After the battle at Cheriton Down, March 29, 1614, Lord Hoptou drew on his army to Basing House, and Fuller, being left there by him, animated the garrison to so vigorous a defence of that place, that Sir William Waller was obliged to raise the siege with cousider able loss. But the war coming to an end, and part of the king's army being driven iuto Cornwall under Lord Hopton, Fuller, with the permission of that nobleman, tcok refuge at Exeter, where he resumed his studies, and preached constantly to the citizens. During his residence at Exeter he was appoluted chaplain to the infant princess, Henrietta Maria, who was born at Exeter in June 1643. He continued his attendance on the princess till the aurreuder of Exeter to the parliament, in April 1696. He is said to have written or finished his 'Good Thoughts in Bad Times' at Exeter, where the book was published in 1645, 16mo : and also, Good Thoughts in Worse Times,' published in 1647. On the garrisou being forced to eurrender, he, being "weak in health and dejected iu spirits," retired for awhile to the residence of the Countess of Rutlaud, at Boughton, near Northampton; where, by way of mcdiciue for his mental weak ness, he wrote his Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience.' At the end of a few months he returned to London, where, though he found his lectureship at the Savoy filled by another, be preached wherever his services were permitted. After a time he appears to have delivered regularly a week-day lecture at St. Clemeut'a, near Lombard-street, and at St. Bride's, Fleet-street. In 1647 he pub lished, in 4to, a Sermon of Assurance, fourteen years ago preached at Cambridge, since in other places, now by the importuuity of his friends exposed to public view.' He dedicated it to Sir John Danvers, who had been a royalist, was then au Oliverian, and next year one of the king'e judges ; and in the dedication he says, that " it had been the pleasure of the preseut authority to make him mute, forbiddiug him, till further order, the exercise of his public preaching." Not withstanding his being thus silenced, he was, about 1648, preeeuted to the rectory of Waltham Abbey, in Essex, by the Fail of Carlisle, and there, after having undergone the customary ordeal of the ' Triers,' he was permitted to preach undisturbed. lu 1648 he published his 'Holy State,' folio, Cambr. His Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament, acted thereon,' was published, fol. Loud. 1650, and reprinted iu 1662.
At this period he was still employed upon his Worthies.' In 1651 he published his Abel Redivivus, or the Dead yet Speakiug ; the Lives and Deaths of the Modern Divines,' Lend. 4to. In the two or three following years he priuted several sermons and tracts upou religious subjects: The Infant's Advocate,' 8vo, Lend. 1653 ; Per fection and Peace, a Sermon,' 4to, Loud. 1653; 'A Comment on Ruth, with two Sermons,' 8vo, Lend. 1651 ; A Triple Recon ciler,' 8vo, Lend. 1654. About this last year he took as a second.
wife a sister of the Viscount Baltinglaase. In 1655, notwithstanding Cromwell's prohibition of all persons from preaching or teaching school who had been adherents to the late king, he continued preach ing and exerting his charitable disposition towards those ministers who were ejected, as well as towards others. lu 1655 he published
in folio The Church History of Britaiu, from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year sinextassit.; to which he subjoiued 'The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest,' and The History of Waltham Abbey, in Essex, fouuded by Kiug Harold.' The Church History was animadverted upou by Dr. Peter Heylyn iu his Examen Histericurn; to which Fuller replied in his 'Appeal of Injured Innocence,' fol. Lend. 1659. It is said that Lord Berkeley, in 1653 or 1659, took him over to the Hague, and introduced him to Charles IL It is certain however that a abort time before the Resto ration he was re-admitted to his lecture in the Savoy, and on that event restored to his prebend of Salisbury. He was chosen chaplain extraordinary to the king ; and created D.D., at Cambridge, by a mandamus dated August 2, 1660. Upon his return from Salisbury, in August 1661, he was attacked by a severe fever, then very pre valent, and known as "the new disease," of which he died on the 16th of that month. Hia funeral was attended by at least two hundred of his brethren of the ministry. He was buried in his church of Cranford, on the north wall of the chaucel of which his monument is still remaining. His 'History of the Worthies of England,' was not published till after his death, fol. Lond.1662 : it has been more than once reprinted ; the beat modern edition is that issued from the Oxford University press in 6 vole. 8vo, 1845, under the editorial care of the Rev. J. S. Brewer.
Besides the works already mentioned, Fuller was the author of several others of a smaller kind. 'Joseph's Parti-coloured Coat,' a comment on Chap. xi. of the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, with eight sermons, 4to, Loud. 1640. 'Andronicue, or the Unfortunate Politician,' 12mo, Lund. 1616. 'A Comment on the eleven first verses of the fourth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, con cerning Christ's Temptations,' Lend. 1652; 'Ephemeris Parliftmen taria,' foL 1654, and re-issued with new title* in 1658 and 1660.
' Mixt Contemplations in Better Times,' 12Ino, Lend. 1660. ' Ornitho !ogle : or the Speech of Birds; also the speech of Flowers, partly moral, tartly mystical.' 12mo, 1660 ; besides a 'Collection of Sermons,' 1657 ; and various single sermons, ' Paoegyrick to His Majeety on his Happy Return,' 4to, 1660, secs In 1651 he published Dr. Holds worth's' Valley of Vision,' with a preface. A specimen of his Latin composition, iu what is called 'An Eccho,' occurs in the first book of 'Ayres and Dialogues, for one, two, and three Vass cm, by Henry Lewes, foL Load. 1653. Fuller was a man of great origivality; of wit so exuberant as to colour every page of his writiuge, and yet thoroughly genial, gentle, sod natural ; and with a lively imagination he 'leaps displays great shrewdness, discrimination, comprehensive ness of thought, durum of vision, and freedom from prejudice. His personal character appears to have been in every respect admirable.
(L•fe of Dr. Thomas Fuller, 12mo, Lend. 1661; tfiogr. Briton., vol. hi. 2049.69 ; Russell. Memorials of Thomas Puller; and Life of Thomas Fuller in Knight's Cabinet Portrait Gallery, voL vii.)