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MATTHEW W R E N, D. D.

quintus haud prius excurrit , quam sacellitm y illud elegantistimum decus Pembro-chianum, fuis ipfius sumptibus fundatum, extrudlum, egregie exornatum, dota-tumque y Deo sospitatori consecrat. Usque adeo ver a virtus vinci est nefcta.[Euge!]

Obht vir destderatijf April 24, 1667. ottogenario major, solemniterqucexequias celebrante ipsd academid, in facello a fe haud ita pridem condito, juxtaaltare depojitus eft. (This observed before.)

From the MS. History o/~ Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge. By an uncertain Hand .

IK/TAttbew Wren , Greek Scholar, B. A. chosen Fellow, Nov. 5, 1605. M. A.F- Junior Treasurer 1610, Senior Treasurer 1611. When fames the Firstniade a Progress to Cambridge , Wren kept the Philosophy-act with great Ap-plause. Bur/ar 1621. President of the College 1616. Had a Testimonial,zo, 1618. Chaplain to Bishop Andrews. Chaplain to Prince Charles in hisVoyage to Spain. Doctor in Divinity. Resign’d his Fellowship, Nov. 8, 1624.Vice-Chancellor, 1628. Master of Peter-house. Dean of Windsor. Bishop ofHereford. Bishop of Norwich, Dean of the King’s Chapel. Billiop of

Ely -He was severely handled by the long Parliament ; and imprison’d

in the Tower, almost twenty Years, without ever being brought to a Trialfor his pretended Misdemeanors. In 1660, he was restored to his episcopalFunction. He was a very great Benefactor to the College in Money andBooks; but especially, in erecting at his Charge (it cost him near 4000/.) thatgoodly Fabrick the new Chapel j the Altar of which, he furnilh’d with hisown Chapel Plate ; and endow’d it with the Royalty of Hardwick in thisCounty, to keep it in repair. He died in the Year 1667.

* A Transcript of a certain Narrative, written by the late Bi-shop of Ely [Dr. Matthew Wren] with his own Handyof that remarkable Conference, which, after his Return fromSpain with Prince Charles (Anno 16 23, J he had with Dr.Neale, then Bishop of Durham ’ Dr. Andrews, Bishop ofWinchester, and Dr. Laud, Bishop of St. David’ j, touching thesaid Prince j whereat, something prophetical was then said byI that reverend Bishop of Winchester.

A FTER our Return from Spain, my Lord of Winchester (among othergreat Expressions of his Respects to me) made me promise to him, that,upon all Occasions of my coming to London (for I abode still at Cambridge) Iwould lodge with him j to which End, he caused three Rooms near theGarden to be fitted and reserved for me; and twice or thrice I had lodgedthere.

And at another Time coming suddenly to London and late, I lodged at mySister’s in Friday-street, and the next Day, being Friday , I went to Win-chester-house to Dinner, and craved his Lordship’s Pardon, that I lodg’d notthere ; because that my Business was to treat with some Country Gentlemen,who lay in Holbourn , whom I should not meet with, but in the Evening andMorning, when it would not be safe for me to pass the Bridge, or theThames; and so after Dinner I took my Leave of him, hoping to return forCambridge on Monday.

* Ex MS. Dudg. ( in Musæo Jjhmoliano) E 2. sub finem, published by Mr. Thomas Hearne yOxford , at the Theatre, 1725. in the Publisher's Appendix to his Preface to Peter Langtoff'% Chro-nicle, Page ccvin.

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