A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand.
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1705
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the better to ferve the Proteftants, and engaged the King to admit Father Petre into the Privy-Council, to draw an Odium upon both : That he favour’d and promoted under-hand the Profecution ot the Bifhops; that he abfolutely reje&ed all the re¬ peated Advices that were given him and the King, of the Prince of Oranges Deiigns: And, laftly. That he made his Matter refufe the only Afliftance, that might have enabled him to baffle the Enterprizes of his Enemies. In Oppofition to this Charge, Others, in the Earl’s Juttification, have alledg’d ; That the Rule was not fo general, but that a reconciled Enemy might become a real Friend ; that a Man might retain a Refource in a Party, without embracing it; that he had from the Beginning faithfully ferv’d King James, as became a Protettant Subject; that he oppofed the King’s attaining a Difpenhng Power; that though he acted in the Eccleliattical Com- mifflon, yet tor a good while he defended Magdalen- College'., that he was againtt the Difl'olving of the Parliament; that he fo openly oppofed the Prolecu- tion of the Bifhops, that he expoled himfelf to the Fury of the Popifh Party ; and though he pretended to turn Roman Catholick, to prevent his immediate Ruine, yet he ftill continued to be the Objeft of their Hatred; that there were no Proofs of his enter¬ taining any Private or TreafonableCorrefpondencies with the King’s Enemies: That his Lady's holding a fufpicious Intelligence with the Princefs of Orange, was not a fufficient Reafon to render the Husband criminal: That Col. Sydney, though his near Rela¬ tion, might have deceived him, as he did Others, and make him believe, that he went to the Spaw only for the fake of the Waters : That his owning he changed his Religion to ferve the Proteftants, was rather an Excufe to them, than a Proof of his being privy to their Defigns, fince no Man had need to make Excufes to thofe with whom he had already concerted Meafures : That his introducing Father Petre into the Council, was only a prudential and allowable piece of Policy, to bring upon the Jefuits all the Odium of the People, for the irregular Con- du6t of the Court: That the Prince of Orange's Un¬ dertakings againtt a King that had fo powerful a Force both by Sea and Land, feem’d fo extraordi¬ nary, not to fay Extravagant, to Every Body, that not knowinghow to give Credit to it, he did not think himfelf obliged to lay any weight upon Skeltons Information ; and that upon the News of the Prince’s Coming, he advifed the King to call a Free Parliament, and to depend upon that, rather than upon any Foreign Afliftance, which was not only unneceffary, but alio moft dangerous. To conclude, I fhall only make one Obfervation ; That this Noble Lord was guilty of attrange fort of Indul¬ gence towards fome Perfons that had formerly been in his Service, and particularly towards one, by whofe Means he drew the Odium upon himfelf for a time, of a Fact, in relation to the Manner of a Noble Earl’s Exit; which, if it were true, could not be mention’d without utmoft Horrour: But for my part, l am fo fully fatisfied of Iris entire Innocence in that Matter, from leveral particular Circumttances, too long to be infer ted, that I think my lelf obliged to do that Juttice to his Memory, as wholly to acquit him of it. There is nothing of his in Print, that I know of, but the fore-mention’d Letter, under the Title of The Earl of SunderlandV Letter to a Friend in London. They told us this Earl’s Heart was petrified before his Death, which was the Occafton of it, and happen’d September the 28th, 1702. SYDENHAM (Thomat) Son of William Sydenham of Witiford-Eagle in Dorfetjhire, Efq; was Born there ; became a Commoner ot Aiagdalen-Hall in 1642 ; left Oxford while it was a Garifon for the King’s life, went to London, and fell acciden¬ tally into the Company of a Noted Phyfician call’d Dr. Thomas Cox ; who finding him to be a Perfon of more than ordinary Parts, encourag'd and put him into a Method to ftudy Phyfick. At his return to the Univerfity, after the faid Garrifon was deliver’d up to the Parliament’s Forces, he retired again to I Magdalen-Hail, entred on the Phyfick Line, was actually created Batchelor in the Pembrokjan Crea¬ tor? in April 1648. having not before taken any Degree in Arts ; and about that time fubferibing and fubmitting to the Authority of the Vifitors ap¬ pointed by Parliament, he was, through the En¬ deavours ot a near Relation, made by them Fellow of All-Souls, in the Place of One who was then Ejefted. After he had continued fome Years there in the zealous Profecution of that Faculty, he left the Univerfity without taking any other Degree, and at length fettled in Weflminfler, became Dottor of his Faculty in Cambridge, and an exact Obferver of Difeafes and their Symptoms, famous for his Pradtice ; the Chief Phyfician from 1660 to 1670. and in his laft days Licentiate of the College of Phy- Jicians. He was a Perfon of a florid Style, of a gene¬ rous and publick Spirit, very Charitable; and was more famous, Specially beyond the Seas, for his publifh’d Books, than before he had been for his Praftice, which was much leflen’d after the Year 1670. when he was laid up with the terrible Dileafe of the Gout. He fas famous for his Cool Regimen in the Small-pox, which his greateft Adverfaries have fince been, forced to take up and follow : He was alfb famous for giving the Park, after the Fit in Agues, and for his Laudanum. He Died on the 29th of December, 1689. His Works are, Me- thodus Curanai Febres propriis Obfervationibus Super- ftrufta, &c. Cut etiam Acceffit, Seflio quinta de Pefle, Jive Morbo Pefli/entiali. Loud. 1668. 8vo. Obfervationes Medico, circa Morborum Autlorum Hi- Jloriam & Curationem. Lond. 1676, & 1685. 8vo. Epiftolo Refponforia Duo, Primade Morbis Epidemicis abAn. 16]5, ad An. 1680. Secunda de Luis Venerea Hiftoria & Curatione. Lond. 1680, Sc 1685. 8vo. DiJJertatio Epijlolaris ad Spetatijfimum & DofliJJimum Guliel. Cole, M. D. de Obfervationibus Nuperis circa Curationem variolarum, Confluentiam, nec non de Affe- flione Hyfierica. Lond. 1682, & 1685. Traflat us de Podagra & Hydrope. Lond. 1683, & 1685. 8vo. Scedula Monitoria de Nova Febris Inrreffu, Lond. 1686. 8vo. TEK TEKELY (Countefsof) was the Niece of the ever-famous Count Nicholas Serim, (formerly the Emperor’s General in Hungary) and the Daughter of his Brother Count Peter Serini, who, with the Counts Nadajli and Frangepani, having confpired with the Turks in 1669, to raife a Rebellion in Hungary, was Seized, Tryed, and Executed at Neuftadt, in 1671. This Noble Lady was firft Marry’d to Ragotzi, Son and Heir to Prince Ragotzd, fometime Prince of Tranfylvania, by whom fhe had feveral Children j and after his deceafe, to Count Emeri Tekely. She very gallantly defended the Cattle of Mon- gatz,, for fome Years, againtt the Imperialifis, during the laft Hungarian War, and in 1686 forced them to raife the Siege ; but the Place being again at¬ tack’d in 1688, and the Count her Husband failing to relieve it, fhe was forced to fign a hard Capitu¬ lation, at which five faid ; Ah ! Muft 1 Jign my Husband's Death ? For I am perfuaded, that as foon as the Turks come to know 1 have abandon'd this Place they will take off his Head. She was oblig’d by the Terms of Surrendry, to go with the Princes her Children of the firft Bed to Vienna, and not to ttir thence without the Emperor’s Leave : But Count Tekely having, in 1690, luckily defeated General Heufler in Tranfylvania, and taken him Prifoner, fhe and her Children were exchanged for him. After which, fhe ran the fortune of her Husband, and and follow’d him in ail the Viciflitudes of it ; and having in the Year 1697, no more Allowance from the Port than Five Dollars per Day, for the whole Family, five fubrr.itted to the Leave granted them of Selling Wine within the Greek Liberties, and fo ipun out her Days in Exile, and in an Infidel Country, till Death deliver’d her, on the 10th of February,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30457750_0691.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
