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84-401: A chamber at Lincoln College . Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to John Saltmarsh , who had attacked his views on ecclesiastical reform. Fuller subsequently published by royal request a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and Prince Charles , called Jacob's Vow . The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterised by calmness and moderation, offended
126-576: A chapter of his 1916 book The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord to an appreciation of Fuller and of the genial spirit of Fuller's prose, writing that Fuller retains the intimate tone of one who is in a little circle of friends. There is no attempt at the impartial dignity of history. If he tells what happens, he takes it for granted that we should like to know what he thinks about it. In about 1640 Fuller married Eleanor, daughter of Hugh Grove of Chisenbury , Wiltshire . She died in 1641. Their son, John, baptised at Broadwindsor by his father on 6 June 1641,
168-492: A satire on classical literature, particularly Virgil . Hudibras was reprinted many times in the centuries following Butler's death. Two of the more noteworthy editions are those edited by Zachery Grey (1744) and Treadway Russell Nash (1793). The standard edition of the work was edited by John Wilders (1967). Most of his other writings never saw print until they were collected and published by Robert Thyer in 1759. Butler wrote many short biographies , epigrams and verses,
210-589: A sermon at Westminster Abbey , on 27 March 1643, on the anniversary of Charles I's accession, on the text, "Yea, let him take all, so my Lord the King return in peace." On Wednesday 26 July, he preached on church reformation, satirising the religious reformers, and maintaining that only the Supreme Power could initiate reforms. He was now obliged to leave London, and in August 1643 he joined the king at Oxford, where he lodged in
252-512: A short time he preached with success at the Inns of Court , and then at the invitation of the master of the Savoy , Walter Balcanqual , and the brotherhood of that foundation, became lecturer at their chapel of St Mary Savoy . Some of the best discourses of the witty preacher were delivered at the Savoy to audiences which extended into the chapel-yard. In one he set forth with searching and truthful minuteness
294-452: Is a Retailer of Rumour, that takes up upon Trust, and sells as cheap as he buys. He deals in a perishable Commodity, that will not keep: for if it be not fresh it lies upon his Hands, and will yield nothing. True or false is all one to him; for Novelty being the Grace of bothe, a Truth grows stale as soon as a Lye... Thomas Fuller Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661)
336-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Samuel Butler (poet) Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras . Samuel Butler was born in Strensham , Worcestershire, and was the son of a farmer and churchwarden , also named Samuel. His date of birth
378-473: Is unknown, but there is documentary evidence for the date of his baptism of 14 February. The date of Butler's baptism is given as 8 February by Treadway Russell Nash in his 1793 edition of Hudibras . Nash had already mentioned Butler in his Collections for a History of Worcestershire (1781), and perhaps because the latter date seemed to be a revised account, it has been repeated by many writers and editors. However, The parish register of Strensham records under
420-574: The Restoration he became secretary, or steward, to Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery , Lord President of Wales , which entailed living at least a year in Ludlow , Shropshire, until January 1662 while he was paying craftsmen working on repairing the castle there. In late 1662 the first part of Hudibras , which he began writing when lodging at Holborn , London, in 1658 and continued to work on while in Ludlow,
462-629: The Savoy, where Samuel Pepys heard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his sermons. Fuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles II . In the summer of 1661 Fuller visited the West in connection with the business of his prebend , which had been restored to him. On Sunday 12 August, while preaching at the Savoy, he was seized with typhus fever , and died at his new lodgings in Covent Garden on 16 August. He
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#1732845488112504-434: The capacity of lecturer. While at St Clement's he was suspended; but soon recovered his freedom and preached wherever he was invited. At Chelsea, where he also occasionally officiated, he covertly preached a sermon on the death of Charles, but he did not break with his Roundhead patrons. James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle made him his chaplain, and presented him in 1648 or 1649 to the curacy of Waltham Abbey . His possession of
546-537: The church at the east end ... 2 yards distant from the pillaster of the dore". Also, a monument to him was placed in Westminster Abbey in 1732 by a printer, John Barber, and the Lord Mayor of London . There is also a memorial plaque to him in the small village church of Strensham, Worcestershire, near the town of Upton upon Severn , his birthplace. Hudibras is directed against religious sectarianism. The poem
588-460: The circumstances of the time. In grief over his losses, which included his library and manuscripts (his "upper and nether millstone"), and over the calamities of the country, he wrote his work on the Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience (1647). It was prepared at Boughton House in his native county, where he and his son were entertained by Edward Lord Montagu , who had been one of his contemporaries at
630-581: The city of Westminster and the parishes contiguous to the Savoy. A pass was granted by the House of Lords, on 2 January 1643, for an equipage of two coaches, four or six horses and eight or ten attendants. On the arrival of the deputation at the Treaty of Uxbridge , on 4 January, officers of the Parliamentary army stopped the coaches and searched the gentlemen; and they found upon the latter "two scandalous books arraigning
672-414: The commissioners of the House of Lords, whose last service to his friend was to interest himself in obtaining him a bishopric. A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Return , one of the many contemporary poems celebrating the restoration of Charles II, was the last of Fuller's verse efforts. On 2 August 1660, by royal letters, he was admitted Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge . He resumed his lectures at
714-502: The curacy of St Bene't's , Cambridge. Fuller's oratory soon attracted attention. In June 1631 his uncle gave him a prebend in Salisbury , where his father, who would die in the following year, already held a canonry . The rectory of Broadwindsor , Dorset, then in the diocese of Bristol , was his next preferment (1634); and on 11 June 1635 he achieved the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In 1640, he
756-522: The earliest surviving from 1644. Of his verses, the best known is "The Elephant on the Moon", about a mouse trapped in a telescope , a satire on Sir Paul Neale of the Royal Society . Butler's taste for the mock heroic is shown by another early poem Cynarctomachy , or Battle between Bear and Dogs, which is both a homage to and a parody of a Greek poem ascribed to Homer , Batrachomyomachia . He wrote
798-460: The high royalists. To silence unjust censures he became chaplain to the regiment of Sir Ralph Hopton . For the first five years of the war, he "had little list or leisure to write, fearing to be made a history, and shifting daily for my safety. All that time I could not live to study, who did only study to live." After the defeat of Hopton at Cheriton Down , Fuller retreated to Basing House . He took an active part in its defence , and his life with
840-428: The hindrances to peace, and urged the signing of petitions to the king at Oxford, and to the parliament, to continue their care in advancing an accommodation. In his Appeal of Injured Innocence Fuller says that he was once deputed to carry a petition to the king at Oxford. This has been identified with a petition entrusted to Sir Edward Wardour , clerk of the pells, Dr Dukeson, "Dr Fuller," and four or five others from
882-577: The king's garrisons. In Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician (1646), partly authentic and partly fictitious, he satirised the leaders of the Revolution; and for the comfort of sufferers by the war he issued (1647) a second devotional manual, entitled Good Thoughts in Worse Times , abounding in fervent aspirations, and drawing moral lessons in beautiful language out of the events of his life or
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#1732845488112924-471: The late great storm with more success than many other great men". He was known as "a perfect walking library". Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages. "Wit," wrote Coleridge after reading the Church History , "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's intellect". Charles Lamb made some selections from Fuller, and admired his "golden works." American essayist Samuel McChord Crothers devoted
966-565: The living was in jeopardy on the appointment of Oliver Cromwell 's "Tryers"; but he evaded their inquisitorial questions by his ready wit. He was not disturbed at Waltham in 1655, when the Protector's edict prohibited the adherents of the late king from preaching. There is good reason to suppose that Fuller was at the Hague immediately before the Restoration , in the retinue of Lord Berkeley , one of
1008-518: The poem Upon Philip Nye's Thanksgiving Beard about the Puritan Philip Nye and later also mentioned him in Hudibras . His supposed lack of money later in life is strange as he had numerous unpublished works which could have offered him income including a set of Theophrastan character sketches which were not printed until 1759. Many other works are dubiously attributed to him. A News-monger
1050-483: The proceedings of the House," and letters with ciphers to Lord Viscount Falkland and the Lord Spencer . A joint order of both Houses remanded the party; and Fuller and his friends were briefly imprisoned. The Westminster Petition reached the king's hands; and it was published with the royal reply. When it was expected, three months later, that a favourable result would attend the negotiations at Oxford, Fuller preached
1092-501: The reason alleged." He was educated at the King's School, Worcester , under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by Thomas Fuller , a contemporary writer, in his Worthies of England . In early youth he was a servant to the Countess of Kent . Through Lady Kent he met her steward, the jurist John Selden who influenced his later writings. He also tried his hand at painting but
1134-452: The register, an error that was also repeated in later publications; however, the entry was clearly written by a different hand. Butler was brought up in the household of Sir William Russell of Strensham and became his clerk. "When just a Boy he would make observations and reflections on every Thing one sayd or did, and censure it to be either well or ill. He was never at the University for
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1218-554: The troops caused him to be afterwards regarded as one of "the great cavalier parsons". He compiled in 1645 a small volume of prayers and meditations – the Good Thoughts in Bad Times – which, set up and printed in the besieged city of Exeter , where he had retired, was called by himself "the first fruits of Exeter press". It was inscribed to Lady Dalkeith , governess to the infant princess, Henrietta Anne (b. 1644), to whose household he
1260-537: The university and had taken the side of the parliament. For the next few years of his life Fuller was mainly dependent upon his dealings with booksellers, of whom he asserted that none had ever lost by him. He made considerable progress in an English translation from the manuscript of the Annales of his friend Archbishop Ussher . Amongst his benefactors was Sir John Danvers of Chelsea, the regicide. Fuller in 1647 began to preach at St Clement's, Eastcheap , and elsewhere in
1302-547: The year 1612: "Item was christened Samuell Butler the sonne of Samuell Butler the xiiijth of February anno ut supra". Lady Day , 25 March, was New Year's Day in England at the time, so the year of his baptism was 1613 according to the change of the start of the year with the Calendar Act of 1750 (see Old Style and New Style dates ). Nash also claims in his 1793 edition of Hudibras that Butler's father entered his son's baptism into
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1344-407: Was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England , published in 1662, after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen (and his many patrons). Fuller was the eldest son of Thomas Fuller, rector of Aldwinkle St Peter 's, Northamptonshire . He was born at his father's rectory and
1386-580: Was attached as chaplain. The corporation gave him the Bodleian lectureship on 21 March 1646, and he held it until 17 June following, soon after the surrender of the city to the parliament. The Fear of Losing the Old Light (1646) was his farewell discourse to his Exeter friends. Under the Articles of Surrender Fuller made his composition with the government at London, his "delinquency" being that he had been present in
1428-764: Was baptised on 19 June 1608. Dr John Davenant , bishop of Salisbury , was his uncle and godfather. According to John Aubrey , Fuller was "a boy of pregnant wit". At thirteen he was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge , then presided over by John Davenant . His cousin, Edward Davenant , was a tutor there. He did well academically; and in Lent 1624–1625 he became B.A. and in July 1628, at only 20 years of age, received his M.A. After being overlooked in an election of fellows of his college, he moved to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in November 1628. In 1630 he received from Corpus Christi College
1470-650: Was buried in St Dunstan's Church, Cranford , Middlesex (of which he was rector). A mural tablet was afterwards set up on the north side of the chancel, with an epitaph which contains a conceit worthy of his own pen, to the effect that while he was endeavouring (i.e. in the Worthies ) to give immortality to others, he himself attained it. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine – Gallery Fuller's sense of humour kept him from extremes. "By his particular temper and management", said Laurence Echard in his History of England , "he weathered
1512-611: Was buried on 27 September in the Church-yard of St. Paul's, Covent Garden ; in the north part next to the church at the east end. "His feet touch the wall. His grave 2 yards distant from the Pillaster of the Dore (by his desire) 6 feet deep" at the expense of a Mr. Longueville, although he was not in debt when he died. Aubrey in Brief Lives describes his grave as "being in the north part next to
1554-470: Was elected proctor for Bristol in the memorable Convocation of Canterbury , which assembled with the Short Parliament . On the sudden dissolution of the latter he joined those who urged that convocation should likewise dissolve. That opinion was overruled; and the assembly continued to sit by royal writ. Fuller wrote a valuable account of the proceedings of this synod in his Church History, although he
1596-606: Was fined £200 for remaining. At Broadwindsor, early in 1641, Thomas Fuller, his curate Henry Sanders, the churchwardens, and five others certified that their parish, represented by 242 adult males, had taken the Protestation ordered by the speaker of the Long Parliament . Fuller was not formally dispossessed of his living and prebend on the triumph of the Presbyterian party, but he relinquished both preferments about this time. For
1638-521: Was his manner and case." However, Butler is thought to have been in the employment of the Duke of Buckingham in the summer of 1670, and accompanied him on a diplomatic mission to France. Butler also received financial support in the form of a grant from King Charles II . During the latter part of his life, Butler lived in a house in the now partially demolished Rose Street, to the west of Covent Garden . Butler died of consumption on 25 September 1680, and
1680-458: Was published, and the other two in 1664 and 1678 respectively. One early purchaser of the first two parts was Samuel Pepys . While the diarist acknowledged that the book was the "greatest fashion" he could not see why it was found to be so witty. Despite the popularity of Hudibras , Butler was not offered a place at Court. "Satyrical Witts disoblige whom they converse with; and consequently make to themselves many Enemies and few Friends; and this
1722-480: Was reportedly not very good at it; one of his editors reporting that "his pictures served to stop windows and save the tax" ( on window glass ). Conversely, John Aubrey who knew Butler quite well enough to be one of his pallbearers, wrote that "He was thinking once to have made painting his Profession. His love to and skill in painting made a great friendship between him and Mr. Samuel Cowper (The Prince of Limners of this Age)." He studied law but did not practice. After
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1764-402: Was very popular in its time, and several of its phrases have passed into the dictionary. It was sufficiently popular to spawn imitators. Hudibras takes some of its characterization from Don Quixote but, unlike that work, it has many more references to personalities and events of the day. Butler was also influenced by satirists such as John Skelton and Paul Scarron 's Virgile travesti ;
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