1670.

ROBERT SOUTH, canon of Christ Church, was Installed an eminent preacher at court, and the scourge of fa- Dec. 29, naticism, in this reign. Some of his contemporaries. could not even read his sermons with a safe conscience; as elegance of style in divinity was, in their estimation, scarce a venial crime; but wit was a mortal sin. His portrait belongs to the reign of William III.— See Noble's Continuation.

DR. BRUNO RYVES; an etching. C. Towneley fecit; 8vo.

DR. BRUNO RYVES; small oval, mezz. Woodburn exc. 8vo.

Dr. Bruno Ryves was vicar of the parish of Stanwell, in the county of Middlesex, and rector of St. Martin's in the Vintryward, London. He was a noted and florid preacher, and being chaplain to King Charles I. suffered with his royal master, was sequestered from his vicarage and parsonage, and forced to fly in order to save his life. He attended King Charles II. in his exile, and was by him made dean of Chichester, and master of the hospital there, but had no profit of either till the restoration : when being sworn chaplain in ordinary to the king, he was preferred to the deanery of Windsor, and to the rectories of Acton, in Middlesex, and Hasely, in Oxfordshire, and was appointed scribe of the most noble order of the Garter. Dr. Ryves was author of several works, particularly "Mercurius Rusticus, or the Country's Complaint," and "Querela Cantabrigiensis," giving an account of the sufferings of the clergy in that university; and the "Micro Chronicon, or a Brief Chronology of the Battles and Sieges in which his Majesty King Charles I. was engaged, from the beginning of the Civil Wars to March 25, 1647." Some sermons were published by him, upon 1 Tim. vi. 10. 2 Tim. iv. 7, and one preached before the House of Commons, in 1660. He died at Windsor, July 13, 1677, and lies buried in the isle, on the south side of St. George's chapel there; and over his grave, on a marble table fixed in the wall, is a large inscription in Latin to his memory, portraying his merits, sufferings, and preferments.

canonicus Norvi

EZEKIAS BURTON, S. T. P. censis. M. Beale p. R. White sc. mons," 1684; 8vo.

Before his "Ser

Hezekiah Burton, fellow of Magdalen College, in Cambridge, and an eminent tutor there, was, for his singular merit, made chaplain to the lord-keeper Bridgeman in 1667, and the same year presented by him to a prebend of Norwich. In the beginning of the year 1668, a treaty was proposed by the lord-keeper, for a comprehension of some of the dissenters, and a toleration of others. Dr. Tillotson, Dr. Stillingfleet, Dr. Burton, and the lord chief-baron Hale, were very desirous of an accommodation; and ready to do every thing to promote it, if it could be done without betraying the interests of the church. But this scheme met with such powerful opposition, that the debates upon the terms of union were presently concluded. Dr. Burton, who was a man of great prudence, moderation, and sweetness of temper, was snatched from the world when he was capable of doing most good in it; and when his incessant labours and exemplary piety promised a great deal. His friend Dr. Tillotson, who well knew the worth of the man and the value of his writings, published two volumes of his discourses. These, though never intended for the public, and consequently not so perfect as if he had put his last hand to them, give us a high idea of the piety, and no mean one of the abilities of the author. Ob. 1681. See more of him in the preface to the first volume of his Discourses," and in Birch's "Life of Dr. Tillotson."

THOMAS FULLER, S. T. D. Et. 53, 1661. D. Loggan sc. Over his head is this motto, "Methodus Mater Memoriæ;" underneath are these verses :

"The graver here hath well thy face designed,
But no hand Fuller can express thy mind;

For that a resurrection gives to those

Whom silent monuments did long enclose."

Before his "History of the Worthies of England,” 1662; fol.

The only thing that he ever published himself was the Preface to Dr. Cumberland's book of the "Laws of Nature."

I am informed that the best impressions are before his "Pisgah

Sight."

He is placed here as a prebendary of the cathedral church of Collated Salisbury. See the reign of Charles 1.

JOS. GLANVILL, &c. qui vehiculum mutavit quarto die Novemb. 1680.* W. Faithorne sc. Before his Discourses, Sermons," &c. 1681; 4to.

It appears from the inscription on his monument that he was a prebendary of Worcester.

Joseph Glanvill, rector of Bath, chaplain to Charles II. and F. R. S. was a man of good natural and acquired abilities, and of considerable eminence as a divine and philosopher. He was author of "Essays on several important Subjects, in Philosophy and Religion;""An Essay concerning Preaching," &c. &c. He has, in his "Plus Ultra," which is the scarcest and most estimable of his works, pointed out the discoveries in the new world of science, by the light of reason and experiment. In his "Saducismus Triumphatus," he has endeavoured to discover the secret transactions of the kingdom of darkness; and has brought variety of arguments, and a large collection of relations, to prove the real existence of witches and apparitions.† He wrote in defence of the Royal Society, and the new philosophy, against Dr. Henry Stubbe, a man of parts and learning, but positive, arrogant, and dogmatical; and extremely averse from the belief of any truths, but such as were familiar to himself.

JOHANNES LIGHTFOOT, S. T. P. &c. R. White sc. h. sh.

John Lightfoot, who was educated at Christ's College, in Cambridge, was first engaged in the study of rabbinical learning, by the persuasion and example of Sir Rowland Cotton, who greatly

The date of his death on this print, which agrees with that on his monument in the abbey-church of Bath, serves to rectify a mistake of Mr. Wood, who informs us that he died on the 4th of October.

Beaumont, in his "Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcraft," &c. has written on the same side with Glanvill. The reader may see a collection of arguments and relations on the other side of the question, in Scot's " Discovery of Witchcraft," and Webster's "Display of supposed Witchcraft."

June 16, 1631.

assisted him in the Hebrew. He was, by this gentleman, to whom he dedicated the first fruits of his studies, presented to the rectory of Ashley, in Staffordshire. Here he applied himself for twelve years to searching the Scriptures; and the world was soon after informed that his researches were to some purpose, by the books that he published, which are so many proofs of his industry, learning, and judgment. He was afterward chosen minister of St. Bartholomew's, behind the Exchange, and a member of the assembly of divines which sat at Westminster; and was preferred by the parliament visitors to the mastership of Catharine Hall, in Cambridge. He offered to resign his mastership at the restoration, but it was not accepted; and he had soon after a confirmation of that and his benefice from the king. The lord-keeper Bridgeman, who professed a great esteem for him, presented him to a prebend Installed in the church of Ely.* His "Horse Hebraica" is esteemed his Feb. 5, most valuable work. His style is not good: it is probable that he paid but little attention to it. His greatest excellence was criticism. His works, which rendered his name famous throughout Europe, are in three volumes folio,† besides his "Remains."

1667.

1675.

Ob. Dec. 6,

+ The edition here meant is that published by J. Leusden at Utrecht, 1699. He was succeeded in the mastership of Catharine Hall by Dr. John Eachard, author of a noted piece of drollery entitled, "The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion inquired into, in a Letter written to R. L." This pamphlet, which was published without the author's name, made a great noise in the world, and was soon answered by several clergymen. The "Letter to R. L." and the Dialogue betwixt "Philautus and Timothy," on Hobbes's "State of Nature," are the most considerable of this author's works, which have been evidently studied by Dr. Swift. It hath been said of him, that he had no talent at all for serious subjects.

The celebrated Mr. Baker, of St. John's College, in Cambridge, in a blank leaf of his copy of Dr. Eachard's " Letter on the Contempt of the Clergy," observes, that he went to St. Mary's with great expectation to hear him preach, but was never more disappointed. It has been said, that he took the instances of absurdity and nonsense in this letter, from his father's sermons. Echard the historian tells us,|| that he was too nearly related to him to give him his just character without suspicion of partiality.

§ His works have been lately reprinted, with an additional pamphlet, by Thomas Davies, in Russell-street, Covent-garden.

|| P. 922, edit. 1720. It is observable that Laurence Echard differed from John in the spelling of his name.

EDMUNDUS CASTELLUS, S. T. P. ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis, canonicus,* &c. Et. 63, Anno 1669; Faithorne p. et sc. large h. sh.

1685.
So Le Neve,

Dr. Edmund Castle, who had been many years a member of Installed Emmanuel College, in Cambridge, was, in his advanced age, admitted into St. John's in that university. In 1666, he was chosen Quære. Arabic professor; to which preferment he was entitled by his merit as an orientalist. He had several years before, given very eminent proofs of his abilities in the laborious work of the Polyglot, which he revised and corrected. A great part of his life was spent in compiling his "Lexicon Heptaglotton," on which he bestowed incredible pains and expense, even to the breaking of his constitution, and exhausting his fortune. At length, when it was printed, the copies remained unsold upon his hands. He died in 1685, and lies buried in the church of Higham Gobyon, in Bedfordshire, of which parish he was rector. It appears from the inscription on his monument, which he erected in his lifetime, that he was chaplain to Charles II. He bequeathed all his oriental manuscripts to the university library at Cambridge, on condition that his name should be written on every copy in the collection. See more of him at the end of "Thomas de Elmham," published by Hearne, p. 356, 427, and in "Lelandi Collectanea," by the same editor, Fol. vi. p. 80; also in Dr. Pococke's "Life," fol. p. 50, notes, and p. 66.

See an account of Dr. Ralph Cudworth, and Dr. Jos. Beaumont, lower down in this class: the former was prebendary of Glocester, the latter of Ely.

PETRUS HEYLIN, S. T. P. ecclesiæ collegiatæ Sancti Petri Westmonasteriensis canonicus, Martyri et superstiti Carolis, patri ac filio, Magna Britanniæ, &c. monarchis, dum viveret, a sacris. Before his "Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts,” 1681; fol.

Peter Heylin was educated at Magdalen College, in Oxford, where he applied himself early to the study of cosmography, and

It appears from Le Neve's "Fasti," that Dr. Castle was prebendary) f the eighth stall in the cathedral church of Canterbury.

+ He expended no less than 12,000l. upon that work.

Installed prebendary,

Nov. 9, 1631.