George Wilde

son of Hen. Wilde a Citizen of London, was born in the County of Middlesex, elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merchant Taylors School in 1628, aged 19 years, entred on the Civ. Law line, took one degree in that fac. 1634, became one of the Chaplains to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant, who had an especial respect for him, and would have prefer’d him above the Vicaridge of S. Giles Church in Reading had not the Civil distempers broke forth. In the heat of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of his Majesty, was an appointed Preacher before him and the Parliament in Oxon, being then in great esteem for his eloquent preaching, and therefore had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer’d upon him. Afterwards being turned out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, he suffer’d much, yet kept up a religious meeting for the Loyalists in Fleetstreet London. After his Majesties restauration, he was, in requital for his loyalty, made Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland, where he was highly valued for his publick spirit, religious conversation and exemplary piety. In his younger years he was accounted a Person of great ingenuity, and in his elder, a man of singular prudence, a grace to the pulpit, and, when in Ireland, as worthy of his function as any there. He hath written,

The Hospital of Lovers, or Loves Hospital, a Comedy—Acted in S. Johns Coll. publick refectory before the K. and Qu. 30. Aug. 1636, but ’twas not as, I conceive, printed.

Hermophus, a Com.—written in Lat. and several times acted, but not printed.

Sermon preached upon the 3. of March, in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. before the House of Commons, on Psal. 122.8.9. Oxon. 1643. qu. and other things, as ’tis said, but such I have not yet seen. He departed this mortal life at Dublin on Friday 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five,1665. and was buried in Christ Church there, at which time Mr. George Seignior his Chaplain, (sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge) preached his funeral Sermon, to which I refer the Reader for his farther character, being, as ’tis said, made publick. In London-Derry succeeded Dr. Rob. Mossom Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin.