The HISTORy of the PuRITANS.' VoL. n. K· Charles I. fervices ; after which he retired to his houfe at E ltham in Kent, where he ~-died _of a lethargy, occafioned by over- h':ating bimfelf in the chace of a · ·ftag tn Wmdfor-Forrft, Sept. 14. 1646. 10 the fifty-fifth year of his age. He was buried with great funeral folemnity in Wejtmirjter-Abbey, OClob, .:u . at the public expence, both houfes of parliament attending the procef– fion. His effigies was afterwards ereCted in Wdfminfter Hall, but fome -of the king's party found means in the night to cut off the head, and ·break the fword, arms and efcutcheons. Mr. Vines preached his funeral fermon, and gave him a very high encomium, though lord Glarendon has fiained his charaCter for taking part with the parliament, which he fays was owing io his pride and vanity. The earl's countenance appeared ftern and folemn, but to his familiar acquaintance his behaviour was mild and :a'ffable. Upon the whole, he was a truly great and excellent perfon; his death was an unfpeakable !ofs to the king, for he was the only nobleman, perhaps in the kingdom, who had interdl: enough with both parties, to have put an end to the civil war, at the very .time when providence called him out of the world. · Death of Mr Among the remarkable divines may be reckoned the reverend and Colman, learned Mr. Thomas Go/man, reCtor of St. Peter's church in Gornhi/1; he was hlorn at Oxford, and entered in Magda/n;-Gol/rge in the feventeenth year of his age; he afterwards became fo perfeCt a mafier of the hebrew language, that he was commonly called Rabbi Go/man. In the beginning of the civil war he left his reCtory of Bl)•ton in Lincolnjhir"e, being per– fecuted from thence by the cavaliers. Upon his coming to London, he was preferred to the reCtory of St. Peter's Cornhill, and made one of the aiTem– bly of divines. Mr. Wood fays, he behaved modefily and learnedly in the affembly; and Mr. Fuller gives him the charaCter of a modeil and learned divine; he was equally an enemy to preibytery and prelacy, being of eraftiqn principles; he fell fick while the affembly was debating the jus divinum of preibytery; and when they fent fome. of their members to vifit him, he defir-ed they would not come to an abfolute determination till they heard what he had to offer upon the quefiion; but his dill:emper encreafing he died in a few days, and the whole affembly did him the ho~ nour to attend his funeral in a body March 3o. I 646. · Death of Dr About the middle of July died the learned doCtor William 'Twifle, vi– Twilfe. car of Newbury, and prolocutor of the affembly of divines; he was born Athen. Ox- at Speenham-Land, near Newbury in Berkjhire; his father was a fubll:an– ,on. tial clothier in that town, and educated his fon at Winchdfer (chool, from whenee he was tranilated to New-Go/lege in Oxford, of which he was fellow ; here he employed himfelf in the ftudy of divinity with the clofefl: applicati0n, for fix teen years together. In the year I 6o4. he proceeded mafter_
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