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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Oxenden, Henry

​OXENDEN or OXINDEN, HENRY (1609–1670), poet, eldest son of Richard Oxinden (1588–1629), of Little Maydekin in Barham, Kent, by Katherine, daughter of Sir Adam Sprakeling of Canterbury, was born in the parish of St. Paul's, Canterbury, on 18 Jan. 1609. Sir Henry Oxinden (d. 1620) of Dene in Wingham, in the same county, was his grandfather (Denton Register; cf. Gent. Mag. 1796, i. 466); and Sir Henry Oxenden (d. 1686), who was M.P. for Sandwich in 1660, and who was created a baronet on 8 May 1678, and Sir George Oxenden [q. v.], governor of Bombay, were his first cousins (see Hasted, Kent, iii. 696). He matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 10 Nov. 1626, and graduated B.A. 1 April 1627. He was appointed rector of Radnage in Buckinghamshire in 1663, and held that benefice until his death in June 1670. He was buried on 17 June at Denton in Kent. He married, first, on 28 Dec. 1632, Anne (d. 1640), daughter of Sir Samuel Peyton, by whom he had a son Thomas, baptised on 27 Feb. 1633; secondly, on 15 Sept. 1642, Katherine (d. 1698), daughter of James Cullen, by whom he left no male issue.
​Oxinden was author of:
* ‘Religionis Funus et Hypocritæ Finis,’ 1647, 4to. A satirical poem upon the growth of mushroom sects, in Latin hexameters, to which is prefixed an engraved head of the author.
* ‘Jobus Triumphans,’ 1651, sm. 8vo, a poem of similar character to the foregoing, but of much greater merit. It has commendatory verses by Alex Ross, William Nethersole of the Inner Temple, and others. The author was much flattered by a report that this poem was read in foreign schools.
* ‘Εἰκὼν βασιλικὴ; or an Image Royal,’ 1660, 12mo.
* ‘Charles Triumphant: a Poem,’ 1660, 12mo.
He also indited an epitaph in English verse on Sir Anthony and Dame Gertrude Perceval (this is printed from the tombstone in Denton Church in Brydges's ‘Censura Literaria,’ x. 25), and prefixed some commendatory verses to Ross's ‘Muses Interpreter’ (1653).
[Archæologia Cantiana, vi. 276–283, where are given Oxinden's arms and seal, with some directions respecting his funeral, and a pedigree of the family of Oxenden or Oxinden; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 923; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Hunter's Chorus Vatum, vi. f. 111, in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 24492; Brydges's Censura Lit. x. 359; Gent. Mag. 1796, i. 466; Lowndes's Bibliographer's Man. (Bohn), 1756; Granger's Biogr. Hist. of England, 1779, iv. 58.]
T. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cheyne, Jane

​CHEYNE, Lady Jane (1621–1669), dramatist, was the eldest daughter of William Cavendish, 'first duke of Newcastle [q.v.], by his first wife, Elizabeth, widow of Henry Howard, son of the Earl of Suffolk, and sole heiress to her father, William Bassett of Blore, Staffordshire. Lady Jane Cavendish was born in 1621, and passed her childhood at Welbeck. In 1643, her mother being just dead, and her father occuppied with the royalist army, she and one of her sisters were iveft in charge of a small garrison at Welbeck, and, after holding the place for some time, were taken prisoners and very roughly handled, notwithstanding which, when their gaoler was subsequently condemned to death, Lady Jane begged for his life. She tried in vain to get a pardon for her father during his exile; but she succeeded in getting favour shown to two of her brothers who had fled with him. She succeeded also in securing some the of tapestries and Vandycks after the despoiling of Welbeck and Bolsover. She sent her father 1,000l. of her own fortune derived from her grandmother, Lady Ogle, and sold her jewels and chamber-plate to get money for his support abroad. Being resolved not to marry into any non-royalist family, she remained single till 1654, w en she married Charles Cheyne [q. v.] (variously Chiene, Cheney, and Cheiney) of Cogenho, Northamptonshire, who bought Chelsea manor with her dowry in 1657, and they went to this new estate to reside (Faulkner, Chelsea, i. 829), In 1667 Lady Jane re-roofed Chelsea church at her sole cost, and her other gifts and charities made her much beloved. She had three children; became epileptic in 1668; died on 8 Oct. 1669, aged 48; and was buried in Chelsea church on 1 Nov. Her husband (created Viscount Newhaven some years atter her death) employed Bernini to execute the monument to her which still exists (ib. 219, 223).
Lady Jane Cheyne was a poetess, and she filled some volumes with pious meditations. A play, ‘The Concealed Fansyes,’ was written by her in conjunction with her sister, Lady Elizabeth, and is in manuscript in the Bodleian (Notes and Queries, 2nd series, x. 127, 15. 3rd series, iv. 506). Her works have not been published. Her portrait is in one of Diepenbeke’s illustrations of her father’s ‘Horsemanship,' 1658, and it is in the same artist’s frontispiece to her stepmother’s ‘Nature's Pictures,' 1656. A letter from Charles Cheyne, her husband, is in ‘Letters and Poems to the Newcastles,’ 1678 (p . 78, 79). Watt (Bibl. Brit.) calls this lady Eady Jean Hollis. Granger thinks she was with her father during part of his exile (Biog. Hist. iii. 309).
[Funeral Sermon, by Adam Littleton; Faulkner`s Chelsea; Life of Duke of Newcastle, by Margaret, his duchess, pp. 55, 90, 91, 105, 156; Wilford’s Memorials, pp. 112 et seq., Appendix, pp. 3, 4.]
J. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cheyney, John

1904 Errata appended.
​CHEYNEY, JOHN (fl. 1677), writer against quakerism, is believed to have been at one time an episcopalian clergyman, and to have succeeded Samuel Mather at Burton Wood, near Warrington, in 1671. In August 1694, however, he preached before the Cheshire meeting of united brethren (presbyterians and congregationalists) at Knutsford, and in 1676 he had a dispute, which resulted in a shower of pamphlets, with Roger Haydock, a quaker. His works show him to have been a bitter and unscrupulous controversialist. He was son-in-law to Samuel Eaton, presbyterian minister at Stand, Lancashire, who died in 1710. He wrote: 1. 'A Skirmish made upon Quakerism,' &c., 1676. 2. 'The Shibboleth of Quakerism.' 3. 'Quakerism proved to be gross Blasphemy and Antichristian Heresie,' 1677. 4. 'A Call to Prayer,' 1677. 6. 'Quakerism subverted,' 1677. 6. 'A Warning to Souls to beware of Quakers and Quakerism.' 7. 'A Vindication of Oaths and Swearing in weighty Cases,' &c., 1677. 8. 'Justification of the Dissenters,' &c., 1705.
[Smith's Catalogue of Friends' Books; Cheyney's and Haydock's Works; manuscript information communicated by Rev. Alex. Gordon; Some short Account or Brief Hints of . . . the several Meetings of the Cheshire Ministers, 1691.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cheyne, Henry

​CHEYNE or LE CHEN, HENRY (d. 1328), bishop of Aberdeen, was the nephew of John Comyn, lord of Badenoch, killed by Robert Bruce in 1306, and the brother of Sir Reginald le Chen, baron of Inverugie, and great chamberlain of Scotland. He succeeded Hugh de Benham, or Benhyem [q. v.], bishop of Aberdeen, who died in 1282, but the date of his election is not known. He was one of the prelates who attended the parliament at Brigham, near Roxburgh, on 17 March 1289. On 23 Feb. 1295 his seal was attached to the treaty between John Baliol and the French. In 1291 he swore fealty to Edward I at Berwick-on-Tweed, which oath he repeated in 1296 at Aberdeen, and afterwards at Berwick and he was one of Edward's guardians of the sheriffdom of Aberdeen in 1297. On 24 Feb. 1309 he attended a great meeting of the clergy held at Dundee, whence they issued their declaration in favour of Robert Bruce, and on 29 Oct. he attested the treaty concluded at Inverness between Bruce and the ambassadors of the king of Norway. These imdoubted facts seem to contradict the statement of Boece, that the bishop after the death of Comyn fled to England with others of that faction when fortune declared for Bruce. If he did flee to England, it must have been at a subsequent date; and the offence which required the formal restitution to the royal favour granted to him by parliament on 18 Dec. 1318 was probably connected with the sending of the papal bull to Bruce commanding a truce for two years between Scotland and England. According to tradition the bishop applied the rents which had accumulated during his absence from his see in building the Gothic bridge with one arch over the Don at Baldownie, near Aberdeen but according to the charter of Sir Alexander Hay in 1605, bequeathing an annual sum for its support, the bridge was erected at the order and expense of King Robert, although it is possible he applied the rents of the bishopric to this purpose. The death of Cheyne occurs in the church register in 1328 but Boece, apparently for rhetorical effect places it in the following year, 1329. 'Qui annus,' he says, 'erat Roberto regi vitæ ultimus.'
[Acta Pari. Scot. vol. i.; Ragman Roll; Boece Vit. Pont. Aberd.; Keith's Scottish Bishops (Russell), pp. 109-10; Registmm Episcopatiis Aberdonensis (Maitland Club), 1845, i. preface, pp. zxvi-xxviii, ii. 278; Fasti Aberdonenses (Spalding Club).]
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cheyne, Charles

1904 Errata appended.
​CHEYNE or CHIENE, CHARLES, Viscount Newhaven (1624?–1698), son of Francis Chiene of Cogenho, descended from an old Northamptonshire family, and of Anne, daughter of Sir William Fleetwood, was born about 1624. He succeeded his father in 1644. He married Lady Jane Cavendish [see Cheyne, Lady Jane], eldest daughter and coheiress of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle [q. v.], with whom he obtained an immense fortune. With her dowry Cheyne purchased from the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton the estate of Chelsea in 1657, and the manor of the same in 1660, disposing at the time of his paternal estate of Cogenho. He was chosen member of parliament for Agmondisham in 1660, and created a Scotch peer by the style of Viscount Newhaven and Lord Chiene on 17 May 1681. As a Scotch peer he was eligible for election to parliament, and was chosen member for Newport, Cornwall, in 1696. He made the manor of Chelsea his principal residence, and did much to promote the improvement of the district. His own mansion house he extended and embellished, introducing the latest inventions for comfort and convenience. Evelyn narrates in his 'Diary:' 'I made my Lord ​Cheney, a visit at Chelsea, and saw those ingenious waterworks invented by Mr. Winstanley, wherein were some things very surprising and extraordinary.' Cheyne died on 30 June 1698, and was interred at Chelsea, where in the parish church is a monument to his memory. His first wife dying in 1669, he remarried after 1686 Isabella, widow of John Roberts, first earl of Radnor. By his first wife he left one son, William, who succeeded him, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Catharine.
William, second viscount, born in 1667, was M.P. for Buckinghamshire under Anne, lord-lieutenant of the county in 1712, and was removed from that office on George I's accession in 1714. He sold the manor of Chelsea to Sir Hans Sloane in 1712, but several streets are still called after his family. With his death, 14 Dec. 1738, the peerage became extinct.
[Nisbet's Heraldry, i. 220; Faulkner's Chelsea, i. 331-9 and passim; Burke's Extinct Peerage.]
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| | | 8 f.e. | after for insert Harwich in 1690 and |
| 217 | | 14 | for Buckinghamshire under Queen Anne read Agmondisham 1685-7, 1701-2, and 1705-9, Appleby 1689-95, and Buckinghamshire 1696-1701 and 1702-5 |
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cheyne, James

​CHEYNE, JAMES (d. 1602), philosopher and mathematician, was son of the laird of Arnage or Amagies in Aberdeenshire, who belonged to an ancient Scottish family. After having learned grammar and philosophy in the university of Aberdeen he studied divinity under John Henderson, a famous theologian, with whom at the period of the Reformation he withdrew to France. He had previously been ordained priest. For some time he taught philosophy in the college of St. Barbe in Paris, whence he proceeded to the Scotch college at Douay, where he was ​ professor of philosophy and mathematics. Subsequently he was made rector of the Scotch college. He was also grand penitentiary and canon of the cath al church of Tournai, and according to one account he was a canon of St. Quentin (Hemorræus, De dec. et canon. S. Quintini, 68, cited by Tanner). He died on 27 Oct. 1602, and was buried in the cathedral of Tournai under a marble monument, with a Latin inscription. Thomas Dempster, who was his scholar at Douay for three years, describes him as a person of singular learning, great probity, candour, and sweetness of disposition. His works are: 1. ‘De priore Astronomiæ parte, seu De Sphæra, libri duo,’ Douay, 575, 8vo. Dedicated to Louis de Berlaymont, archbishop and duke of Cambrai. 2. ‘De Sphæræ seu Globi Cœlestis Fabrica brevis præceptio,' Douay, 1575, 8vo. 3. ‘Orationes rhetoricæ, Douay, 1576, 8vo. 4. ‘De Geographia libri duo, Douay, 1576, 8vo. 5. ‘Anaysis et scholia in Aristotelis xiv libros de prima et divina philosophia,’ Douay, 1578, 8vo; Hanover, 1607. 6. ‘Succincta in Physiologiam Aristotelicam Analysis,’ Paris, 1580, 8vo. Dedicated to Mary Queen of Scots. 7. ‘Scholæ duæ de perfecto philosopho, et de prædictionibus astrologorum,’ Douay, 1587, 8vo. 8. ‘Analysis in logicam, physicam, et ethicam Aristote1is,’ printed at Paris according to Dempster. 9. ‘Analysis in Aristotelis metaphysicam.’ 10. ‘De audibus philosophiæ.'
[Dempster’s Hist. Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum (1829), i. 193; Mackenzie’s Writers of the Scots Nation, iii. 447; Conæus, De duplici statu Religionis apud Scotos, 167; Tanner’s Bibl. Brit. 176.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Marchi, Giuseppe Filippo Liberati

​MARCHI, GIUSEPPE FILIPPO LIBERATI (1735?–1808), painter and engraver, was born in the Trastevere quarter of Rome, and there, when at the age of fifteen, came under the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he accompanied to England in 1752. He studied in the St. Martin's Lane Academy, and became Reynolds's most trusted assistant, being employed to set his palette, paint his draperies, make copies, and sit for attitudes. The first picture painted by Reynolds when he settled in London was a portrait of young Marchi in a turban, which was much admired at the time, and engraved by J. Spilsbury in 1761; it is now the property of the Royal Academy. Marchi did not reside with Reynolds until 1764, when the following entry occurs in one of the latter's diaries: 'Nov. 22, 1764. Agreed with Giuseppe Marchi that he should live in my house and paint for me for one half-year from this day, I agreeing to give him fifty pounds for the same.' Marchi took up mezzotint engraving, and from 1766 to 1775 exhibited engravings, as well as an occasional picture with the Society of Artists, of which he was a member. His plates, which, though not numerous, are of excellent quality, include portraits of Miss Oliver (1767), Miss Cholmondeley (1768), Mrs. Bouverie and Mrs. Crewe (1770), Oliver Goldsmith (1770), Mrs. Hartley (1773), and George Colman (1773), all after Reynolds, and that of Princess Czartoriska (1777), from a picture by himself. Marchi was a clever copyist, but did not succeed in original portraiture; he tried at one time to establish himself at Swansea, but soon returned to the service of Sir Joshua, with whom he remained until the painter's death. Subsequently he was much employed in cleaning and restoring paintings by Reynolds work for which his intimate knowledge of the artist's technical methods ​well qualified him. Marchi died in London on 2 April 1808, aged 73.
[Gent. Mag. 1808, i. 372; Northcote's Memoir of Sir J. Reynolds, 1813; Leslie and Taylor's Life and Times of Sir J. Reynolds, 1865; J. Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits; Society of Artists' Catalogues.]
F. M. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Marckant, John

1904 Errata appended.
​MARCKANT, JOHN (fl. 1562), was one of the contributors to the Sternhold and Hopkins Metrical Psalter of 1562. He was inducted vicar of Clacton-Magna, 31 Aug. 1559, and was vicar of Shopland, Essex, 1563-8 (Newcourt). His contributions to the Psalter were the 118th, 131st, 132nd, and 135th Psalms. These, being at first merely initialed 'M.,' have been conjecturally attributed to John Mardeley [q. v.] (Brydges, Censura Literaria, vol. x.; Holland, Psalmists of Britain, i. 136, &c.), but the name is given in full, 'Marckant,' in 1565, and in later editions, as in that of 1606, is sometimes printed 'Market.' The same remarks apply to 'The Lamentation of a Sinner' ('Oh! God, turn not Thy face away,' afterwards altered by Reginald Heber), and 'The Humble Sute of a Sinner,' both also marked 'M.' in the 1562 Psalter. In St. John's College, Oxford, is a broadside ballad, attributed by Dr. Bliss to Marckant: 'Of Dice, Wyne, and Women,' London (by William Griffith), 1571. Further, three publications, entered in the 'Stationers' Registers,' are there assigned to Marckant, viz. 'The Purgation of the Ryght Honourable Lord Wentworth concerning the Crime layd to his Charge, made the 9 Januarie 1558;' 'A New Yeres Gift, intituled With Spede Retorne to God, and Verses to Diuerse Good Purposes,' licensed to Thomas Purforte 3 Nov. 1580. None of these are now known, although the last is noticed in Herbert's edition of Ames's 'Typ. Antiq.,' 1316.
[Newcourt's Repertorium, ii. 153; Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, s.v. 'Old Psalters;' Livingstone's Reprint of 1635 Scottish Psalter, Glasgow, 1864, pp. 27, 70; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. iii. 144; Collier's Stationers' Company Reg. i. 22, 102, ii. 128.]
J. C. H.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Marchant, Nathaniel

​MARCHANT, NATHANIEL (1739–1816), gem-engraver and medallist, was born in Sussex in 1739. He became a pupil of Edward Burch, R. A. [q. v.], and in 1766 was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. He went to Rome in 1773, and remained there till 1789, studying antique gems and sculpture. He sent impressions from ancient intaglios to the Royal Academy from 1781 to 1785, and was an exhibitor there till 1811. He was elected associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, and academician in 1809. He was also a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of the Academies at Stockholm and at Copenhagen. He was appointed assistant-engraver at the Royal Mint in 1797, and held the office till 1815, when he was superannuated (Rudding, Annals, i. 45; Numismatic Journal, ii. 18). The portrait of George III on the 3s. bank token was engraved by Marchant from a model taken by him from life. Marchant died in Somerset Place, London, in April 1816, aged 77. His books, which related chiefly to the fine arts, were sold by Cochrane in London on 13 and 14 Dec. 1816.
Marchant had a high and well-merited reputation as a gem-engraver. His productions are intaglios, and consist of portraits from the life, and of heads, figures, and groups in the antique style. King praises the delicacy of his work, but remarks that it was done with the aid of a powerful magnifier, and that consequently it is often too minute for the naked eye. Merchant's signature is 'Marchant' and 'Marchant F. Romee.' He published by subscription, in 1792, 'A Catalogue of one hundred Impressions from Gems engraved by Nathaniel Marchant,' London, 4to, to accompany a selection of casts of his intaglios. A number of his works are described in Raspe's 'Tassie Catalogue' (see the Index of Engravers). Various intaglios by him are in the British Museum, but many of his choicest pieces were made for the Marlborough cabinet, and among these may be mentioned his 'Hercules restoring Alcestis to Admetus,' a commission from the elector of Saxony, and a present from him to the Duke of Marlborough. The duke sometimes specially sent fine stones to Rome to be engraved by Marchant. The prince regent (George IV) appointed Marchant his engraver of gems. King mentions as one of his best performances an engraving on a brown sard of two female figures, one reclining on a sofa. For this Marchant is said to have received two hundred guineas.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; King's Antique Gems and Rings, i. 446-7; Nagler's Künstler-Lexikon; Gent. Mag. 1816, pt. i. p. 377; Marchant's Sale Cat. of Books, London, 1816, 8vo.]
W. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mardisley, John

​MARDISLEY, JOHN (d. 1386?), Franciscan, was probably a native of Yorkshire. He incepted as D.D. of Oxford before 1355. In this year he disputed in the chancellor's schools at York in defence of the Immaculate Conception against the Dominican, William Jordan. His manner of disputation gave offence to his opponents, but the chapter of York issued letters testifying to his courteous behaviour. In 1374 he was summoned with other doctors to a council at Westminster, over which the Black Prince and the Archbishop of Canterbury presided. The subject of discussion was the right of England to refuse the papal tribute. The spiritual counsellors 'advised submission to ​the pope. The old argument about the two swords was used. Mardisley retorted with the text, 'Put up again thy sword into his place,' and denied the pope's claim to any temporal dominion. The next day the papal party yielded. Mardisley about this time became twenty-fifth provincial minister of the English Franciscans, but had ceased to hold the office in 1380. According to Bale, he died in 1386 and was buried at York.
[Tanner's Bibliotheca, p. 509; Monumenta Franciscana, vol. i.; Eulogium Historiarum, iii. 337-8; Engl. Hist. Review, October 1891.]
A. G. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Marcuard, Robert Samuel

​MARCUARD, ROBERT SAMUEL (1751–1792?), engraver, was born in England in 1751 and became a pupil of Bartolozzi, whose manner he successfully followed, working entirely in stipple. Between 1778 and 1790 he produced many good plates after Cipriani, A. Kauffmann, W. Hamilton, W. Peters, T. Stothard, and others; also portraits of Francesco Bartolozzi and Ralph Milbank (both after Reynolds), Major Francis Pierson, and Cagliostro. Marcuard died about 1792.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Dodd's Memoirs of English Engravers, Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 33403.]
F. M. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mardeley, John

​MARDELEY, JOHN (fl. 1548), was clerk of the mint (Suffolk House, Southwark) under Edward VI (Ruding, Annals of the Coinage, i. 53), and was the author of: 1. 'Here is a shorte Resytal of certayne Holy Doctours whych proveth that the naturall Body of Christ is not conteyned in the Sacrament of the Lordes Supper but fyguratyvely.' 'In myter, by Jhon Mardeley,' London, 12mo,' published 1540-50?; partly written in 'Skeltonic ' metre (Collier, Bibliograph. Account, i. 515-16). 2. 'Here beginneth a necessary instruction for all covetous ryche men,' &c., London, 1547-53? 3. 'A ruful Complaynt of the publyke weale to Englande,' London, about 1547, 4to, in four-line stanzas. 4. 'A declaration of the power of God's Worde concerning the Holy Supper of the Lord' (against the 'maskynge masse'), London, 'compyled 1548.' This is in prose; after the dedication to Edward, duke of Somerset, occurs 'A complaynt against the styffnecked' in verse. Some verse translations in the Psalter of 1562 signed ' M.' and attributed by Haslewood to Mardeley are by John Marckant [q. v.] Bale credits Mardeley with earlier verse - translations of twenty-four psalms and with religious hymns (Script. 106).
[Authorities cited above; Warton's Hist, of Engl. Poetry, iv. 151, ed. Hazlitt; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. i. 374, iii. 114; Hazlitt's Handbook.]
W. W.