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Proposals for printing Athenæ Oxonienses, and Fasti Oxonienses Both written by the famous antiquary, and historiographer, Anthony à Wood, M.A. author of the History, and antiquities of the University of Oxford.
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Dr. Thom. Cooper afterwards Bishop of Lincoln But missing as 't is said a Demies place of that College though of great desert and partly grounded in Logick he was remov'd to the Ancient Hostle called Broadgates now Pembroke College where he continued two Years and an half under the tuition of a great encourager of Learning called Dr. Thomas Thornton Canon of Christ Church who finding in our Author then Young very great Signs of future Worth took him to Christ Church and gave him entertainment in his Lodgings so long as he continued in the University About that time he being a Candidate for a Fellowship in All-Souls College lost it for defending the Religion then Established as Dr. afterwards Sir Dan. Donn at that time Fellow did several times testifie and would often relate how our said Author Camden was opposed by the Popish Party of that House In the Month of June 1570 he supplicated (b) Regist Vniver Oxon. K K. Fol. 95.6 the venerable Congregation of Regents that whereas he had spent four Years in the Study of Logick he might be admitted Bachelaur of Arts but what answer was made thereunto or whether he was then admitted it appears not In 1571 he left Oxford to the great reluctancy of those who knew the pregnancy of his Parts and whether he was afterwards favoured in his Studies by Dr. Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster whom he acknowledgeth (c) In his Britan. in Middlesex in his discourse of Westminster to have been his Patron I cannot positively affirm In 1573 he returned to Oxford and supplicated again in the beginning of March for the said Degree which though as it seems then granted and as I presume taken yet he did not compleat it by Determina-in School-street In 1575 he was made Second Master of Westminster School upon the recommendations of Godfrey Nephew to Gabriel Goodman before mention'd which Godfrey put him upon the Study of Antiquities and bought and (d) So Godf. Goodman Bishop of Gloc. Son of the said Godfrey in his Review of the Court of King James by Sr A. W. Mâ— p. 19. gave him Books for that purpose In 1581 he contracted an entire Friendship with Barnab Brisson the Learned Chief Justice of France called usually Varro Galliae While he continued in teaching at Westminster he was so successful in that employment that Dr. King Bishop of London Neyle Archbishop of York Parry Bishop of St. Asaph c. to say nothing of Persons employed in those times in eminent place abroad and many of special note at home of all degrees did acknowledge themselves to have been his Scholars He likewise which is a Testimony of his sincere love to the Church of England which some in his time did doubt brought there to Church divers Gentlemen of Ireland as the Walshes Nugents O Bayleys c. and among others Popishly bred and affected the eldest Son of the Archbishop of Cassiles Peter Lombard a Merchant's Son of Waterford a Youth of admirable docility the same who was afterwards Titular Archbishop of Armagh Primate of Ireland Domestick Prelate and Assistant of the Pope and Author of a Book Intit De regno Hiberniae Sanctorum insula Commentarius Lov. 1632. Qu. and others In 1582 he took a Journey through Suffolk into York-shire and returned through Lancashire in the Month of Apr. in order to the compleating of his Britannia which he saith he published the same Year having with great industry at leisure hours and on Festival Days composed it In 1588 Jun. 3. he by the Name and Title of William Camden Bachelor of Arts of Christ Church supplicated the Venerable Convocation that whereas he had spent 16 Years from the time he had took the Degree of Bachelaur in the Study of Philosophy and other liberal Arts he might be dispensed with for the reading of three Solemn Lectures and so be admitted to proceed in that Faculty which supplication was granted conditionally that he stand in the Act following but whether he was admitted or stood it doth not appear in the Registers In the same Month and Year he took a Journey Oxford being in his way to Ilfarcomb in Devonshire in order to obtain more knowledge in the Antiquities of that Country and elsewhere for the next Edition of his Britannia and on the 6th of Feb. following he was made Prebendary of Ilfarcomb in the Church of Salisbury in the place of one Joh. Hotman which Prebendship he kept to the time of his Death and then Edward Davenant succeeded him The charges of the said Journey and others that he took for that purpose were defrayed (e) Ibid. by the aforesaid Dr. Gab. Goodman In 1590 he journied into Wales for the same purpose in the company of Franc. Godwin of Christ Church afterwards the Author of the Commentary of the English Bishops and in March 1592 3 he was made chief Master of Westminster School In 96 he took a Journey to Salisbury and Wells for the obtaining of more knowledge in Antiquities and returned through Oxford where he visited most if not all of the Churches and Chappels for the copying out of the several Monuments and Arms in them which were reduced by him into a Book written with his own hand by me seen and perused In 97 he Published his Greek Grammar On the 22th of Octob. the same Year after he had refused a Mastership of the Requests which was offer'd to him he was Created Herald of Arms called Richmond because no Person can be King before he is Herald and the next day he was Created Clarenceaux King of Arms in the place of Rich. Lee who died on the 23 of Septemb. last past This was done by the singular favor of Queen Elizabeth at the incessant supplication of his Patron Sir Fulk Grevil afterwards Lord Brook both which had an especial respect for him and his great Learning in English and other Antiquities In 1600 he took a Journey in Summer time to Carlisle in the company of the Eminent Antiquary Robert Cotton Esq afterwards Bt. for the viewing of some Northern Antiquities to be put into another Edition of his Britannia and returned not till December following In 1606 he sent his first Letters to Jac. Aug. Thuanus the most noted Historiographer of France from which time to the Death of Thuanus which was in Apr. 1617 there was a constant commerce of Letters between them Our Author Camden stiles (f) In Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. M S. sub an 16 7. him Galliae Lumen Historicorum nostri seculi Princeps to whom he had communicated many material matters concerning English Affairs which were afterwards digested into the several Books of Histories published by Thuanus In 1608 he began to put in order and digest his Annals of Queen Elizabeth In the beginning of the year 1613. at which time he attended the Funeral of Sir Thomas Bodley at Oxon he had the Degree of Master of Arts offered to him but refused as it seems to take it and soon after was made the first Historiographer of Chelsey College by the Founder thereof In 1619. July I. his name being then spread over the learned World six Noble Men of Germany gave him a visit at his House in Westminster in whose Albums he at their desire wrote his name and a Latin Sentence as a testimony of his respect to them which they took for a very great honor In 1621. May 5. he by his Deed then bearing date Founded the History Lecture of this University which Deed being published in a Convocation of Regents and Non-Regents on the 17. of May 1622. he was in the year following declared a publick Benefactor of the University of Oxon. In 1622. June 7. He fell again into a most dangerous sickness and on the 16. of August following while he sate musing in his Chair his Hands and Feet suddenly failed him whereupon falling on the ground he rose again much distempered and was never afterwards well till he dyed He was a very good natured Man very Mild and Charitable and throughout the whole course of his life a good Christian He was an exact Critick and Philologist accurately skilled in the Greek and Latin Tongues and above all a most faithful Historian and a most learned Antiquary These accomplishments gained him the esteem of the chiefest of the Nobility and most Learned of this Nation and also beyond the Seas particularly of Ortelius Lipsius Dousa Scaliger Thuanus Gruterus Piereshius and Isaac Casaubon The Epistles of all whom and of others of less note I have seen in the Cottonian Library and find that he was generally by them reckoned one of the greatest Scholars of his time At home I am sure he was always much valued and by his excellent Works of which I shall now give a full and exact account which deserved that Reputation His Works were these 1. Britanniae sive regnorum Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae insularum adjacentium descriptio Lond. 1582. 85. 87. in oct Lond. 1590. 94. and 1600. in quar Lond. 1607.