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V . ; ¦ - ¦ I . ( Ed - 2 nd . ) will have their several initials . My edition of the Aihence Oxonienses , is that published * by the author in 1691 and 1692 . I shall give his numbers to the Oxford Writers , and the dates in the Fasti to those who only graduated in that
University . It is unnecessary to add , that in such a collection , the articles must be very unequal in length and importance , many of them containing little more thau a few dates , and the title of some now long-forgotten and inconsiderable publication , just enough to confer the name of writer * L 1 GNARIUS .
No . I . 505 , Humphrey Chambers , a gentleman ' s son , was born in Somersetshire , became a commoner of University College in 1614 , aged 15 years , stood for a Fellowship in Merton College in 1619 , but put aside as
insuffic ient , notwithstanding he , like a vain | Ran , had , a little before , taken occasion to display his oratory in a flourishing speech on the death of a student , not in the refectory or chapel , as the custom is , but in a pew set in the middle of the Quadrangle , on
purpose . After he had taken the degree of M . A . he entered into holy orders , and in June 1623 , was made rector of Clavertonm his own country . Afterwards he took the degree of B . D . and was esteemed by the neighbouring ministers an orthodox in an . * But
when the times began to change in 1641 , he sided with the Presbyterians , took the Covenant * was made one of the Assembly of Divines and maintained a horse and man , at his own
charge , in actual service against the king . Soon after , he had the rich rectory of Pewsey , near to Marlborough , bestowed on him by Philip Earl of Pembroke .
In 1648 , he was actually create d D . D . in the Pembrokiqn Creation , f ,,,,., , , rX-l , 1 -. * It must have been during * this period u that he was silenced by Bishop Peirce ^ his diocesanfor maintaining the moralit
, y qf the sabbath ^ which created two years ' trouble , imprisonment and sequestration , b y ^' . tHdrtHshp . p Laud ' s taking the cause into his own hands . " ( O . J \ The Karl of Pembroke was Chancellor of the Umversity . He died in 1649 .
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and had several ^ boons £ e $ towe 4 on him by that convention , called Ij ^ the Presby terians , the Blessed Parlia ment J After the king *« restoration , he was suffered to keep his parsonage ,
because nobody laid claim to it , he being then accounted the prime leader of the faction in those parts . But whcta'tbe Act of' Uniformity was published , he quitted it and his life together .
He hath written and published several sermons , as ( 1 . ) Divine Sallance to weigh religious Fasts in : Fast Sermon before the House of Commons , ^ 27 th September , l 643 ^|| on Zaclu vin 5 , 6 , 7- He was also one of the three , that preached before the
House of Lords on 2 £ nd October , 1644 , being a Fast Sermon , upon the uniting of the army together . § ( 2 . ) PaxiVs sad Farewell to the Ephesians , preached at the funeral of Mr . John Grayle , minister of Tidworth , Wilts , on Acts xx . 37 * 88 . 1655 .
Motive to Peace and Love . l 649 « Animadversions on Mr . W . Dell ' s ^[ book , entitled , The crucified and quickened Christian . Having * sat in the House of Commons , though a Peer , his memory was insulted by various libels on that account ; Among
the rest , was a medley of verse and prose , entitled , « The Life and Death of Philip Herbert , fohe late infamous Knight of Berkshire , once Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery , having , by a degenerate baseness betrayed his nobility , and entered himself a Commoner , among the very scum 7
of the people . ' See ( W . ) II . 749 . \ The first proceeding's of the Long * Parliament , published 1641 , are entitled " Speeches and Passages of this great and happy Parliament . "
II This dr . te is probably an error . On the 25 th September , 1643 , two days after the battle of JSfewbury ^ the Houses were employed in taking- the Covenant . Par I . Hist . 1762 , XII . 402 . § Or rather the expected junction of the hostile armies , which broug-ht on the second battle of Newbury , " 28 th October . Ibid .
XIII . 298 . *| J Master of Caius Col , Cawib . from which he was ejected , 1662 . He became an Anti-pcedobaptistf and is said latterly to have inclined to Quakerism ,. He was one of the Ministers who offered their
religious services to Charles on the morning of his " execution . He- had been chaplain to Fairfax , See (^ W . J II . to , 739 . -
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104 Sylva Biographiea . No . I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/24/
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