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A56035 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. 1691 (1691) Wing P3734; ESTC R221540 10,323 4

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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. M● 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.
he mostly Translated it thence from the Greek into Latin Which being done he Printed it in Greek and Latin at Paris in five Volumes at the charge of the Bishops and Clergy of France An. 1621. The sixth Volume was put out by him in 1624 and the other Volumes four in number came out before at different times at Heidelberg by other hands as it seems Sir Henry Savile also procured six Manuscript Copies of Bradwardin's Book De causa Dei. to be Compared and Corrected to his great charge Which being done he Published a true Copy thereof under this Title Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis De causa Dei contra Pelagium de virtute causarum ad suos Mertonenses lib. 3. Lond. 1618. Fol. before which Sir Henry put of his own writing Vita Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis He also wrote and was Author of Praelectiones tresdecem in principium Elementorum Euclidis Oxoniae habitae An. 1620. Oxon. 1621. qu. Some of which Lectures he Read when he was a junior Master as I have before told you Oratio coram Reg. Elizabet Oxoniae habita An. 1592. Oxon. 1658. qu. Published by Mr. afterwards Dr. Thomas Barlow of Queens Coll. from the Original in the Bodleian Library and also by Dr. John Lamphire in the second Edition of Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. Oct. Tract of the Original of Monasteries MSS in the Bodleian Library Orations MSS in the Bodleian Library Tract concerning the union of England and Scotland at the command of King James I. MSS in the Bodleian Library Concerning the last John Thornborough Bishop of Bristol did write a Book about the same time as I shall hereafter tell you Our Author Savile also did Publish Nazianzen's Steleteuticks Xenophon's Institution of Cyrus c. and had many choice Exemplars in his Library which were by others Published as from Bibliotheca Saviliana He also Translated into Elegant Latin King James I. his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance Which flying in the same dress as far as Rome was by the Pope and the Conclave sent to Franc. Suarez at Salamanca with a command to answer it When he had perfected the work which he calls Defensio Fidei Catholicae c. cum responsione ad Apologiam pro juramento fidelitatis c. it was transmitted to Rome for a view of the Inquisitors who blotted out what they pleased and added whatsoever might advance the Pope's Power Which matter Joh. Salkeld his Assistant when he wrote at Salamanca did often profess when he came over to the Church of England and lived for some time in the House of Dr. King Bishop of London that the good Old Man Suarez whose Piety and Charity he magnified much did not only disavow but detest it However Printed it was at Colen I think 1614 but so soon as any of the Copies came into England one was burnt in detestation of the Fact by publick command Sir Hen. Savile made several Manuscript Notes in many of his Books in his Choice Library particularly on Eusebius his Ecclesiastical History made use of by Hen. Valesius in his Edition of that History An. 1659. as he 'll tell you more at large if you 'll consult the Preface to that elaborate Work He also made several Notes on those Books which he gave to the Mathematical Library in the School-Tower and on others which I have seen Divers of his Tracts of various Subjects in Manuscript were greedily obtain'd after his Death sometimes while he lived by industrious and ingenious Scholars which do now or at least did lately go from hand to hand At length after he had lived beyond the Age of Man and had done many noble and generous Works for the benefit of Learning he departed this Mortal Life in Eaton Coll. near Windsor on the 19th of Febr. 1621 2. and was Buried in the Chappel there near to the Body of his Son Henry who died 1604. Aged 8 Years leaving behind him one only Daughter named Elizabeth by his Wife Margaret Daughter of George Dacres of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire who was Married to Sir Joh. Sedley of Kent Baronet Soon after the News of his Death being brought to Oxford the Vice-Chancellor and Doctors ordered a Speech to be publickly spoken in Memory of so Worthy a Benefactor and Scholar as Sir Henry had been which being accordingly done by Thomas Goffe of Christ Church the Speech was shortly after made publick with many Copies of Verses made by the best Poets of the University added to it with this Title Ultima Linea Savilis Oxon. 1622. qu. These things being done a black Marble Stone was laid over his Grave on the South Side of the Communion Table in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. and a most Sumptuous Honorary Monument Erected to his Memory on the South Wall at the upper end of the Choir of Merton Coll. With this Inscription M. S. Henricus Savile Miles Collegii fui Mertonensis Custos Aetonensis praepositus Exuvias Corporis frustra sit qui hic quaerat Servat praenobile depositum Aetona Perennem Virtutum ac Benefactorum Memoriam Quibus Collegium Utrumque Academiam Imprimis Oxoniensem Complexus est ipsumque adeo Mundum habet sibs debendi Reum Affectus insuper Pientissimae Uxoris Possidet iste lapis B. M. P. Margareta Conjux obsequentissima in hoc uno quod posuit pie immorigera Obiit Anno Domini CI● DC XXI Feb. XIX In the Provost-ship of Eaton Coll. succeeded Tho. Murr●y a Scot Tutor and Secretary to Prince Charles afterwards King Charles I. and in his Wardenship of Merton Coll. succeeded Nath. Brent L L. D. afterwards a Knight who minding Wealth and the settling of a Family more than generous Actions that College did nothing near flourish so well under him as under the Government of Sir Henry WIlliam Camden Son of Sampson Camden a Native of the City of Bichfield Citizen and one of the Society of Painter-Stainers of London by his Wife descended (a) See in Camd Britannia in Cumberland in his discourse of Wirkington from the Ancient Family of the Cur●ens of Cumberland was Born in the Old Baily situated partly in the Parish of St. Sepulcher and partly in that of St. Martin near Ludgate in the said City on the second day of May 5 of King Edward VI. Dom. 1551. When this most Eminent Person was a Child he received the first knowledge of Letters in Christ Church Hospital in London then newly Founded for Blew-coated Children where being fitted for Grammar Learning he was sent to the Free-School Founded by Dr. Colet near to St. Paul's Cathedral about which time 1563 he being infected with the Plague was sent to Islington where he remained for some time to the great prejudice of his Learning In 1566. 8. Elizab. he was sent to Oxford and being placed in Magdalen Coll. in the condition of a Chorister or Servitor did perfect himself in Grammar Learning in the Free-School adjoyning then lately governed by