<Chap. III. ne HIs T 0 R y of the PuRITANS. 501 with due commendation, keeping a fevere difcipline in his college, as did Oliver . . H · n d f Pro/ctlor. all the heads of colleges m th~fe times. e :-vas eJeL,e ?ut o every 1657 • thi ng in r662 for non-conformity; but fame time a_fter bewg pei.·fua~-~ ed to comply with the eftablilhment, he became vicar of All Samts m ]\Torthampton, archdeacon of Norwich, and prebendary of. 1/Vorcefler; which places he held till his death, which did no~ h~ppe~ till 1693· Nov. 24, his higbnefs ligned a commiilion , appOinting lm yoUI:ger fon A;1d appoints' Henry to be lord lieutenant of Ireland, with a power of confemng the h!S/'n Hen- . ·r d .1·r db ryluut.of hononr of knighthood . Ilenry was a WI1C an ui•Creet governor, an y I reland . his prndent behaviour kept the irijh in awe, and brought the nation into a flourifhing condition. Upon the acceffion of Richard to the proteetorihiQ, he advifed him to abide by the parliament, and have a watchful eye ov~r the army, whom he fufpeCl:ed to be deGgning mifchief (as appears by his letters now before me.) Nay, he offered to come over to his af– fi(lance, but was forbid till it was too late. When Richard was depofed his bro: her Henry laid down his charge, and came over to England, and lived privately upon an eibte of his own, of about 6oo I. a year at Spin– ny-Abby in Cambridgejhire, not far from Newmarket, till his death. While he was in Ireland he behaved with fuch a generous impartiality as gained him the ell:eem even of the royali!1:s themfclves; and after his retirement king Charles II. did him once the honour of a viGt: He had a fon Henry who was bred to arms, and had a major's commiffion, and died ia the fervice of the crown about the year 171 I, and left behind him feveral children, fome of the fons are yet living in good reputation in the city of London, and are the only male defcendants of the proteCior Cromwe/1, the poflerity of Richard bcir.g extinct. The ROYAL sociETY, which has been the ornament of the englifo D_r-igina! tf nation, by the vall: improvements it has made in natural and experimental ~'".royal philofophy, was formed at Oxford in thcfc times, which fome h;1 ve re- oc•tty. pref~n!ed as covered with ignorance, barbari!in, and pedantry: The words of bilhop Sprat their hifl:orian are thefc, " It was fame fpace after p. 53, 57·· " the end of the civil wars at Oxford, in Dr. Wilkins's lodgings, in if/ad- <' bam College, which was then the place of refort for v.irtuous and learned " men, that tbe ficfi meetiJzgs were made which laid the jozmdation if all " tbat followed. The univerlity had, at that time, many members of " its own, who had begun a free way of reafon ing, and was alfo frequent- " ed by fame gentlemen of philofopbical minds, whom the misfortune " of the kingdom,~~~ the fecurit~ a?d eafe of a retirement among gownf- " men had drawn tnltner. The prmc1pal and moO: confl:ant of them were, <' Dr. Seth Ward, Mr. B~yle, Dr. Wi!kins, Sir Wi!!iam Petty, Mr. Mat- " thew_ Wren, Dr. Wallis, Dr: Goddard, Dr. Willis, Dr. Batburfl, Dr~ " Chriftopber Wren, and Mr. Raok, beiides feveral others who joinedo t,hem,
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