the City of Wells, where I find him as an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliam. to eject such whom they then (1654) called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters; who hath among several things pertaining to Divinity, written (1) Great Treaty of peace. exhort. of making peace with God. Lond. 1676. 77. oct. (2) Disswasive from conformity to the world. Lond. 1675. in 8o. (3) Gods severity against mans iniquity. Printed with the Disswasive. (4) Gods gracious presence, the Saints great privilege, a farewel Sermon to a Congreg. in Lond, on 2. Thes. 3.16.—Printed also with the Disswasive. (5) Conscience the best friend: or the happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience, very useful for this age. Lond. 1685. in tw, and other things which I have not yet seen; among which is his answer to the Friendly debate, an. 1669 in oct. When he died I know not; sure I am that after his death, which was in London, his books were exposed to sale by way of Auction 29. Nov. 1680.