Degorie Whear

was born at Jacobstow in Cornwall, retired to the habitation of the Muses called Broadgates Hall, in the beginning of the year 1592 aged 19, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated in 1600, elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602, and six years after leaving that House, travelled into several Countries beyond the Seas, whereby he obtained as well learning as experience. At his return he was entertain’d by the Lord Chandois, and by him respected and exhibited to. After his death our Author, with his Wife, retired to Gloc. Hall, where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings, and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen, that by his endeavours, the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University. Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall, the which, with his Lecture he kept to his dying day, and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man, and by others a Calvinist. He hath written,

De ratione & methodo legendi Historias dissertatio. Oxon. 1625. oct. printed there again in 1637. in oct. with this title, Relectiones hyemales, de ratione & methodo legendi utriusque historias, civiles & ecclesiasticas, &c. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition, and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium, &c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct. and had at the end, this Speech of our Author printed with it, viz.

Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author. The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct. with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica, added thereunto, and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia, set before it. They were rendred into English, (I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only) by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way, I desire the Reader to know these things following, viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County, being the only Son of Baxter Bohun, (who, with his ancestors, have been Lords of the mannour of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8.) that in the year 1663, he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, and continued there till the latter end of 1666, when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there, to his great hindrance in Learning. In 1675, he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharg’d. In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary, he was restored to that office, upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting, without his seeking, and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment. This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation, in three parts; being the History of three Sessions of Parliament: The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. (2) A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet stiled, A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments—printed with, and added to, the Address (3) A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer, against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill, on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there. Lond. 1684. in 4. sh. and an half in fol. (4) The Justice of Peace his calling; a moral Essay. Lond. 1684. oct. (5) A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmers book. entit.—Paetriarcha; or the natural Law of Kings, &c. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book—Lond. 1685. oct. (6) A Geographical Dictionary, representing the present and antient names of all the Countries, Provinces, remarkable Cities, &c. of the whole world, with a short historical account of the same and their present state. Lond. 1688. oct. (7) The history of the desertion: or, an account of all the publick affairs in England, from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following. Lond. 1689. oct. (8) An answer to a piece called, The Desertion discussed; in a letter to a country Gentleman. printed at the end of The Hist. of desertion. The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed, was written by Jer [•] Collier of Cambridge (10) The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Non-resistance no way concern’d in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites. Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of Bathe and Wells; which, Mr. Bohun is satisfied, is not true; and therefore he desires that, and the whole paragraph, in which it is, may be cancel’d. (11) Life of Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury, as I shall tell you by and by. He hath also translated into English several things, among which is (1) The origen of Atheisme in the Popish and Protestant Churches, shewn by Dorotheus Sicurus—Lond. 1684. qu. (2) An Apologie of the Church of England, and an Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent. Lond. 1685. in oct. written by Joh. Jewell sometimes B. of Salisbury. To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewell, collected by Mr. Bohun, from the large life of the said Person, written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey (3) The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories, as I have told you before (4) The universal Historical Bibliotheque: or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages: wherein, a short account is given of the design of almost every book, and the quality of the author, if known. For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687—Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller, lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London. (5) The 25. and 26th book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome, began in Germany by Mart. Luther. Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. (6) The present state of Germany: or, an account of the extent, rise, forme, wealth &c. of that Empire, &c. Lond. 1690. oct. written in lat. by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name. What other things he hath written and translated I know not; sure I am that our Author Whear, hath, besides the before-mentioned things, published these following.

Parentatio Historica. Sive commemoratio vitae & mortis V. C. Guliel. Camdeni Clarentii, facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ, 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.

Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ, 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.

Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus.

Charisteria. These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis, &c. He hath also written Lectures on the three books of the Punick War, in Luc. Florus, which are now about to be published. At length departing this mortal life on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and seven,1647. was buried on the third day of the same month in Exeter Coll. Chappel. His study of books and collections in MS. came, after his death, into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouse Provost of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore, and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys Library. He left also behind him a Widow and Children, who soon after became poor, and whether the Females lived honestly, ’tis not for me to dispute it.