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 leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd 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
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 Universiâ—â— 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
place of credit and considerable profit and introduced into the acquaintance of most of the Nobility that frequented the Court He hath transmitted to posterity Opusculum plano divinum de mortuorum resurrectione extremo judicio in quatuor linguis succinctè conscriptum viz. Lat. Angl. Ital. Gall. Lond. 1545. and 47. in qu. Declaration of certain Articles with a recital of the capital errours against the same Lond. 1546. in oct Meditations on death declinatione verborum De Italica De Gallica He hath also translated from French into English A treatise of Nobility with other things written and translated which I have not yet seen At length being clap'd up Prisoner within the Tower of London whether for matters of Religion or any other thing I know not did to avoid publick shame as 't is thought hang himself in his Chamber with his girdle on the tenth of May in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 leaving this character behind him by a Calvinistical Author that he was an open Enemy to the Gospel and all godly Preachers The Reader is to note that several of both his names occur in records as first Joh. Clerke a Berkshire Man born who became Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1482. 2 Joh. Clerke of the same Coll. as it seems who proceeded M. of A. 1516. 3 Joh. Clerke a Cambridge Man afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells whom I shall elsewhere mention 4 Joh. Clerke who was originally of Cambridge afterwards of Cardinal College in Oxon and incorporated M. of A. 1525 but ejected the said Coll. soon after for Lutherisme 5 Joh. Clerke a Benedictine Monk incorporated Bach. of Divinity 13. July 1538 as he before had stood at Cambridge proceeded in that faculty at Oxon within few days after and stood in an Act to compleat that Degree 29. of the same Month in the said Year But of all the said Joh. Clerks not one as I conceive is Joh. Clerke the writer except you 'll say the second ALEXANDER de BARKLAY who seems to have been born at or near a Town so called in Somersetshire was for a time educated in this University particularly as it seems in Oriel Coll. of which his great Patron and Favourer of his studies Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was then Provost Afterwards he travel'd beyond the Seas and at his return became by the said Bishops endeavours to whom he was Chaplain one of the Priests of the College of St. Mary at Otery in Devonshire founded by Joh. Grandison B. of Exeter But his Patron dying soon after he entred into the Order of St. Benedict or into that of St. Francis as one who gives him an ill report because he lived and died a single Man tells us but at what place I know not Sure 't is that living to see his Monastery dissolv'd he being about that time Doctor of Divinity became Vicar of Much Badew in Essex and in 1546 Vicar of the Church of St. Mathew the Apostle at Wokey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Rich. Eryngton which I think was all the preferment that he had to the time of his death In his younger days he was esteemed a good Poet and Orator as several specimens of his composition in those faculties shewed but when Years came on he spent his time mostly in pious matters and in reading the Histories of Saints His works are The figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the French King Printed at London by Rich. Pynson in qu. The miseries or miserable lives of Courtiers Besides his answer to Job Skelton the Poet and other things which I have not yet seen He translated from Lat. into English The lives of St. Margaret St. Catherine St. Etheldreda St. George c. Several things also of Jo. Bapt. Fiera Mantuam and other matters as Baleus tells you But above all must not be forgotten his translation out of Latin French and Dutch into the English Language a Book intit The Ship of Fools an 1508. Printed at Lond. by Pich Pynson 1509. fol. and dedicated by the translator to the said Tho. Cornish B. of Tyne and suffragan Bishop of Wells This translation is adorned with great variety of Pictures printed from wooden cuts which could not be but very delightful to the Reader in those days The original Author of that Book was one Sebastian Brantius much famed in his time for his excellent works As for his translator Dr. Barklay who also translated from French into English The Castle of Labour lived to be an aged Man and dying at a Mercat Town called Croyden in Surrey before the 10. of June for on that day his will was prov'd in Fifteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the Church there year 1552 leaving then behind him among some the character of a good Scholar EDWARD SEYMOURE Son of Sir Joh. Seymoure of Wolfhall in Wilts Knight was educated in trivials and partly in quadrivials for some time in this University and whether he afterwards studied in Cambridge of which he was Chancellour in the Reign of Edw. 6. I cannot say If so 't is very strange that one that had conversed with the Muses of both Universities should be so unlearned as one who was an enemy to his memory reports that he could scarce write or read Afterwards K. Hen. 8. marrying his Sister Jane he ascended to and obtained great honours and places in the Realm of England as all Histories will tell you While he was Lord Protector there went under his name Epistola Exhortatoria ad pacem missa ad nobilitatem ac plebem universumque populum regni Scotiae Lond. 1548. qu. In which Year also came out his Expedition into Scotland written by another hand After he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for divers miscarriages in his Government he made very great shew of sanctity and seemed not to omit any opportunity whereby he might employ his time religiously as it well appears by a Book that he then wrot entituled A spiritual and most precious Pearl teaching all Men to love and embrace the cross as a most sweet and necessary thing c. Lond 1550 oct At that time before and after he was much courted by John Calvin and Peter Martyr as being the chief Person that carried on the reformation The former wrot to him the said Protector An Epistle of godly consolation 22. Oct. 1549. Writ before the time and knowledge of his trouble Which Epistle being delivered to him in the time of his trouble was translated by him from French into English Printed at Lond. 1550. oct The other P. Martyr wrot an Epistle to him about the same time in the Lat. tongue which being much pleasing to him was by his desire translated into English by that noted Zealot Thom. Norton Printed 1550. in oct From which Epistles it doth plainly appear what great respects they Calvin and Martyr and their Parties had for him and what solemn wishes and prayers they continually
at this day maintain against the Church of England and upon any good proof of any such one allegation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile himself to Rome Now tho Thom. Hardyng and some others undertook him about the controverted articles yet as those of the reformed party say they came off so poorly and Jewell on the contrary so amaz'd them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question that no one thing in that age gave the papacy so deadly a wound as the said challenge at Pauls cross so confidently made and bravely maintain'd This say the Protestant writers but let us hear what a grand zealot for the Romish cause saith concerning the said matter After this Man meaning B. Nich. Rydley stepped to Pauls cross in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days about the Year 1559 and 1560 Mr. Joh. Jewell otherwise called Bishop of Salisbury and he proceeded yet farther in this brag and fiction meaning that what the Fathers said made for the Protestants for he protested there even with feigned tears that if any one authority place sentence or asseveration of any one Father Doctor Council or authentical History within the first 600 years after Christ could be brought forth by any man living for any one of those points of Catholick Religion which he there recited to be in controversie that then plainly and sincerely he would subscribe Against which vain and shameless bragg when Dr. Hardyng and divers other learned men of our side began to write from Lovayne and to bring forth authorities of all Fathers Doctors Councils and Histories in great abundance the first effect of this challenge that appeared to the world was a severe proclamation that no such book written in English by the Catholick party should be received or read in England under great punishments By which Provision Mr. Jewell thinking meetly well defenced he plyed the pulpit often and renewed his challenges many times and perceiving notwithstanding that Dr. Hardyngs confutation was come into England he answered the same with a long volume of Rhetorical words and stuffed the Margent thereof with the shew of infinite Authors as tho the whole world had been for him and none for the other side And with this he deceived the People then and doth to this day such I mean that have not commodity or learning or other means to examine those places and to find out the manifold lyes and falsifications therein contained And this was the gain by all likelyhood that Mr. Jewell pretended to his cause by that work knowing full well that this sort of Men is far the greater which would be gained and settled in his doctrine before the learneder sort who are but few in comparison of the other could have time books and commodity to discover and refute him and when they should do it they should hardly be believed c. How many learned Men lightly of our Nation have taken upon them seriously to go over that book of Mr. Jewells and to examine it by the Authors themselves with any indifferency of mind have for the most part been thereby converted to Catholick Religion though never so great Protestants before Of which sort I have heard relation of many but of some I can testifie my self for that I have heard it from their own mouths who of earnest Protestants were made most zealous Catholicks by that means principally of which number I think it not inconvenient to name here some two or three omitting others which for just respects may not be named The first of them is Sir Tho. Copley made Lord afterwards in his banishment by the King of France who oftentimes hath related unto one with much comfort of his soul how that being a zealous Protestant and very familiar to Robert the late Earl of Leycester in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days when Mr. Jewells book was newly come forth he being also learned himself in the Latin tongue took pains to examine certain leaves thereof and finding many falshoods therein which were inexcusable as they seemed to him he conferred the same with the said Earl who willed him that the next time Mr. Jewell dined at his table he should take occasion after dinner to propose the same which he did soon after And receiving certain trifling answers from Mr. Jewell he waxed more hot and urged the matter more earnestly which Jewell perceiving told him in effect That Papists were Papists and so they were to be dealt withal and other answer he could not get Which thing made the good Gentleman to make a new resolution with himself and to take that happy course which he did to leave his Country and many great commodities which he enjoyed therein to enjoy the liberty of conscience and so both lived and died in voluntary banishment c. The second example which I remember of mine own knowledge is Mr. Doctor Stevens a learned Man yet alive who being Secretary or Chaplain to Mr. Jewell and a forward Man in the Protestant Religion at that time espyed certain false allegations in his Masters book whilst it was under the print in London whereof advertising him by Letters for that he supposed it might be by oversight the other commanded notwithstanding the print to go forward and passed it over as it was Which this Man seeing that had a conscience and sought the truth indeed resolved to take another way of finding it out And having found it in the Cath. Church where only it was to be found he resolved also to follow it and so he did and went voluntarily into banishment for the same where yet he liveth to this day in France c. As for the third example which is Will. Rainolds I shall remember from my before quoted Author when I come to speak of him and in the mean time proceed to speak of Jewell In the beginning therefore of the Year 1565 he tho absent was actually created Doctor of Div. and the year following when the Queen was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses he shew'd himself a profound Theologist in moderating at Divinity disputations in St. Maries Church The learned Camden saith that he was a wonderful great and deep Divine a most stout and earnest maintainer of our reformed Religion against the adversaries by his learned books That he was a Man of a singular ingenie of exquisite erudition in Theologicals and of great piety As for Jewells writings the titles of them follow Exhortatio ad Oxonienses See in his life written by Laurence Humphrey printed in 1573. p. 35. Exhortatio in Coll. Corp. Ch. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi Commemorationem See there again p. 45. 46. c. Concio in templo B. Mariae Virg. Oxon an 1550 in 1. Pet. 4. 11. preached for his Degree of Bach. of Div. A Copy of which is printed in his life written by L. H. before-mention'd p. 49. Translated into English by R. V. Lond. 1586. oct Oratio in Aula C. C. Chr. spoken to
Historical description of the Island of Britain with a brief rehearsal of the nature and qualities of the People of England and such commodities as are to be found in the same In 3. books They were first published in the first and second volume of Chronicles that go under the name of Raphael Holinshed printed at Lond. 1577. in fol. and there again in 1587 with augmentations by Jo. Hooker alias Vowell The collection is made from divers choice Authors many of which were then in MS. A Chronologie Gathered and compiled with most exquisite diligence after the example of Gerardus Mercator and other late Chronoligers So saith Raph. Holinshed in his Preface to the third volume of Chronicles What he hath written besides I know not nor any thing else but that he was living in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven I find one Will. Harrison born in the Dioc. of London elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1557 admitted M. of Arts in 1560 being then beneficed near to Northampton but he dying 1564 cannot be understood to be the same with the writer Another Will. Harrison I find to be installed Canon of Windsore 1586. being about that time Rector of Radwynter in Essex who dying 1593 was buried at Windsore leaving behind him several Children which he had by his Wife Marian Daughter of Will. Isebrand of Anderne near to Guisnes in Picardie Whether this Will. Harrison be the same with the writer I cannot tell WILLIAM WATKINSON was educated in Ch. Ch. became Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts afterwards he was one of the Proctors and Bach. of Divinity of this University He hath translated into English 1 Of the happiness of this our age and the ingratitude of Men to God for his benefits Lond. 1578. qu. Written by Joh. Rivius 2 Meditations on the 32. Psalm Lond. 1579. oct and other things which I have not yet seen How long he lived beyond Fifteen hundred eighty and seven 29. Elizab. in which year he took the Degree of Bach. of Div. I know not ULPIAN FULWELL a Somersethire Man born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of St. Maries Hall in the Year 1578 aged 32 but whether he took any Degree among us it appears not While he continued in the said House where he was esteemed a Person of ingenuity by his contemporaries he partly wrot The eighth liberal science called Ars adulandi or the Art of flattery Printed 1579. qu. Afterwards having learned the art of Poetry among the Academians he wrot and published A pleasant enterlude intit Like will to like quoth the Devil to the Collier Wherein is declared what punishment follows those that will rather live licentiously that esteem and follow good counsel Lond. 1587. qu. Written in time and printed in an English Character The name of Ulp. Fulwell stands quoted by Jo. Speed in his life of K. Ed. 6. in his Chronicle and therefore I suppose he hath other things printed for I cannot conceive that Joh. Speed should quote him for any thing out of the two former books ROBERT CROWLEY or Croleus as he writes himself a very forward Man for reformation in the time of K. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizab. was born in Glocestershire became a Student in the University about 1534 and was soon after made Demie of Magd. Coll. â—â— 1542 he being then Bach. of Arts was made Probationer-fellow of the said House by the name of Rob. Crule but whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts it appears not for likely it is that he left the University when K. Hen. 8. began to settle a mongrel Religion in the Nation When K. Ed. 6. began to Reign he exercised the profession of Printing in Ely rents in Holbourn near to London sold books and at leisure times exercised the gift of Preaching in the great City and elsewhere But upon the succession of Queen Mary he among several English Protestants lest the Kingdom went to Frankfort in Germany and setled there purposely to enjoy the Religion which had been practised in England in the days of K. Ed. 6. After her decease he returned and had several benefices bestowed on him among which was the Vicaridge of St. Giles by Criplegate in London of which Church he wrot himself Vicar 1566. where continuing his pretended gifts in preaching was followed and respected by the neighbourhood of those parts and by others for his skill in rimes and poetry He hath written The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the sixth of John and the XI of the 1 Epist to the Corinthians c. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Mr. Tho. More against Joh. Frith Printed 5. Apr. 1533 in a small oct Confutation of Nich. Shaxton Bishop of Sarum his recantation of 13 Articles at the burning of Mistris Anne Askew Lond. 1546. oct Explicatio petitoria ad Parliamentum adversus expilatores plebis Printed in the Engl. tongue 1548 in oct Translated into Lat. by John Heron. Confutation of Miles Hoggard's wicked ballad made in defence of transubstantation of the Sacrament Lond. 1548. oct The voice of the last Trumpet blown by the seventh Angell c containing 12 several lessons Lond. 1549. oct Written in meter Pleasure and pain heaven and hell Remember these four and all shall be well Lond. 1550 51. in oct Written in meter Way to wealth wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for sedition Lond. 1550. oct One and thirty Epigrams wherein are briefly touched so many abuses that may and ought to be put away Lond. 1550. in tw This was printed by the Author Crowley in his house in Ely rents before-mention'd An apologie of those English Preachers and Writers which Cerberus the three-headed dog of hell chargeth with false doctrine under the name of Predestination Lond. 1566. qu. Of which book you may see more in Canterburies doome written by Will. Prynne p. 169. Of the signes and tokens of the latter day Lond. 1567. oct A setting open of the subtile sophistry of Tho. Watson D. D. which he used in his two Sermons preached before Qu. May in Lent 1553 concerning the real presence in the Sacrament Lond. 1569. qu. Sermon in the Chappell at Gilde hall in London 29. Sept. 1574. before the Lord Mayor and the whole state of the Citie on Psalme 139. ver 21. 22. 23. 24. c. Lond. 1575. oct Answer to Tho. Pound his six reasons wherein he sheweth that the Scriptures must be judged by the Church Lond. 1581. qu. Brief discourse concerning those four usual notes whereby Christs Catholick Church is known c. Lond. 1581. qu. Replication to that lewd answer which Frier Joh. Francis of the Minimies order in Nigeon near Paris hath made to a letter that his Mother caused to be sent to him out of England Lond. 1586. qu. Deliberate aunsweare to a Papist proving that Papists are Antichristian Schismaticks
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
Book was written after Mart. Marprelate had writ his Libel which some playing with Martin at his won weapon answered pleasantly both in Rhime and Prose But this our Author the Bishop with Authority and Gravity confuted him soundly in this Book whereupon Martin replyed in a Book enit Ha'y any Work for a Cooper c. At length this reverend and holy Bishop paying his last Debt to Nature at Winchester year 1594 29. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried on the South side of the Choire a little above the Bishop's Seat belonging to the Cathedral there Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat Marble with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a Copy of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. a. He left behind him a Widow named Amey and two Daughters one of which named Elizabeth was the Wife of Dâ—â— Joh. Belly sometimes Provost of Oriel Col. afterward Chanclour of the Dicocess of Lincoln the other was Mary the Wife of John Gouldwell Gent. WILLIAM RAINOLDS second Son of Rich. Râ—â—â—â—ids a sufficient Farmer third Son of Rich. Rainolds was born at Pynhoc alias Pynhawes the Seat of his Ancestors near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in School learning in Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester elected Probationer of New Coll. in 1560. and two years after was admitted perpetual Fellow In that House where then was a severe Discipline kept up he became a most noted Philosopher a quick Disputant and one much noted for his sincere love to the Protestant Cause In 1566. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time he took Holy Orders In 1572. he left his Fellowship and retiring to Hart Hall lived there in the quality of a Câ—â—moner All which time he was earnest for Reformation while John his Brother of C. C. Coll. stood affected to the Roman Catholick Religion as it is said This difference in judgment proved a firebal of Câ—ntention between and engaged them in a strong Duel and set Disputes whereupon both being strengthned by each 〈◊〉 Arguments our Author Willaim turned a zealous Catholick and John a strong Puritan Whereupon Dr. Will. Alabaster a learned Divine and an excellent Poet made an Epigram on them a copy of which you may see elsewhere This is the reason commonly received among Protestants for each others conversion but false for the dispute was if you will believe one that then lived between John and Edmund Rainolds of C. C. Câ—ll as I have told you elsewhere So that now there being no pretence left for William's conversion by disputing with his Brother John you may take this reason following different from the other if your charity will permit you to believe a R. Catholick Author as he had received it from the mouth or Pen of Will. Rainolds which is this Mr. William Rainolds being first an earnest Professor and Preacher of the Protestant Religion in England and much engaged among the Puritans in Northamptonshire as he was wont to tell he fell in the end to read over Mr. Jewel ' s Book and did translate some part thereof into Latin but before he had passed half over he found such stuff as made him greatly mistake of the whole Religion and so he leaving his hopes and commodities in England went over the Sea and the last year of Jubilee to wit 1575. he came to Rome and brought that Book with him and presented both himself and it to the Tribunal of the Inquitsition of his own free motion and accord where I guess the Book remaineth still if it be not burned and himself after absolution received for his former Errors which he with great humility and zeal required and my self also at that time spake with him in that place he returned into France and Flanders and there lived many years with singular edification for his rare Vertue and Learning c. Thus a zealous Romanist whom I have here quoted in the Margin Afterwards our Author Will. Rainolds went to Rheimes in France where being kindly received by Dr. Will. Allen President of the English College there was shortly after made Professor or Reader of Divinity and of the Hebrew Tongue Afterwards he went to Antwerp where he wrote mostly under the Name of Will. Rosseus these things following Resutation of Mr. W. Whittaker's Civils against the Annotations of the New Testament Par. 1583. oct De justa republicae Christiane in reges impios haereticos Authoritate Antw. 1592. oct c. Catholick Faith concerning Christ's last Supper against Berengarius and Bruce Antw. 1593. oct This Bruce was the same as it seems with Rob. Bruce a Scotch Minister Paraphrase on the New Testament MS. in the English coll of Benedictines at Deiulward in Loraine Calvino-Turcismus i. e. Calvinisticae perfidiae cum Mahumetanâ collatio dilucida utriusque sectae confutatio Antw. 1597. Col. Agr. 1603. oct in four Books Which Books being left imperfect were corrected finished and published out of his Notes by his dear Friend Will. Gifford Dean of St. Peter's Church at L'isle This Book endeavours to prove that Calvin's Religion is worse in condition and less probable in reason than that of the Turks and hath less ground and substance therein than the other The copies of which stealing over the Sea into England were answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a Book bearing this Title De Turco-Papismo Hoc est de Turcorum Papistarum adversus Christi Ecclesiam fidem conjuratione eorumque in Religione moribus concensione similitudine Lond. 1598 99. qu. ibid. 1604 in oct To which Book are added 4 more against the said Calvino-Turcismus In the Preface to the first that came forth the Author saith that Will. Rainolds his going over to the Church of Rome was because he was not compos mentis as being somewhat distracted for the love of the Wife of one M. a famous Women of Oxon c. The said Rainolds also translated from English into Latin all the Works of Tho. Harding with a large Preface to them as I have elsewhere told you but for want of Money they could not be Printed Also Dr. Will. Allen's Book entit A true sincere and modest defence of English Catholicks c. which Book W. Rainolds did also much increase And what else he hath written Pitscus will tell you who adds that he deceasing at Antwerp in Flanders year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Chancel of the Church of the Bigwins there on the South side of the Altar Soon after was a stone laid over his Grave with this inscription thereon Honorabili Domino D. Gulielmo Reginaldo alias Ressaeo pio exuli Auglo viro doctissimo hujus Ecclesiae Ministro Obiit 24. Aug. 1594 c. Tâ—â—w Rainolds had five Brothers the eldest of which was named Hierom Fellow of C. C. College and Master of Arts in 1557. who continuing in
Elizabeth by her Embassador then residing at Prague that by fitting the piece with the place whence it was cut out it might exactly appear to be a part of the said Warming-pan At another time Kelley who was openly profuse beyond the modest limits of a sober Philosopher did give away in Gold-wyer-rings or rings twisted with three Gold-wyers at the Marriage of one of his Maid Servants to the value of 4000 l. but this I think was acted after Dee had left him at Trebona which was in May 1589. otherwise it had not been done and so consequently Rodolph 2. Emperor of Germany who had a great respect for him and Dee would not for his Prodigality or open management of the secret or rather as some say for a chymical cheat put upon him have committed him to close custody The Writings of Kelley that are made publick are these Poem of Chymistry Pr. in Theat Chemic Britannicum an 1652. Poem of the Philosophers-Stone Written to his Friend G. S. Gent. Printed there also De lapide Philosophorum Hamb 1676. in oct Qu. Whether this be not falsly fathered on him He hath also several Lat. and Engl. discourses in a Book intit A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. Joh. d ee and some Spirits c. Lond. 1659. fol. Published by Dr. Meric Casaubon before-mentioned At length our author Kelley who had been Knighted by the Emperor as it seems being imprisoned the second time at Prague by the aforesaid Emperor after he had been at Liberty for some Months and in a manner had crept into his favour attempted an escape out of an high Window by tying his sheets together after he had divided each into two parts at least but he being too weighty for them he fell to the ground before he was half way down so that bruising his Body and breaking his Legs he dyed soon after in Octob. as it seem in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 for on the 25. Nov. following the news of his death came to Dr. d ee then in England which he inserted in his Diary thus Nov. 25. an 1595. news that Sir F. K. was slain Jo. Weever before quoted tells us otherwise viz. That Q. Elizabeth sent very secretly Capt. Peter Gwinne with some others to perswade Kelly to return back to his Native Country which he was willing to do and thinking to escape away in the night by stealth as he was clambering over a wall in his own House in Prague which bears his name to this day and which sometimes was an old Sanctuary he fell down from the battlements broke his Legs and bruised his Body of which hurts within a while after he dyed c. Thus Weever before-mentioned a Lancashire man born educated in Queens coll in Cambrige under the tuition of Dr. Rob. Pearson Archdeacon of Suffolk afterwards a great traveller beyond the Seas and collector of several Epitaphs of English-men that he met with in his rambles Soon after his return he travelled though most parts of England for the obtaining of English Antiquities and through some of Scotland being encouraged thereunto by those excellent Antiquaries Sir Rob. Cotton and Joh. Selden At length after he had arrived to the 56 years of his age his little body being then in a manner worn out with continual motion he yielded to nature in his house in Clerkenwelclose near to London an 1632. Whereupon his body was buried towards the west end of the Church of St. James in Clerkenwel As for Edw. Kelley before-mention'd you may see more of him before in Franc. Puccius and afterwards under the year 1651. in Arth. Dee ROGER WILLIAMS Son of Tho. Williams of Penrose in Monmouthshire by Elianour his Wife daughter of Sir Will. Vaughan Knight was born in that County of a Family rather ancient than wealthy and being from his childhood more given to Military than Scholastical matters yet for form sake he was sent to the University but to what house therein unless to Brasenose whereof one of both his Names and a Welsh-man was a Student in 1554. 2. of Q. Mary I know not Soon after he left Oxon became a Souldier of Fortune under the Duke of Alva ran through all the degrees of Military Offices was a Colonel in the French and Belgick Wars and might have been sided with the best of those times if his discretion could have but well tempered his hot furious valour which was the reason that Q. Elizabeth would not commit any place or Employment of great trust to his care In 1586. he had the Honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him was then beloved of all Souldiers and so much noted for his martial prowess that he went beyond the commendation of Panegyrick which was specified in the said year when at midnight he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma near Venlow slew some of the Enemies and pierced the Tent of the General as a noted author tells us He hath written The Actions of the Low Countries Printed at Lond. in time of Q. Eliz. as it seems and 1618. qu. The author being unlearned and only tutored by experience hath penn'd the said History with very exquisite judgment he being an actor in the said Actions or Wars A brief discourse of War with his opinion concerning some part of martial discipline Lond. 1590. qu. In this excellent book the author defends the military art of his against that of former days but to the great envy then and discontent of some old-beaten Souldiers and the Lovers of Archery He paid his last debt to Nature in his House in the Parish of St. Benedict near to Pauls Wharf in London in the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 and was buried on the 23. of the same month by the care of Tho. Powell of Vsk in Monmouthshire and Gellie Merick of the Parish of St. Clements without Temple-Bar Gent. his Kinsmen within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul at whose Funeral Rob. Earl of Essex and all the warlike men of the City of London mourned Whether any Epitaph was ever set over his grave I know not Sure it is that one who knew him hath commended to Posterity a learned Epigram on him the beginning of which is Quid tumulum lachrymis violas murmure vexas Fortissimi manes Ducis c. You may be pleased to satisfie your self concerning this valiant Colonel in a Book intit A true discourse historical of the succeeding Governors of the Netherlands and the Civil Ware there began in the year 1565. c. Translated and collected by Tho. Churchyard Esq and Rich. Ro. out of the reverend E. M. of Antwerp his 15 books of his Historia Belgica c. Lond. 1602. I find another Rog. Williams later in time than the former an inhabitant of Providence in New England and author of 1 A Key to the Language of New England Lond. 1643. oct 2 The hireling Ministry
Woman in the Moon was published It is said also that he wrote something against Mart. Marprelate in defence of Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winton but what I cannot tell unless it be any of those answers which I have mentioned in John Penry alias M. Marprelate under the year 1593. Quere RICHARD HAYDOCK was born at Grewel in Hampshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1590. took the degrees in Arts and travelled for some time beyond the Seas At his return he studied Physick took one degree in that Faculty and in 1605. left the college and settling in the City of Salisbury practiced Physick there many years He hath translated from Italian into English A Tract containing the Arts of curious Painting Graving and Building Oxon. 1598. fol. Written originally by Joh. Paul Lomatius This translation which hath in the title page the picture of Ric. Haydock is by him dedicated to Tho. Bodley Esq a favourer of his Muse as Dr. Joh. Case and other chief men of the University then in being were not only for his learning but for his great curiosity in painting and engraving for which among many he was esteemed eminent This is that Rich. Haydock whom a certain author reports that he would practice Physick in the day-time and Preach in his sleep in the night about the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. The whole story of which being too large for this place I shall refer the Reader to him who errs in several particulars of it especially in that that when Haydock had ingeniously confessed the cheat to the King who made a discovery of it his Majesty thereupon gave him preferment in the Church He was not in Orders but lived always a Physician of good repute at Salisbury and retiring for a time to London dyed and was buried there a little before the Grand Rebellion broke out as I have been informed by those that knew the Man The Reader is now to note that one Ric. Haydock translated from Italian into English An ample declaration of the Christian Doctrine Doway 1604. intw written by Card. Rob. Bellarmine But this person who was a Doctor of Divinity a Rom. Catholick and had spent most of his time beyond the Seas in the English Seminaries must not be taken to be the same with the former who was a Physician as some have done REYNOLDE SCOT a younger Son of Sir John Scot of Scots-hall near to Smeeth in Kent by his Wife Daughter of Reynolde Pimp of Pimps-court Knight was born in that County and at about 17 years of age was sent to Oxon particularly as it seems to Hart hall where several of his Country-men and name studied in the latter end of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of Ed. 6. c. Afterwards he retired to his native Country without the honour of a degree and settled at Smeeth where he found great incouragement in his studies from his kinsman Sir Tho. Scot. About which time taking to him a Wife he gave himself up solely to solid reading to the perusing of obscure authors that had by the generality of Scholars been neglected and at times of leisure to husbandry and gardening as it may partly appear from these books following A perfect platform of a Hop-garden and necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof with notes and rules for reformation of all abuses c. Lond. 1576. qu. the 2. edit as it seems The discovery of Witchcraft wherein the leud dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is notably detected the knavery of Conjurers the impiety of Inchantors the folly of Southsayers c. With many other things are opened which have long been hidden howbeit very necessary to be known Lond. 1584. qu. in 16 books Discourse upon Devils and Spirits In this and the former both printed together it plainly appears that the author was very well versed in many choice books and that his search into them was so profound that nothing slip'd his Pen that might make for his purpose Further also in the said Discovery and Discourse though he holds that Witches are not such that were in his time and before commonly executed for Witches or that Witches were or are not yet they which were written for the instruction of all Judges and Justices of that age being the first of that nature that were published in the Mother tongue did for a time make great impressions in the Magistracy and Clergy tho afterwards condemned by James King of Scots the same who succeeded Qu. Elizabeth in the Monarchy of England in his Preface to Damonology printed under his Name at Edinburgh in 1597. qu. and by several others since among whom was Rich. Bernard of Batcomb in his Epist Ded. before his Guide to Grand Jury-men c. Lond. 1627. in oct What else our author Scot hath written I cannot yet tell nor any thing else of him only but that he dyed in Sept. year 1599 or Oct. in fifteen hundred ninety and nine and was buried among his Ancestors in the Church at Smeeth before-mentioned In the time of the said Reynold Scot and before have been conversant among the Muses in Hart hall the Sackviles of Sussex the Colepepers of Kent and Sussex the Sedlies of Kent and the Scots before-mentioned with others of inferiour note of the said Counties ROBERT TURNER was born at Barnstaple in Devonshire to which place if I mistake not his Father came from St. Andrews in Scotland and educated for a time in Exeter coll But leaving the University without a degree wherein he saith he spent his time in trifles and toys and afterwards his Country and Parents for Religion sake went first into France afterwards into Italy and at length to Rome where he spent some time in the Liberal Arts in the German coll there Afterwards being made Priest he applyed himself more severely to the study of Divinity and in fine was made Doctor of that Faculty This person hath several times confessed that he had been Scholar to Edm. Campian the Jesuit but whether in St. Johns coll or in that of the English at Rome is yet uncertain Sure it is that for the great respect he had to his memory he published not only several of his Works after his death but also his Life At length after many travels and services done for the Cause he was made Professor of Eloquence and Ethicks in and afterwards Rector of the University of Ingolstade in Bavaria and in short time after one of the Privy Council to William Duke of that place but falling into his displeasure he left him and retired for a time to Paris About an year or two after he returned into that Country again was made Canon of Breslaw in Silesia and afterwards Secretary for the Latin Tongue to Ferdinando of Gratz who had an especial esteem for him as all others of his persuasion had His Works are these Ingoldstad 1602. c. oct
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
which was discovered two years after in England was then there known and Prayers sent up to God Almighty for a prosperous success thereof from certain passages therein drawn as 't is said in the title out of the holy Scripture which he then publickly read before them some i' not all of which are these Psal. 2. p. 25 confirm their hearts in hope for the redemption is not far off The year of visitation draweth to an end and jubulation is at hand Psal. 2. p. 32. But the memory of novelties shall perish with a crack as a ruinous house falling to the ground Ibid. p. 33. He will come as a flame that burneth out beyond the Furnace c. His fury shall fly forth as Thunder Psal. 4. p. 54. The crack was heard into all Lands and made Nations quake for fear Ibid. p. 66. In a moment canst thou crush her bones c. All which passages delivered from the Pulpit by that learned and godly Archbishop being then generally believed I must make bold to tell the Reader being an eager pursuer of Truth that by the several Copies of the said Books which I have seen it doth not appear at all that they were printed at Rome or elsewhere and if it may really be guessed by the make or mould of the Letter wherewith they were printed I should rather take them as one or more Doctors of this University do the like to have been printed either at Rheimes or Doway or not unlikely at Antwerp for at Rome there were seldome before that time then or since such sine or clear letters used as by multitudes of Books which I have seen that were printed at that place appears nor indeed ever were or are any English Books printed there Our author Buckland hath also written An Embassage from Heaven wherein our Lord Christ giveth to understand his indignation against all such as being catholickly minded dare yeild their presence to the rites and publick prayers of the Malignant Church Printed in octavo but where or when it appears not either in the beginning or end of the said Book He also translated from Lat. into English a Book entit De persecutione Vandelica lib. 3. Written by Victor Bishop of Biserte or Benserte in Africa Which Bishop was in great renown according to Bellarmine an Ch. 490. Also the six Tomes of Laur. Surius entit De vitis Sanctorum Which translation I have seen often quoted under the name of Robert instead of Ralph Buckland What else our zealous Author hath written and translated I find not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 was buried I presume in his own Country near to the Graves of his Ancestors who were all zealous R. Catholicks but since not He left behind him among the Brethren the character of a most pious and seraphical person a person who went beyond all of his time for fervent devotion FRANCIS THYNNE was lineally descended from Thom. at the Inne otherwise Thynne of Stretton in Shropshire Son of Ralph Botevill of the same place descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living elsewhere was educated in Grammaticals in Tunbridge School in Kent in which County as it seems he was born where being fitted for higher learning by Jo. Proctor Master thereof whom I have mentioned elsewhere was thence sent to this University at which time several of his Sirname of Wilts studied there and one of both his names and a Knight's Son of the same County was a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. Whether our author Franc. Thynne went afterwards to Cambridge or was originally a Student there before he came to Oxon I cannot justly say it Sure it is that his Genie tempting him to leave the crabbedness of Logick and Philosophy and to embrace those delightful studies of Histories and Genealogies he became at length one of the Officers of Arms by the title of Blanch-Lyon and afterwards Herald by that of Lancaster which he kept to his dying day His works are The Annals of Scotland in some part continued from the time in which Ra. Holinshed left being an 1571. unto the year 1586. Lond. 1586. fol. There are also the catalogues of the Protectors Governours or Regents of Scotland during the King's Minority or the Minority of several Kings or their insufficiency of Government There are also the catalogues of all Dukes of Scotland by creation or descent of the Chancellours of Scotland Archbishops of St. Andrews and divers writers of Scotland Catalogue of English Cardinals Set down in R. Holinsheds Chron. at the end of Q. Mary Used and followed in many things by Francis Bishop of Landaff in his Cat. or Hist of them at the end of his book De Praesubibus Angliae Com. Cat. of the Lord Chancellours of England MS. From which as also from the endeavours made that way by Rob. Glover sometimes Somerset Herald and of Tho. Talbot formerly Clerk of the Records in the Tower of London John Philpot Som. Herald did frame his Cat. of the Chanc. of England c. Lond. 1636. qu. The perfect Embassador treating of the antiquity privileges and behaviour of men belonging to that function c. This was published in 12o. in the times of the late Usurpation and therefore is supposed to be very imperfect A discourse of Arms wherein is shewed the blazon and cause of divers English Forreign and devised Coats together with certain Ensigns Banners Devises and Supporters of the Kings of England MS. sometimes in the Library of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq now by his gift 1684. among the books of the College of Arms near St. Pauls Cath. in London The beginning of this MS. written to Sir Will. Cecyll Lord Burghley is this I present unto your rare judgment right honourable and my singular good Lord no vulgar conceit of Armory c. The discourse is dated from Clarkenwell-Green 5. Jan. 1593. Several collections of Antiquities notes concerning Arms monumental Inscriptions c. MS. in Cottons Lib. under Cleopatra C. 3. p. 62. Miscellanies of the Treasury MS. written to Tho. Lord Buckhurst an 1599. Epitaphia sive monumenta Sepulchrorum Anglicè Latinè quam Gallicè MS. in a thin fol. in the hands of Sir Henry St. George Clarenceaux K. of Arms. The said Inscriptions with Arms and Epitaphs were collected in his travels through several parts of England and through some of France and have been ever acceptable to such curious men and Antiquaries that have had the happiness to see them Several of his collections were transferred to obscure hands which without doubt would be useful if they might be perused but 't is feared by some that they are turned to waste paper I have seen divers collections of Monuments made by him from Peterborough Cath. in 1592. several of which Mon. were lost and defaced before Sir Will. Dugdale or Sim. Gunton made their respective surveys of that ancient Edifice an 1640. 41.
into England he setled in his native Country but being soon after apprehended was conveyed to London and there kept in prison several weeks At length being condemned to die according to the Statute against Seminaries was executed at Tybourne with George Haddock Tho. Emerferd and Joh. Nutter 12. Febr. 1582 3. All which are inrolled among the R. C. Martyrs that suffered during the Reign of Q. Elizabeth JOHN CARTWRIGHT who seems to have been descended from the Cartwrights of Washbourne in Glocestershire received his Academical education in Magd. coll but whether he took a degree in this University it appears not Afterwards he travelled was as it seems in holy Orders and after his return published these books following The Preachers travels Wherein is set down a true Journal to the confines of the E. Indies through the great Countries of Syria Mesopotamia Armenia Media Hircania and Parthia c. A relation of Sir Anth. Sherley's entertainment in the Court of the K. of Persia Description of the Port in the Persian Gulf commodious for the East-India Merchants of England Rehearsal of some gross absurdities in the Turkish Alcoran Which four Treatises were printed in one vol. at London 1611. in qu. At which time the author of them was living in Southwark near London Afterwards the said treatises being contracted were remitted into Sam. Purchaâ—s second part of Pilgrims lib. 9. p. 1422. Lond. 1625. fol. JOHN BOND Bondius a most noted critick in Greek and Latin learning of his time was born in Somersetshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Student in this University about the nineteenth year of his age an 1569. took a degree in Arts 4 years after being either one of the Clerks or Chaplains of New coll and much noted for his proficiency in Academical learning In 1579. he proceeded in Arts and had soon after the Mastership of the Free-School of Taunton St. Maryâ— Madg. in his own Country conferred on him by the Warden and Society of New coll At which place continuing many years he did exercise such an admirable way of teaching that many departed thence so excellently well grounded in humane learning that they proved afterwards eminent either in Church or State At length being in a manner worn out with the drudgery of a School he did for diversion I cannot say profit practice Physick tho he had taken no degree in that Faculty in this University and became at length Chief Secretary to the Lord Chancellour of England Egerton if one of his admirers may be credited As for his writings which are used by the Juniors of our Universities and in many Free-Schools and more admired and printed beyond the Seas than in England they are these Commentarii in Poemata Q. Horatii Flacci Printed 1606. oct and several times after beyond the Sea and at London Comment in sex Satyras A. Persii Lond. 1614. oct published after the author's death by Rog. Prows who married his Daughter Elizabeth He hath at least written if not published other things but such I have not yet seen He yielded up his last breath on the third of Aug. in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 being then possessed of several lands and tenements in Taunton Wilton near Taunton and in Newenton and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Taunton before-mentioned Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after put Qui Medicus doctus prudentis nomine clarus Eloquii splendor Pieridumque decus Virtutis cultor pietatis vixit amicus Hoc jacet in tumulo spiritus alta tenet The Reader is now to know that there was another John Bond but after the time of the former Son of Dennis Bond of Dorchester in Dorsetshire who having been educated in his youthful years under John White commonly called The Patriarch of Dorchester and from him sucked in most dangerous principles was sent to Cambridge and placed I think in S. Johns coll where he took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law Afterwards he was made a Lecturer in the City of Exeter and carried himself conformable for a season But when the times turned in 1641. and he saw that the Puritan began to be uppermost then did he Preach very seditiously and published what he had said under this title A door of Hope Also holy and loyal activity Two Treatises delivered in several Sermons in Exeter The first on Psal. 126. 1 2. and the other on Exod. 17. 11. Lond. 1641. qu. Both which do contain most scandalous and rebellious stuff besides what he preached in a Serm. in the said City before the Deputy-Lievtenants Lond. 1643. qu. So that having thus began his pranks and shewed himself a zealous Brother for the Cause and a rank Covenanteer he was made Preacher or Minister of the Savoy in the Strand near London in the place of Joh. White before-mentioned when he passed over the water to Lambeth to take possession of the Rectory there belonging to Dr. Dan. Featly one of the Assembly of Divines and about that time Doctor of the Laws This J. Bond by the way you must know being scarce warm in the Pulpit but he began to threaten Heaven with some of his Divinity by telling the auditory with great zeal that they ought to contribute and pray and do all they were able to bring in their Brethren of Scotland for the setling of Gods Cause I say this is Gods Cause and if ever God had any Cause this is it and if this be not Gods Cause then God is no God for me but the Devil is got up into Heaven c. About the same time he became a frequent Preacher before the Long-Parliament and hath 3 or more Sermons preached before the Members thereof published as 1 Salvation in a mystery c. on Jer. 45. 25. Lond. 1644. qu. It was a Fast Serm. pr. before the H. of Commons 27. Mar. 1644. 2 Ortus occidentalis or a dawning in the West c. on Isa. 25. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. 'T was a Thanksgiving Serm. for the Parliament Forces their gaining of Bathe Bridgwater Sherbourne Castle c. preached before the H. of Commons 22. Aug. 1645. and on the eleventh of Dec. following the said Jo. Bond was made Master of the Hospital called the Savoy under the great Seal 3 A Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of Com. on Psal. 50. 23. Lond. 1648. qu. preached on the 19. Jul. 1648. In which year he had a Serm. published intit Grapes among Thornes preached before the H. of Commons In all which Sermons as in others which he delivered in London and Westminster are contained many strange positions rebellious doctrines religious cantings and I know not what About that time he was made Master of Trinity hall in Cambridge which Mr. Jo. Selden refused and in 1654. he was made an assistant to the Commissioners of Middlesex and Westminster for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters These things I thought
citari solent Lond. 1614. and 23. qu. Which is all I think he hath published He gave way to fate at Leedes before-mentioned on the first of Jan. in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried the day following in the Church there Alex. Cooke his Brother whom I shall mention under the year 1632. succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Leedes and there died MATHEW SLADE second Son of Joh. Slade of the West Country Son of Joh. Slade of Roughley in Staffordshire the second Son of Joh. Slade of the ancient and gentile Family of the Slades of Norton-Slade in Lancashire was born in Devonshire became a Batler of St. Albans hall in 1584. and in that of his age 17. took a degree in Arts four years after and about that time was a candidate for a Fellowship of Morton coll but what put him by unless the want of Friends for Philosophy he had sufficient I know not Afterwards he retired to his native Country taught School for a time and Married as I shall anon tell you At length upon an invitation he went to Amsterdam in Holland where by the High and Mighty States he became Rector of the learned Academy or Gymnasium situated and being in the old part of that famous City where he was esteemed by all that knew him an excellent Lâ—tinist a good Grecian one well read in profound authors a stiff Enemy to the Socinians and a walking Library His works are these Cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. de blasphemiis haeresibus atheismis à Jacobo Rege Angliae 1. in ejusd Vorstii de dei tractatu c. Scholasticae disputationis pars prima In qua fides Orthodoxa de vera immensitate infinitate triunius dei opponitur c. Amstel 1612. qu. Appendix prioris disceptationis Amstel 1614. qu. Which is set before this book following Disceptationis cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. pars altera de immutabilitate simplicitate dei Qua docetur R. Jac. 1. juste merito notasse blasphemum Vorsti dogma Deum esse mutabilem accedentibus subjectum adserentis Amstel 1614. qu. C. Vorstii F. Socini concentus sive Bicinii exemplum cum rerum verborum atque testium Syllabo Printed with the former viz. Disceptationis altera pars These things were replied upon by Vorstius in 1615. but whether our author Slade put out a rejoynder I know not as yet or any thing else that he hath published He took to Wife Alethea Daughter of Rich. Kirford of or near to Honiton in Devon on the 20. of Sept. 1593. by whom he had Issue Cornelius Slade born in Amsterdam 14. of Oct. 1599. and made Rector of the Gymnasium there perhaps on the death of his Father on the 9. of May 1628. who taking to Wife Gertrude the Daughter of Luke Ambrose a Preacher of Amsterdam begot on her among other Children Mathew Slade born 9. of June 1628. and being strictly educated in learning became a Doctor of Physick and a learned Man and thereupon often mentioned with honour by Swammerdam as also by Scrader who dedicates a book to him This Matthew Slade did publish under the borrowed name of Theodorus Aldes Slade Anglus a book intit Dissertatio Epistolica de Generatione Animalium contra Harveium Amstel 1666. in tw Reprinted with other Anatomical Works at Francfort twice in the year 1668. in qu. and is extant in the Bibliotheca Anatomica The Collectors of which have unveiled him and put him down under his true name Mattheus Sladus Amstelodamensis M. D. He hath also written Observationes in Ovem Amstel 1673. in tw which is also in the said Bibliotheque and Sciagraphia nutritionis Foetus in utero de ejus urinâ Ibid. At length coming into England in Sept. or Oct. 1689. retired to Oxon in Dec. following to see it the Colleges Libraries and learned Men there And after he had tarried at that place about a fortnight went in the Stage-coach towards London but being taken suddenly with an Apoplectical fit on Shotover hill two miles distant from Oxon died thereof before he came to Wheatley on Friday the twentieth day of the same month being the Eve of St. Thomas the Apostle Whereupon his body being lodged in a common Inn there was by the care of James Tyrrell Esq and Dr. Edw. Bernard one of the Savilian Professors conveyed thence the next day to the Angel Inn in Oxon where lying till the day following was buried in the yard near to and behind the West door leading therein belonging to the Church of St. Peter in the East at which time were present certain Doctors of and Graduats in Physick and Masters of Arts. THOMAS FREEMAN a Gloucestershire Man born of the same Family with those of Batsford and Todenham near to Morton in Marsh became a Student in Magd. coll an 1607. aged 16 years or thereabouts and Bach. of Arts four years after At length retiring to the great City and setting up for a Poet was shortly after held in esteem by Sam. Daniel Owen the Epigrammatist Dr. Joh. Donn Shakspeare George Chapman Tho. Heywood the Play-maker and others To some of whole judgments he submitted these his two books of Epigrams following Rubbe and a great Cast In 100 Epigrames Lond. 1614. qu. Runne and a great Cast The second bowle in an 100 Epigrams Printed with the former Epigrams and both dedicated to Thomas Lord Windsore who seemed to patronize his studies The reason for Rubbe and Runne he gives in these four verses Sphaera mihi calamus mundi sunt crimina nodi Ipse sed est mundus Sphaeromachia mihi Sive manere Jubes Lector seu currere spaeram Lusori pariter curre mane que placent THOMAS CHALONER Son of Sir Thom. Chaloner Knight by Ethelreda his Wife Daughter of Edward Frodsham of Elton in Cheshire was educated in Magd. coll where he was held in esteem for his Poetry but taking no degree travelled beyond the Seas and at his return became a compleat Gentleman In 1591. he received the honour of Knighthood and being esteemed a learned prudent and sober person when K. James the first came to the English Crown he therefore by him was appointed Tator and afterwards Chamberlain to his Son Prince Henry the lively joy and delight of Britain and about that time was actually created Master of Arts as in the Fasti under the year 1605. I shall tell you This person who was a learned searcher into Natures Works did first discover an Allum-mine near to Gisburgh in Yorkshire being possessed of Land there about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but being adjudged to be a Mine-Royal was rented by several and little benefit came to Sir Thomas At length the Long Parliament which began in 1640. voted it a Monopoly and restored the benefit thereof to the former Proprietaries He hath written several things but all that I have seen is only The Virtue of Nitre wherein is declared the sundry cures by the same
Inn Ben. Johnson Thom. Wenman of the Inner Temple c. which last I take to be the same that had been Fellow of Ball. coll and Publick Orator of this University These two books or parts in fol. were also printed in two vol. in oct 1625. which I have not yet seen Our author Browne hath also written a Poem intit The Shepard's Pipe in 7 Eglogues Lond. 1614. oct The fourth Eglogue is dedicated to Mr. Tho. Manwood who died about that time Son of Sir Pet. Manwood and the fifth to his ingenious Friend Mr. Christop Brook mentioned elsewhere in this work Elegy on the never enough bewailed c. Prince Henry Lond. 1613. qu. and other Poems as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen However the Reader is to know that as he had honoured his Country with his elegant and sweet Pastorals so was he expected and also intreated a little farther to grace it by drawing out the line of his Poetick Ancestors beginning in Josephus Iscanius and ending in himself but whether ever published having been all or mostly written as 't was said I know not In the beginning of the year 1624. he retired to Exeter coll again being then about 34 years of age and was Tutor or Gov. to Rob. Dâ—rmer of that house the same who was afterwards Earl of Caernarvon and killed in Newbury fight 20. Sept. 1643. In the same year he was actually created Master of Arts as I shall tell you elsewhere in the Fasti and after he had left the Coll. with his Pupil he became a retainer to the Pembrochian Family was beloved by that generous Count William E. of Pembroke and got wealth and purchased an estate which is all I know of him hitherto only that as he had a little body so a great mind In my searches I find that one Will. Browne of Otterie S. Mary in Devon died in the Winter time 1645. whether the same with the Poet I am hitherto ignorant After the time of the said Poet appeared another person of both his names author of two Common law-Law-books written in English intit Formulae bene placitandi and of Modus intraadi placita generalia and of other things pertaining to that Faculty JOHN DAVIES an excellent Mathematician as the learned Camden stiles him was the Son of John Davies of London in which City he was born at about six of the clock in the evening of the eighth of Feb. in 1559-60 and educated in Gramaticals there In 1574. he made his first entry into this University and setling in Gloucester hall under the tuition of one that was much enclined to the Rom. Perswasion made great proficiency in his studies and Mr. Tho. Allen of that house finding that his Genie was much addicted to the Mathematicks instructed him therein and gave him all the incouragement imaginable to proceed in that noble Science In 1581. he proceeded M. of A. as a Member of Glouc. hall continued there for some time after and then retiring to the great City was instructed in Astrological matters by one Dr. Sim. Forman a very able Astrologer and Physician as it appears by the MS. books he left behind him when he died tho a certain author tells us he was a very silly fellow In Feb. 1587. he was first of all introduced into the Royal Court where he was made known to and received with great courtsie by that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex In 1589. he travelled into France and made a voyage into Portugal whereby he advanced his knowledge as to men and the Languages of those Countries very much In 1596. after he had been married 3 years he went under the conduct of the said Count towards Spain where doing most admirable service at the taking and sacking of Cadiz he received the honour of Knighthood and of Baneret In 1597. he travelled to the Islands of Terceres where he performed that employment he went about to the great honour of himself and in 1598. Jan. 31. he was made Surveyor of the Ordnance by the endeavours of his singular good Lord the E. of Essex under whom in the year following he went as a prime Officer into Ireland where his service was much remarkable against the Rebels In 1600. he was deeply ingaged in that Earls Teasons for which he was taken and committed to custody on the 8. Feb. the same year About the eleventh of the same month the Archbishop of Canterbury issued out a Direction for the Ministers and Preachers in his Province to the end that they give the People a right understanding what the Earl of Essex intended by his treasonable conspiracy in which Direction I find these matters of Sir Joh. Davies viz. that he was brought up in Oxford and was by profession a seller of figures and on whom that hateful Earl hoth to God and man did repose great affiance insomuch that he made him chief Officer about the Ordnance in the Tower and thought him one of the faithfull'st Servants he had to make his Keeper c. This Davies was one that favoured nothing less than the Gospel for being in hold the chiefest motion that he made to the Gentleman that had the custody of him for that time was that if it were possible he might have a Priest to confess him c. In March following he was tried among other Conspirators for his life and being in a manner convicted by his own Conscience and confession held his peace and then being taunted by the way that he was a Papist he denied not but that in Oxon he was instructed in the Romish Religion by his Tutor and confirmed in the same by Sir Christop Blount one of the Conspirators while he was in the Irish Wars At which words when he perceived Blount was moved he straight appeased him affirming that he was confirmed in that Religion not by Blounts perswasion but by the example of his Christian and Religious life Afterwards being condemned to be hang'd drawn and quartered he requested that altho he was no Nobleman yet he might suffer as they did that is by beheading if not not to be quarter'd in pieces but to be buried Christianly After sentence he was remanded to his prison but by the intercession of Friends the Queen signed his Pardon 5. Feb. 1601. which was allowed by the Judges in Westminster hall on the 12. of the same month So that being free he purchased an Estate in the Parish of Pangborne in Berks where he spent the remainder of his days in a retired and studious condition This person who is stiled in literis Mathematicis apprime eruditus hath written many things of Mathematicks and Astrology but hath nothing as I can yet find that is extant There went from hand to hand a volume of Letters which were written by this Sir Joh. Davies Dr. Joh. d ee and Dr. Mat. Gwinne concerning Chimical and Magical secrets which as some say tho I cannot yet be satisfied in it
discourses and writings against them So that as 't is presumed that party having a hatred towards them the English Recollect Friers at Doway did often brag that this our author and his brother Daniel should one day either carry faggots upon their shoulders or be burned in Smithfield or else recant and be glad to have the office to sweep their Church wherein they had preached false doctrine for an everlasting pennance and their Wives to carry out the dust and filth c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Londons warning by Loadicea's Lukewarmness on Rev. 3. 15 16. Lond. 1613. qu. 2 A heavenly proclamation to fly Remish Babylon on Rev. 18. 4. Oxon. 1614. qu. 3 Ephesus warning before her woe on Rev. 2. 5. Lond. 1616. qu. 4 Clearing of the Saints sight on Rev. 7. 17. Lond. 1617. qu. 5 Beauty of Holiness on Joh. 10. 22 23. Lond. 1618. qa Preached in the Chap. at the Free-School in Shrewsbury 10. Sept. 1617. at what time the said Chappel was consecrated by the B. of Cov. and Lichfield 6 The Twinns of birth and death preached at the Funeral of Sir Will. Bird 5 Sept. 1624. on Eccles. 3. 2. Lond. 1624 5. qu. 7 Londons remembrancer for the staying of the plague on Psal. 42. 4. Lond. 1626. qu. These seven Sermons are all that I have yet seen of his composition and therefore I can saynomore of him but that he was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel of Ch. Church before-mentioned in sixteen hundred and thirty year 1630 and was succeeded in his Vicarage by Mr. Edw. Finch of Cambridge Brother to Sir Joh. Finch afterwards Lord Finch of Fordwich The said Dr. Samp. Price had an elder Brother called Dr. Daniel Price whom I shall mention under the year 1631. FRANCIS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Rich. Hicks an Arras-Weaver of Barcheston commonly called Barston in Warwickshire was born within the large Parish of Tredington in Worcestershire particularly as I conceive in a Muket Town called Shipson matriculated as a Worcestershire man and a Member of S. Maries hall in the beginning of 1579. aged 13. and four years after took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house having had his Tutor and his Chamber as it seems in Oriel college But before he had compleated that degree by Determination he left the University and was diverted by a Country retirement Where tho as a plain man he sye at his time in Husbandry yet he never left the true tast and relish that distinguishes men of his education but rather made continual improvement of that nutriment which he had received in his younger days from the breasts of his honour'd Mother the Univ. of Oxon. His study or rather recreation was chiefly in the Greek tongue and of his knowledge therein he hath left unto the World sufficient Testimonies as his translation from Greek into Latin of 1 Certain select dialogues of Lucian together with his true history Oxon. 1634. qu. Published by his Son Thom. Hicks M. A. and Chaplain of Ch. Ch. 2 The history of the Wars of Peloponesus in 8 books written by Thuciaides the Athenian MS. in Ch. Ch. Library in Oxon. Q. 4. Arts sol 3 The history of Herodian beginning from the Reign of Emperour Marcus MS. in the Archives of the said Libr. in qu. Given thereunto with the former MS. by Tho. Hicks before-mentioned Our Translatâ—r Franc. Hicks having spent most of his time at Barston before-mentioned and at Shipson adjoyning died in a Kinsmans house at Sutton in Gloucestershire near to Brayles in Warwickshire on the 9. day of Jan. in sixteen hundred and thirty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there As for Thom. Hicks whom I have touched upon before he was an ingenious man has done something about Lucan and therefore shall be remembred elsewhere HENRY BRIGGS Briggius one of the most admired Mathematicians of his time was born in an obscure Hamlet called Warley Weed in the large Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire whos 's Genie being naturally inclined to the Mathematicks was sent from the Grammar School in the Vicinity of Warley to the University of Cambridge where in short time he became Fellow of S. Johns coll After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he was preser'd to be the first Geometry-Reader in Gresham coll at London an 1596. where continuing about 23 years in reading to and improving his auditors Sir Hen. Savile desired him to accept of his Lecture of Geometry chiefly because it was not only better as to revenues but more honouraâ—â—â— Wâ—ereupon going to Oxon 1619. and setling in 〈…〉 coll in the condition of a Fellow-Commoner was soon â—fter incorporated M. of A. and kept the Lecture to the timâ— of his death It must be now known that 〈…〉 Scotch man perhaps the same mentioned in the 〈…〉 under the year 1605. among the â—â—corporation coming out of Denmark into his own 〈◊〉 called upon 〈◊〉 Neper Baron of Marcheston near 〈◊〉 and told him among other discourses of a new 〈◊〉 in Denmark by Longomontanus as 't is said to save the tâ—â—ious multiplication and division in Astronomical calculations Neper being solicitous to know farther of him concerning this matter he could give no other account of it than that it was by proportionable numbers Which hint Neper taking he desired him at his return to call upon him again Craig after some weeks had passed did so and Neper then shew'd him a rude draugâ—â— of that hâ— called Canon mirabilis Logarithmoâ—am Which draught 〈◊〉 me alterations he printing in 1614. it came forthwith into the hands of our author Briggs and into those of Will Oughtred from whom the relation of this matter 〈◊〉 Both which consulting about the perfecting of it the former took a journey into Scotland to confer with Neper about it At length having received some satisfaction from him he perused the matter and in few years after put forth two books of Logarithms after a more commodious method The first is intitled Arithmetica Logarithmetica The other Trigonometria Britannica The former of which shews the construction of Logarithmetical Tables the latter the conjunction of the Tables of Sines Tangents and Secants and the doctrine of Triangles to the great advantage of Astronomy and Astronomical operations These two parts were published with this title Arithmetica Logarithmetica sive Logarithmorum chiliades triginta pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000 a 90. 000. ad 100,000 c. Lond. 1624. fol. Besides these he hath written Treatise concerning the North-west passage to the South Sea through the continent of Virginia c. Lond. 1622. and Commentaries on the Geometry of Pet. Ramus MS. Which after Briggs's death came into the hands of Mr. Joh. Greaves of Merton coll Successor to Dr. Bainbridge in the Astronomy Lecture and from him to his Brother Thomas and from Tho. to Mr. Theod. Haak a Member of
Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. By his Wife Anne Hamden he had a Daughter named Alice who was married to Dr. Rich. Corbet afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Norwich ROBERT HUES or Husius as he writes himself was born at Little Hereford commonly called Harford near to Leonminsher in Herefordshire who tho well grounded in Grammar learning and of good parts and therefore of desert yet at his first coming to the University he was only a poor Scholar or Servitour of Brasnose and among the pauperes Scholares is he numbred in the publick Matricula under Coll. Aenean about 1571. In that house he continued for some time a very sober and serious Student and was countenanced by one or more of the Seniors thereof but being sensible of the loss of time which he sustained there by constant attendance he translated himself to S. Maries hall and took the degree of Bac. of Arts at about 7 years standing being then noted for a good Grecian Which degree he compleating by Determination he afterwards travelled and in fine became well skill'd in Geography and Mathematicks The last of which being the faculty he excelled in made him respected by that generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland who allowed him an yearly Pension for the encouragement of his studies but whether he was ever Mathematick Professor of Gresham coll as a certain learned Gent. reports I cannot tell He hath written De Globis celest terrest Tract 2. Several times printed in Lat. and Engl. in oct The first edition of this book had this title Tractatus de Globis eorum usu accommodatus iis qui Londini editi sunt an 1593. sumptibus Gulielmi Sandersoni Civ Lond. Lond. 1593. oct It was afterwards illustrated with figures and annotations by Joh. Isaac Pontanus Professor of Philosophy at Harderwicke in Gelderlandt Amstel 1617. 1624. c. Oxon. 1663. in oct and twelv Breviarium totius Orbis Printed several times at Lond. in Lat. and Engl. in oct and tw This Mr. Hues died in the Stone-house then belonging to Joh. Smith M. of A. Son of Tho. Smith Cook of Ch. Ch. opposite almost to the Inn called the Blew-Boar in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon on the 24. year 1632 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and two aged 79 years and was buried near to the grave of Dr. Hutten within the limits of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. before-mentioned His Epitaph is printed in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. wherein you 'll find other matters relating to him which I have not here set down I find one Rob. Hughes who was an English Merchant in the Kingdom of India and City of Agemer author of a Dictionary containing the English and Persian Languages an 1616. MS. sometimes in the Lord Hattons Library now in that of Bodley but what relation there was between this and the former I know not I think none because their names differ The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that the said R. Hues the Mathematician having spent one year or two in the condition of a Tutor to Algernon Son of Hen. Earl of Northumberland in Ch. Ch. he was therefore thrust among the writers of that house against the consent of the author into Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. by the publisher thereof who endeavoured to disturb the course of that History to satisfie his partial ends He also thrust in of his own accord among the Bishops of the said House Joh. Piers Archb. of York and Miles Smith B. of Glouc. The former who had been Dean for a time had most of his education in Magd. coll and the other who had been Petty-Canon was chiefly educated in that of Brasnose ALEXANDER COOKE received his first breath in Yorkshire at or near to Beeston by Leeds and educated in Grammar learning in those parts In Michaelmas-Term an 1581. he was admitted a Member of Brasnose coll being then 17 years of age and after he had taken one degree in Arts he was chosen into a Percy-Fellowship of Vniversity coll in 1587. In the year following he took the degree of M. of A. and about that time holy Orders So that applying himself solely to the study of the sacred writ became a frequent and noted Preacher in these parts took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty in 1597. and had some little Cure bestowed upon him At length upon the decease of his Brother Robert whom I have mentioned under the year 1614. he became Vicar of Leeâ—s in his own Country He was a person most admirably well read in the controversies between the Protestants and the Papists vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen a great Calvinist yet witty and ingenious and a Satyrical Enemy in his writings against the Romanists as it evidently appears in these books following which have been much taken into the hands of ingenious men Pope Joan. A dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist manifestly proving that a Woman called Joan was Pope of Rome c. against Rob. Bellarmine Caes Baronius Flor. Raemundus c. impudently denying the same Lond. 1610. qu. Which book being in great request among Protestants beyond Sea was translated into French by J. de la Montagne Printed at Sedan 1633. in oct The abatement of Popish Brags pretending Scripture to be theirs Lond. 1625. qu. The Weather-cock of Rome's Religion with her several changes or the World turned topsie turvie by Papists Lond. 1625. qu. More work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1621. qu. Yet more work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1622. qu. Work more work and yet a little more work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1628. c. qu. 'T is the same with the two former immediately going before only some alterations in and several additions put to it especially in that edition which came out in 1630. What other things he published I know not nor anything else of him only that he was buried in Leeds Church near to the Body of his Brother Rob. Cooke 23. June in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and that he left behind him the character of A good and learned man a man abounding in charity and exemplary in his life and conversation yet hated by the R. Catholicks who lived near Leeds and in Yorkshire and indeed by all elsewhere who had read his works JAMES WHITLOCK was born in London 28. Nov. 1570. descended from those of his name living near to Olyngham in Berkshire educated in Merchant Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1588. took one degree in the Civil Law setled in the Middle Temple became summer Reader of that House 17 Jac. 1. a Knight chief Justice of Chester and at length one of the Justices of the Common Picas as in his Epitaph 't is said tho in his his last Will of the Kings Bench. He had the Latin tongue so perfect that sitting Judge of Assize at Oxon when some Foreigners persons of quality purposely came into the Court to see the manner
Act celebrated in Sept. comes to 23. Bach. of Physick James Neyland of All 's Coll. Others were admitted but are not inserted in the register Bach. of Div. Jul… Bernard Gilpyn of Queens Coll. This Person who was born of an antient and gentile Family at Kentmeire in Westmorland became a poor serving child of the said Coll. in 1533. aged 17 or thereabouts and about the time that he proceeded M. of A. he was made Fellow thereof being then esteemed a good Disputant in Logick and Philosophy and well read in the Greek and Hebrew in which tongues he was instructed by his contemporary Thomas Neale of New Coll. who was afterwards Heb. Prof. of this University About that time his eminence in learning was such that he was made choice of to be one of the first Masters to supply Ch. Ch. when first founded for a Dean Canons and Students by K. Hen. 8. But continuing there not long was at length taken thence and by the care and charge of his Mothers Uncle Dr. Cuthb Tonstall Bishop of Durham he was sent to travel and while he continued in the University of Paris he did him some service in correcting and printing one of his books as I have elsewhere told you After his return he confer'd on him the rectory of Esington with the Archdeaconry of Durham annex'd about 1556 but in whose room or place I cannot tell unless in that of one Will. Franklin Bach. of Decrees and Chancellour of Durham who occurs Archdeacon of Durham 1531. After he was setled at Esington he preached much against the vices errors and corruptions of the times to the great displeasure of some of the neighbouring Ministers who were then R. Catholicks But his desire being to part with those troublesome places as too much for one Man to keep as he pretended he was presented to the rich rectory of Houghton in the Spring in the county pal of Durham where being setled his Preachings were so frequent and in other places as well remote as near thereunto that he was commonly called The Northern Apostle His almes were also so large frequent and constant that he was usually called The common father of the poor In his Archdeacony of Durham succeeded John Ebden Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of the University of Cambridge who had it given to him by Qu. Elizabeth while the See of Durham was void 22. May 1560 a little before which time Gilpyn had a congedeslier sent to him to be elected Bishop of Carlile on the death of Owen Oglethorp but refused it Soon after he erected a Grammar School at Houghton and bestowed 460 l. to buy Lands to endow it for a Master and Usher Which with other Moneys and Lands given for that purpose by Joh. Heath of Kepier Esq the School was setled in 1572 or thereabouts To conclude this worthy Person having his life written and published by one of his Scholars I shall now say no more of him only that he died on the 4. March 1583 aged 66 and was buried in the Church at Houghton and that by his will dated 17. Oct. 1582 he left half of his goods to the poor of that place and the other half in exhibitions upon Scholars and Students in Oxon viz. Mr. Rich. Wharton Mr. Steph. Copperthwaite George Carleton afterwards B. of Chich. Ralph Ironside born in Houghton before-mention'd Father to Gilbert Bishop of Bristow an 1660 Evan Airay Hen. Airay afterwards Provost of Qu. Coll. Will. Cayrus Franc. Risley Tho. Collinson c. He hath written several things but hath nothing extant only A Sermon before the King and Court at Greenwich on the first Sunday after Epiph. an 1552 on Luke 2. from verse 41. to 48. Lond. 1581. oct there again 1630. qu. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Phys or Divinity can I find to have been admitted this year for the reason before specified An. Dom. 1550. An. 4 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicech Dr. Walt. Wryght but he giving up his office according to the Edwardin statutes in the beginning of Michaelmas term Dr. Will. Tresham of Ch. Ch. who before had often been Commissary was elected according to a certain form into his place Proct. Rog. Elyott of All 's Tho. Frynde of New Coll. Bach. of Musick Tho the publick register of this time is very imperfect as having been neglected by one who was afterwards deservedly turn'd out of his place yet it appears therein tho very obscurely that one Joh. Merbeck or Marbeck Organist of St. Georges chap. at Windsore did supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick but whether he was admitted it appears not because the admissions in all faculties are for several years omitted All therefore that I can say of him is that he was an eminent Musician of his time as well for the Theory as practical part of Musick as may be seen in a book of his composition intit The book of Common-prayer noted Lond. 1550. qu. besides divers compositions that are not extant As for other books that he wrot and published relate to Divinity and matters against the Pope among which are 1 A concordance of the Bible c. Lond. 1550. fol. c. 2 The lives of holy Saints Prophets Patriarchs c. Lond in 4o. 3 The ripping up of the Popes fardel Ibid. 1581. oct 4 Book of notes and common places with their exposition c. Ibid. 1581. qu. 5 Examples drawn out of Holy Scripture with their application Also a brief conference between the Pope and his Secretary wherein is opened his great blasphemous pride Ib. 1582. oct 6 Dialogue between youth and old age wherein is declared the Persecution of Christs Religion since the fall of Adam hitherto Lond. 1584. oct John Fox in his book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. doth speak largely of this John Merbeck if not too much in the first edition thereof wherein he made him a Martyr while he was living which hath administred a great deal of sport among the R. Cath. writers as Alan Cope Rob. Persons c. Bach. of Arts. William Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards a Cardinal and an Archbishop Will. Overton John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops in England Pet. Whyte of Oriel Pet. Morwyng of Magd. Coll. c. The admissions of Bachelaurs ad Lecturam and of those ad Determinandum being omitted by the publick Scribe this year the just number therefore is unknown Mast of Arts. The number of Masters that were admitted I cannot tell because record is defective However the number of those that stood in the Comitia held 8. Sept. is fifteen among whom are James Dugdale afterwards Master of Vniv. Coll. and Will. Norfolk of Oriel afterwards Princ. of St. Maries hall and one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester Bach. of Div. John Jewell of C. C. John Harley of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops and the first a very learned Man Paul French of All 's Coll. In 1560 he became Canon
his Native Country he wrot in his own Language The Annals of Ireland drawn down with great care and labour to his time and by him Dedicated to his Patron and Favourer of his Muse Florence Mac Mahoun This Book which doth as yet as I conceive continue in MS was in the Custody of one Flor. Mac Carty in 1626 as the Antiquary of Ireland attesteth who adds that this our Author O Fihely did write the said Annals about the latter end of the last or in the beginning of this Century which we are now upon So that I presume that he was living in Fifteen hundred and five and that he wrot as 't is probable other things but lost In this Mans time I find many noted Persons of Ireland to have studied in this University who as it seems have either been Writers Bishops or Statesmen in that Kingdom but most of their Christian Names being deficient I cannot justly particularize them or say that this was afterwards a Writer or that a Bishop c. STEPHEN HAWES or Hawys originally descended as it seems from the Hawes of Hawes in the Bushes in the County of Suffolk was instructed in all such Literature as this University could at that time afford but whether he took a Degree we have no Register to shew it Afterwards in his Travels through England Scotland and France visiting the receptacles of good Letters did much advance the Foundation of Literature that he had laid in this place so that after his return he being esteemed a compleat Gentleman a Master of several Languages especially of the French and above all for his most excellent vein in Poetry he was received into the Court of King Henry 7. who being a great encourager of Learning and a judicious understander of Men was by him made at length one of the Grooms of his Chamber and highly esteemed by him for his facetions discourse and prodigious memory which last did evidently appear in this that he could repeat by heart most of our English Poets especially Jo. Lydgate a Monk of Bury whom he made equal in some respects with Geff. Chaucer He hath transmitted to Posterity several Books in English some of which are in Verse and somein Prose as The pastime of pleasure or the History of Graund Amour and la bel Pucell containing the knowledge of the seven Sciences and the course of Man's Life in this World Lond. 1555. quart Written in English Verse and finished by the Author 21. Henry 7. Dom. 150 5 6. About which time it was first of all I suppose made publick It is adorned with Wooden Cuts to make the Reader understand the Story the better and Printed in an old English Character But such is the fate of Poetry that this Book which in the time of Henry 7. and 8. was taken into the Hands of all ingenious Men is now thought but Worthy of a Ballad-mongers Stall He hath also written 1 The Exemplar of Vertue 2 Delight of the Soul 3 Consolation of Lovers 4 The Chrystalline Temple c. one or more of which were written in Latin This Author was in great value among ingenious Men in the latter end of Henry 7. but when he died I know not as yet WILLIAM GALEON a Norfolk Man Born did in his Manly Years take upon him the Habit of the Friers of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit at Lynn Regis in his own Country Studied several Years in this University among the Brethren of that Order in their College there proceeded Doctor of Divinity at Oxon and at length was made Provincial of his Order that is the chief Governor of the said Brethren living in the Province of England he being then accounted a most eminent Person for Literature and Piety and the prime example among those of his Society for all kind of Virtue and Learning He hath written and left to Posterity Lectiones in Theologia Disputationes Variae Course of Sermons for the whole Year Preached to the People Besides other things which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to Nature at Lynn before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred and seven year 1507 22. and 23. of Hen 7. and was buried in the Church there belonging to the Friers of St. Austin Joseph Pamphilus Bishop of Segni saith that he died in 1500 Aged 90 Years but falsly for all Authors except himself say otherwise JOHN SOWLE a Carme of London was for some time a Student in the Sacred Faculty among those of his Order in Oxon took one if not both the Degrees in the said Faculty in this University in the Reign as I conceive of Henry 7. being then a very famous Preacher and not only followed by the Secular Priests but by many of the Religious Orders He was a great admirer and a Preacher up of the Doctrine of S. Paul and endeavoured to his utmost to frame his life according to it and to make others do the like and therefore much honored and valued by Dr. John Colet the learned and religious Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral He hath Written according to Baleus these things following Sermones ex D Paulo Divisiones Thematum A course of Sermons for the year Besides other matters relating to Divinity year 1508 He departed this mortal life in Fifteen hundred and eight which was the last year of King Henry 7. and was buried among the Carmes commonly called the White Friers in their Convent near Fleetstreet in the Suburb of London leaving then the Character behind him of a most Pious and Religious Father EDMUND DUDLEY Son of John Dudley Esquire Second Son of John Lord Dudley of Dudley Castle in Staffordshire became a Student in this University about 1478. went afterwards as it seems to Greys-Inn in Holborn near London where he in a short time became so noted a Proficient in the Municipal Law that King Henry 7. taking notice of him did for his singular prudence and faithfulness make choice of him to be one of his Privy Council in the first year of his Reign Dom. 1486. Dudley being then but twenty four years of age Soon after he discerning the King to be of a frugal disposition did to gain his favour the more project the taking advantage against such as had transgressed the Penal Laws by exacting from them the Forfeitures according to those Statutes In which employment he had for his assistant one Sir Richard Emson another Lawyer Son of a Sieve-maker of Tocester in Northamptonshire Both which being constituted by the said King his Judices fiscales as one is pleased to stile them Dudley being then a person that could put hateful business into good language they became so extremely hated of all people that they were forced many times to go guarded in the Streets In the 19. of Henry 7. he being Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament should have been made Sergeant at Law on the 13. of November the same year but for
taken into the Hands of all Catholicks are mostly these Expositio sive lectura accuratiss in questiones dialecticas Divi Johan Scoti in Isagogen Porphyrii Ferrar. 1499. Ven. 1512. c. fol. Commentaria Doctoris Subtilis Johan Scoti in xii lib. Metaphysicae Aristotelis Emendata Quotationibus Concordantiis atque Annotationibus decorata Venet. 1507. fol. These Comments were made to the new Translation of and the many Additions made to the said twelve Books by that most famous Disciple of Duns Scotus named Antonius Andreas a Franciscan of the Province of Aragon Epithomata in insigne formalitatum opus de mente Doctoris Subtilis c. Ven. 1514. fol. Dictionarium Sacrae Scripturae universis conoionatoribus apprimè utile necessarium Venet. 1603. fol. This Dictionary reaches but to the latter end of the Letter E. to the Word Exnitguere Enchiridion fidei Printed in 1509. Epistolae diversae ad Jo. Camersium with several other things besides his postillizing the whole Doctrine of Duns Scotus and his subtile Comments on his Vniversals as Ant. Possevinus in his Apparatus Sacer will farther tell you He gave way to fate at Galloway before he could reach to Tuam as it is already told you to the great reluctancy of all learned Men especially those of his own Country and of Padöua on the eighth of the Cal. of June in Fifteen hundred and thirteen year 1513 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called the Grey Friers at Galloway In the See of Tuam succeeded one Thomas O-Mullaly commonly called Laly which Sirname occurring often in our Registers and Records there is no doubt but that he had received some knowledge of good Letters among us HENRY BRADSHAW was born in the antient Town of West-Chester commonly called the City of Chester and being much addicted to Religion and Learning when a Youth was received among the Benedictine Monks of S. Werbergs Monastery in the said City Thence at riper years he was sent to Gloucester College in the Suburb of Oxon where after he had passed his course in Theology among the Novices of his Order he returned to his Cell at S. Werberg and in his elder years wrote De antiquitate magnificentia Urbis Cestriae Chronicon c. and translated from Latin into English a Book which he thus entituled The life of the glorious Virgin S. Werberg Also many Miracles that God hath shewed for her Lond. 1521. qu. He died in Fifteen hundred and thirteen 5. Henry 8 and was buried in his Monastery year 1513 leaving then behind him other matters to posterity but the subject of which they Treat I know not JOHN HARLEY of the Order of the Preaching or Dominican commonly called Black Friers did also pass his course in the supream Faculty among those of his Order in the College pertaining to them sometimes situated and being in the South Suburb of Oxon where making great proficiency in his Profession was at length honored with the Degree of Doctor of Divinity being then accounted one of the prime Theologists of his Order not only for Learning but for conspicuous Vertue sanctimony of Life and acuteness in all Subtilities and Scholastical Disputations He hath written according to Anton. Senensis a Brother of the said Order Bina Commentaria super 4. libros Sententiarum Tract de Praedestinatione Dei Quodlibeta varia The time when he left this vain and transitory life my Author Anton. Senen tells me not only that his name sounded high and was in great renown for his erudition and most refined sanctity of life in Fifteen hundred and fifteen which was the seventh year of King Henry 8. of England THOMAS FICH was an Irish Man born and a Student for some time in Oxon as certain imperfect Notes shew but what Degree he took I find not Afterwards upon his return into his Country being then if not some years before a Canon Regular he became Subprior of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin and in his elder years wrote De rebus Ecclesiae Cath. SS Trinit Dublin lib. 1. It is in MS. and was sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware who saith it was usually called The White Book and takes it to be the same with the Obital Book of that Church for in his time it was written as by the Character it appears being at this day reserved as a great rarity in the Library of Trinity College near Dublin This person Tho. Fich who is supposed to have written other things gave way to fare on the sixteenth of the Cal. of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and seventeen year 1517 which was the ninth year of King Henry 8. and was buried in the aforesaid Cathedral Church GEORGE COGLEY another Irish Man but later in time than the former did spend some time in the study of the Civil Law among the Oxonians and after his return to his own Country became a Publick Notary and Registrary to the Bishops Court at Meath where having opportunity time and place to peruse the Registers of that Church wrote and commended to Posterity Catalogus Episcoporum Midensium MS. Sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware Knight This Catalogue commences with Simon Rochfort or de Rupe forti who was the first of English Men that obtained the Bishoprick of Meath in 1194. or thereabouts and reaches down to Hugh Ynge who became Bishop in 1511. A Copy of this Cataloge if not the Original was sometimes in the hands of the famous Dr. Usher Bishop of the said place who communicated it to Sir James Ware when he was composing his two Books De Script Hibern JOHN COLET the eldest Son of Sir Henry Colet sometimes twice Lord Mayor of London by Christiana his Chast and faithful Wife Son of Robert Colet of Wendover in Buckinghamshire was born in London in the Parish of S. Antholin as it seems in the year 1466. was Educated in Grammaticals partly in London or Westminster and being fitted for greater Learning was sent to the Habitation of the Muses the University of Oxon about 1483. at which time one or more of his Sirname were of S. Mary Magdalen College where after he had spent seven years in Logicals and Philosophicals was Licensed to proceed in Arts being about that time so exquisitely Learned that all Tullies Works were as familiar to him as his Epistles He was also no stranger to Plato and Plotinus whom he not only read but conferred and paralleled perusing the one as a Commentary on the other And as for the Mathematicks there was scarce any part thereof wherein he was not seen above his years Having thus obtained a most admirable competency in Learning at home he Travelled into Foreign Countries to improve it by seeing the variety of Learning As first into France where at Paris he advanced himself much in Divinity and in Italy he prosecuted his Studies therein so effectually that there were none of his
Erasmum alios Grammatica Vulgaria Puerorum Epigrammata with other things which are mentioned by Leland and Bale While Dr. Colet was Dean of St. Pauls our Author Grocyn did read in his open Lecture in that Cathedral the Book of Dionysius Areopagita commonly called Hierarchia Ecclesiastica for the reading of the Holy Scripture in the said Cathedral was not in use and in the very first entry of his Preface cried out with great vehemency against them whosoever they were which either denied or stood in doubt of the Authority of that Book in the number of whom he noted Laur Valla and divers other of like judgment But afterwards the said Grocyn when he had continued a few Weeks in his reading thereof and had farther considered of the matter he utterly alter'd and recanted his former sentence protesting openly that the said Book in his judgment was never written by that Author whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles to be called Dionysius Areopagita He the said Grocyn died at Maidstone beforementioned in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two year 1522 aged 80 or more Whereupon his Body was Buried at the Stall-end in the high Choir of the Coll. of Allhallows before-mentioned Thomas Lynacre the Famous Physician was his Executor to whom he left considerable Legacies and William Lilye the Grammarian who was his God-son had a little Memorial bequeathed to him in his last Will which I have seen To and with this Grocyn and other eminent Scholars of England who were of his time was well known and familiar Andreas Ammonius a Clerk of Luca in Italy Son of Elizab. de Harena or Arena a grave Matron of that place which Andrew who was an Apostolick Prothonotary Collector for the Pope in England Latin Secretary to King Henry 8. and a Learned Man did as I have just reason to conceive spend some time in Oxon for the sake of Study while Grocyn or at least Erasmus were conversant there But being not certain of the matter I shall only say that Ammonius dying in Septemb. 1517. 9. Henry 8. being then Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury which Dignity was conferr'd upon him on the Death of Gendesalvus Ferdinandus 17 Jul. 1513. was Buried in the King's Chappel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stephen situate and being within the Palace of Westminster leaving then a considerable part of his Wealth to his Executor Mr. Peter de Vannes an Italian his Sisters Son whom I shall mention elsewhere WILLIAM LILYE was born at Odyham in Hampshire Elected one of the Demies or Semi-commoners of St. Mary Magd. Coll. in 1486. Aged 18 Years took as it seems one Degree in Arts and then giving a farewel to the University went for Religion sake to Jerusalem where after he had paid his Vows put in at his return at the Isle of Rhodes and making some stay there he learned the Latin and Greek Tongues exactly which matter hath seemed strange to some forasmuch as Rhodes was not Rhodes in that Age except some great Critick was casually there Thence he went to Rome where he heard Joh. Sulpitius and Pomponius Sabinus great Masters of Latin in those days Read and Teach After his return he settled in London and taught Grammar Poetry and Rhetorick with good success At length Dr. John Colet Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral made him the First Master of the School which he had Founded in the Yard belonging to the said Cathedral in the Year 1512. where teaching about Ten Years many issued thence who were afterwards serviceable in the Church and State He hath written many things in English and Latin and in Verse and Prose among which are these An Introduction to the Eight Parts of Speech This is generally said to be written by Lilye yet some there are that stick not to tell us that the said Introduction was written by Dr. Colet or Dav. Tolley The Construction of the Eight Parts of Speech This also goes under the Name of Lilye Monita Paedagogica seu Carmen de moribus ad suos discipulos The beginning of which is Qui mihi discipulus c. Brevissima Institutio seu ratio Grammatices cognoscendae ad omnium puerorum utilitatem praescripta c. This contains the four Parts of Grammar viz. 1 Orthographia 2 Etymologia 3 Syntaxis and fourthly Prosodia In which Book or Books very many times Printed that part in Verse called Propria quae Maribus c. and another called As in praesenti c. were afterwards published by John Ritwise Lilye's Successor in Colet's School with an Interpretation of the words in them about the Year 1530. 22. Hen. 8. Omnium nominum in regulis contentorum tum Heteroclitorum ac Verborum interpretatio aliqua All these beforementioned were published at London 1513 and afterwards in 1520 and had additions and annotations put to them by Ritwise before mentioned Tho. Robertson c. Tho the rules in them were excellent in that Age yet they have been much meliorated and more compendiously methodized by very many since even to these our days In aenigmatica Antibossicon Primum Secundum Tertium ad Guliel Hormannum Lond. 1521. qu. The said three Antibossicons are witrily written in an elegant Stile and neat Verse not only against the said Horman but also against Rob. Whittington a Laureat Grammarian Rhetorician The beginning of them is Non Hormanne latet c. In which Antibossicons the said Whittingâ—on had under the feigned name of Bossus much provoked Lilye with scoffs and biting Verses Poemata varia Printed with the said Antibossicons De laudibus Deiparae Virginis Apologia ad John Skeltonum Rob. Whittington Besides these he hath written other things as Baleus and Pitseus will tell you and hath made several translations from Greek into Latin and from Italian into English At length this Learned Author being infected with the Plauge died of it to the great grief of Learned Men on the fifth of the Cal. of Mar. in Fifteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the North-yard belonging to the Cath. Church of St. Paul leaving then behind him a Son named George begotten on the body of his Wife Agnes whom I shall hereafter mention and Peter a Dignitarie as it seems in the Church of Canterbury Father of another Peter Lilye D. D. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Brother of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near London Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and of the Church of Sarum Archdeacon of Taunton and a Writer of certain Books as 1 Conciones duae una inscripta Pax Liliana in Act. 15 39. Altera Columba Ecclesiae in John 19. 9. 10. Lond. 1619. qu. published by his Widow Dorothy 2 Two Sermons 1. A preparative Lilie to cure Souls on Mark 16. 6. and the other How to seek and find Christ on Luke 24. 5. Both Printed at Lond. in 1619. qu. published by
his said Widow Dorothy whose Daughter Mary hath Verses before in commendation of them This Dr. Peter Lilye gave way to fate in the latter end of 1614 12. Jac. 1. and was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy beforementioned Will. Lilye the Grammarian had a Daughter named Dionysia who was married to his Usher John Ritwise or Rightwyse afterwards Master of St. Paul's School on the Death of his Father-in Law and a most eminent Grammarian in his Generation This Person by the way I must tell you was born at Sawl in Norfolk educated in Eaton School near Windsor elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1507. made the Tragedy of Dido out of Virgil and acted the same with the Scholars of his School before Cardinal Wolsey with great applause One Rich. Jones Succeeded him in the Government of St. Paul's School 1532. 24. Hen. 8. in which Year Ritwise perhaps died Afterwards his Widow Dionysia took to her second Husband James Jacob who was one of the Masters of the said School by whom he had a Son called Polydore Jacob. In the next Centery after the Death of our Famous Will. Lilye appeared as a Comet to the Vulgar from Leicestershire one of both his Names a great pretender to Astrology and Physick and in â—uch considering his Education which was without the help of an Academy he was eminent He began to write much about the time when the grand Rebellion commenc'd wrot in favour of the Long Parliament and their proceedings and many notorious matters against the Royal Family which being highly resented by the generous Loyalist he was aimed at upon His Majesties Restauration in 1660. to be brought to condign punishment But upon the Intercession of George Wharton to whom Lilye had been civil in the times of Usurpation and others he escaped and continued in writing his Ephemerides to the time of his Death This Person who pretended much to Prophecy of which he hath published several Pamphlets especially in his said Ephemerides and had exercised the trade of Conjuration among ignorant People died at Walton upon Thames in Surrey where he had purchased a fair Estate with the Moneys he had got by imposing on the Vulgar with his Juggles on the 9th day of June an 1681. Aged near 80 Years and was buried in the middle of the Church there towards the North Wall Soon after was a black Marble Stone with an Inscription thereon laid over his Grave by his Friend Elias Ashmole Esq A little before his Death he did adopt for his Son by the Name of Merlin Junior one Will. Coley a Taylor by Trade and a Native of Magd. Parish in the North Suburb of Oxon and at the same time gave him the Impression of his Ephemeris after it had been Printed for 36 Years which Coley continues to this day The Writings of this Lilly being too many to be here inserted I shall only give you the canting and amusing Titles of some as 1 Englands Prophetical Merlin 2 English Merlin revived c. 3 Storry Messenger or an interpretation of the strange Apparition of three Suns 4 A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophecies c. 5 Astrological Prediction of the occurrences in England 6 The Worlds Catastrophy 7 Monarchy and no Monarchy c. 8 Annus tenebrosus or the dark Year c. 9 Christian Astrology c. JOHN STANBRIDGE another noted Grammarian of his time was born at Heyford in Northamptonshire educated in Trivials in Whykehams School near Winchester admitted after two Years of probation true and perpetual Fellow of New College in the Year 1481 left it Five Years after and being naturally delighted in the faculty of Grammar tho then Bac. of Arts he was made first Usher of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. for so he occurs in the Year 1488. and after the Death of Job Anwykyll chief Master thereof in which employment he continued if I mistake not to the time of his Death and became so happy in the practice of his profession that many Persons who proved afterwards eminent acknowledged to have received instruction from him Among such Rob. Whittington was one by whose endeavours as also those of Stanbridge Will. Horman and Will. Lilye all Oxford Students the Latin tongue was much refin'd and amended This Jo. Stanbridge was a right worthy Lover of his faculty and an indefatigable Man in teaching and writing as it may appear by those things that he hath published very grateful to the Muses and publick concerns The last of which he consulted more than his own private interest and when in his old Age he should have withdrawn himself from his profession which is esteem'd by the generality a drudgery and have lived upon what he had gotten in his younger Years he refused it lived poor and bare to his last yet with a juvenile and cheerful Spirit He hath written Embryon relimatum sive Vocabularium Metricum This I have seen Printed in an old English Character about 1522. in qu. In the title of which is the Authors Picture Printed from a Wooden Cut sitting in a Chair with his Gown on and a Hood on his Shoulders but no Cap on his Head only a close one like to a Curlot This Book was view'd and corrected in Qu. Elizabeth's time by Thomas Newton of Cheshire who hath an Encomium upon it Afterwards enlarged and made to run in compleat Verse by that noted Grammarian John Brinsley sometimes a Schoolmaster and Minister in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk an 1636. I mean the same Brinsley who married the Sister of Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Norwich and wrot and published several Books of Divinity and Grammar besides translations Stanbridge also wrot Parvulorum Institutiones De ordine constructionum Vulgaria With other things which I have not yet seen He lived beyond the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two but when he died or where he was buried unless in Magd. Coll. Chap. or Yard belonging thereunto I know not One Thomas Stanbridge his Kinsman I think took the Degree of Master of Arts in this University an 1518. being then a noted Schoolmaster of Benbury in Oxfordshire who dying 1522 left several Books to the Coll. of which he had been Fellow which if I mistake not was Magd. College NICHOLAS VAUX Son of Sir Will. Vaux of Harwedon in Northamptonshire by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Gregory Penystone of Curtesels in Piemont a Province of Italy was born in that County Northamptonshire and in his juvenile Years was sent to Oxon where by reading Humane and Romantick rather than Philosophical Authors advanced his Genie very much in Poetry and History In his riper Years he followed the Camp did King Hen. 7. noted service in the Battel of Stoke near Newark in the second Year of his Reign and thereupon he received the Honor of Knighthood In the 17th Year of that Kings Reign he appeared like a Star at the Marriage of Prince Arthur for the Gown of Purple Velvet which he
of the like opinion were many of his time yet the generality said that his witty discourses were biting his laughter opprobrious and scornful and his jokes commonly sharp and reflecting He hath written besides translations 50 several things upon various Subjects as well in Prose as Verse among which are these A Comedy of Virtue A Comedy of good Order Meditation on St. Anne On the Virgin of Kent Sonners on Dame Anne Elynor Rummin or Elynour of Rummyng the famous Ale-Wife of England This was several times Printed and one Impression which was the last I think was made at London 1624. in 2 Sheets and an half in 4to In the Title Page is the Picture of an old ill-favour'd Woman holding in her hand a black Pot of Ale and underneath her these Verses are written When Skelton wore the Lawrel Crown My Ale put all the Ale-Wives down This Book is the same I conceive which some Authors call The tunning of Elynor Rumpkin He hath also written The Peregrination of humane Life Solitary Sonnets The art of Dying well The art of Speaking eloquently Manners and fashions of the Court. Reasons why he goeth not to the Court. Invective against Will Lilye the Grammarian This being written in Verse and very carping was returned in its kind by the Grammarian Epitaphs on several Kings Princes and Nobles Two or more of which you may see in a Book intit Reges Reginae Nobiles alii in Eccl. collegiata B. Petri Westmonast sepulti usque ad an 1600. published by Will. Camden Lond. 1600. qu. See more in Will. Baldewyn among these Writers under the Year 1564. I have seen another Book of Skelton bearing this title Here after followeth a little Boke called Colyn-Clout compiled by Master Skelton Poet Laureate Printed in an old Engl. Char. at London in 8vo without date by Abraham Veale much about the time as I conceive of the Authors death The beginning of it is What can it avayle To drive forth a snayle Or to make a Sayle c. Poetical Fancies and Satyrs Lond. 1512. oct Verses on the creation of Arthur Pr. of Wales and other things which are slightly and unsatisfactorily set down by Baleus and his follower Pitseus At length our Poet dying in his Sanctuary was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Margaret within the City of Westminster in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine year 1529 21. Hen. 8. Over his Grave was this Inscription soon after put Johannes Skeltonus Vates pierius hic situs est Animam egit ejicit XXI Junii an Dom. MDXXIX Near to his Body was afterwards buried an old Court-Poet called Tho. Churchyard and not in the Church Porch as certain old Rhimes tell you beginning thus Come Alecto and lend me thy torch To find a Church-yard in a Church-porch I find another Joh. Skelton who lived in the time of King Hen. 4 but he was a D. of D. and a Dominican as I have elsewhere told you and therefore I conceive it the reason why Baleus stileth this Poet Dr. of Divinity which no other Author beside himself doth Another Job Skelton I find who was confirmed Abbat of Whitby in Yorkshire upon the Death of Tho. Bolton by the Archb. of York 6. Nov. 1413. THOMAS SPENSER Son of Leonard Spenser of the City of Norwich having from his Youth been much addicted to learning and piety especially the last became afterwards a Carthusian in the Monastery of that Order at Henton in Somersetshire whence for a time he receeded to Oxon as several of his Order did to improve himself or to pass a course in Theology After his return he obtained so much leisure from his divine exercise as to write several matters relating to his faculty among which were Comment in Epist D. Pauli ad Galatas Trialogue between Tho. Bilney Hugh Latimer and W. Repps Which Book was written partly to shew the great complaints of Bilney and Latimer two Protestants had against the said Repps a Roman Catholick the same Person I presume who became Bishop of Norwich in 1536. As for our Author Spenser he gave up the ghost after he had spent most of his time in the severities belonging to his Order year 1529 in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried in his Monastery of Henton before-mention'd leaving behind him a most rare example of Piety ROBERT WHITYNTON or Whittington was born in the City of Lichfield educated partly in Grammaticals under John Stanbridge in the School joining to the common gate of Magd. Coll. and afterwards made a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals but in what Coll. or Hall it appears not However his delight being much in the teaching of Youth he became so excellent in that way that it was thought especially by those that favour'd him that he surpassed W. Lilye In the beginning of the Year 1513. 5. Hen. 8. he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents under the name and title of Rob. Whytingdon a secular Chaplain and a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick that whereas he had spent 14 Years in the study of the said Art and 12 Years in the informing of Boys it might be sufficient for him that he might be laureated This supplicat being granted he was after he had composed 100 Verses which were stuck up in publick places especially on the door or doors of St. Maries Church very solemnly crowned or his temples adornd with a wreath of Lawrel that is doctorated in the Arts of Grammar and Rhetorick 4 July the same Year At the same time also he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the degree of Bach. of Arts which was then esteemed equal with the degree of Doctor of Grammar or Rhetorick From that time he always wrot himself in several of his works Protovates Angliae which was much stomach'd by Will. Horman and W. Lilye and scorn'd by others of his profession who knew him to be conceited and to set an high value upon himself more than he should have done He was then notwithstanding esteemed by many for his great skill he had in the Greek and Latin tongues for his lepid and jocular discourse also but much blamed by Scholars for the biting and sharp reflections used in it and in his Books against several noted Persons of his Age. His writings were many of which some were against W. Lilye Rob. Aldridge and Will. Horman who esteemed him a Man of great vanities a Catalogue of some of which follow De difficultate justitiae servandae in reipublicae administratione MS. in 4to written in verse to and in praise of Cardinal Tho. Wolsey The beginning of which is Quae res in terris c. Before it is an Epigram and an Epistle in Prose written on and to the said Cardinal by our Author Whitynton De quatuor virtutibus Cardineis MS. written to the said Cardinal in prose The beginning is Cum tuas multifarias virtutes
c. These two bound together are in Bodlies Library Vulgaria de institutione Grammaticulorum opusculum libello suo de concinnitate Grammatices accommodatum in quatuor partes digestum Printed at Lond. by Wynand de Worde 1524 in Lat. and Engl. having been printed several times before 'T is the same if I mistake not with his Grammar printed at Lond. 1500. qu. Secunda pars Grammatices de syllaba ejus quantitate Lond. 1516 qu. With which is bound up this following Whittintoni editio cum interpretamento Francisci Nigri Diomedes de accentu in pedestri oratione potius quam soluta observando Printed there the same Year De nominum appellativorum Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroinarum locorumque synonimis Lond. 1514 qu. De Epithetis Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroin clar virorum Animalium De variandi formulis tam pedestri quam soluto sermone Experientiae de virtutis immortalitate De veterum Romanorum Magistratibus These four last were printed with his De nominum appellativorum c. De octo partibus orationis Lond. 1513. 23. c. qu. De nominum generibus Lond. 1521. 24 c. qu. De preteritis supinis Lond. 1524. qu. De nominum declinatione Lond. 1522. qu. De Heteroclitis Lond. 1524. qu. Syntaxis Lond. 1524. qu. Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum Lond. 1521. qu. Responsiva contra Gul. Hormanni invectivas literas Lond. 1521. qu. in long and short verses with other things which may be seen in Baleus who tells us that he was in great renown for his learning in Fifteen hundred and thirty 22. Hen. 8. but when he died or where he was buried I cannot yet find See more of him in W. Lilye and Will. Horman ROBERT SHIRWODE received his first breath in the City of Coventry whence being translated to the University of Oxon made a considerable progress in Logicals but more by far in the Hebrew and Greek Languages Thence in his mature Years he went to Lovaine in Brabant where about the Year 1519. he succeeded Rob. Wakfeld an English Man in the reading the Hebrew Lecture to the Academians of that place But he reading there only for a Month went to other Universities and had a Book of his composition published bearing this title Liber Hebraeorum Concionatoris seu Ecclesiasticen nuper ad veritatem Hebraicam recognitus cum nonnullis annotationibus Chaldaicis quorundam Rabbinorum sententiis textus obscuros aliquos litteraliter explanantibus Antw. 1523. qu. Dedicated to one Joh. Webe whom he calls Monachorum decus Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictins at Coventry In the title of which Booke he is not stiled Doctor and therefore I presume he had that degree conferr'd on him after that time but in what University I cannot yet tell Job Baleus and his follower Pitseus do stile him Doctor Oxoniensis but the truth is in all my researches I cannot find that he took that degree there unless under another name He the said Dr. Shirewood hath also various Sermons extant as those Authors report who also tell us that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and thirty but when he died or where he was buried I am altogether as yet ignorant JOHN SKUISH a Cornish Man born was conversant for a time among the Oxonian Muses either in Exeter Coll. or in Hart Hall but whether he took a degree it appears not However by the help of an happy Genie accompanied with industry prudence and dexterity he obtained a Name among Men and was held in great esteem by several of the Nobility for his proficiency in various sorts of Learning At length being received into the Family of the great Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was by him entrusted with many matters of consequence All which he performing with singular fidelity was made one of his Cabinet Council and by him promoted to places of trust At leisure times he improved his natural Genie by the reading of Histories as well Ancient as Modern which at length being made easie to him by the help of a good memory composed several little Books as Chronicorum Epitome in one Book De bello Trojano lib. 1. and as 't is probable other things in the time of Hen. 8 and before and after the said Cardinal's fall The time when he surrendred up his last breath is yet unknown as also the place of his Sepulâ—ure SIMON FISH a zealous Man for the Reformation of abuses in the Church was born in Kent and after he had been instructed in Academical Learning he retired to Greys Inn in Holbourn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law About which time one Mr. Roo or Roe having composed a Play wherein one part deeply reflected on Cardinal Wolsey he undertook when divers refused to act it For which being soon after forced to leave the Nation he found out Will. Tyndale in Germany with whom for a time he sorted himself In 1527 or thereabouts he made a little Book entit The supplication of Beggars The beginning of which is Most lamentably complaineth their woful misery c. It containeth a great deal of bitter stuff against Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Fryers c. and indeed against the generality of the Clergy In 1528 a Copy of it was sent to the Lady Anne Bulleyne which after perusal she gave it to the King who did not dislike it and soon after were divers Copies scattered in London streets which was complained of by the Cardinal to the said King Afterwards the Cardinal being out of favor the Author Fish was sent for home and graciously countenanced by the King for what he had done About which time he translated from Dutch into English The summ of the Scriptures which was also published and well approved At length being overtaken by the Pest year 1531 died of it in Fifteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Church of St. Dunstan in the West Afterwards James Baynham Son of Sir Alex. Baynham of Glocestershire Knight Married his Widow which James being a zealous Protestant suffer'd death soon after in the Flames as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church written by Jo. Fox JOHN BATMANSON a Person most noted while living for his great Piety and Learning did after he had been instructed in Sophistry enter into the most holy Order of the Carthusians abiding in the House commonly called the Charter-house near to London In his elder Years he became the Head or Prior of that House and about that time or rather before was conversant in the Theological faculty with us but whether he took a degree therein tho supplicate he did to oppose in Divinity it appears not This Person being intimate with Dr. Edw. Lee afterwards Archbish of York did at his intreaty write Animadversiones in annotat Erasmi in Nov. Testam Which animadversions he retracted in another piece Tract contra a Doctrinam M. Lutheri This also he retracted in
2 Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man 3 Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life 4 The gathered Councils of Isidore Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo He hath also written Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium Nisenum Paynellum Written from C. C. C. in Oxon as by their dates it appears Those to Edw. Lee Archb. of York were written in behalf of Erasmus between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings and are printed in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia Basil 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus In Ciceronis philippicas Sermones ad Clerum Preached mostly at Calais See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London which Church was translated afterwards to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll. Over his Grave tho there be no memory of him by Inscription yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia Trophaea c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow buried in 1545. JOHN BOURCHIER Lord Berners Son of Humph. Bourchier eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight Lord Berners of Hertfordshire the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Glocester the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4 in whose Reign and before were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein as 't is probable this our Author was instructed also After he had left the University he travelled into divers Countries and returned a Master of several Languages and a compleat Gentleman But that which made him first known to the World was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith about 1495 whereby he greatly gained the favor of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made Chancellor of the Kings Exchecquer for life and about that time attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches adjoyning in France spent most of his time there and wrot Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais Comedie called Ite in vineam meam Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers He also translated into English 1 The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight 2 The famous exploits of Hugh of Bordeaux 3 The castle of Love a Romance And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippa These Chronicles have been more than once if I mistake not printed in English in an English Letter in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two aged 63 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there where was if not still a comely Mon. over his Grave JOHN FRYTH Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there some say at Westram in the said County and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College and soon after viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion Fryth made a publick profession of it Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College At length being freed thence in 1528 or thereabouts he went beyond the Seas where improving himself much in his religious opinions returned into England about two Years after leaving his Wife behind But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions he wandred to and fro and in fine was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks and endured misery for want of relief At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse procured his releasment refreshed his hungry stomack and gave him money Afterwards he went to London where endeavouring to gain Proselytes he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Pauls Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain they condemned him to be burnt So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs was committed to Newgate where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt His works are Treatise of Purgatory Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More Answer to Sir Tho. More 's Dialogue concerning Heresies Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester The Subsidie or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal His judgment upon Will Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament an 1531. Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospell Written from his Prison in the Tower 1532. A Mirror or Glass to know thy self Written in the Tower 1532. Mirror or Looking-glass wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptisme Written 1533. An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ in answer to Sir Thom. More 's letter which he wrot against the first little treatise of Fryth made concerning the Sacrament c. an 1533. Lond. 1548. oct Articles wherefore he dyed Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises were reprinted at London in fol. an 1573. He also translated into English Patricks places written by Patr. Hamilton At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4.
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 Foundâ—ess 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
of the posterity and next in blood to our Author Sir Tho. More The said Utopia also was published in Italian at Venice 1548. Epigrammata Bas 1518. 1563. oct Lond. 1638 c. Progimnasmata Bas 1563. Responsio ad convitia Martint Lutheri written in the Year 1523. This I take to be the same with Vindicatio Henrici 8. Regis Angliae Galliae à calumniis Lutheri Lond. 1523. qu. published under the name of Gul. Rosseus Quod pro fide mors fugienda non est Written in the Tower of London 1534. Precationes ex Psalmis Collected there the same Year Imploratio divini auxilii contra tentationem cum insultatione contra Demones ex spe fiducia in Deum Lugd. 1572. He also translated from Greek into Lat. Dialogi Luciani with other matters of that Author Bas 1563. All which except Precationes ex psalmis beforemention'd together with his History of K. Rich. 3. and his Expositio passionis Domini were printed at Lovaine 1566. Epistolae Bas Lond. 1642. Epistola ad Acad. Oxon an 1519. Ox. 1633. qu. See in Tho. James under the Year 1638. History of the pitiful life and unfortunate death of Edward 5. and the then Duke of York his Brother Lond. 1651. oct This last being in English and published the last of all his Works I do therefore put it here At length this our worthy Author being brought to his trial in Westminster-hall was there for Treason for denying the King's Supremacy condemned to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd But that Sentence being mitigated by the K. he only lost his Head on Tower-hill 6. July in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Soon after his Body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Tower called St. Peter ad Vincula by the care of his Daughter Margaret to which place as 't is said she afterwards removed the Body of John Fisher B. of Rochester who being beheaded for the same matter on 22. June going before was buried in the Church-yard of Allhallows Barkin But More 's Body continuing not long in that Chappel was by the said Margaret removed to Chelsey Church near London and there deposited on the South side of the Choire or Chancel Over it is a large Epitaph made by himself after he had given up his Chancellorship which is printed in several Books and by several Authors As for his head it was set upon a pole on London-bridge where abiding about 14 days was then privily bought by the said Margaret and by her for a time carefully preserved in a leaden Box but afterwards with great devotion 't was put into a Vault the burying place of the Ropers under a Chappel joyning to St. Dunstans Church in Canterbury where it doth yet remain standing in the said Box on the Coffin of Margaret his Daughter buried there Much more as 't is probable I could say of his Death and Burial could I see a Book intit Expositio fidelis de morte Thomae Mori Printed in 8 vo in the Year 1536. but the Book is very scarce and I could never see no more of it than the bare title One More of Hertfordshire descended from him had one of his Chaps and was by his among other rarities carefully preserved till the Rebellion broke out in 1642. Jasper and Ellis Heywood Jesuits Sons of Joh. Heywood the noted Poet in the time of Hen. 8 had one of the teeth of the said Sir Tho. More but they being loth to part with their right to each other the tooth fell asunder and divided of it self The said Sir Thomas had issue by his first Wife Jane the Daughter of John Cowlt of Cowlts Hall in Essex three Daughters and one Son named John who being little better than an Ideot as 't is said took to Wife in his Fathers life time Anne Daughter and sole Heir of Edward Cressacre of Baronburgh in Yorkshire by whom he had issue 1 Thomas right Heir of his Father and Grandfather who had 13 Children of which Five were Sons The four eldest lived in voluntary contempt and loathed the World before the World fawned on them The first was Thomas born anew and baptized on that day of the Year 6. July on which Sir Thomas suffered death This Thomas having the Estate come to him married and had several Children but being a most zealous Catholick and constantly affected to the French Nation and Crown did at his own cost and charge with unwearied industry assemble all the English Persons of note that were then in and about Rome to supplicate his Holiness for a dispatch of a contract between the K. of England and Henrietta Maria of France an 1624-25 which being done the said Thomas who was the Mouth or Speaker for the said English Persons died XI April according to the accompt followed at Rome an 1625. aged 59. and was buried in the middle almost of the Church of St. Lewis in Rome leaving then behind him the life of his Gr. Grandfather Sir Tho. More 's incomparably well written published at London I think in 4to about 1627 and dedicated to Henrietta Maria beforementioned Over the said Tho. Mores Grave was soon after laid a monumental Stone at the charge of the English Clergy at Rome and an Epitaph engraven thereon a Copy of which was sent to me by I know not whom as several things of that nature are from other places running thus D. O. M. S. Thomae Moro dioc Ebor. Anglo magni illius Thomae Mori Angliae Cancellarii Martyris pronepoti atque haeredi viro probitate pietate insigni qui raro admodum apud Britannos exemplo in fratrem natu minorem amplum transcripsit patrimonium presbyter Romae factus inde fuisse sedis Apostolicae in patriam profectus plusculos annos strenuam fidei propagandae navavit operam postea cleri Anglicani negotia septem annos Romae 5 in Hispaniâ P. P. Paulo 5to Gregorio 15 summa cum integritate industria suisque sumptibus procuravit Tandem de subrogando Anglis Episcopo ad Urbanum 8 missus negotio feliciter confecto laborum mercedem recepturus ex hac vita migravit XI Apr. An. 1625. aet suae 59. Clerus Anglicanus moestus P. The second Son of the said Joh. More Son of Sir Thomas was Augustine who dyed unmarried The third was Thomas the second or Thomas junior born at Chelsey 8. Aug. 23. Hen. 8. who when he came to mans Estate degenerated from the Catholick Religion and lived and died a professed Minister leaving Issue several Children of whom the eldest Cressacre More who was born at Baronburgh in Yorkshire 3. July 1572. lived afterwards in no commendable fashion The fourth was Edward born after Sir Thomas his death and having not his blessing as Thomas the first and Augustin in bad degenerated from the Catholick Religion The fifth was Bartholomew who died young of the Plague in London The Pictures of most of these Mores mention'd here
Frampton in Lincolnshire in which Town this our Author Joh. Claymond received his first breath From thence when he was a Boy he was sent to Oxon where after he had compleated his Grammar learning in the School near to Magd. Coll. great Gate being then within and not without the said Gate he was made Demie first and in 1488 perpetual Fellow of that College About that time entring into holy Orders and becoming famous for his great learning piety and gravity was constituted President of the said College about 1504 took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity three Years after and within three more after that time supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not About that time several Dignities and Ecclesiastical Benefices were bestowed on him among which were the Rectory of West-mongton in Somersetshire which he obtained by the resignation of the Honourable Rich. Grey from Richard the Abbat and the Convent of Glastenbury in the Month of July 1506. the Prebendship of Whitchurch in the Cathedral Church of Wells to which belongs the Church of Beningar in Somersetshire and the vicaridge of the Collegiate Church of Norton in the Dioc. of Durham which he resign'd in 1518 reserving to himself any yearly pension from it of 20 Marks to be paid by the Abbat and Convent of Selby of the Order of St. Bennet in Yorkshire At length upon the desire of Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester he left his Presidentship of Magd. Coll. and was by him made President of that of C. C. when founded by him an 1516. Which place being of less value than the former the said Bishop did in recompence give him the rich Rectory of Clyve called by some Bishops Clyve in Glocestershire which he kept to his dying day He was a Person of great gravity of most exact example in his life and conversation very charitable and devout and had nothing wanting in him to compleat a Theologist And as he was esteemed a learned Divine by some so a better Philosopher by others as it appears by his Book intit Notae observationes in Plinii naturalem historiam In 4. Volumes in MS. in C. C. Coll. Library Of which Book and its Author hear what Mich. Neander saith de quo nobis retulit aliquando Operinus noster quòd in totum Plinii opus eruditos commentarios scripserit ad se excudendos jam pridem miserit cur autem non fuerint excusi ab Operino puto sumptus ad tantum optis imprimendum defuisse c. Dr. Jo. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge doth speak something to the same purpose who stiles them Scholia eruditiss viri Johan Claymondi in omnes Caii Plinii Naturalis Historiae libros c. but adds that the Scholia on the two first Books were lost after his death He Claymond also wrot In MS. and not as I conceive printed Comment in Aulii Gellii Noctes Atticas Com. in Plautum Epistolae ad Simon Grinaeum A Treatise of repentance This is in MS. written with his own hand in 4 sheets in fol. which I have in my Library of MSS. The beginning of it is It is the property and condition of every wise Man c. At length arriving to a good old Age paid his last debt to nature 19. Nov. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried in the choire of C. C. Coll. under that very place where the Rectors of the choire sing the Psalm intit Venite exultemus Over his Grave was soon after a Marble stone laid with an Inscription thereon provided and made by himself with void spaces left for the day and year when he died to be filled up by his Executor or Overseer of his Will but were never performed The Copy of the Inscription you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. his Character and Encomium in Jo. Leland and his benefactions to Magdalen Corp. Christi and Brasenose Colleges in the aforesaid Hist Antiq. JOHN HELYAR a Hampshire Man born was admitted Probationer Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. 1. June 1522. and Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1524. But instead of having that degree compleated by Determination in the Lent following in the publick Schools he had the Degree of M. of A. conferr'd upon him being then taken into the patronage of the magnificent and generous Cardinal Tho. Wolsey who held him in high value for his extraordinary sufficiencies in the Lat. Greek and Hebrew Tongues In all which especially in Poetry and Humanity he was so well vers'd that he exceeded most if not all Persons of his time Whether the said Cardinal did afterwards promote him to a Canonry or Readers place in his new Coll. at Oxon I know not Sure I am that after his fall our Author supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences and about the same time wrot Comment in Ciceronem pro M. Marcello Scholia in Sophoclem Com. in Epistolas Ovidii Epitaphium D. Erasmi Roterodami Written in Gr. and Lat. with other things besides his translation from Greek into Lat. St. Chrysostom's Tract De providentia fato c. This our Author Helyar who had acquaintance with the said Erasmus was held in admiration by all the Vertuosi in the 29. Hen. 8. JOHN FOREST or Forest whose sirname had several Years before he was born lived within the City of Oxon but whether of his Family I cannot yet tell was from his Childhood educated in Piety and Learning Afterwards when he attained to the 17th Year of his Age he took upon him the habit of St. Francis at Greenwich in Kent as it seems and at about 26 Years of Age was instructed in Theological Studies for a time among the Brethren of that Order living without Watergate in the South Suburb of Oxon. What Degrees he took here it appears not yet sure I am that in order for the taking of the Degree of Bach. Div. he supplicated the Ven. Regents that he might be admitted to oppose in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not and so consequently that he was not Bachelaur much less Doctor as some report unless in another University beyond the Seas for at Cambridge he had not that Degree conferr'd upon him if the Tables at the end of Antiquitates Britannicae are right Afterwards he was taken into the Service of Queen Catherine the Consort of King Hen. 8. whose love being great towards virtue and learning she made him her Confessor About that time he was constituted the one and fortieth Provincial Minister of his Order as an eminent Brother thereof doth really suppose from certain Writings relating to the quarrels between the Order and Card. Wolsey Which Provincialship had before been enjoyed by Steph. Baron Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and sometimes a frequent Preacher in the University of Cambridge Soon after when that good Queen
Barrester and a Counsellor of note being then esteemed eminent not only in the Common but also in the Civil Law by which afterwards he obtained immortal fame among the Citizens of London Besides this his profound knowledge he was admirably well read in Philosophy and the liberal Sciences which made his company desired by Scholars and Clergy He lived always a single Man was an adorer of Chastity and chast Men and shew'd himself generous in his profession to those that stood in need of it for very seldom or never did he take a fee. What he got and what he could spare out of his paternal estate he expended in purchasing Books So that several Years before he died his Library exceeded any one or two that belonged to a Person or Persons of his profession Every night after his business was past he read a Chapter in the Bible to those that belonged to him and the Substance thereof he expounded to them By the doing of which and his interposing himself in matters relating to Religion and the Clergy some R. Catholicks have thought that he halted in his Opinion that is that he was inclined to the way of Hereticks His Writings are many partly written in Latin and partly in English the titles of some of which are these Dialogus de fundamentis Legum Angliae de conscientia Lond. 1528. 1598. 1604. 1613 c. oct This is the Book which is commonly called Doctor and Student being a Dialogue between a Doctor of Div. and a Student in the common Laws of England With the edition of the said Book 1528. I have seen this Book following bound with several Copies of it Principia five maximae Legum Angliae à Gallico illo ut fertur sermone collecta sic in Latinum translata non solum generosis studentibus verum etiam terrarum dominis possessoribus summè necessaria Printted by Rich Lant 24. Dec. 38. Hen. 8. Dom. 1546. in oct Whether this Book which is printed in an English Character as the Dialogue is was compiled by Seintgerman I know not certain I am that the English Copy of Dialogus c. called Doctor and Student c. Printed at Lond. in oct an 1604. contains two Books of Dialogues the first of which hath 32 Chapters whereas the Latin impression of 1528 and 1604. contains but 24 and the second 55 Chapters Among other things that the said Seintgerman hath written are Of the power of the Clergy according to the Law Treatise shewing that the Clergy cannot make Laws Treatise of the Church and the meaning thereof Treatise of the Sacraments thereof Apologie written to Sir Tho. More Dialogue concerning the power which belongs to the Clergy and the power which belongs to the People With several other things which are mention'd in another place At length this worthy Person dying in Sept. the 28 day saith Baleus who falsely adds 1539. in Fifteen hundred and forty year 1540 was buried not far from the Grave of Tho. Lupset in the Church of St. Alphage within Cripplegate in the City of London Which Church was afterwards translated to that Church now called St. Alphage near Sion College In the last will and Testament of the said Seintgerman dated 10. July 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540 and proved 30. May 1541. it appears that he was not only a Benefactor to the Church of Shilton before-mention'd but also to that at Laleford Lawford in Warwickshire and to the Church at Cathorp in Leicestershire at which Towns 't is probable he had Lands and Inheritances JOHN PALSGRAVF was born in London and educated in Grammar learning there studied Logic and Philosophy at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he went to Paris where spending several Years also in Philosophical and other learning took the Degree of Master of the said faculty and became so excellent in the French tongue that he was thought fit to be Tutor to the Daughter of K. Hen. 7. called the Lady Mary when she was about to be married to Lewis the 12. K. of France But that King dying soon after the said Palsgrave came with her into England taught the French Language to divers of our young Nobility and became well benefic'd In 1531. he settled in Oxon for a time and the next Year being incorporated Master of the faculty of Arts was in few days after admitted to the reading of the Sentences that is to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity he being then Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and esteemed the first Author of our Nation or of the French Men that had reduced the French tongue under certain rules and the first in that kind of exercise that did begin to labour as it plainly appears by his most laborious piece intit Lesclarcissement de la Language Francois Lond. 1530. in three Books in a thick fol. Before which the Author hath a large Introduction in English after which follows 1 A table of Substantives 2 A table of Adjectives 3 The Pronoun 4 The Numerals c. I never yet saw but one Copy of this Book which being fill'd with Marginal Notes by whom I know not in a scribling hand was bought by the learned Selden and in his Library at Oxon. I perus'd it The said Joh. Palsgrave hath also written Several Epistles and published a translation of a Book intit Ecphrastes Anglica in comoediam Acolasti Or the Comedy of Acolastus translated into our English tongue after such a manner as Children are taught in the Grammar School first word by word as the Latin lyeth and afterwards according to the sense and meaning of the Latin sentences c. Lond. 1540. in qu. The said Comedy was made by one Will. Fullonius Hagiensis an 1529 and was living when it was put into English by Palsgrave who was in great renown among Men for his Learning in Fifteen hundred and forty which was the two and thirtieth Year of King Hen. 8. LEONARD COX second Son of Laurence Cox by Elizab. his Wife Daugh. of Willey Son of Job Cox of Monmouth was born in Monmouthshire educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon in 1528. where making some stay for the sake of study was incorporated in the same Degree in the Year following and intending to make a longer stay he supplicated for the Degree of Master of Arts but whether admitted it appears not About the same time he was a Schoolmaster at Reading in Berks. and was there in much esteem when Joh. Fryth the Martyr was taken for a Vagabond and set in the Stocks to whom for his learning and nothing else he shewed singular courtesies as I have already told you in John Fryth Afterwards he travelled into France Germany Poland and Hungary taught there the Tongues and became more eminent in Foreign Countries than at home which Joh. Leland the Antiquarian-Poet seems to intimate in these Verses written to him Inclyta Sarmaticae Cracovia gloria gentis Virtutes novit Coxe diserte
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.
a Son named Geor. Wyatt of Boxley in Kent Esq restored 13. Elizab. I find another Tho. Wyatt to have been a Student in Cambridge 1587 in which Year he had a Copy of Verses put into Acadedemiae Cantabrigiensis Lachrymae tumulo D. Philippi Sydneii sacratae Published by Alex. Nevill RICHARD TURPIN was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Knaptoft in Leicestershire extracted from that of the Turpins of Whitchester in Northumberland and educated for a time in Grammatical and Academical Learning in this University Whence being taken before he was honored with a Degree spent afterwards his chief time in Military Affairs at Calice in France under King Hen. 8. He hath written A Chronicle containing matters only of his time and dying at Calice before mention'd in Fifteen hundred forty and one 33. Hen. 8. was buried in the Church of St. Nicholas there leaving then behind him the Character of a Worthy Gentleman RICHARD WHYTFORDE who in his Writings stiles himself the Wretch of Sion was educated for a time among the Oxonians but whether he took a Degree we have no record that shews it Afterwards he was received into the Family of Rich. Foxe Bishop of Winchester and by him was made his Chaplain about the latter end of Hen. 7. at which time he became acquainted with Sir Tho. More then a Young Man between whom was great amity Afterwards Whytforde being minded to leave the World and all hopes of preferment entred himself a Monk of the Order of St. Brigit in the Monastry called Sion near to Brentford in Middlesex About which time being known to Scholars for his divine learning for in Philosophy he was but little vers'd and most sincere holiness he became acquainted with that great light of learning Erasmus who sometimes mentions him in his Epistles and advises him thus Cura at valeas teque tua Philosophia oblectes c. But such was his ill fortune that he lived to see himself turn'd out of his Cell and the Cell it self converted to a profane use Whereupon one Will. Mountjoy descended of a noble race received him into his Family and made him his Confessor which is all that I know of him at present only that he wrot and translated these things following Work of preparation unto the Communion and also for Housholders to govern their Families Lond. in oct When printed I know not for the Copy that I saw was imperfect A Boke called the Pype or Tonne of the life of perfection A work of the three Vows of Religion contrary to the great Hereticks the Lutherans Lond. 1532. qu. The reason of the title is this The Author compares the life of perfection to precious Wine kept in a Pype or Tonne made as it were of three plain boords viz. the three Vows of Obedience wilful poverty and chastity which are bound together as with hoops by their rules as of St. Austine Benedict Francis Basil Which hoops are knit as with wykers with the holy ceremonies of Religion contained in the Statutes Constitutions Injunctions and Customs of every Monastery This allegory he seems to prosecute throughout the whole work His main aim is to commend and defend the religious Orders and those three monastick Vows against the objections of the Lutherans Treatise of patience Also a work of divers impediments and lets of perfection Lond. 1541. qu. The Martiriloge after the use of the Church of Salisbury and as it is read in Sion with additions Lond. in qu. Solitary Meditations Psaltery of Jesus Printed several times in Engl. and French He also translated from Latin into English 1 St. Austin's rule Lond. 1525. qu. to which also he put notes This was done before by another hand but being not well understood by the Nuns of Sion they desired him to do it better which he accordingly did and dedicated it to them 2 St. Bonaventure his lessons entituled Alphabetum Religiosorum Lond. 1532. qu. with other things as 't is probable The Reader is now to know that there was another Richard Whytforde a wealthy Clerk possessed of Lands in Hope Hopedale and Whytforde in Flintshire as also of Lands in Farnworth and Widdous in Lancashire who in his last days entring himself a Brother into the Monastery of Sion before-mention'd died and was buried there 3. Hen. 8. Dom. 1511. But this R. Whytforde who seems to have been born in Flintshire was no writer only Unkle to Rich. Whytforde before mention'd who upon his Unkles account and because of his benefaction to Sion was entred a Brother there being originally as I suppose of Whytforde in Flintshire JOHN SHEPREVE or Shepery was born in or near to the Parish of Radley about a mile or two distant from Abendon in Berks admitted Probationer-Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. in the Year 1528. aged 19 or thereabouts took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1533 about which time he was Greek Reader in the said College and afterwards Hebrew Professor of the University in the place of Rob. Wakfeld about 1538. Three Years after he did with leave from the chief Members of the University begin to expound in the publick Schools the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Language and would have gone forward with the Books that follow had not death prevented him He was one of the skilfullest Linguists his Age being considered that ever was in Oxon before his time and was thought to surpass Origen in Memory So excellent a Poet also he was that his equal scarce could be found it having been an ordinary matter with him to compose 100 very good Verses every day at vacant hours some of which are extant Several Authors have celebrated his Memory in their respective Books of Poems particularly John Leland in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum in Angliâ virorum c. and in his Cygnia Cantio in the last of which he stiles him Decus atriusque linguae Also Dr. Joh. White in his Diacosio-Martyrion who entitles him trium Linguarum peritissimus and others Among the Books that he hath written these only I have seen viz. Summa synopsis Novi Testamenti disticis ducentis sexaginta comprehensa First of all published by John Parkhurst at Strasburgh about 1556. in oct with some of his Serious Epigrams at the end taken from his Ludicra or Epigram Juvenilia which I shall hereafter mention under him the said Parkhurst Afterwards the said Summa synopsis were printed at Lond. 1560. and at Oxon. 1586. in oct which last edition was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Laur. Humphrey They are also printed if I mistake not in a Book called Gemma Fabri Lond. 1598. and were by the Author composed to no other end but to assist the memories of Novices and Candidates in Divinity Hyppolitus Ovidianae Phaedrae respondens Before which our Author hath a Preface to the Epistle of Hyppolitus to Phaedra contained in about 350 long and short Verses written to one Mr.
doubtful yet there be not wanting some that say that tho he was a learned Man yet he was not a fit match for that polite Person Not long after the K. employed him in several Embassies particularly in that to the Emperor with Sir Franc. Pointz and in another with the Lord Morley and Sir Will. Hussey into Germany to Don Ferdinando Duke of Austria with the Order of the Garter an 1523 and a third with Stokesley B. of London and Thom. Earl of Wilts to the Pope at Bononie about the intricate matter of Marriage with Qu. Catherine an 1529. In which Year in the beginning of Febr. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury by the resignation of Thom. Winter and was succeeded in that dignity by Edw. Farmer in Decemb. 1531. After his return from the last Embassie he was made Archbishop of York an 1531. was incorporated D. of D. of this University in the latter end of October which Degree he had received in a transmarine University while he was an Embassador by actual creation and on the 5. of Dec. following in the same Year he had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to that See He was a great Divine and very well seen in all kind of Learning famous as well for his Wisdom as virtue and holiness of life a continual Preacher of the Gospel a Man very liberal to the poor and exceedingly beloved of all sorts of Men who greatly miss'd and bemoan'd the want of him when dead He hath written Comment in universum in Pentateuchum Mosys MS. See in Rog. Aschams Epistles lib. 2. in an Epist Cuidam amico Eborac Apologia contra quorundam columnias Lovan 1520. in quarto Index annotationum prioris libri Printed there the same Year Epistola nuncupatoria ad Desid Erasmum There the same Year Annotationum libri duo alter in annotationes prioris editionis Novi Testam D. Erasmi alter in annotat posterior is editionis ejusdem Pr. there the same Year Epistola Apologetica quâ respondet D. Erasmi Epistolas There the same Year In which Year also 1520. was published a Book in qu. at Basil entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum sit Edwardi Lei virulentia They were written to shew the great anger and spleen that the said Lee bore against Erasmus and some of his Writings mostly by Sir Tho. More Tho. Lupset Rich. Paice Ulricus Huttenus Esq and Jo. Sapidus Epistolae Sexcentae Epicedia clarorum virorum besides other things which I have not yet seen This Dr. Lee Archb. of York died 13. Sept. year 1544 in Fifteen hundred forty and four aged 62. and was buried in the middle of the South Isle above the Choir of the Cath Church there Over his Grave as there is a little Inscription to continue his memory at that place so in the Windows of the Founders Chamber at Magd. College over the great Gate leading into the quadrangle are these two Verses set up under his Arms impaled by those of the See of York by Dr. Laur. Humphrey an 1556. Unus erat Leyus velut inter sydera Phaebus Sic vicit socios temporis ipse sui In the said Windows Dr. Humphrey caused to be put up the Arms of all such Bishops that had been educated in Magd. Coll. even to his time an 1566. I have seen several Letters written by this Dr. Lee to K. H. 8. and in one he wonders that the Popes Supremacy should be a cause for Martyrdom and that Fisher Bishop of Rochester should dye in defence of it when in other matters of faith and errors against the same he hath dissembled and hath not been content with such as have written against them for the favor he bare to the Party in whose Books they are found c. JOHAN LUDOVIC VIVES was born at Valenza in Spain educated in Grammar learning there but in Logic at Paris at which time all good Arts were banished thence and the Students totally bent on Sophistical Cavils Soon after being taken off from those vain bablings he applied himself to the Study of Humanity and became his Age consider'd noted for it Afterwards he went to the University of Lovaine where he seriously applied himself to Lat. and Gr. learning and sought out all ways to be acquainted with polite and learned Men being then by that time so polite himself that in detestation of his former errors in following vain sophistry he wrot a Book Contra Pseudo-Dialecticos At riper Years he applied himself to the study of the Civil Law and of Divinity and to the searching of the Writings of all the learned Doctors of the Church by the advice of Des Erasmus who had a particular respect for him for mending and correcting some of his Writings and collecting his Adagies On the 4. July 1517. he was made being then at Lovaine one of the first Fellows of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. by the Founder therof By which time his fame being spread over England and the more for this reason that Catherine of Spain the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. had a peculiar respect for him and cherished his Muse he was invited into England by Cardinal Wolsey as it seems in the Year 1523 and coming to Oxon in Aug. or Sept did read the said Cardinals lecture of Humanity in the Hall of the said College and that as 't is said of the Civil Law before the Members of the University Farther also to add grace and honor to him it pleased K. Hen. 8. Qu. Catherine and the prime Persons of their Courts to be as some report his Auditors about the latter end of the aforsaid Year he having been solemnly incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law before as he had stood in another University While he remained here he wrot his Books De ratione studii puerilis and De consultatione and became so much admired by the Academians for his great learning and eloquence and the more for this reason that their studies were then wholly bent towards Humanity that they revived the Degrees of Grammar Rhetorick and Poetry which had been before much neglected Afterwards he retired to Bruges in Flanders from whence he came where about that time he took to him a Wife but the next Year viz. in March 152 4-5 he was at Oxon again as it appears from an Epistle to K. Hen. 8. dated then thence at which time if I mistake not he continued his Lectures either in Humanity or the Civil Law and was constituted Tutor for the Latin tongue to the Young Lady Mary Dau. of King Hen. 8. His Writings are many being mostly printed in two Tomes at Basil 1555 but least I should break the Method that I have hitherto followed I shall make a recital of some Jesu Christi triumphans Wrot at Paris in Apr. 1514. De initiis sectis laudibus philosophiae lib. 1. De tempore quo natus est Christus Virginis Deiparae Oratio Fabula de
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
not only against him And. Borde but also against Dr. Joh. Storie Dr. Th. Martin c. The first of whom he saith kept a Wench called Magd. Bowyer living in Grandpoole in the Suburbs of Oxon and the other another call'd Alice Lambe living at the Christopher Inn in the said City But letting these matters pass notwithstanding I have read elsewhere that the said three Whores as the Bishop calls them were only Patients that occasionally recurred to his house I cannot otherwise but say that our Author Borde was esteemed a noted Poet a witty and ingenious Person and an excellent Physician of his time and that he is reported by some to have been not only Physician to K. Hen. 8. but also a Member of the College of Physicians at London to whom he dedicated his Breviarie of Health He hath written A Boke of the introduction of knowledge the whych doth teach a Man to speak part of all manner of Languages and to know the usage and fashion of all manner of Counties and for to know the most part of all manner of coins of money Lond. 1542. qu. Dedicated to the Lady Mary Daughter of K. Hen. 8. by an Epist dat at Mountpelyer 3. May 1542. This Book is partly written in Verse and partly in Prose contain'd in 39 Chapters every one of which hath in its beginning the Picture of a Man sometimes two or three Printed from a wooden cut Before the first Chapter which treateth of the natural disposition of an English man is the picture of a naked Man with a piece of cloath lying on his right arm and a pair of Scissers in his left hand with a Copy of Verses Printed under him the two first of which are these I am an English Man and naked I stand here Musing in my mind what rayment I shall were Before the seventh Chapter is the picture of our Author Borde standing in a Pew with a Canopy over it having a Gown on with sleeves a little wider than an ordinary coat a Laurel on his Head and a Book before him on a desk with this title of the said Chapter under him The VII Chapyter sheweth how the auctor of this Boke had dwelt in Scotland and other Ilands and did go thorow and round about Christendom and out of Christendom declaring the properties of all the Regions Countries and Provinces the which he did travel thorow He hath also written The Breviary of health wherein are remedies for all manner of sicknesses and diseases which may be in Man or Woman expressing the obscure terms of Greek Lat. Barbary and English concerning Physick and Chirurgery Lond. 1547. 48. 57. 87 c. in qu. in four Books Dietary of health Lond. 1576. oct Sec. Edition The merry tales of the mad Men of Gotham Printed at London in the time of K. Hen. 8. in whose Reign and after it was accounted a Book full of wit and mirth by Scholars and Gentlemen Afterwards being often printed is now sold only on the stalls of Ballad-singers A right pleasant and merry history of the Mylner of Abington with his Wife and his fair Daughter and of two poor Scholars of Cambridge Pr. at Lond. by Rich. Jones in qu. Andr. Bords name is not to it but the Copy of the Book which I saw did belong to Th. Newton of Cheshire whom I shall hereafter mention and by him 't is written in the title that Dr. Borde was the Author He hath also written a Book of Prognosticks another of Urines and a third of Every Region Country and Province which shews the Miles Leeges distance from City to City and from Town to Town with the noted things in the said Cities and Towns This last the Author lent to Thom. Cromwell of Bishops-Waltham near to Winchester written fairly with his own hand but he afterwards being taken up with State-affairs and matters of high concern lost the Book to the great grief of the Author otherwise he would have published it At length after many rambles to and fro in this World he was made Prisoner in the close wards of the Fleet in London the reason why I cannot justly say where dying in the Month of Apr. in Fifteen hundred forty and nine year 1549 was buried as I conceive in the Church or Yard of St. Bride otherwise St. Bridget for in that Parish is the Prison called the Fleet situated In his Will dated the eleventh of Apr. an 1549. and proved the 25. of the same Month and in the same Year he did constitute one Ric. Mathew without the addition of Nephew Kinsman or natural Son his Heir left him his two tenements in the Sooke in the Town of Lynne in Norfolk his tenements with appurtenances which he had by the death of his Brother in Pevensâ—y and his House and Chattels in and near Winchester Joh. Bale in the very ill Language that he gives of Dr. Borde saith that the Brothelhouse which he kept for his Brother-Virgins being discovered took physical poyson to hasten his death which was as he saith but false in 1548. This is the language of one who had been a Bishop in Ireland WILLIAM HUGH a Yorkshire Man born was educated in Logick and PhilosophY in C. Chr. Coll. but whether in the condition of a Chorister Clerk or Chaplain I know not In the Year 1543 he took the Degree of M. of Arts being about that time compell'd to bestow in a manner all his time in teaching Young Scholars Afterwards he was favour'd in his studies by the Lady Denny living at Court to whom I suppose he was Chaplain He hath written The troubled Mans Medicine wherein we may learn patiently to suffer all kind of adversity In two parts Lond. 1567. oct the 2. or 3. edit He also translated into English a Book intit by him thus A Boke of Bertram the Priest intreating of the body and blood of Christ written to Charles the Great 700 Years ago Lond. 1548. oct This Book was reviewed and corrected by Tho. Wilcocks a Minister in Lond. printed at Lond. 1582. oct published again with some alterations refinements and corrections from the errors of the former translation with an addition of Two short discourses against purgatory and invocation of Saints By S. D. Lond. 1686. oct To which is prefix'd the large Preface of Sir Humph. Lynd. and a dedicatory epistle of S. D. to Sir S. B. But these translations being esteemed by many not to be well done Will. Hopkins Bac. of Div. and Prebendary of Worcester sometimes of Trin. Coll. in Oxon made and published another the same Year See more in Humph. Lynd under the Year 1636. Our Author Hugh hath written and translated as 't is said other things but such I have not yet seen nor know I any thing more of him than this that he died by a rupture of a vein in Corpus Chr. Coll. before the Feast of St. Michael in Fifteen hundred forty and nine year 1549 So that I presume
with other things which Baleus mentions He also wrot several Verses which were sent by him to the Oxonians Of which and his published Books much esteemed by K. Hen. 8 John Leland hath exercis'd his Muse in his Encomia The said Sir Rich. Morysine hath also translated into English 1 The Epist of Joh. Sturmius to the Cardinals and Bishops that were chosen by the Bishop of Rome to search out the abuses of the Church Lond. 1538. oct 2 The Symboles of Lud. Vives much about the same time with other matters which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate at Strasburgh being then there in voluntary exile for the Protestant Religion which he professed on the 17. March in Fifteen hundred fifty and six but whether buried there I know not He left behind him a Son named Charles begotten on the body of his Wife Dame Bridget and a natural Son named Marcellus Morysine besides two Daughters begotten on the body of one or more Concubines Joh. Hales a noted Scholar of that time to whom he gave his Books was one of his Executors as having always been an entire friend to him Bernardine Ochine also with his Wife and Children did tast sufficiently of his liberality The same Bernard I mean who was Author of the Dialogue of the unjust usurped primacy of the Bishop of Rome translated from Latin by John Ponet afterwards B. of Winchester Lond. 1549. qu. The said Sir R. Morysine had a fair estate most of which was obtained by his own endeavours as the Mannour of Whitesbury or Whichbury with all its appurtenances in Wilts and Hampshire the Mannour of East-Chinnock in Somersetshire the Mannour of Cashiobury in Hertfordshire where he had began to build a stately House c. All which descended to his Posterity JOHN HUNTINGTON was educated for sometime in good arts but whether he took a Degree here it appears not only that while he continued in this University he was noted among his contemporaries for a tolerable Poet. His works are Epitaphium Ricardi Pacaei car 1. The beginning of which is Noscitur omnis homo c. Humanae vitae deploratio car 1. The beginning is Nunc ubi magnanimi c. The Genealogie of Heresies De lapsu philosophiae besides several Sermons In 1553. Decemb. 3. he was brought before her Majesties Council for composing a rhime against Dr. Stokes and the Sacrament but making a recantation and an humble submission for what he had done with a promise to amend as well in Doctrin for he was a godly Preacher as in way of living was suffer'd to depart Afterwards he left the Nation and lived mostly in Germany with Joh. Bale who calls him his beloved Son in Christ RICHARD TRACY Son of Will Son of Hen. Tracy was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family living at Todyngton in Glocestershire the body of which William was taken out of the grave and burn'd in the time of Hen. 8. for a Will that he made then savouring of Heresie was conversant among the Muses for a time took a Degree in Arts and became noted for his pregnant parts Afterwards his learning being much improved in his elder years by reading and experience he became noted for it an enemy to the Roman Church and a zealous Reformer as it may partly appear by his Writings the titles of which follow Of the preparation to the cross and to death and of the comfort under the cross and death in two Books Lond. 1540. in oct Dedic to Thom. Lord Cromwell Which Book wrap'd up in canvase being found in the belly of a Cod when brought from Lin-Regis in Norfolk to Cambridge Mercat to be sold on Midsummer Eve 1626 it was reprinted soon after as 't is said under the name of Joh. Frythe The profe and declaration of this proposition Faith only justifyeth Not said when or where Printed 'T is in oct and ded to K. Hen. 8. Treatise of the errours and blindness of the Popish Clergy Declaration of the Sacrament Lond. 1548 oct Confutation of the articles of Papisme With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen only know that some of them were prohibited to be read by the Proclamation of K. Hen. 8. The Author was living in an absconded condition in Fifteen hundred fifty and six which was the 3. and 4. of Philip and Marie and perhaps was in being several years after JOHN GWYNNETH was a Welsh Man born and tho of very poor parentage yet of most excellent natural parts and exceeding apt to embrace any kind of juvenile learning But so it was that he having little or nothing to maintain him in his studies at Oxon he was exhibited to by an Ecclesiastical Mecaenas who well knew that his abilities were such that in future time he might be an Ornament to the Cath. Church by writing against the Hereticks as they were then called The younger years of this Gwynneth were adorned with all kind of polite literature and his elder with the reading of the Scriptures and conversation with Books written by and against the Lutherans and Zwinglians At length perceiving full well what ground their Doctrine had gotten he wrot Declaration of the state wherein Hereticks do lead their lives Lond. in qu. Detection of that part of Fryths Book which he termeth His foundation Lond. 1554. oct Printed also if I mistake not before that time Against Joh. Fryth on the Sacrament of the Altar Lond. 1557. qu. Printed also I think before that time Declaration of the notable victory given of God to Qu. Mary shewed in the Church of Luton 22. July in the first Year of her Reign Lond. 1554 oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen This Joh. Gwynneth I take to be the same with Jo. Gwynneth a Secular Priest who for his great proficiency and works performed in the faculty of Musick had the Degree of Doctor of the said faculty conferr'd upon him by the Members of this University an 1531. See more in the Fasti under that Year WILLIAM PYE a Suffolk Man born was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. in 1529 and after he had continued in the Degree of Master some years he studied Physick became thrice Proctor of the University and as it seems D. of D. On the 7. of Oct. 1545. he became Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of Dr. Jo. Crayford and in the Reign of Ed. 6. a pretender to reformation but when Qu. Mary succeeded he changed his mind was in the beginning of her Reign not only made Dean of Chichester in the place if I mistake not of Barthelm Traheron but also Prebendary of Lytton in the Church of Wells upon the deprivation of Will. Wrythiosley and Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the deprivation also of Mr. Nich. Mason All that I have seen of his labours are only these following Oratio coram patribus clero habita
find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster and entred into the Society of Jesus an 1598. aged 26. who after he had wrot several Books died in 1652 but this Person was not as I can yet learn originally bred among us HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks attained and executed for treason in 1521. was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours yet he was a Man of great virtue learning and piety In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge to which his Father had been a benefactor where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue and in that language he wrot several things as 't is said as well in verse as prose but such I have not yet seen He translated into English a Book intit De vera differentia regiae potestatis ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford This translation was printed in oct but when it appears not in the Book He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans c. Lond. 1553. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This noble Lord gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell nor in what County born unless in Staffordshire wherein he was possessor of many Lands ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire year 5121 by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County was born as I conceive at Claverley laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time In 1542 he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House and in the latter end of the Year in Lent 1550 he was elected Double-Reader In 1552 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1553 being the first Year of Qu. Mary he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and not of the Common-bench as some say and about that time received the honor of Knighthood from that Queen In whose Reign and after he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof He hath written An abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Bookes till the time of Qu. Marie Lond. 1573. fol. 76 86 c. qu. Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marie from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. c. in oct The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases c. Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct Printed I think before that time This Sir Rob. Broke who was a zealous Cathol died as it seems in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell In his Will proved 12. Oct. the same Year he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London I find another of both his names who is written Esquire Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London under whose name was published Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours which he left to his posterity remaining at Madeley in Shropshire and at one or two places in Suffolk PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents became a Student in this University about the Year 1513 and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts being then numbred among the celebrated Poets of the University Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty entred into the Order of the Bonhom's studied among the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin now Wadham Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and at length became Provincial of his Order that is of Bonhoms This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physicks was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristow after he had placed an Episcopal See there an 1542 and by the name and title of Paulus Bush capellanâ—s Regis S. Theologiae Bacalaureus had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging to that See 16. June in the same Year But he taking to him a Wife whom one calls a Concubine in the days of K. Ed. 6. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary an 1553 whereupon he spent the remaining part of his days at Bristow He hath written several things in Divinity and Medicine as well in verse as prose of which number these are some An exhortation to Margaret Burges Wife to Jo. Burges Clothier of Kingswood in the County of Wilts Lond. temp Ed. 6. in oct Notes on the Psalm beginning with Miserere mei Deus c. Treatise in praise of the Cross Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary Treatise of salves and curing remedies besides Poems of divers kinds which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this World on the eleventh of Octob. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 68 years was buried on the North side of the choire near to the entrance leading into the North Isle of the Cath. Church at Bristow Over his grave was soon after erected a low altar tomb and on it was fastned his statue in his Episcopal Robes lying on his back On the 4 corners of the Tomb were erected four small Pillars bearing a Canopy about which is this written Hic jacet D. Paulus Bush primus hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus qui obut undec die Octob. an Dom. 1558. aetatisque suae 68 cujus animae propitietur Christus About the tomb beneath the statue are certain verses engraven on three sides thereof the fourth joyning to the Wall some of which follow Agnus qui primam nostrum sua tempora miram Indueret jacet hic Bristoliense decus A patre Bush dictus Paulum baptisma vocavit Virtus implevit nomen uterque Pari. Paulus c. Ille animos verbis impensos pavit egenos Hinc fructum arbusto portulit ille suo Ut madidos arbusta tegunt sic foedere rupto Inter discordes pacificator erat This Monument was erected near to the stone under which his sometimes Wife called Edyth Ashley was buried who died 8. Oct. 1553. ROBERT WARDE a native of the Dioc. of Durham was elected
of the convocation of the whole Clergy of the Diocess of Canterbury where in speaking and acting he behaved himself with great commendation The same year being forced to leave the said Deanery to make room for Dr. Joh. Fekenham the former Abbat of Westminster and the Monks had that of Windâ—ore bestowed upon him an 1556. But being taken in adultery as some say was deprived of the said Deanery by Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury in 1557. Whereupon looking on himself as much abused did appeal to an higher Power So that being about to take a journey to Rome to complain to his holiness was seized and clapt up Prisoner within the Tower of London where as I conceive he died Jo. Leland gives him the character of a noted Preacher and Orator of his time and seems to intimate that he had written several Books Jo. Bale who speaks well of few Men saith that he had been sore bytten with a Winchester gose and was not as yet 1554 healed thereof And tells us of his old familiar Mary Huckvale of Oxford and of his provider Goodwife Person and Chrystian Thompson the Widow and I know not what Another equal with Bale in scurrilities saith that Hugh Weston is a drunken burnt tail man a baudy beast a leacherous locust a companion with curtezans of Coleman hedge more meet to be coupled with his old play-fellow and pack-borse Goodwife Hugfaile at Oxon at the tayle of a Cart than to be reverenced and reputed a Mayden Preist in good Queen Maries Court But to let pass this brutish language more fit to be spoken at Billingsgate than by a Person that made Divinity his delight I must tell you that there goes under this Dr. Weston's name Oratio coram patribus clero habita 16. Oct. 1553. The beginning of which is Cum Demosthenes totius Graeciae lumen c. Lond. 1553. oct Disputations with Cranmer Ridley and Latimer in the Divnity School at Oxon. an 1554. At which time he was Moderator in the disputations of several Doctors had with them as you may see at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein are also several conferences and discourses of the said H. Weston had with other Persons At length he giving way to fate within the Tower of London as it seems in the Month of Decemb. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight was buried before the image of the Crucifix in the middle of the Church belonging to the Hospital of the Savoy situated in the Strand near to London In his will dat 26. Nov. 1558 made within the Tower of London he bestowed most of his wealth on pious and publick uses took a great deal of care about the ceremoney to be performed at his burial and for the praying for his Soul by several Persons in several places as moneys for a Dirige and Mass to be performed 1 By the Master and Fellows of Balliol Coll. 2 By the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln Coll. 3 By the Chapl. or Priest of the University of Oxon. 4 By the Priest at Islip near Oxon. of which perhaps he had been Rector 5 By the Priest of Burton Novery in Leycestershire at which place if I mistake not he had received his first breath because his Brethren lived there c. with many other things therein which not only shew'd him to be a zealous Catholick but also a Person of a publick spirit WILLIAM FORREST was related to John Forrest before-mentioned but where born I cannot justly say spent several years in study among the Oxonians and was there a Student when the question was discussed among the Doctors and Masters concerning the divorce of King Hen. 8. from his Royal Consort Qu. Catherine in 1530 as in the life of the said Queen which I shall anon mention appeareth He was a Priest and had preferment in the Church was well skill'd in Musick and Poetry had a collection of the choicest compositions in Musick that were then in use Which coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Heather founder of the Musical Praxis in this University he gave them to the publick School thereof where they yet continue and are kept only as matters of antiquity Among them are the compositions of Joh. Taverner of Boston sometimes Organist of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon of Joh. Merbeck Org. of Windsore Rob. Fairfax a Doctor of Musick of Cambridge Dr. Christ Tye Joh. Sheppard John Norman c. All the Books that our Author Forrest hath composed which have as yet come to my view were written in English Poetry such as was commonly used in the Reigns of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. The titles of which follow A true and most notable History of a right noble and famous Lady produced in Spayne entituled the second Gresield practised not long out of this tyme in much part tragedous as delectable both to hearers and readers This is a MS. containing the life of Queen Catherine the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. and is by the Author dedicated to Qu. Mary he being then Chaplain to her T is a broad thin Folio written very fairly on Vellam and seems to be the very same it being now my proper Book that the Author presented to the said Queen There be many things in it that are very zealously written against the Hereticks of those times as he calls them which plainly shews him to be entirely devoted to the Church of Rome And tho there be no great streins in it yet the historical part of it is good if not too much partiality therein and I have discovered from the said Book many things relating to the Affairs of Oxon acted during the time of the said divorce which I could never see elsewhere The beginning of the prologue to Qu. Mary is this As nature hath no inclination c. and of the work it self Wryters have many endeavoured their pains c. Throughout the whole History the Author makes use of the name of Grysild the second for Qu. Catherine and the name of Walter for K. Hen. 8. At the end of it contained in 20 Chapters is this written Here endethe the Historye of Grysilde the seconde dulie meanyng Qu. Catharine Mother to our most dread Soveraigne Lady Qu. Mary fynysched the 25. day of June the Yeare of owre Lorde 1558. by the symple and unlearned Syr Wyllyam Forrest Preeiste propria manus At the end of the said Historie is written in verse also An Oration consolatory to Queen Mary 'T is contained in six leaves and hath this beginning Among much inward profound perpending c. This Book richly bound in laced Sattin hath on every brass boss at each corner this sentence embossed in an English Character Ave Maria Gratia plena Our Author Forrest hath also written in old English verse The tragedious Troubles of the most chast and innocent Joseph Son to the holy Patriarch Jacob MS. in two vol. in fol. dedicated to Thom.
Haward Duke of Norfolk written curiously on Vellam and sometime in the Library of Joh. Theyer of Coopershill near to the City of Glocester Gent. Which with the rest of the MSS belonging to that person coming by sale into the hands of Rob. Scot of London Bookseller he sold them for the use of the Kings Library at S. James Robert Earl of Alesbury had a Copie of the said History of Joseph but whether it was the very same that belonged to Mr. Theyer I cannot justly say He had also these following MSS written by the said Will. Forrest viz. Poems upon several Occasions MS. fol. Certain meditations and Prayers necessary of a Christian MS. fol. in prose and verse Treatise of Hereticks and their properties Of faith works and justification Glass of charity on the seven penitential Psalmes Consolation against temptation Of Pennance Against desperation of the last judgment A Mirrour of Christianity That Hereticks are not to be disputed withal Several Tracts in defence of the Articles of the Church of Rome MS. in two vol. in fol. What other Books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was in great esteem among the Rom. Catholicks in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight which was part of the last Year of Queen Mary and part of the first of Qu. Elizabeth JOHN FEILD a Londoner born was as it seems educated in this University because I find several of both his names and of his time to have taken one degree or more therein and one John Feild to have supplicated for a degree in Arts in the month of July 1519. Afterterwards leaving the University he went to another as 't is probable and at length retiring to his native place wrote and published Ephemeris pro an 1557. To which is prefixed a Learned Epistle written by Dr. Jo. Dee Fphemerides trium annorum an 1558 59. 60 c. ex Erasmi Reìnholdi tabulis accuratissimè ad meridianum Civitatis Londinensis supputatae Lond. 1558. Octob. 28. in qu. Canon Ascensionum obliquarum cujusvis stellae non excedentis 8 gradus Latitudinis confectus Printed with the Ephemerides Tabula stellarum fixarum insigniorum qua ortus occasus ac utriusque caete meditationes earum ad ooulum patebant c. Printed with the said Ephemerides also What else he hath published I find not nor any thing memorable of him besides only that he was much in renown for his learning in the Reigne of Q. Mary and beginning of Queen Elizabeth I find another John Field or Feld who was a Citizen of London a zealous Protestant and a great enemy to Sir Thomas More John Fisher Bishop of Rochester and John Rastal who having published certain matters is numbred among the English writers by John Bale who tells us that he died at London an 1546. See another John Field under the year 1587. JOHN PLOUGH Son of Christopher Plough of the Borough of Nottingham and Nephew to John Plough Rector of St. Peters Church in the said Town was born there spent several years in obtaining Academical learning in this University supplicated in the latter end of 1543. for the degree of Bach. of the Civil-Law but whether he was ever admitted it appears not At that time if I mistake not he was Rector of the said Church the advouson of which for one turne his Uncle bought for him of Thomas Hobson the Prior and Convent of Lenton before the year 1538 for in that year the Uncle died Afterwards our Author John Plough became a zealous Minister of Gods word in the time of King Edward VI. but flying beyond the Sea in Queen Maries Reigne wrote one or more of the Books following at Basil where he mostly resided An Apology for the Protestants Written in answer to a Book against the English Protestants that was pen'd and published by one Miles Hogeard of London Hosier the first Trader of Mechanick that appeared in Print for the Catholick cause I mean one that had not received any Monastical or Academical breeding Beside our Author Plough wrote against him one William Keth an Exile at Frankford in the Reigne of Queen Mary and Robert Crowley The said Plough also wrote Treatise against the mitred men in the Popish Kingdom The sound of the doleful Trumpet When or where either of these three was printed I cannot tell for I have not yet seen them He was living at Basil in great esteem among the Exil'd Protestants in the latter end of Queen Mary and whether he lived to return when Queen Elizabeth succeeded I cannot yet find GEORGE LILYE Son of William Lilye the famous Grammarian whom I have before mention'd was born as I conceive near to S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London educated for a time as it seems in Magdalen Coll. which house was seldom or never without a Lilye understand me not that it bears Three Lilyes for its Arms from the first foundation thereof to the latter end of Queen Elizabeth After he had left the University without a degree he travelled to Rome where he was received with all humanity into the protection of Cardinal Pole and became noted there for his singular parts in various sorts of Learning Some time after his return he was made Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral and afterwards Prebendary of Canterbury which last dignity he had I suppose by the gift of the said Cardinal when he was Archbishop of that place While he was Canon of S. Paul he set up a Monument to the memory of his learned Father in the Inscription of which this George is stiled Canon of that Church His writings are Anglorum Regum Chronices Epitome Ven. 1548. Francof 1565. qu. Bas 1577. c. Lancastrii Eboracensis de regno contentiones Regum Angliae Genealogia Both Printed with the former Book Elogia Virorum illustrium Cat. sive Series Pontificum Caesarum Romanorum besides a Table or Mapp of Britaine with other things which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this world in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the first year of Queen Elizabeth was buried as I suppose near the body of his Father CUTHBERT TONSTALL a singular ornament to his native Country and a person notwithstanding the baseness of his birth being begotten by one Tonstall upon a Daughter of the Commers as Leland saith of great learning and judgment received his first breath at Hatchford in Richmondshire in the year 1476. or thereabouts became a Student in the University of Oxon. about 1491 particulary as some will have it in Balliol College and whether he took a degree or degrees we have no Register of that time to shew it Afterwards as 't is farther added he was forc'd to leave Oxon. because of a Plague that hapned in his time and went to Cambridge but making no long stay there he travelled to the University of Padoüa
Bekinsau did dedicate it to K. Hen. 8. with whom as also with K. Ed. 6. he was in some value but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown and endeavoured to alter all what her Father and Brother had done as to the reformation of the Church then did he wheel about change his mind and became a zealous Person for the Church of Rome and a hater of Protestants After Queen Elizabeth was fetled in the Throne he retired to an obscure Town called Sherbourne in Hampshire where giving way to fate in great discontent was buried in the Church of that place 20. year 1559 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine aged about 63 years leaving then behind him this character among the R. Catholicks that As he was a learned Man so might he have been promoted according to his deserts had his principles been constant ALBAYN HYLL was a Britaine born as one that knew him tellus partly educated in this and partly in another University beyond the Sea as it seems where applying his studies to the faculty of Physick he proceeded Doctor and became famous for it at London not only for the Theoretic but practick part and much beloved and admired by all learned Men especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Fryer two eminent Physicians of Cambridge One that lived in his time stiles him Medicus nobilissimus atque optimus in omni literarum genere maxime versatus and tells us that he wrot several things on Galen which are printed and by others cited This is all that I know of this learned Person only that he died 26 Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the Church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London in which Parish he had lived many years in great respect and was esteemed one of the chief Parishioners Alice his Widow who died on the last day of May 1580. was buried by him and both had a substantial Grave-stone with an inscription on it laid over them but that of it which was left part in 1666. was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London NICHOLAS BRIGHAM Esquire was born if I mistake not at or near to Caversham in Oxfordshire where his elder Brother Thom. Brigham had lands of inheritance and died there 6. Ed. 6. but descended from those of Brigham in Yorks received his Academical education in this University particularly as I conceive in Hart Hall wherein I find several of his Sirname without Christian names before them to have studied in the time of Hen. 8. but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear in our registers that are somewhat imperfect in the latter end of that King's Reign When he continued in the University and afterwards in one of the Inns of Court he exercised his muse much in Poetry and took great delight in the works of Jeffry Chaucer For whose memory he had so great a respect that he removed his bones into the South cross Isle or trancept of St. Peters Church in Westminster in the Year 1556. Which being so done he erected a comely Monument over them with Chaucers Effigies and an Epitaph in Prose and Verse which to this day remains against the East Wall of the said Isle At riper years our Author Brigham addicted himself much to the study of the municipal Law became noted for it and without doubt had not death snatched him untimely away he would have communicated some Specimen of that faculty to the World His genie also was much inclin'd to English History in which faculty he published a Book which some entitle De venationibus rerum memorabilum It contains the discovery or finding out of several memories of eminent Men of and things done in England Which being perused by John Bale he hath cull'd out many things thence for his purpose and quotes it when he hath occasion to mention several eminent Writers See in his Book De Scriptorib Maj. Britan. cent 10. nu 72. cent 11. num 6. 42. 52. 95. c. and in cent 12. nu 24. 79. 82. 95. c. Memoires by way of Diaâ—e in 12 Books And wrot also his youth Miscellaneous Poems with other things which I have not seen being as I suppose irrecoverable and quite lost This ingenious and curious Person who was admirably well vers'd in Histories and Antiquities yeilded up his last breath to the great regret of all those that knew his worth within the City of Westminster in the month of Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the second year of Queen Elizabeth but where buried unless near to the bones of Chaucer I cannot tell JOHN WHYTE Brother to Sir Joh. Whyte L. Mayor of London an 1563. Son of Rob. Whyte of Farnham in Surrey Son of Joh. Whyte of the same place Son of Thom. Whyte of Purvyle in Hampshire was born at Farnham before mentioned educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1527 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated 23 March 1533-4 left his Fellowship in 1534. being about that time Master of the said School in the place of Rich. Tuchiner Afterwards he was made Warden of the College near to Winchester was elected Bishop of Lincolne upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Tayler the Temporalities of which were restored to him 2. May 1554 he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of Octob. 1555. he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty and soon after upon the death of Dr. St. Gardiner he was translated to Winchester the Temporalities of which were also restored to him 30. May 1557. Of some of which gradual rises Dr. Christoph Johnson one of his successors in the Mastership of Winchester School made this distick Me puero custos Ludi paulo ante Magister Vitus hâc demum praesul in urbe fuit He was a Man of an austere life and much more mortified to the World than Step. Gardiner his Predecessor He was eminent also for piety and learning was an eloquent Orator a solid Divine a nervous Preacher poetica facultate ut tempora ferebant tolerabilis as Camden tells us His fame and actions did well answer his name and so did all Men say how contrary soever to him in Religion only for one black Sermon that he made he gave offence yet for the colour it may be said he kept decorum because it was a funeral Sermon of a great Queen by birth and marriage I mean Qu. Mary The offence taken against him was this His Text was out of Eccles 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes feliciorem utroque judicave qui nec dum damnatus est And speaking of Qu. Mary her high parentage her bountiful disposition her great gravity her rare devotion praying so much as he
3. Oct. 1543 upon the death of Joh. Southwode LL. D. When King Hen. 8. had extirpated the Popes power he seemed to be very moderate and also in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. but when Qu. Mary succeeded he shew'd himself a most zealous Person for the Roman Catholick Religion and a great enemy to Luther and Reformers His works are Sermons fruitful godly and learned Lond. 1557. qu. containing 1 A declaration of the seven gifts of the holy ghost 2 A Homely of the articles of Christian Faith 3 Homely of Ceremonies and of mans Laws 4 A perfect exposition of St. Peters first Epistle in XX treatises or Sermons What other things he hath published I cannot yet find neither should I have known any thing of the said Fruitful Sermons had I not accidentally seen them in that choice collection of Books in Balliol Coll. Library given thereunto by the no less curious than learned Sir Thom. Wendy Knight of the Bath sometimes Gentleman-commoner of the said House This Dr. Edgeworth took his last farewell of this World in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was directly buried before the choire door in the Cathedral Church at Wells Whereupon Dr. Gilbert Bourne Bishop of that place did present or collate to the said Chancellourship of the Church of Wells one Gilbert Bournford Bachelaur of Divinity on the second day of April in the same Year THOMAS PHAYER was born in Wales particularly as it seems in Pembrokeshire had his Academical education among the Oxonians whom after some years he left and retired to the Inns of Court Lincolns Inn as I conceive where at length he attained to a considerable knowledge in the municipal Laws Afterwards being a Person of a mutable mind he eagerly addicted his Muse to the study of Medicine took the Degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in an Act celebrated 21. Mar. 1558-9 at which time he was much famed among the Academians for his sufficiencies in the Art of Poetry which afterwards were made publick He hath committed to posterity these Books following of his writing and translation Of the nature of Writts Whether the same with that written by the great Lawyer Anth. Fitzherbert who lived before Phayers time I know not Exemplars of common places for the writing of several sorts of Instruments It is the same which we now call A Book of precedents I have a MS. lying by me written on parchment in the time of H. 6. or Ed. 4. containing Copies of all matters to be used by Lawyers but who the compiler of it was I cannot tell In the beginning of it is written in a pretty ancient character George Hardley A goodly bryefe treatise of the pestylence with the causes signs and cures of the same Lond. 1544. and 46. oct Declaration of the veynes of mans body and to what dyseases and infirmities the opening of every one of them doe serve This is printed with the former Book an 1544. c. A Book of children And this also which treats of the grief and diseases of Children Remedies or prescriptions of Physick for the Body Published by Hen. Holland 1603. whom I shall mention at the end of Hen. Holland under the Year 1625. He also translated from French into English The regiment of Life Lond. 1544. and 46. oct and from Lat. into English Nine Books of Virgils Aencidos The three first of which were by him finished in the Forest of Kilgarran in Pembrokshire in the Year 1555. The fourth at the same place an 1556. The fifth in 1557 being ended 3. May just after the translator had undergone a great danger at Caâ—rmerden The sixth and seventh were also finished by him in the same Year and in the same place The eighth there also in Kilgarran forest an 1558. The ninth was ended 3. Apr. 1560. The tenth was begun by him in the said Year but died as it seems before he could go through it Afterwards a young Physician named Tho. Twyne meeting with the aforesaid translations in MS. he finished the said tenth Aeneid 23. May an 1573. Which being done he translated the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth Aeneidos and published them altogether an 1584. as I shall tell you elsewhere As for Dr. Phaer he ended his days at Kilgarran before-mentioned after the 12. of Aug. on which day his last will and testament was dated in Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was buried in the Parish Church of that place Over his grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon made and devised by his good friend Mr. George Ferrers of Lincolns -Inn but what the contents of it are I know not nor of any other Epitaph made for him only that by Sir Thom. Chaloner a most noted Latine Poet of his time who having been well acquainted with the Doctor doth in a pathetical manner highly commend him for his learning and great skill in Physick He the said Doctor left behind him a Widow named Anne and two Daughters Eleanor the Wife of Gruffith ap Eynon and Mary THOMAS ROBERTSON was a Yorkshire Man born either at or near Wakefeild was originally I think of Queens afterwards Demie or Semicommoner of Magdalen College Master of the School joyning to it in the place of Joh. Stanbridge Master of Arts 1525 at which time he was a great Oppugner and Vilifier of the Questionists in the University and at length Fellow of the said House In 1539 he being about that time Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Rich. Sampson supplicated the venerab congreg of the Regents to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then esteemed Flos decus Oxonii but whether he was admitted it appears not and in 1540 he by the favour of Longland Bishop of Lincolne was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Will. More Suffragan Bishop of Colchester deceased in which dignity being installed 5. March the same Year enjoyed it to 1560. as I shall anon tell you In 1546. Jun. 3. he was instituted Vicar of Wakefield before-mention'd on the death of Dr. Tho. Knolles by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Chambre M. D. Dean and the convent of the Kings Chappel of the Virgin Mary and St. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Whereupon in the beginning of 1548. he gave up the Treasurership of Salibury in which Dignity Thom. Stevens succeeded 28. May the same Year He the said Robertson was an exact Grammarian and Humanitian and went as 't was thought beyond his two Predecessors in Magd. College School in the education of Youth In 1532 he Printed a Comment on the rules which Will. Lilye wrot in verse and added thereunto Quae Genus and the versifying rules dedicating it to Bishop Longland before mention'd with reference to Henley School which some think was founded or at least inlarged by Longland From whose pains I mean of Robertson and also the
mention them in their respective places THOMAS PAYNELL or Paganell descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Lincolnshire was from his youth always exercised in virtue and good letters While he was in his juvenile years he was made a Canon Regular of Merton Priory in Surrey the Monasticks of which place having had interest in the College of St. Mary the Virgin situated in the Parish of St. Michael and St. Peter in the Baylie built purposely for the training up of young Can. Reg. in Philosophical or Theological learning or both he was sent thither where improving himself much in Divine learning returned to his Monastery and a little before the dissolution of that and others became Prior of a certain Monastery of Canon Regulars near to London as Baleus saith tho the name of the place he tells us not But being soon after ejected when his Monastery was to be imployed for a laical use had a pension allowed him during his life Whereupon retiring to London and sometimes to Oxon had the more leisure to write and translate Books the titles of which follow Pandicts of the Evangelical Law Lond. 1553. oct The pithy and most notable sayings of all the Scripture after the manner of common places c. newly augmented and corrected Lond. 1560. oct A Table of many matters contained in the english works of Sir Tho. More This is set before the said works that were published by Will. Rastell an 1557. A fruitful Book of the common places of all St. Pauls Epistles right necessary for all sorts of People c. Lond. 1562. oct Preface to the Book of measuring of Land as well of Woodland as Plowland Printed at Lond. in the time of Hen. 8. in oct The Book it self was written by Sir Rich. de Benese sometimes Canon of Merton Priory but corrected and made fit for the press by Paynell In the Year 1519. one Rich. de Benese a secular Chaplain supplicated the Ven. congregation for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether the same with the writer I cannot justly say because he is written secular Chaplain Neither can I say that Rich. Benese Clerk Parson of Long Ditton in Surrey in the time of H. 8. be the same also who in his last Will and Test dated 3. Nov. 1546. and proved 20. Oct. 1547. doth bequeath his body to be buried in the yard belonging to the Church there Our Author Thom. Paynell did also translate from Lat. into English 1 Of the contempt of the world Lond. 1533. oct written by Erasmus 2 Of the Medicine Guacum and of the French disease c. Lond. 1536. and 1539. oct written by Ulrich Hutten a Knight of Almaine It treateth of the wood called Guacum which healeth the French Pox the Gout Stone Palsey c. 3 Of the comparison of a Virgin and a Martyr Lond. 1537. oct written by Erasmus This translation is dedicated to John Ramsey Lord Prior of Merton 4 Sermon on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1539. oct written by St. Cyprian 5 A faithful and true story of the destruction of Troy Lond. 1553. oct written by Danus Phrigius 6 A devout prayer expedient for those that prepare themselves to say Mass c. Lond. 1555. oct written by St. Ambrose 7 Brief Chronycle of all the Earls of Holland Lond. 1557. oct written by Hadrianus Barlandus 8. Salerni sanit regim The Regiment of health teaching all People how to govern them in health Lond. 1558 oct 9 Of the examples of virtue and vice Lond. 1561. oct written by Nich. Hannape 10 Fruitful treatise of well living containing the whole summ and effect of all virtue Printed at Lond in oct written by St. Bernard 11 The Precepts teaching a Prince or a noble estate his duty print in oct written originally in Greek by Agapetus He also translated from French into English 1 The civility of Chidhood with the discipline and institution of Children Lond. 1560. oct 2 The assault of Heaven Lond. in qu. besides other translations which you may see elsewhere In my searches I once saw a Will without date made for Thom. Paynell Priest born at or near to Bothby-Paynell in Lincolnshire afterwards-Parson as it seems of Cotyngam lying between Hull and Beverley in Yorkshire to which place he was a Benefactor and left considerable Legacies to 20 poor Maidens born and dwelling there He gave to St. Johns Coll. in Oxon wherein as it seems he had studied in his elderly years in the latter end of H. 8. and in the time of Ed. 6. at which time it was called St. Bernards Coll. all his Books in his Chamber at London and desired that at his Funeral a Sermon be Preached by a Catholick Doctor or a Bach. of Divinity c. This will which seems to have been made at London was proved in the Praerogative Court of Conterbury on the 22 of March according to the English accompt in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 I do and always did take it to be made for Thom. Paynell the writer and conclude thence that he died in the Winter time 1563. but where buried I cannot tell EDWARD FERRERS a most ingenious Man of his time was of the same Family with those of Baldesley-Clenton in Warwickshire but the name of the particular place where he was born or the name of the House in Oxon wherein educated I cannot justly say Sure it is that he continued there several years being then in much esteem for his Poetry and about the time that he left the Univ. wrot Several Tragedies Com. or Interludes All which being written with much skill and magnificence in his meeter gave the King so much good recreation as the Author of the Art of English Poesie saith as he had thereby many good rewards and adds farther that for such things as he hath seen of his writing and of the writing of Tho. Sackvile they deserve the price c. Our Author Ferrers hath also written these two Poems following viz. The fall of Rob. Tresilian Cheif Justice of England and The unlawful murder of Tho. of Woodstok Duke of Glocester with several other things which I have not yet seen and was Author as one or more writers say of a Book intit A mirroure for Magistrates Lond. 1559 Published by Will. Baldwin whom I shall anon mention In which Mirrour are involved the two Poems before-mentioned and other things of the composition of the said E. Ferrers who was in great renown in Fifteen hundred sixty and four being if I mistake not the same Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley Clinton who died and was buried there in that year leaving behind him a Son named Henry whom I shall mention under the Year 1633. WILLIAM BALDEWYN who seems to have been a Western Man born spent several years in Logic and Philosophie in this University being the same Will. Baldwyn as 't is probable who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might take a Degree
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
in number 37. to be enquired of in his general visitation exercised by him in the City and Dioc. of Lond. an 1554 These being very unusual articles I do therefore here set them down especially for this reason that Jo. Bale hath commented on them with a great deal of raillery in a Book entit A Declaration of Edmund Bonners articles Lond. 1561. oct A profitable and necessary doctrine or Catechisme with certaine Homelies adjoyned thereunto for the instruction and information of the People within the Dioc. of Lond. Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Or thus A necessary doctrine containing an exposition on the Creed seaven Sacraments ten commandments the pater noster Ave Maria and the seaven deadly sins Various letters declarations arguings disputes c. As in the said Book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was for denying the Oath of Supreamacy deprived of his Bishoprick again as he himself hath set it down in a spare leaf before Eusebius his Ch. Hist with Ruffinus his commentary printed at Basil in the Year 1528. Which Book I some years ago bought for the sake of the note which he had written running thus Litera dominicali A. an dom MDLIX die Maii XXX vocatus ad concilium recusavi praestare juramentum omnino deprivatus Afterwards being committed to his former prison the Marshalsea in Southwarke near London continued there in a cheerful and contented condition till the time of his death which therefore made those that did not care for him say that he was like Dionysius the Tyrant of Syracuse who being cruel and peremptory in prosperity was both patient and pleasant in adversity 'T is said that Dr. Bonner being sometimes allowed liberty he would walk as his occasions served in the street and sometimes wearing his tippet one begg'd it of him in scoff to line a coat no saith he but thou shalt have a fools head to line thy cap. To another that bid him Good morrow Bishop quondam he streight replyed Farewel knave semper Which answers are Epigrammatiz'd by an admired Muse of our Nation in his time When another Person shew'd the said Bonner his own picture in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. commonly call'd the Book of Martyrs on purpose to vex him he merrily laugh'd and said a vengeance on the fool how could he get my picture drawn so right And when one asked him if he were not ashamed to whip a Man with a beard he laugh'd and told him his beard was grown since but said he if thou hadst been in his case thou would'st have thought it a good commutation of pennance to have thy bumm beaten to save thy body from burning c. He gave way to fate in the aforesaid Prison 5. Sept. year 1569 in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine and was at midnight buried near to the bodies of other Prisoners in the Cemitery belonging to St. Georges Church in Southwark in which Parish the Marshalsea is situated He had caused formerly two of his Nephews Sons of one of his Sisters before-mention'd to be educated in Broadgates hall one of which was named Will. Darbyshire who by his Uncles favour became Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral and dying in Broadgates was buried in St. Aldates Church adjoyning 3. July 1552. The other was Tho. Darbyshire who proceeded Doctor of Laws as a Member of Broadgates in 1555 under which year you may see more of him in the Fasti ANDREW KINGSMYLL Son of John Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire was born there or in that County elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. from that of Corp. Chr. in 1558 studied the Civil Law wherein he attained to a considerable knowledge and was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions in that faculty in the beginning of the Year 1563. About that time also he exercised himself much in the Scriptures and having a great memory could readily rehearse memoriter in the Greek tongue St. Pauls Epistles to the Romans and Galatians and St. Johns first Canonical Epistle besides other Chapters of the Old and New Test and several Psalmes He exercised himself also by writing of sundry matters that he might grow in judgment readiness and aptness to teach others if at any time he should be called thereunto whereof a little treatise entit A view of Mans estate c. yieldeth some proof which he wrot at about 22 years of Age. He esteemed not so much the preferment and profit whereunto many ways he might easily have attained by the profession of the Law as the comfortable assurance which he usually urged and blessed hope of life eternal Wherefore to further himself therein he sought not only the exact knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew tongues but also for a time to live in some one of the best reformed Churches where he might both by the doctrine and discipline of the Gospel be dayly confirm'd in the true worship of God and well prepared for the Ministry of the Church For this end he settled in Geneva where he remained the space of three years being well liked by the learned and godly there From thence he removed to Losanne where being too good for this world ended this mortal life leaving behind him a rare example of godliness among the Calvinistical Brethren there He hath written A view of mans estate wherein the great mercy of God in mans free justification is shewed Lond. 1574. 1580 c. oct A godly advice touching marriage Lond. 1580. oct Excellent and comfortable treatise for all such as are any manner of way either troubled in mind or afflicted in body Lond. 1578. oct Godly and learned exhortation to bear patiently all afflictions for the Gospel of Jes Ch. on Gal. 6. 14. Conference between a godly learned Christian and an afflicted conscience concerning a conflict had with Satan All which and I think a Sermon on S. Joh. 3. 16. printed in oct were published after the Authors death by his friend and contemporary Franc. Mylls a Kentish Man M. of A. and Fel. of All 's C. As for the Author he surrendred up his last breath in the prime of his years at Losanne and therefore the more lemented by the brethren in the Month of Sept. in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine year 1569 leaving behind him an excellent pattern of his virtues and piety which all should but few did imitate It must be now known that in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the Univ. of Oxon was so empty after the R. Cath. had left it upon the alteration of Religion that there was very seldom a Sermon preached in the University Church called Sr. Mary and what was done in that kind was sometimes by Laurence Humphrey President of Magd. C. and Thom. Sampson Dean of Ch. Ch. But they being often absent a young Man of Allsouls Coll. would often step up and Preach to the admiration of all his auditors This young Man whom as Sir Hen. Savile Warden
the Civil Law in an ancient hostle for Civilians called Henxey hall in St. Aldates Parish in Oxon where making great proficiency he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1531. In 1535 when K. Hen. 8. first founded certain Lectures in the University he appointed Job Storie to read that of the Civil Law and in 1537 he became Principal of Broadgates hall being also about that time Moderator of one of the Civil Law Schools In 1538 he proceeded in his faculty and afterwards performing excellent service at the Siege of Bologne in Picardie in the administration of the Civil Law under the Lord Marshall there the King in consideration thereof did renew his former grant of the said Lecture in form of Letters Pat. for the term of life of the said John in the Year 1546 or thereabouts joyning with him for his ease Mr. Rob. Weston Fellow of All 's College When Qu. Marie came to the Crown she renewed his patent again but soon after resigning his professorship because he had got greater preferment at London and the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Oxon. if I mistake not became a zealous Man in the Religion then professed and an eager enemy against the poor Protestants as the Histories of those times will tell you I find published under his name these things following Oration against Th. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in 1556. Discourse with Joh. Philpot the Martyr about matters of Religion and with others Answer to Examinations during his imprisonment in the tower of London in 1570. Speech at his execution at Tybourne 1 o June 1571. with other things of which some relate to his profession that I have not yet seen When Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was imprisoned but soon after broke out and going beyond the Sea continued an enemy to the Protestants there became a sworn servant to the Duke of Alva at Antwerp and from him received a special commission to search the Ships for goods forfeited and and for English Books in which service he did very great harm to the English Protestants At length being invited under hand to search the Ship of one Parker an English Man went unwarily therein Whereupon Parker causing the hatches to be shut when Storie was searching under deck he hoised sail and brought him Prisoner into England about the beginning of Decemb. 1570. So that being clap'd up close Prisoner within the Tower of London did undergo there several examinations At length being brought to a trial and stedfastly denying to take the Oath of Supremacy as he had done several times before within the Tower he was drawn thence on a hurdle to Tybourne on the first day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 having been prayed for and animated in his faith by Joh. Feckenham Prisoner in the said Tower where after he had spoken a large speech which was unexspected and therefore not interrupted he was for a little time hanged but before he was half dead he was cut down and when the Executioner cut off his privy members he rose up with alacrity and gave him a blow on the ear But his bowels being soon after draw'd out of his belly and his body quarter'd his head was set upon London bridge and his quarters were hanged on 4 gates of the City Several of his treasons and conspiracies against the English Nation you may see in a pamphlet printed in oct an 1571 bearing this title A copie of a letter sent by a Gentleman student in the lawes of the realm to a friend of his concerning Dr. Storie And what relates to him as praise worthy you may see in Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglica taken from Nichol. Sanders his seventh Book De visibili Monarchia His Martyrdom is imprinted or represented in the English Coll. at Rome and he is called with the two Notons Joh. Felton and others Saints The Franciscans have a great respect for his memory also because he had been a lay-brother of that Order and had done several signal services for them JOHN JEWELL one of the greatest lights that the reformed Church of England hath produced was born at Buden in the Parish of Berinerber in Devon 24. May 1522. His Father was Joh ' Jewell and his Mother of the Family of the Bellamies who sparing neither labour or charge for his education was at length by the care of Joh. Bellamie his uncle educated in Grammar learning first at Branton then at Southmoulton and at length at Barnstaple in his own Country under one Walt. Bowen In which last School being made ripe for the University he was sent to Oxon. in July 1535 and being entred into Merton Coll. under the tuition of John Parkhurst afterwards B. of Norwych was by him made his Portionist now called Postmaster and by his care and severe tuition laid the foundation for greater learning that followed In the Year 1539. after he upon examination had shew'd himself a youth of great hopes he was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 19. Aug. and the Year after was made Bach. of Arts. So that being put into a capacity by that Degree of taking Pupills many resorted to him whom he mostly instructed in private in Protestant principles and in publick in Humanity he being about that time Rhetorick reader in his Coll. In 1544 he was licensed to proceed in Arts which he compleated in an Act celebrated 9. Feb. the same year When K. Hen. 8. was dead he shew'd himself more openly to be a Protestant and upon P. Martyr's arrival at Oxon to be an admirer and hearer of him whose Notary he was when he disputed with Tresham Cheadsey and Morgan In 1550 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and during the Reign of K. Ed. 6. became a zealous promoter of reformation and a Preacher and Catechiser at Sunningwel near Abendon in Berks. Soon after Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was forced to leave the Nation and retire first to Frankfort with Henry the eldest Son of Sir Franc. Knollys Rob. Horne and Edwyn Sandys and afterwards to Strasburgh with Joh. Poynet Edmund Grindal Joh. Cheek c. After Qu. Maries death he returned in 1558 and in the Year following he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Salisbury for his great learning and sufferings being about that time appointed one of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Romish perswasion when Qu. Elizab. was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England In 1560 he preached at Pauls cross on the second Sunday before Easter on 1. Cor. 11. 23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you c. In which Sermon he shew'd himself the first who made a publick challenge to all the Rom. Catholicks in the world to produce but one clear and evident testimony out of any Father or famous writer who flourished within 500 years after Christ for any one of the many articles which the Romanists
troubles at Frankford in Germany printed 1575. in qu. p. 44. 45. c. 92. c. When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded he returned and the first thing that made him then to be noted was An Oration to Qu. Eliz. at her first entrance to her Reigne an 1558. It was not spoken but delivered in writing to her by a certain noble Man The beginning of it is Albeit there be innumerable gifts c. He also wrot a little book in favour of the house of Suffolk especially of the Children of Edw. Seymour Earl of Hertford eldest Son of Edward Duke of Somerset who was married to the Lady Cath. Grey Dau. of Hen. Duke of Suff. of near alliance in blood to the Queen in his house in Chanon row within the City of Westminster in Oct. 1560. The effect of which was to derive the title of the Crown of England in case Qu. Eliz. should die without issue to the house of Suffolk This Marriage notwithstanding the Archb. of Cant. did by his sentence pronounce unlawful yet our Author Hales who was esteemed a Man very opiniotive tho otherwise very learned did maintain in the said book that their sole consent did legitimate their conjunction Which pamphlet flying abroad came straight way to the Court Whereupon the Queen and the Nobles being highly offended the Author was quickly discovered and forthwith imprison'd in the Tower of London Soon after Sir Nich. Bacon then Lord Keeper was presumed to have had a finger in it for which he was like to have lost his office if Sir Ant. Browne who had been L. Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas in Qu. Maries time would have accepted of it which her Majesty offer'd to him and the Earl of Leycester earnestly exhorted him to take it but he refused it for that he was of a different Religion from the State and so Sir Nic. Bacon remained in his place at the great instance of Sir Will. Cecill afterwards L. Treasurer who tho he was to be privy to the said book yet was the matter so wisely laid upon Hales and Bacon that Sir Will. was kept free thereby to have the more authority and grace to procure the others pardon as he did Soon after Jo. Lesley Bishop of Ross a great creature of Mary Queen of Scots did answer that Book for which he got the good will of many tho of others not As for our Author Hales he gave way to fate on the fifth of the calends of January in Fifteen hundred seventy and two year 1571 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Peter's poor in London He died without issue so that his estate which chiefly laid in Warwickshire of which his principal house in Coventry call'd Hales place otherwise the White Fryers was part went to John Son of his Brother Christopher Hales sometimes also an Exile at Frankfort whose posterity doth remain there to this day ELIZE HEYWOOD sometimes written Ellis Heewood Son of Job Heywood the famous Epigrammatist was born in London and by the indulgence of his Father was carefully educated in juvenile learning in that City and in Academical in Oxon. In 1547 he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals he applyed his genie to the study of the Laws in which faculty he took one degree an 1552 being the sixth year of K. Ed. 6. Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy continued for some time at Florence being patroniz'd by Card Pole and became such an exact Master of the Italian tongue that he wrot a book in that Language entituled Il Moro lib. 2. Fiorenz 1556 in octavo This book which is dedicated to the said Cardinal contains a discourse fancied to be in the house of Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England and in consolation with him Besides this book he wrot as 't is said other things in Italian or in Lat. or in his mother tongue which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom or never see them in these parts About that time our Author receiving instructions concerning matters of faith from an English Man called Hall he went into the Low Countries and at Antwerp performed the office of Preacher and Prefectship of the spirit Thence he went to Lovaine where he died in the twelfth year after his ingress into the society of Jesus year 1572 which was about Fifteen hundred seventy and two He had a younger brother named Jasper bred also in Oxford and leaving the Nation for Religion sake entred himself into the said Society as I shall tell you under the Year 1597. num 295. NICHOLAS GRIMALD or Grimoald received his first being in this world in Huntingdonshire and his first Academical education in Christs Coll. in Cambridge where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon and was incorporated there in the said Degree in Apr. 1542. In the next month he was chosen Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. he being then in the 23 year of his age In 1544 he proceeded in Arts and 1547 when the Coll. of King Hen. 8. was to be settled and replenished with Students he was put in there as a Senior or Theologist accounted then only honorary and the rather for this reason because he about that time did read a publick Lecture to the Academians in the large refectory of that place All that I have yet seen of his writings are these Archipropheta Tragedia jam recens in lucem edita Colon. 1548. in oct Oratio ad Pontifices Londini in aede Paulina an 1553. 17. Id. Apr. in Synodo publica Lond. 1583. oct In P. V. Maronis quatuor libros Georgicorum in oratione soluta paraphrasis elegantissima Oxonii in Aede Christi 2. Ed. 6. confecta Lond. 1591. oct Fama com Troilus Chauceri com with several such like things which you may see in Baleus who also tells us elsewhere that he wrot in English a Book intit Vox populi or The Peoples complaint c. which was against Rectors Vicars Archdeacons Deans c. for living remote from their Flocks and for not performing the duty belonging to their respective offices He hath also divers Lat. and English copies of verses occasionally printed before and in commendation of other Mens works and has also translated from Lat. into English Cicero's three books of duties to Marcus his Son Lond. 1558. oct with other things from Greek He was in great esteem among Men in the fifteenth year of Qu. Elizabeth LEWIS EVANS was a Monmouthshire Man born as it seems and mostly educated in Oxon Afterwards being a forward and zealous Man for the R. Cath. Religion at London where he had got some employment was brought into trouble by Dr. Grindal Bishop of that place So that being forced to fly he went beyond the Sea and settled for a time at Antwerp where to shew his zeal for the cause he translated a Book from Lat. into English entit Certaine tables set forth by
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
I cannot take to be the same with the former because he of Ch. Ch. seems then to be Master of Arts. As for our R. Bristow he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of the Year 1559 that also of Master in 1562 and was Junior of the Act celebrated 13 of July the same Year at which time he was entred in the Proctors book as a member of Ch. Ch. About that time having obtained great credit among the Academians for his admirable speeches spoken while Junior of the Act he applyed himself to the study of Divinity became noted in the University for his acute parts and being recommended therefore to that singular lover of learning Sir Will. Petre was by him promoted to one of his Scholarships or Fellowships in Exeter Coll. in July 1567 where exercising himself much in Theology did in a set disputation in the Divinity School put the Kings Professor L. Humphrey to a non-plus as those of our Authors perswasion do report At length being convinced that he had erred in his opinion left the Coll. in 1569 his Religion and the Kingdom went to Lovaine and became acquainted with Dr. William Allen who made him the first Moderator or Prefect of studies in the English Coll. by him founded at Doway took upon him the Priesthood being the first in that Coll. that did so and read the publick lecture of Divinity there In 1573 his said Scholarship or Fellowship of Ex. Coll. being pronounced void because he had been absent several years John Petre Son of Sir W. Petre before-mention'd did put into his room Mr. Oliver Whiddon Archdeacon of Totness 27. Oct. but resigned it in the latter end of Nov. following Afterwards upon Dr. Allens instituting another Seminary at Rheimes Bristow was sent for and the care of that place was committed to him also in 1579 while another was his substitute at Doway About which time he took the Degrees in Divinity partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine and became famous in those parts for his Religion and learning He hath written A brief treatise of diverse plaine and sure wayes to find out the truth in this doubtful and dangerous time of heresie containing sundry motives unto the Cath. Faith or considerations to move a Man to believe the Catholicks and not the Hereticks Antw. 1599. in tw and before at another place Dr. W. Allens testimony of this treatise is prefixed dat 30. Apr. 1574 wherein he saith that the said book contains with great perspicuity order and art divers most excellent works whereby to discern in Religion the true judgment of the Catholick Church from the false vanity of the Hereticks c. that it is also in all points Catholick learned and worthy to be read and printed These motives were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge Reply to Will Fulke in defence of Dr. Allens scrowle of articles and book of Purgatory Lov. 1580. qu. Whereupon Dr. Fulke came out with a rejoinder the Year following Anti-Heretica Motiva omnibus catholicae doctrinae orthodoxis cultoribus pernecessaria Atrebat 1608. in two tomes in qu. This large book which contains most if not all the former motives was translated into Lat. by Thom. Worthington a Secular Priest afterwards a Jesuit an 1606. and by him published at Arras two years after Demands 51 in number to be proposed by Catholicks to the Hereticks Several times printed in oct This also was answered in a book entit To the seminary Priests late come over some like Gentlemen c. Lond. 1592. qu. A defence of the Bull of P. Pius 5. He also collected and for the most part wrot Annotations on the New Testament translated into English at Rheimes And was also as it seems Author of Veritates aureae S. R. ecclesiae autoritatibus vet patrum c. Printed 1616. qu. for the name of R. Bristous Anglus is set to that Book At length after our Author had lived at Rheimes about two years went privately into England by his Physicians advice for healths sake in 1581 and going to London was kindly received by and entertain'd in the Family of one Bellamie Rob. or Jerome Bellamie as it seems a sincere and constant Lover of R. Catholicks and their Religion But his distemper being gone too far dyed the year following and was by Bellamie buried pivately year 1582 but where unless near to Harrow on the hill in Middlesex where the Bellamies had a seat and Lands I know not In the Year 1682 I received a note from one of the English Coll. in Doway whereby I was instructed that Rich. Bristow was made D. of D. at Doway from whence he was sent into England where he died not far from London 18. Oct. 1581. But this note I reject because that what I have said already of his death I had from the writings of one that knew him viz. Tho. Worthington who published his Motives GREGORY MARTIN received his first breath at Macksfield near to Winchelsey in Sussex was put in one of the original Scholars of S. Johns Coll. by the Founder thereof Sir Tho. White in 1557 where going thro the usual forms of Logick aad Philosophy with incredible industry took the degree of Master of Arts 1564. Afterwards he was taken into the Family of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk to be Tutor to his Son the Lord Philip afterwards Earl of Surrey and his Brethren where continuing for some years it hapned in that time that the said Duke came to Oxon and giving a visit to S. Johns Coll. had an eloquent Speech delivered before him by one of that Society wherein of Gr. Martin he said thus Habes illustrissime Dux Hebraeum nostrum Graecum nostrum Poetam nostrum decus gloriam nostram After he had done with his service in the said Dukes Family and received sufficient rewards for his pains he went beyond the Seas and renouncing his Religion openly for before he was but a Catholick in private he retired to Doway where applying his mind to the studies of Divinity was made a Licentiat in that Faculty in 1575. Afterwards going into Italy he went to Rome to do his Devotions to the places and Temples of the Apostles but making no long stay there he went to Rheimes in France where fixing his station in the English Coll. became publick Professor and one of the Divinity-Readers there He was a most excellent Linguist exactly read and vers'd in the Sacred Scriptures and went beyond all of his time in humane literature whether in Poetry or Prose As for those things he hath written they have been and are taken into the hands of Men of his profession but all that I have seen of them are only these A treatise of Schisme shewing that all Catholicks ought in any wise to abstaine altogether from heretical Conventicles viz. their Prayers Sermons c. Doway 1578. oct A discovery of the manifold corruptions of the Holy Scripture by the Hereticks of our days especially
was trained up became a zealous Protestant but he lived and died before the time of the former Jo. Nicolls See more in Jo. Bale cent 9. nu 26. THOMAS HETH or Heath well known to and respected by Dr. Job d ee and Mr. Tho. Allen was born in the City of London admitted Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1567 proceeded in Arts 1579 being then in great repute for his admirable skill in Astronomical and Physical affairs The products of which are A manifest and apparent confutation of an Astrological discourse lately published to the discomfort without cause of the weak and simple sort Brief Prognostication or Astronomical prediction of the conjunction of the two superiour Planets Saturne and Jupiter which shall be in 1583. Apr. 29. c. Printed with the former book Both these were written 25 March the same year to Sir George Carey Knight Knight-Marshal of her Majesties most honorable houshold who was a cherisher of the muse of our Author and printed at Lond. 1583. oct The said Astrological discourse which our Author answer'd was written in the beginning of January an 1582. upon the great and notable conjunction of the two superior Planets Saturne and Jupiter which was to happen 28 Apr. Heth saith 29. 1583 by Rich. Harvey a native of Saffron-Walden in Essex Brother to Dr. Gabr Harvey and a Student in Cambridge particularly as I conceive in Trinity hall afterwards a professed Divine and a Man of note Upon the coming out of the said Astrological discourse the common sort of People were driven out of their wits and knew not what to do But when nothing hapned which was therein predicted they fell to their former security and condemned the discoverer of extreme madness and folly Whereupon Tom Nash did register down the infinite scorn that the whole realm entertained it with the adages also that ran upon it with Tarltons and Eldertons nigrum theta set to it What became of our Author Tho. Heath I know not nor of another Tho. Heath Bach. of Arts of Magd. hall an 1570 whom my friend takes to be the Astronomer and not him of All 's Coll. but mistaken as I conceive for certain reasons not necessary to be now set down Heath the Astronomer was in great renown among those of his profession in Fifteen hundred eighty and three but when he died or where he was buried I cannot justly say As for Rich. Harvey before-mention'd it was the very self-same Person who read the Philosophy Lecture at Cambridge and the same whom the whole University histat if you 'll believe that noted Buffoon Tho. Nash his contemporary there who farther adds that Tarlton at the theater made jests of him and W. Elderton consum'd his ale-cramn'd-nose to nothing in bear-baiting him with whole bundels of ballads 'T was the same Ric. Harvey also that set Aristotle with his heels upward on the School-gates at Cambridge and asses ears on his head a thing that the said Tom did in perpetuam rei memoriam record And the same Person who coming to take one Smiths a young Bachelaur of Trinity Coll. questions cried out when he durst not venture on them Aquila non capit muscas and so gave them to him again Whereunto the other being a lustly big-bon'd fellow and a Goliah or Behemoth in comparison of him strait retorted nec eliphas mures and thereupon parted The same Dick Harvey also of whom Christoph Marlo was wont to say that he was an asse and good for nothing but to preach of the iron age But to let pass other matters which these vain Men report of Rich. Harvey it is fit that the reader should know some of the other works that he hath done which shew him quite another Person that what they make him to be as 1 A discourse of the ecclipse of the Sun which hapned in 1582 as also A compendious table of phlebotomie Both printed at the end of the Astrological discourse Lond. 1583. oct 2 Ephemeron sive Paean in gratiam propurgatae reformataeque Dialecticae Lond. 1582. oct 3 Theological discourse of the Lamb of God and his enemies Containing a brief commentary of Christian faith together with a detection of old and new barbarisme Lond. 1590. qu. and fourthly was as I conceive the Author of another book entit Philadelphus or a defence of Brutes and the Brutans history Lond. 1593. qu. This Rich. Harvey had a Brother named John Harvey a Cambridge Man also who wrot An addition to the late discourse upon the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Lond. 1583. oct which discourse as I have told you before was written by his Brother Richard and thereunto was adjoyn'd by John his translation of Hermes Tresmagistus his Jatromathematica and was afterwards Author of A discoursive problem concerning prophecies how far they are to be credited according to the surest rules of Div. Phil. Astrol and other learning c. Lond. 1588. qu. THOMAS MARTYN a younger Son of Tho. Martyn Gent. was born at Cerneley commonly called Cearne in Dorsetshire educated in Wykebams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1539 where applying his genius to the faculty of the Civ Law made great proficiency therein At length obtaining leave to travel went as a Tutor to certain young Gentlemen into France where making his chief residence in the University of Bourges took the Degree of Doctor in the same faculty there Of whose behaviour and manner of life while he continued there is a testimony extant written by Francis Bâ—ldwin of Arras Doctor of the Civ Law and publick Reader at Bourges But forasmuch as the said Baldwin was an ill natur'd turbulent and quarrelfom Man as I understand from other places and Jo. Bale the publisher of the said testimony full of ill language as bad almost as he and one that speaks well of no R. Catholick not so much as of Sir Tho. More Cuthb Tonstal Cardinal Job Fisher c. especially of those that wrot against Priests marriages as our Author Thom Martyn did they therefore I presume are not to be believed tho there is no doubt but that Martyn had his faults as well as they Besides what is in that testimony Bale calls him a known pedant or paederastes the subtile summener of Berkshire and the clark protector of the Popes Sodomites under Winchester a polytick Gentleman that runs with all winds the great Hercules and mighty defender of stinking buggeries c. besides other ill language elsewhere But if you 'll consult Pitseus you 'll find him quite another Man as others also of his perswasion make him which I shall now omit In 1553 he resigned his Fellowship being then in good practice in the Court of Arches and an officer in the Archdeacons Court of Berks. In the Year 1555 he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law in this University about which time being in
favour with Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and with Gardiner B. of Winton became Chancellour to the last and of noted repute during the Reign of Qu. Mary who had so great a respect for him and his abilities that she commissionated him with Dr. Storie to go to Oxon to trie and examine Archb. Cranmer He published A treatise proving that the marriage of Priests and professed Persons is no marriage but altogether unlawful Lond. 1554. qu. Whereupon Joh. Ponet or Poynet Bishop of Winton came out with an answer thus entit An apology fully answering by Scriptures and antient Doctors a blasphemous book gathered by Dr. Steph. Gardiner Dr. Rich. Smyth Albertus Pighius and other Papists as by their books appears and of late set forth under the name of Tho. Martyn Doct. of the Civ Law c. Printed beyond the Sea an 1555-56 in oct In which book fol. 9. Ponet saith thus Thy book hath betrayed thee Martyn for thy fondness was not known before it came abroad but assoon as that shewed it self in Mens hands they might easily perceive that in playing the Christmas Lords minion in New Coll. in Oxon in thy fools coat thou didst learn thy boldness and began to put off all shame and to put on all impudence By the aforesaid title we are given to understand as if B. Gardiner Dr. Smyth c. were Authors of or at least had considerable hands in it with whom agrees Baleus before-mention'd who stiles Martyn Winchesters voice but whether true I cannot say it The book hath been commended by many learned Persons and no doubt but he had helps in it but whether by any of the former is doubtful About the same time came out another answer entit A defence of Priests marriages establyshed by the imperial laws of the Realm of England c. printed in qu. To which tho no name is set to it yet it is said to be written by Dr. Mathew Parker who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury The same year Tho. Martyn put out A confutation of Dr. Joh. Poyners book entit A defence for the marriage of Priests c. Lond. 1555 qu He hath also extant Oration to Dr. Cranmer Archbishop 12 March 1555. The beginning of which is Albeit there are two governments c. Discourse between him and Archbishop Cranmer concerning conscience and matters of Religion The beginning is Mr. Cranmer you have told here a long glorious tale c. Which oration and discourse you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Ch. by Jo. Fox under the Year 1555 besides Examinations and Conferences under the Year 1556. Vita Gul. Wicami Wintoniensis Episc Lond. 1597 Ox 1690 in a large qu. Printed after the death of the Author who took much of his matter from the life of the said Bishop written by Tho. Chaundler sometimes Warden of New Coll. There is a copy of this book in the Library of the said Coll. and in a leaf before the title are curiously delineated with a Pen the effigies of the said W. Wykeham setting in a chaire On the right hand is Chichley founder of All 's and on the left Waynfleet of Magdalen College both holding the pictures of their respective Colleges in their hands and presenting them as 't were to the founder of New Coll. they having had their education therein As for our Author Th. Martyn he concluded his last day in Fifteen hundred eighty and four year 1584 for in that year several books of his gift or bequest were sent to New Coll. Library to be there reposed for the use of the Fellows thereof In my former searches among records I found one Joan the relict of Tho. Martin lately of Isfield in Sussex to have received a commission from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury dated 26. June 1584 to administer the goods debts chattels c. of the said Th. Martin lately deceased but without the addition of Doctor of Civil Law or of that of Gent. or Esq However he may be the same with the Doctor because as I have observed many whose names have been odious among some or have retired in private because of their Religion their names in wills or administration are barely written without addition of a title or town sometimes only in general of the County EDMUND PLOWDEN Son of Humph. Plowden by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Joh. Sturey of Rosshall in Shropshire was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Plowden in the said County spent 3 years in the study of Arts Philosophy and Medicine at Cambridge and afterwards as I conceive was entred into the Inns of Court Soon after coming to Oxon he spent 4 years more in the same studies there and in Nov. an 1552 he was admitted to practice Chirurgery and Physick by the Ven. Convoc of the said University But as about that time Dr. Tho. Phaer did change his studies from common Law to Physick so did our Author Plowden from Physick to the common Law being then about 35 years of age In 1557 he became Autumn or Summer reader of the Middle Temple and three years after Lent reader being then a Serjeant at and accounted the Oracle of the Law He hath written in old French The Commentaries or Reports of divers cases being matters in Law and of arguments thereupon in the times of the Reigns of K. Ed. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth In two parts Lond. 1571. 78. 99. c. fol. To which was a table made by Will. Fleetwood Recorder of Lond. They are esteemed exquisite and elaborate commentaries and are of high account with all professours of the Law Afterwards they were abridged in the French tongue Lond. 1659. oct and several times before translated by Fabian Hicks Esq and printed also in oct There goes also under our Author Plowdens name Plowdens Queries or a moot-book of choice cases useful for the young Students of the common Law This was several times printed and afterwards translated from French into English methodised and enlarged by H. B. of Lincolns Inn Esq Lond. 1662. oct At length as this famous Lawyer Plowden mostly lived a R. Cath. in his heart so he dyed in that faith on the sixth day of Feb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples between the body of Catherine his Wife Dau. of Will. Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire Esque and the North wall near the East end of the choire leaving then this character behind him which shall serve instead of his Epitaph notwithstanding there is one already over his grave that ut in juris Anglicani scientia de qua scriptis bene meruit facile princeps ita vitae integritate inter homines suae professionis nulli secundus He left behind him a fair estate in lands lying at Plowden before-mention'd at Shiplake in Oxfordshire and at Burfield in Berks as also a Son of both his names to enjoy it who dying in less than
character given of him by one the knew him in Ireland I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him which is this He was stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent and chast of body no more than enough liberal learned and a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of Arms skilful of Antiquities of wit fresh and lively in consultations very temperate in utterance happy which his experience and wisdom hath made artificial a preferrer of many a Father to his Servants and both in war and peace of commendable courage WILLIAM GOOD was born in the ancient Town of Glastenbury in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. Feb. 1545 afterwards Fellow Master of Arts 1552 and about that time Humanity reader in the said College After Queen Mary came to the Crown being then a most zealous R. Catholick he was promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice in his own Country called Middle Chinnoke and to a little Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Comba octava in Nov. 1556 besides the rectory of a School in the said City All which he keeping till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and for some time after he voluntarily left them and his native Country for Religion sake and retiring to Tourney in Flanders entred himself there into the Society of Jesus in 1562 aged 35. After he had served his probationship he went into Ireland with Father David the titular Archbishop of Armagh who left no stone unremoved there for the settling of that Kingdom in the Catholick faith and obedience Four years being spent in that Country not without some danger he went to Lovaine where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society whom he strengthned with many arguments in order thereunto In 1577 he was called to Rome to take upon him the profession of the four vows which being done he went into Sweeden and Poland in the company of Anth. Possevin to settle certain affairs relating to the society Two years after he returned to Rome and became Confessor to the English Coll. there newly converted from an Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity to a Seminary for the educating the youth of England that profess the R. Cath. Religion Vir fuit probatae virtutis doctrinae as one of his society saith atque imprimis in historiis Sanctorum Angliae optimè versatus quorum res gestas in templo collegii Anglicani curavit coloribus exprimi quae subinde in aes incisae prodierunt tacito ipsius inscriptae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Robnae 1584. fol. In the Library also of the English Coll. at Rome there is extant a Manuscript digested according to the years of Christ and Kings of Britaine containing the Acts of the Saints of Britain Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our Author Good who dying at Naples 5. July according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 was buried in the College of the Jesuits there who have yet a great respect for his name One or more of whom have promised me a copy of his Epitaph if there be any but no answer have I yet received PHILIP SIDNEY the short-liv'd Ornament of his noble Family and the Marcellus of the English Nation hath deserv'd and without dispute or envy enjoyed the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages The Poets of his time especially Spencer reveren'd him not only as a Patron but a Master and he was almost the only Person in any age I will not except Mecaenas that could teach the best rules of Poetry and most freely reward the performances of Poets He was a Man of a sweet nature of excellent behaviour of much and withall of well digested learning so that rarely wit courage breeding and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single Person It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supply'd In the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an Author and to give him these short notes of his life and education He was Son of Sir Hen. Sidney before-mention'd by the Lady Mary his Wife eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland was born as 't is supposed at Penshurst in Kent 29. Nov. 1554 and had his Christian name given to him by his Father from K Philip then lately married to Qu. Mary While he was very young he was sent to Christ Ch. to be improved in all sorts of learning and was contemporary there with Rich. Carew Author of The Survey of Cornwall where continuing till he was about 17 years of age under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton Canon of that house he was in June 1572 sent to travel for on the 24 Aug. following when the Massacre fell out at Paris he was then there and at that time as I conceive he with other English Men did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham Embassadour there from the Queen of England Thence he went through Loraine and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following as his said life written by Sir Fulk Grevill his companion and friend attesteth But what is added there that Hubert Languet accompanied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels is a great mistake as will appear by Languets Epistles to our Author Philip Sidney printed more than once For so it was that in the next spring in May 1573 Larguet removed to Vienna where our Author met him again and stayed with him till September when he went into Hungary and those parts Thence he journied into Italy where he continued all the Winter following and most of the Summer an 1574 and then he returned into Germany with Languet and next spring he returned by Frankfort Heydelberg and Antwerp home into England about May 1575. The like mistakes are in the said life concerning Languets coming into England in Februar 1578 at which time 't is said he was about 66 years of age whereas he was but 61 that also he and Sidney parted at Sea which could not be for Duke John Caâ—â—mire with whom he came went away so suddenly that Languet could not take leave of him In the Year 1576 he was sent by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperour to condole the death of Maximilian and also to other Princes of Germany at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his Arms which he then hung up in all places where he lodged Illustriss generosiss virs Philippi Sidneii Angli Proregis Hiberniae filii Comitum Warwici Leycestriae nepotis sereniss Reginae Angliae ad Caesarem Legati The next year in his return he saw that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice Roy
in the Lâ—wcountries for the K. of Spain and William Prince of Aurange or Orange by the former of which tho at first he was lightly esteemed upon the account of his youth yet after some discourse he found himself so strucken with him that the beholders wondred to see what tribute that brave and high minded Prince paid to his worth giving more honour and respect to him in his private capacity than to the Embassadours of mighty Princes In the Year 1579 he tho neither Magistrate or Counsellour did shew himself for several weighty reasons opposite to the Queens matching with the Duke of Anjou which he very pithily expressed by a due address of his humble reasons to her as may be fully seen in a book called Cabola The said address was written at the desire of some great personage his Uncle Robert I suppose Earl of Leycester upon which a great quarrel hapned between him and Edw. Vere Earl of Oxford This as I conceive might occasion his retirement from Court next Summer an 1580 wherein perhaps he wrot that pleasant Romance called Arcadia In 1581 the treatise of marriage was renewed and our Author Sidney with Fulk Grevill were two of the tilters at the entertainment of the French Embassadour and at the departure of the Duke of Anjou from England in Febr. the same year he attended him to Antwerp On the 8. Janu. 1582 he with Peregrine Bertie received the honour of Knighthood from the Queen and in the beginning of 1585 he designed an expedition with Sir Francis Drake into America but being hindred by the Queen in whose opinion he was so highly prized that she thought the Court deficient without him he was in Octob. following made Governour of Flushing about that time delivered to the Queen for one of the cautionary towns and General of the Horse In both which places of great trust his carriage testified to the world wisdom and valour with addition of honour to his country by them and especially the more when in July 1586 he surprised Axil and preserved the lives and honour of the English Army at the enterprise of Gravelin So that whereas through the fame of his high deserts he was then or rather before in election for the Crown of Poland the Queen of England refused to further his advancement not out of emulation but out of fear to lose the jewel of her times What can be said more He was a Statesman Soldier and Scholar a compleat Master of matter and language as his immortal Pen shews His Pen and his Sword have rendred him famous enough He died by the one and by the other he 'll ever live as having been hitherto highly extolled for it by the Pens of Princes This is the happiness of art that although the sword doth archieve the honour yet the arts do record it and no Pen hath made it better known than his own in that book called Arcadia Certain it is he was a noble and matchless Gentleman and it may be justly said without hyperboles of fiction as it was of Cato Uticensis that he seemed to be born to that only which be went about His written works are these The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia Several times printed at London in quarto and fol. Which being the most celebrated Romance that was ever written was consecrated to his noble virtuous and learned Sister Mary the Wife of Henry Earl of Pembroke who having lived to a very fair age dyed in her house in Aldersgate-street in London 25. Sept. 1621. whereupon her body was buried in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury among the graves of the Pembrochian Family This Arcadia tho then and since it was and is taken into the hands of all ingenious Men and said by one living at or near the time when first published to be a book most famous for rich conceipt and splendor of courtly expressions yet the Author was not so fond a B. Heliodorus was of his amorous work for he desired when he died having first consulted with a Minister about it to have had it suppressed One who writes himself G. M. wrot the second and last part of the first book of the said Arcadia making thereby a compleat end of the first History Lond. 1613. qu. And in the eighth edit printed at Lond. 1633. Sir W. A. Knight made a supplement of a defect in the third part of the History and R. B. of Linc. Inn Esq added then a sixth book thereunto In 1662 came out the said Arcadia again in 6 books with several of his other works added to them In 1624 it was printed in French in 3. vol. or parts in oct and hath as I have been informed undergone several impressions in France It hath been also printed once or more in the Dutch language and in others Sir Philip also wrot A dissuasive Letter to Queen Elizab. her marriage with Monsier of France c. 'T is in a book called Scrinia Ceciliana Lond. 1663. qu. Astrophel and Stella wherein the excellencie of sweet poesie is concluded Lond. 1591. qu. Said to be written for the sake of one whom he entirely loved viz. the Lady Rich by whom was understood Philoclea in the Arcadia An Apologie for poetry Lond. 1595. qu. in prose There is a book in being called The Art of English Poesie not written by Sidney as some have thought but rather by one Puttenham sometimes a Gentleman Pensioner to Qu. Elizab. Sonnetts Remedie for love At the end of the 11th edit of Arcadia Lond. 1662. fol. Ourania a Poem Lond. 1606. published by N. B. An Essay upon valour so I find it mention'd in Cottoni posthuma yet others say it was written by Sir Thom. Overbury Quaere Almonzor and Almanzaida a Novel Lond. 1678. oct This book coming out so late it is to be enquired whether Sir Philip Sidneys name is not set to it for sale-sake being a usual thing in these days to set a great name to a book and to enhance the price of it by the esteem of the supposed Author Englands Helicon or a collection of Songs Sir Philip Sidneys name is also put to it as being the Author of most of the said Songs 'T was printed at Lond. in qu. Instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all nations states and countries This book which is printed in 12 o hath the names of Robert Earl of Essex and Sir Philip Sidney put to it but may be question'd whether either had a hand in it He also translated from French into English A work containing the trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists c. written originally by Philip Morney But the said translation being left imperfect by Sidney Arthur Golding finish'd it Lond. 1587. qu. He also Sidney turn'd the Psalmes of David into English verse which are in MS. in the Library of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton curiously bound in a crimson velvet cover left thereunto by his Sister Mary
the north parts of England In 1560. the Queen design'd him to be Bishop of Norwich but he altogether refused it for no other reason as 't was suppos'd but that he was much disaffected to the Hierarchy and Ceremonies of the Church of England In the latter end of the said year in the beginning of March he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University that whereas he had for the space of 16 years studied Divinity he might be admitted to the reading of Epistles of S. Paul that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity which was before the time of Reformation to the reading of the Book of Sentences This supplicat was granted by notwithstanding he had taken no Degree before among them as it appears from the publick Registers In the same congregation he supplicated also that after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity he might have liberty to proceed in the same Faculty but to that no answer was given Afterwards he supplicated that he might not only use the habit of Master of Arts in the time of his admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity but afterwards also while he continued in that state Which request though granted simpliciter yet it doth not appear that he was admitted to that Degree In Michaelmas term 1561. he was installed Dean of Christ Church in Oxon in the place of Dr. George Carew and soon after in the month of November he supplicated the congregation of Regents that it might be lawful for him to Preach within the limits of the University in a doctoral habit Which desire being as they thought unreasonable yet because he was a Dean they granted it only to continue till the Act following At that time there being a great scarcity of Divines in the University and but very few Masters he the said Sampson and Laur. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. another severe Calvinist preached by turns every Lords day either at St. Maries or elsewhere to the Academians and soon after got another brother of Allsouls Coll. as 't is said to joyn with them but who that was unless Andrew Kingsmyll LL. B. who afterwards out of pure sanctity went to Geneva I know not But Sampson being too severe a Calvinist if not worse to govern such a noted Coll. as Ch. Ch. for he was an enemy to Organs ornaments of the Church clerical vestments the square cap he always in imitation of Humphrey wearing the round cap and rather a perswader from than encourager to use them he was at length after a great many of admonitions from authority to conform and entreaties from certain Bishops so to do removed from his Deanery by the sentence of Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury an 1564. Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston at Leycester besides the Penitentiaryship or the Prebend of St. Pancras in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul where continuing for some time in teaching he was by the leave and favour of the Queen permitted to be a Theological Lecturer in Whittingdon Coll. in London but before he had enjoyed that place 6 years he was taken with the palsie Whereupon retiring to his hospital spent the remaining part of his days in preaching and writing Those works that go under his name are these Letter to the professours of Christs Gospel in the Parish of Allhallows in Bredstreet Lond. Strasburg 1554 oct A warning to take heed of Fowlers Psalter Lond. 1578. oct See in John Fowler under the Year 1578. Brief collection of the Church and Ceremonies thereof Lond. 1581. oct Prayers and meditations Apostolike gathered and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles c. Lond. 1592. in 16o. He also corrected and caused to be published Two Sermons the first of repentance the other of the Lords Supper Lond. 1581. oct written by his friend Joh. Bradford with other things of that Author At length Tho. Sampson having lived beyond the age of Man in a perpetual motion as 't were for the carrying on of the holy cause laid down his head and gave up the ghost on the 9. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston before-mention'd Over his grave was a monument soon after fastned to the South wall thereof with an inscription on it erected by his Sons John and Nathaniel Sampson A copy of which with other matters of the said Author which I have not here mention'd you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 254. From this Tho. Sampson is if I mistake not descended Tho. Sampson a pretender to Poetry Author of Fortunes fashion portrayed in the troubles of Lady Elizab. Gray Wife of Edw. 4. Lond. 1613. qu. a Poem dedicated to Henr. Pilkington of Gadsby in Leicestershire JOHN BROWNSWERD or Brunswerdus as he writes himself a most noted Master of the Latin Tongue was born as I conceive in Cheshire and had a considerable part of his education in this University but mostly as 't is thought in Cambridge where I presume he took one or more Degrees After his retreat thence he setled at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he taught the Free-school with very good success and having obtained a good report and honourable advancement in the Latin Empire was deservedly numbred amongst the best Latin Poets that lived in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. His works are Progymnasmata aliquot poemata Lond. 1590. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen He took his last farewel of this world on the 15. Apr. year 1589 in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Macclesfield before-mentioned In which year Tho. Newton his sometimes Scholar did publish a book of Encomia's of certain illustrious Men of England in which he hath this Distick of Brownswerd Rhetora Grammaticum Polyhistora teque poetam Quis negat is lippus luscus obesus iners And soon after the said Newton whose respect to his memory was great set up a Monument on the South wall of the said Chancel with an inscription thereon stiling Brownswerd Vir pius doctus and concluding with these two verses Alpha poetarum Coryphaeus Grammaticorum Flos Paedagogorâ—a hac sepelitur humo GEORGE PETTIE a younger Son of John le Petite or Pettie of Tetsworth and Stoke-Tatmach in Oxfordshire Esq was born in that County and at about 16 years of age an 1564 was a Scholar or Student of Ch. Ch. under Mr. Tho. Barnard Canon thereof and took one Degree in Arts as a member of that house in the latter end of the Year 1568. Soon after he left the University travelled beyond the Seas and at length became excellent for his passionate penning of amorous stories equal for poetical invention with his dear Friend Will. Gager and as much commended for his neat stile as any of his time He hath written a book intit A Petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure containing
strong hatred against the Papists as if nothing but divine truths were to be found in the one and nothing but abominations were to be seen in the other This was the opinion of several eminent Divines of the Church of England yet one that lived in his time and knew him saith that he and Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge whom he stiles standard bearers for a long time of the Nonconformists did grow conformable in the end as they grew riper in experience and sager in judgment Howsoever it was sure it is that Humphrey was a great and general Scholar an able linguist a deep Divine and for his excellency of stile exactness of method and substance of matters in his writings he went beyond most of our Theologists An eminent Archbishop who knew him well saith that be Dr. Humphrey had read more Fathers than Campian the Jesuit ever saw devour'd more than he ever tasted and that he had taught more in this University than he either had learned or heard Dr. Humphrey hath written Epistola de Graecis literis Homeri lectione imitatione ad Praesidem Socios Coll. B. Mar. Magd. Oxon. Set before a book intit Cornu copiae c. written by Hadrian Junius Bas 1558. The beginning of the said Epistle is Patriae communis nostrae c. De religionis conservatione reformatione deque primatu Regum Bas 1559. oct De ratione interpretandi authores Bas 1559. oct At the end of which is the Prophecy of Obadiah in Hebr. and Lat. and Philo de judice in Greek and Latine done by our Author Humphrey Optimates sive de nobilitate ejusque antiquâ origine natura officiis disciplina c. lib. 3. Bas 1560. oct At the end of which is Humphries translation from Greek into Lat. of Philo Judaeus his book De nobilitate Optimates was afterwards translated into English by Anon. and printed at Lond. 1563. oct Oratio Woodstochiae habita ad illustriss R. Elizab. 31. Aug. 1572. Lond. 1572. in 3 sh or more in qu. Johannis Juelli Angli Episc Sarisburiensis vita mors ejusque verae doctrinae defensio c. Lond. 1573. qu. From which is taken an abstract of the said Bishops life published in oct in the English tongue by one who writes himself a Person of quality an 1685 put at the end of a translation into English of Jewells Apologie and his Epistle to Scipio Orat. in Aula Woodstoc hab ad illustr R. Elizab. an 1575. Lond. 1575. qu. The beginning is Eloquar an sileam c. De fermento vitando concio in Math. 16. Marc. 8. Luc. 12. Jesus dixit illis videte cavete à fermento Pharisaeorum Lond. 1582. Rupel 1585. oct Jesuitismi pars prima sive de praxi Rom. curiae contra respubl principes c. Lond. 1582. in a large oct Jesuitismi pars secunda Puritano-papismi seu doctrinae Jesuiticae aliquot rationibus ab Edm. Campiano comprehensae à Joh. Duraeo defensae confutatio c. Lond. 1584 in a large oct Apologetica Epistola ad Academiae Oxoniensis Cancellarium Rupel 1585. oct Seaven Sermons against treason 1 Sam. cap. 26. 8. 9 10. 11 c. Lond. 1588. oct Concio in die Cinerum Pr. in oct He also with Rob. Crowley hath written a book against that of Miles Hoggeard published in Qu. Maries Reign against the Protestants and other things which I have not yet seen And reviewed corrected and published Joh. Shepreves book intit Summa Synopsis N. Testamenti c. At length after Dr. Humphrey had spent most part of his time in a studious and retired condition tho with little comfort of his Wife and male Children he departed this mortal life on the kalends of Febr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine aged 63 and was buried at the upper end of the inner Chappel of Magd. Coll. Soon after was a comely mon set over his grave in the South wall which when the said Chap. was adorn'd and paved with Marble was removed and set up on the S. wall of the outer Chappel The inscription of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 208. b. and some things said of him in lib. 1. p. 287. a. 288. a. b. 292. a. 304. a. 310. a c. He took to Wife in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth one Joan the Daughter of Andr. Inkfordby of Ipswych in Suffolke by whom he had 7 Sons and 5 Daughters She dyed 27. Aug. 1611. aged 74 and was buried in the Chancel of Steple Barton Church in Oxfordshire over whose grave her eldest Dau. called Justina the Wife of Caspar Dormer of the said place Esque erected a fair Monument as she had before done over that of her Father in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN-BANISTER was born of honest and wealthy Parents but in what County I know not studied Logicals for a time in this University afterwards entring upon the Physick line solely gave himself up to the study of that faculty and chirurgery In 1573 he was licensed by this University to practice Physick about which time being settled in the antient borough of Nottingham lived there many years in great esteem and was wonderfully followed by all sorts of People for his happy practice in that and chirurgery His works are A needful new and necessary treatise of chirurgery briefly comprehending the general and particular curation of ulcers Lond. 1575. oct Certain experiments of his own invention c. History of Man sucked from the sap of the most approved Anatomists c. in 9 books Lond. 1578. in a thin fol. Compendious chirurgerie gathered and translated especially out of Wecker c. Lond. 1585. in tw Antidotary chirurgical containing variety of all sorts of Medicines c. Lond. 1589. oct What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was in great renown in the middle of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth several years after his death came out his works in six books as 1 Of Tumours in general and particular 2 Of Wounds in general and particular 3 Of Ulcers in general and particular 4 Of Fractures and Luxations 5 Of the curation of Ulcers and 6 Antidotarie beforemention'd All which six books were printed at Lond. 1633. qu. THOMAS RANDOLPHE Son of Averey Randolphe of Badlesmere in Kent was born in that County made Student of Ch. Ch. when K. Hen. 8. turn'd it into a Cathedral admitted Bach. of the Civil Law 1547 and about that time was made a publick notary In 1549. Nov. 20. he succeeded Rob. Weston in the principality of Broadgates hall which he kept till 1553 and then Tho. Stempe LL. D. was admitted into his place In the Reign of Qu. Elizab. he being then Doctor of his faculty he was employed in several Embassies as thrice to the Peers in Scotland thrice to Q. Mary of Scotland after her return from France seven times to K. James the 6. of
Scotland thrice to John Basilides Emperor of Russia once to Charles the 9. of France and again to Hen. 3. The Queen of England who knighted him rewarded these his services with the Chamberlaines office in the Exchecquer heretofore a place of great honour and worth the Mastership or office of Comptroller general of the Post horses and with some small Land He hath written An account of his Embassage to the Emperor of Russia an 1568. Remitted into the first vol. of Rich. Hakeluyts voyages Lond. 1598. He then in 1568 procured privileges from the Emperor of Russia for the English Merchants trafficking there Instructions given to and notes to be observed by James Bassendine Jam. Woodcock and Rich. Browne for the searching of the Sea and border of the coast from the river Pechora to the Eastwards an 1588. There was then a commission granted to Sir Thom. Randolphe for the searching of those parts but he entrusted the matter with the 3 Persons before-mention'd See more in the said vol. of voyages by R. Hakeluyt At length after Sir Thomas had painfully spent his time in sundry and frequent Embassies and in continual services of his Prince and Country at home and abroad he quietly surrendred up his last breath in his house at St. Peters hill near to Pauls Wharf in London year 1590 on the 8. of June in Fifteen hundred and ninety aged 67 leaving then behind him several Children that he had by two Wives whereupon his body accompanied by one or two Heralds of armes was buried 6. July following in the Church of St. Peter near to the said Wharf Besides this Tho. Randolphe a Statesman hath been another of both his names of a later date and a most celebrated Poet of his time of whom by the way I desire the reader to know these matters following viz. that he was born at Newnham near to Daintry in Northamptonshire 15 June 1605 Son of Will. Rondolphe of Hams near to Lewis in Sussex Steward to Edw. Lord Zouch by Elizabeth his Wife Dau. of Tho. Smith of Newnham before mentioned educated in Westminster School and went thence being one of the Kings Scholars to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1623. of which he became Fellow Afterwards he commenced Master of Arts in which Degree he was incorporated at Oxon became famous for his ingenuity an adopted Son of Benj. Johnson and accounted one of the most pregnant wits of his age the quickness of which was first discovered when he was about 9 or 10 years old when then he wrot the History of the incarnation of our Saviour in verse which is at this day preserved in MS. under his own hand writing When he arrived to Mans Estate and perhaps before he wrot 1 Poems 2 The Muses Looking-glass a Comedy 3 Amyntas or the impossible dowry a Pastoral 4 Aristippus or the jovial Philosopher c. Trag. presented in a private shew 5 The conceited Pedler presented in a strange shew Lond. 1630. qu. 6 Jealous Lovers Tr. Com. 7 Hey for honesty down with knavery Com. Translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus Augmented and published by F. J. Lond. 1651. qu. All which except the last were gathered together and printed in one vol. by the care of his Brother Rob. Randolphe Student of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. being then commended to the world by divers Poets of the said University Several other things of the like nature were expected from the said young Poet Th. Randolphe but by indulging himself too much with the liberal conversation of his admirers a thing incident to Poets brought him untimely to his end in the House of Will. Stafford of Blatherwyke in Northamptonshire Esq having spent some time in that of his Father at Little Houghton in the said County in his delightful studies Whereupon his body being buried in an Isle joyning to the Church at that place among those of the Staffords on the 17 day of March an 1634 had soon after a Monument of white Marble wreathed about with laurel erected over his grave at the charge of Sir Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton of Kirby The inscription on which in Lat. and Engl. ver was made by the Poets Friend Pet. Hausted of Cambridge DAVID POWELL a learned searcher into the bowels of venerable antiquity and the most skilful Person in British histories that his time produced was born in Denbighshire entred a Member of this University in 1566 or thereabouts but in what Coll. or Hall resident I know not Sure 't is that as soon as Jesus Coll. was founded 1571 he translated himself thereunto took the Degrees in Arts as a Member thereof holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Ruabon in his own Country About that time he had confer'd on him a Dignity in one of the Cathed in Wales St. Asaph I think grew famous for his learning and soon after took the Degrees in Divinity His works are Annotationes in itinerarium Cambriae scriptum per Silv. Giraldum Cambrensem Lond. 1585. oct Franc. 1603. Annot. in Cambr. descriptionem script per Silv. Giraldum De Britannica historia rectè intelligenda Epistola ad Gul Fleetwoodum civit Lond. Recordatorem Which two last books are printed with his Annotationes in Itin. Cambr. He also took a great deal of pains in making a Welsh Dictionary but died before he could perfect it corrected also and published Historia Britannica written by Ponticus Virunnius in 6 books Lond. 1585. oct And amended and augmented The History of Combria now called Wales which was translated into English by Humph. Lhoyd Gent. Lond. 1584. qu. This History of Cambria was originally written in Latin by Caradoc a Monk of Lancarvan and by him continued till the Year 1156. Afterwards being yearly augmented by several hands was as I have told you translated into English by H. Lhoyd as you may see under the Year 1570 but he dying before he could come near to the end of it 't was finished by our Author D. Powell and by him published What else he hath transmitted to posterity I find not nor any thing more of him only that he was buried in his Church of Ruabon as the Antients there say tho the register not because 't is imperfect about Fifteen hundred and ninety year 1590 and that his Son Sam. Powell succeeded him in the Vicaridge of that Village They add also that he had left behind him several things sit to be printed but what became of them after his death they could not tell The next that 〈…〉 is one who was accounted an eminent Scholar of his time as by the generality of writers is confess'd DANIEL ROGERS a most accomplished Gent. of his time who puts in some of his writings the addition of Albimontanus to his name was the Son of John Rogers by his Wife Adriana Pratt alias de Weyden Son of Joh. Rogers of Derytend in the Parish of Aston in Warwickshire was by his Fathers care strictly educated in juvenile learning but at the coming to the Crown of
in the society of Jesus about 25 years to their great renown and honour The next Person in order to be mention'd is one as famous in his way as the former but of the reformed Religion THOMAS MOUFET or Muffet was born in London in or near St. Leonards Shoreditch as I conceive because his name and relations lived in that Parish and one John Muffet died there in 1596. After he had been educated in Grammar learning in that City he spent some time in this University afterwards travelled into divers Countries in Europe where he became known to the most eminent Men especially Physicians and Chymists of that time and was doctorated in Physick in some noted University in his travels After his return he fell into very great practice within the City of his nativity became much honoured and beloved by Peregrine Bertie Lord Willoughby of Eresbie and esteemed the famous ornament of the body of Physicians and the true pattern of all polite and solid Literature He hath written De jure praestantia Chemicorum Medicamentorum dialogus Apologeticus Francof 1584. Ursell 1602. oct and in the first volume of Theatrum Chemicum Argent 1623. oct pag. 70. Epistolae quinque Medicinales Most of which werâ— written to one whom the Author calls Philalethes a German Chymist They were printed with the former book in that impression of 1602 and I think elsewhere Nosomantica Hippocratea sive Hippocratis prognostica cuncta ex omnibus ipsius scriptis methodicè digesta c. Franc. 1588. oct in 9 books He also by his great labour and charge did enlarge and finish Insectorum sive minimorum Animalum Theatrum olim ab Edw. Wottono Conrado Gesnaro Thomaque Pennio inchoatum Which Book the Author leaving behind him in MS. at his Death it came some years after into the hands of Sir Theod. de Mayern Knight who published it in Fol. at Lond 1634. with an Epistle Dedicatory before and Preface to it But before that time some imperfect Copies of it were published by Laur Scholzius an 1598 c. This Book was published in the English Tongue at Lond. 1658. Fol. by J. R. M. D. Dr. Moufet hath written also Healths improvement or Rules comprising and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of Food used in this Nation This was corrected and enlarged by Christoph Bennet Lond. 1655. 4to Whatelse our Author Moufet hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that in his latter days he lived much at Bulbridge near Wilton in Wilts as a retainer to the Pombrochian Family from which he had an yearly Pension allowed to him to his last day mostly by the favour of that incomparable Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke He concluded his last day towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and was as I have been credibly informed by one or more ancient Men that belonged to the said Family buried at Wilton Contemporary with him was Joh. Securis an eminent Physician of Sarum whom I have mentioned before PETER WHITE noted for his excellency in Humane Learning while he continued in the University was born in the Diocess of Waterford in Ireland elected Fellow of Oriel Col. An. 1551. and in the year 1555. was admitted Master of Arts. About the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign he returned to his Native Country and became the Happy Schoolmaster of Mâ—ster and Dean of Waterford for a time From which last place being ejected for his Religion about 1565. he continued notwithstanding in his beloved Faculty of Pedagogy which was then accounted a most excellent Employment in Ireland by the Catholicks especially for this Reason that the Sons of Noblemen and Gentlemen might be trained up in their Religion and so consequently keep out Protestancy His School was during his time in a flourishing condition and by his care and industry many learned Persons issued thence Among such not that I shall mention Rich. Stanyhurst of whom I shall speak hereafter was one Peter Lombard born in Waterford who afterwards studied at Lovaine in Brabant where after he had spent two years and an half in Philosophy he was chosen when he proceeded Master of Arts Primus Vniversitatis by the uniform consent of the Four Principals which preferment did not happen in such sort for many years before About that time the said Lombard wrote Carmen heroicum in Doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfordi with other things afterwards which were much valued at Lovaine but such I have not yet seen See another Pet. Lombard in my discourse of Will. Camden As for P. White he hath written Epitome copiae Erasmi lib. 1. Epit. figurarum Rhetoricarum lib. 1. Annotationes in Orat. pro Archiâ poetâ Annot. in Orat. pro T. A. Milone Epigrammata diversa lib. 1. He lived as I guess to the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but the particular time when he died I find not Equal in time with the said Pet. White was another of both his Names an English-Man born and a severe Calvinist who among several things that he hath written published a Book intitled An Answer to certain crabbed Questions pretending a Real Presence in the Sacrament together with a discovery of the Jesuitical Opinion of Justification guilfully uttered by Sherwin at the time of his Execution Lond. 1582. oct Also A Sermon against Idolatry on Apoc. 1. 12 13. Lond. 1581. oct c. Whether he was an Oxford Man I cannot yet find THOMAS NEALE was born at Yeate in Glocestershire sped a Child into the College near Winchester by the endeavours of his Mother's Brother Alex. Belsire Fellow of New College where profiting exceedingly in Grammer Learning in the School there was chosen Probationer of New College in 1538. and two years after was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of the said House Afterwards prosecuting his Studies with great industry took the degree of Master of Arts in 1546 Holy Orders and soon after became an able Theologist and admirably well skill'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages the last of which he read to several young Scholars in the University particularly to Bern. Gilpin of Queen's College About that time Sir Tho. Whyte who was afterwards Founder of S. John's College having had notice of his pregnant Parts and Vertues did for an encouragement allow unto him an yearly Pension of 10. l. In the beginning of Q. Mary he became Chaplain to Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and in 1556. being newly returned from Paris and other places in France he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then Rector of Thenforth in Northamptonshire But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and he thereupon bereft of his Lord and Patron Bonner he betook himself to Oxon and in 1559. he was made the Queen's Professor of the Hebrew Lecture entred himself a Commoner of Hart Hall and built little Lodgings opposite thereunto joyning to the West end of New Col. Cloister wherein he lived several years but his Religion
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 Heâ—â—cault 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 Oâ—â—ob 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
the Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire from whom he is descended are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lyons heads erased in the upper part or The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with is Philip Howard third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk who at this day is living at Rome He was born in Arundel House in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London an 1629. and there educated under several Tutors till he was 14 years of age At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he left the Nation and travelled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy and at 15 years of age became a Dominician or Black-Frier at Cremona After several years spent there he returned into England and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal he became Lord Almoner to her and continued in her service several years Afterwards upon the People's being exasperated against Popery he quitted that Noble Office and went to Bornheim in Flanders where having a Convent of English Fryers of his Order had not continued there long but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor then Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinals Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May 1675. by his Messenger Seignior Con at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place By vertue of which and the instrument with it he was made Cardinal Priest Sub tt Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruines of the Temple of Minerva at Rome where the said Card. is now generally stiled The Cardinal of Norfolk and by some The Cardinal of England Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot Mr. John Howard Son of the said William Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk Seignior Con before-mentioned Dr. Joh. Laybourne President of the English or Clergy College at Doway then Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal and others He took his journey through Flanders to Doway where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place he was received by the whole Convent in their Church in a solemn procession with Copes a Te Deum and other Ceremonies as appointed in the Ritual for such receptions From the Church he was conducted into the Cloyster and entertained with a banquet and a Panigyrick spoken to him by a Student of that college All which was so well performed that Visâ— Staâ—â—ord was pleased to say that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris where he continued for some time incognito At length with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company he journeyed to Rome and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey he had the assistance of the Pope and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine as the common report then went ADAM HYLL a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time was elected Fellow of Baliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts stood in the Act to compleat the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following he resigned his Fellowship About that time he being noted for his practical way of Preaching he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts in which County he was as it is probable born Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in and Succentor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church He hath written and published Several Sermons Among which are 1 Godly Sermon shewing the Fruits of Peace and War on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct 2 Serm. On Gen. 18. 21 22. Lond. 1593. oct 3 Serm. concerning Christs descent into Hell Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot whereupon our Author Hyll came out with a Book intit A defence of the Article Christ descended into Hell with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine by one Alexand. Hume c. Lond. 1592. qu Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls Sermon is justly defended Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hyll could come out with another answer he gave way to fate which hapning at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Cath. Church there on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated here as I shall tell you in the Fasti and wrote besides what is before mentioned A Treatise of Conscience c. 2 Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come c. 3 Four discourses of praises unto God c. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct JOHN THORIE or Thorius Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physick who intitles himself Balliolanus Flandrus was born in London matriculated in this University as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree it appears not though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduat of Oxenford He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues and a noted Poet of his time as several pieces of his then published shew All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these A Spanish Dictionary Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar written by Auth. de Corro which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammer and is as a Key to open every thing therein Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey An. 1593. See at the end of a book entit Pierces Superarogation written by the said Harvey And at the end of another called Have with you to Saffron Walden c. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time and a Dramatick Writer as his published Comedies shew Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English a book entit The Councellour A Treatise of Councils and Councellours of Princes Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth Philip. L. L. D. and another entit The Serjeant Major or a Dialogue of the
none of Christ or a discourse of the propagation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus Lond. 1652. qu. c. But of what University the said Williams was if of any I know not or whether a real Phanatick or Jesuit HENRY UNTON was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Wadley near Faringdon in Berkshire educated in Oriel coll under Mr. Rich. Pygot one of that Society left it without a degree and travelled After his return being esteemed a Person well qualified had some Employment under Sir Christopher Hatton L. Chancelour who quickly finding him to be a man of business and experience commended him to the Queen who in 1586. not only conferred on him the Honour of Knighthood but sent him afterwards twice in the quality of an Embassador to the King of France where he behaved himself right stoutly in behalf of his Mistress particularly for some injury done to her by the Duke of Guise an 1592. This person who was actually created M. of A. of this University before he went into France hath written An account of his Embassy or a Diary containing his Commission Instructions Expences and Transactions as also Letters from or to him from July 13. an 1591. to June 12. an 1592. MS. in bib Bod. He also made a Diary for his last Embassy which continued to the time of his Death but that I have not yet seen He gave way to Fate in the King of France's Camp lying before Lafere on the 23. March in fifteen hundred ninety and five whereupon his Body being conveyed into England was buried on the 8. July following in a Chappel joyning to the North side of the Church of Faringdon before-mentioned Soon after was a noble Monument set over his grave with this inscription containing certain matters relating to him which I have not yet mentioned Virtuti honori Sacrum Henrico Vntono Eq. Aurate Edovardi Vntoni Eq. Aur. filio ex Annâ Comitissâ Warwici filiâ Edovardi de Sancto Mauro Ducis Sommersetti Angliae Protectoris qui optimarum artium studiis a primâ aetate in Academiâ Oxon institutus magnam orbis Christiani partem perlustravit ob virtutem bellicam in Zutphaniae obsidione dignitate equestri donatus propter singularem prudentiam spectatum sidem multiplicem rerum usum iterum Legatus à Sereniss Angliae Reginâ ad Christianiss Regem missus in Galliam è quâ ad celestem patriam migravit 23. Mart. an 1596. c. The Muses of Oxon had so great a respect for the memory of this most worthy Person that a book of Verses on his death came out soon after under their name intit Funebria nobiliss ac praestomtiss Eq. D. Henrici Vntoni ad Gallos bis legati regii c. à Musis Oxon apparata WILLIAM MIDDLETON the third Son of Rich. Middleton of Denbigh by Jane his Wife Daughter of Hugh Dryhurst of the same place fourth Son of Foulk Middleton of Denbigh before-mentioned the third Son of Dav. Middleton of Gwenock Recordator of North-Wales was born in Denbighshire and educated for a time among the Oxonians but whether in Jesus coll at its first foundation as probably it might be so or whether he took more than one degree I know not Afterwards he travelled into various parts of the World exercised himself in fears of Arms became the most noted Bard of his Country and tho a Souldier and a Captain by profession having had the command of a Ship for several years yet all the time he got was bestowed in exercising his Poetical fancy The Works of him that I have seen are these Bardoniaeth or the Art of Welsh poetry Lond. 1593. qu. in 3 sh and half This book which is written in Welsh he stiles the first book or part as if there was a second to be published He also translated into the Welsh tongue the Psalms of David running in excellent Meter Which noble work he performed apud seâ—tum insulam occidentalium Indorum and finished it there 24. Jan. in fifteen hundred ninety and five This translation coming into the hands of his Country-man Tho. Salisbury was with the help of his Friend Tho. Middleton Citizen of London and kinsman to the author published at Lond. 1603. qu. Before which time the author as it seems was dead In my searches I find another Will. Middleton Bach. of Divinity and Minister of Hardwick in Cambridgshire author of Papisto mastix or the Protestants Religion defended c. Lond. 1606. qu. and of other things but what relation there was between the former and this who seems to have been educated in Cambridge I know not JOHN SMYTHE or Smith Son of Sir Clem. Smythe of Little Badew in Essex by Dorothy his Wife Sister to Edw. Seymour Duke of Somerset whose Sister Jane Seymour was the third Wife of K. Hen. 8. was born as it seems in Essex and laid the foundation of Literature in Oxon but in what house 't is difficult to find because both his Names are very common Afterwards being martially inclined he travelled into various countries exercised himself in feats of arms and became as well a compleat Souldier as Gentleman At length he was made a Knight by Qu. Elizabeth and by her sent Embassador into Spain in 1576 as being a person of a Spanish port and demeanour and well known to the Spaniard who held him as their King did in high value and especially for this reason that he was first cousin to K. Ed. 6. His works are Discourse concerning the forms and effect of divers Weapons and other very important Matters Military greatly mistaken by divers of our men of War in their days and chiefly of the Musquet Calyver and Long-bow c. Lond. 1589. and 1590. qu. Certaine Instructions Observations and Orders Military requisite for all Chieftains Captains higher and lower Officers Composed 1591. Lond. 1594. 95. qu. Instructions for Enrolling and Mustering Printed with Certain Instructions c. What other books of his are published I cannot yet find nor exactly when he died only that he was living and in great esteem among Souldiers and learned men in fifteen hundred ninety and five Besides this was another Sir Joh. Smyth equal in time with him eldest Son of Tho. Smyth of Ostinhanger in Kent Esq and brother to Sir Thomas of Bidborough in the same County whom I shall mention elsewhere Which Sir John dying in the beginning of 1609. was buried in Ashford Church in the said County leaving Issue as it seems Tho. Smyth of Ostenhanger afterwards Knight of the Bath and Viscount Stranford in Ireland who dying 30. June 1635. was buried in his Chappel joyning to the said Church of Ashford But this Sir John was no writer nor of the same Family because he was descended from the Smyths of Corshan in Wiltshire whereas Sir John who was the Writer and Souldier was Grandson to Tho. Smyth of Ravinhall in Essex and he a Discendant from John Carrington who fled for a time from
book of Jests or Clinches which at length was sold on the stalls of Ballad-mongers This person was living in his middle age in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but when or where he dyed I cannot tell for so it is and always hath been that most Poets dye poor and consequently obscurely and a hard matter it is to trace them to their Graves FABIAN à NIPHO Son of James à Nipho was born in Italy left his Country for Religion sake went to London where obtaining Letters of recommendation from Robert Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this Univ. dat 19. Oct. 1581. he retired to Oxon for relief So that by virtue of those Letters wherein the Members thereof found that he was a person recommended to them for his great skill in Physick and Philosophy they were pleased to confer on him the degree of Bachelaur of Physick in January following and permitted him to read a Shagling Lecture in that Faculty to gain contributions from the Students thereof How long he continued with us I know not nor how long he read that Lecture Sure it is if you 'l believe him That he having suffered oppression by the wickedness of certain People in England upon what account he tells us not unless we suppose that they suspected him to be a Papist and so dealt with him accordingly he retired to Leyden in Holland where as it farther appears after he had made himself to be believed that he was an honest man the States encouraged his Studies and forthwith he wrote a book which he dedicated to them bearing this title Ophinus seu de caelesti animarum progenie divinatio Lugd. Bat. 1599. qu. There is no doubt but that he hath published other things but such I have not yet seen neither do I yet know to the contrary but that he made a return again to this University THOMAS WILCOCKS or Wilcox a grave and reverend Divine in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth was originally of St. Johas coll but whether ever Fellow thereof their Register shews not His Name stands in the Matricula of the University sub tit coll S. Jo. Bapt. in the year 1564. but I cannot find him Graduated in the publick Register of that time belonging to the University One Tho. Wilcocks a Kentish man was as a Member of St. Albans hall admitted Master of Arts in Febr. 1589. But this I cannot affirm to be the same with the former unless we suppose him to be about 40 years of age when he took that degree as many did in those times at that age after they had been Parsons or Dignitaries many years As for Tho. Wilcocks whom we are farther to mention he retired to London after he had left the University where he became a very painful Minister of God's Word a frequent Writer and Translator and was much resorted to by wavering and dubious Persons for relief and settlement of their Consciences His Writings are Exposition on the book of Canticles or Solomon's Song Lond. 1585. qu. Exposition on certain Verses of the 8. Chap. of the Rom. namely upon Vers 18 19 20 21 22 23. Lond. 1587. oct Short and sound Commentary on the Prov. of Solomon Lond. 1589. qu. Expos on the whole book of Psalms wherein is contained the division and sense of every Psalm c. Lond. 1591. qu. All these were reprinted in one fol. at Lond. 1624. by the care of Dr. Jo. Burges who married the author's Daughter and had this general Title put to them The Works of the Reverend Divine Mr. Tho. Wilcocks Summary and short meditations touching certain points of Christian Religion Lond. 1579. oct Concordance or Table containing the principal words and matters which are comprehended in the New Testament Lond. 1579. oct Answer to Banister the Libertine Lond. 1581. oct Glafs for Gamesters and namely for such as delight in Cards and Dice wherein they may see not only the vanity but also the vileness of those Plays plainly discovered and overthrown by the Word of God Lond. 1581. oct Form of preparation to the Lord's Supper Lond. in oct On the substance of the Lord's Supper shortly and soundly set forth together with c. Lond. 1581. oct Comfortable Letter for afflicted Consciences written to a godly man greatly touched that way Lond. 1584. in tw Three large Letters for instruction and comfort of such as are distressed in Conscience c. Lond. 1589. oct Narration of a fearful Fire at Wooburn in Bedfordsh Lond. 1595. oct He also translated into English 1 A Catechism Lond. 1578. oct originally written by Joh. Fountein 2 Three propositions the first on the 1. Chap. of St. Joh. ver 1. to 5. c. Lond. 1580. written by Jo. Calvin 3 Treatise of the Church wherein the godly may discern the true Church from the Romish c. Lond. 1582. oct written by Bertrand de Loques 4 Discourse of the true visible marks of the Cath. Church Lond. in oct written by Theod. Beza 5 Two Sermons on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. 1588. oct written by the said Beza whereunto is added The substance of the Lord's Supper mentioned before 6 Bertram the Priest concerning the Body and Blood of Christ c. Lond. 1582. oct See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. 7 Meditations on Psal 101. Lond. 1599. oct written in French by Phil. Mornay Lord of Plessis What else our author hath written and translated I know not nor any thing of him beside only that he was living and much in esteem in fifteen hundred ninety and nine Two or more of his Sirname studyed in Broadgates hall in the time of K. Ed. 6. whos 's Christian Names being not in a possibility to be discovered I cannot judge farther of them RICHARD HOOKER that rare and admirable Theologist was born in or near to the City of Exeter about the time of Easter an 1554. of which City some of his Name and Family have been Mayors was exhibited to while a School-boy by John Jewel B. of Sarum became one of the Clerks of C. C. coll in 1567. Scholar 24. Dec. in 73. Fellow and Master of Arts in 77. DeputyProfessor of the Hebrew Language in the University 14. July 1579. entred into Orders and became a frequent Preacher married a clownish silly Woman and withal a meer Xantippe became Rector of Drayton-Beauchamp in Bucks an 1584. Master of the Temple in the year following in the place of Rich. Alvey Bach. of Div. deceased who was the first Canon of the fifth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster Rector of Boscomb in Wiltshire Sub-dean of the Church of Salisbury and prebendary of Netherhaven in the same Church both which he obtained by the resignation of Dr. Nich. Balgay in July 1591. and at length Rector of Bishops-Bourne near Canterbury by the presentation thereunto of the Queen in 1595. There hath been no learned college in the World that hath yet yielded at one time almost and from
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 〈◊〉 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 Lancashiâ—e 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 Amanâ—ensis 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
Government he was hang'd at Tyburn near London 30. March in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 So that his body being afterwards buried obscurely without a Memorial or Epitaph be pleased to take this for him made by one that knew him well Doctus eras Graecè felixque tibi fuit Alpha At fuit infelix Omega Cuffe tuum The execution of which person and his unhappy end is brought in by a certain author as a very proper and sutable instance to verifie the great reasonableness of one of his advices to his Son thus Mingle not your interest with a great Man's made desperate by debt or Court-injuries whose breaking out prove fatal to their wisest followers and friends averred in the last Earl of Essex but one where Merick his Steward and Cuff his Secretary tho of excellent parts were both hanged For such unconcocted Rebellions turn seldom to the hurt of any but the parties that promote them being commonly guided by the directions of their Enemies as this was by Cecil whose creatures persuaded Essex to this inconsiderate attempt c. that is to seize the Queen and change the Government Thus far Francis Osborn here quoted of whom and his Works the Reader may please by the way if not too tedious to know these things That he was younger Brother to Sir Pet. Osborn and both the Sons of Sir John Osborn of Chicksand near Shefford in Bedfordshire which Sir John and his Father did both enjoy a quiet happy and plentiful Fortune under Q. Elizabeth That he was bred mostly at home not so much as in a Free School or University being altogether void of such kind of Faculties that Universities afford At ripe years he frequented the Court became a Servant in the Pembrochian Family and at length Master of the Horse to that most Noble Count William Earl of Pembroke In 1641. he ran with the times having been Puritannically educated had publick employments then and under Oliver conferr'd upon him and in his last days lived in Oxon purposely to Print certain books of his compostion that then laid by him and to have an eye on his Son John whom he got by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors to be Fellow of Allsouls coll 1648. Those things of his which I have seen extant are these 1 A seasonable expostulation with the Netherlands declaring their ingratitude to and the necessity with their agreement with the Commonwealth of England Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh and half 2 Perswasive to mutual compliance under the present Government Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh 3 Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchy Printed with the former in 4 sh qu. 4 The private Christians non ultra or a plea for the Lay-man's interpreting the Scriptures Ox. 1656. in 3 sh and half in qu. There is no name to it only strongly reported to be Fr. Osborn's 5 Advice to a Son in two parts The first was printed at Ox. in oct an 1656. and within 2 years after were five more impressions of it The second part was printed at Ox. 1658. oct but being not so well liked as the first I cannot justly say whether it had a second impression Both especially the first being greedily bought up and admired in Oxon especially by young Scholars it was then noted among the Godly Ministers that they did instill principles of Atheism into them Whereupon a publick complaint being put up against the said books to the then Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Conant there was a proposal made to have them publickly burnt But it taking no effect it was ordered 27. July 1658. that no booksellers or any other persons should sell the books which afterwards made them sell the better 6 Political reflections upon the Government of the Turks to which are added in the same book or vol. A discourse upon Nich. Machiavell Observations upon the K. of Sweden's descent into Germany Discourse upon Piso and Vindex who both conspired the death of Nero. The greatness and corruption of the Court of Rome Discourse upon the election of P. Leo XI Political occasions of the defection from the Church of Rome Discourse in vindication of Mart. Luther All these were printed at Ox. in oct at least 3 times 7 Traditional Memoires on the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1658. oct 8 Trad. Mem. on the Reign of K. James Lond. 1658. oct 9 Miscellany of sundry Essays Paradoxes and Problematical Discourses Letters and Characters Lond. 1659. oct 10 Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex who was executed for Treason under the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1659. oct These are all that I have seen and whether he hath any others published I cannot say After his death appeared in publick a book intit A modest plea for an equal Commonwealth against Monarchy c. with other things added to it as An Apology for younger Brothers and A lift at Tythes All printed twice in 1659. in qu. and oct These three Treatises tho they were published by another person as his yet some Scholars more envious than prudent did not stick to say that the publisher found them among the papers of Fr. Osborn with whom he had intimate acquaintance after his death and disguising the Language or making some alterations in published them as his own However all that knew him well and were intimate with him as the writer of these matters was knew him able to write such a book as that was As for Fr. Osborn he died at Nether-worton near to Dedington in Oxfordshire in the house of Will. Draper Esq an Oliverian Colonel whose Sister he had married on the eleventh of Feb. 1658-9 aged 70. or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there Over his Grave is a Monument with an inscription but the contents I know not yet RICHARD LATEWAR a Londoner born educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of St. Johns coll 1580. and eight years after M. of Arts and a noted Preacher In 1593. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University being about that time Rector of Hopton in Suffolk Afterwards he became Rector of Finchley in Middlesex D. of D. and at length Chaplain to the illustrious Heroe Charles Lord Mountjoy Lieutenant of Ireland He was a most ingenious Latin Poet as his Epigrams and copies of Verses occasionally printed in books published in his life-time do shew He composed Carmen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coll. S. John Bapt. Which was restored and augmented by Rich. Andrews M. D. and Fellow of the said coll Conc. Lat. ad Academicos Oxon. 1594. It was Preached when he was admitted Bac. of Div. but upon what subject or when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it What other things of his are published I cannot find neither is there any need to be said more of him than what the learned Camden hath delivered of the overthrow of the Rebels in Ireland near to Carlingford given by the L. Mountjoy before-mentioned thus On
of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
reading in ancient authors of the Church and indeed beyond his age What became of him when he left Greenwich I know not for he died not there as I have been informed by an ingenious person who lives in those parts THOMAS KINGSMILL born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Sidmanton in Hampshire became a Student in this University in 1555. or thereabouts and Fellow of Magd. coll in 1560. being then Bachelaur of Arts. In 1565. he was elected Publick Orator and in 69. he was made Hebrew Professor of the University In 1572. he was a candidate for the degree of Bachelaur of Div. but whether he was really admitted I find not Soon after being distempered in brain by too much lucubration the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker of C. C. coll supplied his place of Professor in 1579. and for some years following What became of him afterwards I know not nor any thing else of him only that he recovering his Senses wrote and published A complaint against Security Lond. 1602. oct Classicum Paenitentiale Ox. 1605. qu. Tractatus de Scandalo Printed with the Classicum There was another Tho. Kingsmill who was M. of A. Preacher of God's Word at Hyth one of the Cinque Ports in Kent an 1631. and the publisher of a Sermon called The Drunkard's Cup on Prov. 23. 21. Lond. 1631. oct but whether he hath published any thing else or was of this University I cannot justly say it THOMAS CAREW descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living in Devonshire and Cornwall was educated for a time either in Broadgates hall or Exeter coll but took no degree here Afterwards taking upon him the Sacred Function became a Minister of God's Word a frequent Preacher and a publisher of Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Psal 90. 12. 2 Serm. on S. Jo. 3. 3. called Necessity of Mans renovation 3 Serm. on 1 Tim. 3. 16. 4 On 1 Pet. 3. 3. 4 5 On Jam. 5. from ver 1. to 5. Which five Sermons were published in oct an 1603. Four godly Sermons viz. 1 Against Popery or false Religion on Matth. 16. 18. 19. 2 Against Atheism the Enemy to Religion on Psal 53. 1. 3 Against Hypocrisie the counterfeit of Religion on Matth. 7. 5. 4 Against Apostasie the falling from Religion on Matth. 12. 31. 32. Which four Sermons were published at Lond. in oct an 1605. and dedicated by the author to Sir George Carew Baron of Clopton Lord President of Mounster Vice-Chamberlain and Receiver-general to the Queen's Majesty and Lievtenant of the Ordinance FRANCIS TRIGGE a noted and godly Preacher did first begin to be conversant among the Oxonian Muses in Vniversity coll an 1564. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and at length became Rector of Wellbourne near to Beckyngham in Lincolnshire in which County if I mistake not he was born His Works are An Apology shewing that the days wherein we live are more good and blessed than those of our Forefathers Lond. 1589. qu. Analysis capitis 24 Evangelii secundum Matthaeum c. Oxon. 1591. Comment in cap. 12. ad Rom. Ox. 1590. Comemnt in Rev. S. Joh. Printed 1590. Serm. Preached at Grantham an 1592. on Isay 24. 1. 2. 3. Ox. 1594. oct Touchstone of Cath. Faith Printed 1599. qu. The true Catholick formed according to the truth of the Scriptures Lond. 1602. qu. At length paying his last debt to Nature at Welbourne before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the 12. of May in sixteen hundred and six year 1606 He was the first Founder of the Library at Grantham in Lincolnshire on the wall of which are these Verses written which you shall have instead of his Epitaph Optima Franciscus donavit Biblia Triggus Welbourniae quondam concionator amans Plurima permultis largitus munera Sanctis The saurum nobis condidit usque Sacrum Sic pie talis opus voluit sic pignus amoris Sic Christum coluit sic docet esse pium Beside the said Benefaction he and his Wive's Mother named Elizab. Hussey of Hunnington gave to the poor of Grantham 3. lib. 6 sol 8. den per an and for so doing they are entred among the Benefactors There goes about those parts a memorable story concerning the prediction of the death of this our author a very strict Puritan in his time but whether any credence may be given to it forasmuch as 't is propagated by dissenting Brethren I doubt it and therefore I shall now pass it by JOHN ARGALL third Son of Thom. Argall by Margaret his Wife Daughter of John Talkarne of the County of Cornwal was born in London entred a Student in Ch. Ch. in the latter end of Q. Mary took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1565. and was Senior of the Act celebrated the 18. of Feb. the same year Afterwards he studied the Supream Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and at length became Parson of a Market Town in Suffolk called Halesworth He was always esteemed a noted Disputant during his stay in the University was a great Actor in Plays at Ch. Ch. particularly when the Queen was entertained there 1566. and when at ripe years a tolerable Theologist and Preacher But so much was he devoted to his studies that being withal unmindful of the things of his World he lived and died like a Philosopher He hath written and published De vera paenitentia Lond. 1604 oct Introductio ad artem Dialecticam Lond. 1605. oct In which book ver facete and pleasant the author saith of himself in the Postpredicaments under Simul tempore that whereas the great God had raised many of his Cronies and Contemporaries to high dignities in the Church as Dr. Tho. Bilson to the See of Winton Mart. Heton to Ely Hen. Robinson to Carlile Tob. Mathews to Durham c. yet he an unworthy and poor old Man was still detained in the chains of poverty for his great and innumerable sins that he might repent with the Prodigal Son and at length by God's favour obtain Salvation What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was reputed by the neighbouring Ministers of Halesworth a great Scholar and that being at a Feast at Cheston a mile distant from that Town he died suddenly at the Table Afterwards his body being carried to Halesworth it was buried in the Church there 8. year 1606 Octob. in sixteen hundred and six Now I am got into the name of Argall I must let the Reader know that in my searches I find one Rich. Argall to be noted in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for an excellent divine Poet having been much encouraged in his studies by Dr. Jo. King Bishop of London but in what house educated in Oxon where he spent some time in study I cannot now tell you He wrote and published
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 Pâ—eas 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
they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli I cannot in the least conjecture being the name of a Town nor can I believe it no more than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvini another ancient Family in Italy GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1562. took the degrees in Arts and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade and at length Bach. of Divinity In 1594 he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York and had some other Dignity but what I cannot tell He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry and for certain matters which he had written quoted by John Case the Philosopher Jam. Middendorp Joh. Cay and others All that I have seen of his composition are only these things following Poemata varia Latina Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death and by him intit Posthuma fragmenta Poematum Descriptio Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Written in Lat. verse as it seems and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six whereupon his Son Tom upon some design preserving his body from stench above ground till the 14 of Apr. following was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate Gertrude Widdow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe and near to it where dying was buried near to the Reliques of her Husband on the 3. Apr. 1645. 21. Car. 1. as I have been informed by the searches by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll a Native of Odcombe At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll was elected also one John Mundyn born at Maperton in Dorsetshire who being a Civilian and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas was made a Seminary Priest and sent into the Mission of England But being taken on Hounslow-heath in his journey from Winchester to London was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries was with 4 other Priests executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140 141. WILLIAM BURTON a Native of the City of Winchester was educated in Wykchams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristow and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following Several Sermons as 1 Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct 2 Davids Evidence or the assurance of Gods love in 7 Sermons on Psal 41. 11 12 13. Lond. 1592. oct 1602. qu. 3 A Caveat for Sureties two Serm. at Bristow on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse Lond. 1593. oct 1602. qu. 4 The rousing of the Sluggard in 7 Sermons on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse Lond. 1595. oct 5 Sermons on the Churches Love to Christ her Husband on Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit Gods Wooing his Church 6 Davids Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth two Sermons on Psal 10. 17 18. Lond. 1598. oct dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer a favourer of the authors Muse 7 Ten Sermons on Matthew 5. 3 4. Lond. 1602. qu. 8 The Anatomy of Beliel in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12 13 14 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God and the right use of the Law Lond. 1591. oct Conclusions of Peace between God and Man containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God on Prov. 7. 1 2. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. Exposition of the Lords Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Lond. 1594. oct 1602. qu. Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God Lond. 1602. qu. second edit Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God Lond. 1602. qu. An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath briefly yet fully and plainly set forth Lond. 1606. oct These are all and enough which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristow and afterwards in Reading Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk who died in that Parish in Oct. or Nov. in 1612. 16. Jac. 1. and left behind a Widdow called Dorothy I know not WILLIAM MONSON a Lincolnshire Man born a Knight's Son and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll where he continued for at least two years But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial he applied himself to Sea-service wherein he attained to great perfection was a Captain in several Expeditions against the Spaniard Vice-Admiral and Admiral In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard lest they should invade England wherein he performed most admirable Service especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum the Promontory of Portugal This heroical person left behind him at his death written with his own hand A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth being the particulars of what hapned between the English and Spanish Fleets from the year 1585. to 1602. shewing the expeditions attempts c. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson In some copies of this book the Title runs thus A particular and exact account of the last xvii years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign both Military and Civil Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson the other by Heywood Townshend This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea
was married to John Marston of the City of Coventry Gentleman Which John dying 25 June 1634. was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London near to the body of John Marston his Father sometimes a Councellour of the Middle Temple JEREMY CORDEROY a Gentlemans son of Wiltshire of the same family with those of Chute in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans-hall in 1577. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts studied Divinity many years and being a frequent preacher in Oxon was made one of the Chaplains of Merton coll in 1590 at which time and during his stay in Oxon which was at least 13 years after his life and conversation was without exception He hath written A short dialogue wherein is proved that no man can be saved without good works Oxon. 1604. in tw sec edit The dialogue is between a Gallant and a Scholar He wrote another book also intit A warning for worldlings or a comfort to the godly and a terror to the wicked in a dialogue between a Scholar and Traveller Lond. 1608. in tw At which time tho the author was a deserving person yet he was not preferr'd to a living and whether he was afterwards he being scrupulous of taking one I know not nor of any other books that he hath published BARNABE BARNES a younger son of Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham was a Yorkshire-man born and at about 17. years of age 1586. became a student in Brasn coll but left the University without a degree and what became of him afterwards I know not His works are these A divine Century of spiritual Sonnets Lond. 1595. dedicated to Tob. Matthews B. of Durham Four books of Offices enabling private persons for the special service of all good Princes and policies Lond. 1606. Fol. The Devils charter a Trag. containing the life and death of P. Alex. 6. Lond. 1607. oct One Barnabe Barnes of the City of Coventry died in the time of the civil War about 1644. leaving behind him a widdow named Margery but what relation there was between this and the former Barnabe or whether the same I cannot tell WILLIAM OVERTON one of the prime preachers in the reign of Q. Elizabeth was born in London became Demy or Semicommoner of Magd. coll 25. Jul. 1539. aged 15 Perpetual-fellow in 1551. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders left the coll and absented himself during the reign of Qu. Mary In 1565 he took the degrees in Divinity being then well beneficed and dignifi'd and in 1579. was made Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry where he was much commended for his hospitality to the poor and the good reparation he kept of his house which a married Bishop as he was seldom did or doth He hath published Sermon against discord on Rom. 16. vers 17. Lond. in oct Oratio doctiss graviss habita in domo capitulari Lichfield ad Praebendarios reliquum clerum in visitatione Ecclesiae suae cathedralis congregatum an 1600. Lond. 1600. He died in a good old age in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 and was buried in the Church of Eccleshall in Staffordshire near to the bodies of his two Wives In the See of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot as I shall tell you elsewhere EDWARD STRADLING son of Sir Tho. Stradling Knight by Cath. his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho Gamage of Coyty Knight was born of and lineally descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donates castle in Glamorganshire educated in several sorts of learning in this University but before he took a degree he left it travelled into various Countries spent some time at Rome returned an accomplished Gentleman and retiring to his Patrimony which was large did build a firm structure upon that foundation of literature that he had laid here and elsewhere In 1575. or the year after he received the Honour of Knighthood was made a Justice of Peace became a very useful Man in his Country and was at the charge of such Herculean works for the publick good that no Man in his time went beyond him But above all he is to be remembred for his singular knowledge in the British Language and Antiquities for his eminent encouragement of learning and learned Men and for his great expence and indefatigable industry in collecting together several Monuments and ancient Manuscripts of Learning and Antiquity All which with other books were reduced into a well ordered Library at St. Donates to the great credit and renown of that place and his Family He hath written A Welsh Grammar When or where printed I know not Of which book written mostly in Latin one of his Country-men gives this character Hae institutiones Grammaticae adeò concinnè sunt compositae omnibus suis numeris absolutae ut nec eis addi quicquam nec ab eis demi meo judicio quicquam poterit nisi secundam hujus operis author in posterume editionem maturet He hath also written The winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan or Morgannwe out of the Welsh-mens hands c. Of which book you may see more in The History of Cambria now called Wales c. Printed 1584. p. 122. and 141. This learned and worthy person hath written other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I say more him only that he paid his last debt to nature in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 aged 80. or more and was buried in a Chappel built by his Father dedicated to the Virgin Mary joyning to the Parish Church of St. Donate between the bodies of his Great-Grandfather and Grandmother on the North side and the body of his Father on the South side He died without Male Issue whereupon the Estate went to his next Kinsman Sir John Stradling Knight who was soon after made a Baronet From whom was descended Sir Edw. Stradling Baronet a Colonel in the Army of K. Ch. 1. buried in Jesus coll Chappel 21. June 1644. MICHAEL RENNIGER commonly called Rhanger received his first being in this World in Hampshire became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1547. afterwards Master of Arts and a Preacher in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. being then esteemed by those that knew him a person truly pious and of singular erudition But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he with others of the said coll voluntarily left the Land for Religion sake and lived mostly at Strasburg in Germany After her death he returned was made one of the Chaplains to Q. Elizabeth became a zealous assertor of the Protestant Religion but refusing considerable preferments that were then offered to him he accepted only of a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester for the present as also the Rectory of Crawley near to the said City In the year 1573. he took the degrees in Divinity and in 75. was upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Ebden
him an 100 l. per an Pension for his Life howbeit on condition that he should not depart the Realm In the beginning of Q. Elizabeth he was called again to the service of the Commonwealth was restored to his Deanery was present with the Divines at the correcting of the English Liturgy and afterwards with great commendations performed several Embassies At length being one of the Secretaries of State again and Chancellour of the Order of the Garter and several times a Parliament-man became very beneficial to the Common-wealth of learning by procuring the Laws concerning Corn for the colleges of Students in both the Universities This person who was a noted Orator Grecian and Civilian and worthy to be remembred for other learning hath written 1 The Commonwealth of England and the manner and government thereof in 3 books Printed in an old Engl. character at Lond. 1583. 94. in qu. and several times in oct notwithstanding it was left unfinished by the author Translated into Lat. by Dr. Jo. Budden who caused it to be printed at Lond. in oct 'T was also published in Lat. by Joh. Laet of Antwerp at Leyden 1630. in tw 2 De recta emendata linguae Graecae pronuntiatione ad Gardinerum Ep. Winton Epistola Lutet 1568. qu. 3 De recta emendata linguae Anglicae scriptione Printed dialogue ways with the former book 4 De re nummaria 5 The Authority form and manner of holding Parliaments This book being lately 1685. published may be doubted whether Sir Tho. Smith was the author of it He hath also extant Many Letters in the Compleat Embassador c. collected by Sir Dudley Digges He departed this mortal life in the climecterical year of his age in the month of July 1577. and was buried in the Church of Theydon-Mount or Theydon at Mount in Essex All his Latin and Greek books he gave to Queens coll in Cambridge as also a great Globe of his own making besides maintenance for two Scholars to come from Saffron-Walden to that house There was a very fair monument ordered to be put over the bodies of him and his Wife and no doubt there is but that it was done accordingly yet what the Inscription on it is I cannot yet learn not any thing else of him only that Jo. Lâ—â—and doth highly extol him in his Encomiae of illustrious and learned men of England JOHN SANSBURY or Sandsbury an eminent and ingenious Latin Poet was born in London educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns coll in Midsomer Term an 1593. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the North Suburb of Oxon 1607. and the year after was admitted Bach. of Divinity He hath written Ilium in Italiam Oxonia ad protectionem regis sui omnium optimi filia pedi sequa Oxon. 1608. oct In the said book are the Arms of each coll and verses under them Tragediae diversae MS. Acted several times by the Scholars of the aforesaid coll in their common refectory in the time of Christmas He was buried in the Church of S. Giles before-mentioned in the month of Jan. in sixteen hundred and nine The next writer according to time that is to be mentioned is one that had learning enough to be a Dean or Bishop yet could never rise higher than a Vicar and Pedagogue His name is THOMAS PYE born at Darlaston-near Wednesbury in Staffordshire educated for the most part in Logicals and Philosophicals in Merton coll of which he became one of the Chaplains in 1581. being then esteemed among the learned to be one of them Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity as a Member of that house he became Vicar and Schoolmaster of Bexhill near Hastings in Sussex about 1590. being then and before accounted an eminent Linguist excellent in Sacred Chronology in Ecclesiastical Histories and Polemical Divinity His works are A computation from the beginning of time to Christ by ten Articles Lond. 1597. qu. A confirmation of the same for the times controverted before Christ As also that there wanteth a year after Christ in the usual computation Printed with the former book and both under the general title of An Hour-glass Epistola ad ornatiss virum D. ` Johan Howsonum S. T. D. Acad. Oxon Procancellarium qua dogma ejus novum admirabile de Juderum divortiis refutatur suus SS Scripturae nativus sensus ab ejus glossematis vindicatur Lond. 1603. qu. Epistola responsoria ad clariss virum D. Alb. Gentilem MS. 'T is on the same subject with the former and are both answered by Rob. Burhill Scholastical determination of Usury Lond. 1604. qu. Answer to a Treatise written in defence of Usury Printed there the same year He gave way to fate at Bexhill in the latter end of sixteen hundred and nine at which time he by his Will dated 20. Dec. and proved 20. March an 1609. desired that his body might be buried in the School house at Bexhill before-mentioned lately repaired and new paved by him In his said Will he leaves certain Monies to the poor of Brightling near Battle in Sussex at which place as 't is probable he had a Cure About two years before his death he bestowed much money in building the Campanile or Tower at Darleston before-mentioned which before was built of timber JOHN AGLIONBY was born of a gentile Family in Cumberland became a Student in Queens coll in 1583. where after he had gone through the servile duties several years was made Fellow whereupon entring into Holy Orders became a most polite and learned Preacher Afterwards travelling he was introduced into the acquaintance of Cardinal Bellarmine who shewing to him the picture of the profound William Whittaker of Cambrige which hung up in his Library told him pointing to the picture that he was the most learned Heretick that ever he read or to that effect After his return he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to Q. Elizabeth took the degree of D. of D. in 1600. was made Principal of S. Edmunds hall the year after being about that time Rector of Islip near to and in the County of Oxon and soon after Chaplain in Ord. to K. James 1. He was a person well accomplished with all kind of learning profoundly read in the Fathers and in School-Divinity an exact Linguist and of an aquiline acumen as one who is profuse in his praise tells you What he hath published I find not however the reason why I set him down here is that he had a most considerable hand in the translation of the New Testament appointed by K. James in 1604. which is all that I know material of him saving only that he dying at Islip to the very great reluctancy of all learned and good men on the 6. Febr. in sixteen hundred and nine aged 43. was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Soon after was set up an Inscription to his memory on the East
wall of the said Chancel by his Widdow I think wherein being nothing of him but what I have mentioned already I shall pass it by for brevity sake JOHN DAVID RHESE or Jo. David or Davis was born at Lanvaethley in the Isle of Anglesey elected Student of Ch. Ch. after he had been conversant among the Oxonians for 3 or more years in the month of Dec. 1555. aged 21. travelled beyond the Seas before he took a degree in this University became Doctor of Physick of Senes or Sienna in Tuscany and publick Moderator of the School at Pistoia in that Country whose Language there which is Italian he understood as well as any native Afterwards he returned to his Country where he practiced his Faculty with admirable success and was held in high esteem by learned men for his exquisite knowledge in all kind of literature especially for Physick Poetry the Grammatical part of the Welsh Tongue and curiosity in various Criticisms yet by the generality he being not understood his rare parts and curious learning was in a manner buried where he lived He hath written in the Florentine Language Rules for the obtaining of the Latin Tongue Printed at Venice And in Latin these two books following De Italicae linguae pronuntiatione Printed at Padua Both which were in their time held in great repute by the Italians and the last by Strangers that occasionally travelled into Italy Cambro-Britannicae Cymraecaeve linguae institutiones rudimenta c ad intelligend Biblia sacra nuper in Cambro-Brittannicum sermonum eleganter versa Lond. 1592. fol. Written to Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats Castle in Glamorganshire a great favourer and furtherer of learning as I have elsewhere told you Before which book is a large Preface written by Humph. Prichard of Bangor in North Wales sometimes an Oxford Scholar Our author Rhese hath also written in the British Language Compendium of Aristotles Metaphysicks MS. formerly in Jesus coll Library In which book the author saith that the British Language is as copious in expressing congruous terms as the Greek or any Language whatsoever He hath written other excellent things but are lost as I have been assured by Olor Iscamus and therefore I cannot say any thing else of him only that he died a Rom. Cath. as he had lived at or near Brecknock where he mostly dwelt and practiced Physick in the Reign of K. James 1. Scil. about sixteen hundred and nine and that he is much celebrated by Stradling the Epigiammatist for his learning while he lived who stiles him Novum antiquae linguae lumen and by Camden who calls him Clariss eruditissimus linguae vir D. Johannes David See more of him in Tho. Leyson under the year 1607. ROBERT PERSONS or Parsons a most noted and learned writer of his time and the ornament of the English Nation in the opinion of those of his Society must according to time have the next place to be mentioned Concerning whom several R. Priests and others who have written bitterly against and scurrilously of him have peremptorily said as Tho. Bell and Tho. James from them hath done the like that he was basely born of mean parentage at Stokersey in Sommersetshire that his supposed Father was a Blacksmith his right the Parish Priest of Stokersey by means whereof he was binominous sometimes called Rob. Parsons sometimes Rob. Cowbuck c. that he was one of the dregs of the Commonalty a Fellow of a most seditious disposition a Sycophant an Equivocator and one that would set Kingdoms to sale c. But these things with many other not now to be named having been written out of malice against him I shall by no means follow or embrace them for truths but receed to that collection of his life which I have made partly from his own writings partly from record and partly from impartial Writers Born therefore he was at Stowey commonly called Nether-Stowey near to Bridgewater in Somersetshire an 1546. His Father was a Plebeian of honest repute and an enemy to the Church of Rome but by Alex. Bryant reconciled thereunto His mother was a known grave Matron living divers years in flight and banishment for Religion dyed therein at London very aged about 1599. The Son Robert being a child of very great towardliness and exceeding apt to learn was by his Fathers edeavours trained up in the English tongue and having a good memory could repeat what he had read once or twice very readily About that time it hapned that one John Hayward a vertuous good Priest who before had been a Canon Regular in Devonshire became Vicar of Nether-Stowey who perceiving that Robert had pregnant parts did teach him the Latin tongue and after had a special affection for him for he living to the beginning of the year 1575. endeavoured to get him into Balliol coll did exhibit unto him as 't is said and was not against the resignation which he made of his fellowship In the latter end of 1563. our author R. Parsons being fitted for Academical learning was sent to the said coll but whether he was at his first coming a Servitour or Scholar I know not Sure it is that by the help of good natural parts accompanied with unwearied industry he became in short time a smart Disputant not only in the coll but publick Schools as occasion served In the latter end of May 1568. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and the same year Probationer-Fellow of the said college which being terminated he was made Chaplain-Fellow and so consequently I presume went into Orders being then a noted Tutor in the coll In Michaelmas-Term 1572. he was admitted Master of Arts stood in the Act celebrated 12. Oct. 1573. and on the 13. of Feb. following he resigned his Fellowship of his own accord as the Register of Bal. coll saith tho certain authors tell us that he resigned to prevent Expulsion being then if not before about to change his Religion In June 1574. he left England went to Calis and thence to Antwerp at which place after he had continued for some weeks he diverted himself for a time with a journey to Lovaine where being no sooner arrived but he fell into the company of Father Will. Good his Country man by whom he was kindly received and with him spent some days in spiritual exercise So that whereas then and before he had addicted his mind to the study of Physick and did intend to prosecute it at Padua to which place he had then intentions to go he by Goods advice made some doubt of that matter At length he went there and was for some time not only conversant in that faculty but also in the Civil Law Upon second thoughts he relinquished those studies went to the English coll at Rome was there admitted into the Society of Jesus 4. July 1575. went thro the several Classes of Dinivity and in 1580. journied into England with Edm. Campian and
others to advance the Romish affairs with power then given by P. Greg. 13. for moderating the severe Bull of P. Pius 5. While he continued there which was in the quality of a Superior he travelled up and down in the Country to Gentlemens houses disguised in the habit sometimes of a Souldier sometimes like a Gentleman and at other times like a Minister and an Apparator And being a person of a seditious and turbulent spirit and armed with a confident boldness tampered so far with the R. Catholicks about deposing Qu. Elizabeth that some of them as they afterwards confessed thought to have delivered him up into the Magistrates hands About which time Campian being seized and committed he made haste out of England for fear of being snap'd also and forthwith went to Rome where making profession of the four vows he was constituted Rector of the English coll there an 1587. Afterwards he went into Spain where by his great learning expressed in disputing writing and promoting the Cause he became known to and respected by the King of that place About 1597. he returned to Rome in hopes of a Cardinals Cap but missing it died as 't is said with grief He was a restless active man and tho of a violent fierce nature and rough behaviour yet he was more zealous for the promoting of the Jesuits interest than any of and perhaps before his time witness his unwearied endeavours of instituting Novices of the Society at Sevill Valladolid Cadiz Lisbon Doway S. Omers and at Rome Also his continual publishing of books as well in the Latin as in the English tongue which did no great good to the Church of England and the noted professors thereof And lastly his endeavours of keeping Spain and England in difference and of his inciting the Spaniard to invade England or Ireland again of breaking the lawful Succession of the Crown by confirming the right of it to a Daughter of Spain and what not to promote the interest of that Country and his Society As for those books which he hath written published either without a name or else in the names of other persons I shall here give you the titles of as many that have come to my hands and they are these A brief discourse containing the reasons why Catholicks refuse to go to Church Said to be Printed at Doway but really at Lond. 1580. in oct Published under the name of Jo. Howlet and dedicated to Q. Eliz. with a large Epist subscribed by the said J. Howlet See more in the Fasti 1569. I have seen a book in Bodlies Lib. being one of the Copies which was seized before the title page was printed intituled in the first page of the book it self thus Reasons that Catholicks ought in any wise to abstain from heretical conventicles The running title at the top of every leaf of the book is A Treatise of Schisme Printed at London by Will. Carter executed for Treason in the year 1584. who confessed when that book came to be seized on in his house on Tower-hill near London that there had been printed 1250. Copies of the said book At that time the Searchers found the original sent from Rheimes and allowed under Dr. Will. Allens own hand to be truly Catholick and fit to be published This book without doubt is the same which a certain author stiles Nine reasons why Catholicks should abstain from heretical Conventicles said by him to be written by Rob. Parsons The same year that the Brief discourse containing c. was published came out an answer to it intit A check to Mr. Howlets Shreechings to her Majesty c. but whether any reply followed I know not The next books that F. Parsons wrote were Reasons for his coming into the mission of England with a proffer or challenge to dispute with the Protestants This book or Treatise tho afterwards put under the name of Rob. Persons in the Bib. Soc. Jesu yet in the answer to it made by Mer. Hanmer and Will. Charke it is by them said to be written by E. Campian Brief Censure given upon the two books of W. Charke and M. Hanmer written against the Reasons and Proffer Lond. 1581. oct To which W. Chark made a reply Printed in oct A discovery of Joh. Nichols Minister misreported a Jesuit Printed 1581. in octav Answered by Tho. Lupton in a book intit Answer against a Jesuits book entit A discovery c. Lond. 1582. qu. See more in Joh. Nicholls an 1583. A defence of the Censure given upon two books of Will Charke and Meredith Hanmer Ministers which they wrote against Mr. Edmund Campian Priest of the Society of Jesus and against his offer of disputation Printed 1582. oct Taken in hand since the death of Campian Against this book came out another intit A treatise against the defence of the censure c. Cambr. 1586. oct De persecutione Anglicanâ Epistola Quâ explicantur afflictiones aerumnae calamitates gravissimae c. Rom. Ingolst 1582. Printed also in a book intit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Angliâ c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct p. 79. Both which editions the former I am sure were published under the name of the English coll at Rome See more in Joh. Bridgewater an 1594. A Christian directory or exercise guiding men to eternal Salvation commonly called The Resolution First published in 1583. in oct From which edition and book were framed two more published An. 1584. One of which was done by a catholick Gent. living at Roan in Normandy full of errors but in sense the same Another by Edm. Bunny of Merton coll in Oxon but all altered to the Protestant use as may be seen in the Preface to Rob. Persons's edition of the same book in the year 1585. The second part of a Christian directory or exercise c. Lond. 1594 92. in tw Printed also in 1650. in a large oct But these two parts as it seems being falsly printed at London the author came out again with them bearing this title A Christian directory guiding men to their Salvation divided into three books The first thereof pertaining to Resolution is only contained in this volume and divided into two parts and set forth now again with many corrections and additions by the author himself with reproof of the falsified edition lately published by Mr. Edm. Bunny Lovaine 1598. in a thick oct c. These books of Resolution won our author Persons a great deal of praise not only in the judgment of R. Catholicks but of very learned Protestants Yet not to heap more praises upon him than he justly deserves his Enemies and those of the Protestant party say that he was but a Collector or Translator at most and that the book was not of his own absolute invention but taken out of other authors They say farther also that his praise was for well translating close couching and packing it up together in a very smooth stile and singular good method
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
might be proposed in the first Parliament and National Council of our Country after God of his mercy shall restore it to the Catholick Faith for the better establishment and preservation of the said Religion Lond. 1690. oct To which the said Edw. Gee hath put before it an Introduction and added some Animadversions Controversiae nostri temporis in Epitomen redactae MS. in Baliol coll Library written with the authors own hand In the front of which is this written Compilator hujusce Epitomes est Robertus Personius ut patet ex Johanne Rainoldâ— in censura librorum Apochryphorum praelectione secunda pag. 22. ex editione Hieronimi Galleri in nobili Openhemio He also translated from English into the Spanish tongue A relation of certain Martyrs in England Madrid 1590. oct At length after he had spent his life in continual agitation for the cause gave up the ghost at Rome 15 Ap. according to the accompt there followed which is the fifth day of the same month with us in sixteen hundred and ten and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the English coll year 1610 there Soon after was a monument put over his Grave with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In the Rectorship of the said English coll succeeded Tho. Owen a Welsh-man RICHARD KNOLLES of the same family with those of his name living at Cold-Ashby in Northamptonshire made his first entry into this University in 1560. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after and then was elected Fellow of Lincoln college where after he had proceeded in that faculty did purpose to perform if God granted him life something that might be profitable to the Christian Commonwealth as in time God should give him means and occasions In the mean while Sir Peter Manwood of S. Stephens near to Canterbury Knight of the Bath minding to be a favourer of his studies called him from the University and was by 〈◊〉 preferred to be Master of the Free-School at Sandwich in Kent where being settled he did much good in his Profession and sent many Young men to the Universities And tho he was there in a world of troubles and cares and in a place that afforded no means of comfort to proceed in great works yet he performed much for the benefit of History at his vacant hours upon the desire of the said Sir Peter as it doth appear by these his works following The history of the Turks Lond. 1610. c. fol. which book he composed in about 12 years time And tho it all goes under his name yet some there be that think he was not the sole author of it because therein are found divers translations of Arabick Histories in which Language he was not at all seen as some that knew him have averr'd In other editions of this book for there have been at least five it beareth this title The general History of the Turks from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Ottomaâ— Family c. It hath been continued from Knolles's death by several hands and one continuation was made from the year 1628. to the end of the year 1637. collected out of the dispatches of Sir Pet. Wyche Kt. Embass at â—onstantinople and others by Tho. Nabbes a writer for the most part comical to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. A continuation of the Turkish Hist from 1623. to 1677. was made by Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul at Smyrna Lond. 1679. The Lives and Conquests of the Ottoman Kings and Emperours to the year 1610. Lond. 1621. Continued from that time 1610. to 1621. by another hand A brief discourse of the greatness of the Turkish Empire and where the greatest strength thereof consisteth c. Grammat Latine Graecae Hebr. compendium cum radicibus Lond. in oct He also translated from the French and Lat. copies into English The six books of a Common-wealth Lond. 1606. fol. written by Joh. Bodin a famous Lawyer At length this our author Knolles dying at Sandwich before he had quite attained to the age of Man in sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 was buried in St. Maries Church there on the second of July the same year leaving behind him the character of an industrious learned and religious person FRANCIS HASTINGS fifth Son of Francis Earl of Huntingdon was born as it seems in Leicestershire where his Father mostly lived educated in Madg. coll under the tuition of Dr. Laur. Humphrey in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign from whom sucking in many Calvinistical Opinions proved when he was ripe in years a severe Puritan and Predestinatian as his elder Brother George was who was trained up at Geneva under Theod. Beza and a most zealous Man for the reformed Religion Two other Brothers also were as zealous for the Church of Rome yet all for a time lived friendly together Afterwards our author Francis was Knighted by Q. Elizabeth and being several times chosen a Parliament-man in her Reign became a frequent Speaker in them and at first a violent Man against the Papists tho afterwards a favourer especially at that time when he and Sir Rich. Knightly of Northamptonshire presented a Petition to the Parliament for favour or a toleration to be given to them Whereby it appeared then to the observer that the Putitan could joyn with the Papist against the Church of England He was a learned Gentleman well read in authors especially in those relating to the controversies between the Protestants and Papists as it appears by his works the titles of which follow The Watchword to all true-hearted English-men Lond. 1598. oct Which title did imitate that belonging to a book printed at Lond. in qu. an 1584. running thus A Watchword to England to beware of Traytors and treacherous practices c. But the Watchword of Sir F. Hastings being answered by Nic. Doleman alias Rob. Persons in his Temperate Wardword our author came out with An aâ—â—logy or defence of the Watchword against the virulent and seditious Wardword published by an English Spaniard under the title of N. D. Lond. 1600 qu. In which year came out also another book in defence of Hastings intit A brief reply to a certain odious and scandalous Libel lately published by a seditious Jesuit calling himself N. D. c. entit A temperate Wardword Printed at Lond. in qu. but who the author of it was I know not Another also who writes himself O. E. published a second reply the same year against the said Temperate Wardword Against which or another book relating to the said controversie came out A confutation of a vaunting challenge made by O. E. unto N. D. Pr. 1603. in oct written by W. R. a Rom. Catholick Our author Sir Francis also wrote The Wastword c. Pr. at Lond. 1601. oct Answer'd by Persons's book called The Warnword an 1602. Meditations Printed several times in 16o. Several Speeches in Parliament Some of which are
elected a Student of Ch. Church from Westminster School in 1574. took the degrees in Arts and afterwards entring on the Law line took the degrees in that Faculty also in 1589. About which time being famed for his excellencies therein became Chancellour of the Diocess of Ely and much respected by the Bishop thereof Dr. Martin Heton He was an excellent Poet especially in the Lat. tongue as several copies of verses printed occasionally in various books shew and reputed the best Comedian of his time whether it was Edward Earl of Oxford Will. Rowley the once ornament for wit and ingenuity of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Rich. Edwards Joh. Lylie Tho. Lodge Geor. Gascoigne Will. Shakspeare Tho. Nash or Joh. Heywood He was also a man of great gifts a good Scholar and an honest person and as it should seem by Dr. Joh. Rainolds's several answers and replies to what this Doctor hath written hath said more for the defence of Plays than can be well said again by any Man that should succeed or come after him The cause for the defence of Plays was very wittily and Scholarlike maintained between the said two Doctors for some time but upon the rejoynder of Rainolds Gager did let go his hold and in a Christian modesty and humility yielded to the truth and quite altered his judgment He hath written several Plays among which are Ulysses redux Rivales Both which were several times acted in the large Refectory of Ch. Ch. but whether ever printed I cannot yet tell The last was acted before Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad a most learned Polonian in June 1583. in which year he purposely came into England to do his devotions to and admire the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth After he had beheld and heard the Play with great delight in the said Refectory he gave many thanks in his own person to the author Meleager Trag. Written also in Latin as the two former were and acted publickly in Ch. Ch. hall an 1581. or thereabouts before the Earl of Pembroke Rob. Earl of Leicester Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox. Sir Ph. Sidney and many other considerable persons This Tragedy giving great delight was shortly after acted there again and at length in 1592. 't was printed at Oxon in oct to the great content of Scholars A copy of the said Tragedy with two letters being sent by the author to Dr. Jo. Rainolds in which letters as I conceive were many things said in defence of Theatre sights Stage-plays c. the said Doctor drew up an answer dated at Queens coll 10. Jul. 1592. Whereupon our author Gager making a reply with a desire to Rainolds to forbear any farther writing against him yet Rainolds came out with a rejoynder in July 1593. As for Gagers letters and reply I think they were not printed for among my searches I could never see a copy of them The answer of Rainolds with his rejoynder I am sure were printed under the title of The overthrow of Stage-plays c. This is all that I know of our author Gager only that he was living in or near to the City of Ely in sixteen hundred and ten and that he wrote the Latine Epistle before the book of verses made by the University of Oxon. intit Exequiae D. Philippi Sidnaei Oxon. 1587. qu. In which book also he hath copies of verses on the death of that famous Knight who while he was in being had a very great respect for the learning and virtues of Gager of whom you may see more in Joh. Rainolds under the year 1607. and in Will. Heale who next follows In 1615. was published a book at London in qu. intit A refutation of the Apology for Actors but by whom written I know not for only the two letters J. G. are set to it WILLIAM HEALE a zealous maintainer of the honour of the Female Sex was a Devonian born being originally descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at South-Heale in the same County became a Sojourner of Exeter coll in 1599. aged 18. took the degrees in Arts and became Chaplain-Fellow of that house wherein he wrote and compiled An apology for Woman Or an opposition to Mr. Doctor G. Gager his assertion who held in the Act at Oxon. an 1608. That it was lawful for Husbands to beat their Wives Oxon. 1609. qu. What preferment he afterwards had in the Church or whether he wrote any thing else I find not He was always esteemed an ingenious Man but weak as being too much devoted to the fem Sex ALBERICUS GENTILIS the most noted and famous Civilian and the grand ornament of the University in his time Brother to the eminent writer Scipio Gentilis and both the Sons of Matthew Gentilis Doctor of Physick by Lucretia his Wife was born at La Chastell St. Genes in a Province of Italy called La Marca d' Ancona educated mostly in the University of Perugia where being made Doctor of the Civil Law in 1572. aged 21. soon after left his Country for Religion sake with his Father and younger Brother Scipio before-mentioned The Father and Scipio setled in Germany but Albericus going into England found relief from several persons in London and by recommendations obtained the patronage of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester Chancellour of the University of Oxon. But our learned author being desirous to lead an Academical life he procured the Chancellours letters for that purpose dated 24. Nov. 1580. wherein it appears that he left his Country for Religion sake and that his desire was to bestow some time in reading and other exercises of his profession in the Vniversity c. Soon after the date of the said letters he journeyed to Oxon and by the favour of Dr. Dan. Donne Principal of New Inn and his successor Mr. Price he had a convenient Chamber allowed to him in the said Inn and not only Monies given towards his maintenance by several Societies but soon after 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per an from the common Chest of the University In the latter end of 1580 he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law of this University as he had stood before in that of Perugia and after he had continued some years in the said Inn where he wrote certain books and laid the foundation of others of which the Students thereof have gloried in my hearing he receeded either to C. C. coll or to Ch. Ch. and became the flower of the University for his profession In 1587. the Queen gave him the Lecture of the Civil Law for his farther incouragement which he executed for about 24 years with great applause As for the books by him published which speak him most learned beyond the Seas were all written in the University of Oxon the titles of which are these De juris interpretibus dialogi sex Lond. 1582. qu. Dedicated to Rob. E. of Leicester being the authors first fruits of his lucubrations Lectionum Epistolarum quae ad
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 â—â—testate 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
book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of… Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
hundred and fourteen according to the accompt there followed and was buried year 1614 I presume among the brethren in their house there who had a most entire respect for him and his learning while he was living JOHN REINOLDS the most noted Epigrammatist next to Joh. Owen and Sir Jo. Harrington of his time received his first being in this world at Tuddington in Bedfordshire was elected Probationer of New coll from Wykeham's School near to Winchester in 1600. and two years after was admitted Perpetual fellow being then noted for a good Grecian Orator and Poet. Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law and wrote and published Disticha classis Epigrammatum sive carminum inscriptorum Centuriae duae The first part was printed at Oxon 1611. in oct and containes an 110. Epigrams concerning the British and English Kings each Epigarm consisting but of two Verses The other part was printed at the same place in 1612. in oct Besides which Epigrams he hath much of his Poetry printed in divers books particularly in that made by certain fellows of New coll on the death of Ralph Warcup Esq an 1605 wherein he flourishes in his Greek Poetry He ended his days in the prime of his years in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried year 1614 as it seems in New coll Cloyster I find another of both his names and equal almost in time with him who was born within the City of Excester and by the books that he published had gained a famous name among the vulgar Scholars Gentlemen and Women of love and mode The titles of them are 1 The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sin of Murder c. Lond. 1621. qu. the first book Five more came out afterwards at several times mostly taken from French printed copies which he had gathered in his Travels into France All the six books were printed at London in one fol. 1635. and several times after At length the sixth edition being adorned with Cuts was published at Lond. 1679. fol. by Sam. Pordage of Lincolns Inn Son of Joh. Pordage Rector of Bradfield in Berks. and formerly Head Steward of the lands to old Philip Earl of Pembroke 2 Gods revenge against the abominable sin of Adultery containing ten several Histories Lond. 1679. fol. This being never printed before was illustrated with Cuts and published by the said Sam. Pordage with the former book 3 The flower of fidelity Displaying in a continuate history the various adventures of three foraigne Princes Lond. 1650. oct Dedicated to his Father-in-law Rich. Waltham Esq Justice of Peace of Devon and other things which I have not yet seen Among the translations that he hath made from French into English is A Treatise of the Court written by Monsieur de Refuges and by the Translator dedicated to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 1. Whether the said John Reynolds was ever a Student in Oxon I cannot in my searches yet find However some of the Antients of Exeter coll who knew the man have averred it several times that he had received some Accademical education but before he could take a degree was call'd away to travel into France He was living in the times of Usurpation but whether in those of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. I cannot tell ARTHUR HOPTON fifth Son of Sir Arth. Hopton Knight of the Bathe by Rachell his Wife daughter of Edm. Hall of Gretford in Lincolnshire Son of Sir Owen Hopton sometimes Leivtenant of the Tower near London was born in Somersetshire at Wytham as it seems became a Gent. Commoner of Lincoln coll in Michaelmas Term an 1604. aged 15. or more where falling under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor became the miracle of his age for learning In 1607. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and then left the University to the great sorrow of those who knew the wonderful pregnancy of his parts Afterwards he setled in London in one of the Temples as I conceive where he was much admired and beloved by Selden and all the noted men of that time who held him in great value not only for his antient and gentile Extraction but for the marvellous forwardness of his Mathematical genie which led him to perform those matters at one or two and twenty years of age which others of forty or fifty could not do as in these Books following of his composition may appear Baculum Geodaticum sive Viaticum Or the Geodetical Staff containing eight books Lond. 1610. in a pretty thick qu. Speculum Topographicum Or the Topographical Glass containing the use of the Topographical Glass Theodelitus plain Table and Circumferentor c. Lond. 1611. qu. A Concordancy of years containing a new easie and a most exact computation of time according to the English accompt Lond. 1616. oct To which were additions made by Joh. Penkethman Lond. 1635. in qu. in one sh and half He hath also divers copies of verses scattered in books which shew that he was a tolerable Poet of his time He ended his days in the prime of his years within the Parish of St. Clements Danes without Temple-Bar near to London in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred and fourteen year 1614 and was buried if I mistake not in the Church there His untimely death as I have been informed by those that remember him was much regretted by all those who were acquainted with him and knew his extraordinary worth His Nephew Ralph Hopton Son of his Brother Robert was a Gent. Com. also of Linc. coll and after the Rebellion brake out in 1642. he was a General of an Army under K. Ch. 1. and by him made a Baron ROBERT COOKE who writes himself Cocus was born at or near to Beeston in Yorkshire was entred a Student in Brasenose coll in 1567. aged 17. or thereabouts where with unwearied diligence travelling through the various Classes of Logick and Philosophy he became the most noted Disputant of his time On the 2. Dec. 1573. he was unanimously elected Probationer-Fellow of that coll and three years after took the degree of M. of A. About which time entring into Holy Orders and being noted for his admirable learning was therefore elected one of the Proctors of the University In which office he behaved himself so admirably well that his house gained credit by it In 1584. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in the beginning of June 1590. resigning his Fellowship retired to his new obtained Vicaridge of Leedes in Yorkshire where making the best advantage of his time became a Man learned in the Church singularly well studied in the disquisition of antiquity especially for the discerning of the proper works of the Fathers from the forged and counterfeit as it may appear in a book which he wrote intit Censura quorundam Scriptorum quae sub nominibus Sanctorum veterum auctorum à Pontificiis passim in eorum Scriptis sed potissimum in quaestionibus hodie controversis
time concerning the Voyages and Travels of several persons he compiled a book intit English Voyages Navigations Trafficks and Discoveries Lond. 1598. 99. and 1600. in three vol. in fol. Which work being by him performed with great care and industry cannot but be an honour to the Realm of England because possibly many Ports and Islands in America that are base and barren and only bear a name for the present may prove rich places in future time Notes of certain Commodities in good request in the East Indies the Molucoes and China MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Pub. Lib. at Oxon. He also illustrated by diligent observation of time and with most useful notes Peter Mart. Anglericus his eight Decades De novo orbe Par. 1587. oct and corrected and much amended and translated into English The discoveries of the World from the first original unto the year of our Lord 1555. Lond. 1601. qu. briefly written in the Portugal tongue by Anth. Galvano Governour of Ternate the chief Island of the Molucoes As also from the said Language into our English tongue Virginia richly valued by the description of the main Land of Florida her next Neighbour Lond. 1609. qu. He paid his last debt to nature 23. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Abbey Church of Westminster dedicated to S. Peter on the 26. of the same month leaving behind him a Son named Edmund begotten on the body of Frances his Wife to whom he left his Mannor of Bridgplace and several tenements in Tuttlestreet within the City of Westminster Oliver Hackluyt Brother to the said Richard was a Student of Ch. Ch. also and being graduated in Physick had an happy hand in the practice of it In R. Hakluyts Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Joh. Holt of Cor. Ch. coll as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SMITH was born in Warwickshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll into a Coventry place an 1577. aged 14. and at length was made Fellow and highly valued in the University for piety and parts especially by those that excelled in both Soon after he grew to that note that he was chosen being then Bach. of Div. to be Lecturer in S. Pauls Cathedral in London in the place of that great Man Dr. Lauc Andrews which he discharged not only to the satisfaction but applause of most judicious and learned hearers witnessed by their frequency and attention Not long after he was removed to a Pastoral Charge at Clavering in Essex where being fix'd he shined as a Star in its proper sphere and was much reverenced for his Religion learning humility and holiness of Life He was skilful in the original Languages an excellent Text-man well read in writers that were of note in several ages of the Church which may partly appear from these things following that he wrote viz. The Substance and Pith of Prayer or a brief holy and heavenly Exposition on the Lord's Prayer being the Summ and Marrow of divers Sermons c. on Matth. 6. 9. Lond. 1629. qu. The Essex Dove presenting the World with a few of her Olive branches c. delivered in three several Treatises viz. 1. The Grounds of Religion 2. An Expoon the Lord's Prayer 3. A Treatise of Repentance Lond. 1629. qu. The poor Penitent or the Doctrine of Repentance Preached in divers Sermons c. Lond. 1629. qu. in 14 Lectures published by John Hart. Exposition on the Creed Lond. 1632. fol. Explanation of the Articles of our Christian Faith Which two last books were delivered in 73 Sermons He concluded his last day in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Church of Clavering before-mentioned leaving then by his Will several books to St. Johns coll Library I have mentioned several John Smiths in this work that were Divines See under the year 1596. and elsewhere THOMAS SPARKE received his first breath in Lincolnshire at South-Somercote as it seems became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1570. in which year he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Soon after by the favour of Arthur Lord Grey he was preferred to the Parsonage of Bletchley in Bucks where he was held in great esteem for his piety In the year 1575. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences without ruling in Arts and about that time was Chaplain to Dr. Cooper Bish of Linc. who that year bestowed the Archdeaconry of Stow on him in the place of Rog. Kelke Bach. of Div. who had succeeded Joh. Harrison in that Dignity 1563. In 1581. he proceeded in Divinity being then in great renown for his learning But his Dignity being remote from his Cure and therefore could not well attend it he gave it up out of Conscience sake in 1582. and contented himself only â—ith Bletchley whereupon Joh. Farmery B. D. succeeded him therein This Dr. Sparke was the person who being noted for a great Nonconformist and a Pillar of Puritanism was by Letters from the King's Council called to the Conference at Hampton-Court an 1603. where appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries as 't is said or rather with Jo. Rainolds as a Proctor for the precise Party not in a Priests Gown or Canonical Coat but such that Turky Merchants wear received then so great satisfaction from his Majesty's most ready and apt Answers to the Doubts and Objections there and then proposed that he tho he spoke not one word did not only for the time following yield himself in his practice to Universal Conformity but privately by word and writing and publickly by his brotherly perswasion He was a learned Man a solid Divine well read in the Fathers and so much esteemed for his profoundness gravity and exemplary life and conversation that the Sages of the University thought it fit after his death to have his picture painted on the wall in the School-gallery among the English Divines of note there viz. between that of Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll whom I have mentioned under the year 1614. and that of Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He hath written A comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience Lond. 1580. oct Brief Catechism with a form of Prayer for Householders Taken as it seems from the Catechism of Vrsinus Sermon Preached at Cheyneys in Bucks at the burial of the E. of Bedford 14. Sept. 1585. on Apoc. 14. 13. Lond. 1585. oct c. Treatise to prove that Ministers publickly and Householders privately are bound to Catechise their Parishioners and Families c. Oxon. 1588. oct Answer to Mr. Joh. de Albines notable discourse against Heresies Oxon. 1591. qu. Serm. at the Funeral of the Lord Grey on Esay 57. 1 2. Ox. 1593. oct The High-way to Heaven by the clear Light of the Gospell c. against Bellarmine and others in a Treatise made upon 37 38 and 39 verses of the 7. of John c. Lond. 1597. oct A brotherly perswasion to Unity and Uniformity in Judgment and
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
several Sons whereof two were R. Cath. Priests WILLIAM WYRLEY Son of Augustin Wyrly of Netherseile in Leicestershire by Mary his Wife Daughter of Walt. Charnells Son of Will. Wyrley of Handsworth in Staffordshire descended from an antient family of his name sometimes living at Rowley in the said County was born in Staffordshire and in those parts educated in Grammar learning This person whom we are farther to mention having from his childhood had an excellent Genie for Arms and Armory was entertained in the family of Sampson Erdswyke of Sandon Esq mentioned under the year 1603. called then by some the Antiquary of Staffordshire where making a considerable progress in Heraldical and Antiquarian studies under his inspection published a book under his own name entitled The true use of Armory shewed by History and plainly proved by example c. Lond. 1592. qu. Reported by some to be originally written by the said Erdeswyke but he being then an ancient man thought it fitter to have it published under Wyrley's name than his However the reader is not to think so but rather to suspend his thoughts being only a bare report that came originally from Erdeswykes mouth and to know this that Wyrley was an ingenious man and fit to compose such a book and that Erdeswyke being often times crazed especially in his last days and fit then for no kind of serious business would say any thing which came into his mind as 't is very well known at this day among the chief of the college of Arms. Soon after the publication of that book Wyrley left him and retired to Balliol coll purposely to obtain Academical learning where being put under the tuition of a good tutor and in great hope to obtain the grounds of the said learning was matriculated in the University as a member of that house in Act term an 1595. he being then about 29. years of age How long he continued there or whether he took a degree it appears not However for diversion sake he employed his time so admirably well during his abode in that house that he made several collections of Arms from Monuments and Windows in Churches and elsewhere in and near Oxon which have given me much light in my searches after things of that nature in order to the finishing the great work that I have been many years drudging in He also made divers remarks and collections from various Leiger books sometimes belonging to Monasteries in these parts and elsewhere The Original of which written with his own hand I have in my little Library which tho partly perished by wet and moisture yet I shall always keep them as monuments of his industry On the 15. May 2. Jac. 1. dom 1604. he was constituted Ronge-Crâ—ix Officer or Pursivant of Armes Which place he holding several years was always reputed among those of the coll of Arms a knowing and useful person in his profession and might had a longer life been spared have published several matters relating thereunto but being untimely cut off in the midst of his endeavours about the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred and seventeen we have enjoyed only besides the printed book and collections already mentioned various collections of Arms and Inscriptions made in and from which several Churches and Gentlemens habitations in his own Countie Leicestershire have assisted Burton the Antiquary thereof and in other Counties and from Churches in and near to London Some of which I have seen and perused in the Sheldonian Library I mean in that Library which belonged sometimes to that most worthy and generous person my friendly acquaintance never to be forgotten Raphe Sheldon of Boely Esquire the same Raphe for there are several of his family of both his names who died on Midsomer-day an 1684. aged 61. or thereabouts Which Library the MSS. only to the number of about 300. besides very many Parchment rolls and Pedegrees he bequeathed to the Coll. of Arms situated on Bennet-hill near to St. Paul's Cathedral in London where they yet remain As for the body of Wyrley 't was buried as I have been informed in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls Wharff EDMUND BUNNEY elder brother to Francis Bunney before mentioned was the Son of Rich Bunney of Newton otherwise called Bunney-hall in the Parish of Wakefield and of Newland in the Parish of Normanton in Yorkshire Esq by Bridget his Wife Daughter and coheir of Edw. Restwold of the Vache near to Chalfont St. Giles in Bucks who died 1547. descended from Richard and Philipp de la Vache Knights of the illustrious Order of the Garter in the time of K. Rich. 2. These Bunneys by the way it must be known pretend that their Ancestours descended from the Bunneys of Bunney a Town so called near to the ripe of the River Lâ—ir by Orleans in France came with William the Conquerour into England and setled themselves at a place in Nottinghamshire called from them Bunney rise but how they can make that out seeing their name is not in the original and genuine Copy of Battle-Abbey roll I cannot yet understand This our author Edm. Bunney whom I am farther to mention was born at a house called the Vache before mention'd being then imparted an 1540. sent to this University at 16 years of age in the fourth year of Q. Mary and about the time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he was elected Probationer Fellow of Madg. coll being then noted to be very forward in Logick and Philosophy Soon after he went to Staple Inn and thence to Greys Inn in either of which he spent about two years for his Father intended him for the Common-Law being his eldest Son but he resolving for Divinity was cast off by his Father tho a good man as he the Son faith and one that fled for his Religion in Qu. Marys days so that returning to Oxon he took the degree of Master in the latter end of 1564. and in the year following was elected fellow of Merton coll at which time Hen. Savile was elected Probationer For which a act tho the Society had no preceedent yet there was a necessity for it because there was not one then in that Society that could or would preach any publick Sermon in the college turn such was the scarcity of Theologists not only in that House but generally throughout the University In the year 1570. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time became Chaplain to Dr. Grindall Archbâ— of York who gave him a Prebendship of that Church and the Rectory of Bolton Percy about six Miles distant thence Which Rectory after he had enjoyed 25. years he resigned and maintaining himself with the profits of his Prebendship being also Subdean of York and other Dignities mention'd in his Epitaph following he preached and catechized where there was most need I have heard Dr. Barten Holyday say that when he was a Junior in the University this
c. Andrew Henley son of the aforesaid Henley was his Executor who had his library remaining at â—ramsell wherein mostly in the books he found as I have been credibly informed about a thousand pound in gold I shall now proceed to give you a farther account of Sir W. Raleigh's works The Prerogative of Parliaments in England proved in a dialogue between a Counsellour of State and a Justice of Peace Middleburg some copies have it Hamburge 1621. Lond. 1640. qu. Instructions to his son and posterity Lond. 1632. 36. 1651. oct 56. in tw The life and death of Mahomet the conquest of Spaine together with the rising and ruin of the Sarazen Empire Lond. 1637. in tw In another title printed the year following 't is called The History of Mahomet The Prince or Maxims of State Lond. 1642. in 7 sh in qu. there again in 51. and 56. in tw 'T is the same with his Aphorisms of State Lond. 1661. oct published by John Milton Lond. 1651. and 56 in tw The Sceptick or Speculations Observations of the magnificency and opulency of Cities State of Government Letters to the King and others of quality Demeanour before his Execution His Pilgrimage in verse Certain verses Observations on the first invention of shipping or invasive War the Navy-Royal and Sea-service Lond. 1650. 1667. oct Apology for his Voyage to Guiana Printed with the Observations c. 'T was by him penned at Salisbury in July 1617. I have a copy of it in MS. bound with his Confession which is in MS. also and begins thus I thank God of his infinite Goodness that he hath sent me to die in the light and not in the darkness c. Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollanders and other Nations as it was presented to King James Lond. 1653. 56 in tw The Cabinet-Council containing the chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State Lond. 1658. oct This book was published by John Milton before-mentioned of whom you may see more in the Fasti an 1635. Historical and Geographical description of the great Country and River of the Amazons in America c. Lond. 1661. published by W. H. Wars with Foreign Princes dangerous to our Common-wealth Or Reasons for Foreign Wars answered When printed I know not Various Letters See in the Cabala or Screnia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Divers Speeches and Arguments in several Parliaments towards the latter end of Q. Elizab. See in H. Townsend's Historical Collections Lond. 1680. fol. The Sons advice to his Father The great Cordial Upon which N. le Febure hath written an English discourse Lond. 1664. oct I have seen a book in MS. containing Sir Walt. Raleigh's Speech at the time of his death and His Ghost or a conference between Sur Gundamoure his Maj. Embassadour of Spain the Fryer Confessor and Father Baldwyn the Jesuit at Ely House in Holbourne in 1622. but whether ever printed I know not However the Reader is to understand that Sir Walter 's Ghost before-mentioned is not the same with his Ghost or Apparition to his intimate Friend willing him to translate into English the learned book of Leonard Lessius intit De providentia numinis animi immortalitate Lond. 1651. in tw translated in compliance with Sir Walter 's late request because he had been often soully aspersed for an Atheist There is also a MS. going about from hand to hand said to have been written by our author Sir Walter which is concerning The present state of Spain with a most accurate account of his Cath. Majesty's power and riches c. Whether this or his Discourse touching a consultation about Peace with Spain MS. sometimes in the Libr. of Arthur Earl of Anglesey were ever printed I know not He hath also written The life and death of Will the Conquerour MS. sometimes in the Library of Sir Ken. Digby afterwards in that of George Earl of Bristow Of Mines and trials of Minerals MS. c. with other things which I have not yet seen But I say it again that I verily think that several of those things before-mentioned which go under his name were never written by him At length he was beheaded in the old Pallace-yard in Westminster year 1618 on 29. 〈◊〉 in sixteen hundred and eighteen aged 66. Whereupon his body which he sometimes designed to be buried in the Cath. Church at Exeter was conveyed to St. Margarets Church in the said City of Westminster and buried in the Chancel there at the upper end almost near to the Altar Over whose grave tho there was never any Epitaph put yet this following among others was made for him Here lieth hidden in this pit The wonder of the World for wit It to small purpose did him serve His wit could not his life preserve He living was belov'd of none Yet at his death all did him moan Heaven hath his Soul the World his fame The Grave his Corps Steukley his shame Some writers in the long Rebellion under K. Ch. 1. especially such who were not well-wishers to Monarchy have reported that his death was no less than a downright Murder having had his blood spilt upon a Scaffold meerly to satisfie some unworthy ends and the revenge of the Spaniard Nay and farther they have not stuck to say that the Conspiracy of Gowry seemed rather a Conspiracy of the K. of Scots against Gowry as many of that Nation have declared The said Sir Walt Raleigh left behind him a Son named Carew Raleigh born in Middlesex in the Tower of London as it seems while his Father was Prisoner there became a Gent. Com. of Wadham coll in 1620. aged 16. but proved quite different in Spirit from his Father Afterwards he was Gent. of the Privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. who honoured him with a kind token at his leaving Hampton Court when he was jugled into the Isle of Wight cringed afterwards to the Men in Power was made Governour of Jersey by the favour of General George Monk in the latter end of January 1659. and wrote a book as 't was generally reported intit Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately made publick intit A compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Q. of Scotland and of James K. of England written by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. I have seen also some Sonnets of his composition and certain ingenious discourses but whether ever printed I know not I have seen also a Poem of his which had a Musical composition of two parts set to it by the incomparable Hen. Lawes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private Musick Sir Hen. Wotton gives him the Character of a Gentleman of dextrous abilities as it appeared in the management of a publick concern in Sir Henries time and so by others he is with honour mentioned but far god wot was he from his Fathers parts either as to the Sword or Pen. He was buried in his Fathers grave in the
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 Sanatiâ—nis 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 shâ—ws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to â—â—â—ure 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
Tileherst in Berks received his first breath at East Hildesley or Ildesley near to Wantage in the said County where his name yet continues educated in Grammar learning at Reading entred a Commoner in S. Johns coll 1574. or thereabouts continued there till near Bachelaurs standing and then he retired to the Middle Temple where after severe encounters had with the crabbed parts of the municipal Laws he became a Barrester and noted for his great proficiency in his profession and integrity in his dealings In the latter end of Qu. Elizab. and beginning of K. James he was several times elected a Burgess in set in Parliaments in which he was a frequent Speaker Afterwards he was Counsellor and under-steward for several years to this University the members of which confer'd upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1612. Two years after he was made Serjeant at Law and in 1616. March 17. received the honour of Knighthood at Theobalds from his Majesty K. James 1. After his death some of his works were published which bear these titles Cases collected and reported Lond. 1663. fol. printed from the original in French that then remained in the hands of Sir Jeff. Palmer Attorny General to K. Ch. 2. which is the same as I take it written fairly with the authors own hand in fol. that was lately in the Library of Arth. E. of Anglecy These cases were abridged by Will. Hughes Esq Lond. 1665. oct His learned reading 4. Jac. 1. in Middle Temple hall concerning charitable uses abridged by himself Lond. 1676. fol. published by George Duke of the Inner Temple Esq Our author F. More was a member of that Parliament as it seems wherein the Statute concerning charitable uses was made and was as 't is farther added the Penner thereof At length paying his last debt to nature on the 20. Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and one aged 63. was buried in a Vault under the Church of Great Fawley near to Wantage before-mention'd year 1621 in which Vault his posterity who are Baronets living in that Parish have been since and are hitherto interred as I have been instructed by his Grandson Sir Hen. More Bt. I find another Franc. More to have published certain matters among which is The sinners guide or the regiment of a Christian life Printed 1614. qu. and certain Sermons but whether this person who was a Divine was of Oxford University I know not as yet FRANCIS MASON who is worthily stiled Vindex Ecclesiae Anglicanae was born in the County Palatine of Durham and there educated in Gram. learning began to be conversant with the Oxonians in the beginning of the year 1583. aged 17 and making a hard shift to rub out till he was Bach. of Arts being the Son of a poor Plebeian was elected probationer-Fellow of Merton coll in the latter end of 1586. After he had proceeded in his faculty he entred into the sacred function and when full standing he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1597. About which time he was made Rector of Orford a Market Town near to the Sea-side in Suffolk Chaplain to K. James 1. who usually stil'd him a wise builder in Gods house and at length upon the death of Rich. Stokes LL. Bach. was installed Archdeacon of Norfolke 18. Decem. 1619. which Dignity the said Stokes had held from the month of Apr. 1587. Our author Mason hath written The authority of the Church in making Canons and constitutions concerning things indifferent c. Sermon on 1 Cor. 14. 40. Lond. 1607. Ox. 1634. qu. From which as also from the Epist dedic before it made to his patron Rich. Archb. of Cant. it appears that the author was a zealous conformist to the Ch. of Engl. This Serm. was answered by Anon. in a book entit The second part of the defence of the Ministers reasons for refusall c. See in Tho. Hutton an 1639. Vindication of the Church of England concerning the consecration and ordination of the Bishops c. as also of the ordination of Priests and Deacons in five books Lond. 1613. fol. Framed in form of a conference between Philodox a Seminary Priest and Orthodox a Minister of the Church of England From which book it appears that the author was a general-read-Scholar thorough-pac'd in the councils and all sorts of Histories whether divine civil or profane The next year he as a greatful Son sent a copy of it to be reposed in the Library of his tender Parent Mert. coll with this note at the end of it written with his own hand Whereas Mr. Fitzherbert hath lately sent a book from Rome against the most rev Bishop of Ely to which he hath annexed an appendix concerning the records and registers by me produced desiring that some of their discreet Catholicks might view and consider whether they be true or counterfeit Know therefore that upon the 12. of this present May an 1614. his Grace of Canterbury sent for Mr. Colleton the Archpriest Leake a secular Priest as also one Jesuit called Lathwait c. and shewed unto them the register and other records of his predecessor Matth. Parker which they perused over and over and found that the said Parker was consecrated in Lambeth Chappel and not at the Nags head in Cheapside by certain Bishops that had been ejected in Qu. Maries reign c. This book of the Vindication of the Church of England coming at length into the hands of Anthony Champney an English man born a Rom. Cath. Priest and a Doctor of the Sorbon was by him answered in English and dedicated to George Archb. of Canterbury not without some reproaches and scoffes given to him in the Epistle But afterwards Champney recollecting himself thought that he had not sufficiently consulted his own reputation by publishing his answer in English Wherefore he translated it into Latine intit Tractatus de vocatione Ministrorum Par. 1618. in oct that his pretended victory over Mason might by this means be spread over all Europe Soon after our author to be even with him translated his own book also and entitled it Vindiciae Eccles Anglicanae c. and therein interweaves answers to Thom. Fitzherbert Priest Hen. Fitzsimons Jesuit Dr. Matth. Kellison A. Champney c. and withal dedicated it to Hen. de Gondy Bishop of Paris without any aspersions at all thrown upon him All this he did in the year 1619. or 20. at farthest but before he could conveniently put it in the Press he died Whereupon at the desire of the Archbishop of Cant. Dr. Nath. Brent Wardeâ— of Mert. coll did review it examine the quotations compare them with the originals and at length printed the copy as he had found it under the authors hand an 1625. â—ol printed again at Lond. 1646. fol. The said author also wrote Two Sermons preached at Court concerning David adultery and his publick practices on 2 Sam. 〈…〉 13. Lond. 1621. oct The vadility of the ordination of the
ministers of the reformed Churches beyond the Seas maintained against the Donatists Oxon. 1641. qu. Taken I presume by the publisher from our authors book intit A vindication c. At length our author Mason surrendring up his pious soul to him that first gave it not without the great grief of those who well knew his learning and piety in the month of Dec. in sixteen hundred twenty and one was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Orford before-mentioned year 1621 Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with an Inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In his Archdeaconry of Norf. was installed Tho. Muriel M. A. 30. Dec. 1621. After him was installed Writhington White 19 Oct. 1629. and after him Rob. White Bach. of Div. 23. Sept. 1631. who dying in the times of usurpation Philip Tenison was installed in his place 24. Aug. 1660. who dying Edw. Reynolds M. A. and Son to Dr. E. Reynolds B. of Norwich was installed therein 15. Apr. 1661. HENRY JACOB was a Kentish man born entred a Commoner or Batler in S. Maries hall 1579. aged 16 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became beneficed in his own Country particularly as I have been informed at Cheriton but upon search into that Parish register wherein are the names of all the Rectors of that Church set down since 1591. H. Jacob. occurs not as having been perhaps Rector before that time He was a person most excellently well read in Theological authors but withal was a most zealous Puritan or as his Son Henry used to say the first Independant in England His writings against Francis Johnson a Brownist exile for Jesus Ch. as he stiles himself and Tho. Bilson Bishop of Winton speak him learned With the former he controverted concerning the Churches and Ministers of England and with the other concerning Christs suffering and descention into Hell Which controversie though eagerly bandied to and fro between them yet it was afterwards plyed more hotly in both the Unisities in 1604. and after where Bilsons doctrine was maintained and held up yet publickly opposed by many of our Zealots both at home and abroad At home by Gabr. Powell a stiff Puritan mentioned under the year 1607. and abroad by Hugh Broughton and Rob. Parker I mean that Robert a Divine sometimes of Wilton in Wilts who leaving the Nation for conscience sake died at Deusbourgh in Gelderland in Autumn time or after an 1630. leaving behind him a Widdow named Dorothie and a Son named Thomas author of De traductione peccatoris There were two more brethren at least of the separation who opposed Bilson's doctrine but their names I cannot now justly tell you The works of our author Hen. Jacob are these Treatise of the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption c. written against certain errours in these points publickly preached in Lond. 1597. Lond. 1598. oct The points weâ—e 1 That Christ suffered for us the wrath of God which we may well term the pains of Hell or hellish sorrows 2 That Christ after his death on the Cross went not into Hell in his Soul Defence of the Church and ministry of England against Francis Johnson Brownist Middleburg 1599. qu. They had several disputes in Amsterdam about the Church of England being a true Church Defence of a treatise touching the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption Printed 1600. qu. Reasons taken out of Gods word and the best humane testimonies proving a necessity of reforming our Churches of England c. Printed 1604. qu. A position against vain glorious and that which is falsly called learned preaching Printed 1604. oct The divine beginning and institution of Christs true visible and material Church Leyden 1610. oct Plain and cleer exposition of the second commandement Printed 1610. oct Declaration and opening of certain points with a sound confirmation of some others in a treatise entit The divine beginning c. as before Middleburg 1611. He hath written and published other things as the Counter poyson c. which being printed by stealth or beyond the Seas year 1621 are rare to be either seen or procured He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred twenty and one or thereabouts aged 60. years or more but where buried unless in London where he began to gather a congregation in the year 1616. I cannot tell He left behind him a Son of both his names who was afterwards Fellow of Mert. coll and a prodigy for curious and critical learning as I shall tell you at large when I come to him HENRY SAVILE second Son of Hen. Savile by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Rob. Ramsden Gent. second Son of Joh. Savile of New hall in Yorksh Esq was born at Bradley alias Over-Bradley near to Halifax in the same County on the last day of Nov. an 1549. 3. Ed. 6. made his first entry into this University in the beginning of the year 1561. and then according to the fashion had a Tutor to teach him Grammar and another Dialect or else one and the same person did both In the beginning of Lent 1565. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and forthwith determined to the admiration of his Auditors who ever after esteemed him a good Philosopher About that time an election of Bach. Fellows of Merton coll then in a very poor condition for good Scholars as most places in the University were being made he was chosen one of the number as was Edm. Bunney afterwards a learned Theologist In 1570. our author Savile proceeded in his faculty and read his Ordinaries on the Almagest of Ptolomy Whereby growing famous for his learning especially for the Gr. tongue and Mathematicks in which last he voluntarily read a Lecture for some time to the Academians he was elected Proctor of the University for two years together with Joh. Vnderhill of New college afterwards Rector of that of Lincoln and Bishop of Oxon. For then and after those that executed the Procuratorial office were elected by the Doctors and Masters of the University for learning worth experience and magnanimous Spirits but when the Caroline Cicle was made in 1629. they were elected in their respective Coll. by a few notes In 1578. he travelled into France and other Countries and thereupon improving himself in learning languages and the knowledge of the World and Men became a most accomplished person at his return About that time he was instituted Tutor to Q. Elizab. for the Gr. tongue who taking a liking to his parts and personage was not only the sooner made Warden of Merton coll tho a noted person Bunney before-mentioned was elected with him and presented to the Archb. of Cant. for confirmation but also by her favour was made Provost of Eaton coll in the year 1596. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Day to the See of Winton While he governed the former which was 36 years Summâ curâ as 't is said diligentiâ
fere plusquam humanâ perdius pernox he made it his chief endeavours tho troubled with the cumbrances of Marriage to improve it with riches and literature For the effecting of the last he always made choice of the best Scholars at the usual elections of Bach. Fellows In the first that he made after he was Warden which consisted but of four persons were Hen. Cuffe and Franc. Mason elected both noted for their learning tho the first was unfortunate In the last about three years before his death which consisted of six four of them whereof two were afterwards Bishops were esteemed eminent namely Dr. Reynolds of Norwych Dr. Earl of Salisbury John Doughty and Alex. Fisher the last of which tho he hath published nothing yet in some respects he was as able as any of the rest so to do had not a weak and timerous Spirit stood in his way Our author Savile also took as much care as he could to place noted men in Eaton college among whom were Tho. Allen Joh. Hales Tho. Savile and Jonas Mountague all of Mert. coll the last of which whom he made Usher of the School there helped him as Allen and Hales did in the edition of St. Chrysostome as I shall tell you elsewhere When K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he had a great respect for Mr. Savile and his learning and as I have heard our Ancients say he would have advanced him to a higher place either in Church or State but he refused it and only accepted of the Honour of Knighthood from him at Windsore 21. Sept. 1604. Much about which time Henry his only Son and Heir dying and no hopes left of propagating his Name and of setling a Family he bestowed much of his wealth in publishing books and in founding two Lectures in this University which will make his memory honourable not only among the learned but the righteous for ever even till the general conflagration shall consume all books and learning Many are the Encomiums given of him by divers authors which if I should enumerate may make a Manual In one place he is stiled Musarum Patronus Mecoenas literarum fortunarumque Mertonensium verè Pater c. In another he is characterized by a zealous Rom. Cath. who seldom or never speaks well of a Protestant or at least by Dr. W. Bishop the publisher of his book to be Vir Graecè Latinè perinde doctus venerandae Antiquitatis ut videtur tam exquisitus indagator tam ingenuus liberalis editor To pass by the noble and generous characters given of him by Isaac Casaubon Joh. Boysius Josias Mercerus Marc. Meibomius Jos Scaliger and others among whom must not be forgotten the learned Rich. Mountague who stiles him The Magazine of all Learning I shall proceed to make mention of those things that he hath published and written which are these following Learned notes on and a translation into English of Corn. Tacitus his 1 End of Nero and beginning of Galba 2 Four books of Histories 3 Life of Agricola Lond. 1581. 98. c. fol. A rare translation it is and the work of a very great Master indeed both in our tongue and that story For if we consider the difficulty of the original and the age wherein the Translator lived is both for the exactness of the version and the chastity of the language one of the most accurate and perfect translations that ever were made into English The said notes were put into Latin by Is Gruter and printed at Amsterdam 1649. in tw A view of certain Military Matters or Commentaries concerning Roman Warfare Lond. 1598. c. fol. Put into Lat. by Marq. Fraherus printed at Heidleburg 1601. in oct and at Amsterd by Is Gruter 1649. in tw Fasti Regum Episcoporum Angliae usque ad Willielmum Seniorem These Fasti are at the end of the writers which Sir Hen. Savile published intit Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam praecipui c. viz. Gul. Malmsburiensis Hen. Huntingdon Rog. Hoveden c. Lond. 1596. fol. The best copies of which authors he collected viewed reviewed and corrected In his Epist dedic before which made to Q. Elizab. speaking of the History of England delivereth these matters after he had condemned Pol. Virgil Neostri ex face plobis Historici c. Our Historians being of the drâ—gs of the common People while they have endeavoured to adorn the Majesty of so great a work have stained and defiled it with most fusty fooleries Whereby tho I wot not by what hard fortune of this Island it is came to pass that your Ancesters most gracious Queen most puissant Princes who embracing a great part of this our World within their Empire did easily overgo all the Kings of their time in the Glory of great atchievements now destitute of as it were the light of brave Wits do lie unknown and unregarded c. These words being uttered by a Gent. excellently learned to a Soveraign Queen excellently understanding and in print were then understood and wish'd for by Historians and curious Men to have this meaning That the Majesty of handling our History might once equal the Majesty of the argument This was their opinion and the publisher Great Savile gave hopes to them that he should be the Man that would do it All the learned of England were erected and full of expectation but at length were grieved to find it vain Somewhat notwithstanding he is said to have attempted in that argument by making searches in the Tower of London for furniture out of the Records but if he did any such thing whether impatient of the harsh and dusty rudeness of the subject or despairing that he could deal so truly as the honour and splendour of his name and as the nature of the work required he desisted converting all his cares to the edition of St. Chrysostome in Greek Thus was he carried away by speculation of things Divine as it were in a Chariot of fire from this other immortal office to his native Country He also carefully collected the best copies of books written by St. Chrysostome from various parts of the World and employed learned men to transcribe and make annotations on them Which being done he printed them at his own charge in a most beautiful edition bearing this title S. Johannis Chrysostomi opera Gracè octo voluminibus Printed in Eaton coll 1613. fol. On several parts of which he put learned notes besides what the profound Joh. Boyse Andr. Downes Tho. Allen c. had done The whole charge of which edition and for the payment of certain Scholars employed beyond the Seas for the obtaining of the best Exemplars of that author cost him more than 8000 l. But the copy as soon as 't was finish'd coming into the hands of a learned French Jesuit named Fronto Ducaeus of Bordeaux he mostly translated it into Latin Which being so done he printed it in Gr.
and Lat. at Paris in 5 volumes at the charges of the Bishops and Clergy of France an 1621. The sixth vol. was put out by him in 1624. and the other volumes four in number came out before at different times at Heidleburg by other hands at it seems Sir Hen. Savile also procured six Manuscript copies of Bradwardins book De causa Dei to be compared and corrected to his great charge and afterwards published a true copy thereof under this title Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis De causa Dei contra Pelagium de virtute causarum ad suos Mertonenses lib. 3. Lond. 1618. fol. Before which Sir Henry put of his own writing Vita Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis He also wrote and was author of Praelectiones tresdecem in principium elementorum Euclidis Oxoniae habitae an 1620. Oxon. 1621. qu. Some of which Lectures he read when he was a Junior Master as I have before mentioned Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita an 1592. Oxon. 1658. qu. Published by Mr. afterwards Dr. Tho. Barlow of Queens coll from the original in the Bodleian Library and also by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in the second edit of Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct Tract of the original of Monasteries Orations Tract concerning the Union of England and Scotland at the command of K. James 1. MSS. in the Bodleian Lib. Concerning the last of these John Thornborough B. of Bristow did write a book about the same time Our author Savile also did publish Nazianzen's Steliteuticks Zenophon's Institution of Cyrus c. and had many choice Exemplâ—rs in his Library which were by others published as from Bibliotheca Saviliana He also translated into elegant Lat. K. James the first his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance Which flâ—ing in that dress as far as Rome was by the Pope and the Conclave sent to Francis Suarez at Salamanca with a command to answer it When he had perfected the work which he calls Defensio fidei Catholicae c. cum responsione ad Apologiam pro juramento fidelitatis c. it was transmitted to Rome for a view of the Inquisitors who blotted out what they pleased and added whatsoever might advance the Pope's power Which matter Joh. Salkeld his his Assistant when he wrote at Salamanca did often profess when he came over to the Church of England and lived for some time in the House of Dr. King Bishop of London that the good old Man Suarez whose piety and charity he magnifyed much did not only disavow but detest it However printed it was at Colen I think an 1614. but so soon as any of the copies came into England one was burnt in detestation of the fact by publick command Sir Hen. Savile also made several notes with his Pen in many of his books in his choice Library particularly on Eusebius his Ecclesiastical History made use of by Hen. Valesius in his edition of that History an 1659. as he 'll tell you more at large if you 'll consult the Preface to that elaborate work He also made several notes on those books which he gave to the Mathematical Library in the School-Tower and on others which I have seen Divers of his Tracts of various subjects in MS. were greedily procured after his death sometimes also while he lived by industrious and ingenious Scholars which do now or at least did lately go from hand to hand At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man and had done many noble and generous works for the benefit of learning he departed this mortal life in Eaton coll near to Windsore on the nineteenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred twenty and one and was buried in the Chappel there near to the body of Henry his Son who died 1604 aged 8 years leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizabeth begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret Daughter of George Dacres of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire who was married to Sir Jo. Sedley of Kent Baronet Soon after the News of his death being sent to Oxon the Vicechancellour and Doctors ordered a Speech to be publickly spoken to the Academians in memory of so worthy a Benefactor and Scholar as Sir Henry was Which being accordingly done by Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. the Speech was shortly after made publick with many copies of verses made by the best Poets of the University added to it with this title Vltima Linia Savilii Oxon. 1622. qu. These things being done was a black Marble stone laid over his grave on the south side of the Communion Table in the said Chappel of Eaton coll and a most sumptuous honorary monument to his memory on the south wall at the upper end of the Choire of Merton coll the inscription on which you may see elsewhere In the Provostship of Eaton coll succeeded Tho. Murrey a Scot Tutor and Secretary to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 1. who died as one observed on the first day of Apr. 1623. being then newly cut for the Stone and was buried in the Chap. of that Coll. whose Epitaph there saith that he died on the ninth day of the same month aged 59 years Afterwards the King designed Sir Will. Beecher to succeed but by Friends and many intreaties Sir Hen. Wotton had that place conser'd on him In the Wardenship of Mert. coll succeeded Nath. Brent LL. D. afterwards a Knight who minding wealth and the setling a Family more than generous actions that College did nothing near so well flourish as under the Government of Sir Henry ROGER HACKET an eminent Theologist in the time he lived was born in the Parish of St. James within the City of London educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after was cried up for an eminent Preacher In 1591. or thereabouts he was made Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks And four years after proceeded in Divinity All that I have yet seen of his writing or publication are only Several Sermons viz. 1 Serm. at Pauls Cross on 1 Sam. 11. 5 6 7. Oxon. 1591. oct dedic to the Lord Norrys 2 Serm. on 2 Cor. 5. 20 21. Lond. 1593. oct 3 A Marriage present on Gen. 2. 22. Lond. 1607. qu. 4 Sick mans glass on Isaiah 30. 1 2 3. Lond. 1607. qu. 5 Serm. on Psal. 122. 6. c. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and one or thereabouts for in 1622. were several books conveyed into the publick Library at Oxon by his bequest and was buried as it seems in his Church of North-Crowley before-mentioned HERBERT CROFT Son of Edw. Croft Esq descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Croft Castle in Herefordshire was educated in Academicals in Ch. Ch. as his Son Col. Sir Will. Croft use to say tho his name occurrs not in the Matricula which makes me think that his stay was short there Afterwards
he married was a Parliament man in the latter end of Qu. Eliz. and in 1603. received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds being then a person of repute in his own country At length being full weary of the vanities and fooleries of this world did retire to Doway in Flanders and there was by letters of confraternity dated in the beginning of Feb. 1617 received among the Brethren in the coll of English Benedictines who appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house spent the remainder of his days therein in strict devotion and religious exercise After his settlement there he wrote Letters perswasive to his wife and children in England to take upon them the catholick religion Arguments to shew that the Rom. Church is a true Church written against Dr. R. Field his Four books of the Church Reply to the answer of his Daughter M. C. Mary Croft which she made to a Paper of his sent to her concerning the Rom. Church At the end of it is a little thing entit The four ministers of Charinton gag'd by four propositions made to the Lord Baron of Espicelliere of the religion prtended And presented on S. Martins day to du Moulin in his house and since to Durand and Mestrezat All these were published by Sir Herb. Croft at Doway about 1619. in tw containing 255. pages There were but eight copies printed viz. one for himself now in the libr. of the English Benedictines at that place formerly sent to me by a Brother of that order purposely to be perused for a time and then to be returned who for religion sake and in contempt of the world hath denied the inheritance of an Estate of at least three thousand pounds per. an Another copy was printed for Sir Herberts wife and the rest for his children but all without a title only dedicated to his wife and children with a short Epistle before them beginning thus I would have you know that although this ensuing discourse cometh to you in print c. The beginning of the book it self is this When it had pleased almighty God in his great mercy even after above 53. years of my mispent life c. At length after he had macerated his body with fasting hardship and devotion surrendred up his pious Soul to the Almighty on the 10 Apr. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the said English Benedictines at Doway Soon after was a monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon a copy of it you may elsewhere see in which he is stiled vir prudens fortis nobilis patriae libertatis amantissimus c. He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a R. Catholick but afterwards a zealous Protestant and a Bishop of whom I shall hereafter make mention in his due place JOHN RANDALL sometimes a frequent and painful preacher in the City of London was born at Missenden in Bucks sent by his relations to S. Maries hall in 1581. being then very young where spending some time in Trivial learning was afterwards translated to Trinity coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts which he compleated by determination In 1587. July 6. he was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll and two years after proceeded in his faculty About that time entring into the sacred function he became one of the most noted preachers in the University In 1598 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and the year after resigning his fellowship was made about that time Rector of the Church of S. Andrews Hubart in Little Eastcheap in London where after some time he became so great a labourer in Gods vineyard by his frequent and constant work in the ministry as well in resolving of doubts and cases of conscience as in preaching and lecturing that he went beyond his brethren in that City to the wonder of all But greater was the wonder especially to those of his parish and neighbourhood that this poor man who was for the most part strangely afflicted with sickness should undergo his duty so strictly and preach so many Sermons as he did for comfort and support in troubles This indeed did sound highly to his merit and plainly shewed that his great learning and parts could not be subdued with the pitiful afflictions here below He was accounted a judicious orthodox and holy man and by some a zealous and innocent puritan of a harmless life and conversation and one that was solely fram'd to do good acts His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The necessity of righteousness on Mat. 5. 20. Lond. 1622. and 1640. qu. 2 Description of fleshly lusts on 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. Lond. 1622. and 40. qu. 3 S. Pauls triumph c. eleven Sermons on Rom. 8. 38. 39. Lond. 1633. c. qu. published by Will. Holbrook preacher The great mystery of godliness or a treatise opening unto us what God is and Christ is Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1640. third edit Treatise concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1630. qu. c. Catechistical Lectures in number 23. upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1630. qu. c. Nine and twenty lectures of the Church for support of the same in these times c. Ibid. 1631. c. qu. besides other things fit for the press as one shewing what a true visible Church is and another what Predestination is He concluded his last day in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred twenty and two being then about 54. years of age year 1612 and was buried in the Church of S. Andrew before mentioned By his last will and testament he bequeathed a tenement to Linc. coll called Ship hall situated on the west side of that Street antiently called Schediardstreet now commonly called S. Mary hall lane in Oxon. The picture of this Mr. Randall drawn to the life when he was fellow of Linc. coll is or at least was lately hanging in the Common room of that house JOHN OWEN or Audoenus as some call him the most noted Epigrammatist in the age he lived was born at Armon in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation there in 1584. took the degree of Bach. of Civil Law in 1590. and leaving his fellowship the year after taught School as some of his antient country men that remember him have told me at Trylegh near to Monmouth and at Warwick as the tradition goes there among the Schoolmasters in the School founded by K. Hen. 8. in the place of one Tho. Hall about the year 1594. He was a person endowed with several gifts especially with with the faculty of Poetry which hath made him famous for those books of Epigrams that he hath published wherein an ingenious liberty of joking being by him used was and is now with some especially forreigners
oct To which he added a fourth book published with the former three at Oxon. 1616. and at Lond. 1617. qu. But these 〈◊〉 coming soon after into the hands of Joh. Drusius an old 〈…〉 whom I have before mentioned he grâ—w angry and jealous as one tells us 〈◊〉 he should be out-shined in his own sphere Whereupon he spared not to cast some drops of ink upon him for being his Plagiary and taking his best notes from him without any acknowledgment But our author knowing himself guiltless as having never seen Drusius his works added a fifth and sixth book to the former intit Miscellanea Sacra cum Apologia contra V. Cl. Johan Drusium Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. and at Argent 1650. c. All which Miscellanies are remitted into the ninth vol. of the Criticks and scattered and dispersed throughout the whole work of M. Poole's Synopsis He hath also written Exposition of Rabbi Mordochie Nathans Hebr. roots with notes upon it MS. in the Archieves of Bodies Library Which book doth shew his excellent skill in the Hebrew and in other Philological learning Lexicon MS. Which had he lived he would with his Exposition have published At length breathing out his divine Soul at Allington before-mentioned about the tenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred twenty and two was buried in the middle of the Chancel of the Church there on the 13. of the same month and thereupon his Prebendship of Sarum was conferred on one Tho. Clerk 28. Apr. 1623. Besides this Nich. Fuller was another of both his names and time Son of Nich. Fuller of the City of London Merchant younger Son of Thom. Fuller of Neats hall in the Isle of Shepy which Nich. having received education in one of the Universities in Cambridge as it seems where he was a Benefactor to Eman. coll went afterwards to Grays Inn of which he was at length a Counsellour of note and a Bencher But being always looked upon as a noted Puritan and Champion of the Nonconformists pleaded in behalf of his two Clients Tho. Lad and Rich. Maunsell who had been imprisoned by the High Commission and endeavoured to prove that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had no power by virtue of their Commission to imprison to put to the Oath ex officio or to fine any of his Majesty's Subjects Whereupon a legal advantage being given to Archb. Bancroft Fuller was imprisoned by him and continued in custody several years He hath written An argument in the case of Tho. Lad and Rich. Maunsel his Clients proving that Ecclesiastical Commissioners have not power by virtue of their Commission to imprison to put to the Oath ex officio or to fine any of his Majesty's Subjects Lond. 1607. and 1641. qu. He died in durance on the 23. of Feb. 1619. aged 76 years and was buried towards the east end of the south Isle joyning to the Church of Thatcham in Berks in which Parish his Seat called Chamber-house is situated leaving then behind him two Sons Nicholas and Daniel besides Daughters Nicholas who had been a Student in Queens coll in this Univ. of Oxon was a Knight while his Father lived but dying 30. of July 1621. was buried near to the grave of his said Father JOHN COMBACH Combadius was born in Wetteraw a part of Germany educated in the Academy of Marpurg within the dominion of the Lantgrave of Hesse retired to Oxon to compleat that learning which he had begun in his own Country about 1608 and the next year I find him a â—â—journour of Exeter college where he was then noted to be a very good Philosophical Disputant and a great admirer of Holland and Prideaux especially the lâ—st After he had laid the foundation of one or more books there he retired to 〈◊〉 of which being M. of A. he became Ordinary Professor of Philosophy thereof and much fam'd for the books that he published in that Faculty Among which are some of these following Antidotum oppositum M. Joh. Hâ—sselbeinio in quo epriscae Philosophiae Schâ—asticorum dâ—triâ—â— 1 Fâ—rrâ—rum divisio cruitur 2. Propriâ—rum communicatio destruitur c. Marpurg Cattorum 1608. oct Antidoti lib. 2. circa 〈◊〉 partium integrantium Marp Cat. 1608. oct Metaphysicorum lib. singuâ—â—â— Marp Câ—t 1613. 20. oct c. Dedicated by the fast Epistle before it to the Vichancellour Heads of Colleges and Halls in Oxon and the rest of 〈…〉 theâ—e The 2 Epist is written to his 〈…〉 Rector of Exeter coll Liber de homine 〈…〉 Physicorum libri iv juxta 〈…〉 Marp 1620. oct Actus solennis promotionis xiii 〈…〉 bitae in Acad. Marpurgeâ—sâ— c. 〈…〉 things as 't is probable he hath 〈…〉 have not yet seen While he studied in Exeter college where he contracted friendship with Will. Helme the Sub-rector a man of rare piety and with G. Hakewell R. Vilvaine and others studied also one of his Countrymen a quick Disputant who writes himself Henr. Petreus afterwards a learned man Doctor of Philosophy and Physick and Dean of the faculty of Philosophy at Marpurg for a time about 1613. WILLIAM PEMBLE the Son of a minister of Gods word was born in Kent at Egerton as I have been informed sent to Magd. coll in the beginning of the year 1610. aged 18 where continuing a severe student under the tuition of R. Capell till after he had compleated the degree of Bach. by determination which was in Lent 1613. he retired to Magd. hall adjoyning became a noted reader and a tutor there took the degree of M. of A. entred into sacred Orders made Div. reader of that house became a famous preacher a well studied Artist a skilful Linguist a good Orator an expert Mathematician and an ornament to the Society among whom he lived All which accomplishments were knit together in a body of about 32 years of age which had it lived to the age of man might have proved a prodigy of learning Adrian Heereboord sometimes professour of Philosophy in the University of Leyden is very profuse in his commendations of this our author and his works and good reason he hath for so doing for in his book entit Maletemata Philosophica wherein he takes upon him to confute the commonly entertained and old Aristotelian opinion asserting the substantiality of the vegetative and sensitive Souls to be different and distinct from that of matter he hath taken a great quantity from them especially in his four disputations De formis which are mostly composed from our athour Pemble's book De formarum origine The works of the said W. Pemble are these Vindiciae gratiae A plea for grace more especially the grace of faith Ox. 1629. qu. sec. edit Vindiciae fidei A treatise of justification by faith Ox. 1625. qu. published by Joh. Geree sometimes M. A. of Madg. hall Our authors mind did run so much upon this subject that he said when he was upon his death bed that he would dye in it viz. in his perswasion of justification by
righteousness of Christ Treatise of the providence of God The book of Ecclesiastes briefly explained Printed 1628. qu. The period of the Persian Monarchy wherein sundry places of Ezra Nehemiah and Daniel are cleared Lond. 1631. qu. Exposition on the first nine chapters of Zacharie Lond. 1629. qu. Five godly and profitable Sermons Lond. 1628. 29. qu. Fruitful Sermons upon the 1 Cor. 15. 18 19. Lond. 1629. qu. Introduction to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1628. 29. Lond. 1639. oct De formarum origine Ibid. 1629. in tw dedic to Dr. Accepted Frewen Printed also at Camb. in tw De sensibus internis Lond. 1629. Ox. 1647. in tw Enchiridion oratorium Ox. 1633. qu. c. A summ of moral Philosophy Oxon. 1630. qu. All which books or Treatises those only that were written in English were remitted into one volume and printed several times The third impression was at Lond. 1635. and the fourth impression at Ox. 1659. both in fol. Introduction to Geography Ox. 1685. qu. At length our author a zealous Calvinist retiring to the house of the before-mention'd Rich. Capell minister of Eastington alias Easton near to the City of Gloucester to make some continuance there for the sake of study and health died of a burning Feaver in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in the yard under the great Yew-Tree year 1623 on the north side of Eastington Church Over his Grave was a stone soon after laid with these words engrav'd thereon Here lyeth the body of William Pemble master of Arts and preacher who died 14 Apr. an 1623. JOHN SPRINT Son of Dr. Joh. Sprint descended from those of his name living in the City of Bristow was born as I conceive there or in Glocestershire near to it elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts and some time after became Vicar of Thornbury in the said county Thence he removed to London was cried up by the Citizens for a godly and frequent preacher and by them much followed but was cut off in the prime of his years when great matters were expected from him He was a grave and pious Divine yet for the most part disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he continued at Thornbury At length upon the gentle perswasions of Mr. Sam. Burton Archdeacon of Glouc. he did not only conform but was a great instrument in perswading others to do the like by a book that he wrote and published call'd Cassander Anglicus which I shall anon mention His works are these Propositions tending to prove the necessary use of the Christian Sabbath or Lords day c. Lond. 1607. qu. and in 1635. in tw or oct The practice of that sacred day framed after the rules of Gods word printed with the former The summ of Christian religion by way of question and answer Lond. 1613. oct Cassander Anglicus shewing the necessity of conforming to the prescribed ceremonies of our Church in case of deprivation Lond. 1618. qu. dedic to Sam. Burton Archd. of Glouc. Whereupon came out a brief and plain answer to the first reason of it which was replied upon by Sprint but I have not yet seen it The Christians sword and buckler or a letter sent to a man seven years greviously afflicted in conscience and fearfully troubled in mind c. Lond. 1638. oct These are all the pieces I think that he hath written which are published and therefore I shall only let the reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Anne situated in the place called the Blackfriers in London of which he seems to have been Minister or Lecturer on the seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 See more of him in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. b. His Father Dr. Sprint who was Dean of Bristow and a frequent preacher but a Calvinist I shall mention more at large in the Fasti under the year 1574. not as a Writer but as a D. of D. and rich Dignitary PHILIP CLUVER Cluverius the Son of a maker or coyner of money was born at Dantzick the chief town of the province of Prussia in Poland but descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living in the Dutchie of Bremen in Lower Saxony instructed in his puerile years at home in his youthful in the royal Court of Poland where he learned among the Courtiers the exact speaking of the Polish tongue and their manners Thence his Father sent him into Germany where he received a command from him to apply his mind solely to the study of the Civil Law Whereupon he journeyed to Leyden in Holland and did endeavour to follow it but his Genie being naturally enclined to Geography he followed for altogether that study especially upon the perswasions of Joseph Scaliger who had perused his Table of Italy which he had composed while he was a youth in Poland Thence partly to see the world but more for the conversation of Just Lipsius he took a journey into Brabant but missing him was dispoiled by thieves who left him in a manner naked Thence he returned to Leyden and afterwards went into Bohemia and Hungarie where coming to the knowledge of one Popel a Baron who had been closely confined by the Emperor for some misdemeanours did translate his Apologie written in his own defence into the Latine tongue Which coming to the ear of the Emperour Cluver was thereupon imprisoned Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Scotland England France Germany and Italy In England his chief place of residence was in this University particularly in Exter coll of which he became a sojournour for the sake of Holland and Prideaux in 1609. age 29 where being setled he wrote his book De tribus Rheni alveis as I shall tell you anon In Italy he became acquainted with some of the Cardinals who held him in great esteem for his curious and exact knowledge in Geography the Greek and Latine tongues and for his marvellous knowledge in the Dutch German French Italian Bohemian Hungarian Polonian and British Language Afterwards he returned to Oxon again being then highly valued by Mr. Prideaux for one or more of his things then published and had offers of promotion tender'd unto him But Leyden being the place of his delight he retired thither and tho he could get no place of benefit there yet the curators of that University gave him an yearly stipend for the encouragement of his studies as being a person repleated with all humane literature antient Histories and Geography He is stiled by a certain author vir stupendae lectionis curae and by another princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus and magnum Germaniae ornamentum His works are De tribus Rheni alveis ostiis item de quinque populis quondam accolis c. Lugd. Bat. 1611. qu. This book was written in Oxon with the helps of the
filius Sampsonis Camden pictoris Loâ—â—incosiâ— THOMAS WHITE Son of Joh. White was born in the City of Bristow in Temple Parish but descended from the Whites of Bedfordshire entred a Student in Madg. hall in the year 1566. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted and frequent preacher of Gods word Afterwards retiring to London he was made Minister of St. Gregories Church near to St. Paul's Cathedral and at length Rector of St. Dunstans in 〈◊〉 where he was held in great esteem for his golly and practical way of preaching In 1584. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in Nov. in the year following he had a Canonry in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul and a Prebendship there called Wenlocks barn conferr'd upon him by John Bishop of London upon the nat death of Reb. Towers Bac. of Div. In Apr. 1592. he was made Treasurer of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Sprint deceased in 91. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and in 93. of S. Georges Church at Windsore All that he hath published are only Sermons as 1 Two Serm. at S. Paul's in the time of the Plague the first on Zeph. 3. 1 2 3. the other on Jer. 23. 5 6. Lond. 1577. oct 2 Fun. Serm. on Sir Hen Sidney on 1 Joh 3. 2 3. Lond. 1586. oct 3 Serm. at Pauls Cross on the Queens day 1589. on Luke 3. 10 11 12 13 14. Loâ—a 1589. oct and others which I have not yet seen This worthy Doctor who was esteemed by all that knew him an honest and generous minded man and a great encourager of learning gave up the Ghost on St. David's day 1 Mar. in sixteen hundred twenty and three and in few days after was solemnly inter'd in the Chancel of his Church of S Dunstan in the West before mentioned Soon after his death being certified to the Heads of the University they in honour to his memory caused an Oration to be publickly delivered by the mouth of Will. Price the first reader of the Moral Philos. Lecture lately founded by the said Dr. White To which speech certain Academians adding verses on the benefactors death were with the speech printed under the title of Schola moralis 〈◊〉 Oxon. 〈…〉 Oxon. 1624. in 2. th in qu. In 1613. he sounded an Alms house in Temple parish within the City of Brislow endowing it with 92 l. per aâ— in 1621. he founded a moral philosophy lecture in the University of Oxon and the same year he setled an exhibition for five Students in Magd. hall See 〈◊〉 in Hist 〈◊〉 Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 43. and 370. a. and b. As for his 〈◊〉 to Sion coll in London and to other places expending most if not all his estate which he got from the Church on publick uses let others tell you while I proceed to the next writer to be mention'd according to time JOHN â—AVOUR born in the Borough of South 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 was educated for a time in Grammatical learning there Afterwards being compleated for the University in 〈◊〉 School he was elected Probationer of 〈◊〉 coll in 1576. and two years after was made compâ—â—t fellow In 〈◊〉 he proceeded Doctor of the civil 〈◊〉 and in the year following he became Vicar of Halifax in Yorks in the place of Dr. Henry Ledsham sometimes Fellow of Mert. college resigning At which place he being setled he preached every Lords day lectur'd every day in the week exercised justice in the Common-wealth being Justice of Peace as Vicar of that place practiced for Gods sake and meerly out of Charity Physick and Chirurgery on those that were not able to entertain a professed Doctor or Practitioner On the 23. March 1616. he was collated to the Prebendship of Driffeild in and to the Chauntorship of the Ch. of York on the death of Dr. Joh. Broke or Brook deceased and in the beginning of March 1618. was made Warden of the Hospital of St. Mary Madg. near Ripon in Yorkshire on the death of Ralph Toâ—stall He was esteemed a person of great piety and charity and one well read in substantial and profound authors as it appears by those books he hath written especially in that published entit Antiquity triumphing over novelty c. or Antiquity a certain note of the Christian Cath. Church Lond. 1619. qu. He concluded his last day in this world on the tenth of March in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in his Church of Halyfax a copy of whose Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a. In his Vicaridge succeeded Rob. Clâ—y D. D. of Mâ—rt coll and him Hugh Ramsden B. of D. another 〈◊〉 in 1628. and in his Chantourship of York succeeded Hâ—n Hook D. D. as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SHAW a Westmoreland man born became a Student in Qu. coll about the beginning of 1579. â—â—ed 19. took one degree in Arts left the coll and at length became Vicar of Oling or Wâ—â—ing in Sâ—rrey where he was had in esteem by many for his preaching and by some for his Poetry His works are these The blessedness of Mary mother of Jesus Serm. on Luke 1. ver 28. and 45. Lond. 1618. oct The comfort of a Christian by assurance of Gods love to him written in verse The complaints of a Sinner The comfort of our Saviour in verse also These two last are printed with the former Sermon Bibliorum Summula seu argumenta singulerum capitum Scripturae Canonicae utrinsque Testamenti alphabâ—tice distichis comprehensa Lond. 1621. and 23. c. in oct Dedicated to Poynings More Son of Sir Rob. More a servant to K. James Son of Sir George More Son of Sir W. More Kt. These are all the things that I have seen written by this John Shaw who was living at Okâ—ng before mentioned in sixteen hundred twenty and three before which time he had a Son named Tobias who was Bach. of Arts of Magd. coll As for other Sermons and books which go under his name of Joh. Shaw I shall mention hereafter in their proper place as having been written by others of both those names SIMON WASTELL a 〈◊〉 and man born and descended from those of his name living at Wastellhead in the 〈◊〉 County was entred a Student also in Queens coll in 1580. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts five years 〈◊〉 at which time being accounted a great proficient in classical learning and Poetry was made Master of the Free-School at Northampton whence by his sedulous endeavours many were sent to the Universities He hath written The true Christians daily delight being a sum of every Chapter of the Old and New Testament set down alphabetically in English verse that the Scriptures we read may more happily be remembred c. Lond. 1623. in tw Published afterwards with amendments and some additions with this title 〈◊〉 or the Bibles â—pitome c. Lond. 1629. c. in tw This person
peritus c. But before that Apologia was extant he wrote Academiarum quae aliquando fuere hodie sunt in Europâ— catalogus Lond. 1590. qu. contracted by the author and printed on one large sheet of Paper to be put into a frame At the end of the said book he published Chronographia sive origo collegiorum Oxoniensis Academiae This last was mostly written by Tho. Neal of New coll in Lat. verse and to it is added a description of the Divinity and publick Schools and an Epitome of the Halls Our author Windsore had intentions to write a book of the Antiquity of the Univ. of Oxon. and in order thereunto had made many collections but Twyne with his forward and natural genie undertaking that work Windsore forbore to proceed and imparted to him his collections At length after he had lived to a fair age he surrendred up his last breath in his lodgings near S. Michaels Church in Oxon. in sixteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the outer Chappel of C. C. coll under the north wall behind the Vicepresidents seat At that time he left many if not all his collections of Antiquities containing many dotages and fooleries to Twyne before mentioned Legacies to the prisoners in the prison called Bocardo to the parishioners of S. Michaels Parish and to the Chest in the Tower of C. C. coll After Twynes death some of the said collections were put into the Libr. of the said coll and others were scatter'd about when the great fire hapned in Oxon. soon after Twynes death One vol. of which came at length into my hands wherein I find many vain and credulous matters not at all to be relyed upon committed to writing MILES SMITH a Fletchers Son received his first breath within the City of Hereford became a Student first in C. C. coll about 1568. whence translating himself soon after to Brasnose took the degrees in Arts as a member of that house wherein by the benefit of a severe discipline that was in his time exercised and by his indefatigable industry he proved at length an incomparable Theologist About that time he was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. and took the degree of Bach. of Div. as a member of that Royal foundation Afterwards he became Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Ch. of Hereford Doctor of Divinity and in 1612. Bishop of Glocester to which See which was given him for his great pains in translating the Bible he received consecration 20. Sept. the same year From his youth he constantly â—â—plyed himself to the reading of antient Classical authors of the best note in their own Languages wherewith as also with Neotericks he was plentifully stored and lusted after no worldly thing so much as books of which tho he had great store yet there were none scarce to be found in his Library especially of the Ancients that he had not read over as hath been observed by those who have perused them since his death He ran thro the Greek and Latin Fathers and judiciously noted them in the margin as he went The Rabbins also as many as he had with their Glosses and Commentaries he read and used in their own idiom of speech And so conversant he was and expert in the Chaldaick Syriack and Arabick that he made them as familiar to him almost as his own native tongue Hebrew also he had at his fingers ends and with all stories of all times And for his rich and accomplished furniture in that study he had this Elogy given him by a learned Bishop of this Kingdom that he was a very walking Library For this his exactness of those Languages he was thought worthy by K. Jam. 1. to be called to that great work of the last translation of our English Bible wherein he was esteemed the chief and a workman that needed not be ashamed He began with the first and was the last Man in the translation of the work for after the task of translation was finished by the whole number set a-part and designed to that business being some few above 40. it was raised by a dozen selected from them and at length referred to the final examination on Bilson Bishop of Winton and this our author who with the rest of the twelve are stiled in the History of the Synod of Dort vere eximii ab initio in toto hoc opere versatissimi as having happily concluded that worthy labour All being ended this excellent person Dr. Smith was commanded to write a Preface which being by him done 't was made publick and is the same that is now extant in our Church Bible the original whereof is if I am not mistaken in the Oxonian Vatican He hath written besides what is before-mentioned Sermons Lond. 1632. fol. They are 15 in number and were transcribed out of his original MSS the first of which is on Jer. 9. 23. 24. He departed this mortal life in the beginning of Nov. year 1624 in sixteen hundred twenty and four having always before been very favourable to the Calvinian Party in his Diocess and was buried on the 9. of the same month in our Ladies Chappel in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester leaving behind him two Sons which he had by his first Wife Mary Hawkins of Cardiff named Gervase of the Midale Temple Gent. and Miles Smith and this character by the zealous men of the Ch. of England that tho he was a great Scholar yet he was a severe Calvinist and hated the proceedings of Dr. Laud especially after he was made Dean of Gloucester Over his grave was afterwards a white stone laid without any inscription thereon only his Arms impaled by those of the See of Glouc. RICHARD CRAKANTHORPE was born of a gentile Family at or near Strickland in Westmorland became a Student in Queens coll in 1583. aged 16. and soon after a poor serving Child then a Tabarder and at length in 1598. Fellow of the said coll About which time being a noted Preacher and a profound Disputant in Divinity of which Faculty he was a Bachelaur was admired by all great men and had in veneration especially by the Puritanical Party he being himself a Zealot among them as having with others of the same coll entertained many of the principles of Dr. Joh. Rainolds while he lived there After K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the Lord Evers who in 1603. or thereabouts was sent Embassador extraordinary to the Emperour of Germany By which opportunity he as Tho. Morton his Brother Chaplain in that Voyage afterwards B. of Durham did advantage themselves exceedingly by conversing with learned men of other Perswasions and by visiting several Universities and Libraries there After his return he became Chaplain to Dr. Ravis B. of London Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and by the favour of Sir John Levesen who had sometimes three Sons of Qu. coll Rector of Blacknotley near to
am that after he had continued many years there and had taken the degrees in Divinity he was promoted to the See of Landaff upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort where he behaved himself so admirable well to the credit of our Nation as some Ch. Historians will tell you that after his return he was upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich elected to the See of Chichester confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading a bitter Enemy to the Papists and a severe Calvinist which may farther appear in some of these books following of his composition Heroici Characteres ad illustriss equitem Henricum Nevillum Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney in Bodleiomnema and in other books Tithes examined and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right Lond. 1606. 1611. qu. Jurisdiction Regal Episcopal Papal Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes and of the Church c. Lond. 1610. qu. Consensus Eccles Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis Ecclesia fide gratia c. Lond. 1613. oct Dedicated to the Mertonians A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts Short directions to know the true Church Lond. 1615. c. in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords the States General Lond. 1619. in one sh and an half in qu. The madness of Astrologers or an examination of Sir Christop Heydons book intit A defence of judiciary Astrology Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651. Examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the doctrines of the Church of England Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester came out six more viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter a second by Dr. Dan. Featly a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll in Cambridge afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort Lond. 1626. qu. Vita Bernardi Gilpini vere sanctiss famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries and Episcopal government in England Printed several times in qu. and oct The edit in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet Latin Letter to the learned Camden containing some notes and observations on his Britannia MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper Mi Camdene Brittaniam tuam c. Several Sermons viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin Another on Luke 2. from ver 41. to 50. in tw A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations and in the New Translation of the Bible which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Choire near to the Altar of his Cath. Church at Chichester on the 27. of the same month By his first Wife named Anne Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton living sometimes in the Parish of Furâ—e in Sussex elected Burgess for Arundel to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain in which office and command he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Bishops JOHN DODERIDGE or Doddridg was born at or near to Barnstaple in Devonshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after and compleated it by Determination About that time being entred into the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the Common Law became a noted Counsellour and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Serjeant at Law being about that time Prince Henry's Serjeant but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship and became Solliciter Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the Kings Serjeants and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal In 1612. Nov. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas afterwards of the Kings Bench and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Serjeants Inn by the Vicechanc both the Proctors and five other Academians Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll he was a severe Student and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry he became not only eminent in his own profession but in the Arts Divinity and Civil Law insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge in which of all those Faculties he excelled But being mostly taken up with the Common Law he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge only with these things following The Lawyers light or due direction for the study of the Law c. Lond. 1629. qu. A compleat Parson or a description of Advowsons and Church-livings c. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several
several Faculties that he was esteemed by some a living Library He was also indefatigable in reading old MSS. and subtle in finding out the forgeries in them He and Allen of Glouc. hall were esteemed as most knowing in the ancient Statutes and Customs of this University and therefore their helps in the several attempts made of framing an intire and compleat body of them were often desired He was a Member of the Convocation held with the Parliament at Oxon 1. Car. 1. wherein he made a motion that some persons might be commissioned to peruse the Manuscript Fathers in all publick and private English Libraries that thereby the forgeries of Forreign Popish editions might be detected but what the event of it was I know not His designs were always for the publick benefit of learning and English Church which being well known to his learned friend Will. Camden he therefore saith thus of him He is a learned man and a true lover of books wholly dedicated to learning who is now laboriously searching the Libraries of England and purposeth that for the publick good which will be to the great benefit of Students Our author Dr. James saith also of himself thus in 1624. that if Cambridge will set up and set forward the like that is to collate and examine ancient MSS. as he hath done and will do I dare undertake more good to be done for the profit of learning and true Religion than by building ten Colleges I have of late given my self to the reading only of MSS. and in them I find so many and so pregnant testimonies either fully for our Religion or against the Papists that it is to be wondred at that the Religion of Papists then and now do not agree c. He also farther tells us that not only the Rabbins but the Thalmud in six volumes at Rome hath felt the smart of the popish indices would God we were but half as diligent to restore as they abolish and put out the truth I have restored 300 citations and rescued them from corruption in thirty quier of paper with sundry other projects of mine which if they miscarry not for want of maintenance it would deserve a Princes purse If I was in Germany the States would defray all my charges cannot our estates supply what is wanting If every Churchman that hath an 100. l. per an and upward will lay down but a shilling for every hundred towards these publick works I will undertake the reprinting of the Fathers and setting forth five or six volumes of Orthodox writers comparing of books printed with printed or written collating of popish translations in Greek and generally whosoever shall concern books or the purity of them I will take upon me to be Magister S. Palatii in England if I should be lawfully thereunto required c. As for his works that are printed they are these Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis lib. 2. Lond. 1600. qu. This Ecloga doth contain a Catalogue of all the MSS in each college Library in the University of Oxon but not of those in the publick and in each college Library in Cambridge and in that of the publick there In the making of which Catalogue he had liberty given to him by each coll in Oxon. to peruse their MSS. and from that Society which he perceived was careless of them he borrow'd and took away what he pleased and put them forthwith into the Publick Library Several such MSS were taken from Ball. coll and some from Merton and do yet bear in their respective fronts the names of the donours of them to those Houses This Ecloga is very useful for curious Scholars and is much commended by Joseph Scaliger in an Epistle to Rich. Thompson as I have told you elsewhere Cyprianus redivivus hoc est elenchus eorum quae in opusculo Cypriani de unitate ecclesiae sunt vel addita vel detracta vel lapsu Typographi vel alio quovis modo supposita c. Printed with the Ecloga Spicilegium D. Augustini hoc est libri de fide ad Pet. Diaconum cum antiquiss duob MSS. postremis ac ultimis editionibus excusis tam Basiliensi quam Parisiensi diligens collatio ac castigatio c. Pr. with the Ecloga Bellum paepale seu concordia discors Sixti v. Clementis viii circa Hieronymianum editionem Lond. 1600. qu. there again 1678. oct Catalogus Librorum in Bib. Bodleiana Oxon. 1605. in a large oct or rather a small qu. printed again with many additions in a thick qu. 1620. To which was added an Appendix 1635. 6. In this Catalogue is remitted the Cat. of all such MSS. that were then in the Bod. Library Concordantiae Sanctorum patrum i. e. vera pia libri Canticorum per Patres universos tam Graecos quam Latinos expositio c. Oxon. 1607. qu. Apology for Joh. Wicliff shewing his conformity with the now Church of England c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Written in answer to the slanderous objections urged against by Father Parsons the Apologist and others Life of Joh. Wicliff Printed with the Apology Treatise of the corruption of the Scripture Councells and Fathers by the Church of Rome Lond. 1611. qu. lb. 1688. oct Sufficient answer unto Jam. Gretser and Ant. Possevine Jesuits and the unknown author of the grounds of the Old Religion and the New Printed with the Treatise of the Corruption c. The Jesuits Downfall threatned against them by the Secular Priests for their wicked Lives accursed Manners heretical doctrine and more than Machiavillian Policy Oxon. 1612. qu. Life of Father Parsons an English Jesuit Printed at the end of the former book Index generalis sanctorum patrum ad fingulos versus cap. 5. secundum Mathaeum c. Lond. 1624. oct Notae ad Georgium Wicelium de methodo concordiae Ecclesiasticae cum Catologo authorum qui scripserunt contra squalores Ecclesiae Romanae Lond. 1625. oct Vindiciae Gregorianae c. Genev. 1625. qu. Manuduction or Introduction unto Divinity containing a confutation of Papists by Papists throughout the important articles of our Religion c. Oxon. 1625. qu. His humble and earnest request to the Church of England for and in the behalf of books touching Religion Pr. in one sh in oct 1625. Explanation or enlarging of the ten articles in his supplication lately exhibited to the Clergy of England for the restoring to integrity authors corrupted by Papists Ox. 1625. qu. Specimen corruptelarum Pontificiarum in Cypriano Ambrosio Gregorio M. authore operis imperfecti in jure canonico Lond. 1626. qu. Index Librorum prohibitorum a Pontificiis Oxon. 1627. oct Admonitio ad Theologos Protestantes de libris Pontificiorum caute legendis MS. Enchiridion Theologicum MS. Liber de suspicionibus conjecturis MS. These 3. MSS. I saw formerly in Lambeth Library under D. 1. 2 3. but whether printed I know not perhaps the Enchiridion is He also translated from French into English The moral
in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts being then Pupil to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who made use of his and the judgment of George Cranmer when he compiled his books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1579. Jan. 23. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that House being then Bach. of Arts and on the 17. March 1581. he was collated to the Prebendship of Wetwang in the Church of York Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he left his Fellowship travelled into several Countries and at his return grew famous for his learning prudence and vertue In the month of May 1602. he resign'd his Prebendship on the 11. of May 1603. he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by K. Jam. 1. and was afterward by him imployed in several affairs of great trust and moment He was very dexterous in any great employment kept as constant time in all Parliaments as he that held the Chair did and was esteemed an excellent Patriot in all transactions faithful to his Country without any falseness to his Prince But this I must say that being found factious and too daring in the Parliament held 1621. he was with Selden committed to custody to the Sheriff of London 16. June in that year and not delivered thence till the 18. July following Which matter being ill resented by the House of Commons they on the eighth of Nov. following did dispute the matter tumultuously taking it for a great breach of their Privileges that any one of them should be imprison'd At length Secretary G. Calvert protesting before them that neither he or Selden were imprisoned for any Parliamentary matter a stop was thereupon put to the dispute What I find farther of Sir Edwin is that he was Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations which he effectually advanced that he was a person of great judgment and of a commanding Pen a solid Statesman and as my author saith ingenio gravitate morum insignis Farther also that he was as famous for those matters he published as his Brother George was for his Travels and Poems This worthy Knight Sir Edwin hath written Europae Speculum Or a view or survey of the state of Religion in the Western part of the World Wherein the Roman Religion and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same are notably displayed c. Written by the author at Paris and by him finished 9. Apr. 1599. A copy of which coming into the hands of an unknown person in England an impression of it full of errours stole into the world without the authors name or consent an 1605. besides another the same year or soon after Notwithstanding which the book was esteemed so much by Scholars and thereupon cried up at home for a brave piece of ingenuity that it was forthwith translated into French and printed I think at Paris But as soon as 't was finish'd the printer to his great sorrow received information that it would be called in and suppress'd as it was shortly after whereupon he dispersed most of the copies into remote parts before he did disperse any at home and so was a gainer by his Politicks At length after the author had taken great care that the English impressions should be called in and the Printers punished he caused a true copy thereof to be printed a little before his death anno 1629. From which were printed the impressions of 1632. and 37. at London in quarto and another there in 1673. in oct One copy under the authors hand as 't is said I have seen in Bodlics Library and another in that of Dr. Barlow which I suppose were dispersed to vindicate the author from spurious printed copies that flew abroad I find one Sir Edwin Sandys who paraphrastically turned in English verse Sacred Hymnes consisting of 50 select Psalms of David c. set to be sung in 5 parts by Rob. Taylor Printed at Lond. 1615. in qu. Whether this version was performed by Sir Edwin Sandys before-mentioned or by another of both his names of Latimers in Bucks I know not Our Sir Edwin Sandys author of Europae Speculum died about the beginning of Octob. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine leaving then 1500 l. to the Univ. of Oxon for the endowment of a Metaphysick Lecture and was buried in the Ch. of Nortbourn in Kent where he had a Seat and a fair Estate joyning to it Over his grave is a handsome monument erected but as I have been informed there is no inscription upon it He left behind him at the time of his death at least 5 Sons namely Henry Edwin Richard Robert and Thomas Who all one excepted proved zealous Parliamenteers in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642. The outrages of the Second then called Colonel Edwin Sandys which he made against the Church and the vengeance that followed him for so doing the common prints that in those times fâ—ew abroad do sufficiently testifie He published or rather one for him a Pamphlet intit Col. Sandy's travailes 〈◊〉 Kent which gives an account of the Sacrileges and outtages he had committed for the sake of the Blessed Parliament then sitting and another called His Declaration in vâ—nâ—icatiâ—n of himself from those calumnious aspersions cast upon him by Lucius L. Falâ—land and Secretary Nicholas 11. Oct. 1642. printed at Lond. 17. of the same month Which was followed with another Pamphlet intit A vindication of Câ—l Sandys's Honour and Loyalty from a Declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester 11. Oct. 1642. But whether the said Colonel was educated in Oxon 't is not worth the enquiry nor any thing else of him And therefore I shall only let the Reader know that he died of his wounds which he had received in the Parliaments Cause near to Worcrster from the hands of a French-man called Arnold de L'isle a Captain of a Troop of Horse in Sir Joh. Byron's Regiment for which service he was soon after Knighted whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester in the month of Oct. 1642. I find one Edwyn Sandys an Essex man born and a Knights Son to be entred a Gent. Com. of C. C. coll in 1608. aged 17. But this person must not be taken to be the same with the Colonel who was then but one or two years of age WILLIAM PINKE a Hampshire man born was entred a Commoner in Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1615. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after became Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll Which office he performing with great commendation was elected Fellow of that house in 1628. being then accounted by some a serious person in his studies devout and strict in his conversation and therefore a Puritan by others He had in him a singular dexterity in the Arts a depth of judgment acuteness of wit and great skill in the Hebrew Greek and Arabick languages which made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reverenced by the Academians He wrote The
all good Arts and Sciences was born at Vttoxeter in Staffordshire on the day of S. Thomas the Apostle in 1542. being a Descendant thro six Generations from Henry Allen or Alan Lord of the Mannor of Buckenhall in the said County was admitted Scholar of Trinity coll 4. June 1561. Fellow in 65. and two years after Master of Arts. But being much inclined to live a retired life and averse from taking holy Orders he left the Coll. and his Fellowship about 1570. and receeded to Gloucester hall where he lived a close Student many years and at length became an eminent Antiquary Philosopher and Mathematician and not only the Prince or Coryphaeus as one saith but the very Soul and Sun of all the Mathematicians of his time Being thus accomplished with various sorts of learning he was several times invited to the families of Princes and Nobles not only of this Nation but of others And when Albertus L'askie Count or Prince of Sirade in Poland was in England he did court him to go with him into his own Country 1583. and to live there as he pleased and accept of such Honours and Dignities which he could get for him but he being delighted with retiredness and an Academical life did evade his civility and thereby as a true Philosopher contemn'd riches and greatness He was also often courted to live in the family of that most noble and generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland a great Patron of Mathematicians Whereupon spending some time with him he was infinitely beloved and admired not only by that Count but by such Artists who then lived with or often retired to him as Tho. Harriot John Dee Walt. Warner Nath. Torporley c. the Atlantes of the Mathematick World Robert Earl of Leicester Chancellour of this University and the grand favourite in Queen Elizabeth's Reign did also before that time entertain him and would have confer'd upon him a Bishoprick but for the sweetness of a retired life he denied that also The truth is that Earl did highly value him and no person was more familiar with him than Mr. Allen and d ee before-mentioned Whence 't was that the author of the book called Leicester's Commonwealth reporteth that they whom he stiles Atheists used the art of figuring and conâ—uring for procuring the said Earls unlawful designs and that also by their Black Art they endeavoured a match between Q. Elizabeth and him How true these things are let others who know the author of that book that reports them judge Certain it is that Allen was so great with that Count that few matters of State passed but he had knowledge of them and nothing of moment was done in the University but Allen gave him it in writing He was also very great and highly respected by other famous men of his time of this Kingdom as with Bodley Saviâ—e Camden Cotton Spelman Selden c. the last of whom saith that Allen was omni eruditionis genere summoque judicio ornatissimus celeberrimae Academiae Oxon. decus insignissimum And Camden that he was Plurimis optimis artibus ornatiss His sufficiencies in the Mathematick Science being generally noted he was thereupon accounted another Rog. Bacon which was the reason why he became terrible to the Vulgar especially those of Oxon who took him to be a perfect Conjurer He was a great collector of scattered MSS. of whatsoever Faculty especially those of History Antiquity Astronomy Mathematicks Philosophy c. sparing neither cost or labour to procure them Some of which I have seen quoted in the works of learned authors as being in Bibliotheca Alleniana By his help advice and communication several of the University became eminent in Mathematicks and Antiquities of which number were Harriot Twyne Hegge the two Jeames Burton Digby c. whom for their labours communicated to posterity I have partly before touched and shall hereafter mention in their respective places As for Allen's collections observations and notes of Astronomy Mathematicks and N. Philosophy they are got into obscure hands and 't is thought that Digby whose name is famous among many hath made use of those of Philosophy All that I have seen written by Allen are these following Claudii Ptolomei Pelusiensis de Astrorum judiciis aut ut vulgo vocant quadripartitae constructionis lib. secundus cum expositione Thomae Alleyn Angli-Oxoniensis The first chapter of which begins thus Hactenus quidem pre ecurrimus ea quorum cognitione c. Cl. Ptolomei de Astror judiciis lib. 3. cum expositione Tho. Alleyn c. These two MSS. coming into the hands of William Lilly the sometimes famous Figure-flinger were by him bestowed on Elias Ashmole Esq in 1652. One of the said copies was transcribed from the original which Sir Tho. Aylesbury had of the gift of Mr. Allen the other copy John Huniades the great Chymist had in his possession who gave it as it seems to Lilly He the said Allen put notes also on many of his books and some were by him put on Joh. Bales book De Scriptoribus Maj. Britanniae which are entred by another hand in the margin of the said author that is in the publick Library at Oxon. At length he having lived to a great age surrendred up his last breath in Gloucester hall year 1632 on the 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and two and the next day an eloquent oration being delivered by Mr. Will. Burton of that house in the publick Refectory there in praise of the Defunct before the Vicechancellour Heads of Colleges and Halls and many of the University then present the body was accompanied by them to the chappel of Trinity coll where after another Speech was spoken by Mr. George Bathurst the body was solemnly inter'd Soon after the chief part of his Library of incomparable MSS. coming into the hands of Sir Kenelm Digby as the owner before had appointed they were the next year given by him to the Bodleian or publick Library where they yet remain Some of them had before and about the time of Allen's death been got from him by Rich. James of C. C. coll for the Cottonian Library and others came into the hands of Sir Tho. Aylesbury Master of the Requests but where those are now in truth I cannot tell Some years since I made a search in the said chappel of Trin. coll for an Epitaph on Mr. Allens grave but not so much as a letter appearing you shall have part of his character instead of it which I found written in a certain MS. in the Library of the said college running thus Vir fuit elegantium literarum studiosissimus Academicae disciplinae tenacissimus apud Exteros Academicos semper in magno pretio eorumque qui in Ecclesia Anglicana atque in Vniversitate Oxoniensi pro meritis suis ad Dignitates aut Praefecturas subinde provecti fuerunt Fuit sagacissimus observator familiariss conviva c. His picture painted to the life he gave to the
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Râ—rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
beginning of the year 1640. he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons for Newport in the Isle of Wight to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster on the 13. of Apr. the same year and again for the same place for that Parliament that began there also 3. Nov. following In which last he shewed himself a great reformer of divers abuses and a stickler for the Commons against the Kings Prerogative and Bishops But being taken off from those proceedings by being made one of the Secretaries of State he ever after adher'd to his Majesty was with him at York in 1642. and had a hand in most of those Declarations published by his Majesty's special command in all places in England to shew the reason of his intentions and proceedings Afterwards he was a constant follower of his Majesty was with him at Edghill fight and afterwards at Oxon where he discharged his office with a great deal of prudence While he lived and especially after his death he was esteemed by many a Socinian having been as 't is said strengthned in that opinion by Chillingworth and I know not what but one that knew him very well doth tho a zealous Papist clear him from being guilty of any such matter and tells us withal that he was the greatest ornament to our Nation that the last age produced Another also who had been intimate with him saith that he was the envy of this age and will be the wonder of the next that he honoured and served his Creator in the days of his youth that he was not a Candidate of Atheism c. The truth is all that knew the said Lucius L. Falkland were fully possessed with opinions to the contrary and have usually said that he was a sincere Christian that he always led a virtuous life and despised all worldly things in comparison of necessary divine truth that he was a lover of veracity and sincerity and what not for the accomplishment of a religious man As for his parts which speak him better than any Elogy they were incomparable and needed no supplies of industry His answers were quick and sudden and tho he had a great deal of true worth treasured up in him yet he had much of modesty withal So that all these things put together to which more might be added his memory ought to be precious especially with such who have any esteem for virtue heroical fidelity to their Prince or to incomparable learning Among several things of his that are printed are 1 A speech in Parliament concerning Vniformity 2 Sp. concerning ill Counsellours both spoken in 1640. 3 Sp. about Ship-money 5. Dec. 1640. 4 Sp. concerning John Lord Finch lately L. Keeper and the Judges 5 Sp. to the Lords of the upper House after the reading of the Articles against John L. Finch 14. Jan. 1640. 6 Sp. concerning Episcopacy 9. Feb. 1640 the beginning of which is Mr. Speaker he is a great stranger in Israel c. Which Sp. is said by Dr. P. Heylyn to be a bitter Speech against the Bishops upon which account it is much used and quoted by the Presbyterians I have seen another Speech also intit A draught of a Speech concerning Episcopacy found among the L. Falklands papers since his death written with his own hand Oxon. 1644. in 1 sh in qu. The beginning of which is Mr. Speaker whosoever desires this total change c. Also another thing of his intit A discourse concerning Episcopacy Lond. 1660. qu. Published then I presume by one who was not a Friend to Bishops being the same I think that was by Dr. Heylyn taken to be a bitter Speech against them He hath also written A dscourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome several times printed in qu. Whereupon an answer to it being made the Lord came out with a reply All published together by Tho. Triplet sometimes Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards D. of D. and Prebendary of Westminster printed at London 1651. qu. with a dedicatory epistle before them See more in Dr. Hen. Hammond under the year 1660. But before Triplets edition another was put out by Anon. to which J. P. put a Preface to it which is omitted in that of Triplet See more in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674. By this Discourse of infallibility it is apparent that the L. Falkland had framed a judgment touching the R. Cath. Church out of certain Cath. writers who represented it too disadvantagiously and not with such qualifications as the Ch. her self has done He also wrote An answer to a letter of Mr. Walt. Mountague who justifies his change of Religion an 1635. printed at the end of his Discourse of Infalibility an 1651. and A Letter to Mr. Fr. M. an 1636. printed at the end of Five captious questions propounded by a Factor for the Papacy Lond. 1673. qu. As also a Comedy called The marriage night Lond. 1664. qu. At length this learned author being with his Majesty King Ch. 1. at Newbury in Berks. when he was about to fight the Rebels he called for a clean shirt in the morning before the encounter began and being asked the reason for it he answered that if he was slain in the Battle they should not find his body in foul linnen Whereupon his friends endeavouring to disswade him from going into the fight as having no call to it or that he was a military Officer he said he was weary of the times and foresaw much misery to his own Country and did believe he should be out of it before night Into the Battle therefore he did go notwithstanding all perswasions to the contrary and was there slain 20 Sept. 1643. much lamented as a great Parliamentarian saith of all that knew him being a Gentleman of great parts ingenuity and honour courteous and just to all and a passionate promoter of all endeavours of Peace betwixt the King and Parliament Whether the Church of England lost a friend by his death some have doubted Sure it is learning it self had a loss and one of the greatest as many Clergymen have said that ever hapned in that or in the age before His body was conveyed to Oxon and afterwards to Great Tow before mention'd where it was buried in the Church without being carried into his house there Over his grave tho there be not yet any memory extant yet Sir Franc. Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire Knight and Baronet an admirer of his virtues and learning who stiles him Musarum militumque patronus hath bestowed an Epitaph and an Elegy on him in his book intit Characters and Elegies printed 1646. in qu. His person was little and of no great strength his hair blackish and somewhat flaggy and his eye black and quick He left behind him a most disconsolate Widdow named Letice the Daughter of Sir Rich. Morison of Tooley-Park in Leicestershire Knight the most devout pious and virtuous woman of the time she lived in who dying about
the 35. year of her age was buried by her husband in Feb. 1646. Soon after was composed a book by one John Duncon a sequestred Divine intit The returns of spiritual comfort and grief in a devout soul Represented by entercourse of Letters to the right honourable the Lady Letice Vi-countess Falkland in her life time And exemplified in the holy life and death of the said honourable Lady c. Lond. 1648. c. oct To the said book if it may be had I refer the Reader wherein he may soon perceive the unspeakable piety of the woman and the great command of her Pen. By her husband Lucius L. Falkland she had several children of which the eldest named Lucius became a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of the year in Lent time 1646. being then a young man of great hopes but died soon after at Paris as I have heard The next was Henry not educated in Academical learning but so exceeding wild and extravagant that he sold his Fathers incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare as I have been informed by Sir J. H. who married his Widdow Afterwards he took up and prov'd a man of parts which might have been much advantaged if he had submitted himself to education was elected one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament that began at Westminster 27 Jan. 1658. Burgess for the City of Oxon for that called the Healing Parliament which began 25 Apr. 1660. and a Knight again for the said County to serve in the Parliament that began in May in the year following and at length by his Majesties favour he was made about that time Lord Leiutenant of Oxfordshire He died 2 Apr. 1663. aged 29. or thereabouts and was buried by the graves of his Father and Mother leaving then behind him issue by Rachel his Wife Dau. of Sir Anth. Hungerford of Blackbourton in Oxfordshire Kt. a Son named Anthony now L. Falkland Treasurer Paymaster to the Navy during the raign of K. Jam. 2. a person of great parts and worth HENRY FERRERS Son and heir of Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley-Clynton in Warwickshire Esq was born in that County became a Student in this University in Hart hall as it seems in the beginning of the raign of Qu. Elizabeth but whether he took a degree it doth not appear Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony which was considerable and prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities became highly valued for his eminent knowledge in them whereby he did not only give a fair lustre to his ancient and noble family whereof he was no small ornament but also to the County of his nativity He was well known to and respected by the Learned Camden who in his Discourse of the antiquity of the City of Coventry in Warwickshire doth make this honorable mention of him Thus much of Coventry yet have you not all this of me but willingly to acknowledge by whom I have profited of Henry Ferrers of Baldesley a man both for parentage and for knowledge of antiquity very commendable and my special friend who both in this place and also elsewhere hath at all times curteously shewed me the right way when I was out and from his Candle as it were hath lightened mine What this Mr. Ferrers hath published I know not sure I am that he made several volums of choice collections one of which in fol. containing Pedegrees I have seen in the Sheldonian Library now in that of the college of Arms from which but chiefly from those of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire a person naturally qualified with a great affection to Antiquities Will. Dugdale Gent. afterwards a Knight laid a large foundation of that elaborate work which is his Master-piece intit The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated c. Lond. 1656. fol. After Sir Will. Dugdales death several of Mr. Ferrers collections that had come into his hands were reposited in the Ashmolean Musaeum see the book marked with Z. He had also in his younger days a good faculty in Poetry some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth At length dying on the tenth day of Oct. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 aged 84. was buried in the middle of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Baldesley-Clynton before mentioned leaving behind him the character of a well bred Gent a good neighbour and an honest man WILLIAM FOSTER a Londoner born became a Student in S. Johns coll in Mich. Term 1609. aged 18. afterwards M. of A. Chaplain to Rob. L. Dormer E. of Carnarvan and Parson of a little Town called Hedgley near to Beconsfield in Bucks He hath published Sermon on Rom. 6. 12. printed 1629. qu. Hoplocrisma-Spongus Or a Sponge to wipe away the weapon salve Wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us by applying the Salve to the weapon is magicall and unlawful Lond. 1631. qu. In the composure of which book he had some light from Johannes Roberti a Jesuit and D. of D. who because some Protestants practice this and characterical cures which notwithstanding are more frequent among Roman Catholicks he therefore calls them Magi-Calvinists Characterists c. He makes that generally in them all doctrinal which is but in some few personally practiced But our author Foster tho he hath written rationally and in his book hath shew'd great reading yet he hath been answered not without some scorn by Rob. Fludd Doctor of Physick as I shall tell you elsewhere This Will. Foster lived some years after the publication of his Sponge but when he died or what other things he hath extant I cannot yet tell EDWARD WESTON Son of Will. Weston sometimes of Linc. coll afterwards one of the Society of Lincolns Inn by his Wife Daughter of John Story LL. D. of whom I have made mention under the year 1571. was born in London and at about 12 or 13 years of age an 1578. was sent to the said coll of Lincoln where he had a Tutor that taught him Grammar and Logick for a time Afterwards being taken thence by his Parents he was put under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Case who with licence from the University read to Scholars Logick and Philosophy in his house in S. Mar. Magdalens parish Under him he profited in several sorts of learning to a miracle became a good Disputant and very well read in Philosocal authors But his Parents who were R. Catholicks taking him away from his conversation with the Muses after he had spent at least 5 years in Oxon. without the taking any degrees was sent into France where for a short time he setled in the English coll at Rheimes Thence he went to the English coll at Rome where partly in Philosophy and partly in Divinity he spent six years and at length took the degree of Doctor of Div. in the
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
an years time he was got into his Greek Grammar for he was one of a prodigious memory and of wonderful strength of body After he had spent one year at Westminster School he was sped a Child in Wykehams coll near Winchester where making very great proficiency in the School there he was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll an 1584. and two years after was admitted Verus Socius In Feb. 1591. he had the degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him and being Terrae filius in the Act following he was so bitterly satyrical that he was not only denied the completion of that degree by being admitted ad regendum but was expel'd the University Afterwards being put to his shifts he went into Somersetshire where he taught a School for about an year or more at Ilchester and compiled a Greek Lexicon as far as the Letter M. About that time having married a rich Fortune in those parts named Benedicta the Widdow of one Bourne but Daughter of Rob. Moyle of Buckwell in Kent he entred himself a Student in the Middle Temple where after he had spent some years and performed certain exercise he was called to the Bar. In 1614. he sate as a Burgess in Parliament then in being wherein in speaking his mind he made a desperate allusion to the Scicilian Vesper for which being committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 7. June was examined whether he well understood the consequence of that Vesper to which he alluded Whereupon making answer that he had a hint thereof and afterwards a general information from Dr. Lionel Sharp of Cambridge that Doctor therefore with Sir Charles Cornwallis Son of Sir Tho. Cornwallis of Brome in Suffolk were imprison'd in the Tower on the 13. of the same month At the same time that our author Hoskyns was committed to custody were others also imprison'd with him for behaving themselves turbulent in the H. of Commons as Walt. Chute a Kentish man who had lately been put out of his place of Carver to the King one Wentworth Tho. Wentworth mentioned under the year 1627. esteemed by some then living a silly and simple creature and a third named Christopher Nevil second Son to the Lord Abergavenny who was newly come from School and made the House sport with his boyish speeches wherein were these words reiterated O tempora O mores After our author Hoskyns had continued a Prisoner for a full year he with Sharp and Cornwallis were released and ever after were held in great value by the Commons In the 17. of Jac. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader of the Middle-Temple and in the 21. of the said King made a Serjeant at Law and soon after a Judge or Justice itinerant for Wales and one of the Council of the Marches thereof He was the most ingenious and admired Poet of his time and therefore much courted by the ingenious men then living There were few or none that published books of Poetry but did celebrate his memory in them especially his contemporary in New coll named Joh. Owen the Epigrammatist and fewer but did lay them at his feet for approbation before they went to the Press 'T was he that polish'd Ben. Johnson the Poet and made him speak clean whereupon he ever after called our author Father Hoskyns and 't was he that view'd and review'd the History of the World written by Sir W. Raleigh before it went to the Press with which person he had several years before especially during their time of imprisonment in the Tower been intimate He was also much respected and beloved by Camden Selden Sam. Daniel Dr. Joh. Donne Dean of Pauls Rich. Martin Recorder of London Sir H. Wotton and Sir Benj. Rudyerd with the last of whom it was once his fortune upon a quarrel that fell out to fight a duel and to hurt him in the knee but were afterwards soon reconcil'd He was a person always pleasant and facete in company which made him much desired by ingenious men He was an excellent Master of the Latin and Greek tongue well read in Divinity but in the Common Law which was his profession not so well He hath written Lexicon Graecum MS. imperfect Epigrams in Engl. and Lat. Some of which are printed in several books and among them I suppose are his verses on a F t let in the Parliament house which are printed in some of the books of Drollery He had a book of Poems neatly written bigger than those of Dr. Donne which were lent by his Son Benedict to a certain person in 1653. but could never retrieve it Epitaphs in Lat. and English The Art of Memory He was so excellent in it whether artificial or natural that no man ever went beyond him in his time When he was a School-boy at Winchester and had an exercise of verses to make he neglected through idleness the making of them So that fearing a whipping he read the exercise of one of his School-fellows over his shoulder just as he had finish'd it Whereupon the Master entring and the exercise called upon him first he drew up to and told him he had lost it yet nevertheless he would repeat it without book if that would serve his turn so that the Master being contented he repeated 16 or 20 verses that he had before read of the other boys making and so was excused At length the other boy being called and he shewing the verses that Hoskyns had repeated he was esteemed the thief that had stole them away from Hoskyns and thereupon was sorely whip'd for so doing Method of the Law reduced under the heads of Rights Wrongs Remedies All which books with others of various subjects are in MS. and for the most part kept in the hands of his Grandson Sir Joh. Hoskyns Knight and Baronet He departed this life in his house at Morehampton in Herefordshire 27. Aug. in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1638 aged 72. and was buried on the south side of the Choire of Dowr Abbey in the said County Over his grave was erected soon after an Altar-monument with 24 verses ingraven thereon made by Thomas Bonham of Essex Esq The four first run thus Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis Hoskinus humani prodigium ingenii Vsque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum Et qua non subeant nomina pectus idem Pieridumque legumque potens c. RICHARD JAMES was born at Newport in the Isle of Wight admitted Scholar of C. C. coll from that of Exeter 23. Sept. 1608. aged 16. or thereabouts and on the 30. of Sept. 1615. Probationer-Fellow About that time he being involved in the studies of Theology he entred into Orders preached often and at length was Bac. of that Faculty This person tho humorous was of a far better judgment than his Uncle Thom. James mentioned under the year 1629. and had he lived to his age would have surpassed him in published books He was a great traveller also was
in Rushia in 1619. and esteemed to be a person well vers'd in most parts of learning He was noted by all those that knew him to be a very good Greecian Poet an excellent Critick Antiquary Divine and admirably well skill'd in the Saxon and Gothick languages But as for his Preaching it was not except by the graver sort approved by any in the University For of three Sermons delivered to the Academians one of which concerning the Observation of Lent was without a Text according to the most ancient manner another against the Text and a third beside it shewing himself thereby a humorous person The famous Selden was much beholding to him for the drudgery he did for him when he composed his Marmora Arundeliana acknowledging him in his Preface to that book to be Vir multijugae studiique indefatigabilis Sir Rob. Cotton also his great Patron and his Son Sir Thomas could not but acknowledge his like drudgery in the ordering disposing and setling their incomparable Library with the first of whom no great friend to the Prerogative being intimate and familiar was confin'd to close keeping by the Lords when Sir Robert was imprisoned for certain matters uttered in Parliament an 1629. Nothing was wanting to our author and his studies but a Sinecure or a Prebendship either of which if confer'd upon him Hercules his labours would have seem'd a trifle His works are these Several Lat. Sermons as 1 Anti-Possevinus sive concio habita ad clerum 〈◊〉 Acad. Oxon an 1625. in 2 Tim. 4. 13. Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Conc. habita ad clerum Oxon de Ecclesia in Matth. 16. 18. Oxon. 1633. qu. c. Several Engl. Sermons as 1 Serm. concerning the Eucharist delivered on Easter day in Oxon. on Matth. 26. ver 26 27 28. Lond. 1629. qu. 2 History of Preaching or concerning the Apostles preaching and ours on 1 Cor. 9. 16. Lond. 1630. qu. 3 Serm. concerning the observation of Lent-fast Lond. 1630. qu. To which tho there be no Text yet it is grounded on Luke 4. 2. 4 Serm concerning the times of receiving the Sacrament and of mutual forgiveness delivered in C. C. C. at the election of a President on 1 Cor. 11 25. Lond. 1632. â—qu 5 Apologetical Essay for the righteousness of miserable unhappy People preached at S. Maries in Oxon on Psal. 37. 25. Lond. 1632. qu. Poemata quaedam in mort clariss viri Roberti Cottoni Thomae Alleni Oxon. 1633. qu. With which Poems he published Sir Thom. More 's Epistle written from Abendon in Berks an 1519. to the Univ. of Oxon for the embracing of the Greek tongue which had been for many years neglected among the Members thereof He also translated into English Octavius Ox. 1636. in tw written by Minutius Felix All the afore-mentioned works except the translation bound in one vol. the author gave to Bodlies Library with a copy of verses of his composition written in a spare leaf before the first of them beginning thus Dear God by whom in dark Womb's shade I am to fear and wonder made c. The said copy of verses was made by him when he was confin'd to close custody by the Lords He died of a Quartan Fever in the house of Sir Tho. Cotton Bt. near to Westminster hall by too much studying as 't was supposed and wracking his body with hardship in the beginning of Decemb. year 1638 in sixteen hundred thirty and eight and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in S. Margarets Church within the said City He left behind him several MSS. of his own composition and others collected by him from various authors to the number of 45. or thereabouts all written with his own hand which coming after his death into the hands of his intire Friend and Colleague Mr. Tho. Greaves came after his death to the Bodleian Library where they now are The MSS. of his composition are these 1 Decanonizatio Thomae Cantuariensis suorum fol. This book containing 760. pages hath this beginning Viam regiam mihi patefacit ad decanonizationem ficti fucati Martyris c. and the beginning of the Epist to the Reader is this Amice lector rogatus sum saepius c. 2 Comment in Evangelia S. Johannis in two parts in qu. The beginning is Postmodo ad textum sacrae historiae deveniam ubi prius c. Both parts contain about 12 sheets 3 Notae in aliquot loca Bibliae in 3 sh in qu. The beginning is Videte sub ficu Paraphrastes sub umbrosa ficu c. 4 Antiquitates Insulae Victae in 17 pages in qu. The beginning is Angli Saxones Marciarum c. and of the Epistle to the Reader Vtrum moriar priusque hoc opus perficium deus novit c. 'T is only a specimen or a foundation for a greater work to build on 5 Epistolae ad amicos suos doctos The beginning of the first Ep. which was written to Dr. Seb. Benefeild of C. C. coll is this Sancte Deus c. 'T is a thick quarto and containeth Epistles mostly written to C. C. coll men Epitaphs and some English copies of verses 6 Epigrams in Lat. and Engl. with other Poems 7 Reasons concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. These reasons which are six or more have this beginning Sir if you please to learn my mind concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. written in 2 sh in fol. 8 Two Sermons The first on James 5. 14. the other on John 12. 32. Both written in fol. papers 9 Iter Lancastrense This Itinerary which was written in English verse 1636. hath this beginning High Holt of Wood and 't is contained in two sheets and an half 10 Glossarium Saxonicum-Anglicum 'T is a long pocket-book 11 Glos Sax. Angl. another part in oct 12 A Rushian Dictionary with the English to it 13 Observations made in his travels through some parts of Wales Scotland on Shetland Greenland c. In 4 sheets in qu. 14 Observations made on the Country with the manners and customs of Rushia or Rusland an 1619. in oct 'T was intended to be transcrib'd and to have other matters added to it but what hindred the design I cannot tell Besides these 14 books I have another of Epigrams written mostly in Latin and partly in Greek in oct dedicated to his Tutor Dr. Sebast Benefeild As for his collections which are in four and twenty quartoes and in about 7 thin folio's all under his own hand are contained in them for the most part notes from ancient MSS. sometimes from printed authors relating to Hist and Antiq. and any thing that could be found against S. Thomas of Canterbury the greatness and corruption of Popes Cardinals Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Friers and the Clergy before the time of Reformation And when he thought that the matter it self from the authors whence he made his collections was not enough sufficient to make them bad his
1606. oct 7 Caveat for the Covetuos on Luke 12. 15. Lond. 1609. oct 8 Samuel's Funeral Serm. at the Fun. of Sir Anth. Cope Kt. and Bt. Lond. 1618. 19. qu. Besides other Sermons printed in 1614. 16. 19. 1623. 24. 28. 1630. c. A pithy short and methodical way of opening of the Ten Commandments Lond. 1622. oct Treatise of the cumbers and troubles of Marriage Lond. 1624. qu. Prototypes or Examples out of the book of Genesis applied to our information and reformation Lond. 1640. fol. Published by the authors great admirers Edward Liegh Esq and Hen. Scudder Minister of Colingbourne Ducis in Wiltshire Before which book is his character written by the said Scudder a Presbyterian This Will. Whately surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the tenth day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the yard belonging to the Church at Banbury Over his grave is a large rais'd monument of stone and thereon a Lat. and Engl. Epitaph in verse a Lat. and Engl. Anagram and a double Chronogram All which shall be now for brevity sake omitted except part of the Engl. Epitaph running thus Whatsoe'ere thou l't say who passest by Why here 's enshrin'd Celestial dust His bones whose name and fame can't dye These Stones as Feoffees weep in trust It 's William Wheatly that here lies Who swam to 's Tomb in 's Peoples eyes Death was his Crown c. EDWARD CHETWYND the fourth Son of Jo. Chetwynd Esabque was born of an ancient and gentile Family living at Ingestrie near to and in the County of Stafford about the year 1577. admitted Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1592. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a frequent Preacher in and near to Oxon. In 1606. he was elected by the Mayor and Corporation of Abendon in Berks their Lecturer being then Bac. of Divinity and in the year following upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Bristow he was sent by Dr. Hen. Airay Vicechancellour of the University and Dr. Jo. Rainolds of C. C. C. to that City where being kindly receiv'd he was established their Publick Lecturer on the 2. June the same year to preach one Sermon every Sunday in the afternoon in any Church of that City that the Mayor for the time being should appoint and one Sermon every Holyday as he should think fit In 1613. he was sworn Chaplain to Q. Anne in 1616. he was admitted D. of D. and in the year after upon the death of Dr. Sim. Robson he was promoted by K. James 1. to the Deanery of Bristow to that Cities great satisfaction being elected thereunto 16. June the same year So that whereas he was a little before presented to the rich Rectory of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire twice tâ—e value of his Deanry he thereupon gave it up purposely because he would live among and so consequently please the inhabitants of Bristow In that Rectory succeeded an eminent Scholar named Joh. Burgess M. of A. and Doct. of Physick whose memory is fresh in those parts among the Godly What other preserments Chetwynd had besides the Vicaridge of Banwell in Somersetsh and the Vicaridge of Barcley in Glouc. on the houses belonging to which Vicardiges he bestowed above 300 l. I know not He hath published Concio ad clerum pro gradu habita Oxoniae 19. Dec. 1607. in Act. 20. 24. Oxom 1608. in oct Several English Sermons as 1 The straight and narrow way to life in certain Sermons on Luke 13. 23. 24. Lond. 1612. oct 2 Vow of tears for the loss of Prince Henry Serm. at Bristow on Sam. 5. 15 16. Lond. 1613. oct 3 Serm. on Psal. 51. 10. Lond. 1610. besides others as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He departed this life on the 13. May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine and was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Bristow near the Communion Table and the grave of Helena his sometimes Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Harrington the eminent Poet of Kelston in Somersetsh Kt which Helena died in Childbed 9. Nov. 1628. aged 39. The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that this Dr. Edward Chetwynd with John Whetcombe Joh. Standard c. Divines and Doctors of Divinity Sir Sim. Baskervile Knight and Rob. Vilvaine Doctors of Physick were the learned persons of Exeter college which Dr. Joh. Prideaux in an Epistle before a Sermon preached at the consecration of the Chappel in that Coll. an 1624. did enumerate as being then living and ornaments of the said house See more in Thom. Holland under the year 1611. WILLIAM LEIG a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasnose coll an 1571. and in 73. he was elected Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and became a painful Preacher in the University and parts adjacent In 1586. or thereabouts he being promoted to the Rectory of Standish in his own Country took the degree of Bac. of Div. and on the 24. of Nov. 1587. he resigned his Fellowship setled at Standish for altogether was made Justice of the Peace there and held in great esteem for his learning and godliness He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Serm. Job 14. 14. printed 1602. in oct 2 The first step towards Heaven or Anna the Prophetess her holy haunt to the Temple of God preached in Standish Church on Luke 2. 36 37 38 39. Lond. 1609. oct 3 Q. Elizabeth parallel'd in her princely vertue with David Joshua and Hezekiah in three Sermons the first on Psal. 123. 1 2 3 4. The second on Joshua 10. 12. And the third on 2 Kings 18. 5 6. Lond. 1612. oct 4 The damp of death beaten back with the glorious light and life of Jesus Christ preached at Lancaster Assize on Coloss 3. 3 4. Lond. 1613. oct 5 The Soul's solace against Sorrow Fun. Serm. preached in Childwal Church in Lancashire at the burial of Mrs. Katharine Brettergh 3. June 1601. on Isay 57. 1. Lond. 1617. oct 6 Serm. on Acts 2. 19 20 21. Printed 1613. oct 7 Serm. on Heb. 9. 27 28. Printed in qu. with others which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Standish 28. Nov. Over his grave is a brass plate fastned to the wall at the east end of the said Chancel whereon is this engraven Conditum est hic corpus Gulielmi Leigh S. T. bac verae religionis professoris sinceri haeresium propulsatoris acerrimi concionatoris suavissimi hujus Ecclesiae quinquaginta tres annos pastoris vigilantiss cujus nonnulla extant pluraque desiderantur opera evocati ex hac vita 26. Nov. an dom 1639. aetatis suae octogessimo nono HENRY WOTTON a person singularly accomplish'd Son of Tho. Wotton Esq by his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter
book though publickly complained of was never called in by the Bishop Laud but the second part thereof was printed with License an 1629. and the author of it advanced to the Presidentship of C. C. coll in Oxon by this Bishop yea by him designed to be Doctor of the Chaire though he missed that preferment to poyson the University of Oxford with his Arminian druggs The knowledge of Jesus Christ Or the seventh book of the Commentary of the Apostles Creed A larger title of this runs thus Christ exercising his everlasting Priesthood c. Or a Treatise of the knowledge of Christ which consists in the true estimate or experimental valuation of his death resurrection and exercise of his everlasting sacerdotal Function c. Lond. 1624. qu. Humiliation of the Son of God by his becoming the Son of Man c. Lond. 1626. and 36. qu. This is the eighth book of his Com. on the Creed Treatise of the consecration of the Son of God to the everlasting Priesthood c. Lond. 1628. and 33. Oxon. 1638. qu. This is the ninth book of Com. on the Creed The second part of the knowledge of Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1654. fol. The tenth book of Com. on the Creed Dominus veniet Of Christs Session at the right hand of God and Exaltation thereby c. Lond. 1657. fol. The eleventh book of Com. on the Creed Which with the tenth and a Preface concerning them and their author were published by his great admirer Barnabas Oley M. A. of Cambridge who had before published the second edit of the three first book Lond. 1653. fol. with a large Preface likewise of his composition but the life which followed was written by Edm. Vaughan as I shall anon tell you This Barnabas Oley was installed Prebendary of Worcester 4. of Septemb. 1660. and was afterwards Bach. of Divinity and Archdeacon of Ely He died 20. Febr. 1685. whereupon Joh. Hough B. D. of Magd. coll in Oxon succeeded him in his Prebendship and Will. Saywell D. D. Master of Jesus coll in Cambridge in his Archdeaconry Several Sermons as 1 Five Sermons befitting these present tones Two of which are on 2 Cor. 6. 39 40. and the other three on Jerem. 26. 19. Oxon. 1637. qu. 2 Treatise concerning the signs of the times or Gods forewarning being the sum of some few Sermons on Luke 13. 5 6 7 8 9. Oxon. 1637. qu. 3 Serm. or Posthill preached on the second Sunday in Advent 1630. on Luke 21. 25. Printed with the aforesaid Treatise concerning the signs c. 4 Nazareth and Bethlem or Israels portion in the Son of Jesse c. two Sermons on Jerem. 31. 21 22. 5 Mankinds comfort from the weaker Sex on Gal. 4. 5 6. 6 Two Sermons one on Matth. 2. ver 1 2. and the other on the 17. and 18. verses of the same chapter 7 Christs answer unto Johns question Or an introduction to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and him Crucisied in certain Sermons at Newcastle upon Tine c. Treatise of the Holy Cath Faith and Church in 3 books Lond. 1627. qu. This is the twelfth book of his Com. on the Creed Treatise of Christian obedience Treatise of the primeval estate of man of the manner how Sin formed entrance into and is propagated in the World c. Lond. 1654. fol. Discourse of the limitation of the two propositions in the thirteenth verse of the eighth chapter to the Romans Vindication or a serious answer to Mr. Hen. Buttons exceptions taken against a passage in his Treatise of his Divine essence and attributes Paragraph on the eleven first chapters of Exodus with useful annotations observations and parallels Salvation only from Gods grace or an Exposition of Rom. 9. 16. Gods just hardning of Pharoah when he had filled up the measure of his iniquity Or an Exposition on Rom. 9. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Treatise concerning the Acts and Exercises of the Son of God's everlasting Priesthood Which six last Treatises or books were printed with the Treatise of the primeval estate of Man c. 1654. fol. Three errours disparaging Christs Priesthood 1 The novation denying the reception of some sort of Sinners 2 c. Twenty Sermons or thereabouts Most of which Books Sermons and Treatises having been published at several times were collected together with others added to them and printed at Lond. 1672. 73. in three volumes in fol. with the authors life prefixed as it was before the three first books of Comments on the Creed Lond. 1653. fol. written by Edm. Vaughan sometimes Fellow of C. C. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere Our author Dr. Jackson also wrote An historical narration This I have not yet seen nor do I know farther of its title It was licensed by Dr. Edw. Martin Domestick Chaplain to Bishop Laud without his privity for which he turn'd him out of his service as he himself saith and the book called in and suppressed But Prynne an implacable enemy to that Bishop saith that the said Historical narration which was the vilest imposture that ever was thrust upon our Church was licensed by the said Martin with Lauds privity and that the calling of it in was the act of Archb. Abbot upon Prynns complaint and the publick scandal it gave much against Lauds will who ever since connived at the sale of them At length after our author Dr. Th. Jackson had spent 60 years or more in this life mostly in studies and devotion surrendred up his devout Soul to him that gave it on the 21. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried in the Inner Chappel of Corp. Ch. coll but hath no memory at all over his grave In his Presidentship of the said coll succeeded Dr. Rob. Neulin D. D. and in his Deanry of Peterborough succeeded Dr. John Cosin born in the City of Norwich and educated in Cajes coll who was first Prebendary of Darham then Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorâ—â— next Rector of the Church of Branspath in the Bishoprick of Durham afterwards Master of St. Peters coll commonly called Peter-house in Cambridge and Vicechancellour of that University then Dean of Peterborough as is before mentioned Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. and 2. and lastly after the sequestration and plunder of all he had and 17 years exile for his Loyalty was consecrated Bishop of Darham 2. 〈◊〉 1660. He died in his lodging in the street called the Palmal in the Suburbs of Westminster after he had bestowed much wealth on pious and publick uses on the fifteenth day of Januar. 1671. aged 77. whereupon his body was conveyed with great solemnity to Bishops Aukland in his Diocess and there buried on the 29. of Apr. 1672. The Reader is now to know that there was another Tho. Jackson who was a writer also born in Lancashire educated as it seems in Cambridge afterwards Minister of Wye in Kent and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and D. of Div. This
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
near Winchester became Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation in 1456 was afterwards Doctor of Decrees and Commissary the same now with Vicechancellour of the University an 1468. About that time he was made Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London Archdeacon of Essex Canon of Windsore 1497 Dean of the Kings Chappel and at length upon the refusal of Christoph Vrswyke Dean of Windsore he became Bishop of Norwich in the room of James Goldwell deceased The temporalities of which See after his election thereunto were restored to him 21. Jul. 14. Hen. 7. dom 1499. where sitting little more than an year he concluded his last day in the month of Aug. or thereabouts in the year fiveteen hundred By his Will dated 20. Jul. the same year he bequeathed his body to be buried in his own Cathedral Church if it should happen that he dye in Norwich or within 16 miles of that place He had before his death been a benefactor to New coll as I have told you elsewhere and as it should seem to the building of S. Maries Church in this Univ. of Oxon if his answer was equivalent to an Epistle written in its name to desire his benefaction thereunto In the time of this worthy Bishop Tho. Jane or rather before studied in this University Tho. Scot alias Rotheram Son of Sir Tho. Rotheram Knight by Alice his Wife but going soon after to Cambridge we can hardly lay claim to him In an old book of Epistles written by the University of Ox. to great personages is an Epistle written to the Bishop of Lincoln and he that then sat there must according to time be the said Rotheram In which Epistle are certain circumstances that shew that he had sometimes studied in the said University and besides the members thereof did seldom â—or never write Epistles to any except such who had originally been Students among them He died Archb. of York in 1500 and was succeeded in that See by Tho. Savage See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 243. a. b. JOHN MORETON Son of Rich. Moreton of S. Andrews Milbourn in Dorsetshire Son of Will. Moreton of the said place and he the second Son of Charles Moreton the first being Rob. Moreton of Moreton in Nottinghamsh from whence sprang the Moretons of Bautrey in Yorkshire was born saith Camden at St. Andr. Milb before mention'd others particularly one of Camdens contemporaries at a little Market Town call'd Bere in the said County of Dorset which seems to be most true by those things that I shall anon mention from his last Will and Testament When he was a boy he was educated among the Religious in Cerne Abbey and at ripe years was sent to Balliol coll where making great progress in Academical learning he took the degrees in the Laws without any regard had to those in Arts. In 1446. he being then in his Regency he became one of the Commissaries of the University about which time one Will. Moreton of the same coll was the northern Proctor but whether related to him I cannot tell Afterwards Jo. Moreton was Principal or moderator of the Civil Law School situated in the Great Jewry in Oxon and about 1453. became Principal of Peckwaters Inn at which time he being also an Advocate in the Court of Arches his parts and great learning were so remarkable that Tho. Bouchier Archb. of Canterbury taking cognisance of him sought means to prefer him In 1458. Nov. 8. he became Prebendary of Fordinton and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury void by the death of one Will. Walesby being also about that time Rector of S. Dunstans Church in the West in the Suburbs of London Afterwards having other spiritualities conferr'd upon him he was for his great wisdom and prudence made Master of the Rolls an 1473 and in the year following Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was then void by the death of one Vinc. Clement sometimes a Doctor of Oxon In Feb. 1475 he being then Preb. of Dynre in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in that month and was succeeded therein by Mr. Will. Dudley he was collated to the Prebendship of S. Ducuman in the said Church on the death of one Joh. Pope which Dignity he keeping till Jan. 1478. he then gave it up and Tho. Langton Doctor of Decrees succeeded him as I shall anon tell you In 1476. Nov. 6. he was made Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of John Russell Doctor of the Canon Law not of Div. as one saith who was afterwards Bishop of Lincoln In 1478. Aug. 9. he was elected Bishop of Ely on the death of Will. Grey and about that time was made Privy Councellour to the King In 1484. 2. Rich. 3. he was committed prisoner to the Tower of London for some jealousies that that King had of him as being totally inclined to the Lancastrian family and 't is probable that there he would have continued during all that Kings raign but the reverence of the man or undeservedness of his wrongs moved so the affection of the members of this University that they directed to the King who professed much seeming love to the University as 't is elsewhere told you a petitionary Epistle in Latine no less eloquent and pithy than circumspect and wary wherein they much pleaded for his liberty Whereupon the K. being well pleased with it was content to release him from the Tower and commit him to the custody of Henry Duke of Buckingham to his Castle at Brecknock in Wales Thence after he had spent some time he found liberty to steal to the Isle of Ely and for a round sum of money found a safe passage into France purposely to joyn with the Earl of Richmond to pluck down the said Rich. 3. Soon after the said Earl obtaining the Crown by the name of Hen. 7. called unto his Privy Council the said Moreton Bishop of Ely with Rich. Fox about that time B. of Exeter both vigilant men and discreet and such as kept watch with the King almost upon all men else They were both vers'd in his affairs before he came to the Crown and were partakers of his adverse fortune and therefore the King was resolved to promote them in the Church as high as he could In the beginning of the year 1486. Archbishop Bouchier before mentioned died whereupon the K. making means that the Monks of Canterbury should elect Dr. Moreton for his Successor the Pope did forthwith confirm it So that being translated to the said See he had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the sixth of Decemb. the same year In 1487. he was made Lord Chancellor of England in which high office he acted very beneficial for the King and in 1493. he was declared a Cardinal by Pope Alexand. 6. under the title of S. Anastasius The year after he was elected Chanc. of
The life of the author Matthew Parker containing 29 pages 2 A catalogue of such books which he gave to the common Library at Cambridge containing 4 pages 3 A cat of Chancellours Vicechancellours Proctors of and Doctors of all Faculties that took their degrees in Cambridge from the year 1500. to 1571. containing 6 pages Before which catalogue are the Arms of every college and hall there with the area or platform of the common Schools the Arms and Seal of the University and Seal of the Chancellour thereof 4 A cat from 1500 to 1571. of all the Bishops that have been educated in Cambridge among which have been divers that have been bred in Oxon who have only taken one degree and perhaps that neither there 5 The titles of such Charters that have been granted to that University by divers Kings and Queens from Hen. 3. to the 13. or 14. of Q. Elizab. 6 An account of the particulars that are successively delivered to the Magistrates and Servants of the said University when they enter into their respective places 7 The foundation of each coll and hall in Cambridge with the building of the publick Schools and an enumeration of the old hostles All which contained under this seventh head were involved in the first book of the History of the Vniversity of Cambridge written by Dr. Jo. Cay printed at Lond. 1574. in qu. As for the life of the said Matthew Parker mentioned under the first head it was as soon as it peeped into the World translated into English under this title The life of the 70 tie Archbishop of Canterbury presently sitting Englished c. This number of seventy is so compleat a number as it is great pitty there should be one more c. Printed in Holland in a Dutch character 1574. in oct It was translated by a thro-paced Separatist with very vile notes added in the margin endeavouring thereby to bring an odium on the Archbishop and make him ridiculous for erecting his monument while he lived At length paying his last debt to nature on the 17. of May 1575. was buried in the chappel where he was consecrated situate and being within his Pallace at Lambeth in Surrey It must be now known that in the times of usurpation when the Bishops were put down and their lands sold the said Pallace was inhabited by several Lay-persons of whom Tho. Scot one of the Regicides and one Hardyng were two Which last having the chappel allotted to him as part of his share he divided it into two rooms making the upper part towards the east a dining-room on the bottom of which he laid joysts and on them a floor of boards At length he hearing that the corps of Archb. Parker had been there interr'd he took up the floor and pavement under it and having so done dug up the corps which was put into cerecloth of many doubles in a coffin of lead The coffin he sold to a Plummer and after he had caused the cerecloth to be cut open to the flesh which he found fresh as if newly dead he conveyed the corps into an out-house where he kept Poultrey and there privately tumbled it into an hole About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. that base fellow the Brute that removed it was forced to discover where he had laid it whereupon it was brought into the chappel and buried just above the Litany-desk near the steps ascending to the Altar JOHN HOPTON was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive at Myrfield where his Grandfather and Father were buried became when a young man a Black Frier of the Order of St. Dominick had his Academical education among those of his Order in Oxon but what degrees he took there it scarcely appears only that in his travels to Rome taking the degree of Doct. of div at Ronmia he was incorporated here after his return in 1529. and soon after was made Prior of the Convent belonging to the Black Friers in Oxon. In 1532. he was licensed to proceed in divinity so saith the same Register which told us that he was incorporated Doctor in that faculty and in the Act celebrated the 8. of July the same year he did compleat that degree by standing therein Afterward he was chaplain to the Lady Mary who when Queen of England nominating him by the name of her chaplain to the See of Norwyck upon the translation of Dr. Thirlby one of her Counsellours to Ely he was thereupon elected and having the temporalities of that See restored to him 4. of Oct. 1554 safe there till the time of his death which hapning about the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was buried in his own Cath. Church By his Will dated 24 of Aug. 1558. and proved 2. of Dec. 1559. he gave part of his study of books to the Black Friers of Norwych if they should be restored to their Convent again and another part to Norwyeh Church for a Library there He also gave 5 l. to buy ornaments for the Church of Myrfield before-mentioned several things also to the Church of Leedes in Yorkshire and a Legacy to Christop Hopton of that place Esque without naming him his Kinsman I find one John Hopton to be made Prior of Bridlyngton in Yorkshire an 1510. upon the death of one John Ynglish but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I know not This Prior died in 1521. and was succeeded by one Will. Brounflete About the 22. of June 1559. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych elected Dr. Rich. Cox to succeed Dr. Hopton in the Chair there as it appears in a certain Reg. or Ledger book of that Church but the Queens mind being alter'd she nominated him soon after Bishop of Ely CUTHBERT TONStALL sometimes of Ball. coll afterwards of Cambridge was consecrated Bishop of London 19. of Octob. 1522. translated to Durham 25. of Mar. 1530. year 1559 and died in Nov. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then behind him the character of a person of great reputation and of very quiet behaviour See more of him among the writers under that year In the See of Durham succeeded James Pilhyngton Bach. of div born of a Knightly family at Rivyngton in the Parish of Bolton in Lancashire Son of Rich. Pilkyngton of Rivyngton Esq was educated in S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he made proficiency in all kind of learning was much addicted to reformation and therefore in the Reign of Q. Mary became an Exile in Foreign parts but upon his return thence being elected to the See of Durham was consecrated thereunto 2. of March 1560 and thirteen days after had the temporalities thereof delivered to him In the eighth year of Eliz. he being then D. of D. he erected a Free School at Rivyngton sub nomine auspiciis R. Elizabethae and endowed it with lands and tenements to the yearly value of seven and twenty pounds fourteen shillings and ten pence This worthy
cause both short and wearisome afterwards unto him Thus Dr. Will. Allen in his Answer to the Libel intit The execution of justice in England The said Dr. Ogelthorp was deprived of his Bishoprick about Midsomer in the year 1559. and about the beginning of the next year died suddenly of an Apoplexy year 1560 otherwise had he lived 't is thought the Queen would have been favourable to him He founded at Tadcaster before-mention'd a Free-School and Hospital dedicated to our Saviour Jesus Christ called The School and Hospital of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Tadcaster The School is endowed with 40 l. per an and the Hospital with revenues for 12 poor People each to have one shilling every week In the beginning of Ch. 1. there were but six in pay how many now I know not The said Bishop built a fair house in Headley upon Bramham in Yorkshire where there is a memory by verses and his Arms over the door I think yet remaining After his deprivation and death Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle was designed to succeed him in Carlilâ— but vhe refusing tho much pressed to it the Bishoprick was confer'd on one Joh. Best a learned and pious man RICHARD PATES an Oxfordshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 1. June 1522. and the year following Bach. of Arts. Which degree being compleated by Determination he went to Paris where he was made Master of Arts and at his return Archdeacon of Winchester on the resignation of Joh. Fox in 1526. In 1528 he resigned that dignity being that year made Archd. of Lincoln upon the death of Will. Smyth Doctor of decrees By which title as also that of Bach. of Arts of this University and Master of Paris he supplicated on the 17. Jan. 1530. that he might not be bound to be present at Exequies in S. Maries Church which shews that he was not then incorporated Afterwards he was imployed in several Embassies and in 1534. I find him resident in the Emperours Court and there again in 1540. in which year wss a pass-port made for him by Secretary Cromwell to Calais in order to reside with the Emperour as Embassador for the K. of England In which pass-port he is stiled Dr. Rich. Pates Archdeacon of Lincoln In 1542. he was attained of High Treason whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on George Heneage and his Prebendship of East-Harptre in the Church of Wells on Joh. Heryng LL. D. In the year 1554. he being preferr'd by Q. Mary to the Episcopal See of Worcester had restitution made to him by the name of Rich. Pate only of the temporalities belonging thereunto 5. March the same year at which time Hooper his Predecessor had been dead about 3 weeks After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was not imprisoned in the Tower of London as Jo. Fox saith but being deprived he went beyond the Seas sate in the Council of Trent uninvited as one saith as he had done before and whether he died there or at Rome I cannot tell He was a learned man of a peaceable disposition zealous in the Faith he professed yet always against inflicting corporal punishments on such that were opposite in Religion to him In the said See of Worcester succeeded Edwin Sandys Son of Will. Sandys of Furnes in Lancashire Justice of the Peace and the Kings Receiver of that County by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Joh. Dixon of London To which See being elected upon Pates his deprivation by the name and title of Edwin Sandes Capellanus regius SS Thol Professor had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to it 23. March 2. Elizab. dom 1559. JAMES TURBERVYLE a younger Son of Joh. Turbervyle son and heir of Richard second son of William first son of Sir Robert Turbervyle of Bere and Anderston in Dorsetshire Knight who died 6. Aug. 1424. by Margaret his Wife of the Family of the Carews Barons was born at Bere before-mentioned which is now a little Market Town in the said County educated in Wykchams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1514. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated in July 1520. and on the 8. of March following was elected the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University on the resignation of Tho. Fykes M. A. and Fellow of the said coll In 1529. he left his Fellowship which he kept with his Scribes place being then promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice as he was soon after to a Dignity and taking the degree of Doct. of Div. in another University was incorporated here in 1532. In 1555. he being then Preb. of Winchester and elected to the Episcopal See of Exeter on the death of Joh. Harman was consecrated thereunto in St. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London with Will. Glynn to Bangor on the eighth day of Sept. the same year and on the 21. of the said month had the temporalities of the said See delivered to him and there sate with due commendations for about four years In 1559. 2. Elib he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and afterwards lived a private life saith one and another that he lived at his own liberty to the end of his life adding that he was an honest Gentleman but a simple Bishop and a third that he lived a private life many years and died in great liberty But at length a fourth person who comes lagg as having lately appeared in print I mean Richard Izack then Chamberlain of Exeter tells us in his Antiquities of the City of Exeter full of mistakes that he died on the first of Nov. 1559. and in another place in the said book that after his deprivation he lived a private life ANTHONY DUNSTAN a Benedictine Monk of Westminster received his Academical education in Glocester coll in the N. W. Suburb of Oxon in an apartment therein built for such young Monks of Westminster that were designed for the University In 1525. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity in the School of that faculty and in the year following he occurs by the name and tit of Anth. Dunstan Prior of the Students of Gloc. coll before-mentioned In 1538. he proceeded in divinity being then Abbat of the Benedictine Monks of Einsham near to and in the County of Oxon and in 1545. he by the name and title of Anthony Kechyn the Kings Chaplain and Bishop elect of Landaff received the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 8. of May the same year being then about 68 years of age He is much blamed by one of his successors in the See of Landaff for impoverishing his Bishoprick accounted by some to have been before his time one of the best in England and since to be the worst He gave way to fate 31. Oct. in fifteen hundred sixty and
he was transplanted first to Christs coll and afterwards to Clare hall in Cambridge where proceeding in Arts took holy Orders was afterwards Archdeacon of Stafford and in 1535. did commence D. of divinity In 1539. Apr. 4. he was consecrated B. of Rochester being then chief Almoner to the King and on the 14. of the same month the temporalities of that See were delivered to him On the 22. of Decemb. 1543. he was elected B. of Worcester upon the resignation of Dr. Bell and in Feb. following being translated thereunto the temporalities also of that See were restored to him on the 22. March following where continuing till the beginning of K. Ed. 6. was soon after committed Prisoner to the Fleet as being no Friend to that King or reformation Afterwards Q. Mary coming to the Crown he was restored to his Bishoprick which Jo. Hooper had for some time occupied and became so great in the favour of that Queen that he was not only made by her President of Wales but also Archbishop of York to which See being elected P. Paul the fourth by his Bull dated xi Cal. Jul. 1555. did confirm it Afterwards being translated the temporalities of that See were given to him 8. Jan. following and on the 22. of that month was enthronized or installed in the person of Robert Bishop of Hull Heath being then Lord Chancellour of England While he sate Archbishop Q. Mary gave to him Suffolk-house against S. George's Church in Southwark to be a habitation for him and his Successors for ever in that See when their occasins called them to London done in recompence for York-house near Westminster which her Father had taken from Card. Wolsey But the said house being remote from the Court Archb. Heath sold it to a Merchant and bought Norwich-house or Suffolk-place near to Charing-cross for him and his Successors for ever When Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown which was in Nov. 1558. Cardinal Pole Archb. of Canterbury and Primate of all England being then dead he the said Heath not only refused tho it appertained to his office to anoint and Crown Q. Elizab. as all the Bishops besides did except one but also about the beginning of the year following refused to take the Oath of her Supremacy over the Church Whereupon being deprived of his Archbishoprick about Midsomer in the same year as also of his Chancellourship was for a time committed to custody Jo. Fox saith to the Tower where he died but being a person of great moderation quiet behaviour and modest disposition was soon after set at liberty So that retiring to his estate at Chobham in Surrey which he before had purchased spent the remaining part of his days there in great security retiredness good studies and devotion being then in such great grace with Q. Elizabeth that she several times visited him with marvellous kindness At length arriving to a fair age died in the beginning of fifteen hundred seventy and year 1579 nine as it should seem for on the 5. of May that year one Tho. Heath next Kinsman to the said Archbishop had a Commission then granted to him from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts chattels c. of him the said Nich. Heath S. T. P. sometimes Archb. of York lately deceased He was buried in the middle of the Chanc. belonging to the Ch. of Chobham before-mentioned and over his grave was soon-after a plain marble stone laid with an inscription thereon which stone was since broken and made shorter and the inscription engraven on a brass plate taken away His brother Will. Heath as he is at Chobham so called was also buried in the said Chancel some years as it seems before the Archbishop where there was lately if not still some memory of him on a grave-stone But who are now the possessors of the Archb. lands there which he left to his relations I cannot tell The picture drawn to the life of the said Archbishop I have many times seen which shews him to have been proper in person black hair'd pale-faced thin and macerated somewhat like the picture of Fisher B. of Rochester but his nose not so long I say this picture I have often beheld among many other choice pictures hanging in the large Gallery belonging to Weston-house near to Long-Compton in Warwickshire now in the possession of my worthy acquaintance Raphe Sheldon Esq whose Ancestor of both his names of Beoly in Worcestershire who died 21. Dec. 1546. married Philippa daughter and coheir of Baldwin Heath by his Wife Agnes the eldest daughter and coheir of Joh. Grove of Ford-hall in Wotton in Warwickshire Son of Thomas Heath of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth before-mentioned which Thomas is supposed by those of the Sheldonian Family who quarter with their Arms those of Grove and Heath to be Great Grandfather to the Archbishop This hath been several times told me by my never to be forgotten friend and generous acquaintance Raphe Sheldon of Beoly and Weston Esq who deceased 1684. a person always very curious and industrious in Genealogies ROBERT PURSGLOVE received his first breath at a Market Town in Derbyshire called Tideswall bred in puerile learning for some time there afterwards in Grammar learning in S. Pauls School in London by the care and charge of his Uncle Will. Bradshaw where continuing three years was afterwards placed in the Abery called S. Mary Overhee in Southwark In which place being fitted for the University he was sent to Corp. Ch. coll in Oxford and maintained there by his said Uncle for the space of fourteen years but whether he took a degree in all that time it doth not appear in our Registers neither indeed of hundreds more that have studied 7 or more years in Oxon and therefore for that reason and because we have no matriculation books above the time of Q. Elizab. the memory of many eminent Men in Church and State is lost After he had left the University being then esteemed an eminent Clerk he was received into the Monastery of Gisbourne alias Gisburgh in Yorkshire where taking upon him the habit of a Canon Regular was at length elected Prior of that house Afterwards upon a willing surrender of the said Monastery into the Kings hands he had a considerable pension allowed to him was made Provost of Rotheram coll in Yorkshire and on the death of Rob. Sylvester about the beginning of Q. Maries Reign was made Archdeacon of Nottingham and Suffragan B. of Hull under the Archb. of York and had other dignities and spiritualities confer'd on him After Q. Elizabeth had been setled in the Throne for some time the Oath of Supremacy was offered to him but he denying to take it was deprived of his Archdeaconry and other spiritualities Whereupon the said Archdeaconry being given to Will. Day M. A. he was installed therein 24. Apr. 1560. as about the same time he was in the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York on
Warham Archb. of Canterbury and a Dignitary Nov. 29. John Sixtinus LL. D. of the Univ. of Senes in Tuscany was then incorporated having been more than an year in this University He was afterwards dignified in the Church of England and was reckoned one of the Foreigners who were excused from paying a subsidie to the King an 1513. Petr. Carmelian Polyd. Virgil Erasm Roterodamus Andr. Ammonius c. who were beneficed and dignified in the Church were excused also Jan. … Rich. Talot or Tollet Bach. of the Civil Law of this Univ. and Doct. of the same fac at Cambridge Feb. 3. Brian Roos Doctor of Decrees of the Univ. of Valence He died 1529 and was buried in the Church of Chelray in… One Will. Petoe M. A. of Cambridge was also incorp on the 14. June One Peter whom some call William Petoe was a Cardinal See among the Bishops under the year 1558. An. Dom. 1511. An. 3. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Will. Fauntleroy again Tho. Drax D. D. of Lync Coll. John Roper Princ. of George hall John Cockys LL. D. Edm. Wylsford D. D. Provost of Oriâ—l Coll. Proct. Will. Brooke of Oriel Coll. Austr elected on the last day of Apr. Tho. Southerne Bor. elected 2. May. Grammarians Dec. 11. Maurice Byrchensaw a Scholar of the fac of Rhetorick was then admitted to inform in Grammar He taught in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. great gate and was afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law Mar. 18. Edw. Watson a Scholar of the fac of Gram. This Person had afterwards his grace granted to him for the Degree of Bacâ— of Grammar conditionally that he compose an hundred verses in praise of the University and also make a Comedy within one year after he had taken that Degree but whether he was admitted or did take it it appears not Bachel of Grammar Apr. 8. John Burgeys a secular Chaplain was admitted to the reading of any book of the fac of Grammar Bach. of Rhetorick Jun. 3. John Bulman a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick was admitted to the reading of any book of the said faculty viz. the first book of Tullies Offices and the first book of his Epistles Bach. of Arts. Nov. 10. John Constable a famous Latin Poet of his time Feb. 3. John Dovell In one of his supplicates for that Degree he is written Will. Devell yet I cannot take him to be the same with Will. Dovell a Bernardine or white Monk who studied sometimes in St. Bernards Coll. and who succeeded one Rich. Paynter of that Order in the Abbatship of Clyve in Somersetshire Besides these two were 38. or more admitted Bach. of Arts and 8. at least that supplicated who were not adm this year Bach. of Civ Law Jul. … George Grey Son of the Marquess of Dorset Feb. 9. Thom. Colfox of All 's Coll. In the Catalogue of Fellows of that House he is stiled Decanus Salopiae Besides these were adm 4 more and 9 there were that supplicated for that Degree who were not adm this year I find also 5. who were adm Bach. of the Can. Law and six who supplicated most of whom were secular Chaplains Mast of Arts. Jun. 5. James Fitzjames of St. Albans hall lately of Mert. Coll. See more in the year 1516. June 21. John Quarre of Merton Coll. He is the same John Quarre as I suppose who occurs Archdeacon of Landaff 1541. Feb. 6. Rog. Edgworth of Oriel Coll. Feb. 12. John Blyss mention'd under the year 1507. Besides these were about 33 admitted and eleven or thereabouts that supplicated that were not adm this year Opponents in Div. May 31. John Bosforus a Cistercian Monk of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and Abbat of Tiltey in Essex About the same time he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Div. which I presume was granted tho not set down in the register He is sometimes written Joh. Browne alias Brome Nov. 19. Frat. Rob. Low or Law a Carme Whether he was adm Bach. of Div. according to the custom of those that oppose in that fac it doth not appear in the publick register See more of him among the Doct. of Div. in 1520. Besides these were eleven more that opposed most of whom were afterwards adm Bac. of Div. Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. William Malverne alias Parker a Benedictine Monk On the 4. of May 1514 he was elected Abbat of St. Peters Church in Glocester on the death of one John Newton D. D. and continued Abbat till the dissolution of his Church See more among the Doctors of Div. 1515. Dec. 12. Joh. de Coloribus a Dominican Mar. 14. Hugh Whitehead of Durham now Trinity Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. under the year 1513. Mar. 22. Fr. Rich. Mallet a Fryer of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit who had studied 12. years here and at Cambridge … Rob. Schouldham a Benedictine Monk He was now or soon after an Abbat See in the year 1515. Six more were admitted and 7 supplicated that were not adm this year of whom Rog. Necham a Benedictine was one Doct. of Civ Law Not one admitted only John Jane LL. Bac. of New Coll. supplicated for the said Degree March 25. Doct. of Can. Law Not one admitted only Thom. Byrd supplicated for that Degree Whether he be the same Tho. Byrd who from being a Canon of the Order of St. Austin in the Priory of Taunton was elected Prior of Barlich of the same Order in Somersetsh 3. Sept. 1492 upon the deprivation of Rob. Wynde I know not He resign'd his Priorship on the first of Decemb. 1524 and the very next day one John Norman was elected into that place Doct. of Div. Dec. 15. John Longland of Magd. Coll. Afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Those that supplicated for the Degree of D. of D. this year were 1 Laur Stubbes afterwards President of Magd. Coll. 2 Tho. Castell a Benedictine Monk and Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon. I find one Tho. Castell a Doctor of Oxon to have succeeded in the Priorship of Durham John Aukland D. D. an 1494 but what relation there was between them unless this last was Uncle to the former I know not See more in the year 1513. 3 Will. Porter Bach. of Div. Warden of New Coll. and Chaunter of Hereford 4 John Esterfeild c. Incorporations Apr. 3. Hugh Inge or Yuge sometimes of New Coll. Master of Arts of this Univ. and D. of D. beyond the Seas was incorp D. of D. He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin Rob. Spence LL. D. beyond the Seas was incorporated the same day May … Rich. Smyth M. A. of this Univ. and Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas June 26. Rob. Fairfax Doctor of Musick of Cambridge This Person did afterwards live in Hertfordshire and was buried in the Church at St. Albans near or under the seat where the Mayor of that place usually sits I have seen some of his Musical compositions of three or more parts which
was afterwards Curate of Honey-lane in London and being much addicted to the Opinions of Martin Luther went to Oxon in 1526 and dispersed divers prohibited Books among his Acquaintance and Contemporaries as Anth. Delaber of S. Albans Hall afterwards a Civilian of Gloc. College Nich. Vdall and John Diot both of C C C. John Clerke Hen. Summer Will. Betts John Taverner a Musitian of Card. Coll. c. All which being Lutherans or Hereticks as they were then called suffer'd much At length Thomas Garret after several Flights from place to place Sculkings and Imprisonments was burnt in Smithfield near London with Dr. Robert Barnes and William Hierome an 1541 as John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church will at large tell you Between the ending of one Register and the beginning of another are the Acts of the Congregation of this year wanting many of which were torn out from the former Mast of Arts. Their Admissions being all wanting in the public Register I therefore recurred to my MS. Book of Inceptions and there found that 30 Masters stood in the public Act or Comitia but none can I yet find who were afterwards Bishops Writers or Men of note Doct. of Civ Law … Will. Pigman was then admitted Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law Who were Candidates for either the Register which is imperfect this year as I have before told you shews not Doct. of Div. Apr… Richard Doke or Duck of Exeter Coll. He was about this time Canon of Exeter Cathedral and afterwards became Archdeacon of Wilts and of Salisbury in which last Dignity I find him to occurr 1536. After he was admitted Doctor he was made Commissary of the University as I have before told you May… Frat. John de Coloribus a Dominican See among the Writers under the year 1525. Feb… Ralph Barnack of New Coll. A Supplication was this year made for one Will. Woddysbury a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict but whether for the degree of Bach. or Doct. of Divinity it appears not because the Register of this year as I have told you is imperfect He was elected Lord Prior of Worcester in 1515 in the place of Thom. de Mildenham deceased and dying in 1518 he was succeeded by one William More who resigning upon a foresight of Ruin Hen. Holbeach alias Randes was elected Prior 13 March 1535 and afterwards became the first Dean of Worcester An. Dom. 1518. An. 10 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Rich. Duck D. of D. before mention'd Proct. John Stevyns of Oriel Roger Dyngley of Allsoules Coll. Bach. of Arts. Jul… Paul Bush He was afterwards the first B. of Bristol Thomas Elyot of S. Maries Hall Thomas Runcorne See among the M. of A. 1521. John Shene See among the M. of A. 1523. Jan… John Hoper or Hooper He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester and Worcester Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. c. Besides these were about 44 admitted and many that supplicated the ven Congregation for Admission Bach. of Can. Law Jul… John Gryffyth or Gruffyth He was afterwards Treasurer of Landaff Dean of S. Asaph and a Dignitary in the Church of Salisbury He concluded his last day in 1559. John Stanley was admitted in the same month About which time studied in this University Thomas Stanley who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Besides these were about six admitted and six or more that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law Jul… Frat. John Gregory a Brother of the Holy Trinity for or of the Redemption of Captives He was afterwards the last Minister or Perfect of the House or College of the Brethren of the Holy Trinity situated without the East Gate of the City of Oxford on the South side Jul… John Skelton See among the Writers under the year 1529. Thomas Parker See in these Fasti 1525. Feb. ult Fath. John Burton Prior of S. Frideswydes Monastery now Christ Church in Oxon. Richard Gwent of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Archdeacon of London and Dean of the Arches See in the year 1524. Besides these were about 16 admitted and 6 or thereabout that supplicated Mast of Art Jul… John Holyman of New Coll. In the year 1514 he took the degree of Bach. of the Can. Law and was long after this time made Bishop of Bristol Tho. Stanbridge of Magd. College an eminent Grammarian He was Brother or nearly related to John Stanbridge the most noted Grammarian of his time was Master of a School at Banbury much frequented for his sake and died in 1522. Besides these two were about 30 more admitted and some few that supplicated and about 40 that stood in two Acts celebrated this year Bach. of Div. Not one admitted and but about ten supplicated for that degree among whom were 1 Richard Yaxley a Benedictin Monk 2 Edward More of New Coll. who was admitted the eighth Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester 29 Oct. 1526 and dying 1541 was buried in the Choir of the Chappel there 3 Arnold Guy alias Buckfast a Cistercian Monk of S. Bernards Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Provisor or Prefect of that Coll. and an Abbat perhaps of Buckfast in Devonshire as may seem by his Arms or Rebus of his Name now or lately in one of the middle Chamber Windows of S. Bernards now called S. John Bapt. Coll. wherein is a Crosier thrust thro a Bucks face palewaies One William Arnold was the last Abbat of Merevale in Warwickshire of the Cistercian Order but what Relation he had to Arnold Guy I cannot tell Doct. of Civ Law Feb… John London of New Coll. He was about this time Canon of York and Lincoln afterwards Warden of New Coll. Canon of Windsore Prebendary of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury Dean of the Cath. Church of Osney near Oxon and of the collegiat Chappel of Walingford in Berks. He died in the Fleet Prison at London having been committed to that place for Perjury an 1543 and was succeeded in his Canonry of Windsore by Fr. Mallet D. D. and the Kings Chaplain afterwards Confessor to Qu. Mary and Dean of Lincoln Of this Dr. London you may read much in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. penned by John Fox who loads his Memory with a great deal of ill Language Doct. of Can. Law Febr… Richard Banger or Benger of New Coll. who had been a Candidate for that degree in 1512 was then admitted He was afterwards Commissary of the University Three there were this year that supplicated to be Doctors of the Can. Law viz. 1 Robert Bysse Doct. of the Civ Law mention'd among the Incorporations an 1513. 2 Will. Cleyton Bach. of the Canon and 3 Lendricus Predi Bach. of the Civil Law Doct. of Phys June… Edward Fynch Thomas Bentley of New Coll. I have made mention of Edward Fynch different I suppose from this Physitian among the Masters of Arts an 1504. Doct. of Div. Tho. Knolles of Magd. Coll. a
Vicar General to Gilbert Bishop of that place and at length Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum He died about the month of Feb. in 1575 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Wells Oct. 18. John Croke of New Coll. He was now an eminent Advocate in the Court of Arches and about this time dignified in the Church Doct. of Div. July 6. John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. He was made Dean of Lichfield in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign in the place of one Rich. Willyams deprived for having married a Widow in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. But the said Ramridge leaving England without any compulsion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth being much troubled in mind upon a foresight of the alteration of Religion he went into Flanders where in wandring to and fro in great discontent he met with Thieves who first rob'd and afterwards murder'd him Only two supplicated for the said Degree this year viz. Will. Wetherton M. A. and Bach. of Div. and Edw. Sepham M. A. and Student in that Faculty but were not now or after admitted Incorporations Apr…Nich Grimoald Jul. 19. Laur. Nowell B. of A. of Cambr. Nov. 8. George Dogeson or Dogâ—on Chantor of Wells and M. A. of the University of Paris was then incorp M. of A. Which being done he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood in the said University of Paris An. Dom. 1543. An. 35 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke Will. Pye again Elected the first day of Easter Term. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 12. Tho. Godwyn of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bathe and Wells Dec. 14. Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. The Cat. of Fellows of that House saith that he was afterwards Dean of Dublin and Bishop of Meath in Ireland whereupon recurring to the Commentary of Irish Bishops written by Sir James Ware I could find no such Person nor Dr. Johnson of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who is reported by Th. Fuller the Historian to be Archb. of Dublin Feb. 20. Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Lichfield and Coventry In all about 35 besides about 7 who were Supplicators or Candictates for the said degree of Bac. of Arts. Bach. of Civ Law Jan. 4. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. Mar… John Plough The former was afterwards a zealous Writers for the Rom. Catholic the other for the Protestant Cause Besides these two were about twelve more admitted Mast of Arts. Jun. 6. Joh. Fox Hen. Bull Tho. Cooper Will. Dounham of Magd. Coll. The two last of which were afterwards Bishops At the same time was one John Redman or Redmayne of Magd. Coll. admitted But whether this be the same John Redman who was afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton or another mentioned under the year 1508 and 1524 or a third mention'd among the Writers an 1551 I cannot justly say June 6. Will. Hugh 20. George Ethoridge John Morwen of C. C. Coll. Feb. 21. Joh. Pullayne Mar. 18. Laur. Nowell 24. Nich. Grimoald In all thirty nine of New Brasn Mert. Coll. Bach. of Div. June 30. Gilb. Bourne of All 's Coll. Nov. 21. John Somer He was Can. of Winds in the time of Qu. Mary where he died 1573. Tho. Slythurst was admitted the same day He was made Canon of Winds and the first President of Trin. College in the time of Qu. Mary of which being deprived in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died about 1560. Feb. 8. Will. Pye of Oriel College now one of the Proctors of the University In 1534 he seems to have been admitted Bach. of Physick Besides these were ten more admitted and five that supplicated among whom was William Peryn one lately a Dominican or Black Fryer who was I suppose admitted because in a Book or Books which he soon after published he writes himself Bach. of Div. Doct. of the LL. Jul. 2. John ap Harry or Parry He was soon after Principal of Broadgates Hall and seems to be the same John ap Harry who was Successor to Gilb. Smith in the Archdeaconry of Northampton This Dr. Parry died in the beginning of 1549 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Castor in Northamptonshire John Williams lately Principal of Broadgates Hall was admitted the same day Doct. of Div. June 1. Philip Brode about this time a shagling Lecturer of Divinity in this University He was afterwards a Prebendary of the Church of York beneficed in the Diocess thereof and died in 1551. or thereabouts John Robyns the Astrologer and Mathematician sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. and now Canon of Windsore did supplicate that he might be admitted to proceed in Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not Rich. Cox also a D. of D. of Cambridge did supplicate that he might sit and take a place among the Doctors of Divinity tho it was unusual and out of order as being not incorporated See in the year 1545. Incorporations This year or thereabouts John Cheek of Cambridge was incorporated but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot justly tell because of the imperfectness of the Registers He had studied before for some time in this University and was now one of the Canons of Kings Coll. in Oxon. I mean of that College founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Card. Wolsey which continued from the year 1532 to 1545 at which time he was about to translate the See of Oxon from Osney to his said Coll. intended then by him to have it known by the name of Christ Church which was effected accordingly in the year following When the said Kings Coll. was dissolved by Hen. 8. in the beginning of the year 1545 he allowed most of the then Canons yearly Pensions in lieu of their Canonries and to Jo. Cheek who was then Tutor to his Son Prince Edward he allowed six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence He was afterwards a Knight and most famous for his Learning exprest in his Introductio Grammatices his Book De ludimagistrorton officio in another De pronunciatione Linguae Graeâ—â—c and in many more besides Translations the Catalogue of which mostly taken from Baleus you may see at the end of Sir John Cheeks Life written by Ger. Langbaine put by him before a Book written by the said Cheek entit The true Subject to the Rebel or the heart of Sedition c. Oxon. 1641. qu. This Sir John Cheek died at Lond. in the house of Pet. Osbourne Esq a great Comforter of afflicted Protestants in the month of Sept. 1557 and was buried in the Church of S. Alban in Woodstreet within the said City An. Don. 1544. An. 36 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. Nich. Alambrygg of All 's Coll. Will. Smyth of Brasn Coll. again Elected about the Ides of May. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. In an Act then celebrated Will. Fitzjames Dean of We'ls was
of Carlisle tho a Layman on the death of Sir Thomas Smyth and in 1589 Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1592 he was made a Knight and about the same time one of the Privy Council to her Majesty being then a person most eminently perspicuous for his Learning Piety Integrity Goodness and Gravity He died at Pyrford in Survey where he had an Estate in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March an 1591 whereupon his Body was buried in the middle of the Chancel behind the high Altar of S. Pauls Cathedral Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat stone with an Inscription thereon under which also Sir Franc. Wolloy his Son and Heir sometimes of Merton Coll. also was buried an 1611 as also Elizabeth Widow of Sir John All whose bodies were removed in 1614 and buried between S. George's Chappel and that of our Lady within the Precincts of the said Cathedral and had a very goodly Tombe with a large Inscription on it erected over them which was with the Cathedral it self consum'd in the dreadful Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. an 1666. Admitted 18. Bach. of Div. Only one was admitted this year viz. Hen. Henshaw alias Heronshaw of Magd. Coll. Dec. 3. In the next year he was elected Rector of Linc. Coll. There were also but two that supplicated for the said Degree one of which was named Will. Ely of Brasn Coll. who was made the second President of that of S. John by the Founder thereof an 1559. In 1563 or thereabouts he was removed from that place for maintaining the Pope's Authority and not the Queens over the Church of England whereupon leaving Oxon lived many years obscurely having if I mistake not entred into some religious Order beyond the Seas Afterwards being seized upon for a Seminary he was committed to the common Prison at Hereford where remaining several years died an aged man an 1609. being then accounted by those of his perswasion a most holy Confessour What I have farther to observe of him is this that when Archb. Cranmer was brought to the Stake to be burnt at Oxon. he took leave of some of his Friends standing by and seeing this Will. Ely among them went to stake him by the hand but he drawing back said It was not lawful to salute Hereticks and especially such an one that had falsly returned unto his Opinions that he had forsworn c. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted this year An. Dom. 1558. An. 5 Mariae An. 6 Mariae An. 1 Elizab. Chanc the said Cardinal Pole but he dying on the 18 of Nov. Dr. Will. Treshan became Cancellarius natus continuing in that Office till 24 Jan. following at which time Hen. Fitzalen Earl of Arundel High Steward of the University was chosen by the Suffrages of all the Electors and on the 6 of Feb. a Codicil of his Election was sealed and sent to him Commiss the same who was lately Canc. natus viz. Dr. Will. Tresham designed to that Office by Letters from the new Chancellour dat 24 Febr. to continue therein till the Feast of S. Michael following Proct. Alan Cope of Magd. Coll. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. elected 20 Apr. Gramm Jul. S. John Bedo an eminent Grammarian who had publickly instructed Youths in Grammar for four years in this University was admitted to inform and instruct in that Faculty Bach. of Arts. Nov. 18. Tho Brasbridge of All 's Coll. Dec. 12. John Merick of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Besides these two were about 63 more admitted but none of them can I yet find that were afterwards Bishops Writers or eminent Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law July 9. Tho. Dorman Rob. Lougber of All 's Coll. Of the last see in the year 1564. Feb. 21. Owen Lewes or Lewes Owen of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Cassana in Italy Dev. de la Hyde of Merton and Alan Cope of Magd. Coll. who had studied the Civ Law five years supplicated to be admitted but were not Admitted 14. Mast of Arts. Jun. 10. Jasp Heywood lately of Merton Coll. afterwards a Jesuit 20. Anth. Rush of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Writer and a Dean Dec. 5. Leonard Stopes of S. John's Coll. In the year following he either left his Fellowship of the said Coll. or else was ejected and going beyond the Seas was made a Priest much about the same time that Ralph Windon another ejected Fellows of that House was made a Priest also Afterwards they both came into England were taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire where they endured a tedious Imprisonment and therefore accounted by those of their perswasion Confessors Contemporary with them was one Thom. Bramston alias Brimston a young Fellow of the same Coll. who with leave from the Founder thereof lived with John Eâ—kenham Abbat of Westminster but upon the alteration of Religion which was made soon after he went beyond the Seas and was made a Rom. Cath. Priest Afterwards he returned into England was taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle where we find him 1595. Afterwards being set at liberty lived beyond the Seas to about the year 1608. Admitted 39. Bach. of Phys Feb. 6. Tho. Phaer See among the Doct. of this Fac. following 21. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. They were both learned Physitians and were also admitted then to practise Admitted 6. Bach. of Div. Jul. 5. John Piers of Magd. Coll. 9. Franc. Babington of All 's Coll. See among the Doct. of Div. an 1559. But two more besides the said two were admitted and three there were that supplicated one of whom was called Frat. Anton Reschius or Raschius who for the space of twelve years had studied Divinity in Paris and Oxford His Grace was granted simplicity in July but whether he was ever admitted it appears not He was one of the Fryers that was appointed by publick Authority to undo the Doctrine that P. Martyr and others had setled in the University in the time of K. Ed. 6. and is the same if I mistake not whom John Fox in his book of Acts and Mâ—n of the Church doth call Fryer Richard in his Discourse of the burning of Archb. Cranmer at Oxon. Doct. of Civ Law Jul 8. Thom. Powell On the second day of 〈…〉 he was admitted Archd. of Worcester in the place of 〈…〉 and resigning in 1579 was succeeded by 〈…〉 Thom. Keymis or Keymish was admitted the time day Doct. of Phys Mar. 10. Thom. Phaer The same who took the Degr. of Bach. of Phys on the 6 of Feb. going before For the same degree also did supplicate Rich. Slythurst M. A. and Bach. of Physick but was not admitted or licensed to proceed Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. Fr. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina the Kings publick Professor of Div. in this University This person who was now very forward in promoting the
Rom. Cath. Cause in this University being authorized by publick Authority was born at a Town in Spain called Garcia or Garcevile and being from his Childship much addicted to Letters he was while a Boy received among and instructed by the Dominicans or Black Fryers in his own Country so that in a short time profiting much under them in several sorts of Learning especially in Divinity he took the Degree of Bach. of that Faculty in the University of Valladolid he being then a Member of S. Gregories Coll. there Afterwards upon the performance of certain Exercise for the said Degree in this University had it confer'd upon him as I have told you under the year 1555 and this year being licensed to proceed stood in an Act celebrated in S. Maries Church on the 11 of July This is the person who with Hen. Syddal Canon of Ch. Ch. a very inconstant man in his Religion took great pains in perswading Archb. Cranmer to recant his Opinions when he was condemn'd to be burnt at Oxon and the same who hath this character given of him by one living in his time in this University Prâ—elegit autem nostra memoria Frater Johannis Hispanus scientissimus cum 27 non excesserat annos Platonis autem disciplinacum cyclopedian absolvisset tum apud Philosophos Oxonienses Platonicam Aris telicam mysticam sacram professus est c. Whether he hath published any Books I cannot tell Sure I am that after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to the Country from whence he came leaving then behind him the character of a most subtile Philosopher and Theologist This Fryer was the only person that was admitted D. of D. this year and but 3 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom were Baldwyn Norton Bath of Div. and Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll who the next year became Prebendary of Langtoft in the Ch. of York Creations Jul. 8. John Boxall Bach. of Div. of New Coll. now Secretary of State to Qu. Mary Dean of Windsore c. was tho absent actually created Doct. of Div. by a Certificate or as we now call it a Diploma sent to him under the Seal of the University An. Dom. 1559. An. 1 Elizab. An. 2 Elizab. Chanc. Hen. Fitzalan Earl of Arundel who resigning his Office 12 June this year Sir John Mason one of the Queens Privy Council was elected Chancellour again 20 of the same month in which Vacancy Dr. Tresham was Canc. natus Commiss Dr. Will. Tresham in one years space twice Cancellarius natus who continuing in his Office till Michaelmas Dr. John Warner of All 's Coll. succeeded as it seems by Election mention being made of his Resignation Proct. John Daye of Magd. Coll. Edw. Bramborow of New Coll. elected 5 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 17. Tho Owen either of Ch. Ch. or Broadgates Hall Rich. Bristow was admitted the same day May 8. Leonard Fitzsimons of Trin Coll. 30. Rich. Whyte of New Coll. The same who afterwards wrot himself in the Titles of his books Ricard Vitus Basingtochius Jun. 5. Lawr. Tomson Nov. 27 Tho. Kingsmill of Magd. Coll. Feb. 19. Will. Sheperey of C. C. Coll. The same who afterwards wrot himself in the Title of a learned book which he published Guliel Scepraeus Adm. 50. Mast of Arts. Dec. 14. Joh. Watkyns of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and Dean of Hereford See among the Bach. of Div. 1569. Feb. 16. Pet. Morwyn or Morwyng of Magd. Coll. In the said month of Feb. did supplicate for the said Degree Pet. Levens of the same Coll. but whether admitted it appears not however in his Book intit The path way to health he writes himself M. of A. of Oxon. Adm. 18. ☞ This year was but one Bach. of Law admitted and but three that supplicated As for Physick not one was adm Bach. or supplicated in that Faculty Bach. of Div. Dec. 18. Will. Bocher or Butcher President of C. C. C. He was the only Bach. of that Fac. who was admitted this year Soon after he left his Presidentship being in animo Catholicus and retiring to his small Cure at Dounsbourne Militis near Cirencester in Glocestershire lived there obscurely many years At length giving way to fate was buried in the Church there on the first of Nov. 1585. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Nov. 27. Thomas Coveney President of Magd. Coll. He was deprived of his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winchester in his Visitation of that Coll. 25 Sept. 1561 either for being not in sacred Orders or for that he was a R. Cath. and refused the Oath of Supremacy Howsoever it is sure I am that he was admitted Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisb. in Jul. 1563. For the said Degree supplicated Job Dotyn of Exeter Coll. whom I have mention'd under the year 1534 and James Good M. A. and Bach. of Phys whom I shall mention in the next year Doct. of Div. Dec. 9. Francis Babyngton Master of Ball. Coll. This person who was originally of All 's Coll. did proceed M. of A. in an Act celebrated 16 Jul. 1554 was elected one of the Proctors of the University 18 Apr. 1557 admitted Bach. of Div. in July 1558 Master of Ball. Coll. 5 Sept. 1559. D. of D. 9 Dec. this year as before 't is told you Commissary or Vicechanc. of the University 21 May Rector of Linc. Coll. in August and Margaret Professour about the latter end of 1560. Which sudden and quick Promotions are not to be attributed to the deserts of the Person but to the emptiness of the University at this time to the want of Theologists to perform Offices and that any one in a manner proceeded as he or they pleased An. Dom. 1560. An. 2 Elizab. An. 3 Elizab. Chanc. Sir John Mason Knight Commiss Franc. Babyngton D. D. designed by the Chancellours Letters dated 21 May Dr. Warner having then or before resigned Proct. Rob. Leech of Ch. Ch. Tho. Scot of Trin. Coll. elected 24 April Bach. of Arts. Jul. 23. Edm. Bunney of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards eminent for the Books which he published Nov. 28. Edm. Campian Greg. Martin of S. John's Coll. Both afterwards stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. Cause Jan. 27. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll. See more among the Masters of Arts 1564. Adm. in all 47. Bach. of Civ Law Eight this year were admitted of whom Thom. Tookey of All 's Coll. was one afterwards Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Carlile Two or more of the others were also Dignitaries Mast of Arts. May 27. Rob. Pointz John Fowler of New Coll. 28. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll. June 26. John Pratt of Brasn Coll. now Archdeacon of S. Davids and a Compounder for his Degr. Admitted 19. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Will. Stock of S. John's Coll. This person who was a Herefordshire man born was originally of Brasn Coll. from whence for
learned Gentleman a man of excellent wit and fluent eloquence It is observed that tho he was not respected by Qu. Elizabeth yet he wrot a learned Book entit An apology for the government of Women which is in MS in Bodley's Library given thereunto by Ralph Radcliff Town Clerk of Oxon 1621. He was afterwards for his great Learning and Prudence so much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. that he was by him advanced to great places and honours among which was the Earldom of Northampton and dying 15 June 1614 was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to Dover Castle he having been Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports In his life time he published a Book entit A defensative against the poison of supposed Prophecies Lond. 1583 afterwards revised and published in 1620. fol. In 1609 he succeeded John Lord Lumley in the High Stewardship of this University May…Elize Bomlie Doct. of Phys of Cambridge Jul. 13. Will. Livyng Bach. of Div. of the same University Leonard Cassembrotus or Cassenbrotius LL. D. of Orleans was incorporated the same day He was descended from Leon. Cassenbrotius a learned man of Bruges who lived in the time of Erasmus Roterd. Creations Apr. 19. Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk Knight of the Order of the Garter and Earl Marshal of England was actually created Master of Arts in a certain Chamber where he lodged in the house of Thom. Furse commonly called the Beare Inn in Allsaints Parish He was beheaded on Tower hill 2 June 15 Eliz. for endeavouring to marry Mary Qu. of Scots without leave or license from Qu. Eliz. Aug. 2. Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord Deputy of Ireland was created Master of Arts in the place where he lodged in Ch. Ch. I think in the Deans Lodgings at which time he solemnly promised to observe the Privileges and Liberties of the University I have made large mention of him among the Writers p. 180. nu 232. An. Dom. 1569. An. 11 Elizab. An. 12 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same viz. Dr. Thom. Cooper now Dean of Glocester but upon what account whether by a new Election made by the Masters his Office was prorogued it appears not At this time the Chancellour took upon him to nominate the Commissary which now began to be called Vicechancellour meerly by the great power he took upon himself Proct. Thom. Bereblock of Ex. Coll. Thom. Bodley of Mert. Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. Dec. 1. Henry Holland of S. John 's Coll. Jonas Meredith of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He was a Bristow man born was afterwards a R. Cath. Priest and a Prisoner in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire for stifly defending the Jurisdiction of the Pope He was expelled S. John's Coll super statutum quod tueretur Reum so are the words in the Register belonging to that house and as 't is supposed did afterwards publish certain matters in defence of his Religion Jan… Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Exeter Mar. 11. Joh. Rogers of Mert. Coll. Admit 92. Mast of Arts. Jul. 11. George Coryat of New 8. John Smith of S. Joh. Oct. 21. Tho. Doylie of Magd. Coll. Nov. 21. John Howlet of Exet. Coll. He left his Fellowship of the said house before he stood in the Act to compleat his Degree went beyond the Seas was made a Jesuit and had one or more Books put out under his name See among the Writers in Rob. Person under the year 1610. p. 306. Adm. 36. Bach. of Div. But two admitted Philip Biss being one whom I shall mention in 1580 and two that supplicated of whom Joh. Watkyns of All 's Coll. Son of Watkin Howell was one He was afterwards Dean of Hereford in the place as it seems of Joh. Ellis and died in the month of May 1594. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. Arthur Bedell of Christ Church He was a very learned Civilian of his time Doct. of Physick Nov. 21. Thomas Jesopp of Mert. Coll. He died at Gillyngham in Dorsetshire about the beginning of 1616 having been before a Benefactor to his College Doct. of Div. Jul. 14. Will. Hughes mention'd in the Incorporations an 1568. was admitted or licensed to proceed in Divinity Jan. 16. Thom. Bickley Warden of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester An. Dom. 1570. An. 12 Elizab. An. 13 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Commiss Dr. Cooper designed to that Office as the rest of his Successours were by Letters from the Chancellour dated May 5. He became Bish of Lincoln about the latter end of this year Proct. Arth. Atie of Mert. Coll. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. Apr. 5. Bach. of Arts. May 30. Rob. Temple See among the Bach. of Div. under the year 1588. June 25. Thom. White of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Thom. Worthington of Brasn 23. Tho. Sparke of Magd. Nov. 15. Rich. Turnbull of C. C. Dec. 9. Thom. Holland of Ball. Coll. 13. Simon Wisdome of Gloc. Hall Jan. 29. Job Field In the month of June Will. Camden supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts having spent four years in the University in Logicals but was not admitted See in the years 1573 and 1588. Adm. 119. Bach. of Civ Law Apr. 26. Will. Say of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of Winchester Nov. 24. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Dec. 5. Randal Catherall After he had left the University he setled in an obscure Village called Oddington alias Addington near to Bister in Oxfordshire where by a natural Genie advanced with great Industry he became an eminent and expert Antiquary His voluminous Collections from divers Leiger books concerning Monasteries especially in these parts and of Genealogies and Heraldry were much used by Dr. Robert Sanderson afterwards Bish of Lincoln who did transcribe many things from them for his use which I have seen But where those Collections are now I cannot yet learn This Mr. Catherall who was descended from those of his name living at Horton in Cheshire was buried in a little Vault under the Chancel of the Parish Church of Oddington before mention'd 9 June 1625. Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. Apr. 8. Cuthbert Mayne of S. John's Coll. Soon after he left the Nation went to Doway in 1572 and was promoted there to the degree of Bach. of Divinity Afterwards he was sent into the mission of England and setled for a time in his native Country of Devonshire In 1577 he was taken and on the 29 of Nov. the same year he was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Lanceston in Cornwal being then accounted by those of his Profession the first Martyr of the Seminaries You may read more of him in Cardinal Alans book called A sincere and modest defence c. or An answer to a libel of English justice c. p. 2. also in Camdens Annals of Qu. Eliz. under the year 1571. Henr. Shaw of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He afterwards went beyond
Creations Apr… Marmaduke Middleton Bishop of St. David and much deserving of the Church of Ireland was actually created Doct. of Div. of Dr. Humphrey and both the Proctors Jul. 12. Thom. Thornton Vicechanc. of this University Canon of Ch. Church in Oxon. of Worcester and Hereford of which last place he was also Chauntor and about this time Master of Ledbury Hospital in Herefordshire was actually created D. of D. He surrendred up his last breath on the 15. April an 1629. aged 88. and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Ledbury Over his grave was a handsome monument set up for him in the North wall of the Chancel with a large inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was born at Harrew on the Hill in Middlesex that he was purioris Latini Sermonis Author primarius that he was a benefactor to the poor People of Ledbury Hospital that he adorned and repaired the Library at Hereford and enriched it with books that he was a common refuge for young poor Scholars of great hopes and parts and tutor to Sir Philip Sidney when he was of Ch. Ch. c. To which I add that he was also Tutor to the Learned Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Arms. An. Dom. 1584. An. 26 Elizab. An. 27 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Vnderhyll D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch. Rich. Mercer of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Nov. 12. Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll See among the Doctors of Div. 1607. 28. Richard Latewar of St. John Coll. Feb. 1. Hen. Salesbury of St. Alb. Hall Since the life or character of this Person was printed which you may see in p. 226. num 265. I find that he was of the Family of the Salesburies of Dolbelider in Denbighshire and that after Joh. David Rhese whom he stiles Vir ingenio felix literarum ac linguarum cognitione insignis had published his Cambro Brytannicae institutiones rudimenta he wrot and published Grammatica Britannica in usum linguae studiosorum Juccinctâ methodo perspicuitate facili conscriptae Lond. 1593. oct dedic to Henry Earl of Pembroke which is all I know of him yet only that he was living at Denbigh in that year 9. John Randall of Trinity afterwards of Lincolne Coll. Mar. 15. Sim. Wastell of Qu. Coll. Admitted 93 or thereabouts Bach. of Law Apr. 31. John Favour of New Coll. Jul. 10. Pet. Vâ—erheile sometimes written Varahiâ—ius Burgensis Belga which is all I know of him Rich. Meredith of New Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree Jul. 1. but was not admitted See among the Bach. of Divinity 1606. Admitted 4. Mast of Arts. May 25. John Philipps of St. Maries Hall He was the same who took the Degree of Bach. of A. 1579 and the same as it seems who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man 30. Will. Fulbeck of Glocester Hall lately of C. C. Coll. June 2. Rich. Field of Magd. Hall 3. Jerem. Corderoy lately of St. Alb. Hall Jun. 22. John Milward of Broadgates Hall lately of Ch. Ch. One John Milward D. D. Chapl. to K. Jam. 1. was among other things Author of Jacobs great day of trouble and deliverance Serm. at Pauls cross 5. Aug. 1607 upon his Maj. deliverance from Gowries treasons on Jerem. 30. 7. Lond. 1610. qu. Whether he be the same with John Milward M. of A. who was a Derbysh Man born I know not He that was D. D. and an Author died on the Kal. of Aug. 1609 and the next year the Sermon was published by his Brother Matthew Milward Jul. 6. Owen Wood of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards made Dean of Armagh in Ireland by the favour as I suppose of Rob. E. of Essex while he was a Lieutenant of that Kingdom in whose treasons he was engaged 1600 and an especial benefactor to his College One of both his names was a practitioner in Physick and wrot An alphabetical book of Physical secrets as also A small treatise of the judgment of Vrines Both printed at Lond. 1632. and 39. oct Jul. 7. Rob. Wright of Trin. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Savile of Merton Coll. This Person who was younger Brother to Sir Hen. Savile did afterwards travel into various Countries beyond the Seas whereby he improved himself much in several sorts of learning After his return he was by his Brothers endeavours made Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore where being noted for his excellencies caused Rich. Mountague Fellow of that house to number him among the great Philologers of this nation and to be equal with the learned Camden unfortunate Hen. Cuffe Rich. Thompson old Andr. Downes c. to all whom he was well known especially to the first as by many learned Letters written between them appears This Tho. Savile died in his Proctorship of the University 12. Jan. 1592 and was buried in the choire of the Church or Chappel of Merton College where I find this character of him Fuit Sidus lucidissimum qui apud suos exteros literarum virtutis fama ac morum urbanitate perceâ—ebris c. I find another I cannot say the same Thom. Savâ—le whom Camden calls his right learned friend an 1582. and a third who writes himself Gentleman Author of 1 The Prisoners conference handled by way of dialogue between a Knight and a Gentleman being abridged of their liberty Lond. 1605. oct 2 The raising of them that are fallen c. Lond. 1606. qu. Jan. 20. John Lloyd of New Coll. Feb. 20. Will. Suttâ—n of Ch. Ch. Admitted 87. Bach. of Div. May 10. Richard Lewes He was Author of a Sermon preached at Pauls Cross intit Isaac his testament c. on Gen. 21. ver 1. to the 10th Oxon. 1594. oct dedicated to Sir Hen. Vnton of Wadley in Berks. Knight and no doubt of others but such I have not yet seen Jun. 22. John Prime of New Coll. Jul. 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. 15. Rob. Cooke of Brasn Coll. Feb. 1. Miles Smith of Ch. Ch. Admitted 13. Doct. of Law Mar. 17. John Drewry of Linc. Coll. In 1592 he succeeded Dr. John Kennall in the Archdeaconry of Oxford and dying in the Cathedral close at Chichester where he had a Dignity 9. June 1614 was succeeded by William Bridges Son of Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you This Dr. John Drewry was near of kin if not Son to Will. Drewry Doct. of the Civil Law and Commissary or Master of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury who died in the latter end of 1589 and to Sir Will. Drewry of Westâ—n in Oxfordshire Knight sometimes Lord Justice of Ireland who died 1579. ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. John Walsall of Ch. Ch. 15. Rob. Chaloner of the same house a compounder In 1589 he was installed Canon of Windsore being then double beneficed at least and tho not eminently
him among the Masters 1610. Jul. 8. Edw. Chaloner of Magd Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Reading of Magd. Hall 20. Arth. Hopton of Linc. Joh. Wylde of Balliol Coll. Of the last of these two see more among the M. of A. an 1610. Dec. 9. Edw. Seimour of Magd. Coll. Son of Edward Lord Beauchamp Son of Edw. Earl of Hertford Will. Seimour of the same College younger Brother to the said Edward was admitted the same day This William Seimour was afterwards Earl and Marquess of Hertford Chancellour of this University and at length Duke of Somerset He died 24 Oct. 1660. Feb. 1. Roger Manwaring of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. David 5. Tho. Hobbes of Magd Hall He was afterwards the famous Philosopher and Mathematician of Malmsbury 25. Giles Widdowes of Oriel Coll. As for Robinson Reading Manwaring Hobbes and Widdowes there will be a large mention made of them in the other Volume of this Work Adm. 154. Bach. of Law Apr. 21. Joh. Reinolds of New Dec. 16. Arth. Duck of All 's Coll. Besides these two was but one more admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jun. 12. Sim. Birckbek of Queens Coll. 18. Nathan Pownoll of Ch. Ch. Rich. Tillesley of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Tho. Baylie of Magd. Oct. 20. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Dec. 14. Rich. Capell of Magd. Coll. Adm. 101. Bach. of Physick June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll. 28. Edm. Dean of S. Alb. Hall Besides these two was but one more Will. Barker of S. Maries Hall admitted Bach. of Div. Apr. 23. Rich. Moket of All 's Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll. Jul. 9. Mich. Boyle of S. Joh. Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch. Coll. Which two last were afterwards Bishops 18. Will. Gilbert of Magd. Coll. Whether he be the same Will. Gilbert who was afterwards D. of D. and Minister of Orset in Essex where he died about 1640. I know not Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Jan. 14. Thomas Gwynne of All 's Coll. He was afterwards or about this time Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury as the cat of the Fellows of that Coll. tells us but falsely and Chancellour of Landaff He was a Benefactor to Jesus Coll. in Oxon as you may see elsewhere and lived if I mistake not till the Reign of Oliver Protector Doct. of Phys Jul. 4. Will. Barker of S. Maries Hall He was a learned Physitian but whether he hath published any thing I know not Doct. of Div. July 8. Will. Wilson of Mert. Coll. In 1584 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Will. Wickham promoted to the See of Lincoln being about that time Chaplain to Edmund Archb. of Canterbury Afterwards he became Prebendary of Rochester and Rector of Clyve or Cliffe in Kent He died 14 May 1615 aged 73 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore near to the Body of his Father and not in the Cath. Ch. at Rochester near to the Bodies of his sometimes Wives Isabel and Anne Charles Sonibanke of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Salopian born and originally of S. Maries Hall was now Canon of Windsore Rector of Hasely in the County of Oxon and possessor of the Donative of Wrotham in Kent I have seen a Sermon of his intit The Evenuchs conversion preached at Pauls Cross on Acts 8. 26 27 28 c. Lond. 1617 qu. And what else he hath published I know not Quaere He died on the 12 Oct. 1638 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Haseley before mention'd Jul. 8. Rich. Pilkington of Queens Coll. Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was born of a gentile Family in Bucks was a Dignitary in the Church and hath written certain matters of Divinity as some Antients of his Coll. have told me yet all that I have seen which he hath published is only a Sermon intit The Worlds wisdome or the Politicians religion on Psal 14. 1. Oxon. 1598 oct July 8. Mathew Davies of New Coll. He was Brother to Sir Joh. Davies whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1626. George Benson of Queens Coll. was admitted the same day He was about this time Canon residentiary of Hereford and Parson of Rock in Worcestershire Author of A Sermon at Pauls Cross on Hosea 7. from ver 7. to 12. Lond. 1609. qu. and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen He was born of a gentile Family in Westmorland was Fellow of Qu. Coll. Proctor of the University and died at Rock I think about 1647. Jan. 14. Geor. Darrel of All 's Coll. This Person who was Brother to Sir Marmaduke Darrel Cofferer of his Majesties Houshold was installed Canon of the sixth Stall in the Collegiate Church of Westminster on the 8 of June this year in the place of Dr. Griff. Lewys deceased and dying on the last of Oct. 1631 Pet. Heylyn Bach. of Div. was nominated to succeed him the next day and accordingly was installed on the 9 of Nov. Incorporations May 16. Thom. Bell M. of A. of Cambr. One of both his names had been a Rom. Catholick afterwards a Protestant and a Writer and Publisher of several Books against the Papists from 1593 to 1610 and after as the Oxford Catalogue will partly tell you Quaere whether the same July 14. Patrick Kinnimond M. A. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland He was afterwards benificed in Dorsetshire Anth. Cade M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day He hath published A justification of the Church of England Lond. 1630. qu. and certain Sermons as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you Rob. Abbot M. A. of the same University was incororated the same day He was afterwards Vicar of Cranbrook in Kent a sider with the Presbyterians in the Rebellion which began in 1642 was Minister of Southwick in Hampshire and at length of S. Austin's Church in Watling street near S. Paul's Cath. in London where after he had been tumbled and tossed to and fro enjoyed himself quietly for some years in his old Age. He hath written and published several things among which are 1 Four Sermons c. Lond. 1639 oct dedicated to Walter Curle Bishop of Winchester to whom he had been Servant who then exhibited to his two Sons one at Oxon and another at Cambr. 2 Tryal of our Church for sakers c. on Heb. 10. 23. Lond. 1639 oct 3 Milk for Babes or a Mothers Catechism for her Children Lond. 1646. oct 4 Thâ—ee Sermons printed with the former book 5 A Christian Family builded God or directions for Governours of Families Lond. 1653. oct At which time the Author was two years above the great climecterical year Other things he hath also published among which is Be thankful London and her Sisters Sermon on Psal 31. 21. Lond. 1626. qu. which for brevity sake I shall now omit Creations Jul. 14. The most noble John Kennedi a Knight of the illustrious Family of the Earls of Cashills in Ireland
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. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Jun â—0 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 Quâ—re 9. John â—â—wers 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 〈◊〉 when he spake before him he was apt to sleep but Sleep the Depâ—ty Orator of Cambr. was quite contraâ—y 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 Canteâ—bury 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.
see more among the Doctors of Div. 1630 and of the last among the Masters of A. 1621. Jan. 27. John Geree of Magd. Hall Feb. 3. Mathew Griffith of Gloc. Hall lately of Brasn Coll. 4. Thom. Swadlin of S. Joh. Coll. All these Bachelaurs except Bedingfield and Townly are to come into the second Vol. of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 223. Mast of Arts. Apr. 20. Cornel. Burges May 20. Tho. Lushington of Linc. Coll. The last of these two who was originally of Broadgates Hall but had not taken the degree of Bach. of Arts will be mention'd in the second Vol. Jun. 9. Will. Pemble of Magd. Hall 10. Christop Tesdale of New Coll. He was afterwards Minister of Husborne-Tarrant in Hampshire one of the Assembly of Divines and a Preacher before the Long Parliament He hath published Hierusalem or a vision of peace Fast-sermon 28 Aug. 1644 before the House of Commons on Psal 122. 6. Lond. 1644 qu. and perhaps other things which is all I know of him only that he was an Abendon man born 10. Charles Herle of Exeter 12. Thom. Twittie of Oriel Coll. 27. Franc. Gouge of S. Edm. Hall This year Francis Little of Ch. Ch. was admitted but the day or month when appears not He afterwards published some of the posthumous Works of Dr. Tho. Sutton as I have elsewhere told you and was himself a learned man He was the Son of Franc. Little sometimes Mayor of Abendon in Berks. who in the year 1627 wrot a leiger book containing a short account of the Monastery of Abendon an account of the Hospital of the brotherhood of the Holy Cross there and of several matters relating to Abendon Adm. 131 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Jun. 8. Will. Loe of Mert. Coll. sometimes of S. Alb. Hall Jul. 6. Tho. Marler of Trin. Coll. In 1625. Jun. 27 he was made Archdeacon of Salisbury and dying in 1643 was succeeded in that Dignity by Will. Buckner 7 Aug. the same year Nov. 3. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. 24. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch. Feb. 5. Nathaniel Canon of S. Maries Hall Adm. 19. Doct. of Law June 25. Charles Twysden of All 's Coll. He was soon after Principal of New Inn and at length Chancellour of Lichfield and Coventry Doct. of Phys Jun. 25. Andr. Byrd of Merton Coll. George Raleigh of New Inn. The first of these practised his faculty at Reading in Berks where dying in 1636 was interr'd in St. Laurence ch there The other in Oxford where he was much in repute till the time of his death an 1623 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. June 8. Will. Loe of Mert. Coll. a Compounder and Accumulator 25. Simon Jux Rich. Etkins of Ch. Ch. The first of these two who was a Compounder was about this time Rector of St. Olaves in Southwark where he died about the beginning of the year 1631. Edmund Jackson of St. Johns Coll. He was now beneficed in Kent by the favour of Dr. Buckridge Bishop of Rochester to whom he was Chaplain July 10. Thom. Oates of Magd. Coll. This learned Doctor who was at this time domestick Chaplain to Will Earl of Pembroke Chancellour of the University became Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Rob. Chaloner deceased being at that time one of the Kings Chaplains and soon after if not then Prebendary of S. Pauls Cathedral in London He died and was buried at Windsore an 1623. 14. Evan Vaughan of Jesus Coll. 16. Roger Bates of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was at this time Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James 1. as he was afterwards to K. Ch. 1. and much in esteem for his excellent preaching On the 20. of May 1630 he was collated to the Prebendship of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Sarum upon the translation of Dr. Walt. Curle from the See of Rochester to Bathe and Weils and in the year following in the Month of Decemb. he was made Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Theodore Price deceased being about that time a Justice of the Peace of Middlesex and the liberties of Westminster He died at his House in Milford-Lane without Temple-bar on the 15 of March 1633 and was buried in the Chancel of St. Clements Danes in the Strand near London March… Rich. Astley Warden of All 's Coll. Incorporations June 18. James Wats M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambridge He was afterwards Minister of Wodnesborough in Kent and published The controversie debated about the reverend gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the holy communion Lond. 1621. qu. and perhaps other things Quâ—re July 1. Sam. Balcanqual M. A. of Edenburgh in Scotland On the 14. of the said month being the next day after the conclusion of the Act these Cantabrigians following were incorporated Will. Wats M. A. of Cains Coll. This admirable Critick and Divine who was born near to Lyon in Norfolke did afterwards travel into several Countries and became Master of divers Languages At his return he was made Chaplain to King Ch. the first Doct. of Divinity Minister of St. Albans in Woodstreet within the City of London afterwards Chaplain under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the Scotch expedition an 1639 and Prebendary of Weils But being sequestred from his Benefice in London plundred and his Wife and Children turn'd out of doors and himself forced to fly when that City was in the heighth of its rebellion 1642. he retired to His Majesty served under Prince Rupert when his Majesty raised Forces in his own defence and was present with him in all the battels that he fought with the Parliamenteers and many times when that Prince made his desperate attempts on that Party Upon the declining of the Kings cause a little before which time he was made Archdeacon and Residentiary of Wells as I have been informed he stuck to the said Prince when he served his Majesty on the Seas upon the revolt of certain English Ships from the Parliament and was with him when he was blocked up in the harbour at Kingsale in Ireland where being overtaken with a distemper which no Physick could cure surrended up his Soul to the Almighty and was buried there in the latter end of the year 1649 as I was many years since informed by his Widow the Daughter of Mr… Vaughan Minister of Ashted in Surrey Brother to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London This Dr. Wats who is several times honorably mention'd by Vossius by the title of doctissimus and clarissimus Watsius and qui optime de Historia meruit c. had an especial hand in Sir Hen. Speâ—â—â—ans Glossary corrected added considerable notes to and published Matthew Paris his Historia Major an 1640. He wrot also 1 The History of Gustavus Adolphus 2 Mortification Apostolical c. Lond. 1637. wherein justifying the use of canonical hours gave great offence to the Puritan 3 Treatise of the passions 4 Treatise of the surplice not extant besides several Sermons He also translated
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
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 Bailâ—ie 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 Cudesdâ—n 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 â—â—e 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 câ—nditori 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
after his Incorporation was buried in the Parish Church of S. Botolph in the tomb of his Mother lately deceased but in which of the Churches of S. Botolph in London 't is not said Creations Apr. 12. Francis Whiddon of Exeter Coll. and a Devonian born was actually created M. of A. He was afterwards Minister of Morton Hampsted in his own Country and published A golden topaze or a heart-jewel namely a conscience purified and pacified by the blood and spirit of Christ on Heb. 13. 18. Oxon. 1656. oct he being then conformable to the men in Authority and Power What other things he published I find not Jul. 1. Joh. Leigh of Brasn Coll. was actually created M. of A. in the house of Congregation 'T was four years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts in which time he had studied in several transmarine Universities and had obtained such admirable knowledge in all humane learning and especially in Philosophy and other Arts that he was esteemed by the venerable Regents most worthy of the degree of M. of Arts. Sam. Bochartus of Roan in Normandy became a Sojourner this year in the University and was entred a Student in the publick Library in the beginning of Lent Term with the help of which and other Libraries he laid the foundation of most rare Books which he afterwards published His Geographia sacra hath made him famous in the learned World as also his Hierozoicon for both which eminent Authors do in an high manner celebrate his name He was Pastor of the Protestant Church at Caen in Normandy where he died in 1667. being ever esteemed a great lover of the Church of England An. Dom. 1623. An. 21 Jac. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Piers again Jul. 21. Proct. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. Will. Oldis of New Coll. Apr. 23. Bach. of Musick Jul. 12. Hugh Davys of New Coll. Organist of the Cathedral Church at Hereford He was eminent for the various Compositions of Church Musick that he had made which is all I know of him only that he died about 1644. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 18. Hen. Tozer of Exet. 23. John Price of Jesus Coll. Whether the last was afterwards the learned Critick who studied about this time in Oxon is as yet doubtful Jun. 26. George Griffith George Eglionbie of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph the last Dean of Canterbury as I shall tell you among the Doctors of Div. an 1634. June 29. Hugh Cressy or Hugh Paulin de Cressy Oct. 29. Will. Erbury Feb. 6. Arth. Salway of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1626. 7. John Hoffman of Exet. Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Div. 1634. Joh. Bird of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day Whether he be the same with Joh. Bird who was afterwards School-master in the City of Glocester and Author of Grounds of Grammar Oxon. 1639. oct I cannot lay to the contrary He that was Bach. of Arts was an Oxfordshire Man born and had been originally of St. Edm. hall All which Bachelaurs except Eglionbie Salway Hoffman and Bird will be mention'd in the 2. Volume of this work or elsewhere Adm. 233. of thereabouts Bach. of Law Apr. 24. Alexander Hyde of New Oct. 11. Nathan Brent of Mert. Coll. The first was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury the other was now Warden of Merton Coll. Besides these two were only two more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 2. Edmund Staunton of C. C. May 26. Nathan Simpson Hen. Gellibrand of Trin. Coll. Coll. Will. Gilbert of Glouc. hall was admitted the same day He was the younger Son of an Esq in Derbyshire and was now esteemed by his contemporaries a general Scholar and a rare Man One of both his names hath certain Sermons extant one of which is a Funeral Sermon on 1. Thes 4. 18. printed 1649. qu. Jun. 18. Edward Leigh Nath. Holmes Anth. Fawkner of Jes Coll. of Magd. hall Jun. 26. Thom. Case of Ch. Ch. July 10. Will. Crompton of Brasn Oct. 16. Edw. Stanely of New Feb. 6. Hen. Glemham Mar. 16. Will. Chillingworth of Trin. Coll. Admitted 157. Bach. of Div. Jul. 3. Thom. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 10. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Dec. 13. Nich. Vignier of Ex. 17. Will. Sclatyer of Bras Coll. Admitted 11. Doct. of Law Oct. 11. Nath. Brent Warden of Merton Coll. who accumulated the Degree in Law ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 18. Tho. Worrall of Brasn Rob. Barcroft of Co. Chr. Coll. Oct. 14. Paul Hood Rect. of Linc. Joh. Wall of Ch. Church Dec. 17. Josh Aisgill of Co. Chr. Will. Sclatyer of Bras George Webb of Co. Chr. Coll. The last saving one viz. Solatyer accumulated and compounded Incorporations May 7. Samuel Baker M. of A. of Christs Coll. in Cambridge He afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in London and much followed but being taken off from those courses was made houshold Chaplain to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and a creature of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury About which time being Rector of St. Mary on the hill and of St. Christophers in Lond. where his preaching was much applauded by some become Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral On the 20. of Sept. 1638 he being then D. of D. was install'd Canon of Windsore on the death of Dr. John King sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. but he being soon after made Prebendary of Canterbury he resigned his Canonry and Tho. Broume Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was installed therein 28. May 1639. This Dr. Baker who was a great Licencer of Books but publisher I think of none gained a great deal of Envy from the Puritan for his partiality in that office for which and his great respect to the tenets of Arminius he was in the beginnig of the rebellion â—â—sâ—vanted and imprisoned and at length deprived of his Spirituâ—â—â— Thomes Harste M. of A. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Minister of 〈◊〉 in Lincolushire He hath published The descent of 〈◊〉 the Magistrates patent from Heaven Sermon at Lincoln Assizes 13 March 1636. on Gen. 9. 6. Lond. 1637. qu. and other things as I conceive Quere On the 14 of July after the conclussion of the Act these Cambridge Men following were incorporated Joh. Harding M. of A. One of both his names who had been a Dominican or Black fryer did speak A recantation Sermon in the Gatchouse at Westminster 30. July 1620 on Psal 119. 71. Lond. 1620. qu. containing Motives why he left the Church of Rome Whether he be the same with the former who was M. of A. I know not Thomas Scot M. A. One of both his names also who was Bach. of Div. of the said University and a Preacher in the City of Norwych hath several things extant as the Oxford Catalogue tells you but he is not to be taken
Arts of Cambridge now of Ball. Coll. See before among the Masters of Arts this year Creations July 22 Joh. Chudleigh Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll. the eldest Son of Sir George Chudleigh of Alston in Devonshire Baronet was created Master of Arts he being a little before elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament Nov. 20. Leonard Digges Bach. of Arts of Vniversity Coll. in Academiis transmarinis bonarum artium studiis diu versatus as the publick register saith earumque cognitione optimè excultus was actually created Master of Arts. On the 27. of Dec. this year Edward Michelbourne a Gentlemans Son of Hampshire originally a Commoner of St. Maries hall and afterwards for many years of that of Glocester was buried in the Parish Church of St. Thomas the Martyr in the W. Suburb of Oxford aged 62 or thereabouts The reasons why I set him down here are 1 Because he took no Degree being a Rom. Catholick otherwise I would have put him in that year wherein he took a Degree 2 Because he was the most noted Latine Poet of his time in the University as divers copies of his composition printed in several books shew which if put together would make a Manual 3 That the Poets of his time did mostly submit their labours to his judgment before they were made publick particularly Charles Fitz-Geffry who dedicates his Assaniae to him Rich. Broughton a Sojournour in Oxon. was entred a Student into the publick Library on the 19. of June this year under the title of a Minister of Gods word This Person who had formerly studied in Oxon. to gain materials for the publishing of certain books was born of gentile Parents at Great Steukley in Huntingdonshire but descended of an antient Family of his name living at Broughton Tower in Lancashire Sent when young to Rheimes in France where passing his course among the English became a good Philosopher and Theologist and well skill'd in the Greek and Heb. tongues Afterwards he being made Priest was sent into the Mission of England continued there many years in good repute for his religion learning experience and publick spirit For which he was thought to be the fittest Person to be chosen Assistant to the Archpriest that had been then lately appointed by his holiness the Pope He hath written 1 Apologetical Epistle 2 Moderate answer to a most calumniating Libel which endeavours to prove that a Rom. Catholick cannot be a good Subject 3 Continuations of the Cath. Apologie made up out of Protestant Authors 4 Ecclesiastical History of Gr. Britain deduced by ages or centuries from the nativity of our Saviour unto the happy conversion of the Saxons c. Doway 1633. fol. Tho 't is a rapsodie and a thing not well digested yet there is a great deal of reading shew'd in it 'T is said in the title to be the first Tome as if another was to follow 5 True memorial of the antient most holy and religious estate of Great Britain flourishing with Apostles Apostolical Men Monasteries religious Rules and Orders in great number in the time of the Britains and Primitive Church of the Saxons c. printed 1650. oct published by G. S. P. 6 Monasticon Britanicum Or a historical narration of the first founding and flourishing state of the antient Monasteries religious Rules and Orders of Great Britain in the times of the Britains and Primitive Church of the Saxons c. Lond. 1655. oct This Book I have the title of which running almost verbatim as the former which I have not yet seen makes me to guess that it is in many things the same Quaere This industrious Author who probably hath written other matters died in a good old age on the fifteenth of the Kal. of Febr. an 1634 and was buried near to the bodies of his Father and Mother and other of his relations in the Church of Great Steuckley beforemention'd Over his grave was soon after a Mon. with an inscription thereon put wherein he is stiled Presbyter Anglus innocentia morum Angelicus Majorum prosapiam quorum ipse nemini impar sacra functione longè superavit claro virtutum ingenitarum praeconio perennavit c. Antiquariorum sui saeculi exquisitissimus Ecclesiasticoruns Monumentum aurifodinam haereditatem omni thesauro pretiosiorem raro scientiss virorum sed optabili exemplo posteris reliquit c. An. Dom. 1627. An. 3. Car. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Juxon again July 19. Proct. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Franc. Hyde of Ch. Ch. Apr. 4. Upon the resignation made by the said Proctors of their office 22. Apr. 1628. Mr. Will. Hyde and Mr. Isaac Taylor were Procuratores nati till the 13. of June following the controversie of electing Proctors being not till that time finish'd See more in Hist Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 330. b. 331. a. Bach. of Arts. June 1. Joh. Webberley of Linc. Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Div. in 1640. 11. Sam. Fisher of Trin. Coll. afterwards of New Inn and of all religions in the time of the grand rebellion Rog. Lorte of Wadham Coll. the Poet was admitted the same day July 3. Rich. Chalfout of New Inn afterwards of Linc. Coll. See more among the Bach. of Div. 1637. Oct. 23. Joh. Archer of Exeter 25. Robert Maton of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 18. Rob. Randolph of Ch. Ch. This Person who took no higher Degree in this University was a most ingenious Poet as several of his copies of verses printed in various books shew He collected together the Poems Plays and other matters of his Brother Tho. Randolph the celebrated Poet of his time as I have before told you This Rob. Randolph who was first Vicar of Barnetby and after of Donnington in Holland in Lincolnshire was buried in the Church at Donnington 7. July 1671. aged 60 or thereabouts 21. Hen. Carpenter Sam. Austin of Exet. Coll. 27 Joh. Aris of Magd hall See among the Masters 1630. As for Fisher Lorte Archer Maton and Carpenter they are to be mention'd at large hereafter Adm. 240. or thereabouts Bach. of Law But seven were admitted this year of whom Morgan Godwin of Pemb. Coll. was one Edw. Lake whom I shall anon mention another and a third called Oliver Lloyd of All 's Coll. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Rich. Allen of Pemb. Coll. June 1. Thom. Ford of Magd. Hall 2. Hen. Beesley Steph. Goffe of St. Alb. Hall 2. Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. Joseph Caryll of Ex. Coll. July 2. Christop Elderfield of S. Maries Hall 6. Reg. Turner of Exet. Coll. This Person who was afterwards beneficed near Southampton and the place of his nativity hath published The userers plea answered in a Sermon preached at Southampton 18. Jul. 1633. on Matth. 25. 27. Lond. 1634. qu. and another on 2 Kings 11. ver 12. Printed in 1661. qu. and not unlikely others Mar. 14. Francis Davies of Jes Coll. Adm. 131. or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Physick was admitted this year
of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. and Clerk of the Council In 1640 he was employed by his Majesty to go to Henry Frederick Prince of Aurange or Orange about the marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince his Son as also to the Queen of Bobemia and the Prince Elector an 1641 to hinder that Prince his coming over into England at the then juncture of affairs with promise to take into his consideration the concern of the Palatinate and other matters of state In the same year the said R. Browne was sent to Paris where he continued Resident in the Court of France for K. Ch. 1. and Ch. 2. to the French King Lewis the 13 and his Son Lewis 14 till the Restauration of his Majesty an 1660. In which time which was 19 years I find these things following to occur relating to him 1 That divers important matters of state were transacted by him with those great Ministers Cardinal Richlieu and Mazarine 2 That many advantages were offer'd him by the Usurpers of England to be false to his Masters but he resisted them 3 That he did to his great expence but more to his everlasting glory keep up in the large house which he hired at Paris the publick Service and Liturgy of the Church of England whither his Maj. Ch. 2. and then Duke of York did constantly resort From whence divers Ministers of the Church of England Exiles for their Loyalty had many disputes with the R. Catholicks and others concerning the visibility of their Church which they then kept up while it was ecclipsed in England 4 That he was employed by his Maj. Ch. 1. to carry the George and Garter to Bernard Duke of Espernon 5 That he did negotiate about the Queens portion out of which he had I think 1000 l. which with 200 l. more was all he touched in the said 19 years whilst he spent of his paternal Estate much more than that yearly during his abode at Paris 6 That on the first of Sept. 1649 he was created a Baronet being the first that K. Ch. 2. made by virtue of a dormant Warrant sent to him by Ch. 1. dated 1 Febr. 1643 and on the 19 of the said Sept. he received the honour of Knighthood at St. Germaines from his said Maj. Ch. 2. he being then also Clerk of the Council to him In 1660 he returned into England with his Majesty and did execute the said Office for some time But years then coming on he resign'd it and retired to Charlton in Kent where he spent the remainder of his time in a pleasant retiredness and studious recess At length giving way to fate in a good old Age on the 12 of Febr. 1681 was buried according to his desire in the Churchyard at Deptford close to the Wall of the Church where is a black Marble ballastred over his body On the other side of the Wall in the Church lies buried his Father Christop Browne Esq who died in March 1645 aged 70 years and his Grandfather Sir Rich. Browne Knight a younger Son of an antient Family at Hitcham in Suffolk seated afterwards at Horsley in Essex who being a Student in the Temple was by Robert Dudley the great Earl of Leycester taken into the service of the Crown when he went Governour of the Vnited Netherlands and was afterwards by Qu. Elizab. made Clerk of the Greencloth In which honorable office he also continued under K. James 1. untill the time of his death which hapned in May 1604 aged 65 years The before mentioned Sir Rich. Browne Grandson to this last Sir Richard lest behind him a Daughter named Mary who being his Heiress was several years before married to the learned Vertuoso Joh. Evelyn of Says-court in the Parish of Deptford Esq in which house or at least in that Parish Sir Richard was born as also three folio's of his dispatches several Letters some in cypher c. as well from his Maj. Ch. 1. at Oxon as from his Royal Consoâ—t and other great persons Jun. 27. Geâ—v Warmstrey Rich. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. July 8. Oliver Thomas of Hart Hall The time when he took the degree of Bach. of Arts appears not nor when or of what house he was matriculated And therefore all that I can say of him is that he was afterwards perhaps now beneficed in Shropshire that he wrot and published a book in Welsh entit Carwry Cymru c. printed 1630 or thereabouts and that dying at Felton in that County was there buried In the year 1647 one Oliver Thomas Minister of Oswestry did subscribe among other Ministers of Shropshire to the lawfulness of the Covenant who I suppose is the same with the former Jul. 11. Rich. Jones of Jesus Coll. Jan. 22. George Bate of S. Edm. Hall 29. Christop Ayray Guy Carlton Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. March 19. Joh. Price of Jesus Coll. This year Jun. 25. Joh. Davis of Magd. Hall sometimes of that of S. Edm was licensed to proceed Master of Arts and accordingly compleated that degree in the Act following which being all I know of him he therefore is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Davis M. of A. afterwards Lecturer of Christ Church in London and at length Pastor of a Congregation in Dover Author of Heaven and Earth shaken A treatise shewing hâ—w Kings Princes and their Government are turned and changed by Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1656. oct For this Joh. Davis the Author was originally of Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards siding with the Faction was first a Presbyterian and took the Covenant afterwards an Independent and took the Engagement for which he stickled in his Lectuers at Ch. Ch. At length being discovered by the then godly Party to be every way fit to carry on the trade of Faction he was translated to Dover where he kept a Conventicle in a noted Brewhouse by the Reer and soon after was made Chaplain to the Castle there by Col. Tho. Kelsey then Governour and preached constantly at S. James Church tho he was no setled Incumbent Where continuing officiating till after the Kings Return he was then outed and afterwards kept a Conventicle in S. James street in Dover where he continued to the time of his death which was about 1663. Adm. 149. Bach. of Phys I find but three admitted this year of whom John Speed a learned Physitian of S. Joh. Coll. was one Jun. 20. Bach. of Div. May 7. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 14. Meric Casaubon of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Jerem. Stephens Gilb. Sheldon Rob Gomershall of Ch. Ch. of All 's Coll. Mar. 13. Will. Paul Tho. Lawrence of All 's Coll. Adm. 28. Doct. of Law Mar. 26. David Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Warden of Ruthin in Denbighshire Prebendary of Chester and afterwards Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Andr. Morrice sometimes Chaplain of All 's Coll. This Dr. Lloyd died about
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 Râ—veniae 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
Authors death June… Henry Glemham of Trin. Coll. Joh. Tombes of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Will. Strode of Ch Ch. Admitted 27. Doct. of Law Francis Gerard John Gervais of All 's Coll. They were admitted in Hillary term but the day and month when are omitted Doct. of Phys July 21. William Ford of Pembr Coll. Doct. of Div. May 18. Tho. Mason Tho. Westley of Magd. Coll. The last of these was Rector of Chart in Kent and preacher at the Savoy in the Strand near London where dying in Apr. 1639 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there May 26. John Hodges of Lanâ— March 10. Will Paul of All 's Coll. Incorporations Jim 30. Constantine Jessop Bach. of Arts of Trinity Coll. near Dublin I shall make farther mention of him elsewhere July 7. Thom. Clavering M. of A. but of what University 't is not set down was then incorporated in the same degree 8. Rob. Sparke M. of A. of Aberdene Mar. 1. Joh. Ramsey M. of A. of S. Andrews in Scotland One Dr. Rob. Sparke and Joh. Ramsey were afterwards Publishers of several Sermons but whether the same with the two former I cannot tell This year Thom. Randolphe the most celebrated Poet of Cambr. was incorporated M. of A. but the day or month when appears not I have made mention of him at large among the Writers under the year 1590. Joh. Pell also a Graduat of the same University was incorporated but in what degree whether in that of Bachelaur or Master of Arts it appears not This person tho I have several times occasionally mention'd in this Work yet I shall take liberty to be more large upon him now He was the Son of Joh. Pell and he of another John descended from those of his name in Lincolnshire where they seem to be of antient extraction His first breath was drawn at Southwyâ—ke in Sussex of which place his Father was Minister on S. Davids day an 1610 and his Grammar learning received in the Free-school then newly founded at Stenning a Market Town in the said County At 13 years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge being then as good a Scholar as some Masters of Arts in that University and tho he understood Lat. Gr. and Hebr. well yet he never stood at an Election of Scholars and Fellows of that house He was of a strong and good habit of body and therefore using Recreations seldom or never he plied his studies while others play'd About two years after he had taken the magisterial degree he married and understood then besides the said three Tongues Arab. Ital. French Spanish High and Low Dutch In Dec. 1643 he took a Journey to Amsterdam and was there made Professor of the Mathematicks next after Mart. Hoâ—tensius where his learned Collegue Ger. Jo. Vossius as he testifies de scientiis Math. c. 10. heard him with admiration read his publick Lectures upon Diophantus by whom likewise he is stiled a person of various erudition and a most acute Mathematician And in 1646 the Prince of Orange called him to be publick Professor of Philosophy and Mathematicks in the Schola illustris at Breda founded that year by his Highness While he continued there William Lord Brereton was sent by his Grandfather George Earl of Norwych to be his Scholar and became a good proficient especially in Algabra to which his Genius most inclin'd him and carried it on to his dying day which hapning on the 17 of March 1679 he being then a chief Member of the Royal Society was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him the Character among the Vertuosi of a very good Algebrest and an excellent Musitian having composed several things of that faculty In 1652 J. Pell return'd into England and two years after Oliver Lord Protector sent him Envoy to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerlandt where he chiefly resided at Zurich He was sent with the Title of Ablegatus but afterwards he had order to continue there under the Title of Resident and by that Title he was known till hiâ— Return into England a little before Oliver's death an 1658 at which time it was vulgarly known among the Royalists that in the said Employment he had acted nothing to the injury of the Church of England After his Majesties Restauration he took holy Orders from Dr. Sanderson B. of Lincoln had procured for him by Dr. Sheldon B. of Land the Parsonage of Fobbing in Essex an 1661 and two years after the Parsonage of Lainden with the Chappel of Bartelsdon annexed in the same County After the said Bishop was translated to Canterbâ—â—y he became one of his Chaplains being then Doct. of Div. and expected soon after to be made a Dean but being not a person of activity as others who mind not learning are could never rise higher than a Rector The truth is he was a shiftless man as to worldly affairs and his Tenants and Relations dealt so unkindly with him that they cozen'd him of the profits of his Parsonages and kept him so indigent that he warned necessaries even Paper and Ink to his dying day This learned and curious person hath written 1 Controversia cum Christiano Longemontano de vera circuli mensura Amst 1647. qu. 2 An Idea of Mathematicks Lond. 1651. in tw written to Sam. Hartlib Esque and printed at the end of The reformed School written by Jo. Durâ—e It was before printed in Engl. and Lat. 3 A Table of ten thousand squaâ—e numbers namely of all the square numbers between O and an hundred millions and of their sides or roots which are all the whole numbers between O and ten thousand With an appendix concerning the endings or last figures of all square numbers Lond. 1672 fol. c. He hath also succinctly and clearly demonstrated the second and tenth book of Euclid which is in MS. in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord Brereton in Cheshire as also Archimedes his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the greatest part of Diophantus his six books of Arithmeâ—â—k Which last is done more and better than was before done by a certain French man Both which are in the aforesaid Library He also published a little Anonymous Exercitation concerning Easter and at the instance of Sir Charles Scarborough did demonstrate the proportion of the Diameter to the Circumference and shews the 〈◊〉 why 〈◊〉 did use those two numbers The 〈…〉 written in High Dutch by Rhonnius sometimes 〈…〉 is mostly also his Dr. Pell's His 〈…〉 is also extant and a Letter relating to the 〈…〉 Hamburgh by 〈…〉 He was the first Inventor of that excellent way or method of the marginal working in Algebra and was a great advancer of some things pertaining thereunto and the mathematical Faculty At length after he had spent his last days in great obscurity and had been once or twice cast into Prison for debt with shame be it spoken to the great Virtuosi of this age died in Dyet street
Arts John Milton not that it appears so in the Register for the reason I have told you in the Incorporations 1629 but from his own mouth to my friend who was well acquainted with and had from him and from his Relations after his death most of this account of his life and writings following 1 That he was born in Breadstreet within the City of London between 6 and 7 a clock in the morning of the ninth of Decemb. an 1608. 2 That his Father Joh. Milton who was a Scrivner living at the Spread Eagle in the said street was a Native of Halton in Oxfordshire and his Mother named Sarah was of the antient Family of the Bradshaws 3 That his Grandfather Milton whose Christian name was John as he thinks was an Under-Ranger or Keeper of the Forest of Shotover near to the said Town of Halton but descended from those of his name who have lived beyond all record at Milton near Halton and Thame in Oxfordshire Which Grandfather being a zealous Papist did put away or as some say disinherit his Son because he was a Protestant which made him retire to London to seek in a manner his fortune 4 That he the said John Milton the Author was educated mostly in Pauls School under Alex. Gill senior and thence at 15 years of age was sent to Christs Coll. in Cambridge where he was put under the tuition of Will. Chappell afterwards Bishop of Ross in Ireland and there as at School for 3 years before 't was usual with him to sit up till midnight at his book which was the first thing that brought his eyes into the danger of blindness By this his indefatigable study he profited exceedingly wrot then several Poems paraphras'd some of David's Psalms performed the collegiate and academical exercise to the admiration of all and was esteemed to be a vertuous and sober person yet not to be ignorant of his own parts 5 That after he had taken the degrees in Arts he left the University of his own accord and was not expelled for misdemeanours as his Adversaries have said Whereupon retiring to his Fathers house in the Country he spent some time in turning over Latin and Greek Authors and now and then made excursions into the great City to buy books to the end that he might be instructed in Mathematicks and Musick in which last he became excellent and by the help of his Mathematicks could compose a Song or Lesson 6 That after five years being thus spent and his Mother who was very charitable to the poor dead he did design to travel so that obtaining the rudiments of the Ital. Tongue and Instructions how to demean himself from Sir Hen. Wotton who delighted in his company and gave him Letters of commendation to certain persons living at Venice he travelled into Italy an 1638. 7 That in his way thither he touched at Paris where Joh. Scudamoure Vicount Slego Embassador from K. Ch. 1. to the French King received him kindly and by his means became kuown to Hugo Gâ—otius then and there Embassador from the Qu. of Sweden but the manners and genius of that place being not agreeable to his mind he soon left it 8 That thence by Geneva and other places of note he went into Italy and thro Legorne Pisa c. he went to Florence where continuing two months he became acquainted with several learned men and familiar with the choicest Wits of that great City who introduced and admitted him into their private Academies whereby he saw and learn'd their fashions of literature 9 That from thence he went to Sena and Rome in both which places he spent his time among the most learned there Lucas Holsteinius being one and from thence he journied to Naples where he was introduced into the Acquaintance of Joh. Bapt. Mansus an Italian Marquess to whom Torquatus Tassus an Italian Poet wrot his book De amicitia who shewed great civilities to him accompanied him to see the rarities of that place visited him at his Lodgings and sent to the testimony of his great esteem for him in this Distich Vt mens forma decor facies mos si pietas sic Non Anglus verum herculè Angelus ipse fores And excus'd himself at parting for not having been able to do him more honour by reason of his resolute owning his Protestant Religion which resoluteness he using at Rome many there were that dated not to express their civilities towards him which otherwise they would have done And I have heard it confidently related that for his said Resolutions which out of policy and for his own safety might have been then spared the English Priests at Rome were highly disgusted and it was question'd whether the Jesuits his Countrymen there did not design to do him mischief Before he left Naples he return'd the Marquess an acknowledgment of his great favours in an elegant copy of Verses entit Mansus which is among the Latin Poems 10 That from thence Naples he thought to have gone into Sicily and Greece but upon second thoughts he continued in Italy and went to Luca Bononia Ferrara and at length to Venice where continuing a month he went and visited Verona and Millan 11 That after he had ship'd the books and other goods which he had bought in his travels he returned thro Lombardy and over the Alpes to Geneva where spending some time he became familiar with the famous Joh. Deodate D. D. Thence going thro France he returned home well fraught with Knowledge and Manners after he had been absent one year and three months 12 That soon after he setled in an house in S. Brides Churchyard near Fleetstreet in London where he instructed in the Lat. Tongue two Youths named John and Edw. Philips the Sons of his Sister Anne by her Husband Edward Philips both which were afterwards Writers and the eldest principl'd as his Uncle But the times soon after changing and the Rebellion thereupon breaking forth Milton sided with the Faction and being a man of parts was therefore more capable than another of doing mischief especially by his pen as by those books which I shall anon mention will appear 13 That at first we find him a Presbyterian and a most sharp and violent opposer of Prelacy the established ecclesiastical Discipline and the orthodox Clergy 14 That shortly after he did set on foot and maintained very odd and novel Positions concerning Divorce and then taking part with the Independents he became a great Antimonarchist a bitter Enemy to K Cb. 1. and at length arrived to that monstrous and unparallel'd height of profligate impudence as in print to justifie the most exercable Murder of him the best of Kings as I shall anon tell you Afterwards being made Latin Secretary to the Parliament we find him a Commonwealths man a hater of all things that looked towards a single person a great reproacher of the Universities scholastical degrees decency and uniformity in the Church 15 That when Oliver
Iconoclastes in answer to a book entit Eikon Basilice the portrature of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings Lond. 1649 50. qu. ib. 1690 oct which being published to the horror of all sober men nay even to the Presbyterians themselves yet by the then dominant party it was esteemed an excellent piece and perform'd answerably to the expectation of his Wit and Pen. After the Return of King Charles 2. this book was called in by Proclamation dated 13 Aug. 1660 at which time the Author who a little before had left his house in Petty France which had a door going into S. James's Park absconded for fear of being brought to a legal Tryal and so consequently of receiving condign Punishment At the same time also was called in a book of John Goodwin then lately a Minister in Colemanstreet in Lond. entit The Obstructors of Justice written in defence of the Sentence against his Majesty Charles 1. At which time also the said Goodwin absconded to prevent Justice Soon after the publication of Iconoclastes Salmasius a Professor in Holland who had in a large Treatise not long before maintained as 't is said the parity of Church Governors against Episcopacy did publish Defensio rogia pro Carolo 1. Rege Angliae wherein he justified several matters as Milton conceived to the contradiction of his former book Whereupon he wrot and published 15 Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi alias Salmasii defensionem regiam Lond. 1651. fol. said to be written in more correct Latin than that of Salmasius While Milton was writing the said book his sight began to fail him and before it was fully compleated one of his eyes did absolutely perish In the month of June the same year 1651 the said book was burnt at Tholouse by an arrest from the Parliament under the Government of the Duke of Orleans And in Sept. following it was the usual practice of Marchm Nedham a great crony of Milton to abuse Salmasius in his publick Mercury called Politicus as Milton had done before in his Defensio by saying among other things that Christina Qu. of Sweden had cashiered him her favour by understanding that he was a pernicious parasite and a promoter of Tyranny After his Majesties Restauration this book also was called in by the same Proclamation before mention'd But so it was that in 1652 a certain book entit Regii sanguinis clamor c. being published Salmasius was highly extol'd in it and Milton had his just Character given therein The nameless Author of which being for a considerable time sought out but in vain by Milton he at length learn'd by certain Ministers of State sent to the Republick of England who would sometimes visit him as a learned man that it was written by one Alex. More formerly a Professor and Minister at Geneva then living in Holland Whereupon he published 16 Pro populo Anglicano defensio secunda contra infamem libellum Anonymum cui titulus Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus patricidas Anglicanos Lond. 1654 and at Hag. Com. the same year in oct Upon the writing of this book the Author Milton lost the other eye and tho to his charge he used many means yet he could never recover either of his eyes This book entit Reg. sang clam c. tho written by Dr. Peter du Moulin Prebendary of Canterbury as it afterwards well appeared yet Milton upon the reports before mention'd could not be convinced to the contrary but that it was written by the said More and therefore not only abused him in his Answers but by his friend Nedham in his Politicus whereby the reputation of that learned person was severely touched 17 Pro se defensio contra Alex. Mornum Ecclesiaste libelli famosi cui tit Regii sanguinis clamor c. Lond. 1655 oct In this book he is exceeding bitter against Morus and pretends to give a true history of his notorious Impurities both at Geneva and Leyden and an account of his own particular life to vindicate himself from what as he thought was scurrilously said of him by Morus At the end of the said book the Author Milton added Ad Alex. Mori supplementum responsio About the time that he had finished these things he had more leisure and time at command and being dispenced with by having a substitute allowed him and sometimes Instructions sent home to him from attending his office of Secretary he began that laborious work of amassing out of all the classick Authors both in prose and verse a Latin Thesaurus to the emendation of that done by Stephanus also the composing of Paradise lost and of the framing a Body of Divinity out of the Bible All which notwithstanding the several troubles that befell him in his fortunes he finished after his Majesty's Restauration But to go on with the Cat. of his Books according to time take these as they follow 18 Treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes c. Lond. 1659. in tw 19 Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church Lond. 1659. in tw 20 Ready and easie way to establish a free Commonwealth and the excellencies thereof compared with c. Lond. 1659 in two sheets and an half in qu. This being published in Feb. the same year was answer'd by G. S. in his Dignity of Kingship 21 Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God and the King c. Lond. 1660. qu. See more in Matthew Griffith among the Writers an 1665. 22 Accedence commenced Grammar c. pr. 1661. in oct 23 Paradise lost a Poem in 10 books Lond. 1669. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 24 Paradise regain'd a Poem in four books Lond. 1670. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 25 History of Britany from the first traditional beginning continued to the Norman Conquest Lond. 1670 qu. This History when it first came abroad had only the reputation of the putting of our old Authors nearly together in a connex'd story not abstaining from some lashes at the ignorance or I know not what of those times 26 Artis logicae plenior institutio ad Petri Rami methodum concinnata Lond. 1672 in tw 27 Of true Religion Heresie Schism Toleration and what best means may be used against the growth and increase of Popery Lond. 1673. qu. 28 Poems c. on several occasions both English and Latin c. composed at several times Lond. 1673-4 oct Among these are mixed some of his Poems before mention'd made in his youthful years 29 Epistolarum familiarium lib. 1. Lond. 1674. oct 30 Prolusiones quaedam Oratoriae in Coll. Christi habitae printed with the familiar Epistles 31 Literae Pseudo senatus Anglicani Cromwellii reâ—iquorum perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptae printed in 1676 in tw 32 Character of the Long Parliament and of the Assembly of Divines Lond. 1681. in 2 sheets in qu. In which book is a notable account of their
1566. 80. Translated into Engl. by Charles Glemham Gent. De votis monasticis coeleb Socerdotum Defensio sui contra R. Smithaei duos libellos de coelibatu sacerdotum vot monast Bas. 1559. oct Aristotelis Ethicae cum illis in Sacra Scriptura collatae c. Comm. in Lament Jer. Prophet Tig. 1629. qu. corrected and published by Joh. Rodolph Stuckius of Zurich somtimes a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. He the said P. Martir also wrote an Epist to Edward L. Protector of England translated into Engl. by Tho. Norton Lond. 1550. oct Also of The use and abuse of Dancing translated into Engl. by J. R. printed at Lond. in oct and lastly An Exposition on the Creed translated by T. E printed at Lond. in qu. At length after many Rambles and changes of Places he having been as it evidently appears a person of an unsetled Brain resigned up his last breath at Zurich on the 12th day of Nov. in fifteen hundred sixty and two year 1562 and was buried there with all the Solemnity fitting for so learned and great a Clerk as he was THOMAS GIBSON a noted Physitian of the Age he lived in was born at Morpeth in Northumberland and for a year or years was as I conceive educated here because that several of both his Names and Time were conversant with the Muses in this University but whether he took a degree or was licensed to practice Physick it appears not Afterwards he being noted for his extraordinary success in curing Diseases was very much resorted to by great as well as ordinary People especially by those of the reform'd Party he being one himself and a great Enemy to the R. Cath. Bishops in spite and envy to whom he wrot A History of the Treasons of the Bishops from the Norman Conquest to his time Whether this was printed I know not because had it been so there 's no doubt but inveterate Prynn would have found it to gain matter thence when he compos'd his Book of the same Subject He also wrot An Herball Treatise against unskilful Alchymists Treat of curing common Diseases Of the Ceremonies used by Popes besides other things and had laid the Foundation of a little Book to shew the Various States that Britanie hath been in which he divided into five Parts but whether he compleated it is uncertain He lived after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown being then in his middle Age but when he died it appears not 'T is said that because divers Persons had medled with the applying of dark Prophecies purposely to advance the Fame and Glory of Charles then Emperour so one Tho. Gibson did endeavour to do the like to promote the Glory of Hen. 8. of England which Th. Gibson we are to understand to be the same with Th. Gibson before mention'd PETER de SOTHO or Soto was born in a certain City in Spaine called Cordova became when young a Dominican in the House or Coll. of that Order dedicated to St. Stephen within the famous University of Salamanca where prosecuting his natural Genie with unwearied industry in the Faculty of Divinity became a Doctor thereof and a most eminent ornament to his Order Afterwards his fame being spread in the Royal Court he became Confessor to the King of Spaine and at length to Charles the Emperour of the Romans with whom going into Germany he shew'd himself in many respects very serviceable against such that were call'd Hereticks there At length Philip K. of Spaine marrying with Mary Qu. of England he was one of those noted Divines that came with him having then obtained Eminency among the Learned for his Books written against John Brentius accounted among the R. Catholicks a Person very well vers'd in matters of controversie Afterwards he with Joh. de Villa Garcia and one or more being sent to the University of Oxon by publick authority to read preach and teach there to the end that they might undo and invalidate all what Pet. Martyr and others had done in the Reign of King Ed. 6. he accordingly went preached often read Lectures on St. Thomas whose works had been with scorn cast out from all or most Libraries in this University in the time of Ed. 6. and was ready upon all turns and occasions to instruct and resolve doubts nay and for some time did read the publick Hebrew Lecture to the Academians while Mr. Bruerne the Reg. Professor was absent In a word there was nothing wanting on his part and tho he had no Canonry of Ch. Ch. or Headship bestowed on him yet he had a considerable revenue allow'd him out of the Kings Exchecquer His works are Institutiones Christianae Aug. 1548. Antw. 1557. in 16 o divided into 3 Books Adversus Job Brentium Antw. 1552. in 16o. Defensio Catholicae confessiouis Scholoiorum circa confessionem illustriss Ducis Wirtembergensis nomine editam adversus prolegomena Brentit Antw. 1557. Doctrinae Catholicae compendium in usum plebis Christianae recte instituend Diling 1560. in tw De sacerdotum institutione libri 3. With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the death of Qu. Mary he return'd with K. Philip into Spain and thence went according to command to the great Council or Synod held in the City of Trent called commonly among Forreigners Trento sometimes a part of Italy but since of Germany where by too much agitation and concernment he contracted a disease which brought him to his grave in that City in the Month of Apr. in Fifteen hundred sixty and three About three days before his death year 1563 and some time before the Synod began to be troubled among themselves for a small cause and did give much matter of discourse Which coming to the knowledge of Sotho he thereupon did dictate and subscribe a Letter to be sent to the Pope in which by way of confession he declared his opinion concerning the points controverted in Council and did particularly exhort his Holiness to consent that residence and the institution of Bishops might be declared to be de jure divino The Letter was sent to the Pope and Frier Ludov. Soto his companion kept a Copy of it who thinking to honor the memory of his Friend began to spread it which caused offence in some and curiosity in others to get a Copy of it when called in I find one Frater Petrus a Soto Major who wrot a Book entit Prima secundae Divi Thomae quam quarto nonas Junii interpretandum suscepit an 1563. The beginning of which is Quastio prima quae est de ultimo fine hujus vitae in communi c. But this Peter who was Author of the said Book which is in MS. in Bodley's Library must not be taken to be the same with the former Peter whom I have at large mention'd because as 't is before told you in the title the said Peter began to write the said Book on the fourth of the nones of June 1563
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 〈◊〉 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
it of that Religion by Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent for him upon notice received that he had been at the doleful Even-song in the Black-Friers in London 26. Oct. 1623. became a bitter Enemy to the Romanists and studied to do them what mischief he could by these books following The Foot out of the Snare with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England c. Lond. 1624. qu. A gentle excuse to Mr. Greg. Musket for stiling him Jesuit These two which go and are joyned together were printed four times in the said year 1624. because all the copies or most of them were bought up by R. Catholicks before they were dispersed for fear their lodgings and so consequently themselves should be found out and discovered by the catalogues of all such Priests Jesuits Popish Physicians Chyrurgions c. with the names of the streets lanes c. in London where they mostly lived which were printed at the end of the Gentle Excuse before-mentioned Our author Gee hath also written and published Hold fast Sermon at Pauls Cross on Rev. 3. 11. Lond. 1624. qu. New shreds of the old Snare containing the apparitions of two Female Ghosts the copies of divers letters c. especially Indulgences purchased at Rome c. Lond. 1624. qâ— For the publishing of which books and for his mutability of mind he was very much blamed by both parties especially by those of the Rom. perswasion as I have been several times informed by a grave Bach. of Div. Mr. Rich. Washbourne Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon who had been his contemporary in Exeter coll Which person having known Gee well and what he was as to his life and conversation blamed the writer of this book much for honouring the memory of such a sorry fellow as he was in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. He was afterwards beneficed at Tenterden in Kent where he died and was buried but when I cannot yet tell leaving then behind him a young Brother named Orlando Gee afterwards a Knight One Joh. Gee was Minister of Dunsford in Devon who died about the beginning of 1631. leaving a Relict behind him called Sarah Which Joh. Gee was perhaps Father to the aforesaid Joh. Gee the writer Qu. RICHARD VERSTEGAN or as some call him Rich. Rowland a great reviver of our English antiquities and a most admirable Critick in the Saxon and Gothick languages ought with all due ceremony to crave a place among these writers not only because he is little remembred among authors but also for that he had received part of his education among the Oxonians His Grandfather who was called Theodore Rowland Verstegan was born in the Duchy of Gelderlandt and there descended of an ancient and worshipful Family From which Duchy when it had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued by Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his Son he the said Verstegan being then a young man and deprived of his Friends in the said Wars came into England about the latter end of Hen. 7. and there married and soon after died leaving behind him a Son but nine months old which gave cause of making his fortune meaner than else it might have been Afterwards when the said Son grew up to be about 16 years of age he was bound an Apprentice to a Cooper Nor is this any discredit Wolfgangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade This Cooper was Father to our author Rich. Verstegan born in the Parish of St. Catherine near to the Tower of London where his Parent mostly lived and gained so comfortable a subsistence by his Trade that he made shift to give his Son ingenious and Grammatical education which being improved by Academical in his University where he was mostly known by the name of Rowland became esteemed for some parts of learning that were not then among the Academians regarded Afterwards to avoid Oaths he left the University without a degree and being by that time a zealous R. Catholick he left England went into the Spanish Netherlands and setled at Antwerp where he composed Theatrum crudelitatum Hereticorum nostri temporis Antw. 1592. qu. in 12 sh Whether ever printed before as some say it was I cannot tell This book is full of Cuts representing the hanging quartering and beheading or butchering of Popish Martyrs engraven from the delineations made with the Pen of Verstegan who was observed while in England to be much delighted in drawing and painting The verses under to explain the meaning of them were made by one Joh. Bochius born at Bruxills and then 1592. Register if I mistake not at Antwerp Afterwards the Rebellious League beginning he conveyed himself and books to Paris where the English Embassadour complained of him to K. Hen. 3. and desired that he being born a Subject to the Q. of England and then a Fugitive and one that had abused her by his representation of Cruelties he might be delivered into his hands to be sent to England there to receive reward And the Embassador had reason for his request if that be true which is reported that K. Hen. 3. was so much possest with those cruel pictures and did put so much credit in them that he accused Q. Elizabeth of great cruelty calling her wicked and cruel woman Yet at the Embassadors desire Verstegan was imprisoned at which Jean Bouchier that active fire-brand of the League is not a little troubled and layeth it as an heretical fault on K. Hen. 3. At length Verstegan is released quits France and returns to Antwerp where as 't is said he reprinted his book exercised the Trade of Printing and by his rising up only as one tell us by Brocage and Spierie for the Hispanish'd Jesuits lived then and there 1602. as if he were an Hidalgo as who may not be a Gentleman who lives so far from home where he is not known c. At that time and before the Jesuits and Secular Priests falling out in England each party defended it self by the Pen. In this quarrel Verstegan concerns himself joyning with the Jesuits and writing in their behalf though not one of their number but rather a Secular shewing himself as zealous a railer as the best of them And indeed never was there quarrel composed of so many hard words either side considered yet whether Verstegan hath published any of his railings or whether they are done in other books I cannot tell for I have seen nothing of that nature Sure I am that about the death of Q. Elizabeth he employed his studies on a more noble subject which being finished he published it under this title A restitution of decayed intelligence in antiquities concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation Antw. 1605. qu. Before which Rich. Whyte of Basingstoke and Rich. Stanyhurst whom I have elsewhere mentioned have commendatory verses In this book are several
cuts engraven from the representations drawn with great curiosity by him which hath advantaged the sale of it much And I am verily perswaded had the said book been published two years before I mean before the first edition of Camdens Remaines which first saw light in 1604. it would have been more cried up and consequently would have sold more But however so it is that the book hath been so much valued by learned and curious men in times following that a second impression of it was made at Lond. 1653. in large oct and another in 1674. oct He hath also written The sundry successive regal governments of the Realm of England Antw. 1620. printed in one long sheet wherein are the pictures of a Britain Roman Saxon Dane and Norman wrought off from a Copper plate And was the same person without doubt with him who writes himself R. V. author of Odes in imitation of the seven penitential Psalms with sundery other Poems and Ditties bending to devotion and piety Printed beyond the Sea in 1601. with the Jesuits mark in the title for as I have been informed Verstegan had some skill in Poetry as well as in Painting In the said Poems he toucheth on many matters of antiquity and antient Saints of England The same R. V. also hath translated into English A dialogue of dying well Antw. 1603. oct written in Ital. by Don Peeter of Luca a Can. regular and D. of D. and by the translator dedicated to the Lady Joan Berkley Abbess of the English Nuns of S. Benedict in Bruxells The said Verstegan hath written and translated other things but few of them coming into England we seldom or never see them He was living in good condition among the English at Antwerp who had fled for the sake of Religion under the notion of a Spanish stipendary having several years before been married to so thirâ—ty and prudent a woman that she kept up his credit in the latter end of K. James and beginning of K. Ch. 1. as one or more Letters written by him to the great Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton which I have seen in his Library shew And thus much of Rich. Verstegan alias Rowland of whom Will. Watson Priest will give you a sharp character and another stuff enough beyond the rules of charity to run down a Dog JOHN STRADLING Son of Franc. Stradling by Elizabeth his Wife was born near to Bristow in Somersetshire but descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donats in Glamorganshire was educated in puerile learning under a learned and pious man named Edw. Green Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Bristow became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1579. aged 16. years or thereabouts and in 1583. he took a degree in arts as a member of Magd. hall being then accounted a miracle for his forwardness in learning and pregnancy of parts Soon after his great worth being discovered in the Metropolis while he continued in one of the Inns of Court but especially after he had return'd from his travels beyond the Seas was courted and admired by the Learned Camden Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Tho. Leyson mention'd before under the year 1607. and above all by that most noted Critick and Physitian Dr. Jo. Dav. Rhese He hath written and published De vita morte contemnenda lib. 3. Francof 1597. in oct written to his Uncle Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats whom I have mention'd under the year 1609. Epigrammatum libri quatuor Lond. 1607. in oct Two years after he became heir to his Uncle before mention'd setled at S. Donats Castle and was made a Baronet in 1611. at which time he was esteemed a wise and most learned Gentleman Afterwards being involved in secular affairs and the services of his Country was taken off from writing till the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. at which time he published a book intit Beati pacifici Printed 1623. but whether in prose or verse I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it Afterwards he published Divine Poems in seven several Classes written to K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1625. qu. At the end of which is an Epitaph made by him on K. Jam. 1. I have sent several times to several persons in Wales to have some account of this person his last end and his Epitaph but no returns are yet made ARTHUR LAKE brother to Sir Tho. Lake Knight principal Secretary of State to K. Jam. 1. Son of Almeric Lake or du Lake of the antient borough of Southampton was born in S. Michaels parish and educated for a time in the Free-School there Afterwards being transplanted to Wykehams School to perâ—ect his Grammar learning was thence elected probationer Fellow of New coll and after two years of Probation he was made perpetual Fellow thereof an 1589. Five years after that he proceeded in Arts entred into the sacred function was made Fellow of Wykehams coll near to Winton about 1600. and three years after Master of the hospital of S. Cross in the place of Dr. Rob. Bennet promoted to the See of Hereford In 1605. he took the degrees in Divinity and the same year he was installed Archdeacon of Surrey Afterwards he was made Dean of Worcester in Apr. 1608. in the room of Dr. Jam. Monutague promoted to the See of Bath and Wells and at length Bishop of those Cities to which he was consecrated at Lambeth 8. Dec. 1616. In all these places of honour and employment he carried himself the same in mind and person shewing by his constancy that his virtues were virtues indeed in all kind of which whether natural moral Theological personal or pastoral he was eminent and indeed one of the examples of his time He always lived a single man exemplary in his life and conversation and very hospitable He was also well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and had such a command of the Scripture which made him one of the best preachers that few went beyond him in his time The things that he hath written were not by him published but by his Friends after his death the titles of which follow Exposition of the first Psalm Exposition of the 51. Psalm Nine Sermons on Matth. 22. verse 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. Ten Serm. on Exod. 19. Five Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon. on Luke 3. ver 7 8 9. Eight Serm. on Isa 9. Six Serm. on Haggai 2. Sundry Sermons de tempore preached at Court Meditations All which being collected into a large volume were printed under this general title Sermons with religious and divine meditations Lond. 1629. fol. Ten Sermons upon several occasions preached at S. Paul's Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1641. qu. The first is on Psal 160. 29 30. the second on Jude 5. c. He dyed in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in an Isle on the north side of the Choire of Wells Cathedral Over his grave was soon after laid a plain
Grammarian He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall Vir lepidus poeta as Baleus saith See among the Writers under the year 1524. Besides these two five were admitted and about 16 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Bach. of Can. Law Thirteen were admitted and eleven there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Mast of Arts. June…John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. See among the Writers an 1520. March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere Besides these two were about 25 admitted and eleven or more that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll. In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church and resigning in 1529 being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded See more among the D. of D. an 1518. May 9. John Essex a Benedictin He was afterwards Lord Abbat of S. Austins at Canterbury Nine besides were admitted among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there and about eighteen that supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law and but three that supplicated viz. William Barow John Blount and William Middleton Doct. of Physick Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduat of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physick of Bononia supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted Doct. of Div. June 10. Nich. Myles or Mylys of Queens Coll. He was a Benefactor to Learning See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b. Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Fryers of England and whether he was the last that bore that Office I know not He is sometimes written but falsely Wodiall See among the Incorporations this year Jan… Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin In another place in the Register he is said among the Bach. of Div. to be a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity supplicated for the said dagree about 20 among whom were 1 Will. Malvern Lord Abbat of S. Peters in Glocester as the publick Register stiles him whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbat of Glocester who made a Chappel joyning to the Church of Glocester to be buried in 2 Rob. Showldham or Shuldeâ—m mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now or soon after Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Mary Overie in Southwark Also Tho. Marshall a Benedictin Will. Hoddeson a Dominican John a Pantry Bac. Div. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Sellyng Bachelaurs of Div. and Benedictines c. did supplicate Incorporations Apr… Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University as 't is before told you Mar… Will. Clerke M. A. of Cambridge c. An. Dom. 1516. An. 8 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others Proct. Richard Walker of Merton Coll. Edmund Grey of New Coll. April 2. Bach. of Musick Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Musick supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Musick which being granted he was without doubt admitted One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty supplicated also which was granted with one or more conditions Bach. of Arts. June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter December 16. Thomas Wylson See in 1546 and 53. Besides these were about 38 admitted and about 21 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Law Six in the Canon and nine in the Civil Law were admitted Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated who were mostly secular Chaplains among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist saith and about twelve in the Civil Mast of Arts. June 27. Thomas Abell or Able See among the Writers an 1540. John Clerk of Magd. Coll. Besides these were about 34 admitted and about 9 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Albans Hall This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells and had several Benefices in that Diocess whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells and in the same year by the death of Thomas Lovell Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof was soon after a Doct. of Div. but whether of this University it appears not and died in the beginning of the year 1541. Besides him were about four admitted and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted among whom William York a Canon and Bac. of Arts was one Doct. of Can. Law June 21. William Burghyll a secular Chaplain John Morrice or Morres Peter Lygham or Lyngham February 7. William Clyfton In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York on the death of William Cooke and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nooke 1529 in which year Clyfton resigned and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548 in which year Clifton died Bapthorp dying in 1570 Edmund Buney succeeded him whom I have elsewhere mention'd Doct. of Div. Not one admitted only three or more supplicated viz. William Wall and William Germyn Minorites and Richard Doke all Bach. of Divinity whom I shall anon mention An. Dom. 1517. An. 9 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey Proct. Thomas Irish of Exon Thomas Musgrave of Mert. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Thomas Garret was this year admitted but the Month or Day when appears not because the Register is imperfect however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts. He
two years after the Restauration of K. Charles 2. having for his sake and his Fathers suffered much in the time of Rebellion Jul. 8. Franc. Baber of Trin. Coll. Rich. Hart of S. Albans Hall The said Dr. Baber was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Gloc. for 39 years together who dying 17 of June 1669 aged 69 years was buried in a little Chappel on the south side of the Choâ—â— belonging to the Cath. Ch. at Glocester Doct. of Phys Mar. 26. Will. Taylour of S. Joh. Jun. 20. Joh. Saunders of Oriel Joh. Speed of S. Johns Coll. Which two last accumulated the degrees in Physick Jul. 3. Sam. Bave or Bavo of Ch. Ch. This person who was Son of Franc. Bave of Colen in Germany became eminent for his practice first in the City of Gloucester and afterwards in Bathe where dying in 1666 aged 80 was buried in the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul Doct. of Div Jul. 7. Rob. Adams of New 9. Thom. Prichard of Jes Tho. Chafyn of Exet. Joh. Dâ—wle of Jesus Coll. Incorporations Jun. 19. Daniel Gotereus Bach. of Arts of Cambr. In his supplicate for Incorporation he is written Gotzer 20. Philip Parsons Doct. of Phys of Padua in Italy He was now or lately Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon and afterwards Principal of Hart Hall Jul. 10. Edm. Randolphe Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes a Member of Vniversity Coll. 11. George Douglas a Scot M. of A. of Aberdene On the 15 July being the next day after the Act were these Cambridge men incorporated Will. Spurstow Bach. of Arts so he is written in the Register was then incorporated This person who was the Son and Heir of Will. Spurstow Citizen and Mercer of London but originally descended from the Spurstows of Spurstow in Cheshire was afterwards M. of A. grand Presbyterian one of the five Smectymni Steph. Marshal Edm. Calamy Tho. Young and Mathew Newcomen being the other four one of the Ass of Divines Minister of Hackney near London a Preacher before the Long Parliament Master of Catherine Hall in Cambr. wherein he had been educated in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig and Doctor of Divinity He hath published 1 Englands pattern and duty in its monthly Fasts Sermon to both Houses of Parliament 21 July 1643. on 1 Sam. 7. 6. Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Englands eminent judgments caused by the abuse of Gods eminent mercies Thansgiving Serm. before the H. of Lords 5 Nov. 1644 on Ezra 9. 13 14. Lond. 1644. qu. 3 Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 24 Jun. 1646. This I have not yet seen nor other Sermons on several occasions as one at the Funeral of Mr. Will. Taylor printed 1661. qu. another on the Lady Viner c. 4 Wells of salvation opened discovering the nature preciousness usefulness of Gospel promises and rules for right application of them Lond. 1655. 59. oct 5 Practical Treatise of the excellency and right use of the Gospel promises Lond. 1658. 6 Spiritual Chymist or six Deeads of divine meditations Lond. 1666. 68. oct c. In the year 1662 he was ejected from his benefice at Hackney for Nonconformity where and in the neighbourhood he lived exercising his parts in private among the brethren till his death which was at Hackney as I conceive in Jan. or Feb. 1665. Edward Rainbow Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards M. of A. Master of that Coll. 1642 Doct. of Div. four years after and in 1650 was ejected from his Mastership Afterwards he enjoyed two livings successively without examination by the Tryers and in 1660 being restored to his Mastership was soon after made Dean of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Cosin to the See of Durham and in Nov. 1662 Vicechancellour of Cambridge In 1664 Jul. 10 he was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in K. Hen. 7. Chap. at Westminster where sitting about twenty years gave way to fate in his Palace called Rose Castle near Carlile 26 March 1684 aged 76 years or thereabouts On the first of April following he was inter'd in the Yard belonging to the parochial Church of Dalston under the Chancel Wall at which time Mr. Thom. Tully one of his Lordships Chaplains and Chancellour of the Diocess of Carlile preached his Funeral sermon This Dr. Rainbow having been originally of C. C. Coll. in this University I shall in my other Vol. of this Work speak more largely of him Thom. Ball M. A. I take this person to be the same Thomas Ball who was born in Shropshire first of Queens under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Preston and afterwards Fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambr. Minister of the Gospel in Northampton and a publisher of several books as 1 The life of Dr. Joh. Preston 2 Pastorum propugnaculam or the pulpits patronage against the force of unordained usurpation and invasion in four parts Lond. 1656. qu. c. He was buried at Nâ—rthampton 21 June 1659 aged 69 years or thereabouts At which time his intimate acquaintance Joh. Howe 's M. of A. sometimes of Eman. Coll. Rector of Abbington near Nâ—rthampton preached his Funeral sermon wherein were several matters delivered in commendation of Mr. Ball. Râ—b Creyghton or Chrichton M. of A. of Trin. Coll. This person who was born in the north parts of Scotland was educated in Westminster School and thence elected into the said College 1613 took the degrees in Arts and became Orator and Greek Professor of Cambridge In 1632 Dec. 17. he was installed Treasurer of the Cathedral Church at Wells having been collated thereunto by Geor. Archb. of Canterbury upon the then vacancy of the See of B. and Wells in which Vacancy Dr. Rob. Wright who kept the said Treasureship in commendam with the See of Bristow was translated to Lichfield and thereupon forced to give up that Dignity In 1637 he became Dean of S. Burians in Cornwal in the place of Rich. Murray a Scot deceased and about that time Doctor of Divinity and beneficed in Somersetshire In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffered then and afterwards very much for the Royal Cause retired to his Majesty at Oxon became one of his Chaplains afterwards an Exile with K. Ch. 2. to whom being Chaplain at the Hague preached very liberally before him against the Presbyterians and the Murderers of K Ch. 1. After his Majesties return he became Dean of Wells the grant of which he had before and being then also Chaplain to the King he would freely preach before him against the Vices of the times which was well taken by some tho sneared at by others In 1670 Jun. 19 he was consecrated B of Bathe and Wells at Lambeth in the place of Dr. Will. Piers deceased at which Ceremony assisted the B. of London in the place of his Grace the Archb. of Canterbury with the Bishops of Winchester and Ely This Dr. Creyghton was a learned man as it appears by his translation from Greek into Latin and illustration