Chap. IX. The HISTORY of the PuRI'i'ANS. 32I tion, when he was turned out by his majeil:y's commifiioners, and per-K. C harles I. fill:ed in his non-conformity till his death. He was a valuable and learned ~ man, as appears by his writings ; but Mr. Wood obferves he was a violent · independent, and ill-natured: he died in London I 68o. Jojhua Crojfe, L . L. D. natural philofophy reader in the room of Dr. Dr. Croffe. Ed~vards, and one of the proctors of the univerlity ; he was fellow of C:l~dmy's S· Magdalen College, and kept his reader's place till the rell:oration, after a n g. P· 5 ' which he lived privately in Oxford till his death which happened in I 676. He was a gentleman much honoured for his becoming converfation. Ralph Button, A. M. univerlity orator in the room of Dr. Hammond, Mr. Bu.~ton • . and one of the proctors of the univerfity; he was originally of Exeter Cb adlamyp s 6 a 0 - • . rl g. . • College, where he made fo great a progrefs 1n plulofophy, and other literature, that when he was only batchelor of arts he was recommended by Dr. Prideaux to ll:and for a fellowfhip in Merton College, and was accord- · ingly chofen 1633· He was afterwards a celebrated tutor in his houfe, but was obliged to quit Oxford at the beginning of the civil war, becaufe be would not bear arms for the king. When the war was over he re fumed his employment as a tutor, and upon the refufal of Edward Corbet was made canon of Chrifl-church, and univerfity orator; he was ejected at the rell:oration, and afterwards taught academical learning at !flington, near London, till 168o. when he died. He was an excellent fcholar, a moll: humble upright man, and a great fufferer for non-conformity. Mr. John Harmar A. M. profefTor of the greek language in the Mr. Har~ room of Dr. Stringer, was educated in Magdalen College, and took his mar. degree I 617. he was afterwards mail:er of the free-fchool at St. A/bans, AtheS. Ox. and one of the mall:ers of W~flmitifler fchool ; from thence he was re-P· 47 ' moved to the g reek profefTorfhip in this univerlity. He was (fays Mr. Wood) a great philo!ogijl, a tolerable Iatin poet, and one of the moll: excellent grecians of his time, but otherwife an honell: weak man. H e was turned out · at the reil:oration, and afterwards lived privately at Steventon in Harnpjhire till the year I 670. when he died. Thefe were all the changes that were made among the heads of col– leges and profeffors at t his time; and npon the whole, though it mull: be allowed, that many of the ejeCted loyalifts were men of learning and great merit, 'tis certain thofe who kept their places, and the fuccelfors of fuch as were ejeCted, were men of eqnal probity and virtue, and no lefs eminent in their feveral p rofcfiions, as apppears by the monuments of their learning, fome of which are remainillg to this day. The very . en~mies of the new heads of colleges have confefTed, that Behaviour if they were ftnct In the government of their feveral boufcs; that 1hey kept tbc new pro: a more than common watch over the morals of the fiudents, and obligedf0'brs. VOL, II. T t them
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