Will Bishop of Rurimund in Gelderland wherein is detected and made manifest the doting dangerous doctrine and haynous heresies of the rash rablement of the hereticks This book was by Lew. Evans entit The betraying of the beastl iness of the Hereticks c. Antw. 1565 in tw Afterwards the said Evans being reconcil'd to the Ch. of England by some of his friends did to shew his zeal for the love he had to it write and publish a book as full of ill language against the Roman Catholicks as the other was as full of good for them entituled The Castle of Christianity detecting the long erring estate as well of the Rom. Church as of the Bishop of Rome Lond. 1568. oct Which being dedicated to Queen Elizab. he saith in his Epistle to her that he himself had once drank of the puddle of ignorance of the mud of idolatry of the pond of superstition c. whereupon great distast being taken by the R. Catholicks the common report flew abroad by their endeavours that he was gone over again to the Church of Rome in which being settled he died in great ease and content These reports being often told to Evans while he was in Oxon by the learnedest there he soon after published a book entit The hateful hypocrisie and rebellion of Romish Prelates Lond. 1570 in tw to which he added these two treatises following A view of certaine rebellions and their ends Four paradoxes First a Bishop and a Minister is all one 2 A Bishop c. Afterwards if I mistake not our Author Evans was a Schoolmaster and was the same Person I think that revised and increased with phrases and necessary additions A short dictionary for young beginners compiled at first by John Withals and by him published at Lond. 1566. in qu. but when the additions of Evans came out I find not Afterwards the said Dictionary was augmented with more than 600 rythmical verses whereof many are proverbial by Abr. Flemmyng a native of London printed at Lond. 1594 qu. In my travels and searches I find one Lew. Evans a Flintshire Man to be a Student of Ch. Ch. in the time of Ed. 6. and to have taken the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1557 but this Person I presume is not the Author because the Author doth not stile himself in his Books Bach. or Master of Arts. Another Lew. Evans a Brecknockshire Man became Fellow of Oriel C. an 1566 Mast of Arts 1570 and resign'd his Fellowship 1577. A third who was a Monmouehshire Man was matriculated as a Member of Gloc. hall 1574 aged 28. And a fourth also I find to be a Minister of God's word who in the 31 year of his age or more was matric as a member of the same Hall and as a Native of Monmouthshire an 1581. and in 1585 took the Deg. of M. of A. Whether either of these was the Author before-mention'd is to me as yet doubtful or whether the same with Lew. Evans who by the favour of Dr. Piers B. of Sarum became Prebend of Warmister in that Church an 1583 which he resigned in May 1598 I cannot tell or whether the same with Lew. Evans Clerk Parson of Westmeane in Hampshire who died there about the beginning of 1601 leaving then behind him a Wife and Children and houses in Winchester JOHN PARKHURST Son of George Parkhurst was born at Guildford in Surrey sent when very young to Oxon where he was educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. common gate under the famous Mr. Thom. Robertson was elected Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1529 and three years after proceeding in Arts entred into holy orders tho better then for poetry and oratory than Divinity At length he became Rector of the rich Church of Cleve called by some Bishops Cleve in Glocestershire where he did a great deal of good by his hospitality and charity After the death of K. Ed. 6. he left all for Religion sake and went into voluntary exile to Zurich where remaining till the death of Qu. Mary not without great dangers and afflictions returned when Qu. Eliz. succeeded and was by her made Bishop of Norwych To which See being elected 13. Apr. was consecrated on the first of Sept. and installed by John Salisbury Dean of that Church 27 of the same month an 1560 and about six years after was made D. of D. He hath written and published Epigrammata in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Caroli Henrici Brandon Lond. 1552. qu. They were the Sons of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and died of the sweating sickness Some of which Epigrams were afterwards published in his Ludicra which I am now to mention Ludicra sive Epigrammata juvenilia Lond. 1573. qu. Which book tho written in his younger days and contains therein more obscurity than the Epigrams of Martial as some say tho I my self cannot perceive it yet while he was Bishop he must needs have it printed alledging that he would not be like Heliodorus to lose his Bishoprick for it He also view'd took pains about and published John Shepreve his Dislicks on the New Test and added thereunto of his own Epigrammata Seria Lond. 1560. oct Most of which seem to be taken from his former book while it remained in MS. See more in Job Shepreve under the Year 1542. At length this Bishop yielded up his last breath in Fifteen hundred seaventy and four and was buried in the body or middle Isle of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych Over his grave was soon after a fair monument of marble raised between two pillars on the S. side of the said middle Isle on which Mon. was his proportion engraven on brass with a gown and square cap on holding his hands together in a praying posture with this inscription engraven on brass also but taken away in the civil war Johannes Parkhurstus Theologiae professor Gylfordiae natus Oxoniae educatus temporibus Mariae Reginae pro nitida conscientia Tigurinae vixit exul voluntarius Postea praesul factus sanctissime hanc rexit ecclesiam 16 annis mortuus est secundo die Februarii an 1574. aetatis suae 63. Another inscription which is on one of the said pillars runs thus Viro bono docto ac pio Johanni Parkhursto Episcopo vigilantissimo Georgius Gardiner posuit hoc Which George Gardiner who was D. of D. was installed Dean of Norwych 24. Dec. 1573 in the place of John Salisbury deceased Ralf Gualter Father and Son both of Zurich and entirely beloved of this our Author Parkhurst have written Epiceds on his death which if they could be procured being very scarce might satisfie a curious reader concerning some actions of him the said Parkhurst LEONARD DIGGES second Son of James Digges of Digges Court in the Parish of Berham in Kent by Philippa his second Wife Daughter of John Engham of Chart in the said County was born in the Province of Kent particularly
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
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
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
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damâ—n and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâ—oop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ— in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
treatise of predestination Lond. 1581. oct De Christo gratis justificante contra Jesuitus Lond. 1583. oct Disputatio contra Jesuitas eorum argumenta quibus inhaerenâ—â—n justitiam ex Aristotile confirmant Rupell 1585. oct Eicasmi seu meditationâ—s in Apocal. S. Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae Lond. 1587. fol. Genev. 1596. oct Papa consutatus vel sacra Apostolica Ecclesia papam confutans Translated into English by James Bell a great admirer of Joh. Fox pr. at Lond. in qu. Brief exhortation fruitful and meet to be read in the time of Gods visitation where Ministers do lack or otherwise cannot be present to comfort them Lond. in oct He translated also from English into Latin Concio funebris in obitum Augustae memoriae Ferdinandi Caesaris recens defuncti in Eccles Cath. S. Pauli habitae 3. Oct. 1564. Also from Latin into English 1 A Sermon of Joh. Oecolampadius to young Men and Maidens Lond. in tw 2 An instruction of Christian Faith how to lay hold upon the promise of God and not to doubt of our salvation Or otherwise thus Necessary instructions of faith and hope for Christians to hold fast and not to doubt c. Lond. 1579. sec edit in oct Written by Urbanus Regius He finished also and compleated An answer Apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1577 and 1581. qu. began in Latin by Walt. Haddon LL D. and published The four Evangelists in the old Saxon tongue with the English thereunto adjoyned Lond. 1571. qu. What else he wrot and translated you may see in Baleus but the reader is to understand that several of those books that he mentions were never printed At length after our Author had spent 70 years or more in this vain and transitory world he yielded to nature on the 18. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate before-mention'd year 1587 Over his grave is set up an inscription to his memory on the South wall a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2 p. 195. but not one word of him which is a wonder to me is mention'd in the Annalls of Q. Elizab. written by Will. Camden or by any Epigrammatist of his time only Joh. Parkhurst who was his acquaintance in this University He left behind him a Son named Samuel born in the City of Norwych made Demie of Magd. Coll. 1576. aged 15 afterwards Fellow of that House and Master of Arts who about 1610 wrot The life of his Father Joh. Fox which is set in Latin and English before the second Volume of Acts and Monuments printed at Lond. 1641. I find one Joh. Fox to be Author of Time and the end of time in 2 discourses printed at Lond. in 12 o but that Joh. Fox was later in time than the former While Joh. Fox the Martyriologist was Prebendary of Sarum he settled the Corps belonging thereunto which is the impropriation of Shipton Underwood near Burford in Oxfordshire on his Son whose Grand-daughter named Anne Heir to her Father Tho. Fox was married to Sir Ric. Willis of Ditton in Essex Knight and Baronet sometimes Colonel-general of the Counties of Linc. Nott. and Rutland and Governour of the Town and Castle of Newark who or at least his Son Tho. Fox Willis enjoyeth it to this day an 1690. JOHN FIELD was a noted Scholar of his time in this University but in what house he studied I cannot yet tell One of both his names was admitted Fellow of Lincoln Coll. in the Year 1555 but took no Degree if the register saith right Another took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1564 and that of Master three years after And a third Jo. Field took the Degree of Bach. of Arts only in 1570. Which of these three was afterwards John Field the famous Preacher and Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate in London who saith in one of his books which I shall anon mention that he was educated in Oxon I cannot justly say unless it be he that was Mast of Arts. The works of that Joh. Field who saith that he was of the Univ. of Oxon are these Prayers and meditations for the use of private families and sundry other Persons according to their divers states and occasions Lond. 1581. 85. 1601. c. in tw Caveat for Persons Howlet and the rest of the dark brood Lond. 1581. oct Exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct Godly Exhortation by occasion of a late judgment of God shewed at Paris garden 13. Januar. 1583. upon divers Persons whereof some were killed and many hurt at a Beare-baiting c. Lond. 1583. oct Printed there again 1588 with this title A declaration of the Judgment of God shewed at Paris garden c. The said Jo. Field also hath translated into English 1 A treatise of Christian righteousness Lond. 1577. oct Written in French by Mr. J. de L'espine 2 Notable treatise of the Church in which are handled all the principal questions that have been moved in our time concerning that matter Lond. 1579. oct Written in French by Phil. de Mornay 3 Sermons on Jacob and Esau on Gen. 25. ver 12. to the 38. verse of 27. of Gen. Lond. 1579. qu. Written by Joh. Calvin 4 Four Sermons entreating of matters very profitable for our time the first of which is on Psal 16. 3. With a brief exposition of the 87 Psalm Lond. 1579. qu. Written in French by John Calvin 5 Second part of questions which is concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1580. Written by Theod. Beza 6 Com. on the Creed Lond. 1582. oct Written by Gasp Olevian 7 Prayers used at the end of the readings upon the Prophet Hosea Lond 1583. in 16. Which prayers were made and written by J. Calvin 8 Christian Meditations on the 6. 25 and 32 Psalmes Lond. in 16o. written by P. Pilesson c. besides other things which I have not yet seen At length our Author Field dying about his middle age in the latter end of the year after the 16. year 1586 Febr. Fifteen hundred eighty and seven was buried in the Church of St. Giles before mention'd leaving behind him several Children of which the eldest was named Theophilus Field educated in Cambridge afterwards Chaplain to King James the first Bishop of Landaff and at length of Hereford as I shall more at large tell you elsewhere WILLIAM HARRISON was a Londoner born educated in Grammar learning at Westminster under Mr. Alex. Nowell in the latter end of King Hen. 8. or beginning of King Edw. 6. sent to Oxon to obtain Academical learning but to what house therein unless Ch. Ch. I cannot justly tell From Oxon he went to Cambridge and making some stay there became at length domestick Chaplain to Sir Will. Brook Knight Lord Warden of the Cinque ports and Baron of Cobham in Kent who if I mistake not preferr'd him to a benefice He hath written
the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law conferr'd on him elsewhere but at what place or by whom I cannot yet find He hath written Christian Ethicks or Moral Philosophy containing the difference or opposition of vertue and voluptuousness Lond. 1587. oct An historical collection of the continued Factions Tumults and Massacres of the Romanes and Italians during the space of 120 years before the peaceable Empire of Augustus Caesar c. Lond. 1600. oct and 1601. in qu. A parallel or conference of the Civil Law the Canon Law and the Common Law of this Realm wherein the agreement and disagreement of these three Laws and the causes and reasons of the said agreement are opened and discussed in sundry Dialogues Lond. 1602. qu. in 2 parts But this book lying dead on the Booksellers hands he put a new Title to the first part as if the whole had been reprinted at London 1618. but to the second not leaving the old Title bearing date 1602. The Pandects of the Laws of Nations or the discourses of the Matters in Law wherein the Nations of the World do agree Lond. 1602. qu. What else he hath written I know not nor when or where he died One Henry Fulbeck related to the said William hath published A direction or preparation to the study of the Civil Law wherein is shewed what things ought to be observed and what ought to be eschewed and avoided Printed at Lond. in oct much about the time that the former was SAMPSON ERDESWICKE Son of Hugh Erdeswicke Esq was born at Sandon in Staffordshire studied in the condition of a Gent. Com. in Brasnose coll in 1553 and 54. 1. and 2. of Q. Mary where he laid the foundation of some learning that advanced him to greater in future times Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony at Sandon where applying his Muse to that kind of learning which his genie led him to became at length a Gentleman well accomplished with many vertuous qualities He was very well vers'd in Histories but more in Antiquities especially in those of his own County and therefore stiled by the learned Camden A very great Lover and diligent Searcher of venerable Antiquity adding that in this regard he is no less worthy of remembrance than for that he is directly in the Male-line descended from Sir Hugh Vernon Baron of Shipbrook the name being changed by the use of that age according to sundry habitations first into Holgrave and afterwards into Erdeswicke At length for the tender respect he had to his Native Country and desiring much the honour of it wrote A short view of Staffordshire containing the Antiquities of the same County MS. The beginning of which is Sir having disposed with my self to take a farther view of the Shires of Staffordshire and Chester c. It was began about the year 1593. and continued by him to his death from ancient Evidences and Records with brevity clearness and truth The original of this or at least a copy is in the hands of Walt. Chetwind of Ingestre in Staffordshire Esq who is and hath been several years in the collecting of the Antiquities of that County Collections of Genealogies Monuments Arms c. MSS. Some of which are in the hands of the said W. Chetwind and elsewhere and have been used by divers Antiquaries It is said also that 'our author Erdeswicke wrote a book intit The true use of Armory published under the name of Will. Wyrley an 1592. as I shall more at large tell you hereafter but let that report remain with its author while I tell you that Erdeswicke submitted to the stroke of death on the eleventh of Apr. year 1603 in sixteen hundred and three and was buried under a goodly Monument of Free-stone with his proportion thereon erected by himself in his life-time in the Church of Sandon before-mentioned Which Church was a little before new glazed and repaired by him See more of him in William Wyrley among these Writers under the year 1617. THOMAS D'OYLIE descended from a right ancient Family of his name living or Oxfordshire was born in that County elected Probationer-Fellow of Magd coll an 1563. and after he had taken the Magisterial degree entred on the Physick line travelled and became Doctor of his Faculty in the University of Basil Afterwards setling in London he became one of the College of Physicians and much frequented for his successful Practice in his Faculty He had a chief hand in a book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica containing a Grammer with a Dictionary in Spanish English and Latin Lond. 1591. qu. in two parts This book was published by one Rich. Percyvall Gent. who had another hand in it yet with the advice and conference of Dr. D'oylie who dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred and three year 1603 was buried in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew in London leaving then behind him a Son named Francis born 8. Feb. 1597. and a daughter married to Hugh Cressy a Counsellour Father to Hugh Cressy a Benedictine Monk WILLIAM GILBERT Son of Hierom Gilbert of Colchester in Essex was born there and educated in both the Universities but whether in Oxon first or in Cambridge I cannot justly tell Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas where I presume he had the degree of Doctor of Physick conferred upon him and at his return being famed for his learning depth in Philosophy and admirable skill in Chymistry became one of the Coll. of Physicians in Lond. and Physician in Ord. to Q. Elizabeth who had so high a value for him that she allowed him an annual Pension to encourage his studies He hath written De magnete magneticisque corporibus de magno magnete tellure Physiologia nova Lond. 1600. fol. To which book the author added an Appendix of 6 or 8 sheets but whether printed I cannot tell De mundo nostro sublunari Philosophia nova Amstel 1651. qu. Published from a MS. in the Library of the Famous Sir Will. Boswell Knight He also was the first that invented the making description and use of the two most ingenious and necessary instruments for Sea-men to find out thereby the Latitude of any place upon the help of the Sun Moon and Stars Which invention was published by one Tho. Blondeville Lond. 1602. qu. This Dr. Gilbert gave way to fate in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and three year 1603 having always lived a single life Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity in Colchester in which Parish he was born and accounted the chief person thereof By his last Will and Test he gave all his books in his Library his Globes Instruments and Cabinet of Minerals to the Coll. of Physicians which part of his Will was exactly performed by his Brethren viz. William so he is written in his Will a Proctor in the Arches Hierom Ambrose and George who participated of his Estate The picture of this famous Doctor drawn to the life
he was called before the Bishop of Winchester and other commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs and after he had been divers times examined by them he was condemned for certain propositions which he maintained viz. 1 That any Priest or Religious man after his vow may lawfully marry 2 That in the blessed Sacrament there remaineth the substance of bread and wine together with the body and blood of Christ 3 That it is no sacrifice propitiatory 4 That only faith justifyeth c. Afterwards he was silenced and degraded sent into Wales and being committed to the secular power was burn'd on the S. side of the Market-cross in the Town of Caermerthen 30. March in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 The whole story of him you may read in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under the year 1555. where you 'll find his answer tho insufficient to the said 56 articles his articles also against a furnished information exhibited by Thomas Lee to the K. and Privy Council with many of his Letters written during his imprisonment From all which and the story of him in the said Acts and Monuments a man may easily perceive as the Rom. Catholicks say that the having a Woman to his Wife was the chief motive that drew him to those opinions which he held JOHN HARMAN commonly called Voysey and Veysey because he was educated in his infancy as 't is said by one of that name Son of Will. Harman by Joan his Wife daughter of Henr. Squyre of Handsworth in Staffordshire was born at Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire became a student in this University in 1482. Probationer-fellow of Madg. coll 28. July 86. and the year following true and perpetual Fellow by the name of Joh. Harman only In few years after he proceeded Doctor of the civil Law and became Vicar of S. Michaels Church in Coventry being then noted more for his faculty than divinity In the beginning of June 1505. he was made Prebendary of North-Aulton in the Church of Salisbury by the ceasing of one James Straytbarret and was admitted thereunto by the name of Joh. Veyse which Preb. he afterwards resigning was succeeded by Dr. John Longland of Magd. coll in the beginning of Decemb. 1514. But Longland being promoted in few days after to the Deanery of Sarum Joh. Veyse was admitted to it again in the same month and kept it till after he was Bishop This person being esteemed well qualified and of great abilities was employed on sundry Embassies was made Tutor to the Lady Mary then the Kings only daughter and President of Wales In 1515. he was made Dean of Windsore being about that time Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter Archdeacon of Chester and Dean of the Kings domestick chappel and soon after became Dean of the Free chappel of S. Peter and S. Paul at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1519. he was elected Bishop of Exeter being then Dean of the Church there had the temporalities of the said See restored to him 4 Nov. and was consecrated thereunto on the 6. Dec. the same year Of all the Bishops in England he was accounted the best Courtier having been well bred from his youth and altho he had a good report for his learning yet he was better esteemed by some for his Court-like behaviour which in the end turned not so much to his credit as to the utter ruin and spoil of his Church For of 22 Mannors and Lordships which his predecessors had left unto him of a goodly yearly revenue he left but seven or eight and them also leased out And where he found fourteen houses well furnished he left only one house bare and without furniture and yet charged with sundry fees and annuities By which means the said Bishoprick of Exeter which was accounted one of the best is now become in temporal Lands one of the meanest Now if any person is desirous to understand what became of all the money which he got by the alienation of the said Mannors and Lordships let him know that it was most expended fearing perhaps that the said Lands might be taken away in the mutable times he lived in on his native place of Sutton-Colfield by making it a corporation and procuring a Market there building most of the Town and endeavouring to set up the making there of Kersies as in Devon and Cornwall which in the end as 't is said proved to little purpose Also by building and endowing a Free-school there building two bridges of stone erecting a Mannour-house called More-place near to Sutton before-mentioned besides other housing near it Parks Ponds and I know not what as you may see elsewhere In the reign of K. Ed. 6. when religion was alter'd he the said Dr. Harman resign'd his Bishoprick and on the 14. of Aug. 5. Ed. 6. Dom. 1551. Miles Coverdale D. of D. of Cambridge was Propter ejus singularem sacrarum literarum doctrinam moresque probatissimos made Bishop in his place In 1553. when Qu. Mary came to the Crown Dr. Coverdale was put out and the said Harman who was forced as 't is said to give up his Bishoprick pro corporis metu on the 14. of Aug. 5. Ed. 6. was restored thereunto 28. Sept. in the year before-mentioned So that living there for a time till he saw the R. Cath. Religion settled retired to his native place again where dying full of years aged at least an hundred in the summer time in fifteen hundred fifty and five was buried on the north side of the chancel belonging to the Church at Sutton-Colfield before-mention'd where is at this day a fair Monument remaining over his Grave with his statua from head to foot cut out from stone adorn'd with the Pontificalia belonging to a Bishop NICHOLAS RYDLEY sometimes fellow of Vniversity coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester 5. Sept. 1547. translated to London on the deprivation of Bonner in 1549. and died in the flames at Oxon in fifteen hundred fifty and five under which year you may see more among the writers year 1555 GEORGE COOTES Cotes or Cotys so many ways I find him written whom some call John but false was elected Probationer Fellow of Balliol coll in 1522. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he was made Fellow of Magd. coll but when it appears not because the register of that time belonging to the said house noted with the letter B. hath been time out of mind lost In 1526. he proceeded in Arts was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University Doctor of Divinity and in 1539. was elected Master of Balliol coll In the beginning of 1554. being then elected to the Episcopal See of Chester of which Church he had been several years Prebendary by the name of Mr. George Cotes S. Th. Prof. had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by Qu. Mary on the 18. of Apr. in the same year he keeping then with that See the
Doct. of Div. May 12. Thomas Sutton of Qu. 23. Edw. Brunker of Wad Coll. Jun. 26. Anth. Morgan Principal of St. Albans hall formerly Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Dec. 18. Richard Hall of All 's Coll. Incorporations May 28. Thomas Rhead Rhaedus M. of A. of Aberdene in Scotland He had before been a Student in this University and this year published Paraphrisis Psalma 104. Lond. 1620. in oct and about the same time as it should seem Epist ad Episcopum Roffensem in oct Alex. Rhead M. of A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Alex. Rhead was Proctor of the University of Cambr. four years before this time whom I take to be the same Person who was afterwards Minister of Yeatley in Hampshire where he died about 1628. I shall make mention of another of both his names among the Creations following June 6. Festus Hommius D. D. of the University of Leyden was incorporated in that Degree in a meeting called Simile primo or Assimilatio parva held at six of the Clock in the morning Hommius then having on his legs a green pair of stockings and a habit not altogether proper for his profession He was at this time a Divine of great note in the Low Countries and had lately been Scribe at the Synod of Dort The occasion of his coming into England with the Catalogue of the books he wrot John Meursius will tell you He was born at Hielsem in the territory of Leenwerden in Westfriesen and dying 5. July 1642 aged 66 years and six months was buried at Leyden in the Church of St. Peter as I conceive having been Pastâ—r of that Church forty and Rector of the College there twenty years June 26. Peter Chamberlayne Doct. of Phys of the University of Padua He hath written 1 The poor mans Advocate or Englands Samaritan c. Lond. 1649. qu. 2 Vindication of publick artificial Bathes and other things and from his Papers was published The accomplished Midwife c. printed with cuts in 1673. in oct Afterwards it was inlarged by others and several times published One Tho. Chamberlaine who was called and written Doct. of Phys did practise his faculty in the Parish of St. Gregory in London and died as I think in Mark-lane 1666 but whether he was ever of the Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell Jul. 7. Henry Briggs M. A. John Bainbridge Doct. of Phys of Cambr. Of the first I have spoken largely among the Writers under the year 1630 and of the other I shall God willing make mention in the 2. Vol. of this work July 11. Will. Jackson M. A. of the same University Perhaps he may be the same Will. Jackson who was now Term-Lecturer at Whittington Coll. in London and who before had published The Celestial husbandry or the tillage of the Soul Serm. at Pauls Cross 25. Feb. 1615 on Osea 10. 12. Lond. 1616. qu. Thomas Whitfield M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day I take this Person to be the same Tho. Whitfield who was afterwards Minister of Great Yarmouth in Norfolke Author of 1 A refutation of the loose opinions and licentious tenets wherewith those Lay-preachers which wander up and down the kingdom labour to seduce the simple People Or an Examination of the erroneous Doctrines of Thomas More late a Weaver in Wells near Wisbich in his book The Universality of Gods free grace to mankind Lond. 1646. qu. 2 Full answer to the Arminian tenets concerning election redemption conversion and perseverance printed there the same year 3 Discourse of the Liberty of conscience c. Lond. 1649. qu. 4 The righteous mans rejoycing Or a treatise tending to shew the nature of true joy whence it ariseth and to whom it belongs c. Lond. 1649. in tw 5 Extent of divine providence c. print 1651. qu. 6 Doctrines of Arminianisme and Pelagianisme stated Print 1652. qu. 7 Perswasive to peace amongst the sons of peace c. pr. 1655. in tw and other things This Thomas Whitfield being a Person that ran with the times of the interval removed to the rectory of Bugbrook in Northamptonshire where a neighbour of his named Tho. Pierce animadverted upon one or more of his books as I shall hereafter tell you He had a Son named John Whitfield M. A. and sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Rector of Bugbrook beforementioned and a publisher of one or more Sermons I find one Thomas Whitfield admitted Bach. of Arts as a member of Magd. hall 4. May 1631 and another of Hart hall 9. February the same year but what relation they had to the former Thomas I know not July 11. John Johnson D. D. of Cambr. One of both his names and D. of D. also was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester 24. Nov. 1598. in the place of Godf. Goldsborough promoted to the See of Glocester Which Archdeaconry the said Johnson resigned an 1610. Qu. whether the same July 12. Rich. Evans D. D. of the University of St. Andrew of Scotland Creations May 18. Thom. Grent of New Coll. was actually created Doctor of Phys He was afterwards famous for the making of artificial Bathes and discovering those that were natural but wanted money to make them fit for use 29. Alexander Rhead or Read Reidus a Scotch Man was actually created Doctor of Phys in the house of Convocation by virtue of the Letters from K. James 1. for that purpose This learned Scot who was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians in London and a Brother of the Company of Barber-chirurgions hath written and published 1 A description of the body of Man by artificial figures representing the members c. Lond. 1616. oct 2 Chirurgical Lectures of tumours and ulcers Lond. 1635. qu. 3 Treatise of the first part of Chirurgery which teacheth re-unition of the parts of the body disjoynted Lond. 1638. qu. 4 Treatise of the muscles of the body of Man Lond. 1637. qu. All which except the first were reprinted in 1650. qu. the Author being then dead after he had practised his faculty about 50 years 5 The manual of Anatomy or the dissection of the body of Man c. in 6. books Lond. 1638. in tw I think it is the same which some call his Epitome of Crookes Anatomy 6 Approved Medicines and Remedies for the diseases of the body of Man when printed I know not In his last Will he bequeathed 200 l. to the Marischal College in Aberdene in which house I presume he had been educated and all his books to the Library there Nov. 4. A young Man named Will. Moyle the eldest Son of an Esquire was created M. of A in Convocation He was then sent to the chief members of this University by Francis Viscount Verulam with his learned book Instauratio magna I think to be presented from the Authors to the publick Library In the month of September this year came into England the famous Theologist named Daniel Tilenus and published at
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
acknowledgement of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger and in the 25. of the said King was judgment given on his behalf for taking place before the Lord Dcres of Gilsland His younger Years were adorned with all kind of superficial Learning especially with Drammatick Poetry and his elder with that which was divine and therefore worthily characterized to be vir liter is clarus ac genere nobilitate conspicus His writings have been Several Comedies and Tragedies Declaration of the Psalm 94. Deus ultionum Dominus Lond. 1539. oct Lives of Sectaries With other things which I have not yet seen He was living an Ancient Man and in esteem among the Nobility in the latter end of Henry 8. The Reader is now to know that there was another Hen. Parker who wrot a Book intit Dives pauper A compendious treatise an exposition upon the ten Commandments Lond. 1496. fol. There again in 1538 and 1586. oct Which Henry being a Carme of Doncaster in Yorkshire and D. of D. of Cambridge in the time of Ed. 4. must not be taken to be the same with the former EDWARD POWELL was born of British blood within the Principality of Wales educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals in Oxon and was afterwards if I mistake not Fellow of Oriel Coll. for one of both his names occurs Fellow of that House in 1495. After he had taken the Degrees in Arts he gave himselfe solely up to Divinity and in that faculty he became a noted Disputant On the 2. of Nov. 1501. he was admitted to the rectory of Bledon in the of Wells on the death of Mr. Micb. Clyffe and afterwards took the Degrees in Divinity In 1508. he by the favour of Edm. Audley B. of Sarum was collated to the Prebendship of Bedmyster and Redclyve having a little before been admitted Preb. of Lyme and Halstock in the said Church This E. Powell was the Person who for his great learning and undaunted courage was entertained as an Advocate by Qu. Catherine when K. Hen. 8. sought cause for a divorce from her and the same who before had shewed himself very zealous in disputing and writing against M. Luther his Disciples and Doctrine for which the University of Oxon did not only congratulate him for his pains but also in an Epistle to the said Bishop Audley they thus honorably speak of him res ea Oxoniensium quorundam ingeniis discutienda permittitur inter quos eximius ille Edoardus Powell Theologiae condidatus tuae Sarisburiensis Ecclesiae ut vocant Canonicus connumeratus est Is enim ex quo res primum in Literarium certamen venit tam assiduus semper fuit tantum operae ac diligentiae impendit tam denique eruditè adversus eas hereses invectus est ut ex suis immensis laboribus vigilantissimisque studiis nostrae Academiae nonnihil attribui laudis facile auguramur c. Farther also when the University wrot to K. Hen. 8. to certifie him of certain Doctors of Divinity of their own Body that had lately written each of them a Book against M. Luther they make this especial mention of our Author Powell and his Book Editionem tamen Doctoris Poveli tanquam praecipuam lucidam quendam gemmam visum est nobis seligere is siquidem ut est vir summâ gravitate eruditione praeter immensos labores frequentiaque ejus itinera tantam in hâc re exhibuit vigilantiam ut nisi eum eximiâ efferemus laude videamur plane injurii aut potius inbumani Hanc suam editionem in duos potissimum digessit libellos quorum prior de summo extat pontifice Eucharistiaeque Sacramento Posterior de reliquis sex Sacramentis Hunc tuae celsitudini sic commendamus virum ut quamvis eum habeas perquam gratum habeas quaesumus nostrâ tamen commendatione gratiorem c. As for the title of the said Book it runs thus Propugnaculum summi sacerdotii Evangelici ac septenariâ— sacramentorum adversus Mart. Lutherum fratrem fumosum Wiclefistum insignem lib. 3. Lond. 1523. qu. Another Book of his making is intit Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Regis cum Catherinâ matrimonio lib. 1. and other matters as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen At length for his denial of the King's Supremacy over the Church of England whereby he despleased him far more than before he pleas'd him by writing against Luther he was committed to Prison and having received sentence to dye was on the 30. July in Fifteen hundred and forty hang'd year 1542 drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield near London with Tho. Abel whom I am about to name and Rich. Fetherston guilty of the same crime This Dr. Edw. Powell bestowed at least 30 l. about the time when he was licensed to proceed for the making of a double roof with painting gilded knots and lead for the Congregation house house which is now the upper room in St. Maries Church-yard joining on the North side to the Chancel of St. Mariâ—â— Church 22. Hen. 7. Dom. 15 6 7. THOMAS ABEL or Able took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1516 but what Degrees in Divinity I cannot find He was afterwards a Servant to Qu. Catherine the Consort of K. Hen. 8. and is said by a certain Author to be vir longe doctissimus qui Reginae aliquando in Musicorum tacta inguis operam suam navaret In 1529. and 30 he shewed himself a zealous Advocate against the divorce of the said Queen and a passionate enemy against the unlawful doings of the King At which time he wrot Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Catherinae matrimonio In 1534 he by the name of Tho. Able Priest was attainted of Misprision for taking part with and being active in the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy Maid of Kent Afterwards denying the King's Supremacy over the Church was hang'd drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield year 1540 30. Jul. in Fifteen hundred and and forty having before as 't is thought written other things but lost I find another Tho. Able who hath written against the Gangraena of Tho. Edwards but he being a hundred Years later than the former for he lived in 1646. he must not be taken to be the same Person CHRISTOPHER SEINTGERMAN called by some Senyarmayn or Seyngerman Son of Sir Hen. Seintgerman Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. Tindale Esq was born as I conceive in Warwickshire particularly at Shilton near to the City of Coventry in the Chappel or Church of which place his Father and Mother received Sepulture In his juvenile Years he was educated in Grammatical and Philosophical Learning among the Oxonians from whom by the advice of his Parents he was taken away and sent to the Inner Temple where by the benefit of his Academical Learning certain instructors in the municipal Laws and by his forward Genie and industry he became a
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
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
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
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
returned and was made the first Canon of the seventh Stall in the collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster an 1560. and soon after about the beginning of the year 1561. he was made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in the place of Will. May L. L. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambr. the same who in 1549. had a hand in compiling the first Edition of the Common Prayer and in correcting the the third Edit in 1559. So that Nowell being settled in the Deanry of Pauls resigned Westminster and afterwards became a frequent and painful Preacher and a zealous writer against certain English Catholicks that had fled their Country upon account of Religion For 30 years together he Preached the first and last Sermons in the time of Lent before the Queen wherein he dealt plainly and faithfully with her without dislike In 1594. Apr. 28. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Rich. Reve Bach. of Div. deceased in the year after Sept. 6. he was elected Principal of Brasnose coll and in oct following he was actually created D. of Divinity with allowance of Seniority over all the Doctors then in the University not only in regard had to his age but Dignity in the Church He was in the time he lived a learned Man charitable to the poor especially if they had any thing of a Scholar in them and a great comforter of afflicted Consciences His Works are A reproof of a book intit A proof of certain Articles in Religion denied by Master Jewel set forth by Tho. Dorman Bach. of Div. Lond. 1565. qu. Reproof of Mr. Dormans proof continued with a defence of the chief authority of Princes as well in causes Ecclesiastical as Civil within their Dominions by Mr. Dorman maliciously impugned Lond. 1566. qu. Confutation as well of Mr. Dormons last book intit A defence c. as also of Dr. Saunder's Causes of Transubstantiation Lond. 1567. qu. Catechismus sive prima institutio disciplinaque pietatis Chistianae Latinè explicata Lond. 1570 71 74 76. qu. There again 1590. 1603. c. oct Translated into English by Tho. Norten Lond. 1571. and into Greek by Will. Whittaker an 1575. c. Catechismus parvus pueris primum qui ediscatur proponendus in Scholis Lond. 1574. 78. oct c. Written in Lat. and Greek Translated also into English by another person Lond. 1587. oct c. and into Hebrew by Anon but this last I have not yet seen Conference had with Edm. Campian Jesuit in the Tower of London ult Aug. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. See more in Joh. Redman under the year 1551. This reverend Dr. Nowell died in a good old age on the 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Cathedral of St. Paul Soon after was a comely Monument set over his Grave with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a copy of which you may see in Jo. Stow's Survey of London and elsewhere And of his benefaction to Brasnose coll and other matters you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 214. b. 225. b. In his Deanty of St. Paul succeeded Joh. Overhall the King's Professor of Div. in Cambridge a general learned Scholar preferred to it by the commendations to the Queen of Sir Fulk Grevill his Patron HARBERT WESTPHALING Son of Harbert Westphaling Son of Harbert a Native of Westphalia in Germany from whom by a popular Errour the Son who lived mostly in London and this his Grandson were called Westphaling At 15 years of age in 1547. which was the year after K. Hen. 8. had put his last hand to the foundation of Ch. Church he was made one of the Students thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1555. applied his studies to the Supreme Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in Dec. 1561. and in the beginning of March following he was installed Canon of the said Church being about that time Rector of Brightwell near Watlington in the County of Oxon. In 1565. he was licensed to proceed in his Faculty in the year following he learnedly disputed before Q. Elizabeth in S. Maries Church and in the beginning of 1577. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Ant. Rush deceased In 1585. Dec. 12. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford in which County he had several Lands and Inheritances where as throughout the Nation he was esteemed a person of great gravity integrity and most worthy of his Function He hath written Treatise of Reformation in Religion divided in seven Sermons Preached in Oxford on Matth. 21. 12 13. Lond. 1582. qu. Two Sermons touching the Supper of the Lord on 1 Cor. 11. 28 29. and on Matth. 26. v. 26 27 28. Lond. 1582. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to Nature on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the North transcept of the Cath. at Hereford In his Will he bequeathed the Mannour of Batche in Herefordshire to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two Fellows and two Scholars conditionally that his kindred be preferred to the said places before all others His picture is painted on the Wall in the School-Gallery at Oxon. next to that of Dr. Eâ—des as having in his time been a famous Theologist CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN was born in Cheshire particularly as I conceive within the City of Chester became a Student in Brasnose coll 1536. aged seventeen or thereabouts took one degree in Arts but was never as I can yet find Fellow of that House In 1544. he proceeded in that faculty and three years after was constituted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church being then newly founded by K. Hen. 8. In the year 1551. or thereabouts he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time he was as 't is said Reader of the Divinity Lesson in the Vniversity but whether of that founded by the Lady Margaret or by K. H. 8. seems as yet doubtful In the beginning of Q. Mary he left the University and went with several Academians beyond the Sea for Religion sake but dissenting from the chief body of them assembled at Frankfort he did with Whittyngham Knox Gilby c. retire to Geneva as may be farther seen in a book intit A brief discourse of the troubles began at Frankfort c. printed 1575. qu. wherein as in other places the turbulent spirit of this person may be discern'd A noted author tells us that he was a most pernicious fellow for that he not only practiced against the life of Q. Mary but wrote also that most seditious known Libel against the regiment of Women c. This Goodman I say being a furious hot spirit and guilty in conscience of wicked attempts but especially as was thought of the conspiracy with Will. Thomas that would have killed Q. Mary ran out
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.
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
relating to the Protestant Religion he entred into the Society of Jesus at Paris an 1588. aged about 30. Afterwards he taught Divinity in the University of Doll in Burgundy and at length was sent into the Mission of England to labour in the Harvest there He hath written The Garden of the Virgin Mary St. Om. 1619. oct Which contains certain Prayers and Meditations Other matters as 't is said he hath written but being printed beyond Sea we have few copies of them come into these parts LEWIS THOMAS a frequent Preacher in his time became a poor Scholar or Exhibitiner of Brasnose coll in 1582. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders soon after and at length was beneficed in his native County of Glamorgan and elsewhere His works are Certain Lectures upon sundry portions of Scripture c. Lond. 1600. oct Dedic to Sir Tho. Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal who was one of his first promoters in the Church Seaven Sermons or the exercises of Seaven Sabbaths The first intit The Prophet David's Arithmetick is on Psal. 90. 12. The second called Peter's Repentance is on Matth. 26. 75. c. Which Seaven Sermons were printed at London several times in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth once in the Reign of K. James 1619. and once in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. 1630. A short treatise upon the Commandments on Rev. 22. 14. Lond. 1600. c. oct This is sometimes called A Comment on the Decalogue I find another Lewis Thomas of Jesus college who took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house 1597. and that of Master as a Member of St. Edm. hall 1601. But what relation he had to the former or whether he hath published any thing I know not JOHN NORDEN was born of a gentile Family but in what County unless in Wilts I cannot tell became a Commoner of Hart hall in 1564. and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1573. This person I take to be the same John Norden who was author of these books following some of which I have perused but therein I cannot find that he entitles himself a Minister of Gods word or Master of Arts. Sinful Mans Solace most sweet and comfortable for the sick and sorrowful Soul c. Lond. 1585. in oct Mirrour for the Multitude or a Glass wherein may be seen the violence the errour the weakness and rash consent of the multitude c. Lond. 1586. in oct Antithesis or contrariety between the Wicked and Godly set forth in form of a pair of Gloves fit for every man to wear c. Lond. 1587. Pensive Mans Practice wherein are contained very devout and necessary Prayers for sundry godly purposes c. Lond. 1591. in tw Printed there again 1629. in tw which was the fortieth impression Poor Mans rest founded upon motives meditations and prayers c. Printed several times in oct and tw The eighth edit was printed at Lond. 1620. in tw Progress of Piety whose Jesses lead into the Harborough of heavenly Harts-ease to recreate the afflicted Souls of all such as c. Lond. in tw Christian comfort and encouragement unto all English Subjects not to dismay at the Spanish threats Lond. 1596. Mirrour of Honour wherein every Professor of Arms from the General to the inferiour Souldier may see the necessity of the fear and service of God Lond. 1597. qu. Interchangeable variety of things Lond. 1600. qu. The Surveyors Dialogue very profitable for all men to peruse but especially for Gentlemen Farmers and Husbandmen c. in 6 books Lond. 1607. 10. and 18. in qu. Labyrinth of Mans life Or Vertues delight and Envies happiness Lond. 1614. qu. 'T is a Poem dedic to Rob. Carr Earl of Somerset Loadstone to a Spiritual life Lond. 1614. in sixt Pensive Souls delight Or a devout Mans help consisting of motives meditations and prayers c. Lond. 1615. in tw An Eye to Heaven in Earth A necessary Watch for the time of death consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose With the Husband's Christian Counsel to his Wife and Children left poor after his death Lond. 1619. in tw c. Help to true blessedness Pathway to patience in all manner of afflictions c. Lond. 1626. oct This John Norden lived at Hendon near to Acton in Middlesex in most of the Reign of King James 1. being patronized in his studies by or as some say was Servant to Will Cecil Lord Burliegh and Rob. Earl of Salisbury his Son I take him to be the same John Norden Gent. who hath written Speculum Britanniae or an Historical and Chorographical description of Middlesex Lond. 1593. in about 7 sh in qu. And of A Chorographical description of Hertfordshire Printed much about the same time in 4 sh in qu. JOHN BUDDEN Son of Joh. Budden of Canford in Dorsetshire was born in that County entred into Merton coll in Mich. Term. 1582. aged 16. admitted Scholar of Trinity coll 30. of May following took the degree of Bach. of Arts and soon after was translated to Glouc. hall for the sake and at the request of Mr. Tho. Allen where being mostly taken up with the study of the Civil Law yet he took the degree of M. of Arts as a Member thereof At length he was made Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll proceeded in the Civil Law 1602. made Principal of New Inn 1609. the Kings Professor of the Civil Law soon after and Principal of Broadgates hall He was a person of great Eloquence an excellent Rhetorician Philosopher and a most noted Civilian He hath written and published Gulielmi Patteni cui Waynfleti agnomen fuit Wintoniensis Ecclesiae Praesulis coll B. Mariae Magd. apud Oxon fundatoris vita obitusque Oxon. 1602. qu. Reprinted in a Book intit Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum c. Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Published by Dr. Will Bates a Cambridge Man a learned and moderate Nonconformist living then at Hackney near London an eminent writer and worthy of much praise Reverendiss Patris ac Domini Johannis Mortoni Cantuariensis olim Archiep. Magni Angliae Cancellarii trium Regum Consiliarii vita obitusque Lond. 1607. in 3 sh in oct He also translated from English into Latin 1 Sir Tho. Bodley's Statutes of the Publick Library which is remitted into the body of the Statutes of the University 2 Sir Tho. Smith's book intit The Commonwealth of England and the manner and Government thereof in 3 books Printed at Lond. in oct and beyond Sea in tw Also from French into English A discourse for Parents Honour and Authority over their Children Lond. 1614. oct written by Pet. Frodiuâ— a renowned French Civilian year 1620 This Dr. Budden died in Broadgates hall on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred and twenty From which place his body being carried to the Divinity School Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. the Deputy-Orator delivered an eloquent Speech in praise of him
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
or caused to be printed but such I have not yet seen As for the youngest Brother Rob. Sherley before-mentioned whether he was of Hart hall I know not for his name occurs not in the Matricula only that of John Sherley a Sussex man and the Son of a Gent. matriculated as a Member of that hall in 1582. aged 14. The said Robert whom also I find to occur by the title of Knight was a great man of his time and so highly valued by the Emperour of Persia that he not only sent him Embassadour to Sigismond the 3. King of Poland as also to K. Jam. 1. of England an 1612. for he arrived at London 26. June that year but was pleased to give him his Neice in Marriage and to confer upon him honour and riches As to the general performances of the aforesaid 3 Brothers I know the affidavit of a Poet carrieth but a small credit in the Court of History and the Comedy made of them intit The travailes of three English Brothers Sir Thomas Sir Anthony and Rob. Sherley printed at Lond. 1607. in qu. is but a friendly foe to their memory as suspected more accommodated to please the present spectators than inform posterity The before-mentioned Sir Thomas the elder Brother and Traveller had a Son named Thomas who was a Knight also and suffer'd much in the time of the Rebellion for adhering to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. of ever Blessed Memory And that Sir Thomas the Sufferer had to his eldest Son another Thomas commonly called Dr. Tho. Sherley born in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster and baptized there 15. Oct. 1638. lived when a boy with his Father in Magd. coll during the time that Oxon was a Garrison for the King and was bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School joyning to the said College Afterwards he went into France studied Physick and was graduated in that Faculty there After his return he became noted for his practice therein and at length was made Physician in Ordinary to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. and I think Doctor of his Faculty He hath published A Philosophical Essay declaring the probable causes whence stones are produced in the greater World From which occasion is taken to search into the original of all bodies being a prodromus to a medicinal truth concerning the causes and cure of the stone in the Kidneys and Bladder of Man Lond. 1672. oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical transactions num 81. p. 1030. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Cochlearia Curiosa or the Curiosities of Scurvy-grass Lond. 1676. oct written by Dr. Andr. Molimbrochius of Leipsig An account of which book you may also see in the said Phil. Transact nu 125. p. 621. 2 Medicinal Councels or Advices written originally in French by Theod. Tarquet de Mayerâ—e put into Latin by Theoph. Bonettus M. D. Lond. 1676. and translated from French into Engl. A treatise of the Gout Lond. 1676. written by the said Tarquet de Mayerne He the said Dr. Tho. Sherley died of grief 5. Aug. 1678. and was buried in the S. W. Vault under part of St. Brides Church near to Fleet street in London His grief arose upon a just suspicion that he should be totally defeated of an Estate in Sussex worth about 3000 l. per an descended to him from his Great-Grandfather Sir Tho. Sherley mostly detained from him by Sir Joh. Pagge Baronet Concerning which matter the two Houses of Parliament were engaged in a quarrel a little before Dr. Sherley's death SAMUEL AUSTIN Son of Tho. Austin of Lystwithiel in the County of Cornwal was born there became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1623. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1630. About which time being numbred among the Levites was beneficed in his own Country He hath written Austin's Urania Or the heavenly Muse in a Poem full of meditations for the comfort of all Souls at all times Lond. 1629. oct dedicated to Joh. Prideaux D. D. a favourer of the studies of the author then Bach. of Arts. What other things he hath written or published besides various copies of verses printed in Lat. and English in other books I know not nor any thing else of him only that he had a Son of both his names a conceited Coxcomb who endeavoured to Patrizare but through his exceeding vanity and folly he was made use of as another Tho. Coryate by certain Poeâ—s of Oxon in their respective copies of verses set before his Naps on Parnassus c. printed 1658. as I shall tell you in my other volume of writers JOHN BAYLY Son of Dr. Lew. Bayly Bish of Bangor was born in Herefordshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1611. aged 16 years or thereabouts made Fellow the year following and by the help of a good Tutor Dr. Prideaux did advance himself much in Academical learning After he had compleated the degree of M. of Arts he took holy orders from his Father by whose procurement he had one or more Benefices confer'd upon him At length being made one of his Maj. Chaplains and Guardian of Christ's-Hospital in Ruthym took the degrees in Divinity and published Several Sermons as 1 The Angel-Guardian on Psal. 34. 7. Lond. 1630. qu. 2 The light enlightning on Joh. 1. 9. Printed at Lond. the same year I have been informed he had published other things but such I have not yet seen JOHN BARNES or Barnesius as he writes himself was descended from those of his name in Lancashire but whether born in that County I know not was educated for a time in this University but being always in animo Catholicus he left it and his Country and going into Spain was instructed in Philosophy and Divinity by the famous Doctor J. Alph. Curiel who was wont to call Barnes by the name of John Huss because of a spirit of contradiction which was always observed in him After he had finished his course of studies he took upon him the habit of S. Benedict with a resolution then to live and dye in it and about that time was sent into the Mission of England to strengthen the Brethren but being taken and imprisoned was sent into Normandy with certain Priests and Jesuits Soon after he was by his Superior sent into Lorain where he taught Divinity in the English Monastery of Benedictines called Dieuward or Dieuleward and was there by the fraternity and others too esteemed profound in that great faculty tho he cared not to make shew of it much less to have any thing of his composition published After he had left Dieuleward he became a Professor either of Div. or Philosophy in Marchein college in Doway where also he gained to himself the name of an eminent Divine and Philosopher Thence he crossed the Seas and setled for a time in England where he fell out with his Superiors for refusing to submit to the Union
Traveller hath told me otherwise viz. that he was no other than a common Soldier that he lived poor at Bononia and saw his Grave there Another also named Dr. Rich. Trevor Fellow of Morton coll younger brother to Sir John Trevor sometimes Secretary of State who was in Italy in 1659. hath several times told me that he the said Dr. Bayly died obscurely in an Hospital and that he saw the place where he was buried SAMUEL BROWNE born at or near to the antient Borough of Shrewsbury became a Servitour or Clerk of Aills coll in 1594. aged 19. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards was made preacher at S. Maries in the said Town of Shrewsbury where he was much resorted to by precise people for his edifying and frequent preaching He hath published The sum of Christian Religion by way of Catechism Lond. 1630. and 37. oct Certain Prayers And left behind him at the time of his death year 1632 in sixteen hundred thirty two Several Sermons to be made publick but whether they were printed I cannot tell One of both his names was summer Reader of Lincolns Inn 18 Car. 1. afterwards Serjeant at Law one of the Justices of the Common Bench and one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal in the time of Usurpation but what he hath extant I cannot tell He died in the beginning of the year 1668. being then a Knight and a possessor of Lands at Arlesbury in Bedfordshire THEODORE GOULSON Son of Will. Goulson Rector of Wymoundham in Leicestershire received his first breath in the County of Northampton became Probationer Fellow of Merton coll in 1596. applied his Muse to the study of medicine after he had been adorn'd with the Majesterial degree in the practice of which having been initiated in these parts lived afterwards at Wymoundham where as in the neighbourhood he became famous in and much frequented for his faculty At length taking the degrees of Physick in this University an 1610. was made a Candidate of the Coll. of Physitians at London and the year after Fellow thereof and afterwards Censor being at that time in great esteem for his practice in the metropolitan City He was an excellent Latinist and a noted Grecian but better for Theology as it was observed by those that knew him He hath published Versio Latina Paraphrasis in Aristotelis Rhetoricam Lond. 1619. 1623. c. qu. Versio variae Lectiones annotationes criticae in opuscula varia Galeni Lond. 1640. qu. published by his singular good friend Tho. Gataker Bac. of Div. of Cambridge and Rector of Redrith in Surrey who died 27. July 1654 and was buried in the Church at Redrith after he had govern'd it 40. years As for our author Goulson he ended his days in his house within the parish of S. Martin by Ludgate within the City of London year 1632 4. May in sixteen hundred thirty and two whereupon his body was buried with solemnity in the Church belonging to that parish By his will which I have seen and perused he bequethed 200 l. to purchase a rent-charge for the maintenance of an Anatomy Lecture in the coll of Physitians at London as also several books to Merton coll Library besides other donations which were mostly if not all performed by his vertuous and religious Widdow Ellen Goulson of whom by the way I must let the reader know that she being possess'd of the impropriate Parsonage of Bardwell in Suffolk did procure from the King leave to annex the same to the Vicaridge and to make it presentative which being so done she gave them both thus annexed for she had the donation of the Vicaridge before that time freely to S. John coll in Oxon. LEONARD HUTTEN was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Church in 1574. wherein with unwearied industry going thro the several Classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. and a frequent preacher In 1599. he was installed Canon of the said Church being then Bach. of Divinity and Vicar of Flower in Northamptonshire and in the year after he proceeded in that faculty His younger years were beautified with all kind of polite learning his middle with ingenuity and judgment and his reverend years with great wisdom in government having been often Subdean of his house He was also an excellent Grecian well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen which was sufficiently approved by the consent of the University and not meanly vers'd in the histories of our own Nation He hath written An answer to a Treatise concerning the Cross in Baptism Oxon. 1605. qu. Which book was held in reverent respect by the best Bishops of the Church as having the Fathers agreeing to Scripture truly urged and understandingly interpreted therein See in Jam. Calfhill and John Martiall I have been informed by one who knew this Dr. Hutten well that he was author of a Trag. -Com called Bellum Grammaticale but how that can be I cannot discern for tho it was written by an Oxford man if not two yet one edition of it came out in 1574. in oct which was the year when Dr. Hutten first saluted the Oxonian Muses as I have before told you He had also an hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by King James an 1604. and left in MS. behind him Discourse of the antiquity of the University of Oxford by way of letter to a friend The copies of this Discourse which I have seen were written in qu. in about 8 sheets and had this beginning Sir your two questions the one concerning the antiquity of Oxford c. I have seen 4 copies of it but could get little or nothing from them for my purpose when I was writing the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv. of Oxon. A MS. book of the like subject I once saw in the hands of John Houghton Bac. of Div. sometimes Senior Fellow of Brasnose coll divided into three books the beginning of which runs thus All truth is of it self as glorious c. but who the author of it was I could never learn 'T is a trite thing and mostly taken from Apologia Antiq. Acad. Oxon. written by Br. Twyne as that of Hutten was He hath also written Historia fundationum Ecclesiae Christi Oxon. unà cum Episcoporum Decanorum Canonicorum ejusd Catalogo 'T is a MS. and hath this beginning Monasterium sive Prioratus S. Frideswydae virginis fundata est ab eadem Frideswydâ filiâ Didaci alias Didani c. A copy of this in qu. I once saw in the hands of Dr. Joh. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. but many faults have been committed therein by an illiterate Scribe At length Dr. Hutten having lived to the age of 75. died on the 17. year 1632 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and two and was buried in the Divinity-Chappel the north Isle remotest from the Choire belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. before-mentioned A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq.
his body was carried to Chigwell in Essex and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church there Over his Grave was soon after a Monument of black Marble set up with the Effegies of the Defunct engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Among the several books that this Doctor Harsnet hath published are 1 A discovery of the fraudulent practices of John Darrel Minister written in answer to a book intit A true narration of the strange and grevious vexation by the devil of Seven persons in Lancashire and Will Sommers of Nottingham printed 1600. qu. Wherupon Darrell came out with a reply intit A detection of that sinful shameful lying and ridiculâ—us discourse intit A discovery c. printed 1600. qu. 2 A Declaration of egregiâ—us Pâ—pish impostures to withdraw the hearts of her Majesties Subjects from their allegiance c. practiced by Edmunds alias Westâ—n a Jesuit c Lond. 1603 qu. besides one or more Sermons and four or more MSS. fit for the Press of which one is De Necessitate Baptismi c. This Learned and Judicious Prelate was born as 't is said in the Parish of St. 〈◊〉 in the antient borough of 〈◊〉 in Essex educated in Pemb. hall where he was first Scholâ—r and afterwards Fellow When he was some years 〈◊〉 Master he was chosen Proctor which 〈◊〉 he went through with great credit to himself Afterwards he become Vicar of Chigwell in Essex Archdeacon of 〈◊〉 Chaplain to Archb. Bancroft Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral Master of Pemb. hall in and twice Vicechancellour of the University of Cambridge From whence he had an easie Progress to the see of Chichester and afterwards to 〈◊〉 After his death 〈…〉 being elected to the See of 〈◊〉 28. Feb. 1631. was translated thereunto and on the 16 oâ— Feb. 1632. was 〈◊〉 in the person of Dr. Phineas Hodson Chanc. of the Church of York GEORGE CARLETON sometimes Fellow of Merton coll was consecrated Bishop of Landaff on the 12. July an 1618. translated thence to Chichester in Sept. 1619. year 1628 and departed this life in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Rich. Mountague who after election and confirmation thereunto was consecrated in the Archbishops chappel at Croyden in Surrey 24. Aug. 1628. This learned person who was Son of Laurence Mountague Minister of Dorney in Bucks And he the Son of Rob. Mountague of Boudney in the Parish of Burnham in the said County was born at Dorney educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School elected a Member of Kings coll in Cambridge 1594. took the degrees in Arts became Parson of Wotton-Courtney in Somersetshire Prebendary of Wells Rector of Stanford-Rivers in Essex Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. Archdeacon and Dean of Hereford which last dignity he changed with Ol. Lloyd LL. D. for a Prebendship of Windsore in 1617. and being about that time made Fellow of Eaton coll which he kept with Windsore by a dispensation did learnedly read for 8 years together the Theological Lecture in the chappel at Windsore Afterwards he was made Rector of Petworth in Sussex bestowed much money in the repairing of the Parsonage house there as he did afterwards on the Bishops house at Aldingbourne At length his Majesty being minded to translate him to Norwych was elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter 4. of May 1638. where sitting to the time of his death which hapned in Apr. 1641. leaving then behind him a Son named Richard was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. belonging to that place where to this day is this only written on his grave Depositum Montacutii Episcopi He came to Norwych with the evil effects of a quartan Ague which he had had about an year before and which accompanied him to his grave yet he studied and wrote very much had an excellent Library of books and heaps of papers fairly written with his own hand concerning the Ecclesiastical History He was a person exceedingly well vers'd in all the learning of Greeks and Romans and as well studied in the Fathers Councils and all other antient monuments of the Christian World as any Man besides in the whole Nation K. Jam. 1. knew the Man well and was exceedingly pleased with his performance against the History of Tithes wherein he had beaten the then thought matchless Selden at his own weapon and shew'd himself the greatest Philosopher of the two Upon which ground his Majesty looked upon him as the fittest person and therefore commanded him to view and purge the Church History which was then taken and judged by many to be corrupted and depraved with various figments by certain writers of the R. Cath. pâ—rty especially by Baronius which he accordingly did with great industry and admirable judgment What other things he wrote you may mostly see in the Bodleian or Oxford catolague And what he suffered for his New Gag for the old Gospel or his Answer to the late Gagger of Protestants occasioned by the Puritan and also for his Apello Caesarem you may see at large in Dr. Heylyns History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury under the years 1624. 25. c. He also set forth Nazianzen's invective orations against Julian in Greek and was employed by Sir Hen. Savile who countenanced him much in correcting most part of Chrysostom in Greek before it went to the Press WILLIAM GIFFORD the Ornament of the English Catholicks of his time was sometimes a Member of Lincoln coll but took no degree in this University Afterwards retiring beyond the Seas he became thro various preferments Archbishop of Rheimes in 1622. He paid his list debt to nature in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said Archbishoprick succeeded Henry de Loraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise as I have before told you JOHN HANMER a Shropshire man born but descended from those of his name living at Hanmer in Flintshire was admitted Fellow of Allsouls coll from that of Oriel in 1596. aged 20. and when five years standing Mast of Arts was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University in 1605. Afterwards he became Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire in which Church he was succeeded by Dr. Math. Wren in May 1624. and Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Dr. Joh. Langworth sometimes of New coll about the latter end of 1614. and shortly after was licensed to proceed in Divinity he being then Chapl. in Ord. to K. Jam. 1. At length upon the death of Dr. Rich. Parry he being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph was elected thereunto about the 20. of January in 1623. consecrated 15. of Feb. following and on the 23. of the said month had the temporalities of that See given to him with liberty then allowed to keep his Prebendship in Commendam with it He died at
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
second a Lyon passant or all within a bordure Ermine The creast is A Stork or Crane standing resting its right foot on the top of an hour-glass With this Motto under allâ— Plus vigila Allowed to our author Count Rich. Whyte with two Dragons for the Supporters by Sir Will. Dethick Garter principal King of Arms in allusion to the Arms of his Kinsman Dr. John Whyte sometimes Bishop of Winton whose Arms are quite different from those of his Brother Sir Joh. Whyte Lord Mayor of London an 1563. Explicatio brevis privilegiorum juris consuetudinis circa ven sacramentum Eucharistiae Duac 1609. oct De reliquiis veneratione sanctorum Duac 1609. and other things as you may elsewhere see At length this learned person dying at Doway in sixteen hundred and twelve or thereabouts was buried in the Parish Church of S. James there Contemporary with him in New coll was one Will. Pomerell Chaplain of that house who taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1557. went afterwards to his native Country of Ireland and became benefited in Drogheda From thence he went to Lovaine where by continual hearing of Lectures and Disputations more than by private study he obtained great knowledge in Divinity gaining thereby as 't was usually said of him all his learning bâ— hearsay He died at Lovaine in 1573. being then Bach. of Div. NICHOLAS FITZHERBERT second Son of John Fitzherbert second Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the great Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire Esq was a Student in Exeter coll and exhibited to by Sir Will. Petre about 1568. but what continuance he made there I know not Sure 't is that his bare name stands in the Register called Matricula under the title of Coll. Exon in 1571. and 72. he being then the Senior Under-graduat of that College About that time he left his native Country Parents and Patrimony for Religion sake and went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile At first he setled at Bononia in Italy purposely to obtain the knowledge of the Civil Law and was living there in 1580. Not long after he went to Rome took up his station there and in the year 1587. began to live in the Court of Will. Alan the Cardinal of England whose person and vertues he much adored and continued with him till the time of his death being then accounted eminent for his knowledge in both the Laws and for humane literature His works are Oxoniensis in Anglia Academiae descriptio Rom. 1602. in 3 sh and a half in oct De antiquitate continuatione Catholicae Religionis in Anglia Rom. 1608. in oct Vita Cardinalis Alani Epitome He also translated from the Italian into the Latin tongue Joh. Casa Galateus de moribus Rom. 1595. He was drowned in a journey taken from Rome in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 but where or in what Church buried I know not nor what his employment was after the death of the said Cardinal notwithstanding I have sent more than once to the English coll at Rome for resolution but have received no answer GEORGE BLACKWELL a Middlesex Man born was admitted Scholar of Trinity coll at 17 years of age 27. May 1562. Probationer in 65. being then Bach. of Arts perpetual Fellow the year following and Master of his Faculty in 67. But his mind being more addicted to the Catholick than Reformed Religion he left his Fellowship and retired to Gloucester hall for a time where he was held in good repute by Edm. Rainolds and Th. Allen the two learned Seniors Afterwards going beyond the Seas where he spent some time in one of the English Seminaries newly erected to receive exil'd Catholicks of the English Nation was at length in the year 1598. constituted by Henry Cardinal Cajetane Protector of the English Nation at Rome with leave first obtained from P. Clem. 8. the Superiour of the of the English Clergy with the Power and Name of Archpriest of England and by the said Pope made Notary of the Apostolick Seat This matter being taken very ill by the Ecclesiastical Papists of our Nation and the rather for this reason that Blackwell was altogether at the beck of Henr. Garnet Provincial of the Jesuits of England they fell together by the Ears in their own Country in a most grievous manner For the Jesuits against the Secular Priests fought continually with sharp pens poisoned tongues and contumelious books insomuch that they detracted in an high degree from Blackwells authority Hereupon he degraded them of their Faculties so that afterwards they appealing to the Pope of Rome he caused them in a book to be declared Schismaticks and Hereticks This aspersion they soon wiped off having the censure of the University of Paris approving the same which was answered by Blackwell as I shall tell you anon The office of Archpriest he kept till 1607. at which time George Birket a learned Priest succeeded And the reason of the change was because our author having been taken near Clerkenwell by London 24. June the same year was committed first to the Gatehouse in Westminster and afterwards to the Clink in Southwork and consequently deprived of liberty required to act in his Office Soon after upon his taking the oath of Allegiance he was freed from the Clink and set at liberty Concerning which matter there was a book published intit The examination of George Blackwell upon occasion of his answering a Letter sent by Cardinal Bellarmine who blamed him for taking the oath of Allegiance Lond. 1607. qu. As for those things which were written by our author Blackwell who was by those of his perswasion and others too accounted a learned and pious Man and a good Preacher the titles of them follow Letter to Card. Cajetane in commendation of the English Jesuits Written 1596. Answers upon sundry Examinations while he was a Prisoner Lond. 1607. qu. Approbation of the Oath of Allegiance Printed with the Answers upon c. Letters to the Romish Priests touching the lawfulness of taking the Oath of Allegiance Another to the same purpose Epistolae ad Anglos Pontificios Lond. 1609. qu. Epistolae ad Rob. Card. Bellarminum See more in the third tome of the works of Melch. Goldasti Haiminsfeldii from pag. 565. to 605. Answer to the Censure of Paris in suspending the Secular Priests obedience to his authority dat 29. May 1600. Replyed upon by Joh. Dorel or Darrel Dean of Agen the same year See more in a book intit Relation of a Faction begun at Wisbich in 1595. c. Printed 1601. in qu. p. 81. Afterwards was a book printed intit In Geor. Blackvellum quaestio bipartita written by Joh. Milson Lond. 1609. but whether it relates to the said controversie I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it A Treatise against Lying and fraudulent Dissimulation MS. among those given to Bodies Lib. by Archb. Laud 40. E. 45. At the end of which is the approbation of the
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