for his D.D. degree, with seniority according to his standing in the University. This degree he obtained, his name being included among the graduati in 1665 as "S.T.P." and of Christ's. From the State Paper volume 1665-6, we gather that he was unfortunate in his matrimonial speculation he had been married to one Hannah Wiffin, "now wife of Thomas Bayles" (175). In the volume 1666-7, writing from "Naneby," he begs interest of his correspondent to obtain him some place (p. 356), and he afterwards petitions for presentation to the Vicarage of Newark-upon-Trent (p. 398). He does not appear to have obtained this appointment, but died at Navenby and was buried there, 22 Mar. 1701. SAMUEL FULLER (1635 or 1644-1699), the second son of John Fuller, of Stebbing, was admitted at St. John's College, Camb., in 1656, of which he was elected Fellow in 1664. He is included among the graduati as of that college, S.T.B. 1665, S.T.P. 1679, and was incorporated at Oxford, 1663. He was admitted to the living of Elmdon, in the diocese of Rochester, 8th Aug. 1663. He was made Chaplain to Dr. Wm. Fuller, Bishop of Lincoln, for his name's sake; and was successively Chancellor (1670) and Dean of Lincoln (1695). Brydges says that his preferment to the latter position was owing to the interest of the Lay lords, who loved him for his hospitality and wit, but the King refused him at first; that he was in expectation of being made Master of St. John's College; that he also desired to have been Rector of St. Clement Danes, and thought his interest in the Exeter family to have been great enough, because he knew how to accommodate his humour to the genius of that house, so that his picture was hung up in the drinking-room, and M. Verio upon the stair-head drew his face for a Bacchus riding on a barrel. Besides his deanery, he held the Rectories of Tinwell, Rutland (1668), and of Knaptoft, Leicester, 1671. He wrote a Latin tract on the Canonical Succession of the Ministry of the English Church, 1690. He died March 4, 1699-1700, his illness being attributed to Lincoln ale, for which he had too great a partiality, although it is said that he used to drink it in small glasses. His epitaph at Lincoln describes him as Vir pius, beneficus, doctus, facilis, suavis, hospitalis, quid multa?" Above the epitaph is his portraiture down to his breast, in white marble. (À Wood, Fasti, ii. 268; Brydges, Restaurata, i. 162 seq.; Baker's MSS. 27, 38, 235, 366; Mayor's Coll. St. John, 297, 335; Peck's Desid. Cur. 321). FRANCIS FULLER, the youngest son, had been ordained by his uncle in Ireland (Kennet, 937, who states in the same page that he was of Pembroke Hall, B.A. 1656. He was also M.A.). He is described as “an uneasy man ;” Calamy relating that he was sometimes in the West and sometimes in London, preaching occasionally, but not inclined to fix. Kennet says he was “a Nonconformist by humour and chance." He was curate to Dr. Temple "at Warcup"-by which Calamy seems to mean Warkworth, two miles from Banbury, in Northamptonshire-whence he was ejected in 1662. Brydges adds more exactly that he was minister of Marston St. Lawrence, a living connected with Warkworth, in Peterborough diocese. He died in London, July 21, 1701, aged 64. He is said to have been a facetious, pleasant man, and one who discovered great sagacity in judging of some future events. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Jeremiah White, from the text I Thess. iv. 14, who upon this occasion, as he states, first appeared in print. "This Jeremiah White was a famous rascal : he was Oliver Cromwell's chaplain, a notorious hypocrite and epicure." (Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, in N. & Q., 2nd Ser. ix. 419.) He addresses the Epistle Dedicatory to Mrs. Bridget Fuller, the widow, and Mr. Francis Fuller, the son of the divine, After commending Fuller's judicious and sincere preaching of the Gospel, White mentions his useful learning: "It was not only a personal, but here : ditary accomplishment; for I think it did belong to his family to be learned. His Father was a Learned, Eminent, and Heavenly Preacher of the Gospel in this City of London. And though I was then no Judge of his Learning, nor do now pretend to be one, yet I bless God, I have tasted the Sweetness of his Ministry and do still reckon it among the many favours of God to me that I was acquainted with the Preaching of those days. Three of his sons he designed for the Ministry: and God was pleased to succeed the Design. I had a pleasurable and profitable acquaintance and Friendship with the Eldest, Dr. Thomas Fuller, for many years. In his earlier Days he was a celebrated Wit in the University of Cambridge: afterward an Excellent Preacher; and for his Learning and other Qualifications he was justly to be numbered with those Worthies of Christ's College, with whom he was cotemporary. I had no personal knowledge of the second Son, Dr. Samuel Fuller; but I find all who had, do give him a Character no ways inferiour to his Brother: and I cannot but mention him with Honour upon this Occasion, for his very great kindness to the hopeful son of our deceased friend; a kindness accompanied with such Circumstances, as rendred it not more natural than it was in the truest sense, generous and Christian. Our Departed Friend was the youngest of the three Brothers, but came behind the other two only in his Age and Fortune; his Conscience not allowing him to make that Advantage of his Education which others did." "For our deceased Friend's civil Capacity, I will only say this: He was a Man of a publick Spirit, a true Lover of his Country, and a down-right Honest English man." (Pp. 111-116.) Francis Fuller wrote (1) A Treatise of Faith and Repentance, 1684; (2) Words to give the Young Man Knowledge, &c., 1685; (3) A Treatise of Grace and Duty, 1688 (dedicated to Thomas Lord Carew); (4) Some Rules how to Use the World So as not to Abuse either That or our Selves. London, 1688 (dedicated to the Right Hon. John [fifth] Earl of Exeter, who was a patron of Thomas Fuller. He dates his preface from Bath); (5) Advice to his Son; (6) Peace in War,a Fast-day Sermon (1696); (7) Of the Shortness of Time, 1 Cor. vii.9(1700). (Calamy's Nonconformist's Memorial, Palmer's Ed., 1802-3, iii. 46, i. 159; Kennet, p. 772; Calamy's Account, 36, 497; Cont. 53, 648; Wilson's Dissenting Churches, i. 64; Fasti Oxon. ii. 269.) This Francis, says Brydges, left a son Francis, of St. John's College in Cambridge, who studied Physic. He adds that he was the author of Medicina Gymnastica, and was left heir to his uncle Dr. Saml. Fuller, Dean of Lincoln. To the latter circumstance White alludes in the above passage. A notice of the author of the Medicina Gymnastica will be found in chap. i. of this work (p. 17, n.). Among others of the same name belonging to Essex was Rev. Robert Fuller, Vicar of Tillingham, 1650, where he is described as "an able, godly minister" (Lansdown MS. 459). He was also Rector of Chignall St. James, and died in 1661. (David's Nonconformity in Essex, 267, 273; Kennet, p. 526.) A Daniel Fuller, gentleman, is mentioned, 1648, as an Elder of the church of Hallingbury Magna. (David, 279.) There even seems to have been a family of the name settled at Waltham. On the books of Christ's College, Cambridge, is the notice of the admission as sizar, 1624, of one James Fuller, educated at Waltham under Mr. Warmsley of Waltham, being the son of one William Fuller of that place. (Christ's Coll. Register.) Among the thirty Commissioners and Jurors who drew up the report relating to Waltham Abbey in the survey of Church Lands in 1649, was a Henry Fuller. (Lambeth MS. vol. viii. fo. 67. This MS. mentions Thomas Fuller as "the present minister . . . who supplyes the said cure, and is an able godly preaching minister, there placed by the said Earle.") CHAPTER XVI. "A PISGAH-SIGHT OF PALESTINE," "ABEL REDEVIVUS," ETC. (1650-1.) PISGAH-SIGHT.' THE LITERARY FAME OF WALTHAM.-PREPARATION, ETC. OF 66 "He [George Sandys] proved a most accomplished gentleman, and an observant Traveller, who went as far as the sepulchre at Jerusalem: and hath spared other men's pains in going thither, by bringing the Holy Land home to them; so lively is his description thereof."-The Worthies, § Yorkshire, p. 212. MIDST the claims that Waltham had upon his attention, Fuller does not omit to notice its remarkable literary fame. This made it especially dear to its curate and historian, who dwelt with pride upon "the many worthy works which had their first being within the bounds. of this our parish." He thus enumerates them in the dedication of his Infants Advocate to his parishioners: "For first, the book of Mr. Cranmer (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr) containing the reasons against King Henry the Eighth his marriage with Queen Katherine Dowager, was compiled in our parish, whilst the said Cranmer retired hither (in the time of a plague at Cambridge) to teach his pupils. Thus did Waltham give Rome the first deadly blow in England, occasioning the Pope's primacy to totter therein, till it tumbled down at last. The large and learned works of the no less religious than industrious Mr. Fox in his book of Martyrs was penned here, Fox, Acts and Monuments, p. 1860.-F. |