was to be divorced from the said King this our Author Forest shew'd himself a zealous Enemy against it and in few Years after when the King was intent to eject the Pope and his power from England he out of a passionate zeal which he had for the Catholick Religion did in secret confession declare to many of the King's Subjects that the King was not Supreme Head of the Church whereas before he had been sworn to the said Supremacy These matters coming to the knowledg of the King's Council he was examined by certain Persons appointed by them to whom he made answer that he took the Oath with his outward man but his inward man never consented thereunto Afterwards being further accused of divers heretical Opinions as they were then called he submitted himself to the punishment of the Church So that his abjuration being sent to him to be read he utterly refused it Whereupon his confinement in the Prison called Newgate being made more close these Verses were wrot on him by a Protestant Forest the Fryer that obstinate Lyer That willfully will be dead Incontinently the Gospel doth denye The King to be Supreme Heade About the same time he took a great deal of pains in writing a Book whether in English or Latin I know not entit by Latin Writers De autoritate Ecclesiae Pontificis Maximi The beginning of which is this Nemo sibi sumat honorem nisi fuerit vocatus à Deo tanquam Aaron c. In which Book he inveighed much against the pride and impiety of the King because that without any call he did not scruple to intitle himself The Head of the Church of England and to take upon him that which he was not capable of whereas if he had thought himself a true Member of the Cath. Church he should have given God thanks that he was so and to have rested therein without endeavouring to tear it to pieces c. The contents of this Book which was ready for the Press but whether ever printed in England I cannot tell coming to the knowledge of certain inquisitors and at length to the Kings ear he was forthwith condemned to dye and having some days allowed him to make his peace with God and all Men he wrot Several Letters Some of which I have seen printed in Latin as first His Answer to the Letter which Qu. Catherine sent to him 2 An answer to the Letter written to him by Elizab. Hammon Maid of honour to the said Queen 3 Answer to the Letter of Tho. Abell who was executed two Years after for denying the King's Supremacy with several others which he wrot to comfort the afflicted Catholicks At length being drawn upon a Sledge from his Prison to Smithfield where a pair of Gallows was set up to receive him he was hanged thereon by the middle and arm-pits quick and under the Gallows a Fire being made he was burnt and utterly consum'd to ashes year 1538 May in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight aged 60 and in the 43 Year of his professed and religious estate At the time he was to suffer and before he went up the Ladder Hugh Latymer B. of Worcester did from a Pulpit set up there near to the Gallows Preach a Sermon purposely to move him to repentance but all availed nothing He had then several discourses with that Bishop which were verbatim taken by some of the Brethren of his order In conclusion Latymer asked him what state he would die in Whereupon Forest with a loud voice answered if an Angel should come down from heaven to teach him any other Doctrine than he had received and believed from his Youth be would not now believe him and that if his body should be cut joint after joint or member after member burnt hanged or what pain soever might be done to his body he would never turn from his old profession c. and added that seven years past he Latymer durst not have made such a Sermon for his life This being said he was conducted from the place where he stood which was erected above the People to the Gallows and there suffered ANTHONY FITZHERBERT whose great Learning in the Wisdom of the Law both the judicial Court of Pleas wherein he sate Justice a long time and also those exact Books of our Common Law by him exquisitely penn'd and publish'd do sufficiently Witness was born of being the Son of Ralph Fitzherbert Esq and descended from a right Ancient Family living at Norbury in Derbyshire laid a Foundation of Learning in this University on which he built a firm structure in after times but in what House here or in what Inn of Court afterwards it appears not Sure it is that having made a most fruitful progress in his Studies he was constituted Serjeant at Law 18. Nov. 2. Hen. 8. Dom. 1510 one of the Kings Serjeants six Years after being about that time made a Knight and in 1522. one of the Justices of the Common-pleas and not of the Kings-bench as one doth falsely report In which place carrying himself with great prudence justice and knowledge became at length the Oracle of the Law and was admired by all for his profundity in it His works are Grand abridgment of the common Law contained in the Year Books and other Books of Law Readings and Records Lond. 1516. 1565. fol. afterwards in qu. divided into several parts or vol. From which abridgment and others Rich Bellew of Lincolns Inn did collect cases adjudged in the time of K. Rich. 2. A Calender or Index See in Will. Rast all Magna charta cum diversis aliis statut is Lond. 1519. in 12. Office and authority of Justices of Peace Lond. 1547. and 63. qu. enlarged by Rich. Crompton Esq Lond. 1583. qu. c. Office of Sheriffs Bayliffs Escheators Constables Coroners c. Printed several times with the former Of the diversity of courts Compiled 21. H. 8. So Sir Edw. Coke in his Reports Vol. 10. in the Proem Natura Brevium Novel Printed at Lond. 26. Hen. 8. and afterwards several times in oct and qu. corrected and revised with a Table added by Will. Rastall Printed also several times in French in oct c. The same is also translated into English and hath added thereunto the authorities in Law and some other Cases and Notes c. See more in Will. Rastall under the Year 1565. This Natura Brevium is esteemed an exact work excellently well penn'd and hath been much admired by the noted Men in the common Law Of the surveving of Lands Lond. 1567. The Book of Husbandry very profitable and necessary for all Persons Printed in the Reign of Queen Mary and in the beginning of Queen Eliz. This Book I have seen more than once under Anth. Fitzherberts name yet there are not wanting some who say 't was penn'd by his Brother Job Fitzherbert This famous Lawyer Ant. Fitzherbert who had been an enemy to Card. Wolsey paid his last debt to nature in
kept in the School-Tower among the Books and Records of the said University The second Vol. which is written on Paper begins about the latter end of the 24. Hen. 7. Dom. 1508 and is continued to 1597 and hath added to it certain Epistles of a later date This Book endorsed with the Letters F F was borrowed from the School-Tower by Dr. Tho. James the first Keeper of the Bodleian Library who afterwards putting it into the Archives thereof did enter it as a Manuscript belonging thereunto into the Bodleian Catalogue of Books Printed in 4to An. 1620. The continuation of the University Epistles mostly Penn'd by the publick Orator are remitted into the Books of Acts of Convocation that follow F F. To pass by the Sentence or Opinion of the University of Oxon. concerning the divorce between King Henry 8. and Queen Catherine dated 8. Apr. 1530 and their Sentence in order to the expelling or ejecting the Popes Authority from England dat 24. July 1534. both which contain but little more matter than two Programma's I shall set down other things going under her name of a laterdate as An answer to the humble Petition of the Ministers of England desiring Reformation of certain Ceremonies and abuses in the Church Oxon. 1603. and 1604. in four or five Sheets in Quarto Decretum âamnans propositiones Neotericorum sive Jesuitarum sive Puritanorum aliorum cujuscunque generis Scriptorum dat 6. Jun. 1622. Oxon. 1622. in one Sheet in 4to see the full Citation of the said Decree and Propositions in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 327. Epistola ad reverendiss in Christo patrem D. Gul. Archipras Cantuar. dat 10. Nov. 1640. It was Printed at the end of the said Archb. Letter which he sent with divers MSS. to the University of Oxon. Humble Petition to the Parliament in behalf of Episcopacy and Cathedrals dat 24. Apr. 1641. Oxon. 1641. Printed in one Sheet in 4to as also on a broad side of a Sheet It was answer'd by a certain Anonymus but very sillily Epistola ad ampliss reverendiss D. Gul. Archipraes Cant. dat 6. Jul. 1641. It was Printed at the end of the said Archbishop's Letter by which he resign'd his Office of Chancellor of the University of Oxon. This Epistle was published by command of the Chief Members of the said University upon occasion of a base Libel and Forgery that was Printed by Anon. under the said title Oxon. 1641. in one Sheet and half Reasons of their present judgment concerning 1 The Solemn League and Covenant 2 The Negative Oath and 3 The Ordinances concerning Discipline and Worship approved by general consent in a full Convocation on the first of June 1647. Oxon. 1647. in five Sheets and half in 4to These Reasons which were for the most part drawn up by the Profound and Learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Coll. were afterwards translated into several Languages and published Answer to the Petition Articles of grievance and Reasons of the City of Oxon presented to the Committee for regulating the University of Oxford 24. July 1649. Oxon. 1649. and 1678. 4to This Answer was drawn up by Dr. Gerard Langbaine of Queens Coll. but published in the Name of the University of Oxon. The said Petition of the City of Oxon the general part of which were then Presbyterians or at least very Factious was for the diminishing and taking away several of the Liberties and Privileges of the University Judgment and Decree past in the Convocation 21. July 1683. against certain pernicious Books and damnable Doctrins destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government and of all Humane Society Printed at the Theatre in Oxon. in Latin and English in three Sheets in Folio 1683. Humble Address and Recognition Presented to His Sacred Majesty James 2. King of England c. according to an Act of Convocation bearing date 21. Feb. 1684 'T is Printed in Latin and English and was set before the Verses made by several Members of the University on the said Kings coming to the Crown of Great Britain Fol. The Case of shewing that the City of Oxford is not concern'd to oppose the Confirmation of their Charters by Parliament presented to the Honourable House of Commons 24 Jan. 1689. Oxon. 1690. in 2 Sheets in Fol. and in two and an half in 4 to drawn up by Ja. Harrington M. A. of Christ Church Judicium decretum latum in Convocatione habita Aug. 19. an 1690. contra propositiones quasdam impias haereticas exscriptas citatas ex libello quodam infami haud ita pridem intra dictam Academiam perfidè typis mandato ac divulgato eui tit est The naked Gospel Quae praecipua fidei nostrae mysteria in Ecclesia Catholica ac speciatim Anglicana semper retenta conservata impugnant ac labefactant Oxon. 1690. in two Sheets in Fol. This Book called The Naked Gospel was written by Arth. Bury D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll. and by him was first made publick in the beginning in Apr. of the same Year And tho it is said in the Title Page to be Printed at London yet it was really Printed at Oxon by virtue of his Authority as being then Pro-Vice-Chancellor But before Twenty Copies of it had been dispersed the Author by the persuasion of some of his Friends made certain alterations for the best as he thought in one or more Sheets in the middle of the said Book and thereupon several Copies so altered were exposed to sale yet in the Month of May following the remaining Copies of the Impression not alter'd were dispersed abroad The said Book was publickly Burnt in the School-quadrangle just after the said Decree had passed Whereupon about three dayes after the Author of it dispersed in Manuscript his Apology for writing the said Book called The Naked Gospel the beginning of which is this The design of the Book and the occasion of it were as followeth when the King had called a Convocation to reconcile as it was hoped to the Church of England the several Sects c. In which Apology the Author saith that certain Persons to him unknown got a Copy of the said Book unaltered and Printed it at London As for the several Books of Verses which were published on various occasions under the Name of the University of Oxon are not to be remembred here because the Names of all or at least most of the Persons that had composed Copies of Verses have their Names set at the end of them WILLIAM BEETH a Person Famous for his great knowledge in the Theological faculty was Educated from his Youth among the Dominicans commonly called Black-friers then noted in England and elsewhere for their Religion and Learning and in the prime of his Years obtained much of his Learning in the College or Convent belonging to that Order in the South Suburb of Oxon. In his middle Age he being then accounted by those of his Society a Person of
set before the History of Cambria which was translated into English by the said Lloyd and augmented corrected and published by Dav. Powell an 1584. The said Description of Cambria was Printed again at Oxon. 1663. in two sheets and an half in qu. under the title of A description of Wales but it doth so much differ in words from the former that many Readers are apt to take it for another thing Tractatus de Eucharistia This I have not yet seen only a bare mention of it by Baleus Nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that he died in Qu. Maries days But where or the particular Day Month or Year when I know not WILLIAM THOMAS a Welsh Man born or at least of Welsh extract was educated in all kind of learning fit for a Gentleman but what Degree he took I know not One of both his names was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law in the beginning of Dec. 1529. but whether the same I dare not yet affirm In 1544 he was constrained by some misfortune to abandon the place of his nativity and in Feb. 1546. when the news of the death of King Hen. 8. came into Italy he was at Bologna la Grassa where being in the company of several Gentlemen he entred into discourse in defence of the said King whose honor there had been wrongfully touched Which discourse he afterwards drew up by way of Dialogue directing it to Pietro Aretino the well known Thuscan Poet as famous for his Satyrical wit as infamous for his life and death Afterwards if not before he lived at Padöua where he gathered many materials for his Italian Dictionary and Grammar and in 1549 I meet with him returned to London where he wrot his short but methodical History of Italy About that time his name being highly fam'd for his travels through France and Italy his knowledge in several of the modern tongues and in other sorts of learning he was made Clerk of the Council to K. Ed. 6. but upon his death falling into the displeasure of Qu. Mary and so consequently depriv'd of his place and all hopes of other employment in the Court he thereupon designed her murther one saith that the design was against Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester for which he was sent Prisoner to the Tower of London on the 20. Feb. 1553. in the company of Will. Winter and Sir Nich. Throckmorton committed to that place also On the 26. of the same Month being much conscious to himself that he should suffer a shameful death he endeavour'd to make away with himself by thrusting a knife into his body under his paps but the wound did not prove mortal On the 9. of May 1554. he was arraigned and condemned at the Guild hall in Lond. and on the 18. of the same Month he was drawn from the Tower to Tyburn where after he had made a Speech in defence of himself he told the company that he died for his Country He was a Man of a hot fiery spirit had suck'd in damnable principles by his frequent conversation with Christoph Goodman that violent enemy to the rule of Women and one of more misguided zeal than true Religion and Wisdom This Will. Thomas hath written The History of Italy a Book exceeding profitable to be read because it intreateth of the estate of many and divers Common-wealths how they have been and now be governed Lond. 1561. qu. Dedic to John Earl of Warwick by an Epistle dated 20. Sept. 1549. Principle rules of the Italian Grammar with a Dictionary for the better understanding of Boccace Petrarcha and Dante Lond. 1550. 1567. qu. Le peregrynne written at Bologn la Grassa 'T is a MS. in Bod. Lib. qu. D. 23. Th. fol. 71. The beginning of it is Constrained by misfortune to habandon the place of my nativity c. In the title page are these Verses He that dyeth with honor lyveth for ever And the defamed dead recovereth never This Book called Le perigrynne is about to be translated into Lat. with a design to be remitted in the third Tome of Fasciculus collected by Edw. Brown of Christ's College in Cambridge Common place of state Written for the use of King Ed. 6. wherein 't is discoursed whether it be expedient to vary with the time with some others writings which I once saw in the Cottonian Library under Vespasians head D. 18 The title of this Book with other matters relating to Will. Thomas I did formerly communicate to H. Foulis when he was gathering materials for an History of the Romish treasons not dreaming then that I should afterwards make use of them as I have done now I am verily perswaded that there are in being other Books of this W. Thomas either publick or in MS. in private hands which time may hereafter produce So that now I shall only say that he suffer'd death at Tybourne before-mentioned by hanging drawing and quartering 18. May in Fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 leaving then behind him the character by some of a Person of good parts What became of his quarters I know not THOMAS SWINERTON was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Staffordshire but whether born in that County I cannot tell and educated partly in Cambridge but mostly in Oxon in all good arts and in the tongues Afterwards taking holy Orders he began to see the light of the Gospel while Sir Tho. More was Lord Chancellour of England in whose time many Hereticks as they were then called were imprison'd and brought into trouble Whereupon being resolved to gain what Proselytes he could to his Religion he changed his name to Joh. Roberts and under that name he not only taught God's word in several places chiefly at Ipswych in Suffolk and Sandwych in Kent but also published and translated several things as A muster of Schismatick Bishops otherwise naming themselves Popes Printed in oct The Plots of Papists entituled by a certain Author De Papiculorum susurris And translated into English The History of the life of Hildebrand called Gregory the 7. written in Latin by Beno a Cardinal and also The life of Hen 4. Emperour of Rome and Almaine Which Henry was imprison'd and deposed by the said Pope Both these translations were Printed in oct and much valued in the time when they were made extant When Qu. Mary came to the Crown and Religion thereupon altered our Author Thom. Swinerton fled beyond the Seas but being overtaken with a certain distemper at Emden in East Frisland in Fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 died and was there buried the same Year to the great reluctancy of all those exiles that were there and in those parts JOHN HOPER or Hooper noted to posterity for his manful and painful suffering of death for the Protestant Cause received his first breath in Somersetshire and his Academical Education in Oxon but in what House there unless in that of Merton I cannot yet tell He
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often ãâã of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâs delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
descended from the antient family of the Curwens of Wirkington in Cumberland was born in the Old Baily situated partly in the Parish of S. Sepulchre and partly in S. Martin near Ludgate in the said City on the second day of May 5. Edw. 6. Dom. 1551. When this most eminent person of whom I shall be more particular than of another author was a child he received the first knowledge of letters in Ch. Church hospital in London then newly founded for Blew-coated children where being fitted for Grammer learning he was sent to the Free-school founded by Dr. Colet near to S. Pauls Cathedral About which time 1563. he being infected with the Plague was sent to Islington where he remained for some time to the great loss of his learning In 1566. 8. Elizab. he was sent to Oxford and being placed in Madg. coll in the condition of a Chorister or Servitour did perfect himself in Grammer learning in the Free-School adjoyning then lately presided by D. Tho. Cââper afterwards Bishop of Linc. But missing as 't is said a Demies place of that coll tho of great desert and partly grounded in Logick he was transplanted to an antient hostle called Broadgates now Pembr coll where he continued two years and an half under the tuition of a great encourager of learning called Dr. Tho. Thornton canon of Ch. Ch. who finding our author to be a young man of great vertue and in him tokens of future worth he took him to Ch. Ch. and gave him entertainment in his Lodgings so long as he continued in the University About that time he being a candidate for a Fellowship in All 's coll lost it for desending the religion then established as Dr. afterwards Sir Dan. Donn at that time Fellow did several times testifie and would often relate how our said author Camden was opposed by the Popish party of that house In the month of June 1570. he supplicated the ven Congregation of Regents that whereas he had spent four years in the study of Logick he might he admitted Bach. of Arts but what answer was made thereunto or whether he was then admitted it appears not In 1571. he relinquished his conversation with the Muses to the great reluctancy of those who were well acquainted with the pregnancy of his parts and whether he was afterwards favoured in his Scholastical endeavours by Dr. Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster whom he acknowledgeth to have been Patron of his studies I cannot positively affirm In 1573. he returned to Oxon for a time and supplicated again in the beginning of March for the said degree which though as it seems granted and so I presume took it yet he did not compleat it by Determination in Schoolstreet In 1575. he was made second Master of Westminster School upon the recommendations of Godfrey Nephew to Gabriel Goodman before-mentioned which Godfrey put him upon the study of Antiquities and bought and gave him books and in 1581. he contracted an entire friendship with Barnab ãâã the learned Chief Justice of France called by some ãâ¦ã While he continued in teaching at Westm God so blessed his labours that Dr. King Bishop of London Noyle Archb. of York Parry Bishop of St. Asaph c. to say nothing of persons imployed in those times in eminent place abroad and many of special note at home of all degrees did acknowledge themselves to have been his Scholars Besides also as a testimony of his sincere love to the Church of England which some in his time did doubt he brought there to Church divers Gentlemen of Indeed as the Walshes Nugents O-Rayley Shee s the eldest Son of the Archb. of Casshills Pet. Lombard a Merchant's Son of Waterford a Youth of admirable docility the same who was afterwards titular Archb. of Armagh Priâate of Ireland domestick Prelate and Assistant of his Holiness the Pope and author of a book intit De regno Hiberniae Sanctorum Insula commentarius Lov. 1632. qu. and others bred Pâpishly and so affected In 1582. he took a journey through Suffolk into Yorkshire and returned through Lancashire in the month of April in order to the compleating of his Britannia which he saith he published in the same year having with great industry at spare hours and on festival days composed it In 1588. Jun. 3. he by the name and tit of Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated the ven Convocation that whereas he had spent 16 years from the time he had taken the degree of Bachelaur in the study of Philosophy and other liberal Aââ he might be dispensed with for the reading of three solemn Lectures and so be admitted to proceed in that ãâã Which supplication was granted conditionally that he stand in the Act following but whether he was admitted or stood it doth not appear in the Registers In the same month and year he took a journey Oxford being in his way to Ilfarcomb in Devonshire in order to obtain more knowledge in the Antiquities of that Country and elsewhere for the next edition of his ãâã and on the 6 Feb. following he was made Preb. ãâ¦ã in the Ch. of Salisb in the place of one J. Hotman which Prebendship he kept to the time of his death and ãâ¦ã succeeded him The said journey and ãâã that he took for that purpose the charges of them ãâã defrayed by the aforesaid Dr. Gab. Goodman In ãâã he journeyed into Wales in the company of Franc. ãâ¦ã of Ch. Ch. afterwards author of the Commentary ãâ¦ã Bishops and in 1592. Oct. 26. he was taken with a Qaârtan Ague which made him often purge Blood In March 1592-3 he was made chief Master of Westminster School in the place of Dr. Ed. Grant and in 1594. in the month of June he was freed from his Ague In 1596. he travelled to Salisbury and Wells for the obtaining of more knowledge in Antiquities and returned through Oxon where he visited most if not all of the Churches and Chappels for the copying out of the several Monuments and Arms in them which were reduced by him into a book written with his own hand by me seen and perused In 97. he fell into a most dangerous sickness whereupon being taken into the house of one Cuthbert Line he was cured by the care of that persons Wife and in that year he published his Greek Grammar On the 22. of Oct. the same year he was for fashion sake after he had refused a Mastership of the Requests which was offered to him created Herald of Arms called Richmond because no person can be King before he is Herald and the next day he was created Clarenceaux King of Arms in the place of Rich. Lee Esq who died on the 23. of Sept. before-going This was done by the singular favour of Q. Elizabeth at the incessant supplication of his Patron Sir Foulk Grevill afterwards Lord Brook both of them having an especial respect for him and his great learning in English and other
Chappel Oxon where is a large Epitaph over his grave Edw. Ratcliff Doct. of Phys of Cambr. was incorporated the same day 15. Rob. Williamson Richard Neile D. D. of the same University The last of these two Doctors of Div. was one who passed through all Degrees and Orders in the Church of England and thereby made acquainted with the conveniences and distresses incident to all conditions He served the Church as Schoolmaster Curate Vicar Parson Master of the Savoy Dean of Westminster in the place of Lanc. Andrews promoted to the See of Chichester in which Dignity he was install'd 5. Nov. 1605. Clerk of the Closet to both Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. successively Bishop of Rochester 1608 with which he kept his Deanery in Commendam Lichfield and Cov. two years after Lincolne 1613 Durham 1617. Winchester 1628 and lastly in 1631 Archbishop of York in which honor he died 31. Oct. 1640 being but three days before the Long Parliament began and was buried in St. Peters Church in Westminsteâ He was born of honest Parents in Kingstreet in the City of Westminster his Father being a Tallow Chandler and educated in the College School there whence being elected into St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge made great proficiency in Academical learning Afterwards entring into Orders he became after some petite employments Chaplain to Sir Will. Cecill L. Burghley and to Rob. his Son afterwards Earl of Salisbury who put him into the road of prefement Many good offices he had done to the Church and Church-men in his attendance at the Court crossing the Scots in most of their suites for Ecclesiastical preferments which greedily and ambitiously they hunted after whereby he drew on himself the general hatred not only of the Scots but scotizing English He died as full of years as he was of honours an affectionate Subject to his Prince an indulgent Father to his Clergy a bountiful Patron to his Chaplains and a true friend to all who râlâed upon him These things tho generally known yet inveterate Prynne spares not to call him a Popish and Armiâian Prelate a persecutor of all Orthodox and Godly Ministers a preferrer of popish Arminian Clergy men with a great deal of such stuff not here to be mentioned He is supposed to be Author of a book intit Spalato's shiftings in Religion written against Marc. Ant. de Dominis Archb. of Spalato and of other matters Quâre Jul. 16. Randolph Baâlow M. of A. of Cambridge I take him to be the same with Ranulph Barlow Master of Arts of Pembroke hall in that University afterwards Doct. of Divinity Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Mich. Renniger deceased 1609. and Archb. of Tuam in Ireland 1629. Rich. Senhouse M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day He was the Son of Rich. Senhouse of Alnborough hall in Cumberland was Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in the said University installed Dean of Glocester in the place of Dr. Laud promoted to the See of St. David 13. Dec. 1621 and shortly after became Bishop of Carlile He died in the beginning of the year 1626. 2. Car. 1 leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Preacher Theophilus Field M. A. of the same University was also incorporated with Senhouse He was Son of John Field mentioned among the Writers under the year 1587 was educated in Pemb. hall consecrated Bishop of Landaff 10. Oct. 1619 and thence was translated to Hereford and soon after died He hath written A Christian preparation to the Lords Supper printed 1624. in oct besides several Sermons and other things Rob. Newell M. A. of the same Univers was also then incorporated with Senhouse This Person who was half Brother to Dr. Rich. Neile beforemention'd became Archd. of Buckingham in the beginning of the year 1614 Prebendary of the ninth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter at Westminster in the place of one Cuthb Bellot an 1620 and was afterwards or about the same time Treasurer of Chichester Canon of Lichfield Subdean of Linc. and Preb. of Durham He died at Winchester I think in 1643 and was succeeded in his Prebendship of Westminster by Gilb. Wimberley D. D. and in his Archdeaconry by Giles Thorne D. D. but who in his other Dignitaries I cannot yet tell At the same time was incorporated M. of A. one John Owen whom I take to be the same with John Owen who was bred in Jesus Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph Besides the said four Masters of Arts who were incorporated 16. July were incorporated one and twenty more This year also was incorporated Joh. Hone Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge but the month or day when appears not neither for John Cowell Dr. of the same faculty for whom there was a supplicate made which being granted simpliciter there 's no doubt but that he was incorporated Of him I desire the reader to know that he was a Devonian born was elected from Eaton School to be Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1570. and was made Proctor of the said University an 1586. Afterwards he became Master of Trinity hall there the Kings Professor of the Civil Law Vicechancellour Doctor as 't is said of the Arches and Vicar-general to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury His writings are 1 Institutiones juris Anglicani ad methodum institutionum Justiniani compositae Cantab. 1605. oct c. 2 The Interpreter or book containing the signification of words c. Cambr. 1607. qu. c. afterwards printed in fol. But several passages therein relating to the Kings Prerogative giving offence because in some cases he saith it is limited the said book was called in and on the 26. March 1610. there was published an edict against it This being the reason as most Scholars think I cannot be of the same opinion with one no friend to the memory of King Jam. 1. who tells us that in the said Interpreter 't is said that that King took not the usual Oath all Kings are bound unto at their coronation c. One John Cowell or Covell LL. D. became Prebendary of Timbrescombe in the Church of Wells upon the deprivation of Joh. Faber an 1554. temp Mariae 1. but what relation there was between him and the former I know not An. Dom. 1601. An. 43 Elizab. An. 44 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Thom. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. George Râves D. D. Warden of New Coll. Jul. 17. Proct. George Benson of Qu. Coll. Gerard Massey of Brasn Coll. Apr. 22. The junior was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester ãâã died before consecration Bach. of Arts. Jul. 1. Dudley Digges of Vnivers Coll. He was afterwards Master of the Rolls 6. John Ferebe or Ferriby of Magd. hall See among the Masters 1606. 10. Dan. Price of Exet. Coll. Oct. 23. Nathan Canon of St. Maries hall Nov. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Jan. 26. Francis Windebank of St. Johns Coll. He was the eldest Son of
with excellent notes of a book entit Concilii Florentini exactissima narratio c. written by Sylvest Sguropulus Hag. com 1660 fol. dedicated to K. Ch. 2. which being animadverted upon by Leo Allatius a Jesuit Creyghton came out with an Answer He hath also one or more Sermons extant and dying 21 Nov. 1672 aged 79 or thereabouts was buried in a Chappel joyning to the Cathedral Church of Wells Over his Grave was soon after erected a fair tomb of Alabaster with his Effigies at length in his pontificalia lying thereon and on the wall over it is a large inscription part of which runs thus Robertus Creyghton c. Natus Dunecaledoniae in boriali Scotia per patrem Thoman ex antiquis Râveniae Toparchis per matrem Margaretam Stuart Johannis Jacobidae filiam ex illustriss familiâ Stuartorum comitum Atholiae Johannis secundi Scotiae regu à trarre pronepos c. Frances the Widow of this Dr. R. Creyghton who was Daughter of Will. Waldrond Esq died on the third of the Kal. of Nov. 1683 aged 68 and was buried near to the said tomb over whose grave was a monument with a large Inscription thereon put at the charge of Rob. Creyghton her Son Chauntor and Canon of Wells Doctor of Divinity Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Author of The vanity of the Dissenters plea for their separation from the Church of England Sermon on 1 Cor. 1. 10. Lond. 1682. qu. Robert Sheringham M. of A. of Gonvil and Caies Coll. This learned Gentleman who was if I mistake not a Cambr. man born was ejected or at least left his Fellowship of that House in 1643 and afterwards retiring to London for a time went thence into Holland where he taught the Hebrew and Arabick Tongues to young men at Roterdam and in other places After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and lived in a very retired and studious condition being then esteemed a most excellent Linguist especially for the Oriental and Gothick Languages as also admirably well vers'd in the original Antiquities of the English Nation as it fully appears in his book De Anglorum gentis origine disceptatio c. Cantab. 1670 in a large octavo and in his translation from Hebrew into Latin with an illustration by Commentaries of a Talmude book called Joma wherein are several matters treating of Sacrifices Lond. 1648 in qu. He hath also published Two sermons preached as S. Maries Church in Cambridge Lond. 1647 qu. Also The Kings Supremacy asserted printed 1660 in qu. and other things He died of an apoplectical fit which caused him to fall on the fire in his Chamber in Caies College in the Winter time an 1677. Nich. Bernard M. of A. He was at this time Chaplain to the learned Dr. James Vsher Primate of Ireland from whom he had received his Ordination in S. Peters Church in Drogheda an 1626. Afterwards he was made by him Dean of Ardagh some say of Kilmore and intrusted in making useful Observations and Collections for him In the time of the Rebellion in Ireland he being then Doctor of Divinity he suffered much and was often in danger of his life At length having lost all there he returned safe into England to attend on his Lord became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire by the gift of the Earl of Bridgwater Chaplain to Oliver Lord Protector one of his Almoners and Preacher to the Society of Greys Inn. After the Kings Restauration in 1660 being possess'd with just doubts concerning the settlement of Ireland he refused to return to that Country to take possession of his Deanery and perhaps of a Bishoprick Whereupon he continued at Whitchurch before mention'd to his dying day He hath written 1 The penitent death of a woful sinner or the penitent death of John Atherton late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin 5 Decemb. 1640 with some Annotations on several passages Lond. 1641 qu. 42 oct 2 Sermon preached at the burial of Joh. Atherton the next night after his Execution 5 Decemb. 1640 in S. Johns Church in Dublin on Acts 26. part of the 17 verse and all the 18. Lond. 1641 quart 42 octav 3 Letter from the siege of Drogheda to a friend in Dublin 7 Jan. 1641. 4 The whole proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda in Ireland Lond. 1642. qu. To which is added an Appendix concerning other occurrences fallen out since He was present all the time during the said siege and was several times in jeopardy of his life 5 Dialogue between Paul and Agrippa on Acts 26. 17 18. printed 1642. in oct 6 Farewel sermon of comfort and concord preached at Drogheda on 2 Cor. 13. 11. printed 1651 in octav There was another Farewel sermon preached but that I have not yet seen 7 Life and death of Dr. James Vsher late Archb. of Armagh c. in a sermon at his funeral at the Abbey at Westminster 17 Apr. 1656 on 1 Sam. 25. 1. Lond. 1656. oct To which are added some enlargements 8 The judgment of the late Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland concerning first the extent of Christs death secondly of the sabbath c. Lond. 1657. Whereupon Dr. Pet. Heylyn came out with an Answer to it called Respondet Petrus 9 Several Letters between him and Dr. Heylyn See more in Dr. Heylyn among the Writers in the 2 Vol. of this work under the year 1662. 10 Devotions of the antient Church in seven pious Prayers with 7 administ c. printed 1660 in oct 11 Clavi trabales or nailes fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies confirming the Kings Supremacy and Church Government under Bishops c. Lond. 1661. qu. See more in Dr. Rob. Sanderson among the Writers in the 2 vol an 1662. With other books he hath written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Whitchurch in the winter time an 1661. leaving behind him a Son named James Nathan Bernard M. of Arts. Among my searches I find one Nathaniel Bernard to be Lecturer of St. Sepulchers in London an 1629 who for uttering certain words in his prayer before Sermon at Antholines concerning the Queen was brought into the High Commission Court Also for preaching against his Majesties Declaration at St. Maries Church in Cambridge 6. May 1632 and using certain dangerous expressions therein was suspended excommunicated fined and committed to the New-prison near to London where he continued several months c. It doth farther appear also that one Nathaniel Bernard was beneficed in Essex but in the beginning of the grand rebellion in 1642 he was sequestred from his calling and charge there by several Committees sitting at Westminster banished from his dwelling and society of his Wife and Children and they turned out of doors c. Whereupon retiring for safety to Oxon published A looking-glass for rebellion Sermon preached 16. June 1644. in St. Maries Church
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiââ and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
then wore was valued at a Thousand pounds besides a Collar of SS about his Neck which weighed Eight hundred pounds in Nobles In the 1. Hen. 8. he was made Lieutenant of the Castle of Guisnes in Picardy and in the 5th of that Kings Reign he was at the Seige of Turwyn In the 10th he was one of the Ambassadors then sent into France for confirming the Articles of Peace between King Hen. 8. and the French and in the 11th was one of the Commissioners appointed to make preparation for that famous interview near Guisnes between King Hen. 8. and the King of France After which he grew into such high esteem at Court that in the 15. Hen. 8. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Name and Title of Nicholas Lord Vaux of Harwedon It is reported by a certain Author that his fancy laid chiefly in the facility of his meeter and the aptness of his descriptions such as he takes upon him to make namely in sundry of his Songs wherein he sheweth the counterfeit action very lively and pleasantly His Book or Books of Poetry I have not yet seen only many of his Copies of Verses in a Book Intit The Paradise of dainty devises c. Printed at Lond. 1578. in qu. Among them I find some which have these Titles set to them 1 A Copy made In his extream sickness which is the eighth Copy in that Book 2 His desire to exchange life numb 17. 3 Of sufferance cometh ease numb 41. 4 No pleasure without some pain fol. 36. b. 5 A lover disdained complaineth fol. 51. a. 6 Of a contented mind 7 Trie before you trust 8 He renounceth all the effects of love 9 Bethinking himself of his end he writeth thus c. There goes a doleful dutty also under his Name beginning thus I loath that I did love c. which was thought by some to be made upon his Death bed At length after this learned and valiant Lord had enjoyed his Honor but a very little time he gave way to fate in May or June in Fiveteen hundred twenty and three year 1523 whereupon his Body was buried as it seems at Harwedon before-mention'd where he founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass for his Soul in the Parish Church there or else in the Church of the Black Friers at London THOMAS LYNACRE born as 't is said at Canterbury but descended from the Lynacre's of Lynacre Hall in the Parish of Chesterfield in Derbyshire which may be the reason why Holinshed and others that follow him say that he was born in the Town of Derby was chosen Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1484 where by his close retirement he improved himself very much in Literature and in few Years after much more by his Travels into Italy where taking I suppose the Degree of Doctor of Physick became intimate with Persons famous for learning there The chief Cities of his residence were at Rome and Florence at the last of which places being countenane'd by Laurence Medices Duke thereof had for his instructors Demetrius and Politian and at Rome he became familiar with the learned Hermolaus Barbarus who directed him very freely in his Studies After his return into his own Country he was incorporated Doctor of Physick in this University read a shagling Lecture in that faculty became Tutor to Prince Arthur and to his Princess Catherine for the Italian Tongue Physician to King Hen. 7. as some say afterwards to King Hen. 8 one of the chief Founders of the Coll. of Physicians in Knightridersstreet in London of which he was the first President and at length in Holy Orders and a Priest In 1519. Apr. 29. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of York in the place of Joh. Perot who died in Febr. going before but Lynacre resigning that place in Nov. following was succeeded therein by Rich. Wyatt D. D. who was admitted thereunto 13. of the same Month. At the same time our Author Lynacre had other Dignities in the Church but at what place I cannot justly say He was great with and highly admired by Sir Tho. More whom formerly he had taught Greek Erasmus Grocyn Latimer Tonstall and who not He was one of the first English Men that brought polite learning into our Nation and it hath been justly question'd by some of the Goliahs of learning whether he was a better Latinist or Grecian or a better Grammarian or Physician Sure it is that he being a general Scholar of his time and esteemed the Honor of the Nation was much reverenc'd by the Oxonians especially upon reading his Medicinal Lectures among them gratus and generally by all Persons of Honor and others for his happy practice among them He hath written The Rudiments of Grammar Lond. in aedib Pynsonianis Turn'd into Latin by George Buchanan a Scot Par. 1533. and 50. in oct Which Book hath ever since been the Cynosura for many of our best Grammarians Compendious Regiment or a Dietarie of health used at Mountpillour Lond. by Rob. Wyer in 8vo De Emendatâ Structurâ Latini sermonis libri sex Several times Printed as at Paris 1532. 43. 50 c. Col. Agrip. 1555 c. all in 8vo recognised and amended by Joachim Camerarius Lips 1591. oct The said 6 Books were originally made for the use of the Lady Mary the Kings Daughter the same I think who was afterwards Queen and are much commended by Jo. Leland He also translated from Greek into Latin several of the works of Claud. Galen among which were those De temperamentis de inaequali temperie lib. 3. Venet. 1498. Which Latin Translation as 't is said speaks better than the Original He also translated into the said Language Procli Diadochi Sphaera Venet. 1500 fol. Dedicated to Prince Arthur by a large Epist or Praef. dat at Lond. 6. cal Sept. with other things which you may see in Baleus and Pitseus This Dr. Lynacre died 20. Octob. year 1524 in Fiveteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul within the City of London before the Rood of the North Door between the long Form and the Wall directly against the said Rood Over his Grave was afterwards a comely Monument erected at the charge of that eminent Physcian and Antiquary Dr. John Cay of Cambridge out of the Epitaph of which I am instructed in these matters concerning Lynacre viz. That he was a most skilful Critick in the Greek and Latin and an excellent Physician besides being Physician to King Hen. 8. who in his Generation did many miraculous Cures and restored several to life when help was past and even at the very point of death He translated Galen's works out of Greek into Latin with singular perspicuity and clearness He also compil'd a most excellent piece for the rectifying of the frame and module of the Latin Tongue He gave two Lectures to the University of Oxon and one to Cambridge
before and so continued to his dying day tho now and then which was rarely he would discourse very rationally Some time before his Death he resign'd up his Deaneries viz. that of St. Paul and that of Exeter in the first of which succeeded if I am not mistaken Dr. Rich. Sampson who was afterwards B. of Lichfield and Coventry and in the other Reginald Pole The Books which this our eminent Author hath written and translated are many some of which not all follow De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur liber Basil 1517. qu. dedicated to Dr. Jo. Colet Dean of Pauls It was written by the Author at Constance while he remained Ambassador in Helvetia But therein inveighing much as 't is observed by some against drunkenness as a great obstacle to the obtaining of knowledge the Drunkards of Constance were so sensible of it that they made a sharp answer to his Book apologizing for themselves and their customs in drinking Oratio de pace nuperrime composita faedore percusso inter Henricum Angliae regem Francorum reg Christianiss in aede Pauli Lond. habita Lond. 1518. qu. Epistolae ad Edw. Leeum Ep. ad Erasmum Rot. Lond. 1520. qu. These Epistles are in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum c. mentioned in Edw. Lee under the Year 1544. Praefatio in Ecclesiasticen recognitum ad Hebraicam veritatem collatum cum translatione lxx Interpretum manifesta explicatione causarum erroris ubicunque incidit where printed or when 't is not expressed In the writing of this piece which is printed in quarto he was assisted by Rob. Wakfeld Exemplum literarum ad Regem Hen. 8. an 1526. See in the said Wakfelds Book entit Syntagma de Hebraeorum codicum incorruptione He also wrot a Book against the unlawfulness of the Kings Marriage with Catherine the Wife of his Brother Prince Arthur in 1527. in which Book he was also assisted by Wakfeld Other things are mention'd by Baleus and Pitseus very tritely and with little satisfaction to the Reader as they do all or most of the titles of Books belonging to the Writers that they set down in their respective works but such I have not yet seen He hath also made several translations among which is that from English into Latin of the Sermon of John Fisher B. of Rochester which he Preached at London on that day when the Writings of Martin Luther were publickly burnt on Joh. 15. 26. Printed at Cambr. in Feb. 1521. qu. Before which is a large Epistle to the Reader written by one Nich. Wilson of the University of Cambridge He also made a translation from Greek into Latin of Plutarch's work De commodo ex inimicis capiendo dedicated to Card. Bainbridge At length this most excellent Person who was admirably well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues in all kind of polite literature and in civil Affairs retiring to Stepney near London for healths sake concluded his last day there to the great reluctancy of all learned Men year 1532 in Fifteen hundred thirty and two being then scarce 50 Years of Age Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to the great Altar and had soon after an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of 12 Verses which for brevity sake I shall now pass by as also that admirable and just encomium which Jo. Leland his Friend made on his return from Venice I find one John Pace who from Eaton School was elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1539. or thereabouts went away Fellow became Jester to K. Hen. 8. for a time and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk but what relation he had to Rich. Paice our learned Author who if I mistake not was born at or near Winchester I know not THOMAS LUPSET Son of Will. Lupset Citizen and Goldsmith of London by Alice his Wife was born in London particularly in the Parish of St. Mildrid in Breadstreet where the Father lived when Thomas was born but lived in his last days and died in 1522 in the Parish of St. Vedastus in Cheep taken into the care and protection of Dr. Joh. Colet and educated in Grammar learning under Will. Lilye which is the reason why the said Doctor calls him in his last Will his Scholar But whether from W. Lilyes School he went to this University or to that of Cambridge is doubtful Dr. Jo. Cay the Antiquary doth tell you that he was educated in Pembroke Hall there tho Bale and Pits are silent in it but what his Authority is for that report he tells us not Howsoever it is sure I am and shall be till I am convinc'd to the contrary that he took the Degree of Bac. of Arts at Paris and soon after coming into England he fixed in the University of Oxon particularly in Corp. Chr. Coll. about the Year 1519 and soon after he succeeded Jo. Clement in the Rhetorick Lecture of Card. Wolsey To which Cardinal the University having had occasion to write make this mention of our Author Lupset in an Epistle dated 7. Id. May 1521 Nam immortalis beneficii loco accepimus quod benignissima tua beneficentia in communem rei literariae usum dignata sit Lupsetum ad nos remittere quem etsi semper habuimus charissimum nunc tamen quia à tuâ majestate tam amanter commendatum multò arctiùs amplectimur Illud autem supra quam credi potest nos omnes exhileraverit quòd prudentissima tua authoritas ex omnium animis abstulerit scrupulos quibus anxiè alligabimur ordinariis lectionibus quas jam prorsus extraordinarias utinam tua prudentia vel penitus ab omni ordine abigeret vel in meliorem redigeret c. Sir Tho. More also in an Epist to Erasmus doth make honourable mention of him and his reading in both the Tongues at Oxon. But Lupset's desire being bent to proceed in Arts he supplicated the venerable Regents met in Congregation 2. June 1521. that whereas he had spent four Years in Study at Paris and in Oxon it might be sufficient for him that he might be admitted to proceed in the faculty of Arts. Which supplication of his being granted he was licensed to proceed on the 19. of the same Month and on the 9. July following he did really stand in the Act then celebrated Afterwards he became famous in this University and other places of Literature especially after he had performed the Office of Secretary to Rich. Paice when he was Ambassador to the Venetian and by his conversation with eminent Men did make great progress in Sciences He hath written A Treatise of charity An exhortation to young Men persuading them to walk honestly A Treatise teaching how to dye well These three little Books were printed at London 1546. and 1560. in 8vo He hath also translated into English 1 St. Chrysostomes Sermon or Homely teaching that no Man is hurt but by himself
year 1533 July in Fifteen hundred thirty and three where he suffer'd Death by burning See more of him in Jo. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the Year 1533 and in Rob. Persons his animadversions on Fox's words concerning Fryth in The third part of a treatise entit Of three conversions of England Chapt. 11. p. 45. 46 c. as also in Joh. Gwynneth among these Writers under the Year 1557. JOHN ROPER born in Berks. in the Dioc. of Sarum was first a Semicommoner or Demy of Magd. Coll. and afterwards being M. of A. was admitted perpetual Fellow of that House in 1483. When he was some Years standing in that degree he was made Reader of Philosophy and when Bach. of Divinity Reader of the Sentences or Divinity in the said College In 1502 he was confirmed Margaret Professor by the Foundâess of that Lecture was afterwards Vicar of St. Maries Church in Oxon Principal of Salesurry and George Hall in that Parish Doctor of Divinity Canon of the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. now Ch. Ch. in Oxon to which he was admitted 1532 and Rector of Witney Church in Oxfordshire This Person who was esteemed one of the eminent Theologists of this University was appointed by the King in 1521. to write Tract contra Doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Which whether ever printed I know not He was a zealous Enemy against the Kings divorce from Queen Catherine in the Year 1530 but did not dare to write openly or publish any thing against it tho Preach he did This learned Person died in the Month of May year 1534 in Fifteen hundred thirty and four and was as I conceive buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN ALLEN had his first Academical Education in this University whence going to Cambridge was there made M. of Arts as 't is said tho I rather think Bach. of the Laws Afterwards he was sent to the Pope at Rome by Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury about certain matters relating to the Church where remaining about 9 Years was in that time created Doctor of the Laws either there or in an University in Italy After his return he became Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey who knew him as I conceive while he was in Oxon was Judge of his Court as he was Legat à latere but in that Office he was thought to be a perjur'd and wicked Person and assisted him in visiting first and afterwards in that great matter of dissolving 40 little Monasteries at least for the erection of his Coll at Oxon and that at Ipswych In the latter end of the Year 1525 he was incorporated LL. Dr. of this University on the 13. March 1528. he was consecrated Archb. of Dublin and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland He hath Written Epistola de Pallii significatione activa passiva Penn'd by him when he received the Pall to be Archbishop De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tuitoriis causis observandis Besides other things concerning the Church At length being taken in a time of rebellion by Tho. Fitz-Gerard or Gerald eldest Son to the Earl of Kildare was by his command most cruelly murder'd by being brain'd like an Ox at Tartaine in Ireland 28. Jul. in Fifteen hundred thirty and four year 1534 aged 58. The whole story of which several of the Irish Chronicles will tell you See more among the Bishops under the Year 1534. WILLIAM HORMAN was born within the City of Salisbury educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1477. which place he resigning in 1485 being then M. of A. he became Schoolmaster and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsor and at length Vice provost of the same College In which place spending many Years in pleasant retirement became one of the most general Scholars of his time as may appear by the diffusiveness of his Learning and Books written in all faculties All the Academical Education that he received was in the University of Oxon where he also took the Degrees in Divinity So that whereas Joh. Baleus and Jo. Pitseus say that he was of Kings Coll. in Cambridge is false being led I presume into that error from one Godfrey Harman a Cantabrigian who from being a Junior Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd where he died and was buried in 1533. As for our Author Will. Horman he hath written many things of which I can only give you an account of some as they follow Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium Lond. 1521. qu. Apologeticon contra Rob. Whittintoni Protovatis Angliae incivilem indoctanque criminationem Lond. 1521. qu. part 2. Before the said Books is printed from a Wooden Cut the Picture of a Bear baited by six Dogs and at the end is some of Whittington's poety taken in pieces by Horman and by him severely answer'd Vulgaria puerorum c. They are elegant sentences written in English and Latin and dedicated to Will Atwater Bishop of Lincolne Compendium Hist Gul. Malmsburiensis Epitome Historiae Joh. Pici com Mirandulae Elegiae in mort Gul. Lilii Anatomia membrorum hominis In one Book Anatomia corporis humani In two Books The titles of the rest you may see in Jo. Baleus and therefore I can say no more of our Author Horman than this that he paid his last debt to nature on the 12. year 1535 Apr. in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was buried in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd Over his Grave are certain Verses engraven on a brass plate the two first of which run thus Hâc Hormannus humo requiescit amice viator Pene annos numerant lustra vicena suos The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 135. THOMAS MORE one of the greatest prodigies of Wit and Learning that this Nation ever before his time produced Son of Sir Joh. More Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was born in Milk-street within the City of London an 1480. trained up in Grammar learning in St. Anthonies School there and afterwards received into the Family of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Canterbury merely for the towardliness of his Person and the great hopes that the pregnancy of his parts then promised About the Year 1497. 't is said by some late Authors that that worthy Cardinal did send him to Canterbury College in Oxon to obtain Academical Learning but upon what grounds they report so it appears not Miles Windsore whom I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1624. who came to the University of Oxon in the time of Queen Mary doth tell us more than once that he had his Chamber and studied in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin and constant tradition doth say the like and 't was never reported to the contrary before those two Authors here cited Tho. More and J. H. published their respective Books What
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
Author saith who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born spent some time among the Oxonian Muses but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King and wrot A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices The Epistle before which dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed or reprinted at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes by the care of Jerem. Stephens an 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope his Marriage with Anna Bolein and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth as 't is conjectured by circumstances The Author's purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession as it had been complained of long before his time especially be Dr. Tho. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English which I have not yet seen At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage an 1536 at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull was thereupon apprehended imprison'd and at length executed at Tyburn near to London with other Knights and Esquires in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. ROBERT WAKFELD a Northern Man born and the greatest Linguist of his time was as he saith ex fidelibus natus fidelis ex Christianis Christianus and afterwards being fitted for the University he was sent to Cambridge where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bent to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues he went to travel and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek Hebrew Chaldaic and Syriac Tongues About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany at Paris and in 1519 I find him to be Hebr. Professor at Lovaine in Brabant in the place of one Matthew Adrian But continuing there only 4 Months he returned into England where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Pauls he was made one of his Chaplams took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity was beloved of many and patroniz'd in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spayne Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question he began to defend the Queens cause and therefore gained the love of many bât being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity and therefore able to say more than another Man he came over to the Kings Party whereby he gained the hatred of many I have seen a Letter written by him to the King dated from Sion in Middlesex 1527. wherein he tells him that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendome c. and afterwards tells him that if the People should know that he who began to defend the Queens cause not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother should now write against it surely he should be stoned of them to death or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him that he would rather dye a thousand times than suffer it c. Afterwards upon the intreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a publick Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. since called Ch. Church before the University and afterwards read publickly the Hebrew Lecture there as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the Kings Authority beginning to read there in 1540. In 1532 he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon founded on the site of that of the Cardinal and in the same Year he was incorporated B. of Divinity So that continuing there some Years after and-instructing many in the Tongues I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers In 1536 when he saw the King make havock of Religious Houses he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow Oratio de laudibus utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae Chaldaicae Hebraicae atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur Printed by Winand Worde in qu. Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant succincta clara atque fidelis Printed in a black char in qu. Kotser codicis quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita illicitum omnino inhibitum interdictumque esse tum naturae jure tum jure divino legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae Printed at Lond. 1528 in qu. This is the same with his Book entit by Bale and Pits De non ducenda Fratria Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brothers Wife Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio Printed with the former in qu. De Laudibus Agriculturae Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum c. Besides other things mentioned elsewhere which I have not yet seen He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir but where he was buried I cannot yet tell Jo. Leland in one of his Books gives him the name of Polypus noting thereby he way of contumely that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary before-mention'd Rich. Paice Dean of Pauls in a Letter to K. H. 8. dat at Sion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages The University of Oxon in an Epistle to the said King doth also say that besides his various accomplishments he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew Syriac and Arabick Tongues JOHN CLAYMOND who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament and in the latter part of his life took it every day was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife sufficient Inhabitants of
acknowledgement of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger and in the 25. of the said King was judgment given on his behalf for taking place before the Lord Dcres of Gilsland His younger Years were adorned with all kind of superficial Learning especially with Drammatick Poetry and his elder with that which was divine and therefore worthily characterized to be vir liter is clarus ac genere nobilitate conspicus His writings have been Several Comedies and Tragedies Declaration of the Psalm 94. Deus ultionum Dominus Lond. 1539. oct Lives of Sectaries With other things which I have not yet seen He was living an Ancient Man and in esteem among the Nobility in the latter end of Henry 8. The Reader is now to know that there was another Hen. Parker who wrot a Book intit Dives pauper A compendious treatise an exposition upon the ten Commandments Lond. 1496. fol. There again in 1538 and 1586. oct Which Henry being a Carme of Doncaster in Yorkshire and D. of D. of Cambridge in the time of Ed. 4. must not be taken to be the same with the former EDWARD POWELL was born of British blood within the Principality of Wales educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals in Oxon and was afterwards if I mistake not Fellow of Oriel Coll. for one of both his names occurs Fellow of that House in 1495. After he had taken the Degrees in Arts he gave himselfe solely up to Divinity and in that faculty he became a noted Disputant On the 2. of Nov. 1501. he was admitted to the rectory of Bledon in the of Wells on the death of Mr. Micb. Clyffe and afterwards took the Degrees in Divinity In 1508. he by the favour of Edm. Audley B. of Sarum was collated to the Prebendship of Bedmyster and Redclyve having a little before been admitted Preb. of Lyme and Halstock in the said Church This E. Powell was the Person who for his great learning and undaunted courage was entertained as an Advocate by Qu. Catherine when K. Hen. 8. sought cause for a divorce from her and the same who before had shewed himself very zealous in disputing and writing against M. Luther his Disciples and Doctrine for which the University of Oxon did not only congratulate him for his pains but also in an Epistle to the said Bishop Audley they thus honorably speak of him res ea Oxoniensium quorundam ingeniis discutienda permittitur inter quos eximius ille Edoardus Powell Theologiae condidatus tuae Sarisburiensis Ecclesiae ut vocant Canonicus connumeratus est Is enim ex quo res primum in Literarium certamen venit tam assiduus semper fuit tantum operae ac diligentiae impendit tam denique eruditè adversus eas hereses invectus est ut ex suis immensis laboribus vigilantissimisque studiis nostrae Academiae nonnihil attribui laudis facile auguramur c. Farther also when the University wrot to K. Hen. 8. to certifie him of certain Doctors of Divinity of their own Body that had lately written each of them a Book against M. Luther they make this especial mention of our Author Powell and his Book Editionem tamen Doctoris Poveli tanquam praecipuam lucidam quendam gemmam visum est nobis seligere is siquidem ut est vir summâ gravitate eruditione praeter immensos labores frequentiaque ejus itinera tantam in hâc re exhibuit vigilantiam ut nisi eum eximiâ efferemus laude videamur plane injurii aut potius inbumani Hanc suam editionem in duos potissimum digessit libellos quorum prior de summo extat pontifice Eucharistiaeque Sacramento Posterior de reliquis sex Sacramentis Hunc tuae celsitudini sic commendamus virum ut quamvis eum habeas perquam gratum habeas quaesumus nostrâ tamen commendatione gratiorem c. As for the title of the said Book it runs thus Propugnaculum summi sacerdotii Evangelici ac septenariâ sacramentorum adversus Mart. Lutherum fratrem fumosum Wiclefistum insignem lib. 3. Lond. 1523. qu. Another Book of his making is intit Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Regis cum Catherinâ matrimonio lib. 1. and other matters as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen At length for his denial of the King's Supremacy over the Church of England whereby he despleased him far more than before he pleas'd him by writing against Luther he was committed to Prison and having received sentence to dye was on the 30. July in Fifteen hundred and forty hang'd year 1542 drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield near London with Tho. Abel whom I am about to name and Rich. Fetherston guilty of the same crime This Dr. Edw. Powell bestowed at least 30 l. about the time when he was licensed to proceed for the making of a double roof with painting gilded knots and lead for the Congregation house house which is now the upper room in St. Maries Church-yard joining on the North side to the Chancel of St. Mariââ Church 22. Hen. 7. Dom. 15 6 7. THOMAS ABEL or Able took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1516 but what Degrees in Divinity I cannot find He was afterwards a Servant to Qu. Catherine the Consort of K. Hen. 8. and is said by a certain Author to be vir longe doctissimus qui Reginae aliquando in Musicorum tacta inguis operam suam navaret In 1529. and 30 he shewed himself a zealous Advocate against the divorce of the said Queen and a passionate enemy against the unlawful doings of the King At which time he wrot Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Catherinae matrimonio In 1534 he by the name of Tho. Able Priest was attainted of Misprision for taking part with and being active in the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy Maid of Kent Afterwards denying the King's Supremacy over the Church was hang'd drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield year 1540 30. Jul. in Fifteen hundred and and forty having before as 't is thought written other things but lost I find another Tho. Able who hath written against the Gangraena of Tho. Edwards but he being a hundred Years later than the former for he lived in 1646. he must not be taken to be the same Person CHRISTOPHER SEINTGERMAN called by some Senyarmayn or Seyngerman Son of Sir Hen. Seintgerman Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. Tindale Esq was born as I conceive in Warwickshire particularly at Shilton near to the City of Coventry in the Chappel or Church of which place his Father and Mother received Sepulture In his juvenile Years he was educated in Grammatical and Philosophical Learning among the Oxonians from whom by the advice of his Parents he was taken away and sent to the Inner Temple where by the benefit of his Academical Learning certain instructors in the municipal Laws and by his forward Genie and industry he became a
tuas Novit eloquii Phaenix utriusque Melancthon Quam te Phaebus amet pieriusque chorus Parga tuas cecinit cecinitque Lutetia Laudes Urbs ergo doctos officiosa viros Talia cum constent c. In the Year 1540. 32. Hen. 8. I find that he was living at Carleon in his native Country where I think he taught School and the same Year to publish Commentaries on Will Lily's construction of the eight parts of Speech Besides which he had before in the said Year translated from Greek into Latin Marcus Eremita de Lege Spiritu and from Lat. into English The paraphrase of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus written by Erasmus Roterod. with whom he was well acquainted Baleus tells us that the said Cox was from his Youth instructed in all liberal arts that he was a Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Divine and a Preacher of God's word Also that he had written against those who in his time wrot of Justification by works and that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and forty All which works besides Verses of divers kinds and Epistles were by him written before the end of that Year as also Latin Verses occasionally set before Books that were published particularly before John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement an 1530. He was living in the Reign of Ed. 6. but when or where he died I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named Francis Cox who proceeded D. of D. as a Member of New Coll. in the Year 1594 and he a Son named William who was a Divine of Chichester in Sussex THOMAS WYATT the delight of the Muses and of Mankind Son of Henr. Wyatt of Allington Castle in Kent Knight and Banneret by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Skinner of Surrey was born of an ancient and gentile Family in the said County of Kent sent to Cambridge to be initiated in Academical Learning transplanted thence to Oxon purposely to advance himselfe in knowledge by the hearing of the Cardinals Lectures then lately settled there but whether he took a Degree with us or at Cambridge I find not as yet Afterwards he being sent to travel he return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and was esteemed by all those that knew him to be a Person adorn'd with the endowments as well of body and mind as of fortune By the dayly and unwearied practice of the two former while he was in his travels and after his return he became not only well skill'd in military matters but also in several Arts and Tongues And as esteemed strong and valiant in body so powerful in mind and counsel At length he with Hen. Haward or Howard Earl of Surrey who also had travel'd into Italy and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style of the Italian Poesie being esteemed to be the first refiners of the English Tongue Wyatt was introduced into the Court was beloved of K. Hen. 8. who honored him with the Degree of Knighthood and sent him in several Embassies beyond the Seas which he very prudently performed with great trust to the honor of his Master But that which is here to be in a special manner marked was his admirable skill in Poetry which in his first Years of reason he expressed in several amorous Songs and Poems With which as also his witty jests the King himself being in an high manner delighted they were so much admired by the Men of that and the next Age tho I persume they are now lost that some have not stuck to report that as Mecaenas Ovid Tibullus c. have been among the Latins most famous for Elegie So Sir Tho. Wyatt the elder Henry Haward Earl of Surrey Sir Franc. Brian of the Privy Chamber to K. Hen. 8. and a Traveller in 1528 Sir Phil. Sydney George Gascoigne Esq c. have among the English been most passionate to bemoan the perplexities of Love For his translation also of David's Psalms into English meeter and other of his Poetry Leland the Antiquarian Poet forbears not to compare him to Dant and Petrarch thus Bellum suo merrito c. translated by another hand as followeth Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And royal Rome her Petrarchs numbred feet In English Wyatt both of them doth coast In whom all grateful eloquence doth meet In his younger Years as I have told youbefore he composed Several Songs and Poems Many of which are in the Songs and Sonnets of Hen. Haward Earl of Surrey Son of that victorious Prince the Duke of Norfolk and Father of that learned Howard sometimes his most lively Image Henry Earl of Northampton Which incomparable Earl of Surrey who entirely loved our Author Sir Tho. Wyatt hath among other things translated Virgils Aeneids the first and second Book whereof he hath admirably rendred almost line for line Sir Th. Wyatt also in his elder Years translated into English meeter 1 The penitential Psalms in one Book 2 The whole Psaltery of David in praise of which last is an Encomium in the Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey before-mention'd At length our Author Wyatt being sent by the King towards Falmouth in Cornwall to conduct Montmorantius sirnamed à Courriers thence to London for he came from Spain in an Embassie did by endeavouring and labouring to please the King rather than to consult his own health make more hast than good speed For by too much riding which was not necessarily requir'd in a very hot season he fell into a violent Feaver Whereupon putting in at a Mercate Town call'd Shirebourn in Dorsetshire was within few days after cut off from among the living in the 38 Year of his Age to the great reluctancy of the King Kingdome his Friends and all that knew the great worth and virtues of the Person He was buried in the great Church there year 1541 in Summer time in Fifteen hundred forty and one and the next Year was a little Book of Verses published on his death by his great admirer John Leland entit Naenia Before the first page of which is Sir Thomas's face with a long curl'd beard like to a Man of 80 Years of Age printed from a wooden cut engrav'd from his face which was painted by a Dutchman commonly call'd Hans Holbin At the same time was an Epitaph made on him by the Earl of Surrey as it seems another also by Sir Tho. Chaloner in long and short Verses and a third which was a large one in Prose by his entire Friend Sir Joh. Mason Chancellor of this University 1553. a Copy of which I have seen and in some things do follow it in my aforesaid discourse This Sir Tho. Wyatt left behind him a Son of both his names begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thom. Brook Lord Cobham who being a Commotioner in the Reign of Qu. Mary lost his Head and left issue by Jane his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Will. Hawte of Bourn Kt.
celeberrimo conventu tum Archiepiscoporum cum Episcoporum caeteraeque multitudinis in occidentalis caenobii Westminster Sanctuario 27 Nov. 1527. in Psal 101. Tu exurgens Domine misereberis Sion These three Latin Sermons before-mentioned were printed at London in fol. by Rich. Pynsen the King's Printer and dedicated by the Author of them to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Quinque sermones sextis Quadragesimae feriis habiti coram R. Hen. 8. an 1517. Prima in Ezeck 18. Anima quae peccaverit ipsa morietur Reliquae in Matth. 21. Regnum Dei dabitur genti facienti fructus ejus Printed by Rich. Pynson before-mention'd and by their Author dedicated to Rich. Kedermyster Abbat of Winchcomb All the said Sermons are on one volume in fol. but not said when printed Expositio concionalis Psalmi sexti an 1518. Expositio conc 2di Psalmi paenitentialis coram Regia Majestate an 1519. This is Psal 31. Conciones expositativae in tertium Psalmum paenitent coram R. Maj. an 1520. This is Psal 37. Conciones expos in 50 Psal paenitent coram Rege an 1521 1522. All which Expositions and Sermons were except the first printed at London in fol. by Rob. Redman 1532. But the Reader is to note that all the Latin Sermons and Expositions that I have mention'd under this Author Longland having been all or most preached in the English tongue were translated into Lat. by Thom. Key of Allsouls Coll. as I shall tell you when I come to him Sermon before the King on Good Friday on Heb. 13. 10. 11. 12. 13. Lond. 1538. qu. A Copy of which or at least part you may see in J. Fox's Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. This Dr. Longland departed this mortal life on the 7. of May in Fifteen hundred forty and seven year 1547 Whereupon his body being opened his bowels were taken out and buried in the Church of Wooburne in Bedfordshire where he died his heart in the Cathedral of Lincolne under the blessed Sacrament of the high Altar and his body in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. near Windsore of which probably he had been Fellow Over his Grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with an Inscription thereon a Copy of which is printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 193. b. 194. a. In the Cath. Church at Lincoln near to the South door but somewhat Westward was a fair Tomb of Marble in the form of an Altar built in an arch in the Wall for the said B Longland On the Freeze above the same is this Inscription Longa terra mensura ejus Dominus dedit On the South side thereof is a beautiful Chappel wherein hath been a Chantry for the said Bishop as some think He gave divers Books to Magd. Coll. Library some to that of Oriel and others to the Students of Durham now Trinity Coll. in Oxon. He gave also the second Bell at Wooburne of fine mettal silver found which was always afterwards called Bishop Longlands Bell. He built an Alms house at the place of his nativity Henley Southward of the Chancel but for how many poor People or with what revenue he endowed it having been originally large I know not Sure I am that now seven Persons live therein and have weekly but six pence a piece for their allowance and is govern'd by the Corporation there ARTHUR KELTON seems to have been born of a gentile Family in Shorpshire though said to be a Welsh Man and after he had made a considerable progress in Arts applied his mind mostly to the reading of the Histories of Britain wherein he much excelled in his riper Years But being withal very poetically given he must forsooth write and publish his Lucubrations in verse whereby for rhime sake many material matters and the due timing of them are omitted and so consquently rejected by Historians and Antiquaries as his Chronicle of the Brutes Lond. 1547 in oct Printed in an old English Character The Preface of which being also written in Verse is by the Author directed to K. Ed. 6. At the end of the said Chronicle is A Genealogy of the Brutes This is drawn from Ofiris the first King of Egypt down to K. Ed. 6. of England and contains but about 32 Generations which shews that the Author was ignorant in Genealogies He hath also written another Book of Poetry in praise of the Welsh Men dedicated to Sir Will. Herbert but this I have not yet seen nor other if any of his things in Prose He was living at Shrewsbury in the time of King Ed. 6. and for ought I know to the contrary died also and was buried there ANDREW BORDE who writes himself Andreas Perforatus was born as it seems at Pevensey commonly called Pensey in Sussex and not unlikely educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester brought up at Oxford as he saith but in what house unless in Hart. Hall I know not Before he had taken a Degree he entred himself a Brother of the Carthusian Order at or near to London where continuing till he was wearied out with the seventy of that Order he left it and for a time applyed his Muse to the Study of Physick in this University Soon after having a rambling head and an unconstant mind he travelled through most parts of Eurepe thorough and round about Christendom and out of Christendom as he saith and into some parts of Africa At length upon his return he settled at Winchester where he practised his faculty and was much celebrated for his good success therein In 1541. and 42 I find him living at Mountpelier in France at which time I persume he took the Degree of Doctor of Physick and soon after being incorporated in the same Degree at Oxon lived for a time at Pevensey in Sussex and afterwards at his beloved City of Winchester where as at other places it was his custom to drink water three days in a week to wear constantly a shirt of hair and every night to hang his shroud and socking or burial-sheet at his beds feet according as he had done as I conceive while he was a Carthusian He always professed Celibacy and did zealously write against such Monks Priests and Friers that violated their Vow by Marriage as many did when their respective Houses were dissolv'd by King Hen. 8. But that matter being irksom to many in those days was the reason I think why a Calvinstical Bishop who was then as it seems married fell foul upon him by reporting openly that under colour of virginity and strictness of life he kept three Whores at once in his Chamber at Winchester to serve not only himself but also to help the Virgin Priests c. about 1547. How true this is I cannot say though the matter as the Bishop reports was examined before several Justices of Peace because the Book here quoted contains a great deal of passion and but little better language than that of Foul-mouth'd Bale
in the Latin and Greek tongues He hath written several things but whether extant I know not Among them are Epistolae ad D. Will. Roperum Epitaphia diversa Opuscula Graece Latinè Written with his own hand and said to be tho I cannot yet in all my searches find them in the Bodleian Library He also translated into English several of the Greek and Latin Orations made by the said Daughter of Will. Roper as by his Epistles in appears What became of this Joh. Morwen when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown if he lived to that time I cannot tell unless he was received into the Family of the said Roper a great lover of learning and a reliever and comforter of distressed Catholicks JOHN LELAND or Leyland that singular light and ornament of Great Britain was born in London but in what Parish or Year it appears not howbeit the day of his Birth he himself is pleased to tell us In his younger Years being depriv'd of his relations he was taken into the protection of one Tho. Myles a great favourer of learning who not only exhibited to his wants but also took care to have him instructed in Grammar and other juvenile learning under the famous Will. Lilye From his School he was sent to Cambridge where as he himself saith he received the first seeds of Academical Learning in Christ's College and from thence as in another place he tells us he went to Oxon but to what College or Hall therein he adds not Howbeit by sure tradition from Thom. Key of Allsouls College to Thom. Allen of Glocest Hall it appears that he spent several Years in study in the said Coll. of Allsouls which is also noted by Will. Burton the Antiquary of Leicestershire in the Collorary of some part of Leland's Life before the first tome of his Collections After he had spent some time there he journied to Paris where he profited himself much by the reading and learning of Budaeus Faber Paulus Aemilius and Ruellus Returning thence he entred into Holy Orders became Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and Rector of Poppeling sometimes written Popering and Pepling in the Marches of Calais Afterwards he became Library-keeper to that King and had a Commission from him under the broad Seal an reg 25. Dom. 1533. whereby he was impowered to make a search after England's Antiquities and peruse the Libraries of all Cathedrals Abbies Priories Colleges c. as also all places wherein Records Writings and secrets of Antiquity were reposed Whereupon in few Years after obtaining a special dispensation 12. Jul. 28. Hen. 8. to keep a Curate at Poppeling and make his residence in England or elsewhere at his own liberty he spent more than six Years in rambling to and fro in this Nation and in making researches into the bowels of antiquity undertaking so immense a task that the very thoughts of compleating it did as 't is said distract him At the time of the dissolution of Monasteries he saw with very great pity what havock was made of ancient Monuments of learning and if no remedy should be taken they would all perish Whereupon for prevention sake he wrot a Letter to Cromwell the prime Secretary dat 16. July wherein he intreats him to give him aid and assistance in bringing to light many ancient Authors and in sending them to the King's Library who he knew well had no little esteem for them and adds that it would be a great profit to Students and honour to this Realm whereas now the Germanes perceiving our deridiousness and negligence do senddayly young Scholars hither that spoileth them and cutteth them out of Libraries returning home and putting them abroad as Monuments of their own Country c. On the 3. of Apr. 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1542. he was presented to the Rectory of Hasely near to and in the County of Oxon and in the beginning of the said Month 1543 the King gave to him by the name of Job Leland Scholar and the King's Chaplain a Canonry or Prebendship of Kings College now Ch. Ch. in Oxon and about that time the Prebendship of East-Knoll and W. Knoll near to Salisbury in Wiltshire but the Canonry of Ch. Ch. he lost in 1545 upon the surrender of that College to the King and in lieu thereof had no pension allow'd him as other Canons had but preferment elsewhere At length having made a grand collection of antiquities he retired to his habitation in the Parish of St. Michael in le Querne in London where spending about six Years more in composing such Books that he had promised to the King did at length upon a foresight that he was not able to perform his promise or as the Roman Catholicks say that he had degenerated from the ancient Religion fall distracted and lost his sense being but a little before esteemed a Person of a clear judgment and of great insight to discern between substantial and superficial learning This his distemper being made known to the King and his Council His Majesty by Letters Pattent dat 21. March 5. Ed. 6. Dom. 1550. did grant the custody of him by the name of John Laylond Junior of St. Michaels Parish in le Querne London Clerk to his Brother John Laylond senior and for his maintenance to receive the profits of Hasely Popplyng E. Knoll and W. Knoll before-mentioned He was esteemed by the generality of Scholars of his time an excellent Orator and Poet learned in the Greek Latin French Italian Spanish British Saxon Welsh and Scotish Tongues a most diligent searcher into antiquity and a favourer and lover of all those that bent their minds that way His enemies or such that cared not for him as Pol. Virgil Dr. Jo. Cay c. did use to say that he was a vain glorious Person and that he promised more than ever he was able to perform and others that his Poetical wit made him so conceited that it was the chief reason of his frensie He hath written Naenia in mortem Thomae Viati equitis incomparabilis Lond. 1542. 'T is a Lat. Poem in one sheet and an half in qu. Genethliacom illustriss Eadverdi principis Cambriae Ducis Coriniae Comitis Palatini c. Printed 1543. A Lat. Poem in 4. sheets in qu. Syllabus interpretatio antiquarum dictionum quae passim per libellum praedictum lectore occurrunt Printed with the former an 1543. Assertio inclytiss Arturii regis Britanniae Lond. 1544. qu. Elenchus antiquarum nominum Printed with the Assertio inc Cygnea Cantio Lond. 1545. 'T is a Lat. Poem in about 5 sheet in qu. There again 1658. in oct Commentarii in Cyg cantionem indices Britannicae antiquitatis locupletissimi Printed with the two said Editions of Cyg Cant. Laudatio pacis Lond. 1546. A Lat Poem in 2 sh in qu. A New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. 37 Year of his Reign concerning his laborious journey and search for Englands antiquities Lond. 1549. Oct. Published with
which was some Weeks after the death of Pet. de Soto RICHARD SMYTH the greatest pillar for the Roman man Catholick cause in his time was born in Worcestershire admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1527 Master of Arts 1530 and the Year after was on the resignation of Rob. Taylor Fellow of the said Coll unanimously chosen the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University Afterwards he became Rector of Cuxham in Oxfordshire for a time Principal of St. Albans hall Divinity Reader of Magd. College the Kings Professor of Divinity in the said University and Doctor of that faculty But being forced to leave his Professorship in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. to make room for P. Martyr he went to Lovaine in Brabant where being received with solemnity became publick Professor of Divinity there for a time and read openly on the Apocalips of St. John When Qu. Mary was advanced to the Crown he was not only restored to his Professorship in the University of Oxon but also was made one of the Chaplains to that Queen and Canon of Christ Church In 1559 Qu. Elizabeth being then in the Throne he lost those with other preferments of which the Rectory or Headship of Whittingdon Coll. in Lond. was one and was committed to custody with Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury by whose perswasions he recanted what he had written in defence of the celebacy of Priests See more of this matter in a Book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. in Mathaeo Printed about 1572-3 being the first impression of that Book Afterwards our Author R. Smyth giving Matthew the slip he went to Doway in Flanders and was constituted Dean of S. Peters Church at that place by Philip K. of Spain who erecting an Academy there about that time made him the first Kings Professor thereof He was by those of his perswation accounted the best Schoolman of his time a subtile disputant and admirably well read in the Fathers and Councils which did evidently appear in his disputations in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr whom as the R. Cath. Writers of his time say he did in a most egregious manner baffle several times The wholy story of it you may see elsewhere and therefore I shall not make a recital of it now only say that the Protestant Writers report that he was more a Sophister than Divine that he was non-plus'd several times by Martyr and that he was a goggle-ey'd fellow and very inconstant in his Opinion As for his Writings they are these Assertion and defence of the Sacrament of the Altar Lond. 1546. oct Defence of the sacrifice of the Mass Lond. 1546. oct An answer to all Martyn Luthers and his Scholar's reasons made against the sacrifice of the Masse c. Printed with the Defence before-mention'd Brief treatise setting forth divers truths necessary both to be believed of all Chrysten People and kept also which ãâã are not expressed in the Scripture but left to the Church by the Apostles tradition Lond. 1547. oct Declaration upon his retractation made at Pauls cross 15. May 1547. Lond. 1547. oct This retraction was for certain articles contained in two Books of his making viz. one in Defence of the sacrifice of the Masse and that called as it seems A brief treatise c. wherein he endeavoured to prove that unwritten verities ought to be believed under paine of damnation Diatriba de hominis justificatione contra Pet. Martyrem Lovain 1550. oct Defensio caelibatûs sacerdotum contra P. Mart. Lov. 1550. oct Printed also as it seems at Paris the same year Confutatio quorundam articularum de votis monasticis Pet. Martyris Itali These two last being printed at Lovaine in one Vol. are very full of faults by the negligence of the Printer and absence of the Author who pretended they were printed against his Will and wished afterwards that he had never made them because he was then perswaded with himself that the Priests of England made a vow a religious vow when they were made Priests which he perceived afterwards was not true This he told Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in a certain letter when he heard that he the said Cranmer had made a Collection of or answer to the aforesaid Books De caelibatu votis monasticis Disputation with Bish Rydley in the Div. School at Oxon his Sermon at his and Latimers burning with Speeches Orations c. See in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church A bucklar of Cath. Faith of Christ's Church containing divers matters now of late called into controversie by the new Gospellers Lond. 1555. in two books or parts The things controverted were 1 Whether a man may keep Gods commandements 2 Concerning works of superarrogation 3 Concerning purgatory 4 The signe of the cross and crucifex c. Refutatio luculenta crassae exitiosae haeresis Johannis Calvini Christop Carlili Angli qua astruunt Christum non discendisse ad inferos alios quam ad infernum infimum Printed 1562. The said tenet that Christ descended into hell was maintained in a Commencement held at Cambridge in 1552. by the said Carlile and opposed then in disputations by Sir Joh. Cheek Whereupon Smyth wrot the Refutation before-mention'd Afterwards Christoph Carlile came out with a book entit Concerning the immediat going to Heaven of the souls of the faithful Fathers before Christ and concerning his descent into hell c. Lond. 1582. oct sec edit I find one Christopher Carlile to have lived for some time at Barham in Kent whence removing to the Parish of St. Botolph near Billingsgate in London died there in the beginning of the Year 1596 leaving then behind him a Relict called Marie Whether this Chr. Carlile be the same with the former I cannot tell Another also of both his names lived in his time whose warlike skill was sufficiently tried in the Low Countries France and Ireland and in America at Carthage and Santo Dominico an 1585 Which worthy Soldier died about the Year 1593. R. Smyth hath also written De missae sacrificio contra Melanctonum Calvinum alios Lov. 1562. oct De Infantium baptismo contra Calvinum Printed there the same Year Defensio externi visibilis sacerdotii propugnatio altarium cum confutatione communionis Calvinianae Ibid. Confutatio earum quae Philip. Melancthon objecit contra propitiatorium missae sacrificium Ibid. De libero hominis arbitrio contra Calvinum Lov. 1563. oct and other things which you may see in Pitseus This learned Doctor gave way to fate on the seventh of the ides of July according to the accompt followed at Doway in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 aged 63. Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady joyning to the Church of St. Peter at Doway before-mentioned Several of both his names have been Writers but they being after him in time I shall
in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
Academical learning either in St. Albans or Broadgates hall or both Thence he went to an Inn of Chancery in Holbourne near London called Thavies Inn where he studied and made sufficient progress in the common Law and thence as 't is probable to Lincolns Inn. Afterwards he applied his muse to the searching of Histories especially those belonging to his own Country wherein he became so curious and critical that he wrot and published A Dictionary in English and Welsh much necessary to all such Welshmen as will speedily learn the English tongue thought by the Kings Majesty very meet to be set forth to the use of his gracious Subjects in Wales Lond. 1547. qu. whereunto is prefixed A little treatise of the English pronunciation of the Letters From the said Dictionary and treatise Dr. Joh. Davies obtained many materials when he was making his Dictionarium Britannico-latinum A playne and familiar introduction teaching how to pronounce the Letters in the Brytish tongue now commonly called Welsh whereby an English Man shall not only with ease read the said tongue rightly but c. Lond. 1550. qu. Afterwards perused and augmented by the Author Lond. 1567. in 7. sh in qu. Battery of the Popes bottereulx commonly called the High Aultar Lond. 1550. in oct He also published The Laws of Howell Da and other things relating to his own Country which I have not yet seen He was living in the house of Humph. Toy a Bookseller in St. Pauls Ch. yard in London in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven which was part of the ninth and tenth years of Qu. Elizabeth being then esteemed a Person to be much meriting of the Church and British tongue but when he died I find not ARMIGELL WADE or Waad a Yorkshire Man born spent some years in Logick and Philosophie in St. Mary Magd. Coll. as it seems took a Degree in Arts 1531 went afterwards to one of the Inns of Court travelled into various Countries and after his return became Clerk of the counsel to K. Hen. 8. and afterwards to K. Ed. 6. He is charactariz'd thus Qui in maximarum artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britunnos Indiarum Americârum explorator primus He made many observations in his travels especially in America being the first English Man that discovered it which are remitted into the Volums of voyages collected and published by another hand This Person who was a Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex died at Belsie or Belsise in the Parish of Hampsted in the said County 20. June in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Hampsted Soon after was a fair Monument of Alabaster erected over his grave by Sir Will. Waad his eldest Son Clerk of the Counsel to Qu. Elizabeth WILLIAM TURNER a noted and forward Theologist and Physician of his time was born at Morpeth in Northumberland educated in Cambridge in Trivials and afterwards for a time in the study of Medicine This Person who was very conceited of his own worth hot headed a busie body and much addicted to the opinions of Luther would needs in the height of his study of Physick turn Theologist but always refused the usual ceremonies to be observed in order to his being made Priest And whether he had orders confer'd upon him according to the R. Cath. manner appears not Sure it is that while he was a young Man he went unsent for through many parts of the Nation and Preached the Word of God not only in Towns and Villages but also in Cities In his rambles he settled for a time in Oxon among several of his Countrymen that he found there purposely for the conversation of Men and Books which is one reason I put him here the other I shall tell you anon But whether he took a Degree in Arts or Medicine I cannot yet find At the same time and after following his old trade of preaching without a call he was imprison'd and kept in close durance for a considerable time At length being let loose and banished he travelled into Italy and at Ferrara he was made a Doctor of Physick and as much there in esteem for his faculty as after his return into England he was among the reformed party In the latter end of K. Hen. 8. he lived at Colen and other places in Germany where he published one or more Books and returning to his native Country when K. Ed. 6. reigned had not only the Prebendship of Botevant in the Church of York bestowed on him by the Archb. of that place but a Canonry of Windsore and the Deanery of Wells by the King About which time tho the day or month or scarce the Year appears he was incorporated Doctor of Physick with us which is another reason I put him here for if I could have found the certain time which appears not because the Register of that Kings Reign is imperfect I would have remitted him into the Fasti About that time he procured a licence to read and to preach as many Lay-men did that were Scholars practised his faculty among the Nobility and Gentry and became Physician to Edward Duke of Somerset L Protector of England After Q. Mary came to the Crown he left the Nation once more went into Germany with several English Theologists thence to Rome and afterwards for a time settled in Basil But when Qu. Eliz. succeeded he return'd and was restored to his Deanery and had other spiritualities I presume confer'd upon him being then a Person had in much esteem for his two faculties and for the great benefit he did by them especially in his writings to the Church and common-wealth The titles of those Books published under his name are these The hunting of the Romish Fox which more than 7 years hath been hid among the Bishops of England after that the Kings highness had commanded him Turner to be driven out of his Realm Basil 1543. oct Published under the name of Will Wraughton Avium praecipuarum quarum apud Plinium Aristotelem mentio est brevis succincta historia Colon. 1544. in tw Rescuing of the Romish Fox otherwise called the Examination of the hunter devised by Steph. Gardiner Doctor and defender of the Popes Canon Law and his ungodly Ceremonies Printed 1545. in oct published also under the name of W. Wraughton The hunting of the Romish Wolfe Printed beyond the Sea in oct Dialogue wherein is contained the examination of the Masse and of that kind of Priesthood which is ordained to say Mass and to offer up for the remission of sinne the body and blood of Christ againe Lond. in oct New Herball wherein are contained the names of herbs in Greek Lat. Engl. Dutch French and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries with the properties degrees and natural places of the same Lond. 1551. and 68. fol. It must be now noted that after this
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
born at Bolingdon in the same County educated as it seems in New Inn where applying his studies to the Civil Law was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions an 1524. at which time the said Inn was replenished and did excellently flourish with Civilians After he had left the University he became supreme Moderator of the Free-school within the cemitery gate at Canterbury and in 1553 Mayor of that City At length growing rich for his School was very much frequented by the youth of the neighbourhood many of which went afterwards to the Universities he purchased Lands at Preston and Hardacre in Kent which he left to his posterity He was a Person well read in Greek and Lat. Authors in the histories and antiquities of our Nation and much valued for his abilities in other matters by the learned Men of his age particularly by his acquaintance Joh. Leland who numbers him among the illustrious worthies of his time He hath written De rebus Albionicis Britannicis atque Anglicis commentariorum libri duo Lond. 1590. in oct written to his Son Thomas who afterwards with an Epistle made it publick Our Author John Twyne hath also written and collected divers things of antiquities which are dispersed in several hands and some of them descending to his Grandson Brian Twyne he gave them at his death to the Library of C. C. Coll. At length our Author arriving to a good old age year 1581 gave way to fate 24. Novemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and received sepulture in the Chancel of the Church of St. Paul withing the City of Canterbury Over his grave is an inscription wherein he is stiled Armiger and said to have been Mayor of Canterbury in the time of Wyatts rebellion in the beginning of Qu. Mary This Epitaph being written in verse I shall now omit and commend you to that just Encomium of him given by Leland before mentioned By Alice his Wife who died 20. Oct. 1567. aged 60 and in the 43 year of her Wedlock Daughter of Will. Piper of Canterbury he had issue divers Sons The first was Laurence Twyne who was Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and Bach. of the Civil Law an ingenious Poet of his time as several copies of verses set before books written in commendation of their respective Anthors do sufficiently attest He was a married Man lived at Hardacre in Kent and left issue behind him at his death several Children The second was Tho. Twyne before-mention'd whom I shall mention under the Year 1613. The third was John Twyne whose ingenuity also is scatter'd in several copies of verses before books in the time of Qu. Elizabeth and the fourth was Nicholas of whom I know nothing RICHARD COXE was born as 't is said at Whaddon in Bucks elected from Eaton School Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1519 where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon for preferment was made one of the junior Canons of the Cardinal Coll. and in Decemb. 1525 was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same Degree About that time he supplicated that he might answer at the Austin Fryery now called Disputations in Austins and answer the Masters in formal disputations which was granted conditionally that he also oppose at the said Fryery This exercise being by him performed in order to the taking of his Masters Degree he was licensed to proceed in Arts 8. Feb. following and accordingly did proceed in an Act celebrated 2. July 1526. Soon after being notoriously known to be a follower and abettor of the opinions of Luther he was forced to leave Oxon and some years after became Master of Eaton School near to Windsore where by his diligent instruction the boys profited much About the Year 1537 he proceeded D. of D. at Cambridge became Archdeacon of Ely in the room as it seems of Tho. Thirlby promoted to the See of Westminster and afterwards was incorporated at Oxon in the Degree of Doctor In 1543. Jan. 8. he was made Dean of the new erected Cathedral of Osney near Oxon and in 1546 when that See was translated to Ch. Ch. he was also made Dean there In 1547 he was chosen Chancellour of the University of Oxford being in great favour with the then K. Ed. 6. By which election it fell out that as the Oxonians enjoyed one that had been partly educated in Cambridge so it was with the Cantabrigians in former time by their election of John Bromyerd an Oxonian and an eminent writer in the Reign of Rich. 2. and since by their election of Dr. Thomas Ruthal in the Reign of Hen. 7. But what mad work this Dr. Coxe did in Oxon while he sate Chancellour by being the chief Man that worked a reformation I have elsewhere told you In 1548. July 16. he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thomas Magnus who resigned that dignity in 1547 and about that time was made one of the Privy Council Almoner to the King and Dean of Westminster But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he among others fled to Frankfort in Germany where he shewed himself among the English Exiles a zealous Man for the Common Prayer as used in the days of K. Ed. 6. against Joh. Knox a Scot and a violent Calvinist When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded in the Empire he was appointed the chief of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Rom. perswasion in a disputation when that Queen was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England But that disputation coming to nothing he was made Bishop of Ely to which See he was consecrated 21. Dec. 1559 yet whether it was for his retiredness or small hospitality or the spoil he was said to make of his woods and parks feeding his Family with powdered venison he was but in little favour with the said Queen At Cambridge he was esteemed a good Scholar and a better Poet than Dr. Wal. Haddon who call'd him Master as having been either his Scholar or Servant There goes under this Dr. Coxe's names Oration at the beginning of the disputation of Dr. Tresham and others with Pet. Martyr Oration at the conclusion of the disputation These two orations which are in latine were printed 1549. in qu. and afterwards among Pet. Martyrs works Dr. Coxe also had a considerable hand in framing the first Liturgy of the Church of England and a hand in the third an 1559 and also turned into metre the Lords Prayer at the end of the Psalmes of David besides other works not yet remembred by publick Authors He yielded up his last breath 22. Jul. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the Cath. Church of Ely near to the monument of Bishop Goodrich I find another Rich. Coxe who was living and a writer in the tâme of the former but that Rich. Coxe which Joh. Leland the Antiquary and Poet doth so much celebrate for his faith and integrity in
Norfolk where remaining for some time was the first Man as 't is said that ever preached the Gospel in that place even when the Roman Catholick Religion was in great strength But Gardiner Bishop of Winchester having notice of caused search to be made after him Whereupon the said Duke being careful of sent him safely into Germany where in the City of Basil he became a most painful labourer at his Pen in the house of Operinus a learned Printer Being then about 30 years of age he had read over all that either the Greek or Latin Fathers had left in their writings the Schoolmen in their disputations the Councils in their Acts or the Consistory in their Decrees and acquired no mean skill in the Hebrew tongue After King Hen. 8. had been dead some time he returned to Magd. Coll. whence after a little stay he went again to his charge at Riegate and there remaining till after Queen Mary came to the Crown left England once more and retired to his old Landlord at Basil where continuing a severe drudge at his book till Queen Elizabeth was settled in the Throne he returned to his Country and was received by the said Duke then living at his mannour place called Christ Church in London who very bountifully entertain'd him From that house he travelled weekly every Munday to the house of John Day the Printer to consummate his Acts and Monuments of the Church and other works in English and Latin But as for the preferments he then enjoyed for he was offer'd to accept in a manner what he pleased were only the Prebendship of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury which he obtained on the death of Peter Vannes in the month of May 1563 and as some say the Vicaridge of St. Giles near Cripplegate in London but this last I suppose he kept if he had it at all but a little while in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth being always averse to subscribe to the Canons tho tendred to him by Parker Archbishop of Canterbury and to the ceremonies in some part of the Church He was a Person of good natural endowments a sagacious searcher into historical antiquity incomparably charitable of exemplary life and conversation but a severe Calvinist and a very bitter enemy in his writings exceeding the rules of charity as 't is conceived by some against the Rom. Catholick party He hath written De Christo triumphante Comaedia Lond. 1551. Bas 1556. oct c. Written at Basil in the house of Operinus before-mention'd translated into English by Rich. Day or D'aiia Son of John Day the noted Printer in Queen Elizabeths Reign with this title Christ Jesus triumphant wherein is describ'd the glorious triumph and conquest of Christ over sin death and the Law c. Lond. 1579 and 1607 oct Which Ric. Day by the way it must be noted was bred a Scholar in Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwads exercis'd the place of Minister at Riegate in Surrey in the room of our Author Fox but soon after leaving that profession followed the trade of Printing and lived several years near to Aldersgate in London where his Father had lived before In 1672 it was published again at Lond. in oct and dedicated to all Schoolmasters to the end that it might be admitted into their respective Schools for the eminent elegance of its style by T. C. Mast of Arts of Sydney Coll. in Cambridge De censurâ seu excommunicatione ecclesiasticâ interpellatio ad Archiep. Cantuar. Lond. 1551. oct Tables of Grammar Lond. 1552. Commentarii rerum in Ecclesia gestarum maximarumque per totam Europam persecutionum à Wiclevi temproibus ad hanc usque aetatem descript Argent 1554. oct in one book To which the Author added 5 more books all printed together at Basil 1559. fol. Articuli seu Aphorismi aliquot Job Wiclevi sparsim ex variis illius opusculis excerpti per adversarios Papicolas ac concilio Constantiensi exhibiti Collectanea quaedom ex Reginaldi Pecoki Episc Cicestrensis opusculis exustis conservata ex antiquo psegmate transcripta Opistographia ad Oxonienses These three last are printed with his Commentarii Locorum communium Legicalium tituli ordinationes 150 ad seriem praedicamentorum decem descripti c. Bas 1557. qu. Probationes resolutiones de re materiâ sacramenti Eucharistici Lond. 1563. or thereabouts Acts and Monuments of matters most special and memorable hapning in the Church with an universal historie of the same Wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course from the primitive age to these later times of ours c. Lond. 1583. in two vol. in fol. the 4th edition There again 1596 c. Printed also in 3. Volumes 1632 c. In the Year 1684 the said book came out again in 3 volumes with copper cuts the former editions having only wooden The undertakers of which impression had in a manner obtained a promise from King Charles 2. to revive the order in Queen Elizabeths time of placing the said book of Acts and Monuments in the common Halls of Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons Heads of Colleges c. according to the Canons of Dr. Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury an 1571 to the end that they might not be losers by the said impression c. As our Author Fox hath taken a great deal of pains in the said volumes and shew'd sometimes much judgment in his labours so hath he committed many errours therein by trusting to the relations of poor simple People and in making such Martyrs that were living after the first edition of his book came forth tho afterwards by him excused and omitted Nay Father Parsons if he may be believ'd tells us of his wilful corruptions and falsifications of Authors particularly Ven. Bede of his tergiversation impertinent and ignorant arguments contempt of antiquity his rejection of our ancient Historiographers and I know not what But these matters being beyond my Province to mention I shall only refer the reader to the two parts of conversions in the first volume of those three called A treatise of three conversions of England c. where he may not only find much discourse concerning the said book or volumes of Acts and Mon. but also of the Author of them as the index at the latter end will direct him See also the said Parsons his Relation of a trial held in France about religion Printed 1604. p. 59. 60. De Christo crucifixo Concio in die Paracev in 2. Cor. cap 5. ver 20. 21. Lond. 1571. qu. Printed also in English Lond. 1609. oct De Olivâ Evangelica Concio in baptismo Judaei habita Londini 1. Apr. cum narratione capitis XI D. Pauli ad Romanos Lond. 1578. Translated into English by Jam. Bell. To which Latin Sermon is an appendix De Christo triumphante which is the same I have mentioned before Concerning mans election to salvation Lond. 1581. oct Certain notes of election added to Beza his
and that religious Protestants are indeed right Catholicks Lond. 1587. qu. The Schoole of vertue and book of good nurture teaching Children and Youths their duties Lond. 1588. oct c. This book is composed in Engl. meter hath at the end of it certain prayers and graces and is at this day commonly sold at the stalls of Ballad singers Dialogue between Lent and Libertie wherein is declared that Lent is a meer invention of Man Lond. in oct He also translated into English the Psalter of David The Letany with Hymnes and turned into meter Davids Psalmes All printed in the time of Ed. 6. in qu. an 1549. c. He also first of all published The Visions of Pierce Plowman Lond. 1550. qu. Which hath since been once or twice made extant with corrections At length this most zealous Person having lived to a fair age mostly spent in continual action for the settlement and propagation of the Protestant Religion submitted to the stroke of death in Fifteen hundred eighty and eight year 1588 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church dedicated to St. Giles situated and being near to Cripplegate in Lond. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with this inscription engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth the body of Robert Crowley Clerk late Vicar of this Parish who departed this life the 18 day of June an dom 1588. GEORGE ETHRYG or Etheridge or as he writes himself in Latine Edrycus was born in a mercate town in Oxfordshire called Thame admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. in Nov. 1534 being then put under the tuition of John Shepreve and in Feb. 1539 was made Probationer-Fellow In 1543 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and two years after was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Aphorismes of Hypocrates At length being esteemed by all to be a most excellent Grecian he was made the Kings Professor of that language in the University about 1553 and kept that lecture till some time after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown and then because he had been a forward Person against the Protestants in Qu. Maries Reign was forced to leave it So that following the practice of his faculty of Medicine with good success in and near Oxon especially among those of his opinion gained a considerable stock of wealth He mostly lived and kept a Family in an antient decayed place of literature called George hall opposite almost to the South end of Catstreet in St. Maries Parish in Oxon in which he took to him in the condition of Sojournours the Sons of divers Catholick Gentlement to be instructed in several arts and sciences among whom was Will. Gifford afterwards Archbishop of Rheimes who received from him rudiments in Grammar Musick and partly in Logick He constantly adher'd to the R. Catholick Religion wherein he had been zealously educated for which he suffer'd at the reformation by losing his lecture perhaps his Fellowship too and by continual imprisonments to be great impoverishment of his health and estate In a word he was esteemed by most Persons especially by those of his opinion a noted Mathematician well skill'd in vocal and instrumental Musick an eminent Hebrician Grecian and Poet and above all an excellent Physician as it appears in certain books of his composition the titles of which follow Musical compositions Diversa Carmina MS. Acta Henrici octavi carmine Graec. Presented in MS. to Qu. Elizabeth when she was in Oxon. 1566. Hypomnemata quaedam in aliquot libros Pauli Aeginetae seu observationes medicamentorum quae hâc aetate in usu sunt Lond. 1588 oct He also turn'd the Psalmes of David into a short form of Hebrew verse and translated most if not all of the works of Justin Martyr from Greek into Latin with other things which I have not yet seen He was living an antient Man in fifteen hundred eighty and eight but when or where he died I know not nor where buried unless in the ayard of St. Maries Church in Oxon in which his Father and Mother were before buried John Leland who was his familiar friend did celebrate his memory by verse while he lived and told him thus Scripsisti juvenis multâ cum laude libellos Qui Regi eximiè perplacuere meo PETER LEVENS or Levins was born at or near Eske in Yorkshire became a Student in the University an 1552 was elected probationer-Fellow of Madg. Coll. into a Yorkshire place 18. Jan. 1557. being then Bach. of Arts and on the 19. Jan. 1559 was admitted true and perpetual Fellow In 1560. he left his fellowship and one Thomas Dunne M. A succeeded him but whether our Author Levens proceeded in Arts or took a degree in Physick or was licensed to practise that Faculty it appears not in our Registers Afterwards he taught a Grammar-School and practised Physick which is all I know of him only that he wrot and published these things following A Dictionary of English and Latine words c. the English going before the Latine necessary for Scholars that want variety of words and for such as use to write in English metre Lond. 1570. in 18. sh in qu. A right profitable book for all diseases called the Path-way to health wherein are most excellent and approved medicines of great vertue as also notable potions and drinks and for the Distilling of divers waters and making of Oyles and other comfortable receipts Lond. 1587. qu. The Author is stiled in the title page Master of Arts of Oxon. and student in Physick and Chirurgerie This Book was afterwards several times printed with corrections and one Edition came out at Lond. 1664. what else Peter Levens hath written I cannot yet tell THOMAS SAMPSON was born about the year 1517 educated in Grammar and Academical learning amongst the Oxonian Muses afterwards studied the municipal Laws in one of the Temples where being converted to the Protestant Religion did shortly after as 't is said convert John Bradford the Martyr Whereupon they both taking Orders from Nich. Ridley Bishop of London became noted Preachers in the Reign of Ed. 6 and about that time Sampson as 't is said was made Dean of Chichester In the beginning of Qu. Mary he absconded at which time being well acquainted with one Rich. Chambers a zealous Protestant they collected moneys in the City of London from the well affected there to be distributed among such poor Scholars of each University that were haters of the Roman Catholick Religion Which matter being at length discovered he with his wife the Neice of Hugh Latimer were forced with Chambers to go beyond the Seas to Strasburge where wholly applying himself to the study of Divinity as much advanced in the knowledge thereof by his often associating himself with learned Tremelius After Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his native country and became a frequent Preacher in London and much followed by the reformed party there and afterwards in
the year 1594. Treatise wherein is manifestly proved that Reformation and those that sincerely favour the same are unjustly charged to be Enemies unto her Majesty and the State Printed 1590. in qu. This was answered in a Book intit Pasquils Apology the first part wherein he renders a reason of his long silence and gallops the Field with the Treatise of Reformation Printed where I was and where I shall be ready by the help of God and my Muse to send you a may-game of Martinism An. 1590. qu. Hay ' any work for a Cooper c. This was written against Dr. Tho. Coper before-mentioned and said to be printed in Europe not far from some of the bouncing Priests An. 1590. qu. Epitomy of the first Book of Dr. John Bridges against the Puritans Printed in qu. Oh! read over Dr. Joh. Bridges for it is a worthy Work This was written against Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxon and said to be printed over Sea in Europe within two furlongs of a bouncing Priest at the cost and charges of Mart. Marprelate Gent. in qu. Epistles to the terrible Priests in the Convocation House in qu. The State of the Church of England in oct Petition for Peace in oct His Apology This I have not yet seen Of Prelatick Ministry Printed 1609. in qu. History of Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. Ch. Applied to the Prelacy Ministry and Church Assemblies of England Printed 16. 9. qu. This Book being left imperfect by the Author when he was seized and imprisoned was published by one of his ãâã who saith in the Title that it was written by Joh. ãâã a ãâã of Jesus Christ and in the Epistle to the Reader ãâ¦ã was a godly Man learned zealous and of a ãâ¦ã carriage and courage That with all ãâ¦ã he endeavoured to have the Gospel preached ãâã among his poor Country Men whose Case he ãâ¦ã passion of in that they wanted the ãâã of ãâ¦ã After all this God using him as a ãâ¦ã more clear manifestation of ãâ¦ã imprisioned condemned and excuted and so ãâ¦ã dom for the Name of Christ c. These ãâ¦ã Titles I have here set down are all ãâ¦ã knowledge if not too many ãâ¦ã Author of which did in most of them ãâ¦ã of England and its Members that ãâ¦ã Roman ãâ¦ã of them in their Books and Marprelate for a grave Author and Witness c. But this the Reader is to understand that the learned and sober Men did answer most or all of the said Books which were printed by stealth partly in that nest of rigid Puritans and Schismaticks at Fawsly in Northamptonshire and partly at Coventry and elsewhere because they knew Penry to have more than ordinary Learning in him yet they did not so much work on the Author and his Disciples make them ridiculous and put him and them to silence more than those Answers which were written in a buffooning stile as 1 that written by Tom Nash intit Pappe with an hatchet alias A Fig for my God-Son Or Crack me this Nut Or A Country Cuff that is A sound Box of the Ear for the Ideot Martin to hold his Peace Written by one that dares call a Dog a Dog Imprinted by John Ancke c. And are to be sold at the Sign of the Crab-tree Cudgel in Thwack-coat-Lane 2 That entit Martin's months mind c. pr. 1589. in qu. 3 That called The return of the renowned Cavaliero Pasquill of England from the other side of the Seas and his meeting with Marforius at London upon the Royal Exchange c. Lond. 1589. qu. against Martin and Martinism 4 Another entit A countercuff given to Martin Junior c. by the Pasquill of Engl. Cavaliero c. Lond. 1589. qu. 5 That entit The first part of Pasquill's Apology which I have before mention'd 6 A certain Oxford Scholar under the Name of Cuthbert Curry-Knave who in his Book called An Almond for a Parrot or an Alms for Mart. Marprelate c. Printed in qu. doth most egregiously run Martin down I say that these Buffoonries and Pasquils did more non-plus Penry and his Disciples and so consequently made their Doctrine more ridiculous among the common sort than any grave or learned Answer could do as in some part did A. L. who entitles himself Anti-Martinus in his Monitio ad adolescentes utriusque Academia Lond. 1589. qu. At length our Author Penry being apprehended at Stepney near to London after his return from beyond the Sea for his writing and publishing infamous Books and Libels and the Religion then established was after condemnation rto die for the same hang'd at St. Thomas à Waterings on the 29. year 1593 May in fifteen hundred ninety and three He was adjudged at the King's Bench by Sir Jo. Popham Knight L. Ch. Justice of that Court and the rest of the Judges there assembled on the 25. of the said Month of May but was not executed on the next day after judgment as it was expected nor the second nor the third day after But when Men looked least for the same as one saith then was he brought forth being at dinner as I have heard by a Warrant under the Hands of John Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Sir John Popham aforesaid and the matter being carried after a close manner he was suddenly conveyed to the place of Execution where he was as hastily bereaved of his Life and not suffered though he desired it to make declaration of his Faith towards God or of his Allegiance to her Majesty c. Thus by the Death of this forward and zealous Person with the condemnation of John Vdal and Henry Barrow before that time the neck of the Plots of the fiery Non-conformists were broken and their brags turned into Preaching of Preces and Lachrymae as the only means for Christian Subjects WILLIAM FLEETWOOD was born of being a natural Son and descended from the Fleet woods of Penwortham and they from those of Heskyn in Lancashire educated for a time in this University either in Brasnose Coll. or Broadgates Hall left it without a degree and retired to the Middle Temple where by continual industry advanced by good natural parts he attained to the name of an eminent Lawyer In 5 of Eliz. he was elected Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house and in the year following Autumn-Reader again but he omitting one of those times to read he was in the 11th year of the said Queen elected Double Reader thereof in Lent About that time being made Recorder of London he was afterwards by Writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law An. 1580. and in 1592. he was made the Queen's Serjeant He was a learned Man and a good Antiquary but a marvelous merry and pleasant conceit And as touching his Learning Justice and Elocution I cannot better describe them than a Poet of those days hath done in certain Verses beginning thus Ipse forem brevibus gyaris
matter after that Pope Sixtus 5. had bestowed on him the title of Cardinal and the Spaniard had gave him an Abbacy in the Kingdom of Naples and nominated him Archbishop of Machlin When the Bull of Excommunication against Q. Elizabeth at that time that the great Navy was provided for England came forth he brought it into the Low Countries and caused it to be printed in English Withal he wrote an Admonition to the Englishmen that they should stick to the Pope and Spaniard but being deceived of all his hopes he returned again back to Rome where being wearied with the discords hatreds and dissentions of the English Run-aways both Scholars and Nobles at last he dyed in the 63 year of his Age c. Another saith That he was so ill deserving to be accounted English as that like another Herostratus he endeavoured to raise a combustion in the Church and State c. But let Writers say what they please certain it is that he was an active Man and of great parts and high prudence that he was Religious and Zealous in his Profession restless till he had performed what he had undertaken that he was very affable gentile and winning and that his personage was handsome and proper which with an innate gravity commanded respect from those that came near or had to do with him His Works as to learning are these A defence of the Doctrine of Catholicks concerning Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead Antw. 1565. in oct Brief Reasons concerning Cath. Faith Treatise made in defence of the lawful Power and Authority of Priesthood to remit Sins Lov. 1567. oct The People's duty for confession of their Sins to God's Ministers Printed with the Treatise made c. The Churches meaning concerning Indulgences commonly called Pope's Pardons Printed also with the Treatise made c. Which three last were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge De Antw. 1576. qu Sacramentis in genere Sacramento Eucharistiae Sacrificio Euch. Apology and true declaration of the institution and endeavours of the two English Colleges the one in Rome the other now resident in Rhemes against certain finiste informations given up against the same Printed at Mounts in Heââcault 1581. in a large oct This Books is said by one to be a princely grave and flourishing piece of natural and exquisite English Apologia pro sacerdotibus Societatis Jesu Seminariorum alumnis contra Edicta Regia Printed in a Book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct 1594. in qu. part 3. Piissima admonitio consolatio verè Christiana ad afflictos Catholicos Angliae Printed also in the said Book A true sincere and modest defence of the English Catholicks that suffer for their Faith both at home and abroad against a slanderous Libel entit The Execution of Justice in England Not expressed where or when Printed but by the character and some passages therein is shew'd that it was Printed beyond the Seas about 1583. in oct Printed also in Latin at Ingolst 1584. in oct and in a Book entit Concertat Eccles Cath. in Anglia c. 1594. This defence was answered by Dr. Tho. Bilson in the third part of his Book of the Supremacy or in that Book called The true difference between Christian Subjection and Vnchristian Rebellion As for The Execution of Justice which the defence answers was written as it was then and since reported by Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh The second impression of which made at Lond. 1583. in five sheets in oct I have and bears this Title The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of Publick and Christian Peace against certain stirs of sedition and adherents to the Traytors and Enemies of the Realm without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsly reported c. Epistola de Daventriae ditione Cracov 1588. in oct Printed also about that time in English It must be noted that in 1587. Will. Stanley and Rowl York Englishmen did traiterously deliver up a Fort near Zutphen and the strong Garrison of Daventry to the Spaniard whereupon our Author Dr. Allyn did being provoked by the Bull of Pius 5. against Q. Elizabeth not only commend the Treason but excited others in the said Epistle to the like exploit or perfidiousness as if they were neither bound to serve nor obey an excommunicated Queen At which time the said Allyn dispatched away divers Priests to Rowl York whose Regiment of 13 hundred consisted all of English and Irish to be Chaplains and Confessors to them In the year 1588. our author Allyn compiled a Book to be published when the Spaniard should arrive into England to stir up all the English Papists to take up Arms against the Queen The first part of the said Book was intit A declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus 5. Grounded on the said Pope's Crusaido whereby he gave plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all Sins to all that gave their helping hand to deprive Q. Elizabeth of her Kingdom The second part was entit An admonition to the Nobility and People of England Which Book or Books coming straightway to the knowledge of the Queen she dispatched away D. Val. Dale to the Prince of Parma Vice-Roy of the Low Countries for the King of Spain who being introduced into his presence he did mildly expostulate with him about the said Book or Books written by Allyn wherein as Dale said he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under him the said Prince to invade England c. but he pretended he knew nothing of such a Book and so sent him away unsatisfied However so it was that presently upon the overthrow of the great invincible Armado under their heroical Adlantado certain Roman Catholicks procured the whole impression to be burned saving some few that had been sent abroad beforehand to Friends and such as had otherwise been conveyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise What else our Author Allyn hath written Joh. Pitseus who speaks very honorably of him will tell you who adds that he gave up the ghost on the 6 of Oââob according to our accompt in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel of the English Colledge at Rome where there is an Epitaph for him which being printed by two several Authors at least I shall now pass it by The Jesuits triumphed openly as one saith at his Death and among other of the calumniations against him they said That God had taken him away in a good time for if he had lived longer he would have disgraced himself and lost the credit which he had got In one or more Books containing the lives or at least characters with the Arms of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome it appears that the Arms of Cardinal Allyn are Argent 3 Connies or Rabbets passant Sable yet the ancient Arms belonging to
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
one County three such Divines as Jewel Hooker and Rainolds of the second of which hear I pray what the learned Camden saith In this year meaning 1599. which is false dyed too many in that one Rich. Hooker born in Devonshire and bred in C. C. coll in Oxford a Divine very moderate temperate and meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and besides very famous for his learned works as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy set forth in the English but worthy to speak Latin do testifie of him c. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy which were entred into the Register in Stationers hall 9. March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in four books Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book which is larger than the first four printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton in Latin to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation he the said Pope in conclusion said thus There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into nothing too hard ãâã his Vnderstanding This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author His books will get reverence by age for there are in them such seeds of Eternity that if the rest bâ like this they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning c. At the same time K. James of Scotland afterwards of England did put an high esteem upon the said books and usually said They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason King Ch. 1. had read them over several times was well vers'd in and commended them to be read by the Prince afterwards K. Ch. 2. and his other Children next to the Bible The learned Vsher Primate of Ireland Morton B. of Durham Hales of Eaton c. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said he had been highly esteemed of all prudent peaceable and impartial Readers But before the fifth book had been extant two years was published a Pamphlet intit A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion authorized and professed in England unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expresly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity Printed 1599. in qu. which matters of Doctrine as they say seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion and of the Church among us But therein it doth appear that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour who in an argument so distasted by them and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend have only carped sillily at some things neither of moment or importance whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose have only discovered Mr Hookers great mature and grave judgment and their own small undigested and shallow learning Soon after came out an answer to the said letter entit A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity c. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants c. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashiâe near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath bred in Christs and Queens coll in Cambridge and a writer of other books that came out soon after As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy which our author Hooker compleated before his death they with the consent of his unlucky Widdow were seized on in his study soon after his decease by Will. Charke a noted Puritan and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen did either burn them in the place or convey them away secretly So that the foul copy being only remaining with many interlinings Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend got it into his hands who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll as an Amanâensis and otherwise did compleat it as much as could be and kept it by him till his latter end with an intent that it should be published but upon what account he was hindred I cannot tell Sure it is that when he lay on his death-bed he bequeathed the said copy containing the three last books fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson to Dr. Jo. King B. of London After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry who became B. of Chichester 1641. till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody authorizing Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth which accordingly was done The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities did put them into the Library there where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction given with the Library to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peters as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Churches confusion And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Soveraign Power to the People From the said copy several transcripts were taken not only I presume while it remained in the said Library but while it continued in the hands of Peters differing much in words There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies viz. with that in Bodley's Library that at Lambeth that in Bish Andrew's that in Archb. Vsher's Library and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley but whether the publisher may be believed I know not Sure I am that the said three last books which are said to be true and genuine but from whence obtained I cannot tell were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker that learned godly judicious and eloquent Divine vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reformed in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity now compleated as with the sixth and eighth so with the seventh c. out of his own MSS. never before published with an account of his holy Life and happy Death Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing we have good reason to question as also the greater part of his Life which he the said Gauden hath falsly written who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfie the World that the before-mentioned three books were pen'd by Mr. Hooker
notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the Regal Power which are to be found in them Now altho this is generally confessed that the said three books are not genuine yet some Nonconformists and among these chiefly Mr. Rich. Baxter do urge seemingly probable reasons to induce a belief that these posthumous books as published by Dr. Gauden are to be accounted the true and authentick Writings of Mr. Hooker yet this must be known that the reason why the said Mr. Baxter contends so eagerly for their genuineness is because the said three books but more especially the eighth do contain certain popular and false Principles concerning the true Nature of the Legislative Power the Original of Government and the Office of Kings it self as derived from the People And on this account it is that he seems to take a more than ordinary delight in so often telling the World that the Abettors of these seditious positions have so great a Chruch-man as our author was justly esteemed on their side It was these and such like Prelatist's principles as he saith meaning I guess Bish Jewell but chiefly Bish Bilson in his book of Christian Subjection c. which he frequently cites as defending the resistance of Superiours in some cases and such like pernicious tenets and whom he usually joyns with Mr. Hooker in quotations of this kind that led him to what he did and wrote in the book of Holy Commonwealth which he hath retracted And that he may charge these destructive Assertions home on our author he saith if any do causlesly question whether the eighth imperfect book be in those dangerous passages above-mentioned his own let them remember that the summ of them is in his first book which is old and highly honoured by the Prelatists And after all this to shew himself an Enemy to the above-named Principles he examines and confutes the first and eighth books so far as they make for popularity with some strictures intermixed on Bishop Bilson's false Notes of subjection whereby he makes but a scanty satisfaction for the malignant influence those many traiterous opinions with which his Political Aphorismes are fraught have had on the minds of many giddy People towards the withdrawing them from yielding cheerful obedience to their lawful Superiours and this notwithstanding he hath sometime since called this piece in The eighth book is commonly supposed to have been first published together with the sixth and seventh by Bish Gauden yet Mr. Baxter affirms that the said eighth book was in print long before that time which is true for the sixth and eighth were printed at Lond. 1648. in qu. nay all the eight books with certain Tractates and Sermons together with the author's Life were published in two vol. in fol. 1617. As for the other Books and Sermons that our author Hooker hath written are these following Answer to a supplication preferred by Mr. Walt. Travers to the H. H. Lords of the Privy Council Oxon. 1612. qu. Causes of contention concerning Church-Government Oxon. 1641. qu. As for his Sermons they are these 1 Discourse of Justification Works and how the foundation of Faith is overthrown on Abak 1. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 2 Of the Nature of Pride on Abak 2. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 3 Remedy against Sorrow and Fear Fun. Sermon on Joh. 14. 27. Ox. 1612. qu. 4 Of the certainty and perpetuity of Faith in the Elect on Abak 1. 4. 5 Two Sermons upon part of St. Jude's Epistle viz. ver 17 18 19 20 21. Oxon. 1614. qu. All which Sermons with Wickliffs Wicket were published by Henry Jackson Fellow of C. C. coll reprinted at London the Wicket excepted an 1622. fol. at the end of the five books of Ecclesiastical Policy c. and again at the end of the eight books Lond. 1682. fol. 6 Serm. on Matth. 7. 7. Found in the study of Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester and published by Isaac Walton at the end of Dr. Saunderson's Life Lond. 1678. oct What other things our most renowned author Hooker hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that paying his last debt to Nature on the second of Nov. year 1600 in sixteen hundred leaving then behind him the character of Schismaticorum Malleus was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bishops-Bourne in Kent before-mentioned Over his Grave was 35 years after a Monument erected by Will. Cowper Esq with the Statua of Bust of the Defunct to the middle part of his Bodyâ From which Statua was taken the picture of him set before his Life written by the said Isaac Walton of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the ancient Borough of Stafford in Aug. 1593. that he was by Trade a Sempster in Chancery-lane in London where continuing till about 1643. at which time he found it dangerous for honest men to be there he left that City and lived sometimes at Stafford and elsewhere but mostly in the Families of the eminent Clergy-men of England of whom he was much beloved He hath written the lives of Dr. Joh. Donne Sir Hen. Wotton Mr. Rich. Hooker Mr. George Herbert and of Dr. Rob. Sanderson sometimes B. of Lincoln All which are well done considering the education of the author as also The compleat Angler or the contemplative Man's recreation c. He ended his days in the great Frost at Winchester in the house of Dr. Will. Hawkins Preâendary of the Church there who had married his Daughter on the 15. Dec. 1683. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at that place GEORGE CRANMER a Gent. sometimes of singular hopes eldest Son of Tho. Cranmer Son of Edm. Cranmer Archdeacon of Canterbury who died in the beginning of 1571. Brother to Tho. Archb. of that place was born in Kent admitted Scholar of C. Ch. Coll. 10. Jan. 1577. aged 13. or thereabouts and was then or soon after put under the tuition of the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who found him afterwards very useful to him when he was compiling the books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1583. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that house and six years after was licensed to proceed in Arts. About which time he betook himself to the service of Will. Davison Esq one of the Secretaries of State After whose removal he went in place of Secretary with Sir Hen. Killegrew in his Embassage into France and after his death he accompanied that worthy and learned Gent. Sir Edwyn Sandys in his travels into France Germany Italy and other parts for the space of three years After his return he was sought out by the most Noble Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy with whom he went into Ireland in the quality of Secretary where he remained until his unfortunate Death He hath written Letter to Mr. Richard Hooker concerning the new Church discipline Feb. 1598. Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Remitted into the Life of R. Hooker written by Is Walton Lond. 1670. p. 123. Our author Cranmer hath
was admitted it appears not in any of the registers of that time In 1601. he being then fam'd for his learning he was made canon of Windsore in the place of Rog. Browne B. D. sometimes of Kings coll in Cambridge deceased which with Eaton he held to his dying day He hath written Scholia ad Barlaami Monachi Logisticam Astronomiam Par. 1600. qu. Which book he also translated from Greek into Latin Treatise against Judicial Astrology Lond. 1601. qu. In which book having done no less than a christian learned man ought to have done he had reason to look for another reward of his labours than he found For instead of thanks and commendation for his labours so well placed he was roughly entertain'd by Sir Christop Heyden Knight sometimes of Cambridge University afterwards High-Steward of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych in his Defence of judicial Astrology Cambr. 1603. qu. a work full of no common reading and carried on with no mean arguments But our author not living to see his reply published he was some years after defended by his friend George Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1628. As for Sir Cristop Heyden who was a man of parts and had been Knighted at the sacking of Cadiz by Rob. Earl of Essex in 1596. was of Baconsthorp in Norfolk and died in the winter time as it seems in 1623. The reply which our author wrote but could not live to put it in the press hath this title A confutation of Astrological Daemonology or the Devils School in defence of a treatise intit Against judiciary Astrology and oppugned in the name of Sir Ch. Heyden Knight This is a MS. very fairly written in fol. richly bound and gilt dedicated by the author to K. James with an Epistle dated from Windsor Chappel 2. Feb. 1603. The beginning of which is In the midst of all my pains and labours most puissant and renowned Prince c. and the beginning of the work it self is In the setting down and delivery of Arts Galen in his book intit Ars Medicinalis c. 'T was the very same book as it seems that was given to the King which coming into the hands of Sir Hen. Savile he gave it to his Mathematical Library in Oxon. Astronomiae encomium ante annos 27. peroratum quo tempore Prolomei Almagestum in Vniversitate Oxon enarravit Lond. 1601. in Lat. and Engl. These I think are all the things that our author Jo. Chamber hath either written or published and therefore I have nothing more to say only that he yielding up his last breath at Windsore on the first of August in sixteen hundred and four year 1604 was buried on the north side of the entrance into the Choire of S. Georges Chappel there Over his grave was soon after a plain marble laid whereon is insculp'd the figure of a man in a mantle bearing an Escutcheon of S. Georges arms with this inscription under him Johanni Chamber Socio primum collegii Mertonensis an 1569. dein Etonensis an 1582. postremum canonico hujus Ecclesia an 1601. Theologo Medico Mathematico insigni Henricus Nevill Henricus Savile Milites posuere Natus apud Swillington in Com. Ebor. an 1546. Mense Maio obiit Etonae an 1604. ineunte Augusto corpus hoc marmore humatum jacit Praeter alia Legavit moriens collegio Mertonensi Mille Libras The said thousand pounds were by him given to Merton coll to purchase Lands in Yorkshire on this condition that two Scholarships of the said college should be supplied out of Eaton School by the nomination and election of the provost of Kings coll in Cambridge and the provost of Eaton This gift was soon after settled and the two Scholars were successively added to the number of the 12 Postmasters of the said house of Merton MEREDITH HANMER Son of Tho. Hanmer commonly called Ginta Hanmer of Porkington in Shropshire was born in that county but descended from the Hanmers of Hanmer in Flintshire became chaplain of C. C. coll in Apr. 1567. took the degrees in Arts and after some yeas spent in that house was made Vicar of S. Leonards Shoreditch in London Among the inhabitants of which place he left an ill name for that he converted the brass of several ancient monuments there into coine for his own use as an observing author tells us In 1581. and 82. he took the degrees of Divinity about which time he went into Ireland and at length became Treasurer of the Church of the Holy Trinity now called Ch. Church in Dublin which he kept to his dying day He was esteemed an exact Disputant a good Preacher Grecian and excellent for Ecclesiastical and Civil Histories He hath written Confutation and answer of the great braggs and challenge of Mr. Campion the Jesuit containing 9 articles by him directed to the Lords of the Privy Council Lond. 1581. oct The Jesuits banner displaying their original and success their vow and other their hypocrisie and superstition their doctrine and positions Lond. 1581. qu. A confutation of a brief censure upon two books written in answer to Mr. Campions offer of disputation-Printed with The Jesuits banner c. soon after came out A defence of the Censure c. See more in Rob. Persons under the year 1610. The Chronicle of Ireland in two parts The second of which was printed at Dublin in 1633. fol. Sermon at the baptizing of a Turk on Math. 5. 15. Lond. 1586. oct An Ephemeris of the Saints of Ireland A Chronography with a supputation of the years from the beginning of the World unto the birth of Christ and continued from the birth of Christ where Eusebius chiefly Socrates Evagrius and Dorotheus after him do write unto the twelfth year of the reign of Mauritius the Emperour being the full time of 600 years wanting five after Christ All chiefly collected out of Eusebius Socrates and Evangrius Lond. 1585. c. fol. Besides these he hath translated from Greek into English 1 The ancient Ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ originally written by Eusebius Socrates and Evagrius Lond. 1577. 85. c. fol. 2 The lives ends and Martyrdoms of the Prophets Apostles and 70 disciples of Christ originally written by Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus Printed with the former translation This Dr. Hanmer as it appears had translated all the Church Historians except Eusebius his four books concerning the life of Emperour Constantine and the two orations subjoined thereunto which were afterwards done by Wye Saltonstal and printed in a fifth edition of Hanmers translation London 1650. fol. At length Dr. Hanmer being suddenly berest of his life by the plague raging in Dublin before he attained to the sixtieth year of his age year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four was as I presume buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity there Joh. Weevon whom I have here quoted tells us that he ended his days in Ireland ignominiously but what his meaning is to
of Broughton in Lincolnshire as being a younger Son of Thomas Anderson descended from the Addersons of Scotland who lived first in Northumberland and afterwards at Broughton before-mentioned did spend some time in Oxon in Linc. coll as it seems from whence being sent to the Inner Temple did by his indefatigable study obtain great knowledge in the Municipal Laws In the 9. of Q Eliz. he was either Lent or Summer Reader of that House in the 16. Double Reader and in the 19. of the said Queen's Reign Serjeant at Law In 1582. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas in the place of Sir Jam. Dyer deceased and in the year following he was made a Knight being then esteemed a zealous promoter of the established discipline of the Church of England as afterwards a severe prosecuter in his Circuits of the Brownists In 1586. he sate in judgment on Mary Q. of Scots at which time he was Chief Justicer of the Bench as a certain author stiles him being then a learned Man of the Law He wrote much but nothing is printed under his name only Reports of many principle Cases argued and adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth in the Common Bench. Lond. 1664. fol. Resolutions and judgments on the cases and matters agitated in all the Courts at Westminster in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Collected by Joh. Goldesburg Esque and by him published at Lond. in qu. This Sir Edm. Anderson died at London on the first of August in sixteen hundred and five year 1605 and on the 5. of Sept. following his Funerals were solemnized at Eyworth or Eworth in Bedfordshire where he had an Estate leaving issue several Sons whose Posterity remaineth there and elsewhere to this day In the place of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas suceeded Sir Francis Gaudy of the Inner Temple RALPH WARCUPP Son and Heir of Cuthb Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esq descended from those of Warcupp in Yorkshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1561. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts went to travel and became in time the most accomplished Gentleman of the age he lived in and Master of several Languages Afterwards setling in his Native Country he became Justice of Peace and Parliamentarian Knight for Oxfordshire in that Convention met at Westminster 43. Eliz. In the beginning of K. James's Reign he was by him designed Embassador either to France or Spain and had gone but was prevented by death He hath written and translated several things as 't is said but I have only seen his translation of Prayers on the Psalms Lond. 1571. in sixteens written originally by August Marlorat He died much lamented in the sixtieth year of his age on the Ides of Aug. in sixteen hundred and five and was buried in the Chancel year 1605 of Nuffield near to English before-mentioned Soon after came out a little book of verses on his death made by sixteen of the Members of New coll of which Will. Kingsmill his Kinsman was one and the chief from whence may be collected that the said R. Warcupp was the most compleat Esquire of his time FRANCIS TRESHAM Esq Son of Sir Tho. Tresham Knight who died 11. Sept. 1605. and he the Son of Sir John Tresham of Rushton in Northamptonshire was born in that County where his Family was ancient gentile and knightly educated either in St. Johns coll or Gloc. hall or both in which he laid the foundation of some learning that he afterwards improved by experience He hath written as 't is supposed A Treatise agaist Lying and fraudulent Equivocation MS. among those given by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to Bodlies Library See more in George Blackwell under the year 1612. After the Gunpowder Treason was discovered the said book was found by Sir Edw. Coke in a Chamber in the Inner Temple where Sir John Tresham used to lie 5. Dec. 1605. The said Fr. Tresham wrote De Officio Principis Christiani In which he maintains the lawfulness of deposing Kings an obstinate Heretick having no right to Dominion At length this person who was a strict R. Catholick being deeply ingaged in the Gunpowder-Treason as he had before been in that of Robert Earl of Essex in 1600. was taken and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died of the Stranguary say some others that he murthered himself yet a venerable author tells us that he being sick in the Tower and Dr. Will. Butler the great Physician of Cambridge coming to visit him as his fashion was gave him a piece of very pure Gold to put in his mouth and upon taking out of that Gold Butler said he was poysoned He died on the 20. of Nov. year 1605 in sixteen hundred and five aged 38. or thereabouts Whereupon his head being cut off and set with the rest of the heads of the Conspirators on London Bridge his body I suppose was buried within the Precincts of the Chappel of St. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London Quere This Francis Tresham was the person who wrote the Letter to the Lord Mount-Eagle who lived then at Bednall green near Algate who communicating it to the Secretary of State and he to the King the Plot for blowing up the Parliament House was thereupon discovered See in Tho. Habington under the year 1647. CHARLES TURNHULL a Lincolnshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 24. Dec. 1573. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1581. about which time he was made Fellow of the said coll and became Famous for his admirable knowledge in the Mathematick Science He hath written A perfect and easie Treatise of the use of the Celestial Globe written as well for an introduction to the unskilful in Astronomy as for the use of such as be exercised in the art of Navigation Lond. 1597. oct Which I think was the second Edition He also built and made those several sorts of Dialls that stand upon a Pillar in the middle of C. C. coll Quadrangle an 1605. What other things he wrote or when he died I cannot yet find See more in Rob. Hegge an 1629. AEGEON ASKEW a person as well read in the Fathers Commentators and Schoolmen as any man of his age in the University was born in Lancashire became a Student in the University in 1593. aged 17. or thereabouts Chaplain of Queens coll in 98. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a noted Preacher and a great admirer of Dr. Jo. Raynolds and Ric. Crakenthorpe In the beginning of the Reign of K. James he lest the college and retiring to Greenwich in Kent became Minister I think of that place His works are Of brotherly reconcilement in several Sermons Preached in Oxon. Lond. 1605. qu. The author then lived at Greenwich An Apology of the use of the Fathers and secular learning in Sermons In which two books is shewed much
1 The Song of Songs which was Solomons metaphrased in English heroicks by way af dialogue Lond. 1621. qu. dedic to Hen. King Archd. of Colchester Son to the Bishop of Lond. 2 The Brides ornament Poetical Essayes upon a Divine Subject In two books Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip Brother to Henry King 3 Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London c. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowlege Zeal Temperance Bounty and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence Obedience Meekness God's Word and Prayer Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press at the same time with the former Poetry But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord which did change all his Joys into Sorrows and Songs to Lamentation did defert their publication and whether they were afterwards published I know not HENRY BILLINGSLEY Son of Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury did spend some time among the Muses in this University as others did who were afterwards Traders in London particularly Benedict Burnham of St. Albans hall afterwards a rich Citizen Sheriff and Alderman of London But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years in which time as 't is probable he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead then or lately a Fryer of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher as it seems in London Afterwards setting up for himself he became so rich that he was made successively Sheriff Alderman one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof and a Knight But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him is that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London In which time he learned Mathematicks of him and became so excellent in them that he went beyond many of his time whether Lay-men or profess'd Scholars When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected together with his notes on Euclids Elements which he had with great pains drawn up and digested Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples manifold additions Scholias annotations and inventions from the best Mathematicians both in time past and in the age he lived in Which being done he published them under this title The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara faithfully translated into the English tongue Whereunto are added certain Scholias annotations c. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age 22. year 1606 Nov. in sixteen hundred and six and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London What or where was the end of Whytehead I cannot tell yet thus much I know that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematicks I had from the Mathematical observations of our Antiquary Brian Twyne and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll 29. Hen. 8. dom 1537. and remembred and had some acquaintance with Whytehead and Billingsley I find also one Rob. Billingsley who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetick and Mathematicks and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra called An Idea of Arithmetick c. Whether he was descended from or related to Sir Henry I know not JOHN SAVILE elder Brother to Sir Henry Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire Esq was born in that County particularly as it seems at Over-Bradley became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1561. or thereabouts where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University and sent to the Middle-Temple where making great proficiencie in the Municipal Laws was called to the Bar fell into considerable Practice became Autumn-reader of that house 28 Elizab. dom 1586. Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize When K. James came to the Crown he not only continued him in his Barons place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him just before his Coronation the honour of Knighthood 23. July following an 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity He left behind him at his death certain things fit for the Press of which only this following is as yet made publick Reports of divers special Cases as well in the Court of Common Pâeas as of the Exchequer in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet London and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire where it was buried in an Isle joyning on the South side of the Church belonging to that place Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judges Robes cut out from stone laying thereon The Reader is to know that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronized in his studies by his kinsman a young Spark called George Savile Son of Sir George Savile Knight which John wrote among several things K. James his entertainment at Theobalds with his welcome to London and a salutory Poem Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile before-mentioned The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World having been in Italy about 3000 years some of which have been Consuls before and after the time of our Saviour But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out that
and add that the platform of the said Resolution was laid to his hand by L. de Granada who gave him the principal grounds and matter thereof and the penning by one Brinkley c. Responsio ad Elizabethae Reginae edictum contra Catholicos Rom. 1593. in oct c. Published under the name of Andr. Philopater A conference about the next succession of the Crown of England in two parts Printed 1593 94. in oct under the name of N. Doleman and is known by the name of The book of titles The first part is for chastising of Kings and proceeding against them c. and was reprinted before the time that K. Ch. 1. was beheaded by Rob. Ibbotson living in Smithfield under this title Several Speeches made at a conference or Several Speeches delivered at a conference concerning the power of Parliament to proceed against their King for mis-government The second part was to prove that the Infanta of Spain was the legal Heir to the Crown of England the penning whereof did much endear him to the K. of Spain But so soon as this book peeped forth which was accounted a most hainous and scandalous thing the Parliament enacted 35. Elizab. that whosoever should be found to have it in his house should be guilty of High Treason And whether the Printer of it was hang'd drawn and quartered as some say he was I cannot affirm it K. Charles 1. in his Messages for Peace doth mention and insist upon that book called Several Speeches c. and Mr. W. Prynne in his Speech to the Committee 4. Dec. 1648. affirmed that he himself and others did complain of it but nothing was done to vindicate the houses from that gross imputation c. The said Conference about the next Succession c. put out under the name of Doleman was answered by Sir Joh. Hayward Knight LL. D. an 1603. under this title The right of Succession asserted c. Which answer was reprinted for the satisfaction of the zealous promoters of the Bill of Exclusion Lond. 1683. oct The Conference it self also was reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct purposely to lay open the author's pernicious Doctrines in that juncture of time when the Parliament was zealously bent to exclude James D. of York from the Imperial Crown of England And how much some of the then Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks have traded with and been beholding to that Conference written by Doleman alias Persons notwithstanding their pretendedly great hatred of and seeming enmity to Popery by asserting many of the self same most damnable and destructive Principles laid down therein is at large by a just and faithful comparing of them together made apparent in a piece intit The Apostate Protestant in a Letter to a Friend occasioned by the late reprinting of Doleman Lond. 1682. in 8 sh in qu. Said to have been wrote by Edw. Pelling Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate in London Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset and a Wiltshire man born Among the said Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks before-mentioned must be reckoned a Pamplet intit A brief History of Succession collected out of the Records and the most authentick Historians Written for the satisfaction of George Earl of Hallifax in 5 sh in fol. To which tho no place or time was set to shew when or where 't was printed yet as I then observed 't was published in 1680. It was answered by Rob. Brady Doctor of Physick Master of Gonvil and Caius coll and the Kings Professor of Physick in the University of Cambridge and Burgess for that University to sit in the Parliament that began at Oxon. 21. March 1680. in a book intit The great point of Succession discussed c. Lond. 1681. in a thin fol. and by another excellent tract written by Anon called Religion and Loyalty supporting each other Another Pamphlet also which was mostly borrowed from Doleman alias Persons was that intit The great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor of the Crown c. considered Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. which is quoted also in the Brief History of Succession before-mentioned Which Great and weighty considerations c. consisidered were reprinted at Lond. 1682. in oct and annexed to the second edition of the Postscript written by Thom. Hunt of Grays Inn Esq who therein tho he makes use of Doleman'S Principles yet in a new Epistle before the said second edition of the Considerations he owns them to be his This person Tho. Hunt who had an ingenious Pen and was commonly called Postscript Hunt was forced to leave England in the Fanatical Plot which broke out 12. June 1683. Afterwards setling at Vtrecht in Holland we heard no more of him till Sept. 1688. and then an express coming to my hands dated 13. of that month I was thereby instructed that he then died lately at Vtrecht before-mentioned being big with expectation of returning shortly after to his native Country under the conduct of the Prince of Orange then about to make his expedition into England But to return I find other noted Pamphlets which were about that time published by some ill designed Scriblers who are shewn to have taken many of their dangerous tenets thence I mean from Doleman alias Persons which is a well furnished common-place-book for such turbulent authors to enlarge on as their respective projects and interests should suggest Also that John Bradshaws long Speech spoken at the condemnation of K. Ch. 1. and also the Treatise concerning the broken Succession of the Crown of England c. to make way for Oliver the Usurper were mostly taken out of Doleman alias Persons may be seen in Dr. George Hicks's Sermon on the 30. Jan. 1681. before the L. Mayor of London The truth of this as to the last a note placed at the end of the said Treatise hath put beyond all doubt At length several positions in the said Conference written by Persons being looked upon as dangerous and destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government by the University of Oxford particularly that which saith Birthright and Proximity of Blood do give no title to Rule or Government c. the Members thereof condemned them and that in particular by their judgment and decree passed in Convocation 21. July 1683. Which being so done they caused the book it self to be publickly burnt in their School-quadrangle As for the other books that our author Rob. Persons hath written are these following A temperate Wardword to the turbulent and seditious Watchword of Sir Franc. Hastings Knight c. Printed 1599. qu. under the name of N. Dolman that is Vir dolorum in respect of the grief and sorrow that Fa. Persons bore in his heart for the affliction and calamity of his Country as a certain author tells me tho others say that the reason why he put the name of Doleman to some of his books was because he bore great malice
jus civile pertinent lib. 1. Lond. 1583. oct De legationibus lib. 3. Lond. 1585. qu. Hannov. 1607. oct Legalium comitiorum Oxoniensium actio Lond. 1585. oct De nascendi tempore disputatio Witeberg 1586. oct De diversis temporum appellationibus liber Witeberg 1586. oct Condicionum lib. unus Lond. 1587. oct De jure belli cemmentatio prima Lugd. Bat. 1588. qu. c. De jure belli com sec Lond. 1588. qu. c. De jure belli com ter Lond. 1589. qu. c. De injustitiâ bellicá Romanorum actio Ox. 1590. qu. Before which is an Epistle dedic to Rob. Earl of Essex wherein the author saith that he had then lying by him fit for the Press Defensio Romanorum disputatio de ipsorum justitia bellica But whether afterwards printed I cannot tell De Armis Romanis libri duo Hannov. 1599. oct c. Disputationes duae 1. De Actoribus Spectatoribus fabularum non notandis 2. De abusu mendacii Hannov. 1599. oct c. Duae literae ad Joh. Rainoldum de Ludis Scenicis Middleb 1599. Ox. 1629. qu. They are at the end of a book called The overthrow of Stage-plays See more in Jo. Rainolds and Will. Gager Ad primum Macbaeorum disputatio Franc. 1600. qu. It follows the notes of Joh. Drusius made on the said book De linguarum mixturâ disputatio pà rergica This disputation with the other immediately going before are remitted into the fifth vol. of Criticks p. 8073 8093. Disputationum de nuptiis libri vii Hannov. 1601. oct c. Lectionis Virgilianae variae liber Hannov. 1603. Written to Rob. Gentilis his Son Ad tit cod de Maleficis Math. de caeteris similibus commentarius Hannov. 1604. Item Argumenti ejusd commentatio ad lib. 3. cod de professoribus medicis Han. 1604. Laudes Academiae Perusianae Oxoniensis Hanov. 1605. oct Dedicated to Dr. Ralph Hutchinson President of S. Johns coll by Rob. Gentilis his Son then a Student in that house Disputationes tres 1. De libris juris Canonici 2. De libris juris Civilis 3. De latinitate veteris Bibliorum versionis male accusatâ Hannov. 1605. oct Disp 3. 1. De ââtestate Regis absolutâ 2. De unione Regnorum Britanniae 3. De vi Civium in Regem semper injustâ Lond. 1605. qu. In Titulos codicis si quis Imperatori maledixerit ad legem juliam majestatis disputationes decem Hannov. 1607. Epistola ad Joh. Howsonum S. T. P. In which Epistle our author doth learnedly interpose his judgment concerning Dr. Pyes book of divorce Printed at the end of Dr. Burhills book intit In controversiarum c. an 1606. qu. See more in Tho. Pye an 1609. and in Rob. Burhill an 1641. The Reader is to note that besides the answers of Pye and Gentilis one Joh. Dove did prepare a third answer but whether it was ever printed I cannot tell Hispanicae advocationis libri 2. Hannov. 1613. qu. Comm. in tit Digestorum verborum significatione Hannov. 1614. qu. Discourse of Marriages by proxy Written to Egerton L. Chancellour of England These are all and enough too that I have seen written by this eminent Doctor Gentilis and whether any title is omitted I cannot justly say it He concluded his last day in the beginning of the year either in the latter end of March or beginning of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 but where buried unless in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon is yet uncertain I have seen a copy of his Will written in Italian dat 14. June 1608. wherein he desires his body to be buried in the place and in such manner as his Fathers was as deep and as near to him as may be c. Where his Father Matth. Gentilis died or was buried it doth not yet appear to me Sure it is if the information of Sir Giles Sweit LL. D. who well remembred Alb. Gentilis be right it is evident that he the said Alb. Gentilis died in Oxon. He left behind him a Widdow named Hester who afterwards lived at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire where she died in 1648. ult Car. 1. and two Sons Robert and Matthew the first of which being afterwards a translatot of books I shall elsewhere remember RICHARD MULCASTER Son of Will. Mulcaster of Carlile in Cumberland Esq was born in that City or at least in the County educated in Grammaticals in Eaton School near Windsore elected Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge in 1548. took one degree in Arts there retired afterwards to Oxon where he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. an 1555. and the next year being incorporated Bach. of Arts here was licensed to proceed in that Faculty in Dec. 1556. Which degree being compleated by his standing in the Act celebrated 5. Jul. in the year following he became eminent among the Oxonians for his rare and profound skill in the Greek tongue Afterwards spending more than 4 years in Oxon in a continual drudgery at his book made so great proficiency in several sorts of learning which was exceedingly advanced by his excellencies in Grammar Poetry and Philology that he was unanimously chosen Master of the School erected in London 1561. in the Parish of St. Lawrence Pountney by the worshipful Company of the Merchant-Taylors of that City In which place exercising his gifts in a most admirable way of instruction till 1586. 28. Elizah in all which time it happily prospered under his vigilancy St. Johns coll in Oxon was supplied with such hopeful plants that it soon after flourished and became a fruitful Nursery In 1596. he succeeded one Joh. Harrison in the chief Mastership of St. Pauls School in London being then Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Sarum and soon after if not happily before had the rich Parsonage of Stanford-Rivers in Essex bestowed on him by Q. Elizabeth which he kept to his dying day He hath written Positions wherein those primitive circumstances be examined which are necessary for the training up of Children either for skill in their book or health in their body Lond. 1581. 87. qu. The first part of the Elementary which intreateth chiefly of the true writing of the English tongue Lond. 1582. qu. Whether there was a second part published I know not for I have not yet seen such a thing Catechismus Paulinus in usum Scholae Paulinae conscriptus Lond. 1599. 1601. c. oct Written in long and short vers He died at Stanford-Rivèrs before-mentioned 15. Apr. in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 having resign'd Pauls School 3 years before and was buried 26. of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there under a stone which he two years before had laid for his Wife Katherine on which he caused to be engraven that she was Wife to Richard Mulcaster by ancient parentage and lineal descent an Esquire born who by the most famous Q. Elizabeth's prerogativegift was made Parson of this Church c. JAMES COOK
a great influence upon the doctrine of Obedience Qu. Elizabeth therefore conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain did employ our author Bilson to write the said book of Christian subjection c. In which to justifie the revolt of Holland he gave strange liberty in many cases especially concerning religion for Subjects to cast off their obedience But this book which served her designs for the present did contribute much to the ruine of her Successor K. Ch. 1. which one calls a just judgment of God For there is not any book that the Presbyterians have made more dangerous use of against their Prince Ch. 1. than that which his predecessor commanded to be written to justifie her against the King of Spain However our authors Bilson Successor in Winchester I mean Dr. Morley saith that tho Bishop Bilson was in an errour yet he was not so much for the resisting of Kings as Mr. Rich. Baxter is Of the perpetual government of Christ his Church wherein are handled the fatherly superiority which God first established in the Patriarks and after continued in the tribe of Levi c. Also the points in question at this day touching the Jewish Synedrion c. Lond. 1593. qu. c. Printed in Lat. at Lond. 1610. The effect of certain Sermons touching the full redempton of mankind by the death and blood of Ch. Jesus wherein besides the merit of Christs sufferings the manner of his offering the power of his death the comfort of his Cross the glory of his Resurrection are handled c. Lond. 1599. qu. The clearing of certain objections made against the aforesaid doctrine The said Sermons being preached at Pauls Cross made great alarums among the puritanical brethren Whereupon they mustering their forces and comparing their notes sent them to Hen. Jacob an old Dessenter to have them published with his collections under his own name But the matter of the controversie coming to the Queens knowledge she being at Farnham castle belonging to the B. of Winchester she signified her pleasure to Bilson that he should neither desert the doctrine nor suffer the Function which he had exercised in the Church of England to be trodden and trampled under foot by unquiet men who both abhorred the truth and dispised authority Upon which command the Bishop did set himself upon the writing of that learned Treatise chiefly also delivered by him in Sermons entituled A survey of Christs sufferings and descent into Hell Lond. 1604. fol. See more in Hen. Jacob. He also published Sermon at Westm before K. and Qu. at their Coronation S. James day 28. Jul. 1603. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1603 oct and wrote MS. in my Libr. Orationes Carmina varia Vulgaria c. He also with Dr. Miles Smith added the last hand in the translation of the Bible commanded by K. James 1. At length after he had gone through many employments and had lived in continual drudgery as 't were for the publick good surrendred up his pious soul to God on the 18. year 1616 of June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried saith one on the south side of Westminster Abbey Church near to the Monument of K. Rich. 2. or as the Register hath it near to the entrance into S. Edmunds Chappel One John Dunbar a Scot who writes himself Megalo-Britannus hath a learned Epigram on him which may serve for his Epitaph JOHN PITS or Pitsous as he writes himself a grand zealot for the Ro. Cath. cause Son of Hen. Pits by Elizabeth his Wife sister to Dr. Nich. Saunders was bron at a market Town called Aulton in Hampshire educated in juvenile learning in Wykeham's School near to Winton admitted Probationer-fellow of New coll in 1578. being then about 18. years of age but leaving that house before he was admitted perpetual Fellow which was to be in 1580. he went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile and going to Doway was kindly received there by the learned Tho. Stapleton who then gave him advice what course to take relating to his studies Thence he went to Rheimes and after one year spent in the English college he was sent to Rome and continued in the English coll there also in the zealous prosecution of the studies of Philosopy and Divinity for seven years and was made a Priest Thence he returned to Rheimes where he taught Rhetorick and Greek for two years But troubles arising in France he withdrew himself into Loraine and took the degree of Master of Arts which before he had neglected at Pont-a-musson and was soon after made Bach. of Divinity Thence taking a journy into High Germany he continued at Trier an year and an half where after he had performed certain exercise he was made a Licentiat of Divinity Thence after he had seen several of the best Cities in Germany he removed to Ingolstadt in Bavaria where remaining 3 years did in that time after he had performed solemn disputations take the degree of Doctor of his faculty So that by that time having viewed several parts of Italy and Germany and had learned their Languages he returned to Loraine where by Charles Cardinal of Loraine he was made Canon of Verdun After two years spent there he was called thence by the illustrious Princess Antonia Daughter to the Duke of Loraine and Wife to the D. of Cleve and was by her made her Confessor And that he might be the better serviceable to her he learned the French Tongue most accurately so that it was usual with him afterwards to preach in that Language In her service continuing about 12 years he had leisure to turn over the Histories of England whether Ecclesiastick or Republick Whence making several collections and observations he wrote and digested four great Volumes One was of the Kings another of the Bishops a third of Apostolical and a fourth of illustrious and learned men of this Nation At 12 years end the said Dutchess dying he went a third time into Loraine where by the favour of John Bishop of Toul sometimes his Scholar he was promoted to the Deanery of Liverdune of considerable value which with a Canonry and an Officialship of the said Church he kept to his dying day He hath written De legibus Tract Thâologicus Trev. 1592. De beatitudine Tr. Th. Ingols 1595. De Peregrinatiene lib. 7. Dusseld 1604. in tw dedicated to Antonia Dutchess of Cleve Relationem Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis tom 1. quatuor partes complectens c. Par. 1619. in a thick qu. published by Dr. Will. Bishop of whom I shall speak elsewhere This book is the same with that De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus commonly called Pitseus de Scriptoribus And hath in the beginning of it certain prolegomina containing 1 De laudibus Historiae 2 De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britanniae 3 De Academiis tam antiquis Britonam quam recentioribus Anglorum
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leârning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple ãâ¦ã became a noted Counsellour a person of great ãâ¦ã in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in ãâã and in the Saxon Language In the latter ând of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
Practice touching the received and present Ecclesiastical Government and the authorized Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England Lond. 1607. qu. Answered by Anon. in a book intituled The second part of the defence of the Ministers Reasons for refusal of Subscription and Conformity to the Book of Common Prayer c. Printed 1608. qu. And by another Anon. in a book intit A dispute upon the question of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacramental Bread and Wine c. Pr. 1608. qu. Our author also I mean Sparke had in Q. Elizabeth's time wrote a book of Succession For which being brought into trouble King James who before had received intimation of the matter sent for him the next day after the Conference at Hampton-Court and talking with him about it the King at length was so well satisfied with what he had done that he then gave him his most gracious countenance He died at Bletchley before-mentioned year 1616 in the Winter time in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church there leaving then behind him three learned Sons which then or soon after had been trained up in the Schools of the Prophets viz. Thomas Fellow of New coll in Oxon Andrew of Peter house in Cambridge and Will. Sparke of Magd. coll whom I shall mention hereafter ROBERT TINLEY a Kentish Man born became a Commoner of Magd. hall in the latter end of 1578. aged 17. or thereabouts was translated soon after to Magd. coll of which he became Demy and at length Fellow In 1595. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University being then esteemed a Man of parts and an eloquent Preacher Afterwards being made Vicar of Wytham or Wictham in Essex as also if I mistake not Minister of Glemsford in Suffolk and at length Archdeacon of Ely took the degrees in Divinity and had then the general character of a person well read in the Fathers but withal a most bitter Enemy to Papists He hath written and published Of the mischievious subtility and barbarous cruelty of the Romish Synagogue on Psal. 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lond. 1609. qu. Of the false Doctrines and refined Heresies of the Rom. Synagogue on Matth. 7. 15 16. Printed there the same year In the first are examined divers passages of that English Libel written by a certain Fugitive against the Apology of the Oath of Allegiance In the other are answered many of the arguments published by Rob. Chambers Priest concerning Popish Miracles He hath written other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that he concluding his last day in sixteen hundred and sixteen was buried as I presume at Wytham before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named Martin Tinley afterwards a Member of Ch. Ch. in this University HENRY PARRY Son of Hen. Parry Son of Will. Parry of Wormebridge in Herefordshire Gent. was born in Wilts 20. Dec. or thereabouts an 1561. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 13. Nov. 1576. and Probationer 23. Apr. 86. being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Greek Reader in that coll Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth Doctor of Divinity 95. Dean of Chester in 1605. in the place of Dr. Will. Barlow promoted to the See of Rochester and at length through Gloucester was made Bishop of Worcester an 1610. He was reputed by all of his time an able Divine well read in the Fathers a thro-pac'd Disputant and so eloquent a Preacher that K. James 1. always professed he seldom heard a better The King of Denmark also who was sometimes present at our Kings Court gave him a very rich ring for a Sermon that he Preached before him and K. James at Rochester an 1606. He hath published Concio de regno dei in Matth. 6. 33. Lond. 1606. qu. Concio de victoriâ Christianâ in Apoc. 3. 21. Oxon. 1593. 94. Lond. 1606. He also translated from Engâish into Latin The summ of a Conference between Joh. Rainolds and Joh. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church Oxon. 1619. fol. Also from Lat. into English A Catechism wherein are deâated and resolved the questions of whatsoever moment which have been or are controverted in Divinity Oxon. 1591. oct Which Catechism was originally written by Zach. Vrsinus This worthy Bishop died of a Palsey at Worcester year 1616 12. Dec. in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in a little Chappel joyning to the north side of the Door of the Cathedral Church at Worcester In his Epitaph over his Grave a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniver Oxon. lib. 2. p. 238. he is characterized to be trium linguarum cognitione assidua verbi divini praedicatione provida Ecclesiae gubernatione mentis pietate morumque integritate spectatissimus c. EDWARD HOBY a person much noted in his time to all learned Men for his eminent endowments of mind and body was the eldest Son of Sir Tho. Hoby Knight mention'd under the year 1566. by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Sir A. Coke Kt. was born in Berks particularly us I conceive at Bysham near to Maydenhead became a Gentleman-Commoner of Trinity coll in the beginning of 1574. aged 14. years where after he had spent 8 Terms in the study of Logick under a noted tutor he became so great a proficient that he was admitted in the latter end of the year 1575. Bach. of Arts of the University The next year he proceeded in that faculty and was the Senior Master in the Comitia whom we usually call The Senior of the Act celebrated the same year Afterwards spending some time in France and in other Countries as I suppose was some time after his return honoured with the degree of Knighthood an 1582. made Constable of the Castle at Queenburg in the Isle of Shepy was an Officer at the taking of Cadiz a Parliament man several times in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth and upon K. James his coming to the Crown if not happily before was made one of the Gent. of the Privy-Chamber He was a person of great reading and judgment especially in the controversies between Protestants and Papists a singular lover of Arts substantial Learning Antiquities and the Professors thereof particularly the Learned Camden who had sufficiently received of his bounty as he himself acknowledgeth having dedicated his Hibernia to him and publickly told the world that he had polished his excellent wit with learned Studies He hath written A letter to Mr. Theoph. Hyggons late Minister now a Fugitive in answer to his First motive Lond. 1609. qu. A counter-snarl for Ishmael Rabshacheh a Cecropedian Lycaonite being an answer to a R. Catholick who writes himself J. R. Lond. 1613. qu. In which book or in another which I have not seen our author treating of Purgatory was answered by Joh. Floyd commonly called Father Fludd a Jesuit in a book which he published under the name of Daniel
à Jesu printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto Curry-comb for a Coxcombe Or Purgatories Knell In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle intituled Purgatories Triumph over hell Lond. 1615. qu. Several motions speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English Politique discourses upon truth and lying An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King master of the Requests to his Houshold and lately Embassador to the Cantons of Zwitzers and Grisons And also from Spanish into English The Origine and practice of War Lond. 1597. oct Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March St. David's day in sixteen hundred and sixteen his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned and buried there in a Chappel called Hoby's Chappel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby born of the body of one Katherin Pinkney an 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended THOMAS EGERTON the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire was born in that County applyed his Muse to learning in this University about 1556. particularly as 't is said in Brasnose coll of which he was a Commoner in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts where continuing about 3 years laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws and at length was a Counsellour of note In 1581. June 28. he was constituted by the Queen her Solicitor General and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General in 1594. he being then a Knight he was made Master of the Rolls and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal In which emiment office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeths happy Reign On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of L. Ellesmere and upon the 24. of the said Month he was made Lord Chancellour of England In the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Brackley He was a most grave and prudent man a good Lawyer just and honest of so quick an apprehension also and profound judgment that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him He hath written Speech in the Exchequer Chamber touching the Post-nati Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellour Lond. 1651. oct and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections fit to be Printed concerning 1 The prerogative Royal. 2 Priviledges of Parliament 3 Proceedings in Chancery 4 The power of the Starr-chamber He resigned up his last breath in York-house in the Strand near London 15. March in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire His memory was much celebrated by Epigrams while he was living and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellour setting in a Chair hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library called the School-gallery WILLIAM MARTYN Son of Nich. Martyn of the City of Exeter by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon Son of Rich. Martyn of the said City and he the second Son of William Martyn of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight was born and educated in Grammar learning within the said City of Exeter where making early advances towards Academical learning was sent to Broadgates hall now Pomb coll an 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master laid an excellent foundation in Logick and Philosophy Afterwards going to the Inns of Court he became a Barester and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Hele Serjeant at Law But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories he composed a book of the Kings of England as I shall tell you anon Upon the publication of which K. James as 't is said taking some exceptions at a passage therein either to the derogation of his family or of the Realm of Scotland he was thereupon brought into some trouble which shortned his days He hath written Youths instruction Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martyn then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is shewed a great deal of reading and consequently that the author was no loser of his time The History and Lives of the Kings of England from William the Conquerour to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. usher'd into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas William and Edw. Martyn the Sons of the author and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth by B. R. Master of Arts Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England from the Conquerour to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts Barons Baronets c. which was drawn up by the author and continued after his death by R. B. before-mention'd What other books the said Will. Martyn hath either written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617 Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen The inscription which was on the Stone supposed to be laid for him is worn out and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan as Martyn was FRANCIS BUNNRY Younger brother to Edmund whom I shall anon mention was born in an antient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Mary an 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders and began to preach Gods word on the first of Nov. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford but continuing with him not long he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of
as usually he did alone Upon which the Embassador willed him to stay longer with him but he then thankfully refused that offer and turned his face presently after towards Surat which was 300. miles distant from the place where the Embassador was and he lived to come safely thither But there being over-kindly used by some of the English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for as soon as he first heard of it and crying Sack Sack is there such a thing as Sack I pray give me some Sack and drinking of it moderately for he was very temperate it increased his flux which he had then upon him and this caused him within few days after his very tedious and troublesome travels for he went most on foot at that place to come to his journeys end as I shall anon tell you What became of his notes and observations which he had made in his long journeys I know not only these following which he sent to his friends in England who printed them in his absence Letters from Asmere the Court of the Great Mogul to several persons of quality in England concerning the Emperor and his Country of E. India Lond. 1616. qu. In the title of which is our authors Picture riding on an Elephant The first letter is written to Sir Edw. Philips of Montagâe in Somersetshire Kt. Master of the Rolls A Letter to his Mother Gertrude dated from Agra in E. India ult oct 1616. containing a speech that he spoke to the Gr. Mogul in the Persian Language See in the Pilgrimages of Sam. Purchase part 1. book 4. chap. 17. and also at the end of his Letters from Asmere before mentioned 'T is reported that in an Oration which our author Coryate did speak to the said Mogul he brought in that story of the Queen of Sheba 1 Kings 10. in which parts of that sacred History the Maâumetans have some knowledge and told him that as the Queen of Sheba having heard of the fame of K. Solomon came from far to visit him which when she had done she confessed that tho she had heard very much of him and many things beyond her belief yet now seeing what she did acknowledged that she had not heard half of that which she now saw concerning the wisdom and greatness and revenue and riches of Solomon So our Orator Coryate told the Mogul that he had heard very much of him before he had the honour to see him when he was very far off in his own Country but now what he beheld did exceedingly surmount all these former reports of him which came to his Ears at such a distance from him Then larding his short speech with some other piece of Flattery which the Mogul liked well concluded Afterwards the Mogul gave him one hundred Roopus which amounts to value of 12l 10s of our English money looking upon him as a Derveese or Votary or Pilgrim for so he called him and such that bear that name in that Country seem not much to care for money and that was the reason I conceive that he gave him not a more plentiful reward Certain observations from the Moguls Court and E. India See in Purchase before-mention'd Travels to and observations in Constantinople and other places in the way thither and in his journey thence to Aleppo Damasco and Jerusalem Ibid. part 2. lib. 10. cap. 12. His Oration purus putus Coriatus quintessence of Coryate Spoken extempore when Mr. Rob. Rugg dub'd him a Knight on the ruins of Troy by the name of Thomas Croyate the first English Knight of Troy Ib. cap. 12. Observations of Constantinople abridged Ib. cap. 12. Divers Lat. and Greek Epistles to learned men beyond the Seas Some of which are in his Crudities as those to Gasp Waserus Radolp Hospinian Hen. Bullinger descended from the famous Henry Bullinger Marc. Buellerus c. At length our author Coryate giving way to fate occasion'd by a Flux at Surat in E. India before-mention'd in the month of December in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 was buried there under a little Monument like to one of those that are usually made in one of our Chyards Sic exit Coryatus Hence he went off the Stage and so must all after him how long soever their parts seem to be For if one should go to the extremest part of the world East another West another North and another South they must all meet at last together in the field of Bones wherein our traveller hath now taken up his lodging and where I leave him to make way for the next as eminent almost for the Law as he for his Travels FERDINANDO PULTON alias Pâulton Son of Giles Pulton Esq who died 1560. was born at Deusborough in Northampton-shire became commoner of Brasnose coll in the beginning of Q. Marys Reign laid there a foundation of Academical literature which he found useful to him afterwards when he grew eminent in the common Law But leaving that house before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the said Law took the usual degrees and became eminent for the knowledge in and practice of it not only in London but the usual place of his residence in the country viz. at Borton in the Parish and County of Buckingham He hath written and published An abstract of all the Penal Statutes which be general Lond. 1600. qu. Digested alphabetically according to the several subjects they concern Abridgment of the Statutes of England that have been made and printed from Magna charta to the end of the Session of Parliament 4. Jac. 1. Lond. 1606. and 12. c. fol. Collection of Statutes repealed and not repealed Lond. 1608. fol. De pace regis regni declaring which be the general offences and impediments of Peace Lond. 1610. and 15 fol. Collection of sundery Statutes frequent in use with notes in the Margent and reference to the book Cases and books of Entry and Registers where they be treated of Lond. 1618. in two vol. in fol. theâe again 1632. fol. c. which collection reaâhes from 9. ãâã 3. to 7. ââc 1. The Statutes at large concerning all such Acts which at any time heretofore have ãâã extant in ãâ¦ã Charâa to the 16. of Jaâ 1. c. divided ãâ¦ã with marginal Notes c. Lond. 1618. c. fol. He departed this Life on the 20. January in sixteen hundred and seventeen aged 82. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Deusborough before-mention'd Over his grave was a large plain Stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon wherein 't is said that he was Vir omni virtutis doctrinarum genere quondam illustrissimus necnon sedulus scriptor propagator legum hujus regni But if you are minded to read his English Epitaph see in Sir Joh. Beaumont's Tast of the variety of Poems at the end of his Bosworth-field Lond. 1629. oct The said Ferdinando Pulton left behind him
Vision of the twelve Goddesses presented in a Mask c. Lond. 1604. oct and 1623. qu. Some copies have it The wisdom of the 12 Goddesses in a Mask at Hampton-Court 8. Jan. Panegyrick congratulatory delivered to K. James at Burleigh-Harrington in Rutlandshire Lond. 1604. and 23. qu. Epistles to various great Personages in verse Lond. 1601. and 23. qu. Musophilus containing a general defence of learning Printed with the former Tragedy of Philotas Lond. 1611. c. oct Hymens Triumph A pastoral Trag. Com. presented at the Queens Court in the Strand at her Maj. magnificent entertainment of the Kings Maj. being at the Nuptials of the Lord Roxborough Lond. 1623. qu. second edit Muso or a defence of Ryme Lond. 1611. oct The Epistle of Octavia to M. Antonius Lond. 1611. oct The first part of the History of England in 3 books Lond. 1613. qu. reaching to the end of King Stephen in Prose To which afterwards he added a second part reaching to the end of K. Ed. 3. Lond. 1618. 21. 23. and 1634. fol. continued to the end of K. Rich. 3. by Joh. Trussel sometimes a Winchester Scholar afterwards a Trader and Alderman of that City Lond. 1638. fol. c. Which Trussel did continue in writing a certain old MS. belonging to the Bishops of Winton containing as it were an History of the Bishops and Bishoprick which continuation was made by him to Bishop Curles time He also wrote A description of the City of Winchester with an historical relation of divers memorable occurrences touching the same fol. Also a Preamble to the same Of the Origen of Cities in general MS. Sam. Daniel also wrote The Queens Arcadia A pastoral Trag-Com presented to her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxon in Christ Church in Aug. an 1605. Lond. 1623. qu. Funeral Poem on the death of the Earl of Devon Lond. 1623. qu. Towards the end of our authors life he retired to a Country-Farm which he had at Beckington near to Philips-Norton in Sommersetshire at or near to which place he was born where after he had injoyed the Muses and religious Contemplation for some time with very great delight year 1619 surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it in sixteen hundred and nineteen and was buried in the Church of Beckington before-mentioned On the wall over his grave was this inscription afterwards put Here lies expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the dead body of Samuel Daniel Esq that excellent Poet and Historian who was Tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth she that was Daughter and Heir to George Clifford Earl of Cumberland who in gratitude to him erected this monument in his memory a long time after when she was Countess Dowager of Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery He died in Octob. an 1619. By the way it must be noted that this Anne Countess of Pembroke was the same person who lived like a Princess for many years after in Westmorland was a great lover and encourager of learning and learned men hospitable charitable to the poor and of a most generous and publick temper She died 22. Mar. 1675. aged 86. or thereabouts and was buried under a splendid monument which she in her life-time had erected in the Church of Appleby in Westmorland It must be also farther noted that there was one Sam. Daniel Master of Arts who published a book intit Archiepiscopal Priority instituted by Christ Printed an 1642. and another if I am not mistaken called The Birth Life and Death of the Jewish Vnction But whether he was of the University of Oxon I cannot yet find JOHN PANKE was a very frequent and noted Preacher of his time and well read in Theological authors but withal a very zealous Enemy in his Writings and Preachments against the Papists but in what College or Hall educated I cannot as yet find After he had left the University he became Minister of Broadhinton afterwards of Tidworth in Wilts and at length had some Cure in the Church of Salisbury His works are Short Admonition by way of Dialogue to all those who hitherto upon pretence of their unworthiness have dangerously in respect of their Salvation withdrawn themselves from coming to the Lords Table c. Oxon. 1604. oct The fall of Babell by the confusion of tongues directly proving against the Papists of this and former ages that a view of their writings and books being taken it cannot be discerned by any Man living what they would say or how be understood in the question of the Sacrifice of the Mâss the Real Pressence or Trââsubstantiation c. Oxon. 16â8 qu. Dedicated to the Heads of Colleges and Scholars of the University of Oxou. Collectancae out of S. Gregory the Great and S. Bernard the Devout against the Papists ãâ¦ã the Doctrine of the present ãâ¦ã most fundamental points between them and us Oxon. 1618. oct With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen not do I know any thing else of the author DERMITIUS MEARA or de Meara who was born at Ormond in Ireland whence being sent to this University continued there in Philosophical studies several years but whether in Vniv. coll Glouc. or Hart. hall âeceptacles for Irish-men in his time I know not For tho he writes himself in the first of his books which I shall anon mention lately a Student in the Vniversity of Oxon. yet in all my searches I cannot find him matriculated or that he took a degree Some years after his retirement to his native Country he wrote in Latin verse having been esteemed a good Poet during his conversation among the Oxonians these things following Ormonius sive illustriss herois ac domini D. Thomae Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis Vicecom de Thurles Baronis de Arcklo c. Prosapia laborumque praecipuorum ab eodem pro Patria Principe susceptorum commemoratio heroico carmine conscripta Lond. 1615. oct Epicedion in obitum Tho. Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis c. Anagramaticon Acrosticon Chronologica in eundem Tho. Butler These two last were printed with Ormonius and are dedicated to Walt. Butler Earl of Ormond and Ossâây Much about the time when these Poetical things were printed the author practiced Physick in his own Country and gained great repute for his happy success therein In that faculty he wrote several books but all that I have seen is only this De morbis haereditariis tractatus Spagyrico-dogmaticus Dubl 1619. oct He was Father to Edm. de Meara an Ormonian born sometimes a Practitioner in Physick in the City of Bristow being the same person who answered Dr. Tho. Willis's book intit Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae c. SABIN CHAMBERS a Leicestershire Man born took the degrees in Arts as a Member of Broadgates hall that of Master being compleated 1583. at which time he had the vogue of a good disputant But soon after being dissatisfied in many points
his Countryman and another by a Scot. Which last stiles our author Carew another Livie another Maro another Papinian and highly extolls him for his great skill in History and knowledge in the Laws Besides the Rich Carew was another but later in time author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone Printed 1652. qu. RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreake in Leicestershire elected Fellow of Lincoln coll 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted Preacher in the University In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College took the degrees in Divinity was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and at length Hebrew Professor of this University He hath written Commentarii in Librum Exodi Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters He also continued Jo. Mercers notes on Genesis and would have printed them but was denied had a hand also in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning Serm. in S. Maries Church Oxon 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Univ. on 1 Cor. 5. 55 56 57. Oxon. 1613. qu. He the said Dr. Kilbye was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel because it belongs to Linc. coll on the 17. year 1620 Nov. in sixteen hundred and twenty aged 60. or thereabouts Whereupon Paul Hood Bac. afterwards D. of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names and a writer too as I have under the year 1617. told you JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwal was entred a Batler in Exeter coll about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more with unwearied industry left the University without a degree and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon He hath written and published A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct Remember Lots Wise two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct Preparative for Contentation Lond. 1597. qu. Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard or two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct Christian Contemplations or a Catechism Lond. 1601. oct K. Soloman's Solace Lond. 1606. qu. Plain Man's Spiritual Plough Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year viz. in March in sixteen hundred and twenty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there before the 25. of the said month as it doth partly appear in the Register of that place leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian WILLIAM TOOKER second Son of Will. Tooker by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker was born in the City of Exeter educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1583. in which year he shewd himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Maries Church In 1585. he left his Fellowship being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter and at length Dean of Lichfield on the death as it seems of Dr. George Boleyne in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist an able Divine a person of great gravity and piety and well read in curious and critical authors as may partly appear by these books following which he wrote and published Charisma sive donum Sanatiânis seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ c. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them by Lawful Succession of healing c. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most Fanaticks Of the Fabrick of the Church and Church mens livings Lond. 1604. oct Singulare certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ futiliter refutante apologiam monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem Reges Principes quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae Lond. 1611. oct This learned author Dr. Tooker died at Salisbury on the 19. of March or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month in sixteen hundred and twenty leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey In June following Dr. Walt. Curle of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanry of Lichfield and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian an 1630. HENRY SWINBURNE Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York was born there spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall whence translating himself to that of Broadgates took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law married Helena Daughter of Barthelm Lant of Oxon and at length retiring to his native place became a Proctor in the Archbishops Court there Commissary of the Exchecquer and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York He hath written Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills In 7 parts Lond. 1590. 1611 35. 40. 77. c. qu. Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts c. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shâws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to âââure at York and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there Soon after was a comely Monument fastned to the wall near to this grave with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a deske with a book thereon and these verses under Non Viduae caruere viris non Patre Pupillus Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas Et cupiat qui sic vixit ut ille mori There is no day or year on the Monument to shew when this H. Swinburne died
at first to be observed by several of his compositions in Poetry After he had taken one degree in Arts and had spent some time in exercising his fancy among the Poets in the great City he was esteemed not Jos Hall of Emanuel coll in Cambridge excepted the best for Satyr among English men At length his mind growing more serious he studied Physick for the improvement of which he travelled beyond the Seas took the degree of Dr. of that faculty at Avenion returned and was incorporated in the University in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth Afterwards setling in London he practiced it became much frequented for his success in it especially by the R. Catholicks of which number he was by many suspected to be one and was as much cried up to his last for Physick as he was in his younger days for his poetical fancy He hath written Alarum against Usurers containing tried experiences against worldly abuses Lond. 1584. qu. History of Forbonius and Prisaeria with truths complaint over England Printed with the Alarum Euphues Golden Legacy found after his death in his cell at Silexedra bequeathed to Philautus Sonnes nursed up with their Father in England Lond. 1590. c. qu. The wounds of a civil War lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla Lond. 1594. qu. A fig for Momus Pr. in qu. Looking-glass for London An historical Comedy Lond. 1598. qu. In the composure of which he had the assistance of Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge Liberality and prodigality Comedy Lady Alimony Com. Luminalia a Maske Lawes of nature Com. Assisted also in these by the said Rob. Green who is accounted the half author of them Treatise of the Plague containing the nature signs and accidents of the same c. Lond. 1603. qu. Countess of Lincol. Nusery Oxon. 1622. in 2. or 3. sh in qu. Treatise in defence of Plays This I have not yet seen nor his Pastoral Songs and Madrigals besides several other things which are as it were lost to the generality of Scholars He also translated into English 1 Josephus his History or Antiquities of the Jews Lond. 1602. 09. 20. c. sol 2 The works both moral and natural of Luc. An. Seneca Lond. 1614. 20. fol. c. This eminent Doctor who practiced his faculty in Warwick Lane in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. and afterwards on Lambert-hill removed thence a little before his last end into the parish of S. Mary Magd. in Old Fishstreet London where he made his last exit of the Plague I think in September in sixteen hundred twenty five year 1625 leaving then behind him a Widdow called Joan but where buried unless in the Church or yard there I know not His memory is celebrated by several Poets whose Encomiums of him being frequent I shall for brevity sake pass them now by and proceed to the next who had a name among those of his perswasion for an eminent Theologist HENRY HOLLAND was born at Daventry commonly called Dantry in Northamptonshire educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near to Winâsore elected Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1565. took one degree in Arts left that house soon after his Friends Country and Religion and went to Dâway in Flanders where making a considerable progress in the Theological faculty was made Priest and Bach. of Div. Afterwards he went to Rheims and in the English coll there was a most noted preacher for several years and at length gave his assisting hand to the Translation of the Rheimish Testament Soon after he was sent into the English Harvest to gain souls to his religion but finding that imployment dangerous he retired to Doway again where being made ãâ¦ã Divinity read and interpreted divine Letters fâr many years in the Monastery of Anchine near to that place His works are De venerabili Sacramento De Sacrificio Missae Duac 1609. Carmina diversa with other things printed beyond the Seas which seldom or never come into these parts He gave way to fate in a good old age within the said Monastery of Anchine year 1625 on the 28. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and was buried in the Cloyster there Over his grave is an Epitaph beginning thus Dantria me genuit me clara Vigornia fovit Aetona me docuit post doeet Oxonium The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 307. b. In this Hen. Holland's time were one two or more writers of both his names as 1 Hen. Hol. who wrote A treatise against Witchcraft c. Camb. 1590. qu. and the same as it seems who published Spiritual preservations against the Pestilence and added thereunto An admonition concerning the use of Physick Both printed 1603. qu. 2 H. Hol. who published the Hist of Adam or the fourfold state of Man c. Pr. 1606. qu. and Christian Exercise of Fasting private and publick c. Pr. 1596. qu. Whether this H. Holland be the same with the first who was of Cambridge as it seems I cannot tell unless I see their respective books neither can I say to the contrary but that he may be the same H. Holland who published the Posthuma of his Brother Abrah Holland sometimes of Trin. coll in Cambridge Lond. 1626. Which Abraham who was author also of a Poem called Naumachia or Hollands Sea-fight Lond. 1622. qu. died on the 18. of Febr. 1625. 3 Hen. Holland Son of Philemon Holland a Physician and Schoolmaster of the City of Coventry who was born there travelled with John Lord Harington into the Palatinate in 1613. and collected and wrote Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiae S. Pauli Lond. Printed in qu. Also Herologia Anglica sive effigies vitae elogia clarorum doctorum aliquot Anglorum ab an 1500. ad 1620. Lond. 1620. in two tomes fol. and did engrave and pub a book intit A book of Kings being a true and lively Effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present c. 1618. But this Hen. Holland was not educated either in Oxon or Cambridge having been a Member of the Society of the Stationers in London See in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1572. HENRY FINCH second Son of Sir Thom. Finch of East well in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated in this University particularly as I conceive in Oriel coll wherein several of his sirname and Family studied in the time of Q. Elizabeth From Oxon he was translated to Greys Inn wherein making great proficiency in the Municipal Laws became a Councellour of note Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house 2. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law 1614. and one of the Kings Serjeants and a Knight two years after being then in great esteem for his knowledge in his profession He hath written Nomotexnia cestascavoir un description del common Leys d' Angleterre solonique les rules del Art c. Lond. 1613. fol. in 4 books Done into English by the same author under this
readings in an Inn of Chancery called New Inn in Lond. 1602. and 1603. History of the ancient and modern Estate of the Principality of Wales Dutchy of Cornwal and Earldom of Chester c. Lond. 1630. qu. The English Lawyer Being a treatise describing a method for the managing of the Laws of this Land and expressing the best qualities requisite in the Student Practicer Judges c. Lond. 1631. qu. Opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England Lond. 1658. oct Published by John Doddridge Esq a Counsellour of the Middle Temple and Recorder of Barnstaple descended from or at least near of kin to our author Sir Joh. Doderidge With the aforesaid Opinion are published also the opinions of Arth. Agard Joseph Holland Francis Tate and Will. Camden all eminent Antiquaries and Historians the two last of which I have before mentioned and the two first I shall speake of anon Treatise of particular Estates Lond. 1677. in twelv printed at the end of the fourth edition of Will Noy's book called Grounds and Maxims of the Laws of this Nation A true presentation of fore-past Parliaments to the view of the present times and posterity This I saw in MS. in a thin fol. in the Library of Dr. Tho. Barlow now B. of Lincoln but whether it was ever printed I know not Our author Doderidge also did peruse and enlarge a book intit The Magazine of Honour or a treatise of the several degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdom with their rights and privileges Also of Knights Esquires c. Lond. 1642. oct The MS. of which I saw also in the said Library fairly transcribed and dedicated by T. S. of Wycombe to John Lord Lovelace an 1637. This book which is the collection of Will Bird I take to be the same which was afterwards published with a title something different from the former under our author Doderidge's name running thus The Law of Nobility and Peerage wherein the antiquities titles degrees and distinctions concerning the Peers and Nobility of this Nation are excellently set forth with the Knights Esquires Gent. c. Lond. 1657. 58. oct What else he hath written besides certain Speeches which are extant in books put out by others I know not and therefore I shall only say of him that he surrendred up his last breath at Forsters near to Egham in Surrey 13. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and that his body was carried to the City of Exeter year 1628 where 't was reposed with great solemnity in our Ladies Chappel joyning to the Cath. Ch. there 14. Oct. following where at this time is visible a very fair monument over his grave and that of his Wise Now as for Arthur Agard whom I have before mentioned I desire the Reader to know of him these things that he was the Son of Clem. Agard of Foston in Derbyshire by his Wife Elianor Daughter of Tho. Middlemore of Edgbaston in Warwickshire that he was bred up to the Law got to be a Clerk in the Exchequer and at length to be Deputy-chamberlian thereof which office he held 45 years while these persons following were successively Chamberlains a place formerly of great honour and worth viz. Sir Nich. Throckmorton Sir Tho. Randolphe Postmaster Sir Tho. West after Lord La Warr Mr. George Young a Scot Sir Will Killigrew Knight Sir Walt. Cope Knight and in his last days in 1615. to Sir Joh. Poyntz Knight While he held that place he learned and received all his knowledge and learning in Antiquities from his faithful and dear friend Sir Rob. Cotton a singular lover of and admirably well read in English Antiquities to whom when Agard died he gave all his Leiger books and MSS. at least 20 in number to be reposed as choice things in his Library among which was Agard's book of his own writing intit Tractatus de usu verbis obscurioribus libri de Domesday which was afterwards put under the Effigies of Vitellius nu 9. The learned Camden stiles him Antiquarius insignis as having been well acquainted with him and his prodigious works collected with his own hand out of his Maj. Records in the Abbey of Westminster where the Exchequer-Office was and elsewhere He died 22. Aug. 1615. and was buried in the Cloyster of St. Peters Church in Westminster near to the Chapter-house door where he had set up a monument in his life-time for himself and his Wife At the time of his death his will and desire was that eleven Manuscripts of his writing and collection should for a small reward given to his Executor be reposed in the Exchequer because they were necessary both for the Kings service and readiness for the subject Also a book of his collection in the Treasury wherein is first contained what records are in the Kings Maj. four Treasuries and how the same are placed and especially how to be preserved And after is contained A collection of all leagues and treaties of Peace entercourses and marriages with Foreign Nations Which book was three years labour and was I think still very carefully preserved for the Kings service The writer and collector thereof took order that it should be preserved in his Maj. Court of Receipt under the charge and custody of the Officers there and to be delivered to them by Inventory because it is very necessary for the Kings use good of the Subject and readiness and light to the Officers As for the other person Joseph Holland whose Opinion concerning the antiquity power c. of Parliament before-mentioned which was also published I can say only this of him that he was a Devonian born an excellent Herald Genealogist and Antiquary as several things of his writing now in being in the Coll. of Arms commonly called the Heralds Office shew Among which is a very long roll of Parchment containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devon before and to his time made in 1585. There also goes from hand to hand a folio MS. of his collection not only containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devonshire but also of Somersetshire and Cornwall FULKE GREVIL descended from an ancient and knightly fam of his name living at Milcot in Warwickshire was born in that County an 1554 being the same year wherein Sir Philip Sidney received his first breath did spend some time in the condition of a Gent. Commoner in this University either before he went to Trin. coll in Cambridge or at his return thence but in what house unless in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates I cannot well tell nor doth it matter much seeing that he was more properly a Cambridge man to which University he was a Benefactor than an Oxonian After he had left the University he travelled and at his return being well accomplished was introduced into the Court by his Uncle Rob. Grevil a Servant to Q. Elizabeth where he was esteemed a most ingenious person and
Brother to that mirrour of Piety Mrs. Cath. Brettergh was a Com. or Gent. Com. of S. Albans hall an 1577. aged 18. where he was much noted for an early Zealot Our author Will. Hinde did also revise correct and publish The discovery of the Man of Sin c. Oxon. 1614. qu. written by Jo. Rainolds before-mentioned and An exposition on the last Chapter of the Proverbs Lond. 1614. qu. penn'd by Rob. Cleaver the Decalogist then lately dead At length after our author had undergone several troubles concerning matters of indifferency he surrendred up his last breath in his study at Bunbury in the month of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by his Grandson Thomas Hinde D. of D. sometimes Fellow of Brasnose college afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of Ormond and Dean of Limerick in Ireland who died in his house at Limerick in Nov. 1689. HUMPHREY LEECH or Lechius as he is sometimes written was born at Allerton commonly called Ollerton in Shropshire was entred a Student in Brasnose coll before the month of Nov. in 1590. for in that year and of his age 19. he was as a Member of that house matriculated But before he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Cambridge where taking the degree of Master he returned to Oxon in 1602. and in June the same year he was incorporated in that degree About that time he was made Vicar of St. Alkmonds Church in Shrewsbury where making a short stay he returned to Oxon and became one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. Of whose Preaching and what followed you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. sub an 1608. In which year being suspended of his Chaplainship for Preaching publickly some Popish Tenets for so they were accounted by the puritanical Doctors of the University in those days he left the Church of England and went to Arras in Artois where he wrote these things following The triumph of Truth Or a declaration of the doctrine concerning Evangelical counsayles in two parts Doway 1609. oct Sermon in defence of Evangelical counsayles and the Fathers on Apoc. 20. 12. Printed with the former book Twelve motives which perswaded him to embrace the Catholick Religion An honourable Grand-Jury of 24 Fathers testifying the distinction betwixt legal precepts and evangelical counsayles by their uniform Verdict Which book with the Motives were printed with The triumph of Truth Humble considerations presented to King James concerning his premonitory Epistle sent to all Christian Princes S. Omâr 1609. Afterwards our author going to Rome was admitted into the Society of Jesus an 1618. before or after which time he lived in the English coll of Jesuits at Liege and was most commonly the Porter there At length being sent into the English Mission settled in a R. Cath. house in Cheshire near the River Mersie own'd by one Massie where he departed this life in July about the 18. day in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 2629 as I have been informed by Will. Lacey of Oxon one of his Society whom I shall remember when I come to the year 1673. as having been originally of this University THOMAS GOFFE or Gorgh a Ministers Son made his first entry on the stage of this transient World in the County of Essex was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1609. aged 18. where applying his Muse to polite studies became an excellent Poet and Orator Afterwards he proceeded in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and shortly after became a quaint Preacher and a person of excellent language and expression In 1623. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time had the Parsonage of East-Clandon in Surrey conferr'd upon him where taking to Wife a meer Zantippe the Widdow of his Predecessor notwithstanding he had always before prosessed himself an Enemy to the Female Sex and esteemed by many another Joseph Swetnam he was so much overtop'd by her and her children which she had by her former Husband that his life being much shortned thereby died at length in a manner heart-broken But before his Marriage he composed most of these things following some of which were printed after his death Oratio funebris habita in Ecclesiâ Cath. Christi Ox. in obitum Gul. Goodwin istius Eccles Decani S. T. Doctoris Ox. 1620. in one sh and an half in qu. Oratio funebris habita in Scholâ Theol. Oxon. in obitum D. Hen. Savilii Oxon. 1622. qu. Deliverance from the grave Sermon at St. Maries Spittle in Lond. 28. Mar. 1627. on Ezek. 37. 13. Lond. 1627. qu. The raging Turk or Bajazet the Second Trag. Lond. 1631. qu. Couragious Turk or Amurath the First Trag. Ibid. 1632. qu. Tragedy of Orestes Lond. 1633. qu. These three Tragedies were reprinted at Lond. 1656. in oct by the care of Rich. Meighen the authors friend Selimus Emperour of the Turks Trag. Lond. 1638. qu. Careless Shepardess Trag. Com. Lond. 1656. qu. It was printed before but lying dead had a new title bearing date the same year put to it The Bastard Trag. Lond. 1652. qu. Some say it was not written by Goff but by Cosmo Manuche and therefore perhaps 't was only a translation Qu. He the said Th. Goffe made his last Exit at E. Clandon before-mentioned and was buried 27. year 1629 July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine in the middle of the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him other things fit for the Press as I have been informed by one that was acquainted with the author but what became of them he could not tell THOMAS JAMES or Jamesuis as he writes himself was born in the Isle of Wight at Newport as it seems educated in Grammaticals in Wykchams School and in Academicals in New coll of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1593. where drudging day and night in several sorts of learning he proceeded in Arts in 1599. About that time he being taken into the favour of Mr. afterwards Sir Tho. Bodley for his excellent worth in the knowledge of books as well printed as written and of the ordering of them he was by him designed the first keeper of the Publick Library at Oxon then in founding which office being confirmed to him by the University in 1602. he did much good therein and laid a most admirable foundation for his Successors to build upon In 1614. he took the degrees in Divinity and having about that time the Subdeanery of Wells conferr'd upon him freely without seeking by the Bishop of that place and the Parsonage of Mongcham in Kent with other Spiritualities by the Archb. of Canterbury without asking he resigned his place of Keeper of the Publick Library being about that time also a Justice of Peace and betook himself more severe to his studies He was very well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and so much vers'd in
trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes 6. ver ult c. Oxon. 1630. c. in tw He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts and was buried in Magd. coll leaving then beââââ him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son âf Sir Christop ãâã of Eston-Manâuit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings ãâã and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at ãâã in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time ãâã the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students ãâã ãâã Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâus Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal ãâã In 1613. he was made Solicitor ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã the endeavours of Carr Earl of ãâã March 1616. he was constituted Attorney ãâã that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publickly against his Patron Carr in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death In 1621. May 5. he was discharged of his office of Attorney fined and committed Prisoner to the Tower again upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset Yelverton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance At length upon some things utter'd in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with and examine him concerning certain matters in the Tower he was afterwards released taken into favour and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and afterwards of the Common Pleas which last he enjoyed to the time of his death and had not the Duke been untimely cut off he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Under his name goes Several Speeches spoken in Parliament One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the Kings honour he should be fined to the K. ten thousand marks be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure and make a submission to his Majesty And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham he should pay him five thousand marks and make his submission to him Several years after his death was published under his name this book following Reports of divers special cases in the Court of Kings Bench as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth as in the first ten years of K. James Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French written with the authors own hand remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet then 1661. Serjeant at Law the Kings Serjeant and Recorder of the City of London and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench He died near Westminster 23. Nov. or thereabouts 1679. Rights of the People of England concerning impositions Lond. 1679. oct He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philips a zealous and Puritannical Preacher as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things as 't is probable of the like nature but such I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 in winter time before February and was buried I suppose where his chief Seat was viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire leaving then behind him a Son named Robert and a Brother called Sir Christopher who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yelverton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yelverton Baronet by Susan his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen JOHN ELYOTT or Elliot â Cornish man born and an Esquires Son became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term an 1607. aged 15 years left the University without a degree after he had continued there about 3 years went to one of the Inns of Court as it seems and was made a Barrester In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj at Whitehall and ever after to the time of his death was either elected a Knight of his County or a Burgess for some Borough therein to serve in all Parliaments But so it was that he shewing himself in them an active man for the publick a generous assertor as he pretended of the ancient liberty of the Subject and an enemy to the incroachments made by rising Favourites was several times committed to custody He hath going under his name Several Speeches spoken in Parliament as 1 Speech against George Duke of ãâã and ãâã grievances 2 Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he with Sir Dud. Digges who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment were committed both prisoners to the Tower but soon after were released whereupon Elyott spoke 3 A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him In the same year he was imprison'd in the Gatehouse at Westm for refusing to part with money on the Loan and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan or of any Tax without a Parliament Which way he took when his Council would not assist him otherwise alledging farther that his conscience could not submit to it and prayed for his liberty but could not obtain it 4 Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament an 1628. 5 Sp. against the D. of Bucks interrupted in it by the Speaker 6 Sp. concerning Religion an 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh in qu. 7 Sp. against particular persons spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he with other Members were committed to the Tower All which Speeches with Certaine Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections made by John Rushworth What more to be added is that about the same time 1628. was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the Kings Bench for a sower of discord for his murmurings seditions c. against the King Nobles Prelates
the performance of which service he took for his Text these words of the Apostle Let every Soul c. Rom. 13. 1. In canvassing whereof he fell upon the point of the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical which he handled as the most rev Arch. Spotswood who was present at the Sermon hath informed us of him both soundly and learnedly to the satisfaction of all the hearers only it grieved the Scotch Ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in their opposition to Soveraign Princes c. As for the Presidentship of S. Johns coll our author Buckridge keeping but a little more than five years became B. of Rochester to which he was consecrated 9. June 1611. Afterwards by the endeavours of his sometimes Pupil Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells he was nominated B. of Ely upon the death of Dr. Nich. Felton who died 1626. the Temporalities of which See were restored to him 18. Jul. 1628. A person he was of great gravity and learning and one that knew as well as any other person of his time how to employ the two-edged Sword of the holy Scripture of which he made good proof in the times succeeding brandishing it on the one side against the Papists and on the other against the Puritans and Non-conformists In reference to the first 't is said of him in general by a certain author that he endeavoured most industriously both by preaching and writing to defend and propagate the true Religion here by Law established which appears plainly by his learned laborious piece entituled De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus deponendis usurpata adversus Robertum Cardinalem Bellarminum Lib. 2. In quibus respondetur authoribus Scripturis rationibus exemplis contra Gul. Barclaium allatis Lond. 1614. in a larg qu. In which book he hath so shaken the Papal Monarchy and its superiority over Kings and Princes that none of the learned men of that party did ever undertake a reply unto it Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus saith my before mentioned author quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus Fishero Buckridgium cujus argumentis siquid ego video ne a mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur With like success but less pains unto himself he managed the controversie concerning kneeling at the Lords Supper against those of the Puritan Party the piety and antiquity of which religious posture in that holy action he asserted with such holy reasons and such clear authorities in A Sermon preached at Whitehall 22. Mar. 1617. touching prostration and kneeling in the Worship of God on Psal. 95. 6. Lond. 1618. qu. and in A discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion printed with the Sermon that he came off without the least opposition of that party also Besides which he hath published Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 23. Sept. 1606. on Rom. 13. 5. London 1616. qu. Another on Heb. 4. 7. printed 1618. qu. A third which is a Funeral Serm. on Heb. 13. 6. was printed 1626. qu. and a fourth on the same chap. vers 16. was published at the end of B. Andrew's Sermons in fol. Lond. 1661. The day and place when and where this most worthy and learned Bishop died I know not only that he was buried in the parish Church of Bromley in Kent the manner of which belongs to the See of Rochester on the last day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt. Carle whom I shall mention elsewhere and in Ely Dr. Francis White the Kings Almoner JOHN HOSKYNS Junior was born at Mounton in the parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1601. took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated 1613. in which year he left the coll being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Rob. Bennet B. of Hereford as he was afterwards to K. James Prebendary of Hereford and Parson of Ledbury in his native Country He was an able Civilian but better Theologist and much followed for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching He hath published Eight Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxon. Pauls Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1615. qu. The first is on Luke 12. 41. The second on Isa 28. 1. The 3. and 4th on Matth. 11. 19. c. He hath also extant a Sermon upon the parable of the King that taketh an account of his Servants on Matth. 18. 23. Lond. 1609. oct A short Catechisme upon the Lords Prayer the ten Commandements and the Creed very profitable for Children and others Lond. 1678. 9. oct published by Charles Townsend M. of A. He ended and finished his course at Ledbury before mentioned 8. August in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the parish Church there Soon after was an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of eight verses the two first of which are these Sub Pedibus Doctor jacet hic in Legibus Hoskyns Esse pios docuit quodque docebat erat The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. 6. DANIEL PRICE elder brother to Sampson Price before mentioned was born in the antient Borough of Shrewsbury and there educated in Grammar learning In 1594. and in the sixteenth year of his age he became a Commoner of S. Maries hall in Midsomer Term but before he took a degree in Arts he was transplanted to Exeter coll where by the benefit of a diligent Tutour he became in short time a smart disputant After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he had holy Orders confer'd upon him and was a frequent and remarkable preacher especially against the Papists About that time he was constituted one of Prince Henries Chaplains in Ordinary whereupon taking the degrees in Divinity he was made Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. as afterwards to K. Ch. 1. Dean and Canon residentiary of Hereford Rector of Worthyn near Caus Castle in Shropshire and of Lanteglos in Cornwall Justice of the Peace also for the Counties of Shrewsbury Hereford Montgomery and Cornwall He hath written and published The defence of truth against a book called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras 1609. by Humph. Leech Oxon. 1610. qu. He hath also published at least Fifteen Sermons Among which are these 1 Praelium praemium The Christians war and reward on Rev. 2. 26. Oxon. 1608. qu. 2 Recusants Conversation on Esay 2. 3. Ibid. 1608. qu. 3 The Merchant on Matth. 13. 45. 46. Lond. 1608. qu. 4 Spiritual Odours to the Memory of Pr. Henry in four of the last Sermons preached in S. James after his Highness death the last being the Sermon before the body the day before the burial The first is intit Meditations of Consolation on our Lamentations on Psal. 90. 15. The second which hath the same title is on 2 Sam. 12. 23. The third which is intit Sorrow for
Traveller hath told me otherwise viz. that he was no other than a common Soldier that he lived poor at Bononia and saw his Grave there Another also named Dr. Rich. Trevor Fellow of Morton coll younger brother to Sir John Trevor sometimes Secretary of State who was in Italy in 1659. hath several times told me that he the said Dr. Bayly died obscurely in an Hospital and that he saw the place where he was buried SAMUEL BROWNE born at or near to the antient Borough of Shrewsbury became a Servitour or Clerk of Aills coll in 1594. aged 19. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards was made preacher at S. Maries in the said Town of Shrewsbury where he was much resorted to by precise people for his edifying and frequent preaching He hath published The sum of Christian Religion by way of Catechism Lond. 1630. and 37. oct Certain Prayers And left behind him at the time of his death year 1632 in sixteen hundred thirty two Several Sermons to be made publick but whether they were printed I cannot tell One of both his names was summer Reader of Lincolns Inn 18 Car. 1. afterwards Serjeant at Law one of the Justices of the Common Bench and one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal in the time of Usurpation but what he hath extant I cannot tell He died in the beginning of the year 1668. being then a Knight and a possessor of Lands at Arlesbury in Bedfordshire THEODORE GOULSON Son of Will. Goulson Rector of Wymoundham in Leicestershire received his first breath in the County of Northampton became Probationer Fellow of Merton coll in 1596. applied his Muse to the study of medicine after he had been adorn'd with the Majesterial degree in the practice of which having been initiated in these parts lived afterwards at Wymoundham where as in the neighbourhood he became famous in and much frequented for his faculty At length taking the degrees of Physick in this University an 1610. was made a Candidate of the Coll. of Physitians at London and the year after Fellow thereof and afterwards Censor being at that time in great esteem for his practice in the metropolitan City He was an excellent Latinist and a noted Grecian but better for Theology as it was observed by those that knew him He hath published Versio Latina Paraphrasis in Aristotelis Rhetoricam Lond. 1619. 1623. c. qu. Versio variae Lectiones annotationes criticae in opuscula varia Galeni Lond. 1640. qu. published by his singular good friend Tho. Gataker Bac. of Div. of Cambridge and Rector of Redrith in Surrey who died 27. July 1654 and was buried in the Church at Redrith after he had govern'd it 40. years As for our author Goulson he ended his days in his house within the parish of S. Martin by Ludgate within the City of London year 1632 4. May in sixteen hundred thirty and two whereupon his body was buried with solemnity in the Church belonging to that parish By his will which I have seen and perused he bequethed 200 l. to purchase a rent-charge for the maintenance of an Anatomy Lecture in the coll of Physitians at London as also several books to Merton coll Library besides other donations which were mostly if not all performed by his vertuous and religious Widdow Ellen Goulson of whom by the way I must let the reader know that she being possess'd of the impropriate Parsonage of Bardwell in Suffolk did procure from the King leave to annex the same to the Vicaridge and to make it presentative which being so done she gave them both thus annexed for she had the donation of the Vicaridge before that time freely to S. John coll in Oxon. LEONARD HUTTEN was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Church in 1574. wherein with unwearied industry going thro the several Classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. and a frequent preacher In 1599. he was installed Canon of the said Church being then Bach. of Divinity and Vicar of Flower in Northamptonshire and in the year after he proceeded in that faculty His younger years were beautified with all kind of polite learning his middle with ingenuity and judgment and his reverend years with great wisdom in government having been often Subdean of his house He was also an excellent Grecian well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen which was sufficiently approved by the consent of the University and not meanly vers'd in the histories of our own Nation He hath written An answer to a Treatise concerning the Cross in Baptism Oxon. 1605. qu. Which book was held in reverent respect by the best Bishops of the Church as having the Fathers agreeing to Scripture truly urged and understandingly interpreted therein See in Jam. Calfhill and John Martiall I have been informed by one who knew this Dr. Hutten well that he was author of a Trag. -Com called Bellum Grammaticale but how that can be I cannot discern for tho it was written by an Oxford man if not two yet one edition of it came out in 1574. in oct which was the year when Dr. Hutten first saluted the Oxonian Muses as I have before told you He had also an hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by King James an 1604. and left in MS. behind him Discourse of the antiquity of the University of Oxford by way of letter to a friend The copies of this Discourse which I have seen were written in qu. in about 8 sheets and had this beginning Sir your two questions the one concerning the antiquity of Oxford c. I have seen 4 copies of it but could get little or nothing from them for my purpose when I was writing the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv. of Oxon. A MS. book of the like subject I once saw in the hands of John Houghton Bac. of Div. sometimes Senior Fellow of Brasnose coll divided into three books the beginning of which runs thus All truth is of it self as glorious c. but who the author of it was I could never learn 'T is a trite thing and mostly taken from Apologia Antiq. Acad. Oxon. written by Br. Twyne as that of Hutten was He hath also written Historia fundationum Ecclesiae Christi Oxon. unà cum Episcoporum Decanorum Canonicorum ejusd Catalogo 'T is a MS. and hath this beginning Monasterium sive Prioratus S. Frideswydae virginis fundata est ab eadem Frideswydâ filiâ Didaci alias Didani c. A copy of this in qu. I once saw in the hands of Dr. Joh. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. but many faults have been committed therein by an illiterate Scribe At length Dr. Hutten having lived to the age of 75. died on the 17. year 1632 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and two and was buried in the Divinity-Chappel the north Isle remotest from the Choire belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. before-mentioned A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq.
maxims of the Laws of England Lond. 1641. qu. Afterwards printed in oct and tw Perfect conveyancer or several select and choice Precedents Lond. 1655. qu. 2d edit collected partly by Will. Noy and partly by Sir Rob. Hendon Knight sometimes one of the Barons of the Exchequer Rob. Mason sometimes Recorder of London and Henry Fleetweod formerly Reader of Greys Inn. Reports and cases in the time of Qu. Elizabeth K. James and King Charles 1. containing the most excellent exceptions for all manner of Declarations Pleadings and Demurs exactly examined and laid down London 1656. fol. The compleat Lawyer or a Treatise concerning Tenures and Estates in Lands of inheritance for life and other hereditaments and chattels real and personal c. Lond. 1661. and 74. in oct with his picture before it Arguments of Law and Speeches He also left behind him several choice collections that he had made from the Records in the Tower of London reduced into two large paper books of his own hand-writing One contained collections concerning the Kings maintaining his Naval power according to the practice of his Ancestors and the other about the privileges and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical Courts Dr. Tho. James of Oxon. when he compiled his Mannduction or Introduction unto Divinity printed 1625. he afterwards acknowledged himself beholding to the Extracts out of the Tower fairly and largly transcribed as he saith by the said Mr. Noy a great Antiquary of Law Which extracts I presume are the same with those before mention'd At length his body being much out of Order by continual toyling and drudging he retired to Tunbridge-wells to gain health in the month of July but the waters effecting nothing he died there on Saturday the 9. of Aug. following in sixteen hundred thirty and four year 1634 whereupon his body being conveyed to New Brentford in Middlesex was privately buried on the Munday following under the communion table of the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a stone soon after laid with a brass plate fastned thereunto and an inscription thereon but soon after defaced The next day after his departure the news of it came to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury then at Croydon who thereupon made this observation of him in his Diary I have lost a dear friend of him and the Church the greatest she had of his condition since she needed any such His body being opened after his decease his heart was found shrivel'd like a leather penny Purse nor were his Lungs right which caused several conjectures by the Puritans But that which was most observable after his death was his Will dated 3 June 1634. at which all the world wondred because the maker thereof was accounted a great Clerk in the Law for therein after he had bequeathed to his Son Hamphrey an hundred marks per an to be paid out of his tenements in the hundred of Pydar in Cornwall he concludes reliqua omnia c. and the rest of all my Lands Goods c. I leave to my Son Edward Noy whom I make my Executor to be consumed and scattered about nec de so mellus speravi c. But Edward lived not long to enjoy the estate for within two years after he was slain in a Duel in France by one Captain Byron who escaped scot-free and had his pardon as Will. Prynn an inveterate enemy to Will. Noy his Father reports As his Majesty was somewhat troubled at his loss and the Clergy more so the generality of the Commons rejoyced The Vintners drank carouses in hopes to dress meat again and fell Tobaco Beer c. which by a fullen capricio Noy restrained them from The Players also for whom he had done no kindness did the next Term after his decease make him the subject of a merry Comedy stiled A projector lately dead c. He had his humours as well as other men but certainly he was a solid rational man and tho no great Orator yet he was a profound Lawyer and none more better vers'd in Records than he In his place of Attorney General succeeded Sir Joh. Banks and the next year Sir Rob. Heath being removed from the Ch. Justiceship of the Kings Bench for bribery Sir John Finch came into play whereupon these verses were made Noyes Flood is gone The Banks appear Heath is shorn down And Finch sings there THOMAS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Francis Hicks mention'd under the year 1630 was born at Shipson in the parish of Tredington in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol coll in Mich-Term an 1616. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and at length by the favour of Doctor Duppa Dean of Christs Church became one of the Chaplains or Petticanons of that House about 1628. He hath written The life of Lucian gathered out of his own writings Oxon. 1634. qu. Which life is set before his Fathers translation of certain dialogues of that author Notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and book of Lucian c. Besides his great skill in the Greek rongue he was esteemed among the Academians a good Poet and an excellent Limner And without doubt had not death cut him off in the prime of his years on the sixteenth day of December in sixteen hundred thirty and four he might have benefited the Commonwealth of learning with other matters He died in Christ Church and was buried in the Cathedral there which is all I yet know of him only that Dr. J. F. the publisher of Hist Antiq. Oxon. committed a grand mistake of him in that book lib. 2. p. 283. b. Another of both his names was author of A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker c. To which a continuation was added by the same author in 1673. in oct ARTHUR PITS or Pitsius as he writes himself a younger Son of Arthur Pits Bach. of Law sometimes Fellow of All 's coll afterwards Registrary of the Diocess and Achdeaconry of Oxford and Impropriator of Eifley near to and in the County of Oxon. was born at Eifley educated for a time either in All 's or Brasnose coll or in both successively having been a Chorister of the first as it it seems but before he took a degree he left the University Country and Relations went to Doway spent some time in the English coll there return'd into his Country was taken and imprison'd but at length being released and ship'd with other Priests and Jesuits at Tower-Wharf at the Queens charge in Febr. 1584. was set on shoar in Normandy Whereupon retiring to Doway passed a course in Divinity became Doctor of that faculty and at length was made Chancellour to the Cardinal of Loraine being then a person much in esteem for his great knowledge in the supream faculty He hath written In quatuor Jesu Christi Evangelia Acta Apostolorum commentarius Duac 1636. in a thick quarto Which being all that he hath written as I suppose was published after his death by
Preacher and therefore much followed by ingenious men At length being made one of the Chaplains to his Maj. K. Jam. 1. who highly valued him for his fine fancy and preaching he was by his favour promoted to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon an 1620. being then D. of D. Senior Student of that house Vicar of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire and Prebendary of Beminster Secunda in the Church of Sarum At length upon the translation of Dr. Howson to the See of Durham he by vertue of the Kings Letters was elected Bishop of Oxon 30. July 1629. and afterwards consecrated at Lambeth 19. Octob. and installed in his Chair 3. Nov. following Upon the translation of Dr. White to Ely he was elected Bishop of Norwich 7. Apr. 1632. and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 12. of May the same year His writings that are published are only Poetica Stromata or a collection of sundry pieces of Poetry Lond. 1647. 48. c. oct made in his younger years and never intended to be published by their author He was buried at the upper end of the Choire belonging to the Cath. year 1635 Church of Norwich in sixteen hundred thirty and five and soon after was a large Free stone of a sandy colour laid over his body with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Richardus Corbet Theologiae Doctor Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis primum Alumnus inde Decanus exinde Episcopus illinc huâ translatus hinc in Coelum Julii 28. an 1635. On the said stone are the ancient Arms of the Corbets of Shropshire viz. Or a Raven passant sab This person was hospitably disposed and ever ready to express himself generous towards publick designs Upon the repair of S. Paul's Cathedral an 1634. he used his utmost endeavour both by his excellent speech and exemplary gifts to advance that pious work not only contributing largely himself but also giving monies to some Ministers that had not to give to incourage others to contribute that might better give JOHN COLLETON or Collington Son of Edmund Colleton of Milverton in Somersetshire Gent. was born there and at 17 years of age an 1565. was sent to the University of Oxon particularly as 't is thought to Lincoln coll but leaving the place without a degree and his Country he crossed the Seas and went to Doway where applying himself to the study of Divinity in the English coll was made a Priest and returned into England with Father Campian an 1580. But being taken and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London was afterwards upon his trial for conspiring the death of the Queen at Rome or Rheimes set at liberty and charged to depart the Land within few days after In obedience therefore to that command he with others of his profession went or rather were sent accordingly in 1584. but tarrying there not long returned and spent many years in administring to the Brethren and gaining Proselytes In which time as Father Persons reports he was a principal author of the Libels against the Archpriestship See more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he was made Archdeacon of London only titular Vicar General of the East parts of England and at length Dean of Chalcedon but when age grew upon him Greg. Fisher alias Musket Archdeacon of Surrey and Middlesex was added as a Coadjutor in the Office of Vicar-General 10. Feb. 1626. to assist in the East parts of England namely in Essex Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgshire Isle of Ely Bedfordshire Bucks Middlesex and Hertford He hath written and published A just defence of the slandred Priests wherein are contained reasons against their receiving Mr. George Blackwel to be their Superior c. Printed 1602. qu. concerning which book and Father Persons his character therein you may see in The Anatomy of Popish Tyranny c. written by Tho. Bell lib. 4. cap. 5. sect 4. Supplication to the King of Great Britain for a toleration of the Cath. Religion Epistle to P. Paul 5. with other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days in the house of a Rom. Catholick at Eltham in Kent on the fourteenth of the Calends of Novemb. year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five aged 87. and was buried in the Church there dedicated to S. John Bapt. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with an inscription round the verge a copy of which was sent to me by his Sisters Son named Joh. Kynn O. S. B. living at Beoly in Worcestershire Much about the time that this Joh. Colleton studied according to report in Linc. college one Joh. Filby an Oxfordshire man born studied there also who leaving that coll before he was Bac. of Arts went to Rheimes where he studied Divinity in the English coll and was made a Priest Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England he was taken imprisoned and at length being condemned to die was executed at Tyburn 30. May 1582. ALEXANDER GILL born in Lincolnshire on the 27. Feb. 1564. was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in Sept. 1583. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1590. left the coll and became an instructer of Youth but where unless in the City of Norwich where he lived 1597. and then wrote his treatise of the Trinity I know not Sure I am that in 1608. he became the chief Master of S. Pauls School within the City of London in the place of Rich. Mulcaster was esteemed by most persons to be a learned man a noted Latinist Critick and Divine and also to have such an excellent way of training up youth that none in his time went beyond him Whence 't was that many noted persons in Church and State did esteem it the greatest of their happiness that they had been educated under him His works are Treatise concerning the Trinity in unity of the Deity Lond. 1601. oct written to Tho. Manering an Anabaptist who denied that Jesus is very God of very God Logonomia Anglica Qua gentis sermo facilius addiscitur Lond. 1621. qu. Sacred Philosophy of holy Scripture Or a Commentary on the Creed Lond. 1635. fol. At the end of which is printed also his Treatise of the Trinity before mention'd He died in his house in St. Pauls Ch. Yard on the 17. year 1635 Novemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and five and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in Mercers Chappel in London in a vault near to the Monument of Mr. Brown and Mr. Fishbourne He left behind him a Son of both his names whom I shall hereafter mention EDMUND DEANE Brother to Richard Deane Bishop of Ossory and both the Sons of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire was born there or in that County entred a Student in Merton coll in Lent-Term 1591. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then retired to St. Albans hall where prosecuting his Genie
which he had to the faculty of Physick took both the degrees therein as a member of the said hall and about that time retired to the City of York and practised there till about the beginning of the Civil Wars He hath written Spadacrene Anglica or the English Spaw Fountaine being a brief Treatise of the acid or tart Fountain in the Forest of Knaresborough in Yorkshire Lond. 1626. in oct A relation of other medicinal waters in the said Forest Printed with the former book Admiranda chymica in oct tractatulis cum figuris Franc. 1630. 35. qu. Sam. Norton is esteemed half author of this book This eminent Physitian died before the Civil War brake forth but the particular time I know not HUMPHREY LYND a most learned Knight of his time a zealous Puritan and a grand enemy to such who were called Arminians was born in London but descended from those of his name if I mistake not in Dorsetshere educated in Westminster School elected Student of Ch. Church in 1596. aged 17. and four years after took a degree in Arts. About that time he was called away to be heir to a fair estate and being looked upon as a knowing person was made a Justice of the Peace a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. 29. Oct. 1613. and was elected several times a Burgess to serve in Parliaments He was a person of great knowledge and integrity and a severe enemy to the Pontificians as well in his common discourse as in his writings which are Antient characters of the visible Church London 1625. Via tuta The safe way to the true antient and Catholick faith now professed in the Church of England Lond. 1628. oct Answer'd by Rob. Jenison alias Frevil a Jesuit in a book intit A pair of Spectacles for Sir Humph. Lynd c. Roan 1631. in oct Which Jenison was born in the County Pal. of Durham and died in England 10. oct 1656. Via devia The by-way leading the weak in dangerous paths of popish errour Lond. 1630. oct A case for a pair of Spectacles c. Refused to be Licensed by Bishop Lauds Chaplain upon no other pretence as one saith but that Sir Humphrey was a Lay-man but in verity because he the Chaplain was unwilling to have him vindicate himself and the truth against a rayling Jesuit c. However this book was afterwards published by Dr. Dan. Featly with a Supplement thereunto added by the Dr. in defence of Sir Humphrey Lond. 1638. qu. Sir Humphrey also hath written an Account of Bertram the Priest with observations concerning the censures upon his Tract De Corpore Sanguine Christi set by way of preface to it Lond. 1623. oct and by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Pye Knight the Kings Majesties Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Which account with observations as also the dedic Epistle of Sir Humphrey all set before the translation of that book were published again by Mathew Brian LL. D. sometimes a Student in Magd. hall Oxon. Lond. 1686 oct before which is set the picture of Charles the Great King of France and Emperour of Rome See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. Farther also our Author Sir Humphrey who was esteemed a deserving defender of the Cause of Religion and to whom in other respects the Church and common cause did owe much did in the year 1623 upon the motion of certain eminent Divines of whom Dr. Featly was one undertake the charge of printing the particular passages of many late writers castrated by the Romish knife The collections were made by Dr. Tho. James and were then in 1623 sent to Dr. Featly and others to prepare them for the Press They began with Pol. Virgil Stella Mariana Ferus c. Sir Hump. Lynd died on the eighth day of June in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried above the steps in the Chancel of the parish Church of Cobham in Surrey and not in Kent on the fourteenth day of the same month at which time Dr. D. Featly before mentioned preached the funeral Sermon shewing then to the Auditory the great vertues piety and learning that were once in the person that lay dead before them He left behind him three Sons Robert Alex. and Humphrey besides six Daughters THOMAS ALLEN an exact proficient in the Greek and Latine tongues was sent from the Kings School at Worcester to this University in Mich. Term 1589. aged 16 where making great advances in Philosophy was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll in 1593 and by the severe discipline then used he became a most noted Disputant After he had compleated his Regency he entred into the sacred function but instead of frequent preaching he exercised himself much in crabbed and critical learning Whereupon being well esteemed by his Governour Sir Hen. Savile he procured for him a Fellowship of Eaton coll where he found him very serviceable for his designs He hath written Observationes in libellum Chrysostomi in Esaiam Printed in Sir H. Saviles edition of S. Chrysostome in the eighth vol. p. 139 c. He also was one that helped the said Knight in making and framing his Annotations on Chrysostomes Homelies on Matthew and the other Evangelists as he doth acknowledge in his Preface to the said Annotations wherein he stiles this our author Vir doctissimus Graecarum literarum non minus quam Theologiae peritissimus c. He surrendred up his soul to him that gave it year 1636 in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in Eaton coll Chappel near to Windsore Over his grave is a flat stone remaining having this inscription carved on a brass plate fixed thereunto Thomas Allenus Wigorniensis vir pietate insignis Theologus praestantissimus multarum optimarum linguarum variaeque eruditionis callentissimus in collegium hoc in quo diu socius vixit in collegia insuper alia locaque in quibus aliquam vitae suam partem posuit pie munificus hic jacet Obiit die decimo Mensis Octobris an 1636. He gave books to Mert. coll library and some to that of Brasenose in which last he had been a Student before he was elected into Merton Another of both his names but later in time was sometimes Pastor of a Church in Norwich and author of The Glory of Christ set forth in several Sermons from John 3. 34 35 36. c. published after the authors death in 1683. oct JOHN JONES the ornament of the English Benedictines in his time was born in London but descended from a family of his name living at Llan-Vrinach in Brecknockshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1591 aged 16 and soon after became Chamberfellow there with Will Land who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury This person being entred and settled in a Jurists place he applyed himself to the study of the Civil Law and made a considerable progress therein but his mind being much inclined to the Rom. Religion
refectory at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury after he had been installed Dean thereof an 1635. The said Pastoral is not printed but goes about in MS. from hand to hand Dr. Speed who was by all persons that knew him accounted an ingenious man year 1640 died in the month of May in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in the Chappel of S. John's coll leaving then behind him a Son named Samuel who was aftera Student of Ch. Ch. and M. of A. installed Canon of the said Church on the death of Dr. Seb. Smith on the sixth day of May 1674. and another named John afterwards Fellow of St. John's coll and Doctor of Physick living now at Southampton THOMAS FITZHERBERT Son of Will. Fitzherbert by Isabell his Wife Daughter and one of the heirs of Humph. Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Staffordshire fourth Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the famous Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire was born in the said County of Stafford an 1552. in which County being initiated in Grammer learning was sent either to Exeter or Lincoln coll in 1568 But having been mostly before trained up in the Cath. Religion the college seemed uneasie to him for tho he would now and then hear a Sermon which he was permitted to do by an old Roman Priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon for to him he often retired to receive instructions as to matters of Religion yet he would seldom or never go to prayers for which he was often admonished by the Sub-Rector of his house At length he seeming to be wearied with the heresie as he stil'd it of those times he receeded without a degree to his Patrimony where also refusing to go to his parish Church was imprison'd about 1572. But being soon after set at liberty he became more zealous in his Religion defended it against the Protestant Ministers and not only confirm'd and strengthned many wavering Catholicks therein but wrote also several valid reasons for the not going of Catholicks to Protestant Churches for which being like to suffer he withdrew and lived abscondedly In 1580. when Campian and Persons the Jesuits came into the mission of England he retired to London found them out shew'd himself exceeding civil and exhibited to them liberally Whereupon bringing himself into a promunire and foreseeing great danger to come on him and all Catholicks he went as a voluntary exile into France an 1582. where he continued a zealous sollicitor in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots with the K. of France and Duke of Guise for her relief tho in vain After her decollation and all hopes of the Catholicks frustrated for the present he left that Country and the rather because that he about that time had buried his Wife and forthwith went into Spain For some years there he became a zealous agitator in the Royal Court for the relief of Catholicks and their Religion in England but his actions and the labours of many more of that nature being frustrated by the Spaniards repulse in 1588. he under pretence of being weary with the troubles and toyles of this life receeded to Millaine with the Duke of Feria Whence after some continuance there he went to Rome where he was initiated in sacred Orders took a lodging near to the English college and observed all hours and times of Religion as they in the college did by the sound of their bell and there composed certain books of which that against Machiavel was one A certain author of little or no note named James Wadsworth tells us that the said Tho. Fitzherbert had been before a Pensioner and Spye to the King of Spain in France and his service being past and his pension failing him out of pure necessity he and his man were constrained to turn Jesuits or else starve And he being a worthy Scholar and a great Politician was very welcome to that Order But let this report remain with the author who is characteriz'd by a Protestant writer to be a Renegado proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade now living 1655. a common hackney to the basest Catch-pole Bayliffs c. while I proceed In 1613-4 he took upon him the habit of the Society of Jesus on the feast of the Purification initiated therein on the vigil of the Annuntiation following and on the next day he sung his first Mass Afterwards he presided the mission at Bruxells for two years and at length much against his will he was made Rector of the English coll or seminary at Rome which he governed with great praise about 22. years He was a person of excellent parts had a great command of his tongue and pen was a noted Politician a singular lover of his Country men especially those who were Catholicks and of so graceful behaviour and generous spirit that great endeavours were used to have him created a Cardinal some years after Allens death and it might have been easily effected had he not stood in his own way He hath written A defence of the Catholick cause containing a Treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders published by the Hereticks c. S. Omers 1602. Apology or defence of his innocence in a fained conspiracy against her Majesties person for the which one Edw. Squire was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nov. 1598. Printed with the Defence before mention'd This is the book which the learned Camden tells us was written by Walpole a Jesuit or one under his name Treatise concerning policy and religion Doway 1606. qu. Wherein are confuted several principles of Machiavel The second part of the said Treatise was printed also at Doway 1610. and both together in 1615. qu. A third part was printed at Lond. 1652. qu. being then cried up for a good book as the other parts had been An sit utilitas in scelere vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavellani Rome 1610. oct Suppliment to the discussion of Mr. Dr. Burlows answer to the judgment of a Cath. Engl. Man c. interrupted by the death of the author F. Rob. Persons Jesuit S. Omer 1613. qu. published under the two letters of F. T. Censure of Dr. Joh. Donnes book intit Pseudo-Martyr Additions to the Suppliment These two last are printed at the end of the Suppliment to the discussion c. against Dr. Will. Barlow B. of Line before-mentioned Confutation of certain absurdities in Lancelot Andrews's answer to Bellarm. Printed 1603. qu. and published under the two letters of F. T. instead of T. F. This was written in vindication of Card. Bellarmine's Apology for his answer made to K. James's book De jure fidel Whereupon came out a book intit Epphata to F. T. or a defence of the Bishop of Ely Lanc. Andrews concerning his answer to Card. Bellarmine's Apology against the calumnies of a scandalous Pamphlet Cambr. 1617. qu. written by Sam. Collins D. D. a Buckinghamsh man born Provost of Kings coll in Cambridge elected the Kings
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School
from Rome was made Archdeacon of Richmond on the resignation of Tho. Winter In 1531. he was incorporated Doctor of the Laws as he had stood in an University beyond the Seas and was afterwards made Archdeacon of Chester In 1541. May 29. he was consecrated Bishop of Bathe and Wells and had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him the day following year 1547 He gave way to fate on the 29. Sept. in fifteen hundred forty and seven and was buried in the nave of the Cath. Ch. at Wells By his last Will and Test dated 12. Aug. and proved on the eleventh of November an 1547. he bequeathed an hundred pounds for the conveying his body from London to Wells for the interring it in the Cath. Ch. there and for a Tomb to be laid or set over it To New coll he gave 40. l. and to Wykehams coll near Winchester 20 l. The next person immediately going before who was B. of B. and Wells was one Joh. Clerk of the Univ. of Cambridge Chapl. to Card. Wolsey Doctor of the Laws of Bononia afterwards Master of the Rolls and Dean of Windsore who after he had undergone several Messages and Embassies for and from Card. Wolsey and the King was at length sent Embassador to the Duke of Cleve to give a reason why K. Hen. 8. did divorce from him his Sister Anne Which being done he fell extremely sick at Dunkirk in Flanders in his return thence in the month of Sept. 1540. occasioned as some say by poyson given to him Whereupon making his last Will at that place on the 23. of the same month and in the same year within few days after which he died he bequeathed his body to be buried in the principal or chief Church of the Town of Calais and withal that there be a stone laid over his grave with this inscription to be put thereon Hic jacet Johannes Episcopus Bathonienfis Wellens Anglus qui cum obiisset plures insignes legationes tandem obiit diem suum in legatione Clevensi anno doon Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo Which Will was proved 17. January the same year So that how it comes to pass that there should be almost the same inscription on a grave-stone sometimes in S. Botolphs Church near Algate London wherein most authors hitherto have reported that he was buried I know not In the Pallace-Treasury at Westminster I have seen a bundle of books written as is supposed by Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury and this Dr. Clerk B. of Bathe and Wells Which books contain a defence of the Kings title of Supreme Head and of the divorce from his first Wife Queen Katherine and several matters against Cardinal Pole He the said Clerk is numbred by Leland among the learned and famous men of his time having written and published several things among which is his Oratio pro Henr. 8. Angliae Reg. Defens apud Leonem x. in Exhibitione operis regii 'T is against Luther but where or when printed it appears not only that it was published in qu. I have seen many of his letters which he wrote while he continued in Rome 1524. c. to Card. Wolsey giving him an account of the affairs of that place he being then one of that Cardinals Agents to obtain the Papacy for him WILLIAM MIAGH or Meagh Upon the death of Walt. Wellesley before-mentioned one Donald O-Beachan a Minorite was by the Popes provision declared Bishop of Kildare in July 1540. but within few days after he died In Nov. following one Thaddeus Reynold LL. D. was elected upon the like provision but the election being rejected by the King Will. Miagh before-mentioned an Irish-man born as I conceive who had spent some time among the Civilians in Oxon was promoted to the said See of Kildare and afterwards became one of the Privy Council to K. H. 8. in Ireland He yielded up his last breath on the 15. Decemb. in fifteen hundred forty and eight and was succeeded after the See had laid void one year and seven months by Thomas Lancaster who about that time obtained liberty of keeping the Deanry of Kilkenny in Commendam with it ROBERT WAKEMAN a Worcestershire man born and a Benedictine Monk was educated for a time among those of his Order in Gloucester coll and afterwards became the last Abbat of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and the Kings Chaplain In the year 1541. Sept. 20. he being then as 't is said Bach. of Div. was consecrated the first Bishop of Gloucester where sitting about 8 years gave way to fate about the beginning of Decemb. in fifteen hundred forty and nine In his life-time he erected a Tomb for the place of his burial in the Abbey Church of Tewkesbury in the north side of a little chappel there but buried at Worthington saith a certain author meaning as I suppose Wormington in Glocestershire yet I am more apt to believe at Forthampton in the said county where he had a house and private chappel there Qu. MILES BARON alias Fitz-Gerald an Irish man-born or at least of Irish extract was bred a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin and among those of his order in Oxon where they had three Monasteries was for a time educated in Theological learning Afterwards returning into Ireland became Prior of Inistiock in the county of Kilkenny and in 1527. was consectated Bishop of Ossory with liberty then given to him to keep his Priorship in commendam Before his consecration he built a new Campanile in his Monastery as also a cloyster adjoyning and after his consecration he repaired the house at Kilkenny belonging to his See and was a benefactor to his Church He died in a good old age in fifteen hundred and fifty year 1550 or as others say in fifty one and was buried in the Monastery of Inistiock before-mentioned among his predecessors EDMUND BUTLER an Irish man born natural Son of Peter Earl of Ormond was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin and for some time studied as is supposed among those of his Order in Oxon but what degree he took in divinity in this University it doth not appear Afterwards he became Prior of the Canon regulars of S. Edmund of Athassell in the county of Tipperary and at length Archbishop of Cashills to which See being consecrated in 1527. became one of the privy council to K. Hen. 8. in the Kingdom of Ireland and had then liberty allowed him to keep his Priorship in Commendum He died on the 5. of March in fifteen hundred and fifty and was buried in his Cath. Church at Cashills near the Archbishops Throne See more of him in Sir Jam. Wares book entit Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae p. 172. In the said See succeeded one Rowland Baron alias Fitz-Gerald descended from the antient Family of his name living in Ireland ROBERT SYLVEstER was a northern man born but whether
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâled by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
reliquaque faciendi quae spectant ad Doctoris statum in illa facultate incorporati c. See more in the year 1532. Feb. 19. Leonard Cox Bach. of Arts of Cambridge Afterwards he supplicated for the degree of Master as 't is before told you Mar. 15. Reb. Aldridge M. of A. and Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated B. of D. See among the Doctors of Div. in the year following An. Dom. 1530. An. 22 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Dr. Cottysford with his Deputy Dr. Lyndsey Proct. John Warner Thomas Duke again May 4. Which Proctors were continued in their places by the command and Letters of the Lord Cardinal directed to the chief Members of the University Gram. May 12. George Corney was admitted to inform c. Hen. Tapper who had partly studied in this and partly in the Univ. of Cambridge supplicated to be admitted but whether he was so it appears not Bach. of Arts. Mar. 30. Will. Chedsey of C. C. Coll. July 13. Fath. Hen. Bagwell a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin of S. Maries Coll. was then admitted B of A. 1â Hugh Weston of Linc. Dec. 12. John Hoker of Magd. Feb. 16. Will. Harrison Quaere Coll. Rob. Record was adm the same day but of what House he now was unless of All 's Coll. I know not All which except Bagwell were afterwards Writers Six and fifty Bach. of Arts or thereabouts were this year admitted and about eleven there were that supplicated for the said Degree that were not the same year admitted Bach. of Law Apr. 2. John Salysbury In the year before going he was admitted Bach. of the Can. Law Twelve or more were this year admitted in the Canon and about eleven in the Civil Law and thirteen or more supplicated for the degree of the former and but two for the latter Mast of Arts. Jul. 15. Rich. Smythe John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. Dec. 12. Tho. Key or Cay of All 's Mar. 10. Richard Sherrey of Magd. Coll. Mich. Drumm Canon of Cardinal Coll. was admitted the same day These except Ramridge and Drumm were afterwards Writers Ramridge was afterwards Dean of Lichfield as I shall tell you in another place and Drumm who had been formerly of Cambridge was esteemed a learned young man there Bach. of Divinity May 13. Fath. Steph. Merley or Marley Rog. Bell Benedictines June 22. Fath. John Dunster a Canon regular Oct. 15. Fath. John Slatery a Dominican Mar. 4. Fath. Edm. Wetherden or Metberden a Benedictin Five besides these were admitted and 13 at least that supplicated for the said Degree among whom Tho. London a Cistercian was one John Okeley a Carme another and Will. Jerome a Benedictin a third but were not admitted Doct. of Law Not one was admitted this year either in the Canon or Civil law and but one in the Canon Law that supplicated to be Doctor whose name was Will. Draper LL. B. Doct. of Physick Jul. 15. Humph. Blewet of Mert. Coll. This person who was a learned Physitian and Astronomer was born in the Dioc. of Hereford wrot a Book De peste evitanda but never printed and dying several years after at Calis in France was there buried Doct. of Div. Mar. 26. John Holyman sometimes of New Coll now a zealous Preacher against the Lutherans and a stiff Agitator against the Kings Divorce from Q Catherine He was afterwards Bishop of Bristol Apr. 3. Rob. Aldridge who in the year before was incorporated B. of D. was then admitted or licensed to proceed He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Incorporations John Heryng Bac. of Law and now or lately Fellow of All 's Coll. and Doct. of the Civ Law of an University beyond the Seas was incorporated but the particular time when I know not In 1543 he became Prebend of East Harptrey in the Church of Wells by the Attainder of Rich. Pate or Pates Simon Mathew Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was about the same time also incorporated but the day or month I know not This person who was born at Byggleswade in Bedfordshire and about this time a godly Residentiary of Pauls Cathedral and Vicar of Prescott preached many learned Sermons against the Pope one or more of which were afterwards publish'd in print An. Dom. 1531. An. 23 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Cottysford again Dr. Hen. White Principal of Can. Law School is stiled by the name of Commissary 5 June this year Proct. John Pollard Geo. Cotes of Magd. Coll. April 19. Grammarians June 4. Nich. Badock Jul. 10. Rich Fletcher Jan. 30. Rog. Ford sec Chaplains Which three were admitted to inform in that Faculty and John Richardys supplicated Bach. of Mus June ⦠James Northbroke a secular Chaplain In the same month supplicated for that degree one Tho. Tayler a sec Chuplain also but whether admitted I find not Bach. of Arts. June 23. James Brokes of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Jan. 23. Armigell Wade or Waad of Magd. Coll. as it seems Feb. 5. Patrick Walsh He was afterwarhs Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland In all about 50 besides ten at least that supplicated who were not admitted Doct. of Musick Dec⦠Joh Gwyneth or Gwynneth a secular Priest who had spent twelve years in the Praxis and Theory of Musick and had composed all the Responses of the whole year in Division-Song and had published many Masses in the said Song supplicated that these his labours might enable him to be admitted to the Praxis of Musick This being granted conditionally that he compose one Mass against the Act following supplicated again that whereas he had spent 20 years in the Praxis and Theory of Musick and had published three Masses of five parts and five Masses of four as also certain Symphona's Antiphona's and divers Songs for the use of the Church he might be permitted to proceed in the Faculty of Musick that is be made Doctor of that Faculty which desire of his being granted conditionally that he pay to the University on the day of his Admission 20 pence he was forthwith licensed to proceed See among the Writers under the year 1557. Bach. of Civ Law May 8 Joh. Sâorie of Henxsey Hall See among the Doct. 1538. Dec. 4. Rowland Merick He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Besides these two were but four more who were admitted in the said Faculty and but one that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law About 20 were admitted among whom Rob. Fynch who is written Subdecanus was one Rich. Hallsall a secular Chaplain and Compounder for his Degree another and some Welsh men Five also supplicated for the said Degree of whom the senior was Jeffrey Leyson Bach. of the Civ Law and three more of that Degree Mast of Arts. June 26. Thomas Goldwell July 11. John Standish of C. C. Coll. The first was afterwards a Bishop and the other a Writer Besides these were about 20 who were
President of Magd. Coll. where he continued about an year and then learning it to prevent expulsion sheltred himself in private during the Reign of Qu. Mary After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made one of her Masters of Requests and by her employed in one or more Embassies His works are 1 A sight of the Portugal Pearl in answer to the Epistle of Hieron Osorius entit A Pearl for a Prince This book which was written in Latin I have not yet seen only the translation of it into English made by Abrah Hartwell an 1565. in tw 2 Lucubrationes Lond. 1565. qu. collected and published by Tho. Hatcher of Kings Coll. in Cambridge These Lucubrations consist of Orations and Epistles Among the Orations is that De obitu Mart. Buceri and among the Epistles is that De vita obitu fratrum Suffolciensium Henrics Caroli Brandon 3 Poemata Lond. 1567. qu. collected also and published by the said Hatcher 4 Contra Hieron Osorium ejusque odiosas insectationes pro Evangelicae veritatis necessaria defensione responsio apologetiââ Lond. 1577. qu. This book was began and carried on by him more than half Afterwards coming into the hands of John Fox was by him finish'd and published and at length translated into English by Jam. Bâll 5 Poematum lib. duo Lond. 1592. oct Before which Poems is printed the life of Walâ Haddon Whether these two books contain his Poems beforemention'd I cannot tell I remember I once saw them but dreaming not in the least of any future mentioning Dr. Haddon I throw'd them aside after I had taken the title otherwise I should have spoken more of him He gave way to fate 21. January 1571 leaving then behind him the Character of Orator dâlcis foecundus and was buried on the 25. of the same month in the Grey fryers Church now called Ch. Ch. within the City of London Over his grave was soon after a comly monument erected which with the Church it self was consumed by the dreadful conslagration that hapned in the said City in the beginning of Sept. 1666. â This year Jul. 20. the publick Registrary or Scribe of the University was deprived of his place for neglecting to set down and enter in the common register the Acts of Congregations for several years behind An. Dom. 1553. An. 7. Ed. 6. An. 1. Mariae Chanc. the same viz. Sir Joh. Mason Knight Vicehanc or Prochanc Dr. Martiall again now Dean of Ch. Ch. Dr. Walt. Wryght occurs also Prochanc this year Apr. 4. and Dr. Will. Tresham who was about the same time a Prisoner in the Fleet commissary Nov. 6. But these two I presume were only Deputies Proct. Thom. Spencer Maur. Bullocke again Bach. of Arts. Jul. 15. Jasp Heywood of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards a noted Jesuit Oct. 11. John Wolley See among the Masters 1557. Dec. 1. Tho. Palmer of Brasen Coll. See also among the Masters in 1556. Feb. 1. Rich. Barnes of Br. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Durham March ⦠John Rogers of Qu. Coll. Quaere Admitted in all this year 52. Bach. of Civ Law â¦Rich Green of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Diocess of Glouc. Oct. 30. Tho. Darbyshire of Broadgates hall He was afterwards Chanc. of Dioc. of London Rob. Johnson of All 's Coll. was also as it seems admitted this year but not to be understood to be the same R. Johnson whom I have mention'd in 1551. Mast of Arts. Jul. 8. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. 14. Dav. de la Hyde of Meât Coll. 15. Hugh Evans of Brasen Coll. I take him to be the same Hugh Evans who occurs Dean of St. Asaph in 1571. Nov. 27. Tho. Wylson whether he be the same with Tho. Wylson of Brasn Coll. who was admitted B. of A. in 1546. as I have under that year told I cannot assure you I find one Tho. Wâlson Bach of Div. and Preb. of Worcester to have succeeded John Pedder in the Deanery there in May 1571 who dying 10. July 1586 was buried in a little isle commonly called the Deans Chappel joyning to the choiâe of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester having before married Dorothy Daughter of Rob. Banister Esq Whether this Tho. Wylson whom I cannot find among the number of our Bachelaurs of Div. be the same with Tho. Wylson of Brasn Coll. mention'd under the year 1546 I cannot yet tell Admitted 24. â Not one Bach. of Div. was admitted this year Doct. of Civ Law June ⦠Thom. Whyte of New Coll. This Person who was now Prebendary of Winchester was elected Warden of his Coll. in the month of Sept. this year being then a zealous Man for the Rom. Cath. Religion In Sept. 1557 he succeeded Will. Pye in the Archdeaconry of Berks. and in Aug. 1571 Hen. Parry in the Chancellourship of the Church of Sarum having before been Preb. of Vlfcomb in that Church He died 12. June 1588 and was buried in the choir belonging to the Cathedral there Jun⦠John Kennall He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. Chancellour of Rochester Archdeacon of Oxân in the place of Dr. Wat. Wryght deceased an 1561. and Canon residentiary of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter where dying in 1591 Joh. Drewry LL. D. succeeded him in the Archdeaconry of Ox. Jul⦠Tho. Stempe of New Coll. about this time Prebendary of Winchester Afterwards he became the eleventh Warden of W. of Wykâhams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. John Boxall He died 9. Feb. 1581 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said College in whose Epitaph there 't is said that he was Legum S. Theologiae Musicesque laude clarissimus Oct. 30. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. â Not one Doct. of Phys or Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Will. Mowse or Mosse Dr. of the Civ Law of Cambridge was incorporated this year but the particular time when I cannot find He was of Trin. hall in that Vniversity was this year the Kings Professor of the Civ Law in this of Oxon but whether in his own right or in that of Dr. Will. Awbrey is yet to me uncertain On the first of March 1560 he was installed Prebend of Botevant in the Church of York being at that time Master of the aforesaid hall and dying in 1588 became a considerable benefactor to that house Andr. Perne D. of D. of Cambridge was also this year incorporated but the day or month when appears not He was educated in Peter house whereof he was Fellow and Master and in 1557 was made the second Dean of Ely in the place of Rob. Styward who died 22. Sept. the same year This Dr. Perne who is reported to have been a mutable Man in his Religion and of a facetious nature yet a great Mecaenas of learning died at Lambeth in Surrey 26. Apr. 1589 and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church there whereupon John Bell D. of D. succeeded him in his Deanery You may read many things of this Dr. And.
in the Spittle there Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. John Harpesfield Jul. 13. Thomas Hardyng of New Coll. Both zealous and stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. cause Jun. 20. It was then granted to Hen. Cole LL. D. of New Coll. that he might have the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity conferr'd upon him without any disputations or exercise done for the same Incorporations Certain Doctors of Div. of the Univ. of Cambridge having been commanded by their Chancellour Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester to go to Oxford and there to joyn themselves with other Doctors and learned Men of that University to dispute with Archb. Cranmer Bish Rydley and B. Latimer concerning matters of Religion did accordingly come to Oxom 13. of Apr. this year and taking up their quarters at the Cross-inn near to Quatervois were the next day incorporated The names of them are these John Young D. D. Master of Pembroke hall and Vicechancellour He was a learned Man and is stiled by some Writers Joh. Giovanus John Seton or Seaton D. D. of St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Winchester He was now famous in that University for the brief and methodical book of Logick which he had composed for the use of junior Scholars Rich. Atkinson D. D. Provost of Kings Coll. Will. Glynne D. D. Master of Queens Coll. and now or lately Archdeacon of Anglesie In 1555 Sept. 8. he was consecrated Bishop of Bangor within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in London and died a little before Qu. Mary Tho. Watson D. D. Master of St. Johns Coll. and Chaplain to Gardiner B. of Winchester In 1553 Nov. 18. he was instituted Dean of Durham by Dr. Tonstall B. thereof on the deprivation of Rob. Horne and in Aug. 1557 he was consecrated B. of Linc. From which See being removed by the authority of Parliament in the beginning of Q. Eliz. as being an enemy to reformation and the Qu. Supremacy over the Church was committed Prisoner to several places and kept in durance in and near London for about 20 years At length in the year 1580 he and Jo. Fekenham being sent Prisoners with others to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire continued there to the time of his death He was buried in the Ch. belonging to the Town of Wisbich 27. of Sept. an 1584. In his younger years he was given much to Poetry and making of Plays and gained great commendations for his Antigone out of Sophocles by the learned Men of his time who have farther avowed that as George Buchannans Tragedy called Jepthe have among all Tragedies of that time been able to abide the touch of Aristotles precepts and Euâipides Examples So hath also the Tragedy of this Tho. Watson called Absalon which was in a most wonderful manner admired by them yet he would never suffer it to go abroad because in locis paribus Anapestus is twice or thrice used instead of Jambus In his elder years being then of a sour disposition as one saith and âarned in deep Divinity but surly with an austere gravity as another tells us published several matters of Divinity among which were Two Sermons of the real Presence before Qu. Mary on Rom. 12. 1. c. Lond. 1554. oct and Wholsome and Cath. Doctrine concerning the seven Sacraments c. Lond. 1558. qu. This Book consists only of Hemilies Cuthbert Scot D. D. Master of Christs Coll. and Prebendary of York He was afterwards Bish of Chester Thomas Sedgwyke D. D. the Queens Prof. of Div. in Cambr. Alban Langdale D. D. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. In 1556 he being then Parson of Buxted in Sussex was made Archdeacon of Lewes on the death of one Dr. Breisley and about the same time Prebendary of Aâpleford in the Church of York In the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he was deprived of those and other Dignities 1 Because he had behaved himself zealous in the Reign of Q. Mary in carrying on the Rom. Catholick Cause against the Protestants 2 Because he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church He lived afterwards many years a constant Member of the Church of Rome but when or where he died I cannot tell See more of him in Nich. Ridley pag. 78. An. Dom. 1555. An. 2 Mariae An. 3 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rich. Smyth D. D. sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Canon of Ch. Ch. and one of Qu. Maries Chaplains was admitted to his Office in Apr. this year Dr. Martiall occurs also Vicechancellour 16 Oct. at what time Rydley and Latimer were burnt in Canditch for then if I mistake not Dr. Smyth preached to them when they were at the Stake Proct. Will. Norfolke of Or. Coll. Jam. Gervys of Mert. Coll. elect 14 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Nov. 14. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll. Jan. 11. Edw. Cradock of C. C. See among the D. D. an 1565. Feb. 13. Hen. Bedell of C. C. Coll. One of both his names was Author of A Sermon exhorting to pity the poor on Psal 41. Lond. 1571. oct and of another if not more which I have not yet seen Whether the same with Hen. Bedell the Bach. of Arts who was born in Oxfordshire I know not This year Apr. 26. John Woolton of Brasn Coll. afterwards Bishop of Exeter supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not or that he determined in the Lent following Adm. 33. Bach. of Civ Law June 26. John Calverley of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of John Bridgwater about 1574 and dying in 1576 he was succeeded by Dr. Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Besides Calverley were five admitted and three or more that supplicated for the same Degree Bach. of Decrees Apr. 3. Will. Laly or Lawley of New Inn. He was afterwards Archbish of Tuam in Ireland John Linch of New Inn also as it seems was admitted the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland Mast of Arts. Jun. 26. John Rastell of New Coll. He afterwards gained to himself an eminent name especially among those of his Profession for his Writings against Joh. Jewell Jul. 12. Harbert Westphalyng of Ch. Ch. 26. Pet. Whyte of Or. Coll. He was afterwards much celebrated by his Scholar Rich. Stanyhurst for his Learning Adm. 29. Bach. of Phys Mar. 28. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. See among the Doctors in 1559. June 17. Tho Godwyn of the same Coll. He afterwards applied his Studies to Div. and at length became B. of Bathe and Wells Mar. 13. Giles Wale c. Eight in all were admitted this year Bach. of Div. Nov. 14. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina lately of Lincoln College now Divinity Reader of that of Magd He was commonly called Frier John and by Protestant Writers Johannes Frââerculus See among the D. of D. 1558. He was the only person that was admitted Bach. of Div. this year Two or more there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Will.
Brook I have spoken at large among the Writers under the year 1628. An. Dom. 1589. An. 31 Elizab. An. 32 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton Kt. who by the death of Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester became also High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge Vicechanc. Nich. Bond D. D. President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. John Harding of Magd. Coll. John King of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Will. Thorne of New Coll. June 25. Sebast Benefeild of C. C. Coll. July 12. George Benson of Queens Coll. See more among the Doctors of Div. an 1607. Nov. 5. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Dec. 1. Tho. Frith of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divin 1605. 17. Edmund Griffyth of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Feb. 11. John Tapsell See among the Doct. of Div. 1617. Adm. 104. Bach. of Law June 30. Will. Gager July 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. See more among the Doctors of the Civ Law this year In the month of April this year Edwyn Sandys of C. C. Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Law but was not admitted Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. June 9. George Warwick of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Carlile in the place as I suppose of Hen. Dethick 18. Christoph Sutton of Linc. 21. Griffith Powell of Jes Coll. 27. John Budden of Gloc. Hall lately of Trin. Coll. July 4. Rich. Brett Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. 11. George Cranmer Dec. 5. Alexand. Gill. of C. C. Coll. Adm. 74. Bach. of Phys Nov. 4. John Case the noted Philosopher of S. Johns Coll. Besides him was only one admitted and another licensed to practise Medecine Bach. of Div. July 6. Thomas Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mar. 21. Giles Tomson of All 's John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614. Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day He was now Principal of Nâw Inn. Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. He was lately one of the Proctors of the University afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellour to Qu. Anne a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury In the beginning of 1617 he was sent Embassadour to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrot and published as 't was supposed by Erycius Puteanus who neither apprehended the Author nor suppressed the Book untill he was sollicited by the Kings Agent there only interdicted it and suffered the Author to fly his Dominions Afterwards in 1621 the said Sir Joh. Bennet was for bribery corruption and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative first committed to custody to the Sheriff of London then to prison afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London in the beginning of 1627 and was buried I suppose in the Church there July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll. His Grace had before been denied because he was suspected to have something of a Papist in him but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Congregation of Regents he was permitted then July 11. to proceed He was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Court of Admiralty and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in after they had been impowr'd to send them to Parliament He died in the latter end of 1608 having before as I conceive been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons Doct. of Phys June 30. John Bentley of Ch. Church Nov. 4. Joh. Case of S. Johns Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Physick and were learned men Doct. of Div. July 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Dean of Worcester as I have before told you among the Writers Creations June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt. He was originally of this University was afterwards Earl of Devonshire and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665 was buried in the south Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church near to the Grave of Will Lord Grandison the King with his Court having about that time left Oxon to which place he before had retired to avoid the Plague raging in London Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons an 1601. Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange He was soon after Earl of Derby and dying in the flower of his Youth not without suspicion of poyson on the 16 of Apr. 1594 having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chappel joyning to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire Sept. 17. Sir George Carew Kt. He was afterwards Earl of Totness Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt. All which were actually created Masters of Arts. An. Dom. 1590. 32 Elizab. 33 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 16 who in 1581 had undergone the same Office Proct. Jasp Colmer of Mert. Coll. Jeh Evelegh of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Tho. Bastard of New Jul. 9. Joh. Davies of Queens Coll. George Carew of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day Quaere Dec. 14. Thom. Cooper or Couper of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1600. Feb. 5. Sam. Page Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. The two last I shall mention among the Writers in the second Volume Feb. 5. Mathew Lister Lionel Day of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Incorporations an 1605 and of the other who was originally of S. Albans Hall among the Bach. of Div. 1608. 10. Lancelot Bulkley of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland Adm. 133. Bach. of Law May 2. John Owen of New Coll. the Epigrammatist Feb. 2. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. This person whom I have mention'd among the Masters in 1587 was Proctor of the University two years after and travelling beyond the Seas return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman In 1607 June 28. he received the honor of Knighthood at Richmond was sent Embassadour into the Low Countries soon after made Secretary of State 29 Mar. 1614 being the very day that Sir Tho. Lake was
Wife of Dr. John Thornborough Bishop of Worcester succeeded being admitted to it 3. Aug. 1629. Rob. Newman of New Coll. was admitted D. D. the same day Jun. 14 Jul. 8. Charles Langford Giles Tomson of All 's Coll. The first of these two was now Dean of Hereford in which Dignity he did succeed if I mistake not John Watkins who died about the middle of May 1594 and was succeeded by Dr. Rich. Mountague as I have before told you among the Doctors of Law this year The other Doctor Giles Tomson was installed Dean of Windsore on the 2. of March this year and afterwards was made Bishop of Glocester as before among the Bishops I have told you Jul. 8. Giles Thorne of New Coll. John Williams of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last was now Dean of Chichester and the other dignified in the Church One of both his names I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1613. and another I shall mention in these Fasti an 1608. sub tit Incorporations Incorporations Apr. 30. Will. Turner M. A. of Cambridge See among the Doct. of Physick 1608. Jun. 23. Humph. Leech M. A. of the same University He was originally of Brasn Coll. and was about this time Chaplain of Ch. Ch. July 3. Ralph Hulton Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 15. Will. Wheatly Bach. of Arts of Christs Coll. in the said University He was now a member of St. Edm. hall in this of Oxon. Jul. 15. Martin Day Phineas Hodson Dan. Dyke Jacob. Godscaleus M. of A. of Cambr. The first of these last four Mart. Day was afterwards Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty Rector of St. Faiths Church in London and Rector of Stoke near Launceston in Cornwall In his life time he published Monument of Mortality c. containing four treatises printed in oct and after his death which hapned 1628 were published several Sermons of his under these titles 1 Doomesday or a treatise of the resurrection of the body delivered in 22 Sermons on 1. Cor. 15. Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Corinths collection or the Saints of Jerusalem in seven Sermons on the 1. Cor. 16. the first nine verses printed with the former and all dedicated to Dr. Josoph Hall sometimes an intimate friend of the Author The second Phineas Hodson was afterwards D. of D. and in 1611. Sept. 26. was collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York upon the resignation of Dr. Will. Goodwin mention'd before among the Doctors of Divinity He died at or near York about the latter end of 1646. whereupon his Chancellourship lying void till the restoration of K. Ch. 2. Christopher Stone M. A. succeeded being installed therein 24. Oct. 1660. This Dr. Hodson hath published The Kings request or Davids desire c. Serm. on Psal 27. 4. Lond. 1628. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere The third Dan. Dyke was as 't is said born in Hertfordshire in a town called Hemstede of which his Father was Minister was an eminent Preacher wrot several things as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you among which is his book Of the deceitfulness of mans heart published after his death by his Brother Jerem. Dyke of Sydney Coll. an 1614. The fourth and last Jac. Godscaleus I take to be the same with James Godskal Author of The Kings Medicine against the plague for the year 1604. Printed 1604. in oct which is all I know of him as yet Jul. 15. Andr. Bing Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was Fellow of Peter House or St. Peters Coll. in the same University afterwards D. of D. and Hebrew Professor thereof See more in the Incorporations 1612. Oct. 25. Tho. Lodge Doct. of Phys of the University of Avenion About 27 Cambridge Men were incorporated this year in several faculties An. Dom. 1603. An. 1. Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again Jul. 23. Proct. Christop Dale of Mert. Coll. William Laud of St. Joh. Coll. May 4. Bach. of Musick Jul. 16. Thom. Boys of All 's Coll. He hath composed âârtain Church services which is all I know of him Bach. of Arts. May 12. Hannibal Gamon of Broadgates hall July 1. Rob. Gentilis of Jes Coll. Son of Alberic Gent. 5. Rich. Tillesley of St. Johns Coll. 9. John Hales of C. C. Coll. afterwards of Morton and at length of Eaton Coll. Dec. 12. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch. 13. Will. Heale of Exeter Coll. Jan. 19. John Ball of Brasn Coll. See another of both his names among the Bach. of Arts an 1608. Feb. 15. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch. As for Gamon Gentilis and Hales they will be mention'd in the next vol. Adm. 126. Bach. of Law Mar. 29. John Basire a French Man who had studied the Civ Law 12 terms in this University and 7 years in France and Germany was then admitted Jul. 5. Will. Juxon of St. Johns Coll. In his last days he became Archbishop of Canterbury 8. Eizo Tiards of Jesus Coll. He accumulated as I shall tell you anon Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. May 11. Henry Mason of C. C. Joh. Prideaux of Exet. Coll. Jun. 30. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. 1636. July 7. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Tob. Venner of St. Alb. hall John Eaton of Trin. Coll. Tancred Leill or Lelius of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a learned Dane which is all I know of him 9. Thom. Jackson Brian Twyne of C. C. Barthel Parsons of Oriel Coll. Adm. 46. Bach. of Div. July 7. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham Mar. 12. Sam. Page of C. C. Coll. Admitted 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Eizo Tiarda of Jesus Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law He was born of and descended from a gentile Family living in Groeningen in Germany â Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 2. John Childerley of St. Johns Coll. While he was a junior Fellow of that house he became Preacher to the English Merchants trading at Stode and after his return became successively Chaplain to Richard Archb. of Canterbury and afterwards to George his successour Rector of St. Mary de Wolnoth in London of S. Dunstans in the East and of Sheinfield or Shemfield in Essex He was in his time a very eminent and frequent Preacher and learned Divine but blind by age and continual labour several years before his death Notwithstanding which he suffered much in the time of the rebellion and was outed of St. Dunstans by the restless Presbyterian and whether he kept Sheinfield to his last I cannot tell He died very aged in 1645 being then 66 years since his first coming to St. Johns Coll. and was buried either in the Chancel of St. Dunstan or in that of Sheinfield beforemention'd July 7. Nich. Higgs of Ball. Coll. He was about this time Rector of Higham in Somersetshire where or near it he dyed 1631. Incorporations May 23. Laurence Whittaker M. A. of Cambridge This Person who was a Somersetshire
two more admitted viz. Edward Lapworth of Magd. Coll. and Tho. Cloyton of Ball. C. Bach. of Div. May 6. John Prideaux Dan. Price of Ex. Coll. 28. Barthelm Parsons of Or. June 10. John Lee of All 's Coll. The last of which two became Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. White deceased 29. Apr. 1624 and dying there in 1634 was succeeded in that Dignity by Edward Davenant 19. Nov. the same year Jun. 25. Rich. Carpenter Lewes Bayly of Ex. C. 27. John Day of Oriel Nov. 14. John Gianvill of Ball. Coll. This last Person hath written Articuli Christiane fidei quam ecclesia profitetur Anglicana versu quoad ejus fieri potuit expressi facillimo Oxon. 1613. qu. in 6 Sh. What he hath written besides or whether he took any Degree in Arts in this University I know not He was living in 1614 in which year he gave several books to the Bodleian Library Admitted 24. â Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Jun â0 Edw. Lapworth of Magd. Sim. Baskervile of Exet. Tho. Clayton of Balliol Rob Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. All which did accumulate the Degrees in Physick As for Lapworth he was afterwards the first Reader of the Lecture of Nat. Philosophy founded by Sir Will. Sedley and dying in the City of Bathe where he usually practised in the Summer time 23. May 1636 as I have somewhere before told you was buried in the great Church there dedicated to St. Pet. and St. Paul The second Sim. Baskervile was now in great esteem for his admirable knowledge in Medicine as before he had been for his humanity and philosophy was afterwards knighted by K. Ch. 1. and dying 5. July 1641 aged 68 years was buried in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in the City of London The third T. Clayton was soon after the Kings Professor of Phys in this University and at length the last Principal of Broadgates hall and the first Master of Pembroke Coll. The last R. Vilvaine being afterwards a Writer I shall mention him at large in the 2. vol. Doct. of Div. Apr. 10. Tho. Ireland of Linc. Coll. This Person who was afterwards Prebendary of York and Southwell hath published one or more Sermons as 1 Serm. on Ecclesiastes 8. 2. Pr. 1610. qu. c. Another of both his names and time was a common Lawyer of Greys Inn and a Knight and the abridger in English of Sir Jam. Dyer's Reports pr. 1651. and of the Eleven books of Reports of Sir Edward Coke pr. 1656. But whether this last Tho. Ireland was originally of Oxon I cannot yet tell June 6. Samuel Page of C. C. 20. John Denison Rich. Kinge of Ball. Coll. July 2. Christoph Hooke of Magd. Mich. Boyle of St. Johns Geor. Hakewill of Ex. Coll. Incorporations July 5. Thom. Spackman Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He hath written and published A declaration of such grievous accidents that commonly follow the biting of mad dogs together with the cure thereof Lond. 1613. qu and perhaps other things Quâre 9. John ââwers M. of A. of Cambr. He was a Norfolk Man born was bred Fellow of Queens Coll. in the said University was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to William Earl of Northampton who confer'd upon him the benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Will. Piers promoted to the Episcopal See thereof an 1630 and on the 8. of Mar 1638 was installed Bishop of that place After the Long Parliament began he was one of the twelve Bishops who drew up a protestation against all such Laws Orders Votes Resolutions and Determinations which should be done in their absence from the 27. Dec. 1641 to be null and of no effect c. Whereupon he with the said Bishops were committed Prisoners to the Tower where they continued above four Months Afterwards being released Towers retired to the King at Oxon and continued there till the surrender of that garrison for the use of the Parliament and then most of the Royal Party being put to their shifts he went to Peterborough where dying in an obscure condition 10. Januar. 1648 was buried the day following in the Cath. Church of Peterborough In the year 1660 were four of his Sermons published in octavo one of which was preached at the baptism of James Earl of Northampton and another at the funeral of William Earl of that place July 9. Anth. Sleepe Master of Arts of the same University This Person who was a member of Trinity Coll. was so excellent an Orator that he gave K. Jam⦠occasion several times to say that Is Wake Orator of the Vnive sity of Oxon had a good Ciceronian stile but his utterance and matter was so grave ãâã when he spake before him he was apt to sleep but Sleep the Depâty Orator of Cambr. was quite contraây for he never spake but kept him awake and made him apt to laugh Isaac Bargrave M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day This learned Gentleman was the Son of Robert Bargrave of Bridge in Kent was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to Prince Charles Pastor of St. Margarets Church in Westminster afterwards Chaplain to that Prince when he became King and about 1625 was made Dean of Canteâbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Boys He hath published several Sermons the titles of three of which are in the Oxford Catalogue and dying in 1642 was succeeded by Dr. Geor. Eglionby July 9. Thom. Westfield Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was a Native of the Parish of St. Mary in the City of Ely was educated in Grammaticals there in Academicals in Jesus Coll. in the said University of which he was made successively Scholar and Fellow Afterwards he became Curat or Assistant to Dr. Nich. Felton while he was Minister of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside Rector of Hornsey near and of Great St. Bartholmew in London Archdeacon of St. Albans and at length in 1641 advanced to the See of Bristow where dying 25. June 1644. was buried in the Cathedral at the upper end of the isle joyning to the Choire on the North side After his death were published of his composition 1 Englands face in Israels glass eight Sermons on Psal 106. 19. 20. c. printed 1646. qu. They were published again afterwards with others added to them 2 White robe or surplice vindicated in several Sermons pr. 1660. 63. in oct c. John Pocklington Bach. of Div. of Pemb. hall in Cambr. was incorporated in that Degree the same day See more among the Incorporations an 1603. Thom. Bonham Doctor of Phys of the same University was incorporated the same day July 9. There is a book going under his name which is thus intituled The Chirurgeons Closet or an Antidotary Chirurgical fornished with variety and choice of Apophlegms balmes bathes c. Lond. 1630. qu. The greatest part whereof was scatter'dly set down in sundry books and papers of the said Dr.
two last you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1624. and of the other in my discourse of George Carew among the Writers under the year 1629. 18. Will. Lucy of Trin. Dec. 1. Joh West of Magd. 17. Jam. Howell of Jes Coll. The first of these last three was afterwards Bishop of S. Davids and the second was Son of the Lord de la Warr. Feb 9. Jo. Angell 10. Alex. Huish of Magd. Hall The last of these two was afterwards one of the original Scholars of Wadham Coll. and a Writer of note Feb. 17. Bevill Grenevil of Exeter Coll. the eldest Son of a Kt. was then admitted not only Bach. of Arts but about the same time the senior Collector of the Bachelaurs that determined this year He was afterwards a Knight and much famed for his exemplary Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. in the beginning of the Rebellion which was raised by a prevalent Party Presbyterians in the two houses of Parliament an 1642. He was killed in his Majesty's Service at Lansdowne near Bathe 5 July 1643 leaving a Son behind him named John sometimes a Gent. Com. in Gloc. Hall made the first Earl of Bathe of his name by K. Ch. 2. Soon after Sir Bevil's death came out a Book of Verses made by several Oxonians wherein you 'll find much of his Worth and Gallantry He had a Brother named Sir Rich. Grenevill who had received some Education in this University was afterwards a stout maintainer of the Kings Cause in the said Rebellion was High Sheriff of Devon 1645 and Author of A narrative of the affairs of the West since the defeat of the Earl of Essex at Lestithiell in Cornwal an 1644. in 3 sheets in qu. Feb. 17. Henry Carey of Exeter Coll. the eldest Son of a Knight was also then admitted Bachelaur and the junior Collector He was afterwards Earl of Monmouth and a frequent Translator of Books as I shall hereafter tell you Thom. Carey of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day This Themas who was younger Brother to the said Henry Carey was born in Northumberland while his Father Sir Robert Carey was Warden of the Marches towards Scotland proved afterwards a most ingenious Poet and was Author of several Poems printed scatter'dly in divers Books one of which beginning Farewel fair Saint c. had a vocal Composition of two parts set to it by the sometimes famed Musitian Henry Lawes Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1642 he adhered to his Majesty being then of the Bedchamber to and much esteemed by him But after that good King had lost his head he took it so much to heart that he fell suddenly sick and died before the expiration of the year 1643 aged 53 or thereabouts Soon after his Body was buried in a Vault the burying place of his Family under S. Joh Bapt. Chappel within the precincts of S. Peter's Church in Westminster Mar. 3. Will. Pemble of Magd. Coll. As for Cox Parr Morgan Potter Singe Lucy Howell Angell and Huish will be large mention made in the other Volume of this work or elsewhere Adm. 189. Mast of Arts. Apr. 28. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. Coll. June 10. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch. July 8. Christop Potter of Qu. Dec. 3. Humph. Sydenham of Wadham Jan. 27. Giles Widdowes of Oriel Coll. Jasper Fisher of Magd. Hall was admitted the same day Adm. 102. Bach. of Phys. March ult Tobias Venner of S. Albans Hall Not one besides him was admitted this year Bach. of Div. June 17. Thom. Powell of Bras Coll. He hath published A Sermon preached at S. Maries in Oxon on Exod. 28. 34. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps others or else certain Theological Tracts which is all I know of him only that he was a Caernarvanshire man born Jul. 8. Will. Symonds of Magd. Dan. Faireclough of C. C. Coll. Nov. 25. Rich. Tillesley of S. Joh. Dec. 1. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. Adm. 13. Doct. of Law Apr. 28. Joh. Hoskâns of New Coll. He was commonly called John Hoskins junior as I have among the Writers told you Doct. of Phys June 21. Dan. Price Lew. Bayly of Ex. Coll. Jul. 8. Will. Symonds of Magd. Coll. who accumulated Nov. 9. John Flemmyng Warden of Wadham Coll. formerly Fellow of that of Exeter and about this time one of his Majesties Chaplains 29. Will. Ballow of Ch. Ch. He died in Dec. 1618. Dec. 1. George Carleton of Mert. Coll. Joh. Wilkinson of Magd. Hall The last of the said two Doctors was now Principal of the said Hall of S. M. Magd. and afterwards was President of Magd. Coll. but hath published nothing One John Wilkinson hath written An Exposition of the 13 chapt of the Revelations of Jesus Christ Printed privately in 1619. qu. The publisher of which tells us that it was the purpose and desire of the Author of the said Book to have published his judgment of the whole Book of the Revelation but through the malice of the Prelates as he adds who divers times spoiled him of his goods and kept him many years in prison he was prevented of his purpose He tells us also that after his death some of his Labours coming into the hands of his Friends in scatter'd and imperfect papers they laboured with the help of others that heard him declare his judgment therein to set forth the said little Book or Treatise Whether this Joh. Wilkinson was of Oxon. I cannot yet tell neither whether he was the same Joh. Wilkinson M. of A. who became Rector of Babcary in Somersetshire in Apr. 1587. Another Joh. Wilkinson was a Lawyer of Bernards Inn near London who hath published A treatise collected out of the Statutes of this Kingdom concerning the Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs And another entit An easie and plain method for the keeping of a Court Leet Both printed in 1620 c. in oct Whether he was ever bred in any University I know not sure I am one Rob. Wilkinson was who applying his study to Divinity proceeded in that Faculty at Cambr. I think was Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and a publisher of several sermons as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you He died in the year 1617. Incorporations Apr. 3. Christianus Rumphius Doctor of Philosophy and Physick chief and principal Physician to Frederick 5 Prince Elect. of the Palat. and to the illustrious Lady Elizabeth daughter of K James 1. of England was incorporated Doctor of Phys as he had stood at Basil and Heydelberg in the house of Sir Joh. Bennet Knight situated in Warwick lane within the City of London by vertue of a Commission from the Vicechancellour directed to the said Sir Joh. Bennet Joh. Spenser D. D. President of C. C. Coll. Tho. Clayton Doctor of Phys and others The Incorporations of the Cantabrigians are this year omitted by the publick Scribe Creations Mar. 30. Will. Hakewill of Lincolns Inn Esq sometimes a Student in Exâter Coll. was then actually created M. of A. being the
very next day after his Kinsman Sir Tho. Bodley was buried I shall make large mention of this Hakewell in the second Vol. of this Work or elsewhere It was then granted by the ven Convocation that Will. Camden Clarenceaux King of Arms who had served as an Herald at the burial of the said Sir Tho. Bodley might be created M. of A. but for what reason he was not unless his refusal as I have elsewhere told you I cannot tell Laurence Bodley M. of A. Canon residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and chief Mourner at his Brothers Sir Tho. Bodley Funeral was actually created D. of D. the same day as a member of Ch. Church July 1. John Walter sometimes of Brasn Coll. now of the Inner Temple and Counsellour for the University of Oxon was created M. of A. He was afterwards Attorney to Prince Charles Serjeant at Law a Knight and chief Baron of the Exchequer He died 18 Nov. 1630 aged 67 and was buried in a little Vault under a north Isle which he before had built joyning to the Church of Wolvercote near Oxon where at this day is a splendid monument over his grave for him and his two Wives David Walter Esq one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2. and Lientenant General of the Ordinance was his second Son who dying at London 22 Apr. 1679 was buried in the same Vault with his Father on the 30 of the same month Aug. 7. It was then granted by the ven Convocation that Sir Tho. Flemmyng Lord Chief Justice of England might be created M. of A. but whether it was effected it appears not Feb. 21. Sir Joh. Doderidge Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was created M. of A. in Serjeants Inn in London A young man named Jacob Aretius who stiles himself Germano-Britannus studied now in Oxon and published 1 Primula veris seu Panegerica ad excellentiss Principem Palatinum This he calls Eidyllium 2 In augustiss gloriosiss Regis Jacobi inaugurationem carmen seculare c. written in Greek Lat. Dutch Ital. and Engl. 3 In nuptias illustriss principis Frederici Elizabethae Maletemata Which three things were printed at Lond. 1613. qu. He hath also Lat. Verses extant on the death of Prince Henry and perhaps other things This year also studied in the University Rob. Spotswood and Rob. Murrey Scots Of the first I shall speak at large elsewhere as also of the other if he be the same with Sir Rob. Murrey who was afterwards President of the Royal Society The most learned also Isaac Casaubon was entred a Student in Bodlies Library as a Member of Ch. Ch. in the month of May this year but died soon after to the great loss of learning He was a great Linguist a singular Grecian and an exact Philologer An. Dom. 1614. An. 12 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicech William Goodwin D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15. Proct. Jenkin Vaughan of All 's Coll. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Arts. May 23. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Coll. 28. Christoph Davenport of Magd. hall who for one year and three months had studied in Trin. Coll. near Dublin This Person who was no Writer as I can yet learn yet I set him down lest posterity take him to be Christoph Davenport who was now 1614 a Student in Merton Coll. I mean the same Davenport afterwards known by the name of Franc. Ã Sancta Clara and celebrated among Men of his perswasion and by many Protestants too for his elaborate books that are extant as you shall further see in the next vol. of this work June 16. Tho. Turner of St. Johns Coll. See among the Creations in 1633. 28. John Flavell of Wadh. 30. Edm. Wingate of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. Will Stafford of Ch. Ch. See in the year 1617 under the title of Creations 7. Richard Thornton of Linc. Oct. 29. Christop Tesdale of New Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Masters 1617. and of the other in 1618. Nov. 4. Tim. Woodroffe of Ball. Dec. 15. John Harmar of Magd. Coll. 17. Hen. Ramsden of Magd. hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. Feb. 1. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. Five of these Bachelaurs namely Jemmat Wingate Woodroffe Harmar and Toogood will be remembred at large in the next Volume or elsewhere Admitted 187. Bach. of Law June 30. Richard Zouche of New Coll. He was afterwards the great Ornament of the University for his singular knowledge in the Civil and Canon Law as you shall fully understand in the 2. vol. of this work Besides him were but four more admitted this year Mast of Arts. May 5. Richard Spencer of C. C. Coll. Son of Robert Lord Spencer 28. Brian Duppa of All 's Jun. 25. Rob. Skinner of Trin. 30. Hugh Lloyd of Oriel Jul. 2. Will. Page of Ball. afterwards of All 's Coll. 5. Michael Oldsworth of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards elected a Burgess to serve in several Parliaments for Sarum and old Sarum and tho in the grand rebellion he was no Colonel yet he was Governour of Old Pembroke and Mountgomery led him by the nose as he pleased to serve both their turns He had a share with his Lordship out of the office from which Sir Henry Compton was ejected in the time of the said Rebellion worth 3000 l. per an was keeper of Windsore Park one of the two Masters of the Prerogative Office and made the Bayliff of Westminster give him 50 l. per an to continue him there Jul. 5. Franc. White of Magd. Coll. He afterwards published Londons Warning by Jerusalem Serm. at Pauls Cross on Midlent Sunday 1618 on Micah 6. 9. Lond. 1619. qu. What other things he hath made publick I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Gentleman's Son of London I find another Franc. White who was D. D. of Cambridge afterwards Chaplain in ordinary to K. James 1. Dean of Carlile and at length Bishop of Ely the Titles of whose Works you may see in the Oxford Catalogue and among them the Sermon before mention'd as if it had been his Also a third Franc. White a Lawyer as it seems who became well read in the antient Histories and Laws of our Nation Author of a book entit For the sacred law of the land Lond. 1652. oct But whether he was of this University I cannot yet tell July 6. Edw. Terry of Ch. Ch. July 7. Gilb. Wats of Linc. Coll. Hen. King Joh. King Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. Jan. 24. Rich Steuart of All 's Mich. Jermin Rich. James of Corp. Ch. Coll. Adm. 108. Bach. of Phys July 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. Not one admitted besides him and but one that supplicated for the said degree viz. Rich. Berry of Linc. Coll. but whether admitted this or in any year following I know not He died in June 1651 and was buried by the name of Dr. Rich. Berry Bach. of Div. May 5. Rob. Harris
in 4. volumes or parts each volume containing 5 books Lond. 1625. fol. 3 Purchas his Pilgrim Microcosmus or the history of Man c. Lond. 1619. oct 4 The Kings tower and triumphant arch of London pr. 1623. oct By the publishing of which books he brought himself into debt but died not in prison as some have said but in his own house a little while after the King had promised him a Deanery about 1628. aged 51. What other things he hath published besides a Funeral Sermon on Psal 39. 5. printed 1619 in oct I know not and therefore be pleased to take this character given of him by a learned Person which may serve instead of an Epitaph Samuel Purchas Anglus linguarum artium divinarum atque humanarum egregie peritus Philosophus Historicus Theologus maximus patriae ecclesiae antistes fidelis multis egregiis scriptis in primis orientalis occident alisque Indiae vastis voluminibus patria lingua conscripta celeberrimus One Samuel Purchas A. M. hath published A theatre of political flying Insects c. Lond. 1657. qu. July 11. John Wood Rob. King John Bowles D. D. Cant. The first of these three died in the Parish of St. Dionise Backchurch in London being Minister as it seems of that place an 1624. and the last who was a Native of Lancashire and Fellow of Trinity Coll. in the said University became Dean of Salisbury in the latter end of July an 1620 upon Dr. John Williams his being made Dean of Westminster At length upon Dr. Walt. Curle's translation to the See of D. and Wells he became Bishop of Rochester in 1630 and dying in an house situated on the Bank side in Westminster 9. Octob. 1637 was buried in St. Pauls Cathedral He hath extant Concio ad clerum in Act. cap. 15. 4. printed 1631. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 2. Eleazer Hodson Doct. of Phys of Padua He was afterwards eminent for his practice in the City of London where he died in the Parish of St. Stephen in Colemanstreet about the latter end of 1638. His Brother Phineas Hodson I have mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1602 Joh. Radolphus Stuckius and Jo. Waserus both of Zurich were this year Students in the University Afterwards they became learned Men and Writers as I shall tell you in the second Vol. in my discourse of Dr. John Prideaux An. Dom. 1616. An. 14. Jac. 1. Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton created this year Viscount Brackley but he voluntary resigning his office of Chancellour of this University on the 24. Jan. William Earl of Pembroke Knight of the Garter Chamberlaine of the Kings Houshold c. was unanimously elected into his place 29 of the same month Vicechanc. Arth. Lake D. D. Warden of New Coll. July 17. Proct. Robert Sanderson of Linc. Coll. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. Apr. 10. Bach. of Musick July 4. John Vauter of Linc. Coll. John Lake of New Coll. had his grace granted for the Degree of Bach. of Mus but whether he was admitted it appears not Or that he or Vauter have made any publick compostions in their faculty Bach. of Arts. Apr. 19. Nich. Hunt of Exet. June 19. John Speed of St. Joh. Coll. One Nich. Hunt hath several things extant who being I presume the same with the former is hereafter to be mention'd at large 26. Anth. Faringdon of Trin. Jul. 3. Jo. Allibond of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. 5. John Langley of Magd. hall Oct. 24. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1629. 26. Bruno Ryves of New afterwards of Magd. Coll. Will. Price of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1619. Nov. 4. John Doughtie Dec. 14. Rob. Grebby of New Coll. See more among the Masters of Art 1619. Jan. 29. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1627. Feb. 28. John Gee of Exet. John Thorie of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Incorporations an 1627. As for Faringdon Langley Ryves and Doughtie you are to expect large mention of them hereafter Admitted 223. Mast of Arts. April 19. Rich. Parre of Brasn Coll. June 4. Morgan Owen of Hart Hall 12. Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch. George Singe of Ball. Coll. 20. Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 21. John Scull of Lincoln lately of Mert. Coll. He hath published Two Sermons on Math. 10. 16. printed 1624. qu. being the same person as it seems who was afterwards Rector of Shinfold in Sussex where he died in 1641. 26. Franc. Potter of Trin. Coll. July 5. John Angell of Magd. Hall Deâ 17. Alex. Huish of Wadham Coll. Feb. 25. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Hall lately of Magd. Coll. Adm. 117. Bach. of Phys ⦠Francis Anthony Olevian of Glocester Hall was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was a German of the Palatine of the Rhine and had studied ten years in the faculty of Physick in the Universities of Heidelberg Mountpelier Paris and Oxon. He afterwards practised his Faculty being licensed by the University at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire where he died in 1642 but whether he hath written or published any thing let the Physitians seek Bach. of Div. May 15. Sim. Birckbek Thom. Sutton of Qu. Coll. June 4. Tho. Godwin of Magd. July 10. George Wall of Brasn Coll. The last was about this time beneficed in his native Country of Worcestershire and afterwards published A sermon at the Archbishop of Canterbury his Visitation metropolitical held at Allsaints in Worcester by Dr. Bâent his Grace's Vicar General 3 June 1635. on 2 Cor. 5. 20. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things Quâere Dec. 13. Henr. Rogers of Jes. Coll. Besides these were 13 more admitted of whom Joh Flavel of Broadgates Hall was one and Evan Morgan of Linc. Coll. another both Compounders â Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 18. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. May 11. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. 15. Tho. Holloway of Ball. Coll. June 13. Sam. Clark of Magd. Hall a Compounder He had a son of both his names of Vniversity Coll. an 1635 but neither of them as I can yet find were Writers which I thought fit to let the Reader know because there have been several Samuel Clarks that have been Authors as 1 Sam. Clark of Merton Coll. whom I shall mention in the second Volume of this Work 2 Sam. Clark sometimes Minister of S. Bennet-Fink in London born at Wolstan in Warwickshire 10 Oct. 1599 being of the same Family with those of Willoughby in that County as Sam. Clark the Compounder before mention'd was afterwards a severe Calvinist and a scribling Plagiary as his Works mostly the lives of Presbyterian Divines shew a Catalogue of which you may see in one of his books entit The lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age In
incorporated Masters again I have made mention among the Incorporations in an 1612 and 1615. Will. Isaacson M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of S. Andrews Church in the Wardrobe in London and of Wodford in Essex but whether he hath published any thing I know not He was younger Brother to Henry Isaacson the Chronologer sometimes Amanuensis to Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester Son of Rich. Isaacson Sheriff elect of London who died 19 Jan. 1620 and he the Son of Will. Isaacson of Sheffield in Yorkshire by Isabel his first Wife This Hen. Isaacson by the way I must let the Reader know was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Coleman in London in Sept. 1581 but what Academical Education he received I cannot yet tell Sure it is that he arrived to great knowledge in Chronology as his large book of that subject doth sufficiently attest and dying about the 7 of Decemb. 1654 was buried in the Church of S. Catherine Coleman before mention'd having before been a considerable benefactor to the poor of that Parish Will. Beale M. A. of Pemb. Hall See among the Incorporations an 1645. Dan. Horsmanden M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. and Rector of Vlcomb in Kent and accounted by his Contemporaries a learned man but he being a zealous person for the Church of England and a high Loyalist was thrown out of his Living by the Committee of Religion an 1643 as you may see in the Pamph. entit The first century of scandalous malignant priests c. p. 36 37 He lost other Spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause during the time of the Rebellion Humphrey Henchman M. A. This loyal and religious person who was Son of Tho. Henchman of London Skinner and he the Son of another Thomas of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire in which Country his name and family had for several generations before lived was afterwards D. of D. Chauntor of Salisbury on the death of Hen. Cotton in January 1622 and Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church an 1628. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Bishop of that place upon the translation of Dr. Duppa to Winchester Whereupon being consecrated in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. within the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster 28 Oct. 1660 sate there three years and then upon the translation of Dr. Sheldon to Canterbury he was translated to London in Sept. 1663. About that time he was made Bishop Almoner and died as it seems in the month of Octob. an 1675. He was for his wisdom and prudence much valued by K. Ch. 2. whose happy escape from the battel at Worcester this pious Prelate did admirably well manage especially when his Majesty came in a disguise near Salisbury He was born as I have been informed within the Parish of S. Giles Cripplâgate London and educated in Clare Hall in Cambridge of which he was Fellow Arthur Jackson M. A. Afterwards he was a frequent and puritanical Preacher and sided with the Presbyterians when the Rebellion began an 1642. About which time he was Minister of S. Michael Woodstreet in London where I find him in 1649. He hath written Expositions on various parts of the Scripture as 1 An help for understanding the holy Scriptures the first part being an exposition upon the five books of Moses viz. Gen. Levit. Numb Deut. c. Camb. 1643. qu. 2 Annotations on the remaining part of the Old Testament viz. Jâsh Judges Sam. Kings Chron. Ezra Nehem. Estheâ the second part 3 Annotations on the five poetical looks of holy Scripture viz. Job Psalms Prov. Eccles and Cant. Lond. 1658. Besides several other things which for brevity sake I now omit See more of him in Ch. Love among the Writers an 1651. The said Masters of Arts viz. Th. Goad Ben. Laney R. Holdsworth Hen. Burton Ab. Gibson W. Isaason W. Beale Dan. Horsmanden H. Henâhman and A. Jackson were incorporated as I have before told you 15 July as they had stood before at Cambridge Besides them were about 27 more incorporated of whom Sam Carter was one but not one of them being then or after men of note as I can yet find are here omitted On the same day also one Rob. Newton M. A. of the Univ. of S. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated of whom I know no more Creations March 5. Will. Stafford a Student of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the Congregation house by vertue of a dispensation obtained in that of Convocation on the second day of the said month This person who was a Norfolk man born and nobly descended was a Member of the House of Commons for a time and wrot a little thing as I have been informed by those that knew him entit Reasons of the War c. which I suppose is the same with a Pamphlet entit An orderly and plain narration of the beginning and causes of this War with a conscientious resolution against the Parliament side printed 1644 in 3 sheets in qu. He died at Thornborough in Glocestershire where he had a plentiful Estate about the year 1683 and in the ninetieth year of his age leaving behind him a Son named John Father of Rich. Stafford lately Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall Author of Of happiness c. Lond. 1689. qu. An. Dom. 1618. An. 16 Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. the same again July 17. Proct. Daniel Ingoâl of Qu. Coll. âch Drope of Magd. Coll. Apr. 15. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. San. Hoard of S. Maries Hall May 8. Meric Casaubon Son of Isaac of Ch. Ch. June 9. Wiâl Paul Tho. Laurence of All 's Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 10. Thom. Coâman of Magd. 12. Alexand. Griffith of Haât Hall The last did not take the Degree of M. of A. till 1631. 18. Hen. Blount of Trin. Coll. July 2. Joh. Pointer of Brasâ Coll. He was matriculated and took the degree of Bach. of Arts as an Esquires Son Afterwards departing without any other degree became a puritanical Preacher and acquainted with Oliver Cromwel who when Protector gave him a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon as a reward for the pains he took in converting him to Godliness i.e. to canting Puritanisâ and Saintism After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was ejected and living many years after in Oxon in a retired and studious condition died 2 Jan. 1683 aged 84 or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried at the lower end of the north ãâã joyning to the Church of S Peter in the Baylie Oxon. Oct. 15. Humph. Chambers of Vniv. Edw. Reynolds of Mert. Coll. The laât was afterwards Bishop of Norwich Dec. 3. Phââip King of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Dr. King B. of London See among the created Doctors of Div. 1645. 15. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. 17. Rob. Bedingfield 19 George Morley Rob. Gomersall Zouch Townley of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may
into English St. Augustines confessions Lond. 1631. in a thick oct illustrated by him with certain marginal notes and from French into English The Catholick Moderator which I have not yet seen He also published the several numbers of news-News-books in the English tongue more than 40 containing the occurrences done in the Wars between the King of Sweden and the German All published before the Civil Wars of England began John Lynch M. A. He was afterwards Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury Parson of Herietsham in Kent and the writer and publisher of The Christian Passover Serm. at St. Pauls on Wednesday in Easter Week 1637. on 1. Cor. 5. 7. S. Lond. 1637. qu. and perhaps of other things Quaere Walter Balcanqual Bach. of Div. of Pembroke hall This learned Scot who was now Chaplain to His Majesty became Master of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near London on the 16. Dec. 1617 which place he giving up soon after it was conferr'd on Marc. Ant. de Dominis Archb. of Spalato who came into England upon account of Religion 16. Dec. 1616. on the 23. of April 1618. in which year the said Balcanqual was sent to the Synod of Dort to represent the Church of Scotland and with him went Th. Goad of Cambridge in the place of Dr. Joseph Halâ Dean of Worcester indisposed In Feb. 1621. the said Marc. Ant. being weary of the Kings favour and benevolence extended to him left England whereupon Balcanâual was restored to the Savoy again and on the 12. March 1624. he was installed Dean of Rochester being then D of D. in the place of Godfrey Goâdman promoted to the See of Glocester In 1639 May 14 he was installed Dean of Durham in the place of Dr. Rich. Hunt who had succeeded in that rich Dignity Sir Adam Newton Knight and Baronet a Lay-man Soon after the grand rebellion breaking out Balcanqual was forced from his Mastership of the Savoy plundred sequesrred and forced to fly by the impetuous Presbyterians an 1642. so that retiring to His Majesty at Oxon did afterwards shift from place to place for security At length flying for the safety of his life to Chirk Castle in Denbighshâe died there in a very cold season on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour an 1645. The next day his body was buried in the Parish Church of Chirk and some years after had a noble monument set over his grave the inscription on which was made by Dr. John Pearson by a most worthy Royalist named Sir Tho. Middâeton of Chirk Castle who dying in 1660 aged 79 was also buried in the said Church In Jan. following 1645 Dr. Christoph Potter Provost of Qu. Coll. in Oxon obtained of his Majesty the grant of the said Deanery of Durham but he dying in the beginning of March following without installation his Maj. confer'd it upon Will. Fuller D. D. of Cambridge who dying in 1659 Dr. John Barwick of Camb. was installed in that Dignity 1. Nov. 1660. Dr. Balcanjual hath written and published 1 The honor of Christian Churches Serm. at Whitehall before the King on Matth. 21. 13. Lond. 1633. qu. 2 Serm. preached at St. Maâies Spittle on Munday in Easter wâek 14. Apr. 1623 on Psal 126. 5. Lond. 1634. qu. and also drew up The Declaration of K. Ch. 1. concerning the late tumults in Scotland with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the Covenanteers out of their own foul Acts and Writtings Lond. 1639. fol. John Whiting D. D. He was at this time a Minister in London where he died about 1624. David Owen D. D. See among the Incorporations an 1603. Martin Day D. D. See among the Incorp 1602. Which Cambridge Men I say viz. W. Wats I. Lynch W. Balcanqual John Whiting D. Owen M. Day and at least 20 more were incorporated on the 14. Jul. Will. Spicer a Devonian born and Doctor of the Laws of the Univ. of Lâyden was incorporated the same day Oct. 12. Lionel Sharp D. D. lately of Kings Coll. in Cambridge He had before been Chaplain to the Earl of Essex in whose treasons he was engag'd and afterwards to Henry Prince of Wales and was now or lately Rector of Malpas in Cheshire Minister of Tiverton in Devon and Archdeacon of Berks which Dignity was conferr'd upon him 9. Nov. 1605 upon the death as I suppose of Dr. Martin Colepeper He hath published 1 Oratio funebris in honorem Henrici Walliae Principis propriam atque intimam ejus effigiem prâferens c. Lond. 1612. in 3 sh in qu. 2 Novum fidei symbolum sive de novis c. Lond. 1612. qu. 3 Speculum papae i.e. viva expressa Antichristi effigies c. Printed there the same year These two last were translated into English under this title A looking glass for the Pope wherein he may see his own face the express image of Antichrist Together with the Popes nâw Creed c. in two Dialogues Lond. 1623. qu. He hath also published Certain Sermons of which one is on 1. Kings 10. ver 9 printed in oct 1603. He died in 1630 and was succeeded in the Archdeaconry of Berkshire by Edward Davenant 26. January the same year You may see more of this Dr. L. Sharp in Joh. Hoskins among the Writers an 1638. and in Cabala Mysteries of State printed 1654. p. 255 and 257. An. Dom. 1619. An. 17. Jac. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. John Prideaux D. D. Rector of Exeter College July 17. Proct. Christoph Wrenn of St. Johns Coll. Brian Duppa of All 's Coll. Apr. 7. Bach. of Musick Richard Emot of Brasn Coll. who had been a Student in the faculty of Musick for 20 years supplicated for the Degree of Bachelaur in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not perhaps upon neglect in the register This Person who was Son or near related to Will. Emot sometimes Fellow of Brasn Coll. and afterwards Vicar of Einsham near Oxon where he died and was buried in Feb. 1584 lived mostly in the City of Wells and had as I conceive some place in the Cathedral there He hath made several compositions in Musick for voices and instruments but whether any of them were ever made publick I cannot tell One Richard Browne was admitted Vicar Choral and Organist of Weâls an 1614. which place he keeping till 1619. one John Okever succeeded and therefore I presume the said Emot was never Organist of Wells in his own right Bach. of Arts. Apr. 24. Philip Nye of Magd. hall May 12. Tho. Atkinson of St. John Coll. See more among the Bach. of Div. 1630. June 9. Will. Pinke of Magd. hall 20. Will. Strode of Ex. Quaere July S. John Earl of Mert. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Bishop successively of Worcestâr and Salisbury Oct. 19. Rich Heyrick of St. Jo. Rich. Byfield of Qu. Coll. 21. George Stinton of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters 1622. Nov. 3. Will. Evans of St. Maries Hall See
municipal Laws Feb⦠James Baylie a Scot now of Exeter Coll. who 14 years before this time was made M. of A. of the University of Glascow and 8 years since Bachelaur of the Laws of the University of Anjou in France where he performed not only his exercise for that degree but also for the degree of Doctor of that Faculty was actually created Doctor of the Laws of this University Dr. Zouch the Kings Professor of that Faculty then executing his office in the solemnity He was now Tutor to James Earl of Arran a Noble man of Exet. Coll. afterwards Duke of Hamilton I find one James Bailâie M. of A. and a Scot born to have published Spiritual Marriage or the Vnion between Christ and his Church Serm. at Westminster on Hosea 2. 19. Lond. 1627. qu. But his name being written different from the former I cannot say he had any relation to him Baldwinus Hamaeus a learned German was admitted a Student into the publick Library See among the Incorporations an 1629. So also was Tho. Gardiner of the Inner Temple Esq afterwards Recorder of London a Knight his Majesties Sollicitor General and eminent for his knowledge in the Municipal Law He died in Octob. 1652 and was buried as I conceive in the Church at Cudesdân near Oxford in which Town he had an Estate Qu. An. Dom. 1622. An. 20 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Piers again Jul. 17. Proct. Griffin Higgs of Mert. Coll. Rich. Steuart of All 's Coll. May 2. Bach. of Musick May 17. Will. Heather or Heyther At the same time Orlando Gibbons did supplicate for the same degree but occurs not admitted See more of him and of Heather among the Doctors of Musick following Bach. of Arts. June 27. Will. Morice of Exet. Hen. Hibbert of Brasn Oct. 22. Nich. Darton of Ex. Nov. 28. Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Dec. 4. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. See among the created Doctors of Div. 1648. 6. John Sedgwick of Magd. Hall lately of Qu. Coll. 9. Joh. Strickland of Qu. 11. Hen. Hammond of Magd. Feb. 17. Joh. Marshan of S. Jo. 18. Rob. Codrington of Magd. 19. George Hughes of Corp. Chr. Coll. Charles Gibbs was admitted the same day All these will be largely mention'd elsewhere Adm. 257 or thereabouts Doct. of Musick May 17. Will. Heather or Heyther who accumulated the degrees in Musick This person who was born at Harmsworth in Middlesex near Colebrook in Bucks was now one of the Gentlemen belonging to his Majesties Chappel and so great an encourager of his Faculty that soon after he founded the Musick Lectures Theory and practick in this University as I have elsewhere told you He died in the latter end of July 1627 and was buried on the first of Aug. in the broad or south Isle joyning to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in Westminster See more of him in Nath. Giles following Jul. 5. Nathaniel Giles Bach. of Musick was then licensed to proceed in that Faculty In 1607 he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents to be admitted Doctor which desire of his was granted conditionally that he compose a choral Hymn of 8 parts to be publickly sung in the Act wherein he should proceed but for what reason he did not perform that obligation I cannot justly say Sure I am that in the Act this year wherein he proceeded were certain Questions appointed to be discussed between him and Dr. Heather before mention'd which being pro forma only and not customarily to be done were omitted The Questions were 1 Whether discords may be allowed in musick Affirm 2 Whether any artificial Instrument can so fully and truly express musick as the natural Voice Negat 3 Whether the practick be the more useful part of musick or the theory Affirm This Dr. Giles who was noted as well for his religious life and conversation a rarity in Musitians as for the excellency of his Faculty was born in or near to the City of Worcester was one of the Organists of S. George's Chap. at Windsore and Master of the Boys there afterwards one of the Organists of the Chappel Royal to K. Ch. 1. and Master of the Boys thereof was famous for his compositions of Divine Hymns and Anthems the words of some of which are remitted into a Book entit Divine Services and Anthems sung in the Cathedrals and collegiate Choires in the Church of England published by Jam. Clifford an 1663 oct He the said Dr. Giles died about the year 1635 and was buried in one of the Isles joyning to S. George's Chap. before mention'd On the 17 of May Orlando Gibbons one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel did supplicate ââe venerable Congregation that he might accumulate the degrees in Musick but whether he was admitted to the one or licensed to proceed in the other it appears not However the Song of 6 parts or more which was performed in the Act for Will. Heather was composed by him as one or more eminent Musitians then living have several times told me This Orlando who was accounted one of the rarest Musitians and Organists of his time hath extant A set of Madrigals of five parts for voices and viols had also a hand in Parthenia mention'd before under the year 1592 and composed Several divine Services and Anthems the words of which are in Jam. Clifford's Book before mention'd besides admirable Compositions that are printed in several Books of Musick At length being commanded to Canterbury to attend the solemnity of the Nuptials between K. Ch. 1. and Henrietta Maria a Daughter of the King of France in order to which he had made vocal and instrumental Compositions died there of the Small-pox to the great reluctancy of the Court on the day of Pentecost an 1625. Afterwards was a monument erected over his grave in the body of the Cathedral there with an Inscription thereon beginning thus Orlando Gibbonio Cantabrigiae inter musas musicae nato sacrae R. Capellae Organistae sphaerarumque harmoniae digitorum pulsu aemulo cantionum complurium quaeque dum non canunt minus quam canuntur cânditori c. From which monument set up at the charge of Elizabeth his Widow who gave instructions what to be inscrib'd thereon but not the time of his age we are given to understand that the said Orlando Gibbons was born at Cambridge yet the Reader is to know that one Orlando Gibbons was baptized in S. Martins Parish in the City of Oxford 25 Decemb. 1583 which some have been pleased to take to be the same that was afterwards the famous Organist who as those that knew him have told me was not quite 45 years of age when he died But to let these scruples pass as also another Orlando Gibbons M. A. of Cambridge who was incorporated at Oxon an 1607 I shall go forward Mast of Arts. May 9. Philip Nye Will. Pinke of Magd. Hall The last was afterwards of Magd. Coll. Jun. 26. Joh. Maynard of Magd. Hall a
Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1611. f Ib. in pat 9. Ja. 1. p. 43. g Ib. in Camd. in Annal Reg. Jac. 1 sub eod an * Hist of the reign of K. Ch. 1. by Ham. L'estrange Lond. 1656. p. 13â h In the Worthies of England by Tho. Euller a See in his Poems written on several occasions Lond. 1668. p. 31. b In Fragmenta aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. oct p. 10. c See more in his works printed at Lond. 1678. fol. pag. 4. d Hugh or Scren Cressy in his Epist Apologetical printed 1674. §. â e Tho. Triplet in his Epist dedic before the L. Falkland's book of Infallibility printed 1651. f In the Life of Archb. Laud. and also in his Observations on the Hist of K. Ch. 1. written by Ham. L'estrange printed 1658. p. 122. g See Hen. Hickmans Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen c. Ox. 1659. sec. edit p. 40. 41. h Bulstrode Whitlock in his Memorials of English effairs printed 1682. p. 70. a. * W. Dugd. in his Antiq. Warwickshire p. â10 Clar. 1633. a In Orat. sunchri Joh. Rainoldi edit 1608. b Dr. Hugh Weston sometimes Rector of Linc. coll who was his great Uncle See more of him under the year 1558. p. 93. Clar 1633 c Hen. Morus in Hist provinc Anglâ Soc. Jesu lib. 4 nu 15. d Tho. Bell in his Anatomy of Popish Tyranny lib. 2. cap. 2. e In the Relation of the faction began at Wisbich c. printed 1601. qu. f Printed at S. Omâr 1601. in oct fol. 63. b. 64. c. g Sir Ant. Weldon in his book intit The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. Printed at the end of The Court and Character of K. James Lond. 1651. sec edit p. 194. 195. a Ham. L'estrange in his Hist of the raign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1634. b See in the Table of MSS. by Dr. James quoted at the dne of the said Manuduction c In the Breviat of his life p. 19. d In the Will-Office near to S. Pauls Cath. in reg Seager Qu. 84. e See at the end in an append to a book intit A Divine Tragedy lately octed or a collection of sundry memorable examples c. Printed beyond Sea an 1636. qu. 1634 Clar. 1634. Clar. 1634. Clar. 1634. * In the Will-Office near to S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in Reg. Essex part 3. Qu. 143. Clar. 1634. Clar. 1634 * Reg. Convoc N. fol. 234. â a See in the latter end in his Poems b A Gardiner at Twickâam in Mid. as 't is reported c Pat. â Car. 1. p. 12. Clar. 1635. a Will. Prynne in Canterburies Doâme printed 164â p. 185 b See in the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Ushers Life printed at Lond. in fol. 1686. c In Canterburies Doome before mentioned pag. 448. See also p. 412. 559. 1636-37 1656-57 a Printed at Lond. 1638. in tw b In cent 2 Epigram nâ 16. c In lib ãâã Epigram p 28. c. Clar. 1636. Clar. 1636. d Reg. Matric P. p. 555. e In his Epigrams nu 14. f In his Fragmenta aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. p. 7. * Dr. G. M. B. of Wint. a In Opusc Philosoph p. 214. being the second of the Preface to his Examen Philosophia Rob. Fluddi Medici c. b Judicium ãâã Rob. Fluddo in the 268. pag of the said Opuscula which Judicium is placed at the close of Gassindu ' s answer to R. Fludd c In Opusculis ut supra p. 215. d In Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. ãâ¦ã a. ãâã * ãâã at Lond. 1645. p. 184. 1637 â8 1637 â8 a Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. sub an 1614. MS. b See in Sir Hen. Wottons Letters in Reliq Wottonianae printed 1672. p. 432. c. c Ib. in Annal. Camd. sub an 1615. 1638 â9 1638 â9 a Camden ut super in Annal Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1620. 1638 â9 Clar. 1638. Clar. 1638. 163â 1639 â Dr. Joh. Whetcombe Maidennutensium Pastor He died suddenly in the house of Angel Grey Esabque of Kingston near Dorchester in Dorsetshire before the year 1648. aged 60. a Isaac Walton b Camd. in Annal. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1619. a In Britannia in Com. ãâã b Idem Camden in Annal. Jac. 1. MS. Sub. an 1616. c Ibid. an 1617. d Baronage of Engl. Vol. 2. Tom. 3. p. 460. 1639-40 e Entit The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. Lond. 1651. oct p. 206. 1639-40 1639-40 1639-40 Clar. 1639. * In his English Spanish Pilgrim chap. 7. p. 65. â Will. Sanderson in the Reign and death of K. James Lond. 1655. under the year 1620. p. 491. a In Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an 1â98 a Barnab Oley in the life of George Herbert Lond. 1652. and in 1675. 'T is not pag'd b In his Anti-Arminianism or the Church of Englands old Antithesis c. printed 1630. p. 270. c See Canterb. Doom p. 532. d In Append. to Anti-Arminianism c. * ãâ¦ã e ãâ¦ã p. 508. f Ibid. p. 510. g Rich. Baxter in his book intit An ansavourâ volume of Mr. Joh. Crandons anatomized Lond. 1654. secâ 1 p. 6. 1640-1 Clar. 1640. Clar. 1640. a Pat. 14. Hen. 7. p. 2. Memb 4. 1â00 b In Cur. vel offic Praerog Cant. in reg Moone Qu. 10. c In Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 130. b. d In lib. Epist Univ. Oxon. notat in dors cum lit â MS. * Ibid. Ep 254 a In the Visitation book of the County of Surry made by the Deputâes of Clarenceaux King of Arms an 1623. in the coll or Office of Arms. b In Birtan in com Dorset c Jo. Budden in Vita obituque Job Moretonâ Archiep. Cant. Lond. 1607. p. 5. d Fr. Godwin Ep. Lanââv in Com de Praesul Angl. edit 1616. p. 359. e In Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. p. 233. f In lib. Epistoâarum Univ. Oxon. â fol. 14â b. g Pat. 2. Hen. 7. p. 1 m. 10 h In Offic. Praerog Cant. in reg Moon Qu. 10. * Fr. Godwin in Com. de Presul Angl. ut supra p 295. k pat 1. Rich. 3. p. 3. l pat 8. Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 2. m Rich. Pace in lib. suo cui tit est De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur Bas. 1517. p. 27 28. 156â n In reg Moone ut âupra qu. 10. o In Offic Praerog Cant. in reg Bodfeld Qu. 21. 1501 p Jac. Waraeus in Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae Edit Dubl 1665. p. 250. q In Offic. ut supra in reg Blamyr Qu. 16. a Pat. 11. Hen. 7. p. 1. in dors b Ibid p. 1. c Pat. 12. Hen. 7. p. 1. m. 5. d Pat. 15. 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is hanging in the School-Gallery at Oxon which shews him to have been of statute tall and of a cheerful complexion JOHN LLOYD or Lhuyd nearly related to Humph. Lhuyd mentioned under the year 1570. was born in the ancient Borough of Denbigh in Denbighshire in Wales educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1579. took the degrees in Arts was Junior of the Act in 1585. and soon after became in eminent Preacher In 1595. he proceeded in Divinity became Vicar of Writtle in Essex on the death of Dr. Maschiart 1598. and was in high esteem there in the Neighbourhood and the University for his rare Learning and excellent way of Preaching He hath published Interpretatio Latina cum Scholiis in Flav. Josaphum de Macabaeis seu de rationis imperio c. Oxon. 1590. oct Done by the help of an excellent Exemplar more corrected and compleat than ever before He also was the first that published Barlaamus de Papae Principatu Gracè Latinè Oxon 1592. What other things he hath written and published I now not not any thing else material of him only this that he paid his last debt to Nature at Writtle before-mentioned in sixteen hundred and three year 1603 and was buried in the Church there He was succeeded in that Vicaridg by Matthew Davies Doct. of Div. by the gift of the Warden and the Society of New college of which he was Fellow and continued there to the time of his death an 1624. Soon after succeeded Dr. Joh. South the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University EDWARD PHILIPS was entred a Student into Broadgates hall now Pembroâe coll in 1574. took the degrees in Arts and became a Preacher at St. Saviours in Southwark near to London where he was by those of his large Auditory mostly zealous Puritans esteemed A person zealous of the truth of God powerful in his calling faithful in his message powerful in his Speech careful of his flock peaceable and blameless in his life and comfortable and constant in his death While he lived it doth not appear that he published anything but after his death a certain Gentleman of Greys-Inn named Hen. Yelverton afterwards a Judge Son of Judge Christopher Yelverton published Two and thirty godly and learned Sermons Lond. 1605. qu. The first of which is on Matth. 1. ver 1. 2. On Matth. 1. 18 19 20 21 c. All which Sermons were taken from the authors mouth by the pen of the said Yelverton This Edw. Philips who was a zealous Calvinist as Yelverton then was and both bitter enemies to popery died year 1603 as I guess in sixteen hundred and three or thereabouts and received sepulture in the Church before mention'd Whether any thing else besides the said Sermons were published after Phillps his death that were of his speaking or writing I cannot tell HUMPHREY ELY brother to Will. Ely sometimes president of S. Johns coll was born in Herefordshire and from being a Student in Brasnose was chose Scholar of S. Johns coll before mention'd in 1566. But before he took a degree or as I think was made Fellow he left that place and giving a farewel to his friends country and religion he crossed the Seas settled at Doway studied the Civil Law and became Licentiat therein Afterwards he went to Rome with his great friend Dr. Will. Allen where being made Doctor of his faculty he returned into France and settling at Rheimes was wholly taken up for a time in the correcting and printing the said Allens books At length upon the breaking out of the civil dissentions in that country he was called into Loraine in 1588. About which time he was made the publick and the Dukes professor of the Civil Law in the University of Pont à Mousson where he continued till the day of his death He was by those of his religion esteemed a wise and learned Priest of sincere honesty void of dissimulation full of zeal to the truth and equity c. But that which is mostly to be noted of him is that upon a controversie that arose among the English popish Clergy concerning the receiving of an Archpriest into England and the power that was to be allotted to him he wrote with a long preface to it Certain brief notes upon a brief apology set out under the name of the priests united to the Archpriest Paris about 1602 3. in tw and oct which book written against Fa. Persons I once saw among many other rarities of the like nature in Balliol coll Library given thereunto by that curious collector of choice books Sir Tho. Wendy of Haselingfield in Cambridgeshire Knight of the Bath sometimes Gentleman commoner of the said House Our author Ely hath written other books as 't is said but such I have not yet seen nor can I say any more of him at this time only that he dying at Pont à Mousson on the Ides of of March in sixteen hundred and three was buried there in the church of the Nuns called Clarissae that is of the order of S. Clare Over his grave was soon after a monument put with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now omit THOMAS FLOYD a Welsh-man became a Batler or Commoner of New Inn in the beginning of 1589. took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he translated himself to Jesus coll and as a member and fellow of that house took the degree of Master and afterwards wrote The picture of a perfect Commonwealth describing as well the offices of Princes and inferiour Magistrates over their Subjects as also the duties of Subjects towards their Governours c. Lond. 1600. in tw He hath written as 't is probable other things but what I cannot tell only certain Latine Poety scattered in several books particularly in that intit Academia Oxoniensis pietas erga Jacobum Regem an 1603. I find three or more of both his names his contemporaries and Welsh-men also of Jesus college but whether either of them hath any thing extant I cannot tell JOHN CHAMBER a person for his life and learning worthily honoured by all that knew him was born in Yorkshire and in the year 1569. was tho Merton coll had then no Lands in that county chosen purely for his merits by the consent of all the Society Probationer-Fellow of the said house In which place as also in that of Bach. fellow he went beyond all of the same election for subtile disputations and knowledge in the Greek tongue After he had taken the degree of Master in 1573. he applied his Muse to the study of Medicine and Astronomy about which time he read publickly on the Almagest of Ptolomy In the year 1582. he became fellow of Eaton coll near to Windsore being then in holy orders and two years after supplicated the congregation of Ven. Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of Hypocrates But whether he