'wherein is manifested that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their conquests to the valour of the English, under whose protection the poor distrressed states have exalted themselves to the title of high and mighty.' In 1669 he attacked Sir Thomas Culpeper the younger's [see under Culpeper, Sir Thomas, the elder] tract on 'Usury' in a splenetic pamphlet, declaiming against luxury, foreign goods, and the high wages of English labourers as the real causes of the prevailing misery. Manley next year published his abridgment of the last two volumes of Coke, i.e. parts xii and xiii., as a supplement to Trottman's work and on the same method. The most interesting of his non-professional publications belongs, on his own statement, to 1671, though its character and the circumstances of the time delayed its publication until be could dedicate it to 'William Henry, Prince of Orange, and to the Great Convention of the Lords and Commons.' It is entitled 'The Present State of Europe briefly examined and found languishing, occasioned by the greatness of the French Monarchy,' 1689, 4to, and its immediate occasion, he asserts, was the vote of 800,000l. nominally for the equipment of a fleet for 1671. In Manley's view instant and aggressive war upon France could alone save Europe from the despotism which Louis XIV meditated, and as a proof of Louis's real feelings towards England, he appealed to the threatened invasion by France when the Dutch war-ships were in the Thames. The work was reprinted in vol. i. of the 'Harleian Miscellany' (1744 and and 1808). In 1676 he published a short tract against the export of English wool. His appendix to the seventh edition of Wentworth's 'Office and Duty of Executors' appeared the same year. Manley gave considerable aid to the movement, which received its impetus from James I, for the use of English instead of Latin in legal literature. An anonymous and undated funeral sermon, 'Death Unstung,' assigned to Manley, is not his, and the 'Lives of Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Mary, Princess of Grange,' 1661, by T. M., is also assigned to Thomas May (1595–1650) [q. v.]
[Manley's Works.]
MANLOVE, EDWARD (fl. 1667), poet, a lawyer residing at Ashbourne in Derbyshire, published a rhymed chronicle of the ‘Liberties and Customs of the Lead Mines … composed in meeter’ for the use of the miners, London, 1653, 4to. It became a standard work of reference on the subject, being largely composed from the ‘Exchequer Rolls’ and from inquisitions taken in the various reigns (see Hist. of Ashbourn, 1839, pp. 90 sq.). From the title-page of the poem it is clear that Manlove filled the post of steward of barmote courts of the wapentake of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. An edition, to which is affixed a glossary of the principal mining and other obsolete terms used in the poem, was published by T. Tapping in 1851. In 1667 Manlove published ‘Divine Contentment; or a Medicine for a Discontented Man: a Confession of Faith; and other Poems’ (London, 8vo). A manuscript volume of ‘Essayes and Contemplations, Divine, Morall, and Miscellaneous, in prose and meter, by M[ark] H[ildesly],’ grandfather of Bishop Mark Hildesly [q. v.], and other members of Lincoln's Inn, dated 1694, was addressed by the editor to his friend ‘Philanthropus,’ i.e. Manlove (Harl. MS. 4726). The poet's son, Timothy Manlove, is separately noticed.
[Add. MS. 24188. f. 176 (Hunter's Chorus Vatum); Cat. of Harleian MSS.; Glover's Hist. of Derbyshire, vol. i. App. p. 108; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn); Works in British Museum Library.]
MANLOVE, TIMOTHY (d. 1699), presbyterian divine and physician, probably grandson of Edward Manlove [q. v.] the poet, was born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He was ordained at Attercliffe, near Sheffield, on 11 Sept. 1688, and his first known settlement was in 1691, at Pontefract, Yorkshire, where he was very popular. In 1694 he was invited to the charge of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, and removed thither with some reluctance. His ministry at Leeds was able, but not happy. He succeeded a minister of property, and his own requirements were not met by the stipend raised. He obtained some private practice as a physician, and has been called M.D., but Thoresby describes him as ‘Med. Licent.’ At first on good terms with Ralph Thoresby the antiquary, he quarrelled with him on the subject of nonconformity. He removed in 1699 to Newcastle-on-Tyne as assistant to Richard Gilpin, M.D. [q. v.], and, when ‘newly gone’ thither, ‘dyed of a feaver’ on 4 Aug. 1699, in the prime of life, and was buried on 5 Aug. A funeral sermon, entitled ‘The Comforts of Divine Love,’ was published by Gilpin in 1700.
He published: 1. ‘The Immortality of the Soul asserted. … With … Reflections on a … Refutation of … Bentley's “Sermon,”’ &c., 1697, 8vo (against Henry Layton [q. v.]). 2. ‘Præparatio Evangelica … Discourse concerning the Soul's Preparation for a Blessed Eternity,’ &c. 1698, 8vo. William Tong classes Manlove with Baxter for his ‘clear, weighty way of writing.’
